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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-09
Russ Ready to Dynamite
Oil as Germans Advance
NuziS
Cruc k
Lines
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Aug. 8-(UP) - Red
army demolition squads stood ready
today to blow up the great Maikop
oil fields of the Caucasus to pre-
vent them from falling into the
hands of German forces which
have broken Russian defenses at
Armavir and are closing in upon
Maikop from two sides.
The German break through at
Armavir, city of 10000 and vital
rail and pipeline junction on the
Kuban river, threw the Russian
defenders back upon the foothills
OF the Caucasus mountains and car
ried the Germans to within 60 miles
of Maikop, whose wells supply a
great Bulk of the Red air forces
high-teSt aviation fuel.
(The German high command re-
ported the capture Of Armavir and
pounding drive on across the
Laba river, which is a tributary of
the Kuban, to capture the town
of Kurgannaya which is only 80
miles east of Maikop and midway
between the Gil fields and Arma-
Vir)
Front-line advices reaching Mos
COW made it clear that the Red
army under Marshal Semyon Timo-
shenko was prepared to lay waste
to the Maikop fields at the enemy'S
approach.
The Maikop fields, together with
those of Grozny, have produced 10
per cent of the Soviet Unions oil
The swift 100-mile southwark
drive of the German armored forces
down to Armavir from the Byelo-
Glina sector, accompanied by a
steady advance of another column
striking down upon KraSnodar
farther to the west near the Sea
OF Azov coast, threatened to trap
large Russian forces still fighting
around KuShcheVka.
Stiffening Russian resistance was
said officially, however, to have
stemmed at least for the time
being, the Germans big pincer as
sault on Stalingrad, industrial met
ropolis on the Volga
Russian tanks and artillery threw
back successive German attempts
to storm across the Don in the Klet-
skaya sector about 70 miles north
west of Stalingrad and Red army
lines were reported holding some
where north of Kotelnikoy to the
south.
Fierce battles were said to be un-
derway around Armavir with the
Germans throwing masses of infan-
try, armored units, dive bombers
and sub machine gun infantry into
the attempt to storm Maikop.
The Moscow press acknowledged
that the Red armies, with their back
to the Caucasus mountains, were in
a grave position and that the Rus
slams, including Don and Kuban
CossackS still battling around
Kushchevka might not be table to
escape eastward.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-09
Seven
.Jops
Down
BY DON CASWELL

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 8 up
- Allied planes, lashing out in
sudden major offensive, have shot
down seven enemy planes in the
heaviest attack of the war on one
Japanese invasion base and have
dropped One-ton bombs on another.
1t was announced today
Heavy bombing planes attacked
Rabaul, in the New Britain islands
900 miles northeast of Australia,
the first big invasion base the Jap
anese established.
Sweeping out from their advanc-
ed bases, they were already plast-
ering the Vunukanau airdrome in
face of heavy anti aircraft fire
when a fleet of 20 enemy fighters
rose to challenge them.
ZEROES DOWNED
In a wild fight, the Allied crews
shot down seven of the enemy
planes, crack neW-type zeroeS, and
damaged others.
Only one Allied plane was miss
ing. Others suffered minor damage
and there were some casualties.
In this heaviest raid, and the
most successful, of the entire war,
Allied planes dropped Is tons of
bombs directly in their target zone,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique said.
A daring daylight attack was
made by medium bombers on the
Lac invasion base on the Huon
Gulf on the north coast of New
Guinea, midway between Australia
and Rabaul
RUNWAY HIT
1t was here that Allied planes,
likewise in strong force, dropped
every bomb they had, including
20OO-pounders believed to have
been used for the first time, in
their target area, the airdrome and
dispersal areas. Crews saw the
2,OO0-pound bombs crashing on the
runway.
The daylight attack was followet'
by extensive harasSing raids last
night, when again great demolition
bombs We're dropped ON the air.
drome.
1t was indicated that the situa-
ton in the Buna Coma zone, $50
miles down the New Guinea north
coast from the Lae-Salamaua area
was still static.
PATROL CONTACT
Allied patrols were believed to be
in contact with the Japanese who
held the village of Kokoda, with
its airdrOme, on the north side of
the Owen Stanley mountains 55
miles from the Allied base of Port
MoreSby.
William M Hughes, opposition
political leader, member of the all
party Australian war council and
prime minister during the last war,
whose denunciation of the Situa-
ton which had permitted the Jap
anese to take Kokoda brought Au-
stralian anxiety into the open, said
today:
The japanese have been per-
m fn Non
positions in New Guinea and they
are consolidating them.
They are on the flanks of Port
MoreSby the last baStion between
us and the enemy.
The Australian people expected
that all resources that have been
marshalled for defense would be
used to the best advantage.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-09
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NAZIS JITTERY

