4 1 THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, SPRINGFIELD, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1946 7 West Springfield West Side Tax Rate to Be $28 West Springfield's tax rate for 19.16 has gone up just one dollar, although prior to the setting of the rate predictions had been made that it might rise about five dollars. The new ratel will be $28 on a thousand instead of the The $27 board rate enjoyed assessors for so lonfounced that about $1,500.000 of real estate and personal property had been added to the taxable lists and that the town's valuation had increased so that the extra burded on the taxpayer is not as big'As it might have been. The news came as a surprise to most Side people who had figured that with all the increases in the cost of government and the large appropriations voted at town meetings the rate, would increase a considerable amount. the a appropriations were being fought At annual town meeting when out on the floor, the tax rate indicator set the approximate revenue due for each thousand in property at about $42. Not many people believed then that assessed valuations in the town had increased to the extent that only one dollar would be added to the tax rate.
Budget appropriations for this year were higher than other year of the town's recent history, and. coupled with the appropriations for work not 'done during the war years and a general pay increase for all town employes. totaled an all-time high. Mrs. Facchini Is fir On Danger List Drs.
Diana Facchini, 51, of 57 Old Bridge Street, West Springfield, is on the danger list at the Wesson Memorial Hospital where she was taken yesterday for treatment of burns she received when her clothing bu became igfrom the gas stove over which she was working. a passing motorist, her face and arms Help She and had was run taken out to into the the hospital street for by badly burned. Jean Boutwell Is Camp Counsellor Camp Namuhana wound up its first week successfully at Mittineague Friday with a play day. The main event of the day was a contest between the blue and the white teams of "capture the flag." Under the direction of the directors and counsellors, 130. Namu- MISS JEAN BOUTWELL hahans swarmed the woods in an effort to become the winner.
At noon the campers cuited down and tended to the peas: lable task of picnicking. Games were played for the remainder of the day and the program was topped by swimming period in the pool. One of Camp Namuhana's counsellors for this year is Miss Jean Boutwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Boutwell of 103 Lower Beverly Hills, West Springfield.
She is in charge of the intermediate age group at the camp and is well qualified for the position as she has had three years at Marion's Camp with the Fireside Girls. Miss Boutwell is very much interested in this type of work and intends enter work allied it upon her graduation from West Springfield High School next year. Registrations for August are being taken at the camp now and for the remainder of the month of July. The escond session begins on July 29. PLAYGROUNDS MORE POPULAR THIS YEAR climb upward.
GETTING READY FOR STAY AT HOME CAMP The attendance at the West Springfield playgrounds for the openIng week surpassed the attendance for the opening week man 1945. Last week 3530 youngsters attended the various play areas as against 3328 for the similar period in 1945. This is a gain of 202 youngsters over the 1915 figure. The pools also showed an increase in 1916 over the figures of 1945 for the opening three weeks of the season. In 1916, 5898 people enjoyed the use of the swimming facilities as against 5484 in 1945.
The early spring haseball program which 13 a new feature of the Park and Playground Department this year to date has drawn some 2500 spectators. There are approximately 210 boys and men taking part as participants in this program and it is expected that the spectator interest will Groups of young men and women were hard at work yesterday making paper dolls and sewing doll dresses at the West Springfleld Neighborhood House. These people will be the senior counsellors 'for the summer program of the house and will care for the younger tots in the Tot Lot Gand stay-at-home camp that will open for children from 4 to 12 starting July 8. They were addressed by. Sgt.
Fre A Marotte P. of the police force, Mrs. Joseph Curran, Dr. Mildred Housmann, and Mrs. Arnold Lewis on various schjects pertaining to the care of the youngsters during the summer months.
The stay-at-hone camp program for boys and girls of six to 12 includes hiking, crafts, trips, games, stunts, arts and sports. The tot lot, for the younger children, also has a large program and enrollments for both programs are being taken now. The Club of parish at 1 New Club. will bers: will morrow LAFLEUR RESIGNS MAINTENANCE JOB Father Indignant at Pay Check Stoppage Joseph LaFleur, recently married veteran of the South Pacific, whose pay checks were stopped while he was on his honeymoon, has resigned as a maintenance man in the Flood Control Department, his father, Alderman Joseph LaFleur, reported this morning. 1 Both father and son 'have become indignant because the alderman's son was singled out for pay check stoppage.
The alderman declared that it is common knowledge throughout the city that many municipal employes are frequently, and in some instances, habitually absent from their employment but one. stops their pay checks. The alderman's son has returned two pay checks: for $46 each, that were authorized for two weeks that he was away on his honeymoon. He will take over his father's cleaning establishment at Aldenville and will operate it with his wife. The transfer has already taken place.
