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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
BY VICTOR RIESEL

In Richmond, Calf. INDEPENDENT
Out near Jupiter Light, Florida:
easternmost point, about 200 mile:
south of the Fountain of Youth,
and just north of the states Cole
Coast, 600 acres have been cleared
and handicapped for some who don't
have youth, nor do they have gold.
Only few of the nations 13 mil
lion persons now over 65 years of
age will be able to settle on these
600 acres. But those few will be mod
ern pioneers, though they come to
this frontier by plane.
For, on this ground just north of
West Palm Beach, Fla, union
Sal Hoffman's Upholsterers Inter
national Union of North America
(AFL), with headquarters in Phila-
delphia-soon will build the first
self-contained, self governing re-
tirement village for labor people and
their wives.
This, however, will net be a small
city limited only to an elderly genera
ton. Geriatric specialists point out
that old folks not only resent but
suffer from isolation in their own
age bracket.
So the union officials, we'll advised
by panel of 20 medical and socialogi- |
cal experts, will also encourage mi
grafton to their village of members
below retirement age.
The community is being prepared !
now. Sewerage and water systems
are going into the ground. By No
vember, at the latest, work will start
on an administration building, and
the first cottages.
This union project is going up at
a cost which is contractors dream.
When Sal Hoffman's people first
went down to Florida, word leaked
out that the union was set to build
! village worth SIS million. "Con"
men flocked in with a thousand
schemes. However, the Upholsters '
,alled the local AFL construction {
rades unions for help. {
The AFL group set up a special c
dvisory labor committee consisting I
f most of the business agents of all b
he unions in West Palm Beach
'ounty. These experts that they b
construction and mate v
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
G. O. P. ANGUISH CAUSED BY Being
CAUGHT ATTEMPTING TO give
AWAY SCHOOL LANDS
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schools through a refusal to comply
with the illegal leasing act Of 1858.
"The land is still there, the oil
is still there, and both still belong
to the schools. When they are dis
posed of, it will be for full! market
value. They won't be given away
to fulfill Republican campaign
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
By LYLE COOPER, Research Director,
United Packinghouse Workers-CIO


United Packinghouse Workers
What happens when business admins
tration" takes over in Washington is becom-
ing more glaringly clear every day.
We see this in many forms: The NLRB be-
coming tool of the greedy and not protec-
ton for the needy; tax relief for the rich;
the "giveaway" program for such priceless
natural resources as power, tideland OIL etc.
But this is not the whole story by any means.
Take some recent data on how consumer
spending is divided up this year in compari-
son with 1858. The Department of Commerce
gives us a grand total on consumer spending
which looks, on the surface, very encouraging.
That's because spending during the first
three months of 1854 was at an annual rate
of $21 billion dollars above the first three
months of 1953-$229.8 billion this year, com
pared with $2277 billion last year.
This looks like consumers are pretty we'll
heeled, doesn't it? Otherwise how could they
spend so much more than last year? But let's
break this grand total down into its main
parts. Well then see whether the picture is
anything to cheer about. Here's the way the
breakdown shapes up.
Consumer Spending 1854 Compared with 1853
Annual Rates for the First Quarter
I'm Billions of Dollars
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
WHO SAVES?

Our analysis of service spending shows it
went to landlords and stockholders of public
utilities and other big corporations. Pretty
nice-IF you are a landlord or stakeholder.
They ought to be grateful to the Eisenhower
Administration
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
Colorado Labor Doesn't
Fool Around In Raising Funds

DENVER, Volo.-- luncheon and
political rally brought the Colorado
Labor's League for Political Educa-
ton clear profit Of between $4,000
and $4,000 to be used in the cam
paign to elect liberal candidates. APP
proximately $50 unionists were pres
ent.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
How Your Money Goes

flo citizens in the u S. A. were living so much
hettor-conld afford to hire more servants,
for instance?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27

Observe that consumer purchases of dur
ables" fell So billion during the year-$1.3
was on automobiles and parts alone. On non
durables the drop was less-$800 million.
In sharp contrast, spending on services shot
up S. billion. Why? Was it because rank and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
THE RENT HIKE TOLL

