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The Washington times., 1933-04-17
Convinced He'sBrOke,
KidnUDerSFreeBOOkie

CHICAGO, April II QN.SO.-
Peter McKeone, 33-year-old hand
book operator, who was held for
$4,000 ransom by kidnapers for
three days, today told police that
his abductors freed him when he
convinced them he had no money.
McKeone told police he was held
prisoner in basement.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

of the Presidents wife, to the
post of city comptroller, de-
spite objection on the ground
he was not a Michigan man.
Comptroller Roosevelt later
resigned his post. but the fam
lily friendship continued, and
when the campaign started last
fall, Murphy was one Of the
first to take the field for the
President.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

captured more than they can hold, and the old "King
fish, Of the Louisiana brakes has not been con-
victed by court of law. You must remember that in
that great fraternity, the Mystic Knights of Poll
tics" there is always some crookedness going on
on both sides.
Copyright By McNaugh Syndicate,
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury bala n ce, $484,925-
64S.53; expenditures, S7,48S,244.79I
customs receipts, $S,246,914.2S.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Ware Chauffeur, Stopped,
Lacks New Jersey License

PHILADELPHIA, April IT..
william S. Ware, his wife and
their chauffeur, Oliver Seals,
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
New Philippine Governor
Good Friend of President

Frank Murphy, Detroit's bach
elor mayor, who has been named
Governor General of the Philip
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
WILL ROGERS Saus:

SANTA MONICA CAL, April 17.-Since the whole
country is agreed that we are headed toward the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
OLD AGE PENSION
Bill is Made Law in Indiana

Indianapolis, Ind. (ILNS)-Gov.
Paul V. McNutt, of Indiana, in the
presence of labor leaders and a rep
resentative of the International La
Dor News Service, signed the old age
pension bill passed by the legislature
after fight of II years by organ
lied labor, led by the old age pension
committee of the United Mine Work
ers Of America.
The law will become operative at
the end of 1888. 1t is mandatory in
its provisions and will grant pensions
of not more than SIS a month to in
digent persons 70 years of age or
above, who have resided in the state
Is years.
Exclusive control of the admins
tration of the law is placed in the
hands of county commissions. 1t is
estimated that the cost of the first
years administration will be $500, 900.
The state is to pay one-half of the
pension out of it's general fund and
each county is to pay one-half from
its general fund.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Morrison's Opposition Blocks
Pay Cut For Hard Coal Miners
Days of Chaperonage at
Parties Are Gone Forever

Think Of the days when rows of So
called dowagers, many Of them per-
haps not yet past the early forties,
were obliged to sit for hours al dances
on more or less uncomfortable chairs
smiling heroically through agonies OF
WEAKNESS and boredom!
Incredible as 1t may now seem, there
actually was period when fathers
went to dances with their daughters,
waiting patiently for hours, until at
last 1t was time TO escort the dear
girls home.
Some elderly persons can remember
the old-fashioned picnics and beach
parties, when chaperons of both sexes
uncomplainingly provided nourishment
for hordes of famished mosquitoes.
while their charges swiftly vanished
to indulge in the pRstims then known
AZ "twosing," and now more accurately
termed "petting."
The number OF parents martyred by
the supposed obligations Of chaper-
onags which seldom, II ever, restrained
their offspring from doing precisely as
they pleased Is as incalculable as the
sands of the sea.--North American Re-
view.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Miners Pay Inadequate

Comparing the yearly earnings of
the anthracite miners with the mini
mum family budget prepared by the
United States Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics, Morrison said that the aver
age annual deficiency for each indi-
vidual coal miners has ranged from
S166 to 1854 and aggregates a total
of $12,345 since 1903, omitting the
four strike years. He added:
"The aggregate deficiency or loss of
the wage earners of the industry
ranged from $26,560,00O to $116,870,-
90 per year with total aggregate
loss since 1903 of $1,836,536,000 OF
nearly S2,000,0O0,000, omititng the
loss sustained during the strike years
of 1922, 1923, 1925 and 1926 and also
omitting 1909 and 1882, for which the
data are not available"
with earnings of $88 a. month in
1881 the operators propose reduc-
ton of 35 per cent which would cut
the earnings of the miners to approx
imately $57 a month. Surely this
proposal is made without any compre-
hension of the consequences Of lower
ing the living standards of the
Miners" Morrison said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
DAWES RUNS TRUE
TO FORM
BY JOHN FREY
Secretary Treasurer, Metal Trades
Department, American Fedora
tion of Labor

