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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
BRASS HATS AND WOODEN
HEADS

Several realistic Senators are de-
manding that the military authorities
recede from their demands for z mil
lion soldiers, pointing out that they
can't possibly be used, and that in
dustry will be ruined if that many
are taken.
Military brass hats insist that many
will be needed, even though at the
same time it is agreed that no more
than million will be used in case of
an invasion. Also it is suggested that
if Japan knows we have million she
will become scared and give up.
This idea of soaring the military
leaders of Japan is something our ex-
perts should abandon toot suite. Such
talk sounded all right back in Al, but
at this time what have the military
leaders of Japan to be afraid of
They'll fight as long as they have a
soldier left to stop bullet
But with 7 million men in uniform,
drawn from vitally needed industries,
when Japan floats the white flag, as
she undoubtedly will soon, what will
we do with those million? Much bet
ter, it seems to us, would be to start
releasing men, to be gradually alb
sorbed into reconverted industry, and
when the break comes we will not be
holding too big bag.
A surplus of supplies NUM-
tions, and other war materials stored
up by war agencies will be problems
enough, without having a or million
men looking for jobs that do not exist.
Some of the returned European vete-
rams are finding trouble now earning
living, but if that situation is multi
piled we will have a real problem on
our hands.
Military authorities for once should
listen to good advice and cooperate for
the good Of our domestic economy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
Workers Make Up
All Strike Losses

Washington, D. C,-Organized labor
has more than made up losses in war
production due to strikes by persuad-
ing American workers to remain on
the job on national holidays, the La
Dor Department disclosed.
"Workers in munitions industries
alone," the official report said, "by
remaining on the job New Years
Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial
Day and the Fourth of July, put in
more than five times as many man
days of work as were lost through
strikes and lockouts during the first
six months of this year.
In June, the report said, strike loss
es amounted to slightly more than
one-fifth of one percent of the 800
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
Changes In Wages
By Robert J. Watt
AFL Representative on NWLB

AL Representative on NWLB
Signs are multiplying that the fed
eral government will soon adopt a
new policy on wages. It's about time.
Since the war the federal govern
ment has been regulating with firm
hand the wage rates of American
workers. The government has not only
settled disputes over pay, but it has
taken upon itself the authority to tell
an employer that he couldn't grant
his employees an increase in pay, even
if he wanted to. The purpose of this
unusual degree of government regula-
tion was to avoid wartime initiation
and thus help win the war. With this
purpose organized labor agreed.
But now we are emerging from that
wartime economy and entering new,
reconversion period. Instead of in
flation, we are faced with deflation.
Instead of a scarcity of workers, we
may soon have widespread unemploy-
ment. That's why new wage policy
is imperative.
The fight against initiation may
be likened to adjusting the flow Of
gas for an automobile. Too much gas
and the engine will race. Too little
gas and the motor will stall.
While unemployment and a decline
in purchasing power are on the way,
there is still no sign of lower prices.
This means the nations production
motor is bound to stall unless more
gas is fed to it quickly in the form of
increased wages and consumer buying
power.
The American Federation of Labor
has been petitioning the government
for over year to adjust basic wage
rates. We have recommended that the
government keep hands off collective
bargaining whenever an employer and
his employees can reach agreement on
wages without increasing prices to
the public.
While it may be necessary during
the war to maintain control over dis
putes, the American Federation of
Labor believes that when men and
management agree, collective bar
gaining should be given free field.
Profits of business are great enough
to finance collectively -bargained wage
increases.
Tough times are ahead unless labor
and management work together for
their own salvation and the public
interest.
Business will suffer as well as labor
if economic dislocations get out Of
hand. The habit of governmental in
tervention has become strong in war
time. If the forces of labor and indus
try are unable to take care Of their
own relations in way which will
maintain a high level Of employment,
full production and full purchasing
power, the demand will go up for gov
ernmental intervention and govern
mental regulation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
WHAT NEXT?
stroyed.

