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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-04-14
tresses for use in the county Jail at
cost of $39.60 dozen.

David M. Silver, Hamilton mer-
chant, will direct the nineteenth an
nual Hamilton Community Chest cam
paign, June SO, inclusive. Silver was
named to head the campaign at a
meeting of the chest budget commit
tee Tuesday. Judge P. P. Boil, vice
president of the Hamilton Welfare
Federation, recommended the ap-
pointment.
The chest director, within the next
three weeks, will appoint various aids
and committee heads.
B. R. Brammer, of the American
City Bureau, Chicago, will be the ex-
ecutive director of the campaign. He
will arrive in Hamilton May s.
Appointment by C. r. Ernst, Ex-
alted Ruler, of Bill Ziegenhardt as
chairman of committee to admin
lister the affairs of Hamilton Elks
Country Club during the year, was an
nounced this week after meeting in
the temple. Ziegenhardt named
George Johnson and Dick Stewart to
the committee.
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Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
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BE 1T ORDAINED by the Council of
the City of Hamilton, Ohio:
SECTION l: That to provide for cur
rent expenses and other expenditures of
the City of Hamilton, Ohio, during the
fiscal year ending December 81, 1889,
there be and there is hereby supplement
tally appropriated from revenues of the
general fund for the fiscal year of 1889,
ending December 81, 1889, the following
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Whatever is intended for insertion must be
authenticated by the name and address of the
writer. not necessarily for publication, but as
a guarantee of good faith.
Subscribers changing their address will
please notify this office, giving old and new
address to insure regular delivery of paper.
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ORDINANCE NO. s7s4

An ordinance to make supplemental ap-
propriations for current expenses and
other expenditures of the City Of Ham
ilton, Ohio, during the fiscal year end
inp necember 81, 1899,
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Public Sales

A public sale will be held by Lyman
A. Smith of his farm consisting of 40
acres, Saturday, April %, at p. m.
The farm is located four miles south
of Hamilton, and one mile southwest
of Stockton, Ohio, on the corner of
Kennedy and Mack Roads. This farm
will be sold to settle an estate. Harry
Honerlaw will be the auctioneer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-04-14

Inc amounts dulHOTlZeu ~ NC ca
pended by this supplemental appropri-
ating ordinance are based on the budget
calculations on file with the Director of
Finance.
SECTION II: That the Director of FL
nance be and he is hereby authorized to
draw his warrants upon the treasury OF
the City of Hamilton, Ohio, for the
amounts appropriated in this ordinance,
in accordance with the provisions of the
charter of the City of Hamilton, Ohio.
SECTION III: Council does hereby au-
thorize and direct the proper board or
officer to enter into any contract or con-
tracts involving an expenditure of more
than Five Hundred Dollars (S500.00) for
any or all of the purposes herein pro-
vided. Said board or officer shall exc
cute said contract in accordance with
law.
SECTION ": This ordinance shall
take effect and be in force and effect
from and after the earliest period al
lowed by the charter of the City of
Hamilton, Ohio.
Passed: April 5, 1889.
r. H. BURKE, Mayor.
Attest: ADELE EDMONDS,
Clerk of Council.
Apr 14-1t
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The Butler County commissioners
this week purchased seven dozen mat
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-04-14

An administrators sale will be held
in Okeana, Ohio, Saturday, April %.
The sale will consist of household
goods. B. H. Swearingen, admins
traitor of the estate of Hannah Swear
ingen. j. NJ. Emrick, auctioneer Sale
starts at one o'clock.
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O..
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tuberculosis kills 200 people every
day in the United States or one every
seven and one-third minutes.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Collision Of
Little Steel"
Is Intirnated

