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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02
425 OF Every 1000 Farms
Have Telephones

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
The proportion of farm homes with
telephone service now stands at 4215%
says the bureau of agricultural eco
nomics. That's the highest in the ma
tons history-4% above the 1850
census, when it was revealed that a
smaller proportion of farmers had
telephones than in 1920. Because of
the sharp decline in the number of
farm homes, the number of rural
phones is still smaller than in 1920.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02
MASON, SALvAS, CONTEST
haINE-MiLL OFFICE IN
NOVEMBER ELECTION

For the first time since 1949, the
post of executive board member for
District No. l of international I'M
ion Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
Union will be contested at the un-
ions biennial election Monday, No
vember 2. Incumbent board member
William Mason, Butte, is being OPP
posed for reelection by International
Rep. Ernest Salvas, also of Butte.
Mason has held the office for a
number of years. Prior to that he was
active in various official capacities,
including the presidency of Butte
Miners Union No. 1. Before World
War ii he played an important roll
in rebuilding militant industrial
union movement in Butte.
Salvas, prior to going W h
IUMM&SW as a representative few
years back, was president of Deer
Lodge Miners Union. During the Sill
COSTS initiative campaign of 1852 he
himself in labor circles
and on the platform at various pub
lie meetings by bringing to large num-
bers of Montana people the urgent
need for improvement of the Work
mems Compensation Act and the in
clusion of occupational diseases under
that act.
In other races to be decided by the
Mine-Mill rank and file, Int'l. Presi-
dent John Clark, formerly of Great
Falls Smeltermen, is unopposed. Or
vile Larson, Miami, Ariz., is unop-
posed for western vice president.
Int'l. Sec'y. Maurice Travis, has
two opponents. One of these is Char
les Mclean, long time officer of
Smeltermen, and Castulo
Sanchez, of Douglas, Arizona.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02
DROP In AGRICUL TURAL PRICES In MONTANA BROUGHT
TOTAL INCOME PAYMENTS DOWN TWO PER CENT I'm so

Total income payments in Montana
in 1862 declined two per cent from
1851, due to a sharp drop in agri-
cultural income, and per capita in
come payments were also about two
per cent lower in 1862, amounting to
S1,697. These and other changes
in state income, as estimated by the
US. Department of Commerce, are
discussed in the September issue of
Montana Business, published month
ly by the Bureau of Business and
Economic Research, Montana State
University.
According to Department of Com
merce estimates, total income pay
ments to individuals in Montana in
1852 amounted to $1,003 million,
compared to $1,026 million in 1851.
The decline was the result of a 27
per cent decrease in agricultural in
come, from $2912 million to $212.6
million. Lower livestock prices were
largely responsible for the reduction,
for about one-half of Montana's farm
income generally comes from live
stock marketings.
Increases in income among non
agricultural segments of Montana's
economy helped offset the agricul-
tural decline Trade and service in
come increased four per cent, gov
eminent income payments were 10
per cent higher, due largely to the
payment of a state veterans bonus.
Increased employment in the metal
mining and petroleum industries re-
suited in an Is per cent growth in
mining payrolls. Manufacturing pay
rolls increased seven per cent and
payrolls four per cent
With the decline in agricultural
income, wages and salaries assumed
greater than usual significance in
Montana in 1852, accounting for 81
per cent of total income payments
Proprietors' income (from unincor-
porated businesses, including farms
and ranches) contributed % per
cent In 1850 and 1851, proprietors'
income equalled 35 per cent of the
total, and wages and salaries only
81 per cent. Income from property
amounted to eight per cent of the
total and other income seven per
cent.
Per capita income payments in
Montana in 1862 are estimated at
Il, 697, compared to S1,738 in 1851.
7or the eleventh straight year, state ;.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02
Treasury Head Says Sales
Tax Still Being Considered

