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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25
CONGRESS BACK IN
ANTI-LABOR DITHER

Washington, D. C.-Congress re-
turned to the nations capital for it's
1916 session in dither about strikes.
Not a bit mellowed by their long
year-end vacation, the legislators
burst into flood of angry speeches
aimed at labor and warned of dras-.
tic action against unions.
First step was a White House con-
ference at which President Truman
told Democratic leaders he would in
sist on adoption of his proposal for
compulsory cooling-off periods and
fact-finding boards to deal with major
labor-management disputes.
At the Capitol, tension boiled over
as extreme antilabor lawmakers wed
with each other for the headlines.
Senators James o. Eastland 3D.,
Miss.) and w. Lee O'Daniel 3D.,
Tex.) announced jointly they will
move to discharge the Senate Edu-
cation and Labor Committee from
further consideration of the Presi-
dents fact-finding, cooling-off bill $50
that Congress may consider this legis-
lation Immediately"
Senator Harry Flood Byrd ID.
Va.) drafted bill to (1) incorporate
labor unions, (2) require them to
register and report financial and other
data to the Securities and Exchange
Commission as corporations must do,
(3) make unions subject to suit for
civil damages for breach of contract
or unlawful destruction of property,
and (4) penalize noncompliance by
withdrawing benefits under the Ma
tional Labor Relations Act.
Senator Josiah w. Bailey d., N.
CO said he will draft legislation to
"a revise the Wagner Labor Rela-
tions Act Ito give employers equal
footing" ~ abolish the principle Of
the closed shop, and (3) displace the
NLRB with a new independent board
ito look out for the .publics csinterssts."
A spokesman for the House Mill
tary Committee said it is possible
the committee may again ask a rule
on the May y-Arends bill repeating the.
Smith Connally law, penalizing any
labor violation Of mo strike" con-
tracts, and prohibiting organized la-
Dor participation in primaries, con-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25
FRIDAY, JANUARY %, 1916
mot ON THE BEAM"

Two important facts that every
American Federation of Labor MEM
Der would do well to keep in mind
and ito impress upon his fellow citi-
zens at every opportunity are empha-
sized by the American Federationist
in its current issue. Says the FEEDER
atjRaist: s1
Where's much unwarranted talk
these days that collective bargaining
has broken down." 1t is undeniable
that the headlines have been shouting
for some time about strikes in GER
tanE. industries, but sight should not
be:.lest of two highly pertinent facts
FIRST, that while many other branch
es .of organized labor may monopolize
the notoriety the largest branch by
far is still the American Federation
of AEabor, with approximately 7,000,-
009.dues-paid members; secondly, that
AFE unions and their employers are,
in AIe overwhelming number of cases,
continuing to practice collective bar
gaining as they have done for years
nasf.
sgonsiderably less than percent
of .AFL members are on strike as we
gosto press. So it can be readily seen
that-statements about breakdown of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25
SUPPORT OF ALL NEEDED

Where there have been cases of in
effective or corrupt union leadership
it has frequently been due to neglect
of the union by rank and file members.
AS one union pamphlet explained it
"You weaken the union when you stay
away from it's meetings and when you
let handful of your fellow workers
carry the entire burden of the union
on their shoulders.
Without your active support, the
union is only a hollow shell, a mere
shadow of it's potential strength and
power. With your active support, with
your presence at your union meetings,
you make the union breathe, you make
it live, you make it powerful instru-
ment to help get better life for you
and your fellow workers"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second-C Class Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25
AFL Council Resists
Anti-Strike Measures

Miami.-Members of the AFL Ex-
ecutive Council gathered here for
their midwinter meeting determined
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25

collective bargaining are not exactly
on the beam.
"The practice of collective bargain
ing is continuing There is no sub
stitute for it-unless we want to adopt
the distasteful philosophy we SO re-
Gently warred against. Fascism may
appeal to some people. We prefer de-
mocracy."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25
WHAT NEXT?

