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non Fontaine, 81, who roomed at
the Lange house.
Mrs. Dodge and her husband
quarreled and after a scuffle, she
returned to her party. Miss Fon-
taine fled to her bedroom.
Police, answering a call from a
neighbor, found he had tried to
force the window of Miss Fontaine's
bedroom. Dodge collapsed at dis
trict police station. where, officers
said, he had been abusive and pro-
fame.
He was removed to a receiving
hospital. in coma. Dowling said
he believed the excitement was
responsible for his condition.
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4|R-SEA BATTLE RACES ACROSS PACIFIC
IN WORDS, JAPS WIN

ITO a waiting world, eager to
learn the latest news of the great
naval battle of the Solomon is
lands, imperial headquarters at
$3.50 pm. Tokyo time released an
other explosive commtinique re-
vealing Japanese naval forces have
sunk SO far as asaertained ." and
continued to summarize the alleged
Allied Losses.
1t noted that all 21 planes Japan
lost "gallantlys crashed into their
objectives as human piloted bombs. "
The communique listed as sunk
one American 1924 ton cruiser Of
Wichita type, which it called a
flagship; five American heavy
Continued on Page 6; Column y
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Tax Debt Relief Urged

WASHINGTON, Aug l4-(UP)-
Chairman Walter F.. George, D., Ga,
CT the senate finance committee,
said today hearings before that
group have demonstrated the neces-
sity of providing some fern of tax
relief for debt-burdened individuals
and corporations.
Talking with reporters after the
committee ended Is days OF hear
llgS ON the house e-approyed So 40
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ports sunk and one heavy cruiser,
three destroyers and' one transport
severely damaged.
In making its new total claim,
it SAID that the battleship, which
it reported sunk in the first COM
munique, had turned out to be a
cruiser of the British Achilles
class. 1000 tons.
Achilles is about one fourth the
tonnage Of the smallest battleship.
In the Midway and Coral Sea
battles Japan tried to cover up its
humiliating defeats by making fan
tastie claims of American losses.
Radio Tokyo introduced Fridays
communique with the following
fanfare:
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population of $4,000, more thin
three times greater than It's popa-
lation in 1910 before the grow In
of war industries. Many households
ers bought arms and the Army even
lifted its restriction for "A while
against house and street lighting
along the gulf coast The barber.
however, didn't confine his atten-
tlon to the families OF war workers.
he broke into a convent and shear
ed the locks OF three sleeping girls
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Dodge, who once had a 81 700 900
inheritance, died in a public. hos
pital. His wife, Dora Macdonald
Kline Dodge, and a family physi-
clan, DR.. Edward K. Carmichael,
were with him.
Police arrested Dodge Tuesday
night on a charge of breaking and
entering Prosecutor William E..
Dowling said apparently what hap
pened was this:
Dodge and his wife were at sep
arate parties. Mrs. Dodge went
next door to the home of How
ard f. Lange TO borrow ice cubes
and found him drinking with Mig
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Phantom Barber Suspect
Called Nozi Sympathizer

PASCAGOULA, Miss, Aug. IA
UP)-Police Chief A. w. Ezell
claimed today that the phantom
barber" who broke into at least
10 homes to cut the hair of the
sleeping occupants, is William A.
Dolan. a German educated chem
ist.
Dolan, Ezell announced. has been
in Jail for three weeks and is
charged with attempted murder
His motivation, Ezell charged, was
to impair the morale of war work
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-14

Dolan was charged in connection
with an assault on Terrell Heidel-
berg and his wife by the phantom
barber the night of June l3. They
were beaten with an iron pipe and
were the only victims of the bar
ber who suffered physical harm
beyond losing their hair.
The activities of the phantom
barber caused considerable excite
ment in this town which now has
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-14

personal or corporate-which is
saved
BY savings, Fisher said he refer
red to any sort of capital accumu-
lation, whether by individuals. part
nerShips, or corporations. He said
he would like ultimately to see "a
thorough-going reform of our pres
ent income taxes by repeating all
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Bonds Required
Of Practitioners

