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The Washington times., 1934-10-03
LABOR To FIGHT
CLAY WILLIAMS
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pected to be exciting, but the ar.
rival of Mr.. Lewis had the con-
vention on edge. Two major con-
troversies faced him, the fight
against industrial unions and the
battle within the building trades
department OF the A. F. of L.
He was to square away against
John P. Frey, president of the
metal trades department, to whom
Mr.. Lewis advocacy Of industrial
unions is anathema.
Mr.. Frey believes that indus
trial unions, organizations Of la
Dor by industries instead Of
crafts, is "all right in rare cases,
such as Lewis mine workers, but
is entirely unsuitable for most Of
labor"
The two warning factions in the
building trades department were
expected to campaign vigorously
and Immediately for Mr.. Lewis
support in the conflict, which
seems headed for the convention
floor.
Seats Refused
The delegates in the depart
ment refuse to seat those of
three big unionS-c carpenters,
bricklayers and electrical work
ers-which seek reaffiliation with
the department after being out
for several years. It is a political
row in the department, the "ins'
desiring to keep the "outs" on the
Sidelines so they can't upset q
recent election.
The possibility Of a disturbance
in the convention hall from the
rank and file,' a cleft wing Ia
Dor body, still keeps extra police
details at the convention hall.
The frank and file" put sew.
eral startling resolutions in the
hands of the committee, among
them a demand for a 24-houI
nationwide general strike as pres
sure on Congress for unemploy.
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gates feared they would march
on the convention in a demonstra.
ton.
Secretary Perkins Awaited
The arrival Of Secretary Of
Labor Frances Perkins was anxi
ously awaited, the delegates be
lieving that she carries a mes
sage to labor from the President
Edward F. McGrady, her assistant
who has been here for some time
as a mediator in the waterfront
labor trouble, was busy arrang
ing radio time for Miss Perkins
William Green, president of the
A. F. of L., conferred with
other leaders Of labor relative tc
the visit they will pay President
Roosevelt at the termination Of
the convention. They will dis
cusS with the President his pro
poSal for industrial peace.
The A. F. of L. resolution against
Williams accuses him Of being
biased, highly prejudiced and I'm,
fair" to labor.
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FRANCE

PARIS. Oct. 3.-Albert SAKE,
New York architect, started back
for his home city, the cradle of
the skyscraper, yesterday, con.
WINGED, after a European tour, that
the day of the skyscraper is ended.
Said Mr.. SAKE:
What we need in order to
calm down are lower buildings
and wider streets"
Skyscrapers, argued SAKE. were
the result of the domination of
architects by business men. They
were not the work of artists, fit
ting their material into a general
scheme.
Mr.. SAKE was particularly i'm.
pressed by the skyline of Budapest
and Paris. He said:
II am hopeful that the sky
scraper is done with forever,
now that it no longer pays.
"A building should not be
higher than Is stories and even
that creates nerve strain"
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SPAIN

MADRID, Oct. 3 (U.S0.-The
task of forming a new government
to succeed that Of Ricardo Sam.
per was placed last night by Presi-
dent Alcala Zamora upon Ale
jandro Lerroux. chief of the Radi-
cal Party. Backed by Gil Robes.
leader of the Catholic Center Party,
Lerroux accepted the assignment.
A coalition government based
upon the conservative center and
the moderate radical parties will
be attempted by the veteran
leader. Meanwhile Spain is in a
state Of tension. A general strike
as a protest by the left against
Lerroux is believed imminent by
many observers.
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FEW CHANGES,
AIM Of NEW
MIRA BOARD
Chairman Williams First Plans
Building Strong Personnel;
Consumer Aid Seen
BY International News Service