Alderman LaFleur said he will demand an investigation of the charges of laxity on the part of some officials and employes in not remaining fulltime on their jobs but getting fulltime pay. He said he will ask that the invetigation begin at "Room one" because he declared that he finds that the mayor is away from his office more than he is "and he gets $5000 per year," "the alderman declared. "If my son who has been given a 'raw deal' is to be picked on then I think it is time that some others who are more flagrant in' their absenteeism should be given a little attention," the alderman declared. Base's Facilities May Solve Problem sharp reduction in military personnel anticipated at Westover Field as a result deactivation of the Army Air Force Transport Command Wing there, seems to provide a solution to a Chicopee problem of providing school facilities for what was estimated as: 1500 school-age children. Conferences held during the past few weeks between School Superintendent John L.
Fitzpatrick and Col. Russell Keilor, base commander, indicated that this number of children of civilian and Army personnel would require educational opportunities here this fall. Plans for a $200,000 addition to the Fairview Memorial School have been prepared tentatively at the direction of the School Committee. The fer of the portable schools from their abiding place alongside of ed to help out in what appeared ed as an Chicopee High School was also expectemergency. The present plans of the Air Force retrenchment at the big Chicopee Falls base appear now to have eliminated the need for the contemplated expansion.
It is estimated that not more than 1500 civilian and Air Force personnel will 0 be located at the base and an increase of not more than 300 children of school age will be found. It is estimated that these can be accommodated in present schools by school committeemen. JUDGE'S SISTER DIES AT LOWELL HOME Judge Napoleon J. Vigeant has received word from Lowell that his sister, Miss Regina Vigeant, has died at her Lowell home, 50 Mt. Vernon Street.
Her death came unexpectedly. Besides Judge Vigeant, she is survived by Rev. Antonio J. Vigeant, pastor of St. Louis deFrance Parish, Lowell, Ieon Vigeant of 153 Maple Street, Springfield, and two sisters, Mrs.
Louise Fortier, with Whom she resided, and Mrs. Anna Perreault. also of Lowell, and several nieces and nephews, all of Lowell. 0 res Two Riflemen Warned Two young Chicopee Center men, reported firing .22 caliber rifles along the banks the Connecticut River for the sport of shooting at targets, were taken to Police Headquarters this morning by Patrolman Henry F. Dolphin for warnings.
Both were advised that a repetition. of the target practice will cause police to confiscate their rifles. Leander Club Wins HENLEY, July 6 (A.P; Britian's oldest private rowing club, the Leander Club, won Grand Challenge Cup for eight-oared shells in. the Henley Royal Regetta today, beating the See-Club of Zurich, Switzerland. FINANCIAL Grain Market CHICAGO, July 6 (AP) Selling expanded in corn today and at one time the March delivery was cents below the session's close after opening on a gain of 5 cents.
Extreme losses were shaved but the yellow grain could not recover all the lost ground. Final prices on corn were 3 cents lower. January and oats were lower, July 87. Barley bids were unchanged at High Low Close CORN January 1.71 1.62¼ 1.62½-¾ March 1.71 1.61½ 1.61 OATS July 87 87 August 86 4 September "82 November 854 82 December 85 82 March 85 83 83 BARLEY November 1.42 (B) March 1.42% (B) December a Livestock Market CHICAGO, July 6 (AP)-An active market developed in hogs on the livestock market today as 3000 salable head were unloaded, an unusually high run for a Saturday. The Department of Agriculture did not provide prices but private interests said the market was 25 to 50.
cents higher. Most hog sales were at $15.25 to $16.25. The top WAS $16.50. Around 1000 head cattle arrived and these sold at steady prices. Removal of price controls created active and higher markets this week, although some of the upturn in hogs "VAS canceled toward the.
end of the week. Final prices on butcher hogs were 65 cents to $1.15 higher than the $14.85 OPA ceiling while sows were 40 cents to $1.15 higher. Top at the week's close was $16.25. the Choice to prime steers soared 'to highest prices on record when price colttrols trere removed and most of the gain was maintained. Best price was $22.50.
Prices were again based on quality and a wide spread developed between medium and choice offerings. Stock cattle prices failed to' follow the upturn of other cattle. Smaller receipta of sheep were received, a result of the termination of subsidy payments to producers. The top for the week was $20, and practically all spring lambs brought that price at the end of the week. Grain Market eession.
