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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-17

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-(R-Thls
is another year when any oase-
hall hoIdol1ts will do their shouting
in whispers as, pro sports being
on the spot they are, it's better
for those interested to shush-shusn
any financial arrangements. JUST
leave the impression the boys are
playing for nothing.
This is just good old barnyard
sense as some of the boys totlng
guns for $50 month might not
like it to pick up paper and
read that a journeyman At third
6aseman was squawking loudly,
saving he absolutely refused to
play baseball three hours a day
for about six months for only &c.
900.
The danger in the present situa-
ton is that a penurious club own
er might take advantage OF the
gag on the players to white down
wages.
In normal times holding out was
the only weapon at the disposal
of a ball player in his fight to
get what he thought he was worth,
and nobody begrudged h m the
opportunity to use it.
Baseball being tn e peculiar
business it is, with the players
just a bunch Of uncle toms to. be
houoht and sold and traded at the
whim Of Simon Legrees, an ath-
1ete is practically hog-tied to his
job, and can't, like grocery clerk
or .bellhop, tell the boss to shine
his own shoes and then waslk
across the street and get bet
ter job.
So far the only open REBELLION
we have heard of this year con-
Germs Whitlow Wyatt, the Brook
lyn Dodger pitcher who has indi-
Gated he would rather pitch hay
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NAZI FUEL, RAIL
TARGETS BLASTED
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strument aiming.
The Osnabruck, Rheine and
Hanam rail yards normally C n
handle total of 1900 cars daily
and have been given top priority
for repairs so that troops and sup
plies can be funnelled to points
of pressure on the Western Front.
Today's was the Eighth Air
Forces 18th attack on Hamm.
The small Salzberger oil refin-
ery was hit once before by the
Americans last August. The bort
mund oil works have been built
in the past two months and were
reported just getting into produc-
ton.
Rombers of the 18th Air Force
in Italy helped maintain the mo-
mentum of the great aerial often
sive which in the past three days
had rocked % cities from the
Rhine to the Russian front. The
Italian-based fleet struck an air.
drome near Regensburg in south
ern Germany and rail yards OF
east of Innsbruck in Austria and
Rosenheim, IS miles southeast OF
Munich, and Bolzana on the Bren-
ner Pass line in the Italian Tyrol.
Activity by Allied tactical
planes stationed in France n d
Belgium was restricted by bad
weather.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-17
LOCAL BASE WINS
OVER COLDSB0R0

Bluethenthal Field Thunderbolts
found another North Carolina mill
tary quintet in their sights Thurs.
day night, and brought a visiting
Seymour johnson Field team down
on the short end of a 64-48 point
score. Coach "Jeepers''' Toman-
chicks airmen battled, shot and
played their hearts out before a
valentine Carnival crowd that
left standing room only at the
local Air Base arena, and won their
second consecutive victory over
the Goldsboro squad, recent con
ouerors of the Cherry Point Ma
rines.
Four minutes after the opening
tipoff elongated Joey Hicks. six
foot, 1870 pound forward from the
Olivet College Orioles" of the
Midwestern Collegiate Conference,
had bounced the ball off the back
board for the first pair of Blue
thenthal baskets. Bob Lollar, In
diana scholastic and Independent
League Titleholder, then had add
ed two of his unusual left handed
net clippers from underneath the
hoop, and the fighters were out
front to stay. They pushed their
Goal a Minute" lead ahead to 2l-7
at the quarter, and enjoyed a COM
Portable 1919 lead at the half.
Thunderbolt followers found
new star in the ranks of their vic
tory minded quintet during the
third quarter. Sleepy" Gene I'm
derwood, formerly with the prom
inent Midland. Ind, Scholastic ALL
Stars of the Wabash Valley circuit,
uncorked brilliant exhibition of
precision passing and of ball hard
ling. He effectively worked tne
leather through Johnson Fields
defense under the net to set up
BluethenthaIs last quarter scoring
attack.
The Thunderbolts have scored
II victories in thirteen games, out
scoring their opponents by ISL
points. BluethenthaIs George VAN
derweyden and Pope of Seymour
johnson tied for scoring honors
with II each.
Bartos, Lanigan and Lehnert Of
the visitors were the sources OF
greatest difficulty for the Thun-
derbolts in one of the season S
most exciting contests.
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Carolina Summers Elect
Next Years Co-Captains