Ears took the place Of eyes as a
blind operator, in the first public dem
onstration, tested bearings for the
Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton,
o. An electronic sound device attach
ed to the company's standard precision
gage gave out signals through loud
speaker to tell whether the bearing is
too large, too small or exactly right.
The device was developed to provide
employment for sightless veterans and
civilians.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

herself one of the worlds great ma
tions, joined with Hitler in an at
tempt to subdue the United States,
violated all the ethics revered by hon.
orable men and nations, and now she is
reaping the harvest of misspent
life.
Where before that time she spent
her good money for our spare scrap
iron, and we traded her scientists and
militarists in the art of war, it now is
not necessary for her to spend any,
thing for our scrap iron We are Civ
ing it to her freely, in bombs which
give her, her people, and her great
leaders an idea of what total war
means.
Realizing ultimately, and perhaps
early, defeat, some of her leaders are
now advancing excuses and endeavor-
ing to achieve an easy peace. AS if
any excuse could be conceived for her
unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor,
when 5000 Americans and millions of
dollars worth of property were de-
stroyed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Since revival of essential peacetime
industry in Germany is Of vital i'm
portance to restoration of normal con-
ditions in Europe, it is encouraging
to learn from the War Department
that military government in Germany,
confronted with an almost complete
breakdown in communications, trans
portation, public utilities, feeding and
housing in widely bombed-out areas,
has made steady progress in it's work
of reorganization.
To supply increasing demands for
labor, it has allowed employment Of
fices to be opened in most cities in
the American zone substituting wher-
ever possible pre-1933 employees for
former Nazi officials. Men between
16 and 65 and women between Is and
so are being registered for labor SER
vice. There is Sunday shift for form
er Nazi Party members who are forced
to clear rubble in devastated cities.
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Some German industries have been
selected to produce limited quantities
of critically needed articles. The har-
vesting of cereals will require great
quantities of paper bags and binder
twine. Binder twine in Germany is
made by twisting paper, in many in
stances the same manufacturing plants
producing both paper bags and twine.
More than 20 paper plants in the
American zone have begun operation
though some are hampered by coal
shortages due to limited transporta-
tion facilities.
Soap fertilizer and insecticide man
ufacturing plants are soon to start
operation, and food processing facili
ties sufficient for minimum essential
civilian requirements are available.
But flour mills, creameries, canneries
and oil seed plants cannot be operat-
ed without power and fuel. Heavy in
dustry is only reopened where needed
for American military requirements.
Purged of Nazi influence, German
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
STILL PEARL HARBOR

Whether you say it "Still Pearl Har-
Dor" or "Pearl Harbor Still" it means
the same, and while the Japs would
like to forget all about it we Ameri-
cans will never let her forget it. When
Japan made the unprovoked attack on
Dec. 7, 1941, violating all the rules
of international comfy, started an un-
declared war while her ENJOYS were in
conference in Washington, we prom
ised that never again would she be in
a position to bite the hand that fed
her.
She took that method Of making
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17
WISDOM

For it would have been better that
man should have been born dumb, nay,
void of all reason, rather than that
he should employ the gifts of Provi-
dence to the destruction of his neigh
bor.-Marcus Fabius Quintilian.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

Sometimes we wonder what it takes
to make a Congressman. We think we
know what it takes to make a voter
real mad-and maybe this is it. They
should talk to Churchill.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-17

The demand for Union Labels, Shop
Cards, and Service Buttons prevents
initiation Of prices and reduction Of
wages.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07

T have found hamSters outside their cages under conditions that led to the unacceptable conclusion that the furry little guys have opened the cage door, got out, and carefully closed the door after themselves.
 Use Black Magic
 They will get out of any kind of cage. They must use black magic"
 The variety of hamster Houchin raises is almost six inches long and has a coat of beautiful fur. He is considerably huskier than a chipmunk, tame and attractive, but gets tough if he thinks he is be- ing pushed around.
 When angered, he emits series of yells that sound much like an enraged duck.
 "The females, of course, are by far the most pugnacious, and give other occupants of the cages, especially the males, some nasty maulings," Houchin said. "A cage full of males is unusually quiet.
 That is, of course, when I can keep a cage-full of hamsters in a cage"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07
Documents Unveiled
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

