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The Washington times., 1939-01-20
"Mystery Woman Identified
Heiress Called in Musica Fraud

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-The mys-
terry woman of the McKesson and
Robbins investigation was today
identified here as Charlotte "Chot-
tie" Milburn Pickering CHEESE
borough, Connecticut heiress. as
q subpoena was issued for her ap-
pearance for questioning at the
office of the U. S. attorney.
Marked forthwith and return
able" Saturday, the order was ad-
dressed to the home Of the happy
go-lucky heiress' mother, Mrs.
Anne Peabody, of Madison, Conn.
All of the 400 set here were
rocked several days ago when it
became known that Federal 1nves-
tigatorS would soon question a
prominent society woman concern
ing the financial collapse OF the
house built by Philip Muslca,
masqueraded as "F. Donald Cos
ter" MuSica killed himself.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
GIVES UP
Drops $4,000 Sui
AGAINST Ford

DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 20 Q.N.S).
One of the largest civil suits
ever filed in Federal court in Dal-
las today was removed from the
docket at the request of the plain
tiff, who had asked $37, 500, 900
from the Ford Motor Company.
The suit was filed by the Gasi-
fer M n u featuring Company
which alleged the Ford Company
infringed on a gaS-Saving patent
held by the former.
The device in question was said
to have been invented by Maurice
o. Smith, formerly of Dallas, now
a resident of St. Louis.
Plaintiffs Attorney Robert M
Vaughan said it probably would
be refiled 'in a more favorable
cline"
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Wife Slayer
Hanged

MONTREAL, Quebec, Jan.
20 H.N.SD.-HiS perfect
crime" a failure because he
neglected to take the weather
into account, Louis Viau, "A,
died on the gallOws of BOr-
deaux Jail today for the
hammer Staying of his wife
Is months ago.
Viau was convicted of kill
ing his wife with a hammer
and tossing her body into a
city street from his car. The
State charged that he hoped
the death would be attributed
to a hit-and-run driver. And
so it might, had not a keen
eyed policeman noted the cir
cumstance which upset the
perfect crime"
That circumstance was the
fact that it had been raining
and the street was wet-but
the sOles of the dead wOman'S
shoes were dry. The dis
cOvery precipitated an in
vestigatiOn which led to
Viau's arrest and conviction.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Broadcast Permit
Renewal Souqhi

With little more than a month
remaining before its current per-
NIT expires, the National Broad
casting Company yesterday asked
the F.. C. C. to renew its permit
for continued transmission of re-
corded programs by wire to Cana
dian broadcast stations for the pc
riod, March / to September 80.
Under it's present permit, N. B. c..
is allowed to transmit recorded
programs by wire to all stations H.
censed by the Canadian govern
ment and which may be consist
emily heard in the United States.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
81 ASSESSED
ON MOTORISTS

District motorists receiving ap-
plications for 1889 tags will find
"a notation calling for payment
of 81 for inspection of their cars.
Assistant Traffic Director M. o.
Eldridge explained today that this
assessment is for inspection OF
cars prior to the issuance Of 1910
liceSes.
Again, he pointed out for the
benefit of the confused motorists,
inspection of cars is not necessary
to obtain 1889 plates.
Tags for 1899 will be issued
starting Monday and must be on
all District cars by March l.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

lights until the Manuel Del Campo
end of next summer, adding that
announcement of the anticipated
event should silence stories OF
marital rift.
Miss Astor is the mother Of a
daughter, Marilyn, partial custody
of whom was given her after a
court battle with DR.. Franklyn
Thorpe, Miss Astor's second hus.
band, who won an uncontested
divorce from her in 1885.
A year later, Thorpe sought
custody of the child in proceedings
which brought into court Miss
Astor's famous purple diary and
introduced the name OF Play
wright George S. Kaufman, whom
Thorpe charged with breaking up
his home"
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
u. 5. Distributing
Elects J. P. Routh

NEW YORK. Jan. 20 G.N.S0.
j. P. Routh has been elected
president and chairman of the
board of United States Distribut-
ing Corporation, it was announced
today. U. s. Distributing is af-
siliated with the PittSton Com
pany, holding company in the
Allegheny Corporation, rail sys-
tenn
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
'JALOPY RACE
HAS miami ALL
STEAMED UP
1896 and 1900 Models
In Test of Century

