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Evening star., 1931-10-08
u. s. ENTERS PROBE
OF TAMMANY HEADS
Internal Revenue Agents In.
vestigating Excessive De-
posts of Four.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, October 8.--The Federal
Government today proceeded to satisfy
its own curiosity about the bank de-
posits of four Democratic public officials,
found by the Legislative City Investi-
eating Committee to be far in excess
of their salaries.
On the basis of testimony before the
committee during the last two days,
agents of the Internal Revenue DEPART
ment were assigned to investigate the
incomes of Sheriff Thomas M. Farley,
City Clerk Michael J. Cruise, Register
James A. McQuade of Kings County
and Chief Clerk Harry c. Perry OF the
City Court.
Accounts Total $1,149,119.
Altogether the bank deposits of these
four men since January /, 1925, the
Legislative Committee disclosed, totaled
S1,l49,119. The aggregate of their Of
fetal salaries for that same period was
but $303,166.
1t is the gap between these two figures
in which the Federal agents today eX-
pressed interest.
The four political leaders, all of whom,
except McQuade, are Tammany district
chieftains, have been summoned before
the Legislative Committee to further ex-
plain their apparent affiuence. Because
the committee considered their public
explanations vague and unsatisfactory,
Chief Counsel Samuel Seabury an
nounced his intention of requestioning
them at private hearings.
The committee sought the source of
the S510.527 banked by McQuade. of
the S143,758 deposits shown in the bank
books of Cruise and of the $685. ,o61 de-
posted by Perry.
Salaries About $4,000.
The annual salaries of each of the
three was not over $4,000 for the
period covered by the questioning al
yesterdays public hearing at which the
men were witnesses.
Their testimony followed closely that
of Farley, who told Tuesday of deposits
totaling $360,000, the sources of which
he failed to explain to the satisfaction
of Samuel Seabury, chief counsel for
the committee.
McQuade's explanation yesterday of
his deposits was that they were mostly
borrowed money. He had "a dependents
he explained. and he borrowed from
one to pay the other, and SO on. His
salary is $4,000 year. +
Mystery to Cruise.
Cruise said 1.-The Bank must have made
a mistake" If they didn't he ex-
planned further, it was a mystery to
him.
Perry said he won a few bets and
made lot of loans. Seabury termed
his explanation "juggled and con-
fusing."
All three witnesses denied any
gambling went on in their political
clubs, as high police officials previously
had testified.
Evening star., 1931-10-08
BODY FOUND IN RIVER
IDENTIFIED AS SAILOR
Fingerprints and Tattoo Marks
Traced Through Records of
Navy Department.

The body of the man found floating
In the Eastern Branch yesterday was
today identified as that of John Wolfey,
sailor attached to the u. S. S. Cor
morant, now in service at the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
Fingerprints of the dead man were
taken early today and comparedN with
those on record for Wolfey by j. H.
Taylor, chief of the Naval Identification
Office. The tattoo marks on the mans
arm led officials to believe he was, or
had been, in the Navy.
Wolfey, Cherokee Indian, is said
to have drawn all of his September
pay Saturday. and had not been seen
since. He had been classed as "strag-
gler" at his ship. after being A. w.
o. L., with another man, since roll
call Sunday
The body is being held at the morgue,
pending the receipt of advices from the
Navy Department as to further dispo-
Sition.
Rear Admiral H. v. Butler, COM
mandant of the Washington Navy Yard,
has convened a court of inquest to inr
vestigate the death, with Lieut.. Comdr.
William Granat as its senior member
and Lieut.. (Junior Grade) A. r. Kline
as member.
Evening star., 1931-10-08
100 GUESTS EXPECTED
AT OPTIMISTS' PARTY
Bridge Entertainment to Follow
Golf Tourney at Kenwood
Club Today.