Washington, Jan. 7.-(AP)- The
Senate Civil Liberties Committee a..
serted in an exhibit placed in it's rec
ords today there were indications of
"a sympathetic understanding in mat
ters of economic policy" between five
companies of the little steel" group.
Part of the exhibit was a statement
from E. B. Greene. president of the
Cliffs Corporation, and of the Cleve
land-Cliffs Iron Company, of Clevend,
that in addition to many mis-state-
ments of fact, the exhibit contains
numerous assumptions, differences and
conclusions which are incorrect and
unfounded."
Analysing the corporate structure
of the Republic Steel Corporation and
the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Com
pany the exhibit said it found that
the largest financial interests in these
companies were controlled by the
Cliffs Corporation and the Cleveland
Cliffs Corporation, of Cleveland, in
which William C. Mather was said to
be the dominant figure.
The exhibit said also that the two
Cliffs companies were among the lar
gest investors in the Inland Steel
Company, the Otis Steel Compar !
and the Wheeling Steel Corporation,
all included in little STEEL"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
On
Frankfurter
To Be Held
No One, However, Ex-
poets Serious OPPOSE
tion To Roosevelt
Choice for Supreme
Court Vacancy

Washington, Jan. 7.-(AP)-A Sen
ate judiciary subcommittee decided
today to hold public hearings, start
ing Tuesday, on President Roosevelt's
nomination of Felix Frankfurter for
associate justice of the Supreme
Court.
Frankfurter, Harvard law profess
sor, will be asked to attend the hear
ings, after whcih the subcommittee
will make recommendations as to
whether his nomination should he con-
firmed
The decision to hold hearings was
reached after the committe had con-
sidered several requests for one
Among those asking for a hearing
were George Sullivan, Washington at
torney, who said he would submit vol
luminous data on Frankfurter'S record.
Comments by friends and foes of
the administration indicated that the
appointment would meet no major OPP
position although some senators con-
tinued to express disappointment that
WOntinued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
TOM MOONEY FREED
FROM PRISON AFTER
SERVING y YEARS
Labor's World wild e
Crusade Succeeds for
Liberation of NJ a n
First Convicted of
Murder in 1916 San
francisco Prepared
ness Bombings

sacramento, CAL, Jan. 7-(AP)-
Laoor's worldwide crusade to free
ION Mooney triumphed today. The
gray haired prisoner, now b6. was
granted a full and free pardon bv
Governor Olson as a packed assembly
room broke into cheers. Five days
AFTER Olson was inaugurated as Cali
lornlas first Democratic governor in
~ years, Olson arose after the con-
clusIon of a brief hearing and said:
Il have signed and I now hand to
you' Tom Mooney, this final and un-
conditional pardon. 1 now instruct
warden Court Smith now to release
you to the freedom which I expect YOU
10 exercise with the high ideals I
nave tried to indicate"
The governor had long professed
belief that Mooney was innocent of
completely in the 1916 preparedness
day bombings in San Francisco,
which killed ten persons and injured
forty.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
May Refuse,
Too, ToLift
Top On Debt.
Bipartisan Sentiment
Develops For Trim
ming $4,000 900
Asked, Some limiting
Floor of $500, OOO,-
600; Smith and Lee
Accept Wallace Chal-
lenge

Washington, Jan. 7.-(AP)-Bi-par-
tisan sentiment developed in Congress
today to reduce the 1915, 100000 PWA
fund asked by President Roosevelt
and opposed his expected request that
the legal limit on the public debt be
raised. "a
Influential members of the House
subcommittee which is considering
Incorporation requested to finance
the WPA until June 80 predicted pri-
vately it would be pared sharply.
Some said tentative amounts men
toned during yesterdays questioning
of Colonel F. c. Harrington, the new
WPA chief ranged all the way down
to $3OO,O0O,C0c.
Representative Tabor Republican.
New York, senior minority member
of the group, expressed the opinion
that no more than one vote would be
cast in the committee for the full
amount Some Democratic senators
indicated they expected the House
committee to trim the Presidents es-
innate considerably.
President Roosevelt appeared. mean
while, to be developing a new stra-
tegy in his dealings with Congress. It
consists essentially in telling the law
makers what the nations problems
are and leaving it up to them to work
out solutions.
After meeting three days, Congress
Continued on Page Fivel
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
In
Fresh Pledge
About Peace

