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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17

had subsidy in the form of lower
postage rate.
There is nothing new about subsi-
dies. Or air lines were built UP by
mail subsidies which enabled them to
operate when they couldn't have done
it on passenger revenues. Is anybody
sorry today
But the food subsidy crosses up
lot of interests that care a lot
more for their own profit than
they do for the national welfare
and for that we can all be
sorry.
They have lawful right to state
their case and to speak freely, but
they ought not be permitted to cover
up the real issue. And politicians
ought not be SO cheap and filled with
hate that they permit such smelly
red herring to cover a trail so wide
and so revealing of its source and pur-
pose.
1t may be that we are now getting
just moderate taste Of the hates that
will belch loose when the war ends
with Germany.
That war does hold in leash some
of the voices that are tainted with the
garlic of hatred in the political realm.
1t is noteworthy that many of the
voices that blast away at every oppor-
tunity to hurt the Administration also
are the voices that gripe at labor
whenever opportunity offers.
Labor has done some things undip-
lomatically and some of its spokesmen
have been brash and maybe bit too
big for their britches. But labor has
done one of the worlds biggest and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17

Great has been the hullabaloo over
the way the news broke from Cairo
and Teheran. First Reuters put over
nasty scoop; then Tass did ditto.
American newspapermen gnashed
their teeth at first and then they
yelled out loud.
Elmer Davis did protest that was
more vigorous than tasty.
Maybe the thing did smell bit and
surely it was raw deal for American
newspapers. 1t shows that there has
been a lack of coordination some
where: or that maybe somebody just
won't play ball.
However, it is hard to see how any
great damage has been done.
One thing that was accomplished
by the ruckus over the news mess was
to help take the public mind from the
dismal Congressional performance on
the food subsidy issue. Could anybody
have wanted it that way, does anyone
suppose?
Speaking now for a moment about
the subsidy issue, it should be noted
that the newspapers which howl so
loudly against any subsidy are them
selves the benefciaries of subsidy.
Newspapers almost always have
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17
Commissioners Not Allowed To
Purchase Cemetery Lots

County commissioners have no
authority to purchase a portion of a
cemetery on the installment plan for
the burial of war veterans, Attorney
General Thomas j. Herbert ruled this
week in an opinion to Hugo Alexan-
der, Jefferson county prosecutor.
Jefferson county commissioners had
proposed to buy $4,000 worth Of
cemetery lots, payable over the next
five years. Mr.. Herbert said that the
commissioners have only such power
as has been delegated to them by the
state legislature and that the legis-
lature had never delegated to the
county the right to buy real estate on
the partial payment plan.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17
AFL DEMANDS HIGH WAGES
Continued from Page y

Mr.. Meany expressed similar
point of view over the radio forum. He
said:
"After the war ends, labor wants
good wages paid for the work that
labor performs; and labor also wants
the work-week to be reduced suffici
emily SO as to give work to everyone
who seeks a job. In proposing the pay
ment of high wages by industry after
the war, labor is not thinking of itself
alone but of the employer and the ma
tion as whole. In order to keep our
factories running steadily, the Ameri-
can people must have the purchasing
power to buy the products of these
factories. BY this time we should all
realize that low wages do not make
for prosperity in America Wages
were low during the depression and
because wages were low purchasing
power was low and the depression
dragged on--year after year.
GAS to the second point: Labor
feels that it is far better to have
everyone working 35-hour or a 30
hour week when peace returns than to
have some people working 40 hours
and millions of others not working at
all. In the latter circumstances even
those who are employed are apprehen-
sive and tend to hold on to their money
instead of spending it for the products
that American industry wants to
manufacture and sell, and which must
be kept moving into the hands of the
consumers if the postwar era is to be
an era Of prosperity"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17
BUY and USE Christmas Seals

Middletown, Hamilton, and Butler
County school children will partici-
pate in the 1943 Christmas Health
Seal Sale on Friday of this week. it
was announced today by Mrs. Ray E.
Sebald, Middletown, General Chair
man of the Campaign The announce
ment was made by Mrs. Sebald at the
regular meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Butler County Tub
erculosis and Health Association.
held at the headquarters of the Asso-
citation in Hamilton.
Plans have been made by all Citv
and County Public and Parochial
Schools to participate in Health Day
in the School, and On this day chill
dren will make their annual contribu-
tion to the tuberculosis fund. Christ
mas Seals are not placed in the hands
OF children in Butler County, Mrs. Sc
bald said, but each child is given a
Bangle Pin," in the shape of the Lor-
ralne Cross, the symbol of the interna-
tional campaign against tuberculosis.
The tuberculosis Association makes
available to schools various educa-
tional programs about tuberculosis
through the use of films, literature.
and books about tuberculosis. Tuber-
culln tests are also available for the
use of physicians on school children.
$7O2.l2 was contributed through
the schools of Butler County in the
1912 Campaign, Mrs. Sebald said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17

