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Nicholson
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until illness forced him to remain at
home, Mr. Nicholson spent many
hours each day at the National
Press Club.
A tired, gray little man dropped
over checker board there was al
ways pointed out by members in
showing their publishers or out-of-
town colleagues the sights of Wash
ington.
"That is Charlie Michaelson," they
would say.
And all visitors whose ears were
familiar with the tapping of news
telegraph machines were properly
impressed. For only the great de-
preston was credited ahead of Mr..
Nicholson in changing the course
of American political history by
ending the succession of Republican
administrations and electing Frank
lin D. Roosevelt President in 1892
Brilliant Newspaper Career.
Mr.. Nicholson left a brilliant
newspaper career to direct publicity
for the Democratic committee. His
deft touch and barbed style of writ
ing brought to political propaganda
a finesse and diction never before
known.
Close as they were, even Mr..
Roosevelt couldn't figure out the
strange, gray, fuzzy little man
whom he dubbed Charley the
Mike" after his fashion with
friends. Veteran White House re-
porters doubted that any other man
ever told THE Boss" so politely
when he thought he was wrong.
Mr.. Roosevelt said Mr.. Nicholson
remind him of Aristophanes, that
fierce old Greek comic dramatist
who was a master of stinging scorn
and banter. Once in the heyday Of
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Collapse
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out of session of the board, move
which they followed by today's off,
cial protest to the Commissioners.
Today's letter specifically chal-
lenged the presence of Assistant
Corporation Counsel Chester Grey
and Building Inspector Robert H.
Davis on the board.
Charges kangaroo Court"
In the. letter to the Commissioners
signed by George Papanicolas, the
owner declared the cause of the COL
lapse should be determined by q
board made up wholely of experts
not connected with the District gov
ernment. Responsibility for the COL
lapse, in turn, should be fixed by
a court of law, the letter declared,
not a board appointed by the Com
missioners. F. -...
Terming the hye-man board a
kangaroo court" Mr.. Papanicolas
said Mr.. Gray and Mr.. Davis had
conducted questioning at hearings
into the collapse in IAN unfair and
partisan" manner.
-Four persons were killed and -
were injured when part of the build
ing at Ninth street and New York
avenue NV. collapsed. The board
investigating it Is made up of the
two District officials and three civil
ian experts on architecture, engi-
neering and building.
Copies Sent to Congress Units.
Copies of the Papanicolas' letter
also were sent to United States
Attorney George Morris Fay, Chair
man Dirksen of the House District
Committee, Chairman Buck of the
Senate District Committee, and
Stewart Beall, chairman of the
investigating board. ..,
The letter claims that the board
violated Nick Papanicolas' constitu-
tional rights because Gen. Young
had no legal authority" to delegate
to the board the function of deter
mining who was responsible for the
collapse.
George Papanicolas charged in the
letter to the city heads that the
building inspectors Office issued and
authorized permits for structural
changes in the building some years
ago, thus weakening a bearing wall,
and failed to inspect recent remod-
cling carefully.
See Effort to Clear Inspector.
Mr.. Papanicolas' letter did not
specify a particular wall. Most of
the testimony before the board,
however, has centered on first
floor bearing wall in which three
cuts had been made with District
permission up to 1882. 1t was in
this wall that tenants of the build
ing testified a 2-foot long crack
developed the day before the build
ing collapsed.
I'VE feel that the board should
consist of wholely impartial skilled
engineers, architects or builders who
will not in any way be influenced
Evening star., 1948-01-08
New York Is Ordered
|To Reinsfate Teacher
Discharged as Red
BY the Associoisd Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-New York
City's Board of Higher Education
acted without legal justification"
In dismissing teacher charged with
membership in the Communist
Party, the State Department Of
Education ruled in a decision an
nounced here yesterday.
The ruling, made public by DR..
Ordway Tead, board chairman,
ordered the board to reinstate
Francis j. Thompson, City College
public speaking instructor suspended
without pay in 1941. The order
directed that he be paid back-salary,
exclusive of three years of Army
service and minus pay he may have
received from other sources since
his suspension.
Reargument Sought.
DR.. Tead termed the decision
Astounding" and said the board
would seek IAN immediate reargu-
ment" of the case and, If necessary,
bring it to the courts"
Seventeen other teachers have
been dismissed from the city's four
municipal colleges on similar grounds
since 1941, and charges are pending
against another. Fourteen have ap-
|pealed to the courts but only one,
Mr.. Thompson, took hfs case to the
State Education Department.
Lewis A. Wilson, acting State
commissioner of education, ruled
that Mr.. Thompson's suspension was
lex post facto" because he was
charged with Communist Party afiil-
iation during the period between
1886 and 1888, while a board ruling
barring Communists from college
stats was not passed until 1941.
Evidence Called insufficient.
Evidence on which the board
acted. the decision added, "is not
sufficient" to prove the ousted in
structor was Communist. There
is no claim that he has ever in his
teachings or at meetings or other
occasions advocated the principles
OF the Communist Party
Furthermore" the opinion con-
tinued, "the Legislature of this State
has not seen fit to make it illegal
for a person to belong to the Com
munist Party. Until such time
as the Legislature has outlawed this
party, Board of Education woulc
be without legal justification in dis
missing a teacher because of mem
lberShip."
Evening star., 1948-01-08

