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The Washington times., 1933-07-25
new SHIP CODE
To JOHNSON
BY International News Service

Dy NEWS SorNIC0
Following disagreement on hours
and wages in the shipbuilding' in
dustry, a revised code Of fair prac-
tices for shipyards today was be-
fore Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Ma
tional Recovery Administrator.
The new code carries conces-
sions on both disputed points. pro-
viding minimum wages of 35 cents
an hour in the South and As cents
an hour in the North. 1t specifies
a 32-hour- work week in the pri-
vate yards building Navy ships.
On all non-Government con-
tracts an average of not more than
SO hours a week over a six-month
period is recommended, with 40
hours as a maximum week at all
times. The latter provision takes
care of any emergency rush job.
Another amendment to the pro-
posed code removed the ban on
extension of existing facilities in
the shipbuilding industry.
A sharp fight is expected to en-
force this limitation because ship
builders representatives are re-
ported ready to carry the fight for
this limitation to johnson and
President Roosevelt.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
DOC CRAWL ORD
L|QU|DATED

CHICAGO, July Is G.N.SD.
Creditors here were today liqui-
dating the accounts of Edward a.
Ooc) Crawford, spectacular
trader whose suspension from all
trading privileges by the board
of trade ended a fling in the
market which started on shoe
string and grew to Is million
bushel proportions.
Crawford and Leon A. Strauss,
of Harper, Strauss and Company.
of Des Moines, we're suspended by
board of trade directors for Gin
ability to meet obligations"
Crawford's vast holdings in
grain were held largely RESPONSE
BILE for the suspension Of trading
Friday and Saturday when he
was unable to furnish ample mar
gin. He is credited with having
attempted corner on rye.
La Sale Street traders agreed
that had the speculative markets
held and had he unloaded he
would have gathered in one OF the
nations biggest fortunes.
Ten years ago as New Or
leans dentist Crawford began
trading in cotton on small scale.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
EX-GOV. STUART
DIES At 78

ELK GARDEN, Russell County,
Va, July 25 G.N.S0.-Funeral ar
rangements for former Gov. Henry
Carter Stuart, of Virginia, were
being completed today, following
his death late yesterday at the
age of 78.
Stuart, a descendant of a long
line of noted Southern leaders,
was chosen governor without op-
position in both primaries and
general election and served as the
State executive from 1914 to 1918.
Stuart was a nephew of Gerf
j. E. Stuart. famed Confederate
leader. He is survived by
daughter, Mary Fulton Stuart, of
Los Angeles. His wife, the for
mer Margaret Bruce Carter of
smyth county, died in Boston in
1920.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
PLEADS
FOR COOLIES

PEIPING GNSO-Soong Fa-
hsiang, Chinese consul general to
Batavia, is attempting to induce
the Nanking government to take
up the case of Chinese indentured
coolies working in the mines Of
the Dutch Indies. Mr.. Soong says:
."Under present conditions it
is impossible for any Chinese
cOOlie employed in the tin mines
to save any money or return to
the native land after contracts
have expired. Thousands of in
dentured Chinese are employed
on contracts calling for ~
guiIderS per month.
ut is necessary to do $50 days
work to complete the contract
before the expiration of which
the COOlie is not permitted to
do any other work. An average
man takes one and a half years
to complete the agreement but
the weaker one takes two years
and sometimes three when ILL
ness intervenes."
Mr.. Soong makes the astound-
ing charge that not one coolie in
a hundred has been able to settle
his debt with his employer from
the first term to the day of his
death.
Pay days come each six months
which results in the coolies being
in debt to the employers. Interest
of 9 guilder cents is charged on
every two and a half guilders bor-
roWed.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
KIDNAPPING TRY
JA|LS FELON

COLD SPRINGS, N. Y, July
IS G.N.SO.-Frank Early, 25, of
this village, who was just released
from Dannemora, is behind the
bars again today, held without
bail for the grand jury on a
charge of attempting to kidnap
Edia Neumoegen, daughter of
Manfred Neumoegen, wealthy
resident of Lake Mohopac and
formerly of New York.
Early's arrest was clothed with
secrecy until his arraignment.
The alleged kidnapping occurred
Saturday. Early. who had been
released from prison only two
weeks ago, jumped on the running
board of Miss Neumoegen's car,
pointed a revolver at her, and
made her drive on, according to
the police.
Near Garrison they passed two
State troopers. Her kidnaper
thought a general alarm was out
and he turned into a patch of
woods on the health farm of
William j. Brown, new member of
the New York State boxing COM
mission.
Miss Neumoegen was bound and
gagged and a $625 wrist watch
was taken. In an hour she man
aged to free herself and telephone
the police.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
INDEPENDENTS
OIL CODE HIT
BY International News Service


