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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Builds S25O,OOO
Clothing Plant
In Carrarra, Italy

New York (LPA)-More than
400 men and women of Carrarra,
Italy, will soon be working on full
time jobs, because members of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
in this country put up the $780,
600 to build and equip a modern
clothing factory in their commun-
ity.
The plant was formally turned
over to the municipality of Car
rarra on Sept. 8, but Philip De
Luca, a Philadelphia ACW official,
is staying on to assist in getting
the plant on a working basis.
Besides the hes-production
facilities, the plant includes a nur-
sery for children of working moth
ers, modern lavatories and shower
rooms, cafeteria and recreation
room.
President Jacob Potofsky of
ACW hailed the project as "a liv-
ing example of what democratic
trade union can do in spreading
and practical goodwill
across the seas.
at was in response to appeals
to help ameliorate both the acute
unemployment situation among
Italian clothing workers and the
clothing shortage in Italy"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
AMA's Road Show
Has Tough Going

New York (LPA)-Act Number
2 of the American Medical Asso-
cations "road show" had some
embarrassing kickbacks here last
week.
The. ANA after putting on the
first performance in Washington,
moved to Manhattan with it's
troupe, which includes top of
ficials of the ANA; its 100000 a
year press agents, Whitaker d
Baxter, and an imported British
physician.
Aim of the troupe is to stump
the nations major cities against
President Truman's health insur-
ance program. In each metropolis,
a big press conference is put on,
and reporters are allowed to fire
away with questions.
Some of the queries put by Got
hams newsmen left red faces. For
example, one asked how come the
ANA goes about the country
praising voluntary health insurance
plans, "while your local medical
societies are fighting voluntary
health insurance
DR.. Louis w. Bauer, chairman
of the AMA's board of trustees,
tried to answer that one. He hem
med and hawed and then insisted
local medical units are mot exact
ly" opposing voluntary health in
surance, but only some particular
low-cost medical care plans.
DR.. Ralph j. Gampell, the Bri-
tish physician, who was supposed
to tell about the evils of Britain's
free medical system, found him
self on the spot also. After he had
denounced the system, one report
er asked:
isn't it true that Conservatives
as we'll as Laborites support the
health program in Britain?"
ooh yes, they're both vying to
claim credit for it," answered
Gampell.
Doesn't that mean a majority of
the people favor the program
the reporter inquired.
"Yes, indeed, they think it's
marvellous" the doctor replied.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08

Talented women scare hell out
of ordinary men.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Three-Week Vacations Seen Coming
For Workers In All Pepper Mills

Albany, N. Y. QLNS).-Three-
week paid vacations won in a
dozen Canadian mills have set a
pattern that may spread through
out the paper making industry and
into other industries as well, says
the Paper Maker, monthly publica-
ton of the international Brother
hood of Paper Makers.
The 3-week vacations were nego-
tiated by representatives of the
Paper Makers and International
Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and
Paper Mill Workers.. "This is the
first time in any industry that such
important gains have been scored
on such large SCALE" the Paper
Maker reported. -.
Workers at the Ontario, Spruce
Falls and Great Lakes companies
will receive the 3-week vacation
after Is years of service, beginning
next year. Workers at the Canad-
ian International, Lake st. John,
L wrence, Anglo Canadian and
James McLaren mills will receive
the vacation after 20 years of SER
vice beginning this year.
Vacations of 3 weeks. are not
unknown" declared IBPM Pres
ident Paul l.. Phillips following the
negotiations, "but neither are they
commonplace. In scattered plants,
employees receive 8, 4 weeks and
even more.
"These isolated instances have
been the exception, rather than the
rule. One region, Wisconsin, has
over the years made considerable
progress in lengthening vacations.
Probably more members receive 3
weeks vacation in Wisconsin alone
than in all other regions combin-
ed"
Phillips pointed out that last
year the Paper Makers and Pulp
Workers established the pattern of
wage increases eventually adopted
in numerous industries.
"Now," he said, with unemploy-
ment figures rising, our first OBJ
jective should be a planned pro-
gram designed to create more jobs
and increase the purchasing power
of all the workers in all lines of
Through such things as longer
less overtime and addi-
tional holidays, we can improve the
general welfare, prevent the spread
of unemployment and achieve a
greater degree of security for our
selves and those dependent upon
u.s."
In addition to the extra holiday
benefits, countless adjustments in
Individual rates were won in some
mills. Some adjustments were won
n all mills.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
Military Buying
Hits Monopoly

