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Evening star., 1945-05-21

Chevrolet, Packard
car urgently needed
eiling price in cash immedi-
tape. just call ME. 5000. or
car to LOVING MOTORS.
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through the Ohio and Mississippi
River areas the actual stopping g-off
points not yet determined.
The 328-foot tank landing ship,
commissioned in January, 1914, was
built by the Chicago Bridge & Iron
Co., at Seneca, Ill.,, and members of
various AFL unions, including boiler
makers, painters, electricians, machin-
lists, pipefitters and other crafts.
They are part of the huge army of
war plant workers at inland ship
yards who went to work in 1941 to
build a landing fleet that was des-
perately needed. Since that time,
So, 900 landing ships and craft have
joined the fleet.
The LST-512 first joined the fleet
in convoy bound for England. Since
that time she has crossed the Atlantic
twice, crossed the English Channel a
score of times, beached on the Nor
mandy coast on D-Day, been heavily
bombed and shelled- though never
struck-dumped large number of
American, British and Canadian
troops into France, brought thou
sand or more American casualties
back to England, and transported half
that number Of German prisoners of
war.
In October last year she was thrown
by heavy seas athwart a pontoon
causeway in Normandy. This acci-
dent broke her back and caused her
to be towed back to this country for
repair.
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Workers Huge Output of
Ordnance For u. S. and
Forty Allies Revealed

Washington, d. G. (ILNS).-The
numbers of weapons and munitions
produced by union members and 9TH
er American war workers, and fur
nished to the Army and 40 allied ma
tions by Army Ordnance were disclos-
ed on the 133d anniversary of the
Army's Ordnance Department..
From Pearl Harbor to May 16, over
43 billion rounds of rifle and machine
gun bullets have been turned out,
more than 5000 rounds for every man
in the Army, it was revealed. Over
l million artillery projectiles, more
than II million rifles and pistols,
nearly million machineguns, and
approximately 100000 artillery weap-
ons, have been produced.
In addition, some 37a million We
hicles, including 100000 tanks, have
gone from the production lines to the
fighting forces.
Job Ahead Not Forgotten
Commenting on the achievements
of the Ordnance Department, which
was established in 1912 with IA Of
ficers constituting it's total strength,
Lieut.. Gen. L. H. Campbell, Jr., Ord
nance Chief, said:
"The Ordnance Department is
proud of it's achievements during the
last years, but we are not forgetting
the job ahead. We are determined to
supply our troops with such quanti-
ties of weapons of such high quality
that complete triumph over Japan
will be insured at the least possible
cost i'm American lives"
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War Workers To See
AFL-Built LIST on Inland
Water Elk h bit Tour

Washington, D.. C. (ILNS).-Be-
cause war plant workers want to see
the completed products which they
have been helping to build for more
than years, the Navy is sending the
LST-512, damaged assault
ship, through 10000 miles of inland
water for public demonstrations Of
amphibious warfare.
The LST-512, manned by combat
veterans of the Navy, Marine Corps
and Coast Guard, will be crammed
with battle equipment and demonstra-
tions Of the ship-to-shore warfare that
has enabled American assault troops
to punch their way to the threshold
of Japan. The demonstration, entitled,
"Hit the Beach," will have it's first
D-Day in Detroit June 6, first ami
versary Of the allied assault on Nor
mandy.
To Go Through Rivers
From there it will drop it's ramp at
Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y, Erie,
Pa, Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio, and
Bay City, Mich. Demonstrations will
follow at Duluth, Milwaukee and Ra-
cine, Wis, Muskegon, Mich, Chicago,
ILL.,, and Gary, Ind. Later it will 60
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-01
Tenant Farmers Union Asks
Labor Help In Preventing
Sharecroppers' E vict i 0 n