Determined to assure the nation
Of its cooperation in President
Roosevelt's promise to refrain
from drastic changes in the re,
covery program, the new Indus
trial Recovery Board today con-
tinued its work Of considering re-
covery problems brought on by the
departure of Brig. Gen. Hugh s.
Johnson.
The board, according to Chair
man Clay Williams, is determined
not to consider any sweeping
changes of policy, but will devote
its energies to building up the
MIRA personnel, following the 10
weeks of disintegration during Ad-
ministrator Johnson's absence
from his office.
johnson Gives Aid
Mr.. williams came here pre-.
pared to devote all Of his time for
several weeks to his new task,
while the other board members
will be able to devote several days
each week to the work formerly
directed by General Johnson and
his personal secretary, Miss
Frances Robbie) Robinson.
While the Presidents order
places the board in present con
troll, General Johnson's resigna-
ton does not become effective
until october Is, when he ex-
poets to resume private life in
New York city. Until that time,
General johnson with his ad.
ministrative officer, Col. George
Lynch, are aiding the new board
in its work of fathoming the
intricate industrial recovery set
UP.
Meanwhile the new board Is
awaiting decisions of policy Of the
Presidents newly created "recov-
cry cabinet" which will determine
the future course Of the rebuilt
recovery machine.
Eye on Consumers
This body, headed by Donald r.
Richberg, is expected to consider
the broad problem of recovery, in
Guiding industry, agriculture and
other pursuits.
Among the first decisions ex-
pected from the board are those
effecting workers and consumers.
Two definite problems already
have been presented for decision.
They are President Roosevelt's Or
der to reduce hours in the cotton
garment industry from 40 to SO,
with corresponding piece work in
creases, and the demand of Massa-
chusetts shoe workers that mini
mum wage rates in their code be
increased to union labor wage
scales.
The garment industry is a 100
per cent NRA label industry, and
because of this was chosen by Mr..
Roosevelt for a trial Of his "ten
and ten" theory. Without Blue
Eagle labels, garments may not be
sold by retailers, giving the Gov
eminent an ironclad rule over the
industry.
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(ConeGnueo from rage ~
gathering up loose ends of the
case before the extortion trial
Story Called False
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf,
head of the New Jersey State
Police, branded as erroneous q
report that an associate of
Hauptmann had been arrested
and confessed that he held the
ladder while Hauptmann kid
naped the Lindbergh child. He
said:
"That story Is false.
"NO accOmplice Of Haupt-
mann'S is being held"
Schwarzkopf also declined to
comment on a report that a dia-
gram Of a ladder said to resemble
that used by the kidnaper had
been found in one Of Haupt-
mann's notebooks.
1t was also announced that vii.
liam Reilly, superintendent Of a
Bronx lumber firm where Haupt-
mann allegedly tried to pass a $40
ransom note last February but
was restrained by a companion,
had been unable to identify this
companion.
From New Jersey came the state
ment that Governor A. Harry
Moore and his aides are Of the
opinion they have a good murder
case against the sullen alien. The
Governor said:
Case Not Complete
I'VE feel that before long we
will get him here. We hope we
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CHOSEN
AS insult
JURORS
Completion of Jury Today
Expected; Many Barred by
Stock Investments

CHICAGO, Oct. 3 G.N.SO.-A
second panel of four jurors who
will weigh the fate of Samuel In.
sull, broken car of a crumbled
utilities empire, and sixteen CO
defendants charged with using the
mails to defraud, was accepted
both by the Government and de.
Tense today.
A jury by late today was the
objective of all concerned as the
most sensational trial in the an
mails Of American finance swung
into its second day.
The first panel of four jurors
was approved late yesterday. The
second panel was completed at the
conclusion of the first hour OF
examination today.
Many Jurors Dropped
indicative of the great number Of
investors in the vast insult power
empire, was the large number Of
jurors dismissed for cause when
it became known that they had
owned stock in insult companies.
The former autocrat of finance
and power, despite his 70 years
and his delicate health, gray and
bent, sat through the entire ses
sion yesterday and announced
that he will be present every
minute of the trial in which the
integrity of his business dealings
are to be questioned.
If found guilty of defrauding
thousands of investors of an es-
timated $143,000,0O0 in the sale
of Corporation Securities stock
the defendants face sentences of
five years imprisonment and $10,.
900 fines
Trial To Be Long
The principal topic of discus
sion around the court room con.
cerned the length of the trial. It
was variously estimated trial will
last from three to six months.
Floyd E. Thompson, chief of the
defense counsel and former chief
justice of the State Supreme
Court, declared the length of the
trial is wholly dependent on how
far back the prosecution goes into
the history of the insult utility
empire.
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
BLOODY
WOUND UNDER
BATHING CAP
Saw No Signs of Drowning;
Blackjack, Taken From
Lake, Shown Jury
BY DAVID p. SENTER
international News Service

