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THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE Land Grants
T HE rapid development of railroads following the construction of the first lines early in the last century was of great importance to the young nation whose population then was located mainly on or near sea coasts, lake shores and along water courses. The railroads connected widely separated areas, united the states, and put residents of every section in touch with those of every other section. Vast areas, theretofore unproductive, were opened for settlement; villages and towns were established along the rail lines as they were extended. The growth of agriculture and industry followed as products of forests and mines, farms and ranches ,,'ere made available to manufacturers and processors and consumers everywhere. Early in railroad history the government was impressed with the necessity for binding together all sections of the country, and providing adequate means for moving troops, supplies and mails so that its administrative activities and the growth of the nation would not be delayed and handicapped by dependence upon boats and horses and ox teams. Therefore, the government aided in the construction of some railroads in the 1850s, '06s and '70s, by grants of land along their proposed routes, with the provision that the railroads so aided must move, at greatly reduced rates, troops and government materials and mails over the lines afl"ected. Although the lVlilwaukee Road has a few small sections of line subject to land grant rates, the impact of the land grant acts on Mih"aukee revenues comes almost entirely from its agreement to equalize the land grant rates applicable to its competitors, and without which agreement the Milwaukee would be unable to participate in the traffic. In the year 194.3 alone land grant deductions reduced this railroad's freight revenues $10,500,000, and in addition a reserve of S3,500,000 was set up to cover items in dispute. If the land grant acts are repealed, the resulting increase in net income of the railroads will rellect but a slllall part of the increase in gross revenues, because the excess profits tax will return to the government a very large part of these additional revenues. In the case of the Milwaukee Road the increase in gross revenues incident to repeal 'rill be subject to the excess profits tax of 95 per cent, with a post war credit of 10 per cent, or a net tax of 85.5 per cent. Therefore, if the freight revenues of this road were increased $10,000,000, there "'ould be $8,550,000 returned to the government in taxes. Although the net increase would be relatively small, it would be helpful and is greatly needed. We appear to be at, or near, the peak of war traffic, but even if there are fmther increases in gross revenues, it is becoming increasingly apparent that railroad net income is on a sharp decline. The cost of materials and supplies is rising; the wage bill is substantially higher; and the revenue bill of 1944 increases the tax burden. No one knows how severe the postwar traffic decline will be, but all know it will be considerable. It may well be that with the increased costs the total revenues will not be sufficient even during the war to enable the railroads to give the efficient service that is essential, and it may be that it will be necessary to increase freight ra tes on all traffic. If the government paid commercial rates, it is conceivable that no general increase would be required, or, if required, a smaller increase might meet the situation than would be necessary if the land grant Tates were continued in effect. The grant of lands to the railroads would have been a good bargain for the government even if no reductions from tariff rates had been made as a consideration for the grant. This is true because the' building of the rail· roads opened up the territory for settlement and the direct result was that where there had been little market for the lands there was an active market and the government was able to sell its remaining lands at more than double the fonner selling price. The intangible value to the nation as a whole was of supreme importance, as it bound together far·Aung territories in a way that was theretofore impossible. That was the vision of President Lincoln when he signed the Pacific Railroad laws in 1862. The government has received by way of rate reductions a sum far in excess of the total value of the lands at. t.he time of the grants. It may well be that within a single year during t.his war period the reductions will equal the total value of the lands granted to the railroads. The land grant acts operate unequally and unfairly as between different railroads. Some railroads which received no land grants or grants of little value, but who are in land grant territory, must bear the burden of the reduced rates as a condition of participating in the traffic, while other roads which are not in land grant teo'itory collect their full commercial rates. The land grant rates discriminate as between shippers, making it difficult and frequently impossible for certain shippers to compete for government business. The land grant rates impose an undue burden on all shippers other than the government. The whole body of rates must be so adj usted as to yield revenues which will enable the railroads to perform an efficient trans portation service. When, therefore, the government, which is at all times a large shipper, and which, in periods of war, controls a substantial part of the total traffic moving by rail, receives a reduction in varying amounts up to 50 per cent, it appears that the traffic of others must be charged higher rates than would otherwise be necessary. In recent hearings before a Congressional Committee, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Office of Defense Transportation, the National Association of Railroad & Utility Commissioners, the National Industrial Traffic League, the National Association of Shippers Advisory Boards, the United States Chamber of Commerce, railroad labor organizations, and other groups urged that land grant deductions be ended.
May, 1944 Maintenance of way men of the 744th rehearse lor combat as they help Milwaukee Road section men repair the Washington Avenue viaduct track in Minneapolis. The 744 th HERE has been an air of home T coming around Minneapolis and St. Paul since early March when the 744th Railway Operating Battalion, "the Milwaukee Road's own," moved into our shops and onto our rails for a period of intensive training. After spending the winter in Fort Sam Houston, Tex., where it was ac tivated, the battalion's luck held good as it moved north with the spring to its new home at Fort Snelling, Below-circle: No Army railroad could run a few miles out of Minneapolis. long without ils blacksmiths. and our shops There is a rightness about a Milwaukee Road outfit training on its own in St. Paul bear out the fact. Shown. I. to r" are: Pfc. Simon I. Markovich, formerly with home ground that bodes ill for our enemies. Of course, being determined lhe Carnegie lllinois Steel Co.; Carl Lande, blacksmilh; Pfc. lames R. King, who worked to contribute to the brilliant record of the Military Railway Service in this as a blacksmith in the Navy Yard crt Pearl war, these boys could be expected to '''ark hard at the business of learning Harbor before being called to the Army. the Army's brand of railroading, but being on their own home ground seems Below-righl: L. to R.: Pfc. Julius M. Fischer, who is training as a brakeman; H. V. Dunt to generate a little extra enthusiasm for the task at hand. ley, swilchman: and Ll. Col. R. E. Sherer, T.C" slalioned al Fort Snelling. Our premises have an unmistakable G. I. look as the boys in khaki go about their business with a lantern or a spike maul or a welding torch in one hand and a salute in the other, but the old Milwaukee friendliness is unchanged. It shows on the face and in the manner of every officer and enlisted man on the job, whether he learned to railroad with us or not and many of them did not. The unit is sponsored by the Milwaukee P. J. Madig . Yard. "brie/s,?n (exlreme ri h men and ,an lncom' 9 f), Ira;"", SW,tchmen t ,"g grou>:> 0/ asler at th S a fhe chang soldier eng' e t. PaUl e 0/ the shift~neers, fire_
Pvt. Sam Zeitman. formerly a welder at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. welds a line seam on a wrecked box liar at the Minne apolis shops. At the right is Chris Hyllestad. welder. Standing in the car is Lt. Robert A. Howell, former car foreman on the Cen tral of Georgia at Albany. Ga., who is now Takes Oyer qeneral car foreman of the battalion. It's Old Home Week in the Twin CitJies of them is beginning to feel and act As "Our Own" Trains on Our Own Trains like a dyed-in-the-wool Milwaukee Road man. Road and largely officered by our represented than any other railroad. Many of the men, fortunately, own men, under the command of ~Iost of Men Are Former Rails have little to learn, aside from the Lt. Col. W, J, Hotchkiss, former About 75 per cent of the men in Army's strategic variations on the superintendent on the H&D Division, the battalion as a whole, and 90 per familiar railroading theme. Others but only a small percentage of the cent of those in the operating com are breaking new ground in the mat ,I enlisted personnel hails from our pany, were railroading on one line ter of how to lift a tie, operate a own road. However, despite the or another before entering the Army, lathe, or run an engine. The super censorship hush-hush on the number Just about every railroad in the visors agree, though, that the over of men in the battalion and the per country-as well as a few ship yards, all result is in the railroad's favor. centage that comes from the Milwau drug stores, high schools, farms and The men are more' of a help than a kee, it can be said that the desire law firms-are represented. They hindrance-which was to be expect of newly inducted men from our own come from all parts of the country, ed, as it has been Colonel Hotchkiss' ranks to get into the 744th has re from all income brackets and from desire from the beginning to acquire sulted in our being somewhat better all walks of life, but every last one as many experienced railroad men
The ollicers of the ?44th Railway Operating Battalion are shown Capt. Elbert F. Utter; Lt. Claude B. Richardson, Seattle, Wash. Back below. For the sake 01 brevity, the railroad from which each man row: Lt. Ralph I. McKinney; Lt. Thor Monrad; Lt. Ferdinand A. Ziebell hails is indicated only for the Milwaukee Road men. and this only (Milwaukee Road man. but location not designated); Lt. loseph P. by showinq where he was formerly employed; it is permissible to Welch, Milwaukee Terminals; 2nd Lt. David ',B. Armstrong; Lt. Robert show only a limited amount of information concerninq these men. A. Howell; 2nd Lt. Cyrus S. Broadstone; 2nd Lt. E. B. Camper; 2nd Front row. I. to r.: Lt. Malthew P. O·Loughlen. Madison Division; Lt. Robert O. Kedney; Lt. John D. Reed. Kansas City Division; 2nd Lt. 2nd Lt. Henry F. Lucas'. Chicago, 111.; WOIG Dean E. Dornberger; Foster I. Phillips, LaX&R Division; 2nd Lt. Wm; T; Hankins; 2nd Lt. Lt. Forrest I. Hosler; 2nd L't. Leo C. Curley; Lt. lohn W. McReynolds. Blanchard L. Pritchard. Not shown in the picture 'are Lt. Hobart M. Marion, lao Middle row: Lt. Charles D. Rice (chaplain); Lt. Daniel Aggers. lormerly employed in Miles City; Lt. 'William J. Winfree; 2nd Gerone; Lt. Girard; LI. Edward Gongaware. LaX&R Division; Lt. Col. Lt. Lambert D. Keating. formerly employed in Chicago; and 2nd Lt. W. I. Hotchkiss. Aberdeen, S. D.; Mai. lames D. Shea, Aberdeen. John A. Smoak. S. D.; Capt. W. W. Hay. La Crosse, Wis.; Capt. Roscoe L. Allen; officials 11 a v e ing, in a general way, the depart met a number ments, of times with One company furnishes dispatch the battalion's ers, telegraphers, station agents and staff officers to the cooks of the unit. Another com discuss operat. pany, in charge of maintenance of i n g matters, way, keeps the tracks laid and re training paired. Another company performs schedules. and the important task of keeping all safety. . equipment in tiptop condition; they Battalion are the boys who get down under Patt~rned and look up. Another company com After posed of the train and engine crews, Railroad is responsible for moving the trains Dh'ision after the other companies have made Having read things ready. These are the skills the many which the men of the 744th are per press accounts fecting on our trains, in our shops, of the vel' y and on our tracks in the Twill Cities nearly impos and at outlying points along the sible t h i n g s line where actual combat conditions This picture was taken at a recent safety meeting which the officers of the battalion A I'm y r a i I can be more readily simulated, and officers of the railroad held at Fort roaders have been doing in North Snelling. The three soldiers in the foreground, When, where, and whether these looking at the safety glasses, are, I. to r.: Sgt. Africa, Iran, Alaska, and Italy, most men will match their courage and William Mayhall. Pvt. William Weisser, and M/Sgt. Jack David. In the second row are: of us know in a general way what the skill against that of the enemy on F. M. Washburn. company safety engineer, function of a railw"ay operating bat Maj. James D. Shea, Lt. Col. W. J. Hotchkiss, some flaming front is anyone's guess, G. M. Dempsey, general inspector, division talion is. There is no debating the but of this we can be certain: When of safety, and M. L. Medinger, safety engi fact that a railroader is a railroader neer. the call comes, they'll do their job for keeps; and that a soldier in the right; they'll do it fast, definitely, Army of the United States is a G. 1. and for keeps. They'll do it Mil as possible. The manpower which guy right down to his thick shoe soles. waukee Road style, the railroad lost to the Army is being and ready to offer deadly proof of partially repaicl. the fact, but in a railway battalion • The smoothness with which the the two can be found combined to Fire your dollars at America's enemies. Milwaukee Road and the Army are perfection. Put 10 per cent of your earnings into War working together can be traced to The purpose of such a unit is dual. Bonds every pay day. the interest our operating officers are Like all soldiers, they are fighting • taking in the battalion's training. Di men, qualified in rect telephone connections have been the weapons and established through the office of Su trained in the art perintendent Bagnell in Minneapolis, of warfare. But thereby making it possible for Col over and above onel Hotchkiss and any official or that, the y a I' e supervisor anywhere on the railroad capable of taking to get in touch with each other al o vel' any and most immediately. Groups of our eve I' y kind of railroad e qui p ment the y can lay hands on and The Cove.. using it to get men and mate At the close of a long day spent in a tour of the Twin City rials where they Terminals, where the 744th is a I' e needed. As in training, these three key fig. soldier - railroad ures in the intensive training ers, they are an program pause in front of the battalion headquarters building adaptable, un at Fort Snelling to study a dia beatabe, incred gram showing the terminals and ibly . resourceful the converging lines of railroad combination. where G.!. crews are rehearsing for war. D. T. Bagnell, terminal Their courage superintendent, is shown be has already been tween the battalion commander, proved in t his Lt. Col. W. J. Hotchkiss (right), war and their ac former H&:D Division, superin. tendent, and Maj. James D. complishm en t s Shea, former trainmaster at read like fiction. Aberdeen, S. D., who is execu A railway op tive officer of the battalion. erating battalion The Milwaukee Magazine ex is patterned after This group of G.I. telegraphers is but one of several now in training presses its appreciation to the with the 744th. learning how to "send the word Over there." or some U. S. Army Signal Corps for a division of a where. In the left background are: Lt. Col. W. J. Hotchkiss; Super this picture and those on pages mtendent D. T. Bagnell of the Twin City Terminals; Lt. M. P. O'Lough civi lian railroad, len. former train dispatcher at Madison. Wis.. and now director of 4, 5 and 6. the various com the telegraphy school; T/Sgt. D. E. Pratt, instructor of telegraphy. SjSgl. Melvin A. McGoon, former agent at Weaver. Minn.. and now panies represent- an instructor. is shown in the immediate foreground. THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE CONCERNING OUR CONDITION May, 1944 Vol. XXXII No.2 ' Effective with this issue. And :It , rt j'he invitation-yea, the pointed in~ ~istf'nce---of the War Production Board, the )Iilwaukee Maga7.inp- bp MARC GREEN, editor ,.'" A. G. DUPUIS, manatjer comes a member of the Curtailed Press. And thn t. considpred wi til ~omewh<1.t more sober reganl for it~ • jrnplica tions, means that we lllU:-;t PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT - UNION STATION, CHICAGO print Oll 25 per cent less pappr. The tidings, wafted OUf wny on Subscription rate $1.00. Single copies 10c the wings of "Part 3133 of ,Yar Production Board Publica tion Liwi ta tion Onler L-2:14 a~ amended .. alTh-ed Oil Apr. 10, effective fit least immediately. It all but jimmied the mercial agent at that point in 1929, and later as chief yard clerk, in the works. Compliance with the order on :;;.uc!J and on Jan. 1, 1939, was promoted Western Avenue yard. In 1916 he <;11 01' t notice r.alled for Clui .... k and to the position of general agent there. left the railroad to take other em· arhHrary action. bnt tllp trick ll~l:-: ployment, returning in 1919 to a po· heen turned in the presem: i~~lIE' b, • l'pdllcing tile weight of Ol1l' p;llJ("r sition in the trainmaster's office at ~to("k and by making I'l :-;lnsll in tile Humber of ("opie~ printed. Tile la t E. F. Vandrell Appointed Galewood station, Chicago. On Apr. tpl' expedient menn~ tha t :-.OIllP grollps 28, 1919 he was transferred to the all the railrond are l'l'eej\'in!: a Agricultural Agent slightly shrunken allotment of I~nlg office of general superintendent of azille~ this mont.h. thus c,dling for Earl F, Van transportation, in Chicago, and from n hit of magazine pooling. \\e heart ily (lislike haYing to takp that way drell of Stough that time was continuously employed, ont, hnt our choice is limited. :"anlPs He made many contacts throughout of ~cr\"icell1en on our lUniling list ton, Wis., has will !lot be l'emo\-ecl. 110wen~r. the