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Evening star., 1935-09-15

prison workshop Is In watching over
the prisoners life." he explained.
Americas probation problem arises
partly because q probationer often
finds honest jobs scarce. Bates said
the Prison Bureau cannot give work
to all its charges, and so men on
probation sometimes drift back into
crime.
Evening star., 1935-09-15
CAP|TAL|ST|C WAR
CHARGE IS RAISED
Socialist League Speakers
in Britain Warn of Repe-
tition of 1914.
Nv tha Associat ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 14.-Warnings
against the dangers of an "imperialist-
capitalist war" thundered today in the
ears of overalled and white collared
workers in II cities.
Orators at rallies organized by the
Socialist League drove home the re-
alization of potentialities in the Italo-
Ethiopian dispute.
At the same time David Lloyd
George, World War premier, speaking
at a meeting not connected with the
Socialist rallies, tongue-lashed the
peace-seeking nations He said they
were idling while Premier Mussolini
was barring his teeth, ready to bury
them in Ethiopia's throat"
British Protest Slap.
AS the speakers were addressing
their throngs, officials disclosed the
British government had made official
representations to Italy concerning al
legged British propaganda broad
cast by the Italian radio station at
Bari. One of the broadcasts causing
the action was reported to have in
cluded the statement:
"All the world knows the rest OF
Islam is suffering under the British
rule in Egypt and Palestine"
Sir Stafford Cripps, principal speak
er at the London Socialist anti-war
rally, shouted to his listeners:
IF sanctions were to mean nothing
but economic sanctions, then perhaps
we might view the situation less crit
ically. But it is useless to imagine
that economic sanctions may not also
entail military sanctions. And the
latter may-if ever the necessity for
their imposition arises entail first
class European war"
Sees 1914 Repeated.
At Cardiff the speaker. L. Ander-
son Fem, cried:
"One of the most serious dangers
threatening the working class Of this
country is the danger which calls it
self a League of Nations war, but
which is in fact an imperialist war.
We are in danger of being led away
as we were in 1914"
]. r. Clynes, wartime food min
lister and former secretary of state
for home affairs, was the main speak
er at Manchester He told listeners
II Duce's threats to attack Ethiopia
'are a monstrous betrayal of Italian
pledges to discard war as an instru-
tnent of national policy"
Evening star., 1935-09-15
EUROPE'S PRISONS
LEAVE BATES COOL
U. S. Director, Back, More
ReconciIed to System
Used Here.

BY the Associated Press.
Sanford Bates, director Of Federal
prisons, came back from a tour of
Russian and German prisons last
week more reconciled to the short
comings Of the American prison
system"
Scanning American prison popula-
tion figures, however, Bates expressed
concern yesterday over indications
that Federal Jail rolls would reach a
new high this Fall.
"One thing, they spend money for
prisons over there" he commented.
I'm no place in Europe are two or
three or five prisoners forced into
single cell"
But in Russia, Bates found, prison.
Evening star., 1935-09-15
GREEN'S SON ARRESTED

AKRON. ct%, September IA P).
Motor cycle Oficer Aubrey Mitchell
arrested Harry Green, %. son Of Will
liam Green, president Of the Aneri-
can Federation of Labor, for speeding
last night. Mitchell said the youth
travelled about so miles an hour in
the city. He came here to return his
father, attending a Rubber Workers
Union conference, to Coshocton, Ohio.
Young Green signed personal 5000
bond to guarantee his appearance in
court next Tuesday.
Evening star., 1935-09-15
WHITE HOUSE EXPANDS
TO COMMERCE BUILDING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Commerce Department oficials said
today the White House has taken q
suite Of five rooms IN the huge De-
partment of Commerce Building.
They were unable to give the pur-
pose of the expansion. Overflow work
was suggested, but it was recalled that
the executive of1ices were remodeled
and enlarged year ago.
The suite Of Offices apparently was
empty of personnel today. In the
absence from the city Of Stephen
Early and Marvin Mcintyre Of the
White House secretariat, 1t could not
be learned to what use the space would
be put.
Evening star., 1935-09-15

