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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24
President Officially
 Opens Holiday Season
Br0adCasts at TIiis Afternoon, ngBse@Its to Basa
 lOts Christmas in WIiBte Russe

guasRiitsr, mrs. .B5isn BOsttiger, was IltlIe cUnIy Une of the five Roosevelt children fgO he aat ttiEe White Moifse for sOhtistnsas.
 u1iss year mot pEsn Mrs. Bcsttigsr will he with lttle HBes1ifsEft aslEd mrs. Roosevelt. Only ttiEe wife of one oof tlJetr SoEss-lAfss. Hesafiliitn ID. EgsSe- welt. .1r., and llIsr tswO aalillhrsn will tse here.
 Esigliiigftts 1g fSDsnssr Dlrststnnases lcof the R0uscW5lss in ttlm White House:
 Cl1Ststnaas, n13 - mle Rresiilastt and HITS HsUo1eg5It 8arsa1athsd by Car0lsrs on Dl15istnsas Eve Dn ttfEe White Hnsze Grounds.
 UfFsstnaas, 11HSz - A SlrOWless lciYtstn1as, asId ttise ffneaiitSh Wast- ifnRtUn a5lettSf6ity system allfi1ust spoiled tts1e Cis5istn1zs tree lighting. When ttise Prekidssit pushed the hut ton, nothing happened. Hfasty ne pairs gaved tktIe SitifnttUn. UhSf6tznas. l1DB5-fEEayest OtStst- mas. Sara Roosevelt, daughter 6f Games, was tine RsesisistftS Diiig RTMnd6iiild ttO hang liser stocking Dn her ETantifatiSefsg EnIas1tle. Uf1Ststn5as, H135 - Rresitislft itri- sisted on 0ld-fassiiorlsd Christmas tree ttStmnitfgg with wEx 0cailfibeE and YeflerturS, instead of @bs6tVfC illtgiftg, Mrs. Roosevelt dish mt gyst llyUnEe from lfser rounds of odiiiisfretisk party until 2 ID. mn Oi5Tkstn1as eee ard left Un Christmas day tto sspslfd part of ClBsstnsas with liHsr sson Franklin, sUr,, aaiitflg in a BOstUn lii1ugpital.
 GlrtStn1ag, 105T-JDiaisa HQbiti1sS celebrated ltE1r ffirst Ui1ffstnfag fin tire White House, following dieath 0i her mother. Mrs. Roosevelt SlSetI' Christmas with lissr Giasaifttsr ifr Seattle, Wash.
 CtytstnIas, nDg8 - HnssitfsfIts ldCfTtgtuIas message keyJ0tsd by e HWcfk for Peace" ttissnse. WfH lRreslisEit happy Uvsr ttiSe Ouncnnn lC0f the Winsa conference of tffs American republics. NIail tto dtr White House Ibr6i<e ail records.
 ChStstnsas, un3D- -IRseStitslit ttDit ruatspn 0df his ttlsariskfulisess of 'TttlE lituteYiuie of Christmas" in a wsal wounded world. @r1se year" itH said, 'qbegan with ttiIe dread Uf eept thing to EUnIe, and it BiIrs with ITS hiorr0r of another WAT. Hiftear rlaIIaren hung tttSetr sstDcxings Ur tine PyeStdeT1tB mantle.
 CssYtstnlag, lfg4D-AfrS. HtHcseVal giyroadcasted "a Christmas rnessage D' lIUpc to the Tpsuplc of invaded 11r' way, A crowd of BB0O attsndeu ttsf' rtree-iigt1tiiSg ceremonies.
 Christmas, nD4I-RrinIe MniisH' Winston Churchill of Great Britain was guest at tStEe White MOiE1e. Hil ard ttise IRrsSident Iisoth seIIt Oi1Sist mas greetings rEp an AmsstDa agaii at war after 23 ,ysarS of Hsase laylTristuIas for the itnnsdtae liam lily was sszddsnsh licy ttle dfeath in HeptenSSer Df tine Rrestnesfts FmOttSeT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24
GAS, OIL RATIONS NOT DUE TO CHANGE
Stepped Up Supplies May Relieve Eastern Emer-
 gency Somewhat
By JOSEPH ". GREGG, JR. fFfaffAG Press Staff C0freSn0nAenk

