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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-12
'GdnSett Aids Red Cross, Catholic Charities
Good Pitching Tops
Opening Card Of
Dusty SoftbalI
AIbanese, BrOwnelI, Graft,
Radke Go Well on Mound
for Winning Combines

Somers Brass was 7 TO win
ner In the closest game OF opening
contest of the Industrial Softball
League, last night ut various city
fields, Benrus, defending It's league
title, has lost It's meal ticket OF
last season, Pete Yarnall, Wildly
athlete who has returned to his ma
tive Lancaster Pa, but In AlbaneSe,
the champs seem to have q worthy
successor, as ne came through with
n two-hit pitching performance
against French Manufacturing bat
ters that brought his team an
eventual 6 10 ! Victory Hertling, Of
the winners put IN n grand slam"
thome run, bases loaded which
gave the BennieS four runs In the
second inning,
In Good Form
Hardy BroWnell, the heavyweight
Waterbury Tool chucker took up
where he left Oft last season, twirl-
Ing four hitter Mt Waterbury
Clock stockholders and winning 4
10 /, Three runs IN the opening IN
ming gave Brownell q big lead TO
work on, and he was quite equal TO
the occasion
Eleven runs IN the sixth inning
offset 7 IN the third by Patent But
ton as Chase Metal won u Is TO
free-seoring duel from the P,-B,
boys, Scovill coasted TO q 5-i win
over Plume and Atwood as Croft
pitched good Ave hit softball,
Waterbury Manufacturing got off
to n healthy four run edge In the
first inning, but had all II could do
TO win rs from Metal Hose which
kept plugging for runs until the
final out OF the best played game Of
the schedule last evening, Radke
gave the losers Ave hits, Scores;
nourus $50 90 l-GG Il o
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-12

Miller 3OOpound tackle who made
things tough for everybody including Yale two seasons 0goP Tried TO
the couldn't H.
he 1856 pounds OVERWEIGHT though aforementioned a-
Harvard yesterday LINZ
SERVICE ACTIVE
which he and Private Miller u Army today. All
which Dfoche
OF the Brooklyn Dodgers whose well
he poor fellow
cause he has been ne enough TO have PERFORATED EARuM
HIS limited TO Brooklyn
blame him At that when those able
bodiod INSPECTORS local plants Not from Water
bury, etherl
v
yDo rolled 1898 In duckpns which doubles
record; Marks Dcnte the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-12

10 third base. Laid got three
binsles for Taft; Kelley two for
Crosby.
WatertoWn and T'orrington High
baseball teams were rained out yes
terday and were due TO play today,
II possible. Naugatuck and Gilbert
OF Winsted was also washed out
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-12

through the back door OF a modern
field house built by football to ply
his trade,
Muscle ierkers and body contact
men should get together. There arc
enough boys who want exercise in
any manner they can conceive
There is plenty Of room for all and
both systems.
This is a big country with a big
job on It's hands, and there has been
ample evidence that athletics are
of vital Importance in preparing
young men for war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-12
CREDIT TO IRELAND

Blenheim II, one OF the most
famous racing sires, was foaled at
the Ballyfinch Stud, County Kilken-
ny, Ireland, on April 20, 1927.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-12

Charities Drive, which opens May II
and runs through to May 20, Az III
two meetings last year, Narragan
sett contributed nobly to war relic;
agencies and local charities, by rails
Ing for distribution the splendid
sum Of $i83, 1891. Thus, at It's three
wartime meetings, NarraganscH
has already contributed $248, 800 90
mn important proportion of the sum
which racing has pledged 10 the ma.
tional war effort.
Narragansctts Autumn Meeting
runs from August 0 TO September
Is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-12
GOLDEN JUBILEE

Tommy Connolly, supervisor OF
American League umpires, now Is
In his 50th season OF activity In
professional baseball.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-12
ANCIENT PIN BOY

Charley Williams, 55-year-olo
New York pin boy, has been work.
Ing ut bowling alleys for IS years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-12

