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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER

OCTOBER is the month to send Christmas
- presents to the men in the armed forces abroad
If you mail them later they may not arrive in
time. Remember, too, that there are certain
"don'ts' to be observed. Army and Navy remind
YOU that stale cakes, cookies reduced to crumbs
and spoiled fruit do not make for Il merry holiday
SO don't send food, and send no clothing either
For ours are the best clothed and best fed Army
and Navy in the world.
Instead, pick articles that are easily portable
and useful. But what is useful? Wool-lined slip
pers and warm underwear are welcome in Alaska
but nuisance in the tropics. Mother can't al
ways be right, Aunt Emma may guess wrong.
Only the soldier and sailor knows what he wants
And he wants things he can really use. A survey
Just conducted among service men suggests that
among these things are pipe tobacco and pipes,
cigarettes, books, waterproof wrist watches, wal
lets with service insignia. Pen and pencil sets and
stationery are welcome SO are Windproof cigarette
lighters The majority has described all of these
as either "swelr or fair" Whatever the gift
make sure that it arrives in time.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
YOUNG AMERICA AT WAR

|'NHE AMERICAN family is at war. 1t isn't just
matter of Dad in the service and Mother in
the factory Young America, too has Joined In
the fight and is doing yeoman service all along
THE home front.
We have talked of stockpiles of rubber and
|steel. What about manpower, future manpoWel
(which some day will direct the destiny of the
|nation for which we are now fighting? The young
Ter generation cannot be at the front the pro-
lducton line. But it has not retired to the play
|ground.
No. the youngsters have taken their places on
the home front, in the collection of scrap, in the
sale of War Bonds and in the countless little
duties necessary to the smooth performance of the
|civilian defense machine. From the youngSter who
sells his pony and does odd Jobs in order to buy
bonds, to the schoolboy who saved the day when
he discovered leak in local gas line, the young
sters of America are living up to their heritage.
1t is for these youngsters well as all the rest
of us that our soldiers are fighting and indus
tries are producing. They future guardians
of the peace and developers Of the structures upon
(which our nation was founded. When victory
comes, our children will know what it means be-
cause they have taken an active part in winning it..
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
FLEMING LAUDS LABOR

NEWSPAPERS that are quick to play up attacks
~ on labor carried not word this week about a
remarkable defense of organized workers made by
Brigadier General Philip b. Fleming, Federal
Workers administrator, before the A. F. of L.
Building Trades Department convention at
Toronto.
Fleming's whole career has been that OF a
military man. He has no political ambitions, and
no reason to iatter labor. However, as President
Roosevet's "trouble shooter in recent years on
big construction projects he has had first-hand
contact with unions and understands them
One of his big current jobs has been program
for construction of nearly 100000 defense
houses. In his speech to the Building Trades dele
gates he revealed that the whole program which
at times required many as $4,000 workers,
"has been carried out with so little labor trouble
that you could have put it in your eye and never
noticed it..
"How were we able to maintain such friendly
relations with labor he asked.
"There is nothing secret about it. We simply
paid the wage prevailing in each community where
operations were under way. And if there was any
doubt about the prevailing rate we simply had the
matter established for us by competent and dis
interested authority-the Department of Labor
1--WE paid time and one-half for all work over
40 hours week eight hours a day. We dealt
with organized labor and got along with it annie
ably. We didn't try to set up company unions and
we didn't hire any spies to try to frame labor
leaders.
eve respected the law of the land which guar
antees to labor the right to organize and bargain
collectively, democratic right which is among the
things for which we fight.
"And my advice to any other employer who
wants to live at peace with labor is to go and do
likewise. 1t pays in efficient work willingly given
in speed; in the avoidance Of delays, and in the
saving Of time SO often lost in fIuitless argu-
mcntS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
~ HERMANN THE THRIFTY

