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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PARK-$23, 95o-46lI ELLIcoTT
ST. NW-oPEN SUM- z7-WondsrfuI BIG home for IN. money on
l92f lot ot perfectly sauhu Lovely nsshborhood convenient
to everything lorge living dining breakfast
nice pore poned recreation Three sSees bedrooms end TWO
Wilson Schools Vacant Owner $4,000 FIRST TRUST AVAILABLE
Moss Ave- 10 10th ST.. right 10 Elfeoh, left 70 home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28
FRANK S. PHILLIPS WEEKLY PRESENTATION OF
IhE MARKETS OUTSTANDING home VALUES

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PARK-NEAR ST. AIMS, JANNEY.
WILSON HIGH, AND WISCONSIN AVENUE SHOPPING CEN.
IkR-43s2 VERPLANcK PLACE NW.-oPEN SUM-, rs
SneImns white brick COLONEL Of s beautiful quiet and
streets OF this
LAnAIORf bedrooms baths
unfinished 3rd floor
S,SSs Ssreensd perch Seis roof Nice level lot Will CONSIDER $3.50
NsbIo'ko Ave. right Van Ness ST. left %3rd VpGn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28
District Real Estate Licenses
Win Commission Approval

Junior Francis crovell. with Fidelity
George n. Ford, with Rogers Realty
Maury.
Isidor y, oallegos. with Leo A. Dryer
Eugene Henry Ruark. with Fidelity
Elizabeth Balts scrivener. with II. A.
Gill and Son. -
Business Chance Broker
Harry NJ. Applestein.
Business Chance Statesmen
John Robert Byrns, with A. r. seelye
a, Morris Miller. with Penny" Apostle
lides Realty Co. NS'O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28

OUR FIRST NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SUMNER-s6oI
HON; offered This carefully controlled community for s oo This
Charming brick COLONEL with slate roof entrance living
with frepoee dining
t1be
basement bres1woy end Poto Attached Corner lot with Of
shGde OWNER uS SELL
" mile TO
f. Sumner Or. Ovsrso Rd. and home on corner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-28

NEAR NATIONAL cATHEDRAL-IN THE FASHIONABLE
EMBASSY SECTION OFF MASS. AVE.-SN BED ROOMS
BAIHs-DEN-PowDER RooM-Gl APPROVED AT $2s.soo
3402 GARFIELD ST. NW.-0PEN SUM-. l-6-svbtun,io de-
ghsd residence il choice oeao Big with sh ceilings
sNey and hove
field, left o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-24
Chandler Quits Oct. 81
As Court Office Director

Henry Porter Chandler, first
and only director Of the admin.
istrative office Of United States
courts. will retire on October 81
The retirement, which is re-
quired by mandatory provisions
Of the latest civil service retire
ment act, was noted in Mr.
Chambers annual report to the
judicial Conference Of the
United States. The report was
made public today.
The director is 66 years old
He has been i'll recently and his
assistant, Ekmore Whitehurst
has been acting director of the
Office.
Mr.. Chandler said he would
greatly miss the privilege" OF
cooperating with the courts in
the effort to improve Federal
judicial administration.
Recalls Kindnesses.
GAS think Of the end Of my
SERVICE" he said. II would ac-
knowledge the multitude Of
kindnesses which have been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-24
Federal Courts Dockets
Cut, Clean Of Light Seen

Federal but State. have been ID
10 long dark tunnel. getting
blacker all the time.
Generally. the number OF
civil cases filed in the Federal
district courts in any year has
been larger than the number
terminated. with the result that
the backlog of pending civil
cases has been steadily increas-
ing, and the time requisite for
disposing Of them has heightened
I'm 1856 although the prob
lem remains, there Is q CLEAN
Iof light ahead"
Private civil cases, which re-
quire the largest amount Of time
in Federal courts, showed a drop
|of 1,755 nationally in the number
pending at the end Of the year,
This was the first reduction In
this category in Is years. Mr.
Chandler attributed it largely to
the efforts Of the Southern Dis
|trict Of New York to cut down
its backlog.
Mr.. Chandler expressed the
hope that the reduction in the
backlog of pending civil cases will
soon bring a reduction in the
waiting time for trial land it is
not unreasonable to expect that
lit will"
He added, however. that there
is still long way to go to attain
anything like currency in the
civil calendars Of many Federal
district courts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-24

