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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-12
Father Frigon Relates Case
HeraId's Publication of Petition Contents
Not an Intentional Reflection

The idea that any influence OF mine had anything to do with the
drawing Of the will OF the late Mrs. Mary K Forto IS % absurd that
hardly consider it as a matter OF any moment" Father Jean 3. Frigon
Of Brownsville said yesterday afternoon to the editor OF The Brownsville
Herald.
"Of course, that any one might be miAed into believing so Is somewhat
nauseating, but to a man in my position, it is not a matter to lose sleep
over" the well known pastor added.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-12
Three Prisoners Break Jail
Motor Car Communicated by Trio-Kansas
Bank Robbery Suspect Among Escaped

NOwATA, Okla April 12=P-Three prisoners, including Wallace
Adkins, Kansas bank robbery suspect under a 2oyear sentence for
granddaughter. escaped last night from the Nowata county jail, after over
powering the jaIer and communicating a motor car.
Fred Hemphin, under sentence Of three years for manslaughter in
the death Of Roscoe Register at South Coffeyvfne, and Richard White,
under charge OF pointing a dangerous weapon, were the other escaped
man
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-12

, This came In the form Of an in
terview with reference TO certain
allegations concerning the contest
filed against the will.
In fact, ! have never seen the
document. It was read TO me. But
Mrs. Forto, besides being a revered
woman, was q woman Of strong viii
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-12
81 SENTENCED

OKLAHOMA CITY. April 12.-P1
Sentence was passed today upon
81 defendants who had pleaded
guilty TO federal charges OF conspir-
acy to violate the prohibition laws
in Pottawatomie county. The heav-
lest sentence assessed "a n year
in jail. pronounced upon several. Ar
guments we're then started on the
motions Of defendants who had
been convicted. for new trials.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-12
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley
Mostly cloudy and somewhat un-
settled tonight and Sunday not
much change in temperature.
For East Texas: Cloudy and W.
settled tonight and Sunday; scat
tered showers In west portion Sun
day; not much change i'm tenpera-
ture.
Light TO fresh southerly winds on
the coast.
DAILY RIVER BULLETIN
There will be no material change
In the river during the next lev
DAYS.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-12
DAILY RIVER BULLETIN
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide nc Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorol-
ogical conditions:
High -. All IN. m.. 3.07 ~. m.
Low $50. 1875 a. m; 9.43 ID. nj.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-12

PITY the Reckiess--Insure
Rio GraEde Valley Trust Cos-Adv.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
A CHANGE OF FRONT

Warden Lewis E. Lawes, of Sing
Sing prison, says that former AS
semblyman Baumes, author of the
Baumes laws of New York imposing
life sentences on fourth-term felony
offenders, is dissatisfied with the
operation of the law and is going to
recommend that it be modified.
Baumes' change of attitude is a
victory for justice and humanity.
The Baumes laws are arbitrary and
unduly harsh, leaving no latitude to
the court in imposing sentence, no
matter what the circumstances may
be. international Labor News Serv-
ice and this paper have frequently
criticised the Baumes law and SINH
lar laws in other states patterned
after them. Apparently even Baumes
himself is now ready to admit that
the criticism has been justified.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
ENDURING UNIONZSM

stocktaking studying carefully
have
happened in Every
definite ideas how succeeding
accomplishment policies, habits
will noted
nearly successful institution whether be trade
gigantic corporation dvotes attention. ascertaining
are necessary desirable.
during the there has been
members the lack of interest
tho mart Of tho vonr element and this has resulted in speculation as
the unless this condition
There question about the of
who have the labor particularly
do meetings participate
activities of the which been responsible
bringing conditions which they their v
ing young though they thought the union had little
do with getting wages working
of they the the workers
well off they today and that unions played part of some kind
bringing under
themselves take
of the organization the odmers one by one
great beyond they thought whatever
conend the idea that things
are going along fairly the
years that are
they convinced that nothing of the sort will hap
pen necessary them and dig if they
better
day.
Something organizations attract the
attention
can hope to progress grow Thirty
young membership
delighted attend meetings and take part the
discussions that at first
little
and
his participation the advantage
this
of of he
rapidly and the
booded hope element sadly needed It,
everybody interested their heads together in
will this latent
promoting the and prosperity of the trade union
holds little of brightness for the workers
think getting the youngsters to the meetings.
ecng them office and getting
accomplishment Attract
them interested them to work. and the future will
then be assured get busy Francisco Labor
Clarion esgs
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
SOVIET COAL IS
HELD BIG PERIL
TO U.S.. MINING
Anthracite Operators Protest to
Government Officials Against
Importation of Cheaply-Pro-
duced Soviet Anthracite.