The under-slung, pipe smoking ex-
vice president of the Nnited States,
ex-ambassador to England, ex-chair-
man of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, in the testimony he re-
Gently offered before the u. S. senate
committee investigating the Insult
collpase, admitted that as banker
he had not hesitated to violate the
letter and the spirit Of the law in
making loans to Samuel insult
1t was not his first offense. Dur
ing the days when Charles G. Dawes
was leading the union smashing cam
paign in Illinois, he was also playing
ducks and brakes with the banking
law. The Lorimer Bank (the LaSalle
Street Trust and Savings Bank, be-
ing in trouble and the federal inspec-
tors about to examine its books, Mr..
Dawes deposited with the bank ST.
$50, 1000 in cash for one day. The AK
aminers finding this cash in the Lor-
inner Banks vaults, were deceived into
believing that it was the banks prop
erty. They knew nothing OF the
string, or rather strong cable, which
was firmly attached, for the day after
the cash was returned to the Dawes
Bank.
For this tricky, dishonest trans
action the receivers of the Lorimer
Bank, for it failed not long afterwards
sued Mr.. Charles G. Dawes, an dali
though he escaped the penitentiary,
he was forced to make restitution IN
the sum of S165,000 for the benefit
of those who had lost money in the
Lorimer collapse.
The question arises, how many
more outstanding bankers have been
doing much the same as the notorious
open shopper-Mr. Dawes? The in
formation is not to be had unless the
congress of the United States orders
an investigation which will not be
permitted to end until all of the facts
concerning what bankers have been
doing have been brought to the sur
face.
Many bankers have demonstrated
rare talent in financial matters,
though in some instances it has been
more in the nature of a corkscrew
than a straight line.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Naming Of Frances Perkins
Criticized By Labor Chief
Labor Is "Keenly Disappointed" at Roosevets Choice
For Secretary of Labor A. F. of L. Head Declares

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-Organ-
lied labor is "keenly disappointed" at
the appointment of Frances Perkins
as secretary of labor, President Will
liam Green, of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, said in statement
issued following official announce
ment of the selection of Miss Per-
kins.
Labor can never become reconcil-
ed~ to Miss Perkins appointment,
Mr.. Green said. His statement fol-
lows:
The officers and members of the
American Federation of Labor are
keenly disappointed over President
elect Roosevelt's selection of a sec
retary of labor.
Labor has consistently contended
that the department of labor should
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
About Weathercocks

The use of weather vanes for In
dicating the direction Of the wind
Is Of very early origin. The instru-
ments used upon castles and towers
IN the olden days were In the form
OF banner, but the use OF the cock
and the name OF weathercock came
about In this way. On ecclesiastical
buildings. the vane was given a sym
bolic significance. The crosspiece OF
the instrument was surmounted by a
ball to Symbolic the redemption OF
the world by the cross Of Christ, and
the cock was placed upon the cross
In aliusion to the redemption OF Saint
Peter. Thus the beholders were re-
minded of the Importance OF the du-
ties OF repentance and Christian faith.
Apart from the symbolism OF the cock,
its large tail Is well adapted TO turn
with the wind, and its form admirable
for the purpose for which the vane
10 intended
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Help Of Roosevelt Sought
For Rail Labor Legislation
With Presidential Backing, Unions Hope to Win Federal
Laws Changing Hours and Working Conditions,
Providing Old Age Security and Unemployment
Insurance Reserves.

Establishment Of payroll re-
serves to provide security in the
nature of unemployment insur-
ance.
Legislation requiring that trains
shall be adequately manned by
full crews and that train lengths
shall be limited.
The unions will also campaign for
legislation to strengthen the provi-
sions governing collective bargaining
and the right Of organization In the
railway labor act and to obtain guar
antees for the safeguarding of the
workers interest in the consultations
of railroad lines.
AS an emergency relief measure,
the unions will fight for passage of
the Costigan-La Toilette direct relief
bill. AS a measure for permanent
relief, they back the Costigan-La
Guardia bill for the setting up of a
United States Exchange Corporation
to provide emergency financing for
unemployed wage earners and the
emergency concentration of power in
the hands of the president and his
cabinet.
Announcement of railroad labors
plans was made by Chairman A. F.
Whitney, of the Railway Labor Ex-
ecutives' Association.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
SPECIAL
Campaign For Label to Be
Pushed in April

