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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
Congress Opposes
Lowering Bdrs To
Admit Refugees" "
Measure Denies To Motives
Protection That Govern
ment Con Give Aliens

Washington, ID. c. Congress this
week indirectly served notice that it is
opposed to opening our gates for the
admission of European refugees.
1t wrote into legislation authorizing
the Importation of aliens for farm
work provision that they must be
recruited from "native-bOrn residents
of North, South or Central America or
the islands adjacent thereto"
This safeguard was demanded by
Senators who feared plan was on
foot to bring in Europeans under the
guiSe of the war emergency.
Dictated BY O'Neal
In other respects the measure ap-
proved by the Senate and ratified in
conference is unchanged from the
House version, which opponents charge
was dictated by President Edward A.
ONeal of the Farm Bureau Federation
and is designed to assist wealthy cot
ton plantation owners.
When it emerged from conference
the bill carried an appropriation of
county agents with little or no restric-
ton. County agents will have charge
of the recruiting and assignment of
imported workers.
A provision which provoked bitter
protest freezes" workers in their
home county. 1t will be illegal for
them to move without the written
consent of county agents, and Senators
charged that in practice this amounted
to virtual serfdOm."
HOarding Workers
1t was also asserted that the object
is to retain large surpluses of labor in
certain sections Of the South.
Still another feature declared Objec-
tiOnable permits government agencies
to protect the wages and working con-
ditions of aliens, but denies the same
safeguard to American farm hands.
The National Farmers Union has
called on President Roosevelt to veto
the proposal contending it will be a
complete flop" so far as providing
labor is concerned, but will be most
e1tectlVe IN SnackllnS southern fafm
workers to their jobs and forcing them
to accept any wage the employers care
to offer.
The measure is miles away from the
administrations request for S65, ,OOO, 600
to recruit, train, house and transport
both imported and domestic workers.
O'Neal, Il wealthy Alabama cotton
grower, raised violent objection to this
program, telling Southern members of
Congress it would interfere with
their labor supply" He insisted sur
plus labor in Dixie must not be trans
ferred to the North and West, where
acute shortages exist.
The Farmers Union insists that the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
Union Labor Life
Shareholders Are
Paid $2.25 Dividend
Governor Praises Record OF
B Company Owned By
AFL Organizations

New YOrk-A dividend of 1926 a
share for 1942 was announced this
week by the Union Labor Life Insur-
ance Company, owned entirely by
unions of the American Federation OF
Labor and other labor organizations
through Matthew Vol, president OF
the company and vice president of the
AFL. In 1941 the company paid a SIZE
dividend
Mr.. VOLTS announcement followed
the annual meeting of shareholders in
Baltimore, which was addressed by
Governor Herbert O'COnOr of Mary
land. in which State the company is
dOmiciied.
Your fine group represents one OF
the phases of our democratic institu-
tiOns in American life, and | predict
your continued success as long as or
ganiZed labor is a vigorous influence
for good, as it has been in the past y
the Governor said. There is no more
patriotic group in America than organ
lied labor"
President William Green pledged
the continued support of the fedora
tiOn of labOr's life insurance company.
Organized in 1927 by trade unions
affiliated with the AFL after a survey
instituted by the late Samuel Gompers,
then president of the federation, the
company had total of $S5,9S7 BOG
insurance in force at the end of 1912.
Mr. WOll reported also that during
1912 the company's income amounted
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
Bedford c.. Looks
For dYOfRevenge
Execution Of United Stdtes
Air1nen Calls For Swift
Reprisdl

Bedford, Ohio. AS this is being
written, word reaches us of the cruel
and barbarous execution of our U. S.
Airmen by our Jap Allies of 17-1S.
Is there an American among us who
is not willing to see this infamous,
treacherOus act of barbariSm avenged
Not just the soldiers composing the
firing squad, but the higherups, all
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Evening star., 1943-03-30

gave a formal dinner in honor of
the Foreign Secretary.
Chief Justice Stone, Secretary of
Navy Knox, Secretary of War
Stimson, nine members of Con-
gress, diplomats and others with
whom Mr.. Eden has come in contact
during his stay here were among
the guests.
Mr.. Eden, who will confer in Can
ada with Prime Minister Macken-
zie King and others, held his last
formal State Department confer
ence late yesterday, talking more
than an hour with Mr.. Hull and
later calling on Undersecretary
Welles. When newspapermen sought
Mr.. Eden's comment on his Wash
ington conversations he referred
them to his Annapolis address Fri
day, in which he warned Americans
not to expect sudden and sensa-
tional developments" from his con-
ferences here.
Diplomatic guests at last night S
dinner included China,s Foreign
Minister T. V. Soong and Ambas-
sador Wei Tao-ming, Soviet Ambas-
sador Maxim Litvinoff. British Am
bassador Lord Halifax and men,
bers of Mr.. Eden's official party,
the American Ambassador to Great
Britain, John G. Winant, and the
diplomatic representa- tives of Can
ada, Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Pvt. Pigg Of Arlington
Listed as MISSING