Of Africa all he needs for conducting
the most ruthless massacre of these
helpless people defending their native
mountains" ~
Declaring it was vital for italy to
know the real Intentions Of France
and Britain, Lloyd George said: Mus
solini never deceived Europe as to
what his purpose was. He always
meant to invade, occupy and then
control Ethiopia.
why did not the League act
promptly when it saw a situation ike
that working up? Mussolini is not a
mere buffer. He is man Of action"
Evening star., 1935-09-15
CANADIAN RAIL MERGER
FOR PUBLIC TO DECIDE
Premier Bennett in Campaign Ra-
dio Speech Says Problem
Will Be Investigated.

TORONTO. September l4-Prime
Minister r. B. Bennett, campaigning
for reelection, said in a speech to-
night broadcast over a Canadian
radio hook-up) that his government
would make no move to consolidate
Canadian railway systems unless the
people gave clear and definite man.
date"
He said the economic council would
make a complete investigation, under
his governmental program, into the
whole transportation problem in
Canada.
If the council recommended amalga-
nation. he said, the question would
be submitted to the people.
Evening star., 1935-09-15
German Dye Magnate Dies.

FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN,
Germany, September IA (P.-Dr. Leo
Cans, founder of a small chemical
firm which later developed into the
huge Ig Farben Industrie, or Dye
Trust, died today at the age of 90.
DR.. Cans was an honorary citizen of
Frankfort and a well-known philan-
thropist. Until recently he was an ac-
tive member of Farben's Board of Pi-
1ectors.
Evening star., 1935-09-15
Hanging of Three Midshipmen
Spurred Founding of Academy

proved on shore hard to keep out OF
jail"
Older officers ridiculed the idea of
shore school for seaman. but George
Bancroft. Secretary Of the Navy, man
aged to have old Fort Severn trans
ferred from the War Department, and
obtained an appropriation from Con-
gress. The academy was started with
a staff of eight. Since then. it has
graduated 12.1e7 young men to COM
mand the Nays fleets.
The Washington times., 1935-01-03
Jersey Jurist Frowns
Upon Fireworks

of fair-mindedness not usually dis
cernible in groups chosen to pass
on evidence in spectacular criminal
cases. All were eager and yet not
too eager to serve.
While many members Of the
special jury panel were rejected
because they already were con-
vinced of Hauptmann's guilt
(none were rejected because Of
their belief in Hauptmanns limo
eence)-the accepted members
displayed an active desire to with.
hold judgment until all the evi'
dence had been presented.
The good-natured manner in
which the trial is being conducted
has produced a great variety Of
unusual manifestations. The au'
dience already has learned how
to respond to Justice Trenchard's
dry or droll remarks. He will
tolerate only a certain volume OF
laughter or chuckles.
Lindbergh Fidgets
Mrs. Hauptmann has relaxed
perhaps for the first time since
her husbands arrest. She sits de
terminedly erect, but the deep
lines of anxiety have been
smoothed from her face.
Colonel Lindbergh fidgets. but
follows the proceedings closely
often cupping a hand to his eaI
to catch every word.
His Honor looks carefully out
Of a side window of the courtroom
for inspiration every now and
then. The same window under
which school children, free or
holiday for the remainder Of the
week, shrill their excitement al
the case and the antics Of the
news photographers in the street
! below.
The Washington times., 1935-01-03
BY LEIGH MATTESON

