davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-02
Wage-Hour Division Administrator Sees
Community Cooperation Big Step
In Curing Absenteeism Evil
Change in Store Hours AdvOcated Hours to Coincide
With Hours of War Workers; Shopping Due
To Some Absenteesm; Hours to Blame

Washington, D. G. (ILNS) While
there may be no simple cure for alb
senteeism in industrial plants, COM
munity cooperation will go far toward
solving this wartime problem. This
opinion was expressed by L. Metcalfe
Wallng, administrator of the Wage
and Hour and Public Contracts Divi-
sions, u. S. Department of Labor,
speaking as the guest of Albert N.
Dennis on the 453rd consecutive
weekly broadcast of his Labor News
Review" over WJSV of the Columbia
Broadcasting System, Washington.
The overtime provisions of the Fed
eral Wage and Hour Law, Walling
said, are also operating as an effec-
tive force in keeping down absences
in industry.
Absenteeism, the Federal admins
traitor pointed out, thrives on poor
housing, fiourishes where transporta-
ton facilities are inadequate and fire.
quently results from poor personnel
policies With some 100000 women
in war plants by the end of 1943 to-
gether with the prospect that another
100000 women will replace men in
nonwar jobs, the problem becomes all
the more serious, for the nation still
depends upon these workers to also
maintain the American home.
New Store Hours Urged
The percentage of absences among
women is greater than that among
men. Part of that higher percentage
springs from the fact that retail and
service establishments have failed tc
adjust to the needs of the war. The
woman war worker must leave hel
lob to shop for the family's necessi.
ties unless the stores in her city OF
neighborhood remain open at hours
when the days work is done.
Walling pointed to Washington as
an example of the need for commun,
ity adjustment, with employees of gov.
ernment departments and agencies
now working overtime schedules anc
remaining at their desks until or
D. m, every day except Sunday.
If it is necessary for Washington
stores to serve their customers by
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-02

opening at noon and remaining open
every weekday night, they should be
prepared to do so, he contended. If it
is necessary for them to remain open
on Sundays in order to meet with the
wartime work schedules of their Gus
toners that would be but a small con-
tribution, he added
Community Action Asked
Community adjustment to war
work hours, Walling said, is one way
in which the problem of absenteeism
can be met. We ought to make it un-
necessary for workers to leave their
jobs in order to shop before the store
is closed. While this is no cure-all, it
will go far toward removing one cause
of workers absences, he said.
The overtime provisions of the
Wage and Hour Law, the administra-
tor declared, are operating as an ef-
fective force in keeping down absen-
teeism in industry. This is clear when
you consider that if worker covered
by that law, who normally works six
8-hour days week takes day off
for any reason whatsoever, he for
feits the overtime pay to which he
would have otherwise been entitled
Overtime Pay Championed
There is no question but that this
provision for overtime pay is one OF
the best incentives there is for q
worker to stay on the job more thar
40 hours a week, Walling declared
The absent worker is penalized, not
just day at straight time, but day
for which he would have been paid &
premium wage.
Time and one-half rewards extra
well the worker who stays on the jol
and penalizezs extra severely the
worker who stays away from the job
he emphasized.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-02
Labor Members Chosen On
WLB Printing Panel

Chicago (ILNS).-President Leo J.
Buckley, New York, and Vice-Presi-
dent Frank r. Adams, Chicago, of the
international Stereotypers' and Elec-
trotypers' Union of North America
have been named alternate labor
members of the Advisory panel for
the daily newspaper publishing and
printing industry of the National War
Labor Board.
Either Buckley or Adams, the re-
gional board announced here, will rep
resent the craft in each labor dispute
or voluntary wage agreement case in
volving union members.
ON PAY DAY. BUY BONDS
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-02

Supplies ordered through Lend
Lease or direct purchase, aggregating
almost two and one-half million tons,
have been shipped from the United
States to the Soviet Union, some of
them travelling ocean distances of
10000 to $4,000 miles, but because OF
submarine attacks not all cargoes
have been delivered.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-02
New Bridge Table Cover

