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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01
ON SLOT MACHINES
Who Is Responsible
For Enforcement?
By w. C. MITCHELL, Helena

During the recent session of the
Montana legislature, lot of com
ment was heard about the great diff
ference in the number of slot ma
chimes licensed by the federal gov
eminent in Montana and the much
smaller number of licenses issued by
the state government.
Senators and representatives men
toned the many thousands of dollars
the state is losing annually through
the Oversight" or neglect" of those
entrusted with enforcing the slot
machine licensing in the state. The
state laws are adequate to provide
the proper authorities with enough
power to force every owner or oper-
ator of slot machine in Montana to
purchase state license. Why has
this not been done?
During the legislative sessions fire.
quent use was made of a tabulated
report prepared by the State Board
of Equalization when slot machines
were a subject of debate in both the
senate and house. This report gave
the number of federal licenses issued
to clubs and for machines in each
county, with the name and address
of the owner of operator. 1t also
included the name and address of the
owner or operator to whom state
club and machine licenses were is
sued.
The Equalization boards report
states that in 1913 the federal gov
eminent issued grand total of 5,871
slot machine licenses in Montana,
and the state issued a grand total
of 1886 slot machine licenses in
1913. These figures show that the
federal government issued 1850
more slot machine licenses in Mon
tana during 1913 than did the state
There are several counties in the
state that have "clean record" in
the slot machine licenses. Several
others have a "near clean record"
but we here cite few of the many
that have Every black record:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01

wholly-owned manufacturing subsid-
larry, the Western Electric Company
Attorney General Tom Clark con-
tended that restoration of competi-
ton would. lower equipment costs
and "create situation under which
state and federal regulatory commits
sions would be afforded an oppor-
tunity to reduce telephone rates to
subscribers. The suit is especially
significant since AT&T's operating
subsidiaries are now seeking rate in
creases which, if granted, would
bring the increase in the nations
annual telephone bill since the close
of the war to more than $500 mil
lion.
Certainly one of the most effec-
tive ways to weaken AT&T's hold
over the entire industry would be to
finance rural telephone systems by
long-term loans through the REA.
Thousands of small companies de-
pendent on the Bell System for long
distance service are finding it almost
impossible to obtain the financial aid
necessary to expand and improve
their systems, since their profits are
never large and high-cost commercial
loans are out of their reach. The
AT&T-controlled subsidiaries, while
opposing the federal programs, are
in no position today to provide low
cost service to farms and at the same
time pay huge dividends to the par
ent company
"Allergic to Competition" In a
Free Enterprise Economy!
E. N. Widen, general manager of
Southwestern Bell Telephone Com
pany, an AT&T subsidiary, neatly
explained the Bell Systems opposi-
ton when he told the house agricul-
ture subcommittee that he was sal
Iergic to competition.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01
PATTON OPPOSED
T0ATLANTIC PACT
Presents Three Point Program
To Increase Chances of
World Peace

| Denver, Colo.-Strong opposition
to an American foreign policy which
substitutes military diplomacy" and
war alliances for peaceful co-opera-
ton with other countries was re-
corded here at a Colorado state con-
ference of the National Farmers
Union.
State officials of the farmers or
ganization enthusiastically approved
hard-hitting denunciation of Amer
lean foreign policy involving this
country all the way from direct mill
tary aid to Greece and Turkey right
through the Marshall plan and the
new Atlantic pact The denuncia-
ton was made in a speech by NFU
President James Patton.
Patton, charging that the nation
was still being kept on a "war basis"
declared that certain people "are US
ing the threat of war to propagan-
die the public for their own pur-
pose" He attacked u. S. foreign
policy today as military diplomacy"
The Atlantic pact, which virtually
sets up military alliance outside the
sphere of the United Nations and OBJ
ligates the United States to give
arms to all it's signatories, was hit
by the farm union leader as a move
to create balance of power which
would "sap the strength of the ma
lions involved with huge rearmament
programs"
Instead of policy that directs the
attention of the American public and
resources toward war, Patton urged
the following program:
1. A genuine attempt by the
United States to draft a German
peace treaty and get both American
and Russian troops out of Germany.
2. Extension of aid to all nations
on a democratic basis.
3. An end to talk of cutting off
aid to nations like England because
of their Socialist governments.
A. Taking the bars off atomic en-
ergy to permit development for pow
er purposes throughout the world.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01
Old Age Pension
Group AddressedBy
Rep. Myron Trip

