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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03
LIQUOR SHORTAGE
SPURS HIJACKING

Chicago. Increasing scarcity of
whiskey is bringing an upsurge of
lawlessness to the midwest. In this
city alone, 2800 cases of whiskey
valued at S138,000 have been hijacked
or stolen from warehouses in the last
four months, according to Chicago
police reports. In the same period last
year, theft of 149 cases worth $4,000
was reported.
Latest big haul for hijackers was a
trailer loaded with 500 cases of whis-
key valued at $4,000. The trailer was
parked at a transportation company
terminal, without tractor. Thieves
hooked their own tractor on the val
liable wet goods and rolled away
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03
AFL EXPOSES
TAX BILL JOKER

Washington, D. C.-The American
Federation of Labor exposed an anti
union joker in the new tax bill now
being considered by the House of Rep
resentatives.
AFL President Green protested en-
phatically to House Majority Leader
Mccormack against provision in the
bill which would require labor organi-
cations to file with the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue an annual return, spe-
cifying all items Of income, receipts
and expenditures.
Since labor organizations are ex-
empt under existing law and also un-
der the proposed amendments from to
force trade unions to throw open their
confidential data to fishing expaying
income taxes, the only possible pur-
pose of the new provision would be
peditions by anti-labor Congressman.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee's report on this section of the
Dlll us pun pOSc
was to discover to what extent tax
exempt organizations, like trade
unions, engage in real estate and
other business activities in competi-
tion with corporations required to pay
taxes on income derived from like op-
erations.
''These reasons are absurd as ap-
applied to labor organizations" Mr..
Green declared in letter to Repre-
sentative Mccormack.
Since the House is considering the
tax bill under gag" rule which for
bids amendments from the floor, there
is little hope of defeating this anti
labor provision until the measure
comes before the Senate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03
LABOR SHORTS

Our first minister from Ethiopia ar
rives in Washington and is met by a
lieutenant and a jeep.
Count Marigny may come to
the u. S. The Bahamas declined
to hang him.
Senator Bilbo threatens to talk the
antipolltax bill to death. Under Senate
rules he can prevent it coming to a
vote, even in democracy.
Comptroller General Warren says
some contracts negotiated by army
officers for war material are Simply
rotten" And they are supposed to be
experts.
Vice President Wallace says
the railroads are trying to get
control of all forms of transpOr-
tation. To protect profits, of
course.
Federal officials refuse to say
whether they are considering impor-
tation of a million Italians to liqui.
date the labor shortage. The railroads
solved their labor problem that way
40 years ago.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03
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BUY and USE Christmas Seals

The sale of 1943 Christmas health
seals begins November %, Charles G
Greig, executive secretary of the
Butler County tuberculosis and
Health Association, announced Mon
day.
The seal this year pictured above
is brilliant harmony of red and blue
color.
Mrs. Vernon Roden is general
chairman of the Hamilton sale; Tru-
man Davis is in charge of the rural
areas, and Mrs. w. H. Spindler is in
charge at Middletown.
The personal solicitation commit
tee is headed by Mrs. David Frecht-
ling and includes Mrs. Frank Suma
and Mrs. Leeds Bronson.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03
HANDICAPPED WORKERS
GET MORE JOBS NOW

Washington, D. C.-Placements of
handicapped persons by the United
States Employment Service for the
first nine months of 1943 increased
1895 per cent over the same period
for 1912, the War Manpower Commits
sion announced.
The total number of handicapped
persons who have found employment
this year through the United States
Employment Service is 1882 as
compared with 60,932 for the same
period in 1912
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03
Carpenters Union Head
Has Six Sons In Service

Danville, Ill. George w. Davis,
secretary of Carpenters and Joiners
Local No. 269, is proud of his contri-
button to the nations war effort, and
he has reason to be. He has six sons
in the armed forces, four in the Navy
and two in the Army.
Richard, 80, recently entered the
naval service. Joseph has been in the
Navy for over year and is serving
somewhere in the South Pacific. Earl
and James also are in the Navy while
Lloyd and Robert are in the Army
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03