Louisville, Ky.-A deluxe quilted
bridge table cover is new premium
offered by the Brown and Williamson
Tobacco Corporation premium depart
ment for coupons packed with Raleigh
union-made cigarettes. The cover is
burgundy rayon taffeta on one side
and washable fabric on the reverse.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-02

women The Industrial Commission
er's latest annual report said that a
recent S a m p in G of dispensations
granted indicated that nearly out of
every 10 war contractors who had
asked for variations were not using
their dispensations at all, while an
other Is percent were making only
partial use of them. And so today
most employers do not ask for such
extreme variations.
Recently the State Department of
Labor has not been permitted regu-
lar 7-day week but has required that
no employe may work more than six
7-day weeks in 6-month period or
that one day of rest be given after f3
work days.
Third Shifts Asked
Some of the states report increas-
ing requests for permits allowing
women to work nights on the third
shift, accompanied by slackening of
requests for longer workweeks. Such
trends indicate that employers are at
tempting increasingly to meet pro-
duction problems by putting their
plants on a 24-hour basis, instead of
requiring excessive hours from indi-
vidual workers.
A few non-industrial states report
only one request or none at all for
variations, even though 48-hour
standard prevails. Pennsylvania,
Continued on Page A, Column 81
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Federation Of Citizens
Studies Baby Broker Bill

The Public Welfare Committee of
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
ton received instructions yesterday
to examine the proposed bill to IL
cense baby brokers" and report to
the meeting of the federation Sat-
urday night at the District Building.
President Harry S. Wender. who
said the federation was a backer of
the original bill to license and sup
erVlse agents of adoption, said he
had no doubt that the federation
would continue the fight this year.
Both the original measure and the
amended one will be examined, he
added.
The federation is already on rec
ord as vigorously supporting the
measure" Mr.. Wender said. "The
very least we can do is guarantee
protection of babies and elimination
OF the racketeers who prey upon
them This is exactly the sort of
thing that racketeers like best. be-
cause it is so difficult to bring the
deal into the open"
Last week Ray L. Huff. public
welfare director for the District.
recommended to the Commissioners
that the original measure to license
persons and organizations involved
in adopting children be re-intro-
duced into Congress.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
0iI-Heated Schools
Have Sufficient Fuel
For Balance Of Term
Crane Sees No Shortage
Unless Weather Turns
Unusually Cold Later

The Districts oil-heated schools
will get safety through the re-
mainder of the heating season with
their curtailed allotments of fuel oil
unless the weather becomes un-
usually cold in the next several
weeks, j. j. Crane, assistant super
intendent of schools in charge of
buildings, said today.
Mr.. Crane said that Woodrow Will
son and Calvin Coolidge High
Schools, the largest of the buildings
heated by oil, are in no particular
danger of running out of oil before
the heating season ends and he be-
lieved that the supply in other
schools, enough to last until about
the middle of May, would be suffi-
cient, barring unseasonally low
temperatures.
Earlier in the season, school au-
thorities tried to get additional
rations, but were told that schools
we're regarded in the same light as
commercial establishments. About
midway through the heating season,
allotments for the schools were cut
to about one-half of what they had
used during comparable periods last
year. Previously their allotments
were fixed at tWo-thirds of the oil
consumed the year before.
About a week ago, the Oil supply
in the school storehouse at Twelfth
and G streets NE. ran out and has
not been replenished. But this build
Evening star., 1943-03-16
II. J. Rich Reelected Head
OF Jewish Social Service