REPORTS THAT Reich Marshal Hermann GOer-
~ ing has salted away a dollar or two outside
Germany appear to be confirmed. Speaking over
the Berlin radio on Oct. 4, Goering made the mis-
take Of challenging the British to give me the
names of the banks and tell me what sums have
lin Them The British radio has just obliged with
these particulars. Goering has about $4,000, 600
laid away, part of it in this country, some in
Switzerland some in Sweden some in Brazil. Just
how he evaded German regulations against the
export of capital is not known. Some Germans
have had their heads chopped off for doing things
like that Possibly Goerng has a pull with the
administration.
A mystery remains. Why did this bold, con-
| ident man, who has done SO well by himself while
millions Of others, including his own countrymen,
have done so badly, invest his money abroad? Did
Ihe think the NaZ regime wouldn't last? And when
|he put 81 100000 in Japanese bank in San Fran
cisco, was he planning to spend his old age in a
villa on a California beach? We shall never know.
|lf the Germans ever get to wondering about these
things one wouldn't like to be Hermann Goering.
One wouldn't like to, anyhow.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
WAGE INCREASE GRANTED

General wage increases averaging )
cents to 80 cents an hour for 20OO
employees of 3 refractories companies
were granted last week by the National
War Labor Board. The award, made
to plants and clay mines of Harbison-
Walker RefractorieS Co., North Amer
lean Refractories Co., and Kentucky
Fire Brick Co., were made in part TO
match the Is per cent increase in the
cost of living since January 194l and
in part to narrow the inequalities with
the steel industry and within the
plants themselves. The United Brick
and Clay Workers of America (AFL)
and the United Construction Workers
Organizing Committee (C1O) repere-
sent employees at the various plants.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
ENOUGH FOR ALL FORESEEN

New York City.-America after the
war will easily be able to produce
enough to provide every man, woman
and child in the country with de-
cent minimum standard in the Big
ton and health care, says a special
report, which Stuart Chase, noted
writer on economic subjects, is now
completing for the Twentieth Century
Fund.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
w II A T MEX TT

Weighing less than II ounces,
plastic helmets now being made by
Westinghouse for Uncle Sans
Soldiers are tough enough to with
stand force of Is fOOt-pOunds.
That's the same as a pound weight
being dropped l5 feet. Worn dur
ing combat as a liner inside a two
pound steel helmet, the cloth and
resin plastic headpiece provides
insulation against heat. During
non-combat service, only the light
weight liner is worn as head
covering.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
w I S D o M
without liberty, nor liberty without
Virtlle.-ROuSSeau.
229 STRIKES IN AUGUST

Man-days lost from war production
by strikes in August were 9/1O0 of /
per cent of total man-dayS worked, the
National War Labor Board announced.
The number of strikes in progress dur
ing the month rose from 222 in July
to 30 in August, while the number of
men involved dropped from S0,722 to
19,4l4. The numberof man-dayS lost
rose from 233,6l4 to 266,353., At the
same time, the number of man-days
worked fell from approximately 30S
million in July to 800 million in
August.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
ONLY THE ORGANIZED ARE STRONG

III TNOINNFNNILLD IADUN cannot De reDreSentod
anywhere; 1t cannot protest anything; it can
mot fight for anything; it takes what is handed
ITO IT. 1t is helpless in the face of modern indus
trial might.
The union has led the way That is why every
wage Garner belongs in the union and that is why
thousands are getting into unions all over the
nation. Union membership means industrial en-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
FREEDOM MAKES STRENGTH

|TEiERE Is ONLY one sacrifice American workers
- will refuse to make. There is only one thing
we Will not give up. That is our freedom We are
strong because we are free. We do not and cannot
believe that we can win this war by weakening
our great army of workers. We do not and cannot
belleVe that the way to preserve democracy
throughout the world is to impair it here at home
William Green.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
ACCIDENTS CAUSE WORK LOSS

Washington -. C.-LaSt years toll
work days, ten times the number lost
in strikes, the Office of Civilian De
fensc points out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
HOUSING HITS WAR OUTPUT

