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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-06-27
MORE SUCH JOINT EFFORT NEEDED

OF business, agricultural produc
met Helena organize statewide
study freight rates and seek favorable tariffs
many ways this joining of hands of desperation
All egmen of Montanas economy have been adversely af
by discriminatory freight rates for years Expan
industry, despite availability of Materials cheap
power comparatively low and highlyprOductve labor
seriously retarded because of unjust freight rates Ag
ricuure has been kept at disadvantage in competing for
sale of products with producers the nations trade
have gotten in the neck excessively high
prices brought about small degree by the freight rate
structure.
Unrealsc freight rates have been major contributing
of Montana remaining victim of colonals; rich
to be exploited at the pleasure of the nations major
manufacturing and financial centers.
This long delayed step toward forming front is
heartenng and if Montana is to
to throw off the shackes of economic serdom
be hoped the effort will draw ulsome cooperation not
only from business agricultural and but from
political circles we'll state legislation exists that help
this concerted effort should be utilized to the adj
dtonal legislation required then should be drafted and
placed on the statute books.
obtain it's freedom, will take
the teamwork of all of to do it. Let's with the job
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-06-27

principal irrigation facilities in OPP
Grafton by the time the farmers need
ed irrigation water. Work will con-
tinue throughout the year to COM
pletely restore the canals, laterals,
and irrigation structures to full OPP
Grating efficiency.
The only reclamation projects in
region which were seriously af-
fected by the flood of late March and
early April, according to Vernon,
were the Milk river project along the
Milk river in northern Montana and
the Buford-Trenton project along
the Missouri river in western North
Dakota. Damages to both projects
occurred when ice jams in the river
channels would not allow the passage
Of the extremely high run-off from
melting SHOWS and the water flowed
over the river banks onto the farm
lands.
The major damage resulted he
said not only from the force of the
flood waters passing over the farm
lands and irrigation facilities, but
from the recession of the waters
which caused sloughing of the satur-
ated canal and lateral banks, under
cutting of irrigation structures, and
the deposition of silt on the land and
in the irrigation bitches.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-06-27
FARMERS In FLOODED
AREAS TO RECEIVE AID
FROM STATE PIMA.
Farmers in four Montana counties

Farmers in four Montana counties
Hill, Blaine, Phillips and Valley
will receive special assistance to re-
habilitate farm land damaged by the
recent floods, r. j. McKenna, Chair
man of the Production and Market
ing Administration State Committee,
has announced.
The work of assisting farmers to
restore and rehabilitate flood-dam-
aged land, he explains, is made pos
sible by a special Congressional APP
preparation of $40 million. Of this,
$14 u million is for work needed on
farms under PMA's Farm Land Res
toration Program The remaining
SIS II million is for restoring channel
capacity in tributary waterways af-
fecting more than one farm and will
be administered by the Soil Conserva-
ton Service.
A tentative ALLEGATION of 81 mil
lion has been made to carry out the
restoration program in the four desig-
mated Montana counties. These funds
are to be used to help farmers carry
out restoration practices approved by
county PIMA committees. Assistance
payments will not exceed 80 per
cent of the cost of such practices.
Restoration practices for which as
sistance will be provided include:
Clearing debris, emergency ditching,
cleaning out drainage systems, level
ing land by filling holes or gullies
caused by floodwaters, turning under
sand deposits by deep blowing, re-
} airing or replacing permanent
'ences, planting or replanting pasture
and hay crops, planting cover crops,
or repairing erosion control |
repairing or replacing
livestock water dams, pits, wells, and |
springs, special tillage to restore farm
and waterlogged and silted, repair
md restoration of farm irrigation
systems, dams and reservoirs.
AS under the regular Agricultural
Conservation Program, the Soil Con-
ervation Service will provide nee
.ssary technical service for the res
oration program, McKenna says.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-06-27

Farmers and ranchers may participate
in both the Farm Land Restoration
Program and the 1852 Agricultural
Conservation Program but they must
sign up for each program. Deadline
for signing to participate in the 1862
ACProgram was May 20 but oper-
ators desiring to participate in the
Restoration Program may still sign
up at their county PIMA office.
Operating details of the program
may be obtained from PIMA COM
or county PIMA offices in
any of the four affected counties,
McKenna adds.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-06-27
Reel AMATI0N FASTENING REPAIRS
In FLOOD STRICKEN AREAS

