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The CIO news., 1944-05-08

because among other reasons III
gives the veteran a good break on
unemployment compensation In
case he can't find a job right away.
As passed by the Senate with C1O
support a month ago. he could get
up to 50 weeks unemployment bene-
fits. plus allowances for dependents
with the total going UP to SIS q
week.
This Is what Rankin doesn't like:
in fact, he's said publicly that bene-
fits at $25 a week would "encour-
age idlenesss." So now Rankin's
newest Compromise" reported set
for early House action, cuts this
in half to 26 weeks. cuts off the de-
pendents' allowances and cuts the
payment to a fiat $40 a week.
"GROSs INSULT"
This plan, CIO said this week
In q letter from Pres. Murray to
The CIO news., 1944-05-08
School Meal
Plan Wins
In Senate

Washington. May 6-The ma
tion's kids and their war work.
ing parents won a victory IN
Congress this week, with Sem
ate passage of a program to
continue hot school lunches the
children have been getting.
The program. pushed through
with CIO and CIO Auxiliary
support, authorizes the Dept. OF
Agriculture to continue the pro-
gram for two years. An appro-
priation still Is needed.
The program now goes back
to the House, which threw 1t
out Of the Agriculture Dept.
appropriation q few weeks ago
with loud outcries that hot
lunches were expensive and
pampered the children be-
sides.
The program cost $50.0O0,0OO
last year, and fed an average Of
100000 kids a day. 1t helped
war production by enabling
their parents to stay on war
jobs without worrying about
how the children were getting
q MONDAY meal-which was a
boost to the war effort In ad-
dition to the good nutritious
meal It gave to future citizens.
Write your Representative to
OK the Senate program. vote
for enough funds to keep 1t 60
ing.
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

(Lasf of q series OF articles os
venereai disease by the Executive d.
rector. American Social Hygiene As
sociatios. national voluntary health
agency closely teamed UP wifh the
Army and Macy 10 the maritime eans-
paigS to combat syphilis and so.or-
rhsa and all conditions favori1s fhsi'
spread.
A growing number Of joint labor
management general health and
venereal disease control programs
are now in operation and work
ing out well. Some Of these pro-
grams got under way through the
initiative of organized labor.
This is a step forward that Is
well worth mentioning. Even
greater progress in this direction
might be made IL 1t were not more
widely known that:
I. The laws OF most States pro-
vide that results Of all blood
tests be kept absolutely con-
fidential between the individual
and the physician.
2. There is no justification for
using blood testing OF employees
% an instrument Of discrimina-
ton.
5. Where Industrial controls
are now operating I'm organized
plants, unions take all precau-
tons deemed necessary to keep
information confidential between
the doctor and the individual.
EVERYONE BENEFITS
Employees and employers have
been able to get together on joint
efforts, because both groups realize
they have something to gain. In
dustrial workers benefit because
untreated venereal disease keeps
them away from their jobs. cuts
into their earnings, shortens their
lives, and often injuries their
families. Employers benefit from
more efficient. stronger. healthier
working crews.
As In the case Of other serious
contagious diseases. the decision
regarding an employees remaining
at work after AN examination has
revealed. evidence Of infectious
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

all Congressmen, IL "a gross In
suit to our servlcemen, and GER
tainly 10 act I'm that spirit would
be unworthy Of Congress"
The Rankin compromise" means
more than just o cut in the amount
q veteran can count on from the
CT bill in case he's unemployed.
since the fat $40 a week would be
below the amount the veteran
would be entitled to under the
present social security system in
the larger and more industrial
states.
Actually what Rankin 10 trying
to do Is not only to hand royal
beating to the veterans. but also to
undermine present-and admitted
ly inadequate social security
standards. It fits in perfectly with
the polltaxer "dime an hour" bloc
that has tried to snafu the soldiers
vote, and that stands against any
kind Of social progress.
This anti-veteran scheme can
be stopped, II enough people fol-
low Pres. Murray's lead and wire
Congress ito brush aside these
downward revisions and pass
8 1867 rs quickly as possible"
As Murray points out, the CIo
has 1,250.0O0 members in the armed
forces-and has the welfare Of all
CTS at heart, az II has shown In
the fight to increase base pay to
get bigger dependents allotments.
and to provide a workable soldiers
ballot.
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

demonstration OF the vitality OF our
democracy and Of Its ability to pro-
vide for the needs Of our people,"
the article says.
ats enactment would inspire all
Americans on the war fronts and at
home. It would be q vital weapon
for winning the war;"
The new bill Is 1161, HR 286D els
a concrete and detailed legislative
proposal to meet this need" the
Guild article adds. "It would extend
the social security system to in
clude virtually the entire working
population Of the country. It would
substantially increase present bene-
fits and would introduce new bene-
fits which Americans have never
had before and badly need.
The CIO news., 1944-05-08
CIO Plugs
Maternity
Care Bill

