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'GAG RULE* LOOMS
IN HOUSE TO PASS
H RELIEF BILE
Leaders Consider Drastic
Move to Appropriate
$880,000,000.
$4,000,000,000 LUMP
SUM FOR JOBS OPPOSED
New Dealers Willing for Congress
to "Take Its Time'' in Acting
on Work Program.
Br the Associated Press.
Watching relief funds dwindling
away. Democratic leaders in the House
considered today the advisability of
rushing $880,000,000 to President
Roosevelt by invoking a drastic rule.
Often ca»yd a "gag rule" by its op
ponents, thls> regulation would limit
debate sharply and forbid amend
ments. No decision as to whether it
would be invoked had been reached,
but one leader disclosed it was being
considered.
The major reasons which he said
figured in the problem were two—first,
President Roosevelt's desire to have
the measure enacted before February
10, when existing relief funds run out;
second, the predictions of leaders that
there will be no difficulty in obtaining
the two-thirds majority necessary to
pass the measure under the proposed
nroeedure.
Move to Block Revolt.
The $880,000,000 is to tide relief ac
tivities over the transition period from
the dole to the $4,000,000,000 program
to provide employment for 3,500,000
persons on relief. In a White House
conference yesterday the administra
tion leadership moved to block an in
cipient revolt against the President's
plan to have the $4,000,000,000 appro
priated in a lump sum without being
earmarked for specific projects.
After the conference, which was at
tended by Vice President Garner,
Speaker Byrns, Senator Robinson,
Democratic leader, and Chairman
Buchanan of the House Appropria
tions Committee, it was reported that
the Preisdent had indicated a willing
ness for Congress to "take its time" on
the $4,000,000,000 plan, but wished
speedy action on the $880,000,000 bill.
The procedure being considered for
the latter may be invoked only on
the first and third Mondays of each
month. Thus the bill would be
brought up a week from Monday.
Hearings Planned.
Democratic leaders said that would
give the House Appropriations Com
mittee time to hold hearings and
find out how the money would be
spent. At the same time, it was
added, the committee could call in
persons who will handle the $4,000,
000,000 and find out how they intend
to spend the money.
Their explanations. Speaker Byrns
Contended, would be sufficient to over
come objections to the "lump sum"
Idea.
In yesterday's conference the Dem
ocratic leadership agreed that all
the $4,000,000,000 except $300,000,000
would be appropriated in a lump sum, j
but Chairman Buchanan said "there
will at least be a gentleman's under
standing" so Congress "will know '
what it is planned to do with the
money." He said it was "impossible" j
to earmark the fund.
G. O. P. Stands Fast. <
Senate Republicans, however, gave '
no indications of receding from a
demand that the money be ear
marked. Senator Dickinson. Repub
lican, of Iowa, who had said the lump
sum idea would be "fought all along
the line." urged that Secretary Ickes I
and Harry L. Hopkins, relief admin
istrator, be called to explain how :
they would spend it.
The Senate was in adjournment '
today until next Monday, while the 1
House met to pass its first appropria
tions bill, the measure for independ- 1
ent offices.
GRAIN FUTURES ACT ;
QUESTIONED IN SUIT
Chicago Securities Dealer Asks
Court Test of Legality
of Commission.
The first court test of the authority
of the Grain Futures Act Administra
tion Commission, composed of three
cabinet officers, was filed in District
Supreme Court today by Thomas M.
HoweU, a stocks and securities dealer
of Chicago.
The suit alleges Howell has been
charged with violating the grain fu
tures act of 1922 by conspiring to
manipulate the price of corn on the
Chicago Board of Trade and by keep
ing Improper records of his transac
tions. He has been summoned to ap
pear January 14 at a hearing in Chi
cago, and, if found guilty, he may be
refused trading privileges on the lead
ing security and stock exchanges of
the country.
