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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-08
The
Rambler
. +. . Hears About
Cryptic Existence
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

"Have you ever heard
about the man who lived in
the Capitol?" Homer Dodge
asked in the lounge of the
Press Club.
The conversation Gust the
two Of us) had got around to
Blackwood's Magazine, which
must be just about the Oldest
periodical in our language,
having been started in Edin-
burgh in 1917. 1t is still going
and still a good place to find
a good story.
"His name was Ralph
Faulkner" said Homer, land
while he died only a little
more than 10 years ago, the
last decade of his life was
spent in some obscurity. You
may not have met him.
But If you had, you never
would have forgotten him,
for he looked amazingly like
Woodrow Wilson.
"How he lived in the Capt.
toll was a fascinating story.
Blackwood's thought so. They
published my account of it
last year.
GAS every tourist knows, 1t
is not unusual for people to
be living in public buildings
in Europe. They had to ex-
plain in a footnote that there
are no living quarters in the
Capitol of the United States.
Ralph Faulkner was
remarkable In more ways
than his resemblance to VIII
son.
"He was from Texas. His
father was a Wells-Fargo
shotgun messenger, sat next
to the driver of the STAGE
coach with the gun on his
knees and guarded the ex-
press box.
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BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star stan Writer

The Senate today received q
bill, passed decisively in the
House yesterday, which would
make criminal confessions ad-
Missile as evidence despite de-
lays in arraignment.
The House approved the
measure for the second time
by a vote Of 262 to 1873. The
action followed more than
three hours of debate and a
roll-call vote beating down an
effort to send it back to COM
mittee.
DOdged Death
The bill, designed to clarity
the Mallory decision, provides
that an otherwise admissible
confession should not be barred
from the evidence at a trial
solely because Of delay in TAX
ing q prisoner before a commit
ting magistrate. 1t also re-
quires police to advise prisoners
Of their right to remain silent
before questioning them.
The measure was prompted
by the Supreme Courts 1857
decision reversing the death
penalty-rape conviction Of An
drew r. Mallory on the ground
that his confession should not
have been used at his trial be-
cause of delay between arrest
and arraignment.
The case against Mallory was
subsequently dropped and he
walked out of death row to
freedom.
A bill identical to the House.
approved one has been intro
duced in the Senate by Senator
Heating, Republican of New
York. who co-Sponsored the
same legislation the last ses-
sion as a Congressman.
II hope this legislation will
be speeded through the Sen
ate," Senator Heating said to-
day.
"As a practical matter, it
may be necessary to modify the
language somewhat, but sub
stantially this legislation should
be enacted in order to un-
shackle the hands of our law
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"RALPH ALWAYS HAD a
book of verse in his pocket,
Shakespeare, Keats, Burns,
Byron, Kipling, and he was
a natural at drawing-could
catch a likeness with a few
strokes Of the pencil.
"He worked on weekly
newspapers and then went
into something more vigor-
Gus, firing on the Southern
Pacific. Col. Edward M.
House, a Texan who was
wilson's close adviser, noticed
the likeness to the President.
He suggested that Ralph
could go on the stage, which
he did-an actor who GER
tainly was typed. He had
only one role.
THE climax of many q
patriotic pageant during
World War I was the appear
ance of this man who looked
so much like the President.
"It was natural for Ralph
Faulkner to come to Wash
ington and he had no diff
ficulty making a living by
freelanee work for the papers
here. He did work for all of
them but especially for the
sports pages of the old Her
aid, both as a cartoonist and
a writer.
''He did a lot of work on
the Hill for members of the
House and Senate at cam
paign time. He would do
broadsides with accounts of
their Washington careers
and drawings of them
addressing their colleagues.
Sometimes mats would be
made of picture and story
and sent to the newspapers
Of the district or State.
"A Senator made a job for
him which was to his liking
to sort and index the un-
catalogued papers which had
been accommodating for years
in the crypts among the
foundations Of the Capitol.
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CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The National School
Public Relations section OF
the National Education As
ISOLATION meets in the
Statler Hotel.
This information supplied by
Visitors Bureau.
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enforcement officials in their
war on crime"
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
Indian Service StaIIinq
BIackfoot Land PROGRAM

