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The Washington times., 1935-01-04
GOLD CLAUSE
DEFENDED
International News Service

International News Service
In a new legal defense of abro
cation of the gold claus in Gov,
eminent bonds. Attorney General
Cummings today filed a brief in
the Supreme Court declaring the
clause seriously interfered" with
the Governments borrowin g
power.
If the gold clause had been
maintained after devaluation, the
Attorney General pointed out, the
cost to the Government would
have been enormous. He said /:
"WhiIe the Federal govern
ment might have devaIued the
dollar, and for a time, main
tanned the service on its gold
clause obligations in gold and
there after in an amount of
money sufficient to purchase
gold coin of the old standard,
or its equivalent by weight, the
income of the Government
would necessarily have had to
be increased from taxation to
meet this enhanced charge.
Eventually the Government
might have found itself Oblidged
to follow the course pursued at
the end of the Civil War, when,
in order to pay its obligations in
coin, greenbackS were denied
legal tender quality for payment
Of customs duties"
The brief was filed in the appeal
Of John M. Perry, New York law
yer, who demanded the treasury
pay bonds in gold or it's equivalent
Of $l.69 for every 81 of the bond.
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GGng Link Hinted

Colonel L in d berg h was
questioned as follows about
possible knowledge by a gang
of his absence from home
the evening Of the kidnap-
ing:
Q.-There would be no
general knowledge to the
world that you weren't COM
ing home that night? A
No, very few know what I do.
Q.-Any grOup-any gang
wouldn't have knowledge
Of it, would they, Colonel?
A.-Of course not.
cit wouldn't depend on
any information you gave
them?
Colonel Lindbergh looked
surprised and answered:
"NOt with my knowledge" "
The Washington times., 1935-01-04
Defense to Place Guilt
InLindbergh Home

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 4 G.N.S).
Details Of the defense planned
by attorneys for Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, on trial for the mur.
der of the infant son of Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, in Flem-
ington, stood revealed here today.
They were made public in a
radio address by Edward j..
Reilly, chief Of defense counsel.
He said:
"The defense will establish
that Hauptmann had nothing
70 do with the crime and that
it was conceived in the Lind
bergh home itself but not by
any member of the family.
I'VE will show that the kid
naping was planned and ex-
eOutsA bg . Eana Of five pep
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Tells of Search

Colonel Lindbergh, after
telling Of the ransom pay
ment, testified:
"The next morning, with
Colonel Breckenridge (COI-
Onel Lindbergh's friendl 1
left for Bridgeport, Conn.,, in
the plane.
eve were looking for q
boat which the note said
would have my son. We flew
around Bridgeport for over
two hours. / was at the con-
trolls"
He was asked:
'But your search was in
vain?"
"It was"
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Points to Map

The defense counsel led Colonel
Lindbergh to the map of the wall
and there was a discussion with
Mr.. Wilentz as to the relevancy
Of tracing places on the map.
Colonel Lindbergh traced with
q pointer the room of his house
outlined on the map. He said he
had walked around the house but
admitted he had not looked" for
footprints in the gravel driveway
outside.
Q.-You last saw your son on
Sunday evening? Ayes. He
had spent the previous weekend
at Englewood."
Colonel Lindbergh said that his
servants did not always know
when he was coming back to
Hopewell.
Mr.. Reilly reminded Colonel
Lindbergh he understood Mrs.
Lindbergh to have said it was his
habit to spend week-ends at Hope
well, Colonel Lindbergh replied:
con and off"
Asked if he had spent the week.
end prior to the kidnapping on
March /, 1882, there, Colonel
Lindbergh answered:
Eyes"
Q.-And you think we have
good Federal police, Department
Of Justice men? Al think they
are very good. too
Q.-Isn't it true no Department
of Justice agent has ever seen
those ransom notes? A.-Oh, /
don't think that's right!
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sons, whose names, naturally
we cannot disclose at this time.
Furthermore the defense
will prove that the child was
carried from its nursery down
the stairs of the house, rather
than down the ladder, which
the State contends was used in
the perpetratiOn of the crime.
"Our attack on this prosecu-
tiOn testimony probably will be.
gin as soon as we have OppOP-
tunity to crOss-examine wit
nesses. We will show that this
ladder was never used in the
kidnapping and will attack the
authenticity of photographs al
legedly depicting the marks 1t
made in the soft earth beneath
the nursery window"
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Only Smudges

