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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-30
NOTICE
To Business Firms
and Advertisers
The Toledo Union
Journal
Is the Only
CIO Official
Newspaper In Toledo

Newspaper In Toledo
1t speaks for the Toledo In
dustrial Union COuncil-CIO,
the Central Body of the CIO
in this city.
There are other CIO news
papers but they are published
by and only are intended for
members of their respective
shop.
Only the Journal has city
wide distribution a m ong
members of the CIO and has
mail distribution to bona -fide
subscribers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-30
ONE-STOP SERVICE

Time your dues payments with other bills and make
Local IL your one stop agency for your bills
When making your monthly visit to Local IL Hall to
your union dues why not take advantage OF the
offered to Local IL members?
At the Local Window You Can Pay Your Bills For
Water Electric Gas Telephone
This agency was established for the convenience of
members.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-30

told you that
l have a strong
hunch that as
far as Mr.. Edi-
tor is concern
ed, I'm always
wrong.
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his own words
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-30
80 Shops In
Toledo Open
For Talks
Ballard Says Tolks
To Begin On Pension
And Medical Program

Charles Ballard, Region 2-E
UAW-CIO Director, who as q
UAW-CIO Board member, voted
to approve the new agreement
reached by UAW President Wal
ter P. Reuther and the Ford bar
gaininf committee on the Ford
pension program, announced thai
talks in approximately 80 shops
in Toledo on new contract will
begin Immediately.
$50 Contracts Open
He said that in addition to To-
ledo, there are 95 per cent OF
union shops in the regional area
now open for contract talks since
what is believed will be the
Auto Workers pattern, on the
pension program agreed on by
the UAW and the Ford Motor
Company.
He said that he will call a
meeting of his staff to post them
on up to date details on the new
Ford pension contract. He added
that a feature to be included in
new contracts will be an insur-
ance and medical program need
ed in this area and is considered
as a must.
Hopes To Win Without Strike
The regional director stressed
that it is a desire to negotiate the
pension program and insurance
and medical benefits for the vast
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-30
FaHer Share forLabOr
Of National Income
ADVOCATED By Frey

ST PAUL, (LPA)-A sound economy in this country
requires farer distribution of the national income to labor
declared John Frey veteran chief of the AFL Metal
Trades Department the opening of the Departments an
nual convention here Sept. 26
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-30
JAW Agrees On
Pension Program
Ford Agreement May Serve
AS National Pattern In CIO
New Contract Signed For 2Hz Yeors;
Council To Vote In Detroit Next Week

Approximately 100 members of the National Ford Coun-
Gil representing 48 Ford Locals will Detroit next
Tuesday and Wednesday vote the proposed agreement
reached between UAW-CIO President Walter p Reuther
and the Ford Local 600 Bargaining Committee with the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-30
Ber|acher Is Labor S
Choice For Council
Big Money Boys Footing Bill
For Taft's Election Machinery

COLUMBUS, OHIO, Sept 27-Ohios big money boys"
footing the bill for Senator Robert A Tafts attempt
to meddle with the states election machinery.
Already Taft henchmen have reported spending $95 00
Just buy enough necessary signatures get the refer
Kodiak mirror., 1949-11-19
Services Held For Mrs. Mary Mahle

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Mahle, 73, lifelong Kodi- ak resident, were held Monday afternoon at the Russian Orth- odox Church. Mrs. Mahle died early last Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Paul Swanson.
 Mrs. Mahle, the former Mary Morrison, was born in Kodiak on Feb. 19, 1876, and lived here all life, except for short periods spent with her children in California.
 She was the widow of Otto Mahle, who died here in 1887.
 Mrs. Mahle is survived by her eleven children, Mrs.
Kodiak mirror., 1949-11-19
owners of the civilian cafe teria at the base.
Mrs. Erskgne To Wed BiftersMeet Skipper

The wedding of Mrs. Lee sha Erskine and It. Comdr. Donald Morell of the Coast Guard will take place here on Dec. 4, the couple announced this week.
 Comdr. Morell, now in the east visiting his mother, has been captain of the Coast Guard Gutter Bittersweet, but will be re-assigned next month to Seattle.
 Mrs. Erskine is the widow of w. J. Erskine, pioneer Ko- diak businessman, who died last December,
Kodiak mirror., 1949-11-19
Madsen's Boat Now Isg Seattle

