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I g the child and asked her
s 70 describe the nursery nl!;ssa 49,.
" After entering the nur-
tor "a from the hall there were two
IseIy. o n at the left. At the
Wlh nt of the door on the wall
rlgHo c the windows there was a
i Iaor of the closet. There was a
:uenIace. There was a decorat-
- - screen there to protect the
Iabv from the draft.
Wilentaz introduced photo
graphs of the nursery for iden-
It;fication by Mrs. Lindbergh. The
nictures were examined and put
in evidence.
:, A. picture Of the furniture that
was in the nursery on the night
of March /, 1882, was identified
Inv Mrs. Lindbergh. She was
speaking so low now that Wilentz
REQUESTED her to raise her voice
for the benefit of the jurors.
She then identified a photo
graph of the crib from which the
baby was stolen.
Q. I ask you If you see any
pins in that crib?
Wilentz was referring to the
large safety pins that had been
used to fasten the child's blan-
ket.
A. I do not see them.
@. Who had dinner with your
son on the night, of March l!
A. Miss Cav was with MN:
| @. What time was he put Ill
/ bed? ~.
A. About 1880. rubbed his
chest with some grease.
Q. He had cold?
A. A little-a little cough
but he was breathing more easily.
! Mrs. Lindbergh described the
clothing worn by the chlld-a
flannel shirt next to his skin that
had been made by Betty Cow
from a petticoat. ~.
Wilentz walked slowly to the
witness stand and showed MIS-.
Lindbergh the flannel shirt; IL
was torn and stained. Mrs. Lind
berph's hands trembled as she
looked at it and said: ,
eyes that is the shirt Betty
Cow made"
And then Wilentz showed her
the sleeping suit, the pathetlc
little garment returned to her
through Jafsie. 4
showed Mrs. Lindbergh a pair OF
baby's thumb guards. She iden-
titled them as those worn by her
son and then demonstrated how
the guards were tied to the Wrists
of the baby to prevent them
from being removed. :,
@. Was Colonel Lindbergh
home at 1880 that night?
A. No.
Q. At 1880 when you came
down from the nursery what did
you do then?
A. I came down to the liv-
ing room and sat at the desk.
@. What did you do then?
A. My husband and went to
the dining room at about 8
o'clock and had dinner. Then
we sat in the library for about
20 minutes. I went up stairs,
took a bath. and prepared to go
to bed. l had cold myself.
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RULES WOMAN
HAS RIGHT TO
PROTECT HOME
"Ma" Ferguson Gives Par.
don To Woman Staying
Spouse's Consort

