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The Washington times., 1933-09-16
LAWSON NGH4TGOWN FEATURED IN STATE PLEA TO JU
Germans Made
BogusErnncs;
Is Charge

LONDON, Sept. 16 Q.N.S0.
Shielding his identity for fear
of reprisals, a German journal
ist took the witness stand at
the unofficial inquiry into the
Reichstag fire today and &C
cused his fatherland of a plot
to wreck French currency.
In 1925, he said, the German
government established a fac
tory to produce counterfeit L.
900 franc notes. The object, he
charges, was to throw them on
the world money markets and
damage French credit.
The charges were made in
the course of testimony con-
corning DR.. George Bell, Ger
man journalist and minor state
official murdered under mys-
terious circumstances in Mu-
Mich last March. DR.. Bell, the
witness said, was involved in a
German trial dealing with the
Justification of money.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
Nazis Accused of Firing
Reichstag, Blaming Reds

LONDON, Sept. 16 G.N.S).
Whispered charges that Nazi
leaders were responsible for the
fire which gutted the Reichstag
building in Berlin last February
came out into the open today as
a commission of international
jurists continued its unofficial in
vestigation Of the incident.
From the witness stand, a Ger
man journalist, who Shrouded his
identity in secrecy, openly
charged that the fire was the
work of Nazis, and that Marinus
van der Luebbe, self-profeSSed
Dutch communist, willingly Of
fered himself as scapegoat.
Van der Luebbe and four others
go on trial in Leipzig next week
for alleged completely in a plot
to wreck the building.
Identity Kept Secret
The witness kept his identity
secret for fear his mother and
sisters, still living in Germany,
would suffer reprisals as result
of his testimony.
The charges were made in the
course of a long narrative de-
scribing the activities of George
Bell, journalist and minor Nazi
official, shot to death under mys
The Washington times., 1933-09-16

teriouS circumstances in Munich
last March.
Four or five days before the
fire occurred, the witness charged
Bell was under the influence of
liquor and showed him a docu'
ment which he was said to have
termed the lineup for a big
Nazi COUP"
The paper, the witness de-
clared, contained a list of 20 or
30 names. including that of Van
Der Luebbe.
Bell An Adventurer
Bell, according to the testi-
mony, was an adventurer and an
intimate friend of Ernst Roehm,
chief of staff of the storm troop
ers. Bell introduced Van Der
Luebbe to Roehm in 1882, the wit
ness declared.
When a scapegoat was needed
to take the blame for the fire,
the witness alleged, Bell suggest
ed Van Der Luebbe on the
ground he was an Ignorant fool'
ready to satisfy an apparently
erotic tendency by this sudden
thrust into the limelight.
The Nazis, the witness declared,
greedily accepted it as a good
suggestion" and Van Der Luebbe
was promptly enlisted in the al
legged conspiracy.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
SAP|RO ON WAY
To CHICAGO

NEW YORK, Sept. 16 GN.S).
Unsuccessful in his lengthy at
tempt to avoid extradition to Illi-
nois, Aaron Sapiro, nationally
known attorney, today was en-
route to Chicago to face charges
of conspiracy in connection with
alleged racketeering involving Al
Capone and % others.
Sapiro left at midnight, just a
week from the time when he won
a writ Of habeas corpus in the
supreme court here and the in
stant at which the writ expired.
His departure followed a fran
tic last-minute effort to stay the
extradition warrant granted by
Governor Herbert Lehman after
two hearings. Stay on the war
rant was refused By Justice
Francis Martin, of the appellate
division, at a hearing in his apart.
ment, at which David P. Siegel,
counsel for Sapiro, bitterly ar
raigned Illinois authorities for
"railroading man out of town in
the middle of the night" and as
serted his client had never met
nor talked with Capone and had
not the slightest connection with
any racketeering conspiracy.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
CH|LDDEVOURED
BY STRAY DOGS

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 16
G.N.SO. vestig t ion was
launched by Mahoning county au-
thorities today into the strange
case of an unidentified baby who,
police said, was devoured by a
pack Of stray dogs.
Police said the infant, believed
to have been abandoned as an un.
wanted child, was the victim Of a
pack Of mongrelS that has been
preying upon sheep and cattle in
the county within recent weeks.
Authorities centered their in
vestigation today upon a search
for the mother of the infant.
Deputy Sheriffs Gordon Finnie
and Robert Handword, who were
in charge Of the probe, expressed
the opinion that the child was
one or two days old.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
MERIT CLAUSE
BARREDFROM
COAL CODE
Agreed Employees Have Right
To Organize and Make
Collective Bargains
International News Service