Washington (LPA)-One of the
first attempts by the military
forces to live up to the spirit Of
the antitrust laws was disclosed
last week in a tentative decision
to buy all aluminium for stockpiling
from the two smaller companies in
the field rather than the Aluminium
Company of America.
Anti-monopoly forces were
watching the action with fingers
crossed, hardly believing that such
a constructive decision could come
from the armed forces, which in
the past have shown great favor
itism for the big companies. But
they felt the military might be
sufficiently cowed by current in
vestigations of monopoly on Cap
ital Hill to stand by their tentative
decision.
Under the proposal an order for
go million pounds of aluminium
would be divided between Perman-
ente Metals Corp. owned by Henry
]. Kaiser, and Reynolds Metals Co.,
90 percent to the former and 60
percent to the latter. Alcoa would
be left out in the cold.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
E. CeIIer Warns
Against Bigness
In u. S. Business

Washington (LPA) - Chairman
Emanuel Celler ID, N. W of the
House Monopoly Investigators told
a national radio audience last week
that one of his goals is to main
tain as much competition in busi-
ness as possible $50 that my chill
dren and yours can enter any in
dustry or business they see fit to
enter" without being "barred by
the sheer power of the giants"
"Too many Of our industries are
being sewed up by mergers into
closed systems where only power
full maverick like Kaiser or Rey-
nolds can occasionally break in"
Celler warned.
Citing some of the statistics his
committee has been gathering on
the growth of big business in Am
erica, and the control of major in
dustries by a few big companies,
Celler said:
IL deprecate the idea that effic-
iency and lower prices only come
with bigness. We know that in
many lines the middle sized con-
Germs are either more efficient than
the big ones-or else there is no
positive difference. And lower
prices do not always accompany
bigness."
The New York Congressman
echoed the warning of many of the
witnesses before his committee that
concentration of economic power
into a few hands leads to totalitar-
ianism, and is inefficient because
big monopolistic industries do not
have to be efficient to survive.
"We must deplore the weaving
in this country" he said, "of the
pattern that gave us in Nazi Ger
and Krupp Thyssen and
I.G.M. industrial empires. 1t is
time we stopped, looked and listen
ed"
Celler said that Great Britain
had failed to stop, look and listen
in time. 1t had no antitrust laws,
and big concentrations of business
were encouraged-making it easier
for the government to take them
over and convert them into social
istic industries. He suggested that
the same thing might happen here.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
FRANCIS J. .CANDERS

Erwin, Tenn.-Francis j.. Sand
ers, 81, died August 18 in Erwin
Community Hospital, following q
short illness. Death was due to a
heart ailment. .,.ys
A native of Trenton, N. j. Mr..
Sanders moved to Erwin in 1889
from Hopewell, Va. He was asso-
ciated with the Southern Potteries.
He held membership in a num-
ber of Masonic bodies. He was past
master of Centennial Lodge No.
49l, past high priest and at the
time of his death secretary of
Erwin Chapter No. 164 Royal Arch
Masons, and a member of Holston
Council, Royal and Select Masons.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Dom
ma Sanders; two sons, Francis j.
Sanders, Jr., of Erwin, and Harry
j. Sanders of Bristol, Tenn; two
daughters, Mrs. Donna Smiley,
Charles City, Va, and Mrs. Marion
Hinterchild of Columbus, Ohio; a
brother, H. G. Sanders, Toronto,
Ohio; and five grandchildren.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08

