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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
PAY REDUCTIONS
Resistance Is Urged By New
York Labor

Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)-Labor or
ganizations throughout New York
state are called upon to resist any
attempts at wage reductions, in a
statement issued by the executive
council of the State Federation of
Labor.
The executive council declares its
full agreement with the recent decla-
ration against wage cutting made by
President Green, of the American
Federation of Labor, and goes on to
say:
"The policy of organized labor is to
continuously and constructively ad-
vance the welfare of all wage earn
ers by elevating the standards of life
and living by reasonable increases in
wages and by gradual reductions in
the daily and weekly hours of labor
to meet the increasing productivity of
the power tool and thus as nearly as
possible to assure employment to all
workers. This is the industrial policy
that brings prosperity to US and keeps
it with US"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
WANT FIVE-DAY WEEK

Providence, R. 1.-The Building
Trades Council asked local contractors
to favor the fve-day week. Several
affiliates of the council work under
this system.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
FOkD'S TRACTOR
PLANT I'm IRELAND
DOUBLES OUTPUT
Last Year, of Which Nearly
Half Were Shipped to u.
S., Commerce Department
Reports.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Thc
Ford tractor plant at Cork, Ireland,
produced in 1880 a total of 1924
units, of which 6,815 were shipped to
the United States was 1,409.
No exports to Russia are noted in
1929, excepting of tractor parts; and
in 1880 the total shipment of tractors
to Russia was one unit. 1t is reported,
in the commerce reports of the COM
merce department, that an antici-
pated contract from Russia could not
be accepted, for lack of underwriting
which means lack of cash and credit.
But there were considerable ship
ments of tractor parts to Russia,
amounting in 1880 to a value of ST.
767 1893.
On account of the failure of the
Russian contract it is stated that the
plant at Cork reduced its employees
from 1000 to a skeleton force of 250;
until production was gradually built
up during the summer, increasing at
one time to about 2,700 employees.
The product was shipped to all
parts of the world, the principal con-
signments being to Great Britain,
Germany and Australia, each of
which took over 1000 tractors, and
included also 901 units to Argentine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17

irons. And such is the we'll known
policy of the w. C. F'rechtling Co.,
and upon which the success of the
firm was built. The Frechtling store
has firm hold upon the affections
of its public. Miss Martha Stead has
been most efficient manager of the
store in these latter years, and Louis
Shellenbach the advertising manager
In celebration of its diamond jubilee
year, the store will inaugurate
throughout the entire year a series
of sales which will be of great benefit
to its customers and friends. From
time to time announcements will be
made of the numerous and attractive
things the store will offer during the
years celebration, to which the entire
public will be invited to participate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
Through q
WOInan's Eyes
bv Jeam Newf0R
WITHOUT THAT SOUL,
/. WHAT GOOD ARE WE?

a BRITISH inventor has achieved
4 n mechanical man. He calls him
a Robot-Mr. Richard Robot
The mechanical man can stand up
and talk and obey commands and,
with some limitations, carry on q con-
versation.
Showing off for his inventor,
when told to Wake up" he opens
his electric light bulb eyes, stands
up, bows when told to do SO, saying
Good morning" and when asked
"How did President Garfield die?'
Kisses. "He was assassinated r
He cannot yet walk, but that is a
mere detail. What his inventor is
working on now, we learn, is to make
him really SEE. This he expects to
do-and a little science won't hurt
us-by an application of the princi-
pies of the ultra red ray working with
a selenium cell.
We've heard q lot about Robots
mechanical men, In fact not long ago
we had play about them. And now,
apparently they have become a re-
ality, and are going to become more
and more familiar At a recent meet
ing the New York Electrical society
gave a series of exhibits Of how auto
nations can do away with man power,
how Robots can do the work of men.
If the Robot can be made TO see,
he can be made to walk. Is 1t then
beyond the power Of the imagination
that he shall eat, digest food, even
grow? No. Contemplating the tre-
mendous heights that science has al
ready scaled, one would hesitate to
deny that there are any attributes of
man with which men of science may
not some day endow a being of their
own construction. With one excep-
ton. They may give him everything
to make the semblance of a man.
They may manufacture, even, GER
tain chart of life. But what man can
not create is what in the final an
alysis really constitutes man-and
woman And that is soul.
Without that soul, what good are
we anyway? Ninety-efght cents worth,
the chemists say. So 1t ought to be
easy enough to reproduce us.
90 by the Bell Syndicate, Gnc.)
n
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17

conditions, and said America lacks
industrial leadership. Men who pose
as 'sleaders" have no remedy but
lower wages, he said,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
W. c. FRECHTLINC co.
Observes Diamond Jubilee
Year of Stores Founding

