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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04
Soldiers
Letters

Dear Dick:
I've wanted to write to you
for long time but you probably
have heard how it is in the army
you hardly have time to do
anything.
hope you are we'll and get
ting along all right. My wife
used to send me the UNION
JOURNAL every week but since
she came here to stay with me
about six weeks ago, / haven't
had any news about what is go
ing on in the local or at the Will
lys Unit or shop.
| received two packages from
the WHY'S Unit and l would ap-
preciate your telling whoever is
in charge of the committee that
thank all the people in the shop
very much.
BY the way Dick, want to
thank you for the nice Christ
mas greetings, | received from
you. Knowing you as well as l
do, | know you meant it from
the bottom of your heart.
know you are busy man so
| won't ask you to write to me
but if you do get chance to
drop me a line, I'll be tickled to
hear from you.
Your friend,
bl4 Bill Riman.
%ss Pvt. William Riman
~ A. S. N. 35293945
Co. A, 18th Bn.
Camp Wheeler, Ga.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04
Court Bor
Striking Workers

CHICAGO (FP)-An Illinois
Supreme Court decision barring
strikers from unemployment COM
pensation is being studied by the
labor committee of the Chicago
Lawyers Guild, headed by Ralph
Helstein, counsel for the United
Packinghouse Workers (CIO).
The state supreme court revers-
ed Cook county circuit court de-
cision which upheld 320 union
warehousemen striking for a wage
increase from the Walgreen Co.,
drug store operators.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04

if the union wasn't there to keep
things straight. We would be
forced to say Eyes" to whatever
might come up, and an answer like
maybe" or mo" would cost you
your job.
We are thankful that the unions
are here, that they prevent such
things from happening today; but
we must remember that the only
way we can keep our gains is hy
being eternally on our toes and
watchful of those whom we have
cause to distrust-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04
Cameo Cd
Opener
By Ted Modrowski
WHAT Do YOU THINK?


Let's you and I put on our
Imagination caps for a minute or
two and try and fit ourselves into
present day life without Union.
The first thing you would no
tice is the high cost of living,
which would be even higher than
it is today. Then your wages
sorry we can't let your imagina-
tion sink that far.
Next in line is the freedom of
your daily life. All! Do you, too,
see the image of Lincoln?
Our imagination keeps moving
and now comes to handling griev-
ances under the no-union system.
Sorry, my friends, but there are no
grievances when and where there
~~iS. mo union. Whatever happens is
IA lnded to be just as it is. There
w no corrections or redressing
S9 grievances. Let's hurry and take
off our imagination caps now, be-
cause I'm certain you find it as
painful as / to think back on the
days when there was no union.
PLEASANT SIDE
That was only the pleasant side.
Just think what industry would do
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04
Columbia U Ducks
Collective Bargaining

NEW YORK (FP)-A sly at
tempt by Columbia University, one
of the country's wealthiest schools,
to duck collective bargaining with
employees in its commercially used
building was scotched here when
Supreme Court Justice Felix Bene-
venga upheld a State Labor Re-
lations Board order that Columbia
bargain with it's workers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04

Hartley's editorial and those en-
ployees who have awakened to the
fact that there is more to be had
thru the UAW-CIO, than what
management would freely offer.
On the good news program: 1t
has been rumored that Bro. Duck
who has done such swell job
for US will replace Tom Burke
because of Toms pressing job as
city councilman. Thanks Tom for
the swell job you have done so far.
Eddie Duck will have to live up
to his former performances to keep
up with YOU. Lots of luck Eddie
and we are all for you.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04
They Are Not The
"Forgoten Men,

With the added glamour Of a
uniform, many Of the Hollywood
he-men now in the service are
receiving more fan mail than ever
before, Warner Brothers reports.
Captain Ronald Reagan has had
the biggest increase in mushy let
ters. Coastguardsman Gig Young,
who did such splendid job as
Bette Davis young lover in "Old
Acquaintance" has had the second
largest increase in female mail.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04

tertained the group with songs.
Acklin Unit in addition to its
fine showing in the bond drive,
also contributed generously to the
March of Dimes.
Our teams didn't 60 so hot in
the Local II bowling tournament,
but there's always next year and
our gang never says die.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04
,zEarmers Union Airs Truth
About Food Subsidies