the press-except for LPA and the
labor press-has generally ignored
are:
ID LPA's disclosure of the sec
ret deal between doctors and
editors in Minnesota under which
the doctors dropped their age-old
rule against advertising in order
to win better cooperation from the
press in fighting President Tru-
mans health insurance program,
and
p Rep. Andrew Biemiller's dis
closure in Congress that the ANA
has admitted perpetrating a hoax
on the public by claiming to quote
Lenin that "socialized medicine is
the keystone to the arch of the
socialist state" a phrase Lenin
never used, but which has been at
tributed to him from one end Of
the country to the other by the
ANA.
So far very few newspapers in
this country have carried either
story, outside of the labor papers
served by LPA. The Minnesota
medical scandal has been picked
up, however, by some weekly mag
azines such as Newsweek and the
New Republic.
The famed TRB in the New Re-
public said:
"Nathan Robertson has broken a
story in his column for Labor
Press Assn that is as sensational
in it's way as the disclosure about
five per centers. 1t is reminiscent
Of the recent stories of how large
number of Illinois newspaper edi-
tors accepted payment from form
er Governor Green's Republican
administration.
"The American Society of News
paper Editors received much praise
for it's investigation and condem-
nation Of the scandal involving the
Illinois editors. 1t should start an
investigation into the Minnesota
situation at once"
Whether or not the newspaper
editors start an investigation,
which seemed unlikely this week,
one thing was sure-they were go
ing to Judge the merits of the stu
alton themselves and not let the
public have a say-because SO far
they have refused to let the public
even know about it--except the
readers of the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch and the Minneapolis Morn
ing Tribune.
Meanwhile, the ANA road show
featuring Whitaker and Baxter,
the trained press relations seals,
with DIR. George +. Lull and other
serving as Charley
was playing Chicago.
New Orleans was next on the list.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
BEHIND TIE HEADLINES
DEPRESSION DANGER MAY BE OVER
UNDER NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM

omists-and there will be more
pressure on us to recognize the
fact that we have new kind of
economic system.
Such a system, which / believe
we are building toward, would
have vast implications for busi-
ness and labor leadership. 1t would
remove from business the necessity
to hoard profits, as business has
been doing for the past 10 lush
years in order to be safe during a
depression. Instead of building up
huge reserves of undistributed pro-
fits, business could disburse it's pro-
fits more widely in dividends high
er wages, and lower prices, which
are the ingredients of lasting full
employment economy. We should
encourage business to take this
constructive action by either rails
ing taxes on undistributed profits,
or lowering taxes on distributed
prohtS, preferably the latter.
Labor leaders, if they accept the
existence of this new system,
should bargain with employers for
higher wages and lower prices,
rather than higher wages that
force prices up at the expense Of
labor-consumers. In a full employ
ment economy workers would not
need such projections as much as
they would need to encourage in
dustry to work on a narrower pro-
fit margin for the benefit of the.
economy as whole.
If we are approaching this new
economic system, as | believe we
are, that fact has vast significance
to every American-particularly to
the labor, liberal and farm leaders,
who are doing so much today to
bring the change about.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
JobIess Claims
Show Decline

Washington LPA)-The down
ward trend in layoffs which began
back in mid-July continued to be
reflected during the week ending
Aug. 27 by falling unemployment
as measured by unemployment in
surance claims, the Labor Dept
Bureau of Employment Security
announced. In other words, fewer
people were losing their jobs.
In the week ending Aug. 27.
both "initial" and Continued"
claims declined slightly, the bur
eau said.
Initial claims indicative of new
unemployment dropped by l5,7OO
during the week to 251 900, new
low for 1949, Bureau Director
Robert c. Goodwin reported.
Continued claims, representing
the number of claimants who have
been unemployed for one week or
longer, declined during the week
by about $4,000 to 2,138,700
The Bureau of Employment Sc
curity said that this drop "largely
reflects the decline in new unem-
ployment in the preceding week
and the reopening of plants which
had been closed" However, some
of the decline was due to the fact
that many jobless workers are ex-
hausting their rights to obtain un-
employment pay before finding new
jobs, the bureau added.
During the first six months of
1949 state agencies found that
500 unemployed men and
women exhausted their benefit
rights. This was as percent more
than exhausted their rights during
the first six months of 1948. How
ever, the bureau said, the increase
in benefit exhaustions was not as
great as the increase in unemploy-
ment pay claims.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
HARRY A. BROWN

