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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
TRADES COUNCIL

Hamilton Cooperative Trades and
Labor Council met Tuesday night in
regular session with a fair attend
ance. Ralph Morningstar presided.
A communication was read from
the advertising firm of Leap and Pitt
ger, Cincinnati, Ohio, in which they
ask information regarding the coun-
cil's outing which will be held at Le-
Sourdsville Lake, Saturday, July 20.
The agreement entered into with
the LeSourdsville Lake management
for the outing was read to the dele
gates and accepted.
The proposed Labor Day celebration
Of all labor organizations in Hamilton
was discussed.
A communication was read from the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, and
signed by Charles Bales, Jr., soliciting
a contribution for their liquorless club
which will be opened in the near fu-
ture. A donation was given.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
.IBEW AND ARMY JOIN
in APPEALS FOR
ELECTRICIANS

Washington, D. C.-The Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers responded wholeheartedly to ur-
gent appeals from the War Depart
ment for electricians on two must"
war projects-the Hanford Engineer
ing Works, Pasco, Wash, and Clinton
Engineering Works, Knoxville, Tenn.
President Ed. j. Brown and Secre-
tary G. NJ. Bugniazet rushed mes
sages to every local asking that mem
bers volunteer for these projects, even
if that involves a sacrifice. They
pointed out that grave consequences
and additional casualties" may be in
Cured by the armed forces if not
enough electrical workers respond.
Arrangements were made by which
LBE.W. locals will advance rail coach
fares and subsistence money for men
who leave for the projects. The sum
is to be returned to the locals by the
contractors on the undertakings.
Under program worked out by
Undersecretary of War Robert P. Pat
terson with the IB.E.W. and the Ma
tional Electrical Contractors Associa-
tion, skilled electricians are to be
asked to take 90-day leaves of absence
from their present jobs. Their en-
ployers are to be requested to keep
the jobs open for their return and to
maintain their seniority rights.
Workers who respond will get regu-
lar union scale-$1 65 an hour at
Pasco with total earnings of $100.65
for 54-hour week, and $1.50 at Knox
vile, with S105 for a 60-hour week
Upon completing 90 days of work
they will get certificates of service
from the War Department. Good food
and dormitory facilities are available
at both projects, the department said
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
CHALLENGE DEWEY
TO TELL PROGRAM
ON EMPLOYMENT

New York City S).-Charging
that Gov. Dewey had sidestepped the
most important issues of the day in
his acceptance speech, Norman
Thomas, Socialist candidate for Pres
ident, demanded, in series of ques-
tions, that the Republican candidate
make clear in what ways his policies
differed from those of the Democrats.
Thomas spoke over the Mutual Broad
casting System.
Condemning Gov. Dewey's MACH
avellianism" in pretending to be
drafted, Thomas challenged the Re-
publican nominee to answer the fol-
lowing questions:
care you satisfied with any official
statement of our war and peace aims
and if not, what do you propose?"
GLOW many American lives must
we invest in the Anglo-Russian power
politics game in Europe?"
"Have you hope to offer the colored
peoples of Southeastern Asia and the
world, to whom the Cairo declaration
offered nothing?"
What hope have you of the dura-
bility of triple alliance in a new
League Of Nations ?"
Speaking of the home front, Thomas
asked Dewey to describe how he would
reduce the peace-time bureaucracy
and what he planned to do with the
new public domain" the one-fifth OF
the countrys factory facilities which
now belongs to the people. Citing the
Republican record in the depression
years, Thomas asked how Gov. Dewey
would bring about high employment
Putting himself on record, Thomas
called for an immediate political peace
offensive and full production, under q
program of democratic socialism.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
STATE MEDICINE
(From the Journal of Electrical
Workers.

