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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05
DESERVES CARNEGIE MEDAL

The days of bravery are not past
by a long ways and when it is a case
of life and death there are many
noble men and women who risk their
lives for the sake of saving others.
A case of that character was enacted
in Alaska recently when a school
teacher accidentally shot herself, and
the story given out by the Associated
Press is so interesting and uplifting
that we publish it herewith. The
news dated Dec. %. comes from Seat
tie, Wash, to which place the young
lady was taken for medical treatment
after perilous trip. 1t follows:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05

ton is expected to draw a large
crowd Sunday. The big frolic parade
will include floats representing the
major lake ports on the Great Lakes,
such as Buffalo, Cleveland, Erie,
Milwaukee, Detroit and others.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05

The number of automobiles is in
creasing by leaps and bounds and pc
destrians are surviving the same way.
Gazette.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05
O RIGHTEOUS JUDGE!

Citizen: Judge, I can't do jury
duty. I've got bad case of itch.
Judge: Excuse accepted. Clerk,
scratch that man.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05
HIS BIRTHSTONE

Daughter: Papa, what is your
birthstone?"
Father of Seven: 81 don't know dear,
but l think it's a grindstone"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05

Teacher: Give me sentence with
the word 'analyze'."
Small Boy: my sister Anna says
she never makes love, but oh, how
AnalyZe!'
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05

No feeling of satisfaction quite
| equals that of having done difficult
job extremely we'll.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05

No man works quite as hard as he
would like to have his wife believe.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05

Most women would rather manage
man than be president of the United
States.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05

Most of us try to put off every.
thing except a good time.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05

Under certain circumstances moth
ing is so tortuous as vivid magma
ton, >.st2.,s.~aS..&s
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
LAWYERS BAR WOMEN

Baltimore.-The Bar Association of
this city has rejected the applica-
tions of four women lawyers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
Carolina Labor Head Urges
Organization As Salvation
OF Low Paid Southern Toilers

Winston, Salem, N. C. 0. L. N. 81
Writing in the Union Herald of
Raleigh, t. A. Wilson, president of
the North Carolina State Federation
of Labor, declares that union labor has
a golden opportunity to extend it's
influence and membership in North
Carolina, and urges Southern workers
to organize and secure better wages.
He says:
Organized labor of North Caro-
llna must be ever on the job, seeking
new members, installing new charters,
and improving the conditions of the
workers, if the wage-earners OF this
state and the South are gong to get
part of the prosperity that exists in
this section now.
We read in the papers during the
past few weeks of the location of the
Enka rayon plant at Asheville, which
is to be the largest in the world, and
to employ over 10000 workers when
complete. Then there is the story of
a rayon plant for Charlotte to employ
$500 persons. And just across the
state line in South Carolina, Mcclure,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
ITS LABOR
FORCES

That the tobacco workers had
more friends that the R. J. Rey-
nolds Tobacco Company thought for,
is evidenced by the fact that it is
becoming necessary to reduce forces,
which is contrary to the usual Gus
tom at this time of the year. Ordi-
narily the company is adding to the
regular force, preparing for its
Christmas trade.
Employees are circulating reports to
the effect that the foremen are search
ing for some plausible excuses to un-
load surplus help without attracting
too much attention. Industry does
not lay off its hands when business
is good; more especially, when we
consider the tremendous profits the
Reynolds Company has been making,
and 50 reported on Wall street. No!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09

of newspaper fame, and others have
bought 12,500 acres to build a model
industrial city. To get the full bene-
fit of this rapid industrial growth we
have got to organize and deal col
lectively.
Does this rapid industrial growth
mean that our Southern workers are
going to get from under the yoke
of low wages and long hours? They
can if they will join together under
the banner of the labor union!
I'm addition to the above-named
firms, during the past year or two we
have read of the construction of rayon
plants at Elizabethton, Tenn, just
across the line, where $50,000,0 will
be spent by the American Bemberg
Company; also plant for Burlington,
North Carolina.
Our Southern workers are going
to have golden opportunity to i'm
prove themselves. Are we going to
accept the challenge and seek better
wages to place ourselves on a par
with workers in other sections of the
country, and reduce the hours? Get
busyi"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
Emergency Board Approves
Increased Pay For Western
Trainmen and Conductors

