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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-07-08

of Mrs. Alma Peterson of Bluffton.
The Peterson reunion was held at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Berdell
Huber, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Berdell Huber and
daughters, Mrs. Mary Clark and
daughter Sheryl of Ada and Mrs.
Richard Binkley Of Green Cove
Springs, Fla, were dinner guests in
the Russell Huber home, Friday.
Mrs. Russell Huber and Mrs. Sa-
rah Niswander called on Mrs. Lydia,
Badertscher and Mrs. Kate Niswander
of Bluffton, Sunday afternoon.
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF ALLEN
COUNTY, pHI0
Gertrude Conrad, ExecuEri of the Estate
of George Edward Focklfr. Deceased,
Plaintiff.
Serge S. Fockler. ct. aI
No. 2s2bs
LEGAL NOTICE
Maggie Pagan. who resides at Shirley
Indiana, and Joe Foeklhr. who resides at
IS Manor Street, Altaddaa. California. will
take notice that Gertrude Conrad. Exeeutrix
| of the Estate of George Edward Fockler, De-
ceased. on the 14th day Iof June. i94s, filed
| her certain petition inf the Probate Court
within and for the Counts of Allen. and State
of Ohio. alleging that the said George Edward
| Foekler died on the l9Sh day of July, l945,
| leaving a will, which vas duly admitted to
| probate by the Probate Court of Allen County,
| Ohio, and on the Sth day of October, fs45.
letters testamentary wer Z duly issued by said
Court to the Plaintiff that the Plaintiff IL
| in doubt to the true construction of said
| will.
| The prayer of the Petition is for the judg-
| nent and direction of the Court in regard to-
the true construction Of said will and to
the duties of the Plaintiff in the premises.
| The persons first above mentioned viii fur
ther take notice that they have been made
parties defendant TO said petition for the con-
struction of said viii and that they are re-
quired to answer the same on or before the
l4th day of August, 194S.
Gertrude Conrad. Executrix of the
Estate of George Edward Fockler,
| Deceased
| By: w. p. ANDERSON
Attorney for Plaintiff. Ii
Evening star., 1948-10-13

The Rev. Claude A. Brubaker, pas
tor of the Mount Zion Baptist
Church, Bethesda, emissions new
church for his congregation which
he hopes will be built in day by
volunteer labor.
Although no actual date has been
set yet for the one-day project, Mr.
Brubaker revealed he has invited
carpenters, bricklayers, painters and
other construction workers to con-
tribute a days labor-whether or
not they are members of the con-
gregation.
And to keep the workers content
ed, women from the area have Of
fered to prepare an old-fashioned
country dinner, Mr.. Brubaker re-
ported.
The proposed structure is to be
erected at Georgetown road and
Grosvenor lane, Bethesda, on prop
Evening star., 1948-10-13
Group to Hear ToIks
On Auditory Training

The Parent Study Group of the
Washington Hearing Society will
hear q discussion of auditory train
ing at 8 pm. Friday at 2431 Four
teenth street NV.
The speakers will be Mrs. Edna
K. Monsees, director of the Hear
ing Rehabilitation Center, and Miss
Mary Jane Ambrose, aural rehabili-
tation aide of the Army Medical
Center. Forest Glen, Md. Teaching
methods will be demonstrated.
Evening star., 1948-10-13
Bethesda Pastor Hopes to Build
New Church Within Single Day

erty adjacent to the existing frame
structure. 1t will seat 225 and will
be constructed of cinder block which
will be. succeed.
A blue ceiling with indirect light
ing is planned so that worshipers
will get a feeling of looking up into
the heavens" Mr.. Brubaker said.
Flower boxes will be placed under
large pictures windows to contribute
a woodland spirit.
ANY one interested in helping
should contact Mr.. Brubaker.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07
LAFAYETTE BURNS

