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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-22

And here is some late news about
two sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Diseati, 1872 North Cleveland avenue
Donnie and Joseph-both of whom
have received promotions in rank.
Marine Staff Sgt. Donnie c. Disc
att, whose wife, the former Miss
lola Reedy, lives at AIT Linganore
avenue, has just been promoted to
his present rank at the Marine Corps
Air Station, Mojave, Cal, where he
is hydraulic mechanic in an air
squadron. The staff sergeant, who
will have been in the Service three
years in May, is a graduate of Hag-
erstown High School, where he was
member of the baseball and soccer
teams.
Cpl. Joseph C. Diseati, who has
just been promoted from Pfc. at
his base near Luxembourg, has been
in the Service two years next month.
He arrived in France last October,
where he Joined the 3rd Army, later
moving on to Luxembourg.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-22

Pfc. Jack R. Socks, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred r. Socks, 1873 Foundry
street, who has been in hospital in
England, has arrived back in the
States. His parents received card
from the War Department telling
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-22
OUR CITIZENS IN UNIFORM

column of
wi Armed Forces
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-22

Pvt. Leon E. Cooper, son of Mrs.
Ada Cooper, 358 South Cannon ave-
nue., who served with the Armored
Forces overseas, is a patient at
Oliver General Hospital Augusta,
Ga.
Private Cooper, now convalescing
has been granted a 21-day furlough
and should be home by the time this
news release appears in print
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-22

AN EIGHTH AIR FORCE RE
CONNAISSANCE STATION, ENG
LAND:-Cpl Charles R. Davis, 81,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Davis,
443 North Prospect street, who be-
fore entering the Service made his
home with his uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Jesse Shank, Williamsport,
is one of the ground men perform
ing necessary duties for flying per-
sonnet of this base, who pilot and
navigate Mosquitoes and BIZ Ely
ing Fortresses in support of Eighth
Air Force heavies. A clerk at the
officers club, he handles records,
reports and other data for men who
fly.
Mosquitoes and BITS take off
from here for weather recounais-
Sance flights over the continent and
ocean, gathering meteorological data
so vital to future air and ground
operations against the enemy. Mo-
Squitoes also fly Photographic mis-
sions, film German military and in
dustrial targets before attacks by
Eighth Air Force heavies, then re-
turning after raids to picture the
damage done
Corporal Davis is a graduate of
Williamsport High School and was a
sheet metal worker for the Fairchild
Aircraft Division before entering the
army in February, 1913. He has been
overseas since March, 1914.
The union times., 1945-12-01
Machinists Win In Two Aviation Plants

Two trail-blazing victories on the wage front were scored this week by the International Association of Machinists-One in aircraft con. structiOn and the other in air trans- pOrtation.
 Also, the LAM. came through with landslide triumph in a Nation al Mediation Board election among Shopmen on the Transcontinental & Western Airline, one of the nations major airways. The Machinists rolled up 800 votes, as against 207 for company union'; 127 for District so of the Mine Workers and only 10 for the C.I.O. Auto Workers.
 AIRCRAFT WORKERS
 A raise of Is per cent in all classi- hcations was won by the union at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Bur bank, Calif., one of the largest air plane builders in the nation. The management, after long stalling, yield ed on the wage proposition following a strike vote by the local LAM. lodge.
 Machinists' officials revealed that this was the first major across the-bOard increase won in the air craft construction industry since the wars end, and that it ''broke the ice" for similar raises in inc industry as a whole.
The union times., 1945-12-01
We Common Folk
 Think It Is Swell!
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 tial if doctors are to be able to furnish modern services.
 Recommendation 2. Expansion of public health, maternal and child health services. The existing cooperative health programs be. tween the Federal and State gov. ernments should be expanded with the help of increased Federal funds. All parts of the country and all groups in the population should be able to benefit from them. Ex. pansiOn is especially important to prevent disease and to provide service for mothers and children. Approximately 40 million persons in the United States live in com. munities which still lack full-time public health services.
 Recommendation 3. Medical edu. cation and research. We cannot re- main satisfied with what we already know about health or disease. The opportunities for further health progress are very large. Research pays large dividends. Professional education should keep pace with progress. Federal grants in aid should assist and encourage re- search, SO that we shall learn mOre about how to prevent and cure disease. Federal aid should also support more adequate pro- fessional education. Special em- phasis should be paid to research on the cause, prevention and cure of cancer and mental illnesses.
 Recommendation 4. Prepayment of medical costs. Everyone should have ready access to all necessary medical, hospital and related serv- ices. The costs of essential medi- cal services should not stand in the way of the patient who needs care.
 A compulsory national health in- surance system is proposed toward at taining this goal. It would be sys- tenn for prepayment of the costs through premiums which people could afford, and which are paid while they are well and working.
 This is not socialized medicine.
 Prepayment would relieve families of worry about medical costs and would encourage them to receive care as soon as it is needed. Thus, 1t would also work toward preventing serious disease.
 Patients would remain free to choose their doctors. Doctors would remain free to accept or reject patients. Hospitals would continue to manage their own services. Voluntary organizations could participate in the insurance system, either to provide services and if paid therefor, or to
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assist in administration, depending on their functions.
The union times., 1945-12-01
Chattanooga Cops
 Ask Closed Shop

