Chester Reporter (Newspaper) - December 18, 1941, Chester, Pennsylvania Chester PUBLISHED BV THE STRIKING A G EMPLOYES OF THE CHESTER TIMES Reporter VOL 1 NO 18 CHESTER PA THURSDAY DECEMBER 18 1941 THREE CENTS SHAKE UP HAWAIIAN COMM TVI r Women Voters Plan Big Expansion i Ask Study Of Of Fire Department Delinquency Our Position Today 700 Auxiliary Firemen To Help Existing Companies Guard Against Blazes Caused In Air Raids Recommend Survey By Trained Social Worker of Problem Admiral Generals Ousted From Jobs The Delaware Com Women Voters has Striking employes of the Chester Times who are the CHESTER REPORTER as a public service to community have accepted an offer of the State Mediation j Service to mediate the differences between the strikers and Charles R Long publisher of the Times j They accepted the State offer in preference to ing to by the Chester City Council of Army and Navy heads of the Hawaiian defense were removed from their jobs L t pi that they immediately return to work without a as an aftermath of the December 7 debacle at Pearl Harbor and the subsequent und then arbitrate the dispute They felt that the Defense j investigation by Secretary of the Navy Knox Secretary Knox announced that Admiral Husband E Kimmel had been ordered re By E J MAGNIN JR The Chester Fire citys first line of employment of a trained male claim made through Coordinator Paul J Carey defense in combating the results of enemy ready to begin building up its personnel to As a result of a meeting attended by representatives karned j Rear Admiral Chester V Nimitz replaces Admiral Kimmel while Lieutenant Gen of each of Chesters five volunteer companies plans were tion amplifies the recommendation The strikers sent a committee to Mr Carey yesterday j eral Delos C of the Air Corps lakes over General Shorts job roade for arranging of 700 auxiliary the Grand bearing the following communication j Some shakeup had been expected in the Islands after the statement of Secretary iv air cia experienced in Of publication of the Chester Times was i Heved of duty as of the Pacific Fleet and Secretary of War Henry L o hindering the defense effort was not a factual contention announced thai Lieutenant General Walter C Short commander of the Hawaiian l Publisher Long also rejected the Councils proposal it was j Department has boon replaced which suggested that a be men to augment the existing department of 500 men assure the city every protection possible against disasters Home in this city an effort to cor resulting from raids i red present conditions Each company was represented at the meeting which Mrs ciapp stated that the Lea vas held at the Felton firehouse by three engineers and a foreman Fire Chief Joseph Pierce arranged the session in cooperation with his assistants it was decided to install registra j tion booths for the enrolling of volunteer auxiliary firemen throughout the city with the figure j of 700 new men the citys full quota as the goal to be reached as quickly as possible A registration booth will be arj ranged at each of the five Hanley sing Good Will and j win be in full operation within the next few days EVERY ABLE BODIED MAX IX Chester Pa December 17 1941 I Hear Air Defense Duties Outlined Meet in the Swarth more Field House for First Instruction Period e Mr Paul J Carey Women Voters does not recom Coordinator Chester Council of Defense mend the contraction of a new pa i detention house at this time until Carev j i qualified personnel has han an j I opportunity to see what can IK Employes of the Chester Times organized as a unit of j done in more efficient operation of tjie American Newspaper Guild have selected the ithe present home i signed to communicate to you the decision of the striking i She also states that a larger de employes on your Knox that there had been carelessness in guarding the vital defense bases A board has been appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate the Pearl Harbor attack in which 2729 Navy men died U S airmen yesterday destroyed 20 Japanese planes in the Philip pines Led by a Penn sylvania flyer Lieutenant Boyd M Buzz Wagner they smashed at i Hie Japanese air concentration at Japanese have 200 miles northwest of FLASHES British admit that the made three landings on the island of Borneo to von me decision 01 me fe j ported that the invaders have landed troops on the island of v proposal to return to work and tention house is undesirable as Timor owned half bv the Dutch and half by the Portuguese modern practice favors making thoi the issue between them and management period of detention as short as The unit last after a very full and free discus HESTER WHO CAX POSSIBLY j Two thousand volunteers for DO SO SHOULD REGISTER FOR j civilian defense work called to THIS IMPORTANT