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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
CeIunese Has
Huge Business

New YOrk-The annual report Of
the Celanese Corp. Of America, re-
leased March :, shows the company
rs huge and expanding one, con-
tinually alive to the problem Of re-
tanning its share Of postwar bust
ness.
Sales i'm 1913 tOtaled S9i,5Si,y $40.
y record high. Profits were 1920
593 after all charges including SlO,-
255,OO0 provision for federal income
taxes. Current assets were 1888, 1885,
1893 as Of Dee. 81.
Newspaper reports did not list
the fixed assets. but II is known
that these are increasing rapidly.
On the same day that the annual
report was published, It was an
nounced that a new division had
been organizes TO handle sales OF
chemicals produced at the COM
pany's several plants. The COM
pany is constructing out Of earn
ings a huge $5,000,000 chemical
plant at Bishop, Texas.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
Local 1874
Notes

No less than Ito "a" shift spin
ners have gore into the military
service, spokesman for that shift
say. The only one listed as killed
in action is Il. Grace. Five have
been honorably discharged.
The Credit Union of Celanese
employees was scheduled TO hold
its annual meeting March IL. On
the order OF business we're: nomi-
nation an election OF officers, divi-
dends declared, and the giving OF
the annual report. John G. Thomas
Is the secretary.
The local voted ut lbs regular
meeting March 3 to affiliate with
the Western Maryland and Labor
Unity Conference directly and
pay the regular dues.
At the same meeting IL was de-
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
Urge Negro
Employment

Baltim0re-Manpower shortage
In Baltimore is termed purely
artificial as far as public trans
portation and communication serv-
Ices are concerned. in report Of
the Total War Employment Com
mittee TO Go. O'Conor. The report
criticizes especially the "adamant
refusal of the Baltimore Transit
Co. and the C&P Telephone Co. to
employ Negro operatives.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
Front Royal
Votes for TWUA

Out of 40 employees eligible, 112
voted for the TWUA at the Swarz-
enbach & Huber silk mill in Front
Royal. Va. says Regional Director
Boyd f.. Payton. Organization in
the plant was conducted by les
be Jay of Cumberland.
Next on the list of elections is
the Dunn Wooden Mill in Martins
burg. w. Va, whose employees are
scheduled to vote March %.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
WLB Gets
CeIuneSe
Wage Case

Negotiations b e tween the
Celanese Corp. and representa-
tiyes of Local 1874 broke down
at the beginning of March on
the question of a new wage
scale for the plant at Amcelle,
and the case has been referred
to the War Labor Board, 1t Is
announced.
Assisting the local representa-
tiyes was Wesley Cook OF New
York, assistant director OF the
rayOn division, TWUA.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

Bro. Paul w. BradOur of Cum
berland, Sergeant serving with the
India China Wing of the Air
Transport Command. has received
q presidential citation.
A prisoner of the Germans is
Bro. Clarence ii. Biggs OF Western
port, staff sergeant.
Cpl. Joseph Humbertson. former
1874 member. has been transferred
TO Battle Creek after being in
valided home from the Pacific area.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
Council Election

Continued from Page ID
29i, Office and Professional Local
65 insurance agents.. and the
Newspaper Guild. The meeting was
the largest i'm more than year.
James A. DundOn, former Presi-
dent of Local 1874 now on the
payroll of the TWUA national Of
flee, was an interested visitor.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
WILLIAM Z. MCDONALD

To My Fellow Citizens:
deeply grateful to my fellow citizens for
Primaries.
l have served the people of Cumberland as Street
Commissioner from 1920 to 1922, and Finance Com
missioner from 1922 1926 and from 1912 to 1914.
can point with paronabe pride to the fact that the
finances of Cumberland in excellent shape. No
city America has better credit rating than does
Cumberland AS candidate for reelection at the General
Election to be held March 81 desire to solicit your
continued support and you that If I am again
elected WILL always stay the job and faithfully per-
form the fullest extent the duties of my office.
Sincerely,
WILLIAM E MCDONALD.
Commissioner of Finance Revenue.
canddate)
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13


