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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
Clio UNION WILL NOT
PURGE COMMUNISTS

Klamath Falls, Ore. (ILNS).-The
international Woodworkers of Amer
lea, c. |. O. affiliate, is still harboring
Communists. The organization has
voted down constitutional amend
ment to purge" Communists from
the membership.
Harry Bridges, West Coast mari
time C. |. o. leader, advised the wood
workers convention here to forget"
Communism. Bridges, referring to
his recent deportation hearings, said
that in it's nine weeks he did not hear
a single expert witness give an ex-
ample of how Communism would de-
stroy the labor movement or over
throw the government.
The amendment was voted down,
1913 to 80. 1t had been presented by
a faction of the union led by Al Har-
tung which sought to oust the pres
ent leadership of the union which it
charged with having Communist lean
ings. The amendment would have
barred membership in the l. w. A. to
Communists, Fascists and Nazis.
After the vote officers opposed by
Hartung's faction were reelected.
Harold j. Pritchett was reelected
president.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
HAMILTON SPECIALS

Arrangements are complete for that
old-time fish fry which will be given
next Sunday afternoon and evening
by the members of the Monkey Mu-
tual Aid Society. The party will be
stag and will be held in the Monkey
Hall, South Monument Avenue.
Next Saturday afternoon and eve
ming the Niles employees will hold
their get-together party, in ST. Jo-
|seph's Hall, South Second Street. A
large attendance is expected by the
committee.
The Hynes Club banquet and en-
tertainment will be held at 6:15 p. M,
next Wednesday, November 8, spon-
sored by the Butler County Automo-
bile Club Historical pictures will be
part of the program.
Amendment of the Ohio old-age
pension law to raise the maximum on
monthly pensions from $50 to $40, in
| line with recent revision of the fed
eral Social Security Act by Congress,
and change in the administration
of the Division of Aid for the Aged
were advocated in a resolution adopted
| this week by Butler Aerie of Eagles
| No. 407
The resolution was presented by the
social security committee headed by
Robert Minnich on behalf of the Ohio
state aerie social security committee
| Hamilton Kiwanians this week of
fcially welcomed Clyde Ross, presi-
dent of the club, who was elected lieu.
tenant governor of the southwest Ohio
district recently.
Carl Dauler officiated at the cere.
monies and welcoming addresses were
given by Judge E. j Kautz and Lewis
Piker Ross in his address reviewed
the convention.
Prosecutor Paul Baden, president
elect, presided.
|
A meeting was held in the Firs
National Bank Building Monday nigh
by joint committee representing
three war veterans organization
planning for the Armistice Day cele
bration in Hamilton.
Organizations cooperating on plan
include Campbell Gard Post No. 1069
Veterans of Foreign Wars; Chapte
No. Is, Disabled American Veterans
Frank Durwin Post No. 1873, Ameri
can Legion, and women's auxiliaries
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
URGE PLANNED PUBLIC WORKS

Pittsburgh (ILNS). - Realistic"
planned program of public works to
replace the traditional" method of
initiating and embarking on public
works at irregular intervals and in
haphazard fashion," was advocated by
Fred E. Schnepfe, director of the
P. w. AS planning and projects divi-
sion. Despite the vast amount of
emergency building done in the last
several years, America is still far be-
hind in public works construction, he
told the congress of the American
Public Works Association.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
Gardner Is Reelected
To Head Red Cross

Middletown, Ohio-Colin Gardner
was reelected chairman of Middle
town Red Cross Chapter at the an
nual meeting this week in the library
of the Civic Association.
Charles R. Hook was reelected
vice-chairman; D. E. Harlan, secre-
tary, and Russell S. Weatherwax,
treasurer. Mrs. Lila j. Smith was
reappointed as executive secretary
and E. A. Lampe, secretary of home
service for former service men and
their families.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
WORDS OF WISDOM

