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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25
PROTEGE OF BOB
COLEMAN, new
Brave SLUGGER
BY CARL LUCDQUIST
UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent


New York, April IS U.P0 =
Three ninth inning homers in as
many playing days by Elmer
(Butch) Nieman of the Boston
Braves was manager Bob Coleman's
big dividend today for three hours
Of hitting instruction In spring
training camp.
Coleman believed Nieman had
more potentially as a hitter than
he showed last year, when he batted
an anemic 1855. So when the Braves
pitched camp at Georgetown Uni
versity in Washington he took the
ex-Kansas State College football
star aside and gave him lessons on
how to pull the ball.
Prophetic
you'll hit for more distance and
you'll boost your average by Is
points" Coleman told him. That
day. on April S, Nieman indicated
what was to come later when after
three hours of working with his
stance, he hit the longest homer Of
the training camp season. He's been
delivering ever since with plenty Of
hits of all sorts and the three ninth
inning homers is the big payoff.
He's now batting 1850 with nine hits
in Is times at bat, an average which
has paced the Braves to a fourth
place tie with the Cincinnati Reds.
Yesterday. Hall Gregg of the
Brooklyn Dodgers appeared to be
coaSting to his second victory. He
was nursing a to lead when the
Braves came to bat in the last of the
ninth. Things still didn't look too
dark for him after three singles
produced one run. Then Nieman
came to bat and hit a three-run
homer over the right field screen to
give the Braves an 8 to win. Jim
Tobin, not in his usual good form,
gained a 10-hit victory, his second.
Ottie Hits Two
Home runs provided the margin
of victory in the only other major
league game played yesterday. Man.
ager Mel OFT of the New York
Giants made two, each with a man
on base to account for four runs as
the Giants defeated the visiting
Phillies to q Otis hitting support
gave Rookie Pitcher Andy Hansen
all the help he needed to gain his
second victory, f1ve-hit job.
All of the other major league
games were postponed because of
rain.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25
ScoviII Girls
State Pin Champs
(Special TO The DemOcrat)

VOpCCA6H " TAG DcNNUCF1ET
Bridgeport, April "a - Rolling a
sizzling $50 for two strings, in
GLIDING high single of 1870, Miss
B. Knickerbocker of the Scovill E..
r. A. duckpin bowling team of Wa
terbury, paced her mates to the
Connecticut Industrial Girls Cham
pionship here tonight; the visitors
defeating Raybestos girls in two
straight games. In the second game,
Miss F. Reynolds tied the 100 high
single of Miss Knickerbocker, as the
ScCvill girls rolled a highly credit
able $50 to win by SO pins. Scores:
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25
N.B.C. Baseball
Meet At Hartford

Woonsocket, r. T. April Is = u.
p The Rhode Island Amateur
baseball champion will be deter
mined here July 7 after state wide
tournament, the National Baseball
Congress. announced today.
Preliminaries will be played at
Blackstone, Mass, with several
Rhode Island teams competing.
Other state tournaments will be
staged at Hartford, Conn, Windsor,
VT. and Claremont. N. H. The
Maine and Massachusetts, sites will
be announced later.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25
BOSTON

E-Basinski. Wallen, Mast. OBJ
Basinski, Cutler, Holmes, Wallen,
Gregg, Sukeforth. 3B-Culler. HR-
Nieman. Sac. Basnski, Cutler. Left
Dodgers 6: Braves 6. BB-Of
Gregg 2, Tobin l. SO-by Gregg 4,
Tobin 2. WP-Gregg. Umpires-Pin-
ELI, Ballanfantand, Borgess.. Time
-2:32.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25

Games Today
Philadelphia at Polo Grounds
Brooklyn at Boston
Chicago at Cincinnati
(Only games scheduled)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25

