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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Committee Advises Workers
And Management To Bargain
On Nationwide Bdsis

New York City LNSEmpoyers who seek too high prices
and workers who seek high wages themselves
of the market and wreck their common enterprise special
issued by the Labor Committee of the Twentieth Century
Fund.- which asserts that Amecas welfare urgently demands
and constructive approach to collective bargaining
The funds committee Collective bargaining be- and
should increasingly become technique to help larger
and regular of goods and services maintain high
levels of purchasing power establish clear lines of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Lax u. S. Controls Blamed
For Living Cost Rise

Washington (FP).-A group of Is
top-flight government economists
queried by weekly news magazine
on causes of the rise in living costs
during the war placed chief blame on
the inadequacy of government con-
trolls on prices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08

Are cops born good-looking or does
being cop make them look that
way?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
UNIONS INDORSE CAMPAIGN

UNIONS INDORSE CAMPAIGN
New York (FP).-Leading officials
of the AFL, CIO and railroad brother
hoods have indorsed the winter cloth
ing campaign of the American Com
mittee for Yugoslay Relief.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Local Union SO
(Confinned From Pa0e OneJ

cluded in their report was the state
ment by the management that an x
ray mobile unit will be brought in
shortly so that all employees could
have Xrays taken who wish to re-
ceive the aluminium therapy treat
ments. A machine to administer these
treatments will be installed as soon
as possible.-O. c. 80.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08

William w. Calhoun, 10, retired pot
ter and father of Cecil Calhoun mem
Der of Local Union a, died Nov. in
City hospital. His death was attributed
to heart attack.
Mr.. Calhoun was retired since 1922.
In addition to his son he leaves one
daughter, Mrs. Irma Poe of Mexico
City, Mexico; one sister, Mrs. Lou
Warrick of Akron, and a brother,
Samuel Calhoun, patient in the U. S.
Veterans hospital in Aspinwall, Pa.
Services were held from the Arner
funeral home.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
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OBITUARY
. 4 = 4 4 4 + 4 + + 4 + + 4 =
GEORGE w. PUGH

George w. Pugh of Grafton, w.
Va, former East Liverpool potter,
died November 3 in the Grafton City
hospital following a 20-month illness
of silicosis. He was 81.
Mr. Pugh was jiggerman. He re-
sided in Grafton for the past 18 years
where he was employed by the Carr
China Co. He was a member of Local
Union SO, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters, the Church Of the
Nazarene and the Eagles lodge.
He leaves his widow, Mrs Edna
Parsons Pugh; one son, Seaman (2c)
Howard Pugh in the navy; two broth
ers, William Pugh of Sweetsprings,
w. Va, and James Pugh of East Liv
erpool; two sisters, Mrs. James Shaw
of Grafton, and Mrs. Robert HolcOmb
of Baden, Pa, and grandson.
Funeral services were held from the
Arner funeral home with Rev. John
X. Donley, pastor of the Newell Naz-
arene church, officiating. Burial was
in Locust Hill cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08

A polite man seldom gets chance
to sit down or to put on his hat
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
rs THAT IN THE RULE BOOK?"

is THAT In THE kUlE BUVk!
Whether it's football business Americans expect fair play
all down the line.
In football the referee is there to that the game is
played according the rules But he's not supposed to
with the ball. In business the referee the government which
establishes regulations for fair practices.
But when government goes into business and compees with
Its own citizens the American tradition of fair play is
asde The referee then becomes player and he enjoys advan
tages that denied to all the other players the game
Take electric power systems for example,
They pay little taxes When they need money, they call
the U. s. Treasury and get at little interest they
have losses why worry? You taxpayers take of that
Busness.managed power systems the other hand, do
have these special privileges They pay their full share of
taxes pay fair interest any loans.
Fortunately for you and your bl 800 of all the
electric power in this country produced by taxpayng self
supporting electric companies owned and operated by several
million folks like you.
And how well are these companies doing their job?
Electricity still available low prewar prices. There
enough meet the gigantic demands OF war; And there
will be plenty give you grear comfort and convenience
the electric living of the postwar world.
n THE ELECTRIC with Robert ARM
tvasks orehestra Every svndy
!"
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08