Washington, June 7-UP)-Re- member the general at Bastogne who told the Nazis nuts when they asked him to surrender?
 He did the honors at the unveil- ing of case full of German sur render documents. Potted palms lined the taffy-colored marble halls of the archives building. An army band tootled military marches. The big wigs included undersecretary of state Joseph c. Grew, supreme court justice William o. Douglas, small business expert Maury May erick and a couple of hundred other gents with enough gold on their shoulders to trim row of Christ mas trees.
 They marched into the main ex- hibition hall, where a heavy cloth covered the central case Around the edges were other cases, uncovered, containing Rooseveltian souvenirs. There was the diamond studded sword (real diamonds, the man said that King Ibn Saud gave MT Roosevelt; the note that Prime Min ister Churchill wrote him saying thanks for a birthday present Ca bowD: and a gold-embroidered robe sent by the Russians.
 The spectators leaned on the cases and against the bronze gates (this archives building is structure de luXe). The archiviSt, Dr. Solon Buck, introduced Sen. Edwin c. Johnson of Colorado who introduced Maj Gen. Anthony c. McAuliffe, the man who told those Germans, nuts" The general turned out to be a nice looking young fellow with his hair parted in the middle and three rows of campaign ribbons on his bob-tailed jacket. He made digni- fled little speech about how the doc uments about to appear publicly for the first time were testimony that the American soldier can overcome any evil force on earth.
 Then he grabbed the rope that controlled the cloth that covered the case and what always happens happened. The durn thing stuck. The general didn't say nuts" He didn't say anything. He just kept on tugging.
 An assistant archivist in a choc- olate-colored suit helped him out There were couple more speeches, the band struck up "The Star Spangled Banner and some more marches Gear shattering in the mar ble confines) and the spectators crowded around for look at the surrender signatures.
 I will say for those Germans at | I.uneherg, Reims and Berlin that l they had clean fingers. There wasn't a smudge on single sheet. If their hands were sweaty the stains didn't show. I guess, though, that they yere nervous.
 l I couldn't make out a single sig nature; the way General Admiral Hans Georg Won Friedeburg wrote his name it looked like a blue-black water snake relaxing. I was about to identify one of the documents bearing a baby-blue ribbon when four military police with guns on their hips started shooting the cus- toners back. They were polite about it.
 Now General McAuliffe had to come back and try to unveil the case all over again for the photo graphers. He was red in the face
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07

pouches. Hamsters are found in parts of Europe east of the Rhine and in western Asia.
 Houchin, assistant professor of biological chemistry at the Loyola University School of Medicine, in troduced the hamster in this coun- Te has an American Medical Assn. re has an American Medical Assn. grant for use of the animals in vitamin research.
 Speedy Gestation
 The scientist believes the ham, ster is more satisfactory than the rat, guinea pig or rabbit in study ing vitanlin deficiencies because it is more susceptible to dietary deficiencies and various bacteria.
 Because hamsters are scarce in this country, scientists are bene- fitting from their capacity for fast reproduction, Houc11in said. The animals can produce 16 offspring after only 15 days gestation. It requires more than 2 days for rabbits to produce eight offspring and guinea pigs to give birth to only two.
 This reproductive capacity often poses serious problem for Houchin. In the four years he has raised hamsters, he has been un- able to devise a cage from which they cannot escape.
 When they get out, I never am sure how many there are to col lect," he said. Sometimes I think they must evaporate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07

