Evening star., 1954-10-09
Lamb Counsel Plans
More Questions for
Woman Witness
By the Associated Press


caster Edward Lamb today pre-
pared more questions for a
Government woman witness they
have attacked as a publicity
seeking liar, a bigamist and an
embezzler.
A Lamb attorney. Russell
Morton Brown, also has asked
the witness, Mrs. Marie Natvig.
if she had been expelled from
a Cleveland teachers union for
running around in a hotel with
just your panties on"
Mrs. Natvig. so, now of Miami
Beach, Fla, has denied ever
breaking the law. She has in
sisted the publicity from her
testimony at a Federal Com
munications Commission in
quiry into Mr.. Lambs back
ground is hurting me terribly"
and that she has testified
"truthfully."
Denies Expulsion.
In answer to the question
about her alleged expulsion
from a teachers union in 1896,
she replied: "No sir. That is
a vicious untruth."
Mr.. Brown told Examiner
Herbert Sharfman he had good
foundation for asking the ques-
ton,
In his question, he asked
whether the alleged incident took
place in a Columbus (Ohio) ho-
tel during a teachers convention.
The commissions inquiry into
allegations that Mr.. Lamb once
associated with Communists
denied repeatedly by Mr.. Lamb
was in recess today until Mon
day, when it will resume with
Mrs. Natvig under cross-exami-
nation for the fourth day.
Seeks License Renewal.
Mr.. Lamb. publisher of the
Erie (Pa.) Dispatch and owner
of radio and television stations
in Ohio, Florida and Pennsyl-
vania, is seeking to renew the
license of his television station
at Erie, WICU.
Mrs. Natvig has testified,
among other things, that:
l. She was Mr.. Lambs "hotel
guest" during Communist con-
ference in Columbus in 1886 and
called it her first act of in
fidelity" Mr.. Brown contends
she said that only to damage"
Mr.. Lamb.
2. She was approached two
weeks ago in cocktail bar, the
Pink Elephant" in the Harring-
ton Hotel, by a stranger calling
himself a Lamb representative,
who later offered her $4,000 to
change her testimony or not
testify. Mr.. Brown says he
thinks she 'just made it (the
story up out of her own mind"
Gives His Name.
The strangers name, Mrs.
Natvig said, was Milling Under
wood. She said he described
himself as an ex-prize fighter
and offered to let her "feel his
muscles"
MI. Brown said, There is no
Milling Underwood in all this
world" Commission attorneys
said an Underwood was reg
istered at the Stratford Hotel
but had checked out.
Mr.. Brown also accused Mrs.
Natvig of a bald pathological
lie" after she testified yesterday
she got a divorce from her sec
ond husband in Maryland but
was not a resident of the State.
That, he said, is legally i'm
possible and her third marriage
thus made her a bigamist.
Admitted Fine.
Mrs. Natvig insisted she re-
ceived a divorce decree in the
mail and that she probably has
it IN her personal effects"
She conceded she was fined in
Florida on what Mr.. Brown de-
Scrlbed aS an embezZlement
charge. She said she was inno-
cent.
Once, after Mrs. Natvig re-
ferred to "Comrade Lamb" Mr..
Brown jumped to his feet and
denounced commission attorneys
for putting Mrs. Natvig on the
stand ito slander a fine man and
his family"
Mr.. Brown said it was a dis
grace to bring her in at Govern
ment expense Just to get pub
licity in the newspapers"