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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-02-23
HEARING MAR. IL ON
BARRIERS ORDINANCE

Columbus, Ohio. (OLNS). - Judge
John R. King, of the Franklin County
Common Pleas Court, will hear the
injunction suit to restrain the enforce
ment of the new BARRIERS ordinance,
passed by the council of the City of
Columbus, on March II. This legis-
lation fixing the price of haircuts at
so cents was to have gone into effect
January 18.
Judge John P Dempsey, Court of
Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County,
has under consideration an infringe
ment suit brought by Local 129, of
Cleveland, against a dual organiza-
ton, in which it is sought to prevent
the dual organization from using
shop card similar to that used by the
Journeymen BARRIERS Union.
With vew to establishing min
imum wage in the beauty parlor in
dustry in Ohio, the Department of In
dustrial Relations has compiled data
collected from all sections of the state
relative to the cosmetology industry.
1t is estimated that there are $1,000
beauticians in Ohio and 5000 of them
are unemployed. Some operators are
working for as low as So and SO a
week, while others receive only board
and lodging, the survey revealed. The
department already has been allowed
an appropriation of $4,000 for the
purpose of setting up minimum
wage board This board Of nine men,
bers will determine the minimum
| wage.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-02-23

victims of prejudice and public ex-
citement.
Courts Duty Plain
"Due process Of law, preserved for
all by our Constitution, commands
that no such practice as that dis
closed by this record shall send any
accused to his death.
"No higher duty, no more solemn
responsibility, rests upon this court
than that of translating into living
law and maintaining this constitu-
tional shield, deliberately planned and
inscribed for the benefit of every hu-
man being subject to our Constitution
or whatever race, creed or per-
suasion."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-02-23

the chosen representatives of their
employees.
The contention of the union that
while representative of the company
on several occasions met with the rep
resentatives of the union, their at
titude at these meetings was such that
it could in no way be interpreted as
collective bargaining.
The union was notified by the N. L.
R. B. that a representative of the
Fifth Region will soon be in Peters
burg and investigate the unior's
charges.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-02-23
Decision Sets Aside Conviction of Four Florida Negroes
On Ground That They Had Been Victims of "Third
Degree Methods--Legal Counsel Inadequate.
(WNU Servicc)

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - Con-
demning use of the third degree" in
strong terms, the Supreme Court, in
a unanimous opinion written by JUS
tice Hugo L. Black, declared that
courts stand as "haven of refuge"
against helpless victims of "prejudice
and public excitement"
The decision set aside the convic-
tions of four Florida negroes on the
ground that they had been the VIC
tins of third degree" methods. The
men were sentenced to death in 1888
on charges of numbering Robert Dor
sey, white, of Pompano, Fla.
The colored men, Isiah Chambers,
Jack Williamson, Charles Davis and
Walter Woodward, charged confess
sions were obtained from them by
violence and torture" covering nearly
a week and that this violated their
constitutional rights. They also con-
tended they had been inadequately
represented by counsel.
Held Victims Of Violence
The opinion asserted that ito per-
NIT human lives to be forfeited upon
confessions thus obtained would make
of the constitutional requirement OF
due process Of law meaningless
symbol"
Justice Black said that the colorec
men had been Subjected to interro-
cations" for five days.
"The very circumstances surround
| ing their confinement and their ques.
tioning without any formal charges
having been brought" he added, "were
such as to fill petitioners with terror
and frightful misgivings."
"The haunting fear of mob violence
was around them in an atmosphere
charged with excitement and public
Indignation" the opinion said.
Methods Held Unnecessary
1t continued:
"We are not impressed by the ar
| gument that law-enforcement meth
DDS such as those under review art
necessary to uphold our laws. Th'
Constitution prescribes such lawles.
means irrespective of the end.
"And this argument fouts the
basic principle that all people
must stand on an equality be-
fore the bar of justice in every
American court"
To-day, as in ages past, we ar
not without tragic proof that th'
exalted power of some government
to punish manufactured crime dicta
torially is the handmade of tyranny,
the opinion continued.
"Under our constitutional system
courts stand against any winds tina
blow as havens of refuge for thos
who might otherwise suffer becaus
they are helpless, weak, outnumbered
Tor because they are non-conformini
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-02-23
EDUCATION IN TUBERCULOSIS

