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The Washington times., 1935-11-09
PEPC0G|RDS
FORF|GHT
INVA.
Bitter War Is Brewing
In Arlington With
Associated Gas

With a downward revision of
electric rates in view, the Public
Utilities Commission today served
notice on the Potomac Electric
Power Company that hearings
win be held In January on pres
ent rates charged by the COM
pany.
simultaneously, it was revealed
that Pepco is girding itself for
q battle with the powerful Asso-
ciated Gas and Electric system
for control Of electric service in
Arlington county, Virginia. Asso-
Ciated recently gained control Of
the Virginia Public Service Com
pany, which until recently sup
piled electricity exclusively in
Arlington county.
There are indications that
clashes between the two utilities
win result in q bitterly fought
electric rate war in the near
future.
Letter to Mcclellan
william Mcclellan, PEP G o
president, today was advised IN .
letter from the p. u. c.:
1.-The commission for some time
has been giving serious conSidera-
tion to the matter Of rate Of re-
turn allowed your company under
the existing sliding scale arrange
ment.
''It has concluded the existing
facts warrant consideration prior
to. or at the time Of, the annual
rate hearing. Timely notice under
the statute as to date Of hearing
will be given"
Date for the annual rate hear
ing is January Is. which means
the commission will go into the
sliding scale either at that hear
ing or one prior to it.
The present sliding scale went
into effect in 1892. Last year the
company's rate base was $66. .07S,.
1872. The scale permitted the COM
pany z per cent return, which
amounted to 5000, 900. Terms OF
the scale provide that when the
rate of return is between z and 8A
per cent, half the profits go toward
rate reduction; from 8A to 8 per
cent, three-fourths goes toward re-
duction, and over 8 per cent, five
sixths are used for reductions.
Last year the reduction figure was
$147,500.
$5,OO0,OOO Yearly Profit
Since the scale has been in
effect that Z per cent rate Of re-
turn has allowed the company to
pocket profits approximating
$1,000, 900 each year and it is
toward a lowering of the rate OF
return allowed the company that
the Cimmission is inclined.
Prior to the present sliding
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Author, Once District
Resident, Succumbs

BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 9.-Mrs.
Henry v. Hubbard, 48, author, lee
turer and landscape architect, died
today at her home in Milton.
She formerly resided in Wash.
ington, D. c., where she was con-
sulting librarian and chief Of the
reference library of the United
States Bureau Of Industrial Hous-
ing and Transportation from 1918
to 1919. She was also an expert
on coming information for Secre-
tary Hoover's advisory committee
on zoning and member Of the COM
mittee on research, Presidents
conference on home building and
home ownership. She is survived
by her husband and a brother,
Fiske Kimball, who is head Of
Pennsylvania Museum Of Fine
Arts in Philadelphia.
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FIRED;
ABANDONED
MACHINE
FOUND
White Man, Victim Of
Brutal Murderers,
Badly Charred

GAITHERSBURG, Md, Nov.
9.-State and county police
were on the trail today Of the
slayer of an unidentified white
man about 35 years old
whose charred and beaten
body was found at the side
Of the road about two miles
from Dawsonville, Md.
The only other clue was an
abandoned sedan bearing
Maryland license No. 337-267,
found three miles from the
body, on the road between
Jacksonville and .Beallsville..
In the car, which police said
was registered in the name OF
Manuel Silva Of DoubS, Frederick
county, Md, bloodstains were
found on the upholstery Of the
back seat.
An enlarged flour sack, cut and
pieced together so as to hold a
mans body, and at the bottom Of
which was blood and some charred
material, was lying On the car
floor. There was q bottle on the
floor containing a few drops Of
gasoline.
Victim Tortured
Police are convinced the man
was tortured, murdered, carried
some distance in the car bound
in the sack, and then his body
burned with q view of eraSing all
traces Of his identity and the man.
ner in which he met his death.
The body was almost unrecog-
nizable when found about 7:2O
a. m. today by Jerome Offutt, Of
Selman, Md, an FERA employe
in washington, and Howard King
of Rockville, who also works in
the District. Police said rigor
mortis had set in, showing the
death had occurred earlier in the
night or late yesterday.
Police said death apparently
was due to the two wounds in the
head. Whether they were the re-
suit of blows or bullet holes could
not be determined on casual ex.
animation because Of the burns
which appeared on all parts Of the
body and head,
May BE Silva
There was some evidence today
leading to the belief that the dead
man was Silva.
Police described the victim as
being about five feet six inches
tall, weighing about 100 pounds
and about IS years old.
A colored woman, who said she
is Mrs. Mary Silva, wife Of the
DoubS man, whom she identified
as q former Spanish sailor, gave
a similar description Of him. She
is q domestic in Chevy Chase.
From one source in Doubs it
was learned that Silva left his
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FIRE MENACES
V|RG|NIAC|TY

