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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-04
USO UNITS NOW
SERVE OUR ARMED
FORCES in HAWAII

Almost 40 club directors have gone
overseas by plane and boat to the
Hawaiian Islands during the past two
months to guide USO's expanding rec
reational program for the men and
women Of the armed forces stationed
at the island outposts, it was an
nounced today by Judge P. P. Boil,
member of the War Chest Executive
Committee, who received report
from the USO Overseas Department.
A total Of 81 clubhouses and smaller
operations, including 19 mobile units
to serve troops on detached duty, now
are being maintained by USO on the
islands.
"USO is serving on six of the larger
islands despite the handicaps Of dis
tance and difficult transportation,
Judge P. P. Boil explained. Native
Hawaiian professional and amateur
musicians and dancers swing around
the Grass Skirt Circuit presenting
entertainment under USO Camp
Shows auspices, and, at the request of
the War Department, USO- Camp
Shows units from the mainland also
visit the islands. This, of course, is
in addition to the regularly scheduled
dances and entertainment Of the in
dividual clubs"
Though the islands are still under
military regulation, there has beer
some disposition to ease the wartime
restrictions, as was shown in the re.
cent restoration of the Chinese New
Years celebration, with its traditiona
dragon parade. But Honolulu is still
under curfew, SO that servicemer
get leave at odd hours, and entertain
ment in USO clubs is furnished on {
virtual round-the-clock basis.
One Of the newer clubhouses is {
huge building, ITO feet square, con
tanning social hall, stage and dress
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-04

Washington, D. C.-Harry c. Bates,
chairman of the A. F. Of l.. Housing
Committee, attacked the Secret" war
housing program of the National
Housing Agency and charged workers
have been forced to pay inflated prices
for sub-standard living quarters.
Mr.. Bates, who is president of the
Bricklayers' Union and Vice Presi-
dent Of the A. F. of L., called upon or
ganized labor in every community "to
assume leadership in insisting upon
the right of open public scrutiny Of
standards and procedures used by the
N. H. A." His statement follows:
''The National Housing Agency
which today holds blank check of
authority for writing war housing
program for any community where
and as it pleases, is treating the hous-
ing need of the war workers of the
nation and the manner of meeting this
need as if it were military secret.
1t is no secret, however, that hum
dreds of thousands of essential work
ers engaged in the most urgent war
employment are forced to live in
crowded, squalid, unsanitary quarters,
many miles away from their jobs, with
no shopping, schooling and recrea-
tional facilities for their families and
children. 1t is no secret that nearly
seven times as much public money
has been spent for plants housing ma
chinery necessary for war production
as for housing workers needed to op-
crate the machines.
"Nor is it a secret that major
proportion Of war workers and their
families who depend on temporary
war employment for their short lived
income has been forced to buy sub
standard, priority-built homes at in
f1ated prices as permanent encum-
brance because they could find no
living quarters, not even room, for
rent. In view of this, the true ma
ture of the N. H. AS 'H-2' program
and it's war as well as postwar inn
plications, is a matter of deep public
concern and of special concern to wal
workers for whom it is presumably in.
tended.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-04
Truman, AFL Choice, Named For Vice President
Democrats Repudiate Wallace, Cl0 Candidate

artist at work and to get an original
portrait of himself free. USO-CAMP
SHOWS has arranged to have photo
stats of the original made, signed by
the artist and sent to the serviceman's
relatives and friends.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-04

"How did you lose your job at the
dress shop, my dear?"
"Just because Of something l said.
After had tried twenty dresses on a
woman, she said 4 think I'd look nicer
in something flowing so l asked her
why she didn't jump in the river"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-04
In Pictorial Lessons

the comfort cleanliness of patients bed there
- other essentials for the sick
highly desirable that the patient has himself
restfu than strange
but if he his for workshop be the
possible place for him to relax.
long anticipated all articles furnishings
needed should be the Simple
light
advisable
Ventilation well doors and windows
wide, until the been thoroughly
changed patient welcovered pro-
tected from direct wind.
Care must be taken provide suitable temperature and
imperative Generally speaking the temperature
should be above 20 degrees during bath
ment requiring exposure.
