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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
Picket Widow
Bitter at Union
Over His Killing

Stunned and bitter over loss oil
her husband, a teamster who was
fatally injured in a picket line
fight, Mrs. Arthur G. Queasbarth
today charged that he had gone on
picket duty because he was afraid
that If he did not do so the union
would be after him."
Queasbarth. Al. died last night
in Providence Hospital of a skull
fracture. police say. he received
when he was hit on the head with
a board during a melee in front
of the Currier Lumber Company,
l7507 Van Dyke avenue.
EMPLOYED 8 YEARS
Sitting in her modest Groom
home at 910S Louis avenue, the
38-year-old mother of three chill
dren told of the events leading up
to her husbands death.
"AIl Of the pickets were told
at a meeting on Sunday to go to
the Currier Lumber Company"
She said. arthur told me he
didn't want to 90 down but that
II he didn't the union would be
after him. He wasn't q man to
look for trouble. / never was
for unions; he was for them"
Mrs. Queasbarth said her hus-
band had no choice" but TO join
the picket line. Otherwise. she
said. he would have been fined "or
thrown out of his local"
Queasbarth has been employed
for eight years as the driver of a
transit mix cement truck for the
Cooper Supply Company, 6480
East Eight-Mile road. she said.
SETTLING TOO LATE"
"He was never on strike be-
fore" she sobbed. This one
was his first and last"
!. The Queasbarths' children are
'arol. IA; Ruth. s. and Joyce. 7,
'all students at the Scripps School.
Mrs. QueaSbarth broke down
when a reporter informed her that
the strike of the Transfers Union
may soon be settled.
They are settling II q little
too late for u.s." she said.
Arrangements for funeral SeTv-
ices have not been completed.
Funeral services for Queasbarth
VIII be held at = p. m. Thursday
IN a funeral home at Sl3l Mack
avenue. Announcement of the
tune and the place of the rites
were made to striking piekets to-
day from a sound-car by union
leaders. The strikers were urged
10 attend the services.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
ONLY PARTS Now

The. first unit of the Ypsilanti
plant is to make parts for four
motored Consolidated bombers to
be assembled by the Consolidated
Aircraft Company in Fort Worth.
Tex. and by the Douglas Aircraft
Company at Tulsa. Okla.
The Fifth Supplemental National
Defense Appropriation Bill. signed
by the President April 5. provides
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
CHARGES OF VIOLENCE

Since this sympathy strike was
called. the Lumber Dealers Asso-
citation has accused the union of
many acts of violence. One of the
acts of violence claimed by the
association is the article appear
ing in the press on Saturday. May
10. l94l. that the union had been
laying in ambush at Van Buren,
and Carlin and that upon the ar
rival of the trucks the union put
on a pitched battle with. bricks and
stones as the truckers attempted
10 unload their load.
The union claims that this was
a deliberate attempt on the part
of the lumber dealers TO discredit
the union by planting their own
men in ambush and creating this
fight on the grounds that the
union would have no way of know
ing what the points of delivery
would be.
Mr.. McLeeS of the Lumber
Dealers Association. IN his state
lment to the press makes an ac-
cusation that large quantities of
lumber have been burned and yet
the police department has no rec
ord OF any such actions. He fur
Their makes a statement that the
families of truck drivers working
for the lumber companies have
been inundated by strong-armeC
men. The police department also
has no such record of any such
intimidation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
Charge Public Given
False Impression
of the Facts

This is the employers version
of .he truck drivers strike that
has tied up the lumber industry
and resulted in violence which
already has caused the death of
one driver.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
WIN BETTER WAGES

In the past four years. when
ever Local No. PAT of the team
sters had a labor dispute with
building supply yards, coal yards.
gravel pits, etc. the lumber deal
ers have always injected them
selves into the fight TO attempt to
break down said organization
The reason the lumber dealers
have always done this is because
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
Speaking for the lumber deal
ers, Howard McLees. manager
OF the Detroit Retail Lumber
Dealers Association. declared:

Gf&s HONdi0 In t1tgSs
OF the Detroit Retail Lumber
Dealers Association. declared:
The public is being given the
false impression that there is a
dispute between the members OF
the Detroit District Retail Lum-
Der Dealers Association and their
employees. No such general dispute
exists or has existed. Here are
the real facts:
On April n. Teamsters' Local
No. PAT called a strike against
the Detroit Lumber Company. the
only lumber firm in the Detroit
district in which the union has or
ganized any appreciable number
of employees. Notification of the
strike was filed with the state,
This was purely dispute be-
tween the Detroit Lumber Com
pany and its employees. but the
union, intent on dominating the
entire building industry in Detroit,
instituted a reign OF terror and
proceeded to besiege the yards OF
every other lumber dealer in the
district. There is still no official
strike against any firm but the
Detroit Lumber Company.
UNIONS PROTEST
The slender pretext for this ex-
tension of what was a strike
against only one company was the
charge that "other lumber dealers
were filling orders for the Detroit
Lumber Company" The union Of
ficials are we'll aware that if any
Detroit Lumber Company orders
have been filled by other dealers.
it is because builders, unable to
obtain supplies from the struck
yards of Detroit Lumber Com
pany. quite naturally sought TO
obtain their supplies from other
firms.
Though Transfers Local PAT
has only about $50 bona fide men,
bers among the 1000 employees of
lumber firms in Detroit-and go
which they obtained by coercion
it has declared open war against
every one of the firms that are
OF this association.
Because the union does not have
enough members TO picket the
yards OF all these companies it has
called the cement transit mix
drivers out on strike, thus tying
up the vital defense projects at
Fort Wayne and four automobile
plants. including the Chrysler tank
and the Ford airplane en-
CINE plant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-13
Union Tells Several
Attempts to Gain
Recognition

As Transfers Union and
lumber association heads pre-
pared to meet with Mayor JEFF
fries to attempt settlement OF a
drivers strike. the union issued
its version of the controversy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
JACOB HANDLER
 KILLED BY AUTO
73-Year.Old Resident of East Farm Street Struck
 While Crossing Street

Jacob Handler, 73, of l2S East Farm street, was fatally injured early this morning as he attempt ed to cross North Main street near the Chase Rolling Mills plant.
 The elderly man was rushed to the St. Mary's hospital by Patrol men John Shea and Fred Sullivan in the police ambulance but died a little over an hour after being struck by an automobile and knocked to the pavement.
 Motor Fatrolmen Raymond Grady and Joseph Norton who investigat- cd the fatal accident, said the driv- CT of the car was Leonard BoSse, 29, of i077 North Main street. Pat rolmen Grady and Norton report- ed that Handler was crossing from the east side of the street this morning at $40 when a panel dee livery bakery truck operated by Bosse struck him.
 Hospital authorities reported Han dler was admitted at 6 a. m. and died at 6:55 from decorations of the scalp, compound fracture of the left leg and internal abdominal inc juries which caused a hemorrhage.
 Coroner William 5. Hennessy be- gan an inquest this morning at poe lice headquarters into the death of the 73-year-old pedestrian. He said he expected to complete his inquest by tomorrow and probably would have finding issued by the latter part of the week.
 Bosse was released by the cor- oner under @i,00O bonds pending the issuance of the finding, Coroner HennesSy said.
 Waterbury marked up Its elev- enth automobile fatality for this year, all of which were pedestrians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
Democrats Win Three Mayors In This State
Socialists With Jasper McLevy Swept All Over Others in Bridgeport

Hartford, Conn, Nov 5 -(UP>- Bridgeport's Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy, who tried vainly for two decades to be elected mayor, gave heartfelt thanks" to the voters to- day for re-electing his administra- tion to fifth term by a near record plurality.
 Mayor McLevy and his entire slate of l6 Socialist aldermen were car- ried into office by plurality of l6,. 844 votes. exceeded only by the l9,- 900 plurality he received in 1887.
 "The vote" McLevy said in mes- sage to the voters, lis an expression of your confidence in your city's government"
 The Bridgeport election, as well as the three other "big city" elections in the state yesterday which return ed Democratic incumbents to offlce went according to the form charts.
 Spellacy, Murphy Win
 Hartford reelected Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy to a fourth term over Republican Joseph B. Griffin, by a margin of 499O votes. Spellacy. first mayor to hold four terms in Hart ford since 1888, received 25.372 votes, as against 2O,382 for Griffin.
 New Haven reelected Democratic Mayor John w. Murphy to a sixth
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
Japanese Diplomat
 Flying Washington
SaburO Kurusu, TOp.FIight Statesman Is Flying tC America; Peace or War May Be Result of
 Talks at Washington

