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Highland Park Press, 16 Apr 1942, p. 8

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Good news for the, cotton grower. Under war stimulation, cotton comâ€" sumption now is areund 1,000,006 bales a month, is expected to reach an estimated total of 13,800,000 bales for the year. This is nearly 3,000,000 bales more than last year, head of the Office of Emergency will be made assistant budget diâ€" MERRYâ€"GOâ€"ROUND Wayne Coy, brainy young White House asfistant, is slated for a proâ€" This sum, plus the payroll listed above, would bring the total "take‘" of the Lewis family up to $110,500 amounts to a monopoly on the busiâ€" ness of bonding all national, district and Jocal U.M.W. officers and all C.1.O. officials. His commissions are estimated at $40,000 a year. There is one Lewis relative who is not om a union payroll but who garners a highâ€"bracket income from unions controlled by John L. He is brotherâ€"inâ€"law Floyd Bell, an inâ€" surance agent. Representative of a And More. Imposing as is this payroll list, it Still does not tell the whole story. have fat expense accounts. What they spend is their secret. No figâ€" ures have ever been revealed, even to union members.) (*In addition to their big salaries, Lewis, his daughter and brother also Margaret Lindig, sisterâ€"inâ€"law of ‘m.l.'.mnmr. , daughter of brotherâ€" inâ€"law Orin Miller, U.M.W. Sonâ€"indaw ef Floyd Bell, another Lewis brotherâ€"inâ€"law, District 80 erganizer ................. .=Worlun Lewis, daughter, secreâ€" taxy â€" reasurer, District 50, wu. brother, head of & Censtruction Workers salaries, plus his own, gave the family an annual "take‘" of $48,500 frem tke collections of union dues. We regret to say that on further investigation we find we erred grievâ€" ously. We apologize to Mr. Lewis for umderestimating his capacities and print below the full Lewis famâ€" ily payroll showing that the miner czar kas not three but nine relaâ€" tives in cushy jobs and. that the family "take" is not $48,500 but John L. Lewis, president, United has just managed to get a remarkâ€" able pricrity rating for the shipment of $14,500,000 worth af steel to Veneâ€" zuela. The story illustrates how a job can be done if you have the lobbyist to do it. In this case Standard Oil is ably represented by Washington attorney John N. Bohamnon, wheo knows his What Standard wanted was steel for its oll wells in Venezuela, and it had the plausible argument that it must keep up Venezuelan oil proâ€" duction for the American and Britâ€" sured the state department, lend lease administration, board of eceâ€" memic warfare and finally the White If thete was anyene Stamdard Oil forgot to highâ€"pressure they were sick im bed. So Standard Oil got what it wanted, a priocrity rating of Aâ€"1â€"G, higher tham that of domestic oil gempanies, and the materials hawéamew been shipped. California. Also they had the adâ€" vantage of producing ol which does tanker haul. However, they did not have fhe advantage of an A1 lebbyâ€" erations, and practically scared him to death about the danger of lesing Venezuelan oil. Stark called Denald Nelson, boss of War Produstio®, and put the LEWIS PAYROLL The Washington Merryâ€"Goâ€"Round wishes to correct an earlier stateâ€" ment that John L. Lewis had three relatives on union payrolls whose In the preâ€"New Deal days, Whbyâ€" ists lebbied to get fiand grants, luny they lshhisd for Public Works som tracts, WPA grants, and steatnghip routes. Muhflv.:o. tacts. But perbaps the avid, rapacious and lustful lobbying is materials. miral Stark, then chief of naval opâ€" it has SEANDARD OIL LOBBY Lobbying will always be practiced Total Lewis family payroll ..$70,500 Applications must be filed with the Manager, Seventh U. S. Civil Service District, Post Office Building, Chicago, IMinois, and will be received until the needs of the service have been met. > Application blanks and! full informaâ€" tion may be obtained from the Manaâ€" ger, Sixth U. S. Civil Service District, Post Office and Courthouse Building, Cincinnati, Ohio; â€" the Manager, Se venth U. S. Civil Service District, Post Office Building, Chicago, Illinois; the Manager, Eighth U.