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (FP) Demands for closed shop, 48-hour week, vacation and sick benefits, free uniforms and other equipment were filed with the city commission here by Chattanooga policemen.
 . The cops are organized into Local GA, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFL) along with city fremen.
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Organized Medicine NotVeyH utNeevF4eath Pa1

crease. It will also give a cash bonus on Dec. l to tide its em ployes over the holidays and hire 200 more workers.
 UTICA N. Y. = Unless organized labor succeeds in offsetting wage cuts now being demanded by manage ment farm income will drop 1870 next year, Pres. James c. Patton of the Natl. Farmers Union told a conven- ton of its northeastern district. The convention commended labor for its contribution to the war effort and for supporting "forward-1ooking farm legislation" and it backed up labor's present struggle against wage cuts.
 TAMPA, Fla. = Congress was called on to investigate the anti-Ia. bOr fight of Higgins Industries Inc. in a resolution of the AFL Gulf Metal Trades Council in a 2-day convention just ended here. The council demand was made at the same time FlOrida's union-hatins attorney general, J. Tom Watsoon, publicly invited shipbuiIder An. drew J. Higgins to set up his open shops in this state.
 NEW YORK-Union members oi the American Legion have demanded the rehiring of three World War II veterans fired by Montgomery Ward & Co. and have put the heat on Mai Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, to show a little in- terest in forcing discriminating em- ployers to give veterans their legal rights.
 OAKLAND, Calif. = A join, meeting of the California Fedora. tiOn of Labor, Bay Cities Metal Trades Council, Alameda Central Labor Council, Alameda Building Trades Council and Teamsters Highway Council Gall AFL) an. nOunced that 84 unions within their jurisdiction were directed henceforth to ignore all CIO picket lines.
The union times., 1945-12-01
A BILLION MILES SAVED

Washington (LPA) = Unions, by foregoing their customary conven- tions this year, aided the good work of the Office of Defense Transports tion which has recently reported that nearly a billion (965, ,570250) rail- road passenger miles were saved dur ing the period from February to Sep tember.
The union times., 1945-12-01
Covering
 The - American Scene
Federated Press)

CHICACO-The American Med. ical Assn. fortress of private medi- cine, warned that it would battle Pres. Truman's proposal for health insurance as ''sOciaIized medicine'' despite specific guarantees con- tained in it to avoid just such criti- cism.
 WASHINGTON = Violating an agreement to withhold labor legisla- ton until the labor management con- ference has ended, reactionaries on the House rules committee-ch -champing at the bit to smash labor greased the way for two bills described by labor organizations as the most vicious ever introduced in Congress-the Hobbs bill CHR 32). and the Smith May bill CHR 393).
 NEWARK, N. J.-Congress has subsidized the big business fight against unions by granting rebates on excess profit taxes paid during the war, Sec. Vincent J. Murphy told the New Jersey Federation of Labor at the opening of its 9th an- nual convention here.
 WASHINGTON = Pres. Harvey w. Brown of Intl. Assn. of Machin- ists (AFL) said that the unions aeronautical mechanics lodge has filed a petition for strike vote in the Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Co. plant at San Diego Calif. with the NLRB.
 TOWSON, Md.-Black & Deck. CT Mfg. Co. announced that on Jan. l it would reduce its workweek from 45 to 37H hours and at the same time provide 2O@o wage in-
The union times., 1945-12-01
ANXIOUS FOR WORK


