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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
Toledo Sfages
Surprise Vote
In Elections
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was in doubt until long after half
the precincts were counted.
Votes cast for other candidates
for municipal court judge were:
John J. Mccarthy, 13,401; Steven
L. Markowski, 10,194; Jane
Meyers Sutter, s,1s3; Dave Topper,
6,O74; Clifford E. Wysocki, 4,902
and Harold F. Miller, 4,894.
MURRAY STAGES UPSET
An upset occurred in the Board
of Education race when Grant Muir
ray, former member of the board
piled up 24,931 votes to lead the
field of four candidates. Ford R.
Weber closely followed with 23,570.
Opal J. Mundy, only candidate for
reelection placed third with 21,338
while George W. Lumm was fourth
with 20,565.
A breakdown of the wards vote
for councilmen was as follows
First ward 2,177; Second ward
1887; Third ward, 2,803; Fourth
ward, 3,945; Fifth ward, 1856;
Sixth ward, 2,2S4; Seventh ward
2,O01; Eight ward, 2,608; Ninth
ward, 3,242; Tenth ward, 1916;
18th ward, 5,202; 18th ward, 4,471;
18th ward, 1907; 14th ward, 1929;
18th ward, 1858; 10th ward, 4,161;
18th ward, 2,411; 18th ward, 2,943;
10Th ward, 3,155; goth ward, 2,871;
21st ward, 1925.
COUNT STARTS WEDNESDAY
Actual counting of the council
vote did not get underway until
Wednesday evening. Ballots which
we're locked I up were scruti-
nized and invalidated. This re-
quired considerably longer than last
year due to the surprising increase
in the vote.
At the time the JOURNAL went
to press, no candidate had been
yet elected and the vote count had
not progressed sufficiently to tell
who was leading in the first count
The count is made by lottery
with a drawing from a glass bowl
of the precincts in the order In
which they will be counted.
LEADERS ARE PLEASED
Richard Gosser, regional director
of the UAW-CIO who was chair
man of the Burke campaign, ex-
pressed his pleasure with the large
turnout at the polls. He said, "This
was the year when we were told
there were no issues, the year when
people were Indifferent because of
the war; but it looks like the
people had other ideas than those
which were attributed to them.
believe the large vote shows that
labor is interested and believe that
it was the worker vote which
brought about the second large st
election in the history of the P. K.
system in Toledo"
Franz Berlocher, vice-chairman
of Labor's Joint Committee for
Political Action was equally pleas
ed. 1--WE don't know how the vote
is coming out" said Mr.. Berlocher,
"But we do know that the workers
voted this year and hope that it
will mean what we now think it
does"
Organizational work in the Joint
Labor Committee will be resumed
Immediately with a ward and pre-
cinct setup perfected to begin
working on the next campaign
which will culminate in the spring
election of 1914.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
STRESSES POSTWAR
PLANNING

Labor's growing apprehension
over the possibility of unplanned
rehabilitation of our armed forces,
and ensuing mass unemployment,
was indicated by Murray's particu-
lar stress on postwar planning.
"Our huge new plants and extended
farms must be continued in use
after the war;" he said. "The gov
ernment should be prepared to OPP
crate plants itself, where business
will not do so under proper condi-
tions. No government or economic
system that permits it (mass unem-
ployment) can long survive"
To help tide over employees
thrown out of jobs by the ending
of war contracts, he recommended
that the government allow as part
of the contract cost four weeks pay
per employe, where agreed upon by
collective bargaining.
Political action by labor is la
boris only guarantee that the gains
it wins through economic action can
be protected and extended, Murray
declared. He pointed to the "deplor-
able record" of the 6Sth congress,
which "has brought home sharply
to labor the dire results of its po-
litical apathy in 1912"
The new tax bill, he said, should
be written to draw off excess prof
its and preserve for workers the
standards necessary to insure maxi
mum production. Manpower prob
lens would be solved, he continued,
if critical jobs were made more at
tractive to workers. They cannot be
solved by legislation imposing the
shackles of slavery, he said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
House Committe Votes
Down Sales Tax

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30-(FP)-T house ways and
committee Oct % voted against retail sales tax
virtually winding up its action general tax bill The
committee bill will raise only about So billion of the S10b
billion requested by the Treasury DEPARTMENT
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
Labor Needs Permanent
Political Arm

