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The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-03-13
Notice to Advertisers
LIAR OR OUNCE?

When the agitation Tor the vet erans' loan was at it's height An drew Mellon, multi-millionaire sec retary of the treasury, told the country at large and the president and congress in particular that it would be impossible to float bond issue to meet such a loan, and that if a bond isssue were fioated it would disrupt the financial struc- ture of the country.
 An Associated Press dispatch of March dated at Washington, D. C.. states that an issue of government bonds intended, among other things, to care for the veterans loan, was oversubscribed two and half times. Further, that the rates were the lowest ever obtained by the treas ury on a major issue.
 This puts our MT. Mellon in the embarrassing position of appearing either as a dub without knowledge of what to expect in the money markets of the country, or a liar without conscience who sought by any I0edHS bO pESfOhl ah oSbAOh nv to the interests of himself on his consorts.
 Since a dub does not, in the ordi- nary course of events get to be sec retary of the treasury, not to men ton a multi-millionaire, one has but little choice in the matter of what to believe. In either case it is rather hard to consider such a man retaining the public office MT. Mellon seems to have so securely cinched.
 MT. Mellon's whole career as sec retary of the treasury reveals very little which would identify him as having the interests of the common people at heart. Having this in mind congress did we'll to disregard his forecast of disaster and pass the veterans loan bill over a presiden- tial veto.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-03-13

army of unemployed down here ow- ing to the cost of travel by steamer and hack of approach by land"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-03-13
OPEN FORUM
IN THE DAYS OF KING LEAR

 Editor The Sentinel
 Many years ago Wrangell had a noted character who lived on the hill at the present location of the court house. He was known as King Lear, and if you were not in his good graces you were just out of luck, as he just about ran things to suit himself.
 It seems we have at present in Wrangell a person who also would like to be King. I will mention a few of the jobs he is holding. First, government job-U. S. Commis- sioner. He will likely tell you he is only acting. Well. it is the opin- ion of many that he has acted long enough.
 He is also drawing a salary from the Town of Wrangell as follows: Town Clerk, Town Assessor, Tax Collector, Town Magistrate, Collect or of town water funds, and Librar- ian. But he seems to have passed the buck as Dog Tax Collector. Per haps the Town Council will buy him a dog net and then everybody will be happy.
 E. MONEN
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-03-13
CANADA PLACES BAN ON SOVIET PRODUCTS

OTTAWA, Can, Mar. 10-Prac- tically all imports into Canada from Soviet Russia were under the ban yesterday of a sweeping order-in- council of the government. Pro- ducts banned are coal. lumber, tim Der of all kinds, wood pulp, asbes- tos, and furs. These are the chief goods shipped from Russia. the ex- clusion order following charges that the products were from forced la bor and the belief that competition with Canadian industries was "in- furious if not ruinous."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-03-13

person, whoever he was, who wrote the article last week signed "A. B. Anderson"
 In my letter in a previous issue anent the airport I called attention to one of a number of cases of, let us say. lack of discretion.
 The question is, do the voters of Wrangell wish to indorse the actions of present city officials, or shall oth- CTS be put in their places?
 Let us get headed in the right direction and then Tets go."
 WALTER G. DYGERT.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-03-13

o. Jensen and w. P. Boos, con tractors from Ketchikan, arrived in Wrangell last Saturday on the Queen.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-03-13
MACGREG0R THEATRE SOLD TO SATISFY CREDITORS

The MacGregor Theatre was sold last Saturday at "a marshal's fore closure sale by Deputy U. s. Mar shall Hans Wick to the highest and only bidder, T. S. Elsemore, agent for the Behrends Bank of Juneau, for a total of $18,00O. The real es- tate and building were bid in for $16,O00 and chairs, piano, motors, boiler, projection machine, etc., were bid in for 2,O0O.-Press.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-03-13

John Tanning, former resident of Wrangell, who has been making his home in Petersburg for several years, left there on the Queen for Sitka. to enter the Pioneers" Home.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-03-13
A HELPING HAND

