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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-12-22
r. R. No. 5
Marysville %.
Nov. 81, 1947

r. r. No. 5
Marysville %.
Nov. 81, 1947
Dear Santa,
like the things you gave me
last year. Thank you for them.
This year please bring me
capgun, freight train, a steam
shovel, hook and ladder, truck
football, candy, nuts. Thank you
Billy Lockwood
Phyllis Mcintosh
Dear Santa
/ want a permanent and a
blackboard and chalk. Finger
nail file, candy. / will give you
some candy.
West Mansfield
Rt. l., Ohio
Dear Santa Claus
Please bring me doll n d
cooking set and story book and
a bingo set and candy and orang-
es and apples.
From Joyce Stokes
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-12-22
DECEMBER %. le477
Ridgeway, Ohio
Nov. "a, l947

Ridgeway, Ohio
Nov. "a, l947
Dear Santa Claus,
/ am a girl seven years Old
am in the second grade. Please
bring me a pocket book. a new
blouse and skirt. Do not forget
my sister, Karen and my broth
ers, Allen and Gene.
Your friend /.
Ann Freshcorn
Dear Santa,
/ am a boy Z years old.
would like you to bring me a
basket, a school bag, pencil box
pool table, some candy, nuts,
and chewing gum.
Rodney lie Haines
60
Dear Santa,
have been good this year. |
would like bicycle. | am seven
years old. II / am not old enough
for bicycle I would like a Bet
sey Wetsey doll.
With love
Bette Lou Monson /
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-12-22

READ TIE JOURNAL
Evening star., 1947-01-19
By George Beveridee

Of Legion membership and conf
dence in its leaders. Control, they
say, will be handed over to World
War II veterans as soon as they
gain enough experience"
Majority in Department Are
World War III Veterans
While membership in the District
Department has increased $50 per
cent with World War II, its power
can be seen easier in numbers. Ac-
cording to national headquarters
the department has about 22.00C
members, go per cent from World
War II.
District Comdr. Guy G. Ma
deau, 46, a World War I veteran
feels the Legion's local program is
well-rounded enough to appeal tc
all veterans.
It is the departments boast that
1t is equipped to cope with any re-
habilitation problem a veteran car
present. Thousands of dollars are
spent by the group each year fol
child welfare and programs for the
disabled. Service, employment and
offices are set up to aid veterans
with other problems.
In line with the swing toward
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Washington Fires Of Long Ago

an attempt was made by the EN-
ployes to extinguish the flames
Thirty-five minutes after the fire
started, Police Sergt. Dick Arnold
saw smoke and turned in an alarm
but the fire by then had gained
much headway.
Martin Cronin. then chief engi-
neer of the Fire Department, turned
in a general alarm, and Secretary
of the Interior Carl Schurz, who had
an Office in the building, urged that
immediate assistance be requested
of Baltimore. Baltimore's Mayor
was asked to send over what firemen
and apparatus the city could spare.
Alexandria also was telegraphed for
aid and sent the steamer Hydrallion,
which brought the Relief Hook and
Ladder Company and its truck,
arriving here about pm.
Several pieces of Baltimore's fire
apparatus were readied for imme-
diate departure, but, due to delays
in the railroad yards, did not arrive
in Washington depot until 2:12 pm,
taking hour and minute to make
the trip.
A second train from Baltimore
with other apparatus beat the first
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Many Veterans Object
To Legion Conservatism

Among the 10000, 900 young vet
Grams who have chosen no organiza-
ton, however, as among those who
have turned to newer groups, is
criticism of the Legion's conserva-
tism. Others criticize its king
makers" Many feel the Legion is
"closed corporation" and that It's
policies are the thought of World
War 7.
The Legion is ruled by powerful
National Executive Committee, COM
posed of representatives from each
department. "Kingmakers" is the
common reference to a smaller
group who each year decide on can
didates for election long before they
are voted into office at conventions
Existence of 'kingmakers" as such
lis offlcially denied, but logic of be-
hind -the-scene leaders Is simply
that they have something to pro-
tect-a powerful, smooth-running
machine that needs continued direc-
ton. They proudly point to solidity
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Furrier Gets lis PeIts
The Cold Way and Thrives
By William J. Convoy
Assoeiotsd Press SfoT Writer

