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The Nome nugget., 1954-05-21
Fairbanks Woman Asks Congressmen To Delay Statehood Legislation Until
 A Referendum Can Be Held In Alaska
By FRANK w. vAILLE

WASHINGTON, R-A small, soft-spoken Alaskan woman is making the rounds of Congress at Washington, D.C., seeking to delay action on Alaska statehood legislation until territorial resi- dents can express themselves in a referendum.
 She is Miss Alice Stuart of Fair banks, publisher of photo-memo book, who was sent here through the donations of 35 Alaskans op- posed to immediate statehood.
 With her she carries a petition signed by 1,420 residents of all sections of Alaska, urging delay on the statehood bill until Alas kans can vote on the matter-pos- sibly in the 1854 general elections.
 It urges also that the question be worded 'very clearly and de- finitely in an unbiased manner" such as fare you in favor or against immediate statehood for AlaSka?"
 Miss Stuart notes that the last statehood referendum in the ter ritory was in 1946. At that time Alaskans voted 9,63O to 6,822 in favor of statehood with voters in two of the territory's four judi cial divisions opposing statehood.
 "That certainly wasn't a clamor then and it is not representa- tive of Alaska today" she told a news man.
 She said she felt another refer endum would make for tran quillity in Alaska" on the issue and would bring out consider ably" more voters than in 1946. As contrasted with the total vote in the 1946 referendum, she noted that 21,751 persons cast ballots in the territory's 1852 election.
 Although of the belief Alaska is not now ready for statehood, Miss Stuart is not opposed to the move in principle.
 If a majority of Alaskans Continued on Page Two)
The Nome nugget., 1954-05-21
Albert White Returns To Juneau To Launch His
 Campaign For Delegate

JUNEAU, R III Albert White, long time controversial leader of the Republican party, has return ed from California to launch his campaign for Congress as an in- dependent
 T wish to consult my support CTS as to the procedure and strat- egy that is to be followed in my campaign" he said.
 He described himself as an Eisenhower supporter.
 He said he understands Senator Mike Stepovich of Fairbanks has been in consultations in Washing ton about his possible appoint ment as US. district judge for the Fourth Division.
 Commenting on the resignation of R. J. McKanna as Republican National Committeeman, White said it is understood that he ex- poets to be appointed to Civil Defense position in Fairbanks"
 White also made some predic- tions about the Democrats.
 He predicted that if the Demo- crats won control of the legisla- ture in the October election, Stan ley McCutcheon of Anchorage will be selected by the House ma jority to resume the speakership of the House which he held in the 1949 session.
The Nome nugget., 1954-05-21
B. Kosinski of Anchorage Named Comm. of Alaska
 Non-Pro Baseball Program

NOH-T TO DdScDdII TOSram
 WICHITA, Kan, R The Ma tional Baseball Congress amour ced today the appointment of Bernie Kosinski of Anchorage as territorial commissioner in its worldwide non-professional base ball program.
 Kosinski will have complete charge of the program in Alaska. It will include utilization of cir cults in the N.B.C. Association of Leagues, organization of umpire associations and determination of the championship in the final ter ritorial playoff.
 It was also announced that AL aska, together with Guam, the Virgin Islands and Hawaii, has been zoned into the United States program. Their championship teams will compete for territor- ial aberth in the annual national tournament at Wichita, which starts next Aug. 20.
The Nome nugget., 1954-05-21
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
 National T.ea01le

NdAOI164 League St. Louis IT, Pittsburgh 4
 Pacific Coast League Los Angeles 8, Seattle 3 Oakland 6, San Diego 3 Hollywood 6, Sacramento 1 San Francisco 5, Portland 3
Evening star., 1954-07-02
Mundf Hits Proposal
10 Ban | Man Probes
As Russian Veto :
.y he Assesia,sd prs.s

Senator Mundt, Republican.
of South Dakota, said today q
rules change urged by the Sem
ate Republican Policy Commit
tee for adoption by Investigate
ing committees would give the
minority "a Russian-type veto.S
The rule. one Of nine advanced
yesterday by the policy group to
meet criticisms Of congressional
investigating methods, would
ban one-man hearings for taking
sworn testimony.
It provides that no hearing to
take sworn testimony or testi-
mony from subpoenaed witnesses
shall be neld unless q quorum
of a committee is present, except
that by majority vote a COM
mittee could authorize one ma
jority party member and one
minority member to constitute
. quorum. A quorum normally
consists Of one-half the COM
mittee membership plus one.
Senator Mundt, who presided
over the Senate Investigations
Subcommittee in its televised
probe Of the Arny-McC Carthy
row, said adoption Of the pro-
posal would set "a dangerous
precedent.
He contended it would "give
q Russian-type veto to the mi
nority and provide for govern
ment by absenteeism."
Senator Mccarthy, Republic
can. OF Wisconsin, the regular
chairman Of the investigations
subcommittee, was away but he
has repeatedly protested against
any ban on oae-man hearings.
He has contended such q rule
would play into the hands Of
Communists and hamper efforts
to expose them.
Evening star., 1954-07-02
Employer Must Give Union
Payroll Data, NLRB Rules
BY The Associated Press

