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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-21
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-21

SIT UPRIGHT-What a wonder. full feeling such a handsome chair! Even in normal position the engineered comfort of this new chair eases every tired mus cle, practically makes you relax.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-26
There's poison in the
dir at River Rouge

the men work and use Sodium
Floride. Orders is orders" say
the foremen when the worker re-
fuse to work cranes that lift the
steel from the cars to pour it.
The cabs of the cranes fill with
fumes from the deadly chemical.
Men get sick, gag, have head
aches, black out. But let the
workers tell the story.
Here is the sworn statement of
Thomas M. Downey, a hot metal
crane operator who has worked
in Ford's since 1925:
ION September 18th, 1916 was
operating a No. 3 crane, pouring
steel at No. 4 platform. When the
steel pourers threw in the Sod
ium Floride, the fumes from the
dust came up into my face in the
cab and in turn inhaled it. 1t
made it hard for me to breath,
/ started coughing and later I
vomited. I had a headache and
it was impossible for me to talk
above. a whisper until / got out
and got some air.
y
II WENT to the first aid and
the man there called a car and
told the driver to give me a lot
of air as I had been exposed to
Sodium Floride. My headache
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-26
By WILLIAM ALLAN

Detroit
A mankiller is abroad in the
Open Hearth Foundry of Henry
Ford the Seconds River Rouge
plant. 1t is deadly poison by
the name of Sodium Floride and
is now being used by the Ford
Motor Company to settle boiling
steel in order that the steel may
be poured quicker.
Sodium Floride fills. the Open
Hearth with it's deadly fumes
that penetrate into every nook
and Granny of the building, in
Guiding the lungs of $50 men EN-
ployed there. 1t lays around also
in open powdered form. One
thimbleful will kill a human be-
ing in a matter of seconds. Men,
handle this chemical in its pow
dered form. 1t gets under their
fingernails and if consumed will
kill them in time.
Today the union is demanding
the outlaWlng OF the use OF Sod
ium Floride in order that mems
lives will be saved.
JOHN F. Bugas, former FBI
head in Detroit, and now Ford
personnel Director, says that he
will shut the plant down unless
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-26

and made the statement:
81 was no foe of McSwiggin.
l paid him and paid him plenty"
The gang wars became a fea-
ture of each election campaign as
gunner dueled to preserve the
corrupt political set-up that af-
forded them the maximum pro-
lection.
THE 1926 election, with Thomp-
son making a political comeback,
was an especially bloody one. A
few days before the election two
bombs blew the front of the
homes of Judge John A. Swan
son, and Charles S. Deneen, two
Thompson foes.
A young Negro lawyer, Octa.
vius Granady, who tried to run
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-26

continued until they put me un-
der oxygen tent. DR.. Clark who
was in charge, instructed them
to give me the oxygen for ten
minutes, then rest ten minutes
and then give me more. This they
kept up. was there for "a hours.
"At that time l asked them
what they were going to do
about this situation. told them
that if something was not done
then they could transfer me or
give me quit slip as 1 was not
taking chances with my health.
When I returned to work blow
er was installed on the outside
of the crane. They asked me to
pour the same type of heats, u.s.
ing Sodium Floride I started
to pour the heat and my eyes
started to burn and l started
coughing, then the foreman in
structed the men not to use the
Sodium Floride. So we continued
pouring without it."
Here is what John Danish,
crane operator had to say: II
know a thousand ways of dy-
ing, I'd rather give up my SEN
iOrity and job than my life.
When that stuff hits you. it's
like a ton of brieks-it dries
you up, you vomit, your head
aches"
BENNY Formes, 16 years in
Ford: when I breathe the stuff
my chest hurts and when the
wind comes from the South we
really get it. Five years ago the
company tried using this cherni-
cal and quit because men were
getting sick. Better to lose my
job than to die from poisoning"
Anthony DeLevala worked in
Fords Il years: II poured one
heat, the cab of the crane got
full of fumes, 1 started to choke,
got sick, my chest burned like
it was going to burst-it took me
a week to get over that dose.
refuse to ever pour another heat
with that stuff in the steel = l
only got one life and Ford amt
getting it."
"In 1887 they used the stuff
and the State Dept. of Health
made an analysis of the fumes
and said at that time the stuff
was injurious. Phillip Hagland
who was building superintend-
ent at that time came down
and said get rid Of the damned
stuff we never saw it agin till
they started using it this time"
n
JIMMY Hawkins, Negro crane
operator, worked for Ford 18
years: "the fumes are so bad you
could not stay in the cab. l went
down and took a pailful of the
stuff and hid it. I told the fore
man after that / had a damned
good chance to get another job
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-26

