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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-31
Wake Officer Killed
When Shot By Negro

RALEIGH, May 30.-tR-J. L.
Taylor, constable of Wake Forest
township, was fatally shot tonight
on the Raleigh highway about a
mile south of Wake Forest, accord
ing to Sheriff N. F. Turner.
Sheriff's deputies and members
of the Wake Forest police depart
ment were searching tonight, the
sheriff said, for negro whose
identity was not established but
who was believed to have shot
Taylor while he was making an in
vestigation.
Wilmington police were advised
by radio last night that the name
of the negro is George Edward Lee
He has several scars on his face,
is between SO and 40 years of age,
weighs 100 pounds and is s. TO-
tall. When last seen he was wear
ing khaki pants and an overall
jumper. He is bald headed and of
very dark complexion and re-
sembles an Indian. He poses as a
fortune teller. it was said. Police
warned that Lee extremely dan
gerous and armed. He is charged
with both rape and murder, they
said
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-31
WHITES0X GRAB
TWO FROM MACKS

CHICAGO, May 30 tR Back
ing up the steady pitching of Bill
Dietrich and Orval Grove, the Chi
cago White Sox checked the Phil
adelphia Athletics squirt today by
sweeping the holiday doublehead-
err, 5 to /, and 2 to l, before 15,O37.
Grove gave the AS only six hits
in the nightcap, while Dietrich min
inized II Philadelphia hits n d
four passes in the opener. The Sox
got only six hits off Buck Newso1n
in the first game, but clustered
them all into two innings and util-
lied all in scoring.
Tucker, playing for the + ir
time in more than a week after
being hospitalized by heavy cold,
singled to boost his league-leading
batting average to an even 400.
The Sox' twin victories moved
them to within five and one-half
games of the first place New York
Yankees.
First Game
Philadelphia ..-..-- 010 600 0001
Chicago ........--.. 600 300 O2X-5
Newsom and Hayes; Dietrich and
Treesh.
Second Game
Philadelphia ....... 010 600 000-1
Chicago ..........-- 010 Dol 00x-2
Harris and Hayes; Grove and
Turner.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-31
National League

National League
Cincinnati 4,7; Philadelphia 3,4.
New York 6,5; Chicago 5,4.
St. Louis O,13; Boston 1,3.
Pittsburgh 3.3; Brooklyn, 9,4.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-31
STANDINGS
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
American League

Detroit "a; New York ILL.,.
Chicago So; Philadelphia III.
Cleveland "a; Boston 3,3.
st. Louis 6,4; Washington 49,,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
INCREASES AWARDED
CANADIAN RAIL
WORKERS

Ottawa (ILNS). - The Canadian
War Labor Board has awarded an in
crease of 6 cents an hour in the wages
of all hourly-rated Canadian railway
workers. Daily-paid employees will
receive an increase of 4S cents day
weekly-paid employees an increase OF
S2.SS week and monthly paid en-
ployes an increase of $12.4S.
The decision is estimated to benefit
from 100000 to 175,000 workers. The
boards award was made on an appli-
cation by 18 railway unions for in
crease of 80 cents an hour in wages
of incorporating workers and level
ing of wages of workers in the oper-
ating trades to those paid on eastern
United States railways. The award
is retroactive to Sept. Is, 1943.
The board rejected the union con-
tention that railway workers in Can
ada should be paid same rates as in
the United States, but said that an
investigation showed employees in
other industries in Canada had re-
ceived increases in excess of those
paid railway workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
EndnrSAd hy fha Middlefawn Trades
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1s, 1914.
RACIAL HATREDS AND LIBERTY
DEADLY FOES

The very forces which promote
racial and religious hatreds are de-
structive to freedom and democracy
Intolerance and liberty cannot live
side by side within any nation OF
within our world. They are deadly
enemies. We know now that Hitler's
way of death is the supreme threat to
the American way of life. By the
same token we must accept the fact
that the existence and spread of racial
and religious hatreds within our own
country are likewise dangerous to
American democracy.
Today we are engaged in a global
war for the survival of that democ-
racy. Yet occasionally we hear Amer
leans, whose sons are risking their
lives against the enemy overseas, give
aid and comfort to the enemy by voic-
ing hate and disparagement of rae
ial and religious groups in their own
communities. Anyone who does this
is betraying his own blood and his own
humanity.
Fortunately most Americans have
learned the treacherous pitfalls into
which intolerance leads the unwary.
This war has given us a much needed
education in our basic idealogy and
it has opened our eyes to the false
precepts of the Nazi creed. | am
proud of the fact that organized labor
has contributed extensively to this
educational process.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
SERVICEMEN BOOST
WAR PRODUCTION