AUSTIN. Tex Jan. 4, (UP)-
The "unwritten law" was invoked
yesterday in behalf of women by
the ranking member Of her sex
in Texas. Governor Miriam. A.
(Ma) Ferguson.
In granting a complete nardon
to Mrs. Mary Boone of Dallas,
who killed her husbands para
mour, Mrs. Pearl Hall, the gov
ernor enunciatnd the principle
that woman has q right to ode
fend her home"
Mrs. Boone was cow cted DC
tober 10. 1884. and sentenced to
five years Imprisonment. But
''under the moral equities and
the facts, said Governor Fergu-
son, the convicted woman should
not be punished.
al realize that it is a serious
thing for one woman to kill an
other" Mrs. Ferguson said. But
who would say under the facts in
the case that Mary Boone was not
seeking to do the right thing and
that the deceased was doing the
wrong thing.
'Tt is no answer to say that
Mary Boone's husband was as
guilty as the deceased; he can
thank his lucky stars that he es-
capped the same fate that his para
rnour received
81 am only calling attention to
the awful crime that has been
committed against Mary Boone
and which caused her to shoot in
defense of her family and of her
home as well as her own personal
defense"
The governor rebuked woman
philanderers. -,
"Let me say that if women will
let other women's husbands alone,
crime like this will never occur, p"
she declared. "But just so long
as bad women do not behave
themselves we can expect to read
of cases just like this"
At Dallas, District Attorney
Robert L. Hurt assailed the gov
ernor for granting the pardon.
The pardon, he declared, was
virtaslly a license to all women
to shoot the "other woman" to
death on mere suspicion. Mrs.
Boone, he asserted, chad never
seen Mrs. Hall before, did not
know her and did not know she
was going with Mrs. BoOne's nus
band; she only suspected"
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course marked by dotted line. Lndbergh re-
manned in the car. Condor approached the inter-
section and looked for street sign; woman at
~ assured him he was at Whittemore avenue.
When he reached the entrance of the cemetery
voice called out in the darkness: "Here am, doc
tor" A colloquy ensued over the amount Of the
ransom to be paid, $4,000 being agreed upon.
Condor returned to the car where Lindbergh was
waiting, got the package of $4,000 in bills took
it back to the point (3) where he passed it thru
the hedge to the man identified only as "John," "
in return for receipt and instructions for recov-
ering the baby. The instructions proved to be
false
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buy radios, and to gamble ant
"Why, he used Lindbergh ran
som money even to buy sweep
stakes tickets"
Many of the clues in this cas-
were brought into court Thursda!
the ransom note, encased II
celluloid to preserve it; the shir
which Betty Cow, the nurse, made
from a petticoat, and the sleeplnt
garment that the kidnaper tors
fre,n the child as proof OF I'LL
crime. .,,J
Wilentz brought Mrs. nnd,
bergh to the stand after hai1 " "
the afternoon session had PEI pee
spent identifying maps OF nun ~
terdon county and the plans -
the Lindbergh house.
Her testimony follows in part ~
O, Please tell US, referring W
March /, 1882, about your house
hold. .- lie nv son,
Colonel Lindbergh, Mr.: anu 90
| oliver Whatley and Betty wv Srg
oi n How old was your BABY!
He was 20 months old
Q. On that TUESDAY, you ow W.
there at Hopewell all thai a aaS,. ,
A. Yes, except that | TOOK oH
wall X alone. of about 10 or ~
minutes. ,u had YOU
snent much time with Charies' 'F''
had you played with NM eaunoon
l'' 4 Yes. during the afternoon
Mrs NJ, Iindbergh said that . or 7
March /, 1882, their housenoie
on Sourland Mountain was mas aG:
vi ~ her son, her husband, Oh
v We y Whatley, their butler, MI
wife. and Betty Cow their nurse
She said that she went Tor :
u u on the afternoon of Marcft
W. lar and that on the afternoon o.
March and that on returning sh'
threw pebbles against the nur
sow window to attract the atten
+;nh If her son. She describee
hoo Retty Cow held the little
~ nm to the window so hi
c uVs look out and see his mother
@, Was the condition Of th'
orpund such that when you walk
ed under the window that you
left footprints?
O. That was about what time
a Around $3.50 p. M.
o Will you tell us how you
spent the rest of the afternoon
"A. After the walk, at abou
| 5 o'clock, l had the baby dowl
in the sitting room playing will
me. | was with the baby for al
hour after that.
! @. Was he normal child!
A. He was perfectly normal
@. Healthy? -
! VA. Yes.
| 20. What else can you So.
about that afternoon? Can yo'
tell about the toys and thing
like that? (Mrs. Lindbergh mad,
no answer but bowed her head.
%. What was the color of hi
hair?
A. 1t was light golden.
.%Wilentz showed her a photo
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that the kidnaper ripped sleep
ing garment off the child and
sent it back to Lindbergh through
DR.. j. F. Condor, the "Jafsie"
who handed $4,000 ransom across
the badge in St. Raymond's ceme-
terry in New York. e.,
Fer this kidnapping and murder,
the state will demand a verdict of
murder in the first degree--which
means the electric chair.
eff you don't think this man
Hauptmann is guilty." shouted
Wilentz, "then acquit him. But
if you think he is guilty, we say
to you that we give no quarter, to
kidnapers and murderers in New
Jersey and We demand his life for
the life he took"
When he came to describe how
Jafsie handed over the ransom
money, Wilentz whirled and fac
ed Hauptmann.
Inside that cemetery" he
shouted, "was Hauptmann. When
he saw that Condor was alone
that no police were there he
talked to DR.. Condor. IT,.
will burn if the child dies"
Hauptmann asked Condor. And
DR.. Condor, instead of answering,
asked to be allowed to see the
baby"
On and on the story went, with
Mrs. Lindbergh seated in a fold
ing chair over on the left side of
the courtroom, twisting the little
finger of her left glove.
Wilentz told how the money
was delivered and how Condor
got, in return, a note directing
him to go to Massachusetts, where
the baby would be found.
"And Indy" said Wilentz,
"who can fly to the end of the
earth and find speck, couldn't
find his child because it already
was dead down here in New Jer-
sey. But finally the body was
found here in this county. The
cold had preserved it, but 20 min
utes later when the air struck It,,
it was apparent it was badly de-
composed. .s
"And one day Hauptmann
drove up to a gas station IN the
Bronx and handed gold certitl-
cate to the attendant.
at was against the law to have
gold. The president Of the United
States had called in all the gold.
So the attendant asked Haupt-
mann, "'Hey, what about this p ="
ooh said Hauptmann, i've
got a hundred of those"
"They arrested him.
where did you get that mon
ey?' they asked Hauptmann after
his arrest.
"And Hauptmann said it be-
longed to a friend.
"Even in the closet of the
Hauptmann home, we found DR..
Condon's telephone number and
address. Hauptlaann said he liked
to write down numbers. We found
that Hauptmann got the lumber
for that ladder in Bronx lumber
yard.
"Why, he's got that ladder
around his neck. Wen prove that
lumber came from his own home.
1t was money, money, money that
Hauptmann wanted. He wanted
money FOR his hunting trips. to
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Indy IDENTIFIES
HAUPTMANN'S VOICE