Asserting this action is unconstitu
tional, he asked the court for an in
junction to prevent Secretary of Agri
culture Wallace, Attorney General
Cummings and Secretary of Commerce
Roper, the members of the commis
sion from proceeding with the case.
Howell asserts the proceedings are
ttlegal because they are judicial In
character, although the commission
does not constitute a court. Through
Attorney John Walsh he also claims
he will be required to submit papers
•nd records at the hearing In viola
tion of the protection afforded him
In this respect by the Constittuion.
Wirephoto Service Extended.
NEW YORK, January 11 OP).—The
Ohio State Journal and the Columbus
Dispatch of Columbus, Ohio, today
arranged to participate with 49 other
Associated Press newspapers of the
United States in the wirephoto serv
ice inaugurated January 1 for trans
mission of news pictures by wire.
Rending and receiving equipment will
installed in Columbus,
1
Pay Restoration
Amendment Killed
On Point of Order
McLeod Clause to Inde
pendent Offices Bill
Loses in House.
The McLeod amendment to the in
dependent offices appropriation bill,
providing immediate restoration of the
remaining 5 per cent of the Govern
ment pay cut, was killed In the House
:oday on a point of order.
As soon as the amendment was
offered for consideration Represent
itive Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia,
in charge of the bill, made a point of
irder that it was not germane be
cause of its legislative feature.
His point was sustained by Repre
sentative Parsons of Illinois, who was
α residing.
Woodrum pointed out that the inde
pendent offices bill carries approprla
lions for the next fiscal year, and that
the McLeod amendment would have
to be classed as new legislation since
it provides appropriations for the cur
rent fiscal year.
McLeod then announced he would
offer his pay restoration plan as an
amendment to the first deficiency ap
propriation bill—whereby such oppo
sition could not be raised.
Rayburn Asks Congress to
Take Action Against "Can
cerous Growth."
By the Associated Press.
Chairman Sam Rayburn of the
House Interstate Commerce Commit
tee called on Congress today to re
move the "cancerous growth" of
"abuses" of public utility holding
companies
"We want you to consider," the
Texas Democrat said, "whether or
not the Congress should undertake to
regulate these super-holding com
panies or lay down a policy under
which they will disappear."
Predicts Dire Results.
Declaring that the abuses, if left
alone, "will jeopardize all of our
financial institutions and perhaps de
stroy the Republic," Rayburn said
that "there is no absolute necessity
for a holding company."
He also said Congress must see to
It that natural gu fields are pro
tected.
He was giving the House a pre
view of reports soon to come from
:he printer on investigations his com
mittee has made by congressional
Drder. His denunciation of holding
companies recalled indications in ad
ministration quarters recently that
legislation was coming up for gov
îrnmental curbs on holding com
panies and pipe lines f
"The abuses of the holding com
pany are indeed a major influence
hat brought on the great depres
iion," Rayburn said.
"This creature of our statutes," he
rontinued, "holds under its control
«liions of dollars' worth of property
icattered throughout the country, and
iometimes around the world. Its de
vions can shut down mills, move
'actories. reduce employes to a state
)f serfdom, strip the stockholders of
ocal companies of their equities,
iiphon off the earnings of profitable
:ompanies beyond the reach of their
itockholders to the stockholders of
>ther companies.
Tells of Abuses.
"This creature of our Imagination is
lermitted to act as a normal person,
ο contribute to campaign funds in
nunicipal, State and national elec
ions; to hire clever writers to carry
>n campaigns of propaganda; to
:entralize the control of industry."
Throwing out the suggestion that
:ompanies might be made to limit
heir areas of influence, he said: "If
ve insist that the corporate entity
ihall coincide with the region or local
ty of most economical operations, as
letermined by the State of the arte,
ve can then leave to the States and
:o compacts of States the regulation
>f most of these utilities."
As for gas pipe lines, he asserted:
"If Legislatures in the States where
latural gas deposits are found, and
which have become connected with
asers in other States," he said, "do
not protect the gas field, it then be
:omes the duty of the Congress to do
so. Congress must see to it that there
is no waste through neglected wells
which will deplete the supply or which
wilL reduce unduly and prematurely
the natural pressure of the gas in its
deposits."
v Mother Shot Near Home.
