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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Concentrated Contentment'

Cincinnati, O.-Union label Ra-
leigh cigarettes purchased by the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks for
the armed forces are on their way to
the fighters overseas, the unions Of
flee here has been notified. A letter
from Lieut.. Col Richard S. Sollman,
special service supply officer, says:
"We hasten to acknowledge receipt
of your contribution of concentrated
contentment. We wish to express our
sincere appreciation of your thought
fulness. Relatively few of our civilian
population realize that there appears
to be no saturation point for Amer
lean cigarettes among our soldiers
serving on foreign soil. 1t is also re-
ported that there is no cigarette sub
stitute to be found in any foreign land
for our good American brands"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Mrs. Roosevelt Accepts
Invitation To AFL Executive
Council Meeting Opening Jan. II

Washington, D. C.-Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt has accepted an invita-
tion to visit the quarterly meeting of
the AFL Executive Council which
opens in Miami on Jan. IL.
Mrs. Roosevelt will show members
of the council movies of her recent
trip to the South Pacific and will tell
them of the conditions she found at
the war fronts.
The Executive Council is expected
to consider at the meeting preliminary
reports of the AFL Postwar Commit
tee on matters which require immedi-
ate action by the government, by in
dustry and by labor.
The council will also act on the out
standing issues of the war program,
including unsatisfactory wage condi-
tions, the failure to keep prices in
line, the need for continuation of sub
sides, new aspects of the war produc-
tion program and other important
matters.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
AFL VICTORY HALTS
STRIKE THREAT

Washington, D. C.-The American
Federation of Labor won big victory
for its no-strike policy when the work
ers at the Basic Magnesium, Inc,
plant at Las Vegas, New, voted
against walkout in an election con-
Quoted by the National Labor Rela-
tions Board under the War Labor
Disputes Act.
The vote, according to kilograms re-
ceived at Washington headquarters of
the AFL Metal Trades and Building
and Construction Trades Departments
was:
Total votes cast, 2,941; Against
strike, 1,7O0; For strike, 1919; Void,
%.
The AFL unions representing the
workers under a closed-shop contract
were lined up solidly against the pro-
posed strike. The CIO, however, con-
Quoted an elaborate campaign by
radio, by sound-truck, and by mass
meetings and circulars to induce the
workers to vote for authorization of a
strike. The CIO is contesting the right
of the AFL unions to represent the
workers at Basic Magnesium.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Leo Welsh Reelected Mayor

Mayor Leo Welsh was reelected to
that office for another two-year term
Monday night after one of the oldest
meetings held by City Council in the
entire 16 years of the Council Man
ager form of government.
His election was not made unani-
nous, as has been customary, the
three members voting for Joseph
Toerner and not even suggesting that
it be done. Toerner got the votes of
himself, John Schwalm and Joseph
Spaulding, forming what has been
termed the labor" members of Coun-
ell.
Welsh was elected on the fourth
ballot by votes of himself, Howard
Wilson, Miss Eleanor Frechtling and
Edwin Bartels, the latter three hav-
ing been sponsored by the Hamilton
on-Partisan Council Committee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Senator Mead Hits Silence of
Allies on European Jews

New York City (ILNS) The Jews
of Europe shave been the victims of
one of the most amazing conspiracies
of history technique of silence"
Senator James M. Mead Of New York
charged here.
Mead, staunch champion of labor
in Congress, spoke at an emergency
conference Of the Council of Organ
ization of the American ORT (organ-
ization for rehabilitation through
training Federation.
"In the hour of their darkest dis
tress, we of the United Nations have
spoken to them not one word of
cheer" the Senator said
where we have specifically COM
mitted ourselves to other peoples" he
added, 1--WE have sought to answer the
anguish Of the Jews with g1ittering
generalities, with pious platitudes. !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Airline Pilots Helped U. S.
Victory Over Japs In The
Aleutian Islands OWL Reveals