Washington, u. c. - Charging that
lack of housing is seriously interfer-
ing with war production, the American
Federation of Labor executive council
says: Workers cannot make their
skill count its fullest unless there is
housing for them that provides, at a
price they can afford to pay, the mini
mum comforts that every human being
must have if he is 10 do his work we'll.
y growing proportion of war workers
do not have such housing
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

y picture of Europe as continent of
hunger is presented in utterances of
| Nazi newspapers and leaders.
From underground sources, the In
ternational Transport Workers Fed
Grafton has learned that though the
food situation in Germany is better
than in any of the occupied territories,
fears of repetition of the first World
War and postwar famines are wide
spread even in the Reich.
Shortages of potatoes and vegetables
during the summer has SO increased
these fears that the Nazi daily "NIuen-
chener Neueste Nachrichten" recently
wrote of ''the nightmare, haunting the
people, of possibly necessary tighten
ing of the belt" The speech of Mar
shall Goering to the effect that the
conquered people of Europe would suf-
fer starvation first served the same
purposes.
AS result, boarding of foodstuffs
has become widespread. A few big
"black marketeers" have been SEN
fenced to death and executed, but the
majority, and especially the very big
offenders, carry on their traffic with
impunity. Those who serve the Nazi
chiefs may feel perfectly safe.
In Holland and other occupied coun-
tries restaurants and hotels have been
forbidden ito serve meals at windows
or on terraces if such are visible from
the street"
1t is now plain that the Nazi plan
to get 100000 skilled workers from
France for German war plants is not
working. AS a result, the Vichy French
government, committed to the plan
under NaZi pressure, is threatening to
use force to round up the required
number of workers.
SO far, the French workers have
shown notable lack of enthusiasm for
the scheme and in fact have resisted
it as far as possible. The story is told
in a recent London broadcast amounc-
ing the intention of Nichy to employ
compulsion. The broadcast said:
after weeks in which the German
authorities in France have tried to
talIolc ltIlSll ShlIitu NOIhcIS " ~
to Germany, the Nichy radio has is
sued an ultimatum. This said that if
the 100000 skilled workers asked for,
had not been enlisted for work in
Germany by October 10, compulsory
Gallup of manpOWer will be applied to
the whole of Occupied France. This
ultimatum follows a series of threats
and Establishment by Laval and MS
prONazi henchmen in Paris which has
had little effect. In fact, Nichy has
itself admitted that, so far, only 1000
of the 100000 skilled workers demand
ed by Hitler have gone to Germany"
X X
a program for writing Il peace that
will endure must contain guarantees
of the workers rights to organize, says
n significant section on peace Objec-
tives" in the annual report of the
American Federation of Labor eXecu-
tive council. Proposing that the peace
treaty shall guarantee the wage earn
erS the right to membership in free
unions controlled by the membership
concerned" the council comments:
I'VE have repeatedly witnessed the
initial attack by the new despotism
upon the free labor movement, because
the shackling of this largest group in
Il democracy left other groups and
interests helpless to make effective pro
test. We propose this basic right as
essential for the world democracy for
which this war is waged."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
RIDING
AT ANCHOR
MIR. MODESTUS
LABOR SHORTAGEI

Who would ever have thought that
would happen?
Not so long ago, they We're turning
skilled machinists out to grass
Too many mechanics! Trade unions
could not take them all in
You had to be under 40 years, to get
even a pleasant look
In Virginia coal mines, you must
have a yellow card
Railroad men took vacations" TO
keep their places on the rolls
Even industrial engineers had their
out-of-job clubs
Farm families fioated about, in old
Ford caravans
Expert carpenters built hobo towns
OF tin cans and crates
X x X
But now, labor is almost as scarce
as sugar
We have labor rationing, labor draft,
freezing labor to the job
Train-loads of labor being shipped
across the continent
Because where Kaiser is building
ships there is famine in labor
War factories hesitate to open up,
where bombs could drop
Meanwhile we are building ships
faster than the submarines
Can get over here to sink them.
x x X
Gold miners
Are called out of the gold mine
shafts
TO get busy on really important jobs
of mining copper
Which is too valuable to be Just
buried in old Kentucky
We throw away ALTERNATING tools,
sending them to junk piles
SO that mechanics can use shops and
equipment for making tanks
We thought we could supply this war,
with our surplus men
While going right on, making jalop-
pies and silk shirts
Doing both jobs with that little be-
hind-hand, e-a-s-y-
With plenty of time for ball-games
and prize fights
But we discovered that TOTAL
WAR is something else.
x
DO you remember
When Hitler was Dragging about
demOcracieS breaking down
Because we had millions of unem-
plOyed in America
4 ;,I
for all its men
And there was something over there
for everybody to do?
Well, now we begin to understand
what he was talking about
With over four million men in our
armies, scattered to hell-and-gone-
While fighting planes scare us out Of
our sleep
Practicing night flying over Ameri
can hills and praries-
Navy men and marines coming home
on furlough, to tell what's doing
While we ship everything we can
make TO Joe Stains boys
So fast that we couldn't equip our
part of IA European second front
Inside of ten months we are getting
fresh out of men enough
And women have to join our boiler
makers unions.
Tanks and planes must have trained
nurses
SO the army skins off the cream Of
the top factory crews
Sending them anywhere from Quad
aicanal to Quattara sands
Making factory managers yell for
more mechanics
Meanwhile training pretty gals how
to hold welding torches
America must match output of Hit
ier's enslaVed European millions
If we are to enable Russia to hold
Stalingrad-
While slowly creeping up on our own
job of getting into this fight.
x X +
All right!
We've got to blanket Germany with
bOmberS--
Nazi cities and armies must feel the
steel tracks of our tanks
Nazi submarines must find ships too
thick TO be all sunk
IIitler'S fool followers must learn,
they are between starvation
And the deal-line of American de
termination
So, if there are not enough men to
do that job
Every American son and daughter
can and will
DO TWO MEMS JOBS.
:a.s*#T ~. ! + x*xxs.s
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15