Demand the Union Label.
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Evening star., 1945-07-22
STUDIO COP
by Michael Sheridan

and Norma Shearer's children were also
popular targets. Stars like Susan Peters
are often bothered by providers. In each
case, Whitley has the answer
When stars have telephone trouble"
they run to Whitley. Pests get hold of their
unlisted numbers" he says, land if they
can't be traced and caught, the numbers
have to be changed" Lana Turner had to
have her number changed 81 times.
Runs Crooks Down
OTHER common complaints concern fake
cleaners trucks which make off with all
the stars clothes, and fake storage vans that
remove entire rooms of furniture. Whitley
has to run these crooks down, too
Escorting famous visitors around the
studio is generally one of his lesser chores.
But visit by the late Calvin Coolidge
gave Whitley his most uncomfortable mo-
ment. As the ex-president walked on the
set, a huge bear escaped from his cage.
The bear advanced on him slowly"
says Hendry, dropped on all fours and
started shifting his feet. Finally, when we
were about ready for the worst, the bear
walked away. Coolidge smiled easily, said:
He looks just like our dog at home.
Evening star., 1945-07-22

anything can happen on a
movie lot. For instance :. j..
TALL, brown-eyed bespectacled w. P.
l. Whitley" Hendry is Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayors chief of police. He's on call "a
hours day, can be reached almost as
quickly as you can say Greer Carson.
Not long ago the grim news of Van
Johnson's car smash brought him to the
scene in four minutes fiat He found the
actor was badly injured and couldn't be
moved to the hospital, three blocks away,
because of county jurisdiction. Hendry took
charge, helped save the actors life
Whitley keeps busy. At one moment he is
flying across the country to stop some
phony talent scout; at another he is nab
bing the perennial pincher of small props
The latter is the studios greatest menace
when it comes to keeping to production
schedules. Usually the missing article is
already established in the footage, and
whole scenes may have to be re-shot.
Attempts at extortion are Whitey's No.
headache. He studies the letters helps
police run down the criminals. Mickey
Rooney received many threatening letters
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
Action On Full Employment
Bill Urged BY Republicans

R. Church Of Chicago, included an
appeal for immediate passage Of a
civil right bill for the District of
Columbia, enactment of federal
anti-poll tax and anti-lynch bills,
and a permanent FEPC law.
GUIDANCE SOUGHT
1--WE urge the Republican Ma
tional committee to set forth again
the, party'S principles in a con-
crete bill of rights and to dispatch
that bill of rights to the Republi-
can state, county and city commit
tees for their guidance and adop-
tion," one resolution urged. An
other said.
Whereas more than one million
colored American youths have serv-
ed in the armed forces of the ma
ton in the salvation of democracy
and have made the supreme sacri-
flee in laying their lives upon the
altar of their country, and whereas
now the great victory has been
won, they are returning to the arts
of peace and domestic life and in
dustry, we urge that the Republi-
can party demand that they be Civ
en- full and equal treatment with
out segregation or discrimination
under the CT bill of rights, under
the Reconstruction Finance cor
poration and all other social Sc
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
Lem Foster
Given Award

WASHINGTON - (ANP) - The
emblem for Meritorious Civilian ser
vice was awarded to Lemuel F'oS-
ter, racial relations analyst for the
army service forces last Friday
afternoon by Major General Joseph
N. Dalton, director of personnel,
ASST.
'sFor meritorious civilian service
with army service forces as a con-
suItant on minority groups" read
the citation which was signed by
Gen. Brehen c. Somervell, COM
handing general of ASH, "and for
active assistance in bringing about
the maximum use of such groups
during Americas greatest war eff
fort, thereby not only materially
aiding war production but also pro-
viding the members of such groups
with an opportunity to participate
fully in Americas war effort"
Foster came to Washington for
the war department on November
20, 1912. Prior to that he had been
racial relations adviser for the
Works Progress administration in
New York when General Somervell
first met him.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
Land Grant College
Presidents Meet

