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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Rationing At A Glance
Meats, Cheese, Butter, Fats, Canned
Fish, Canned Milk

Meats, Cheese, Butter, Fats, Canned
Fish, Canned Milk
Red stamps Book ~ Q-5 through
rs, Az through D-2 good for 10
points each until further notice.
Processed Foods
Blue stamps (Book A. KS through
Us and Az through G-2 good for 10
points each until further notice. H-2
through Mp valid February 1.
Sugar
Sugar stamp "a good for pounds
until further notice. Sugar stamp IS
valid February 1.
Numbers /, 2 ands3 airplane stamps
in Book valid for l pair each until
further notice, thirty days in ad-
vance. Merchants will positively not
accept loose stamps.
Gasoline
Stamp ALA valid for gallons
through March 81. B-5, B-6, C-5 and
C-6 valid for 5 gallons until further
notice. Write state and license num-
Der on each coupon IMMEDIATELY
upon receipt of book. Mileage ration
ing records must be submitted with
supplemental gasoline applications to
the board
Tires
Commercial vehicle tires must be
inspected every months or every s.
900 miles whichever is first. Passen-
ger tire inspections are required only
when applying for tire requirements.
Fuel Oil
Last season Period 4 and 5 and new
season Period /, 2 and coupons now
good. Unit value 10 gallons. All
changemaking and reserve coupons
good throughout heating year. Con-
sumption in Cincinnati area as of Jan
uary should not have exceeded AZ
per cent of seasons ration.
Stoves
Certificates to purchase most heat
ing and cooking stoves that burn oil
or gas must be obtained from local
boards.
Price Information
Obtain price information from the
Price Clerk of your local War Price
and Rationing Board. Report any
overcharges.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation Has Balance
OF Over 400 Million

Columbus, O.-The Bureau of IN
employment Compensation closed the
year 1914 with $422, ,627 900 balance
in it's reserve fund, available for the
payment of unemployment compensa-
tion benefits.
In reporting the status of Bureau
funds, Administrator Charles H. Jones
said that interest in the amount of
approximately $1,900,000 for the
fourth quarter Of 1914 was yet to be
credited to the Ohio reserve by the
Federal government. When this is done
within the next few days, the Ohio
reserve will stand at approximately
$424,527 900, enough to compensate for
26,532,9 weeks of total unemploy-
ment at the maximum rate of SIG a
week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
AN APPEAL
By Ruth Taylor

When the last shot has been fired,
when the guns are stilled and peace
has again come to war torn world,
then what will happen to the workers
of the world?
Is any man so blind as to think that
overnight the trade unions will emerge
from the underground where their
scattered remnants have fought so
valiantly and take up their work where
they left off?
We know that we will have not won
our war against tyranny until we have
re-established the greatest bulwark
against dictators-a free, potent trade
union movement. But where will we
get the men?
These brothers of ours have been
prosecuted, tortured, killed for their
beliefs. Those who have survived have
lost five years from their lives. Five
years filled with terror, five years of
oppression, five years of watching
their families starve! Will they be the
some? These scars bite deep.
If we want free trade unions, free
as we understand the word, then we
must stand by and help. 1t is not
merely question of new equipment,
new buildings, new literature. 1t is a
question of building up, of training
new men, of strengthening the faith
of those who have survived, of help
ing not just organizations-but men
our fellow men-our brothers.
There will be winds blowing from
all quarters. There will be all sorts
of forces trying to seize control of
the workers for their own ends, Of
fering everything to people who are
ready to snatch at anything. Workers
anywhere have moral obligation to
assist workers everywhere. If our aid
to these labor forces is "too little and
too late" it may mean the end for a
century to come of genuine democracy
III lJul oPS.
AS Matthew Woll so cogently put it:
at is impossible for labor to remain
free for any length of time while
workers in other lands are enslaved
Apart from the organized labor move
ments in the democratic countries, the
world accepts the enslavement OF
Italian and German labor with equan-
unity Yet out Of this enslavement
came the crude totalitarian power
which was so terrifyingly launched
against the free and democratic
world
"Unless we take adequate steps
now, the same will be true in the post
war era. If the European labor move
ments are to become so many labor
fronts for totalitarian and near total
itarian governments, we may be GER
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Many Bills OF Importance
To Dor Already
introduced In Congress