When the American Federation of
Labor drew it's new bill on social Sc
curity, providing, among other things,
for an insurance plan for medical
care, it based it's policies upon sound
social insurance basis. The medical
care sections of the Wagner Murray
Dingell bill are purely contributory
plan of social insurance. They pro-
vided merely for ways of financing
medical care and capitalization. They
do not outrage any of the accepted
principles of Americanism such as
private initiative. They do nothing
toward interfering with the medical
profession and it's true services to the
underlying population.
Despite these facts, the medical pro-
fession has attacked this bill and has
spread propaganda to the effect that
this was plan that would undermine
the medical profession.
While this contest was going on,
other events of farfung significance
were taking place. In accord with
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
OCCUPIED NATIONS
ASK u. S. TO FEED
HUNGRY CHILDREN

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) Rep
resentatives of four nations occupied
by the Germans in Europe conferred
with Secretary of State Cordell Hull
on the question of having food sent
to children of their countries, on Swed-
ish ships, because of apprehensions
that another winter of war in Europe
will bring the food situation to a
critical point.
The Representatives were Count
Robert van der Straten-P PonthoZ, Bel
gian ambassador; Wilhelm Munthe de
Morgenstierne, Norwegian ambassa-
dor; Baron w. van Boetzelaer, Min
ister- Counselor of the Netherlands
Embassy, and Henri Hoppenot, dele.
gate of the French Committee of Ma
tional Liberation.
The subject has been under consid.
Grafton here for some time and the
delegation presented a memorandum
on the situation. 1t is hopeful that ar
rangements will be made to send vita
minis, flour, powdered milk and Other
essential foods.
The American Federation of Labor
executive council in January urget
sending of food to the children of Eu
ropean nations occupied by the Ger
mans.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
COURT DEPORTATION
ORDER STANDS in
HARRY BRIDGES CASE

San Francisco. - Harry Bridges
West Coast CIO leader, received a
second rebuff in his Federal Court
fight to avoid deportation to his ma
tive Australia as an undesirable alien
who had been a member of the Com
munist party.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
in a three-to-two decision, upheld a
District Court decision of Feb. 8, 1943
in which Judge Martin l. Welsh de-
MED Mr.. Bridges petition for writ
of habeas corpus.
Attorney General Francis Biddle or
dered Mr.. Bridges deportation on the
grounds that he had been a Commun-
ist and that the party was San organi-
zation that believes in, advises, advo-
Gates and teaches overthrow by force
and violence of the Government of the
United States"
The majority opinion of the court
stated fatty that the record in the
case showed "evidence firstly that the
appellant had been a member of the
Communist party since he entered this
countr yand secondly, that the Com
munist party believes in, advocates
and teaches the overthrow by force
and violence of the Government Of the
United States"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
Manpower Referrals
On Voluntary Basis

Wa shington, D. C. - The new
manpower priority referral system
does not mean that worker is COM
PEELED to take job offered him, it
was emphasized by Chairman Paul V.
McNutt of the War Manpower Com
mission.
Mr.. McNutt declared the regulations
provide that workers be directed to
jobs for which they are best fitted and
for which wages are not substantially
lower than those they have been get
ting.
Workers subject to priority referral,
Mr.. McNutt said, shall be given
freedom Of choice as to the jobs they
wish to accept" and the same free
dom will be accorded employers as to
the selection of workers they wish to
hire.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
Coffey Speaks Here Sunday

The annual convention of the
Fourth district, American Legion,
to be held next Sunday in Hamilton,
is arousing unusual attention through
out the area comprising six counties,
according to the flow of reservations.
"All indications support belief this
will be the best district convention in
recent years." Carlisle Law, comman-
der of Frank Durwin post No. 1873, the
host organization, said Monday.
Martin V. Coffey (national vice
commander of the Legion) is favor
ite throughout the district and an
nouncement that he will be on the
program will, in itself, bring scores
of visitors"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
HAMILTON MARINE
PROMOTED TO SERGEANT

Cherry Point, North Carolina
Russell E. Simmons, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Simmons, 1876 Pleasant
avenue, Hamilton, Ohio, has been pro-
NOTED from Corporal to Sergeant.
Sergeant Simmons is serving as an
aviation mechanic with the Ninth Ma
rine Aircraft Wing which is in COM
bat training here at the largest air
station in the Marine Corps.
His wife, Mrs. Ada Simmons, is liv-
ing in Hamilton.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14

past policies Of the nation the Con-
gress was providing for medical care
for returned soldiers. Already sew
eral millions of veterans, relics Of the
first World War, received free from
the government medical care at gov
ernment hospitals.
When the present war is over, fully
100000 men will be eligible for this
state medical care in government hos
pitfalls. Thus, quite without fanfare or
objection, fully 20,0OO,OOO Americans
will be receiving the benefit of state
medicine, vastly different system
from the social insurance proposed by
the American Federation of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
Police Union Assails
Belittling Films

