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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-12-20
SDarkIetS- Champion Unit

Wedding bells finally caught
up with Helen "Ruddy' Ru-
dzinski of Department E, End
shift on Nov. 30th. Congratula-
tions Helen.
Jim Allion, Inspector on plug
tempers, 3rd shift was seen
passing out cigars the other day.
AReason-baby girl.
: Mary Hoppe, Dept. "E', sure
knocked the pins all over the
alley last week. She rolled a big
$40 and got on the Honor Roll.
Have you started your Christ
mas Savings yet at our Credit
Union? If not you still have
until the first of the year to
do so.
The Company sure worked
hard, painting the lines on the
floor, and the end machine on
the lines and also used wire
brushes on the floor to make
them look clean. Imagine do
ing all this work just to impress
the foremen's club when they
made an inspection tour of the
plant on Dec. 18th. 1t sure look
ed swell, that we must admit.
But what happened on Dec. II?
The same old conditions. Racks
and pans scattered all over the
aisles and the floors crowded
and in a very congested condi-
ton. We are of the opinion that
the plant should be in order at
all times. What's good for the
Foreman's Club to look at IS
also good for the Employees to
work around.
Wonder why Harold Griffith
from the brass machines is look
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-12-20
COn1n1utdtOT
Comments

Have you noticed the smart
hair cut Ruffels Ray is wear
ing? He did it so his wife would
get mad at him and he wouldn't
have to buy her a Christmas
present.
Frank Dimples Gazala says
all is quiet on the home front
so we can print anything we
like about him.
Is Piggie Bank Joe going to
pay off or do we have to break
his bank? And it isn't blackmail.
Frank Wolf broke his arm
and we're sorry. Hope it doesn't
keep you home too long.
The crack about Julia was
censored.
The executive committee ex-
tends Christmas and New Years
Greetings to all the members of
the Unit, to the executive board
of Local II and all the. mem
bers of the Region 2-B staff.
Have you heard the outlaw
growing about the fur coat he's
going to buy nav?
The girls bowling team took
three games Sunday. 1t would
be nice if the members would
drop around to the alleys and
give them some support.
John Kip says nav feeds him
good and he doesn't work hard,
so just what is that keeps him
so thin. The work of carrying
all thot food around?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-12-20

ing so thin lately? Is it because
his better-half doesn't work in
a cafeteria anymore. S to p
laughing C. Decker this applies
to you also.
Glenn Sobczak in Dept. D,
End shift woke up the other
morning and found his 4-month
old baby had a tooth.
The Champion Spark Plug
Unit basketball team was vic
torious in the YMCA Industrial
League last week, when they
downed the Toledo Police 33 to
81. In close and hard fought
game. The score now stands
Won Lost /. Well be looking
for you at the coming games.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Auto Black Market

No person who has followed the
news for some five years or more
could have doubted the existence of
an automobile black market, but few
can have suspected that it amounted
to a hundred million dollar concern
in the South alone.
What has interested the Star most
in the revelations of OPA's activities
centering at Leesville, South Carolina,
is the statement black market opera
tors have secured new cars and sold
them at double the ceiling price.
Naturally the OPA-why not the
FBI instead?-is concerned with learn
ing the methods used, first to secure
the cars, and secondly to find suckers
willing to pay twice as much as
they were worth in the OPA price
list. Here is another example that
Barnum vas right when he said one
was born every minute.
1t is gratifying to note that the six
men arrested in the first drive to
break up the operating ring are to be
brought before a federal court. Fed
eral courts are properly constituted
tribunals, which is very different from
the panels set up by the old OPA for
hearing cases of a hundred sorts which
had no constitutional standing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Administration To Blame

Despite the effect of war on living
costs, and war always is expensive
for the people back home, the federal
administration has been the chief Of
fender in creating the unwholesome
conditions now existing and which are
making so many heads of families
scratch to meet their households cur
rent expenses.
The real fault lies on the doorstep
of the administration, which chung to
the fallacy that wages could advance
without proportionate increase in
costs. This was the policy of the labor
leaders who had President Truman's
ear during the period of strikes that
all but wiped out American industry
They convinced the President that
the pay increases they demanded could
be borne by industry, thai prices need
not go up by jot or title, and Mr..
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Stadium Cleanup Program

