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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02
By A. F. of L. News Service.

Washington, D. C.-The possibility
of a strike of around 100000 bitumin-
Gus coal miners on August | loomed
threateningly as the Guffey coal sta
bilization bill remained tied up in the
house ways and means committee.
The struggle of the miners for an
approach to economic justice continues
to be blocked by the refusal Of the
operators to grant the demand of the
United Mine Workers Of America for
a 30-hour week instead of the pres
ent 35-hour week, and an increase in
wages averaging about 10 per cent.
The operators insist their limit is the
renewal of the present wages and hour
scale until April j, 1886.
The old contract expired last April
when a strike call by the union to en-
force its just demand was withdrawn
at the request of the administration
pending renewed attempts to adjust
the dispute without a walkout.
Since the April walkout was post
poned, two other strike calls have been
withheld or cancelled at the request Of
the administration. The last order
setting the strike for July | was re
called for one month at the request
Of President Roosevelt, coupled with
the understanding that before the
month expired congress would enact
the Guffey coal stabilization bill which
it is believed would provide the ma.
chinery for settling labor disputes II
the bituminous industry without the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02
100000 Coal Miners
Renew Strike Threat
Walkout Truce Ordered at President Rooseves Request
Expires August Ways and Means Committees
Delay in Reporting Guffey Bill Precpitates Crisis.

necessity of the miners Withholding
the sale of their labor power.
Upon receiving information that the
WAYS and means committee had doubts
relative to the constitutionahty of the
Guffey bill, President Roosevelt told
the committee that there was such a
difference of opinion among authori-
ties as to the position the supreme
court, based on its precedents, would
be the part of legislative wisdom for
the congress to pass the measure and
leave the courts to handle its consti-
tutionality. But the bill still remains
in the custody of the committee.
The hopeful feature of the situa-
ton was the information that the
White House had been assured il
would be reported to the house be-
fore the end of July After passing
the house it will have to be aced or
by the senate, whose members, al
though the measure mas Deen IaVor-
ably reported by the senate commerce
committee, insist it is likely to pro.
woke considerable discussion in thai
body
In the meantime representatives Of
the United Mine Workers and the
operators resumed their conferences
with practically no progress reported
toward breaking the deadlock between
the miners, who ask for fair wages anc
shorter hours to provide work for tht
iobless, and the operators who insist
that maximum profits must be OBJ
tanned even if that objective make:
necessary less than decent livina
standards for those who dig the coal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02
PACKARD PROFITS FROM
STEADY JOBS FOR MEN

The Packard Motor Car Co. cleared
about S1,4o0,oo0 net profits in the
three months ending June 30, and has
orders piled that will keep the plant
going at practically the present out
put all through the summer season,
when most plants are partly shut
down
The usual explanation of this sue
cess is the new and comparatively
cheap Packard car, which has sold
very fast. Union workers in Detroit
have another explanation They say
that the Packard has devoted more
thought and ingenuity to making
work steady throughout the year than
all other Detroit companies, and is
finding this approach to fair play for
the workers a good investment.
Also, they claim that the experience
Of the Packard refutes the claim Of
most auto magnates, that the busi-
ness Of making automobiles must see
saw between a rush and layoff. If
one company can steady employment,
say the workers, why not the rest?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02

Most folks don't get enough. A few
get great deal too much.
Unions have been fighting for a
half-century to remedy that.
The progress has been too slow. 1t
needs speeding up.
Unions were hampered by injunc-
tions and by all manner of coercion
from employers.
Now the Wagner-C Connery act stops
all that. Unions can go ahead.
There's green light and a clear
track to organize.
There is plenty of reason. There is
plenty of wrong to set right.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02
WHAT NEXT?

