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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03
ETHIOPIA is UNITED
AGAINST ITALY'S INVASION

BY A. J. King
According to history, the Ethio-
plans are a peaceful and very old
not NEEDLE with the sovereignty of
other nations, or seek to grab their
territory; it is not of the viking
type of peoples.
Italy, too, is professed Christian
nation and joins in the luSty cry of
Peace! World Peace!" Why then
may we not look for an example to
be set by her in her method of COM
posing a little border dispute be-
tween two Christian nations? 1t
! appears that this nation of modern
enlightened Christian civilization
seeks as Ahab of old to take pos
session of "Naboth's Garden"
Let no one deceive himself by &C
cepting the propaganda that Italy,
moved by high humanitarian or
Christian impulses, consented to the
admission of Abyssinia to the
League of Nations after pledging to
abolish slavery.
If this were true, what right had
Italy to dictate to a sovereign gov
eminent as to how its internal af-
fairs should be conducted? The
mere statement means meddling.
There has been no perfect or truly
just government either in southern,
central or northern Europe during
modern times, if 1 read history cor
rectly. We are pointed out the
Italian Eritrea as a part where we
find the blessings of western civ
ilization." The Malta at New Or
leans, would you say? Even re-
Gently in this country we have heard
of rowing banditry. Would that the
Duce while clearing up banditry
might see how badly the United
States is in need of his aid.
Come now, let us consider or
enumerate what appears to be plain
fact. First. Italy wants more lane.
both to possess and to govern. Sec
ond, Italy desires to avenge Adowa
and thereby purge herself of the
stigma of white beaten by black.
Third, she covets the mineral
wealth and the territory of Abys-
sinia. Fourth, she aims to wreck
government, the very existence of
which MusSolini is believed to abhor.
A general impression is gathered
from the pen Of one Mr.. Hubbard,
who has spent several months in
AbysSinia. and at the capital, Adds
Ababa. The word servant" and
slave" is the same in Ethiopia. &C
cording to his report. Quote: There
are at least three different classes;
the voluntary, such as subjects of
the princes and the tribal rulers. In
| Africa, if one is not able to have
guards. his protection is to become
the servant of some one who is"
The foreign missionaries are rep
resented to be the worst class. They
are reported to hire at the lowest
wages, under the strictest contracts;
but such as chattel slavery does not
exist.
kidnapping is practiced to some
extent, which shows that even the
Ethiopians are taking on Western
| ideas. If the Duce will be a little
] patient sufficient group of ideas
and of Western Christian civilization
may be presented to place the Ethi-
opians high up in modern develop
ment. 1t is striking to note how the
Duce is quoted in words condemning
the Ethiopians, while a volume Of
478 pages extoling the Nordic races
of Northern Europe to the exclusion
of all Italy, is at my right, a maya
zine, published in London. just re-
! ceiYed last week, is to my left, and
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l 10holy diSapprove Of sOhat you sag and will
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoLtaire

clothing, homes and security with
out any productive effort on their
part that you and must have pro-
duced these things without receiv-
ing them. Are you starting to think
that you are being gypped? I know
that I am.
We can prevent the gambler from
getting his by refusing to gamble
with him. The Spectator we can
not prevent as long as we permit
him to gamble in the stocks which
control our food, clothing, homes
and security.
Morally this type of gambler can
not be eliminated as long as the
churches condone this kind of gam
bling. Legally this type Of gambler
can be eliminated better than the
other How? When you vote the
Socialist ticket you are voting to
eliminate this type of chiseler.
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in it is much adverse criticism of
Mr.. MuSSolini.
The dictatorship of a foreign
power will not, 1 think, be soon ac-
cepted as authority in the ancient
kingdom of Ethiopia The AbyS-
sinian emperor, Halle Selassie, is re-
ported as intelligent, cultured, and
brave; quite capable of maintaining
the best traditions of his fathers, so
there is no scare in Ethiopia, but a
united front is opposed to Italy'S
demands.
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The Message Center

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their Uietcs in these columns. Make your
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Daily Thought