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Treasury
Secretary George Humphrey h S
made it plain that despite evidences
of mounting congressional opposi-
ton he is still considering a federal
sales tax. Were getting all the facts
and when we've finished then We'll
decide on sales tax" Humphrey
declared in speech before the ma
tional press club.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02
Continued from Page One)


price supports on our farm common
ties, we farmers have paid millions
of dollars in state and federal IN
come taxes. We have purchased
tractors, farm implements, automo-
biles, trucks. We have built farm
homes and repaired our farm build
ings, giving work to hundreds Of
thousands of men and WON n
throughout all America.
COMMITTEES have been established
and set up to review the entire price
support structure and its relation to
grain storage Serving on the commit
tee we have the chairman of the Ar
thur Daniels company and the vice
chairman of Cargill, Inc These farm
committees are outstanding in this re-
spect-they fail to have a single hon.
est to God dirt farmer in their group.
STANDING here today, can tell
you in all sincerity, that if the Ben
son Plan prevails, that is the slid
ing scale and the elimination of
all price supports from our agri-
cultural products, and we farmers
are again forced to sell according
to the old law of supply and de-
mand, to revert to the law of the
jungle, the survival of the fittest,
we shall again see the unemployed
walking our streets in our cities
and towns looking for work and
finding none.
agriculture, like organized labor,
has journeyed through its bitter
Iethsemane during the years of 81
32-'33. And | can say to you if ag-
'iculture is crucified by the reaction
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02
RURAL ELECTRIC COOP in
IDAHO SEEKS TO BUILD
TWO SMALL DAMS

STANDPOINT, Ida. = (CNS} =
Northern Lights, rural electric CO.
OPP here, has asked Federal Power
Commission for the right to build
two small dams on the Priest river,
just below Priest lake, that will have
a combined capacity of $500 kilo-
watts. The project, As miles from the
Canadian border, would serve coop
members in five Washington, Idaho,
and Montana counties.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02

per capita income exceeded the ma
tional average, which in 1852
amounted to 1859. Montana rank
ed 18th among the AS states in 1852.
In the western half of the United
States, only California, Oregon,
Washington and Nevada exceeded
Montana in per capita income.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02
Pointed Quotes

POINTED Quotes =, go Off;.:,
.With ham you got have an egg he laa IT. W.;
81 AT plumbers Union commenting on speech OF wee Fres
dent Nixon to AFI Convention, Sept 23 quoted III ALL 81
JOURNAL
.1 + Golf score has seemingly received more atten-
+ion than lowering the cost of living : SEN WAYNE
MORSE commenting on National Administration at ALL con-
vention St. Louis
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Democracy is based upon the con-
viction that there are extraordinary
possibilities in ordinary peOpIe..-
Or. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02
Wheat Under Loan

Farmers had 118, 685,574 bush
els Of the 1853 wheat crop under
the Governments price support pro
gram as of August Is, according to
the Department of Agriculture.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02

In 1851 patrons of local Co-ops
purchased $473,O7O of L. P. gas
equipment through their Farmers I'm
ion Central Exchange.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02

Scientists can make gasoline from
coal, cattle fodder or sawdust.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-10-02

LOOK FOR THE COOP LABEL!
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Special Dispatch 10 The Stor

BALTIMORE, April 9.-Blam-
ing Gordon L. Sadur, Washing
ton accountant and auditor, for
setting up a false record scheme
through which he and his broth
er sought to evade income taxes,
Jack Sekulow, Baltimore milli-
ner, today included other WASH
ington names in his testimony.
Sekulow testified that one
$4,000 check paid to Sadur was
to fix" tax troubles through a
man connected with a United
States Senator's Office.
Identifying a $4,000 treasurer's
check of the Union Trust Co. of
Maryland, dated March 20, 1850,
and payable to Sadur, the wit
ness explained it by saying:
"Mr. Sadur came in. He was
very much excited. He needed
$4,000 for some party over in
Washington that he had con-
tacted to fix our matters up"
Judge Questions Witness.
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut
hearing Sadur'S trial before a
Federal court jury on a charge
of causing false income tax re-
turns to be filed, asked:
What do you mean by fix?"
Sekulow replied, ITO take care
of our tax matter which was
pending in Washington"
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Two Women Shot in Spat
Over Chinese Music
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, April 9.-Police
said an argument over Chinese
music versus bebop touched off
an attack today in which two
women were shot and one Of
them hacked with a meat cleaver.
Arrested was Loung Man Chu,
47-year-old restaurant operator.
He was charged with assault,
shooting and cutting. Bail was
set at $4,000. Both of the women
were taken to a hospital in unde-
termined condition.
Police said the Chinese restau-
ranteur was in his dining room
early today with his wife, Myrtle,
colored, and one of her friends,
Mrs. Marie Lawson, also colored.
The two women were playing
so-called bebop records on the
juke box, and, police reported,
Young wanted to hear Chinese
music.
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Harmonious G. .O.P. Worried.
By White House Staff Attitude.
Policy Committee Complains Of Delay on
Patronage and Lack of Leader Coordination

