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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13

with Mrs. Exile Farmer.
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Null
ms of Clinchco were visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Cline Sluss, Sun
day.
Misses Hattie and Alene Sluss
spent the weekend with their
sister, Mrs. Kenneth C. Rose.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Mullins
and Miss Mae Rose attended the
show in Clintwood Saturday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Newberry
of Tarpon and Mrs. Tom Mullins
and daughter were Sunday din
ner guests at the home of Earle
Sluss.
Miss Theda Gay Hawkins Wis
tied Miss Irene Sluss Sunday.
Junior and Roy Mullins of
Mcclure were visiting on Null
Inns Ridge Saturday.
Mrs. John w. Mullins of Ghost
Town were visiting Mrs. Gar
land Sluss through the week.
end.
Kermit Mullins was in Clint
wood Sunday.
General Sluss was business
visitor in Clintwood Saturday.
Lee Mullins, who has been
working at Red Jacket, is home
at this time.
James Martin was seen on the
Ridge Sunday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13
LONZA NEWS

Elijah Sluss of Skeetrock is
spending few days with his
daughter, Mrs. Estus Musick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Baker of
Alexandria visited at the home
of Will MCGOWAN Saturday mite.
Lois Stiltner and Imogene
Stanley of Tivis visited Fern
and Mabel Cochran Tuesday.
Mrs. S. P. Cochran spent Sat
urday night with her brother, A..
B. Hanover, of Ramey Flats.
Visitors at the home of Csudle
Hall Sunday were Lois Stiltner,
Imogene Staney, Adron Counts,
Leon and Katherine Younce and
Mary Farmer.
C. w. Davis visited S. P. Coch
ran Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will MCGOWAN
visited Pearly Adkins and FAM
lily Sunday.
Lee Hall visited James and
Cameron Rose Sunday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13
Is you subscription out?
Prissy's Got a Man!
(Moybe)

Yesterday Sis Martin, our H.
brarian, found an article cut from
their file copy of the Clarion. When
she compared it with another copy
that / gave her she found it was my
column on ''How to Keep = Hus-
band Happy"
Nothing unusual about that. Elk
cept the last person seen reading
the paper was Prissy Hoskins (our
towns proverbial Old Maid)!
Well, il Prissy has finally got
man, more power to her. And more
tolerance to both of them be-
cause that's what my column was
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13
MULLINS RIDGE

Mr.. and Mrs. Jim B. Mullins
are visiting relatives at Clinchco
at this time.
Mr.. and Mrs. James o. Null
ms of Skeetrock spent Saturday
night at the home of Earle Sluss.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Moore of
Nora spent one night of last week
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13

Deel, 10, both of Vicey.
Willard Artrip, 20, Clintwood,
to Leoda Stanley, Is, Darwin.
Calvert Cumbo, 30, Haysi, to
Evelyn Ramey, %, Gate City.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13
THIRTY COUPLES MARRIED
DURING OCTOBER

THIRTY COUPLES MARRIED
DURING OCTOBER
The records of the county
clerk show that some 80 couples
called at that office during the
month of October for marriage
license. Their names follow:
Andrew Mullins, 70, Wise, to
Belle Stone, 81, Skeetrock
Leffie Lee Ray, 33, Wakenva,
to Nellie May Smith, SO, Nora.
Paul Kiser, 81, Dante, to Bar
bara Phillips, 10, Hazel.
Frank White. AZ, to Cara
Wrencher, 80, both of Clinchco.
Granville Smoot, %, Danville,
to Dorothy Neel, Is, Clintwood.
Lacy Dulaney, Dwale, to
Nancy Reid Chase, Clintwood.
John Keen, 65, to Nancy Jane
Mechanism, 81, both of Prater.
Sidney Hamilton, 35, to Ruby
Bolden, Is, both of Nora.
Homer Keith, %, Wise, to Es-
teile Mullins, 81, Pound.
Gerald Salyer, p, to Lillian
Townes, 81, both of Dante.
Stacy Fleming, %, to Betty
Ruth Stanley, Is, both Cintwood.
Ernest Silcox, AZ, to Cecil
Brown, 81, both Of Nora.
Avis Chester, l8, to Edna Mad
den, II, both of Pound.
Johnny Mills, %, Clintwood to
Rebel Mullins, Is, Isom.
Lester Linville, "a to Eleanor
Lockhart, 20, both of Haysi.
Lynn Willis, %, to Janice
White, %, Coeburn.
Clarence Phillips, %, Tram
mel, to Earlene Mullins, q, of
Rt. l. Clintwood.
Clifford Mullins, "a, to Gene
We've Ring, 81, both Clinchco.
Oscar Niece, 20, to Beatrice
Meade, Is, Trammel.
Abel c. Hill, "a, to Codella
Whit, Is, both of Clintwood, Rt.
Noble Wright, q, Lorean Null
Inns, Il, Clintwood, Rt. /,
Ronald Campbell, 81, to Zulla
Gay Rose, II, both of Steinman.
Walter Cook, Is, Duty, to Re
thyl Hall, 18, Council.
William Harrison, rs, to Emo
gene Lyall, 10, Steinman.
Burns Hay, 20, Slatha Silcox,
"a, both of Fremont.
Hollie Hawkins, 20, Chntwood,
to Helen Haynes, 16, freezing.
Robert Stanley, %, to Joyce
Rose, 81, both of Darwin.
Virginia Deel, %; to Elmira
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13
$,3837 TAKEN IN BY SALE
OF DOG TAGS DURING
PAST YEAR

