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The union times., 1944-08-05
Two Conductors.
 LOyalUniionMen, BattleFor'House'
Unique Primary Contest In Wyoming-C. E. Norris
 Gets Nomination

Wyoming set a new political rec ord in its recent primary. The state has only one member of the na- tiOnal House of Representatives. Two Union Pacific conductors en- gagged in a vigorous but friendly contest for the Democratic nomina- ton.
 Both are members in good standing of the Order of Railway Conductors" President H. W. Fra ser proudly said from headquarters in Cedar Rapids.
 Charles E. Norris, 50, of Laramie, freight-passenger conductor who has been training other conductors in Cheyenne for several months, de- feated Clyde C. Winters, A, of Chey- enne, freight conductor, making his first bid for political office.
 In the November election Norris will oppose Congressman Frank A. Barret of Lusk, Republican, who is serving his first tenn. Barret has a bad labor record. He voted for the Smith Connally bill. He had no opposition in the primary.
 Norris and Winters campaigned as vigorously as travel restrictions and other wartime curbs would permit They indulged in little speech-niaking, devoting their appeal for votes largely to personal interviews and contacts with old friends.
 Norris started with big advantage. He has served three terms in the lover house of the state legislature and was Democratic floor leader in the 1943 session. This gave him a wide acquaintance throughout the state. Nevertheless, Winters carried four of the states g counties.
 When the result of the ballot ing was announced, Norris and Winters united in declaring that they were friends when the started the campaign and that they fin ished it in the same spirit.
The union times., 1944-08-05
Two Connecticut Unions Win Pay Raises For Men
Hartford Teamsters, Park City Bus Drivers Get Re-
 suits For Members

In settlement of labor disputes between two Connecticut companies and their respective unions, the New England War Labor Board this week announced issuance of direc- tive orders, as follows:
 First National Stores, Inc, East Hartford, and Local 559, Bakery, Grocery & Laundry Drivers and Helpers, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, A. F. of L.; approxi- mately 185 garage and warehouse employees involved. The Board ap- proved, retroactive to Jan. 31, 1914 schedule of wages for garage en- ployees, ranging from 71 cents per hour for washers and utility men to $1.00 per hour for mechanics, and also approved payment of time and one-half to these employees after 40 hours work in one week.
 Bridgeport Auto Transit Co.,, Bridgeport, and Local 1886, Amal- gamated Association of Street, Electric Railway & Motor Coach Employees of America, A. F. of l.. The Board directed the company to grant two weeks vacation with pay to all employees with two or more years service, thus liberal izinS the present vacation plan which provides for one weeks vaca- ton with pay after one years ser vice and three days vacation for employees with six months to one years service.
 The unions request for a general wage increase was denied, with the provision that this issue may be re- opened at the request of the union after establishment of a wage policy for the transit industry by the Ma tional WLB.
The union times., 1944-08-05

Organized labor has received many tributes from high govern ment officials for all-out effort dur ing this war, but none so sweeping as the commendat1On that came this week from Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, head of the Navy De- partment's incentive division.
 Woodward voiced his praise in an article entitled, "The Navy Is Grateful to Labor," written for the American Federationist,' monthly magazine of the A. F. of L., just off the presses.
 The navy chieftain declared at the outset that "the news of recent weeks has demonstrated how we'll American labor has armOred the mailed fist of the U. s. Navy" The great victories on the road to To- kyO and Berlin are due, he said, not only to the gallantry of Ameri- can fighting men, but also to ''the fighting equipment being supplied on an almost unbelievable scale by
The union times., 1944-08-05
Jack & Heintz Tell Workers To Dump War Bonds
Urge Associates" To Invest Funds In Non-Voting
 Stock

Cash in your war bonds to buy stock in the company, Pres. Bill Jack of Jack & Heintz Co. urged his employees over the public ad- dress system in the Cleveland plant.
 He asked workers to cash in their $20 million in war bonds within AS hours" to buy the new Jahco stock just put on sale to raise SIS million in working capital for the company for postwar production. A mimeo- graphed form distributed to the "as- sociates" Clancy name used by Jack & Heintz for employes) which they could use to cancel their war bond deductions until further notice" was reprinted in The Cleveland Press. The new stock is non-voting stock.
 A notorious enemy of renegotia- ton and President Roosevelt, Bill Jack is the man who invited more than 800 congressman to a swanky dinner in Washington to protest against the refund of $7 million he had to make when the government renegotiated some of his juicy con- tracts. Jack & Heintz made a $4 million profit after taxes last year on an initial investment 3H years ago of $lOO,OOO, and should be all set for postwar business.
 Attacked by Cleveland newspapers for his sabotage of the war bond campaign, Jack denied urging em ployes to cash their bonds but admit ted that many of them had asked him what to do. q have told them it is their money and that they could do whatever they wanted with it," he said, adding that he thought "a per centage" of the $2O million bonds will be redeemed.
The union times., 1944-08-05
NelUs: Montgomery Ward Obeys LaU !

