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Evening star., 1943-08-15

Bernatitus is confident it was at
this hospital. Even what seemed
like hopelessly unfit battle uniforms
were thrown into a great box, ster-
ilized, repaired and used again.
Nothing was wasted because no sup
plies were coming through, and the
outfit was absolutely on its own.
On January 25 because of the re-
treating front lines, Nurse Berna-
titus was among those moved with
the wounded to an even more make
shift hospital, set up in bamboo
jungle.
Here the patients were taken care
of in triple decker beds made out
of bamboo poles. Dried grass and
threshed rice chaff called "polei"
were used to stuff the mattresses.
Heat Was Terrific.
Fortunately 1t was the dry season,
but the heat and humidity were ter
rife. Flies, mosquitoes and other
insects were a constantly increasing
menace. Even at the very begin
ming there wasn't enough quinine to
combat the malaria. Presently there
was scarcely any at all.
Food by this time was becoming
more and more scarce. Sometimes
there was a bit of water-caribou
cooked with few vegetables. From
January 26 to March % they had
butter, eggs and potatoes only twice
The usual ration served twice day
consisted of two squares of grayish
bread, treasured and eaten to the
last crumb, timed salmon and
boiled, unpublished rice. This rice
took on the consistency of glue when
cooked, because it was unpublished.
The jungle hospital was bombed
by the Japanese on March %, de-
spite the red cross on its roof. The
bamboo polls of the beds were shat
tered into kindling wood, the roof
blown off into the trees and 30 pa
tients killed. Nurses and doctors did
all they could to cut the ropes hold
ing up the fractured legs of pa
tents so they might make desper-
dIe el1OTG 10 TOll away 10 possible
his pitiful company again. Brave
safety
Three days later the Japs bombed
Chaplain Cummings, U. S. A., who
was wounded himself, stood up
amongst them reciting the words of
the Lords Prayer over and over
again as the merciless rain of bombs
fell.
Soldiers Morale High.
This calm, poised Navy nurse says
of this dreadful time: Our never
ending wonder was at what the hu-
man body could endure and still
continue to live on with its spirit un-
broken in morale. All those soldiers
ever really asked was a chance to
Evening star., 1943-08-15
Soldiers Morale High.

This calm, poised Navy nurse says
of this dreadful time: Our never
ending wonder was at what the hu-
man body could endure and still
continue to live on with its spirit un-
broken in morale. All those soldiers
ever really asked was a chance to
Evening star., 1943-08-15
Ben Hur News

Members of the Bowling League
Committee will be guests of the
Executive Board Tuesday evening
in Pythian Temple. Entertainment.
Representative Melvin D. Newland
will speak.
In Pythian Temple Potomac Court
will meet Monday and United Court
on Friday.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
SPEAKING OF RACKETEERS

WE HAVE FOR months been reading in our
W daily papers horrferous stories about labor
racketeering. Seems some union officials have
been gouging, and Congressman, columnsts, and
editors demand end to it. No sincere labor
union official will take issue with such a COM
mendabe aim. If any labor official is dishonest he
should be jailed
One remedy proposed is to make all labor
unions publish their financial statements and re-
port to the government periodically. A law TO
accomplish this and much more is being con-
sdered. This bill is so vicious and so farreaching
it must be killed
But, oh, yes; we were speaking Of racketeer-
ing. You didn't see much, if anything, in your
favorite daily about it, but recently the House
adopted an amendment to the independent offices
bill which Will compel the Home Owners Loan
Corporation to liquidate its affairs and go out OF
business.
This quiet little amendment will effect $3.50,
600 900 treasury grab for securities corporations,
of course at the same time causing several hum
dred thousand little home owners to lose their
properties
The IIOLC was created early in the Roosevelt
administration to save big lending agencies which
were loaded with defauting mortgages. Had the
government at that time not gone to their rescue
they would have gone to the wall. At the same
time the government saved the homes OF about
a million small owners.
Now however, business has improved, real
estate values are ON the upgrade, and the cor
ton 10 years ago now want to regain the gilt
edged securities and mortgages Uncle Sam took
over. They do not however, want the Shaky ones
and that is why if this steal goes through the
little fellow will be holding the bag and their
defauted mortgages.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
PRISONERS OF NAXlS TREATED
BETTER AS VICTORY FADES

