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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
JAMES REED TO TALK
Former U. S. Senator to Address
Grain Dealers Association.

Times Special

CHICAGO, Feb. 81. A. Reed,
former United States Senator from
Missouri, is to be principal speaker
at the convention banquet of the
Farmers Grain Dealers Association
of Illinois to be held in the Hotel
LaSalle here Tuesday.
He is to speak on American In
situations and the New Deal" The
meeting marks the thirty-third an
nual convention of the association,
which is the oldest farm co-opera-
tive in the Middle West.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08

pay MIN Dy CIV
ing him an lou
for $50. But If
you a gree to
honor the lou
on demand and
have reason TO
think he will
present it as
soon as he gets
it in his hand,
then the ques-
ton of whether
you are going
to pay Smith
arises all over
again when he
pre- S e n t S the
lou.
We have de-
cided to give
the sol di erS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
CHICAGO PRIMARY RECEIPTS
INDIANAPOLIS

Wheat--Steady: No. l red, 97k69SIac;
No red, -96la69712c. Corn-Steady: No.
4 white, 52@53c; No. 5 white. 4865lc;
NO yellow, 5o12@53c; No. yellow. AZ
65012c; No. 4 mixed 4912@5112c; No S
mixed. 451a649c. Oats-Firm: No. white.
28M29c: No. 3 white 25M27Iac
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
NEW YORK CoTToNsEED OIL
SUGAR
EARNS s5.31 A SHARE
Times Special

CHICAGO, Feb. 8.-The Massa-
chusetts Bonding and Insurance Co.
today reported net earnings of $780,
168 for 1885, equivalent to S5.31 a
share on its 10000 shares of stock,
mot including appreciation in the
market value Of its investment
portfolio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
AUBURN ELECTS OFFICERS

Times Special
AUBURN, Ind, Feb. 8.-Directors
and officers of the Auburn Automo-
bile Co. were reelected for another
term at the annual meeting of
stockholders this week. Roy H.
Faulkner, president, announced to-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
FORD SALES IN 1885
RISE SIS Per CENT
Total Volume Placed at
1,311,927 Units.
Times Special

Times Special
DEARBORN, Mich, Feb. g.
World sales of Ford units III 1885
reached a total of 1,311,927, it was
announced today at the home offices
of the Ford Motor Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08

Ford va sales in the United
States represented approximately
81 per cent of sales by the entire
motor car industry, giving Ford the
lead for the year, it was stated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
Ne7U York Stock Exchange Prices

Volume Appropriated 1,250,000
shares compared with 1,760,0O0
shares last Saturday. Curb sales
we're $4,000 shares compared with
687, 900 shares last Saturday.
Dow-Jones preliminary closing
averages: Industrial 150.40, up .23;
railroad 1855, off IL; utility 1858,
up .02.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
LOCAL CASH MARKET
nv limited Pressl

City grain elevators are paying 90 cents
for No. soft wheat. other grades on
their merits; Cash corn new No. yellow
so cents and oats 81 cents
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
Local Securities

because quotations on local securities
are unlisted on an exchange, The Times
can not assume responsibility for the
curacy of these figures gathered from
lncaI hrnkers.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
Wheat Grind Increases

For the first half of the current season, United
States mills ground 229, 774 900 bushels of aCheat,
compared NTH grinding of 1908 900 bushels in the
corresponding period last gear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08

U. S. GOVERNMENT BONDS
(By Abbott, Proctor g. Paine)
Treasurys
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
Money and Exchange
TREASURY STATEMENT
This year.
Last year
INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT

bV UWJIGU TTBSS 7
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8-Government |
expenses and receipts for the current |
fiscal year to Feb. 6, compared with a
Evening star., 1936-03-31
Hauptnann

