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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
To Discharge Six Million GIs ByJuIy

Washington, Sept. i2-(UP)-Un. derSecretary of War Robert P. Pat. terSon told the senate military af- fairs committee today that the army expects to discharge 0,000,000 men by next July 1 under the point syS- tenn.
 Patterson promised to "see to it' that high point veterans already returned to this country would '"get out" promptly and not be kept in idieness in army camps.
 Patterson was the first witness in public hearings ordered by corl1- mittee members In response to rlS. ing congressional irritation ct the pace of army demobillzation.
 The undersecretar vigorously de- tended the demobilization program. He said that although some mistakes may have been made in the past overall job will Do carried out fairly and justly.
 "At the end of the European war we had approximately e,600,00O men," Patterson testified.
 2 Million Army
 we expect to be down to 2,b00, 1000 by next July 1. That contemplates the discharge of 6,000000 by that time. We intend to follow the point
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
Expect WB-ABC Decision On Friday Or Monday
Actual Outcome oi Yesterdays Wosh- ington Conference Yet Unknown
By ANNE ZEMAITIs

Indications have been given by the National War Labor Board that a decision on the American Brass Con- pany-C. I. O. dispute would be forthcoming either Friday or Monday, John Mankowski, board member of the Mine, Mill & Shelter Workers Union, stated today.
 MT. Mankowski, who returned to- day from Washington where he had conferred with VILE representa- tives, said no notification of the outcome of yesterdays closed WLB hearing has been given. The 0. I. O.. office in Washington, however, has been informed the decision may be given Friday or Monday, he stated.
 Strike Continues
 The strike at Waterbury, Ansonia, and Torrington plants of the man. ufacturing firm continued nean- while, and committee members of the three locals were scheduled to meet this afternoon at o6 Bank street to discuss possible future acc ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
Y Don't Suicide" Says Jap Pearl Harbor Plotter, Shinada

final lists, submitted quietly to coun- ter-intelligence officers.
 Maj. Paul Kraus, who took Tojo into custody, again was in conn mand of the arresting party.
 We crowded into Shimada's pa. per.partitioned two-story home on Minami (south) lane. His wife, dressed In c gray kimono, knelt on c mat at the entrance and greet cd US.
 She smilingly demanded through an interpreter that Kraus show his credentials. They were presented and she then brought back word that the admiral would Dc ready to accompany the party in lO nin- utes.
 Correspondents present were Keith Wheeler of the Chicago Times, Norman Soong of the Chi- neSe Central News Agency. William B. Dickinson and myself of United Press.
 lS.Minute Reprleve
 We waited with the Army men after Kraus agreed to give Shimada the required IS minutes.
 While we waited we could hear the sounds of dinner being served.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
City Budgets To Be Filed By Saturday
 Budget Director
 Awaits Bulk of
 FiseoI Requests

Saturday, Sept. IS, Is the dead- line for filing of budget requests by various city department heads with the mayor and budget director, according to the city charter. Al- though . number of such requests have already been filed with Budget, Director Arnold E. Furlong, the great bulk 6f them are not yet completed, The Democrat learned today.
 However, nil budgets have been typed and figures for the current and past years submitted. All that remains to be done Is to insert fig ures for the io46 estimates. Much of this work was done by the Budget Department itself, utilizing an elec- tric typewriter to turn out the num- Der of copies necessary to accom-. odate the members of the Board of Finance, which will start hear- ings on the new budget in Noven- Der.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
COP Solons Seek To Curb Log-Rolling Procedure

for taxpayers. It would be Q move toward Siinplification and improve. Fl1ent of our governmental TnachiS1- cry, an objective conceded by ai- most everyone to be urgently neces- Sary.
 Log-rolling is the method by which individuals or groups Of con. gressrnen, each interested in some specific appropriation item, coI1l- blne forces to put all of them into an appropriation bill.
 Many worthwhile expeneitures are made possible by log-rolling. But the taxpayer might as well have his pocket picked as put Up the money for many other projects log- rolled Into appropriation measures.
 Executive Authority |, As things stand now presidents must take the good with the bAd. They may veto appropriation bills but they may not select among the multitude of items in each bill
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
JAP BLACK DRAGON SOCIETY ABOLISHED
To Choose LucareIIi
 Jury Soon
Early Grand Jury Hearing Expected By Authorities