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 Washington. Dec. 24-fUP)-Ra- tionfng authorities today held out no hope of relaxation of gasoline ard fuel oil restrictions in the IT, state eastern emergency area as heads of three government agencies prepared new measures to meet the continued petroleum crisis.
 These plans were believed to iri- clude stepping tip of supplies to the eastern states by an increase or improvement Of existing rail trans portat1on facilities
 The petroleum situation was dis- ctl6sed again yesterday at second White House meeting this week called by Etabilization Director James ?. Byrnes. War Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes. Price Administrator Leon Henderson, War Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman and Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies at- tended.
 In a statement issued after the conference Byrnes said he "had no reason to change his opinion of two days ago that there was no hope of any increased allotment of petroleum products for industries Or in6ivi6ualE. and that the situa- tiOn demanded the most stringent economy by every user of such products"
 Byrnes forecast other action con which no statement can be made at this tirne'' and announced that railroad representatives would con- fer with him and heads of the three agencies next Tuesday on the pos- sibitity of increasing deliveries by rail.
 This ~Otiler action was under stood to refer to certain modffiea- tiOns in the existing gasoline ration irag set-up. At the same time means of stepping up deliveries by raii were believed to include: 1. More efficient and speeoter methods of repairing and mainte- { nance of tank cars.
 2. Quicker t1rn-around of tank ' cars.
 2. Building of adequate ter minals in the east 10 handle gaso- ' lire and fuel oil transports. Other measures under constdera- ton were understood to include compulsory conversion of oil-burn- ing heating systems in private ' homes to cnai- burners. curtatltng oi ' fuel-oil supplies to places of anrse- ment ard cutting down or possible s3oppaee altogether of fuel oil sup plies to industrial plants not pro ducing essential var goods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24
NORMAL BUSINESS
 IN SANTA CLAUS
Indiana Town Handling Last of l,OOOy 900 Let
 ters to Get POStHIark

Santa Claus, Ind, Dec, M5-UP) --EveryttiFg was normal on Christ mas Eve in this village with 'tiIe fafFy-taie name,
 There was 6 hustle at tise post ofilce where oue-fouTth of the lpcpst- lation Of 200 was employed on 16- hour shifts getting cut the last dof 20OO, 600 letters to pass through here for the Santa Claus pCStmatk. That was normal,
 There was 8 great uJaupOwei shortage, nevertheless, with towns people and tiIe American Legion volunteering to help Postmaster sOs- car Phillips. That was normal There's always q nanpCwer short age here On Christmas Eve.
 Phillips, tIIe original Mir. Santa CsatD since he took over his job @ yeaFD sgo, was doing faycrS for al children and still protesting to ittIs women who Rocked to the pCst0f- ice to have letters and parcel caI1- ceicd with a predated stamp, a fed crai Uffense. That was normal,
 Normal was tise pride of tlIs hamlet. it's ssGanta Claus dCaSsdy Castle" where ti5e labyyfutt1tn' chauueIs illuminated with nai1dnee lighting amazed hundreds of act1ih oEen,
 And newspaper men were writing their seth annual story about SaISts Claus, Ind, Fevtviug the story o how the cun1muutty's citizens tiS 1855 applied for the name Santa Ee how the government denied the ap' plicattcn because Indiana already had q Santa Fe; how the ldeuta cafue on Christmas Eve when itils tcwuspeopIe were tnsbued with ciSeeI and Christmas spirit, and so nanee their town Santa Claus; how T HCcsier reporter found tine town 2 years SEQ and wrote e story ahotI it. That was normal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24

Wheat iA nasang grown a ss7o0 feet mlEaanzlR in WezmM1Hlh.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24

Argentina is burning all immoral books found on saie.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24
INDEPENDENTS SFElMT
 $ZZB FOR MuRLER

Hartford, Conn. Dsc. 1A-MRl- rlTe uuSiepsntlerIt Uitizazss 3omnifs- tee of Hartford, DEganizsn to H1rD- rulote rtfse Irsslectton of GsUv. HeBissTt "A. Hurley, 4pen 3z2B during ttfEe ze- 1cers1 ugnsHeDessfiil IDen5DcSattc cam paign, aa rxepDxt ttO tine ssrfesESy Ot state showed ttgnay.
 Uine committees received UnEitsthts- tttnrls aof 8Zs4 i'm its campaign.
 The ggrnup Mas led tiuy Rr0f. EH. MI lDafi0urtan of Trinity College.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24
vICr0RY BOB