News that the stadium property Is
to be cleaned up and a new fence built
along the Carolina Beach highway
frontage will receive hearty commen-
dation from Wilmingtonians who w
long had a sense of shame over the
dilapidated condition into winch 1ne
property had been allowed to fall.
With the t%umbledown concession
shacks removed, the remaining trailer
homes relocated elsewhere and the
grounds in the wide open space between
the highway and the stadium proper
cleared Of debris of all sorts, the chief
arena for outdoor sports in the county
should take on a greatly improved ap-
pearance.
The stadium is among the county's
principal outdoor assets. 1t well de-
serves all the county administration
can do to make it a place of beauty,
instead of an eyesore.
Now that the project is actually to
be started, the commission is to be en-
couraged to maintain the parking space
in first rate condition and the entrance
roads properly and frequently planed,
to do away with the thank-you-marms
that make the life of patrons a troubl-
ed experience.
This work is the more important in
view of the fact that the football sea-
son is not so far ahead. The number
of private automobiles on game nights
will far exceed the top figures during
the present baseball season and more
than entered the grounds or sought
parking space when the Wildcats were
playing at home in 1916.
The parking area ought to be mark
ed with clearly defined spaces for cars
and to complete the job a crew of at
tendants should be on hand before and
after games to direct traffic in and
out, so that the customary traffic
jams so familiar in the past will be
done away with.
Whether the Board of County Com
m%issioners sees fit to carry out such
a program or not, there is general
.thankfulness that the grounds are to
be cleaned up and the approaches made
more attractive with a board fence,
which, hopefully, will be kept in good
condition with frequent painting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Winter Park Flood

Some Winter Park residents yes.
terday did not agree with the an
nouncement that wind and sun were
drying out their vicinity, as reported
by three commissioners following
an earlier inspection tour. Specifically
it is reported by one irate citizen that
Cedar street was so muddy no one afoot
or an automobile driven in low gear
could navigate it.
Saturday nights tempest literally
created a flood in this suburb, and be-
cause there was such delay in provid-
ing adequate drainage, though the sit
uation was long known, residents are
still tediously blowing their way
through streets that ought to be as
dry as any neighborhood that suffered
equal downpours.
This flood is literally yer the dam
now. Winter Park eventually will dry
puff it ever stops raining. But the
overflow provides the best kind of ex-
ample to the. authorities of the need
for speed and thoroughness in COM
pleting the drainage project.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28

ings was caused and q persons
are said to have lost their lives;
and many other communities were
greatly agitated.
The tremblor came at $50
o'clock. The day had been un-
usually warm, and most of the
citizens seemed to have been sit
ing up, awaiting cooler air to re-
tire. Houses shook, dishes ratified
and articles were Jared from
shelves; chimneys were wrenched,
and walls cracked. People rushed
out of their homes; some of them
to look for assures in the ground
which were supposed to accom-
pany earthquakes. The Star later
published an official account of the
phenomenon in words quoted from
the observer of the weather
bureau as follows:
At $50 p. m. there was felt a
rumbling sound, low at first, but
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28

Truman fell for their arguments, with
result that union labor got it's raise
in pay and industry raised such a
rumpus that when OPA was revived
Congress approved a requirement tina
all prices should allow a fair profit
for the producer, which is a fair prop
osition.
Now prices have reached what IS
very nearly a prohibitive level, and
labor is already clamoring for higher
wages to meet the new high cost of
living. with another strike wave COM
ing over the horizon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
The Hemline