Washington, May 8 - CIO and
Its Womens Auxiliaries this week
rallied to support a program OF
maternity and infant care that has
already helped wives and babies
Of 10000 servicemen when they
supported the Emergency Mater
nifty and Infant Care" program
before the House Appropriation
Committee.
The support came in hearings
on a deficiency appropriation Of
$6,OOO,0O0 to carry the program
through to the end Of the fiscal
year, June 30. The program gives
complete coverage from pregnancy
through birth to the end Of the
nrst year Of infancy.
Opposing the CLIO and the Aux
lliaries-and the welfare OF the
seryiceman's wives and babies
is the American Medical ASSN.
trade association Of the higher
priced doctors which also fights
the extension Of social security
and ali plans for more aid to
public health. The ANA wants
straight cash benefits-which 1t
will grab I'm fees.
The plan, known as "EM1C", will
have spent about $30.00O.OOO by the
end Of the 1913 fiscal year on help
Ing soldiers and sailors wives and
kids. More than that will be need
ed next year, as the armed forces
grow in size and more married
men are inducted. Write your Rep
resentative now to support this
program as one Of the measures
that make for good morale and a
crop Of American citizens.
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

sits enactment would be so
enormous an Improvement over
our present social security provi-
sions that no responsible person,
deeply concerned with the welfare
Of our country, can fail to sup
port It."
Clauses in the bill cover new and
greatly improved plans for health,
disability insurance. maternity aid,
public assistance and employment,
Standardization Of unemployment
benefits and special aid to veter-
ans.
Is 1161 and HR 1851 are current
ly waiting hearings in the Senate
and House. Letters from the voters
will help them toward enactment.)
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

The thing that disturbed me
about that Children's Bureau Con-
ference was that, although the OBJ
jectives agreed on were excellent.
there was very little discussion Of
how to accomplish them.
ACTION NEEDED
It seems to me that the time for
general statements on the need for
-children's services Is past. The
need now Is for action - and the
plain truth Is that right now we
need action to save what little we
already have.
This very week the fate Of two
programs affecting children Is be-
Ing discussed In Congress-. The
Senate has just reversed the
House action Of March Z, and
voted to authorize extension OF
the school lunch program for
two more years. Our immediate
Job Is TO see that thir action In
supported In the House.
The Children's Bureau program
for maternity care Of the wives Of
our servicemen and medical care
for their infants for the first year
of life is threatened. The American
Medical Assn. wants the women
just to get a cash grant to use as
they see fit, instead Of having all
necessary medical services taken
care of regardless Of cost, as under
the present program.
Here again we must let our rep
resentatives in Congress know that
we support wholeheartedly the
present Maternity and Infant Care
program for service families, and
that we oppose changing that pro-
gram to a cash grant basis.
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

Thomas Parran.
This series of articles has
stressed tine point that tine battle
against VD will be on the way
to victory when people learn to
to avoid infection and when
ways are found TO locate and
treat all those who are infected.
Even though trade unions may
elect TO put programs into effect
independent Of employers, they
can benefit from Joint labor-man-
agement experiences I'm prevent
Ing, finding and treating VD.
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

shocking fact that the most im-'
portant group Of workers whose
rights to social insurance benefits
are threatened by absence from
covered employment should be the
very men and women who, as menu
bers OF the armed forces, are risk
ing their lives for their country"
This was a reference TO the fact
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

