Americana

MANNERS & MORALS

P: At its annual meeting in Pittsburgh, the 52-year-old Anti-Saloon League of America changed its name to the Temperance League of America.

P: Signing an armistice in the labor battle over Manhattan's gilded Stork Club (TIME, Dec. 15), Proprietor Sherman Billingsley disposed of charges that he tried to influence an election among the kitchen help by agreeing to: 1) rehire three of the eight men he fired; 2) pay back wages amounting to $5,779; 3) hold a new election whenever the union wanted.

P: Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, Manhattan labor consultant and wartime regional director of the War Manpower Commission, advised the Advertising Women of New York: "Let the New Look of today be the forgotten look of tomorrow. It shows everything you want to hide and hides everything you want to show."

P: After a few drinks, a soldier at Fort Sill, Okla. climbed into a 21-ton, self-propelled 155-mm. howitzer and, although he had never operated one before, drove it five miles into the town of Lawton (pop. 20,000), crashed into three autos, toured the business section, then rumbled on back to the fort--and into the guardhouse.

P: At Biddeford, Me., a carpenter named Alfred Beaudoin was awarded $1,000 in damages against a sports promoter after he told a jury that, at one of the promoter's wrestling shows, a lady wrestler, twice tossed out of the ring by her opponent, twice landed on him. The first time, Beaudoin helped the lady climb back. The second time, he was hauled away to a hospital with a broken collar bone.

P: Two New York state legislators introduced a bill making it unlawful for a motorist to drive so slowly as to exasperate other motorists into recklessness.

P: In Pittsburgh, A.F.L. restaurant workers tried a new strike technique. One noontime, they padlocked a Brass Rail lunchroom, held 28 customers imprisoned for 35 minutes.

P: In New Jersey's Bergen County Common Pleas Court, U.S. citizenship was granted in a hurry to Mrs. Stella Lewandowski, widowed mother of three sons killed in World War II.

P: Nelson Parker, 3, of Orange, N.J., sent to play in the basement of his apartment building because the weather was bad outside, strangled to death in a coin-operated washing machine.

P: In its current recruiting ads, the U.S. Air Force boasts that each new cadet will get training worth $35,000. This is $10,000 more than it cost to train a flyer for World War II.

P: The New York State Labor Relations Board forbade Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. to make good on a promise to give triple pay to 3,000 employees as a reward for crossing a picket line.

P: Coloma, Calif. (pop. 561) celebrated the 100th anniversary of the discovery of gold at famed Sutter's Mill.

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