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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
NC MUTT FIGHTS
BILL FOR
LABOR DRAFT

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Em-
phasizing his determination to do
everything in his power to make the
voluntary system of recruiting work
ers for war jobs a success, Chairman
Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower
Commission took issue with advocates
of the compulsory methods proposed
in the Austin Wadsworth bill.
When asked at a press conference
if he agreed with Secretary of War
Stimson's championship of the man
power draft bill, McNutt said:
81 am determined to try the volun-
tary method | intend to do all in my
power, in all sincerity, to make the
voluntary method work"
Asked if the voluntary system could
be made to work, he replied
"In time of war we can never say
that anything cannot be DONE"
Though McNutt told House com
mittee last fall that he believed ma
tional service legislation was "inevit-
able" he has since repeatedly said
that he did not believe such legisla-
tion is needed at this time. This is the
stand taken by organized labor, which
has strongly urged full trial of the
voluntary method before any legisla-
tion providing for compulsion is
passed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The soldier
stormed into the Red Cross office at q
southern Army camp. His mouth was
set in hard. straight line; his eyes
were cold, determined. His wife trailed
him as he strobe across the reception
room; her face was red and swollen
from crying. They were no. over %.
81 need help" the soldier told the
Red Cross field director at the desk.
"And need it fast"
The Red Cross field director smiled,
but the soldier did not return it. "All
right, soldier, let's see what's the
trouble"
"If | don't get help I'm going over
the HILL" he blurted. I'm on alert now
due to move out almost any minute
Fut I'm not going-and leave my wife
with no place to stay"
Further conversation developed that
the young bride was an expectant
mother. She was unable to go home
because OF her stepfather. Her hus-
band had no relatives with whom she
could stay. And the allotment he had
Iudu0 W HIS WI6 udu UOl yet come
through.
Two hours later-after much con-
versation and planning = the soldier
was shaking the hand Of the Red Cross
field director
The Red Cross man had arranged
that the soldiers wife spend the night
at the Army camp guest house. Prep
ara tions had been completed with a
nearby Red Cross chapter for her
transportation back home. The Red
Cross chapter in the girls home town
had agreed to see that she had proper
care until the baby was born. By that
time the allotment would be coming
through.
In every United States military es.
tablishment. at home and abroad. the
American Red Cross maintains field
director and staff to help Uncle Sans
fighting men work out such personal
problems. More than 100000 service
men passed through the offices of the
Red Cross field directors last year.
Their problems covered all phases of
life - families needing financial aid,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
CROWS AND GULLS FOR FOOD

Stockholm. Ceiling prices for
foxes, squirrels, and some birds such
as crows and gulls which, before the
war, were not regarded as fit for hu-
man consumption, have been fixed by
the Swedish Price Board.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19

F. Jones, Minister of Defense, re-
vealed in Wellington.
The army is now releasing dairy
factory workers, men for crop plant
ing and shearers in large numbers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
FOR
w ON N
.
Keeping
Ahead of
the Times
By Mary Moore

pink, pretty pink and candy pink.
Wear it and watch your spirits rise.
Pink is wonderfully fattering. Wear
pink with black and navy blue or wear
it with baby blue or fuchsia. Whether
your complexion is dark or light, you
can still wear pink, and love it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19

WOMEN

The First Lady of China, Madame
Chang Kai-shek, overcome by emo
ton, almost collapsed, as she began
her speech Sunday at Wellesley, her
alma mater.
This was her first return there in
twenty-five years.
She told students they need not be
prominent individuals to help build a
saner world.
She warned them to 'beware of
machine made process of thinking" J"
She asserted that whatever an indi-
vidual can do is picayune, compared
with what a group working together,
can accomplish.
The Duchess of Windsor is doing
her part in a world of war. Deter
mined to escape the futility of ever
lasting teas, and parties she has
single handedly tackled the problem
of health among Nassau's negroes,
of the population of the island.
She goes twice week to the Red
Cross, of which she is president, and
goes daily to her canteen for service
men.
June 3rd will mark the sixth ami
versary of her marriage to the Duke.
Mrs. Margaret Gordon, that plucky
Australian woman who survived 81
days in life boat while all but one
of 16 shipmates died, praised the ra-
tions carried aboard the life boats.
'They were very well balanced, or we
wouldn't have been able to keep fit"
she said.
Since one day was the same as the
next, Mrs. Gordon learned to steer the
boat by the sun and stars while her
last companion took time out to sleep.
She also learned to repair the rudder,
tiller and sails.
In Alab anna uniformed women
guards will soon maintain day and
night watch over huge shipbuilding
plant. Twenty-Five to fifty women will
be put on this 24-hour duty as guards.
Three out of every four women en-
ployed in defense industries in Akron,
Ohio, the rubber center, gave their
former occupation as housewife. "
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19