Washington, D. C.-Already more
than thousand new bills have been
introduced in the new session of Con-
gress-many of them of direct and
vital interest to labor.
1t is significant that more than half
of the measures deal with affairs of
veterans of the present and past wars.
Mostly they increase present benefits
or propose new ones.
Of especial interest to labor is a
bill by Rep. Ludlow of Indiana repeal
ing the Smith -Connally Act and an
other by Rep. Hairless of Arizona re-
pealing that section of the act which
makes it unlawful for unions to con-
tribute to political campaign funds.
Congressional Mary Norton of
New Jersey has bill requiring pay
ment to women of equal wages for
equal work, and another for cooper
alton between the states and the Fed
eral government in establishing and
maintaining safety regulations and
proper working conditions.
Rep. Woodruff of Michigan and Rep.
Randolph of West Virginia would pre-
vent aliens from voting or holding Of
flee in trade unions.
Rep. Hobbs of Alabama reintroduc-
ed his amendment to the anti-racke-
teering law SO as to make it apply to
the activities Of labor unions.
A score or more bills call for higher
old-age pensions, while Dingell of
Michigan reintroduced the Wagner
Dingell bill for complete overhaul
and liberalization of the Social Secur-
ity system. This has the backing Of
the American Federation Of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Musicians Annual Party

Reply postal cards have been sent
to members of Hamilton local, No. 81,
Musicians Union, inviting the men,
bers and their families or one guest to
the annual party, which will be held
at Roberson's Inn, on Mt. Pleasant
pike, Saturday, February 10th. Bus
service will be two blocks from Rob-
erson's Inn. Last bus leaves Hayes
and Pleasant at 1870 and 1905. The
committee consists of Howard Burtis,
Tom Leach and Glen Wortendyke.
Their three word slogan, Lets all
CO."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02

tain that by these very acts the seeds
Of World War III will be sown."
The Labor League for Human
Rights, relief arm of the American
Federation of Labor, has set up Free
Trade Union Committee for the pur-
pose of extending vitally needed prac-
tical assistance to European and Cen
trail and South American trade union
movements. To do its job the Com
mittee needs $1,000,00O from A. F. of
l.. members.
These are our brothers we are call
ed upon help! 1t is up to us-to each
and every one of us. Give now--and
give generously!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
UNIV Gets New Bid
To REjOin Federation

Washington, D. C.-The United
Mine Workers Union announced re-
ceipt of letter from AFL President
William Green transmitting the AFL
convention appeal for renewed confer
ences seeking reaffiliation of the
union.
UNIV representatives told news
papermen that the letter would re-
ceive "all consideration"
The convention urged the miners
to renew their application for affil-
iation in the hope that jurisdict.onal
questions which forced rejection OF
the first UNIV offer may be ironed
out.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
ITALIAN UNIONS
IN COME BACK

New York City (ILNS).-Nearly
100000 Italians will join the Cen
eral Confederation of Italian Labor
Jan. %, the Stars and Stripes, Amer
ica's Army newspaper, said in an ar
ticle by a staff correspondent, Corp.
Howard Taubman, formerly of the
staff of the New York Times, reported
to the Office of War Information. The
article said, "Now that fascism has
been kicked out in large part of
Italy, the trade unions are making a
vigorous comeback and labor unity
in Italy is now a reality"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
DELINQUENT TAXES
ARE BEING PAID

Liquidation of at least half Of the
remaining delinquent real estate taxes
this year was predicted by John w.
Wendell, County Treasurer, who said
the tax campaign would continue un-
til all of the back-due taxes had been
collected.
The drive, which started eight years
ago, has already resulted in reducing
the delinquencies to approximately
100000 from the peak Of $1,750,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02

A man went to the bar and ordered
a Martini, drank it, chewed off the
bowl of the glass, swallowed it, and
threw the stem of the glass over his
shoulder. He continued this for about
six Martins and noticed that the bar
tender was staring at him.
II guess you think Pm crazy, don't
you?" he asked.
II sure do" the bartender answered.
why, the stems are the best part"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02

A man travelling a strange road in
the South saw hunter with a gun
just over in woods. Stopped to en-
quire direction (the hunter was deaf). :.
In addressing the hunter he said, just
went up that tree. The traveller ad-
dressed him again, guess it went in
that hole up there. Traveller said, you
must be damn fool. Yes, he said, the
woods is full of them.-J. 7. D.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Fire Chief Examination
Is Scheduled Friday

