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Evening star., 1950-03-21

II Gutter does not Longer than hptcd polish the
otae to US and your money ull be refunded
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
Two Long Time Forest
Service Men To Retire

Missoula-Two longtime Forest
Service employees, Meyer H. Wolff,
and Fred Theme, will retire from the
Forest Service December 81, Region
al Forester, P. D. Hanson announced
this week.
MI. Wolff is assistant regional for
ester in charge of the Division of
Land Use Coordination and Water
shed Management for the Northern
Region. He has spent more than Al
years with USES.
Mr.. Theme is assistant regional
forester in charge of Forest Service
engineering activities, post he has
held for the last 20 years. Theme
has a total of 80 years service with
the forestry division.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
REA TO PAY WAGES AT
PREVAILING RATES

A bone of contention on the part
of the Electrical Workers and some
REA co-ops in Montana these past
couple of years, has finally been
Strengthened out. The Rural Electri-
fication Administration has announc-
ed, in statement issued by Admin
istrator Claude Wickard, that the
payment of prevailing wages will be
required for construction of electric
facilities financed with REA loan
funds.
The minimum wages paid to me-
chanics and laborers employed at. the
construction site are to be the wages
prevailing in the area in which the
work is to be performed, as determin-
ed by the us. Department of Labor.
Borrowers will be informed of the
minimum wage scales by the Rural
Electrification Administration. When
construction is to be done by con-
tract, borrowers must include notifi-
cation of such minimum wage scales
in the information furnished to bid
ders on project
When construction is done by force
account, the borrower must apply
minimum wage scales to his own
workers. Contract jobs WHICH were
released for bid before issuance of
the REA policy statement are not
subject to compliance with these re-
This decision is in keeping with the
long established policy of the federal
The Davis-Bacon Act
of August 80, 1885, amending the
prevailing wage law of March 3, 1881
specifically applies to all federal con-
struction contracts in excess of $4,000
on the principle that prevailing wages
be the minimum wages to be paid to
and laborers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
MONTANA FARMERS UNION MEMBERSHIP % i've
FOR 1854 is NOW UNDERWAY lS2

The 1851 Montana Farmers Union
membership drive is making good
progress reports MFU officials who
are presently visiting county and
local organizations in all parts of
the state. Membership committee
meetings on the county level have
been bringing out as mnny as 70
county and local Flu officials and
interested members per meeting. The
determination being shown toward
reaching the $4,000 goal indicates
widespread grassroots militancy aimed
at making the Montana Farmers I'm
ion an even stronger organization in
the years to come.
There is a lot of spirited discus
sion, and there are many speeches by
local Officers as well as team leaders
on the need for a farm organization.
The general election, it seems, has
loosened farmers tongues. The need
for parity of income, the need for
guarding civil liberties, the need for
the whole Farmers Union program is
being reiterated and pointed up with
urgent conviction.
Much good planning is also being
done. Counties are naming drive com
mittees with chairman heading each.
Each county committee is planning
coverage of the county by committee
members and representatives. Areas
of contact are being outlined, first by
active locals and second by morgan
lied spots that need contracting. Mid
campaign meetings of workers are
being arranged so that results of
the organizing work in the county
can be checked for gains in enroll
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
FUNDS DESPERATELY NEEDED TO COMBAT Polio

MISSOULA-The polio situation
today is so serious that unless people
everywhere become aware of it, dis.
aster may threaten thousands of pat
tents next year, Mrs. w. M. Walter
skirchen, Missoula, state advisor OF
Womens Activities of the Nationa
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
declared this week.
Returning from a national confer
ence of women leaders of the March
of Dimes organization in New York
City, Mrs. Walterskirchen reported
that she had learned the full story of
the impact of rising polio incidence
on the economy of the only voluntary
organization that offers assistance
for individual patient care on a ma
tional scale.
"Three consecutive years of un-
precedented polio epidemics in all
parts of the nation have wiped out
epidemic funds" Mrs. Walterskir-
chen reported. eve shall have to
collect $5O,000,000 in the March of
Dimes next January to be able to
continue care for thousands of pat
tents whose uphill struggle for re-
Mobilization must go on in 1851, plus
whatever new numbers of patients
the new year brings, and to continue
scientific research and professional
education"
While progress in research is en-
couraging, there is no optimism with
regard to Eight" incidence of polio
in the immediate future, Mrs. Walt
erskirchen said. Reports from Basil
O'Connor, president of the National
Foundation, DR.. Hart E. Van Ripper,
it's medical director, and four emf
nent scientists who spoke at the con-
ference, made it very clear that the
people of all states must prepare now
for annual incidence of at least U.s.
600 cases until a polio preventative
is found.
''The people of Montana must be-
come intensely aware of the serious
ness Of the situation" she continued.
'All the good work that has been
done, both in hospital and scientific
laboratories, stands in danger of be-
ing curtailed unless we provide
enough money to cope with a much
bigger problem in the years ahead.
NEED FUNDS IMMEDIATELY
The goal of $5O,OO0,O00 means in
creased contributions in Montana, as
in others. 1t also means earlier con-
for unless sizeable advance
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
High Cost of Warning

