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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
COMMENT on WORLD EVENTS

With the bitter tragedy of war in
Europe ended, another and long con-
tinued agony faces the people of that
stricken continent.
What faces them is the tremendous
to some it may seem virtually i'm
possible-task Of restoring the con-
tinent's economic system, of getting
food, clothing, housing, medical care,
to the multitudes suffering the results
of nearly years Of Nazi and Fascist
assault on civilization.
In the job of restoration and rebuild
ing, the United States must help
nightly, for it's own protection, if
nothing else. If starvation and di-
sease which inevitably follows starva-
tion are allowed to continue, new and
more deadly wars will be bred. And
America knows from two experiences
what universal European war means.
While of course much of America S
effort must still go to war, in pushing
the fight on Japan, production for
peacetime uses looms more and more
important every day. That was un-
doubtedly in the minds of the AFL
executive council members when they
proposed national and international
policies to further the cause of endur-
ing peace and to promote domestic
prosperity.
Important as are the domestic poll
cies urged by the council, we are con-
cerned here with it's international poll
cies, primarily those which have to
do with world reconstruction.
At the forefront, naturally, is the
success of the San Francisco confer
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
COG New Job Offices
To Help Place Vets

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-The
U. S. Employment Service is opening
696 new local offices throughout the
nation to help veterans and others find
peacetime jobs, Manpower Commits
sioner McNutt has announced.
The expansion will be undertaken
Immediately, increasing the total num-
ber of offices to 2,103. Employment
service offices now are located main
ly where they can best serve war in
dustry, McNutt said, rather than han
die civilian job placements.
'The rapidly increasing number of
returning veterans has indicated a
need for the new Offices" he stated,
adding that 806,139 veterans were
placed in nonfarm jobs in 1914.
"These numbers are small in COM
parison with the numbers Of veterans
USES will have to serve eventually" !"
McNutt added.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
FRIDAY, MAY 1S, 1945
HELP FOR THE JOBLESS

Trade unionists throughout the ma
tion can help substantially to prevent
reconversion hardships by responding
with will to. the American Federation
of Labor call for setting up of social
security committees to give assistance
to disemployed workers and to help
them receive such benefits as present
inadequate unemployment compensa-
tion laws provide.
Securing of the maximum benefits
to which workers are entitled is the
aim of the campaign. Quibbling and
red tape should not be allowed to stand
in the way of workers benefits. AS
President Green of the AFL said in
calling for action by city and state
labor bodies:
'The state unemployment compen-
sation agencies have repeatedly gone
on record to the effect that their re-
serve funds are adequate 1t is of the
utmost Importance to see that these
funds are used for the purpose for
which they have been laid aside and
that they are made available to pay
benefits to the workers on the basis
Of their established rights"
President Green's call puts the spot
light on the inadequacy of existing un-
employment insurance laws. Both la
Dor and the Social Security Board
have been urging for months that the
state laws be liberalized and broaden
ed. Spesial emphasis has been laid on
action this year, yet it does not ap-
pear that much has been done New
York is one of the states that have
acted and officials of it's Labor De-
partment say the New York law is
equal to the best and in some respects
''tops them all"
Probably most state legislatures
have adjourned for the year, but suf-
ficient public demand could bring psec-
ial sessions to improve unemployment
compensation laws. Certainly the mat
ter is important enough to justify spec
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
ARMY POLICY DANGEROUS

Industrial and Engineering Chemis-
try, publication of the American Chem
ical Society, warns of one of the SER
ious dangers of U. S. military policy
"a policy that organized labor noted
more than 2 years ago, in protesting
against taking of too many skilled
workers to build up an excessively
large Army.
Unless present policies in drafting
scientific students and in exporting
scientific equipment are remedied, the
United States ''is headed for second
and third rate role in the postwar per-
iod," the publication says editorially
"Our government is selling America
technologically short" the editorial
declares and adds: "God help us if we
become engaged in a third World War
IN the next 20 years. American draft
policies, declares the editorial, have
lost US one generation of future scien-
fists and are on the way toward losing
a second, while at the same time for
eign nations are sending increasing
numbers of students here for scientific
training.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
Be On Guard!
(From Boilermakers Journal)

from DOlleTHldkcTS JOuTHdlJ
The War Labor Board has stepped
in on another employer Richmond
Radiator Coz and ordered them to
maintain their wage scale when con-
verting from war to peacetime pro-
duction.
Some employers are trying to take
advantage of a situation on account
Of having war contracts terminated
or finished, and revert to prewar wage
scales. This is the third case of
which there is record, and the en-
ployes will have to watch things to
keep other employers from attempt
ing the same proceduce.
If the War Labor Board maintains
this policy, it may have decidedly
beneficial effect in stabilizing wages
and avoiding trouble.
However, from our viewpoint, while
this policy is extremely beneficial, the
board may have to go further and
make some increases to take up the
slack in meeting the soaring living
costs and declining hours of work, if
workers are to have adequate pur-
chasing power after the war.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18