Washington, D. C.-America's vic
tory in the Aleutian Islands might
never have been achieved without the
brilliant services of commercial air
line pilots who are members of the
AFL Airline Pilots Association, the
Office of War Information revealed.
This hitherto secret chapter of the
war tells an inspiring story of cour-
age and daring by the airline pilots
who flew planes, troops and military
equipment in all weathers to Alaska
and Dutch Harbor when the Japs
opened the attack on the Aleutian
Islands, June 3, 1912 With the help of
these reinforcements, the armed
forces were able to repel the attack
and later to take the offensive and
drive the Japs out.
Retaking of the islands from the
Japs would shave been postponed for
months, according to naval officers, if
air transport had not been able to fly
men and cargo quickly and in great
quantity" the OWL statement said.
'The airline to anywhere" is the
way Owl described the crews and
pilots, in land planes provided by the
Army and seaplanes by the Navy, who
are helping operate "the greatest fleet
of world-girdling transport aircraft
in existence"
Although the nations 18 domestic
and three international airlines have
given half their planes and one-third
of their men to the armed forces, they
are carrying more than twice as much
cargo as before the war and nearly
twice as much mail. And they trans
port only about 25 percent fewer pas
sengers, owl said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
WORD OF ILL OMEN

Charles E. Bedaux, inventor of an
efficiency" or "speed up" industrial
work system has been reported held
"incommunicado" by immigration au-
thorities at Miami under wartime
travel regulations prohibiting citizens
from leaving the United States, ex-
cept for Canada or Mexico, or reenter-
ing without passport.
The word incommunicado is Span
ish, meaning without means of COM
munication; also, in solitary confne-
ment." 1t comes from the old days of
dictatorship in Latin America. 1t is
foreign to every principle of Ameri-
can administration of law and it's use
should stir every American to wrath.
Yet the word has appeared every now
and then in domestic news dispatches
of recent years; apparently prisoners
are being held incommunicado" in
this supposed land Of justice.
Labor has no reason to like Charles
E. Bedaux but it has the same inter-
est as any other part Of the popula-
ton in seeing that all Of his rights
under law, including the right of free
ly consulting counsel, are maintained
And il is difficult to see how they are
being maintained if it is true that he
had been held "incommunicado."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
AFL WORKERS VOTE
AGAINST WALK0UT

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-A big
victory for the American Federation
of Labor's no-strike policy was won
when the workers at the Basic Mag
nesium, Inc, plant at Las Vegas, New,
voted against walkout in an election
conducted by the National Labor Re-
lations Board under the War Labor
Disputes Act.
The vote, according to kilograms re-
ceived at Washington headquarters of
the AFL Metal Trades and Building
and Construction Ira de S Depart
ments, was: Total votes cast, 2,941 !;
against strike, 1,700; for strike, 1919;
void, %.
The AFL unions representing the
workers under a closed-shop contract
were lined up solidly against the pro-
posed strike. The CIO, however, con-
Quoted an elaborate campaign by
radio, by sound-truck, and by mass
meetings and circulars to induce the
workers to vote for authorization of a
strike, AFL headquarters said.
The CIO is contesting the right of
the AFL unions to represent the
workers at Basic Magnesium.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
WerIine Installed AS President

Patrolman Stanley Werlein was in
stalled Tuesday as President of the
Hamilton Charter, Fraternal Order of
Police, succeeding Patrolman Chester
Schick. Other officers installed were
William Blair, Vice President; Her.
schel Seward, Conductor; Albert Os-
borne, Inner Guard; Oscar Decker,
Outer Guard; Gordon Korb, Secre-
tary; Joseph McFall, Treasurer, and
James O'Connor, Turstee. Werlein
appointed standing entertainment
committee for the year. including Sc
ward, chairman, and McFall and Os-
borne, co-chairmen. Plans are being
made for a party to be conducted
within two or three weeks.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
FRIDAY, JANUARY z, 1914
DO THEY WANT DICTATORSHIP? !?