At the close of the fiscal dog
year, Oct. 81, the records show
ed that the following numbers
and kinds of dog tags were sold
for this year, with the amount
received for each sort following
and the grand total for all last:
Males, 1926 1854. - $2526
Females, 388 .... -. 1l64
Spayed females, SO ..... SO
Kennel licenses, S . rs
Duplicate dog tags, IL 49,. 3
Total ...... $3ss7
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13

OF this amount, the state re-
ceives Is per cent, the county IS
per cent Out of the county's IS
per cent is first paid claim for
sheep and property killed by
dogs, and for treatment Of any
and all persons bitten by mad
dogs and for property bitten by
such dogs that dies. What is left
at the end of the year goes into
the general county fund.
Hunters, who pay a heavy per
cent of the dog fund, are demand
ing that all of the dog fund re-
naming at the close of the year
be used for restocking with game
and fish and for hiring help to
enforce the game laws.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13

about: Tolerance Of q husbands
taste for old hats, old pipes, old
friends, and mellow beer. And tel.
erance ON the husbands part Of .
wife's tastes and habits.
From where I sit, nobody be-.
grudges Prissy taking that clip
ping from the Clarion. But I'd like
to hint that if she'd just subscribe,
she'd get my thoughts on tolerance
firsthand. And in return I'll treat
her to glass Of beer.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13
Ae M~4x

Copyright, l947, United States Brewers Foundations
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-11-13
N o r L C E

The School Board of Dickinson
County will on or before the 18th
day Of November, 1947, in its Of
fices at Clintwood, receive bids
on the proposed sale of the fol-
lowing property, with the school
board reserving the right to re-
ject any and all bids:
{D A tract of land located on
Lick Fork containing apporxi-
mately one acre and on which
was formerly located the Upper
Lick Fork school building.
(2) A tract of land containing
approximately one-half acre and
the school building situated there
on in the Sandlick District and
known as the Flint Gap School
property.
This 3rd day of Nov, l947.
LOIS SPIVEY, Clerk.
Dickinson County School
Board. (2t 1867
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-10

thing like the Italian ravioli, also
is a usual course. Dessert consists
of special pudding called kutya,
made of wheat, poppy seeds and
honey.
During the Christmas Eve sup
per, some member of every Ukrain-
ian family throws a handful of kutya
or pudding at the ceiling. If it sticks,
the coming year will be a prosper
Gus and happy one. After sup
per, a plate of braided bread, called
kolach, is left on the table between
two lighted candles. Legend says
that the spirits of the family's dead
will return at midnight to eat this
bread.
The Ukrainian Christmas festival
lasts three days. In the villages sing
ers known as Kolyadniky go from
house to house singing the Kolyadky
folksongs relating the birth of Christ
and the events of his life. They
usually carry a manger with them,
and in some cases they perform
miracle plays. They are reward
ed by gifts of food or money.
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E6asaGGaNted
Sss:ssss~SVV
s PLUM PUDDING

In the Book of Common Prayer of
the Church of England, the prayer
for the last Sunday before Advent
began with the words "Stir up" The
people of Peterborough took this to
be a reminder that they should start
their plum pudding at that time, and
everybody in the family took a hand
in the stirring until it was ready on
Christmas.
This indispensable old-time Eng
lish Christmas dish was furmety, or
frumenty, which according to old
time recipes was ''wheat boiled IN
til the grains burst, then strained
and boiled again with broth or milk
and yolks of eggs" Frumenty was
the forerunner to plum pudding.
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1M,ainians, ID
Ma~y Oh Customs

