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Evening star., 1935-06-23
TROTSKY IS ACCUSED
OF ANTI-RED TERROR
Communist Party Official Names
Him an Instigator of Kiroff's
Assassination.
BY the Associated Press.

BY Ln6 ASSOClALeQ fTcSS.
MOSCOW, June 22-Leon Trotsky,
famed Russian exile. was publicly ac-
cused today of inciting terrorists to
strike at the Soviet Union.
Stanislas Kossior. member of the
Political Bureau Of the Communist
party, listed Trotsky, now living in
Norway, Leo Kameneff and Gregori
zinovieff as instigators of the as
sassination of Sergei Kiroff. Joseph
Stains close friend, at Leningrad last
December l.
Reporting to the Ukraine Com
munist party, which he heads, Kos
sior said evidence of Trotsky's direct
connection with Kiroff's death had
been unearthed in connection with
the recent expulsion from the party
of Abel Yenukidze. ex-secretary Of the
All-Union Central Executive Com
mittee
He listed the exiled former head
of the Soviet army as an outright
enemy of the Soviet Union, saying,
There no longer is any difference be-
tween Trotsky and the White Guards. !"
Evening star., 1935-06-23
Drunk Misses Fire
AsSnakeC Charnler
But All Ends Well
CLee Turns to Grief
When Rather Strikes
Minus FGrtgs.

By the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, June 22.-
Aided by spirits, Roy Prather, unem-
ployed cook, set out today to become
a snake charmer.
Women screamed and men ran
when they saw him advancing un-
steadily down a street, 7-foot rat
tier draped about his shoulders.
"Oh boy, oh boy, If only had
turban and q flute, I'd be the worlds
greatest snake charmer," Prather
chortled.
'Whoope, I'm Abba Hadda-"
Then the snake struck.
Rubbing his hand, Prather beloved
for help. Police rushed the reptile
and its would-be charmer to the Emer-
gency Hospital.
After Prather had been treated, 1t
was discovered the rattler, q carnival
fugitive, had no fanss.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
The Mink Coat Brigade.

Verna Snyder, a housewife, says Of
the so-called mink coat brigade, {"
the expensive celebrities, the per-
fumed visitors who pushed and showed
and wept their way into the court
house, that they supplied us with
a show that was better than any
they had come to see. But, more i'm
portant, they helped us arrive at a
fair verdict.
"'The mink coat brigade" this
jurywoman says, was there TO see
and TO be seen. and by its presence
it made the court room almost like
a class room in which the witnesses
and the defendants were pupils called
upon to recite, getting a good grade
or bad grade, according to how smart
they were in sticking to their story.
Outside, heard later. the whole
world had taken sides. But inside,
we who had decided to remain un-
decided until everything was in were
let alone. And so when, on the last
Gay of the trial, we heard the crowd
outSide-the normal, every day, plain
people-crying Kill hint Kill him!'
it meant nothing TO us. We were
safe from the words of hate coming
through the closed windows. We had
been placed in such a frame of mind
that no outburStS could move us to
call what was untrue true.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
CEMETERY MURDER
CASE is SPEEDED
Prosecutor to Ask Early
Trial and Death Penalty
for Confessed Attacker.
By the Associated Press.

