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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
DEFERMENTS ALLOWED !,
IN CERTAIN INDUSTRIES

Washington, D. C.-The War Pro-
duction Board issued recently pre-
liminary definition of fifteen critical
industries in which highly skilled and
irreplaceable men under twenty-six
may be deferred.
The WPB listed the following pro-
duction items as Critical and ur-
gent: Ducks, an amphibious combat
vehicle; tires and tubes for aircraft,
combat and heavy-duty vehicles, in
cluding tire cord, fabric and molds;
radar; rockets; critical components
for trucks 2R tons and heavier, in
Guiding truck trailers and Class / and
2 tractors; research and development
work specifically assigned by the
technical services of the Army; Army
and Navy combat planes according tc
list of specified types and factories
to be forwarded later; landing craft
and submarines.
Also aircraft carriers; high capac-
ity naval ammunition; maintenance
Of ships and aircraft for the Navy;
all tankers constructed for the Mari
time Commission, and combat loaded
cargo and transport ships.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
Harry Schuster

The passing of Harry H. Schuster
of Hamilton, Ohio, takes still another
pioneer member of the Buckeye Retail
Liquor Dealers Association from our
midst. Mr.. Schuster was the first
President of the BRLDA, a position
for which he was eminently qualified
by virtue of positions as city treasurer
and city auditor of Hamilton and, un-
der that city's charter form of gov
ernment, director of finance from 1928
to 1888.
Due to a nervous breakdown, Mr..
Schuster retired from his city posi-
tion and, following his recovery,
opened the bar in the Hamilton Hotel.
He subsequently became employed as
an auditor at Wright Field, Dayton,
but i'll health again forced him to re-
sign and he then operated restau-
rant in West Chester. His death oc-
Cured at Fort Hamilton Hospital,
where he had been confined the last
few months.
A native of Hamilton, Mr.. Schuster
as young man operated the st.
Charles Hotel there, gaining valuable
managerial experience. He immedi-
ately impressed one with his kind
illness and his firm devotion to ideals.
He believe in ideals, and his words and
actions underlined this belief. He was
a member of ST. Johns Evangelical
Church and belonged to the Bible class
and brotherhood, and was also MEM
ber of the Elks, Moose and Eagles.
In recent years he had not been SO
active within the BRLDA as when he,
with others, blazed the organizational
trail some seven years ago. But his
counsel was always valued whenever
followed He was a credit to cur in
dustry, credit to the BRLDA, sin
cere American business man who did
his job in life earnestly and we'll
BUCKEYE TAVERN.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
'MANPOWER SITUA.
ton GOOD M'NUTT

Washington, D. C.-Puncturing the
scares raised by Army and Navy Off
cials, VINO Director Paul V. McNutt
testified before the House Military
Affairs Committee that the "man-
power situation is relatively good and
labor shortages are causing less dam
age to production now than at any
time since the early months of 1943."
'The vast majority of war plants
have been supplied with the man.
power they needed" he said. Labor
turnover has been materially reduced.
Manpower mobilization has been a
success. Moreover, it has been done in
thoroughly democratic manner, with
an unprecedented degree Of participa-
tion by labor, management and local
communities.
McNutt pointed out that 'the aston
ishing rise in productivity" of work
ers has reduced the manpower re-
quirements in munitions industries,
and that as a matter of fact, the most
critical manpower shortages are
largely outside Of munitions-in such
supporting activities" as the rail
roads.
He argued that the present volun-
tary setup of recruiting manpower,
which operates through labor-man-
agement, committees, should be re-
tained.
''It would be tragic to throw away
the work done by these committees
and set up plan of manpower mo-
bilization which puts the emphasis on
direct control and compulsion rather
than upon cooperation" the manpow-
er chief asserted "That would be to
substitute the military or bureau
cratic processes for the democratic"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
COOPERATION FOR POST
WAR JOBS

