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The messenger., 1945-06-01

monia which he contracted during the few days he was imprisoned by the Nazi.
 William F. Poetzsch, IT,, S2/c, is at the Naval Air Training Sta tion, Norman, Okla.
 Staff Sgt. Herbert Messenger is stationed on the west coast of Panama.
 Rodney Keene, S2/c, of an Atlantic Navy Unit is home on leave.
 Herbert Levinson of the Seventh Army recently visited with his brother Leonard, who is with the Ninth. During the call, Leonard's outfit received orders to move and Herbert took him to the designated location in the Jeep he was driv- ing.
 Francis Spera was home for a brief visit before starting over seas.
 Major Alfred K. Buchanan, who is assigned to a special Military OOII11IIlOOlOIl, ID 1lOW III AuOC1 c1Id'
 We are indebted to Leonard Lev inson for late copies of The Rail splitter and the German edition of The Stars and Stripes, two other popular service papers.
 Kenneth Mclaughlin, stationed at Chapel Hill, N.C., has been home for a visit. It was his first leave in a year.
 Staff Sgt. Robert Mccormick of the Mediterranean A.A.F. is expected home soon.
 Cpl. Julian Malinosky, of Green vile, Miss, was a visitor here last month.
 Gale Jaroch has been returned to the US. for treatment at Camp Edwards.
 Ensign George Futile reports recent meeting with Dick Foxall and John Tinto, believed on Saipan says John has put on weight.
 Norwood H. Keeney has been promoted to a Sergeancy. He is with the A.A.F. in the Pacific.
 Private Nathan E. Hunter is in the Navy Hospital at Paris Island, sc. with broken and dis located bones in his foot.
 Burr Powers, S2/c, son of MT. and Mrs. Earle R. Powers of Win tonbury Avenue, has been assigned to Radar School at Fort Lauder dale, Florida.
 A letter from Francis M. Sla- mon tells us he has been moved into an area in Northern Italy.
 Now fully recovered from shock, following some fierce engagements in Germany, Robert Trombley re- ports being back with his outfit.
 Lawrence Washington has been transferred from the First to the Third Army and is now with the latter outfit at Nurnburg, Ger many.
The messenger., 1945-06-01
GJa NEWS ABOUT 0 hn E. A3z8 S@Z g "1HG TIE eoys H ON v8((A9
 TS THE WAR fRoNfSN

 His latest voyage at sea took him to Caribbean ports.
 Dwight Burnham was home on leave following completion of his boot training at Sampson, NY.
 Lieutenant and Mrs. Wilbur Burlington and son of Boston spent the week end of June 2 at the home of Mrs. Purrington's par ents, MT. and Mrs. Robert Hall of 1 Haviland Boulevard.
 A note from Jack Crane, mailed from Germany on April 28, ex- plains that his disqualification in February was due to an illness of several weeks duration-not an injury.
 Nelson Gagnon, formerly sta toned at Detroit, Michigan, is in the hospital at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Chicago, for treatment of his eye. He suf- fers from double vision.
 Upon the collapse of the Krauts, Edward Thomson, brother of Colonel William o. Thompson, who was reported missing in action in Germany several months ago, was located in a Nazi prison camp. He is now with his family in Hartford.
 Harold K. Pitt of the Merchant Marines has an assignment with the American Export Lines out of New York.
 Last heard of, Russell Shupe was on the high seas heading for post in one of the Pacific army hospitals.
 Eugene Dexheimer was home for a short furlough Mothers Day on his way from Camp Croft, sc. to Fort Meade. Md.
 A new name on The Messenger list is that of Benedict c. Aherns, SIC of Hoskins Road. He is aboard the S.S. Sibley out of San Francisco.
 Sergeant Donald Archer is now in the European sector.
 Frederick Brown, s 1/c is at tending a radio school at Gulfport, Miss.
 Sergeant Allan G. Burns has given us a San Francisco address.
 Staff Sergeant John E. Laren- sen is at Keesler Field, Miss. Sev- eral Bloomfield boys are at this field.
 H. Jane Messenger of the WAC, who has been moved from Temple, Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana, was home recently on a short furlough.
 Coxswain Edward Haven is aboard the Occur d'Elent Victory somewhere on the Pacific.
 Raymond Porteus, s 1/c, form erly at the armed guard center, Brooklyn, NY. now assigned to S.S. Atlantic as an armed guard, has been home on leave.
 Edward Kosiorek is with the Merchant Seamen.
 Robert Boettiger was sworn into the Navy Tuesday, May 29, and is now awiting call to report for training. He was rated the third highest in this years graduating
The messenger., 1945-06-01