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 20 0NSO.
It's going to be literally the race
of the centurieS-the nineteenth
and the twentieth-in Miami
this afternoon when two Of the
oldest running jalopies in the
country clatter down broad Bis
cayne Boulevard in a mad dash
at is or 20 miles an hour to deter
mine which is the better car.
Both motorists were in high
spirits as the day for the big
event dawned. DR.. George w.
Young, Minneapolis business man,
who spends his winters in Miami,
was confident that his one-lunger.
built in 1895, would win because
it has the quicker getaway.
IT'S HARD TO START
On the other hand, Bill Pierce.
Belle Glade mechanic, will rely
upon the greater speed Of his two
cylinder 1900 blackboard speedster
once he gets it started. Pierce
claims his entry has a cruising
speed of 20 miles and a top speed
of 35, while DR.. Young admits the
best his more ancient vehicle will
do is about IS miles an hour.
In a trial spin yesterday, with
the wind at his back and a motor
cycle officer clocking his speed.
DR.. Young was able to get his
thunderbolt up to a bare Is miles
an hour after a running start of
four blocks.
With the busy boulevard blocked
to all traffic-upon orders of the
city government-the two buggies
will go to the post about 4 p. M,
EST, and-if all goes well-the
race will get under way immedi-
ately.
GIFT FROM UNCLE
Pierce inherited his car from
an uncle in Detroit, Albert D.
Pierce, in 1907. 1t is a 15-horse-
power model and is really val
liable vehicle to him for he uses
it to make his rounds every Sat
urday, collecting bills.
With DR.. Young, his relic Of the
past is just that. It is one of his
hobbies. He acquired the vehicle
"a duplicate of which rests in the
Smithsonian InStitution-22 or %
years ago and has been tinkering
with it ever since. It boasts a
three and one-half horsepower
motor.
BANKS ON 13 TOO
In addition to relying on his
fast getaway to help him win the
race, DR.. Young believes that the
number 13 license plate which was
issued to him for the thirteenth
time at Thirteenth Avenue In
Minneapolis will have something
to do with his success.
| Both entries were declared to
be in the pink Of condition, but
Miami's traffic squad was on edge
as the hour for the race neared.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
AII-AmeriCa Cables
Elects Frank PheIan

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 GN.SO.
Frank w. Phelan. formerly execu
tive vice president, has been electeC
president of the All.America Gables
and Radio, Inc, subsidiary Of In
lterantional Telephone and Tele-
graph Corporation. He succeeds
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Plan Tax Forum

Proposed legislation that would
increase the tax burden of resi-
dents of the District of Columbia
will be discussed at length during
. meeting of the MIDI City Citizens
Association at the Thomson Com
munity Center. Twelfth and L
Streets Northwest, next Monday
at 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Rep. May to Talk

Representative Andrew j. May
chairman of the Military Affairs
Committee, will be the guest
speaker at a luncheon meeting
of the Washington Society O.
American Military Engineers a.
the Army and Navy Club Janu
ary 80, at 1890 p. m.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Wife Shuns Baby Slayer

CHICAGO Jan. 20 HNS-Peadng guilty to mansIaughter
father who slapped his baby to death today began
serving a to 14year prison term.
The Robert KOCH a. who confessed to police that
child its crying nterfred
with his hearing a radio program.
The judge asked If KOch 22yearOld wife, Marcia intended
to forgive him.
prosecutor
Il don't blame her." said the judge
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Dr.. Etter on Air

DR.. Philip Etter, President Of
Switzerland, will speak on the
Salute of Nations" radio broad
cast next Sunday at 1880 p. NJ,
when the program will be devoted
to Switzerland, the Legation of
Switzerland announced today.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