Majority leader of the Board Of
Aldermen, who has been appealed
to by Industrial Recreation asso-
citation authorities for an alder
manic hearing, relative to the
Ira. application for use Of Mu-
nuicipal Stadium which has been
fatty refused by the Board Of
Park Commissioners, on the
grounds that softball play by the
Ira. would "injure" the sacred
soil of the city-owned stadium
paid for Except about 209o) by
the United States government.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Yesterday
Detroit at Chicago postponed,
rain)
st. Louis at Cleveland POSTPONED,
raiD
Boston at Washington (post-
poned, rain)
(Only games schcduled)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Yesterday
New York 5. Philadelphia 2
Boston S, Brooklyn 6
Chicago at Cincinnati post
poned, rain)
(Only games scheduled)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25

Efforts are being made to obtain
In America complete new plant
for pumping water from the famous
Alrnaden mere " mines In Spain,
whose equipment las greatly de-
Perforated during the war. Il
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25

Games Today
New York at Philadelphia
Boston at Washington
st. Louis at Cleveland (2)
Detroit at Chicago
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25
Probable Pitchers
(By United Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Brooklyn lombard 0-0) at Bos-
ton Barrett Old.
Philadelphia Lee Old at New
York friedman 1-O.
Chicago (Prim Old at Cincinnati
(HeuSSsr LOO.
Only games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston (DreiseWerd OLD at Wash
ington (Niggeling Old.
Detroit Benton 1-O at Chicago
Nee 1-0).
New York (Dubiel LOO at Phil
adelphia (Flores Old.
st. Louis (Potter OLD and Hol-
lingsworth OLD at Cleveland (Bagby
10 and Gromek LOO (two games).
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25

Yesterdays STAR - Elmer
(Butch) Nieman, whose three-run
homer and two infield outs drove
across five runs in Boston's 8 to 6
victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25

Jersey City, N. J.-Freddie Daw-
son, 14l, Chicago, knocked out Sam
my Daniels, 1871, Baltimore, 90.
Hartford, Conn, Charles Nut
tingly, 1854, Springfield, Mass, out
pointed Johnny Brown. 156. New
York, Q0); Ray Puig. 1879, drew with
Red Cap" Cooper, 143, Spring
field.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25
Last Nights Fites
by UNITED PRESS

New York. broadway Arena)-
Artie Levine, 157, Brooklyn, out
pointed Joe Bennett, 1914, New
York, go.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25
Lux Golf League
StaMdings
Weekly sehedu Ie

20 Club
Koss, ~; LaPoint. "A; Goulet, 4S;
Gowen, As; and Reed ~.
Weekly Schedule
Slason-LaPoint VS.. Jenkins
Davino,
Gowen-Polancer VS.. Koss-
Aucello.
Cahill-Reed VS.. Goulet- Keuster.
Book Haight VS.. Tuttle-Zello.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-25

White Plains, N. Y.-Vince La
Saliva. 146, Mount Vernon. N. Y,
outpointed Joe Manfro, 142 "a, New
Yak, (8); Carl Olson, 1909, New
Haven, Conn.,, drew with Jimmy
Sanders, 1870, New Yrok, (6).
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Copyright, 1s4s, King Features Syndicate,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-07

body Of John Paul Jones, returned
in 1905 from France, where he had
died in obscurity.
That year, too, saw the compost
ton Of Anchors Aweigh,' 4 tune
by bandrnaster Charles A. Elm
norman, that became the battle
song Of the Navy. Fittingly, it was
first sung at the ArYny-Navy game
in 1907 - which the niddies won.
In those years the roll Of mid
shipmen graduates reads like an
honor roll Of World War II lead
ers, for in 1902 Emory S. Land,
9Th, and Wilson Brown, 44th rank
in the class, received diplomas; In
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1903, Harold r. Stark; in 1904 VIII
liam F. Halsey, Jr.: and in 1905,
Royal Z. lngerson and Chester W.
Nimitz.
Also from these historic grounds
came Ernest j. King, Admiral OF
the heet and commander in chief
OF the United States Fleet and
chief Of naval operations now;
Raymond A. Spruance, Thomas c.
.klncaid, Aubrey W. Fitch, William
K. Hewitt and others destined to
light in both world wars.
A century of academy history
lies behind, and just as Vice Ad.
mlral David Porter steered the
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school from the doldrums after the
Civil War. Vice Admiral Aubrey
Wray Fitch now is at the superin.
tendent's helm ready to chart the
course for another great expan.
sion. Where Porter brought steam
and the ironclads, fore-runners of
today's dreadnoughts, Fitch is
ready to give the academy wings.
The great men-of-war of the
fleet are a far cry from the Bon
'Homme Richard of job Paul
Jones, but it was Jones who gave
the keynote for the ever-expensive
academy program, We've Just
begun to fight!''
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-07
Allies Turning Out
Invasion Currency