Recent strikes and threats of
strikes have brought a new torret of
criticism of organized labor in large
part Of the daily press, which has
leaped gleefully to the attack, in news
columns, and editorial pages intent on
giving unionism a black eye and un-
dermining it's status in the economic
system.
Typical of the news treatment given
strikes is the report of the Bureau OF
Labor Statistics on November work
stoppages. The report estimated that
300 walkouts involved 100000 work
ers and caused 2,825, 900 man-days of
idleness during the month.
This was 2,825,0OO too many but it
was an insignificant part of the total
working time, as the Bureau of Labor
Statistics made plain. 1t said that
Novemble idleness amounted to lit
tie more than one-third of l percent
of available working time. This is a
picayune percentage, to use a word
recently given prominence by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The newspapers were
perfectly aware of this but built no
headlines on it or other wise gave
prominence to it.
Also, about 80 percent of the total
workers involved and 81 percent of
the idleness were attributed to the
coal strike, which became almost in
dustry- wide Nov l. In other words,
the overwhelming majority of work
ers in the rest of industry was stead
lily at work.
There should be no strikes in war
industries. Union members realize
this as we'll as other citizens.
But as long as there are human
beings, there will be refusals to work
in the face of injustice The only way
such refusals can be prevented is by
establishment of an iron system of
dictatorship. Would the newspaper
critics of labor like that?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
School Employees to Get Increase

The Board of Education, meeting
late Monday, gave formal approval to
a suggestion two weeks ago that en-
ployes in the school cafeterias receive
a 25-cents-a-day bonus because of ad-
vanced living costs.
Other employees, including teachers,
recently were granted an increase of
$5 month bringing the total pay
boost in year to $25 a month.
The board also voted to extend COM
pensation benefits to employees of child
welfare centers.
Frank Shuler was elected vice
president of the board.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Oldest u. S. Pensioner Dead

Washington, D. C.-Mark Thrash, a
Negro who died recently in Chicka-
mauga, Ga, was the governments
oldest retired employe. Had he lived,
he would have reached his 123rd
birthday Christmas Day-and that's a
matter of official record, because his
age had been officially authenticated
by the Civil Service Commission. He
was born of slave parents. During
World War |, he had IA grandsons in
military service. He outlived four
wives, and married a fifth at the age
of 107.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Argued for Same Wrong Seat

Kansas City.-Robert B. Caldwell,
lawyer, found woman in the parlor
car seat that was assigned to him.
She would not move. Another man
also claimed the seat. So Caldwell
went to the dining car and let them
argue. Soon the conductor found him
and explained: "You win. The woman
was in the wrong car and the man
was on the wrong train"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
ARMCO PLANTS AT WORK

Middletown, Ohio. - The American
Rolling Mill Company plants con-
tinued at peak war production this
week unaffected by the strike of steel
workers in other sections of the coun-
try. Company officials said with the
exception Of the Ashland, KY, plant
the company had no contracts with
the CIO.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Smiths Public Sale

Clarence J. Smith and sisters will
hold a public sale on their farm in
Ross township, three miles southwest
of Hamilton and five miles north of
Venice on Route 1913. The sale will be
conducted by Harry j. Honerlaw, auc-
tioneer and Oscar Johns, clerk,
Wednesday, January II, at 1000
o'clock sharp. Horses, hogs, cattle and
farm implements will be sold.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
JURY ENDS INQUIRY

Hamilton, Ohio. = The January
grand jury completed it's investigation
late Tuesday and recessed until
Thursday morning, when report was
submitted in Common Pleas Court.
Twenty-Five cases were investigated.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07
Read The Press.
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| |MAatHo~4wWM
| WAR BONDS
Light For tho New Order

Might Is the only right recognized
by Nazi opponents Of the New Order
30 1t IL necessary to show our air
strength above the cities Of Hitler
Goering- Goebbels.
The message Of incendiary bombs
10 one they understand.
Back the Attack" Buy more
bombs. Buy More War Bonds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-01-07