president Of the Chicago Bar
Association. president Of the
Union League Club and presi-
dent OF the City Club.
Practice Covered SO Years
In the II years Of his service
here he is credited with effective
~ presenting the needs Of the
Federal courts to Congress, COM
Ipiling useful reports on the BUSH
ness Of courts and helping to
unity the judiciary In improved
administration.
The success of the Federal
plan led the State Of New Jersey
and the Puerto Rico government
TO copy it. Sixteen other States
have adopted the central idea.
Since he took ofiice. "a new
Federal judgeships have been
created. referees in bankruptcy
have been put on q salary basis
and q system has been estab-
lished for ofiicial court reporters.
Salary gains have been realized
by judges and other court per-
sonnet and annuities provided
for widows Of judges. The num-
Der Of Federal probation officers
has been doubled and the case
loads Of these officers have been
reduced from an average to 148
TO an average Of Is.
Mr.. Chandler said the manda-
tory retirement date comedies
with the time Of q decision he
had made personally. The retir-
ing director lives at sos McKin-
ley street. Bethesda. He is q
member of the Cosmos Club and
other organizations here.
Mr.. Chandler said undoubted-
" more can be done by the
courts than has yet been done
to improve their procedures and
to expedite the cases.
Need Of Judges Cited
He added. however, that the
courts alone cannot remedy
congestion. BY and large, he
said. the Federal district judges
are now working exceedingly
hard, harder than in many
cases is good for their health or
conducive to the decision Of the
questions which come before
them with the elaboration.
calmness and perspective that
are requisite for the highest
quality of justice"
The great need now, he said,
is to increase the number of
judges to a level more nearly
commensurate with the burden
Of the work. The Judicial Con-
ference has recommended q adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-24

shown by all persons connected
with the Federal courts.
ut has been a privilege to try
to aid the Judicial Conference,
the Chief Justice and the chief
judges Of the circuits in their
broad plans for promoting the
efficiency Of the courts"
Mr.. Chandler. q native Of In
dian Orchard. Mass, had gained
distinction as a practicing law
yer in Chicago at the time he
was selected to be director Of
the administrative ONCE. This
was shortly after the position
was created by law in 1899.
He began his college educa-
ton at Leland Stanford Univer-
sity and transferred to Harvard,
where he took the A. B. degree
in 1901. He studied law at the
University Of Chicago and, at
the same time, taught English,
Later he was secretary to the
president Of the university.
His Chicago practice covered
q 33-year span. He has been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-24

For the first time in i've years,
the District Courts Of the United
States have disposed of more
cases than were flled-producing
q "gleam Of light" in the dark
picture Of congested courts.
This whittling-away at the
serious backlog in the Federal
courts was reported yesterday by
Henry P. Chandler. director Of
the Administrative once Of the
United States Courts.
In his annual report, approved
by the Judicial Conference Of
the United States, Mr.. Chandler
summarized:
THE long decline in the cur
rency in the District Courts has
been arrested and the courts
have begun to reduce the back
log of pending civil cases. This
is true both nationally and in a
number Of districts in which the
congestion has been most seri-
GUS"
In the District, the report
noted, the time required for civil
jury cases to reach trial was re-
duced from "a months as of June,
1855, to 10 months as of last
June.
During the 1856 fiscal year
here, 8.032 civil cases were COM
menced and 8,288 terminated
and the pending figure was re-
duced from 1902 to 6.836.
Mr.. Chandler predicted that
two laws passed in the last year
will lessen substantially the vol
ume of cases in the District
Court here. These laws transfer
domestic relations matters from
District Court to a newly estab-
lished branch of Municipal
Court and transfer to Municipal
Court civil cases where the
amount likely to be recovered is
below $4,000. The previous
ceiling was $1,000.
Speaking Of the improvement
nationally in the clearing of
crowded dockets. the report sum-
married.:
For many years, it has
seemed that many trial courts
in the United States. not only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-24

ditional judgeships and Is con-
sidering recommendations for II
other district judgeships.
He pointed out that in the last
Congress both the House and
Senate Judiciary Committees ap-
proved bills for additional judge
ships. but there the bills stopped,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-24

the courts in our system Of gov
eminent. and wish TO make the
administration Of justice prompt,
they will give immediate and IA
vorable consideration to the rec
concentrations Of the Judicial
Conference upon the opening Of
the next Congress-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-24