Civil Service examination for Fire
Chief of the Middletown Fire Depart
ment will be conducted Friday night
at 7:30 p. m. in the City Building, it
was announced Tuesday. The two as
sistant chiefs, W. R. Bell and William
Fishbaugh, will take the test.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
HAMILTON BOYS
IN THE SERVICE

An Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta
ton, England promotion of
Charles D. Koehler, 81, from the grade
of staff sergeant to technical sergeant
has been announced at this Eighth Air
Force BIZ Flying Fortress base by
his group commander, Lieutenant Col
onel VIM. j. Wrigglesworth of Eau
Claire, Wis. Sgt. Koehler is radio
operator and gunner on Flying
Fortress.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. c..
X. Koehler of 452 Millville Ave.
With the 102nd Infantry Division in
Germany.-For heroic achievement
against the enemy on November %
and %, Corporal Ebert Ledford, 4O5th
Infantry Regiment radio operator
from Hamilton, Ohio, has been award
ed the Bronze Star Medal.
Cpl. Ledford's wife, Mrs. Jeanette
M. Ledford, lives at 152 High Street,
Hamilton. He is 21 years old.
Pope Field, NJ c., Jan. 31.-Master
Sgt. John C. Foster, son of Rev.
Joseph B. Foster, of route 7, Hamil-
ton, Ohio, has been assigned to this
base of the First Troop Carrier Com
mand. Sgt. Fosters wife is the form
er Fern Dwelly, of 38 North Main
street, Brewer, Me. Before entering
service, Sgt Foster was paint con-
tractor in Hamilton.
Staff Sergeant Virgil w. Bertsch,
son of Mr.. Frederick Bertsch, whose
home is on Route 1, Hamilton, Ohio,
has been cited by the 361st Infantry
Regiment of the 91st Powder River"
Division and awarded the Combat In
fantryman Badge for actual participa-
tion in combat against the enemy with
the Fifth Army in Italy.
The handsome badge consists of a
silver rifle set against background
of infantry blue, enclosed in silver
wreath.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Seal Sale Now S20,7O2

The 1914 Christmas Health seal
sale has so far reached a total of $20,-
7O2. Mrs. Vernon E. Roden is the
Hamilton chairman and Mrs. W. III.
Spindler, Middletown chairman and
Truman Davis, was the rural chair
man.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Lots OF Dogs

R. H. Smith, Butler county auditor,
reported the early part of this week
that 8,1O9 dog license tags have been
sold in the county. There is an in
crease in dogs this year over last
year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
ID. A. V. BASKET
BALL BENEFIT

The basket ball benefit game of
the Disabled American Veterans will
be held Thursday, February, 8th, at 8
D. m. Proceeds of the game will go to-
wards the building fund The admis-
sion will be SOC.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02

Florida demonstrates the old max
i'm that good things are made slow
ly. Long before the Pilgrims land
ed in the North, Spanish and Eng
lish explorers were battling to plant
their Colonies on the East Coast.
Sebastian and John Cabot sailed
along there in 1897 and in 1913 Ponce
De Leon christened Florida. By
1647, ST. Augustine had population
of 1000. In 1886 Sir Francis Drake
destroyed the town and looted its
treasury. Spain rebuilt it the next
year, much more substantially. Re-
construction must be done all over
the world when the guns are silent.
Buy more War Bonds to speed the
day when the world can begin to re-
build. US. Treasury Department.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Mile OF Dimes Growing

The Mile Of Dimes campaign which
is being conducted by the members
of Fire Fighters Union, No. 20, may
reach the $4,000 mark by the end of
the week. The fire fighters have dem
onstrated what team work can ac-
complish when real campaign is un-
dertaken for a good cause.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
The AFL Presents

"America United" at 1:15 p. NJ,
EWT, over NBC, next Sunday, Febru-
ary 4th. U. s. Senator Pepper on the
Nations Health. Other speakers on
the broadcast will be Nelson Cruik-
shank, ALL; Emercon P. Schmidt, U.
S. Chamber of Commerce; Albert S.
Goss, National Grange.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Two Fox Drives Saturday

The fox hunters of Princeton will
hold another drive Saturday, February
3rd. The drive will start at one o'clock
and the meeting place will be the
Urmston farm.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02
Trade For Violin