New York Poultry Market NEW YORK. July 6 (AP) and dressed poultry was firm and unchanged. Grain Market CHICAGO, July 6 (AP)--More activity developed in corn futures today after prices were bid up another five cents at the opening. The initial quotation marked a gain of 25 cents since OPA ceilings were removed from the yellow grain. Oats showed little change from the preceding Guaranteed Wages Next Big Issue of Labor GOLEN ATTACKS FORTIN PENSION Alderman Calls It "Most Brazen Ever Foisted" COFFEE SHOP TRAVELERS Union Photo NEW $75,000 TERMINAL OPENS AT WEST SPRINGFIELD- to handle 1300 people a day, this new terminal located in Bridge Street Avenue, was completed at a cost of $75,000 by the New England Tra ilways Transportation Company.
Isle of Capri Is Topic Of and Mrs. Ira Whitaker of 22 Eldredge Avenue, West Springfield. made good after one attempt that failed to talk to his parents from Zurlich, Switz. where he is on tour. Alfred called early in the afternoon but found no one home except his brother, who had crawled into a window to answer the telephone.
Although the operator wouldn't connect two brothers, Alfred heard his brother tell the operator that his parents were out wouldn't return till later. When the folks got home they contacted operator handling the call and at 5.45 were talking to him. He told them wonderful Switzerland was and how nice it had been on before. When in Capri, Alfred had sent his mother a beautiful silk handkerchief with writing on it but she doesn't read Italian and says that she'll have to get an interpreter to translate the inscription. He had also sent her some flower seeds from the famous island off he time and she is anxious to plant where our soldiers now spend their them to see what sort of blossoms develop.
Sgt. Whitaker has been overseas since Dec. 15 of last year and expects to return December of this year for good. He was in service since June 26. 1945, and his year and one half of service will be up then.
14 Transatlantic Phone Call Sgt. Alfred Whitaker, son of Mr. the Isle of Capri where he had visited Middle-Class Fraulein Tells German American boy friend-and ending with your very same trouble: Is there no way to get a pair of stockings? But there is this. difference: Tel don't worry about nylons. They are nothing but a fairy tale to us anyway.
I have a deep, deep feeling for my country. For all the bad things which were done under. Hitler it is still the nation of Luther. Kant, Beethoven, Bach, 'Duerer and Wagner. Politically, I don't take much difference between the British and the Americans in their attitude toward Germany.
I don't understand their policy and don't agree with their future plans for Germany. To start with the main trouble: Why do they keen us at war after one year of Allied victory? What is the use of talking so much about "democracy" and reconstruction if there is not the principal basis for it: Peace, I feel they should not restrict us too much. Let Germany get running again--have its industries working again first--and then take the reparations you and other countries desire. There is a lot more to say about that subject. These ideas come up every day but they are certainly not the only problems girls like me are worrying about.
Wonders About Husband I am just in the marriage age. I wonder whether I will ever find the right husband. From 1 he newspapers I learn that there are seven girls to every man in Berlin. Lucky, guy, but I certainly don't want to share my boy friend future husband with six other girls. Generally speaking, I am very much in favor of American-German marriages.
I consider this a very lucky solution for the poor girls who otherwise would have to stay single all their lives. Why don't they lift the marriage ban on German I would marry an American. i feel am marrying the man and not his nationality. If I love him I don't care what nation he belongs to, and I will follow him wherever he had to go. In a way I am a very ordinary girl.
I like to go out and do all the things you. cannot do now--if you are a German. The things you cannot do for many reasons, for lack of money. restrictions, off limits signs and many other barriers. I have dates, nice people.
do a bit of flirting, throw a big party. I also like an opera perfermance, a piano concert, horseback ride in the morning, a golf game for a But boat very sail. few 'of us can realize this, unless we have a friend in the occupation army. Many people watch German girls accompanied by an American with bitter ideas in their heads, but I cannot blame anybody or even myself for catching a little bit of this sunny side of the street. I hate to run around improperly dressed in shabby shoes and wornout clothes.
If there is no other way I even go to the black market. I sold my portable typewriter for a carton of cigarets. I sold the cigarets to some "hig time operator" and then paid 1600 marks for a pair of shoes. When you gO shopping. you meet all the daily problems combined.
You have to take egg powder instead of meat and when you ask for your sugAr ration you have to take crackers because they don't have sugar. You pass up the vegetable stores because the queue there is 80 long you decide you would lose more calories standing in line than you get from the 'vegetables. At the drugstore when you ask for. soap or. cleaning powder they show you stinking gray sand and other funny, crazy ersatz stuff and you give up.