The population of Corpus Christi,
Tex, new naval air center, has more
than double since the 1910 Census,
reaching an estimated 10000 on
Nav /, 1912.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
GLAMOR

If you have suit, imagination and
good color sense you can be well
dressed from morning to night at a
very small expenditure of cash. It's
the accessories that county.
You need three basic accessory
changes One for business or running
around one for afternoon and in
formal wear and one for dress-up oc-
casions.
The stores are full of tempting Sc
lections for this is year of blouses.
The designers have concentrated on
fattering lines and have used many
interesting fabrics, specializing in
rayons. Lacy touches are used for
glamor
In order that your blouse may tell a
dramatic story and tie your suit to
the hour of the day, choose hat to
harmonic with blouse The lines Of
the hat should be in character with
the blouse A trim sailor goes nicely
with a shirt blouse. Mems shirtings
and pin stripes are popular with the
business girl.
For evening the same dressy type
hats worn with the new short evening
dresses, can be used with suits, and
the dressy, elaborate blouses may
even be worn without jacket.
The rumba sleeve blouse with deep
ruffies will be seen a lot and should
be complimented by a dressy dinner
hat.
WPB may have banned the pro-
duction of frivolous" shoes for
women which take precious leather,
but the shoe manufacturers won't let
us gals down. They already are delv-
ing into possibilities of ersatz shoes
made from non-essential and non
rationed materials.
Fabrics for shoes offer wide
range of usefulness and color. Wood
en- soles, heretofore only used on
beach clogs may be used exclusively
for play shoes and the manufacturers
promise they'll be both frivolous"
and attractive.
Fashion is in the pink" for spring
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
NEW ZEALAND RETURNS
MANY SOLDIERS TO JOBS

Thousands of men have been re-
leased from the New Zealand Army
for essential industry since last July,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
Or. Miles kervine
(Liauid or Effervescent TabIets)

(Liquid or Efervescent IabIetsJ
Dx. Miles Nervine is time
tested sedative that has been
bringing relief from Functional
Nervous Disturbances for sixty
years yet is as up-to-date as this
mornings newspaper. Liquid 25e
and 81 90, Effervescent tablets 35S
and 75e. Read directions and use
only as directed. T
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
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Tips
Hints
Helps
DO YOU KNOW?

LIZ 1OO hINOW
By March 22 when the present Pc
Rod expires we'll get one pound of
coffee per person every five weeks in
stead of the present ration of one
pound every six weeks.
American Red Cross no longer ac-
cepts private packages of food to
ship to war prisoners because the
Army and Navy are providing stand
ard food packages which counteract
vitamin deficiencies of prison diet.
The rations in the standard package
include evaporated m il k, cheese,
cocoa, sardineS, chocolate bars, beef,
prunes and few other items. How
ever, you may contribute money to
the Red Cross which will be used to
equip and send these standard food
packages.
James M Lands, director of Civil
ian Defense urges every man, woman
and child to plant Victory garden
as a practical defense against food
shortages and millions of Americans
are already preparing back yards
and vacant lots for Spring planting.
Local Defense Councils are helping
by providing guidance in planning,
planting and caring for the garden.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19

Fashion is in the "pink" for spring
time wear. There's potent pink, vivid
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19

READ THE Pzzss EVERY WEEK.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Roosevelt Library
Exhibit Extended

