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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
A.F.L. HEAD DOUBTS
BUILDING CAN NATTAIN
SPEED UNTIL SPRING
RPB MA-5s3

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-It is
Extremely doubtful" if housing con-
struction can reach it's greatest volume
before next year, President Green of
the American Federation of Labor has
told the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
President Green said at least 443,-
600 additional workers must be trans
ferred or recruited for the housing
program and greater volume of ma
terial is needed to achieve the goal.
Program Fails, Vets Charge
Green's view, outlined in a letter,
were made public by Joseph N. Stack,
commander in chief of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars. The VIEW had in
quired about the steps the AFL is
taking to meet the housing emer-
gency.
The VIEW complained that the gov
ernment's housing program "has bog
ged down and failed utterly in it's OBJ
jective to produce homes for veterans"
Green told the VFW that the AFL
increased building trade apprentices
from 3O,83O to 1888 in May and that
there now are more than 10000 at
work learning to build homes.
He said in June more than 100000
housing workers were employed but
estimated $4,000 will be needed when
the work reaches peak, which origi-
nally was expected to occur in Oc-
tober.
If limitations are retained on nom
residential construction, Green said,
100000 workers can be shifted to
home building and perhaps another
100, 900 could be transferred from con-
struction work other than building.
Green Sees Worker Shortage
He expected another 100000 work
ers to be recruited from among dis
charged servicemen and former war
workers with building experience.
This leaves worker shortage of from
as, 900 to $4,000, he calculated.
But "in view of the delay. in get
ting the program under way and fail
ure of Congress to continue the vital
OPA price controls for one year" it
is doubtful the peak of work will be
reached until next year, he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
Justice In Lynching Asked

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-In a
wire to President Truman, Charles
G. Bolte, national chairman of the
American Veterans Committee, asked
that immediate steps be taken to bring
the Monroe, Ca, lynchers to justice
and to assure against any possible
repetition of this crime $50 that our
children, in kind of world they
deserve to inherit, may some day be
able to think of the shame Of Monroe
only as tragic milestone on the path
toward progress"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
Lake Near Reilly Assured

The 11-year campaign waged by
sportsmen in Butler County to induce
the State Conservation Department
to construct a lake near Reilly met
with success today when state officials
announced plans to purchase a tract
of $50 acres in that locality as state
site for the project.
Fred Stitsinger, Co-Chairman of the
Izaak Walton's Committee On Small
Lakes, said the lake would cover an
area of 1876 acres. The lake will be
formed by construction of dam 124
feet in length and "a feet in height
No estimate of the cost of the pro-
ject was made public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
Diplomatic Defense

Judge: The idea of a man of your
size beating a poor, weak woman like
that!
Prisoner: But, Your Honor, she
keeps irritating me all the time.
Judge: How does she irritate you ?
Prisoner: Why, she keeps saying
"Hit me! Beat me! Just hit me once!
And I'll have you hauled up before
that baldheaded old reprobate Of q
judge and see what he'll do with you. :
Judge, Discharged.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
Chamber of Commerce
Items

Fair Preliminary plans have
been started for holding of the But
Ter County Fair during the week Of
September %. You are urged to mark
this on your calendar, widely-known
event which annually brings thousands
of visitors to Hamilton.
= C of C -
The Window /. The Chamber of
Commerce has been aptly described
as "the window of city" Big enter
prises, home-seekers, capitalists, the
general public, know most cities and
towns only by the kind of Chamber
of Commerce they keep. And many
town has been ignored and is un-
known because it does not have good
civic workshop and a prominent sign.
-Moberly, Missouri, Chamber of Com
merce.
G of G -
Races Widespread interest is
already being evidenced in the coming
session of running races, to be held at
the Butler County Fairgrounds from
August IL to September 2. This an
nual event, staged by the Ohio Sports
Enterprises, focuses attention on
Hamilton from many miles around and
from many neighboring states. AL
ready, hotel reservations are COM
pletely filled for that period and let
ters of inquiry about the races are
coming in to The Hamilton Chamber
Of Commerce. To the Ohio Sports En-
terprises and it's officials, we say,
"Welcome back to Hamilton and best
wishes for another successful racing
season here"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
NEW BUSINESSES
HAMILTON

