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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-13
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Several weeks ago tanker con-
structed by Henry Kaiser broke in two
and sank in it's mOOring dock. Investi-
cation by the Truman committee dis
closed the break was due to defective
plates supplied by the Canegie-Illinois
plant of U. s. Steel.
Government officials have promised
prosecutions will be undertaken, but to
date no suit has been started. The War
Production Board, however, has recon-
mended that government inspectors at
steel plants not be "tOO jealous in de-
tecting flaws, which should help n lot.
Over in Baltimore last week a 20
year-old welder, accused of perform
ing defective work in an effort to in
crease his output and piecework earn
ings, was given an 1S-month Jail sen
for similar sabotage.
Seems to be something screwy here,
when giant trust can supply defec-
tive material for war purposes and get
away with it, and workmen on piece
work go to Jail.
X X X
Recent Manpower Commission rul-
ings which attempt to freeze work
ing men and women on their present
jobs will seriously affect morale, lower
individual effort and arouse resentment
among the industrial workers of the
nation" declares William Green, presi-
dent of the AFL, who knows some
thing about workers.
About the same time the Austin
Wadsworth 'work-or-fght' bill was
before the Senate Military Affairs
Committee, and one of its strongest
supporters was Admiral Emory S.
Land, head of the Maritime Commits
sion.
1t will be remembered that the adj
miral once proposed shooting union
organizers and has said he sees no
difference between sending an Ameri-
can into the armed forces to fight and
sending him into Il factory to increase
profits for the owner.
The McNutt ruling proposes to
freeze workers and wages, in spite of
the fact that nothing has been done
to 'hold the line" on retail prices,
which results in a constantly increas-
ing cost of living for the worker.
AS Eric Peterson, Of the Machinists
Union says, McNutt's edict would bring
the workers of this country close to
the level of slave labor.
X X X
Damon RunyOn, who writes syn
dcated letter for the n. Y. Mirror and
other papers, not only refuses to join
his colleagues in smearing labor, but
in his column last week riddled most
of the false accusations against the
nations workers and charged that war
workers ''are the most abused class in
the United States today"
The shortcomings of a few, he said,
have been magnified until they are
accepted by most newspaper readers
as typical, even though the record
proves our workers have produced to
II point unsurpassed in the history of
the world.
Absenteeism, w III C h Rickenbacker
and others have been paid for CON
demning, Runyon says, has been exag-
gerated far beyond the truth. after
ALL" he says, service men get fur
loughS and even from the fighting
fronts
And high wages? Many men, he says,
would be glad to chuck their jobs and
join the service.
hn t,l 1afi in, 1,,, ,JS, of
the war worker is often not as great
as that which remains to the man in
the service.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-13
WOMEN TRANSPORT WORKERS

Gradually, more women are entering
the transportation industry, declared
otto $. Boyer, ODT director of the
Division of Transport Personnel.
Greatest advancement in the employ
ment of women has been in the truck
ing industry where an estimated 5000
additional women were added between
July and November.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-13

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-13

So long as we can afford to throw
IaWay lWo-inch cigarette butts, were
not inSolvcnt as individuals or as ii
|nation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-13

When ordering lunch, the big eXecll-
tives are just as indecisive as the rest
of us.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Chinese in I.v.
Pay Respects to
Departed Leader
Memorial Service for
Linn Sem Held in E. c.;
Was China President

Chinese of Imperial Val
ley held d memorial service
in Ell Centre last weekend
for the late president of the
Chinese Association, Linn
Sen, who died Aug. l at Chungking,
wartime capitalNof China.
Linn Sen was 76 years of age and
had been president of the associa-
ton for IL years. He was follow
er of the late DR.. Sun Yat-sen and
said to be one of the ablest states
men of China.
Many persons, all wearing arm
bands, attended the services to offer
homage to their great leader The
service began by the reading of
Lin Sens will and closed, accord
ing to traditional propriety, closed
by those present bowling their heads
three times in front of Lin Sens
portrait. The merorial was held at
SIT Broadway.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Election Assured
As Names Counted