~ AeeCSNA&NNA
PEORIA, III, June 22.-State's
Attorney E. v. Champion tonight said
he would seek quick trial and the
death penalty for Gerald Thompson,
Is, who confessed to police the brutal
cemetery staying of Mildred Hallmark,
l9, pretty and popular cafe hostess.
Thompson, secretly removed from
town after he broke under the strain
Of questioning by police, was held in
the Mclean County Jail at Bloom
ington for Safekeeping under a formal
charge of murder.
Thompson, arrested last night on
suspicion, but without any evidence
then that he was implicated in the
ravishing and Staying of the young
woman last Sunday night, Tended all
queries at first but finally confessed,
Acting Chief of Police Fred NuSs-
baum said, when he was trapped by
lie detector and his diary.
"Yes-I did It'll tell," he sob
bed, detectives said.
His diary, they added, recorded Is
other assaults on Peoria girls, all
chosen because they would not prose-
cute for fear Of publicity.
In the confession Thompson as
serted he was driving home from
a call on his STEADY" girl when he
sighted Miss Hallmark waiting for
street car. He picked her up" drove
toward Springdale Cemetery, and
ended her resistance with a blow on
the chin, the confession said. After
aSsaulting her, he left the body in
ditch, the statement said.
Police were holding Julian Baxter.
"a, an amateur photographer they
said was friend of Thompson. In
addition to careful planning of each
attack, the police said Thompson
carried scissors to cut his victims
clothing and in some instances took
photographs of them.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
STATE PACTS STUDIED
Lehman Names Group to Con
slider Industrial Agreements.

ALBANY, N. Y. June % R.-
Gov. Herbert H Lehman tonight ap-
pointed a committee of six citizens
to study the advisability of New York
States entrance into industrial agree
mentS with other States.
The group, aided by State Indus
trial Commissioner Elmer F. An
drews and four legislators, will re-
port to the Governor and the 1886
Legislature whether it believes the
Empire State should participate in
interstate agreements fixing uniform
laws governing wages, hours and
other factors involved in manufac-
turing.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
Two Die in Plane Crash.

GARDEN CITY, N. Y, June % (R.
Garden City police reported tonight
that two men were killed in plane
crash near Munson, Long Island. The
dead pilot was Albert Whitney Of
Garden City, they said.
The other occupant of the plane
was not Immediately identified. The
plane was a two-paSsenger ship. How
it crashed was not learned imme-
diately,
Evening star., 1935-06-23
R. F. C. LISTS ASSETS

The Reconstruction Finance Corp.
reported to Congress yesterday that
On May 81 it had assets totaling S.
e48,331,1 ,132, having disbursed $685.
p28, ,239 in loans during the month and
feceived $73,468, ,291, including repay
tnents of loans and interest collected
On preferred stock and notes.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
SLAIN OFFICIALS KIN
KILLED FROM AMBUSH
Kentucky Hill Town Strife Flares
Anew-Death Is Third in
{ fractional Feud.


MANCHESTER, KY. June a.
Factional strife which has been
smouldering in this county seat noun
tain town flared again today with the
Killing of Bobbie Baker, As, near
the same spot on Main street, where
Police Judge G. P. Suvers was as
sassinated three years ago.
Z Baker was brother of Tom Baker,
who is wanted for the killing of
Judge Stivers. He was an uncle of
Frank H Baker, the Commemorative
attorney, who was aSsassinated Sep
tember 10, 1882. The Commemorative
attorney and a companion, John
Brockman, we're killed by slugs f1reN
from the Clay County Court House.
Bobbie Baker, who recently came
from Indiana to visit relatives at
Burning Springs 8 miles from here,
was struck with gun slugs and killed
at the wheel of his automobile this
morning. No arrests have been made.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
GUARD HELD READY
Troops Ready to Move Into Eu-
reka, Calf, Strike Area.


? SACRAMENTO, June % Up.
Adjt. Gen. Seth Howard said late
today he had been ordered by Gov.
Frank 2. Merriam to have National
Guard troops in readiness to meet an
emergency in connection with the
lumber strike at Eureka, Calf.
: Gen. Howard telephoned Capt. Jo-
seph P. Bastler, in charge of the
184th Infantry of the National Guard
at Eureka, to be. prepared to move his
company Of 81 men and three officers
into the trouble zone upon a minutes
notice.
; Gen. Howard said it was indicated
that band of lumberjackS was "mov-
ing in from the North"
: A riot fared in one of the Eureka
mills yesterday resulting in one death
and the injury of several others.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
UNDRESSED BY SAW

Worker Unhurt After Spinning
Circular Strips Him.
TROY, Idaho, June % CP.-A spin
ming circular saw undreSsed Charles
Gieser, a sawmill worker. right down
to his boots, but he was alive today
to tell the story.
Gieser's trousers caught in bolts
on the saw shaft and he was dashed
unconscious on the floor. When he
regained his senses, he was nude. ex-
cept for his shoes, while his clothing
whirled around the shaft.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
Bruno's Manners Criticized.

