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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-11-28

All Burdened
Chains Of some kind are hung on
everyone.
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
Paris Chamber in Revolt
On Peace; Laval Near Fall

PARIS, Dec. IA IN.S0.-AS re-
volt in the Chamber of Deputies
against the Hoare-LavaI proposal
for settlement Of the Italo-Ethi-
opian dispute increased today, it
became clear that the position Of
the Laval cabinet depends solely
on the Leagues decision concern.
ing the plan.
II the proposed settlement Is
disavowed by the League, and, If,
in consequence. Sir Samuel Hoare
finds himself compelled to resign
as British foreign secretary. Laval
must inevitably fall.
This Is the opinion of most we'll
Informed political observers, based
on the assertion Of both the radi.
cal Socialists and the Socialists
"not to try to overthrow Mr.. Lava
but Just to let him fall"
Neither party wishes to force
the issue at the present time and
thus run the risk Of being accused
OF seeking to defeat the policy of
peace"
But bitterness Is rampant among
the left-wing deputies as expressed
by former Air Minister Pierre Cot
who said:
What a disgrace and shame it
is to see France proposing q prof.
ect which leads to conferring a
reward on the aggreSsor of yes
terday!"
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
BrunOHOpestO tOEscape
Electric Chair

ernor possesses greater, power. All
that Hauptmann can hope for
from the Court Of Pardons is com.
mutation Of the death sentence to
life Imprisonment. Communication
can be extended only by vote Of
majority Of members Of the
court.
The Evening Journal declared in
formation in It's possession indi.
Gated that the group Of New Jer.
Sey citizens who oppose the gov
ernor's interest in the case will
call on Justice Trenchard, who pre-
sided at Hauptmann's Pennington
trial, and ask him whether the
executive had any right to visit
the slayer without a court order.
Justice Trenchard's swiftness In
signing the warrant setting q new
date for Hauptmann's execution
was seen as indicative of the ven.
cradle jurist's contempt for new
claims that the Bronx carpenter
is innocent.
Reports that q new and !rnpor-
tant witness in the case was be-
ing rushed to Trenton from
Dallas, Tex, were denied last
night by New Jersey State police.
They admitted one Joseph SchaZ
was being extradited, but ex.
planned he was wanted only in
connection with q robbery in
which one man was killed.
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
H00VER'S AIDE
IN IVA SUIT
BY WILLIAM s. NEAL
international NewS Service
Staff COfPeSpOndent

The Roosevelt Administration
today turned to a Hoover Repub-
lican office-holder in its battle to
uphold constitutionality of the
iva in the Supreme Court.
John Lord O'Brian, of Buffalo,
N. Y, an assistant attorney-gen-
eral under former President
Hoover, was slated to make the
chief argument in the iva case
before the high tribunal next
Thursday.
O'Brian is special counsel for
the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Solicitor General Stanley Reed,
who was stricken during argu-
ment on the validity Of the Bank
head Cotton act, Is to argue the
case with O'Brian.
AS assistant encouragement
from 1929 to 1888, O'Brian was in
charge of the antitrust division
of the Department Of Justice. He
frequently argued cases before the
high court.
The Government, in its brief,
sought to avoid a straight-out de-
cision on validity of the iva act
as a whole.
It challenged right of group
of minority stockholders of the
Alabama Power Company to at
tack validity of the act in a suit
to annul a contract by the power
company for sale Of transmission
lines to- the iva.
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
Wife in Despair Asks
"What Can | Do or Say"