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Oct. 3
Freda McKechnie, young telephone
girl, died from a vicious blow on
the head and not from drowning
DR.. Harry Brown testified today
at the American tragedy" muir
der trial Of her betrayer, 21-year
old Bobby Edwards, small-town
AdoniS.
The prosecution charges the
youthful mine surveyor struck
down Freda from behind during
q midnight swim in the rain at
Harvey's Lake. Freda was to have
become a mother and Bobby went
ed to marry Margaret Grain, o.
year-old music teacher. OF East
Aurora, N. Y, whom he had met
at college, the State charges.
Found Bloody Cash
Dr.. Brown testified he examined
The body of F'reda on the beach
after it was recovered. He found
a bloody cash on the back OF the
skull, under her white bathing cap
He said:
"She did not drown, her eyes
were only slightly engOrged, the
pupils slightly contracted. Ordi-
narily in a drowned person the
skin has the appearance Of being
bruised"
DR.. Thomas Wenner, who per
formed the autopsy, next testified
along similar lines.
He said he found the skull OF
the dead girl unusually thick, "
adding:
'T found the heart normal"
(The defense has contended
Freda died from heart failure
when plunging into the icy water.)
Wound Called Violent
He termed the wound on the
head was "of an exceedingly
violent character, penetrating all
layers of tissue"
"In my opinion, death was
from shock due to the extensive
1aceratiOns and Commissions
caused by some blunt instru-
ment."
The blackjack, allegedly used in
the murder by the defendant. was
shown the witness who declared
the skull injury might have been
caused by it. The blackjack, Dor,
rowed from his father by Edwards,
was found in the bottom of the
lake.
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Navy Will Check
Merchant Ships

BY International News Service
The United States Navy today
moved to check up on the safety
of all ships of the American
Merchant Marine.
At the resuest Of Secretary of
Commerce Roper, the Navy De-
partment started to assign expert.
enced naval officers to sail
aboard American Merchant Ma.
rine vessels and to check their
safety on the high seas, as well
as the discipline and training
of their crews.
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to him that Mrs. Vanderbilt hac
suffered through the testimony OF
two discharged servants, and that
figures in international society
soon would be testifying in Mrs
Vanderbilt'S behalf, he decided tc
reconsider.
To International News Service
Mrs. Vanderbilt said:
"This much 1 will tell you,
all that was said by that dis
charged French maid Of mine
was untrue. There was not
grain of truth in it and we will
soon offer evidence to prove It,"
Meanwhile little Gloria played
with her toys in the great brown
stone palace of her aunt, Mrs
Harry Payne Whitney Gertrude
Vanderbilt, on Fifth Avenue, OF
walked with her governeSs in Cen
trail Park across the street. All
are trying to keep from the child
who has three million dollars and
whose annual income is more
than $150,000, that she is the sub
ject Of a habeas corpus action
but she knows that her family Is
fighting over her.
Judge Scores "Dirt"
The whole case is based on the
moral welfare Of this little child
but Justice Carew said yesterday
in explaining his decision the tao
tics Of both sides seem to be tc
get as much dirt about the mother
into the record as is possible"
First Mrs. Whitney's lawyer
Herbert c. Smyth, put a dis
charged governess on the stand
who testified that she had seer
Prince Hohenloe, scion of one Of
the greatest families of the con
tinent, in Mrs. Vanderbilt's bed
room late at night back in 1927.
Nathan Burkan, Mrs. Wander.
bits lawyer, by insistent crosS-ex
animation brought from the
French maid the testimony about
Mrs. Vanderbilt and the Marchion-
ess of Milford-Haven and followed
it up today with the declaration
that he intends to ask Lady Mil
ford Haven to come to America to
help her friend Mrs. Vanderbilt
with a denial of the maids testi-
mony. He cannot subpoena her,
but he felt confident she would
come,
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
Legion Auxiliary
Selects Officers