STORE WiHuOWs, aHu HOuSi uuLSr'
cry school trailer on view at Grand
Circus Park and at plants. And the
initiative for all this came from
the CIO.
It's high time we sat down to
think how much we care for our
children not only In Detroit, but
all over the United States.
AS q member of the Children's
Bureau Commission on Children
in Wartime, I spent two days in
Washington a month or so ago
participating In q discussion Of
child welfare In all its aspects. The
most interesting part Of the Con-
ference to me was the session dur
ing which teen age boys and girls
from all over the United States
discussed "Next Steps in Planning
for Children and Youth as seen by
Youth"
ADULT FAILURE
That session brought statistics
to life. We all know that now
thousands Of young people have
left school to take jobs In this
period. We've all heard talk Of in
creased juvenile delinquency.
The discussion of these young
people pointed out very forceful-
ly the failure OF our adult COM
munitles to avail themselves OF
the real contribution to solving
these problems which could be
made by the young people them
selves. They wanted to particle
pate In the Boards and Commit
tees that organize community
youth activities. They wanted
more community programs In
which youth can participate and
feel themselves needed by the
community.
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

imum Of 26 weeks, and inclusion
Of seamen, agricultural workers,
etc.; greater public assistance;
moro public health services, med
ical and hospital care and the
like, and special provisions for
servlcemen personnel returning
from the war.
In urging quick action on the
program, the joint report con
cludes: Thousands. and at time.
millions, Of the people Of Americs
do not know the meaning Of the
words Freedom from Want"
The CIO news., 1944-05-08

that men and women in the armed
forces are losing out under the
present law. which does not carry
them on It's books while they're
away from their peacetime jobs.
The proposed Murray-Wagner-Din-
gell bill Is 116l, HR 2S6D would
remedy this to protect the service
men.
The program recommended In
the joint report calls for expan-
sion Of old age and survivors
insurance; sickness insurance;
unemployment benefits for . min
The CIO news., 1944-05-08
Rankin Tries Phoney
On Vets Aid Bill!

WASHINGTON, May 6-The old Rankin trick Of "com-
promising" the sailors out Of their rights
again Congress this week.-Mrs. time the G Bill Is 1767
for aid to veterans
pitch: Rep Rankin (polltaxer, Mss has been
saing on the GI bill for weeks In Of it
The CIO news., 1944-05-08
Law Guild Urges
Security Bill Support

NEW YORK. May 6-PropOsed social security improvements
In the Wagner-Dnge bill will the
in the armed forces and the millions industry
home, the Natl Lawyers Guild says recent issue Of its
Review"
The CIO news., 1944-05-08
Social Security Bill
Wins United Backinq


flor
Of It
The CIO news., 1944-05-08
Child Care Vital
To II. S. Welfare
BY FAYE STEPHENSON
President, CIO Womss's Aaxiliariss

How Much Do We Care For Our Children" Is the title Of
citywde child week proclaimed by the local In
the Detroit beginning May national Child Health Day
They're having radio broadcasts open house at
schools and canteens exhibits at the Belle Isle casino and In
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29
ADMIRAL SAYS
NEW BATTLE
in OFFINGS

u S. PACIFRIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS AT PEARL HAIR
Dor, Dec. 29.-tAP)-Vice Ad-
miral Marc A. Mitscher, who d.
rected the navy air armadol In
the Philippine sea, said that ne
anticipated another action to the
remnants of the enemy's surface
forces.
The commander of the U. >.
fast carrier forces, returning
after a month, where ne threw
everything into the fight said,
SCI think that another year should
have the Japanese navy pretty
well cletred up.
Admiral Mitscher added that
if the Japanese refused to COM
nit the remaining part OF their
fleet units in battle. we will be
in a position to clean them out
wherever they are.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29
TERRITORIAL
GUARD TO
STAGE DANCE

The Alaska Territorial Guard
will stage another of their pop
ular dances in the high school
gymnasium this Saturday eve
ming.
The dance will commence at
900 p. M, and will continue I'M
one o'clock or later.
The affair will be the units
annual New Years celebration.
The public is cordially invited to
attend, along with all members
of the ATG organization.
Admission will be the regular
price: $1.00 per couple.
Support the local unit of the
ATG by being present at this
New Years dance.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29
TOKYO GETS
TT AGAIN SAYS
BROADCAST

UNDATED - At 500 m.
Pacific war time, the Japanese
broadcast was picked up by the
FCC IS followse:
"The enemy planes are sight
ed and approaching"
This was from the metropoli-
tan district of Tokyo and Yoko-
hama.
Air raid warnings were issued
to the japanese etstern district
Of the army headquarters after
the sounding Of the alarm 81
rem.
Tolsyo announced that Ameri-
can planes had changed their
course and were cirocling over
the northern section of the Wy
anto district
This includes large industrial
cities of ODE and Oska.
Single Superb ortresses carried
out three raids over the south
;tnd central Monshi area between
eight and five o'clock last night,
dropping incendiaries.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29
'PRAVDA TELLS
OF DEFEAT
OF NIPPONESE