A new, electronic canteen produces
hot sandwich, hamburger, hot dog
or cheese, when a coin is inserted and
button pushed. Sanitarily packaged,
the 'precooked sandwiches-on individ-
ual trays-pop into a oscillator coil
where high-frequency radio waves heat
them while the customer watches.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25

Organized Labor is Asked to Help
the Firemen with Mile of Dimes Fund.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25
COMMENT on WORLD EVENTS

immediate membership. ....
"For both these countries" he goes
on, "the cost of continuing mobiliza-
tion to resist German attack has
been heavy. Both governments have
suffered not only the Axis menace but
likewise the pressure of the Allied
governments. Their economists were
constantly subject to belligerent re-
prisals.
( "Yet the masses in both countries
qnquestionably supported the demo-
cratic cause. If these 4 European
states, Sweden, Switzerland, Fire, and
Portugal, are not promptly admitted
to the United Nations Organization,
not only will the political reconstruc-
tion of Europe be retarded, but the
economic federation of Europe, the
most solid foundation for European
stability, will be unwarrantably delay
ed"
The largest international medical re-
lief program in history is now in
operation by the United Nations Re-
lief and Rehabilitation Administration.
It's force of health specialists in Eu-
rope and the Far East numbers over
1,200, representing "a nationalities.
For it's China program, now getting
under way, UNRRA is adding a con-
siderable number of specialists.
The European health force includes,
$40 physicians and surgeons, SAB
nurses, 38 sanitary engineers, 16 medi-
cal technicians and two dentists. For
mer slave laborers and refugees in
Germany are receiving care from more
than 900 of them. The remainder are
largely in Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia,
Austria and Szechoslovakia. There
they are helping to re-establish vari-
Gus health services and introducing to
local physicians and surgeons recent
medical discoveries that failed to
reach invaded areas during the war.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25
WISDOM

The best use of a journal is to print
the largest practical amount of i'm
portant truth-truth which tends to
make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
Horace Greeley.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25
gaining process work It's going to
be tough, but we all want collective
bargaining. Let's have it."
Chamber of Commerce Items

Duff Mix :. Purchase of land on
Eaton Road for the Duff Baking Mix
division of American Home Foods,
Inc. has been completed and construc-
tion will be started as soon as weather
permits. Employing between 400 and
500 persons, the plant will be in a
new, modern, clean building, beauti-
fully handicapped. Products, in addition
to mixes, will include the cereals of
the Harold H. Clapp division of the
same company.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25

to resist to the utmost any move in
Congress to impose curbs on labor
unions and limitations on the right to
strike.
The AFL leaders were particularly
gratified by the federation's own good
record in maintaining collective bar
gaining relations with employers and
obtaining wage increases for the most
part without resort to strikes, as was
reported to President Truman by AFL
Chief William Green.
Many phases of national and inter-
national problems will come up for
discussion and decision at the Execu-
tive Council meeting which is expect
ed to last from 10 days to weeks.
Organized Labor is Asked to Help
the Firemen with Mile of Dimes Fund.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25

Local Firemen Made Good Last
Year. They'll Make Good This Year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-01-25

Sumner Welles, former Undersecre-
tary of State, said some things recent
ly that ought to be taken to heart by
the fellows who have been bowling
against admission of the former neu-
trail nations to the United Nations
Organizations. Incidentally, it should
be noted that the loudest shouters
against the neutrals have been the
Communists and their sympathizers,
following the line supplied by Mos
cow, whose spokesmen have declaim-
ed against democratic Switzerland and
the other neutrals, to lesser extent.
Switzerland, Sweden, Fire and Por-
tugal should be invited to join the
UNO, Welles wrote in his column in
the New York Herald Tribune. AL
though the Allies may have felt that
"all who swere not with the United
Nations must be against them" Welles
pleads cogently for the inclusion of
the a former neutral nations.
This is necessary, he points out, be-
cause eff world recovery is to be ex-
pedited and the healing of the inter-
national differences created by the
war is to be hastened, all nations able
and willing to assist in the task of
world reconstruction must be given, as
promptly as possible, the opportunity
to take part"
1.-TWO of the neutral states, Sweden
and Switzerland" Welles continues,
shave long been in the forefront of
the most advanced democracies.
Sweden played an outstanding part in
the League of Nations. Both countries
have always maintained the highest
standards in their international rela-
tions. The contribution which Sweden
and Switzerland can make to the firm
establishment of future world organ
ization is potentially very great. There
can be no question, | think, that both
Sweden and Switzerland are entitled to
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
Educational Association
Meets Here November 8