CHICAGO, JAN 29-(FP)-"Sure subsidy on food for
hogs-but no subsidy on food for people,
That's what Mr. Initiation says to the dirt farmer he
takes him on the sratosphere the cartoons
that make vivid the text of the Truth About Subsidies lust
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04

HOLLYWOOD FP)-By the time this is printed Holly
woods latest films will be showing in Germany English
speaking audiences And German motion pictures will be
showing in this country to German speaking audiences
Don't worry, the still on. The audiences pris-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-04
News and Gossip q Stase md Screen
Films To Come
''Saoing FeUer"
Com pIed by BuFny ZatcOdny
Compiled by Burny ZatoOdny

Kay Kyser and his orchestra featured performers
Swing Fever to be at Loews Valentine latest
-Godwyn-Mayer Onganddance production in which
Maryn Maxwell rated of the promising screen
discoveries of 1943, has the feminine lead
Evening star., 1944-09-03
BY DON WHITEHEAD,
Associated Press War CORRESPONDENT.


SELOIGNES, Belgium, Sept. q
1t was far cry from the stark hor-
ror of the Nazi invasion four years
ago when the natives of this town,
cheering and weeping, today be-
decked American tanks, trucks and
Jeeps with garlands of flowers.
(Seloignes is in the Belgium Prov
ince of Hainaut.)
AS I write this I have before me
a copy Of the New York Sun of Nav
%, 1910, with the headline King
.of Belgians Surrenders Army" and
an Associated Press story datelined
Paris which said:
TIE Belgian Army surrendered
today on orders of King Leopold III.
leaving the armies of Great Britain
and France in an ominously weaker
position to resist the Nazi drive
toward the English Channel"
But this Is 1910 in reverse.
Nazi LegiOns Now Losing.
The Americans are rolling north
ward and this time it is the Nazi
legions which are in an "ominously
weaker position"
The swift push Of the American
columns has completely disorgan-
lied the enemy.
In the past eight days 1t. Gen.
Omar N. Bradley's forces have rolled
forward 120 air-lins miles and
prisoners are being taken at the
rate of 1000 to 5000 per day.
The Germans withdrew last night
and this morning from the Belgian
border and our troops met only
scattered resistance in the push
north. Happy throngs greeted them
at every crossroads.
I crossed the border with Harry
Harris and Pete Carroll. Associated
Press photographers, at noon and
our jeep looked like rolling flower
garden after the first few miles.
Greatest Welcome Yet"
At crossroads hamlet the dough-
boys we're congregated on a side
road with the natives crowded about
them laughing and cheering and
giving the boys flowers, eggs, cognac
and wine.
This is the greatest welcome I
have received since 1 came across"
laughed Corpl. Robert Rinehart,
Bradford, Pa, with a garland Of
flowers dangling from his helmet.
There is not much doubt these
people are glad to see U.S." said
Sergt. John Marston, Boston, Mass.
The last of the Germans had
pulled out just two hours before
these Yanks came up the road.
Then the Belgians broke out their
hidden flags of black. gold and red
along with homemade American
emblems and flags of France and
Britain.
The first column in our sector
entered Belgium under the COM
mand of 1t. Col. Charles T. Fort,
Winston Salem, N. c., and was
directed by Maj. Gail Brown, Sheri-
dan, Wyo.
Driving toward the border we
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Flights Topping Hughes Record
Officially RECOGNIZED Here

Two cross-country flights by Army
pilots in North American Psi Mus
tangs were recognized officially last
night as national records by the
National Aeronautic Association
contest board here. The board is
the governing body of sporting avia-
ton in the United States. Both
flights were made May H..
Col c. A. Peterson of the Army
Air Forces set West-to-East trans
continental record of six hours, 81
minutes and 80 seconds. His aver
age speed was 378La miles per hour.
1t. Col. Jack Carter, also flying
a Mustang, covered the same route
nonstop In six hours, 80 minutes
and 80 seconds. His average speed
was 370 miles per hour.
Both records were recognized at
the boards first meeting since Octo-
Der. 194l.
Both planes took Of from Los
Angeles Municipal Airport within
several minutes Of each other. Col.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Jap Islands Suffer
Fresh Allied Blows
Across Wide Area
BY the Associated Press.