All reason, all history, all our own
experience show that wrongs cannot
be righted and durable peace cannot
be imposed on nations by force,
threats, economic pressures, or war
Herbert Hoover.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
Stiehl Skilled Taxidermist

William Stiehl, R. R. l, Headgates
Road, is now in position to take
orders for all kinds of taxidermy. He
is skilled in this line of work in ar
ranging specimens of natural history.
Mr.. Stiehl guarantees all his work to
be frst-class and invites an order
from anyone having something in
that line
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
Chain Store Tax Invalid

Louisville, Ga. ULNS).-A special
chain store tax levied by the city of
Augusta was ruled invalid by Judge
Robert M. Hardeman of the Middle
Georgia Superior Court circuit who
described the tax as arbitrary, un-
reasonable and excessive"
The court enjoined permanently col
lection of the tax scaling up to $1,000
per store.
In his decision, Judge Hardeman
took the same position as that of or
ganized labor in opposing the tax.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
ELKS TO AID RED CROSS

C. R. Ernst, exalted ruler of Ham
ilton Elks Lodge, appointed this COM
mittee to work with the Butler County
Red Cross in its annual drive: j. Earl
Gray, Mel Hathorn, George Och, Her
bert Cramer and Harry Strauss. An
amateur night" program is sched-
uled for Saturday night at the temple
Never argue with woman whose
shoes are killing her.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
RELIEF LIST LARGER

Twenty-six cases were added to the
Hamilton relief load last week, Miss
Isabel Beardsley, commissioner of the
Hamilton Department of Public As
sistance, announced The new cases
increased the total to 700.
The Middletown load totals 367
cases, an increase of one, and the
townships carry 404, an increase OF
three. The county list jumped from
1,441 to 1,471. Works Progress Ad-
ministration layoffs were responsible
for the increase.
Subscribe for The Press
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
TO SPEND $4O0 FOR GAME

Butler County Sportsmen's Associa-
tion will spend $400 annually to buy
rabbits, pheasants and fish to restock
fields and streams, Robert Stoeckel,
president, said Tuesday. The asso-
citation will nominate candidates at
the November "a meeting.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
GEO. KAPPEL

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03
NEW BEER PERMITS

Edw. Bauer, 122 Main Street, Ham
ilton, D-1. Emma M. Raeburn, %
South Third Street, Hamilton, D-1.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-11-03

Learning to do without sugar and
cream in your coffee saves a lot of
bother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02

NEW YORK.-DER MAX GETS GOING OVER-Customs In
spector Harry Cohen rgh inSpec customs declaration of
Max Schmeng, former heavyweight champion latter
rived here today from Germany He emphacay denied
his wife, Amy Onda the actress had trouble with Nazi
authorities kbitzer much interested in Maxs declara
tion Oh, yes, Max is ready to fight Joe Louis again.
"A. P. Wrephoto
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02
Ickes Predicts Hearings
On Auditorium Site

While Secretary of the Interior
1ckes favors downtown auditorium
for Washington, he said today he
believed Congress would conduct
hearings for those who are opposed
to the proposed location in the con-
gested Constitution avenue area be-
tween John Marshall place and
Third street NV.
II do not regard it as contro-
versial question" he commented.
"1t is just one of selecting the best
site"
Mr.. Ickes was chairman of the
Capital Auditorium Commission and
voted with its members in recon-
mending the downtown site. He
reiterated today that the commits
sion had made the recommendation
because it believed the site was a
proper" one. He has been a strong
advocate for a suitable large audi
forum ever since the "drenching"
Of President Roosevelt and other
officials on the last Inauguration
Day.
Because of his connection with
the commission, Mr.. Ickes did not
discuss the proposal in some official
circles that the auditorium be COM
bined with the suggested sports
center and National Guard Armory
at the end of East Capitol street.
IT believe the committees in
charge at the Capitol will hold
hearings and give everybody a
chance to express views on the
location before it finally acts" he
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02

