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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-06-19
D. 5. Courts Deny hyunctions
To Cripple Labor Boards Work

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Two
important legal victories have been
won by the National Labor Relations
Board in pending injunction suits.
At San Francisco federal district
Judge Harold Louderbach denied the
petition of the Moore Drydock Co.
which sought to restrain the board
from conducting a secret election to
determine the choice of the workers
for representatives in dealing with
the company.
Judge Louderbach dismissed the
company's complaint.
The Drydock Company is engaged
in ship building on the Oakland
estuary and employs $40 workers.
24l of the workers signed the petit
tion asking the board to conduct an
election to determine whether Local
IL, Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
of America is their choice for a repre-
sentative in collective bargaining. In
its suit for injunction the company
had claimed that the holding of an
election would irreparably injure its
labor relations, and that the National
labor relations act is unconstitutional.
Lumber Company Again Loses
A second denial of an injunction
was in the case of the Bradley Lum-
Der Co. of Warren, Arkansas. This
company has previously been denied
a restraining order by Federal Dis
trict Judge Wayne G. Borah at New
Orleans. 1t had appealed to the cir
cult court Of appeals for the 5th
circuit, and had been denied a stay
pending the appeal. When the board
attempted to conduct hearing at
Warren last winter it was restrained
on the order of state judge. The
hearing was moved to New Orleans,
witnesses being taken to New Orleans
lin busses, and the attempted restraint
subsequently removed.
A wire received by the board an
nounced that the 5th circuit court
of appeals has finally denied the
companys suit. The Bradley Lum-
ber Co. is charged with the dismissal
of a number of workers because they
joined the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners. The case is
now before the board for decision.
Boards Jurisdiction Upheld
Judge Sibley, for the court, in the
opinion wrote as follows concerning
the jurisdiction Of the board in cases
affecting interstate commerce.:
"For long period congress has
considered and legislated upon diff
culties relating to labor unions and
strikes as burdening and impeding in
terstate and foreign commerce. That
they may be constitutionally regu-
lated in much the same way as this
act proposes when affecting inter
state railroad transportation was de-
cided in Texas and New Orleans r. R.
Co. VS.. The Brotherhood, 281 U. S..
548. But interstate railroad trans
portation is only one field Of inter-
state commerce. Other modes of
transportation of person and prop
erty, interstate distribution Of goods
by pipe line, and of information by
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-06-19
NLRB IS ENJOINED
BY Federal Court in Texas
Strike

FL Paso, Tex. (ILNS)-Federal
Judge Charles A. Boynton, of the
West Texas district, has declared the
national labor relations act unconsti-
tutional, and issued permanent in
junction against the NLRB in Wash
ington.
This action of Judge Boyton is di-
rectly contrary to that of his imme-
diate superior, the federal circuit
court sitting at New Orleans. Less
than a week ago, in the Bradley Lum-
Der case, the circuit court denied an
injunction against the board, and held
the national labor relations act con-
stitutional. Judge Boynton's decision,
on appeal, goes straight to this cir
cult court.
NLRB Hearings Forbidden
The injunction was sought by the
Ell Paso Electric Co, Stone & Web
ster subsidiary. The international
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
complained to the labor board last
fall of the unfair labor practices OF
the company. The company delayed
hearings as long as it could, and sent
one Of its legal staff to Washington
to ask postponement. The labor
board refused to postpone the case, but
the representative of the company sent
telegram to Texas saying that the
board had consented.
The result of this misrepresenta-
tion was an all-around snarl, only
recently Strengthened out. Meantime,
the Electrical Workers are on strike
and the board has been holding hear
ings on their charges against the com
pany. These hearings are forbidden
by Boynton's injunction.
Harks Back to Ancient Law
Labor men here say that Judge
Boynton, in one part of his decision
goes back to the Middle Ages
"The constitutional questions here
involved are of grave Importance, says
Boynton in a 80 2-page decision, "se.
riously affecting the relations be
tween employers and employees, a sub
ject heretofore always regarded as
and held to be domestic relation
local in its nature
Labor leaders hold that it is sim.
ply silly to talk about domestic rela,
tions' between an employing corpora
tion, with head quarters in New York
and perhaps 100000 employees scatter
ed over the entire country.
Judge Boyton was appointed bs
President Coolidge, December 16, 1924
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-06-19
With Huge Wealth at Command
Three Of big Four Paid Half
OF Employees Only $ll Per Week