VIM. j. O'Brien, President.
Sid butcher, P. o. Box 226.
Ed. Beatty, Belmont ST.
r. G. Miller, 9 No. Main st.
Earl Mendenhall, Sec., 72O 10th st.
John Wanamaker, Hamilton.
LaVerne j. Knox, 1908 Hughes st.
Ralph Bill, 211 Shaffer Ave.
Earl Ottervein, Sec, II Harrison St.
Earl Conover.
T. A. Scully, 3O6 Castell Bldg.
Otto Kaiser, P. o. Box Sd.
VIM. Smart, Dayton, Ohio.
Harriet DuErmitt, News-J Journal
S. J. Anderson, 125 South Broad ST.
Sid butcher.
Sid butcher.
Mabel Whitaker, Charles ST.
John Focht, Jr., Cincinnati.
w. Fox.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17
Union Iron Worker Cited

New Haven, Conn.-Frank Thomp-
son, master sergeant in the aviation
engineers and member of Local 424,
Iron Workers, has been cited for his
work in supervising the construction
of aviation towers and laying strip
landing fields in the Sicilian and Ital-
ian campaign, according to word re-
ceived by his father, John Thompson.
The father is former business agent
of the local.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17

best things he has done in protesting
against slave labor by Germans after
the war.
Whatever the provocation, slavery
can do nobody anything but harm. 1t
is wrong in principle and harmful in
practice.
Enslavement Of workers is
NOT the way to punish the Ger
man nation. If there is any hope
of a sane and democratic Ger
many it must lie in the workers
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17

best jobs in turning out the biggest
heap of war materials ever turned out
at any place any time.
Labor would be better able to talk
back effectively if it paid more wise
attention to sound public relations and
if it had through the years built its
press to stronger and more effective
position. 1t still doesn't properly back
up the labor press.
President Green is doing one Of the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17
of that nation.

OF That nation.
There must be dire punishment for
Germany and it is coming soon, but
the terrible wrongs that Germany has
done cannot be remedied by the wrong
of slavery enforced by any nation or
nations now fighting to destroy the
Nazi regime, root and branch.
That the suggestion of forced labor,
or slavery, should have come from
Russia doesn't add anything to it's at
tractiveness, nor, for that matter,
does it make the proposal any worse.
1t is just all wrong in principle, re-
gardless of the source.-CMW.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17
WAR PRODUCTION OVER
Continued from Page u

(COILIHuHU IIUII age II
must our battle losses be made up
but we must continuously add to our
striking power, and push home the
telling blows now being dealt the
enemy"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17

The best cure for Fascism is a large
dose OF Union Label-Shop Card-Sery.
ice Button mixture.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17

In night clubs the debtors USUALLY
sit IN front and the creditors in the
rear.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17
Roster OF Organizations

