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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-09

1t now becomes clear that In those ancient
times three great Civilizations kind OF
three-way axis II you will-existed in the Far
East. In what is now modern Turkey were
the Hittites. In Egypt were the Egyptians.
as there always seems TO have been. And in
the Tgris- Euphrates Valley were the Mtanni
near the legendary site Of the Garden of Eden.
When DR.. McEwan set the first spade to
the mound at Tell Fakhariyeh he had no as
surance, only suspicion, that the mound
would be fruitful for archaeology The Ger
mans. in fact, had claimed prior rights to ex-
plore the site for years but never did anything
about IL.
AS the native diggers and earth-bearers
trudged away with their small baskets Of soil
Cat the local wage scale which begins at Is
cents per day. thousands Of skeletons came
into view
Were these the Mitanni?
No. Local memories could recall that Tell
Fakhariyeh had been the site Of one of the
dreadful Armenian massacres by the Turks in
World War 1.
Thus the first job of the American expedi-
ton to dig down through the huge Arme-
Man graveyard
Next the expedition struck heavy masonry
walls which outlined the entire top of the
great mound Here was ancient culture, but
it was not Mitannian.
The wall turned out TO be the ramparts
of an ancient Roman fortress, probably one of
the Oriental outposts of the ancient Roman
Empire. Just how old this Roman fortress
was, no one really knows but Or. Wilson says
1t probably does not date later than 800 A. d.
1t was then that the glory that was Romes
was dwindling as the Golden City. and the
whole Empire, became rotten at the core.
1t then that the outpost garrsons of
Rome were called home 10 try and protect the
mother city from the inyasons OF the Huns
and other barbarian invaders from the north.
Finally beneath the skeletons and the Roman
fortress. other solid walls found which
have all the marks Of some great palace or at
least a great public building which
crowned Tell Fakhariyeh. Nearby dis
covered a smaller building probably private
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-09

They were Indo-European peoples from
which have stemmed most of the races of Eu.
rope including the Greeks, the Romans the
Gauls, the Anglo-Saxons and their modern
counterparts.
The upper hill country of India is believed
to have been the original home of the Indo-
Europeans and they migrated northwestward
TO the steppes Of what is now Southern Russia.
There, immemorial ages ago. the Indo-Eu-
ropeans divided into two branches of migra-
ton just did the hordes of Ghengis Khan
centuries later in the middle ages. One branch
continued westward across Europe, and the
other turned southwest. Among the latter
were the Mtanni, at least their ancestors.
The late Or. James Henry Breasted, of
the Oriental Institute, has summed up the
previous knowledge of the race by calling
them intelligent powerful and warlike.
Intelligent they we're, for they found
TO be the ruling class of their state, and their
power and warning ability rests on a heritage
passed on 10 them from their ancestors
This legacy was not money or inherited
position of power II only the simple
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-09

believe was the capital city OF
these misty Mitanni.
There. in the general region
where the Bible places the Gar
den of Eden and the coming of
man to earth. have been found
two statuettes-on of a god
and the other a goddess which
are the most priced discoveries
of Mitannian civilization so far.
These little 12-inch high carv-
ings of limestone, painted red,
are unlike anything which ex-
listed in Egyptian and Hittite
culture of the same period.
They point TO the long-sought
discovery of the Mitanni, whose
existence has previously been
known only secondhand.
All that scientists had to go
on. until last year, were refer
ences in Egyptian and Hittite
writings dealing with diplo-
matte transactions with the
Mitanni.
The new discoveries at the
mound of Tell Fakhariyeh, near
the railroad station of Ras ell
Ain on the southern Turkish
border. are vitality important to
the history of civilization.
In the first place, according
to Or. John A. Wilson. Director
Of the Oriental Institute Of the
University of Chicago, the rub
ers of Mitanni are the distant
ancestors of most all Americans.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-09

by weekly Britain Rights Reserved
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
COUNTY RECEIVES
STATE TAX SHARE

