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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 4

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NLRB Dm Moinet Register Pgf A May t. 1151 U. A. W. President Walter Reuther a week ago offering PULITZER Continued from Page Ona G.

M. APPEALS TO EMPLOYEES ri i .1 I to renew the present three year contract for two years. Curtice said the built-iir wage increase, based on productivity, would increase wages an average of 14 cents an hour over the next two years and also provide cost of-living allowances. The average wage among G. M.

hourly employees is $2.43 an hour, including cost-of-living allowances but not' counting fringe benefits. The U. A. W. has not sped, fied the increase it is seekir in basic wage rates.

G. M. es timates union demands, nod counting profit sharing, would amount to an increase of mors than 73 cents an hour per employee. M. will resume bargain, ing talks with the U.

A. today. U. A. W.

and management negotiators met Monday at Ford and Chrysler. CANADA FIRE LOSS MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA Of) Fire destroys more than 120 million dollars worth of property each year in Canada, the All-Canada. Insurance Federation, reported Monday. 4 droppers et solution DETROIT, MICH. (M -General Motors Corp.

Monday (appealed directly to its 350,000 hourly-rated employees to study the company's wage formula which was rejected by the United Auto Workers union. The company made public a letter from President Harlow H. Curtice to all employees covered by the Q. M. U.

A. W. contract, which expires May The G. M. letter followed publication by Ford Motor Co.

last week of a statement addressed to company employees from Henry Ford II criticizing U. A. W. bargaining demands, "The big problem now is to restore confidence and the people's willingness to buy the products we make," Curtice wrote. "I am firmly convinced that prompt agreement on the sound basis we have proposed would have a most favorable effect on public confidence." To each employee went a copy of the G.

M. letter to STOP Continued from Page One told the Negro employees that the union, had been brought into the plant by the white people because of their Jealousy of his position with the company, and that If the union won the Negroes would be fired. The New York regional director of the board reported that the evidence established that Robinson "frequently expressed the view that he 'was the reason for the 'some of the employees didn't want to be represented by me because of my and that he had heard 'white employees were jealous of my position with the Denied Rumor i "The evidence discloses that Mr. Robinson made appeals bqsed'on the abqve expressions to some, but not all of the Negro employees. "Employees of other racial groups asked Robinson if the rumor were true that if the union lost, the white employees would be terminated.

Robinson denied the truth of, the rumor, saying 'this would defeat anything I ever fought "Both the employer and in a more subtle manner the union sought to uitilize arguments involving appeals to racial bigotry to attract supporters to their respective positions." The director recommended setting aside the election on other grounds a threat of reprisals. 10 Days in Jail for Having Gun in Car Percy Paul Parker, of 1926 Easton was sentenced to 10 days in jail by Municipal Judge Don L. Tidick Monday when he pleaded guilty of carrying a concealed weapon. Police arrested Parker Apr. 27 after a pistol was found in his car.

offensive denture breath! clean false teeth without brushing! cleaner N1 This Is the picture that won a Pulitzer Prize for William C. Beall of the "Washington (D. Daily News. It shows a policeman reasoning with a small boy who was trying to get closer to a passing parade. WIREPHOTO W).

which were written before his death in 1953 by Doug-1 las Southall Freeman, and the remaining volume written afterwards by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth. Poetry "Promises: Poems 1954-1956," by Robert Penn Warren, Music Samuel Barber, 48, for the score of his first opera, "Vanessa." Three pew members were elected to the advisory board on the Pulitzer prizes. They are Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; Kenneth MacDon-aid, editor of The Des Moines Register and Tribune; and W. D.

Maxwell; editor- of the Chicago Tribune. Their four-year terms will expire In 1962. They replace Robert Choate, editor and publisher of the Boston Herald; Gardner Cowles, president of The Des Moines Register and Tribune Company and editor of Look magazine, and John S. Knight of the Knight Newspapers, of Chicago. 97 Pet; of Boys 'Making Good! )iw York Tlmn Nrwi Service ATLANTIC CITY, NT.

J. A veteran youth, leader said Monday that despite the violence of current juvenile more boys "make good" today than was the case 20 or 30 years ago, Thomas J. Craighead, southern director for the Boys' Clubs of America pointed out that 97 per cent of today's youngsters never get into trouble. Craighead told the annual convention of Boys' Clubs that "threats of nuclear war, world political unrest, divorce, and economic instability all contribute to the pervasive insecurity, that is one of the greatest causes of juvenile delinquency. "Despite these added, ten-, sions, the great majority of boys succeed in making the emotional adjustments their 'growing up' requires," he said.

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98c Toilttrier: Fint Floor; West (MAIL ORDERS WELCOME) YOUNKERS "Satisfaction Alwayt" Prize Picture years on national and international affairs." (Lippmann's column appears in The Des Moines Register.) Former Iowan In the field of the arts, the following awards were announced: History "Banks and politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War," by Bray Hammond of Thet-ford Center, 71-year-old retired assistant secretary of the federal reserve board. Hammond was a bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the New Sharon, State Bank before attending a rd University. Biography "George Washington." six volumes of "Satisfaction touch Mother's heart with gifts for her homo Wesfbend Ings since its establishment a little over a year ago has credited Mollenhoff with pre vlding the impetus for the broad probe. McClellan, in a letter to Mollenhoff, once said: "Your Ideas, advice and guidance have been invaluable." Beck and Hoffa Beck's retirement as Team ster and a tangle of legal problems in whicn Hoffa is now enmeshed, were results of the McClellan hear ings. The senate recently passed a bill to reform the handling of union pension and health and welfare funds.