-.
CHICAGO-(ANP)-The 23rd an
nual meeting of the conference OF
Presidents of Land Grant colleges
is scheduled here at the YMCA on
October %, "a, IS.
DR.. Horace Mann Bond, until re-
Gently president of Fort Valley
State College, Fort Valley, Ca, is
president of the college presidents
organization and will preside over a
three-day meeting. IIe win be as
sisted by r. 3. AtWt cd, president
OF kentucky State College, Frank
fort, secretary.
Other officers Of ne organization
are DIR. Sherman D. Scruggs. vice
president, Lincoln university; and
DR.. FELTON, G.. Clark, treasurer.
Southern university. Members OF
executive committee are Drs. F. d
Patterson, chairman, Tuskegee; Jno
w. Davis, West Virginia; F. D.
Blueford, North Carolina; L. H
Foster, Virginia; w. r. Banks, Tex
F.. G. Clark, Louisiana; G. l.. Har-
rison, Oklahoma; and ex-of1lcio
both the president and secretary.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
Nursing Home To
Be Continued

CAMCErf. N. J.-(ANP)-- Cen
eral satisfaction is being expressed
on all sides in the community due
to an Announcement made last
week by Edward Reid, Esq. chair
man of the board OF directors of
the Mary H Thomas Nursing
home Inc, that the institution
would not discontinue operation
Several nursery schools and child
care centels had to close their
doors recently because of the DIE
continuance of funds formerly
provided through the provisions OF
the Lanham act.
The Mary II. Thomas Nursery
home is me Of the beneficiaries CT
the Canldon County Community
Chest and is sponsored by the
Camden City Women's Civic club
un6er its board Of directors.
MFR. Reid states that the project
is one that has beer greatly need
ed for some time in its communi-
ty The building and equipment il
valued upward to $4,000.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
Negro Life Unit
Invited To Meet
At Ohio State

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Calvin's
News Service)- Ohio State Uni
versity has invited the Association
for the study of Negro Life to hold
its Goth annual meeting on the
University campus October 1928.
Also the Ohio State Archaeological
and Historical Society extended the
use of it's institution to the Associa-
ton to hold some of its meetings.
According to DR.. Carter G. Wood
son, founder and director OF the AS
ISOLATION, brief addresses of vel
come will be made on the opening
day by Governor of Ohio, Frank
Lausche, the Mayor of Columbus,
James Rhodes, the President OF
Ohio State University, Howard L.
Bevis, the Director of the Ohio
State Museum and superintendent
of Schools, Geo. Rouderbush.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06

DIRT VALLEY, Ga. - Fifty
IS ago seven Negro and five
se citizens of Fort Valley sought
barter for the establishment of
educational institution for Ne
youth. In their petition they
forth that they held property
lding seven hundred dollars and
lle.
b October 10, Mrs. Mary Nc
4 Bethune, noted leader, will in
strate a years celebration OF
historic event. The date marks
birthday of Henry A. Hunt, who
e to Fort Valley in 1904 and led
way to national leadership in
alton for the middle Georgia
ge. Celebrated as Founders
since his death in 1888, the
" custom of having a distin-
he'd leader Of the Negro people
ess the college community takes
lew significance.
r. CELEBRATION
CHI major regular event on the
age calendar will, this year, be
ted to marking historic mile
IS in the history o: the institu-
I, Special exercises will be held
November 6, when the first char
IF whac was then the Fort VAL
High and industrial SchCCi was
81 in 1895; on November %,
ling a resumption of the histor-
anksgiving Rally to eliminate
an Alumni Homecoming and
Dtball game; on January 9th,
marking the actual 50th ami
~ of the granting Of the first
pr; on March 8, to coincide
Sthe 31st annual ham and egg
~ and during commencement
May 20 to June 3, when a
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
Polio Clinic Gets
New Equipment