stemmeries, whose working hours
were 80 and 40, was Sill"
In other words, these three biggest
members of the Big Four, with al
most $150,o00,0O0 laid by in spare
cash, pay half the workers in an es-
sential part Of their business less than
81 a week One Of these companies
has paid it's president as high as
$4,000 dollars week, more than a
million dollars a year. And not
member of the Big Four gang seems
able to blush at such disgraceful
wages.
1t should not be forgotten that the
Big Four make the non-union cigar
ettes
Stemmery Pay Even Worse
1t is true that dealers stemmeries
pay even worse wages. The median
wage in these plants was $685. a week
for those who worked 55 hours, and
for those who got in only % hours a
week. But who buys the tobacco
from these dealers? The Big Four
obviously buy large share of it; and
for every pound they buy, they help
to establish wages of less than II
cents an hour, $500 for a 28-hour
week
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-06-19

telephone, telegraph and radio are
other fields.
Manufacture, mining and agricul-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-06-19

ture in themselves are not interstate
commerce although the product will
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-06-19

Genuine Frigidaires-Estate Stoves-Thor
Washers and Ironers. Hoover Cleaners.
Troy Porch Furniture-Zenith and G. e.
Radios Whittall-Anglo Persian Rugs
Masland Argonne Rugs-Coolmor Porch
Shades-Armstrong and Sealex Lin0leums
Sellers Kitchen Cabinets Simmons
Springs and Beautyrest Mattresses-Hey
wood Maple urniture-Grand Rapids Law
ing Room Suites-These and scores of other
nationally known quality lines await your
choosing.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
RING
SUSPECTS DENY
GUILT AT L. A.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. II. UP
Nine of eleven persons indicted by
the county grand jury in its in
vestigation of local Vaccinations
of a reputed coastwide illegal OPP
erations ring" entered pleas of not
guilty when arraigned today before
Superior Judge Thomas l.. Ambrose.
Among the defendants were Will
liam Byrne, former investigator for
the state medical board, and r. l..
Rankin. president of the Medical
Acceptance corporation, who were
surrendering to the secret indict-
ment for the first time.
The entire group were ordered
to return Aug. "a and receive trial
date.
Capt. William Penprase reported
that two defendants, DR.. Harry l.,
Houston and his office nurse, Bessie
Mccarthy, had not been located
and that he believed they had left
the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17

indirectly for a fifth death as ar
ambulance speeding to the scene
of the accident crashed into ar
automobile, fatally injuring four
year-old girl.
Although attendants at the air.
port rushed towards the plane i'm
mediately, they were unable to
reach the wleckage because of the
flames. The bodies were identified
from charred bits of clothing as
those of:
Phil Torrey, pilot and Phoenix
restaurant owner.
Steve Lindsay, restaurant man.
ager.
Harold Baker, ice company exc
cutive.
Dwight Hanson, soap salesman.
According to witnesses, Torrey
apparently was unable to see clear
ly as he tried to bring the plane
down at dusk yesterday after q
pleasure cruise over Phoenix.
Attendants said the StinSon
cabin monoplane swooped low anc
struck the tree with a wing, tip
ping off its course towards the
ground. The plane struck the
ground at high speed, burying its
nose into the dirt and bursting
into flames instantly.
Torrey apparently had no oppor-
tunity to switch off his ignition
before the plane crashed.
Fire equipment was rushed to
the field but the flames had eaten
through the plane before they
could be eXtinguished.
Rosita Martinez, aged four, was
fatally injured when an ambulance
rushing toward the airport struck
the automobile in which she was
riding.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17