Orange, France, Jan. 7.-(AP)-
Premier Daladier assured France IN
an address tonight that his domestic
and foreign policies were destined
to "spare the world and France the
horrCLs of war
His speech, on his return from a
tour o. French Mediterranean possess
sions to demonstrate the bonds that
tie France to her overseas empire, was
interpreted as a reference to Ger
many and particularly Italy.
eff a certain foreign press has
launched a campaign, it is because
we were believed to be divided, the
prey to discord, on the brink of civil
war"
The prem.er's tour to Corsica,
frances insular department, and to
Tunisia, her North African protec-
torate, was in answer to Italian press
clamor for French possessions which
began November 30, the day Of the
French general strike.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
French Rail
Line Boycott
By Italians

Diibouti French Somaliland, Jan
Tap - Travellers reaching DJi-
BOUT from Ethiopia today reported
Italian authorities have made strict
boycott of the French-controiled rail.
way connecting Adds Ababa with
this Gulf of Alden port. The boycott
has resulted, these sources said, III
heavy reductions in both passenger
and freight business.
Normal daily freight loadings were
said to have declined from an average
of 400 tons to 3d. Italian-controlled
truck routes have absorbed the diff
ference.
simultaneously with this report
came another telling of destructive
raid on the railway station at Ire
dawa, in Ethiopia, by a band of al
legged Italian fascists. The attach
which occurred Thursday, was sal.
to have damaged the station and re.
suited in mistreatment of railway en-.
ployees.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
AL Capone Moved
From Alcatraz To
Terminal Island

Sam Francisco, CAL, Jan. Al
CapOne, former Chicago gang lead
er, was transferred today from
Alcatraz island Federal prison to
the federal correctional institu-
tiOnal institution on Terminal Is
land, San Pedro.
He was removed secretaIy from
AlcatraZ and taken by train to
Terminal Island, where he will re-
main a year on misdemeanOr
charge.
"Our job, is to get him there"
Warden James Johnston said,-
when asked when and under what
circumstances CapOne had been
transferred.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Leonard Still
Fighting Away
On Sales Tax
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Jan. 1.-Two noted anti
sales takers, Kentucky's Governor
Happy Chandler and Statesvilles Fair
Tax Association Secretary J. Paul
Leonard, landed in Raleigh about the
same time yesterday; but there the
similarity ends.
Governor Chandler, who removed
the levy from the Blue Grass States
statute books, will speak at tonight's
Jackson Day dinner, but he won't
have even a word to say against the
sales evy-gubernatorial and political
courtesy forbid that.
Mr.. Leonard, who has inveighed in
season and out of season ESQ far with
a notable lack of success) against the
tax, will continue to give loud ton
que to his feelings.
He has begun already in fact: $50
long as it is apparent that we can't
prevent snake bites l shall continue
to advocate killing snakes like the
sales tax and the absence ballot.
Tampering with either is simply treat
ing snake bites. Let's kill the snakes
and be done with it," he proclaimed
in a statement to your correspondent
Governor Hoey's address to the
General Assembly Thursday was not
in the least to the Leonard liking AMI
he doesn't mind in the slightest say
ing just as much:
Recommendations made by the
governor in his message and those of
like nature sure to come in the Bud
get Commissions report are not af-
fecting my convictions and attitude,
because they were to be expected and
l do not believe they will alter the
campaign of our group. The promi-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Democratic
Is. Indicted

Harrisburgh, Pa, Jan. 7.-(AP)-
David L. Lawrence, Pennsylvania
State Democratic chairman, and Sec
rotary of the commonwealth, was in
dicted today on charpes of statutory
blackmail, conspiracy to cheat and
defraud the commonwealth and viola
ton of the State election laws.
The bills were returned by a
Dauphin county (Harrisburg) grand
jury investigating charges that de-
veloped against ID high Pennsylvania
Democrats during last springs State
primary.
In an unexpected move, District At
torney Carl Shelley appeared before
Judge Paul Schaeffer. sought and OBJ
tanned permission to present the three
bills to the jury. The jurors promptly
returned the bills of indictment.
Lawrence was named alone in the
Continued on Page Five) l.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Jan. disappointment Of
Senate committees furnished no sur
prise, Lieutenant Governor w. p.
Horton following advance indications
with more than ordinary faithfulness:
with perhaps the outstanding feature
of these appointments being a decide
darkening of the outlook for any seri-
Gus effort at reform of the States
election laws.
Advocates of outright repeal of the
absentee ballot law took one look at
the name of r. B. (Jack) Morphew
as chairman and turned a deep indigo
hue.
Going on d6wn the list, their faces
frightened perceptibly at the name Of
Willie Lee Lumpkin, Franklin coun-
tvs famed liberal" who as House
member introduced an absentee re-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Committee Assignments
Are About AS Expected
Personnel of Elections Committee Promises
Little in Way of Absentee Ballot Reform, How
ever; Administration Holds Whip Hand in
Senate