Seventy-fve years is a long time
to continue business, of whatever ma
ture, in one place, or many places,
SO far as that is concerned, but that
is the story of the w. G. Frechtling
Co. From modest beginning in a
small room of store established by
VIM. c. Frechtling and his brother
Henry, to deal in groceries, dry
goods and notions, at its present loca-
ton in the Beckett block, Second and
High streets, has grown the present
pretentious store of the w. C. Frecht-
ling Co.
To continue business at one location
successfully, a firms policy must be
one of integrity, honesty and fair
dealing with it's customers and pa
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
''How Dry We Are" How DRY Are We?


Chicago, ILL., April II QLNSTha beena
drinking 1922 when the tide the
w. Industrial
powerful business organization
Through the of Samuel insult
Commission
COL Anderson showed
1922, drunkenness
Virginia from 1917 population 194O per
thousand in 1929
Taking the estimate of the Bureau
Anderson liquor of all kinds
certainly
prohibition" he said
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
NuTTY NATURAL
HISTORY
THE CUBAN RUMMY
= ar huoH HUTTON .

THE spiritually minded tourist In
Havana, if he were able to have seen
the old cathedral, may have noticed
the carved figures of these little crea-
lures grouped above the portico. They
were formerly very plentiful, and were
mentioned by Columbus in his letters
to Isabella, the Spanish queen. The
rummy, he related in his quaint Gen
oese dialect, had caused great deal
of trouble with communications by
perching by the hundreds on the new
telephone wires and breaking them
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
REDUCTION OF WAGES
MAKES THINGS WORSE

Cleveland, Ohio Reduction of
wages is economic fumbling," declar-
ed Rabbi Bricker, of Euclid Avenue
Temple, in plea for men to think
straight rather than continue the
cause for our depression.
"The way out lies in higher wages.
not in lower buying power of work
ers who are the nations best custo-
mers," he said. The rabbi predicted
four-hour day. He blamed bust
ness men and politicians for present
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17

fundamental policy" of the company
to pay wages in line with the current
scale.
Other rubber concerns are reported
to be contemplating wage cuts.
Akron is built around rubber fac
tories wherein organization of labor
is denied. The industry is marked by
rigid espionage systems.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
WAGE CUTS FOR LABOR
IN AKRON FACTORIES

Akron, Workers in the local
rubber industry are facing wage cuts
that range from to 20 per cent.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
pany, with $4,000 employees, is lead
ing this movement which is given the
soothing title "reclassifcation."
The B. F. Goodrich Co. took SINH
lar action on the ground that it lis a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17
Your Hat Is Ready
For You!

Yes, sir-that new hat you have been want
ing for several weeks-it's waiting for you
at Strauss. You can search the headwear
world and you won't find any better quail
ities-or more moderate prices-than here
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17

have been an unknown thing, today
hearty laughs are heard-all as re-
suit OF the big gathering. Cox says:
"We have to have more of 'em,"
meaning the gathering.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-04-17

down. 1t is now believed that it was
the soft-shelled egg Of the rummy
that Columbus stood on end.
The writer waited fourteen hours
In frozen swamp to get this picture
Of an alighting rummy, which shows
clearly its pistachio-nut head and fl
bert body. The wings are split al
mond shells, and peanut feet with
Glove legs hold him up pretty we'll
The nose Is popcorn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05