polt to Democratic congressman,
particularly to William Link of
thd 7th District and Martin Cor
ski Of the 18th.
dORDON'S GOP-opponent for
thd Nov. 9Th elections is Loop
attorney, Scott John Vitell, who
PEI sonifies Tribune theology.
Labor, says Vitell, has retard-
ed reconversion"; the owners of
thd meat trust chad nothing
whatever to do with causing the
meht shortage. Truman's fault;
and the American First Com
mi1tee's detectives were all right.
Sory they didn't get anywhere"
The trouble with our foreign
policy, says Vitell, is that 'Byrnes
is pro-British and Henry Wallace
is pro-Russian. You need some.
on} who is pro-American. I'm pro
American"
AS for his opponent Gordon,
Vitell rips him for voting
against the Dies committee" (IIe
msant the Wood-Rankin commit
teep. I'm in favor of granting
that Dies committee more money
and more power"
Insofar as winning the 9Th Dis
trict seat Vitell expects to make
considerable progress"
This progress" would indeed
have to be considerable, as the
Democrats took it in 1912 by
vote of 33,425 to 1895, and again
in 1914 by 1886 to 10,474. So
far there is no rush to Republi-
canism in the 9Th.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-26


for COP committeeman in the
Goth Ward against Thompson's
wishes, was shot through the
head.
The protection system was air.
tight and benevolent = even for
those who had to serve little
time as an appeasement to the
public.
A REPORTER once went to in.
terview Terry Druggan at Cook
County Jail where the "beer
baron" was serving a one-year
sentence. A bored guard told the
reporter Druggan was "out."
HE ought to be coming in
around six-O'clock; he has din
ner out" the guard explained.
Beginning in 1929 came a Sc
ries of sensational gang murders.
On st. Valentines Day, seven
Hoods" members of the Bugs"
Moran gang that was bucking
Capone, were moved down by
machine bullets in a North side
garage.
ON MAY 80, 1880 came the Fox
Lake Massacre, in which SIX
gangsters who had just broken
with the Capone syndicate, were
murdered.
On June 9, Jake Lingle, a Trib-
une reporter, was bumped off.
The sensational developments of
this killing will be dealt with in
the next article in this series.
So the corrupt Republican re-
gime rode on into the early de-
preston years which were to see
its complete collapse.
Climax of this era of plumber,
violence and reaction came in DC.
tober 1880. Mayor Thompson ar
ranged for lavish official well
come to the City of none other
than William Randolph Hearst,
pro-fascist publisher. For this &C.
casion, the Mayor and his crew
shot their war on spectacular
parade and huge celebration in
Soldiers Field where DIRTY Will
lie" Hearst was hailed by "the
Chicago City Committee which
desired to recognize the outstand-
ing services of this great citi-
zen
THIS WAS the fitting climax
to the 15-year Republican rule
which left the city plundered and
penniless, gang-ridden and dis
graced in the eyes of the world.
With little to recommend the
challenging Democrats, the peo-
pie packed the COP off into a
richly-deserved oblivion at the
next election.
Ito be continued next week.)
Nj
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-26

but a damned slim chance to get
another life. Also you should
mention that when the cab is
full of fumes the foreman and
superintendent stay out of them"
Tom Hagan, worked in Ford
IA years, 10 years a craneman:
I jumped off the crane after
pounrig a couple of heats and
told boss that l thought more of
my health than my job. L got ME
a respirator and it even seeped
thu that. Then they gave us a
gas mask, one mask for six men.
When 1 used that 1 sweat SO
much that l could not see and
that's dangerous when you're
pouring hot steel and running a
crane"
Walter Bolinski, % years at
Cords, craneman: ut got me SO
bad that 1 could not work. am
sick, dizzy, bursting headaches
and my chest aches. tell you
we are fighting death in that
Open Hearth"
FRED, c. Weichel, "a years at
Fords, crane operator: l remem-
Der one time, it was 40 degrees
in that cab, could not see where
I'm going, the fumes was so
thick. Company chemists came
there and told US that there is a
certain amount of poison but not
enough to kill a man, well they
are not getting me-"
Solman's Manual of Phar-
mocology, 5th edition has this to
say of Sodium Floride; lis gen.
eral protoplasmic poison, of some
toxicologic Importance and con-
siderable scientific interest. It's
used as a poison for rats and
cockroaches and has led TO sew.
eral human fatalities. 1t produces
local necrosis of mucous mem
branes and after absorption, it
causes acute and chronic poison
ing, especially gastro-enteritis,
even with parenteral administra-
ton, collapse, and hepatic and
other visceral, degeneration with
nutritional disturbances.
THE long continued ingestion
of small quantities such as &C.
cur in the water supply of some
districts injuries enamal forma-
ton causing 'motlled enamar
and also other abonrmal bone
formation. The acute effects may
be due partly to dissemination of
calcium similar to oxalates; but
other factors are probably more
important especially the destrpc-
ton of various ferments."
-
IN other words this mankiller
stalking the Ford plant Open
Hearth foundry, corrodes the
membranes of the mouth, nose,
air passages and digestive pas
sages, kills men. Today the JAW
leadership in Ford local 600 is
demanding that the company viii
throw out Sodium Floride and
save men's@lives, just as the CIO
Steel Workers demanded and got
it thrown out Of the Great Lakes
Steel Mills in Ecorse, Michigan,
five years ago.
Never was the brutal, muir.
derous, calloused contempt of
workers lives and health which
is typical of monopoly capital
more arrogantly displayed than
in this instance of Henry Ford
the Seconds exposed example of
his human engineering policy"
being put into effect by ex-FBI-
er Bugas with his order of work
or else"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-26

