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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-05
MILK BOTTLE FOUND IN
SUSPECTS AUTOMOBILE
Copyrighted, 1881, BY The Associated


Hartford, Conn.,, March 5.-R}-A
sailor friend Of Betty Cow. the Lind
bergh baby's nurse, was being grilled
Saturday to determine what he may
know OF the baby's whereabouts.
The man Is Henry (Red) Johnson
who has been an employe Of Thomas
w. Lamont. He was taken into Gus
tody Friday night at the home Of his
brother here almost simultaneously
with discovery Of two pieces Of mail
for the Lindberghs In the Hartford
postoffice.
His automobile. answering the de-
scription Of the car believed to have
been used by the kidnapers, was
found In front Of the brothers house.
In 1t was q milk bottle.
Johnson, who has known Miss Cow
three years, according to his story.
denied knowledge Of the kidnapping.
Authorities Secrctive
Hartford authorities said they were
holding him ION the strength Of his
own story" They were extremely
secretive as to the. result Of their
questioning. County Detective Ed
ward J. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for his
investigation in the case Of Gerald
Chapman, who was hanged for muir
der-said following Johnson's arrest
he believed he had obtained "a very
important clue"
John Johnson, brother Of the sailor.
said police were making q mistake
In believing his brother was connected
in any way with the abduction Of the
Lindbergh baby from his crib at the
Lindbergh home near Hopewell last
Tuesday night. As far as the milk
bottle found In the automobile Is con-
cerned, John johnson said, it un-
doubtedly had contained milk his
brother drank on the ride from New
York to Hartford.
Red" johnson Is being held with
out any formal charge against him.
Quite . Ladies' Man
The acquaintanceship between
johnson and the attractive Miss Gov
began three years ago. johnson has
been described by friends as "a clean
cut, young fellow. Is years old, and
quite ladies man,"
The last time johnson saw Miss
Cow. police learned, was late last
week. He telephoned her Tuesday
night-the night the Lindbergh baby
was kidnaped-about o'clock, police
said. At that time he inquired about
the health Of the baby, who was III
with cold.
Wednesday morning waitress In
an Englewood, N. j.. restaurant where
johnson regularly took his meals, told
him Of the kidnapping, and johnson
appeared greatly surprised and ex.
pressed disbelief. "Why, I was talk
ing with the baby's nurse at 8 O'Clock
last night" she quoted him as say
ing, land she said the baby was a
right"
A coincidence which police did moi
overlook was that the Lamont and
Morrow estates in Maine are neigh
bors. Mrs. Lindbergh Is the former
Anne Morrow, daughter Of the late
Senator Dwight w. Morrow: and Mia
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-05
Mrs. Petersen's Piano
Pupils to Give Recital