| ond straight world championship. In
| five games, two OF them world series
contests in 1929 and 1880, the Chief
Executive has never seen the Athletics
! beaten.
1t seemed today as though the Cardi-
mails, rallying around the brave single
handed offensive of Martin, the feet
centerfielder, who Is hitting over ZOO
and playing inspired base ball, has the
best chance of any National League
club in five years to overcome the domi-
| nation of the American League cham
pions.
They're very tough" said the So
year-old Connie Mack today, but NO
tougher than expected. I wouldn't
be surprised If we had to go to St
Louis again and to seventh game If
We are to win out"
Echoing Macks forebodings, even
rabid supporters of the Athletics were
willing to admit the danger Of Martins
teammates, shaken out of q two-year
play, coming tc life to play the kind
Of ball that spread-eagled the field in
the National League season as thor
oughly as the Athletics conquered the
opposition in the American circuit. If
only large part of that should hap
pen, the AS would be desperately put
to head off the, Red Bird charge in
such a short span as the five games
remaining of the series.
The blase attitude Of the Philadelphia
faithful after the Athletics opening
conquest has been dissipated by the
stubborn Cardinal opposition in the
second game, one Of the most inter-
esting and spectacular contests in
world series history.
Hundreds waited overnight In the lines
at the 81 windows for the sale of
rush" seats in the bleacherS. The
head man in that line was the repre-
sentative of an athletic club, that
wagered 81 against 5000 with rival
club that it could buy the first cheap
ticket issued. He had been there since
last Tuesday night.
To brighten the batting eyes of such
clouters as AL Simmons, Jimmy FoXx,
Mickey Cochrane, Jimmie Dykes, Mule
Haas, DID Williams and the rest, Con-
ME Mack sent his team through stiff
two-hour batting and fielding drill yes
terday, despite the blue law ssnctity
of the city. Almost as soon as Gabby
Street had his Cardinals unpacked
shortly before noon, after their train
ride from st. Louis, he raced them out
onto the ball field for the same sort
of practice.
Unkind observers suggested that some
sort of mental drill might be useful
along with the physical calisthenics.
pointing out that over the brief span
CT two games there have been far more
than the normal number Of mental
lapses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
LABOR FEDERATION
FOR JOB DIVISION
Green Says Industry Must
Furnish More With Means
or Pay Higher Taxes.

BY the Associated Press.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
october 5.-America's representatives
Of organized labor convened here today
demanding that private industry fur
nish more jobs or pay the penalty of
higher taxes.
The fifty-first annual gathering of
the American Federation OF Labor was
summoned, President William. Green
said, to present the Nation practical
methods, both temporary and perma-
nent, of relieving unemployment and
depression.
Green Outlines View.
It's first official duty. after being
called to order, was acceptances of well
comes to be rendered by W. A. Mac
kenzie, minister of labor and mines
Nels Lougheed, minister of mines, and
other officials Of British Columbia,
which custom decreed that President
Green must answer.
First actual work before the delegates
was presentation of the Executive
Councils report, recommending a ma
tional conference on work apportion-
ment, shorter hours, wage standard
maintenance. work assurance, prohibi-
tor of child labor, industrial stabiliza-
ton, especially in seasonal industries,
and balance of production to equaliZs
supply and demand.
It suggested higher taxes on great
wealth, modification of the Volstead
act to permit 2.75 per cent beer, private
and community unemployment relief
work and comprehensive planning to
prevent future depressions, with ma
tional economic conferences" to show
the way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
BANKER PREDICTS |
RAIL RATE RAISE
Fairman Dick of New York
Tells Atlantic City Gather.
ing Tangible Step Needed.
BY the Associated Press.