PHILADELPHIA, January 11 (A>).—
Mrs. Helen Ewerth, 26, mother of a
i-year-old child, was shot and killed
;hls morning shortly after she left her
lome by a man neighbors said had
ieen seen waiting for her for several
mornings.
MINGS ASKS
RES TO KEEP
GOLD CASE OPEN
Supreme Court Arguments
on New Deal Money
Policy End.
POWER OF CONGRESS
QUESTIONED BY HUGHES
Query ai to Constitutionality of
Act Standi Oaf—Early Deci
lion Is Unlikely.
Br the Associated Press.
Supreme Court arguments on the
constitutionality of legislation sus
pending gold payments were com
pleted today with an appeal by At
torney General Cummings for the
jurists to keep the case open in the
event the Government had not fur
nished all the information desired to
sustain the Government's action.
Meanwhile, considerable attention
was centered on a question asked by
Chief Justice Hughes yesterday as to
where authority was found to alter
the provisions of Liberty bonds for
payment in gold.
The arguments started Tuesday,
the day following the court's action
in holding unconstitutional the sec
tion of the recovery act under which
the administration had attempted to
curtail the interstate shipmen> of
illegally-produced oil.
A decision in the gold case—a vital
part of New Deal legislation—is un
likely before next month.
Attacked in Five Cases.
Constitutionality of the act setting
aside the clause in contracts provid
ing for payment in gold was attacked
in five cases jointly argued.
The Chief Justice again today asked
a number of questions while Angus
D. MacLean. assistant solocitor gen
eral. was winding up his argument in
behalf of the legislation. Among oth
er things he wanted to know whether
it was not a function of the Govern
ment to be able to contract in bor
rowing money.
MacLean replied that it was, but
that in borrowing money the Govern
ment was not barred from changing
in subsequent years the terms when
it believed it became necessary.
"Does not the validity of interna
tional laws depend upon the prin·
ciple," the Chief Justice continued,
"that a sovereign may bind Itself by
contract in borrowing money, and
that such obligations are sustained as
obligations of a sovereign to the tri
bunals because it is the essence of
sovereignty to be able by contract to
j bind itself?
"Otherwise the sovereign might not
be able to protect itself, when its sov
ereignty is in Jeopardy and get money
I with which it might sustain itself."
. MacLean answered that might be
! '™·
Attorney General Cummings sug
gested that perhaps the court might
find it desirable to order a reargu
ment.
In closing his argumeitt. which he
said he had made with the "utmost
confidence," Cummings declared:
"If we have not said everything
that we should in explanation of the
Government's position we will be glad
to come again before the Court at any
time it may wish."
After pointing out that the bond
before the Court matured in 1938 and
had been called for retirement, Chief
Justice Hughes said:
"The bondholder was entitled to get
what his bond called for. According to
his contention, instead of getting what
the bond called for he is getting some
thing else. The question, it seems to
me, is what was due on that bond when
it wai called for redemption."
Court Show· Interest.
Again yesterday members of the
court showed extreme interest by in
terjecting frequent questions and com
ment on the arguments.
"Breach of a solemn contract" was
the accusation hurled at the Govern
ment by counsel for P. Eugene Nortz
of New York, who contends he lost
money In surrendering $106,000 In
gold certificates last January.
Denying any "repudiation," Govern
ment counsel urged the court to render
a Judgment that "will make for peace
and will not defeat the early return of
prosperity to this weary land."
Last of the five contestants to ap
pear was John M. Perry, New York
lawyer, who argued his own case. He
asserted that the Government failed
to meet its obligation in redeeming a
4'i per cent Liberty bond, not in gold,
as the security stipulated, but in new
currency. He demands either gold or
dollars equal to the present value of
the metal.
