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BRUNO IS ACCUSED BY NEW EVIDENCE Handwriting Data Brought From Europe—Defense Stresses Alibi. (Con'.fnued From First Page.) Edward J. Reilly, chief defense coun sel, had wired tor details of a Mont real man's statement that he had seen Fisch in Montreal, with a child, ihortly after the kidnaping. Michael Barry, a former newsstand owner, signed an affidavit before a Montreal notary last week that he thought he saw Fisch in Montreal with a child "closely resembling" the Lindbergh baby about 15 days after the kidnaping. Barry said he had not mentioned the Incident until now "be cause friends advised me to keep quiet." Another Montrealer—John Harrow, owner of a tailor 6hop and small hotel—came forward today, the Mont real dispatches said, with a story eimilar to that told by Barry. Harrow "positively identified" a picture of Fisch as that of a man he saw with several other men in a United States car about the time Barry is supposed to have seen Fisch. Couple Entered Hotel. He said the car drove up before his hotel and after the occupants, who seemed very nervous, had dis cussed something m a low tone the man he believes was Isador Fisch came forward and asked to see a ; room. He said he had a woman and child with him. Finally, the wom an carried the child into the hotel, screening its face. They refused to sign the register, Harrow said. During a conversation Harrow said he distinctly heard the woman ad dress the man as "Isador." Harrow said the picture of Fisch "nearly knocked me off my chair, because I remembered every feature of the man's face because of his odd behavior." He said he was sure the man had spoken with a Ger man accent. Reilly, In New York over the week end, said that certain "surprise" wit nesses would be called to weld the "ironclad" alibi the defense is seeking 4 r\ r\r«T»o fnr T-T α ι inf m α τλτλ Dog Enters Case. A dog—the proverbial "lean's best friend"—will be an important factor in the testimony of or>? of Reilly's witnesses. The witnesses, said Reilly, will be called to the stand "at the first op portunity" after the trial, in recess over the week end, resumes Monday. The man's story will be that on the t night of the kidnaping, March 1, 1932, he had gone to White Plains, Ν. Y.. from his heme in the Bronx— where Hauptmann also lived—in j * search of a police dcg. Returning unsuccessful in his, search, the man saw an automobile ! at a filling station, and in the car ! was a dog so similar to the one he ! had been hunting that he thought it ; was his own. The witness, said Reilly, '«'ill say ; that he approached the car and told the man in the car that he believed the dog was his. The man in the car j denied it, saying the dog was owned by a friend. The witness then threatened to have the man in the car arrested, and even went so far as to have the man write his name on a paper, to gether with his address. The name the man wrote was : "Bruno Richard Hauptmann." and ' the man who wrote it, the witness will swear, was Hauptmann. The witness will say that he is able to recall the exact night on which this episode over a dog occurred be cause, on returning home later, he heard over the radio the first alarm concerning the Lindbergh baby kid naping. Other Witnesses. Reilly said he had two other new : witnesses whose testimony would help , the prisoner's case, but that he has ! had difficulty in gaining their con sent to take the stand. He did not explain what their objections were. As the defense, now launched on the presentation of its own case after weeks of testimony for the State, made plans for the presentation of its alibi case, the State laid equally de termined strategy to break down the defendant when he resumes the stand for cross-examination Monday. Somewhere along the road of his cross-examination, the State expects to trap Hauptmann. The lawyers for the State have ex pressed confidence that Hauptmann will lose the remarkable self-control he has shown throughout all the months since his arrest. The little red memorandum book of Hauptmann's, which Attorney Gen eral David T. Wilentz shoved under his nose as he shouted questions at the pale defendant yesterday, the the first of several surprises the State has prepared. In that book appeared the word "boat," written "b-o-a-d," apparently in Hauptmann's hand, just as it was written and spelled in the note which "John" gave to Dr. John F. Condon in St. Raymond's Cemetery, the Bronx, on the night of April 2, 1932, when he took the $50,000 ransom. To Attack Story. There was something else, too, which must have heightened Hauptmann'e dread as