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 nounced recently that the federal government would undertake CO., ordinated drive against foreign espionage in this country, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., selected Trey to head the treas ury's phase of the work because oi his effective accomplishments in criminal detection.
 A native of Kansas City, Mo, he first gained his knowledge of under cover work as an aide to the chief post office inspector. After IF years in the postal service, the then com missioner of internal revenue, Dan- iel c. Roper, arranged for Irey's transfer to the revenue bureau for investigation of income tax frauds which had reached scandalous pro- portions during the World War.
 With Roper's approval, Trey es- abolished an intelligence unit in the bureau with five of his former asso- ciates in the postal service forming nucleus of what is now one of the best trained investigative divisions of the government.
 To the public, he is best known for his work in the Capone and Lindbergh cases. When Capone was riding the heights of lawless power, Trey entered the case. He created a secret "Capone squad", which, eventually, pierced together an amazing record of illicit profits leading direct to Capone and send- ing him and some of his henchmen to federal prisons.
 Trey entered the Lindbergh case following underworld rumors that the crime was committed by the Capone mob. It was he who in- duced Charles A. Lindbergh to re- cord the serial numbers of the $50,- 900 ransom and to include conspicu- ous gold certificates among the bills. Hauptmann was arrested when he passed one of the ransom bills.
 Trey was named coordinator of treasury enforcement agencies Sep tember 15, 1897, with general supet- vision over law enforcement activi- ties of the secret service, coast guard, customs service, narcotics bureau, alcohol tax unit, and the internal revenue intelligence unit.
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LOTHARIO TOOK
 POLITE KISSES

Lowell, Mass, Dec. 30.-(UP)--A nocturnal Lothario created Q furore in the exclusive Belvidere section here early today by accosting lone women, affectionately embracing them and then calmly walking away after politely tipping his hat. Tn two instances, the startled victims screamed. One young woman todl police thath after the unexpected osculation, the immediately dressed youth quieted her fears by re- marking:
 That's enough. That's really all I want"
 He was described as 5 feet 1 inches tall. blond, and wearing a brown overcoat and brown hat.
 A new hat shape in London is called "a sharks fin"
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ton loyal to the president and the other demanding his custer, and that the ster-Musica group won, with the result that no investigation was made.
 Catchings had named Cutler, now a director of International Tele- phone and Telegraph and other corporations, as one who took leading part on Coster- -Musica's side during the 1884 fight.
 Asked why he did so, Cutler said: well, I'll tell you exactly how I felt about it. thought MT. Catchings was trying to make a name for himself at or near the top in the management of this company, and I thought that his record and standing did not entitle him to that position"
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the city, Enoch Borgnaes of New York is still apparently missing. Whether or not he will be on hand for the actual start of the trial has been a question of much speculation. According to County Detective Ec- ward J. Hickey, Borgnaes is a fugi- tive from justice.
 The first witness to be called by Special Prosecutor Alcorn is ex- pected to be either member of the controllers office, or @ state acc countant. Testimony by such witt nesses will be long and technical, and the cross examination by the defense is expected to be cutting and vitriolic.
 One witness who is expected to receive harsh treatment at the hands of the defense is Harry Mac- kenzie of Bethel, one of the accused who has pleaded guilty.
 Societv neOnle of Dublin. Ireland
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Ripe raspberries were picked in England in November.
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Society people of Dublin, Ireland, are again playing chess, and it may become craze.
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A new hat shape in London is called "a sharks fin"
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NEW DEGREES
 HURLED AT JEWS

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1888
SLUMS AND CRIME

Police Judge Edward NJ. Curran,
Of the District of Columbia courts,
told a gathering of Massachusetts
men in the capital that slums breed
crime.
1t is a true word, but not a new
perhaps all the better for not
being new. Josiah Flint, one Of the
shrewdest students of criminal af-
fairs of the past generation, wrote
more than 30 years ago that sur
prising proportion Of criminals were
bright and energetic boys from the
slums. They would not stand the liv-
ing conditions in which they found
they could see no way out except
crime Therefore, crime.
In Chicago. which for some years
had the best juvenile Judge in the
country, that courts records told the
same story It is known to all that
except for such crimes as homicide,
forgery and embezzling, the boy who
does not get picked up for offenses
while in-or even before his teens
usually stays out the rest Of his life
offenses brought to the juvenile
court from one district on the west
side Of Chicago dropped 55 per cent
the first year after a boys club was
opened in that neighborhood
Just as a bit Of national book
keeping, it would be cheaper to build
out the slums than to handle the
crime which they breed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
Union Clerks to Hold Meet

