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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02
WENT TO PLANT

Shortly afterward. Wild n
UAW-CIO secretary George Adde's
Reuther. TAYLOR and Richard Leon
ard. UAW-CIO regional director
went TO the plant to advise the
workers TO leave, a union state.
ment said.
Widman explained.
This was done at the sug-
geStion of federal labor concilia-
tor Dewey.
1--WE were met at Gate 1 by
Harry Mack of the Ford Com
company, who refused US admit
lance. although we clearly stated
our purpose in desiring to enter.
We had been assured BY Dewey
that the company would admit
us for that purpose"
Dewey reached by long dis
tance telephone at his Chester
PA home. early this morning
said that he had spent most Of
the night conferrlng by telephone
with both sides.
He said he would arrive here
this~afternoon, probably BY plane
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02
.CCred 5-Yr. Cut.
100000, Says
CoIburn
Continued from Page one)


discontinued when the grand jury
started in August, 1889. CoIburn
said he did not keep books but kept
a list Of addresses and the amounts
turned in monthly. Continuing his
testimony, he said:
AT first 1 would make a sepa-
rate slip for McCrea showing how
much was received and how it
was divided, but he was never in
terested and would say: oh,
keep that, IL will be all right.
I'm not worrying about it,"
S5s 900 ms YEARS
OHara asked: How much did
you receive from Block as your
share in FIVE years."
Better than $50, OO0," Colburn
replied.
$50 II you received $50, 900,
NcCrea received twice as
much ?"
That's right" Colburn replied.
did you personally pay to
McCrea over 100000 in cash as
his share from these Illegal
places In Wayne County?"
OHara asked. .,..
81 did" Colburn replied.
Colburn testified that McCrea
left the amount to be collected
largely up 10 him, saying:
'1f place had been closed
down, they would have to pay
more TO reopen to make up for
the time they hadn't been pay
ing"
DESCRIBES SYSTEM
Referring to the so-called tripli-
cate complaint system (under
which all complaints of gambling
houses or bawdy houses would be
duplicated and sent TO all law en-
forcement officers in the county,
Colburn said:
I'VE instituted that, so we
would have a record for our pro-
lection and no one In our office
could be criticized"
OHara asked:
Were you aware that some
OF the complaints were made
against the places that were
paying protection money!"
yes, that was done to show
some action was being taken
against them" Colburn replied.
when reports from local law
enforcement officers were re-
turned, no further attention was
paid to them II the reports
sounded halfway reasonable,
unless the original complaint
came from some important per-
son such as the attorney-genera
or the governor" Colburn said.
SAYS BOSS UNDERSTOOD
"McCrea was familiar with
the way these complaints were
handled and was familiar with
them" Colburn testified. "Mc-
Crea recently visited me at my
home and suggested that the
strain of the trial was too much
for me and IL l became Ill he
might get mistrial and have a
bette reliance for freedom"
McCrea then stood up and in /;
calm voice started his cross-exam
nation.
You and your family and I
have been friends for years,
haven't we, Harry" McCrea
asked.
yes" Colburn said, bowling
his head and weeping.
"lf 1 could do you a favor I
did it," McCrea asked.
yes"
$1,000 LOAN
Il loaned you $1,000 without
asking for security ?" McCrea
asked
YES, and i paid IL back before
| went into the prosecutors Of
hce,' Colburn replied.
You swore at the custer
hearing that you never took any
money from these places Nc
+ Crea asked.
yes, 1 did," Colburn replied.
McCrea then brought out tina
Colhurn has been treated-by tire
pSychiatristS for nervous disorder,
q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02

the strike was called, said:
The trouble started when
three men in the rolling mill re-
fused to stay on the job.
REFUSED TO WORK
"The foreman instructed them
TO continue with their operations
which they refused to do. The
foreman then informed them
that II would be necessary for
them 10 appear at the employ
ment office, and talk to the
employer relations committee.
This they refused TO do and then
refused 10 leave the plant.
THE three men then called
wildcat strike which ultimately
involved $500 men i'm the rolling
mill. StOppage of work In this
department ultimately resulted
in the pressed steel, B building
and assembly lines being ohut
down, because Of lack OF ma
terials.
1.-THE tire plant likewise had
to be closed because of con-
VeyOr system feeding the as
sembly line.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02
SOME STAY OPEN