In Ketchikan the First National Bank rendered a real service to in- dividuals as well as the community by announcing that ex-service men could immediately borrow the mon- ey due under the new veterans loan act, at the same rate of interest charged by the government. This eliminated the necessity of such men
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
FAMILY RELIEF
COST JUMPS

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-In 100
cities reporting to the United States
Children's Bureau, the amount dis
bursed in aid to needy families in
creased 80 per cent for 1929 to 1880.
Altogether it is estimated that some
$40,000,000 was spent for this relief
in 1930-and this amount does not in
clude sums expended by missions, mu-
nicipal lodging houses, or other agen-
cies providing individuals with tenn
porary shelter or food, nor agencies
giving relief to war veterans only.
The proportion of the cost of re-
lief met by private philanthropy and
by the public through taxation varies
from city to city. The largest pro-
portion of the cost met by the public
Tin rs cities) was in Detroit, where
94.9 per cent of the money came from
public sources. At the other end of
the scale were New Orleans and
Washington, D. c., where none of the
money was provided by public appro-
priation, all of it being raised by
private contributions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
More big Shots" Join Pay Cutters
Ranks in Battle For Reductions
TOLD TO BREAK
Into Union Headquarters,
Strikebreakers Say

Philadelphia (ILNS)-If proof were
needed that manufacturers instigate
their dupes to engage in violence to
smash strikes that proof is now pill
ing up.
Here is the latest case which has
come to light:
In Hatboro, Pa, the American Fed
Grafton of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers has strike against the
Oscar Nebel mill, which is paying
Southern wages, right next door to
Philadelphia. Across the street from
the Nebel mill, the strikers have set
up headquarters in a rented bunga-
low. Riding home past the mill about
l o'clock in the morning Strike
Chairman Beverly Clymer was stop
ped by deputy who has been guard
ing the Nebel plant The guard in
formed Clymer that three men in a
roadster had driven up in front of
the union headquarters and had
broken windows, evidently in order to
be able to break into the house. Sur
prised by the deputy the three men
had fed, but the license number of
the car was taken. Blood was found
on the window sill of the house, in
dicating that one of the men had cut
his hand in breaking the window.
The sheriff's deputy pursued the
marauders' car in Clymer's auto and
quickly ran on to the men wanted
coming from a doctors office in the
town. Chief of Police Kraemer, of
Hatboro, made the arrest. 1t was
found that the driver of the automo-
bile was Arthur Doutrick, foreman of
the Nebel mill, while the men with
him were two strikebreakers, Lloyd
Jensen and Edward McGurk The
trio were turned over to Chief of
Police Schaetfer, of Jenkintown, who
quickly got confession from all three
that they had been sent to the unions
headquarters. Edward McGurk had
injured his hand breaking the glass
of the window, and blood stains on
the automobile and the window had
given him away.
The much advertised push" of the
manufacturers to induce a mythical
army of 5000 or more Philadelphia
workers to come in and scab on them
selves Topped completely, union off,
cials announce. In fact all the talk
of break in the ranks by the en-
ployers had the effect of stiffening
union morale and causing renewed
strike activities.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
LABOR SECRETARY
RAPS PAY CUTTING

Washington (ILNS) - Attacking
suggestions that there should be re-
ductions in wage levels because of
lower commodity prices, Secretary of
Labor Doak said:
"If there was such thing as a
properly fixed wage rate for various
industries and trades, then there
might be some reason in the suggest
ed reductions. But there has been no
such properly fixed rate"
The only serious proposal for gen
eral wage reductions had come from
the bankers, Doak pointed out, and
said that ''the administration has
done everything that can be done to
prevent adoption of such plans"
''If you haven't got foreign mar
kets," Mr.. Doak contended, "the only
way to bring back prosperity is by
increasing domestic consumption
How that can be done by reducing the
present level of wages is too much
for me-"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
Women's Work Bill Signed
By New York's Governor
Roosevelt Approves Measure Limiting Hours of Minors
and Female Employees in Mercantile Establishments.