railroad and was very widely It cannot be said fol' ~nre a t this been appointed timc whether the 2;3 per cent cut will a g ric u lit ural known and well liked. continue to be made through reduc He is survived by his widow, Mrs. tion in pl-lper weight and circulation, agent with head· or whether it will be accomplished quarters in Chi Emma A. Jones, who resides in Chi by pllbli~bing a magazine of fe\yer cago. png'es. Since t.he latter altprnati,e cago, to repre· lool\s more likE'! suicide, we naturall, sent the road in • hope to a\"oid it and tbe contingen't In one large town somebody started the It llep(1 of reducing the size of the type. general agricul The type face employed in parts of E. F. Vandrell idea of sending two or three dollars ;worth tural W 0 r k in j-his issue is somewlwt smallpl' thllll of War Savings Stamps to friends confined tllllt Ilspd in the magazine dlll"illg communities served by us in Illinois, the last fe\\- years, but the change in hospitals. And why not? The War Sav lIas been m:Hle for the renson that Indiana, Wisconsin and upper Michi· ings Stamps are appreciated years after nc\\"s about, and pic:tIlI"E'!s of, our bo,s gan, The appointment becomes ef• in military ser,ice, togetber with flowers are wilted and forgotten. the regular ne\,s of toe railroad, put fective May IS. sllcll tel'rHic pressure on OUl· limited • l'OlmllnS that ~ometiling- has to gh-e. A native of Green Bay, Wis., Mr. Xntul'ally, if our mailing list cannot Vandrell was graduated from the be held at the point \,here it has llOW been set. the t:,--pe size will ha,e University of Wisconsin, and re to be reduceu e\-en further and the magazine printed on fe\\-pr pages. ceived an advanced degree from Feeling that the :\Iilwaukee :\Iaga~ Penn State College. He has been em zine carries nn essential message and does an essential morale-b1lilding job ployed as a seed analyst and has also in ::111 essential indllstl"y' \,e ha,e done experimental farm work and made eYery effort to forestall curtail went of any kind. but in time of taught agriculture. For the past IS Traffic Department war \\-e all ll111:-5t do tllings we db years he taught and counseled out·of like doing, and cease doing thing":" we PlljOY. The limitation placed on school rural youths and adults in ag· Effective May 1, 1944: lIS is no more se,cre than tlJat sllf riculture, being employed by the J. H. Bradley is appointed general fered by most publications. "oe may grouse and grumble HE road's Safety Award for T 1943 was presented to Superin. tendent W. G. Bowen of the Dubuque & Illinois Division at a banquet in the Savanna Township High School on the evening of Apr. 12. The large silver trophy, presented by H. A. Scandrett, represents a tribute from the Milwaukee Road as a whole to the employes of the D&I for having surpassed all other divisions last year in the saving of lives and the prevention of inj ury to employes. With M. 1. Bluhm, general solici tor, deftly toastmastering the affair, the program moved along rapidly, providing the 600 officers, super· visors and employes with entertain· ment, and instilling in them an even greater determination to further the cause of safety. The banquet came as the crowning event in a day which began with a luncheon and tour of inspection at the Savanna Ordnance Depot where a nu'mber of Milwaukee Road offi cials were the guests of Col. M. A. Brackett. Later. a military band ren dered a brief 'concert at the Mil waukee Road Depot in Savanna pre ceding the raising of the American Aag and the Safety Award pennant on a pole recently erected on the station grounds. The pennant, award· ed this year for the first time, will be retained by the D&I Division re gardless of whether it wins first place in the accident prevention contest next year; each division winning first Brilliant sunshi.ne contributed to the impressiveness of the flag raising ceremony on the place in future years will be awarded Savanna station grounds. The big new American flag was iirsl raised by a detachment a 'similar pennant. from the Savanna Ordnance Depot, and then lowered after the Ordnance Depot Band had played the Star Spangled Banner. The safety pennant was then attached below the flag The speaking program followed a and both were raised to the top of the flagpole. Shown here, performing the latter part of the ceremonYI are, 1. to t.: J. J. Van Bockern, trainmaster; W. G. Bowen, superintendent; plentiful and succulent dinner of H. A. Scandrett, trustee; L. J. Benson. assistant to chief operating officer; H. Wuerth, division roast turkey, followed by cigars and engineer: and L. H. Rabun, division master mechanic. made pleasant throughout by a group against carelessness, and by laying certainly not gentle. Mr. Gillick said of four young women entertainers the elaborate plans for the banquet, Martin felt that officers, supervisors, who not only provided dinner music Mr. Benson passed along to H. A. and employes deserving of criticism but furnished the accompaniment Scandrett, trustee, and J. T. Gillick, about safety violations should cer· while the group entertained itself vo chief operating officer, the honor of tainly not be too thin-skinned to cally. making the prinicpal addresses. stand up under criticism; that every As the picture of the speakers' table indicates, there were anum· j}lust Understand Need lor ber of guests present from outside Censure. Gillick Says the railroad, several of whom spoke J. T.Gillick pointed out in his briefly to the assemblage. informal talk that his main concern 1. J. Benson, assistant to chief op with respect to safety involved some erating officer, in charge of the div· of the things we are not doing.. He ision of safety, confined his remarks said he felt we could not afford to to an expression of appreciation to be lenient in our attitude toward the employes of the D&I and to a safety violations, and told some hu heart.warming eulogy of George Lay. morous instances about the supervi ton, long-time captain of police at sion of safety matters when they were Savanna. Having' done his share in under the jurisdiction of Martin the cause of safety during 1943 by Flanigan, whose methods of super conducting an aggressive campaign "ising safety were effective, though one concerned with the supervision of safety was working to prevent loss of life and to prevent injury, and that if severe censure because of safety rule violations would result in the saving of life or the prevention of an inj ury, the severity of the cen sure was justified. "Repeating figures," Mr. Gillick said, "sometimes sounds like old stuff, but I hope it will always affect us as it should to hear repeated that in 1943, twenty-two of us were killed and 864 received reportable injuries; some of them later resulting in death and many others so serious that those receiving them cannot return to their normal places in life. Above. H. A. Scandrett, trustee (left), "Such a record put us in eleventh climaxes the banquet by presenting the cov place with other Class I railroads; eted Safety Award to W. G. Bowen, s'uper intendent of the D&l Division. M. L. Bluhm, further, if all of the divisions on the general solicitor, who acted as toastmaster, railroad had done as well as you, we is at the right. would still be in fourth place. Right. J. T. Gillick, 'chief operating ollicer, explains to the 600 employes at the banquet "I hope that every man here to· that they cannot afford to be thin-skinned night will keep in mind these figures, when censured for safety rule violations. 22 ... 864. It would serve no pur pose to point out that these deaths safety to others so that they too will and inj uries were generally due to practice as well as preach safety. acts of carelessness. However, a lot If we will all do that, many more of good would come from every man men now in our service will be here in this room promising himself that to attend other such gatherings." on leaving here tonight he will pre Scandrett Points to Need for vent accidents to himself and preach Combating War Strain After humorously prefacing his remarks with an appropriate story, «'ire Prevention Story H. A. Scandrett said that in inspect to Appear in June ing the property, one of the most Issue heartening things that met his eye was a sign on the roundhouse door Due to a lack of space in this saying that this was the 601st day issue of the Magazine, the Fire without an injury. Prevention LtUlcheon which "Tonight," he said, "the Dubuque was held in Terre Haute, Ind., & Illinois Division is the real head on Apr. 18, cannot be reported quarters of the Milwaukee Road be nothing that'would give me a warmer at this time but will be found cause in the year 1943 it had the feeling throughout my being than to in the June number. The party, best safety record of any of the 18 have the Milwaukee Railroad stand occasioned by the Terre Haute divisions. If I were a superintendent where it belongs-at the top of the Division having won the Fire of a division on our railroad, there list in the national safety contest. In Prevention Trophy for 1943, would be no accomplishment by the 1931 and in 1933 we came close to was colorful, well-attended and people of the division that would achieving that goal, but, unfortu inspiring. Watch for the story give me greater satisfaction than to nately, in 1942 and 1943 we slipped, in the next issue! know that that division was the and slipped badly. safest· one on the railroad. There is "There is a feeling of stress and The speakers' table at the Safety Award Banquet. L. to Roo are: F. H. Allard, assistant to chief operating ollicer; 1. W. Severs, assistant to trustee and assistant comptroller; 1. Strub, chief of police, Dubuque, la.; D. C. Curtis, chief purchasing ollicer; Hon. R. B. Law, mayor of Savanna, Ill.; 1. T. Gillick, chief operating ollicer; L. ]. Benson, assistant to chief operating officer; M. L. Bluhm, general solicitor; H. A. Scandrett, trustee; Col. M. A. Brackett, O.D., commanding Savanna Ordnance Depot; W. G. Bowen, superintendent of the D&l Divl$ion; L. K. Sorensen, general assistant to chief operating officer: W. H. Penfield, chief engineer; J. E. Bjorkholm, superintendent motive power. came, the railroads were ready and that we had confounded those critics of the railroad industry who regarded it as a dying industry. "Our critics have been silenced," he said, "and our friends have told us that the rail roads are doing one of the finest jobs I of any industry in the country. The Milwaukee Road has done its full I part. We have carried more freight, \I'e have carried more passenger5 than ever before, and we have han dled both without serious delay. We have met every demand made upon us, notwithstanding that we are short over 2,400 men at the present time. I am proud to be a member of this great organization, and I am proud of the work being done today." Turning to Superintendent Bowen, NIr. Scandrett then said, "Now, Mr. L. J. Benson. assistant to chief operating a damned thing for the boys over Bowen, it is a privilege, and a great officer, in charge of the safety division, ex presses his appreciation to the employes of there. I can't do this safety job, NIr. privilege, to present to you this the D&1 Division for their efforts in the cause Gillick can't do it, and lVIr. Benson trophy, which signifies the winning of safely. can't do it. I think Mr. Benson is of the safety contest in 1943 on the strain not only on the railroad but in working harder other activities of life as a result of and more intelli the war, and when people are under gently than any going strain, it is easy for their at other man on any tention to be diverted from their other railroad in jobs; and when their attention is di this kind of verted from their jobs, an accident work. The only is very likely to happen. There are way we can get over 5,000 of our employes in the on top of this is armed services, and I suppose there for everybody to . is hardly a family on the railroad be thinking about . that has not one or two or three or it and doing more boys in the armed forces. We something about cannot afford to let this strain and it and doing it stress and worry divert our attention all together." from our. j obs. Your boys are not NIr. Scandrett doingth.at. They've got their eyes lauded the job and theIr thoughts on their jobs the railroads are every day and night. If you are do i n g in war careless and lying in bed as the re time. He said sult of an injury, you are not doing that when the war This quartet of talented entertainers con tributed greatly toward making the banquet the very enjoyable aHair that it was. Standing of Divi.dons in Safety Conte.'lt Entire Yea" 1943 Milwaukee Road. As lVlr. Benson Reportable 1. C. C. Casualties Casualty pointed out, if you win it again this Rank Division Killed Injured Rate year, it becomes the permanent prop 1 Dubuque & Illinois . 25 5.97 erty of the division. I tender my 2 Milwaukee . 22 6.20 heartiest congratulations to you and, 3 Iowa & Southern Minn . 2 14 6.28 through you, to every man and wo 4 Iowa . 31 6.36 man on your division. You have 5 Idaho . 16 7.62 6 Twin City Terminal . 49 8.35 indicated to me that you are going 7 Iowa & Dakota : . 1 35 7.92 to win it in 1944. Seventeen other 8 Coast . 1 40 8.45 superintendents say you haven't a 9 Hastings & Dakota . 31 8.75 chance. Far be it from me to get 10 Trans-Missouri . 1 31 8.76 11 LaCrosse & River ' . 2 56 9.00 mixed up in that controversy. Best 12 Madison . 18 9.36 of luck to you and all of the other 13 Kansas City . 26 9.55 17 superintendents, and may you all 14 Terre Haute . 38 9.82 have better records than you had this 15 Rocky Mountain . 2 39 10.44 16 Superior . 22 11.57 past year." 17 Chicago Terminals . 5 126 15.44 NIr. Bowen replied, "I am sure 18 Milwaukee Terminals : . 3 193 18.38 that the other 17 superintendents are Others (Incl. Police, General Office and S&DC) . 4 52 5.04 going to have their hands full if they TOTAL SYSTEM . 22 864 9.75 overtake us and win this cup next yeaI'. " 10 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE Quick Thinking Averts a Serious Accident It is difficult to tell a man how to no opportunity to notify its crew westbound track. but wet snow prevent an accident. All too fre of the possibility of one of the de smothered it and prevented its flaring quently the lesson can be learned railed cars fouling the westbound up immediately. Working like light only as the moral to a sad story in track. It was, therefore, plainly up ning, he lit the second one and waved volving the loss of life. But an in to the men on the head end of No. it from the cab of No. 72's engine, cident which occurred recently teach 72 to do something about it and do which was still moving. es an even more significant lesson, it in a hurry, as No. 2/15 was ap Fortunately, when the derailment as it demonstrates not what was done proaching not more than a half mile occurred, the cab signal on No. 2/15 wrong, but what was done right. The away. was caused to flicker and then give men whose quick thinking changed This is what they did: a red signal, due to a pair of wheels the set-up for a bad wreck into a When Engineer Rice on No. 72 of a derailed car having been thrown lesson in safety practice have been lost his air by the train parting, he across the westbound track. Instead highly commended. called to Fireman 1. 1. Chappell and of merely wondering what caused it, It happened about 4 o'clock on the Brakeman W. E. LaFleur to protect Engineer P. H. Voss on No. 2/15 morning of Mar. 7. No. 72, a meat No. 2/15, knowing that the west immediately applied the brakes to re train, derailed three cars of meat bound track might be blocked. Both duce speed. Fireman E. J. Hamele about one mile west of Cheney, a Chappell and LaFleur grabbed for a on No. 2/15, who was maintaining a station west of Portage, Wis., due to fusee, as Engineer Rice cut out the proper lookout, immediately noticed a broken journal on one of the cars. headlight on his engine to enable the fusee stop sign from the engine The second section of No. 15 had the crew on No. 2/15 to see the fusee. cab of No. 72 and yelled to Voss left Portage westbound, and there was LaFleur lit one and threw it onto the who made an emergency application of air. A derailed car which came to rest about 500 feet east of Cheney, with the body off the trucks, was too close History of Hiawatha Band Presented for No" 2/15 to avoid hitting it al together, but the prompt action taken to H. A. Scandrett by every man involved prevented in jury to anyone, despite the fact that An attractively illustrated booklet a number of individuals who have the left cylinder and the left side of entitled The History of YOnl'Milwau been instrumental in the organiza the cab on No. 2/15's engine were kee Road Hialvatha Service Club tion's rapid development. The pre torn off. The train came to a full Band, was presented to H. A. Scan sentation concludes appropriately stop before reaching the pair of drett in honor of his birthday on with the band's honor roll, listing wheels that remained across the west Apr. 8 by a committee representing the names of 22 former employe mu bound main at the point of derail the band. sicians who have gone into military ment. Hand lettered 'by Eugene W. Weber, service from the ranks of the rail road and the band. Man.' director of the band, the volume sets forth directly and concisely the his The booklet provides a neat sum Man is still the world's most miraculous tory of the C'hicago, Milwaukee and ming up of the activities of an or mechanism. Tn 70 years 0/ life, a human St. Paul Railway Employe's Band, ganization which has done much to being eats 1,400 times his body weight, over 100 Ions of food, and he spends five organized in 1918, and the events carrY the name of the Milwaukee full years putting food into his mouth. If which have marked the inception and Road before the public and to pro his weight is average, every day of his life growth in prestige of the present vide entertainment for employe and his heart beats 103,680 times, he breathes band. Featured treatment is accorded non-railroad groups. 