Coshoct on (OLNS).- Delegates
from 80 local Retail Clerks Unions
of Northwestern Ohio District No. 3
will meet here April 10 for their an
nual convention, the guests of Local
3Ss.
President William Green, of the A..
F. of L., has been invited to speak
at the meeting in his home town.
Other speakers scheduled inclue
James Duffy, Steubenville, national
president of the Potters' Union; c. c.
Coulter, Lafayette, Ind, national sec
retary- treasurer of the Clerks Tn.
ion; d. j. Marquis, Philadelphia, Pa,
second vice president of the union;
T. j. Quinlan, GAINESVILLE, third vice
president, and H. j. Montoney, Colum-
bus, state organizer for the Clerks
Union.
District No 8 includes Columbus
and all territory north and east of
the Ohio capital. Election of officers
will be the final action of the meeting
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
UNION LABEL PROMOTION

The A. f. Of T. union label and
industrial exhibition to be held in Gin
cinnati, May 16 to 21, gives an excel
lent opportunity to talk union label
buying from one end Of the country
to the other The exhibition will focus
national attention on union label
goods and services and promises to
put them on the map as never before.
Director General l. NJ. Ornburn re-
ports interest in the exhibition is
most encouraging. Manufacturers Of
union label products are actively CO.
operating and share the enthusiasm
Of the exhibition management for the
enterprise. A feature will be double
booth devoted to the exhibit of labor
periodicals and labor papers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18

first meeting of the ILO permanent
agricultural committee. Mechanical
tion of agriculture and its dangers to
labor were discussed and ILO study
urged
Lowry Nelson, United States rep
resentative, pointed to marked adj
vances Of mechanization in cotton,
corn and sugar beet cultivation and
called for investigation
Displacement of workers by ma
chinery is Of direct concern to city la
Dor, as farm workers forced out of
employment adds to the competition
for jobs III the cities Farm and city
workers could cooperate with bene-
fit to both in meeting the problem,
which yearly grows more serious.
To cope with any problem requires
knowledge of the facts. ILO investi-
cation could provide the facts and be
a worthwhile addition to the work
which the office is doing for labor
throughout the world
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
Laundry Workers
Complain to NLRB

Cincinnati (OLNS) )-Charges have
been lodged with Phillip G. Philips,
regional director Of the National La
Dor Relations Board with headquar-
ters here, by the Laundry Workers
Union against large majority of
the Laundry Operators Association.
Failure to abide by the terms of an
agreement which ended 13-week
strike late last year was cited by the
union as the reason for the complaint,
and spokesmen declared new strike
might be called if grievances were not
adjusted.
A variety of complaints were filed
with Philips, including discrimination
against employees active in the union;
disergarding seniority rights, and
hiring new workers instead of re-
employing old ones.
As the complaints were filed with
Philips, union laundry driver won
count victory over former en-
ployer, when Judge Allen Roudebush
ruled that a union agreement super
cedes one with an individual employe.
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$4,000 in Back Pay Going
To Wooden Plant Workers

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-A to-
tai of 36 discharged union employees
will receive $4,000 in back pay from
March, 1886, under terms of an all
party agreement settling labor dis
pute at the Dartmouth Woolen Mills,
Claremont, New Hampshire, the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board an
nounces.
The employees will also be entitled
to reinstatement, without prejudice,
to their former positions, or equiva-
lent employment, under provisions of
the stipulation agreed to by the COM
pany, United Textile Workers Local
2123, and the board.
The workers will get sums ranging
from 500 to $1,000 with the majority
receiving between 5000 and $500.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

thor of books and magazine articles
on European occasions.
The Wall street brokerage firm of
Richard Whitney & Co. has been sus-
pended because bankrupt; and the
cashier of that firm has said that the
head of it, Richard Whitney, had used
his customers securities without
their knowledge Mr.. Whitney has
shown an unexpected amount of man
hood in taking the blame and freeing
his employees from charges. But it is
hardly likely that the customers whose
securities he manipulated or hooked
will get much comfort out of that;
and it is certain that two things need
to be said.
First, Mr. Whitney, like nearly all
the rest of the Wall streeters, fought
against the passage of the securities
and exchange act. He joined the rest
Of the crew in demanding perfect
freedom" and "self government" for
the exchange, and did his full share
in slowing up the speed with which
the SEC got into action.
The collapse of his firm is just
another and striking piece of evidence
that Wall street must be rigidly regu-
lated, that it cannot be trusted, that
some public agency must at all times
have access to all facts of the streets
business.
And the second thing is this: No
other industry is so overbuilt, over
manned, overstaffed, overpuffed as
the stock broking business. If half
or three-quarters of all the firms do
ing business in Wall street follow
Whitney into bankruptcy there will
still be plenty left to do all the work
of that kind that the country needs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18