You decide not to wash any more. But you change your mind again when you see the dirty tableclothing, the gray hanky in your purse. You rush back to this' black market and buy some American soap powder for a terrific price. You just want to be clean, that's all. The family sits together in the evenings discussing the project of selling carpet or trading a china set for food.
I hate to see my mother as skinny as she is. She loves it if I bring home some candy or a pack of powdered BERLIN, July 6 (AP)-I am a fraulein, 23 years old, fairly good looking. and still with high hopes in my mind -because I hope this world will someday come to an understanding. Let me make the silly attempt to talk to the outside world, as one of the million different types of German girls. Two Different Groups Trouble nowadays consists of two different groups.
We are, as German girls. involved with the problem of national hardship and the fear of the future. Besides that political what will become of our country in problem. we have our own little girl problems starting with or not to have an American boy friend-and ending with your very same trouble: Is there no The terminal is fully equipped to handle all needs of passengers and service the 30 buses that will stop here for a half hour. Originally the maintenance buildings of.
the company alone occupied the site and when busses stopped for. service there were no accommodations for the passengers and another rest stop had to be made in Springfield at the Greyhound terminal. terminal was the a dream of the treasStarted in July of last year, the years. It was the aim of the comuruer, Lioniel H. Aselton, for 10 pany to intergrate the bus maintenance and passenger rest service thus saving time.
A well-lighted and comfortable restaurant and waiting room and adequate rest facilities are housed in this modern building and four bus companies make it their stop on the West Side. President of the West Side terminal is Gordon G. Aselton, brother of the treasurer, and another brother, Carl K. Aselton, is manager of the restaurant. D.
T. Ddisesti, also on the who planned and built terminal, is the general traffic manager of the company. KIELCE POGROM STARTED BY BOY Probers Find Story Told to Militiamen First years old boy, who said "someone" WARSAW, July 6 (AP)-An eighttold him to start a story that Jews had held him for several days in a cellar, was blamed by investigators today for touching off Poland's bloodiest postwar pogrom, which killed at least 38 and injured 50 others in the city of Kielce. Life Was Threatened A special commission of inquiry said the boy, Henirik Blasezycyk, told the story to militiamen, adding that his life had been threatened and that he had seen at least a dozen bodies of Christian children in his prison. The angered militiamen were said to have gone to Jewish homes to investigate.
Violence then developed and crowds began forming in the streets. Nine women and one security policeman were among those slain in ing which included mob raids on Jew. ish. shops, homes and apartments. Most of the casualties were Jews.
The rioting lasted for several hours, investigators said, with the Jews firing from windows of their homes in self -defense and hurling hand grenades, before the militia reserve arrived in the city to restore order. With 62 perpetrators already in custody, government officials said additional arrests were made. They will face military tribunals: Meanwhile. a curfew continued in force in Kielce, which some officials have described as a hotbed of cism. and Warsaw newspapers charged elements with deliberate provocation in setting off the pogrom.
Of the city's 60,000 population, about 800 are Jewish. One source advanced the theory that the disorder was instigated in an effort to focus the attention of the populace on the Jews and divert it from the counting of votes cast in last Sunday's referendum. Early returns the Government a strong lead. DIVORCED BRIDE, 19, IS REMARRIED British Girl's Suit Contested by First Husband RENO; July 6 (AP)--Mrs. Jean Pauline Carbone, 19-years-old British war bride, who won a bitterly contested divorce yesterday from former Army Lt.
Harold Carbone of Rochester, N. was married late at whose Dubuque, home her last night to Capt. Darrell A. Beschen, baby was born last February. The quiet ceremony was performed by Justice of the Peace Harry Dunseath, little more than five hours after she received her divorce decree on grounds of mental cruelty.
Carbone had protested his wife's divorce action, accusing her of adultery. He named the 24-years-old Beschen as corespondent. Beschen, flew here on a four-day leave from Shreveport, Thursday, but his presence was not publicly disclosed until last night. The couple left immediately for an undisclosed destination. John Robb.
Clarke, attorney who won Drs. Carbone the contested decree, and his daughter, motion picture starlet Reno Brown, served as witnesses at the wedding. 9, more than 13 on months after Mrs. Carbone's son was born a last she and Carbone had parted in London. The Carbones were married there in 1941 while he was on duty in England.
