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The Washington times., 1938-01-31
ROOSEVELT HIT
BY REP, SMELL

Q.N.S0 Charging President
Roosevelt was opposing measures
necessary to restore confidence,
Representative Smell of New York,
Republican leader of the House,
today appealed for positive leg
islation" to break what he called
"the existing New Deal shackles
upon private enterprise"
Smell urged Mr.. Roosevelt to
reorganize the White House Sys-
TEN of press conferences to avoid
misunderstanding" of the Presi-
dents statements by m kin g
available to the press a verbatim
record" of the reporters questions
and his answers.
His savage attack on the Chief
Executive, made in a prepared
statement, asserted recovery can
not come until the prevailing syS-
tenn of Federal taxes is modified
draStically to revive the normal
functions of private thrift and
Investment"
'"This move drastic modifica-
ton of taxes) the President re-
peatedly has 4esisted and OBJ
structed," Smell stated.
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R0UT THAT
co D
Let 1t Not Hang on Thru the Use
of Halfway Measures!

Fourth, they tone the system and
help fortify against further attack.
When you feel a cold coming on,
trust to no makeshift methods.
Adopt the proven course Of safety
take Bromo Quinine.
Taken promptly, these tablets
will often break up a cold in "a
hours and that's the speed you
want.
Act Promptly!
Bromo Quinine tablets may be
taken with confidence. They have
been in use for over 40 years and
are the worlds largest-selling cold
tablets.
Bromo Quinine tablets come in
35c and 60c sizes. The 60c size is the
better "buy." It gives you almost
20 per cent more for your money.
Ask your druggist firmly for
Groves Laxative Bromo Quinine
NBQ tablets) and accept no SUBJ
stitute.
A few pennies cost may save
you q world Of trouble.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
Beginners. Bridge
Classes Announced

Formation of three new classes
for beginners in contract bridge
was announced today by the Com
munity Center Departm e n t..
Dorothy M. Johnson will conduct
q class at Eastern High School
every Tuesday at 8 p. m. She
will present a simplified version
Of the Culbertson system, which
has been specially designed for
auction players who want to learn
contract.
On Monday and wednesday
nights, Maxwell L. johnson, lee
turer and broadcaster on con-
tract bridge. will conduct classes
at Central High School. A class
for intermediate players is held
ct Central High School Tuesday
nights.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
NAzI FETE BARES'
DISSENT AMONG.
REICH LEADERS.
Blomberg, Goering Lose
HitIer'S Favor

BERLIN, Jan. 81 I.N.S) .-Nazi-
ism entered its sixth year Of
power today on a note of interna-
tional pacifism-but with rumors
of internal dissent in high places.
The international tone was
sounded by the foreign Offices
publication, Diplomatic Core
spondence, which said:
"The task of diSrupting the
moral and material chains en-
circling Germany has to be ap-
preached with cool-headed con-
temptation.
LEMAND FREEDOM"
"The aims of German foreign
policy are not changed. Our de-
mand is still for freedom of the
German nation. which at no
time will menace the rights Of
other peoples.
But Germany is determined
to travel the road that leads to
peace and prosperity"
Much attention, however, was
focused on the absence of several
prominent leaders when ReichS-
fuehrer Adolf Hitler stood on the
balcony of his chancellery in the
WilhelmStrasse last night and
watched $4,000 storm troopers
gooSe-Step past. The occasion was
the fifth anniversary of his acces-
sion to the chancellorship. Rain
made the celebration far less i'm
posing than had been expected.
BLOMBERG ABSENT
Notably missing from the chan
celery balcony were Field Marshal
Won Blomberg, war minister, and
Col. Gen. Hermann Goering, air
minister. Conspicuously present
we're Joseph Goebbels, propaganda
minister, and Rudolf Hess, deputy
Nazi leader.
The decision to cancel the
Reich sessions which had been pre-
pared for yesterday also caused
comment.
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Beware Of the common cold"!
The common cold," doctors will
tell you, is the cause Of more seri-
Gus trouble than anything else.
Many a person who is in a pneu-
monia jacket today had but "com-
mon cold" yesterday!
Take No Chances!
Neglect no cold. Take no chances
with your treatment.
Treat cold with cold medicine,
not "cure-all." Treat it also with
internal medicine. A cold is an
internal infection.
Groves Laxative Bromo Quinine
GBQ tablets) are what you want
for a cold. They are, first Of all,
cold tablet, made expressly for
colds. Secondly, they are internal
medication, fourfold in effect.
FOurfOld Effect!
First, they open the bowels.
Second, they check the infection
in the system.
Third, they relieve the headache
and fever.
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WRIGHT TO TELL
|OF'SIN EMBRACE

