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Evening star., 1943-02-05
Six Eberstadt Units
Shifted 10 Wilson
To End WPB Row
Nelson Settles Fight
Between Production and
Distribution Chiefs
By JAMES Y. NEWTON.


Donald M. Nelson has moved
to prevent a serious rupture
within his organization by trans
ferring six divisions of the Wal
Production Board from the con
troll OF Vice Chairman Ferdinand
Eberstadt. who handles distribu-
ton OF materials, to the office OF
Charles E. Wilson, production
vice chairman.
Whether the action resolved finall,
the diffculties between the two vice
chairmen was not apparent imme-
diately. Rumors of designations and
threatened designations were hearc
around WPB all day yesterday
Some reports were still current to-
day. Mr.. Eberstadt had brought in
some big industry men to head the
divisions to be moved. 1t appeared
likely, however. that both vice chair
men would remain
The divisions transferred are
General Industrial Equipment. Auto
motive, Machine Tools. Safety and
Technical Equipment. Aluminium and
Magnesium and that section of WPB
handling all military and civilian
facility and construction projects
All the divisions will now report to
Mr.. Wilson rather than to Mr.. Eber-
stadt. Mr.. Wilson previously con-
trolled the divisions for Aircraft.
shipbuilding and Radio.
Construction Unit Transferred.
From the standpoint of general
public interest. perhaps the most
important action was transfer of
the section dealing with facilities
and construction projects. The group
includes the Facility Clearance Board,
headed directly by Mr.. Eberstadt;
the Facility Review Committee. di-
rectly under Col. Gordon E. Textor;
Facilities and Construction Program
Branch, headed by Fred Searls, jr.::
the Construction Bureau and the
Facilities Bureau.
It was the facilities and construc-
fion group, acting on orders from
Mr.. Nelson, which undertook drastic
curtailment of all types of construc-
tion throughout the country. 1t
acted to hold down war public works
In Washington. including play
ground and hospital projects pre-
viously approved by the Federal
. Works Agency.
Meanwhile. Mr.. Nelson told a press
hn
green light" for completion of a
large part OF the synthetic rubber
program because there appeared q
very real danger of the Nation ex-
hausting its rubber supply next fall
unless action was taken. He said
If this Nation runs out of rubber,
the United Nations will run out. be-
cause we are the sole suppliers of
the product except for a small
amount produced by Russia"
Special Rubber Plant Equipment.
The WPB chairman said direc-
tives given Rubber Director William
M. Jeffers for top priorities in OBJ
tanning equipment would enable
completion by midsummer of plants
to produce 5000 tons of buna S
rubber, the type which comprises
50 per cent of the rubber called for
in the Baruch Committee report.
He said this represented "55 per
cent Of the buna S requested in
the report. Although this was the
percentage given by Mr.. Nelson. it
was pointed out later, however, that
Mr.. Baruch called for 8450 900 tons
OF buna S. so the plants to be
completed Immediately will provide
for only SIS per cent of that prod
uct. Including the other types OF
Evening star., 1943-02-05

Philatelic note: The one stamp
always sure to be worth the price
paid Is the War savings stamp.
Buy it now.
Evening star., 1943-02-05

The bund has gone. but the bond
is here. Buy it now for victory.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Race Issue Raised
In n. Y. Hotel Case

New York City QLNS).-For the
first time big hotel is involved in a
suit brought on the charge that the
hotel refused to rent a room to a
Negro.
New York District Attorney Frank
Hogan is reported to have promised
CIOUAW representatives that he
will press a suit against the Hotel
Knickerbocker for alleged refusal to
rent room to colored member of a
group of organizers from CIOUAW,
whereupon all the organizers left the
place.
The prosecution will be in the
hands of Lawrence McKenna, chief of
Hogan's Special Sessions Bureau.
Conviction on a criminal charge could
result in a fine up to $500 and Jail up
to 80 days, or both. The outcome may
set an important precedent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Women Make Good
AS Army Inspectors