Paris and Washington are at odds
on another serious problem-the length
of women's dress skirts. Paris DEGREES
they shall be from two to four inches
longer. Washington regulators of scarce
commodities are at it tooth and toenail
with tn e French designers, saying
nothing doing"
And to all appearances, as well as
cloth, they have the right of the argu-
ment with figures to back them up.
Skirts two inches longer, they say, will
require an extra thirty to fifty million
yards of fabric for women's dresses,
coats, suits and slips.
This much yardage, they add, would
make from eight to fourteen million
mems suits, and men are really up
against a hard proposition when it
comes to finding new raiment.
And as for appearances there is a
very good reason, besides shapeliness,
for resisting the Paris proposal. Paris
says that skirts two inches longer in
front should be four inches longer be-
hind. It would take a long time for
people to get over thinking the ladies
were losing their skirts if this style were
adopted. furthermore, and Paris certain
ly would not think of it for obvious
reasons, if Washington succeeds in hold
ing the hemline, women will get along
without buying new outfits, and that
would be a blessing to the head of many
a household.
Washington, for once, has the best
of the argument. We ought to be happy
to hold up it's hands for victory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Mex On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Every committee meeting of the
American Contract Bridge League
brings out an interesting hand or
two. After a recent meeting of the
Master Plan Committee we got into
a discussion of hands and Waldo
mar Won Zedtwitz said that some
one at the club had given him
the hand and bidding shown
today, and asked, What would
you lead?"
The question narrowed down to
whether the jack of spades or
jack of clubs would be the best
lead.
Most of those at the meeting
thought that the jack of spade S
was the best lead and We asked
Won Zedtwitz if that had been
his choice. He said no. When
asked if he would lead the jack
of clubs, his reply again was no.
While we were trying to figure
out why he would lead a diamond
or a heart, Won Zedtwitz an
rounced that the correct lead was
the ten of clubs. His reason was
that from the bidding, the hand
was probably ice cold for six-odd.
Perhaps all declarer would have
to do would be to take n finesse
for IL tricks.
Suppose that dummy held the
king and two small clubs, and
decla-er had the ace-queen-eight
and a small club. He would prob
ably take two rounds of clubs, and
when North's nine-spot fell, de-
clarer might make the mistake of
leading a small club from dummy
and finessing the eight-spot.
The lead suggested by Won
Zedtwitz brings out a very good
point. With strong bidding such
as this, there is very little hope
of defeating the contract unless
you can make a deceptive lead or
play that will not hurt your part
ner's hand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Religion
MORE OF EVERYTHING
BY WILLIAM T. L L

Canada has more of every
thing" announced that careful
housewife, Milady, at the end OF
our first week at Blue Heron Point.
More meat and bread and butter
and eggs, and fresh vegetables -
what a vacation boon for the wom-
en- who must provide three meals
a day for family and guests.
Canada has managed her war
and post = var economy well, and
has shared bomtifully with the
needy nations overseas. I am
proud to be a part-time Canadian.
There is more than food that this
Land Of Tomorrow has to give the
tired vacationist from below the
border. The p~ine-scented air; the
peerless sunsets which enamel the
surface of u lakes with a silvery
sheen beyond description; the wild
life of the woods, both birds. and
beasts; the fish that refresh the
larder and the fisherman's spirit;
the friendly folk who are our neigh
bors all these are Canada's gifts
to her visiting friends - plus a
definite goodness of sentiment.
We thank Thee, o Lord, for good
neighbors who share. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Doctor Says-
SCHOOLS
IS NOT EFFEC1UA1
By WILLIAM A.. O'BR1EN

a. obRlEN, Mn
The practice of closing ,.
during epidemics is q ponn,s ssaooli
lie expression OF our desi bs't u. pub
tect our children from dise,s !. Ps'
tnere is no evidence that a9v ~ "
demic has ever been cae cE. s3,
the closing of schools. As' BY
Closing or deferring the o,.,,..
OF city schools is Of less S'y yai4sl
than is ALMOST any other nv value
in controlling contagious d lf.aSa's
City school children as .
come from the same district' ny: I
which the epidemic is
There is intimate contact b .s =
these children in their pI. ,,"sf
IN the neighborhood shopping sa'
trlct, and nothing is ga its o ~
keeping them away from ma
other in a school building d.
The chief advantage Of law.
schools open during an enid.mS
is the fact that sick children S t...
may be granted medical sttan ,IA
more quickly. 'a
Even though the school NAV
enjoy the services of a ,r, nv,
nurse or a school physician NJ,
teachers usually can detect i,lra ns
in any child. A teacher c1ao..
daily on the progress of each rsT:
in her room, and she NAV ~.
more eff c in de+ec,ir,
changes than is someone clossr :
the child.
Most infectious diseases are M,
tagious during the later part NJ
the incubation period, Just betor a
the symptoms develop. the tsrr,s
of quarantine to be completely ~
fective even when sick c5ijdr.,
are sent home at once rey,,,
from our inability to detect ny,
riers and to recognize those VII,
are coming down with the in.
lection.
School authorities, in deterprc.
to those parents who do not can
to start their children TO scboo
during an epidemic, do not COZ,
absences at such a time and mar
ents are permitted to use ths.
own judgment as to When the.
children return to school.
QUESTION: What is the eau,
of eczema of the hands md 0
the body below the abdomen? |
it caused by the things one eat;
ANSWER: Eczema in adults
a form Of allergy in which
strong nervous element is j.
volved. The older the patient vie
the eczema develops, the NOR
likely it is to be mainly a nervol
disorder. The patient may, how
ever, be sensitive to something i
his diet. A physician should
consulted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28