Adoption of proposals in the in
dependent producers oil code,
submitted in opposition to that
of the American Petroleum Insti-
tute, would seriously damage the
Pennsylvania oil industry, Ralph
T. Zook, Bradford, Pa, member
of the executive committee of the
institute, stated today at the pub
lis hearings on the two codes.
Representing the case of the So
called Stripper wells, zook said
the code offered by the independ-
ents, who are mostly from western
areas does not adequately protect
these wells. He said:
'If conservation of petroleum
in this country is to be assured,
such protection must be af-
fOrded."
The institute code, he said, gave
this protection, and there are
$4,000 employees in the Stripper
wells area of the United States,
who are dependent on such pro-
lection.
He stated that 33 of the Penn
sylvania refineries are equipped
to handle only Pennsylvania
crude oil coming mostly from
stripper wells. Furthermore, he
testified, if the prorating basis of
wells in open flow is allowed. as
the Independents asked, it would
shut down almost all of 146,000
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
NAVY PROGRAM
STARTS SOON
Universal Service


Actual construction Of the
Navy's $238, 900, 900 building pro-
gram will start within two weeks,
the Navy disclosed yesterday, as
the shipbuilding industry agreed
on an industrial code to govern
hours and wages under the pro-
gram.
The code provides a minimum
wage of 35 cents an hour in the
South and As cents in the North
on all shipbuilding, whether naval
or otherwise.
For all works under the Navy
program it specifies a workweek
of 35 hours. For non-Navy work,
the work-week will be 36 hours
for six months and 40 hours
thereafter.
Plans for virtually all Of the
80 vessels to be built under the
public works construction pro-
gram are complete
Bids on the 16 ships to be
built in private yards, plus four
destroyers and one heavy cruiser
previously provided for. are to be
received by the Navy today.
Immediately afterwards, Secre-
tary of the Navy Swanson will
assign to Navy yards the con-
struction of the remaining 16
ships in the program.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
TAX EXEMPTION
NOVA RACKET,
SAYSCROSS
Yale Dean, a Governor, Hits
Charity Bodies, Outlining
Talk to Coast ParIeY

SAN FRANCISCO, July Is GIN.
SJ.-Two lengthy business ses-
sions and military review were
to be undertaken by delegates to
the annual governors conference
here today before they listen to a
special radio address from Pres
ident Roosevelt tonight.
Wilbur L. Cross, Yale University
dean, now governor of Connect.
cut, and Paul V. McNutt, an out
standing figure of American
Legion circles, now governor of
Indiana, were scheduled to deliver
the principal talks today.
Tax Policies Up
Governor Cross, white haired
statesman, was to discuss policies
of tax exemptions, a vital prob
lem in every State, while Cover
nor McNutt was to speak up "en-
largement of Executive Authori-
ties"
Discussing tax exemptions with
newspapermen before making his
scheduled talk, Governor Cross de.
cried certain organizations now
Seeking-or having - exemptions.
He said:
MANY SO-called charitable,
school and religious bodies make
a virtual racket out of present
day laws for tax exemptions.
am convinced that there must
be changes made. 1 will pre-
sent the matter for deep con-
sideratiOn of my fellow cover.
nOrS."
Gov. J. G. Pollard of Virginia
announced that informal round.
table discussion would follow
Governor Cross talk.
Debate on sales taxes, a NOV.
ing factor in present-day Govern
ment seeking to overcome budget
deficits, also will be held.
To Honor Dern
The military review, in honor
of Secretary of War George H
Dern, President Roosevelt's dele
gate to the conference, is to take
place at the Preside. Another
19-gun salute for Secretary Dern
and the governors will be fired.
Dern declared he was highly
elated over the rapid-fire action
taken by the governors yesterday
in diSpatching to President Roose-
velt a full pledge Of cooperation
to the National Industrial Recov-
cry act program.
Gov. John C. Winant of New
Hampshire, last night told the
conference that good govern
ment is needed, not for self-serv-
ing purposes, but for the nation"
The Washington times., 1933-07-25