Ukrainian churches, both Greek
Orthodox and innate, cling to the
ancient Julian calendar, so their
Christmas Day comes IL days lat
er than OURS, or on January 6. Christ
mas Eve is celebrated with much
traditional ceremony and festivity.
The Holy Supper or Swiata Wecera
is very elaborate, consisting of IL
courses, in memory of the IL apos-
ties. Fish, baked, broiled and jel-
lied, takes the place of meat.
Borsch, or beet soup, is generally
served, and stuffed cabbage, filled
with millet or rice. Vareniki, some
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-10

Luncheon hostesses at the meet
ing of the, Woman's Society of
Christian Service Friday afternoon
at the Methodist church were Mrs.
Laura Carter, Mrs. Philip Noel,
Mrs. Paul Gerard and Mrs. Allen
Gatewood. Mrs. NJ. J. Wilcox, who
was in charge of the program, had
as her topic Unto Us a Child Is
Born" D%evotionals were led by
Mrs. o. X. Chapman. Plans are
being made for the five circles to
entertain at a Christmas party the
afternoon of Friday, Dec. 10.
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Meeting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Richardson Tuesday,
the Adult Bible Fellowship had
Mrs. Arnold Bezdek as a guest.
Mrs. NJ. j. Wilcox gave the eve
ning's lesson study, which was on
Prayer" The next meeting of the
Fellowship is to be cancelled due
to the school music program. Plans
were made and committees appoint
ed for the Christmas party to be
held at the w. T. Johnson home,
the annual Watch night party
to be held on New Years eve.
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Aims Giving Custom
Il Christmas Charity

Giving aims at Christmas origi-
mated in the belief that the Christ
came sometimes to the door dis
guised as a beggar during the holt
day season, and it was feared that
he might be turned away unrecog-
nized. There is an old legend that
tells of the Christ child going from
door to door on Christmas Eve in
search of those who were kind, and
deserving. His test vas to plead for
aid and often he was turned away
from the door. This story led to
aims giving on Christmas Eve and
1t vas rare that a beggar was
refused.
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R2amTUK9E

Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep
Their focks of lambs and feeding
sheep;
Two whom Gods angels did appear,
Which put the shepherds in great
fear,
"Prepare and CO." the angels said,
ITO Bethlehem, be not afraid;
For there you'll find this happy
morn,
A princely babe, sweet Jesus born"
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Quaint S1Uiss Custom
Of Meeting Lover

Forecasting is ritualized in Swift
erland. Grandma goes to the cellar,
selects the most perfect onion,
halves it, and peels IL layers, one
for each month. The next day these
layers show what the weather will
be during the coming year.
The daughter of the house goes
about town at midnight, to drink
from nine different fountains. Then
she goes to church. She expects to
meet her unknown lover on the
church steps.
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CHRISTINA, a..
!RELLya5|~~

Legend has it that when Christ was
born and Satan died, the bells
in the churches we're rung. At ex.
actly midnight the tolling changed tc
a joyful peal, announcing the birth
of the Christ.
In the dark chambers high above
the turmoil and strife of human life,
dwelt the Apostles of Peace, whose
~salutations were never so welcome
as at the time of the great winter
feasts of Christmas, so William Auld
tells in his traditions.
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-10

Mrs. Aaron Bovee left this week
to transact business in Cheyenne.
Wyo., and to visit her sister, Mrs.
Carrie Haskell of Denver, before
returning to Laurel to make her
home
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Breathing Leather

A machine recently developed at
University of Cincinnati actual
ly measures the breathing" ability
of leather soles. On the human foot.
a leather sole provides ventilation
by letting air diffuse in and out.
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Building on SAM

Loose sand can be packed solid
enough to support heavy building
foundations with a unique device
known as a ''vibrofotation" ma
chine that combines powerful vibra-
tons and jets of water to pack the
loose particles.
Laurel outlook., 1947-12-10
The News
ofLAUREL

Miss Lila Green, stenographer at
the employment office in Billings,
spent the week end with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Green.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13
ledge end TO jim crow at u Of C. rally Of 200