23,040 times, he inhales 438 cubic feet of air, gives 0 If 85 degrees F. of heat and moves 750 major muscles; his nails grow 0.000046 inches, his hair 0.01714 inches and he utters 4,800 words. The average person blinks 25 times a minute and scien tists say each blink takes one-fifth oJ a second. Thus, if he averaged 40 miles an hour on a 10 hour motoring trip, he t(,ould drive more than 25 miles with his eyes shut. The body can take a lot of punish ment and still keep on functioning. Man can get along fairly well, apparently, with Ollt his gall bladder, spleen and appen dix. He can dispense with one kidney, two qllarts of blood, half his brain and all his teeth and still live. And when he dies, he does not die all at once. The brain survives 10 minutes; ey~s, 30 min utes; ears, one hour; blood molecules, 18 hours; bones, 3 days; and skin, 5 days. A woman, launching• her first sMp, was a little nervous. She turned to the shipyard mana.ger, standing be Shown at the presentation of the History are, I. to r.: Mcrr1in fos. Biller (front), general side her, and asked: "How hard do chairman of the Milwaukee Hiawatha Service Club: Joseph Mazanec, secretary-treasurer of the Band Unit of the Service Club: H. A. Scandrett; Miss Abbie Wendell, majorette: Archie I have to hit it to knock it into the W. Graf, chairman of the Band Unit. ' water?" May, 1944 II * * Pvl. Deane Gigous Wallace A. Darling. Jr.. U.S.N. Pvt. Deane Gigolls, former Wallace A. Darling, Jr., ly employed as a locomotive storekeeper 3/C in the Navy, fireman in the Milwaukee Ter Maj. Paul G. Hollister is the son of W. A. Darling, a Lt. Richard L. Crawlord minals, is in training at Camp Maj. Paul G. Hollister, for yardman employed at Bartlett, 1st Lt. Richard 1. Craw Cushing, Ft. Sam Houston, San mer cas hie r at Harlowton, Ill. He is somewhere at sea. ford, formerly a dining car Antonio, Tex_ Mont., entered officer's training waiter, working out of Chi school in October, 1940, and cago, left for somewhere in has a-dvanced rapidly since. He the South Pacific in January was awarded the Silver Star of this year. His father, C. J. for gallantry in action with an Crawford, is also a waiter on anti-tank outfit during the Sa our dining cars. nanda campaign in the jungles of New Guinea. He is now stationed somewhere in Aus tralia. Charles J. Gormally, Jr., U.S.N. Charles J. Gormally, Jr., seaman 3/c, is the son of C. 1. Gormally, a boilermaker helper 2nd Lt. John L. Maher at the Sioux City roundhouse. 2nd Lt. John 1. Maher, who At present he is stationed at was employed aa a commercial Farragut, Idaho. rate clerk in St. Paul at the Pic. Karl L. Zweiger Joseph C. Calligan. U.S.N. time of his enlistment in Aug Pfc. Karl 1. Zweiger, for ust, 1942, has recently com Joseph C. Calligan, former merly employed on the section switchman in the Sioux Falls pleted a flying course in the at Rip 0 n, Wis., and son of Pan·ama area and has been yard, is now a shipfitter 2/C Section Foreman Herman E. assigned to a fighter squadron in the Navy. He is a son of vet· Zweiger of Ripon, is now sta· to take part in the defense of eran Conductor Tim Calligan tioned somewhere in India. vital Panama Canal installa and a son·in·law of veteran tions. Conductor Tom Crellin. Pvt. Raymond R. Fuller Pvt. Raymond R. Fuller, for mer track laborer at Bath and Groton, S. D., is with an anti· Sgl. Edward J. Pecenka Lt. C. W. Stockwell, Jr. PIc. J. A. Stockwell Corp. G. F. Stockwell aircraft outfit on the west coast. Sgt. Edward J. ~ecenka, C. W. Stockwell, demurrage clerk employed at Western Ave He is the son of William A. who, prior to entenng the nue, Chicago, has three sons in the armed forces. 1st Lt. Charles Fuller, a retired section laborer Army, was a section laborer at W. Stockwell, Jr., is somewhere overseas with a medical branch at Groton, S. D., and is the Lesterville, S. D., has a broth. of the Air Corps. Pfc. James A. Stockwell is with a marine brother of William T. Fuller, er who is a section foreman at amphibious corps now somewhere in the South Pacific. Corp. roadmaster at Glencoe, Minn., Stickney, S. D. Sgt. Pecenka George F; Stockwell is a dental technician connected with the and Dwight A. Fuller, section is now somewhere overseas station hospital at Camp Forrest, Tenn. foreman at Bath, S. D. with an engineering outfit. 12 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE George E. Garin. U.S.N. George E. Garin, motor ma Pvt. Belly Drakman chinist's mate 21 c, is now sta· tioned at a -diesel base some· Betty Drakman, daughter of where in the South Pacific. He Nels Roth. chauffeur in the is a former fireman on the Pvl. Lewis Garrison TIS'll. Calvin Garrison store depa;tment, Minneapolis, LaX&R Division at .the Min Edward Garrison, yard conductor in the St. Paul yard, has is taking Air Wac training at neapolis shops. He is the son two sons in the Army Air Forces. Pvt. Lewis Garrison is in a Fort Des Moines, Ia. Her hus of George S. Garin, a machin repair squadron, whereabouts uncertain; T/Sgt. Calvin Garrison, band is an air cadet in train· ist at the South Minneapolis formerly with the 8th Air Corps in England, was reported miss· ing in California. roundhouse. ing over France on Feb. 25, but is now known to be a prisoner of war in Germany. Kenneth G. Laufle. U.S.N., and lather, Gus Laufle Kenneth G. Laufle, seaman Z/c, son of Switchman Gus Corp. Clifford E. Cummings Laufle of Austin, Minn., is now Aviation Cadet Cullen R. Corp. Clifford E. Cumm· in training in the Hospital Thompson m!ngs, son of E. E. Cum Corps School, Farragut, Idaho. Corp. William M. Street mmgs, who is employed in Aviation Cadet Cullen R. Corp. William M. Street, the car department at Davis Thompson, formerly employed with the infantry at Camp Car as a clerk at Faith, S. D., was Jet., Ill., as an ~CJuipment son, Colo., was employed as a maintainer, has been stationed sent to Knox College in Gales B&B carpenter on the Iowa somewhere in Australia with burg, Ill., last December, but Division before entering the an aerial photo engineering by the time this is read he may service. unit for more than a year. have been transferred to San Prior to entering service, Corp. Antonio, Tex., for ad\'anced Cummings was employed on flight training. the section at Davis Jet. Kenneth Heslip, U.S.C.G. Kenneth Heslip, seaman l/C in the Coast Guard, is the son of H. J. Heslip, conductor on the I&SM Division. He is sta tioned at Gearhart, Ore., at present. Nick Bihun. Ir .. U.S.N. Robert Bloyer. U.S.N. Nick Bihun, Jr., of the Navy, Robert Bloyer, seaman l/C, Pic. Howard R. Wagner former electrician helper and ,on of Engineer Joe Bloyer of Howard R. Wagner, a pri son of Nick Bihun, Sr., a the LaX&R Division, is with the vate first class in the Marine painter in the Western Avenue gun crew of a vessel somewhere Corps prior to his recent med coach yard, Chicago, is now in the South Pacific. He is ical discharge because of ma stationed at Farragut, Idaho. 18 years old. laria, is the son of Robert --.....~-- Wagner, a yard conductor in John and George, small sons of a Baptist minister, after St. Paul yard. He got in a Iohn H. Nee. U.S.M.M. listening to one of their father's sermons, decided that number of good, solid punches John Henry "Red" Nee, who they must baptize their family of cats. The kittens made before being discharged, how is serving with the merchant no objections. One by one, they were put in a big tub of ever, having been in the fight marine, is the son of Harry J. water. But when it came to the mother cat, she rebelled ing at Pearl Harbor, Midway, Nee. claim clerk in Minne and fought-and scratched-until at last John remarked, Tulage and Guadalcanal. apoiis. "Just sprinkle her, George, and let her go to hell!" May, 1944 13 - --1-~ John Flanigan, U.S.N. Sgt. E. R. Overman Lt. Joseph F. Fiala Lt. Mildred R. Sutter Sgt. E. R. Overman, son of Lt. Joseph F. Fiala, former John Flanigan, motor ma Foreman Lafe Overman of machinist in the roundhouse in Lt. Mildred R. Sutler, a chinist's mate 3/C, former boil Delhi, Ia., is with a railway op Mason City, Ia., is now with nurse with the Arm)' Air Corps, ermaker apprentice at the shops in Milwaukee, is in act erating battalion. Before en the R a i I way Transportation is the daughter of Engineer tering the senice he worked William H. Sutter of Milwau ive duty with the Navy some Corps at Camp Robinson, Lit· where at sea. His father, Del on the section at Delhi. tie Rock, Ark. kee, Wis. Lt. Sutter is sta tioned at Reno, Nev. Flanigan, is employed in the district storekeeper's office in Milwaukee. Aviation Cadet W. O. Jensen Aviation Cadet W. O. Jen PI'\. J. M. O'Callaghan ,en, former Kansas City Di Pvt. J. M. O'Callaghan, for· vision fireman, and. son of mer LaX&R Division brake. James Jensen, Kansas City Corp. George Adamovich man, is now somewhere in In· Division engineer, is stationed Corp. George Adamovich, dia. His father, Desmond P. John T. Hagen, U.S.N. at Bolington Field, Texas, at who was employed as a section O'Callaghan, is assistant mail man in the Milwaukee Termi· John T. Hagen, soundman present. foreman in the freight house, 3/C in the Navy, is the son of nals before entering the Army, St. Paul. is now stationed at Ogden, Walter Hagf'n, clerk in the en Utah. gineering department, Minne apolis. Pic. Peter H. Medina Pfc. Peter H. i\'!edina, fOr mer section man at Davis Jet., m., and son of Mateo Medina, who is also employed as a sec William Dinollria, U.S.N. Air Cadet Merrill V. Riccius tion man at that point, is now Willia):n Dinoffria seaman Air Cadet Merrill V. Riccius, Jewell M. Campbell, U.S.N. stationed overseas with an ar 2/c, formerly employed in the son of the late H. E. Riccius, Jewell M. Campbell, former tillery uni t. car accountant's office, Chi shop superintendent at Min· reclaim clerk in the local cago, is now in training at the neapolis, is taking officer's freight office, Seattle, is now a Hospital Corps School, Great training at Iowa State College, Seabee stationed at Camp Lakes Naval Training Station. Iowa City, Ia. Parks, California. Thomas R. PrindeviJle, son Sgt. John G. Bacha, sta of Conductor W. H. Prindeville tioned at Hunter Field, Ga., of Kirkland, Ill., is a gunner's has been in the Army since mate l/C at present some June 12, 1941. He was a car where in the South Pacific; man helper at South Minne he has been in the Navy since apolis shops for about five Aug. 10, 1940. Conductor years before entering the servo Prindeville. who is on the Chi ice. His father also worked cago-Elgin' suburban run, has there for many years as a car Thomas R. PrindeviIle, U.S.N. been a conductor for 42 years. man. Sgl. John G. Bacha 14 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE Removal of war paint from almost all of its aircraft has b.een ordered by the Army Air Forces. Upon recommenda tIOns of combat commanders, camouflage will be retained only where tactical considerations require it in combat zones. All others will roll off the assembly lines a metal color. The AAF estimates that removal of camouflage will yield a slight increase in top speed and that there will be a weight reductio.n in fighter types of approximately 15 to 20 pounds and In hea vy bombardment types of from 70 to 80 pounds. Sgl. Robert Damm Corp. William H. Schwab Sot. Robert Damm of the Corp. Wi]jom H. Schwab, ;V[a,;nes is a judo instructor son of William Schwab, yard al the Navy Pier, Chicago. For conductor in St. Paul, is in the several years before entering Signal Corps at Monroe, N. C. the service he was employed as a clerk ill the freight auditor's office, Chicago, and was a star in lh~ athletic events engaged in by the employes of that office. Pfc. Kenneth K. Rutherford Sgt. Charles J. Thompson Pfc. Kenneth K. Rutherford, Sgt. Charles J. Thompson, formerly of the au·ditor of pas former fireman on the I&SM senger and station accounts of Division, is now working as an fice, Chicago, has been seeing engineer wilh the Persian Gulf William G. Graham. U.S.N. action with the marines some Service Command in Iran. William G. Graham, seaman where in the South Pacific. 2/C, son of Yard Conductor B. Graham employed in the St. Pall] yards, is stationed at Bremerton, 'Vash. Lt. John Rothmund Lt. John Rothmund. now stationed at Columbia,' S. c., with the Air Corps, is the son of Allen C. Rothmund, cashier in the St. Paul freight office and oorrespondent for The Milwaukee Magazine. Earl W. Leaf, U.S.N. Corp. Herbert L. Bowser and wife Earl W. Leaf, yeoman 3/C, Corp. Herbert 1. Bowser, son of A. E. Leaf, perishable Corp. Larry M. Barr former maintenance of way em freight' inspector at St. Paul, ploye at Rondout, Ill., is now Corp. Larry M. Barr is the was employed at the St. Paul in India with the Army Med son of j\fIrS. Floyd G. Barr. local office as clerk and mes ical Corps. The young lady agent at Colman, S. D. He is senger before entering military with him is his wife. stationed in Yukon Territory. service. He is in New Britain. 2nd Lt. John V..Anderson 2nd Lt. John V. Anderson, Jr., son of Assistant General Storekeeper J. V. Anderson of lViinneapolis, is now stationed in Alaska with an engineering outfit. Lady of the House: "I Sgt. Benjamin Fogal Pvl. Francis Fogal James W. Irwin, U.S.N. forgot to ask you if you had any religious views." Section Foreman Joe Fogal of Waldorf, Minn., has two sons James W. Irwin, formerly serving somewhere overseas with the Army. BoLll Sgt. Benjamin employed in the yard office in New Maid: "No, I haven't Fogal and Pvt. Francis Fogal were formerly employed on the Des Moines, Ia., is now in ma'am, but I've got some section at Waldorf. Francis has been overseas about two y~ars training at the Great Lakes dandy snapshots of Niagara and Benjamin more than a year. Naval Training Station. Falls and the Great Lakes." May, 1944 15 l:J.l:J.~1J.****~ Service Clubs ACTIVITIES IN GENERAL By J. B. Dede Public Relations Representative Marion, lao Ottumwa Club Gives a Party The Ottumwa Service Club sponsored a St. Patrick Party in the U. S. O. club rooms in Ottumwa for the service men and women on Mar. 17-. The club rooms were gaily decorated in green and white tapers, the walls being decorated with green clover and green paper pipes. Music for dancin.g was provi.cJed by Dick Mowery's Orchestra and during the dance intermission a short vaudeville act was given with H. G. Pedrick as master of ceremonies, assisted by - Jack Seaton Jockey-hockey, a home-made game calling for professional skill, provided diversion and plenty of laughs at the Ottumwa Club's St. Patrick Party. at the piano. Those taking part in the act were Miss Coleen Cox as Sadie Haw kins, Lois Boice an.cJ Jack Seaton, tap dancers, and a short skit with Miss Lee Allen, Chas. Eckrate and D. Acringdale taking the leading part. Following the entertainment a lunch was served. In charge of the arrangements for this party were Mrs. D. E. Chambers as chairman, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Scott and Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Kennedy and Miss K. M. Gohmann. This club held its regular March meet ing in the K. of C. hall in Ottumwa on Mar. 29, with 130 members and six vis itors present. In addition to giving par ties and other activities for the service men and women, the group is active in all civic affairs of Ottumwa; among other things, it has charge of the Red Cross collection. At this meeting it was made known that the various organizations of Ottumwa were to sponsor a party for service men and women in the City Coli seum in the near future. The club voted to donate $10 as its part in the party. Chippewa Area Club Some danced. others merely batted the wind at the O1tumwa party, but everyone had fun. The March meeting of the Chippewa Club was held in Iron Mountain, Mich., on Mar. 22. Presiding at the meeting was Chairman H. O. Grade, who in part spoke of the purpose of the Service Club and its expected effect in the postwar period. The membership of this club is small but it is a club whose meetings every one would enjoy attending. Their discus sions of railroad affairs are interesting. Cards provided diversion after the meet ing. Madison (Wis.) Club The Madison Service Club met on Mar. 7, with Chairman Harvey Roever presiding. The Club had as its guest Mr. Schumann, a representative of the Blue Cross Hospitalization Insurance Plan. Plans were made at this meeting to join with other organizations of Madison in forming a postwar program, and other activities were planned. Trainmaster Rel Ii han received the War Bond given away at this meeting. After the meeting, refresh And card games broke out all over the place. ments were served. 