RUNS GIRLS TEAM
Johnny Gottselig, OF the Chicago
Black Hawks hockey club, is man
aging q girls softball team.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
BANKING'S PUBLIC RELATIONS

If intelligent bank directors ever
wonder why voters support with un-
varying enthusiasm any action of
Congress regulating bank operations,
they might ponder the persistent
alienation by banks and bank publica-
tions of the most powerful segment
of voters in the United States.
Bankers trained in the traditional
vacuum of bank clerks cage usually
try to close their ears to any refer
ence to labor, especially to organized
labor Their publications dare not dis
cuss labor problems effectively. Any
reference to labor is usually accom-
panied by sneer that does more to
antagonize sincere believers in trade
unionism than would an honest attack
on unions. Typical of this banker con-
cept that 'labor," even when shorn of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

reality exists between Britain and the
U. S. A."
Radio Rome: "Since Japan's entry
into the war, the u. S. A. must forget
all about Dakar and Africa and con-
centrate on the Pacific"
German home stations, Radio Rome,
Radio Friesland: "Where is the
American fleet?"
Soldiers in the German occupation
forces of Northern Europe, who re-
Gently returned from furlough in
Vienna, are of the opinion that the
underground labor movement in
former Austria has been weakened in
the last two years, mainly due to the
fact that practically all the former
opposition elements have been called
to the colors.
Nevertheless, few strongholds of
labor resistance in industrial plants
remain and are active in SO far as the
circumstances permit. Many instances
of sabotage are reported, and even
open resistance of workers against
compulsory payment of contributions
to the Nazi winter help organization.
The same sources report that about
one-fourth of the Viennese population
regularly listen to Allied broadcasts
from overseas or hear of their con-
tents through friends and under
ground grapevine. The number of
German dead at the Russian front is
estimated at more than 100000.
About half of the people are con-
vinced of ultimate German defeat, but
there is considerable and almost hys-
terical fear as to what will happen
afterward.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
FRIDAY, JANUARY Is, 1943
LABOR ALSO DISSENTS

President Roosevelt told the 18th
Congress in his opening message that
he had been advised not to speak of
a better America and freedom from
want after the war at this time and
that it was a grave error for him to
do so.
81 dissent" the President said en-
phatically.
Labor, it is perfectly safe to say,
also dissents, as does the great mass
of the American people. While it is
true that winning of the war as
speedily as possible is the first bust
ness before the nation, it is always in
order to speak and work for, better
America, in war or peace. Planning
and working now for better Amer
lea and better world, in which gov
ernment will provide assurance e
against all economic hazards, is an es-
sential part of enduring peace. This
is now generally recognized through
out the nation and Congress will do
we'll TO keep it in mind.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15

any. taint of unionism, is evil, malig-
nant. and accursed as such, is the
opening sentence in an article on la
bor in the last issue of The Guaranty
Survey:
although labor problems have con-
tinued to present considerable diff
Guilty, their effect on production has
been very much less harmful than it
was before our entry into the war"
Now substitute for the word Ia
Dor" in that sentence any other word,
including "banker," management"
financial" supervisory" "educa-
tional." and ask yourself whether the
majority of voters in the United
States. including 1--WE hope) some OF
the sons of toll whose many years OF
labor have earned them place on the
board of directors of the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York, would
not like to swing an axe on the neck
of this guilty spawn of a bankers
mental vacuum and a prostituted in
telligence.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
POLL TAX MUST GO

America must erase the blot of the
poll tax at once if it expects to face
the world as a sincere advocate for
freedom and democracy. A bill to ac-
this purpose was passed by
the House in the last session and
blocked in the Senate only by fill
buster. That disgraceful episode per-
mitted our enemies to shame US. 1t is
the duty of the new Congress to act
without delay to abolish the poll tax
in the few states where it still exists.
Federation of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
Butler Countians Agree
At Mobilization Meet