NEW YORK. Dec. IL G.N.S0.
What can I do or say now that
can do any good?"
Those words today marked the
despair of Mrs. Anna Hauptmann
as the loyal wife tried to realize
the full import Of the sentencing
of Bruno Richard Hauptmann to
die during the week Of January IS
for the murder Of the Lindhergh
baby.
Despair was in her heart, but
there was no slackening in the
steadfast determination W t h
which she has fought to save her
husband since the very moment
of his arrest.
"Of course we will go on fight
ing until the truth is found and
told to everyone" she cried, her
voice breaking.
What is there to sayP No,
have nothing, nothing at all to
say. Go to Mr.. Fisher (Haupt.
mann's attorney. He will tell
you what we will do next"
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
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Continued from Page ~
that she lied, and their suspicious
naturally were aroused.
The second time she was ques-
toned, she broke down and con-
fesSed that she had permitted
four men to make love to her.
who were the men?" she was
asked.
One of the men she named was
an employe of the Morrow family
and, the Journal points out, it
was this part of the girls story
that reached the ears Of Haupt-
mann'S counsel, who confused the
Morrow employe with an employe
of the LindberghS' and attempted
to involve her in the kidnapping.
At this second grilling Violet
Sharpe also admitted that she
had been out the night Of the
kidnapping with two men, identi'
fled at the trial as Ernie Miller
and Elmer johnson, and another
girl, Catherine Winners.
They had gone to the peanut
grill in Orangeburg. and she had
stayed out until 5 a. m.
She admitted that Miller had
picked her up a week before
March /.
HE gave me and my sister,
Edna a lift" was her explanation
"I made a date with him Tor
March /. We were to meet out
side the gates Of the Morrow
place"
The authorities were not yet
through with her. Angered by her
constant lying and the false i'm
pressions these lies had given
them. they determined to queS'
tion her a third time at the ponce
station in Alpine.
Colonel Lindhergh was to be
present again.
Inspector Harry walsh, Of the
Jersey City police, also was IN
structed to report ct Alpine, bring
ing q physician with him. This
precaution was taken because the
maid had tainted during q previous
grilling.
The authorities met at the home
of Arthur Springer, secretary tc
the late Dwight w. Morrow. His
home is close to the Morrow estate
Lindbergh was there early. This
was on the morning of June 10
A telephone call was put through
to the Morrow home.
"Tell Violet Sharpe to prepare
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
Violet Sharpe's Death
Laid to Love Affairs

herself to go to Alpine" was the
message.
The agony that message must
have caused Violet Sharpe. She
would have to tell it all over again,
name names, describe the rendez-
vouS.
The world ended for Violet
Sharpe the moment that telephone
message was delivered to her. 1t
was Lindbergh who made the call.
He had offered to fetch Violet in
his car and, after phoning to the
Morrow home, he prepared to leave
the Springer house.
The telephone rang. Springer
answered the call. He turned to
Lindbergh.
"It's from the house." he said.
Something is wrong. They want
you"
Lindbergh went to the phone,
His baby kidnapped; hoaxed into
paying $4,000; his baby found
murdered-and now this.
Yet he could not, would not be-
lieve what he heard. Calmly, he
turned to the bewildered authori'
ties.
"Violet's tainted" he said. "Id
better go right over. There's q lot
Of excitement"
A police officer said hluntly:
Tainted, hell! She's probably
| lcnockad herself off"
Lindbergh went out the dool
alone. Springer telephoned In
spector Walsh, waiting at Alpine
and told him to rush the doctor
with him to the Morrow home.
Springer and the police officials
hastened to the Morrow home
Walsh and the doctor arrived al
most as quickly. The doctor was
bending over Violet Sharpe'S body
sprawled on the floor of the pantry
The doctor stood up.
Dead" he said. Looks like
poison"
Here's the solution we have
been looking for!" exclaimed In
spector Walsh.
Violet Sharpe had gone up tC
her room, after receiving the tele
phone message, had taken 6
crystal Of cyanide Of potassium
had walked downstairs to the pan
try and there dropped dead.
After her death it was learned
that she had been the wife oi
one George Paine. whom she
married in England before com
ing to the Morrows. They wert
separated.
The Washington times., 1935-12-14

Adds ABABA, Dec. IA Q.N.SJ
DR.. Robert William Hickman, %.
year-old American missionary who
went into the desert two months
ago to establish a base hospital
for the war wounded on the
southeastern front, was killed yes.
terday by a supposedly "dud'
Italian bomb, according to an
official government announce
ment today.
The medical missionary was
trying to dig UP bomb, dropped
from an airplane in q recent raid
It exploded, blowing him to bits.
In Ethiopia Two Years
The tragedy occurred just
south Of Jijiga, the government
said.
DR.. Hickman had been in Eth
opia for two years, most Of the
time as head of the United Pres
byterian Hospital in Adds Ababa
and chief medical officer for EN-
peror Halle Selassie'S army.
AS the actual outbreak Of war
drew near, DR.. Hickman and
three other missionary doctors or
ganized a Red Cross unit and early
in october they pitched their
hospital tents near Jijiga.
The party had gone in spite OF
governmental opposition to their
expressed intention Of trying to
convert the warriors at the same
time they treated their wounds
Wife Left Country
Mrs. Hickman, also mission.
ary, had left the country together
with other foreign women just
before the fighting began.
The death Of DR.. Hickman is
the first fatality officially on
record Of any American IN the
Italo- Ethiopian war.
At Jijiga, with his three white
and several native aides, DR.. Hook
man treated hundreds of wounded
Ethiopians.
DR.. Hickman was born in
China, the son of a missionary,
was educated in the United States,
holding degrees from MuSkingum
College. Ohio. and Northwestern
University Medical School. He also
studied tropical diseases in Lon
don.
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
FACES
PEACE PLAN
SHAKE-UP"
London O. K. Given
Laval Text; Defeat
Of Hoare Hinted
By H. X. REYNOLDS