89 Bescned From Ice Floe.
ASTRAKHAN, U. 8. S. R.. Janu
ary 11 <Λ>).—After being marooned
for 10 days on an ice floe in the
Caspian Sea, 89 fishermen escaped
today over an ice bridge pointed out
to them by airplanes.
Meter Tests Mental Upsets
And May Trail Thought Origin
By the Associated Près*.
PROVIDENCE, R. I., January 11.—
Brown University bas a brain meter
which dials in on mental upsets and
seems to be on the trial of the origin
af thought.
The instrument reads the infinites
imal electrical currents flowing from
the brain, it was announced today by
H. H. Jasper and L. Carmichael of
the physiological laboratory of Brad
ley Hospital.
The meter is two silver electrodes,
?ach about the size of a postage
stamp. Soaked in a salt solution,
they are placed on the skin of the
head. They are based on a discovery
jy 1%. Hans Berger of the University
)f Jena.
The Brown meter reveals two types
if current flowing from the human
Drain. One ranges from 20 to 80
jiillionths ol a volt and flow·
waves at the rate of 8 to 13 a second.
The other current ha* only about
half this voltage, but runs in waves
of 25 to SO a second.
The larger current seems to be a
general indicator. It is quite regular
when a person is undisturbed or
mentally tranquil. In one or two per
sons who were not well these same
electrical waves slowed to two or
three a second.
Most normal persons showed the
same large waves from both sides of
their heads. But there was lack of
synchronism between the two sides
of the head in pathological persons.
The large wave· seem to be af
fected when a person sees light or
hears sound. The meter also gives
indications of picking up complex
series of waves that appear to rise
from some sort of excitement in the
brain. .
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, EXPERIENCE "IfcUS ME
THAT EWEHDHiG R>U*
Biluohsin aNVak.
is GOING to BE
A MAN'S JOB!
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Girl Soldier, Killed in Action
At Shiloh, Rests With Heroes
Death Keeps Secret of Young Woman
Who Perhaps Died at Side of Her
Union Sweetheart.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
"Nine Unknown Union Soldiers."
This inscription on a new grave
marker just placed on the battlefield
of Shiloh keeps for all eternity a 70
year-old secret—for one of those
nameless dead was a young girl
dressed in the uniform of a Northern
Infantryman who fell with a Confeder
ate bullet through her chest, probably
on the second day of the fighting.
After the battle smoke had lifted
from the field, the Northern burial
squads found the bodies and dumped
them into a common, nameless grave
of which they kept no record. They
did not discover that one of these dead
was a *irl. This grave was somewhat
removed from any of the centers of
fighting and was overlooked when the
National Cemetery at Shiloh was es
tablished. So for 70 years, the girl's
secret was kept by death, most secre
tive of all confidants.
Last Spring the C. W. A. inaugurat
ed one of its projects at Shiloh, part
of which consisted in excavating some
old Indian mounds on the banks of the
Tennessee River. It was not expected
that any soldier dead would be found
there. The work was in charge of
Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., arche
ologlst of the Bureau of American
Ethnology·.
Largely by accident, the picks of
the archeoiogists broke into this
grave of the nine unknown. Only
the skeletons and the uniform but
tons were left. Eight were men. The
ninth was that of a girl 17 or 18
years old. There could be no ques
tion but that she had been a soldier.
In an almost straight line down the
fleshless chest were the buttons of a
Northern Infantryman's coat. The
bullet that killed her was recovered
from inside the skeleton.
Reverently the grim skeletons have
been reburied with their fighting
comrades. There was no clue what
soever to their identity. A little of
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U. S. URGED 10 BUY
75,000,000 ACRES
National Resources Board
Asks President to Take
Over 450,000 Farms.
By the Associated Press.
A huge program to spend $675.000,
OOO in buying up poor land and retir
ing it from farm production was rec
ommended to President Roosevelt to
day by the National Resources Board.