Continued from page three)
a drab figure between two bright
~ uniformed state troopers.
: The testimony of the Lind
berghs, however, awakened his in
terest.
When the encouragement car
ried the sleeping garment sent to
DR.. Condor as a token" Haupt-
mann gazed intently on the ex-
hibit. His face, however, betrayed
not the slightest emotion. He ap-
reared intently interested in the
same impersonal way as the 200
spectators who listened to the tes-
tinnony. -...
His demeanor was unchanged
when Lindbergh testified.
When court was adjourned, the
prisoners wife, Anna, who had
moved from wall to place at
her husbands counsel table, en-
gagged him in low, animated con-
versation in German for two min
utes.
Mrs. Lindbergh's mouth was a
thin, firm line under a black hat
that tiled over her nose, and she
lifted her right. hand, indicating
she was ready to proceed.
For 40 minutes she stayed on
the stand. Then Wilentz turned to
Edward j. Reilly, defense counsel,
and said:
"The witness is yours"
Reilly said:
"We have no desire to cross
examine Mrs. Lindbergh."
81 And then-for the first time
yesterday she smiled-and it was
at the lawyer who is defending
the alleged murderer of her son.
Reilly bowed.
When a prosecution lawyer
called out, Colonel Lindbergh,
please" The tall aviator covered
the so feet to the witness chair in
eight strides and began his testi-
mory in a firm, loud voice.
It was the second such ordeal
for him, for he testified in Wash
ingtUn, against CASTOR B. Means,
who went to prison for extorting
500, 900 from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean or the promise that he
could effect return of the Lind
bergh baby who already was dead
in New Jersey.
Indy told again the story that
now has become familiar wher-
ever men read newspapers or
spread information by word of
mouth-Athe story of how he heard
a crash and a rattle against the
outside wall of his Souriand
Mountain home on March l, 1882,
and then found his 20-month-old
son missing.
81 heard a sound" he said, like
the breaking of crate-the Stats
of crate" g. raa-, o..
'.sWas it the kind of noise like
the, falling of LADDER asked
Wilentz.
side. =
From a lawyers standpoint,
Lindbergh was a perfect witness.
He never answered anything he
wasn't asked AM most of the time
his replies consisted of "yes" or
"no." Only once did he volunteer
any information, and then he of
fered to tell what ne did when he
raced upstairs from his library
and found his son gone.
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Miss Cow came to me and ask,
ed me if l had the baby. / told
her l didn't and she went down.
stairs and asked my husband II
he had him. He didn't and we
all three went to the nursery.
We could not find the baby. we,
looked in my room and IN all
the other rooms.
@. Did Colone Lindbergh
notify the police?
A. Yes. He had alos gone
out of doors to look for traces.
| @. Was it possible to lock
the east window in the nursery!
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A. No it was not locked.
Q. You have never seen
child since that first nigh.
March 1882.
A. No.
G. After this did you
your husband in an appeal
the baby?
A. Yes.
@. Did you appeal to the
napers on the radio about
baby's diet?
A. l wrote out a diet for
baby.
Then she was excused.
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Purely Vegetable Laxative