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
union label trades department of the
American Federation of Labor is now
preparing for the annual union label
campaign which will be conducted
during April.
All international unions affiliated
with the department and all Central
Labor Unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor have
been invited to take an active part
in this campaign.
while the union label trades de-
partment conducts continuous cam
paign for the union label, shop card
and button, each year, for the period
of one month, this special campaign
is conducted for the benefit OF or
ganized labor in general" John j..
Manning, secretary-treasurer of the
union label trades department, said,
"This is sort Of revival to renew
the interest and enthusiasm Of trades
uninoists and their friends in the
union label.
Each year, in this way, new con-
verts to the cause are made. If given
the support such campaign merits,
there is no doubt but it will greatly
relieve unemployment among trades
unionists.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Y. W.C.A.COmmittee Backs
Levee Labor Investigation

New York City (ILNS)-The pub
lie affairs committee of the national
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton is giving its support to the Wag-
ner resolution providing for senate
investigation of the labor conditions
on the Mississippi food control prof.
ect. The New York headquarters of
the committee at 900 Lexington ave-
nue. has placed facts on the levee
conditions before it's various state
committees and these in turn have
written and wired senators asking
favorable action on the resolution.
Some of the strongest support has
come from women in Southern States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10

New York City (ILNS)-Railroad
labor will seek the aid of President
Roosevelt in putting through broad
program of legislation at the coming
special session of congress. This was
made known following a conference
here between the Railway Labor Ex-
ecutives' Association and Prof. A. A.
Berle, Jr., of Columbia University,
representing Roosevelt.
The railroad unions will press for
legislation to change hours and work
ing conditions which have been denied
them by the railroad managements
and will support measure to give
Roosevelt and his cabinet emergency
power, with authorization to lead a
cooperative industrial and political
movement for business recovery.
Railway labor measures on which
action will be sought include the fol-
lowing:
Establishment OF the principle
of the six-hour day.
Provision for retirement insur-
ance to provide security in old
age.
Limitation of hours of service,
based on reduction of the pres
ent 16-hour- day maximum to II
hours.
Extension of the principle of
workmen's compensation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10

"All localities are urged to take
part in the campaign as a matter of
self-preservation against unfair en-
ployers and those opposed to organ
lied labor.
This can be done by holding mass
meetings to which speakers who are
able to explain the great value of
spending union earned money for the
products and services of organized
labor should be invited. The radio,
newspapers and advertising of all
kinds can be successfully used. The
distribution of literature is a great
help in campaigns of this kind. Free
literature is supplied by the union
label trades department to those re-
questing it."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Grenfsil Missions

The Grenfell Missions In Labrador
and Newfoundland. administered by
the International Grsnfell association,
were founded by Sir Wilfred Grenfell
In 1892 to meet the great need for hos
pitfalls, nursing stations and other serv-
Ices for fishermen and their families
on these coasts. The mission head
quarters is at st. Anthony, Newfound-
land. where Doctor Grenfell lives and
where he has established an orphan
age. His hospital steamship, the
Strathc0na ii, cruises annually along
these coasts and he goes ashore to Wis
1t his hospitals, schools, nursing sta.
tions, orphanages. cooperative stores,
industrial plants, etc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
UNION MUSICIANS
DEDICATE HOME

Chicago, III. iILNS)-With a grand
galaxy of trade union officials and
radio stars doing their stuff" the
new home of the Chicago Federation
of Musicians was dedicated here the
night Of February 27.
Nationally known announcers and
famous bands, including Ben Bernie
"and all the lads" broadcasted in
words, music and what have you the
news of the dedication of the temple
of music"
President James C. Petrillo was
lauded by many speakers. Congratu-
lations came by telephone and wire
while the great enthusiasm was in
progress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Employment and Payrolls
Gain in acking Industry

Chicago (ILNS)-E Employment and
payrolls in the meat packing indus
try increased in January, the Fed
eral Reserve Bank reports, on the
basis of a nationwide survey. Pro-
duetion rose 51a per cent, against an
average seasonal expansion of 21a
per cent, and was only per cent
lower than January, 1881.
While the number of workers in
January was only slightly more than
in December, the number of hours
worked rose 712 per cent and wage
payments increased 642 per cent
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
RELIEF ROLLS
Total Jumps in Two Big
States

New York City (ILNS)-The num-
Der of families in New York state
receiving home and work relief in
creased 13 per cent in January over
December, the state temporary emer-
gency relief administration announc-
ed. A total of 279,473 families, which
included about 100000 persons,
were aided.
The total expenditure for home and
work relief for January was $780,
$50, which was an increase of $481,-
472 over the total expenditures for
these types of relief during Decem-
Der. Work relief wages represented
46 per cert of the total.
Despite the large outlay for relief
wages, 82,643 persons approved for
relief were waiting for work at the
end of the month. The reports for
February are expected to show a
large increase in the numbers of men
and women receiving work, for the
state relief organization obtained $6,-
100000 from the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation for expenditures in
February.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Executive Veto Power