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - The
War Manpower Commission reports
that thousands of men from camps
all over the nation are putting in THEN
leave helping to increase war pro-
duction.
In the last 80 days, over 1000 have
held jobs in Chicago plants. The
northern California area U. S. E. S.
offices placed 6,10O soldiers and sail
ors in various war activities in May
and June.
In Wisconsin, every day approx
mately 1,200 service men find war
work of some kind. Seven hundred
and eighty-seven soldiers and sailors
accepted emergency jobs in food proc
essing in Oklahoma last month.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
CHAS. CAHALANE
WINS PROMOTION

AAC Hq., Puerto Rico, August IL
Promotion of Charles Cahalane, OF
Hamilton, o., to the grade Of staff
sergeant in the Army Air Forces was
announced here today at Antilles Air
Command headquarters.
Entering the Army, November 4,
1912 at Cincinnati, Sgt. Cahalane was
assigned to overseas duty, September
4, 1943, and at present is stationed
at an Army Air base in Trinidad,
British West Indies.
Sgt. Cahalane was born March 80,
1922 at Hamilton; his wife, Mrs. Rose
mary H. Cahalane, resides at 1430
Shuler Avenue, Hamilton. He at
tended Hamilton High School and sew
eral Army Air Forces technical
schools.
Bases of the Antilles Air Com
mand, of which Sgt. Cahalane is a
member, are situated strategically
from the western tip Of Cuba to equa-
torial South America, covering an
area 49 times that of Ohio. The bases
form protective barriers for the gate
ways to the three Americas and serve
as stepping stones on the air supply
route to the fighting fronts of the
world
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18

This may be unpopular, but if So
then so much the worse with those
among whom it is unpopular.
While, by the time these words are
read at retail, the strike may be over,
it cannot be too late to condemn that
sort of work stoppage and wonder
what in hell gets into people some
times.
Do men know so little about the
war and thus care so little about it
that they are willing to endanger its
success to serve their own lousy in
tereStS?
Does the human brain grow sc
dumb and numb that it cannot com.
prehend?
Does the human soul become sc
encrusted with the Importance of sell
that it cannot register the greater
issues?
What accounts for it? Do men who
have come here from the ends of this
twisted earth to find freedom and the
chance to live decently care so little
for what they have found that they
are willing to sell it out for nickles
and dimes?
4
1t is important to end such a strike
1t also is important to find out what
sort of thinking goes on in the brains
Of men to make such strike possible
There can be no reason big enough
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

more actively in the development Of
the nations spiritual and artistic tai
ents; it's arts and sciences and the
consciousness of it's cultural inner
itance."
Freedom of press is demanded
There is also the stipulation thai
papers which continued publication
under German occupation and thu.
served the enemy, be banned. The
ban is to be followed by the remova
of editorial and managerial "unde
sirable elements"
All traitors and indisputable col
laborationists are to be Immediately
and severely punished, but "undisci
plined and illegal manifestations O!
popular rage, such as the 'hatche
day measures proposed by some ele
ments are to be rejected"
The tradition of "bank secret
Dutch practice against revealing de
tails of banking accounts) should b.
abolished to aid in the tracking dowl
of Nazi loot. Along with this demand
was one urging the confiscation O
war profiteers' capital. The mani
festo also called for the speedy re
patriation of deported Jews and tn
abolition of anti-Jewish DEGREES.
The document concluded with tn
two-fold demand that 1-immediatel.
after the liberation "the peoples rep
resentation must be regulated by re
organization which will give thos
who have fought in the underground
army the representation due them un
til elections are held; :. 2-"humal
equality and the irreplaceable sig
nifcance of personality are acknowl
edged and all discrimination on tn
ground of religion, race or class is t
be rejected"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
GOOD HOLIDAY ADVICE