Herbert j. Rich was reelected
president of the Jewish Social Serv-
ice Agency at its annual meeting
last night at the Hebrew Home for
the Aged, 1925 Spring road NV.
Others elected we're: Samuel S.
kaufman, first vice president. Nor
ris Garfinkle, second vice president;
Mrs. Henry Gichner, secretary;
Charles L. Pilzer, treasurer; Milton
Nathan, assistant treasurer; new
trustees, Paul Himmelfarb, Joseph
Wilmer and I. B. Nordlinger, and
new members of the Executive Com
mittee. Louis Spiegler and Benjamin
Pollack.
Mr. Rich said that % per cent of
all people who came to it for help
during the past year were Govern
ment employees. Many counsellors in
Government and war agencies refer
persons to the agency for help, he
said In addition, families of serv-
ice men are given financial help, he
added
The services of the agency are
dFdlidDie W llOii-i CSlSlCIltS, IL Ndo
revealed, because of the many new
corners to this city. New members
of the Board of Directors are
Joseph Barr, William Bernstein,
Mrs Martin Codel, Irwin Gensoerg
Samuel Golden, Harry Hahn, jr;
Fred S. Kogod, Bernard Nordlinger
Theodore Peyser. DR.. Isadore Rods,
Samuel Sugar, Mrs. Herbert Som
mers, Samuel SWartzman, Mrs. Gich-
/ ner, Mrs. Milton Harris and Mrs
! Mark LanSburgh.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Government Employment Here
Increased u, 900 During AZ

The first year of the war was
marked by an increase of 77000 in
Federal employment here and lib
600 outside of Washington, 1t was
revealed today in the December per-
sonnel statement of the Civil Sery-
ice Commission.
On December 81, the commission
said, employment locally was 284 068.
and 2526,803 elsewhere in the coun-
try. for a total of 2.810,87l In the
intervening two months it probably
has topped 100000, Employment
failed to reach the million mark
in the first World War.
The December increase here. as
compared to the November employ
ment total, was less than 200; out
side of Washington, it approximated
II 600 The commission said there
was slight decrease in depart
mental employment in Washington
for the month, which would mean
that the increase came in field en-
ployment-such, for example, as the
Navy Yard The drop was the first
since May, 1910.
The report also showed 24,800 de-
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Unit of Measure.
IS lbs.

Wholesale Markups.
Wholesale ceilings obtained follows:
terminal here is 91a
muiplies terminal 20. Makup
20
wholesaler directly terminal shipper muples
terminal price by LIS Markup is 171a
muphe
price by l29. Markup is %
Retail ceilings obtained follows
lettuce and spinach retailer multi
plies from his wholesaler by 39. Markup SO
On cabbages and markups determined as follows
l. (an annual volume of
than multiply from whoesaer 65 Marp
S250O00
multiply wholesaler Makeup is
Glass tal Of S250000
wholesaler Markup
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Committee Defers Action
On D. {. Employees Pay

The House District Committee to-
day postponed until Thursday con-
sideration of the Mcmillan subcom-
mittee report proposing an amend
ment to the Federal pay bill which
would give a blanket 10 per cent
raise for all District employees who
do not now benefit under Federal
law.
Members of the District Com
mittee said the committee undoubt-
edly will take into consideration
House action yesterday on postal
pay legislation which would grant a
$500 bonus for per annum employees.
The District Committee and the
House Civil Service Committee both
will give serious consideration to
either 5000 annual bonus or
Is per cent war emergency pay in
crease for Federal and District
employees.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Property Of 10 Patients
Stolen From Casualty

Thieves broke into an office of
Casualty Hospital and stole personal
property of 10 patients, police re-
ported today. They estimated the
loss at more than $500.
The property, which included
money, was discovered missing last
night by Miss Angela Winters, night
supervisor, according to police,
Miss Winters told police an in
ventory of the office was being taken
when the loss was discovered.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Mrs. Henricku MocKoy
Dies in Tukomu Park