Morgan OF Luke
was raised from
q I'd TO q lSt
Lieutenant re-
Gently. Bro FL
roy McClennan
Lewis of Bowl
ing Green was
made q second
lieutenant in the
Army Air Corps,
at the same time
receiving his sill
YER wings as q
pilot.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
ZOO, 900 In Brit. Unions

Membership in British unions at
the end Of 1912 was 1871, 900. and
by the end Of 1913 the total prob
ably equaled the record high Of
S.348.000 which was reached In
1920. say the British Information
Services.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

reports his father
Joe HumbertsOn
of the Machin-
lists. Bro. Hum
bertson Sr. is a
delegate to the
Western Md. La
Dor Unity Confer
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

cided that any one Of the four Of
ficers might give to the press news
OF the locals dolngs.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

Gailand l.. Hebb, former member
OF Local 1874. was gunner aboard a
Flying Fortress in Italy. He failed
to return from his 50th combat mis-
sion over the Italian front January
20.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

ence. His son. Joseph Jr.. was over
seas for two years and fought
through three campaigns.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

ture of Super-Fortresses might
be maintained at current level
or even greatly expanded with
an eye toward shift of the major
war theater to the Pacific.
Termination of the war in Eu-
rope, which high military au-
thorities have predicted should
come before 1945, will mean a
substantial decrease in certain
types of war production-nota-
bly,, perhaps. weapons and mu-
nitions for ground troops, since
ships and planes will play a
much greater part against ia
pan even than they did against
Germany.
You can look for a great
seething in the industrial pot
in the near future-and don't
get any idea that 1t Is a matter
OF interest only to the ptutocrats
of big business. The handling of
reconversion means the differ
ence between jobs and no jobs
for workers, the difference be-
tween goods and no goods for
consumers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

this Is important supply the
thousands of sudden require
ments for new weapons and for
notifications of arma m n [
which will result from the un-
practicable eve ntualities OF
modern warfare. ..
To meet the needs of the fu-
ture on such replacement basis
will not require the entire ca
pacity of our vastly expanded
industrial plant. Increasingly
we shall learn of factories
whose product no longer is
needed, which will be released
from war work.
Brewster case, widely
publicized, was not typical be-
cause there a combination of I'M
favorable factors existed. But
the Brewster experience Is 60
ing to be repeated in many
plants where management and
labor have not combined to
make themselves generally dis
liked.
The tipoff that this Is no pipe
dream lies in the fact that War
Labor Board lawyers now are
busy drafting orders to govern
the procedure of recoversion as
cutbacks in war production be-
come general and important.
The first one that is antic-
ipated, Of major Importance,
will be in the airplane field. In
formed observers are talking
about 80 per cent horizontal
cut, because we now are begin
ming to make planes faster than
the United Nations can use
them.
SOME CUTS, SOME
EXPANSIONS
That does not mean, of course,
that every type will be cut an
even 80 per cent. To guess, one
might say that production of
trainers could be reduced by
half, or more, while manufac-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
THE THREE RS FOR G. rs

The Army has sent out coll for civilian school
teachers to replace needed urgently for active
military assignment. From three thousand to five
thousand men and women will be required to take
over the instruction Of iterotes in uniform.
Our public schools os we'll as the Army ore short
Of monpower. The armed services have taken many
teachers, and large numbers Of men and women
have left teaching for better paying jobs II the
Army quota is met it will odd more difficulties to
the present educational problem,
But the Arrys coll cannot be ignored on thot &C.
count. lterotes, motter how intelligent, cannot
make first-rote soldiers in war in which the scen-
fists play so Jorge port. Furthermore, the Army
probably offers the lost chance for the teroe adult
to gain education terocy being the social and eco
nonic milestone thot it is, the country cannot clifford
to ignore this mtoV opportunity to cure it.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
BY s. BURTON HEATH