Los Angeles (ILNS) The Los An
geles Police Employees Union, an
American Federation of Labor affili-
ate, has condemned motion pictures
(which depict members of the police
profession as persons whose mental
quotient is that of subnormalcy."
Sgt. Tom James, author Of the reso-
luton passed by the union, explained
that repeated attempts to dissuade the
filmmakers from casting the police
men in an unfavorable light have
been rebuffed and that the unions
public relations committee has been
instructed to use every means at its
command to put stop to it.
James said the policy of belittling
the policeman is "subversive" and
creates dangerous impression in the
minds Of youth.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
President Signs Bill Raising
U. S. Night Printers Pay

Washington, D. c. (ILNS) Pres
ident Roosevelt has approved legis-
lation giving a Is per cent wage in
crease to clerical and mechanical
employees of the night force of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
The legislation benefits between 5000
and 1900 workers.
Government employe organizations
long have campaigned to establish
this differential between day and night
workers throughout the government
establishment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
NEW BUSINESSES
Hamilton

C. o. McQuiston, Main street, Col
lege Corner, confectionery.
Mrs. oliver Therrien and Opal
Dean, 221 Court street, restaurant
Austin l.. Lamb, 610 East avenue
service station.
Clifford l.. Lamb, 610 East avenue
service station.
Clifford Bradford, 1862 Pleasant
avenue, amusements.
MiddletOwn
Kent A. Fairburn, 2504 Miami ave-
nue., groceries and meats.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
Experts Find BIS
Understates Costs

Washington, D. C.-Three independ-
ent experts working for the Presi-
dents Cost of Living Committee re-
ported that the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics index grossly understates'
the rise in living costs.
AFL Secretary Treasurer George
Meany declared the report IDEALS q
solar plexus blow to the Administra-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14

tion's arguments for maintaining the
vicious Little Steel wage formula"
The experts found the BIS yard
stick doesn't apply to about half the
familie sof the nation and doesn't in
clude many added expenses forced
upon workers by wartime conditions.
If the cost of living means the amount
of money a family spends for the COM
modities and services it buys, then
"the widespread opinion that the index
grossly understates the rise in the cost
of living is justified their report held.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
Eagles Annual Picnic Saturday

On Saturday, July Is, the facilities
of LeSourdsville Lake will be dedi-
Gated to the throngs in attendance at
the forty-frst annual picnic held by
the Hamilton lodge, Fraternal Order
of Eagles.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14

If you have lost faith in everything
else, it might help bit to begin be-
lieving some of the things you think
amt so.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14

When man is lost he doesn't know
where he is, but he knows where he
isn't.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14

rebuilding
the human
wreckag ge,
making hap
py, US eful
men out of
w ar S cas-
ualties.
The army
alone has
SO hospital
b e d S or
eVery 1000
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14

soldiers. Tt has $50 hospitals with
100000 beds from coast to coast.
From these hospitals the
manned and the mentally i'll will
come marching back to their
rightful places in this and other
communities. The money you are
lending to your government in
the Fifth War Loan will pave the
road to rehabilitation for count
less Purple Hearts.
We have no right to assume
that we do not have to pay a
terrific price for our victories
over the Nazis and the Japs. The
least we at home can do is to
give our wounded fighting men
the best possible care. 1t is up to
every individual at home to dou-
BILE any previous personal War
Bond quota. Back the attach
Buy more than before.
THE EDITOR.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-14
To the People
of this Community

Your War Bond dollars will be
at work for a long time to come
long after the fury of the in
vasion battles has died away
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Soldiers Vote
Passes Senate