Wilentz pounded away at him. At the prosecution table the "brains" of the State were busy set ting up the groundwork for fresh at tacks on the story he proffered in de fense of the charge he kidnaped the baby, collected the ransom and used a major share of It to speculate in the Etock market. The prosecution, Wilentz said, "has only Just started" on Hauptmann. Wilentz desires more than a mere jury verdict of conviction. What he hopes and what he will try for on Monday when Hauptmann comes back to sit alone and face the long hours of ques tioning is a complete breakdown, an admission of Hauptmann's that he is guilty. Defense attorneys are confident no such thing will happen and will con tinue their fight to show not only that Hauptmann is innocent, but that the crime was the work of more than one man. The defense Is keeping the names of all its witnesses secret and would not disclose today the identity of a taxicab driver who observed four men/ according to the defense. In the cemetery around the time the ransom was paid. Hanptmann Unshaken. Hauptmann, in cell No. 1 of the county jail behind the court house, was reputed tonight to be unshaken by his first taste of cross-examination. He had spent most of yesterday on the stand when Wilentz began his at tack, interspersing his demands for the complete truth from Hauptmann with questions bearing on the prison er's old Ûerman police record and his illegal entry into the United 8tates. Hauptmann was tired, apparently, and it was WUentz'| manner in many 1 Must Answer Hauptmann Riddle Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. % The jury that has been listening to the intricate evidence in the Haupmann trial for more than three weeks. Reading up and around the question mark: Lls com C. Case, Charles Walton, sr., foreman; Mrs. Ethel Stockton, Howard V. Biggs, George Voorhees, Mrs. Rosle Pill, Robert Cravatt, Charles P. Snyder, Mrs. May P. Brelsford, Philip Hockenbury, Elmer Smith and Mrs. ,· Verna Snyder. SUSPENSE MARKS RECESS OF ÏRIAL Hiatus Between Friday and Monday Leaves Audi ence Semi-Dazed. BY ANNE GORDON Sl'YDAM. FLEMINGTON, N. J.. January 26.— Do you remember when you used to read those penny thrillers of the Nick Carter school, and just as your hero was about to deal the villain a merited and manly thrashing you turned a page and came across the unbelievable words "to be continued"? Do you re member hew impossible it seemed that any one with a grain of heart and imagination could so abruptly leave you in that tense and breathless state? Do you remember with what bafflement you looked at those mad dening little asterisks, and wondered how you could possibly wait until to morrow? ; We in Flemington are remembering those things well today, as the week end adjournment places it incon gruous hiatus between Friday and Monday. We have left our potential villain cringing and glaring in the witness chair, we have been snatchid suddenly from our righteous -hero while yet his scalding denunciations were ringing in our ears, we have at the very climax of our emotions been confronted with the words "to be continued Monday." Can't Get Back to Normalcy.^ We wander around the town in a semi-dazed condition, bccau3e it is almost impossible to sw ing back into , the ordinary pursuits and diversions of a normal week end. We start casual conversations which trail aim lessly off. We speak brightly of going to New York for the day. or riding to rrenton for a movie. We achieve a spurious gayety in an attempt to get back to normalcy and to freshen our minds and nerves against tomorrow's tension, but sooner or later we are ar guing, declaiming, rehearsing the last chapter of this amazing serial. Living from day to day in the weird atmosphere of that court room, i watching the actors who come and ?o. straining to catch every word and j every impression emanating from that room, we are attuned to such a high pitch of receptivity that we ourselves are no longer normal. Some reporters have dashed away In an attempt to escape the whole thing for a few hours, others roam the streets for bits of local color, many have gone to bed from utter exhaus tion. Flemingtonians themselves are calmer, and enjoy with complacency the use of their own streets and shops. The little boys still run up and 3own the town hawking papers, and pennies with a copper impression of the court house stamped upon them, ind alas! men still stand on street corners and sell to misbegotten mo rons small replicas of that ghastly ladder which led to a baby's death. These hideous symbols worn on the lapels of men and women are a sick ling, disillusioning sight. VT«ii;cnf)iu>p