Want to know how much the in
crease in income taxes due to the
war program is taking out of your
sock?
Let's figure it out for nine
months work year with earnings
of $3.50 a month.
With no dependents the old tax
cost you $409. The new tax costs
you $488. That's $40 year more.
With one dependent, a wife,
say, income tax on nine months
work, $3.50 month, jumps from
$299 to $500 a year, or SCI more.
With two dependents, a wife
and child, it jumps from $152.4O
to $184.80, a raise of $32.4O a
year.
With two children it jumps from
$10C TO 1920 for $40 hike.
High cost of living? Uh-uh. High
cost of warring.-The UNIONIST,
Sioux City, Iowa.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
The Anti-Excess Profits Tax Drive =.
TREASON BY E'PAYTRI0TS"

Our country is at war-how big war, only time will
tel-but make mistake about it, mounting casualty
lists show that Korean affair poce action
In time of war have it drummed into us that we
must all make Sacrifices. Today, of American
mothers and fathers making Notwithstanding, dy
ing the bitter cold of far off Asia Here at home those
mothers and fathers ARE also making sacrifices
They paying higher taxes, higher food prices-eX
pect to pay more in the period ahead.
But, there those amongst who ARE NOT
rificing. They deliberately taking advantage of
time of crisis to extort profits from the American
people and on supplying government girdng for bat
te And, though they profting handsomely off the
blood of Americas they at the time
using every trick every guile, dishonest of
facts distortion to avoid paying token share of the
cost of Saving the world from communism
They-the corporate masters of the country--the
of the press and radio-in their short-sghted
greed to extract every profit dollar possible tell
ing that enactment of profits socalistc
twill bring about nflaton is un-Amercan', etc., ad
In Short tho for five years they've screamed
the dire threat of communism taking the world the
USA, when the chips down. they resist every effort
aimed toward keeping the country at all solvent if
sacrifice by them In Short they-by encouraging gov
ernmental nstablity-are allyng with foreign enemy
If this isn't TREASON what is it?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
joint Tax Study Group To
Meet I'm Helena Saturday

Representative of various labor
and farm organizations from all parts
of the state will be in Helena Satur-
day for a meeting of the Joint Tax
Study Commission. The meeting
will be held in the Helena Labor
Temple, starting at 10 am.
Purpose of the meeting will be to
draft legislative program for mod
ernizing and equalizing the tax
structure of the state government.
Sponsors of the committee over
the years have been the Montana Fed
Grafton of Labor, Montana Farmers
Union, Montana Federation of Labor
and the State Industrial Union Coun-
ell.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01

ments and areas still n : atten'
ton. 8
A few counties are : repre-
sentatives to Washing x ow, with
most of them planning to wait until
later in the drive before selecting
those who are to make the trip to ST.
Paul and across the nation.
The Importance of pinning down
responsibility for work in the drive
to certain individuals is realized and
much volunteering is being done.
Among those participating with the
teams meeting with the county and
local officers and representatives are
F. F. Dexter, Verna Carlson, Roy
Mann, Charlotte Holtz, Gordon Twedt,
Richard Shipman, N. ]. Lynne,
Charles Banderob, n. ]. Dougherty,
Velma Good, Ralph Cook, Lorraine
Coe, Leonard Kenfield, Eileen Bour-
ASA, Helen Cess and D. W. Chap
man.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
GaIafa Grain Growers Do a
Reverse-Eat TurkeV

Galata-Grain growing coop mem
bers of the Union Elevator at their
annual mid term meeting last week,
pulled reverse, and, instead of tur-
keys gobbling grain, the grain grow
ers, 300 strong, gobbled turkey. The
turk, replete with all the trimmings,
was served by the Galata Ladies club.
Riley Childers, elevator coop pres
ident presided at the dinner meeting.
Herb Rolph, former Montana Farm
ers Union president, and now nation
al Flu vice president, was guest
speaker for the occasion.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01

