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i NOVEMBER Df Cfc.MUrR ITkTlXTI? STAR JOURNAL I 4 I 10 11 ll'IS IN IN mItIwIT fs 1 2 3578 10 11 12 13 14 IS 1C 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 tTT TTT 4 fi 7 1 10 11 1. 11 141 IS 14 17 II i lat a 24 tt ffjM 10 Jl 3 3M17 14117 IS Jl MINNEAPOLIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1941 PAGE 17 2Hkedvic Adams. TT 1 jl jl 1 i-iauncnes invesimaiion union Arms Plant Racketeering Charges OTUFF YOU Won't Carry to Your Grave: A coreless apple has been developed by a Mrs. Libby Wilcox out in Huntington Tark, Calif. She says she got it by "monkeying around" with a tree in her backyard The post-office lads would like your help against odd sizes and shapes in your Christmas card3 and letters.

Cards smaller than 2 by 4 inches are a headache. And those that are too big are a pain, too I gasped and I'll bet you will, too, when you rest your optics on the Christmas tree in Harold's window. It's a pine and trimmed with 250 white FRESH, LIVE carnations. It'll be gone by the week-end so try to get down for a glimpse before. It's worth it Those broken, discarded toys you may have lying around the house will make a merry Christmas for some kid if you take them to your nearest public school or fire station right now.

A special committee will repair and repaint them and deliver them just before Christmas to worthy families. Throw a few of them in the car tomorrow morning and drop them off on the way downtown. Thank you. Schoonmaker Indian Summer? He'll Take Winter TIP TO advertising managers in town: A World war vet has spent his leisure moments the last few months creating a miniature farmyard complete down to a toy lake Buildings, figures, animals, everything. It'd be a traffic-stopper If it were placed In a window.

And the vet needs some assistance. He's Julius Ostrowski, MSI Fourth avenue second floor on the right. Take my word for It, It's a Jim-dandy. 1 'f GOPHER FANS may now have their 1941 championship season preserved, at least, in part. Out In a few days will be a two-side recording, playable on phonographs and titled, "Minnesota's Championship Highlights of 1941." The highlights have been taken from Halsey Hall's broadcasts of the year with interpolations.

Bud Hlgglns' run against Northwestern, Bruce Smith's game-clinching touchdown against Washington, Bill Daley's 73-yard run against Illinois, the scoring against Wisconsin are all on the record. Lads in camp who haven't heard the broadcasts this season will get a whale of a kick out of the two-sided platters Hurray Item: Haven't heard the Hut Sut song In weeks women let their hair grow, Its normal length would be from 35 to 40 inches. If we males let ours go uncut it would get to about a foot in length. 1 4 wa IrrV PARENTS WITH sons In Camp Claiborne should get In touch with local ham radio operators. Claiborne has joined the Army Amateur Radio System and by means of relay will be able to send messages to the folks back home.

Freddie Herman, staff engineer at WCCO, is one of the leading hams In this section, and probably will be able to help you make the contact with a local operator. The messages will be without charge, according to Ted Gergen of the Signal Corps down there, and the boys are anxious to have the contact made Where shall I be vaccinated? The answer Is NOT on the leg, says the state board of health. Leg vaccinations are much more likely to cause trouble than on the upper arm, and the scar reaction has been greatly reduced. Babies should bo vaccinated by the time they're five or six months old and just before they enter school, the board says. After that the schedule calls for a vaccination once every five years.

Im i.TI ifsT im on Minnehaha creek above the falls. Today his skates do him little good because the "rink" is open water. Photo by Star Journal Photographer Hy Sommer. Minneapolis' balmy weather doesn't appear to be very popular with nine-year-old Burton Johnson, 5128 Forty-second avenue S. Last year at this time he went skating econa of Cement Men Wait Arrival of Vice-Chief Building Laborers to Start Checkup Friday Charges of racketeering on jobs at the Twin Cities Ordnance plant at New Brighton today resulted in launching of a second investigation by a union.

An international vice president of AFL Operative Plasterers, Cement Finishers and Block Makers union will be here Friday to inves tigate allegations of buying andj selling of jobs and to straighten out differences between St. Paul and Minneapolis locals. T. E. Hendrickson, Minneapolis business agent for the union, said he was informed during a telephone conversation today with John E.

Roo-ney, Cleveland, International president of the union, that the Investigator will be sent. Also to begin Friday is an investigation by AFL Building Laborers union 132 of St. Paul into similar charges. Hendrickson accused the business Agent of the St. Paul local of the cedent finishers union of selling work permits to men who are At members of the international and are not qualified to be members.

He charged $7 weekly is being collected from these men, ostensibly toward payment of the $75 initiation fee, but that they never became members because the men are not qualified in skill. Hendrickson said ao receipts are given the men for their $7 payments. Initiation fee of. the St Paul local Is $75 and dues are $4 month- sly, compared with 550 and $2.50 I mommy in Minneapolis, nenaricK-son said. He said he is certain the St; Paul fee was formerly the same as in Minneapolis.