Mrs. Henricka Paulina MacKav.
81, resident of Takoma Park for
"a years, died yesterday at her resi-
dence, 1913 Takoma avenue, after a
long illness.
Funeral services Will be held at
the Takoma Funeral Home at pm.
tomorrow. The Rev. W. A HaW-
thorn, pastor of Wallace Memorial
Church, will officiate. Burial will be
In Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Mrs. MacKay was native of
Sweden and came to Washington
in 1883. She was a former member
Of St. Pauls Lutheran Church, in
Washington. She and her husband
celebrated their 50th wedding ami
verSary last June 6.
Surviving are her husband two
sons, George A. MacKay of Silver
Spring, and William G. MacKay of
Piedmont. Calf, and a brother, O. B.
Wessberg of Colmar Manor, Nd.
Evening star., 1943-03-16

partment employees outside of WASH
ington-the result of decentraliza-
ton. Various moves, completed or
ordered, are taking more than 5000
employees away.
The December payroll here was
up about s3000,000 to S51.744,352,
while in the field it jumped Sl4 ,000,-
900 to S4l8 $50 SOL. The civilian pay
roll now approximates $4,000 100000
annually.
War, Navy and Office of Price Ad-
miniStratlon had the principal in
creaseS in December. The various
war units in the Office of Emerg-
ency Management were employing
nearly 10000 persons that month
The Civil Service Commission
announced today that persons who
pass the examination for junior
clerk may be selected for training
as Junior clerktypist, at a salary
of $l,752. including overtime.
This step, it was explained, is
designed to meet the requirements
of agencies here which seek to train
clerks to meet a shortage of typists
and stenographers.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Diamonds Worth $1,000
Stolen From JeweIer

Police are investigating the theft
of $4,000 worth of diamond rings
stolen late yesterday from Bernstein,
Inc, jewelers. at 9l9 F. street NV
Bernard N Bernstein, manager, re-
ported u diamond rings were stolen
from the showcase in the store be-
tween and pm. yesterday.
He told police he suspects a dark
skinned colored man about "a years
old, who was seen lettering in front
Of the store before the theft was
discovered.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Dean Pardue Calls
Lenten Discipline
Important 10 Victory
Buffalo N. ~ Clergyman
Continues Sermon Series
At Church Of the Epiphany

| MONDAY lenten WorShiperS at the
Church of Epiphany today will hear
the Very Rev. Austin B. Pardue,
dean of st. Paul's Cathedral, Buff
falo, N. Y, in the second of his
week-long daily sermons.
Dean Pardue said yesterday that
the lenten period offers the oppor-
tunity for voluntary discipline"
that wartime America must have.
The whole war effort" Dean
Pardue said, cannot be won with
out discipline-but it must be a
voluntary discipline if we are to
remain a free people. If the Gov
ernment has to discipline us by
drastic methods, it will be only be-
cause we have failed in the priv
ilege of liberty"
Spiritual Must Predominate.
Dean Pardue said the discipline
of Lent should include both physical
and mental fasts.
He included drinking, eating and
smoking in the physical fasts-
none of them in themselves wrong,
but sometimes we are liable to abuse
them"
Referring to the words of ST. Paul,
II keep my body under" Dean Par
due said that people must keep their
spiritual sides predominating over
their physical.
Dean. Pardue included in mental
faSts fear, selfishness, hate and gos-
sip, and said that people must re-
place these enemies" with positive
factors.
Must Rout Fears.
I'VE must rout fear-the fear of
what will happen after this war
with the courage to take action to-
day. We must replace selfishness
with positive action to do good for
others-and this would include help
ing our Government, which is our
selves, collectively speaking.
I'VE must capture the enemy of
hate and replace it with the Chris
tian idea of love. We are not fight
ing war of hate, but a war of pur-
pose and construction.
We must also conquer gossip and
replace this enemy with praise. Some
people are very small and indulge
only in backbiting. If you can't
say anything good about a person
behind his back, don't say any
thing,
Choir to Present Program.
"All these disciplines we can't do
by ourselves. Some persons have
said that religion is for the weak
in sense, I agree. I have never
met a man who could stand on his
own legs without religion"
Meanwhile, it was announced
that the Washington Choral So
ciety. conducted by Louis A. Pot
ter, will present its annual lenten
program, The Passion According
20 St. john at pm, April l3,
! in the National City Christian
Church, Fourteenth street and
Massachusetts avenue N w
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Boy, 10, Critically Hurt
By Hit-ond-Run Auto