summoning of e grand jury b consider a possible murder tndict- ment against Nicholas Lucarelli, 50, of 48 Central avenue, is expected to be assigned by Judge Charles J.. Mclaughlin at the opening of the fall term of superior court here Fri day morning at 10 o'clock. 1ndica- tions are an early grand jury hear ing, probably for next week, will be requested by States Attorney Wll- liam B, Fitzgerald.
 Lucarelll, who Is charged win the knife-slaying of Mrs. Douglas Hatch, 38, of 2b7 North Main street, is held without bond at the New Haven county jail. Last July 20 he pleaded not guilty in city court Co Q charge of murder and was iTa- mediately bound over to the higher court.
 Tavern stabbing
 The stabbing occurred July 14 at Bruno's restaurant on Savings street, and Mrs. Hatch, wife of . serviceman, died three days later, Lucarelli told investigators he had been going out with the victim for a year.
 The grand jury in the Lucarelli case will be the third one to con- vene here within year. First dc. gree murder indictments were re. turned last fall against Francis zukauskas, who is now appealing from Q death penalty imposed for the staying of Mrs. Stephanie Plum gis, and Domenic Coscia, who is serving c 10 to IS year prison seii- tence on Q verdict of manslaughter for the staying of Adolph Cyr.
 Zukauskas Appeal
 A hearing in the appeal of zu-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
SoIons Clash
 Over Peor Horbor Probe
By DEAN W. DTTTMER

Limited Press Stan C0rrespOnuenU
 washington, Sept. i2.-(UP)- Congressional leaders of both hous. es had before them today the tick fish problem of choosing the six Democrats and four Republicans who will serve on the committee to investigate the Pearl Harbor dis- aster.
 A full-dress Congressional inves. tigation of the Dec. 2, i94l, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was ordered yesterday when the House approved a Senate resolution calling for c committee of 10 rnembers-three Democrats and two Republicans from each house.
 No Unity
 Acting Senate President Kenneth Mcclellan told reporters he would announce the names of the Senate members pretty soon"-possibly to. day. T haven't made up my mind" House Speaker sam Rayburn said he would not be able to name House members today.
 There appeared to be strong senti- ment in the Senate to put the floor leaders of both parties-sens. Alben W. Barkley, D. Ky, and Wallace H. White, R., Me.-and members of the military and naval affairs commit- tee on the Investigating group.
 Asked If he had made himself available for appointment on the committee Barkley said, 'I'd rather not talk about that"
 Which Committee?
 There was little sentiment in the House to name the floor leader or members of the military and naval committees to the Investigating aDoup. There was some indication Cat this matter would be talked ever by Rayburn, McKellar and Barkley before any action was taken.
 House members said floor leaders have heavy schedules without tak- ing on new duties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
Yonk Air-Ace Comes Home

Oakland, Calf, Sept. i2 -- (UP) Wearing new silver oak leaves of a lieutenant colonel, Gregory Pap. py' Boyington, the Marine Ace came home today to e roaring welcome from his Black Sheep.
 Boyington and 2l Navy enlisted men landed ct the Alameda Naval Air Station ct I0:46 c. m. (EWT). in Q four-engined Navy transport plane. ..
 The ace was liberated Aug. % after spending 1e months in . Jap. aileSe prison.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
By LYLE c. WILSON
United Press stan Correspondent,

(Uniteu kreSS DteK COFFespOnuenU
 Washington, Sept. i2- -(UP)-A plan to save the taxpayers some money by breaking up Congressional log-rolling combinations on appro- prlatlon bills k coming before . Senate committee this month with the chances heavily against t.
 Sen. Arthur II. Vandenberg, R., Mich, sponsors the plan. It b In the form of resolution to submit to the states . proposed constitutional amendment which would authorize q president to veto specific items in appropriations bills.
 Republican Sponsored
 The project iS handicapped by its Republican auspices and by natural congregational reluctance to relin. qiiish some powers to the executive branch. But students Of government insist that such an amendment would accomplish two desirable cb- jectiveg. .sT
 It would save considerable sums
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12