Raymond Keck & Elbridge Nicholas,
1105 Ludlow, Plumbing.
Saul Leshner, 434 S. End, Used
Cars.
Provie Hargraves, 1865 See, Gro
Gerry & Meats.
Rob't Siegle & Jos. Becper, Millville,
Repair Garage.
Mary Weaver, R. R. 2, Spirella Gar
ments.
Arthur Weber, Ross, Genl Repairs.
Rob't Woods, 511 Sycamore, Fuel.
Clarence & Earl Guyler & Don Left
heit, 18th & Maple, Cement Block.
Tory Cecil, 26O Howman, Body Shop.
David Rawlins, 2O6M S. 3rd, Cloth
ing.
Harold Clark, S55 N. 3rd, Restau-
rant.
MIDDLETOWN
Chas. Rivers, 1000 Garfield, Res
taurant.
Ruth Kyle, 1249 Central, Retail
Shoes.
C. W. Howard, 1525-27 Central,
Used Cars.
Ludlow Cole, Jr., 814 S. Main, Used
Cars.
H. C. Barker, Woodlawn, Service
Station.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16

Public memory is notoriously lax,
but not SO lax as to have forgotten
that more than 8 years ago the Sen
ate appointed committee for the
purpose of Investigating the general
condition of the merchant marine"
and filing report "as soon as prac-
teal" The committee spent close to
$4,000. No report was filed. Critics
of the present and pre-war national
administrations have justifiedly point
ed out that Uncle Sam would have
saved himself billions of dollars if
that investigation had been conducted
as it should have been conducted and
the facts correctly reported.
Why this investigation died pre-
maturely is another story. Perhaps it
will be told some day. Meanwhile, the
American people are wondering wheth-
er the present move is merely another
maneuver on the part of the polite al
powers tlrat be to get public attention
away from the facts that really count.
If that is the plan it won't work. The
ghosts of political, financial and moral
corruption will walk with Congress
until it gives the kind of accounting
to which the people under our form
of government are entitled.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
Beer-Liquor Permits
GRANTED

Rob't Allen, DBA, Ancher Rest,
1900 Grand, Middletown, d..
Chas. Graft, Jr., 206-08 State St.,
Middletown, B-1.
Grace Hacker, Gordon, Hamilton
d..
Geo. Lentz, DBA, Pleasant Cafe
2273 Pleasant, Hamilton, D-1-2-3.
Jno. w. Casey, Al Chestnut, Hamil-
ton, DIP.
Chas. j. Helvey, R. R. No. 4, Ham
ilton, D-1.
Wilbur C. & Rob't Hibkel, DBA
Lloyd's Tap Room, 681 Clinton, Hamil-
ton, C-1D-1.
Frank Peers, DBA, Barney's Bar
25O4 Benninghofen, Hamilton, D-3.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
Employer Must Pay

Washington, D. C.-Where an en-
ployer requires an employe to obtain
medical certificate from the COM
pany doctor before resuming work
after an absence of one or more days,
the employer must pay for time spent
by the worker during regular work
ing hours getting the certificate, the
Wage Hour Division has ruled.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16

Centers will close. Attendance this
year is higher than last summer, fig
ures released by the director, Mrs.
Nancy Honey, show. Aggregate atten-
dance for the June-July period this
year was 2,40O compared to 2,10O for
the same months last year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY ALEXANDER s. LIPSETT
IAN ILNS Feature)

