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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
Labor's Support Proving Powerful
Factor In Big Campaign To Beat
Taxes Increasing Living Costs

Washington, D G. (ILNs). Rally
ing to protect the purchasing value Of
wages and to defend the welfare Of
its members as the largest organized
group Of consumers, organized labor
is given an important weight in the
growing campaign against special
taxes increasing living costs.
Opposition Of other consumer groups
and of farmers is also gaining mo-
mentum in the public reaction against
the drastic Patman bill to eliminate
chain stores"
This mounting volume Of public re-
sentiment at pressure group efforts to
destroy part Of the national distrib-
uting system seems to leave little
chance" Of passage Of the Patman bill
at the next session Of Congress.
These are the conclusions reached
in the latest survey Of popular sem
timent toward punitive chain store
legislation made BY Standard Statis-
ties, Inc, authoritative analysts Of
working conditions, business and in
dustry in the United States Results
appear in a recent issue Of Standard
Trade and Securities" :"
Union Progress Cited
The Standard Statistics survey re-
fers to the Patman bill which would
provide for a graduated tax on each
chain store, reaching a maximum Of
$1,000 store, multiplied by the mum
Der Of states in which the chain has
stores.
Labor unions have been able to
make progress in organizing workers
on the high cost Of living which is
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
Loans Now Needed
To Start Up Business

What is wanted now, at least in
part, are loans that will start up busi-
ness, perhaps even finance new bust
ness.
The RFC now has scattered through
the country &c loan agencies, ranging
from Boston TO Los Angeles. There
were more; but several have been
consolidated Each agency has man
ager, assistant manager and such
staff as the position needs. All APP
plications for loans are made to one
of these 26 agencies. The local agency
examines the proposition, makes up
it's mind, and sends the application to
Washington with approval or disap-
proval.
But in each agency district is an
advisory board, whose function is de-
scribed by its name. The advisory
board in each district is there to give
advice on applications from it's dis
trict. 1t is composed mainly Of men
in active business, who serve without
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
Banks Grip On RFC Makes Agency
Ineffective AS Help To Industry

equal terms. Small business can no
longer go to a small bank and do that
with very much confidence. And nine
of the largest 20 banks in America
are represented on the advisory boards
of the RFC. Five Of them are in the
first ten; National City and Manufac-
turers' Trust Co in New York, Con-
tinental-Illinois and First National in
Chicago, Bank Of America in San
Francisco. -Four Of them are in the
second ten: Security First National Of
Los Angeles, Chemical Bank and Trust
Co. Of New York, National Bank Of
Detroit and Philadelphia National.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
BUILDING TRADES OF
STATE MEET IN
ANNUAL CONVENTION
Large Representation Attends Two
Day Session Held In
Cincinnati
(By Ohio Labor News Service)

Cincinnati, O. One hundred and
thirty-four delegates from "a local
unions and II councils attended the
twentieth convention of the Ohio State
Building and Construction Trades
Council in the Netherland-Plaza Hotel,
July 27 and %.
The delegates were welcomed by Jo-
seph Obermeyer, president of the Gin
cinnati Building and Construction
Trades Council and Mayor James q.
Stewart, and the appreciation OF the
hospitality extended the delegates was
voiced by John w. Jockel, president
of the state council.
President Michael j Lyden and
Secretary Treasurer Thomas j. Dom
nelly of the Ohio State Federation OF
Labor addressed the convention and
expressed the hope that the fruitful
cooperation of the past year between
the two state organizations would be
continued.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
BY ELIOT HARRIS

