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The Washington times., 1937-12-09
Weir CALLS U. S.
SNAG TO LABOR,
CAPITAL PEACE
IndustriaIist Cites Laws
As stumbling Blocks
BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN

BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN
NEW YORK, Dec. QN.S0.
Business leaders of the country
we're told today by Ernest T. Weir,
board chairman Of National Steel
Corporation, that labor and in.
dustry could get along together"
If it were not for the stumbling
blocks" of Federal laws.
"The activity of the Federal
Government in labor matters Is
an element not previously pres
ent in our industrial picture"
he said. att has created an en-,
tirely different aspect to the re-
lation Of capital and labor and
is one of the biggest stumbling
blocks to a rational get-together."
PRESIDENT CHALLENGED
Weir spoke before the Congress
of American Industry at the an.
nual convention of the National
Association Of M ufacturers
which is being attended by 2,o0a
delegates.
The convention adopted a 1888
platform challenging the Roose-
welt Administration to aid indus
try by demanding that the Fed.
eral Government remove what 1t
called the stop signals" now OBJ
structing business.
Bluntly, Weir, who has success.
fully resisted CIO unionization Of
the Weirton Steel Company, which
his corporation controls, asserted
that the present apparent schisn
between capital and labor is a
threat to democracy and an OBJ
Struction to business activity.
"If corporations are to he
expected to deal with labor
unions" said Weir, then the
unions should be required to
make themselves as responsible
as the corporations"
WOULD CURB STRIKES
He declared it should be illegal
for unions to call a strike without
first taking a vote of employees,
or transport pickets from other
plants and industries, or employ
violence in strikes.
'"The Interpretation of the
law" he contended, should not
be left to administrative agen-
cieS-it should be included in
the regular business Of our
| courts"
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the Staying Of Miss De Koven,
came as a complete surprise.
He had been suspected in con-
nection with the disappearance
Of renting agent named LIE Sobre
in st. Cloud on November 27. The
man was killed while showing a
villa to a prospective client.
Inspectors Poignant and Bour-
quin. attached to the Versailles
police, lay in wait for Weidmann
and encountered him at st. Cloud
yesterday. They were posing as
tax inspectors.
In the course of his long and
rambling confession, Weidmann
was said to have admitted killing
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preached and offered his services
to the two women on a projected
tour to the south Of France.
Miss Sackheim and Miss De
Koven were impressed by the
strangers charm" and made an
engagement with him. If Weld
mann's story is substantiated, he
is expected to be shown to have
been the stranger Of that fateful
day.
Several of Miss De Koven's
checks, with her signature forged,
turned up after her disappear,
ance.
Weidmann's confession Of mass
murder, anA particularly that Of
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
Spain Refugees
Jailed at Hague

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands,
Dec. 9.-Fifty-three Spanish insur-
gent refugees, enjoying full free
dom in the Netherlands, were
arrested and interned in a fortress
near Utrecht because is of their
companions crossed the frontier,
thus breaking their promises not
to leave the country until the end
of the civil war in Spain. Gen.
Francisco Franco has been in
formed that the refugees will not
be released until the others return.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
BanOting Trip
OF 100 Miles Ends

JACKSONVILLE, Ore, Dec. 9
O.N.S0.-California residents liv-
ing in the Applegate section near
the Oregon line no longer are
faced with a 100-mile trip to the
polls when they wish to vote.
A new voting place has been
created near Joe Bar. making
the trip to the polls only a matter
Of q few miles for approximately
20 residents who formerly were
forced to make the 10O-mile trip
to Oak Bar, Cal.
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U.S.. Dancer Found Slain
In Paris By 'Bluebeard'
CONTINUED from Page u

the crumpled body Of the girl I'M
covered. Then the newspaper
men staged q wild rush for the
nearest telephones to flash to New
York news of the first kidnap-
murder of its kind in recent
history.
There is no record of any other
American visitor to France having
met with such a fate.
The girls body, together with
personal effects such as the
camera and change.purse found
beside it, was placed in a tempo
rary coffin and taken to Yer.
sailles for examination.
In the course of the search at
the villa, police found an over.
coat belonging to Roger Le Blond,
one Of Weidmann's asserted vic.
tins. The very suspenders the
murderer was wearing were said
to have been identified as lie
Blond's property.
HINT NEW ARREST
Police meanwhile hinted at an
other arrest shortly although
Weidmann, a native Of Frank.
fort-on-Main, insisted, in a tor.
rent Of self-accusation, that he
himself had committed all five
murders.
While he said he held Miss De
Koven in his st. Cloud villa over
night, he was quoted as stating:
II killed her only for money.
I killed them all for money.
There never were any other
reasons"
DANCER RAPED BY 2
Despite his proteStationS Of
murder for profit Only, police
issued a statement declaring Weld
man had raped Miss de Koven
while holding her overnight and
also permitted an unidentif' d
friend wLo was with him to do
so.
When Miss De Koven disap-
peared from the pension where she
had been staying with her aunt,
Miss Ida Sackhetm Of New York,
she had with her $500 in travellers
checks.
The aunt previously told police
that when the checks were obtained
at the offices Of the American
Express Company, a mysterious
blond German stranger ap-
1
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Tor their money"