Because more than 10000 visitors
viewed the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library exhibit last month at the
National Archives Building, the time
of showing will be extended, it was
learned yesterday. Solon Justus
Buck, archivist, is expected shortly
to announce the period of the ex-
tension.
One official reported that more
than 1900 visited the show one
Sunday. 1t was estimated that more
than 400 were Servicemen. One vet
eran, on viewing the map of the
Sicilian campaign presented to the
President by 1t. Gen. George Pat
ton, exclaimed:
Gee whiz! I went through that
battle"
An attendant in the exhibition
hall reported that several other
soldiers who returned to this country
from Sicily were keenly interested
in the map which has notations In
the generals handwriting.
Among items shown are an oil
painting by Winston Churchill, tap
estries from Tibet, ship models, and
early family records.
1t Is understood that the present
exhibit will be followed by one show
ing documents bearing on relations
between the United States and
Russia.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Roosevelt Reverses
Nondiscrimindtion
Ruling by Warren
BY the Associated Press,


President Roosevelt in a letter to
Attorney General Biddle, made pub
lie yesterday, overruled Controller
General Warren's decision holding
as directive only and not manda-
tory" the Presidents order for in
sertion in Government contracts of
provisions ohligating employers not
to discriminate against employees on
account Of race, creed or color.
Asserting that the prosecution Of
the war demands that we utilize
fully all available manpower," the
President said he wished to make it
perfectly clear that his nondiscrim-
lnation order is mandatory and
should be so construed by all Gov
ernment agencies.
Mr.. Warren recently upheld the
refusal of the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Co., Kansas City, Mo-,
to insert such provision in a
contract. There have been other
instances in which persons renting
office space from the Government
have refused to include such pro-
visions.
You have brought to my atten-
tion," Mr.. Roosevelt wrote Mr.. Bid
die, "the Controller Generals opin-
ion holding that executive order
9346 is directive only and not man.
datory in requiring insertion in all
Government contracts of a provision
obllgating the contractor not to dis
crlminate against any employe OF
applicant for employment on ac-
count Of race, creed, color or ma
tional origin, and requiring the con-
tractor to include similar contrac-
tual provisions in all subcontracts
There Is no need for me to re-
iterate the fundamental principles
underlying the PRONUNCIATION of the
executive order, namely, that the
prosecution Of the war demands
that we utilize fully all available
manpower and that the discrimina-
ton by war industries against per-
sons for any of the reasons named
IN the order is detrimental to the |
prosecution of the war and is op-
posed to our national democratic
purposes.
Il realize the hesitancy of the
Controller General to withhold nav
ments on Government contracts in
which these provisions have not
been included where there is doubt |
as to whether the order is manda-
tory. I therefore wish to make it
perfectly clear that these provisions
are mandatory and should be in
corporated in all Government con-
tracts. The order should be so
construed by all Government con-
tracing agencies"
Evening star., 1943-11-07

program, a War Department cam
paign designed to help eliminate
waste, conserve manpoWer and
speed up production.
Mrs. Gillett, chief of the public
relations section at ODB, is a for
mer Washington newspaperwoman
and at one time wrote for The Star.
She attended Vanderbilt Univer-
sity and is member of the
Women's National Press Club in
Washington. Her home here was
at 1861 Crescent place NV.
Miss Livingston formerly was
employed by the Office of Educa-
ton here. She made her home at
IS E street NV.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Mrs. litvinoff 10 Take
Vitamins 10 Moscow
Ey the Associated Pres

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6. - With
enough vitamin pills to supply
10000 Russian children for a year,
Mrs. Maxim Litvinoff wife of the
former Soviet Ambassador to the
United States, will leave next
Wednesday to return to Moscow.
Mrs. Litvinoff expects to arrive in
the Russian capital a few days
before Christmas after 150OO-mile
trip, which will take her across the
continent, the Pacific Ocean and
Siberia.
In addition to the vitamins. Mrs.
Litvinoff will carry a toy tank for
her 3year-old grandson and ski
boots, phonograph records. a type
writer ribbon and pencil sharpener
for her own son and daughter.
She arrived in the United States
with her husband on the day Of the
attack on Pearl Harbor, % months
ago.
Mr.. Litvinoff was recalled to
Russia for consultation by Marshal
Stain on April 29 of this year, and
was delegate to the recent Moscow
parley.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
7 Former Residents Win
'Ideas-fo Victory Prize

