davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22
COMMENT on WORLD EVENTS

Approximately 1000 soldiers had
lost limb in this war up to May l,
the Army revealed. There are no 'bas-
ket cases"-the term used to describe
loss of both arms and legs-but 6
men have lost extremeties and there
is one case, non-battle casualty, who
lost part of a limbs as result of
freezing after an airplane crash. The
number of men who have lost 2 limbs
is $50.
Of the 1000 cases cared for in
Army hospitals, almost 1000 have al
ready been discharged to civilian life.
Some of these soldiers, who were given
the choice elected to remain in the
service and have been assigned to as
sist in training other amputees.
The Army does everything possible
to help amputees readjust their lives.
AS a result, it is not unusual for men
who have lost arms or both legs to
drive an automobile, ride horseback,
use a typewriter, eat and dress with
out help, dance, and in general do al
most everything they formerly did.
Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, Surgeon
General of the Army, has stressed
that these men are trained to lead a
useful life before they are discharged
from the Army, and should be looked
on as normal human beings who want,
not pity or sympathy, but simply a
chance to hold down a job commen-
surate with their abilities and to be
useful members of society.
Average time from the final opera
ton until a man is fitted for an ar
tificial limb is about two and one
half months. Total time from injury
until discharge usually is about 8
months.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22
AFL Backs Increase
In u. S. Judges Pay

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-The
American Federation of Labor has en-
dorsed the Wagner-Hobbs bill to in
crease the pay of federal judges $5,-
900. The bill, introduced by Senator
Wagner of New York and Repre-
sentative Hobbs of Alabama would
make the pay increases effective after
the war stabilization program has
been abandoned.
President William Green of The
AFL wrote Chairman McCarren of
the Senate judiciary Committee that
the proposed raise represented ex-
tension of simple justice, long over
due" and that it would serve to es-
tablish and maintain a high judicial
standard.
The proposal would increase ju-
dicial salaries to the following levels:
Members of the Supreme Court
$4,000, with S25,500 for the chief
justice. Judges of the United States
Court of Appeals for the District and
the Federal Circuit Courts of APP
peals, s17,5Oo.
District of Columbia Court and
Federal District Courts elsewhere,
$4,000, with $15,50O for the chief
Justice of the court here. Members
of the Court Of Customs and Patent
Appeals, and the Court of Claims,
$17,500 The United States Customs
Court, $4,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22
Tobacco Workers Union
Wins Wage Increases

Louisville, Ky.-Members of Local
Union No. 226, Tobacco Workers In
ternational Union in the plant Of the
Falls City Tobacco Company, Inc.,
have been granted wage increase Of
five cents per hour retroactive to Nov.
Is, 1914 together with maintenance
Of membership clause and check-off
Of dues.
Another five-cent hourly increase
retroactive to Jan. / has been won for
the employees of the Luckett- Wake To-
bacco Company, Local Union No. 207,
Of the Tobacco Workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22

Before any amputee is discharged,
he must pass series Of tests to show
readiness to return to duty or to civil
ian status.
Comparison of limbs lost by workers
to Army amputation cases is diff
cult since latest U. S. Department of
Labor statistics give figures for 1943,
while the Army's heaviest casualties
were in 1914.
In 1943, 1,700 workers were total
ly disabled and an additional 6,O48
lost an arm or leg. These figures in
clude agricultural and all other gain
fully employed workers, the accident
rate for agricultural being higher than
for any other industry. Loss of an arm
or leg in manufacturing industries in
1943 was about one-third of those in
all occupations, 2,046 as compared to
6,O48.
This country produced so percent
more food annually in this war than
in the first World War and it did it
with 10 percent fewer workers on the
farms, War Food Administrator Mar
vim Jones said in a letter to Congress.
With total national population up
third, "our people have had about 10
percent more food per capita during
this war than in the 1917-18 PERIOD"
Jones wrote During the present con-
flict, twice as much foodshas gone
annually to the armed services and for
overseas shipments as was used for
these non-civilian outlets each year of
the last war. And" he added, sthis
record has been accomplished notwith-
standing a shortage of labor and ma
chinery, and many other handicaps."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22
City Declares Dividend