! four other men for profit. Police
were Immediately sent to dig VI
the garden of his villa La Voulzit
| at st. Cloud.
1t was here that he said he
buried the body Of the missing
dancer.
He said that when he took Miss
De Koven to his villa, another
man, whose name police withheld
was there also.
1--WE held her there over
night he was quoted as saying,
"and the next morning I drank
milk with her.
"Then strangled her with
my hands. I wanted that
money"
When they questioned him.
Weidmann reached into his
pocket presumably for his wallet,
but drew a pistol and fired point
blank five times.
TWO POLICE WOUNDED
Both inspectors were wounded
but Bourquin, a huge man, crap
pied with the prisoner and
Poignant knocked him out with q
hammer. Both policemen were un
armed at the time of the arrest.
In a search of Weidmann's villa
and its grounds, police found two
stolen cars, believed to have be
longed to his victims, as well as
keys and a cigarette lighter be-
longing to LIE Sobre.
In addition to the latter, Weld.
mann's victims were said to have
been Rogert LIE Blond, whose body
recently was found wrapped in a
sheet of olivet, a chauffeur named
Ciuffy, and a fourth man named
Arthur Frommer.
EXPECT NEW ARREST
Police intimated a second arrest
might be announced shortly. They
said Weidmann was once a po
litical prisoner at Saarbrucken
and fled from Nazi Germany ir
March to escape military service
When the young dancers dis
appearance in Paris was first re
vealed by International News
Service last August. authorize:
were inclined to believe she hac
been kidnapped.
The girl sailed from New York
for Paris last July IA. Her parents
live in Brooklyn, N. Y.
PARIS, Dec. 8 QN.SO.-Founc
badly battered in front of he
hotel, Dorothy Bourek, 23-year-o ole
former Minneapolis radio singer
today was believed the victim o.
a street accident.
Etienne Ekyan, chemical engi
neer, told police he found tht
American artist injured in thu
street early yesterday and tool
her home.
Later the girl, a student at thl
Sorbonne, was discovered uncon
scious in her room, with q bleeding
head and badly bruised body.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
.AR-CONDITION
OPERATION HERE
is CRITICIZED
Officials Find Fault With
Many Plants

Methods Of operation Of air-con-
ditioning plants in the District
were severely criticised today by
city health authorities.
The criticism was based on a
survey of 300 such plants Of the
1000 in operation in Washington.
According to Claude F. Brown
ing, public health engineer of the
District Health Office, only three
operators were found to be ade-
quately trained and equipped to
operate the machinery under their
control.
DRAFT NEW RULES
Drastic rules for future opera
ton Of air conditioning plants are
being prepared by the health au-
thorities with the cooperation Of
those interested in installation Of
the systems.
Mr.. Browning declared:
"The technique Of operating
air conditioning plants has failed
to keep pace with the rate Of in
Stallation."
One proposal under considera-
ton by a committee Of District
officials and those interested in
installation would provide for
licensing Of operators. Another
would be to require prospective
operators to attend a special
school. Another would require
operators to take examinations
prepared by a special board set up
with the cooperation of all inter
eSted.
REVEALS FAULTS
Operation of the air systems Is
generally faulty in both hot and
cold weather, Mr.. Browning said
in revealing the plans for control
Of operators.
He said the minimum standard
of relative humidity at which the
plants should be operated is ap.
proximtely 30 per cent. VERY few
Of the plants kept to this standard,
some showing as low as 10 per
cent, while the average was be.
tween % and Is per cent. The
plants are operated "too hot and
too dry in cold weather." accord.
ing to Browning.
In warm weather the plants are
operated often so as to give tenn,
peratureS which are too low. He
said taht one plant maintained a
Is degree differential from the
mercury reading in the street. In
very hot weather, he said, the
maximum differential should he
10 degrees.
s' MEET TUESDAY
Members of the committee q
which Browning is chairman will
meet next Tuesday to consider
plans for remedying the situation
The committee includes DR.. c.
Dauer, of the Health Office; r. s
Bartlett. Of the Electric Institute:
Reese H. Lucas, Plumbing InSti.
tute; William B. Henderson, Air
Cooling Manufacturers AsSocia-
ton; L. OurousSof, of the Ameri.
can. Society of Heating and Venti-
lating Engineers; Steven L. Gregg,
of the Potomac Electric Power
Company, and Edward Fineran,
of the WaShinpton Gas CnrnnaT1v
Evening star., 1937-02-01
0REXH0RTED
TO CAPTURE j. S.
Norman Thomas Assails
Capitalism in Town
Hall Debate.