Relief Investigator Burdette G
Lewis resumed his criticism of tht
local relief setup today with ths
warning costs may increase tt
SIS, 100000 year if current ad
ministrative practices go uncor
rected. He declared.
IF the present lack of coordi-
nation and if the present inef-
fective administrations are to
continue not only in the public
assistance division and the Board
of Public Welfare, but also in
other branches Of government,
then there is little hope, of the
District avoiding &n increase Of
cost which may reach the fam
tastic figure of $4,000, 900 in
addition to present costs in
boom time in Washington"
OFFERS SOLUTION
On the other hand, Lewis re
assured, if the consolidated De
partment Of Employment and
Social Security which he has pro
posed can be established gradually
and initiated at once" relatively
lower costs of the relief system
could be realized.
First on the list Of today's re
concentrations by Lewis was an
increase to $1,877, ,761 in the 1910
appropriation for relief including
old age assistance and care for
children anu needy blind. The
1899 appropriation is 81 ,696, ESQ.
To meet the immediate needs
of unemployableS or workers
accepted but unassigned by the
District WPA who totaled 7,038 in
October when the study was
made. Lewis recommended ST.,
SIG, ,596 to be expended over a four
or five month period.
u. s. SHARE FIXED
OF this amount, Lewis said. the
Federal Cover. ment should
shoulder so per cent, or $945, 1858,
and the District 40 per cent, OF
$3.50, ,639.
It would include direct relief
for four months to 1924 occupa-
tionally unfit at $25 a month and
for five months to 900 employ
able at $25 a month; $40 month
increases for a year to 1900 per-
sons on Public Assistance Division
rolls, and payments Of $3.50 a
year to 557 practically unemploy-
able and older" women.
Also included would be $629 SOC
for additional case workers and
other administrative employees and
$308, CAT to finance the Lewis pro-
gram for rehabilitation an d
training camps.
EXPLAINS VIEWS
The investigator explained:
THE fact that If stitch-in-
time is taken to save nine that
an additional sum of money
must be expended should not act
as a deterrent. This is the ninth
year of the depression and it is
time to stop handling the re-
lief problem as a series Of cruel
emergencies and to begin to deal
with it as we have tried to urge
throughout this report. namely,
as a situation calling for a long
range plan of action to meet a
serious situation and to prevent
it from becoming chronic"
Lewis asserted failure to deal
with the whole relief and unem
ployment situation is likely tc
mean a work program for the un
| fit or unaccepted.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

paCtle Tor Che
custody of her
child two years
ago. is to be
cast in the role
Of motherhood
Ggain in July,
she revealed to-
day.
In priva t e
life ow the
wife of Manuel
Del c a m p o,
Miss Astor said
she will desert
the C a m e r a s
and the klieg
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
LEWIS RENEWS
DRIVE ON LOCAL
RELIEF SYSTEM
Says Cost May Reach
$5,OOO,OOO Yearly

As an emergency stOp-gap,
the Commissioners made avail
able today $4,000 Of unex-
pended FERA balances to miti-
gate against payless furlOughs
for Public Assistance Division
workers, and earmarked $4,000
to employ six new investigators.
This action followed request
of Public Welfare Director Ell.
wood Street for funds to enable
investigation Of more than 900
applications filed by District
WPA workers severed from the
pay roll January 1.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Film Star Expects
Bundle Of Joy.
Next July

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 20.-Mary
Astor, beautiful film star and
central figure in a sensational
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Mrs. Roosevelt Saws
She Does Not Try 10
Name Appointees
Denies Suggesting
AmIie, AIdrich
And Miss WinsIow

Mrs. Roosevelt has never tried to
influence her husbands appoint
ments, she told her press conference
today.
She denied reports published in
New York paper that she had rec
commended Thomas Amlie and j.
Haden Aldrich. both appointees to
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. and Miss Mary Winslow, re-
cent presidential appointee to rep
resent the United States on
the nter-American Commission of
Women.
Addressing herslef to the reporter
VINO had written the story, she said
she wished the reporter had asked
her some of the things stated as
facts in the story.
She said it had been her custom
never to propose anybody for any,
thing. She passed along peoples
names if they were suggested, but
without recommendations
Il have never suggested anybody
for any Office she declared Il
have never initiated anybody's ap-
pointment"
She said she didn't even know Mr..
Amlie or Mr.. Aldrich.
She was very anxious, she said
to clear up the situation with regard
to Miss WinsloW and Miss Doris
Stevens. who for 10 years was chair
man of the commission, but accord
ing to the State Department Is not
an official member of the COM
mission.
She said she didn't know Miss
Stevens very we'll and had known
Miss Winslow slightly" for a num-
Der OF years. But she did not pro-
pose Miss Winslow's name. she
asserted. adding it was not in her
province to do so.
The fact that Miss Winslow had
been appointed was not known to
her, she said. until some one asked
her who had been appointed. She
said she had had to ask who was
suggested by the State Department
and who was named.
The controversy over the Winslow
appointment was the basis of the
New York newspaper story.
Evening star., 1939-02-27