HARRIsONBURG Va, Nov. 9.
Fire early today swept the down
town area Of this city, threatened
for many hours to spread to the
residential district and caused
damage estimated by Fire Chief
william willard at $4,000.
The blaze was discovered at
4:45 in the rear of Bargain Place,
a department store in Main Street.
1t spread rapidly to three other
downtown stores and a restaurant.
Volunteer firemen from two
local engine companies fought the
stubborn blaze for three hours be-
fore bringing it under control.
No injuries were reported.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Nov. 0
uN.s0.-Charging mental cruel
ty, Barbara Stanwyck will file
suit for divorce today against
Frank Fay, stage and screen actor,
Charles w. Cradick, attorney for
the actress, announced.
The screen star married Mr..
Fay August 26, 1928, at st. Louis,
Mo-, and separated here last
August 6.
A property settlement has been
made and all financial matters
settled out Of court, Mr.. Cradick
stated.
Miss Stanwyck will retain Gus
tody of the couples adopted son,
allowing Mr.. Fay to visit the
youngster at reasonable times.
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HI DucesS Sons
Dared tODuel
In the Air

LONDON, Nov. 9 U.N.S0-Vic-
torio and Bruno, Premier Musso-
lini's two aviator sons, have been
challenged to a duel in the air,
according to Alden Bazaar gossip
reported by Reuters today.
The reported challengers are
the sons of DR.. Azaj Warqneh
Martin, Ethiopian minister to
London.
The Ethiopian lads are also
fliers, and called upon Mussolini's
boys to fight them in airplanes
with machine guns, said the
rumor.
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HAUPTNANN
MAY GET AID
0FDARR0W
Veteran Lawyer Will
Plead Before High
Court, Is Report

TRENTON. N. J., Nov. 9
GNS0 0.-An old report that an
outstanding attorney" probably
Clarence Darrow, would defend
Bruno Richard Hauptmann before
the United States Supreme Court
II the high tribunal accepts juris-
diction of his appeal from the
Lindbergh baby murder convic-
ton was revived here today.
c. Lloyd Fisher, Eauptmann's
chief Of defense, declared the
attorney had agreed to defend the
Bronx carpenter If his case Is
argued before the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, birthday letter,
written by Hauptmann to his lit
tie son, Manfred, was made pub
lie. In it the boy is told that
prayer will guard him against all
evil.
The letter follows:
MY dear little Manfred:
Sunday morning when mama
awakens you with the usual kiss
that will be your birthday. Your
father wishes you all the happi-
ness in the world.
Dear Manfred, listen always to
your mama and don't forget to
pray every night before you go to
bed. # you do so your guardian
angel will guard you against all
evil, and don't forget my son, your
papa is always by you and mama,
and he is kissing you every night
when you are deep alseep, and
papa Is praying, too, to God that
He may be with you and that God
will bring us together again to
happiness and life.
"Your father"
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LONDON, Nov. 9 GN.SO.-A
warning to Britain not to attempt
to gain financial domination Of
China, which was referred to as
a Japanese "serni-colony," was
contained in a communique by
the Japanese war office today,
according to a Reuters Tokyo
correspondent.
The communique bitterly COM
planned against a reported $780,
100000 British loan to China to
be secured by surplus customs
and railroad revenues.
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He Loses His Truck,
His Way and Money
On S Liquor Spree