| Discussion of the recent legislative
session by Rep. Myron Tripp ID.
Yellowstone) featured the March Is
meeting of the Montana Old Age
Pension Association in Great Falls.
Rep. Trip deplored the failure of
the assembly to adopt any progress
slve tax measures; the relative in
difference toward our civil liberties,
and the penurious attitude of most
of the legislators toward the unem-
ployed and the INDECENT.
He also pointed out that Montana
was among the six leading states in
per capita income, but ranked only
18th in the average size of old age
assistance grants. rA
House Speaker Leo Graybill also
spoke briefly on the work of the last
assembly, and Mrs. Esther Curtis,
president of MOAP, reported on the
progress of the association. The
meeting was presided over by Rep.
Ronald Holtz.
Leonard Kenfield, editor of Mon
tana Farmers Union News, will be
the key speaker at the associations
meeting tonight, April 1.
Roger Murray of Helena was en-
dorsed for the position of state well
fare administrator. (Since then,
Governor Bonner has named Valley
county commissioner, Nels Briggs. to
that post.)
Those interested in joining or OBJ
tanning additional information about
MOAP should contact Mrs. Curtis at
227 Parkdale, Great Falls.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01
A Mine-Mill Wife
CONTINUED from Page One,

Continued from Page One)
all women in the mining camps and
smelter towns in Northumberland
of Butte and Anaconda, of East Hell
ena and Great Falls, of Black Eagle
and Avon, of Mike Horse, Jardine,
Superior, Ennis and Neihart, to join
together and make Mr.. McGlone eat
his words when this bill comes up
again, as it must. 1t is said that
ten women anywhere can do any
thing-let's prove it. Get together
in tens and organize hundreds, so
that next time the capitol building
will be damned with women who
will not take "No" for an answer.
Let's revive the spirit of the stout
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01

ing body can get away with this kind
of legislation l am we'll along the
road to a change of heart.
There should be a referendum on
this bill and if the public attitude
towards tyrannical legislation is what
it was back in colonial days there
undoubtedly will be.
If we haven't enough intelligence
to finance highway program with
out resorting to such high-jacking
methods, then we should acknowl-
edge that we haven't the sense of
our forefathers and start travelling
by "shank's Mares.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01

Judging from the facts and figures
set forth in the Equalization Board
report, the laws pertaining to the
enforcement of club and slot ma
chine licenses in Montana have not
been very we'll enforced in the past.
Now that Attorney General Arm
old Olson has received the $4,000
Tor expense money it is hoped that
he will not hesitate to start an hon
est, fair, impartial and militant cam
paign-to strictly enforce gambling,
slot machine and liquor laws.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01
"Allergic to Competition" In a
Free Enterprise Economy
Multiple Threat
Continued from Page One)

|
chasing the car and paying all the
numerous taxes and fees which he
must pay before he can drive his own
car on his own highways, that the
owner has enough money left to buy
suit of clothes, or at least shirt
and overalls. If the "car use tax"
principle of this bill is sound, the leg
islative assembly can place a fuse
tax" on the clothes, the shirt and
overalls. In future if this principle
is upheld you may be compelled to
pay "use tax" for wearing and shirt
and overalls, or even a breech-clout
not only in public but in your own
home. And Montana weather is not
conducive to the formation of nudist
colonies.
AS penalty for failure to pay this
"car use tax" for the privilege of
driving your overtaxed car on the
highways you have builded, the as
sembly tackled on a clause making
failure to pay the tax misdemeanor
punishable by fine of not more than
$500, or a sentence of not more than
sixty days in jail-or both, and high
way patrolmen will be kept busy
stopping drivers to inquire if they
have paid the tax.
1949 Boston Tea Party" In Order
In 1776 war was fought because
of an unjust tax levied by England
against the colonies and practically
every revolution was brought about
by unjust or unreasonable taxation.
1t now begins to appear that another
Boston Tea Party" is in order.
The Governor in his message stat
ed that he signed the bill with con-
siderable reluctance, a remark which
will probably stand as masterpiece
IF understatement. But evidently his
lesire for additional highway funds
vas permitted to outweigh his better
Judgment.
AS to the penalty of fine and i'm
orisonment carried in the bill, we I
lad debtore prisons in the early days i
If the nation and we had thought t
hey were thing of the past but evil Y
lently our Thirty First Montana as Y
emily is making different arrange
nents.
jefferson May Have Been Right i
The writer has long been a mem c
'er of the labor groups and as an Of +
icial of his organization has signed
affidavits as re- t
Iuired by the Taft-Hartley Act At t
he time of signing these affidavits i
could truthfully say that 1 did not u
elieve in the overthrow of the gov
rnment by force or violence, but, t
his type of legislation makes one o
Jonder if perhaps after all Jefferson n
yas right when he said that every e
tate should have a revolution every o
en- years, and frankly, if law max b
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01

women of Leyden. You remember
the story-how Leyden fell before
the invading Spaniards, who gener-
ously offered the women of the citv
permission to leave with what of
their possessions they could carry.
Each woman came out carrying on
her back her most precious possess
sion-her husband.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01