New York City (ILNS)-Five
hundred sharecropper families of the
Delmo colony Pemiscot County, Mo-,
go about their cropping" with heavy
hearts as they face the threat of evic-
ton from the government-owned
homes where for years they have
known their first freedom from the
semislavery of the planter system,
the Workers Defense League says.
An order from Congress for the
Farm Security Administration to
'sliquidate" all their farm holdings
will force auction selling of these 500
homes unless workers join the South
ern Tenant Farmers Union in imme-
diate action The Langer-Hook bill,
pending in Congress, would permit the
families to purchase the cottages and
adjoining small tracts of land on in
stallments at a reasonable price, with
an interest rate of 3 percent a year.
Most of the tenants have posted 500
as a down payment or to show their
good intentions.
Lest auction sale and eviction should
come before Congress acts, the South
ern Tenant Farmers Union urges that
workers "a Wire or write President
Truman asking him to transfer the
Delmo Labor Homes Project to the
Federal Housing Authority; ~
Write or wire your own Congressman
urging him to request the President to
make such transfer; and (3) Wire
or write Frank Hancock, head of FSA.
Washington, D. c., asking that he sell
these homes to the residents and other
families at liberal terms. Evidence is
that, within the scope granted by
Congress he can do this.
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WHAT NEXT?

Beef tendons are being converted
into a tough plastic at the University
of Illinois, The Chemurgic Digest re-
ports. The tendons are trimmed from
carcasses, shredded and tossed into
glue vats. Acid breaks up the tissue
and chemical removes unwanted
parts, leaving a cloudy, gelatinous
liquid, which is then processed. The
plastic is used as surgical stitching
and can also be made into threads,
shoe soles or waterproof coating.
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

time; had the enemy stayed just a
few more months, the large cities
would beyond all doubt have been turn
ed into horrifying charnel houses.
Gas things are, numbers Of COM
pletely innocent men, women and chill
dren have died of hunger; Of this the
tragic pictures which we publish in
another part of this issue are an un-
mistakable indication. Countless thou
sands will require long and weary
months in order to regain anything
approaching normal health-but mean
time they are at least assured that
the dreaded Nazi ogre has been beat
en- conclusively and that his foul SIS
men, his Gestapo torturers and Green
Police sadists will be annihilated with
utter thoroughness.
"There are hard and cumbersome
years ahead. 1t would be foolish to
predict that the transition from all
round misery to normal existence is
going to be smooth and practically
unnoticeable one. Endless difficulties
will crop up; there will be infinite
need of mutual understanding and tol
erance, of attuning oneself to condi-
tions almost diametrically opposed to
life during the dreaded years of war.
Wisdom of leadership, broadminded-
ness, the sincere resolve to eradicate
whatever Nazi propaganda may have
successfully planted in the minds of
the Netherlands people, will be urg-
emily needed.
''It must be understood by everyone
that a return to former prosperity
and individual freedom can only then
become a reality if there is general
preparedness to live thriftily and sole
ly 'in one another's interest for many
years to come. Without this decision
and without a desire to abstain from
worthless disputes on minor details,
the process of reconnaissance would
be unnecessarily prolonged"
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tary methods of handling industry.
1t didn't do to tell these men that
they were merely alternates and could
be ignored; they replied that they
were American citizens and as such
were fighting a battle for freedom
as American citizens and would stick
to their guns. If you read the VE-Day
statement of this Management-Labo
Policy Committee you will recall the
sentence that voluntary cooperative
effort can accomplish gigantic tasks
that dictators with millions of slave
workers could not accomplish" That,
in a mouthful is the freedom platform
of the policy committee. 1t is also a
challenge to all the world.
Few people realize that the United
States is the only one OF the Delllge-
rents in this world war that carried
on without compulsory labor legisla-
tion 1t held fast to it's conviction that
voluntary democratic procedures are
better than dictatorship. We can thank
the Management-Labor Policy Com
mittee, both principles and alternates,
for that victory on the home front
We can also thank the 800 local man
agement-labor committees who work
ed in war production centers to carry
out the principle of labor management
cooperation. Their work may some
day be recognized as one of the great
est by-products accomplishments of
the war.
1t is due largely to the faithful work
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J"'VN"O '" '@~I>@t A-'UAA
A HEARTY dinner or midnight
~ lunch, little too much smok-
Ing, perhaps q cocktail or two
great fun tonight; miserable
letdown headachey feeling tomor-
row morning.
TRY ALKA-SELTZER
Alka-Seltzer is one medicine
useful In the relief of many minor
ailments, Headache, Acid Indiges-
tion, Cold Symptoms, Muscular
Fatigue, Neuralgia, Muscular
Pains.
Aka Settler u non-laxative
pleasant to take-try It.
At oil drug stores by the drink
and by the package.
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Profit For City Bus System

