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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-02

questioned Thursday night.
 Unable to supply bond of $50,- 0o0-Borgnaes said he is almost pen- niless-the accused man was re- manded to the New Haven jail.
 His appearance in Waterbury yesterday was his first since early 1888 when police were unsuccessful in efforts to locate him for the pur- pose of subpoenaing him before the grand jury which later accused him of Juggling the city's books on or derS from former Mayor T. Frank Hayes and former Controller Daniel J. Leary.
 Empty POcketbOOk
 A number of reporters and photog- raphers comprised the gallery in the office of Superior Court Clerk George H. Freeman where Borgnaes was presented and notified that Judge Edward J. Daly had set bonds for his release at $50,000.
 "Is that all2" asked the prisoner as he fumbled Tor His pocketbook. But he was joking, for his pocket book was empty.
 Are you able to furnish the bond?" asked Clerk Freeman.
 "You're wasting your time," came the reply from Bourgnaes who nerv- ousl7 fumbled with an unlighted cigarette.
 The proceedings that followed were brief. Are you prepared tc take the prisoner to the sheriff oi New Haven County" asked Free man.
 "All need is the mittimus," waS the reply of Lieutenant Henry Mayo who Is in charge of the prisoner The mittimus was signed. Lets go, said Lieutenant Mayo and the two went out the door followed by tht newsmen and photographers.
 Good Luck"
 Only one person, woman employt of the courthouse was known bl Borgnaes. He was permitted to stor and talk to her briefly - mostly about the welfare of his family. H. bowed low with thanks when tht woman said in farewell, "Gooc luck"
 Before entering the courthouse
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-02
.CRIMEAN BASE .OF SEvASTOPOL STILL STANDS Red Army Is Turning Back Powerful Attacks of
 MaSsed Axis 1000 AXIS DEAD
 IN KURSK BATTLE Every German Advance Is Stopped; Columns Are.
 Moved Down
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Moscow, July 2.-(UP)- The Red army battled fur iously today to turn back powerful German attacks in the streets of the Crimean naval base of Sevastopol and on the southern flank of the Kursk front where Axis troops were repulsed with T. 900 dead and several hun rded tanks damaged or dstroyed.
 Encouraging news from the Kursk front followed Axis claims that Sevastopol had fallen and that the remnants of the gallant garrison that underwent an unbelievably terrific battering for 25 days were trapped on the narrow Khersonese Peninsula. Soviet sources denied the Black Sea base had fallen but ad- mitted the Germans were advanc- ing slowly and in some places had managed to break through.
 On the Kharkov front the Red army reportedly was holding and beating off furious attacks in which the Germans were suffering irn- mense losses because they were being compelled to use large forces in close formation.
 Red Star said in one instance a German division, after preliminary intensive bombing, attacked one Soviet battalion. The Russians, en- trenched in well-fortified positions, raised a curtain of fire and killed 1000 officers and men.
 Red gunners, from positions high on river bank from which com manded a sweep of the plaints be- low, dominated the action on the Kursk sector, the front line corre- spondent of Red Star reported.
 With the field guns firing round
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-02
BANK OFFICIAL
 IS EMBEZZLER

Hartford, Conn, July 2-UP)- Wallace N, Nelson, 38, West Hart ford, assistant secretary of the Hartford Connecticut Trust Co., was held in $7500 bail today, accused of embedding $5o00 of the banks funds
 Nelson, employed by the bank for 20 years. was taken into custody on a bench warrant and reportadly admitting the defalcations.
 At the states attorneys ofice il was said the alleged shortage was uncovered during a routine check of his accounts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-02
Borgnaes Is Held
 In Jail For rial On $5O,OOO Bond
Brought Here From Bethany State Police Barracks After He Was Taken From Liner in New
 York; Could Not Furnish Bail

Held in New Haven County jail under bond of $50000 trial in September Enoch Borgnaes, 39 alleged par tcpant in Waterbury million dollar fraud conspiracy last night told reporter No matter what happens from here on it's great to be back Arrested aboard the liner Dro
 was brought to Waterbury superior court yesterday after noon from Bethany State Police barracks where he
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
Women Workers Replace
Men On British Railways