the excess profits tax. CD There. after amend the law to permit botiI corporate and nofl.corporate bus- iness to carry forward losses from business operations to apply against subsequent earnings for 6 period Of i've years.
 4-Declared-value capital stock excess-profits tax combination: I'm. mediate repeal.
 S-Corporate income tax: Abolish the corporation normal tax and slirtax and substitute c single cor. poration income tax.
 e-Taxation of dividends: Eliml- nate double taxation by allowing the corporation a credit against tts tax for the tax paid on dividends
 7-Individual Income tax: The present normal tax and surtax on individualse should Dc replaced by a single individual income tax at graduated rates.
 e-Constitutlonaf tax limit: The
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
Lend Lease Credit Asked ByEngIond

Washington, Sept. 12-(UP)- President Truman rejected today aS "a perfect silly conclusion" Q Sug. gestion that this country should not give financial aid to Britain lest It be in the position of supporting c socialist government.
 U. 6. and British delegations now are comforting here on solutions Tor Britain's postwar economic difr- culties.
 MT. Truman said at his news conference that there had been Sug- Restions in some Washington guar. ters that U. s. aid would be used to finance British Socialism.
 T think that Is Q perfectly silly conclusion" he said, permitting di" rect quotation of this phrase.
 He went on to say that the Brit- ish have every right to have any kind of government they want and that 1t is none of our business aS long as this government n on friendly terms with the British.
 Fear that .. 6. money would pc used to help the Laborite British government to finance . socaliSt program has been voiced in Con" gTeSg.
 Britain wants credit for the bil- Hons she spent before lend-lease.
 British officials have been talk ing in those terms for several months and may present to the Anglo. American Financial and Ec- onomic Conference here . specific plan along such lines. th
 Such Q plan would amount to an American grant-or repayment to the British for holding the fort against the Nazs in the early days of the war.
 Gkeptlclsm
 American officials, skeptical of Congregational reception to such . plan, will counter with Q proposal for . Iong-terEn loan on very lb- eral terms, possibly on Q nOn-i1- toreet bearing basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
Penn. R. R. rain DeruiIed

BucyruS, O., Sept. i2-(UP)-The locomotive and seven cars of the Pennsylvania railroads weStbound Red Arrow limited were derailed to- day near Tiro, O., about 16 miles northeast of here, when the train struck Q stalled automobile
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
BY FRANK BARTHOLOMEW IInliAh prAaa Staff CNrraAnNndant


 Tokyo, Sept. l2- (UP) - Admr. shigetaro shimada, the Japanese naval minister who'piUtted the Pearl Harbor sneak attack, put his hand on the arm of the American off, cer who had come to arrest him aS Q war criminal.
 T don't suicide" shimada told him with e smile.
 The Americans hadn't believed in taking chances after yesterdays ex- perience with Gen. fiideki Tojo, who was Shimada's prime minister. Tojo had shot himself when the Americans sought to arrest him.
 So the Americans arrived today with an ambuiance-juSt in case and seven jeeps. Promptly at 4:3o ?. m. (3:30 Q. m. EWT), they lined up along the narrow lane in front
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12

EDITORS NOTE: Frank Fl. Bartholomew, United Press vice. president for the Pacific, wit. messed the discovery of former Premier Gen. Hidekl TOj0's sui- eide attempt yesterday. Today he tells of the arrest of Tojo's navy minister, Admr. shigetarO Shl- mada.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12

Nov classes are now forming. Visit tho school ofElce. Post Junior College, A Central avenue.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-12-07
Time and Place Set
For Union Label Show

Washington, d. C.-Dates set for
the 1916 AFL Union Label and In
dustrial Exhibition are Oct. 20
through Nov. 2. The time for the
big show was determined at meet
ing of the officials of the Central
Trades and Labor Union of st. Louis
and vicinity and the ST. Louis Union
Label Trades Section. It will be held
in the spacious Henry w. Kiel Mu-
nicipal Auditorium.
The Union Label exhibition prom
ises to be one of the foremost organ
lied labor events of the coming year.
Many national and international
unions are now planning to have in
dividual booths to display their union
made goods as well as to demonstrate
union services They are also urging
the manufacturers and merchandisers
of articles that are union-made to OBJ
tain display space at once in order to
exhibit their respective products.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-12-07
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

