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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-30
Champion SparkIets

Orchids to Thelma Coburn: A
60 War Bond out of her check
every week. After the war she
and Porky can buy that dream
house they are planning on.
For Sale: One set of slightly
used muscles, very cheap. Pres
ent owner retiring. For further
information see Herb Jennings.
Incidentally, H. j. has a new an
gle on why it pays to belong to
the Union. Thanks to MIR. La
zette.
Lots of excitement recently
when Bob Youngs of the U. S. N.
came home from boot training,
He received a royal welcome.
Gertrude Drysel hopes that
she and her husband will cele-
brate theirsnext wedding ami
versary together. Her recent one
was spent all by her lonesome.
Sgt. Drysel is somewhere in
England"
Did you see the cute little
sailor, name of Dale Norman,
visiting his friends recently in
Department E, and his proud
mother, Edith, in Department l.
in E? Edith has two more sons
in service.
Doris Gardner's sister is home
on furlough from overseas. She
is with Army Special Service.
We are glad to know that she is
safe and sound. Must give peo-
pie like her a great deal of salts
faction to bring a moment of
happiness to our lonesome boys
over there.
Nick Carney's diet is giving
many of us much satisfaction.
The patter of his little tootsies
is ever so much lighter. Will
power?
Have you heard that new song
Surrey With the Fringe on
Top? Chuck Johnson, take note.
Tidbits of SparkletS:
Excitement on the filing table
when Pauline Lamb and Mart
Hart, two recent brides, went
into a dither of obs and abs
over the gifts given them with
the compliments of their COM
panion filers.
Know about Jerry on the
Melders being dubbed "Pin-up
Queen?
Ted Hill is now back to work
and in "fine shape"
Have you heard that "Boxcar
Karl" is now on the water wag-
on?
Where does Harold Drum
mond get his hair cut? In a
barber college?
Deepest sympathy to Betty
Clemens upon the passing of her
husband.
Peggie Lammie improving
rapidly after an emergency ap-
pendectomy.
Percy Stark walking on air
after his wife presented him
with fine baby boy. Named the
baby James Gordon. Congratu
lations, daddy!
Saying Hello" and "Cheerio"
to Norman Priest, who is still on
the sick list. Are you keeping
up with the Journal, Norman?
Who is the glammer boy on
the gap-setting table who likes
to muss other peoples hair, but
can't take it when it's done to
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-30
Raging
The Scale
WHAT LEADERS?

Long time no see. Well, no
excuses for this column; but
have you noticed those four
good union men who formerly
ran your union. They haven't
been to meeting since the elec-
ton last April. That just goes
to show you what good union
men had charge of the destiny
OF the workers in >our plant.
This ought to be better proof
than all the words that were
ever written about them. By
their deeds ye shall know them.
WHAT UNION?
That's nothing. Roy Shell
even circulated a petition to take
his department out of the union,
There's a swell union man.
When he failed, there was a
movement to stop all bidding in
the engineering and methods de-
partments. Boy what a swell
union man. Of course, the lat
ter move was ostensibly on the
part of the company; but still,
we can see the fine Spanish
hand of a good union man. Oh
boy there's Union man for you
but not for US.
SENIORITY
Murder will out. The old COM
mittee told US that the company
was opposed to departmental
seniority, supplemented by plant
seniority. 1t now has been
brought out that the company is
not opposed. Now who do you
suppose is lying? For our part,
we believe that we would rather
take the management's word
than that of those swell union
men who formely headed our
union.
GOOD JOB
While we're at it, we want to
give the new committee credit
for doing a good job. BY con-
trast, they make the old COM
mittee look as bad as we always
said it was. If anything, they
make it look worse. This goes
to prove that even a company
union can be run by honest men
who are devoted to the cause
of the workers. While we're
at it, we want to compliment
Bill Kenney for the bond talk
made a few days ago. He did a
better job than the professionals.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-30
M "A 7 H { R
Mutterings
By Jim Foltz.