The purchasing would be extended
over 15 years, 5.000,000 acres being
bought each year at an annual cost of
$45,000.000.
450,000 Farms Involved.
This farm land, comprising 450,000
farms, should be withdrawn from
agriculture, the board said "in order
that both the natural and human re
sources of the Nation may be con
served."
The report, drawn by the board's
Land Planning Committee, was sup
plementary to the board's earlier study
—which President Roosevelt told Con
gress would guide the expenditure of
four billion dollars in. his new work
making program.
It urged that the Federal Govern
ment and the States take steps to pre
vent further settlement of lands so
poor that occupancy is "clearly con
trary to the public interest:" It turned
thumbs down on any "substantial
movement of unemployed people from
urban areas into commercial agricul
ture."
"It is imperative," it said, "that the
problem of industrial employment be
solved in other ways than by trying to
make farmers out of urban unem
ployed." It urged care in irrigation and
other reclamation plans to make sure
they are economically feasible.
Proposal to Absorb Land.
Land to be retired, the committee
suggests, may be added to the national
forests, or leased to States for wild life
refugee, parks and the like.
For the Indians, it Is suggested that
provision be mede for "additions to
now available Indian lands sufficient
to provide for » ose willing to assume
the necessary r sponsiblllties of land
use; and adequate system of credit,
and an educational system designed to
at them for operating land.
"The responsibility of the United
States should not be to continue to
support the Indians, but to give them
an opportunity to work out a more
satisfying life."
Guide lor Reader·
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Amusements C-8
Comics C-4
Features C-3
Finance ...A-15-16-17
Lost and Found A-9
Rafiio B-1S
Serial Story B-14
Short Story B-9
Society B-2
Sports
D. C. SUPPLY BILL
COMES UP MONDAY
House Appropriations Com
mittee Expected to Report
$41,000,000 Total.
Preparation* were made by the
House Appropriations Committee to
day to report the 1936 District supply
bill Monday.
The full committee will meet Mon
day morning at 10:30 to give Its ap
proval to the bill as framed by the
subcommittee headed by Representa
tive Cannon, Democrat, of Missouri.
Immediately afterward the measure
will be placed on the House caicnaar
and probably passed by the middle of
the week.
Members of the subcommittee have
indicated that the measure will follow
closely the recommendations of the
Budget Bureau and carry appropria
tions totaling about $41,000,000. The
subcommittee, however, is understood
to have made several changea In the
budget report, Increasing some items'
and reducing others, without mate
rially altering the total figure of $41.
000,000.
Due to the incompletion of the tax
study being made by Treasury experts
at the direction of President Roose
velt, the bill will be reported with a
provision fixing the Federal obligation
to the expenses of the District at
$5,700,000. Chairman Cannon ex
plained this figure can be changed
later either in the House or Senate if
the President recommends an Increase.
The $41,000,000 budget is prede
cated on continuation of the existing
$1.50 tax rate and will completely
wipe out an estimated surplus of more
than $2,000,000 in the general reve
nues of the District at the close of the
present fiscal year.
BALLOU CONSIDERED
FOR MISSOURI POST
Superintendent of District Schools
Mentioned for Presidency
of University.
Dr. Prank W. Ballou. superintend
ent of District public schools, who re
cently withdrew his name as a possible
successor to the presidency of St. Law
rence University, Canton, Ν. Y., Is
being considered for president of the
University of Missouri, it was learned
today.
"I would consider it a very great
compliment to be asked to become
president of such a school," Dr. B&l
lou said in answer to queries.
It was learned Dr. Ballou's name
is on the list of some 50 educators
who have been suggested to bead the
Middle Western university. He said
he has not sought the post.
Walter Williams resigned from the
presidency of the University of. Mis
souri last Spring because of 111 health.
The University of Missouri is lo
cated in Columbia and has an enroll
ment of more than 4,000 students. It
is the oldest State university west of
[the Mississippi River. .
ΝΙΝΕ MOI FIRMS
INDICTED BY U. S.