Thedford's ack-Draught is one
of the most popular laxatives sold
today because it is made of the
leaves and roots of medicinal
plants, and because it brings re-
freshing relief from constipation
troubles.
ck-Draught helped me when
l was bilious, constipated, feeling
sluggish, dizzy, or had bad taste
IN my mouth" writes Mrs. w. M.
Bullock, Waynesburg, XIV. az
haven't found any medicine l like
better than Black-Draught."
It's the favorite laxative of
thousands of others. Have you
tried it?
THEDFORD'S BLACK.DRAUCHT
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Dresses-Every dress in our
shop win come under one of these
prices: $3.s5, $5.7s, SETS, $s.75,
.$i2sfSs Mary new spring dresses
included. Jennie Bowen's Shop.
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be delivered his address Shortly after today the
Congress message delivered to Joint session in the hon
Garner above left and Representative Joseph W. Byrns Of Il
sneaker of the house. occupying the traditional
these officials for the special OCCASION
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All are invited most cordially to attend this tenth dis
course on the Church and the Bible. By Rev. Leo Ger
ard Doctterl Sunday evening" at five, January 9Th, at
Immaculate Conception Church, Seventh Avenue al
Church Street.
Evening star., 1935-04-14

Latin American republics themselves.
Not before the Latin Americans are
ready to speak with one voice will
they be heard in the councils of world
affairs. Probably this unity of action
will be facilitated some day by the
regional grouping of some of those
countries according to their geographic
characteristics and economic needs.
But even before that is possible. be-
fore any continental or even regional
grouping has any possibilities of sue
cess, certain internal changes, DO
litical and social, will be necessary.
Must Represent People.
Only when the governments of most
Of the Latin American nations have
become more truly representative of
their people than they are at present
will the unity Of their political and
economic interests have any qualities
Of permanency and effectiveness.
And only when such q unity has
been achieved, the day will have ar
rived Tor the clearing away OF m1sun-
derstandings, differences and suspi.
cions that block the road to true pan
Americanism, the pan-Americanism in
which one is one, and not more
than 20.
In that distant future one may rest
assured that Pan-American day
will be cerebrated with something else
than another concert Of Latin Ameri-
can music at the Pan-American Build.
ing In Washington.
tcepyr!.ht. 1857
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Young American
Attacks Buddists

PAILINGMAIO, Mongolia (R.-A
lone young American missionary has
set up his tent outside the magni-
ficent gold-spired Mongol Lamasery
here on the windswept Mongonan
Plateau, determined to attack the
Buddhistic cult Of the Mongol nomads
at its heart.
The missionary is Homer Gunzel Of
WauSau, Wis, who believes that the
way to win the Mongols from La
maism to Christianity is first to gain
the confidence Of the Mongols by
living with them and adopting their
manner of existence.
He faces the prospect OF spending
the bitterly cold months Of the Mon
golian Winter under canvas" with
none for company but men of strange
race and religion. Throughout the
Winter he expects to see no other
foreigner, for the nearest lives 100
miles away at Kweihua, the frontier
Chinese city in Suiyuan Province.
Pailingmaio Is a collection of low,
white-walled temple buildings sur
rounded by cluster Of the felt tents,
or ''yurts," used by Mongols. It Is
one Of the few places on the Mon
golian Plain where buildings are to
be found. On all sides stretches the
rolling, untitled grassland.
Gunzel came to Pailingmaio at the
invitation of Prince Teh, dominant
figure in the new government. at
whose palace in Eastern Mongolia the
American speIt year to learn the
Mongolian LANGUAGE.
Evening star., 1935-04-14

mercury vapor-which would produce
this result?
1t is easy to appreciate the diff
culties of such problem. Here again
experiments have been made But
here again screening the spark plugs
and ignition circuits has been re-
sorted to. All spark plugs used on
aero engines have been screened for
several years. They can go through
conductive atmosphere without
being affected.
Third Hypothesis.
There remains the third hypothesis
Is it possible to make the motor, as 1t
takes in the outer air, absorb a cata-
lying agent which would cause pre-
mature explosion?
There again one runs up against
two difficulties. There is no known
catalyzing agent capable Of causing
such a result. Moreover. such an
agent would have to be pulverized in
the atmosphere at the point where
the airplanes would pass. A few min
utes' reflection is all that Is necessary
to see that this is just a dream
whereas the war would be a tragic
reality.
Nothing justifies the belief that any
nation has discovered a way to stop
airplanes in full flight. From time to
time, in periods of unrest and anxiety,
such reports are put into circulation,
sometimes to scare the public, some
times to reassure it. But these re-
ports rest on no serious facts. In the
present state of science, physics does
not seem to give us way of warding
off the ills which chemistry could
cause.
1t is regrettable Let us hope that
some inventor of genius finds a way
to stop the fleets which might come
bombarding our factories and cities.
Let us hope that this inventor takes
his discovery to the League of Ma
tions so that it may serve to protect
all peoples and all races against
criminal designs of possible aggressors.
But merely making wishes will not
fend of the catastrophe with which
we are threatened. Aerial and chem
ical warfare makes mankind run a
mortal risk. Life and ideals. every-
thing is threatened by the prospect.
Only a great effort of collective
solidarity can preserve us.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
international 4O.Hour Week for Labor
Is On Agenda of Conference at Geneva