Newley-elected officers of the
auxiliary to the James Reese
Europe Post Of the American
Legion have been installed by Mrs.
Edythe M. O'Connor, department
president.
The officers are Mrs. lone Mon
roe, president; Romano Wilson,
Henrietta Rowe and Priscilla
Wilkes, vice presidents: Willie
GaSkins, treasurer; Minerva Dale
and P. D. Smallwood, secretaries;
Carrie Hackley, chaplain; Doris
McLane, historian, and Mamie
Mccoy, sergeant-at-arms.
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
18th st. 'Y' Sets
Membership Drive

DR.. Charles H. Wesley Of Howard
U University will deliver the
Founders Day address at the open
ing dinner of the membership
campaign at the Twelfth Street
Branch Y. M. c. A., on next
Thursday, october II.
A goal Of new members has
been set at 600 and a fund Of So
900 will be subscribed,
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
CCC TO CAMP ON ISLE

Roosevelt Island will nave the
fourth CCC camp in this region,
c. Marshall Finnan, superinten-
dent of the National Capital
Parks, said yesterday. The camp,
to accommodate 200 men, will
operate within a few months,
clearing the island Of underbrush,
and constructing roads and foot
trails.
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
Ford Car Wins
Brazilian Classic

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 3 G.N.
SO.-Driving a Ford va at a
terrific rate over a 290-kilometer
course, Irineu Correa. Bazilian
driver, today won the annual
South American motor car race,
biggest event of it's kind on the
continent. The winner crossed the
finish line six minutes ahead OF
the second car, a Hudson, also
piloted by a Brazilian.
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BY EDWARD b. LOCKETT
(CopyriRht, 1884, BY International
News Service)

Copyright, 1884, BY International
News Service)
Frances Robinson, tiny empress
of NRA, who goes out with the
deposed General Johnson, is glad
it's all over.
The diminutive secretary who
has been General Johnson's
right hand man." to use the
words of the former cavalryman,
told international News Service in
an interview that she didn't know
how tired she was until the pres
sure Of work let down after she
resigned, effective October IS
She said:
'I'm all i'm. I didn't realize
how worn out / was until now"
RAPS GOSSIPERS
Miss Robinson-"R Robbie" to her
friends-carries no bitterness in
her heart as she leaves her job,
but she took a parting fling at
gossipers. She said she knew all
sorts of stories about her have
gone about the country. She
takes it all as a part Of the life
of q public official.
She said:
'Many Of the stories about
me came straight from the
whispering galleries. They were
inevitable, but they were just
talk. The real people, the Sc
rious, thinking people, know my
work, and know that these
stories are untrue.
81 worked for the General. I
tried to be . good soldier.
II think there are = great
many people who should think
over the words Of the President
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
Ladies of Charity
Elect New Heads

The Ladies Of Charity Of Holy
Name Catholic Church, Eleventh
and K SITS. N. E., held their annual
election yesterday. Those named
are: President, Mrs. Helen May.
hew: vice president, Mrs. L
Knox, secretary, Mrs. M a y
Myers, and treasurer, Mrs. H. Ma.
henney.
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
HURLED FROM CAR