Two hundred farmers, businessmen
and city and county officials attended
a luncheon Tuesday at the Y. M. C. A.
in observance of Farm Mobilization
Day.
Gerald Huffman, Butler County
Agent Informed the group that But
Ter farmers had increased their out
put over 1941 and predicted that
greater gains would be accomplished
in 1943
Praising farmers for production
last year, John M. Roll, Chairman of
the Butler County Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration, announced
1943 quotas. He said the Federal Gov
ernment was asking for increases of
from to percent in almost all crops
except soybeans, an increase of 19
percent in the potato crop, and IL per-
cent in hogs to farrow next fall.
"How to meet these production
goals" was discussed by Morris G.
Taylor, representing city groups, and
P. J. Brelsford, Wayne Township,
rural groups.
The program was in charge of
committee composed of George O.
Manrod, C. L. Hardin, Roland Stu
art, G. O. Michael, and Frank Cox.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15

Are we having good news played up
too much?
Are we getting to be push-overs
for short victories, while we don't get
a look at facts that we ought to have?
Probably we won't know until after
the war, but at least we can have a
good "think" about thing or two
We were given a terrific ballyhoo
about what Secretary Wickard and
OWIman Davis were going to tell us
in their famous broadcast what
we got was fair eighth grade essay
that told everybody just about next
to nothing.
We were told that we had swept
North Africa, but what's holding US
now?
Somebody seems to assume that we
are all saps and must be milk-fed on
propagandistic pabulum
Nobody wants to know anything
that might help the enemy, but we
probably would do a better war job
if we knew the truth about food and
gasoline and fuel oil and transporta-
ton.
President Roosevelt is doing an
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15

a MEXICAN trade unionists will be
n interested in a Swedish news
papers report from its Berlin corre-
spondent on what happens nowadays
in meetings of Polish workers.
"a few days ago in a big Poznan
factory Gauleiter Greiser addressed
the Polish workers of both sexes" "
and 'sfor the first time Greiser showed
loyal and willing Poles in Wartheland
how they could become masters of
their own happiness through work
and the adoption of a positive atti-
tude," the correspondent said.
IF they accept German leadership" J"
all will be we'll with them.
The Gauleiter announced Polish
workers organization will be created
ito observe the work of willing
Poles"
"People will enter it when they are
summoned" and later, if they are
good, the Germans will give them
special marks" which will give them
shopping advantages"
This January the Axis might like
to forget it's boasts which overloaded
Axis wave lengths year ago. Lest
they forget, here are some tld-bits,
which they based on fiction, not fact
Ribbentrop, in an interview with a
Spanish newspaperman: "In 1912 the
Bolshevik problem will be definitely
disposed of by the German armed
fored under the personal command OF
of the Fuehrer."
Radio Rome, after the British occu-
patton of Benghazi: "The relative
calm in the Mediterranean shows
what little practical cooperation IL
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
TRAINING SCHOOL
BOARD ELECTS

Mrs. Marshall Barker was elected
president of the Hamilton Training
school board of directors at the an
nual meeting Tuesday morning in the
school, 25 North B street. Other of
ficers elected are: president, Mrs.
E. R. Turner, Middletown; treasurer,
Mrs. Herman Kutter; assistant treas
urer, Mrs. Lee N. Parrish; secretary,
Mrs. j. Paul Albert, Oxford.
Annual reports were made, and the
budget discussed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
Unionists Help Armed Forces
To "CIean Up for Victory"

Organized labor is helping our
fighting men to clean up the Axis
in more ways than one.
A novel idea has been worked
out by United Nations Relief Of
the Labor League for Human Rights
1t is to send gift of soap leaves"
to our soldiers with the slogan.
Clean Up for Victory" These soap
leaves come in little booklet which
informs the soldier that ii is a gift
from American Labor.
Each leaf Of the book is impreg-
mated with soap, and furnishes the
user with sufficient lather to wash
the hands and face. For soldier
on the march. these handy little
booklets are godsend
They occupy less space than a
book of cigarette papers: they make
the large. cumbersome cake of soap
unnecessary: and they reduce the
weight of the soldiers kit appre-
ciably.
In months to come American
troops in the slit renches OF
Guadalcanal or the dusty plains and
mountain gorges of Tunisia will
tear soap leaf from the "Clean Up
for Victory" booklet. add little
water from their canteens. and an
swer the mess call refreshed and
clean. A small thing perhaps. but a
contribution to morale by Ameri-
can labor that will be appreciated.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15

