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Boss Is Hugged By Girl Strikers Down In Florida JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. SI. —Girl cigar plant atrikers, jitterbug ging to company-furnished music, yesterday turned womanly wiles on a vice-president in an effort to win concessions which two days of formal negotiation had failed to get. Several hundred young women em ployes of the John Swisher and Son cigar factory—one of the biggest in the world—are demanding increased pay and the reinstatement of a plant manager. „ . So far, the strike has been on “happy family” terms, the girls danc ing to music from a company sound truck in the plant yard, making speeches and picnicking on ice cream and cold drinks furnished by the fac <?arl Swisher, vice-president and general manager, was swarmed by the girls when he came into the plant yard today. They hugged him, muss ed his hair, kidded him, tried to get him to make a speech and smilingly pressed their demands. Swisher laughed and took his kid ding but was unable to get back into the plant until police came to his aid. Shortly afterward, he and other of ficials met with the spokesmen for the strikers. PATRONIZE THOSE WHO ADVERTISE IN THE JOUftNAL Subscribe For the Journal DeVONDE Synthetic CLEANERS — »'VFRS HATTERS — FURRIERS POINTS WHY WE ARE p THE SOUTH S LEAD ITNTHET1C CLEAN EES 1 ipirklt. ] BtaofH carefully ell dirt. tN freuee | Hanulew te tk* inoet drNnU ef fabric*. « Mark**, thorough cleauiug 9 Garaeuts »tay cleuu k>u»er 9 Preae retained laager 1 Reduces wardrobe upkeep SEVEN ONE O ING S CALL S-S12S 994 N. Tryou St ’rcroberis OPTOMETRIST U4)b 9 Try** St Cterlert* N. C Mill NOTICK OF 8KBV1CK OF SUMMONS IT PUBLICATION State of North Corolla*. County of Mecklenburg. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Orotha Miller, Plaintiff, Va. Gordon Millar. Defendant. The abort dafandaat will taka notice that an aettaa baa baaa eommaacad against bin by tha abort plaaltiff for a diroret abaolnta oa the grounds of two roars separation. The defendant will further take aotia* that ha is required to appear before the undersigned clerk of this court and answer or deasur to tht complant filed theeria within thirty days froas the last notice appearing in this paper, or the said plaintiff will apply to the court far the relief demanded in the said conn plaint. This the ltth day of August. 1M«. J. LESTER WOLFE. Clerk of the Superior Court. August XL l*dO—4t. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Raring qualified as administratrix, C. T. A., ef the estate of Sarah R. Howie, deceased, late of Mecklenburg County. North Carolina, this la to notify all persons haring claims against said aetata to present them, duly ver ified, to tbs undersigned at XXt Piedmont Building, oa or before the ttrd day of Au guet ,1941. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will pleeae make immediate settlement with tha undersigned. This the ltth day of August, l*4t. MRS. MARGARET HOWIE McCORKLE. Administratrix. C. T. A., of the estate of Sarah A. Howie. Deceased. A eg. XL 1»4*—It. SERVICE OF SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION Stats of North Carolina. County of Mecklenburg. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Gladys Saisfieid Hit rick Plaintiff. Jack Z. Mitrick. Defendant. The defendant above named will take aotia* that an action entitled as above has bean com menced in the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County for an absolute divorce, on tha grounds of abandonment and two years separation. And the defendant wiU further take notice that he Is required to appear before the Clark of tbs Superior Court of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, at the Court House, Charlotte. North Carolina, within thirty days from Os day oa which service by publication in this earns Is completed, or within thirty days from the ttth day of September. 1*40, aad answer or demur to the complaint filed la this action, or the plaintiff will apply to the Court far the relief demanded in said complaint. This the ttth day of August, ISM. J. LESTER WOLFE. Clark of the Superior Court ef Mecklenburg County. N. C. L 1L 1L lift the level of all workers By DR. CHARLES STELZLE If there was only one watch in the world it would bo priceless. The fact that there are millions of watches and that most of them are cheap, polls down the practical value of the best watches made. If there was only one workingman in the world, he would be the greatest man in the world. The fact that there are millions of workingmen in the world, and that many of these are low-grade, lowers the competitive value of high-grade workingmen. They will have a hard time to hold their own against the various kinds of competition they are facing. Some workingmen have a notion that if a few aristocrats in the labor world get together in an exclusive organisation, they can keep up their rate of wages and their general economic condition, no mat ter what happens to the rest of the workers. They are entirely mis taken. The rate of wages paid to workingmen as a whole is de termined not by the small handful of men at the