bS lfle hSSOClateO ffSss.
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TERS, PEARL HARBOR, Sept. a
Aerial blows against japanese is
land strongholds over a wide Pacific
front we're reported in an American
Fleet Headquarters press release
today.
There was no confirmation, how
ever. of radio Tokyo reports that
units of the powerful United States
Pacific fleet and waves Of carrier
planes blasted Chichi Jima, in the
Bonins, 615 miles southeast of the
japanese capital.
The Navy announcement revealed
dramatic attack by single search
plane on a japanese convoy near
Two Jima. in the Kazan Islands,
last Thursday. The Yank airmen
went into action as soon as the
convoy was spotted. A cargo vessel
was sunk and another was strafed.
Three sampans escaped. The plane
was from Fleet Air Wing Two.
The press release said another
Navy plane sank a sampan near
Jaluit. bypassed Japanese position
in the Marshalls.
Rocket firing planes hit Pagan
Island. in the Marianas, Wednesday
and Thursday, inflicting heavy dam
age On japanese gun emplacements
and other defense installations. The
planes also used bombs and strafed
their targets. Ackack fire was
meager
A lone Army Liberator bomber
continued the harassment raids on
zap, western Carolines. on the same
days Marine dive bombers and
fighters and Army Liberators
blasted Mill atoll, In the Marshalls.
scoring hits on gun positions and
buildings.
Nauru, the much attacked phos-
phate island south of the Marshalls,
was plastered by single Navy
search plane Wednesday. There
was no Japanese antiaircraft fiye as
the lone raider attacked.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Speakers Will Explain Ethics
Of Dealing With Wounded

A SerVlceman undergoing plastic
surgery walked into a leading Wash
ington jewelry store one day to buy
a trinket. The salesgirl took one
look at him, screamed and fed to
the rear OF the store
1t was a long time before store Of
ficials could persuade the service
man to leave the store. He sud-
denly had become afraid to face the
public.
That story was told last night by
Mrs. Marion Fletcher of the Amer
ican Theater Wings Speakers Bu-
reau as one illustration of the need
to train speakers who can inform
the public of how to deal with
wounded veterans.
The six-week training course for
speakers on "The Approach to the
Wounded will begin September u
at the Willard Hotel. with one ses-
sion each week. Brig. Gen. Frank
T. Hines, veterans administrator,
and Col. Howard A. Rusk, chief of
the convalescentY training division,
office of the air surgeon, Army Air
Forces, will be among the lecturers.
Army Backs Plan.
The War Department. Mrs.
Fletcher said, believes the course is
necessary. Some department stores
have asked the Speakers Bureau to
provide men and women who can
talk to sales clerks on the correct
attitude to take with the disabled
Club and business groups, she said,
also have asked for information.
Organized to give morale talks to
civic and other groups, the Speakers
Bureau has provided speakers for
War Bond rallies and talks on mill
tary security. Talks on the approach
to the wounded were begun in the
spring and will be continued after
the speakers have been trained,
said Mrs. Fletcher, who is directing
the training course.
Junior hostesses for servicemen's
clubs here have to take the course,
Mrs. Fletcher added. In many
cases the first civilians the returning
soldiers and sailors meet, the junior
hostesses are told their role Is to
Evening star., 1944-09-03
BY EDWARD d. BALL,
ISSociat ted Presk War CnrreApnn dent

hoooSinteo EieSs WI correspondent
VERDUN, France, Sept. 2. de
layed-An old sergeant who was q
French courier in the last war told
me today that Marshal Henri
Philippe Petain would be denied
burial here among the 800 900 who
died under his command
The sergeant said the action was
taken by the Ancient Combatants, u
a veterans organization, over a year
ago. and that the organization de-
cided the magnificent crypt built
here for the famed defender Of
Verdun would remain empty for
ever.
The decision was irrevocable, >
the sergeant said. His conduct with
Hitler settled that"
Tens of thousands of the fallen
heroes of Verdun lie buried in the
cemeteries on the slopes about Fort
Douaumont, while others lie in the
shell craters of the tortured earth
or in the Hall of Dead" Memorial
which stands amid the shattered
battlements of the fort.
At one side of the memorial pro-
Evening star., 1944-09-03
'One-Mon Army
To See First Grid
Game tomorrow