Montgomery Ward & Co.,, which doesn't particularly like unions, was moved this week to join with two of them in apply ing for authority from the Natl. War Labor Board to pay time and a half to its workers who put in over 40 hours a weeks
 The WLB approved the joint application, retroactive to Sept. 23, l943, to employees in Wards retail warehouse at Detroit.
 Involved in the case are the Intl. Brotherhood of Teamsters and the M & W Servicemen's Assn. (unaffiliated). No over- time rate has ever been paid in the past in the Ward warehouse, so the action is a definite vic tory for the workers although the overtime is legally covered by the Fair Labor Standards act.
The union times., 1944-08-05
Poll By Fortune
 Favors President

NEW YORK-President Roosevelt now holds better than a 6-point lead over Thomas E. Dewey in the public preference for the presidency, two points more than his lead over Wen dell L. Willlie in the 194O campaign, survey by Fortune magazine dis closes.
 Asked whom they would vote for if the election were held today, 50.1% said Roosevelt, 43.79o said Dewey and 6.29o didn't know.
 Personal preferences aside, 66.4% of the people now expect FDR to win a fourth term, the survey showed.
The union times., 1944-08-05
UNIONS, VETS, SIGN PACT TO AID SOLDIERS
Full Seniority Is
 Guaranteed Them
A.FL And C. I. O. In Agreement With Veterans Of Foreign Wars-Rairoad Labor Organizations Paved
 Way-Some Internatonals Waive Initiation Fees

Those forces which have been hoping pit soldiers against workers after the handed this week result of agreement reached leaders of the A. F. of L.. C. l. o. and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
 Under the agreement which subject approval by the affiliated international unlon the labor will provide employment and seniority protection returning soldiers sub santialy greater than that furnished bv law
The union times., 1944-08-05

TT LOOKS like they've intro duced strip-tease in dairies, accord ing to this want ad that appeared in the Norfolk (Va.) Ledger-Dis- patch:
 MAN AND WIFE-TO work in dairy; wife to strip behind milk ing machine, help clean good house, garden. Salary SAP per week. Lakeside Dairy Farms.
 (Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1944-08-05
Mississippi A.F.L.
 For Fourth Term

JACKSON, Miss. -P Pres. ,Roose- welt was indorSed for a fourth term by the Mississippi Federation of Labor at its 26th annual convention here, which also pledged its efforts to 'the cause of America until com plete and final victory is won" in the war.
The union times., 1944-08-05

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The union times., 1944-08-05

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The Nome nugget., 1944-04-03

John E. Manders. repub- .ican candidate for Dele rate to Congress, was born February 3, 1895 at Den yer, Colo. He was educat- ed in the public schools of San Francisco, Berkeley and Los Angeles, attending Menlo Park Preparatory School.
 He studied law a San Francis co Law School and in the office of Page, McCutcheon, Knight and Olney. He was admitted to the Bar in 1918. Samuel Knight of that firm was the attorney who figured in cleaning up the notor- ious legal entanglements at Nome about which Rex Beach wrote in "The Spoilers.
 MT. Manders after coming to Anchorage became associated with Clyde Ellis in the practice of law. He, his wife and one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Woodley, live in An chorage. Another daughter and granddaughter, reside in San Francisco. His son, Captain John Manders. was killed in action January 31st in New Guinea when he crashed his pIane into a Jap ship, destroying the vessel.
 MT. Manders continued his ac- tivity in Republican politics after coming to Anchorage and is pres ently serving as secretary of the Anchorage Republican Club and is a member of the board of di- rectors of the chamber and chair man of its mining committee. He was also the moving power in or ganizing non-profit corporation
The Nome nugget., 1944-04-03