of them-Gold Dust and Dunk.
These two elephants were beautiful
specimens, but their owners were not
too sorry to see them go.
Gold Dust was a would-be man
killer. He had never succeeded in
getting his man, but he had his
hopes. I'D call him a man-puncher,
instead of a man-killer," Mr.. Black
burne said. He managed to cripple
several roustabouts with his trunk
and tusks while in the circus-and
roustabouts don't cripple easily
Dunk, on the other hand, seemed
to get along with men, but he was
a great fighter of other elephants.
When the two of them arrived
we didn't have proper place for
them We had to chain them to
trees in the new geological park. We
set up a 24-hour watch over them,
and sometimes the night duty fell
to me- You can bet we were on our
toes, because we didn't want any
thing fatal to happen to our spec
tator"
Collection Is Increased.
Such buildings as the Zoo finally
got from meager appropriations
we're temporary, but the collection
increased.
The original spectator, or visitor,
brought his family, then his friends
and acquaintance. The public in
terest kept pace with Mr.. Black
burne's efforts to build up the COL
lection.
BY 1904 the Zoo was beginning to
resemble national institution.
That winter fire swept the Staun-
ton Military Academy in Virginia
A young cadet, temporarily deprived
of his opportunity for book learn
ing, much to his sorrow, decided to
come to Washington to apply for
short-time job at the Zoo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02
Two From D. G. Vicinity
Hurt War Canes

Maj. Galen M. Sturgis, U. S. M. C.,
Of Hyattsville, Md, and an UNI
named marine private from GUAM
tico, Va, today were reported to
Marine Corps headquarters as cas-
ualties" in the Fleet Marine Corps
exercises now getting under way in
the Caribbean area.
They received ankle fractures dur
ing landing force exercise" in
volving landing in heavy seas from
small boats on a supposedly hostile
shore under enemy fire. Both cas-
ualties were taken by plane from
the island of CulebrA, near Puerto
Rico, to the Naval Hospital at Guam
tanamo, Cuba, it was reported.
Maj. Sturgis, assigned to the Fleet
Marine Force, Quantico, is the son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. S. C. Sturgis, IS
Avon avenue, Hyattsville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02
Britain and France Close
To Cash Payment Basis

By the Associated Press.
Great Britain and France are
close to a cash basis in paying for
airplane purchases in the United
States, officials said today. Both
countries, they said, have sufficient
credits here for the transactions.
The payments, officials explained,
come out of the ordinary exchange
accounts kept by the two govern
ments in several New York banks.
They are not believed here to have
required the sending of any gold to
this country.
The johnson Act, preventing the
extension of credits to foreign gov
ernments which has defaulted on
their governmental debts, is the
controlling factor in keeping the
two nations on virtually a cash
basis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02

The cadet explained to Mr.. Black
burne that his name was William
Mann, that he had been born in
Helena. Mont, and had loved ami
mails all his life. Since he. hadn t
lived very long, Mr.. Blackburne was
less impressed by the latter qualifi-
cation than by the fact that the
cadet was native of Helena.
Son." said Mr.. Blackburne, II
helped to string the first telegraph
wires that Helena ever saw. That
was in the days Of the Indian wars
several years, I judge, before you
arrived in that section
Maybe my father used your tele-
graph wires to announce my birth"
ventured the cadet.
If 1t was important enough, I'm
sure he did" replied Mr.. Black
burne. 80 Now, about that
job. You're a lover of animals, but
have you ever cleaned their cages?"
Offered New Course.
The cadet was obliged to report
that they offered no such course at
Staunton.
In that case" Mr.. Blackburne
said, you must be told that the
cage belongs to the animal. 1t is
his home. You'll be an intruder, so
don't hustle the animal from place
to place. Don't make him keep
jumping your broomstick.
Sweep out place for him in one
side of the cage, and the animal,
being intelligent, will occupy that
when you are ready to clean the
other side
1t was DR.. William Mann, Zoo
director. scientist and collector, who
recalled this conversation yesterday.
Mr. Blackburne seems to have for
gotten that he gave his present
chief his first lesson in practical
zoology.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02
Heodkeeper BIockburne and Cockotoo
Celebrate 48 Years of Zoo History
Only Survivors Of
Days When Elephants
Were Tied to Trees
BY w. II. SHIPPEN, Jr,