With the receipt from the state au-
ditor of $75,369.88 in utility excise
taxes, Butler County's relief debt will
be slashed $30,50O this month, R. HI.
Smith, county auditor, said We'd
nesday.
Smith said the $30,5OO payment, due
in March, would reduce to $4,000 the
county's obligation in poor relief bonds
issued in 1885, A total of $247,000
in bonds was issued and $117,500 has
been paid in the last four years.
In addition, the county will pay
more than $4,000 this year on an
issue of $185,OOO in relief notes sold
by commissioners in July, 1889, on
which $81, 900 already has been paid.
The notes are to be paid in full
in 1914.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
UNION LABEL OIL
NOW ON MARKET

Washington, D. G. (ILNS) g "Unoil"
is the registered trade name of a new
motor oil that carries the union label
of the International Union of Operat-
ing Engineers. 1t is distributed in re-
tail markets of the metropolitan area
of New York City and in Connecticut
and New Jersey by the Union Label
Oil Company, Inc, 535 Fifth Avenue,
New York, N. Y. This motor oil is
being retailed through distributors but
full information regarding how the
product can be purchased may be OBJ
tanned by writing this company.
"This union label motor oil is a 100
per cent union-processed product, re-
fined from the highest quality of
Pennsylvania crudes," said |. NJ Orn-
burn, secretary treasurer, Union La
bel Trades Department of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
ut will be marketed in one-quart
and five-quart cans, as well as in
drums. All members of labor unions,
their families and friends should de-
mand it"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
w H Y J?
(From the Journal of Electrical
Workers)

Now begin new fagellations of la
bor All the old labor-haters and labor
baiters; all the old reactionary law
makers and local politicians; all the
astute, highly-paid lobbyists and fix
ers; the high-powered advertising
agents; the old-time army officers and
naval commandants with an eye upon
fat jobs with private industry; the
Nazis and Communists; Roosevelt
haters and their cousins; all the news
paper publishers with their noble zeal
for civic virtue; the stool pigeons and
the private detectives now out of jobs
all these roll spit-balls, dust off tar
brushes, dig out their stink-bombs and
go for labor from score of different
quarters.
It's a free-for-all smear campaign.
Mole-hills grow to mountains. Truth is
ignored. The din is awful. And labor
suffers. The goal is to crush and en-
slave. The defense program is i'm
periled But the noble saviors of the
republic rush on.
One wonders about the conservative
ilk. Why must conservatives believe
that nation can prosper, if labor be
degraded?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
UNION PACTs FOSTER PEACE

Washington, D. C.-"The vast ma
jority of controversies are quickly
settled when workers and management
meet in good faith around the confer
ence table," says the American Fed
Grafton of Labor in its latest economic
survey. "The union agreement" the
survey adds, 'thus brings law and or
der into industrial relations, in con-
trast to the chaos which so often ex-
lists where there is no organization
and no agreement"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
Annual GridirOn Dinner
For Butler Bar Assn

The Butler County Bar Associations
annual "Gridiron Dinner" and election
of officers will be March 25 in Middle
town Elks' Temple, committee
headed by Jack Bosch decided this
week.
Bosch said elaborate arrangements
would be made for the session, at
which members of the bar will be
whacked in travesty and pantomime.
On the committee are John Con-
naughton, Christian Henes, Jack Rog-
ers, and r. Fred Woodruff, Hamilton;
Maxwell Finkelman, C. w. Elliott,
Jack Casper, and Miss Helen Schmidt,
Middletown.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
SENATE CONSIDERS
SUFFRAGE FOR D. {.

Washington, D. C.-Senator McCar-
ran, chairman of a special sub-com-
mittee to handle the resolution intro
duced jointly by Senator Capper and
Representative Summers for pro-
posed constitutional amendment ex-
tending suffrage to the District of Co.
lumbia, promised full and complete
hearings on this long standing con-
troversial question.
Since 1874 the laws for the govern
ment of the nations capital have been
passed by Congress sitting as sort
of municipal council. The laws are
administered by three commissioners
appointed by the President. No one
in the District of Columbia has vote
or any effective voice in determining
the laws enacted for the District or
the selection of the officials to admin
lister them.
The Capper-S Summers resolution does
not in itself extend the vote to the
District of Columbia, but would amend
the Federal Constitution to vest in
Congress the power to deal with the
question. Under the amendment Con-
gress could give the District repre-
sentation in both Houses of Congress
and in the electoral college and could
also delegate to the local municipal
government such additional powers as
it deemed appropriate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
Schuster Given Watch