That explanation doesn't sound reasonable
and if isn't To understand what's really
involved let's see what spending on services"
Includes
It includes rent And the years jump in out
lays for housing was one billion dollars. AS
the year unfolds, the margin over 1888 Will
widen. Household operations took another
half billion. Transportation charges to con-
sumers went up 5000 million. And big mis-
cellaneous group headed "other services
shot up So billion this included medical costs
and public utility rate hikes.
FEWER JOBS RESULT
What is the meaning of these big increases
in terms of employment? The Federal Re
serve Bank of Chicago in its July, 1854, Bust
ness Conditions supplies much of the answer.
We are told: First that the shift in spending
away from goods means less business and en-
ployment in the retail stores as we'll as in
factories.
Second, Business Conditions says: MANY
service ndustres-utities, transportation
rental housing-employ fewer workers per
dollar of sales than are associated with the
production and distribution of goods
One final point: How about that jump of
S2.3 billion in personal savings shown in the
table above? 1t looks good, doesn't it? But
who got it?
WHO SAVES?
Our analysis of service" spending shows it
went to landlords and stockholders of public
utilitiac opd otbaY biO conversations pra++v
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27

Misuse Of electricity accounts for
at least 12 per cent Of home fiji cs,
safety specialists say. Overloaded
wires areaincreasingsas fire hazard.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
Win f8c Increase

CHICAGO, Ill.-Eighteen cents an
hour increase for 5000 women, mem
bers Of AFL Building Service En-
ployes Union, has been granted
through arbitration.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Mayor Rivers Vetoes
 Bill To Permit Licensed Gambling In Fairbanks

FAIRBANKS, LR - The Fair banks City Council failed by one vote Tuesday to override Mayor Ralph Rivers veto of a bill to permit licensed gambling in the city.
 The council failed to override veto of the bill which would have permitted and taxed poker and pinochle games, pinball machines and punchboards.
 The mayor gave the council five reasons Monday night when he delivered a special veto message. Gambling is specifically prohibit ed in the Alaska Organic Act, he pointed out to the council, and additional police officers would be needed to enforce the $5 limit on poker and other card games.
 Many wage earners would lose money needed by their families, he continued; federal authorities no doubt would flower the boom" if the city opened up gambling, and there was no actual need seen for gambling here since many local charitable organizations con- duct ice pools, bingo games, raf- fles and other games of chance These, Rivers said, should be suf- ficient to satisfy the proclivity of the average persons to take chance"
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Eisenhower Will Ask Senate Confirm Over 13O Recess Appointments

WASHINGTON, R- President Eisenhower will shortly ask the Senate to confirm more than 130 appointments, including those of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States and James F. Mitchell as Secretary of Labor.
 There is no evidence of serious opposition to most of these nomi- nations, made while the Senate was in recess.
 But at least one, that of Robert E. Lee to be member of the Fed eral Communications Committee, is certain to receive searching study by the Senate Commerce Committee.
 Eisenhower's recess appoint ment of Lee to the EGG has been questioned by some Democrats in connection with Lees participation in the 1850 election campaign of Senator John Marshall Butler R-Md.
 Lee, a former House employe, is a friend of Sen. Mccarthy, who campaigned for Butler against the Democratic incumbent, Sen. Mil lard E. Tydings. A Senate Elec- tions subcommittee criticized that campaign as a "despicable, back street type"
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Total Civilians Out Of Work During December Placed at 6O,764,O0O

WASHINGTON, R - The na- tion's unemployment ro1ls-swell- ed by the discharge of temporary Christmas help-Will grow to over two million this month, govern ment officials forecast today.
 Just yesterday, the Commerce Departments census bureau re- ported a 422,OOO rise in jobless- ness in December, attributing most of this to a seasonal winter drop in farm employment. There was little change in non-farm en- ployment.
 The bureau said 1,850,000 Am ericans were out of work last month, the only one of 1853 in which unemployment was higher than the corresponding month of the previous year.
 Total civilian employment last month, the bureau said, stood at 60,764,000 mn below December to- tals both in 1851 and 1852.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Aleut Suit Against
 Government Dismissed