BUFFALO, Oct. 80 (FP)-Fourteen million organized
workers must be welded into permanent labor political
ton group, Pres. Sidney Hlman of Amagamaed Clothing
Workers. chairman of the CIO political action committee
told the New York State CIO convention here.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05

UNIONS UNITE FOR MAYOR
SAN FRANCISCO (FP)-AFL,
CIO and railroad unions united IN
a huge political fight to elect
George R. Reilly mayor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
Murray Gives
Report TO
Convention
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intensified activities on the part of
the. enemy within as victory ap-
proaches. "On the domestic front, :"
he asserted, 1--WE see this danger in
the work of certain powerful inter-
ests at home which seek to disunite
the people by sowing seeds of dis
trust between groups setting one
race against another by provocative
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Casualties
 In Sicily Low

WashlnBt ton, Aug. 5-(UP)-Amer- ican casualties In Sicily up to July 22 numbered 50l killed, 3,870 wound cd and 2.370 missing. Secretary oi War Henry l.. Stimson announced today.
 He said Italian and German prls- onerS taken by the Allies now num- Der about 100. GOO The number oi enemy killed and wounded also was believed to be substantial,
 Stimson said American losses were moderate considering the ma turc of the fighting and the terrain
 British casualties were not great deal higher than the American. he added
 While details of casualties since July 22 are not available. they were believed to be light,
 Htimson Hald losses oi American H-2i iilbcrator bomhorH h. the raid on the ploeati oil nclds ln lNumanln amounted to 20 per cent but . devastating blow wnS struck at the vital oil resources there, represent . Ing about one-lhird ol the ANis oil production
 I77 liherators in Raid
 A total oi l77 lihcralofa pnftlelr mated ln the raid Fifteen of 9u American planes were hhot down over the target and nb many more Tailed to frtun rom the mhaloh Fight were forced to land ln Turkey
 More than h0 enemy nRhlrfh were deslrnvod ln the rnld, on which lhe l.Ibcrnlors flew 3,iO0 miles from tho
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Ickes ToIks
 ToGos Group
By WILEY MALONEY

Chicago, Aug. 5-CUP) National Petroleum Administrator Harold l. Ickes appears before the congres- sional rationing committee today te explain an impending order equal izing gasoline stocks available tc civilians in the east and middle west
 The rationing unit for "A" cards in the east presently is one and one half gallons; for the middle west and the rest of the country 1t is four gallons. Pleasure driving is prohib- tied In the east but not elsewhere.
 Ickes invited the senatorial com mittee investigating petroleum prob- lems headed by Sen. Bennett C. Clark. D., Mo, and the members oi an Illinois legislative committee to attend the hearing before the con greSsional committee headed by Rep, Clarence Brown, R. o
 hTc senatorial committee heard at It's meeting in Kansas City yes terday thnt the equalization order would become effective Sept. l. Price Administrator PrcntlSs M Brown had announced that the ban on pleasure driving In the east would be lifted soon,
 Sen, Kenneth Wherry, R.. Ncb, n member ot the committee said. That's going to hurt west of the Mississippi where farmers are work Ing until midnight and not thinking at al labout pleasure driving to the beach for cool mir the least W. cnn do is to make protest ns n basis Tor fighting for an amendment of the order"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Berlin Moy Be Bombed