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-03-31

the week Such an action was within
his power, for the death sentence
merely designated "the week Of
March 30"
Usual Execution Date.
Tonight was fixed for Hauptmann
to die because Tuesday is the usual
execution date. However, the previous
execution date was fixed for Friday.
and even a late hour Saturday night
would be possible.
Col. Kimberling. who has had fire.
quent talks with Hauptmann during
the more than a year the Bronx
carpenter has been in the prison, gave
no indication that any change in plans
was contemplated, or that it even was
under consideration.
One thing was certain: The little
square room Of death was ready.
When Hauptmann walks in tonight
at perhaps $40 o'clock he will see, if
he can see anything beside the death
chair itself. room with dirty white
walls, whose comparative brightness
believes the fact that they have looked
down upon scores of men walking
some brave, others desperately afraid
to their deaths.
Across the room there will be
stretched a rope. On one side will be
Evening star., 1936-03-31

cutioner stands at the instrument
board. watching the needles of the
voltmeter and ammeter, standing at
zero, and also awaiting the signal of
death from Col. Kimberling.
The warden will nod.
The right hand of the executioner,
gripping the switch of the rheostat,
will swing it in almost a complete
circle. Spinning the Wheel" they
call it.
The voltmeter needle will leap to
1000, the ammeter to l8.
Quick, Merciful Oblivion.
That first charge will send Bruno
Richard Hauptmann into quick, merci-
full oblivion.
And in that group of witnesses at
an execution which the entire world
will be watching there will be some
who will recall the words that At
torney General Wilentz shouted more
than a year ago in the century-old
court house at Pennington:
HE is cold. He will be thawed out
when he hears that switch. That is
the time he will talk
And SO, unless unpredictable inter-
vention comes to halt the execution
tonight, will die Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann, one-tine soldier of Kaiser Will
helm Hohenzollern, one-time petty
criminal, man in his middle 30s
claiming complete innocence, a man
whom the attorney general described
as 'an animal lower than the lowest
form in the animal kingdom. public
enemy No. of the world, Rruno Rich
ard Hauptmann."
Evening star., 1936-03-31

some felt Gov. Hoffman himself might
open, even though he appeared to
have no authority to do so.
Hardly had news of the courts
action been made known than the
Governor announced that the decision
of the court was final" and that
there will be no second reprieve."
With this double knell of doom
sounding around him, Bruno Haupt-
mann went early to bed and was
sleeping soundly. his guards reported,
shortly after 9 o'clock.
1t was not the sound sleep that has
characterized his previous nights in
the brightly lighted death house. He
soon became restless and got up to
pace nervously back and forth in his
cell for hours. A death house guard
said Hauptmann, ordinarily a quiet,
model prisoner, had become very
grumpy" under the strain of waiting
for his death hour to come.
Mrs. Hauptmann. too, retired early,
but could not sleep and before long
got up again and talked for hours
with friends in her hotel room.
Friends tried to persuade her to rest
to conserve her strength that has
been severely sapped. not only by her
Is months of struggle to save her
husband. but also by siege Of grippe
for which only yesterday she required
the services of physician.
Fisher, who has been chief of
Hauptmann's defense counsel since
Edward J. Reilly retired after Haupt-
mans conviction at Pennington early
news Of yesterdays refusal of the
Pardons Court to interfere with the
execution.
He kept his chin in the air." the
lawyer said in telling of his interview
in the death house with the con-
demned man.
"Hauptmann still has hope. even
though he knows the Governor has
said there will be no second reprieve.
When I told him that all hope ap-
peared gone. he said:
"I can't believe it. What are they
doing about the man who confessed
to the crime?'"
The condemned mans reference was
to Paul H. Wendell. the 51-year old
Trenton man, who is held in jail on
a formal charge that he murdered the
Lindbergh baby.
Hauptmann apparently had been
told of the Wendell development when
his wife visited him earlier in the day.
He was not aware. however, that Wen
del had heatedly repudiated an alleged
confession" he Is said to have made,
and that prosecuting officers had
openly expressed themselves as salts
fed Wendell had no knowledge Of the
crime of the Sourland Hills.
The Mercer County prosecutor,
Erwin E. Marshall. expressed con-
tinued disbelief that Wendell had any
thing to do with the Lindbergh case,
but added his opinion was subject to
change"
As evidence that the Wendell charge
will be thoroughly investigated, two
Evening star., 1936-03-31
W0ODCOCK ADMITS
FRAUD CONSPIRACY
Pitman Trial Tomorrow in
Poinsettia. Rubber
Process Case.