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81 GIN.
ISD.-The climax impended TO-
dav in the murder trial of Paul
A. Wright for killing his wife and
best friend as the defense pre-
pared to put him on the witness
stand.
Paving the way for testimony
defense prepared to fight for
introduction of dispositions relat-
ing Wright's sacrifice of his
Ifatherhood.
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PRESIDENT REALLY
WANTS BIG NAVY
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
Bv PAUL MALLoN

CwOrld Copyright 1885, Kns Features Syndicate Inc All Rights
in Strictly Prohbited)
DUMOR is going around that Mr. Roosevelt is only fool
~ ing about these navy ships. Suggestions are be-
ING well nlanted that he does not intend to build them
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61OH6I leaders as well as IL16 du-
mirals are convinced the ships
are needed.
They will be built.
A ROUND-THE-BUSH language
"A in the Presidents message
was apparently adopted for in
ternational purposes, primarily.
It reflects the inside fact that
the Navy mas become SO touchy
about si>lp specifications that it
has quietly discontinued publica-
ton of IT'S old regularly revealing
paper, Ships Data"
The admiralS QikewiSe the
Presidept) feel that since Japan
withdrew from the naval agree
ment, the democracies have
been placed at a disadvantage
to the relationships in the mat
ter of protecting military secrets.
Under the democratic system
Of handing budgets, foregn ma
tionS have found out all they
want to know about our plans
and specifications, while their
secret budgets protect them
from similar disclosures.
This official impression is
widely accepted in Congress,
which undoubtedly is inclined
to cooperate with the executive
branch of the Government in
disclosing no more than neces-
sary to fill requirements of a
democratic form of government.
THE Presidents explanation
l. that his new fleet is desired
to protect both North American
coastlines does not rule out new
official extension of the con-
ception of the American frontier
to include this entire hemi-
sphere. The admirals under
stands that. So does Congress.
The type Of ships to be built
readily disclose the unmentioned
purpose to naval experts.
If this fact were officially
sponsored, however, it might be
interpreted as building against
Japan, Germany and Italy.
While Germany, Italy and
Japan have recently made in
roads below the equator in this
hemisphere, it is quite conceiv-
able that other nations may be
in the movement Russia for
one) before the ships are fin
ished.
nEEP down within the cloture
~ vote in the Senate you will
find expressed precisely the
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

HE only submitted the plan
to Congress so he could have a
blue nrint weapon for inter.
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nest. Furthermore, the congress
sional leaders as well as the ad-
mirals are convinced the ships
are needed.
They will be built.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
Contractor Group
Meets Here Feb. Z

Members of the Associated Gen.
eral Contractors of America will
gather here on February 7 for
their annual convention. The
meeting will last through the
week.
On Tuesday night Edward j..
Harding, managing director Of the
organization, will speak over Sta
ton WMAL at 10:30 o'clock, to
outline objectives Of the aSsocia-
tion.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

Saving Souls With Free Beer and
the Bible. A Benevolent WOman'a
Plan for Luring Sinners Back to the
Straight and Narrow Path by Giving
Them Their Meals and Drinks Free,
Provided They Can MemOriLe the
Scriptures. An Illustrated Feature in
The American Weekly. With Sundays
Washington Herald.Times.
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n a t / o n a l
die kering"-
they say.
If the Presi-
dent is fool
ing, he has
foole not
only congress
sional leaders
but Navy ad-
mirals. Every
one who has
talked at the
White House
Is convinced
the President
was n We r
mnra in ear.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31