~S.â€"Civit Service District, Post Office and Customâ€" house Building, St. Paul, Minnesota; or any first or secondâ€"class post office in which notice regarding this position is posted. % Applicants must have reached their 18th birthdy and must not have passed their 55th birthday on the date of filâ€" mg application. THESE AGE LIMITS WILL NOT BE WAIVED IN ANY CASE. TERIAL, for filling the position of Under Inspector, Ordnance Material, $1,440 a year, in the Ordnance Departâ€" ment at Large, War Department, Chiâ€" cago Ordnance District and Detroit Ordnance District. Fern Hammers, contralto, will give a recital at Kimball Hall on Sunday afternoon, April 26 at 3:30 under the direction of Bertha Ott Concert Manâ€" agement. Perry Essig Crafton, violinist, and Dorothy Korn, organist, winners of the young artist contest, Society of American Musicians will give a joint recital at Kimball Hall on Wednesday Evening, May 27 at 8:30, Bertha Ott award. U. S. Government Employment Opportunities The United States Civil Service Commission announces employment opâ€" portunities for JUNIOR INSPECâ€" TORâ€"TRAINEE, ORDNANCE MAâ€" William Benes, violinist, will give a recital at Kimball Hall on Saturday evening, May 9 at 8:30 under the diâ€" rection of Bertha Ott. Bertha Ott Lists Recitals There will be scores of girls in the acrial ballet, the Peaches sky revue, and three sensational roller skating acts, a new item in circus entertainâ€" ment, and on top of that Terrell Jacobs‘ jungle menagerie, clephants, horses, ponies and dogs galore and the largest group of clowns to ever show in the Chicago Stadium. Assorted Talents Troupers from every state in the Union, the Phillipines, South America, and Africa make up the huge continâ€" gent of performers who‘ll display their assorted talents in every type of circus and thrill entertainment over the 17 days the show will have in Chicago. Old favorites, including Terrell Jacobs, the famed wild animal trainer from Peru, Indiana, the Zacchini brothers who are shot out of a cannon the length of the arena, LaTosca, the only girl in the world to execute her stunts on the bounding rope, the famed Eris family of trick riders and acrobats, and the sensaâ€" tional Peters, who hangs himself a couple of times a day, will be back. There will be over sixty new acts headed by a newcomer to the circus world, the charming seventeen year old "Bette," a native of Evansville, Indiana, ‘who comes to the Stadium after thrilling thousands in Minneâ€" apolis in her first appearance on the big time with her twentyâ€"four inch globeâ€"and spiral tower. Like La Tosca, "Bette" is the only feminine perâ€" former to do her specialty. ‘Tis springtime again at the Chicago Stadium and already scores of workâ€" men are readying the huge arena for the opening of the 10th annual Olymâ€" pia Circus next Friday night, April 17. The huge show boasting the finest array of talent ever presented in the Stadium will be presented twice daily thru Sunday, May 3. Olympia Circus Opens April 17 at The Stadium 9:00 a m. Arts and Crafts club Sunday, April 19â€" Monday, April 20â€" 1.30 p.m. First Aid class 7:30 p.m. Advanced First Aid class 8:00 p.m. Table Tennis club Tuesdoy, April 21â€" 9:30 a.m. First Aid class . 4:00 p.m. Junior Airplane club 7:30 p.m. First Aid OCD 7:30 p.m. G.S.O. meeting Wednesday, April 22â€" 9:30 am. Music Club Chorus 7:30 p.m. Shorthand class l::lap.