Mrs. Anne Hurlbut Petersen will
present a group Of her piano stu
dents in a recital Saturday evening
at 7:30 o'clock in the private dining
room at the Grand Pacific Eat Shop
Friends and parents have been ex-
tended invitations.
On the program will be the fol.
lowing numbers: my First Waltz"
Shirley Lasken; 1.-THE Tulip" Eileen
Clark; "Hunters Horn" Grace Erick-
son: "A Deserted Farm" and "Sec-
ond Mazurka," Marjorie Doll; ITO
Spring." Grace Abbott; waltz, Op'
20, No. 1" (Chopin), and Fourth
Mazurka," Bernard Flaherty; "Sun-
rise" Lonny Kunkel; "A La Bien
Aimee" Jane Dixon; Romance in
F Minor" Luella Harding; "Nov-
elette" and "Claire de Lune," Ernes:
tine Steffen; "The Witches Dance"
Jeanette Stewart; "Nocturne in p
Flat" Jane Smith; "Valse Poetique'
and "Kommenoi-O strow" Top. 10y,
Althea Hollensworth.
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w. E. Parsons, deputy superintend-
ent of public instruction. returned to
Bismarck Friday from Forman, where
he addressed q meeting OF school Of
ficerS.
X X X
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Arnot, tbs Fifth
street, entertained the members Of
their bridge club at q o'clock din
ner Friday evening. Places were
marked for 16 guests at the tables de-
corated in the st. Patrick's colors
The evening was spent In playing
bridge, with Mrs. II. F. OHare and
Mrs. J. G. Oberg receiving the score
prizes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Roth and son.
Leroy, 1910 Rosser avenue, LETT Sat
urday for Grafton to spend about
three months while Mr.. Roth is en-
gagged in making improvements to the
power plant Of the state school for
the feeble minded.
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Miss Wilma Barlow, whose mar
rage will be an event OF this month
was honored at q bathroom shower
given Friday evening by Mrs. Wade
D. Gehringer and Mrs. Rowe Now
cry Of Mandan at the dehringel
home, 6l8 Avenue e. Bridge was the
pastime and prizes went to Mrs
Warren s. Hotham and Mrs. Glare
L. Nelson. A decorative motif in
pink and green was carried out in
the table appointments and Miss
Barlow received her gifts as a sur
prise feature. Mrs. Hotham and
Mrs. Anton johnson were guests from
Mandan.
Mrs. James H. Cooper, Valley City
president Of the eighth district OF
the North Dakota Federation OF
Women,s clubs Of which Bismarck is
a part, has left on q business trip
which will take her to points In Min
nesota and Iowa during the next
three months. She plans to return
to the state the latter part Of May
In her absence the business Of the
district will be handled by Mrs. r. O.
F,reeberg, Mercer, vice president, and
Mrs. George E. Berg, Courtenay, Sec
rotary.
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they expected mercy from his Law
enforcement organization.
He said he planned to take per-
sonal charge, continue to try to net
the kidnapers and civ them q taste Of
Jersey justice"
From Cleveland came the offer Of
the full facilities Of the u. 8. naval
air forces for possible use In search
TOR the child. The offer was made to
Col. Lindbergh by Assistant secre-
tary ingalls, Of the navy, . close
friend Of the flier.
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NOTICE-Au travelling mer
and Elks intending to be ab-
sent from Bismarck March Is
call at Elks hall between 3 and
3 p. m. Sunday, March 6.
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emergency training Of drafted troops
to proceed with great rapidity.

emergency training Of drafted troopt
to proceed with great rapidity.
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Steady improvement Is shown II
the condition Of Mrs. A. RISEN, 501
Eighth street, who underwent q ma
jor operation Wednesday at the Bis
marck hospital.
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DR.. Fannie Dunn Quain, SIS Ave-
nue. A, has returned from Madison
Wis.,, where she spent the last three
weeks with her son, Buell. Quain, q
student at the University Of Wiscon-
sin, and her daughter, Mrs. Marian
Quain Sterrett.
Complimentary to her sister-in-
law, Mrs. Elizabeth Vetter Of Man.
dan, Mrs. Roy D. Kennedy, 825
Fourth street, entertained eight
guests at bridge luncheon Thurs
day afternoon. The occasion was the
birthday anniversary Of Mrs. Vetter
and q lighted cake centered the table.
Appointments were In pink and
green. A number Of gifts were
presented the guest Of honor.
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Joy Louise, two-year-old daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Delzer, 800
Avenue A, who underwent an appen-
dectomy Wednesday at the Bismarck
hospital, is making q satisfactory re-
covery, according to hospital attend
ants.
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Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Rohrer and
daughter, Virginia, AL Avenue E, &C
companied by Mrs, Alice Finnegan
and Miss Alma Sundquist, Mason
apartments, left Friday afternoon for
Valley City, where they attended the
Bismarck Valley City basketball game.
From Valley City they went to Fargo
where they will be guests over the
weekend at the home of Mrs. Tnne-
gan's brother in-law and sister, Mr..
and Mrs. F. w. Snyder.
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Cow spent some time with the baby
at the Morrow Maine estate.
Native Of Scotland