ΓηΜΤΐ»ϋίΙηη. Abram Parker, aged 8, has started heavy competition against bulky jour nals which threaten to snow us under. His paper is known as the "Haupt mannville News," but last week he ne glected crime for a day when his big jest lead was the advent of Joe Pen ler in Flemington. Certain Fleming ton citizens have protested against the incontinence of newspaper people "be cause they don't keep regular hours." Very few-of them take us seriously, but most of them are good natured ibout our odd practices, and have come to expect the unexpected. Except for a few isolated incidents, there is not much comic relief in Flemington. The loudest laughter is from those half-wits who crowd the court room, and grin or guffaw Jor no apparent reason. They have gotten under Justice Trenchard's skin, and he has promised to have them thrown jut. Reilly's chorus of mink-coated lady friends still holds down the front seats, dropping powder and ashes on Dur copy. So-called subpoenas con tinue to be issued as freely as coupons, ind as the court room becomes more »nd more crowded, chairs snap, elbows crash through windows, and people buffet and trample each other for seats, texeept for his half hour be neath Wilentz* scorching tongue, Hauptmann has often seemed the calmest person in the room. All Types Gathered. Human nature in all its forms Is {athered in Flemington, and some of :hem are not so pretty. Ofle woman fcnlts impassively through the cor •espects, rather than his questions, vhich roused the prisoner. "He Is vulnerable, very vulnerable, tfait until we realty >get .started," ffilentr said. Wilentz put his fice close to iauptmann's and shouted in the best reditions of prosecutors. Afterward ïauptmann commented: "It seems the attorney general was rying to get me excited. AC I can lay is that he will haveto tfy a lot larder. I am on to that, because I lave been told how . prosecution awyers act. It i#st wont work. It's 10 use. BRUNO R. HAUPTMANN. oner's dreadful testimony, and has seldom been seen to raise her eyes. She Is a modern prototype of the crones who knitted at the foot of the guillotine, as the heads dropped Into the basket. She has not dropped a stitch to date. Hauptmann may burn or Hauptmann may go free, or Haupt mann may confess, but she will finish that sweater, come what may, and then maybe somebody will tell her what it was all about. The strange hiatus, which has been anything but a lull, is almost ended, and we wait restlessly and half-fear fully for the next installment of this blood-curdling story "to be continued tomorrow." armIphbs 3 CHAIN STORES Two Escape in Coupe After Hold-Ups on 18th, 17th, and 0 Streets. Three chain groceries were robbed in quick succession last night by two colored bandits who escaped in a light coupe bearing Maryland tags. The pair first robbed a store at 1023 Eighteenth street managed by Wesley Vandercook, 1432 Clifton street. Producing guns, the bandits emptied the cash registers and then demanded to know if any of the clerks had an automobile outside. AU denied they owned cars, and one bandit said: "I'm going to search you for per mits and shoot the man who has one!" The pair fled, however, with out attempting a search. They ap parently had feared pursuit. Many customers were in the sec ond chain grocery at Seventeenth and R streets when the bandits ar rived. They emptied the cash reg isters and departed in their coupe. The manager, Thomas Brown, 6815 Eighth street, told police he did not know how much money was taken. The bandits then went to a grocery at 1400 Ο street, where they trained guns on the manager, Lawrence Pen dleton, 1843 Monroe street northeast, and scooped up the contents of two cash registers. All managers denied they knew how much had been taken. The coupe was reported to have Maryland tags and police set up a watch on roads leading from the District, but the robbers eluded them. Jap Politeness Dropped. > Because passengers ignore the signs "please refrain from smoking," In cars of electric trains in Tokio, the Japa nese ministry of railways will sub stitute others muling "no smoking." Violators who ignore personal warn ings will be subject to a fine of $S. Smoking will be permitted on railway trains as befor^| Old-Age Pension Level Held Too Low by Many—Some to Oppose Plans. By the Associated Press. Recognizing strong sentiment for liberalization ol the administration's security program, House leaders yes terday anounced that those who seek changes would be given a chance to air their views formally this week. Speaker Byrns said at a press con ference yesterday there was "consid erable sentiment" for an increase in funds carried in the measure, although he did not know how widespread the feeling was. Many House members, like thoee of the Senate, have criticized the old-age pension features of the bill, holding the proposed (30 a month was not enough. Immediately after the Speaker's conference, Chairman Doughton, Democrat, of North Carolina, of the House Ways and Means Committee, in a formal statement said the hear ings—which began Monday—had pro gressed far enough that the Ways and Means Committee "expects to be able to call witnesses other than those representing the administration nest Wednesday." 