Did you know that there is a move
in Vermont to set up a power author
lty by Farm-Labor group, on account
of the high price of power in Yer
mont is driving industries to the
IVA district and the Northwest?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01
The VANISHING farm telephone

By JEAN BEGEMAN n Republic, March 28
1t is not unusual for American have tractor
electric lights electric refrigerator electric stove and
deluxe But in many farm neighborhoods telephones
rarity Today only about 40 of homes in rural
enjoy telephone SERVICE while 60 percent are
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-01
Antitrust Suit Against ART
Has Special Significance

In January of this year, the De-,
partment of Justice filed an anti
trust suit against AT&T and it's
Evening star., 1949-11-24
arDriyenb byD.C.Ma
Runs Off Ferry Dock
Al Newport News

A Washington man Is reported
In serious condition in q Newport
News Wa.) hospital after the car
he was driving plunged into thC
water at ferry landing yesterday.
. He is Richard H. Byers, ~, son
of Harry r. Byers. well-known
construction and design engineer,
. who lives at the Hay Adams House
here.
The younger Mr.. Byers and q
passenger in the car he was driv-
ing narrowly escaped desth as the
automobile ran off the end Of q
ferry slip, police reported.
With him in the car was Joseph
j. Perkowitz, 26, of Evanston. Ill.
q salesman.
The Byers family said Richard
has been working as timekeeper
on a Norfolk ship construction job
They said the father few to Nor
: folk yesterday to inspect some
construction jobs he had helped
design.
Richard Byers is reported to
have suffered a heart attack and
shock and is in an oxygen tent
at Elizabeth Buxton Hospital. Mr.
Perkowitz was unhurt, the Asso-
ciated Press reported.
Norfolk police said ferry en-
ployes reported the car "streaked"
past a guard after he had stopped
the line Of traffic the car was In,
They said the auto sideswiped two
Evening star., 1949-11-24
New Social Register
Creates Usual Puzzle
Regarding Changes
" the A.soeiofsd Press

By tUe ASSocioTeo FtoSt
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Theirs
lis not to reason why, but some
are out of and some are in the
1850 Social Register.
The book came out yesterday
with its usual number of dele
ftions from. and additions to. the
roster Of bluebloods.
Why the changes? The Social
Register Association, which pub
fishes the annual volume, never
tells.
But the New York society col
umnists like to guess-and they
usually blame the upsets on mar
ital events.
Notable among those who got
the heave-ho from the new roster
lis pretty Mary Ellin Berlin,
daughter of Irving Berlin. the
composer.
She was divorced during the
last year from Dennis Sheedy
Burden, whose name remains on
the choosy pages.
The irony is that Mary's moth
er, the former Ellin Mackay, was
banished from the book long
time ago when she married the
famous composer.
Their daughters marriage to
Mr.. Burden had marked the fam
ily's first-though temporary-re-
entry into the so-called select
circle.
There were a few international
Evening star., 1949-11-24

ramifications in this years social
shakeup.
Alexander Barmine, former
Soviet diplomat, who was listed
in 1949 when he married Edith
Kermit Roosevelt, is out. although
his marital status remains the
same.
She is out, too.
Edward N. Townsend, jr., is of
the elite rolls after marrying a
pretty but non-social English girl,
Gwendoline Radcliffe.
Still listed is Representative
Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., despite
his divorce from Ethel du Pont,
who also stays on.
Another Roosevelt got the social
Evening star., 1949-11-24

snup with the removal from the
list is the former Margaret c.
Roosevelt, who last June married
a cowboy named George p. Kent.
jr.
There were numerous other re-
visions, all big news among the
carriage trade, even If nobody else
cares. i
Evening star., 1949-11-24
Tromp GuIps Newsprint

