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...nattily-dressed railroad electrician named Roy O. Widener, 35, was tried in Sacramento, Calif. fortnight ago for flourishing a gun at his landlady and robbing her of $60. While Superior Judge Dal M. Lemmon was instructing the jury, Widener was seized with a coughing fit, left the room to recover, accompanied by two bailiffs. Back in his courtroom chair, Widener heard the finish of Judge Lemmon's jury charge, later heard the jury find him guilty of first-degree robbery and burglary...
Last week Lawyer Brannely learned of the incident, moved for a new trial on the basis of an 1855 California ruling in the case of People v. Kohler that "the prisoner, in case of a felony, must be present during the whole of his trial." Judge Lemmon ruled that this prisoner had been absent only momentarily and the law cited was not applicable. Then he sentenced Roy Widener to an indeterminate term of five years to life in San Quentin Prison...
...LEMMON...
...short-wave bands open to present day receivers are relatively narrow, and largely assigned to commercial operators. President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College described the only U. S. short-wave station that is non-commercial and non-profit-making, Boston's WIXAL. Founded by Engineer Walter S. Lemmon, who shyly refused last week to make a speech, WIXAL since 1934 has broadcast lectures and lessons by Harvard, Radcliffe and Boston university professors, as well as chamber music and the complete public program of this year's Harvard Tercentenary. Stocky, blond Engineer Lemmon, who was wireless operator...
Since Engineer Lemmon foots all the bills for WIXAL himself, his station is not likely to set a precedent. Educators have to depend almost entirely on commercial radio. Radio education flourishes on the so-called "sustaining programs," which station owners run on free time either to fill in the broadcasting day or in the hope that they may catch the ear of some advertiser. National Broadcasting Co. last year devoted 4,095 hours, most of them sustaining, to "educational purposes" and this year expects to contribute 4.360 hours, 44% of the network's total broadcasting time. Sample NBC programs...