And He said unto him. Arise go
THY way: thy faith hath made thee
whole.-St. Luke xvii, 10.
HESPOTISM may govern without
IL faith, but Liberty can not.-De
TocQueville.
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Mussolini has ordered italians to cross the
Atlantic in Italian liners. AT any rate, those
Italians whom he let's cross the Atlantic.
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soap company reports it has made a
clean profit OF 10 million dollars in the last
IL months. Now no more dirty remarksl
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There's an island in the Pacific that is
said to be governed by goats. There has been
talk of an attempt like that in this country.
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While the government is designing the new
coins, couldn't it consider attaching glue to
them so at least this money will stick to our
pockets?
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H @ Wells is said TO be the most prolific
writer Of the age. And all this time we thought
1t was Anonymous.
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Business is getting TO be so good that
many of us have already forgotten about the
forgotten man.
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Civilized mankind needs to be
better informed so men may CO.
operate and not William E.
Dodd, U. S. ambassador to Ger
many.
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The Chinese make better f1iers
than the japanese. Some day,
when they get through fighting
among themselves, they may turn
their attention to Japan and clean
up-Maj. Philip N. Bush. Lafayette
Escadrille veteran.
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I am a looker-on now. After
very full and busy life, I find it a
not altogether unpleasant occupa-
tion.-Queen Marie of Rumania.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-03

All Americans love France and
hate the French.-Gelett Burgess,
author.
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Who is in the least interested in
my birthday? If you ever are 70,
you'll not want to discuss the fact
George Bernard Shaw, on 18th an
niversary.
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So They Say

If the churches are to survive, il
is necessary that they espouse the
cause of the common workers. The
church must take a part in the
struggle between workingman and
capitalist.-John Haynes Holmes.
The Washington times., 1935-02-02
VIOLET SHARPE,
F|SCH NAMED
IN SURPRISE

the Lindbergh kidnapping two men
in car which contained a lad
der asked him the way to the
Lindbergh estate.
Hauptmann, he asserted, was
not one of them.
Mr.. Harding was working on
Washington Avenue, outside
Princeton, N. j., at the time.
He said he visited the Lind.
bergh estate on March 2, 1882
the day after the kidnaping-and
saw a ladder which was similar
to the one he saw in the. auto
mobile. 1t was a positive iden.
tification.
Mr.. Harding, a black-haired
young giant, gave his present oc.
cupation as laborer. He said he
lives in Trenton, and on March
l, 1882, was a social service
worker. He was working along
a road not far from the Lind.
bergh estate near Hopewell.
Q. (by Defense Attorney Ed.
ward ]. Reilly)-Did yor see some
men in an automobile that dayp
Ayes. Two men in a suburban
car stopped me and asked me
how to get to Colonel Lindbergh'S
place. told them the way.
Q.-What do you mean by a
suburban car? Alt was a Sc.
dan; it was a Dodge sedan.
Q.-How many men we're in the
car? A.-Two men in the car
in the front seat.
Q.-What else was in the car?
A.-There was a long pastehoard
box and a ladder.
Asked if he had ever seen the
ladder again, Mr.. Harding said
yes, he went to the Lindbergh
place the next day and saw the
ladder leaning against the side of
the house.
Mr.. Reilly called for the "kid.
nap ladder" found outside the
Lindbergh baby's nursery March
2, 1882, the day after the crime,
It was brought into court. Mr..
Reilly asked:
is that the ladder you saw
in the car with the two men in
1t on March 1, 1892"
Mr.. Harding replied:
ut looks like the same lad.
der"
August Won Henke, who spoke
with a marked German accent,
stated that dog belonging to him
was stolen about the middle of
February, 1892, and that on
March l, 1882, he saw a man walk.
ing In the Bronx with a dog.
Defense Attorney Reilly asked:
Q.-You had lost a dog and you
thought that the one this man
had was yours, is that right?
A.-YeS. I thought the dog was
mine. The man said he would
take me down to the bakers with
the dog and he gave me his name.
Gle gave you his name?
A-YeS
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Witness Confused