One hundred and sixty persons are
expected to attend the bridge party
sponsored by the Optimist Club at the
Kenwood Country Club tonight, it was
announced today, while this afternoon
large number of golfers will partici-
pate in the Optimist Club golf tourna-
ment for the Clarence Pearson trophy
at the Indian Spring course.
Final plans for these events were
announced at the regular meeting of
the club yesterday at the Hamilton
Hotel where the members were ad-
dressed by Otis j. Rogers of the
employment service of the Department
Of Labor
Henry A. Willard was nominated by
the club as candidate for governor Of
the sixteenth district of the Optimist
International. The district includes the
clubs of the District Maryland. Vir-
ginia and West Virginia. Herbert N.
Nevius of Washington formerly was gov
ernor. but recently resigned
Evening star., 1931-10-08
$50 Consecutive Appearances
Young actress discovers
how to be on the lob
every day

CHE USED to lose one night
~ at least every month from
her work. Valuable time that
lost money for the show.
But for over a year now she's
been on the job every single
day, 350consecutive appear
ances in the ecord-breaking
run of a Broadway hit. What
made the difference? Such a
simple hygiene habit that it's
surprising more women haven't
found it out.
She takes a spoonful of Nujol
regularly for few days before
hand, each month. Nujol regu-
lates the intestinal functions Of
the body at times when they're
apt to be upset. Helps to keep
normal, even under abnormal
conditions. Cleanses the whole
system.
Why don't you try Nujol, as
this woman did? Take it for the
next three months. You'll be
amazed at the difference it
makes.
Nujol can't possibly hurt you.
For it contains absolutely no
drugs or medicine.
Evening star., 1931-10-08
PARACHUTES SAVE TWO
FLYERS IN COLLISION
Pilot of Second Ship Risks Life to
Bring Plane to Earth
Safely.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va. October 8.-Para-
chuteS saved the lives of two Navy air.
men yesterday when Lieut.. Philip A.
Tague and Chief Aviation Pilot E. S
Whitman "bailed out of their two
scatter observation plane after collis-
ion with single-seated fighter nearly
a mile in the air
Ensign William M Walsh. plotting
the single scatter. gambled with a
broken strut and brought his little craft
to safe landing on the Naval Air
Station Field, while the other ship
crashed near the Virginian Railway
tracks at East Camp.
The accident occurred during gun
merry maneuvers between Lieut. Tague'S
ship and the little fighter piloted by
Ensign Walsh, in which the two were
carrying on a dog fight" witnesses
said.
Vienna once ruled one of the largest
empires in Europe
Evening star., 1931-10-08
EMPLOYED TO AID IDLE
10000 in New York City to Give
l Per Cent of Pay. Says Mayor.

NEW YORK. October 8 (R.-New
York City's 10000 employees will donate
salaries for unemployment relief during
the Winter, Mayor Walker said yester-
day after a conference with heads OF
city departments.
Food tickets for purchases at neigh
borhood stores will be given families
in need of relief he said
Evening star., 1931-10-08
Light From a Parachute.

When called into action at night
the life-saving corps has heretofore
made use of rockets to light up the
scene during the process of launching
the boats, but marine flare attached
to a parachute and thrown aloft by
means of special gun, has been found
to be much more satisfactory. The
light is steadier and lasts for a much
longer period.
Evening star., 1931-10-08

These new Fall effects. rich
stimulating. Ploin colors,
handsomely eontr osted. or
striped and figured fobries -.
BroodeIoths, Soisettes, and I'm
ported Madras. ColIored, Pull
over and silk frog styles.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
FRIDAY, MAY %, 1881
SECONDARY ROADS

Congested traffic on main high
ways, growing taxes and the need for
economizing in distribution costs have
brought increasing attention to bear
upon the desirability and advantages
of what are known as Secondary
roads,"
Those who wish to "lift the back
country out of the mud" farm organ
izations seeking to get produce to
market and bring markets to the
farm, and those interested in keeping
main route traffic moving smoothly,
appear to be realizing more and more
that secondary roads are necessary to
accomplish these objectives.
1t has been found that the average
cost is barely $4,000 per mile, or about
one-eighth that of standard hard paw
ing. In other words, eight miles OF
asphaltic or oiled secondary roads car
be built at the same cost as one mile
of main highway, which assures real
saving in taxes. Actually the saving
is much greater because these sup
Elementary routes do not have the
traffic burden of the main routes and
consequently do not require expensive
upkeep to make them dustless, mud
less highways, usable throughout the
entire year.
Let US have more secondary roads
here, in Butler county.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
MARKET BASKET COST is NOT
PROSPERITY BASE