Judge Thompson revoked the pro-
baton granted in Feb. 1912 to Henry
L. Portwood after he was found
to have been guilty OF failing to
support his family. Portwood did
not comply with court orders Port
wood was sent to the county jail for
60 days.
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relnforcements apparently bound
FOR the island battle area.
The attack upon japanese naval
and convoy units was part of
spreading pattern of war which
saw an Allied convoy smash sue
cessfully through the Mediterran-
can. in spite of neavy losses, to
reinforce the stronghold of Malta.
In the Solomons, meanwhile, it
was believed U. S. Marines had
taken a strategic airport and an
other seaplane base and were with
in sight of successful conclusion
OF the first phase of their occu-
patton.
Reports of the aerial attack upon
large Jap fleet units were vague,
and a final report may be delayed
as long as those on the battles of
Midway and the Coral Sea.
One of the highlights of the
days war news was the London
announcements that Allied naval
and air power once more had driv-
en- through the Mediterranean with
reinforcements - including fighter
planes = for the citadel of Malta.
The admiralty's report on the
running Mediterranean convoy bat
tie made plain that the Allied naval
force did not come through the
conflict without sharp losses.
But ~ objective, the bringing
of heavy supplies and reinforce
ments, particularly vitally needed
fighter planes, was attained
The communique added the new
cruiser Manchester to the Allied
score of losses which already in
cluded the old British aircraft car
rier, Eagle.
1t was stated authoritatively, in
contradiction of Nazi boasts, that
neither the aircraft carrier Wasp
nor any other American vessel was
engaged in tie battle. The Germans
have claimed that six aerial bomb
hits were scored on the l4,7OO-ton
American carrier Wasp and that 1t
fled, ablaze, toward Malta.
And the admiralty hinted that
more losses may be announced in
the future. However, the Axis also
suffered losses-at least two sub
marines and two torpedo hits on
cruiser fleet. Additional reports
on the effectiveness of Allied air
attacks on the Axis fleet are ex-
pected later.
The admiralty statement contrast
ed sharply with Axis claims that
upwards of 80 warships and convoy
freighters were sunk in the running
battle.
on the Pacific front American
Marines stubbornly fought to oust
the japanese from their Solomon
Island strongholds and were be-
lieyed TO have won control of
Japanese-held airdrome and a Jap
anese seaplane base Allied planes
blasted at Japanese New Guinea
bases from which reinforcements
might be diverted TO the Solomon
front.
However Australian sources, bas-
ing their opinion ON admittedly
fragmentary information, believed
that American forces may have
driven the Japanese from the Ku-
KUN airdrome site on Guadalcanal
island, the best air site in the Arch
ipelago. In addition it was thought
that the marines were in possession
Continued on Page 6. Col 81
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Black Sheer p Heir
TO Million Dies

DETROIT, Aug. IS (UP)-John Duval Dodge, 49, the
playboy son OF the late multi millionaire automobile man.
ufacturer John F. Dodge died last night from cerebral
hemorhage suffered after police arrested him for trying
to break into wOmanS bedroom.
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The Mechanical Cat

The Mechanical Cat
Blackout, the midnight tinted
feline belonging to Lima Arnold,
is living up to his start in life. Re-
member, it was Blackout who used
to startle the Arnold family by
manipulating the typewriter in the
dark hours of night.
She has a new trick now that is
an annoyance to others than the
Arnold family. Blackout either de-
liberately pushes the telephone re-
ceiver off the hook by clawing at
it or crawls under it to go to sleep.
thereby heaving it up enough to give
the operator Tic jitters.
These modern cats just can't
leave modern inventions alone.
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Navy Takes Over Plant
Struck by Unionists in
Defiance of WLB Order
Interference with Operation WILDE
Offense Against U. S.. Workers
No+ifie d as War Production Resumed

BAYONNE N j., Aug IA. (UP)--Rear Admiral llar-
old G. Bowen US NJ announced today that he has taken
possession of the General Cable Corporation plant closed
by ee-day strike and that it will reopen at
Naval seizure of the plant ordered by President
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M'Arthur Planes
Blast jap Navy
Rushing to Isles
Marines Take Solomon Airport as First
Phase Of Occupation Nears End; Big
Convoy Gets Through Mediterranean
UNITED PRESS

An arsea battle which may overshadow in Importance
American occupation of the Solomon Islands believed
raging Friday the southwest Pacific where Gen Doug
las MacArthurs landbased air fleet attacked naval
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A New Name

A New Name
Judge John r. Simpson always
has good name for everything. He
didn't fail to come through with a
Continued on Page 6; Column 2
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p AMBlINe
~ EpORTER
It's Bad Luck

The PcStPreSs, as noted from the
date lines Thursday still was We'd
nesday Aug. ~.
Oh. well Is is an unlucky mum
Der for some persons.
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A Grand Idea

