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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
TRADES COUNCIL

The Hamilton Cooperative Trades
and Labor Council held regular
meeting Tuesday night. President
Ralph Morningstar being absent on
account of working at the Estate
Stove Company installing a new con-
veyor, Vice-President Ray Caldwell
presided.
A communication was read from
the Junior Chamber of Commerce in
which they extended thanks for the
financial donation given towards the
Liquorless night club.
A communication was read from
VIM. Green, president of the A. F. of
L., asking council to contact congress-
men regarding the bill for reconver-
sion. The same was received and
ordered complied with.
A communication from the National
Citizens Political Committee, asking
for individual contributions, was on
motion referred to the Legislative
Committee.
The picnic committee reported on
the receipts and expenditures, and
while profit was made, the commit
tee was disappointed with the at
tendance.
The Goth annual convention call of
the Ohio State Federation was read.
The convention will be held in the
Neil House, Columbus, Ohio, the week
beginning Monday, September 18th.
Ray Caldwell was elected delegate to
represent Trades Council, and Ralph
Morningstar was elected alternate.
The council was informed Of the
death Of Charles w. Clark, husband
of Florence Clark, who is a delegate
to Trades Council from the Woman's
Union Label League. Flowers were
ordered purchased and sent to the
Colligan funeral home, and card OF
sympathy extended to the widow.
The request of city employees that
they be reimbursed for the cut in
salaries given during the depression
years, was discussed. The judgment
of Joe Spaulding, councilman, is still
being backed up by organized labor
and the central body.
A committee Of the city employees
asked for the privilege Of using the
temple for a special meeting will be
granted by the trustees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11

Jewish Labor Committee, New York
City.
On November 18 and 19, 1943, the
Germans, the report says, liquidated
the remnants of the Jewish commu-
nifty living in the labor camp at ia
nowska St. The Jews, anticipating
this liquidation, prepared defensive
positions and, armed with hand gre
nades and pistols attacked the Ger
man guards.
Simultaneously with the armed
mems units, the women's armed unit
attacked the Germans with hand gre
nades. Altogether between SO and GO
Germans were killed, 16 of which died
at the hands of the Jewish women.
The revolt of the Jews was short
lived, however. The Germans brought
in reinforcements and began a gen.
eral massacre of the entire Jewish
community, Staying 5000 persons
Only very few managed to escape
among them some Russian prisoners
who had been acting as guards.
A revolt of Jews in the labor camp
of Lyczakow, suburb of Lwow, is
also reported. The Jews, after dis
arming and killing their guards, man
aged to escape.
Also contained in the news report
are further details of the mass
slaughter of $4,000 in the labor camp
of Trawniki. The liquidation started
in that part of Trawniki camp which
was inhabited by Jewish intellectuals
and skilled artisans. They were or
dered to take off their clothes and run
naked to a nearby camp where bitches
had been prepared some days before
They were then all lined up and shot
In the meantime, number of Jews
in another part of the camp set fire
to military stores and barracks anC
as the Germans. approached, opened
fire. The Jews perished in the flames
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
SMITH APPOINTED
ELKS' DISTRICT DEPUTY

George T. Smith, 1157 Heaton
street, has been appointed District
Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Of the
Elks of Southwest Ohio.
Smith, who has held all the offices
in the Hamilton Lodge, was appointed
by Robert S. Berrett, Alexandria, Va,
newly elected Grand Exalted Ruler.
The district includes lodges in Ham
ilton, Cincinnati, Middletown, Dayton,
Troy, Piqua, Sidney, Greenville,
Greenfield, Washington Courthouse,
Hillsboro, Wilmington, Xenia, Leba-
non and Springfield.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
INCREASE HEAVY
SHELL OUTPUT
IS ARMY APPEAL