/ gifts are received before the end of
this year current hospital bills in
many parts of the country cannot be
paid. The National Foundation has
spent $20,000,000 for patient care
in 1850, and will owe about $4,000
600 more at years end.
Dr.. Van Ripper told the conference
that the whole pattern of polio has
changed recently, with more wide
spread epidemics occurring in many
parts of the nation rather than in
tense, sporadic outbreaks in certain
localities. The age of those affect
ed also seems to be rising, so that
now at least rs per cent are over Is
years of age. In 1850, high polio in
cidence continued far into the aut-
umn, with 1000 new cases a week
reported at the beginning of Novem-
Der.
On the hopeful side, DR.. Robert L.
Bennett, director of physical medi-
cine at the Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation, said that better diagnos-
is and treatment has cut down dis
tOrtions so that terrific wrecks of
children" rarely are seen today be-
cause the opportunity for good treat
ment is available to all.
DR.. John Enders, chief research di-
rector of Infectious Diseases at the
Children's Medical Center, Boston,
in whose laboratory polio virus was
grown for the first time in test tubes
using non-nervous tissue, said the
most promising development in polio
research today was the possibility of
a preventative vaccine. Such a vac
cine has been used successfully on
experimental animals, but it remains
to be discovered just how many types
of polio virus there are; it must also
be ascertained which people are not
already immune and thus need to be
immunized. He said he was optimis-
tic that the answer would be found
Sin the long rum, but felt it prob
ably would take a considerable length
of time
"The proudest achievement of the
National Foundation was summed up
by Turnkey Walker the day before the
conference closed" Mrs. Walterskir-
chen declared. "He told US that the
special environment of healing Great
ed by the Foundation has made it pos
sible for man to have legs that de-
mand crutches and braces and still
not feel crippled. He said that the
March of Dimes assistance to polio
patients inspires them to climb back
to state of Improvement that will
release them from helplessness.
''This is the service that is in dan
ger because the March of Dimes has
not yet kept pace with the acceler-
ated march of polio. This is some
hing we can and must correct thru
he 1851 March of Dimes"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
Missoula Laundry Workers
Get 7c Hourly Increase

Negotiations have been completed
on a new contract between the Mis-
soula laundry owners and dry clean
ers with Local Fl of the Laundry
Workers and Dry Cleaners union.
The contract includes seven cents
hourly wage increase and guaran
teed 80 hour work week. The con-
tract will run to November 1851.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
Child Labor Still Here

New York-Child labor has trip
led in some age brackets during the
last ten years, the National Child
Labor committee charged here, warn
ing that the expanding rearmament
program will bring even more young
sters into the labor force.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
GUNS, NOT BUTTER

Business Week, magazine which
speaks to and for the men of Ameri-
can industry, commented recently
ornaments has to be chopped out of
peoples living standards, either by
rationing or by price increases.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-12-01
NEED FUNDS IMMEDIATELY

The goal of $5O,OOO,OOO means in
creased contributions in Montana, as
in others. 1t also means earlier con-
tributions, for unless sizeable advance
Evening star., 1950-12-23
James {. Dempsey,
Navy Veteran, Dies

James Edward (Jack) Dempsey
SIS, retired Navy chief warrant
officer who served in both World
Wars. died yesterday at his home
1919 North Abingdon street, Ar
lington, Va.
Mr.. Dempsey. who served in the
Navy SO years before retiring for
disability in 1916, left his Union
Springs IN. " home at the age
of Is to enter the service.
During the First World War
MIR. Dempsey was in France and
Germany. In World War II he
was assigned to the Atlantic
Patrol and later to Solomcns
Island, Md. For more than a
year before he retired he was
stationed at the Washington Navy
Yard.
Mr.. Dempsey had made his
home in Arlington for Is years
and in Washington prior to that
time. He was a member of the
Retired Officers Association, the
Fleet Reserve and Elks' Club. In
Arlington he belonged to the
Mount Olivet Methodist Church
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Ruth Wilson Dempsey; two sons
Robert j. and John D. Dempsey
both of the home address, and a
sister, Miss Mary Dempsey OF
Rochester, N. Y.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 am. Tuesday in Fort Myer
Chapel, Burial will be in Airing
ton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Tito Pledges Fight
Only for Survival
BY the Associated Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec.
23.-Premier- Marshal Tito says
Yugoslavia will fight "only if our
survival is endangered, but we
will never fight for foreign inter-
ests."
He told his Elite Guard in an
Army Day speech yesterday that
Russia and her Cominform allies
are preparing an excuse for armed
assault on Yugoslavia by a cam
paign of SANDER.
Mounted on a white charger,
the Yugoslav Premier and COM
mander in chief of the Communist
Balkan country's army declared
to his crack troops:
"Yugoslavia has no aggressive
intentions towards any country.
Our entire aim has been to build
for a peaceful future.
However, the Soviet Union and
its satellites have been waging a
slanderous campaign, which &C
cused Yugoslavia of aggressive in
tentions towards it's neighbors.
This was the aim of trying to
create among the peoples and in
the world at large a pretext for
attacking US
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Bishop Hugh Boyle
Dies in Pittsburgh
BY the Associoied Press