The fight of non-union industry
to write the merit clause" in
future codes of fair competition
was virtually ended today as the
new bituminous coal code reaf'
firmed the right Of labor to bar
gaipp collectively.
Instead Of the merit clause, un'
der which the right is reserved
to employers to hire and fire.
without regard to unions, the
joint statement Of Hugh S. John
son, recovery administrator, and
Donald r. Richberg, general coun.
sci, issued on August "a, was
made a part Of the code.
'Merit Clause" Banned
The statement was insisted
upon by operators after the
merit clause" and all other in
terpretations Of the labor provi
sions Of the law we're banned
The appendix to the code read:
"The words open and closed
shop are not used in the law
and cannot be written into the
law.
"TheSe words have no agreed
meaning and will be erased from
the dictionary Of the NRA.
RIGHT TO ORGANIZE
"The law requires in codes
and agreements that employees
shall have the right to organize
and bargain collectively through
representatives of their own
choosing
"This can mean only one
thing, which is that employees
can choose anyone they desire
to represent them, or they can
choose to represent themselves.
Employers likewise can make
collective bargains with organ
lied employees, or individual
agreements with those who
choose to act individually; pro-
vided, of course, that no such
collective or individual agree
ment is in violation Of any State
or Federal law. But neither
employer nor employees are re-
quired, by law, to agree to any
particular contract, whether
proposed as an individual or
collective agreement"
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
HEARST SPEAKS
On AIR TONIGHT

Speaking over the largest radio
hookup ever arranged for a pri-
vate citizen, William Randolph
Hearst will address the nation to-
night over the entire facilities Of
the National Broadcasting Com
pany.
Appearing at the microphone as
the guest of Merlin H. Ayes
worth, president of the National
Broadcasting Company, Mr..
Hearst has chosen as his topic
Imitation, Deflation and Refla-
ton"
Mr.. Hearst will speak from Los
Angeles. He will be heard locally
on stations WMAL and WRC at
10 to 1915 p. m, Washington
time.
In the East both N.B.C. red and
blue networks will release the
talk, the mighty WEAF and
WIZ in New York city carrying
the message to their millions Of
listeners.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
NEW COAL CODE
DESCRIBED AS
OMPROM|SE
Both Recovery Adminitration
and Operators Yield in Ef.
fort to Reach Pact

The revised bituminous coal
code worked out by Recovery
Administration officials and the
operators committee Of 16 was de-
Scribed today as a compromise.
Both the Recovery Administra-
tor and operators yielded in an
effort to win an agreement.
The Recovery Administration
won its battle for a single code foR
the bituminous industry, but made
a concession to operators by
recognizing regional differences to
a greater degree and providing Q
more autonomous government by
the industry.
4O-HOur Week Set Up
Under the new code a 40-hour
week will be established in the
industry, instead Of the basic 80.
hour week proposed by the NRA
in the code handed the operators
a week ago.
Other changes include:
Provision for sharing work
modified in language, providing
that If a majority Of employed
want to share work with unem.
ployed, the mine management
may adjust hours.
Basic wage rates provided for
both the inside skilled labor and
outside common labor.
The check-off provision was
modified to provide that enle
ployers shall pay workers semi
monthly in lawful money or
checks, any deductions from EN-.
ployes' pay shall be matter Of
agreement and shall conform to
rules fixed by the administration
to prevent unfair deductions.
Children Benefit
The child labor age limit q
is is raised to II for those em-
ployed inside mines or at outside
hazardous occupations.
The Recovery Administration is
to begin an investigation and rec
port before December 81 on
changes in hours and wages. A
conference of mine owners and
workers will be held January 8,
1884, to consider the report.
Subdivisions within the five
general divisions are established
for administration purposes, O
recognition of the demand OF
operators for varying rules to
meet regional differences.
Division or subdivisional code
authorities shall be chosen by coal
producers, except that the Presip
dent shall appoint one member.
Board Is Created
A National BituminouS Coal
Industrial Board Of Is members
is created, which shall have the
power to recommend changes.
A bituminous coal labor board
shall be appointed by the Presi'
dent for each Of the five diviD
sions of the industry, except that
there shall be two boards in the
Appalachian field. The board
shall have power to make a de-
cision settling any labor contro-
versy for a six-month period.
A provision was inserted per.
mitting any operator to with
draw his consent to the code on
80 days notice after April 1,
1884.
Minimum wages not provided
in the code are to be approved
or prescribed by the President
before the code becomes effec.
tive
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
CLAIRE To FLEE.
BALM VERDICT