BILLINGS-Bureau of Reclama a.
ton and irrigation project personnel,
equipment, and finances have made
possible the temporary restoration
of virtually all damages to Reclama-
ton projects in Montana and North
Dakota resulting from the disastrous
spring floods of 1852, according to
X. r. Vernon, director of the bureaus
region 6.
Director Vernon explained that
bureau and project forces and equip
ment were at work in the flooded
areas throughout the flood period
and before the waters had receded
bureau engineers and specialists had
met with the irrigation district COM
missioners and made tentative assess
ment of damages, outlined the work
to be done and formulated a plan of
action.
AS soon as the flood waters had re-
ceded an about program for the re-
storation of irrigation facilities was
The Bureau of Reclama-
ton obtained $750,000 to immediate
ly defray the expenses involved
abling project farmers to carry on
their operations with as little inter
ruption as possible and thus averting
a crop failure which would undoubt-
eddy have been more disastrous to the
Individual farmer than the damage
caused by the flood, Vernon said.
By beginning the repair work as
soon as the flood waters started to
,ecede, it was possible to have all
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-06-27
SUPREME COURT MAKES SOME SENSE

The Montana State Supreme the
queny illegal Considerable has been attorney
erals of the
The
described considerable
of
first place.
manifestation the
devastating effect
method of making taxation painless while
without baking
But the sad
divisions should feel funds
able which
the producteness of
gambling dive any
often
to use it more effectively elsewhere.
The state hasn't lost anything punhboard The
dvng channels
EKALAKA EAGLE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-06-27
COST OF LIVING HITS
ANOTHER new PEAK

WASHINGTON, D .C.-(CNS)-
The Bureau of Labor Statistics an
nounced June Is that the cost of
living index, under the old way of
figuring it, had reached an all-time
high of 1904 for the period of mid
April to mid-May. Previous high of
1902 was reached last January. The
new method of figuring the index
including prices of rents and TV
sets in the putation-showed a
high of 189 for the mid-April to mid
May period. This was 2 of 10 over
the previous period, but just below
the 1891 figure of last January.
LOOK FOR THE COOP LABEL!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-06-27
PEOPLE SCORE TWICE In TWO WEEKS

week Sen. Owen Brewster darling the and utility
lobbs unceremonousy retired from public life in the
Maine Republican primaries by liberal Governor Payne
This week Sen. William LANCER again received the conf
dence of the people of North Dakota when he defeated Cong
Aandah for the COP senatorial nomination. LANCER long
record of being aunch fighter for the people whereas Aan
dahl first Governor and then Congressman
of the most reactonary in public life.
Thus old guard Republication has twice bitten the dust
many weeks Rank-and-file COP may vet
the Republican party to abandon its back to William McKn
ley outlook.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-06-27
Primary Election Edition $50.

NEXT WEEKS ISSUE OF THE PEOPLES VOICE, July ~
will be primary election edition AS public service ALL
STATE CANDIDATES WITH PRIMARY OPPOSITION have
been offered in the VOICE to acquant Montana
with the people for whom they vote the July ballot
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Norwegian AirIiner
Crashes, Killing II o.
H Persons Aboard
Is Were WhoIers Flying
Home on Return From
Antarctic Expedition
By the Associated Press

OSLO. Norway, May GA
chartered Norwegian transport
plane, bringing Is sailors home
from an Antarctic whaling expe-
ldition crashed and burned before
dawn today in the rugged, wooded
ITelemark district $50 miles south
west of Oslo.
Police reported II persons-nine
passengers and two crewmen-
were killed and 10 others were
injured. some seriously. Twenty
mine were aboard.
The plane, operated by the Fred
Olsen Charter Airline, left Am
Isterdam last night for Jarlsberg
Airport, about Is miles from Oslo.
It carried a crew of four and
the Is whalers from the 18,O0O-ton
Antarctic whaling factory ship,
IKosmos 3. The ship arrived in
Rotterdam Sunday with a cargo
of petroleum which it freighted
from the Persian Gulf after fin
l1Shlng the winter Whallng season
The crash was first reported by
six survivors who made their way
through the dense pine forests to
report to Drangedal village police
at 4:30 am.
Police said the plane had
|ploughed through the trees and
apparently caught fire soon after
This was the second air crash
to hit the Olsen company in little
more than a month. On April
another of the lines DC-3s
crashed near Bordeaux, France
with a Swedish soccer team bound
for Gothenburg, Sweden. No one
was killed.
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Pine DeIuged With Mail After Ruling