Pfc. Alien w. Knappenberger, the
"one-man army of Anzio," who held
of two German companies and
moved down so Nazis, is going to
see his first football game when
the Washington Redskins play the
Green Bay Packers tomorrow night
in Baltimore's Municipal Stadium
George Preston Marshall, Red
skins owner, has invited Pvt
Knappenberger. 20-year-old Con-
gressional Medal of Honor winner
from Spring Mount, Pa. and Thomas
J. Kehoe, assistant national service
director OF the Disabled American
Veterans, to be his guests on the
50-yard line at the game.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
! Civilians Awarded
S495 for Suggestions
AT Bureau Of Ships

Seven employees Of the Navy's
Bureau of Ships were given cash
awards totaling $495 for suggestions
involving Improvements in technical
equipment. ONCE routine and office
equipment at ceremonies yesterday
in the bureau.
The Navy estimated the susses-
tions would save STA 900, increase
production and eliminate many
hours of work. Rear Admiral
E. w. Mills, acting chief of the
bureau. presented the awards.
, The recipients, all residents OF the
Metropolitan Area, were:
Henry L. Stuhmann, 2o48 Upton
street NV, who received sl5O for
suggestion resulting in a reduction
of the number of symbols and num-
bers which must be indented on gas
cylinders for identification purposes
Clifford c. Carson. 6753 Potomac
street NV, and Robert T. Moore
1924 Carpenter street Sc, received
$l00 each for joint suggestion for
reducing the time required to select
Navy standard ventilation heating
coils from three or four hours to q
few minutes.
| Marshall L. Wilmer, 1910 Twenty.
fifth street NV, received 500 fol
initiating the Radio Installation
Bulletin" a publication designed tt
provide worldwide distribution ol
important directives. instructions
information, data, type plans and
similar information concerning ra-
dio. radar and sound equipment and
installations.
S. ]. Levine. 1880 Chaplin street
NV, was awarded $25 for design
ing racks to make ships curves and
other equipment more readily avail
able to engineers using them.
Sidney P. johnson, 1901 Argonne
place NV. was awarded $40 for a
suggestion resulting in a substantial
saving In the reproduction of blue
prints and photostaS.
William E. Carroll, Rockville, Nd,
was awarded $40 for suggesting an
improvement in the method of COM
plllng progress reports.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Flyer Who Killed Woman
In Boat Gets 18 Months
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SELRIDGE FIELD, Mich, Sept
IA court martial today convicted
1t. Kenneth w. Wassing OF Min
neapolis Of negligence and reckless
flying in connection with the death
of Mrs. Mary Meyer. u, of Madeira
Ohio, on August 2. and sentenced
him to l8 months imprisonment and
dismissal from the Army.
Mrs. Meyer was struck and killed
by one of three planes flying low
over a boat from which she was
fishing on Lake Margarethe near
Grayling.
The prosecution charged that the
plane which hit the woman was one
of three in a formation led by 1t
Wassing. The other planes were
piloted by two Free French trainees
Sergt. Antoine Fabby and Sergt
Andre Erard, from the Osconda
Mich, Army Air Base.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Ford Suspends 30 Workers
Accused Of Incitinq Strike

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT. Sept 2.-The Ford
Motor Co. announced today sus-
pension of 80 employees at its High
land Park plant. charging the
workers with "inciting and leading
a strike"
The work stoppage last week
closed the factory for three days,
made some $500 employees idle and
threatened to halt all Ford air.
craft production in the area.
A Ford spokesman asserted that
at meeting yesterday of interna-
tional officers Of the CIO United
Automobile Workers and company
officials, the union was asked to
take care of Its own situation
in the Highland Park local, but
:. declined to take action
Neither international officers of
the union nor Local 400 ofYicials
were available for comment.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Cheering BeIgions Hail Yonks
Tearing Off Yoke of Nozis