Joe c. Curtis, Welder and no.
tary public. Any notary work
for Vets of World War / or II
handled gratis. Vets not having
filed for mastering out pay
bring discharge papers to Joe,
he has forms, will fill out same
and forward. Any service re-
quired by vets wife, families or
widows graciously rendered
courtesy Waltz Hodges Post Nc.
348. Brother Joe has been serV-
ice officer of this post the past
eight years qualified and ca
pable of performing any and
all duties required.
Lloyd Petteys, &c gunner,
U S. Naval Training Station,
New Orleans, La. home for sew
eral days furlough. Visited boys
in plant. have you noticed the
enjoyment these boys seem to
derive from these visits?
Publishing rumors from red
box made me 7 one man plumb
ing project a couple weeks ago.
Plumber w. S there with wrench,
ready to make direct connection.
1t is tough life boys. P. S.
We always thought a plumber
had to have licence.
Who was that wise Mather
employee who tried to curse d
policeman as he does the men
he works with? spent the mite
in Jail and paid some few dol
lars next morning for his in
sulting talk?
McNeal signed up TO work
with Chuck's gang Sunday.
Every one was shocked by this.
Management decided work Sun
day wasn't necessary with this
crew and Happy didn't get to
use his seniority.
Beautiful Drummond Island,
surrounded by Lake Huron. Up
where the big fish bite day or
mite and bull frogs are IA inches
long. This spot known to Fore
man H. P. Evans who has a
new, unused two year old Mer-
curry motor ready to go-OPA
says no. We are sorry Harry.
Art Pearson gets great amount
of exercise each morning going
from one dept. foreman to an
other pleading for the loan of
man or two, Seldom is success
full but he tries very hard.
Our hopes base3 on favorable
recommendations by conciliator
arose some what ike the bal
loon which drifted away. They
like the balloon became deflated
anG fell when we read the
WLB's directive.
Chester Ruth entered Mercy
Hospital June 26. We all wish
you a speedy tecovery.
Have you joined the CIO Po-
litical Activity Group? See
Frank Kowalski if he hasn't con-
tacted you by this time.
Bumper room seniority o. K.
By committee and management.
Does that answer question in
red box?
Life-like effigy made by boys
ii finish room was real piece
of art and closely resembled the
model as he struts about NUT
tering to himself Frank Kowal-
ski later read the services for
the effigy and is now being call
ed Father Frank by the boys.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-30
Typos Defe at ANA.
BY Ted Modrowski

CHICAGO (FP)-LocaI 16,
Init. Typographical Union, was
declared the winner over the
mighty American Medical Assn
enemy of health insurance, in
a circuit court decision. ANA,
which hates social security in
any form, must pay back social
security taxes for 653 employees
otaling up to $500,000, the court
ruled in case brought by union
printers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-30
MALE help
WANTED

Machine Operators
Student Eng.
Milling Machine Operators
Hammond Drill Operators
Conveyor Tender
Packer & Unloader
Inspectors
Stock Room Attn.
Junior Clerk and General Office
Work for Female and Male
Hammer Men and
General Drop Forge Work.
Apply at Employment Office
c/o Harold Dean
Local IL, UAW-CIO Bldg.
425 Winthrop Street.
Open daily, Monday to Friday
900 a. m. to 200 p. m.
Those notD employed a their
highest. skill in 11dr tCork should
not apply for the positions listed
dboDe, or lUithout q release from
their previous employer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-30
Workers RePeI
Cos Attack

CHICAGO (FP)Members of
Local 65, United Steelworkers,
CIO, were subjected to a gas at
tack when they invaded Car
negie-Illinois South Works cafe
terra. An anti-sabotage crew
donned gas helmets and coun-
ter-attacked. The enemy was
discovered lurking in a nest of
4F eggs encrusted in sand
wiches.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-30
AUTOMOBILES
Cameo Cd
Opener