The aftermath of Judge David
A. Pines decision in the steel
seizure case has filled his Office
with at least 1.400 messages.
1t also has filled the judge with
amazement.
But he quietly denied any move
by outsiders to look closely at the
stacks of letters. postcards and
kilograms. To all such requests
he offered this phrase quoted in a
dissenting opinion of the late
Supreme Court Justice McReyn-
oldS:
AN over-speaking judge is not
well-tuned cymbal."
BY far the bulk of the messages
delivered to his office-plus an
other 200 or 300 sent to his home
praise the decision. The judges
secretary, Chester S. Sheppard,
estimated that about one out of
20 is critical.
Mr.. Sheppard was still opening
letters during his infrequent
spare time today. Judge Pine
himself has been able to glance
through only few hundred
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Feinsinger Says He'll Resign
As WSB Director by June 80
Steel Wage Dispute
Will Be Settled
Soon, He Believes
By the Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. May 6.-Wage
IStabilization Board Director Ma
than P. Feinsinger said last night
he would quit his job on the board
by June 80.
On leave from the University of
Wisconsin Law School, Mr.. Fem
singer was here for a speaking
engagement. He said:
washington is no health re-
sort. I'm tired and need a rest.
I have already extended my dead
line twice and the President won't
ask it again.
Settlement of the steel dispute
lis matter of weeks, possible days.
I have faith in both sides involved
working out a solution to their
problems in the long run. I feel,
too, the general public is getting
"a better feel of the issues in the
case each day.
when it is all over and a mat
ter of record, historians may agree
lit was handled about as we'll as it
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Flyer Sees Signals,
3 on Boat Rescued
By the Associatsd Rress

CHICAGO, May 6.-An alert
Trans World Airline pilot, with
IL passengers aboard his plane
on a Washington to- Chicago
flight, played a leading role early
today in the rescue of three men
stranded in a disabled cabin
cruiser in Lake Michigan.
The Coast Guard rescued the
men-all of them unharmed.
Their 25-foot boat became dis
abled late last night when they
were about 3 mile from shore off
South SD street.
Capt. Jess E. Henslee, a TWA
pilot for more than seven years,
saw series of white flashes while
flying across the lake from South
Bend, Ind, the last stop before
Chicago. He dropped to the min
imum altitude of 1900 feet and
noted the flashes spelled out
SOS" A series of red flashes
followed.
Capt. Henslee radioed the con-
troll tower at Chicago Midway
Airport and the tower relayed the
message to the Coast Guard which
dispatched a life boat to the
scene. 4
Evening star., 1952-05-06

Many of them resemble miniature
legal filings, replete with attached
newspaper clippings.
The messages have come from
every section of the country and
from men and women. Most of
them seem to be hand-written.
The variety of stationery ranges
from rough, lined paper to del
icately tinted sheets.
They started coming IN within a
few hours after Judge Pine last
Tuesday ruled that the seizure Of
the steel mills was illegal and url-
constitutional.
The barrage Of telephone calls
was so heavy a week ago that
Judge Pine was unable to answer
more than a few. He said he was
sure the letter writer's, in particu-
lar, appreciate his inanility to find
time to read-much less leply
personally or in detail--to the
messages at this time.
District Court officials declared
that, so far as they can recall, no
such deluge of mail has descended
on any judge within their memory.
Evening star., 1952-05-06
India S President Prasad
Elected for Five Years
By the Asseeiated Press

NEW DELHI, India, May o.
1ndia's President Rapenda Prasad
won easy-and expected-re-elec-
tion to Office today in the first
popular election for India presi-
|dency.
Mr.. Prasad, candidate of Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's gov
ernment, polled more than five
times the combined vote of his
four opponents. The second man
in the race was Communist-backed
*. T. Shah. who is now visiting
Peiping with an official Indian
good will delegation.
Mr.. Prasad was elected for q
If1ve-yeaf term.
Voting was carried out by mem
|bers of the new Parliament and
members of the state Legislatures
under a complicated system OF
proportional representation. Each
member Of Parliament cast 49z
votes. Those Of the state legis-
lators varied depending on popu-
lation.
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Steel Union Policy Board
Called 10 Philadelphia
BY the Assoeioted Press