basket.
1t hit with renewed force an area
where green crops already have
turned a listless brown and where
thousands of farmers have been
forced on relief by its ravages.
It included Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and eastern South ano
North Dakota today. BY tomorrow
it was expected to engulf the entire
upper Great Lakes region, forecast
ers said.
No relief was sforeseen for Mis-
souri, where last week at Kansas
City temperatures scared to lib de
grees, highest in the history of the
weather bureau.
Forecasters said the wave was
moving eastward.
Nearly a half inch of rain fell
over eastern Illinois Saturday ano
Sunday but had little effect Or
temperatures. The mercury rose to
100 at Springfield, ILL.,, and SO in
Chicago.
Other representative midWestern
temperatures: Concordia, Kan,
1O6; Wichita, 1O2; Springfield, Mo-,
1O4; Des Moines, Ia, 100; Omaha,
Neb., 1O4; Evansville, Ind, SO; Kan
sas City, 104; st. Louis, Mo, 102;
Milwaukee, Wis, "a; Detroit, "a.
The department of agriculture al
Washington raised its emergency"
counties in the stricken drought
area to GIT in % states.
In Chicago, Howard Hunter, head
ing the vast farm relief program,
said more than 100000 farmers
would be forced on relief as their
crops crumbled into dust.
In Missouri, where this latest heat
wave has centered for two weeks,
eat-drugged residents rugged wet
towels before open windows in an
attempt to cool burning winds
Electric fans did double duty and
parks were filled with sleepers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. II. WR)-
The defense today dropped without
explanation its scheduled cross-eX-
animation of sterilized Ann Coop
er Hewitt in the mayhem trial of
two society doctors charged with
depriving her of possibility OF
motherhood
I. M. Golden, attorney for Drs.
Tilton f. Tillman and Samuel G..
Boyd, whom the state charged en-
tered into a conspiracy with AIMS
socialite mother, Mrs. Maryon
Cooper Hewitt, to rob her of the
Peter Cooper Hewitt fortune, had
charged previously that he would
question Ann concerning "dabol-
ical plot" aimed at cont oil of Mrs.
Hewitt's fortune.
Instead when the trial resumed
today Attorney Golden said;
mo questions, Your Honor"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17

for Spain is certain.
ut is a veritable crime-it is more,
it is insane-for Madrid to prolong
its resistance" General Emilio Mola,
rebel commander in chief in the
north, said today.
A column of 1000 picked Moors
and veterans of the Foreign Legion
is being organized at BadajoZ, TAX
en- at the bayonet point, to march
eastward on Madrid from the Portu.
guese frontier.
A rebel column is driving for
Malaga, government stronghold in
the far south and has reached An
tequera, % miles north of the city
to find that $50 right wing ad-
herents had been asSassinated, Off
cial statements said.
A rebel column, it was asserted
also, routed loyaliSt columns march,
ing on Zaragoza, in the northeast,
killed 600 and took $50 prisoner.
Rebel armies are pounding almost
at the gates of towns in the San
Sebastian area and word of their
fall was expected at any hour
Gen. Francisco Franco, generals
simo of all the rebel armies, arrived
and held series of conferences on
trategy and tactics with Gen. Mola,
the northern commander, and Gen.
Virgilio Cabanellas, provisional pres
ident of the rebel government.
LOYALISTS DECREE
DEATH FOR REBELS
MADRID, Aug. II. U.P)-LoyaliSt
leaders signed their own provision
al death warrants today by condemn
ing to death Gen. Joaquin Fanjul
and his aide, Col. Jose Fernandez
Quintana, it was reported authori.
tatively.
Judges of the sixth salon of the
supreme court signed their verdict
last night. 1t was kept secret pend
ing governmental approval. Today,
it was reported, the sentences-to
death by firing squad-were ap-
proved.
Fanjul was the rebel leader for
the Madrid district. He admitted
completely in the rebellion. He was
dressed in a lawyers toga while he
defended himself before the court.
1t was regarded as certain that
execution of Fanjul and Fernandez
Quintana would remove any hope
that government or the left wing
cooperating leaders might have o.
mercy if the rebels take Madrid.
REBEL SHIPS
BOMBARD FORTS
HENDAYE, French Spanish From
tier, Aug. IT. W.R)-Four rebel war
ships off Cape Figuier began a bom-
bardment of the forts at Irun ano
San Sebastian today.
The ships began the shelling de
spite a loyalist threat to executee
1000 rebel prisoners in San Sebas-
tian if the city is bombarded.
The rebels were closing in on the
beleaguered towns by land and sea
and their fall was believed immi-
nent.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
COP CHAIRMAN
LEAVES COAST
AFTER B | AST


LOS ANGELES, Aug. II. UH -
The plane carrying John D. M.
Hamilton, chairman of the Repub-
lican National committee, on his
transforming speaking tour Of the
west, left Union Air terminal at
9 am. today for Phoenix, where he
will address a luncheon group OF
Republicans before proceeding to
Albuquerque, N. M, fer a formal.
address tonight.
Hamilton made a three-day stop
over in Los Angeles. He addressed
huge rally at Hollywood Bowl
Saturday night and spent YeSter-
day resting at the Santa Monica
home of his mother, Mrs. John =,
M. Hamilton, Sr.
The red-haired manager Of Gov.
Alfred M. Landons presidential
candidacy was optimistic over the
governors chances of swinging Cal
ifornia into the Republican column
in November.
It feel very happy over the gen.
1--WE realize that a lot of hard work
eral outlook in California" he said.
lies ahead of us, but we are con-
fident as TO the ultimate outcome" D"
His secretarial staff reported that
he was deluged viii congratulatory
messages and kilograms as result of
his Saturdays NIGHTS attack on
the Democratic administration.
More than $4,000 persons gather
ed in the famous amphitheater
Saturday evening to hear Hamil-
ton denounce Democratic spending
policies which he said threatened
"the security of all by increasing
the tax burden.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
Political Rally
To Be Held Here