BERLIN. Oct. g. M Allied
printing presses already have turn
ed out more than $1,000, 900, 900 Of
green, red and brown invasion
money to finance the four-power
occupation Of Germany.
A reliable source said the Rus
slams had printed $5,00O,000, 900
marks, the Americans 5000, 000,-
600, the British 1000, 100000, and
the French more than 1000, 900, 900.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-07
Naval Academy Celebrates Centennial
With An Euen Expanding Future Ahead

academy became the largest
dormitory in the world.
With Admiral Dewey laying the
cornerstone amid familiar scenes
where he was graduated 50 years
before, the handsome chapel was
under construction June 3, 1904.
Here in a crypt, under the dome
which towers 200 feet, lies the
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The mark Is worth ten cents q
the military exchange rate.
Only a portion Of the invasion
money has been placed in circula.
ton. Because of a difference in
the financial system used, the
Russians have spent a higher per-
centage of their money than the
other occupying powers.
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our government; second, the pent-up de-
mands for goods and services to the point
where some are willing to pay excess prices
even in black markets to satisfy their impa-
tient and selfish desires; third, the desires of
equally selfish unions to take advantage of
the situation and force unreasonable wage
increases.
Imitation is the worst of all economic
diseases. 1t reduces the value of money in
terms of what money will buy. 1t reduces the
value of the savings of the people. 1t under
mines security 1t underwriters depression.
1t destroys confidence 1t creates unemploy-
ment. Imitation must be avoided.
REAL In free market ard in the absence
PRICES of subsidies and speculation, the
cost of human effort, be it in the
form of wages, salaries OF other forms of
compensation, quickly determines the price
we pay for goods.
Higher wages without a corresponding
increase in productivity are indationary.
Nothing is gained unless higher wages mean
more goods and services, more customers
and more good Obs. This requires individual
application to the job in hand and technology
cal progress all along the line-better ways of
doing all the things that must be done to
produce and deliver products to customers
at reasonable prices. This takes time.
A minority, by monopoly or by pressure
group action, may temporarily profit at the
expense of others. But the idea of wage in-
creases all along the line without a CORE
spending increase in productivity is delu-
sion. All the people cannot lift themselves
by their bootstraps.
UNION Today, unions in our plants
DEMANDS are demanding 81 hours pay
for 40 hours work. Their de-
mands if granted would result in over 81
hours pay at present base rates for 4s hours
of work where plants are working or such
a schedule.
Equivalent or greater demands have been
made on our suppiers-the parts manufac-
turers-the electrical industry-the steel in
dustry the rubber industry = the oil and
gasoline industry-the railroads-in fact, on
practically every industry involved in the
production of automobiles
WAGES AND General Motors wages are
PRICES now at an all-time high
and are importantly higher
than the average wages paid throughout the
country for similar work.
The present government sterilization policy
;ded. If an adjustment II, price levels ,
be fairly considered.
made, it must be recognized that the
, the prices Of products produced.
ent must be avoided. Only productive
I'd satisfy the desires Of the american pc
ERAL MOT
re and Better Things for More Peep
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DANGER ON THE PRODUCTION FRONT
Ho,c Much Viii You Haze to Pay for -FOUR Ne,c Cor?
Hop Long VIII You Haze to Wait to Get Iii?