BENNINGTON, N. j., Jan. 3
G.N.S0.-Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann will receive as fair a trial
under Supreme Court Justice
Trenchard as was ever given to a
defendant in a major criminal
case.
The justice is ruddy, whole.
some, almost benign person, with
the happy faculty of inspiring
trust in his reasoning powers and
faith in his impartiality.
All Expect Justice
In fact, his conduct of the case
to date establishes a precedent
for attention. Although the JUS
tice constantly reminds jurors,
witnesses, assembled members of
the press and the few more spec
tators able to crowd into the court.
room that this is a very impor.
tant case" he never permits his
knowledge of this fact to creep
into his manneriSmS.
There is nothing of exaggerated
dignity in his honor. On the con.
trary, he already has managed to
make everybody present, probably
even Hauptmann, believe that jus.
tice will be done, and nothing but
justice.
In consequence. the trial is pro.
ceeding as if everybody present
were gathered there to null over
carefully every detail Of the evi
dence connecting Hauptmann with
the murder of Charles A. Lind
bergh, jr.
Jurors Fair. Minded
Efforts of the various members
of defense counsel to indulge in
forensic pyrotechnics were checked
at the outset by Justice Trenchard
The Jurors also exhibit qualities
The Washington times., 1935-01-03
Lindy Curbs Emotion
Sitting Near F Prisoner

from moldering in the mud Of
centuries.
The prison pallor-that gray
green tinge which comes Of long
confinement and fear and nervous
strain-iS the color of decayed
marble.
AS the State hammered away at
that question to the jurors, "have
you any conscientious or religious
scruples against the death pen.
| alty?" the electric chair and its
hideous embrace must have reared
before Bruno Hauptmann's eyes.
The death penalty they speak of
over and over again is his death
penalty-if they can convict him.
But his profile remains motion
less, expressionless. It might al
most be called handsome.
During a recess, I got up and
walked around in front Of him,
and stared for long time, study
ing him. The man accused of
numbering the Lindbergh baby
cannot ask for privacy or for the
decencies of ordinary human in.
tercourSe. The mere accusation
puts him beyond that.
One question hammered in my
head.
Is Bruno Hauptmann, the
slight young German carpenter,
capable Of the crime of which
he stands accused? Could he
have committed that foul child.
murder? Always, in every mur-
der, there is a human eqRation
which must enter-whether you
wish it or not. Is a man men,
tally and morally and psyche
logically capable of doing a GER
tain deed or isn't he? That must
always be determined.
Not Weak Face
Only a few feet away, under
the closest scrutiny, 1t wasn't a
weak face any longer.
The ears stand out wide and
they are not on a line, at all, and
the strange light eyes hidden in
the deep sockets are not set
straight in his head, one is half
an inch higher than the other,
and there is something wrong
with the whole structure of the
face. Something hideously wrong.
The light eyes are bold, even now.
It Is easy to believe, as you stare
into them, that he was one Of
the great machine gunners of the
war and that he shot to kill, sys-
tematically and coldly.
Guards Secret
AS I gazed straight into Haupt-
mann's eyes, wished that for one
moment God would give me the
power to see into his mind, to
turn on a magic ray and hear his
thoughts as one turns on radio,
or see them as one watches tele-
type.
Only Hauptmann knows what
really happened. Locked inside
that skull is the secret of his own
guilt or innocence. Is he remem.
bering his crime. trying to see
lcopholes, matching his wits
The Washington times., 1935-01-03
TRIAL CROWDS
ARRIVE EARLY

PENNINGTON. N. j., Jan. 3
(INS0.-A large crowd predomi-
nantly women, clamored to get
into the Hunterdon county court
house today at the trial Of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann for the mur-
der of the Lindbergh baby.
The crowd started forming at
6 a. m. The first person in line
was Clayton Burdick, a law stu
dent, of Atlantic City, N. j. The
line quickly formed. Two pretty
girls, Anna Cohen, of Flemington,
and Dorothy Clazon, Of Brooklyn,
held places 13 and IA in the line.
At 9:3O a. m, the guards al"
lowed few of the spectators into
the courtroom. Others followed
at intervals.
Attorneys, newspapermen, pho.
tographers and talismen began
arriving and the courtroom was
filled a few minutes before court
was scheduled to be called to or
der at 10 a m.
The Washington times., 1935-01-03
Howard to Open
! Series of Recitals