16 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE tacted for pictures and R. E. Melzer, freight service inspector from Chicago, was chosen to show a picture on perfect shipping, which contrasts the proper and improper way of handling all merchandise in loading and unloa·ding. L. A. Mostrum, freight service inspector from Sioux Falls, also talked on perfect shipping. Frank Washburn, safety engineer, showed pic tures also along an educational hne. Both pictllTes were well received J. D. Wohlenberg, master of ceremonies, called on J. T. Hansen, assistant superintendent of the I&D Division, who responded with further remarks on the care with which commodities must be handled, especiaJJy in these times. After appropriate entertainment, the shipping clerks were presented with Mil waukee playing cards, with which they were very pleased. Very worthwhile door prizes, two $25 War Bonds were presented Baby Joe Xonkriqht, banjo soloist, did his stull at the Miles City Appreeialion Party. to the winners, 1. N. Wilcox, section la borer, and Mary Songstad, daughter of a SERVICE CLUB SIDE. review was given concerning the work b'e Sioux Falls carman. LIGHTS ing done in line with the war effort on the After partaking of a fine lunch, many part of the Milwaukee Road, and how we played cards while others visited and ex By Lisle Young changed stories. Public Relations Representative as railroaders can aid in building for the Aberdeen, S. D. futlUe. Ira Rodgers, chairman of the cl ub and Miles City Appreciation Party master of ceremonies, then introduced the entertainers in a very pleasing manner. With the thought that hired help is Two accordion numbers were played by at a premium, Ira Rodgers, chairman of Mrs. Frank Robinson; a number of selec the Miles City Service Club, hit upon the tions were played on the marimba by Miss old saying, "Ask a ,busy person to take Sally Marie Falkner; three readings by on a job if you want to get it done," Mrs. Glenn Denton; two soprano solos an~ asked D. C. O'Brien to act as chair by Mrs. Jobn Gray, Jr.; cornet trio ren man of the entertainment and arrange ditions by Paul Lewis, Kenneth Fulks and ment committee for the Appreciation Glenn Pritchard, under the direction of Party held on Apr. 17. Miss Claribel McDonald of the music de The group at Miles City is well deserv partment of the high school; and Hill ing of a party in appreciation of its loy Billy band selections rendered by Pop alty to the Milwaukee Road. Mr. O'Brien Konkright, Mrs. Konkright, their sons enlisted the assistance of E. W. Gilmer, Raymond, Robert and Baby Joe, and Guy Sam Leo, Herb Lathrop, Dick Jensen, Mrs. Hotaling. The importance of saving money Dick Jensen, George LaRue, Chas. Don today and avoiding inflation was depicted nerwirth, Parke Burns, Arnold Running, in a film shown by H. J. McMahon, safe A. W. Wickersham, Rau Dorland, Jim ty engineer. Towlerton, O. H. Bethke, a large com· The spacious and beautiful Elks Hall mittee in print, but not too many hands was then cleared of tables and the 400 when it comes to feeding and entertain present enjoyed dancing for the remainder ing over 400 people, which was the num of the evening. ber in attendance at this very successful affair. Sioux Falls Club Entertains The railroad training these men have received has made them conscious of the Each year the Service Club at Sioux importance of perfect timing and team Falls entertains the shipping clerks of It was X.P. duty for Ira Rodgers and D. C. work, for everything worked out on per their city. This year C. S. Kemp, chair O'Brien just before the Miles City party got under way. fect schedule. During the serving of a man of the club, appointed Fred Meyers, very delicious dinner, Carl Krutt and his Ed Hollenworth and N. D. Kelly as the J. H. Foster Club Plans Picnic band entertained with appropriate music. committee to do the job. They decided With one exception, this ban.d is made up that with April designated as the perfect By F. P. Rogers shipping month, an educational program of Milwaukee Road men; it consists of The J. H. Foster Service Club is turn Carl Krutt, machinist's helper; Earl Farr, on the subject of perfect shipping would ing its thoughts and attention to the big dispat<:her; Frank Robinson, machinist; be appropriate. W. L. Ennis was con· annual picnic which has been scheduled Guy Hotaling, re for Sunday, June 18, at Costello's Grove, t ire d machinist; Cedar Ave. and 90th St., Minneapolis. Guy Comstock, ma These annual picnics, sponsored by the chi n i s t; Floyd Service Club, have grown to be one of "Pop" Konkright, the real big events and all employes and s tor e department their families look forward to them. helper; Very Kran Chairman Manion says the picnic this sky, h e I perin year will be bigger and better than ever shops; Jack Fulks, and the club members are already mak machinist; Mrs. ing plans for the gala event, details of Frank Robinson and which wiJI be announced at a later date. Bill Harrison. You can't talk about troop movements After the dinner because they are military secrets; but an address of wel it is no secret-and you can tell the world come was given by -that for complete protection at low Supt. A. W. Her cost, you can't beat the hospitalization vin, and a talk by and surgical benefit plan sponsored by C. S. Winship, D. F. the J. H. Foster Service Club; and if & P. A. of Miles you have not already taken advantage of City. The plUpose it, you owe it to yourself and your family of the party was ex Miss Sally Marie Falkner entertained on her marimba at the Miles to do so without further delay. Be pre plained and a brief City Appreeiation Party. pared. May, 1'944 17 can be seen for miles. Lilacs, mimosa, wisteria and jacaranda also contribute Protect That Check! their color and perfume. "The country is alive with creeping, RECENT newspaper story told of 1. Put a lock on your mail box crawling, walking and flying things. Small A two children, not in their teens, and be sure that your name is turtles move sedately across the road and who had stolen government depend printed clearly on the box. lizards dart across with incredible speed. 2. Be at home or have a memo Butterflies are everywhere and each bush ency checks from mailboxes and at ber of the family home when and tree has its quota of twittering 01 tempted to cash them. While delib the check is due to be delivered. singing birds. On our last drive we sur erate theft on the part of children 3. Endorse check in the pres prised a pack of jackals as we rounded a is unusual in a case of this type, it sharp bend in the road and then startled ence of the one who is to cash a bushy-tailed fox and watched him race is an example of the growing postal it. Always cash it at the same across an open field to the cover of some thefts which are menacing the place. distant brush. In the mountains we stop country. 4. Not i f y the post office ped to lunch in a quiet spot and saw a promptly when you change your great eagle come to rest on a stone wall Each day wives and mothers of address. and then soar away when he discovered servicemen report the loss of de 5. PROTECT THAT CHECK. his kingdom had been invaded. pendency checks and the delay in If it is stolen, it may be "The people are most interesting. From months before it may be reo one end of town to the other, the center the reissue of checks often results in of 'Main Street' (usually Rue de Paris undue hardship. According to the placed. of Marechal Foch or Joffre) is the favorite United States Secret Service, a di Those who cash checks have to meeting place. Here the children bounce vision of the treasury department, take as man y precautions as the re their balls, kick the can (often barefooted -ouch!) or play hop scotch in the staggering losses are suffered an cipient. They are warned to take these steps to protect themselves and chalked squares. Here courtly old French nually through check forgeries. men Ii ft their hats to each other in dig These can be cut down substantially the public. nified greeting, other Frenchmen and and perhaps eliminated by the ex 1. Insist upon proper identifi women double kiss and shake hands, Arabs cation. Be sure that the person of high degree, marked by their turbans ercise of a few simple safeguards. presenting the check is the of gold or purple cloth and silk and wool The volume of government checks rightful owner. white djellabas shake hands and then kiss 2. Be sure that the check is their own fingers. All these groups stand issued as dependency payments to and gossip and make trades, and, not be· the families of men in the armed endorsed in your presence. If ing in the least traffic conscious, must be forces and for social security bene it is endorsed when presented, approached under full control. They yield fits is rising rapidly. The Secret insist upon another endorsement passage but move back to their positions in your presence. Service has launched a "know your as naturally as the waters of a Jake close 3. Don't hesitate to ask ques behind a slow moving ship. endorser" campaign to protect the tions about any check. Thieves "On market -day, which is weekly in all public and the government and asks and forgers are not particular. lowns of any importance, the main street the cooperation of all in carrying it You MUST be. and square are almost solid with men and boys sitting, squatting or standing around out. During the fiscal year ending 4. Before cashing any check piles of rugs, straw mats, skins, baskets July 1, 1943, the government issued ask yourself this question: If of fruit or produce or a few goats, sheep more than 160,000,000 checks. This this check is returned because or chickens. The bargaining is leisurely; year many more than that number of a f~-rged signature, can I find time is not of the essence. The women will be issued. The Secret Service is the person who gave it to me are not in evidence !lere. Groups of twenty or more may be seen by the road charged with the protection of these and recover my loss? 5. KNOW YOUR ENDORS side, out on the edge of town waiting to checks. It is estimated that the an ER. A forged check means loss Irudge patiently behind their menfolk and carry home his purchases. nual loss to the public due to the to you, not the owner. misuse and theft of commercial "So much for North Africa in the The government issues more than spring." • checks ranges from $50,000,000 to 6,000,000 checks a month to the de $300,000,000. pendents of servicemen. The thief No foolproof system has been de· who steals one does not care if a vised to protect the sender or reo soldier's wife and family go without cipient of a check. Every precau food or clothinp:. He has no com tion possible is taken by postal au· punction and should be given no thorities to deliver checks to the quarter. Through cooperation of rightful person. However, every the public all checks will be de mailed check is a challenge to the livered safely. Kill the market for thief and forger. Anyone who has forged checks: Protect that check lost a check through theft knows and _know your endorser! what a long drawn out. process resti • tution is. The loss of a government North Africa in the Spring check requires investigation which :Maj. A. 1. Sedgwick, who was the road's stretches over months before a dupli. assistant to real estate agent, Seattle, be cate is issued. fore being sent to North Africa with the Transportation Corps more than a year Carelessness and ignorance are the al(O, gets out a sort of bulletin or news letter semi·occasionally to his friends. One cause of most losses. Knowledge of of these landed in the Mal!azine office a few simple rules will make the recently and is being quoted in part: thief's work more difficult. There "North Africa is most beautiful and are approximately 5,000 Milwaukee oleasant in the soring. The days are bri!!ht and warm, the ni9;hts are cool and Road employes in the armed forces. .brilliant with stars. The fields and or· Many of these have dependents re chards are a riot of color. Vines and fruit ceiving allowances from the govern trees are in full blossom, while great ex· panses of hillside are painted in solid col ment. These and all employes are Corp. James E. Moran. son of Conductor ors, both vivid and pastel shades of pink, E. J. Moran of the Milwaukee Division, is a asked to stem the flow of thefts by red, blue, purple, yellow and orange flow· marine aviation photographer in the South taking these precautiol15: ers. These huge splashes of single colors Pacific. 18 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE w:em~~a:t~ WOMEN'S CLUB Marion Chapter Mrs. Richard Bristol, Historian Summary of Women's Club Activities lIIarion Chapter was en tertained at its February meeting' at a iVIexican luncheon. Covering Year Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. 1943, inclusive. Covers were laid for 31 at tables centered with potted cactI. Mrs. L. R. Boettcher, ilIembership on Dec. 31, 1943-Voting, 6,;;22; Contributing, 9,719; Total, 16,2H lVII's. Robt. Low, Mrs. Archie Conklin, and E'xpended for welfare, good cheer, and war worK ....$7,827.01 Mrs. O. O. Kieckhaefer, dressed in lIIex Estimated value of donations of clothing and other articles not requiring ex ican costumes, served the luncheon. l'drs. penditure from club funds $1,104.00 Elmer Fisher, president, announced her Number of families given aid 304 committees for the year. Material "as passed out to be prepared for use of the Number of families reached through good cheer 7,089 veterans at Schick Hospital in making Number of welfare and good cheer calls made 11,932 articles. Our general secretary, lIIiss Numb€r of good cheer and sympathy messages sent. ... 4,519 Etta Lindskog. was a. guest and urged Cleared on money-malting activities .... $12,571.35 our chapter to do all that it could for Number of books in cirCUlating libraries on Dec. 31, 1943 ....4,656 the war effort. Doris Eckhart en ter l\'umber of books loaned to members during year. .8,228 tained with songs and readings. Amount earned on library book rentals ....$531.45. Expended for new books A family supper was enjoyed at our ....$518.29 March meeting, at which $10 was donated Amount invested in ,Val' Bonds by the g'eneral governing board and local chap to the Red Cross. Following the business ters up to Dec. 31, 1943 ..... $12,125.25 session bridge was played. On '-larch 26 our chapter had the pleasure of acting' Balance in general governing board a.nd local chapter t.reasuries on Dec. 31, as hostess at the Cedar Rapids USO. 1943 ....$28,792.36 Tacoma Chapter Mrs. C. A. Norwood. Historian ?Ill'S. Burdick. Retreshmen ts were served with Mr. Harrigan, has moved to Su by '-Irs. Burdick and Mrs. Madden. perior, Mont. The c.lub wishes them the Tacoma Chapter met in its club rooms, Our April meeting date coming on Good best of luck in their new home. Mar. 27, with a large crowd present, Mrs. Friday, March 31 was chosen fOI' it. Good Speck presiding. The club motto was Cheer reported three bouquets, three per repeated and the salute to the flag given. sonal and five phone caIls; Red Cross 119 Milbank Chapter Mrs. W. G. Fitzgerald, good cheer chair hours of work. The quilt which we made Mrs. Gerald Gardner, Historian man, reported five men in the hospital. sold for $32, proceeds being given to the all doing nicely. The club bought $5.00 Red Cross. Much credit is due our Red Due to repairs being made on our club worth of white cane tags and several Cross Chairman Mrs. May (or her time house we met Feb. 23 at the home of dollars worth were also sold among those and work. Mrs. Loftdahl presented two our president, Mrs. Daisy Mayer, who present. We now have three '1100 war teen age girls in a duet and another presided. Mrs. Geo. Phelan led us in bonds and sold $3,275 worth of bonds in young lady in a reading. All were very song, accompanied at ~he piano by Mrs. tile Fourth war loan drive. much enjoyed. Attendance prize was Ernest Hanson. \Ve were notified that The club meets the second Tuesday won by 1\Irs. Larson. Mrs. Geo. May and Red Cross kit bags were ready to be each month to do Red Cross work under Mrs. Jack Winters served refreshments. filled by club donations, so we voted $5 the leadership of ·Mrs. Harvey. Regular for the present. Members may contrib meeting day is the last ilIonday of each ute $1 or more, and it will also be cred month when we usually have about 100 Black Hills Chapter ited to our chapter. at the lu nch, which is served a t noon Mrs. Harris C. Dillacough, Historian Mrs. 1\latt received $1 bank nite award. preceding the meeting. Bingo was played. A beautiful white On March 27 the Black Hills Chapter blanltet was presented as a cradle gift a.nd the Service Club enjoyed a pot luck to our guest of honor, Mrs. \Vm. Huben. Austin Chapter supper in the club rooms. The high RoIl call showed 27 members present; lights of the evening were interesting Mrs. Geo. Oakes, Historian 47% hours Red Cross work reported, one talks on Victory gardening by Kirk card and six caIls, flowers one. A de Mears, county agricultural agent, and licious lunch was served by Mrs. Mayer, Austin Chapter held its annual 51. Pat Edward Olson, garden specialist. The Mrs. Cawthorne and Mrs. Hunegar. rick's pot luck supper for all members at business part of the meeting then fol the March meeting and it proved a real lowed, with the president appointing Mrs. "get together." The ten large tables were Harris Dillabough as historian succeeding Sparta Unit-Tomah Chapter festive with green tapers and napkins. Dur Mrs. F. H. Joynt who is making her home in Mason City for the present, her Mrs. Wm. Hovey, Chairman ing the business meeting, presided over by husband having been promoted to the Mrs. E. J. Full, it was voted to give $10 position of Auditor. March meeting was held at the home to the Red Cross. Mrs. McGovern. as good of Mrs. Ray Gamble, with Mrs. Albert cheer chairman. reported 40 families Bergman assisting hostess; February Avery Chapter meeting at home of Mrs. Jess Cross, Mrs. reached by telephone, personal calls or Mrs. E. F. Husaboe, Historian Amelia Duvie assisting hostess, and cards. Our guests of the evening were January meeting at home of Mrs. Peter Lyle Young, Public Rel"tions representa Our clUb sponsored a pinochie party in Hensgen, Mrs. Carl Hanson assisting. tive of Aberdeen, and Mr. J. B. Dede of the club room, Feb. 26. After the serving Reports given for year 1943 indicated Cedar Rapids. Both spoke entertainingly of a lunch by the committee, Mrs. Chas. 34 contributing and 26 voting members, of work accomplished by other clubs. The Fields played many old and new songs dues $34.50, cleared on ways and means and everyone joined in singing them. $20.25, total $59.75, turned over to Tomah remainder of the evening was spent with This party was so enjoyed by everyone bingo and cards, chapter, 55 cards, two plants and one that "'e gave another Mar. 18. bouquet of flowers sent, three meals Our Mar. 1 meeting was well attended. served at time of death, 50 phone calls. Montevideo Chapter Treasurer reported $136.95 in the trea ten small tokens to our vetel'ans and ury. Mrs. King, Red Cross chairman, re Widows, cigars and candy to our con Mrs. John J. SchmutZler. Historian ported that the Junior Red Cross had tributing members at Christmas time. done splendid work in collecting cross Meeting of our chapter was held on Also ten bonds and $150 in war stamps word puzzles, playing cards, and smoking sold, one $25 bond purchased (or our Mar. 3. Reports from various chairmen trays to be donated to our Soldier and were heard. Good Cheer two bouquets, club, $1 donated to Red Cross, and 200 Sailor Hospitals. A donation of $25 was sewing hours, $1 donated to the Salvation three cards, one call made; Red Cross re made to the Red Cross drive. ,Ve have ported, 67 hours of work, a t which time Army, 00 dozen cookies and 350 bouquets many new members this year. Following of flowers to the usa, 10 bouquets ot it was decided to make a quilt, the pro the meeting lunch was served by Mrs. ceeds to be given to the Red Cr-oss; 'Nays flowers and magaZines to Camp McCoy 'Vm. Kohler and Ruth Lindon. Pinochle Hosp; tal, $2 to March ot Dimes. It was and Means reported $10 cleared on a card was piayed. Gifts were brought by each party. Attendance prize was won by voted to simplify our lunches for 1944. member for Mrs. A. S. Harrigan, who At our February meeting members had May, 1944 19 1'"------_ the pleasure of mal :* No, of Tips No, of Tips :* * Pass, Frt. Per 100 Pass. F rt. Per 100 * : Divisions Tips Tips Employes Divisions Tips Tips Employes : * Seattle General "" .. ",.. 2811 21.3 Idaho Division '..... 7 1.4 * : Iowa & S. Minn. Div.. , .... ' .. 28 SO 8.5 Chicago General Div , .... 15 11 1.1 : * Chicago Terminals 1 196 67. La CdR'rosse an ,ver, . , . , . , . , 20'... 11 * : Dubuque & l1Iinois , .. 49 18 4.3 Coast Division ...... 14 1.0 * * Superior Division , 22 6' 4.1 * * H. & D. Division.' , , , ,. 30 2 2.5 Terre Haute Division, .. , . , .. 10 11 1.0 * * Iowa & Dakota Div 35 2 22 Iowa Division 6 0.6 * * Kansas' C'ty D,' v ',... 13 4 2'1 Trans-Missouri Div.. , , .. , 23 0.6 ** * Milwaukee Division , , .. 