"The motor building and foun-
dry did not close nor did several
other departments. The total
number affected by the efforts
of the three men was between
10000 and 10000 who for some
period during the evening were
unable to work.
by midnight the plant was
cleared. The plant will be open
for the day shift and those who
want to go to work can do 80
in the morning and also on the
other shifts"
Bennett declared that many
other departments of the plant
work as usual, and that
kFL-affiliated employees Of the
tool room twice rejected Go mer
who sought to stop the machines
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02
DONAHUE AT PHONE

Donahue who said he talked
with the federal labor Cancellation
division in Washington land other
officials earlier in the evening.
stayed close TO the telephone in
the hotel in case a conference was
sought by both the company and
the union during the night.
Dearborn Mayor Carey said:
Our first concern is to avoid
riots, blOodshed or any forms OF
violence. We want above all to
be fair"
Chief Brooks said he was told
that the Ford service department
received a call at $3.50 p. m. Tues
day from the/ fabricating depart
ment stating that b" Building
employees had broken down doors
into the fabricating department.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02
PREVENT DAMAGE

William Taylor. head of the
Ford organizers. told the strikers
that skeleton maintenance crews
would be kept at work in the open
hearth power house glass plant
and other departments where ex-
tensive damage could result from
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02

The governor said that when
Mayor Carey asked him to send
troops to the plant he pointed
out To- the mayor that he could
not send troops in on private
property under present circum-
stances.
Federal Ii Dor Conciliator
Dewey will be here tomorrow If
weather and his health permit"
Van Wagner continued. 81 hope
We can take up this matter
where we left il before. All
parties concerned were working
on plan that we thought would
Drove SafisfacfnrVn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02

LUuU tIItEiS- greeted IIlt an
nOuncement.
A second meeting was held
shortly after the first fer the bene-
fit Of the men who had just evacu-
ated the plant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02

At the entrance near Rotunda
irive and Schaefer road a man
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02

rame back few minutes later men the witnesses said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-01
$50, 900 Lost in Fire
In Tobacco Warehouse
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TARBORO, N. c., May 31.-Fire
swept through the Clark tobacco
warehouse, two blocks from Main
street, today, and caused damages
unofficially estimated at $4,000,
Also destroyed were 10000 bags of
peanuts stored for the Government.
They had recently been sold.
Three flremen, Wiley Bullock,
Walston Pittman and Frank Ballard,
were slightly injured when the ware
house roof caved in on them.
Owners said the warehouse would
be rebuilt in time for the opening
of the tobacco season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-01

Mexico i= aiding the establishment
Of q glider and ski factory.
Askov American., 1941-08-28

interventioniSt amongst the Republi-
cans to fill out the unexpired term.
No wonder the people in Minneso-
ia show resentment where Ball speaks
and when he issues statements in be-
half of the war crowd. 1t has also
developed that his political skim,
about which he talks, is rather thin.
Ball like Stassen chooses the path
of least resistance. They know where
their campaign money is coming from
and with the use of press and radio
try to make out that they represent
the people. They know that NUM-
ton makers and the greedy million
aires, created as a result of the last
war, have more money than the
fathers and mothers of the drafted
men.
When the Governor appointed Ball
he said that he was appointing man
whom he could and would support
for election in 1912. There has been
no refutation of that statement and
the Governor has not objected to
Senate votes by Ball, nor any of his
statements.
Appointing a U. S. Senator to 60
down the line with the war crowd
a Senator to fill out the unexpired
two-year term of non-intervention-
ist-is something that Governor Stas-
sen will have to answer for to the
people of Minnesota.
Askov American., 1941-08-28
The Fight for Raw
Materials