Washington, D. G. (ILNS) Here
is the amazing story Of how the Re-
Finance Corporation is
hamstrung of why it cannot and will
not spring into action as a part Of the
New Deal financing machine to revive
business. Here is the story Of how
the dead hand Of the past and the
paralyzing hand of the banks grip this
giant agency and render it virtually
useless.
In part, the RFC was born that
way, as the old song says. 1t was
created to loan money to shaky banks.
That was the original idea. 1t was
amended to lend money to railroads
and to state or local governments for
relief. The last was not a fieabite on
what was needed; the railroad loans
more than once bailed out the banks
which had loaned not wisely but too
much to shaky railroads. The bank
loans Of the RFC greatly lessened
bank failures for time, and gave
the Hoover administration breath
ing spell which it didn't use; and when
the shaky banks had pledged all then
good collateral came the deluge.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
Big Banker Dominated Advisory Boards of T. S. Lend
ing Organization Use Influence Against Aid to Small
and New Business.

pay 1t seems to be the custom to
consult at least two members of the
advisory board on nearly all loans;
more Of those members, doubtless, on
important loans.
And more than SO per cent of
all the members Of the advisory
boards of the RFC are officials of
banks and trust companies. The
trade journal, American Banker,
calls them all bankers, and is
right. They will be called so
here.
Let us assume that banker would
have no more bias than anyone else
in making a relief loan; and that was
what the RFC set out to do. When
he passes on any other loan, the
banker comes squarely against a
choice. Either the loan is such that
he would make it from his bank; or
it is not If he would make it, the
RFC is offered business that he would
be glad to get If he wouldn't make
it, why should he foist it on anyone
else?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
Banks Help
Steady Customers

There is another bad side to the
matter. Banks presuppose business
just as hotels presuppose travel; and
like hotels though rather more per-
manently, banks look after their
steady customers. If bank were
furnishing credit for a packing house,
for instance. it would not loan money
to start another packing house in the
same district.
There happens to be a case in which
this was tried out on bankers, not at
their own banks, but as advisers" to
an RFC loan agency. A man of con-
siderable wealth and business expert
ence bought very accessible store of
the raw materials for cement, and
also site where he wanted the fac
tory This was in California and the
raw materials were in the mountain
and the site Of the factory was on
''the Bay San Francisco Bay He
called in engineers and accountants to
test his plans and materials; and they
found them good Then he went to
the RFC to borrow money for the fac
tory; and offered to guarantee much
reduced price for cement in some huge
public works now projected.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05

in the chains, whereas they have had
little success with the Independents
and have encountered violent opposi-
tion from that source, states a sum
mary Of the survey.
Legislation adverse to chain stores,
which reached its peak in 1888, is
rapidly becoming unpopular with
greater number Of organizations and
individuals, the survey states.
Consumers Groups In Line
Several powerful consumers groups,
whose membership consists mainly of
the wives of wage earners, have made
rapid strides in a nationwide attack
caused BY excessive taxation.
With organized labor protecting the
wage Garner and united consumer
grouops protecting the housewife,
farmers also have joined in protest
against anti-chain store legislation,
the survey reveals.
Anti-Chain Taxes Seen Doomed
"The farmer knows that the chains
perform a highly useful function in
taking SURPRISES of agricultural prod
ucts off the market Unlike the in
dependents, who always try to carry
q complete and well-rounded line of
merchandise, the chains seek products
that can be featured from a price
standpoint. Thus, they are always on
the alert for surplus offerings
By 1899, the report states, oppon-
ents Of anti-chain taxes will have
grown 50 strong that levies Of this
nature, both state and federal, will
have little chance Of passing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
Banks Don't Aid
New Business To Start

Bear in mind that bankers idea
of a good loan is not like the idea of
other men. If any new business was
ever tried out in America on loans
from banker, the fact has escaped
the attention of historians. Fulton
got his funds from friends, not from
a bank Railroads were financed by
cities, states and the national govern
ment before they could qualify for
bank loans. The first telegraph was
built by Congress, not by any group
of fnanciers. In asking bankers to
pass upon government loans, other
than relief loans, you are giving
the most cautious, ultra-conseryatiye
group of the population the veto
power over any proposal.
Nor is this all. Banking has be-
come big business in this country
faster than anything else except life
insurance. Two hundred industrial
and commercial corporations, accord
ing to Berle and Means, hold more
than half the commercial and indus
trial assets Of the country. But 100
banks, according to the American
Banker, hold more than half the finan-
cial wealth of the country. The 100
largest banks hold SIG per cent of
all the commercial deposits in the
United States; the 10 largest banks
alone hold 23.4 per cent of all the
commercial deposits in the United
States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
SAITH MEETING OF
AFL STATE BODY
CONVENED AUG. |
Sessions Held In Netherland- Plaza
Hotel Have Largest Attendance
In Years
(By Ohio Labor News Service)