deavor to carry on the progressive principles of Delegate Dimond. That he believes I am capable of doing so is indicated by the fact he has endorsed me as his logical successor.
 My opponents in the Demo- cratic pr mary are splendid men and 1 could not even if 1 cared o-which I most sincerely do not--say anything against them My great advantage over them, l feel, is that the experience I have had, both in Washington and Jun eau, gives me qualifications over and above those of any other can didate. 1 know Washington and people there and I know the ter ritorial government in its rela- tionship with Washington. l should not have to learn these things but would be ready to start work effectively right away if elected"
The Nome nugget., 1944-04-03
Bartlett Longtime Alaska Resident

what my position will be in re- spect to statehood in the even+ am elected' said Bartlett. My pos ton was clearly set forth in a speech 1 made at Wrangell in February. Briefly stated, it IS this;
 Personally, I am strongly for statehood and will work in every possible way to achieve statehood. l am for statehood principally be cause it would make complete Americans of we Alaskans. Now, bluntly stated, we are only half Americans. We are living under a territorial form of government much more restrictive than exper- fenced by the earlier territories We have a feW-surprisingly few powers delegated to us by Con gress but Congress can always take away what it has given. Were Alaska a state we should enjoy constitutional privileges which would not be subject to the whim of some department in Washing ton If we become impatient a the workings of bureaucracy, as the overwhelming majority of us do, and feel bureaucracy is i'm peding the development of our country, then it almost necessar- fly follows we are for statehood the lettering shackles may be shaken off.
 If the cost of statehood were too great we should have to fore go it's benefits but I am convinced after careful examination we can well and even easily support it.
 This is my personal position. But l know very well the subject of statehood is new to all of us. l know too many questions have been asked which have not been satisfactorily answered, although l am sure they can and will be. A period of discussion will help the cause of statehood, not hurt
The Nome nugget., 1944-04-03

it. I think We should talk the mater over, read about it in our newspapers and hear about it over our radios and then at the neX succeeding general election ex- press our desires by means of ( referendum vote.
 "Then if the majori y of Alas kans favor statehood, as I believe and hope they will, we can wor : toge her in common cause. This VIII, in my considered judgment, hasten the coming of statehood Without this expression by means of the ballot box, we shall have divergent views expressed from Alaska before Congress, and mem bers of Congress are likely to throw up their hands in despair and say, "These people don't know what they want" We must present a solid front. In any event there is bound to be strong opposition, originating in some states, aga nst giving statehood to a non-contiguous territory. State hood won't be handed to us; we must fight for it and work for it
 "If elected Delegate I shall en-
The Nome nugget., 1944-04-03

E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, can- didate for the democratic nomintion as Delegate to Congress, was born in Se- attle, Washington, on Aprii 20. 1904, and was brought to Fairbanks in 1905 and since then his residence has been in Alaska. His par ents were married in the Klondike, his father, Ed Bartlett, having been head of a Well-known packing firm. After leaving the Klondike, Ed Bartlett came to Nome in 1900 and la- ter settled in Fairbanks where he made his home until his death in 1885.
 Bob Bartlett was educated in the Fairbanks grammar and high schools and later attended the University of Warrington and the University of Alaska. After leav- ing college he went to work for the Fairbanks News Miner, re maining with tl1at paper until 1933. In that year he went to Washington with his wife, who was born in Dawson-after hay ing been appointed secretary by Delegate Anthony J. Dimond.
 After two years in Washing ton, Bartlett returned to Alaska and for several seasons operated a small placer gold outfit in the Circle district. Then in 1889. he moved to Juneau, following ap pointment by President Roosevelt as Secretary of Alaska. Last year he was reappointed 10 that position, but resigned in February. l944, after filing for the office of Delegate to Congress.
 Many people have asked me
The Nome nugget., 1944-04-03
John Manders Civic | Leader Tn Anchorage

known as Statehood for Alaska for the purpose of sponsoring ad- mission of Alaska to the Union as a state.
 MT. Manders is president of that organization which has no political party connections and in which bother democrats and re- publicans are active. He is member of the Anchorage Lodge of Eiifns, member of the Alaska Consistory, Anchorage Command cry, Knights Templar, Nile Tenn pie Shrine, Alaska, California and American Bar Associations.
 Tell them you saw it in The Nugget.
The Nome nugget., 1944-04-03