Pottsville, Pa. (ILNS)-Sale of
Russian anthracite coal in the New
England market is alarming anthra-
cite operators, who say it is the great
est danger their business is now
facing.
Due to the low wages paid Russian
miners and the low cost of shipping
coal by water, Russian hard coal is
being imported and sold in New Eng
land coast cities at prices consider
ably below that charged for Pennsyl-
vania anthracite. Importation of
Russian coal in February amounted
to 100000 tons. The anthracite oper-
ators have been informed that Russia
intends to increase this coal export
business up to 100000 tons year.
"If that much Russian coal is
placed upon the American market"
| Noah III. Swain, executive director of
the Anthracite Institute, said, "it will
wipe out all the profit that is left in
the mining of American anthracite
and ruin will threaten the business"
The anthracite operators have laid
the situation before Secretaries Mel
lon, Davis and Lamont at Washington
and believe they have the support of
all three in efforts to restrict the i'm
ports.
Plans are being made to invoke the
anti-dumping clause of the present
tariff bill which would stop importa-
ton of foreign goods when the pur-
pose is largely that of flooding an
| American market The anthracite
operators charge that the sole pur-
pose of the export of anthracite to
this country is to build up credit
reserve in the United States, ire
spective of the question of profit.
An engineer who has worked in the
Russian mines told newspaper men
and coal operators at Hazleton, Pa
that the Russians make no charge for
capital investment and like items of
overhead and pay wage scale rang
ing from 81 cents to $2.04 per day
against an American scale of from
So to $11 per day. On that basis
they can produce ton of coal at the
mine for 1857 against cost of
around 1925 in this country.
The Russian coal can be shipped
| from the fields in the Ukraine to Bos-
ton for less than $4 per ton, SO that
it costs from 81 to $3.50 ton on the
New England seaboard.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
HAMILTON BAKED GOODS

The local Bakers Union is in a
campaign for selling the idea to
Hamilton people of buying baked
goods turned out by Hamilton bake
shops and made by Hamilton union
labor. Such campaign ought not to
be necessary but, nevertheless, it is a
fact that loads of baked goods from
outside baking concerns whose prod
uct is made by non-union labor, and
which is not a guarantee of their
cleanliness nor that they were baked
in clean, sanitary surroundings, are
being dumped into Hamilton, bought
by Hamiltonians and eaten by Hamil-
tonians And shamed to say it, and
embarrassing though it is, the Press
admits that much of this scab out
of-town baked products is bought and
eaten by the families of thoughtless
trade unlonlsts.
The Press would ask of trade union
lists and other loyal citizens, is this
fair, do you think? Are you show
ing that spirit of loyalty you owe the
city in which you are making your
living? And, Mr.. Union Man, are
you showing that spirit of co-opera-
tion you would exact from your
brother unionists and-getting down
to brass tacks, are you, when buying
non-union baked goods or permitting
your family to buy them, do you
think, living up to that obligation
which you so solemnly took when en-
tering on your membership in your
union? Think it over.
On the back page of the Press is
little advertisement of the Bak-
ers' Union, giving the names of the
important bake shops in Hamilton, all
employing union labor and which is
an absolute guarantee of the cleanli-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
RAISE WAGES AND END THE
DEPRESSION

If all the workers who are employ
ed at the present time were receiv-
ing union wages, the recovery from
the industrial slump would be much
more rapid.
The workers would have more
money to spend at the stores. The
stores, having larger sales on this
account, would order more merchan-
disc from the wholesale houses. The
wholesale houses would therefore
have to order more goods from the
factories, and the factories would have
to hire more men to make goods.
These extra men, taken from the
army of the unemployed, would have
their purchasing power increased, and
this again would stimulate industry
all along the line and result in the
hiring of still more men.
If you can find any flaw in his
logic, you are better logician than
we are.
Employers do exactly the wrong
thing when a slump comes on. They
cut down their forces and either re-
duce wages or refrain from increas-
ing them. This decreases purchasing
power and makes the slump worse.
A long and painful process has to
be gone through before the surplus
products are worked off and industry
revives once more.
The basic trouble is one of dis
tribution. Higher wages and shorter
hours would end the slump, as nearly
as it can be ended under the present
industrial Milwaukee Leader.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
!. sES

products of workers who must con-
troll their own work standards.
We have held that each state should
formulate its policy as to convict Ia
Dor and be assured of the right to
maintain such policy. Because states
that wished to maintain constructive
policies on convict labor were serious
ly hampered by the products made in
penal institutions of other states
brought into its markets by inter-
state commerce, labor advocated the
Hawes- Cooper law which is an en-
abling act permitting states to pro-
hibit the shipment Of convict-made
goods to a destination within the
jurisdiction of states that have linn
tied the shipment of convict-made
goods.
New York has taken advantage of
this enabling act to pass a law pro-
hibiting the importation of the prod
ucts of outside penal institutions. If
the other states follow this example,
the bootlegging of convict made goods
will be stopped and the way will be
open to constructive policies.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
CONVICT LABOR