lands. It does not believe SO because
such methods are bound to interfere
with employment opportunities within
the countries themselves. It does not
believe so because the system of using
forced labor is bound to delay stabi-
lization and recovery in Europe and
leave Germany a fostering sore-a
threat to the future well-being Of the
world.
John L. Lewis thought provoking
article on labor in Golfers Magazine
of May is bound to have sharp roper
cussions in the trade union camp, par
ticularly among the CIO.
The structures of the mine workers
leader against the lack of national
body that can "speak for the workers
of the nation as whole, and his con-
demnation of administrative incom-
petence and lack of constructive gov
ernment labor policy will be approved
by many observers of our contempor-
ary industrial scene.
The answer to division within Amer
ican labor is the labor unity which
President Green again so knowingly
advocated a short while ago in New
York City. 1t is labor unity, and
labor unity alone, which will make
possible the trade union organization
and education Of "at least 40,000,000
unorganized, and therefore unrepre-
sented workers."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18

'The United States government is
practically the only large employer
who has not seen fit to give proper
recognition to union policies, Alias
said. "Uncle Sam is still operating a
nonunion shop; and, in many ways,
adheres to the belief that the en-
ployer may establish whatever condi-
tions of employment he personally de-
sires, hire and fire at will, without
consulting the wishes or conveniences
of his employees or their representa-
tives"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
True to Form

A certain prominent Kentuckian,
an enthusiastic imbiber of the more
potent spirits of his native state, suf-
fered the loss of his faithful wife. A
friend called to offer his sympathy,
and was received by the young lady
of the house.
$50 your poor mother is dead" COM
miserated the visitor "And how does
your father take it ?"
"Oh, straight, as usual, thank you,"
replied the frank young maiden.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
NEWS AND VIEWS

The two dictators are dead. Hitler's
and Mussolini's darkened shadows will
continue to haunt the world for many
years to come. One of them fell, a
victim of the same violence that he and
his henchmen meted out to Matteoti
and many other brave men and women
who dared to stand in the way of un-
bridled ambitions.
But if Mussolini was what has been
aptly described "a glorified buffoon"
the other was monster that truly
bestrode the earth and scourged man
kind. He, if one is to believe suspect
German reports, died in the roar of
battle and amidst the crumbling walls
of the city which his diseased mind
already enviSaged as the center of the
universe.
Whether Hitler vanished in the gi-
gantic pyre of the German Chancel-
lery or was killed, as this column is in
clined to believe, in last summers
putsch of the generals, labor people
all over the world will rejoice in the
coincidence of the official date of his
death with May THAT day which in
ternational labor used to celebrate as
its own and which Hitler, in trium-
phant perversion, turned into holiday
of Nazi gangsterism.
The mighty without pity and with
out moral sense have fallen. 1t be-
hooves the peoples of the world to
grope their way back to normalcy and
to protect the decayed rampants of
humanity against further disaster.
Whether the United Nations Confer
ence at San Francisco can live up to
the exaggerated hopes of mankind,
sickened by so much blood, tears and
misery, remains to be seen.
But that we know-these hopes will
not and cannot be achieved unless the
statesmen in the conference rooms of
the great American capital in the west
realize that the solution, if any, is in
Give and Take and not in the old play
of power politics. So far, the over
publicized work of the conference in
dicates little of that great interna-
tional spirit which Wilson and Roose-
velt so powerfully embodied and which
made them the idols of the downtrod-
den of the world.
One of the most sensible postwar
suggestions has emanated with the
French who propose the assignment of
$4,000 German prisoners of war for
locating and removing hidden mines
which have become an ever-present
deadly danger to the civilian populace
of France.
According to French military ex-
perts, the "delousing" Of France will
cost at least 10000 lives. The French
hope that "the majority of them will
be the same Germans who sowed the
deadly crop" will be shared by the
overwhelming majority Of Americans.
Whether the same reasoning applies
to demands for 100000 German
workers for reconstruction work in
devastated French areas, is differ
ent question. This column does not
believe in the political and economic
soundness Of putting millions Of Ger
man workingmen to work in foreign
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
U. S. Held Operating
NOnuniOn Shop

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) The
federal government runs a non-union
shop, N. P. Alifas, president of Dis
trict No. al, international Association
of Machinists, charged before the
Senate Naval Affairs Committee at
hearings on a bill to provide senior
ity protection for shop craft workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
WHAT NEXT?