REcoNvERSloN Strikes are threatening
BEGGING the entire automobile
DOWN industry. General
Motors is being steei-
feally singled ont for attack to enforce I'M
reasonable demands. Some of our plants have
already been closed and shipment of mate
rails from the plants of many of our suppliers
has already been stopped by strikes.
The interests of all Americans should be
considered. This is not only General Motors
problem. 1t is national one As we'll If our
plants are closed by strikes the strikes will be
against the interests of all the people of our
country as much Is they will be against
General Motors.
Aftermath While the wn Is over,
OF WAR the aftermath Of war pre-
sents big problems. War is
terribly wasteful in blood and treasure. This
one was especially 50. 1t was not prosperity
even though to some it may have seemed to
be. And the immediate aftermath of such
war cannot be prosperity either. The cleanup,
the mopping-up, the. reconversion still re-
quire hard work, patience, understanding,
and some sacrifice on the part of all of us.
INDUSTRY Our fighting men crushed
ON The JOB our enemies with the huge
quantity of weapons pro-
duced by American industry. But that is
behind us. We would like to have been better
prepared for peace, but the terrific demands
of the war for men and materials did not
make this possible Now we have planned a
second about effort and stand ready and
anxious to do m equally impressive job.
PROBLEMS OF American industry has
REcoNvERSIoN proved its ability to
perform. 1t has the
know-how, the resources, the courage to
push ahead. But even with these fine assets
it cannot do the job alone. 1t must have the
goodwill and backing Of the people of our
country.
Our second about effort to meet a critical
situation will bog down unless the real facts
are recognized and sound measures promptly
taken to solve the problems. Temporarily,
vbile sve are iq3;d4t;ng The wa,, there should
be sound National wAge- price policy to
stabilize and expand the economy.
DANGER OF The most serious threat we
IMITATION face is that of runaway
initiation. The danger
comes from three sources: first, the wartime
and current tremendous deficit spending of
Runaway imitation must be az
interests Of all the people mus
# .Uage and salary increases a,
must be adequately reflected
Internal strife and unen,ploy
increase our standard Of living
GEN
IN
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NORWEGIAN TO VOTE
OSLO, Oct. 6.-tP)-NorWegians
will vote Monday in their first
national election since 1896. The
vote is expected to total 1000, 900.
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permits wage increases without government
approval onlyif such increases will not re-
suit in request to increase prices. The
formula the OPA has proposed for pricing
our new products does not recognize or allow
all the actual increases in our costs that have
been incurred since 1912.
Neither is there any precision in The pres
emf OPA formula for increasing prices to
compensate for the additional costs that
would be incurred if sVages and salaries we're
increased at this time.
A sound and equitable solution must be
found in the interests of not only our 400,000
employees, but our $4,000 stockholders,
our 1914 automobile dealers, who have had
no new cars for over three years, our 10000
subcontractors and suppliers and their en-
ployes, and the more than 10000, 900 poten-
tial customers who are anxiously waiting for
new cars and our other products they need 50
badly.
WARTIME General Motors did not make
PROFITS big profits during the war.
Although sales and employ
ment doubled, the average yearly net profit
in dollars earned during the war was less
than the average prewar net profit. Dlvi-
dends paid to stockholders averaged less than
those paid before the war.
The war profit limitation policy voluntarily
adopted by General Motors Immediately after
Pearl Harbor was so reasonable that the re-
sulting profits were accepted in renegot;ation
without change by our government for the
years 1912, 1913 and 1914.
During the war, Victory Was Our Business.
EXCESS WAGES Demands are being
REFUSED made for higher wages
without any CORE
spending increase in production, on the as
sumption that the additional costs can be
absorbed from profits previously earned OF
from uncertain future profits.
General Motors cannot use money saved
up for many years for the purpose of
undermining and expanding its plants and
providing more good jobs, to pay excess
wages for work not performed. The money
cannot be spent twice.
Neither can excess wages be currently
paid from presumed future excess profits
when realistic forecast of costs shows there
will be no such excess profits.
Nor can we pay from current income the
increased wages demanded when the present
OPA policy holds prices to substantially
1912 levels-especially in view of the fact
that there have been important increases in
wages and operating costs since 1912.
.st be made at this time, the
increase costs and such costs
7ork and More good jobs wiH
lie.
IRIS
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-16
Retail Council
TO Meet