New York City ULNS) - Reports
from Norway confirm slightly i'm
proved treatment of military and civil
prisoners in German hands, the Amer
lean Office of the International Trans
port Workers Federation says There
iS general comment that this change is
due 10 the military reverSeS suffered
by Germany and the growing realiza-
tion that German victory can no
longer be expected.
Coincident with the sudden improve
mcnt of the German attitude toward
their victims is the squirt of activities
of the underground and opposition ele-
ments i'll the German-occupied coun-
tries. Sabotage and violent action are
on the upgrade. About 12O Gestapo
officials and NaZi elite guards are said
to have been killed during January
alone in the Netherlands "by unknown
hands, In Belgium, urgent German
acquisitions for Belgian rolling stock
have led to attacks on railway repair
shops and intensive destruction, again
''by unknown elements"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
USES Is TnROTTLED

OUR WAR EFFORT has two main divisions -
" manpower and production. We Select those
best qualified for military service and leave war
production and maintenance Of national life to the
rest From now on every individual must con-
tribute to winning the fight for free institutions.
Efficient handling Of manpoWer problems will
be conditioned by cooperation Of voluntary or
ganizationS of management and labor that in
tuence local action and the effectiveness Of the
governmental employment agency, the United
States Employment Service.
Both labor and management have assumed
their responsibility, but the Employment Service,
although federaZcd and transferred to the Man
power Commission, is throttled by lack Of funds
and by restrictions on personnel standards and
salaries that tie them to local contacts and portend
continued limitations on the development of the
Service.
Congress has already made generous provi-
sionS for the armed forces and their equipment
for battle Quickly and with equal ampcncSS Con-
press should give the manpOWcr recruitment and
placement services the means for performance of
their vital functions.
We have a large population, scattered over a
vast territory, almost all of whom are engaged IN
some kind Of useful work. Practically I'LL our male
population will be in the work force as soon as
the military call to service reviews those Is and
10 years Of age. Fifteen million women are in the
work force and more must come.
TO accomplish this program, conserving the
national welfare as well as meeting its urgent
Immediate needs, the United States Employment.
Service must have funds and control over its
personnel Immediate responsibility rest upon
Congress for funds and cutting the restrictions
that prohibit action above the local level.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
FAKE LETTERS AGAINST LABOR

SENATOR MlLlARD f. TYDlNGS, of Mary
- land was caught out on limb when he quoted
a letter supposed to be from Marine on Guadal-
canal complaining that AZ Of our men had been
trapped and killed near Coma because American
Workmen had been laying down on the job and
there were not enough planes on Guadalcanal to
drive off the Japs
Tydings got his speech off his chest and
amused his colleagues, some of whom knew that
Coma is not on Guadacanal and some even knew
the letter was hoax written by a man in Hemp
stead, l.. l., who never saw either Coma OF Guadal-
canal
1t was like that famous Akron story of long
ShOremen refusing to unload ships in the war
zone on Sunday; made splendid propaganda
against labor and like all lies was hard to catch
Anti-labOr congressman and employers have
used so much of such unreliable material in their
attempt to smash labor that it has backfired on
them Their campaign of hate has made people
think, and when the people of this country com
mence thinking it's just too bad for the char
atanS; the faker shows himself up when he over
reaches himself.
Labor in this country, and mostly it is organ
lied labor, has done a good job of producing wa,
in fact, it has done better Job than
rs being done in any other country. 1t is not the
fault of labor that we have transportation bottle
ncckS, material botteneckS, and are now contenl-
plating with no small concern The threatened food
shortage. Labor has done its job, is doing it every
day, and needs no apology and deserves consider
ably less criticism.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01