Hcllywood. - Fans and friends alike need rot look for a keepsake Inek of hair when Bonita Granville shears on her long hraiGs after fln- izlzing maedckaen rOle fin HKO Ra- diofs .sHillers Children Ii win 60 fur bomb azsants. BOnitaS wln be a rsal vletosy Bob.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24
NETHERLANDS TO HAVE CANADA CLAIM

Ottaxa. Dec. 24 = WP) - A bit of the Netherlands probably will be declared to exist in Canada next month when the first child of a rOpal European house to be born in the Dominion is expected by Princess Jultana.
 This would insure against any technical sovereignty of the British Crown over . Prince or Princess uf rhe Netherlands. Otherwise the chfid might be a British subject.
 The baby xill be the first royal wastte child erer to have been born 0n tne North American continent north of the 4eth parallel.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1912
LABOR POSITION APPROVED

Proposals for manpower draft
were given a heavy blow by the re-
port of the Management-La Pol
icy Committee to the War Manpower
Commission chairman The report
backs the position of organized labor
for continuance of the voluntary
system of recruiting labor and against
a program of compulsion.
Confidence of the committee in vol
untary and democratic methods is
shown in the following quotation
from its report:
''The committee has confidence that
the voluntary and cooperative efforts
of the people, under strong leadership
on the part of Government, manage
ment and labor, will provide the
answer to this all-important war
manpower problem"
The committee reveals, however,
that it is ready to revise its recon-
mendations in the light of events to
come, saying:
Experiences in the months which
lie ahead may reveal that the execu-
tive branch of the Government re-
quires supplementary authority from
the Congress in order to carry for
ward the manpower program in an
effective manner. The committee
therefore will continue the study re-
quested by the chairman and, in the
light of accumulating experiences,
will be prepared to make appropriate
recommendations from time to time. !"
It is significant that the manage
ment and labor members of the
committee all united in support of a
voluntary program and in approval Of
the report.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
open SHOP FRONT
CRACKED in CHICAGO
CANDY INDUSTRY

Chicago (ILNS).-The solid open
shop front of the confectionery
manufacturers here isn't SO solid any
more.
A union-security agreement, the
first of it's kind in the candy industry
in Chicago, has been signed by Candy
Workers. Union. Local 351, and
Bunte Bros.
The contract, approved by the Ma
tional War Labor Board, provides
that all employees who join the union
must remain members. All but lew
of the firms $50 employees belong.
An increase in pay of 5 cents an
hour was secured by the local, which
is an affiliate of the Bakery q Con-
fectionary Workers international
Union. Wages have been raised II
cents an hour since the first agree
ment was signed in July, 1941.
Contract negotiations were con-
Quoted by James G. Cross, interna-
tional representative, and Matthew
Dunn, president, Mrs. Margaret Rog-
ers, secretary, Lindsay Williams,
! treasurer, of Local 351.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

from the viewpoint of the African and
from the viewpoint of secure Amer
lea and stable world if we are not
motivated by the Christian ethic and
directive" concludes Ross.
y
One of the several underground
Danish papers, "The Free Danes," re-
veals in a recent number that all ce-
ment, even that about to be delivered
to building trades on the main island
of the Kingdom, Sjaelland, suddenly
has disappeared There is no more
cement. The reason?
very simple that the Germans in
their panic fear of an English invasion
of Jutland and Norway have COM
mandeered all cement to Sjaelland
and sent it to Jutland for their vast
Notifications along the west coast.
Twenty thousand tons were sent to
Norway to be used there. Even
Norway's national rock bastions will
not suffice, so the Germans evidently
think, if the invasion comes"
The reprisals for their recent gen
eral strike have swiftly fallen on the
brave working people of little Luxem-
burg. The same odious oppression
and torture applied to other countries
by the Nazi conquerors has now be-
fallen the Grand Duchy. Mass depor.
tation is reported in full preparation
hostages have been taken from among
prominent labor leaders and some Of
them have been shot.
A perhaps more barbaric cruelty i.
announced by the Nazi authorities
namely that the children will be taker
away from those Luxembourg parents
who do not show sufficient under
standing of Nazi rule and the "Nev
Order In such cases it is said tn,
Nazis destroy all identity papers 0.
the children, so that they are forever
lost to their parents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20