Item veto" Is the name applied to
the power Of chief executive officer
to veto single items In appropriation
bills, without destroying the entire bill.
The President of the United States
cannot veto single Items of bill; he
must sign the entire bill or veto It..
Three fourths of the estate constitu
tions give the Item veto to the gov
ernor and 1t has proved very effective
in preventing riders from being tackled
on important bills.-Pathfinder Maga
zine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10

be what its name implies and that
the secretary of labor should be rep
resentative of labor, one who under
stands labor, labor's problems, labor's
psychology, collective bargaining, in
dustrial relations and one who enjoys
the confidence of labor.
In the opinion of labor the newly
appointed secretary of labor does not
meet these qualifications Labor can
never become reconciled to the selec-
tion made"
Mis- Perkins was New York state
industrial commissioner, heading the
state department of labor. 1t is re-
ported she will be succeeded by John
Sullivan, president of the New York
State Federation of Labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Chemicals in Food

There are at present 10 known
chemical elements which make up
both plant and animal matter. These
elements are found In varying amounts
In ali plant and animal matter and
hence In all food. Some Of them, OF
course, are found In infinitesimsl
amounts. They are: Carbon, oxygen
nitrogen, hydrogen, sulphur, calcium,
magnesium, potassium, iron, phos
phorus, manganese. chlorine, sodium
silicon, aluminium, boron, iodine, du
orins and arsenic.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Campaign For Union Print
Shops

Wilmington, Del-Plans for cam
paign to increase the demand for the
products of printing shops employing
union labor were made at a confer
ence here of the Eastern Pennsyl-
vania and Delaware Typographical
Unions Conference. About 25 local
unions were represented. The confer
ence pointed out that the union is the
best means of maintaining high
wages and purchasing power.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Ban on Yellow Dog Contract
Passed BY N. Y. Senate

Albany, N. Y.-The senate passed
unanimously Senator Monahoe's bill
to bar yellow dog contracts. The bill
is similar to the yellow-dog prohi-
bition in the Norris LaGuardia ant
injunction law enacted last year by
the United States congress. The Mon
ahoe bill applies to the courts of New
York state te restrictions which the
NorrisLaGuardia bill imposes on fed
sral courts. Senator Fearon, repub-
lican leader, voted against it, but the
bill psased by vote Of SO to 13.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
LABOR BEATS CONVICT LEASE
BILL

Little Rock, Ark.--A convict lesae
bill before the Arkansas legislature
was badly defeated as the result of
the opposition of organized labor,
represented by the joint legislative
committee, composed of the legisla-
tive representatives of the Arkansas
State Federation of Labor and the
railroad brotherhoods.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
On Colonial Highways

An important part Of the pageantry
OF the highway, as described by Ma
rion Nicholl Rawson In her book,
From Here to Yonder," pantogra-
ply Of early trails and highway life.
Ia the peddler with his stock In trade
Of pewter, woodenware, tinware. bas-
kets, brooms, brushes.
And now and then we came upon
Z "burylng lott" A single stone Of
two divisions commentaries the join
Ing in death as In life Of the husband
and the wife, but with the husbands
half higher to show his superior po-
sition. Others carry biographical
sketches, lists Of descendants, daguer-
reotype, ambrotypes, verses. This
gravestone inscription stops us. II ex-
pected this but not so soon.'
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Lighthouse in Us. IS Year.

Intended, when built, to last 10
years, Gale Lighthouse. known to
every seaman who has passed the
coast of Ceylon. has served S5 years
and Is expected TO continue al least
another decade. Lighthouses were
practically unknown off the buster
channels leading TO the Western
ocean, the North sea and the Medi
terranean when the one at Gale, then
the chief port OF Ceylon, was built.
long before the days OF the Suez canal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10
Whittier Of Old School Poet.

John Greenleaf Whittier, the Quak
er poet OF Haverhill, was born In 1907.
and WAS member of the famous New
England school OF writer's. The kind.
ly Whittier lived TO be almost the last
of his illnstrious contemporaries EN-
erson, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfel
low, Lowell, and ali the rest.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-10

Workers of America said in a state
ment replying to a nargument for
lower wages. John Boylan, presi-
dent of Distric tho. |; Michael Hart
neady, president of District No. Z;
Martin Brennan, president of District
No. 9, and Thomas Kenendy, inter-
national secretary ?treasurer, signed
the statement.