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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-08
DAMAGE AWARD IS
UPSET BY FEDERAL
COURT OF APPEALS
Verdict Was Against Union In Apex
Sit-Down Strike Case.

Philadelphia (ILNS).-In an unani-
NOUS opinion of far-reaching import
ance to organized labor, the Federal
Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a
triple damage verdict of S711,932
against the American Federation of
Hosiery Workers for damage done to
the Apex Hosiery Company's plant
during long sit-down strike in 1887.
The award was invalidated by the
court on the grounds that the 48-day
strike was not a violation of the
Sherman or Clayton antitrust" acts,
as the company contended, but that
interference with the firms interstate
commerce business arose only from
"local" attempt to unionize the plant.
Court Raps Sit-Downers
A Federal District Court jury last
April returned a verdict for $237,-
80 damages, and the amount was
tripled under the Sherman and Clay
ton antitrust laws.
The Court of Appeals, however, de-
nounced the conduct of the 200 sit
down strikers for allegedly wrecking
knitting machinery, smashing fur
niture and fixtures, and declared the
company probably would have had a
good claim against the union in the
state courts.
Strikers who seized the plant on
May 6, 1887, and held it until June %,
did not have as their objective the
interruption of interstate commerce,
according to the court.
Strike Held Local in Effect
"On the contrary" the opinion
stated, "their intent was to unionize
the plant, an action local in motive
and local in effect"
Although the Circuit Court init
mated that the state courts consti-
tuted ''the appropriate forum" in
which the Apex Company should seek
its damages, Sylvan H. Hirsch, coun-
sci for the company, stated that he
would appeal the case Immediately to
the United States Supreme Court.
the decision was sweeping vic
tory for all forms of organized labor,
it was said, as the Judgment, if up
held, would have given employers a
"club" to combat strike activities.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-08

Fate of the naughty Poles, trans
planted now
Fate of Austrian scientists and mu-
sicians-
Menace now facing stouthearted
Firms
Furnish samples of the plague
Fastened also on merchants, work
ers, scholars
In whose veins run even diluted
drops of blood of judah
As well as on those cleaner-minded
Germans
Who still fear God more than Hit
ler-
Reason enough
For two Thanksgiving days in
America
Insulated, as we are, by 5000 miles
of salt-sea channel
In these days when 20 miles of
Dover Straits
Becomes only a meandering creeks
equivalent
For stopping Of wars terrors-
This Magma Carta-
Is one of those scraps of paper"-
Which still perpetuate foundations
Of that democracy
Which Anglo Saxons understand
and evaluate-
To be whatever justification there
exists
For the regimentations inevitable
in the use
Of modern mechanisms and their
concentrated powers
King Johns barons accomplished
much the same effect
As now is aimed at by the more
intelligent managementso.
Namely: essential decentralization
of property control
Which had become vested in kingly
hands
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-08
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
Then gently scan
your brother man.
BY Mr.. MOdestus-

Westward!
Britain's Magma Carta-
Delivered to Librarian of Con-
gress-
One of the four original documents
signed by King John
Brought by Lord Lothian, Ambas-
sador of United Kingdom
God knows what may happen to
the British Isles
Archives of Anglo-Saxon history
and liberties
During this European rever-
sion to barbarism-
So America is given custody of
these lares and penates-
Perhaps to remind us, that such lib
critics as we have
Sprang from such sources as
these
Guarded of old by hard-handed
barons-
Plus skill of Saxon bowmen and
pikemen-
And, that the British navy is still
Our first line of defense.
Perhaps we need the warning
Fate of the Czech mechanics, and
their sons
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-08

England's wealth
In those days of King John and the
managers" of England
More intimate integrations of the
common life
Arising in our day, from common
dependence upon use of properties
Need closer attention from our
barons of today
To whose too careless custody now
is entrusted
This westward passing torch of
freedoms vanguard
These idle millions of our youth
Whose heritage of tools have been
attached to central power
Approach another Runnymede.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-08
Nearly Million To Get
Old-Age Benefits In 40