/ have two good, clean overcoats,
size about "a, choice, or will trade for
a violin, or what have you.
j. T. Dawson,
West Chester, O..
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-02-02

Another fox drive will be held Sat-
urday, starting at one o'clock west of
Millville, O. Ross-M Morgan road; Scipio
pike; Millville- -Shandon road and Fen
ton road will be the boundaries.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-23
Shelby May Encounter
East Chicago Tomorrow

CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. %.
-[P-Rain interviewed for the third
time in four days today and the
afternoon American Legion junior
southeastern sectional tournament
game between Meridian, Miss,
and East Chicago, Ind, was post
poned.
The teams will play tonight,
weather permitting.
Originally, East Chicago was
scheduled to meet Shelby, N. c.,
this evening.
Only one game has been played
to date in the double elimination
meet which began Monday, a day
late, due to the rain. Shelby shad-
ed Meridian, 80.
While no official announcement
has been made it is probably that,
if a game is played tonight, East
Chicago and Shelby will play to-
morrow afternoon.
The survivor here joins Tucson,
Ariz., Trenton, N. j., and the win
ner of the sectional tourney at
Oklahoma City, Okla, in the Ma
tional finals next week at Char
lotte, N. C.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-23
The Sports Trail
By WHITNEY MARTIN
a sort of black market slaughter

| sort of black market slaughter
hoase.
Not all Heidelberg students duel
ed, he explained Maybe one out
OF four in the normal student body
of about 1000, including goods.
There were certain dueling frater-
mites, and to qualify for member
ship, young student, or fox, was
required to engage in three test
duels. After they qualified, their
future dueling was on the order of
pleasure fighting. They were strict
ly on their own.
The duels were fought with
broadswords, a polite name for
cleavers. The candidates had vital
parts of their body, such as eyes
and neck, protected. They would
take turns going on the offensive
The defensive players, so to speak,
was required to stand rigid, thus
showing his courage, or something.
Mostly that he did not have good
sense, if you ask us.
The offensive player would take
eight lusty whacks at the face of
his opponent. Then it was the other
way around. This went on for 80
rounds or until one of the duelists
got sliced. The idea seemed to be
to get nicked just enough to leave
an honorable scar, but not enough
to make him go through life look.
ing like baseball.
Christensen, who was born in
Schleswig-Hols.ein, has had several
famous pupils, including the son
of Baron Vor Loewenstein. He rates
Count Bernstorff of Westphalia the
best he ever saw but says that in
1890 there was a n,l tanned
Bumiller VINO engaged in about so
duels and still could get change
at blood bank as he usually did
the surgery.
He also left the idea that the
thought humble re peg map re-
vising was great sport and it would
be lovely if it again was authoriz-
ed. In other words, get in there
and punch, kid, they cannot hurt
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-23
~ WHITNEY MARTIN

ur1EI,BERG, Germany, Aug.
1p-He was standing on step
"a ,ler placidly picking plums from
Iaua arawnv tree when we drove up
" &C he walked toward us, a
' 1aakv' well-built man in a leather
sos ,st it was difficult to associate
!e ~ with one of the crueles. OF
all arts if it could be called a sport
'p Vhe Interpreter introduced this
., ,ar rustic character as
a sppa christensen, a 49-year-old
t t.s;ng master at Old Heidelberg
l 'hsre until Hitler put stop to the
'ersctice in 1888, blood ran red as
Students sought to prove their
llH nrage or defend their. honor by
, .srving each other into minute
S'1 We have no intention of clarifying
hose Young cut-ups, but for years
u . had heard of the famed Heidel-
ssre duels. 1t seemed Heidelberg
D s,dent who went through life with
s s initials of some kind carved
w. bis face or a clipped ear just
ia not belong socially. The Oldest
s.nh,Irger hut, or dueling place,
had been pointed out to us by
mi, srde from the ruins of Heidelberg
schloss. a skeleton of a medieval
n,onstrosity which is the pride of
no natives. We were told we could
MT inspect his scene of condoned
MAYHEM, So Peter Christensen was
the next best bet.
He set us straight on lot of
things concerning the ancient duel
ina rites of the school. His square
lace. topped by blond hair, is I'M
marked. but after all, it is not the
rowing coach who gets misery in
his back and Christiansen's job is
10 teach.
He came to Heidelberg in 1881,
two years before Hitler decided
that Germans spilling German
blood was wasteful. Since 1888 there
there may have been some of the
cory sordid business. Christensen
limited, but it was on the quiet
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-23
Officials Lick Rex Hanover
6-2, To Go Into Quarter Finals
Tucson Juniors Take
Western Legion Crswn