CHAPEL. HILL, Feb. 16.-(P)-
Russell Smoky" Proctor of
Rocky Mount, and Ben Ward OF
Goldsboro, were tonight elected
co-captains of the North Carolina
swimming team for next year. They
were elected at a banquet given
in honor of the Tar Heel tanknen.
who haven't been beaten in more
than two years.
1t. Comdr. Bernard Feurer, head
swimming coach of the Navy Pre-
Flight school, congratulated Coach
Willis Casey and SO squad members
on the record they made.
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AMERICANS
DIE IN SINKING
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or squat. This went on for end
less agonizing hours-for ID days.
Then, about p. NJ, on October
"a, the ship was convulsed by
tremendous jolt. A torpedo had
struck! The ship was wrenched
apart amidships, partly exposing
the prosiners' mold.
Every prisoner who could move
clambered on deck. The Jap
crew were too busy saving them
selves to interfere. The two
halves of the broken ship sloped
down to the water. WILDER and
many of his comrades just walk
ed down the deck into the seas.
Most of them were fitted with
life jackets.
Two Jap destroyers dropped
depth bombs trying to nail the
submarine which had fired the
torpedoes. Then came some
thing which provided further evil
dence of Jap cruelty and beastili-
ty.
Here's how WILDER described it:
Il saw EN- pick up some of
the Japs. But they beat off the
Yanks with clubs.
Lots of prisoners stayed on
the torpedoed ship. They broke
open the food and water supplies.
l don't know how many were left
in the holds who were wounded
or too sick to move. The ship was
in sight for about an hour, but
don't know how it could have
stayed afloat much longer.
AS long as could see it, the
Japs made no effort to take any,
body off the ship or to pick up
any of the prisoners in the water.
The only ones I know of who
got away were the four who later
joined me-"
(Ihe War Department said Fri
day that it was trying to get
Japan to supply details, includ-
ing the names of the nearly 1900
Americans aboard. But Japan has
ignored the inquiries so far. The
department said it had the per-
sonal reports of the five survivors,
but could add nothing to them.
1t promised to notify the next of
kin "as soon as the necessary
confirmed data has been receiv-
ed.')
WILDER and the other four sur
vivors-Robert S. Overlook of
Baltimore (then a civilian but now
an Army second lieutenant;
M/Sgt. Calvin Graef of Silver
City, N. M; Cpl. Donald E. Meyer
OF Wilmington, Calf, and Cpl.
Anton Cichi of New York Mills,
Minn.-Were lucky.
"A life boat from the torpedoed
ship drifted to us and we climbed
in," he said. "a box floated by
and Overlook pulled it in. It held
a sail and mast that fitted the
BOAT"
They drifted the rest of that
night. Next morning, one of the
Jap destroyers cruised within 100
yards, but they feigned exhaus-
ton and weren't molested. Then
they broke out the sail and head
ed for what they hoped was
China One day they landed in
friendly territory. Eventually they
reached 18th Army Air Force
camp whose commander, Maj.
Gen. Claire Chennault, soon got
them aboard an air transport that
took them to New York and Wash
ington.
The past two months have been
heaven for WILDER. He's been
home. He's regained the 40
pounds he lost in the Jap prison
camps and now weighs ITS. His
shoulders are filled out again. On
March Is he goes back on duty
perhaps to make the enemy pay
for the living hell he and his COM
rades endured.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-17
WRESTLING Results

The Swedish Angel defeated
"Bllmp' Levy in the first two
rounds last night in the ITALIAN
Hall arena. the first round going
nine minutes and the second four
minutes.
Jack O'Brien took the opening
event over Tiera De Glane with
an Indian leg lock after 20 min
utes.
Earl Wampler defeated Angelo
Galento in % minutes with a full
body pin.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-17

Over 100000 tons of shipping
annually move to the upper St.
Lawrence river between the Great
Lakes and 6ontreal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-17