Chicago (ILNS) Ogden, Ia, de-
clared a dividend to the customers of
the municipal light plant by cancel
ling all January light bills. The COM
munity has paid for the entire light
plant in years, furnished all street
lighting and plant lighting free dur
ing that period, and has been able to
set aside a substantial light fund bal
ance, the American Municipal Associ-
alton says.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22
Promotion

Accompanied by driver, an Am
erican major in motor vehicle was
stopped by a sentry on guard at q
cross-road.
"Who goes there?'A
"One American major, one-ton
truck of fertilizer and one buck pri-
vate.
They were allowed to proceed, but
at every crossroads they went
through the same formula.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22

use of the land is as clear as their
equal right to breathe the ART is a
right proclaimed by the fact of their
existence. For we cannot suppose that
some men have right to be in this
world, and others no right.-Henry
George.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22
c. 0. Dependency
Case Appealed To
Federal Circuit Court

New York City (ILNS) Release
from detention in Civilian Public
Service camp for Shirley Bodenstein,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22

reasonable assurance of the resilient
and expanding economy" foreseen by
Krug.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22
by WOODY CONAN

OADR JAMES HALLE MINI, US.N already holder DFC
- been awarded Navy Cross for leading fight Of planes against
the aps the Philippines He depoyed his command that
damaged combat vessels Despite heavy anarcraft he made
bombrun batteh. scoring direct hit with
bomb War Bonds helped for the planes and bombs that enabled
the Manila born officer render that foe ineffective His home
Vallejo, California. 7,a1,y Daa,aw1ss
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-06-22

Issued Weekly at 32s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
Intensive Hunt On
For Three Fliers
Search for Doolit+le
Men Gre atIy Widened

WASHINGTON. Sept Is (INS)
Under orders from the United
States joint chiefs of staff. an
intensified search is under way IN
Japan and on the Asiatic contl-
nent for the three missing men,
bers of Gen. James H. Doolltt,a's
Tokyo bombing mission
The still missing fieFs. OF whom
nothing has been heard for three
years. are lst 1t Dean Hallmark,
Dallas. Tex; lSt 1t William g..
Farrow, Washington, y c.. and
s Sgt, Harold A. Spaatz Of Libo,
Kan
A high official Of The L. s.
Army Air Forces told Intcrna-
uonal News Service today that the
scope of tho search has been
greatly increased since Japans
surrender A month ago.
Last seen by their five com
radcS Aug IS, l942. before a Jap
sneSc court, the heroic partlci-
pants in the first American attack
ON Tokyo have been listed aS priS-
oncr> ~ Japan since April Is.
lqi2
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

soldiers running up We concluded they guelas
but they friendly and smiling.
Meder told us that Fitzmaurce dead and Hallmark
gotten separated from Dieter. We walked back To
the shore and the way found Deers body Both ne
and Fitz had been badly crushed when crashed.
We buried Fitz and Dieter there.
The Chinese helped
Hallmark Meder each said silent prayer but that
all the service consisted Of
We felt pretty bad about it. wanted 10 do something
more but ef the Chinese guerilla officer wept urging
us hurry.
He spoke to through another Chinese who
had been a taxi driver in Shanghai and knew Eng
iish fairly we'll
Hurry, hurry hurry. Japs come pretty soon. ou
hurry. Get away
covered the graves and walked with the Chinese TO
garrison Chinese guela overlooking the village 1t
still raining 1t bad day-but the worst was yet to
"
TOMORROW In the Times Captured by the Japs
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
Pi|ot|ess Trolley
Burns; 1O|njured
International Photo

CLEVELAND. Sept Is Eight
men and two women were being
treated in 81 Alexis Hospital here
today after they were trapped IN
-ttfF=FttffF ard le't4asz=tfe,iles-e-F-
Many paSSc ngers on thn
-t---tr,ttit-fi -fi-t4ffta- saved themselves
more serious injury by smashing
windows and leaping 10 the pave
mcnt. Whllc the flaming car was
IN motion.
II was believed that fame,
broke out in the moto1nan's COM
partment forcing him away from
the controls
The flames were finally eXtln-
gulshed by emergency squads who
removed the injured.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