WASHINGTON, R - The US. Court of Claims has rejected eff forts of the Aleut community of St. Paul Island off Alaska to sue the United States for loss of it's seal fishery.
 In granting government mo- ton to dismiss the community's petition, the court said yesterday:
 "Whatever rights the Aleuts had to take seals in the waters off St. Paul Island under Russian do- minion, there can be no doubt that upon acquisition of that terri tory by the United States their right to do so was subject to the paramount power of the United States to regulate and control il"
 Attorneys for the Aleut com munity, located on one of the Pri- bilof Islands about $50 miles off the west coast of Alaska, alleged that since acquisition of the island by the United States in 1867, rights of the residents "have been consistently disregarded."
 Since 1850, the government has regulated sale of all seal furs in the islands.
 The community contended it had been deprived of it's pro- perty without just compensation.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
5000 Persons Apply But Only 200 Jobs Available

WASHINGTON, R - The Re publican National Committee has a list of about 5000 persons who want jobs in the Eisenhower ad- ministration. And there are only about 200 political job open.
 President Eisenhower has 12 high level positions to fill. Four of them, it was learned, are about to be filled, four more are going through the screening process, and four are open for recommendation from state patronage organiza- tions.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Expedition Leaves London For Alaska To Start 3O,OOO-Mile Trailer Trip

LONDON, R-A young British actor and a Canadian medical stu dent left today for a 30,000-mile motor expedition from Alaska to southernm0st Argentina.
 Brian Ackworth, 25, of London, and Peter Abear, 27, of Kamloops, British Columbia, plan to pick up a third member of their party, British photographer M Martin Swithinbank, in New York.
 Together they plan to drive British sports car and amphibious trailer to Alaska to begin their long journey southward through Canada, the United States, Mex ico, Panama, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina.
 Ackworth said the group hopes to make the trip in about 15 months.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Indian Affairs Bureau Wants AMIGA For ANS

SEATTLE, R- Federal Judge William J. Lindberg Monday or dered Louis c. Peters, manager of the Alaska Native Industries Co., operative Assn, to appear and show cause today why he should not be restrained from acting as AMIGA manager.
 The injunction and restrainer, sought by US. Attorney Charles F. Moriarity and Asst. US. Atty. Edward J. Mccormick Jr., also asked that Peters be enjoined to relinquish all AMIGA records and assets in his care.
 The action came after Peters re- fused to yield his office in re- sponse to a letter from the Bureau of Indian Affairs saying it could not arrange for mutually accept able new contract.
 The bureau requested that the assets of AMIGA, owned by 33 Alaska native villages under a CO., operative arrangement, be turned over to the Alaska Native Service
 AMIGA was organized in 1947 with the approval of the Indian Affairs Bureau as a means of speeding the development of the economic life of the 33 villages. AMIGA moves huge quantities of freight to the North each year.
 The organization is indebted to the US. Government for about $530,000 and the government agreed with the village members of the AMIGA to take over their interest in the cooperative as col lateral for the debts.
 The Indian Affairs Bureau claimed in the suit filed by the government that Peters contract expired in December, 1852, and that he has been retained only on a month-to-month basis since.
 Peters said he will give up his post only on the advice of an at torney. "I'm not turning over the assets without being certain who they're going to-" he said.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Hearings Resume On Alaska Air Application For Direct Alaska Service

WASHINGTON, R Attorneys today renewed their questioning of Colin Mcintosh, Washington aviation consultant, as a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing into applications of a half dozen AL askan airlines resumed after a holiday recess.
 The witness is a consultant for Alaska Airlines and is sponsor ing the major portion of the car rier's presentation on traffic and revenue forecasts and r el a e d matters.
 Alaska Airlines wants the board to permit it to fly directly to An chorage from the states instead of it's present longer routing via Fairbanks.
 Also involved in the hearing, along with similar applications by other Alaska carriers, is a board-ordered study into the fea- sibility of merging two or more of the systems now serving the territory.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Gouzenko Gives Senators Information Usable For
 Internal Security Of US.