UNIONS
Hall No
Bakers Union No. saturdays Labor
No
Labor
Tuesday
Building
Js No 4t Thursdays Labor Temple Ralph
We'd Labor
Electrical Workers No Wednesday Labor Temple J E W.
Iathers E No st wednesday Labor
Friday
Mdsrs % Uni0n 0 No. snd % ath Fridays c No.
Musicians Local No sunday Morning Temple
Makers No Ralph Lee Bailey and n Rep
Plasers 214
Mondays,
Sheet Metal Workers No. tuesday at Labor Douglas
Stationary Engineers No Monday Etc
Hall
s ss county unepa Employees s N AS51 s57 Ed E Bu
Sunday
Every Tuesday
MIDDLETowN
NHddetown Fighters, Hail. Ed Beat
BARRIERS Union No 228 4h Monday Trades Council HalR G. Mi
Musicians, No s21 M Sunday Trades Council Hal Earl Me
I Ettereal a WORKERS T NO. NO. hamilton u W.
Ralph B
Stage Enposss No. % Saturday, II Otto Rs
Steam and Operating Engineers No 924 VIM SIN
Typographical Monday
Lbos and Hod Carriers, @ Alternate Wednesdays T Has j. An
Truck Trades Council Hall Sid
Pulp and sphte Paper Mil Workers No. slo Moose Mabel
Sheet Metal Workers. No 141 John Fo
Mechanics W.
DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS
Tb
oGa rank CONVERSE zo hgh' Ceeaho ONO
HAMILTON BUSINESS the ter
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~ i M 49,.
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nfaolinta NJ o., II II - COZ nra O. pl
MIL e. To- Go n. o. - =. ~ M oar Nj, 49, d.
pan+ers - ~ ~ Ennr Tbiraah ao7o D 1t is il
pa+orn M.Lers e' - Trados ConnoI I.r gardes
Pastere &
Plumbers
Stage Employees Neil Johnson POI S. Monument, Phi 262oJ New
80 ~ " " " - engnee
MlDDLEIOWN BUSINESS AGENTS W
Building Trades P. of
Hamilton
Employees eIongN NorthBr
Frank
.................... butcher O.
Labos Hod
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION 1omm
hori
Assn Ohio Fire Fighters Lincoln
Genera
pest @ IN out the biggest protesting
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-12-17
THE
CHERRY TREE

Where with our Little Hatchet we tell
the truth about many things. sometimes
profoundly, sometimes hippantiy. seme-
times reckIeasly.
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12


Willetta Bryant is also home a.
gain. She is yet carrying a torch
for Cowboy. Sigh. Life is rather
a mystery!
| Gladys Taylor is strictly fer those
type of fellers. Each summer she
comes home from College she digs
a bug and who do you suppose the
| creature is this time? Murrell
Johnson. Nuff said, Eth Jack Hoard?
Kenneth Love who is only a
| great Love of Doris Pittman was
spotted among the crowd of home
folks the other week. Ken is back
from College where he's been study
ing hard and Doris has been to Col
lege studying to be a teacher. Doris
looks very attractive don't she
Cats?. Some KENNETH
*****
The other week when Charles A.
Williams was here on a IA day fur
Tough guess how that love of his
made his Army life change. He
got married to the we'll known
Maggie Johnson. May this ever
last for ever and ever.
*****
Kathryn Taylor is here from
College wonder how this climate a.
grees with her since she's been in
the south SO long? Good to see
va ked. keep that knowledge a.
going and I'll keep in touch with
who you been seen with while you
are here.
Late but straight. .Alyce Cook.
or shall 1 say the former. has
been in this fair city quite a while.
She has changed her name to Mrs.
and that is only great.
*****
Ella Mae Smith. Ia representa-
tive of South Omaha who is only
Bronzeville's fashion plate. makes
one think men are scarce, the way
she is playing with Jesse McClen-
ton. What is the score?
*****
Didn't get to write the former
Mable Longmire up while she dug
Omaha from LA. She was only
great. I believe she came here for
Mothers Day and stayed for a.
while--..good to e her.
*****
Versie Winston has really show
ed Bailey a fine time or wise versa,
since he's here on furlough. At
least her customers said so!
*****
TO BE CONTINUED
The other Sunday night at the
hut. Wonder where did AL Price
go with Jacks luggage. Last I
seen....Al Price was left holding
the bag....ho, hol
*****
Dolly Johnson another ex-jitter-
bug has settled down to be a mar
ried oma That chic has been
married for three months to Mr..
Ted Dalton!
I'm beginning to wonder myself
why do they call Frank Gray.
"Buns''??? ......
Comm on with the come on.
Lorraine Stewart with Kenneth
no now!
****%
Imagine Freda Robinson cuttin'
a buster with Alphonso Wesley.
Daring aren't they. wonder
what's to become of Phillip Love
when the lights come on again.
%%x%%
Dorothy Gray seems to be hand
in glove with Beans" better
known as Hardy Meeks.
Hey now--..all you Chics on
Bonneville who haven't one time
or another been told by soldier that
you vas cute. why not send IN
a picture to the Guide Office for
the most beautiful Soldier Queen.
You send the picture. the paper
will print it free of charge and the
soldier will select the best picture.
Oh what publicity. Hmm, l might
even send mine in. 4
Mona Abrams party Monday
night turned out to be a killar...
Everyone played hard and tho
soaks soaked it in. That kick-a-b5o
juice was lucious. Everyone stay
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12
CALL OUT 35 MEN AT 1 AM.