company had acted in bad faith in
offering to re-employ some sit-down
strikers but refusing to re-employ
others, but the court held that in so
doing "it was simply exercising its
rights"
The court said that the order of
the board ordering the dissolution
of the Rare Metal Workers should
be upheld, declaring that whether
this organization or any other lis
the choice of the majority of the
employees in the proper unit can be
determined by proceedings open to
the board" In this same connec-
ton, the court said that in view
Of the change in situation at the
plant growing out of the strike that
no basis seen for the boards con-
clusion that after the resumption of
work the Amalgamated continued to
be the bargaining unit.
The Supreme Court modified the
Circuit Court of Appeals findings
in conformity with it's own decision.
Two SetDackS Tor Board.
The National Labor Relat tions
Board received the other two re-
verses in the court when decisions
of lower courts were upheld, voiding
rulings by the board.
One case involved the Columbian
Enameling and Stamping Co. Of
Terre Haute, and the other the
Sands Manufacturing Co. of Cleve-
land. The latter is a heater firm.
In the Columbia case the court
upheld contention by the Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals that the
employees had struck before the en-
actment of the National Labor Re-
lations Act in violation of a contract
not to strike and that therefore
Evening star., 1939-02-27

and that finally that the board was
entitled to order unemployment to
"effectuate the policies" of the act.
For the unfair labor practices the
act provided remedy. the court
said, as interference in the summer
and fall of 1886 with the right of
self reorganization could have been
the subject of complaint to the
board.
premium on Force"
But. reprehensible as was that
conduct of the respondent, the
court said, there is no conduct for
saying that it made respondent
an outlaw or deprived it of its legal
rights to the possession or protection
of its property. The employees had
the right to strike, but they had
no right to commit acts of violence
or to seize their employers plant.
We may put on one side the con-
tested question as to the circum-
stances or extent of injury to the
plant and its contents in the effort
of the men to resist eviction.
The seizure and holding of the
buildings was itself wrong apart
from any acts of sabotage. But in
its legal aspects. the Ousting of the
owner from lawful possession is not
essentially different from an assault
upon the officers of an employing
company. or the seizure and con-
version of its goods or the despoil-
ing of it's property or other unlaw-
full acts in order to force compliance
with demands. To justify such
conduct because of the existence of
a labor dispute or of an unfair labor
practice would be to put premium
on resort to force instead of legal
remedies and to subvert the prin-
ciples of law and order which lie
at the foundation of society.
No Excuse for Seizure.
LAS respondents unfair labor
practices afforded no excuse for the
seizure and holding of its buildings"
the court continued. respondent
FansteeD had its normal right of
redress. Those rights in their most
obvious scope included the right to
discharge the wrong-doers from its
employ. To say that respondent
could resort to the State court to
recover damages or to procure pun
ishment, but was poWerless to dis
charge those responsible for the
seizure. would be to create an
anomalous distinction for which
theIr is no warrant unless it can be
found in the terms of the National
Labor Relations Act"
The court then argued that this
was not the case
The board had contended that the
Evening star., 1939-02-27

