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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-28

arms as were produced this year, Total war expenditures should ex. ceed seo,OO0 900, 900, compared with more than sS2,Ooo 900 900 in ls&2, he added.
 Nelson said the percentage in- crease in the output of planes, tanks, guns, ammunition, ships and other war materials ln November was "a per cent, compared with an increase of four per cent in October. He pointed out that the November iig- ure breaks a six-month series of declining percentages Of gain.
 He explained that although a larger percentage of increase was scored by American industry in April over March, the actual gain in production was not as great as in November because production now is much greater.
 Here is a box score Of November production increases over october:
 Airplanes, up ie per cent; or- dnance, up iS per cent; Army and Navy vessels, up nine per cent; merchants vessels, up % per cent, and other munitions, up nine per cent.
 Many items that are needed most in the type of warfare now being waged in North Africa are among those rolling of assembly lines in greatly increased quantities" Nell son said.
 He said that most factories have not scheduled their operations to more than half of the theoretical limit of i68 hours per week. A few, however, arc approaching maximum utilization. He added that productive man-hours would be in- creased by almost half if utilization of all plants were brought up to maxlmum.
 Tn one industry, Nelson said, three plants showed an average utilization of i4o.5 man-hours per week, as compared with an average of lO7.S hours per week for all plants. Three shipyards were found to be operat- ing at i22.S hours per week, com pared with an average of 77.7 hours per week for all shipyards surveyed.
 Nelson said a survey, which cov- cred 577 plants turning out muni. tions. showed that l3S plants were operating at about the equivalent of one-seven-day shift. or an average of fewer than 60 hours per week.
 Nelson said that the output oi single engine pursuit planes showed unusual increase. Production of medium bombers and smaller trans port planes "leaped forward" and Navy fighter production also showed a marked gain, he said.
 From now on deliveries of air planes should increase considerably from month to month. as new plants come into operation and progress is made in production and materials scheduling" he reported.
 Production of self-propelled guns used in tank warfare made 'ex- ceptional" progress," it was said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-28
|AxlS SUPPLY LINES ATTACKED
U. s. Planes in All.Out At. tempt to Wreck Them
 in Africa
By EDWARD W, BEATTiE United Press Stan Correspondent

United Press Stan Cerresnonaentl
 London, Dec, as,-(up, - Flying ForTesSes and the newest, deadlieSt American fighting planes were be- lieved engaged today In a supreme offensive to utterly wreck Axis eotn- municNtion lines and transport M Tunisla,
 The German controlled radio Vichy said there had been violent fighting in TuniSia for the last 2a hours, particularly around the iM- portant junction of Me0tea-El.Hae, 2T miles southwest of Tunis,
 Allied North African headquarters announced that United States bomhers and fighters resumed their smashing attacks against the port of Bixertes and SfaX, nthe TuntSian East Coast, Saturday,
 Apparently there had been a break M heavy, winter rains, holding up the Allies both in the air and on land,
 Flying fortreSseS sank two large vessels and small one, damaged a me6ium-SiRe6 ship and scored hits with heavy bombs on the docks at SfaX,
 Docks and enemy shipping were set on fire, and amidst the holo- caust, American bomber pilots saw one large ship blazing fiercely.
 Two fortreSses were shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Biserte, and two other planes, presumably fight CTS, were lost in Saturdays opera tons. An Axis fighter plane at tackled one of the lest FortreSSes as it was failing,
 Curtiss P-40S and Lockheed Lightnings escorted the bomberS and shot down two Foc&e-Wulf ls0's near Bizerte, Additional reports to headquarters revealed tANt two more Italian fighters were Shc; down on Friday,
 Radio vichy broadcast early today that one American bomber and two fighters had landed in Portugal and been interne6l. A United Press dis patch from Lisbon said an Aircobra with two pilots in it, had landed or the International airfielo,
 P-S6's made two sweeps around Hammamet. S6 miles southeast ot TuniS, on Saturday. and around Kerker, destroying two locomotives trucks, a water tank and motorcycles ard shot up barges of the coast, British Hurricane fighters attacked the enemy around Medjez-E;-Eab % miles southwest of T:nis,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-28
ACKNOWLEDGMENT SIGNED

New York, Dec. 28.-tUP)- The New York Yankees today announced the signing of infielder Billy Knick- erboeker, a free agent who had played with the Tanks from lssS through l0sO. Knickerbocker, who will be Sl tomorr0g and who is elassed in S-A of the draft, was re- leased uncOnditlorally month ago hy the Philadelphia Athletics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-28
Patriotism Goes On Trial Today
By JOSEPH W, GREGG, JR, United Press stan Corrcsnenaent

Washington as-UPI-AmeEcans testing the quality oi today, goods Ac0uttng hOnorah as she solei on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-28
Arms Production Scars In Nov.