Signs are beginning to multi
ply that the beginnings of in
dustrial reconversion are just
around the corner. The war still
is far from won, of course. The
hardest, deadliest fighting re-
mains to be done against both
Germany and Japan. Yet to-
morrow, or the next day, or the
day after we must get down TO
brass tacks on the business of
backtracking to civilian produc-
ton.
That does not mean that pro-
duction for war is nearing an
end. Quite the contrary For
months perhaps literally for
years-American factories must
continue to manufacture more
planes, ships, guns, tanks, mu-
nitions and other materiel of
war than any other nation ever
has fabricated.
What has happened falls into
two categories. In the first place,
we have used up the entire
stockpiles of certain commodi-
ties which are considered essen
tial to civilian well-being and
the efficient functioning Of the
home front. These must be re.
placed, in carefully measured
quantities, even though facili-
ties for their production have to
be diverted from war work.
WE'VE GOT WORKING
SUPPLIES
In the second place, we have
overcome the inertia of our be-
lated start and built up a work
ing supply of many if not all
of the weapons and munitions
required by our armed forces
and those of our Allies. From
now on our task is to complete
the stockpiling of war items not
yet in abundance, replace those
which are expended against
Axis armies and navies, and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
FOR AUDIENCE

Hollywood beauties deserve all the Thanks they've
received for undergoing the rigorous perls Of 'front.'
line life to bring entertainment to our troops over.
seos But how about word for the soldiers them
selves Who have suffered the establishment Of see
ino their fovorte pin-up girls uneomorous in soeks
ord 81 long underwear, but who nevertheless have
fsmoined to cheer?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

The film parade: Make Ros-
enbloom-clowned his way to
a moxing title and now devotes
himself to acting in the movies
and running a night club. His
success formula is simple. play
dumb" he says, land you got
the world by the tail" It's like
this, he said on the set of Irish
Eyes Are Smiling, I'm at the
club, see, and guy comes up
to git me autograph, give and
he says, Tanks and he walks
off and looks it over and comes
back and he cracks, Hey, dom
cha even know how to spell
your own name? Dere's two o's
in Rosenbloom.' So / act sur
prised. So he comes back two,
three times a week and brings
friends. He tells his friends how
dumb / am. They get the laugh.
! get the dough. See what
mean"
BETTY CRADLE - A scene
in a new movie, wv ing
and a Prayer" shows a
group of sailors on an aircraft
carrier watching Betty doing a
hot Hawaiian dance routine in
one of her older pictures, Tin
Pan Alley" Comes the call for
chow and the sailors stampede
out of the projection room.
DARYL ZANUCK- In his
search for the right actors for
the right roles in Wilson" Ia
muck even talked producer in
to donning greasepaint. Stanley
Logan, associate producer at an
other studio, plays Secretary of
State Robert Lansing in the
film.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
!, IN HOLLYWOOD
hours to apply, and two hours

hours to apply, and two hours
to remove.
CANTINFLAS - A Mexican
comedian, he's asking Para
mount 100000 to come to Hol-
lywood to star in a movie. That
ought to keep the guy in chill
and beans for the rest of his
life.
PENNY SINGLETON Still
the only Hollywood star to
have her baby born at a mill
tary hospital. Penny's Suzie,
now ID months old, was born IN
Quantico Naval Hospital in Vir-
ginia. Papa is in the Marines.
Ell BRENDEL-Made his de-
but in films in 1927 playing OPP
posite white mouse. Now he's
sharing honors with an elephant
in Mexican Fiesta"
CHARLES WINNINGER -
The plump comedian is spend
ing his spare time from the set
of Belle of the Yukon" har-
rowing the ground at his five
acre ranch. Other day he was
enjoying a good workout be-
hind a small power tractor.
Stopping the machinery at the
end of a row to mop his perspir-
ing brow, Charles attention
was attracted by a small boy
who was watching his strenu-
Gus labors. Whats the matter,
mister" piped the kid. care you
trying to produce-or reduce?"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
HAT OF THE WEEK

LEAH BARNES Hollywood
hat designer. Her chapeaux are
now being duplicated in Rio lie
Janero. They release one model
at a time, as The Hollywood
Hat of the Week"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
. SO THEY SAY

The Soviet defense in the
southern sector is now aiming
to disturb the German with
rawal.-Tokyo broadcast.
When the Chinese are accus-
toned to using weapons marked
MADE in America" how can
they help but welcome the peace
time goods coming from the
United States. - DR.. Lin Lin,
Chinese News Service.
A disease-free humanity is in
sight. The tremendous gains
made by medicine in the last Is
or 20 years are greater than in
all preceding medical history
John G.. Searle, president Amer
lean Drug Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

Take a tip from any Judge.
He has the courage of his con-
victions!
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
CANEY'S MAKEUP JOB