Albany, n Y. (ILNS)-Anothel
labor law was added to New York's
progressive labor code when Cover
nor Roosevelt signed the bill provid-
ing basic schedule of working hours
for women and minors employed in
mercantile establishments. A basis of
eight hours for six days, total of
48 a week, is established by the
measure.
Under provision in the bill mer-
camille employers may require six
additional hours twice a year, but
only for the purpose of inventories
AS an alternative to this straight 49,
hour week, with an equal distribution
of working hours for each day, pro-
vision is made for half-holiday each
week in return for strictly limited
amount of overtime
Ten hours of overtime in addition
to the two six-hour periods would be
permissible annually under the terms
of the bill, but only on condition that
an equivalent time off must be given
by the employer for any overtime
exacted under this clause
Discussing the half-holiday provi-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
$4,000 IDLE AIDED
BY SPORTS CARNIVAL

St Louis, "There are $4,000
idle persons in this ciyt," said Scott
R. De Kins, director general citizens
committee on relief and employment.
in an appeal to patronize huge
sports carnival
"The relief agencies, through which
the citizens committee gives relief
for needy persons, have been caring,
the past several months, for 10000
families, representing $4,000 indi-
viduals, keeping roofs over their
heads, furnishing them with food and
clothing, preventing actual starva-
tion," said Mr.. De Kins. "The calls
for help are increasing and will do SO
until employment on large scale is
resumed"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01

On the same side of the picture Colby
M Chester, president of General
Foods, said, eve see no necessity fo1
wage reductions"
Several Cuts Reported
Business Week" says several
large companies have cut wages dur
ing the past few weeks These in
clude Goodyear and Goodrich, in the
rubber industry, with the prediction
that Akron manufacturers in the
same line will follow suit. Republic
Steel and Colorado Fuel and Iron are
reported by Business Week as
having cut salaries of higher-ups.
maintaining their basic wage scale,
but Corrigan & Mckinney has cut
wages 10 per cent, in common with
some of the small Pennsylvania and
Ohio steel concerns.
Col. Arthur Woods, in charge of
unemployment relief measures for
President Hoover, added his denuncia-
ton of wage cuts. my own personal
theory" he said, SIS that wage cut
ting would be most unfortunate.
Mr.. Woods expressed the belief
that there are fewer wage cuts in
this depression than in previous
times, and that while some of the
smaller employers are practicing it,
the big employers are not doing so.
He said he believed that industry gen
orally is trying to follow the lead of
the president, as given a year and a
half ago.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01

sion in the bill, the governor said
that women employed in mercantile
establishments vigorously advocated
it.
at is my definite conviction that a
desirable social policy, already large
ly custom in industry, is thus given
the sanction of law and encouraged
to develop while at the same time
the underlying principle of limita-
ton based on the eight-hour day is
observed" Roosevelt added.
"The bill is an agreed measure, the
fruit of long negotiations between the
merchants and the women's organiza-
tions favoring hours regulations, and
is believed by all of them to embody
sound and fair provisions and to rep
resent a forward STEP" the governor
said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
LABOR PARTY WINS
CENSURE REJECTED

London.-The labor party won a
victory of unexpected dimensions
when the house of commons rejected
a motion of censure on the labor gov
ernment for failure to solve the un-
employment problem.
The motion was presented by the
conservatives. The vote was 251 for
to 306 against.
The government was defended by
Tom Johnston, recently appointed to
the cabinet as lord privy seal. He
has charge of unemployment
Premier Ramsey Macdonald de-
clared that Stanley Baldwin, consre-
vative leader and former premier,
has changed his mind more times in
the course of a year than any other
party leader in the country's history
Liberals joined the labor party,
when Lloyd George, leader of the for
mer group, said:
"The conservative leader Bald
VIM either has no program of his
own or he is so ashamed of it that he
won't tell this house what it is"
Baldwin was only certain of one
thing he and his followers op-
pose labor This was indicated when
the former premier said he did not
know whether the government is So
cialist or nationalist.
But whichever you are" he con-
tinued eve will fight yuo."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01