The first quantity of the Clea'
Up booklets were provided, appr,
priately enough, by the Laundry
Workers International Union. Sol
diers who want additional soap
books can get more by sending a
postcard to the Labor League for
Human Rights, 8 East 46th Street,
New York City, or to the union.
In a letter sent to international
union presidents, Matthew Woll,
president of the Labor League for
Human Rights. has expressed the
conviction that organized labor
desires to establish ever more cor.
dial and closer relations with the
armed forces"
i am happy to inform you," he
wrote, that in addition to the
printing, which is done in a union
plant. the soap leaves are made by
union concern whose workers are
represented by the International
Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and
Paper Mill Workers of the United
States and Canada"
Mr.. Woll added that the whole
sale price Of the soap books is SIS
per thousand.
The soap books have been ap-
proved by the New York Office of
the Quartermaster of the United
States Army as a useful item for
men overseas. Shipments to our
fighting men are handled by this
Office The Army can use great
quantities and there is no doubt
that in months TO come American
soldiers will be using the booklets
to wash the dust and CRIME of
Africa and Europe from hands that
will liberate the world.
While the soap books are small
and compact there is still room for
a brief message to our fighting men
from organized labor.
On an inside cover soldiers from
the Solomons to Iceland will read
the following message:
"Ldbor's Pledge TO You
1--WE shall do our utmost so that
1chen you return to your home
and to your job after Hitlerism
is cleaned ub, it pill be to an
america free from insecurity
and unemployment; free from
injustice and intolerance"
I5 HEY.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
JAMES A. WELSH DIES

Services for James A. Welsh, 78,
SOB Franklin Street, who died late
Saturday in Mercy Hospital, were
conducted Tuesday at 2 o'clock in the
Cahill funeral home with burial in
ST. Stephens Cemetery He is sur
vived by his widow, Anna, and two
sons, James and Edward Welsh, all of
Hamilton.
For many years he was clerk in
Hamilton's leading clothing stores
and was member of local Retail
Clerks Union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
WHAT NEXT?

Synthetic crockery now used by the
Navy, is made of a melamine rosin
plastic, to avoid breakage when the
guns are fired and the ship skids side
ways. The saucers are nodded to al
low a 30-degree roll before the cup
overturns, and the soup plates are
also adapted to high sea. In addi-
tion to being lightweight and easily
stacked, the new tableware is said to
be highly stain-resistant and odor-
less.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15

that knows what to think because it
has straight facts and that will man
the machines and do all the jobs that
have to be done, with the same cour-
age and determination that the fight
ing men are showing. Pabulum and
bungling don't help us to keep the
home front on it's toes!-CMW.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
EAGLES INVEST
IN WAR BONDS

Members of Butler Aerie, No. 407,
Fraternal Orde rof Eagles, met Mon
day night in the Eagles temple and
authorized purchase of $1,000 in war
bonds.
A special initiation was planned for
Sunday, January 81, to be followed by
a dinner for members who obtain new
members during the drive.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
Dillman Appointed

Middletown.-D D. Dillman, 1105
Young Street, President of the Ohio
Retail Grocers Association and former
President of the Middletown Associa-
ton, was appointed member of the
Ohio Food Industry Committee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15
WISDOM