Tell them you saw it in The Nugget.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
Germany's Second Army
Is Nazi Way Of Total War
Storm Troopers, Elite Guard Are Backbone
Of HtIer's Special Military Forces;
Every Third German In Uniform.
BY BAUKHAGE
Ne4Us Analyst and Commentator.

hung up by their wrists with their
hands behind their backs until their
chest and shoulder muscles were
torn apart. This, of course, would
not be done to an "SS" man since 1t
would render him unfit to serve the
Fuehrer. But the "SS" cadets were
beaten in the face with riding whips
and pounded as mercilessly with
whips and slaves.
Backbone Groups
A part Of the "SS" is part Of the
fighting army too. With complete
divisions, infantry, armor, all the
rest.
There is bitter rivalry between
the "SS" and the army high com.
mand. It is ''touch and go' as to
who will be there to surrender Ger
many to the Allies in the end.
These are the backbone organiza-
tons Of Killers Second army" but
there are many ramifications which
are. strictly under the party con-
trol-the Nazi transportation corps
three separate air groups, the IA
NOUS ''Todt'' organization ('todt"
means death in German but in this
case it is mans name). This is a
great construction (and now, after
the bombing, reconstruction organi-
cation, the boys who parade with
shovels instead of guns.
There are several others-the
Labor service, trained in camps
something like the old CCC camps
in this country; then come the va
rious welfare, women's and youth
organizations.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
Take My Word
For I'll !. !.
Bv FRANK COLBY
Goo Goo, Da Da

In verse published here few
weeks ago, poked fun at the baby
talk trend in radio commercial" "
such as the sadly overworked cliche
"crispy, crunchy," and suggested
that advertising writer's come out Of
the nursery and be their age.
A witty retort comes to me from
Marian Squire, of Los Angeles adj
vertising agency. This clever verse
indicates that adwriters sometimes
are more sinned against than sim
ming.
IN DEFENSE OF THE RADIO
COMMERCIAL WRITER
Dear Colby, the s'commerciaP' writ
Would like to have his burden light
err.
We'd much prefer to be adult
But ga-ga has become a cult.
And all our blurbs are based upon,
sir,
The dictates Of the lordly sponsor.
Our task is but to write the patter;
We have no voices in the matter.
| had to pen (and now I'm blushing
At owning to such infant gushing)
A line to make your eardrums puck
err
About a ''Lovab1e. Tubbable. Seer
sucker"
We don't think that is what we're
made for
But, Dear Sir, that is what we're
paid for.
My Reply
Maid Marian, your plight is dismal,
Why not take fight from this abys-
NAL
Ga-ga gable? Alas! Alack!
Forsake the rabble-join the Wac,
Or Navy. Though the sponsor raves
He'll dare not try to rule the Waves.
Bell Syndicate.-wNU Features.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13

This deep RECOMMENDATION (remem-
Der, one out Of three in uniformly 10
the Nazi way Of creating a total
war that is total. When the German
armies are beaten, these organiza-
lions will still remain. They can
work on after defeat unless they are
uprooted.
A fuller realization of this prob
lem may make 1t easier for Ameri-
cans to understand why, after his
latest trip to Europe, the President
is in sober mien, why the high
army officials and the civilians who
know this problem intimately, hope
that civilian America will not wax
overconfident on the eve Of military
victory.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
Detroit placed second to the yam

Detroit placed second to the Yam
KEGS. with an average of three
earned runs per game. Paul (''Diz-
zy'') Trout, Tiger moundsman, was
the only other 2O-game winner of
the league. He rang up No.. 20 on
the last day of the campaign, losing
only IL games for second division
team. His earned-run rating was
2.48.
The Cleveland Indians 3.15 gave
them third place and their stingiest
pitcher was Vern Kennedy, who al
lowed only 2.45 earned runs per
game while winning 10 and losing z.
Pitchers Year /
Although it was a pitchers
year." only two American league
pitchers, Chandler and Tex Hugh
son Of Boston, pitched as many as
20 complete games during the sea-
son. Three other pitchers, Trout,
Orval Grove Of Chicago and Charlie
Wensloff of New York, worked Is
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
SPORTS SHORTS