NASHVILLE-(ANP) - Approx
in1ately $1,000 worth of physical
therapy equipment was recently
donated to the Hubbard hospital
here by Paul E. Johnson, Chicago
manufacturer, TO be used in the
treatment of Negro infantile pa
ralysis patients.
The polio equipment was present.
ed to the clinic through the Nash
ville-Davidson county chapter Of
the National Infantile Paralysis
foundation, Inc, of which Charles
Bynum, New York, is director of
Negro activities.
The new equipment will be used
to form a new unit in the Hubbard
hospital here for the training OF
! Meharry Medical school physicians
and nurses. Bynum inspected the
physical therapy apparatus along
with Johnson, Dr. Murray Brown
medical director at Hubbard, Hen.
ry Miller, hospital superintendent
and Merl r. Eppse chairman of the
local chapters Negro division.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
Wartime SkiIIs To
Aid In ReconverSi0n

the motivating force of the War
Manpower commission, Victor R
DAILY, VINO minority group chief
for this area, said that since the
beginning of the war, dating from
January, 1912, the USES has
made approximately 100000 non
white placements in region four.
Non-White placements in agricl1l-
ture amounted to 35.9 per cent
within the past three years, he said.
The increase of Negro workers in
INDUSTRY jumped to 40 per cent dur
ing the 12-month period from No
venber, 1912 to November 1913, he
added.
STERN OPPOSITION
After revealing the role USES
played in migrating Negro work.
eTs into Americas wartime indus
trial and agricultural program, he
also revealed the stern opposition
encountered in utilizing Negro la
Dor. That opposition came from en-
ployer, labor and communities that
objected to a larga influx of Ne
groes.
State segregation laws merely
helped increase indignation handl-
caps, he disclosed Employers were
required to make expensive altera-
lions in the plant in order to COM
ply with state laws that prohibited
white and colored employees from
working in the same office or the
same shop, or from using the same
sanitary facilities. eating arrange
ments and locker rooms.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
Postwar Jim
Crow TAAF
Is Opposed
Associations
Stand Based On
> Three Points

NEW YORK - (SNS) - Unqual
flied opposition to the proposed
AMY Air Force plan to estaohsn
composite group" of Negro bomo-
ers and fighters as a segregaCeo
unit at the Tuskegee Air Flelo was
voiced today to Secretary OF war
Robert P. Patterson, by the NAACF.
The Associations stand is .paseo
upon three points, Walter WhlUe'
secretary, informed the Secretary
of War.
I'D We are unalterably opposed
to segregation in the postwar All
Force or Army. The United STATES
has an excellent example OF success
full integration in the experience OF
the 332nd Fighter Group, and par
ticularly of the 99th Pursuit squad
ron in North Africa and 1taly
which served without friction or
difficulty with white fighters, many
of them from the Deep South.
RISK OF CLASHES
400 The racial atmosphere OF
Alabama is such that no self-re-
specting Negro member OF the All
Force could serve there without the
risk of clashes with the dominant
community pattern OF anti-Negro-
ism. In the reduction OF the Air
Force there will be many excellent
/ fields far better equipped and suit
ed for bomber ana fighter training
than is the field at Tuskegee, which
fields are located in areas where
Negro filters would not be subjected
to constant humiliation. Tuskegee
Field does not at present have ade-
uuate facilities for training COM
nand or tactical units. Nor does 1t
have adequate housing and other
facilities for officers and enlisted
personnel. We realize that such Ia
cilities can be created by the ex-
pendIture lf considerable money
But fields already created could be
used and thus avoid uneconomical
spending of money for the erection
Of additional facilities at Tuskegee
"(3) We understand that the pro-
posed establishment of composite
group for training of Negro fighters
and bombers applies only to Ne
groes, being a device to combine all
training of Negro filters in one
place. White fighter units will be
assigned to one field and white
bomber units to another under diff
ferent commands. We do not believe
that the same excellence and eff
cheney can be attained by attempt
ing to combine the two merely to
segregate Negroes in one composite
group" H1
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
|ethune #. Valleys
9th Year Speaker