There are those who feel very
sorry for Clyde Lee. Gilbert House.
and Lester Patton because they had
to spend two hours diving around
in an El Centre ci:y settling basin
while plugging up u long unused
drain pipe that suddenly decided to
start letting water cut of the basin
again.
RR isn't one Of the sorry ones
Personally RR can't think of u
more comfortable way to spend a
hot afternoon.
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NATIONAL
Pittsburgh Observation-Disclosures. 900 OO
Chicago ............. .................-.. 22O OO
Klinger, Lanning & Lopez; War
neke & Hernandez.
Philadelphia .. 0l0 0l0 GOO 4 U
New York ........... l0l 900 l2X-5 q 0
johnson, Nahem & Bragan; Hub
bell & banning.
Qst Game)
Boston ............ 600 600 600 0 I 0
Brooklyn ........ 4l0 100 40X-lO 10 U
Salvo, Hutchings, Donovan &
Kluttz; Davis & owen.
(2nd Game)
DoStoll Voo oOo
Brooklyn ................................ O22 OIL
Farley, Sain & Masi, Wyatt &
Sullivan.
AMERICAN
Chicago .............. 600 100 000-l 4
Detroit ................ 600 103 03X-7 3 o
Lee x Dickey; White & Parsons
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Wrong But Wright

Wrong But Wright
Architects, fate, or someone play
ed mean trick en- Cotton Dewitt
Of Hamilton avenue in El Centro
DeWitts house and the one next
door to it are duplicates of two
houses ON the same corner on the
same side of the street on He'll ave-
nue.. Both Hamilton and He'll are
blind streets cut in the west end
of the city.
Anyway, Dewitt drove toward
home Thursday night He crawled
out cf his car and started for the
front door.
This isn't your house" shrieked
group of children playing on the
front lawn in front of the place
Dewitt grinned good naturedly
and applied his key to the front.
1t wouldn't work. He took quick
peek at the house next door. Yeh,
his neighbors house. He applied
the key again. 1t wouldn't work.
Hey" shouted the group of in
tensely interested youngsters again,
this is He'll You live on Hamil-
ton"
Feeling very sheepish indeed, De-
Witt crept into his car and actually
drove home this time
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Baseball
BY UNITED PRESS

Y UNITED PkISN
NATIONAL
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WEATHER

WEATHER
Maximum Thursday 110. Mini
mum Friday rs. s pm. Thursday
i03, humidity 2s. s am. Friday ~,
humidity 79. Noon Friday 1O2, hu-
midity IS.
BANK DEBTS
FL Centre Business Barometer
Thursday S427, ,88943
Last Year S305,045.6l
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30
THE WESTERN MARYLAND VOICE OF u
Drums Beat Again For
Louis-Conn Battle
by Jack Caller, :

boiling orchg month of July fast going down the
Bs uduous wGh
crystal
malta
ouik this time NJ remember what happened before
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30
War Output
TripIed

WASHINGTON FPi- T. 8 pro-
auction IN the first six months o!
1912 was iiY times as great as that
for the entire wear OF i94l and In
June was 3 times that OF last Mo-
tember. War Production Director
Donald NJ Nelson announced july
-. lie cited the following gain.
AIRPLANES: In june 1889 only
224 military and commercial tram
port planes were built in the U. S
BY june 1912 plane production waS
nearly 1900 a month
GUNS & AMMUNITION: Ma
chtnesinS are being produced at 2
rate OF $4,000 a month and anti
aircraft guns al 1000 month
while ammunition for these guns is
being produced at a rate many
times that OF last wear.
TANKS The first tank 10 be
built in civilian plant came Of!
the line April 30. 1910. Since then
production has been stepped UP TO
more ,han 1900 month
Nelson asked the United Miro
Workers ,cIo' and operators July
- to step up production OF aninra
cite coal III order 10 meet the
diminHhing supply Of fuel oil or
the east coast
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30
Governors In
South Launch
Attack on u. s.