MILWAUKEE,, July Is G.N.S0
Federal authorities, guarding
against a possible rescue attempt,
today made ready to convoy
Roger Touhy, Chicago gang
leader, and three henchmen to
st. Paul, where they will be given
q speedy Federal trial as the
kidnapers of William Hamm. jr.,
millionaire brewer.
To prevent a rescue by the
gang Of two score gunmen com
manded by Touhy, an elaborate
guard of Federal deputy marshals
and police was enlisted for the
trip to Minnesota.
Federal warrants charging the
four with the kidnapping were
issued here after Hamm identified
the Touhy gangsters at a secret
shoWup in Chicago. The gang
sters are charged with seizing
Hamm as he was strolling to his
st. Paul home and holding him
at a hideaway in Wisconsin for
a ransom of 100000.
Iron-Clad Case a.
Touhy's three companions re
Willie Sharkey, Gus Schaefter
and Eddie McFadden. All have
police records.
Melvin H. Purvis, chief of the
Federal Bureau of Identification
at Chicago, announced that his
agents have built up an iron
clad case" against the four
Touhy cowboys"
Soon after Hamm identified his
hdnapers. Purvis succeeded in
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
u. S. Has ''Iron Clad" Case
Against Touhy ''Cowboys'

locating the cottage near Lake
Geneva, Wis, where the brewer
was kept until the ransom was
paid.
Federal agents were convinced
from the location of the hideaway
that the Touhy gang also was re-
sponsible for the abduction of
John Jake the Barber" Factor
wealthy Chicago S took operator
and his 19-year-old son, Jerome.
Find Ransom Money
Purvis and his agents began
their search for the kidnapers
last June 9, when Hamm was
spirited away by several gunmen
in an automobile. Their search
ended last week, when Touhy and
his three companions were ar
rested at Elkhorn with an auto
mobile full of weapons. ammuni-
ton, and tools of the kidnapers
trade.
In their possession was $1,000
Of the Hamm ransom money in
$40 and $40 bills. Serial numbers
on the bills identified the money
as that paid for the release of the
wealthy brewer.
Touhy and his companions will
be tried under the new Fedora
"Lindbergh law" which allows a
sentence of up to life for trans
porting a person across a State
border for ransom purposes. Ir
addition, the gangsters are liable
vC term of up to 20 years fol
sending ransom demands through
the mails.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
General Strike Due Today
In Holly llywood Studios
HOLLYWOOD, July Is G.N.SJ

HOLLYWOOD, July Is Q.N.SO.
A general film studio strike had
been called in Hollywood today.
AS an aftermath to the walkout
Saturday midnight of about 700
sound technicians, who sought a
basic wage scale and adjusted
working conditions, general strike
orders were issued to an additional
$500 organized film workers.
Hollywood producers met the
new threat by announcing that
every effort would be made to
keep the major studios open by
replacing the striking workers
with others.
Strike Order Effective
The general strike order was to
go into effect today.
1t was issued by Richard Green,
international representative of the
International Alliance of Theatri-
cal Stage Employees.
Included in the strike order
were cameramen. laboratory tech.
nicians, motion picture projection
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
AIMEE 8 DAVID
IS SUED AGAIN

LOS ANGELES, July Is G.N.S).
David Hutton, jr., whose estranged
wife, Aimee Semple Mcpherson
Hutton. arrived at Norfolk, Va,
today from France, himself be-
came defendant in lawsuit to-
day.
Hutton. who filed suit here last
week to divorce Mrs. Hutton, was
sued yesterday for $4,000 by
holland Tucker, former orchestra
leader and radio director at
Angelus Temple, who alleged bat
terry.
Tucker alleged that following
an alteration Hutton used force
to eject him from the temple
and threatened to knock his head
through a concrete wall. David
Hutton, Sr., also was named a
defendant in the suit by Tucker.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
PENALTY
To Be SOUGHT
IN KIDNAPPING
MCGEE on Trial in Kansas City;
Jurors Asked Views on
Capital Punishment