The conference in New York spon-
sored by the American Federation of
Labor indicates that labor leaders not
only are forward-looking but that
they are prepared to do something
about it.
Attended by several hundred union
officials the problem of conversion
from war to peacetime production was
discussed and plans made for partici-
patton by labor in a program aimed at
full employment for every working
man and woman.
That there will be a demand for
autos, refrigerators, radios, and hun
dreds of other necessities not being
produced there is little doubt. New
homes will be needed by the millions,
providing work for building trades
men and producers of everything that
goes into homes.
The real problem, however, will be
to expedite the actual conversion of
our factories and machines. The inter-
val between cessation of war produc-
tion and installation and operation of
peacetime production machinery will
depend upon the degree of cooperation
possible between labor and manage
ment, and this, we believe, is the OBJ
stacle which concerned the conference
most strongly.
Admitting that everyone is vitality
interested in the coming conversion,
and that the problem demands COOP
GRAFTON of all elements of production,
we come to the conclusion that coop
GRAFTON means cooperation. No group
labor nor capital-should expect to
reap exclusive benefits from CONVEX
sion. Each will have to give little,
concede something in order that all
may benefit.
If we are to avoid breadlines and
unemployment capital must abandon
any desire to defate labor and labor
must be willing to be realistic.
Only by pulling together for
the other and all for one-can we es-
cape repetition of the terrible '3Os.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
WHY ABOLISH THE POLL TAXI"

Why should labor everywhere be
concerned in the fight to abolish the
poll tax in eight Southern states?
The poll tax bars 10 million people
from taking part in their government.
But how does that hurt the people of
the other 40 states?
The truth is, the poll tax doesn't
just bar the Southern people from
sharing our democracy. 1t also keeps
the rest of the American people from
having fair share, too.
Take your own Congressman. 1t
takes less than 9,40O votes to elect the
average poll-tax Congressman and
$4,000 to elect non-poll-tax Con-
gressman, which means that one Doll
tax vote is worth more than 5 non
poll-tax-votes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
Perfect Tax Collection Record

Alanby, N. Y.-The goal every mu-
nicipality would like to achieve was
reached by Tupper Lake, N. Y, a
community of $500 population, when
every cent of its 1943 tax levy, total
ing $31,050, was collected before Feb.
s. The city clerk also reported that of
total tax levies of $296,50O for the last
nine years, only S548 was unpaid in
February. The successful tax collec-
tion record is due in part, the NUM-
cipal Finance Officers Association re-
ports, to the fact that tax sales are
held annually.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21

As a rule, not more than per cent
of the people of a poll tax state vote.
The fact that poll tax Congressman
and Senators are not elected by the
majority of the people of their states
means they do not serve the majority
of any of US.
Poll tax repeal will mean that the
laborer in Alabama, the textile worker
in South Carolina, the store clerk in
Virginia, can vote, in much larger
numbers than heretofore. That means
he can elect a man who will be re-
sponsible to the working people. Such
anti-labor leaders as the authors of
the Smith Connally bill we be de-
feated. And labor all over America
will be the better for it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

pied France have been getting less
than 2 ounces of butter per month; a
small portion of meat weekly; eggs
in 8 months; fish, once or twice year;
their purposely lacking in essential
elements.
"a whole generation of children in
the Nazi-occupied countries" says
Kershner, lis perishing or being
made permanently subnormal in mind
and body. The consequences in human
life and for reconstruction are too ter
rible to contemplate. If the people who
share our ideals pass out of the pic
ture the British commonwealth and
America may face the totalitarians
alone"
For hundreds of years the German
people have been taught that they
alone are the master race; that all
other peoples must either be extermin-
ated or made subjects of German mas
ters. Only German know how to rule;
only Germans can dictate a peace In
ferior races must acknowledge Ger
man supremacy.
'The greatest ruthlessness in war,
if properly used, actually proves to
be the greatest humanitarianism. If
one is in a position to destroy the
city of London it is more humane to
do it than to allow single German
racial comrade to shed his blood on
the battlefield because such radical
treatment is the quickest way to
peace. Hesitancy, softness and consid-
GRAFTON are unforgivable weaknesses,
decisiveness and ruthless attack are
strength and bring victory" That is
from German publication in 1915.
Which should convince us that there
is job to be done, and it should indi-
cate how we should do it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21

SzOO CASH You can have it right Use it
to good advantage Repay after Special
owcost loans for farmers Write stop in. Hours
longer.
sANOR, Mgr.
StreetH Hamilton
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
WHAT NEXT?