"This outcome" he said, "de-
pressing to the courts and to
the judges anxiously looking for
relief and working against dis
couragement, ought not to hap
|pen again.
In the proportion that the
people and the Congress value
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27
DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department
Certificate of Compliance
nud Hr,fv, tsnn

7. JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance Elk Of
ficio, in and for the State of Montana,
do hereby certify that the PROVIDENT
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, having
filed a sworn sta tement of its finan-
cial condition as of December 81, 1855,
and having complied with the laws of
this State relating to insurance and in
surance companies, is authorized until
the 31st day of March, 1857, to transact
such classifications of insurance as are
set forth in it's present existing license.
L do further certify that a synopsis of
the duly filed annual statement is as
follows:
The actual amount of Capt.
ital-U. S. Deposit to be $1,000, 100000
The aggregate Income for
the Year 1855 ................ 2,447, 147.77
The aggregate Disburse-
ments for the year 1856 2,397,711.63
The aggregate Assets are 5,249, 056.60
The aggregate Liabilities
except Capital, are $4,000 1901, 605.54
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, L have
hereunto subscribed my name and at
fixed my official seal at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this
first day of April, 1856.
JOHN J. HOLMES,
State Auditor and Com
missioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27

e. j. proves the correctness of state
ments by Reinemer and Ellis:
% Montana Power Co. is buying
Canyon Ferry power for less than
one half the Bureau rate of SIS mills.
MPCo. pays 2.5 mills.
CD The Bureau did plan to whole
sale it's Canyon Ferry power for SIS
but the Power Trust Lobby in Janu-
airy, 1851 managed to void the intent
Of Congress to build the Canyon Fer
ry-Great Falls transmission line. This
was done, apparently by getting
next" to key people" in Chapman's
Dept. of Interior
CD The Power Trust minded Eisen-
hover Administration instead of re-
viving and putting into effect the
earlier congressional directive, nego-
tiated a contract with Montana Power
at the 2h mill dump power rate in
1853.
(D This contract extends for q
period of 10 years.
60 This Interior-MPCo. contract
makes Canyon Ferry captive" dam
of the Power Compensation
built with tax funds.
co The Bureau is losing more than
1925, 900 revenue annually because of
the MPCo. contract, as compared with
the SIS mill rate schedule originally
planned by the Bureau.
CD This amounts to 90 $625,000 an"
nual subsidy to MPCo. by the tax
payers of the United States.
60 1t is long past time sc. j." rec
ognized the facts for what they are
and ceased his continuing efforts to
obfusticate this issue. Readers Forum
space is too valuable to be used
month after month for the spreading
of misleading statements and state
ments not based on all the facts.
EDITOR.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27
The Readers Forum

| where at the same price, even in North
Dakota. Power from Canyon Ferry is
available to anyone requesting it from
the Bureau, and it will be delivered to
the customers lines anywhere, at the
above quoted government rates, under
wheeling contracts now in effect. Even
if the government constructed 1000
miles of transmission lines from Can
yon Ferry, it would not change the
rates in the slightest.
In view of the above indisputable
facts, the statements of Messrs. Rein
emer and Ellis published in Reinemers
communication to the VOICE April 10,
can be interpreted as nothing less than
fragrant falsehoods and deceit, intended
to mislead and they know its Particu
larly where they say that, THE power
companies are buying power from Can
yon Ferry Dam for less than half as
much as the Bureau people told the
Congress the firm power would sell
for. And it is just because there are
no transmission lines"
Power rates of 5.5 mills per XVIII
quoted by the Bureau are delivered
rates. Their rate at the dam in small
wholesale lots is mills. For the entire
output of the power plant to one GUS
toner, the rate is 2.5 mills, the same
rate as is charged all large scale GUS
toners for Hungry Horse power. The
Power Company is buying energy at
the power plant instead of Podunk,
200 miles away. The government
through its income tax makes more
than times as much profit on the
energy it sells to the Power Company
than the Company does itself, so why
the squawk Pc. J. PARKINSON, Great
Falls.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27
Misleading Senatorial
Propaganda