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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21

Opponents of publicly financ-
ed housing, not wanting the gov
ernment to cut in as COMPETE
ton on what it hopes will be a
postwar building boom, some
times state their objections in
this easy formula:
/. There will be 100000
families in the United States
when the war is over. 2. The
New Deal has maintained that
third of the nation is ILL
housed. 3. Theoretically it
would require 100000 new
or rehabilitatcd dwellings to
meet the housing shortage. 4.
Since average cost of govern
ment housing - including land,
street and facilities-has been
$4,000 per unit, it would cost the
ia payers $65,0O0,000,000 to
build housing for the under
privileged one-third of the popu-
lation who can't afford to pay
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
ROOTIN' TOOTIN'

SAND SPRINGS, Okla, Dec.
2l-(P)-Herding cattle is even
more dangerous than it used to
be in the rootin' tootln' west.
The brakes on a truck carry
ing 43 head Of cattle failed at
the top of a hill. The truck
plunged toward a too-sharp
curve, so the driver let it con-
tinue its straightaWay course.
Through a tourist court 1t went
blowing into a three-car garage,
and demolishing a car.
Rolling 1875 feet farther, 1t
finally stopped on railroad
track.
After the two truCkmen crept
out to survey damages, a train
roared down on the truck, kill
ing IA head of the cattle. The
men still are hunting for the
rest.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
PLEASANT TRIP

Our generals have assured US that there is
shortage Of shells the fronts Correspondents
have passed along the 6 is assurance thot there IS
ceoret shortage. Now some Of our elected repre-
sentotves, members Of the House Military Affairs
Committee have gone TO Europe to look into these
Shortages Perhaps they want to make them Off
ciol.
Soid one "f there is she'll shortage
there is absolutely no excuse for it. The blame can
be Ioid on the doorstep Of these labor borons who
have condoned strikes in wartime"
Sold another: I'VE have to be certain if there is
q shortoee We have been unable to do SO yet. We
have not yet seen General Eisenhower"
If,there is she'll shortage, the couse and cure
ore very likely in this country II there is an overseas
black rorket in eieorets the military undoubtedly
knows obout it and con do as much about it os O
congressional committee.
Sometimes suspect thot this group Of lees-
lotors mainly honkerine for trip to Europe ex-
penses pod.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21

were the two who argued over
today's hand.
Fishbein sat North and Schen-
ken South. Against the five
diamond contract doubled, Fish
bein led the queen of hearts.
Now, what will Schenken play
on the queen Should he play
the nine-spot, indicating that he
wants North TO shift to a spade?
Or should he play the deuce OF
hearts, which would intimate
that he did not want any more
hearts played? And with the
ace and king of clubs in the
dummy, it might suggest that
Fishbein cash the ace Of spades,
if he has it, as the bidding more
or less indicates.
The other point in the argu-
ment is that Schenken should
overtake the queen of hearts
with the king and lead a spade,
eliminating all guess-Work. To
play the deuce might suggest
that Schenken was out Of clubs
and wanted to shift to that suit.
The play of the nine might be
mistaken by partner as request
for the continuation OF heart,
in order to ruff the dummy. OF
course, looking at the four
hands, we can see that overtak-
ing the queen Of hearts with the
king and shifting to spade de-
feats the contract. What actual
ly happened? The nine was
played, North continued with an
other heart, and the contract was
made.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
. SO THEY SAY

II is the total community
which CduCatcS, and the school
and the home must cooperate
with all other community agCn-
Cies in achieving a solidarity of
standards for growing up.-Dr.
Edwin r. Van KlccCk, New York
State Education Commission.
II is a great mistake to sup
pose that because all nations
have equal rights they are there
fore equally impor and
equally effective as factors for
keeping tho peace. They are not.
Harold r Butler. British Min
lister TO Washington.
can't sec a military establish
ment of less than two million
for five, eight, or 10 years We
will need three or four millions
for the immediate future until a
peace plan is cstablished.-Sen.
Elmer Thomas Cd Of Oklaho-
ma, member subcommittee on
Army and Navy appropriations.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21