without bleeding was demonstrated
by DR.. M. S. Strock, of Harvard,
to members of the Rhode Island
State Dental Society at their an
nual meeting,
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whole inner situation Of the
Democratic party.
The division on cloture for
the lynching bill was almost
exactly the same as the original
split in the election of Leader
Barkley last summer. Barkley
was chosen for the White House
over Pat Harrison by 38 to 81.
There were 35 Dems for clo-
ture to get the lynching bill
through, 81 against. The same
roll call has been repeated more
or less definitely on every i'm
portant vote since then.
It expresses again the passive
resistance of the smart old
timers to New Deal leadership;
and the fact that the new-timerS
are unable to take control for
themselves, except when they
get Republican votes.
THE secret Of the lynching
l. bill argument is no secret
at all. Negroes are said to hold
a balance of voting power be-
tween Democrats and Republi-
cans only in New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana and Illinois. 1t has been
estimated authoritatively that
in 1886 the DemS received
close to rs per cent of this
Negro vote.
CENATOR STEIWER'S resig-
~ nation completely aStonished
his Republican associates. They
are grumbling that he should
have served out his term despite
his health. Now a Democrat
will be appointed and gain
prestige, which will give him an
advantage over a Republican
seeking the Oregon seat. Not
even the close friend and col
league of the former Republican
keynoter, Senator McNary, knew
of Steiwer's intention to move
up his resignation date.
THOSE experimental Ships"
l. which Mr.. R. was so vague
about in his message, are to be
mosquito boats mostly. The Ital-
ians have had some success with
small high-speed boats carrying
one torpedo. These are only
good for coaSt.line defense and
are dangerous to occupants as
well as the enemy. But the
Italians have used them with
success against some very large
ships.
The Navy can build a lot of
mosquito boats for the $15,000,.
600 to be appropriated.
MOST popular of the Presi-
AVA dents new military recon-
menations in Congress was the
proposed increase for Army anti
aircraft guns. The U. S. has the
best gua IN the world, but only
one battery now.
Much ado has been made here
among the cocktail lounging
diplomats over the secret ap-
pearance of former Ambassador
Dodd before the House Foreign
Affairs Committee. Truth is,
Dodd delivered the same lecture
in private as he has been deliver.
ing in public on the lecture
platforms.
The Washington times., 1938-01-31
SEE RADIO KNIFE

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Jan. 81
Q.N.SO.-A radio" knife enabling
dentists to cut away mouth tissue
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12
FRIDAY, AUGUST Y, 1893.
NOT A WASTE

On the surface, the mistrial of the
Harlan conspiracy case looks as if
$30O,000 and II weeks at the trial
not to mention the time spent in Dig
ging up the eyidence-ha been
wasted. This is miles from being true.
Testimony at the trial backed up
everything previously uncovered by
the Senate Civil Liberties Committee
and a great deal more. Papers and
whole regions which neglected the La
Toilette hearing gave space and ear
to the reports of a government suit.
And as if to show what kind Of human
hyenas are running things in those
coal mountains, since the trial began,
Three defendants have been held on
charges Of perjury and suboring wit
nesses;
The home Of a witness for the gov
ernment was wrecked BY dynamite;
Another witness for the government
was murdered.
Also, the Senate committee did not
bring out the testimony Of one
woman-which has gone to the ends
Of the country that she had been Of
fered 500 apiece for all union or
ganizers that she could "lure" to
lonely place where they could be
beaten to death.
There will be another trial, it is ex
pected. But this one, disappointing
as is its outcome, has been well worth
while
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12
HOW DESPOTISM WORKS

Japan has gone On rations, and the
.rations are being restricted farther,
almost day BY day. Not rations of
food alone; but Of all things Rubber
must not be used for toy balloons;
cloth must not be used to bind books.
Metals, oil, wool cotton, leather and
many other things have been rationed
for months, and some Of them have
been taken off the market. It is hard
to buy an iron frying pan now; it will
be impossible in a few more weeks.
The shortening Of the match stick,
it is estimated, will save $29o,000 a
year which, perhaps, will maintain
the army in China for an hour
In Italy, the per capita consumption
Of wheat flour, which averaged 142
Kilograms from 1926 to 1880, was
doWn 20 ll6 Kilograms IN 1886, and
with the short wheat crop in Italy, is
doubtless lower now. Consumption of
vegetables and fruits is down from 107
Kilograms to 81 per capita; Of sugar
from 9 Kilograms to 6; Of potatoes
from 35 Kilograms to 80.
Germany has long boasted that she
is putting her butter money into can
non. Now, most Of her freight cars are
unavailable for business because they
are being used to rush military sup
plies to the Czechoslovakian frontier.
What fine, rich, pleasant life
fascism and nazism, in all their varia-
tions, make for the common people,
anyway.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12
HARLAN CASE JURY
FAILS TO AGREE