 Since you intend to encourage em- p1oyers to place advertisements ir local newspapers and also, at the same time, to allow employer representa- tives to use your office facilities tc interview applicants, 1t seems only fair that you should urge each em, ployer to state specifically in his ad- vertisements the wage rates offered for each job in order to save unem- ployed workers needless loss of time and trouble.
 ssWe are convinced that the over whelming number of workers who are jObless at present are eager to accept employment for which they are qualified at wages that will en- able them to support themselves and their families properly, but if considerable numbers of employers continue to offer jobs at sweat. shop wages, your recruitment eff. forts whether called positive or otherwise will be largely futile.
 ''In any case, it is our considered opinion that the solution of em. plOyment recruitment problems would be facilitated through labor. management cooperation. We stand ready to assist in any steps taken in this direction.''
 Sincerely yours,"
 Harold V. Feinmark"
 "Secretary-Treasurer",
 Conn. Federation of Labor
The union times., 1945-12-01
Plumbers, Steamfitters
 To Honor Archie Gillis
(Continued from Page One)

NCo1ltlnueu rom Fage OneJ
 Also, Organizer John F. Began Organizer P. V. McNamara, and Mrs. Gillis and daughter.
 Any member and his wife wish ing to attend can make reserva- tions by calling Pres. John Rynn of local B49, New Haven, tele- phone 8-14O2 or Abe. Coldstein Stan Criesing, telephone 6-7782, or M. J. O'Rourke, l9O Highland Ave-, Waterbury 66, not later than December lst.
The union times., 1945-12-01
Rate War Launched For Aerial Traffic

A full-sized rate war for trans-At- lantic air passenger traffic got under way this week. Where it will end mo- body knows.
 Pan-American Airways announced reduction on all its Atlantic serv- ices, including its New York-Ber- muda route. The new New York-Lon- don rate will be $275 one way, or less than half the $576 charged by its British competitor.
 London dispatches report that the British company has protested to the government that it will be driven out of business if Pan-American goes through with its reduced rate.
The union times., 1945-12-01
Building Trades In New Haven To Meet On Dec. 10
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(Continued from Page One) Temple, 139 Goffe St., New Haven on Monday, Dec. 10, at 500 PM sharp.
 INJUSTICE TO ALL
 "The purpose of this meeting is to draw up the master agreement for the building trades in the area of New Haven and vicinity. It is very appar- ent that their present set up is in- adequate as it works an injustice on the men and creates uncertainty on the part of architects, estimators and contractors.
 ''With the changing orders and directives coming out of Washing. ton, no one can plan with certainty more than two weeks in advance. The situation creates serious han. dicap to the building and construc- ton industry in this area. It is i'm. perative that we re-arrange our present set-up in order to present definite and unified program for the stabilization of our industry.
 ''It is our belief that our present wage schedule can be revived on a percentage basis agreeable to all concerned thereby eliminating the necessity for g or 30 different wage agreements to be settled be. fore we can move forward with certainty into our ever broadening building program. There is no doubt from the information al hand that the contractors will also welcome such a program.
 We most earnestly urge all 1e crafts, whether affiliated or not with the New Maven Building Trades Council, to send a representative dele gation to this meeting"
The union times., 1945-12-01
LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS

assist in administration, depending on their functions.
 LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS
 Decentralized administration would provide for needed local adjustments in fees, methods of payment and ar- engagements for services.
 Doctors and hospitals could expect improvement and stability of income, at the same time that patients are re- ieved of unexpected and burdensome costs.
 Recommendations. Protection against loss of wages from sick ness and disability. Disability in- surance would protect America's families by guaranteeing some in- come when they are sick or perm anently disabled.
 The President urged the Con- gress to consider such health legis- lation now. This five-point pro- gram would strengthen the Nation to meet future problems. It would contribute greatly to freedom from want.
The union times., 1945-12-01
No Reduction Seen
 In Clothing Prices

Any hope consumers may have en- tertained for lower clothing prices went glimmering this week.
 The Office of Price Administration said that cost cuts scheduled for this fall cannot be made before early 1946 If then.
 As matter of fact, on some lines consumers will have to pay more. The O. P. A. granted a 4 per cent hike to manufacturers of knit under wear. Non-elastic narrow fabrics were dropped from price control, and that makes the sky the limit on prices.
The union times., 1945-12-01

LISTEN every Saturday at 6:45 P.M., over Station WIZ, to ''Labor
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Mention THE UNION TIMES when shopping, and help Labor's Own Paper grow.
The union times., 1945-12-01
Feinmark Warns On Sweatshop Wages In State