Sacramento, Calf. (ILNS).-The
city-owned and operated transporta-
tion system of Ventura, Calf, made
net profit of $4,000 in 1914, and
this years operations will show
profit close to 100000, city officials
say. The city, of $4,000 population,
took over the new activity 2 years
ago when privately operated bus lines
were unable to handle the traffic be-
cause of a shortage of buses. At
present fleet of % buses run regu-
larly scheduled trips to nearby towns
and to a naval port in addition to
handling local traffic. Local fares are
5 cents, while the fare to the naval
port is 40 cents. The bus department,
with SO employees, is the largest unit
in the city government.
ADVERTISE IN THE PRESS.
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Holland, after years. nightmare
of Nazi occupation, is looking for
ward to former prosperity and indi-
vidual liberty. But it knows that the
period of rebuilding and recuperation
will be long and difficult and will call
for the best in every Hollander.
"Of things to come," with review
of what the Netherlands have suffer-
ed, features special liberation issue
of the Netherlands News, published
by the Netherlands Information Bu-
reau. What the publication says ap-
plies to every nation in Europe con-
quered by the Germans. "Of things to
come" is worth the attention OF every
person who realizes that European re-
building is vital to world peace and
prosperity.
"The Netherlands are Free" the
article says. with badly suppressed
rage at their total defeat the poor
remnants of the once mighty Nazi oc-
cupation powers are-while this IS
being written-witnessing the fran
tic joy of the people of western Hol-
land who are welcoming the allied
troops with an affection SO profound
it borders upon the hysterical the
country is free"
The article continues, saying in
part:
"But at best this freedom is no
more than the doctors assurance to a
dangerously i'll person that he has
passed the crisis and will live. The
period of his recuperation will be a
protracted one and many time when
he believes himself we'll enough to
try out his newly -regained forces, he
will discover with shock the extent
of his still existing weakness.
mo one could have foreseen that
the end of the Nazi nightmare would
| leave the Netherlands so ravaged, de-
spoiled and exhausted as is the case
The liberation of the hunger prov
incesv has come only in the nick OF
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of the men on these committees that
labor and management have reached
better understanding of mutual
problems. Without the background
of that understanding on the local level
it would probably have been impossi-
BILE for the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States, the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations to work out
the partnership agreement represent
ed by the charter which has now been
formally and unanimously approved
by the governing bodies of each organ
ization.
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WISDOM

Why should there not be patient
confidence in the ultimate justice Of
the people? Is there any better OF
equal hope in the world abraham
Lincoln.
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The war was over. Hitler's death
had finished it. And the corporal who
had helped to lay the body well and
truly underground was describing the
scene.
"The Germans put the coffin down
twenty-five times" he said.
"Twenty-fve times," echoed his lis
teners. "What for?"
"Encores," said the corporal.
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Milwaukee Wars On Rats

Milwaukee (ILNS.-The first 100,-
600 mickey Firms" for Milwaukee's
rat population have been distributed
over 225 blocks in rat killing cam
paign launched by the health commits
sioner. Goal of the campaign, which
is conducted under the direction OF 3
oman teams, is 100000 poison bats
placed by the end of 1945.
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Behind
Your Bonds
Lies the Might Of America
WISCONSIN AT WAR

When the war started, Wisconsin
relaxed it's labor standards to per-
NIT women to work nights and IT
year-old boys to work in canneries.
It reduced strikes from IS in 1941
with a loss Of 521 ,315 man-days to q
very small figure and introduced eff
fective safety measures. It all adds
up to vastly stepped-up production
Of food and greater future for In
dustry in the state. Wisconsin cans
more peas and raises more hemp
than any other state. It has more
dairy cows. It's Americas ability
to produce-on the farm and in the
cit.es--that really stands behind ev-
cry War Bond you buy.
rs. Trsasssy Dsportmsst
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FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1945
VICTORY ON HOME FRONT