London, KY. (ILNS) The jury try
ing the Harlan County coal companies,
coal masters and county officials has
failed to agree-under circumstances
which have led to the suspicion that
somebody reached" the jury when
the trial was nearly over.
This was brought out by talk with
the jurors after they had been dis
missed Up to week before the end
of the trial, the reports ran, the jury
leaned II to / for conviction. Then,
said the jurors, Something hap
pened" Five stood at the finish for
conviction of all the defendants, three
were for acquittal, and four wanted
to convict some and acquit others.
Brian Mcmahon, assistant attorney
general, moved at once for retrial.
Judge Ford refused to pass on the mo-
ton until a hearing on September II.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12

$1,000 for tear gas and guns for the
Monroe police department; but there
was another item of $1,000 on which
he hedged and lodged until La Fol-
lette had fairly backed him into a
corner. Then he grew frank" and
said he had paid it to an informer.
"What he did was to blackmail me, I"
said Torbic. "He told me he wanted
$500 for information he had given
me and threatened to sue if | didn't
pay it. To be frank with you, knew
this committee was investigating, and
didn't want any information about
stool pigeons to get out. So | paid
him ST 900 to keep him quiet"
Victim of Mob Testifies
The worst single case of brutality
brought out was told by negro or
ganizer, Leonidas Mcdonald, who was
seized by a mob in Monroe, horribly
beaten, and driven out of town. Po-
lice were there; but did nothing to
prevent the outrage, one policeman
hit Mcdonald in the face with black
jack He was beaten unconscious;
when he revived he got into his auto
and tried to get away; but man
reached in and turned off the ignition
and the mob beat him again.
He pointed out Charles Strohm in
the committee room as the man who
turned off his ignition. Strohm made
a furious denial, but Mcdonald stuck
to his testimony, saying:
"You could kill me up there but
you can't do it nowm
Pastor Run Out of Town"
Reverend Orville G. Jones, pastor
of Congregational church in Youngs-
town, told the committee that he was
run out of town in a genteel way for
expressing sympathy with the strik-
ers. Frank Purnell, president of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube CO., ad-
mitted that he had resigned from
Jones church; but said that he did
SO because Jones permitted "known
Reds" to use the church. He also
said that the men didn't need any or
ganization; that he could manage
things.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12

Many near-m miracles have happened
in the last few years. But if full war
between Japan and Russia does not
follow fast, that will be what Holly
wood would call the supermiracle.
Leave China out of account for the
moment, and consider Russia and ia
pan. The fighting is less than 100
miles from Russia's great Pacific sea-
port, Vladivostok. Japan has COM
plete command of the sea. One re-
port says that she has 250,000 men
quartered near the scene of fighting,
SO well equipped that they would need
next to nothing from Japan for a
year This must be taken with large
amount of salt; but there is no ques-
tion that Japan can mass troops in
that region faster than Russia can.
But there are factors which do not
show on the map. Russia's eastern
army is estimated at 100000 men, ac-
tually under arms, with an equal num-
Der of reserves. The Siberian rail-
road has been double tracked Emil
grafton to Siberia and building fac
tories, especially war material fac
tories, in the same region have gone
on at high pace for years-no one
outside of Moscow knows just how
high.
The eastern Russian army is au-
tonomous; that is, it is built on itself
Only negligible amount Of disaffec-
tion was found in that force during
the recent purge" 1t seems to be
well supplied with war materials. And
the Russian soldier, in different way
is as good a soldier as the japanese
which is no small praise.
Now, consider China. Japan started
her present undeclared war in China
in July, 1887. All dispatches from
japanese sources indicated that the
row would be over in at most few
weeks. The weeks heightened tc
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12

"You and your men can make such
action unnecessary. Every effort
should be made by you to curb the
use of the third degree in your juris-
diction."
But why only "curb," Speaker
Heck? Why not abolition of the
third degree?
The third degree" method of ex-
torting confessions from suspected
criminals by physical or mental tor
ture, or both, is not only brutal and
illegal; it is confession of police in
competency. Competent police work
convicts the criminal without the use
of the "third degree" which was fit
tingly pilloried by the Wickersham
Commission in 1881.
Calling emphatically for end of the
third degree" the commission used
such terms as "unprintable barbarity," )"
and "naked, ugly facts" in discuss
ing 1t.
At the New York meeting, some of
the police officials made what seemed
to be an implied defense of the "third
degree" This is typical of a certain
school of police thinking.
Whenever the third degree" is
under fire, police officials join in a
chorus of denials or make feeble at
tempts to defend its use. They talk
about ''coddling" criminals and COM
plain of attempts to work up public
sympathy for vicious killers and other
desperate lawbreakers.
They should be sharply reminded
that there is no demand for coddling
or humoring criminals; the demand is
that their constitutional rights be re-
spected.
That is all.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12
IN THE NEWS
THURMAN w. ARNOLD