Reilly said he understood
Lindbergh to say he did not
pick up the kidnap note when
he found 1t on the window
grating.
'Ts that right?" he asked.
eyes. 1 didn't want to get
any fingerprintS on it."
Q.-YOu didn't touch II.
Weren't you alarmed and ex.
cited about the baby?
Ayes, but 1 knew what
had happened.
$50 you waited for the
police. Did they find finger.
prints on the note?
A.-NO; only smudgeG.
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DEFENSE GRLS COL LNDBERG4 ON SERVANTS FA7HFULNESS
TOO YOUNG TO KNOW FAMILYS WOE

INFANT SON Of the
man accused of the muir
der of the Lindbergh
baby gazes upon a picture
of the father whose life
hangs in the balance of
justice. All friends of the
Bronx carpenter agree on
one thing-that his love
for his son is profound.
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"Hey, Doctor"

Lindbergh during direct
examination dramatically
identified III aupt m a n n
through his voice as the
man he heard call, "Hey,
dOctOr!" to DR.. John F. Con.
don when he (Lindbergh)
and Condor went at night
to a cemetery in the Bronx,
New York city, to pay over
the $4,000 ransom for the
return of the baby. Haupt-
mann shifted a bit in his
chair when Lindbergh made
the Identification, but
quickly regained his pOise.
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Might Smother!

Mr.. Reilly went on:
"ThiS frequently happens.
Babies diSarrange the covers
and sometimes do themselves
serious injury or smother. Are
you sure that could not have
happened?
The Colonel replied:
II think that if the baby had
been too warm we would have
heard from him."
Q.-Now, when you gave the
alarm did you hear any unusual
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LAWYER REILLY.
CLASHES WITH
W|LENTZ
SIS that right?"
eyes, 1 didn't want to get
any fingerprints on it."

YeS, l didn't want to ret
any fingerprints on It,"
Q.-You didn't touch it
weren't you alarmed and excl
ted about the baby? A.-Yes, but
I knew what had happened.
Q.-So you waited for the po-
lice. Did they find fingerprints
on the note? A.-No. Only
smudges.
Q.-How much would you say
the ladder weighed? A.-The
three sections weighed, roughly,
35 pounds, 1 should say.
Q.-Pretty heavy to carry,
wouldn't it be? At could be
carried easily under the arm.
Q.-Where was the kidnap note
the last you saw of it that night?
Am the possession of Trooper
Kelly.
Justice Thomas w. Trenchard
at this juncture-12:30 p. M
adjourned court until LAS p. m.
Colonel Lindbergh, as the session
opened, had told how he and DIR.
Condor had gone to the Bronx
cemetery to pay over the money
and how he had heard a man talk.
ing to DR.. Condor in the GENE.
terry.
Walking close to the stand, At
torney General Wilentz asked:
"You remember that voice?"
ayes"
ITO whom did the voice belong?"
"Hauptmann."
The colonel almost shouted the
name.
Hauptmann stirred nervously in
his seat. His eyes shifted rapidly,
as though to catch the reaction to
Lindbergh's damning testimony.
1t was one of the most dramatic
moments of the trial.
The courtroom was hushed.
Mr.. Wilentz spoke up:
"YOu remember that vOice?"
Yes"
'Have you ever heard 1t SINCE"
Eyes"
"Where?"
'In the Bronx District AttOr.
ney office"
1t was there that Colonel Lind
bergh, wearing glasses as a dis
guise, observed and listened to
Hauptmann when he was in Gus.
tody there.
After DR.. Condor paid over the
$4,000 to the mysterious stranger
in the Bronx cemetery he came
back to the car and reported to
Colonel Lindbergh. DR.. Condor
brought Lindbergh a note. Mr..
Wilentz asked.
did he bring this nOte?"
Mr.. Wilentz handed the colonel
a letter.
eyes"
"Then what did you do?"
eve went back to DIR. Con-
dOn's house. I made arrange
ments to get a plane"
: "The next morning. with Col
Onel Breckenridge, 1 left for
Bridgeport, Conn.,, in the plane"
what was the purpose of
this trip in the plane?"
I'VE were looking for a boat
which the note said would have
my son. We flew around Bridge
port for over two hours. / was
at the controls"
But your search was in
vain?"
"It was"
This concluded Colonel Lind
bergh's direct examination and
the defense took the witness over
for croSs-eXamination.
AS Colonel Lindbergh took the
stand as the trial opened Attorney
General Wilentz asked if he found
ladder outside the nursery win
dow. The colonel replied he did.
"Was it strange to the houSe?"
Eyes, it did not belong to the
house?"
did you find a chisel too,
outside the hOuSe?"
mo, but one was reported
found and brought in. It was
also strange to the house."
Colonel Lindbergh testified a
dowell-pin, which he had never
seen before, also was found out
side the house.
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Denies Clash

Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh, under crosS-examina-
tiOn today, denied at the
murder trial Of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann that he had
ever telephOned Washington
and asked somebody" to
have Federal agents "lay off"
the Lindbergh baby kidnap-
ing-that he, Colonel Lind
bergh. would handle 1t him
self.
The Washington times., 1935-01-04
CRASH KILLS WOMAN

LEWISTOWN, Pa.-Mrs. Anna
Jondro, AZ, is dead as result of
8 collision with the auto of Emil
Shah, 20. Shab's car skidded on
the icy highway and crashed into
the jondro aaF
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SmOthered?

Reilly said he assumed
Lindbergh did not let trades
people fondIe the baby, nor
let the milk man handle him
in the morning.
NO." replied Lindbergh,
his face serious.
Q.-All right. Now, colonel,
iS it possible that the baby
got too warm that night and
tossed about on its face some
how, so that it could have
been SmOthered.
A.-NO, / do not think %.
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CLAIM |NFANT 7.
COULD HAVE
SMOTHERED

Continued from Page y
Lindbergh's praise of the State
police and Justice Trenchard ad-
monished the audience and said,
"Don't do it again"
Mr.. Reilly's voice was sharp and
rose higher as he cross-questioned
Colonel I,indberph
The Washington times., 1935-01-04
Dog Didn't Bark

Odd you have a dog,
Colonel? Ayes, we had one
dog.
Odd you at any time that
night hear the dog bark as though
at a stranger prowling about?
A.-No; but I wouldn't expect
that dog to bark.
Q.-From where you sat in the
dining-room that night you could
not see the doorway Of the pantry.
the servants, or the servants
staircase, could you? A.-No.
Q.-Where was Betty Cow when
you were eating? Al think she
was upstairs.
Q.-Colonel Lindbergh, couldn't
It have been possible for somebody
to come in the front door, go
upstairs and take that baby while
you were eating without you
knowing it? Al don't think so.
Mr.. Reilly thundered:
''Never mind what you think.
Answer whether IL 1t was pos.
sibIe."
Mr.. Wilentz jumped to his feet
and shouted at Mr.. Reilly:
"Never mind that never mind
stuff"
Colonel Lindbergh was asked to
describe the exact location Of his
Hopewell home.
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Three Footprints.

Mr.. Reilly shifted the line Of
interrogation.
Q.-How many footprints did
you find in the nursery after the
baby had been taken? A.-Three,
think. One on the floor, one
on suitcase and one on the sill.
Wouldn't a man of ITO
pounds, coming through the win
dow stepping down on that suit
case. go through it! Al don't
think so.
How did Betty Cow act
when she told you the baby was
gone? A.-That's a hard question
to answer.
Dwell, was she crying? Was
she hysterical? A.-No.
Q.-She was the person closest
to the baby, with the exception of
Mrs. Lindbergh. wasn't she? A
She was with the baby more than
anyone else-excluding Mrs. Lind.
bergh.
No Finqerprints
Mr.. Reilly said he understood
Mndbergh to say he did not pick
no the kidnan notA He askeda
The Washington times., 1935-01-04
"Wires T0pped'

Q.-When the telephone wires
were Laid do you know whsthsr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Daily Sub
Drive Mounts

Steadily mounting action is tell
ing in the Daily Worker subscrip-
ton drive.
Sixty per cent more subscriptions
than were received the previous
week were recorded from Jan. 81
to Feb. 6. The total of new sub
Scriptions is now up to seven hun
dred.
This, of course, is not an extraor-
binary score. But the fact that
almost $50 subscriptions were re-
ceived last week, while 1856 came in
the week before, is proof that the
Communist Party districts in the
country are getting down to the
task, Chicago is an illustration.
The week of Jan. "a it secured 81
subs. Last week it brought in 80.
But Chicago, which is now tied
with Detroit for eighth place, and
Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh
can certainly do better than they
are doing. They are concentration
districts and prime field for the
Daily Worker. And they have had
time to map out full campaign.
Boston, which has pledged itself
to get at least 125 per cent of its
quota, will have it's district wide
Daily Worker conference to lay out
the organizational measures for
Communist Party units and mass
organizations, tomorrow at 919
Washington Street, at II am.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Workers Pick
Unity Ticket