MONTGO MERY. Ala. ,FPl
Southern reactionarieS. led b. Gov
crnors Frank NJ. Dixon Of Alabama
and Eugene TalmaGge OF Georgia
have opened second front in the
L. S. that will help Hitler. They
launched an attack July % OH Ell
forts OF the Presidents Fair En-
ployment Practices Committee 10
mobilize Negro manpower.
Dixon rejected War Production
Board contract for 1850. 900 yard OF
cloth because the contract had a
clause requiring that there be no
discrimination against am worker
Because OF race. creed. color or ma
iional origin" He said this vas an
attempt TO end segregation Of Ne
groeS
Talmatige warned in his political
weekly. Tie Statesman. tia; any
one WHO does not approve OF his
Jincrow laws had better stay out
OF Georgia In Birmingham. Hor-
ace Wilkinson. one OF Alabama S
most active anti-union lawyers. be-
gan organization of the League 10
Maintain White Supremacy.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30

tax increase. Despite opposition
from Doughton, Eugene Cox, Martin
Dies. Speaker Sam RaybuTn and
other poll takers, the two proposals
were divided.
The surtax cut vas defeated fret
by a standing vote OF l6i 70 l4s
and then Doughton called for tel
Ter vote. This time II was knocked
down 1870 to 100. Had he called Tor
a record vote. he would have been
beaten even worse.
The house then went ahead IN
approve the increase IN the excess
profits tax which IS expected to add
another si27,O0000o.
CLIO KEEPS FIGHTING
Neither the house bill nor the
treasury program is adequate. Na,h-
all Cowan. Go legislative repre-
sentative. said In a letter 10 all
congressman. Cowan proposed in
stead tax bill that would raise
$1,000 10000
The clio program calls ioF $1,000
100000 IN corporate income and ex-
cess profits taxes. $500 100000 from
increased taxes OF middle and
higher bracket incomes with a s25.-
600 ceiling and the plugging Of loop
holes: s2.500Oo0O00 in increased
estate and gift taxes and excuses or
selected Injuries. The clio plarS 10
press It's program In the senate.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30

orders OF his seconds. tore after
Louis in The l3th. figuring he had
him set-up for the kill
When YOU drop q bomb some
dynamite'S bound to fall and when
YOU start mixing 1t with Louis
somebody else is bound TO fall and
that somebody else is not Louis.
.Joe cut loose with one OF his Sun
day punches and before the Pitts
burgh Irshman knew wha, II all
VAS about the fight was over.
Well. ANYWAY. the big boys are
whooping It up for September go
Conn recently broke his hand ~ an
off-the-record tiff with his father
in-law, but It looks Ike ihc injured
member is ok. again. But OK. OF
not ok. Joe Louis IS heavyweight
champion Of the world and there's
no reason why he shouldn't con-
tinue 10 be champion OF the world
after September. October, Novem-
Der or any other month that lie
and Conn may mee' for ne packs
too much power for the Pittsburgh
or.
When rrudiie Pat CONWAY. La
Sale Institutes le4i gridiron mem
tor Joined the Navy few months
$50. the Centre Street athletic
barons didn't have to take thc
timberlandS 10 get themselves an
other skipper III fact all They
had to do was send out a Swiit
8. o. S. 10 their erstwhile star
Jack Plum. who votes right here IN
Cumberland and right then and
there they thought they had solved
the problem But had they?
Not on your lie becausc
fate isn't smiling so benignlv on
the Institute which was informed
earlier III the week that Mr.. Plum
got note from Uncle Sam telling
him to report for INDUCTION next
month Young Plum was a
good athlete when he PLAYED Al
LaSalle and would have probably
succeeded aS an instructor and luI-
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30
House Heads off
Treasury Tax Plan;
Senate Now At IT

WASHINGTON (FP)-Because the poll TAX congress,
men who control the ways and means committee ouloxen
themselves the House sent to the Senate July 20 tax blu
that is 100000 closer to the Roosevelt administrative
than the committee wanted
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30

lash becoming the
champion. For II
full rounds he
gave Louis a good
going : over. In
fact. he had the
negro nifty not
only blinking all
the while but also
lottery. But, 10
and behold, the
dash!ng Mr.. Conn.
|dlsregarding II g
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30

of good Old baseball at least. Taot
when you're on, after sheer action
and drama. but the fact remain s,
nevertheless that soft ball has SoaT-
cd 10 the front hereabouiS wit i
tremendous rapidiiy IN late year
The kids go for 1t. the adult,
90 TOR IL and the Old and derrcpi
businessman 20 Tor II and one OF
tho circuits really waging a ham
mer-snd-tong fight In INC South
Cumberland eighi-tcan Sunday
School league Onlv three
games separate first ana fourth
place That's getting down
to needle points
Negro baseball players in the
ma jors soon: There's been
n moye-a-foot 10 bring some Of
the ebony hued lads in 10 the
National and American Leagues
and reports are out that the
Pittsburgh Pirate front office
plans 10 give several of the
roiored stars the 0nce-oyer soon
real soon At least
President Bill BcnSwanger was
quoted A. saving he planned 10
look EN- over" No 60 speak
Judge Lands recently
came out with the flat state
ment that there IL no existing
laws barring negro PLAYERS
from the big time and In the
past two weeks the susiest has
been frequently discussed.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30
Poll Takers Fail
To Bar Vote
For Soldiers