The National Labor Relations
Board has ruled Al that an
employer must furnish a union
with compete payroll data for
collective bargaining without
requiring the union to prove it
needs the information.
The majority said sit is suffi-
cient that the information sought
by the union is related to the
issues involved in collective bar
gaining, and no specific
need as to a particular issue
must be shown"
The NLRB held the door open
for denial of any data sought by
unions merely to harass en-
ployers. It pointed out that in
the case at hand no showing
was made that "the unions re-
quest would have placed an un-
warranted and undue burden on
the employer"
The case involved the Within
Machine Works, Charlotte, N. c.,
and the CIO Steelworkers'
Union. The employer had agreed
to give employe names and a
list Of pay rates without. how
ever, relating the individuals pay
to his name.
Evening star., 1954-07-02
Five on School Board
To Seek Reelection

Five Incumbent members Of
the Montgomery County Board
Of Education plan to seek re-
election in November.
The i've made their intentions
known in reply to q query from
the Federation for Qualified
School Board Nominees Of Mont
gomery County. They are Wylie
Barrow. Chevy Chase, president
of the board; Mrs. John q.
Scharf. Bethesda; Harrison King,
Groshen: Willard c. McGraw,
Gaithersburg:: and Mrs. Willard
Edwards, Silver Spring.
Stanley Stine of Silver Spring
has decided not to seek re-
election, and William F. Bulls
has not yet replied to the query,
the federation announced.
The federation reported that
26 names Of possible candidates
have been. suggested by various
county organizations and indi-
viduals.
The school board election Is
non-partisan. Nominations are
made by petition. Dead line for
filing is July 26.
The entire board of seven
members Is to be elected in
November. u
Evening star., 1954-07-02

Chenille Spreads
Seconds Of twin and full
size cotton chenille bed - e -
spreads IN hobnail and cor for -
durette patterns. Many -
colors.
Seconds, PerccIe Sheets
Bleached snowy white. High - 40
count percales Size s1xl0S'.
Evening star., 1954-07-02

sons, one on Col Austili.
the staff Of st. Johns College,
Annapolis. and the other re-
Gently ordained as an Episcopal
priest.
Col. Austill has served as o
chaplain In Alaska, New York.
Camp Rucker, Ala, and In
Tokyo.
Evening star., 1954-07-02
Goiter-PrevuIent Area

ROCHESTER. - The North
Central States Of the United
States have an unusual number
of goiter cases because the soil
and water here are deficient in
iodine content.
Evening star., 1954-07-02

c n a p ! ain OF
the Military
Dis ic t of
Washington.
He replaces
Col. C.. e.
Brow n, jr.,
who has been
transferred to
the Pentagon.
Col. AuStill
and his wife
live at ITO
s TX t e e MT b
S tre t NV.
They have two
Evening star., 1954-07-02
TAILORED A
Gu RTAII s
2 prs. $

Flaws are tiny, savings big on
these sheer rayon marquisette
tailored curtains In go-with
everything ivory. 82' wide to
pair in these lengths: 63", 72",
81" and 90".
Rayon and Acetate Printed
Drapes with center valance, "a"
long, pair ---------------1.99
Evening star., 1954-07-02
Il. Col. AustiII Named
Military District Chaplain

1t. Col. William e. Austill,
spiritual leader of U. s. Army
troops in the Aleutians during
World War II, has been named
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14

Frequently THE VOICE has been subjected to considerable
oral and written criticism because of it's 15yearod policy
of publishing letters to the editor The policy has always been
publish letters whether they did did conform with
the general editorial policy of the publication.
This week will note letter severely critical of THE
VOICE because of this longtime policy of permitting the read
speak their minds Whether not THE VOICE should
set doube standard whose acceptable and
whose not could be the subject of donnybrook
via the forum For those who wish to swing few verbal sh
elaghs on the issue, space always is available.
The VOICE policy of fairness in publishing letters will
nue the has been since the papers inception
1889 We have made it practice of cutting letters,
for fear might change the authors intent However, since
getting letters than in the going
to set limit length.
Henceforth ALL letters $50 words will be automati
caly placed the circular f irrespective of authorship BY
limiting the length, and all who wish to write will be
ured immediate opportunity of publication and the forum
will away from being what have characterized
monopoly of it's by few $50 words is about -
pages of double spaced copy
No other possible unless there established
policy which would close the columns of THE VOICE
one.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
Harry Orchard Goes
Somewhere

