The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

Sensation Of Hauptmarm Trial
COuers SOrdid LMdbergh Story
Millions of Words Used
To Dope the Minds of
Masses in Misery
BY ALLEN JOHNSON

FLEMlNGION, N. j., Jan. o.
With the calling of Mrs. Anna Lind
berg to the witness stand this after
noon, the super-ballyhooed trial of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, started
off to a sensational squirt. Even the
very dull process of the selection of
jury of twelve, four women and
ten men, received whole pages of
attention in the capitalist press,
which seizes upon this kidnapping
and murder case to pour streams
of sensational dope into the minds
of the workers harrassed with the
problems of unemployment, and in
creasing smashing of their living
standards.
Immediately after the jury was
completed this morning, Prosecutor
Wilentz called Hauptmann "the
man who dealt Charles A. Lind
bergh, Jr q murderous blow, crush
ing his skull, and who later stripped
from the dead child's body the tell
tale sleeping garment to use for his
evil purposes" After Wilentz had
formally charged Hauptmann with
the murder of her child, and had
surveyor on the witness stand to
identify local maps. Mrs. Lindbergh
took the stand to answer questions
that the Prosecutor put to her con-
corning the location and architec-
ture of the Southland Mt estate,
from which the child was kidnapped.
She was obviously nervous and
seemed reluctant to speak. Betty
Cow, Lindbergh nurse, is expected
to take the stand next.
Swarm Of Newspapermen
More newspapermen have des-
cended on this village of 5000 than
reported either the World Wa- or
the birth of new world in the
Soviet Union. Not one in len will
ever get within earshot of the trial
proceedings but of those who VIII,
and these include the most accom-
plished co:rupters of truth in the
service of the capitalist press, will
keep fifty operators working for
each of the two major telegraph
companies busy tapping out min
imum of half million words day
in stream of sentimental gas de-
liberately intended to KEEP the minds
of the American people off their
real problems for at least a month.
The workers in and around Flem-
ington are not being taken in very
much by the gigantic poison propa-
ganda machine which has thrust it
self upon them. They are much
too beset by the runaway shops
from New York which have eStab-
lished themselves here to escape
from union conditions in the metrop-
oils, to consider the murder trial
at more than its proper worth. TIC
them, Lindbergh is rich man who
has suffered a personal calamity. AS
such they are sorry for him but not
at all heart broken. AS a matter OF
fact, it is altogether probable that
they are less perturbed by the
Hauptmann trial than by murder
trial involving a local citizen, which
took place here recently.
The Capitalist Fable
The fable that the capitalist
newspapermen are spinning for the
edification of a people lying pros
trate in the grip of semi-starvatior
is as follows: Charles Augustus
Lindbergh. poor but honest youth
with heart of gold and the am
bition of pinch hitter in Worlo
Series game, by dint of going tc
bed early, rising early, loving his
mother and praying at proper in
teryals, saved up his pennies unit
he had sufficient thereof to buy
himself a $4,000 airplane with
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