CIO Electrical
Workers Rebel
CLEVELAND, (flh—The United
Electrical Workers, spearhead of
the CIO’s rebellious left wing, yes
terday announced it was withhold
ing any further dues to the CIO—
a certain first step toward its
ouster.
In a defiapt statement accusing
“program of raiding, union-bust
CIO leadership of following a
ing and Red-baiting hypocracy,”
the president Albert J. Fitzgerald
said the next step “is up to the
CIO.”
U. E. delegates walked off the
convention floor shortly after
wards. Fitzgerald said they were
going home. U. E. officers have
not been attending the convention
although delegates weer there.
There was little doubt that pres
ident Philip Murray of the CIO
would accept the challenge quick
ly. The groundwork for removing
the U. E. with approximately 375.
000 members, was laid bv consti
tutional changes approved Mon
day night for action by the CIO
convention yesterday or today.
Eleven other so-called left wing
unions also face ouster by the
CIO. but Fitzgerald said it would
be up to them whether they fol
lowed the example of withholding
the per capita tax to the CIO.
Fit/.gerald said that at a meeting
with Murray and other CIO lead
ers on Sunday the U. E. was given
“plainly to understand that the
main business of the CIO conven
tion would be a Red baiting spree
for the gratification of the anti
labor commercial press and the
politicians to whom the CIO now
subordinates itself.” '
“This can benefit no one but the
employers,” Fitzgerald said.
DELEGATE BARTLETT
RECEIVES TOTEM POLE
A four-foot “Raven Flood To
tem’’ has been presented to Dele
gate E. L .Bartlett by the students
of the Edgecumbe Vocational
School. It is a replica of the one
in Ketchikan depicting the Biblical
story of Noah and the Ark.
The totem which was made un
der the direction of wood carving
instructor Horace Marks is on dis
play in Bartlett’s Washington, D. '
C. office.
Report of Board
Of Kdueation
(Continued from Page One)
the building.
Contract . $3300.00
Treasurer of U. S.' 240.00
‘Furnace controls obtained
from army)
C. B. Hyndman . 450.00
(Valves for heating appar
atus-ordered from States*
A small fire started in a fuse
box in the hallway of the school
last spring which could have been
a very serious fire if it had oc
curred at night. Present at the
school board meeting of May 10th
was Mr. McAlee to explain what
should be done as to the existing
fuse boxes which were very poor
ly made and greatly overloaded.
Mr. McAlee stated that he would
write to his company for types of
and prices on fuse boxes. We also
believed it necessary to check the
wiring in the school as a fire pre
caution.
At our June 14th meeting a mo
tion was made and seconded that
Mr. McAlee purchase the best fuse
boxes, four of 12 -and one of 16,
and that he install same. At this
meeting the school lighting was
discussed and found to be very,
very poor. The rooms are also in
need of painting, many never hav
ing had any paint at all on them.
At the July 12th meeting Mr.
McAlee was present to give data
on school lighting. He had also
brought along his light meter
which was tried in a number of
the rooms, the lighting being so
poor as to barely bring the needle
out of the red. Mr. McAlee left
with the board a catalog on fluor
escent lighting. After study of the
catalog the board decided to pur
chase 24 fluorescent light fixtures
for the grade rooms. The lighting
situation has been discussed for
years and nothing ever done. It
had been found that too great a
percentage of pupils were needing
glasses by the time they entered
high school.
About the middle of August Mr.
McAlee started work installing
the new switch boxes. The old one
in which the fire had occurred
was so carbonized that it fell to
the floor in pieces.
On August 29 a special meeting
was called that Mr. McAlee might
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Suitor Kills !
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PORT ANGELES, Wash. </P»— j
Death: in the person of a rejected I
suitor, brought a sudden end Mon- :
day night to the reunion of a 1
young mother with her divorced
husband.
Prosecutor Dana E. Harper said '
; the woman, Mrs. Winona B. Med
ley, 24, was shot and killed by
| Ted Bishop, about 40. Bishop then
i killed himself.
i
The tragic ending took p'ace in
the woman’s home only a few hours
after she and her estranged hus
band, Henry R. Medley, had been
remarried by a justice of the
■ peace.
Mrs. Medley’s four-year-old son
! gave neighbors their first news of I
i the shooting. Harper said, when I
i he came running to their trailer
crying:
‘‘Bishop’s shot mother.”
The shooting occurred several
hours after Medley had gone to
work on a paper mill. Their 17
months old daughter was in an
other room.
The prosecutor sai l the Med
ley's were married in 1945, separ
ated less than six months ago. ob
tained a divorce which became fi
nal Oct. 10. then had remarried.