Organized Ibor March 2&
than % Union representatives all Of the
\ Cleveland wa
Phil Hannah O the SiatcF
Assembly,
T. in nolwa
Speakers the luncheon included o
William lay of the Transportation roerloS
Ohio Building Construction Trades
Ohio CIo Council; David Williams
and Paul Mccarthy, president the Columbus
Capt Eddie Rick,"cr former flyer but airlne
address
He will
his
ho iatUman SnElt Gle
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
CALIFORNIA COURT DEFENDS
FREEDOM OF SPEECH

San Francisco QLNS). - Anita
Whitney, Communist candidate for
city office at Sacramento in the 1912
elections, jailed for making a speech
last October in the city hall plaza
without a permit, has been freed on
Il writ of habeaS corpus and the Ordin-
ance under which she was held de
clared unconstitutional in decision
by the California Circuit Court OF
Appeals.
A unanimous decision which was
written by Judge Thompson said that
freedom of speech is one of those
rights which is vital To true main
tenance of democratic form of gov
ernment and an ordinance which pro-
hibits the right of public speech upon
public grounds except by special per-
NIT simply because of the stated rea-
sons that citizens have been annoyed
is therefore insufficient and unconsti-
tutional."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON

1OU nave Deen wondering why Tres.
u Capt Eddie Rickenbacker broke out so sudden
Ily with patriotism; why he filled speaking engage
|ments all over the nation; why he seized upon the
Isubect of "absenteeism'; and why he gets so
Imuch space in the daily papers
Well, there is more than one way to advertise
la motion picture. If the plot is good the play is
advertised. If the script has little merit, it needs
Ia Well-knoWn actor. If it has neither the film
needs d notorious character. And the suckers line
lup for tickets.
In the theatrical magazine variety" of March
IS, we find a three-line paragraph which says:
winnie Sheehan in from coast for huddes on
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker screen vehicle"
Ye gods! Can this be the reason for all the
|hullabaoo about Eddie's nationwide condemna-
ton Of absenteeism, for his demand that the
IAarneS in the foXhoes be brought back to pro-
ducc war materials Is this the ace in the hole
Of our World Ware ace?
Is it possible that Eddie wants them Marines
to come back home and buy tickets for his screen
Ivehicle?' Is it all merely build-up for movie?
Well time will tell, but if Variety is correct
| our Illusions are sure shattered
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
STREET RAILWAY WORKERS
GAIN BIG WAGE INCREASE

The Regional War Labor Board nj
Cleveland, Ohio, has approved an arbi-
tration award granting an increase of
II cents per hour to the approximate
Iy LOO employees of the Concinnati
Street Railway Company who are
represented by Division G27 of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Employees of America.
The award increased the hourly
rate of the One-man car, trolley, bus
and motor coach operators from 81
cents to % cents, and the rate of the
comparatively small number of two
man car notormen and conductors
from II cents to 50 cents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Slave labor is feature of both
NaZi and Japanese rule. Light on the
Japanese use of such labor is given
by the Incentive Division of the Navy
Department, in a delayed dispatch
from Gua'dalcanal which should stiff
fen labor's determination in the United
Nations to destroy the Nazi and Japa-
nese regimes.
The dispatch reports that Chinese
coolies found in Guadalcanal by Amer
lean troops declared they were among
100 brought to the island by japanese
soldiers to work in forced labor gangs.
They were threatened with wholesale
executions if they refused to work,
they said.
In the past four months, many sue
cumbed to hunger and disease. In the
four months they worked in Guadal-
canal as pack animals for their Japa-
nese Overlords, the coolies said they
had to forage for their own food. Their
wages were kicks and cuttings.
Too closely watched to attempt es-
cape before, these coolies managed to
stay behind as the Americans advanced
and the Japs moved back. The coolies
told their story to Chinese interpreters.
X X x
This was the story: Captured after
the japanese seizure of Canton and
Hong King, they were told they could
work for the japanese or be beheaded.
Pressed into labor gangs, they worked
first in Southwest China, then in the
Netherlands East Indies, and finally
in Guadalcanal. In Guadalcanal they
carried supplies and material on their
backs through malarial jungles and
over steep ridges.
They were told they would be paid
and fed three times daily. Neither
promise materialiZed. They lived on
coconuts, berries and roots. They re-
ceived no medical treatment. Some of
the captives were bold enough to tell
the Japs that the Chinese people were
Allies of the British and Americans.
For this they were kicked and beaten
and told they must look upon the Japa-
neSe as their big brothers"
When asked how they felt now that
they were in American hands, grins
frightened their wan faces. One OF
them said: 1--WE are happy now. We
won't have to worry anymore about
being beheaded. We are with friends. y
X X X
The Nazi practice of shipping large
numbers of NorWegians to Germany is
intended to serve as insurance" for
Germans stranded in Norway in event
of an Allied invasion, figures the
Swedish newspaper, Social Demo
!lraten, in an interpretive Dispatch
which implies that fear of invasion
has made the Nazis very jittery.
The dispatch said Norwegian circles
had emphasized that most of the Nor
WegianS thus far removed to Germany
were highly prominent perSOnageS foI
whose release the NaZiS might well
demand the German officials left be
mind lin event the Wehrmacht is
forced to leave Norway"
The knowledge that the Allies will
punish war criminals may have con
tributed to the Germans taking host.
ages for a possible later exchange
the dispatch said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
EIlRLIGU-AlTER ECECGTiON
DRAWS PROTEST OF LABOR