London (ILNS). = Fifty thousand
women workers have taken the places
of British railwaymen who have just
been called to the colors, thus bring
ing the total number of women en-
ployed in British land transportation
above the 100000 mark
The jobs filled by the new railway
women include moulding of concrete
sleepers, derusting and painting rail-
way bridges, servicing machines in
the workshops, signaling and taking
care of service means. The results of
the mass employment of female labor
on the vital railway lines of Great
Britain are most satisfactory, accord
ing to union sources, and special train
ing schools for women workers have
been established.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
DUTY OF CONGRESS
TO GUARD RIGHTS

Washington, d. c. (ILNS). - The
wartime function of Congress is to
police the war power welded by the
President and safeguard as many
democratic rights as possible, Senator
James M. Mead of New York said in
speaking at Catholic University Law
School here.
at may be said that the President
runs the war;" Mead declared. "That
is all important. Congress stops leg
islating and sets up what might be
termed morale division, investigat-
ing all phases of the war activity, in
Guiding the activities of the executive
branch of the government
"By this means the legislature par
ticipates in the prosecution of the war
in the struggle for survival and at the
same time protects that minimum of
individual rights to the accustomed OBJ
jectives of life, liberty, property and
happiness"
The Senator justified the lodging OF
far-reaching powers with the Chief
Executive during war periods as nec-
essary not only for expediency but to
prevent war actions from becoming
deeply rooted national institutions
through legislation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22

We've been speaking of the Atlantic
seaboard. Because it was on the east
ern coastal area that folks thought
they were going to be free from at
tack But there's the Pacific coastal
area, too-oh, yes, very much so.
But the Pacific Coast has been look
ing for it, expecting it-and getting
set to hand it right back.
Pacific cities have had their alarms,
they've known the approach of enemy
planes. And if Japan can possibly
make the grade her yellow hordes will
drop bombs on our Pacific Coast cities
in bitter anger over the bombing of
Tokyo.
How hollow are the old phrases
about "three thousand miles of ocean"
between US and our enemies!
How the appeasers and the fifth
columnists played upon that false idea
to lull US into doing business with
Hitler" and not building an army and
navy.
But we're ALL awake now. And
whatever comes to us from the enemy
the enemy will be nit right smack
back, again and again, until every
enemy is KNOCKED OUT COLD. =
C. M. w.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
Employment Reaches
All-Time March High

Washington, D. c. (ILNS) Total
agricultural employment increased
by $4,000 from February Is to March
Is, making the March total 40,298,00
an all-time record for March, Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins reported. The
March total represented an increase
of 2,537,0o0 since March, 1941.
Expansion of war industries ac-
counted for most of the employment
gain in the last year, the report added.
The employment index in manufac-
turing industries in March was 1345,
gain of or per cent over the previous
month
The payroll index for March was
1919, gain of 81 per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
LABOR UNITED IN ACTION

Further evidence of the closing of
labor's ranks during the war emer-
gency were the simultaneous state
ments made by William Green, presi-
dent of the A. F. of l., and Philip
Murray, president of the Go, urging
the Soldier of industry" to donate
blood for plasma to save the lives of
the men at the battle front.
"The men in the front line trenches
have the assurance that the soldiers
of industry, those who work in the ma
tion's mills and factories, are doing
everything in their power to aid in
the defense Of America" Green said,
in urging the blood donations.
And Murray, pointing out that "or-
ganized labor of America is doing ev-
erything in its power to see that the
men in the armed forces have the
necessary arms and supplies in this
fight against Fascism," urged "the
worker at home' to donate a pint of
blood which means little sacrifice to
them but "to the men wounded in
wars conflicts, it may mean life or
death"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
BRAVE
CHINA
(From The Railway Clerk

