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The Washington times., 1935-10-15
TOWNS WEIGH
ASERVICE

MEMPHIS.-With the lines
tightly drawn for the first time
between two systems Of publicly.
owned light and power service, the
Tennessee Valley Authority is
awaiting the outcome of a de-
cision by three West Tennessee
towns to determine whether their
taxpayers want low taxes or cheap
power. Upon the decision will
also hinge the carrying forward Of
IVA plans for a 253-mile one mil
lion dollar loop from the new Pick
wick Dam into northwestern Ten
neSsee.
Following an extensive survey
of the eight west Tennessee towns
Of Jackson, Somerville, Milan,
Trenton, Bolivar, Union City,
Dyersburg and Covington, the
IVA announced plans for build
ing the loop and offered figures
designed to show that it could
bring about a total annual saving
Of $153,000.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
AAA HELP CITED
BY WALLACE

Secretary Of Agriculture Wal.
lace defended the economic wis.
dom of the AAA farm policy last
night, a few hours after the Su.
preme Court decided to review the
constitutionality Of AAA process
ing taxes.
Mr.. Wallace. talking on a pro
gram arranged some months ago
asserted the processing tax now in
effect on nine commodities bene-
fitted more persons than the en-
tire tariff structure which taxes
over 5000 commodities.
He explained there are more
than 100000 contract signers
under the AAA, and about 5.000,-
900 wage-earners in tariff-pro-
tected industries, in many Of
which the protection is incom-
plete or ineffective.
Mr.. wallace analyzed Americas
position as a creditor nation, con.
cluding that if it were to remain a
creditor, imports would eventually
have to exceed exports by several
hundred million dollars.
The wholesale reduction caused
by the drought, he said, resulted
in heavy imports which made it
appear that the requisite unfavor.
able balance of trade was ap
preaching.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15

Present World Situation and
What We Can Do About It" was
the subject of an address by DR..
Sherwood Eddy, before a meeting
Of the ministerial associations of
Baltimore, Washington and Fred.
erick, yesterday in Calvary Meth.
odiSt Episcopal Church here.
The meeting was sponsored by
the social service commission of
the Baltimore conference of the
M e tn odist Episcopal Church,
prayer was offered by Rev. DR.. L.
B. Smith, of Baltimore, followed
by the introduction of DR.. Eddy
by Rev. DR.. ASbury Smith, of Bal
timore, chairman of the social
service commission.
John s. Newman, former Judge
Of the circuit court, made a mis-
step while walking at his farm
a short distance south of this
city and fractured his left leg
above the knee. He was brought
by ambulance to the Frederick
City Hospital where it was stated
yesterday that he was doing very
well.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
Washington TenpIaE'S
Visit Frederick

FREDERICK, Md, Oct. Is.
About 1875 members of Bright
wood Com man dery, No. 6,
knights Templar, of Washington,
D. c., made their annual vista
ton and attended worship at the
Calvary Methodist Church here
Sunday. The Rev. DR.. Williams,
pastor of the church and a mem
Der Of the Brightwood Command
cry, preached a special sermon.
Two anthems were rendered by
the choir under the direction Of
James H. Harris.
A coroner's inquest into the
death of Deputy Sheriff j. Leo
Warner, 35, of Carroll county, in
a motor mishap was deemed un'
necessary following an investiga-
ton by Justice of the Peace
George C. Thompson and State
Officer r. F. Lewis, which re-
vealed that the officers death
was due to his own negligence.
Capt. Henry Clay Getzendanner,
of Charles Town, w. Va, who was
indicted by the September grand
jury on a charge of false pretense
in cattle sale, will not waive ex-
tradition to Maryland for trial,
States Attorney Sherman P. Pow
ers stated. Captain Getzendanner
has not been arrested.
"The Challenge of War in the.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
CHEERS GREET
NEW LABOR
-
LEADER

-. ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., Oct. Is
-II.N.SO.-A new figure had def
-nitely emerged today as a poten-
-tially powerful influence in shap-
ing future American Federation Of
Labor affairs.
The man is George M. Harrison,
president of the Railway Clerks
and Federation vice president,
who succeeded in working out a
likely compromise between the
two building trades factions that
have been at each others throats
0pr more than a year.
=. Cheers Greet Statement
=, Cheers greeted the announce
3nent in the A. F. of L. conven-
ton that the 10 construction
unions finally had been able to
agree on formula which presaged
N peaceful reorganization Of the
building trades department.
The Importance Of the settle
ment to the general public lies in
the fact that "juriSdictional"
strikes otherwise would have been
IN order all over the country, tying
lip building operations Of all kinds.
= Harrison, a 40-year-old 200
pounder, succeeded in getting the
two opposing groups together
only after two weeks of constant
conference. When word was
brought in that an agreement
had been reached. delegates
popped up all over the floor de-
handing to see the new miracle
man."
Berry to Quit Council
It was learned authoritatively
Eoday that Major George L.
Berry, recently appointed by
President Roosevelt as coordinator
for industrial cooperation, will
not seek reelection to the A. F.
of l.. executive council this week.
Mr.. Berry is head of the Press
mems Union but his friends say
he feels it would be embarrassing
for him to be on organized
labor's highest council and at
the same time try to reconcile
Fundamental differences between
employer and employe.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15

"The Challenge of War in the.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
ADVERTISEMENT
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The Washington times., 1935-10-15
MAUDE ADAMS
TAKES STAND

NEW YORK, Oct. IS Q.N.SD .
Maude Adams, one-time darling
of the nations threater-goers, will
assume a new role today when
she takes the witness stand in
New York Supreme Court to de-
fend a 100000 suit for unpaid
services brought by John D. Will.
liamS, stage director.
Williams alleges he spent four
years trying to secure a stage ap-
pearance for Miss Adams, and
finally succeeded when the for
mer star was given a leading role
in The Merchant Of Venice" in
1881, but received no pay for his
services.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
No; 6. 0. P. Won't
Hear Capt. MaCkey

= ARLINGTON COURTHOUSE
Va, Oct. Is (SpeciaD Capt
-Crandal Mackey was angry to
day. A lifelong Democrat, it had
been reported that he would speak
at Republican mass meeting.
About this, Captain Mackey
said:
'T will not speak at any Re-
publican meeting. The only
= thing that / could tell . Repub-
: lican meeting is that I am a
- JeffersOnian Democrat, have
= been a lifelong Democrat, and
will continue to be Democrat
opposed to this National Admin
iStratiOn."
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
Young Rogers Sick
Over Death Of Girl

RIVERHEAD, N. Y, Oct. IS
U.N.S0. - Because Henry H.
Rogers, jr., is still in a estate of
nervous collapse as a result Of
the death of Evelyn Hoey, actress,
from gunshot wounds received at
his Pennsylvania country home,
consideration Of the application
for probate of his fathers will
was postponed today until October
28. Postponement was granted at
the request of young Rogers at
torney.
The Washington times., 1935-10-15
Mrs. Ellen O'Neil's
Burial Tomorrow

District resident for more than
10 years, Mrs. Ellen O'Neil, 76,
of 4416 Conduit Rd. N. W., who
died at her home Sunday. will be
buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery,
after services at Our Lady of Vic
tory Church at 10 q. m. tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
BY LEIGH MATTESON

FLEMINGTON, N. j., Jan. II
UN.SO.-Analysis of all of the
Hauptmann trial events at the
beginning of this second weekend
adjournment of the court shows
the State is not going to deviate
from the "lone" man theory pre-
sented to the police by Interna-
tional News Service in May, 1882.
When the trial was adjourned
yesterday, the prosecutions chief
handwriting expert, Albert S. Os-
born, was still demonstrating to
the jury the amazing similarity of
the writing of the composer of the
ransom notes and the writing. of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
While lawyers for the defense
were poring today over. the nu-
merous specimens of the two
handwritings compared by Mr.. Os-
born, the elderly expert was rest
ing at a Trenton hotel. confident
that he could prove to the jury
that only one man was involved
in the writing of the ransom
notes, the various documents
written by Hauptmann before the
Lindbergh baby disappeared and
those written by the prisoner after
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
N. 7. Sticks to Theory
OF Lone Kidnaper

his arrest on September 10, 1884.
In samples of handwriting ere
quested" from Hauptmann after
he was taken into custody, this
writer discerned a number of as
founding Similarities between the
handwriting and words in some
of the ransom notes.
In a promissory note, written
by Hauptmann long before the
Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, he
wrote Il promise to pay the sum
of 1.-TWO hundred (200.00$)." The
document was headed "New-York"
"a hyphenated writing Of the
words, New York." which was
characteristic of the same word
printed with ink on the package
containing the sleeping suit, which
was sent to Colonel Lindbergh
through DR.. John F. "Jafsie"
Condor.
The Lindbergh ransom note
writer frequently misspelIed words
by placing a &C" where the letter
IS" should be. The fourth ran.
som note contained the word "in.
cloced" meant for Enclosed"
In all of the notes the IS" sign
was placed at the end of the
numerals. The first note started
off: Have 5O,000$ redy."
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
'Singature' Is Seen as Doom of Hauptrna