About six feet of well-nourished
nervous energy-that is one of the
firss things you note about Thurman
Wesley Arnold, the new Assistant At
torney General. 1t is energy under
control; he sits waiting to speak at a
dinner with the front legs of his chair
resting on his own toes as if to hold
himself down; but there is no sign of
fdgeting or uncertainty. On the CON
trary, there is every sign of confidence
tested by experience; and backed by a
forcefulness which any prudent OPP
ponent would pause to estimate.
He was born in Laramie, Wyoming
June 2, 1891, and graduated from
Princeton in l911-two years younger
than the average A. B. degree is re-
ceived. He took his lawyers course
at Harvard-one more of the free
minded, aspiring youngsters whom
Felix Frankfurter is so lucky to get
and so successful in training. He
praeticed law in Laramie; was mayor
Of Laramie and gave lectures in the
law school of the University of Wy
oming. Larger schools in the East
began to beckon him; he was profes-
sor at Yale for quite a period before
coming to Washington.
He has grayish eyes, dark hair, reg
ular features; with that look of nerv-
ous-and nervy y-vigor on his face
His attitude toward public problems
is best expressed by the phrase which
critic applied to Justice Black-"he
thinks the sacred cows are just ordi-
nary heifers." He has gone a good
ways already; and he hasn't stopped
yet.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12
AGREEMENT IS
SIGNED BY CIGAR
MANUFACTURERS

Tampa, Fla. (ILNS). The Cigar
lea, A. F of L., and the Cigar Manu-
facturers' Association of Tampa have
signed an agreement 1t begins with
union recognition, and the next ar
ticle after this is as follows:
Section l. The employer (the as
sociation) further agrees to employ
only members in good standing of the
Cigar Makers international Union as
cigar makers, pickers and packers,
trimmers, strippers, cigar machine OPP
orators, selectors and clerks, and all
other productive employees.
Which is statement of the union
shop that Philadelphia lawyer would
find it difficult to evade. If an en-
ployer cannot find enough union men
himself, he applies to the union; and
only when the union fails is he at lib
erty to get non-union men. Shop col
lectors of union dues, are provided
Tor and even provided with tables
near the door" Hours of labor are
"A a week, dropping to AZ after Oc-
tober, 1899; and in dull times, employ
ment shall be kept up by cutting hours
at first to Sc week.
The agreement entities the manu-
facturers to the use of the union label
One of the most remarkable things
about this is that the agreement on
all other matters was concluded and
signed before an agreement on wages
was reached. R. E. Van Horn, inter
national president, believed this the
best way to go about the matter, and
in this he was backed by the opinion
Of the Labor Department Negotia-
tions on wages are now on.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12

by the Ohio State Fair" says Will
Lard w. Ellenwood, manager Of the
s8th Ohio State Fair at Columbus,
Aug. 27-Sept. 2.
thousands Of visitors flock 10
the fair each year to see the live
stock judging, displays Of agricul-
ture and horticulture, the latest
thing in farm machinery, and the
many other features which are in
cluded in the makeup Of large
and successful fair.
"Busy housewives bring out their
finest handiwork, quilts, bedspreads,
rugs, etc. Farmers and breeders
show prize fruits, vegetables, and
blooded cattle.
Here is indeed fine display Of
agricultural production and one Of
which every citizen Of this state can
well be proud"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-08-12
Labor Man Is Appointed
To State Building Post

Columbus, O. (ILNS). Edward
SWitalski, secretary of the Portsmouth
Central Labor Council for rs years,
has been named by Governor Martin
L. Dayey to represent labor en- the
commission which will administer the
recently-created State Building Au-
thority.
The authority was created by the
Ninety Second General Assembly in
its recent special session, with the
commission given the power to issue
$7,5O0,O00 in bonds, to be matched by
$6,O0O,000 of federal funds, for use in
an extensive program Of building
needed facilities for state mental and
correctional institutions.