Mollenhoffs detailed stories on abuses in various unions had focused at-tcntion on this area. Mollenhoff. a native of Fort Dodge, was graduated from Drake University law school In Dcs Moines in Jim He served two years as a naval officer in World War II. In 1949 he won a Nie mann fellowship and Spent a year studying at Harvard uni versity. In Iowa for Webster City Talks Mollenhoff heard the news of his Pulitzer award while in Des Moines Monday en route to Webster City, his former home town.

Mollenhoff wilf speak tonight to the Webster City high school Quill and Scroll journalism society at Elm Park school, and Wednesday night to the Webster City Teachers Association at Washington Central school gymnasium. Mollenhoff plans to visit Drake University, his alma mater, Thursday. His wife, Georgia, formerly of Webster City, heard the award news at their home in Washington, D. C. The Mollenhoffs have three children, Gjori, 17; Sue, 14, and Ray mond, 8.

Mollenhoffs mother, Mrs. R. E. Mollenhoff, lives at Waverly, la. Underworld Ties Mollenhoff predicted here Monday night that labor news "involving the underworld and the hold it has on the Teamsters union and some others will be of great national interest this summer.

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Press Awards Other, press awards Included: The Fargo (N. Forum, for local, reporting under the pressure of edition time in its news and picture coverage of a tornado that struck that city June 20, 1957. George Beveridge, 36, a reporter for the Washington (D. Star, for local reporting without edition time pressure. He was cited for a series of articles on urban development problems in the nation's capital.

The New York Times for international reporting. It was the first time a newspaper staff had been collectively honored in this category. The award lauded the Times for distinguished coverage of foreign news. (New York Times foreign dispatches are pub lished by The Des Moines Register.) Bruce Mf Shanks of the Buffalo (N. Evening News, in cartooning, for his Aug.

10 cartoon depicting the dilemma faced by members of some la bor unions with racketeers among their leadership. William C. Beall of the Washington (D. Daily News, for photography a picture of a policeman pa tiently reasoning with a small boy who was trying to get closer to a passing parade. Walter Lippmann, syndi cated columnist, received a special citation for "wisdom, perception and'Jiigh sense of responsibility with which he has commented for many Look ctowly.

Neighborhood decay ii threat to your personal and economic aecurity. Slum blight ii a Healthy cancer. It itrikei unieen to rot tha cor of many an outwardly healthy community. Talk with jour neighbors. Do they think tha neighborhood it tecura? Carelessness is contagious.

Art surrounding communities fret of decay? Are nearby homt kept up properly, streets clean, parks plentiful? Are schools, shopping facilities, traffic regulations adequate? Better neighborhoods depend on tuch things. Your neighborhood depends on you to stay alert for telltale signs of blight. Your neighbors will follow your lead in organizing and joining community-improvement groups. Start now.Keep up your own home. Join your neighbors in group action for the community good.

Write for practical information to: ACTION Amricori Council To Improve) Our Neighborhoods ti 500, Rtdit) City Statttn, N.Y. 20. H.Y. 'uMlihtH ii i public nrvlrs In tnnptntlM wltti Tht MvirUtlnf Council ind the Ntwt. ipw Advertising Exicutlva Auoclitlon.

CZ1ZZ3. EZZ3 Act Now! Don't Wait! 1 It will be further dramatized in the summer months to give impetus to labor legislation In the U. S. senate," Mollenhoff said. "The senate will try to en act legislation on the labor front, and may even jar the house into action." Mollenhoff said responsible labor leaders such as George Meany, president of the A.

F. I. 0., have tried to clean up unhealthy situations. "Meany and others like him are faced with the problem of practical politics within their operation, and would be powerless to act if the senate labor racket committee were not continually putting fire on the said. Mollenhoff 3 Awards Based on Little Rock Case NEW YORK, N.

Y. UP) Coverage of the integration crisis at Little Rock's Centra High school won three sepa rate 1958 Pulitzer prizes in journalism. They went to the Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette for meritorious public service the newspapers executive editor, Harry S. Ashmore, for editorial writing; and Associ ated Press Correspondent Relman Monn for his eye witness account of mob vio lence outside the school Sept. 23, 1957.

Separate citations lauded the Arkansas Gazette and its editor, Ashmore, for objec tivity in the face of mount ing public tension. Agee Novel I he 1858 fiction award went to James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family." It deals with a southern fam ily's reaction to the death of a beloved father. It was com-plefed by Agee before his death in 1955. The annual drama award went to "Look Homeward, Angel," Kettl Frings' adaption of the late Thomas Wolfe's auto biographical novel of the same name. It has been a Broadway hit since Its opening last Nov.

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