10 NDON, Sept. 16 G.N.sO.
Claire windsor, American stage
and screen actress, who lost an
alienation of affections suit filed
against her in a Los Angeles
court, may come to England to
escape paying $4,000 damages
awarded the plaintiff, the Daily
Mail quoted Miss windsor as say
ing in transatlantic telephone
interview today.
She is reported to have said:
"UntiI the question Of retrial
is settled, / am all right here.
lin Los Angeles.)
"Then If they start chasing
me for money, I'll beat it for
your country. I'm not going to
pay"
The California court awarded
the d a m a ges to Mrs. Marion
Read, of Oakland, for alleged
alienation by the actress Of the
love of Alfred c. Read, jr., her
divorced husband.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16 Il.
NSO.-Fighting an award Of $75,-
900 by a jury to Mrs. Marian
Read Oakland, CAL, socialite,
Claire Windsor, film star, today
had lodged a motion for a new
trial, and her attorneys were
granted a stay Of 10 days. Miss
Windsor's attorneys asserted they
had obtained new evidence"
which Miss Windsor "could not,
with reasonable diligence, have
discovered and produced at the
trial"
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
CODE BELIEVED
To MEAN END
Of STRIKE
Pennsylvania Radicals May
Try to ProIong It; Police
Guarantee Protection

UNIONTOWN, Pa, Sept. 16
GNSO.-Agreement on coal
code in Washington today poured
oil on the troubled waters Of
southwestern Pennsylvania's coal
mine work holiday" and indica-
tions from all but scattered
sources were that the walkout
will diSintegrate next week.
Some diSsension over the code
provisions was voiced by the in
Surgent element, which, organized
minutely to force the strike, has
been forcing the majority Of the
miners to remain away from the
pits despite their desire to work.
Police on the Scene
These leaders professed disap-
pointment over the fact that the
code does not provide a closed
shop for the United Mine Work
erS and fear that provisions for
abolition Of company town"
abuses are not stringent enough.
However, presence in Fayette
county of nearly 80 State police,
with their policy of assuring min
ers who want to work protection
through the picket lines, it was
predicted miners will begin re-
turning to work in few days.
State police promised the pick
cts the right to halt all miners in
tent upon going to work, but pro-
vided that if verbal persuasion
failed to convince the men they
must be allowed to go to work.
Not Badly Hurt
Quiet prevailed throughout the
district early today. Picketing was
reported at several larger tippies,
but operators said they did not
intend to work the pits unless the
miners returned to their jobs and
asked to go down into the work
ingS.
John Keck, superintendent of
the Jamison mine of the South
Union Coal Company, reported to
State police he found two sticks
of dynamite on a WindoWSiu of
the mine tipple this morning and
demanded that police be sent to
patrol his plant. There were no
picketS at the mine.
Ten of the Is shot in Thurs
days riots remained in Uniontown
Hospital today, their condition re.
ported improving. Most Of these
were injured at Gates mine of the
H. c. Frick Coke Company, scene
of the worst disorder.
Attorney Anthony Cavalcante,
of Uniontown, said informations
were being prepared against M.
B. Donovan, Gates mine Superin-
tendent, whom the pickets charge
with giving the order to fire on
them. A number of informations
have been filed against pickets
patrolling the Edenborn and
Footdale mines, where other dis
orders occurred Thursday.
UN1ONTOwN. Pa, Sept. is
Q.N.S0-M. B. Donovan, as
sistant superintendent of the
Gates mine of the H. C. Frick
Coke Company, where 16 miners
were shot in a riot Thursday, to-
day was charged with rioting and
feloniouS assault with intent to
kill in informations filed by two
wounded miners. Eight deputy
heriffs who engaged in the battle
with pickets at Gates also were
named in the informations.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
SHOE MEN NEAR
40-HOUR WEEK
Wv International News Service