ing forward their land purchase pro-
gram"
The Tribe now has been advised by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs to
amend its constitution. A discussion
by the Bureau of a possible alterna-
tive in the transfer of tribal funds
to the corporation for the sole use of
the corporation itself and not for the
tribe failed to make clear what the
result of this move would be. Amend
ing the tribal constitution is a long
drawn-out process requiring 80 per
cent of the tribal vote. Many land
sales could come and go before this
could be achieved. In the last Black
feet election, it was possible to bring
only 1872 per cent of the voters to
the polls.
AS for the suggested transfer of
tribal funds to the corporation, Mr..
Lazarus. who states he plans to ap-
peal the BIA decision to the Depart
ment of the Interior, asks three ques-
tions:
Will the corporation be per-
mitted to purchase lands at super
vised sales held on the Blackfeet
Reservation regardless of the pro-
visions of the tribal constitution?
Will individual Indian sellers
be allowed to grant the corporation
the right to meet the high bid, or
other preference right, on the same
basis as the Tribe received those
rights?
Will the corporation be per-
mitted to acquire title to lands in
trust?
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
Higher Gas Tax Plot,
A Smashing Success

by cancellation in early August, will
probably be rescheduled in their an
nouncement this Friday. There may
be reshuffling of the projects with
two lettings of contracts this or next
month. Planning work has progressed
even while the agonizing reappraisal
of money availability has been going
on
The August I9 letting was to in
clude three projects on the south
Interstate route from Billings to
Livingston that the commission had
decided upon despite evidence that
a north route would be $34,000,000
cheaper. An economic report was
specially devised to becloud this
fact.
The three projects are the Moss
main to Billings four-lane highway,
the bridge over the Yellowstone east
of Reed Point and the bridge over
the Yellowstone southwest of Liv-
ingston.
The cancelled contracts would have
included 1874 miles of Interstate
grading and surfacing, also 2638.32
feet of Interstate bridges, inter
changes and overpasses.
Primary road construction would
have been for 9.972 miles, and sec
ondary, 36.809 miles, under the 10
other contracts cancelled in early
Augustus.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
New Montana Factories
Worth Sill Million In 1858

Building permits for SO factories,
worth $11 million, were issued in
Montana in 1858, according to recent
figures compiled by the U. S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics in San Francisco
Peak month for factory construc-
tion was October, when permits were
issued for 13 factories worth $780,
900.
The 1853 total compares with 48
factory permits issued in 1857 worth
$1.9 million, and 26 permits in 1856
worth $456,00O.
Permits for factories represented
only O.8 per cent of the total building
permits issued in 1858 in Montana,
but they represented 2.8 per cent of
the value of all permits. Most of the
4,792 permits which were issued by
local governmental units in 1858 were
for residences. 0
BIS figures are developed from
questionnaires completed each month
by local governmental units issuing
building permits. Thought not COM
plete, they give good indication of
new industrial construction in Mon
tana.-INDUSTRIAL HORIZONS.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11

The one-cent increase of the gaSo-
line tax plot against Congress was a
smashing success. At this time the in
crease is on the desk of President
Eisenhower. Tackled on is the Senate
amendment for 100 per cent replace
ment of the road up the Madison and
around "Quake Lake" for an esti-
mated $6,000,000.
The highway engineers plot-to-bilk-
the-motorists' meeting in Chicago in
early August that resulted in the can
ceiling of the August 10 contract let
tings of the Highway Commission was
based on cry that they had gone
broke.
The right-of-way give-away bo-
nanza plus the goading by contract
ors for a speed-up in lettings raised
havoc with the original budgeting
in Montana and all over the nation.
Engineering solution-no politics
involved-just more money. >
The tax money has been flowing in
all the time but it is now apparent
that the road building program, with
freeways in the sage brush, is con-
sidered the pump printing to ease
America into the age of automation.
A deluge of job applicants has hit
the Highway Department. Mostly
from Butte. Copper mining operations
are requiring less men as time goes
on.
The paradox of the freeways de-
signed for double trailer trucks and
the automobile makers coming out
with smaller gas saving cars is 60
ing to take more than tax raises.
Rubber-tired transportation is in
for a serious setback unless more
is used in the designing
Of the roads which may very well be
a milestone around the neck of to-
traffic.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
Coop Buys Full Interest
In Montana Pipeline

ST. PAUL-(CNS)-Farmers Un-
ion Central Exchange has bought a
22O-mile pipeline that carries prod
ucts from it's refinery at Laurel, Mon
tana, to it's terminal at Glendive.
The regional coop has owned one
third interest in the line, which can
deliver 5000 barrels of gasoline and
fuel oils day. Joseph Nolan, who
directs the co-op's petroleum opera
tions, says the coop has shipped rs
million gallons of fuels through the
line since it was built in 1854.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
MORE GHOST TOWNS
IN THE OFFING

The traffic is but one angle of the
creation of artificial barriers through
Montana towns and countryside. The
economic loss, over period of years,
caused by the detouring around the
freeways coupled with the resultant
social breakdown of existing area
people complexes, leaves much to be
desired-or isn't it important what
happens to the suckers who have to
live with the freeway, once it's in
stalled?
Last Wednesday, to hail the passage
of the one-cent gas tax, joint session
of administrators of the Forest Serv-
ice, Bureau of Public Roads and the
Department was held.
The letting of the projects, put off
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
PARTNERSHIP"
CORNER RSTONE