Among all of the nations attacked
by Fascist aggressors, the resistance
of the Chinese is outstanding.
With small and ill-equipped army
and practically no air force and with
the loss of her industrial centers,
China has retreated to its western
strongholds and has fought on against
tremendous odds.
This brave people needs everything
medicines, war material, and food
for a famished population.
Surely America, out of its blgness
of heart and it's traditional friendship
for the Chinese people, can spare
something for United China Relief, an
organization set up to solicit funds
for relief of a war-torn people.
The American Federation OF Labor
is behind this relief job 100 per cent.
Our local lodges are earnestly urged
to work with other organizations in
soliciting contributions to United
China Relief. If there are no local
bodies engaged in this work, contribu-
tions can be mailed direct to United
China Relief, 1890 Broadway, New
York, N. Y.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Japanese invasion, has produced vio-
lent shakeup of economic and social
conditions in Australia and New Zea-
land.
Drastic orders to regulate wages,
prices and profits and control working
hours and conditions show the coun-
try's resolve to make the needs of na~
tional defense paramount, the Inter
national Federation of Trade Unions
comments.
BY an almost unanimous vote the
Australasian Council of Trade Unions
has decided to give its unreserved sup
port to the governments policy. AL
though the latest measures, especially
those relating to man-power, contra
dict its own traditions and principles,
it is able to go so far because the
Labor Government now in office can
offer certain guarantees that it will
not abuse the special powers confded
to it.
The Australian trade union leaders,
who have not up to now belonged to
the Labor party, have held discussions
with the majority with the object of
securing closer unity and stronger po-
litical power. A memorandum issued
by the Council of Trade Unions de-
fines its position at length under eight
heads. Demands include speeding up
Of armament production, substitution
of negotiation and arbitration courts
for strikes and lockouts and the ma
tionalization of war industries.
The Koreans, famed for their long,
undercover resistance to Japan, are to
be conscripted in 1914. The announce
ment said the action would make "the
Koreans all the more happy" but it
did not indicate whether it was con-
scription or putting off the date for
two years which was the reason for
the Koreans JOY.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
CIO Union President To Aid
New War Bond Quota Drive

Washington, d. c. (ILNS). = The
Treasury Department has announced
the appointment of Milton Murray, of
Detroit, president of the American
Newspaper Guild, CIO, as consultant
to the War Savings Staff. Murray will
assist the press section in developing
publicity plans for the new war bond
quota campaign. He will serve with
out compensation. Following con-
ference with Secretary Morgenthau,
Murray pledged the full cooperation
of his organization.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22

TIME Germans like fat, quivering
pork, the English like streaky,
lean bacon, fact of Importance, be-
cause Denmark at present supplies
Germany with 10 per cent of its fats,
and lessening of that, together with
the blockade, may have serious con-
sequences for Germany. So it is ad-
mitted in recent issue of German
financed Danish Nazi paper, "The
Weekly Critic" of Copenhagen.
The Danes, the paper complains,
have already started reducing their
pigs even more than is made necessary
by the lack of fodder. The Danish
farmer, it goes on to say, persists IN
the foolishness of believing the myth
that England always wins the last
battle, and he refuses therefore to
change from the bacon pig to the 400
pound porker, cheaper to raise, which
Germany demands.
"The Weekly Critic says this per-
versity of the farmers is due to a
mysteriously spreading ultra ma
tional" sentiment in Denmark, which
fosters doubt as to Germany's good
intentions with regard to Denmark's
place in the New Order"
This sentiment, which resembles a
movement, can't be got at, because
there are no definite organizations re-
sponsible for it. Its in the air
hundreds of thousands of individual
anti-German people are cooperating
unconsciously, creating a movement
that can't be combated, because it con
trolls all the means of propaganda"
In another year, the paper warns,
this agitation will have started a
SNOWFALL rolling which no one can stop.
Too late to change pigs thenl
x
The menacing turn of events in the
Far East, with the threat of imminent
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
EXPOSING THE AXIS LIE