Six-year.old Alvin Stephenson,
colored, of Capitol Heights, Nd,
narrowly escaped serious injury
early today when he was thrown
from his fathers automobile when
it collided with a truck in the
5000 block of Sheriff Rd. N. E.
He was treated at Casualty Hos
pital for cuts and bruises.
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
Son of Gen. Johnson
Given Higher NRA Post
BY International News Service

Appointment of Lieut.. Kilbourne
Johnson, son of former Recovery
Administrator Hugh S. Johnson,
as acting division administrator
of the manufacturing division of
NRA, was announced today by
President Roosevelt's new Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Board.
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
PHYSICIAN SAYS FREDA NkECHANE DIED FROM HEAVY BLOW
World News
CHINA

SHANGHAI, Oct. 3-Military
forces today are in hot pursuit Of
Manchukuo bandits who yesterday
captured 100 school children and
three teachers. The kidnapping
followed a series of surprise at
tacks on outlying villages, includ-
ing virtual humiliation of a
Japanese garrison in Kirin prov.
ince.
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
YOUTHS TO INSTALL

DR.. Daniel A. Poline will preside
at the meeting of the local post
Of the Allied Youth at the Ma.
tional Education Association Build
ing tonight. Election Of officers
will be followed by an installation
service DR.. Polling will conduct.
Young people Of washington are
invited to attend.
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
Hauptrnann's Trial Is
Set for October II

can bring him before the trial in
the Bronx. In the meantime,
Col. H. Norman Schwar1kOpf Of
the State Police, Is completing
his investigation and we hope to
finish II within q few days."
The Washington times., 1934-10-03
MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 3 GN.sJ.
Looking hale and hearty, former
President Plutarco Elias Gales ar
rived at his home in Cuernavaca
today with a denial that he had
undergone a serious operation. He
said:
whats more, don't need
one. I'm feeling fine"
The ex-president motored to
Cuernavaca from his rancho at
Ell Mantle, in TamaulipaS state.
MAGDALENA, Sornora, Oct. 3
Q.N.SO Several hundred troops
were concentrated here today to
prevent possible disorder feared
as a result of religious restrictions.
Thousands of Yaqui Indians and
poems were assembling in Sonora
to observe st. Francis Day tomor.
row although they have been for
hidden to worship in the cathe-
dralS.
The Washington times., 1934-10-03

TREASURY CONDITION
Treasury balance: $2,185.1 14,-
098.39; I. r.: $9,588,868.78; c. R.:
$1,7O5, 1850.
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Mrs. Vanderbilt Flags
Maids Charges