top, but by the last man who comes through the shop door. Because the low-grade man is willing to accept a low rate of wages, or because he can’t earn any more, an effort will be made to have the low standard of wages become the prevailing rate for all the workers. And the more low-grade men there are on the job, the sooner will the low-wage level for all workers be reached. When an individual worker is really superior, certain character qualities will make him stand out above his fellows, which will give him his rightful place in industry and in the community. It is from among such that management selects those who are believed to have the qualities which fit them for the bigger jobs that are awaiting leaders of this character. But this affects a comparatively small number. We are thinking of all the workers in a particular craft . or occupation. For these, wages are pretty well standardized. They rise or fall together. Therefore, if labor as a whole is to make progress it must carry with it practically every man on the job. For unless it does so the men who are left behind will hang on as a dead weight. The destiny of labor will be determined not by a small group of highly organized men, but by the great mass of workers. It will therefore be to the advantage of the high-grade worker to do all that he can to help every other worker to reach a high level of efficiency and organisation. It is at this point that there should be a real solidarity of labor. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS HA' THf HUDfPOHL BREWING CO ,40F M'MICKENf.vr CINCINNATI 0 PHONE PA TVS 100% UNION MADE DISTRIBUTED BY BLUE RIBBON SALES CO., INC. 2802 S. BLYD. PHONE 2-2796 Each bottla fall • f Isfatt For Constipation Vigor and Pep! CHEW PEP-0•LAX When Ruriai Aspirin Duaurf r b aspirin in in this Sign S this Battle Pender Stores Amw« Tw PnMiw a QUALITY AND ECONOMY QUALITY DRY CLEANING Called for nod Delivered F. C. Campbell (Member Teamsters and Chauffeurs Local) 71S Louise Ave. Phone 2-10; Patronize Journal Advertiser* ENJOY THE BEST ASK FOR r 1111 Central At*. I*ET DAIRY PROD!.Cl'S CORF; ■IIWTTS , ... fUNM Cxclutlnij U ANDREWS - ca. I HU Downfall: Paries ^ Without a Pitchfork HARRODSBURG, KY. - With ; the ground covered by ice and snow for more than a month, R. E. Cunningham, 71 years old, a farmer, took precautions when he went outdoors. He used a pitch fork for a walking stick, jabbing the prongs into the ground firmly to insure against a fall. Then he slipped on a hardwood floor in his home and fell, breaking a hip. Heirloom Stolen In 1915 Returned Recovery of Gem Is Due to Deathbed Confession. SEATTLE.—An old-fashioned dia mond, an heirloom, has been re turned to its rightful family owner ship 25 years after it was stolen. It was returned in a tiny box, wrapped in adhesive tape and tissue paper. The box also contained an unsigned letter by the thief s broth er, telling sadly of a war veteran’s deathbed confession. The diamond ring was bought by T. Frank Ryan, when he was court ing his first wife, Margaret. Short ly after her death in 1915, the thing was sent to a jewelry store in Long Beach for cleaning. An employee replaced the dia mond with a cheap white sapphire, He hoped to give it to his fiancee, the letter said, but she died and the diamond was never worn. But Ryan was unaware of the change. He placed the ring in a safe deposit box where it remained for 20 years. Then—on his daugh ter Margaret’s twenty-first birthday he gave her. the ring. When she sent the diamond to a Seattle jeweler for cleaning, she ' learned of the fraud. Margaret, now Mrs. William F. Miller, put the 1 ring away and has not worn it. Now, she says, the ring will be presented to her nine-month-old daughter on her twenty-first birth day. | . - Diver Foresees Treasure Ships Giving Up Gold ' MIAMI BEACH, FLA.—A fortune of $70,000,000 in silver and gold lies buried along the Silver shoals in the Caribbean sea, where Spanish gal leons were wrecked in 1642, believes Capt. John D. Craig, diver and sea photographer. Addressing the committee of 100 here, Craig said he believed that some day most of the gold and sil ver would be recovered. He re turned recently from an expedition in the region south of Puerto Rico, where the huge fortune is believed , to be located. “We failed to find any trace of the lost treasure, but we did find some of the cannon off the wrecked gal leons,” he said. “Some day divers may recover that buried fortune.” Craig told of his experiences film ing underwater pictures in the Caribbean, where sharks and other dangerous fish abound. He described how his crew of men fought sharks by letting air out through the sleeves of their diving suits. Bubbles would ripple out, frightening the shar^cs, he said. Old Hospital Bill Paid To Assuage Conscience WATERLOO, N. Y.