increased, the existing differentials
for mountain and other special serv-
ice."
Considering the purpose and ntent
of the railway labor act and the evi-
dence presented" the report con-
tinued, "the question of the wage in
crease demanded and the differences
arising thereon during the negotia-
tions are proper questions for arbi
tration, if the spirit Of the law to
guide the action of carriers and en-
ployes.
However, it is difficult to see why
the controversy should have arrived
at state where it could not be set
tied by mutual negotiations. At one
stage or another of this long protract-
612 per cent increase with no change
of rules, and at one stage or another
the employees have expressed will
lingness to accept 7h per cent in
crease, with no change of rules. The
difference between these offers, eX-
pressed in cents per basic day,
amounts to from 5 to 7 cents per
day. The board regards tbs differ
ence as too small to justify an inter
ruption or transportation in the terri
tory affected.
apparently the obstacle to sue
cessful settlement has been the intro
duction, first by one side and then
by the other, of certain controversies
in regard to rules; and the effort of
each party to change rules, as basis
of settlement, has somewhat befogged
the wage issue"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09

Washington, d. C. e. L. N. 81
The emergency board named by
President Coolidge on September 20
to investigate the wage dispute
threatening strike of $4,000 train
men and conductors on the railroads
west of Chicago on October 80 rec
commended 61A per cent increase in
wages without change of rules, or
7R per cent increase with changes
in certain rules, including elimina-
ton of the unon lmitatino on double
engine trains and tonnage.
Under the railroad labor board pro-
cedure, the arbitration report made to
President Coolidge must be consid-
cred by both the carriers and brother
hoods during a period of 80 days.
Neither side may legally produce a
situation resulting in suspension of
operations during that period. In case
they accept the findings, differences
will be completely settled.
Alter lengthy discussion OF the
origin of the dispute and efforts for
a solution, the report said that "con-
sdering the increases granted to
other train service employees in the
Eastern, Southwestern and Western
district, and despite the award of
June, 1927, the carriers would not
have been justified in refusing an in
crease similar to that granted the en-
gineers and firemen of the Western
district"
The report added that the carers
were justified in offering an increase
of 61a per cent to the standard rates,
containing, in addition to the rates so
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
MINERS NEW
CONTRACT HELD TO
BE IMPORTANT

Washington. - An agreement be-
tween the Rocky Mountain Fuel
Company and Colorado members Of
the United Mine Workers is unique
and of possible far-reaching effect in
the coal industry" according to the
United States Bureau of Labor Stats
ties.
The agreement provides for wages
on the basis of an established differ
entail above non-union rates; a de-
tailed pima for the adjustment of
grievances bathhouse facilities at the
mines and department of medicine,
health and sanitation. These are de-
scribed as new developments in the
coal mining industry.
The agreement is considered SO i'm
portant that it is printed in full in
the Monthly Review, published by the
bureau.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
BUSINESS MEN
ScOrn Every Moral Ideal,
Charges Olander

Chicago.-"In all my % years of
active connection with the Chicago
trade union movement | have never
known of single instance where the
Employers Association of Chicago
endeavored to peaceably adjust
strike of lockout" said Victor A.
Olander, secretery- treasurer of the
Illinois Federation Of Labor.
Whenever the Illinois legislature
undertakes to consider greater pro-
lection to women and children in in
dustry, attorneys for these business
men are on the ground fighting the
proposal"
Mr.. Olander said that "the astound-
ing notion that morality has no place
in business is at the bottom of many
of Chicago's difficulties" 1t is the
doctrine of the "racketeer," the new
activity of gunmen who levy tribute
on business men and terrify public
officials under threats of bambing,
said Mr.. Olander.
The trade unionist called attention
to the importation into this city, five
years ago, if the doctrine that mo-
rality has no place in business.
At that time the Employers Asso-
citation was addressed by Prof Gus
w. Dyer of Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tenn, on "The Law of Sup
ply and Demand" The outstanding
sentence in Dyer's lecture, said Mr..
Olander, was the astounding asser
ton that moral obligations have no
place in the industrial field in settling
industrial questions.
The address was printed and cir
culated in pamphlet form by the as
sociation, together with short state
ments by Edward L. Ryerson, Jr., who
presided at the meeting, and by j. w.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
RECORD EARNINGS
BY GENERAL MOTORS