 ing.
 Coxswain Phelix E. Popovitch is aboard the U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard somewhere on the Pacific.
 Nicholas Karo has been made a Corporal and assigned to a main tenance company somewhere in the South Pacific. He was stationed formerly at Camp Stewart, Ga. and more recently at Fort Bliss, Texas.
 It. Leon w. Roketzki, who form erly made his home with the Karos on Cottage Grove Road, has been assigned to the Flying Tig- CTS of the 14th Air Force and is now enroute to their China base. Alexander Kriss has been trans ferred from Barksdale Field, La. to Chatham Field, Ga.
 Ralph Beaupre who was recently promoted to Sergeancy was home last month on furlough before en- barking for a Pacific Island post. He is a gunner on B-29 super fortress and expects to be flying over Japan soon. Sergeant Beau pre- last assignment was at Clovis, New Mexico.
 Alfred Christensen is home on furlough following an extensive period of operation at Iran.
 A letter from Norman Baker, who is on Okinawa, tells of his promotion to a Staff Sergeancy and has this to say of the inhab itants "Get a kick out of the kids. The little boys are quite bold but the girls are shy with their big eyes, round cheeks and flat faces you can't help liking them. I guess kids are kids the world over. Sometimes you see quite an attractive women but they are, as a rule, work-worn and quite homely. Even at that, it seems good to see women and kids running around again. We treat they we'll, give them rations, and allow them to harvest their crops. They no longer seem so frightened. Guess they realize we are not as bad as they have been told. Lot of cows and chickens running around here but we never touch them-God knows, these people need them more than we do. I still can't think of these peo- pie as our enemies"
 Ralph Wurdig of the naval forces was home on leave while his ship was being re-painted.
 Florence M. Carr of the Waves has been home on visit.
 Mickey Kohler, who was hit during the first re-invasion of Guam and is still receiving med ical treatment at the Davisville, RI. Naval Hospital, was home late last month for a few days visit.
 Gordon c. Watkins, s 2/c, is home on leave.
 Cpl. Alexander E. Andersen, of 10 Pine Street, is now instructing Judo at Fort Belvoir, Va. Of the three years three months Ander- sen has been in the service, he T.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07

John Kearns Of Torrington against Warren McArthur Corp, of Bantam, S30, beginning July 3i, strained right shoulder.
 Catherine Solberg of Naugatuck against U. 6. Rubber Co.n of Nau. gatuck, Sie,3e, beginning May 2i, fracture of left kneeeap.
 Roger Raymond of 04 Pearl Lake road against Darcey Trans. portation Co.,, of Waterbury, e7o0 beginning August 2B, compound fracture of great left toe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Your GI Rights ovasTIoNS AND ANSWERS
 oha sGRVIelMgN's PROBLEMS
By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent

Washington, Sept. 7-Here are some questions from dTs who have just returned from overseas:
 c. I will be out of the Army in about two weeks and want to get started back to college for this fall semester # possible. They tell me that getting the government to send us to school involves . lot of red tape and that I might not be able to make 1t in tlme. What do you suggest as the fastest possible meth. cd of making application, and do you think I will be able to make it for the coming semester?
 A. If you meet oil the qualiflca- tions for the educational benefits there Is no reason why you can't get your application approved in time. Go to your nearest Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Form l060, with the Regional Offlce. The application must be accompanied by Q certified photostatie copy of your certificate of discharge or release.
 c. I've been looking around for job for the last couple of weeks and although there are plenty of open. ings there isn't anything that just suits me. What unemployment compensation ls due me aS Q vet in case I want to keep looking for . while?
 A. You can get Q rniximum weekly allowance of S20 c week while you are unemployed. Depending upon your time in the service, you can get this for Q maximum of 62 weeks.
 Q. If . veteran is getting an in- creased pension, or c subsistence allowance for educational purposes, 10 he eligible to receive reAdj just ment allowances?
 A. No.
 c. The government has refused to give me my read djustment ellOw. aIlOe because they claim l turned down Q good Job that was offered to me. Can they do this legally?
 A. Yes, If they prove you actually did turn down c good lob.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
WincheIIs In AIimony IT roubIe

Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 7-(Up) --Walda Wlnchell LawiesS, io-year- old actress daughter of gossip -col- umnist Walter Wincheli, Is being sued for divorce by her husband, who seeks allmony.
 William r. LawlesS, 20, of Gam bridge, laboratory technician and part-tirne art student, said they never he'd lived together as man and wife since their surprise elope- nent last June s.
 Mistake
 Within c week of their marriage, Walda telephoned her father that she planned to seek an annulment. We made e mistake" Winchell quoted his daughter who currently is appearing in 0 stage play here under the name of Tony Eden.
 LawlesS, who was honorably dis- charged as an army sergeant last January, charged his wife with cruel and abusive treatment in the suit filed in probate court yesterday, He failed to specify the amount of alimony he wants from his bride whom he met while she was ap- bearing in Q Broadway production.
 The bride declined to comment on the suit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
America Hus Bright Future Prosperous Era
 Looms Says pr.
 Cherries Smith

A period of full employment and prosperity was predicted for the years ahead by pr. Charles Cope land Smith, author, lecturer. and world traveller, in an address to members of the Scovill Foremen's Association last night at the SERA Center.
 pr. Smith pointed out that save ii1gs in bank accounts have been estimated by economists at le7 bill. lion dollars, which represents two and . half years of normal na- tlonal Income. That factor will aid the nation greatly in the re-adjust- ment period, he stated.
 The speaker praised management for its part in war production, and expressed the belief reconversion to peace.tir1e production will be acc complained shortly. About 67 per cent of the country's industries have had no reconversion problem, he stated, and only c small per. centage will take co long as two or three months to complete the task, he said.
 pr. Smith was introduced by II. w. Wilde, vice-president of the ecoviu Mfg. co. Both MT. Smith and MT. Wilde are natives of the Channel Islands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07

A movie theater for American troops has been built In Chungking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
PHONE, DoN,T sHOoT

Plymouth, Ind. (UP)-SheriR Don WinSted of Marshall county has an idea for catching chicken thieves, He urges farmers to grab their tele- phones instead Of their shotgunS, as that would make 1t possible for officers to capture the thieves. He said that too many farmers in 1n- diana had been attempting to take the law in their own hands"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
PFiVote PIono
 In FotoI Crosh

Stockbridge, MaSsy Sept. 7.-(UP) Motor trouble was blamed today for the plane crash on the country es. tate of author Owen M. Johnson which killed e civilian flying in- structor and his pupil.
 Dead were M. II. Faireweather, 10, of (2e Vanderbilt Rd.) West Hart- ford, Conn, the instructor, and Wesley L. Kirchey, 20, of (9,00l Main streeG Buffalo, N. Y. The plane was enroute from c Troy, N F., airport to Great Harrington when the mishap occurred yeSter- day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Fire Record

"Where there's smoke there's hre"-Or is there?
 John Chern0fg, strOlllng along Vine street this morning at l0:S4 0. Ml., noticed smoke emanatlng from Q building at % Vine street. He immediately placed . call to headquarters but when firemen from Engine Companies 1 and !, Truck Company 2 and the Booster Engine from headquarters arrived they discovered the fire" was c snaoIdering pile of rubbish in the back yard.
 Four minor fires were extIn. guished by city flremeM yesterday afternoon: A pile of oil soaked waste on . dump at the Scovlll Manufacturing company was ex. tlnguished at 2 ?. m.j an over. flowing oil burner at S2 EngIe. wood avenue was put out at 1,6S; at 4i15 ?. m. Q brush fire at Bates. wood road was taken care of; and an ash box fire ln the rear of l32 East0n avenue was extlnguished at 7i24 D. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Revenue Office on 4O-Hour Schedule

The local ofilce of the Internal Revenue department Is now oper- ating on the 40.hour-week work schedule aS recently ordered by President Truman. Like other gov- ernment agencies the offlce on Leavenworth street will Do closed oil day Saturdays. Persons wishing to obtain information or advice are requested to bear in mind the new arrangement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07

One Of the worlds most power. fW explosives, cordite, Is used aS chewing gum by feminine workers In cordito factories.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Compensation Agreements

Compensation Go mmisBioner John J. o'connell today approved the following agreements for weekly payments during disabil- fly:
 Tracy White of Naugatuck against Naugatuck Chemical, di- vision of U, g. Rubber Co.,: e3o beginning Aug, 90, injury to left elbow.
 Joseph Coretto of 440 Baldwin street against Colonial Bottling Works Of Waterbury, S2i.34 be- ginning Aug. 3l, injury to right great toe.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1945-09-01
Col. Brest to Map
Plans for School
lin Brazil