Mahogany Defends Our Shores

New York City.-More and more
mahogany is being imported from
Honduras and other countries of Mid
die America, but less and less of it is
going into fine furniture. For, as part
of the sacrifice that all-out war de-
mands, Americans are doing without
the much-prized wood so that the
U. S. Navy may use it for building
light, speedy submarine -chasers, says
the Middle American Information
Bureau.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03
Arthritis "Recipe" Requested

Washington, D. c. - The War La
Dor Board, which ordinarily deals with
industrial ills, was a bit puzzled re-
Gently by letter from a woman in
Chicago, who wrote: Gentlemen:
Have been informed your department
has recipe for arthritis using lem
ons. If this is true will you kindly
send this information 2"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03

Even though you are home and safe
in bed, you feel wicked if you listen by
radio to some of the orchestras and
vocalists at one a.m.-what they play
and how they sing, whew!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03
Firemen's School for Boys

Lenior, N. ca training school for
"rookie" squad, composed mostly of
high school boys, is being conducted
by the Lenoir fire department to de-
velop reserves from which the de-
partment can draw requirements.
Membership in the department is so
low that it is necessary to train
younger men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03

Smoke out anti-labor propaganda
overseas by sending our fighters
Union Label smokes!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03

Ladies first, particularly at meal
time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-03

For years, the Nazi conquerers of
Holland have tried by every means to
drive the total of some 100000 organ
lied workers into the controlled
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10

future from the study Of the
lines on the hand because these
lines are no more than creases
produced by the muscles of the
hand in action.
"SO-calIed Hines Of the heart
Is the fiexure of the four fingers
and the line Of life the result
of the action of the thumb"
LBERT SCHNEIDER, once
IA champion shorthand reporter
of the world, is now taking
down speeches for the Congress
sional Record.
In 1921, when Schneider won
the championship, he achieved a
speed of 282 words a minute.
OF Bing Crosby's golf it is
said:
"He shoots regularly In the
low seventies"
That's very good but not as
much of an achievement as it
used to be.
The present day golf ball Is
livelier and harder TO slice than
that of IS years ago.
Clubs used nowadays are so
made as to be very helpful TO
a golfer in extracting himself
from difficulties. in addition,
many of the golf courses have
been altered and made easier
to play.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10

Some love Is light and fleets
diCGy,
Heigho! the wud and rain;
Some lop6 is deep and scorns
decay;
Al! iGell-0-day! in vain.
-Motherwell.
HWIHICH can travel faster, a
w goose or a turkey?" 1
suddenly asked Glenn Mccarthy.
"A turkey" said Glenn.
Said j:
"YOu lose, In the eighteenth
century Lord oxford and the
Marques Of Queensberry held
a race between n goose and a
turkey and the goose won
easily"
Mccarthy said:
IL won't pay Off on the result
OF that race.
"I'll get q turkey and you
get n goose and we will race
them ourselves.
I accepted the challenge and
am now looking for a good fast
travelling goose.
1 want one that can go a
route.
Mr.. Mccarthy insists on A.
mile race.
He says he is going to have a
Vermont turkey as his entry.
A YOUNG lady OF Manhattan
"A says she has been told there
are 81 different kinds of kisses.
She says she knows Of only 46
kinds of kisses and asks that
our Horses and Womens De-
partment list the 81 types of
OSCILLATION.
This information Is not in our
files.
All we have is what Margaret
Barron once stated:
There are kisses that flatter,
kisses that soothe, kisses that
thrill, kisses that amuse, kisses
that pay homage and plain duty
smacks."
A FOUNTAIN lunch attendant
"A says the 'screwist break
fast" he knows of that is of a
man who comes to his place
every morning and orders a
salami sandwich and caramel
nut sundae.
AS for palmistry. an eminent
astrologist says there is nothing
TO it.
States he:
"Palmists cannot foretell the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10

THE Story Tellers: Bennett
K Cert has compiled a crowd
of war chuckles for The Pocket
Book OF War Humor."
The American money-bags
who cuddled up 10 Nazi dollar
signs are given an airing in G.
Remnants Patents for Hitler"
(VanguardD.
The effect OF the glob |
struggle on small-town America
has been embroidered into a
superb tale by MacKinley Kan
tor in Happy Land" Coward
McCann).
Roland Young has X-rsyed
the legislative branch in This
Is Congress" (KnopD.
He makes a very dull subject
interesting.
Jefferson Himself" is an en-
crossing biography by B. Mayo
(Houghton-Miftiin).
Sabotage" which sold over
$4,000 copies in two weeks. has
been added 10 the Catholic
Recommended list
Sgt. J. Cannon's The Sgt.
Says Is literary lace every
uniformed man should enjoy
and then--when he is finished
with it-send 10 his kin TO make
them merrier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
RHffIes ON the WaffIes
Paris Waiter Puts
Carte Before Hoss
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