Continued from Page One) 500 at 75 cents or over. No wonder it is difficult to attract workers to these jobs.
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Stock Market Drops
81 10 s. or More;
Volume Expands
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Write


NEW YORK, Mar. 26.-The stock
market today suffered one of its
worst upsets of the year with lead
ers in virtually all departments
falling to or more points on ex+
panding volume.
BearishneSs again was inspired
mainly by business transition wor-
rieS, coincident with Allied victories
in Germany, and further reports
from Washington that moves were
under way to boost wartime capital
gains taxes on real estate and Sc
curities.
Rails led the slide at the start.
While the ticker tape never at
tanned real speed, sizable blocks of
pivotals put turnover for the full
proceedings in the neighborhood of
1,500,0 900 shares. There were scat
tered recoveries near the close but
most were unimpressive. Some late
bidding was credited to the thought
the list had been oversold.
Among wider losers were Santa
Fe, Union Pacific, Nickel Plate pre-
ferred, Southern Pacific, Illinois
Central, U. s. Steel, Chrysler, U. 8.
Rubber, Sears Roebuck, Douglas Air
craft, Westinghouse, Amer d a,
American Telephone, American Air
Lines, Oliver Corp and Interna-
tional Nickel. One of the few issues
to get in the plus column was Home
stake Mining.
Bonds followed stocks.
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Charter Committee Calls
Meeting Wednesday

The Montgomery County Charter
Committee will sponsor an open
meeting at 8 pm. Wednesday In
the Chevy Chase Woman's Club,
Connecticut avenue and Dunlop
street, to discuss county bills intro
duced in the State Legislature
In announcing the meeting, the
committee declared that "the gen.
eral public is not informed about
the content of such bills as the
liquor control bill and the bill re-
ferring to the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, which have been intro
duced in the Legislature in the last
few days of the session."
The committee added that the
public will be surprised to discover
in these bills the trampling of the
peoples rights and the hidden sleep
erS that give power to a few"
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Mar. 26 1P,.-tWFAb -
Salable hoss, 5000; total. $500; active,
fully steady; good and choice barrows and
gifts, 140 pounds Up, at 1915, ceiling
good and choice sows at IA 90; complete
clearance.
salable cattle, 1000; total, 1900:
salable calves. 1000; total. 1000; choice
fed steers and yearlings steady to strong
1890; medium and good grades. 10 to is
higher; active at 1475-160 90: heifers
steady; best, 100; cows and bulls gem
orally steady; cutter COWS; 900 down;
most beef cows, 10.25-13.00; weighty
sausage bulls, to 13 80, and heavy beef
bulls. to 1880 vealers fully steady al
400 to 1850 mostly stock cattle very
scarce. firm.
salable sheep, $500; total, 1O,5OO:
scattered early sales steady: load good
to choice, mostly good grade fed wooled
Western lambs. 1875; numerous loads
good and choice held 1900 and slightly
above; load medium and good light lambs,
IL 100; few 50-pound Gull natives, IL 90;
two. loads common and medium wheat
1eld ewes carrying small good top, SIS
straight
Evening star., 1945-03-26
-Four Children and Girl, II,
Suffer Burns in Home Fire

Four children and a 17-year-old
girl, all colored, were burned last
night when bungalow at 1901 East
ern avenue NE, occupied by two
families, caught fire after a kerosene
lamp exploded. police reported.
All were admitted to Gallinger
Hospital with second-degree burns,
but are not in serious condition,
according to attendants
Policemen Ralph S. Warner and
John r. O'Brien of the 11th pre-
cinct rescued Jean Gorham, 3,
and her sister, Ruth, 2. Nanny
Gordon, IA, and her brother, Robert,
IL, were helped from the bungalow
by their sister, Maude, IT.
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Washington Produce

From the War Food Administration
Prices paid net fob. Washington.
moderate with broad retail demand
Prices paid for Federal-State graded eggs
received from grading stations March
grade A, large, 3s-39; average, 381a; q. s.
grade A. medium, 35-3s; average, 351a
y. Is. grade B, large, 35; U. S. grade B,
erage, 81.
LIVE PoULTRy-Market firm. Arrivals
large load Saturday for authorized
professors and one medium load today for
civilian distribution. Prices shown re-
control regulations, but do not cover other
poultry sold on the market for which
prices were not available. Prices paid
net fob. Washington Transportation
charges included according to mileage): :
Fowl, 291a: broilers and fryers, Grade A, 80
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Chicago Groin