The Butler County tuberculosis and
Health Association is carrying on
health education activities the year
round. Professional people, farmers,
skilled and unskilled workmen, par
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-02-23
Supreme Court Flags Third Degree
In Voiding Convictions Of Men Held
Forced Into Confession By Terrorism

ents, school and college students and
teachers are some of the groups that
are receiving information about the
prevention and cure of tuberculosis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-02-23

victims of prejudice and public ex-
Evening star., 1940-12-19
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO Dec 10 DP, Omitted States
Department OF Agriculture) .---Salable hogs
$1,000: total. 10000; generally 1915 high
er than Wednesdays average: closing less
active than early; top. $40 bulk good
and choice 21o,2sO pound averages. go
finished 170-2OO-pound lights: generally
f.10-30: good packing soWs. 425 pounds
down. 5.30-65; 45o55o-pound kind most
ly 5.O0-25
salable cattle 5 600 calves 500; fed
steers and yearlines steady e, strong:
showing most strength: slthough all grades
pendable, demand; little above 1900; sew
eral loads above Il 90. however: load or
so held above IA so; good clearance on
early round: medium grade liaht steers
steady. welghty feeders UP to 1900; little
below 80 on country accounts all grades
light heifers fully steady but medium to
good kinds scaling 500 pounds upward
slow; choice &eighty heifers up to 1850;
light offerings to 100: mostly 1925
lower; bulls strong to shade higher; veal
ers steady: weighty sausage bulls UP to
40: yealcrs. 1880 down
Saable sheep. 5000; total. 10000: late
Wednesday. fat lambs, steady to 10 higher,
mostly steady: bulk good to choice fed
e.5 to all; best yearlines, $40; todays
trade active, fat lambs steady to strong;
spots shade higher; yearlngs fully steady;
top. OBS Oh deck good to choice handy
weight fed lambs to city butchers: good
to, choice fed Western, and few natives.
choice around 1o5-pound weights, s.s5;
load freshly -shorn lambs. 7.75; load good
to choice wooled yearlines, $40 load sum-
mer shorn kind, 7.65; ewes scarce.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Bond Averages
sy the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec. 19.-Bond
traders directed their attention to
utilities today, largely Ignoring
many categories OF the market.
Price trends Of the utilities, how
ever, were mixed toward the final
hour and downward tendencies pre-
dominated among other issues,
International Telephone 5S were
up more than a point at one time,
while International Hydroelectrlc oS
were off 2 points.
Liens on the doWnslde lncludeo
Erie SIS of rs. International Paper
IS, Northern Pacific 5s, Pere Mar
ouette SIS, Missouri Pacific 5s OF ~
IF" Remington Rand 4l4S OF 90
with warrant, Standard Oil OF New
Jersey 2s.s and Western Union os
of so, .-
Holding fairly firm OF gaming
we're Allegheny stamped IS OF 80,
American Telephone GAS OF oo'
Texas Corp IS and Third Avenue
adjustment SIS of go.
Dollar loans of the Dominican
Republic and Brazil made small
gains. but most other foreign issues
shipped lower.
United States Governments az
tracted little attention.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 lP..--Poultry, live;
car in, ~ trucks: springs frmer, geest
easier; brollers, ~ pounds and down
Plymouth Rock. 16l2: White Rock: 16iz,
Plymouth Rock, is: White Rock Is un-
der 4 pounds. colored, II: Plymouth Rock
10: small. white. 10; geese. II pounds
down, 13l2; over - pounds. II 4; caponS
pounds up %. other prices unchanged
Butter-Receipts. 66s,4l4; weak; cream
cry, 93 score :s4-35; 81 "a: 90 1874; 80,
3234: SS. 32I4; 90, centralized carlotS'
SO -3}i other prices UNCHANGED.
Eggs-Receipts. 5,314: weak; fresh
graded, extra frsts. "a; flrsts. %: current
receipts. -; dirtles, ~: fresh checks, is;
refrgerator checks l6; refrigerator ex-
Potatoes, arrivals, 20: on track. 351
total United States shipments, 800; sup
plies liberal. demand very slow Idaho rus
set Burbanks. U. S, No. l. 145-55;
Nebraska Bliss Triumphs. u S. No. /. .53-
l15 Minnesota and North Dakota Cob
blers IS per cent or more U. s. No. /. 90
.05: Bliss Triumphs S. per cent or more
U S No /. 95-l 20: Wisconsin round
whites, U. S. No. l. 100.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
New York Produce