Howard University will open
its artist recital series of con-
certs for 1885 on Tuesday eve.
ming at 8:15 o'clock in Rankin
Memorial Chapel.
DR.. Melville Charlton, of Brook
1yn, N. Y, will play a program
dedicating the new pipe organ
just installed in the chapel. DR..
Charlton is one of the outstand.
ing race musicians and received
the honorary degree of doctor of
music from Howard University
In 1924.
The Washington times., 1935-01-03
E1auptrnann Pales AS Prosecutor
Accuses Him of Babys Staying
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the child was killed in the
fall"
Colonel Lindbergh half hid
his flee in one hand as Attorney
Wilentz shouted the murder
charge against Hauptmann.
Except for the slight twitch of
his lips, Hauptmann was an un.
moving gray statue. He sat
there, a concentrated expression
on his face, his beady eyes
directed at the back Of Mr..
Wilentz's head.
Called Jafsie NegotiatOr
Proceeding in a calmer tone,
Mr.. Wilentz charged that Haupt-
mann personally answered the
advertisements inserted in a
newspaper in the Bronx, by DR..
John F. "Jafsie" Condor, who
was acting as Intermediary for
Colonel Lindbergh in an effort
to contact the kidnapers.
Mr.. Wilentz traced the alleged
negotiations between Hauptmann
and DR.. Condor which resulted in
the paying of the $4,000 ransom
on April g. 1882, a month and o
day after the baby was stolen.
Mr.. Wilentz dwelt on the pay
ment Of the ransom money, say
ing:
"When Condor passed that
box with the $4,000 in it to
Hauptmann, what do you think
Hauptmann said? He said:
Wait a minute, Doc, till I see
II it's all right
"Hauptmann plunged his hand
into that box. He felt the
money and he said to Condor:
Your work is perfect. Your
work Is perfect"
Mr.. Wilentz said that the note
which was given to DR.. Condor
directed Colonel Lindbergh to go
to Gay Head, and that the colonel
The Washington times., 1935-01-03

against the evidence it is possible
for the State to have? Or is he
tortured by innocence which he
does not know how to prove?
So close, and yet I cannot read
the thoughts that would tell us
everything. We can only watch
and listen and interpret his
thoughts from his voice, his ex'
preston, his reactions,
Courtroom Dull
The courtroom seems strangely
stolid.
There is a laugh or two at
remarks by prospective jurors,
AS yet, the lawyers are dull, com.
monplace, without spark Of per
sonality. It is early yet. They
may get into action later. But
I seem to miss something that
would promise legal brilliance
later on.
Many years ago my father, a
criminal lawyer, used to say that
he would never defend a murder
case until the grass was green on
the grave.
The grass is green on little
Lindy's grave. Green and tall.
But that, surely, cannot make
any difference. Surely we have
not forgotten so soon. Surely we
must all feel the necessity tc
know whether Bruno Hauptmann
is the arch criminal of our cen
tury and If he is to see him pun
ished.
Above all, we must seriously re-
gard this trial as a vitality impor
tant part of our war on crime,
we must remember that every mo
ment.
Part Of War on Crime
Oh, if you could see Lindy!
I haven't been a great Lind
bergh fan. I haven't always
thought him gracious and CRATE
full as he should be for the love
he has been given by the Ameri'
can people, priceless love.
But if you could see him now
if you could be here on this sec
ond day when he must sit in the
same courtroom with the man he
thinks stole his son, put him tt
death, robbed him for all time Of
that boys companionship, of that
boys first school days. of perhaps
one day teaching a tall, slim, fair
haired son to fly-if you could
see him, you would know that
THERE MUST BE NO MORE
KIDNAPPING. THERE MUST
NEVER BE ANOTHER CASE
LIKE THIS CASE WE WATCH
TODAY. It's too terrible - fo1
everyone. For Lindy-and Anne
and Bruno Hauptmann'S wife
This must be the bugle call, this
trial, to our war upon crime and
criminals and we must show
every other criminal our intense
interest and our determination to
deal fairly but swiftly and coldly
with crime.
The Washington times., 1935-01-03
PALE. UNM0VED,
HAUPTMANN
FACES JURY
BY KENNETH T. DOWNS