The Kodiak Bear, Charles Madsen's boat used on big game hunting trips, arrived in
 Seattle last Friday evening.
 Madsen will put the boat in
 dry dock for the winter in Lake Union. The Kodiak Bear departed here the last part of October with Jack Wagner and Benny Gregoroff accomp- anying Madsen on the trip. Madsen is expected to re- turn to Kodiak this week by plane. He will return to Seat tie early in the spring to bring the boat back here for the
 spring hunts.
Kodiak mirror., 1949-11-19
Miller Baby
 Dies ln Seattle

Funeral services were held last Saturday at Lake City, Fla, for Sandra Lee Miller, baby daughter of MT. and Mrs. Howard Rocky" Miller of the base. Mrs. Miller's par ents live in the Florida city.
 The little girl died Nov. 4 at the Childrens Orthopedic Hos- pital in Seattle, where she had been a patient since June.
 She would have been three years old Nov.11.
 The child, who is survived by a younger sister besides her parents, was named Ko- diak's prettiest baby girl at the baby show held last Easter.
 Mrs. Miller, who was out side with her daughter for some time returned several weeks ago. Miller is one of the
Kodiak mirror., 1949-11-19
KODIAK MIRROR

Margaret Magnusen, Otto' IT,. Frederick, Mrs. Swanson an Mrs. Ed Higgins of Ko- diak; Paul Conrad Mahle, An chorage; Mrs. Lydia Burnharn, Mrs. Ida Bergstrom, and An drew of Oakland, Calif,; Geo rge, Chignik; and Robert of Kodiak, now in Portland;M grandchildren; Il great grand children, and a brother Paul Morrison of Kodiak.
 Business places in town closed Monday for the funeral conducted by Father Alexan- der Popoff. Pallbearers were Oscar Nelson, Joseph He1tr man, Ole Olsen, Bryan Thor sheim, Bill Robertson and Walter Shuravloff. Intern1ent was in the Russian cemetery,
Kodiak mirror., 1949-11-19
Councils Sets Dock eeS

An ordinance naming the costs for berthing vessels at the city float was read for the first time Monday night at the city councils regular meet ing.
 Prepared and submitted for the councils approval by Councilman William Worth, who also supervised the con- struction of the new float, the ordinance provides rates for boats from 50 tons down to skiffs and dinghies.
 Worth said the ordinance is similar to one now in effect in Cordova.
 Five taxi license transfers were approved by the council: from Malcom Mcdonald to Mary Jensen; Glen Martin to Jess Blinn and Stan Nelson; Joe Mulqueen to G. J. Sprach- CT; Spracher to Ross Gal 
 braith; and Leslie Mccarthy to Art and Lorena Kizer. An application for a bever- age dispensary license for Sally's Cafe was disapproved by the Council.
 Persons using open garbage cans will be requested to ob- tain covers for their recept- acles, the council decided after Councilman Ray Shannon re- ported that 112 persons within the city did not have lids on their cans. Shannon, head of the police committee, also said a new police warning light had been installed on top of Bert's S Drug Store.
 The council will ask for bids for the construction of a re- taining wall in front of Knud- sens and Kraft's stores on Brooklyn Avenue. When the wall is installed the street will be widened to it's surveyed width, the council decided.
 Other business of the council
 included the paying of current bills; issuing a building permit to Mrs. Florence Heglin to widen the entrance to a dwell ing; granting permission to John Holland to move a skid shack from the Shupp Con- struction Company property on Mission road to Mill Bay road, and the issuing of a building permit to the Kodiak Bills Club to pour a new foundation to their building on
Kodiak mirror., 1949-11-19

William H. Lamme and August Heitman have been added to the clerical staff at the post office.
Evening star., 1949-01-11
Bill Proposes Bonus
For Veterans Here

A veterans bonus for each Of the
200 900 District residents who served
in World War II is proposed by Rep
resentative Klein, Democrat, of New
York.
Under terms Of a bill introduced
in the House and referred to the
House Veterans Affairs Committee,
the cost Of the bonus itself would be
paid by the Federal Government and
the cost of administration by the
District government.
The payments would be $50 for
service of go days or less in the con-
tinental United States, $3.50 for more
than go days service in the United
States, $3.50 for service abroad and
$3.50 to be paid to survivors of a
veteran who met death on active
duty.
Mr.. Klein also reintroduced in the
House bill which failed of enact
ment in the last Congress for regis
tration Of DiSsxict locksmiths. 1t
went to the District Committee.
Representative Hinshaw, Republi-
can, Of California introduced a bill
to provide for recognition of and
regulation of professional engineers
in the District. This measure was
the subject of extended hearings in
the last Congress but did not become
Evening star., 1949-01-11