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
Children
To Be Guests
Of Local IL
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Continued From Page One
erick. Each year the band has
played for the Christmas party
and stirred the little ones to a
spontaneous chorus of the tradi-
tional Christmas songs.
Special acts featuring singers,
dancers, instrumentalists, spe-
cialty numbers, acrobats and
other entertainment will be pre-
sented under the direction of
Eddie Hanf who will be master
of ceremonies. Eddie knows
what children like and none can
please them more with dancing
and funny antics.
Santa Claus Comes
Following the entertainment,
a hush of expectancy will settle
over the large auditorium as
each childish eye CLUES itself to
the chimney down which Santa
Claus is expected. Then, with a
jingle of bells and his pack cram
full of toys, candy, games and
goodies, old Santa will craw.
from the chimney while de-
lighted squeals and shrieks Of
| Joy come from thousands OF
tense little throats.
The big moment will have ar.
rived.
Boys and girls from wide
eyed chubby tots barely able to
toddle, to teen-agers will form
in line to go to the front of the
auditorium where Santa and his
assistants will pass out the good
things into eager, outstretched
hands
AS always, some of the little
ones will get lost. Cries will
rend the air as some little boy
or girl gets started back the
wrong aisle and discovers that
they can't find their parents.
But, nothing serious will hap
pen. Before you can say Merry
Christmas" one of the members
of the Flying Squadron will
have the little one safely back
to its parents with nothing more
serious than a grimy face from
knuckles in the eyes.
Comes The End
Slowly, then more rapidly,
the children will leave the Audi
torium pouring out the doors
with happy faces and shining
eyes, for Santa Claus has made
good again and the Christmas
spirit will be renewed, not only
in the minds of the children who
will look forW d to other
Christmas parties in the future,
BIT in the minds of their parents
to whom the grim business OF
winning living wages is a haro
reality.
The party begins at the Civic
Auditorium at 200 p. m. and
will be over about 400. William
Healey and his Christmas com
mittee urge all to be in their
places early and promise that
this years party will be on a
par with those of other years.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
CHRISTMAS 1o45
Continued from Page One


the antsoca view that its profits nobodys business
least of all those who employed by it, pause this
day to cast aside reality and take the spirit of Christ
To those who find the deeper spiritual significance of
Christmas and the day really has other meaning we
extend sincere wishes that this will be indeed Merry
Christmas.
To those who have returned from the war; and those
who have waited for their return know that nothing
will dampen the Christmas spirit
To the cynics the hypOcrteS and those who seek to
control the lives and living of millions and their posi-
ton to achieve their ends hope that the miracle of
Christmas that overlook the hard hearted ScrOOge will
somehow other enter into their hearts, soften them
only for the day, and leave upon them mark which will
eventually lead them to acknowledge that they
social responsibility to all the people all through the
To everyone it wish that this will be indeed
Merry Christmas and that will bring them peace and
happiness and tolerant view of others, who
for day will try to take the spirit of the and
permit their hearts to rule their heads
A Merry Christmas to all.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
Everything
For The BOYS
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informed the company manage
ment prior to his return to work
recently that due to his wounds
he was unable to do heavy tasks.
Returned veterans employed
by the corporation and many
others here who have heard
about the DodWay case are furi-
Gus and are talking in their vari-
Gus meeting places about the
corporation.
Rumors have reached the cor
poration that the people of Port
Clinton whose sons died in the
Philippines and on Bataan and
whose praises are sung by the
Standard Products Corp. man.
agement are incensed about the
way some of the returned serv-
icemen are being treated.
AS a result of the feeling
which has been engendered
here, the corporation and Mr..
Harris have cooled off in their
treatment of DodWay and are
ore careful of what they say
to veterans.
Meanwhile, the Port Clinton
Herald, notorious flag-waving
local weekly is showing little
concern for the boys about
whom it printed such glowing
words until the end of the war
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
Steel Strike
Nav Be In '46
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Board, equipped with a large
staff and considerable funds,
nine months to issue a directive
in the 1943 steel case. That in
volved only part of the indus
try; this time, $50 of steel pro-
duction is involved in the wage
d m n d and the scheduled
strike. s&a
Industry Will Fight
Meanwhile, a tip-off of the
way industry intends to fight
the strike was given by news
story in the Journal of Com
merce. The companies, accord
ing to the trade paper, may use
the strike as an excuse to cancel
present contracts with the un-
ion, and to end the bitterly op-
posed maintenance of member
ship and checkoff provisions
ordered by the War Labor Board
last spring.
The steel producers also, ac-
cording to the Journal of Com
merce, may follow the Ford eX-
ample and demand insertion in
the contract of payment of cash
penalties by the union in the
event of wildcat strikes.
Meanwhile, workers in the
industry were preparing for a
showdown battle, with no holds
barred. Union leaders pointed
out that the steel industry is try
ing to reinstitute the union
wrecking plan of the 1920's,
which killed the steel workers
union in those years. The union
is fully prepared for a struggle
even more bitter than the
bloody Little Steel' strikes of
1897.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
An American
Woman To Her
congressman
Bv Marcia Davenport