Ito blood temperature. You have to
keep rubbing your gloves over your
face, too. When you can't feel it,
it's freezing. You thaw out your
ears by holding your hands over
them"
When it's 40 below or less frigid
Victor wears a fur trimmed, lined
canvas parka. When it's windy or
colder, he shrugs into a fur parka.
When the temperature drops to IS
below or lower, he pays an Indian
squaw 50 to wrap his feet and lower
legs in an insulating layer of fiat
grass
"When it's Is below or warmer
II never use a parka,' Victor says
THE greatest danger is in over
dressing. If you overdress, you start
perspiring, and you have no way to
throw off the heat and moisture
So you get wet and freeze"
Besides food for himself and his
malemutes, Victor carries couple
of guns for shooting rabbits or
partridge to supplement his rations.
He also fetches along note book
for recording, phonetically, the
various native dialects.
During tricks that have taken him
as far as 10 miles north Of the
Arctic Circle, Victor has learned
much of the lore of the far north,
but one phenomenon is beyond his
comprehension. He has purchased
furs in one isolated village, whisked
across 40 miles Of fresh, unmarked
snow to the next settlement, and
found that news of the price he
paid at the first stop had preceded
hin,
Evening star., 1947-01-19

~ VERY winter, when his shud-
II dering neighbors are fiockins
to the sunny South, Martin
Victor heads toward the
Arctic Circle.
He has made this seemingly
wrong-way trip "a times in the last
"a years. Twice he has ventured in
the other direction-to Mexico and
to F1orida-but he prefers Alaska
"It's a novelty to bask in the sun,
he comedies, without much warmth
But when I get up North, I'm really
happy. It's vigorous life. I lose
20 pounds and come back in fine
shape"
Victor, q muscular man of AZ, who
operates a fur store in this plush
Chicago suburb, combines business
with a shivery sort of pleasure on
his annual excursions. He usually
rides air liners to Fort Yukon, hires
a plane, loads his dog team, sled and
supplies aboard, and sets out for a
trap line. The bush pilot deposits
him on a snowy trail and, from
there on, he is more or less on his
own.
Mushing along, he buys pelts from
trappers and at trading posts in
Indian and Eskimo villages. The
bush pilot returns periodically with
more food, flies his fare to a new
territory, and carries the accumu-
lated fur cargo back to Fort Yukon.
II lost all my toenails three times
because of freezing" he recalls. IF
you freeze your feet, you have to put
them in bucket of kerosene heated
Evening star., 1947-01-19

participation in civic affairs, Mr..
Nadeau has appointed Sylvan King
chairman of Civic Relations Com
mittee, to participate with other
groups in community programs.
Principal legislative campaigns
call for establishment of a depart
ment of veterans affairs within the
District government, construction of
war memorial auditorium and in
dorsement of District suffrage.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Enjoy Membership Gains
A prime attraction for new men,
bers is the $175,000 Legion Club
house, located at 2437 Fifteenth
street NV. There, and at post
meetings, the young veteran is likely
to make influential contacts among
the prominent business, professional
and national leaders among local
membership. Department officials
use such assets as these freely to full
advantage in drawing new members.
Ranking second in membership
under the Legion is the older, con-
servative Veterans of Foreign Wars.
During the past generation it has
had to be content with limited,
if no less purposeful, membership.
The tremendous number of World
War II veterans who served over
seas have furnished new life for
the group. Growing by leaps and
bounds, membership has shot up to
better than 100000, from a paltry
100000 few years ago.
Locally, the District department
feels secure and happy with its
membership quadrupled since the
end of the war. Along with num-
bers trooping to other groups, about
1000 new veterans have joined the
$500 men on VFW rolls here.
The exclusive overseas" require
ment for membership is the or
ganization's biggest selling point,
in the opinion of District Chief
Charles M. O'Malley. Proud of its
service on foreign shores, the Or
ganization here accentuates a
fraternal and social program. Ac-
tivities center at the groups club
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Wv y ASHINGTON has had its
NA/ share of notable and
wv spectacular fires, but