matra while his father was consul
general at Singapore.
When DR.. Mann led another COL
lecting party to Argentina in 1899,
one Of those to meet him when
his ship docked at Buenos Aires
was Tom Davis. His father had
been transferred there as consul
general.
Tom had turned his small earn
ings and allowance into a collection
of rare, long-necked turtles for his
friends from the Washington Zoo.
At least a dozen of the turtles are
still on display in the reptile house.
Yesterday Tom, who had flown
from Panama, showed up at the
Zoo with a dozen honey creepers-
tiny, brilliant blue birds, which feed
on the honey of tropical flowers.
Tom also brought a dozen rare
yellow and black frogs he had
collected in the Panama jungles,
along with several boxes Of lizards.
Evening star., 1949-01-11
Burned Rector Boy May Get
New Skin Graft From Marine

Casualty Hospital doctors next
week may graft another 100 square
inches of skin on the burned body
of Michael Rector from a 26-year-
old Marine staff sergeant who Of
fered it because Michael lis good
fighter"
The sergeant, John T. Rapp, who
Is stationed at the Anacostia Naval
Air Station, doesn't know the Rec
tors. But he wrote to the hospital
offering his skin when he read that
4-year-old Michael would need the
temporary gratis to help seal burns
over 70 per cent of his body.
Michael's father, Everett Rector,
a garage mechanic, already has pro-
vided 200 inches of his own skin and
George Becraft, 81, a beer salesman
who knew Michael as kid with
a lot of spunk," has given IS square
inches.
Later, when Michael can be an
esthetized, some of his own good
skin will have to be used. In the
Evening star., 1949-01-11
War Babies 10 Swell
Schools by 100000,
NEA Session Is Told

The wave of war babies today al
most overwhelmed a regional con-
ference Of the National Education
Association on future teacher re-
quirements.
BY next September the crop OF
freshly scrubbed and combed first
graders will be about half mil
lion more than last years, the edu-
Gators were told at their meeting
in the associations building, 1901
Sixteenth street NV.
The new pupils will be the babies
born in 1943, the peak year in war
time births. The number of babies
born in that year was almost 5000
600, according to census figures
The postwar peak was in 1947 when
3,720,000 babies were born In the
United States.
1--WE ought to attract three-fourths
of the girl graduates of the colleges
to properly staff the elementary
grades" said Ralph Mcdonald of
the association. The NEA has esti-
mated that 100000 new teachers
will be needed in the next 10 years
for grade schools.
The meeting is being attended by
representatives from the educational
systems of the District, Maryland
Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Delaware It Is the first OF
eight regional conferences on
teacher education and professional
standards to be held in various
places under NEA auspices. The
meeting here was to end this after
noon.
Evening star., 1949-01-11
Po|iceLt. Lt.CIydeRouse,
Injured Permanently
nHeroic Act, 10 Retire

A police officer whose "heroism
above and beyond the call of duty
brought him permanent injury, will
come up for retirement Thursday.
He is 1t Clyde o. Rouse. As, of 1888
R street Sc, recipient of the Police
and Fire Department Meritorious
Service Gold Medal award in 1946-47.
Since his partial recovery from
severe leg injuries, 1t. Rouse has
been driver and aide to Police Supt.
Robert j. Barrett, but currently is
on leave.
/ 1t, Rouse, then a detective sergeant,
and Precinct Detective Harry E.
Hamilton, 80, spotted a stolen car
parked in the first block of @ street
NV. early on November /, 1916. It
was occupied by two persons.
The policemen approached the
car, one going to each side, but the
auto started to drive away. Mr..
Hamilton clung to the drivers side
and Mr.. Rouse, who had succeeded
in getting the right door open, at
tempted to stop the car. He was
unable to get inside because of the
resistance of woman passenger.
The two fought to hold their po-
sitions and the car finally crashed
into trailer truck at New York and
Florida avenues NE.
Mr.. Hamilton died of his injuries
the same day and the driver OF the
car, Charles w. Scott, "a, died in
the Jail inflrmary. Mr.. Hamilton
received the Police Departments
Silver Medal.
1t. Rouse suffered seven fractures
of the leg and for a time doctors
feared amputation would be neces-
sary. His slow, partial recovery was
marked by his efforts to save the leg
through long hours of muscle ma
nipulation and massaging.
In November, 1947, he returned to
active duty and for time served
as assistant to the lieutenant in
charge of precinct detectives before
becoming aide to Maj. Barrett.
He has been a member of the Po-
lice Department more than "a years
and was the first member to operate
radio cruiser car,
Evening star., 1949-01-11
Two 10 Act for Minors
In Patterson Case