I
The Zoos two old-timers got to.
gether yesterday to celebrate the
48th anniversary of a lasting friend.
ship.
"Cocky, you old rascal" grinned
Headkeeper William H. Blackburne
you haven't changed a bit! Quit
that nonsense and come down to
shake hands!"
Cocky bounced off his perch and
pretended to bite a thumb off the
hand which had fed him so we'll
Then he spread the long feathers OF
his crest, famed his body swiftly
from side to side, and halted, fixing
Mr.. Blackburne with a bright and
impudent eye. as If to say:
We'll, old-timer, you haven't done
so badly yourself!"
And no member of the parrot
family could have voiced a truer
sentiment. For Mr.. Blackburne,
after almost half a century at the
Zoo, was still hale and hearty, still
able to foot his customary or 10
miles daily, and still a dire threat
to the occasional idle or careless
animal keeper.
Only Two Survivors.
Mr.. Blackburne and the cockatoo
are the only survivors of the orig
inal Zoo. Just 48 years ago-on Feb
ruary l, 189l-Mr. Blackburne came
to work in Washington, husky
young circus trainer, wise beyond
his years in the ways OF animals.
He already had served more than a
decade under the big top of Barnum
g. Bailey, as a keeper, assistant chief
of the menagerie, and exhibitor.
In the days of Queen Victoria he
had accompanied the spectacular
American circus to London, and
helped to put cage-full of lions
tigers and hyneas through their
PAGES for the amusement of the
Queen and huge audience.
When Mr.. Blackburne came to the
Zoo as principal keeper, Cocky was
Is years old or more, clipper, sui
phur- crested cockatoo presented to
the Smithsonian Institution by Dick
and Harry Hunt of Bethesda, Md
In those days the Smithsonian
maintained some 125 birds and ami
mails in sheds behind the old red
stone institution building to serve
as models for museum taXidermists
Langley Aided Zoo.
Prof. S. P. Langley, pioneer in
aviation, and then secretary of the
Smithsonian, led a movement for a
National Zoo, and helped to put over
a deal for the purchase of three
estates in the wooded valley of Rock
Greek. Mr.. Blackburne came to the
new Zoo direct from the circus.
In April of 1891 the owners Of the
Forepaugh Circus heard of the
struggling young Zoo in the Capital.
They decided to make contribution
"a big contribution, or rather, two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02
Defense
Continued From First Page.)

demanding that he state his foreign
policy publicly.
In Chicago, former President
Hoover told the Council on Foreign
Relations last night that Mr.. Roose-
welt has been advancing on an I'M
precedented expansion of foreign
policy which might lead to war. He
appealed to Congress to have this
adventure clarified before we go
blindly into great increases in arma-
ment."
Urges End to Secrecy.
An assertion that the domestic
armament program would be slowed
considerably If planes we're sold to
France was made by a member Of
the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee, who declined to be quoted
by name.
On the other hand, G. Grant Ma
son of the Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority was reported to have testi-
fed that even if the French pur-
chased so light bombers they could
obtain delivery long before the Army
would have funds available for its
own new craft.
Senator Barley of Kentucky, the
Democratic leader, told the Senate
during yesterdays argument there
was no truth in intimations that
foreign sales would retard develop
ment of the Army Air Corps to it's
proposed $500 planes.
He declared that plants in this
country had sufficient capacity to
take care of Army needs and to fill
foreign orders.
While German newspapers de-
nounced President Roosevelt as a
leading war agitator" and applause
was heard in Paris and London. one
Senator after another arose to con-
denim the transaction.
They objected that it involved the
United States directly in the threat
ening affairs of Euroue, and opposed
giving other nations the benefits of
American military progress. And,
even more severely, they berated the
administration for throwing a cloak
Of secrecy over the transaction.
To Aid Democracies.
The Republicans proposed three
stipulations to foreign sales: That
the United States have priority use
of all new devices and new develop
ments, that it have the right to
cancel any contract if it became ap-
parent the sales would injure the
United States, and that all sales be
for cash.
In this they differed on two points
with the policy said to have been
outlined by President Roosevelt to
the Military Committee on Tuesday.
The President told the committee
frankly, members said later, that
this country intended to help the
democracies of Europe build up their
defenses against threats of totali-
tartan aggression by selling them
warplanes and supplies.
He also was said to have made it
plain that the administration in
tended the European democracies
should have all the advantages of
the latest developments here in
planes, rather than having to take
models which the Army had put in
use year previously.
Meanwhile, the House Naval AZ
fairs Committee, in the middle of a
routine hearing on the proposed ex-
pansion OF American naval bases,
heard Representative Mas, Repub-
lican, of Minnesota, announce he
had received information that with
Japan's consent Germany was for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02
22o John Smiths

