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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-10-02

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
first poison gas map of the United
States ever made was shown to the
senate civil liberties committee by
Robert Wohlforth, the committees
secretary. 1t was an ordinary map,
with nearly a thousand pins stuck in
it. Each pin represented the sale, at
that place, of $500 worth of tear or
sickening gas 'for industrial pur-
poses"
For Mr. Wohlforth, in his oral tes-
atimony, said that in the three years
1888, 1884 and 1895, S466,913 worth
of these gases had been sold to cor
porations to use in industrial dis
putes. The sales were made by three
companies: Federal Laboratories of
Pittsburgh, probably the most vicious
ly busy of the lot; Lake Erie Chemical
Co. of Cleveland, whose agent staged
demonstration of the power of his
gas on political prisoners in Chile;
and Manville Manufacturing Co. Of
Pontiac, Mich. Ohio was most thickly
set with pins, because the steel and
rubber companies in that state like
to argue with their employees in this
fashion.
Hoped Strike Would Be Bad
When the textile strike started two
years ago, one gas agent wrote to his
home office:
Il hope this strike will be damned
bad one. We need the money"
A. f. Aisles, Of Lake Erie Chem
ical, defended the moral right of
munitions companies to sell gas for
use in industrial disputes. The Buick
Motor Co. bought long range gas guns
in 1884. The chief of police of Flint,
Mich, bought arms from munitions
company in 1888, and sent this eau
tioning letter:
"Do not bill the city of Flint for
this shipment. Instead, bill the Manu-
facturers' Association of the city Of
Flint"
Savage War on Pickets
E. J. McDade, of Chicago, profes-
sional strikebreaker of many years
standing, told how the Wisconsin
Light & Power Co, during a strike in
1884, connected steam hose to boilers.
$50 they could turn live steam on
pickets 2" inquired Chairman La Fol
lette.
Eyes, sir" said McDade.
Were wires concealed in fences to
electrocute pickets?" asked La Fol
lette.
Yes
"Anyone hurt?"
eyes, one young man was killed.
by this wire?"
eyes, sir
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-10-02

hours; or if summoned to work and
employed for three hours, he shall
be paid for a full day. All these
matters are new and tliey are dis
tant goal to most industrial work
ers.
Seniority Rights Guarded
Seniority rights are as carefully
guarded in this agreement as they
have been by the railroad unions.
For instance:
1t is agreed that whenever an
employe is tranferred from one
property of the Sinclair Prairie
Oil Company to another, his serv-
ice seniority shall be retained"
The management is to consult with
the union if there is any deviation
from the principle of promotion by
seniority. When an employe is
shifted from his usual place of work,
his transportation is paid for by the
employer.
Paid Vacations Given
The new agreement on vacations
with pay, somewhat changed from the
last one, is worth quoting here in
full:
All employees, upon completion of
one year Of continuous service, shall
be entitled to one weeks vacation with
full pay, based on full time weekly
pay in the three months prior to
vacation time. After completing two
years service, employees shall be en-
titled to two weeks vacation with full
pay computed as above. Any en-
ploye laid off through reduction of
forces or for any other reason beyond
his control and re-employed within
120 days shall be considered a regu-
lar employe as regards vacation
rights, but shall forfeit twelfth
of his vacation pay for each month
lost during the year.
Adjustment of Disputes
The employer will collect union
dues on the written request of the
emploVe.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-10-02

Richmond, Calf. (AFLNs)-Elec-
trical Workers Local No. 302 has
reached an agreement with the Contra
Costa county contractors, providing
for a wage scale on public work at
$1.25 an hour, effective September !.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-10-02
Map Before Senate Labor Spy Inquiry Committee
Shows Widespread Gas Warfare Waged on Strikers

operator, and an office holder in the
local union, and Darrell Kepler, movie
operator of the local union, are per-
sonal friends of mine. | have known
Ferguson for 20 years and Kepler for
10 years, and now / am selling them
out, as they tell me most anything !"
Sixty-seven firms were listed as get
(Contlnued on page four)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-10-02
Agreement Between Oil
Workers and Sinclair
Companies Renewed

Pact Just Signed Providing for 36 Hour Week. Protection
of Seniority Rights, Vacations With Pay and Settle
ment of Disputes Is Held One of Best in Industrial
Field.
Evening star., 1936-02-23

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-02-23

ton and the Medal of the Purple
Evening star., 1936-02-23
POSTGRADUATE CLINIC
PLANS ARE COMPLETED
1900 Physicians and Dentists
From Five States to Attend
Gathering Here in March.