Trenton, N. J.-Harry A. Brown,
S3, former president and chairman
of the board of Lenox, Inc, died
August 8 in St, Francis Hospital
after short illness.
Born in Bordentown, Mr.. Brown
started with Lenox as a book
keeper in. 1890 and remained in
business, until l945. He resided at
the Cartaret Club.
Mr.. Brown is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Mollie r. Brown; two
sons, Leroy w. Brown of Morris
vile and Leslie Brown of Trenton,
president of Lenox, Inc; brother,
Orson Brown, former mayor of
Bordentown; a sister, Miss Mary
Louise Brown of Bordentown; five
grandchildren and one great-grand-
child. E@
Employees of the Lenox plant,
affiliated with Local Union 184, at
tended the services.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-08
ANA Reverses Stand
On MD's Advertising
Washinpton GPA-The AMA's.

Washington (LPA)-The AMA's
attempt to justify the Minnesota
medical-press scandal by contend.
ing that doctor advertising is al
right is directly contrary to its re-
peated stand in previous years, a
survey this week disclosed.
Since LPA exposed the fact that
doctors in Minnesota had adopted
a resolution approving profession
al advertising in bid for greater
cooperation" from the press in
fighting the Presidents health in
surance program; ANA bigwigs
have been defending advertising
But a search of the files of the
ANA journal shows its attitude in
the past has been exactly the OPP
posite to what it seems to be now.
In 1882, for instance, Morris
Fishbein, then the official spokes-
man and editor for the ANA, car.
ried the following comment on
medical advertising in the ANA
bulletin, the official journal of the
House of Delegates:
'The principle that the individ-
ual physician shall not advertise
has been recognized both by the
medical profession and the public
since time immemorial. Quack
doctors, particularly in the field
of venereal disease, thrived in the
past thru the space they used in
newspapers. The public cannot and
seldom does attempt to distinguish
between a properly qualified ply
sician and a poor one under mos
circumstances. When doctors ex-
plot themselves through uncon-
trolled newspaper advertising the
difficulty becomes even greater.
The tendency obviously would be,
therefore, to direct people away
from those best able to serve them.
"They (the principles of ethics)
do forbid advertising promotion of
the individual physician or of his
services when such advertising ex-
ceeds the simple business card,
and even this may be considered
unethical in a community in which
it is not the local custom"
Minnesota doctors have been
contending since publication of
LPA's expose that it has been GUS
tomary for doctors to advertise in
that area. That is belied by the
fact, however, that the medical
society felt it necessary to adopt a
resolution authorizing advertising
and the fact that the news of this
action was greeted by the Mime
sofa Editorial Assn as one of the
most significant pieces of news it
had ever carried.
Meanwhile, the AMA's travelling
road show of press agents was still
getting far better break in the
press than it deserved because the
Of the country have
carried so little about two recent
developments that
even their own reporters do not
know the right questions to ask.
These two developments which
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-10
B0BBY-50XER IDOL
 CONVICTED IN 1. A.

 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10-lR- Robert Mitchum, idol of the bobby soxers, was convicted today of con- spiracy to possess marijuana in a 45-minute trial in superior court
 The end came witf. suddenness, as the result of a surpris ng ma neuver by cagy Jerry Giesler, Nit chun's attorney.
 When the trial opened today, Giesier waived a jury trial on the conspiracy count only, and agreed to submit the case solely on the transcript of earlier testimony he- fore the grand jury.
 A deputy district attorney read the grand jury testimony, both the prosecution and defense announced they had no witness to call, and Superior Judge Clemero = Nye an- nounced his verdict:
 Guilty as charged
 Giesler had no explanation for his surprise move, but other attorneys pointed out that conspiracy carries with it the possibility of probation
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-10
WA5HINGT0N STATE CAGERS SIT ON T0p
lBu The Associated Pressl