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) Social
Security Board officials estimate that
approximately $4,000 persons will
receive benefits during 1940-the first
year payments are made under the
old-age insurance plan of the Social
Security Act.
The benefits will vary from $40 a
month to a maximum of $85 month
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-08
Rooster Of Or0ani3ations
HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS


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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-08

Developing forms Of property
Called for development also of con-
trolls
Looking to more beneficial uses of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-08

Advertise in The Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-12-08

To detriment Of that social struc-
ture-
Depending upon larger liberty of
life and labor
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
floyd &S6onsz
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF
"The Bomb In the Boacar

T ELLO, EVERYBODY:
You know sometimes there's lot of difference between
what people may think what he thinks of himself
In the of John Feen of Manu. Oka for instance there
people who think he is hero During the his officers
all for recommending John for decoration because they
thought certain brave act of Johns deserved medal
act of heroism did
But that's what the other folks think it. Just between
John doesn't share their at ALL In Johns estna
ton he's just doggone sap happened
his fault in the first place And he deserved to be shot
heck of lot more than he deserved medal.
That's what John thinks about it. He that what he did
wasn't heroism at ALL Weyou decide that for yourself
But there's thing I'm certain Of 1t may may not have
been herosn--but it sure adventure!
Now let's take this Siberia along with
bunch of American soldiers who stayed there after the
clean of the ends of the Big Unpeasanne
talon OF the infantry chartered at Besov
trying keep bit of order land where both law and
broken down. The bandit leader Seminole with large band Of Cos
sacks pllnderng and footing and numbering
ored railroad train base of operations And January
1920, word came that he headed toward Berosovka
AS He Leaned Forward There Was a Sharp Omnous Click.
Both bataion ordered the field and John
that rifle and knapsak full hand I'd
like to tell more about that with Sennofs Coac but
that's adventure all itself All tell
Yans waited for Semns armoed tra blew the track front
it, and bombed and fought their the On the last
charge John took what few enades he had left out of his na
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

AND res climbing bis s the T9 so es4s oo AND s
had come out from BerosOvka to get them hem.
peeled off their heepskn coats s and threw them pile on the
floor Then s sztS GpRs h. GS and tried to @
The the stove John afraid they'd
ppS his the sharp eraR
They knew grenade getting
ready explode left grenade his
pocket and john picking those coats had accidentally
whose coat and how how far down in the pile the bomb lay We
Then maybe of might have chance wasn't
M blew s1 sn o5 nd the crowded quarters of that
49,
ive.
ninethen eight. rumble of the
hoWed Iany Of the Dead The tiny candle that
lit ackered spasmodicany died.
gloom closed in-and still we waited"
Of Up to a dueozs o h Ds @ ad for death
Feen the first his He screamed that
bodies thudded the floor One aloud Another sobbed
standing bomb brief second his lips
Johns Body Protects Others From Grenade Blast.
But only for moment There was hardly time for
a he % do The had
left his lips when eaped forward dropped that pile of his
deadly engine destruction buried pile
One second-two secondhand then there was roar
sounded ShF as had come from the bowels Of Hen
the heave beneath himand then John doesn't
else talking the words sounded faint and
into Barrel Slowly came back him He opened
his He remembered that bomb AnxOus he counted the
of his sighed relief and tainted
to find that he still alive He probably wouldn't have been
Of sheepskn coats that stopped flying bits
As was his was shattered and full Of bits of corrugated
few days later while he reeuperatng from the ampuan
John told that officer of
had dome ws what a he EneW darned we'll WAS his duty
you % he says ct as y sSa PGss' that held that
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

Strange though it sounds, sponges
live and grow and die just like any
other animals And because they're
saltwater animals, the fresh water
was their finish, observes the Wash
ington Post. Actually, sponges as
we know them aren't sponges but
the skeletons of sponges. The
sponge is a collection of tiny one
celled creatures who get together
and build the skeleton. These GU
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
luning the lucks