New York Nity--Decaring that ZAP
precatiOn Of The valiant struggle Of
the Russian armed forces To drive the
Hitler hordcS from the Russian home
land will not lead us TO Condone acts
Iof physical and moral assassination
committed hy lhe Communist dictatorS
Iof Russia AGAINST theological oppO-
ncntS,' committee of 30 leading
trade union leaders of New York
headed by David pubinSIly, president
of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers luion, announced that a
public mCCliu- To protest the execution
by the Soviet authorities last Dc"cm-
ber of !lenryll Ehllich and Victor
Alter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
w H A T N EX r?

TO increase passenger loads,
type OF elongated passenger sedan
has been developed by cutting an
ordinary sedan in the middle and
inserting a wooden chassis frame and
mas0nite panels. The vehicle seats
l5 persons and takes only IA small
amount of additional critical mate
rialS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
w I S D O M

There should be no compromise
with child labor; it is a crime
against the race, a drag on the prog
ress of the American democracy and
an evil that should not be permitted
to exist.-James Michael Curley.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
UNION MEN PRAISED BY
BOARD DIRECTOR

New York City.-"The 10000 mer-
chant Scamen, members of AFL and
ClO unions alike, have delivered the
goods despite the most arduOuS and
dangerous conditions" Wendell Lumd
director of the War Production Board
Labor Production Division, said re,
Gently. "taSualties in the merchant
marine in the past year." he added
have been severe. The actual percent.
age is the highest of any branch OF
our armed services. These are civilians
- workers -- union members whose
heroiSm in line of duty typifies the
determination of all Americans t0
smash the Axis
Give 'em the gunS-put 10 per cent
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
THE
CHERRY TREE

Where With Our Little Hatchef
We Tell the Truth About Many
Things, Sometimes Profoundly.
Sometimes Flippantly and
Sometimes Reckiessly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
FACING THE FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

The other neghborood
market
Jan
people apparently
the
suddenly that the quoted for founder
IA
Next door the vegetable Here the prices prominently dis
pound
Well thought these ptive vegetables
a
normally %
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01

EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
SUTTERIIN JAMES TURNER
L. WHEATLEY. E. YOUNG EDWARD SEYFIERT
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01

Give 'em the gunS-put 10 per cent
of pay in War Bonds.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
THE CALL OF JUSTICE


a haves fun
what?
OF
n
hand
Otherwise
willing
speed the day of victory They are ready to tighten their belts They welcome
available Teyar cheuy paying higher than before their
off nd find
are III on o is
We don't responsible
is only yNC
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01
FACTS VS.. STATISTICS


one these days WITH empty market baskets How many families with lowe
because they just haven't got the money to buy food at inflated prices? What
of the things their rec What
the the production effort?
in
Il o
he living such
that perhaps the public
Instead official statistics the living they ought
themselves the housewives
la workers
And thinking
o
onealf Il
the
than
weekly
only
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01