A voracious reader is Gerrit
Klifman, 51-year-old tramp OF
Amsterdam. Holland. He has been
eating 16 newspapers a day for
some time. He takes half a bread
roll with every four newspapers,
washed down with water or coffee.
Evening star., 1949-11-24

on its side in shallow water.
Ferry employees lowered ladde
to the two men.
Evening star., 1949-11-24

other cars and struck guard rail
between the two ferry gateways
and plunged of the dock, turning
Evening star., 1949-11-24


Mems Furnishings
Reduced from regular stocks for Friday
-. limited sizes and color ranges in some
instances. Sorry, no mail or phone orders
(285) 1895 and $3.50
Famous Shirts
2.7e
One ofsAmericos best-known shirt names
-. choose from white, solid color or pot
termed shirts in Iustrous broodcloths or
oxfords. Sizes Ia to II in the group.
(I32) $3.50 Famous-MaLe
Leisure Shirts. Washable leisure
shirts Of smooth royon in eood-looking
tones Of blue, ton, green Or maroon.
Small, medium, medum-Ioree or Ioree
sizes. .------------------- 3.97
(2I4) $3.50 FamOus-Malke
AlI-Silk Neckwear. AII-sIk foul
.e ords in an ottroctive selection Of smart
patterns =. feotured in wide orroy Of
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(26) $l5.95 Rayon Gabar-
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Royal, gold or grey tones. Medium and
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(4I) 81 and $3.50 Wool
Mufflers. PIoids and stripes in navy,
maroon or brown. AII-wooI for warmth:
lie
(63) Famous Broad cloth
Woven Shorts. Fully cut for COM
fort and styled in eoIorfu stripes. Fine
woven broodcIoth fobrc. Sizes 80 to ~,
89c
(57) Famous Athletic Shirts.
White cotton knit athletic shirts Sizes
36 to 46.
Evening star., 1949-11-24

with will and
featured the seasons ovorte
and models
od We
hovs *.af s~
Evening star., 1949-11-24

(57) Famous Athletic Shirts.
White cotton knit athletic shirts. Sizes
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Evening star., 1949-11-24

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Woven Shorts. Fully cut for COM
fort . and styled in eoIorful stripes. Fine
woven broodcIoth fobric. Sizes 80 to ~,
89c
Evening star., 1949-11-24

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AlI-SiIk NeckWear. AI-siIk foul
ords in an ottroctfve selection Of smart
pottems =. featured in wide orroy Of
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Evening star., 1949-11-24

One ofsAmerico's best-known shirt names
:. choose from white, solid color or pot
termed shirts in Iustrous broodcoths or
oxfords. Sizes II to II in the group.
Evening star., 1949-04-19
Where and When
Current Thsoter Attractions
and lime of SHOWING

Ambassador-"My Dream Is
Yours; l, $40. $40. 1880 and
9:45 pm.
Capitol-"Ma and Pa Kettle;
11:10 am, i:50. 4:30, 7:15 and
e:55 pm. Stage shows: 1855. 3:35
Sis and 9 pm.
Columbia-"Take Me Out to the
Ball Game; HAS am. 1:45
3:45. $40, TAO and $40 pm.
Hippodrome-"Fantasia";; 2:25
4:4s. 7:05 and $50 pm.
Keith's-"Red Canyon: 11:25
am. 1:25. $3.50, 5:35. 7:4o and
9:45 pm.
Little - Monsieur Vincent;
II. am. los. $40, $40. 1880 and
'9:45 pm.
Metropolitan Homicide; II
am, 12:45. 2:30. 4:20, sos, 7:50
and $40 pm.
National - Gone With the
Wind; 10 am, 1:40, $40 and 9
pm.
Palace - Little Women; II
I'M, 1:40. Ais. 6:55 and 9:35 pm
Playhouse - Sleeping Car to
Trieste; 1880 am. 1:30, $3.50,
$50. 1880 and 9:35 pm.
Pix-"Tarzan's New York Ad-
venture; sos, $50. 7:55 and
1920 pm.
Trans-Lux-"Paisan":: IL am,
1:10 and 3:25 pm. Benefit Per-
formances. Portrait of Jennie
at $3.50 pm.
Warncr-"My Dream Is Yours:
10:45 am. 1855. sos. $40. 7:35
and 9:51 pm.
Evening star., 1949-04-19