Rumors of war profiteering on a
gigantic scale, the Carson scandal
and the peculiar circumstances sur
rounding their rags-to-riches empire
1t all goes to make exciting reading.
But the pictures of expendable con-
gressmen, generals and lesser fry en-
joying themselves at elaborate war
contractors parties, of swaying conga
lines and all-night carousing at pub
lie expense are hardly germane to the
issue.
What is the issue? Despite the hula
baloo and governmental Indignation
most of it synthetic-this department
refuses to be steered away from the
pandora box of public scandal that is
brewing right in the heart of the cap
ital. Only tiny little corner has been
lifted so far. Neither does this column
believe that the ends Of justice will
be served by concentrating exclusive
ly on handful of grade B pikers while
the big fish are getting away.
Corruption and profiteering are in
evitable by-prOducts of war. Anyone
with modicum of common sense
knew that with nation willing, nay
eager, to spend untold billions for the
sinews of warfare, flocks of grave
yard birds would gather for the pick
ings. 1t has always been thus. 1t will
always be so. But the issues of public
morals and corruption go deeper than
investigation of the Carson fortunes
and the peccadillos of certain men,
bers IF Congress. So far, only the bare
surface of the evils that have turned
Washington into a hotbed of scandal
and money grabbing, mire of con-
spiracy and double-dealings, has been
scratched.
If this column is not mistaken, we
amt heard nothin' yet. The pace of
things to come was set by U. S. Con-
troller General Lindsey Warren when
he told the Senate Investigating Com
mittee that "from where / sit, it look
ed as if everybody and his brother
was out to get the Government" Mr..
Warren forgets that a great many
everybodies and their brothers were
engaged elsewhere on Government
orders. They did not "get the Gov
ernment." Government got them and
stuck them into pest holes and steam
ing jungles across the seas, with per-
feet liberty to rot there.
Nevertheless, the Controller Gen
eral, barred from looking too close
into the foul play of war contracting,
knews what he is talking about. More
over, his structures against the War
Shipping Administration and its war
expenditures of $21 billion, of which
nearly one-third is under suspicion,
sketch the outline of scandal which
makes the Carson affair with it's
-Dickstein- Sabbath long distance
pinochle games look like child play.
There has been talk for years of
the unsavory business affairs of the
VISA and its ingenious methods Of
squandering the taxpayers money.
Charges that many deals will not bear
close inspection were repeatedly made
in Congress. A short while ago, w. L..
Slattery, VISA construction finance
director, admitted before House COM
mite that $9OO,OOO,OOO of VISA COM
mission purchases could not be ac-
counted for and that the correspond
ing records have been lost.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
AFL On Air in Kentucky

Frankford, Ky.-A 15-minute week
ly radio program at p. m. each We'd
nesday is being sponsored by the Ken
lucky State Federation Of Labor to
give information of value to AFL
locals.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
Play Centers To Close

Oxford, Ohio.-Playground activity
here will end August 80, when both
the Stewart School and the North Side
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-16
LABORITES DECLARE
MIRA. WORLD NEED:
HIT ATTACK in THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS

London (ILNS) Announcing their
support of Moral Rearmament as vital
to the survival of civilization, 48
Labor Members of Parliament have
issued statement vigorously dis
senting from Vecent attack upon
Frank Buchanan and his associates by
Member in the House of Commons.
Civilization will be submerged in a
welter of selfish materialism," said
the Laborites, "unless the spirit of
Moral Rearmament and it's great play
The Forgotten Factor is understood
and practiced in all walks of life"
The members endorsed the stand of
the government spokesman, Home
Secretary Chuter EIDE, in rejecting
the attack of lone parliamentarian
who, it was charged, abused the priv
ileges of the House while questioning
the grant of facilities for one hun
dred MIRA workers to come from the
U. S. and Canada.
The statement read:
GAS Members of the Parliamentary
Labor Party we desire to dissociate
ourselves from the attack in the
House of Commons recently by Dri-
berg upon Frank Buchanan and those
working with him for Moral Rearma-
ment Some of us were ready and
anxious to speak to answer his charg-
es but had no opportunity of doing so
Group. Deplore Attack
"Our present wish is to place or
record our belief in the principles fol
which MIRA stands and the sincerity
of the men and women of the group
with whom we have come in contact
We endorse the Home Secretary's de-
cision in giving them the necessary
facilities. We believe civilization will
be submerged in a welter of selfish
materialism unless the spirit of Moral
Rearmament and its great play The
Forgotten Factor is understood and
practiced in all walks of life"
Most of us have no official connec.
tion with MIRA, but we deplore the use
of "priviledged' occasion for the kline
of attack Driberg indulged in.'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-19

Maggie for a brother picture.
While he is adjusting his camera
spry little old lady with a
Brownie box camera, vintage about
1915, appears from Nowhere. says
not a word, takes her place in
front of the brothers and snaps
the shutter. Then she marches
away, still without a word but
with her face a picture of satisfac-
ton.
The Yankees come up for their
turn at batting practice and the
Red Sox players take everything
in, as the Yankees still are the
Yankees and a team which still
awes its rivals. Good natured
barbs are hurled at the Yank bat
tiers as they come up, with the
nonchalant Charley Keller a par
ticular target.
Hey, King Kong" the Red Sox
yell. II see they trapped you
again" Keller just grins and
smashes out a long drive.
The first Yankee batting prac-
tice pitcher is :. tall, lanky guy
named Karl Drews. He is wilder
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-19
North Carolina Mermen
Enter Yale Swim Meet