The recipe for perpetual ignorance
is: Be satisfied with your opinions and
content with your neutrality-suspicious.
Hubbard.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-15

amazing job of running the main war
scheme. But even at fairly long range
it can be seen that there are admins
traitors who are not doing a good job.
We have right to bellyache about
a bad job.
Maybe we can't be told the whole
Darlan story, but that cannot stifle
our interest in a possible French civil
war.
British correspondents in the
United States can't tell England
how we feel about lot of things,
nor can our correspondents in
London tell us how the English
feel about lot of things.
Something is going haywire.
Would it be pardonable to suggest
that George Creel did better job in
World War | than seems to be getting
done in the same field in this war?
What's happening in the Latin
American field?
All we hear directly is that comfy
prevails, except in Argentina and
Chile, until couple of lines creep
through about some shooting in Mex
leo which might indicate that the
beautiful blonde had done better
job than it was generally supposed
she was doing.
Mr.. Rockefeller never did have a
very good eye for sighting his way
through the labor situation in Latin
America, but unless there is a sound
program in relation to Latin Ameri-
can labor we can lose some pretty
important rounds in hurry.
Isn't somebody missing the boat in
rather CHASTITY fashion? Maybe not,
but possibly yes.
With fighting men going through
about the toughest fighting the world
ever saw, maybe the home-fres boys
might better get off their plush seats
and saw wood
Probably labor will not be found
entirely guilt-free when the day of
final reckoning comes, either, in rela-
tion to Latin America Brother, what
day that could be, perhaps!
When SO many were clamoring for
a second front, the second front was
being put together, exploding right
in the faces of the irritated ones.
BUT, maybe the irritated ones are
right about some other things. Maybe
they're pretty darned right about
claiming air power to the army and
navy and maybe Billy Mitchell was
pretty darned right when he said
Alaska should be the center of Pa
cifc war-and if so, why isn't it?
Those are possible minor matters,
but they're on tongues and in minds
in a lot of places.
While the fighting forces are doing
miracles whenever they are Sin con-
TACT" we need a vibrant, militant,
dynamic home front that knows what
to do because it has enough facts,
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Evening star., 1943-06-06

fend that kind Of business" re-
marked Representative Hartley.
The conference was told Jubal r..
Parten. director of transportation
for the PAW, that by the end of
April, 1914, 1920 900 barrels of pc
troleum products will be moving
into the Eastern seaboard, 22O 900
barrels more than the ordinary
peacetime needs. but he cautioned
against civilian "optimism."
Military Needs Unpredictable.
"The needs of the military are
unpredictable," he declared. 1--WE
can't say what the situation will be.
1t is impossible to determine how
much gasoline the Army and Navy
will require. Everything depends
upon the fortunes of war. Both
OF these services have done every
thing in their power to estimate
their needs but the war could kick
over all calculations in a moment.
You cannot blueprint it,
Mr.. Parten, who will meet with
the special joint committee tomor-
row, indicated he thought the gaso-
line situation could be handled cas-
ier and better If PAW has super
vision over distribution as we'll as
transportation of supplies. The in
ference was drawn from his tes-
timony that the Office of Price Ad-
ministration had fallen down on its
job OF rationing supplies because it
failed to keep records of cou-
pons issued by rationing boards and
as a result more coupons were dis
tributed than there was gasoline
available.
DR.. Parten urged that gas stocks
be appraised on a monthly basis so
they will never be overrun, thus
preventing a repetition of the recent
gas shortage in the East. Under
this plan, he said, the motor fuel
could be saved for essential needs.
Three other alternative plans in
tended to provide more fuel for the
civilian population already have
been turned down by PAW, Mr.. Par
ten explained These included re-
ducing supplies to the armed forces
overseas, transportation of more
gasoline than heating oil and Ger
tifying needs of automobile owners
until the East Coast supply would
eventually vanish.
OPA Attitude Assailed.
John Dressler OF Hackensack. NJ.
representing the Eastern Retail Gas
Dealers Conference, whose member
ship is said to include 10000 gaso-
line station dealers, told the con-
ference the trouble with the gaso-
line situation is due TO the uncer-
tainty in the OPA's attitude and the
constant change in its orders.
Mr.. Parten said four new pipe
lines now under construction are
scheduled for early completion and
would provide material relief along
the Eastern Seaboard.
The II States included in District
No. l. the Atlantic Coast area repre-
sented at the conference, stretch
from Maine through Virginia to the
North Carolina line.