The Germans are jittery, the
broadcast said, and are hastily
building and Strengthening their
Notifications not only along the
coast but in the Paris region and
are digging trenches near the
Champs Ulysses" in Paris.
United Press dispatches from
Moscow quote long editorials ap-
pearing today in the army news
paper Red Star and the official
Communist party organ Pravda ON
the anniversary of the Allied Of
fensive at Amiens on Aug. 8, 1913
stressing the timely arrival of the
American armies in France at that
time.
The point of the editorials was to
emphasize Russia's appeals for AN
Allied second front and to stress
that Germany lost the first World
War because she was forced to
fight on two fronts.
The Soviet press also continued to
publish reports of public meetings
in the United States and Great
Britain demanding a second front.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
ANOTHER SMEAR LABOR" ATTEMPT

RY LINKING an increase in the assets of trade
~ unions with profits made by big corporations
on war production the House Naval Affairs Com
mittee has joined the 'Smear labor" ranks.
Surely the committee must know that assets
of labor organizations the result of long continued
paying Of dues by many thousands of workers
have nothing in common with corporation profits
The money in union treasures is used for sick.
ness, death, disability unemployment and occa
sionally, strike benefits. The money piled up I
corporation treasures is used to benefit stock
holders and often to enrich INSIDERS" and Other
favored persons.
Naturally, union treasures have benefited from
increased union membership resulting from the
upSurgc OF industrial activity caused by the huge
defense and war production program. That can
hardly be called 'proitCeling, by any stretch OF
the word
Yet, the committee majority obviously aims at
labelling the unions as proiteers. Unfortunately
despite the absurdity Of the charge, it is to be
feared it may do serious damage to the reputation
and prestige of organized labor
1t is up to labor and its Spokesmcn to diSproVe
the charge by presenting the facts in their true
light. In this connection, it should be remembered
that an enlightened and intelligent minority Of the
committee opposed the majority'S report and de-
serves the thanks Of labor for its stand.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
FIGHTING UNFIT FOOD

THAT UNRENIITTING warfare spoiled, filthy
and other unfit food products is needed is
shown by the report of the Food and Drug Admin
for the fiscal year 1941. The agency en-
forces the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
The report says that more than 1000 ship
ments of food were seized because of filth or de.
The seizures included shipments OF
grapefruit juice made from partially rotten fruit
raw coffee filthy from dock sweepngs, coffee sub
stitutes infested with insects, flour and corn meal
containing weevs, bakery products and confec-
tionery made under insanitary conditions, butter
from unfit cream, cheese infested with insects and
decomposed eggs and egg products
Seizures were also made of shipments of de-
fish, shrimp, and Holsters; of insect
infested fruit and fruit products; of nuts contami
mated with filth; of diseased or decomposed poul-
try; and of tomato products because made of par
TALLY decomposed materials. Numerous consign-
ments of continental seeds and of cocoa beans
from foreign countries were denied entry into the
United States because of water damage or filth
Only few of the activities of the Food and
Drug Administration are mentioned in the above.
The report indicates that the agencys work is
valuable and that the cost of it's maintenance and
activities is money we'll spent
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
MAINTAIN YOUR UNION
OFrom American FederationisD


THE CHANGE-OVER from peacetime to war
time production creates serious problems for
many wage-earners. Individual workers may be
dropped from the payroll and temporarily forgot
ten Such workers. like all other citizens, are eager
to do their share. In order to get consideration
and to have part in the great effort that is
Straining all our resources, workers must belong
to a union that speak for them and take care
of their welfare. In in peace your union can
provide you with opportunities to take an effective
part in shaping developments.
For the duration Of the union should
strike because no group of workers should for a
moment delay production Of munitions needed by
our soldiers on active duty or take the RESPONSE
bility of creating discord in national ranks. Be
cause production must be carried on by human
beings who cannot free themselves from human
shortcomings disputes and new problems are sure
to arise. You will have TO look to your union eX-
ecutives to adjust all such situations. Their re-
sourcefulnesS and fair dealing will be your hope of
protection.
| urge you to preserve your union membership
and to keep your union active during this emer-
gency, for you will need solid organization even
more desperately when peace comes. This is war
to preserve free institutions. You can help accom-
plsh that purpose by doing your full duty by your
union.-William Green.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
Production BOSS

FOR A long time Americans in the know about
our huge war job have been asking for one-man
control of production in Washington.
In the past the overlapping duties and divided
responsibilities that existed between the various
agencies charged with directing the war program
produced a great deal of inefficiency. Manufac-
turers often had difficulty getting the go ahead
signal on work that they prepared to do. Last
minute changes in contracts caused countless de-
lays. Alterations in the designs of weapons that
had already gone into production slowed down the
entire program. No man can serve two masters,
yet somehow makers of war equipment often had
to try to serve-not two-but half dozen or
more all because no centralized authority existed.
President Roosevelt's decision to create War
Production Board with Donald Nelson at it's head
should help to eliminate this confusion. With one
man in control the entire program should move
more swiftly than ever before. It's an enormous
job to adapt industry to total war production, but
it must-and it can--be done And Mr. Nelson s
past performance in Washington indicates that he
is the man to do it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
ENGINEERS HEAR DISCUSSION
OF ADVANCE PLANNING FOR
AFTER-WAR PUBLIC WORKS