retire until he wanted to. That was
at the beginning of 1943.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Roosevelt had
been elected three times. Mr..
Nicholson strictly never boosted
him until after each succeeding ma
tional convention had nominated
him. Before the 1882 convention he
had been an "Al Smith man" per-
sonally. Mr.. Michelson's phrase
making plus public unrest laid
groundwork for the Roosevelt land
slide of that year. "It was no
miracle" Mr.. Nicholson declared.
FOOD was on the table and all we
had to do was eat it,"
Some said Mr.. Nicholson picked
up the trick of tartar-tongued sar-
casm when he was a mule skinner
on Arizona trails, before he had his
first shave His generation prob
ably never knew writer so ironic,
hateful, humorous, pious and pure.
He could say the meanest things
in the incest way.
MY esteemed contemporary" he
wrote of a political enemy, "is per-
fectly neutral *"* as between stat
ing fact or fiction" Mr.. Nicholson
always said it was the best job he
ever did of calling some one a bald
faced liar.
AS newspaperman, he could ca
jole scoops" out of a tight news
source and nudged into so many
confidential Government affairs
during one period that he was
hauled up. for an official inEestiga-
ton. He refused to tell where he
got the information, standing on
the newspaper code that a reporter
never discloses such sources. But
he "felt like a fence refusing to
tell where he got the stolen goods. "
. -. 49,. Wrote "The Ghost, Talks,
almost every important Wash
ington SCOOP" he once said, ''is an
official betrayal. 1t is breach of
faith. Perhaps violation of an oath
of Office. 1t may be Congressman
telling what happened at closed
hearing, or a White House visitor
whispering to a reporter what the
President said to him in private
conversation.
Mr.. Nicholson expressed sympathy
for "the poor chap" the Republican
press agent, because che has to make
bricks without straw" He referred
to Wendell Willkie, Mr.. Roosevelt's
opponent during the third-term
campaign, as the "Hoosier plowboy,"
though he was scared of him as "a
campaigner.
When he voluntarily resigned from
the Democratic National Committee
Mr.. Nicholson said he wished only
to loaf. But he remained adviser to
the committee and wrote a book
called 1.-THE Ghost Talks" which
contained a lot of material that
didn't seem to fatter some of his
colleagues, including Mr.. Roosevelt.
II don't believe you know me-" he
once told President Calvin Coolidge.
ooh, yes, do" was the reply.
i O1lly WlSIl you WClC q 1bSEuoAASuA@'
Funeral Services Sunday.
Mr.. Nicholson is survived by three
nieces, Mrs. Neville Gardiner OF
Washington, Mrs. Festus Foster OF
Waterford, Va, and Mrs. William
Stevens of New York City, and five
nephews, Peter Nicholson OF New
York City, Albert Nicholson and DR..
Louis Nicholson. both of San Fran
cisco; Albert McEwen of Palo Alto,
Calf, and Arthur Smith of st.
Louis.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. Sunday in the GaWler
funeral home, 1855 Pennsylvania
avenue NV.
Burial arrangements had not been
completed today.
Evening star., 1948-01-08
Speculation
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ers he plans to turn over privately
to his seven-man House committee
"any facts" he has uncovered on a
four-day trip through the Midwest.
Mr.. Andersen said committee In
lvestigators accompanied him on the
trip but he refused to say what
cities were visited or what "facts"
were obtained.
"Out to Get Facts"
"T am out to get the facts on in
side speculation in the commodity
exchange markets before disclosures
are made as to any individuals" Mr..
Andersen said.
Claude Cameron, business man
ager for Mr.. Pauley and treasurer OF
the Petrol Corp, Mr.. Pauley's oil
company, was called in for secret
questioning by the Senate group.
While there was no indication as
to the line of questioning, commit
tee members have expressed them
selves as being dissatisfied with the
information on his trading which
Mr.. Pauly furnished the committee
last week. Presumably they are
seeking more details.
Mr.. Pauley, former treasurer o1
the Democratic aNtional Commit.
tee and a friend of Mr.. Truman
appeared before the full committee
December IL. He promised to sup.
ply complete details on his admit.
tedly heavy commodity transactions
which he said he wound up as soor
as possible after entering Govern.
ment service as an aide to Mr.
Royal.
Secretly Question Brisker.
Senate committee members con.
firmed earlier they have secretly
questioned Harry Brisker, custom.
er's man for Bach e. Co., and hi!
wife, Mrs. Eva M. Brisker, clerl
in the Navy Department and heavy
trader They said Mr.. Brisker per-
sonally handled the account of Gen
Graham for Bach & Co.
Mrs. BriSker has not been listet
on any tabulation of Government
employees thus far made public, bu
her husband told reporter she wa!
correctly named on a list of whea
traders given out yesterday. H.
said further that his sister-in- Law
was on the list.
The tabulation showed that Mrs
Eva Brisker held 145,0O0 bushels O.
wheat on the long side and $4,000 OF
the short side last September IT
bought $4,000 bushels on the It'll
and sold $4,000 the following day
sold $4,000 bushels on September 18
and bought $4,000 bushels and sole
rs 900 on September 20. -7te.~ =
Long Time U. S. Employe.
Members of the Senate committee
said Mrs. Brisker Is a ong-tims
Government employe. The Navy
Department said she works as 6
clerk in the petroleum purchases
section of its Bureau OF Supplies
and Accounts and Is paid approx
mately S., 800 a year. .~ te.
Her name also turned up on hsi
of corn traders yesterday, showing
she held 10000 bushels of corn or
the long side and 5000 bushels or
| the short side last June 80.
Mr.. Brisker, who said he has testi-
fed at a closed door session of the
committee, identified as his sister,
in-law a Mrs. Sarah Brisker. whose
name appeared on the list of wheat
futures traders. She was listed as
having held 10000 bushels last Sep
Evening star., 1948-01-08
Burbed Wire Club Coils
Meeting Tomorrow