LONDON, Dec. IA ON.S0.
Stirring to renewed fury the
storm of protest against the
Paris peace plan which suggested
giving half of Ethiopia to Italy,
the British government today
officially admitted it not only
had endorsed the scheme, but
had sent an urgent appeal to
Emperor Halle SelasSie to accept.
This message was sent last
Tuesday, just after revelation in
the press of the substance Of
the proposals started the wave
Of resentment that has now
caused Britain practically to re-
pudiate the plan.
Direct Appeal Made
A direct plea was sent to EN-
peror Halle SelaSsie, and it was
backed by orders telegraphed to
Sir Sidney Barton, British min
ister in Adds Ababa, to "uSe his
influence" to induce the Emperor
ito realize the advantage Of the
opportunity for negotiations which
the terms afford"
Hoare. and Premier Pierre Laval
Of France jointly sent the per-
sonal message to Halle SelaSsie,
calling upon him to accept the
terms Sin principle and without
prejudice to the result Of the dis
cussions which will ultimately
take place"
The French and British states
men pointed out that the proposed
settlement would give Ethiopia, in
full sovereignty, an outlet to the
sea, preferably through ASSab.
Eritrea, plus q corridor, "but if
this solution proved unacceptable,
the governments are willing to
facilitate Ethiopia's access to the
sea as previously suggested, that
is. through British Somaliland." "
Published Today
This British pressure on the
heads of the two warning states
came to light when the govern
ment published all the documents
relating to the Anglo-French pro-
posals for ending the conflict in
a white paper" today. The text
Of the Paris plan had been issued
previously in Rome and Geneva.
Barton was told by Sir Samuel
Hoare, British foreign minister,
who is now the object of an un-
derground campaign to remove
him from office for his part in
the Paris negotiations:
"You should use your utmost
influence to induce the Emperor
to give careful and favorable con-
sideration to these proposals, and
on no account lightly to reject
them.
ION the contrary, I feel sure
he will give further proof Of his
craftsmanship by realizing the
advantage of the opportunity for
negotiations which the terms al
ford, and will avail himself there
| of"
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
WAR ON 7. B.
DISCUSSED

CHEVY CHASE. Md. Dec. IA.
Despite the progress made by mod
ern science against the spread Of
tuberculosis, it still ranks near the
top in the worlds deadliest dis
eases, DR.. Harry G. Mustard, pro-
fessor Of Johns Hopkins Univer'
sity, Baltimore. Nd, told a meet
ing Of the Montgomery County
Council Of Social welfare held
last night at the Brooke Farm Tea
House near here.
"The object in tuberculosis work
Is to get rid Of it entirely" DR..
Mustard declared. I'VE must
stamp it out. At the present time
it is intimately associated with
poverty and loss Of income. When
studied according to income and
standard Of living, we find it much
more prevalent among the un.
skilled laborers because people OF
this group live on q more
economic level"
Great progress has been made
in Maryland In the fight against
this disease since the establish
ment Of the tuberculosis santa
rum at Savillasville, Nd, Dr.
Mustard pointed out. -,
Dr.. v. L. Ellicott, county health
officer, voiced q plea to county
residents to support the present
Christmas tuberculosis seal sales
campaign, and outlined the pre-
ventative and cure program being
arranged for Montgomery county
during the coming year.
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
ITALY TO PUSH
AFRICAN WAR