Bruno's Manners Criticized.
Philip Hockenbury, a railroad Sec
ton worker:
When an accused person takes the
witness stand he should be listened TO
without prejudice, even sympathet-
ically.
'HauptmannS manner Is against
him. Both he and his wife seemed,
on the stand and OF, to be trying TO
make up situations, by speeches and
actions, which there was no excuse or
reason for.
During the testimony of one wit
ness for the prosecution Hauptmann,
it will be recalled, started up from
his chair to call the witness a liar.
That kind of outburst did not
look natural. For an innocent man,
it did not seem necessary, or genuine.
Next day Mrs. Hauptmann broke
loose in the same way.
"Hauptmann took the stand in a
way that seemed brazen. He gave
the impression that he was there 10
show the judge and the jury and the
lawyers a couple of things.
When his counsel was question
ing him, Hauptmann had an air of
having been rehearsed. Many of
his questions and answers did not
ring true.
When the prosecutor took over, the
questioning, Hauptmann was loud
and bold anG defiant in his answers
by the end of Hauptmann's first
day on the stand the prosecutor was
getting him pretty well mixed up
His shouting was even louder, but
there was lack of confidence In his
voice. We thought Hauptmann was
going to bresk down then, but ad-
journment saved him, I believe.
Next day he was ready to start
lying all ovef again. For we had
reached the conclusion that he was
lying. And after definite testimony
to the contrary and Identification by
local witnesses we didn't believe his
denials that he had ever been neal
Hopewen when the Lindbergh baby
was stolen.
Even If we had believed his ex-
PLANTATION that he had dipped into
money left him by a friend. who
later died, thai wouldn't have boosted
Hauptmann with US. There was a
contradiction between his affectionstt
terms for this friend, Fisch, and hi,
willingness to let the kidnapping be
pinned on Fisch.
Mrs. Hauptmann on the stand
showed different character. She was
loyal, determined to see her husband
through, to stand by him to the end
We never had a thought that she
had any knowledge of the crime.
Evening star., 1935-06-23

not been swept away. II that had
been done, Hauptmann might still
be at large.
The sawdust was there because
some one had sawed a board out of
that attic floor. Mr.. Koehler con-
vinced us that this board had been
made into a rail for the ladder that
was found on Col Lindbergh's prop
erty. AS you may imagine, looked
all this exhibit over with a lot of
interest. 1t was in my line"
Evening star., 1935-06-23
TURKS TIGHTEN DEFENSE
High Council Alarmed at Euro
pean Complications.

ANKARA, Turkey, June % R.-
Turkeys high council of national de-
dense, alarmed at growing complica-
ton of the European situation, today
announced a three-year plan for
tightening land and sea defenSes on
the nations frontiers.
Strengthening of the defenses of
the Dardanelles was included in the
plan.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
States "AlI-Star Cast" !"

Charles F. Snyder, a farmer on the
jury. says:
THE State witnesses made up,
without exception, an alI-star cast
They we're well equipped with facts.
They appeared to know what they
were talking about. And they stood
up well under fire.
THE apparent sincerity of a wit
ness always impressed US. The mere
fact that he had good record as a
citizen did not, in itself, make his
testimony credible. His intent may
have been good, but his memory
faulty or his information weak.
"On the other hand, a witness with
a bad record may have been attempt
ing, this once, to be on the level and
to reveal facts. That was what we
had to try to determine. And every
witness was important. We did our
best to weigh and Judge them all.
'Dr. Condor made fine witness for
the prosecution. He proved that he
had sense, with lots to spare. We
had a great respect for him.
There was another old fellow who
knew what he was talking about.
That was Amandus Hochmuth, in his
sos. We observed him closely. and
followed his examination with the
greatest attention. For he mad been
in the Prussian army, and Haupt-
mann is a German, Of course. But
Hochmuth didn't help Hauptnlann
any. He identified Hauptmann and
his car, and said there was something
Evening star., 1935-06-23
Impressed By Writers.