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 GPl.--Eess. 9,776;
1929: extras. 27l2: graded flrsts, 20; sec
onds, 241a-25; mediums, 2314; dlrties, No.
/ %; average checks. 81 81 u. Refrigera-
tor. fancy to extra fancy. 24-24i2: extras.
23-23ia; standards 22h: frsts, 22-22A
seconds, "a; mediums 21Ah:
dirties. 21.
Butter a7o,353; easy. Creamery, higher
than % score and premium marks, 3434 =
35ia; 81 score, cash market, 34A-la; S.
Cheese i4e.is5: firm. Prices unchanged
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Fitzgerald Hall Heads
Southeastern Railroads
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Fitzgerald Hall, president of the
Nashville, Chattanooga e. st. Louis
Railway, is the new head of the
Southeastern (RailroadD Presidents
Conference.
Mr., Hall whose headquarters are
at Nashville, Tenn. was chosen for
a one-year term at meeting in
New York. The announcement
came from j. H. Reynolds secretary
to President E. E. Norris of the
Southern Railway, whom Mr.. Hall
succeeds in the conference post.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Dry Goods Marker

Scattered business through second hands
took place at UNCHANGED prices Woolen
goods: Buyers interest In covering re-
luctance on part of mills to quote prices
owing to uncertainty over labor costs.
Rayen goods: Interest centered in spun
yard constructions and other novelty items.
Prices Arm and unchanged. Silk piece
goods: Low price level persists in dull
market.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Boston Wool Market

BOSTON, Dec 10 lP.-United States
Department of Asriculture) Fine and
half Grades Of foreign woods were
at fair prices Similar grades of domestic
woods were quiet, largely because supplies
in volume desire we're not available. Buyers
in a few cases have indicated they would
pay up to Sl.05 secured basis. for good
French combine length fine territory WOODS;
in these woods at prices over 81, secured
basis.
Evening star., 1940-12-19

In bankruptcy or receivershlp or neing
reorganlzed under the Bankruptcy Act. or
securities assumed by such companies
Rates Of dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the
last quarterly or semI-annual declaration.
Unless otherwise noted. special or extra
dividends are not included.
A Also extra or extras Cash or STOCK.
e Declared or paid SO far this year Pay
able in stock Paid last year. hPayable
in Canadian funds Accumulated div
idends paid or declared this year WV With
warrants NV Without warrants. war War
rants. Unit of trading less than 100
hares.: sales are Siven IN full.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Metal Market

NEW YORK Dec. 10 P-Copcer
steady: electrolytic spot. Connecticut VAL
ley. 1900: export, f.a.s. New York. 1880
1900. Tin steady: spot and forward,
50.05 Lead steady; spot. New York,
5.50-55: East St. Louis. 5.35. Zinc steady;
East St. Louis, spot and forward. 125.
Pig iron. aluminium. antimony. quicksilver,
platinum. Chinese wolframite and domes-
tic scheelite UNCHANGED.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
500 Tons of Lead Sold

NEW YORK. Dec, 10 (P'-St, JOS
eph Lead Co. reported Is tons OF
Southeast Missouri pig lead sold
Yesterday at S5.35 per 100 pounoS'
East St. Louis; 300 tons at $500 New
York and 225 tons at the New YORK
average.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Rail Loadings Hold
Above 1899 DESPITE
Week Decline
736,332-Cor Volume
8.6 Per Cent Ahead
| Of Year Ago
BY the Associated Press,

b. the Associated Press.
The Association of American Rail-
roads reported today 1882 cars OF
revenue freight were loaded during
the week ending last Saturday. -.
This was decrease of 2,1S1 cars,
or 3 of l per cent, compared with
the preceding week; an increase OF
$4,000, or 5.6 per cent, compared with
a year ago. and an increase of 130,-
329. or 21.5 per cent, compared with
1888.
The report classified the loadings
as follows:
Evening star., 1940-12-19