Washington, d. C. (ILNS) Wom-
en- have done such good job as Army
Signal Corps inspectors that they now
make up 90 percent of the entire in
spection force, the War Department
reports.
The first woman was assigned to
this work less than six months ago in
a Chicago plant making receivers and
generators for airplane beacons.
Other women followed quickly and
now they form the nucleus of inspec-
tion units in factories throughout the
country.
The women do the entire inspection
job, from the mechanical work on the
assembly line to the final check-up of
the extremely complex electrical
equipment. No man who is qualified
for future call to military service can
get job as new employe of one of
these inspection units. Only women
and physically handicapped men are
being hired.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Hamilton Plans For
Postwar Projects

Plans for a postwar city-wide con-
struction, improvement and expansion
program to cost an estimated $685.
$50 were revealed at committee
meeting of City Council last Monday
night.
R. P. Price, City Manager, said a
score of projects to cost $4,857, $3.50 al
ready had been considered by the City
Planning Board and the entire pro-
gram would be approved when other
pending projects are submitted.
The program was worked out at
the request of the Federal Govern
ment to provide stop-gap improve
ment after the war. Government Of
fcials have indicated large sums of
Federal money will be available for
municipal improvements and expan-
sion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Union Family Gives
Two Navy Sons

San Francisco, Calf (ILNS).-The
sacrifices which labor union families
are making in the war to protect
democratic institutions are poignant
ly Illustrated by the experience Of the
Medley family of San Francisco,
California.
E. j. Medley is president of Boiler
makers Union, Local 6. He and Mrs.
Medley reared two sons to young
manhood When the war broke out the
two Medley boys, Clayton, p years,
and James Edward, 18 years, enlisted
in the Navy. Mr.. Medley remained in
war production, and Mrs. Medley kept
the home, waiting for the boys to re-
turn.
The boys will not return. One went
down with his ship in the battle of
the Coral Sea, the other was lost
when his ship was sunk in the Carib-
bean.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Stop These Accidents;
They Help Our Enemies !!

Chicago (ILNS) Casualties to the
u. S. armed forces since Pearl Har-
Dor were 1923 dead, 15,049 wounded
and 81 ,063 missing or prisoners or in
termed - a total of 1926. These fig
ures are from the latest report of the
Office of War Information, released
April "a.
Casualties to American workers
through accidents since Pearl Harbor
were $4,000 dead and 100000 in
jured, on and off the job These fig
ures are from the National Safety
Council.
The Council offers the comparison
as evidence that accidents still are
helping the Axis by draining Amer
ica's manpower that is vital to vic
tory.
The total American toll, workers
and others, since Pearl Harbor is 1885,
600 killed and approximately 13,000,
900 injured, the Council said. Among
the victims were thousands of skilled
workers and key men in the nations
war program who cannot be replaced.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Production Facts Reveal
Labor Is Doing War Job

Indianapolis, Ind.-America' swell
ing volume of war production since
Pearl Harbor proves that the Ameri-
can worker knows that this is his war
and that he is ready to do all that is
required to win it, Wendell Lund, di-
rector of WPB's Labor Production
Division, declared at a United Labor
for Victory rally at the Murat theatre.
''In the coming months, as we enter
the stretch for full production, we
need more than ever the complete CO.
operation of labor and management" "
Lund declared. "Plant labor-manage-
ment committees are the only medium
through which to harness the full en-
ergies of free workers and industry
and to provide the sense of response
bility and self-discipline which will
enable US as a democracy to beat any
system of Axis slavery"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Annual Conference of
acknowledgement
Urged By Bard

Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Bard proposed an annual labor-man-
agement conference which would
function every day in the year
through specially appointed liaison
groups. On the same day that Capt.
Rickenbacker addressed, with his
labor batting urgings, the New York
State Legislature, the Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy was telling the
American Labor Press Association
meeting in national conference:
81 think we are all agreed that la
Dor and the Navy have long buried
any hatchets which had been careless
ly or unthinkingly lying around.
All of us can remember the unhappy
days when management regarded
labor in one of two ways. One was a
feeling of distrust which ranged all
the way from hidden suspicion to
open hostility. The other too often
was form of paternalism which con-
sisted of a company picnic in one
hand while the other held club be-
hind the back. Thank God the respon-
sible leaders who hold such views now
belong to a steadily minor
ity. May their tribe decrease"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
RATION DATES