thing is fine. But lot of us
aren't satisfied that this is So"
Still another aspect of admin
istration policy-a reported drive
to cut the military budget
sharply, especially as a result of
Russian peace overtures-came
under open fire from Chairman
Knowland of the Policy Commit
tee yesterday.
II don't believe the leopard
changes his spots so rapidly"
Mr.. Knowland said.
Tie told reporters that the So
Wet has done, nothing to date
that would justify any mass re-
duction of our armed strength" !"
The peace offensive, he asserted,
so far has largely consisted of
words"
Meanwhile, the chance that
Congress will adjourn by July 4,
the date originally set by COP
leaders, apparently has gone a.
glimmering. The previously ex-
pressed determination to wind
up the session on that date has
now become only a "hope." Sen
ator Knowland told reporters
after yesterdays policy meeting
that August l seems a more
likely adjournment date now.
Senate Sessions Heightened.
The Californian talked in
terms of the August date after
the committee decided to give
early legislative priority to eco
nomic controls and the Hawaiian
statehood bill and also decided
to lengthen Senate sessions on
the pending tidelands oil bill in
an attempt to speed up legisla-
ton.
Senator Krowland said the
Senate will start meeting at 10
am. instead of its regular IL
noon next week and may also
have some night sessions in order
to get action on the tidelands
issue as swiftly as possible.
When tidelands, controls and
Hawaiian statehood are out of
the way, the Senate still will have
to dispose of such complicated
measures as reciprocal trade and
amendments to the Taft-Hartley
law-not to mention appropria-
tionS-before adjournment will
be in sight.
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Gen. Deans S Return
With Sick POWs
Is Held Unlikely
BY the Associofed Press

MUNSAN, Korea, April o.
Communist Correspondent Will
fred Burchett said today he
thinks it unlikely that Maj.
Gen. William Dean would be
among the sick and wounded
prisoners exchanged at Pan
munjom.
Mr.. Burchett, correspondent
for the Paris Communist paper
PHumanite, said he has no
knowledge Of whether Gen. Dean
was actually being exchanged
among the sick and wounded.
However, he said, the former
commander of the United States
oath Division. captured in the
early days of the Korean war
near Taejon, was in excellent
health the last time he saw him
several months ago.
At that time Gen. Dean was
kept in a separate camp. Since
then the generals whereabouts
have not been made known by
the Communists.
Mr.. Burchett said that despite
Gen. Deans age and the ex-
periences he had gone through
he appeared exceptionally active.
Evening star., 1953-04-09
By the Assoeioted Press

The men who guard them
don't think much of the lives
Presidents have to lead.
Secret Service Chief U. E.
Baughman. in report to Con-
gress. phrased it this way today:
THE position and responsible
ties of the President of the
United States are such that he
cannot have what is considered
a normal life, home or family
relationship. He has no choice
as to where he lives. He is a
focal point for public and werld
attention.
He Is q slave to his Office,
being obliged to serve his coun-
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Tax Evoder Says Sodur Tried
SIS ,OOO|FM' inSenotor/ sOffice
Convicted BoItimofe MIIiner BIomes D. C..
Auditor for Setting Up False Record Scheme

The judge asked, ''Who was it
in Washington"
Sekulow replied, "He said it
was some party by the name of
Mr.. Higgins"
"Who is Mr.. Higgins?" asked
the judge.
Not Identified Fully.
Sekulow responded, "well, Mr.
Sadur said that Mr.. Higgins was
connected with Senator Green's
Office from Providence or Rhode
Island"
No full name was given fol-
Higgins.
Edward j. Higgins, admins
trative assistant to Senator
Green, Democrat, of Rhode Is
land told The Star today he
had never heard of Jack Seku-
low or the tax case in which
he is involved.
Mr.. Higgins said he could
not recall knowing Sadur, al
though he could not rule out
the possibility.
He was certain. however,
that neither Sadur nor any
one else had discussed the tax
case with him, or asked for
help in behalf of those &C
cuSed in the caSe.)
Sadur's trail began yesterday
(See EVASION. Page AL
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Emphasized Moral Values
Urged by Eisenhower