Cow spent some time with the baby
at the Morrow Maine estate.
Native Of Scotland
Miss Cow, q native Of Scotland, has
been closely questioned by New Jer-
sey police, Is have al other employees
at the Lindbergh estate In the Sour
land hills country. Officers stated
Friday they were entirely satisfied she
had no connection with the affair.
The employmnt Of Miss Cow Is
nurse for the little Charles Augustus
Lindbergh, Jr., was upon recommend
alton of an employe of Mrs. Lind
bergh's mother. Miss Cows previous
employer, IN Englewood woman.
spoke highly Of her and Friday wrote
the young nursemaid . note reiterat-
Ing belief In her.
During tho night, while johnson
was being questioned, the Hartford
police sent out . request to New Eng
land police to stop roadster in which
there were three men and baby.
The thoroughness with which the
search was being made was evidenced
by the fact that an Associated Press
photographer, en- route by motorcar
from Boston to Hartford. was stopped
by police IL times before reaching
here.
When the questioning Of johnson
was discontinued at $50 o'clock Sat-
urday morning, the only announce
ment was the deckhand was being
locked up on orders Of the prosecu-
tors office. None Of those who took
part In the questioning would even
hint at the nature Of the interroga-
ton.
Lamont Ridicules Idea
In New York the secretary to
Thomas w. Lamont said johnson
had worked on the Lamont yacht
for the last two summers. He said
Lamont was completely surprised"
by word that johnson had been ar
rested and was inclined to ridicule
the idee that johnson had any
knowledge Of the abduction.
Whether Hartford authorities had
sought to connect johnson with two
pieces of mail matter found in the
Hartford postoffice. was not divulged.
The contents Of the letter to Mrs.
Charles Lindbergh were not known
because postal authorities did not
open it, merely forwarding 1t to its
destination the same as any other
letter.
The postcard, however, was held
cut and turned over to New Jersey
authorities. Besides being identical
In its ulisspelling Of Lindbergh's
name as "Linberg" with previous
postcard messages addressed to the
colonel. the ~" in the princeton, N.
j." address was reversed as In the
other notes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
RAIL WAGE
Issue Shifts Base as Post
pOnement is Announced

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Presi-
dent Hoover announced an appeal to
rail executives not to press the wage
issue, but to allow time for expected
recovery in railroad operations, and
the acquiescence of the roads in this
program.
This dramatic move pushed apart
the structure built up by the roads in
the preparation of public sentiment
for wage-cutting movement.
BY the same token, it may have
operated to take the steam out OF
wage-reduction moves in other lines
Immediately on the heels of the an.
nouncement traffic gains were re.
ported by the roads for August, with
decline in losses of net operating
revenue.
Another move, with a problematica
outcome, was the naming of boare
of five to study the railroad situation
and to make public recommendations
On this board are Calvin Coolidge, Al
fred E. Smith, Bernard Baruch, Alex
ander P Legge and Clarke Howell
Sr. 1t is expected this board will rec
ommend Legislative program.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
''Last Word' in Time Study
Is New Electrical Jigger
When Little Mister ChrOnOOg Is Fastened to Your Ma
chine You Are Checked on Every Lost Motion and
Every Idle MOment-Devce Increases Output

New York City (ILNS)-Engineer
Taylor and his stopwatch time study
are out of the picture. Taylorites
have come to more modern point
of view.
But the hunt for speed-up methods
goes on forever, and now comes an
electrical jigger into the industrial
arena to keep such tabs on man
and his work as were never kept
before.
The new device is called the
Chronolog, to be manufactured by the
National Acme Co., Cleveland. 1t
will permit such a check-up on pro-
duction as Taylor never dreamed of.
The Chronolog can be installed on a
giant press that stamps out half an
automobile body, or to fancy little
machines that wrap up pills that may
or may not do what the labels say
they will do. The Chronolog finds the
idle time and chalks it down. No get
ting away from the electrical record
it makes.
Test installations are said to have
resulted in 20 to 83 per cent increase
in production, thus piling more goods
per man hour onto market in which
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
UNION JOBS
Increase While Jobless Total
Grows

Washignton, D. c. (ILNS)-Trade
union membership gained some DUR
ing August and the first part of Sep
tember, but the total of national un-
employment rose from II, 100000 to
il 500, 1000, the A. F. of L. unem-
ployment report just shows
For industry generally lay-offs
about balanced gains in jobs.
The report says small industries
news laid men off and that about 100,-
600 were released in agriculture, ac-
counting for the growth of total un-
employment.
'Unquestionably the winter just
ahead of us holds suffering never be-
fore experienced in this country and
no adequate means are yet in sight
to prevent it" said President Will
liam Green. Leaders of the govern
ment reconstruction program are hard
at work on schemes to create jobs,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07