FOOD: War Book Two-Red E
stamps for meat, butter, cheese, fats,
currently valid; F series good begin
ming May 2; both series valid to May
81. Blue stamps G, H and ] for pro-
cessed foods good through May 81.
SUGAR: Stamp No. IL in War
Book No. / good for five pounds dur
ing May.
COFFEE: Stamp No. % in War
Book No. / good for one pound
through May 80.
FUEL OIL: No. coupons valid in
Ohio and Kentucky. Class l coupons
good for 10 gallons, Glass II for 100
gallons.
GASOLINE: No. 5 A book coupons
good for four gallons through May 21.
A books expire July 21.
SHOES: Stamp No. II in Book No.
good for one pair through June 21.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Why Workers Get
Cash Loans Today

Chicago (ILNS). u Reasons for
borrowing money from small loan
agencies have changed materially un-
der war conditions. So also have the
size of average loans changed.
Reports of loan companies show
that loan averages now run way un-
der $100 and that most loans are for
actually necessitous purposes.
Currently men and women borrow
to pay doctors, to visit sick relatives,
to pay dentists and for similar emerg-
ency purposes.
Lack of things to buy added to
Federal Reserve Board regulations
have cut off loans for instalment pur-
chases almost to the vanishing point
Loans for tax payments form a rela-
lively small item.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Sixteen Nurses to Graduate

Commencement exercises for 16
graduates of the Mercy Hospital
School of Nursing, affiliated with Our
Lady of Cincinnati College, will be
conducted Sunday, May 16, in the
Hamilton High School auditorium.
Two widely known speakers-Mar-
tin Coffey, Middletown, State Com
mander of the American Legion, and
Rev. Marcellus Wagner, Director of
Catholic Charities of the Cincinnati
Archdiocese, were obtained for the oc-
casion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
OWL Asks Starr To Join
Unit To Visit England

New York. - Mark Starr, educa-
tional director of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union for
the past eight years, has been invited
by the Office of War Information, to
join contingent of outstanding
American educators who will visit
England during the summer months,
union headquarters announced today.
Other persons invited by the Owl
and the British Ministry Of Informa-
tion include Mayor Frank Lausche of
Cleveland, Clarence Dykstra, presi-
dent of the University of Wisconsin,
and Frederick L. Redefer, director of
Progressive Education Association.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
WHO'S GOING
TO HOLD THE
ECONOMIC Line?
It's A Mess;
Cure Is Not
Now Visible
By Staff Correspondent

Washington, D. C. ILNS)- Hold
ing the Line" - the big freeze - is a
cockeyed mess as of today.
Astute reporters in Washington
know about this mess and some of
them print pieces about it.
But nobody has yet packed punch
enough to show the whole country
how big or how dangerous is this
mess.
To breach the line anywhere is to
throw it all in danger
No, that isn't the way to say it!
They way to say it is this:
The whole line is in danger = it
has been cracked.
How far it has been recognized in
Washington that the line is in danger
is shown in part by an order placed
on the Presidents desk by OPA, the
handiwork of j. Kenneth Galbraith,
deputy administrator.
The Galbraith plan would permit a
so-called floating retail ceiling, re-
figured by grocers each week, on a
basis of costs plus a guaranteed
profit
That could be met by labor only by
weekly re-furing of wages on a
basis of living costs, PLUS guaran-
teed margin.
Meanwhile Presidents Green anc
Murray are blasting away, but not
getting too far Their criticisms are
fired at Stabilizer Byrnes. They are
blasting at OPA Brown for not hold
ing prices and they are giving Chester
Davis, food administrator, fairly ho1
lashing.
But, torn between a desire to sup
port the President and the needs Of
the rank and file workers for relie1
from the pinch between a milestone o.
infiexible wages and a tide of rising
prices, their work thus far hasn't go
any great distance.
Labor chiefs are not in a position
where they can fire at their opponen
without hitting their commander il
chief. They are on hot spot.
However, hot spot or no hot spot
there may be a showdown not fal
ahead, for the simple reason that i
there isn't some effective action tt
hold the line, not as it is today, bu
as it was some time back, worker!
with dwindling buying power vii
take the bit in their own teeth and d,
unpleasant things to job continuity
threats in consequence notwithstand
ing.
| And it also is in the cards that an,
showdown demand by labor vii
again stir up Congressional fire
which have been for some weeks NOR
or less dormant Congressional anti
laborites want good weapon for
fresh crusade to get encompassin,
laws.
The outlook is thus not good
Largely it stems back to failure t.
take labor into consultation, to brin,
labor directly into the operating pic
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Canteen For Red Cross
Built By Union Funds