cause in the recent primary they
took Gaer's advice to get out and
vote but voted against Vito Mar
%cantonio and most of the COM
munist pet candidates. Ironically,
when that happened, Ma-cantonio
yelled that wall Street. and the
war mongers," not the voters,
had slapped down the Communists
candidates.
I told you before but let me
repeat briefly that Gae~ has been
educating" Americans according
to his predictions ever since he
first hooked on with the new deal
about 1888. In that year he was
chief field supervisor" of the
Federal Writers'' Project of the
W. P A., the most impudent COM
munist front of the whole Roose-
welt bureaucracy. In 1910 and 1941
he was "consultant'' for the farm
security administration, another of
those things, although his business
never was farming. His boss there
was C. B. Baldwin, the admins
traitor" who later hoped into the
No. 2 job at the P. A. c. under
Sidney Hillman.
Leaving the F. S. A., Gaer sidled
into the Treasury as a p-opagandist
for Henry Morgenthau who was
promoting as Educational pro-
%jects' a lot of economic theories
and adventures including the Bret
ton Woods thing, of which more
later.
He is a very clever fellow. Mr.
Gaer is, and doubtless the P A r
had satisfactory reasons fer tra6.
ing with a print shop which tha
Dies committee described as =
dummy for another shop which
held a mortgage on the worker and
shared the address of the corr
munist party.
Gaer is the name, meaning
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28

increasing In power, accompanl-
ed by a violent rocking of the
buildings and a perceptible and
alarming motion of the earth;
which told US that the city was
being visited by an earthquake.
In an instant a scene of the wild
est confusion prevailed. The first
and most violent shock at $50
D. M. lasted from Is to 80 seconds.
It came from the northwest. The
river was violently agitated, the
waves washing up above the
Wharves.
"a second shock occurred at 10
p. M, coming from the west, and
lasted about 10 seconds. Two other
shocks were felt about 1912 and
1925 pm, both between three
and five seconds duration.
No serious damage was done.
Several chimneys toppled over and
in a number of houses plastering
was dislodged and china was
broken"
Other minor shocks were record
ed Oh Sept. 3rd, 4th and 9Th. Older
citizens recall many interesting
incidents of the time. People were
seized with fear, and some of them
spontaneously repaired to their
churches and intense religious
emotions were stirred. This was the
case among the Negroes, as well
as among many white people. 1t
was felt that a great catastrophe
Vas impending, for which the
earthquake sounded a warning.
In February of the same year
a huge conflagration consumed
practically all of the northwestern
part of the city. And now came
the earthquake! These events
made the people serious. For a
long time an anxious atmosphere
prevailed, and a new detirmin-
alton seemed to be displayed by
the citizens to make the best of
their life. In a year and a half
the memorable Pearson meetings
came.
Further about the earthquake
Wilmington was stirred with
sympathy for the residents of
Charleston. News came of many
suffering there in one way or
another. A thousand dollars ives
raised here promptly, and carried
to Charleston by a committee
named to visit that city and as
certain if there would be need
for further relief funds. The com.
mlttee consisted of Col. E. D. Hall,
the mayor, Alderman C. j. Boney
and Rev. w. H. Lewis, rector of
st. James Episcopal church. No
additional contributions were
sought; and Charleston began to
repair the damage it sustained
which was estimated to mount TO
millions.
Naturally. Wilmington's expert
ence OF the great earthquake left
a vivid memory, and MANY ner.
sonal recollections have been re-
cited by those who recalled IT,
the roaring as of a mighty train
a few seconds before the tremor
care, the great excitement Of The
Negroes, the dread of another
quake, and other anxieties which
zlezed many persons. One old
lady told me a short wbi1e sao
OF a gathering of Negroes at a
kind of semi-religious meet;ns
near some of the old graves ba AZ
the site of the Front Street
methodist church, which had beer
nurned In the great February fire.
the earthquake came. thew
were terribly excited, and scream
ed their dread of what thew
thought was the coming of tho
Judgement day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Letter Box
JOBS GO BEGGING