Lafayette Burns, 81, died Octo-
Der 5 in his home, 1889 Mapletree
St., following a eight-month illness.
Mr.. Burns was born IN Lawrence
County, KY, a son of John and
Margaret Cornwell Burns. He was
employed last as a jiggerman at
the Taylor, Smith & Taylor Co.
He was member of Local I'm
ion IL, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters and the Boyce
Methodist Church.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mae
Goodballet Burns; a daughter Ruth
Burns at home; step-son, Clifford
Goodballet at home; -four brothers,
John Burns of Wellsville, Charles
Burns and Milton Burns of East
Liverpool, and Robert Burns of
Barberton, and five sisters, Mrs.
Hattie Curnutte, Mrs. Margaret
Barr and Miss Catherine Burns of
East Liverpool, Mrs. Florence Cas-
tie of Columbus, and Mrs. Mary
Paris of Barberton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07

race in Minnesota, or former OPA
chief Chester Bowles who is run
ming for governor of Connecticut.
Progressives will continue to op-
pose Rep. Henry Jackson (D) in
Washington and senate candidate
Paul Douglas CD in Illinois, if
they win their suit to be restored
to the Illinois ballot, Baldwin said.
When asked the reason for accept
ing Humphrey and Bowles, both of
whom have been outspoken in their
criticisms of the Wallace party, and
not liberals Douglas and Jackson,
Baldwin said: They've been par
ticularly vicious in their attacks
upon Mr.. Wallace and our party"
He added that the Progressives
are particularly anxious to build a
party in Illinois and in the south.
Under no circumstances will
Wallace himself withdraw from the
presidential race, Baldwin said. He
asserted that President Truman
would have no chance to win even
if Wallace wasn't in the picture.
The Progressive manager bragg
ed however that his party is "the
balance of power in a number of
states" When asked which ones he
specified only New York.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07
ENTERTAINMENT UNION
FIGHT ADMISSIONS TAX

| theory with some solid statistics il
an article called Entertainment
and the Cost of Living: The Case
Against the Admissions Tax"
musicians are squeezed twice by
a runaway cost of living" the
publication points out. "Once OF
their own budgets. Next, by the
shrinkage Of everybody else's. Fol
entertainment outlays come from
the spare cash the customers have
left after they've paid for necessit-
les. When prices shoot up faster
than wages and salaries, that mar
ginal money shrinks fast"
Motion picture admission prices
are the only ones in the amusement
field which go into calculating the
cost-of-living index, The Musician
comments, (which thus recognizes
movies as near necessities" Movie
admission prices have far out
stripped earnings. The national in
come tax experts in the Depart
ment of Commerce figure that
roughly three-fourths of the an
nual admissions tax revenue comes
from the movies.
Twenty percent of what you pay
to get into a show goes to taxes
And since you don't have much left
over to spend on shows these days,
theatre owners, afraid Of losing
business if they raise prices, are
holding down the pay of enter
tainers. If the unions have their
way this will no longer be the case.
However justifiable it may have
been in wartime, both as a revenue
producer and as a means of sopping
up excess spending power" says
the Int'l Musician, "the admissions
tax is now severe drawback, inn
posing a stiff penalty on the whole
range of live talent. Workers
in the entertainment field have had
no such increases as have been
granted the workers in all other
industries during the last two
years. 1t is therefore vital for them
that admission prices in this field
should be lowered so that amuse-
ment enterprises can once more do
a maximum volume of business"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07
General Motors May Kill
Workers Education Service