MOSCOW, Dec. 29.-CAP)-
Pravda describes Japan as Hit
ler's last ally and said today tina,
she has been suffering continuous
defeat On uand, sea ind air in
the Pacific.
The article was spread over
five columns and appeared to be
the first significant Soviet ut
terance about the Orient since
Premier Sttlin's November
speech which classified Japan as
an aggressive nation.
The articl by Zhukov of the
Pravda political staff, said that
the developments are becoming
more unftvorable to Japan in the
continuous defeat in the war.
He pointed out that food con-
ditions in Japan were especial
ly acute.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29

VETOES PARK
MEASURE

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 20.
= AP) President Roosevelt
todty vetoed the bill to abolish
the Jackson Hole national mon
ument in Wyoming, it has been
reported.
In a memorandum of disap-
prevail, which was made public
at the White House, the Chief
Executive said, among other
things, that the legislation would
deprive the people TOT the u. S.
of benefit in that area which is
of national significance.
The President took the stand
on the point Of naturalistic, his
toric and scientific recreational
values.
!. The monument embraces 222,
900 acres tdjoining the Teton
National Park and was establish
ed by executive order in March,
by private interests in Wyoming.
Those opposed to the creation
of this monument did so on the
grounds hat i removed so much
ground from he state tax rolls.
The Chief Executive said he
would be sympathetic to tin
enactment of new legislation
whereby revenues from the park
could be offset on an equitable
basis. He also assured the pri-
vate handholders, who now have
grazing privileges, that they
would continue to have them.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29

ILL WITH DIPHTHERIA

Miss Constance Erickson, pas
tor of the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission, is confined to her home
with diphtheria. During her quar-
antine, Rev. Paul Ctrlson will
have charge of her church. There
will be church school as usual,
and Milton Adams and Harry
Soxie will be special speakers
for the evening service at 700
o'clock Sundty evening.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29
MOUNTAIN VIEW
TO KEEP STATUS

Voters of Mountain View, An
chorage suburb, recently decid-
ed against incorporation as a city
Of the second cltss by 33 to 81.
The election was the result of
petition submitted to the dis
trict court by the proponents of
incorporation.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29
LEsAVES FOR
THE STATES

B. C. Baker of the meat and
grocery department of Polet's
Store, left for the States on
trit to visit his son ind family.
Mr.. Bakers son, who is in the
navy, plans to be in Seattle about
the first of the year, and his ia
Their hopes to be able to reach
there in time to see him.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29
JOE SKORIK
RETURNS TO NOME

Koe Skorik, who has been
serving in the army and was
stationed at Laid Field, was re-
leased recently. He has return
ed to Nome as mechanic for the
Alaska Airlines, and is busy re-
newing old friendships.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29
LEAVES FOR
THE STATES

A. v. Cordovado, mining man
from Deerir ! :, left for the States
on business. He will be back for
the opening Of hte mining sea-
son.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29
ARRIVES FROM
TELLER

Mrs. Barney Vogan arrived
from Teller with her small son,
Noel, who is here for medical tt
tention.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-29

Scientists believe the earth hts
"a core of hot liquid metal about
1000 miles in diameter.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
The Man Who Came Back From Death

(Lt Lucas who wrote the following story.
will be recalled as the writer Of the frst
He was then q Marine Sergeant. Combat
Correspondentl -
Evening star., 1944-05-21
BY John Clagett Proctor.

The preserving of historic homes and
old relics is one of the worth while things
to which inhabitants Of all American
cities should eagerly lend their best
efforts, for once they are destroyed,
they never can be replaced. We in WASH
ington who have stood by helplessly
upon a number of occasions and seen
our noted landmarks razed to the ground
know this to be only too true.
But occasionally we do hear of the
people of some city or town coming to
the rescue of national or local shrine
and preserving or restoring it so that
future generations may be enlightened
in an objective way of the gradually
receding historic past.
This is indeed a very thoughtful and
commendable thing to do, and in this
connection, the writer feels that the
people of our little sister city, Alexan-
dria, covered themselves with glory when
they stepped in and decided to purchase
the Ramsay House, the city's oldest
building that was built under the flag
of Great Britain, and has existed under
the Stars and Stripes for the last 1863
years.
1t was built between l749 and 1851, is
what one authority says, and that period
is probably correct, and it has been
standing on the same spot, at the north
east corner of King and Fairfax streets
for now almost two centuries. 1t does
Evening star., 1944-05-21