the Gennas, Diamond Jim" Espo-
'sed sito, Terry Druggan and frankie
luel Lake, Dion O'Banion, George
,un- Bugs" Moran, Hymie Weiss,
Vincent Drucci and host of
smaller fry. Aside from Scar
IN face" Al himself few of these are
thu still alive and few died in bed.
vii Gang killings were the order
-or. of the day-and many innocent
:, bystanders were killed in the
-hat crossfire. In the ten year period
I'D from 1920 to 1880 there were al
en- most 5000 homicides in Chicago.
into
ces- IN APRIL, 1926, States Attor-
run ney William H. McSwiggin was
of shot down by machine guns near
ang the Capone hang-out in Cicero.
the Capone submitted to questioning
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-25
Fargo Man Arrives To
Open Coast To Coast
Store On First Street

M. C. Bjorgen of Fargo, N. D.,
owner Of a new Coast to Coast
store he will open soon at 10S
East First street in the location to
be vacated by Scott's Dry Cleaners
& Laundry, arrived here this week.
He announced Wednesday the open
ing. would depend on how soon fix
lures and stock arrived. The Scott
establishment will be moving soon
to a building erected the past sum-
mer on the west side of First ave-
nue. in the 100 block.
Bjorgen said his store would be
one of more than 40 Coast to Coast
store now operating in Montana.
Merchandise is to consist of house
wares, hardware, auto accessories,
electrical appliances, sporting goods,
paints, plumbing and farm supplies.
Wayne Scott of Minneapolis, rep
r%esentative of Coast to Coast, is
here to assist Bjorgen in setting
up the store.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-25
.SANOE NAMED TO POST
BY COUNTY ATTORNEY;
KEEPS LAUREL OFFICE

Charles B. Sande, Laurel attor,
ney, has been appointed special as.
sistant deputy county attorney in
the office of County Attorney Mel
win N. Holiness, beginning Oct. 1,
Sande previously served in the of
flee, before going into the armed
service, under Rex F. Hibbs. He
said here Wednesday that he will
continue his Laurel office on First
avenue and expects to spend about
half of his time here.
Sande was elected chairman of
the Yellowstone county Young Re-
publicans at a meeting Tuesday
night in Billings, succeeding Paul
Mccormick, retiring chairman. 9th
er officers chosen were Fred Nell
son, vice chairman; Mrs. E. Garrett,
secretary, and Miss Stella Stockdal,
treasurer.
Attending the session was Betty
Nader, secretary to Wesley A.
D'Ewart, congressman from the
second Montana district.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-25
CAMP, SINGLETON
LANDS ADJOINING
LAUREL ARE SOLD
Three Hundred Acres, 10 Houses
Bought By Laurel, Billings
Group For Development