National Bank Chicago
that reductions permissible
when living reduced
This is revival of the old theory
market
Workers. system
ards The trader they
have relation to the production of wealth
belief that American living
a before the stock crash in 1929
Research that annual
country hundred dollars
below a minimum living standard.
No purchasing delay business
acknowledge the caused
purchasing
By holding they crash while
scientific increased
fol anothe depression
circle from which there
be no relief
scientific output
workers steadily Goods continue be
thrown machinery and scientific
installed production for constantly narrowing
market More while
more commodities by automatic methods
The inevitable happens dodge the they
discuss policies either intensity the depression
maketh acute
Business realize the social of This is not
merely labor" Wages dfuse wealth
The depression followed its logical end will engu business
method that based automatic
machinery andsc scientific
With millions of charity the other end of the line
condition is created
History that evasive policy will not
They royat in 1889 gay declared after
us the deluge"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
THE UNEMPLOYED MARCH

The following editorial comment or
the march of the unemployed to Co.
lumbus two weeks ago, was taken
from the Labor Union, Dayton, Ohio
The unemployed, or negligible
fraction of the army, are marching
toward Columbus. Dayton yesterday
was host to the delegation that left
Cincinnati a few days ago.
And we pause to think :.
While purely a communist demon
stration, the underlying causes that
prompted the march are reasons to
make anyone think-and study-and
reflect.
Civilization doesn't seem so much,
after all, when it's members are fore
ed to such an extremity. There's
something wrong with the system.
ana likewise Win human nature
Were we inclined to criticize in
such situation, we would inquire of
the marchers why they prefer old
world political action to the surer and
better American plan of trade union
organization as cure for their trou-
bles.
But, it is no time to criticize.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22

Safety is peculiar commodity in
that the more of it you buy the less
it costs.
Some folks think it costs lot in
time, energy and effort. They fail to
realize that the people who pay the
most for it are those who try to get
along without it.
Cutting down on safety activities
is always false economy. Accidents
respect neither persons, seasons nor
conditions. Circumstances that lead
to accidents exist in bad times just
as in good times
There are no rest periods for
safety, no vacations. There is no Off
cial "leave of absence"
The old saying, when the eats
away the mice will play" suggests
another.
Why not: when safety's away
there's big bill to pay"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
FOUR INDICTMENTS
AGAINST HOFFMAN
DECLARED ILLEGAL
Attorneys for Union Organ
izer Show Charges Are in
COntraventiOn to Law and
They Are Thrown Out of
Court.

Strpudsburg, Pa. (ILNS)-The anti
union drive of the authorities of
Monroe county hit snag when the
Judge who isseued the most sweeping
injunction in recent injunction his
tory was forced to throw out of court
four indictments brought against Or
ganizer Alfred Hoffman, of the Amer
lean Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers. Judge Samuel E.
Shul declared three counts in the in
dictment illegal, and only permitted
one count to stand and that one had
to be sent back to the grand jury
for correction.
The judge, sitting as magistrate,
held Hoffman under bail while the
grand jury is fixing up the case
against the hosiery organizer.
District Attorney Ira LaBar had at
tempted to charge Hoffman with con-
spiracy to throw stones, assault
slashing auto tires and pushing autos
off the highway. Quoting the laws of
Pennsylvania, which set out the legal
rights of trade unionists and which
nullified the old conspiracy laws, For
est Mervine and Orrin E. Boyle,
counsel for the union, showed that the
Indictment was directly in contraven-
ton of the statutes. Evidently in his
haste to get Hoffman before the court
on some charge-at the bidding of the
Bar Association, which has declared
the strike itself a conspiracy-the
district attorney slapped together the
first charges that suggested them
selves to him.
The surprise move of the defense
created a sensation in the town, but
the evening papers played down the
fact that the indictments were
quashed. Meanwhile the Injunction
still prevents all picketing at the
Mammouth mill and all strike meet
ings are under the ban. The strikers
are not permitted to advertise the
fact that strike is in progress, or in
any way transmit this news to 9TH
ers. Judge Shull has, however, indi-
Gated by his ready acceptance of legal
argument that the anti-union crowd
here will have to act little more dis
creetly from now on-at least it will
have to be careful about how it draws
indictments.
Incidentally Judge Shull himself,
during the injunction hearing, sug-
gested to the district attorney that
Hoffman be prosecuted forconspiracy.
He made this suggestion after a
couple of strikebreakers testified that
some one they thought was Hoffman
at union meeting made some state
ments about ditching the cars of out
OF town scabs if any should be
brought in.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
TRADE UNION BENEFITS