tom of depression" many are paying
increased dividends. 1t is pointed out
that in the last eight months 100
corporations have paid extra divi-
dends and 27 have increased their
regular dividends.
"The time has come to reverse this
trend" the federation asserts. Our
object from now on should be to raise
wages, not reduce them. Only thus
can we build up buying power and
keep business rising The wage de-
fiation theory arose in scarcity
economy where production could not
supply enough for all. But times
have changed; we are suffering from
problems of over-supply and under
consumption; mass production indus
tries cannot grow unless mass buying
increases.
Hours Must Be Shortened
The federation goes on to point out
"Hours must be shortened as we'll
but if shortened hours mean just
another income cut, this move viii
not be fully constructive. Ever
effort should be made to give work
ers an hourly wage increase to com.
pensate at least in part for their in
come loss"
The Survey points to clear evi
dences of growing resentment at un
employment and defiation. While the
tremendous loss in purchasing power
by labor is cited, the loss of fifty pei
cent by the farmers is cited, in con
nection with the farmers strike o.
the middle west. "The last months
slight improvement in business can
not adjust their fundamental prob
lems," the Survey says. "As wintel
approaches we may expect uprising
to increase"
So, the federation regards the out
look with appreciation of the i'm
provement thus far shown, but ques
tions whether improvement will com
fast enough to ward off the possibl
shock of serious consequences thi
winter.
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work in Coahoma county provide 80
hours labor a week Il. the minimum.
Levee contractors say this may lead
to lean employment and inefficiency
in the common labor class inasmuch
as laborers will have to switch jobs
every three days to keep busy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
c. OF c. BACKS
FOrty-HOur Work Week For
American Industry

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Ten
hours behind the facts, the United
States Chamber of Commerce this
week announced vigorous campaign
to put American industry on a 40
hour week during the depression.
Whether this means that the
Chamber wants a 40-hour week for
those who have jobs, or a 40-hour
week for all wage earners is not
stated.
In any event the directors announce
a call to all employers to inaugurate
work week of 40 hours as the maxi
mum.
Some trade unionists point out that
this is at least step in advance for
the Chamber, since it definitely wipes
out the 48 and 44-hour week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
Cheer Over Gains Shown Dimmed
By Lag of Industrial Payrolls
Monthly Survey Hopeful Citing Many Indications of I'M
provement, But Wage-Cutter is Branded as Block in
Road to observation-disclosures Checked and
Car LOadings Gain and confidence is SPREADING y
Says Review of National Field

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Build-
ing toward a tremendous drive for
increased consumer buying, the A. F.
of L. Monthly Summary of Business
just out crashes down with sledge-
hammer force on the wage cutter and
points to him as the block in the path
of recovery, using charts, facts and
figures to force home the lesson. The
Survey is hopeful-it is almost tinted
with optimism, but it sees the hard
and ponderous fact in the center of
the situation-buying must begin and
it cannot begin except as wages are
paid to furnish the money
The federation lists gains and they
make fairly imposing showing:
Unemployment rise was checked
in August.
Goal mines are more active.
3-Increased car loadings show
goods beginning to move to market.
4-Prices of goods are beginning
to rise.
Then the fly that still walks sticky
footed across the ointment. Banks
not yet supplying credit, retail sales
still tagging.
Confidence is Spreading"
The federation then presents its
diagnosis, briefly:
"The gains taken together are too
modest to rouse enthusiasm, but they
DO hint that since the end of financial
panic we may have entered period
of convalescence to develop into cure
until consumer buying picks up"
What loss of wages has meant is
pointed out in relation to the decrease
in automatic production, discontinue
ance of telephones, doubling up OF
families in rented homes and fall in
purchase of such consumer commodi-
ties as textiles, clothing, furnishings
and the things that go into the cur
rent of retail business. The fedora.
tion survey says workers operate
more than half the passenger auto
mobiles and it agrees with Business
Week that workers with incomes un
der $4,000 a year buy 83 per cent OF
the goods and services consumed each
year.
The effect of wages on retail busi
ness is presented by the survey IL
graphic form. 1t is shown that by
July this year wage earners' in
comes, in terms of goods they will
buy, had fallen so per cent below thu
1929 level, and retail trade hat
followed right along, to within on
per cent. Retail trade in July wa
81 per cent of the 1929 level, which
is proof to business that business
interests lie with labor and not witt
Wall street.
Wages Basis of Prosperity
The survey points out that, witt
prices rising consuming power mus
fall, unless wages also rise, so tina
the only route back to general pros
perity is through rising wage levels
That many companies could pa,
wage increases is declared and tn
survey finds proof of the assertion i
the fact that, "even now at the bot
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
HOTEL WORKERS
in MAIL CAMPAIGN