NEW YORK, R-Two senators said Tuesday Igor Gouzenko, who helped smash Russian spy ring in Canada, had given them names and information usable for the internal security of the United States.
 Senators William E. Jenner R- Ind and Pat McCarran O-Nev told newsmen on returning from trip to Canada that they ques- toned Gouzenko for more than five hours Monday. ; Gouzenko formerly was a code clerk for the Russians in Canada.
 Jenner, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Secur- ity, said he would study the tran script of the hearing and probably make formal request to the Can adian government to release the information.
 Asked if Gouzenko had men, toned names, Jenner said:
 "Yes, names were mentioned, but under our agreement we can- not discuss it."
 Jenner described the Canadian government and Gouzenko as CO., operative.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Officials Exposed In Ketchikan Vice Probe

KETCHIKAN, Rl-The former chief of police of Ketchikan, Del Freimuth, has been charged with operating a bawdy house and three other misdemeanors, it was disclosed Tuesday with his arrest and posting of $5,000 bail.
 The other three charges against Freimuth are that he aided a bawdy house, aided a bootlegging house and non-feasance. Non- feasance is failure of an official to do his duty0
 Three women, all charged with selling liquor without a territorial license, also were arrested Tues day afternoon.
 Freimuth resigned as police chief just before the grand jury began it's 25-day investigation.
 Tuesday
 Ending a 25-day investigation of vice conditions here, a federal grand jury indicted suspended Ketchikan police captain and severely criticized a former police chief and other public officials. It returned II secret indictments.
 The jury reports also blamed the city council and other city officials for, the jury said, tolerat- ing vice, gambling, bootlegging and narcotics which, it asserted, centered around a red light dis trict here.
 After the report was read to a crowded courtroom, Acting Dist. Atty. James Fitzgerald moved for abatement of six houses of i'll fame on Creek Street.
 In other fields, the jury recom- mended establishment of a five member police commission made up of leading citizens; study by the legislatures interim commit tee of law to authorize such com missions all over Alaska; adoption of an ordinance to govern police qualification and promotion; es- tablishment by the council of a special committee on juvenile re- creation; careful selection of a civic. center director and establish ment in high schools of such agen- cies as the Allied Youth.
 The jury accused former Police Chief Freimuth of allowing baudy houses to operate and of having a role in assignment of new "girls" to such places after their examin- ation by a doctor.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Ketchikan Bar Operator
 Reports Loss Of $25,OOO

KETCHIKAN, R - Josephine Hill, operator of a bar and liquor store here, reported the theft of $25,OOO in cash from her home three miles south of the city on Sunday morning.
 Such sum would be the big gest total ever taken in a Ketchi- kan robbery or burglary.
The Nome nugget., 1954-01-06
Four Arrested In $l6O,OOO Theft from Engraving Bureau

WASHINGTON, R-The Secret Service today picked up man they described as a fourth sus- pect in the $16O,0OO New Years Eve theft of new $2O bills from the Bureau of Engraving.
 The Service earlier had report ed recovery of all but $31,7O0 of the money.
 Charles Howard Nelson, 27, a Negro, was brought under custody the Secret Service of the Trea- sury said.
 The case broke open yesterday with the arrest of a Bureau en- ploye, his wife, and soft-spoken little flagpole painter on a tip furnished - after all-night soul searching by the father of the woman.
 The three all are Negroes. They were arrested one after the other in a day that began with a 5 a.m., phone call to Virginia State police by Irving Grant, father of Mrs. Mamie Landis, and ended with the recovery of $128,300, in three separate caches, of the loot apparently smuggled from the money printing plant in the tail of a suit jacket.
 Those accused:
 James Rufus Landis, 29, a $1.42 an hour checker in the heavily guarded plant which makes the governments currency.
 Landis' pretty, 26-year-old wife Mamie, whom he married when she was IA.
 Willis Giles, 27, the flagpole painter, who freely admitted driv- ing with the Landises to the cabin of Irving Grant in an effort to hide $95,OO0 of the "hot" cur rency.
 T did it for the future of my family" said Giles. T can't give them all the things I want to give them"
 Virginia State police said Mrs. Landis' father agreed - when one of his visitors produced a gun - to hide the money after his dau- ghter and her companions drop ped in on him Sunday night
 Then, till dawn, he wrestled with his conscience and fear of the law. He told his wife what had happened. She had heart attack. Finally Grant went to a telephone. He had, he told the police, "a big pile of Treasury money" - and was scared to death."
 What became of the missing $31,7OO?
 The chief of the Secret Service said he didn't think it all had been spent-thOugh the Landises lived high between New Years Eve and the time of their arrest five days later, buying among other things a 1853 Oldsmobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
OLD MAGAZINES.