G. L. Jerry) Dermody, Imperial
Irrigation district secretary, said
Monday he had checked petitions
calling for a special election on
issuing $6,000,00O worth of power
bonds, returns from which would be
used to purchase power roperties
in this area of the California
Electric Power company, bearing
more than 700 signatures and rep
resenting over $10,000,000 of assessed
valuation in the district.
With still other petitions to be
checked Dermody said indications
were that more than 1000 signatures
would be contained on the petitions.
District officials expressed belief
that between 25 and 80 per cent
of the assessed value of the dis
trict would be contained in the
signatures. Only 20 per cent is re-
quired b. law for an election to be
called. Only about 500 signatures
would have been needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23

postwar policies and, although
there is no official basis for it,
some sources fear that Russia
might make q seperate peace with
Germany.
NO AGREEMENT
There was no agreement on the
significance of the announcement
that Maxim Litvinov, long looked
upon as the symbol of Russian
rapproachment with the western
world, had been replaced with &
young, unknown-Andrei A. Gromy-
ko, formerly an interim charge
d'affairs at the Soviet embassy
here.
Authoritative sources discounted
interpretations that it presaged a
change in policy and leaned to the
Moscow explanation that Premier
Josef Stain recalled both Litvinov
and Ivan Maisky, for IL years am
bassador to Great Britain, to get
the advice of two of his wiSest
dipomtS while planning post war
policies. Both men are vice COM
misSars for foreign affairs.
But the timing of the announce
ment--at the peak of the Roosevelt
Churchill conference at Quebec at
which Russia was not represented
was widely interpreted otherwise.
Some said it was a rebuke for
Anglo-American failure to invade
Europe or that it was Stains re-
taliation for not being invited to
Quebec. 'e.. 49,.
II there is more to the move than
is on the surface, past experience
indicates that the world may not
know more about it until future
events unfold. There was q pos
sibility, however, that the forth
coming declaration of Quebec
might throw some light on it. Its
Continued on page 6, col, ID
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Russ Change in
Policy Is Feared

WASHINGTON, Aug. % CUP)-
Reaction to the change in Soviet
ambassadors to the United States
today revealed again the uneasi-
ness with which this capital views
any possibility of alteration in the
Soviet Unions foreign policy.
Some sources pointed out, how
ever, that the ambassadorial shift
here and in London could have
been dictated by the Soviet's un-
easiness about Anglo American
military and diplomatic policies.
1t was the latest of series OF
Soviet moves this spring and sum-
mer which inspired unofficial specu-
lation that a major change in
Russian foreign policy might be in
the making. There is frank ad-
mission here and in London that
thel English speaking countries are
far from agreement with Russia on
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Govt War Plants
Cost 25 Billion

WASHINGTON, Aug. 90 up
The government has spent approx
mately 25,0OO,0OO,OO0 in building
plants and other facilities fer the
prosecution of the war.
Secretary of Commerce Jesse
Jones said that much of the money
had gone into plants and ship
building and industrial facilities
which can be employed after the
war and which will have to be
employed if we are to keep people
at work and avoid a depression
that might threaten cur whole
economy"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23

the tactical aim Will De 10 1Orce
Japan to divide her strength-ap-
plication of the old military tenet
divide and conquer.
Keystone of the offensive probab-
ly will be an amphibious attack on
Burma.
/. India. Objective-seizure OF
Burma and reopening of the road
to China.
2. Aleutians. Objective-seizure
of japanese bases in the Kuriles
within easy bombing range OF
Japan's industrial quadrangle on
Honshu and Kyushu, most import
ant islands in Japan proper
TO SEIZE RABAUL
3. Southwest Pacific New GUM
ca and Solomons). Objective-de-
struction and probable seizure OF
key japanese bases at Rabaul and
Truk, and penetration of the en-
emy-held Dutch East Indies and
possibly the Philippines.
The Military analysts believe the
offensive will begin in November
soon after the Monsoon season ends
in Burma.
Reason for the emphasis on the
Burmese phase of the campaign is
that the Allied high command is de-
termined to reopen the supply route
to China. Admiral Ernest j. King
commander in chief of the U. S
fleet, regards China as the key to
victory over Japan.
The British are expected to bear
the burden of the Burma cam
paign, but will be supported by
Continued on page 6, col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23