Scientists at the Bureau Of Stand
ards have developed heat-measuring
device 50 delicate that with it they
have been able to map the zones Of
climate on the planet Mars. For a
rough comparison, this is about like
being able to detect and measure the
head Of a candle hundred miles away.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02

Read the Press--it is the best.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02
House Committee In
Favor of 3O-HOur Bill

Washington, d. C.-The labor COM
mittee of the house of representatives
approved the bill sponsored by Rep
resentative Connery to establish a
30-hour week and ban child labor
These limitations would bemade effec-
tive by barring from the channels of
interstate commerce products in
whose manufacture children under 16
years are employed or adult workers
in excess of 80 hours in any one week
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02

Los Angeles, Calif-By referen-
dun vote the Los Angeles County
District Council of Carpenters estab-
lished scale of $1.10 per hour for
six-hour day and five-day week.
The new scale goes into effect Aug
ust l.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02

These "Saes Tax Punch Cards" are invalu-
able to grocers druggists and all merchants
having small unit sales
They enable the customers to save money
by paying one tax only.
To Wide-aWake merchants they offer oppor-
tunities of getting and holding the custom
er's trade-in short, they are a real SALES
BOOSTER"
These "sales Tax Punch Cards are made to
conform to the Ohio Tax Commission rul-
ings. Made in different denominations
Printed on stiff bristol. Each card num-
bered. Ready for immediate delivery
Phone 1896 for additional information
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02
TheCherry
>" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pre-
foundly. sometimes nippantly,
sometimes recklessIy. -. :.

Eighty families were visited to
make tabulation of living costs in
recent wage arbitration case.
Not one of the eighty families al
lowed cent for the buying of books.
Not one allowed cent for buying
magazines.
They read only newspapers.
Of course, each family gets copy
of the Journal of the union, but aside
from that the family reading in those
eighty families is the daily news
paper
What they know of the world comes
from the daily newspaper. The views
they read are the views of the editor.
The partisanship they imbibe is the
partisanship of whichever newspaper
they buy with their pennies.
Reading one daily newspaper a day,
or even two, doesn't make for any
great breadth of view
The workers in this case aren't by
any means the poorest paid Of work
ers.
What about those in families where
the wage is lower?
| Where is this thing called an Amer
ican standard of living and what
is it?
Not one of these families had q
vacuum cleaner.
They don't help the workers who
make vacuum cleaners.
What would the heads of General
| Electric say about that?
1t would be interesting TO know
And in these families the man can
buy a suit once every three years.
That makes buying a suit a big event
almost an adventure.
But what of the wool mills and the
clothing makers?
For the women and the girls Of
these families there is no money allow
ed for silk garments.
They have no interest in the tariff
on silk from Japan, or the question
of whether Japan buys cotton for the
silk she sells to us.
That is all question that doesn't
matter.
So, what is the condition in famil-
| les where the wage is much lower
than the wage in these eighty famil-
les? There plenty of them.
| There was an example when the
mayor of Alexandria, Vat, told some
striking girl workers to go on relief
| because relief was better than ths
wage against which they struck
| These striking girls worked in non
union clothing factory. OF course, this
was an unusual mayor. He was E. 9
| Dawson, the secretary treasurer OF
the International Association of Ma
chinists He didn't pull his punches.
The figures gathered in the survey
Of these eighty families, picked care
| fully so that they will represent :
great number, will be put in tabula-
tions, and they will mean great
deal We shall have one more cost
of living survey.
| But it will show only what we have
known for long and painful time.
The distribution of wealth is al
haywire. 1t is all wrong.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02
SEAMEN REFUSE TO UNLOAD
CARGO AT VICTORIA, CAN.

BY A. F. Of L. News Service.
Victoria, Can. Striking longshore-
men here persuaded the crew Of the
American mail liner President Nc
kinley TO refuse to unload 400 tons
Of cargo consigned to Victoria from
the Orient.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
No More Bug Tales
AS Norton Leaves

No more amusing and interesting
stories about insects, scorpions,
black widows, etc, will be forth
coming from the agricultural COM
missioner's office, for the author
of the greater number of these
tales, j. 3. Norton, plant patholo-
gist, has left the valley for Harts-
vile, S. c., where he will continue
his experimental work with aspara-
gus and melons.
Norton is the creator of the val
ley's Mary Washington asparagus
and also has collected a motley
collection of scorpions, lizards,
black widow spiders, etc, on his
desk in the commissioner office,
this collection creating county
wide interest.
Today the desk is cleared of its
many papers, the surface is bare
save for the cases containing his
pets who appear somewhat de-
jected and at a loss to account
for the disappearance of their
guardian. Even the scorpions, who
have been SO fascinated by one
another as to be oblivious to every
thing. even food, seem restless and
aware that something is wrong.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
JUDGE WARMER
S|LEN n 7. UPON
DISTRICT CASE