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 8
QN.S.0 will you please help
me find something lost between
Columbus, Ohio, and Louisville?"
Fred McClinchy asked Louisville
police today.
McClinchy said he was driving
a truck on a PWA project at
Columbus Wednesday and pur-
chased IS worth of whisky. The
next thing he knew it was Satur-
day and he was in Louisville.
II lost it somewhere between
Columbus and here. It was Q big
two-ton dump truck"
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BOBCATS HARD
FOE FOR c. u.
By FRANK .BUCK" O'NEML

BY FRANK BUCK" ONEILL
Punts, punts, booming down the
field again: passes, passes, flash
ing through the air again, with no
discharge from the pressure OF
November's big time gridiron
games.
The Big Ten Conference Of the
Middle West sends Indiana to
Baltimore to face the charges of
University Of Maryland. The Gal
Looping Gaels of st. Mary's have
left their sanctuary in Moraga's
hills behind Oakland, CAL, to
storm the Fordham line in the
Polo Grounds in New York. This
battle Of Gael and Ram has be-
come one of the traditional inter
sectional football games Of the
country.
The color and romance Of the
big game month is preserved and
heightened by the meeting Of
Princeton and Harvard, members
Of the gridiron's original Big Four.
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Northeast S Pants
Burglar Operates
Now in Southwest

The NortheaSt's pants burglar,
or a good imitation Of him, in
vaded the Southwest section to-
day, police said, and stole the
trousers Of Carl Liberman from
his bedroom at 217 Tenth st.
s. w.
The thief first knocked out a
panel in a rear door Of Mr.. Liber-
mans liquor store on the first
floor and stole SIS from the cash
register.
Then the intruder went to the
second floor bedroom and stole
the pants.
The pants and a billfold were
found in the back yard, but $50
which had been in the billfold
had gone.
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ETHI0PIANS
LOSE NEW
BATTLE
Guns, Prisoners Taken
Near Aksum on the
Northern Front
War Moves:

MAKALE, Ethiopia = Ital-
ian occupation Of Makale by
General Santini's troops ended
second big push by invaders
with Amba Alagi, on caravan
route to Adds Ababa, next OBJ
jective. New lull certain for
Italians to consolidate gains,
bring up supplies. Ras Kassa,
Ras Seyum, Ras Moulougetta
reported hiding out at Amba
Alagi with force Of 100000
men.
PORT SAID-Since Novem-
Der /, more than 1000 Italian
troops have passed through
Susx Canal, headed for East
Africa.
R0ME-Foreign office con-
firmed capture Of Gorrahei, on
southern front, without Q shot
fired. Danakil penetration
pushed. General Santini, in
north, defeated Philippians
near Aksum, guns and prison
ers seized. Italy made new
gesture Of peace to Britain.
Cost Of Mussolini's campaign
to date passes $3.50, ,000,0 900.
HARAR, Ethiopia - r $
Desta launched counter often
sive toward Italian Somaliland.
Troops passing down Juba
River Valley toward Mogadis-
clio, Somaliland capitai. Ras
Nasibu's troops gathered at
Dagga Bur.
LoNDoN-Italy has $4,000
troops in Cyrensica, Reuters
reported, on border adjoining
Egypt.
PARIs-England has 2,100
planes concentrated in Egypt.
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Japanese Call China
sSenli-COlOnial'