24 2 2.0 Milwaukee Terminals 0.5 * * Madison Division , , , , . '. 12 1 1.9 Twin City Terminals, 9 0.4 : : Rocky Mountain Div , 16 1 1.6 Miscellaneous ,., " 1 0.07* : * TOTALS ' ' , , . , . , , , . , 363 321 2.2 :* *********************************************************************************** * TRAmc TIP CARDS SUBMITTED BY TIPPERS DURING THE - MONTH OF MARCH, 1944, AS REPORTED BY DIVISION OFFICES No.of Ups No.of Upe Department or su1:lnltted Department or submItted Name OccupatIon LocatIon Name OccupaUon LocaUon Paas. 'Frt. Pasa. Frt. Chicago General Offices Dubuque and Illinois Division Abrams,R.E. D.FoC.A. Mllwaukee ,Wis. 1 AlIlea,J.A, O.S.& D.Clerk DUbuque, la. 2 Adams, Edward Secy.to ChI.Opr. Blaser,John P. Crossing Flagman DUbuque, la. 1 ott. Chicago, Ill. 2 DUhlgg,R.E. Rdmstr's Clerk Savanna, Ill. 3 Barnett,H.W. Head Cll<. ,Frt. Feldert-Albert Operator DUbuque, Ia. 3 1 Clm. Chicago, Ill. 6 Hense, . I. CrossIng Flagman DUbuque,Ia. 2 Brown,J.L. Gen.Supt.Transp. Chicago,lll. 1 Herron,D.J. Local Stkpr. ~rquette,Ia. 1 Brown,Mrs.J.L. Wife ot Gen.Supt Ickes,J .F. Chlet Clerk DUbuque, Ia. 1 Transp. Chicago, Ill. 1 Kerlidt,W.H. saggageman Davenport,Ia. 1 Burtness,T.W. Secretary Chicago, Ill. 1 Kersch,Harry Laborer Dubuque, Ia. 1 ClaveY,G. Con! .Clerk Chicago, Ill. 1 KUhn,A.M. Car Inspector savanna, Ill. 1 Culver,C .L. spec.Tax Agent ChIcago, Ill. 1 Kurt,Francls B. Clerk waukon,la. 15 10 Donovan,Annabelle sec .Frt.Clm. Chicago, Ill. 1 Layton,George P. Capt.ot Pollce savanna, Ill. 4 Graves, Vlla Asst.secretary Chlcago,Jll. 1 3 ~ze,W.H. Conductor Elgin, Ill. 1 Hall,L.L. MaII,Expr. ,Bag. , Nank,Edw.H. Rodman savanna, Ill. 1 &: MIll< Chicago, Ill. 1 Schroeder,p.A. Store Dept. savanna, Ill. 2 Hammel,M.A. Cll<., Purch.Dept. Chicago, Ill. 1 Schuster, L.A. Equlp.Mntnr. Dubuque,Ia. 1 Kouba,Wllllam Clk'.,Transp.Dept Chicago, Ill. 1 Schwartz,L.V. DIst.stkpr. savanna, Ill. 2 Lambarg,O.J. Alld.lnv.& Jt. Sprenson,Hans Ret.Carman Savanna, Ill. 1 Fac.Accts.Ott • Chicago, Ill. 1 ressel,J.J. Checker Dubuque, Ia. '1. Nolan,J.J. ,Sr. Car DistrIbutor Ch Icago, Ill. 1 Tyler,V.T. Cashier savanna, Ill. 1 Taylor,O.H. As~t.Eng!.lIeer Chicago,Ill. 1 Unmacht,H.A. Gen.Foreman DUbuque, la. 3 -- Wlthhart,F.M. Baggageman savanna, Ill. 8 15 11 -- r- 49 18 Chicago Terminals Division Hastings and Dakota Division Blahop,N. Asst.Agent Gal ewood, Ill. 4 Baeck,H.F. Chlet Clerk Galewood, Ill. 13 Aggen,Marjorle Clerk-Steno Aberdeen S.D. 3 Bannan,H.A. Rate Clerk Gej,ewood, Ill. 14 Bruera,Mra.A.W. Wlte otAgent GraCeVllie,Mlnn. 1 Brown,H. Rate Clerk Galewood, Ill. 13 Campbell ,Dwight Sollcltor Aberdeen,S.D. 2 Cameron,D.V. Utlllty Clerk Chlcago,IlI. 1 Carlaon,G.A. Roadmaster Aberdeen,S.D. 1 Cballtaux,R. Rate Clerk Galewood,IlI. 1 Dunn,l1rs.R.A. Wlte ot Condr. Aberdeen,S.D. 1 Dyba,T. Clerk Galewood, Ill. 2 Fuller,Rosa stenographer Aberdeen,S.D. 1 Ensor,A. Rate Clerk Galewood, Ill. 5 Haldeman,Jane stenographer Aberdeen,S.D. 1 Ewlng,John J. Clerk Galewood, III • 4 Hopp,pearl Secy.to Supt. Aberdeen,S.D. 13 Hanson,H. Rate Clerk Galewood, Ill. 7 Jordahl ,Beatrice Student Clerk Falrmount,N.D. 1 KerwIn,JOhn J. Rate Clerk Ga 1ewood , Ill. 10 Lundberg,A.F. T.B.M. Minneapolis ,Minn. 1 La'MIre,G.E. Rate Clerk Galewood, IlL 80 ~unders,B.L. Track Laborer Vlrgll,S.D. 1 Mlller,John H. C/L Notice Clerk Chicago, Ill. 5 Mor larty,W.J. Store Dept. Aberdeen,S.D. 1 oetterlng,J.J. Rate Clerk Galewood, Ill. 27 Ruehrner ,E.J. OperatIng - Montev1deo,Mlnn. 1 Petronia,Mike Carman Gal ewood ,Ill. 1 SChulz,A.E. -Agent-operator Hosmer,S.D. 1 Relmann,B. Rate Clerk Galewood, Ill. 3 Spatafore ,Joe Yard Foreman Aberdeen,S.D. 2 Wllllson,H. Asst.Cht .Cll<. Gal ewood , Ill. 7 Zeigler,Mrs .P. Wlte ot yard Clk Aberdeen,S.D. 1 ------I 196 30 2 Coast Division Iowa Division Ellls,G.J. aen.Store Frmn. Tacoma,wash. 1 ColbY,E.F. SWitchman Cedar Raplds,la. 1 Fullerton,Ruth Stenographer Tac oma. ,Wash. 1 Dvorak,B.P. Operator cedar RaPlds,la. 1 Koro,Lao F. ABat.Cht .Clerk Seattle,Wash. 1 Flsk,L.E. Loco .Flreman cedar RaPlds,la. 1 I1aCDOnald,J.C. Aast.Gen.Stkpr. Tacoma ,Wash. 2 Fraser,W.C. Legal Dept. amana ,Neb. 1 Mann, Ingrid M. P.B.X.Operator Tacoma ,Wash. 3 Hennessey,G.F. Night R.HS. Cedar Raplds,la. 1 0ldenburg,Luc1le Clerk Seattle,Wash. 1 l1anton,Thomaa PS.I. Cedar Raplds,la. 1 Raamusaen,F.W. Chief Clerk Seattle,Wash. 1 McGulre,J.B. Operator oxtord Jct.,la. 1 Reenay,patrlck H' E&I !napector Seattle,Waah. 1 Mlller, L.J. Agent spr1ngvllle,la. 3 Ruach,H. stenographer Tacoma ,Wash. 2 --' - Snyder,W.R. Watchman Seattle ,waSh 1 10 -- -- ° 14 ° 22 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE No.o.! tips No.ot tipe Department or sul:!nitted Department or sUbm1tted Name OccupatIon Location Name OccupatIon Location Pass. Frt. Pass. Frt. Idaho Division La Crosse and River Division Allen,Blanche M. Track Dept. Spokane,Wash. 2 BlanchtIeld,E.C. CashIer Merr1l1,WIs. 2 Hays,p.L. Ret.Chr .Di~p. Spokane ,Wash. 1 Dolan,W.M. Yard Clerk Wis .RapIds,WIS. 1 0'ReU1Y,W.T. Chr.Clk. to supt. Spokane,wash. 2 FrazIer,I.L. Rate Clerk Merr1l1,WIs. 1 Stoll,E.J. EngIneering Dept Spokane ,Wash. 2 Frye,M.J. Clerk MerrIll,Wis. 1 1 - - Hagman ,Mrs .V .R. W1!e or Agent Watertown,Wis. 1 7 0 Karow,C.A. Cashier Winona,MInn. 2 Karow,Mrs;D.C. Exp.Clk.& Steno. WInona ,Minn. 3 OWecke,H.A. Rate Clerk WInona ,Minn. 2 I.owa and Dakota Division Ruder,a. Warehouse Fore man MerrIll ,WIs. 1 Anderson,C.T. Sec .Foreman Geddes,S.D. 1 Ruder,W1l1iam Yard Clerk MerrIll ,WIs. 1 Anderson,Erick Sec .Forenan Delmont,S.D. 4 SChaad,aregory Trucker Merr1l1,I/ls. 1 Balek,Joe M. Loco. Engineer. Mason City, Ia. 1 Singer,J.I./. Operator Merr1l1,Wis.· 1 Bankson,Mrs.J.R. W1!e or Yard- StIen,Jolm M. Ret.Conductor Watertown,WIs. 2 master Sioux Falls,S.D. 1 Thouvenell,J.L. Agent Tomah,WIs. 1 Bergemeyer,J.E. Carpt •Foreman li3son CIty, Ia •. 1 Tucker ,George Tinsmith Tomah, \~i s. 1 Brann ,Mrs .H.E. W1!e or Agent Avon,S.D. :2 Wheeler,Morton J. B1l1 Clerk WI nona ,l11nn. 2 Edwards,Mrs.Roger l./1!e or Ex.Gang - Foreman Parker,S.D. 1 20 4 Gourley,Clir • Steno~lerk li3son CIty, Ia. 1 HarbeCk,R.J. Car Foreman Sioux Falls,S.D. 1 Milwaukee Division Hopkins,H.D. Station Agent \oIhite Lake,S.D. 2 Johnston,J.T. Mach. Helper Mi tchell,S.D. 1 Brasure, E.C. Ret.Conductor Rockford, Ill. 1 Lamb,L.E. Storekeeper Sioux CitY,Ia. 1 Fiebelkorn,W.C. ChIef Clerk Beaver Dam,Wis. 1 Lownsberry, Henderson,H. Trucker Horicon,Wis. 1 l:largaret Flle Clerk Mason CitY,Ia. 1 Hoyt,O.E. Operating Dept. Mllwaukee,WIs. 1 kvman,Roy D. Yard Clerk Mason CIty,Ia. 1 Hughes,W.J. Asst.Mast.Mech. Beloit,WIs. 1 Munke , otto Sec.Foreman Mitchell,S.D. 1 !l:ohl,W.J. Ret.Signalman Horicon, Wi s. 2 MurpheY,E.A. Conductor SIoux CIty,Ia. 5 Meyer, I.C. Agent Beaver Dam,WiS. 2 Murphy,G.M. Clerk SIoux CItY,Ia. 1 Mueller ,A.A. Operator Beaver Dam,WIs. 4 Pappas ,Tony Loco.Dept. Mason City, Ia. 1 Noel,M.E:. Roadmaster Horicon,Wis. 3 Paullin,C.L. f'ainter l1itchell,S.D. 1 Olson,A.H. Roadmaster HorIcon,WIs. 1 Rogan,W.P. Foreman 111 tchell ,S.D. 1 Passage,G.E. 1'ra.1nmaster Mllwaukee,Wis. 1 Roth,K.C. Storehelper t'.ason CI ty, Ia. 1 pederson,Arlo sec.Laborer Horicon,Wis. 1 SIzer,R.E. TraInmaster Mason City, Ia. 2 Somers,Mrs.W.E. Trarric Dept. Rockford, Ill. 1 smola,C.C. Dist.stkpr. Mason C1 ty, Ia. 1 SpIcer,C.Eo Sec.Laborer pardeeville,WIs. 2 Wantoch,Charles Sec.Foreman Mitchell,S.D. 2 WhittY,H. Mtce.Clerk Horicon,Wis. 2 wegehaupt,Emll Track Laborer Delmont,S.D. 1 Wickler ,C.F. Agent Delevan,Wis. 1 YOlrng,M.C. TraIn Baggageman t'.arquette, Ia. 1 - -- Willers,J. Sec.Foreman HorIcon,Wis. --1 -- 35 2 24 2 Iowa and Southern Minnesota Division Milwaukee Terminals and Shops Bauer,F.W. Engineer Albert Lea,Minn. 1 Arndt,E.!!. yard Clerk Mllwaukee,WIs. 1 Bloom!Ield,R. Conductor AustIn,l11nn. 1 Belond,H. AAR Inspector 111lwaukee ,Wis. 4 DoseY,E..H. Cashier BloomIng praIrIe. BlltY,G.J. C·ar Fo reman Mllwaukee,1'15. 1 Minn. 34 Campbell ,J.R. Clerk,Sl1P orr. Mllwaukee,WI8. 4 Hayes ,Albert Operator Albert Lea,MInn. 7 Finkler,Clarence Oller Mllwaukee,WIs. 1 Johnson,Charles Agent-operator Sherburn,M1nn. 4 L1ebnow,E. AAR Clerk Mllwaukee ,1'15. 1 Jolmson,Kemma & Matous,Kenneth Store Dept, Mllwaukee,WIs.· 1 OndrICk,Doris 1Clerks . AustIn,l11nn. 1 OwsleY,Robert FreIght orr ice No.MIlwaukee,Wis. 3 Larson,Chrls Pipefitter Schultz, Leona HIst.Record Clk. Mllwaukee ,1'15. 2 Helper) AustIn,l11nn. 1 Spredemann, MCDanlel,Mrs.F.R. W1!e of Agent Fountaln,Mlnn. 2 I'11 liam Clk. ,Frt.Orr Ice Mllwauk·ee,WIs. 1 Mcaovern,L.L. Cht .Clk.to Supt.• Austln,Mlnn. 1 Starosta,Joe Asst.Foreman Mllwaukee ,W is. 1 Olson,F.J. operator Albert Lea,Mlnn. 2 Stott,Thomas LOco.Dept, Mllwaukee,WIs. 1 Olson,Mrs.F.J. Wlte ot Operator Albert Lea,MInn. 1 Thomassen, Frank car Dept. Mllwaukee,1'15. 1 Ratledge,O.V. T.B.M. AustIn,MInn. 1 Wi11,1.W. PoF.I. Mllwaukee,WIs. 1 peterson,R.A. Agent-operator Wlnnebago,Mlnn. 6 WoeHl,M. L. CashIer Mllwaukee,WIs. 1 pierce,D. Sec.Laborer Falrmont,Mlnn. 1 - - SChroeder, Carl Sec. Laborer Alden,l11nn. 1 23 1 severson,L.H. CashIer Albert Lea,MInn. 8 Thompson,H.H. Bo llermaker Helper Austin,Minn. 1 Off Line Offices and Miscellaneous Group Tritchler,W.E. Cht .carpenter AustIn,MInn. 1 WeiffenbaCh,L.a. Asst.secy-Treas. New York,New York 1 ValentIne,f.M. Cht .Dlspatcher AustIn,Minn. 1 - \/ahlin,WID.a. Agent Matawan,Minn. 1 1 0 Weber , Paul Sec.foreman Alden,Mlnn. 1 Wood ,George L. Car Foreman Austln,Mlnn. 1 -- -- Rocky Mountain Division 28 50 Kansas CIty -o-Ivlslon Baumgartner,a.f. Conductor Lewistown,Mont; 1 1 Bratholm,John carman Deer LOdge,Mont. Baker,C .H. I. DIv.Tlme Rev. 1 Ottumwa,Ia. 1 FinkbeIner,S.w. CartI!an Lewlstown,Mont. 1 Bowen,Nell I Stenographer Ottuwva,Ia. 1 Haanes,Ole Roadmaster Lewistown,Mont. 1 Ch~mbers,Virglnia frt.Off.Clerk OttUlDlva,Ia. 1 Lancaster,E.c. crane,geulah General Clerk Lewistown,Mont. 1 , TracIng Clerk Kans,,"s CltY,Mo. 1 Lupton,N.B. Clk.,Supt.Office Butte,Mont. 1 farrell,J.T. Clk. ,Frt.Orrlce OttUlIlYla ,Ia. 1 Mentsel,John Sec.Foreman Drummond,Mont. 2 Gohmann,K.M. Steno~lerk OttW!JWa,Ia. 3 Gowdy,porter Nummerdor,C.A. ··Asst.Supt. Lewistown,l1ont. 1 l1ech.Dept. Ottumwa,Ia. 1 Reuther ,Ann Rate Clerk Le~·Istown,Mont• Harnmond,E.R. Clk. ,frt. ,orr. OttUlIb'la,Ia. 1 1 Hampshire,J.F. Ring,W.E. Dlv.Engineer Bette,Mont. 1 Frt.Orrice Ottumwa,Ia. 1 Samuel ,GUS Carman LeWlstown,Mont. 1 Henson,H.L. Steno~lerk OttUlIlYia,Ia. 1 Savas,Mrs.A. Track Dept. AdaIr ,Idaho 1 O'Malley,A.J. Rate Clerk Ottumwa,Ia. 1 Short ,Earl Swl tch Foreman pearson,Hilma Steno-clerk Lewistown,Mont. 1 OttW1JWa, Ia. 1 Spencer,George Sec.Foreman Butte,Mont. 1 Rlley, BernIce Steno~lerk OttUlIlYia,Ia. 1 Thompson,W.J. Operator Lewistown,Mont. Santee,Margaret Fre19ht orr lee ottumwa, Ia. 1 1 Ward,C.L. Clerk Ottl.lllD' Campbell,D.S. Clerk l111es City,l1ont. 1 Twin City Terminals Division Hlcks,Howard Ret.SWltchman I1lles Clty,l1ont. 1 Bergqulst,Oscar I1achlnlst I11nneapOllS,111nn. 1 La Rue,tJ..£. Asst.Engr. I1lles CltY,l1ont. 1 Bowler,T.P. Bo 11er Foreman 111nneapolls,111nn. 1 I1CCaUley ,F.~. Lt .of pollce 1111es CltY,l1ont. I cornlsh,G.S. 11.& BoForeman 111nneapOlls,111nn. I Rawllngs,J.A. Conductor 111les CltY,l1ont. 1 Hewlng,H.L. Gen.Car Dept. Wllke,Mrs .A.\oI. Wlte of Guard MObridge,S.!), I Supvr. 111nneapollS,111nn. 1 Wllke,A.W. Guard l1obrldge,S.!). 1 McCauleY,Florence Clerk 111nneapcllS,111nn. 1 - - Nelson,B.F. Frt.orflce 111nneapollS,111nn. 1 6 1 SChramek,JOhn J. MachInist Mlnneapolls,111nn. 2 Tatton,J.R. Frt. Inspector MinneapolIs ,Minn. 1 - - 9 0 R€TIR€m€nTS The following Employes' Applications for Retirement Were Recorded in March, 7944 CHICAGO GENERAL OFFICE LA CROSSE AND RIVER DIVISION Curtis, Fred S Chef. . .Chicago, Ill. Erickson, William Conductor. Wausau, Wis~ Hughes, Thos. '11' Trav. Time Inspector .... Chicago, Ill. Leahy, John P Telegrapher Minneapolis, Minn. Maloney, Edward M .. Boilermaker. . . . LaCrosse, Wis. CHICAGO TERMINALS MADISON DIVISION Haley, John...... Car Cleaner. . Chicago, Ill. Lawrence, Geo. D ....Conductor ...... Madison, Wis. Hoffman, Geo.. .,." Boilermaker. . Bensenville, Ill. Scardino, Sal.(Sam) Section Laborer Chicago, Ill. MILWAUKEE DIVISION Carruthers, Robert Locomotive Engineer. . Ladd, Ill. COAST DIVISION Quandt, Herman L Agent and Operator.. Iron Ridge, Wis. Brickley, Gilbert E Laborer. . . Tacoma, Wash. Fallon, John E Extra Gang Laborer Tacoma, Wash. MILWAUKEE TERMINALS Ferrier, John C Conductor Tacoma, Wash. Ballard, Charles E Machinist Milwaukee, Wis. Wilson, Charles N Section Laborer. Dishman, Wash. Linehan, Daniel E Car Inspector Milwaukee, Wis. Myers, Jacob C Carman Helper. Milwaul~ee, Wis. DUBUQUE AND ILLINOIS DIVISION ROCKY MOUNTAIN Beattie, Harry S Locomotive Engineer.. Bensonville, Ill. Craig, Geo. '11'.. . Locomotive Engineer.....Chicago, Ill. Flinn, Roland L. Conductor. Deer Lodge, Mont. Schuneman, Albert H. Leverman. . . . Savanna, Ill. Nishimura, Keisaburo. Ex. Gang Laborer.. Three Forks, Mont. Schecter, James E .... Engine ·Watchman..... Bonner, Mont. HASTINGS AND DAKOTA SUPERIOR DIVISION Awe, John F , . Laborer. .. . .Andover, S. D. Meneratti, Chas, H ... Carpenter. . Green Bay, Wis. Richards, Merwin W,. Conductor. .... Aberdeen, S. D. TERRE HAUTE DIVISION IOWA DIVISION Dunn, Jesse E Loco. Engineer Terre Haute, Ind. Gillen, Andrew. . .. Engine Vv atchman. Cedar Rapids, Iowa TRANS-MISSOURI DIVISION IOWA AND DAKOTA Nath, Chas. W Loco. Engineer Mobridge, S. D. Rice, Samuel C Carman. . .Miles City, Mont. Lovegren, Gustaf 0 ... Locomotive Engineer Sioux City, Iowa Torgeson, Salve.. .Section Laborer. . . Burbank, S. D. TWIN CITY TERMINALS B"rown, Orville W Switchman Minneapolis, Minn. IOWA AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA DIVISION Haskin, Floyd M Locomotive Engineer. . St. Paul, Minn. \Vinter, Frank '11' ..... Brakeman...... Faribault, }\-finn. Johnston, Fred R Trucker., Minneapolis, Minn. Kelly, Chas. F. . .. . Check Clerk...... St. Paul, Minn. KANSAS CITY DIVISION Kugler, Wm. jVL Telegrapher Minneapolis, Minn. Riley, Edward Usher Minneapolis, Minn. Bennett, Lyman. . .. Section Laborer Kansas City, Mo. Tabachnik, Abe Car Cleaner Minneapolis, Minn. Bronson, Harvey B, .. Loco. Engineer Kansas City, Mo. Wiken, Lauritz. . . Car Inspector. . . Minneapolis, Minn. 24 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE The booming voice of S/Sgt. vValter J. MADISON DIVISION Davis, Aberdeen, S. D., can be heard The .744th echoing acrOss the yards in Minneapolis W. W. Blethen, Correspondent these days where he is working as yard Superintendent's OHice TIS Joe W. Kizzia master. S/S'gt. Davis, one of the l This petroleum cracking and refining cylinder, which the Milwaukee Road recently handled out of Milwaukee, Wis., is the largest ever manulactured by the A. O. Smilh Corporation-which makes it one 01 the largest in the world. Being 159 leet and I inch in length, and weIghrng 436,760 poundS, it required five Ilat cars to move iI. It moved Irom Milwaukee to Rondout, 111., via Milwaukee; EJ&E Irom Rondout to Joliet, Ill.; AIton Irom Joliet to the Shell Petroleum Company at Wood River, III. May, /944 25 and around again and lIas been trans LACROSSE &RIVER DIVISION ferred to Hawaii. Mrs. Ted Lindall had the thrilling expe. rience of seeing her' husband, formerly of the roundhouse} in a movie short, which First District was shown at a local theatre. Mr. Lin. dall is in the Marines serving in foreign K. D. Smith, Correspondent Operator, Portage, Wis. service. Clement Quass, son of Conductor Bob The recent ejection in Portage gave Quass, has received a medal for gunnery H. B. Stowers an overwhelming majority marksman and is now located at Fort over his opponen t for mayor of Portage. Knox, Ky. "His Honor," the mayor, was formerly a A baby boy was born to Freight House conductor on our Morning Hiawatha. Checl II II formeriy a Fascist Youths' Club. They "-e can expect to hear the wedding bells MILWAUKEE SHOPS say they are very fortunate to be near a any day. place like that. Norbert Kubiak received his summons Joe Pollack says "hello" from Idaho. to report to Uncle Sam on Apr. 25. The Ted Tanin is in Maryland but visited boys are planning a so-long party in his Davies Yard Washington, D. C., recently. Bill Shand's honor. son .Bob has been made a 2nd lieutenant Sgt. '-"'alter Neulreich expects to be J. J. Steele, Correspondent in the army air corps and is receiving transferred from the Lincoln Army Air The Honor Roll of the trainin u as an instructor at Napier Field, Base at Lincoln, Nebr., to a new loca Milwaukee R 0 a d has Ala. S:bastian Stutl's son George is do tion. been increased ",ith the ing radio work with an air corps signal Pvt. Gordon F. Petermann is hospital addition of three names section at Murol, Calif. Bill Sloan's son ized at Scott Field, Ill. Hope his recov - Gerald Appell, Air Norman, an arnlY pilot, is now in China. en' will be speedy. Siggie Gralewicz and Ralph Midgley are Corp; Leonard Schulta still at Camp Robinson. Siggie had a and J e l' 0 m e '\V est, Locomotive Department birthday recently and thanks the Victory Navy. Good luck to all three bnys and Club for the remembrance. . Louis E. Bednar we are looking forward to their return. Congratulations and best wishes to Several of our old friends left us dur A dispatch was received from the Doris Klein on her engagement to Ken ing the past month to take up the life of Eighth Air Force Station in England neth Feustal. Kenny is -at present over "Gentlemen of Leisure." They are Jake saying that Sgt. Arthur W. Peterleus has seas and wishes to be remembered to Myers, Adolph Kumke, and Gus Wie received the Distinguished Flying Cross the "old ga ng." gratz. Retired Foremen Gus Otto and and the Oak Leaf Cluster for completing April Fool's Day will long be remem Franl< 'Vendt visited us and we were 25 combat missions as waist gunner. Sgt. bered by John (Tootsie) Nolan. Upon happy to see them. Peterleus was employed in the Milwau awakening' that eventful da,', John found Blacksmith Alex Damske and retired kee foundry before joining the armed to his amazement that he was imprisoned Painter Ed. Radtke passed away and we forces. extend sympathy to their families. Alex in his own bed. He later discovered that Donald Murphy, son of Erving J. Mur he had had a caller a fler he retired was safety committeeman for the black smiths in the reclamation department phy, painter in the locomotive shops is his nine-Year-old grandda ughtel', Eileen in training at Army Air Corps in Texas. Esser. Eileen decided to pin the bed and was a member of the blacksmith shop bowling team. The boys will cer Before entering the service, Donald at clothes to the mattress and it took John tended 'Vhitewater State Teachers' Col fully a half hour to release himself from tainly miss him. The safety department compli'ments the lege and during vacation time worked in his bed._ the back shop for Johnny Jones. aUf wishes for a very happy married Milwaukee car shops for not having a re life to Mr. and Mrs. John Klee""ien, ",'ho portable injury durino March, 1944. How Ray O'Brien, formerly roundhouse were married Apr. 15. about some more months like that? clerk, is now stationed in India. Ray Harry GehrJ'e, the Davies Yard store said in his letter that he feels good and keeper, claims he colored so many Easter wished to extend his regards to all. eggs that every time he passes a chicken 2/C Petty Officer Ben Davey, Jr., form he gets a dirty look. erh' employed at the roundhouse, is now Mrs. Dorothy Wick, the ne\\'est mem stationed at Corpus Christi, Tex. He is ber of the Davies Yard clan. is from all the son of Ben Da\'ey, machinist, Mil reports quite a bowler. How about it. \Va ukee roundhouse. ,-ar::;ity, can you use a good bo\yler? Ravmond Sear. formerly derk at the founeiry. tells us in his letter that he is Car Department now at Shreveport. La. nay says he is noW "slinging hash." Myrtle Zunker, Correspondent The fellows at the foundt')' had the pleasure of a visit from T/Sgt. Albin 1:ncle Sam found three elig'ibles among Szymchak, formerly crane-man at the us during the past month, Kenneth Der foundry. Albin is now 'with the Railway mody, machine shop; John Hyne!