PENNINGTON, N. j., Jan. 3
G.N.SO.-A weird mechanical
man, without heart, nerves or
emotions. A pathetic creature, in.
arttculate in a foreign land! An
enigma!
This was Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann.
He Is the strangest figure in
the annals Of American crime, this
Old World criminal on trial for
the murder of Baby Lindbergh,
and he holds the hypnotized gaze
Of all eyes in the crowded court
room.
Only once have his features
changed from their inscrutable
blankness. Once his lips parted
over his teeth in a slow grin.
Grinned At Remark
That was when c. Lloyd Fisher,
youthful defense counsel, lost his
temper while questioning pros
pective juryman and shouted:
"I move this man be dis
qualified-he shows absolutely
no signs of intelligence"
A moment later the impetuous
lawyer regretted his cruel remark
and had it stricken from the
record.
But Hauptmann's grin did not
fade until the red-faced venire-
man shuffled out of the witness
box and hurried from the court
room.
The most striking features of
the prisoner are his color and
his immobility. His color is yeL
lowish.white, an unnatural prison
pallor, and it is uniform, from
his collar to the roots Of his
close-cropped hair.
Eyes Never Blink
His oddly shaped head is i'm.
mobile on a long, thin neck. His
gray eyes, however, move from
Judge to jurors. They move
slowly, and they never blink. Oc.
casionally his lids come down,
but they do not blink.
You wonder that this putty
man should be on trial for so
monstrous a crime. Then you
think of the steel in the putty.
You think Of the four years he
manned a German machine gun.
You think of his long criminal
record in Europe.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Hovey, one
Of his guards, said:
"He's the calmest character
L ever saw. He doesn't talk
much. He doesn't ask for his
wife or child. Now and then
he asks for . smoke. He's
mostly interested in food"
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beats in his cheek and once OF
twice it is very difficult for him
to swallow. He sits very still
allowing the law to take its
course, assisting the lawyers II
their questions to prospective
jurors. You respect him for the
respect he shows for civilized
laws under which we live.
Unbelievable Control
Yet you wonder how he does It.
How he can control that primitive
fundamental violence that must
be Surging within him, driving
him with the desire to kill this
man with his own hands, this man
he believes to have kidnapped and
killed his son.
His face is almost stupid with
the effort he is making not to
think, not to remember-not to
remember little Indy Of the sun
ny curls, not to remember the
night of March /, 1892.
To me, Lindy looks old and ter
ribly tired. I never saw a man
look so tired and so defeated. A
film of fat has poured over him
and 1t blurs the outlines a little
He is the Eagle still, but a Gagged
eagle, an eagle whose spirit has
been wounded.
It seems to me that there is Q
deep humiliation upon him as he
sits there, as though no thought
Of honor or of right or Of citizen
ship could quite make up for the
shame of having to sit motionless
and silent.
Courage to Just Sit
I think it takes more courage
to sit there. more spiritual and
moral courage than ever it took
to fly the Atlantic.
The horrible necessity has
broken him, as a man is broken
by some great sacrifice for his
loved ones.
Bruno Hauptmann?
Until he walked into the court.
room and took his place against
the back rail, I had never seen
him. I had only seen his pictures,
commonplace, little weak, rather
pathetic.
The pictures do not even begin
to convey to you the man accused
of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Skull on Shoulders
He does not carry q head upon
his shoulders. It is a skull.
have never before seen such an
effect upon any human being.
You can see the bones Of that
skull so plainly through his flesh
that it startles you and once or
twice, in the cold winter sunshine,
it gave you the feeling Of a
deaths head carried about on q
living man.
His eyes are sunk two inches
deep in his head. Sideways, you
do not see them at all, you only
see the curve of the bone socket
the brow that slopes back, the
stark jaw. The profile is almost
Grecian-an old Grecian statue
dug out of ruins, pale gray-greer
The Washington times., 1935-01-03
Ann Harding Acts
To Get Daughter