New York City ULNS).-Prepared-
advance planning of il great public
works program to be held in readiness
for use when needed, was discussed at
the opening session of the annual meet
ing of the American Society of Civil
Engineers here.
\. ID. Morrell, national director of
the Public Work Reserve, established
last wear within the Federal Works
Agency, outlined the aims of that body
in preparing now Il long range public
works program. Such Il program, he
said. will serve to reduce the lag in
the transition from wartime to Il
peacetime economy.
planning for the postwar period
and continuous planning thereafter,
Morrell said must be as much part
of the war effort as the production of
planes and tanks and guns if the peace
that is to follow is to be worth any
thing.
The changes that are now taking
place in our body polite, in industry,
in our economic system, could be dis
counted if they were of a tranSitorl
character and merely affected our i'm
mediate future. But experience has
taught, and sometimes painfully, that
changes once made have Il lasting i'm
pact upon our way of life
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
NO TIME TO GIVE VENT NOW

VllIRE HAS been a brand of sclf-Styled patriots,
who during our lifetime in season and out Of
season, were fighting and etcrna.y finding fault
with everything that organized labor ever did OF
tried to do
They called themselves open shoppers. They
were out to clip the wings of every union that hao
any strength or stamina and no matter where they
went or under what circumstances they started to
pop of it was always the same song.
These open shoppers were possessed with the
idea that if they could reduce our labor unions to
helpless mutual admiration societies instead OF
militant groups Of workinGmcn and women, they
themselves would be in clover.
They resorted to blacklists and lock0uts. They
hired private detectives and spies, who manufac-
tured evidence when and as it was wanted. Thugs
and plug-uglies were frequently hired to do the
rough stuff.
Now that war is on us some Of these same
anti-soca freaks are still rearing their heads and
spoutinG their same old line pretty much as in
days OF yorc. But it is poor time to be doing it
and very much out Of tune with the spirit Of the
times, which is for all Americans to bury their
petty differences between one another and unite,
with everything they have till total and complete
victory Is won.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
RIGHTS OF "LITTLE FELLOW

Z 'OMMEN'TING ON the activities Of the Small
y Business Section of the Antitrust Division,
Department of Justice, Attorney General Bidde
said:
survive that the spirit of free enterprise be kept
alive and that the rights of the little fellow,
whether in business or civil life, be protected"
Organized labor agrees with Mr.. Biddle The
American Federation of Labor was one of the first
contracts to small concerns many of which have
been union employers for decades 1t has not
wavered in this policy and is continuing to speak
Iup for the little fellow"
1t will be necessary for small business and its
friends to keep up the fight, as some elements in
the present national administration apparently are
indifferent to the fate of smaller concerns Par
|tculary this seems true among army and navy
brass hats some of whom do not seem to recog-
nize the fact that protection of the little fellow
IS vital to preservation Of American democracy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
POOR PAY STILL RIFE

I)KOGRESS HAS been made in the last Year IN
raising pay levels but there is still long way
to go before wages are adequate for American
standards. For example, take factory work. in
which wages are far above the average of many
industries. The American Federation of Labors
latest monthly survey says:
Wages today average IT cents per hour in
American factories, the highest level ever reached.
This is still below the minimum of 81 .OS necessary
to support family of five in health and efficiency
at today prices; it is only slightly above the bare
subsistence level of II - cents for family of four
'That is, almost half of all American factory
workers receive less than the bare subsistence
budget. Less than half of our II 7O5 900 factory
workers are reported as receiving wage increases
last year (only 1,o63o0O in first ten months). The
raises were limited chiefly to union members"
A. f. of l.. survey indicates that America has
no reason for being complaccnt over the wage stu
alton and that further wage increases are very
much in order.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
BIRDS SERVE NATION TOO

Newark, \. J.-Decrying a tendency
To consider protection of birdlife as
trivial in times OF war, Beecher s.
EoWdish, Secretary-treaSurer of the
New Jersey Audubon Society, said here
that government experts had estimated
that insect and rodent damages to
farms and forests exceeded a billion
dollars a year in the United States.
Wild birds should be protected because
they are one OF the most effective
checks on such pests, he declared.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
WASTE IN WASHINGTON