To the Editor:
The fertilizer industry is certain.
ly a very definite factor in the
industrial picture in Wilmington
Not only do we have a number
of established firms but one new
one in process of construction and
another expecting to start c~onstGle'
ton. This industry provides en-
ployment for a great many males.
For some time this industry has
had difficulty in getting neceSSaF!
amount OF help.
The part that fertilizer plays ID
the production of our staple crops
has always given this industry
very high claim to the services o.
labor in any community from
time to time we hear about lack O.
job opportunities for minor saceS
Wages in this industry have Dell
stepped up from 40 cents an nouf Z !
short time back to s. cents ana "
cents an hour. The demand "'
fertilizer indicated by the fact us
we have over so job openings y
local fertilizer plants and II al u
the fertilizer plants placed u'.
openings with US we would p'9'
ably run around a hundred
The largest number of open-nl,
we had last year prior 10 Janls ..
/ was in November at which '''
we had Is openings. In Augus =
year ago we had very few opel-''
whereas we have 50 today, ii.
1t is very difficult to gel u.
labor. Unless the labor de l, ~,
of these plants is met 1t "Ia ~, ".
necessary for them to change !. wv. h..
colored labor to white labor o. NJ. u
troduce a machine to do the "''
that labor has been doing .,
/ am no prophet but I 6s-..'
that the colored people OF Ni. lni,..
ton should recognize in tefaln.
factory a permanent source ., u h
plovment. If these factories "
change their methods OF pf0out,sl
and eliminate jobs for c0-s Wv.
males it will mean seFeId. .-sto.
dred less job openings thaA H'
fore. ..r,,H
sooner than some Of US expec% .3 N b
any kind of a job will be Hot "'o+aa
find. 1t is true that c ~:sr,ss
activities will use conSlas rss,!
labor for the next several w.!
but even now lack of ma.sI'; u.
government restrictions e.E ss< y
curtailing constructio2 actlv.i ~ -
the point where it might not w ,,s j
easy to find the job when you ~
the money. ;s ts
sawmilling and pulp"ood n d.
tries which are very vital .,;rdi,.
-econversion program, o .as y
program, and the many u, 4. hi
which pulpwood can be pull srrs
present time one employer II:
needs Is laborers and co .in 1n.
100 at 65 cents an hour Asa n,o-;s.:
peat, colored male 'erioua
throughout this area should Wv rl.a
ly consider working IN tHe soe Oh
industries especially from oT5wEN
UNITED STATES EMPLOlND
SERVICE, by
HAROLD NJ. HINkLh'
Manager
Wilmington, N. c.
August 81, 1916.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
TOP o. THE

The greatest sit-down strike in the world
has not been staged by some labor union,
but in our churches by those who claim to
be Swaziland yet have never become
fishers of men. Many who love Jesus. do
not seem to love Him enough to make any
special personal effort to get others to give
Him their hands and hearts in repentance
and faith for salvation.
Robert G.. Lee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-28
Charleston Earthquake, 60 Years Ago
On Saturday, Shook Wilmington Too

Another memorable anniversary
will come on August 81. 1t was
on the night of that date in 1886
that the Charleston earthquake
shook the city Of Wilmington and
practically all Of the southeastern
violence was felt in Charleston,
where much destruction to build
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-02-14
ZIMMERMAN
IS PRARISED

At a meeting In Billings on
Saturday at which uncompen-
stated Selective Service per
sonnet from eleven counties
were presented with medals
and certificates, B. A. thinner
man of Lodge Grass was given
special recognition by Col. $.
H. Mitchell, state director of
Selective Service, who present.
ed the awards.
Col. Mitchell represented Gov.
Sam c. Ford.
It was pointed out that Mr.
Zimmerman had not only been
a member of the Big Horn
county Selective Service board
for two years, but had served
in both World wars. He was on
duty with the navy, in which
he enlisted, for more than two
years of the recent conflict.
Other Big Horn county board
members who received awards
were Tony Buzzetti, Frank 5.
Morrison, Cary Mabe, w. A.
Walker, A. G.. Westwood, Jr.,
and D. L. Egnew.
A statement by Governor
Ford, read by Col. Mitchell,
said in part:
1.-THE award does not signify
the end of the job which local
board members and their as
SociateS must do. It is a
thoroughly deserved recognition