New York.-General Motors Cor
poration earned net profit of $780,
534,613 in the first nine months of
1928.
This establishes new record which
no other industrial company has ever
approached in peace time. Net prof
its for the three months ending Sep
tember 30, amounting to S79,266, ,639,
also established new mark for a
similar period for an industrial cor
poration
The nearest approach to these prof
its was reported by the steel trust
which as a result of the rush of war
business in 1916 showed net earnings
of 1888, ,574,178.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
SOUND MOVIES
Less of Menace to Musicians
Than First Feared

New York City 0. L. N. So
movies, though still looming as a Sc
rious threat against musical employ
ment in many cities, nevertheless
have lost some of their terror for
union leaders, according to an an
nouncement by Joseph N. Weber,
president of the American Federation
of Musicians.
The union passed through the con-
tract renewing period of the early
fall with losses in some cities and
victories in many others. Its problem
now seems to hinge upon the success
that may attend efforts of movie mag
mates to convince theatre-goers that
canned music in theatres is somehow
superior to canned music at home.
"The public will soon learn to dis
tinguish between talkies and sound
pictures despite misleading exploita-
ton of the latter" said Mr. Weber
"Of course the talkies are the real
innovation. Their possibilities appear
boundless at this time. Synchronized
music is quite different, having moth
ing to commend it except novelty
and not much of that. 1t produces
the effect of photographic music, and,
however near to perfection it may be
brought, it must remain just that.
1.-The latest and most extensively
used synchronizing device is phono-
graph, purely and simply, with moth
ing added except amplifcation and
timing apparatus. Since nearly every
family possesses a phonograph these
days it requires imagination TO at
tach any drawing power to this ar
rangement. Orchestras can provide
storms, slow music and romantic mu-
sic for atmosphere as we'll as the me-
chanical apparatus, and in addition
offer the aesthetic satisfaction and
glamour essential to music enjoy
ment.
Our greatest difficulty is to con-
vince people that we are not fighting
a labor-saving machine, as such. Ma
chimes cannot reproduce the higher
qualities in music and their product
constitutes a debasement of the art.
"Use of synchronized music repre-
sents an exploitation idea, an adapta-
ton rather than an invention. 1t is
simply an attempt to make the public
put up with something inferior in the
interest of economy-for the the
atre, not the patron. If the proposal
was to extend musical entertainment
to greater number by charging a
lower price, something might be said
for the innovation. Instead, the movie
leaders are offering canned music as
a superior product and, in many
cases, are actually changing higher
admission"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
Magazine Investigation Exonerates
Vanzetti Of Hold-up at Bridgewater

water crime The Outlook had identi-
fled all participants and all important
statements made to its investigators
had been checked up and all vital
particulars corroborated Its conclu-
sion was that Vanzetti was not pres
ent at the commission of the crime
and had nothing to do with it.
Fuller Not impressed"
Mr. Bellamy offered to lay the
article before the governor in person
if he wished to read it, for any state
ment or comment the governor cared
to make.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
Outlook Gets Confession
From Ex-Convict Clearing
Executed Man of One Crime

New York City G. L. N. S.)-As-
serting in big black letters on the
cover of the October 81 issue that
"VanZetti Was Innocent" the Outlook
and Independent, one of the oldest
magazines in the country, presents
what it contends is a complete exon
Grafton of Bartolomeo Vanzetti from
any part in the Bridgewater, Mass,
hold-up for which he was sentenced
to- ID years in prison and which pre-
ceded his conviction and execution
with Nicola Sacco on August %, 1927,
for the South Baintree pay roll mur-
ders.
The Outlook devotes almost it's en-
tire issue to affidavits and documents
which are sensational in the extreme
and which have again put the cele-
brated Sacco-Vanzetti case in the
headlines. Sacco and Vanzett con-
tended that they were victims of
"frame-up" and of prejudice against
them because they were anarchists
and organized labor repeatedly went
on record as favoring a new trial for
them. A new trial was denied by the
Massachusetts supreme court after
a legal fight that lasted seven years
and which attracted the attention of
the entire world.
Both Were Suspected
When Vanzetti and Sacco were ar
rested on May 5, 1920, they were at
first suspected of having taken part
in the Bridegwater holdup on Decem-
Der "a, 1919. Sacco proved that he
was not at Bridgewater and the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
SOVIET RUSSIA OPPOSED