Cincinnati, O-Meeting for the fif-
ty-fourth consecutive time, the Ohio
State Federation of Labor, state
branch of the American Federation of
Labor, convened in the beautiful air
conditioned Hall of Mirrors in the
Netherland- Plaza Hotel here Monday,
August /, in the largest convention of
the organization in years.
Nearly 400 delegates from local
unions and city central bodies We're
seated by noon Tuesday, and the work
Of the convention proceeded in an at
mosphere of friendly hospitality, ex
tended by city officials and leaders of
the local labor movement.
The convention was called to order
at 10 a. m. Monday by Secretary
Treasurer Thomas j. Donnelly, who
turned the gavel over to Jack Hurst,
president Of the Cincinnati Central
Labor Council, for the opening cere-
monies.
Reverend G. w. Grauer gave the
prayer of invocation, and President
Hurst then officially welcomed the
delegates and visitors back to Cincin-
natl after an absence of q years.
Mayor James G. Stewart, whom
Hurst termed excellent timber for
governor Of Ohio in 1910, then ex-
tended the welcome of the Queen City
in words which left no doubt that the
delegates were among a friendly
people.
Morris Edwards, executive vice
president Of the Cincinnati Chamber
of Commerce, and Dan Meyers, presi-
dent of the local Hotel Mems Asso-
citation, added their words of welcome
to those of Mayor Stewart and Presi-
dent Hurst.
Benediction was pronounced by Rev
erend Father John Kuhn, and, after
outlining an extensive program Of en-
tertainment which had been arranged
for the delegates, President Hurst and
other welcoming speakers were an
swered by President Michael ]. Lyden
in behalf of the Ohio State Federation
Of Labor and the delegates.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05

Advertise i'm The Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
Middletown T. C. Picnic

Robert Lukens, chairman, and mem
bers of a committee in charge OF ar
rangements for the annual picnic Of
Middletown, Ohio, Trades and Labor
Council at the Canoe Club Sunday,
will meet Friday night to complete
plans for the outing. w. J. O'Brien
IS secretary and All Holthenrichs,
treasurer, of the committee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05

Grandmother used to brag about
her new machine just as daughter
does today. Only it was a sewing
machine then.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-05
Big Banks

Big Banks
Influence RFC
This predominance Of handful Of
huge banks is a mighty handicap to
small business. Big business can go
to a big bank and talk turkey on
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
Rotary Clubs to
Hold Dinner Meet
Thursday, Feb. II

The second meeting of the I'M
perial county council of Rotary
clubs will be a dinner meeting
at pm. Thursday, Feb. II at the
Barbara Worth hotel.
Guest speakers will be James
Shelton, chairman of the board of
the Security Bank in. Los Angeles;
Marvin Parks. president of the Ro-
tary district No 107.
NJ. J. DoWd, chief engineer of
Imperial Irrigation district, will be
master of ceremonies.
All Rotary clubs in the valley
will be represented at the meeting
and luncheon programs win be
postponed
At the last El Centro Rotary
meeting, members entertained 20
boy scouts of Troop at lunch
con.
Approximately 10 Rotarians and
Boy Scouts attended the meeting
at which Col Thomas Davis, pres
ident of the Army and Navy acad-
emy of San Diego, was guest speak
er. George Raynes, president of
the Yuma area and Hugh Wilcox,
Boy Scout executive, were also
speakers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13