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - The
army is calling upon American work
ers to increase by several hundred
per cent the production of heavy ar
tillery ammunition as result of the
unprecedented quantities of big shells
that have been used by American in
vasion forces in Italy, Normandy and
the Southwest Pacific.
Contracts for heavy artillery am
munition have been placed with Sc
concerns whose facilities are being
rapidly expanded at cost of approx
imately $1O0,O0O,O0O for machine
tools, presses and furnaces, the War
Department reports.
The contracts call for 155-mm, g.
inch and 240-mm shells, according to
Brig. Gen. R. E. Hardy, U. S. Army,
chief of the Ordnance Departments
Ammunition Division.
"This program is so important to
the continued success of the war ef-
FORT" Gen. Hardy declared, "that the
w. P. B. has granted the highest pri-
ority on equipment and material, and
the W. NJ c.. has similarly granted
a high priority OH labor referrals. Suf-
ficient labor must be secured to op-
crate the equipment being installed at
its highest rate of capacity in order
to meet the demand of troops"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
NEW BUSINESSES
Hamilton

hamilton
Frank Samples, PIT South Front
Street, floor coverings.
Myrtle Winters Roach, 202 River
side Drive, restaurant and cafe.
Oscar M. Johnson, Moose Lodge
South Second street, restaurant.
George H. Lentz, 2273 Pleasant ave-
nue., cafe and restaurant.
Howard Howald, 4O8 Maple Street
Oxford, heating and plumbing.
MiddletOwn
Mrs. Flossie Blackburn, Excello
grocery.
Wallie Stays, 81 North Clinton Ave-
nue., used furniture.
Francis Carl Thompson, 2 Windsor
Road, notions.
John Stages, 81 North Clinton Ave
nue., shoes and repairs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11

AS the hour of peace with Ger
many draws nearer there is great
speeding up of talk about how we
shall manage our readjustment. And
also great speeding up Of the talk
about how the war guilty shall be
punished.
AS for the individuals responsible
for the crime of this war, it doesn't
seem to make so much difference what
happens to them.
1t isn't so very important whether
Hitler and his pals are hanged, shot,
put on exhibition or locked up as
crazy. What matters is that the sys-
tenn be destroyed. If the system isn't
destroyed it can produce new crop
of individuals to lead.
The Nazis have tried to extermi-
nate peoples, so that reproduction of
leaders would be impossible. They
have been very thorough in their ef-
fort to eliminate reproductive ability.
The Allied Nations must do that very
thing to the system represented by
Hitler and Mussolini.
We have tough job in both direc-
tions. A tough job in eliminating the
Nazi kind of society and tough job
in readjusting our own affairs. The
future is full of problems.
America must readjust to meet the
situation that, with wars end, will
confront the civilian worker and it
must readjust to meet the situation
that will confront the returning sol
diers, sailors and marines.
The G. l. Bill of Rights is a starter
for the service man. Soon after wars
end the lobbies will be at it hammer
and tongs to add things to that G. l.
Bill of Rights.
There must be no apple sell
ing by veterans this time.
But the problem isn't ended there
The country is filled with men and
women war workers many of whom
have gone to far and strange places
to take their place in the machinery
of production. When their job ends
where do they go?
You cannot face the situation as
something abstract. You have to face
it as something alive, that will fight
back if it doesn't believe it is getting
a square deal.
There will be the war worker who
has been earning more money than
he or she ever earned before. And
there will be the 26-year-old major
back from the wars, who also has
been earning more than he ever
earned before. The jobs of both of
them will be ended. What comes
then?
The At who had to stay home and
who took a war job and worked hard
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11

cluding lifeboat work, fire fighting,
breeches buoy, mess, sea rules and
traditions, swimming, ship construc-
tion and equipment, gunnery and
physical training.
After completing "boot" training he
may enter deck or engine training, in
Guiding three weeks Of practical ex-
perience aboard a training ship at
sea, or he may apply for one of the
specialized schools of training.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
''P. R." PETITIONS
BEING CHECKED

Clerks engaged in checking the pc
titions for referendum on the pro-
portional representation system of
voting in municipal elections reported
all except small percentage of the
names checked to date had been found
valid as defined by the election laws.
The work will be completed some
time this week and a formal report
will be made to city council August 16.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
FRENCH is PLACED
ON LAMNECK BOARD

Middletown, Ohio. - ]. Bedford
French has been elected to the board
of directors of Lamneck Products,
Inc, company officials announced this
week. He also has been elevated from
vice-president to executive vice-presi-
dent and general manager of the war
production plant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
LOCAL MAN IN
MARITIME TRAINING

Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. Now in
training at the U. S. Maritime Service
Training Station, Sheepshead Bay, N.
Y, is Russell c. Weber, 16, of 636
Minor Avenue, Hamilton, Ohio.
Apprentice Seaman Weber will re-
ceive six weeks Of basic training, in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
OXFORD MARSHAL
RETURNS TO JOB

Oxford, Ohio.-Harry Spencer may
resume his duties Monday as marshal
of Oxford. He received an honorable
discharge from the army last week
and is back in the village ready to
begin work. Until September / he
will be paid his old salary, $120 a
month. Beginning September l he
will receive $165 a month.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11

a grand success in every way. The
weather was ideal for the picnic and
the committee reports that the at
tendance was the largest ever. The
committee extends thanks to the pub
lie for the liberal support and patron
age given to make the picnic success.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
NEW BEER PERMIT ITEMS

American Citizens Club, 80 South
Broad Street, Middletown, F.
Church Of st. Peter, Ridgelawn Ave-
nue., Hamilton, F.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
OVERPECK PICNIC
is GRAND SUCCESS

The thirtieth annual picnic spon-
sored by the Overpeck Improvement
Association and which was held last
Saturday on the school grounds was
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11

A lack of small change is just about
as embarrassing as having no money
at all on your person.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-11
CHERRY TREE

Where with cur Little Hatchet We tell
the truth absut many things, sometimes
profoundly. sometimes Aippantly, some
times recklessly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
LENA GANEzER
 FOUND GUILTY
Sentence for Maintaining Property Fire Hazards
 Set for Saturday

Mrs. Lena Ganezer, 65, GA Eliza beth street, was found guilty of maintaining fire hazards on two pieces of property after she was ar- raigned before Judge Charles R. Summa in City Court this morning.
 Judge Summa deferred sentence to Saturday morning after her at torney, A. Henry Weisman offered to personally inspect the premises and see that the fire hazards were removed.
 Fire Marshal Dennis J. Lahey testified that at 412-16 North Main street, a store and tenement build ing owned by the accused, he had found this morning great quantities of old newspapers and wastepaperS under the stairs and in the yard in spite of repeated warnings. "The premises are in dangerous and ser- ious condition" the Marshal said.
 Marshal Lahey said the premises at 936 North Main, another tene- ment owned by the accused, had been fairly well cleaned up since he found a great accumulation of news papers, tissue papper, and parts of wooden crates in the yard.
 Mrs. Ganezer said she had paid a man to clean the yards, but he had not done the job thoroughly because of the snow. Atty. Weisman told the court Mrs. Ganezer has two sons in the Army and is not able to do the job herself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
JURY'S VERDICT
 FOR DEFENDANT
Plaintiff Sought S25,OOO for Injuries Suffered
 in Crash

After deliberating for nearly an hour and a half last Friday and an additional half hour today 8 super for court jury of six men and six women returned a defendants ver- dict in the $25,00O civil action action brought by Marian L. Che ney of Waterbury against Andrew Givens and Fulton Widner, both of Delaware. Judge Frank P. McEvoy gave additional instructions to the jurors at their req est this morn- ing before deliberations were re- sumed.
 The plaintiff sued as the result of injuries sustained in collision last July p in old Lyme. She was a passenger in car driven by her father, Fred German, when it was allegedly struck by 8 truck owr d by Givens and operated by the other defendant.
 A fracture of the left arm, bruises and decorations to the body, and injuries to the back were listed in the plaintiffs complaint. She claimed further that 8 previously existing ailfnent was aggravated as result of traumatic shock which resulted from the accident.
 Attorney Martin E. Gormley of New Haven, former judge of pro- bate in Naugatuck, represented the defendants. Attorney William P. Wertheimer appeared for the plain tiff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
 Score Hits
(Continled from Page D

Shortly before the bombing a weird silence came over the Rapido Valleyi which for weeks has been trembling under incessant gunf1re The river twisted slowly around the white walled town of Casino and few fluffy, white clouds dotted the brilliantly blue sky over the graystoned monastery on the mount just to the left.
 The silence over this peaceful scene was cut by the steady thrum of motors and out of the eastern sky came a swarm of fortreSSes. Vajor trails formed behind the big bomhers as they curved gracefully over the monastery.
 Suddenly the whole area shud- dered as heavy explosives crashed in tight cluster about the abbey, one of them falling squarely on the corner dome which disappeared in smoke and flame.
 The first wave attacked at pre- cisely 9:30 a. m. and five minutes later another group of more than 30 fortresseS thundered in, hidden by the vapor of the first group.
 Some bombs fell short on the slopes of Mount Casino, but saw one apparently drop squarely in a courtyard of the abbey, whose monks and civilians had been warn ed yesterday by 11,00O leaflets to flee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15