Each season an elder duck viii
produce about half pound of elder
down, but it must be tricked into
doing so, says Samuel ]. Beckett In
"a Wayfarer in Norway" Artificial
nests are placed in the rocks IN
the haunts of the bird, and there the
ducks lay their eggs. As the eggs
are Systematically taken away, the
bird continues to sit for long peri
DDS, all the time plucking the valu-
able down from her breast for the
nest Lokta is one of the centers for
the elder down industry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Stalemate

It is one of the odd facts of life
that often when two Numerically
opposed theories come into COLI
sion, and are put to the actual test,
there is victory for neither side.
Thus we read of FOUNDERS and rake
hells living to as great an age as
the most abstemious puritans. The
war between the vegetarians and
the meat-eaters has been going on
for a long time, and where are
we? Practically nowhere.-New
York Herald Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

rious animals first attracted the at
tention of the Greeks many years
ago. Grecian soldiers wore metal
helmets and shin guards and cursed
at the blisters they raised. Then
someone dove into the Mediterran-
can, came up with sponge and
discovered it would make a good
pad. Sponges were used for bath
ing then, too, and also as floor mops
and brushes.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
New Orleans Prices.

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. IA R.-sharp
selling in cotton futures here today and
prices declined to So or more q bale. AZ
noon trading was quiet and auotations
were 81 to Al points net lower.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Chicago Grain
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-Although
the wheat market had to cope with
heavy profit-taking sales today, it
rose about 2 cents a bushel at
times, establishing new high prices
that had not been reached here
for more than two years
Proflt-taking increased, however,
as December wheat sold up to SlO4
and all of the gains were wiped out
before the close Rye, oats and
soy beans also sold around the high
est levels in two years or more.
Beans shot up cents a bushel to
about $1.18 following reports of q
revival of export trade.
There was no change in the winter
wheat drought situation and Argen-
tine reports confirmed recent serious
crop losses in that country.
Wheat closed y lower to ls higher
compared with yesterdays finish;
December, 1.0la4-10l7s: May, $685.
995s. Corn, E2-114 lower; December,
SIS; May, 56A -56as. Oats, 5s-A
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Cotton Break Helps
To Discourage New
Stock Advance
EorIy Share Coins
Cut or Wiped Out
In Late Trading
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,

kSsCCidtcu leoo = "bitcis
NEW YORK, Dec. IA break OF
around SO bale in recently buoyant
cotton futures helped discourage
another stock market rally today.
The list extended Wednesdays
bulge by fractions to more than
points in the forenoon. Then the
dip in Gotten and hesitancy else
where among staples was transmit
ted to the stock department and
initial gains were substantially re-
duced or Cancelled.
Dealings slowed appreciably on
the retreat. While some leaders re-
tanned modest plus signs at the
close, losers were plentiful and
numerous issues were unchanged.
Transfers for the full session were
in the neighborhood of 100000 j.
shares.
On the advancing side most of the
day were Chrysler, Sears-Roebuck,
Montgomery Ward, Douglas Air
craft, United Aircraft, United States
Gypsum. Allied Chemical, Westing-
house, Phelps Dodge, American
Telephone and Santa Fe.
Sluggish were General Motors,
Anaconda, New York Central, Du
Pont, Johns-Manville and Goodyear.
Slipping toward the finish were
United States Steel and Bethlehem.
Wall Street was still cheerful over
yesterdays market turnover, which.
was credited mainly to the broad
forward move ir1 the commodity
section. 1t was suggested, though,
that the spring business outlook
was far from being clarified and
many stock traders emulated opera
tors in raw materials and cashed
profits on the runup.
Much interest was shown in
transference Of Europe's naval war
fare to the South Atlantic, expul-
sion of Russia from the League Of
Nations and other moves in the
overseas conflict, but it was thought
these offered scant stimulation
marketwise.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

o Cottonseed oil opened steady: December.
6.77: July, 6.ss. bid. '''~'' 'As''
Evening star., 1939-12-14