May P. Brelsford, a housewife, gives
her version:
Under our noses, day after day,
stretched two long rows of people of
a special sort-men and women, mostly
young, all crouched over great stacks
of paper and with their fists full of
pencils.
These were the newspaper writers.
"All through the trial the writer's
acted like exclamation points, punctu-
ating the testimony.
I'VE we're not permitted any read
ing matter even remotely connected
with the trial.
TO tell the truth, We none of US
made up our minds to anything until
the evidence had been presented"
Evening star., 1935-06-23
GAMBLERS RAIDED
Chicago Curbs Handbook Opera
tors Until Bill Is Signed.

tors Until Bill Is Signed.
CHICAGO, June % {P.-Capt.
Daniel Gilbert, head of the city'S uni
formed police force, served notice on
all police captains today that hand
book operators could not operate in
anticipation of legalized gambling
provided in a law enacted by the Leg
islature this week, but not yet signed
by Gov. Horner.
An hour later police raided an al
legged handbook on Randolph street,
dispersed about 100 patrons and ar
rested Joseph Educate. 81, for operat-
ing handbook. The raiders got or
ders to destroy the elaborate equip
ment.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
Ecuador to Import Flour.

QUITO. Ecuador, June % R.-The
government today took over the buSi-
ness of importing -four, announcing
it would be resold directly to bakers
to curb speculation.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
mo MaudIin Sympathies." "

Rosie Pill, housewife and a grand
mother. tells how a woman feels about
sentencing a man to his death in the
electric chair. She says:
Il believe the feelings of a woman
on death jury are the same as those
of a man.
Usually, a woman is expected to
soften. But We were beyond the pity
that we might have felt normally. We
had no maudlin sympathies for Haupt-
mann. A fair-haired baby had been
killed, Hauptmann was the killer. and
We four woman jurors were mothers.
I'VE women knew how we would
have felt If our babies had been
murdered"
Evening star., 1935-06-23
'.BuSiness Partnership"

Ethel Stockton, an employe In a
lawyers ofice, now tells her tale:
Contrast the testimony of Mrs.
Lindbergh with the gaps Mrs. Haupt-
mann left in her story. Here they
were. a hard-working young couple,
she waitress, he a carpenter, living
with German thrift. Suppose my
husband suddenly walked into the
house with a S400 radio. I'd want to
know where the money came from.
Suppose my husband told me could
quit my job now. I'd want to know
why. Suppose my husband told me
I could go to Europe. I'd want to
know who was going to pay for it.
Theirs was a marriage where both
husband and wife worked, and I know
that such marriages are more likely
to be partnerships without business
secrets than one in which the husband
is the only proVider."
Evening star., 1935-06-23
COUGHL|N ACTION
ISDEN|ED IN ROME.
Intervention by Vatican Held
UnIikeIy-Bishops Rulers
of DioGeSeS.
BY the Associated Press.