Pvt. Beverly M. Pigg of Arlington
was among seven Virginians in list
of 8l4 soldiers missing in North
Africa released today by the War
Department. Many are thought to
be prisoners of war.
Pvt. Pigg is a son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
o. B. Pigg of $40 South Twenty
first street, Arlington. A native of
the District, he attended elementary
school in Arlington and later was
graduated from Washington-Lee
High School there.
Prior to his entry into the Army
in October, 194l, Pvt. Pigg was en-
ployed by the Travellers Insurance
Co. here. He was sent to England
in April and was a member of the
first United States forces which in
vaded North Africa.
Pvt. Pigg has brother, Gordon
Pigg, l6, student at Washington
Lee High School, and a sister, Mrs
Robert E. Allen of Arlington.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Sought
On Senate Postwar
Security Proposals
ConnoIIy's Goal Is Bill
On Which Two-Thirds
Of Chamber Can Agree
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Postwar legislation on which
more than two-thirds of the Sem
ate could agree was the ambitious
goal today of Chairman Connally
of the Foreign Relations Committee
as he called subcommittee into
session to tackle a variety of pro-
posals.
The Texan told reporters the Gov
ernment needed a resolution carry
ing with it the substantial sup
port" of the Senate in its efforts
to work out with other United Ma
tions program Of collective Secur-
itv to follow the peace.
Since any treaty must bear the
consent of two thirds of the Sem
ate, Senator Connally expressed the
hope his subcommittee could come
out of a series of projected hear
ings with proposal that would
cause the minimum amount of dis
agreement and bitter debate"
To Weigh Resolutions.
Among the resolutions the COM
mittee planned to take up was one
introduced by Senators Ball. Re-
publican. of Minnesota; Hill, Demo-
crat, of Alabama; Hatch, Demo-
crat, of New Mexico, and Burton
Republican, of Ohio. which would
urge this Government to act now
for joint action on current eco
nomic, political and relief ques-
tions and for postwar resistance to
aggression by armed force.
Senator Connally has asserted he
favors joint military and naval ac-
ton to resist any future aggression,
but indicated he would like to con-
fine a Senate declaration to broad
general terms.
Meanwhile, proposal that the
electorate pass on any peace treaty
negotiated by the President and
left unratified by the Senate was
made by Representative Feighan,
Democrat, of Ohio.
In offering his resolution for ap-
proval by both houses, Mr. Feighan
indicated he sought to avoid repe-
tltlon of the Senate's rejection of
the League of Nations plan follow
ing the World War.
Held Right Of the People.
'The people of this Nation should
have the right to accept or reject
any postwar treaty, negotiated by
our President and not ratified by
the Senate" Mr.. Feighan said in a
statement.
"Thirty-three men and women in
the Senate, no matter how well-in-
tentioned or how wise they may be,
should never be permitted to hold
the ultimate fate and destiny of
this Nation and of the whole world
in their hands"
Mr.. Feighan suggested an amend
ment to the Constitution that would
allow national referendum on any
peace terms should the Senate fail
to ratify whatever the President
proposed.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Gen. U|io Sees 8,200,000
As U. 5. Army Minimum
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 30.-Maj.
Gen. James A. Ulio, adjutant gen.
eral of the Army, said yesterday
that the 100000 men planned for
the Army by the end of 1943 should
be regarded from the present out
look as minimum"
He cited the possible future need
OF a larger Army to reporters fol-
lowing an address before Advertising
Mems Post No. 209 of the American
Legion.
In his address, Gen. Ulio expressed
concern at the controversy over the
projected size of the Army and said
there are many Americans who
need to be sold on this war" He
added:
Il believe those critics who OBJ
ject to the size of our projected
Army of 100000 officers and men
have so little understanding of mill
tary necessity that they cannot en-
vision the gigantic task of creating
an Army capable of meeting our
formidable enemies or of the varied
military tasks in which our soldiers
are required to engage"
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Two Washington Area Flyers
Decorated by u. S. in England
Copts. T. R. Cromer
And J.L. Lambert
Among $50 Cited