pealer in the 1887 session and who has
long fought for election reform.
It had been expected that an adj
ministrationist would head the COM
mittee, but the appointment of SEN
ator from Graham county, where it's
as close as twelve o'clock between
Democrats and Republicans, was not.
= Naming of Senators W. B. Rod
man, Jr., and H. p. Taylor to head the
two important money" groups was
a foregone conclusion. Even the most
casual of political observers had pre-
dicted that weeks, even months, ago.
The general impression is that
Senator Rodman was given appropria-
tions and Taylor finance because of
the personal preferences of the sena-
tors themselves.
Other committee heads were about
CONTINUED on Page Three.l
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
MENACING LETTER
ADMITTED BY BOY

Charlotte, Jan. 7.-(AP)-Ed
Scheidt, special agent in charge
of the Federal Bureau OF Investi-
CATION here, said today 18-year-
old John EaIxer, of Cherryville,
had made a statement he wrote a
letter to Representative Carl A.
Rudisill, CASTOR county manufac-
turer, in which he sought 1925 on
pain of mOlesting RudisilPs
daughter.
Eaker is being held in Shelby
on $4,000 bond on charge OF send
ing threatening letter.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07

Governor A. B. Gappy) Chandler
of Kentucky is the Jackson Day
dinner speaker at the Sir Walter
hotel in Raleigh tonight, being staged
by Democrats of the State. He has
served a term as governor of his
State, and came close to defeating
Senator Alben w. Barkley, of that
State, in last summers primary, de-
spite President Roosevelt's, aid fer
Barkley.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Usual DO-Nothing
Saturday Session
For Legislature

Raleigh, Jan. 6.-(AP)-Repre-
sentative Wilson, Of Forsyth, in
troduccd in the House today bill
to validate proceedings relative to
the creation and organization of
sanitary districts in his county,
and to validate their bond issues.
Both the House and Senate, with
only a handful of members pre-
sent, held short sessions and adj
jOurned until Monday night, when
Speaker Ward is expected to an
nOunce House committee appoint
ments, and Governor HOey may
send to the Assembly his budget
recommendations.
There were no new Senate bills
today. -
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
CONCORD COLLISION
FATAL TO MILL MAN

Concord, Jan. 7.-(AP)-TOn
Tucker, As, a mill carpenter, was
killed and three other persons In
jured in an automobile collision
at a street intersection here early
today. Albie Tucker, son of the
dead man, Pratt Quinn, a hosiery
mill worker, and Claude Chambers
who was riding with Quinn, were
injured.
Coroner N. j. Mitchell, of Cabar-
rus county, said an inquest would !,
be held later today.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Insurgents
Plan Land,
Sea Drives

Hendaye, France, Jan. 7-(AP)-
The Spanish insurgents disclosed to-
day their fleet was steaming north
to shell Tarragona, principal sea-
port of southern Catalonia, as part
of a coordinated land and sea drive
designed to deliver a decisive blow
to the Spanish government.
General Francois forces turned
their main offensive in the direction
of Tarragona on the Mediterranean
coast so miles southwest of BARGE
Iona, by advancing on strategic
town on the main Tarragona road.
Leaders of the peoples front party
in TarragOna were reported by the
insurgents to be leaving for BARGE
iona.
The Spanish governments south
fCOntinued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
MOONEY LEAVES PRISON
IN THE EARLY MORNING