Detroit (LPA)-The services of
teachers who last year led classes
for more than $4,000 Michigan
workers have been cut off, as re-
suit Of a drive by General Motors
Corp. to kill the four-year-old
Workers Educational Service of the
University of Michigan.
The university's Board of Re
gents, chosen in the general cleo
tions, meets Oct. Is to take final
action. Meanwhile, it has twice or
dered classes suspended, thus ef-
fectively tieing up educational
activities of AFL, CIO and unaffili-
ated unions in the state.
General Motors trumped up a
lot of complaints against one class
given in April of this year." United
Auto Workers Education Director
Victor Reuther pointed out. "The
GIN charges have been disproved
over and over again. But these
charges against one class have been
used by the Regents as the excuse
for holding up the entire Service
while they study the program"
Secretary Robert NJ Scott Of the
Michigan Federation of Labor
points out that "the complaint was
made in the first instance not to
the university but to Gov. Kim Sig
Ter and to a Congressional commit
tee in Washington"
Last June Rep. Fred Hartley's
Labor Committee held a "quickie"
hearing at which a GIN research
employe told a distorted version Of
two one-hour classes which he had
attended, taught by an instructor
provided by the Service. Director
Arthur Elder, a veteran in the field
of workers education, was present
and answered the charges one by
one. Elder was backed up by Presi-
dent A. X. Ruthven Of the Univer-
sity, who called the GIN employees
charges "distortion of a very small
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incident"
The state AFL official has urgeo
local unions in the state to call OF
the Board of Regents to continue
and expand" the Service, which last
year reached $4,000 workers.
Meanwhile, the American Assn
of University Professors has beer
asked by Reuther to investigate
the shutdown of the Service
privileges Of education, and right
of university to educate fairly and
honestly are being denied because
of selfish opposition taken by one
corporation in defiance Of facts
and public opinion" Reuther wired
the professors organization.
Union officials here agree that
if GIN is successful in its open drive
to kill the Workers Educational
Service program, similar activities
in other states will be in danger.
The Michigan Board of Regents
has been acclaimed by educators
in other parts of the country for its
successful institution Of the Mich
igan program, which is held up as
a model method of providing SER
vice to industrial workers in the
same way that agricultural exten-
sion services reach farmers.
The class last spring, which was
the subject of Hartley hearing,
dealt with the report of President
Truman's Council of Economic Ad-
visers. Adam Stricken, the GIN re-
search employe who attended two
sessions of the six-session course,
told the Congressman that Sub
versive" doctrine was taught.
On the other hand, three execu-
tives of the Michigan Bell Tele-
phone Co. including its supervisor
of general personnel activities,
agreed that they "found no sub
versive elements at all. 1t is
our opinion that the course was
valuable"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07
Aircraft Workers
Win Pay Increase

San Diego (LPA)-In a signific-
ant contract victory in the revital-
lied west coast aircraft industry
the Int'l Association of Machinists-
unaffliated, last week won pay
boosts totalling $2,500,000 a year
for its 1000 members at the Con
solidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.
After 81 days of continuous ne
Igotiations an eight-man LAM nego-
tiating team signed a contract pro-
viding CVAC workers with the best
working conditions they have ever
enjoyed.
Wage hikes of 12c an hour are
provided for, as are six paid holi-
days, plus two extra days off with
pay at Christmas time. Workers
engaged in flight operations will
get a $3.50 an hour bonus. Job des-
criptions will be rewritten, and un-
ion shop committeeman and griev-
ance committeeman are assured
top seniority.
The two-year contract allows re-
opening Of the wage clauses at the
end Of one year. Pay increases are
retroactive to August 16. Rates for
plant work will now range between
$1.00 and $1.85, while office and
technical workers are guaranteed
from $.91 to $2.1l.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07

acceptance as to what we regard as
realization of our legal situation" !"
he declared.
at is unfortunately still perfect
ly legal for a union member, or un-
ion officer, to be Communist even
though he has perhaps taken an
oath to work for the overthrow Of
the United States government by
force and violence But in this re-
spect the General Electric Co. has
no information other than what ap-
pears from time to time in the
daily press as to the alleged Com
Imunist affiliation of various offic-
ers of the UE. The Commission has
stated it could not make available
to US the information which it ap-
pears to have in this matter. We
certainly do not wish to harbor
Communists or enemies of our
country, but we feel we are not in
position to discharge a man on
the basis Of mere heresay evidence
in any such vital matter as this"
More of what Boulware termed
"mere heresay evidence" was piled
up the following two days at a
Congressional investigation of a
House Labor Subcommittee. Rep.
Charles ]. Kersten (R., Wis., indi-
Gated he would ask citation of IL
UE officers, from both the nation
al organization and the Schenect-
ady local for contempt of Congress.
The electrical union leaders, in
cluding Secretary-Treasurer julius
Emspak and Organizational Dir
ector James Matles, refused to
answer the question of whether
they are or ever have been mem
bers of the Communist party.
Lilienthal also ordered Chicago
university not to bargain with
United Public Workers which is at
present being investigated by an
other House Labor Subcommittee.
UPW publicity director Lawrence
Kammett said that his union is
not seeking a contract with the
Chicago laboratory. The workers
there, he said, come under the jur-
isdiction of the chemical workers
union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07
OBITUARIES
SARAH F. BERTSCHY