Washington, d. C. ILNS)-Fol-
lowing announcement of complete re-
organization of the United States
Employment Service, with 48 state
employment bureaus and one in the
District of Columbia, state directors
met in conference here and were ad-
dressed by John j. Alpine, recently
appointed supervising director of the
service. In addition to the state direc-
tors, seven special divisions have been
established to deal with the employ
ment problems of various trades.
Francis |. Jones continues as direc-
tor-general of the service, while A. d.
Lewis will be assistant director gen
eral, with supervision also over the
mining and quarrying trades division.
In announcing the reorganization
of the employment service, Secretary
of Labor Doak said:
"The United States Employment
Service has decided to open up at
least one employment bureau in each
of the states and the District of CO.
lumbia, to cooperate with state and
local authorities.
C0-Ordinated Service
"There will be a co-ordinated serv-
ice throughout the entire country
making available it's good offices to all
those seeking employment in CO.
operation with free state and local
offices. 1t likewise will undertake in
the broadest sense to care for inter-
state labor placements in co-opera-
tion with employers and employees.
"In addition to these already we'll
organized bureaus, the industrial ac-
tivities of the United States employ
ment service will be reorganized on a
basis which will afford every oppor-
tunity of placing employees in contact
with jobs and in giving employers a
ready field from which to draw all
needed labor necessary to carry for
ward any kind of work.
Seven Special Divisions
"There will be seven special divi-
sions of the service, each under the
direction of a co-ordinating super
ntendent-namely, a superintendent
for each of the following:
Building trades, mining and
quarrying, manufacturing and metal
trades, transportation service, cloth
ing and needle trades, office and mer-
camille trades and marine seamen and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
UNION BARRIERS
Fight Price Cuts With Free
Service for JObless

Salisbury, N. C. Without
cutting prices one penny union bar
Der shops of Salisbury and Spencer
have non-union shops who recently
started vicious price-cutting war on
the run. -
lizard times we have with US and
a lot of people cannot afford to pay
high prices for shave or hair cut
or a massage" was the vocal excuse
of the price-cutting warriors. A
price-slashing spree began with the
cellar as the limit.
"We will agree times are hard, but
cutting prices will not cure that" an
swered the members of Local No. 485
of the Journeyman BARRIERS Interna-
tional Union. eve shall not cut our
prices, but there will be no excuse for
the chap without job in Salisbury or
Spencer suffering from tonsorial
neglect"
Through the Salisbury Central La
Dor Union the union BARRIERS have an
nounced that they will give free serv-
ice to the unemployed and their
families. The service will not be given
during regular shop hours, says F. I.
Cornelius, secretary of the Central
Labor Union, which has endorsed the
action of the union BARRIERS. By
special permission of the barber shop
owners, it will begin at the close of
regular hours and continue as long as
necessary 1t will be effective on as
many days as advisable.
The union BARRIERS of the two cities
secured the names and addresses of
more than 300 residents of their COM
munities who are out of work. Tick
cts affording free barber service for
them and their families at any of the
union shops in Spencer and Salisbury
have been mailed them.
President A. B. Holt, of the union,
is enthusiastic about the plan. He
points out that it has been under
taken by the union BARRIERS of the two
communities to meet the present
emergency occasioned by people being
out of work without resorting to a
policy of price-cutting.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
P. 0. DEFICIT CAUSED
BY SUBSIDIES

Washington.-Has the post office
department abandoned its policy of
blaming wages for the post office
deficit?
A break in this defense was made
by Frederic A. Tilton, third assistant
postmaster general, who declared that
the deficit is caused ito a great ex-
tent by the subsidies of the depart
ment to the shipping and airplane in
dustries."
Government aid is given American
merchant ships and airplanes that
carry mail on the theory that these
can be used in the national defense
Postal workers do not deny the
need for building up a national de-
fense, but they insist that the sub
sides should not be charged to their
department any more than to the de-
partment of agriculture, for instance
Postal workers, for years, have
urged that the department be placed
on business basis by separating
costs of handling mail and money
used for other purposes.
Officials count national defense as
charge against the department, and
then, when workers ask for higher
wages or improved work conditions,
the deficit is used as an alibi.
The department favors increasing
the cost of first-class postage to meet
the deficit. Business interests oppose
this plan, and the fight may result in
popular understanding of the postal
workers position.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
Federal Employment Service
To Be Opened in Each State
Secretary of Labor Doak Announces Complete Reorgan
zatiOn of u. S. Service, with State Directors and
Seven Central Divisions to Deal With Separate
Trades and Industries.