-. Highland Park Camera Community Center Calendar 8:00 p.m. Center Directors‘ meeting 800 p.m. Chess club Friday, April 17â€" * 9:30 asm. First Aid class 7:00 p.m. Boys club * Thursdoy, April 16â€" Saturdoy, Aptil 18â€" 7:30 p.m. Advanced First Aid program Cw o e ut POReT on To S. Green Bay, are ing the birth of a second son, m"smn St. Lukes hospital, Chicago. Judge Henry Hansen returned home Sunday from the Highland Park hosâ€" pital where he had been a patient for the past week, suffering from pmenâ€" Ml't"!illhhlh-“. Mrs. Fred B. Williams, who has been seriously ill at the Highland Park hospital for the past four ";;:;'; recouperating at her home, St. Johns. Sergeant Ralph Koch, 8845 Carpenâ€" ter Street, Chicago, IIL.. of the Miliâ€" tary Police Section was appointed Staff Sergeant. Corporal Roger W. Kranenberg, 816 Catherine, Grand Rapids, Mich., was advanced to the grade of sergeant. In the Quartermaster Section, Corâ€" gonl Martin Baker, 2140 East 69th treet, Chicago, was named Sergeant, and Private First Class &uull J. Mason, 1718 Chicago Avenue, Minneâ€" apolis, Minn., was appointed corporal. in the Quartermaster Se;tlo;':r'fl:; announced today at Fort Sheridan by Col. F.. C. Rogers, Commanding the Post. The ~antiâ€"aircrait firing at Fort Sheridan from April 11 to April 30, inclusive, will take place from 9 to 11 A. M. and from 1 P. M. until dark:© ness, instead of from 3 P. M. until darkness as originally planned. It will create a danger zone within a four mile radius of the Fort on Lake Miâ€" chigan, and up to an altitude of four miles over this area. All shipping and aircraft are quested to avoid the danger zone M. P.. PROMOTED Two promotions ip the Military Police Section and two promotions Frank W. Read and Mrs. Laura D. Smith were reâ€"elected to the high school board. NOTICE TO SHIPPERS Mrs. Edna Laegeler was reâ€"elected to the District 107 board and Tom Leeming was elected to fill the vaâ€" cancy left by T. H. Compere, who now is in the army. Francis M. Knight will serve another term as president. Hold Three School Board Elections Saturday Another. board member who has served for many years and declined to run for another term this year is Mrs. Margaret Rieser. She has been a member for 15 years. Her place was taken by Mrs, Minnic Buzard Levinâ€" son. Russell H. Clark was elected to fill the vacancy left by McCormick. D. Dean McCormick was elected president of the District 108 board, succeeding John B. Jackson who has served seven years, five as a memâ€" ber and two as‘president. Elections were held in the three Highland Park school districts Saturâ€" day. Tuesday, April 21â€" Blank night, bring your own ideas. Hostess, corps 1, Mary Desmond, Capt. Wednesday, April 22â€" Dance program. Wilmette G. S. 0. Thursday, April 23â€" Games and rug cutting. Hostess corps 2, Ethel Swanâ€" son, Capt. Friday, April 24â€"Dancing and refreshâ€" ments. Hostess, corps 4, 5 and 6. Food in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Felske, Mr. and Mrs. H. Lewis, and Mr. and Mrs. Burgartt. Sunday, April 19â€" Vespers in late atâ€" ternoon. . Movies, eats, dancing. Hostess, corps no. 5, Jean Jenkins, Monday, April 20â€" Craft Shop night. Hostess, corps no. 6, Lila Letson, Friday, April 17â€" Kenilworth G. S. 0.; hostesses, Winnetka Woman‘s club, Mrs. Fred Duncombe in charge. _ Saturday, April 18â€" Mystery Night. Magician, games, dancing, refreshâ€" The outstanding event of this past week was the formal dance held on Friday, April 10, and it will be long remembered by all those who attended. During the evening, Mr. Young was presented with a handsome Rolls Raâ€" zor, a gift from the many girls and boys who have been his friends through his stay here. Music was supâ€" plied by Andy Jacobs and his smooth crchestra, and additional entertainment by Fort Sheridan stars and a truly Idepined Ievge ic manist, uge 12 _ This coming week also promises to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Smith, 1631 Highland Park Hart, Capt. ments. Other Members Elected ments for these examinations, and apâ€" Fl.