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,. March ID.
-R)-Yale Athletic Director Rob-
ert ). Kipputh said today that one
of the first entries for the National
Collegiate Athletic association
swimming champions at Payne
Whitney gymnasium here March 20
and 80 had come from North Caro-
lima, coached by Ralph and Willis
Casey.
Indicated in five dual meets,
in which they twice whipped Geor-
gia, the Blue Dolphins stepped into
highpowered North competition to
finish second to Navy in triangu-
lar meet in which Cornell finished
last.
Dick Twining, who holds a pair
of National Junior records and the
Southern Conference freestyle, will
have as teammates Smoky Proc
tor, Carolinas AAU mile, half mile
and quarter mile champion, Ben
Ward, Jack Zimmerman and Mike
Morrow OF Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-19

shaded stand is just about filled.
On the field the Red Sox take their
turn at batting practice. Ted VIII
liams, without bat in his hand
only when he goes to the outfleld,
is rapping the ball sharply against
the grandstand screen in pepper
game. Suddenly he stops and runs
quickly to the dugout and planks
himself down. He obviously IS
agitated.
IT just hit woman on the
head,'' he says. He is afraid to
look to see how badly she is hurt,
just sitting there and waiting the
reports Finally someone spots a
tiny, erect little old lady beng
assisted to a grandstand seat; >,
sThere she is, she's all right .
he saws and Williams relaxes:
"shows how much power I've
got" he says to break the tension
The Yankees finally begin trek
ing on the field-Keller, Di MAGIC,
Rizzuto. Gordon, Heinrich. Players
Of the two teams shake hands and
trade banter. A press photograph.
err assemblies Dom and Joe ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-19
GREENSBORO PRO
PLAYS In TOURNEY.
Johnny Bulla, Home Town
Boy, Returns To North
Carolina

GREENSBORO, March 1s-R)-
1t was heavy Sedgefield course
today as Golfers Johnny Bulla,
Leonard Dodson and Joe Zarhardt,
boro Opens touring profession
boro Opens touring profession
ais, testified in practice rounds.
They lodged the rains this after
noon for informal rounds. Only
Bulla's "a on the front nine being
reported as an official score. It was
from the back tees, which make
the championship course fog the
72-hole medal play starting Friday
6,702 yards long.
Bulla, a home town boy who
made good on the fairways, was
the first arrival for the ninth an
nual $500 Greensboro tournament
to be held Friday, Saturday and
Sunday.
But his 10 holes amid showers
and slow turn Sunday, recorded as
a 70 which was three over par for
the championship layout, were his
flrSt golf since the Phoenix, Arlz.,
open some two months ago. He de-
veloped a sacroiliac back and had
not played golf since.
Bulla, who went the last nine
with Dodson today still complained
of his ailment, but he was de-
termined to go So holes today to
work himself into condition for the
three-day grind this weekend.
While some of the golfers will
stop over at Aiken, S. c., today for
an exhibition tournament, among
those who had hotel reservations
for today were Ben Hogan, Les
Kennedy, KY Laffoon, Gene Kunes
and Jim Terrier. They had antici-
pated coming here straight from
the Jacksonville, Fla, open.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-19
BASKETBALL RULES
WON'T Be CHANGED.
Sugar Bowl Cage Chassis
To Be Resumed This
Year

NEW YORK, March 10. -(P)-
Harold Olsen, chairman Of the
basketball rules committee, said
today he believed no major rule
changes will be made when the
rules committee meets here next
Monday.
sThe time has come when we
ought to quit tampering with the
rules said Olsen who also is Ohio
State basketball coach, $50 that
people five years from now will
know how the game was played in
1896"
Olsen said most of the coaches
he knew believed the present rules
satisfactory and that agitation for
the return Of the center jump has
died down.
Two major changes were made a
year ago, increasing the number
of personal fouls from four to five
and permitting unlimited substitu-
tons.
Olsen spoke at a luncheon Of the
New York basketball writers at
which it was also announced that
the Sugar Bowl cage game at New
Orleans would be resumed Deem
Der 30. 1t last was played in 1941
between Stanford and Great Lakes.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-19
Plan War Memorial
For Slain Athletes.