<, blacl, Shop Battalion. Little Roc]" Ark. smith shop; and Anton Teisl, Jr., freight shop. The folks in the j.:Jcomotive depart Heading our list of visitors this mon th ment had a surprise visit from E'arJ Aus is l\1arine Sgt. Karl Schwartz who had tin. ''Ie were glad to see Earl. He looks been gone three years. Karl ""as on a good and feels good and wants to be re battleship at Pearl Harbor when the Japs Gustave Wiegratz, a carpenter in the pas membered to the folks he missed during senger car department at the Milwaukee his short visit. bombed there on Dec. 7, 1941. Since then shops for the past 27 years, retired on Mar. he has been on one of the battleships 31 to live on his 20·acre farm at Fus5vHle, T/Sgt. Edwin Splittgerber stationed at which shelled Tarawa and Kwajalein. Wis. Mr. Wiegratz was with the Missouri Bucyrus, 0., paid the fellows at the shop Karl looks wonderful a.nd it certainly was Pacific for seven years before coming to the a visit while on a furlough recently. He a treat to visit with him. Milwaukee Road. wants to say "hello" to all of his friends. The day following Schwartz' visit, we The two sons of Ewald Zastrow, engi had another visitor from the Sou th Pa. Store Department neer on the Milwaukee Division, Ewalcl cific-Lt. Gus Damsl 28 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE at Fort Snelling, i\1inn., for technical training, which he wil! receive at the CHICAGO TERMINALS shops of the C.M.ST.P.&P there. It's a vicious circle, Charley, from shops to switchman to Army to railroad shops. Bensenville Jimmy Blanck is home on furlough. Hope H award LawTence~ Correspondent he will drop in and give us some news Assistant Superintendent's OHice about himself. ,Ve would like to say here George F. Dupuis, agent at Mont Clare that al! news from our boys in ~el'\'ice is welcome, as we know the fel!ows like to station, retired on Apr. 5 after 55 years' of service wi th the road. He was first know where their buddies are. If we seem employed on Dec. 25, 1889 as operator at always to be writing about the same peo Hicl,ory Grove, IiI. ,and since June 15, ple, it is only because they are the only 1899 has been agent at Mont Clare. He ones we hear from. We are anxious to is the father of A. G. Dupuis, assistant ha\'e news of :tl! the bo)'s, so come ahead public relations officer, Chicago. and flood my desk at Muskego ,'ard with Many Victory Gardens of Chicago Tel" mail and I wil! see that justice is done minals employe8 are beginning" to ap and publicity promised. pear. Yardman Al Shore. who had a very Frank Bunce. the "ladies man" is bac!' smiling corporal at the beginning of his fine garden at Mannheim last year on to work at the roundhouse-your chair furlough. some ground adjacent to the railroad, has wheeling days are over. F.::II. Just plain already been seen industriously making engine \vheeling from now on-ho\\' are Pvt. Lany .Janus was a surprise visi little straight lines running from west to those nurses, anyway, FranI,? tor the latter part of March. Looking' east in which he is placing tiny seeds. A I taller and heavier, and sporting a bronzed informs us that he will specialize in "Lucky Frank" Sobocinski, a switch skin, Larry was all praise for the Army man who has been railroading around onions this year-and who WoUldn't, with way of conditioning. The exercise the dry ones selling at 20 cents a pound here since 1909, has been re-elected for good food and the being out-of-doors, his 20th year as alderman in Cudahy. A but we feel sure he will have a lot of did it. banquet was held in his honor. "Luck\' other fine vegetables this year the same Frank"-getting his picture in the pape~. as he did last year. and standing next to Gilda Gray, too, A nice letter just received from "Herk" who attended his banquet. Fowler St. Station George, former assistant general yard G. A. Brown's son, Bob, has just been Dorothy Bertha, Correspondent master at Bensenville, who is enjoying transferred to Fort Ord, Calif. 'Yonder his pension to the fullest at St. Peters what happened to our Texas correspond Letters are once more coming in from burg, Fla. His Jetter mentions selling ent? Come on, Lt. 'Velch. ~Iore "Bla 001' servicemen. Fred Coerper sends us grapefruit for 50 cents a dozen-can you zons"-more news. a newspaper from Trinidad where he is imagine? He also enclosed a dollar to stationed. pay his Booster Club dues for the year Lawrence Janus was in the other day of 1944. Many thanl 30 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE measles a childhood illness only, but Lor sen tative in Chicago. was recen tl)' called raine has vet to be convinced, upon to settle a minor dispute between Freight Auditor's Clarence'Anderson, who has been rest t,,'o former compatriots r3rd g-eneration) Office ing at Springbrook Sanitarium in Aurora, Rudy Edmund and Roy (ICC) Erickson. has received many v isi tors fron1 the :'Ill'. S. did a fine job. ]. A, Strohmeyer office. A group of the bo)'s visited SIGN OF SPRING Correspondent "Andy" one Saturday afternoon, and Carl Tom O'Malley tapping his pencil in SI _"""'''!i!!'-~'-"'''!!i!!'!""""'''!I'''"------,,,: at least 40 Nazis, for which he received Passenger Traffic commendation in a national Army pub KANSAS CITY DIVISION Deparbnent lication. K. M. Gohmann, Division Editor Superintendent's ODice E. R. Will, Correspondent Sgt. R, Chermak recently enjoyed a furlough and dropped in to advise us Ottumwa, la. In the spring, so the that he had became engaged to ]I'Iiss Door prizes, bingo ganles with war saying goes, a young Yivian i\Iikell. Everybody's doin' it, doin' stamps as prizes, and varied refresh man's fancy turns to it. Chermak crossed paths with Sgt. ments combined to make a success of the love, but with the young Doug Keller an(l a reunion "'as arranged. second appreciation party of the year held men presently incon Ho\v does a woman manage to take a in the K. of C. Hall on Mar. 29. It was spicuous, the a d age 20 mile hike and return with blisters on sponsored by the office force of the su must be applied to the her hands? Such misfortune befell ilIiss perintendent's office, the freight house fair sex. Should Uncle Sam cooperate, :\'eva Jewell, female counterpart of office employes. and the dispatchers' office. Miss Eleanor Luby of the rate depart boy in the office of the G.P.A. Could be C. H. Baker and M. L. Fromm were co ment, "'ill soon marry Sgt. John Koper that she carried a hot lunch ba"ket. chairmen. nick of Round Lake. known as the fi~ht ing cook of the Cassino front. i\1iss :'IIiss Rose Siarto, rate departmen t Traveling Engineer E. J. Kervin ac Luby's fiance has been overseas for two steno, has returned to her desk after a companied his daughter, iVIrs. Robert E. years and participated in all the inva four-month leave of absence. Rogers, to Herington, Kans., recently to sions and therefore is in line for a Clyde Deacon, R,21I.3/c, has returned to visit her husband, now a 2nd lieutenant furlough in the States. He has been active duty after a long siege with ton in the Army Air Corps. He completed wounded several times and has been silitis. He is now with a naval beach bat his last phase of combat training as a cited for gallantry in action. Despite his talion in California. bombardier at the Alamogordo Army Air behind-the-lines assignment. he has put Field and was transferred to Herington down his skillet several times and taken to await further orders. up a rifle and has officially accounted for Switchman L. V. Beebe died Mar. 7 in TRANS-MISSOURI DIVISION the Veteran's Hospital at Wadsworth, Kans. He last performed service on Nov. 24, 1943, in his 23rd year with the com pany. East End In late March, Section Laborer B.M. LUMBER Morrison and wife of Sewal made a hur Dora H. Anderson ried trip to Norfolk, Va., in order to ·be PILING-TIES Correspondent with their son for a few days. He has Care of Agent been in the Navy for four years and was Mobridge, S. D. in from sea for just a brief stay. and A surprise wedding was that of Esther Conductor and Mrs. Anderson and Conductor Patrick Maloney Carl A. Schneider re on Mar. 26 at Lancaster, Mo. Esther MINE TIMBERS c e i v e d a cablegram and Pat will make their home in Daven from England fro m port. Egyptian Tie & Timber their son, Lt. James A. Schneider, bom New employes in the engineering de bardier. who was reported missing in partment are Herschel Loveless and J. C. Company action over Kazi-occupied France on Dec. Gilman. rodman; and James E. Bates, 31. Later on. they received a long-dis St. Louis Chicago tapeman. Candy was passed by C. S. tance call from him from a New Yorl< Gilliland of the engineering department airport. after a flight from England, stat to celebrate the arrival of a daughter on ing· he would soon be home on furlough. Mar. 25. Mrs. Gilliland and baby have Brakeman Frank J. LewarJ< was returned to their home in Sigourney from drowned in the basement of his home on St. Joseph Hospital in Ottumwa and are :'lIar. 24. Due to the heavy snows, the getting along' fine. Still Greater water was seeping into his basement, so Fifteen engineers 'were honored for long he went down to check on it, when the rail service at a dinner meeting spon concrete basement wall On the north side sored by the B. of L. E. of the local Mll PROTECTION caved in on him, pinning him down so \Va ukee and Burlington divisions in Ot he was unable to escape. Volunteer Mo tumwa at the First Christian Church on for CARS and LADING bridge firemen worked from 2 a. m. until Mar. 20. Longest record was that of 11 :30 a. m. the next day before they were Fred Orvis, who retired May, 1943, hav CARDWELL WESTINGHOUSE able to release the body. Mr. Lewar!< ing served our company for over 50 FRICTION DRAFT GEARS had been emplo;'ed bY' the Milwaukee years, and he was awarded a 50-year Railroad since 1915 and leaves to mourn button; 40-year awards went to Irvin to absorb horizontal shocks his loss his widow, four children an·d a Cottrell, Wm. Fry, Wm. Davis, T. H. CARDWELL FRICTION BOLSTER host of friends. Kemp, and Theodore Runzler of the Mil SPRINGS Trainmaster R, C. Schwichtenberg ha~ waukee. Special guests included Supt. been transferred to Butte and is being 'V. C. Givens and Mrs. Givens, Traveling to absorb vertical shock, replaced by J. O. Willard, trianmaster Engineer C. D. Smith and Mrs. Smith from Butte. and lVliss Genevieve Orvis. • Assistant Trainmaster L. W. Clark and L. C. Christisen, engineer, Kansas City, CARDWELL WESTINGHOUSE CO. \~ife "'ill be confined to his home for several CHICAGO are proud grandparents, a neVI! baby girl I)elng born to their son, S/Sgt. Rob months due to a blood clot in his left CANADIAN CARDWELL CO., LTD. ert Clark and wife, on Mar. 29. leg. Acting Cashier Clyde "Vard. Ot MO~IlAL tumwa, suffered a strol A fellow in camp is kept so husy during tbe week, he can bardly do justice to the sweet, heart-warming goodness of a cigar as fine as Dutcb Masters. So be Saves his favorite smoke until Sunday. wben be can relax and dream of bis girl hack borne. DUTCR MISTERS CIGARS aJ(,/t~~e A letter written by Richard Frost on Sedalia. His brother, Albert, is a partment helper at Austin, died in the Mar. 31, his birthday, advised his mother bombardier with army air forces in Italy hospital at Decorah on Mar. 24. Mrs. that he was writing in a fox hole and and both are sons of Machinist Fred Seiler was employed as station attendant that on that date he had received the .-\lsdorf. at Decorah until 1ast fall. Our heartfelt two boxes of birthday g'jfts sent to him After serving in Sicily and North sympathy is extended to the bereaved from home. He had been in Italy but Africa, Norbert Davis, Jr., has been relatives, and especially to Clyde and recently was transferred to some other transferred to Italy. He has been pro two children, Harry and Rosemary. battle front. His brother, Jack Frost, moted to machinist's mate 2/c. recentl" was transferred from Biloxi, Employes to enter military service re Dots and Dashes Miss., to Lowry Field, Colo., and on pass cently are: \,\7. J. McCartney, brakeman, Chief Clerk L. L. McGovern has re ing through Ottumwa his parents and enlisted in the :iYlerchant Marine; Gor ceived an A.P.O. address for daughter sister had a nice visit with him at the don R. Christisen, fireman enlisted in Jeane who is a lieutenant in the WAC. station. Both are sons of Engineer J. L. Kavy; ,,-hile the Army has taken J. L. Our sympathy is extended to Engineer Frost. Osborn, section laborer, Hedrick; Robert Frank Baier and wife who received word Teddy W. Leonard, now stationed at Coulter, roundhouse employe at ,Vest Apr. 5 that their son Frank has been Camp Carson, Colo., has been promoted Yard; and Fireman James E. Gailey. missing in action over Germany since to the rank of corporal. He was in sen'· ;VIal'. 18. ice in Alaska for a period of time. He I&SM DIVISION Luella l\1. Bauman from Madison as· is the son of Engineer C. E. Leonard. sisted in the Austin freight office during Brakeman Richa.rd W. Eckroat has March, and has now gone to Junius to been graduated from an in tensive course work as a student telegrapher. in machinist --mate training at the naval East End Capt. Pete Pauley and wife visited service school, Great Lakes, Ill. their' son, Capt. Warren Pauley, at Camp Sgt. James 'Wooley, Jr., is now sta· H. J. Swank, Division Editor Adair, Ore., the latter part of March. tioned at Oxnard, Calif., at the army air Superintendent's Office Pete advised that he has been placed base as assistant to the chaplain. Austinl Minn. On the inactive reserve list and would Shirle L. Avers was recently promoted return to running an engine on the I&SM to rank of seaman 2/c, and ha.s been Division e m p loy e s Division about Apr. 15. transferred from Farra.gut to Chicago, "ere saddened bv the Fireman Glen "Ole" Anderson, and where he will attend Wright Junior col ne\VS of a number of Roadmaster's Clerk LeRoy F. Williams, lege for technical training. His father is deaths, as follows; visited their homes in Austin following Engineer Howard Ayers. ;\frs, Thomas Holmes, completion of their boot training at Far Engineer Wlsehaupt's son, Paul, ar wife of E'ngineer Tom Holmes. died Mar. ragut, Ida. rived safely in England and has been 24. A. G. Lehman, former agent at ,Vel Lt. Col. W. J. Hotchkiss visited at promoted to rank of technician fifth come, Minn., died in the hospital Apr. 5 Albert Lea and Austin on Mar. 27-look grade in the army headquarters where he following a stroke. ing" mighty "nitty" in his uniform. is a draftsman. Pfc. Julius Alsdorf was August H. Block, former car inspector, Francis Bradash got a break when he home on a short furlough from the army Austin, who had been ill for about a was selected as one of the three men air base at Sedalia, Mo. He is a radio year, died Apr. 7. to be sent to Austin by the 744th to work operator in the troop carrier command Dorothy Seiler, wife of Clyde Seiler, as train dispatcher. That put him right and soon will complete crew trainln&, at cashier, Decorah, and former store de back on his borne division. We under May, 1944 33 ~talld that Stan Jones will be down later J. Kratschmer, formerly of Othello and for training, also. Spokane. :lIargaret Raffert~· is "ompleting her Henry Theodore Cates is a new addi MAUMEE INDIANA telegraph training at Grand ~-Ieadow. tion to the janitor force at the local Am~'belle Rowley "'as appointed sta tion freight ~tation. He and Jim Donahue helper at Spring Valle)'. H. A. Andresen are doing a splendid job in Iceeping the WASHED COAL has been appointed deck at Fairmont, station neat and clean. replacing K. P. Carson \\"ho was ap Jerr~' Brundage. son of city freight CLEANER pointed yard clerk at Austin recently. agent. \Y. 'A'. Drundage of Spolcane, ha:; been promoted to corporal and is located HOTTER in Guadalcanal. BETTER Arthur Magnusson, freight house trUCk First District er. has tal ~al1le i~ tl'llf> of Ruth SIl."rlel'. daughter Tacoma of 1-1 arr.'· Snyder. M, IV, Cole retired from the store de R. R. Thiele F~I>. ~ Correspondent partment' on and Fred Eretscher PANAMA-BEAVER Agent's Office retired on Apr'. 1 after 3:1 yean.;' ~ervice Tacoma, Wash. as painter in the loconlotiye department. Clarence Otto, second trick at Tacoma' Carbon Paperl Inked Ribbons Retired ,.';.gent F. .T. reJa,' offic~, is still off on account of ill Alleman and ~Irg...';.lIe ne~,". He is being relieved by 0, L. Unimaaten man, Tacoma. cele \Yh~eler, \"hile L, R. \Vallace is back on brated their g-olclen I the third trick a t the same office, Since 1896 wedding- annh-ersary on E. L. Pravitz, agent at Elbe. it is Apr. 6. 