The Philadelphia Record has scored
big newspaper scoop" by printing
one of the most amazing documents of
history. This is a memorandum, pur-
porting to be written by and circulated
among German army officers, and
bearing many internal evidences that
it is what it seems. 1t is grim, stol-
id but savage criticism of the Hitler
foreign policy.
''The war in Spain is unquestion-
ably the most unpopular campaign
in which Germany ever was engaged, F"
says the memorandum.
How deeply Nazi Germany is en-
gagged in Spain is shown by the state
ment in the memorandum Germany
has furnished to Franco $50 planes,
the same number of cannon, 800 tanks,
items of thousands of German rifles, :
and machine guns not numbered. AT
Bilbao" says the memorandum, "the
EeDGiS QSSu iIOIlG pul dIl man liielNiiiliC
guns"
The memorandum does not oppose
this work on any grounds of inter-
national morality The charge is that
the Hitler foreign policy, particularly
in Spain, is wasting the reserves of
Germany, stirring up opposition on
every side, and running grave risks
of plunging Germany into a war
which the memorandum of these Ger
man officers declares she cannot win.
If this memorandum fell into the
hands of Hitler's spies-and it is hard
to see how it could help doing So
the army purge of few weeks ago
is fully explained.
The memorandum was brought to
this country and translated by NJ. E.
Ravage, Rumanian by birth, and au-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
READING HOSIERY
Workers Gain Basic Pay
Increase

Philadelphia (ILNS)-An arbitra-
tion award increasing the basic wage
scale of Berks county hosiery workers
employed by the Keystone group Of
manufacturers was announced here
by the American Federation of Hos
iery Workers.
More than 10000 workers in the
Reading, Pa, area are covered by
the award, which places labor costs
in that district on the same level as
those in mills of the Full Fashioned
Hosiery Manufacturers of America,
Inc, it was announced.
Virtually all hosiery mills in
Berks county with the exception Of
the Berkshire Knitting Mills-and
the E. Sutrow and Sons plant in
York, Pa, are included in the award,
which brings 70 per cent of the ma
tion's hosiery industry under a
standard wage scale, union officials
said
Philadelphia's 10000 hosiery work
ers returned to their looms after de-
Gliding against continuance of two
day work stoppage"
The stoppage was called by Presi-
dent William Leader, of Branch /,
American Federation of Hosiery
Workers, as a protest against what
he termed a is per cent wage cut
imposed by an arbitration board.
The board, acting under provisions
of a contract between the National
Union and the Full Fashioned Hos.
iery Manufacturers of America, de.
MED that the wage revision was q
blanket cut" contending it was
merely an elimination Of bonuses ane
special rates, forced by economic
necessity"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
lO4,62O AGED
RECEIVING AID
Berrodin Makes Fourth An
nual Report
(By Ohio Labor News Service)

(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus Needy aged in Ohio,
numbering 104,62O in December, 1887,
were paid a total of $2s,568,921.57 in
pension awards last year, according
to the fourth annual report Of Henry
]. Berrodin, chief of the division OF
aid for the aged.
The number of recipients increased
1883 over the previous year. The to-
tai number now receiving aid is a
marked increase over 1884, when
36,545 persons received $1,431,222,
less than the $2,334,440 being paid
now each month. Average award IN
1884 was $1413, compared to $22.60
in 1887.
A total of 27059 applications were
pending January /, 1887, and 29,S35
additional applications were received
by the division during the year.
Of this number, 35, 857 were dis
posed of, 1924 being allowed and
the remainder denied as being ineli-
gible and for other reasons. On jan
uary /, 1888, 21,037 applications were
still pending, according to the report.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
NONE SO BLIND
(From the Portland Oregoni

(From the Portland Oregonian)
1t seems to be as true as ever that
there are none so blind as those who
will not see. The California supreme
court declines to free Tom oMoney.
To bolster its own impossible position
it declares incredible the evidence
showing that Moneys conviction
was erroneous. This includes as "in-
credible" presumably, the proved fact
that Mooney was on top Of a distant
building at the time when perjured
witnesses swore they saw him plant
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
a DICTATOR WANTS HELP

(From the New Leader, ~ Y City,
Dictator Stalin's plea for the aid
Of workers in the democratic nations
comes after the Trade Union Inter
national has refused admission of the
Russian unions" Stain also revives
the old call for world revolution"
to protect his dictatorship, the news
Of the Stain bull breaking just as
it became known that Feodor Buten-
ko, Bolshevik charge d affaires in
Rumania, turned up in Fascist Italy
as a refugee from Stalin's GPU. But
enkos acceptance Of Italian Fascism
also recalls the pre-Hitler period in
Germany when Nazis passed over
to communists and communists over
to Nazis in a maze of shifts in the
last two years of the Weimar Repub-
lie. Stains appeal to democratic
workers of other nations to support
him is not likely to bring enthusiastic
cheers for the "liquidator" Of all dem
ocratic workers in Russia.
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luton, stand trial on charges almost
as fantastic as the charges against
Eunice Goody Cole.
Thousands of others have been tired
on similar charges in the last two
years.
Most of them met death at the
hands of Dictator Stalin's firing
squads.
Will it take 2S2 years for the Il
and the others to be exonerated, as it
did Eunice Goody Cole?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
WHAT NEXT?