This bill, Morse noted, "is the
cornerstone of the so-called partner
ship scheme under which the private
utilities would be permitted, no, paid,
for taking over multipurpose storage
damsites. 1t is a double giveaway. The
private utilities would not only re-
ceive the revenue potential of the
damsites, which should be developed
in the public interest; they would be
paid to enable them to do so.'
Morse posed this question: eff 20
non-federal upstream dams were con-
structed in the next 20 years over the
country, what would it cost the fed
eral government over 50-year period
in downstream benefit payments? My
guess he said, ''is that the cost
would run into millions of dollars.
This is sort of back-door financing
for the private power companies"
Ullman cited an example of what the
bill would do, referring to the three
small dams the Idaho Power Com
pany has been licensed to build in
the Middle Snake River, where a
federal high Hells Canyon Dam should
have been built intead. "These bills"
said Ullman "would require the fed
eral government to pay the Idaho
Power Company for downstream ben
efits at eight federal projects-pay-
ments that would undoubtedly run
into millions of dollars over the serv-
ice life of these dams.
II strenuously object" Ullman
continued, "to a proposal providing
cash or other financial awards to the
Idaho Power Company for the privi-
lege of underdeveloping this stretch
of the Snake River. 1t was a mistake
to grant federal license in the first
place; it would compound the tragedy
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
Do Birds Sense
Impending
Earthquakes?

The August II earthquake in Mon
tana has set off speculation that birds
have peculiar powers to anticipate
earthquakes.
Senator James E. Murray Cd
Mont called to the attention of the
Fish and Wildlife Service the report
of a geologist at the scene that the
birds left the area where the quake
hit hardest several hours before the
first tremors.
Geologist Edgar w. Spencer, head
of the geology department at Wash
ington and Lee University, wrote the
following observation in the Aug. 80
issue of the WASHINGTON POST:
"Only several days after the earth
quake-upon the return of the water
fowl and other birds to the Hebgen
Lake area-was it remembered that
all of these birds had left the area
in which the quake occurred late in
the afternoon before the first Shocks"
Fish and Wildlife Service personnel
advised Senator Murray they are
CllC Will IlclO
personnel.
If it is established that birds indeed
sense pending earthquakes, bird
will no doubt be an intense
ly followed avocation in areas sub
ject to earthquakes.
Fish and Wildlife Service personnel
and many city folks and farmers
also would have an interest. FWS is
plagued by queries on how to get rid
of starlings, blackbirds, crows, Eng
lish sparrows and other nuisance
birds. Its experts would like to find
out what caused the evacuation of
southwestern Montana before the
quake, then duplicate the technique
to chase away the undesirable birds.
Reports on feathered phenomena
will be welcomed.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
From Association of
American Indian Affairs

A legal quibble of the Bureau OF
Indian Affairs is preventing the
Blackfeet Indians of Browning, from
buying land for sale within their res
ervation boundaries.
The Bureau in Washington has
turned down an appeal by the Tribal
Council against ruling of the Bill
ings area office that prevents the ac-
ceptance of tribal bids on extensive
tracts needed for the Indians new
land purchase program.
Recently, the Blackfeet voted to use
100000 in tribal funds to acquire
more real estate. In Bureau-super-
vised land sale held on June "a, the
Tribe made the high bid on more than
20 tracts, and on 10 of these was the
only bidder. 1t succeeded in obtaining
some of the tracts, but is deprived of
others because of the Bureaus rul-
ings. The land up for sale is in an
area not yet 'checkerboarded by nom
Indian holdings, and as such is espec-
tally desired by the Tribe. The Black
feet maintain they have the power
to buy the land under provisions of
the tribal corporations charter, CIV
ing them almost complete authority
to acquire property.
AS tribe organized under the In
dian, Reorganization Act of 1884, the
Blackfeet constitution says it may
purchase land not in Indian owner
ship, or land in heirship, status prior
to or at the time of the adoption of
the constitution. 1t may also purchase
the land of aged members of the Tribe
in need of welfare assistance, and per-
sons who intend to leave the reserva-
tion permanently.
The charter, on the other hand,
gives the Tribe the right to purchase,
take by gift, bequest, or otherwise,
own, hold, manage, operate, and dis
pose of property of every descrip-
tion." The Tribe, relying on 1868
opinion of the Interior Department
solicitor that the corporation is sep
arate entity from the political organi-
zation, argued that the corporation |
could buy land under the charter with
out reference to the provisions of the
The Bureau ruled that the corpora
ion was only an agent for the tribe
md therefore was bound by the con-
titution.
According to Arthur Lazarus, legal
counsel for the Blackfeet Tribe, call
ng the corporation the agent of the
tribe is legal quibble which loses
light of the need for finding "con-
tructive steps for assisting the Black
eet Indians in working out and carry
The people's voice., 1959-09-11

