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DECEMBER JANUARY MINNEAPOLIS STAR. JOURNAL I i- tilt It II 14 IS It pi II 1 2 It 11 23 ik it 31 PAGE 17 MINNEAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1942 'dtLCedric Adams. Negotiations Open for of $40,000 in Air Raid Sirens Hunter Asks Statement on Air Freedom Vital in Peacetime World, He Says If the Allied governments would immediately clarify peace aims and supplement the freedoms guaranteed by the Atlantic Charter so they would include a statement of Op -J Jul! A -X, SeRVICE MEN BACK on leaves or furloughs have had a hard time, in many instances, getting gasoline for their holiday travel. One ration board handled it beautifully. Any service man having a respite from the rigors of training or the heat of actual combat simply made application in the regular way and was granted all the gasoline he might need for his time at home Anybody know a service man's wife who would like to teach English to the junior high kids at Fosston, The job's good for the duration and Fosston can't locate a teacher.

Write to S. O. Johnson, superintendent at Fosston For in creased enjoyment of your Christmas cigars, puncture the mouth end first, if it needs it, then blow air through each end befor lighting it. It loosens the leaves inside the cigar and makes for an, even draft end eliminates burning up one side An American soldier in Algiers reports that champagne there is a cent and a half a glass. FRED ALLEN, the radio comic, and Portland, hb wife, sent their Christmas presents In jewel boxes from Cartier's, perhaps New York's most exclusive jewelry establishment.

Open the gold embossed box and there, reposing on a satin-lined Interior, was what looked like a gem wrapped delicately In tissue paper. The gem was a coffee bean Into each Consolidated 24 four-engincd, long-range bomber go 4,100 fert of hydraulic giwolliie and air line tubing One reason why lee cream may be scarce is the fact that the government has put a ceiling for some manufacturers of 61) cents a quart on the stuff but neglected to celling price the ingredients. Vanilla that used to sell wholesale for $9 a gallon has now jumped to $21.75. RECORD LOVERS had better assume a personal responsibility in the matter of turning In old phonograph recordings or there won't be a platter available soon, according to Don Leary of the Automatic Sales. No matter how broken, cracked, obsolete or worn out the old records are, they're still reclalmablo for the shellac they contain and that's the stopper.

Take your old records to any phonograph record dealer and he'll buy them and you'll be creating an everlasting supply of shellac. Incidentally, it's this same Leary who deserves a shout of praise. Ever since the Servicemen's center opened, Lenry has kept the center's jukebox supplied with the freshest and best discs of the day without charge A local medico found his gas tank empty the other afternoon. A note with a dollar bill attached read: "Dear Doc: We took three gallons. You can buy more.

We can't." THE POLICY of name entertainment at Curly't Theater cafe gets a new Impetus Jan. 15, when Charles Bart, star of a recent Ed Wynn show and a great pantomime eccentric, opens. He'll be followed by Giih Van, singer of character souks and a former member of the Van and Schenrk vaudeville (ram. A deal is simmering now for Bonnie Baker and another for Mil zl Green as hradliners for February Ensign Alilmtt Washburn tells of the navy enlistment applicant a short time ago who, when informed that the navy wouldn't countenance tattoos of nude women, chased all over town trying to find some tattoolst who'd put a skirt on a gal he "wore." No success either. L.

M. TUTTLE, O. A. PEARSON, L. M.

BALL, HOWARD KELLY Look at map of cxty to determine locations for sirens Purchase WARNING SIREN may purchase visitors en route to Sandstone prison. The number, Jailer Charles Hamilton said, is the smallest he can remember in 18 years. During the night only eight drunks were arrested by cily police, far below the average number. Only a few olher isolated cases required police attention. In city jail were only 11 persons, as low a number as jailers can remember.

Reports of automobile accidents were scarce. It was, compared with ordinary activity, a very dull day, but nobody minded much. i i 'Km fWf" Ji ST 1 1 mvt-w I the principle of the air it would "be a great boon to the war program and the peace to follow," Croil Hunter, president and general manager of Northwest Airlines, said today. Stressing the importance of the role his company is playing in the war effort, he said the statement on the prin ciple of freedom Hunter of the air should be similar to freedom of the seas. He added the program should be drafted so "the right of flight through air spare over sovereign nations will be restricted only by necessary policing regulations." "Such a provision would permit operation, immediately after the war, of international commercial air routes and the immediate resumption of world trade," Hunter said.