q Synthetic rubber will replace ba-
lata in the baseball that will be used
in the big leagues next season.
q. Red Cochrane, welterweight cham
pion, is stationed at Pearl Harbor.
q Owners of the Baltimore franchise
in the International league recently
refused $150,000 cash for half in
terest.
a. Joe Mccarthy consumes a. pack
age and a half Of chewing tobacco
during an ordinary ball game and
two packages when the going is real
ly tough.
q. Penn State. has won 10, tied one
and lost no games on its home foot
ball field since 1888.
q Golf club manufa cturers are re-
placing the brass plates on wood
clubs with plastic.
q. The Army-Navy series started in
1890.
d Georgia Tech defeated Cumber-
land 1920 in a 45-minute game in
1917. j. Preas kicked Is points after
touchdowns.
q Hugh Luby, new second baseman
for the Giants, played in 1922 con-
secutive games in the Pacific Coast
league. --.-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13

complete games. Bonham pitched
II, Jim Bagby Of Cleveland pitched
Is and Luman Harris of Philade1-
phia and Emil Leonard of Washing
ton each pitched Is.
Two of the leagues s'mosts" were
contributed by Cleveland Indians.
Jim Bagby pitched the most innings.
273, and Allie Reynolds got the
most strikeouts, ISL. Reynolds rec
ord was especially remarkable i'm
that he pitched only 1919 innings, as
compared with 252 for Chandler,
who was third In the strikeout de-
partment.
Last in the earned-run records of
pitchers who worked IS innings or
more was AL Milnar, former Indian
who finished the season with the
st. Louis Browns. He gave up 1888
earned runs per 9 innings. Bobo
Newsom allowed 5.87.
The longest winning streak was
run up by Orval Grove of the White
Sox, who won 8 in a row. The
longest losing streak was that Of
Lrman Harris of the AS, who
dropped 10 straight. Harris lost the
most games for the season, too, be-
ing beaten 81 times.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
Status of F0sciss,a
In Spain

Status OF F0scts71
In Spain
One Of the things that was not dis
cussed by the big Three" or the
big Four" in the recent meetings
at Cairo and Teheran, as far as the
world knows, was Spain.
The President, in answer to a
direct question when he returned,
said he did not see Franco. He adj
mitted, however, that something de-
layed his return. He never said
what.
There have been signs that some
one has been whispering into Cen
eralissimo Frances ear just the
same.
He has disbanded the Fa1angists.
They are the uniformed party men,
bers, real military and hard-fsted
bunch Of uniformed fascists, the &C
tive party members Of the Spanish
fascismo.
There is nothing more hardboiled.
Of course, than a hardboiled youth.
Take away from him the decent out
lets for his animal spirits-on the
ball field, in the school yard, any,
where where he can whoop and hol-
Ter and be himse1f-and what hap
pens? A terrific, pent-up force, all
the primitive emotions seeking an
outlet. The Nazis and the fascists
knew this and their strength is still
in the strength Of the youth they
perverted.
Well, Spain, a nation Of individu-
alists, has at last been able to shake
itself loose from part Of this bond
age. The iron hand Of Hitler. and
the now withered hand Of Mussolini,
have been Withdrawn. Spanish fas-
cisno is almost an empty shell.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-01-13
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pASEBALL'S honor and glory be-
- longed to the pitchers in 1913
it was their greatest season since
the first World war days Of 1918.
Official averages for the year
proved that American league hurl-
ers dominated the competitive pic
ture. With dozens of heavy hitters
in the armed services, the strong
arm boys had succession of field
days.
Twenty-Five pitchers held oppos-
ing teams to fewer than three earned
runs per game, and that hasn't
happened since 1918 when 33 pitchers
had that distinction. Last year the
total was 20 and the year before only
2 pitchers were included in the list.
Not only was Spurgeon Chambers
1.64 the lowest earned-run average
in the American league since Wal
ter Johnson's brilliant 1.49 perform
ance in 1919, but the Yankee hur1er
also led in the won-and-lost division,
posting 20 victories against de-
feats.
Effective Staff
The staff of the Yankees was by
far the most effective i'm the league,
with Chandler and Ernie Bonham
running one-two among the circuits
starting pitchers. The champions
compiled a collective earned-rum av-
erage of 1893. Bonham averaged
2.27.
Chandler Is the thirteenth pitcher
to lead the league in both depart
ments. The only two clubs that beat
him were Cleveland and Washington
and each team beat him twice. He
had a winning streak of games,
was in 80 games, pitched 252 In
nings Ca total topped by only 8
pitchers), pitched to 918 batters, al
, lowed 1877 hits and 81 runs, Of which
46 were earned. He struck out 1874
batters and made 3 wild pitches.