*'E. Cnr:!:umy o!h; Board of U. S. Civil Service Examâ€" iners, at the post office or customâ€" house in this city, or from the Secreâ€" tary of the Board of U. S. Civil Serâ€" vice Examiners, at any first or secondâ€" class post office. be given only to stenographers and at thtrueof%wordnl-iune.hnli- cants must have reached their cighâ€" teenth birthday, but there is no maxiâ€" mum age limit. Applications will be mfi«lufilthneubo‘&em have been met. Full information as to the requireâ€" ments for these examinations and an. Junior Calculating Machine Operaâ€" tor, $1,440 a year. Applicants must be over 18 and will be required to take a practical test to be performed on a calculating machine. Applications must be filed not later than May 26, 1942 Stenoâ€"Typist Junior Stenographer, $1,440 a year, and Junior Typist, $1,260 a year. Apâ€" Nicamswillmwbennulonagu:nl test as well as the required practical test in typing, and dictation, which will Architect, $2,000 to $3,200 a year. Optional fields in which persons are needed are design, specifications, ‘and estimating. Completion of a 4â€"year colâ€" lege course in architecture or architecâ€" tural engineering is required for the lower grade. For the other grades apâ€" propriate architectural or engineering education or expers@n@R past of which was in one of hrh fecessary. No written test will Be given. There are no age limits. Applications will be rated as received until further notice. Student N :‘ in tudent Nurse, for appointment «to the School of Nursing at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D. C. Applicaâ€" trons must be filed not later than May 13, 1942, Graduation from an accrediâ€" ted high school is required, though senior students may apply. Applicants must be between 18 and 30 years, and will be given a written general test. Appointees will receive $288 a year and quarters, subsistence, laundry and medical attention. ‘ I waca t oo e e D. C. :and throughout the United States. No optional fields of study are specified, but eligibles are particularly desired in the fields of public adminâ€" istration, business analysis, economics, lome economics, library seience, and mathematics through calculus. Appliâ€" cants must either have completed a 4â€"year college course or be enrolled in their last semester of study. Applicaâ€" tions must be filed not later than April 27, 1942. A written general test will be giyen. There are no age limits. Junior Professional As;istal_at, $2,000 a year. Positions exi_st in Washington, The United States Civil Service Commission today announced five new examinations for war service appointâ€" ments, as shown below. Applications must be filed with the Commission‘s Washington office not later than the closing date specified. The examinaâ€" tions are: es > 0022 0 9 OE on O mreeneennt T30 pm Advanced first aid class meets in Comâ€" American Legion police auxiliary school in Legion flt‘m-o. IIIAY'CA. nursing CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS § mi€ temihe .: :<. : i0 C 00 CC APCr e :p- club meets in YWCA. t p.m. s ?M-l- elub meets in Moraine Onâ€"theâ€" Tuxis society. church, | will have dancing hmâ€"h center. SUNDAY #:15 am. _ iâ€"_@' Tennis club meets gcp-nl'tv center. SATURDAY EOSE Am. and Crafts club in Community 10 a.m. _ Story bour at the Wibrary. _ Ravinia Woman‘s club will have dinnerâ€" dance in Village House. we 1:30 p.m. 12:15 pam. : _ Rotary club meets in Moraine Onâ€" 8:30 a.m. Helen Teylor Carr suxiliary of the Chiâ€" store corner of I son ave., Havinia MHighwood, rummage sale in church roomsâ€" Highland Park W ¢ will have remmage sale in Jl'_-'-k“i PI and Creative Writers meet in Highland Park Y'CA.. 12:15 pam. Calendar _ -l'H-.uM meets thi und'.&-'l.!:‘ livce maPt Park. Highiland Park Lions club meets in Open An Hour of Chamber Music"_will be in Community center for Highland ;:nMMmu. Machine T‘. Caleulatine Machia _-‘)Aub'fllhunl-.l-lhl.. club in Community church. ths country, it was pointed out. Ap »ointment of an . International Red ~ross delegate in Japan had been anâ€" 10unced early in February, and preâ€" umably the transmission of replies to nquiries about prisoners in Japan has aken nearly two months, it was stated by Chic:go Red Cross officials. Rolies to inquiries about American prigners of war captured on Wake andGuam, and now confined in Japan, ar/ just beginning to be received in While d0 definite time for a reply to inqujies about Americans in the Philippies can be set, Red Cross ofâ€" ficials said that at least a month, possibls much more, would be reâ€" quireg and that communications were cxu?ln" ly slow and difficult. Red