ATLANTIC CITY, October 5.-A pre-
diction that the Government will grant
Is per cent railroad freight rate In
crease was given the savings banks divi-
sion of the American Bankers Associa-
ton convention today by Fairman r.
Dick, New York investment banker.
Mr.. Dick, who has appeared before
the Interstate Commerce Commission as
a representative of holders of millions
of dollars of railroad bonds, dismissed
bus, waterway and taxation difficulties
as incapable of quick solution.
Confidence Seen Lacking.
1.-The difficulty lies rather in lack of
confidence than in lack of present
earnings" he said. ITO restore conf
dence and convince investors that the
railroads would be permitted adequate
earnings in the future, some tangible
step must now be taken by the COM
mission. The only practical step yet
suggested is the proposed rate increase.
I'm spite of theoretical situation, I
am not pessiInistic as to its solution. !
believe that the Government fully in.
tends to give investors the protection so
clearly stated in the transportation
act"
Thrift Basic Factor"
Thrift as "a basic factor in Gods
ordering of the universe" was stressed
today
eff you believe in the wisdom, power
and foreight of divine rule of the
world" said A. c. Robinson. president
of the Peoples Pittsburgh Trust Co.,
opening the division meeting, you have
no option but to believe that thrift
the providing today for uncertain to-
morrows-is a basic factor in His plane
ming and ordering OF the universe"
The speaker attacked the dole as q
corrupter of character Of the individual
and Nation.
Permanent Lending Values.
A plea that savings banks cooperate
to provide permanent lending values,
rather than speculative values. was adj
dressed to the division by Henry Bruere,
president of the Bowery Savings Bank
of New York
He urged the bankers to look to the
statisticians, sociologists and economists.
who have the ability to synthesize
Americas perhaps too great fund Of
knowledge" and proposed that the saw
ings banks have courage to take up
the torch of leadership, which every
one seems afraid to handle, by show
ing what cooperation can accomplish"
The division elected Jay Morrison
vice president of the Washington Mutual
Savings Banks of Seattle, president and
Gilbert L. Dame of the Grand Rapids,
Mich, Savings Bank vice president
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
PRESIDENTS PITCH
!: ST|RS 100000 FANS
Toss Renewing AS and Card
Games Made as Multi
tude RoarS.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,
staff CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

SHIBE PARK, Philadelphia Pa, Oc-
tober 5.-Forty thousand base ball fans
this afternoon cheered President Hoo
yer as he threw out the first ball to
start the third game of the world series
between the Philadelphia Athletics ana
the st. Louis Cardinals.
MI. Hoover, accompanied by Mrs,
Hoover and a small party of associates,
arrived at the park shortly before the
start of the game. He was cheered
Justify by fandom as ne took his seat
in a flag bedecked box and the smile
on his face indicated both his apprecia-
ton of this wild greeting and his pleas
ant anticipation of the game ahead.
Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia was
Mt the North Philadelphia Station to
receive the President and accom-
panied him on the short motor ride
to the ball park With the Philadel-
phia mayor were his wife ana Mr.
and Mrs. Jay Cooke OF Philadelphia,
old friends of the President and Mrs.
Hoover.
Arrive by Special Train.
The presidential party made the trip
to Philadelphia on special tram OF
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, which lelt
washington at 1915 am. The Presl-
dent expects to be back at the Whlte
House in time for dinner tonight.
In the presidential party were oee-
rotary Adams and Mrs. Adams. Law.
renee Richey, Theodore Joslin and
waiter Newton, the Presidents Secre-
taries: Capt. Russell Train and Col
Campbell Hodges, naval and military
aides. respectively, and Capt. j. T..
Boone. White House physician. There
were the usual number OF newspaper
correspondents and news photog-
rapherS.
the presidential party nscessltated a
long walk across the field to the private
box of President Shibe of the Phila-
delphia base ball club.
Although the President was seated IN
a section containing the most rabid
of the Athletics rooters, he was on
hand as a neutral observer. Neverthe-
less the Philadelphia supporters claim
him, because of the five games the
President has witnessed in which the
Athletics were playing, two of them be-
ing world series games in Philadelphia.
they have been victorious in all OF them.
Mr.. Hoovers pitch to the home plate
was a better "heave" than he made
last year, when, during the confusion
incident to the picture taking and
cheering while the President stood up
and held the ball preparatory to pitch
ing it out on the field, he held the ball
so long that the umpire produced an
other ball and the game started, leaving
the President holding the original ball.
He sheepishly tucked the ball into his
coat pocket and from accounts has
given 1t a conspicuous place among his
souvenirs.
DAY BRIGHT AND SUNNY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
SOLDIER DIES IN CRASH.
Pvt. B. A. Costanzo Killed in Collision.
CoIored Driver Is Arrested.