Organized labor has been working
for years to prevent the exploitation
of convict labor. Labor has an imme-
diate as we'll as a social interest in
preventing abuses of the labor of per-
sons serving sentences in peniten-
tiaries. Convicts need employment in
order that they may be helped to bet
ter ways of living But if the prod
ucts of convict labor are put on the
market to beat down standards of
free labor, the result is great social
injustice.
Labor, therefore, favors the states
use principle-that is, convicts shall
be employed in producing products to
be used by state institutions which
do not come into competition with the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13

doing his part nobly, but the issue will
not be out of this campaign.
President Green has made it clear
that the American Federation of La
Dor is going down the line to talk
to the constituents of senator's who
voted to sidetrack the injunction bill
via the office of the attorney general.
The senators deserve a rebuke for
referring the bill to the attorney gen
eral, and they deserve a rebuke for
dodging vote by trickery-a double
barrelled rebuke.
There are no words too strong for
expression of labor's disgust and of
labor's determination to vote its con-
victions this fall as never before.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
THE FINANCIAL PIRATES
DO THEIR STUFF

Seldom has the United States seen
such an odd assortment of focres
allied in a political venture as have
been bound up in the fight to kill
legislation to afford American labor
decent protection against European
and Asiatic competition.
The international bankers and the
great importers have somehow sue
ceeded fairly we'll in keeping under
cover. But they are the kingpins in
the fight.
Out in front we see such factors
as the Scripps- Howard newspapers,
which prattle about being servants of
the people, the New York World,
which apologies for the soviets, and
certain big employers.
The free-trade allies, under the
black flag of international finance
Ego back to the war days for the low
down on the patriotism of interna-
tional finance), have trotted out every
bogey in the catalogue. They have
disguised the whole regiment of i'm
porters and published their heated
opinions ad lib.
They have pulled out all the stops
in the organ to scare us with threats
of foreign reprisals. They have told
Americans that every item on every
PERSONS table would go skyward in
price. They have taken off the lid
and they have shot the works.
More lies have been told in the
name of low tariff or no tariff in this
fight than can ever be identified and
catalogued.
The allies have sought to make it
a crime to stand for protection of
American wage standards and Amer
lean industry.
1t is not without interest to note
that great many of those who would
deprive us of tariff protection would
also tear down our armed defenses
and leave US nation PROSTATE
Some members of congress have
withered under the fire. Some have
seen through the sham of the un-
American opposition. The nation
awaits the outcome.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
DELAYING LABOR'S
ANTl-INJCNCTION BILL

When the senate judiciary commit
tee voted to refer to the attorney
general labor's anti-injunction bill, il
resorted to the practices Of tin-horn
politicians.
The step was purely and solely cal
culated to furnish an excuse to the
members for not voting on the mer-
its of the bin at this time.
1t was a trick TO necessitate delay.
The attorney general, the commit
tee majority believed, would ponder
and cogitate until the present con-
gress adjourns, and then the issue
would be out of this falls campaign.
The attorney general seems to be
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
BRITAIN DISTURBED
BY IDLENESS GROWTH

London.-Britain is worried over
the growth of unemployment. The
number of idle is now 1,759,500, an
advance of 10000 in one week.
There is no sign of recovery in the
weeks trade reports, and such basic
industries as coal, textiles, iron and
steel continue to be depressed.
The situation has become so acute
that industrialists are accepting the
opinion that unemployment should be
considered national emergency.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
SHOPMEN
Put on 40-HOur Week As
B. & 0. Earnings Decline

Baltimore, Nd. (ILNS)-Saturday
work by shopmen of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad will be discontinued
effective today, putting the men on a
40-hour week instead of the 44-hour
week they have been working for sew
eral months, railroad officials an
nounce.
About 1000 men throughout the
system are affected
"This action has been made neces-
sary by the railroad budget require
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13

ness of the products of these shops.
They bake the best bread, cakes, pies,
rolls, ETC., in the world, made in
Hamilton and by union labor" Stand
by your obligation-buy only home
baked goods, help your fellow trade
unionist and boost the old town.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13

ments," F. X. Milholland, assistant to
the senior vice president, said. 1T
has been agreed to by officials of the
labor unions as the most satisfactory
arrangement and as preferable to
furloughing groups of men. No date
has been set for termination of the
arrangement"
Reduced earnings caused the ar
rangement, it was said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
IDLENESS HARMS MORALE

New York.-The tragedy of unem-
ployment lies in its devastating
effect upon the morale of idle work
ers, said Whiting Williams, author
and lecturer on industrial problems,
in an address to convention of bust
ness women.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
TheCherry
!" Where with our
Tree s:'.1. Il IL n ' a.,ss:, ,.s:s h.,
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly. sometimes Hippantly,
sometimes recklessly. ..........