Sebring, Ohio = Sara Florence
Bertschy, 43, liner at the Limoges
China Company, died Sept. 20 al
her home 245 West Oregon Ave
nue., following a lingering illness.
Miss Bertschy, the daughter OF
Mrs. Anna Laudenslarger of Sc
bring, had lived in this vicinity hel
entire life, coming here at the age
of two from Wheeling, w. Va,
where she was born April II, 1905
She was a member of Local 12l
N. B. o. P.
She is survived by her mother;
two sisters, Mrs. La Mont Seifert
of Columbus and Mrs. William j
Breckner of Sebring, one neice,
Pauline Breckner and one nephew,
William, both of Sebring.
Services were conducted by Rev.
Paul Gerard of the Lisbon Presby-
terian Church. Burial was in Grand
view Cemetery, Sebring.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07
Wulluceites With draw
From Races Against
Liberal Congressman

Washington (LPA)-C. B.
(Beanie) Baldwin, campaign man
ager of Henry Wallace's Progress
sive Party said last week that his
party had withdrawn it's congress
ional candidates against all but
seven Congressman with 75&o or
better, pro-labor voting record. He
denied that this marked change in
Progressive party policy, or that
there was any difference of opinion
between himself and presidential
candidate Wallace over the scratch
ing of Progressive starters.
Approximately 100 Progressive
congressional candidates remain in
the field Baldwin said. He concen-
trated his remarks upon the south
ern candidates who are "the only
alternatives to reactionary Demo-
Gratis in their states"
Baldwin repeatedly challenged
President Philip Murray to support
the Progressive candidates in the
south, and "in seven California dis
tricts where the Democratic NOM
nation has been won by reaction
ary Republicans"
A check of the Progressive
Party's own figures shows there
are only two such situations in Cal
ifornia and that the party has no
entries for the House Of Represent
atives in Alabama, Arkansas, Flor
ida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and
South Carolina-the hearts of the
Dixiecrat attack upon President
Truman. It's only Senatorial candi-
date in the deep south is in Geor-
gia, where it is also contesting one
congressional district.
1t is running candidates, how
ever, in the border states of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina. The lat
ter is the only southern state in
which the Republican party expects
to make any head way.
When asked why his barbs were
all directed at Murray and the CIO,
Baldwin said that they were meant
too for AFL President William
Green and all the liberals who have
denounced the Progressive party
for hurting liberal congressional
candidates on major party tickets.
The bulk of the Progressive can
didates are in northern states, in
districts where anti-Taft- Hartley
Democrats are trying to unseat
union-heating Republicans. Bald
win did not discuss this situation.
He announced that the Progress
sives have withdrawn from their
battles against liberal Reps. Helen
Douglas and Chet Holifield 3D.,
Calif) and will not oppose Mayor
Hubert Humphrey in his Senate
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07

New York (LPA)-A double
barreled campaign against theatre
taxes has been launched by unions
in the entertainment business.
The leaders in this attack on the
admissions tax are two AFL un-
ions, the American Federation of
Musicians and Actors Equity Assn.
In this months issue of Theatre
Arts, Equity President Clarence
Derwent calls the entertainment
tax the greatest obstacle to thea
trical progress. "While most Euro
pean countries subsidize their thea
ire from national or state treasur-
les" he complains, erich America,
while contributing nothing from
federal funds, is taxing the thea
ire out of existence"
The Int'l Musician, magazine Of
Petrillo's union, backs up this
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of conversation or of writing.