Quotations furnished by National AsSo-
eiation of Securities Dealers. Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or firm bids or offers. but
should indicate approximate prices. and
unless otherwise indicated are as quoted
bv the Sponsors or ISSuerS
'Asterisk indicates, Not quoted by spon-
sors or lsSuerS.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Odd-Lot Dealings
!, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Securities Commission reported to-
Gay these transactions by customers with
odd-lot dealers or SPECIALISTS on the New
York Stock Exchange for December Is
2, ,1fJ purchases involving 104,9s7 shares,
3.Ss1 sales involving 101,152 shares. in
cluding 81 short sales involving 9O5 shares
Evening star., 1940-12-19

I1IPTF WBIB U1IIy oIIIdII CIIdIISt2
during the week in loadings OF
various classes of freight.
The decline in total loadings was
much smaller than seasonal.
The Associated Press seasonally
adjusted index of loadings, based on
1929-30 as 100, advanced to 80.1
compared with 1876 the previous
week, and TAI year ago. This is
the highest point reached by the in
deX since July, 1887
1870 1859 1888 1897 '34-36
Heh ~ sol 7S.6 7I.3 So 50 3
Low ~ SO $40 55.7 go $50
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Washington Railway g. Electric
pfd.-l at 1l612
Capital Transit Co.'S at l54,
Washington Gas Light pfd.-5 at
LOT.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Construction Award!
Are Nearly Treble
Same 1899 Week
Private and Federal
Totals Both Show
Large Increases
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-Engineer-
ing construction awards this week
totaled $131 1873, 900, the fifth highest
volume of any week this year, Engi-
neerins NeWs-Record reported to-
day.
The total was 60 per cent greater
than the previous week and nearly
three times as large as the same
week a year ago.
Both private and Federal awards
registered sizable gains. Private
contracts were IA per cent greater
than the previous week and more
than four times as large as year
ago. Public awards we're SIS per
cent higher than week ago and
1856 per cent larger than the cor
responding week of 1889.
Comparisons follow:
Latest week Previous week. Year ago.
S39329, 600 $50, 600 SS,146,O00
State and Municipal.
S21,942, 600 S17259,O00 S30,0s900O
Federal.
$50 1854 600 S4l,s92 900 Ss,s670O0
sl3l,135,ooo ssl 725ooo s411o2,ooo
Evening star., 1940-12-19
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK Dec 10 lPp.-National AS
sociation Securities Dealers Inc:
Quotations as OF . o'clock)
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Investing Companies

NEW YORK. Dec. 10 P.--National AS
.oclatlon Securities Dealers, lle''
Moon quotations 49,,
Evening star., 1940-12-19

'EX dividend.
TPlus extras. eeHs extra. Sl4 90 extra
paid December % 1889 zoe extra.
m 81 SO extra PSI 90 paid September 80.
1910 sS2.00 paid IN 1889. t25 cents
uary 1910 yS1OoO extra. hS5.oo
extra.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
U. S. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 Up. Prices quoted
in dollars and thirty-seconds
Evening star., 1940-12-19
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Dec. 19-DIvldends de-
elared Prepared By Fitch Publishing Co:
Increased.
Pc Stock of Pay
Rate rod. record. able.
Evening star., 1940-12-19
BONDS on N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE
Tk EAS U ~,

BY private wire direct to The star
Evening star., 1940-12-19

Lima CITY bF2S oS - 6T2 bI2 0
ww-With warrants. xv--Without va
rants. New. st (stpI-Stampsd
SNegotiabillty impaired by maturity.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-17
Naziis Score
In Rumanian
Trade Fight

Bucharest, April l7.-(AP)- The
Rumanian senate Professionally ac-
ccDted today d government bill &c
give Germany a 30-year lease on al
most one hundred thousand acres OF
timbcr-dcspjtc testimony OF army
officers that the lease would leopard
ize national defense.
The minister Of agriculture dc-
tended the bill on grounds that II
was part Of an economic understand
jnr with Germany which 9rcauy
benefited Rumania.
Military experts said the vast Tor
est reserve in central Rumanla con-
stituted a natural defense line.
High ranking officers declared tha'
enactment Of the bill would be d
great strategic error, allowing Ger
many TO send large corps OF experts
and workmen into forest located at
the most vulnerable spot in the
country, on the old Rumanian-Ger-
man border.
Germany previously had protested
Bucharest's embargo on wheat eX-
ports and temporary stoppage OF OIL
shipments. and it was acknowledged
in official quarters Rumania is in an
extremely diffi-IIt position.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-17
Naziis Claim
Sea Success
British Battleship Hit
By Bomb, Destroyer
Sunk and Transport
Struck.