6y h16 ASSOCldGeu HI60o.
VATICAN CITY, June 22.-Prelates
said tonight no alleged violations OF
Canon law on the part of Rev. Charles
E. Goughlin, fiery American critic and
priest, had been brought to the at
tention of the Holy See.
They declared any intervention by
ths4Vatican extremely unlikely, point
ing out that the Pope rarely interVened
to discipline a parish priest since
bishop is considered almost an abso-
lutte ecclesiastical ruler of his diocese.
Before the Pontiff took steps, it was
asserted, any matter affecting an
American priest probably would be
referred to the apostolic delegate at
washington.
In any event the prelates said, it
was unlikely that either the Vatican
or apostolic delegate would take any
action on their own initiative. An
appeal to them would have to be made
by other American bishops or high
cEurchmen, It was stated.
Evening star., 1935-06-23
CoughIin Lauds Tax Plan.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June %
PD.-Father Charles E. Coughlin IS
in Florida "for little holiday" Here
for short visit yesterday. Father
Coughlin left by automobile for
Miami.
He declined to discuss the coming
presidential election, but of President
Roosevelt, he said: During the last
40 hours MIR. Roosevelt has sponsored
a very wonderful philosophy of social
Justice. I refer to his tax plan, social
security ideas and the Wagner bill"
Evening star., 1935-06-23
Serious Work.

Robert Cravstt, clerical worker,
says:
Each days work was most serious,
far from fun. Had we taken it home
with us, over all that period of weeks,
we would have been unfit to give a
clearly reasoned verdict. So our brains
fioated level every night to receive cor
rect impressions the next day"
In elaboration, Cravatt told of the
terrific experiences of the jury in
trying to find exercise, ito keep them
selves fit.''
Evening star., 1935-06-23

about any one who could not show
up in the court room. 1t Is good
thing for Betty Cows good name that
she came from Scotland to say her
piece.
mo one wanted to see the wrong
person convicted. All we wanted was
the facts"
Evening star., 1935-06-23
Got Used to Lindbergh.

Elmer w Smith, an insurance agent
and justice Of the peace, takes the
stand and says Of his career as a
juryman, stressing mis- view of Col.
Lindbergh, who sat during every one
of the long -drawn-out days Of the
trial:
He was not, as so many people
have said, a constant reminder to US
Of our duty
Even when all the evidence was in,
and he must have been convinced be-
yond the shadow Of doubt that the
man sitting within arms reach was
the man who killed his son, there
was no change in the colonel's eyes
when they happened 20 fall on Haupt-
mann.
"Col. Lindbergh sat like a citizen
soldier doing a duty without finch
ing-so quietly, so much like just
another member of the crowd. that
most of the time we Jurors simply
forgot he was there"
Evening star., 1935-06-23

in the car which resembled ladder.
We felt he knew what he was talking
about"
La opinión., 1935-11-24

dos por un testigo presencial de aque-
los aeontecimientos, que gentlemen
importantes datos hist6ricos v docu-
mentos valiosos POGO conocidos que
Sc relaeionau con I'M de las epocas
La opinión., 1935-11-24
EL Segund0 IEGPERIO
Arregladas por JOSE A. BUSTAMANTE
Exclusivamente para los Per;o5;co. ~

OR riguroso orden crono-
logico Sc han escrito es-
tas memorials, que estan
exentas de pasiones v rem
cores.
Son Ell relate o recopi-
laci6n de apuntes toma-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-14
FEAR ZOO DEAD
IN FLOODS IN
UPPER ITALY ]
Dam Bursts !, Inundating
Wide Area After
Storm
ONLY MEAGRE REPORT
so FAR

ROME, Aug. IA. tUP).-Two
hundred persons were feared
drowned yesterday when flood wa
tiers from a dam burst inundated
Ovada and neighboring towns.
Officials estimated 100 died
from flood and storm in the Ovada
district alone. Casualties in areas
not inundated were reported sloT-
ly because of disrupted lcommuni-
cations. , S-gf.f{ /
Officials at Turin ordered relief
workers to assist, authorities at
Ovada. located In Tthe' Piedmo mt
region, 20 miles south :of fAless-
andria on the Orbe.. =
Torrential rains burst the Ortiz
glieto Lake dam, releasing millions
of cubic meters of water which
swept through Oavada and other
centers. 20,
Oavada is located in the midst
of fertile region growing rice,
wheat, maize, hemp and other ag-
ricultural products. The wine and
olive oil industries are prominent,
leading northern Italy for the ex-
cellence of their products.
Water from the bursted dam
flowed into the Stura land Olba
rivers which carried away railway
and highway bridges. Numerous
landslides increased food damage
and caused casualty lists to mount.
d The floods disrupted telephone
communications. -
Troops, training for war serv-
ice in East Africa, were rushed
from their encampment near
Oavada to assist in relief work.
Most inhabitants took refuge on
their housetops but the houses col
lapsed, drowning the refugees.
Calls for aid were sent to Genoa,
only a few miles distant.
The storm causing the floods
was of cyclonic force. 1t swept
the North Ligurian region, spead-
ing devastation. While the dam
burst at 80 p. m, disrupted COM
munications brought the news to
Rome only last night.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-14
FOLK DANCES
TO Be STAGED
Friday Night Entertain
ment Promises To Be
Spectacular