(Continued from Page u
with the northern and southern
armies meeting near Harar.
Rap at British
An editorial in II Duce's own
newspaper. the Popolo d'Italia, Of
Milan, combined an attack against
Great Britain for continuing to
send arms to Ethiopia with a de-
fense of plans to move italian
troops reinforcements to East
Africa.
Italy has her full reasons" "
said the paper. "for maintaining
her own line Of firmness and care
full vigilance. She has the full
right to continue sending rein
forcements to take care OF her
own colonies and the security Of
her sons"
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
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Continued from P0gS ~
vantage Of all Of them. These
are:
!. Present new evidence to
Justice Trenchard and ask for a
new trial with stay of execution.
2. Go into the United States Su-
preme Court on a technical queS-
ton Of law.
3. Petition the Court Of Par.
donS and Appeals, of which Gov.
Harold Hoffman is member, for
communication of the death pen
atty to life imprisonment.
Meanwhile Hauptmann probably
will get some degree Of comfort
today in the statement made last
night by Governor Hoffman,
whose interest in the case has
aroused a whirlpool of charge and
counter-charge throughout New
Jersey and New York.
Governors Stand
Governor Hoffman said:
IF Bruno Hauptmann were to
be electrocuted tonight, there
would still be in my mind and,
am convinced, in the minds Of
hundreds of thousands of people,
great doubt that the Lindbergh
baby murder case had been solved
completely and that all facts in
connection with it were known"
Apparently undisturbed by re-
ports that a group of prominent
Jerseyites were planning to for.
mally protest Hoffman'S midnight
visit to Hauptmann's cell and his
active interest in the case, the
Governor declared he was acting
only in the interests Of justice and
within his constitutional and legal
rights as chief executive of the
State.
IT know stuck my chin out
when openly began consideration
of this case, but actually it was be-
fore me from the moment of con-
viction," the Governor added. Il
went at the question openly to
keep myself square with my con-
science.
Not Seeking Publicity
"I'm not afraid to inquire into
this case as I have been doing.
I'm not prompted by political am
bition or publicity, as has been
said. If wanted publicity I would
have announced Immediately after
visited Hauptmann in the death
house that I had talked to him
there. Almost three months pass
ed before that visit became
known"
The Governor declined to an
Swer q point-blank inquiry as to
whether he believed Hauptmann
guilty or innocent.
Certain representations have
been made and certain evidence
produced sufficient to raise at
least an element of doubt in my
mind an element enough to JUS
tify me in making an effort to
prove that the man is guilty or
that he is innocent. before he
is electrocuted," the Governor ex-
planned.
Can Give 90-Day Reprieve
The governor described his Of
ficial position in the case. AS
governor he possesses power to re-
prieve Hauptmann for at least 80
days. AS ex-officio member Of the
Court of Pardons, which includes
himself, the chancellor of the Su-
preme Court and the six judges
of the Court of Appeals. the gov
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
"$2oo,o 900 to Retract,"
Claims DR.. Condor

LYNN, Mass, Dec. IA G.N.SD.
A man who identified himself as
an athlete several months ago Of.
fered DR.. John F. Condor, "Jafsie'
in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping
and murder case, 100000 to re-
tract his trial testimony, the ran
som negotiator said today. Condor
said he refused,
"The man said he was an ath-
lete," said DR.. Condor. He said
he was taking an active part in
hockey. I am an ardent hockey
fan, but I did not know him.
do not know his name. He said
500, 1000 was ready and that more
would follow"
DR.. Condor said his only none.
tary interest in the celebrated case
was to get back approximately
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
AL0ISI TO PUT
PLAN BEFORE
LEAGUE
Paris Settlement Will
Expire Due to Foes
Now at Geneva
Copyright. 1885. by. International
News Service)


GENEVA, Dec. IA. - Premier
Mussolini intends. to send his
mouthpiece, Baron Pompeo Aloisi,
to Geneva next week to demand
oil lands in Ethiopia at the same
moment as the League Of Nations
sanctions committee meets, ironi-
cally to consider an oil embargo
against italy.
This was the understanding in
League circles today, where 1t was
said Baron Aloisi would come next
Thursday with Mussolini's reply
to the Paris peace formula and
his new demands, which will con-
stitute a practical rejection.
Paris Plan to Expire
BY the time the sanctions COM
rnittee of 18 meets, probably
Thursday, the badly battered
Paris scheme, which would give
Italy possession or control over
half Ethiopia, is expected to be
dead, and predictions were that
it would not even partially sur
Vive.-
The League council meets
Wednesday and will give its first
consideration to the proposals,
supported only by Premier Pierre
Laval of France, and the drafting
of which the council at no time
authorized.
Poland, the little entente, and
other small nations are expected
to lead the fight against the
peace plan; Britain will welcome
its demise because Of the bar
rage of criticism at home; and
the council will probably doom
that remarkable document.
Discard Certain
If, by any chance, the plan
wriggleS past the council, EN-.
peror Halle Selassie will press for
its consideration before Christ.
mas by the League assembly, in
which smaller powers have more
authority, and there it will GER
tainly be discarded.
The assembly, ever since it first
indicted Italy, stands "re> ssed," "
not adjourned" so its chairman,
Foreign Minister Edouard Benes,
can call it back into session at
any time on only a couple Of
days notice.
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
28,Hunters Killed,
1O3 Injured in n. Y.