y D.
The directors alsc declared
bonus to the entire operating staff
equal to per cent of their annual
salaries.
A. E. Giegengack, public printer
OF the United States, was elected a
member of the board of directors.
Mr.. Giegengack has been chairman
of the advisory board of the banks
branch at H and North Capitol
streets, opposite the Government
Printing Office. and was formerly
vice president and a director in the
First Federal Savings & Loan Asso-
citation of this city.
He was twice president of the In
ternational Association of Printing
House Craftsmen and supervised
production while overseas of the
Stars and Stripes, American Expe-
ditionary Forces paper, and was one
of the organizers of the American
Legion. Before appointment by
President Roosevelt as public printer
he resided in New York.
Extra and Regular Voted.
At the monthly meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the East WASH
ington Savings Bank the regular
semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent
was declared and the trustees also
voted an extra dividend of l per
cent. Both dividends are payable
December 80 to stockholders of rec
ord December %, according to Sec
retary- Treasurer S. Wilson Earn
shaw
Directors of the Real Estate Title
Insurance Co. have declared the
regular semi-annual dividend Of 3
per cent and an extra dividend of
liz per cent, payable on December
30 to stockholders of record De-
cember 20.
Fletcher Assumes New Duties.
Peyton B. Fletcher, jr. one of the
tellers in the main Office of the Riegs
Evening star., 1939-12-14

Born in Mount Joy. Pa, in 1888,
he graduated from Penn State in
1903 and at once took job with
Western Electric at s1O.15 per week.
He has spent his entire business
career of SO years with the company.
Bank in Santa Claus Role.
Customers of the Washington Loan
L. Trust Co. are greeted in the bank
ing lobby by a smiling-faced Santa
Claus standing beside beautiful
Christmas tree, under which is piled
a mass of presents of great variety.
They are the gifts of the entire per-
sonnel of the bank, from the presi-
dent to the minor clerks and mes
sengers, and will be distributed in
due course through the Council of
Social Agencies in time to make
many homes happy which Santa
Claus might otherwise have to pass
The Washington Loan & Trust
Club, organized this year, has made
this the Christmas feature of their
work and will themselves give a
Christmas party to members and
guests Saturday night at the Argyle
Club. Herbert D. Lawson Is club
president.
Heard in Financial District.
More than 100 bankers are ex-
pected at the joint dinner meeting
at o'clock this evening of the
auditors section and safe deposit
section of the District Bankers As
sociation, when the Rev. John K.
Cartwright will be the guest speaker
Capital Traction IS scored another
new high mark on the Washington
Stock Exchange today when about
10 sales were made at SO. Wash
ington Railway g. Electric As were
again strong at 1882.
Washington Gas Light common
stock moved at 28A, Is shares of
Mergenthaler Linotype appeared on
the board at 1917, Peoples Drug
Stores common sold at recent levels,
as did Potomac Electric Power 6
per cent preferred and the 512 per
cent preferred.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

and Petersburg, buyers paid aver
ages Of $14.82 and $12.12 for 46,100
and 54,916 pounds of the hue-cured
leaf, respectively.
Dark-fired marts, similarly, found
depressing factors influncing aver
ages. Inferior quality of leaf offered
and excessive moisture In the Offer
ings were blamed. Iynchburg's
215,072 pounds brought an average
of $10.60. Bedford's $4,000 brought
$11.50, Farmville's 286,846 brought
5000, and Blackstone 1868
average 5000.
The dark-fired markets will sus-
pend operations after todays sales,
resuming January z.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Dividends Announced
By Two Additional
Capital Banks
Commerce & Savings
And East Wushinoton
Savings Act
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Two more Washington banks
Commerce & Savings and East
Washington Savings-have joined
the seasons dividend parade, it was
learned in the financial district
today.
Directors of the Bank of Com
merce g. Savings have declared the
Evening star., 1939-12-14
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Cotton
prices broke sharply today with the
market losing all of Wednesdays
gains as heavy foreign liquidation,
profit taking and hedging uncovered
stop loss orders. Despite good
trade demand and buying by Bombay
and Far Eastern accounts prices
moved nervously lower.
Around midafternoon the list
ranged 80 to 56 points lower. De-
clines at Liverpool and liquidation
prior to expiration of the December
contract at noon tomorrow were i'm
portant factors. December lost S6
points at 1100, March was down So
at 1910 and October was OF SO ut
956.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Retail Price Index
Rises in November
Special Dispatch to The Star.