DEFENSE AT THE EARLIEST OP gether over the countys alarm sys tem crowded the Swarthmore Col eSe Field House on Tuesday night Chief Pierce disclosed that all to hear outlined the work ahead of companies have been placed under them A new district system Under the Classes will be held in the Field new plan one piece of apparatus from each company in the district a alarm leaving at least one engine m each fire house at all times These will be called out only by the chief or his assistants in the event of emergency Assistant Chief Elmer Weigand explained to each foreman at the meeting the proper method of handling incendiary bombs Each fire company will call a meeting of its own members as soon as pos sible with Weigand to explain in firefighting to the entire units All firemen have been urged Continued on Page 4 House for these workers and the meeting was gun in the drive to educate ithe volunteers in their duties William F Delehanty chief air of the county was in charge William Enders executive secretary of the Delaware County Council of Defense James J Mc Donald assistant to Dr A C Marts executive director of Civilian De fense for the State and Sergeant William Ryne deputy chief air raid warden of Pennsylvania also spoke where children may stay for a few days during which they are wait ing a hearing The average num possible detention house unanimously to reject your proposal We were should not try to be an institution J for correction but rather a place to give you a summary of the reasoning in the meet ing that led to this decision In the first place the striking employes Jo not accept ber of children now detained contention that the strike is damaging the interests of in the home is five she states j the national defense in Chester and its vicinity The very The league today issued the important work of your Defense Council does need pub to be effective Avenues for this publicity other than the Chester Times are available to you These include the paper published by the strikers five days a week the Chester Reporter We are glad that the Defense Council has availed itself of the columns of our paper in the past lowing report on Home situation After inspecting the Juvenile the Juvenile j Detention home in Chester and tak ing testimony on the care of juvenile delinquents in Delaware county the December Grand Jury that V cial worker with adequate experi ence and in the handling of juvenile delinquents be employ ed and that a citizens advisory committee be appointed to work with the court and the juvenile of in perfecting the juvenile home service few Def erise Council in tlie future The Chester Reporter is pub as a service to the public and surely at this time there can be no greater service than to disseminate infor mation as to local defense We are happy to be able to give the Defense Council this cooperation in a war for democratic rights and our liberties as Americans Secondly those same rights and liberties are involved Among those who testified bej in our decision as to your proposal that we return to work fore the jury were Mrs George We reasonable normal proposals to Charles R Long Clapp chairman of the Delaware T county League of Women voters of the Chester Times We attempted to negotiate The classes at Swarthmore will and Mrs Frederick him for four months We took a strike vote during man of the leagues study group on j that period and allowed a long off period to elapse Appoint First Ward Wardens Group Organizes Zone Plans at Meeting In School Air raid wardens were appointed last night at the organizational teach the volunteers all of the i techniques of civilian defense un State regulation There also j and Mrs presented a will be classes in Chester under series of recommendations the re juvenile delinquency Mrs ciapp j between that vote and the beginning of the strike Portuguese cabinet met yesterday to cuss the reported landing of Japanese troops on Timor Besides the replacement of Admiral Kimj Empire It is also Manila Wagner Is Americas first ace of the war having shot down five lap planes and destroyed many more on fhe ground Japanese navigators were warn I nd that 20 big U SI submarines j were In the waters off the island RH mel and General Short in Hawaii it was announced that I r i1 A will ioln Lieutenant General C I linker of the An Co p vill take charge of the air forces in Hawaii replacing Major General Frederick L Martin Rear Admiral Nimitz who replaces Admiral Kimmel has been raised to the rank of full admiral Kimmel besides being head of the Pacific Fleet was head of the U S Fleet Chinese attacks north of besieged Kong were to have lo troops to their rear to cope with this new threat The Chinese it was said In Chungking were In the urea about 28 miles north of Hong Kong on the Kowloon