My mind went scurrying back over
half a century of time when I received
| newspaper !. clipping from Idaho
which stated that Harry Orchard was
nearing the end of the trail A few
days later L read that he had arrived
at the end-of the earthly trail.
1 wonder if many readers of this
paper remember the shock that swept
the country when the news was flashed
that Governor Stueneburg had been
bombed The bomb had been planted
at his front gate and when he pushed
the gate open the next morning the
bomb exploded and the governor went
up in puff of smoke.
Harry Orchard, a member of the
Western Federation of Miners, was
arrested and charged with murder.
He confessed to the crime but involved
William (Big BID Haywood, George
A. Pettibone and Charles A. Meyer as
his directors"
L was in Idaho at the time, tempo
rarily located at Payette, and being
Interested in the struggle of those
days, attended the trial. Day after day
| sat in the court room and watched
Harry Orchard-Moyer, Haywood and
Pettibone-and also Clarence barrow,
attorney for the defense and William
e. Borah who later became U. S. Sena-
tor, leader of the prosecution, carry
on that historic fight.
Haywood and Pettibone were tried
but the jury acquitted them. The case
against Meyer was dismissed. Harry
Orchard was sentenced to life in prison.
and, apparently, he had a nice time.
Nothing to worry about. He had a
place to sleep every night, three meals
every day and a roof over his head all
the time and no rent to pay. He even
had the assurance that when he died
he would be-decently buried
And still further back in his head
was the belief, or consolation, or de-
fusion, that he would some day meet
many of his old cronies-up there in
the sky-and that as he plucked the
strings of his golden harp he could
look down and watch Governor Stunen-
berg (and five other men he had killed)
and barrow, BoFah and the others
shoveling birthstone and turning on
the heat under the order of the "Old
Boy"
Lucky Harry He's learning fast on
that golden harp.-O. NJ. THOMSON,
Willernie, MINI.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
These Are Not Communists

Would you like to be Brownelled?
When one thinks of our senior de-
linquencies it gives a clearer concep-
ton of the faults of our juniors To
our seniors a party crime is often con-
doned and personal official carnage
condemned.
A criminal justice is perhaps the
greatest evil to which mankind is sub
jected. Yet if these crimes are to be
overcome one must be willing to pay
the necessary 1.-THE.
But is wire tapping the right way?
If it were applied to the known crimi-
nal for his apprehension and convic-
tion it could be acceptable. But there
is the fact of approximation. A part
which can be played by the criminal.
In fact it is not a fact and is therefore
spurious-If you tap the wire you can
tap the mail-You have the Army Nc
Carthy fiasco. Photographs trimmed
for purpose-F. b. l. letters used as
party weapon and a coverup for a
Senator. l still contend for free speech
JOHN BARNARD
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
Washington Should Face
The Facts