Chicago Typographical Union No.
16 is paying close to $4,000 per week
to its unemployed members. Bene-
fits are paid at the rate of $500
per week to married and $1,000 per
week to single men. Members are
permitted to work one day per week
and draw the benefit. Those working
two days or more are not eligible.
Typographical Union No. 16 has been
paying out-of-work benefits continu-
ously since August, 1880. The out
of-work fund has been raised by a
special assessment which was adopt
ed by referendum vote of the organi-
cation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
year of depression, 1880, was
$1,O15 900.

George Washington Hill, president
of the American Tobacco Company,
received salary and bonus during the
same year estimated at $2,231 600.
1t may have been more; it could
hardly have been less. Five vice
presidents of the same company got
more than $4,000 each.
In both corporations, minority
stockholders are attacking these bo.
muses.. Every friend of labor viii
hope that the attack succeeds. Bo
muses. of such dimensions are, first
and foremost, premiums on grinding
labor; and labor is duly ground.
1t is hardly an accident that these
, two corporations are among the low
est of low wage concerns, and among
the hardest boiled "open shoppers.
That is what such bonuses are paic
for. They are given to incite man
ayers to make unorghnized toilers
work as hard and as long as possible
for as little as possible.-Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
WHAT NEXT?

A. H. J. Wright, an English inven-
tor, is pushing an idea for molding
fireprof automobile bodies out of as
bestos at about half the weight and
cost of steel bodies. Three English
concerns are experimenting with the
invention, which may revolutionize
the automobile body building indus
try. Wright claims to have devised
means of making thin asbestos
sheeting which is resilient and non.
brittle, the rest being simple. The
new body is fireprof, non-conduc
tor of heat and eliminates "drum
ming" while the surface is ideal fol
covering with cellulose.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
THAT SELF-SATISFIED
FEELING

Mr.. E H. H. Simmons, former presi-
dent New York Stock Exchange, de-
plores public hysteria" over business
conditions.
The government acknowledges
there are 6,5O0,O00 unemployed work
ers in this country. This means, at
the very lowest, 100000 hungry
men. women and children, with mil
lions of others on the brink of pow
erty.
Mr. Simmons calmly surveys this
unprecedented condition and volun-
teers the information that normal
times will appear ''in due course"
"It is in these zero hours of indus
try and finance that the actual vic
tory and triumph are being operat-
ed," says Mr.. Simmons. "Such pc
riods of trial may injure faint hearts
and shallow beliefs, but they also call
forth from the great rank and file
of our people those ancient and in
valuable human qualities of courage,
persistence and faith which in the
past have created everything of gen
uine value in the world"
This string of words should inspire
the millions who are faced by misery
and hunger.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
REDUCED DIVIDENDS HURT

Reductions or omissions of divi-
dends are lending impetus to wage
cutting. Short-sighted stockholders,
who did not particularly care what
happened to wages as long as their
dividends were paid regularly may be
expected to join the hue and cry for
lower wage levels, now that dividends
are being suspended or reduced.
They don't see that wage slashing
reduces purchasing, prolonging the
depression and putting off the day of
better dividends.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
ARROGANCE AND STUPIDITY

A Pennsylvania magistrate a few
days ago had before him a man who
without a job, had gone fishing in the
hope of finding food.
twenty-five days in JAIL" said the
magistrate.
The jobless man had no fishing
license.
Somehow it ought to be possible te
add that judge Immediately to the
ranks of the unemployed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
FROM PARKER's HOME TOWN
us the deluge.'