: RuSSias announcement of the oc-
cupation of Kharkov in a triumph
ant climax to the first Soviet sum-
mer offensive followed by a few
hours a Nazi acknowledgment of
the loss of the Ukrainian military
and industrial stronghold.
Moscow saluted the capture of
KharXov with 20 salvoes by 225
guns tonight, the Soviet broadcast
of Stalin's victory announcement
said.
Ten Russian divisions will have
the name "Kharkov" added to their
designations in honor of their con-
quest of Russia's fourth city.
To-day, Aug. %, troops of the
Steppe front with the active CO.
operation of the flank of troops of
the Voronezh and Southwest fronts,
have broken the resistance of the
enemy and taken by storm the town
of Kharkov," Stains order of the
day said
FREED OF YOKE
Thus the second capital of the
Ukraine, our own Kharkov, has
been freed of the Yoke of the Ger
man Fascist ScoundrelS.
In the offensive battles for the
capture of the town of Kharkov, our
troops have shown a high standard
of battle training, Valor and
maneuverability."
In contrast with the Soviet an
nouncement was the language of
the German high command in striv-
ing to minimize the reverse suffer-
dby the Nazis in the Northeast
ern Ukraine.
"Kharkov, which in the course of
the campaign in the east repeatedly
changed hands and which today is
merely ii heap of ruins, was again
evacuated according to plan in the
course of a detaching movement" a
broadcast Berlin communique said.
Even as the capture of Kharkov
was announced, Russian forces far
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Separate Aerial!
Arm Is Urged

WASHINGTCN, Aug. 23.-CUP)-
Sen. Pat McCarran, D., New, author
of bill to create an independent
military air force, today made pub
lie letter to President Roosevelt
urging immediate action ahead of
legislation.
Food may write the peace, but
air power will win the war; Nc
carran wrote from his home in
Reno.
Take action to the limit of the
powers which your legal advisers
tell you possess take such action
as you can, and if you deem it not
enough, ask the congress to take
further action; but take action
now"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
OId-Type Cos Rationins
Coupons Being Exchanged

formerly expired between Sept.
and Oct. Is will be advanced, ration
clerks said.
Persons holding books that eX-
pire after Oct. Is, however, have
been requested to exchange their
old type coupons for the new issue.
Coupons expiring Sept. need not
be exchanged.
Restaurant owners and other in
stitutiCnal users of rationed foods
have been requested to submit to
the board before Sept the num-
ber of persons served and dollar
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Government Control Over
53 Coal Mines Is Ended

WASHINGTON, Aug. % (UP)-
Termination of government control
of the coal mines of SO companies
was announced today by Coal Mines
Administrator Harold L. IckeS.
Among the mines turned back to-
day were some where production
had been interrupted by strikes, as
we'll as some where there had been
no work stoppages. The orders for
the return of the mines whose pro-
duction had been impaired stated
that their federal operating mana
gers submitted to Ickes showing
that productive efficiency prevail
ing prior to May l, when the gov
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23


site of the Villa airdrome, last major
japanese strong hold in the central
Solomons area. Americans already
have captured Vella Lavella island
Northwest of Kolombangara.
If the Tokyo report is true, the
troops probably are Americans from
the forces that conquered Munda,
Is airline miles to the South on New
Georgia.
SAID REPULSED
Tokyo broadcast Domei Jap
anese) news agency dispatch from
Japanese South Pacific base
which said the landing was attempt
ed early yesterday and was i'm
mediately repulsed" by Japanese
troops
They approached our gun posi-
tions with about Is large and small
langing craft the dispatch said.
When the enemy saw two of their
boats sunk by Japanese troops, the
rest fled without attempting
landing"
The broadcast was not confirmed
in any Allied source. Tokyo's dis
patch was recorded by the United
Press in New York.
An attempt to reduce Villa had
been expected as national conse-
quence of the nearly completed con-
quest of New Georgia and the cap
ture of Vella Lavella, which made
the enemy's positions on Kolomban-
CARA practically rntenable.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23

congress has enacted the Smith
Connally labor disputes act which
provides for a secret vote and a
waiting period before strikes can
be effected in privately operated
war plants or mines II a strike
were called the government could
again take over the mines.
The Smith Connally act re-
quires that war plants or mines
which have been taken over by the
government because OF the threat
of a strike must be returned 10
their private owners within 90 days
of the restoration OF the level OF
productive efficiency which pre-
vailed prior to seizure.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23