New York-A declaration against
recognition of Russia, adopted by the
National Civic Federation, is made
public by Matthew Woll, acting presi-
dent of the federation. That organ
ization appointed committee last
month to investigate subversive activ-
tiles of the soviet in this country.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09

charge against him was dropped
Vanzett was tried, convicted and SEN
fenced to serve from II to Is years.
1t is this crime with which the maya
zine deals, and not the one for which
he was executed. Both Sacco and
Vanzetti were then accused of the
payroll murders at South Braintree
Mass, which were committed on April
Is, 1920. Vanzetti went to trial at
Dedham, Mass, with the Bridgewater
crme conviction hanging over him and
both he and Sacco were found guilty
and sentenced to death. The Outlook
points out that Vanzetti himself once
said that "the two trials are but parts
of the same thing; l would say, the
reciprocals of the case"
Foremost among the documents
published by the Outlook is an aff-
davit by Frnak Silva, an ex-convict,
who confesses that he, Michael dog
gy) Bruno, Joseph Sanmarco and
Guinea Oates perpetrated the unsuc-
cessful holdup of the payroll truck of
the L. @. White Shoe Company at
Brdgewater on December "a, 1919.
Silva was once employed by the com
pany.
Silva's Affidavit Supported
Silva's affidavit is backed up by the
story of James Big Chief Mede. in
whose cigar store in Hanover street.
Boston, the Bridgewater holdup is
alleged to have been planned Mede
was in prison when the crime was
committed.
According to The Outlook, Mede
made clean breast of the circum-
stances of the Bridgewater holdup
in private talk with Governor Fuller
before the execution of Sacco and
Vanzetti in August, 1927. Later, it
was said, Mede called on Captain Blye
of the Massachusetts state police and
attempted vainly to convince him that
his story need no longer be treated
confidentially, but Captain Blye re-
fused to listen to it because he felt it
would be damned embarrassing"
The Outlook also publishes docu-
mentary proofs of the American Ex-
press Company's delivery of eels to
Vanzetti on the day of the holdup,
one of the things which Governor Full
Ter said was lacking in Vanzetti's
defense.
Two Vital Developments"
The Outlook charges that Governor
Fuller "had knowledge of two vital
developments after the men were SEN
fenced to death and before they were
executed"
Zone was Big Chief Mede's con-
fessed knowledge that others than
Sacco and Zanzetti had perpetrated
the Bridgewater crime; the other was
documentary evidence that Vanzetti
had eels to sell the day before Christ
mas" The Outlook says. "Why did he
make no mention of either Of them
Neither in the Lowell report nor
in Governor Fuller's statement is
there any mention of the American
express receipt"
On October %, 1928, Francis Rufus
Bellamy, editor of the magazine,
wrote to Governor Fuller telling him
that after a disinterested, careful and
searching investigation of the Bridge
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
VOLSTEAD ACT COSTS
$250,0O0,OOO YEARLY

Washington.-En Enforcement of the
Volstead act costs Uncle Sam $780,
000,O00 annually. 1t is estimated that
250,000 public officials of all kinds,
with salaries of $5,0O0,OO0 year, are
engaged in this enforcement, which
is the dominant activity of the gov
ernment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09

O'Leary, vice president of the Chicago
Trust Company. These names gave
a respectable tone to the Dyer state
ment and the evil results that fol-
lowed were inevitable.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-09
LABOR SURPLUS IN WEST

San Francisco.-Therei is an excess
of labor throughout California, ac-
cording to the federal employment
service.
Every city reports an over supply
of workers in the building industry.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-10-19