KANSAS CITY, July Is G.N.S).
Taking of testimony in the trial
Of Walter H. MCGEE, charged with
the kidnapping of Miss Mary Nc
Elroy, daughter of City Manager
H. F.. McElroy, will get under way
here today.
A panel of At veniremen was
completed late yesterday, and
when the case is resumed today
the attorneys will make their
challenges. The State will be all
lowed to strike off Is and the
defense 20. The remaining IL will
hear the presentation of evidence.
Seeks Death Penalty
Shortly after the arrest Of
MCGEE, who admitted to police
that he had participated in the
kidnapping, Prosecutor T. A. J.
Mastin announced he would seek
the death penalty. In the selec-
ton of prospective jurors yester.
day, each was examined by the
State on their views of capital
punishment. Nine men withdrew
as they were opposed to a death
penalty
The case presented an unusual
aspect when Joseph B. keenan,,
special assistant United States
attorney general, accepted the
invitation of the prosecution to
come to Kansas City to assist in
the trial of MCGEE and two
other defendants, who will go on
trial as soon as McGee's case Is
completed.
The other two defendants
are Clarence Click and McGee's
brother, George. A fourth man,
Clarence Stevens, is still at large.
Subject to U. S. Law
keenan, Said
"These men are dicted
under Federal law as well as
under State law. If they don't
get justice in this trial there is
no reason why they can't be
tried under Federal law"
Miss McElroy was kidnapped
from her home here May 81 and
was taken across the State line
into Kansas, where she was held
prisoner several hours before be-
ing released after the payment of
| $4,000 ransom, most of which
was recovered.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25

lists, property men, set dressers,
property makers, effect and min
iature makers.
Studios affected are Warner
BrotherS-FirSt National, Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO-Radio, Para
mount, Fox, Educational, Hal
Roach, United Artists, Bryan Foy
and Universal.
Independents Escape
Forty independent companies
will not be affected.
Sympathetic walkout order was
issued few hours after various
major studios had attempted to
resume production despite the
Saturday night strike of the
sound technicianS.
Practically every studio re-
sumed work yesterday morning,
using in addition to strikebreak-
ers, employees who had been
trained in sound departments and
then had drifted into other lines
Of studio work.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
Policeman ReScues
BOY From RIInalU1U

Harold Karlinsky, IL, of the 600
block of Keefer Pl. N. w., was res
cued early today by Policeman z.
E. Hall, of the Tenth Precinct,
from in front of a runaway milk
wagon horse near Georgia Avenue
and Park Road Northwest.
The horse, frightened by a steam
shovel, ran away and was caught
by Charles johnson, of the 900
block N Street N. w., block from
the scene of his fright.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
Stairs Fall Leads
To Suit for $4,000

Seeking damages of $4,000 for
a fall down a flight of stairs,
Lula L. Davidson, 900 block East
Capitol st. filed suit today in Dis
trict Supreme Court against Will
liam C. Ewart and Alfred G.
Earnest, trading as Ewart's Cafe,
500 block Thirteenth st. N. W.,
and the National metropolitan
Bank, James j. johnson and
Edward R. Brownley, as trustees
of the Walter Brownley estate,
owner of the building.
The plaintiff through Attorneys
Louis Lebowitz and George E.
Edelin, stated that last January
II, while descending a flight of
stairs to the cafe, her heel was
caught on a metallic strip. she
fell down the stairs, and suffered
permanent injuries.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
BY International News Service

The National Recovery Admin
istration today announced adop-
ton of the special insignia author
lied for stores and other en-
ployers who comply with the
Presidents blanket code.
The poster is in the national
colors. Against a white back
ground is a design of a spread
eagle in blue, with a legend be-
meath in red: "We do our part. :"
1t bears the word Member" and
the initials "U. S." in red.
The announcement stated:
"FOr the public to do its part,
it must know which employers
have done their part to put our
people back to work by making
these agreements with the Presi:
dent and by codes.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
Employers Who Back Code
To Get Snappy Insignia

Every industry and every
employer who has agreed with
the President ON this plan, or
who has had approved a code
covering the vital subject of re-
employment, will be enrolled as
a member of N. r. A. and given
a certificate and a Government
badge, showing the seal Of the
N. r. A. and the words, Mem
Der N. X. A. We do our part
ut will be authorized to show
this badge on all its equipment,
goods, communications and
premises. Lists of all employers
authorized to use this badge will
be on file at all pOstOffices, SO
that any misrepresentation by
unauthorized use can be pre-
vented"
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
BUILT HIS GANG
BY BEING KIND
To OUTLAWS
Kidnaper'S Rise to Power Said
To Have Followed Doom
Of Beer Racket