individuals go 10 war 1Or IreeQOm
of religion, freedom of speech, and the
preservation of the home. Govern
ments 60 to war for raw materials.
Now and then, down through his
tory, individuals have bobbed up
with the idea of becoming world
rulers, but so far such individuals
have been put in their places and
they will continue to be put in place
unless everything goes to rack and
ruin.
But the fact still remains that one
of the main reasons, if not the main
reason, for war, is the need for raw
materials. Nations, large or small,
want free access to them, and no
peace will be permanent unless mo-
nopoly on raw materials is broken.
If there were such a thing as a
benevolent monopoly, we might be
able to get along. But, monopoly has
not produced benevolence. The great
powers down through history have
batted the smaller nations against one
another for selfish gain. Because
of Americas size and it's great
natural resources, its location with
the Atlantic on the east and the
Pacific on the west, we have enjoyed
comparative freedom of the seas.
England has not looked for a fight
with country like the United States,
in its strategic position.
Maybe something good will fol-
low the present war in Europe. Let
us hope So. In this day of mass pro-
duction and rapid transportation, the
smaller nations do not make for
strong economic units. In the first
place, a nation with only five million
population must nevertheless main
tain diplomatic relations with other
countries of the world. That in it
self is big expense. Their po-
tential number of customers to a
mass production industry is far less
than in a country like the United
States, with population of 130 mill
lions. In addition to that, tariff bar
riers and other complications, in
Guiding the dreaded war, may sud-
denly shut off foreign customers of a
mass production industry. The diff
ficulty in securing raw materials at
fair prices in world dominated by
one nation is also readily under
stood.
The war will bring economic
changes. Maybe it will result in
groups of small nations combining
to make up large economic units, so
that instead of having one powerful
nation more or less dominating ac-
cess to raw materials, we might in
the future have three, four, or more
groups of nations with needed raw
materials within each of such groups.
Askov American., 1941-08-28
Changes Made In
Pine City Staff
All in Readiness at County
Seat for Opening of
School Next Tuesday.

The Pine City public schools will
open Tuesday, September 2, with
several new teachers, a large at
tendance and a program we'll ar
ranged. The buildings and grounds
have been well groomed with all the
necessary finishing touches put on the
new grade addition, SO that the entire
plant is in fine condition to receive
both the grade and high school pupils
Several changes have been made
in the faculty and in each case strong
and experienced teachers have been
secured. George 1. Clem of Askov,
has been elected to the position of
high school principal to succeed Carl
Pearson who resigned late in the sum-
mer to accept position in the east.
Faculty Members.
The names of the faculty members
and positions to be handled are as
follows: Irma Nelson, kindergarten;
Louise Collett, first grade; Dorothy
Larson, second grade; Theresa Will
ma, third grade; Florence Hammer
berg, fourth grade; Irene Klinger,
fifth grade; Isabel Fritz, sixth grade.
The junior high school instructors
will be Margaret Johnson, English;
George Saunders, general science;
Marjorie Flaa, mathematics; Kenneth
Sandbloe, social science. In the
senior high school, George I. Clem
will be principal, teaching science;
Josephine Neff, English; Betsy Frantz,
history and English; Myrtle Lee,
mathematics; Alvin Wick, social sci
ence.
The special departments will be
headed by Marcus Holling as music
instructor; A. Hoiberg, agriculture;
Lylah Sanders, librarian; Harold Leh-
to, commercial; Herman Erdmann,
industrial arts; and Margaret Fobes,
home economics. Victor Ziebarth is
of schools.
Askov American., 1941-08-28

their audience, the applause came
practically only after the music,
quartet singing, and a husband-call-
ing contest by women. How that
audience could have been electrified
by a Senator Wheeler or Phil La
Toilette
One wonders what the following
list of progressive leaders in Mime
sofa would have thought of that labor
picnic with its speakers going down
the line with war-like talks, such
men as Thomas Van Lear, VIM. Ma
honey, DR.. L. A. Fritsche, Charles A.
Lindbergh, Sr., Henrik Shipstead,
Knud Wefald, O. j. Kvale, Julius
Reiter, Martin Odland, S. A. Stock
well, A. O. Devoid, Magnus Johnson,
Ernest Lundeen, James A. Manahan,
Thomas j. Meighan, Henry G. Teigan,
o. M. Thomason, A. c. Welch, and
Floyd B. Olson.
Askov American., 1941-08-28
Labor Leaders on
War Path

The Labor Day picnic at Powder
horn Park in Minneapolis, last Sun
day afternoon, drew a small crowd
as compared to former years. The
speakers denounced Hitler and Naz-
ism, with which every true American
is fully agreed, but not single one
of the half dozen or more speakers
said anything against American en-
try into the foreign ENHANCEMENT.
One of the speakers said some
thing about the inconsistency of the
isolationists in being for defense.
Isolationists from war, of course,
realize that we are living in war
torn world-in a period of great
unrest, and therefore we must have
strong defense against any possible
invasion of our country. But because
we have strong defense is no reason
that we should 60 to war or be MAX
ing overtures toward war. Let Ameri-
ca, like the Scandinavian countries,
stand as an example against war.
For years and years leading liberals
and fundamental thinkers have said
that it is the laboring man, the farm
er, and the common man who suffer
most as the result of war, and yet
at this Labor Day picnic in Mime
apolis on the oath day of August,
1941, not one speaker denounced war.
Missing were leading progressives in
Minnesota, who have been and are
against war, some living and some
dead, men who realized that the
average man pays the bill and spills
the blood when nations 60 to the
battlefield.
1t was very noticeable that the
speakers did not at any time stir
Askov American., 1941-08-28
HITLER AND WORLD TRADE
Duluth NeWS-Tribune)