III JIlt JIldl Ol IlldIltS CdllcJO dlld
I Pete Ragosa for the murder of Juan
Navarro and Jesus Rabara in an
FL Centre pool hall late last year.
The case was placed in the hands
of the jury shortly before 2 o'clock
Friday afternoon and the verdict
was returned in Judge R. d. Nc
Pherrin's court three hours later.
Throughout the progress of the
trial the court room was we'll filled
with Filipinos and approximately
two dozen of them waited in the
court house corridors while the jury
was out. They followed the testi-
mony of witnesses placed on the
stand by Deputy District Attorney
r. I. French and Defense Attorneys
Dorsey WhitelaW, w. T. Fowler and
Ray Johnson.
Two witnesses held in the county
Jail since the double murder, were
ordered released by the court and
bail postd by another was exon
Grated.
Calico admitted shooting one of
the islanders in the mouth and
another in the chest as they sat
at a counter in pool hall on Broad
way. In explaining the reason for
the murder, he declared Navarro
ana Rabara refused to accept his
forgiveness" following a fight the
night before the shooting
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
MORE RAIN,
SNOW FALL

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. u. CUP)
Casualties and property damage
continued to mount today as Cali
fornia-from Eureka on the north
to Bakersfield on the South-WaS
drenched with rain and snow for
the 18th consecutive day, an all
time record, according to the
weather bureau.
On the banks of June Lake, high
in the Sierras, two men were kill
ed when a snow avalanche covered
six resort cabins.
Three firemen were lost off the
southern California coast and an
automobile skidded into the Sail
mas river after the bridge washed
out at Soledad
Few highways were open and the
state highway patrol warned against
weekend automobile trips.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
COP. LEADERS
TO CELEBRATE

WASHINGTON. Feb. IL tUP) =
Republican party leaders Will eele-
brate the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln tonight with appeals to
labor and youth to join a concert
ed drive against the new deal IN
the fall congressional elections.
Fifty COP. leaders. headed by
National Committee Chairman
John d. Hamilton. will address
gatherings throughout the country.
1t was understood that the gen.
eral theme of their remarks will be
that the Republican party always
has been a friend of the working
man and that now his liberty Is
threatened by the new deal.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
TWO SAVEDIN
STORMY SEA

Continued from Page II
(UP)-A levee along the Pajaro
river broke today under the strain
of rushing flood waters and mum
dated hundreds of South Watson,
vile homes.
Blasts from the town fire siren
warned all residents out of the
area as temporary Red Cross head
quarters were swept away and pow
er boats were used to eVacuate
remaining refugees.
No loss of life was reported but
Fire Chief J. C. Hagerty said the
situation was dangerous because
of failure of some residents to heed
a previous evacuation order.
A temporary depot established
by the Watsonville Women's club
provided food and clothing for
refugees. Ten blocks of the busi-
ness district were flooded.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
Petitions Filed in
Bond Controversy

M. E. Oswald, militant district
bondholder, Friday filed amended
petitions for two writs of mandate,
one to- compel the Imperial Irriga-
ton district to levy a tax rate
sufficient to pay obligations now
due, and another to compel the
district to register interest coupons
he holds.
Similar petitions were filed by
Oswald last fall. The court early
this month denied the petitions,
giving Oswald permission to amend
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
Answer Filed in
Divorce Case

In an answer and cross complaint
filed five days after her husband
sued her for divorce, Mrs. Donia
Fay Willis accused her husband,
j. Howard Willis, of adultery and
named Nettie Sprague correspond
ent.
She said Willis left her Feb. 2,
1887 and a few days later she dis
covered him living with Nettle
Sprague and her child in Ell Cen
tro. In 1897 they moved to Ontario
where they still live, she said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
Wright Declared
Guilty by Jurors
Continued from Page u


sanity plea
While the verdict was being re-
turned Wright stood the ordeal
better than his attorney, Jerry
Giesler.
Wright sat tensely holding his
chin in his hand, while Giesler, i'll
at ease nerVously slapped his fore
head
The jury, after returning the ver-
dict, was ordered locked up until
Monday when Wright will go on
trial on the insanity plea. Both
sides entered into a stipulation
that all evidence entered into this
trial automatically would be en-
tered in the insanity trial, which
attorneys predicted would last prob
ably for two days.
Widow SnObs
Mrs. Marrene Kimmel, widow of
the slain man, burst into tears as
the verdict was read.
Wright's father, j. j. Wright, of
Milwaukee, took the verdict tense
ly and stoically, as did his son.
Mrs. j. j. Mcbride, mother of
the slain woman, and Mrs. Wright's
sister, Natalie Mcbride, merely
stared straight ahead.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
Suitcase Hidden i'm
Theater Stolen