"Furthermore, it would do much to alleviate any uneasiness and rivalry that may exist today among our allies and would promote that complete unity so vital now to the war program." Hunter declared the changes wrought, during the ye.ir just ending "have been momentous" and 10 years of aviation developments have been so accelerated as to be accomplished within one year. "Our nation," he said, "which had been peaceful and trusting in the sanctity of treaty obligations, was suddenly blasted out of its comfortable, normal routine and converted into a war power far beyond expectations of our enemy. "That we can complete the job in 1943 is hazardous to predict. It seems possible that by Jan. 1, 1944, wo should have the war's end def initely in sight, and even though no one may relax from their all out war efforts, it is not too soon to make some long range plans now." Hunter said the role Northwest Airlines is playing in the war ef fort has grown so rapidly in im portance the company now has nearly 6,000 employes.

MRS. CHURCHILL ON RADIO ui') me Jitsc announced today Mrs. Winston Churchill would broadcast to North America on behalf of the aid-to- Russia fund at 6:15 p.m. (Minne apolis time) New Year's day. CHRYSLER AIR RAID Of the type city MYSTIFIED was the operator of a Hennepin avenue cafe.

opened a package left by a careless customer. Here were the contents: Four Christmas cards, two pairs of lace-trlmmed panties and three mousetraps. How's that for an assortment? Police, Firemen Have Very Dull Day, But Don't Object NOVEMIEU i I t'i I 1 i i it 11 ti 1 2 3 4 ft 7 19 11 12 13 14 IS 14 17-18 14 ri ti it.ti i 11 11 a jt a na 21 22 23 24 25 26 23 29 30 31 Continuances Granted Two Taken in Raid 2 Others Reported Released Ben (Mayor of Sixth Avenue Wilson, 49, and Clyde Williams, 38, arrested in the state's raid on an alleged all-night spot at 1007 Olson Memorial drive, appeared in municipal court today on charges of selling liquor without a license. Both were granted continuances until tomorrow. Meanwhile two other men arrested in the raid, Horace Davis, 43, 417 Colfax avenue and Jerry Davis, 38, 1031 Olson Memorial drive, were reported released by A.

A. Burnquist, attorney general, today named Ralph Stone, assistant attorney general, to take charge of investigation and prosecution of the 1007 Olson Memorial drive spot, the Red Rooster cafe, 217 Nicollet avenue, which the raiders found closed, and 11 alleged houses of ill-fame raided at the same time early Sunday in Winona. Governor Harold E. Stassen, who a few days previously had warned county attorneys a "cleanup" was Imminent, said state agents had evidence against the Red Rooster cafe and action against it would proceed. Elden Rowe, state crime bureau chief, representative of the attor ney general's staff and Winona citv officials were reported con ferring at Winona today on action to be taken against the five places raided there and the 11 women arrested.

The FBI was reported to be intending to question the women to learn if violations of the Mann act, relating to transportation of women across state lines for immoral purposes, might be involved. Abatement proceedings against the five Winona houses were re ported under consideration. Raids there were conducted after com plaint of army officials that a sol dier had contracted a disease in one of the places. While there were hints additional raids by state officers might be forthcoming, Governor Stassen, in a talk before Minnesota sheriffs convening in St. Paul hotel, said he is set on a state cleanup, but that he preferred local officials to take care of their own premises.

He said law enforcement was good in most communities and, in his off the record talk, was reported to have praised the St. Paul police department as setting an excellent example for the whole state. Stassen reportedly cited checking of disease among men of armed forces, halting of infiltra tion of undesirable characters, and checking of liquor-induced absence from work by war plant employes as objectives of the drive. Some war workers spend too much time in all-night drinking spots, he said, when they should be asleep. Minnesotan Wins Rank of Captain in Navy Reserve Commander Harold R.

Harris, who was graduated from the Unl versity of Minnesota in 1914, has been promoted to the rank of cap tain in the United States naval re serve, it was announced today by the commandant of the Ninth naval district at Great Lakes, 111. Captain Harris, who went on duty at the United States naval training station at Great Lakes Jan. 23, as presi dent of the gen- Harris eral court martial board, became service school officer March 19. A native Minnesotan, Harris entered the World war as a lieutenant. After the armistice he organized a naval reserve battalion in St.

Paul and was commanding officer of this battalion for approximately 20 years. Captain and Mrs. Harris have one son, Harold, 14. The family formerly lived at 2153 Stanford avenue, St. Paul.