Ask for Union Labeled merchandise
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-01

WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
JOHN McGILIVRAY. LOUIS PIESLOCK f. HAYNES
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-05
COUNTY RECEIPTS
CLIMB IN AUGUST
Disbursements Are Below
Those OF Corresponding
Month Last Year

New Hanover county receipts for
August this year were slightly
larger and disbursements were less
than the corresponding month last
year, according to the monthly fl
nancial report of J. A. Orrell,
county auditor
Included in the receipts this
year was an amount totalling $19.-
147.42 for Intangible taxes collect
ed by the state and transmitted to
the county after commissions for
the collections had been deducted,
Mr.. Orrell stated, making the re-
ceipts somewhat higher this year.
Last year the intangible tax col
lections amounted to only SILL
944.75, he said.
Disbursements afounting to a
lower figure in August, 1913, are
accounted for in that the county
board of education was in the
midst of its building program in
August, 1912, Mr.. Orrell said,
pointing out that the school build
ing disbursements last August
were $9S,996.59, while this August
the figure decreased to $21, 405.34.
The financial report for the past
month follows: Balance from July,
1872, 1878; receipts during August
$76,171.30, making a total of $44S,-
644.23, less disbursements. amount
ing to $S4,23334, leaving a balance
of $364,410.S9.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-05
Legion Of Merit Given
To Quartermaster Deal

CHARLESTON, S. c., Sept. A.
RLThe Legion of Merit has been
awarded by the President to John
A. Deal, chief quartermaster,
USN, of Lenoir, N. c., for "excep-
tionally meritirious conduct
aboard a U. S. warship during
the occupation of French Morocco
last November.
Chief Deal is credited with show
ing Extraordinary initiative and
outstanding skill in handling many
vitality important bridge details
normally carried out by officers
thus allowing his commanding Of
ficer to devote his time to select
ing hostile targets and directing
fire.
A native of Lenoir, Chief Deal
first enlisted in the Navy in Jan
uary, 1881. Hin wife, Mrs. Ruby
Tolbert Deal, now resides at Route
No. 2. Lenoir.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-05
TOBACCO CEILING
BOOST REJECTED
Demands OF Growers In
Three States Are Turned
Down By OPA

WASHINGTON, Sept. <.1Pl-
The Office of Price administration
today rejected a demand by grow
ers of three states for an increase
in the maximum price of the 1913
crop of tied and graded flue-cured
tobacco.
The OPA said that ter a thor
ough study of a request made Au-
gust 25 by delegations from Vir-
ginia, North Carolina and South
Carolina, it was decided mo in
creases could be granted from the
present weighted average price of
Al cents a pound"
The growers had urged a boost
of at least four cents a pound, con-
tending that production costs had
increased tremendously since last
year.
The growers also had charged
that an OPA order specifying a
| uHlel SIllldl III pI1Cc DelWeeI lllelI
tied tobacco and the Georgia I'M
tied crop hid been issued so late
the Georgians had received Al
cents for most of their output, in
stead of the specified figure of SO
cents.
In today's decision the OPA said
the Al cent price was the highest
to growers in many years and
more than meets the requirements
stated by congress in the price con-
troll act as to growers"
The congressional requirement,
asserted the OPA, is that the max
imum price must reflect to the
farmer the higher of either: %
parity. or (2) the highest priced
received by the farmer during the
period January 1 to September IS,
| 1912.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-05
Captain Dye Assumes
New Duties At E. NJ. |.

SALEMBERG, Sept. 4-Captain
Daniel H. Dye, Army Air Forces
officer, has assumed his duties
as the new headmaster of Edwards
Military Institute here, officials
of the school announced today.
Classification of students for the
new school year will begin on
September 7.
Captain Dye, a veteran of Is
years Army service is native
of New York state. A graduate
of St. Johns Military academy,
he is Master Mason, a Sojour-
ner and an Elk.
He will be assisted by Master
Sgt. William E. Daley, who be-
gan his duties here at the opening
of the summer term. He has seen
service in the United States, Pana-
ma and Guatemala. Last year he
was associated with Randolph
Macon at Front Royal, Va.