Nv International news service
Confident that a 40-hour week,
with an upturn in business, will
provide jobs for all shoe manu-
featuring workers. the code COM
mittee of the National Association
of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers
today declined to accept labor's
proposal for a 30-hour week.
Following two days of confer
ences with Deputy Administrator
C. C Williams, in charge of the
code, the manufacturers COM
nnittee promised to consider re-
vision of administrative and fair
practice provisions of the code
and return it by Monday.
Manufacturers also were hold
ing to the wage schedules sub
mitted in the code including the
differentials for the small city
manufacturers. There were indi-
cations, however. that the week
end conference might produce a
concession to them.
Complete agreement on the ad-
ministrative features Of the code
was reported to Williams.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
Architect Files
BGnkrHptcY Plea

Thomas A. Wallace, an archi-
tect, of the $500 block Thir.
teenth st. N. w., today asked
the District Supreme Court to
adjudge him a voluntary bank
rupt.
Through Attorneys Leonard A.
Block and James G. Dance, the
petitioner declared his debts
amounted to $15,273 and his as
sets 81, 800. -..-...-.l..,
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
spike CLEARED
IN VAC CASE

CHICAGO, Sept. 16 G.N.S)
Prosecutors directing the war on
crime today contemplated their
third setback in the new Grim
inal vagrancy law prosecutions
since Edward CSpike") O'Don'
nell, former beer-gang leader, in
jected his personality into the
courtroom.
The oratorical "Spike" direct
ed his own tri1l an won a YER
dict of not guilty, the first
acquittal won in the new cam
paign to Jail hoodlums with Grim
inal regulations. The jury re-
uuired only 81 minutes to pass
Judgment on O'Donnell.
Five hours later the State re-
ceived it's second body blow when
a Jury in felony court acquitted
Jimmy C'thc Deuce'D Adducci,
said 70 be the right-hand man
of "Dago Lawrence" Mangano,
Caponc ally and Lublic enemy.
O'DonnelIs convincing oratory
threw prosecutors for their first
loss in the vagrancy court when,
after he had testified as a char
acter witness, a jury failed to
convict Sanford C'Gimp'D Rosen-
baum, reputed bodyguard Of
Spike"
Six hoodlums were convicted
and sentenced to jail in the
vagrancy drive before O'Donnell
appeared in the courtroom.
When he heard the verdict OF
acquittal, O'Donnell crowed with
joy and, shaking the hands OF
the jurors, remarked:
"T'm going home now and
get a nice mess Of fish cooked
by the old lady,"
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
COED SLAY|NG
TRIAL NEAR
FINISH
Tribunal to Get Case at Noon;
Prosecution Winds Up With
Death Penalty Demand
BY ERNESTINE BALL