Peninsula The British strong Japanese force was driving down Houg Kong were hold ment The otherarnv of the pincers was on the island of Borneo east of the strong naval base troops were storming close to this ces came closer to the city The British meanwhile were rushing reinforcements to the Ma layan front where Japanese attacks British naval base German Messerschmidt planes were continued unabated Jt was admit being used in the attack it was reported The attackers were reported within ten miles of the city ted by the British that the Jap anese have landed at Sarawak in northern Borneo However the i small garrison there retired wreck Nipponese motorized attack in northern Jjng stores them Luzon was driven back by American troops after a The Russians claim the capture hour battle wounded i the direction of Robert Granger suit of more than three years of land in Upper Darby under by league members of Police Joseph Lej Their recommendations included i Strange the following qualifications for a The spacious Field House may i male case worker see demonstrations of incendiary j from col bombs and other types of aerial ege or its equivalent or from a weapons zs it is spacious and has school of social case work Experi a dirt floor so there is no danger least one year in family of fire i casework under supervision Ex has announced that a in the field of delinquent Mr Long himself entered these negotiations personally i Spokane American losses were one killed and three i of hundreds of towns as their drive continued Plunging through a hole in the German lines near I Kalinin the Tied armies were said American planes from this Washington base i to have taken a city 40 milps to only once and that was almost three weeks after the strike started He then took the arbitrary attitude that ations would be utterly unavailing unless the Guild with drew one of its proposals They would be unavailing he said because he Charles R Long would say No no mat ter what arguments or considerations or reasons were brought forward The Guild believes in reason It believes in collective bargaining between the parties It believes in the Ameri meeting of the First Ward held at countywide system of children is vital Good personality j can method of the round table where the parties can attacked and sank an enemy submarine it was announced j the west in the Tula sector N No other details were available but it is assumed that sinking occurred in the past few days and in the Pacific close j to the West Coast Name Member Indict Trucker To Housing Board For Shortages the Smedley Junior High school j tion is in operation with centers in j Seventeenth and Upland streets j Chester Upper Darby Sharon James G Campbell Jr first Swarthmore Marcus Hook and at zone warden presided at the the Black Horse barracks of the ering which convened at S p m j State Motor Police Word can be and briefly outlined the flashed throughout the county in a of the setup for air raid protection Two men from each of the five precincts of the First Ward were designated zone wardens The following were appointed First and Joy Second precinct Rosenblatt and Continued on Page 4 few minutes of any approaching j dangers The Chester and Upper Darby clearing centers are tested once j during every 24 hours to make sure j word from Uleir son vernon Mar thresh out their differences The Guild does not believe in j the arbitrary No of a single man who places himself in a position to dictate the terms and conditions of the employ j ment of others Between the Guilds approach and Charles R Longs approach lies an example of the difference that divides the world today One man rather than bend his will to the changing Mr and Mrs F o rorsyth 1413 k hh employes on strike inconveniences the Local Youth Writes From USS Chester At Pearl Harbor have merchants of Chester and wastes a part of his own large that they are in perfect working ori shall who was in the j fortune It is precisely because we are patriotic Americans der The substations throughout midst and Callahan Fourth precinct Im schweiler and one other yet to be named Fifth precinct Downing and Springer These zone wardens were in to appoint two men as sec tor wardens in their respective neighborhoods who will be avail able at all times to direct safety in their areas Each of these will ap point ten post wardens so that the precincts are covered as well as possible Sergeant Edward Maguire of the Continued on Page 4 make regular tests and keep rej December that we will not return to work for Charles R Long until we have the normal union protection we need Charles Holberger Will Replace Thomas Reardon Let Contracts Contracts totaling were let by the Chester Housing Author ity on Tuesday for the Thurlow Acres operation of 350 housing units as