Opener
By Ted Modrowski
THE SAD TRUTH
For long time past, Ray
Samberg, Foreman in Dept. Z
had been somewhat friendly
toward labor, but ''the worm
has turned" In our little chat
the other day Ray, you men
toned cooperation. How abou-
some?
"AlI successful men know
how to hold their tongues. -
Talleyrand.
Shorty Marok please note.
WOE is ME
Wonder why Jack Boyce
always pulls out his pad anc
looks at the clock when thi:
writer enters his department
Building up a case Jack? Il
you don't like yours truly tc
talk to the people in your de-
partment, borrow some intes-
tinaI fortitude from someone
who has it and tell me off. You
and the rest of the outfit may
be fed up with our actions
around the plant, but hell man.
we've been fed up with yours
for long time now but we
carry on. So keep your chin
up, that's right, both of them,
because brighter days are com
ing and you can always go back
to Kansas City.
PEOPLE ASK WHY?
Virginia Mucci smiles SO
much brighter now that she is
down in Department 2.
Pearl Szewczykowski CONT
nues to keep going back to the
hospital. We know it's tough
down here Pearl but it still is
better than the hospital. Hurry
up and get back here will you,
the old place doesn't seem the
same without you.
Frank Michalski is aging SO
fast. Haven't you heard folks,
he's grandpappy.
The Cameo Softball team con-
tinues to lose ball games. It's
merely force of habit. They've
been on the short end of every
thing around here for so long
now that they would like TO
continue that way.
This writer is spending more
time in Dept. l now than he
ever had before. Well maybe
it's Jack (Kewpie Doll) Boyce,
or maybe the Committee is all
down there and then maybe Ito
make everybody happy and
keep in line with your think
ing) he has an inspiration
there. You name it and you can
have it.
We all don't get a little more
active in our Union. This my
friends we cannot answer, but
in the not to distant future it
may be necessary for a few
others to start doing a little
work too. You know we like
to do things other than work
ourselves, maybe spend a little
more time with the family, play
some golf or maybe go fishing.
Yep, we're getting mighty tired.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-30

ST. LOUIS (FP)-Broadening
the list of international unions
officially indorsing the fourth
term, the 37th convention of Init.
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Em-
ployes (AFL) called for reelec-
ton of Pres. Roosevelt to the
tune of a unanimous vote and a
noisy 5-minute demonstration by
the more than 1000 delegates.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
12 NIPPON SHIPS SUNK
 SUBMARINES
Trip pHammer Blows Hi Jap Shipping-WiII Attack
 Pardmushiro

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. = Navy submarines have destroyed another dozen Japanese ships in new trip hammer blows in the United States campaign to wipe out enemy forces at selected" spots and outflank them into starvation elsewhere.
 This disclosure is made by Secre- tary of Navy Frank Knox at con- ference with the newsmen and he told with enthusiasm the progress in the Pacific War.
 Kncx spoke of the Marshall Is- lands campaign and of the most splendid example of cOordinated air and sea forces.
 The Secretary made it clear that the Marshalls campaign on gi- gantic scope was not to interfere with the planning of new strokes, bombing and smelling of the Para mushiro Islands in the North Pa cific.
 Tt is rather an emphatic way to notify the Japs we are still claiming the offensive" said Knox.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
NAzIS CLAIM ALLIES BOMB
 pApAL HOME
No Confirmation as Air men Have Strict Orders
 to Avoid Areas

LONDON, Feb. 12.-A broadcast from Transocean, German propa- ganda agency said it is estimated at Vatican City that 500 were killed in the bombing of the Papal sum- mer residence at Castel Gandollfo, south of Rome by Allied planes"
 Up to Thursday night 400 bodies were taken from the ruins of the completely destroyed College Of Propaganda. The Vatican radio yesterday indicated the Pope's sum mer residence itself was not hit, but three bombs fell on the college ad- jacent to the villa.
 Fifteen thousand refugees were housed in the villa and adjacent buildings, and the radio reported many casualties without identifying the bombing planes.
 Allie d headquarters dispatches from Algiers said heavy bombings have been carried out by the Allies against Albano, a mile and "a half from Castel Gandollfo, but no con- firmation that Vatican property was hit, as Allied airmen have strict in- structions to avoid it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
WAKE ISLE E RAIDED
 18TH TIME
Unnamed AtoIIs on Mar shdIIs Are Pounded by
 Navy, Air Forces

PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 12.-Cor- onado bombers, Fleet Air Wing, struck Wake Island for the second straight day as warships of the Pacific fleet and Army planes con- tinued relentless pounding of the Jap held Marshall islands, Admiral w. Nimitz announces.
 Dive bombers and fig h ter dropped more than 100 tons of ex- plosives on unnamed atolls in the Marshalls Thursday without any fighter oppositions. The commun- ique does not state whether any planes were lost as the result of antiaircraft fire, likewise no men, tion is made of damage inflicted on Wake Island or whether opposition was encountered.
 Admiral Nimitz merely said Eve suffered no loss on the thirteenth time Wake has been attacked since the Japanese captured the island more than two years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
GERMANS IN OCCUPATION,
 pApAL HOME
CasteI Gando|fo Bombed by Allies as Vital
 Enemy Target
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Feb. 12.-Allied head quarters have announced that the Germans have installed themselves in the Papal palace and grounds at Castel Gandolfo south of Rome and the premises are therefore sub- ject to Allied bombing.
 The announcement said that Cas- tel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer home now lies in the battle area, and contains heavy saturation of German soldiers. Whenever vital enemy targets appear, they must of necessity be bombed"
 The Vatican City radio said Thursday that Castel Gandoffo, 15 miles from Vatican City and g miles inland from Anzio, has been bombed for the third time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
DEATH RING AT(HERkASY
 CLOSED NOW
Desperate Attempt to Help Trapped Germans
 Frustrated