Lieut.. Col. Alexander Brest,
Jacksonville contractor and con-
struction engineer and secretary
treasurer of the Duval Engineer
ing and Contracting Company, has
joined the administrative staff of
the J. P. Riddle Company of Mi
ami after serving three years in
the Army Air Forces, Carl R.
Anderson, vice president, an
nounced recently.
Colonel Brest is now on his way
to Brazil, where he will map plans
for an aviation engineer school at
EScola Tecnica.
Colonel Brest entered the AAF
as director of the officer engineers
school, Richmond, Va, and later
was director of operations and
training at the aviation engineer
school and training school at Gel
ger Field, Wash.
He is a graduate of Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology and
served in World War / as first
lieutenant. after which he was as
sistant professor of civil engineer
ing at the University Of Florida
for three years. He went into
business here 20 years ago. After
he completes his survey of the
aviation engineering needs at the
Brazilian Air Forces EScola
Tecnica he will return to his home
in Jacksonville.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-04
kroII Becomes
No. z Man In
CIO-PAc.

NEW YORK, May l (LPA)-
Replacement of c. Benham
Baldwin, executive assistant to
Chairman Sidney Hillman of the
CIO Political Action Committee
by Jack Kroll, president of the
Ohio State Industrial Union
Council, will be announced here
shortly.
Baldwin, frequently referred
to as the Number two man" in
PAC, joined the Committee
when it formed late in 1943 and
helped guide PAC's meteoric
rise into political prominence in
the presidential and state cleo
ton campaigns of 1914. He was
formerly director of the Farm
Security Administration.
Kroll, in addition to being
state CIO president, is also re-
gional director of PAC for Ohio
A longtime member of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
he now serves on his unions
general executive board, While
the Ohio PAC failed to carry the
state for President Roosevelt or
to defeat Taft, it was instrument
tai in the election of a Demo
cratic governor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-04

was sent by the Chamber OF
Commerce to President Tru-
man and every member of Con-
gress.
NAM Questions Charter
The NAM spokesman refused
to accept any literal interpre-
tation of the labor-management
charter.
Previously, B. E. Hutchinson,
vice-president of Chrysler Corp,
and an NAM director, an
nounced that the NAM and the
c. of c. have a joint committee
working on legislation which
would prohibit strikes. Although
the c. of c. later denied there
was such a joint committee 1t
admitted that Chambers labor
committee had met with the
NAM labor group year ago
and that the latter had submit
ted a labor legislative program.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-04

things, an estimate of future en-
ployment by private industry
and a recommendation for pub
lie works program to provide
jobs for those industry is unable
to absorb.
Promise to Nation
The bill sets forth in un-
mistakably clear terms the final
objective = the right of every
individual who wants a job to
have the opportunity to work.
1t constitutes a promise to the
nation that the government will
never lose sight of this goal.
If U. S. production sinks
even to the level of 1889 - the
year the nations defense pro-
gram started - between 49,
100000 and 20,0O0,000 people
will be unemployed.
Both returning veterans and
civilian war workers are fear
full of the wars aftermath,
Senator Murray asserted. Vet
Grams, he said, "know that their
own reinstatement rights on the
old job, if they had one, will
not amount to much if several
other GI's have the same right
to the same job, or if the boss
does not have enough capital,
materials or confidence in the
future to resume peacetime pro-
duction."
Sen. O'Mahoney 3D., Wyo.)
declared that unless effective
action is taken now there will
be 10000, 900 jobless after the
war. Mass unemployment, he
predicted, will mean "chaos."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-04
Election Ordered
For Surface
Combustion

Despite the fact that the AFL
lost an NLRB election to Local
IL, UAW-CIO, Feb. 16, 1943
after dissatisfied Surface Com
bustion employees had come to
Local IL and asked to be taken
into the Auto Workers, the AFL
has petitioned and received per-
mission to become a party to an
o t h er representation election
which will be held this month.
Local IL and Surface Combus-
ton Unit officers feel confident
that the workers at the plant
will not vote to take back a
union which was repudiated
more than two years ago for fail
ing to benefit the workers. This
is particularly true in the face
of the gains which have been
made for company employees by
Local IL despite stiff opposition
from the company management
and the slowness of the War
Labor Board to render prompt
decisions.
In the election two years
ago, 1853 workers voted for the
UAW-CIO with only SO votes go
ing to the AFL. No expense
was spared by the rival union in
holding the plant workers, in
Guiding a carload of girls who
were sent to the plant to per
suade" workers to stick with a
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-04
JAW Wins Fight
For Maintenance
Workers