IF this is true" said the com.
munique, "the leaders of the
Marking government cannot es-
cape criticism for selling their
country to foreigners for their
own aggrandizement.
Japan, as the Stabilizing in
fluence in the Far East, cannot
overlook any attempt on the part
Of Britain to place i-colonial
China under the domination OF
British capital"
The loan has been officially de-
MED in London.
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MT. VESUVIUS
IN ERUPTION

NAPLES, Italy, Nov. 9 U.N.S).
Mount VeSuvius, perhaps the
worlds best known volcano, burst
into activity today.
Lava began to flow out Of the
eruption cone into the volcanoes
crater, but there were no indicar
tions the lava would burst the
sides of the crater or overflow.
The Vesuvius Institute an
nounced there was no' cause for
anxiety.
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Feminist Admits
Rising Prejudice

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 9 Il.
N.SO.-A conference Of leaders Of
the National Woman's party will
be held here November 30-Decem.
ber /, Florence Hilles, Wilmington,
Del, national chairman, announced
today. Goal of the organization
is a constitutional amendment
guaranteeing women legal equal
ity with men. Mrs. Hilles claimed
there is ga rising tide Of preju.
dice against women all over the
world"
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Tired Of School Life,
Boy, 9, Loses Self in
Crowds Of Capital

Rodney Peterson, who Is but %
years old, became tired Of his
humdrum existence IS q student
at the Buchanan School and he
decided yesterday, when school
was out, to go downtown and see
the sights. He wandered around
the streets looking in the show
windows and watching the crowds.
In the meantime, Miss Jeanette
Noble, with whom he boards at
1928 D st. S. E., notified police
he had disappeared and a look
out for him was broadcast.
Police found him and took him
home shortly before 2 Q. "a.
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.Ex-KIdn Chieftain
Wins Appeal Point

LAPORTE.. Ind, Nov. 9 (I.N.s).
D. c. Stephenson, former In
diana Klan dragon, has scored
his first victory in his fight to
free himself from a life sentence
at the Indiana State prison.
when Judge Writ Worden Of the
Laporte county circuit court
overruled a motion Of the State
to quash a habeas corpus peti.
ton filed ny the former Klan
Chieftain.
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Alexandra Seeking
Switch Of PWA Fund

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Nov. 9.-Re-
quest for authority to use a PWA
allotment of 5000 for road con-
struction for repairs to city curbs
will be made by the city council,
it was decided at a meeting last
night.
Members of council said the
curb and gutter project could be
made self-liquidating, while the
road work could not.
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SeIassie Deserted
By Sultan Of Aussd

LONDON, Nov. 9 UN.S0 DE
sertion Of the Ethiopian cause by
the Sultan Of ASsa with 5000
troops and an unknown number
Of tribesmen to the Italian forces.
was reported today in a Central
News dispatch from Rome.
The Sultan's force was reported
to have left his capital at Adel.
goubo to join the Italian army on
the Gurub plain.
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UnIighted Wagon
Blamed As -Four Die

SHAMOKIN, Pa, Nov. 9 I.N.S). u.
A wagon travelling along the high
way without lights today was
blamed for the head-on collision
Of a truck and automobile in
which four persons were killed
near Turbotville during the night.
Earle Clink, Towanda, driver OF
the truck, said the accident oc-
Cured when he swerved his truck
to the left of the road to avoid
striking the approaching wagon.
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ION to Amba AIagi," Cry
Of italians at MakaIe

Copyright, 1885, BY International
News Service)
WITH THE NORTHERN TTALr
IAN ARMY IN THE FIELD (VIA
ASMARA), Nov. 9 UN.S0.-"On
to Amba Alagi!" was the cry Of
Italy's troops today following the
capture of Makale, but command
ers indicated some time must
elapse before the next big push
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Liner S Passenger
Disappears at Sea