But getting back to the maiI
point, it may be agreed that WI
have some very poor radio show:
and some very messy movies. AlsC
we have some insane comic strips
and more or less bad taste anC
worse judgment in a lot of Other
things.
But, we can jolly well turn the
dial on poor radio and we can stay
away from poor movies. We don't
have to read comics and we can
take our books or leave them alone
as we darned we'll please.
In the long run the judgment OF
people forms the verdict and the
bad stuff doesn't last.
We elect mistakes and we car
turn them out. We have that price
less freedom that permits us tc
turn away from what we do not
like and to enjoy what we do like
That is the fact that is import
ant at this juncture. 1t never was
more important and perhaps never
quite as important.
Go on Bob Ruark, poke fun at
stuffed shirts and bad perform
ances. Go to it. And help keep alive
the right to do it. By all means do
that.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07
FORM FEDERATION

Washington, d. C. ILNS)-A
State Federation of Women's Aux
iliaries of Labor was recently form
ed in Missouri The official certi-
ficate of affiliation was issued by
|. NJ. Ornburn, secretary-treasurer
of the American Federation of Wo-
mems Auxiliaries of Labor, with
headquarters in the AFL Building,
Washington.
The officers of the new state or
ganization are Mrs. Mary E. Ryder,
president, Mrs. Anna Preusser, sec
retary-treasurer; Gertrude Gray,
Ann Holden, Opal Du Vail, Martha
Avery, Frieda Downen, Eva Proc
tor, Elizabeth Worn, Irene Edmis-
sion, Verna Gutridge, Mary Krom-
maker, and Norine Filler, vice pre-
sidents.
A supreme effort is being made in
Missouri to form local auxiliaries
to every AFL union. In many cities
these locals are formed into CEN
trail auxiliaries or councils, and al
so in several states they have unit
ed into state federations of wo-
mems auxiliaries. In every case
eventually all branches become af-
filiated with the AFWAL.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-07
Lilienthul Gives Atomic
Unions NLRB Rights;
Blucklists UE And UPW

Washington (LPA)-Atomic En-
ergy Commissioner David E. Lilien-
thai last week announced a steI
forward in the rules covering col
lective bargaining in the nations
atomic energy plants.
From now on, unions at the Acc
installations may use the services
of the NLRB the same as other un-
ions which have filed anti-Com-
munist affidavits. At the same
time, Lilienthal blacklisted United
Electrical Radio & Machine Work
ers and United Public Workers
whose leaders have not signed the
affidavits and are suspected OF
Communist affiliations.
In a letter to Paul NJ. Herzog
chairman of the NLRB, the atomic
commissioner stated that from the
experience at Oak Ridge it appears
that safeguards for protecting the
national security can be devised in
most cases involving Board pro-
ceedings. When the atomic project
began during the war, NLRB pre-
vileges were withheld from the un-
ions there for security reasons.
Now Lilienthal says that the
Board can go ahead with most OF
the hearings and elections which
held up at the request of the
Atomic Energy Commission. "The
Commission" he said, will reap
praise the situation from time to
time in the hope that conditions
will eventually allow the same free
dom Of procedures that exists in
other industries"
In the light of the new policy,
the Acc head told Charles f. Will
son, president of the General Elec-
trio Co. that the NLRB can now
hold hearings and elections at its
Richland, Wash. atomic plant. He
informed the University of Chicago
of the same thing in regard to the
Argonne National Laboratory
there.
In a separate letter, Lilienthal
ordered General Electric not to
recognize United Electrical Work
ers as the bargaining agent at its
new atomic power laboratory in
Schenectady, N. Y. He pointed out
that UE officers have not signed
non-Comntunist affdavits and as a
matter Of public record are suspect
ed of Communist affiliations.
The atomic commissioner made
it clear that in discussions with
representatives Of General Electric,
the company insisted it had to bar
gain with UE because of its over
all contract with the union, which
runs until 1850. "While | am un-
able to follow the reasoning behind
such conclusion" said Lilienthal,
1--WE are compelled to accept it as
the Company's final position" In
view Of this position, the Commits
sion, which does not ordinarily like
to interfere with its contractors
labor policies, indicated it feels it
has to direct General Electric not
to recognize UE in the new Schen-
ectady plant.
In his reply to Lilienthal's letter,
GE Vice-President l.. II. Boulware
again took the position that the
Company was obligated to bargain
with UE. "We are genuinely dis
tressed at your continued lack of