Light the croo and night should fall directly
in the patients And DON'T daen the sckroom In the day
time unlpS tho nnhvS norlnrc
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-08-04

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Partisan army from what, in tactical
sense, had been q harassing rabble in
the woods.
But reliable records show that since
Hitler's march to the Mediterranean In
1941 he kept a minimum garrison Of six
divisions in Yugoslavia at all times.
Sporadically some of these troops were
sent on punitive expeditions to wipe out
traces Of Yugoslav resistance. These
expeditions proved tedious and incon-
elusive. The situation, from the Nazi
standpoint, was harder to cure than
the seven-year Itch
German propaganda Jumped all Yugo-
slav fighting elements together and
called them "Bolschevismus."
Last spring, when a combined force
Of Germans, Italians and Bulgars tried
to mop up Montenegro and nearly sue
ceeded in capturing Gen. Draja Mihail-
ovic, the campaign was officially de-
scribed as against the Red terror.
Engaged in Two Wars
There is deep irony in these German
propaganda terms.
For Mihailovic was at the time en-
gagged in two wars. One was against
the Germans: the other against the
Red Star Partisans Of Josip Broz CTito),
the guerrilla general who now bears
the title marshal In rump government
headed by DR.. Ivan Ribar.
Although the fratricidal struggle be-
tween Partisans and Chetniks since the
winter of 194l has been on occasion
as bloody and savage as any civil war
in Balkan history, it has not solved the
Yugoslav problem for the NaN MASTER
minds in Berlin.
A dramatic event occurred in Sep
tember, 1943, when Tito's Partisans sud-
denly stripped five italian divisions of
their arms, uniforms and equipment
and got firmly installed on the wilder
portions of the Dalmatian coast.
The Inflated Dodecanese campaign
would have gone much differently if
italian forces on which the British re-
lied for support had been of the fighting
temper Of the Slav Partisans.
Until the Allies are in position to pro-
vide the Partisans with mountain how
itzers as well as American canned milk,
mortars as well as American medicines,
resistance will continue chiefly on a
small-arms basis.
Do not expect the Partisan communi-
ques to tell the whole truth about their
desperate struggle with the invaders
They may have reverses this winter as
serious for them as was Pearl Harbor
for the United States
And do not expect reports of Par
tisan successes to be completely free
from exaggeration. People fighting with
their backs to a wall crave any sort Of
hope, however slender.
Silent Sabotage Ties Down
Nazis in Scandinavia
BY Edwin Shanke.
The very threat of guerrilla warfare is
the major contribution to the Allied war
effort by the Norwegian and Danish
patriots.
1t has tied down a far higher per-
centage of Hitler's manpower than he
bargained for. Now when Germanys
supply Of reserves is virtually exhausted.
competent sources estimate that 200 1000
German troops, police and administra-
tive personnel are held in Norway and
another 10000 In Denmark.
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nothing seemed changed, but gradually
the true situation of the occupation
became clear. The underground first
used the illegal press.
English Parachute AGENTS
In the second year of the occupation,
two parachutes and the body OF a man
were found near Copenhagen. Eng
lish parachute agents had landed; one
had lost his life.
More agents followed; young Danes
were trained in England for UNDER
ground work. They organized the
activists: taught them to handle explo-
sives and weapons dropped by Allied
bonbers. Each agent carried a capsule
of poison =. to avoid the Gestapo's
third degree.
The underground rapidly spread its
net Of sabotage groups over Denmark.
BY early 1943, sabotage acts were aver
aging 20 nightly, although many were
amateurish.
BY midyear, Danish saboteurs were
making concrete contribution to the
Allied effort with blows against the
German invader. Despite German firing
squads, they boldly continue. On one
occasion, two Danes rolled pair of beer
casks loaded with explosives past Ger
man guards and into the Forum EXPOSE
ton Building.
Germans appear helpless to combat
the blows which are disorganizing their
military setup and disrupting the regu-
lar flow OF war materials from Danish
factories. One reason undoubtedly is
because Of the organization Of saboteurs
by "cells." If saboteur is caught, at
worst he can disclose only the names
two comrades.
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cards, false ration cards, false papers;
they eat furtively in third-class res
taurants; they have no home, no friends,
no family and frequently sleep in .
different place every night.