When the waiter at NJ. Duvas in Paris brought you the
menu he was putting the carte before the boss
For M. Duval specialized in all kinds of thoroughbreds
winners and losers.
George Rector and myself entertained Burton Holmes and
Berry Wall there with Rector picking the check That put
the entertainment committee too
Holmes ordered white stripes of zebra casserole Berry
Wall had Mongolian from the Baluchistan hills
Monaghan onager live in the hills height of 1000
feet and roam in herds of two or fewer.
So did Berry Wall. He is the famous dude who wore
patent leather hip boots in the blizzard of 1885, He is the
only epcure the world who ordered wafAes
His lifelong friend any stranger who would buy him
a drink.
His life story the short and poor annals of the simple
He was born a bum and had a relapse.
might say that Berry ordered onager chops with parsley
He gutton. He just pecked at his food Then he
ordered another peck.
Well want say that may may have not eaten real
hossburgers.
Rector claims did, but still demand recount
BY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Call Copy Girl
Miss Boy

QUOTATION craftsmanship:
0 Marjorie Holmes: All night
the leaves had run around the
house on crisp little shoes, like
children playing.
Mary Wilfred; Rain tipping on
the roof.
Watchword: There's an off
season for nearly all flowers
except blooming idiots.
r. L. Stevenson: He always
looked at people with an opinion
in his stare.
Mark Twain: Her gowns
Rugged her body as though they
were in love with her.
r. j. Bernard: New York has
a dim-out, and now IL really
looks more like a city and less
like a circus.
Sally Rand: I like the older
men. They always give you what
the younger ones promise.
Leon Henderson: Oh, Lord.
help me TO keep my big mouth
shut until / know what l am
talking about.
Nashville Tennesseain: Roose-
welt, Churchill. DeGaulle and
Giraud shook hands. Hitler,
Benito and TOTO just shook.
THE Maris Transportation
l. System. Inc, will announce a
new method of transportation,
in which a convoy of crewless
concrete ships will be operated
by remote control radio.
One-manned master ship will
direct.
At the very moment dizzy
congressman was publicly
charging the President with
bringing his sons back home
from the fronts, they were with
him in Africa.
The same clunk does a poor
imitation of Will Rogers for his
home town sheet. which he first
inserts into the Cong. Record.
And what a swiper!
Led off the other day with
Frank Sullivan'S swell line
about Herb Hoover's two cars
in every garage" finally coming
true via rationing.
The Ilmors that Patricia
Wilder is stranded in South
America are bunk.
She's never been richer or
happier-down in Buenos Aires.
Copyright oy Daily Mirror, Inc,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
The Brighter Side

0CUADALCANAL DIARY"
VI which is being featured in
The Detroit Times, should be
read by every American who
wants TO get a better under
standing of our problems in the
war in the South Pacific.
This is the book written by
Richard Tregaskis, the tall,
stringy young war correspond
ent for international News
Service, which / mentioned some
days ago after l read it the
first time.
Now have gone through it
again more leisurely and am
confirmed in my opinion that it
is the great work of the war to
date.
Tregaskis, as I have told you,
wrote most of his diary" prac-
tcally under fire.
He begins it on Sunday, July
20, 1912, on board a transport
bound for a destination then un-
known even to the commanding
officer.
1 Judge from what the young
man says that some of the trans
ports are slightly better than
the floating sardine boxes in
which the United States dis
patched its first great expedition
into the Pacific over 40 years
ago, but others are just as bad.
TT is interesting and reminis-
Il cent to read that the boys
again are stashed away in four
decker hunks of iron piping. that
they get "slum-gullion, " or stew.
and that they pack the forward
deck throughout the long days
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Tregaskis Book
Called Great