try to stay together We all wore Mae West
life vests and let ourselves into the water. The
rain was coming down in squalls and the
rough.
got separated the others started swim
ming.
Meder was with Fzmaurico and stuck with him because
shape swim Fitz swell guy, slim and
good-looking and always happy,
Meder told later that Fitz died on the Oay
in but Meder toWed the body to shore
When l found myself alone wasn't particularly scared
just told myself ii was up to me.
ran into Chinese fishing nets and knew was
close After got through them swan for while
and then let down my feet and they touched bottom
r WALKED fast as could to shore but when got out
4 of the water found ! couldn't stand up.
guess still had my legs from the Hornet
So crawed until figured was past the tide line and
then | collapsed completely.
was tagged out.
Everything my mind and body, numb,
All | wanted sleep
think that have been about II 80 at night and
was about the next morning when awoke The first things
saw two big turkey vultures perched high rock
thought
Good Lord, the Jap high command Is here already
Then | told myself stop making wlsecracks even to
myself and get out of there
walked along the shore until came to Chinese fish,
ing village Of about 800 people met Hallmark there lew
minutes later Meder walked in
1t wasn't much Of village. There were a few shacks
Of children running around them and plenty ot
women, but very few and they were old
INHE children crowded around smiling and chatterng
and of the and looked at us curl
ousy. We couldn't understand them and trying TO
decide what do when FIVE six Chinese who appeared TO DC
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
DooItte Fers Tell of 4Oont Ordeal Prisoners of jap
Crash After To kyo Attack
Described by Navigator
Continued from Page one)

Continued from Page one)
time me jsrs were aware something wrong though
II certainly took them long enough to get wise.
The oct-ect started, bm they pretty bad gun
'rrs one machine olu buct hit the per-9iass rindo'0
lu IT, Mcder'S compartment bUt did damage. That
r.oS the only time frr rcre ht
Our obectives were the steel mills and foundries Of
Tokyo and couldn't miss from 1900 feet
We saw bombs explode watched the smoke and FIRE
and then circlea
The acsck gunncrs were pretty busy the shells
were bursting around US The sky full of black pufs
Of smoke which changed into white they exploded
! DIDN'T fec any of emotion until began to circle
i dropped bombs and l don't think any of
Jhe others did
But when we saw we'd scored with our bombs go.
Hallmark yelled through the intecommuncation systems
That's a burs-eye."
And then all of us began telling Dieter what job
he done We felt good We figured the worst now
Hallmark and began TO sing we Don't Want to Set
the World Fire"
We had just dumped load of incendary bombs those
steel mitts
We dropped down to about so feet and high
tailed it out of there fer Tokyo Harbor. Then ! set
course for the China coast and the u. s. air base
just south of Shanghai and about 100 miles inland
1t didn't take long get of the ackack range
and we figured it wead simply be We sang and
laughed and told each other that we'd had soft touch
But cleared the last OF the Jap mainland we ran
into fog and rain again.
1t still confident every
thing would be all right but the change the weather made
us little more serious
ENE4E ship performed marYenuslv took heaIAgs-frnm
Il Shanghai and Osak and figured that we have just
about enough gas to make the air base.
But the figured the more 1t damned on
that II going to be close shave.
We decided we'd have to fly low could locate
field without much crcng but then began to think
about the mountains along the coast We began 10
We sighted the China coast about 30 that night. The
weather still bad
Hallmark sang that the gas gauges showed empty,
but we knew there was still some reserve gas IN the tanks
We afraid to continue flying at that low altitude
decided to pull up and get far inland could
though didn't make base.
Hallmark the motors the and started to rise
Then Without warnng both motors cut out.
Hallmark had yell:
Prepare for crash landing"
l remember that thought:
We'll, won't have to this parachute"
And just then hit the water.
II wasn't too bad crash but | stunned and when
to senses standing in water to hips
I climbed the top window Of the navigators COM
partment and found the other fellows all outside, too
LNTZMAURICE and Dieter in pretty bad shape They
weren't bleeding but they'd taken bad blows around
the head and upper part of their bodies.
The rest of us all right
We released the life raft but the gas pump broken
and the raft wouldn't initiate enough to hold
We didn't have much time; the plane w sink
ing fast SO Hallmark ordered to swim for it and
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
pITRolr SUNDAY rlMGs {
Bar I, psse Sept ts ls4s
Job Suggestion