Bishop, a part-time longshore
man, courted Mrs. Medley during
the separation, Harper said.
explain the wiring situation i nthe
gym. The wire was badly burned
| and in some instances actually
varbonized especially in the ceil
I ing lights in the gym and most of
them so badly charred back into
the BX armor as to be irrepair
i able. At this meeting also a report
was submitted as to the general
conditions of the lights and wiring
in the school fthis is filed with
I the clerk), the highlights of which
i are: type of wire used too small;
1 wire badly burned: steam pipes
i are energized and will show 220
volts to ground; fixtures in the
classrooms are installed in an un
workmanlike manner; switches
: are installed in an haphazard way.
some upside down; the meter loop
. in the new addition is improperly
installed—wires are brought out
of the switch box without the I
slightest attempt to insulate wire
from mechanical damage, and the
entrance conduit is not properly
sealed; wiring under the stage is
open knob and tube and is broken
’ loose, and in some cases, fixtures
have been removed and the lamp
I cord attached and run as an ex
tension. In all rases the insulation
on existing wiring is old and does
not have much resiliency.
-
It was the unanimous opinion of
the board that this extra electrical
work must be done in the gym as
a fire precaution, not to mention
the hazard to children’s lives. It
was so decided that the gym lights
were not to be used—except in
case of necessity and then inspect
ed—until it was safely rewired.
The Fixit Shop $1231.20
'60% of payment of 24 Fluor
escent Light Fixtures'
The Fixit Shop . 393.80
Fuse boxes—4/12’s
1/16
The Fixi1 Shop 600.00
Payment on wire ordered for
| g.vm.
! The Fixit'Shop $459.29
Wiring boiler room
Installing bell
Wiring stage lights
Installing service for boiler room
Respectfully submitted,
Hoard of Education.
John D. Hudert, President
C. E. Fagerstrom, Treasurer
Helen B. Olsen, Clerk.
Acini. Sherman
New Navy Head
WASHINGTON, UP)—A shake
up from the military policy row
and aiming at harmony in the
high command put Vice-admiral
Forrest P. Sherman in as top of
ficer on the Navy today.
It was too early to tell whether
the replacement by Sherman of
the ousted Admiral Louis E. Den-;
feld would bring a smooth and1
easy teamwork to the top level j
job of working out the strategy |
for war.
Sherman and Denfeld met for
15 minutes early this forenoon
with secretary of Navy Matthews I
at the Pentagon.
Presumabbly, Matthews called
in Denfeld to formally notify him
of his removal as chief of Naval
Operations. Aides said he had not
been told officially he was out. He
had reported as usual at his old
office today.
He and Sherman left Matthews’
office, smiling and chatting chum
milv. They went down the hall,
entered the office marked “Chief
of Naval Operations” and shut the
door.
It wasn’t until late yesterday
that the WhiteHouse announced
President Truman h a d tapped
Sherman to become, at r>3. the
voungestChief of Naval Opera
tions in history and the formal
commissioning was held over un
til today.
But Sherman was one of the or
iginal architects for the Armed
Services unification plan. And he
told reporters after his new ap
pointment came through:
He is still 100 per cent for uni
fication, expects no difficulty in
getting along with other members
of the policy-making joint chiefs
of staff and is “sure the Navy will
give me the support and loyalty
they have given all my prede
cessors.”
Yet within the Navy and Con
Cebu Devastated
Bv Typhoon
MANILA. */P)—The Red Cross
reported today 60 per cent o* the
homes in Cebu City, with a ) opu
lation of 140,000 were damaged or
destroyed today by a typhoon
with winds up to 100 miles an
hour.
There were 11 known deaths.
Damage was estimated unofficial
yl at above $10,000,000 in Cebu
City and 14 other towns on Cebu
Island, in the central Philippines.
Most homes in the area are of
bamboo.
The typhoon sides wiped north
ern Negros Island, crossed the is
land of Panay and late today was
130 miles north of Puerto Prin
cesa on the Island of Palawan. It
was expected to continue into the
South China Sea southwest of
Mindoro Island.
A small coastal craft with 70
aboard was towed to safety at
Iloilo Harbor after sending dis
tress signals.
The typhoon was the worst to
hit the area since 1912.
India grows most of the world’s
supply of jute.
gress there still is a certain bitter
ness over the ousting or Denfeld
and over the way the whole de
fense set up is working.
Denfeld was given the boot af
ter summing up Navy complaints
when the House Armed Services
Committee gave them an airing.
The Navy, he said, doesn’t have a
t‘ full partnership” in defense
planning.
And before the denials were
recorded by Secretary of Defense
Johnson and the top men of the
Army and Air Force, other top
admirals stood up and were cou
ted on Denfeld's side.
Now Sherman is vaulting over
the heads of til of them, and over
some vice-admirals with longer
service.
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