Negotiations were completed this
week in Laurel for the purchase,
by the Wilcox Company of Billings
of the Camp ranch and a part of
the Singleton property which ad-
joins the townsite of Laurel on the
north, consisting of about 300 acres
and some 10 houses, according to
Merritt Williams, the secretary and
manager of the company.
The Camp property will be sub
divided into tracts and part of the
Singleton property into lots. The
houses on the properties will be
sold except those now under con-
tract. Plans are under way for the
construction of some 20 new houses
when material and labor are avail
able.
The officers in this company, be-
sides Mr.. Williams, are Mrs. Fen
ton D. Wilcox of Billings, president,
who will have charge of the financ-
ing of the new houses, and Charles
b. Sande, vice president, who will
have charge of the legal matters.
They are the board of directors and
stockholders.
Mrs. Wilcox has been in Billings
many years and operates the Will
cox Agency in the Securities build
ing. Both Mr.. Sande and Mr.. Will
liams have recently returned from
the service and are well known in
Laurel.
The Camp ranch was one of the
first homesteads taken in the valley
and Charles Camp and his brother,
Camp, whose ranch is part OF
the townsite of Laurel, were among
the early civic leaders of this COM
munity. This property was pur-
chased some 20 years ago from the
Camp estate by DR.. d. H. McCauley
and the Laurel Security company
who disposed of their interests this
week. Both the Camp and Single
ton properties have had extensive
improvements made in the past Is
The office of the new
be in the r. ]. Williams &
Son building in Laurel, and the
Billings office will be in the Securi-
ties building.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-25
NATIONAL HEAD Of
R0TANA IS VISITOR
Miss O'Sullivan and Other Ma
tiOnal Officers Are Enter
tanned At Dinner, Program

Miss Veronica O'Sullivan Of
Butte, president of National Rotana
was feted Monday evening by the
Laurel Rotana club at a dinner ano
program in honor of national Off
GERS and club guests. The event
was in the basement of the Metho-
dist church, with members of &
young peoples group of the church
serving the dinner. About so at
tended.
+ The Rotana organization is COM
posed of business and professional
women, and as several members and
guests were of the teaching profess
sion the dinner and program re-
Elected school days. Mrs. Mona
Pewitt, president, presided at the
introduction of guests. National
officers attending we're Miss O'Sul-
Ivan, president; Miss Mary Adeline
Cook of Billings, first vice presi-
dent; Miss Stellavee Wooters of
Laurel, secretary, and Miss Rosetta
Fritz of Laurel, past national pres
ident and present board member.
Miss Fritz introduced the national
officers and presented them with
corsages. Campbell Calvert served
as Observation-Disclosures.
Miss O'Sullivan, member of club
No. 1 which is often referred to as
the mother club, described the ma
tional organizations detectives and
told of projects successfully pro-
NOTED by individual clubs. Men
toned were the Butte clubs milk
fund for undernourished children,
the Laurel clubs lending fund for
young people wishing vocational or
professional training, and the Spo-
kane clubs project for providing
hearing aids for deaf people.
Miss Mabel Haynes, former sec
ond lieutenant in the U. S. marine
corps who recently returned to Lau-
rel to resume teaching, told of her
experiences in the service, the train
ing she received and the duties she
performed.
Mrs. j. H. Albertus contributed
two vocal solos to the evenings
program.
Forrest Hill, Laurel artist who
mad arranged an exhibit of pictures
for the occasion, spoke concerning
the examples in oils, water colors
and etchings. One was a portrait
and the others were Montana
scenes.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-25
T.B TESTS SLATED FOR
NEXT MONDAY MORNING

Patch tests for tuberculosis will
be made on first grade children in
all Laurel grade schools Monday,
Sept. 80, Mrs. Helen Robbins, field
nurse for the Yellowstone County
tuberculosis association, announced
here this week. Mrs. Robbins said
the tests would start at 9 o'clock
Monday morning at the North
school, later at the East and south
schools.
Parents with pre-school children
and others interested in the tests
may have patch tests made.
Seventh and eighth grade and
high school students will not be
tested at this time, for they have
been tested previously. The states
mobil X-ray unit will be here in
November to take care of those not
tested at this time.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-25
TharalsOn In Germany
Wins 7-Day FurlOugh
To Capital Of France

Because he answered two quest
ions pertaining to dramatics and
wrote a 50-word letter, Robert
Tbaralson, son of Mr.. and Mrs. C.
T. Tharalson, won a seven-day fur
Tough to Paris. Writing Sept. II
from Bremerhaven, Germany, he
told his parents of his good fortune.
Gan unexpected windfall dropped
into my lap today" he wrote. At
5 this afternoon l leave for Frank
furt and from there l will go to
Paris. About a month ago l ell
tered a contest over AIN which has
as a prize a seven-day ~furlough to
Paris, sponsored by the Franco-Am-
erican goodwill committee. The
best part is that it's free and does
not detract from my regular fur
Tough time, so 1 may still get to
England, unless l go home first.
"The question consisted of two
questions on one subject. The ans
weres had to be accompanied by
a 50-word letter telling why I
would like to visit Paris. The SUBJ
ject happened to be dramatics and
the the questions were almost abb
suredly simple: What was Cyrano
de Bergerac not for? and Who was
the French heroine in one of George
Bernard Shaw's plays? The letter
was harder to write since 1 was al
lowed only so words.
81 am as pleased at seeing Paris
again as l would be at going to
London. I'll probably look in at the
peace conference while 1 am there.
Also 1 will get to see more of
Germany, and since Frankfurt is
the American zone capital there
should be a lot to see. The 1. G.
Farben building, which houses the
USFET headquarters, is supposed
to be the most beautiful in Ger
many.
"The committee maps out its
Continued on Page Ten)
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-25
COUNCIL CANVASSES
FRANCHISE RETURNS
Grants Permission To Move Two
Houses, Bring In Trailer
Gutter Improvement Sought