PARIS, Nov. 9 Q.N.SJ-The
Hamburg-America liner Seattle at
Havre yesterday reported that
Harvey Foster, 90, disappeared at
sea October IS. Foster embarked
at San Francisco en- route to
Munich to study.
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ALI of this effort behalf Of economy would be worth
while unless had ultimate purpose above and beyond the
saving of money We ought money any
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other uyto advance the welfare the human Money
not endowed with any sacred quality Man not made
for money but money made for
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Two More Surprises
Promised By Reilly

Their testimony will greatly
strengthen the amazing story OF
the 27-year-old Elvert Carlstrom. a
clean-cut young Swede. who said
he saw Hauptmann and his wife
In the restaurant that night. Mr.
Carlstrom'S surprise testimony
was regarded as among the most
who will testify he saw Haupt
mann within a block of the Fred
erickson place that night, taking
his name at the time because he
suspected him (Hauptmann) OF
stealing a police dog.
Aside from these witnesses, Mrs.
Hauptmann and Mr.. and Mrs
effective the defense has yet pro
duced. He said there were four
men in the restaurant besides Mr.
and Mrs. Hauptmann. Two OF
these were Kiss and Manly, &C
cording to Mr.. Reilly.
The defense also will call
August Van Henkel, Of the Bronx
FrederickSen already have cor
roborated the defendants alibi.
Defense Optimistic
Ranks of the defense counsel
have been fired with a new
spirit Of cooperation since the pre-
possessing Mr.. CarlStrom took the
stand. Their optimism is in
marked contrast to their obvious
detection Of the last few days
when the lawyers were quarrelling
among themselves.
Mr.. Reilly pointed out that the
big danger facing the defense now
is intimidation of witnesses. He
said:
"My witnesses, those whose
names are known, are receiving
all manner Of threats. Besides,
the State and police are investi.
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P POL|CE EXAMS
GIVEN D. K,

Reports from the Civil Service
Commission that there is no basis
for charges of dishonesty" in the
civil service examinations for
police promotions today cleared
the way for the District Commis'
sioners to approve the promotion
of II policemen.
The Civil Service Commission
launched an extensive investiga'
ton in statements that the con.
tent of the promotion examination
had been known before the test
was given to the policemen in
group competition.
The order of Commissioner Mel
win C. HaZen today included the
promotion of Sergeants Walter H
Thomas and Lawrence R. Beall to
the rank of ueutenanys.
The other promotions were
Privates Albert B. Clark and
George r. Wallrodt to sergeants;
Precinct Detectives R. S. Bryant,
w. J. Liverman, H. G. Wanna
maker to the post Of detective
sergeantS; Privates Frank Ashley,
f. L. Manning, R. E. Talbot and
F. C. White to the rank of pre-
cinct detectives.
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COUNTY FORMS
G.O.P,CLUB

LANDOVER, Md, Jan. 81.
More than. 800 people gathered
at the Beaver Dam Country Club
here last night to form the Repub-
lican Club of Prince Georges
county.
DR.. Thomas Latimer, chairman
Of the Republican State central
committee, made the opening ad.
dress explaining to the gathering
the purpose of the new club.
Following speech of encourage,
ment by j. Wilson Ryan, promin-
ent Hyattsville attorney, the group
elected the following officers for
the club: Edgar F. CZarra, Hyatts-
vile, president; William Brooke,
Upper Marlboro, treasurer, and
Sherman Hollingsworth of Hyatts.
vile, secretary.
1t was also decided to give a
dance at Carvel Hall, Annapolis,
at date to be determined by the
president, and that Governor and
Mrs. Harry W. Nice would be
asked to act as sponsors.
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the jury that they must make up
their own minds as to the credibil.
ity of all the witnesses they have
heard-including Mr.. Carlstrom.
But I cannot help wondering if
the people who doubt
!. DR.. Condon'S ability to identi.
fy the man called John, with
whom he talked for an hour and
a half believing him to be the Lind.
bergh kidnaper. who paid him $780,.
600 OF Lindbergh ransom money.
Taxi Driver Story
2. The taxi driver Perrone who
met strange man who gave him
a strange note to be delivered to
the go-between in the Lindbergh
case, it being the only time any.
body ever gave him a note to de.
liver and his address being taken
when he arrived.
3. Colonel Lindbergh's ability to
remember the voice of the man
whom he believed to hold as ran.
som his beloved son-will the
people who doubted some of these
identifications, be convinced that
Mr.. Carlstrom remembers . man
sitting with others in a public eat
ing place on a night almost three
years ago, whom he had never
seen before and had no particular
reason for noticing and whose pic.
lures in the newspapers he didn't
recognize, according to his own
story, until a few weeks ago.
Two Named Anne
While the attorney general
hammers at Carlstrom I am
thinking of a strange thing, a
strangely persistent vision in this
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Wilentz Feels Sorry
For Mrs. Hauptr1lann