Carbone, who had told interviewers that he contested the divorce for religious reasons, said after the decree was granted: "I'm not bitter about it at least, I'm free." Attorneys for the principals said that Carbone testified he sent his wife $2100 from the time he left land until she arrived in this country. Instead of joining Carbone upon her arrival she' went to. Beschen's home in Iowa, and at the time of the child's birth Beschen said it was his son. After the trial Mrs. Carbone said in an interview that when she came country she had "every intention" to join her husband but that arrival she telephoned him and he told her: "No, I don't want you." Argentine Gets Planes LONDON, July 6 (AP) -Vickers Armstrongs Ltd.
announced today the first of 20 vickers viking passenger transport aircraft ordered by the Argentine government had crossed the A average Atiantic speed successfully, of more than maintaining 200 miles an an hour. Alderman Adolph J. Golen, former president of the Board of Aldermen, takes those members of the board who voted a pension for Arthur Fortin, a fireman as "the most brazen thing that was ever foisted on the people of Chicopee," in a statement today where he denounced the action illegal and unworthy. He said he hopes that Mayor Bourbeau will veto the pension. His statement is as follows: "The voting of a pension for Arthur Fortin, member of the Chicopee Fire Department, is the most brazen thing that was ever foisted on the people of Chicopee.
Under the leadership of by some members of the board pa reAlderman Cote the matter was passed gardless of its legality. "Here is a case where a man who was suspended twice for intoxication and who has a record of absenteeism second to none for which he has been paid, being rewarded for such a record. The city physician has certified that he is fit for. duty and yet a pension was voted, en pension. which I claim is.
illegal. circ*mstances, I hope and urge that if the city solicitor rules the passage pension illegal and that the. mayor veto the matter at once." Hallinan Foils Theft Attempt Elmer Paul of 80 St. James Avenue reported that while he slept last night someone attempted to break into his garage at the he rear of his home and steal his car. The attempt was defeated by Thomas A.
Hallinan, former school committeeman and a neighbor, who couldn't sleep. Hallinan, tossing about. in his bed, arose to sit by the window and WOO sleep with a smoke, saw someone fooling with the lock on the Paul garage. He stole downstairs and outside but stumbled over a clothespole in the dark. The noise frightened the prowler who was off before the former committeeman, a heavy.set man, could get to his feet and give chase.
Now Lt. Frank A. Kaveney of the Chicopee detective bureau will take up where Hallinan left off. Rehearsal's Good But Distracting The establishment of a day and evening high school summer schedule for returning GIs, bent on improving their qualifications for better opportunities, has caused the music department of the public schools to reschedule its weekly band concert rehearsals on the Chicopee High School steps. Everett Sittard, director of music who the rehearsals of more leadior and junior high school bands in one large organization, has announced that rehearsals will take place at the high school steps Tuesday night at 7.30 o'clock instead of Monday.
This eliminates interference with Monday night's veterans' high school classes, The first of the rehearsals held last Monday night attracted several hundred persons, but distracted two score veterans "boning" for better things. Banks Plan to Give Small Loans, Local savings and commercial banks are organizing plans to set up small loan departments in their banks to assist local prospective automobile purchasers to finance A their new cars. through partial payment plans. At a recent meeting of bankers and. Che Chicopee Insurance Association, steps were taken to have both the banks and the agents act as clearing houses for such loans.
Leo Proulx, president and Addison C. Morse, secretary of the association said that it is believed that a more friendly and neighborly policy in handling loans will be possible as a result of their efforts. Purchasers will be able to ride while they. pay but failure to meet payment obligations will result in repossession of those who fail to keep up payments. The group, however, will show its neighborliness in the deal by being oenient where it is definitely established that the borrower because of a temporary obstacle needs a little friendly consideration in helping to abide by thee loan JUDGE FINES TWO SPEEDERS $15 EACH McQueen.
Polish Falcons Meeting Frank A. Newton, of 21 Ormund Street, Springfield, accused in District Court this morning of speeding and passing through a red traffic light by Patrolman James Harrison was fined $10 for speeding and $5 for "not seeing red" by Judge Napoleon J. Vigeant. Judge Vigeant also fined Raymond J. Latour of 164 Chicomansett Village $15 for speeding on complaint of Patrolman William C.
There will be a meeting of the technical committee of the Polish Falcons of America tomorrow morning at 10 at the Polish National Home in The business meeting will take place in the morning and a gymnastic period will follow in the afternoon. In charge of this affair will be Joseph Gedymin of Worcester. Falcon from Worcester, Webster, Pittsfield, Housatonic, Adams, Thompsonville, Holyoke and Chicopee will take part. I' The funeral of Thomas E. Sullivan of 264 Grattan Street was held this morning from the Frank C.
Tylunas funeral home, followed by a requiem high mass at St. Patrivk's Church. Rev. John T. Cain was celebrant.