London, Aug Cup1 A hint thut Hcrlin may follow Ham burg on the lLst ot German cities scheduled for aerial knockout Was contained today in the abatement of a Royal Ar Force commentators who asserted that the Reich capital wns regarded nA the most important bombing target
 Berlin Is important from th. standpoint oi damage to ka2i morale md to German war indlH try, the spokesman declared.
 lt wnS noted that only an hour oI two moro oi darkness Is needed for the most favorable conditions for night bombing of Berlin and day light K shrinking at the rate oi four minutes each day,
 Berlin has had a temporary rch- pitc from heavy mir attacks, main ly because of the shorter summer nights. The lnst raid on the capita was by British Moaquitos on Ma, 2i. That was the 67th attack or Berlin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Liquidation Of
 Sicilian Fight
 Matter of Time
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, North Africa Aug 5.- (UP)-Allied armies captured the Axis base of Catana and the Mount Etna road junction of Paterno today, crumblng the southern anchors of the enemy defense line and threatening to trap crack German forces under a terrific air, naval and artillery bonn bardment in northeastern Sicily.
 With the liquidation of the Sicilian campaign described as "only matter of time after the Brit ish 9th Army entered Catania, the Americans and Canadians pounded forward through stifened re- sistance and heavy mine fields the central and north coast fronts in their drive to push the Axis back toward heavily bombed Messina, last port of exit from the island.
 The Catania followed quickly by the seizure of Paterno which important road junction about 12 miles to the northwest in web formed by mountainous roads and railroad looping around the west side of Mount Etna The Allied gain cut of the main roads by which the and Italians could escape from the Catana trap put British forces astrde the only railroad the western slopes of Mount Etna Allied warships and hammered the other escape road the east side of the peak
 MisterbiancO Doomed
 The fall of Paterno and Catana appeared to doom the town of Msterbianco, midway between the two bigger towns and the main road out of Catania Mster banco means MT. White.)
 The Americans pushing from Trona toward Randazzo and the Canadians hammering toward Adrano, which guards the only road by which the enemy circle west of Mount Etna, reported fighting in the most difficult terrain The enemy had laid heavy mine fields in their Iaths and moved up mobile guns, well elements of the 18th PanZer division.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Nozi kruq
 Reco blurred

North Bay, Ont. Aug. 5.--(UP)- Lieut.. Hans Peter Krug of the Ger man air force. whose previous es- cape from n Canadian interment camp nearly cost the life of Max stephan. Detroit restaurant proprj- ctor who aided him. was recapturec here today after second escape.
 Krug. wearing a red checked skirt and khaki pants. was taken into custody at the Canadian Pacific railway station by a member Of the Provost corps of the Canadian army. He was wearing only bathing trunks when he disappeared from the camp at Gravenhurt. Ont. last Friday. after swim,
 The provost corpsmnn, Sergt. George Devine. became suspicious when n man he saw on the station platform shlcd away. He ordered the suspect to halt. but it was not until he gave the order n second time that the man gave himself uc and revealed he was Krlg,
 In his week of freedom Krug had grown R muStache. He evideusT
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
WIPE 9-Point 'Yordstick'
By ARTHUR F. DEGREVE United Press Stan CorrespOndent) ]

Washington. Aug. 5.-UP) The lively rejected a wartime bedrock civilian economy because of the present favorable military situation. but warned that for the next 18 months our civilian goods will be restricted to essential needs and services.
 WIPE Vice Chairman Arthur D.. Whiteside, head Of the Ofilce Of Civilian Requirements. announced n nine-polnt policy which will serve as a "yardstick in preserving a sound and vigorous civilian economy without denying military demands
 We do not advocate forcing the civilian population down to bare sub sistence levels in the present mill tary situation" the report said.
 Whiteside said that no unnecessary sacrifices would be asked of civil ians. From time to time bans on production of certain essential arti- clcs will be lifted. he continued but emphasized that there were no plans to reopen substantial manufacture of civilian Items generally.
 The New Policy:
 l. All minimum essential civil ian requirements will be met. all ma tiOnnl resources not needed for mill tary and foreign policy needs will be utilized in the civilian economy, 2. Supplies for civilians will he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Hamburg No LongerAC City