Arrangements have been completed
for the Five-State POSTGRADUATE
Clinic, to be held March to II at
the Wardman Park Hotel. More than
$500 physicians and dentists from
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
Delaware, North Carolina and the
District of Columbia are expected to
attend.
Two specially conducted tours
through the crime laboratory of the
Department of Justice will be one of
the outstanding attractions of the
meeting. The tours will include
demonstrations and explanations of
the scientific phases of crime investi-
CATION, stressing the points of particu-
lar interest to the dentist and physi-
clan.
The following committee chairmen
have been announced by DR.. w.
Marion Falls, general chairman: J. P.
Burke, Advisory; G. r. Ellis, Clini-
cians P. Robin, Table Clinics; H. B.
Hertford, Table Clinics Subcommittee;
E. T. Lane, Publicity; j. Keaveny,
Programs; T. D. Gates, Exhibit; D. F.
Lynch, Lecture Halls; G. B. Glen
denim, Banquet and Entertainment; j.
w. Pollock. Hotel Reservations; A. G..
Miller, Registration; w. A. Rath,
History, Science and Creative Arts;
Mrs. H. B. Meloy, Ladies' Auxiliary.
and Miss L. Cain, Dental Hygienists.
Evening star., 1936-02-23
Washington Dollar
Toss Across Riuer
Denied BY Duhamel

George Washington didn't throw
a dollar across the Rappahannock
River" James F. Duhamel declared
yesterday before the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants at the old Union
Engine House, because in those days
there was no American dollar"
Referring to the excitement over
Walter Johnson's feat at the George
Washington celebration, Duhamel said
the story about Washington throw
ing the dollar would have placed the
time about 1850 when Washington was
a boy. The American dollar didn't
come along until much later, Duhamel
explained.
"He may have thrown peso across
the river" declared Duhamel, 'but
no dollar"
At this, the speaker of the day,
w. w. MILAN, seated on the plat
form, turned to John Clagett Proctor,
vice president of the association pre-
siding, and whispered:
But George threw sovereign
across the Atlantic Ocean"
Evening star., 1936-02-23
STORM AND FLOODS
CLAIM FIVE LIVES
Three Drown and Two Are Killed
in Snow-Slide on Pacific
Coast.
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 22.-
Three drownings, two deaths in a
snowlide and more than so homeless
marked the path Of storm and flood
today on the Pacific Coast.
An avalanche roared down noun
tainSide in the Cascades and trapped a
passenger bus and several trucks and
cars on the Snoqualmie Pass Highway,
Wash. Two men were killed in a buried
truck.
An earthslide in the Broadway low
level tunnel at Oakland, Calf, in
jured two workers. Nearly 80 others
fed to safety.
Two men drowned in the mother
lode country near Jackson, Calf, when
their automobile stalled in the center
of stream. The driver of team OF
mules perished with them in a creek
near Colusa, Calf.
Occupants of two-story house
on Mount Davidson. San Francisco
abandoned it today as it slowly col
lapsed, pushed by slow earth slides.
At Astoria, Greg, a two-story house
being moved on barge to South Bend
Wash broke from its moorings and
was tossing somewhere on the Pacific
Evening star., 1936-02-23
QUITS,
SEEKS PRESIDENCY
D. c. Officer Retires So He
/ May Oppose Roosevelt
for Office.
BY WILLIAM A. BELL, JR.

EX-PCllcemdn howard M. OVerStreet
Eek" by "a hours-goes of to the
political wars tomorrow to try to make
an ex-President of Mr.. Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Overstreet retired yesterday from the
Police Department, where he had
served five years as fourth precinct
private, "to give my full time to my
presidential candidacy"
1t was impossible, he explained, to
help preserve the peace of southwest
Washington and at the same time tn
convince the Nation Overstreet should
be President. So he turned in his
badge and revolver and prepared to
set out for Pennsylvania to circulate
petitions to have his name placed on
Democratic primary ballots.
Seek Workers Votes.
Tell factory workers and other
working men for me-" he said this,
that hope they will see to it that
my name gets on the ballots in Ohio
and other States with preferential
primaries
While reluctant to relinquish the
trappings of the policeman, Overstreet
said he felt constrained to leave the
local gendarmerie because there are
certain oaths policemen must take
which forbid their entering politics
So he said good-by to his comrades
and buckled right down to being This
own Jim Farley.
When Gendarme Laughed.
There is a French jingle which
translated freely goes When one gen.
damre laughs in the gendarmerie, all
the gendarmes laugh in the gen.
darmerie"
A policeman-not Overstreet-
laughed when Overstreet threw his
hat into the ring and it is our duty
to record that his laugh was not the
last.
But ridicule will not swerve How.
ard M. Overstreet from the quest Of
his goal.
Evening star., 1936-02-23
Farley