Judge Parker's home town has
elected union man.
Judge Parker very probably would
now be a supreme court justice were
it not for his "yellow dog" record.
The nation will be glad that Judge
Parker's home town thus vindicates
the principles of trade unionism.
Judge Parker's education should be
helped by the event.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22

to a humanity that needs all it can
get of freedom and liberalism in its
principles of government and rela-
ton among men.
The issue of whether we shall have
liberty is wrapped around the kernel
of Volsteadism. That, perhaps, is the
most significant thing about it all.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
CANADIAN UNIONISTS
MAKE GAINS IN 1890

Ottawa, Canada.-The curve for
Dominion trade union membership
last year was upward, despite the
business depression.
The Canadian department of labor
reports gain of 2,973 for all ele-
ments of organization. The Canadian
central bodies, which number 27, an
increase Of two, have between them
673 local branches, gain of "a, with
a combined membership of 57,168, a
gain of 1881. The independent unions
lost membership.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
PASS OLD AGE PENSION

Madison, Wis.-The state assembly
approved the Schmiege bill for COM
pulsory county old age pensions after
1888.
Administration of these pensions
would be transferred from the state
board of control to county judges. The
bill now goes to the senate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
BARBER BILL VETOED

Columbus, Ohio.-Governor White
vetoed bill that would create board
of barber examiners. The measure
was urged by employees and employ
ers in this calling.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
THE BONUS AS A LABOR
CRUsHER

Eugene Grace, president of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, gets a
salary of $4,000 a year, and his
bonus check since 1918 has averaged
s815,000 a year. His bonus in the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
WISDOM

When we come to think in terms of
production, instead of terms of labor,
we will cease our opposition to
shorter work-day and shorter work
week.-Ethelbert Stewart.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
TheCherry
Tree I's.l. =, !. a.sss:. .:s =,
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pre-
foundly, sometimes Aippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

1t is said that the white slave ring,
heading up in New York, is a $5,-
000,0 ,000a-year racket.
Quite probably that is an under
estimate.
1t is one of the by-products of the
fanatacism of repression which is ex-
pressed in the Volstead act and in all
other moves to mold human conduct
to the pattern of minority.
Five million dollars is lot of
money to take out of the vile busi-
ness of white slavery in a nation that
pretends to civilization, and in a year
when depression has rocked legiti-
mate business to it's foundation.
Add to this the price of dope, which
is enormous, and then add the price
of lawless violence, the toll taken by
jackers, bootleggers and all the rest
of the assortment of criminals and
hoodlums and racketeers that have
sprung out of Volsteadism and il
amounts to a terrible penalty.
That the nation is waking up seems
clear.
Nothing has done as much to arouse
the public conscience as the great
meeting held in Philadelphia by
organized labor.
When men come from every corner
of the nation for single purpose,
taking their time, spending their
money, bringing delegated authority
to join their voices with the voices
of others, something is doing, and it
will pay to watch.
The time has come when the
twaddle and hysteria of the fanatic
must be brushed aside in the interest
of freedom and general human we'll
being.
The time has come when deter
mined sane persons must sweep away
the blight of an experiment" that
never had any virtue and that has
cost America dearly.
When the United States was found
ed it was composed of many kinds OF
men and women, with many kinds OF
desires, beliefs and manners. Most of
them came here out of an unconquer-
able desire to live as they wished to
live, to believe as they wished to be-
lieve, and to behave in accordance
with their ideas of how to behave
without harm to others. Men and
women came here to be free from
oppression by others, to gain the right
to live freely, as they decently wish
ed to live.
The backbone of American colonial
tion was made out of those who were
in protest against domination.
Somehow those principles, those
hopes for freedom, those desires to
shake off oppression, those longings
for escape from despotism, have per-
sisted and still persist.
Gathering into a great tide OF
opinion and determination t h c
hopes and longings and determina-
tions are now welding for the final
battle to overthrow prohibition-not
to crafty an appetite, but to give life
to an ideal.
st can probably be said with COM
plete truth that the battle to throw
Volsteadism into the discard, along
with a lot of other tyrannies that
have passed, means much more than
death to Volsteadism.
What the move against Volsteadisn
means is great trend toward liber-
alism of the best kind.
No such movement as that gather
ing against Volsteadism can spend its
force or crafty it's ideas on a single
issue. The sweep will continue and
it will carry wide into other fields
bringing much good now unsuspected
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22

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