stockholm, Aug, b, Url Ham burg no longer exists aa an organ iyed municipality. the Copenhagen correspondent io r the Stockholm Tidningen reported today
 Everyone in the Homb- devastated German port cnta from public neld kitchens and sleeps wherever v place enn be found to lie down, and money haS reaAed ia function, the correspondent reported,
 The dispatch quoted a Dnnkh paAlor md R physician who have lpl arrived at the Danihh border na saying
 "A path has been made through old trnfi,o arteries where tho bllhhfh now travel, one Jumps on 0r oif he hn plrassA and nobody pays 0r Mkh payment
 Money h not iunellonlnR m Hamburg Iltt ah itA normal llIr h not ilncilOnlnR One hleeph where ono enn md a plnrn t0 lle down moally some huge concrete theltrih which surprisingly vithhtood the bomhS
 Everyone eah in public field kii rhens scattered throughout the city and no ono needs pay there, either
 "if one wants io travel on n train he does Ko without tickets, One sees nremcn from nli Germany, incl,id. Ing Vienna and Tyroi.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
ALLIES TAKE CAT TAN|A, PATERN0 0reI Falls; Reds Chase 250,000 Nazis; Munda AirfieId Captured; Foe In R0ut
ALLIES PLAN NEW ATTACK
 ON ROME
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Allied Headquarters, North Africa, August 5. - (UP) - The Allies are planning to renew their air attack on Rome as soon as possible, it was revealed today with the disclosure that only unfav- orable weather conditions had prevented bombing of the Italian capital last night. A raid on Roman military targets had been carefully planned, but the Allied strategic air | and other communications centers forces shifted the attacks to Naples In southern Italy because of poor visibility, 1t was learned.
 This change in plans emphasized the Allies determination to hit nothing but war objectivcs at Rome. Axis propagandists tried to give the impression that the Allies had at tackled churches and historically i'm portant centers in their first and only raid on the capital to date on July 19.
 American Flying Fortresses, un- escorted by fighters, gave Naples a terrific pounding yesterday for the fourth consecutive day. concentrat- ing on railroads, and the Axis sub marine base. The four -engined forts ran into heavy Flax and about 90 enemy interceptor planes, three of which were shot down.
 The Naples docks were blanketed with bomb hits and one cargo ship was left in flames.
 British Wellingtons bombed the railroad yards and train sheds at Battipaglla. 42 miles south of Ma ples, and at Messina on the north eastern tip of Sicily.
 Railway Junction Hit
 The railway junction at Catan- zero, farther south on the Italian mainland, was attacked by Amer ican marauders, escorted by P-38 Lightnings which shot down eight German and Italian planes.
 Bomb hits among oil tanks in the Cetanzaro area caused one large fire. A stick of bombs shattered bridge and railway tracks The RAF had bombed the target the night before.
 Marina Di Catanzaro, about seven miles south of Catanzaro was given n heavy pounding from the air. It has been supplying Axis armies in Sicily. Great blue flashes shot up from power station hit by a A. GOO pound block buster.
 Wellingtons attacked the Mar
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
SEEK TO TRAP REMNANTS OF
 DEFENDERS
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff COrrespondent)

Moscow, August 5. - (UP) - Red arr '.ies re-captured Orel, one of the strongest Axis bastions on the whole 1,800- mile front, today and smashed on through crumb- ling German defenses in a race to trap the fleeing rem nants of the garrison of 250,000. Eight Soviet col umns were converging on frantically- y-retreating Ger mans attempting to escape over two narrow dirt roads through a stead ily-narrowing corridor to the south west.
 (Radio Berlin said the whole Orel salient as well as the city itself was being evacuated by German troops according to plan" after remov- ing "all military Installations, ma terial and suppltes.o
 The Soviet avalanche rolled up the German hedgehog defense sys- tenn at rate that posed q direct threat to Bryansk. biggest German base on the central front 75 miles west of Orel.
 The Russians quickly liquidated individual German pockets cut of by the speed of the main army's re- treat and then pushed on in pursuit of the enemy. German rear guards fought desperately to stem the Rus sians but apparently nowhere were they able to halt them completely
 Bloody Street Battles
 Orel fell after bloody street bat ties that boosted Nazi losses on the Orel front alone yesterday to some 6O0O killed 236 tanks destroyed and 138 planes shot down. Hundreds more tanks, mobile guns and other arms were abandoned by the Ger mans in their nasty flight.
 The Soviet troops routed he enemy with bayonets and hand gre nades in the final round of the bat tie and won the greatest victory so far in their summer offensive. The Germans had held Orel for 22 months and 1t was the easternmost point to resist the Russian winter
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
WLB o. Ks.
 Bonus Setup

Boston, Aug, Tentative appr0v' al of n revised incentive wage plan elleollnR nearly a100 employrA of Chase iNash X Copper ro, Water bury, Conn, wah announced today ny th. New England War Labor nonrd,
 ln order lo hllmulale maximum production, lhr Hoard also author lsed removal oi the present ceiling on enInlnps by elnployes under the bonllk hyAiem now ln operation A possible production Increase ol ai per cent ih rhtimnled by the com pnny ah h rchull oi lnElnllntlon of the new plan, Such nn Increase would materially falhe enrnlnRh Ol elnpl0yeh while decreasing the unit cosl of production, The Chase com pany hak had incentive plans in operation for tho past 70 ycarh
 In announcing approval ot the plan. submitted jointly by the com pnny ant the International Union of Mine. Mn X Shelter Workers c. l. O., the Joard directed the ap-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
RAF Attacks Still Go On
BY WALTER LOGAN (Untied Press Staff Correspondent