CHICAGO, Mar, % LP,.-Grain markets
rallied from early weakness today but
fow of commission house offerings and
some prices at times were of more than
a cent
Liquidation was attributed TO good war
news and to weakness of the stock mar
ket Resting orders and short GOVERNS
erles and selling pressure centered on the
Of options.
Wheat was for sale on all minor rallies
shortly after noon. Resting demand was
reported for the May contract at ! .67l2
cred fractionally during the last half hour
At the finish wheat was "a higher to
"a lower than Saturdays close, May,
liz; oats were down "a TO Iss. May,
63ls-l<: rye was a higher TO ss lower,
May, 1.l6A-b: barley was of - TO 70,
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Clark GobIe Injured
In Truffic Accident
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 26.-Clark
Gable, slightly hurt in traffic acci-
dent, required hospital treatment
of a laceration on the right leg and
chest injuries, his studio reported.
The studio said the movie actor
drove his automobile over a curb
and into tree to avoid striking
another machine going In the wrong
direction. He was jammed against
the steering wheel.
The actor was resting easily today.
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Banking Committee
Named for Seventh
War Loan Drive
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

InOmaS j. Groom, chairman OF
the banking unit of the District War
Finance Committee, today named
the other members who will play a
vital part in the Seventh War Loan
campaign. Many of the members
have served the banks in the same
capacity since 1941. The new COM
mittee includes:
Richard e. Harris. American Security;
y; L. koonts. ,a Anac9stia; c: r Burton,
Warren r. Forster. Hamilton: Jessie Il.
Mitchell: Industrial; W, T. Vandoren; Lib
fTs smh kehard r Morrs s0FF P.n LINCOLN + mMhoS sfhnss
S.sissi f Mei.:hiss nfSsssEs5
Bank; George EarnshaW, Metropolitan.
Also nI1saI Rsrnup K d,n:o colton Natienal Say
Trust; George NJ. Fisher, Washington Loan
Insurance Policies Smaller.
Life insurance policies written in
Washington in 1914 averaged $2,387,
slightly under the $2,564 average in
1943, 1t is reported from Hartford.
$500. just under the $3.50 average
for 1914
The District was ahead of the ma
tional average for new business in
1914 and also in the average size of
policies in force Policies written
in Maryland in 1914 averaged $2,843
against S2,633 in the preceding year,
while policies in force averaged
s2.413 VS.. $2,383 in 1943.
Life policies written in Virginia
averaged S3,195, against S2,849 in the
previous year, the best showing in
the Nation. Policies in force aver
aged $2,454 VS.. $2,4O1 in 1943, the
survey disclosed.
The average new policy for the
Nation in 1914 was $2,251 VS.. S2,133
in 1914; average policy in force,
s2,131 VS.. $2,124
Savings in Sharp Increase.
The SEC stated in a recent survey
that the public's liquid purchasing
power in the form of liquid saving
increased by 0,O0O,00O,OOO during
1914. The rate of saving was 10
times as large as in 1910, the last
year before the war Cash, deposits
and United States Government Sc
curitles have accounted for the
greater part of current savings dur
ing the war
During 1914 individuals added
SIT 1000, 100000 to their currency and
bank deposits, and SIS 5,000, 900 600 to
holdings of Government bonds. The
largest individual savings are in the
banks, with United States Govern
ment securities a close second the
analysis stated.
b. & o. Net Income Higher.
Net income of the Baltimore g.
Ohio R. R. in February totaled ST.
6,699, an increase of s96, $40 over
February, 1914. Operating revenues
showed gain of $1.647 400, while
operating expenses were up S919.549.
Net income for the two months of
l945, after all interest, fixed charges.
and an accrual of S4,316,845 for in
come taxes, was $3,155,091, an in
crease over the same period last year
of S415.730.
frelght revenues were up almost
S2.0OO,0O0 in the two months and
passenger revenues gained S968,61O.
the report showed
Heard in Financial District.
George A. Garrett, resident part
ner of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
d Beane. is passing short vacation
in Florida.
George James, vice president of
the Atlantic Coast Line, is seriously
i'll at his home in Wilmington. N. C.
He lived in Washington for years
when general passenger agent and
has host of friends here.