The Communists have perhaps the
best trained and most smoothly work.
ing organization, because theirs was
driven underground long before the
German breakthrough.
Underground Lights Flaming
Front in the Balkans
d BY Daniel De Luce.
ALGIERS-You can ignore propo-
ganda and turn to facts when you
weigh the contribution OF Yugoslav
guerrillas to the Allied war effort.
A few weeks ago one Of the highest
officers Of Gen. Eisenhower's intel
ligence staff gave a background lecture
to war correspondents.
The ofdcer said that as yet the Allies
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Shanghai, Peiping, Canton and other
cities in occupied China; in Manchurian
forests, in the rich valley Of the Yang
tie, in the mountains Of Shantung.
Wherever there are Japanese in China
there are guerrillas
Isolated from China proper are some
10000 guerrillas in Manchuria cut of
from active direction by Chungking.
Movement Began in ~
South of the Great Wall the guerrilla
movement started with the outbreak Of
the war on July 7, 1887. Its sponsors
were principally the intelligentsia and
retired army officers. They were scat
tered groups acting independently.
After the battle of HsuchoW, in May,
1888, the government appointed regular
army officers for liaison work with
guerrilla groups.
AS the Japanese advanced deeper into
China communications with the guer-
rlllas were, in many cases, completely
cut off and their effectiveness began to
decline. During the battle for Hankow,
lost to the invaders in October, 1898,
the government changed its policy and
guerrilla troops were reorganized into
regular units, large and small, and be-
came an integral branch of the Chinese
Army.
How They Operate
The guerrillas blow up bridges, wreck
fro I,,,r,
sabotage machinery in mines and fac
tories toss bombs into Japanese -patron-
lied amusement places, cut telegraph
wires, destroy highways and attack
japanese supply columns. They are
particularly partial to assaults on
smaller Japanese garrisons
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The 1Dorld thrilled at the
heroic resistance of the Yugo-
slaU guerrillas. Many Serbs
Were caught and hung from
the lamp posts of Belgrade.
Photo from once Of War information.
had encountered only from eight to ten
enemy divisions on the 1O0-mile front
from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Adri-
attic. In the north were perhaps 10
more.
In the Balkans, however, were more
than 30, with the largest concentration
in Yugoslavia.
Nazi military strength has been hastily
increased in south slav territories be-
cause of two interrelated. dangers: The
nearness Of British and American forces
and the overnight emergence Of the
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Norwegians are armed and the Ger
mans know it. From time to time they
have cracked down on the underground
and have uncovered cached supplies.
When the Germans crushed the Nor
wegian Army in 1910, they did not smash
the spirit Of the soldiers, nor did they
get all the war material. Norwegians
took it upon themselves to hide NUM-
tions. even field guns These were
secreted in city hideouts, mountain
caves, farmers barns. With an average
Of only eight Norwegians to each square
kilometer. it was easy to build up these
supplies with the help of the Allies.
The illegal press lately has reminded
Norwegians of their duty should an
Allied landing be made. This duty is to
destroy communications. Highway, rail-
way, telephone and telegraph networks
are so thin that the country could be
split into 80 to 40 islands" rapidly.
Hidden Destroyers
Meantime, the Norwegian underground
discloses itself as little as possible to
preserve the organization Silent sabo-
tage is the policy, instead of one OF
violent outbreaks. A few drops of paraf-
I'm make load of fish-vital to German
economy-inedible; salt, sugar or sand
ruins petrol, or cement intended for
German Notifications.
Parts for the German war machine
disappear constantly. Norwegian drivers
run German automobiles into junk
heaps by neglecting to take care of
them.
The Norwegians help the Allies in
telligence service. The most frequent
German prosecutions are for helping
the enemy to obtain information. When
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Saboteurs Are Major Factors
In Russia's Successes
BY Henry Cassidy.

MOSCOW.-Every day among the
uniformed masses in Moscow there ap-
q pear more men and women in civilian
9 clothes, wearing round gold medal
dangling at the end Of . long green
: ribbon.
! That Is the decoration for Partisan
Tof the Patriotic War;" and they are
guerrillas who for more than two
years have been living, fighting-some
= dying-in warfare behind German lines.