For those so fortunate as to have
a holiday on Labor Day, here's some
good advice from the National Safety
Council:
/. Stay near home over the holiday
Don't travel unless you abso-
lutely have to.
2. Give your car holiday vacation.
1t saves gas, tires-and lives.
If you must drive, be extra care
full.
3. If you swim-wait an hour after
eating +. don't go in alone
swim near shore and within your
depth :. :. don't show off.
a. Take it easy. Over-exertion and
over-exposure to sun on holiday
keep lot of people away from
the job the next day.
5. Dedicate Labor Day to the boys
who are fighting for our inde-
pendence-by avoiding accidents
that waste manpower, time and
material vital to victory.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
RATION TABLE
SUGAR

Stamps 80, 81 and 80 (Book A. valia
fo. five pounds indefinitely; stamp ~
(Book A. valid for five pounds LOT
home canning through next February.
Spare stamp 81 must accompany
application (Form R-323) to board
for additional home canning sugar.
SHOES
"Airplane" stamps / and 2 (Book
81 are good indefinitely.
CANNED GOODS
Blue stamps AS through Z-S, A-5
through F-5 Book A. are valid IN
definitely. Worth 10 points each.
Red stamps A-8 through Z-8 (Book
4) and AS through C-5 are valid m
definitely. Worth 10 points each.
TIRES
Tires of commercial vehicles must
be inspected every six months or
every 5000 miles, whichever is first.
Passenger tire inspections are re-
quired only when applying for tire re-
placements. Inspection records must
be retained for use when tire or sup
Elemental gasoline applications are
i made.
GASOLINE
A-Coupon 12-Valid for gallons
through September 21. B-3, B-4, C-3
and CA stamps are good for gal
Ions. Valid until used.
r non-highway- coupons are
good for 5 gallons each and E nom
nighway-use coupons for gallon each
until invalidated. R coupons are valid
only when gasoline is delivered to the
premises. They may be exchanged at
local boards for E coupons valid at
filling stations.
FUEL OIL
Periods and 5 coupons are valid
through September 80. Period l cou-
pom of 1944-45 heating season is valid
indefinitely. All coupons have loyal
Ion unit value, with most coupons
worth several units EACH
All change-making and reserve cou-
pons are now good. Return applica-
tions for next seasons rations as soon
as possible.
LIQUOR
Current period expires Sept. 16
with whisky and domestic gins as the
only spirits rationed
USED FATS
Each pound of waste fat is good
for two meat-ration points.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18

A recent study by the American La
Dor Conference on international At
fairs comes to the conclusion that a
system of far-reaching social and eco
nomic reforms, revolutionary in their
final effects, but achieved by demo-
cratic methods, will be the aim of the
European masses, after Germany's
defeat.
Sweeping social, political and eco
nomic reforms visualized for postwar
Holland by representatives Of both
conservative and leftist underground
groups now in the occupied homeland
seem to bear out this prediction, in
part at least. The nature of these
reforms was outlined in a joint mani
festo issued by the conservative news
paper Vrij Nederland and the Social
list publication Het Parool.
The manifesto calls for the con-
tinuation Of a parliamentary demo-
cratic state with Queen Wilhelmina
as its recognized head, and for uncon-
ditional obedience to the authority OF
her returning government. The demo-
cratic principles inherent in the Dutch
governmental system, are to be ex-
tended to the social and cultural field
! This will call for representative of
workers and consumers in industrial
managerial affairs. National and in
ternational governmental participa-
tion in the productive processes is
also a goal of the manifesto writer's
They believe that such participation
will minimize the frequency and shock
of economic crisis and depressions.
| Along with liberal extension OF
social security, such as old age pen
sions. aid in times of sickness, equal
education opportunities for those
qualified, the manifesto declared that
the estate is required to participate
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
ing. Just check yourself. How much
could your job be improved by cutting
down on miscellaneous conversation !?
WHAT NEXT?