100. n Blue Angel lost Eeighl
when she came 70 Hollywood
Nancy Keily's l7-yea- old sister
carolee Kelly. is testing for q long
term contract a. 2eth-CentIry
Fox-vhere Nancy started hes
career At the aEe Of u.
Maria Montex's two recent Paris
pictures we're pannsc unme-ei-
fully ny French critics. Maria sure
had lonE run for her money as
an Actress in HOLLYWOOD. she
had such = flashing personality
II didn't seem 10 matter whether
she could act or not. Nov. rnavte
she will settle down to Just being a
xlfe and mother.
! waS talking 10 Ann Sothsrn 8
astrolosey. Carroll RICHTER. who
told me this wtll oe Annies best
year OF the past II. hope so. SIZE
is too good an actress TO waste on
trivial roles.
Mrs. Errol Flynn is hoping
against hope that Dick HAYNES
will be divorced very soon oy
jeanne Dru. She wants 10 marry
him Immediately. Her Las Vegas
divorce is final. Meanwhile Dick
is fighting a IS .000-month alimony
demand. Dick has lived way be-
yond his income these last few
years. He just doesnt have the
money. he says.
Rita Hayworth's Ally Kahn has a
lawyers degree II things ever
get tough for them. he can hang
Evening star., 1949-04-19

ter character In that bleakly bril-
liant piece of dramatic poetry.
On the whole, q nations ac-
tresses never had a better man
than Williams working for them.
Erich Won Stroheim whose zeal
for perfection as a motion picture
director once threatened to wreck
Hollywood's finances. Is back in
California, as an actor seeking
job.
However, according to the Asso-
ciated Press Bob Thomas. Won
Stroheim thinks as little as ever
of actors. When Thomas asked
him what he thought of actors,
the German genius is quoted as
replying:
They are ungrateful, egotistical
and tcensored)."
Open air theaters whose man
agements think they are better
than any other kind Of theaters
are experimenting this season.
They are trying all sorts of ideas.
every one Of them looking toward
ultimate proof that a picture can
make as much money In the open
as 1t can under a roof. Some
time, the managements say. this
may lead to first-run bookings
in such theaters.
Loew's Open Air. feeling ex-
perimental. is booking q double
feature starting next Sunday
which it feels merits watching.
The two pictures are "Dirigible,"
an early Frank Capra production,
and Submarine" which is GER
tainly the opposite of 'Dirigible.
Don King. supervising the ex-
pertinent. admits the pictures are
pretty old. but he thinks they
might. well be an attractive box
office combination. They will run
a full week.
"Somersault in the Sea-" the
original musical which will be
presented Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights at Lisner Audi
torium. is based upon an item
which appeared in the news of last
December. The dispatch from
Jamaica, describing a strike of
prison guards for higher wages,
struck Edward Mar1gun and Zelda
Fichandler as irresistible musical
material. He. a teacher. and she,
a graduate student. felt 1t simply
had to be written for presenta-
ton this spring by the George
Washington University Players.
Mrs. Fichandler will play one
of the leading roles in the pro-
duction.
Two of Hollywood's strongest re-
cent fascination have been the mu-
sical and the documentary. Now
it has decided to blend them in
a form which 1t calls the musical
documentary. First Of these pro-
duced by Warner Bros. will be q
two-reeler called Bicycle Built
for Two" It will deal with the
music, topical events. inventions.
fashions and personalities that
were current in 1890. Other years
will be taken up later.
= Il
Waits and strays: Two Balti-
more theaters are offering pro-
ductions this week. Joe E.
Browns Harvey" is at the Ford's
and Anna Lucasta" at the Mary
Evening star., 1949-04-19

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wonder wtss San TseE &rspgssSa
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Evening star., 1949-04-19
Hollywood:
Cliff Accepts
Drieser Story
Leading Role
By Sheiloh Srohom

Montgomery Cliff has signed tc
star in Theodore Dreiser's AR
American Tragedy" for Para
mount. The story was filmed be-
fore-in 1881 with Sylvia Sidney
and the late Phillips Holmes. Tals
is that George Stevens will direct
Robert Mitchum is having un-
happy second thoughts over the
plan OF his boss. Howard Hughes
TO team him with Jane Russell
He has nothing against jamie per-
sonally. He just can't see himself
playing her lover. I'd rather do
Boston BlacSe B picture" says
Bob dolefully.
Marlene Dietrich has Cancelled
her stint in World Appearance
with Richard Green. Instead. she
will play in Stage Fright" for Al
fred Hitchcock and Jane Wyman.
Marlene's daughter, Maria Man
ton. will be trekking to Hollywood
after her summer stock in Chi
cago. Maria wants TO crack movie
making doors. That won't be diff
f1cult when Maria loses some
poundage. Her mama was plump.