ALBANY-Twenty-eight persons
were killed and l03 were wounded
during the recent hunting season
in New York State.
The State conservation depart
ment announced that during the
hunting season, October Is to No
vember IS, many hunters met
death at the hands Of their
friends. A startling increase in the
number of persons killed and
wounded by their own associates
during the 1885 hunting season
was reported by Commissioner Os'
borne. ,,
In 1884 there were II fatalities
during the hunting season In 1883
there were 20 fatalities.
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
Pastor TO Speak
On Birth Control

Reply to the sermon of Cardinal
Hayes, denouncing birth control.
will be made at the luncheon of
the Women's City Club Tuesday
when DR.. Russell J. Clinchy. pastor
of the Mt. Pleasant Congregation.
al Church, will talk on Religious
Aspects of Birth Control"
This is the second in a series Of
birth control luncheons sponsored
by the club. DR.. Clinchy is mem
ber of the board Of the Institute Of
Mental Hygiene and the Social
Hygiene Society of Washington.
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
Nazis Conduct Drive
AGAINST Plush Sofas

BERLIN, Dec. IA nation
wide campaign against plush sofas
and similar outmoded junk" was
announced today by DR.. Robert
Ley, leader Of the German Labor
Front. He plans to appoint an
"antt,junk" janitor for every
house In Germany, whose duty
will be to remove plush furniture
and such, which serve only as
hotbedS for vermin and moths"
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
MISS | @ R 6
ASKEDADVICE
ON SAVINGS
Slain Girl Then Spent
Money Investigating
Report

Comma GOrlnS, the Zo-yeal-OlQ
Mt. Rainier public stenographer
whose mysterious Staying last No
vember 4 has proved an unsolved
puzzle thus far, sought advice
from her friends about investing
her savings, then spent her money
for other purposes, police inves-
tigators learned today.
The girl evidently wanted
friends to think she was using
her savings wisely, but, in reality,
she spent $1,145 in three months
last summer without leaving any
record Of its use, according to the
proberS.
Made withdrawal Herself
Since she made AMIDST all OF
the Withdrawals in her own
name, her spendings. cannot be
traced beyond bank records with
unquestioned accuracy, unless she
told close friends of her actions,
the probers point out.
States Attorney Alan Bowie
and Lieut.. Joseph Itzel have
accordingly begun canvassing
all Miss Loring'S business friends
for evidence on the new angle.
Thus far, the investigators tenta'
lively have accounted for a part
of the money with purchase slips
for office equipment, but this
does not take into consideration
her weekly earnings.
Started Last Summer
Miss Loring's earnings may
have been sufficient to provide
a part of the purchases, so thai
her savings were largely spent
in some unknown way, they
point out. This was unusual, they
say, because the savings accounts
were not drawn upon to any EN-
tent previous to last summer.
One of Miss I.oring's close
friends, P. A. Maccarone, Wash
ington sign painter, told The
Times today that she had asked
him several times for advice on
investments. The girl had often
visited Mrs. Maccarone, who lived
close to Miss Loring's office, dur
ing working hours, he said.
Rarely Followed Advice
Maccarone added that the girl
rarely followed the advice, invest
ing only in Government bonds,
and would not disclose to init.
mates how she was diSposing OF
her savings.
Whether her finances are the
key to how she met her death,
probers are expected to work out
the angle completely, it was said.
Lieutenant Itzel and his assist
ant, Detective Sergt. Leo Vogel'
sang, both of the Baltimore po'
lice, prepared to leave for their
homes early in the afternoon, TAX
ing with them the statements Of
the girls family and friends.
Seek More Material
After checking the statements
with whatever corroborative
material aides have found among
other persons, the probers expect
to call on Mrs. Frances Loring,
the girls mother, and Richard
Tear, her 29-year.old fiance who
is an attendant at st. Elizabeth's
Hospital, for further material.
The probers are developing a
complete biography Of the girl in
their search for evidence that will
lead them to the murderer.
The are still without definite
knowledge of the slayer six weeks
after the girl disappeared, and
five weeks today from the day
her beaten body was found on
Sadd1ahack Ridge
The Washington times., 1935-12-14
5 Hurled Into River
When Bridge Falls

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica.-The
tragedy of the Bridge of San Luis
Rey was reenacted in real life
when the cables of suspension
bridge over the Reventazon River
snapped plunging five into the
torrent below.
Abel Torres was crushed under
the bridge and killed, but the
others were rescued although
seriously injured.
The collapse was attributed to
weakening Of the baStions as the
result of recent heavy rains swell
ing the river.