The free world must place
more emphasis on moral values
if communism is to be turned
back, President Eisenhower said
today.
Gen. Eisenhower spoke briefly
to more than 100 members of the
Associated Church Press, includ-
ing the editors of some 119 week.
ly and monthly Protestant de-
nomination publications. The
organization met at Baptist head
quarters.
ut is my unshakable belief"
Gen. Eisenhower said, that it is
only through a rejuvenation of
respect for moral values that
this world can possibly come
through the long period of ten
sion."
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Six jailed Gamblers
Plead Guilty 10 Lack
of U. 5. Tax Stamps
New Sentences to Run
ConcurrentIy With
Prior Convictions

Six gamblers today pleaded
guilty to failing to buy a Federal
gambling tax stamp. but the
only thing it will cost them Is
another entry on their police
record.
The six already are in Jail on
gambling convictions. They were
brought from Jail to Municipal
Court this morning to answer
the Federal charges of evading
the tax law.
The sentences handed down
this morning by Judge Thomas
c. Scalley were ordered to run
concurrently-which means the
men will serve no more prison
time than has already been Or
dered on their previous gambling
convictions.
The six who pleaded guilty
were given a theoretical choice
of paying a $1,000 fine or serv-
ing a certain number of days in
jail. Since they already have
to serve the time in Jail, it ap-
peared unlikely that any of them
would pay the $1,000.
Police Seek "a Others.
The court action came as po-
lice prepared to serve warrants
on "a others out of a total of
81 gamblers who have been &C
cused of failing to buy the $50
stamp.
The men sentenced today, and
the number of days they we're
sentenced in lieu of the $1,000
fine each, were:
Charles S. Keys, 80, of the
1000 block of Thirteenth street
NV, 80 days; Jesse Battle, 40,
of the 400 block of Neal place
(See GAMRIING TAX Pp A-4)
Evening star., 1953-04-09
City to Economic
By Using '54 Tabs
On SO Auto Toos

The District Commissioners to-
day chopped of a good chunk
of 1854 license plate costs by
approving use Of a small tab in
the corner of the 1853 tags next
year.
Production Of full-sized license
plates costs 18 cents; the tabs
will be only 6a cents.
Despite the change, an es-
timated 10000 sets will be needed
by new residents and persons
buying new or second-han cars.
The District had 178,30O sets
of plates made at the Lorton Re
formatory this year, but has
ordered l4,300 more. Included
are 1900 sets Of diplomatic tags
which 60 to embassy personnel
here without cost.
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Dewey 70 See President
In Conference Tomorrow

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will
confer tomorrow with President
Eisenhower, it was announced at
the White House today. It will
be their first meeting since the
Inauguration.
Gov. Dewey is coming to
Washington for the Gridiron
Club dinner Saturday night.
White House Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty said he did
not know what topics will be
taken up at the meeting.
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Alexander Fleming Weds
Greek Scientist-Heroine
By the Associoted Pres.

LONDON, April 9.-Sir Alex
ander Fleming. 71-year-old dis
coverer of penicillin, married 40
year-old DR.. Amalia Coutsouris,
titian-haired Greek war heroine
and herself a scientist. in a brief
civil ceremony here today.
The new Lady Fleming met Sir
Alexander in 1947 when she was
a bacteriologist on his staff at
a London institute.
Sir Alexander, Nobel Prize
winner and emeritus professor Of
bacteriology at the University Of
London, previously was married
to the former Sarah Marion,
who died four years ago. They
had one son.
Evening star., 1953-04-09
President Is Public Slave His Guards Say

Mr.. Baughman was speaking
only Of uniformed guards. He
refrained from saying how many
plainclothes men are assigned to
protect the President and his
family.
In justification Of the bureaus
request for an operating budget
of $3.853, 900, a quarter million
dollars less than in 1852, Mr..
.Bauehman said his men in 1852
handled "2,535 cases relating TO
presidential protection" COM
pared with 3,629 in 1851, and
arrested "A persons Of whom 70
went to prison or to mental
institutions.
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Pace Asserts Reports
On Lack Of Munitions
Didn't Reach Him
Van Fleets Warnings
Went to Loeistics Unit
Only. Ex-Secretory Says
By John A. Giles