Q.-Do you mean, to say you
hid the money so the family Of
1sador Fisch couldn't get it? You
have already testified you were
going to give the money to the
Fisch family.
Hauptmann's answers were ex.
tremely confused and Mr.. Wilentz
left the matter at that point and
drew him into the second trap.
Mr.. Wilentz began to question
Hauptmann about the amount Of
money he had hidden in his
trunk in February, 1888. Haupt-
mann said. casually, he had some
$3.50 in the trunk.
Q.-How much in December,
1898? About the same.
Q-How much in December.
1882? About the Same-about
$3.50.
Dwell, how much did you
have there in June, 1882? A.
(After a long pauSe.) About
$1,000. It was not over $1,500.
Now, I can explain
Q.-QnterruptingO You don't
have to explain this money.
just want you to be sure on the
amount. Are you sure there was
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actions during his wife's absence
on her trip to Germany was made
with the double purpose of trap
ping the prisoner into some state.
ment of guilt and of alternating
the sympathieS of the jury.
Mr.. Wilentz asked:
"Were these books and these
figures honeSt?"
Hauptmann answered in a
slightly rising voice:
Cali the figurs in the books
are true-but I left some fig.
ureS out"
Mr.. Wilentz fired away at
Hauptmann on his failure to keep
a complete account of his expen-
ditures on his trips. The attorney
general had in his hand q book
containing some of the defend.
ants record.
Q-Goudly.)-Well, you will
stand on the figures in the book,
won't you? Ayes, only the
money! hid some of the money
from my wife.
Ooh, you were holding out
on your wife, were you? A.-YeS.
Q.-You were holding out
money on your wife and you were
holding out a lot of other things,
weren't you?
C. Lloyd Fisher, of defense
counsel, objected to this question
but was overruled.
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WiLentz AcclSer

Attorney General Wilentz said
Mr.. Carlstrom knew Hauptmann
well, although he testified he had
seen Hauptmann but twice before
appearing in the court room 10
testify in behalf Of the German
carpenter.
Three witnesses who appeared
for the defense on Thursday also
were included in the prosecutors
threat. The prosecution has
shown that Louis Kiss was en-.
gagged in bootlegging; August Won
Henke had changed his name
twice and operated an oftraided
SpeakeaSy; and Louis Harding had
been twice convicted in New Jer-
sey, serving two prison terms.
Hauptmann's appearance on the
witness stand Monday marked the
opening of the Attorney Generals
attack on the German carpenters
alibis. The prosecutor handed the
prisoner various surprise exhibits
to trap the wary witness.
Turning to a page containing
what Mr.. Wilentz said was "a curl
Gus design" Mr.. Wilentz asked:
what is that-a ladder?"
Hauptmann laughed. He said:
'Why, no, 1 don't know what
it isl didn't draw it,"
Pointing to another drawing in
the book, Mr.. Wilentz asked him
if it doesn't look like a window
The witness Smilingly said he
didn't put it there. Mr.. Wilentz
asked:
"It looks like the work Of a
child, doesn't it?"
Hauptmann replied:
"There was a neighbOr'S child
who used to come over to the
house"
Mr.. Wilentz interrupted:
'"The drawings are not yOurs?"
"They are not mine."
Hauptmann, at Mr.. Wilentz's re-
quest, wrote an tx" and drew a
circle around it.
The Attorney General then
handed the book to the jury for
examination.
Mr.. Wilentz showed the jury
one of Hauptmann's diaries in
which the State contends he
spelled boat" with a "d"-
''boad"-as it was spelled in the
ransom hoteS. .
The Sferencs to Hauptmann's
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as he mumbled an explanation
Of his actions after moving the
extortion hoard from the "shoe
box"
Hauptmann blundered into one
trap when he was explaining how
he happened to take the Lind.
bergh ransom money he said he
found in q shoe box in his home
and hide it in three separate
lots. He said:
II put $4,000 in a can, $4,000
in o bundle, and $500 more in
another place. If any trouble
came up, 1 would be on the
safe side"
Mr.. Wilentz Immediately leaped
at the opening and quietly asked:
what trouble were you afraid
Off"
Hauptmann looked astonished
and did not answer until he was
prodded. Mr.. Wilentz had to
ask three more times. Haupt-
mann then mumbled:
maybe Mr.. Fisch wouldn't
believe me when 1 gave him
the money"
He meant Pincus FiSch, brother
of the late Isador Ffsch. Isador
is dead, and Hauptmann had said
Isador left the shoe box full Of
money in his Safekeeping, not
telling him what it was.
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Not His DOq