shock, Banasik worked the remainder of
the campaign as naval gunflre spotter,
calling back directions to the task force
at sea.
Ensign Banasik graduated from North
Dakota State College in 1943 with q
degree in chemistry. He had planned to
go into cereal chemistry, but the Navy
got him instead. The Marshalls CAM
paign was his first taste of action.
His mother, Mrs. Freda Banasik, lives
in London. Her son has written her
only that his boat turned over and he
was thrown into the water. A brother,
Seaman Second-Class Jack Banasik, is
stationed on the Navy Pier in Chi
cago, I'll. $500 @~
First 1t. Boydston, who was editor of
A. and MS Daily O'Collegian and would
have gone to work for the Associated
Press in Oklahoma City If he hadn't
joined : the Marine Corps, was worried
that the. newspapers might not believe
his story.
"But It's true" he protested. "I tell
you that man was dead, yet he's alive
today. I know. I felt of his heart, and
felt Of his pulse, and he didn't have
any"
Banasik said that was all there was
to the story, and he was sorry he
couldn't tell any more. And, besides, he
pointed out, 1t had quit raining, so he
and Boydston had better get back to
their work or the colonel was going to
be right sore.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
BY George Ade,


BROOK, Ind, Feb. 8 1943).-If it
were not for the fact that by subtracting
1866 from l943 you get a result of II,
I would refuse to admit that on Febru-
ary of this year I will round out II
years of visitation on this much troubled
planet called earth. The calendar does
not lie and the rules of mathematics
are inexorable. The date of my birth
was set down in the family Bible and
later announced in many public prints
by gloating newspaper biographers who
kept score on me as I seemed to be
slowly but inevitably approaching my
dotage. They wanted TO find out If
could take it.
All right, boys, here is my report to
you on the 77th anniversary
I am taking it with a grin and an
outward show of indifference but 1 am
not hanging out any banners. shooting
off any rockets or giving three cheers.
Facing the Facts,
This thing of being II years old cannot
be laughed off. The victim of the setup
cannot hope to put on ali act which will
convince spectators that he is fairly
athletic. undoubtedly ambitious and
approximately acrobatic. He is an old
codger and he might as we'll face all
the facts in the case. II he is disinclined
to admit that he is an antique, let him
look into the mirror.
The principal indoor pastime of all
us has-beens is to tell how good we used
to be. If cannot play golf any more.
at least I can sit under an awning at
the first tee and tell unwilling listeners
about the time I made a medal score
of IS and went on to win the champion
ship of the Hazelden Country Club.
If I cannot kick football 3 feet
into the air can sit on my high perch
at the Ross-Ade Stadium at Purdue
and annoy persons sitting near me by
telling how Dave Ross and discovered
the site of the future amphitheater and
bought the land and promoted the whole
program which resulted In a magni-
f1cent playing arena surrounded by con-
crete. If you find yourself in the past
tense, try b derive some consolation
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Historic Showplaces
In Old Alexandria

ter Of Alexandria. He was major and
quartermaster during the French and
Indian War.
1t was here that George Washington
received his commission as major in
Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock's army In
1755, and 1t was In the blue room" of
this house that council met the same
year to provide against the alarming
emergencies due to the enroachments of
the French and Indians on the Western
frontiers. There were present at this
council six Of the Colonial Governors:
Shirley of Massachusetts,, De Lancey Of
New York, Morris of Pennsylvania,
Sharpe of Maryland, Dinwiddie of Vir-
ginia and Dobbs of North Carolina. The
others composing the council were Gen.
Braddock, Gen. st. Clair, Commodore
Keppel and Benjamin Franklin. Wash
ington was summoned from Mount Ver-
non to give the council the benefit of
his knowledge of Indian warfare Since
being erected, the building has under
gone restoration.
In Alexandria, George washington is
also remembered by his Masonic
brethren of the United States in the
George Washington National Masonic
Memorial erected on Shooters Hill,
from which eminence it can be seen
many miles away. The spot is most ap-
propriate, since it was once owned by
the first President. It was the choice
of both Jefferson and Madison as the