Nylon and stainless threads are
being used instead of Japanese silk
in British civilian and base hospitals
for stitching wounds. A surgeon at
a municipal hospital in Manchester
said: "These threads are very pliable
and easy to sterilize. Japanese silk
is still in use in few hospitals, but
as the war goes on the new material
will be used more widely"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18

to cause such strike. Excuses, yes.
Excuses are cheap. But justification,
no, except in Mein Kampf and in the
distorted propaganda of DR.. Goebbles.
It is true that the right to strike
must be preserved. But don't the
fools of Philadelphia know that the
quickest way to abolish right is
through it's grave abuse?
There can be no right important
enough to endanger the nations war!
Rights are relative. The men in
Brittany have their rights, too.
What are the strikers of Philadel-
phia saying about THOSE rights?
Labor gave it's pledge to abandon
stoppages of work for the sake of the
war.
It is true that federations and lead
ers cannot control all the local fire
brands and sellers-outers. But by
and large the pledge has been kept.
However, here comes a great mass
of workers to say "the hell with it.
In the second largest war produc.
tion center in the country, mass trans
portation goes dead.
When the children of those strikers
some day ask, "And what did YOU
do in the great war, Daddy?" let il
be hoped that they squirm warmly and
sweat profusely as they try to make
their alibi.
Yes, you guys in Philadelphia, what
DID you do to the great War?
And WHY did you do it?
Your answer NOW might be worth
something-if you tell the truth.
Was it truly because handful Of
Negroes were in training for higher
jobs?
It doesn't seem possible that here
could be the whole reason. But if il
is, then stand up and say so. Lee
it be known what manner of men yol
are!
If THAT is your real reason, Hitler
will be tickled pink. He is ticklet
anyway, no matter what your reason
but THAT one would please him es
pecially.
Again, all this may be unpopular
but if so, let's find it out. Let's read
just our way of thinking about victory
and liberty and world fit for thu
further development of civilization.
Strikers, far behind the lines, have
a right to jeopardize the outcome o1
war, or they haven't. A pledge i:
something you keeper else you are
liar and perjurer.
Where do we go? What do VIZ
think? What is honor? What il
patriotism, besides being something
behind which scoundrel hides?
You fellows in Philadelphia, YOU
give us the answers-CMW.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
HUGE PUBLIC WORKS
PROGRAM URGED
TO PROVIDE JOBS

New York Sensational testi-
mony was given here by two of the
nations outstanding city planners at
hearing of the House Committee on
Post War Economic Policy on the
need for creating jobs through public
works programs after the shooting
ends.
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia and his
park commissioner, Robert Moses, de-
clared that after the war ends "mass
unemployment" may be expected, and
both predicted consequences of the
most tragic nature unless measures
are adopted at once to deal with the
situation.
The Federal government has de-
layed SO long in making plans that it
has already missed the bus" declared
Moses, who has won national fame
because of handling of huge public
improvements in New York.
Mayor LaGuardia said that if work
ers are to be provided with jobs, il
will be necessary to launch a fve-yea1
public works program costing $40,-
o00,000,000
While that sum may seem large, he
added, it represents only a fraction
of what is being spent for war.
"If we don't spend it," LaGuardia
warned, 81 predict we will spend a
great deal more in the long run and
get less out of it."
Just as soon as the war blows up in
Germany, (which | hope will be real
quick" LaGuardia told the committee,
New York City is ready to go ahead
with postwar plans calling for an out
lay of S1,27O,000,00O.
But that will not be sufficient, he
emphasized, saying that neither New
York nor any other city in the country
can finance an adequate post war
works program without Federal aid.
Declaring the wars end will bring
"dislocations more serious than any
thing in the history of the country"
Moses urged haste in organizing 15-
billion-dollar works program to tide
the nation over reconversion period.
He said his figure was more "real-
istic" than LaGuardia's 4O-billion-
dollar estimate, because the time had
run out in which to plan the spending
of the greater sum-"
Moses lashed out at those who con-
tend that, because Of the war debt, it
would be unwise to use borrowed
money to create jobs.
"If you face the situation you faced
in 1885," he said, with millions of
men out Of jobs, then you'll find the
money. You'll either provide jobs or
set up some kind of Beveridge plan
(the social security scheme they are
talking about in England) or double
the relief load"
Explaining that he is "a Republican
and a conservative" Moses warned
the committee that "unless Democrats
and Republicans alike take the view
that they have responsibility for un-
employment, they are going to lose a
lot of ground and face lot Of
trouble"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
TOO MUCH TALKING