MERCHANTS ARE finding it necessary to in
AA form their customers that wrapping paper is
getting so scrace that they should bring their old
sacks back or carry baskets.
Yet the mails are still flooded with all kinds of
government publicity and propaganda in big 9x12
craft envelopes of heavy weight and the most ex-
pensive construction. When the government sends
out letter sheet size publicity it seldom bohers to
fold it, even if only sheet or two, but slips it into
of the big heavy envelopes that seems to be so
plentiful in Washington.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
WAYMEN'S UNION LISTS
OVER $4,000 MEMBERS

President f. +. Milliman of the
brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employees announced that the Brother
hoods membership has passed the 49,
600 mark, the highest point in nearly
% years AT the rate we are gaining
it will be no surprise if we hit the 15O,-
600 figure before this year is up he
said
The recent lO-Cent-nn-hOur wage in
crease, amounting to an average raise
of 2O.5 per cent for employees in the
Brothcrhood's jurisdiction, gained for
waymen and other railroad employees
has been an important factor in the
larger membership, lie pointed out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
. COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Initiation, a worldwide problem and
peril, is inevitable unless prompt and
vigorous action is taken to restrain it,
pamphlet warns.
Pointing out that the movement of
prices since 1899 parallels closely that
of the first World War, Professor John
Nj. Clark of Columbia University, au-
thor of the pamphlet, "How to Check
InflatiOn,' asserts that although ''we
know more about the mechanics of in
flation :. than we did % years ago,
we shall have to make better use of
our knowledge than we have so far
| if we are to make much better rec
ord"
IF there is much more buyers
money looking for goods than there
are goods for buyers" DR.. Clark de-
clares, Initiation will happen in spite
of all the price-ceiling orders the ad-
ministrator can issue. An admin
istrator can attend to the most impOr-
tant commodities, but he cannot hold
on to them if other prices keep getting
out of line His actions need to be
backed up by financial and credit poll
cies that will trim the volume of money
demand to fit the supply of goods"
x x
The exemption of the personal in
come tax has been reduced, Dr. Clark
continues, because when we are taxing
to reduce spending, it is necessary to
| reach those who do most of the spend
ing.
This sounds as if the government
were planning its taxes to deprive
people of goods, but that is not the
case. The requirements of defense have
already done that. What the taxes are
for is to save people from wasting
their incomes in driving up prices by
futile bidding for goods that are not
there. If the tax collector does not
take the money, increased prices will
in more injurious way
x X X
The job of curbing initiation rests
the following suggestions are made by
DR.. Clark for the average citizen:
"If you are Il housewife study the
requirements of ii healthy diet. There
is no need of undernourishment, but
don't waste foods or other scarce ma
terials, and don't hoard them. Take
your chances with the rest. Cooperate
i'm programs of waste collections -
newspapers, for instance. Remember
that the little savings grow important
when they are made in 30 million
homes.
IF you are Il worker or a farmer
who is getting Il break for the first
time in some years, don't try to push
your advantage too hard. If you do,
there won't be enough real goods, and
it is better to gain d few real dollars
than lot of rubber ones. The money
may come from your boss or from an
impersonal market. but the goods you
expect to buy will mostly be taken
from people like yourself, some of
whom have less than you and no
chaIice of getting more.
X X X
III your income Is lneululn sized
and your taxes hurt, remember there
are lot of people who have had too
little for a long while, and it may be
your turn to 90 without Il few things
YOU would like.
"If you are an employer, absorb ali
the increased costs you can. Have con
fidence in the readiness of the govern
ment to do its best to make right any
real injustices resulting from its regu-
less you really need Them
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
w II A T MEX T?
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The Pacific Lumber Co., San
Francisco, is producing a redwood
bark fiber for mixing with wool in
blankets, OvercOat fabrics and suit
ings. by use of the fiber. it is
said, blankets. suitings, etc, can
be made with 40 per cent less
wool than heretofore.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
w S D O M

a government had better go to
the very extreme of liberation than
do aught that could be construed
into an interference with or to
jeOpardize i'm any degree the COM
mon rights of the citizen.-Abra-
ham Lincoln.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29
AN AMERICAN MIRACLE

IN SAN DIEGO, California, 1000 building trades
workers were given 800 days to build 5000
homes for $4,000 persons. These workers per
formed an American miracle; they finished the job
in 100 days In addition to this defense housing
project, the workers also built sewage disposal
plant 100000 gallon reservoir and a 2O-mile
road
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29

Surveys in England show that Britain will
need one billion dollars of food from our country
in the next few months. Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard told committee of Congress that the
United States would recognize all reasonable re-
quests.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29

Most people don't care what hap
pens, provided it doesn't happen to
them.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-29

. EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING C0MMITTEE n,,rn
ManufactuersA. e. DALE FRED SUTTERlIN JAMES TURNER
Operatives E. L. WHEATLEY VIM Z. YOUNG EDWARD SEYFlERT