DETROIT, May l UPA)-
Fifty-three thousand mainte-
nance workers in 135 war plants
under contract with the United
Auto Workers-CIO have won
wage increases of 5c-an-hour
and the door is now open to ex-
tend the gain to the entire in
dustry with its more than 700
companies and 10000 mainte-
nance workers.
Reuther said, "The Board, for
the first time since its rigid
wage stabilization policy was
put into effect, has considered
and acted upon an automotive
industry wage case on an inter-
corporation basis. This decision
is an extension of tie wage poll
icy concept won by the UAW-
Go before the WLB for tool and
die makers in October, 1942-
Equal treatment is to be given to
all workers covered by the de-
cision regardless of the geo.
graphic location of their plants.
The UAW has thus established
a firm beachhead in its fight for
industry-wide treatment on a
basis of equal pay for equal
work for all workers, production
and skilled"
"The workers in the six plants
covered by the present directive
(Chrysler, Hudson, Packard,
GIN, Briggs and Murray Body)
will receive total annual wage
increase of approximately ST.
000,000," Reuther said. The
UAW is optimistic that the di-
rective will be extended to the
rest of the industry. This would
mean an additional S8,000,000 a
year for maintenance workers in
the automotive industry"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-04
GI's, Vets. Get
Red Gross Funds

! WASHINGTON, NPA) -
Last month more than $780,
600 went to veterans, service
men and their families, Red
Cross chapters report. The re-
quests for assistance continue to
average approximately $1,626,-
900 a month, but it is expected
that as men are discharged from
the armed services, financial aid
for veterans will soon equal and
then outrun the sums now eX-
tended to servicemen and their
families. The vets aid total
jumped 53q6 in the past three
months, the report reveals,
usually for general living ex-
penses, while waiting for claims
to be settled as subsistence un-
til the veteran is working.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-04

either at the Central Labor I'm
ion, or at the Toledo Industrial
Union Council.
Increased reports of black
market operations in the Toledo
area, plus the indifference of the
district OPA office in handling
complaints and suggestions ad-
vanced by labor committee mem
bers led to Wednesdays night
meeting. Suggestions made by
members w h e n carried out
should either bring about more
effective law enforcement or a
drastic shakeup in local OPA.
Tune In wTOL Every Thursday, 80 p. m.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-04

The Natl Assn of Manu-
facturers announced that 1T
could not go along with the
recently signed labor-manage-
ment charter if it means commit
ting management "to uphold the
legislative status quo" President
Ira Mosher made it clear that the
NAM will not be restrained
from attempting to torpedo
present labor legislation nor
from seeking to add new anti
labor laws to the book.
C. of C, Is Anti-LabOr
The Chamber of Commerce
of New York State last week
started a campaign in support
of an anti-labor bill introduced
by Rep. Mike Monroney 3D..
Okla.) A printed four-page
pamphlet conspicuously devoid
of any union label demanding
heavy curbs on labor activities
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-04

make it the right" Of every
individual to have a job.
With the assurance t h a
"people from all walks of life''
will be given a hearing, unions
are already preparing their tes-
timony and assembling data in
support of Senate Bill $50
Sponsors of the Senate bill are
Senators Wagner 3D., N. ",
(Thomas D., Utah), O'Mahoney
3D., Wyo.), and Murray Cd,
Mont.). The House bill is spon-
sored by Rep. Patman Cd, Tex.).
Labor Will Suffer
Underlining the urgent neces-
sity for full employment are the
rapidly increasing number of
cutbacks with the disemploy-
ment of hundreds of thousands,
and disclosure by the Gallup
Poll that four out of every 10
Americans have no nest egg to
tide them over period of post
war or reconversion unemploy-
ment. Labor, in comparison with
other groups, will suffer most,
the Poll revealed. Thirty-five
per cent of American workers
cannot tide themselves over a
jobless period, and an addi-
tional 11% do not know whether
they can.
The proposed full employment
bill centers around one major
idea. 1t provides for an annual
National Production and En-
ployment Budget" which would
be submitted to Congress by the
President, assisted by various
government agencies. The Budg-
ct would offer, among other