The Barbed Wire Club of Wash.
ington, an organization Of former
prisoners of war, will meet at pm.
tomorrow at the Chevron Club, 1919
K street NV.
New officers of the group, elected
at a recent business meeting, are
James w. Condit, president; George
D. Thomas, vice president, and
Byron e. Herde, secretary-treas,,rer.>
Evening star., 1948-01-08
Lewis Hotel Training School
Presents Diplomas 10 Cd

Diplomas have been presented to
81 graduates of the Lewis Hotel
Training School in exercises held at
the Mayf1ower Hotel. The graduates
Evening star., 1948-01-08

When the black roof of d large
factory was painted white, the result
was an interior which was cooler by
several degrees in hot weather.
Evening star., 1948-01-08
Gideon Comp Aides to Meet

SALISBURY, Md, Jan. 8 P.-
Representatives of Gideon camps in
Maryland, the District of Columbia
and Delaware will assemble here
January 1918.
Evening star., 1948-01-08

SAVANNAH, GA.-CO- PILOT OF WRECKED AIRLINER RES
CUEDRaymond Ech of Trenton NJ j. coplo of the chart
plane which crashed into desolae Savannah River
marsh yesterday helped aboard boat In the
inset Avino Anono pilot of II died in the
crash His mother Mrs Mary Rossi Anonio 800 n
Columbus street. Alexandria, Va. -AP Wrephoto>
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-01-30
MonY Children
See Local Show

Despite inclement weather,
nearly 100 children participated
in the inauguration of Local 12's
free weekly movie show on
Saturday of last week.
The principal feature of the
show, "Hold That Ghost starring
the two zany comics, Bud Abbott
and Lou Costello received an
enthusiastic and hilarious recep-
ton by the youngsters.
Greeting the children were
Richard Gosser, International
UAW-CIO vice-president, Local
IL President Melvin Schultz and
several other Local II officials.
The same movie was later
shown to the children of st.
Anthony's Orphanage where the
Mother Superior expressed her
thanks to Local IL for its kind
ness in presenting. the picture.
The Saturday afternoon pro-
gram will be continued each
week beginning at 100 p. m.
at Local IL headquarters. Mem
bers children and their friends
are invited to see next Satur-
days program with Bob Crosby
starring in the Singing Sheriff"
"Pin hion Man" and a
cartoon.
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TINT Unit Wins
Pact Benefits