Washington, Dec s-(UP)-Predueon Chief Donald M Nelson production showed the greatest monthly gain United states began Co n hc summer et l9i0.
 Nelson four and pncthird times than n the month Inc assault Pearl Hafbor,
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Evening star., 1942-06-30
Philip D. Block Dies;
Inland Steel Founder

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 30.-Philip D.
Block, II, last surviving founder of
the Inland Steel Co., died early
today in Presbyterian Hospital after
months illness.
He had been president of Inland
for % years until April 80, 194l,
when he became chairman Of the
Executive Committee. His brother,
l.. E. Block, Is chairman of the
Finance Committee.
A native of Cincinnati, Mr.. Block
went to work for the Block -Pollack
Iron Co. there after graduation from
Hughes High School, Cincinnati, in
1888.
Inland was founded in 1893 and
the first plant was built in Chi
cago. Ill, but its operations since
have been centered In Indiana Har-
Dor, Ind.
Surviving are the widow. a son,
Philip. jr., and a daughter, Mrs.
Madeline Block Straus.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Czech Patriots Write
Bad News for hazis
With Explosive Pens
Grapevine Posses Word
And Train Is Blown Up,
New York Group Relates
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 30.-Come
along with a Czechoslovak patriot
as he blows up Nazi freight train
with fountain pens.
It's deep midnight when motor
cyclist speeds up to the leader OF
a group of Czech saboteurs in the
German-occupied land and, accord
ing to this account received here
today by the American Friends OF
Czechoslovakia, hands him this mes
sage:
Tomorrow at 4:10 am. a freight
train leaves station for the
Russian front. See that it does not
arrive"
Underground In Action.
That brief, unsigned order, borne
by an unidentified courier, sets the
chief saboteur in motion. Racing
down the street to an inn, he sum-
mons taxi driver and they roll
out to the edge of a wood. The
saboteur. young student, stands
in clearing and makes a sound
like hoot owl.
The eerie call is answered.
Then. the account of this par
ticular instance goes on, the student
enters an old game warden's cottage
and is welcomed by the housewife
with the look of women whose
husbands have been dragged off to
the concentration camps"
The housewife takes the patriot
to the cellar where, from a shelf
behind some barrels he selects six
fountain pens of assorted sizes. He
rejoirs his driver and goes to
another wood near the railway
hiding in the bush along the right
of way.
Explosives-Filled Pens.
"A little after in the morning, !"
the report says. "a freight train
appeared-coal cars and then tank
cars. The student took pen marked
x from his pocket and threw il
onto the small platform of the tank
car. His second pen landed on a
fat car of straw. The third and
fourth landed on two more tank
cars of oil The thickest pen landed
on the Roof of a boxcar which he
rightly conjectured was loaded with
ammunition.
The results came out next day
when the grapevine passed along
word that there had been a serious
railway accident at Lvov. A freight
train rolling toward the Russian
front had suddenly and inexplicably
exploded in five places. A German
troop train crashed into the wreck
and some 800 soldiers were injured,
many of them very seriously"
Thus does a beaten people write
bad news for their oppressor, with
pens of explosives far more indelible
than ink.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Salvage Material
Arayed in Exhibit
As Suggestions
Clothing, Metal and
Rubber Objects Shown
To Prompt Home Hunt

The housewife who wonders what
she might have Of salvage value in
her closets need only drop in at
1920 H street NV. for ideasi
The women's division of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Salvage Committee
has loaded tables in the long, narrow
room with salvageable objects any
woman might find at home. The
exhibit will be open for two weeks
from 1890 am. to 5 pm. to jog
Washington housewives interest in
saving for victory.
A magician's robe lies with old
dresses and aprons on the clothing
table. A Bunsen burner and a set
Evening star., 1942-06-30