GENEVA.-A determined drive for
an international 40-hour week be-
came certain with the inclusion of
the hours of work" question in the
asenda of the 1885 International
Labor Conference Notifications sent
to governments members of the Labor
Once, including the United States,
which is now officially affiliated. list
six major items as comprising the
program of the conference which
meets next June 4. Besides the
"hours of work" item they are: Pro-
hibition OF employment of women on
underground work in mines of all
kinds: unemployment among young
persons; the question of holidays with
pay for all workers; native labor re-
cruiting in colonies and other terri
tories: maintenance of rights OF
workers to invalidity, old age and
widows and orphans insurance when
they transfer their residence from one
country to another.
The participation of the United
States and Soviet Russia in the next
labor conference is expected to
give great impetus to international
labor legislation. Already there are
indications that all workers delega-
tions and many government groups
are preparing to make hard fight
for the international 40-hour work.
ing week. to replace the present 49,
hour week demanded by the WASH
ington convention.
Employers groups, on the other
hand, will put up strong opposition
to further curtailment of hours al
though shorter working days are gen.
orally admitted as being inevitable If
unemployment is to be permanently
banished in industrial countries. TIE
governing body of the Labor Office,
at its January meeting, will also nave
to decide whether next June's con-
ference will take up the existing coal
mines convention which limits coal
miners working days to tx hours. A
campaign has started to reduce work
IN mines to five 6-hour days per week.
With the return of Director Harold
Butler from trip to the United
States it became known that all tech
nical questions surrounding Amer
ica's affiliation with the Labor Offlce
have been adjusted. The United
States. 1t Is reported. will contribute
the same amount as Great Britain
does to the Labor Ofhces annual
Evening star., 1935-04-14

budget. For the current year 1884
35) Washington will be asked to pay
approximately 100000.
The estimated expenditures of the
Labor Office for the coming year have
been placed at 8.536,046 Swiss (gold)
francs. or S2,845,345 at current ex-
change rates. According to calcula-
tions of the Leagues financial COM
mission. the expenses of the Inter-
national Court at The Hague for 1895
will be $405,60l. and if the United
states becomes member. as is conf
dently expected. her contribution will
be around $4,000 for that organiza-
ton. While in Washington Director
Butler also arranged to have an
American sit on the governing body of
the International Labor Office and it
is understood that the Department of
State. with the cooperation of the
Department of Labor, will assign an
official as liaison to the International
Labor Office, with headquarters at
Geneva.
Although the labor organization has
drastically reduced its operating ex-
penditureS in the interests of enforced
economy, due to the world crisis, it
will add several Americans to its per-
manent staff, which now Numbers
around 420 officials. Since Soviet Rus
sia, Ecuador and Afghanistan also
have automatically become members
of the International Labor Ofice as
a result of their joining the League of
Nations. they also will participate in
the 1885 conference. Both Japan and
Brazil, who have withdrawn from the
League. have maintained their men,
bership IN the labor organization,
Germany alone Is absent. There are
good reasons to believe, however, that
after the Saar plebiscite is completed
on January 13 Berlin will take def
mite steps toward returning to the
League and incidentally the Labor
Office.
One result Americas entry into the
labor organization has had has been
accelerating the activities of Latin
American and South American mem
bers. Recently 10 new ratifications on
the part of the American republics to
Labor Office treaties have been re-
ceived, bringing the total oficial ac-
ceptances of treaties negotiated
through the organization up to 633.
There are A labor treaties now. on
record. A. e. J
Evening star., 1935-04-14

a foreign power has found way to
stop airplanes in flight by the action
of electromagnetic waves.
But aircraft motors have been re-
moved from that risk. The use of
wireless telegraphy and wireless teleph-
ony on board has led to the motors
being screened. The magnetic and
its circuit can no longer be influenced
by waves. So there Is one theory
which must be abandoned.