Harry H. Schuster, currently secre-
tary of the Butler unit, B. R. L. D. A.,
and first president of the Buckeye Re-
tail Liquor Dealers Association, was
presented with a Gruen wrist-model
watch by President Frank Fickel of
the state association last week. Pre-
sentation ceremonies took place at the
Hotel Aims, during the annual ban
quet of the Cincinnati dealers, and was
inspired by Schuster's continued in
terest in the welfare of liquor dealers
organizations in all parts of the state.
Buckeye Tavern.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
MiddletOwn Civic Assn
Is Praiser By Lecturer

Middletown, Ohio. - Teamwork of
community efforts as exemplifed by
the Middletown Civic Association was
praised this week by De Loss Walker,
lecturer and editor, at the first of a
series of ten dinners in the Manchester
Hotel, marking the beginning of an
informal campaign.
Walker said the program of the
Civic Association in handling it's
youth, welfare, health, and commerce
projects was nationally known and
perhaps better understood in certain
instances than by many Middletonians.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
Classes Are Described

Defense training classes being con-
Quoted in Hamilton under the sponsor
ship of the National Youth Admins
tration were described before members
of the Hamilton Men Teachers Club,
Tuesday night, at dinner meeting in
Wilson Junior High School. Speakers
were Robert Schuster, Black -Clawson
Company, instructor; R. Calvin Skill
man, chairman of the education divi-
sion of the Hamilton Committee for
National Defense, and G. w. White,
superintendent of schools.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
Food For Europe Is Topic

Steps for further aid to war-stricken
peoples in Western Europe were dis
cussed by the Hamilton branch of the
National Committee on Food for the
Five Small Democracies at meeting
Monday night in the Y. M. c. A.
Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, chairman,
presided. Rabbi Lelyveld announced
that the movement had been indorsed
by the Hamilton Business and Profes-
sional Women's Club and other or
CARNATIONS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
LIBERTY HOME MEETING

One application for membership was
received at the monthly meeting of the
Liberty Home Association, held Satur-
day night in the home, Seventh and
Walnut Streets. Walter Wenning,
president, was in charge.
Reports of the Washington's birth
day celebration, which featured an in
teresting address on the Life of
George Washington" by l.. w. Thon
of the Cincinnati Freie Presse, were
presented.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
Monkey Mutual Aids
FOrtieth Anniversary

In few days the entire member
ship of the Hamilton Monkey Mutual
Aid Society, No. 1, will receive the in
formation that the fortieth anniver-
sary of the organization will be cele-
brated.
The celebration this year will be
held Saturday, March %, at $50 p. m.
Jess Pochard, chairman, and Henry
Riley, secretary, will be at the helm of
the committee.
Speakers will be announced later
and the members can look forward to
one big celebration
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
Legion To Hold Initiation
In Home Friday Evening

Donald Davis, commander of Frank
Durwin Post, No. 1873, American Le-
gion, announced Tuesday that public
initiation of new members will be held
at the regular meeting of the post,
Friday night at the Legion Home,
North B Street and New London Pike.
Members of the Cincinnati Voiture
No. 20 degree team will conduct the
ceremony. Corporal Shinn, of the
Middletown station, will speak on
Highway Safety First" after the
initiation. Boy Scout officials and
school teachers are urged to attend
the meeting.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
GYPSY CONCERT APRIL 2

Gypsy Singers, composed of mem
bers of Butler County Oranges di-
rected by Mrs. C. H. Williams, will
present its annual spring concert
April in Fairfield High School audi
torium, it was announced this week.
Soloists will be Mrs. Ralph Jefferies,
Mrs. Ben S. Van Gorden, Allan Evans,
Fred Sauerbeck, and Paul Miller.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
NEW BEER-LIQUOR PERMITS

Irene Schuster, southeast corner of
Route 25 and Deerfeld Pike, Maud,
Ohio (new class of permit), D-3.
Aloysius Renners, 2601 Dixie High
way, d., D-2. Albert Erbs, 933 Cen
tral Avenue, Hamilton (new class of
permit), D-2. Mary Rosina Bolser,
Owl Cafe, 1853 Central Avenue, Hamil-
ton (new class of permit), D-2.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
BUTLER TAX RETURNS UP