Out of 600 members of the 1889
Smiths Winter Visitor Club at ST
Petersburg. Fla, 229 were named
John Smith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-02-02
Vatican Disputes
Killers Denia|s Of
Church Persecution
Grievances Are Listed;
Apostusy Campaign
Is Charged
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 1.-The
Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore
Romano today disputed Adolf
Hitler's denial of religious persecu-
ton in Germany with a list Of
grievances which it said were de-
plored and protested.
In his Reichstag speech Monday
night Hitler said mo one in Ger
many has hitherto been prosecuted
for his religious views only, nor will
anyone be prosecuted on that &C
count"
The Vatican organ said whether
the church was prosecuted by NaZis
depended on what was meant by
persecution.
Hitler's words insisting that
churchmen must refrain from any
conflict with Nazi-ism were said by
the newspaper to raise the question
whether the Reichsfuehrer meant
to deprive the church of such
liberties as it enjoys in the United
States and France.
Grievances Are Listed.
In such a case, separation of
| church from state in Germany
would produce a new and more
unjust form of persecution" the
paper said.
Grievances listed by L 'Osservatore
were:
/. The prohibition it said had been
placed on free practice of religion
in Germany;
2. The almost theatrical trials
of clergy;
3. Dissolution of Catholic Action,
the Catholic lay organization;
4. Nazi marriage legislation Con
trary to the sanctity of Christian
marriage;
S. Abolition of confessional schools,
removal of crucifixes from schools
and limitation of instruction to
what does not contradict principles
TO Nazi doctrines"
The paper accused Hitler of "a
campaign of apostasy."
Churches Open But Empty.
THE extreme point of this perse-
cution, which does not close churches
and up to short time ago declared
it had not touched single hair of
priest, tends to leave the open
chl1ehes empty and not only makes
| priest useless, but also makes it
useless to touch one of his hairs"
the paper declared.
Germans were said by L 'Osserva-
tore to be asked their religious be-
liefs in such manner as to make
Catholics feel themselves foreign
ers' and relics in all connections
with the new life" 1t continued:
Finally there are the concentra-
ton camps and prisons themselves
There one finds even those who dare
to consider all this not repression
of religious politics but true and
actual battle against religion"
Question of Persecution.
L'OSServatore said that determin-
ing whether there is persecution re-
solved itself into the question of
whether persecution means only
when one lets loose with fire and
sword or wit hother forms and
measures of material violence, or
rather when one obstructs the life
of the church, fights it and injuries
it through the very pacts spontane-
ously promoted and freely signed
by the state"
The latter was an apparent ref
erence to the German-Vatican con-
cordat of 1884, which defined the
status of Catholic organizations in
Germany.
Nobody can deny that this is the
situation in Germany today" said
L 'Osservatore, land it is for this
that the church laments and for
this is raises it's voice in depreca-
ton and protest"