Continued From First Page)
mind Mr.. Hoover that the only con-
fusion is in his own mind"
OF the "miscalled American Liberty
League" he said:
"a brilliant editorial writer said it
ought to be called the American Cello
phane League, and he gave two good
reasons. He said. first, it's a du Pont
product, and, second, you can Sc
right through it."
The Postmaster General asserted
that after having slipped further
and further into the grip of economic
drepession," the national situation at
the beginning of 1888 could only be
described as appalling"
At that time. he said. jobleSs and
their dependents numbered more than
30,000.000; the ,ress was reporting
suicides of fathers and mothers un-
able to endure tn, suffering of their
children: the farmers swarmed into
the highways, grim-faced and de-
termined to protect their homes; bank
ruptcy courts were busy; banks were
failing and "the whole banking sys-
tem,' deprived of public confidence
was on the verge of collapse" along
with the railroads.
Asking what was done in 1880 and
1881 and 1882 to correct the horrible
conditions I have described?" Farley
said
"You can aswer that yourself.
Nothing was done. Fear was
everywhere" &
Under the New Deal, Farley said:
Confidence has been restored in the
banking structure; the buying power
of agriculture has been increased by
more than $4,000 900, 900 in one year;
industrial production is up; Govern
ment projects, which will prove use
full and lasting benefit to the Nation. -
are giving a living to millions; the
people have more money and "the
American school systematic proudest
boast of our democracy-has been
rescued from q state of collapse"
THAT, my fellow Americans, is the
three-year record of President Frank
lin d. Roosevelt and we are proud of
it. We challenge any political party
to meet us on that record"
Farley made a frank bid for Re-
publican votes.
Recalling that millions -" en-
listed under the Democratic banner"
in 1882, he said 1--WE want their SYM
pathy, their help and their suffrage
again."
Evening star., 1936-02-23

hour today while various business
men discussed the historic worth of
the coin which had dropped at his
feet.
Prior to the test on the river bank
hundreds of automobiles jammed into
the side streets leading to either side
of the river.
Such a traffic tie-up resulted that
the Governor and his escort were de-
layed for some time while State ponce
cleared right of way.
Part of Birthday Celebration.
Johnson's pitch, upon which he was
congratulated in telegram from Rep
resentative Bloom, was only part OF
the celebration here of the 204th an
niversary of George Washington's
birth.
Many Virginia State Senators and
members of the House of Delegates at
tended the celebration. A tribute TO
the Washington family was paid when
a wreath was laid on the tomb OF
Mary Ball Washington by former Gov.
E. Lee Trinkle of Virginia, acting for
Gov. Peery.
The visiting legislators were guests
of Fredericksburg at a luncheon In
the Stratford Hotel.
Two hundred cherry trees were
presented to the city for planting
on the Ferry Farm Memorial Boule-
ward leading to the old Washington
farm by growers in various Eastern
States.
Bloom Unable to Attend.
Representative Bloom was unable
to attend the ceremonies. His mes
sage, however, congratulating johnson
on his feat, said:
Congratulations, Walter. Stop over
in washington on your trip home and
let's celebrate. I. sincerely hope that
nv dollar was the dollar that did the
trick"
The "pay" dollar. however, was
presented by Goldman. Earlier Rep
resentative Bloom and the Fredericks-
burg Chamber of Commerce had been
unable to reconcile the difference in
the old and new calculations of the
width of the Rappahannock and thus
were forced to call off bet by which
Bloom would have lost 100000 on
Jotnson's pitch at odds of 20 to /.
Evening star., 1936-02-23
Retired Surgeon, 80, Prefers
To Ignore Latest Birthday
''Less Said the Better. -
Says Col. H. G. Coe,
Army Veteran.
Vas Oldest Medical Of
fcer in France Dur.
ing Var.

Col Henry Clark Coe, retired sur
geon and medical officer of the United
States Army, was 80 years old yes
terday, but he didn't think it was
much cause for celebration.
Birthdays don't amount to much
after you are no longer young" he said
at his home, at Clifton Terrace Apart
ments. "Ihe less said about them
the better"
The colonels friends, however,
didn't share his opinion and tele-
grams arrived from all parts Of the
country, as medical societies and
Army friends extended their congrat-
ulations.
This week end there will be fam
lily birthday party, with his wife, his
two sons and his two grandchildren
with him. Fordyce Coe will be down
from New Britain, Conn: Arthur Coe
of Miami, Fla, is temporarily located
here as an attorney for the Treasury
Department, and his grandchildren
daughter and son of his son Henry
who died in January--also are ex-
pected,
Active in New York Many Years.
A resident of Washington for the
past five years. DR.. Coe was an active
surgeon in New York for half CEN
tury and is affiliated with the Amer.
ican College of Surgeons and the
American genealogical Society, Of
which he is past president. His prac-
tice was interrupted during the war,
when he went abroad to direct work
at several hospitals in France.
Speaking of age" he said, L was
the Oldest medical officer in France
But he failed to mention that he re-
ceived the Meritorious Service Cita-
Evening star., 1936-02-23