Invasion barges of concrete are now
being built on mass production basis
along the English coast in a program
designed to conserve steel. The 128-
ton craft, which are "a feet long and
% wide, are poured right at the wa
ter's edge and are launched by crane
as soon as dry. The record building
time thus far is "a hours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
RATION TABLE
SUGAR

SUGAR
Stamps 80 and 81 (Book A. valid
for five pounds indefinitely; stamp 40
Book ~ valid for five pounds for
home canning through next February.
SHOES
Stamp 18 Book y is good through
April 80. "Airplane" stamp 1 Book
- is good indefinitely.
CANNED GOODS
Blue stamps, AS, BIS, C-8, D-8,
Els, F-8, G-8, J-S and KS Book ~
are valid indefinitely.
MEATS
Red stamps AS, BIS, C-8, D-8, E-8,
F-S, G-S, HIS and J-8 (Book A. are
valid indefinitely.
TIRES
Tires of A card holders must be
inspected every six months, with a
90-day minimum period between in
spections; B card holders, every four
months, with a 60-day minimum pc
riod between inspections, and C and
bulk card holders every three months,
with 45-day minimum period be-
tween inspections. Commercial vehi-
cles every six months or 5000 miles,
whichever is first.
GASOLINE
A-Coupon 11-Valid for gallons
through June 81. B-2, CO, B-3 and
C-3 stamps are good for gallons.
Valid until used.
LIQUOR
Current period expires May 20,
with whisky and domestic gins as the
only spirits rationed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
is tn e
expression of a mixture o:

i expression of a mixture of
stupidity and cowardice," is only one
quotation from Hitler "Mein Kapf." {"
1t does, however, indicate the feeling
of his followers toward other peoples
of the world His idea of civilization
is determination of all persons OF
other countries able to think and slav-
cry for others. A German, in the
minds of Germans, was born to rule,
and all others to serve.
Their methodical slaughter of all
opposition in all overrun countries in
dicates that Adolf's book correctly
portrayed the thoughts of his people.
The wanton destruction of Warsaw,
Prague, Rotterdam-not to forget
Lidice-is fair example of their
wantonnness.
"People must learn to realize that
he who cannot be German is a
pariah." Such an idealogy helps us to
understand the state of the German
mind; makes 1T possible Tor Americans
to see the reason for the murder of
men and babies and the enslavement
of women of conquered territory.
Not always, however, do the Ger
mans actually slaughter conquered
people The labor of such victims
sometimes can be used for Germany.
Kept alive they can produce food and
material needed for the German mas
ter race" but they must not be kept
too much alive
Howard E. Kershner, chairman of
the Temporary Council on Food for
Europe's Children, says that by de-
priving them of fats, proteins and
vitamins the Germans are slowly
numbering the children of the occupied
countries of Europe. People in occu-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
LIQUOR

Current period expires May 20
with whisky and domestic gins as the
only spirits rationed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
First Safety Award to Shipyard

Wilmington, Calf. (ILNS). ~ The
California Shipbuilding Corp. has re-
ceived the distinguished service for
safety award for reducing industrial
accidents, being the first shipyard in
the country SO honored, it is said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
WISDOM

Enlighten the people generally and
tyranny and expressions of body and
mind will vanish like spirits at the
dawn of day.-Thomas Jefferson.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
Soldiers Eyes
DO All Right
i'm Nicaragua

HILLSDALE, Mich UH -
When in Nicaragua do as the
Nicaraugans do, and it is the
custom there to speak express
lively with the eyes, says Mrs.
James o. LindWedel of Hills
dale, whose husband wooed and
won her despite the fact that he
speaks no Spanish and she no
English.
The 25-year-old soldier, a
peace-time resident of st. Louis,
met his 19-year-old bride in
Managua, where her father is an
attorney. After the initial party,
he took her to movies, dances
and dinners, being at all times
expressive with the eyes. He
brought along an English-Span-
iSh dictionary for use in small
talk, and occasionally an inter-
prefer was present.
Mrs. LindWedel-Clara Luz in
Nicaragua - sadly admits that
the interpreter was necessary at
the climax Of the courtship-to
read the proposal Lindwedel
had written on a slip of paper.
After that, the dictionary was
just in the way.
Lindwedel, an orphan, antici-
pated his transfer back to the
u. S., and sent his bride TO Hills
dale upon recommendation Of a
buddy who has relatives here.
She has become fast friends
with the professor of languages
at Hillsdale College, and holds a
war job in factory.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
Utica Legion Slate
Feted al Ceremonies
installation Held
ar Center Line