to play Santa Claus again and hand
the Idaho Power Company an un-
anticipated windfall amounting to
millions of dollars
Radin pointed out in his testimony
that a private power company IL
censed to build a dam on a navigable
river 'is profiting from the use of a
public resource, and is able to do so
because the federal government has
granted" it the privilege of so doing.
The private power firm, or other nom
federal user, "would not have applied
for federal license if it did not be-
lieve the project would be profitable"
he added. +t-,
t"It did not have to depend on wind
fall. benefits that would stem from
passage of these bills" Radin said,
$50 why; after nearly four decades
of operation under federal licensing
provisions), should the private power
and other non=federal US
ers, be paid bonus in addition to
having been granted the right to use
this public resource?"
The downstream benefits bills will
not be acted on during this
session of Congress. But the private
power companies and their friends
will undoubtedly resume their attempt
20 raid the federal treasury next
year.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
u. S. Indians Death
Rate Is Very High

WASHINGTON, D. C,-The aver
age age at which American Indians
die is 39 compared with 81 for the
population as a whole according to
the U. S. Department of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare.
This is reported in a new booklet
issued by the department entitled
Progress In Indian Health.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
Farm Prices Drop;
Parity Ratio 5000

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NFU)
Prices received by farmers had
dropped enough in the month ended
August Is to reduce the parity ratio
to 800, the USDA monthly report
shows.
The decline puts farm prices
nearly 40 below one year ago
the lowest since March of 1857. The
parity ratio was $3.50 year ago.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
Private Power Companies
Seek Another Hand Out

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(ECIC)- Since 1854 private power
companies have been trying to get through Congress bills which
would give them windfa bonus of millions of dollars once
again the windfall proposals are before Congress.
downstream benefits bills they call for federal
of private dams navgabe streams for
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
Kerr Hopes Ike's Soviet
Trip Will Change
"No-NeW-Sharts" Policy

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(RED-
Sen. Robert Kerr (Okla.) said he
hopes President Eisenhower's coming
visit to Russia will change his "no-
new-starts'' water resource develop
ment policy.
II hope he gets his eyes open to
the real basis of Russia's soaring eco
nomic strength" Kerr said. "Just
glimpse of their far-flung soil-and-
water program, aimed at all-out pro-
duction, should persuade him to re-
verse Immediately his Administration
policy of mo new starts on similar
projects in the u. S."
The people's voice., 1959-09-11

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt
the minds of those who possess it.
PITT.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
TO ADOPT PROGRAM.
ELECT OFFICERS

In addition to listening to speakers,
delegates will hear reports of state
officers, adopt policy and program
to guide the state organization in the
year ahead, review accomplishments
of Junior Farmers Union members,
and elect officers and board MEM
bers.
Offices to be filled include the
presidency, vice presidency, conduc-
tor, doorkeeper and three board mem
bers. Leonard Kenfield is the incum-
bent president, and Claude Johnson,
Stevensville, vice president.
Secretary-treasurer of MFU is
Ralph F. Cook, Great Falls.
The people's voice., 1959-09-11
Farmers Union--

Continued From Page One)
Digest, Look, Redbook and Ebony
have taken Mr.. Rowan to Europe,
Asia. Africa and Australia"
The people's voice., 1959-09-11

benefits which might accrue to fed
eral projects downstreams. Hearings
on variously labeled downstream ben
efits proposals were held recently by
Senate and House committee. Among
, those opposing this windfall bonus
for private utilities were Sen. Wayne
Morse of Oregon, Rep. Al Ullman of
Oregon, General Manager Alex Radin
of the American Public Power Asso-
citation, Executive Secretary Gus Nor
wood of the Northwest Public Power
Association, Executive Secretary Ken
Ellington of the Washington Public
Utility Districts Association, Angus
Mcdonald of the National Farmers
Union, and Director Albert White
house of the Industrial Union De-
partment, AFL-CIO.
In his testimony and in a statement
on the Senate floor. Morse declared:
'In essence, what the downstream
benefit bill provides is that the peo-
pie shall pay the private utilities the
benefit-a money benefit-for build
ing dam on the peoples river higher
up on the stream than the public
dam, thereby regulating the flow, but
not one bit more than is necessary to
run the private utility generators,
and then charge the taxpayers price
for the use of water, which belongs
to the people in the first place, which
flows over a private utility dam and
then down the stream, at a more rapid
rate, over a public dam, generating
power in both places"
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