Q.-What was that name? A.
Hauptmann!
Q.-What happened then? Al
whistled and called to the dog and
found out he was not mine.
Louis Kiss, a defense witness,
was on a bootlegger'S mission the
night Of March /, 1882 when he
testified he saw Hauptlnann in
the F'redericksen restaurant in the
Bronx, New York city. This was
the night the Lindbergh baby was
kidnapped from his home in New
Jersey.
The fact that Mr. Kiss, who pre-.
viouSly had given his occupation
as a silk painter, also sold good
rum" at $1.25 a pint, was brought
out in cross-examipation by At.
torney General WilentZ.
John M. Trendley, East st.
Louis Ill) handwriting expert
who yesterday testified for the
defense, stated that Hauptmann
could not have been the writer Of
the Lindbergh ransom notes.
Mr.. Trendley, a gray-haired
man Of 81 with 40 years expe.
rience as a handwriting expert,
positively declared there was no
similarity between the writing in
the ransom notes and the ere.
quest" penmanship of Hauptmann
taken after his arrest last Sep
tember.
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Witness Attacked

One Of the most spectacular de-
velopments of the trial came in
New York city Thursday when
Mrs. Annette Rivkin was found
unconscious and strangling in her
beauty parlor, which had been set
on fire.
Mrs. Rivkin said she was pre-.
pared to testify for the State
that Mrs. Hauptmann had visited
her shop on several occasions and
rendered SO and $40 bills in pay
ment for 50-cent and 75-cent
facials and shampooS.
An assailant, whom Mrs. Riv.
kin described as wearing a false
wig and false mustache, bound
and gagged the woman and left
her in a chair near which he had
set a fire.
Rescued by the superintendent
Of the building in which her
beauty shop is located, she is in a
serious condition from shock. She
told police that her assailant
shouted as he left her to die in
the fire:
you'll burn now, you damn
Jew. You won't talk"
Closer to the court room, but
still not a portion of the official
proceedings, was the surprise de.
velopment in statements by both
Attorney General Wilentz and
Chief Defense Counsel Edward J..
Reilly.
The defense counsel stated yes.
terday that seven defense wit
neSSeS had been threatened by
"hoodlums," and that at least half
Of his witnesses might refuse to
testify IF this method is pursued. "
The attorney general coun.
tered with hints that he regarded
many defense witnesses unreliable,
and announced that the only rea-
son he had not taken action
against some of them was so as
not to give the defense an oppor.
tunity to charge he sought to
intimidate other witnesses who
have not testified.
Elvert Carlstrom, a Surprise
witness for the defense, who testi.
fled that on the night Of March l,
1882, when the Lindbergh baby
was kidnapped, he saw Hauptmann
in the bakery in the Bronx where
his wife, was employed, was one
Of the Witnesses whom the attor
ney general attacked.
The prosecutor announced out.
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Woman Named

Mr.. Wilentz then asked a mum.
Der of insinuating questions about
Mrs. Greta Henckel, a comely
matron Hauptmann met at Hun.
ter's Island. During the question
ing Mrs. Hauptmann kept her
eyes on the floor.
Q.-When was the first time
you met Mrs. Henckel? Am
July, 1882, on Hunters Island.
Q.-Were you out bathing?
Al can't remember.
Q.-Was her husband there
when you first met her? Al
can't remember.
Q.-Don't you remember that
you met her husband two weeks
after you met Mrs. Henckel?
Al guess that's right.
Q.-Who introduced you to
Mrs. Hepckel? Alt doesn't re-
quire much introducing out there.
The Attorney General sue
ceeded in trapping Hauptmann in
his story of his possession Of the
ransom notes.
In a gentle deceptive voice. the
prosecutor prodded the prisoner
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not over $500 in the trunk? A.
Yes.
Mr.. Wilentz began quizZing
Hauptmann on his expenditures.
BOught Radio