Of automobile chains crowd an old
flatiron holder. garden sprinkler, q
pair Of bookends and q coffe pot.
The rubber table sports q motley
collection of garden hose. galoshes
and overshoes, hot water bottles,
balls and a bath mat. Impaled on
nails left in a pair of rubber heels
Is the teeth-marked rubber bone
contributed by somebody's dog.
Mrs. Newton Wing, women's divi-
sion chairman, compiled the exhibit
on the theory that many housewives
actually have no idea that their
attics, Easements, closets and other
storage places are full Of objects
useless to them and useful to the
country. Though the exhibit room
is not an ofncial collection station,
some visitors already have returned
to deposit salvage they discovered
at home after examining Mrs. Wing s
tables.
A telephone call to the Goodwill
Industries, Self Help Exchange,
Salvation Army or Volunteers of
America will bring a collection truck
TO any door In the District. Salvage
may also be left at gasoline stations.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Mexico Recalls AquiIur
From Legation in Vichy
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, June 30.-The
Foreign Office announced last night
that Gen. Francisco Aguilar, Mex
lean Minister in Vichy. would return
here shortly ION orders of President
Avila Camacho."
No explanation was given for his
recall, but one official commented,
"after all, Gen. Aguilar is an army
officer"
1t was stressed that no suspension
Of relations with the Vichy regime
was contemplated. A successor for
Gen. Aguilar already has been
chosen and his name has been sub
mitted to Vichy for approval, it
was announced.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
as telephone operators. messengers
and other duties as well as cooking
meals for the report center staf.

Don't waste paper.
Evening star., 1942-06-30

ruled Phillips sentence will run
concurrently with . month SEN
tence imposed when he was con-
victed Of practicing medicine with
out q license.
Phillips, II, was 80 successful he
performed major operations. He
often boasted he could match his
skill with the best Of them"
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Russio Denies Her Sub
Sonk Swedish Steamer
BY the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, June 30.-The Russian
government has informed Sweden
that investigation of the sinking of
the Swedish steamer Ada Gorthon
off Oeland Island June % failed to
confirm reports Soviet submarine
was responsible, Tass said last night.
The agency said the Soviet gov
ernment, nevertheless, had in
structed its warships again to OBJ
serve carefully the boundaries of
Sweden's territorial waters.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Medical Ads Restricted

Brazil has banned refractory al
lusions to the climate and the sani-
tary state Of the country in medical
advertisements.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Etotsum Wrecks SeupIune

AS the seaplane Rio Uruguay was
leaving Buenos Aires, Argentina,
with eight passengers, tree trunk
floating in River Parana crashed
into it. and the passengers had to
60 to Asuncion by train.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Bogus Doctor Sentenced
For Concealed Weapon
BY the Associated Press.

OROVILLE, Calf, June 3d.
Arthur Osborne Phillips, who posed
for several years as a surgeon al
though without any accredited med
ical training, pleaded guilty to q
felony charge Of possessing q con-
cealed weapon and was sentenced to
nine months in the county jail.
Superior Judge Harry Deirup
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Ronqoon Scouts Stund Fast

After some Of their families had
left the area, the Boy Scouts of
Rangoon remained and carried on
Evening star., 1942-06-30

II b bad news for the Axis every
time you buy . War bond. Do 1t
now.
Evening star., 1942-06-30

We have an Axis to grind. Grind
1t thin, every payday, with . War
bond.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
FRIDAY, MAY l, 1912.
ANSWERING "PROFITEERING"
CHARGE