(Mr. L. E. c., Springfield
I frequently see inquiries
about back numbers of maya
zines and newspapers in the
RICH. One of the best places
to get old magazines and old
books Cheap is the Salvation
Army Bookstore at First and
F streets NV. The Library of
Congress keeps a complete file
of newspapers and magazines
that any one may see. The Lii
brary will make photo copies
of pages newspaper or maya
zine) for a reasonable price
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Readers Clearing House Conducted B, BETSY c%s"ul

and makes a loud noise when
the water is hot and running
at a slow rate. If the water is
running at a fast rate the
shaking or noise does not oc-
cur. Can this be remedied,
and if so. how?
X X Y X
PATTERN?
MRS. E. A. NJ, Silver Spring.
I am in need of a Mccall
pattern No. 8411, in size 16.
This is short coat The pat
tern was discontinued last
July. A size IA might do. but I
would prefer a 16. Thank you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
HOOKED RUG?
mrs. J. S. NJ, Bethesda

mrs. J. S. NJ, Bethesda
I bought a hooked rug from
one of our big department
stores and our puppy has
pulled long pieces of yarn on
the right side of this rug !
would like to know if it is pos
sible for me to mend this my
self, or how to have it done.
X 4 *~&
QUERY?
Mrs. M. S. S., Arlington
Can any one help me with
this problem? The kitchen
sink hot water faucet shakes
the pipes even in the basement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
CHEESE STRAWS.

UNITS. f.. +. r., ATtlUgLOHI
Here is a favorite recipe of
mine for cheese strawS. One
half pound New York or Wis
consin cheese, "a pound oleo-
margarine, heaping teaspoon
salt, 2 cups (scant) flour, dash
red pepper. Mix thoroughly.
Roll on lightly Toured board,
and cut. For fancy ones use
a juice glass, then cut center
out with a thimble. Sprinkle
with paprika and cook at $50
degrees. They are grand and
never fail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Educational V
ProQrQnn TOPIC

Earl Minderman, field liaison
officer Of the National Citizens
Committee for Educational Tele-
vision, will address the civics sec
ton of the Woman's Club of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

Chevy Chase at 2 pm. Friday
in the club house, at 7431 Con-
necticut ave-, Chevy Chase, Md.
Mr.. Minderman, formerly ad-
miniStrative assistant to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

chairman of the Federal Com
munications Commission. will
speak on the topic. What Edu-
cational Television Can Mean to
Greater Washington"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
QUERY?
IN. w., WdShinoton)

I have several pieces of old
brass which at one time were
silver plated. The plating is
now wearing off and ! would
like to have them in the ma
tural brass finish. Can any
one tell me how to remove the
remainder of the plating? !
understand is is rather costly
to have the work done.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-05-29
VACATION TRIPS!

Beginning August Camp Ugank Bay will excursions i1
 bring the children too
 The 65 and Shef Straits into Og whohave picturesque west pce of ns5a'a .
 boats and oil and the n money oil heat comfort
 Children under SIC per day includes transportation a&ss take advantage of your weekend days
Evening star., 1954-01-20
Chaplain Association
TO Meet Here in May

The Military Chaplains Asso-
citation Of the United States will
hold It's National meeting from
May 4 to 8 at the Sheraton Park
Hotel here. former Navy Chief
Of Chaplains Stanton w. Sails
bury announced yesterday.
Chaplain Salisbury told the as
sociation's Washington Chapter
at q luncheon at Fort Myer that
more than 200 active and reserve
armed services chaplains will
attend the meeting.
The society has more thar
1000 active members in Is chap.
ters throughout the country
Chaplain (Brjg. GEN. Henry
Darlington Of New York is presi.
dent Of the national body.
The exchange program with
Foreign countries Of students, re-
search specialists. prominent
leaders in many fields and Others
has been a big help in giving the
world a true picture of American
life. Russell L. Riley. director oil
the International Educational
Exchange Service. State Depart.
ment, told the gathering.