European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse A Page the stars and stripes wednesday april 8, 1ij. Seniority agreements ,. ,. C7" -. Veterans upheld Iti Iree crosses in Gotham High court rules pact Legal Washington april 7 ins the supreme court yesterday upheld a United Auto workers Cio wage agreement giving War vet Erans equal Job seniority right whether or hot they were previously employed to tie Industry. By a unanimous vote the tribunal reversed a court of appeals ruling that veterans with prior in Iduster experience should have preference Over those who started work after their Case involves George Huff Man a former Ford motor co employee at Louisville ky., who contested contract provisions giving seniority credits to All world War ii veterans covering time spent i service regardless of whether the worked previously Ifor Ford. Huffman who said he was Laicoff As a result of the agreement said the contract provision is discriminatory and not authorized a the National labor relations Board Industry backing Auto producers who supported the Union in the fight contended4hat if the nigh court struck Down the agreement it would Cost the Industry millions of dollars. Justice Harold h. Burton speak ing for the tribunal said however that Flie selective service act o1940 does not prohibit the Union and the companies from making the seniority agreement moreover Burton rejected Huff Man s argument " that the Union exceeded its authority when it agreed to the seniority plan. He declared differences inevitable inevitably differences arise inthe manner and degree to which. The terms of any negotiated agree ment affect individual employees and classes of employees. The Mere existence of such differences does not make the invalid. The Complete satisfaction of All who Are represented is hardly to be said there is Little that justifies giving such a substantial seniority Benefit to a Veteran with Brief prior civilian employment not equally justify giving it to a Veteran who was inducted into military service before having a Chance to enter any civilian employment or to a Veteran who never worked for the particular employer who hired after return from military 83 executed in 52 2fl lowest figure Washington april 7 up _ the Federal prison Bureau reported that the Federal and state govern ments executed 83 persons in 1952, the second lowest figure in the23-year history of the statistics. In 1950, Only 82 prisoners were executed the average for the 23-year period is 143 executions a year. Of the 83 executions 71 were for murder and 12 for rape. The condemned prisoners included 47 negroes and 36 White men. No women were executed last year. Pena. Boy 10, found dead in refrigerator Meadville a april 7 a horrified Mother opened an Elee Trie refrigerator in her Home an found the body of her 10-year-old son inside. Coroner Frederick said the boy Freder ick Williams died of suffocation. Mrs. Merele Williams said her son apparently used the wire Racks on the door to close himself into the empty unconnected refrigerator. It was a new machine which had never been. exemption on taxes okd Washington april 7 we. 11 w_4h.h a Shine Down on new York Good Friday night. The display was arranged by the new York fire department Anchor club to promote reverent Observance of the Day. View is from the Woolworth building. In ammo Plant by strike Burlington Iowa april 7 up a walkout by More than 200 guards kept about two thirds of the Iowa ordnance Plant s 6,000 work ers off the Job yesterday and Crip pled production. The Plant operated for the government by Silas Mason co., loads regular ammunition and has a con tract to perform secret work on atomic ammunition. The guards walked out at mid night sunday demanding a boost in top pay from $1.65 to $1.80 a hour an official Aid. The com Pany has offered a Flat increase of5 cents an hour across the Board. Michael Sherman Des Moines with the Federal mediation and conciliation service has Bee meeting with the company and Union representatives in an Effort to reach a settlement. Besides a wage increase the guards Are said to want time and a half pay for work on saturdays and sundays which the company has refused. 63-year-old spat ends in wedding Morrison hi., april 7 a an 89-year-old universalist min ister married former sweetheart easier sunday to write a Happy end to a quarrel that broke their engagement 63 years ago. The Rev Osgood Colegrove 89,and Isabel Jacobs 90, exchanged vows while seated before the altar of the first Baptist Church Here. At the end of the single ring Cere Mony the bridegroom planted kiss soundly on Bride s lips. Neither would discuss the spa that interrupted their Romance on easter sunday in 1890. . Gives $35,000 to dutch los. Angeles april 7 up mayor Fletcher Bowron announced los Angeles citizens have contributed $35,000 plus several tons of. Clothing for the Netherlands flood victims. Figures were supplied by Michael d. Fanning chairman i Cal fund raising Campaign. 