ON May, 1882, you bought a
radio? Ayes.
Q.-How much did you pay?
A.-$4OO.
Mr.. Wilentz forced an admission
that in July, 1882, then three
months after the ransom pay
ment, Hauptmann bought an ex-
penSive pair of field glasses.
Q.-Didn't you pay 1925 for
these field glasses? Ayes.
Odd you ever own field
glasses before? Ayes.
Q.-Before you bought this ra.
dio you already had a victrola?
Yes.
Q.-Where did you keep this
victrola? AIN the front room.
Mr.. Wilentz asked him If in
April, May and July Of 193R he
had kept money in the victrola.
He replied:
"The rent money, maybe"
Q-I mean did you ever keep
packages of money there? A.-No,
I never had packages.
Q.-Didn't you get $500 from
Isador FiSch in July, 1888? A.
Yes, for the brokerage account.
Hauptmann was asked If ne
bought q canoe after April 2,
1882, and he answered yes. He
admitted he had taken q hunting
trip. He was asked if he went
to Florida and he said he did.
Q.-And your wife went to Ger
many? A.-Yes.
Q.-During that time neither
you nor your wife worked? Al
made money in the market.
Q.-You worked in the market?
But not as a carpenter? Al
worked as a carpenter.
Q.-How much did you earn?
A.-Couple O. hundred dollars.
Q.-So that from April, 1882.
until September, 1884, you earned
a couple Of hundred dollars as .
carpenter, and your wife didn't
work at all? Ayes.
Hauptmann said his wife was
not "disgusted'' because he had
quit his job as a carpenter, nor
did she "holler at him" because
he quit.
He admitted that on the day
Of his arrest he told the author
tiles he had been circulating gold
certificates (part Of the ransom
money! for some time.
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Money "HandD"

Q.-Why were you circulating
them-because you needed the
money? A.-On, no, I didn't
need the money. I could have put
it in the box and left it there.
Q.-You took 1t because you
didn't want to take it out Of your
stock account. And If you needed
gas, you'd take a SO bill and
change it? Ayes.
Q.-And when your wife needed
shoes, you took q $40 bill or $40
and bought the shoes? Ayes.
In contrast to his croSs-examina-
ton Of Hauptmann. the prosecu-
tor was considerate In his treat
ment of the prisoners wife.
There was no hint. Of brow-beat-
ing in Mr.. wilentz's questions.
These tactics were obviously q
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Ransom Up

Mr.. Wilentz asked Mrs. Haupt.
mann about the times police
found ransom money hidden in
three different places in the
garage. He asked:
"YOu didn't know your hus-
band had hidden money in a
board in the garage, did yOu?"
"NO."
The prosecutor asked Mrs.
Hauptmann about her knowledge
Of the gold notes in her husbands
possession.
Q.-You were the one that told
your husband, Richard, the Presi-
dent has called in gold" and he
said: I'VE will keep gold because
ii always will have the same
WORTH" Al heard it over the
radio and I told him to take it to
the bank.
Q.-You saw some gold bills?
Ale told me he saved some
because 1t was as good as gold.
Mr.. WilentZ switched to ques'
tionS about Mrs. Greta Henckel.
friend Of the Hauptmanns.
Q.-You and Mrs. Henckel
were good friends? Ayes.
Q.-Very good friends? A.
Yes,
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concession to the impressions Of
the jury.
The attorney general has been
very careful in directing the sym.
pathies of the jury toward the be-
reaved Colonel and Mrs. Lind
bergh, and was equally careful
not to offend its members in his
questioning of Mrs. Hauptmann.
Mr.. Wilentz asked whether Mrs.
Hauptmann had not told the
Bronx police she didn't know
where she or her husband was on
the night of the kidnapping. She
replied:
II said I knew I was with my
husband, but didn't remember
what the date Of the kidnapping
was"
Mr.. Wilentz produced a tran.
script Of the extradition hearing
in the Bronx and read from it
to show Mrs. Hauptmann had
said she didn't know where her
husband was on the night of
March /, 1882. Mrs. Hauptmann
protested:
"Oh, I can't remember. I was
asked 80 many questions and
was 50 excited I can't remem-
ber."
Hauptmann, wide-eyed, chewed
q fingernail. He appeared in
agony with his wife on the stand.
He looked more frightened than
at any time during the trial.