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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-12

C. E. Wilson, president of Gen
eral Motors, today made the fol-
lowing statement:
''The fact-fnding boards report
recommending wage increase of
1912 cents per hour and the rein
statement of the wartime labor
agreement between General Motors
and the UAW-CIO, which after
careful consideration was cancelled
by General Motors Dec. 10, 1915, is
unacceptable to General Motors in
whole or in part as basis for set
tling the UAW-CIO strike of Cen
eral Motors plants.
"The General Motors offer to in
crease the wages of all hourly
rated employees an average of 1879
cents per hour or $108 per day
still stands. The government has
stated that living costs are up 33
per cent over 1941. Our offer
when combined with other in
creases made since January, 1941,
fully compensates for this accept
ed increase in the cost of living and
would raise the average employees
rate of pay more than 33 per cent
over what it was in January, 1941.
"The additional six cents recon-
mended by the board members is
based on certain assumptions by
them which in the opinion of Cen
eral Motors are unsound. The
board tried to justify this amount
in part by devious take-home pay
arguments. Actually the recon-
mendation is based on the assumed
ability of General Motors to pay
this excess wage. The board made
it's own forecast of the future op-
erations of the business and it's
profits"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-12
PAUL ROBSON IS PRESENTED
IN MAGNIFICENT PROGRAM

cert last night in Memorial hall.
1t is as idle to talk of vocal tech
nique when speaking of Robeson's
voice as it is to analyze the sound
of pinetrees when the winter wind
moves through them. The pines
just sing, and so does the Negro
baritone. His voice pours forth
rich and authoritative and SEEM
ingly inexhaustible.
Now this is not to say that Robe
son in any way lacks intelligence,
for his Interpretation of songs has
back of it much culture. This in
addition to a warming emotion.
Moreover he is man of convic-
tions and fearlessness. He sang a
Spanish Loyalist song in which he
let his audience learn of his small
opinion of Franco. And later, be-
fore giving as an encore the Rus,
sian war song, Border Unto Bor-
der" he spoke of Russia as "our
great ally in war who will be our
great ally in peace"
Robson sang, first, Old English
and Old French folk songs. He
sang from Moussorgsky and pre-
sented two Shakespeare songs set
to music by Rober Quilter. And, Of
course, he gave a group of Negro
folk songs including "John Henry"
dark with pathos, and "Great Git
tin Up Mornin'" in which his ac-
companist assisted with voice as
we'll as piano. This "Gittin' Up
Morning was both a SOLDERING and
joyful occasion in it's picturing by
the singers, for they were telling
of the "last day."
Robson sang deep River" to
the great delight of his audience,
and was generous with encores.
Indeed, he brought the music of
three songs with him when re-
spending to an encore and then
sang the three. Included among
these were David, Play On Your
Harp" water Boy" in which he
aroused the sympathy of his audi
ence for the chain-gang Negro. He
made the audience laugh with
Kern's "Ah Still Suits Me" and
rejoice in the might of his voice
as he interpreted Kern's cor Man
River"
It must be said that Lawrence
Brown as accompanist did much
toward making the concert enjoy
able with playing to which he
brought the sense of rhythm pc
culiar to his people.
At the very close of the pro-
gram Robson who has played
widely in the title role of Shakes
peare's "Othello," gave Othello's
appeal just after he had killed
Desdemona.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-12
Telephone Tie-up Continues Second Day