Mrs. Corinne Frazier Gillett and
Miss Isabel Livingston, formerly of
Washington, were among the first
IL employees of the War Depart
ment Office of Dependency Benefits
IN Newark, N. j., to win cash awards
for suggestions to improve opera
tions of the agency, Brig. Gen.
H. N. Gilbert, director, announced
yesterday
The awards were made as part
OF the ODDS ideas for Victory"
Evening star., 1943-11-07

= weekend holiday after series Of
conferences paving the way for his
frequently delayed trip to Moscow
to sign revamped Czech Russian
treaty.
There was no indication when he
would leave for Russia and news of
his departure probably will be de-
layed for security reasons until he
arrives in Moscow.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Miss De Fieueros Wed
To 1t. Frederic Sands

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6.-Climax-
ing romance which began three
years ago in New York, Miss Vir-
ginia De Figueras, formerly of
Biarritz, France, tonight was mar
ried to 1t. Frederic Sands, U. S,
N. r., son Of Mrs. Emory Fullam
Sands of San Francisco and New
York.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Juan De Figueras of Los
Angeles. It. Sands, Princeton '33
Is the grandson of Mrs. Frederic
Sands of Newport, r. l., and of the
late Rear Admiral and Mrs. William
F.. Fullam of Washington.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Seven Sons in Service

BEDFORD, Va, Nov. 6 (P).-Mr
and Mrs. j. F. Dean now have seven
sons in the service, the seventh,
Floyd, 33, selecting the Navy yes
terday. Two other Dean boys, IL
and IA, are still at home and a
10th is a ministerial student.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
PTA to Hear McCoskiII

DR.. Joseph c. McCaskill, represent
ative Of the Office of Indian Affairs,
Interior Department, and a member
Of the Falls Church School Board,
will address the Falls Church Parent
Teacher Association at 8 pm. Tues
day at Madison School. His topic
will be Federal Aid to Education. "
Evening star., 1943-11-07
w. S. Stafford Dies

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (P).-William
Spencer Stafford, 60, president of
S. S. Stafford, Inc, ink and office
supplies manufacturers, died at his
home here today.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Benes Talks Pave Woy
For Trip to Moscow

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 6.-Eduard Benes
President of the provisional Czecho-
slovakian government, left today for
, 1943-08-05
Stamp
Booths Open

Theater-goers are being en-
couraged to buy War Savings
Stamps and Bonds at the conven-
iently located booths in down.
town theaters.
The newly organized volunteer
corps of treasury department
saleswomen is getting under way
with Mrs. Robert Knee, chairman
of the women's division of the
Montgomery County War Finance
Committee, in charge. After three
weeks of operation, she has placed
saleswomen at the booths at four
downtown theaters to sell stamps
and bonds every afternoon and
evening for the duration. There
r a few vacant spots yet at these
theaters, and one more theater
must be completely filled.
Mrs. Knee reports that women
r anxious to return to their
posts each week. The unexpected
bond purchases are thrilling, as
are the touching experiences with
persons who make smaller pur-
chases. The contents of baby
banks have been brought in to
exchange for stamps; hundreds of
pennies r being counted by
these women for someone who
wants to fill ten and twenty-five
cent stamp books; and a mother
buys two Csc stamps each week,
from a meager income, for the
boy who is on a submarine. These
are typical reasons for women
being interested in this volunteer
service. Then, too, the evening
purchases everywhere are telling
the saleswomen that it is a con-
venience to them to have some
place at which they can buy
stamps and bonds, since it is i'm
possible for them to get down
town during the day.
, 1943-08-05
Dinner Fare
Approves
C%ontroctC Changes

A general membership meeting
of Dinner Fare unit, Local 1853,
approved proposed changes in the
existing agreement between the
company and the union on Thurs
day, July 20. A special committee
developed the proposals which
were later submitted to the shop
steward council and then to the
general membership.
A number of changes we're made
in the original proposal by both
the steward council and the mem
bership; however, it is now ready
to be submitted to the company.
The proposed changes cover the
establishment of a wage schedule,
automatic advancement for learn
ers, broader vacation policy and
other items affecting piece work
policy and hourly rates.
The following are the shop COM
mittee members who will nego-
tate the proposals of the union:
Andrew Weghorn, chief steward;
Alva McGeath; Harry Wolfe, night
shift chief steward; Walter Cur
rier; Ernest Sowder; Trilby OAR
byshire, and Rollie Woodward.
, 1943-08-05
DeIco Women
Progressing