which was worth everything in
clearing up any mystery sur.
rounding the Lindbergh kidnap.
ing. In the end he made you
identify that handwriting for
yourself. In the end he showed
you and taught you, right there
ip the courtroom, enough to be
able to judge for yourself.
He was simply the interme.
diary for the jury, that's all.
The charts of those notes and
of the many long pages which
Hauptmann wrote after he was
arrested because he had the ran.
som money in his possession were
handed to the jury. Page after
page of that record was placed
before them, so they might see
for themselves. And they leaned
forward, studying the specimens
intently, glancing at Mr.. Osborn,
weighty and composed, and then
at Hauptmann, still and rigid
in his chair.
What they thought while they
examined those notes we will
know when they bring in their
final verdict.
Not Actual Murderer
There has seemed to be a sort
of widespread idea that while
Hauptmann had something to dc
with the ransom notes, with the
blood money, that maybe he
didn't have anything to do with
the kidnapping and the murder
Maybe he was a tool, maybe he
was part of the extortion plot
maybe he didn't even know who
kidnapped the baby but once il
was gone decided to make the
most of a great opportunity.
Yesterday put everything upon
a different basis.
Let's examine it a moment.
On the night of March l, 1892
Anne Lindbergh saw her baby al
about 7:30. He was then alive
and we'll. think we must
accept her testimony to thai
fact as beyond question.
Well leave Betty Cow out oi
it entirely. Well just start with
the baby'S mother.
Alright. The baby was alive
and well at 7:30.
At 10 minutes of 10, he was
missing from his crib.
Somewhere in those hours 9
The Washington times., 1935-01-12

man or woman had stolen him
away.
At approximately 10 o'clock,
Colonel Lindbergh found upon
the windowsill of the baby's
empty nursery a note. That note
announced the kidnapping of the
baby and the amount of the
ransom and said the kidnaper
would get in touch with Lind
bergh within "2-4" days.
Simple Deduction
1t seems a simple enough deduc-
ton to figure out the note was
left in the nursery when the baby
was taken out of it, sometime be-
tween 7::30 and 10 o'clock.
That note was written by Bruno
Hauptmann.
Mr.. Osborn told us so.
Our own eyes told us so.
If you stared at that handwrit-
ing on the wall for a whole day,
as I did; saw the amazing SINH
larity, the strange tricks that will
out, the unmistakable signs and
errors, you would have to know
Bruno Hauptmann wrote that first
ransom note.
Now, if Hauptmann wasn't in
the Lindbergh nursery that night,
how did the note get there? Did
it fly in, or crawl in, or did some
body hold gun at Hauptmann's
head and make him write it?
The man who wrote it put it
there!
Let's use common sense. Of
course he put it there. And if he
wasn't in that nursery to kidnap
the Lindbergh baby. what was he
doing there? Waiting for street
car?
One step further. If he did
write the note and didn't put it
there-if by possible chance he
wrote the note and didn't deliver
it, what does that make him? It
makes him still part of the kidnap
plot. The murder plot. If some
body else delivered it after he
wrote it, let's tend to the business
in hand first and if Hauptmann is
guilty, let's convict him and then
perhaps if there was somebody
else in on this foul and horrible
business he'll tell us who it was
But the man who wrote that
first ransom note left with its
hideous demands in the nursery
of Lindbergh's home, is part, at
least, if not all of the Lindbergh
kidnapping and murder.
Is there any escape from that?
Bruno Hauptmann wrote that
note.
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
By ADELA ROGERS ST. johns
Copyright 1885, by International
News Service)