IT want the worker to capture the
state!"
Norman Thomas, Socialist candi-
date for President in the last three
campaigns, sounded this call to Amer
lean workers before more than 1900
fashionably dressed men and women
at Town Hall at the Shoreham Hotel
last night.
Thomas was debating Neil Caroth-
ers, dean of the School of Business
Administration Of Lehigh University,
on the topic How to Achieve the
Abundant Life in a session made
brilliant by the sparkling wit and
repartee of the Socialist leader.
He expounded three-point pro-
gram for the abundant life for the
masses, composed of:
1. Social ownership of the means
OF production and distribution, includ-
ing public ownership Of the Nations
resources, to avoid what he termed the
tragic wastes of private ownership.
2. Functional administration of this
ownership by non-partisan organi-
zation representing both producers
and consumers.
8. A national economic planning
board.
Against this proposal for drastic
Evening star., 1937-02-01

. series Of from 6 to 10 lectures
there on Federal Taxation" it was
announced today.
Phillips. who was graduated from
Cornell in 1915, said the lecture
series probably would start In April.
He Is q trustee Of the Cornell Uni
versity Law Association.
Phillips resigned from the Board Of
Tax Appeals in 1881.
Evening star., 1937-02-01

more just economic life. The differ
ence between us Is in method. The
American economic system which Mr..
Thomas would reorganize Is the rich
est, most productive Of all time.
This system Is the best Of all sys-
TENS in human history, and it grows
better, not worse, all the time. The
standard Of living rises relentlessly.
Wages have risen constantly and
hours have been shortened since
George Washington's day, until now
the real wage return Of the worker
Is four times what it was then"
He pointed to his well-groomed au-
dience as an example Of what capi-
talism can accomplish in rs years, and
then cited Spain as an example OF
what fasicsm and communism can do.
He denounced government inter-
ference as a means Of Offering a So
luton for insecurity and poverty. and
stigmatized government ownership of
the means of production as notori-
ously incompetent and uneconomic.
The present system has no visible
limits In production OF Wealtn ana
reduction of poverty" he summarized
at the end of his preliminary declara-
ton.
The half-hour addresses of the de-
baters were followed by Is minutes
Of discussion between them. marked
by spirited dispute over Russia as
a possible model for the United States.
Thomas answered the Lehigh econo-
mistS denunciation of government
ownership with the assertion that
there Is worse graft in business than
in the Government service, and that
when 1t occurs in the latter 1t is the
result of contact with special in
terests.
Carothers maintained during the
debate that there has been no actual
starvation under American capitalism,
even at the lowest DOint Of the de.
Evening star., 1937-02-01

preston, but that starvation has been
widespread in socialist countries.
DR.. John w. Studebaker, commits
sioner Of education, presided in this
diversion from the regular type Of
program presented this season, and
the usual panel was dispensed with,
although a number Of questions were
received from the floor.
Edward Tomlinson will speak Feb
ruary 7 on What Is South America
to Us?"
Evening star., 1937-02-01