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23.-The
Bishop of the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Pittsburgh, Msgr. Hugh
c. Boyle, is dead at the age of II.
The prelate had been confined
to a hospital with a heart ailment
for several months and died there
yesterday. He will be succeeded
in his leadership of 737 900 Roman
Catholics in 10 Southwestern
Pennsylvania counties by Bishop
John Francis Dearden, named CO.
adjutator in May, 1948, to Bishop
Boyle. The Pittsburgh diocese is
the second largest in the Nation.
Bishop Boyle was born in
JohnstoWn, Pa. His father was a
miner who had nine other chill
dren. His parents came from Ire
land, Charles Boyle from County
Tirconaill and Anna Keelan from
County Monaghan.
The future bishop was ordained
in 1898. after matriculation from
st. Vincent's College and Sem
mary at Latrobe, Pa.
He was elevated to the bishopric
by Pope Benedict XIV in 1921. His
coronation as bishop was the oc-
casion for high pomp and cere-
mony never before witnessed in
Pittsburgh. He was crowned be-
fore a throng of nearly 100000,
at st. Paul's Cathedral in Pitts
burgh on June 80, 1921.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Convicted Gamblers
To Ask New Trial

Arguments on new-trial mo-
ton will be heard in the Prince
Georges County Circuit Court
January 2 in behalf of II men
convicted of operating a lottery.
The men were convicted
Wednesday after a trial before
three judges who dismissed similar
charges against William (Snags>
Lewis and seven others.
In filing motion for a new
trial, Defense Attorneys William
H. Collins of Washington and
Frank Hall of Upper Marlboro
argued that the District deputy
marshals who made the arrests
failed to identify the defendants
In court except by name.
1t was contended also that the
judges were in error when they
admitted certain testimony and
evidence over the objection of the
defense counsel The IL men are
at liberty on $4,000 bonds each.
Fourteen men and five women
were arrested at a numbers syn
dicate headquarters in Bladens-
burg. March 25, 1949, by District
marshals who raided across the
line in Maryland without notify
ing State officials in advance.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
New York Musicians Get
Raise, End Strike Threat
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Fear
that the city's cafes and night
clubs would be without musicians
New Years eve vanished today
with the removal of strike
threat.
The AFL Federation of Musi-
clans had said it would call out
5000 bandsmen from $50 dining
and dance spots unless its de-
mands were met.
Many of the city's smartest
hotels, restaurants and night
clubs were involved.
State Mediator Frederick H
IBullen announced last night that
the disputing parties had reached
agreement on wage increases OF
from $3.50 to $40 a week, retroac-
tive to November 81.
Previously. the musicians were
paid an average of from $87 to
$10350 a week.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Edward Patrick Hayes
Funeral Services Today

Funeral services for Edward
Patrick Hayes, Sc, Government
Printing Office purchasing clerk,
were held today in St. Francis
de Sales Catholic Church, Rhode
Island avenue and Twentieth
street NE. Burial was in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
Mr.. Hayes died Thursday at his
home, 1924 Saratoga avenue NE.
He was a lifelong resident of
Washington. At the time of his
death he had been with the
Government Printing Office for
35 years.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Virginia Hayes, and two sons,
William E. Hayes of Alexandria,
and Robert L. Hayes of the home
address. He also leaves a brother,
John F. Hayes, and three sisters,
the Misses Celestine T., Margaret
C. and Catherine G. Hayes, all of
Washington.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Walter {. Slower Dies;
Knights TempIar Leader
BY the Assoeioted Press