Thirty five men of the OCD fire
and rescue corps, called out at /
a. m. last Thursday, manned six
boats to evacuate families from
flooded homes during the storm
which put Pappio creek out of its
banks in the vicinities of S5th and
Blonde streets and at Goth and Har
rison streets.
Floyd S. Reep, chief training Of
ficer of the fire and rescue corps
was called at 1850 a. m. by Fire
Chief Daniel O'Connor, requesting
men and boats. Forty corps mem
bers were called ond 80 who were
reached responded Immediately, re-
porting within thirty minutes to
Fire Station No. 6, the fire and res
cue corps headquarters, cath and
Cunning streets. Within forty-five
minutes, six boats had been secur-
ed by the Red Cross disaster COM
mittee and were taken to the flood
ed scene by Railway Express
trucks and private cars.
The fire and rescue corps work
ed from las to 1880 a. m. in con-
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12

"Would you want your sister to
marry a Negro? That's the ques-
ton" said a young white friend Of
mine the other day, that is al
! ways thrown at me whenever a
group of us get together and I be-
gin to tell them htey ought to OPP
pose racial and color discriminate
ion." From news reports of Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt's talk before the
Harlem City Wide Committee it
appears that the gracious first lady
expressed the opinion that thus
far, the fear of inter-marriage be-
tween individuals of the two races
accounts for the attitude of the
white South towards the aspirat-
ions of the colored citizens.
In my own experience this ques-
ton in n form or another is all
who took a tape measure to bed
with him ITO see how long he
slept.
YOUR GALS ON THE SITS.
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12
WELCOME SERVICE TO
FLOOD VICTIMS

Kenneth j. Church, S1st and
Lake St, senior OCD air raid wac-
den of the Adams School district,
followed a "hunch" that resulted in
rendering welcome Service to flood
victims in the vicinity of 85th and
Blonde streets last Thursday af-
ternoon and night.
While passing through the flood
area, Church noted that residents
busy cleaning their homes of mud
and debris left by the Pappio creek
flash flood, still had no cooking
facilities. Church called four worl-
en- block wardens of his district
who prepared sandwiches and cof-
fee and Set up a roadside canteon
to serve flood victims that ~aft'rnoon
and evening until the Red Cross
mobile canteen arrived at 9 pm.
While busy with this emergency
service, Church also learned that
deputy sheriffs %patrolling the flood
area needed assistance. He called
out 8 men block air raid wardens
of the Adams school district. Co
ing on duty at 6 pm. Thursday,
they continued until A am. Friday
directing traffic and guarding the
evacuated hoems in the four blocks
on Blonde street from s3rd to S7th
streets.
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12
OCD


Receipt of 5,424 gas masks, $500
feet of half-inch fire hose, and 500
cots for the medical and Rescue
service brings the supplies on hand
for use of the Omaha Civilian De
Tense Corps UP to a total value Of
$120, 600, p. K. Walsh, property Of
ficer of the civilian defense coun-
Gil, reported.
The gas masks received are in
sizes for both adults and children,
and some which are especially Ge-
signed for civilian defense train
ing purposes, Walsh said.
The helmets recently received
from the OCD are now being rapid
ly distributed to members of the
various groups of defense corps.
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12
OFFERS $1,000
FOR PROOF
MOBILE
RIOT DEATH