longshoremen. There likewise will be
director of the veterans service, a
director of the farm service, a chief
clerk, director of information and
special representative.
"There will be 40 state directors,
one for each of the states and the
District of Columbia. The duties of
these officers will be to direct the
work of their respective states and to
cooperate with state agencies and to
work in conjunction with the United
States employment service. The num-
Der of suboffices within any of the
states will be determined from time
to time as circumstances justify"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
CIGARETTE MACHINE
WILL TRIPLE OUTPUT

New York.-The American Machine
and Foundry Company is working on
a cigarette machine that will turn out
three times as many cigarettes as is
now possible.
Patents on the present machines
are expiring. These machines pro-
duce 500 cigarettes a minute. The
new machine, it is believed, will pro-
duce from 1000 to 1000 cigarettes in
the same time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-01
Roger w. Babson Declares
Lower Wages Inevitable
Wage Cutters Ranks Wobble With Powerful Factors
Joining Labor in Opposition to Further Wreckage
of Industry.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Wage
reduction discussions ragged hot and
heavy this week, with some new wage
cutters coming to light.
Perhaps the outstanding recruit to
the Chase National Bank position was
Roger w. Babson, big shot" econo-
mist, whose views, wired from Lake
Wales, Fla, were given prominence
in Editor and Publisher.
Babson came out fiat for wage
reductions. He said general business
has "seen its low point" declared that
"disquieting" dividend reports for the
last quarter were water over the
dam" and generally looked for better
things. But he sided with the wage
cutters.
II believe" said the high priced
prophet, "that with the present low
commodity prices, the low interest
rates and the low cost of living,
lower wages are inevitable The
sooner this is recognized the better off
for all concerned. The department of
labor can no more peg the scale of
wages than can the federal farm
board peg the price of wheat"
Takes Rap at Hoover
Babson held that Hoover, in trying
to keep up wages, may have retard-
ed employment"
1t was reported during the week
that delegation of railroad execu-
tives had sought the governments ear
for a suggestion of wage cutting on
railroads, but had been discouraged.
Perhaps the most pointed and il
Illuminating evidence of the week was
offered by William Hard noted
Washington correspondent of many
newspapers, in a national radio broad
cast. Hard asserted that within the
week leading bankers had met in New
York with representative of British
bankers to discuss wage reductions.
He asserted further that George G.
Roberts, of the National City Bank,
had stated the position of bankers for
wage reductions, thus bringing a new
figure into the picture. Hard declared
wage reduction proposals would con-
stitute the big issue of the year. No
other evidence has made clearer the
tremendous battle confronting organ
lied labor
Stresses HOover's Stand
Hard emphasized President Hoover's
continued alarm at the tactics of wage
cutters, and indicated that the presi-
dent is in complete opposition to
those tactics.
The A. p. business writer, who
should have certain inside informa-
ton, asserted this week that infor-
NAL meetings to talk wage cutting
have been held by big executives in
New York within recent weeks" 1t
is reported that these meetings did
not head up into a concerted move,
but they are believed to have helped
along the reactionary bank idea to
some extent
On the other side of the picture,
Alfred P. Sloan, of General Motors,
said there was no idea of wage
cutting for General Motor employees
for the present, but he left an open
door for a future change of policy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-02-27
Excavation in Germany

Digging in Germany might prove a
profitable pastime. Within one week
a householder of Marionburg dug up
keg of 697 silver coins of 1925 and
1926, which were probably buried dur.
ing the Thirty Years war; tourist
discovered the skeleton of bear in
a cave near Karlsruhe, where none
have been seen for 300 years: graves
of ancient Celts have been found with
bones 5000 years old !. at Konigsburg
the Oldest find was a stone ak dropped
there before the glaciers came down
over Europe 5000 years ago: under
the altar of Speyer cathedral the stone
sarcophagus of an early Christian saint
was brought to light: near Frankfort
on-Main Roman military camp has
been excavated and found to he steam
heated throughout its 16 rooms.