A delegation- of the Owls Club were honorary bearers, Robert Giguere, Allen Barboza, Richard Robert, Eugene Forajez, William Boar, Eugene. Basvalle, and Fillet Loughnan. Active bearers were Ronald Wilde, John Harland, Theodore Langevin, Thomas Shea, John Loughnan, and VeJordy. Rev. J.
T. Cain read the prayers at the grave in St. Patrick's cemetery. THOMPSONVILLE FOR MEDICAL EMERGENCY CALLS ON WEEK ENDS Refer to: the following schedule. Give name, address and symptoms to person answering the phone.
If there: is no ancall the Police Department, Thompsonville 3388, where the list is avallable. JULY Office House 6-7 -Dr. James Valenski 5000 5000 13-14-Dr. William Kucemicz 4407 4956 20-21-Dr. David Bloom 4237 4237 27-28-Dr.
H. Wilson Fancher 4291 4291 AUGUST 3-4 -Dr. Howard Gourlie 3988 3988 10-11-Dr. Bernard S. Dignam 4256 4256 17-18-Dr.
James Valenski 5000 6000 William Kucewicz 4407 4956 SEPTEMBER 7-9 -Dr. David Bloom 4287 4237 14-15-Dr. H. Wilson Fancher 4291 4291 21-22-Dr. Bernard Dignam 4246 4246 27-25-Dr.
Howard Gourlie 3988 3988 Clip this notice and keep it handy for lieference, WASHINGTON, July 6 (AP)-One of the next big labor issues will be "guaranteed wages." Reasons Why You are going to hear more and more about this subject, and these are some of the reasons why: 1. The CIO- Packinghouse Workers are demanding a "guaranteed annual wage" in their contract negotiations starting this month. 2. The CIO steelworkers have decided to make the "guaranteed annual wage" 8. major goal next winter.
3. Congress has set aside over $200,000 for the greatest study of guaranteed ever made. A small government investigating staff headed by Murray Latimer already had spent about $50,000 but was penniless when Congress came the rescue. NOW the investigation is expanding and soon will be going full blast. Eric Johnston, head of the Motion Picture Association, is one of the key men in' this study.
It is being sponsored by the Advisory. Board of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. Johnston is a member of that board. What is a "guaranteed wage?" First, it's not necessarily a. "guaranteed annual wage." Johnson and Latimer leave out the word "annual." They say.
they doubt whether it's practical in many industries to guarantee a whole year's employment. For: the purpose of the study, they define a guaranteed wage plan as plan under which an employer guarantees a wage or employment to en individual worker for at least three Johnston recently told a congressional committee that instead of "guaranteed wage," he prefers to say "continuous employment" or "regularizing employment." Tough Problems Labor unions demanding "guaranteed annual wages." But there probably won't be widespread strikes over the issue, not for a year Cr two at least. One reason is that rising prices may. cause some unions to concentrate on higher wage rates and strenuous efforts to get guaranteed wages. Another reason is that there are admittedly tough problems to be overcome in many industries.
Beore you can guarantee wages for any period of time, you have to bilize" employment. Before you can do this, you have to "regularize" production. This is hard to do if your supply of raw materials is irregular. Or if people buy your product only at certain times of the year. You must do away with seasonal ups and downs, at least to some extent.
You must abolish layoffs. 'Millions of workers now are subject to layoffs. Johnston told Congress that most American wage-earners work less than 200 days in year-'but they have to live 365 days." Latimer, who is directing the actual research, was chairman of the Railroad Retirement Board for 12 years. He will have 79 people working on the guaranteed wage project at its peak. Here's what they will do: Analyze present guaranteed wage plans; discover methods of "regularizing production and stabilizing employment;" estimate the cost of putting guaranteed wage plans into operation in selected industries; analyze the effects of guaranteed wages on the nation's economy; and finally, make recommendations.
But Latimer and Johnston don't plan to recommend any legislation. "IVe. do not want any- compulsion. This is a democracy," Johnston told congress. "We do anticipate disseminating this information to the employers and employes.
We think there are many employers who want continuity of employment in their business, but the means or methods: do not know what has been done by other employers." The three best-known plans are at Procter and Gamble (soap), George A. Hormel (meat), and Nunn Bush (shoes). Latimer says there are perhaps 250 other plans in operation today. Hardly, two are alike. Procter and Gamble guarantees employment of at least 48 weeks annually.
Hormel guarantees a certain weekly wage for the whole year. workers 3. certain percentage of. the Nunn-Bush guarantees to pay its wholesale value of the shoes. All three plans were established by the employers on their own initiative.
Labor unions, in fact, were slow to catch on. But now they are planning to make up for lost time. 1 Probem millice But she anything would, never is want something me else than a gift. She needn't worry though, I am a fraulein, but not one of those a frauleins. I have American friends, I have German friends.