memory of Americas sports dead
in all theaters of war.
Col. William S. Morris, special
services officer under Gen. Dou-
glas Macarthur, disclosed today
that the construction of such
plant was in the discussion stage
before he left the Pacific for
brief visit home.
The manila Command" would
be in charge of this work. Another
special services officer said that
the Okinawa layout would be like
the Rial memorial stadium IN
Manila, which is equipped for loot
ball, baseball, swimming, basket
ball. track and other games.
The Okinawa sports field would
he one of the first memorials that
live" for the dead Of World War Il,
he added. and would set a pattern
for others planned in various parts
of the world.
The War department is compll-
ing a list of wen-known athletes'
killed while in the armed 1orceS'
Among these were: .
AL Blozis, Georgetown university
track star and later a professional
football great;
Billy Southworth, Jr., son OF the
manager of the Boston Braves OF
the National Baseball league ana
formerly pilot of the St. Louis
Cardinals;
Jeff Dixon, international fight
promoter, known as The lex
Richard of Europe;
Niles Kinnick, a super star IN nus
college football days at Iowa uni
versity; 81.
Joe Hunt, football player at the
United States Naval Academy ano
national tennis champion In 1919 )
Billy Fisk, captain Of Americas a.
bobsled team in the 1857 ana 1901
Olympic games; ~.
Charles Paddock, one OF the
greatest sprinters of all time;
Bud Brownell, Californian ane
top-flight amateur golfer
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-19
INJURY JINX DIMS
DETROIT CHANCES
FOR TITLE REPEAT
Bengal Stars Miss Prac-
tice Drills Because OF
Aches, Pains
BY JACK HAND

LAKELAND, Fla, March 15-A
Loss of Rookie Centerfielder
Walter (HooD Evers for a three
month period because of a broken
ankle comes as a body blow to
Detroit Tigers Hopes of repeating
in the American league but Man.
ager Steve ONeill is taking it all
in stride.
Nobody knew better than O'Neill
how valuable Evers can be to the
Detroit ball club. The youngster
from Collinsville, ILL.,, had been
leading the Tigers in spring train
ing with brilliant 400 plus av.
erage.
Evers was one of O'Neill's four
regular" outfielders and chances
are he would have opened the sea.
son at either center or right field.
Barney McClosky was expected to
hold down the job in center but he
pulled a side muscle and has been
sidelined while Evers came to the
front. Dick Wakefield Of course,
is the left fielder and Pat Mullin
had the inside track on the other
post.
At one stage or another Of the
spring season each Of the four has
been on the iodine list for an ex-
tended period. McClosky still is out
and so is Second Baseman Eddie
Mayo, the sparkplug of last years
champions.
The club was in the process OF
losing it's sixth straight spring
game St. Patrick's day when Evers
spikes caught in second base ana
he went down for the count. IL
was Just a run-of-the mill play with
Shortstop Jack Conway, of Cleve-'
land, taking a toss from Second
Baseman Bias Monaco and trying
to complete double play. Evers'
dashing into second, put up MS
hand to ward off Conveys throw
and the ball DETECTED off his hand.
The rookie stumbled off balance,
caught his spikes in the bag and
went sprawling on the dirt.
Long after Managers O'Neill, OF
Detroit, and Lou Boudreau, OF
Cleveland, helped carry him to the
clubhouse, the official report came
from the hospital-one broken left
ankle and one broken right thumb.
Evers will be out for from 10 to
liz weeks and perhaps longer,
tough pill for an ex CT who finally
had a chance to make the big
time.
AS matters stand O'Neill prob
ably will open with Wakefield in
left, McClosk in center, and Null
lin in right. Hank Greenberg,
little slow in hitting his batting
stride, will be at first, Eddie Lake
at shortstop and either Pinky H1g'
gins or Jimmy Outlaw at third.
Birdie Tebbers, Paul Richards and
Bob Swift probably will divide the
catching.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-19
Income Tax Man Wonders
About Gunder's Blunder

STOCKHOLM, March 10 - R-
Gunder Haegg and Arne Anders-
son, Sweden's two great milers, who
yesterday were declared profess
SIGNALS and barred for life from
amateur competition, may have
further trouble-this time with the
Swedish income tax collectors.
A tax expert told the Dagens
Nyheter today it is possible the
state will ask Haegg and Anders-
son, and also the seven other ath-
letes who were punished to lesser
extent, just how much they earned
as amateurs.
Neither Haegg nor Anderson
have said how much they received
for representing Swedish clubs at
various meets. Swedish sports
writer's estimate they were paid as
much as $18,50