If Academy Oscars are avail
able for the production, here
are the best bets. Best charac-
ter performance Allan Smiley
for his expression when Mrs.
Dorsey was claimed to have said
Of him, That bum, l don't want
to even mention his name" Dor
scy will have no contenders in
the race for the title of "Senti-
mental Gentleman of Swing
although Jon Hall made a Gar
rison finish which found him
losing by a nose. Best acting
performance: Attorney Jerry
GieSler, as usual.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
0 FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
OUT OF TOUCH

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. 2l-
(Py-A tall, 24-year-old farm
hand, Albert Joseph House, told
Police Court Prosecutor John
Dougherty he knew there was a
war on but was DANCED if he
knew that farm boys had to reg
lister for selective service.
Dougherty said House ex-
planned he had no draft registra-
ton card because he had been
working on farm near Nichol-
asville, KY, and has been "out
of touch with things
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
Q IN HOLLYWOOD

Everyone admitted it was in the
brief case, though, because Jer-
ry had picked it up by mistake.
MORE DIALOGUE
Giesler: Your hair was very
long at the time, Mr.. Hall, with
very long sideburns?
HALL (brightens up-chance
to plug pictures): Yes, Mr.. Gies-
Ter. It was a picture was work
ing on. Queen Of the Nile
Giesler: Not Gypsy Wild
cat"
Hall: No sir.
Giesler: Now we have the
credits we'll established.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-What is one tested method
of keeping sheep from jumping
fences?
A-Tying the rams ears back.
He points his ears forward when
leaping. If he can't point, he
won't leap.
Q-Where did the Gypsies get
their name?
AIN Greece, where they ap-
peared about 400. The Greeks
thought they were from Egypt.
hence the name Gypsy. 1t Is be-
Iieved likely that they were
from northern India, and gath
cred admixtures in wandering.
Q-How long Is II, the Chi
nese measure?
A-705 yards.
Q-What bird besides the os-
trich has been known to bury
its head in fear?
A-The mOOrhen.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
PROBABLY LOOKED IN
THE CITY DIRECTORY

DENVER - LP) - The Tracy
Flemings moved 80 miles from
Confer, Colo, last October,
leaving behind them WhiskerS,
a stray dog they had fed for a
month. ...,
Yesterday footsore Whiskers
showed up at the Flemings
home. They know he never had
been in Denver before. They
don't know how he learned
their address.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
TUNE EN- DOWN

PUEBLO, Colo, Dec. 2l-(P)
Whats that noise at your
house," the woman at the other
end of the line asked Mrs. r, B.
Lackey during a telephone chat.
Just Bob Burns and Fred
Allen talking" said Mrs. Lackey.
We'll, tune them down"
But Mrs. Lackey couldn't. Bob
Burns and Fred Allen are a
couple of soldiers from the
Pueblo Army Air Base.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
DEAD OR ALIVE

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Dec.
81 - up - Merchant Seamen
Bill Murphy Of Los Angeles and
Harold Smith of Albuquerque,
N. NJ, asked Mayor Clyde Ting
ley for "Jocko," city zoo mon
key. 1t was to replace their other
monkey mascot, torpedoed at
sea.
The mayor complied with one
stipulation:
When the war is over, the sail
ors must return the monkey
alive or stuffed"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-21
SOCIAL NOTE

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 81 -
P)-Fifty horses were guests at
a Christmas party given by the
S.P.C.A. Women'S Auxiliary yes
terday.
Gifts included blankets, chest
protectors and bags Of oats. Oats,
apples, a tasty concoction OF
crushed corn and crushed apples
and-in limited quantity-lumps
of sugar we're served.