There are now no Minneapolis operative plasterers or cement finishers on construe tion work at New Brighton because the Minneapolis scale is 12'2 cents an hour above the St. Paul scale of $1.25, Hendrickson said. He accused the St. Paul union of failing to live up to an agree ment with the government under vhich hiring on the job would place St. Paul members, then Minneapolis, Anoka, Stillwater, out- state-Minnesota and out-of-state members, in that order, When the St.

Paul regular mem bership was employed, Hendrlck son contended, the question of scale to be paid Minneapolis men on the job should have been straightened out. Instead, he said, there are large numbers of out-of-state licenses on automobiles driven by workers to the job. HENDRICKSON SAID THERE ARE AT LEAST 100 MINNE APOLIS CEMENT FINISHERS AVAILABLE FOR WORK WHO ARE UNABLE TO GET ON THE JOB. He said negotiations, will seek to provide them employment at the Minneapolis scale, but that the Minneapolis local wants its men employed, even though on the St. Paul scale.

He pointed to diminishing private construction because of priorities as a factor in making Minne apolis union members jobless, forcing them to leave the city unless they can get work at New Auto Does Double Somersault Off Highway; Driver Injured LAWRENCE VVEIJC, the Dakota farm lad who has scooted up Into big time and whose orchestra opened at the Orpheum today, will add a new number to his show Friday night and at the same time give generous assistance to ihe 1941 Christmas Seal campaign. And through It, Joe Johnson, Duluth vocalist, will get a break. Johnson will appear In oilskins to suggest the lighthouse atmosphere of the 1941 Christmas 8eal and sing, "I Love Life," a very gripping tune written by a tuberculosis victim. Welk will also take seven members of his troupe to Glen Lake for a special Saturday morning show for the patients Nurses and medicos will tell you that If ever you feel the urge to faint, don't close your ryes. It's the eye-closing business that brings on many a drop-over LI'l Abner, Star Journal comle character, has a spitting Image of himself In a waiter In Page's place up on Penn and Thirty-sixth.

Joe Gabriel, 28, Is a dead ringer for the character even down to the neck physique, Cedric Adams' column also appears in the Sunday Tribune and Star Journal Bogus Clerics Must Serve Jail Sentences to Off er New Finance Plan Will Cover Entire $1,000,000 Schools Deficit N. B. Schoonmaker, acting of schools, vhose proposal to cut "100,000 from the board of education's $1,000,000 deficit oy closing 16 schools drew fire from both parents and union groups, today said he will submit suggested economies to cover the entire deficit at the next board meeting. Schoonmaker said his additional economy proposals will be presented In answer to the criticism of Director Roy wfer, labor repre sentative on the board, that the $100,000 savings by closing schools "is just a flash of lightning." "I want to see a 'complete pro gram outlined," Wler said. Schoonmaker's attitude is that salaries must continue on the present basis of 15 per cent cuts or, In lieu of additional revenues, employes and the public must be willing to accept drastio curtailment of school services.

Meanwhile, nt a meeting In the College Women's club, 310 Grove- land avenue, at 4 p.m. today, committee of 12 composed of two board members, four school em ploye representatives and six citi zensto analyze the school budget nd draft conclusions regarding the present salary controversy will be proposed. The meeting, called by the Citi zens Commlttet on Public Educa tlon, has invited representatives of all factions interested in the school financial crisis to attend. Mrs. H.

K. Painter, secretary of the citizen's committee, explained that careful analysis of the 1942 budget wll be the first step taken by the committee of 12. "We hope the committee will ar rive at some long-time proposal to solve the school financial problems," she said. Possibility that Christmas vacation In the schools may extend indefinitely into the new year loomed as janitor-engineers sought to clear the way for a strike without loss of civil service rights. The civil service commission laid over until Dec.

10 a request of local 63, AFL Building Service Employes' union, for revocation of the rule under which a city em ploye failing to report for work on three consecutive days is consider ed to have abandoned his position A Central Labor union commit tee presented the request for the rule revocation, claiming it was not Intended to apply in labor-con troversies. Until the commission acts on the request, the union is expected to defer its threatened strike vote. The school board will meet In committee of the whole session Tuesday at 4 p.m. to take up the janitor-engineers' demand for payment of salaries in full in 1942. A resolution adopted last night by Hennepin County Industrial Union council, central CIO Indorsed the demand of local 345, State, County and Municipal Workers, CIO, for emergency financing to prevent retrenchment In the schools.