Man and Boy Held in Burglary Series A 42-year-old man and 17-year- old boy were held today as police Investigated a cache of loot worth several hundred dollars taken in burglaries over the last year. Another 17-year-old boy is sought. The cache was discovered on information given by" two boys questioned about minor thefts, 'Jar ji I 1 Give A wau Department CATS AND kittens-Bridgeport 3938; Geneva 9740; Cland.stona 3280; 3316 rieasant. avenue Three female, one male part spitz, two months old Drexel 9824 Male part bull and terrier, two years old Sterling 1675 Male spitz, two months old Main 6681 Male toy collie, two months old Granville 8782. Ccdric Adams' column appears in the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune Traders Plan a Minute of Silence Daily One minute of silence for remembrance and prayer will be observed on the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce trading floor at 11 a.m.

every husiness day, under action taken by the train ex change's vboard of directors today. Starting Jan. 2 and continuing for the duration of the war, the signal bell will sound at 11 a.m., when members will face the Amer ican flag that hangs over the trad ine floor, and stand at attention for one minute. The one minute's silence was instituted at the request of the Chamber of Commerce post of the American Legion. Grain trading will cease at noon Thursday, after which the Pills- bury Flour Mills band will piny its annual New Year's eve concert on the trading floor.

Sheriffs Back Drive on Vice Pledge Full Support to Stassen Minnesota Sheriff's association, at its convention in St Paul, today pledged wholehearted support to Gov. Har old E. Stassen's drive to rid the state of vice. The association acted on a mo tion by Sheriff Sam Owens, St, Louis county, who also submitted a resolution thanxing J. t.ngar Hoover, chief of the federal bu reau of investigation, for his work in unifying national crime dctcc tion.

John Relttcr, Brown county, was elected president of the association. R. Olson, Goodhue county, was elected treasurer. Others elected were E. Churchill, Hubbard county, Ned Price.

Aitkin county and Rosooe Brown, Clay county, vice presi dents. Owens was named secretary and business mdnager. No 'Business' Gifts to OPA in St. Paul Office of price administration officials in St. Taul didn't get any Christmas presents from business men or firms with whom they deal officially so they won't have to return them.

That was the statement today of T. C. Driscoll, state OPA head. It followed publication of orders given by Ed C. Welch, regional OPA chief at Cleveland, that staff members must return liquor, cocktail sets and large bnsekts of food sent them as gifts.

cents per hour more for overtime, for an average of 27 hours per month. Instead of 10 per cent, the increase amounts to 2.86 per cent, providing a carrier puts in an average amount of overtime, Muchmore said. If he works no overtime, there is no increase. Muchmore and Holmberg an nounced the 1,500 carriers and clerks in Minneapolis are joining with their national organizations in seeking an increase from the new congress, up to the 15 per cent allowed by the war labor board to meet advanced living costs. Engineer Meets With Officials Here Negotiations for purchase of $40,000 worth of air raid warning signals for distribu tion throughout Minneapolis were started today, with the arrival in the city of L.

M. Ball, sound and vibration engineer for the Chrysler Detroit. Ball met with O. A. Pearson, controller of the Minneapolis' citizens' defense corps; Howard Kelly, police radio engineer, and L.

M. Tuttle, Minneapolis regional manager for Chrysler, to determine most advantageous locations for Chrysler air raid warning sirens. Pearson said nine machines prob ably will be needed to complete ly blanket the city with noise of sufficient volume and intensity to be heard through storm windows and doors in every section. After trying out various types of sirens and which proved inadequate, the defense corps voted last week to obtain an estimate of cost for installation of Chrysler sirens, already proven satisfactory in several eastern cities. The sirens would be mounted on buildings at strategic loca.

tions, each covering a radius of about three miles. They weigh 5,000 pounds each, they are operated with a marine engine rotating around an axis to send signals in every direction. ODeratine at full throttle, the ren riroauces iiv aeciueia vi nn 1 1 sound at the throat. Scientists estimate 190 decibels of sound are the maximum that ever could be produced by any mechanical means. Thus the Chrysler siren with 170 decibels is close to "par," Ball said.

The sirens cost $4,500 each, in eluding freight and installation, which according to Ball, is about a tenth of the cost of other types of sienals. The total of about $40,000 would be financed by the defense council, probably out of revenues from the scrap drive. Boe Rites to Be Tomorrow Lutheran Church Heads to Attend MORTHFIELD, MINN. UP) Lutheran church leaders from all sections of Minnesota and the northwest will attend the funeral here tomorrow for Dr. L.