MOBILE, Ala, June s ANP) :
The Mobile Register in a front
page editorial this week offered
a $1,000 reward for proof that a
"single person was killed in the
racial conflict at the Alabama Dry
Dock and Shipbuilding company's
Pinto island plant last Tuesday.
Several colored and white work
ers were injured and accoring 70
some reports, at least one person
was killed when white employees
staged a riot after learning that
colored welders were to be put on
the same shift with white workers.
Described as a ''cure all'' for la
Dor troubles between whites and
Negroes at Addsco the regional Of
flee of the War Manpower comm
ission at Atlanta announced late
Wednesday night that ut Under
stood the U. S. Maritime comm
ission has approved a plan for sep
arate shipways for Negro workers
at the Alabama Dry Dock and Ship
building company in Mobile.
Under the new plan the separate
shipways will be supervised by
white workmen while Negro labor
ers and helpers will be continued
in other jobs throughout the yards
as in the past.
AS a result of the riot, thous-
ands of Negroes failed to return to
their jobs. Hundreds, using up
thei rprecious gasoline allowance.
have been leaving here daily, caus-
ing a, sharp reduction in production
at the yard.
"Rumors r lies spread by idle
tongues and empty heads continue
to whiz over the telephone wires.
across the back fences and UP and
down the streets of Mobile as an
aftermath of the racial affray last
Tuesday" the editorial said.
This paper is absolutely confid-
ent that this reward will never be
collected because the rumors Of
death have been thoroughly invest
lgated by framed members of its
staff and found to be without
foundation. Many persons, how
ever, prefer to believe that news
has been suppressed. To con-
vince the skeptics we make the a.
bove offer Of $1,000 cash reward.
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12
ARMY ANNOUNCES NEGRO
FLYERS IN AFRICA

WASHINGTON, June s amp -
Allied headquarters in North AZ
RIGA announced officially Wednes-
day what readers of Negro news
papers already knew; that a Negro
Pursuit squadron, commanded by
1t. Col. Benjamin o. Davis, Jr.,
was in North Africa to fight a.
gainst the axis.
Several weeks ago Congressman
Frances Bolton of Ohio announced
in congress that "the Goth has de-
parted for combat duty" Immed-
lately the war department took
steps to prevent Negro newspapers
from printing her statement, al
though the Office of Censorship
authorized publication Of Mrs. Boil
toms exact words spoken from the
house floor.
That the squadron had arrived
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12
A THE CAB PLAN

The local cabs around the avenue
have got the wrong idea about this
share the Cab plan. A certain
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12

junction with the Red Cross dis
aster committee and deputy sher-
ifs responding to calls for help
received at Red Criss headquart-
ers and the fire department.
The last call was to the vicinity
of Goth and Harrison streets where
"a boat and crew were dispatched
by a Railway Express truck to E.
vacuate several families.
Sheriff Dorrance praised the O.
CD. fire and rescue corps for their
splendid work in this emergency.
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12
It's Official Now! BLACK AIR SQUADRON IN AFRICA

at its destination was revealed in
a dispatch from North Africa by
Ollie Stewart, war correspondent
for the Afro-American and affiliat-
ed newspapers. Later Stewart
stated that 1t. Col. Davis was liv-
ing in a town where he was stat
Toned. Both articles passed the
censor.
1t was at first stated that the
squadron had seen actual combat
duty in the closing days of the
North African campaign, but this
was denied by the war department.
The announcement of Wednesday
said the flyers, who use P-40 War
hawks, were being given advanced
instruction in new fighter tactics
by veteran pilots Of the Tunisan
battles land that upon completion
of this advanced training, the
squadron will be sent into action.
No news of the actual departure
Of the squadron was allowed to be
printed because of censorship reg
ulations. Mention of embarkation
of any unit is explicitly prohibit
ed snce such publication would
give valuable Information to the en-
envy.
It can be revealed now, however
that the squadron left Tuskcgee OF
midnight April 2. The squadron
had no dea where i. was going.
The train was completely BACKED
out with windows and vestibules
painted black and affording no op-
portuni.y TO see out Tho gro..l,
composed Of a full complement Of
ground and maintenance crew and
medical contingent had the run of
the special train which zigzagged
across the country to its destinat-
ion. When the train stopped it was
on the docks at a southeastern port
and alongside the transport To
which the squadron was immediate.
ly transferred.
Farewells were said as the men
swung aboard at Tuskegee. Many
of their families were at the school
and In the community nearby. All
were forbidden to speak of their
| departure. Families of those liv-
ing in other parts Of the nation
knew of their boys departure be-
cause personal belongings were
sent home to them.
The night the squadron left
Tuskegee the Goth Service SQUAD
ron was transferred to Selfridge
field, Mich. The 332nd Fighter
group composed of several pursuit
squadrons and first all Negro fight
e. group in army history, was also
moved to Selfridge.
Transfer of army pilots from
Tuskegee is part of the regular
air corps plan. There is no room
at Tuskegee for squadrons after
they complete their training be.
cause at present new flyers are re-
porting at the rate of So every
five weeks. Classes are gradual
ing frequently with from 25 to 30
formerly the number.
The Omaha guide., 1943-06-12

Did you hear about the Moron