How long can Labor UnioniStS eN-
pect To receive Union-uade wages ii
they do not buy Union-made goods?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
THE
CHERRY TREE

Where With Our Little HGfch"i
We Tell the Truth Abouf Nam
Things, Sometimes Pr"joundiV.
metimes Fippant!y and
Sometimes Recklessly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15

Invest in Nictory-lO per cent of pay
ia War Bonds today.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15

. EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manuacturers.-A c. DALE SUTTERIN. JAMES TURNEI
E. L. WHEATLEY VIM E. YOUNG, EDWARD SEYFIER1
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15

PresidentJames M Duffy O. Box East Liverpool Ohio
PreidenE Wheatley, Nationa
Bank Building Trenton, New Jersey .
Second Vice Pdnt-Fank Hull, Gill Pacific Blvd Huntington
Park, Calf.
Vice saven
Ohio
New Jersey.
Fifth Presiden-Geoge Newbon,
New
Sixth Vice PresidentGeogs Turner Liver
pool, Ohio.
Seventh Vice PresdenChares Jordan. Virginia Avenue
Sebring, Ohio.
Eighth Vice Presdsnt-Johua Chadwick. Newell West
reasurer-John McGiivray Liver
pool,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01

TOMORROW $50 spectacular Sale of Misses Quality
Stacks for the holiday Weekend We saved this special
purchase last minute holiday and shoppers this
dnart Savings Event. Save setern pairs tomorrow!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01

fallen into geStapO hands,
would have been shot Summarily.
When ] reached my hotel. how
ever, entered my room and
said, Gentlemen, please excuse
me while ! change my clothes. .
Shutting the door firmly in the
geStapo faces. Miss Mitchell has.
tily destroyed the papers.
Il was treated like the lowest
criminal" she declared in telling
OF the concentration camps.
THE men i'm the camps fire.
quently were chained. FOrtu-
nateIy ! was not"
At the concentration camp in
Diebenau the tempestuous Miss
Mitchell had the dubious distinc.
tion of landing for a time in cells
for the condemned. This was
punishment for slapping a German
prison guard who came into her
cell when she was trying TO battle
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01

suicide rather than submit to cap
ture. The vial. she explained. is
always worn IN the lapel OF the
Chctnik uniform.
The gestapo, by arrcSting her
when she WAS IN 2 bathing SUIT
rather than more formal Chctnlk
attire. prevented the use of that
vial. Indeed Miss Mitchell said,
she probably owed her life twice
to the fact she had been arrested
at Dubrovnik, a Slav seaport, in
her bathing suit.
II had n cheap pair OF trOus-
ers over my bathing suit" eX-
planned the woman who in priv
ate life is married 10 Stanley
Knowles. an Englishman. al
though she uses her maiden
name. 'Tn the pockets of my
trousers were some most inn
portant Chetnik documents.
"If these papers had ever
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01
Navy Officer Held
As Woman S SLAYER