WASHINGTON, March 14.-CUP)
The senate Tuesday approved the
compromise soldier vote bill, AZ to
81, despite the opposition of Ma
jority Leader Alben w. Barkley.
The vote came after two days
of debate on the controversial meas
ure. House approval of the bill
was considered assured. 1t then
would go to President Roosevelt
for veto or signature.
Opponents of the compromise bill
charged that it would restrict the
number of soldiers who could vote.
Supporters claimed that it would
facilitate voting by more soldiers
han are eligible under present
law.
Downey voted against the meas
ure, while Johnson. favoring, was
paired
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Knox Sounds Call
For 100000 Men

WASHINGTON, March IA CUP)-
Secretary Of the Navy Frank Knox
said Tuesday that the navy would
need almost 100000 more men to
meet the navys goal Of 3,006,000
men by the end of the calendar
year
The men will be needed to man
the fleet which will expand this
year at an average of nearly II
teagoing ships a day.
Knox told a press conference that
the navy strength would be even
higher next year but that when the
100000 mark is past the navy will
start leveling OFF en- induclions,
barring unforeseen developments,
Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs,
chief Of naval personnel. who was
present at the news conference,
stimated that the strength of all
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Tush! Tush! What
NOTHING So Biu?

PHOENIX, Ariz., March 14.-(UP)
Take me to the Pennsylvania
station" 60-year- mailman told
cab driver Tuesday morning as
he hoped into the cab.
Upon arrival at the Phoenix union
station, the passenger gazed be-
wilderingly at the building and then
attempted to run away in the op-
posite direction. The cab driver
caught the man and took him to
the police station
Officers said the man told them
he was sure he was in Philadelphia
and wanted to be taken to a street
address there. A search of the
mans pockets revealed that he had
railroad tickets to cities all over
the west
Police said they believe he is an
amneSia victim.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
0PA Studies Cut
In Gas Rations

WASHINGTON, March 14.-CUPD
Motorists in the midwest and far
west are to learn officially today
whether their "a" gasoline ration
coupons ARE to be cut from their
present three-gallon value to the
two-gallon level prevailing in the
east. .-...
Office of Price Administration
officials said the move was under
consideration and that the final
decision would depend on second
quarterly civilian gasoline alloca-
tions to be announced soon, prob
ably today, by the Petroleum Ad-
ministration for War.
Officials emphasized that a re-
sumption of the ban on pleasure
driving in the eastern states was
not now under consideration as a
mean of compensating for any cut
in the gasoline ALLEGATION for high
way use.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Gas Cut
Comes
To West
SIa.,h Hits All
Area West
Of AIIe9henys

WASHINGTON, Mar. Ia.
(UP)-Price Administrator
Chester Bowles Tuesday or
dered the "a" gasoline ration il
all states west of the Allegheny
mountains cut from three to two
gallons week, effective March p.
He also reduced the permissible
"B" mileage in five Pacific states
by go miles a month.
No changes were made in any
gasoline rations in the II east coast
states. Nor were &C" rations any
where affected.
Reduction of gasoline consump-
ton by motorists is necessary,
Bowles said, because the amount
allotted by the petroleum admins
tration for civilian use in April,
May and June is expected to be
nine per cent less than in the cur
rent quarter. Farm needs for gas
oline will be increasing.
CITES SAVING
Rationing Chief Bryan Houston
estimated the ration changes would
Continued en- page 6, col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
1000 Japanese
Slain in
Suicidal Sortie
Yankees Now
Foe Down at
Bousainville
ALLIED HEADQUAR-

A LIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Southwest Pacific,
Mar. Ii. (UP)-U. S. troops
killed an estimated 1000 japanese
soldiers in smashing a desperate
suicidal enemy counterattaak in
southwestern Bougainville. it was
disclosed Tuesday. while other
American forces. $50 miles TO tn
west. occupied two more islands in
the Admiralties.
A communique from Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's headquarters au-
nounced that American troops
landed oil Hauwei and Butjo Luo
islands in Seacler Harbor off Los
Negros and only several miles from
Lorengau on the main sland Of
Manus.
Artillery and naval bombardment
covered the landing party. which
met only slight opposition as the
Americans extended their campaign
for the control of the islands.
A eispatch from American head-
quarters at Guadalcanal described
the japanese attacks on Bougain-
vile Saturday as "fanatical" charg-
es which at times carried the enc
my troops TO within 10 feet of the
muzzle OF U. S. machine guns.
In one attack, nearly 500 Japa-
nese were killed as they attempted
to break through the American
Torokina perimeter on Empress
Augusta Bay.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Britain 1ightens
Lines on Fire