Although it had been expected
that Judge Warner would give his
ruling this morning on the demur-
rers presented by Winnie Barry and
F.. H. McIver to the orders to show
cause brought by Charles Bratton
and E. N. D. Hatch to gain possess
sion of books and records of the
irrigation district offices of asses
sor-collector and treasurer, the
San Bernardino county jurist had
not made public this ruling by
press time this afternoon. 1t is
thought that he might publicize
the ruling before the completion
of the case he is now hearing IN
local superior court.
Judge Warmer came from San
Bernardino on March 25 to pre-
side at the hearing on the orders
brought by Hatch and Bratton and
at the conclusion of the days
arguments stated that he took the
matter under submission with a
ruling to be announced later, pos
sibly when he returned to the val
ley today to preside at the trial of
the damage action which opened
in superior court this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
Teachers GiUen
Life Diplomas

New certificates, renewals and
life diplomas were granted at yes
terday's meeting of the county
board of education held in the Off
ice of the county superintendent at
the court house.
New certificates were granted to
Lorena K. Brewer, Ellen M Ruth
G. H. Bach, Jr., Neva Ellen Ruther-
ford. Lillian e. D. Thompson, Ber-
tina Crane. James McGregor, Mar
garet Radcliffe.
Renewals were granted to Merry
S. Cartwright, Margaret G. Correll
Elsie F. Figaro, Marian B. Lander
man. Helen B. Squires.
Life diplomas were granted to
G.. Kearney Anderson, Gladys Clay
pool. Mrs. p. Cox, Elsie Flatt, Edna
Gullett
Members of the board present
we're: Mrs. Esther j. Kayanaugh of
Holtville, president; George A. Har-
Ian. M. B. Hockenberry, Percy E
Palmer, and c. B. Collins, secre-
tary.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
. SHARP NOTE
Of PROTEST
To GERMANY
II ~@iatEhhs
Abduction Of German Journal
ist From Swiss Soil Arouses
Ire OF Small Nation
WILL HOLD INSTIGATOR
Berne Government Retains Him
As Hostage Until kidnapped
Man Is Returned

Copyright, 1885, BY United Press
BERNE, April 2. U.P)-A grave
international incident was precipi-
tated today over the alleged kid
naping by Nazi agents Of a German
emigre journalist.
Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta
angrily read to parliament note
to Germany which demanded the
immediate return to Swiss soil OF
Berthold Jacob, German refugee
journalist who disappeared from
Basle and was found in a Nazi
prison awaiting trial for high treas
on.
In addition the note demanded
severe punishment of German Off
cials guilty of the kidnapping.
"This kidnapping is serious vio-
lation of Swiss sovereignty, Mot
ia said. at is capable of COM
pletely shaking Switzerland's des-
tiny.'
Motta charged that Baron Kon-
stantin Won Neurath, German for
eign minister, raised objections to
returning Jacob when protest was
made last Saturday.
He said in the note. to Germany
that DR.. Hans Wesemann, held at
Basle as the instigator of the kid
naping and suspected of being head
of a secret Nazi "gestapoo charged
with spying on Nazi refugees, ad-
mitted he lured Jacob from France
to Basle and delivered him to Ma
zis who took him across the from
tier.
Motta said Switzerland would act
first to secure Jacobs return un-
der the German-Swiss treaty of ar
bitration and conciliation of 1921.
If necessary, he said, he would sub
nit it to the World court at the
Hague.
It was understood he also was
prepared to appeal to the League of
Nations.
CA United Press dispatch from
Paris today said information from
,,a3asle was that Dr. Hans Wesemann
thad made a full confession of lead
= cfSi,sp In the kidnapping.
(The dispatch said there was re-
liable information that Switzerland
was holding Wesemann as host
age and offered to exchange him
for jacob
Jacob has been active in expos
ing secrets of German rearmament.
He awaits a possible death sentence
IN Germany.
Swiss police enlisted aid of the
French Surete Rationale and the
British Scotland Yard to trace him.
The alleged kidnapping has been
approaching a climax for week,
and has led to sensational reports
in France of the mysterious "gest-
posi- activities in supervising
movements of German refugees
abroad.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
DIRECTORS Of
SCHAMbER WILL
MEET At. NOON