activities.
Despite the terse warning by war
manpoWer commission officials to
draft-age men filling designated
non-deferrable Jobs that they no
longer could be deferred from the
draft regardless of family ties =
there mas Deen no rush by those
men to jobs in war and other es-
sential activities. That was one
point stressed by officials who are
confident that the non -deferrables
will provide sufficient numbers to
meet Octobers call-roughly 300,-
900 men-after the available single
ard childless married men are ex-
haCSted.
The week old revisions of the
manpower program had a two-fold
objective-to drive fathers from
non-essential to essential jobs; and
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23

b Automobile drivers holding B and
c gasoline ration books that expire
on Sept. should file applications
for new allotments at once in order
to obtain them by the time old
coupons expire, officials of the Ell
Centre ration board said Monday.
Meanwhile the board requested
holders of old type B and C books
that expire before Oct Is to file
renewals Immediately so that new
type coupons might be allotted
them for use beginning Sept. l.
Expiration dates on books that
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23

ernment took possession of the
mines. had been restored.
In the case of the other mines
which were released. Ickes said the
managers submitted evidence show
ing that production had not been
interrupted by work stoppages since
April 80.
The return of some of the mines
which had been struck will force
the United Mine Workers to decide
whether to adhere to the position
proclaimed by UNIV President
John L. Lewis that the miners
would work only for the govern
ment.
Since Lewis stated that position,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Liberators Raid
Jap Nickel Plant

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA,
Aug. % (UP)- Liberator bombers
on a round trip of nearly 2OOO
miles bombed and machine-gunneG
the Japanese-operated nickel works
at Pomelaa in the CelebeS for
more than an hour Saturday.
One bomber shot down an enemy
transport plane that emerged from
cloud to find itself in the midst
OF the attacking aircraft.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
D AMBLlNe
~ EpORTER
RAMBLING REPORTER
THEY GET EVEN

Remember when DR.. r. c. Glenn
ons had to go to she beauty shop
to get his hair cut because the he
beauty shops were full of service
men?
Il have an awful time getting my
hair cut now," Clemons complained
bitterly the other day. "Since RR
squealed about me getting a hair
cut in beauty shop, I'm afraid to
go into a barber shop. The minute
barber sees me he grabs up a
pair of scissors and begins mutter-
ling something about beauty shops.
1t makes me nervous to have them
work around my neck in that
moot"
Why not let your hair grow long
and wear a braid? That would be
cunning.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23

revenue for the following periods: !:
March and April, May and June,
June and July and March 20 to
April 30. They will then be given
allotments for September and
October Drinks may be counted
in the persons served but not as
dollar revenue
Ration clerks also announced that
new ration currency which will be
issued to restaurant owners, in
stitutional users, etc. have been
received The currency ranges in
value from one to 1000 points.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
RUSSIANS announce kHARk0v CAPTUR|
County Last in
War Bond Sales

Herb Fawcett, chairman of the
Imperial county war bond commit
tee, Monday urged district residents
to invest more of their earnings in
bonds and stamps, reveiling that
the county was at the bottom of the
list of II southern California coun-
ties in the sale of series F. and c.
certificates.
Imperial county has also dropped
to ninth place in the sale of series
E bonds, Fewcett said, adding that
the sale of bonds from the payroll
deduction plan had also slipped to a
low level
Fawcett said even In the face of
the summer slump sales should be
higher than they are at present.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Be||boy Pays $50
In Liquor Case

Rufino Gazmen, Filipino bellboy
for an Ell Centro hotel. was fined
$50 in police court Monday for
selling liquor without a license.
He was arrested Sunday night by
state liquor control agents after
selling one of them pint of liquor
in the hotel where he was en-
ployed
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK
FROM CANADA WEDNESDAY

WASHINGTON, Aug. % up
The White House announced today
that President Roosevelt's address
in Ottawa On Wednesday will be
delivered at noon EWT and will be
broadcast.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
BY UNITED PRESS