81 LOUIS, sept IS ms
LloNd 2. MCGOWAN oi S. Louis
has suggested no the American
War Dads Society that hind or
partially blind war veterans be
snlploved m photograph 0srk-
rooms or film and .phC'ot aH1c
rsper factories
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13

Through the courtesy of the Ma
thias Maryland Insurance Com
pany and Raney's Coliseum and
Mapleway Bowling Alleys, baseball
fans in tbs, area will have an OPP
portunity on Saturday afternoon to
listen to play-by-play account of
a pair of ball games that might
well decide the American league
Pennant race-the doubleheader
between the Detroit Tigers and the
Washington Senators.
The managers of the two com
panies announced on Tuesday that
they had contracted with radio sta
ton WEI to sponsor the broadcast
of the doubleheader, direct from
Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
BEHIND HOME PLATE
By DOUG STEWART
By DOUG STEWART

doubleheader of the season against
Lancaster, you sure missed barrel
of fun.
To begin with, Frank Colley took
over the announcer's job, coming
up with such classical announce
ments as: Fourteen hundred and
ninety two, Columbus sailed the
ocean blue NOW pitching for Ha-
gerstown, Richie Colombo"
Manager Dutch" Dorman also
entered into the spirit of the oc-
casion, allowing several members
of the team to satisfy their secret
ambitions to either pitch or play
other than their regular positions
(you must remember, of course,
that Sundays games were only be-
ing played to finish out the string,
and had no effect on the final posi-
ton of any of the six teams in the
standings).
In the eighth inning of the first
game, with Hagerstown leading IL,
Leary, who had relieved Glor in
the fifth inning, suddenly filed the
bases on walks, with none out. So
Dutch, remembering that Ernie
Velasquez, the Owls shortstop, had
always had yen to pitch, thought
that would be a good spot to see
what he was made of-so in Ernie
went.
He started off by uncorking a
wild pitch that forced in run. He
followed that up by striking out
the Lancaster cleanup batter, Bill
James. Then after allowing a sing
lie that drove in two more runs, re-
tired the side by forcing Harry Win
tiers to hit into a double play.
In the ninth inning he struck
out the first man to face him, walk
ed the next two, but then turned
round and struck out the next two
batters to retire the side and give
the Owls the game, IA
In the second game, Bob Martin
(who always wanted a chance to
play first base), got his opportunity
and, although he turned out to be
a pretty poor first baseman, he did
pull off double play, unassisted,
taking James high fly and touching
first before the runner could get
back.
Then to wind things up, in the
seventh inning, Steve Sefick, who
for many years has been on the re-
ceiving end of the battery, got his
chance to look things over from
the other end when Dutch sent
him in to pitch the last inning of
the last game of the season. And
Steve didn't do so bad at that
After giving up hits to the first
two men to face him, and walking
one, he settled right down and re-
tired the side, with only one run
charged against him.
The 1915 season is over: the Owls
weren't So hot; but here's looking
to next year, with better luck.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13

c., with the first game going on
the air at 1870 p. m. Russ Hodges,
VOLS ace sport commentator, will
give the play-by play account from
the radio booth on top of the grand
stand directly behind home plate.
With the Tigers and Senators run
ming neck and neck down the
stretch, the chances of a pennant
and share in the World Series
glory will be hanging on every
pitch and the arrangements of the
Mathias-Maryland Insurance Com
pany and Raney's Coliseum and
Mapleway Bowling Alleys are TO
be congratulated on giving the
thousands of baseball fans in this
area an opportunity to listen to
the games.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
QUOTES
OF THE WEEK

From here on out it'll be Lend
Less" - Indiana paper.
Muck, moss, humus, and wild
rabbits if not raised for food"
-OPA, removing price control
from same
Pm tired of hOOdIums coming in
from neighbOring areas and giving
us bad name" Mayor Edward j.
Kelly of Chicago.
"Three cheers for the u. S. Navy
and Army" = Sign painted by Japs
on Yokohama roof. what, no Mar
rines?)
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
FINAL