Elmer w. Head, district attor-
ney of Imperial county and candi-
didate for congress from the twen-
tieth California district, will be one
of the speakers at the valleyswide
Republican rally Tuesday night at
o'clock in the city park, Ell Cen
tro.
The meeting will be held under
the auspices of the Imperial county
Republican assembly, and Harvey
E. HaStain, Brawley, chairman of
the assembly, will preside. The as
sembly has been conducting rallies
in cities throughout the valley
during the campaign and Tues
day nights affair is in the nature
of wind-up.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
HEAT WAVE SPREADS
III DROUGHT STATES
NEW GOVERNOR
TAKES UP JOB
AT MEXICALI

General Rafael Navarro Cor
tina, 3S, new governor of Baja
California, arrived in MeXicai at
2 a. m. Sunday morning after an
automobile trip from NOgales,
Sonora. A group of Mexican
officials from MeXicali met him
at Nogales and escorted him to
the palace. He succeeds Cen
eraI Gabriel Gavira-
The new governor formerly
was commander of the military
garrison at Mexico, ID. F., and his
appointment to the new post was
hailed with interest on the part
of residents of Baja California.
Formal functions to welcome
Governor COrtina are planned to
take place in the border city
within the next few weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
VALLEY BOY.
INVOLVED IN
PRISON PLOT
One of Trio Jailed
For Murder is
Suspected

Noble Morris, one of the
trio convicted of the murder
of Ivan Null, Imperial coun-
ty special deputy sheriff,
near Holtville last year, may
be implicated in the prison break
plot discovered at Folsom by pri-
son officials late last week. A hand
forged knife was found hidden in
a cell occupied by Morris and Her
man Miller, who is serving life
plus 40 years for robbery and as
Sault.
While prison officials declared
they were unable to connect Nor
riS and Miller with the prison
break plot, they are among three
being held in solitary confinement
pending Investigations.
Marvin Morris and Woodrow
Corley were companions of Noble
Morris at the time OF the Null
murder. Corley. also confined at
Folsom, was not mentioned in con-
nection with the plot. Marvin
Morris is confined at San Quen-
tin. Corley was declared to have
fired the fatal shot.
The Holtville youths snot and
killed Null when he stopped them
for questioning.
In the prison break plot, the
tip-off came when a prisoner who
had only eight more days to serve,
Chester Ayhans, was caught at
tempting to smuggle two auto
matte pistols through the gate into
the inner yard. One gun was hid
den in a bundle of laundry and
the other in his trousers. The
guns were taken by Ayhens, Off
cials said, from an original cache
of four guns with two clips Of
cartridges for each. The guns ano
ammunition were buried by an
outside confederate along the rail
road right of way where prisoners
had been working. One gun al
ready had been smuggled inside
the walls before the plot was dis
covered while one still remained
in cache.
All inmates of the prison were
searched and locked in their cells
following the discovery Of the plot
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
Couehlin Resting
After Breakdown

CLEVELAND, Aug. II. (U.P) -
Father Charles E. Coughlln was
resting comfortably in his MOTEL
room today after abandoning plans
to return to Detroit last night de-
spite his illness.
He was aiken i'll there late Sunday
after a near collapse during his
climactic speech closing the ma
tional union sessions.
Dr. George P. OMalley diasnos-
ed his illness as exhaustion from
the physical demands of a strenu-
Gus week. He emphasized that his
condition was not serious, but rec
commended a week of rest.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17

William w. Lockwood, Jr., re-
search expert for the institute,
which has convened for a two
weeks session here, told delegates
from IL Pacific countries that the
United States program designed to
keep it out of war falls short OF
its objective.
Lockwood, who has made an eX-
tensive survey of American rela-
tions with the Orient, said he held
little hope that the observance of
neutrality by American traders
would be sufficient to keep The
United States from being involved
in another war.
United States trade under the
present administration is not in the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
MEXICAN HURT
BY AUTOMOBILE