others-the boys still squawk
about the grub.
S3T'HE stencil of bodies strewn
l. along Hell Point and
across the Tenaru Split was
strong"
Il quote from the diary to
give you an idea Of Tregaskis'
writing power.)
MANY of them lay at the
waters edge and already were
pulled and glossy, like shiny
sausages.
"Some Of the bodies had been
partially buried by wave
washed sand; you might see .
grotesque, blOated head or
twisted torso sprouting from
the beach.
(These were Japanese dead.)
cit was not pleasant TO look
at the piles Of bodies on the
spit.
"But that carnage was q pale
painting compared to the scene
In the grove across the spit.
THAT was a macabre night
mare.
1--WE saw groups of Japs torn
apart by our artillery FIRE; their
remains fried by the blast Of
shells.
The. tread tracks of ono Of
our tanks ran directly over i've
squashed bodies In the center Of
which was n broken machine
gun on a fiattened bipod."
"Guadalcanal Diary" is a big
war book.
Copyright, 1913. by King Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
by u. Ii. McEvOy:
WOmen's Clothes

years that didn't look like some
thing out of Ed Wynn's attic.
Sometimes you will surprise a
woman into admitting that her
hat is little bit silly, but then
Immediately she rushes to its de-
Tense as though you had criti-
cized half-witted relative.
Nothing makes me feel 80
good as 10 buy a new hat" she
will say, which reminds you of
the old story Of the man who
liked 10 hit himself on the head
with a hammer because il felt
so good when he stopped.
WHY do I say women dress for
w other women?
b cause woman would
rather be stylish than seductive.
Women arc impressed by chic,
and an appearance Of chic is
usually achieved by severely re-
pressing certain Ian I'm arks
about which men through the
ages have grown rather foolish.
Silly OF US, 10 be sure, but
fun no end.
for one prefer a shape to a
silhouette. and there are millions
of us men ready to march on
Washington tomorrow!
Why do women 60 shopping
like so many keptomaniacS, who
have TO grab the first thing and
run with II so as not 10 be
caught?
They grab a hat and rush
home with IL, only 10 find IL
doesn't 60 with anything they
have.
NEXT day they scurry out and
~ grab a pair of shoes that
declare war on the hat.
Then they bring home a bag
which starts a guerrilla cam
paign with both the shoes and
the hat.
Hoping for an armistice, they
bring home a dress, and then
the war becomes general, with
intensive fighting on every front.
And who suffer most?
AS usual the innocent by
standers-the patient, long
suffering men.
What to do!
Darned if / know.
(Officer, will you please escort
me homeD
Distributed by McNsught Syndicate, Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Better Health
BY DIR. Logan CIendening

WE CAN hardly in this coun-
w try even dimly realize the
mental and emotional beating
that the people who live in Eng
land and continental Europe and
the men of the armed forces
are taking in various war ac-
tivities.
We had a term in the last
war for condition called shell
shock" which applied to~soldiers
who had been under fire and
heavy artillery barrage and who,
while they were not wounded
in any way, had a mental and
emotional upset which was diff
cult to treat.
This has been extended into
the present conflict: thousands
more Of such cases are found
and the whole civilian popula-
ton is liable 10 exposure to
these conditions.
THE English no longer use the
Il term shell shock" but try
TO resolve the condition into a
more accurate and descriptive
name.
They do use the term post
confessional syndrome.
A case in point is that OF a
private in the English army, %
years old, who survived several
bombings without any symp-
toms.
He was lying in an outpost
when shell dropped within
several yards of him and ex-
ploded.
He remained in a coma for
three hours and when he re-
covered consciousness, he was
walking in a wood, crying like
a baby and shaking all over.
LIE HAD no injury, but con-
H tinued 10 suffer from head
aches, loss of memory and he
AANilADith vi Iitdl hlB oil OIL VI al L
and kept thinking OF a friend
of his who had been killed
earlier in the war.
The methods of psychiatry
have improved very markedly in
the period of time between the
end OF the last war and the
present one and these cases
have been treated with con-
siderable success by these new
pSychiatric methods.
II is well 10 remember this
because a great many cases are
started, not by exposure TO
severe bombings or shellings,
but by talking 10 people who,
when they hear that the indi-
vidual is nervous about shells,
tell Of case of a person who
had the shakes" and loss of
memory and who never got
over IT,"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10