Tokyo, Nov. 6-(UP) = saburo Kurusu. Japanese top-fiight diplo- mat, started for the United States today on what the Japanese Dcmel News Agency said was "a last effort 10 readjust Japanese american re- lations, which recently have devel- oped from bad to worse"
 Kurusu, already en route to Hongkong by air to board Q clipper for the United States. will seek immediate clarification on wheth- CT further Japanese American con- versations will prove useful" the agency said.
 Meanwhile. Japanese newspapers at once moderated their editorials regarding the United States. It was understood the moderation was brought about by the direct request of the foreign office.
 Domei said Kurusu has been sent to the United States lin view of the ever- r-increasing gravity of the Paci- flc situation"
 Tt is more than 70 days since Japanese American negotiations were opened '. and since then di- plomatic relations have been ag- gravated, partly because of the Situ- ation in the southwestern Pacific and partly due to the rapid change in the international situation" Do- mel added.
 Every Effort for Peace
 'In an attempt at a last diplo- matic effort the government decided to send Kurusu. It is true 1t is not easy to solve the various problems between Japan and America in view of the complicated situation but much Is expected of Kurusu In be- lief that he will make every possible effort for an amicable settlement by making clear-cut explanations of the limit of Japan's means of exist enct self-defense and national prestige"
 The urgency of Kurusu's mission was indicated by the fact that he was flying in Japanese plane to Hongkong. strongly fortified British crown colony. His arrival there will mark the first landing of a Japa- nese plane in the British South China fortress.
 Kurusu appears to have been sent on showdown mission which the Japanese seemed to indicate. may determine whether there is to be war or peace in the Pacific.)
 An official announcement said Kurusu has been sent to assist ann bassador KichiSaburo Normura in arriving "at the earliest possible settlement with the United States
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
1O6 MEMDRES OF NAVY WERE LOST
That Is Total to Date in Battle of Atlantic
 Against Axis

Washington, Nov. 6.--(Up)-The .nayy's losses in action h tlae Battle lot tho Atlantic stood okticsaiiy today at i0e officers and men killed ll injured, one destroyer sunk, one tanker and ono destroyer seriously damaged.
 These losses were suffered in the two weeks, October i6-3l in conveys off Iceland, German submarines, hunting in packs, stalked the con.- voyS carrying war material to Bri- tain as well as supplies to the Ameri- can base at Iceland, and in the dead of night torpedoed and sank the 1000 ton destroyer Reuben James and seriously damaged the destroyer Kearny and the naval tanker Sa- linAs.
 The navy said the World War type of destroyer. Reuben James, was blown in two by torpedo which presumably exploded the ships magazine. This would account for the large number of casualties, 97 out of complement of i42. The men aboard the Reuben James had no chance to take to the boats be- cause the forward part of the ship sank immediately and the after part within a few minutes.
 The navy presumes that none of the men survived the initial ex- plosion except those who were res- cued. They probably were standing lookout watches or were on some other deck detail and were thrown clear. The fact that there were no officers among the survivors is held to be due to the fact that the maga- zine of this old-type flush-deck de- stroyer is below the officers quar- ters and the bridge, where most of the officers would be at that time of night.
 The darkness of the night, the icy water of the North Atlantic not far south of the Arcticle Circle, and the general confusion that reigns when an attacked convoy scatters and the escorting destroyers race race back and forth in search of the submar- ines made the rescue of the Slir- vivors most difficult. No details have been released as to how this was accomplished.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
Mayor ScuIly, With His Running Mates COasted
 Into Office Once More
SCULLY HAD 6,0S0
 LEAD ON PERRIELLO
James P. McGrath COP. Tax Collector Nominee
 Led Republican Ticket
BY RAYMOND ,. FITZPATRICK