Berlin, April l7.-(AP)-h Brit
ISL battlcship was hit squarcIy by
hcavicst-typc air bomb, d destroyer
was sunk and d transport ship also
struck in an aerial attack, Germany
reported officially today.
DNB, official German news
agency, said that full details OF
aerial blows in d German attack on
British naval forces off the NorWc-
gjan southwest coast still were to be
learned.
a communiquc enumerated these
successes for the German cXpcdi-
tionary forces:
1.-The sinking Of d British dc
strOycr by submarine northeast Of
the Shetland islands.
"A large transport ship chit
squarcly by the heaviest calibre air
bombs"
3.-NorWegian forces in the north
routed by Germans taking control
Of the railroad from Narvik east To
the Swedish border.
Authorized sources insisted Narvik
still was in German hands despite Il
heavy British bombardment reported
by the high command.
4.-The German navy covered the
transport Of personnel and innate
rial reinforcements" TO Norwegian
ports.
5.-Forces ashore broadened the
occupied area, developed coastal de-
lenses and fully prepared" forti-
fications for defense Of Oslo.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-17
DNB Describes
Sea Victory

Berlin, April l7.-(AP)-DNB, Of
ficial German news agency, today
described an air attack off the Nor
Wcgian western coast in which one
British cruiser was sunk by direct
bomb hit and two other cruisers
were seriously damaged by German
bombs.
Augmenting earlier reports (ano
apparently describing an action OF
Yesterday DNB said the cruiser
which sank was hit by a bomb OF
the heaviest calibrc and went down
Immediately.
The agency said the other two
cruisers were hit by three heavy
calibrc bombs and such serious de-
structiun was wrought that presum-
ably the ships will not be able to
return 10 British harbors.
(The DNB report apparently am
plified a passage in today's high
command communiquc which re-
ported the sinking of British cruls-
or and British submarine in an air
attack off Mold fjord).
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-17
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, April I7.--North Caro-
lina's multitude of gubernatorial
candidates are attempting to talk
about almost everything under the
sun. but SO far none has broken the
brooding silence that has srlpped po-
liticians Of all classes about the North
Carolina Roosevelt loyalty drive
Headquarters for which were open
ed here Monday.
Perhaps this silence may have been
broken by the time these lines get
into print, but up to the moment at
which your reporter put them on
paper the many governors seemed
to be unanimous in agreeing with the
old adage about Silence is Golden
so far as the Roosevelt movement IS
concerned.
Which is more or less astonishing,
as it would seem the natural thing
IN do for one or more Of them to at
tempt to catch hold Of the tail OF the
Roosevelt kite and go soaring aloft
with it. It may be, perchance, that
they do not think the kite is going
to soar very high, though that
would be at wide variance with What
seems the best-infOrmed comment on
the subject.
In one of his speeches this week
Or maybe it was late last week
7 M. Broughton lauded the national
administration of President Roosevelt
in almost the same breath with
which he sang praises Of the Hoey
state regime. To this extent tine Ra-
leigh lawyer seems to have the cage
on his principal rivals in decIara-
ton of loyalty to FDR.
Tom Cooper, of course, has repeat
eddy in the past sung the praises OF
Franklin D. and all his works; put
he hasn't chanted any new chorus
or even verse. since the North Car
DINA movement for third term
came out into the open.
Nor. 50 far as this reporter KNOWS
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-04-17
Taft Favors
Relief
Administration

Washington, April 17.--(AP)-
Senator Taft, Republican, Ohio, de-
clared today that the administration
OF relief should be turned over to
the states and municipalities, with
the federal government supplying
approximately two thirds of the
total cost.
The senator, candidate for the Re-
publican presidential nomination,
spoke before an American Fedora
ton of Labor organization of ope-
rating engineers.
The present federal relic! program,
he said, is inadequate. He also OBJ
ljected to use of relief labor on pub
lie works construction projects.
Taft declared that experience
here and in England indicated that
any attempt to meet the work relief
problem by d large scale public
works program is far too expensive
to be permanent or even effective"
1t is much better to adopt pub
lie works program on its own merits
he said. and let it be handled by
contract then handle the remaining
unemployment on a relief basis"