passed long columns of tanks and
trucks rolling through the rich
green countryside with no sound Of
battle ahead A chill wind swept
the fields as reminder that winter
was not far distant.
The road wound through dark we,
groups OF trees in the forest OF
Michele and it was like taking Q
pleasure drive at home In that quiet
untouched woodland. The bird.
sang in the thick foliage.
At one town a celebration wa!
under way. All the villagers turnec
out to give the doughboys a vel.
come, and the troops were showine
the natives their vehicles, guns ane
equipment.
An aged Belgian ran out OF 6
graystone house and grabbed a pho
tographer by one arm while wavin,
bottle of cognac with the other
His wife leaned from a window wav.
ing Belgian and American flags ant
yelling At the same time she wa!
screaming at barking dog.
The photographer was trying t.
take pictures. but it was no use
While he was in the clutches of the
old man, another photographer hae
to shoot all the pictures. Then the
housewife ran from the house, gath.
cred a huge bouquet of flowers anc
presented them while her husband
poured drinks of very old brandy.
Few Scars of War.
None of the villages bore many
scars OF war. The Germans were
too hurried to do any damage ex-
cept IN few places.
In two French villages Just below
the Belgium border, however, re-
treating SIS ELITE Guard troops
machinegunned some civilians and
set fire to houses in a rage over
their retreat.
The French people put out their
flags in celebration of the arrival of
the Americans too soon," one officer
said. When the last column of
Germans came through town they
were furious. They burned manv
houses and machinegunned some OF
the townspeople, leaving their bodies
lying in the street"
Late today the American advance
was still progressing and was now
being carried into country through
which the Germans crossed in 1910
to make their famous breakthroueh
at Sedan.
1t was announced oficially that
since D-day the lst Army had taken
l17,908 prisoners.
American armor now threatens
the German forces massed in the
Pas de Calais region, about 100
miles to the northwest, with another
pocket" such as Allied forces engi.
neered in the Falais-Argentan area
The Germans are pulling their
FORCES back toward Belgium and
the low countries, with the British
pressing in on them from the west
One American Corps Headouar-
ters jumped ahead 80 miles vester.
DAY IN move to keep pace with the
swift advance of the division
Evening star., 1944-09-03
John Chester, Al Writer
Injured in Jeep Accident

John F. Chester, former Washing
ton newspaperman now serving a.
an Associated Press war correspond.
ent in France. suffered two broken
ribs and a broken ankle in a recent
jeep accident, according to the As
sociated Press.
Mr.. Chester, who was born In Falls
Church. Va, and was graduated
from Central High School, served
seven years in the AP bureau here.
During the last two years of the
Hoover administration he covered
the White House. He left here in
1896 to become chief of the Ap
Bureau at Boston.
He went abroad for the AP in
l943 on assignments to London.
Cairo and Italy before going te
France.
Evening star., 1944-09-03

Carter lost several minutes circling
the takeoft field because of difficulty
in retracting his landing gear.
The previous record was estab-
hshed January 10, 1887, by Howard
r. Hughes, motion picture pro-
ducer and aviation enthusiast, in q
specially built monoplane. He
crossed the continent in seven
hours, % minutes and Is seconds,
an average speed of 327 miles an
hour.
The Mustangs were flown on the
great circle" route, distance of
2,464 miles.
Evening star., 1944-09-03

japanese freighters in the Molucca
Sea Friday.
tAneta, Dutch news agency, in
a dispatch from New Guinea,
said Allied planes during August
destroyed 220 Japanese ships and
boats, totaling 81,050 tons, around
Halmahera or in waters several
hundred miles west and south of
that southern guardian stone for
the Philippines. The dispatch
placed the total of enemy Ship
ping hit in August in the South
west Pacific at 10000 tons.)
The Japanese, after their invas-
Ion of the Philippines, first felt the
weight of American air attack on
their newly won positions April 10
1912, when Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce
led formation of Flying Fortresses
and Mitchells in a raid on Luzon.
Then for more than two years the
Japanese in the Philippines were
unmolested. Last August 10, small
units of American bombers from
advanced bases won by Gen. Mac
Arthur's ground forces off Dutch
New Guinea found the range of
MindanaO