WATERFOWL, S. Dak., Dec.
23.-Walter E. Stover, right emf
nent grand generalissimo of the
grand encampment of the Knights
Templar, died yesterday after an
illness of several months. He was
so years old.
Death was due to heart disease.
Mr.. Stover was born in Water
town August 20. 1890. He was
graduated from the University of
Iowa Law School in 1912 and
thereafter practiced law in Water
town. He served in World War I.
He joined the Masonic order
shortly after he left school and
had been active in the knights
Templar until his death. He was
past grand commander of the
knights Templar of South Dakota.
Besides the widow, he is sur
vived by a son, DR.. Lee Stover of
Lincoln, Nebr.; his mother, Mrs.
Maude Stover, and brother, Roy,
both of Arlington, Va.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Party Knockdown Victim
Improves in Hospital

Robert D. Patton, 26-year-old
auto salesman whose best friend
knocked him down in an attempt
to restrain him after an office
party, was described as in good
condition today at Georgetown
Hospital.
Mr.. Patton suffered a scalp
wound and minor fracture of the
skull Thursday night when his
head struck a curb in a scufi1e with
Philip Fits, 80, of 4910 South
Tenth street, Arlington. Mrs. Pat
ton said Mr.. Fits was trying to
restrain her husband after a
Christmas party.
Mr.. Fits was arraigned in Mu-
nicipal Court on a charge of as
sault and released under $1,000
bond for a hearing January 80.
Evening star., 1950-12-23

Johnson, formerly with the Capt.
tol staff of the United States News
and World Report Magazine. They
have daughter, Briana.
Kenneth A. Roberts, SO, of An.
niston, Ala. a lawyer, war veteran
and former member Of the Ala
bama State Senate, will succeed
veteran Representative Sam Hobbs
in the House seat for the Fourth
Congressional District.
Judge Hobbs was not a can
didate for the 82nd Congress. In
the November election, Mr.. Rob-
erts, Democrat, was an anticipated
victor over Republican Candidate
j. B. Carter.
Mr.. Roberts was born at Pied
mont November /, 1912. He was
valedictorian Of his high school
class and won a law degree from
the University of Alabama in 1885.
In college he was vice president Of
the senior law class. editor of the
university yearbook and president
of the Philomathic Literary So
ciety.
After admission to the bar he
worked for the United States
Forest Service, was elected in 1912
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Mrs. Walter Weber Dies;
Wife Of D. T.. Fire Official

Mrs. Walter A. Weber, SO. wife
of District Fire Department bat
talon chief, died of heart attack
yesterday at her home. $50 New
Hampshire avenue NV.
Mrs. Weber, the former Eva
Stagner. was born in Ma.laffey,
Pa. She was graduated from the
Pennsylvania State Teachers Col
lege and then was school teache,
in Pennsylvania schools for several
years.
In World War I Mrs. Weber
came here as a statistical worker
for the Internal Revenue Bureau
and resigned when she married in
1884. She had been an active
member Of the Church of the Ma
tivity for IA years and belonged
to the Sodality there.
Besides her husband, she leaves
four sisters, Mrs. Stella Nelson Of
Baltimore, Mrs. Rose Faust Of Sid
man, Pa, and the Misses Ruth and
Sabina Stagner of Pittsburgh.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. Tuesday in the Church Of
the Nativity, Georgia avenue and
Peabody street NV. Burial will
be Wednesday in Grampian, Pa.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Hoover Speech Text
Published by Pravda
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 23.-The full
text of former President Herbert
Hoover's recent demands for
American withdrawal to a West
ern Hemisphere bastion was pub
lisbed today by the official Com
munist Party newspaper Pravda.
It added to the extreme impor-
tance the Russians apparently are
attaching to declarations they
consider "isolationist" by leading
American critics of the Truman
regime.
Pravda and other Soviet news
papers already had carried promi-
nently on their front pages yes
terday long summaries of the Re
publican elder statesman's We'd
nesday night radio address. The
Hoover speech occupied full half
page of Pravda's foreign affairs
section today.
Judging from this, it is appar-
ent that such statements published
here-including those made re-
Gently by the former American
Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P.
Kennedy. and editorials along the
same lines in the Hearst papers
are being given more Importance
for the Russian reader even than
President Truman's proclamation
of a state Of emergency.