4 plead not guilty in Iii. Bribe Case on pm equipment Chicago april 7 up fou men including a former lieutenant colonel pleaded not guilty . District judge John p. Barnes yesterday to bribery and conspiracy charges through alleged kick backs on Sale at restaurant equip ment to army and air Force Post exchanges the four indicted last August were Charles e. Lancaster 45, la Grange Iii formerly of Arlington a. Harry p. Lackos 47 Theodore Spring president of t h e Leitner restaurant equipment co., and Louis Katzman Highland Park 111., Secretary of the w a s honorable d i s charged from the army in january this year. He formerly was in charge of military Exchange serv ices in a 12-state area controlled by the Chicago regional indictment charges that be tween 1947 and 1949 about $200,000 in equipment was sold to army Post exchanges by the Leitner firm and that kickbacks were paid to Lancaster on some of the sales. . Sub now sailing under dutch Navy Flag new. London conn., april 7 up the american loaned sub Marine ice fish renamed the Walrus began its Maiden voyage under the Flag of the Netherlands Navy. The submarine was turned Over to the Netherlands Navy feb. 28. It left Thig . Submarine base for the azores and is due at hot Ter dam apr. 17, Solon charges demos ammo planning bad Washington april 7 sen Homer Ferguson a Miehs asserted yesterday that bad plan Ning by the Truman Admi Eistrat Tion was a Basic cause of Aroma. Nation shortages in Korea Ferguson Heads a Senate Militar appropriations subcommittee is investigating Gen James a. Fleet s charges that there were serious shortages of Ammu Nizhni throughout Liis 22 months As of the 8th army in Korea the Senate armed services com Mittee also is looking into Tutt charges. A Ferguson said groups has held one closed door hearing with assistant defense Secretary Wilfred j. Mcneil found that con. Sid Erable delays in letting ammunition contracts and faulty budget procedures hampered the program under the form is democratic administration. Hand to month basis the Truman administration never included costs of the Komatar in the budgets it submitted to Congress he said and items fas Korea were handled on a hand to Mouth Congress provided plenty of Money Ferguson said the administration failed to budget a adequate program for Amman Ottoa As Well As other korean needs an therefore failed to set up propel procurement schedules. That is Why we got int ammunition mess he said meanwhile the armed Servos subcommittee headed by sen. Mar Garet Chase Smith pm planned to resume Public hearing tomorrow with former defens Secretary Robert a. Lovett As tit . Estes Kefauver a member of that subcommittee said he thinks that the a axing have shown that there were Short Ages in some kinds of an Muti Tion for the korean fighting. I think that they have now and the situation has been corrected he said. Woman gels dog big damage suit los Angeles april 7 a woman has had a courtier Legal owner of a dog that to flicked fatal bites on a child eve though the action makes tee defendant in a $50,000 damage soft mrs. Iva r a y m o r e of Neatta Whittier successfully contested 8�claim of Fred Koehler to owner Altof of the dog. Sandy which bit v�2-year-old son of or. An to jets Frederick Gage jr., so badly a City dog Pound lotto bad planned to have the animal put to death. -.mrs. Raymore testified the do was Given to Koehler without be knowledge and she did not Low Sandy had bitten the boy until so saw pictures in a newspaper. Sandy was always tempered gentle and my companion she gages1 $50,000 suit was against whoever was owner of the dog. Bottled Gas Plant blows lip Augusta me., april 7 ins a bottled Gas company Plant was destroyed yesterday when 25 tanks of Jinqu Ifird Petroleum blew up with explosions that were heard 15 Miles away. The blasts wrecked the one Stor Concrete building of the Augusta distributors co. And injured the Plant manager Edward Helle Fontayne 33, who. Discovered there in the charging room. Metal tanks weighing from 20 to 100 pounds were blasted 60 feet through the sides and Root of the building. Several were hurled a the nearby Kennebec River a firefighters kept thai Hani away from two bulk storage to holding ,0,000 Gallons and m Gallons located just outs ambulances and doctors rushed to the stae Bellefontaine was alone Plant when the exp curved. He was burned we rushed into the Charyta with a fire extinguisher. 53. To pow Ai thine than at go to to 1 of b is til w in m 3 s ii v n