A plan, publicized two years ago, to
extract rubber from poinsettia plants
was recalled in District Supreme
Court today when Frederick B. Wood
cock, who is alleged to have imper-
sonated a Federal officer in promotion
Of the scheme, pleaded guilty to a
charge of conspiracy.
Representing himself as supervisor
of the Finance Division of the Public
Works Administration, Woodcock Is
said to have furnished Herman E. Pit
man, inventor of the process. with
letter stating the p. w. A. was about
to allocate s10,OO0,000 to corpora
ton being formed to exploit the new
method of rubber production.
At that time Woodcock was not en-
ployed by the P. w. A., officials stated.
Displaying the letter. Pitman al
legedly obtained $4,000 from two men
in st. Louis and $500 from several
persons in New York, with which to
purchase tract of land in the Flor
ida Everglades for use as poinsettia
farm.
At request of Woodcock's attorney,
George Pass, Justice Daniel w. O'Don-
oghue referred his case to the proba-
ton officer for investigation and report.
Pitman, who was indicted with
Woodcock, is scheduled to be tried
tomorrow. The indictment charged
conspiracy to impersonate Govern
ment officer and the actual impersona-
ton. Woodcock was allowed to plead
guilty only to the conspiracy count.
Evening star., 1936-03-31

relatives Of the prisoner we're ques-
toned at the State House by Attorney
General WilentZ. The nature Of the
questioning, and the results of it. were
not divulged.
Wendell Questioned.
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head
of the State police and the officer who
directed the hunt for the Lindbergh
baby kidnaper, had one of his men
question Wendell yesterday In the
county jail concerning reports Of a
reported "accomplice."
Wendel's reply was:
well, I didn't commit the crime,
so I wouldn't have any accomplices
If had committed the crime. it would
be different"
There was no indication what OF
when further legal steps would be
taken concerning Wendell. The grand
jury is not now sitting and Prosecutor
Marshall is not decided on whether
to call it back to pass on the question
of murder indictment.
The report concerning an accom-
plice" of Wendell persisted, even to
the designation of the man as q
"swarthy" man of foreign birth OF
extraction.
One source close to the defense in
sisted the man actually was in GUS
tody, and it was suggested that the
story Of this arrest might be used in
a last-minute sensational effort tc
have the execution halted.
There was one definite way In which
the electrocution could be delayed.
That was through decision by the
prison warden, Col. Kimberling. tc
postpone the execution until later in
Evening star., 1936-03-31

No. f-Attorney General
Wilents Leaving the chambers
of the Court OF Pardons late
yesterday after he success
fully opposed Bruno Hdupt-
naann's plea for clemency.
No. 2-Mrs. Hauptmann en-
ters an automobile outside
the prison at Trenton after
1Uhdt may haze been her last
uisit With the condemned
man. A crowd pressed in
upon the car.
No. 3-Gou. Harold G. Hof-
man emerging from the Glenn
ency hearing 1Dith the state
ment: "There Will be no re-
prieue."
No. 4Four members OF the
Pardons Court after the
hearing. Left to right: WAL
ter L. Hettield, jr.; Joseph A.
Dea, jr.; William WolfSkel
and Harold B. Wells.
No. Sunless fate inter-
DeneS, 1Dhe1 Hduptmdnn goes
to the electric chair tonight
he iDiH haze as q companion
Charles Zied, shoUn here.
lied 1DGS sentenced for sldy-
ing William T. Feits, jr., Cam
den detective.
-Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1936-03-31
bRUNO'S MOTHER
cant BEL|EvE|T'
OTIS All Politics, Isn't It?"
70.Year.OId Woman
Asks.