I have voted for you, and /
would like to vote for you again,
but 1 cannot do that unless you
really represent me. And ! can
not expect you really to repre-
sent me unless you know how |
feel about things. Right now /
feel resentful.
I resent your assumption that
l am so pleased to have ration
free gasoline that l don't care
hang if the rest of the world
goes without.
I resenn your assumption that
l waited so eagerly for the day
when l could get steak and lamb
chops without ration points that
hungry women and children IN
other parts of the world mean
nothing to me.
1 resent your judgment Of me
an average American woman
being based on letters you get
from a small minority of selfish
sore heads.
1 resent your conclusion that
l haven't brains enough TO real
ize that any cold and hungry
woman anywhere in the world is
a threat to my own well being.
l resent your belief that if
my Government tells me / must
put up with rationing and short
ages for another year or two to
make it possible for my fellow
creatures to have a bare sub
sistence, l will kick, scream, and
pull hair.
| infer that you assume and
conclude and believe these
things because of the attitude
Congress has taken regarding
the relaxation of war time con-
trolls and other details of recon
version. II l am wrong, show
me. If l am right, then GER
tainly it is you who are wrong,
/ have voted for you, and
would like TO vote for you again.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
Full Employment
To Death
ReactiOnaries Kill
Presidents Legislation

WASHINGTON, Dec. II QPA)-The full employment
BILL hope of millions of Americans who may find themselves
obess in the postwar years. knitted to death last week
by the Representatives BY vote of 254 to 1885,
the House passed bill that has only farca resemblance to-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
GIN Strike
In 4fh Week
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ing less than the demanded 80
per cent wage demand will be
acceptable to the Union unless
and until the corporation opens
its books and shows "by arith-
metic" that it cannot afford to
pay the increase asked without
raising the prices on it's cars.
On its side of the argument,
GIN officials still insist that
they will not open their books
or let the Union usurp what
they term ''the prerogatives of
management" to set prices.
Conference Opens Wednesday
A preliminary meeting of, the
union and GIN management will
be held in Washington today
before the Fact-Finding Com
mittee.
A standard Contract has been
given to the new Kaiser Frazer
Motor Car Co. in a meeting be-
tween the Union and corpora
ton officials. Both sides termed
the preliminary meeting as be-
ing satisfactory.
Meantime, picketing of GIN
plants continues throughout the
country with the Union show
ing no evidence of giving in.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
BIS Proves
WAGE Need

ING TON, Dec. II
(LPA)-The average city family
wound up the year 1914 "in the
red", according to figures COM
piled by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Labor Depart
ment.
Because living costs and taxes
increased much more sharply
than wartime wages, only those
families whose total income was
over 5000 were able to "break
even", but this left nothing with
which to buy war bonds or pay
life insurance premiums, which
are considered savings. OF the
total population, about half
found themselves in debt to the
tune of from SIS to $346.
Break Even" Group
Even this "break even" group
had to live on a budget that al
lowed only about % cents per
meal per person, and in quarters
that cost no more than about $50
a month. OutlayS for food alb
sorbed a consistently larger share
of income in 1914 than in 1941
the BIS points out, particularly
at the lower income levels. The
rise in retail food prices in cities
between these two years was 20
per cent, and clothing costs rose
81 per cent.
Medical care, also, took a
larger portion of the total in
come, particularly among low
income families, the survey
shows, probably because of
higher medical costs and greater
need for care as a result of
longer hours of work.
In spite of all this, even the
families whose incomes were
much below the "break-even"
point, bought war and victory
bonds by going into debt. In
many cases, families higher war
time income was the result of at
least two members working.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21