Cincinnati, 0. (ILNS)-"We've got
to win" is the keynote of letter
writing campaign now under way to
increase membership in the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees Union, under
direction of the international officers
More than 750 individual letters
have been mailed to central labor
councils and state federations, each
carrying 500 cards advertising the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees.
These letters and cards are expect
ed to do the work of organizers and
to pave the way for organizers to
come later.
Secretary-T Treasurer Robert B. Hes
keith calls attention of the central
labor councils and state federations
to the fact that most persons patron
ize a restaurant or hotel at some time
or other. many of them nearly every
day, and that the cooperation of these
patrons will accomplish much for the
organizations.
Careful instructions as to the use
of the cards are contained in the COW
ering letter. The value of trade un-
ionists' patronage in hotels and res
taurants is pointed out as means OF
winning good will for the union. The
union is making progress in spite OF
depression and is making use Of every
available legitimate means of contin.
uing its growth.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
Examples of Old Story

The Lawrence Construction Com
pany of Jackson, Miss, engaged in
the paving of Sidell-Lacombe project
near this city, cut wages of their la
borers to ten cents an hour, resulting
in temporarily tying up all work
However, compromise was effected
and the men returned to work al
1914 cents an hour.
The plant of the Bogalusa Paper
Company is operating seven days q
week. The Gaylord Corrugated Box
Company has increased working time
to two 12-hour shifts instead of two
10-hour shifts. This plant is working
Saturday nights and Sunday.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
CONTRACTS PLAN
To Beat Thirty-Hour Law
On Big Job

New Orleans ULNS)-That the
South is determined to circumvent
the law of the United States in re-
gard to the shorter work day, while
money was given communities and
states with the stipuation that labor
should not be employed more than
80 hours week, is evidenced by in
formation from Greenville, Miss.
Mississippi river levee contractors
there express the belief that the gov
ernment 30-hour week for common
laborers on contracts to be let in
October for new levees from five
miles north of Friar Point to Stovall
will reduce rather than increase jobs
for delta workers.
The average days work on the
levees by common labor is now 10
hours a day, according to contractors.
The change inaugurated by the gov
ernment, they said, will allow labor
ers only three days actual work with
each company a week.
How to Beat Law
Contractors said laborers new en-
ployed on the levees will automatical
ly work in cycle when the 30-hour
week regulation becomes effective,
which would mean that the laborers
will be switched from one job to an.
ether as soon as each one of them
finishes a 3O-hour stretch of work
with one company. The clauses in the
contracts to be let in October fol
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
Unions Ask Hoover Help In
Fight Against Wage Cuts
Railroad Labor, Denouncing Employers Policy, Ask
President to Make Government Loans Conditional on
Maintaining Rates of Pay.

Washington.-Foll up their
refusal to discuss proposed wage cuts
with railroad managements, represen-
tatives of 81 railroad labor organiza-
tions declared any further cuts at
this time IAN unsound and destruc-
tive policy" and asked President Hoo
yer to make additional Reconstruction
Finance Corporation loans to the rail
roads conditional upon maintenance
of present wages.
Pointing out that railroad employees
are now working under 10 per cent
reduction agreement, which expires
February l, the railroad unions,
through the Railway Labor Execu-
tives' Association, presented a state
ment to President Hoover, which said
that "when there are some hopeful
signs that the depression may have
run it's course, when there is renewed
hope of early economic recovery, the
railway employees find themselves
menaced by further reductions in
wages"
owe have supported and will con-
tinue to support and advocate the use
of all of the resources of the govern
ment to relieve unemployment dis
tress and to aid and promote indus
trial activities which will increase
employment" the statement contin-
ued. "But when the government is
making such efforts we submit that as
a part of it's policy there should be
unyielding opposition to reductions of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-10-07
Home Owning Gains

Homecoming families now num-
Der 46.8 per cent of all families in
the United States. This proportion,
just announced by the U. S. Census
Bureau is the result of door-to-door
count of the entire country. The num-
Der of homecoming families is grow
ing faster than the number Of all
families. In 1920, the proportion Of
homecoming families was 44.6 per
cent.