Copyright. 1886. By the Associated Pressl
KAMENz, Germany, March 81
Frau Pauline Hauptmann, bending
over q washtub in the little yard Of
her home today, declared she refused
to believe that her son, Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, must die in the electric
chair tonight for the Lindbergh kid.
nap-slaying.
Informed of the denial Of clemency
to her son, the 70-year-old Frau
Hauptmann exclaimed:
Il doubt that this decision will mean
the final doom of my innocent boy,
Brunol He is not guilty. They cannot
do it,"
The grief-stricken mother was scrub
bing clothes when informed of the inn
pending execution of her son.
Il simply won't believe what you tell
me-" she muttered grimly. THE execu-
ton has been confirmed and then post
poned so often. Don't you think
politics are at the bottom of it ALP"
After moments reflection, the aged,
hardworking woman sat down on a
little wooden bench in sunny corner
OF her yard, as if forced down by the
weight of a sudden realization.
"Oh, this uncertainty for days and
nights is unbearable,' she declared.
Its so cruel! Often I wake up at
night with a feeling of terror. If I
only had one good piece of news for a
change!"
She returned to her house then, and
entered the immaculate living room,
where Bible was the only book on the
table.
1T is this book where I get my COM
fort" she said. 'I just can't give up
hopes that I will embrace my poor boy
again"
Evening star., 1936-03-31

would try to see her husband once
more before he dies.
II also would like to see the Gov
ernor again." she added.
But when Gov. Hoffman was asked
II he would see her, he replied, i
have no plans for it."
Anna slept fairly well and looks
much improved said Richard Whit
ney. a relative, who also is an investi-
gator in the case for the American
Astrology Magazine.
"She believed she could see her hus-
band once more, even though prison
rules do not ordinarily grant this
privilege" Whitney added, "and she
is going to the prison this afternoon.
"She still feels there is some hope
that Bruno will escape execution"
Although I am innocent" Kimber-
ling said Hauptmann told him, Il am
not afraid to die"
The principal keeper said Haupt-
mann appeared upset, but he noticed
no great physical or mental change in
him.
The condemned man apparently
harbors no i'll feeling against him,
Kimberling said.
Fisher declared after a visit to
Hauptmann:
1T looks very bad. but until the
sentence is carried out, I wouldn't
say that I have given up hope.
While there's life, there is hope,
and you can't tell what might break
In our favor"
He said Hauptmann had "braced
up when he arrived and indicated
"by his demeanor" that he had not
yet entirely given up hope.
Fisher said he was undecided on
what, if any, further legal move might
be made today to save Hauptmann,
but planned a conference with his
associate counsel, Frederick A. Pope
The report of the guards to Kim
berling also said Hauptmann told
them:
II have saved three lives in my life
and they take mine on built-up evil
dence."
He has claimed he saved three
persons from drowning)
Kimberling said that after he left
the death house, they started pre-
pairing him (Hauptmann) for the
chair"
The guards also reported that Zied,
due to die just before Hauptmann,
told them that eff he (ZieO goes to
the chair, he goes as an innocent
man"
Minister Believes in Bruno.
When Mr.. Matthiesen left, he said
he was going to try to see Justice
Thomas w. Trenchard, who presided
at Pennington, and make an appeal
for mercy. The justice could not act
on such an appeal. The minister re-
peated that he still believed Haupt-
mann was innocent.
Hauptmann, he said. had recovered
part of his composure.
He asked him if he wanted to pray,
and Hauptmann answered:
Il cannot concentrate now"
MIR. Matthiesen then spoke to him
of st. Francis Of Assist, and told him
that the saint used to find it difficult
to pray. To overcome the difficulty
he was wont to kneel down and medi-
cate, repeating the word God" the
clergyman said.
Hauptmann, ne said, listened at
sentively to the story and then de-
clared, I'll remember that" and re-
peated the word God" once or twice.
Greetings to Wife.
The only message the doomed man
sent to his wife, the minister contin-
ued, was greetings" and the admoni-
tion not to worry
Mr.. Matthiesen said he would return
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-03
Revivins War Debts