News Service)
PENNINGTON, N. j.. Jan. II.
The handwriting appeared on the
wall of the Flemington Court
house yesterday,
I think Bruno Hauptmann
signed his own death warrant
and he spelled it "Singature."
It took no handwriting expert
to show us the similarity between
the admitted writings OF Haupt-
mann and the writing of the
horrible ransom letters. That
deadly, unmistakable likeness
glared at us from the wall, so
plain child could see it.
If ever a mans past rose up IN
all it's might, Hauptmann'S rose
today and hung on the wall before
his eyes, spelling doom in letters
he wrote with his own hand, letters
that must have turned to fire as
he gazed at them.
Why-why-there it was. Right
before us. The man might as well
have had motion pictures taken OF
himself as he left that note upon
the window sill where Colonel
Lindbergh found it. He might as
we'll have had motion pictures
taken of himself receiving the ran
som money.
There is a strange and terrible
justice in those great black and
white charts exhibited in that
that court for the judge and the
jury to see. AS though justice her
self, blindfolded, had moved in
silence and majesty to produce
irrefutable evidence of this crime.
From the first one. the very
first one, which was left in the
Lindbergh nursery on the night of
the kidnapping. to the very last one
which "Jafsie" found under rock
on the night the $4,000 was paid,
they recorded the Lindbergh kid.
naping in the hand of the kid
naper. And an impressive white
haired man, who has devoted his
whole life to the study of hand"
writing, who is recognized as the
greatest living authority, said with
simple but relentless dignity the
same hand wrote EVERY ONE of
the kidnap notes and the hand be-
longed to Bruno Hauptmann.
The man who gave the testi'
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
GRAIN TRADERS
PLEA DENIED

District Supreme Court Justice
Jesse C. Adkins yesterday refused
the plea of Thomas M. Howell,
Chicago stock and securities
trader, for a temporary injunction
restraining the members Of the
Grain Futures Act Administration
Commission from prosecuting him
for alleged violations of the act.
The suit named Secretary of
Agriculture w allace, Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings and
Commerce Secretary Roper, IL
members of the commission, as de-
PENDANTS.
According to the petition, Sec
retary Wallace preferred charges
against Howell, alleging conspiG-
acy to manipulate the price Of
corn on the Chicago Board o.
Trade and failing to keep proper
records OF his transactions.
Should Howell be found guilty
of the charges at a hearing be
fore the commission, scheduled
for January IA, the commission
is empowered to revoke his trad.
ing privileges on stock and secu.
rity exchanges.
Howell contends the proposed
hearing is illegal because the
commission docs not constitute
a court" and he will be forced
to submit to a loss of conStitll'
tional rights if the commission
compels him to produce personal
papers and records.
The Washington times., 1935-01-12

mony that identified the famous
ransom notes as having been writ
ten by Hauptmann was Albert j.
Osborn. The years have turned
his hair snow white. He looks like
a college president should lock and
usually doesn't.
His profession is chirography,
He has studied it with intelligent
devotion and belief for over 81
years. It is his business to iden-
tify handwriting. to discover forg-
cry, to delve beneath the disguiSes
men attempt to use when they
write things which they do not
wish to acknowledge.
Though it is his business to tes-
tify in such cases, I do not be-
lieve there was one soul in that
court room who thought he would
testify to anything he didn't be-
lieve. Sometimes, in court cases,
expert testimony" takes on u
very bad odor. We all know that.
A long line of alleged experts
and authorities and alieniStS and
this and that appear. Those hired
by the prosecution testify for the
prosecution, and those hired by
the defense testify for the de.
fense-and the jury yawns and
mentally says "boloney" to the
whole mess.
Mr.. Osborn took himself out
of any such class when he had
been on the witness stand for 10
minutes. He had acted for the
State to determine whether or
not Bruno Richard Hauptmann
wrote those notes, all of them or
any of them. He had done it
so they might know the forces of
justice whom we elect and pay
to enforce our laws, whether
Hauptmann should be indicted
and charged with this murder or
not.
Would Have Said So
I am pretty sure if he had
found out Hauptmann DID NOT
write the ransom notes, he
would have said so.
Nor can you possibly go behind
his enormous experience and
study.
Line by line, letter by letter,
he took us through those ransom
notes. And he did an amazingly
Shrewd and clever thing, and one
The Washington times., 1935-01-12
B A n K FACULTY
DINNER JAN. I