That air might is growing daily, throwing it's weight with increased fury against the homeland of Japan itself. Our carrier based planes have whittled down the Jap air forces, have smashed at the Jap navy, and have helped to knock out Japan's defenses to pave the way for our "hop, skip, and jump" is and-taking technique.
 Now, on places like Guadalcanal, Guam, Saipan, New Guinea, the war of service of supply, of logistics and shipping where battles are fought with trucks, cranes and heavy machinery has replaced the war of the rifle and the jungle.
 On the great air fields of Tianian, Two Jima, and elsewhere, hundreds upon hundreds of squat-bellied B-24 work horses, mighty B-29's, sleek fighters and medium bombers gis- ten in tropic sunlight. Engineers, truck drivers, tractor operators, | clerks and laboring soldiers are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07
Army-Navy Flyers Aim Blows At Japs From Vast Island Network Of Bases

Japanese navy Carriers cannot op. fighting condition. Even that is largely neutralized by our carrier and land-based air power, lurking in hidden anchorages. ~
 While the Army's low-level bomb ing attacks have taken toll of Jap- anese shipping, the Navy's highly trained crews and ships are more suited to the work. Navy research souadrons - the "Cats" Liberators, PBM Mariners. PV'S, the new Prl- vateer - have scored magnif1cently in searching out Japanese shipping, sinking it alone, or calling for help where the job was too large. Slow, numbering PBY Cats, never de- signed for bombing or torpedo bombing, have scored magnificently.
 "Dumbo", or sea rescue, work of the "Cats" has saved the lives of thousands of flyers lost at sea. They've landed in the Inland Ses under the nose of Japanese guns ts rescue plane crews.
 PAY HEAVY PRICE
 The Navy believes - and with good reason - that their flyers are the most highly trained in the world. They have to be. To fly from and land on the short, narrow, pitching deck of carrier, day or night in all kinds of weather, navi- gate alone to and from 8 mobile base over trackless oceans, requires the highest type of specialized training.
 As the enemy is steadily pushed back on his inner defenses by the Navy's air might and the Army's land-based strength, the Japanese resort to fanatical methods to turn back our fleet and its air power.
 "Kamikaze" corps of suicide flyers are the product of an enemy trap- ped in an increasingly difficult situ- ation. They are problem, and ships are being sunk and damaged by their attacks. "Bakas,' 8 jet propelled suicide plane has made it's appearance over Okinawa.
 Less than 20 per cent of these attackers have gotten through our fleet because of efficient combat patrols, and the enemy is taking terrific losses to inf1ict small gains.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07

tightening the moose around the neck of Japan just as surely as are Marines and G. Is fighting on Okinawa.
 So vast are some of these depots that the job of servicing and sup plying all of the major commercial airlines in the United States before the war would be small potatoes" now. At Guam, by the time present construction is completed, there will be 100000 square feet of com- bined open and closed storage space to handle more than 100000 items of the supply division.
 JAP NAVY NEUTRALIZED
 Battle damage repair requires speed and efficiency to keep the lowest possible number Of planes grounded because of lack of parts or battle damage. Maintenance di- visions talk in terms of man hours. Some B-29's require as many as 5000 man-hours for repair.
 Supplies must be ordered months in advance of their intended use. Those requisitioned must be visual ized months in advance, yet in an emergency, supplies needed from the states can be procured in five days.
 In the vast Pacific, the Air Force even has it's own navy of con- verted liberty ships and smaller craft which operate off islands be- fore regular supplies are unloaded. Their machine shops accomplish every minor or major overhaul of any of our airplanes.
 Today, only carrier-based fighters reach the Japanese homeland in sufficient numbers to carry out the job of destruction of remaining Jap fighter strength. Primary mission of the P-51's based on Two Jima is to escort B-29'S to the target and re- turn.
 Any time we're ready to 20. the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07

power at objective islands and neu- tralizing nearby Jap-held bases, many of our attacks in the Pacific might have failed.
 While airfields were being hacked from jungles, carrier forces have stood by" offshore to turn back constant threats by Japanese to re- inforce their island garrisons. In many a successful island venture Navy and Marine planes have been the first to land on conquered air strips and the first to repel enemy threats.
 On Guadalcanal, when the early Army fighters were no match for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07

high-hying Jap Zeros - the P-40s just couldn't get up there and fight it was Marine Fighter Group 23 and couple of squadrons of Navy PBY's, scout bombers and torpedo bombers which virtually saved the day.
 To the Navy's air arm goes credit for sinking a large portion of the Japanese navy. Carriers cannto op- crate without protection of battle ships, cruisers and destroyers, but their planes accounted for 90 per cent of the destruction wrecked up- on Japan's once-powerful navy. To- day less than one-quarter of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07