There have been T. its lately that Italy might take the leao in a new proposal for settling foreign war debts to this country, with France and perhaps Great Britain following suit These three are OUT largest debtors. It would be natural for them, especially Italy and France, to take such action, in the hope that py poying up, or at least starting payment they could get new American loans.
 No official approaches of this sort neeo be expected until after our national elec- tion. Neither foreign nor American statesmen would want to start any such negotiations until the political situation at Washington is clarified for a reason able period But nobody need be sur prised by some sort of new proposals early next year.
 It would be a wonderful thing to nave foreign payments pouring into our federal treasury again. It would help to pay the costs of depression and whittle down that mounting public debt. And doubtless some concessions could be made, on the principle that half loaf is better than no bread. But as for new loans to our war debtors, they need not expect much for a long time to come. Neither our government nor our private capitalists have much enthusiasm left for financing Europe any more, in war or peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-03

that would make Japanes attempt at con- quest of bloody and costly job.
 So it is possible that Japan may be entirely lon the level" about desire to stabilize the southwestern Pacific by mak- ing a reality of the dream of an independ- ent Philippine Island group Certainly that is infinitely desirable to the United States, which looks with increasing dis taste on continuing responsibilities in one of the hottest corner Softhe earth.
 Just how hot it is may be seen from the fact that the chief importer of Amer ican munitions in recent months has been the Dutch East Indies. Dutch East Indies? What need have they of arma- ment? Well, it happens that in the Dutch East Indies are the vast oil reserves and storage tanks of the Dutch Shell Oil Company, to large extent British con- trolled.
 Surely the Dutch East Indies are not increasing their naval air coast patrols because they think everything is quiet on the Far Eastern front. Perhaps it is not too much to hope that the little ray of sunlight which shone through the insti- tute meeting may broaden out into gen. uine sunshine in the western Pacific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-03
PressCornment
DAN SHEA
(Hartford Courant)

The quality that one thinks oi first in connection with Dan Shea who died yesterday at the Veterans hospital in Newington, is his down. right courage. Crippled since the enc of the war, paralyzed for the last nine years, blind for the last five he had the strength of character and the will to live and stay sane Many men have the courage to face death when it threatens, but the courage to facc life, as Dan Shes did, bravely, cheerfully and above all, sanely, under such handicap; as were his, is not common.
 Those who knew him have Testi- fled to the inspiration he furnished them. Those of us who did moi known him except through the newspapers and the radio havs shared in the inspiration of his life for whose imagination is so dul that 1t cannot conjure up an ap' pro::imation of what Dan Shea! ordeal must have been? A cold, z headache, 8 sprained ankle, i! enough to upset the equanimity O most of us. Yet he preserved hi balance despite utter blindness ant all but complete paralysis, scorninl the luxury of self-pity when he hat every reason to indulge in it.
 Dan, those who knew him say would never have made the dramati gesture of Horatius when he asked And how can man die better thai facing fearful odds? His friends ar unanimous in agreeing that h. would no more have boasted of hi fortitude than he would have pitie, himself. Some rare spring of cour age within him enabled him to fac life under terrific handicaps withou heroics and without tears. His ex ample should help others to bea their lesser burdens of life nor bravely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-03

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who has carved those gigantic heads of Washing ton, Jefferson and Lincoln on rocky mountainside in tie Blac~ Hills of Da- kota says they will last fo' 'pj0O0 years. One of the presirenti ,I!ates. look ing at them the Il her ~dereo what the country would " that tlne' It is natura tho lovides gooo exercise fol the 'l, What sort of people will live q lo i VIII they live? And what soE. U. Soi ernment will they have?
 Will they be immensely advanced in civilization. or will they have reverted to barbarlsln? Will they have any record or any notion of what those cyclopean faces mean on the cliff, and why they were placed there? If our present form ot 20, arnment continued that long, it would ll.al 25,00O national campaigns fought 4n.. decided. That's political inf1n1ty to a.<am about What parties, what issues, hat campaign methods, would be used ty hat time, or in one-tenth of that "a. .s?
 Our human civilization, according to all the records modern man has been able to find, only goes back about 10000 years. Before that the most advanced races seem to have been about as priml- tive as present-day savages And civiliza- tion has not been continuous, in straight lines of development. Brilliant races and their cultures have vanished, and later barbarians have taken up the torch.
 Many students of history think our present industrial civilization, which makes those carvings possible, has already started to decay. Ten or twenty thou sand years from now, will there be arche- ologists from Tahiti or Antarctica stand ing in puzzlement before those sphinx like faces, as our learned men do today before the statues of Easter Island? Ana what trace will be left of our work, wars and politics?