Portland, Ore.-Tired and hungry
doughboys passing through Portland
will be provided with a convenient
spot to rest and refresh themselves as
the result of a $4,000 contribution to
the Red Cross by Steam and Marine
Filters Local 235, United Association
of Plumbers and Steamfitters (AFL).
The money will be used to erect a
building in the Union Station to house
Red Cross canteen and a USO
lounge.
The lunch room, stated by Red
Cross volunteer canteen workers, will
serve hot meals without charge to
servicemen. The lounge will be
equipped and stated by the USO.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
OFFICE OF WAR
INFORMATION

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Office
of Price Administration, 1907 Union
Trust Building.
Representative from the Cincin-
natl Area Rent Office will be at the
following stations during May. Regis
tration may also be made at the Area
Rent Office, 126 East Fourth Street,
Cincinnati.
Hamilton, Post Office, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
Every week in May.
Middletown, City Hall, Monday,
Wednesday, Friday. Every week in
May.
Oxford, Post Office, Monday and
Thursday, (afternoons only. Every
week in May.
Franklin. Post Office, Tuesday and
Thursday, yafternoons only. Every
week in May.
Lebanon, Post Office, May 13, 20,
27 and %.
Batavia, Post Office, May Ia and 21.
New Richmond, Post Office, May 19.
Covington, Post Office, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday. Every week in
May.
Newport, Post Office, Thursday and
Friday. Every week in May.
Independence, Post Office, May 20.
Burlington, Post Office, May Is.
Florence, Post Office, May 21.
Walton, Post Office, May 81.
Cleves, Post Office, May II and IL.
Loveland, Post Office, May 20.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Read The Press.

WITH YOUR responsibilities,
w can you afford to let a Head
ache, Muscular Pains, Functional
Monthly Pains or Simple Neural
gia slow you down? DIR. Miles
Anti-Pain Pills have been bring
ing relief from these common dis
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Countless American housewives
consider Anti-Pain Pills almost
as much Of necessity in the
medicine cabinet, as is -four in the
kitchen cupboard. They have DR..
Miles Anti-Pain Pills in the house,
many of them carry these little
pain relievers in purse or hand
bag. They are prepared for these
minor aches and pains that some-
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ARE YOU? DR.. Miles Anti
Pain Pills are pleasant to take
and do not upset the stomach.
Get DIR. Miles Anti-Pain Pills
at your drug store. Regular
package rs tablets 25f, Economy
package 125 tablets $1.00. Read
directions and use only as direc-
ted, n
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
WAR VACATION POLICY

Vacations for war workers-consid-
cred essential by the Government
should be spent as near home as pos
sible, the Office of War Information
said in a summary of the vacation
policies of six principal production
agencies.
The Government policy, owl point
ed out, has two broad phases: first,
vacations are a good idea-they help
boost morale and thereby help boost
production; second, it is imperative
that vacations be planned in the light
of the no-unnecessary-tra policy of
the Office of Defense Transportation
The Office of Defense Transporta-
tion has asked business and industry
to begin and end all employees vaca
tions on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or
Thursdays, and to schedule vacations
throughout the year.
Let's accept restrictions cheerfully
and talk aho,1t the blessing we retain
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Trades and Labor Council
Meets May Eleventh

Some confusion has been caused the
delegates of the Hamilton Co-opera-
tive Trades and Labor Council since
the change has been made to meet on
month instead of alternate Tuesdays.
the End and 4th Tuesdays of each
The next meeting will be Tuesday,
May 18th.
The Building Trades Council meets
1st and 3rd Tuesdays and the next
meeting of this organization will oc-
cur on May 18th.
Delegates to both organizations
will please take notice.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Kansas Law To Get
Its Test In Court