San Quentin, Call, jan 7.-(AP)-
Thomas j. Mooney left San Quentin
prison early today in fast automo-
bile for Sacramento, where he ex-
pected to receive a pardon from Gov
enor Olson after a brief hearing.
MY day has come" Mooney ex-
planned, as cheerful relatives and
many friends greeted him when he
emerged from the office of the cap
tain of the guard.
The sun burst over the gray prison
walls and scarcely a cloud marked
the sky as Mooney left the prison,
probably for the last time. A few min
utes, later State highway patrol car
with it's red searchlight stabbing the
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
AZ AreDead
In Clash On
Czech Line
40 Czechs and Seven
Hungarians Killed in
Border Clash Friday,
Is Report

Budapest, Jan. 7.-(AP)-Gun-
fire burst forth on another Sec
tor of the Hungarian-C zechOslO-
wax frontier today as Hungarians
were checking up on yesterdays
artillery, tank and machine gun
battle at Munkacs, in which they
reported AZ killed.
The new incident occurred at
KOmarOm-Csehi, where the Hun
garian gendarmes fired five shots
and wounded three persons in a
crowd of SlOvak sympathizers.
Authorities said the shooting took
place as the officers attempted to
make an arrest and were assault
ed by an excited crowd of $50,
armed with sticks and stones.
Budapest, JAN. -FIunga
,ians, engaged in cleaning up afte
he one-day battle on the nations post
Munich border, announced today tina
10 Czechoslovaks and seven Hungar
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Chain Store
Tax Fight Is
Now Certain
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Jan. &c. p. Dickson, OF
orator of several food and feed stores
at Raleigh, who last session took
leading part in the effort to have
Chain stores" taxes so heavily as to
virtually run them out of the State, IS
girding for a more vigorous fight THIS
Mr. Dickson is writing a bill which
he will have introduced next week, for
the principles of which he claims sup
port of the State merchants assocla-
ton and the several food store OF
carnations. Last session these organl-
zations directed their energies toward
exemption of basic foodstufts from
the general sales tax, and did not put
LContinued on Page Five
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Leaf Exports
Most In 1888

Washington, Jan. 7.-(AP)-Ex-
ports of leaf tobacco from the United
States in 1888 were the largest since
1881, the Department of Commerce
announced today.
While final figures for the II
months period were not available, ex-
ports for the first eleven months
amounted to 434, 856,647 pounds of all
types, exceeded exports for the en-
tire year 1887, 1896, 1885, and 1882,
and were only slightly under the fig
ures for 1884 and 1888. December ex-
ports, the department estim ated,
would swell 1888 shipments to the
LNA.4;a.,od or, Ioncrn I,i..o \
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07

DOCTOR.
1. Sick agriculture.
2. Sick railroads.
3. A sick federal
treasury.
Our manufacture
ing industries and
our commerce have
been sick but they
are we'll on their
way toward recov-
cry.
Our foreign rela-
tionships constitute
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
British Pound
Bounds Up On
reasury Aid

London, Jan. 7.-(AP)-The British
Treasury was encouraged today by
the first results of it's move to bull
walk the ailing pound sterling by the
biggest gold transaction in the his
tory of London.
The pound strengthened against
the dollar for the second successive
day. It opened at $4.67 7-8, one cent
above yesterdays closing, and soon
(COntinuet On pare Fivel
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
DIR. r. v. QUERY
CHARLOTTE, PASSES

Charlotte, Jan. 7.-(AP)-Dr. r. V.
Query, So, well known physician, who
began practice in Mecklenburg coun-
ty in 1907, died at a hospital here to-
day of pneumonia. Funeral services
will be held tomorrow afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07

"a "~0a prODlem out g.
problem is different from sickishness-
It is a problem involving the ques-
ton of national defense, but our de-
fensive set-up is not sick, either. 1t is
run down a bit, but it can be built up
again quite readily and speedily with
about a billion dollars worth of army
and navy and cod liver oil and aerial
CONTINUED on Page TwO)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Finances, Railroads And
Agriculture U. S. Riddles
Nation H as Passed
$40 Billion Limit Fix
ed as Danger Point for
Public Debt, and Con-
tinues on
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Jan. 7.-Congress, get
ting busy with it's 1889 activities, has
notably, three very sick patients to
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
WEATHER
WEEKLY WEATHER.
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Sunday.

WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Occasion
al rains i'm north and west portions
of district first half of week and
again at end of week; tempera-
lures mostly above normal.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07

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