Now that we have passed VE-Day
without having had labor draft i'm
posed on the country, it is only fair
to call attention to a group of Amer
leans who in large measure were
responsible for preserving the volun-
tary and democratic procedure with
which we met our manpower prob
lens in war production. That group of
citizens is known as the Management
Labor Policy Committee of the War
Manpower Commission. Theoretically,
this committee was composed of the
heads of the outstanding business, la
Dor and farm organizations. Practic-
ally, the real week-to-week job of
preserving freedom was done by the
alternates appointed by these busy
executives.
These alternates were men in whom
their principles - their bosses - had
confidence. They were men who knew
intimately the ways of the bureau
cracy of Washington. They knew that
no head of government agency likes
to be burdened with an advisory COM
mittee, although sometimes it seems
nice to have one for the sake of demo-
cratic appearances, for propaganda
purposes, to make a tail for ones
kite.
The alternates convinced Congress
that the committee should function
in more than a consultant capacity.
So Congress made it mandatory that
the chairman of the War Manpower
Commission advise with the Manage
ment-Labor Policy Committee. The
alternates took their job seriously.
They defeated efforts to put across
labor draft. Instead of waiting for
the chairman to call them in for con-
sultation, they called him in to tell
him what his staff was doing that
was wrong and how to correct it.
They didn't hesitate to disagree even
with the President. Some of their
biggest battles We're with Army and
Navy officers who believed in mill
Evening star., 1945-05-18
Birthdays Foil on Same Doy

At the golden wedding celebration
of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. van Keenan,
near Harrismith, South Africa, it
was disclosed that the birthdays
of both Mr. and Mrs. Van Keenan,,
their five children and one of their
grandchildren all fall on the same
day.
Evening star., 1945-05-18
Hard Coal Contract
May Be Signed Today,
Ending Strike Monday
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

Hard coal operators and John
L. Lewis United Mine Workers
today were expected to draft a
new wage agreement and end the
strike which has completely
shut down the industry since
April 80.
Final agreement on the contract
today would mean that the miners
would return to work probably Mon
day.
The long deadlock In contract
negotiations apparently was broken
late yesterday when both sides
agreed to basis for settlement of
their differences that would boost
the pay of miners sl.37l2 a day.
Secreary of the Interior Ickes
suggested the compromise wage fig
ure after week of quiet consulta-
ton with his cost experts and the
negotiators
Mr.. Ickes seized the hard coal
mines, all located in Pennsylvania,
May 3 on orders from President
Truman. The miners had refused
to work after their old contract ex-
pired April 30. Efforts to obtain ex-
tension of the old agreement failed.
The. miners ignored a Government
order to resume work May 7.
No recommendations as to how
the wage increase should be dis
trlbuted among the miners various
demands was made by Mr.. Ickes.
Mr.. Lewis had asked for 81 so a day
extra pay for travel and lunch time
and numerous fringe" adjustments.
Secretary of Labor Perkins had
suggested settlement for sl.79 per
day extra, including travel time
compensation and such fringes as
SIS year vacation allowance, in
stead of the current $50, and 4 and
6 cents premium pay for second and
third shifts. The operators coun-
tered with an offer of $l03 a day
more pay.
Should the Ickes' compromise be
written into a contract it would
mean another victory for Mr.. Lewis
who recently won a pay raise of
sl02 per day for his soft coal
miners.
Interior officials estimate that
nearly 100000 tons of coal produc-
ton have been lost by the strike.
Evening star., 1945-05-18

people and Government of the
United States will continue to take
such measures as will lie within
their power to facilitate the recov-
cry of France and of her people.
Confirms Occupation Role.
"The President confirmed to M.
Bidault this Governments complete
willingness to relinquish to France
part of the American zone of oc-
cupation in Germany. Details have
already been conveyed informally to
the French government and are now
in the process of being formalized.
The President emphasized that
we are faced with a still strong and
deadly enemy in the Far East to
whose defeat the total resources of
this country. both in manpower
and material, are pledged He in
dicated that such assistance as
France and our other Allies may
bring to that struggle and which
may be synchronized with opera
tions already planned or under way,
will be welcomed.
The discussion was on the most
friendly and cordial plane and af-
forded the President a welcome op-
portunity to emphasize the bonds
of friendship and mutual interest
between the two countries"
Evening star., 1945-05-18
Wheeler Won Silver Star
In Action on PeIeIiU