Veterans Reunion and Historic Pa
geant will bring to close the cell
ebration of the first SO years of the
institution.
From the original property hold
ings of seven hundred dollars and
a mule" has grown great institu-
tion with property worth $780,
OG0 and a pending postwar Lui1ding
program of STOPS, 600, already ap-
proved by the Georgia legislature.
The seven elementary grades then
offered have been successfully ex-
tended to include junior hi school
senior high school, Junior college
senior college, and now graduate
work as approved for the institu-
ton by the Regents of the Uni.
ve1sity System Of Georgia.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
COP Members Of
Congress Told
To Support Move

NEW YORK = CAMP Action
on the full employment bill was
urged by members of the Republl-
can American committee in a reso-
luton adopted here recently
In a series Of resolutions sub
mitted by the subcommittee, the
Negro Republicans appealed to
'the Republican members of con-
gress to give their full support to
legislation for full employment"
Another resolution appealed to
Republican party leaders to include
leadership in its policy-making
councils and to permit Negro party
members to select their own lead
ers. The committee headed by R..
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
'Y' Panel Lists
Reasons For Women
Losing Jobs

PHILADELPHIA LAMP Fac
tors that determine the retention
and loss of jobs for women work
ers in the post war period occupied
that spotlight at the morning SEES
sion of the fall staff conference OF
the metropolitan Y YWCA in the
Southwest Belmont branch last Fri
day.
Job holding elements listed by
members of women Workers and
Reconversion" discussion panel in
Guided attitude of women IN re
CARDS to Jobs whether they mean
to make careers or collect pay
checks; ability of women workers
to readjust themselves to peace.
time scale of salaries; release of
women with marginal skills de-
veloped by wartime industrial needs,
rate of trend OF industry toward
selectivety of workers.. e., request
for male workers whereas during the
war requests would have been just
for workers; return of veterans to
Jobs which must be given them on
seniority basis.
Members of the panel included DR.
Merrill Bush, Temple university;
Mrs. Mary K. Bauman, personal re-
search and guidance; DR.. Gladys L
Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
Miss Rebecca c. Smaltz, Women's
bureau, u. S. depot of labor; G..
James Fleming, FEPC, and Van
Ripper, labor representative on the
war manpower commission.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
Katherine Durham
Features 'Shango'

NEW YORK - (Calvin's News
Service In "Carib Song" which
opened Thursday night at the
Adelphi, Katherine Durham intro
duces the ''Shango," a dance which
she does exclusively. It's from Trim
load where it is part of the ritual
there. Katy remembered the way
she visited the West Indies many
years ago on a Rosenwald Fellow
ship. She had to remember as ca
meraS were forbidden during the
services" 1t begins with tradi-
tional drum beats, then gradually
one member of the party" begins
to dance and another joins in with
a different step. Soon, the entire
group is dancing in wild excite
ment and joy.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
CHAPLAIN SEES ACTION IN
EUROPE, PACIFIC

HONOLULU = (ANP) Termina.
ton of the war in the Pacific with
Japan when summed up means
that Chaplain A. Mcneil White
has seen combat in two theaters
of war, European and the Pacific.
Courageously and CALAMITY Capt.
White participated in the success
full march with the Yanks against
Germany, starting when the allied
juggernaut thrust its invasion Of
fensive in Normandy, France. He
was at that time with a mighty
Negro AA balloon unit. After a
year in the European war, he was
among the first Negro troops de-
ployed to the far Pacific.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06

WASHINGTON - lamp New
Skills acquired by Negro workers
during wartime will qualify them
for employment opportunities after
the industrial reconversion period
The future of the Negro worker
was covered in a recent report on
the wartime activities of the United
States Employment service in re-
gion four, which comprises the
states of Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, North Carolina and the
District of Columbia.
MOTIVATING FORCE
Stressing the fact that USES is
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-10-06
No knowledge OF
Gibson Resigning

WASHINGTON - CA N p - If
Truman K. Gibson, Jr, civilian
aide to the secretary of war, con-
templates resigning, it has not yet
come to the attention of the secre-
tary.
Asked about the report at his
news conference on Thursday morn
ing, Robert p Patterson simply
said, "I've heard nothing of that"