Pvt. Ben A. Costanzo. 24-year-old
soldier stationed at Walter Reed Hos
pital. was killed instantly early today
when an automobile he was driving to
Baltimore collided with another ma
chine near Laurel, Md.
Another Walter Reed soldier. Pvt.
Paul Van Ormer, who was riding with
CoStanZo, received minor injuries.
Their machine was struck by taxi
cab occupied by seven colored persons,
all of whom were slightly injured.
Eugene Jackson of Washington, COL
ored. driver of the taxicab, was arrested
by Maryland State police and charged
with manslaughter. He is being held
at Laurel under 1000 bond
State Policeman Arthur Plummer said
Jackson was driving on the wrong side
of the road toward Washington when
his cab crashed head-on into the car
being driven by Costanzo. The acct
dent occurred about am.
Coroner Harry Scott of Laurel pro-
nounced CoStanZo dead. The soldiers
home was in Brooklyn, N. Y, where he
is said to have father living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05


of coincidence to the officers father,
Commodore Charles Henry Harlow
U. S. N, retired, who is visiting in San
Francisco. The elder Harlows home is
in Washington at the Mayfower Hotel.
Lieut.. Comdr. Harlow lived at 3407 o
street. His permanent address in naval
records is given as the Army and Navy
Club. He had distinguished career in
the Navy.
For his World War service, he was
given the Navy Gross. He participated
in the only direct attack upon a Ger
man submarine, which was forced to
surrender to an American war vessel,
when he was executive officer of the U.
S. S. Nicholson. The Nicholson, with
the U. S. S. Tanning, on November II,
1917, of the south coast of Ireland, en-
gagged the German submarine U-58, as
a result of which the submarine was
forced to come to the surface and sur
render.
His citation follows:
For distinguished service in the line
of his profession as executive officer of
the U. S. S. Nicholson in an attack
upon the German submarine U-58 and
subsequently in boarding and taking
command of the torpedoed steamship
Luckenbach, which through his firm
and efficient action was brought safely
into port
Appointed by President.
Lieut.. Comdr Harlow was born In
Annapolis October %, 1890, and was
appointed to the Naval Academy by
President Roosevelt in 1908. He was
graduated from the Academy and
commissioned an ensign in 1912 He
served on various ships until his World
War encounter with the enemy subma-
rine brought him into prominence.
He was ordered to the Asiatic Fleet
in 1927 and served aboard the light
cruiser U. S. S. Marblehead until 1880,
when he was ordered to the Bureau of
Ordnance here. He came on duty to
the Capital on July 80, 1880.
SOLDIER DIES IN CRASH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
CONTRACT AWARDS GAIN

Public and semi-public contract
awards amounting to $50, 10000 and
covering 484 projects were reported last
week to President Hoover'S relief or
ganization.
This compares with S28,o1e, 900 worth
of awards the preceding week The
total Of awards reported since December
!, 1880, was given today as saw I, 500 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
UTAH CHURCH URGES
REVISION OF WEALTH
Presidency Of Latter-Dsy Saints
Advocates Redistribution as
Conference Closes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
SALT LAKE CITY, October 5.-A
more equal distribution of wealth as
means Of restoring stability and
peace to the world was advocated by
members of the First Presidency of
the Latter Day Saints Church at the
closing session of their semi-annual
conference here yesterday.
President Heber j. Grant, Anthony
w. WINS and Charles w. Nibley, mem
bers of the First Presidency, joined
in plea for a more equal distribu-
ton of wealth, but warned against any
forceful means of attempting such a
measure.
Senator Reed Smoot, a member of
the Council of Twelve, stressed the
need of religion in the world today.
He blamed atheistic teachings for the
increase in crime in the United States
and sharply criticized violators Of the
prohibition law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
DRIVER ABANDONS STOLEN
AUTO FOLLOWING WRECK

An automobile which ran over the
curb and collided with the side of
house at Seventh and Florida avenue
northeast, Saturday night, was stolen
from C. C. McDevitt. 144l Spring road,
two hours earlier, the police said today.
McDevitt, who had been attending
bowling match at the Convention Hall
alleys, reported the machine missing at
the second precinct at about the same
time No. 9 precinct, in the Northeast,
received report that the machine had
run into the side of the house, follow
ing collision with a taxicab. The
taxicab driver said the operator Of the
other machine ran.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
SENTENCE SUSPENDED
Rubio Attacker Held in Prison
However, Awaiting Appeal.

MEXICO CITY, october S P-
Daniel Flores, who shot and wounded
President Ortiz Rubio in February,
1880. was granted technical suspen-
sion of his 20-year prison sentence to-
day by the Supreme Court.
The court ruled that the sentence
should be tentatively suspended until
a petition by the prisoners attorney for
modification of the punishment is de-
cided on. Flores will remain In the
federal district penitentiary, however,
although not under sentence.