Anti-Trust Violations Are
Charged by St. Louis Jury.
Six Individuals Accused.
By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, January 11.—Nine '
moving picture corporations and six ;
individuals were indicted today by a
Federal grand Jury on charges of
conspiracy to violate the Sherman
anti-trust act.
The offense charged is a felony,
punishable by a prison sentence of two
years and a fine of <10,000.
Corporations named in the indict
ment are Warner Bros.; Pictures, Inc.;
Vitaphone Corp., First National Pic
tures, Inc.; Warner Bros. Circuit
Management Corp.; General Theater
Enterprise#, Inc.; Paramount Pictures
Distributing Co. Inc.; Paramount
Pictures Distributing Corp.; Para
mount Pictures distributing Co.'s, Inc.;
R-K-O Distributing Corp.
Indivklu»k Indicted are Harry M.
Warner, Herman Starr, Abel Cary
Thomas, Oradwell Sears, George J.
Schaefer and Ned E. Dipinet.
Investigated by V. S.
The indictments grew out of a
four-month Investigation by the De
partment of Justice of alleged mo
nopolistic practices of the industry.
Approximately 100 witnesses, in
cluding executives of larger com
panies. were subpoenaed for the three
day jury investigation which ended
here Wednesday.
The Government's case was pre
sented by Russell Hardy and Harold
L. Schilz, special assistants to Attor
ney General Cummings
Specifically the indictment is con
cerned with complaint of Allen L.
Snyder, operator of the Ambassador,
Missouri and Grand Central Theaters
here, that he had been unaWe to se
cure pictures from Warner Bros, and
other major producers for first-run
exhibition at his theaters.
It is alleged that after Warner Β roe
lost In efforts to obtain control of
the three St. Louis houses they opened
two rival theaters and refused films
to the Snyder houses.
AUSTRIA GUARANTEE
TALKED BY ENTENTE
Yugoslavia, Rumania and Czech
oslovakia Likely to Aid Franco
Italian View.
Br the Associated Press.
' LJUBLJANA. Yugoslavia, January
11.—Whether Yugoslavia, Rumania,
and Czechoslovakia will support the
recently concluded Franco-Italian pro
tocol guaranteeing Austria's independ
ence will be decided by representa
tives of all three nations, who met
here today in conference.
The meeting was attended by Pre
mier Yevtich of Yugoslavia. Dr. Eduard
Benes, foreign minister of Czechoslo
vakia. and Nicholas Titulescue, foreign
minister of Rumania.
TRADE WARNING ISSUED
PARIS, January 11 (JP).—A warning
of a "menacing situation" caused by
the tremendous growth of Japanese
trade was given to French industry
yesterday in Deputy Adrian Darlac's
foreign affairs report to the Chamber
of Deputies.
Heading his analysis. "The Yellow
Peril in Commercial Affairs." Dariac
said the ingenuity of Japanese busi
ness men made them "more redoubt
able than German traveling salesmen
before 1014."
He cited statistics to show the in
crease of Japanese trade in the Orient,
Europe and Africa.
Book of Symbols
Borrower Revealed
as John Condax
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, January IT—A
radio account of the Hauptmann trial
led John Condax, 26-year-old art in- ι
structor, to notify authorities that he
was the borrower of a book of sym
bols from the New York Public Li- I
brary. about which defense attorneys
questioned Dr. John F. (Jafsie;
Condon.
Mention of the book was made In
the trial during cross-examination of
Dr. Condon on Wednesday. Edward
J. Reilly. defense counsel, sought to
bring out that it was "Jafsie" who
signed for the book—Koch's work on
German symbols. The library slip
showed the name "John Condon,"
Reilly said.
"When I heard the account of Dr.
Condon's cross-examination, the sim
ilarity of names struck me forcibly,"
Condax said today. "I remembered
having been in the library and using
such books.
"I signed for several books. I used
my own signature and my Philadel
phia address.