Aroused because Chancellor
Robert Maynard Hutchins had
refused to issue an order end
ing racial discrimination at
Billings and Lying-In hospitals
and at the medical school, 1900
University of Chicago students
staged two-hour protest strike
and demonstration Monday
noon on the campus.
Some &c campus organiza-
tons, backed by outside lib
eral groups, sponsored the
picket line and street rally held
at 57th and University on the
border of the campus. Both
faculty members and students
were in the quarter-mile long
picket line through the univer-
sity quadrangles preceding the
rally. They carried $50 signs
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13
PEA to picket
city rent budget

AS the City Council dead
locked this week on a mini
mum appropriation TO insure
rent control should federal
controls expire next February.
Progressive Citizens of Amer
lea quickly modified for a
city wide demonstration at City
Hall. scheduled for Friday.
Henry Meihs, director of
peas Tenants and Housing
Council, denounced the City
Councils flimsY budget pro.
posals of a 100000 appropria-
ton. Meihs said:
"A minimum of $A50.oo0
must be, appropriated inmedi-
ateiY to insure effective admin
istration and enforcement of
the City Rent Control ordi-
nance"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

ing part in the rally and dem
onstration included the YMCA,
Hillel Foundation, Baptist
Young Peoples Fellowship,
Pulse Magazine, Socialist Club,
United Cooperative Projects,
United Public Workers, Young
Peoples Socialist League,
American Youth for Democra-
cy, Chicago Maroon, American
Veterans Committee, United
Office and Professional Work.
ers of America, Student Cow
eminent, Gamma Delta, Amer
leans for Democratic Action,
Kappa Alpha Psi, Communist
Club, National Lawyers Guild,
Politics Club, Progressive Citi-
zens of America, Committee Of
Racial Equality, Social Serv-
ice and Administration Club.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13
JPFO West Side club
acts on DiIIing danger

Liz Dilling must not win
against The Start"
This was the reaction of the
20 members of the Friendly
Social Culture Club. a West
Side group composed of MEM
bers, of the Jewish Peoples
Fraternal Order. when they
heard of the libel verdict
against the Sentinel, liberal
Jewish weekly. won by four
men indicted for sedition dur
ing World War II.
At the meeting of the club
last Friday. members volun-
tarilY contributed $50 which
was turned over by Abe Scho-
row. treasurer. 70 swell The
Stars Dollars Against Dill
ing" fund. Henry Rubensfein
is chairman of the club.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

were prepared to support strong
campaign for the former. vice
president.
The petition campaign, for
which the Progressives plan to
seek the widest possible commu-
nifty support from labor, business
and professional groups, as well
as independent political action
organizations, was scheduled to
be launched within 10 days.
FOLLOWING is the message,
signed by George r. Cermak,
Chairman of the Progressive Cen
trail Committee, which was wired
to Wallace Immediately after the
decision was made.
''The Progressive Party of Cook
County, by decision of its duly
elected ward and township COM
mitteemen, strongly urges you to
declare your candidacy for Pres
ident of the United States in 1913.
THE newly formed Progress
sive Party, which polled 3l3.-
900 votes for its highest candi-
date in its initial test with the
voters at the Cook County Ju-
dicial election on November A.
l947. also determined 10 dem
onstrate TO you the sentiment
of the people. with petition
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

the strike meeting, Aspen criti-
sized Youngblood's attack on the
printers and called on the painters
to support the typos in their fight
against the publishers use of the
Taft-Hartley law as a union bust
ing device.
Before he could complete his
statement. Aspen was attacked
by two men equipped with brass
knuckles. He was beaten TO the
floor and kicked repeatedly in
the presence of the so painters
who attended the meeting.
Following the assault, Aspen re-
ceived treatment at Henrotin
Hospital. His injuries incluoed
severe cuts and bruises, plus the
possible nose fracture.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

ish all forms of Jim crow.
The stu d ents specifically
charge that Billings and Lying
In hospitals exclude, refuse or
segregate Negro patients, and
point to the absence of Negro
medical students from the uni
versity since 1941.
Hutchins, however, denied
discrimination and advocated
intellectual persuasion" rath-
er than demonstrations. A
group of $50 students con-
demned the demonstrators in
a special petition sent to the
chancellor. The p petition ers
said they were opposed to dis
elimination but felt Hutchins
is handling the situation Gin
the most effective manner"
CAMPUS organizations taxi
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