MOSCOW, Feb. 12-The Russian Army is fighting at the approaches to Korsun, the last big center of re- sistance of the encircled Germans in the upper Dnieper bend.
 Corporations for their extermina- tion are coming as logical con- clusion,' the Red Star declared in dispatch which reported wild con- fusion within the separate groups of Nazis isolated from the main body of the trapped enemy, as the Red Army drove spearheads into their wavering ranks despite the clinging mud and lack of roads.
 A final desperate attempt of Il Junker transport planes to reach the encircled Germans was frus- trated, when Soviet artillery dom mating the area, blew the planes to pieces when they landed in the open field within the Cherkasy death ring
 General Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army has consolidated along a 220-mile line stretching from south- west of Lutsk to a point north of Uman with the important rail hub of Shepetovka captured yesterday in the center branch of the Kiev to Warsaw trunk railway, which runs from Lutsk through Rovno Shepetovka, and Berdichev to Kaza- tin and Progresbische.
 Soviet engineers are known to have repaired the most southern section of this line and quick at tention to sections around Shepe- tovka should have this main com munications artery operating with in a short time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
Naval Action Helps to Re- pulse Onward Move
 ment al Bedthhedd AIR FORCES ARE HELD
 DOWN, BAD WEATHER
American Troops in New Gains on Casino
 Front, Report

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Feb 12.--Allied warships, laundering into action, have helped to repulse the new German assault on the storm swept invasion beach, head below Rome.
 A Headquarters officer announc- ed that despite Nazi pressure on the front lines there the situation remained relatively unchanged" for the past three days.
 Rain, snow, sleet and gales can celled Allied air blows against the Germans pressing against the inva- sion bridgehead, leaving the Ger mans free to move up troops and supplies. The Germans are harried only by Naval and land artillery bombardment.
 A single Nazi attack yesterday was flung unsuccessfully against the Americans in the area of Cisterna where hard fighting continues.
 On the Casino front to the east, American forces made new gains after bitter struggles in the hills and to the west, the Americans drove to within half mile of Cas- ilina the Germans only corridor into the city.
 i Naval units, including the British cruisers Mauritus and Dido moved close inshore to shell the left flank of the Germans as they attacked.
 John Daily CBS correspondent said this morning that after four anxious days the core of the Allied beachhead below Rome remains se- cure.
 Associated Press Correspondent Kenneth Dixon, with the Fifth Army in Italy said stormy skies curtailed air activity of the Allied Air Forces for 43 hours.
 Dixon says German armored units, striking southward against the British beachhead positions north of Anzio on which the Allied chances of holding the extending beachhead below Rome largely de- pended. were met by artillery and for a brief time utterly repulsed. The weather which prohibits the Allied air attacks, gives the Ger mans a freer hand to unleash reinforcements are arriving from growing power on the ground and the north and also from the Rome sectors.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
! AIRDR0kES ARE ATTACKED Al BIG BASE
Over 20 Enemy Fighters Shot Down-Wewdk
 Again Smashed

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb. 12.-More than 250 bombers and fighters, the largest raiding force ever assembled from Allied bases Vunakanau and Tobera airdromes in the Solomons, struck Rabaul's on Wednesday in the heaviest raid on the Japanese New Britain fort ress in months, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur announces.
 Fifty enemy fighters rose to in-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
F DEAD IN COLD WAVE
 IN NATION
By Associated Press

A storm which swept across the Nation yesterday left the midwest and northeast laundering through snowdrifts
 It is blowing out to sea off the East Coast but there is no promise of relief accompanying the cold wave.
 Ot least 12 deaths are attributed to the storm and Kansas, Nebraska. the Dakotas and Iowa are groping in sub-zero temperatures.
 Kansas City reported a tempera- ture of 5 degrees below this raorn- ing. Leavenworth. Kansas, is 10 de- grees below and Lincoln. Nebraska is B degrees below. No snow or wind is reported in any of these towns.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
5iarnese Twins
 Separated by Mayo Surgeon