The board of directors of the FL
Centre Chamber of Commerce will
hold their regular monthly business
meeting on Wednesday at noon,
and will be the guests of the Har-
ris Date Garden at a luncheon Mr.,
and Mrs. l. j. Harris are giving for
the group Their date ranch is To-
Gated on the Dogwood road, mile
and half north of the Holtville
highway and is we'll known through
out Imperial Valley for its abundant
yield of choice, dates.
At this meeting, the subject Of
planting fruiting date palms in the
gardens of Ell Centro will be dis
cussed. cit is possible, =" said Mrs,
Harris. "to obtain fine offshootS
from palms of proven quality. and
If this suggestion is met with ap-
proval by FL Centro residents, 1t
will mean that in years to come
this city will be noted as a beauty
spot of California as are Pasadena
and other cities in the more north-
ern part of the state.
A number of other important
matters will be discussed at TINS
meeting particularly the coming
Broadway of America convention az
Nashville, Tenn, and 1t is hoped
that there will be a large attend
ance at the luncheon.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
u. S. To Seek
Air Speed Mark

WASHINGTON, April 2. UP
Sen. William c. McAdoo Dem0
California, president of the Nation
al Aeronautic association, today
launched a nationwide drive to cap
ture for America major world air
records.
The association during 1885 hopes
to return to this country a large
share of important air records
through vigorous campaign and
cooperation of manufacturers and
private flyers.
McAdoo said several record at
tempts probably would be held dur
ing May and June.
At present the United states Is
poor second among holders Of in-
portant air records, McAdoo said.
i" Some experts" he said, frank
us only fourth IN military aviation
strength. The American public 30
far has failed 10 take full advant-
age Of our air transportation deh-
pite the 10 years devoted 70 rs Or"
ganization
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
TIJUANA HAS
SEVERE FIRE
Outside Help Required To Sub
due Blaze In Resort Across
international Line

TIJUANA, Mex, April 2. U.P-
This one time thriving border town
which flourished as an oasis for
thirsty Americans during the pro-
hibition era in the United States
was threatened by fire today when
an early morning blaze swept
through the business district.
Starting in the building housing
the Midnight Follies, Tijuana'S Sec
ond largest night club, and one o.
the few remaining attractions fol
pleasure seeking Americans, thu
fire spread rapidly to adjoining
gaudily painted frame structure!
before it was brought under con-
troll shortly after dawn.
At least three firemen were re-
! ported injured and others were sale
to have been overcome by smoke
when they entered the blazing Fol
lies building and rescued scores oi
guests from the second floor which
was operated as a hotel.
NdJOl udllldSC Wdo CoihiAico "
the Follies building, which was vir'
tually destroyed, and to an adjoin'
ing building. For a time, however
it appeared that the entire "whitt
way" which since repeal of prohib.
ition in the United States, has triec
to lure American dollars into Mex
leo with gambling casinos, wss
doomed.
Scores of guests were trapped or
the second floor of the Follie'
building when flames swept through
stairways and cut off their escape
Many were forced to jump from
second floor windows into safety
nets, clad only in sleeping garments
The fire, famed by a light wind
spread rapidly and the Tijuana firt
department was unable to stop Its
progress until reinforced by equip
ment from San Diego. San Ysidro
Chula Vista and other points.
The foreign club largest Of THU
ana's night clubs, is just across the
street from the F'ollieS building
but was not damaged.
Firemen said they were unable
to estimate the extent of damage
until owners had been consulted.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
THREE MORE
TANKERS SLIP
PICKET LINES
Close Guard AT San Pedro To
Prevent Outbreak By Striking
Seamen