A surge of personal property tax
returns this week increased to almost
$500 the total filed in the office of
R. H. Smith, Butler County auditor,
for the first half of 1941 collection
period. After March 81 penalty of
SO per cent of the years tax is to be
assessed persons who fail to make
returns.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
RECORDERS TRADE" UP

Further increases in February in
mortgages and other documents filed
in his office were disclosed Tuesday by
Earl R. Hogan, Butler County re-
corder. His report showed filing of
297 deeds, 46 more than in February,
1910; 1,055 chattel mortgages, a gain
of 132, and 312 miscellaneous papers,
a gain of 36. Real estate mortgages
declined from 172 to 167.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
RECORD SHEEP ALLOWANCE

Claims amounting to $1,116, high
mark in Butler County, for sheep de-
stroyed by dogs in the last three
months were approved this week by
county commissioners.
Forty-one farmers filed the claims
through DR.. c.. H. Safer, dog warden
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07

the B. Rosenberg & Sons Company of
New Orleans and are being shipped to
their destination in Greece. The shoes
are sturdy and union-made. Part of
the initial expense was obtained by
popular subscription, the firm making
up the deficiency.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
UNION SHOES FOR GREECE

New Orleans, La. (ILNS).-Eighty
thousand pairs of shoes for men,
women and children have been donated
to the Greek war relief movement by
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-07
CHARTER PETITIONS DENIED

Miami, Fla.-The Executive Council
of the American Federation of Labor
refused applications for union char
ters by pari-mutuel employees, race
track grooms and exercise boys. Will
liam Green, president of the A. F. of
L., said the racing employees were too
closely connected with gambling.
The Executive Council also refused
a similar petition by group of Louis
vile lawyers. 1t was stated they were
not wage-earners, but were fee-charg-
ing professional men.
Local Man: You don't seem to think
much of him.
Friend: If he had his conscience
taken out it would be minor oper-
alton.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

A bank president, several lawyers
and doctors, and a representative
group of Washington businessmen
were included in the 46 men who
left the Capital by train last night
for a four-day golf outing at
Augusta, Ga. The trip is the 18th
annual Southern golf junket ar
ranged by R. T. Uefty) Harrell OF
the Washington Golf and Country
Club, and the members of the group
were drawn from all the country
clubs around the Capital.
Forty "old-timers," which means
men who have been on several such
trips, are along again. Six are new.
Harrell and Ralph S. Fowler and
their wives went by boat to Jackson
vile, where the men took a train
to Augusta.
Here are the men who made
the trip; old timers"-A. L. Alder
man, Thomas N. Beavers, Earle
Bourne. P. w. BudWorth. Peyton
w. Calfee, Guy Chase. William E.
Davis. A. G. Dezendorf, George E.
Elliott, DR.. w. Marion Falls, Ralph
s. Fowler, Harry c. Gretz, r. T.
Harrell Barge L. Hartz, Kenneth
Haynes. M. K. Heartfield, Col. Leroy
w. Heron, Maurice Horton, Elmer
Jenkins, Frank E. Johnson. A. S.
King. Joseph T. Kirchner, Walter
Leaman Paul E. Lesh, A. j. May,
Godfrey L. Munter, Edgar Merkle,
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Green Hornet Seeking
Revenge on Dusek
In Mat Feature

The Green Hornet, latest in a
lengthy list of matmen who deem it
discreet to mask simulated agony,
will huff and puff with Ernie Dusek,
rudest member of ferocious family,
in the feature graphing match to-
night at Turner's Arena.
Following the routines of such
specimens as the Masked Marvel,
the Phantom, the Golden Terror, ETC.,
the Hornet is seeking what is termed
revenge. Ernie pinned him last
week, but the guy in green says it
was illegal, since a foot or something
was outside the ropes.
Hornet asked for another chance
and, since some 2,700 customers had
paid to see him the first time, Pro-
moter Joe Turner agreed the act
would be worth repeat perform
ance. So this time maybe the Hor-
net will win and Ernie will squawk-
something to the effect he wasn't
looking when it happened-and
they'll keep it up indefinitely.
Hornet is supposed to be peeved
at none other than Casey Berger,
who will referee. Berger. it seems.
was on the premises last week and
the hooded horror didn't relish the
hurried manner in which he counted
three
The supporting cast pits Rudy
Dusek against Lou Plummer in the
semiflnal, Len Macaluso against Ed
die Newman, Fred Grobmier against
Hy Kulkovich and Joe De Valteau
against Warren Bockwinkle.
The first groan will be heard at
$3.50 o'clock. Ten per cent of the
gross receipts will be donated to the
Children's Hospital blood bank.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Brewers Gird for Biq
Clash With Sphas;
Defeat Bruins
Capacity Crowd Watches
Pro League Team Nail
CoIored Five, 44-36