A 10-year-old colored boy is in
critical condition at Freedmen S
Hospital suffering from a fractured
skull and internal injuries received
last night when he was struck by
hlt-and-run automobile at Tenth
and N streets NV. The boy, James
Jackson, was crossing the street
when struck.
Police are holding an 1S-year- old
youth as the driver of the car. He
was arrested shortly after the acci-
dent.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Health Officer Denies
Quarters Of WAVES
Violate D. T.. Rules
Overcrowding Charge
At 6 Street Building
Called Misunderstanding

Reports that soc WAVES living
at 1909 G street NV. are over
crowded in violation of District
health rules are based on "a mis-
understanding" by the District
health inspector making the report,
Health Officer George C. Rutland
told the District Commissioners
today.
Allegations of over-crowding were
originally made by Acting Director
Raymond S. Wilson of the Sanitary
inspection Bureau, who has been a
health inspector for the District for
20 years. He claimed that legal re-
qulrements of SO square feet per
person in sleeping room we're not
fulfilled.
The statement of the Commits
sioners follows:
Commenting on the report that
newly completed housing facilities
for WAVES at 1909 G street NV,
were overcrowded, as reported in a
press release, Health Officer Ruh-
land said that he had looked into
the matter and found that the re-
port arose from a misunderstand-
ing.
Variation in Figures.
The naval authorities in arrang-
ing for the occupancy of the build
ing very properly figured in dress
ing rooms and other accessory rooms
in the total cubic foot allotment per
occupant, whereas the inspector
representing the Health Depart
ment figured only the square foot
age of the living room containing
the bed" The Navy engineers, said
DR.. Rutland, were entirely justified
in including the additional cubic
footage, which gives more than
enough on accepted standards. Al
together the housing provided for
the WAVES at 1909 G street, said
DR.. Rutland, is entirely adequate
and any Government worker should
count herself fortunate if she can
get such attractive sanitary housing
accommodation.
Determination of the adequacy of
all sleeping room facilities in the
District is based on section sol of
the Lodging, Rooming and Board
ing House Regulations, which fol-
lows:
Section SOL. No room shall be
used for sleeping purpose without
at least so square feet of floor space
provided therein per person, with a
clear height over the required floor
space of not less than feet in
buildings erected subsequent to July
10, 1912, and with a clear height
over the required floor space of not
less than 7 feet in buildings erected
prior to the said date"
Navy Issues Statement.
The regulations do not admit into
consideration air space in other
rooms than the room in which a
person sleeps.
The Navy Department has issued
the following statement:
The Navy Department is positive
that conditions at Womens Reserve
headquarters at 1909 G street NV.
either equal or surpass regulation
standards. The Navy always eXertS
every effort to provide for the COM
fort and health Of the personnel and
this instance is no exception"
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Retail Food Costs in District
Nov 1873 Pct. Above AZ Level

District retail food costs declined
IL per cent between mid January
and id-February, compared with
an average increase of 0.5 per cent
in other large cities during the
month and are now 1873 per cent
higher than a year ago, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics reported today
Egg prices in the District dropped
1876 per cent and there were frac-
tional declines in several other items.
Meat prices advanced OIL per cent,
fats and oils 05 per cent and ce-
reals and bakery products 08 per
cent.
In large cities throughout the
country foods under direct OPA
control, representing about 80 per
cent of the total food budget, de-
clined OIL per cent during the month,
whereas foods not under direct con-
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Richmond Cote Owner
To Grow Own Vegetables

BY me ASsoclated Press.
RICHMOND, March Is. - Ben
White, operator of two Richmond
restaurants, said he had purchased
an 80-acre Chesterfield County farm
to raise vegetables for his own estab-
lishment after failing to make ar
rangements with Hanover County
truck farm owners TO supply him.
He said most truck farmers already
had arranged with food store chains
to sell the chains their entire crop at
market prices, plus premiums.
The truck farmers, Mr.. White said,
are not interested in selling in small
quantities to restaurants or others
seeking vegetables