ton and the Medal of the Purple
Heart.
Acquires No Hobbies.
After an active life, in which spare
moments were devoted to writing, he
has acquired no hobbies. Failing eye
sight makes the continuation of a
literary career impossible now, but
life is pleasant enough-with a radio
for entertainment and memories to
beguile the quiet evening hours.
What do you like most to think
about?" he was asked
My college days" he answered
He was a classmate at Yale of for
mer President Taft and was gradu-
ated with the famous class of '78.
What have the years taught him?
Broader views on science and re-
ligion," he said.
His recipe for life?
Moderation and less thought of
SELF
Evening star., 1936-02-23
MONUMENT GROUP
ELECTS FLANNERY|
Lawyer Named by Society.
Old Tablet Tells Early
History.

John Spalding Flannery of the law
firm of McKenney, Flannery and
Craighill yesterday was elected to
membership in the Washington Ma
tional Monument Society at the 103d
annual meeting in the Metropolitan
Club. Mr.. Flannery succeeds the late
Senator Frederick H. Gillett of Mas
sachusetts.
Conforming to custom, the club
placed wreath at the Monument anc
discussed matters pertaining to the
improvement of the shaft an6 sur
rounding grounds.
The meeting heard with interest an
account by Secretary William r. Harr
of the recent discovery in Govern
ment storeroom here of a massive
bronze tablet bearing a description of
the society and of the Monument it.
self whose construction was started
by the society and then taken over by
the Government.
Seek Tablet Installation.
A committee then was FAMED to
seek to have the tablet installed in
the Monument, where it is now on ex-
hibition. On the committee are Fred
erick A. Delano, George E. Hamilton
and Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin.
The tablet, S feet in height and 6
feet wide, evidently was fabricated
shortly after the dedication of the
Monument on February 81, 1885.
The legend includes record of the
laying of the Monument cornerstone
on July 4, 1848, with Masonic cere-
monies, and of the dedicatory exer-
clses. These latter included a military
= and civic parade, and addresses at the
base of the Monument by Senator
John Sherman, w. w. Corcoran, at
the time. first vice president of the
society, and Col. Thomas L. Casey,
chief of the United States Engineering
Corps. in charge of the completion of
the Monument.
Lists Eminent Members.
The tablet records also that Chief
Justice John Marshall was the first
president of the society when it came
into existence in September, 1888, and
lists the eminent men who then made
up its membership.
The meeting also received the re-
port of the treasurer, Theodore w
Noyes.
In addition to those named. the
membership of the society includes
Charles c. Glover, second vice presi-
dent; DR.. Herbert Putnam, r. Walton
Moore, Assistant Secretary of State;
Logan Hay, DR.. Gilbert H. Grosvenor
Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy, Right Rev
James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash
lngton; Col U. S. Grant, Sd; Rear
Admiral Walter r. Gherardi Rear
Admiral Gary T. Grayson and Mark
Sullivan.
Evening star., 1936-02-23
TO LECTURE ON JAZZ

Henry Gregor, head of the piano
department of National Park Semi
nary, will give lecture-recital on
What Price Jazz?" at the University
Club on Thursday at $50 pm.
Gregor, who is a composer and
pianist. will discuss whether or not
jazz will become the bases for a new
form of musical expression. He will
give a survey of the development of
this comparatively new American
style in music and will illustrate his
talk with compositions by Debussy,
Reyel Milhand, Tansman, Gershwin,
Carpenter and others.
Evening star., 1936-02-23
SHR|uES T0F|RST
PRESIDENT VISITED
Nationwide Observance of
Washington's Birthday
Centers Here.