Hysteria, fear, crime, pervade our
once great good and happy country
On VI Day, 1945, America was the
strongest and best beloved nation on
| the globe. 49,
Militarism is destroying us. China,
that we scorned, has beaten us in a
major war in Korea ttlc
Since that disaster with North Afri-
can Mercenaries under French officers,
paid and armed by our benighted rul-
ers, Washington, has been fighting a
major war in Indo-China.
For eight weeks American planes,
American pilots, have been pouring
ammunition, guns, supplies into Diem
with the fall of that stronghold. They
did not lack weapons before; they
have plenty now.
We are beaten again. The rest of
the world knows whose war that is
The Communist nations from Shanghai
to Warsaw are encouraged. India with
$50 million people has joined the vic
torlous side. The election in Pakistan
went Communist. The largest single
party (not a majority in Italy and
France is the Communist.
At the Geneva Convention, Dulles is
nigh proved by Chou, the delegate
from Communist China. Even Britain
agrees with Chou, that his nation
should have the seat Ca one-legged
STOOD Of Chang kai-Shek in the United
Nations.
The French who started the war in
lndo-China by numbering from the air
5000 civilian men, women and children
are dead sick of trailing in our war
there
Communism does not need foreign
markets or munition makers or wars
to sustain the economy, or keep the
wheels of industry turning
For this reason, and not because of
any high moral grounds, all Commu-
mist nations want peace and total dis
My knowledge of this contributes
more to quiet slumber than trust in
the earnest good but nervous watchers
on hotel roofs all over the country.
We do yet enjoy the highest standard
of living of any people. Belshazzar's
coterie was enjoying a feast when the
appeared on the wall you
are weighed in the balances and found
In the Taft-Hartley Act we have
against another parable. you
shall not muzzle the OK that treads
put the grain"
In bad planning for farmers and
stockmen we may be slowly killing
While the stock market RISES soup
kitchens are being opened
Millions of good workers are idle,
because they have produced too well
/ surplus of commodities.
This surplus and more could be sold |
20 the $50 million Chinese for gold, |
it would, of course, be Russian gold |
The Soviets are the second largest |
producer of gold). The British seem
glad to get it,
We could trade it for the tea, tin, |
tungsten, teakwood of Indo-C
,asier than fighting jungle war for
hese, and then not getting them
Ceylon sells it's rubber to China. The
Dutch control tin.
Some do say that the Korean war
vas fought for the tungsten mines in
North Korea. Distant fields are green
ID. Aesop's dog with a good bone cross
ng bridge saw another dog and
zone reflected. He jumped in to seize
he other bone-lost his, got a good
vetting.
There is probably more tungsten
undeVeloped) in Granite and Beaver
lead Counties than in North Korea
DIVIDES MAURY, Butte.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14

farm prices are at low level the
farmer struggles to increase his pro-
ductiOn, for two bushels of grain must
now be required where formerly it
took but one, to buy what he needs
in goods and machinery.
Is the farmer a special kind of crea-
ture who must take upon himself the
obligation to feed the world and be
penalized for his good effort in a
profitless sort of economy? In the 20's
and early 30's the farmer was gradu-
ally squeezed thin through a profit
less economy and showed off the land.
Many became tenants and many were
reduced to a Sadder fate-that of mi
gratory worker.
[ would ask Mr.. Wallace how long
he can exchange a dollar for seventy
five cents or eighty-five cents and
stay in business. If his production is
large enuf he may be able to exchange
two bushels of grain or other unit
of production instead of one for a
dollars worth of goods, to obtain what
he needs to keep going. But the small
farmer or in years of crop failure,
finds himself short of bushels to keep
up the ratio of two to one. Two going
out and one coming in.
Mr. Wallace seems to go along with
the idea of bigger and better farms,
with high specialization and mechani-
cation. The plan of the Farmers Union
is the preservation of the family sized
farm, believing there is something
more renascent in rural living than
dollars and cents. The Farmers Union
believes that rural America has fos-
tered and grown a culture, rich in
its essence, satisfying in it's mode of
life, and a stabilizing force in our
entire American World-MARIE EA-
TON, Hinsdale.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14

ments of Mr.. Parkinson's engineering
analysis of Hells Canyon there are
many flaws, many errors of fact as
can be seen from comparing many of
his major points with the carefully
done research of Army Engineers and
Department of Interior before the
power trust took over the shaping of
resource development policies with the
coming to power of the Eisenhower
Administration. A summary of this pre-
January 20, 1853 federal research, "The
Hells Canyon Story is reprinted else
where in this issue of THE VOICE.
We invite your comparison of the
facts brought out in that summation
by National Hells Canyon Association
with those presented by Mr.. Locke on
April 2, in contrast to the assertions
made by Mr.. Parkinson. Then, draw
your own conclusions as to the value
of Hells Canyon to all the people of
the Northwest as compared with the
selfish interest of Idaho Power Co.,
which Mr.. Parkinson apparently es-
pouSeS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
Letters To Editor,
Editorial Policy,
Irk Flu Local

TO THE OFFICERS AND EDITOR
OF THE PEOPLES VOICE:
Mrs. Charlotte Holtz
President
Floweree, Montana
Mr. E. F. Ladwig
Vice President
Billings, Montana
Mr.. Charles V. Huppe
Secretary-Treasurer
Helena, Montana
Mr. Harry L. Billings
Editor
Helena, Montana
WHEREAS, we feel Montana must
have an Independent people-owned
newspaper, and
WHEREAS, we feel the Peoples
Voice could answer that need, and
WHEREAS, we feel that need is not
now being met fully due to the lack
of selectivity of materials appearing
in the Peoples Voice, especially in
that part devoted to Letters to the
Editor and
WHEREAS, we are totally in agree
ment that the individual subscriber
Continued on Page Eight
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
THOSE UPS AND DOWNS