London, Aug. 5.--(UP) Swift British Mosquito bombers took over the Allied aerial offensive against Germany last night by pounding war factories and other objcctives in the Ruhr and Rhincland.
 While the twin-englned plyWood bombers stabbed Into the heart of western Germany's industrial area, naval planes sany three enemy tor pedo boats and seriously damaged a fourth off Clais in northwest France.
 The night attacks. from which all planes returned. followed an American daylight raid .'esterday in which medium bombers wrecked n French shipyard.
 The naval aircraft, operating un- der the Royal Air Force fighter command, bounced on two lines of four torpedo boats each and pressed home their attacks despite heavy anti-aircratt fire. One pilot alone blew up two boats with bombs. All planes returned.
 The RAFs four-enginer bombers were believed to have been idle for the second straight night. except possibly for routine minc-laying op- erations. Indictment weather was be- licved responsible for ull In attacks on Germany,
 American medium bombcrs were credited in m American com munique with scoring bombs hits on n power house. boiler shop, m cngine-erecting shed and a landing slip at l.e Trnit, on the Seine river few miles west of Roucn, late yeS- tcrdny,
 Tho Le Trait shipyard builds de- atr0ycra, torpedo boats, barReS md auxiliary equipment for the Ger nnnh,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Bovingdon Is DisqruntIed

Washington, Aug. 5.-UP) John Bovingdon. economist and former "calesthenic" dancer. who was dis missed yesterday from the Oifice Of Economic Warfare. charged today that the DEW was showing undue subservience to the Dies commit tee.
 Bovingdon was fired by DEW Di- rector Leo T. Crowley yesterday on the grounds that his continued serv- ices would not be for the best in- terests of the agency" The Dies committee had accused him of being a former ballet dancer with Com munist tendencies.
 q do hope that this does not mean that MT. Crowley K In n pos sition where he will change his pol icy and personnel aL every sugges- ton of the Dies committee" Bow ingdon said,
 He said he held no rancor against Crowley. and added. "I want the people at DEW to go on doing the work in which am no longer able to assist them"
 The tempest over BoyinRdon'a ap- pointment to n q, 800 positlon In the DEW the agency set up last month by the President h replace the Board of Economic Warfare follow Ing the Wallace Jones ieud began last week -end with publication of the Dies committee charges,
 Bovingdon lnaisted that hk dane Ing wns a form Of calisthenle ther' apy which he had developed Co re, gain health years ago and had taught in I.oa Angeles before he be- came a world traveller and proieh- sor of sociology and economich. ln iDa6. he gave a performance of thf "Monodrama Oi the Dance ht Town Hall in New York City,
 lie was hired by the DEW bccanbe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Drive On To Coffin Area
Bv HUGH BAILLIE

Limited fresS Sthu SoI'e'p~
 With Allied Armies, Sicily, Aug. 4 -Delayed) Steadily. slowly. stubbornly Americans. British ana Canadians, bayonetting and hand prenading ahead. are driving tnc enemy into the wars latest conn corner-Messina Peninsula.
 The Germans and Italians are re sisting with increasing tenacity since. as one American officer des- cribed It. they are now on their 2O-yard line and the going always gets tougher there.
 This week I visited the entire front. seeing the Americans, the British and the Canadians.
 The fighting consists Of battling for possession of narrow. twisting, pitted roads wrtihing through the steepest and most rugged noun tains in the northern sector. m or der to progress along the roads the troops must seize dominant posi- tions in the craggy mountains.
 Heat And Coldness
 In the northern mountains the British, Americans and Canadians alike are fighting boulder to boulder scaling seemingly inaccessible heights. carrying their own water sending back their own wounded aa best they can. In the daytime the heat is almost inauiferablc. The nights are cold enough to freeze the ears off R brass monkey.
 Every siciiian town in the noun tain region perches atop n rock pinnacle resembling 6rimms fairy tale castles or Maxfleld Parrish pnintings. They seem like impreg nnble fortresses. yet tho Allies are fighting their way Into one aiter another.
 Incidentally. the fairyland atmos- phere vanisheA once you are inside the towns, which are universally
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