Kansas City, Kan, (ILNS) Kan
sas, which won fame in the World
War period with its Court of Indus
trial Relations, eventually tossed out
the window by the courts, is in for a
second test.
The states new and drastic labor
control law is headed for its own court
testing.
The Kansas City Building and Con-
struction Trades Council and it's sec
retary, Perrin D. McElroy, have filed
suit, alleging that the law is uncon-
stitutional in most of its sections. The
law provides for licensing of unions,
prohibits boycotts, jurisdictional
strikes and several other union prac-
tices.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Middletown Special
Election Tuesday

Middletown, Ohio. Registration
of voters for the special election next
Tuesday, May II was slow and up to
the dead-line Monday night. A light
vote at the election is forecast.
School authorities seek approval of
an additional one mill levy to meet
increased operating expenses. The
levy would provide 100000 year for
two years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Seek $50 Blood Donors

Middletown, Ohio. - Red Cross Of
ficials appealed this week for $50 adj
ditional blood donors to meet the
city's quota for the May visit of the
Red Cross mobile unit. Volunteers are
requested to register at the Girls
Club, lit North Broad street.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Jury Inquiry Ended

The May Grand Jury completed it's
investigation Tuesday after examina-
tion of SO witnesses in 16 cases. A re-
port will be submitted to Common
Please Judge P. P Boil Wednesday.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
CORRECTION

In the April 20 issue of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor Weekly
News Service it was announced that
Frank Murphy had been elected act
ing general president of the newly
formed Alaska Territorial Federal of
Labor. This was an error. The acting
general president is Frank Marshall.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07

ture by means of proper representa-
tion with proper power.
Also the outlook will be colored by
what happens in the case of John L.
Lewis challenge If he "gets his"
certain other unions, bitten hard by
rising prices, will either have to fight
down rampaging membership or go
along with it in battles for wage re-
adjustment
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Sewer Contract Awarded

Butler County Commissioners
awarded a contract for completion of
the Valley View Subdivision sewer
project in Middletown to r. G. Web
ster, Lockland, on his bid of $685.
268.3O.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Nurses To Give Concert

The Mercy Hospital Nusing School
Glee Club will give it's annual con-
cert in the Hamilton High School au-
ditorium May 13. Dorothy McVitty,
station WLW, will be soloist.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
NEW BUSINESSES
Hamilton

Hamilton
Rudy Kersteiner, TO Elaine ave-
nue., electric appliances.
The Texas Co., 5th and Pershing
avenue, petroleum.
Middletown
C. Mcdowell, Al South Broad
street, furs.
E. L. Thompson, 81 N Clinton
street, used furniture.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07

Let's accept restrictions cheerfully
and talk about the blessing we retain.
Evening star., 1943-03-15
Ickes Reminds Nazis
OF Biblical Eye for Eye
81 'hr Associated Frrss.

BF 'hf Associated Press.
BOSTON, March Secretary ot
the Interior Ickes declared last night
that 1T is about time that the de-
mocracies remind the Nazis that
the ancient biblical law of an eve
for An eye and tooth for a tooth
will be invoked against them"
In an address at dinner, of the
New England Jewish National Fund
Council, sponsor Of a Massachusetts
colony in Palestine Mr.. Tckes said:
Il believe that the leaders of the
United Nations should come out i'm
mediately with sharp and deter
mined warning to Hitler and bis or
ganiZed murderers. These. killers
should have it made known to them
that every NaZi who slavs or tor
lures or otherwise mistreats Jew.
anywhere, will be held accountable
for his acts Notice should be served
in no uncertain tone that 1t will not
serve as justification for a killer to
plead that he was merely obeying
orders" 80
At the dinner. held to dedicate the
Massachusetts, colony, which was
planned as new home for 900 war
refugees, certificate designating
Gov. Leverett Saltonstan of Massa-
chusetts as honorary president OF
the colony was presented to him.
Evening star., 1943-03-15

Lorton, Va. He has been refused
use of this equipment, he said, but
he is still trying to get it.
He also has located a number of
tractors, plows, harrows and bull
dozers, formerly used by the
WPA and now held in storage by
the Treasury Procurement Section.
While he has made no formal re-
quest for this equipment, he has
been indirectly informed. he said,
that it is being kept for postwar
development and that its custodians
appear reluctant to allow it to be
used in Victory gardens.
If he can get the equipment, he
said, he anticipates no great difflcul-
ty in getting the manpower to oper-
ate it. Many of the volunteers in
the Victory garden movement have