Navy stands ready to escort amphi- bious forces to the mainland of Japan or China. Across the Pacific from San Francisco to the Marianas stretch the unsuitable" carriers or supply bases backing up ships of the line. Vice Admiral George D. Mur- ray, of Boston, Commander Air Force Pacific Fleet, has thousands of fighters, bombers and torpedo bombers standing by to replace battle losses.
 Without the huge floating air. dromes of the Fast Carrier Task Force moving out ahead of amphi- bious forces to slaughter Jap air
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07
Patton Due In Bedford
BY JOSEPH NOLAN

Bedford, Mass, June 7.-(UP)- Gen. George s. Patton, Jr., comes home to a roaring welcome today after more than two colorful years of making on the NaziS III Africa, Sicily, France and Germany.
 The general, "Old Blood and Cuts" is scheduled to arrive at Bedford army airport at 4:30 p. m, and then motor to Boston with 50 be-medaled officers and men of his famed Third Army for parade and an elaborate reception.
 At the airport Patton will have his first reunion with his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Aver Patton, and his 20- tyear old cadet-son, George s. Pat ton, Sd, who was granted special leave from West Point to attend the homecoming celebration. Also ex- pected to be present are the gen. erals two marreid daughters, Mrs. Ruth Patton Totten and Mrs. Beatrice Patton Waters.
 AS the swashbuckling commander steps from an Army transport plane, he will be greeted with a 17-gun salute rattled off by a picked crew from the Boston harbor defenses. Members of the 804th military po- lice battalion from Fort Devens will serve as a guard of honor. Gov. Maurice J. Tobin of Massachusetts and Mai. Gen. Sherman Miles of the First Service Command will extend an official welcome to the man whose armor-heavy division covered more territory and took more prisoners than any other out fit in the final push on the road to Berlin.
 Patton and his wife will ride at the head of the motorcade which will travel through historic LeXing ton and Cambridge to Boston where thousands are expected to line the sidewalks in tribute to the flamboy- ant general. He will make the first of his many speeches at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles river esplanade, terminal of the parade.
 The general, who will be 60 years old on Armistice day and was the old Allied field commander in Eu- rope, will be feted at state dinner in the Copley-Plaza hotel tonight It is unlikely that he will get a chance to see Green Meadows" his spraWling white farmhouse at Ham, ilton, since he is slated to leave to- morrow by plane for Los Angeles where another huge civic reception awaits him. Mrs. Patton said she hoped they would be able to spend some time at their California ranch.
 A native of San Gabriel, Cal, Patton made his home there until he began his army career some 40 years ago at West Point.
 Accompanying Patton to Bedford will be six other generals, IT officers of lesser rank, and g enlisted men, many of them beribboned Cali fornianS.
 Among those in the party are: Maj. Gen. Gift Andrus, Washing ton, commander of the First h. fantry Division; Maj. Gen. John w. ODaniel, (3621 Newark street, Washington; Maj. Gen. Paul w. Baade, New York city; Maj. Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt, (87 Arlington Place) Macon, Ga.; and Maj. Gen. Withers A. Burress, Hawthorne avenue) Salem, Va.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07
BREAKFAST TO HONOR
 DISCHARGED VETERANS

A breakfast in honor of discharged Jewish servicemen will be held by the Beth Israel Mems club at the first fall meeting in September, ac- cording to plans made at meet ing of the executive board last night. George Frank is chairman of ar- engagements, assisted by Jack Rut- man and Sol Fucker.
 A moment of silence was observed at last nights meeting in memory of Marine Private First Class Jo- seph Margolis, who has been report ed killed in action at Okinawa.