RENO, New, Jan. 8 4I.N.S3.
Ann Harding. Hollywood film star,
was scheduled to go into court
here today for a hearing on her
motion for complete custody Of
her Six.year-old daughter. Jane
Bannister.
The action is directed against
Harry Rannister, Miss Harding'S
former husband.
The Washington times., 1935-01-03
Company Ordered
To Rehire 7 Ousted
BY international News Service

The National Labor Relations
Board late yesterday ordere
under threat of referring the case
to. appropriate agencies of the
Government for action, the Avail.
able Trucks Co., Of Chicago, to
Teinstate seven employees dis.
Gharged for alleged union activity.
The company, by discharging
the men, acted in violation of Sec
ton IA Of the MIRA, according
10 the boards decision.
The Washington times., 1935-01-03

ness stand. We will ask him II
he is wearing gun and, If 50,
If he will remove it."
C. Lloyd Field, clerk of court,
polled the jury panel as the first
item of the courts business at the
morning session.
The 10 jurors already selected
occupied their places in the jury
box. They looked fresh and rested
and less nervous than yesterday.
The clerk next called the roll of
the selected. jurors. Mrs. May
Brelsford, the No. 10 juror, ap-
peared to be suffering from q
cold.
Has Opinion
Mrs. Helen Young, a housewife,
Of Lambertville, was the first
talesman called this mothing. She
is a small blonde woman. She
said she had no children.
1nterrogated by Prosecutor An.
thony M. Hauck, jr., she said:
II have formed an opinion In
this case, SO strong 1t would be
hard to change"
She said, however, she had no
scruples against capital punish.
ment.
Mrs. Young was asked by Mr..
Hauck if the opinion she had
formed could be set aside. She
replied:
THAT would be hard"
Defense Attorney Fisher asked
her If the evidence produced at
the trial could diSsipate her opin.
ion. She answered:
Maybe. After hear the evl-
dence it may be changed"
Attorney Fisher asked:
Would it take positive svi-
dence to overcome your present
Opinion?"
Eyes"
Justice Trenchard interrupted
to explain:
Madam, the law requires the
State to prove the defendants
guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
before cOnVictiOn-can YOU be
guided by this ruIe?"
She nodded affirmatiVely.
Mrs. Young said she had not
been influenced by what she had
read in the newspapers concern.
ing the Lindbergh case, nor by
any radio comment.
Mrs. Young was challenged per.
emptorily by the defense.
During questioning Of Mrs,
Young, Hauptmann glanced over
a pamphlet in which the words
sales" and psychology" could be
seen.
It was impossible for reporters
sitting close to Hauptmann to
communicate with him. He sat
between two armed men, a State
trooper and deputy sheriff.
Other guards were nearby. Haupt-
mann was not handcuffed.
Prisoner Eyes Jurors
The prisoner was a stolid as
ever. His face was pale. For the
most part he kept his eyes on
those who went to the witness
chair.
Archie Diehl, unemployed, of
Clinton, was then called.
Attorney Fisher asked:
"Have you heard any radio
brOadcasts about this case?"
eyes, I have heard most Of
the brOadcastS-Walter Winch
ell. Edwin C. Hill, and Others"
Mr.. Diehl denied, however, that
the broadcasts or the newspapers
had prejudiced him. Attorney
Fisher said:
"YOu understand that the de-
fendant must not be convicted
until proved guilty beyond o
doubt?"
At this question three of coun.
sci for the State leaped up and
shouted reasonable doubt" Mr..
Fisher made the correction. The
State challenged the venireman
! and he was excused.