NSSAASA4AbN0 A4O111 S15C ~ raid on the American held Kwajalein Atoll. But the Japanese were there in light force' and caused few casualties, Knox added.
 The situation was pretty much the same in the Rabaul area, he continued, where American air seems able to wander around at will" He said that although Jap anese airmen went aloft in that area, they were pretty cautious and apparently reluctant to close to the attack"
 Knox, characteridng his next re- mark as "humor-news put out by Tokyo" quoted the Japanese radio as reporting that between Jan. l and Feb, 9 this year 4,363 American planes raided Rabaul, and that 1O65 were shot down. The Japanese placed their own losses at 76 planes.
 T haven't checked it." Knox said, but about 30 or 40 American planes have been lost since the first of the year in operations over and around Rabaul."
 He added that the Japanese radio must havN gotten mixed up because in the same broadcast 1t repeated what was purported to be the dying words of Rear Admiral Yoshitatsu Yasuda, commander in the Buna area. They were: "Only enemy planes do I see when gaze at the blue sky"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
10 Nozi
 Divisions

(Continued from Page D man Marshal Fritz Erich Won Mannstein into committing the bulk of his armor in this sector in a cost ly but vain rescue effort that may force him to withdraw completely into BeSsarabia and Old Poland.
 The struggle, concentrated in the narrow sector northwest of Svenl- gorodka, 28 miles southwest of Kor- sun, was repeating in pattern and details the great battles west of Kiev, where the Russians drew Mannstein's central Panzer divisions into forests and destroyed them, then launched a counter blow that carried them into the Rovno sector of Old Poland.
 There was no estimate of the number of Panzer divisions which Mannstein threw into his deSparate effort to extricate the trapped Eighth army, but his high losses, tn- cluding B tanks yesterday alone, in- dicated that he had engaged the bulk of his armor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15

NNO1lLlIluGO 1ICtu rage II to be what amounted to a Finnish foreign office disavowal that the broadcast made to the United States Saturday by Juho Elias Erkko, former Foreign Minister, represent ed anything but his private views.
 Road To Peace"
 Erkko, said that Finland is right now considering every possible way to find road to peace"
 The former Foreign Minister did not comment on the disavowal, but it was learned that the foreign office at Helsinki had approved every word of the broadcast before he went on the air. The best information seemed to be that the foreign office blund- cred in giving approval but that the diSavowal does not affect the gov ernment's desire to obtain RuSSia'S terms for peace.
 Listeners detected 8 change in radio Helsinki propaganda broad casts. Until recently, after the read ing of Finnish and German war communiques, the broadcasts includ- e dattackS upon the Soviet regime, the Communist party and Premier Josef Stalin personally, accompanied by appeals to Russian soldiers.
 Now radio Helsinki merely gives the communiques and then devotes the rest of the news broadcast to local Finnish items and readings of Swedish and British reports on the international situation.
 Recent Russian air raids, which have added impetus to Finland's peace moves, were reported reliably to have been much more serious than Finnish communiques revealed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
Benedictine Abbey Is Shelled To Save Lives
NEA Te1ephoto.
(Continued from Page 1

guns and placed troops inside its walls, and they pointed out that the Fortress crews in today's attack included the usual proportion of Catholic personnel.
 (The Axis controlled Rome radio denied today that German troops were inside the buildings and as- serted that American artillery "al- ready has reduced the famous mon- astery to a heap of ruins.')
 Meanwhile, there was every indi- cation that one of the greatest AL lied aerial offensives since Salerno was under way all along the 5th Army front.
 RAF Wellington bombers gave the Germans on the Anzio beachhead a frightful, 10-hour bombing last night, heaping giant blockbusters and anti-personnel bombs on their front positions and supply roads in the area from 8:30 p. m. to dawn.
 And throughout this morning, the skies over western Italy echoed to the thunder of American and Brit ish planes swarming up to resume the attack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
Pounding Of Eniwetock
(Continued from Page D