Tokyo radio propaganda
lists offered the japanese
people windy explanations
Monday of the loss of Kiska,
describing in one breath the
garrison's flight to escape a trap
and claiming in another that they
never meant to hold the Aleutians.
To these claims Tokyo added the
boast that withdrawal from Kiska
without loss was held by japanese
military commentators to be with
out a parallel in world military his
tory" the office of war information
said. Owl pointed out Berlin said
the same thing last Tuesday about
the retreat of the Axis from Sicily.
Broadcasts recorded by u. S.
Monitors said the island was seized
originally to cover fortification of
the KIriles. on the Northern ap-
proaches to Japan proper.
FORGET BOASTS
Forgetting previous boasts that
the AleutianS were the road to an
attack on Alaska, the broadcaSter
said the Kurile ch..l had been de-
veloped and that Klska had been
abandoned according TO plan"
American and Canadian troops
which took over the island Aug. Is
found no opposition but saw signs
that the garrison's flight had been
recent. Tokyo said it pulled out
aboard warships during "providen-
tial break in the fog"
Another broadcast reported by
owl quoted a dispatch from a
naval correspondent that the gar
Continued on page 6, col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Fathers Fi|Iin
October Quotes

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-(UP)-Selectve Servic
officials said picture of the full effect of the Ocobe
draft call unavailable today, but it appeared lke
that quotas would be filled from available single and child
less married men, plus those fathers VINO remain in non
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
BASEBALL

AMERICAN
First game:
New York .......0 900 002 020-4 8 l
Detroit ............... 900 900 0l0-l l
Suber and Hemsley; Newhouser,
HenShaw and Richards.
Boston 102 100 80
Cleveland 900 Ill "a
Woods, Hughson and Conrov;
Smith, Center Heving and Rosar.
Washington .........-..l0O OOl U
st. Louis ...............0 900 001 0
Leonard, CarraSquel and Early;
Galehouse and Hayes.
NATIONAL
ST. Louis ......--...........2 2O2 Ol
Boston ....................-. O02 OF
Lanier and w. Cooper; SalVo
Cardoni and Kluttz,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
November Attock k
On Jops Is Seen
Thre ee-Pronaed Offensive Against Foe
In Far East Forecast; Kiska to Be Used
For Attacks on Kuriles, Japan Proper

WASHINGTON Aug 23-(UP)-The big Allied of
fensve to crush Japan probably will get under way b.
December with powerful coordnated thrusts from thre
drectons-Inda the Aleutians and the southwest Pac
ific well-informed military observers said today
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Excuse Please, We
Don't Want Kiska,
laps Tell People
Tokyo WarlOrds Try to
Explain Loss of Isle;
Admit Ally Superiority
BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (UP)
United States and Canadian
troops have landed on the island
of Segula, about 20 miles east of
Kiska as they continued to Oc-
cupy the former Japanese base
and its adjacent areas, the navy
announced today. A commune
que said that no Japanese were
found on Se~ula, which is a rocky
island about five miles square.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Japs Claim u.s.
Landing RepuIsed
BY UNITED PRESS

Tokyo radio said Monday that Allied forces tried to
land KOlombangara Island north of New Georgia in
the Central Soomons Sunday but repused with
heavy losses.
Kolombangara is eight miles from New Georgia
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
italian
r Toe'
Stubbed
Bombers Blast
Communications
In So. Italy

ALLIED HEADQUART-
ERS, North Africa, Aug. %
-(UP)-Allied planes loOs-
ed a hurricane day and night
aerial bombardment in Sal
erno, big Italian communications
center 80 miles southeast of Naples,
and shot down SO more intercepting
fighters yesterday to boost their
four day bag to ia, it was announ-
ced today
While the Northwest African air
forces turned the main weight of
their assault against Salerno on the
Italian west coast, British four
engined Liberators and Halifaxes
from the middle-eaStern command
blasted railway yards at Crotone on
the sole of the Italian boot Saturday
night touching off fires and explos-
ions, some of them near chemical
factory.
ESCORT BOMBERS
American Martin Marauder bomb
erS, escorted for the first time by
ABS Invaders, sent scores of tons of
explosives and fire bombs crashing
down on the spraWling rairoad yard
of Salerno in daylight and British
Wellingtons followed through with
blockbuster night attack.
The hard hitting Marauder med
ium bombers hung up new record
for the second straight day b. shoot
ing down 81 Axis fighters from
among the 80 to 100 that bounced
on the American formation over
Salerno. The escorting Invaders shot
down two others. On Saturday, the
Marauders shot down % enemy
lighters in single engagement.
Though the intensified aerial Of
fensive appeared designed to soften
up Italy for invasion, Allied head
quarters here denied categorically a
report broadcast by an Axis radio
liberation that forces already have
been put ashore in southern Italy
and Crete. The broadcast was des-
-cribed as another Axis feeler.