Nationwide observance yesterday OF
the 204th anniversary of the birth of
George Washington centered in the
Capital, named in his honor, and
nearby Virginia, where he was born.
Congress paid tribute to the memory
of the first President by postponing
all regular business to hear readings
of Washington's farewell address in
the Senate by Senator Buchanan,
Democrat, of Tennessee, and in the
House by Representative Mclean, Re
publican, of New Jersey.
Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon
was the focal point in the celebration
as 1000 pilgrims gathered. Wreaths
were laid at the shrine by Capt. Will
son Brown, naval aide to President
Roosevelt, and by two representatives
of the Dominican Republic, DR.. Err
nesto Bonnetti Burgos, Minister of
foreign affairs, and DR.. Andres Pas
toriza, Minister to the United States.
Federal Offices Closed.
At the Washington Monument the
United States Marine Band played
while representatives OF patriotic So
cieties made short talks.
All Government Offices and many
stores were closed for the day.
At Constitution Hall, Representative
Hamilton Fish, Republican, of New
York, told the District Societies OF
the Sons, Daughters and Children OF
the American Revolution that never
before in history have we had such
need to study and analyze the prin-
ciples of George Washington"
Vice President and Mrs. Garner
Speaker and Mrs. Byrns, and others
in the congressional delegation which
visited the Orient last Autumn were
guests at combined reunion and
Washington birthday party last night
at the home of former Senator Harry
B. Hawes of Missouri.
Wear Oriental Costumes.
Each woman guest wore some cos
tune she had acquired in the visit tC
China, Japan and the Philippines.
At the Mount Vernon tomb. tc
which 300 District Boy Scouts jour-
neyed to lay wreath in the name OF
all the Boy Scouts in the United
States. Minister Pastoriza spoke on
behalf of President Trujillo of the
Dominican Republic.
"I have the honor to lay this
wreath" he said, lat the tomb of the
immortal George Washington at the
same time that festivities are taking
place in the capital of the Dominican
Republic, where the people, in re-
sponse to the suggestion of President
Irujillo, are glorifying the name Of
Washington by remaining the most
beautiful boulevard of our city, skirt
ing the sea. George Washington
avenue"
Evening star., 1936-02-23
Combating the Pain Of
ARTHRITTS

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lowing the health resort method at home
direct from famous Hot Springs. Arkansas
natural corrective. Endorsed by phyxi.
clans for over 80 years. Phone for booklet
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Evening star., 1936-02-23

'em lima bank That's what the pic
ture men said should do.
But If you ask me again, ! should
have to say:
Ut cannot tell a lie. I'm gonna
sell 'em to the highest bidderp"
~ Yon was still holding out at late
Evening star., 1936-02-23
johnson

Continued From First Page.)
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-01-15
NOTICE

to holders of Circulating Bank Notes OIL
the National Bank of the Danish
West Indies
Pursuant to Section of Ordinance to
nroyide for the retirement of the CIR.
culating Notes of the National Bank Oh
the Danish West Indies passed by the
Colonial Council for ST. Thomas and 81
John on February ID 1885. and approveoo
bv the Governor on February To- 1850
notice is hereby given to all holders Oh
the Circulating Bank Notes of the Ma
tlonaI Bank of the Danish West lndles
that the Benk is prepared to redeem res
notes in accordance with the proceouts
prescribed in the said Ordinance as
follows:
ID All Circulating Bank Notes presented
during the period April l, 1885 70 Aprii
l 1886 20 the Bank at its principal oHlce
in St, Thomas or either OF It's branches
in st. Croix. or at any agency or agehcle
designated by the Bank Will De reoeelh'
by the Bank on demand.
~ With the approval of the Governor
the Bank may on April l. 1896 deposlt
with Government in fund TO De known
as the Note Redemption Fund an mount
10 IegaI IGOuSE COIu VI
United States, equal at the legal rate 10
fifty percentum of the Notes outstanding
at the end of the business day OF April l,
1856.
60 Thereafter. and upon proclama-
ton of the Governor, the NoTes or the
Bank shall, be redeemed from the Note
Redemption Fund in the order of presen
tation for redemption, and in accordance
with the rules established for the sald
fund; provided. however. that the Gov
eminent of the Virgin Islands shall be
under no obligation to redeem any sucn
Notes if not presented for redemption
before April l, 1889. or if the Note Re-
demption Funds shall have been exhaust
3D.
ca After the issuance of the Cover
nors proclamation. no action may be
commenced against the Bank for money
due and payable upon any OF the
Notes.
The Notes of the National Bank OF the
Danish West Indies will cease TO be ie-
gal tender and will not circulate as money
after September l5 1885.
St. Thomas, the 20 March 1885
THE NATIONAL AANK OF THE DA
NISn WEST INDIES
Axei Hoist Thage
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-01-15
Notice

TO ALL PERSON WHO HAVE
CLAIMS AGAINST THE NATIONAL
BANK OF THE DANISH WEST IN
DIES OTHER THAN THOSE RELAI.
INC TO IT'S CIRCULATING NO1ES