As you will note from the final
standings above, not single team
in the league was able to play the
scheduled 140 games, due to so
many games having to be post
poned because of rain, that it was
Impossible to make them all up
Hagerstown had two games COM
pletely washed out, one with York
and one with Lancaster. The Owls
would have finished the season with
62 games won and rs lost, but for
the fact that a game they won from
Allentown early in the season was
forfeited to Allentown on ruling
by league president Ehlers-and
thereby hangs a tale.
When the 1945 season opened, the
Owls had an inf1elder on the squad,
listed as "Joe Moss" who was sch
eduled to play shortstop when the
team was playing at home and who
actually played in the teams first
three home games of the season.
We all knew that his real name
was Joseph La Point and that he
was a member of the Armed Forces
and stationed at Fort Cumberland,
Md, but we understood that he
was eligible to play with the team,
but that, because of his military
earxy;oo Io GOULD not ba o,o+araJ oY,
the clubs roster under his right
name. Qn fairness to Oren Sterling,
president of the club, it is only
right to state that the minute he
found out that there was a question
about Joe's eligibility, he dropped
him from the roster.)
The Owls opened their 1945 home
stay against Allentown on April 81,
with Moss playing short, and AL
lentown won. Moss also played
short in the doubleheader against
Allentown on Sunday, April 90
(the Saturday game was rained
out), and these two games were split,
Allentown winning the first and Ha-
gerstown the second, and these
were the only games that Moss
played with the Owls.
Nothing more was heard or said
about Moss playing with the team
until the last week of the season
when the fight for third place, be-
tween Trenton and Allentown, was
plenty hot Then, and not till then,
Allentown suddenly filed a protest
with league president Ehlers against
the game they lost to Hagerstown
on Sunday, April 20, basing their
protest on the ground that the
Owls had used an ineligible player
one Joseph La, Point.
By strange coincidence, Mickey
Balla, who wound up the season
playing third base for Allentown,
was manager of the Owls when the
season opened and as manager of
the team was supposed to be sure
of every players eligibility before
putting them into an Owls uniform,
much less inserting them into the
lineup of regular league game.
Now I wonder who could have
tipped off the Allentown manage
ment Gust when the team was slip
ping and desperately trying to stay
in third place. that away back on
Sunday, April 90 the Owls used an
ineligible player in defeating Allen
town?
If you missed SUNDAYS final
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
BACK TO SCHOOL

Roy CLANCY, ex-marine, entered
the tenth grade class at the Hagers
town High School, when school be-
gan last Wednesday morning.
CLANCY, who is now twenty years
of age, enlisted in the Marines otter
completing the ninth grade at the
South Potomac street junior high
school. He served more than two
years, and spent most of that time
in the Pacific theater of operations.
CLANCY says the time he spent with
the Marines made him more aware
of the value of finishing school,
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
QU/CKiE QViZ

1t appears that golf was original
ed as game along in the 18th or
18th centuries. Successive Kings of
Scotland tried to prohibit the sport,
but it was furtively kept alive. The
royal ban was Internationally
when a ruler was caught playing
the game which he had banned.
Frazier Hunt, Mutual common
tator, wonders if you can name the
first woman golfer.
Mary, Queen Of Scots N542-l567l, tVbo
was granddaughter Of King James ".
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
9OWAH<G
y SCORES
PRECIOUS STONE LEAGUE

The Amethysts got off to a good
start in the 1945-46 season, winning
all three games. D. Newcomer
came up with ia game, to take
the lead in the high single column
gme. She also had the high three
game total-321.
High Scores:
D. Newcomer, LOG, ia, 1O1, 321;
NJ Ward 1O5, 1903, 302; M. Routzahn
1O8; N. Myers 1903, 1906; P. Elliott
104; R. Martin 1O4; V. Mowen 1O4; E.
Reecher 1903; B. Ford 1O1; c. Clark
100; M. Hutzell 100.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13

Bomber pilots of the 5th and 18th
Air Forces, under the commanding
general, Far East Air Forces, Gen.
George c. Kenny, flew more than
$4,000 sorties against Nip installa-
tions for the first six months of 1945.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
Washington-Detroit Doubleheader
To Be Broadcast Saturday BY WEI

First Game To Go On Air AT 80 P. M Direct From Griffith
Stadium Two Local Firms To Sponsor Broadcast For
OF Baseball Fans In This Area.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13

If you missed Sundays final
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
Team Standing

Read the ads along with the news.