Labor unions have be IN accused of
"profiteering" in war industries by
levying large initiation fees and dues.
This charge has been answered by
William Green, showing how unions
use the funds gathered for various
benefits, helpful to members and the
nation. 1t is being answered again by
the unions response to the govern
ment's appeal to buy war savings
stamps and bonds.
The international and the local
unions, the state and city federations
are making large purchases of bonds,
out of their union funds and are also
undertaking big campaigns among
their membership to secure individual
pledges.
The American Federation of Labor
is pressing a drive to sell billion
dollars worth of bonds and stamps to
union workers in more than 800 cities.
The international Ladies Garment
Workers Union is asking every mem
Der to subscribe two weeks pay to be
checked off by employers on the in
stallment plaza total of $25,000,000
Shop chairmen or shop stewards in
a number of unions are key men in
these bonds and stamp campaigns. In
organized factories the appeal made
by the union carries more weight than
that of the employer. 1t is reported
that one of the best selling arguments
used by the chairmen is that the pur-
chase of government securities now
will help to cushion postwar depres-
sion. Workers are aware of the danger
and anxious to help ward it off.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
FULL EMPLOYMENT

(From a report of the American
Youth Commission of the American
Council on Education.)
The commission believes that in fu-
ture years it will be major objective
Of the American people to manage our
economic system so effectively that a
sustained level of full employment can
be achieved through the regular chan
nels, including employment in neces-
sary governmental services as we'll as
in private activity We can and should
begin to work toward that objective
without waiting for the return of
peace. At the end of this war it should
be possible to avoid any large amount
of chronic peacetime unemployment
although some years of additional eff
fort may be needed to achieve full
employment on a permanent basis.
This does not mean that Americans
believe more than formerly that the
world owes every man living What
they do believe is that under civilized
conditions of life society does owe
every man an opportunity to make a
living.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
THE -
CHERRY TREE
Where with our Little Hatchet we tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes Hippantly, some
times recklessly.

Even at this late date remember
December Tit seems not too easy for
some Americans to comprehend the
fact that nothing now counts except
national survival on basis Of free
dom.
There are altogether too many who
continue to think in terms Of personal
advantage. II won't unless he does.''
"If | have to do it, then he has to
do it, too"
The only real motto is, "We all
have to do!' And the reason ought to
be: "We all want to; we are deter
mined to-"
The President put it tersely: eve
can; we will; we must"
The last two words, "We must" are
full of meaning. That's how it is.
We must, because if we don't there
won't be any ''us."
While it is not true that two social
concepts are in the ring fighting for
supremacy, it is true that unless our
side wins there will be no freedom
At this moment considerable num-
Der of Americans are bereft of all
rights. They are prisoners of war of
Japan.
Perhaps there are Americans who
haven't stopped to think of that:
Americans are prisoners of war of
Japan THEY have lost every shred
of freedom and they will have no free
dom until we win it back for them.
If we lose we shall all be exactly
as are those prisoners of war.
Our fellow Americans, men who
fought tenaciously as ever men fought
anywhere, KNOW right now what
Japanese or Axis victory means. They
are getting sample.
AS Macarthur plans in Australia,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
Coon Hunters Plan Annual
Contest In Highland County

Hillsboro, Ohio. - Officials of the
Highland County Coon Hunters AS
sociation said this week they would
sponsor their fifth annual coon hound
field trial at the Meyers hybrid corn
farm four miles northeast of Hills
boro on State Route 1873, Sunday, May
II. A guaranteed purse of $110 will
be offered entries.
Coon hunters from Butler County
will be there with their dogs, it was
reported.
Plans are being made to conduct a
puppy derby along with the field trial,
it was said. Only registered pups will
be permitted to enter this event. Darby
Hunter, New Vienna, is secretary of
the association.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
ACCIDENTS CAN BE
MINIMIZED

Pointing out that this nation has
the technical information to reduce
accidents, w. 7. Cameron, chief safety
adviser of the Division of Labor
Standards, U. S. Department of La
Dor, says:
"No industrial accident can be ex-
cused or condoned or treated lightly
when measures can be taken to pre-
vent it. Such effective prevention of
industrial accidents demands that ~
all technical information on methods
of prevention be made readily avail
able to the plant and to the workers;
(2) plant management make special
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01