Two Washington area airmen are
among $50 Army flyers in England
who have been decorated for bravery
in action, according to the Asso-
ciated Press.
They are Capt. John L. Lambert,
%, OF Arlington, Va, and Capt.
Thomas r. Cramer, %, of 57O1 Chevy
Chase parkway NV, who received
the Air Medal for Exceptionally
meritorious achievement"
The awards were announced yes
terday at the 9th Air Force head
quarters in England. Col. John H.
Hayden of Tampa, Fla, decorated
the officers at a formal ceremony.
Capt. Lambert was reared in Bal
timore. where his father, Jack Lam
bert, was a cartoonist for the Balti-
more Sun. He attended the Uni
versitv of MARYLAND on a scholar
ship, studying civil aeronautics. He
joined the Army Air Forces and re-
ceived his training at Randolph and
Kelly Fields in Texas. In June
1941, he married Miss Francis A
Dicus, daughter of DR.. and Mrs. M
Luther Dicus of 1700 North Oak
street, Arlington. The wedding was
in Tacoma. Wash, where he was
stationed at the time. Capt. Lam
bert left for England last Septem-
ber. He is squadron commander
He has son, John L. Lambert, jr.
whom he has never seen.
Capt. Cramer was born at West
Point Military Academy when his
father, the late 1t. Col. Raymond
V. Cramer, was mathematics in
structor there He was educated in
Virginia and Hawaii and was gradu
ated from Central High School
here and from West Point in 194l
Col. Cramer died at Walter Reed
Hospital in 1899.
Capt. Cramer received his air
training at Tulsa. Okla. and
Randolph and Kelly Fields. He was
stationed for while at Shreveport
La, and at Grenier Field, Man
chester N. H., before leaving for
England last October. He is pilot of
a four-engined Liberator bomber
and flight leader.
Capt. Cramer has two sisters. Mrs
John D. Stevens, whose husband. 1t.
Col. Stevens, is stationed at West
Point, and Dorothy Cramer, a STU
dent at Wilson High School. His
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Old Superstition Delays
st. Mofys Potuto Crop

LEONARDTOWN, Md, March 80.
Food urgency or no food urgency,
lot Of potatoes in st. Marys
County won't be planted until the
dark of the moon" comes next week.
Farmers in Marylands oldest
county complain the weather and
the season is ripe for planting, but
that their colored helpers won't work
because of the old superstition that
it's bad luck to plant potatoes while
the moon Is full.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Manassas Club Plans
Victory Farm Awards
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, March 3O.-The
Manassas Kiwanis Club plans to
conduct Victory Farm Award
project in Prince William County
during the summer and early fall.
Special recognition will be given
and award plaques presented to ap-
proximately 80 outstanding farms,
rather than to individual farm own
ers or operators, so as to include all
employees and members of families
deserving the citations. Judging OF
the farms will be based on:
The farms production of essen
tial crops and the use made of avail
able group, equipment and man.
power.
A Victory garden for supplying all
farm needs and participation in re-
lated war activities, such as buying
War bonds and stamps. cooperation
in salvaging programs and other
war activities.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Important Message to
SHERWOOD
FUEL OIL
USERS

You are familiar with the
Sherwood Annual Oil Burner
Overhaul and Inspection Plan.
You know that ratiOning makes
it especially important to assure
efficient and trouble free oil
burner operation, and to protect
your equipment through clean
ing and Overhauling. The Sher-
wood Plan assures efficient burn
ing of fuel oil through scientific
adjustments with Orsat instru-
ments, which have saved Sher-
wood Fuel Oil customers sub
stantial amounts of fuel oil in
the past.
We are going to make every
effort to provide the Annual Oil
Burner Overhaul and Inspection
to Sherwood Fuel Oil customers
again this summer and you are
now receiving letters outlining
the details of this plan. Please
read your letters carefully. With
your continued cooperation we
should be able to maintain the
fine standards of Sherwood
Service.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Extortionist's Threat
Ignored by Mae West
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 3O.-Mae
West takes extortion notes in stride.
Disclosure that Russell Eugene
Alexanderson, 18, self styled "The
Leopard" sent her a note demand
ing she pay him 100000 under
threat of death, was made by Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation agents
today as Alexanderson pleaded
guilty to extortion.
The FBI men said Miss West
never complained of receiving the
note and that they learned of it
only in Alexanderson's confession,
which, they said, included the ad-
mission he wrote Betty Cradle de-
manding $4,000, and followed with
another letter demanding 5000.
Federal Judge Leon Yankwich
denied a plea of the youths law
yers that he be released on his own
recognizance and set over the case
one week before pronouncing sent
ence. The bond of 5000 was con-
tinued.
Alexanderson has received Army
induction orders.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
General Agreement
Reported Reached in
.Eden's 5 Talks Here
U. S., Britain Held Seeing
Eye to Eye; Visitor
To Leave Today
By BLAIR BOLLES.