In the middle of the basketball court at Pullman, Wash, today the w. s. c. Cougar sat and picked his teeth with wishbone fresh from the Oregon Duck and dreamed of the ham, one of the Washington Husky. h
 Washington State College, having twice plucked Oregon to get away fast in the Northern Division, Pacit- ic Coast Conference race, will en- tertain Washington Friday and Sat- urday.
 The Huskiss, after dropping sev- en straight games, finally found themselves Saturday night in Seattle and walloped Oregon State 54 to 43 w. s. c. at the same time was hanging it's second successive three rcint defeat on the. Ducks, 43 to 4o
 Idaho, which heads west this week for Jan. 14-15 clashes with Oregon in Eugene, rested over the weekend
 After the first week of firing the Cougars had two victories, Oregon was last with one triumph in four starts and the other three were punched with win and loss each
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-10
$3O,5oo PRIZES
 IN QUIZ CONTEST

SPARRCWS POINT, Md, Jan. 10 --lR-John F. oaks, 63-year-old railroad executive, won s30,500 ir prizes last mig ht by identifying When the Bridegroom Comes," as the mystery melody on the "Stor the Music" radio quiz show.
 It was the richest award in the history of the American Broadcast ing Co., program.
 I've never won anything before except maybe few dollars on the horses. and I always made up fol that in losses,' Oaks laughed.
 He said he and his wife Mar guerite-they have no children-hit on the answer after "mulling il over" and following an announced hint into the Book of St. Matthew
 Prizes included an expense-free trip to California, mink coat, new car, s1,Oc0 Savings Bond, diamond sracelet watch and a series of new hats for Mrs. Oaks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-10
ATTACKING UNITS IN KODIAK BATTLE
 STARTING NORTH

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Jan. 10.-R First attacking units in the bat tie for Kodiak Island-navy cold weather maneuvers-were starting north today.
 Vice Adm Gerald F. Began of the First Task Fleet said the units 10 to 12 material and tank land- ing ships-were leaving from Se- attle for the Alaska operations.
 They will go through condition ing routine prior to the arrival of the main force of approximately 30 ships, carrying 16,000 sailors and 2,0o0 Marines.
 The Marines are scheduled to leave Camp Pendleton, January 20. Main fleet units will leave Long Beach and here about February l.
 Army and Air Force un-ts will participate in the cold weather tests by helping Navy forces at Ko- diak defend the island
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-10
BIG NINE CAGE
 SCRAMBLE HOT

CHICAGO. Jan. 10.-tR-Illinois and Ohio State collide tonight as the breakneck pace, which gradual ly reducing the title contending set, continues in the red-hot Big Nine basketball cainpaign.
 The contest at Columbus heads a program of four conference engage ments tonight. Iowa is at Indiana, Michigan at Purdue and Wisconsin at Minnesota in other games.
 Illinois leads the Big Nine with two victories. the latest being a sizzling 44-42 double-overtime tri- umph over Indiana, Saturday when substitute Fred Green decided it with a closing fielder in the sec ond session.
 Ohio State, coasting to an opening e9-56 win over Northwestern be- hind the 22-point output of Dick schnittker, is set to uncork the works against well-balanced Illinois with a seasc nal 10-1 record.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-10
PRESIDENCY FIGHT i EXPLAINED; JUST
 WHY THEY BATTLE

Why are both parties so deter mined not to yield the Senate presi- dency to the other?
 Experienced legislators explain it this way:
 It's not just honor ara prestige involved The President will be in powerful position to determine the fate of controversial legislation during the closing days of the spec ial session in addition to the gen. eral advantage of the President being able to favor colleagues on the floor.
 In the final days of the session there are always bills on which House and Senate conflict. They must go to a joint conference con- mittee of both branches. That's where the President has the whip hand. Rulss provide the confer ence committee must have two members who voted for the dead locked bill and one who voted against it.
 Under the rules procedure, the legislators who are actually against the tax bill could switch their votes to the prevailing side if il looked as if the bill was going to pass. Then the President could name two member who are actu- ally against the bill or major parts of it to serve on the conference committee as supporters of it.
 The conference committee car rewrite the bills for resubmission tc both houses.
 If the committee fails to reach an agreement satisfactory to botf houses, a committee with power o1 free conference will be named Then it reports back to the House and Senate and it's report must be accepted or rejected in toto with out amendment.