Capt. Wheeler's wife and son live
lat 3639 Jenifer street. His son,
Harry, jr., was born in March, 1913
five months after his father had
gone overseas, and Capt. Wheeler
saw him for the first time when he
made surprise trip home at
Christmas.
A native of New York, he was a
star guard at Manhattan College
in 1885 and lived in Washington
about five years before joining the
Marines in May, 1912. He worked
here with New York wholesale
florist concern.
The 3o-year-old captain was
awarded the Silver Star for gall
lantry in action while a first lieu
tenant. Fighting on Peleliu Island,
he twice risked his life to cross a
terrain heavily bombarded by enemy
fire to establish contact with Amer
ican forces which had been sepa-
rated, and again led a small patrol
up a hill heavily fortified to wipe
out an enemy artillery piece.
Evening star., 1945-05-18
Autopsy Set as Potomac
Yields MISSING Woman

Harbor police yesterday recovered
the body of Mrs. Barbara Curtis
Weed, "a, of Oakton, Va, who dis
appeared Monday night while paint
ing a cabin cruiser anchored of
the 1000 block of K street NV
Police had been dragging the Po-
tomac since her disappearance was
reported.
The body, which was found about
300 feet from the 39-foot craft
was covered with silt. but police
said there were no signs Of violence
1t was recovered by Policemen
Lemuel A. Baliles and Enoch J.
Spence. According to police, the
body was identified by Porter H.
Thomas, 5000 block of Nineteenth
road, Falls Church, Va, owner of
the boat.
An autopsy to ascertain the cause
Of death will be performed today
by the coroner.
Mrs. Weed made her home with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. T.
Curtis, in Oakton. She was the
mother of two children, Monty Earl
6, and Curtis M, 20 months old
Evening star., 1945-05-18
Dog Pack That Killed
Woman Will Die in
Gas Chamber Today
BY the Associated Press.

MIAMI, Fla, May 18.-Nine bull
pit terriers which tore an attractive
39-year-old woman to pieces in a
mass attack will be put to death to-
day in a gas chamber.
Justice of the Peace Henry L.
Oppenborn said the execution order
was issued so an autopsy might be
performed on the animals to learn
If the stomachs contain any parti-
cles of clothing torn from the
Woman'S body and also to fulfill the
request of their imprisoned owner.
Joe Mum, 43, of nearby Hialeah.
Police quoted Mum as saying:
They are bad strain. They
must be destroyed"
Case Has Puzzling Aspects.
Meanwhile authorities worked to
clear up several puzzling aspects in
The investigators said the episode,
which brought to an end the ad-
venturous career of Mrs. Doretta
Zlnke, globe -trotting writer, lee
turer and ethnologist, was so far
as they knew without parallel.
Mrs. Zinke was found at pm.
Wednesday by two soldiers, who
heard her screams. She died a
short while later in a hospital.
County Prosecutor Robert Taylor
said he would prosecute the case "to
the full extent of the law" but ac-
knowledged final disposition of the
nanslaughter charge against Mum
was in doubt. He added he probably
would have to prove that the dogs
were "wilfully" allowed to run at
large.
Mum is held under S. 900 bond.
Peace Justice Henry L. Oppenborn
ordered an autopsy performed and
tentatively set an inquest for Mon
day.
FB1 Takes Hand in Probe.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion here disclosed it was investigat-
ing several aspects" of the case, but
would make no further comment.
Constable w. M Hudson quoted
Mum, driver for Miami laundry
who came to Florida about five years
ago from East Orange, N. j., as say
ing he had known Mrs. Zinke slightly
for year and a half.
He said his acquaintance with her
consisted largely of listening to her
stories of travels in the Fijis, Aus
tralia and New Guinea.
Mrs. Zinke had flown 10000 miles
over Alaska, using hired plane, to
study primitive Eskimo tribes, and
had lived two years in the Fiji Is
lands compiling theological data.
Evening star., 1945-05-18
Woman PIunges 10 Death
From Third-FIoor Room

Miss Florence B. Saunders. 35. Of
the 2l00 block of 0 street NV. died
in Emergency Hospital early today
from injuries suffered when she
plunged from her room on the third
floor of her home, according to po-
lice.
A certificate of suicide was issued
by Deputy Coroner Christopher j.
Murphy.
Police said Miss Saunders dropped
about 80 feet to a paved alleyway
Friends of the dead woman told
police she had been depressed be-
cause of the death of her father
several weeks ago.
Miss Saunders was employed by
the Fruit Growers Express Co., ll01
Vermont avenue NV.