ROCHESTER, Feb. 12.--An un- usual operation by Mayo Clinic surgeon for the removal of a "par- asitic twin" restored Ernie Defort, of Winniueg, to normal life.
 The operation was performed in October by pr. Henry Meyerdink on the boy, who was born with a partial Siamese twin attached to his body at the lower chest and upper abdomen. The operation last ed for more than two hours.
 The boy now is home and ready to reenter school and participate in active athletics.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
Tend Lease Weapon For vieiofy'k Good
 Reading; By 5ieiiinius
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.-When so singular and readable a report to the nation is made as Lend Lease-Weapon For Victory" by Edward R, Stettinius, Jr., its di- rector from the start until few months ago, when he became Undersecretary of State, it is worth more than passing notice.
 I am reliably informed that MT. Stettinius has ordered all his royal ties turned over to Army and Navy relief funds. To have issued it as a public document, which it certain ly is, would have been to hide it from the general public which, as rule, doesn't buy public docu- ments. There is nothing dry as dust" about MT. Stettinius' story. Often, 1t is as exciting as colorful accounts of the military campaigns.
 To even the most casual reader, it must be apparent how much the approximately s20000, 100000 we have spent in food, planes, weapons. trucks and Ships in aid to our AL lies has saved us Tn lives and how far it has gone in checking the enemy until we could throw our own forces into the struggle.
 It is hardly too much to claim that Lend-Lease turned the tide in Egypt and paved the way for our entire Mediterranean offensive. Il may be denied but it can't be dis proved that Lend-Lease provided that margin of supplies which stemmed the Nazi drive into Russia and even now is contributing tc the great Eastern front collapse. Il is very probable that Lend- Lease to China has kept that courageous nation in the war against Japan.
 Stettinius makes no simple dec. larations to that effect. He pile. up the facts, and leaves the claims to the politicians and historians.
 Those facts and figures give s dramatic accounting of the obstacle: and the heartbreaks of the men who had to man the supply routes-tht U-boat infested waters, the Burma road; the long trek through Te- heran. the endless junket to Aus tralia; the back breaking air route. half around the world.
 Stettinius stars his story well be. fore Lend-Lease was ever heard of He goes back to the bloody days O Dunkik when this unprepared ma tion rushed old Enfield rifles ant antiquated French 75s to the be leaguered British. He tells all o the story of World War I destroy CTS for bases, certainly the real pre- cursor of Lend-Lease. He tells O the long debate in Congress ol HR. l776 and how 1t finally becam a law in March. 1941
 What he doesn't tell is how afte
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
GREAT ATTACK OF JApS IN BURMA
 E BEATEN BACK
By Associated Press

A Melbourne radio broadcast re- corded by U. s. Government moni- tors asserted that Allied troops have "repulsed the greatest Jap attack in the Srakan area in Burma and the Japs were driven back beyond the Mayu Eidge. The Allied troops are now massing for great coun- ter-attack."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
PATTERSON 0pp05ED TO
 DEFERMENT
Declares Opposition 10 Lei Off Those in Log
 ging Industry

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-AsseIt- ing the Army alone is currently 100000 men in arrears in its in- duction needs, Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson declared emphatically against a blanket draft deferment for any industry.
 Testifying before the House Mill tary Affairs subcommittee, Patter- son opposed the pending bill which would authorize deferment by local draft boards of men found essen- tial to the logging and pulpwood industry.
 Rep. Philbin said he estimated there is shortage of 22,OO0 men in the industry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-12
MCCORMICK
 PULLS BACK
 Ills NAME
Will Not Enter Primaries for COP. Presiden-
 tidI Nomination

CHICAGO, H., Feb. 12. - Col. Robert Mccormick, Editor and Pulp fisher of the Chicago Tribune, has formally withdrawn his name as a possible entry on the Illinois pri- mary ballot for the Republican Presidential nomination.
 A registered letter containing Mo- Cormick's signed statement an- nouncing his withdrawal is en- route to the Secretary of States office at Springfield.
 A petition to place Mccormick s name on the April ballet was filed by the Republican Nationalist Re- vival Committee.
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