ASd1N11ON mas nad lts
AA share of notable and
wv spectacular fires, but
some of them date sc
far back that few persons remember
them. One of these fires, which oc-
CURED 80 years ago this coming
Friday, partially destroyed the
Smithsonian Building.
This blaze was of unusual origin
1t commenced in the southwest part
of the roof of the main building, in
the woodwork Immediately under
the slate covering where it was
kindled by the heated air or sparks
from stove which had been tenn
porarily placed in the room immedi-
ately below. The pipe of the stove
had been inserted by mistake into a
brick Turing space resembling a fue,
which opened under the rafters in
stead of into the chimney.
The rafters soon were ablaze and
before the fire was discovered the
entire woodwork was in flames. So
fast did the fire spread that but
little Of the contents Of the upper
rooms could be removed before the
roof fell in. Extremely cold weather
hampered the Fire Department and
before long the whole roof was in
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Brief Reviews
OUT OF UNIFORM, by Benjam

OUT OF UNIFORM, by Benjamin
IC. Bowker (Norton. An analysis,
based on much statistical data, on
what men in the armed forces did,
in the aggregate, with their spare
time; what they thought and felt.
and how the war affected them.
WOMEN AND A NEW SOCIETY,
lby Charlotte Luetkens Duell, Sloan
g. Pearce). Changes in the status
Iof women and in her relationship
to men in the last SO years, pro-
fusely illustrated with now and
then" pictures and charts.
Evening star., 1947-01-19

committee after
being identified
by Louis Bu-
denz, former ed
itor of the Com
munist D lily
Worker, as a
secret leader of
Communists in
the nj t e d
States. she has
b e en- attorney
for Earl Brow
d er, H a r r y
Bridges, William
Schneiderm a n ,
Evening star., 1947-01-19

train time by IL minutes, arriving
here in 81 minutes. Upon previ.
GUS occasion, when Baltimore asked
help from Washington, the trip was
made in Al minutes.
When the Baltimore engines ar.
rived at the depot they were drawn
to the fire by the horses of our de-
partment. In the meantime the root
of the western wing had fallen ir
and the fire had made its way along
the G street wing toward Seventh
street.
Thousands of Patent Models
Lost in Blaze
Although the Patent Office wal
said to be a fireproof building, the
loft under the roof near the point
where the fire started was almost
filled with piles of papers and docu-
ments.
At lis pm, before the arrival
of assistance from Baltimore, the
fire was brought under control, but
continued to burn for some time
afterward.
The loss of 10000 rejected patent
models was not serious, but the loss
of $1,000 to 10000 accepted models
was national misfortune.
Saved from the flames were such
treasures as the Declaration of In.
dependence, now on exhibition ir
the Library of Congress; Washing.
tons commission as commander ir
chief of the American forces, hi.
uniform and his camp chest; the
coat Gen. Jackson wore at the
battle of New Orleans and many
other relics and trophies, includ-
ing the original Elias Howe sewing
machine. The original model o1
Eli Whitney's cotton gin was lost
in the flames.
The Districts former Governor
Alexander R. Shepherd, was among
the Patent Office f1refghters. He
stood on the part of the roof that
remained and gave directions to the
workmen and assisted in saving
valuable property. Even after the
territorial form of government
here was abolished, and he was
legislated out of Office, Gov. Shep-
herd loved this city and everything
in it, and never lost an opportunity
to show his fidelity.
Evening star., 1947-01-19

MY technique" she says, has
been not to be pre-eminent"
For the tense, dramatic climaxes
in the Supreme Court (where her
cases usually land) she gets a male
colleague to appear for her and
when questioned about this, snaps
back, II haven't got a Supreme
Court personality" tShe had the
late Wendell Wilkie argue the
Schneiderman case when the Sec
retary of the Communist Party ap-
pealed revocation of his citizen
shipD
OF herself she says, I'm an H.
literate. I don't know much law.
I get bored reading cases. What's
the use Of reading the law-it just
makes it that much worse. I'm a
human interest guy"
Mrs. King also is practical and
she gets results. She may not
always make grammatical sense, but
her meaning is perfectly clear. Il
know exactly why I do what I
do" she has said, IT want every
body to be happy. The more people
are kicked around, the more you
have to stick your neck out"
Her clients number about 1000
a year mot all court cases. and 80
per cent are immigration problems.
At 81, she's a soft-hearted, hard
talking widow with round, COM
forable figure, full features, steady
stream Of salty repartee, and wide
acquaintance among people of left
wing politics, but she declares she
is not Communist.
Likes Hard Luck Tales
And the Underdogs
Mrs. Kings father was a lawyer
and her two brothers and brother
in-law are practicing attorneys. Her
son says: There are two kinds of
lawyers in this world--the kind who
have fun like my mother and the
kind who make money like my
uncles."
She loves hard-luck stories and
gives her services the way some
women give bridge parties.
II love my little aliens the best"
she says. I'm interested in the TN;
derdog."
She is general counsel for the
American Committee for Protection
of the Foreign Born and for years
was attorney for the American Civil
Liberties Union.
II like to work lying down." she
says. II smoke a cigarette when
I wake up and gather my papers
from the bedside table and start
working. It's nice and quiet at
3 am"
Evening star., 1947-01-19