W. Boe of St. Olaf college, president, who died Sunday. Services will be at St. John's Lutheran church at 2 p.m.

The services will follow written suggestions left by Dr. Boe with his secretary. The funeral sermon, based on the Twenty-third Pslam, will be delivered by Dr. J. A.

Aasgaard, of Minneapolis, president of the Norwegian Lutheran church of America. The Rev. Lawrence M. Stavig, pastor of St. John's, will be in charge of services at the church, where the body will lie in state from 12 to 2 o'clock, after being brought from the new library at St.

Olaf where a brief service will be conducted at 11:30 a.m. A memorial service for students and faculty will be held Jan. 6 at 9:45 a.m. This service will be broadcast over WCAL, the college radio station. Northfield business places will be closed in tribute to resident Boe during the funeral services.

In terment will be in Oaklawn cemetery here near the graves of T. N. Mohn, first president, and J. N. Kildahl, second( president of St.

Olaf college. SEEK TO SPEED WLB APPROVAL ON PAY BOOST State Labor Conciliator James L. Kelley will go to Chicago tonight to confer with the regional war labor board in an effort to shorten the process of getting approval for wage increases for employes of approximately 600 Twin Cities truck ing firms. These workers are employes of companies which had agreed to abide by results of recent negotiations under which approximately 3,500 Minneapolis workers and 1,000 in St. Paul were granted wage increases.

The Increase in St. Paul amount ed to 10 cents an hour and that in Minneapolis 9 cents. Workers In- volved are members of General Drivers unions 544 and 120. Kelley said between 160 and 200 other companies and the unions had agreed to be bound by the result in this case, but that approval of the wage increases in those cases had been delayed. Wartime Rigor Is Rule for Stassen Inaugural Wounded Sailor Home to Mendand Wed I 's I i Kf w) 'C i f- i Whatever the influences responsible, Minneapolis today was experiencing a holiday from crime.

As law enforcement officials twiddled their thumbs or took care of routine matters, firemen, too. took a rest. No fire alarm was recorded from 2:20 p.m. yesterday until 7:15 a.m. today, when a kerosene stove flared and singed the hair and slightly burned the face of Mrs.

William Brown, 31, 508 Second street NE. In county jail were only 20 prisoners, and four of them were Jury to Get Draft Cases Cases of some 25 alleged draft dodgers will be presented to the federal grand jury which began its sessions today in St. Paul. Also to be presented is the case of Martin Windon, 19, Leech Lake reservation Indian, who allegedly killed his father, Arthur, Oct. 24.

Harold H. Ames of St. Paul, was named foreman of the jury Among the cases to be considered are the theft of food stamps from the vault in the Scott county office in Shakopee. Four cases involving impounding of liquor by the federal alcohol tax unit for allceed nonpayment of floor taxes are also to be studied. Involved in the tax cases are Snyder Family Liquor store, 33 S.

Sixth street; Jennings tavern, St. Louis Park; Joseph Worwa tavern, 2300 University avenue NE and Clas Otto Friberg tavern, 1500 S. Sixth street. Lunch Business Gets Jail Inmate Into Workhouse The quick lunch business which Leo E. Morin, Hamel, had estab lished in county jail was a casualty today.

Morin was sentenced to a year in the county jail on Dec. 2 for carnal knowledge. A good cook, he had been permitted to go to the kitchen to fix up some fancy lunches. Yesterday, however, Jailer Joe Jerenko noticed he was fixing up sandwiches and coffee and Veiling them to other jail inmates. When Jerenko protested, he said.

Morin pulled a butcher knife on him, a mistake since Jerenko is a former boxer and instructor in the manly art. Jerenko settled the argument with one punch, and then District Judge D. E. LaBelle transferred Morin" to the workhouse' to finish' out his-term. Traditional Splendor to Be Omitted By M.

W. HALLORAN Ntr Journnl I'ollllral Writer Tradition will be sacrificed to wartime rigor in the third inaugural of Gov. Harold E. Stassen a week from today. And an unprecedented spectacle will be witnessed as a Minnesota governor Is sworn in publicly In the rotunda of the capltol Instead of before a Joint assembly of house and senate In the hall of representatives, which has been the time-honored custom In the 85 years of statehood.

Major General Ellard A. Walsh, state adjutant general, announced the departure from the traditional program today, asserting It was Stassen's wish that, because "Our country is at war, the inaugural be carried out with the utmost simplicity." The brilliant evening inaugural reception will be omitted. Missing will be the dazzling illumination, the magnificent floral decorations, the pretentious orchestra, the lineup of dignitaries and their wives In full formal evening attire. Instead the capltol will be reduced amost to a dimout the night of the inaugural. There will be a reception, but severely informal.