reform his opponent proposed to
achieve abundance by the continuance
Of capitalism in its present form with
concerted and continuous effort to
rid it of admitted evils. Among his
suggestions for reform were rigid
regulations Of monopoly, extension
of regulation to prevent unjust en-
richment, reduction of the unearned
income on land, and Government
provision for reasonable employment
for any man unable to get work in
private industry.
The abundant life, Thomas de-
cleared, can be achieved by the
utilization of power driven machinery.
His argument emphasized the un-
equal distribution of wealth between
the workers, inventors and leaders Of
industry on the one hand and the
exploiters, inheritors, manipulators
and spectators on the other, and he
voiced a proposal for taxation Of
wealth on a sliding scale amounting
to appropriation in the upper
brackets.
Capitalism and nationalism, he said
erects barriers between nations and
presses strong nations on to search
for raw materials
There is the threat of the
authoritarian state" he said. IF We
cannot continue the cooperative
commonwealth. The choice for us
lies between the authoritarian state,
perpetuating class divisions, or CO.
operative commonwealth"
Differ on Means to End.
Dr. Carothers offered a stout de-
fense of American capitalism. de-
claring the difference between his and
Thomas theories lies in that "he
would burn the ship to get rid Of the
rats. and I would drive the rats cut
to save the ship"
II share with Norman Thomas
his objective of a fair, easier and
Evening star., 1937-02-01

bacco Association. The Martinsyills
market will close next week.
AT Emporia, Va, the GreensvilIe
County farmers had prospects of a
volunteer" crop Of tobacco.
Growers said the late Autumn had
allowed the seeds to mature and fall
70 the ground. Recent warm weather
and rains have caused the seeds to
sprout,
Evening star., 1937-02-01
DANVILLE MARKET WILL
END SALES FEBRUARY IL

| BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, February 1.-The
Danville fue-cured (bright) tobacco
market will end its sales February II,
! 1t was announced by the Danville To-
Evening star., 1937-02-01
PHILLIPS ACCEPTS BID
CORNELL U, LECTURE
"Federal Taxation" to Be Subject
Of Series to Be Given by
Washington Attorney.

Percy w. Phillips, local attorney and
former member Of the U. S. Board of
Tax Appeals, has accepted an invita-
ton from Cornell University TO deliver
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-06-11

FORT LAMY, French West Africa Earhart and copilot Noonan landed PSF, in a six hour and forty minut the heart of Africa.
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Weather Today GU s. Weather Bureau)

sstly cloudy weathes p evai.' this morning over yves. err ana northern Alaska with saasa fo o5 over the Norton Sound area. Gen orally far skies are the rule we eastern and southern Alaska and interior of western Canada. Rainy and unsettled weather IS rep1.t
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Baseball Scores (By The Associated PreSs)
National League

National League New York 10 Chicago 3 Philadelphia 3 Detroit 1 Washington 3 St. Louis 6 Cincinnati 6 Boston 5 Chicago 9 Brooklyn 3 Pittsburgh 4 Philadelphia 5 St. Louis-New York, (rain)
 American League Philadelphia 3 Detroit i New York 10 Chicago 3 Washington 3 St. Louis 6 Boston-Cleveland (rain)
 Pacific Coast League Los Angeles Missions, (rain) Oakland 5 Sacramento 0 San Diego 3 San Francisco ? Portland 5 Seattle 10
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cd from the Oregon-Washington

cd from the Oregon-Washington Coast.
 r. npeea;u.es are moderate and gar tae saas5 5eal average in Al ss-l azasp, sl;gh ly ebove in the Ina | Valley Section.
 A = e7s.Ve .cW 2rs 'ss"e area coya.s nos. j.. the North Pacific O2aaa.
 The west Nome temperature las. night was 39 above and the highest yesterday 48 above.
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Honest Taxpayer
(By The Associated Press)