ny EnNES11NE BALL
SAN JOSE, Calf, Sept. 16
UNS0.-Out of the inscrutable
silence Of death, A]lene Lamson
has been called upon to instruct
the jury that was TO retire from
this courtroom at noon today to
SIT IN Judgment on her husband,
David Lamson.
The defense has told the jury:
Il call upon you in the name
OF AIlene LamSOn to send David
LamSOn forth a free man,
purged Of the dreadful, the
false charge that he murdered
AIlene on Memorial Day in
their Stanford campus home"
Conviction Asked
The prosecution says:
Il call upon you in the name
Ct Allene LamSOn to convict
David LamsOn. We are here to
zee that this dead girl gets a
square deal"
And today as yesterday, while
Prosecuting Attorney Allan Lind
say closes the case of the People
vs.. Lamson, a strange picture will
hang upon the wall.
A picture of the bathroom in
the Lamson home, picture en-
larged to almost life.size proper
tions. Over the edge of the tub,
face downward, the lifeless head
Of Allene Lamson, one braid of
hair across her face, her arms,
rigid in death, hanging over the
tub, her hands, palms upward,
touching the blood7soaked floor.
Hammers Away
The jury Of five women and
seven men are not going to be
allowed to shut their eyes for
one moment to that picture. The
prosecution thunders not by acci-
dent, but by brutal murder was
the lovely Allene done to death.
David Lamson killed her on the
floor of the bathroom by hitting
her on the head with blunt in
strument, and then put her IN
the tub and pretended to "tlnd'
her there, according to the prose
cution's theory. go,
Murder or accident-which does
the jury believe? The prosecution
says:
"There isn't a man on this
fury who would have left that
girl, weighing only lis pounds,
in that lOOd-stained water. No,
You men would have lifted the
poor little thing out Of the
water.
NIGHTGOWN STUDIED
'eBut Dave LamsOn said she
slipped out of his arms when he
tried to lift her, so he let her
slide back into the tub instead
of putting her on q bed. Would
you do that?"
When Allene's nightgown-the
nunlike robe, with its high neck
and long sleeves-was brought out
again, who could read the verdict
on the faces of the women jurors
as the prosecuting attorney made
GQe1u lake 4kCI POO4 AVAO SOWA
into their hands and look at the
blood spots.
On Blood Spots
The prosecution insists:
"ThOse blood spots have been
washed. Now, you women have
all done a little washing. You
know the watery circles left
around hurriedly washed blood
spots. Look at them"
The pale, pretty young house
wife in the front row shuts hel
eyes while the prosecution asks:
did the dead Allene rise Ind
wash those SpOtS?"
And answers:
''NO, David LamsOn washed
them-but all over those walls
is the handwriting Of guilt writ
ten in the defenseless blood Of
his murdered wife,"
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
Gotham Brokers Act
To Omen N. J. offices

NEW YORK, Sept. IS (1.N.SO .
What was believed to be the first
step by brokers to set up a
New Jersey headquarters to es-
cape New York taxes was taken
when incorporation papers for
the National Stock Exchange"
were filed with the secretary Of
state in Trenton.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
BLIND BOY IN CONCERT

George Reed, blind student,
who was graduated from Dunbar
High School last June, was heard
in a musical concert at Metro.
politan A. M. E. Church last
night.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16

"HeIp" "HeIp" "Help" How often
have YOU heard those cries when you
couldn't render the service necessary
tO relieve the situation? Keep informed
as TO dependable service available at
q moments notice read the Busi-
NesS Services Directory Of the WANT
NJ SECTION Of this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16

"How will I get there?" "WherO
will we go over the Weekend" These
are questions hundreds Of people are
asking every day they can be
answered, and economically too, by
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AID SECTION Of this newspaper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28

terbury lodge last week.
 It was expected that later to-day or during tomorrow approximately 50 Waterbury Moose and members of the auxiliary would Journey to Danbury to participate in the con- vention.
 The convention today was called to order at 1880 o'clock by State President K. J. Reilly of Danbury at the Moose Temple. Byron Mead of Norwalk is state secre- tary. Preliminary business was to be discussed to-day with a ban quet at the Hotel Green tonight with addresses by leaders of the Moose in the state and nation, in- cluding Harry Jeffries, assista mt supreme secretary, of Mooseheart. III, and W. J. Bennett, district SUD- ervisor of New Jersey, Eastern New York and Connecticut.
 Tomorrow an election of off cers will take place and the rest of the day will be given over to an exhibition by drill teams and field events.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
France Gloomy
 Over Outlook
PopuIace Fears Invaders Will Lift Tennis Trophy

The most depressed of all is the office-boy, who once saw Cochet play. He has been going around in gloom ever since an Australian named Jack Crawford beat the French idol.
 The sports writers are busy try ing to pick new team to defend the cup. Sometimes they agree that Cochet and Jean Bortora must play in the singles. At other times they insist that one of the younger players must be used in sigles and Bortora saved for doubles. t4 -~.
 Either way they conclude that France may lose by three matches to two. .
 The tennis moguls are thinking up new strategy to stop the in- vaders. who may be American. British or Australian. Last year they slowed up American shots by thoroughly soaking the court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-28
Passive Waiting
 for the Family
 of Kidnaped Man

Oklahoma City, Okla, July 28 = (U.P.)-Passive waiting appeared to be the only recourse to-day for relatives and negotiators in the Kidnapping of Charels F. Urschel, millionaire oil man.
 Elaborate arrangements had been made for rapid disposition of any demand from the machine gun ners who seized Urschel a week ago tomorrow night.
 Money to meet a ransom demand was reported ready. Police were