We are told that should Hitler
conquer and rule Europe, it would
mean that American trade with that
continent would be just about fin
ished. That has been preached either
as a hysterical conclusion or as prop
aganda to stir up the war spirit
here. Which, is still a question.
But look at the facts: When this
war is over what resources for peace
adjustments will Europe have? And
where can Hitler get suStenance, for
the people he has conquered, to say
nothing of needed materials for re-
building a shattered land? And sus-
tenance he must get or have un-
ceasing revolt on his hands from
every quarter of the continent which
he has beaten.
The natural and only place where
Hitler can look for supplies is where
they are to be obtained, and where
can they be obtained but in America?
Unless Hitler succeeds in conquer
ing and subjugating Russia, which at
this time seems most unlikely for a
long, long time at least, America
seems to be the answer. In fact it
may be that the after-the-war dread
that is ever present in almost every
American mind, will be dissipated by
the dreadful necessities of Europe
to rehabilitate herself, no matter how
the war ends.
European soil is not of sufficient
quality to produce the needs of her
people at any time, and following
such war condition as exists, Europe
will be in worse condition than in
normal times, which are bad enough.
Hitler will probably really begin
to know what trouble is if and when
he wins the war, when he has whole
continent to feed.
Askov American., 1941-08-28
OLD IDEAS MADE NEW
Editor Askov American: :

Editor ASkOv American:
If you can think, or even think
you can think, you can be happy
provided you confine yourself to
thinking you're thinking. Thinking,
sometimes, is valuable. Talking, most
times, a waste of words.
You load up your blunderbus with
"ideas" and blaze away. The fellow
you blaze at lodges and blazes back
at you with his ideas. You send
blitz roaring through the ozone
and it meets a counter-blitz half way.
That patter you hear about people
wanting to learn is the east wind
blowing. The notion that people
want new ideas hatched in your own
last years birds nest. ''New" ideas
have to be a hundred years old be-
fore folks will look at them with
one eye.
People dearly love old ideas, ideas
with whiskers. Trying to get new
ideas into the average head is like
trying to cram a puff of smoke into
the hollow of horse-hair.
So, if you think you're thinker
make up your mind to take it out
in thinking. Save your breath. What
if your ''ideas" do lie dormant until
after the gravestone has toppled in
on your bones? Why should you be
favored above all others?
If a fellow wants to pour his
vaporings like cataract on your
poor head, let him pour. Why should
you try to pour back into a cast
iron cannon-ball? He'll say you're
trying to convert" him-to propa-
gandize him. Besides he's not listen
ing to you even while you're talk
ing. He's thinking up an answer. He
wants only one side-his side.
Today our LEADERS" are doing a
war r-dance over an idea that was
in long pants when Columbus bumped
into us and thought we were the
East Indies. The idea originated
back in the sixteenth century. It
was discovered by the pawnbrokGs.
1t was the idea of taking your thous-
anu OOlldIS dIlo lOdIilIIS OOt tCli lIiOuS-
and-with the original thousand still
in the strong box. 1t was that idea
that changed the pawnbroker into
banker just as a caterpillar is
changed into a golden-winged but
terfly.
Our LEADERS" are bombarding the
ether-waves with fearful appeals to
put our money, the first we've earned
in 10 years, back into vaults. They
want to use it to buy something to
kill with instead of letting you buy
something to eat with it. They
promise to pay it back when ''hard
times" come again, which means that
"all times" will be hard for you
and "easy' for those who sell bombs.
But don't mention such things. If
you do you'll be called pro-this or
pro-that. You're supposed to stay
shut up like a clam. Job had the
right idea. He said, 'I'l lay my
hand over my mouth"
Well, don't be discouraged. You
can still think-if you can think.
o. M. THOMSON.
Willernie, MINI.
Askov American., 1941-08-28