TIME United Nations should at this
time map the road to African
self-government and convince African
leaders that map is presented with
honesty and sincerity, declares Emory
Ross, general secretary of the Foreign
Mission Conference of North America
in the November Survey Graphic His
views are especially timely now, with
Africa in top place in world news.
Twenty three leading journalists,
scientists, scholars, public officials,
spokesmen for races and regions
plead in this special number entitled
Color: U fl n S e d Business of
Democracy" for the adjustment of
race prejudice to strengthen our war
effort and to increase our influence in
world affairs.
America is already tied with Africa
by economic cords which cannot be
quickly broken when fighting ceases,
Ross continues. African production
is now coming to the United States
and Africa's outside supplies, includ-
ing machinery and materials for
creating new industries, come from
here. But greedy forces will be mar
shalled to stop this process after the
war for "some of the easiest living
which the industrialized countries
have had has been at the expense of
backward countries and once the
pressure of war is lifted, it may be
easier to convince America that back
| ward people must share more evenly
in goods and tools and service than
it will be to convince the more imperi-
alistic countries which rule the colon.
les"
Yet, after the war, when uncertain.
| ty and dislocation and disillusion are
likely to be worse than ever before
Americans, white and black, will be
called to great thought and action fol
Africa. "We shall be off the mari
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
States Make 1t Tough
For Speeders to Get
New, Retreaded Tires

Chicago ILNS).-Speed check
systems developed by the Arizona and
Indiana state highway patrols are
making it tough for fast or reckless
drivers to get new or treated tires
from their rationing boards.
Arizona highway patrol cars are
equipped with cameras to photograph
speeding automobiles, the Council of
State Governments reports. A speed
ometer is placed on the front of the
patrol car within range of the cam
era, and the speeder, his car license
number and actual speed all are reg
istered on the same picture.
This evidence showing violators ex-
ceeding the states speed limit is made
available to tire rationlng boards,
which take the information into con-
sideration when violator applies for
tire replacement
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
SHIPBUILDER
STRESSES VALUE
OF UNION SHOP

Another veteran shipbuilder who
for years fought bona fde unions has
come out in support of the union
shop" as the best guarantee of eff
cient production.
He is William s. Newell, president
of the South Portland Shipbuilding
Corporation, South Portland, Me,
which is under closed shop agree
ment with AFL unions.
Like Henry j. Kaiser and Andrew
j. Higgins, miracle" shipmakers,
Newell in past years bitterly resisted
inroads of legitimate unions. At the
South Portland yard and several
others headed by Newell there were
either no unions or company unions. y
After dealing with regular unions for
a while, Newell, again like Kaiser and
Higgins, had a change of heart and is
now a staunch supporter of strong,
bona fide unions.
u am now fully Of the opinion that
properly operated, the union shop is
the finest thing for labor and capital,
Newell said.
Successful work is the product Of
cooperation, and that, in my opinion
calls for 100 per cent organization Of
employees"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
SUGGESTION FOR LABOR

Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Ralph A. Bard, in radio address on
the Labor for Victory program,
made suggestion which seems wor-
thy of full consideration by labor He
said:
Friends of mine in the American
Federation of Labor have in the past
few weeks suggested to me that a
concerted drive by management and
labor on the ternal problems of indus
trial production could increase and
speed up our war work by 20 percent.
They have proposed that in the i'm
mediate future, each month be de-
voted to drive on one particular
problem in our yards and industrial
plants.
"Thus, the month of November
would be dedicated to reduction of
absenteeism to the irreducible mini
mum; in December management and
labor would cooperate in a concerted
drive on industrial accidents; in Janu-
airy the reduction of rejected and
spoiled work would be the goal; the
next month would be devoted to sug-
gestions for the improvement of pro-
duction and to an actual increase in
output of work per man; the next
month to drive for the increased
purchase Of war bonds, and so on.
"It is noble project, and one which
recognizes labor's own vast stake in
the outcome of this war. | hope my
friends in the American Federation Of
Labor will see these suggestions
through"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20

And Vice President Wallace speaks
to Latin America in Spanish.
The modest linguistic accomplish
ments of these two chiefs of state are
a sign of new times. AS we plow
onward through the mire of war, a
new and deeper understanding and
comradeship throws it's light beams
in advance, through communion of
tongues.
In that other world war the most
famous phrases in French numbered
two or three, of which perhaps the
best known was that final vulgariza-
ton, "Get the boys home toot sweet, y
foreshadowing our retreat from re-
sponsibility.
Well, the world now welters in a
sea of conflict and blood beside which
that other war was but a rehearsal
With our invasion of Africa, which
that other war never touched, except
to drain off some of its Sengalese, a
new phase is entered.
But while the heroic sons of free
dom plunge onward, many to then
final sacrifice of life, the pledges of
fidelity to freedom after the war are
being given in solemnity and sanctity
The shadows are cast before by a sun
that manages to shine through the
clouds of war.
That gesture of an invasion address
with it's pledge of friendship, radioed
to the world from the White House in
French, was of vastly more import
than it may have seemed. 1t will be
remembered. Strange that the com
mentators of the moment did not
make more of it.-CMW.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
DRAFT : MANPOWER
CONDEMNED BY
LABOR SENATE