+. Now that broad expanse of West
Russian has been liberated, they are
returning to what they call "The Big
Land" or unoccupied region, bringing
with them seemingly incredible, but we'll
authenticated accounts of their opera
tions. Their campaign is credited off,
, cially with being one Of the major fac
= tors in the success of the Red Army's
drive across the Ukraine and White
Russia.
, Guerrilla warfare is as old to the Rus
slams as war itself. Every invader of
this country-Swede, Pole, French or
German-has had to fight not only
soldiers but also people in arms.
If any call had been needed it came
in the second week of war when Premier
Stain in broadcast prescribed the
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machine guns. Other precautions had
been worked out in detail.
Three years of misfortune and false
starts have imprinted precaution into
the French underground movement. To-
day its leaders have behind them fully
100000 well-trained and trusted guer-
rilla fighters.
'Soldats Sans Uniforme'
They are the "soldats sans uniforme"
who will crumple the enemy's transport,
communications and supplies behind the
beachhead.
Timing and rehearsing for this in
vaSion-day attack as the primary task
Of the National Resistance Council It's
secondary aim is day-to-day sabotage.
Sabotage is both active and passive.
Actively, it ordains the slowdowns in
factories, the blowing up of bridges,
and caving in of rail tunnels.
Passive sabotage Is carried out by
aiding young Frenchmen to evade the
German labor draft for Nazi factories.
Recent estimates say that more than
100000 youths are now hiding in the
hills.
Along this underground justice is firm,
swift and primitive.
At $3.50 one night Lavalist militia
man stumbled into partisan area. The
townspeople formed court. He was
found guilty of treason. At $50 pm.
he was buried
Officers spend all their time organiz-
ing and planning.
They have taken on completely new
identities. They have false Identify
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Both the British, who are mainly in
terested, and members Of the Greek
government in exile here who are en-
tirely third party in the matter. be-
lieve there is hope Of healing the split.
II 20, this could change the entire Bal
kans picture, facilitate any future inva-
sion and draw OF German troops needed
elsewhere.
British authorities credit Greek guer-
rillas with two major assists to the
battle front. At the time of Ell Aiamein,
when the fate of Egypt and the suez
were In pawn, guerrillas blew up the
Gorgopotamus viaduct, thus smashing
the main rail line along which the
Nazis were pouring supplies into North
Africa.
Again, as the Allies invaded Sicily,
guerrillas fomented trouble throughout
Greece to create diversions and draw
NaM attention from the real target. It is
no secret the Allies would like to have
concentrated guerrilla help to insure
safe beachheads when and If an inva-
sion attempt is made through Greece.
Women Join War of Ghosts
In Chinese UNDERGROUND
BY Spencer Moosa.
CHUNGKING.-One Of Japan's big
gest problems in China is ghost army
viciously and continually stabbing in
the rear.
1t is an army of hard-hitting, hard
lighting guerrillas whose broad strategy
Is: Withdraw when the enemy ad-
vances, harass him when he camps. at
tack when he is exhausted, give chase
when he fees.
The hunting ground stretches $500
miles. The strength is ohicially esti-
mated at 350,000 or more men and
women. They operate in the shadow of
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Civil War Saps Strength
OF Anti-Nazis in Greece
Dvv Y~In u NJ oct ~,

CAIRO.-A big IF lies over the snow
Greece. IF the Allies can heal Nazi-
inspired breach between big bands Of
Greek guerrillas then the Hellenes may
take first place among the smaller oc-
cupied nations in total contributions to
the United Nations war effort.
The Allied headache, however, is
whether the loose hung bands known
as the Elias and the Edes can be diverted
from sort of civil war to their former
job of harassing the Germans.
Col. Stephanos Serafis, thin, sunken-
checked former bon vivant and man.
about-town, is identified with the Elias,
which are about three times stronger in
number than the Edes. The latter or
ganizaiton is led by stocky, thickset Col.
Napoleon Zervas.
Total guerrilla strength in Greece has
been variously estimated at from Is 900
to $4,000 and is known to be elastic and
shifting.