40 Outsiders Seek Hearing. More than 40 persons or firms out side the administration have asked to appear. It was generally understood most of those were opposed to some phase of the bill, although they did not so specify In their requests for a hearing. What one objection might be was I brought out yesterday while Kather I ine Lenroot, head of the Labor De partment's Children's Bureau, was . testifying before the Ways and Means group. She said she had heard of j fears that under the measure the j Government might force physicians J to work for fixed fees. She added there.was no foundation for that fear. Miss Lenroot estimated that al though $25,000,000 would be enough to pay the Federal Government's share of aid to the mothers of fath erless children next year, but added: "The total amount that ought to go into this, if there is adequate aid, is around $120,000,000 a year." Asks Third as U. S. Share. Of that, she said, the Federal Gov ernment should supply a third. To show the need for the expansion of work, she pointed out that infant mortality increased the first six months of 1934, and that the United States has one of the highest mater nity death rates in the world. A move also developed in the com mittee to supply material for House members who choose to support the administration old-age pension bill in preference to the Townsend $200 a-month plan. Representative Knutson, Republic an, of Minnesota, asked Douglas Brown, professor of economics at Princeton, and an advisor of the President's · Committee on Economic Security, what he thought of the Townsend plan. Other committee members assumed that Brown was speaking for the ad ministration when he replied that it was "both lllusionary and dangerous." It would, he added, break down the economic system. KILLING OF SWEETHEART IS CHARGED TO MAN, 24 Coroner's Jury Asks Probe of Death First Blamed on Fall From Car. By the Associated Press. GREENSBURG, Pa., January 26.— After months of investigation. William Leatherman. 24, was jailed today on a charge of murder in the death of his sweetheart, Viola Dennis, 23, on a lonely road last August. Miss Dennis' death had been at tributed to a fall from Leatherman's automobile, but a coroner's jury recom meded on September 27 that the case be investigated by District Attorney Richard D. Laird. . The jury found that death had been caused by shock, a fractured skull and a broken neck. CRIPPLED MAN SUICIDE HOPKIN8VILLE. Ky„ January 26 (Λ3).—Telling his wife he could stand conditions no longer, W. A. Ray, 45 year-old cripple who had been on re lief here for several years, hanged htnwif in his almost bare one-room home near here today. Coroner W. J. XSe returned a verdict of suicide. Relief headquarters recalled Ray had come there with a shotgun two years ag{ demanding more aid. SIDES UEO IN BAI m Reserve Board Shows Fewer Than 200 Not Li censed to Reopen. Br the Associated Près». Long strides toward the rehabilita tion of America's tanking structure since the crisis In March, 1933. were reported yesterday In the monthly bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board. Due to Federal activities, the board reported that the number of unli censed bank·, or banks which had not obtained licenses to reopen, had been reduced from more than 4,500 to less than 200 at the end of last December. Investments, At that time, the board said, the Government, acting through the R. F. C., had authorized Investments In the capital structure of about S.6M banks In an aggregate amount of $1, 202,000,000. Bank suspensions In 1934 were re ported fewer than in any similar pe riod since 1920. The year's failures comprised 56 Institutions with depos its of $37,000,000. Only one of these, with deposits of only $40,000, was a member of the Federal Reserve Sys tem. , inciuucu in ΙΠΓ usures, uuwcrci, were eight other batiks with Insured deposits. Preliminary reports to the board showed that 920 banks which were not licensed to operate on an unre stricted basis were placed In liquida tion or receivership during the year. Deposits Involved amounted to $647, 000,000. These included 398 national banks with deposits of $402,000,000, 23 State member banks with deposits of $40,000,000 and 501 banks, not members of the Federal Reserve Sys tem, with deposits of $205,000,000. 