SCluelueTU II Mrs. CaroI Ming.
the defendants in the Scottsboro
case and others.
Mrs. King stays out of the papers
and out of court-as much as she
can, considering her profession.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Left t-Wingers' 'Portia' Says
ReadingL Law Books Bores Her
By Jeon Meeeon
Assoeiofed Press Stoff Writer

. ONE of the most famous 'front.'
page civil liberty battles of
y the last 20 years have been
directed by an almost anony-
Us woman lawyer, Mrs. Carol
lg.
'ow engaged by Gerhard Eisler,
= 4 hx,. oo,, ororei1 -, 4, I
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Vets Groups Cain in Power

This is the second OF t1Uo
articles on Veterans organi-
cations, ,oritten By The Stars
editor on Deterdns' affairs ON
the basis OF frst-hand con-
tact NTH these groups.J
Evening star., 1947-01-19

zens, considering the circumstances
It is hoped, indeed, that few books
or papers of much consequence are
destroyed
1t was not long after this fire
before the opinion OF the public
had changed and the two brothers,
Richard H. and Henry White, were
accused of the crime. Richard
White, tn he first of the brothers to
be tried, was tried four times alto
gether, but each time successfully
used as a bar to conviction the
statute of limitations. and 1t Is
quite like ly. that Henry White also
ultimately went free.
Following the burning Of the
Treasury Building came the de-
struction Of the Blodgett Hotel
Building on December Is, 1886, and
the burn ling of the Patent Office
Building on September "a, 1877.
And. of curse, the Library of Con-
gress has had its irreplaceable losses
through fire.
In the case of the Blodgett Hotel
Building, which stood on the north
side of E street between Seventh
and Eighth streets, where is now
located the building originally built
for the Post Office Department, it
was com pletely consumed before the
fire companies could be of any serv-
ice. In this building were the Patent
Office the Post Office Department
and the City Post Office, and the
greatest loss sustained was the loss
of a considerable number of the
models deposited with the Govern
ment from the beginning of the
patent service in, 1790-a real
calamity to inventive science.
There are undoubtedly quite a
number of persons who recall when
fire visited the present Patent Office
Building in 1877.
Baltimore and Alexandria
Equipment Summoned
The fire started shortly after II
am, in what was known as the
Green House, just under the roof
of the present Patent Office Build
ing and directly over the portico Of
the west or Ninth street front. In
stead of turning in an alarm imme-
diately when the fire was discovered,
Evening star., 1947-01-19
American Legion by Far
Largest of Big Five

nuence is the American Legion. AS
most World War 7 veterans Joined
the Legion after its formation In
1919, their sons and nephews have
flocked into the fold during the last
three years.
Key to Legion success is grass
roots" program that establishes the
Legion as an accepted part Of nearly
every community. 1t has assets OF
more than 5000, 100000 in property
scattered throughout the country.
It has been responsible for huge
financial benefits through power
full legislative machine, directed by
John Thomas Taylor, one of the
most familiar figures on Capitol
Hill .,
1t proposed and fought success
fully for passage of the chief legis-
lation to come out of World War
1.-THE GI Bill of Rights. Freely
considering the bill Its "baby," the
Legion has offered numerous amend
ments to its provisions, and ex-
pressed heartfelt indignation at not
having a voice in any other changes:
From prewar strength of slightly
over 1000, 900, the Legion has grown
to a membership of more than g.
100000 in 10000 posts. BY the end
of this year, leaders hope to hit the
1000 900 mark.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
By John CIogett Proctor

room adjoining that of the chief
clerk of the department, usually
known among the clerks and other
officers by the name off, Mr.. F.
Laub's room. It is not known
whether the fire originated in the
floor or the ceiling of the room, the
whole being in a blaze before any
one approached 1t, but, no doubt
appears to be entertained that the
fire was accidental.
Brothers Accused of
Burning Treasury
1.-The whole room was on fire be-
fore the alarm was given, and until
the alarm was given even the watch,
walking the pavement in front of
the Branch Bank (near the spoD,
perceived nothing of the fire (the
building Of the State Department
interposing). Every exertion was
made, as the people gathered to the
spot, finding that it be in vain to
attempt saving the building, to res
cue the books and papers of the
several Offices. A great deal was
saved by the clerks and other citi-
Evening star., 1947-01-19