MILES CITY, Mont, Aug. a.
R)-The Stockton, Calf, Legion
naires lost the Junior American
Legion western sectional baseball
tournament to Tucson, Ariz., last
night in a thinning, 10 setback
after taking the first game OF a
doubleheader, to 3. in IS innings.
The double-elimination affair
Sunday. The other competitor,
Miles City, was eliminated by
Stockton Saturday and by Tucson
Sunday.
Tucson, winner of last year
sectional tournament at Billings,
Mont, entrained shortly after the
game for Charlotte, N. c., to com.
pete in the National finals next
week with sectional winners from
New Orleans, Charleston, S. c.,
and Manchester, N. H.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-23
WILMINGTON WILL
AID MARINE CORPS

Wilmington is being placed in
what City Manager A. c. Nichols
describes as stronger position
to let the Marines know we're
definitely interested in them" 1t
was broughtout at yesterdays
meeting of the City Council. I'm
proved transportation facilities be-
tween Wilmington and Camp Lee
ieune. as well as the City's furnish
ing of hostesses for Marine base
social functions places the City
in a more cordial tone toward the
Marines, the City Manager point
ed out.
Referring to a request from the
Marine base for 500 Wilmington
girls to act as hostesses for a
formal dance at Camp Lejeune
tomorrow night the City Manager
stressed that the City now has re-
ceived the first formal request
from Lejeune for active coopera-
ton.
He further stated that he ex-
pected the city's position to be
greatly strengthened by next week.
He suggested that the city at that
time make an effort to assemble
all facts on Wilmington facilities
available for Marine use and that
city officials plan a trip to Camp
Lejeune armed with such data.
The matter was first brought up
at today's meeting by Councilman
J. E. L. Wade, who asked for the
results of a previously proposed
conference with Atlantic Coast
Line officials in regard to the
establishment of shuttle service
between the two points.
The city manager advised Wade
that the A. C. L. matter "has not
been discussed because ] figured
it'd be better to wait until the
Camp Davis matter was settled.
The general at Lejeune has gone
over all Wilmington facilities for
servicemen and last fall was shown
the CORVALLIS lounge, so he is
familiar with it.
The council previously went on
record as extending a most cordial
invitation to Marine authorities tc
utilize all available Wilmington
services, including the lounge.
Transportation between the base
and Wilmington was reported by a
council committee at recent
meeting as greatly improved, and
it was disclosed that 3,400 Marines
had been handled one weekend by
the Seashore Transportation com
pany, from 8 am. on Sunday until
u 6 am. Monday.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-23

phia and Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Of Los Angeles, who staggered to
Nhole conquest, paced the eight
yictors in the torrid second.round
session at trap-pocked Knollwood
Club.
Miss German caught fire on the
second nine to bounce out Betty
Jean Rucker, Spokane, Wash, 3
and 2, while Mrs. Zahrias squeez-
ed past Peggy Kirk. Findlay. O..
on the 10th hole. up, after blow
ing a four-hole lead at the nine
hole turn.
In another 2O-hole skirmish. PLY.
| Ills Otto of Atlantic, Ia, eliminat-
ed Veteran Dorothy Kelly of Los
Angeles, l up, after trailing two
holes at the turn.
Most one-sided match in the
snugly-played round was a and
Is conquest by Sally Sessions.
Muskegon, Mich. over Claire Do
ran, Cleveland.
Medalist Louise Suggs, Atlanta,
Ca, who has shot many a prac-
tice round with immortal Bobby
Jones, remained the ranking upper
bracket contender as she nipped
Carol Babe Freese, Portland.
Ore, 8 and z.
Miss Suggs tackles Miss Sessions
tomorrow in the key battle of the
upper bracket. The fourth victor
In the upper bracket was lightly
reckoned Eileen Stub, Augusta,
"a, who defeated Carol Clark,
wyoming, o., 3 and 2, to oppose
Miss Otto in tomorrow's round.
Mrs. Zaharas lower bracket foe
lof tomorrow will be Marjorie Row,
Annlston, Ala, who outlasted Ann
casey, Mason City. Ia, 2 and /.