Early resumption of long-dis-
tance telephone service through the
Dayton exchange appeared unlikely
today as striking Western Electric
company employees continued to
picket the Ohio Bell building.
The 38 male pickets kept more
than 500 telephone operators from
their posts yesterday. The oper-
ators, members of the National
Federation of Telephone Workers
(NFTW) agreed to respect the
picket line established yesterday
morning by their affiliated union,
the Association of Communications
Equipment Workers (ACEW) rep
resenting the strikers.
Only acute emergency toll calls
are being handled by a skeleton
staff of Ohio Bell Telephone COM
pany supervisory employees, w. H.
Wallace, commercial manager said.
"These emergency operators are
too busy to keep an accurate tally
of completed calls" Wallace said,
"but they estimated they were
handling about 10 per cent of re-
quests received"
The exchange normally averages
about 1880 long-distance calls
daily. If government intervention
results because of the nationwide
tieup, the strikers probably would
return to work, D. K. Barkeley,
Dayton ACEW representative, in
dicated.
Unable to place toll calls by
phone, Daytonians swamped the
Western Union office with mes
sages. Because of the heavy traf-
fic load, some kilograms were
being delayed from one to two
hours, it was reported.
With a complete staff on duty,
Emmert did not anticipate any
serious delays in the transmission
of wires.
Meanwhile United Auto Workers
(UAW) members here expressed
disappointment over General Mo-
tors corporations refusal to accept
the recommendation of President
Truman's fact finding board.
Preparations for strikes at Frig-
idaire, Delco and Duriron foundry,
which would affect more than TO-
900 Daytonians, continued last
night.
unless we receive last-minute
orders, United Steelworkers of
America (USW), CIO, at the Dur
iron foundry will strike at mid
night tomorrow" Joe Kreutzer,
president of use Local 1920, said
Delco and Frigidaire locals of
the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers (UE), CIO, are
prepared for their strike, sched-
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-12
WILSON ASKS BETTER AGREEMENT
las GIN REJECTS PAY SUGGESTION

TABERNACLE BAPTIST
CHURCH news
The Tabernacle Baptist Church
and parsonage was the scene of sew
eral social affairs last week.
Wednesday evening, Rev. and
Mrs. J. Welby Broaddus entertained
in their beautiful home with tur-
key dinner for the Official Board
members and their wives and the
local ministers of the church and
their wives. Guests numbered 80
persons.
Thursday evening, the Evening
Star Club members enjoyed a delici-
Gus chicken dinner in the social
rooms of the church. Many invited
guests we're present..
The Missionary Society of Taber-
nacle will hold it's regular monthly
meeting Sunday at $3.50 at the
church. Mrs. Matte Owens, newly
elected president, will preside.
Rev. J. A. Bullard, formerly AS
sistant Chaplain with the U. S.
Army in the South Pacific, will be
guest speaker at Tabernacle Sun
day evening at 7:30. Rev. Bullard
will relate some of his experiences
in the South Sea Islands. The meet
ing, sponsored by the Pastors Aid
Society, is open to the public. Mrs.
Ethel Owings is president.
In connection with the returned
Chaplain's address, Mr.. Geo. Alvin
Taylor will give Echoes from the
Church Convention recently held in
Richmond, KY. Others who also at
tended the Richmond meeting will
speak. The Church Trio will sing.
Family Night" will be observed
Sunday, Jan. 20 at 7:30 P. M. at the
Tabernacle Church, at which time
all members of individual family
groups will sit together. Rev. Broad
dus will deliver message along the
lines of Fellowship, Unity and Serv-
ice.
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Billiard of w.
5th Street had as their guest during
the past two weeks, Mrs. Julia Will
liams of Hemphill, w. Va. Mrs. Will
liams is the sister of Rev. Billiard.
The Montgomery County Mis-
sionary Union will meet Monday
night at 7:30 at the home of Mrs.
Birdie Holloman at 1918 Home Ave.
Mrs. Anna E. Moore is president
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-12

The Montgomery County Mis-
sionary Union will meet Monday
night at 7:3O at the home of Mrs.
Birdie Holloman at 1918 Home Ave.
Mrs. Anna E. Moore is president
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-12

Thursday evening, the Evening
Star Club members enjoyed delici-
Gus chicken dinner in the social
rooms of the church. Many invited
guests were present.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-12

Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Billiard of w.
5th Street had as their guest during
the past two weeks, Mrs. Julia Will
liams of Hemphill, w. Va. Mrs. Will
liams is the sister of Rev. Billiard.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28
Guess The Answer
Win A Shirt!