Fresh from a 44-36 conquest Of
their neighboring Bruins, the Wash
ington Brewers today started point
ing for Sunday nights important
game with the Philadelphia Sphas
at Riverside Stadium which we'll
may prove the turning point of the
American Basket Ball Leagues sec
ond half race.
The Brewers upset the champion
SphaS in their last meeting at
Riverside and would enhance their
title chances greatly by repeating
three nights hence.
A capacity crowd at Turner's
Arena last night saw the Brewers
and Bruins, playing under amateur
rules, stage a point-for- point battle
in the first half before the American
League team went on a scoring spree
to put the game out Of reach Of their
colored rivals.
The Bruins had entered the sec
ond half with a 20-l9 edge after the
lead had changed hands six times
in the first 20 minutes of play. but
with the score 22-21 against them,
the Brewers launched an attack in
which they scored II points while
their hosts could make only 3.
Ben Goldfadden, former George
Washington star, led in scoring with
II points, while Tarzan Cooper and
Soupy Campbell shared point honors
for the losers with apiece.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Golf Group on Augusta Trip
Includes Men in Many Walks
Of Life, Some Linksmen

r. J. Norman, Dave Morris, Lar1ier
P. McLachlen, Maurice Palmer, C.
H. Pardoe, D. N. Pratt. w. B. Put
man, John w. Shaw, Paul Sleeper,
Freeman Stricklin, John Widmayer,
william Winslow and Dave Thom-
son, pro at the Washington Golf
and Country Club, who will run
the golf events.
Newcomers: Drs. M. H. Burton
and w. R. McLister, Al Edmonds,
Joseph Nebel, Thomas Perry and D.
Bruce Tuxhorn.
The trip is the largest mass migra-
ton of golfers from Washington to
the South. 1t has more than twice
as many golfers as did the Congress
sional Country Club party which
went to PlnehurSt last December.
The Augusta golfers play four days,
with a tournament a day, over the
two courses of the Augusta Country
Club: the Augusta National course,
popularity known as the Bobby
Jones" course, and the layout at
Forest Hills, near the big hotel
which sticks up on the Georgia sky
line west of the town.
Dave Thomson. the Washington
pro, is in a great spot. Sunday, Feb
ruary %. he will play against every
other member of the party for a
buck a man, with handicaps. If
Dave wins he collects. If he loses
the amateur keeps his own buck
That's a spot a lot of people would
like to be in, on the golf course.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
All Eager to Play Ball,
Just Want More Money

And the same applies to Bill
Dlckey, Joe Gordon, Red Rolfe.
George Selkirk. Babe Dahlgren and
practically all of the Yankee
pitchers. In the old days, you
would have said that Cousin Egbert
Barrow had whopping holdout
problem on his hands. Today, Cous-
in Egbert is a man to be envied
He has the situation under firm
control.
Aside from the fact that none of
the players are willing to work for
what they are offered. the Yanks
are as good as in the World Series
right now.
Stan Hack of the Cubs would
have been called a holdout a few
years ago. He made a trip from
California to Chicago, presumably
to complain about his contract, and
went home again without signing
That looks bad, on the face of it
But the Cub management explains
that nothing could be SWeeter.
Our only difficulty with Hack is
money" says the Cub management
He won't play ball for us at those
terms, but he'll do everything else. u
1t may be that Leland S. Mac
Phail, the brain of Brooklyn, gave
clue to the new key word the other
day when discussing his catcher,
Mickey Owen.
"OWen?" said Mr.. MacPhail. He
differs from me slightly"
If Owen is differer, perhaps all
the other boys I speak of are diff
ferers.