CIMARRON, N. NJ, Feb. IA
United Front Workers and Farm
ers' Ticket has been placed on the
ballot for the school board elections
here on Feb. IL.
Demands include abolition of dis
elimination against Spanish Amer
lean workers on school construction
and repairs, union wages for skilled
workers and minimum wage of
fifty cents an hour for unskilled
labor and the following benefits
for children of unemployed workers
and poor farmers at the expense
of the school district and State;
school supplies, including text books,
paper, pencils, ETC., shoes and warm
winter clothing; fresh milk for the
younger children, and hot lunches
at noon; free and adequate medical,
dental and optical attention.
The workers and farmers candi-
date proposed that the funds nee
essary for this program be raised
by taxation of the property of the
Phelps Dodge Mining Company, the
Santa Fe Railroad, and large land
lords estates, and that sales taxes
and taxation of small owners and
farmers be abolished.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
l,5OO W alkOut
On Relief Job
AT Fort Smith

FORT SMITH, Ark, Jan. g.
More than 1900 workers and farm
ers struck here Wednesday against
a 2O-cent hourly relief wage and
closed all of the forty-two relief
projects. The strike followed re-
duction of relief wages from thirty
to twenty cents an hour on Feb.
and the announcement by County
Relief Administrator F. P. Kirk that
all relief work must end after Feb
10.
Starting last Saturday, the walk
out spread rapidly as the workers
organized flying squadrons Of min
ers who called upon the other work
ers to Join them in the strike. There
was no disorder; the men main
tanned perfect discipline; the sem
timent for strike was unanimous,
Full responsibility for the wage
slash rests upon the Roosevelt adj
ministration, which on Nov. % Or
dered that the thirty-cent an hour
minimum wage rate on Federal
projects be dropped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09

ernor and State legislature.
Numerous organizations, including
the Urban League of Baltimore, the
Peoples Unemployment League and
the Baptist Ministers Union, are
reported to have elected delegates
to the conference. The conference
will also be open to visitors.
Mrs. Maude P. Bell, secretary Of
the Abolish Cheltenham Committee.
spoke over WCBM last night on
conditions at Cheltenham. The
Young Worker, published in New
York City, is now running a series
of articles on the horrible condi-
tons at the refornatory, which in
clude brutal beatings Of the boys,
hunger diets, forced unpaid labor
and speed-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
WOrkerS'EnemieS
Exposed

Robert E. Johnson and Cicero
WillOughby, of Columbus, Ohio,
have been expelled from the Com
munist Party as defenders and as
sociates of exposed enemies Of the
working class (Carskadon and Dyla,
see Daily Worker of Sept. %, 1884
and for trying to disrupt the Party
and the unemployed movement.
ROBERT E. JOHNSON (also
known as Turner in Chicago, in
1889, threatened TO turn over a
worker to the police and tried to
intimidate Negro workers, members
of the Unemployed Council. His
whole effort to gain leadership In
the Unemployed Council has been
with the aim Of furthering his dis
ruptive activity and creating confu-
sion in the ranks of the unem-
ployed.
CICERO WILLOUGHBY, who
was formerly an insurance agent,
but now unemployed, and who him
self admits to have been a secret
service operative at one time, util-
lied his position as organizer of the
Unemployed Council to carry on dis
ruptive activity. His whole history
in the working class movement has
been that of careerist, who has
repeatedly refused to work collec-
lively with others or accept counsel
or correction. He has continuously
INDUCED in disruptive remarks at
meetings and in open ISLANDERS of
working class leaders in Columbus.
Description: He is an American
Negro, 81 years old; height #.
9 in; weight 40 pounds; brown
eyes and high forehead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Election Board
Bars Workers
From Hearing

CHICAGO, Feb. 8-The Commu-
mist Party here has called on all
available sympathetic forces as well
as its own membership to devote
every available ounce of energy and
every minute of time to the collec-
ton of nominating signatures for
candidates in the aldermanic cleo
tons between now and Feb. II.
The groundless challenges of the
nominating petitions, railroaded
through with the approval of the
Democratic election commissioners
who are conspiring to keep all save
their own nominees off the ballot,
makes an intensive signature drive
imperative, the Communist Party
election campaign committee points
out,
The hearings on the challenges
which have been in progress before
the election board during the past
few days, have been a bitter joke
The commissioners in charge have
refused to hear any testimony of
the hundreds of witnesses called on
behalf Of the challenged candidates.
There was a real commotion in
court when the several hundred wit
nesses called in on the George RACE
case, workers who travelled for miles
to testify in behalf of their can
didate, were not allowed TO testify.
The Communist Party, which is
supporting these workers candi-
dates is the only fighter for the
democratic rights of the people.
These attacks against the Alder
manic petitions already indicate
what workers are to expect in con-
nection with the Mayoralty petit
tons.
To meet the objections to the
petitions the workers candidates
must have the maximum number of
signatures. The petitions must meet
all the requirements. The backing
Of the Communist Party petitions
by 10000 Chicago workers will be
the best guarantee that the bosses
will not dare to rule the workers
candidates off the ballot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
DIR. Ward VIII Lecture
On Menace of Fascism
in Chicago on Tuesday