American representatives, individu-
ais close to the national administra-
ton, urged the Balkan States to stand
up and fight against Hitler. Such
men as Ambassador Bullitt and wild
Bill Donovan said that the United
States would give aid, furnish guns
and ammunition, machines and so
on, and that if the Balkan States did
not fight Hitler they would be con-
sidered enemies by the Americans
who were soon coming over. There
were also promises from Great Brit
ain, but the net result was that the
Balkan boys got their heads cut off.
Askov American., 1941-08-28
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page u

It is said that the Germans have
resorted to the use of obsolete bomb
er and fighter planes, and if that is
true-which cannot now be deter
mined-it would mean that they are
running short of weapons of attack.
It is also said-but without con-
firmation from any reliable source
that Hitler is asking for volunteers
for his armies. Should that turn out
to be correct, it would indicate that
the loss of human lives is far great
er on the German side of the front
than Hitler has been willing to admit.
And, finally-Russia which was to
have been completely conquered
according to German plans-by Aug
ust IL, and then by September l, is
still fighting so robustly that the
German military headquarters ac-
tually are making plans for digging
in for the winter.
Whether Russia really has the i'm
mense manpower reserves of whom
the world has been told, and whether
Great Britain and the United States
are in position to aid the Soviets to
any appreciab1e extent-these are
questions which, while they cannot
now be answered, will determine the
outcome of the bloodiest phase of the
Second World War.
Churchill Speech.
The plight of Russia was uppermost
in the mind of Winston Churchill,
British prime minister, when last
Sunday he broadcast a radio speech
to all the world.
Among the prominent features of
the address was Mr.. Churchill's in
sistence that Japan must not threaten
British, Dutch or American interests
in the Far East
He made it plain that if the
United States Asiatic claims were
in jeopardy he must have
thought, chiefly, of the Philip
pine Islands-then Great Britain
most aSSuredly would rush to the
support of America.
Also, he promised all the countries
now suppressed by Hitler that their
day of freedom and independence
would dawn some time, and that they
could feel pretty convinced about it.
Partial Disarmament.
Having expressed his great pleasure
at comforting with President Roose-
welt on the Atlantic ocean a short
time ago, Mr.. Churchill announced
that when the war ends, there will
be disarmament But disarmament
only for what he called ''the guilty
nations. All others are to retain
arms sufficient "for their security.
Should a plan like this be carried
through, it will make future peace
prospects look still gloomier than did
the Versailles peace treaty twenty
two years ago. For world where
some nations monopolize ornaments,
and where others are deprived of
them, can never expect enduring
peace.
Askov American., 1941-08-28

(drop)-Rosa1ine Johnson, Pine City;
Leonora Hede, Askov; Adrianne VIE
demann, Pine City; (rolled)-Betty
Jean Pangerl, Pine City; Shirley Mar
tin, Pine City; Doris Johnson, Rush
City. Bread (First Year)-Patricia
Storm, Sturgeon Lake; Genevieve
Kryzer, Hinckley; Irene Karas, Pine
City; (Third Year)-Betty Robinson,
Pine City; Shirley Martin, Pine City.
Clothing.
Clothing 1-Lorraine Kryzer,
Hinckley; Gertrude Kryzer, Hinck-
ley; Constance Fosvick, Hinckley.
Clothing II-Marie Finger, Hinckley;
No1a Mae Lindstrom, Rush City; Mil
dred Bible, Pine City. Clothing III
Ecklund, Brook Park; Je-
nette Swanson, Sandstone; Vienna
Heinamann, Rush City. Clothing Nv
Lorraine Peters, Pine City. Thrift
Robinson, Pine City; Doris
Sahlen, Sandstone.
Home Beautifcation-P Resch,
Pine City; Esther Peterson, Pine City;
Betty Robinson, Pine City.
Canning-Gertrude Kryzer, Hinck-
ley; Jean House, Rush City; Irene
Bombard, Pine City; Peggy Billman,
Bruno; Lucie Thomas, Sturgeon Lake.
Emergency Dinner Irene Karas,
Pine City.
Fourth Booths Pines,
Pine City; Duquette All, Kerrick;
and Veribest, Hinckley.
Askov American., 1941-08-28

Lloyd George, the English leader
in the World war, Prime Minister at
the time, said in 1889, that the present
war with Germany is due to the fail
ure of England and France to live
up to the peace terms of the last
war. In other words, England and
France did not reduce their arma-
ments in accordance with their agree
ment.
Askov American., 1941-08-28

There is room for more unselfsh-
ness, a spirit of cooperation, give and
take. Individuals possess it and ma
tions must also.