the Germans. In the occupied country
an underground political movement
appeared, carrying a merciless fight
against the bloody German invader.
When one remembers the Septem-
Der anniversary, one should not cover
with silence the attack of Soviet Rus
sia on Poland. During the heaviest
fighting Russia stabbed Poland in her
back. Soviet army occupied half Of
the Polish territory, helping in that
way Hitler to crush Polish resistance.
The collaboration Of Soviet Russia
with Hitler is the blacklist card in the
history of the Soviets. This card can
not be torn out, nor crossed out.
The aims for which the Polish peo-
pie fought were not fulfilled. Poland
after terrible casualties, became vas
sal state dependent on Soviet Russia.
Therefore Poland fights on. She fights
for the same ideals for which she
fought in September 1889, the aims
for which fought the Polish under
ground movement and the Polish SOL
dier abroad.
The forms of the fight are differ
ent, but the context remained the
same: freedom, independence and de-
mocracy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-12-07

Issued Weekly at s26 Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-12-07
MAJORITY OR MINORITY
mocracy.
By Ruth Taylor

wish it were possible to eradicate
those two words from the English
language-but unfortunately, if one
could do this, other words would be
thought up to express the same idea.
There should be no place for such
discriminatory words in a democracy
And, mind you, they are discrimina-
tory, and of themselves are creating
bad feeling and prejudice.
Majorities feel that their very mum
bers entitle them to supreme power,
that their interests as group must
come first. Minorities too often place
the privilege of their group before
the rights of all citizens. In both cases
far too frequently those rise to the
top, to positions of power, who seek
personal aggrandizement and who by
their actions hurt the group which
they claim to represent.
The majority looks upon the minor
ity as not quite as they areas some
thing different from the herd-and
they don't like that. Minorities for
their part too often have chip on
their shoulder When banded togeth-
er for "self protection" they become
powerful pressure force which is ir-
ritating to the majority. And much
too frequently both sides forget that
they are Americans, governed by the
same laws, and subject to the same
responsibility. The labor bloc, the pub.
lie utility bloc, the farm bloc, etc.
when they put their own individual
ambitions to the front and forget the
nations needs, are un-American.
This is equally true whether the diff.
ference be of political party, class
religion or color, what is more, ir
each of those groups there are minor.
tiles and majorities. 1t is the whole
idea of segregation and separation Of
people into groups, or classes, treat.
ing them generally, not individually
that we have been fighting. In the
brave new world for which we hope
let us guard against group thinking
Let US remember that we are all citi.
zens of nation, and citizens of a
world of United Nations.
Let us-majority and minority
work together as individuals regard.
less of the group from which we come
Let us accept our personal RESPONSE
bilities and fulfill them before we
start fighting about our rights. Let
us prove what we are, forgetting
whether we be minority or majority
Just let us only be Americans all.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-12-07
Million Aircraft
Workers Let Out

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Near-
ly million aircraft workers lost their
Jobs in this country within 2 months
of the surrender of Japan, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, U. S. Labor De-
partment, reported.
BY the end of September, the re-
port added, aircraft employment was
down to $4,000 or about one fourth
of the presurrender level.
Most of the discharged employees
700, 1000 of them-were laid off in Au-
gust Immediately after the wars end.
In September, $4,000 were laid off,
returning the industry to it's pre-Pearl
Harbor status.
The bureau said its figures included
all aircraft contractors, including sub
contractors and parts suppliers not
normally classed as aircraft plants.
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On Sept. 1, 1889 the Second World
War broke out. Hitlerite Germany at
tackled Poland, which heroically faced
the teutonic hordes.
Today after the ending of this ter
rible slaughter between the nations,
it can be said that Poland by its fight
contributed essentially to the survival
of world democracy.
The decision to fight Germany was
the decision of the wide masses of the
Polish people, The defense of Warsaw
was the deed of Warsaw workers or
ganized in the Socialist Party, and the
Trade Unions.
What for fought the Polish Nation ?
1t fought for it's liberty and independ-
ence and simultaneously it fought for
democracy and peace for all the ma
tions of the world.
Through its brave stand, through
it's sacrificial effort, through it's un-
flinching fight POLAND became, as
President Roosevelt said, "an inspira-
| ton to the world"
Poland fought alone, without any
outside help, she collapsed under the
blows Of overwhelming German forces
But the fight went on.
In France the Polish Army was re-
born, it took part in the war against
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-12-07
WHAT NEXT?