TOPEKA, Kansas, June 10th Two $l bills and this unsigned letter were received by City Clerk William Berry. Enclosed please find $2 in payment for breakage of one of the city's street lamps. Such occurred sev- eral years ago from playful tao tics of boy trying his marks manship with rocks and clods and the result was a hit"
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OLYMPIA, Wash, June 11-Gover sued a requisition on Governor Troy of return to Grays Harbor County, Charle now held at Ketchikan, Alaska, who is wa ington state for grand larceny.
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The formal coronation in London will begin the Queen followed by the King enters Westminster Abbey from
 door and chair of recognition Archbishop of Canterbury the kng who the alter the archbishop administers the oath and anon the King The King then where archbishop places St. Edwards his head Bearing seepter the King to throne d.s anontsd and crowned She to make obesance King then seated on the throne and the solid line shows the path the King Queen
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HOLLYWOOD Calif, June 1.-The forty-two day strike of major film and studio craftsmen ended, in Satisfactory agreement" by union painters, makeup artists hair dressers and scenic artists who voted to return to work.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calf, June 11-Dick Powell, actor, taken hurriedly home suffering from severe at tack of intestinal influenza. Physicians said he would be unable to work for weeks.
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 Satisfactory agreement by union painters, makeup artists hair dreSsers and scenic artists who voted to return to work
 GAO, French West Africa June 11-Amelia Earhart started another leg of her round the world flight head ing for Fort Lamy thousand miles distant in the Lake Chad of Grench Equatorial Africa at 1915 Pacific coast time.
 FORT LAMY, French West Africa, June l1-Amelia Earhart and copilot Noonan landed here at 4:55 am, PST., in six hour and forty minutes day flight the heart of Africa.
 OLYMPIA, Wash, June 11-Governor Martin s- sued requisiton Governor Troy of Alaska for the return to Grays Harbor County, Charles J. Mcclure, held at Ketchikan, Alaska who is wanted in Wash ington state for grand larceny
 McALISTER, Oklahoma, June 11-Charlie Sands and Leon Ser executed in the electric chair here for the staying of sheris deputy, J. E. Wilson, May 3l 1885. Siler aged 21, the first to die and smiled as the electrodes adjusted but said nothing Sands who is aged 20 of Kiowa Indiana grited his teeth and great beads of precipitation to his forehead he was being fastened in the electric chair ant Marine and Fisheries Committee reported favor ably the bill intended to protect Alaska Oyster culture which would authorize the Secretary of Commerce to lease the bottoms of Territorial waters for bonafde oyster cultivation for commercial purposes.
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-06-18
L0NGWORTH NEW
VA. SIDE MAYOR
Council Elects Newspaper
Man Successor To The
Late w. II. Speed

Robert l.. Longworth, circu
lation manager Of the Daily
Telegraph, last night was named
mayor Of Bluefield, Virginia,
succeeding the late w II Speed
who died three weeks ago.
G. l.. Weeks, Virginia Side
laundry owner. only recently
was named a member Of council
to succeed Mr. Speed
Mr.. Longworth, senior mem
Der of the body was the unanim
Gus choice for chairman. He
has been a member Of council
for IL years and possesses wide
experience in the municipal af
fairs Of Bluefield. Virginia.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-06-18
GROUP TO MEET
IN CLEVELAND, OHIO.
Sit-DOwn Strikes Threatened
BY Back To Work"
.. To-. Moment

Cleveand, June 1.-THE threat
of a Shutdown strike in the great
steel mills of the Mahoning
Valley, in Ohio developed to-
day as Secretary of Labor Fran
ces Perkins announced the APP
pointment of a three man board
to mediate the long-fought
strike deadlock. :.
The federal board will con-
duct it's fact-finding invsti-
cation in Cleveland, Ohio.
Spokesman for the Republic
Steel Corporation and Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube Co, two OF
the principal independents in
volved in the strike, said they
did not know if the companies
would agree that the mediation
board arbitrate the disputes,
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Grocer News

Mr.. Eward Reed was buried in
the Grocer cemetery last Wed
nesday. His funeral was con
Quoted from Grocer Temle. He
was member of the Ennis
Liberty Baptist Church. He
was % years old. He, leaves an
aged father Mr. Henry Reed and
several brothers and two sisters.
The services were conducted by
Rev. VIM Miller.
Mr.. Jerry Jones died in the
Welch Hospital. Mr.. Jones came
to this section in 1894. He was
well known by both white and
colored
He had been in declining heal
tn for quite a while and had
made his home with his niece
and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Clar
ence Ward Of Grocer. He was
born in Halifax Co, Virginia.
His parents were slaves and
were owned by John Jones. He
is survived by Mr.. Jonah Jones
of Grocer and Mr.. Bevely of
Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Coates
Of 311 Church street of Blue
field, West Virginia visited Mr..
and Mrs. S. Adams of Grocer
last Sunday.
A troup of Boy Scouts of
America was organized by Mr..
J. A Shelton Of WEIGH and Mrs.
5. Adams. Mrs. Adams has
spent time in trying to get this
organization to GO" The Com
mitteemen are: Nicholas Millin
.er, Clarence Ward, Assistant
5. NJ, S, Adams chairman, Rev.
r NJ Harris, Rev II. L.Wade,
Mrs. p. S. Adams, booster
Rev J. w. Henry preached for
Grocer Temple last Sunday. A
special sermon was preached to
the children. Subject, youths
Contribution to today's Need. "
Prof L. II. Prunty presented
promotion certificates to 8 mem
bers Of the Junior class. Those
receiving certificates we're: Ed
ward S. Miller, Henry Thomas
Adams. James Hairston, How
ard Landon Morris, Annie b.
Jones Hattie Rowe, Sara Scott,
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