WAUKEGAN, Ill, July / (INS)
Franklin y. Cathcart III. "a
chief petty officer at the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station, was
under indictment today for muir.
der and manslaughter in the death
of Miss Thoried Arna Larson, "a
Of Waukegan.
The grand jury accused Cath.
cart, a Stanford University grad.
uate. of strangling Miss Larson
pushing her down a long cement
stairway and beating her.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01

tive board, state officials today
prepared to buy war damage"
insurance on $75.OOO,OOO worth of
state buildings and property.
The policy will be unique in
that no single company will take
the risk. 1t will be placed with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01

KERN's BAsEMENT-sPoRTswEAR
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01

the state association of insurance
agents and spread over several
concerns. Waldo o. Hildebrand,
SECRETARY of the association, said
the premium will be between $40,-
600 and $4,000 with the policy
covering all buildings, personal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01
Free After Many Months
as Axis Prisoner; Remains
True 10 Guerrilla Army
By INEZ ROBB
= New, service stan Correspondent

IntI News service star Correspondent
JERSEY CITY July Ruth
Mitchell was hack m her native
land today. breathing a defiance
Of HitlcriSm that Is as intense As
the prophetic warnings OF AR wars
10 come which were voiced for
wars bv her fighting brother the
late Gen Billy Mitchell.
She was The first Of The e42
Messengers 10 step ashore from the
4 liner Drottningholm docking on
$ its second diplomatic exchange
lVoyage from Lisbon.
re AXIS CAMPS
Behind her were many months
+ IN l. different AXIS concentration
s camps. but she proudly proclaimed
that she was still q Chetnik tmem-
Der Of the famed Comitadji part
! OF the YugoSlav guerrilla army
that is harasSing AXIS iorccSD
once member, always
member" she explained.
The first and only American
woman ever 10 join the daring
Chetnik organization. Miss Nit
chel said her Job was that OF dis
patch rider because Il was able 10
ride ust about anything with four
legs
The Germ threat OF invasion
In the Balkans led her 10 enlist
in the guerrilla band in April.
1891. Al tina, time. Miss Mitchell
was studying Balkan folklore. She
enlisted as an aid 10 knsia Pc
cameo. the aged chietain Of the
400 yesr-old ComitadJ
ARRESTED BY GESTAPO
Four months after her enlist.
ment. the gestapo arrested Miss
Mitchell. Then began the long.
months of Imprisonment IN con-
'centration camps until finally she.
was included in the exchange group
Z lust returned on the Drottning-
holm. Five of the Balkan prisons
she described as "the filthiest in
The world
A slim woman with vivid. titan
hair, Miss Mitchell had with her
today the vial of poison given each
Chetnik with which TO commit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01
State 10 Buy Insurance
AGAINST War DAMAGE

LANSING, July With au-.
thorization from the administra-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01

World Famous Comics! Tires
pages every day In Daily De-
trOit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01
FEW POSSESSIONS

Wearing an inexpensive aqua
blue and white dress and a non
.dcscript straw hat, Miss Mitchell
said her only possessions were
those on her back and a few in
IAN overnight case. During her long
and arduous Imprisonment she lost
40 pounds. She declared that Red
Gross food parcels had literally
kept herself and many other
prisoners alive.
Her slim baggage contained a
pathetic present made by the
british women at the Liebenau
concentration camp for President
Roosevelt. It's a basket patiently
woven by these women from the
string taken from Red Cross par
cells that kept body and soul to-
gether. Miss Mitchell. in behalf
of her fellow prisoners. will take
the gift to Washington to the
President.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01

property and ferries owned by the
state with the exception of coll
Ileges and the university.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-01
MiteheHs Sister Still a Rebel
Only American Woman
TO Join Daring Chetniks
Served as Dispatch Rider

lin a cupflll Of water. The water
was too precious 10 throw at the
guard.
Miss Mitchell said that several
women who became her good
friends i'm different concentration
'camps were taken out and exc
.cutcd by firing squads.
II want Ia spend my life
looking after the children Of the
victims of this German horror"
she declared.