When the election was held to
determine the bargaining unit at
Delco Products several years ago,
the only part of the group that
gave any great concern to the
organizing committee was the unit
composed of the women. After the
election had been won and the
votes counted, those fears were
realized in the finding that the
women of Delco had voted for mo
union" by a majority of approx
imately eight to one!
Since that time, the benefits
that have been won by union or
g~anization have proven themselves
to the women, and at the present
writing, the women at Delco are
living up to the promises that were
Continued on Page 81
, 1943-08-05
The 18th Congress

It's activities were directed pri-
marily against the home front.
It hamstrung the nations anti
initiation program and prevented
the sterilization of our war econ
omy. Vice-President Henry A.
Wallace recently charged that
certain American Fascists" had
turned against the present ad-
ministration because President
Roosevelt stopped Washington
from being a way station on the
road to Wall Street"
1t would, however, be a serious
error to dismiss the Congress as
being hopelessly dominated by the
defeatists who have had things
entirely their way. Actually, those
in Congress who consciously pre-
fer to save Hitler's hide as a
"bulwark," SO to speak, against
the Soviet Union and our British
allies, or because they hate and
fear democracy, are probably just
a handful. Even SO, that small
minority is helped in its quisling
efforts by Congressman who place
profits or partisan politics above
the needs for victory. But, the
picture is not all black.
In the last few days before the
recess, a committee was formed
of 81 members of the house to
fight for the Presidents price
control program. Many of those
included on the committee will
spend their recess stumping the
country on behalf of that pro-
gram. The committee must e
ceive full backing from labor and
all other patriots in its task.
, 1943-08-05
Condolences

The deepest sympathies of
every employee Of the Stand
ard Register Company are ex-
tended to the wife and family
of Samuel Bitoni, maintenance
worker in the Standard plant,
and Chairman of the UE Or
ganizing Committee. A young
and popular worker, Sam will
be missed by all who knew him.
He was the type of man who
made the day just a little
brighter for all who met him
and his loss to organized labor
can never be estimated. The
staff of the United Electrical,
Radio g. Machine Workers ex-
tend their sincerest condolences
to both Brother Bitoni's family
and to his fellow workers. In
the very prime of life, death
was caused by the after effects
of an operation.
, 1943-08-05
al
Register

Negotiations are still under way
at Egry Register with the assist
ance of Commissioner Gray, De-
partment of Labor, Cancellation
Service. In a meeting between the
company officials and the union
shop committee and the concil-
iator, it was agreed that a smaller
committee would be set up to
meet with an equal number from
management to discuss the wage
issues in dispute.
It was agreed that the work of
the subcommittee would not be
final and all recommendations
subject to the approval of the full
shop committee. The dispute be-
came a deadlock over the unions
demand for a 10c general wage in
crease and adjustment of Unequal
tiles in other rates.
The special committee will be
composed of Alice Hussong, chief
steward; K. M. Kirkendall, bust
ness representative for the union;
Robert Ward, and one other for
the company.
The special committee is sched-
uled to meet the early part of
next week and will reconvene
with the full committee and the
conciliator If agreement is reached
among the members of the special
committee.
, 1943-08-05
Rally Behind FDR

Tt is necessary that, in organiz-
ing the struggle on vital wartime
legislative and political issues, the
main fire of labor should be di-
rected against these defeatists and
obstructionists, while the weapons
of constructive criticism" only
against the weaknesses and mis-
takes of the administration and its
war agencies. We find this don't
hold true in. the Republican camp
and among the tory pol-taxers of
the South. A great many of whom
are blinded by partisan enmity
toward the commander-in-chie of
the nation, don't mind at all,
creating chaos and disorder in the
nation if it will discredit him
among the people.
When the Congress reconvenes,
there will be new struggles on
the question of price control and
of production, particularly of food.
The p~rofiteers will not be salts
fled with anything less than COM
plete destruction of all controls.
Other vital problems remain to
be solved. The anti-poll tax bill
must be put through the senate
and made a national law. Com
plete support of the President by
labor is necessary to see that the
corporations don't get away with
another billion and a half in
profits, when the new tax measure
comes up for consideration.
Our trade unions and all who
are fundamentally interested in