I know British and French people. They treat me as a lady--not as a Kraut. I am very grateful toward my American friends because they make me forget my daily troubles for a little while. They have made me curious about the States. One thing I know-1 wili go there lands soon see as the I have country a chance.
the I people wish also many Americans would have the desire to come here and find out that there is also something nice about our country. SOCIALITE SEEKS PAINTING DATA Wants to Know Who Had It While It Was Missing BOSTON. July 6 (AP) -Counsel for Mrs. Jean Bullitt Darlington of Westchester, under instructions to determine who had her painting, "The Descent From the Cross," during "the six years it was missing." Sues Harvard For $100,000 The painting, believed by the owner to be a Rubens original, was turned over to a law firm representing' Harvard University within a week after Mrs. Darlington filed.
suit for 000 against the president. and fellows of Harvard on The Westchester socialite's suit was based on the contention that the picture disappeared from Harvard's Fogg Museum six years after she had gent it there to determine its authenticity as a Rubens masterpiece. The university disclosed two days ago that the painting had been returned by a man who, purchased it for $40 and was not aware of its real value. The institution and its representatives have declined to name at this time the man who returned it. George A.
McLaughlin, counsel for Mrs. Darlington, wife of a naval officer former and ambassador relative of to William Bullitt, had received instructions from his client to make a thorough investigation. Mrs. Darlington maintained in har suit that the painting was turned over by the museum to a man who represented himself as her agent and that it later appeared as an exhibit in a Boston art gallery. When the gallery went out of business the painting eras not accounted for, Mrs.
Darlington averred. The university's answer to the suit said it was exempt because. it is a charitable institution. Kentucky Girl, 3, Is Still Missing MT. VERNON, July, 6 (AP) Loretta: Doan remained swallowed up in a wooded area of Rockcastle County today while a party of 400 persons pressed a search for her.
The child, daughter of Walter Doan of Livingston, has been missing since noon Thursday. A footprint believed to be that of the missing child was found yesterday, Sheriff B. G. Clark said. and a bloodhound was brought from Lexington, but efforts to trace the little girl have been futile.
Uranium Ore Is 4. Found in Essen ESSEN, July 6 (AP) -British milltary government authorities disclosed today that three quarters of a ton of uranium ore--an ingredient of the atomic bomb---had been discovered in the devastated Krupp munitions works here. These officials expressed the opinion that Krupp used uranium oxide experimentally to produce a special hard steel for warheads on projectiles. The ore, found in a shed which was blasted by heavy bombs, has been shipped to England. Its retention in Germany is forbidden under the Potsdam Medal for McGaw MANILA, July 6.
(AP) -Brig. Gen. E. J. McGaw, assistant chief of staff of Army Forces in the Western Pacific, today was presented with the Philippine Republic distinguished service medal for reorganizing the Philippine Army, Invisible Form of Death Fills Air Around Bikini By Howard W.
Blakeslee Associated Press Science Writer 6 A (AP)-An invisible form of death ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN, July filled the air for. many miles around and far outside of the great mushroom cloud which arose from the Biatomic bomb. Still Mystery What happened is still a mystery. One of the planes circling the cloud long distance got the first warning of the invisible death when its Geiger Vunter, which registers the presence of X-rays 'and other rays, unexpectedly began to record a dangerous amount of radiation. pilot, thinking he had run into a current of invisible radioactive particles that had eddied far outside the mushroom, turned plane in an escape direction.
But the warning counter continued to show rays whichever way he turned and whether he went up or down. At times the Geiger counter dial swung way over into the danger range. It was many minutes before plane ran out of and away from the unseen menace. Since the crew was exposed to an unknown amount of radiation, members evacuated the mainland for observation. Exposures such as this adventure do not.
necessarily mean serious injury to the men. Although such rays can be fatal, they are not usually very harmful unless persons are continuously exposed for some time. This invisible menace was encountered above 10,000 feet altitude. It might conceivably have been X-rays from the atomic cloud. This latter appears improbable because X-rays 11S- ually do not go so far in such great strength.
Change Color Mice that flew into the cloud are changing color. White mice have become brown. This color change is a surprise. Hair usually turns white or gray when exposed to radioactive rays. These mice were that either passed through the atomic cloud or skimmed into and around edges.
All the drones brought 'back; evidences of terrible radioactivity in or near the cloud. This invisible ray atfeet altitude. tack a was the worst at about 15,000 Wherevere. there was oil on the plane surfaces, radioactive particles Wife of Editor Granted Divorce BRIDGEPORT. July 6 (AP) -The Superior Court granted an uncontested divorce today to Elizaoeth fed that' her husband, Francis E.