they were not entitled to protection
OF their status as employees.
Justice Stone delivered the opinion
of the court in this case and Justice
Black dissented.
Justice Frankfurter took no part.
In the Sands case, Justice Roberts
delivered the opinion of the court
and Justice Reed and Justice Black
again dissented.
Circuit Court Rejected Order.
In this case, the Labor Board had
held that the company had refused
to bargain collectively with its en-
ployes; had Disseminated in regard
to hire and tenure of employment
and had discouraged membership in
the labor organization; and had in
terfered with the right of employees
to organize.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Ap-
peals also had rejected the board S
claim in this case.
In the Columbian case the Gov
ernment had contended that any
person who has ceased work in con-
nectlon with a current labor dis
pute or because of unfair labor prac-
tices shall remain an employe for
purposes of the act.
DlsSents were not only noted in
the Sands ease but in the Colum-
bian case Justice Black wrote his
dissent in which Justice Reed joined.
Justice Black contended that if the
contract was broken 'it was the
company and not the union that
broke it,"
The Columbian made a contract
July IA, 1884. with the enameling
and stamping mill employees union
that was to run year. On March
%, 1885, the union. charging that
the contract had been preached be-
cause the company refused to arbi-
trate certain matters. called a strike
and $50 went out. The strike was
still in progress when the National
Labor Relations Act went into effect
On July % the Labor Depart
ment got an agreement with Co.
lumbar official to meet the union,
but few days later the official re-
fused to carry out the agreement.
BY the middle of September the full
force was employed. included 2l5
strikers. Later in September and
again in October the union asked
for meeting to settle the strike,
but the company did not reply. At
a labor board hearing it was held
that the Columbians refusal to bar
gain after the request in July was
unfair.
The board ordered the reinstate-
ment of the strikers and that they
be paid for lost time.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Ap-
peals. however. refused the applica-
ton of the board to enforce the Or
der. holding that the strike
preached the agreement and thereby
severed employe relations and that
all company obligations to bargain
with the union were ended.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Nodejdo Krupskoyo, Widow
Of Lenin, Dies at Age of 20
Took Large Part in
Soviet Following
Husbands Death
Ey the Associated Press,


MOSCOW. Feb. 27. - Nadejda
Konstantinova Krupskaya, widow
of Nikolai Lenin and a leading
revolutionist in her own right, died
today.
The woman, who fought beside
the father of the Soviet Union un-
til his death in 1924, had just cele-
brated her 10th birthday.
Messages congratulating her on
the anniversary Saturday had ar
rived from all parts of the country,
and an exhibition honoring her as
"outstanding in the sphere of edu-
cation" had opened in Moscow.
She had been member of the
Peoples Commissariat for Educa-
ton. founded the Bureau of Po-
litical Training, and took part in
the movement that started wom-
ems pioneer organizations.
On January l8, 1888, she was
named member of the Presidium.
the government organization which
acts as an executive and directive
body between sessions of the su-
preme council of the union-The
Soviet Parliament
The Central Committee of the
Communist party and the Council
of Peoples Commissars had ad-
dressed birthday message to Nine.
Krupskaya, greeting her as an "Old
Bolshevik and Lenin's friend"
Nadejda lKonsIantinova Krups-
kaya was no whit less revolutionist
than her late husband, the father of
the Soviet Union. She spent her
adult life battling for the overthrow
of the czarist system, and. that ac-
complished. for the emancipation of
women and the wiping out of litter
acy in her country.
A fighter by her husbands side
throughout imperial oppression and
the dark days of 1917-192O revolution
and civil wars, she carried on after
her husbands death on January 81,
1924, as RussiaS most militant FEM
mist. She was an energetic speaker
and prolific writer.
Like other women in Russia, she
appeared in public. either personally
or by print. under her own name.
A childless, lonely but still vigorous
old woman, she passed her declining
years in the apartments within the
Kremlin where the high officials of
the Soviet government resided, be-
loved by the masses and known to
them as grandmother of Russia"
She was born in St. Petersburg in
1869. Her father was an army off,
Evening star., 1939-02-27

Ger of noble birth, but he was pow
erty-stricken and her mother had
to become governess to help sup
port her children. The parents were
revolutionary in their ideas and
Nadejda inherited her radical zeal.
Her father died when she was IA
and she became tutor in order to
assist her mother. But she managed
to get through the newly-established
women's college and was graduated
with honors.
From 1891 to 1896 she taught
workers in Sunday schools. Early
attracted by the doctrines of Tolstoy,
she also studied Marxism through
these years, became active in the
secret revolutionary circles of the
czarist capital and met Lenin.
Sentenced to Exile.
In 1896 she took an active part in
a workers strike and was sentenced
to three years of exile in Shushinsk,
village in the Minusinek district
OF Siberia. Lenin also was in Siberia
and they were granted permission to
spend their exile in the same town
provided they would marry. They
were registered as man and wife in
1898.
The third year of her exile was
spent in Ola. Then she got an exit
passport and went to Munich, where
she became secretary of a publish
ing office. Joined there by Lenin,
they became members of the foreign
league of Russian Social Democrats,
publishing Marxist paper and
working for a centralized under
ground organization to overthrow
czarism. Eventually this centraliza-
ton idea led to the historic 1903
split of the Social Democrats into
Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, with
Lenin at the head of the latter and
destined to become founder of the
U. S. S. r.