UTICA-A company of more
than 200 witnessed the impress
Sive ceremony on Sunday of the
installation of officers of the
American Legion Post No. ISL
Of Utica and the officers of Post
No. 81 Of Center Line at the
High school auditorium.
The officers of the Utica La
dies Auxiliary also were induct-
ed into office by the president
Of the seventh district.
Speaker of the afternoon was
superintendent Of tro I
schools, Warren E. Bow. Follow
ing the installation ceremonies
members and guests assembled
at the Legion all for a social
hour. Sandwiches and coffee
were served.
The Legion will hold its first
party of the season in st. Law
renee hall, Van Dyke avenue,
on Thursday, Oct. 26.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
Romeo

ROMEO-Mrs. James Barkley
is spending a week with her
mother, Mrs. Walper at Exeter,
Ont.
Mrs. Edmund Frappicr will be
hostess TO the MerrymakerS Club
Friday evening in her home on
West st. Clair street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert knight
and daughter Anne of Detroit
were weekend guests in the
home of Mrs. Knights parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Gray.
Mrs. Merton B. Smith enter
tanned eight ladies at luncheon
and bridge last Saturday at her
home on West ST. Clair street.
Mrs. Leslie c. Perkins, Jr.
will leave Friday for Fort Dew
ems, Massachusetts, where she
will spend week with her hus-
band, Pfc. Perkins.
Mrs. David Colon and chill
dren Sandra and David, Jr. ar
rived last week from Bremerton,
Wash, where they have been for
a year with Lieut.. Colon. They
will be home for two months
Lieut.. Colon is expected to ar
rive soon on leave.
Mrs. Charles Kraham of De-
troit was a weekend guest Of
her sisters, Mrs. John Butterfield
and Mrs. Harold Gray.
Mrs. Evangeline Cummings of
Lake Worth, Fla, and Mrs. Ell
dred Light Of Detroit are spend
ing this week with their sister,
Mrs. Milton Renaud.
Mrs. James Bayne of Detroit
has been visiting her mother,
Mrs. Lee Bedell and her sister,
Mrs, John Dodge this week. Mrs,
Bayne has enlisted in the Red
Cross for overseas duty and will
leave for Washington, D. c. next
Sunday for training.
Mrs. Robert Palmer and sons
Mike and Chris Of Dearborn are
visiting in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley Palmer.
Tech. Sergt. Merton c. Thurs
ton arrived last Friday from
overseas duty where he complet-
ed 35 missions over Germany.
He and his wife, the former
Elaine Perkins, are spending a
week at Lewiston. Tech. Sergt,
Thurston will leave November 7
for Miami Beach, Fla.
Mrs. |. d. Lane Of Bad Axe is
spending the winter in the home
Of her son and daughter in-law,
DR.. and Mrs. w. D. Lane.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
Patterson Adopts
The tumble Cure

CHAMPAIGN, H., Oct. 10
lP)-Paul Patterson, star Uni
vcrsity Of Illinois freshman half
back, is keeping a football close
10 him this week--a program he
hopes will cure him of fumbling
in future games.
The Illini have suffered set
backs in early games by fun
bling, with no less than eight
being charged against them in
the Purdue defeat. Patterson,
the chief offender in that con-
test, decided he'd keep a pigskin
in his hands at all times and he
Tugs one from class TO class and
in strolls across the campus.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
Sees Crime
Deferred
by TeleVisiOn

CLEVELAND - U.H - Many
new and effective law enforce
ment methods will be used after
World War II, according to
Frank J. Wilson, chief of the
u. S. Secret Service.
Wilson, in an address before
the International Association Of
Chiefs Of Police, said: New
postwar crime problems will
face the nation, and criminals
will emerge with new tricks for
cheating the public, but the new
tricks will not be confined TO
the underworld"
Pointing out that few
years ago prominent police Off
Gals thought the two-way radio
telephones in police cars fan
tastic," Wilson said that tomor-
row it will be tclevision which
will help us stop the crook.
with television," he said,
I'VE will be able to flash many
pictures Of missing persons or
dangerous criminals, or expose
the tricks of criminals on tele-
vision screens in the living
rooms Of millions of people at
the same instant"
Furthermore, he asserted, a
city police department can set
up tcleviSion cameras at danger
Gus highway intersections and
bring serious traffic problems
into the homes Of the people to
teach them to walk and drive
with care.
"A television screen In every
home where there is now a radio
can do more than anything else
to encourage the public to give
the police active support in re-
ducing juvenile delinquency and
preventing robbery, burglary,
and other serious crimes he
said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
Appeal is Launched
in Utica Paper Drive