Reid Brennan of Stamford who testi- Brennan. assistant editor of McCall's Magazine, took advantage of an of War Information job to leave her. She charged desetion. Drs. Brennan told Judge John H.
King her husband went to Washington after in December, 1942, four years their marriaze. to work for the OWI, but never asked her to join him there or in New York where he now lives. Cocoanut Grove Owner in Hospital BOSTON, July 6 -Barnet Welansky, who is serving a 12-years sentence in connection with the Co. coanut Grove night club fire in which more than 490 persons lost their lives several years ago, is under treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital for a ailment. Welansky entered the hospital from Norfolk State Prison colony early this week in the hope that he would respond to treatment, hospital attaches said.
Supt. Maurice N. Winslow of the prison colony described his transfer to the hospital as routine procedure after prison physicians recommended hospitalization. German Deportees Seek Court Writs SHANGHAI, July 6. tions for writs of habeas corpus for three Germans and their dependents who are on the list of German deportees scheduled to sail tomorrow aboard the SS Marine Robin were filed in Shanghai District Court today by an American attorney, N.
'F. Aliman, and a Chinese associate. The applications were made on the stuck and piled up. Their rays penetrated the metal, driving into the plane, especially those interior positions close to oil spots. Some of these spots caught enough radioactive material to be highly dangerous.
Even inside 'the engines, oil became very highly radioactive and dangerous to life. But this radioactivity had no apparent effect on the perfect operation of the radiating engines. A small amount of death rays piled up on the leading edges of the wing, but never so much as on the oil spots. The metal of the planes bounced off these unseen particles harmlessly. The drones showed no evidence of scorching heat and it is not believed the atomic cloud was blazing hot after rising above 10.000 0 feet.
The cloud radioactivity itself is nod supposed to raise the temperature more than three or four degrees. No thermometers were carried on the drone, Unsafe to Approach One of the Navy drones wag unsafe to approach for more than three days after flying through the heart of the cloud. Another waG too "hot" On approach for more than hours. When these planes "cooled" it. was possible to compute from the rays still present about how much there had been in the co*ckpits many hours earlier.
While this computation was only approximate it indicated the probability that pilots in the planes in the cloud would have been killed. Pilots close to the cloud would have been risking their lives. (0) Radar shot at atomic explosion and afterward at the atomic cloud behaved unexpectedly. Radar beams bounced back off the explosion. amazed scientists.
No such thing had beer expected. The probable explanation is that radar bounsed back off the edges the bubble of compressed air that formed the source of the shock wave of the explosion. This bubble is plainly visible in the photographs exhibited on the press ship. Radar failed completely to bounce back off the atomic cloud. It had been confidently expected that radar would be able to track the atomic cloud.
The explanation of this failure is that this cloud contained much less vaporized metal than had been anticipated. Metallic vapors in the cloud had been counted on to give good radar response. 6 grounds that the persons concerned have proof of their anti-Nazi sentiment. Meanwhile a search was being conducted for 12 persons scheduled to be deported who, had failed to report at the processing center. Bowles to Cruise In Maine Waters PORTLAND, July 6 (AP) Chester Bowles, resigned stabilization director, departed from here today with plans to leave battle for OPA's revival far in the wake of a 39-foot yacht on which he and his family will cruise Maine waters for a month.
The former OPA director said after his arrival last night he could not "see much difference between the nerv compromise OPA bill and the one whose prompted him to resign as stabilization director, effective July 10. All veteran sailors, Mr. and. Mrs. Bowles and four of their fire children, will hoard a friend's boat in Penobscot Bay.
Former Champion To Wed Socialite OAKLAND. July 6 (AP.) ---Tommy Burns, sprightly at 65 but somewhat weathered since he won the world's heavyweight boving championship 40 vears ago, and Mrs. Nellie Susan Vanderlip, 50-years-old widow, will be married today. The wealthy Mrs. Vanderlip, who managed the Coalinga oil interests of her late said the marriage a friendship which began when Burns held the championship.
He held the -title from 1906 to 1308, losing it to Jack Johnson at Sydney, Australia. Mra. Vanderlip, long prominent In California political, social and club circlues, is legislative committee chairman for the San Joaquin section of the California Federation of. Women's Clubs, Youth Club Outing West: Springfield Catholic Youth the Immaculate Conception will hold an outing tomorrow Cedarhurst pool, Easthampton. members of the First Friday be special guests.
The memleave from the school tomorning at 9. A p' 4.