Washington, d. C. ILNS) A
draft of labor, condemned by organ
lied labor, was squarely opposed by
two important groups in reports be-
lieved heavy blows to the agitation
for compulsory program of recruit
ing labor for war industries.
One report was made by the Man
agement- Labor Policy Committee to
Chairman McNutt of the War Man
power Commission, the other was
made by the Senate Committee In
vestigating the War Program.
The policy committee unanimously
opposed enactment of national war
service act for the conscription of la
Dor at this time and submitted a
broadscale voluntary program de-
signed to deal with shortage of man
power in vitap production.
For Centralized Authority
Major points in the program are:
l. Authority and responsibility for
the apportionment of manpower, as
between the armed services and essen
tial civilian activities, should be cen
tralized in the Army Chief of Staff,
Naval Chief of Operations, Lend
Lease Administrator, War Production
Board chairman and War Manpower
Commission chairman.
2. Transfer of the Selective Service
System, now independent, to the
VINO, in order to insure the most
careful distribution of skilled and
semi-skilled men between the armed
forces and industry Gin such manner
that each individual may be placed
where he can be of maximum use to
the war effort"
In ending it's report, the committee
said:
"The committee has confidence that
the voluntary and cooperative efforts
of the people, under strong leadership
on the part of Government, manage
ment and labor, will provide the
answer to this all-important wal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
problem"
Manpower Gar Plan Hit

ManpOwer Gar Plan Hit
The report was signed by all the
labor members, as follows:
Frank P. Fenton, Joseph Melon
agh, Julius g. Luhrsen, George Mas
terson, Clinton S. Golden, John Green
Martin H. Miller, and Walter P. Reu-
ther
The Senate committee recommend
ed against compulsory manpowel
legislation, but proposed lengthening
of the work week to 48 hours. The
committee did not make clear whether
it intended overtime to be paid fol
hours in excess of the present 40 OF
in excess of 48. Chairman Truman
said, however, he believed the com.
mittee's intention was to provide fol
straight time up to AZ hours with
overtime in excess of that paid il
bonds instead of cash.
"The manpower problem is too diff
fcult and complex to be solved by any
simple solution such as creating {
manpower czar or authorizing BY
statute a Government agency to de
termine by coercion where each
employe shall work." the committee
said
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
MISS TRAINS FOR GERMANY

London.-A radio broadcast from
London says that in France ''the Nazis
are finding that it is one thing to put
up lists of workers destined for Ger
many but quite another to get them
there. 1t appears that the chosen
French workers have the habit of
missing the train to Germany. The
Nazi occupation authorities in Paris
have now issued warning that they
will apply force to workers failing to
turn up at the railway station when
they are told"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
st. Louis Grand Jury
investigates Charges
Of Police Brutality

ST. Louis (ILNS) Armed with
evidence supplied by the st. Louis
Civil Liberties Committee, Circuit
Court Judge Harry Russell has
launched an investigation seeking the
Indictment of local police officers ac-
cused of beating to death a Mexican
waiter, Edward Mendeles, and the ex-
posure of widespread police brutality,
especially against Negroes.
Mendeles, arrested last July on sus-
picion of burglary, died several days
later in cell at police headquarters.
A coroner's jury found death due to
natural causes" A second post-mor
tenn ordered by Judge Russell dis
closed that Mendeles had died of brain
concussion. His body was shown to
be marked with bruises which wit
nesses say were not there at the time
of his arrest.
When a grand jury failed to return
an Indictment on the basis of this and
other evidence, the judge discharged
them and called for new panel which
reopened the investigation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20

So long as we have held fast tc
voluntary principles and have been
actuated and inspired by the spirit OF
service, we have sustained our for
ward progress and we have made our
labor movement something to be re-
spected and accorded a place in the
councils of our Republic. :. No last
ing gain has ever come from compul-
sion. If we seek to force, we but tear
apart that which, otherwise, is irwin
chile Samuel Gompers.