LON CLANCY, Jr.-Makeuu
experts have turned Lon into a
Wolf Man again for new Chill
er, The DEVILS Brood" The
makeup requires five and a half
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27
EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR

Every hour on the hour. and frequently in be-
tween, the German radio broodcosts reports OF pro-
Dress of Allied bonbers over Nozi territory secrecy
is acne and with it efforts to prevent the bomoers
from riding the domestic rodio beams
Bonbines have become port OF dolly Ire IKE
the weather. And the broodcosts, like weather re-
ports, give warning Of the storm OF retrbut'on thar
suroes day and night ocross the land OF the master
roce.
Americans who recently came from Germany on
prisoner exchange tell US thot the first six months
Of their internment Allied bombines strengthened
rother than weakened. Nozi civilion morale. They
were speaking of morale in Boden-Boden, not Berlin
or Hamburg. But even if this buIworked morale does
prevail throughout Germany, it is unlikely that Ger
mans can continue to accept bombines as casually
as they do the weather.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-27

There must be tremendous confusion in the woke
of these bombings, in addition to destruction. The
confusion must mount with every raid however high
the morale. reading Of excerpts from Swedish and
smuooed German newspapers collected by owl,
indicates thot
These reports reveal the growing problem Of the
government and reIocotons that follow reported
bombinas There is inference Of snnoIderng under.
current Of unrest in the accounts Of regulations
and increasing orrests There is cord system for
those who must stoy in bombed cities and work, on
other for those permitted to leave.
II on evocuee's house apartment remains in
toet it is requsitioned to shelter the homeless And
the evocuee is not always welcome elsewhere
Berners received extra rotons because Of the
bombines, since "Berin is the heart Of Germany and
Of the New Europe Of the FUTURE But that isn't much
comfort to the people Of Frankfurt who have also
been bombed
These ore only few samples Of q few stories
from inside Germany. We don't eoot over them. But
we can be glad even for the civilian Germans sake,
that life under Hitler grows more intoerobIe
The German people know the cure. Until they
effect it, they expect the bombs and the dsrup-
ton and disease and death and the radio warnings
every hour on the hour.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-22
ponlpeiiArea
 Is Covered by
 lava Ashes
New Eruption of Vesuvius Hits Third Town-Crops
 Are Destroyed

NAPLES, March 22.-A great new eruption of seething Mt. Vesuvius covered the area around Pompei with a two-inch layer of lava, hurl- ed chunks into the air, and sent a gigantic finger of glowing coalS in to third town on the western slope.
 Pompei, at the foot of Mt. Vesu- vius on the south, was buried in the eruption in 70 AID.
 A hail of lava fell over the crops in the area, burning them, and Am erican and British soldiers wore steel helmets against the shower, and the natives placed iron pots on their heads.
 Early this morning molten riv- CT, rolling down the northwestern side of the mountain, swept away the first house in Cercola two miles from the peak The region was all most as dark as night with great black clouds of lava dust overhead.
 Special fire watches were main tained at all ammunition and gaso- line dumps in the Vesuvius area
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-22
T0J05AY5 SITUATION
 E GRAVE
Warns Japanese to Expect Greater Attacks by
 Americans

LONDON, March 22 Premier Tojo told the Jap Diet that Japans military position in the past few months has become grave and the Empire is now facing battles which will decide their fate and that of Berlin.
 The broadcast, which was record ed by the Associated Press, said Tojo appeared before the Diet to report on the war situation wher it reconyened for the final three day session after lengthy recess He told the Diet:
 Through the heroism of Japan csc soldiers we have been able to ward off the first onslaught of the Americans, but new attacks must be expected. This stubborn, tough enemy bases has plans on material superiority, and these new attacks are likely to be launched with greater weight than anything ex- perienced so far in the war. The situation is truly grave"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-22
FLY DEMANDS FAIR PLAY IN F(( HEARING
Claims Miller Should BrinC Out FaCts- -Not Grab
 Headlines