—Mrs. Alice M. Yaw, Waterloo Memorial hospit al superintendent, exhibits a faded slip of paper and a $2 bill as proof that most hospital patients believe honesty the best policy. The currency, she said, came from a man who walked into her office and stated he wished to pay an eight-year-old bill. The man was injured on Memorial day, 1832, at the local race track and after being treated at the hospital, left without settling the small bill. ‘Tve come a long way to pay this bill,” the man said, ‘'but I feel a lot better now.” B07 Deposits Stolcr $85 And Escapes Sentence PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Seventeen year-old William Onorato received a deferred sentence in Superior court for stealing $85 from a market when Judge G. Frederick Frost discov ered the youth had banked the money and then returned it. "I want to commend you for your thrift,” Judge Frost said. “There must be something to build on when a young man will start a bank ac count.” “Lublin, Poland, had 40,000 Jews in normal times. Since the war be gan, there are 200,000 Jews crammed into a German concentration camp, in that place.—Contemporary Jewish Record. I “Jumping at conclusions is not half as good exercise as diggtag for facts.” , —Unde Esra P. WateA Subscribe for the Journal 'IjandlsL - (OacdkhaAA. VflujtuaL JuneJiaL ChMxicdion. AMBULANCi .A*VICE Out of Charlotte's Fastest Growing Organisations •Of South Tryon CHARLOTTE, N. C Phono 1 " •129 Find Panama Is ] Rich in Relics Hundred* of Rare Objects Dug Up at Site of Indian Grave*. PHILADELPHIA.—Several him* dred gold objects of “exquisite workmanship,” representing an ad vanced'pre-Colombian culture and described as “comprising one of the richest finds ever made by a scien tific expedition working in the West ern hemisphere,” have been dug up at the site of an Indian burial ground in Panama by archeologists from the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and will be put on exhibition at the museum. According to Dr. J. Alden Mason, curator of the museum’s American section, the Spanish conquerors in the Sixteenth century obtained “tre mendous quantities” of gold orna ments of this kind but melted most of them down and shipped the metal to Spain. The gold relics, together with many pottery and stone objects, were recovered at the Sitio Conte, or Conte-Site, in the Province of Code, about a hundred miles west of Panama City and 10 miles from the Pacific ocean. Found With Skeletons. At least hall of the gold objects found by the expedition came from 1 of 23 skeletons in three levels of a single grave. Presumably that of a chief, it had five of the large plaques or disks, as well as five smaller disks of thinner gold but also with ornate pictorial repousse ornamentation, and 30 small, thin gold disks with simple designs. Dr. Mason pointed out that reports of the Spanish Conquest stated that the chiefs wore gold disks in battle. On the skeleton of the same tribal chief who wore the 40 gold disks lay a pendant of heavy gold more than four inches long, in the form of an ornate animal figure, “probably a conventionalized crocodile,” with an emerald about an inch in diameter set in its back. Dr. Mason called this “one of the most beautiful and extraordinary gold objects ever found in America.” “The use of precicus stones in a setting of gold,” he said, "is ex* tremely unusual in native American cultures and few examples are known. The emerald is not of great commercial value and was probably obtained in Colombia.” Hus same chieftain also wore wristlets and anklets, including a beautiful pair of cuffs of solid heavy gold seven inches long. Interesting Objects. In the opinion of Dr. Mason some of the most interesting objects found were animals and human figures of carved bone, ivor* or rosen, with features such as r et, tails, wings and heads of gold ipplied to them as onlays. S “These,” he said, '‘are very fra gile though very beautiful and re quired careful museum treatment before exhibition. The ivory em ployed apparently came from the teeth of the sperm whale or manati ribs. Other typical objects are whale teeth with heads or ferrules of gold.” Hundreds of stone axheads and thousands of projectile points, along with several teeth of a fossil shark "which were apparently found in the Cretaceous strata and preserved as fetishes” comprised other discov eries of the expedition. The burying place at which the members worked apparently cov ers four or five acres and presum ably was reserved for the nobility, chiefs, their wives and servants. Wurlitxer Spinette Piano* S2M WttUy PARKER-GARDNER CO. Ill W. TnuU PboM «Z57 Sine* ism ROSELAND FLORAL CO S1W AND MM UK) N. 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T!- < rr.n ’• mothers are, left to right, Mrs. Ernestine Stern, tt, Mr . lie «•: tl, and Mrs. Elisabeth Kaiser, who won the THE LABOR PRESS The labor press is a sentinel on guard for the cause of mankind. Every possible effort should be given in order that your publication may be strengthened for still greater work which lies ahead. Your labor press renders an incalculable service to those who work. We cannot too strongly urge our fellow workers and friends to give loyal and tangible support. No greater avenue of education is available to the trade union move ment than your labor press. . The community which supports its Union paper reflects that co-operation through better, more effective local unions, councils and central bodies.
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