the Authority welcomed Auburn Man First Violator Arraigned Under New Statute Vilh the indictment the were said to have been routed without a fight The British cruiser Dunedin was sunk in the Atlantic yesterday by German Uboat the Admiralty i announced Further details were not available In Washington leaders of labor and industry niet to discuss a vol system of preventing and work stoppages j President said that production must continue unbroken Twentyfour leaders met vitli the President 12 of them repre of labor and 12 of in dustry The House an Admin attempt to lower the min age at which men may be cords of them i Forsyth is a member of the crew Tne Guild has again and again deplored the breaking Although there may be flaws the uss Chester He is off of negotiations and again and again expressed its the system at the present time ed to be the only local resident to j 13 guess to sit down and negotiate with Mr Long We stil Village with Charles Holberger of the Elks as a new member replacing Thomas Reardon who completed his term The meeting was held in community center building of the first lowrent project of the Author Grand Jury of James McMenamin coal trucker Auburn Pa as a violator of the state laws governing the sale and dej inducted into the services from 21 livery of fuel Sealers of the Deist io 20 years The vote was 173 to ware County Bureau of Weights and Measures scored another de point in the war upon rack Tetter the House passed and sem to the a which calls for truckers aci lne registration of all men from IS cording to Arthur C Thome o C4 making men from County Engineer in charge of the 2 o 4 subject to military service Delehanty pointed out these stationed on the vessel which that to vOur V Weights Bureau McMenamin was accused of lie price Administrator Leon Hend orson announced that new auto will be as soon i bears the name of this city as proper equipment is secured At The letter which passed through The law of Pennsylvania provides that when a situa K Mitchell Jr executive and his assistant former City shorl on liles be available after Councilman John T Ross sitting an the present time the countywide naval censorship was dated De tion such as this arises in which a stalemate appears to vith the Board Darning system is working in the cember S the day following the i best possible manner and attack follows ments are being made every day j Everything is 0 K and I am the gtate Mediation Service be made available to I Board i and used by the disputants As you are aware two repre i fine Do not worry about me Be j of the State service are now in Chester They have I good soldiers at home and we will interviewed us and received our ready acceptance of their nt were j Arthur Stoddard P Gray and Mr Dr Joseph Dunn the other member was un Edward D Dr case is the first curtailed FEARED BURGLARY Patrolmen Gill Jardine and j do our best out here Merry Christj proposal that they mediate the Strike We trust they will j lo i Spellacy made a search of the home mas and best wishes for a Happy from Charles R Loner Then the Tno for con Of its kind m thS county and meet a Similar response irom rv uong men UL was given lo aml Of the first in Pennsylvania yeari parties can be brought together for a direct diSCUSSion Of of Philadelphia at the bki Throne said yesterday in comment fourton delivery of January 4 only to essential civilian The County users who will be given ration utuifT whose jurisdiction the cards by state and local boards functions joined Henderson said that production Throne in denouncing frit Auburn of new passenger car tires will be man as a persistent and flagrant almost entirely eliminated and new truck tire production will bo of Mrs Francis 1301 Potter Xew Year late after Marshalls original four SHOPPING DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS Mrs Murray returned home and j term of enlistment was scheduled j the issues them s found a door open and feared their j to terminate in April 1942 but all Charles R Long is ill the wrong stubbornly in i was a burglar inside No trace enlistments have recently been ex 11 of an intruder was found and tended by Congress until six wrong and the people of Chester know it If any patriotic ui wda auu ing appeared to have been months after the conclusion of the I Problem is involved m the continuance of this strike then I I j j i turbed war Continued on Page 4 price of They will have the principal job of erecting the ing upon the recent action of the Grand The Act of As 350 units of lowrent living provides that in the case ers on the third Chester Housing of a person accused of a fourth Authority area near Fifteenth j offense the violation becomes a Continued on Page Continued on Page UNCLE SAM NEEDS YOUR AID NOW CHRISTMAS SEALS Your Home from 6