SAN PEDRO, Calf, April 2. U.P)
Police reserves patrolled the wat
erfront today after three oil tank
ers steamed out of Los Angeles
harbor manned by strikebreakers
and left behind an angry crowd of
striking seamen.
Eight more tankers, idle since
seamen walked out demanding
higher wages and 'hiring hall'
privileges. were reported anchored
in the harbor with steam up await
ing the first opportunity to crash
the strikers picket lines and put
to sea with non-union crews.
Movement of the three vessels,
the Union Oil company's La Pla-
centa and Utacarbon, and the Kel-
logg Steamship company Ger
trude kellogg, brought threats from
strike leaders that they would fight
further attempts to break the
blockade.
Several hundred strikers and
pickets stood on the wharyeS and
jeered as the Gertrude Kellogg
steamed out of the harbor late yes
terday with four huge fire hoses
playing on her sides to avoid moles-
tation by strikers.
Police reserves were summoned
from Los Angeles when it was re-
ported striking Seamen were at
tempting to intimidate the vessel 's
Filipino crew, but the tanker moved
out of the harbor, bound for the
Orient with cargo of fuel oil
without trouble.
Vandals Do Damage
Two acts of vandalism, attributed
to the strike. were reported in tn;
Wiltshire residential district of Lo'
Angeles today.
A barrage of bricks shattered
windows in the home of Martil
Larson. Larson blamed Strikt
sympathizers who. he said, were
angered because a Strike-breakel
was living with him. H. E. Kemp
supervisor for the Union Oil com
pany, told police vandals hurled 6
brick and a bottle filled with oi
through a window of his home
causing damage to furniture and
rugs.
The Utacarbon left early yester-
day with a huge cargo of crude oil
for an unannounced destination
The La Placenta also sailed under
sealed orders.
Strike leaders said the striking
seamen were in a "conciliatory
mood" and pointed to the lack OF
violence as evidence of their con-
tention. They promised, however
that no other vessels would be al
lowed to sail with non-union crews
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
Switzerland Aroused Over Nazi Kidnap Plot
Outside Judge
Hears District
Damage Action

With Judge B. F. Warmer, San
Bernardino. presiding, trial of the
action brought by Salvador Juarez,
ct al, against the Imperial Irriga-
ton District opened in superior
court this morning. The judge will
hear the evidence presented as at
torneys for both sides waived jury.
Harry Horton and Ross T. Hickcox
are attorneys for the defendant
district with Ben Van TreSs, Los
Angeles, representing the plaintiffs.
Plaintiffs in this action are ask
ing damages of 100000 for per-
sonal injuries sustained in an au-
tomobile accident near BraWley on
October 20, 1888. 1t is alleged that
car driven by Clyde Simpson,
then IN employee of the district,
collided with a truck on which the
plaintiffs were riding injuring them
severely. Simpson was on the wit
ness stand during the morning ses-
sion of the trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
POLICE MOVE
RAPIDLY TO
GET BURGLAR

Taken from a box Car near State
street and the railroad tracks at
2;;30 O'Clock this morning, Major
Barber, %, Negro, was booked al
police headquarters on a charge OF
burglary. When searched by po-
lice several articles were found on
his person said to have been stolen
from the H. l.. Bush, Jr., residence
earlier last night.
These were a gold ring set with
two rubies, a gold ring with small
diamond setting; $3.50 in cash, a
straightedge razor and slip-on
sweater. Bush was called to police
headquarters following Barber IS ar
rest and positively identified the
articles as belonging to him.
In addition to these articles q
further search of Barber's cloth
ing brought to light: $l1.08 in cur
rency, a stick pin, tie clasp; wal
let, goggles and several pieces of
silk wearing apparel. Barber is said
to have confessed to the police that
he had entered the Bush home by
opening a screen window with a
wire and he then ranSacked the
house. He was unable to give a
satisfactory account of how he had
come in possession of the things
found on him and police believe
that they were taken in burglaries
in other homes. He was turned ov-
er to the county for further action.
Bush reported the burglarizing
of his home to police last night and
Barber's arrest and purported con-
fession cleared up the matter salts
factorily.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-02
Park Squatter Dies
At County Hospital

John Franklin Van, II, died at
the county hospital yesterday. Fun
eral arrangements were not an
nounced pending the search for
possible relatives of the deceased.
Van, who had been resident of
Ell Centro for many years was well
known to city officials by his per-
sistent efforts to maintain his
home on a tent in the old city
camping grounds on Fifth street
between Park and Adams. Many
efforts were made by the city to
oust him from this property on
which he had squatted but he re-
manned even though the public
camping grounds had been closed.
Advancing age and illness finally
made him give up the struggle
about a year ago and he was
housed at the county hospital.