Tentative plans have been
made for a meeting of the
Toledo Joint Council of the
URWDSEA-CIO early in March
to complete the organization of
the Council and elect officers.
The Joint Council voted by
Local 363 and Local Is at their
Joint annual meeting earlier
this year will give each organi'
zation equal representation on
the Council and bring about
closer relationships and CO.
ordination in the two Locals.
Members of the board have
been chosen by both Locals
363 and Is and will elect their
officers and perfect their plans
at the April meeting.
Each Local will maintain its
own identity and full compile
ment of officers. The advantage
will be that under the Joint
Council more efficient and
businesslike conduct of the af-
fairs of both Locals can be
maintained. Approximately $500
members will be represented by
the new organizational setup.
rdhmtheetaoin
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-16

to his city, made his fellow
workers of the CIO in Toledo
proud to know that one of their
members had the distinction of
being the first to set foot on the
east side of the Rhine.
A member of the CIO ever
since it was organized at Fol-
gers in 1887, Sergeant Drabik
was staunch believer in his
union. He is member of Local
IS, UAW-CIO.
Fellow workers at Folger's S
Packing House are singing the
praises of their fellow member.
His brother, Victor, is also en-
ployed at Folger's and like the
rest of the workers is proud of
his brothers accomplishment.
Sergeant Drabik's father and
mother have farm near Hob
land and both are proud for the
great honor which has been
given their soldier son and
thankful that his life has been
spared.
1t is believed that some token
of recognition will be proposed
at the next meeting of the To-
ledo Industrial Union Council
March % to honor the worker
soldier who has brought honor
to his family, his city and the
CIO.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-16
Wise Aids
Skilled Drive

Jack Wise, International rep
resentative attached to the Of
flee of Regional Director Rich
ard Gosser has been aiding in
the skilled trades organizational
drive at Packard TX and in
other Toledo plants in which the
skilled workers are under
process of organization.
In addition to aiding with the
skilled trades drive, Mr.. Wise
has been active in making fin
ished maps for the PAC and in
completing technical charts for
tool and die, office and foundr,,
workers. Various technical
charts and diagrams have also
been completed which will aid
in compiling the rates for va
rious types of skilled jobs in
2-B.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-16

member in tearing down a
notice containing the names
of all the workers in the de-
partment who were asked to
donate money to the Units SOL
dier welfare fund. The worker
who tore down the notice, did
so because there was a figure 0
after his name showing that he
did not donate to the fund.
A second notice was posted
and another worker went to the
bulletin board, tore off the
notice, crumpled it into a ball
ard threw it in the department
stewards face.
Ask Company Aid
Unit officials asked the COM
pany to take the men off their
jobs in order to discuss their ac-
ton. When the company refused
to comply with the unions re-
quest, the workers refused to
continue their work until the
offenders had been removed
from their machines.
Company officials ordered
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-16

will also benefit from the
wage hike.
Increases were based upon
plant inequalities according to
Union officials who stated that
the increases will be paid re-
troactive to July "a, 1914.
Increases to be paid the work
ers will vary and will be ex-
planned to the workers by Local
IL officials. Total amount of
the retroactive pay will also be
outlined to the workers in q
Meeting of the WHY'S Unit.
Also approved by the WLB
was a vacation clause which will
increase the payments on the
number of hours worked during
he year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-16

the workers to return to their
machines or warned that the
power would be shut down and
the employees sent home. The
company's ultimatum was not
met and at 9:10 a. m. the power
was shut off.
Unit officials point out that
the next shift went to work,
proof that there was no strike,
and that work was resumed
Monday morning without any
meeting of the Unit.
Both offenders were disci-
plined by the Unit and accepted
their penalties without protest.
Unit spokesmen stated that
the company had used the issue
to bring bad publicity to the
union and that the National
Supply management had grasped
upon the situation to make it
appear that the workers were
out. on strike.
Edmund Birtwistle, e, Unit
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-16
Unemployment caused
BY Cos Shortage

COLUMBUS, O., March 12-
For the second consecutive
month the gas shortage was a
major factor in increased claims
for unemployment compensation
in Ohio during February. Chas.
H. Jones, administrator of the
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation, said today that
nearly one-third of the 1855
new claims received by the Bu-
reau during February, an eight
per cent gain over January, were
the result of this cause. 1t mark
ed the first time in Bureau op-
erations that new claims receiv-
ed in February outnumbered
the January claims.