(Continued from Page D east, became a major defense out post for Truk, 750 miles to the southwest, with the American cap ture of Kwajalein. It had an ex- ceIent airdrome and boasts one of the finest fleet anchorageS in the world.
 A spokesman for Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pa- cific fleet, said hte attacks were in considerable force" One American plane made a forced lardil.g in the ocean, but it's crew was rescued by a destroyer.
 Other carrier based planes raided Ujae Atoll, 100 miles west of Kwa- jalein. at dawn Sunday, damaging gorund installations, while Navy search planes simultaneously made small-scale bombing attacks on Ujelang, $50 miles west of Kwaja- lein, and Ntfrik, northeast of Kwa- jalein.
 Big Offensive
 Cannon firing Mitchell medium bombers, dauntless dive bombers and Aairacobra fighters of the 7th Air Force joined in the offensive with bombing and strafing raids on three other unspecif1ed Atolls in the MaraShallS group Sunday.
 At the same time, the Japanese made their first raids in the Gen. tral Pacific since the invasion of the MarShalls, sending, a small force against Roi Island, site of an American airfield at the northeast ern corner of Kwajalein Atoll, Sat weer described as moderate.
 The enemy bombers were believed to have come from Kusaie or Po- nape in the eastern Caroline Is- lands.
 Headquarters of the 7th Air Force revealed 1t had received congratula- tions from General George c. Mar shall, U. S., Chief of Staff; General Henry H. Arnold, chief of army air forces, and Lieutenant General Ro- bert o. Richardson. Jr., commander of the Hawaiian department, for the devastation caused by the more than 3,500,000 pounds of bombs dropped in 70 days of raids on the Marshalls.
 Tn this war, no air force has struck down the enemy more sav- agely and effectively than the 7th Air Force hit them in the Mar ShallS," Arnold said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15

most of the monastery remained standing after the bombing, but great fires were set inside its mas sive walls and the bulk of the Ger man gun positions were believed to have been destroyed.
 NEG Correspondent Max Hill, who also saw the raid, reported that the cross topped blue dome of the mon- astery was wrecked and about 50 di- rect bomb hits were scored, leaving the building in partial ruins. Hill said about 2,000 Italian civilian ref ugees from Cassino had been in the monastery and there was no way of knowing whether they and the monks had needed Allied warnings to leave.)
 At least 20 large-caliber bombs landed squarely in the Nazi-dese- crated shrine-the first Christian monastery in Europe-and a small dome in one corner was demolished.
 The raiders met no anti-aircraft fire or fighter opposition and con- pleted their mission without loss.
 While smoke clouds still were bil- lowing 1,500 feet into the air over the enemy stronghold, American ar tillery emplaced in the surrounding hills opened a heavy barrage on the monastery.
 American troops, burrowed into the slopes of Mount Casino, were drawn back during the night to clear the way for the bombardment, but 1t was indicated they were massing under cover of the bombing and smelling for frontal assault on the monastery.
 The aerial and artillery barrage, which threatened to reduce the 1,415-year-old shrine to ruins, came after a grim warning from the AL lied high command that the bloody Stalemate at Casino would be broken at all costs.
 Thousands of leaflets showered into the monastery yesterday warned the Benedictine monks and any civilians there to flee immedi- ately.
 Headquarters spokesmen said the monastery now is regarded as an ordinary military target, since the Germans have ruthlessly mounted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15
PeorI Horbor Cat How!

Brooklne, Mass, Feb. 15-CUP)-- A cat sent from Pearl Harbor to the Angel Animal hospital here for treat met arrived in a miniature gable roofed house with removable win dowS and screens.
 Attached to the cat abode were the following instructions:
 My name is Blackie. I am 3 years old and I have never been separated from my owners before. I do not like to be handled, but I do like to be talked to. I like to be fed in the morning and evening.
 T am not especially fond of can- ned food but will try to eat 1t. I am fond of canned milk and I like one vitamin tablet per day. Please break my vitamin tablet in pieces, so will not choke on it. Thank you for your kindness to me Blackie."