BY RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK
 Waterbury had regained it's title of Democratic stronghold of Connecticut" today on a wave of votes that sent Mayor Vincent A. Scully and his running mates back into office by one of the greatest pluralitieS ever re- corded in a city election here. Mayor Scully defeated Pat rick M. Perriello (R) by 6,989 votes, three times greater than the 2,3si plurality by which he was elected two years ago over Charles c. Foster. The Independ- ent Democratic candidate, for mayor, Prank J. Wall, boiled e60 votes, sufficient for the party to re- tain Its place on the voting ma. chimes.
 Mayor Sculiy's smashing plural- ity was higher than that achieved by the Democratic mayors of oith~ CT New Haven and Hartford, John W. Murphy and Thomas J. Spel. lacy winning by pluraiities of 4,000, The local chief executives total was exceeded only by the i6,0o0 mar gin Of Jasper McLevy in Bridge- port, where the major parties arc torn with 6Lssension.
 McGrath Leads G, 0, F,
 As expected, the Republican tick ct was led by James P. McGrath, candidate for tax collector. He boiled i4.756 votes to run far ahead of Mir. Perriello and other c. O. P. candidates. More than 400 vot- CTS cut their tickets in MT. Me- Grath'S favor.
 The mayors tremendous vote car- ried the whole ticket To victory, the only Republicans elected being nom- inees for offices which the charter requires be filled by the minority. The c. O. P. elected seven alder men, four members of the board of education, Selectman, a library agent, four constableS and a mem- Der of the board of tax review.
 The most significant election fac- tor was the vote against MT. Per- riello in districts which are nor- mally heavily Republican. The may- or got an extremely heavy vote in Bunker Hill, Waterville, Cracker Hill and other districts which usual ly give majorities to Republican The mayor carried Dis- trict 3-l by lS votes and lost Dis- trict 3-2 by only l6 votes. Both districts went heavily for MT. Fos- ter in 1889.
 MT. Perriello was able to capture only six of the 32 voting districts. Two years ago Mir. Foster won 8 districts. The c. o. P. candidate won Districts 1-4, 1-5, 2-5, 3-2, 3-4 and 4-2. The Republican, ticket failed to carry a single district In the fifth ward.
 Runaway Vote
 The mayors runaway vote brought him victory in all five wards, record seldom equalled in Brass City balloting.
 The total vote was 35,489, com- light for this city. In
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05

have kept 1t alive during the eight years LaGuardia has kept the mu- nicipal patronage facuetS closed to 1t.
 William O'Dwyer, former police man and the prosecutor who broke Brooklyn's gang of professional killers, Murder, Incp ran the best race of the three Democratic calidi- dates who have opposed "The Little Flower" but complete figures from the citys 4,05o election districts brought him up l33,s4l votes short, LaGuardia got i,ie6,S94 votes Opwyer, lJ052, ,6SS votes. LaGuardias s plurality was considered @ small one,
 Strangest Race
 It had ben Q strange race. Prest- dent Roosevelt endorsed LaGuaydia his chairman Of civilian Defense and of the U. S.-Canadian Joint Conference Board, who ran as a Re. publican, and also as the nominee of the American Labor, the City Fu- sion, and the United City Parties,
 Rr. Roosevelt has never had any love for Tainmany and New Deal- CTS were said to have feared that & LaGuardia defeat might be con- strued as a rebuff of his foreign policy, of which LaGuardia is an impassioned supporter. O'Dwyer endorsed the Presidents foreign policy, however, and 1t was not c campaign issue.
 Wendell L. Willkie also support cd LaGuardia, but Gov. Herbert H.
 ffto0kin,,ad oy. pa0a oN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
OLD CHURCH IS BURNED TO GROUND

East Hampton, Conn, Nov. 5 - (UP)-Destruction by fire of the Congregational church, one of the towns oldest landmarks, caused damage estimated today at $5O.0O0.
 The fire. believed to have started from a painters blowtorch. crept through the walls into a blind attic and the roof and steeple were en- gulfed in flames within a few min- utes. Apparatus was called in from Middeltown and Portland and 1t was necessary to pull down the steeple in an attempt to save the under structure. The fire, however. had progressed too far to make this pos- sible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
Grief Stricken Relatives
 Complain On Reuben James

were to have become the brides of missing seamen within a month. Miss Dorothy Dustin, 22. of Hamp- stead. N. H., was to have married her next-door neighbor. Quarter master John J. Fitzgerald. and MisS Margaret McElroy, IT. of Erookline was to have wed Maurice Hudlin of Revere.
 Mrs. Phyllis Johnston of Billerica. wife of It. Dewey G. Johnston. was confident her husband had been picked up by another ship. ''K know my husband is safe and unhurt, she said. Though grief-stricken, Miss McElroy refused Co give up hope for her lance. q know he's al right" she cried. sHe's got t0 be. Oh, Uod make it true. ! can't give him up. I've snt Co believe hRa Mil TiHht AolnaNhs1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05