Development of a cloth for postwar
use to be made of aluminium and acct
ate plastic, for dresses, curtains and
draperies, has been briefly announced.
The Aluminium Co. of America and
the Tennessee Eastman Corp, devel-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18

ial sessions, and labor might well take
the lead in working for them.
In the meantime, this is the word to
every jobless worker: Make sure that
you get the unemployed compensation
to which you are entitled.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18

opers of the product have released no
details but promise that the facts will
be made public soon.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18
WISDOM

There is nothing so dreadful as a
great victory great defeat.
of Wellington.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-05-18

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20

Rates oil dividends IN the roregolna table
are annual disbursements ba sed on the last
less othera vi Noted. speeisI Of e1tr. DIV.
dends are nns included Also extra or
extras. Cash or stock Paid last year
( Payable in stock Declared or paid %
far this year h PAYABLE in Canadian
funds Accumulated dividends paid 81
declared this year vw With warrants
I'VE Without varranta
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
Rails and IndustriaIs
Lead Fresh Retreat
On Stock Market
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Write,

NEW YORK, Mar. 20-Stocks,
with few exceptions, resumed their
slide in today's market on volume
that again ran to around 100000
shares for the full proceedings.
Dealings quickened afterea quiet
opening, then slowed appreciably
as extreme losses of fractions to
more than 3 points were reduced.
While the ticker tape frequently was
at standstill in the final hour, the
minus column near the close was
heavily populated. Rails and indus
trials were the principal sufferers.
The feeling that the average highs
OF early March, registering a peak
since 1887, might be difficult to sur
pass caused numerous customers to
stand aside. Reconversion doubts
persisted as trend handicap, being
high lighted by the Allied push to-
ward Berlin. Earnings, dividends
and imitation thinking remained as
bolstering factors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
Crude Oil Production
OFF Slightly in Week
BY the Associat ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, Mar 20.-United
States crude Old production declined
1850 barrels daily in the week end
ed March II to 4,763, TOO barrels
daily, the Oil and Gas Journal said
today.
Illinois output dropped 1890 bar
rels day to 1872, 400; Eastern fields,
1850 to $500: Louisiana, 500 to
1865, 300, and Oklahoma, $50 to $685.
$50.
California production was UP
$500 to 911.350; Kansas, 1880 to
271 800; Michigan, $500 to $1,000
and the Rocky Mountain area, $50
to 133,700 Texas output was un-
changed at 2,159, 900 and East Texas
at 38l 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
North American Co.
Reports Slight Lag.
In System Profits
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Consolidated net income OF the
North American Co. and subsidi-
aries in 1914, after all expenses, in
terest charges and taxes, amounted
to $18,271 .424, equal to $169 per
share on the common stock against
s185 in l943, the 55th annual re-
port announced today. Operating
revenue of Sill, 478,085 were up $10,-
18l OPS or 6 per cent, but operating
charges and tax provisions totaled
s143.659. IT'S. an increase of $l1,873,-
1868 or 9 per cent over 1913.
Net income of North American Co
alone amounted to $132 common
share VS.. $1.28 year ago. All COM
mon dividends in 1914 were paid In
stock of the Pacific Gas g. Electric
Co. Another on the same basis will
be paid on April 2. Taxes alone
were 106 per cent higher than in
prewar 1899. The four groups OF
utility companies in the system sold
twice as much electricity as in pre-
1889 for only SIS per cent more
money.
Capital Transit's passenger traf-
fc in the Washington area, the re-
port says. was 142 per cent greater
than in 1899. Capital Transit traf-
fic averaged 1,136 900 passengers a
day. Except for a new $4,000 kilo-
watt electric generator to be in
stalled by the Potomac Electric
Power Co. in 1945, all major con-
struction of the North American
System awaits the end of wartime
limita tons
The holding company appeal is
reorganization plan is pending be-
fore the SEC. the report concluded.
Fifth District Trends Mixed.
Business activity in the fifth Re-
serve district still shows divergent
trends, the Richmond Reserve
Banks monthly review states. Bank
debts in January were 6 per cent
ahead of the same month year
ago, building permits were up 205
per cent, department store sales
IA. life insurance, Is, wholesale
trade, 8, and retail furniture sales,
81.
Coal production was down 7 per
cent in January: building contracts
awarded, 81; cigarette output, 4;
cotton consumption, 2; department
store stocks: l, compared with jan
uary. 1943.
Sales of $50 wholesale firms in this
district in January showed an aver
age gain of per cent and some
sharp individual upturns, the Rich
mond bank said
Dry goods sales were per cent
lower, the only line that failed to
exceed last years record. January
retail furniture sales in Washington
were per cent ahead of last year
and were up 16 per cent in the fifth
district.
Real Estate Bonds Strong.
Washington Properties Is, selling
at 98l2, gained IL points in Febru-
airy; National Press AIS were up /
point and National Press 3-5s up
fractionally, according to the Amott-
Baker averages for 200 Eastern real
estate issues. At the same time May
flower Hotel stock, at 87s, gained
is points.
During February 380,54 ton miles
of air express were flown by United
Air Lines. Airmail ton -miles were
AZ per cent above February, 1914.
The Investment Bankers Associa-
ton has launched special training
course in investments to draw new
personnel to replace men now in
service.
The Washington Office reports
that Curtiss Wright has delivered
its 25,O0Oth airplane built since
January /. 1888.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
Washington Produce