CPORTSCRIBE says new
- methods of treatment" may
make il unnecessary to shoot
race horses who have broken
their legs.
There has been such method
known for eight years.
In 1884 Or. Peter Wehner of
Cincinnati treated a thorough
bred named Prince Pine, who
had broken his leg at the River
Downs track.
Doctor Wehner made the
horse a cast of dental stone
and by this method restored 10
Prince Pine the full strength
of his leg.
Reason many horses with bro
ken legs or ankles are shot so
quickly is 10 enable the owner
TO collect the insurance.
QUERIES from clients: O.
0 Can you name six kiss"
songs?
A-That's easy. There are
almost as many kiss songs as
there are moon songs.
IA Kiss in the Dark" p
Last Years Kisses" ST
Wonder Who's Kissing Her
Now" "A Little Love, A
Little Kiss" 5-"Kiss Me
Again" ST Kiss Your Hand,
Madame"
Q--You asked the husbands
among the customers what
toast for this occasion. What
can you suggest?
Allow about this:
I hare knoton many
Liked feiO,
Loved one;
Here's to you'll
WHEN Gypsy Rose Lee APP
w peared in a film in 1893
her contract was not renewed
because the producer said that
while Gypsy was a clever girl
she had no "oomph."
"As a filter who knows from
serving practically every major
film star" writes a Californian.
81 can say Marlene Dietrich n
Hollywood's most difficult GUS
TONER"
"She takes six hours to try
on a dress"
"Fitters shiver with apprehen-
sion when her name Is men,
toned"
Copyright, 1919, by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
BY Damon RunyOn

of travel over the blue waters.
Apparently stream-lining has not
yet extended to troop transpor-
tation.
Tregaskis was with the first Of
the troops that landed from
barges on the seven-mile strip of
land that included the much
coveted airfield built by the Japs.
He lived with our first-line
units and as the fighting went
on all around him, he made the
notes that he afterwards elab-
Grated into his complete diary"
1 have heard it said by news
paper editors that no great COR
respondent has come out of this
war.
A fact they attribute to the
extreme censorship, but I think
they will change their opinion
when they read "Guadalcanal
Diary"
TT is absolutely Photographic
u in its depletion OF the savage
fighting in the jungles. though
what / like most about il is the
detail it goes into about the men
who are doing the fighting.
How they live-and die-and
what they think and talk about.
He mentions the names Of
many of the officers and men
involved in the drama and with
rare Photographic skill always
adds a bit of their background
and tells where they are from.
1t is his Side-lights on the
marines that particularly appeal
to me.
1 observe that in one detail,
at least, this war is like all the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10

WHEN the gendarmes re-
w Gently raided a notorious
womans place they got her
private autograph book, which
the most prominent readily
signed.
One of them being king.
Dinah Shore probably won't
renew her contract with Cantor
when IL expires in the spring.
It calls for 5000 broadcast.
and her services are now rated
at $1,000 per.
II they deny 1t, ask her at
torney. II. Jaffe.
The problem of how 10 sum-
mon copy girl has been solved
by the N. Y. Mirror staff,
which calls her:
miss Boy"
The 16 and 1S-year-old daugh-
tiers OF Lin Yutang have finished
writing novels.
Ivy Elinson wonders il you've
heard about the Jap admiral
who was drowned?
Fell into a Dixie Cup,
Gilda Gray is ecoopin &
rapidly at st. Joseph Hospital.
Houston, Tex. after a major op.
Max Hill. grabbed az Pearl
Harbor by the Japs, is again
working at the AP.
His book, Exchange Ship Is
q thriller.
{. Odets' new play is called
"Errand for Uncle"
THE Front Pages: Walter
Il Lippman reports the German
policy always has been either TO
marry Russia or kill her.
He added that Hitler had
topped at both.
Italian papers carried reports
of an air raid on Malta which
never took place.
The accounts even mentioned
the good results"
Maybe it's better that way,
I on the old theory that things are
always nicer in dreams than in
real life.
A foreign correspondent was
assassinattng a colleagues war
book:
He was In Europe for many
years. He had ample oppOrtu-
nifty to pick up twice as much
misinformation rs he's printed"