er will speak on school traffic safe
ty.
Judge John J. Burney, Of Will
mington, will be the main speaker
at the banquet in the High school
auditorium at $50 o'clock.
At the second general session at
7:3O o'clock, DR.. Dennis H. Cooke,
president of Eastern Carolina
Teachers college in Greenville,
will speak.
The district, Hamilton said. has
!, 300 teachers and school officials
on it's membership rolls. 1t is COM
posed Of the counties Of New Han
over, Brunswick. Pender, Onslow,
Jones. Duplin, Columbus, Cumber-
land, Hoke, Scotland, Robson,
Bladen and Sampson.
Other officers, in addition to
Hamilton, are V. R. White. princi-
pal of the Fayetteville High school,
vice-president, and Miss Mary
Blue, of the Lumberton City
schools. secretary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
CHURCH CENSURES
TITO FOR ARREST
Trial OF Yugoslav Arch
bishop Draws Minor
Accommodation

VATICAN CITY, Rome, Oct. T.
W.H-Premier Marshall Tito has in
CURED a "minor excommunica-
ton" from the Catholic church,
banning him from all church func-
tons, because he prosecuted Arch
bishop Aloysius Stepinac of Yugo.
slavia without Vatican permission,
1t was revealed Monday.
"By dragging Archbishop Stepi-
nae before a civilian tribunal with.
out Vatican authorization, Tito has
incurred a minor exccmmunica.
ton" a reliable Vatican authority
on Catholic church law disclosed.
"For the time being he is NO
longer considered a member of the
Catholic church, will no longer be
granted the holy sacraments, and
is banned from all church func-
TONS" this source explained.
The minor communication of
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
China Awaits Red Reply
To Proposed Truce Plan

ltervention followed Mukden dis
patches that Russia had ordered
800 civilian employs of the Chi
nese eastern railway to evacuate
Mukden and Changchun and that
Soviet Ambassador A. A. Petrov
in Marking sent a note to Stuart
that Russia took a serious view
of China's internal situation.
The influential Chinese newspa-
per Ia Kung-Pao, quoted the Pet
rov note that Gin the interests Of
peace, the Soviet union cannot fail
to show deep concern"
There was no official confirma-
ton that such a note had been sent
but it was recalled that Petrov
conferred with both Americans,
as well as leading Chinese offic-
ials last week.
The Shanghai newspaper Shun
Pao, quoting "a foreign office
spokesman" confirmed that 1870
Soviet citizens and ITO white Rus
slams employed by the railway
were ordered to evacuate "to the
north"
The newspaper said the railway,
jointly controlled by the Russians
and Chinese, was being turned
over to the Chinese government.
This report was received with
great interest il Marking, especial
ly in view of insistent rumors that
Chinese Communists were stick
ing firmly to their demands - de-
spite heavy military losses - be-
cause of promised aid from the So
viets. Also, the Russian order CO.
incided with a Communist offensive
against the railway.
Government forces were said to
have captured a small town 13
miles south of Kalgan, but were
pushed back in the southeast by a
powerful Communist co~unter-at-
tack.
Gen. Lin Piao's Communist
troops were reported to have open
ed a general offensive against gov
eminent areas between Mukden
and Changchun. Mukden dispatch
es said more than $1,000 Commu-
mist troops captured the important
coal mining centers of Hsian and
Pingkang.
Other Communist forces were
said to be attacking railway points
between Szepingkai and Mukden.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08

Tito was "automatic" because he
had violated church laws, the in
formant pointed out.
Tito is known to be a Catholic,
but he repeatedly has not been an
actively practising member of the
church.
According to church law, mem
bers of the clergy, and especially
bishops, are exonerated from judy
ment of any kind in civilian tri-
bunals unless the Vatican grants
permission that they be placed on
trial." the informant said.
This was not the case of Pri-
mate of Croatia Stepinac. who was
ar~bitratively arrested and placed
on trial at Zagreb," he asserted.
Qn Zagreb, the peoples court
trying Stepinac was scheduled to
rule Monday on a prosecution de-
mand that witnesses for the arch
bishop be barred from testifying in
his behalf.)
There are two kinds of excom-
munications in the Roman Catholic
church, so-called minor and major,
the Vatican source explained. A
major accommodation is issued
by means of a special decree of the
holy office of the Catholic church.
It Is the kind which Napoleon in
Cured when he arrested Pope Plus
vi.
A minor accommodation Is not
decreed by the Vatican but, as in
the case of Tito, is incurred by any
Catholic who deliberately violates
church law.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
Prosecution Would Bar
Stepinac;s Witnesses

ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Oct. T.
W.H - Prosecutors of Archbishop
Aloysius Stepinac who charged it
would be "blasphemy" for defense
witnesses to testify, Monday re-
newed their demands that the
peoples court prohibit testimony
in behalf of the Catholic prelate.
The court was scheduled to rule
some time later on the prosecution
request, which was first made
shortly before the weekend ad-
journment Saturday night.
1--WE can not permit the blasp-
henry that other witnesses be in
troduced," Stepinac's attorneys
were told by the prosecution, which
itself already has called 80 wit
nesses in an effort to prove treason
charges against the head of the
Catholic church in Yugoslavia.
Stepinac's attorney, Two Politeo,
had announced he would introduce
witnesses who would prove that
Stepinac opposed, not supported,
Ante Pavelic. premier of the war
time Croat puppet state, because
the premier "espoused a political
policy contrary 10 the concepts of
Stepinac."
Denounces Plea
The public prosecutor promptly
denounced the suggestion and ask
ed the court to prevent defense
witnesses from testifying.
Defense witnesses would prove
particular facts, but the principle
(of Stepinac's guilt can not be
changed" he charged.
Politeo ~retorted cit would be
blasphemy indeed if only prosecu-
ton witnesses were allowed to be
heard. The public is under the
impression created by the Daily
Press, which blackened Stepinac,
since it has not been possible for
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
HOSPITAL HERE so: .
TO GET SUBSIDY
. FOR FREE CASES

James Walker Memorial hospit-
al has been approved for a state
contribution of 81 a day for each
INDECENT patient under its care,
John W. Rankin, the hospitals
superintendent, said yesterday.
The James Walker is one of 20
hospitals approved by the State
Board OF Health for the subsidy.
Approval for the local institution
came late because a change in the
wording of its charter was neces-
sary to make it eligible for state
aid. An eligible hospitals charter
must contain the stipulation that
it is a non-profit institution.
The James Walker already re-
ceives 81 a day from the Duke En-
dowment for each of its INDECENT
patients. Income from this source
is $1,000 annually, Rankin reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
RARE BIRDS FALL
PREY TO VANDALS
Teenage Boys Slaughter
Zoo Specimens Caught
In Act

CHICAGO, Oct. 7. -P)e Six
birds at the Lincoln Park zoo
rookery were beaten to death and
several other injured Sunday night
in what Zoo Director r. Marlin
Perkins termed ''the most heart
less and mischievous instance of
vandalism I have ever encounter
ed"
Four teen age boys were seized
in the act of beating the birds with
clubs, Perkins said. They were re-
leased in custody of their parents
pending investigation by juvenile
authorities. Three others escaped,
but were named by their compa-
Mons and are being sought.
Perkins said the youths apparent
~ climbed a barbed wire fence
enclosing the rookery. ALI were
armed with wooden clubs. They
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08

Approximately 1000 school teach
srs representing 10 counties are ex'
psoted to converge at New Han
over High school on Friday
November 8, for the annual meet
ing of the southeastern district OF
The North Carolina Educational
association, T. T. Hamilton, NHHs
principal and NCEA president, an
nounced yesterday.
The convention will be split INTO
two general sessions, q banquet
and various division and depart
ment meetings, Hamilton said.
Principal speakers at the after
noon gathering, to begin at z
o'clock, will be Charles Phillips,
Of Greensboro, president Of the
North Carolina Educational asso-
citation, and Col. H. J. Hatcher,
commanding officer Of the State
Highway patrol. Phillips is expect
Cd to discuss the statewide pro-
gram of the NCEA and Col. Hatch
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08

him to defend himself until now.
Justice demands that 1t now be
permitted"
More than 1000 worshippers
damned the Catholic cathedral
here Sunday morning and scores
of peasants performed the stations
of the cross while praying for their
archbishop.
Other Zagreb churches also had
capacity attendance and similar
devotion was demonstrated in
churches in the country.
The prosecution in demanding
that defense witnesses be barred
said it was willing to admit certain
of the defense counsel's claims pro-
viding witnesses for Stepinac were
not called.
Meanwhile the prosecution called
in 80 witnesses in an effort to sup
port charges in the indictment that
Stepinac was responsible for the
crimes of individuals and that he
supported the Ustashi terrorists.
Prosecution witnesses have given
details about the alleged crimes,
but have introduced no evidence
duplicating Stepinac.
Stepinac was placed on trial
Sept. 80 on charges of collaboration
with the Nazi enemy and SUBJ
versive activities, to which he
pleaded not guilty.
Cat Vatican City it was revealed
that Premier Marshal Tito has in
CURED a minor excommunica-
ton" from the Catholic church for
prosecuting Stepinac without per-
mission of the Vatican. Under the
ruling, Tito is considered to be a
non-member of the church, can
not receive holy sacramento, and
will be banned from all church
functions, a Vatican legal authority
disclosed.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08