From the War Food Administration
Prices paid net fob. washington.
EiGS-Market firm: nearby receipts
rather light with consumer demand CON
tinuinR broad. Prices paid for Federal
State Graded eggs received from grading
stations March 90 whites, browns mixed
oolors. q. s. grade A. large, 80; U. S. grade
A, medium, SO; U. S. grade B, large. 1885
average So: U. S. grade c, 81. Current
small lots at 32-33
LIVE POULTRY-Market firm; arrival,
include three truckloads for authorized
professors and three medium loads today
for civilian distribution; prices shown re-
fleet those paid within existing price con-
poultry sold on the market for which prices
were not available. Prices paid net 70 b
Washington TRANSPORTATION charges in
cluded according to MILEAGE. fowl, "9I2
broilers and fryers. grade A. 80; grade c
2a 1929 90 per pound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Mar 20 lP,.-fW. r Az
Salable hogs, 5000: total 800; active.
fpy sfssdy no s0Sd and ehoes and
and choice sows at 400 complete clear
ance.
able calves, 900; total. 1000: fed steers
and yesrlings, 10 to 5 hisher; general
market very active; he.fers shared steers
advance; top, 1,450-pound steers, 1875:
yearlings, 1925; bulk fed steers and year
lings, 14.75-16.50; most heifers 'FRONT.' A.
1878 best, 1925 cows and bulls, strong
TO 25, mostly 25 higher most beef cows,
1913 90; cutters to 9.25; heavy fat bulls
to IA so, with sausage offerings to 1925,
veslers firm at 1880 down.
Salable sheep, 5000; total. 5000; rather
slow, early sales about steady; deck me-
dunn and good s6-pound lambs Is rs:
however, no uniformly good and choice
kind sold early; held 1885 and slightly
above, sheep extremely scarce
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. Mar. 20 aP,.--After reais-
terinR small gains on light mill buying
the cotton market turned easy today or
scattered liquidation, partly influenced by
favorable war news. Uncertainties over
Government plans for cotton next season
was also an unsettling factor.
The Bureau of Census reported ginnlngs
OF the 1914 crop at approximately 1874, 600
bales lower than the last Government crop
estimate but traders had expected de-
cline of 200, 900 TO 200, 900 bales
Late afternoon prices were unchanged 10
10 cents bale lower. Nav, % 90; July,
81 "a, and October 81 %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
Wholesale Commodity
Average Up Slightly

The weekly wholesale price index,
compiled by the National Fertilizer
Association, advanced fractionally
to 1898 in the week ending March
II, from 1897 in the preceding week.
A month ago the index stood at
400, and a year ago at 1878. based
on the 1859 average as 100.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. Mar. 90 lP,.-Foreign ex
change rates follow Great Britain in dol
lars, others in cents):
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket, gis per cent discount or 90.43s.
United States cents, down .06A OF a cent
Europe-Great Britain oficial buying
81 OF; selling, S4.04.
Latin America--Arsentina free, ga. 05
UNCHANGED Brazil free, 525n: Mexico
20. 6bn. n Nominal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
n. Y. Bond Market
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0tfN sa,sa sn tho E1ohsnEs Ioaay:
100 pm. $40 900 300 ON 72o ooc
tunit Of trading 10 shares: sales printed
IN fun. In bankruptcy or receiyership or
being reorganized under Bankruptcy Act,
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quarterly or semi-annual declaration. Un-
less otherwise noted special or extra divi-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Mar. 20 P,.-Dividends
declared.
Accumulated.
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Chicago Grain

CHICAGO, Mar 20 Gp,.-Grain futures
Wheat and rye responded quickly TO lisht
offerings and dropped as quickly as the
buying power dried up.
July wheat was a higher than yester-
days close and an hour later was J., cent
lower Early commission house buying
was responsible for the firm start. but
when selling by a mill interest developed
all deliveries saRged. The market steadied
toward the close on commission house
buying
than yesterdays close May. .69l2 "a
Corn was "a to "a lower, May, 1f2H
Oats were - lower TO higher May, 65s4
Rye was u lower to .. higher, May,
1,141a-s. Barley was u TO !. lower