CHICAGO, July IS GNs),
The Robin Hood" of Chicago
gangsters-a quiet, retiring soft
voiced fellow who prefers overalls
and books to bright lights-a
gangster who has never been con-
victed of a crime.
That among other things is
Roger Touhy. Chicago's latest
member of Uncle Sans Sin bad"
club, who with three of his
mobsters stands accused in st.
Paul, Mimi, as the brains of the
gang that kidnapped William
Hamm, jr.. wealthy brewer.
Sought CapOne's Crown
International News Service
learned today from one who
knows Touhy of the manner in
which Touhy skyrocketed from
the obscure position of beer
peddler to one that threatened
to eclipse the erstwhile exalted
position Of AL Capone.
BY virtue of his robin Hood"
manners-by being good to bad,
wanted men-Roger Touhy built
up one of the toughest mobs that
ever cut throat or operated a
machine gun. His crowd con-
sisted of the renegades of law
and order, men from all sections
of the country upon whose heads
the law had placed price.
Before 3.2 beer set in and illegal
beers went out, Roger was content
to confine his activities to the
quenching of parched throats on
Chicago's northwest side, along
with his lesser known brother,
Tom, and still lesser known
brother, Eddie.
Turn to Kidnapping
But when the illegal beer
racket faded Touhy with his gang
Of appreciative renegades went
into the business of kidnapping
those who have what it takes to
make kidnapping worthwhile.
His major appearance into big
ger and bolder enterprises in Chi
cago, police have said, occurred
last May when he led a gang Of
machine gunnerS into the out
lawed Chicago Teamsters Union
headquarters, held 80 men at bay
and kidnapped two officials. He
did this, police theorized at the
time, as "hired hand" for one
union seeking to eradicate an
other.
Perhaps with the display of
''Terrible Touhy" power, Roger,
still a young man, began to real
lie the actual strength of his
muscles. At any rate, his name
began appearing in print with
alarming regularity.
Several members Of the gang
carrying on" for Al Capone,
headed by Murray Humphries,
were "taken for ride" Roger
Touhy's name was linked with
these.
Linked to Factor Case.
Jake (the Barber) Factor was
kidnapped, held for ransom, sub
Sequently released. Touhy's name
vas shouted out loud in this.
The "Terrible Touhy" power
was asserting itself. In fact, the
grapevine had it after Touhy's
arrest in the Factor abduction,
that Touhy was becoming so
powerful that it would take a
bold, courageous citizen to put
the finger" on him.
Such was the awe and respect
held for the quiet, milo "Robin
Hood of Chicago gangsters who
Jumped in nothing flat almost
from the small fry of gangland
to a position of power and terror,
because he was good" tc bad
men,
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
MARLBORO LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued at
Upper Marlboro yesterday to
Ethel Mae Boyce, 18. the 1000
block Kansas Ave. N. w., and
Otis F. Scott, "a, Fort Meade;
Viola Mary Provost, 18, Newark,
N. j., and John Leonard McManus,
%, Anacostia Naval Air Station;
Edgar Ernest Grist, 81, Capitol
Heights, and Myrtle Eugenla
White, 18, Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
HaWks to Hop Off
For World Grain Fair

NEW YORK, July Is G.N.SD.
Lieut.. Comdr. Frank Hawks, speed
flier, planned to take off about
noon today on a 1,62O-mile nom
stop flight to Regina, SaSkatche-
wan, to be guest at the Worlds
Grain Exposition.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
GOES TO HAWAII

Theodore Clay Uhler, Country
Club Hills, Arlington county, is
en- route to Honolulu, where he
will spend three months as a spe-
cial agent for the United States
Bureau of Internal Revenue.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25

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Evening star., 1933-08-14

The Minister of Persia and Nine.
Djalal entertained at dinner last eve
ming at the Shoreham. their guests be-
ing the Persian midshipmen who are
members of the crew aboard the Italian
training ship, America Vespucci, at
Baltimore. In the group are Yahya Ras-
sooli. Jaffar Kooras, Abutorab Gaffari
Mahamad Moghdam. Nassir zand