Anton Sagrado, 40, was treated
at an Ell Centro hospital for scalp
wounds, cuts and abrasions suffered
when he was struck by an automo-
bile driven by Lowell SchoWen-
gerdt, 81, of Brawley, west of Ell
Centre Sunday night.
The Mexican laborer is employed
IN a ranch between Ell Centro and
Seeley. He was walking along the
highway en- route home at the time
of the accident. Officers said the
Mexican had been drinking. Scho-
wengerdt took him to a hospital for
treatment of mis- wounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17

car caught Miller as it overturned,
were given as the cause Of his
death.
The family was en- route to Fort
Worth to visit Miller's brother, j,
A. Miller and from there We're go
ing to Burleson to visit his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. N. Miller.
Funeral services for Miller were
conducted in Fort Worth and
burial took place there.
Miller was proprietor of a feed
yard in Holtville and had many
friends in Imperial Valley. He was
a member of the American Legion
and other organizations.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17

direction of f-containment with
a view to isolation in time Of
war;" his report said.
The Roosevelt administration
was given little choice. The ma
ton had already allowed foreign
trade to develop to the point where
tremendous dislocation in agricul-
ture and industry would result from
its abolition. Thus the choice was
a forced one uuless the Unted
States was prepared in the midst
of a great depression to undertake
a permanent redistribution of pop
ulation previously engaged in in
dustries relying on exports and inn
ports"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
DEMOS HOLD
BIG LEAD IN
REGISTRATION
Bourbon Margin Up
Since Primary
Election


SACRAMENTO, Aug. II.
(UP)-Democratic registra-
ton in California now ex-
ceeds Republican by 984,478
persons, a gain of 60,970
over the majority the Bourbons held
for the presidential primary in May.
Secretary of State Frank c. Jor-
dan announced today the official
registration figures for the August
25 primary as follows:
Democratic, 1,783,028.
Republican, 1,198,550.
Prohibition, 6,651.
Socialist, 6,098.
Progressive, 4,766.
Communist, 1,095.
Commonwealth, 144.
Miscellaneous, 381.
Declined to state, 96,116.
Total registered, 3096,829.
The Democratic majority now is
100000 more than the Republican
majority four years ago. There are
fewer voters registered Republican
than there have been in the past
four years, with the exception of the
registration for the May primary,
but the Democratic registration is
the highest in CALIFORNIA; history.
All but eight of the states SO
counties have more Democrats than
Republicans, Alpine, Del Norte.
Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino.
Sonoma and Sutter being the only
exceptions. Four years ago, the sit
uation was reversed, with only eight
counties showing a Democratic ma
jority.
Six counties shifted from one ma
jority column to the other after the
May primary. Glenn and Sutter
moved into the Republican ranks
while Napa, Riverside, Santa Clara
and Santa Cruz went Democratic"
for the first time.
Total registration now is not as
high as it was in November, 1884,
when 3,140,114 names were on the
rolls. This was explained, officials
said, by the fact that new regis
tration was started January l and
many Implications and obsolete
names were eliminated. Registra.
ton for the general election in Nov
ember may set a new record.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
Communist Marines
Put Under Arrest

PEIPING, China, Aug. IT. UP)-
Four United States marines who
ran up a red curtain on the en-
bassy flag pole and knocked out a
marine sentry on the nearby city
wall were arrested yesterday as
they came in from the western hills
after an absence without leave, and
were held today for action.
The men are Privates p. j. Will
son, Baltimore; Stephen A. Redden,
Jr., Ridgeley, Mr.; Edward o. Kir-
by, 5l35 Glendale Ave, Los Angel
es, and Earnest R. Jameson, Lake
view Ore
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17

Mrs Miller and their 10-year-
old children, Fay and Ray, were
with Miller when the accident oc-
cured, Macdonald was informed
They were treated for minor cuts
and bruises. She told Texas Of
ficers that her husband apparently
was driving too rapidly to make
the turn and the car overturned
and then righted itself in the bor-
row pit beside the highway She
said her husband and son were ly-
ing on one side Of the highway
when the car came to rest while
she and her daughter were on the
other side.
Chest injuries suffered when the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
Defense Drops Queries
TO Ann Cooper Hewitt

This move by the defense, which
caused a sensation, followed wild
scenes when the trial session open
ed, The corridors outside the court
room were jammed and opening
of the doors started a rush in which
several women were crushed and
seemed on the verge of fainting
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-17
Bigamist Suspect
Valves Hearing

John Crawford Smith, through
his attorney, Don Bitter, waived
preliminary hearing in FL Centre
justice court Monday and was held
to answer in superior court. Smith
is charged with bigamy.