The city council at a special ses-
sion Tuesday evening c%anvassed re-
turns of the special election that
was held Sept. Is for extending the
franchise of Billings Gas company
80 years. The unofficial returns
of 80 votes in favor and none OPP
posed were confirmed and made of
fetal. Resolution No. CAB, formal
ly extending the franchise was ap-
proved and Professionally passed.
Councilmen present were Feuer-
bacher, Parker, Smith, Rodgers,
Wilson, Weber and Void. Conner,
president of the council, presided in
the absence of Mayor Thomson.
Arthur Metzger requested per-
mission to bring a trailer house
into the city as a place of residence
for a family. Permission was
granted.
A letter from N. E. Nicholas re-
garding a parking problem was
read and referred to the police COM
mittee.
Two permits were granted, to
Howard Holland for moving a 20
by 30 house in sections to lots l
and 2, block 9, Nutting subdivision,
and to Perry B. Marvin to move
a "a by "a house from out of town
to lots Z and g., block 5, Laurel
Heights.
Void presented a motion, second
ed by Wilson, for the city attorney
to prepare a petition for circulation
among property m on two
blocks of Main street for gutter
improvement on the north side.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-25
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE
GOING To COLLEGE
Unusually Large Number In
cludeS Several Veterans
Making First Entrance

A larger number of Laurel young
people than usual are leaving this
year to attend institutions of high
er learning. A part of the number
are veterans who are either max
ing their initial entrance or are re-
turning to resume their studies.
The list includes: Montana uni
versity at Missoula-Loren Palmer,
Ted Neville, Don Fellows, Joan Nc
Cauley, Colleen Fahy, Dolores Eel
lows, Joan Green, Montee Wallace,
Ralph Herriott, Campbell C. Cal
ert, Edward Butler.
Montana Schol of Mines-Miss
Barbara Smith.
Montana State college at Boze-
man-Jesse Long, Jr., James Gu
sick, Don Graft, Paul Dull, Irene
Sherrow, James Sherrow, Bert Sher-
row, Eddie Speare, Robert Strobel,
Thomas Schessler.
Leaving for other colleges were
Dick Moran, Gonzaga college at
spokane, WaSh.; Donna Moran,
Catholic academy at Great Falls;
Robert Johnson, University of Min
nesota at Minneapolis; Betty Stro-
bel, Yankton College, Yankton, N.
D.; Patricia Johnston, Margaret
College Of Technology.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa;
Beverly Gunter, Kahler Institute
school of nursing, Rochester, Mimi;
Lois Crawford, Montana State Nor
NAL College, Dillon; Trevie Barr,
Deaconess hospital school of nurs-
ing, Billings; William Colson, Clar-
ence Morrell, Melvin Lackman, East
ern Montana Normal school, Bill
ings; Heloise Anne Wilcox, William
cite University, Salem, Ore; Pa
5ricia Early, School of Medical Tech
Spokane, Wash.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-25
CITY DELIVERY Of
MAIL To BEGIN ON
TUESDAY, OCT.
Patrons Urged To Take Street
Addresses To POStOffice,
Provide Receptacles

With the beginning date of city
delivery service set for Oct. 1, Laur-
ell postoffice employees this week
issued a request to all patrons wish
ing to use the service to bring in
their street addresses. Two city
make the deliveries.
Patrons we're also urged to place
house numbers on their homes and
to provide receptacles for mail.
Standard boxes may be purchased
at Laurel stores. Everyone receiv-
ing mail by carrier should immedi-
ately advise their correspondents of
their house number. The postoffice
employees said this will be of as
sistance to them and the carriers
and will insure faster delivery.
Quarterly rent of boxes at the
p~ostoffice became due this week.
The majority of the patrons did not
renew for the coming quarter, al
though several preferred the old
system and kept their boxes. They
said they wanted to get their mail
on Sundays, and n added, al
want a good excuse to come down.
town every day, anyway"
The two city carriers have not yet
been appointed and some of the nee
essary equipment, coming from
Pennsylvania, was ordered early
in the summer. Should it not IT,
rive in time there is possibility of
a hitch in getting the service start