NANKING, China, Oct. 7..-UD
- Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
has accepted a Today truce agree
ment proposed by Gen. George c.
Marshall and American Ambassa-
dor John Leighton Stuart, a high
Chinese official said Monday.
Communist spokesman Wang
Ping-Nan, who conferred with Mar
shall and Stuart Sunday said he
had forwarded the proposal to
Gen. Chou En-Lai, the Commu-
nists' chief negotiator, in Shanghai
and expected an answer Tuesday.
Meanwhile, there was specula-
ton that Russia planned direct in
tervention in China's civil war.
Bitter fighting was reported in the
vicinity of Kalgan, Communist
base in North China, and Szeping-
kai, government stronghold in
Manchuria.
Speculation on possible Soviet in
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
Poor Prisoners

OSSINING, N. Y. Oct. 7-P-
Warden William E. Snyder said
Monday the meat shortage had
become so serious that Sing Sing
PRISONS 1859 inmates had to sub
stitute macaroni or beans for their
entree two days a week.
Prison authorities manage te
serve meat five days a week, but
it Is chiefly lamb and veal, the
warden said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
THE VIII MINGTON M WILMINGTON. N
CITY BRIEFS
ENTERS ARMY

Jack Corbett, son of Mr.. and
Mrs Harris Corbett, 40 South
Fifth street, enlisted in the U.
S. Army, September 80 and Is
now stationed at Fort Bragg.
Young Corbett graduated from
the New Hanover High school
in June and was a Lieut.. in the
R.O.T.C. at the school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08

gave no explanation Of their a..
tons.
Fowl killed were one large Nav
churian crane, ordinarily wor+h
$500 but Virtually irreplaceabIs"
now, Perkins said; one blue-bin
ed %Curassow, worth $50; tu1,
black-backed Gulls, each wortS
$50; one Muscovy Duck, worth a. a.
and one Canadian Goose, worth
Not expected to live wer.
second Manchurian crane and !.
Mallard duck.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
WILLISTON I.

WILLISTON P.-T.A.
The Parent-Teacher associa-
ton of Williston school will
hold its first meeting of the
year on October 10, B. j. Wash
ington, principal, announced
yesterday. The group will dis
cuss Traffic Aid" and lay
plans for preventing traffic
accidents involving school chill
dren. A social hour will follow
the business session.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
JURORS DRAWN

Little Leroy Snow, Monday
morning drew the names of SO
jurors from the jury box, at a
meeting of the county commits
sioners, for service during the
Nov. 4 mixed term of New
Hanover Superior Court. Com
missioner Louis J.. Coleman
and Deputy Sheriff M. B. Regis
ter supervised the drawings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
LEAVES HOSPITAL

William C. Riggs, Jr., USNR,
seaman first class, husband Of
Mrs. Pauline Riggs, 104 N.
Fifth street, has been discharg-
ed from the Naval hospital at
Camp Lejeune. Riggs, a former
New Hanover High school stu
dent, entered the service Aug.
4, 1943.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
NEW CORPORATION

N. c.. Secretary Of State
Thad Eure yesterday granted
q certificate of incorporation to
the Redmayne Machinery COM
pany, Inc, Of Wilmington, to
sell machinery and parts. Au-
thorized capital stock Is $780,
900, with q subscribed stock of
$50 by r. G. Redmayne, Marion
L. Redmayne, and Edwina M.
Dewey, all of Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-08
o'clock tonight in the Lake
Forest community building.

The Wilmington Board Of
Fire Underwriters will present
a $25 Victory bond to the New
Hanover High school student
who submits the best essay on
fire prevention during Fire
Prevention Week, Lee Spence,
board member, said yesterday.
Second and third place winners
in the contest will receive $40
and S. in cash. >.