A single large shirt manufacturer has
100000 shirts on hand; one big retail store
has none.
This was the gist of recent newspaper
headline The story went on to tell how
millions of mems shirts lie idle in manu-
facturerS' StoreroomS, while retailers
shelves are bare and civilian demand grows
more desperate every day. The manufac-
turerS want to sell these shirts, but tangle
in the price rules makes it impossible for
them to do so. One store official remarked
1T Is not so much that prices are inadequate
as that the manufacturers can't find out
what prices they can charge"
An example of what makes confusion, was
the following OPA. revised" rule designed
to help manufacturers who piled up too
many high-priced items and couldn't sell
them without violating regulations. This
provision provided that the manufacturer
might get his average price back in line ''by
selling every item in his line at or below
his average price until the surcharge is
made up.
GAS an alternative, he may make up his
surcharge on the inStalment basis Under
this plan, the manufacturer will reduce his
MAP. each month by a set percentage,
which is the percentage of his net surcharge
to his total net dollar volume of deliveries
for preceding period. He keeps his aver
age price of his deliveries each month at
this reduced maximum average price until
his Surcharge is worked off"
If you can figure this out you can get a
shirt-if you can explain it to the shirt
manufacturers.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28
Death Rides The CROSSING

Unprotected railroad crossings have taken
high toll in dead and injuries in Wyan-
dotte within the past several years.
Deaths have been frequent at St. John
street when pedestrians walk into the paths
of trains in the early hours of morning, their
vision Of on-coming engines impaired by
early-morning dusk and fog. No equipment,
either flashers or gates, is provided for their
protection in this area.
Yet deaths have been just as frequent at a
crossing where protection of flasher signals
is provided. At Oak street, two such fatali-
ties have been recorded within a like num-
Der of months More than seven years ago,
October 1, 1888, crossing gates were taken
down so that "safer" flashers might be
installed
Buses, crowded to capacity with school
children, the drivers vision obScurred drive
over the crossing daily, scarcely pausing at
each track in their hurry to get youngsters
to school on time. And everyday, the spectre
of death, terrifying and imminent, rides the
crossing with them.
Where does the answer lie? There are
advantages in both flasher and crossing
gates. For long range driving vision the
flaShers afford the best note in safety but
barriers which fall at each track with the
coming of trains provide definite stopping
point for motorists whose wandering minds
might not heed flashing red light
The best solution, however, seems to lie
in constructing viaducts similar to that at
Eureka avenue. Such overhead crossings do
away with the question of (which will get
there first-the train or the car"
Not only would a viaduct construction pro-
vide the safety answer to the crossing prob
lem but in the Oak street case it would
bring an end to the SloW-up of traffic caused
by trains as the cars extend into the street
crossing when they stop at the Oak street
station.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28
Our State Of Health

How healthy nation are we?
There is no yardStick by which the health
of people can be measured precisely, but
there are facts available which throw a
revealing light on health conditions in the
United States
If the number of young men rejected for
duty in the armed forces in World War II
because of mental or physical defects is an
indication of the general level of health,
there is vast room for improvement
Examination of millions of men from
every section of the country under the Selec-
tive Service Act had resulted in the rejec-
ton of 40 per cent early in 1914 Approxim-
ately 100000 were turned down because of
evidence of tuberculosis alone.
Six diseases take toll of approximately
100000 lives in the United States each year
With accidents included, the seven leading
causes of death cost 100000 lives
Many of these deaths could be prevented.
Heading the list of causes of death are heart
diseases, which kill nearly 100000 persons
a year. There are several kinds of heart
disease, some of them more serious than
others. All heart diseases are not neces-
Sarily fatal When treatment is begun in
time under the competent physician, the
disease can often be checked and the life
of its victim prolonged.
The next six leading causes of death, in
order of fatalities, are: cancer and other
malignant tumors, cerebral hemorrhage.
nephritiS, accidents, pneumonia and tuber-
culosiS.
While we cannot now envisage the day
when disease will be wiped from the face
of the earth, we know that great progress
has been made in treatment and that,
through research, science is continually add
ing to our knowledge about disease. We
know, too, even though we too rarely act
on the knowledge, that there Is 40 better
'cure" for disease than prevention The best
safeguard against illness is keeping our
bodies in good physical condition
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28
by Gene AUeman