Wife Quizzed in Fire Trial Mrs. Anne Cordon, pretty brunet wife of Arthur Gordon, 26, 1900 Fifth avenue took the stand today in defense of her husband on trial in district court on a first degree arson charge. Mrs. Gordon said she and her Infant child were visiting her parents in Huron, S. at the time of a fire In the Gordon apartment here July 14.

The state charges the fire was "of incendiary origin." Mrs. Gordon testified her husband Is a traveling salesman who sells automobile paint and tavern supplies. The state contends Gordon "boosted" the apartment fire by using a highly inflammable lacquer. On cross examination Mrs. Gordon denied her husband ever sold varnish or lacquer, 'U' Airport Suggested as Air Freight Depot Deserter Not Hit -Runner Hel'd for Questioning in Robbery The police department major clue to the hit-run driver who struck two Minneapolis policemen Nov.

8 had fizzled today when a Fort Snelling deserter, sought since Nov. 10, was absolved, The deserter, nrrested late Wed nesday, was being grilled, however, as a suspect in the robbery of a filling station at Grant street and Fifth avenue on Nov. 7. When nabbed at Mound, he was driving a car whose front had been damaged. Traffic squad investiga tors said they were satisfied the cpr could not have been the one which struck Patrolmen Vernon Thompson and Theodore Murphy.

Brighton. Many have gone to Newfoundland and Iceland. On the St. Paul scale of $1.25 an hour, men working 10 hours daily seven days a week would receive regular pay and overtime totaling $106.35 weekly. Hendrickson said there also have been complaints union traveling cards are not being recognized by the St.

Paul local. Such cards en-1 title the member to membership in the local where presented without payment of an initiation fee. There have been reports some 50 cement finishers who were hired for work at' New Brighton were discharged by the government within a few days and replaced by experienced men. Does Abe Seem III on Your 5-Buck Bill? If So Its Value's Nil LOOK at your five dollar bills, folks, and If any of them have a picture of Abraham Lincoln looking like the morning after the chances are you're stuck with a counterfeit. That was the warning Issued today by Charles L.

Mazey, chief of the secret service In St. Paul. He re' ported a flood of counterfeit five-dollar bills the past week at various midwest cities and warned that some may be passed here. So far they have been discovered in Chicago, Detroit, Des Moines and Lincoln, Neb. City Attorney Tells of Past History of Pair "Fathers" Clement and John were workhouse bound today Clement for 30 days and John for 60.

Both had pleaded guilty to vagrancy in municipal court after the former had been convicted earlier of posing as a priest to obtain money and the latter was arrested while allegedly helping with collections. "Father Clement" is Clement Katus, 37, 93 W. Tenth street, St. Paul, who said he represented the American Orthodox church. "Father John" Is Oskar von Schoppelrei, 51, 1511 Spruce place, who asserted he was Katus' superior as vicar general of the church.

Last Friday Katus was sentenced to 60 days 'for obtaining money under false pretenses and soliciting without a license. This workhouse term was stayed, but Katus must serve 30 days on the vagrancy charge. The first sentence came vafter Katus sought to collect money from Southeast Minneapolis merchants, saying he was soliciting advertising for his church paper. While Katus was released on a stay of commitment, he and Schoppelrei were arrested attempting to persuade merchants to make good on checks they had stopped. In the middle of his vagrancy trial today before Judge Joseph Poirier, Schoppelrei changed his plea to guilty and was given the 60-day sentence.

Before the sentencing, Leo Mc-Hale, assistant city attorney, disclosed what he had learned of Schoppelrei. A year ago, McHale said, Schoppelrei approached trustees of a St. Paul Syrian church, showed cre- dentials as a former student the University of Minnesota and Johns Hopkins university and said he was an ordained priest. He was engaged by the church as a priest, McHale went on, and all went smoothly until Schoppelrei showed up with wife. Schoppelrei explained his mar riage, according to McHale, by saying he had been ordained be fore rules of the church prohibited priests from taking wives.

CHURCH OFFICERS WERE REASSURED, McHALE CONTIN UED, UNTIL "THE HOLY MAN SHOWED UP DRUNK." This time the church officers had another priest speak, to Schop. pelrel, who swore with a crucifix in his hand, McHale said, never to touch anoiher drop. The vow was good for two weeks, McHale declared, and then "Father John" was released from the church. Schoppelrei represented himself as vicar general of the faith, the assistant city attorney said, and hinted he was In line for a position as "metropolitan." McHale said his suspicions of Schoppel ei were first aroused when the man walked Into the office of Joseph Hadley, city attorney, with Katus who had been summoned to explain the solicitations. McHale said he overheard Schoppelrei say to Katus, "Remember, Father Clement, I am your superior, and if there is any heat on this I have to take it." Eagles Will Observe Secretary Birthday Members of Minneapolis aerie, No.