WASHINGTON eFPl - A iii.-
buster OF poll tax congressman
headed by Rep. JOHN F Rankin
ID. Miss failed to defeat q bill
permitting soldiers III the contin-
entail L S. and Alaska to vote in
the coming congressional elections
Tine measure passed the house 1874
10 10 and went 10 the senate.
Rankin and other poll takers re-
peatedly demanded quorum calls
and roll-cali votes or technical
questions. Finally Rankin tried to
Kill the measure with a motion to
recommit which was defeated by
yoice vote.
one resui; was that 81 more con-
gressmer signed the petition for
consideration OF the Geyer anti-poll
tax bill. bringing the total 70 1875.
Only % more signatures are needed
INVEST IN WAR BONDS TO-
DAY AND HELP AMERICA GO
ALL THE WAY-To VICTORY.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30

The COMPANY follows a madhouse'
police Of Hire EN-. fire en-. 20 hell
with EN-" directed chiefly at union
men. according 10 Regional CIO Dr.
rector Frank J. Bender and JAW
Organizer George Wilson, vino said
the employees suggestions Tor pro-
duc,ion improvements are either
overlooked or rejected
a JAW member reported that he
and two other CIO men working III
The body department made Sugpcs-
tionS for braking down an operation
10 increase speed Their boss told
them TO mind ,ncw own business
because the work was to be trans
iclrcd
IN another department the com
pany added Two supervisors appar-
entity because they were au,i-union
Cooperation between the workers
and the other supervisors had IN
creased outnut but the two new SUI
peryt orS caused 50 murh friction
that the production declined. tho
JAW organizer SAID
REJECTS SUGGESTIONS
Anthony YacobclIi,. NON a work-
cr ~ the CIO-organizcd Brewster
aircraft. told how he invented all
adjustable tool while working at
Martins tool department, When he
informed his straw boss OF It, the
reply was: we have 10 time 10 cX-
pertinent or waste company money.
Mind your own business
Yacobc!liS had figured his invcn-
ton would save from two TO three
hours time IN a single operation
necessary 10 tool production.
An example OF Martins hiring
policy was that OF the sister OF a
JAW member. She had taken spe-
cial courses at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity IN inspection work but her
application Tor lob vas turned
down because her brother was an
active unioniSt.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30
Consumers Con
Sue VioIufors
Of Price Control

WASHINGTON ZIP Price Ad-
Leon Henderson remind
I'd consumers July Is that after july
81 they can sue violatorS Of price
and rent ceilings under the price
control act. The suits can be foE
$50 or three times the amount OF
The oyercharge. whichever IS greater
In addition. violaior. OF the price
control act face criminal prosecu-
ton with maximum penalty OF
SIS 900 and year in Jail plus revoca-
ton o! retail licenses.
The announcement was in connec-
ion with proposed drive for en-
forcing price control in areas where
It's educational activities have reach
ed q ma iority Of retailers :
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30

The bill provides for tax revenue
of sG.27l. 100000 while the Treasury
Department had asked for taxes 70
raise ss.700.OO0.O00 ard has many
loopholes allowing corporations TO
pile UP war profits. Administration
leaders hope to make Improvements
In the senate. but are finding oppo-
sltion from big-business minded
senator's on the finance committee.
Assisted BY the rules committee,
also dominated BY poll takers. the
ways and means reactionarlcs
brought the bill before the house
under a gag r7ile which allowed only
FIVE minutes debate and no amend
mcnts.
The WAYS and means leaders how
ever made a bad tactical mistake
At the last minute they announced
they wished TO reduce the normal
surtax on corporations from as q
40 and increase the tax on excess
profits from 81, 10 co. Tho
surtax reduction would cut of $780,
100000. The excess profits increase
was merely sugar coating With
which Chairman Robert Doughtor
and his henchmcn hoped TO make
tho house swallow the other change
FIND OPENING
This mancuver gaze the support.
crs OF the treasury their chance
led b. Raymond S. McKeogh. ID.
H., Donald II Mclean tR-N.JJ
and John d. Dinglel 'D-Mich9
they used parliamentarian tricks &c
get around the 5-minuie rule.
After Dingcll charged that the
committees last-minute change va:
move for sales tax. McKeogi
moved for separate votes or the
suriax cut and the excess profit;