An unused theater building is
poor place to conceal personal be-
longings, Leonard Scheward learn
ed Friday night.
ScheWard, pile driver engineer at
Imperial dam, told police he con-
cealed a Gladstone bag containing
clothing in the Fox Imperial theater
building last week. and came back
Friday night to find it gone.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
Milk Price Fixing
Declared Benefit
TO Big Companies

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. Il
CUP) - Assemblyman Samuel w
Yorty of Los Angeles charged to-
day that Director of Agriculture
A. A. Brock "is acting entirely in
the interest of large milk distribu-
ting companies" in establishing
milk price minima for the states
various marketing areas.
Yorty'S charges were contained
in a letter to Gov. Frank F. Mer-
riam in which he also protested
recent price increases to consum-
ers. He asked that revision of milk
control statutes be made part OF
the program for an impending spe-
cial session of the legislature.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
Two Born on
Lincoln Birthday

LineOln's birthday, Feb. IL,
Saturday became the birthday
for two Ell Centre chii0ren,
girl and boy. The girl, weigh
ing 6 pounds, 1012 ounces. was
born to Mrs. A. A. Hurst at 5
am. The boy, pounds, ~
ounces, was born to Mrs. Jerry
Robertson at 2 am. Both were
born at the El Centre hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
FILIPINOS GET
LIFE TERMS ON
MURDER CHARGE

Two Fipinos will spend the remainder of their lives in
prison because they murdered two of their fellow country
men, jury recommended after finding them guilty Of
murder in the first degree
1t required three hours for the jury reach verdict
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
Filipino 'Zigs' in
Auto, Arrested

Adriano Reyes, 28-year -old Fill
pino, may have been looking for a
friend when he sent his car zig
tagging down Broadway Friday
night-but what he found was a
cell in the Ell Centro city jail on
a charge of possession of deadly
weapon.
Patrolmen F., V. Ackley and Roy
Dupont, attracted by the erratic
action of the Filipino's car, halted
him at Fifth street and Broadway.
A search of the machine revealed
a small copy of a deadly Filipino
bolo knife. Reyes arrest resulted.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
GALES RAKE
VALLEY

Gusty gales, with light rain fur
ries, Friday afternoon raked I'm
perial Valley. Official estimates
OF wind velocity, which placed the
peak at 36 miles an hour at between
6 and pm. Friday were far be-
low unofficial readings. Maximum
temperature Friday was 78 degrees,
minimum So.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
VISITS VALLEY
-POST-PREss ENGRAVING

Mrs. Mary E. Stevens, investigator
in the San Diego department of
public welfare, was a visitor at the
Imperial county welfare office Fri
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13

That Honey Feeling
When Karl Kaiser, eX-German
air corps member, finished telling
the Ell Centro Kiwanis club Friday
noon about the results of monetary
initiation in Germany after the
War, he received the usual thanks
from the chairman, Wade Ram
sey, and the presiding officer,
Vice President Rudolph Miller.
Then Rudolph ADDED the finishing
touches. He repeated his thanks
in German. At least, the club
thought that's what he said. No
body else knew.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13
Rambling Reporter

Continued from Page y
lily who knows where the stopper
is. Result is RR's had to take
showers for week-and the
weather's a bit cold for a shower.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-13

Continued Tomorrow
S. B. Riley and F. Shank ended
their match in the Del Rio Lettuce
Tournament Friday night on the
17th green. 1t was SO dark they
couldn't find the 18th tee. Friends
congratulated them on finding the
clubhouse.