The Lie: Tokyo radio" Ever in
creasing internal dissension and re-
sentiment in Chungking against the
Anglo American powers are revealed
in reports which state many Chung
king leaders are now publicly blaming
Britain and the United States for the
sweeping defeat of the Chungking
forces in Burma.
The Truth: Chungking radio, quot
ing DR.. P. S. Flu, Vice Minister of For
eign Affairs" -"There will be no with
drawal from Burma until the war is
won by us, nor will there be any re.
Taxation Of effort on our part to resist
any attacks by the enemy. We owe {
heavy debt to the heroic and badly out
numbered soldiers Of the Allied front
We must and will continue to reinforce
them"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
FRIDAY, MAY %, 1912.
SALES TAX FLAYED

Enactment of a general sales tax
in connection with the pending revenue
legislation would be social and eco
nomic calamity" declares Senator
Robert M. LaFollette.
"No other major tax" he adds, SIS
more vicious in its degrading effect on
society. 1t has no place, either in
peacetime or in war, in an equitable
system of taxation based on ability
to pay In effect, it is a monstrous
abuse of the government power of
taxation"
Senator LaFollette shows that on a
percentage f-income basis, the tax
burden would be almost four times as
great on incomes under 1000, as com
pared with incomes over $4,000. He
calls on us to remember also that this
same $4,000 income class, according to
a finding of the Temporary National
Economic Committee, already bears a
1876 per cent share of all direct per-
sonal taxes Individual income, inher-
itance, estate, gift, etc. This makes
it clear how badly a sales tax soaks
the poor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
WHAT NEXT?

Some of the new things displayed
at an Tngenuity Show" recently in
New York City were a cloth which
looks like wool but is made of soy
beans; victory" electric fan with
blades of hard fibre instead of alu-
minum, cord wire Of silver instead of
copper, and a new sun lamp bulb which
requires no metal stand or reflector
because it has its own reflector inside
and can be screwed into any lamp
socket.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
Currier Union Bolts CIO;
Affiliates With A. F. of l.

Detroit, Mich.-CIO union employees
of the Currier Lumber Company have
voted to affiliate with the A. F. of L.,
their union president announced, end
ing controversy that fared into a
national issue last fall.
Burley Kistner, president of the
Currier local of the United Construc-
tion Workers Organizing Committee
(CIO), said that general dissatisfac-
tion with the service given by the CIO
United Construction Workers." caused
the change.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
Council Vote Changes Mite
Club Closing Hour To 2::30

A change in a Hamilton ordinance
whereby saloons holding D-5 liquor
permits, commonly designated as night
club permits, will be granted 2:30
a. m. closing hour was informally
voted by Hamilton city councilmen in
caucus meeting Monday night in the
municipal building. The present ordi-
nance calls for one o'clock closing by
all cafes, regardless of the type of
state permit they hold.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
THE -
CHERRY TREE
Where with our Little Hatchet We tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes aippantly, some
times recklessly. -.