Could Aid Invasion
The EAM (National Liberation 'FRONT.'
with its Elias army is an extreme left
movement and its generally supposed
Communist elements are active in the
upper brackets. 1t has postwar pro-
gram including the adoption of uni
versal dialect and naturalization of
public utilities. Yet because only the
EdeS have offered full co-operation
most Allied supplies have been going to
that group despite its numerical inferi-
ority.
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Skill in demolition and other de.
structive work was developed at schools
devoted to the training of guerrilla
force officers.
AS integral parts of the Chinese Army.
the guerrillas are under the direct au.
thority Of the nearest war zone COM
mander They are paid and supplied
by the army.
Thousands of women serve. They do
work roughly analogous with that Of
women in United States forces but with
one exception-many are fighters as
much at home in a skirmish as a GI
is with Garand.
The most famous guerrilla today is a
63-year-old woman, Nine Chao Yu
Tung, known as the mother of the
guerrillas." At the head of band she
fought many engagements with the
Japanese. who have placed a price Of
250000 Chinese dollars on her head.
Today she is a special recruiting agent
for the army.
A pint sized grandmother with
wrinkled face and slow walk, she is al
ready legend. Once to demonstrate
to group of skeptical peasants that
they too, should become guerrillas, she
led party to a cornfeld and with a
Mauser in each hand shot and killed
two Japanese sentries within sight Of
the walls of Peiping.
By Sea as Well
Officially there are no sea guerrillas,
but unoffcially China's ghost army has
operated at sea as we'll as on land. Men
operate in small boats to raid enemy
lighthouses, or travel as innocent pas
sengers and take possession of japanese
merchantmen.
Guerrillas make the Japanese grip on
North China an uneasy one. People
(Cnntinnod nn pooo
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"scorched earth" policy and partisan
campaign. From virtually every city
and village, small bands Of men went
into hiding, forming the nucleus Of
what eventually became the guerrilla
army.
In Forests and Swamps
The biggest Partisan forces sprang
up in the Bryansk region and in White
Russia, where dense forests and swamps
provided for large scale operation. Guer-
rillas took control of large areas, raiding
German communications and garrisons,
even meeting enemy punitive detach-
ments in open battle.
One unit was headed by Mikhail Ro-
mashin former secretary of the Bryansk
District Committee OF the Communist
party. His band was credited with blow
ing up the Blue Bridge over the Desna
River. near Bryansk, and blocking the
railroad into Bryansk for six months.
In the second year Of the war, the
guerrillas continued to harass the en-
emy rear.
Their warfare famed to new heights
last summer when the Red Army started
its advance. Bands were compact,
closely knit units, having radio connec-
tions and even plane service with THE
Big Land"
-: They were instrumental in the recross-
Ing Of the Dneiper their outstanding
single achievement. Waiting on the east
bank, they led the Red Army through
gtracklesS swamps to embarkation points.
Others on the west bank signaled clear
landing places. Thus, the Red Army
drove across the Dnieper Immediately
after reaching it and broke the Germans
strongest defense.
AS the Germans retreated, guerrillas
impeded their movements. One party
called Flame" derailed 81 trains in
garrisons, killing 1851.
The full story of the guerrilla war can
not be told because operations still are
underway. When 1t can be told 1t will
be one of the epics of the war.
France Is Training a Vast
Secret Army for Invasion
BY Joseph Dynan.
ALGIERS.-One afternoon last May
in well-known quarter in Paris
tall middle-aged man stepped gingerly
from the Metro entrance, glanced
quickly around and then approached
the short squat man leaning against
the subway balustrade reading the Paris
,Soir.
He asked the time; the short one
folded his paper, looked at his watch.
Then the two lit cigarettes and the tall
man ambled of.
This encounter was repeated many
times and within two hours the ar
rivals had assembled in certain build
ing.
It was fua session Of the French
National Council of Resistance, leaders
OF the greatest and deadliest fifth COL
umn in history.
Each Of them had been long con-
demned to death by Vichy and the
Gestapo; had the Germans raided that
house that afternoon they would have
made their biggest haul yet. They
would have gone long way toward
Destroying the underground network
which everywhere spies upon them, dis
'rupts transport, cuts communication and
tortures production.
But the entire quarter was guarded
by young men who two or three years
before had been peaceful bank clerks
er tadesmen but who now held sub