Two court-appointed guardiaps
have been named to protect the IN
terests Of minors In the Eleanor
Patterson will contest.
j. Edward Burroughs, jr., counsel
for Mrs. Ann Bowie Smith in the
will fight, will serve as guardian for
her children, Darnall Smith, 5, and
"Cissy" Smith, Is months.
John J. Carmody, former presi-
dent Of the District Bar Association,
will represent the interests of Jerry
LeFort, 20.
"Cissy," Mrs. Patterson's name
sake, was one of the II secret bene-
ficiaries" in the late Times Herald
publishers will. Her brother was
named to get $25,000 over a Ave
year period in event his mother, to
whom Mrs. Patterson bequeathed
the money, died before she could in
herit it.
Young LeFort, son of Mrs. Patter-
sons former chauffeur, was named
to receive $1,000 in the will.
The contest brought by Mrs. Fe-
licia Gizycka. Mrs. Patterson S
daughter, is scheduled for trial Jan
uary Is.
In another development, Judge F.
Dickinson Let's signed an order
permitting Mrs. Patterson's house
keeper, Mrs. Sibilla Campbell, to use
Mrs. Patterson's 1947 station wagon
in carrying out her housekeeping
duties at the Patterson home on
Dupont Circle and at the Dover
House estate in Upper Marlboro, Md.
Riggs Bank, which sought this
permission as collector of the estate,
said the automobile was bequeathed
to Mrs. Gizycka but that her at
torneys had no objection to its use
by Mrs. Campbell,
Evening star., 1949-01-11
Alexandra Fines and Fees
Total S124,151 in Year

Fines and other fees collected by
the Alexandria Civil and Police
Court in 1948 totaled $124.151 SO,
according to Douglas w. Stanton,
jr., clerk and bailiff.
OF the total, $65. 10000 was COL
lected from city fines and $5,986
represented State fines. The total
also includes sergeant and justice
of the peace fees and other charges.
Mr.. Stanton said the city re-
ceived the entire amount of city
fines collected. This years collec-
tions were the highest in the courts
history, he said.
The court handled II 800 criminal
cases and 1900 civil cases last year.
Evening star., 1949-01-11
Dr.. Monn's Gift Pays Off Again;
Zoo Gets Rare NewSpecimens

A gibbon which Zoo Director
William M. Mann presented to a
small boy in Sumatra in 1887 paid
another dividend yesterday.
Tom Davis, now %, son of Mon
nett B. Davis, United States Am
bassador to Panama, arrived yes
terday from a Christmas holiday
with his parents in Panama lug
ging cages and crates of birds and
reptiles for the Washington Zoo.
Young Davis, who has a job in
Philadelphia, devotes his spare
time to collecting geological speci-
mens-a hobby he picked up after
DR.. Mann gave him a young gibbon
In the Netherlands Indies.
DR.. and Mrs. Mann at that time
were on the Smithsonian Institu-
tion-National Geographic expedi-
ton to the East Indies.
Tom, only 10, was attending
school In the mountains of Su-
Evening star., 1949-01-11

meantime, about two-thirds Of the
temporary skin grafts-which sealed
the burned areas to cut down loss
of body fluid-have disappeared.
Michael tomorrow will end the
second month of suffering since his
cowboy suit caught fire, causing sec
ond and third degree burns from his
ankles to his shoulders.
Not expected to live, Michael has
amazed hospital officials, and doc
tors are searching records to see
whether any one so badly burned
ever has been able to hang onto life
so long. Michael's doctor said the
boy is holding his own" and that
the pain has cut down considerably.
The burned area even has reduced
slightly in size, around the edges.
Sergt. Rapp lives at $500 Thir-
teenth street, Mount Rainier, Md.
H is married, but has no children
In the Marine Corps five years,
with IA months overseas during
the war, he is attending night
school at q business college.
Evening star., 1949-01-11
Bill Offered 10 Revive
Military Tax Exemptions
BY the Assoeioied Press