monstrosity that had nothing to
do with full employment.
Representative George E. Out
land Cd, Calif.) tried to stem
the reactionary flood by substi-
tuition of the original House bill
which incorporated the Presi-
dents and labor's demands but
this was voted down by voice
vote.
Only remaining hope of sal
vaging the betrayed legislation
now lies in the possibility of
Truman's Intervention.
All sections of organized labor
which had supported the original
proposal and fought incessantly
for six months for its passage
made careful note of the Repre-
Sentatives who voted "for un-
employment" A complete new
House will be elected next No
vember.
Leader Condemn Strategy
No matter what comes out of
the House-Senate conference
now, labor leaders agreed, the
eventual legislation will offer no
assurance that a veteran or war
worker can find employment if
private enterprise fails to pro-
vide jobs.
Many observers were in
clined to place blame for the
overwhelming defeat on failure
of the administration to put suf-
ficient pressure on Democratic
House members. In addition,
labor leaders condemned the
strategy that dictated an atti-
tude, at the crucial point, that
amounted to: ''No floor fight
We'll pin hopes on the Senate
House conference. :"
ManaScO Admits Change
The extent of Manassas COM
plete corruption of the full en-
ployment bill was admitted by
the Alabaman himself in an in
tervieW with a reporter. His
subcommittee, he admitted sar-
donically, didn't change the
number of the bill. "In fact, all
we changed was the body of the
bill, he said.
Fifteen national organizations,
including the CIO, AFL and
Railroad Brotherhoods, branded
the Manasco version "wordy and
meaningless and asserted that
I'VE stand firmly by the original
proposals which declare, in un-
equivocal terms, the RESPONSE
bility of the federal government
for full employment"
At the same time the Union
for Democratic Action called on
President Truman to "stiffen Ad-
ministration opposition to the
bill and to wage an all-out fight
for the Full Employment Bill
overwhelmingly passed by the
Senate last September.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
GIN Strikers
Get Aid
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Ia, who have more than 1000
workers effected by the strike
in the local Chevrolet plant.
Pickets Take Heart
Public and union support of
the General Motors strike has
proved to be greatly heartening
to the strikers both here and
elsewhere. Picket lines are be-
ing maintained despite the cold
weather and the spirit of the
strikers shows no sign of lessen
ing.
A Christmas party to be given
for the Children of Chevrolet
members by Local ii and an
other given by Local IL will fill
a big gap with the strikers chill
dren and aid them in getting
into the spirit of Yuletide. Every
effort is being made here and
elsewhere to make certain that
no striker or his family suffers
as consequence of the strike.
GINS strike is becoming more
popular every day with an in
creasingly larger number of the
public-at-large recognizing that
the corporation was anxious to
have a showdown and now is in
position of proving itself a
valuable ally in creating public
opinion for the strikers.
Labor leaders who have been
through many strikes now see
the corporations position be-
coming weaker with each pass
ing day and predict that the
strike will end successfully,
strengthening the UAW and
placing more wages in the poe
ketbook of all the workers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
Found A New Rocket!

WASHINGTON, Dec. II -
OPA)-Vance Muse, the Texas
rabble-rouser and head of the
labor hating Christian Ameri-
cans has cooked up new
rackets. This time it's union"
the Right To Work I'm
ion-and- it's just as phoney as
each of the other dozen or so
sucker" organizations n t
Muse has set up.
No dues, no assessments, ac-
cording to the Texas fuehrer,
but contributions gladly ac-
cepted.
Muses. new racket was re-
ported last week in the Wash
ington Daily News and other
papers by Alan l.. Swim, a mem
ber of the American News
paper Guild-CIO.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-21
Military Jim Crewism
Is Assuiled

WASHINGTON NPA) - The
Jim Crow practices of the Army
and Navy in segregating Negro
and white troops in separate
units was branded as tragic
blunder in the policy of demo-
cratic nation" last week by
Monroe Sweetland, former Ma
tional CIO War Relief director
and for the last % months an
American Red Cross field super
visor in the Pacific combat
zones.
Sweetland worked on Oki-
nawa for nine months, three
months of this in hospital. He
never heard, he said, of a
wounded soldier asking the
source of the blood plasma given
him in a TRANSMISSION.