Signing of a supplemental
agreement between the Toledo
Machine and Tool Unit of Local
IA, UAW-CIO, and the company
management was announced last
week by Paul Larson, Unit chair
man.
The supplemental agreement
covers determination of the abil-
ity of employees, union liability,
shift preference, call-in and holi-
day pay and other beneficial
clauses.
Chairman Larson declared that
the supplement improves the
present agreement with the COM
pany and expressed the satisfac-
ton of the shop committee with
its terms. Mr.. Larson announced
that the company would be noti-
fled in the near future of the
Units desire to reopen the con-
tract on both wages and working
conditions.
Walter Murphy, executive as
sistant to Vice-President Richard
Gosser, assisted the union com.
mittee in negotiations.
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Aufo-Life TO
Heor Mo++Son

A rally sponsored by the
Auto-Lite Educational League
will bring Joseph Mattson, as
sistant to President Walter P.
Reuther in the UAW-CIO Com
petitive Shop Division, to To
ledo this Sunday, February l.
The rally will be held in Par
lor A, Local IL Hall at 2 p. m
sharp.
Vice-President Richard Cos
ser, director of the JAWS ma
tional Auto-Lite division, and
Edward Duck, assistant director,
will be present at the meeting,
it was announced yesterday by
Earl Sucker, chairman of the
League.
All Auto-Lite employees who
are interested in helping ad-
vance the program of the Inter
national Union throughout the
Auto-Lite's many plants are
urged to attend. A full ex-
planation of the organizational
drive throughout the country
will be made at the rally, he
added.
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"The technique which has
been used in this offensive fur
nishes a blueprint to all of or
gained labor as to the meaning
of the Taft-Hartley Act as an
anti-labor weapon.
'No less than six separate
complaints have been issued
against this union and its locals
''The Labor Board has acted
upon the charges of the employ
ers with unprecedented speed
In significant contrast to the end
less delays which were imposed
under the Wagner Act upon Ia
Dor organizations filing charges
against employers - frequently
as long as 6 months to a year
General Counsel Denham has is
sued complaints against the ITU
in record time.
Called u. S. Headquarters
'sThe office of the General
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the Council delegates ZAP
proved and applauded" the
CLOS action of Jan. %.
Approved were the CIO mem
bers of the Labor Management
Citizens executive board con-
sisting of Richard Gosser, Vice
President, International UAW-
CIO; Lawrence N. Steinberg, di-
rector, Toledo Joint Council and
William Akos, president, Local
9, Federation of Glass, Ceremic
and Silica Sand Workers. Mr.,
Gosser and Steinberg are now
of the board while Mr..
Akos replaces Peter Zvara, di-
rector, Die Casters Division,
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
Associates Are Approved
Also approved by the delegates
were three associate members of
L-M-C, Chester Kapela, man
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Sandusky


SANDUSKY, Jan. 28-Or-
dering of a representation
election at the General Mo
tors New Departure plant
here is expected soon, accord
ing to Walter Murphy, Toledo
executive assistant to Vice Presi-
dent Richard Gosser, who has
been informed by the NLRB that
a decision in the matter would
be handed down in the near fu-
ture.
United Auto Workers organ
izers active in the membership
drive here as well as temporary
officers of Local 913 say that
membership is showing a healthy
growth and express their conf
dence in the outcome of the cleo
ton.
Rank and file opinion is for
the UAW-CIO which represents
General Motors workers in all
sections of the country. Strong
sentiment exists favorable to the
Auto Workers who have main
tanned industry-wide wages as
contrasted to several other un-
ions who secure d bargaining
rights in the past and lost them
to UAW when differentials and
wages came to exist in the other
unions contract plants.
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ager Toledo Joint Board, CAWA;
Charles Ballard, dir e cto r,
r gion 2-B, UAW-CIO and
Edward Romans, presid d n t,
Local TIC, Die Casters. Mr..
Ballard replaces Clem Holewin-
ski, Local II, UAW-CIO while
Mr.. Romans replaced William
Akos.
Endorsement of the Toledo
Consumers Cooperative, Inc.
and pledge to recommend its
speakers to affiliated CIO unions
was voted following a talk on
the growth of the consumers
cooperative by Mrs. Martha
Gosline Smith, secretary of the
Toledo group.
Aid For Pensioners
Aid will be given to old age
p e n sioners in the shape of
Continued on Page 2
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Aid
Coop Store