The conversations between For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden and
American officials have brought gen.
eral agreement between the United
States and British governments or
the desirability of world wide CO.
operation among the large anc
small countries to preserve the peace
to come after the defeat of the
Axis, it was reported authoritatively
in American circles today.
Mr.. Eden, weekend guest at
the White House, had breakfast with
President Roosevelt this morning
They planned to spend most of the
morning in further talks. with Mr.
Eden scheduled to leave the White
House today. He is expected to be
in Canada tomorrow.
AstoniShment was expressed in
high quarters at the report current
in Washington that Mr.. Eden has
run into brick wall here. 1t is
said, on the contrary, that both the
United States and Great Britain
equally are conscious of the desira-
billty Of working out plans now for
the framework of peace, and that
the governments of both countries
see pretty we'll eye to eye on the
major phases of postwar interna-
tional policy.
The Foreign Secretary is said to
have been made fully aware that
this Government considers that
peace can be maintained only by a
system of global cooperation, and
would be jeopardized by dividing the
world up into sections-American
Asiatic and European-with a spe-
cial policy for each section. Some
Americans, it is felt, have taken the
recent speech of Prime Minister
Churchill to be an advocacy for this
world standardization.
Agreement in Principle.
Agreement in principle is said to
have been reached on the PROPOSE
ton that firm system of world
wide collective security. implemented
by real international police force
would wipe out the ticklish ques-
tions which exist now about the
possible postwar territorial desires
of some of the Allies.
Both the American and British
governments are reported now to
think that Russia would prefer the
assurances OF security in a world
collective system to extending its
frontiers to the Baltic Sea and into
Eastern Poland. Russia's desire for
the Baltic States and Eastern Po-
land is thought to be based primarily
on defense considerations.
Secretary of State Hull last night
Evening star., 1943-03-30
18th Army Outf|onks RommeI
BY Daring Stroke Over Desert
Nozi Marshal Apparently Believed Woterless
WosteIund Could Never Be Crossed by Armor

dust clouds which sWirled across the
tracks made by the army and blot
ted out the horizon-an endless,
jolting, bouncing, looking into Moth
ingness.
We began passing trucks loaded
with Italian and German prisoners
During the day I counted II trucks
with at least 20 prisoners each.
In Sandstorm we lost the truck
carrying our food, water and bed
ding. Immediately we developed a
burning thirst, made worse when
we had to get out and push our car
begged down in the soft sand.
But late in the day we caught up
with the truck. 1t was a beautiful
sight.
Pilot Hitch Hiking Back.
And beside the truck we saw a
youth in the flying suit of an Amer
ican airman, a blond pilot whose
face was familiar.
Hello" he said, remember me?"
Sure" I said. He was Daler
Deniston of Akron, Ohio, whom l
had met few weeks ago when Wis
iting American fighter squadrons
operating in Southern Tunisia
What are you doing out here?"
Il just got shot down." he said
calmly.
He had set out earlier in the day
leading flight of Americans on a
bombing strafing mission near
Gabes. While he was strafing en-
emy gun positions, anti-aircraft had
riddled the wings of his plane and
damaged the fuselage and controls.
Denny had belly-landed the plane
behind British lines and jumped out
without so much as bruise.
Il am ch-hiking back to my
landing ground to rejoin my squad
ron" Denny said.
We gave him blankets for the
night and after breakfast the next
morning he started the long trip
back.
The khamseen was still blowing as
we resumed our trip And then we
stripped the gears on our car trying
to pull out of the soft sand. We
were taken in tow. But at least we
managed to catch up with the Army
The way troops and armor moved
across that Furnishing route was so
fast as to be almost unbelievable,
and was one of the finest pieces of
desert maneuvering in this war.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Voice,of Washington
10 Protest Nazis'
Slaughter Of Jews
Mass Meeting Tonight
To Be Addressed by
Noted OfficioIs, Leaders