wv American fighting men
since the wars end, this
country has become increasingly
aware of readjustment problems oi
its veterans and of the organizations
set up to represent the powerful
new group Of citizens.
About half Of the veterans are
thought to have completely re-
established themselves as self-sus-
tanning members Of their communi-
ties. Nevertheless, scope of vet
erans' effect on the national econ
omy alone was seen 10 days age
when President Truman recon-
mended that 20 per cent of the en-
tire Federal budget be allocated to
veterans benefits.
In past months, new groups. like
the American Veterans Committee
and the American Veterans OF
World War II, have sprung up to
the veterans. They have
initiated ambitious new benefit an6
fraternal programs. They offer
young ex-GIs the opportunity for
unified voice on local, nation and
international affairs.
At the same time, older, more ex-
perienced groups have become much
more powerful during the last year
Formidable even before World Wal
II, activities of Old Guard organiza-
tions are run like big businesses by
well-organized machines. Their pol.
icy programs are developed each
year at large encampments that are
patterned after national politica
conventions.
Evening star., 1947-01-19

Dixon Lost Both Legs
In Action Near Aachen
Directing the local department
is Harold M. Dixon, 28, Of 371l
Thirty sixth street, Mount Rainier.
Mr.. Dixon lost both legs during
action with the 30th Division near
Aachen. A former sergeant. he was
DAV national junior vice COM
mander last year.
Local DAV committees also work
with other veterans organizations
on projects outside the rehabilita-
ton field.
Department activities are CEN
trahzed at DAV national head
quarters, 17o1 Eighteenth street
NV, where chapters hold their
regular meetings. In nine chap
ters, the department has about
500 members. Mr.. Dixon figures
there Is a potential membership in
the District Of 5000.
Meanwhile, the spokesmen for
veterans look toward the future
with optimism and confidence.
Among World War II veterans they
see a majority of the leaders Of
the next generation. They expect
membership to increase as more
veterans settle immediate problems
of getting back to work and finding
place to live. With programs
ranging from the opportunity for .
voice in national affairs to wide
spread fraternal activities, they SEQ
places within their organizations
for all the group-leaders and fol-
lowers alike-for Q long time -
come.
Evening star., 1947-01-19

~ Nth the return to civilian
! life Of about $4,000, ,o0C
wv American fighting men
xince the wars end this
Evening star., 1947-01-19

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. blood temperature. You have tt
VERY winter when his shud rubbing
derng neighbors fockng race too Wnen you cant lee
/ freezing
Montana labor news., 1947-04-03
Co-ops Have Fulton
Lewis On Pan For
News Fakery

WASHINGTON A petition calling on
the Federal Trade Commission to in
vestieatc charges against co-opera
tiyes made In recent radio ~broadcasts
by Fulton Lewis. Jr.. as been filed by
John Car o. director of the Wash
ington Office OF Cooperative League
of the USA.
Statements made by Lewis were
"false in part" and half true in
part ard confusing where they are
true. Carson said in his COMMUNE
cation to the chairman of ETC. and
were designed to defame and iniure,
and perhaps destroy honorable CO.
operative business organizations"
Lewis bceau 10 broadcast in Feb.
rudry a series OF attacks on co-opera-
tive business lie b~roadcasts over
Mutual. which he describes as a "co.
operative oreanixation.' He has in
Dictated that he intends to continue
his attacks indefinitely.
Carson charged that there is a
conspiracy now operating to inspire.
fear and hate Of co-operatives and
pointed to the activities Of an organ.
ization in Chicago calling itself the
NATIONAL Tax Equality Association,
which tipped off It's members be-
rorehand that Lewis would attack
co~-operatives.
Carson asked the commission to cite
to appear and TO s%ubstantiate
MS statements with facts. to compel
to reveal for the record who is
giving him financial assistance. to
SUBJECT Lewis to cross.examination.
ana then to determine whether Lewis
IS guilty OF violation Of fair-trade prac-
ice regulations, and il so to inflict
punishment which would deter others
plan to engage in the defamation
Or honorable business.