1'11l110rec1, took on a life partner Apr. 7. Just to illuSll"ate the \\-ay the globe i~ R. C. Pravitz went to Everett as oper "THE LINE THAT CAN'T BE ator, getting smaller. )frs. Helen Alleman, the MATCHED" wido\\' of Bill\' Alleman, )[1', ,-\lIeman'~ Three np\\, operators from ,Miles Cit, oldest son. C"o~lfided to lit-: this morn i ng' are located ...... s follow::-: that her son, EdWin, no\\" with the al'med L. )1. Badovanetz (I t Frederickson, fOl'C'es, in the last ft3w weel May, /944 35 learn that Ed was stricken with acute past season of IJeing a member of the sinusitis while aboard ship and is con engineers team in the Milwaukee Bowl valescing in a hospital in Hawaii. Al ing League. Last Dec. 20 the Engineers though he hasn't seen much of the coun wound up the first half of the season on trr there, E'd has made good use of the top with 28 wins and 17 losses, trailed by hospital library and writes: "In one vol the general, yard and local in that order. The Railroads ume "National Parks of the U. S.," in The second half the engineers were on the section on Rainier National Park, the the bottom and continued in that position seven or eight pictures all have tilis un until Fe b. 28. To make a long story Are Clicking derneath-Courtes\' of the lI1il,,'aukee short, the last night of the league, we Road. It made me feel rigilt at borne. were in second place with Leo Kord's Hugo Engel. ch ief clerk in tbe general locals leading by one game. Nevertheless, To The Accurate freight department, bas been baYing a when tbe smoke cleared away and the plea~ant reunion witb Hugo Jr., who has scores compared, the engi neer::; \vere on been transferred back to Seattle from top with 26 wins and 19 losses against Ticking 0 the Aleutians where he spent 1i months the locals' 25 and 20. There is now some as sergeant in the Sig"nal COI"PS. Sgt. diligent training going on fer the ban Engel landed in Amcilitka with the ta,k Quet and we'll give you the ]o\\"down in \\.t( force but wa~ di8appointec1 in not run the next lS$ue. ning into any Japs. .~- Greetings: To Ernest Cook, formerly an agent with the !\lHwaukee and now D&I DIVISION ~'(c.••• back in sen'ice again as freigllt claim .. adjuster. To Laurence Dietrich. formerly in tbe First District refrigeration department at St. Maries and Avery and nOw freight claim ad E. Stevens, Correspondent Care of Superintendent juster. Savanna, Il/. To :\lrs. ){al·tina Penn, cle'"k in the personal record departlnent. general man Congratulations to Agent and iVIrs. P. ager's office. S. Sawtelle, of Elgin, who observed the On the Home Front: It's strange 50th anniversary of their marriage on how the human element reacts to various :\far. 29. Preceding an open-bouse recep circumstances, and this ,,'ar wi th the re tion, Mr. and lVII's, Sawtelle entertained at c...~_"'1 sultant rationing, etc" has brought about a dinner party in the Hotel- Baker, St. some interesting results. R. E. "Kit" Charles, and among the out-of-town Carson who is in charge of the city ticket guests were two who attended the wed office, related with a smile of the "run" ding' 50 years ago. on tickets he had the latter part of "lVitb chief dispatcher's clerk F. Cim ::\Iarch, ,vhen the announcement was ino, leaving here the latter part of Marcb made of the 15% tax On railroad fare. and district superintendent's clerk, Bob The rules stated any ticket purchased Marth, tbe middle of April for army ser AMERICAN RAILROADS have after Mar. 31 would be taxed the addi vice, our force again has had to be re tional 5%, and it seemed as though half arranged and Maryellen Blenner now is .l1 clicked on their war assign the population of Seattle (or thereabouts) chief dispatcher's clerk and Wilma Plat ment. They've moved men and had suddenly decided to go for a train tenberger, general clerl" the new addi ride, with the result that both sections tions to the force now being Isabelle materials in record-breaking volume of No. 16 are booked up quite solid for Irons, Mildred Markem, and Pauline Gre gory. ••• and they've done it with praise the mon th of April, and tickets pur chased for trips contemplated as far in Sympathy is extended to Machinist worthy efficiency. advance as June and July. From the William George, Savanna, in the sudden revenue standpoint. Mar. 31 was one of death of his wife on Apr. 9. Hamilton watches playa big part the big'gest days the city ticket office Mrs. Clyde Seiler, Decorah, Ia., former has ever had in ticket sales, and from the ly of Savanna, passed away in a· hospital in synChronizing troop and train people lined up to get into the office one in Decorah On Mar. 24. Two children and movements overthe nation's 229,174 would think they wel'e having a sale of tbe husband survive. nylon hose! Earl W. Hess, son of Engineer and miles of railroad. That's why the vVe are glad to see Henry "lVilliams Mrs. Earl Hess, Savanna, is now enrolled as an aviation cadet in the pre-flight War Production Board permits the back on the job again. He had quite a siege of the flu which developed into an school at Maxwell Field, Ala. manufacture of Hamilton Railroad acute bronchial condition; however, he Robert Smith Jr., son of Switchman is no,,' back on the job and looking chip and Mrs. Robert Smith, Savanna, re Watches. To obtain these watches, per as ever. "lVhile Henry "'as off. Mrs. ceived his commission as a 2nd lieutenant a t graduation exercises held Apr. 1, at it is required that railroad men pre Donna Fay Nelson handled the steno graphic part of his job in flne style. the Officers' Candidate School at Miami Beach, Fla, sent a "certificate of need" issued by Several time~ since starting these con tributions to the Magazine, I have gone Pvt. Hal Smith Jr., stationed at Fort designated railroad authorities. into the office of the l\Iilwau] I I "in, Earl .Jaegel·, E. Stiles. Chas. Pullen, Second District Paul Baecker, E. C. Greener, J. F. Han Lucille MilIar ley, "'. L. Hertner. Stacy Lange, ';Yo Correspondent Cooper, O. T. Bush, VV. Graham, J. Lit Dubuque Shops scher, V. )IcCurdy, H. vViedner, ';Yo Ho gan. ,V. D. Ott, C. Schweikert, Ed Ost off, Jay Kelly, Cyril :\IcLaughlin, O. Our sympathy goes to Tschirgi. F. L. Hedrick, L. Hilkins, F. the family of Locomo Blosch, G. Sunderland, H. Kersch, F. tive Engineer William Taft, L. E. Thompson, J. Brandt, T. F. Bach, who suffered a Maus, J. Ames, F. E. Eckstein, L. Kemp heart attack on Mar. tel', C. Hallahan, D. Jaeger, J. Tressel! 16. and Lucille Millar. From Marquette: The gloom which hung over the Cyril Roundhouse Foreman, J. H. Bell; Store IHcLaughlin home. after receiving notice keeper, D ..J. Herron; Foremen, A. Rou from the vVar Department that their son sell, L. Hakeman, .-\. E. Kemp, "iV. Trenk was missing was changed to happiness leI' and George Pillard. From Bellevue: when they received a card the other day. Lee Jaeger, Ed McCard, Chas. Seiler, P. It was written in John's (former em Hoffman and L. Schulte. From Gutten ploye, Dubuque roundhouse) o"n hand berg: Chas. Sturn ancl J. J. Degnan. writing and notified l1is parents that he From McGregore: ,V. 1\1. McDonald, From was a German prisoner, but that the'" "'aterville: Gay Kelly. From ,Vaukon: could write to him and send )}ackage~ Geo. Brennan. From Clayton: Kenneth through the Red Cro£s. Blume. Our Milwaukee Magazine does get See you in Savanna Apr. 12, 1945-it's a around. By V-mail from somewhere in DATE: the Mediterranean comes the following letter from Ens. Fred Ostendorf: "A • buddy of mine aboard ship received a The old man in the theatre dropped Milwaukee Magazine the other day and, something and was making frantic Miss Millar, I read your: column and it efforts to recover it when a woman reminded me of the days way back in next to him asked what he had lost. 1925 when I was a sma II boy; I used to "A caramel," the old man replied. come over to my father's off:ce at the "You don't mean to tell me," the shops and call for him. He passed away woman said, "you're making all this in June of that year, and I remember a beautiful poem that you wrote in his fuss over a carame1!" memory. Father was chief clerk In the "Yes," came the reply. "My teeth store department and all of the Mil, are in it." waukee Railro.ad people were so very kind to my mother and all of us at the time of his death. Mother is in Cali. TERRE HAUTE DIVISION fornia, my brother is in the service and my sister is living in Oregon-her hus SPECIAL FOR R. R. uand is also serving Uncle Sam." I just want you to know that seein!;! the Mil, Terre Haute District waukee Magazine was like meeting up WiIliam Nadzeika, Correspondent with an old friend. Lou Brown. engineer, after some 40 EMPLOYEES ,;Yhile we had but a moment to chat years service is retiring on pension. with Editor 1\larc Green at the Safet~· Flagman H. Speer, on No. 75, 1\Iar. 18, Award Banquet held in Savanna on Apr. "'hile passing North Hooper heard the 12, ye scribe is reasonably sure that this caboose make a peculiar sound, and upon issue will contain some fine closeups and investigation he found six inches of rail Our Liberal group pictures of those who attended. missing. He called the dispatcher on the And, in addition, there wil! no clou bt be phone and the section men were sent Accident and Sickness a "round l)y round' description of all to make repairs. The altertness of this that took place-including the excellent brakeman probably saved a serious de Policy food, served piping hot, fine entertain railment, and he is commended fOr his ment, the snappy speeches with a bit of action. seasoning thrown in here and there. We extend our deepest sympathy to H. There were nice balcony seats assigned J. Barry and family in the recent death • to us ( The ASH MAN could tell you who uses the Bed aDd :::;at~:b:h~7n::he~e~~:Sse~la:~;;::~: ;:::,e'it':n: ~ certainty that GLENDORA-"The Wonder Coal" Is NOT Gl NIIRA being used. GLENDORA burns clean and hot and leaves only a fine white ash. No troublesome clinkers; easy on furnaces and grates; won't crumble, less dust. May, 1944 37 \\"ere all looking tint" and we \\"erc glad to see them. H & D DIVISION NALCO SYS'fEM ''"e are glad to repon that 'Valtel' W. ]. Kane, Division Editor ::1" \VATER TREATMENT Chamber~, conductor. is impI"Oving nicely Office of Superintendent after a long illness. Aberdeen, S. D . Chemicals for wayside water treat • ment and for use at softening plants. Faithorn District East H&D Complete chemical feeding equipment. Bernice Sparks, Correspondent Faithorn, II/. S. A. Brophy, Locomotive Engineer Locomotive, automatic, continuous Correspondent Congratulations to Switchman and ){rs. blow-down. Best ",ishes to John AltJrecllt, signal Simplified testing kits and control Elmo Claywell, who are the proud parents of a son, ;,Iichael Lee. born on i\Iar. 18. maintainer who was injured recently, [or methods. speed~· recover~·. \Ve are son·y to roepol't the illne~s of a Practical and competent service en Geraldine Craven. clerk at :'IIanhattan. Arthur Sandy, retired engineer, passed gineers. J. R. :'IIanwaring. S l/C, former Faith away ?lIar. 23, aged 87 years. He worked Complete and modern research lab orn switchman. was home on a short on this division 61 years, Funeral was oratories. lea"e loecently and paid us a visit. He held Mar. 25 with burial in Lakewood Surveys, analyses and recommenda is the son of Section Foreman )lan cemete:-y. F. Jahn of Montevideo has been hired tions furnished without obligation. waring. al~o of Faithorn. Tra inma::::;ter 'Vol[ !'eceh'ed a letter [rom as fireman and recently finished his student trips. NATIONAL ALUMINATE CORP. Sgt. Paul ~-\shlanc1. former)~' trainmas tel'" clerk at Mitchell. S. D.. \\'ho is \Ve are pleased to note that the Mil 6216 West 66th Place CHICAGO, ILLINOIS no\y ~tationed in Alaska wit}) the C. S. wa ul PREFERRED NON-CANCELLABLE PROTECTION for RAILWAY EMPLOYEES HEALTH ACCIDENT LIFE (Death from any cause) HOSPITAL BENEFITS • NON-CANCELLABLE POLICY NO MEDICAL EXAMINATION REQUIRED GOOD IF YOU LEAVE SERVICE ON PENSION OR OTHERWISE EMPLOYEES MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION 1457 Grand Avenue St. Paul, Minn. 38 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE :"Wi'YP'T' ,... I I r. I ,.Xsyyre n" '.-rrrrypyrw ...... ·rn... •••••• ..····~ ALLEYDALE MINE is located a few miles north of Terre Haute on the C. M. ST. P. and P. Railroad, the billing point being West Clinton • Third T Vein Coal in Indiana has long been known as a powerful, high-grade fuel, but one that contain~d a certain amount of free impurities. • An immense washing and dry-cleaning plant at TALLEYDALE removes these impurities. • With sizes to meet every need, this pure, high-grade coal is making a grand reputation for itself wherever it goes. WALTER BLEDSOE & COMPANY ,. these parts instruction on ho\\" increase their catch; even Travelling' Auditor Halsey, who always claimed that he could catch fish, had to taKe a fe\\' les sons. as his red ration stalnps were running low. Cedar Rapids Terminal UR cars are heavily insulated and Clifford R. Taylor, Correspondent O maintained In a high state of The many friends of retired Car Fore man Klu111P, ""ish to extend their synlpa thies to him in the death of Mn'. Klump. repair. Carriers can depend on this who pa:::;secl away at the [al11i1~' honle ill :'Ilarion earl~' in April. equipment to protect them against A n unusual CirClllTIstance existed when Robert E. Burl" and Kenneth Freeman. both clerks in the generaJ agent's office claims due to lading damage by heat Drior to their induction jll the Army! alTived in England. Both of the bo~'s had been in different llnit~ and neither or cold. line\\' that the othet' n"a~ being sent to England, and were greatly f=:urprisecl to· find that they had both been assigne(] to the sam,e barracJ'8. A most happy re UNION REFRIGERATOR TRANSIT LINES union folluwec1. a.s asicle frol11 n·orking Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the same office. they are also first cousins. Friends of E\'erett A. Burk, who for a number of years worked in the Cedar Rapirls freigh t office as ra te clerk, will be sorry to hear of his recent bad luck. "Ed" had recently accepted a position as cashier with the Rocl' Island at ,Ya Iowa Middle and West terloo, la.. in their freight office, and Boy:-:; hOlne on leave recently included had only been on tile job a few da~'s when he had the misfortune to fall on Dicl' Walker of the :\Ierchant ?I·larine. ~on EDWARD KEOGH the ice while on Ilis "'ay to work, break of :'Irrs. Oscar ,Voolson; Alan Major ing both his left \\Tist and his left hip. of tile Coast Guard: Robert Lyons from He wiI! be confined to St. LUKe's Hos Camp Gruber, Okla.; S/Sgt. Jacl< Davis PRINTING COMPANY pital In Cedar Rapids, for se\'eral montlls. of tile X-ra~" Department of the Army He says to tell all Ilis old friends to :'Iledical Corps, Liberal, Kans. A/c Wayne dr'op around to see him and help him ,Yait'ath came in from Corpus Christi Printers and pass the time away. Apl'. 2 for a few days' visit. Lt. Walter Xewpol't, who has been on a destl'Oyel' vVe hear that Alice Cornelius who Planographers for a ~"ear. got a short leave and fie,," worked as stenographer in "arious offi home for a visit ,vitil his uncle, Engineer ~es in Cedar Bapids and :'Ilarion for a Ed"'al'd :\[ullen, with whom he made his 732·738 W. Van Buren St. number of years prior to her remoyal hOlne durlng the sltl1lnler vacation~ while to Kansas City se\~eral :years ago, is help Phones: Monroe 0432-0433-0434 ing 0ut in the Agent's office at that sta in school. Rolland Audas, Av.M.i\'f.. of tion. the Coast Guard was home for a few (lays before going out on convoy duty. Chicago, Illinois A nUl1lber of changes l1aVe translJil'ed Earl Green, Mo.M.:'II., received an ad at the Cedar Rapids freight office. Fran \,ancement from 2nd class petty officer to cis Curran was assigned to the position PROMPT AND EFFICIENT SERVICE 1st das~ petty office!' and a leave the a:s rate clerk following the resignation latter part of j\~rch to come home. Earl 0f E. G. Burk, Bernadine Stalker was :'IlcDo"'ell, S2/c, came from the Farragut assigned to the pO:-3ition as as~istant rate ="aval station in April to visit his parentf'. clerk. "'hen FrN] Stalker resigned to go Pn. Frank Hoes of the Army Air Corps into engine service on the Iowa Diyision. at ,\-alnut Ridge, Ark., was home during Corinne Dixon, who had been assigned Ap!'il. Elmer Cushman, Ph.~L Gl'eat to tile stenogr'apher's desk just recently, Lake~, Ill.. "'as home for a visit ~\'ith his CREOSOTED transferred to the assistant cashier's parents. Lt. Arthur :\Ierkle stopped in r]esk wilen Francis Curran left it. Hazel Perry in :'IIarch for a visit with his l\IcCalley wa~ assigned to the position MATERIALS parents. Lt. :\Ierkle was being transferred as F:.tenogralJher in place of "Connie" :'Ircco~·. and Dixon. Hazel Ila(] relieyed in the office from California to Camp He i' ;n th" camouflage (]epartment of the during vacations last year. and had Arl1l~~ Engineers. Sgt. Dwight .Opperman previously worked in the sl1pel'intE'ndent'~ wa:-; in Perry enroute [rom EdmoncHon, COAL TAR 0ffice at ?l1arion, S0 she is an old hand at l'ailrQad work. Canada. to a new base. Flight Officer Edward Fitzgerald got hb PRODUCTS • 'Wings at tile Blackland Air Base in There are 3,106,500 people on the 'T'exa~ in :\laloch and canie haOle for a o \'i:-.:it when enroute to :-:e-hraska for ad U. S. Government payrolls. This does \'anced training. not include legal, judicial or military Hadio Technician Johl1 Cline of Tl'llax Republic Creosoting Co. personneL Of the number, 1,812,455 Field near lVlaclison, \Vi~., wa~ hOllle for a Minneapolis are men and 1,292,045 are women. week-end \'isit. May, 1944 39 The Answer to Your Heating Problem is a WARM MORNING COAL HEATER For Sale by Leading Coal Merchants and Distributed by Retail Stores Everywhere REPUBLIC COAL & COKE CO. Branch Office.l St. Louis, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Peoria, Detroit, General Offices: 8 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago Milwaukee, Cleveland, New York, Cincinnati ductor on the ,Vest Division, died in Youngstown Steel Sides for Repairs to Freight Can Pasadena, Calif. Mikeal Arthur Reimer, born Mar. 28, is Youngstown Corrugated Steel Freight Car Doon a new grandson for Engineer Arthur Camel Roller Lift Fixtures Cortner. A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Mau Youngstown Steel Door Co. &Camel Sales Co. rice Kenyon Apr. 5 is a new grand -OFFICES daughter for Engineer and Mrs. Fran!, 322 S. Michigan A.... The Arcade 500 Fifth Ave. Stapleton. ChicaQo Cleveland New York -PLANTS Ha.....nd. Indiana • Yonn,"t.wn. Obi. TWIN CITY TERMINAL F. P. Rogers, Division Editor Lt. O. P. B~Td, Jr., and .Mrs. Byrd of Superintendenes Office Minneapolis~ Camp ~'laxie, 'rex., ',,"ere home for a visit Minn. with idr. and "-1rs. O. P. Byrd, Sr., in March. Minneapolis Local Lt. "ed 'Willis had a furloug'h after getting his wings and visited hi:-=, parents Freight and Traffic i in Perry while enroute to his ne"- base in Depts. California. Kay Jiran~ Correspondent Corp. John Harris got a leave in March One would think that and carne hon1e from California to visi t Darrell Newcomb of our relath"es and on his return to cam}) was traffic department had advanced to the rank of sergean t. a flare for the unusual Fireman Edward Collins and Ssm Leg -that young