sports queen, paradeS, ice revue.
cross country races, down hill and
SALON races, ski jumps.
At Sault ste. Marie ice skating
has become g year-round sport,
thanks to q community house
which offers an artificial rink for
summer tourists. Every county in
the Upper Peninsula has its winter
sports program. Fifteen queens as
sembled recently at Houghton for
selection of the Queen Of the
North"
Blaney Park, now open year
round, has a novel "snow train"
pulled by a tractor for Transport
tation OF winter sports guests
Concluding comments: Winter
sports can be made self-supporting
after the local community under
writes the original investment.
With good attendance, use fees are
productive Of income, and mainte-
nance expense can be met without
resource to government aid. Snow
time vacations will pay dividends
in health and dollars.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28
Democrats Hit
Bankruptcy In Talent

fIeSlUGHt 10 play
game of shuttlecock in his appointment to
high office and the dearth of talent within
his party-talent that is willing to serve the
administration on the terms prescribed-be-
comes more obvious daily to public which
is increasingly wondering when the con-
fusion in Washington will end.
Mr.. Ickes resigns and the President must
name new Secretary of the Interior. So,
according to report, he will lift Justice Will
liam 0. Douglas from the Supreme Court
to take the assignment, will replace him on
the hough court with Lewis Schwellenbach,
who has been the Labor Secretary only
since last June, and, in turn, will name
James Steelman, who has been in and out
of the Labor Department for years, as the
new head of that department
1t is new shuttle but it brings no new
faces into the picture. Nor have any other
appointments by Mr.. Truman, other than
those questionable ones involving his per-
sonal cronies whose qualification were never
one of the considerations. Must we believe
that the Democratic party is so bankrupt of
men with the capacity for able public serv-
ice, that the administration can be integrated
only by employing the same old hands to
do job that no one, incidentally, yet seems
Secretary Byrnes was taken from the SUI
preme Court by President Roosevelt to be-
come War Mobilizer. He is now Secretary
of State, where his unfamiliarity with
foreign affairs has led to some American
decisions which satisfy no one, ourselves or
our Allies. Mr.. Vinson has been Shuffled
across the board in various war jobs until
he is now in the Treasury portfolio Chester
Bowles cannot say as of present date just
where he stands He has new title but
no one seems to know his relation to Recon
version Director John Snyder. Paul Porter,
a public relations man hired by the Demo
cratic National Committee, was named
chairman of the Federal Communications
Commission just before last Christmas He
is now the OPA Administrator succeeding
Mr.. BowleS.
Judge Schwellenbach'S appointment to
the SecretaryShip of Labor was hailed as
break at last for that department, after the
obscurity and Illustration of the Madame
Perkins regime He has performed little
better than his predecessor, for reasons not
all of his making so he is to be shuffled
out of the department, it is rumored, and
sent to the Supreme Court, and Mr.. Steel
man will take over the portfolio.
And so it goes. There is neither perma-
hence nor continuity in these checker-board
moves, and at time when the nation should
be getting the best in public servants. No
wonder men of ability who might make
personal sacrifices to aid the government in
this time of crisis, detour Washington.
St Louis Globe Dispatch
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28

THE President Of the United
States was a fugitive, wandering
the country roads on horseback.
Behind him, Washington was burn
ing Baltimore was panic
stricken, knowing it was next. The
weather. citizens buried their sill
yer, hurried their ladies into the
back country. :"
Those lines aren't from any i'm
aginary account of a possible fu-
ture Marian invasion. They're
from Neil H. Sw&nsons The Per-
ilous Fight and they describe
what was actually going on here
II. America during the War of 1912.
THE Perilous Fight" is history,
though it reads like a novel. 1t
deals with two engagements which
have been neglected in most Of our
history books. The first was the
Battle Of Bladensburg, when Brit
ish troops and ships defeated
American militia, occupied and
burned part of Washington. The
second was when they made an
unsuccessful attack on Baltimore.
The rout of Bladensburg was not
due to lack of courage of the mill
tia, as some historians state, says
Mr.. Swanson, but was caused by
conflicting orders from the top,
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28
The Boy Next Door