The Chamber of Commerce Folk
Dance Festival to be held in the
city auditorium Friday evening Of
this week will include quite a
spectacle of dancers. Among those
to participate in the square dance
teams will be some of the business
and professional men of the COM
munity, college boys and girls, Wis.
iting young people, and some of
the square dancers in the county.
Teams competing in the square
dance part of the program will be
from the American Legion, who
have been having weekly square
dances in their hall for the past
two or three years; team from
Flack's hotel, where large num-
bers of people have been dancing
each Tuesday and Friday nights
throughout the past several sum-
mers; and one from Henderson
vile, which will include some OF
the best dancers in the city. May
or A. v. Edwards will be inicharge
of the American Legion team; Bill
Lowrance. of Edneyville will cap
tain the Flack team. and John Will
kins- will be in charge of the city
team. The best callers in this Sec
ton have been selected to call the
different figures and it is expected
that many new steps and figures
will be exhibited. In this contest,
Flack's orchestra, which has been
so. popular for the past two or
three summers, and which has also
played at Laurel Park and the
American Legion, will furnish the
music.
The second part of this folk
dance festival will include series
of. American dances, beginning
with an Indian dance to be dem
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-14
ENGLAND MAY LET
BERLIN RETALIATE

LONDON Aug. 14.A(UP).-
Britain's last hope Of ayerting an
Italof Ethiopian wAr rests on pro-
posals for q collective economic
mandate over Ethiopia. the Uni
ted Press was informed yester-
day. -i.7s -r-,.,. "a,
: British secretary for League of
nations affairs, Capt: r., Anthony
Eden, and Sir Robert Van Sit
tart, undersecretary for foreign
affairs, now in Paris. for tri-
power negotiations, will submit
economic mandate proposals to
Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Italian
delegate, and 9 French Premier
Pierre Laval.
The British scheme may in
clude q prposal for appointing a
league high commissioner. prob
ably an Italian, to be stationed
at Adds Ababs with definitely
stipulated economic and political
prerogatives.
Officials denied reports Britain
is willing to offer certain go
lonial possessions to Italy if war
in East Africa can be ayerted.s
Although, officials stress that
only, league ideals are at stake in
the East African conflict diplo-
mats believe the situation is de-
veloping rapidly into an Anglo
Italian struggle for Medlterran-
can mastery r
Observers believed Italy is chal-
longing Britain's sea power with
air power. Italian victory, in
East Africa was considered likely
to, endanger ,Britain,s sea route
to !, India and British supremacy
along the Nile.
There were hints here that' II
Italy remains adamant at Paris
Britain will convey a polite
that should Italy strike
q mortal blow at collective secuIr
ity efforts by 'unloosing war in
Ethiopia then Britain will not
lift q finger to prevent Germany
from extending :her frontier to
the. Brenner pass by future OPP
eratiehs in Austria. 80
Some ?, correspondents suggest
ed that; 4 financial and economic
weakening Of Italy by. war might
lead Germany in the future !to
compel Rome to s:spgrender Ethl-
opia to Berlin, which coyets col
oniesa ~ sr%g.s = = a.