WAS HI N c T ON, March 22.-- Chairman Fly of the Federal Con- munications Commission described as irresponsible" the charge of Rep Louis F. Miller, Republican of Missouri, that EGG amateurs were assigned to radio monitoring work caused a United States naval task force to be trapped by Jap warships in Alaskan waters.
 Fly said, If MT Miller has any evidence that EGG men are respon- sible for any incident that he hint ed at, he should bring the case into the open This charge has been tos- sed at us at least five or six times during these hearings, but neither Admiral Hooper's secret testimony nor that of any other official sets forth facts to substantiate the ir : responsible charge.
 Miller knows that we had 13 months of this sort of abuse from certain representatives, yet Miller continues to grab the headlines bv planting a daily booby trap All we ask is something slightly re- sembiing fairness and a judicial attitude"
 Hooper is former Pearl Harbor communications officer. Miller said he was "silenced by executive order.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-22
JAP pTR00pS
 ARE ACROSS
 INDIA LINE
Sm all Raiding Parties Penetrate Lnto Mdni-
 pur State

NEW DELHI, March 22 Jap troops. who launched major os- fensive in Northern Burma several days ago, crossed the border into India and penetrated into Manipur State in one or two places an Allied communique said The bulletin said the enemy fore es consisted merely of small raid ing parties. Lord Louis Mountbatten's head quarters declared the Allied troops repulsed comparatively heavy Jap attack in the Maungdaw Buthe- daung area at the southern end of the Burmese front, where British aud Indian forces are moving slow ly down the coast toward enemy held Akyab.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-22
AMERICANS RAID BERLIN
 IN DAYLIGHT
Terrific Attack Is Reported by Passengers Leaving
 There by Plane

STOCKHOLM, March 22-A ter rife daylight attack was made or Berlin today by American bombers and passengers arriving here by plane said the attack was the "se- verest" since the U. s. Air Forces began the assault on Berlin and surrounding industrial centers.
 The raid alarm was sounded at 12:05 pm. and lasted for an hour
 The passenger plane was delayed three hours and as it left the pas sengers said they could see great fires in various parts of the city.
 Oranienburg appeared badly hit and the industrial parts of the city Tegel, northwest of Berlin, where the mammoth Rhein metal Borsig plane works is located was also struck by bombs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-22

 ToRevan1p
 Naval Code

WASHINGTON, March g. - complete revamping of the person. nel standards of the Navy with an eye toward the needs of the postwar fleet will be undertaken soon by Congress.
 The House Naval Affairs Com mittee, probably after the congres- sional Easter vacation, will begin the study of legislation virtually setting up new code on the status of commissioned officers both in the regular Navy and Naval Re- serve.
 Representative Warren G. Mag nuson of Washington said it is an outgrowth of many instances of dis elimination turned up because of wartime conditions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-22

LONDON, March 22.-The Rus sian armies, smashing through Bas- sarabia in a mighty surge toward sthe Balkans, have knifed to within 30 miles of the Prut River, the bor- der of Rumania. Moscow said.
 Other forces are striking south ward and are reported to be with in 48 miles of the major escape road for the thousands of Germans in the Odessa bottleneck.
 Reinforced by masses of tanks and artillery pouring steadily across the Dniester River, the Russians have slashed the Cernauti- Baltsky trunk railway in their advance to- ward Prut, the starting line of the southern wave of the 194l German invasion.
 The Soviet communique declared that Russian units are sweeping soutnward toward the vital Odessa Tarnapol railway, and also struck to within 20 miles of another escape line of the Germans in the south.
 The hammer and sickle was rais- cd above 300 more liberated towns and villages yesterday as the Rus sians continued to pound the Ger mans back along the 500-mile front from old Poland to the Black Sea
 Soviet forces are striking toward Lwow, big communications hub in old Poland. They have crashed in- to Lwow Province and are now within 56 miles of Lwow itself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-22
STATE BALLOTS APPROVED FOR
 SERVICE V0TE

WASHINGTON, March 22-For ty-two Governors has replied to the Presidents query about service vot- ing and the trend of opinion appears that State ballots, distributed under Federal machinery, will give the vote to most service men and women.
 Virtually all Governors empha- sized their States want the fighting forces to vote and many expressed belief State ballot provisions are adequate if the Government under takes to get those ballots overseas.
 Roosevelt asked if States would accept the Federal ballot for the armed forces and six Governors re- piled yes. The States were Cali fornia, Maryland, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Kansas.