"At that particular time we were
studying fresco painters and I was
interested in doing some research in
the international phases of art. '
Condax notified Attorney General
David Ί. Wilentz at Trenton, N. J.,
last night and was asked to make a
trip to New Jersey. He returned
early today.
The book. Condax said, contained a
symbol similar to the identifying mark
the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baoy
used in their ransom notes.
STRIKER WOUNDED
IN RAID ON PLANT
Officials of Minneapolis Motor
Concern and Special Officer
Severely Beaten.
By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, January 11.—One
man was wounded and three were
severely beaten when a gang of be
tween 50 and 70 strikers raided the
Trl-Motor Co. today.
Louis G. Lamieux. 32 years old, a
striker, was treated in General Hos
pital for a bullet wound in the
stomach. His condition was reported
not serious.
L. E. Baker, president of the motor
company, and A. F. Crounse. vice
president, reported they were beaten
by strikers wielding base ball bats.
The police said the motor company
had been closed because of the strike.
Pickets who entered the place were
ordered out by Crounse and Baker.
The strikers beat the two motor
officers and a special officer on duty
in the place.
Crounse, the police said, drew a
pistol and admitted firing on Lemieux
after the strikers refused to leave.
Lemieux was treated at General
Hospital and jailed later. It was said
his wound was not serious enough to
demand hospitalization.
GOLD PARLEYS TO OPEN
London Paper Tells of Anglo
French Negotiations.
LONDON. January 11 (jT").—The
Dally Herald in a special article by its
financial editor today said Anglo
French currency stabilization negotia
tions designed to lead to eventual re
turn to gold will be launched during
the visit of Foreign Minister Pierre
Laval and Premier Pierre Etienne
Flandin of France at the end of the
month.
ALL RANSOM NOTES
WRITTEN BY BRUNO,
EXPERT TELLS COURT
Mysterious Exchange of Lind
* Ο
bergh Money Recalled as U. S.
Agent Is Cross-Questioned.
CIRCULATION OF CASH STOPPED
AFTER ARREST, WILSON STATES
Says He Helped Prepare Money in
Morgan Office and Insisted on
Taking Numbers to Aid Hunt.
f Chronological account of today's trial session—Page A-4 )
(Copyright. 1935, by the nssoclatrd Press.»
FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 11.—Bruno Richard Haupt
mann's handwriting today was identified by a State expert as
that on all of the kidnap ransom notes received by Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh following the theft of his 20-months-old baby.
The identification was made by Albert S. Osborn, sr., who
called himself an "examiner of questioned documents."
He gave the testimony in a loud voice and positive manner.
The identification of the handwriting has been called by the
prosecutors one of their strongest links in the chain of evidence
through which they hope to send Hauptmann to the electric
chair for the murder of the baby.
xiic ni at I'tuiauui xiutc was on wic
windowsill of the Lindbergh nursery
and was left when the baby was taken.
The State considers this direct evi
dence that Hauptmann was the man
who climbed up a ladder, entered a
window and grabbed the baby.
The baby, the State has charged,
was killed as the ladder broke with it
and kidnaper on the way down.
Osborn, shown handwriting speci
mens of Hauptmann's which were in
troduced yesterday, stated:
"My opinion is that the ransom
notes were all written by the writer
of the various papers signed 'Richard
Hauptmann.' "
Examines Each Note.
He examined all 14 of the ransom
notes, one by one, and said of each
that it was written by Hauptmann.
This included the note which was
found in the nursery near the empty
crib.
He repeated his opinion.
"The ransom notes were all written
by the writer of these various proved
writings."
Osborn's testimony followed that of
H. Norman Schwarzkopf of the New
Jersey police, who said specimens of
Hauptmann's handwriting were ob
tained without coercion. Just before
that Frank Wilson, special agent of
the intelligence unit of the United
States Bureau of Internal Revenue,
who directed the preparation of the
ransom money which Dr. John F.