5VcVI6I G1BP8VVI 0I8I.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Retail
prices continued to rise in November,
as measured by the Fairchild Pub
lications retail price index.
The index advanced to 81 9 on re-
cember l, compared with 91.2 q
month earlier and $50 a year ago.
The largest increase in prices dur
ing the month occurred in women's
apparel, with furs and hosiery show
ing the greatest advances. Other
items recording fairly substantial in
creases were floor coverings and
furniture.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

United States Chamber of Com
merce. Mr.. Fletcher is only 80
years of age.
A graduate of the American Insti-
tute of Banking, he takes the place
of Francis A. Auldridge, who has
been elected an assistant cashier
and appointed manager of the Sew
enth street office. The promotions
were brought about by the death
OF Bernard I. Boudren.
Stoll Has Virginia Home.
Clarence G. Stoll, just elected
president of the Western Electric
Co., has a fine home at Gloucester,
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Abingdon Bur|ey Prices
Suffer Setbacks
By the Associated Press.

BY LLE A34OCl1LEu TIebB.
Prices suffered sharp setback
on the Abingdon hurley tobacco
market yesterday, dropping $237
from Tuesdays opening day aver
age of $17.57 a hundred pounds.
The i've warehouses at Abingdon
disposed of 619,o2s pounds at an
average of $3.50.
Bright markets, in the price dol
drums for some time, found the 60
ing even rougher with 1,146,530
pounds at Danville bringing an
average Of $11.26. At Rocky Mount
Evening star., 1939-12-14

regular quarter
ly dividend of
$3.50 a share and
an extra divi.-
dend of $3.50 a
share, both pay
able December
30 to stockhold-
ers of record
December 20.
These dividends
constitute a to-
tai of SIS per
share paid dur
ing the ar,
S a m e as the
bank has been
paying for sew
Evening star., 1939-12-14

Va, known as
Willow Oak. He
is widely known
in that section
of the Old Do
minion S t a t e
and has many
business friends
among Chesa-
peake & Poto-
mac Telephone
Co. offic i a ! S.
With his other
duties he has
been in charge
of his company's S
plant at Balti-
moro
Evening star., 1939-12-14

NdIiOlldl BANK,
has taken his
new position as
assistant mana
ger of the Sew
e n tn tre e t
branch.
Born in Wash
ington, he has
been with the
Riggs Bank since
his graduation
from Business
High School in
1924, starting as
a messenger. In
his youth he was
emnlnNed hN the
Evening star., 1939-12-14

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat sample grade, hard pS-
aal2. Corn. No. l mixed, 57-63a4; No. -
yellow 56A;57ia; No. g 5S.57 No I
grade, "a. Oats No l mixed, Al No. 2.
41s4; sample grade mixed grain, 34h;
sample grade mixed. 49, No. 9 white,
42-42h; sample grade white 3s11-39h
Soy beans. No. . yellow. l15-1.1s; No. 3.
1.15-l.16: sample grade. yellow 1.13h.
Barley. mating, $500 nominal feed.
33-4S nominal No. 3 mating so. Tim
othy seed, 3.aO-415 nominaH Red clover.
125o-1500 nominal Red TOP, s5o-ao0
Alfalfa. 175O-22 so nominal
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Cottonseed Oil.

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures see.
The list rallied brfkly after 4 hesitant
start but met increased hedging on the.
advance and gains were not maintained.
sons high at 7.44. but later sold down to
a.3s, or l net lower. Other positions ruled
contracts. An overrisht secumuiation Of
proht-taking orders prompted the initial
declines. but advances in wheat and lard
covering. Crude oil was firm. with fair
sales in the Southeast and Valley at
cents, Texas crude was nominally quoted
6 cents,
Evening star., 1939-12-14

In bankruptcy receverShp
Bankruptcy Act securities assumed
dividend
based declaration
Unless otherwise noted
xd TX dividend xr Ex RIGHTS Also .xtr. or extra. Paid
last fPayable in stock Declared or
Cash stock. Accumulated dividends