PONTIAC, Jan. % GPA)
AN overflow rally, followed
by a motorcade and reception
at the new Coop Distribution
Center, sent the new store
here off to a flying start last
week.
Both CIO and AFL unions are
active in this "pilot project"
which is expected to set the pace
for rapid growth of customer.
owned merchandising centers in
industrial cities over the state.
Mayor Arthur Law of Pontiac,
a worker in the Fisher plant and
a member of the United Auto
Workers-CIO, presided at the
rally the night before the store
opened.
Indicative of the widespread
interest in co-ops was the pres
ence of 20 delegates from the
United Rubber Workers-CIO in
Akron who attended the rally
and STAYED over for the opening
of the Coop Distribution Center.
Secretary-treasurer Charles Lam
ming of the URW addressed the
rally, along with former Con-
gresham Jerry Voorhis, now
secretary of the Cooperative
League of the USA.
The store was packed for the
pre-opening inspection by those
who, despite zero weather, went
in the motor procession from the
rally to the new establishment,
which only three weeks ago was
a big auto garage. Now goods
will be moved directly from
trucks to the floor, and custom
ers will serve themselves and
pay at checking counters which
are buyer-operated.
Goods sold by the new coop
win include groceries, appliances,
drugs and cosmetics, tires, and
tools. More than 1000 Pontiac
residents have purchased $4,000
worth of shares in the new ven.
ture.
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The charge was contained
in a declaration adopted by
the board, supporting the In
ternational Typographical
Unio n-AFL in its struggle
against the shackles of the Taft
Hartley Act.
n The CIO blast follows on the
heels of a vigorous statement is
sued a fortnight ago by Presi
dent William Green of the AFL
backing up the ITU in its battle.
Highlights of the CIO state
ment follow:
"The current proceedings
against the international Typo
grophical Union involve the
unique spectacle of a collabora-
ton between the most reaction
ary employers in American in
dustry and the Taft-Hartley
Boards general counsel, Den-
ham, for the post of smashing q
strike and destroying an inter-
national union.
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associates are more concerned
about their profits than about
the well-being of the people
of Europe or the security of the
United States.
NAM chose Curtis E. Calder,
chairman of its international re-
lationS committee, and chairman
of the board of Electric Bond and
Share Co., to present its testi-
mony on the Marshall plan to the
Senate. AS Calder said, 'my COM
pany has interests in many parts
of the world" One subsidiary
alone of Calder's empire controls
most electric power sold in Latin
America, while others operate in
Europe.
After a lot of conversation,
which Sen. Tom Connally Cd,
Texas could make no sense
as to whether or not the NAM
supports Secretary MarshallSI
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Whitney
Back In
Dem Fold

WASHINGTON, Jan. %
.nPA)-"We are living only
for the present and the fu-
ture," President A. F. Whit
ney, of the Brotherhood CT
Railroad Trainmen, said as he
left the White House last week
after pledging his support to
Harry Truman, the man he once
Swore to use the Brotherhood's Is
treasury to defeat.
President Truman was equally
ready to let by-gones be by
cones. "Al, it never should have
happened" he was quoted as
saying.
In May 1916, when the BRIT
was one of two railway brother
hoods to reject the Presidents
proposals for strike settlement,
Whitney had called Truman "a
political accident and a one
termer." Truman replied, then
that Whitney was guilty of lob
stinate arrogance.
Truman's threat to call out
troops to break the railway
strike led Whitney to join Pro
gressive Citizens of America,
organization. He even persuaded
the Brotherhood to vote Pea
now sponsoring Henry Wallace'S
$4,000.
Whitney Opposed Wallace
In December 1947, Whitney
revealed, he had tried to dissu-
ade Henry Wallace from running
on a third party ticket which in
his opinion can only serve to 'di-
vide the liberals" Even prior to
the open break between Whitney
and the Wallaceites, however, it
was clear that the railway leader
was not welded to peas policy.
He endorsed the Marshall Plan,
which they loudly oppose.
Whitney's visit to the White
House followed the reading to
the Pea convention in Chicago
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Atlas Co. Signs
Wage Supplement

Signing of a supplementary
agreement between the Atlas
Brazing Co, 4001 Detroit Ave.
and Local IA, UAW-CIO was an
nounced early this week by
Howard Seren, international
.UAW representative.
In addition to a wage increase
of scents an hour, the supple
ment covers top seniority for
the shop committee, holiday pay,
overtime pay, job bidding, i'm
proved vacation pay and a
clause on union liability.
Representative Seren assisted
the officers of Local IA in bring
ing negotiations to a conclusion.