Most of us are guilty of doing too
much talking. 1t is estimated that
in the United States, millions of hours
are spent each day in idle chatter. If
all of this time were spert in doing
and in trying to improve our jobs, the
results would be amazing and crafty
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18

Walter Winchell shouted over the
radio, eve will not tolerate the in
tolerant" Eventually everybody gets
tired Of being tolerant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
WISDOM

Nothing except a battle lost can be
held as melancholy as battle won.-
Duke of Wellington.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18

Many good-looking girls don't know
the score. BY the time they know the
score, they're no longer looking.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18

Every girl is beautiful at seventeen,
it is said, but she doesn't stay sew
enteen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
THE -
CHERRY TREE

Where with our Little Hatchet We tell
the truth about many things. sometimes
profoundly. sometimes aippantly. some
times recklessly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-18
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.

Issued Weekly at sac Market Street
Telephone 1895 Hamilton, Obi
Evening star., 1944-08-18
Truck Operators Denied
Injunction 10 Halt Raise

The Midwest Truck Operators
Association and more than 100
common carrier firms yesterday
were denied a temporary injunction
IN District Court in their fight to
prevent enforcement of War
Labor Board directive ordering a
pay increase Of 7 cents an hour for
1000 truck drivers.
Counsel in the case agreed that
a temporary injunction could have
no effect since the lines were seized
by the Government last week and
now are being operated by the Office
of Defense Transportation.
While still leaving open the suit
for permanent injunction and
declaratory judgment against the
WLB and the Economic Stabiliza-
ton Director, Justice T. Alan Colds
borough of District Court pointed
to recent Court Of Appeals deci-
sions in which the appellate court
held WLB directives not subject to
court review and declared: II can't
do anything about It."
Then, before overruling the mo-
tion for . preliminary injunction,
Justice Goldsborough said:
"As q matter Of fact. practically
the Court of Appeals appears to
have held that the judicial process
Of the Government is abolished
whenever the legislative or execu-
tive branches see fit to act under
directive legislation"
Evening star., 1944-08-18
Truman Accepts Place
On Liberty Party Slate

Senator Truman, Democrat. of
Missouri today accepted the vice
presidential nomination of the Lib
eral party of New York State. He
told a delegation which visited his
ofhce that Il feel that all the lib
eral elements In the country will be
united behind the Democratic ticket
In the November election.
In turn, Alexander Rose of New
York City. chairman of the delega-
ton, told President Roosevelt's run
ming mate that the Liberal party ex-
poets to cast 100000 votes for the
Roosevelt Truman ticket In New
York State alone. The party. he
said, also will conduct a campaign
among other progressive groups
nationally.
The Liberal party was formed by
right-wing elements of the Ameri-
can Labor party. It circulated peti-
tions to put the names of President
Roosevelt and Vice President Wal
lace on the New York State ballot
but announced that Mr.. Wallace had
declined the nomination and that
Senator Truman's name would be
substituted. Party spokesmen said
the petitions, filed in Albany earlier
this week, bore 175,000 signatures.
Evening star., 1944-08-18
Discharged Flyer Faces
Impersonution Count

Donel De We're Blair, %, forme,
Night ofncer who, according to the
FBI, was asked to resign from the
Army Air Forces in May after issu-
Ing bad checks, will be arraigned
before United State Commissions,
Needham c. Turnage Monday on 8
charge Of impersonatine q seconc
lieutenant.
FBI agents said Blair, after leav.
Ing the service, issued bad check.
from Chicago to Washington, pass.
ing 66 In New York alone. From
June to II he passed IL checks
totaling $l89.s0 in Washington, II
was alleged. while wearing the ON.
GERS uniform. -
He was brought here to answer
the impersonation charge after re.
ceiving q suspended sentence IN q
New York magistrates court on q
charge Of passing bad checks.
He was held under $500 bond ves-
terday following preliminary hear
ing. His home is in Dunkirk, N. Y.