PITTSBURGH, May 6.-Pres-
ident Philip Murray of the CIO
United Steelworkers summoned his
unions Executive Board to meet
with him in Philadelphia tomor-
row.
The Executive Board session is
a preliminary to the USW's sixth
constitutional convention which
opens in Philadelphia May 13.
When Mr.. Murray called off last
weeks three-day strike at the re-
quest of President Truman he
said:
"All developments will be re-
ported to the constitutional con-
vention .'and will be subject to
convention consideration and rati-
flcation."
The Executive Board session will
be closed.
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Two Pilots Bail Out Safely
As JETS Collide in Britain
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, May 6.-Two sur
prised jet fighter pilots, one Brit
ish and one American, bailed out
of their planes at 6-mile altitude
and drifted into London's south
ern suburbs with each wondering
what hit me?"
Their planes collided during
joint exercises yesterday between
the United States Air Force and
the Royal Air Force. After they
parachuted, their planes plunged
into the ground 3 miles apart.
The British pilot floated down
onto a suburban sidewalk and re-
ported. Some one Clipped off my
tail"
The American flyer, Capt. Mil
ton G. Whitford of the 81st Fight.
er Wing, lodged chimney pots anc
landed an arms length from a
backyard hothouSe.
81 hope I didn't hurt your rose
tree" he told the startled house
holder,
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Retired Navy Mans Pay Based
On His Higher Rank in Army

captain. The Navy turned down
his request for retirement pay
under his Army rank. Mr.. Satter-
white appealed to the Court OF
Claims.
The court declarde that the
law made no distinction between
the services when it said a man
should be retired according to
his highest rank.
The court said Mr.. Satterwhite
should begin drawing his new re-
tirement pay as soon as the Gen.
eral Accounting Once can figure
out how much back pay he has
coming.
Evening star., 1952-05-06
200 Per Cent Profit on Storinq
Government Grain Disclosed
Firm With Unusual Contract Also
Collected $37. 500 More for Moving 1t

Elmer Kruse, deputy administra-
tor of the Agriculture Depart
ment'S Production and Marketing
Administration. Mr.. Kruse will
be summoned before the commit
tee when he returns from a trir
to Europe.
Ellender Is Indignant.
"Cargill, as a big firm thai
does a lot of business with the
Government, should not take ad.
vantage of the Government this
way" Senator Ellender said, ir
commenting on the double
outloading charge.
Mr.. Grimes said:
Under this contract, that's ex.
actly what Cargill is entitled te
receive. I don't say it is a gooc
contract for the Government"
The Government is having tc
sustain the loss for spoiled corn al
Norris City because the contract
provided only that Cargill had to
use its equipment with usual pru-
dence to maintain condition OF
the corn.
Cargill, however. had none of
the usual machinery for condi-
tioning corn at Norris City.
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Gambling Stamp
Ruled Invalid
ByU. 5. Court
Federal Judge Coils
Law Police Measure
In Guise Of Levy
By the Asseeiafed Pres,

PHILADELPHIA. May GA six
month-old Federal law requiring
gamblers to buy a $50 tax stamr
was declared unconstitutional to-
day by Federal Judge George A
Welsh.
Judge Welsh ruled the law was
a police measure enacted by Con-
gresS under the guise of a tax bill
The decision was handed down
on an appeal by Joseph Kahriger
36, one of seven men facing trial
on charges of failing to buy the
stamp.
In dismissing the action against
Kahriger, Judge Welsh said he
was not ruling on another section
OF the act which requires gam
blers to pay a 10 per cent tax on
their earnings.
First COnstitutiOnaIity Ruling.
Judge WelSh'S action was the
f1rst judicial ruling on the conSti-
tutionality of the tax, which went
into effect November /, 1851.
The legality of the act had been
challenged all the way up to the
Supreme Court. but the high court
refused to rule on its constitu-
tionality.
The previous attack on the law
was made by Hayes L. Combs, a
Washington news vendor. He ar
gued that the tax was unconstitu-
tional because he said it amounted
to a penalty in the guise of taxes.
A special three-judge Federal
court in Washington dismissed
the case on the ground it was
being asked to issue an injunction
to protect a criminal enterprise.
Appeal Was Dismissed.
The Supreme Court March
dismissed the appeal 6-3, the ma
jority announcing agreement with
the lower court ruling.
The special court commented IT
thought the tax was constitutional,
but said it wasn't necessary to dis
cuss that issue since the case was
being dismissed on other grounds.
There was no comment immedi-
ately from the United States At
torney's Office here. One Spokes-
man at the Federal Court building
said:
THE inks not even dry on the
judges order; there hasn't been
time even to read it and study it
carefully"
1t was indicated, however, that
. decision whether to appeal
would be made only after consul
tation with top officials in the At
torney Generals Office in Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Fear and HopeIessness
In Red CzechosIovokio