} rs much about her as anyone
else"
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VOUR walise, sir" said Mottle-
Il face, deity Ticking the of
wheeler, your walise comes in-at
the end. sir, and I'm a-comin'to tt
it as qvick as you'll let me-"
"Hum!" said the gentleman again
Nov, in my feyther's time," re-
sumed Mottleface serenely, "th'
roads vos worse than they are today
ali! sight worse, an as for 'ighvay-
men-Lord they vos as thick a;
-blackberries? I Shoulc
say so! There vos footpads beinc
every 'edge-gangs of 'em-an' Ugh
Vaymen on every cath"
God bless my Soul' exclaimed
the fussy gentleman, so many?"
"Many?" snorted Mott,eface
there vos armies of 'em. But my
feyther, as I think I mentioned
afore, we're the bravest, boldest, best
plucked coachman as ever sat on 6
box"
81 hope it runs in the family"
"Sir, amt one give to boastin'
nor yet to BLOWN my own 'orn, but
truth is truth, and-it dol"
"Good!" said the fussy gentleman
very good!'
Now the worst of all these rogues
vos a cove called Black Dan, q
thieving, numbering, desprit waga.
bone as we're eventually Jung sky
Ugh on Pembury Ill"
ITO IA ftaufinrxodl
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Receiving an inheritance q seven
hundred thousand pounds Barnabss
champion prize fighter of England. De-
cides to become gentleman ratneI
than follow the fighting game. He bests
his father in a duel of fists as the
climax of a quarrel over the son
choice of career. Natty Bell. announcer
former champion, has aided the e., Iaf f1fr ID
After the fight Barnabas changes ms
surname to Beverley and on MS way
to London meets among others the
Cap'n. the Bosun and young hoIati99
Bellasis, a gentleman and 1rleno OF
Sir Mortimer Carnaby.
Finding Sir Mortimer, whom ne alo
not know at the time. leerlng over Ine
form of Lady Cleone Meredith apparent
ly unconscious as a result OF IAN IRON ON
a horse. young Barty KNOCKS OUT 'ne
The trip to London is resumed with
young Bellasis as a companion; BeveTiey
tests his companion in battle OF nSts
after the lie had been passed over In Lne
ability of the prize fighters son. Inc
conibatants remain friends.
Both love Lady Cleone. BeIlaSls quits
the trip to press his courtship. BarnabaS,
however decides to continue on to Lon
don. He engages Peterby, former poacn-
err as valet. Encountering Chichester.
rogue, who is annoying Clemency, an
inn maid Barnabas bluffs him to escape
a pistol duel Meeting Lady Cleone
again Barnabas declares his love for her
and promises that on his arrival in Lon
don he will seek to aid her brother, VINO
is under the influence OF Chichester.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
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DUT, bless you, Mottle-face, hav'
- ing viewed it all under the
slant of his hat-brim, merely settles
his notified chin deeper in hls
shawls, flicks the off ear of the
near leader with a delicate turn OF
the wrists, and turning his owl-like
eye upon Barnabas, remarks that
"It'S a very fine night" But here
upon the fussy gentleman, leaning
over taps Mottleface upon the
shoulder.
"Coachman," says he, pray, when
do you expect to reach The Borough
London?"
"Vich I begs to remark, sir" re-
torts Mottle-face, settling his curly
brimmed hat little further over his
left eye, "vich I 'umbly begs to re-
mark as I don't expect nohow!"
"Eh-what! what! you don't ex-
pect to-"
"Vich I am yum, sir, as don't
novise expect nothin', consequent am
never novise disappointed" says Mot
tle-face with a solemn nod; "but
Wind an weather. permittin', We shall
be at the George O. South'ark at
five, or Whereabouts!
Hal" says the fuSsy gentleman,
land what about my valise? is it
safe?"
Safe, ali! safe as the Bank O.
England, unless We should 'appen to
be stopped
stopped? stopped, coachman?
d. you mean-?"
"Ah! stopped by Blue-chinned
Jack O. Brockley, or Gallopin' Toby
O. Tottenham, Or
"Eh-whatl what! d'you mean
there are highwaymen on this
road?"
"'Ighvaymen!" snorted Mottle-
face, winking ponderously at Bar
nabas, "by Coles, I should say so, it
fair bristles With 'em."
God bless my SOUL" exclaimed
the fussy gentleman in an altered
tone, "but you are armed, of
course?"
'Armed?" repeated Mottle-face
more oWl-like of eye than ever,
armed, sir, Lord love me yes! my
x=zrd carries a brace o. bsrkers in
the boot"
I'm glad of that" said the fussy
gentler IN, "very!"
Through" pursued Mottleface,
rolling rs head heavily, Joe amt
'zactly what you might call a dead
shot, nor ut a expert, bein' blind
in is off bliaker, dye see?"
"Eh-blind, dye say-blind? Eek
claimed the fussy gentleman.
"Only in is off eye" nodded
Mottle-face, reassuringly, "t'other 'un
S as good as yours or mine, ven e
amt got cold in it,"
= =
"DUT this-this is an outraged
- spluttered the fussy gentleman
"a guard blind in one eye! Scan
daIous! I shall write to the papers
of this. But you-surely you carry
a weapon too?"
GA vepping? Ay, to be sure, sir
I've got a blunderbush, under ERE