Hauptmann admit gradually that
she could see objects on the TOP
shelf of her broom closet. That
she kept five articles of use on
that shelf, but she removed these
occasionally-and yet she had
never seen the shoe box her hus-
band insists contained the Lind.
bergh ransom money.
Women Interested
According to Hauptmann, the
box, left behind by 1sador Fisch
had been on the shelf nine
months before he discovered it
contained ransom money.
Members of the jury, when
shown a picture Of the broom
closet with the door open and
Mrs. Hauptmann's apron hang
ing on hook higher than that
fateful top shelf, looked long at
it. The four women jurors were
especially intent in their study
of the picture.
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Her horrible moment came
when it looked as though Wilentz
had trapped her into admissions
that might help to send her hus.
band to the chair. It was so sim
pie to say that she hung her
apron in the closet. Then sud-
denly, Wilentz was making a pic.
ture of that admission, which
seemed to show that if she had so
hung her apron she must have
seen the shoe box on the shelf,
the shoe box Hauptmann says
Fisch gave him and which he
didn't know held the Lindbergh
ransom.
Must Have Seen Box
She was telling simply and with
sort of natural dignity how she
put soap coupons in a box and
kept them in the closet-and
again Wilentz was showing that
if she did that she must have
seen the shoe box, if it was &C.
tually where Hauptmann had said
IL WdS.
When she realized what he was
doing, what her testimony might
mean, her homely every day testi,
mony about aprons and soap cou-
pons, that these simple things
might add one more damning
rivet in the States case against
Hauptmann, you could see the
fiery furnace open before her, see
the blast as it struck her.
That was her torture-that fear
that she might hurt and not help
the man she loves.
We have had two women on the
witness stand. Two women named
Anne.
God help them both.
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BY KENNETH T. DOWNS

PENNINGTON, N. j., Jan. 81
G.N.SD-Two more surprise" wit
nesses are ready to testify at the
murder trial of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann that they saw the de-
fendant in a New York restaurant
on the night of March i, 1882,
when Baby Lindbergh was kid
naped, it was revealed to Interna-
tional News Service today by Ed
ward J. Reilly, chief Of defense
counsel.
These witnesses, together with
another yet to testify and four,
who already have taken the wit
ness stand, will bring to seven the
number Of persons supporting the
most important phase of Haupt-
mann's "alibi Of the century,
namely, that he was in New York
when the crime was being COM
mitted in Hopewell, N. j., nearly
sixty miles away.
Mr.. Reilly Confident
Smiling all over the place, the
big, florid Mr.. Reilly declared:
eve have put a real crimp in
the States case. We will put q
few more crimpS in its case to-
day and tomorrow. The pro-
Secution Is getting worried and
we are Just getting started"
He said the new witnesses will
be Walter Manly and Herman
Kiss, both residents Of the Bronx
N. Y. They will say that they saw
Hauptmann in the Christian Fred
erickson restaurant-bakery at $3.50
on the night of the kidnapping, &C
cording to Mr.. Reilly. Hauptmann
claims he was in the restaurant
that night at that time waiting
for his wife. who worked as a
waitress there.