Former Secretary of the Army
Frank Pace said today Gen.
James A. Van Fleets reports on
ammunition shortages in Korea
were never called to his personal
attention.
He told a Senate Armed Serv-
ices subcommittee that as far as
he knew the reports from the
former commander of the 9th
Army in Korea came in every
10 days to the logistic section of
the Chief of Staff's Office.
They may have been forwarded
to the Undersecretary who had
charge Of procurement matters,
he said, but the Senators would
have to ask that official, Archi-
bald Alexander, about that. Mr..
Alexander is scheduled to be the
next witness.
But they were never called
to your personal attention.
asked Chairman Margaret Chase
Smith, Republican, of Maine.
mo; they were not" replied
Mr.. Pace.
Reported Almost Daily.
Gen. Van Fleet has told the
Senators that he made almost
daily reports about the serious
and sometimes critical Short
ages of ammunition during the
% months he was in Korea.
Mr.. Pace said he became
aware of the ammunition situation
in October. 1851, but that it did
not become apparent that the
Army would not meet it's produc-
ton schedules until November,
1852.
AS result of the realization,
numerous meetings were held on
the matter. he said.
But Mr.. Pace denied that
former Defense Secretary Robert
A. Lovett took the ammunition
production problem out of the
hands Of the Army-"certainly
not out of my hands"
He described his relations with
Mr.. Lovett as having been ex-
cellent.
Mr.. Lovett said yesterday he
tried for months through Army
channels" to speed up the flow
of ammunition. Finally, last No.
vember, he took the situation
out of Army hands, he said.
Mr.. Pace said he did not want
to give the impression that the
job was perfectly done-it was
an enormously difficult situation
as related to our obtaining
trained personnel and machine
tools to do the job"
Expected War to End.
Mr.. Pace also testified:
/. It was two years after the
start of the Korean war before
there was any real production
of ammunition. All that time
the Army had been living off
reserved stocks piled up during
World War II.
2. He got the definite i'm
preston" during the Wake Is
land conference of former
President Truman and Gen,
Macarthur in October, 1851,
that the war would end that
year. He added that that was
! (See AMMUNITION, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1953-04-09
Red Poland Drops
Demand for Return
OF All Korea P0Ws
Otherwise U. N. Speech
Offers Nothing New
In Eust-West Tension
BY the Associated Press


UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
April 9.-CoYnmunist Poland
opened United Nations debate
today on the general problem of
EaSt-West tensions, but failed to
come up with any startling new
solutions.
Polish Foreign Minister STAN
iSlaw SkrzeSzewSki did, however,
drop previous. Red demands for
the unconditional return of all
Korean prisoners of war follow
ing the line lately broadcast by
Red radios.
In an unusually mild and con-
ciliatory speech, he re-introduced
an already-rejected peace pack
age" which calls for a one-third
across-the-board arms cut by
the big powers, a big power peace
pact, immediate prohibition of
the atomic bomb, banning of
germ warfare and dissolution of
the Atlantic pact. He told the
U. N. 60-nation Political Com
mittee, however, that this draft
should merely serve as a basis of
discussion.
Backs Red BroadcastS.
The Polish resolution also con-
tanned a section on settling the
Korean war and here Mr..
Skrzeszewski made what appeared
to be a major change. Instead
of calling for the unconditional
return of all prisoners of war,
he urged the U. N. to appeal to
all belligerentS in Korea to do
their best to get agreement on
the problem of sick and wounded
prisoners of war and the overall
question of prisoners of war"
The formal Polish resolution
stamped definite Communist au-
thority on the hints Red radios
have been dropping that the
Communist Chinese and North
Koreans are willing to follow up
the exchange of sick and
wounded by a settlement of the
whole issue. It is the only proES
lem holding up a Korean
armiStice.
VishinSky Asks Cooperation.
Russian Delegate Andrei Y,
ViShinSky, in one of his most
amiable moods, asked the West
yesterday to meet him half
way in the tunnel of friend
ship" on the Assembly's plan
of work for the U. N. Dis
armament Commission. But his
proposed changes in that plan
were voted down and an Ameri-
can backed plan for continuing
the commissions work was
adopted. The Americans thus
feel that the disarmament part
of the Polish omnibus already
has been taken care of.
So has the question of bac-
terial warfare. to the American
delegations way of thinking
since the Political Committee
yesterday approved its demand
for an impartial investigation
into Communist charges that
United States airmen were drop
ping germ bombs in North Ko-
rea and China.
The General Assembly now
must approve the committee s
action, but the Reds are not ex-
pected to cooperate, in any case