and sang specially written
songs.
Taking note of the abolish
ing of football several years
ago by administration, some of
the signs read Football is
gone-what kind of a game is
this?" and Practice What you
teachl"
SPEAKERS. included NAL
colin Sharp, professor of law;
Maynard Kruger, economics
professor; Robert Ming, of the
law school faculty and vice
chairman of the AVG Chicago
Area Council; Sidney Ordower,
AVG leader and radio COM
mentator; David Green, chair
man of the civil liberties COM
mittee of the University Stu
dent Government, and Jack
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13
Nations press stocking up
on strikebreaking machines

shortage of them if this thing
keeps up"
This thing" that Barnett re-
ferred to is the strike of Chi
cago Typographical Union No.
10.
Barnett disclosed that the
Chicago Tribune now has
about so" of the machines in
operation.
He said he had received or
ders for 80 machines in Pitts
burgh. Pa. and 20 in Roches-
ter. NY.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

Newspapers throughout the
country are stocking up on
vari-tYpe machines now being
used by the struck Chicago pa
pers as strike breaking insur-
ance for the future. The Chi
cago Star learned this week.
The Stars source. George
Barnett. salesman for the Vari-
TYpers Sales Agency. So w.
Jackson blvd. said:
We're selling vari-tYpe ma
chimes so fast there may be
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13
Labor booms third
party in Calf.

LOS ANGELES = FP) -
that CALIFORNIA; third party, the
Independent Progressives, will
get on the ballot in 1948 doomed
when members of AFL, CIO and
railway brotherhoods met here
and formed a joint union com
mittee to achieve that end.
Representing Is different I'M
ions from the three main sections
of organized labor, 100 delegates
attended, reported James Daugh-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

At a strike meeting of Chicago
Typographical Union No. 16 it
was reported that Melvin Aspen,
As, of 1902 N. LaSalle ST., was as
saulted at a meeting of Painters
Local No. LAT (AFL), of which he
has been member for % years.
He is now under the care Of
doctors, who fear that his nose
may be broken, the printers told.
THE assault was said to have
taken place when Aspen arose to
protest uncomplimentary remarks
directed at the printers by Charles
Youngblood, business agent OF
Local lat.
According to the story told at
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

Geiger, chairman of the ave
Civil Liberties Committee.
Both student speakers prom
ised that the rally was the be-
ginning of a concerted drive
for student leadership in bring
ing about an end TO discrimina-
tion, and asked the student
body TO be ready for further
action during the campaign
they plan.
MICHAEL Mann, CIO re-
gional director, sent a message
expressing the backing of "a
quarter of a million CLIO work
ers" and Henry McGhee, pres
ident of the Chicago branch,
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, wired a request that the
university Immediately abol-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

campaign among the people of
goodwill in Illinois. to imple-
ment its own decision. We
know our success in November
was largely due TO the vast
reservoir of Wallace supporters.
who wished to ensure you a
vehicle upon which TO run for
President in ls4s."
AT THE SAME TIME the Wal
lace decision was made, the COM
mitteemen authorized Cernak to
explore the possibilities for i'm
mediate expansion of the Prog
ressive Party throughout Illinois.
The central body also took up
the matter of Progressive primary
candidates. Candidates for us.
Congress, countrywide and city
wide offices were discussed. Deci-
sions on candidates by the COM
mittee on nominations was ex-
pected within two weeks.
The Progressives again declared
their intention to file a full pri-
mary slate for the primary cleo
ton April 10, 1948.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

erty, state vice president of the
organizing committee.
Symbolizing the joint nature of
the undertaking, the representa-
tives elected as co-chairmen John
Allard of the United Auto Work.
ers (CIO) and John HUM of the
Bro. of Painters (AFD. Tom
Bankhead of Local GA, United
Bro. of Carpenters (AFL) was
named secretary.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13
Launch drive for 100 900
Wallace droft petitions

County
o him
10 re- o Unite in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

the name of the
Progressive Par
ty. w lille the
central commit
tees resolution
made no sugges-
ton as to the
form of the Wal
lace candidacy,
it was clear the
P r o G r e S sives
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

MODEL" prisoner w. A. Bennett
made the IF I Had the Wings of
an Angel lament come true at
Lawton. Okla. Not content with
having the run of the Lswton
ciink. he made key. went out at
night and did burglary business.
but was caught when he tried to
burglarize the home of a lawyer
his own. the man defending him
on a robbery charge.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13
Probe beating Of unionist
who backed striking typos

Leaders of the striking printers this nvesiga-
ton into charges that painter
he the printers.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

At the same time the commit
tee went on record strongly en-
dorsing the Wallace candidacy in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-13

CAMPUS organizations talk