CHICAGO. Feb. g. Under Joint
auspices of the Christian Social Ac-
ton Movement and the Chicago
Section of the American League
Against War and F'ascism, DR..
Harry F. Ward, chairman of the
American League, will speak in
Chicago Tuesday evening Feb. II
on, THE Fascist Menace in the
United States" The meeting, to be
held at the K A. NJ. Temple, 1859
DreXel Avenue, is sponsored by q
large committee Of prominent trade
unionists. rabbits, and liberals, both
Negro and white.
Among the sponsors are: Clarence
Darrow, Rabbi Louis L, Mann, Al
Hamilton, National Chairman Of
the Student League for Industrial
Democracy; Annette Dieckmann,
Industrial Secretary, YWCA,; Rev.
Blaine kirkpatrick, Herbert New
ton, Communist candidate for City
Clerk; Rev A. Weyman Ward,
prominent Negro minister; and
Florence Curtis Hanson, secretary
treasurer Of the American Fedora
ton Of Teachers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Cold Grips Europe;
Avalanches Kill 10
AS Billiards. Rage

GENEVA, Feb. 8 CUP Biz
yards, avalanches and bitter cold
that sent wolves into isolated vii
lagos were reported over Europe
and Asia today.
Grip and influenza were preva-
lent in Poland, Roumania, Spain
and France.
Fifteen persons have been
killed in recent days in Switzer-
land by avalanches. A similar
situation was reported from Italy
and Austria. Some main line
railways were blocked. Billiards
in Czechslovskia brought snow
slides that killed at least four
persons.
Wolves menaced villages in the
Puerta areas and Preiras regions
in Spain and Jalslbad, India
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Unions Aid
Morris Weiner
In ID it
Detroit Daily Worker Bureau

DETROIT. Feb. "A further step
forward in the united front that
has been set up in the effort to
defeat the murder frame-up Of
Morris Weiner, member of Jewish
Bakers Union 78 CA. F. Of L. and
to prevent the union from being
destroyed was taken at a confer
ence at which twenty-one organi-
cations were represented.
Among the organizations were
the Jewish Branch of the Socialist
Party, the Jewish Branch of the
Communist Party, all branches of
the Workmen's Circle, all branches
of the International Workers Order,
Jewish Anarchist Group, Interna-
tional Labor Defense, Jewish Bakers
Union 78, and Painters Union AZ,
The conference decided to start
visiting all Jewish organizations in
the city in an effort to enlist their
support
Weiner has been framed on a
charge of having killed the son of
Joseph Haftka, bakery owner, the
night of Dec. IL. Though Haftka
admitted Immediately after the kill
ing that he could not identify the
slayer, eight days later great light
dawned upon him and he "identi-
fed" young Weiner. The Jewish
Masters Bakers Association is ex-
plotting the killing in an effort to
whip up public sentiment against
the union and to attack the living
standards of the workers. The trial
of Weiner, who has been held with
out bail, is scheduled to start Feb.
10.
In addition to this brazen frame
up, twenty-five other members of
the Jewish Bakers Union have been
charged with conspiracy to obstruct
a business. Their trial has been
postponed till Feb. 16.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Frisco Labor Body Officials
In ReprisdIs on Rank and File

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. g.
We'll serve you as we always have"
said John O'Connell, reactionary
secretary-treasurer of the Central
Labor Council, as he, Edward Van
derleur, and other reelected Off
GERS were installed at a meeting
here.
But no sooner was the official
ceremony over than these betrayers
of the general strike launched an
attack to purge" the council of
reds" as their reelection this time
was opposed by a rank and file
slate which polled as high as 81
votes. AS the first on the list they
picked on Emile Rabin, of the
Cleaners and Dyers Federal Local,
who was on the rank and file slate,
by refusing to accept his delegates
fee, and requesting the local to ask
for his resignation,