A bill to revive income tax ex-
emptions on pay of enlisted members
of the armed services was intro.
duced by Senator O'Conor, Demo-
crat, of Maryland.
A law providing such exemptions
expired December 81.
Senator O'Conor's bill also would
exempt $1,000 of the pay of officers
from Federal income taxes The
previous exemption was $500.
Chairman Doughton of the House
Ways and Means Committee and
Chairman Vinson of the House
Armed Services Committee have
said they would push a bill there
to make the exemption effective
until July !. This would be during
the period that the new Federal tax
program is being worked out.
Senator O'Conor's bill does not
carry an expiration date.
Evening star., 1949-01-11
Polish Arts Exhibit 10 Open
Al Museum Tomorrow

The first important collection of
Polish traditional arts to be shown
in America will go on exhibit at the
National Museum tomorrow, the
Polish Embassy has announced. It
will contine through January 80.
The Polish Exhibition of Manual
Arts, to be circulated throughout
this country, includes the work of
both professional and amateur ar
fists. The show represents Poland's S
postwar effort to revive the old arts
and crafts.
The collection includes hand-wov-
en- tapestries, rugs and decorative
textiles, wood sculpture, paintings
on glass and wood and ceramics.
Evening star., 1949-01-11
SouthwestCitizensUrqed
To Aid Health Center

DR.. John r. Pate, medical director
of the Southwest Health Center,
called on residents of the South
west area last night to work hard
to make the center more useful to
It's citizens.
He addressed the Southwest Civic
Association at a meeting in the
Randall Junior High School, First
and I streets S.W.
After the meeting members of the
association toured the new 16-room
addition to the school, which was
occupied for the first time yester-
daY
Evening star., 1949-01-11
10000 Beds Offered
In Private Homes for
Inauguration Visitors

Washington houSeholders have
listed more than 10000 beds as
available for inaugural visitors, and
officials of the Inaugural Housing
Bureau are encouraged by the fact
more than 80 per cent of the offers
have come from homes being opened
to roomers for the first time.
When the registry was started,
it was stated the effort would not
be successful unless thousands of
places apart from established ROOM
ing houses were made available for
temporary housing. Now, bureau
officials are encouraged to hope next
weeks big shelter problem will be
solved, Mrs. John C. McClintock,
bureau director, said today.
"Householders are opening their
homes generously to the thousands
of visitors coming here for the cere-
monies,' Mrs. McClintock said, but
we need many more rooms. The
bureau is open from 10 am. to S
pm. weekdays, and we are accept
ing offers mailed in care Of the
1949 Inaugural Committee, by tele-
phone over Sterling 1855, extension
1881, or in person at the bureau,
500 Fourteenth street NV"
The total of offers reported today
does not include accommodations
made available in established room
ing houses, social service agencies
or buildings not ordinarily used for
housing.
The latter arrangements, for ex-
ample, are such as that made with
the YMCA for SIS high school mu-
sicians from Buffalo, N. Y. The
youths will be brought here by an
Amvets post, which asked the bu-
reau to find a place for them to
stay. The Army will provide cots.
A. group OF e New York police
men will be housed in fire sta
tion. ..;gsr gs@s =
An Army officer recently told q
volunteer he had some space in
his home and could afford to house
visitors as his guests. He explained
he wanted to consider this a token
repayment for kindnesses extended
him by strangers across the Nation
during the war years.
A member Of Congress asked the
bureau to find a double room for his
wife and himself during the inau-
gural period. His hotel had request
ed him to move out to make room
for visitors paying higher tariffs, he
said. The bureau would not reveal
his name.
The Housing Bureau is an agency
Of the l949 Inaugural Committee
and is administered through the
committees Housing and Hospital
ity Committee. headed by Mrs. Err
nest K. Lindley. Mrs. Kenneth
Crawford is housing chairman for
Virginia and Mrs. James v. Bennett
for Maryland. Mrs. w. M. Calvin
is co-ordinator for housing activi-
ties. Miss Mollie Flynn is Office
administrator and Mrs. c. Girard
Davidson heads the speakers bu-
reau, which has been explaining the
housing need to civic, fraternal and
social organizations.
Evening star., 1949-01-11
$50 Reported Stolen
From Desk at Morque

Police today were investigating
the reported theft of $50 from a
desk drawer at the District Morgue.
Frank A. Mena. jr.. Morgue mas
ter, told police the money-belong-
ing to the District government
vanished some time between pm.
Friday and 2::30 pm. Sunday, police
said.
There are no SuSDects.