A ticket-selling machine, expected
to speed up and simplify sales and
accounting work in railroad passenger
ticket offices, was exhibited for the
first time by the Southern Railway
System in Washington, D. c. By press
ing a few buttons, ticket sellers can
have ticket imprinted with destin-
alton, origin point, fare and other
data at the time it is purchased.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-12-07
MENACE TO LABOR STANDARDS

Continued use Of virtually unpait
conscript labor under the Civilian Pub
| lie Service set-up is threat to labor
Standards" Rev. Aron S. Gilman.
tin, national chairman of the Work
ers Defense League pointed out, in
calling upon Selective Service to END
CPS.
In a letter to Col. Lewis Kosh, as
sistant director of Selective Service,
Gilmartin said: "The WDL, whose slo-
gan is Free Labor in Free America,
is particularly opposed to such set
up. And now that the war is over there
is not even pretext for keeping war
objectors on forced labor at $40 to $15
a month"
Prompting Gilmartin's letter was a
strike by war objectors of CPS unit
Al Which brought attenJlon TO Cne ue-
plorable conditions at Eastern State
Hospital, Williamsburg, Va. The strik-
ers sought improved conditions for reg
ular employees as we'll as for CPS war
objectors.
The strike started when the hos
pital superintendent, on the grounds
of a labor shortage tried to increase
the work week for night workers from
72 to 79 hours. The strikers said: eve
feel that the state of Virginia must
Immediately face the issue that it will
have to increase wages and reduce
hours in order to attract sufficient
labor to efficiently administer its hos
pitals."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-12-07
FRIDAY, DECEMBER Z, 1945
POLL TAX COSTS TOO MUCH

What does the poll tax cost? II
costs too much. A buck here, buck
four bits over here; two bucks il
Mississippi-tha what the law says
But it isn't the first cost; it's the
upkeep.
To start with, there are the intan-
gibles-the cost in human dignity, in
civic pride and responsibility. in po-
litical integrity; the cost in inter-
national prestige. Those things are
pretty hard to put in cash register.
Let's stick to dollars and cents. Let's
think about depressions, and what they
cost in hard money
The Senate Committee on Banking
and Currency says that the 12-year-
long depression, from 1929 to 1941,
cost the American people alone 523
billions of dollars; it cost business
1855 billion in sales; it cost workers
SITS billion in wages; it cost corpora
tions 500 billion in profits; it cost
farmers $24 billion in markets.
And now the poll congressman
are hell-bent on bringing on another
depression. They've kicked the unem-
ployment compensation bill to death;
they've watered down the full en-
ployment bill the way the poll tax
waters down democracy; they're all
set to kill any sensible proposal to keep
depressions away.
That's just too high price for a
poll tax.
It's bad enough for the people of
the South to have to pay their annual
poll tax bill.
But if the poll tax means a dollar
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-12-07
New Businesses
HAMILTON


Robt. L. Clase, 945 Central, Cafe.
Jos. Stecher, 80 & 80 Main, Cafe.
Campbell Tractor Sales & Service
1041 High, Tractors, etc.
Southwestern Ohio Steel (Wm. j
Wolf, Pres; Frank H. Wulftange, v
Pres. & Freda Jennewein, Secy-Treas }
Fabricating Steel.
DR.. John D. Henry, Dentist, Oxford
Succeeding DR.. R. P. Mosbaugh), Den
tai Practice.
C. E. Niehaus, S. E. Cor. Belle &
Pleasant, Service Station.
Minnie Fowler & Nancy Hubbard
Grocery & Meats.
Geo. w. Schuler, 427 S. 5th., Restau-
rant.
MIDDLETOWN
Ray P. Bunnell, 1900 Tytys, Service
Station.
Mrs. Leslie Jones, r. r. No. /, Relig-
ious Books.
Iduma Price, 1412 Central, Beauty
Shop.
Louis Ostroge, Shoe Co., 1924 Gen.
trail Shoe Store.
Herbert G. Taylor, 1884 Central,
Dry Goods.
John Clark, Trenton Rd., Grocery.