(Jafsie) Condon said he paid to
"John," testified that to his knowledge
no ransom bills had appeared in cir
culation since Hauptmann was ar
rested.
Explains Conclusion.
"How," Attorney General David T.
Wilentz asked the expert. Osbom.
about the notes, "do you explain your
conclusion?"
"First. I examined the notes to de
termine if all were done by the same
writer." he said. "I first examined
the notes in May. 1932. I wanted to
see if they were connected with each
otner and I found that they were in
seven or eight different ways."
His voice was loud and he explained
to the court that he was hard oi
hearing.
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann. wife of the
prisoner and mother of his own smal.
son. flushed deeply when she heare
Osborn say her husband wrote the
notes. Her eyes anxiously scanned thf
reporters as they hurriedly pencilec
bulletins, then she threw a swif
glance at her husband, whose feature ι
remained immobile.
The mysterious exchange or thi
ransom gold notes and a subspQuen,
suicide of "J. J. Faulkner" were in
jected into the trial today by the de
fense, which has been trying to show
that a gang of four was responsible
for the kidnaping and murder.
Wilson was closely cross-examined
on this phase.
Wilson was one of the principal
agents who built up the Government's
successful income tax-evading case
against the gang leader, A1 Capone.
His connection with the Lindbergh
investigation dated from the time of
the crime until the arrest.
He testified that $2,980 of the Lind
bergh money was exchanged at the
New York Federal Reserve Bank on
the day the gold embargo went into
effect. All of the ransom money was
in gold notes. He insisted there was
no way to trace the "J. J. Faulkner,
whose name was on the slip that ac
companied the exchange.
"As you were investigating J. J·
Faulkner." asked Defense Counsel C.
Lloyd Fisher, "is it true that a J. J.
Faulkner threw himself from the top
of the Crysler tower and committed
suicide?" .
"I don't know," he replied.
Heard of Suicide.
Pressed later he said he had heard
of a man named Faulkner committing
suicide but that he did not know if
the man had the initials "J· J·
"You carefully investigated J. J
did you not?"
"Yes sir."
"Did you find a J. J· Faulkner
alive0"
"Yes, sir, several of them, ' he an
Wilson earlier had testified he had
no notice of any ransom currency ap
pearing after the arrest of Haupt
m "So far as you know." Wilentz «ked
him. "since the Indictment of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann for murder has
there been one ransom bill turned up.
"No. sir," he replied
Wilson testified that he directed the
preparation of the «mm ™°ney
which Condon charged he paid to
Hauptmann in a Bronx cemetery.
Describes Cash Bo*.
He described graphically the elab
orate plans laid for subsequent cap
ture of the kidnaper by carefully not
ing the serial numbers of each piece
of currency—numbers which were
later printed on 250,000 circulars and
sent to banks throughout the United
States and in many foreign countries.
The money. $70,000. was counted
out and noted at the J. P. Morgan Co.
Only $50,000 was paid by Condon tq
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Wolves Invade Rumanian
Towns as Cold Grips Nation
By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Rumania, JMiuary
11.—Fierce blizzards and bitter cold
held almost all Rumania In their (rip
today.
The unprecedented!; low tempera
tures prevailing for the past few days
have driven packs of hunger-mad
dened wolves from the mountains and
forests into rural towns.
One village near Bistrltz was at
tacked by 40 of the ravenous beasts
and peasants, unable to drive them
away, were compelled to lock them
selves in their houses.
A 10-year-old gli* was reported to
\
have been torn to pieces before she
could reach her home. Many cattle
also have been killed.
One peasant was attacked by wolves
while on his way home or a sledge
drawn by two horses. He sought
refuge in a tree, where he was found
frozen to death the next day. All but
the bones of hie horses had been de
voured.
Two soldiers on frontier patrol
along the Niepçr River also perished
from the cold.
Hie Black Sea presents the uncom
mon spectacle of solid stretches of
ice extending one-hall mile out from
shore, k