Cross is Trying To Locate Prisoners Forgan, local Red Cross chairman. All inquiries should be made at the C cago Red Cross office, 616 S Michiâ€" gan avenue, it was stated. is office will handle all inquiries «iginating in mthanhylo!hhm- now interned in Manila, and those capâ€" tured on the Jataan peninsula, can be forwarded tothe American Red Cross. It is expeced that this appointment will be maje soon, Red Cross officials stated. Emily Harmon Names Attendants For Her Wedding Mr. and Mrs. John H. Harmon anâ€" nounce the engagement and approachâ€" ing marriage of their daughter, Emily, to Robert E. Wolff, son of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Wolff, Astor street, Chicago. The wedding will take place May 2 at the Trinity Episcopal church Vaughn B. Corvett, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Miss Mary Magna, Hartford, Conn., Miss Dale Johnson and Miss Elizabeth Low, bridesmaids. Mr. Wolff has asked Longley Richards to be best man and Ian Steven, Edwin F. Hulbert Jr., Donald E. Mimball IL., Nelson Thomâ€" asson III and Mr. Harmon Jr. to The Chicago Chapter of the Ameriâ€" can Red Cross is accepting inquiries regarding members of the American armed forces and civilians who are now prisoners in the Philippines, it As soon as a deleite for the Philipâ€" pines is appointed oy the International Red Cross, infomation about those Exmoor country club. Attendants will be Mrs. Edmund W. Gifford, Milwaukee, matron of honor ; Mrs. John H. Harmon, Jr., Mrs. with the Rev Your Ambassador has specialized on well styled, crisply correct business printing in Highland Park for When it is dane with correctness and style you are well"rq{esented. to your customers and your prospects ._._.. that‘s your PRINTING! OLSON 20 YEARS ph Keller ofâ€" will follow at expedition was jointly sponsored by Field Museum and the John Simam Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, ef New York. r. Sanborn wm‘ in establish~ '.'u.h "good nc relations" through the herty coâ€"operation of ofâ€" ficials of y¢ Peruvian government, the Univesity of San Marcos at Lima, and thâ€" Museo Javier Prado connected witl the university. Under: these arâ€" s Field Museum will continâ€" ue to make a specialty of the zoology of Peru, and will have the collaboraâ€" tion of the Peruvian institutions in reâ€" search projects connected with this subject. Enrique Zuniga, a member of the Javier Prado Museum staff, spent several months with Mr. Sanborm in the field, collecting specimens on the southern coast of Peru, in the mounâ€" tains up to elevations of 16,000 feet, in the jungles of the eastern part of the country where the explorers had harrowing experiences with great swarms of flies and red bugs. Mr. Sanborn collected many animais necessary for rounding out the Ficld Museum collection, including two imâ€" portant species of wild Peruvian gwb nea pigs, and a number of species of small mammals new to science. The The Glencoe Theatre and the Highâ€" land Park Press invites you to be their guest at the Glencoe Theatre. If you will call at the office of the Press, 516 Laurel Avenue, you will be given a pair of passes, which may be used any time this week. Colin C. Sanborn Brings Back 2 Wild Peruvian Guinea Pigs 'Ma’“--fiehhdufld .'r'-uymlhcendld "the good neighbor policy" to scien* tific relations has been completed with the return to Field Museum of Naâ€" tural History of Colin C. Sanborn, zone prior to January; the balance of Mr. Sanborn‘s collections are temporâ€" arily stored at Callao awaiting favorâ€" himself flew back from Lima to Miami, Florida. The collections obtained by curator of mammals, after nearly mine months of zoological collecting im Peru.â€" â€" Mr. Sanborn obtained some four hundred specimens of mammals, apâ€" proximately nine hundred reptiles, three hundred fishes, one hundred birds, and numerous insects. A large part of these were successfully shipped to the museum through the submarine OLSON PRINTING Co. 516 LAUREL AVE Thursday, April 16, 1942 E. A. BERGDAHL

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