Foreshadowing the opening of
the second scholastic term of
Washington Chapter, American In
stitute of Banking, the educational
committee of the chapter will be
host at dinner at the Raleigh
Hotel at $50 p. m. Thursday,
January II. Second semester
classes will open on January 81.
The dinner is given annually by
the educational committee to the
faculty, board of governors, com.
mittee chairmen and board of
consuls of the chapter and marks
the beginning Of winter activities.
j. Earle McGeary, chairman of
the educational committee, will
preside and the guest speaker of
the evening will be DR.. Elmer
Louis KeySer, of the faculty of
George Washington University.
Chairman McGeary will report
on the work of the chapter cover
ing the last semester, and Walton
L. Sanderson, president of the
chapter, will outline the program
for the coming semester.
About IS will attend the dinner.
Washington chapter has for
years been an outstanding unit of
the institute and it is estimated
that enrollments for the second
semester will approximate 1870.
The course in trust business will
be revived this year, the text
book having been rewritten by a
committee of the American Bank
ers Association after a two-year
survey of the trust field and trust
functions.
The Washington times., 1935-01-12

writing expert showed them that
"hte" was The common spelling
OF the word "the" by Hauptmann
and by the writer of the ransom
notes. Other spellings in both
writings were "lihgt" for light"
and "rihgt" for right"
Again and again Mr.. Osborn
pointed out peculiarities which,
he said, linked both writings. Not
only through the Handwriting but
through the curious holes in the
symbol on eleven of the ransom
notes, the witness was able to
say that the letters were of a
certainty sent by the same per-
son.
Mr.. Osborn called the jury's
attention to the strange "x' in
all the defendants writings, It
resembles an Sc" He pointed to
the fact that the letter ct" was
not crossed in the various ex-
hibits Of writings and that the
smaller 81" was seldom dotted.
In the ransom notes, he pointed
out, there are 304 small "i'S" ond
only seven of them dotted. The
same proportion of omitted dots
over the "i's" were found on the
specimens of Hauptmann's pen
manShip.
The testimony of Mr.. Osborn
was regarded by courtroom OBJ
servers as of more intrinsic value
to the State than much of the
more dramatic testimony given bv
previous witnesses, and, for good
measure, Attorney General David
T. Wilentz put on the stand kew.
witness Frank j. Wilson, United
States Treasury agent, who linked
Hauptmann with the passage of
more than $4,000 of the $50 900
ransom sum passed to John" by
Or. John F. Condor in a Bronx
Cemetery. April 2, 1892.
Mr.. Wilson also testified that.
so far as he knew, not a single
Llndbergh ransom bill had been re.
covered since Hauptmann was ar.
rested last September 10.
Defense lawyers were planning
a vigorous attack on the State
handwriting experts testimony.
Counsel for the State hope to
finish with their Handwriting tes.
tlmony by the time court ad
JournS on Monday.
1t was reported there is a DOS.
slbllity there will be no session of
court Monday because Justice
Trenchard, Attorney General vii
entz and other State officials con
nected with the trial desire to go
to Trenton to attend the inaugura-
ton of Harold G.. Hoffman aS
governor.
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Hauptmann Nervous,
Irritable in His Cell
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ments. And that is because news
paper men, sitting just back of
him, pop questions at him during
recesses which he cannot easily
duck.
He has been friendly enough
with reporters and gives the i'm
preston he would talk with them
a bit were it not for the vigilance
OF defense lawyers. who invariably
break in and prevent the defend
ant from expressing his views.
On Monday, Mr.. Osborn will re-
sumo the stand and continue the
devastating evidence he is giving
the jury against Hauptmann.
Mr.. Osborn dealt a severe blow
to the defense when he testified
that in his opinion Hauptmann
wrote all of the Lindbergh ran
som notes, including the first
one which was left on the win.
dow sill of the nursery on the
night of March l, 1882, when the
baby was kidnapped.
Through this damaging testi-
mony the State, for the first time,
was able to put Hauptmanns
hand in the Lindbergh home.
One of the hardest things the
State is up against is to prove to
the jury that Hauptmann was at
the scene of the crime. His alibi
Is that he was at his home in the
Bronx, New York city, the night
the baby was abducted.
Osborn, after teStifying he had
examined more than 100 examples
of the proved handwriting of
Hauptmann, and had compared
them with the ii ransom notes,
was asked by Assistant At
torney General Joseph A. Lanigan
if he had ample material to base
a conclusion. He had. Mr.. Lani,
gan wanted to know what his con-
clusion was and Mr.. Osborn re-
piled:
my opinion is that the ran
som notes were all written by
the writer of the various papers
signed Richard Hauptmann.'
Huge charts, with magnified ex-
cerpts from the ransom notes on
one side and words taken from
Hauptmann'S penmanship on the
other, were place. on the wall
back of the witness stand, only a
few feet from the jury.
And. with pointer in his hand,
Mr.. Osborn indicated on these
charts the various striking SINH.
larities" he saw between the writ,
ings of Hauptmann and the pen.
manShip on the ransom notes.
The jury watched and listened
with interest as the famous hand