Last Sunday friends of mine stood
on shore at an Atlantic Coast point
and watched our planes go hurting
down out of the skies, dropping bombs
in an effort to blast an enemy sub
marine that had just fired torpedo
at freighter.
The torpedo was a miss and the
freighter kept hustling right along.
What happened to the sub is a guess,
and that is not the point
The point is that the war has been
for some time WITHIN SIGHT of
our Atlantic seaboard!
Not so long ago there were those
who said, "why should we worry on
the Atlantic Coast; the Japs can
never get us here"
Well, the subs off the Atlantic sea-
board aren't Japs. They're Nazis
And they have been sinking ships
faster than we are building them.
But what brings this coastal war
ware closer to the average man and
woman than the sinking of ships off
shore is GASOLINE RATIONING!
Because the Nazis have been blast
ing our tankers to the bottom, we on
shore are forced OFF THE ROAD by
gasoline rationing so tight that it
almost keeps the old jalopy in the
garage.
No story of the heroic conduct of
stricken American crew could have
been half so forceful in driving home
the facts of this war as the one pen
stroke that signed US up for gasoline
rationing.
Sugar rationing was the first re-
suit, but that wasn't the shock that
we got with the gasoline cards. For
the sugar card, after all, allows us
enough sugar for essential uses.
The gasoline card is just about a
complete Knockout.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a
war on awfully close.
We shall win this war
But before we win it we shall have
to make many more sacrifices.
There will be more rationing. And
we'll take it, too, making our sacri-
fees as our contribution to victory.
There is one wish that might be
wished in relation to the orders from
Washington that cut down our food
and our travels. 1t is that Leon Hen
derson might issue his orders with 9
little les swashbuckling "a little less
of the air of a commando chief "tell.
ing 'em" to take it and like it.
Some can call for sacrifices and be
praised for doing it. Others cannot
ask for a light for cigarette without
kicking up resentment.
That's just by way of passing adj
vice to Mr.. Henderson, who not 81
many long years ago was really M
great shakes of an economist.
Our sacrifices will be made, thor
oughly and to the end Of the road. Be
cause NOW we all know we've got tt
win the war by knockout!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
Mergers Detrimental to Labor

Mergers Detrimental to Labor
mergers of this type and charac-
ter" Scharrenberg said, generally
emanate from those who own the COM
peting companies. Mergers through
out our country, as we have discov-
cred, usually benefit the stockholders
most Of all. Mergers sometimes bene-
fit the public, but very rarely; and
seldom if ever have mergers been to
the benefit of the working people"
Joseph P. Selly, president of the
American Communications Associa-
ton, CIO affiliate, charged the tele-
graph companies with attempting to
eliminate essential facilities through
consolidation. He charged that the
companies effort to salvage the in
vestment of security holders would
lead to a bottleneck in the nations
wire communications which might be
disastrous to the war effort.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
Factors Restricting Jobs

Employment in April, as in March,
stood at 50,400,000 A drop from 54,-
100000 to 53,400,000 in the labor force
left 100000 job-seekers out of work
in April as compared to 100000 in
March.
The closing of many small retail es-
adjustments, virtual stoppage of non
essential construction and the increas-
ing difficulty or impossibility of OBJ
tanning scarce materials in small
plants manufacturing civilian goods
were pointed out as developments COM
bining to check the rise in non-agri-
cultural employment.
Reduced unemployment was attrib-
uted not only to the normal seasonal
increases in agricultural activity but
also to expansion Of the armed forces
which are not considered a part of
the labor force. Some unemployed
workers went directly into military
service and some took the places of
employed workers who were inducted.
Unusual Changes Expected
The reduction in the labor force
which corresponded exactly to the re-
duction in number of job-seekers-is
accounted for by the withdrawal of
men for military service, restrictions
on the manufacture and sale of con-
sumers' goods and conversion of in
dustry to war production in combina-
ton with certain other influences at
tendant on the adjustment of the ma
tion to war.
''The complex process of reallocat-
ing manpower under these conditions
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
WISDOM
socket.

1t requires courage to do many
things in life, and fighting is only one
of them - James Hilton.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22

If the men expect to keep ahead of
the women they'll have to go back to
whiskers.
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Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, ONO
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-22
WPA ISSUES FIGURES
ON UNEMPLOYMENT:
AGRICULTURE IN GAIN

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - Sea-
sonal gains in agricultural employ
ment were cancelled by correspond
ing decline in other employment be-
tween March and April, according to
the WPA Monthly Report of Unem-
ployment released by F. D. Dryden,
acting commissioner of Work Projects.
There was a decrease of 100000 in
unemployment and exactly the same
reduction in the labor force = those
either employed or looking for work.
The fact that there was no net gain
in employment indicates, Dryden said,
that the change in unemployment was
simply matter of 100000 fewer per-
sons seeking jobs, after the sudden
rise of 100000 in the labor force
during the previous month.
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and unusual fluctuations in the size of
the labor force" the report says.
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that the committee would accept the
amendments offered by the CONNER
cial Telegraphers' Union.