May / make a statement once more
for the information of Vic Reinemer of
the office of Senator Murray, and Clyde
T. Ellis, general manager of the Ma
tional Rural Electric Cooperative AS
ISOLATION, relative to the schedule of
rates charged by the Bureau of Recla-
nation for electric power in Montana.
These rates are a matter of common
knowledge and public record and can
be verified by anyone in just % few
moments by phoning any office of the
Bureau in Montana.
The rate for firm power is SIS mills
per XVIII at 500 load factor, delivered
practically anywhere in the state under
the postage stamp concept Of delivery,
regardless of distance. This rate has
been in effect for years, ever since
government power has been available
in the state, and there is no excuse for
anyone interested to plead ignorance
of the fact. Many hundreds of miles of
government transmission lines radiate
out from Fort Peck and power is de-
livered to it's customers lines every
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27
Office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department
Certificate of Compliance
and Authorization

I, JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance Elk Of
ficio, in and for the State of Montana,
do hereby certify that the STATE AS
SURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, hav-
ing filed a sworn statement of it's fl
nancial condition as of December 81,
1855, and having complied with the laws
of this State relating to insurance and
insurance companies, is authorized I'M
til the S1st day of March, 1857, to trans
act such classifications of insurance as
are set forth in it's present existing
license.
I do further certify that a synopsis of
the duly filed annual statement is as
follows:
The actual amount of
U. s. Deposit to be . 250,000.00
The aggregate Income for
the Year 1855 ........ 1,019, 36S.53
The aggregate DisburSe-
ments for the year 1855 1910, 598.S3
The aggregate Assets are 2,242,625
The aggregate Liabilities,
except Capital, are ........ 1,37S,154.8O
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have
hereunto subscribed my name and af
fixed my official seal at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this
first day of April, 1856.
JOHN j. HOLMES,
State Auditor and Com
missioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27
Gilman Outlines Status
Of Independent"
Cranston Likens Himself To Filling Station
Operator, Laborer or Farmer

upon raw materials, and then sell such
improved product, for his survival.
Without the raw material, such bust
ness ceases, and lot of other de-
pendent businesses also cease. The
oil producers raw material is land.
Such oil as is found, is found under
land. Thus the oil operator finds
himself constantly dealing with land
owners, whether the landowner be a
rancher, the federal government, Or
the State of Montana.
Since all land is our raw material,
including state land, when such raw
material is held up, made not avail
able, or is priced arbitrarily and un-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27

Editor, The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Montana.
Dear Sir:
Thank you for printing my letter
which | sent to several other indie
pendent oil operators in Montana.
hope you will also print this letter in
its entirety, inasmuch as your COM
ment on me contains several inaccura-
cies.
A Montana indepedent oil operator
is in much the same position as an
Independent grocer, filling station
operator, laborer, or farmer in Mon
tana. He lives in Montana, and de-
ponds upon his ability to improve
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27
Concerned Over Many
Smith Act Cases
Editor, Peoples Voice,
Helena, Montana.
nnar NJ Rillinp-c


Dear Mr.. Billings,
/ wish to compliment you on your
editorials of April 10, and April 20,
in the PEOPLES VOICE.
| have been concerned about the
many Smith Act cases in the United
States Now it has hit Montana in the
case against John Hellman.
The indictments and convictions in
the numerous Smith Act cases were
carried through in a period of cold
war" and in an atmosphere often
marked by hysteria.
Fortunately in recent months condi-
tions have changed for the better and
there is a noticeable trend to reaffirm
the basic democratic traditions of our
country.
After Federal District Judge w. d.
Murrays criticism of the Federal Blu
reau of Investigation for it's "un-
American tactics" issuing facts of the
case to the public "in an effort. APP
parently, to try the case out of court,
1--WE can all regain confidence In our
democratic institutions"
The registration of 72S voters who
might vote against ACM candidates
in the hot political campaign ahead
was undoubtedly the reason for Mr..
Hellman's arrest at this time Sincerely.
MRS. MURRAY HOSTETTER. Con-
rad, Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27
Office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department
Certificate of Compliance
and authorization

I. JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance Elk Of
ficio, in and for the State of Montana.
do hereby certify that the ROYAL EX-
CHANGE ASSURANCE. having filed
a sworn statement of it's financial
condition as of December 81, 1855, and
having complied with the laws of this
State relating to insurance and insur-
ance companies, is authorized until the
31st day of March, 1857, to transact
such classifications of insurance as are
set forth in it's present existing license.
do further certify that a synopsis of
the duly filed annual statement is as
follows:
statutory Deposit)
The actual amount of Capt.
tall. S. Deposit to be 500,000.00
The aggregate Income for
the Year 1855 ..........---.... 6,272,O94.62
The aggregate Disburse-
ments for the year 1855 5,394,539.46
The aggregate Assets are 12,702,072.17
The aggregate Liabilities,
except Capital are 1900. 4,933,762.4O
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have
hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this
first day of April, 1856.
JOHN J. HOLMES,
State Auditor and Com
missioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27
Registration Drive
Successful

The recent Registration Day Drive
conducted by the Cascade County
Trades & Labor Assembly was a big
success, reports James Murray, Great
Falls printer, and member of the
assembly's ways and means commit
tee.
The assembly plans another voter
registration drive before the Novem-
Der general election.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27

reasonably, the man who makes or
sells the finished product (crude oil
and gas), is apt to go out of bust
ness. Mr.. Olsen's actions in holding
up state land leasing and in attempt
ing to price it arbitrarily and I'M
payments, have thus tended to put
me and my competitors out of bust
ness. Strangely enough, Mr.. Olsen,
who continually incants about vested
interests, has by the above actions
aided in the retirement from the scene
of many individual oil operators
young men such as who wanted to
establish themselves in Montana's
growing oil ndustry-who have now
gone to other states with a healthier
political climate, or who have entered
other businesses, leaving in the main
only the large nonresident concerns
to find and market Montana oil, and
a few stragglers who hope that the
electorate of the state will once again
establish the healthy climate which
has been recently smogged down. The
young people were not part of any
sinister alliance, but rather they were
similar to any young men starting in
any business; they were therefore
much startled to find themselves at
once labeled monopolists, anti-school
children, robber barons, etc., before
they had even commenced well on
state land, let alone discovered oil
production.
These are the reasons for my letter
soliciting aid from other independent.
oil men and why I thank you for your
forum. We have had our backs to the |
wall long enough, and the competi-
ton from large, small, vested and |
non-vested is plenty tough. We do
not want candidate for governor
from either party who either know
ngly or inadvertently by his words
and his deeds, is strangling our live
5ihood. We want no special favors,
out we would like to have our bust
ness handled by the politicians as a
growth-inspiring benefit
TO the state and not a special political
football to be blown up and Debated,
:uddled then kicked, to the within of
political ambition.
Incidentally, may I correct the
facts: was in no way connected with
he suit against the State of Mon
ana to force the placing of the first
year bonuses into the permanent
,und. l was, however, proud to be
connected with the suit in which the
United States Supreme Court held
the leasing of State of
Montana lands for 10 years and so
ong thereafter as oil is produced
herefrom, which decision was con-
rary to the confiscatory ideas of Mr..
olsen. ~
l am sure that if you are truly an
newspaper you will let
our readers judge for themselves
yhether l am truly part of Hydra
loaded Alliance, or merely attempt
ng to run out of my business a man
yho apparently wants to run me out
f business. Sincerely yours-EARL
CRANST0N Ri11inos
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-27
Thanks PV For
Uncovering Plot
Editor, Peoples Voice,
Helena, Montana.

Editor, Peoples Voice,
Helena. Montana.
Dear Harry:
Congratulations on your uncovering
another plot against the peoples candi-
date Arnold Olsen. 1t proves that spec
ial interests care not of party but of
their own selfish interests.
Enclosed find a check for $1,000 20
get a number of posters printed up to
put in public places. The posters should
include the Earl Cranston letter. -
RALPH CLARK. Sun River.