WE THE SATELllTES-WiIliom [.
Ryon continues his series on the soteI-
lite countries Of Europe with q story TO-
doy on the feor ond suspicion thot en-
gulf Czechosloyokio. See pose AS.
JOLLY CHARLEY-Times hove
changed since the Toft brothers proc
tieed law in Cincinnati. Now Chorley
Toft wonts to be Governor Of Ohio, ond
Brother Bob, the Senotor from Ohio.
wonts to be President. How this hos led
to Republican Porty split on the Tofts
in Ohio is told by Stor Stoff Reporter
jack Jonos on pose All.
Evening star., 1952-05-06

A man who served in the Army,
then switched to the Navy with
a lower rating, should get retire.
ment pay based on his Army
rank, the United States Court
of Claims ruled today.
The opinion was given in the
case of Stanley Satterwhite, who
since October l, 1949, has been
receiving retirement pay based on
his Navy rating of chief phar-
maciSt's mate.
Mr.. Satterwhite served in the
Army during World War I, and
was discharged with the rank of
Evening star., 1952-05-06
Ted Lewis Records
Songs for His Show
From Hospital Bed
BY The Assoeioied Press

CLEVELAND, May 6.-The
flesh was weak but the voice was
willing in the case of Band Leader
Ted Lewis.
The old maestro of the top hat
and clarinet was told he would
have to stay in st. Luke's Hos
pital two weeks for treatment of
q stomach ulcer.
But my show must go on" he
protested. Whereupon he sum-
moned a crew of phonograph
technicians and recorded several
of his songs while sitting up in
bed.
Last night, with a stand-in con-
ductor leading his orchestra, the
recorded voice of Ted Lewis rang
through the Skyway Lounge bar
where he collapsed last Sunday.
Evening star., 1952-05-06
McGranery StraddIes
Steel Seizure Issue,
Ferguson Charges
Presidents Nominee
For Attorney General
Questioned on Powers
By J. A. OLeory

Federal Judge James P. Nc.
Granery, up for confirmation a!
Attorney General. was accused to.
day by Senator Ferguson, Repub'
Ilican of Michigan. of being on botf
sides of the question of the Presi.
dents power to seize an industry
in time of emergency.
Members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, all lawyers, fired ques.
tions at the judge for nearly ar
hour about how he would advise
the President in a repetition o1
the recent steel situation.
Chairman McCarran asked thu
nominee if the President coull
declare an emergency and ther
take over the rubber industry.
mot without facts and circum.
stances to support the emergen
cy," Judge McGranery replied
II think under an extreme emer'
gency the President has all th'
powers necessary to protect tn,
life and liberty of the people"
No Time of Peace.
"In time of peace?" broke il
Senator Jenner. Republican, O.
Indiana.
The judge replied that in al
extreme emergency you do no
have peace.
Senator Hendrickson, Republi.
can of New Jersey, asked thu
nominee if he believed the found.
ing fathers intended that the
Iresidium of underlined power re.
main in Congress. Judge McGran-
cry replied, Indeed I do
1t was this answer, following the
earlier reference to extreme emer-
Igencies, that prompted Senator
Ferguson to ask:
Aren't you on both sides of the
question in that answer?"
Senator O'Connor, Democrat o1
Maryland. obviously referring te
the existence of the Taft-Hartley
law, asked the judge if he. al
Attorney General, would advise
the President to use any law Con-
|greSs had provided for meeting ar
emergency.
Voted Against Dies Committee.
always" the witness replied. 81
certainly would advise any client
to follow the law"
Earlier, Judge McGranery ad-
mitted that while a member of the
House he voted against appropria-
tlons for the Dies Committee (the
original Committee on Un-Amer.
lican Activities). He said he thought
that committee was violating civil
liberties.
Senator Ferguson asked if h.
would continue the listing ot
Communist-front organizations.
Il think the Attorney Genera
should follow the will of Con-
gress," he answered.
Judge McGranery, before coins
on the bench, was an assistant tl
the Attorney General during tht
time that the listing of front or.
ganizatlons began. He told thu
committee today he supposed il
could be said such listing did moi
meet with his approval.
Chairman McCarran brought
out that Congress has since
passed the SubverSive Contro
Act and the nominee said he un.
iderstands that law fixes stand
ards for such listing.