Protest against Nazi extermina-
ton OF Jews in Axis s-occupied Eu-
rope will be lodged at Voice OF
Washington" public meeting at 8
o'clock tonight in the Statler Hotel
A series Of proposals designed to
secure the speedy implementation
of the pledge of the United Nations
to rescue those who can still be
saved from Axis dominated Europe,
and to punish those responsible for
the atrocities, will be laid before
tonight's meeting.
Barkley Heads Speakers.
Speakers tonight will include
Senate Majority Leaders Barkley,
House Minority Leader Martin; DR..
Stephen S. Wise, president of the
American Jewish Congress; Brig.
Gen. William R. Arnold, Army chief
of chaplains; the Rev. Dr. Frederick
Brown Harris, chaplain of the Sem
ate; the Rev. DR.. Frederick E. Reis-
sig, executive secretary, Washing
ton Federation of Churches; John
Brophy, director. Industrial Union
Council of the CIO; Frank Fenton,
director of organization of the AFL,
and DR.. Mordecai Johnson, presi-
dent of Howard University.
A mass Kaddish, Hebrew prayer
for the dead, in memory of the
100000 Jews slaughtered by the
Nazis, and the blowing of the Sho-
far rams horn will open the
meeting.
Sponsored by 40 Groups.
The Voice of Washington" is be-
ing sponsored by the Joint Emer-
gency Committee for European
Jewish Affairs and 40 Washington
organizations.
Senator Barkley was author of
the concurrent resolution passed by
Congress condemning "indefensible
Nazi outrages" and emphasizing
that the American people view
with indignation the atrocities in
the Nazi-occupied countries, espe-
cially the mass murder of Jewish
men, women and children" The
resolution put Congress on record
for the punishment of those guilty
''in a manner commensurate with
the offenses for which they are re-
sponSible."
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Brazil Bares Spy Plot
To Have Captain Visit
u. ). for Axis AGENTS
Former Nozi Diplomats
Also Involved in Case
Uncovered by Police
By the Associated Press

6S the associated PreSS.
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 30
An Axis spy plot against the
United States involving a. captain
OF artillery in the Brazilian Army
and other Brazilian nationals, as
we'll as present and former Axis
diplomats, was reported yester-
day with publication of full po-
lice report of charges to the Tri-
bunal of National Security.
Interception by United States au-
thorities of a message by clandestine
radio from Brazil to Germany re-
vealed the attempt of the Brazilian
officer, Capt. Tullio Regis do Mas
cimento, to obtain official permission
to visit American war plants and
to study fire control apparatus on
American naval vessels, the report
indicated.
A request to Berlin for $4,000 by
Albrecht Gustav Engels-later ar
rested as one of the chief figures in
German espionage in Brazil-for
Nascimentos expenses on trip to
the United States, for which Nasci-
mento already had asked permission
of American authorities at Rio, re-
vealed the heart of the plot, the
report said.
Invisible-Ink Messages Used.
Existence of an organized system
for sending military information
from Brazil to Argentina-at peace
with the Axis-Which involved at
least two other Brazilians- in the
transmission of invisible-ink mes
sages, also was revealed in the
report.
The report made frequent men,
ton of the former German Am
bassador, Kurt Pruefer, and his
principal aides as espionage agents
both before and after Brazil's rup-
ture of relations with the Axis on
January %, 1912, and also men,
toned Hainz Ehlert, former men,
ber of the German diplomatic staff
in Brazil, who remained as an at
tache to the Spanish Embassy, and
whose continued presence the re-
port described as highly incon-
venient."
Most of the Brazilians involved,
the report said, were former mem
bers Of the Fascist "Integralist'
party, outlawed since 1888, and in
cluded
Erardo Margela Mela Mourao,
one of the bearers of secret mes
sages to Buenos Aires and writer
for the then pro-Nazi newspaper
Gazeta de Noticias.
Woman Unwilling Intermediary.
Zenaide Andreu, a woman writer
for the same paper, described as
an apparently unwilling" inter-
mediary for the messages.
DR.. Oswoldo Rifel Franco, who
also allegedly delivered messages.
Camille Mendes Pimental, a
lawyer, accused of receiving 10000
Argentine pesos (about $4,000 and
s35, 900 of United States money
from Engels for espionage. plus
100000 cruzeiros ($20,0OO for or
ganizing Brazilian company
headed by Engels.
The report said Nascimento ad-
mitted directing an information
service for the German Embassy
on the movement of ships and send
ing agents to Northern Brazil to
get facts on military bases used by
the United States.
Nascimento, the report said. ad-
mitted he daily saw Pruefer from
his house in Santa Tereza going in
small touring plane toward the
high seas in observation of conveys" !"