LONDON. March 15.-CUP)-
Prime Minister Churchill told COM
mons Tuesday that restrictions on
travel between Britain and Ireland
were only the first step" toward
the isolation of Fire from the outer
world during the critical period
now approaching
Churchill's remarks were taken
as confirmation that Britain was
preparing stronger measues for
quarartining Fire. including prob
ably the closure of its border with
northern Ireland or at least sharp
er borde contol. to prevent Axis
agents in southern Isrand from
learning details of Allied prepara-
tions for an invasion OF western
Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
WASHINGTON. Mar. IA

WASHINGTON, Mar. IL.
(UP) IT h e all important
aim of saving the lives of u.
S. fighting men stood out as the
primary objective Tuesday in a
series of pressing questions con-
fronting American diplomacy.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
and other high ranking officials
have made it clear that problems
involving the United States and
the Vatican, Fire, Spain and Argen-
tina will be approached by this
government with the attitude that
the security and safety of the
American armed forces must in no
way be jeopardized
CITES ATTITUDE
This attitude is uppermost in the
minds of American. diplomats as
they consider these problems
/. The plea of Pope Plus XII
that Rome be spared the destruc-
ton of military operations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14

LONDON, March IA. (UP)-The
house of lords followed the lead of
Commons Tuesday in passing Il
resolution inviting the United
States congress to send a delega-
ton to visit parliament at the
earliest possible date.
Lord Addison, labor leacer, in
moving the resolution, said that
parliament and congress. were the
worlds greatest embodiments Of
free institutions and were the bas-
tions of liberty. 1t was vitality i'm
portant, he said. that their men,
berS should get to know one an
other better.
Viscount Samuel, for the liberals,
sale the invitation would be an eX-
preston of the deep gratitude of
this country to the United States
for her part in the war.
Earlier, commons had approved
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Poles Soy kozis
Commit Massacre

LONDON, March 14.-(UP)-Thc
Polish telegraph agency charged
Tuesday that the Germans, hasten
ing to evacuate Lwow before ar
rival of the advancing Red army,
were conducting wholesale massa-
cres of the city's residents.
More than 10000 persons already
have been killed, the agency re-
ported. These included a whole
train load of Russian women and
children carried off from Soviet
soil and groups of Italian officers
and soldiers who refused to con-
tinue fighting the Russians.
The Germans are not bothering
to conceal the killings in peace
time picnic grounds where the vic
TINS are machine gunned, drenched
with gasoline and burned, the
agency said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
CoacheIIa Man
Dies in Crash:
Strikes Truck

Imperial countys fourteenth traf-
fic death this year occurred Mon
day night on highway 80 APP
proximately SO miles north CT
Brawley.
William S. Madding of Coachella
was killed when he drove his car
into the back cf a lotion army truck
driven by Private Robert Browser,
20, Yuma, Highway Patrolmen
Lewis Mitchell and Tillman Daley
said Tuesday.
The Madding car was demolished,
the officers said, but the army
truck was unchanged.
Deputy County Coroner A. T.
Lyons said there were tive traffic
deaths in Imperial county in
January. five in February, and
four thus far this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-14
Hull Says U. S. Desires
To Save Italy Shrines

sentimental grounds would provide
the final answer.
EAGER TO SAVE SHRINES
Naturally" Hull said in a state
ment, I'VE areoas much interested
as any government or individual Ia
the preservation of religious shrines.
historic structures and human lives.
Il am sure that our military
people have that same view. II is
my understanding that the allied
military authorities are pursuing 4
policy of avoiding damage to such
Shrines and monuments to the eX-
tent humanity possible in modern
warfare and in the circumstances
which face them.
IF the Germans were not en-
trenched in these places or were
they as interested as We are in
protecting religious shrines and
monuments and preserving the lives
of innocent civilians and refugees.
no question would arise