UTICA The Utica Salvage
committee, Z. a. Schwarzkoff,
chairman, has announced the
next paper pickup in Utica for
Thursday, Oct. %.
Schwarzkoff says: Soldiers
don't eat paper but thousands of
tons of paper are needed to pro-
tect food being shipped to the
fighting front, If you live with
in the district bounded by De-
quindre, Hayes, Coldwater and
l6-Mile roads.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
Burma Monster Search
Turns Up Kettle of Fish

from which the "Chindits" take
their name and insignia.
A second speculation is that
the Burma Monster is just an
ordinary man-in-the-street mon
ster who's a little irked by all
the attention given his Loeb
Ness cousin and the various i'm
migrant monsters in the Mis-
souri, and Mississippi Rivers,
A third explanation, which
this writer is inclined to favor,
is that the Mogaung Chamber
of Commerce is including in its
postwar plans a stellar tourist
attraction.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
By HUGH A. CRUMPLER
United Press War Correspondent


HEADQUARTERS UTH-
EAST ASIA COMMAND, KAN
DY, Ceylon - (U,D - Sea and
fresh-water monsters" always
make good copy, and although
this story is not quite as good
as the one about the gent who
turned on his bathtub faucet and
bagged a 50-footer, it's at least
more credible.
Besides, the locale of this one
is Burma-where anything can
happen.
1.-THE Burma Monster" as it
shall be called hereafter, alleg-
eddy cavorts in Indawgyi Lake,
a l5-mile stretch of tropical
water 20 miles west of Mogaung.
1t was first seen by Capt. john
p. Lee-Warner of General Len
taigne's "Chindits" when the
lake was being used as flying
boat base during this years
North Burma campaign.
SEE 2 BIG BUMPS
Capt. Lee-Warner and three
other men were crossing the
lake in a motorboat when, &C
cording to all four, they saw
two large bumps" Sashaylng
around in the water so yards
away.
The captain stepped up his
little cupboard to top speed, but
the Burma Monster, as monsters
all over the world are apt to
be, was too fast.
He Cor she) sounded, creating
a great wash" that rocked the
small boat.
The captain and his men
depth the area with
hand grenades and searched
vigilantly for an oil slick or
whatever kind Of slick monsters
make.
Their only reward was a
handful of fish killed by the
conclusion. These were duly
collected and served at mess that
night, but that has nothing to do
with the story.
The tale got around and soon
others had seen the bumps,
which by now had become ser
pent-like bumps if that helps
10 give you a better picture OF
the Burma Monster.
NATIVE CHIEF NO HELP
Capt. Lee Warner, whose
home is at N. Loughborough,
Leicestershire, told his expert
cnce to the head-man of Chauns-
wa. a neighboring village.
Crocodile" said the head
man tersely, emphatically and
finally.
May be-" said the captain,
"but I've seen lndawgyi croco-
dies and that wasn't one"
One theory is that the Burma
Monster is "Chinthe"-a fabu-
lous half gryphon, half lion
sport of Burmese mythology
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
Utica YuIe Parcels
Reach $500 Total

UTICA - Postmaster Isla
MeSsmore reports record mail
ing of packages for servicemen
overseas during the last few
days with an estimated $500 in
all.
The last minute rush on Sat-
urday and Monday totaled 367
on Saturday and 337 for Mon
day. With similar reports COM
ing in from all post offices no
Serviceman would seem to be
forgotten.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-19
Around the Town nj Utica

wife, and parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Cooper.
Newly elected officers of the
Methodist Sunday School are
Superintendent, James NJ. Mil
by; assistant superintendent, Or
Vile Smith; superintendent OF
Youth Division, Harold Newt
tie; superintendent of Children's
Division, Mrs. Orville Smith,
MIR. and Mrs. Howard q. Crisis
man are spending few days at
their cabin near Vanderbilt,
Mich.
City Clerk Alger Weier re-
ports a record registration for
the coming presidential election.
for the city OF Utica.