The boy next door has come home. He's
whistling up the street again. He's wearing
gaudy necktieS and romping with his dog
He's getting civilian job and his uniform
is in moth balls. He's through with war. It's
all over. He's homel
But some of the boys next door aren't
home, never will come home. Some will
spend the rest of their lives in hospitals or
return with their youthful vigor spent.
For the boys who did come home, those
who can whistle and play with the dog, the
American Red Cross rejoices with the ma
ton. The American Red Cross, with the
nation, understands the depth of its reSpon-
Sibility to all the other young Americans
who have sacrificed their strength to the
common cause.
AS a great peacetime organization which
went to war when other peace-loving Ameri-
can civilians did, the Red Cross will follow
through toward victory and devote itself
greatly to the welfare of hospitalized and
homecoming veterans; it will continue to
offer services to the men and women still
in uniform. 1t VAIL be able to concentrate
now on acts of peacetime mercy, on relief
for war-caused suffering the world over.
This is your Red Cross, your opportunity
to welcome home the boy next door, the boy
in your own home, by buying share In the
broad responsibilities of this postwar work
in the world we all have sought through
bloody years of battle. Give.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28
Faith In America

The calamity howlers are at it again
just at time when faith in America and
its future is most needed.
Our nation is strong The greatest evil
dence of our democratic morality and
strength is that, though strikes are hurting
every citizen, no responsible group demands
that the right to strike be abolished.
Through depression and war we have
taken no action which need put any per-
manent dent in the American way of life,
with all its freedoms and benefits.
We are big nation, young nation, a
virile nation-as well as an aggressive ma
ton when it comes to looking out for our
Individual interests at home
1t is inevitable that we sometimes tread
on one another's toes, and that groups some
times forget that privileges should be
matched with responsibility.
But the public is the arbiter-and the pub
lie has way of catching up with those who
play the game in their own way.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28

and the intrusion of politicians.
And for the victory Of Baltimore,
he gives credit to a nttle-known
war hero named Sam Smith. He
was a businessman by profession,
and with the same shrewdness and
courage he used in his business, he
organized the defenses, saved the
city-and incidentally made 1t pos
sible for an elegant young man
named Francis Scott Key to write
our national anthem.
Erich Remarque, author of the
Book of-the-Month selection, arch
Of Triumph" had a varied career
in depression-ridden Germany in
the years following the first World
War. He toured the country with
q gypsy caravan" He was a test
driver for a Berlin tire company.
His first writing job, doing drama
tic reviews, ended when he was
beaten up by group of dissatis-
fled actors. But the job he remem-
bers with the least gusto was with
a firm specializing in small-town
war memorials. I'VE plastered the
whole landscape with imposing
cast-iron lions and columns topped
by eagles spreading their wings" he
says.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-02-28
Gilman Looks
WASHINGTON

drug store for stomach medicine.
They did not say what the med
icine cost, but I presume it was
not cut-rate.
Since then they have been taking
their meals in moderately priced
restaurants, where dinner costs
SITS and up. They stand in line
to get into these. of course, but
the food is wholesome. Their only
complaint is that there isn't
enough. They quiet their after
dinner hunger pangs with choco-
late bars and oranges. q thought
I told you. girls. stay away from
those oranges)
The well-known Florida sunshine
costs them nothing. They have
rented a beach umbrella to keep
1t from shining on them.
They flew across a small piece of
ocean to spend a few days in Mas
sau, where the Duke and his Wally
spent five years. Five long years,
my girls wrote.
They said that Nassau was q
pimple in the water with some
flowers on it and not much else.
Everything, food, drink and Brit
ish accent, was imported. They said
they had changed their money into
pounds and shili.ngs and did not
know for certain how high the
prices were. They said they were
working on their calculations, how
ever, and would let me know later.
They added that the NaSsauanS
were making tentative efforts to
nurture cows Of their own In hope
of getting away from condensed
milk. My girls said it was fortu-
nate they drank their coffee black.
They said also that they could not
understand why, on an island like
Nassau, it was necessary to take
a ferry boat to another island when
they wanted to swim.
No attempt did they make to
unravel this mystery. They flew
back to Miami. They said they
had come to the conclusion that
there was a boom on in Florida.
Girls. come home. before there is
a bust. at 2l23 Tunlaw road, in
Washington.