34, Fraternal Order of Eagles, will observe the seventy-third birthday of Thomas Patrick Gleason, aerie secretary and a member since Its founding 41 years ago, with a party 8 p.m. Saturday at the aerie hall, 325 Second avenue S. Car Misses Turn, Top Ripped Off in Crash An Osseo youth was criti cally injured early today when his automobile left the Rockford road, three miles west of Robbinsdale, and turned over twice. Upper part of the machine was shorn off when the car struck a fence post, then rolled over the second time. Officers found the ceiling light and part of the roof stuck to the post.

In critical condition at General hospital was the driver, C. Schley, 17, who suffered a fractured skull. Less seriously hurt was Earl J. Levens, 22, also of Osseo, a passenger. Officers said the car missed a sharp turn.

MRS. ALICE KUCK, 51, 4304 Colfax avenue was thrown from the car in which she was riding last night when it collided with another machine at Forty-second and Bryant avenues S. She was taken to St. Barnabas hospital with a knee fracture and a shoulder injury. CATHERINE JOHNSON, 17, 621 Nineteenth avenue suffered a forehead cut when the car in' which she was riding crashed, into a parked car in front of 3415 Sixteenth avenue S.

Driver of the car, II. Jordal, 18, 3201 Forty-second avenue was tagged for caceless driving. EDWARD H. FULTON, 34, 5820 W. Thirty-fourth street, broke his nose when his car crashed into a bus at Nicollet and Twelfth street.

RABBI MORRIS AGRANOFF, 39, 735 E. Seventeenth street, of B'nal Abraham congregation, suffered knee, scalp and hand injuries when he was hit by a car at Seventeenth street and Chicago avenue. He was treated at General hospital. JOHN OPET, 69, Warwick hotel, was knocked down at Second street and Hennepin avenue, suffering an arm fracture and scalp lacerations. Playshop Repeats 'Drammer' at Anoka With their city hall converted into an old-time "opry house," citizens of Anoka tonight will attend the scond of three performances of "Pure the Driven Snow," a three-act "mellerdrama" presented by the Community Playshop of Anoka.

The play will be repeated tomorrow night Proceeds will be turned over to civic betterment groups. Lindley Impressed With Akerman's Proposal Development of the University of Minnesota airport as a freight terminal in the Twin Cities was suggested today by Prof. John Akerman, 1iead of the university aeronautical engineering depart ment, before a joint meeting of the city council and park board. Akerman told the group he thinks the university would be glad to work out a plan with Min neapolls for use of its field as a freight airport. He said It could be developed at little cost to the city.

He explained that the one handicap was that the airport was located In Ramsey county but he said that could be overcome by some joint proposition worked out with St. Paul. The airport Is Ipcated in the New Brighton area, six miles from the Northwest Terminal. Thomas L. O'Hearn, university real estate manager, concurred with Akerman, saying the univer sity would be willing to work out a suitable plan for the airport's development for such a terminal.

So Impressed was the committee with Akerman's proposal that Al fred D. Lindley, president of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce association, moved immediately to "get down to cases." A committee was named to meet In executive session 10 a.m. next Thursday to see exactly what could be worked out. 30-Day Sentence for Relief Cheater Albert Bortz, 60, 901 Chicago av enue, was sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse by Municipal Judge Joseph H. Poirier today after pleading guilty to obtaining relief under false pretenses.

Jack Conway, chief investigator for the relief department, said Borti received $136.98 in relief while employed as- a handyman earning $200. 6 Garages in St. Paul Burn Fire struck six garages In St. Paul Wednesday. A blaze that leveled a double ga rage at 119 and 121 Sherburne avenue, spread to and destroyed four nearby structures at 114, 120 and 122 Charles avenue.

In another garage fire, an at 898 Randolph avenue, St Paul, was destroyed. Mrs. F. W. Little Dies, Rites Friday Mrs.

Francis W. Little, 78, 201T Pleasant avenue, widow of F. W. Little, a former vice president of the old Minneapolis Trust died Tuesday. Services 3 p.m.

Friday at Lake- wood cemetery chapel. Mrs. Little lived in Minneapolis 34 years. RAIL AGENT DIES William H. Kelly, 53 Chicago, general agent of the Nickle Plate railroad In Minneapolis 1921 1929, died.

Wednesday. Services Saturday in Chicago. Join the Red Cross $1 the Red Cross roll call volunteer missed your home or office, clip and mail this coupon today to: Theodore Wold, Treasurer Hennepin County Chapter, American Red Cross 189 Northwestern Bank Building Minneapolis, Minn. 9n doltar annual membership dues are attached. Enroll me as a member of the Hennepin County Chapter of the American Red Cross for Natural' Color to Photos ol Christinas City of America Minneapolis lights more homes for Christmas than any other city its size in America.

Sunday the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune and Star Journal brings you some gay pictures on the front cover of its rotogravure section. Call AT. 3111 -to order the Sunday Tribune and Star Journal Name Address.