It will follow Immediately after Chief Justice Henry M. Gallagher administers the oath of office to Stassen at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Without benefit of fancy settings in the rotunda the receiving line will form immediately and the handshaking will start. Heading the line will be Cover nor and Mrs. Stassen and the oth er elective state officers and their wives: Ed Thye, who'll then be lieutenant governor, and Mrs Thye; Secretary of State and Mrs.

Mike Holm: State Treasurer and Mrs. Julius A. Schmahl; Mrs. Rtaf. ford King, representing herself and State Auditor King now in the army on leave; Attorney General and Mrs.

J. A. A. Burnquist; Mrs. Grace Kaercher Davis, supreme court clerk; State Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners Frank Matson, N.

J. Holmberg and W. I. Nolan and their wives. Colonel and Mrs.

Harry Keely will rprgn-t the United Slates army, Commander Martin Heffernan the navy. Stassen will put off until the second day of the session, that is until Wednesday noon, his appear ance before the legislature. At that hour the senate and house will meet in Joint session in the hall of representatives to hear the governor deliver his war message. This arrangement was made also because of the governor's wish to await complete organization of the two houses before meeting with them. Prior to the afternoon inaugural Tuesday, the two houses will meet at noon.

The senate will be called to order by Thye. He will be sworn in by Chief Justice Gallagher, who will then swear in the senatori (who have just been elected for four-year terms). In the house, In accordance with law, Secretary of State Mike Holm will start things and preside until that body is organized. The senior associate justice of the supreme court, Clifford L. Hilton, will swear in the representatives for their two-year terms, Then one of their number will be elected speaker to preside for the 90-day session.

It is anticipated the two houses will recess to attend the inaugural in the afternoon, then return to their own chambers if there is any fufthe business that can be transacted the first day. The senate steering committer and Speaker Lawrence M. Hall, who will be re-elected for his third term (he having already been chosen in a majority caucus attended by 100 of the 131 members of the house) hope to have the committees of senate and house ready for announcement the first or second day of the session. If this is done, the committee can get to work forthwith in preparing measures for consideration on the floors of the two houses. DRIVER FINED $43 William J.

Nickerson, Bushaway, Lake Minnetonka, in traffic court today on a careless driving charge dating back to March 12 and a speeding charge dated June 12, was fined $20 on the first and $23 on the second charge. Was on Cruiser Sunk Off Solomons Home to recuperate from shrapnel wounds suffered in a South Pacific sea battle, a 24-year-old Minneapolis sailor today was looking forward to a honeymoon with his high school sweetheart. Seaman Theodore Pilacinski, 2544 Fourth street and Lucille Eichhorn, 2004 Park avenue, were married Dec. 18 a day after he returned from a three-month hospital siege. They are planning a short honeymoon trip to Duluth over New Year's to visit the bride's grandfather.

In the navy more than four years, Pilacinski was wounded Aug. 19 when the cruiser Vincennes went down under Jap shell fire off the Solomons. His right arm and leg were injured and two ribs were fractured. He thinks it will be five months before his injuries are healed so he can return to sea. Pilacinski, an Edison high school graduate, and his bride, a Marshall high school graduate, met at an Edison Marshall basketball game in 1937 in which he played.

She had asked for his autograph. A year and a half later they met again and in 1941 they became engaged. Before the Vincennes was sunk, Pilacinski participated in the battles of the Coral sea and Midway. If Ycu Lose or Find a GASOLINE RATION BOOK call AT. 3111 and order a Star- Journal and Morning Tribune Lost and Found ad.

Lost and Found ads talk to thousands daily, so someone is almost sure to have found your book. Your Lost and Found ad, if ordered before 12:00 noon, will appear in the Evening Star Journal on the same day. MR. AND MRS. THEODORE riLACINSKI HOLD WEDDING LICENSE Looking forward to honeymoon Letter Carriers Left Out of Federal Pay Increase If you want make your letter carrier hot under the collar and) who does? congratulate him on the 10 per cent increase recently granted by congress to federal employes.

Because the letter carriers didn't get the 10 per cent. Letter carriers and clerks, according to an explanation today by Guy Muchmore, president, and Larry Holmberg, president-elect, Branch 9, National Association of Letter Carriers, still receive the same base pay that has been in effect since Jan. 1, 1925. The new act of congress, In ef- Pfect since Dec. 1, did give them 9.