What luck for the bootlegger!
They're to have bigger and better
iails and more of them.
That's the law of the land and the
law of the land, as everybody knows,
means what it says.
If it didn't, would there be any
bootleggers
But, be that as it may, congress
has passed and the president has
signed, law turning prohibition en-
forcement over to the department of
justice, taking it away from the
treasury department and providing
for the aforesaid bigger and more
plentiful jails.
Somebody must think there are 60
ing to be more criminals created by
the new brand of enforcement.
Bigger and better jails is great
thing for civilization. Yes, that's one
way to make the world better. Gre
ate conditions that create law viola
tion and then sock 'em plenty-fll the
jails and then get more jails.
Some foolish persons might think
that the logic of it would be that in
due time most folks would be inside
But there must be something wrong
with that idea. Uncle Andy Mellor
and Doc Mcbride couldn't lead us into
anything like that.
But what is it leading to?
Former Vice President Marshall
once said what the country needed
was good scent cigar. He was
wrong. We learn now what it needs
is a good big flock of jails. Give US
jails enough and any problem will be
solved. Yes, so it seems, to some
folks.
On a downtown Chicago street the
other day famous concert violinist
played beautiful music to see what
would happen.
There had been a wager as to
whether more folks would listen to
good music than gather to hear the
poor blind fellows who play for their
bread.
Soon the big musician, playing in
disguise, had crowd. He got a col
lection of something over five dollars.
In the crowd he saw a great impress
sario, listening to his favorite selec-
ton, then emptying his pockets into
the tin cup. And plain folks, en-
thralled.
This performance didn't necessarily
prove anything at all, but perhaps it
indicated something. 1t showed that
the human race can dig up a bit of
romantic, quixotic doings now and
then. And it's a safe bet that the
famous violinist got more thrill out
of his half hour on a loop corner
than out of his whole winter of stage
performances.
President Hoover is a great en-
gineer. His friends say that, in ex-
of everything.
They add that he doesn't under
stand politics. Just what that ex-
cuses is not yet clear.
The presidency is definite kind of
a job and a man cannot be counted
success because of any over-plus of
qualities that don't suit the job, un-
less he has also qualities that do fit
the job.
1t is plain that some of his advis-
ers are worried. They need to be-
And perhaps if they were better ad
visors they would have less to worry
about.
Anyway, a record is being made
and someone will have to stand the |
gaff for its failures as well as take
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-06-13
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1880
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-11
RETIRING' TYPE is
BEST IT. B. TARGET
Persons of Quiet Ways Are
Most Susceptible, Check
in Hospital Shows.
BIZ Science Service

BIZ Science Service
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 11.-Rela-
ton between types Of personality
and susceptibility to disease was
pointed out at the meeting here of
the American College of Physicians
by DR.. Walter Freeman of st. Eliza
beth's hospital, Washington, D. c.
DR.. Freeman found from exami-
nations of 1,400 patients who had
died at the hospital, which is an
institution for treatment Of nervous
and mental diseases, that persons
of the quiet, retiring type, are espe-
cially apt to have tuberculosis.
Cancer was found most often and
tuberculosis least often, on the
other hand, among patients of the
paranoid type, the type that is
moody, grouchy, quarrelsome and
suspicious.
The cycloid type, who is the good
fellow with hosts of friends and in
Vulnerable activities, appears to be
most susceptible to diseases of
heart, kidney and blood vessels. The
epileptiod type, characterized by
commissions or sudden fits of temper
or migraine, is most apt to have
diseases in which the structures of
the brain and the glands of internal
secretion are affected.
DR.. Freeman explained the rela-
ton between personality types and
susceptibility to disease on the
grounds that a personality which
will respond in certain way to a
psychological insult will respond
similarly to a bacterial or chemical
insult.
The psychological insult affects
the mind and personality, the other
affects the rest of the body. Dr.
Freeman also described methods and
questions by which they might de-
termine to which personality type
their patients belonged.