looking toward his men lost on Ba-
taan, He knows what Axis victory
would mean. He knows this war is
the war of ALL of us.
A growing number of Americans
are coming to realize the bitterness,
the thoroughness, the ALL-ness of
this war.
In Washington there is much feel
ing that bombing of our Atlantic
seaboard is imminent.
We have bombed Toxic once, shall
do it again-Tokio and many other
far-fung points. Our troops are in
most of the far parts of the world.
Estimates vary-from IA to 81 men
at work behind the lines, to keep ONE
man on the fighting front.
EVERYTHING is in the balance
Not just military victory, but victory
for our freedom-our four freedoms
and all of the little freedoms that
mean so much to us.
We Americans are joined in a great
community Of effort for one sole pur-
pose-to win the war. Everything
else is secondary.
Two great steel companies have
shown what NOT to do Labor did a
few crazy things, is swinging into
full steam. Throttling patent pools
are being smashed.
But what mainly has not gone right
yet is the general attitude toward the
sum total Of talk about the war. Sabo-
tage doesn't seem to rile folks very
much Father Coughlin's stuff brings
government action, but common folks
don't seem to mind much
The American people aren't mad
yet!
That seems to be about it. We
haven't got mad. And that's what we
need.
That's what is justified, demanded,
cried for by an outraged justice.
We need to get mad and we need a
great unity in being mad as hell about
this war-so mad that we will just
plumb go out and win it and throw
into it whatever it takes to win it!
Are they going to push US around!
Are they going to smash our freedom!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

The position of Polish writer's is
especially tragic. The German author
tiles have made numerous advances to
them through the official publications.
Some time ago the "Kurier Czesto-
chowski," a paper published in Polish
by the Nazis, invited the Polish writer's
to cooperate with the German New
Order in Poland. The paper expressed
astonishment that Polish writer's re-
fused to contribute to the building of
a new cultural life. Why are they
silent, asked the "Kurier," do they
prefer to sell soap, cigarettes, or old
books rather than fulfill their duty as
writer's and educators?
These questions have significant i'm
plications. Even such regime as that
of the Nazis in Poland cannot exist
in social vacuum. 1t must have some
support among the population. To in
duce the Polish writer's to become tools
VI hSI HlotH pIOpdSdIiud, W lluIliUiS
them, to break their ties with the
people, all that would serve the Nazi
aims.
The reply, however, remains mega
tive. The Polish writer's refuse to
have any part in the creation of a
New Order which crushes and de-
stroys their nation. They prefer to
remain silent.
But the silence of Polish writer's is
the best witness of the strength of the
nations spiritual resistance. Although
the intellectuals have been made the
object of especially violent attack, of
constant persecution, although the
Nazis have tried to break them down
either by force or by temptation, they
have not surrendered. They firmly
stand with the great army of cour-
ageous fighters for freedom. Many of
them actively participate in the un-
derground movement, organizing Sc
cret schools, publishing papers, spread
ing the ideas of resistance and strug-
gle throughout the country.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
WHAT NEXT?

A process for Gaping old tires, US
ing only few ounces of crude rubber
per tire, has been devised by Hick-
ory, N. c., tire dealer Using special
equipment, rubber from worn-out cas-
ings is removed in long strips which
are cemented and vulcanized around
the tire carcass to be recapped.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
CONSTANT BEAUTY"

We all appreciate these beautiful
spring days, and the following poem
by Edgar A. Guest is very appropri-
ate at this time.-M. J. Mcmahon.
CONSTANT BEAUTY"
"It's good to have the trees again, the
singing Of the breeze again,
It's good to see the lilacs bloom as
lovely as of old.
It's good that we can feel again the
touch of beauties real again,
For hearts and minds, of sorrow
now, have all that they can hold.
The roses haven't changed a bit, nor
have the peonies stranged bit,
They bud and bloom the way they
did before the War began.
The world is upside down today,
there's much to make us frown
today,
And gloom and sadness everywhere
beset the path of men.
But now the lilaes bloom again, and
give us their perfume again,
And now the roses smile at us and
nod along the way;
And it is good to see again the bios
SONS on each tree again,
And feel that nature hasn't
changed the way we have today.
Oh, we have changed from what we
were, we're not the carefree lot
we were,
Our hearts are filled with sorrow
now, and grave concern and
pain;
But it is good to see once more the
budding lilac tree once more,
And find the constant roses here
to comfort US again"
EDGAR A. GUEST.
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effort to arouse the foremen and work
ers to the need of observing safety
practices at all times; and (3) trained
men and women be available in the
plant to put the safety program into
effective operation"