gentleman vold of the bridge and building depart just up and got himself all covered over ment are two of the latest of tl1e -''Iil with chicken pox. (Careful there, fellow, waukee boys to join up, you might fall out of your high-chair). Sorrow and joy were the lot of Con All joking aside, we'll be glad to see ductor and Mrs. Richard Gilbert of Rock. Darrell back in the best of health soon. well City recently. The War Department Mrs. Douglas Su tton recently visited advised them their son, Marine Sgt. Rich Corporal Doug at Camp Jessie Turner, ard Gilbert, Jr" W3S missing in action Ark. when he failed to return from a bombing \Velcome to Florence Lewica, who has just been added to the freight office mission. S~t. Gilbert and his companion were forced down in one of the wildest staff. (Her name will be changed by the WATCH parts of the Guadalcanal interior. With time you read this. She's g'oing to be out rations or weapons, they followed a an April bride.) Safety is the first rule stream for five days from the mountain Seemed natural having Tony Thoreson on which they landed to a native village around the local freight office. He YOUR of the road ... even in where they were given food and guided stopped in to see us the other day. He's to a station of the island government. looking fine but still taking it easy under wartime. That's why you The first good news Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert doctor's orders. Martha Osbloom has been enjoying a received was the letter from their son STEP need Biltrite Rubber Heels visit 'with her brother who is home on telling them he was all right, and this furlough from duties with Uncle Sam. was followed by the news story from a If you see Helen Lindquist sneaking now more than ever be· Marine Corps combat correspondent to a va,,'n these days, think nothing of it the Associated Press. fore. They will not slip an~l don't be harsh with her. Helping Hospital patients during the last few a fellow recuperate from a long stretch ... giving you afirmer, weeks included '"retired Conductor A. B. at the front in Italy has put her a bit Cate who was in the Perry Hospital for off schedule on sleep-but it sure is fun. surer footing. Moreover, medical treatment; Engineer Joe ,Van ,Ve were sorrv to learn of the death they wear longer, stay ning of the Council Bluffs yard engine of C. P. Becke;', demurrage supervisor forces suffered a stroke and was in the for the '\Vestern '\Veighing' and Inspec Council Bluffs Hospital for care; and tion Bureau. Sympathy is extended to young and alive. E'ngineer Joe Calhoun was in a Des his family. ~Ioines hospital for a major operation. Jenny Goss was determined to take a Traveling Auditor J. B. ,Vallis, who had trip on her vacation-\var or no 'war-so retired recently because of ill health, she did! She made elaborate plans, passed away the middle of March. Mr. packed her luggage, got her transporta "Tallis had ,,'orked for the company about tion and then took the train to ST. 50 years. Eng'ineer David Cunningham. PAUL. She reports a swell time! who retired on account of illness after 3-1 Too manY times we have heard the years of service as a fireman and engi old saying: "There's always room for neer, died at his hOlne in Pern- the fore impr·ovement.". . Carl iVIatzoll, flour part of April. and grain agent in the traffic depart )[rs. Ethel Overholser, daughter of Con ment, proved how much truth there is ductOI' and l'drs. H. H. Rissler, died sud "in the statement by improving his bowl denly at her home in Des Moines in ing during the rast year to the extent :'larch. that he was voted the one showing the George O,-erton, for lnany years a ('on most progress in the Traffic Club Bowling' 40 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE League; his reward-two tickets to the South Minneapolis Shops opening game of the Minneapolis :.\lillers DELICACIES FOR THE TABLE on the home field. and Coach Yard The Milwaukee girls came into their Oriole M. Smythe, Correspondent Specialties own at bowling this season, too. In the Car Department Railway' Business Women's League the Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Poultry, Hiawatha team won high three, and Be,t "'ishes for a speedy recovery go high single for second place in t11e anuual to Machine Operator Andrew P. Johnson, Game, Fruits and Vegetables tournament. You won't be surprised to who sustained a fractured hip when he fell on an icy sidewalk on his way to hear that Gladys Mirocha came home E. A. AARON & BROS. with the lTIoney-winning h!g'h three, "'ark Mar. 14. After t\\"o weeks in the hospital, he is glad to be at home undel' high single and high average. ~Iore CHICAGO, ILLINOIS his \\"ife's care, even though forced to congratulations to our Gladys. lie in a cast. Sympathy is offered to Airman Simon St. Paul Traffic Department Bylund and family in the loss of their son, who died of pneumonia on Apr. 10. Brooksie Luth, Correspondent P"t. Robert J. Pfeifer, former cleaner at ~linneapolis coach yard, 1I0W stationed During the week of at Fort Bliss, Tex., enjoyed a furlough Mar. 27, Corp. George with his family the latter part of Marcil. B. Abdill of the 744th Pvt. Clifford P. Olsen. formerly equip R a i I way Operating' ment maintainer at Rapid City, who en listed in Army Air Corps last August, Battalion, worked with was called to Minneapolis by the sudden Engineers Art Topel death of l1is father-in-law. Cliff is now and Gusta\'e (King attending Army Radio School at Sioux fish) Stern. Falls, S. D. During CFA Art Pe Carman Elof "'endell, Minneapolis -----::_--~ terson's recent battle coach yard, reports receipt of letter from with the "flu," he his son, Lt. Clifford 'Vendell, former learned the secrets or army air pilot (a German prisoner of MORDEN SECURITY ADJUSTABLE housekeeping, and we war since last Dec. 27), that he is well RAIL BRACE understand that he has become very pro and getting along fine. ftcient with an iron. Good for yOU, Art. Standard on The Milwaukee Road. Now, if just a few more of the boys could St. Paul Freight House Designed for super-strength to meet the learn those things, perhaps life would be requirements of modern high-speed traffic. easier fo,' the poor housewives of the AlIen R. Rothmund, Correspondent country. We received a piece of mall today ad· WE MANUFACTURE "Something new has been added" to dressed as follows: "Agent Milw. R.R., Frogs - Switches - Crossings - Guard the Passenger Department-a new sten Agt. N. P. R.R., Agt. G. N. R.R., St. Rails - Gage Rods - Rail Braces ographer, to be exact. A belated wel come is extended to Roger Johnson, who Paul, Minn." Well, that's one way to Compromise Joints - Balkwill Crossings beat the new increase in postage rates. - Articulated Crossings - Samson has taken the place of Jerome Perr,', Our boys cover the globe. Bob Stewart ~Iinneapo Switches - Belt Switches and Security no\v information clerk in our is in England, V. Miller in Italy, Marion s lis depot ticl May, 1944 41 time check. The amount was one cen t. partner for Hopper in the blind doubles. He now lives in Minneapolis and spent Bud Miller and the rest of the Pioneers four street car tokens to get it. I DON'T BE AN ACCIDENTEE! threw the book at the pins on the final' Mrs. George Jahnke is back to ,... ork night to win high team series and high again after an absence of several team game. Eddy Collin of the Arrows months. was one of the reasons the~' ended in "'e received the good ne,... s that Ben first place. Too bad you couldn't have Hultman is recovering from a serious been in there all season, Ed." operation. Com.pany from Greenland! Don Cro Charles Fielder, former clerk, "'as an gan furloughed at Minneapolis for 20 April visitor. Charles is now on pension. days, leaving Easter Sunday for Camp Most folks name the robin as the first )'!cCoy. Don't plan on homesteading in sign of spring, but wait. boys, until the Greenland after the war-in that land blue prints come out again: then )·ou of no \vhite WOlnen, trees. nor gras~. \vill 1,now for sure another spring is Pvt. Delbert Murph)' of the infantry. here. Yes, the blue prints of the ne'" and son of Clarence :'Iurphy, machinist St. Paul freight office. helper, Minneapolis roundhouse. followed lVlr. Donehower may now use the his eight montl1s at Camp Adair, Ore., \\'ords, "my grandson." Both daughter with a 12-da,' yisit at home. and grandson are doing' nicel)'. AND-"Can Do" Leo M. Leininger. 2/c Petty Officer. former B&B carpentel·. Minneapolis General Offices ;VUnneapolis, got a first glimpse of his Kitty Cadi, Correspondent young son after 23 months with the "Fighting Seabees" in the South Pacific. Lt. J. G, Mulholland of the )Ierchant Intelligence has reached us via Lum Marines is home on furlough. He was berman Hjalmer Burud, Minneapolis. formerly special police officer, enlisted in that his son Charles has been graduated July, 1943, has made a trip to Halifax, from supply school at San Diego and has St. Johns, one trip to ?\'orth _·\frica and his corporal stripes. Malta, was 120 days in Sicily and Sar Believe our Decembel' issue stated dinia, Italy, was in an air raid while that Pvt. Bill Sirotiak, former machinist on shore at Naples, and was slightly apprentice, Minneapolis shop, was with a injured. a locomotive department employe was asked: "Don't you find it pleasant travel Railroad Corps. V\'e should have said David Everson, son of S. O. Everson, "Ordnance Heayy i\laintenance Com signal maintainer at l\Iarriam Park, ing on the Milwaukee Road?" and added: flThe service, courtesy, and friendliness pany." In his letter to Bill Anderson writes he is somewhere in the South from somewhere in Italy. he also says: Pacific. He now rates three stars. a are so marked." The lady, who makes several extensive trips yearly, was Mrs. "The compan)' is organizing a basketball star for each battle engagemen t. team. "Will at least get a nice work out Allce Pomeroy, messenger in the tele A. H. Burmaster of Bremerton, Wash., a delightful and charming personality of and will have something to do to pass graph department, advises her h01ne near the time a\yay evenings. ,. Wold Chamberlain Field was just missed unusual talent and one of the 125 recog nized miniature painters in the United Machinist Apprentice Johnny Naugh when a visiting B-26 bomber crashed ton is now Machinist 2/0 and reported Apr. 17, killing the seven occupants of States. Incidentally, did you know that miniature painting was a medieval art? Apr. 19 at Fort Snelling to fincl out when the plane. The bomber nose diYed within he'll go "sailing oyer the bounding main." 300 feet of her front yard and the While OUI' attention was focused on the possibility of two and maybe three His 15-months old son will take over hO.use was shaken by the impact. until Johnny's return. Pvt. Sander M. Forslun, formerly em marriages taking place among the store department girls 'ere their braves head "English customs. speech and numer ployed in Our baggage room and most ous other things are a bit unusual but recently in the ticket office, "'as in the (or Berlin-another was coyly romancing and practically aboard the honeymoon a fellow can acquaint himself quite read depot renewing acquaintances while on ily," writes Sheldon Stafford to Assistanl furlough. "Mel" is stationed at Camp special before we got a breath of it and then they say women can't ],eep a General Storel,eeper J. V. Anderson, and Framingham, Mass. (which "'ould make adds: "The money at first presented him the envy of most men-that being secret. Unsuspecting us! \\'e can tell you now-it seem a :i\'Ir. l\1cGinnis, a qUite a problem, but I just send it home so close to Wellesley) but he was very and that's that." happy to be back in Minnesota with his piano merchant, needed a grand baby to play his baby grand (to quote Joe Lugow On a rainy Easter Sunday afternoon. wife and make the acquaintance of his Lt. Art Hallenberg, 757th Railway Shop brand new daughter, Sandra )Iae, born of the store department) and selected Evelyn Ohman. She left us On Mal'. 3l. Battalion. writes Shop Superintendent on Apr. 5. Fact is, the young lady "'as Blyberg from Little Rock: "\Ve hacl a the occasion for the furlough. Mel likes The Northwestern "Hospitality" ex tended to Minneapolis roundhouse handy hike last ,Yeek with Major Moe in his his ""ork with the mechanized ca\'alr~r, faYorite position (pace setter). The bu t prefers railroading, of course. Hope man, Hany Gardner, last month, along with the hand carVing done by his doc, stamina and reserve fower that man ha~ he and all of our boys will be back at is amazing and the men swear by him. their old posts soon. put Harry back in circulation good as ne\v. \Ve have a lot to do but we also have South Minneapolis Locomotive Machinist Apprentice ,Villiam C. a lot of fun so it all adds up." Thomas, the boy who came here last From out there where night comes in and Store Depts. 1\ovember from Tacoma, is back on the like an indigo mist Les Soderman gives: Thelma HuH, Correspondent job again after a two months' illness. "How's the help situation? They should Office of Shop Superintendent \Ve knew this Minnesota climate would giye them all the help the." need as it is South Minneapolis fix him up. a vital thing. this railroad business. I'v!' O. K., people, dust off the old picnic got a steady job now "'11 ere I know I basket. Tim O'Connell, store departmen t won't be fired fol' a while. I'nl in New The Minneapolis Shop chief clerk, reports preliminary arrange Guinea-our stay in Australia sure was and Roundhouse boys ments are now being made for the annual short lived. The na tives are a lot of came through again and Milwallkee Service Club get-together fun-just like they are in the movies. $412 rolled out of their out at Costello's Grove June 18. That to Bill Creighton-and to Bill Lee pocl,ets during the re A true pioneer was Arthur Sand)'-who Yers, says: "No double time here after cent Red Cross DriYe. passed away on Mar. 23.. 72 years a 48 hours ... but good food." \\lho's that guy who resident of Min~apolis, 61 of which he V\'ard Nordstrom, son of H&D Engineer snuck into this maga was employed by the Milwaul,ee Road. Joe Nordstrom, arrived home on March 7 zine about a pint of in], He was promoted to an engineer on the after 21 months at the Pearl Harbor e~rlier and stole my H&D Division in April. 1879. Navy Yard, where the motto is: ""'e thunder about the news of the 7Hth V\'e wish to report the death of Valen keep them fit to fight"-ancl no food Railway Shop Battalion moving in "'ith tine Dickinson, son of retired L&R Divi rationing, if )·ou please! \\lard's particu us? Whatsa matter . . . don't they ob sion Engineel' Dickinson, on 1\iar. 22. lar work was that of ship joiner and he serve squatter's rights in this here mag Val at one time worked at the Minne also told us there were men worl{i ng azine? I'm not proud though, and the apolis rounrlhouse and for the store de there from 27 different states. more news regarding that s"ell bunch, partment at Minneapolis. 4.0, you know. is the perfect score and the better, says 1. "General" Blyberg i\iarquette Captain Hindert reports: Merrill V. Riccius, is holding to it while expresses our sentiments "hen he says: "Milwaukee BOWling League ended the being exposed to Officers Training Course "We're happy to do our bit to make Der season in a 'blaze' of glory with blind at Iowa State College, Iowa City. He Fuehrer eat CI'OW." doubles, Apr. 14. Final league compe learned to solo at Bloomington but is No wonder the new employe in the tition was Apr. 7. Chris Behr shOUld now deep in climatology, flag signals, store department looks too young to be receive a glad hand from all for the gunnery and the other essentials. the mother of two girls: Helen Lee, five capable manner in which he handled all C. A. V\'illiams, Sr., yarcl conductor. foot-three, was born on Feb. 29 .... the work as League secretary. Thanks. Minneapolis, retired Apr. 1, after com which means she's short on birthdays, Chris! Rouse Hopper picked the final pleting 37 years 7 months of continuous too! Hubby's g"oing into the Army, SO night to left hook his way to fame. Nice service in Minneapolis yard. Most of Mr. wife Helen is pinch-hitting and without a going, Hop! We won't tell the wife how \Villiams' service was performed in Min lnUrmur. much you won. Kelley of the Fast lHail neapolis upper yard a.nd ar()und the Breakfasting on 1/16 Easter Monday, worked his Irish left hook for a good freigh t house. 42 THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES CONTINENTAL for SERVICE PASSENGER, FREIGHT The CONTI NENTAL CASUAL TY COMPANY is represented AND SWITCHING SERVICE wherever railroad men are found. Here are a few Conti nental representatives located • on the Milwaukee System, who IN SERVICE ON OVER 60 RAILROADS are ready, day or night. to serve you. W. G. STELZER G. E. REYNOLDS • 910 S. Michigan Ave. 1532 locust St. Chicago, III. Terre Haute, Ind. ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIVISION Ph. Wabash 7272 Ph. Harrison 0922 GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION W. R. BUllOCK M. C. CHIER 2323 W. 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May, 1944 43 Learn something about your War Bonds from this fellow •I THE BEST THING a bulldog does is HANG ON! Once he gets hold of something, it's mighty hard to you want to set aside some money for your family's make him let go! future and yours. Noone knows just what's going to And that's the lesson about War Bonds you can happen after the War. But the man with a fistful of learn from him. Once you get hold of a War Bond, War Bonds knows he'll have a roof over his head HANG ON TO IT for the full ten years of its life. and 3 squares a day no matter what happens! There are at least two very good reasons why War Bonds pay you back $4 for every $3 in 10 you should do this. One is a patriotic reason ... the years. But, if you don't hang on to your Bonds for other a personal reason. the full ten years, you don't get the full face value, You buy War Bonds because you know Uncle and ... you won't have that money coming in later Sam needs money to fight this war. And you want on when you may need it a lot worse than you need to put some of your money into the fight. But ... if it today. you don't hang on to those War Bonds, your mQ.ney So buy War Bonds ... more and more War Bonds. isn't going to stay in the battle. And then keep them. You will find that War Bonds Another reason you buy War Bonds is because are very good things to have ... and to hold! WAR BONDS to Have and to Hold . [. ,,,,,.",.._.,.l:,,,,.',,i... I_.i!.L:II;l.d~. __•__..JL ..I- ~__......