In the Superior Court of the
State of Washington for the Coun
ty of King.
In Probate, No. 417l7.
Notice of Hearing Final Report
and Petition for Distribution.
In the matter of the Estate OF
Simen Robertson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that II
@. Gordon, Administrator of the
Estate of Simen Robertson has
filed in the office of the Clerk OF
said Court his final Report and
petition for distribution, or es-
cheat, asking the Court to settle
said Report, distribute the proper
ty to the persons thereto entitled
and to discharge said Administra,
tor; and that said Report and pc
tition will be heard on the 81 day
of October, 1923, at $50 a. IN, at
the Court Room of the Probate De
partment Of said Court,
Dated this 4 day of October,
1928.
Abe N. Olson, Clerk Of Said Court.
BY f. N. Sears, Deputy.
10-5-2S-10-l9-2S.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-10-19
ALEX STEWART, Atty.
900 Artic Bldg, Seattle, Wash.

In the Superior Court of the
State of Washington for the Coun-
ty of King.
In Probate, No. 44l66.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Jeanette j. Langley, Deceased.
Notice of hearing final Report
and Petition for Distribution.
Notice is hereby given that Ro-
bert ID. Hamlin, Executor of the
Estate of Jeanette j. Langley,
deceased, has filed in the office OF
the Clerk of said Court his final
Report and petition for distribu-
ton, asking the Court to settle
said Report, distribute the proper
ty to the persons thereto entitled
and to discharge said executor
and that said Report and petition
will be heard on the 3rd day of
November, 1923, at $50 a. m., at
the Court Room of the Probate De-
partment of said Court
Dated this 3rd day of October,
1928.
Abe N. Olson, Clerk of Said Court,
By Glenn j, Twigg, Deputy.
10-5-2S-10-l9-2S.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-10-19

In the Superior Court of the
State of Washington for the Coun-
ty of King.
In Probate, No. 1888.
Notice Of hearing final Report
and Petition for Distribution.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Michael Carey, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that IL.
c. Gordon, Administrator of the
Estate Of Michael Carey has filed
in the office of the Clerk of said
Court his final Report and peti-
ton for distribution, asking the
Court TO settle said Report, dis
tribute the property to the persons
thereto entitled aud to discharge
said Administrator; and that said
Report and petition will be
heard on the 81 day of Oetc-
her, 1925, at $3.50 a. m, at the
Court Room Of the Probate De
partment Of said Court
Dated thi , day Of October
1928.
Abe N. Olson, Clerk of Said Court
BY L. N. Sears. Deputy
-2s-10-l9-2s.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-10-19

The Mount Baker Highway is
paved from Bellingham to Demmg
and from there the road is oiled
for % miles. From Shuksan to
Heather Meadows the road will be
for week or ten days,
due to blasting. Mount Baker
Lodge is closed for this season but
housekeeping cabins are available
at Shuksan Cabin Camp. There is
now no stage service beyond Glac-
Ter.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-10-19
ALEX STEWART, Atty.
900 Artic Bldg, Seattle, Wash.

In the Superior Court of the
State of Washington for the Coun-
ty of King.
In Probate, No. 1927.
Notice of Hearing final Report
and Petition for Distribution.
In the Matter of the Estate of
euro Mortenson, Deceased
Notice is hereby given that Syn.
owe Abrahamsen, Administrative
of the Estate of euro Mortensen,
deceased, has filed in the office of
said Court her final Report and
petition for distribution, asking
the Court to settle said Report,
distribute the property to the per-
sons thereto entitled and to dis
charge said administrative and
that said Report and petition will
be heard on the 7th day of Novem-
Der, 1928, at $3.50 a, IN, at the
Court Room of the Probate De
partment of said Court,
Dated this 9th day Of October
1928.
Abe N. Olson, Clerk of Said
Court.
By Il. N. Sears, Deputy.
10-l2-2S-10-26-2S.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-10-19

The highway from Wenatchee
to the International boundary is
generally good, with the excep-
ton Of a rough stretch of one mile
on Howard Flats due to construc'
ton.