A well known carburetor company
has brought out a new carburetor
which is said to solve the problem
Of enabling gasoline engines to burn
low cost fuel, such as fuel oil, under
all conditions of engine operation.
The company plans to sell the new
product to operators of truck fleets
and for industrial and marine engines.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18

the Preparedness Day bomb. 1t de-
clares incredible" the proved fact
that Frank Oxman was not even in
San Francisco at the time when he
swore he saw the bomb planted It
declares incredible the reputation
by perjured witnesses of their testi-
mony winch was 50 large factor in
Moneys conviction.
Incredible? Such self-excusing by
the highest court of a sovereign state
would itself be incredible were it not
before our eyes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
HOUSING AUTHORITIES BILL
PASSED

Albany, N. Y. (ILNs) The legis-
lature completed action on the Todd
bill permitting first class villages and
counties to establish housing authori-
ties. The measure was sent to Gov
ernor Lehman for signature
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
PROTECTION OF JOBS ASKED

Washington, D. c. (ILNs) The
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks has
asked the ICC to protect employees
jobs if it grants the Louisiana and
Arkansas Railway Co. petition to aa
quire control of the Louisiana, Arkan-
sas and Texas Railway Co.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) Every
year business and industry in this
country loses 100000 through
disruption of operations by sickness
and premature death, most of which
is preventable.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
LABOR DISPLACEMENT
STUDY NEEDED

Proposed study by the Interna-
tional Labor Office Of worldwide dis
placement of farm labor by machinery
could be of universal value.
Agricultural experts from Is coun-
tries recently met at Geneva in the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-03-18
TheCherry
~ Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes fiippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
ICC approves higher freight rates

ICC approves higher freight rates
Railroads pull long faces because
they didn't get all they asked
Increase will add between $175,-
100000 and S270,OoO,O00 to nations
freight bill.
That won't reduce your cost of liv-
ing any.
Unless, of course, the freight rate
boosts are nullifed by sharply lower
price levels, due to continued busi-
ness depression
Railroads need the increases, all
right. Railroad labor realized they
simply had to have more revenue and
supported an increase.
But the increases don't come any
where near solving the railroads
problems.
| Wall street has been urging rate
increases for long time.
Wall street hopes increases will
mean higher prices for railroad
stocks.
The street" knows, though, that
higher rates won't bring railroad
prosperity, as along with it's higher
rate propaganda has gone general ad-
mission that what the carriers really
need is more traffic.
! How to get more business under
present conditions is the rub. 1t is
hard to see how higher rates will
help any.
Reorganization of financial struc-
lures, to reduce exhorbitant bond in
terest, would help.
Steady improvement Of railroad
service will also help.
| ICC gave good advice along that
| line in its last annual report.
Commission advised the railroads
to make their service more attract
i've, to reduce operating cost and not
to rely too much on rate increases to
help them out of their pickle.
while price increases are at times
necessary, the vital thing in competi-
tion is to increase the stability Of the
product and reduce it's cost" the COM
mission added.
The railroads have made great
strides in improving service, particu-
larly in passenger service.
They can do more in this direction
and in fact they must do more.
Here's chance for labor to hold
National Association of Manufaetur-
ers to its word:
NAN announces it is investigat-
ing whether industry discriminates
against older workers in employment.
There should be no discrimina-
tion against man who asks work
because he is above 40, says r. w.
| Moore, head of the NAM employ
ment relations committee.
Men over 40 may be much better
equipped to do the work than younger
men, Moore says.
"Them's good words" 1t is to be
hoped industry" will live up to them
| Labor will be delighted if it does.
! In Hampton, N. H., the townspeo-
pie by unanimous vote have exoner-
ated Eunice Goody Cole of charge
of witchcraft-af after 282 years. She
was convicted in 1858 and served ten
years in prison.
Unfortunately, Hampton's change
of heart came too late to do Eunice
any good.
In Russia, 81 men, many of them
| faOoo1c leaders 0f fba Puccion pauo-
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WISDOM

He that establishes his arguments
by noise and command, shows that
his argument is weak. Montaigne
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He-You have wonderful form,
dear.
She Must you go over all that
again?
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