PORTLAND, Ore.-Passenger ele-
vators in the United States now trav-
ell 6,250,OOO miles a day, or approx
mately $50 times around the world
The $4,000 passenger units each
travel an average of so miles and
carry 1000 people daily.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
OLSEN PLEDGES FIGHT
Continued from Page Four)

| CONTINUED from rage FOur)
were too few of us protesting at that
time. We, labor, businessmen. and
residential consumers, should organ
ize".
TIMBER also praised Attorney
General Olsen, saying "You people
of Butte have done the entire
state a great service in helping to
elect him to office :. You've got
to stand behind your Attorney
General if he is to win this fight
for you. He's got the quits to fight
this powerful company, but you've
got to help provide him with the
ammunition :.
TIMBER, in noting the reluctance of
business people to get into the fight
to cut the rates asked, "Where is the
intestional fortitude of our business
men? Do they fear the company to
such an extent they are afraid to
stand up and fight?
Organization Set Up
Following the several talks, the
more than $50 people present voted
in favor of establishing Utility
Consumers League of Silver Bow
County. Officers of the newly-or-
ganized protest group are: Carl Sa-
lonen, Butte Miners Union No. l,
temporary chairman; Ed Boyle,
Transfers Union, temporary secre-
tary; Executive board members are
Ralph Olsen, Butte businessman; Ed
Kangas, Transfers; Steve Hornick,
BMU No. 1; Rich Dickinson, Bust
ness Repr Laborers Union; Claude
Sanders, Operating Engineers; Hen
ry Mernin, BARRIERS, and Richard
Donovan, Carpenters and past pres
ident of Montana State Council of
Carpenters.
Glen Zorn, president Butte Miners
Union No. /, chaired Friday nights
meeting. Louis Guam of the Plumb
ers served as secretary of the meet
ing. The meeting was held in Butte
High School auditorium and was
sponsored by BMU No. 1, Silver Bow
Trades & Labor Assembly and Butte
Building Trades Council.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
The Readers Forum,

"Democracy is based upon the con-
viction that there are extraordinary
possibilities In ordinary ueopIe.n-
DR.. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14

Speeding on U. S. streets and
highways injured nearly 100000
men, women and children.
The Nome nugget., 1954-03-10
Mrs. Hudgins Hostess At Unique Dinner

Mrs. Lewis Hudgins was hostess as unique crab supper Monday evening and headed her invita- tions with "Crab to Health," and "Whole Crab to Whole Wheat"
 Featured on the menu were de- licious Boring Sea crab served in sandwiches and fritters, cake and rolls of whole wheat as well as raw whole wheat grains for munching.
 Each guest responded with the state from which they originated with IS states being represented:
 Mrs. Andy Nerland, Kansas; Miss Francis, California; Mrs. D. Wright, South Dakota; Mrs. R. Ravens, Betty Walsh and Peggy Kelliher, New York; Margaret Mcdonald and Mrs. Mccarthy, Washington; Nell Carlson, Vir- ginia; Borgney Reader, North Da- kota; Ruth Towner, Wisconsin; Louise Matsen, Ukraine, Russia; Betty Doyle, Film, Alaska; Mrs. MilhGuse, Indiana, Mrs. R. Am undson, Montana; Fife Baldwin, Mass; and the hostess from Cali fOrnia.
The Nome nugget., 1954-03-10
ROALD AMUNDSENS HOSTS TO RED CROSS MEETING

MT. and Mrs Roald Amundsen were hosts Monday noon to Red Cross board meeting at their home and honoring J. Gilmore Marquis from the San Francisco office.
 Plans were made for the annual Red Cross drive and Mrs. M. Scrivener was appointed chair man for the Junior Red Cross.
 Those attending were Mrs. Scrivener, Mrs. Helen Olson and Rev. Reeves Havens Mrs Rita Harper, also a member of the board, was unable to attend.
The Nome nugget., 1954-03-10
Council Meeting Notes

The Nome City Council met in regular session Monday evening at the City Hall.
 Fire Report fires were re- ported for February and a total of $251.5O paid to volunteer fire men.
 Police Dept. reported $264 re- ceived in fines and 34 arrests during the month
 Health Dept. reproted no com municable diseases during the month; 34 x-rays taken and three cases of tuberculosis turned over to the MIMI Hospital.
 Health nurse Margaret McDon- aid also reported that a fund for glasses for needy children has been set up through contributions from individuals and organiza- tiGns. From this fund, glasses are being purchased and the families are paying back gradually the money advanced so that the fund will always be available.
 The Council granted the Red Cross use of the Civil Defense office in the City Bldg. for it's files