Boston, Nov. 5.-(UP)-The par- ents of one of the lS New England men missing from the sunken de- stroycr Reuben James charged to- day that the ship was badly in need of repairs and couldn't get them because all available workmen and facilities were repairing British ships" Mir. and Mrs. John J. Ryan of Somerville, parents of coxswain John J. Ryan Jr., 20, said he told them the Reuben James needed re- pairs and lon one or more occa- slons was sent out from the Boston navy yard without them because e the work being done on British warships."
 0rief and hope we're the emotions Of the other survivors relatives and friends. including two 9iKiH Nno
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
WALKER LOSER
 BY EARLY STORY
Published Reports This Morning Counted Alder
 man Walker Defeated

Alderman Burton H. Walker tR) was reelected in yesterdays ballot- ing, despite published reports this morning that he had been defeated, The losing Republican candidate was Albert Loeffler, former mem Der of the board of works,
 Mrs Helen B. Hitchcock was the losing Republican candidate for the board of education, being nosed out by Harry c. Post and pr. Harold Parkinson. The election of the other two Republican candidates for this board, John J. Kearney and Joseph DeLuca, was assured because of their endorsement by the Independ- ent Democratic party.
 Harold V. Boyce was the losing
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
EVERLASTING IS
 CAUSE OF ACTION

Boston, Nov. 5-(UP)--A Harvard professor came to the defense today of two Quincy granite companies acc cused by the Federal Trade com- mission of misleading" advertising because they described their granite monuments as everlasting"
 The commission contends there Is no such state as everlasting. but pr. Kirtley F. Mather, noted geolo- gist. commented that ''in common parlance. such terms have . conno- tation of few thousand years. and to most people certainly there is permanence In a material which has endured for 25,0O0 years, more or less"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
BOSTON DOCTOR
 DIED YESTERDAY

Boston. Nov. 5.--(UP)-Dr. Fred ertck Taylor Lord, 66, professor emeritus of clinical medicine at Har- ward medical school and 6 pioneer in the use Of serum for treating pneumonia, died at a hospital yes- terday.
 A native of Bangor. Me. pr. Tay- Tor served on the Harvard faculty for 90 years. He was the author Of several books on pneumonia and other diseases of the hronchi, lungs and pleura. Tn loiT he was a mem- Der of the American Red Gross commission to esrhAA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
LORD HALIFAX IS
 AGAIN INSULTED
Women of Cleveland Got Some Better Reception
 Than in Detroit

Cleveland, Nov. 5.-(UP)-Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, was booed by a group of picketS, most of whom were wo- men, when he and Lady Halifax ar- riveG at City Hall today to call on Mayor Edward Blythin.
 Yesterday he was the target for eggs and tomatoes in Detroit.
 As Halifax and Lady Halifax ar- rived in a car provided by the city and started up the city hall steps they were laudly jeered by crowd of about 200. Several pickets car ried placards with inscribed com ments critical of the British and Halifax himself.
 It could not be determined at once whether the women in the crowd were members of the Arneri- can mothers, some of whose leaders were questioned by police in Detroit yesterday after the eggs and toma- toes were thrown by a group of women.
 Neither Lord nor Lady Halifax ap- peared disturbed by the demonstra- tion and proceeded under police eS- cort into the municipal building.
 4 detail of mounted police had escorted their car from their hotel and officers stationed themselves near the pickets, but did not dis perse them.
 Many Placards
 The placards bore such comments as "Give us back our White House, Halifax as Viceroy of India put AO0. 900 Indians in concentration camps" eve won our independenct
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
WILLKIE DUE AT
 EAST HARTFORD

East Hartford. Conn, Nov. s. (up)-WeEidell l.. Willkie was due here today for an inspection of the engines and propellers divisions of United Aircraft Corp.
 Willkie was to arrive In a United Aircraft Corp. plane from LaGuar- dia field, New York and spend most of the afternoon visiting the various departments. after having lunch with company officials.
 At the corporation 1t vas said there was no special significance In Willkle's visit and that he was making the inspection as 6 private citizen to ''acQuaint himself with de- fense efforts.