190 Not Restored. On April 12, 1933, the height of the banking crisis, a total of 4.215 banks with deposits of $4,000.000,000 had not been given license to operate on a 100 per cent basis. Of these. 1,108 were national banks with deposits of $1.819.000.000 and 148 were State member banks with deposits of $841,· 000.000. All but 190 banks had been restored to either an active status or placed in receivership for liquidation by the end of last December. Six of the banks remaining unli censed were national banks with de posits of $6.800,000. Four were State member banks with deposits of $1.800, 000, and 180 State non-member banks with deposits of $88,000,000. utilityITegdlation DATA OF D. C. SOUGHT Chairman of District Commission Is Invited by New York Legis lative Committee. . Riley E. Elgen. chairman of the District Public Utilities Commission, has been invited to present data on regulatory machinery used here to a committee of the New York Legis lature, which is studying utility mat ters. Particular interest has been ex pressed in the Washington plan o( adjusting electric light rates here. It i* said. This is done under a con sent decree of District Supreme Court by which rates are adjusted annually, portions of excess profits above 7 per cent being set aside for rate reduc tions. The annual power-rate adjustment Is to be considered this week by the Public Utilities Commission. It Is expected Mr. Elgen win go to Albany to discuss District utility regulation some time this week, if local business permits. The average electric power rates of the country vary from 5 to 5.5 cents per kilowatt as compared with an average of 2.47 for the District, according to recent studies. Others Interested in power rates have expressed Interest In the Wash ington plan, officials say. Among these is an official of the Detroit ad ministration. KERMESS INCLUDES MANY ATTRACTIONS "Old Heidelberg'' Club One of Side Lights of Event to Begin Saturday. A number of attractions, including a night club, "Old Heidelberg," with music, dancing and * floor show by professional entertainers, will be of fered each night at the Knights of Columbia Kermess, which opens next Saturday and continues through the following Saturday at the club home, 915 Tenth street. The opening night will be known as Archbishop Cur ley night, with all members of the order as special guests. Each of the following nights will be designated with a distinctive bearing on Christopher Columbus. The posters submitted in the recent contest conducted by the Kermess Committee, which were on display at the Willard Hotel and the Knights of Columbus Hall, have been moved to the show windows of the old Barber & Ross Building, Eleventh and Ci streets. First prize was won by Betty Past of the National School of Fine and Ap plied Arts. Belisario Centreras of Eastern High School won second hon ors, while third place was awarded to A Brown Hurt, also of the National School of Fine and Applied Arts. Mrs. Cooke that Scarlett, who entered her husband's employ three months ago, had disappeared from home with her two daughters and had taken with him $5,000 worth of Jewelry she had entrusted to him to take to a jeweler for cleaning. She said Scarlett never appeared at the shop with the jewels, which In cluded three diamond and platinum rings, an amber necklace and a cameo pin. Mrs. Cooke, who lives at 105 West Bradley lane, told police earlier in the day that she feared her daughters had been abducted and made a verbal offer of $5,000 reward for Scarlett's arrest and the safe return of her daughters. Her fears were dissipated and the reward was withdrawn early last night when a telegram, which gave no Inti mation of the marriage, but assured relatives that "everything is alright," was received from the two girls. Police Had Started Search. It had been wired from Raleigh, N. C., and said: "Decided to go south. Everything is all right. Please do not worry. See you soon. Love." The wire was received several hours after a general radio alarm broadcast by Washington police started a city wide search. It was learned, shortly after the re ceipt of the wire, that the girls had parked one of the cars in a downtown Washington garage Friday night. Cooke is the 78-year-old heir of a wealthy New York minister. Jane studied until last year at the National Cathedral School for Girls, while her sister is a graduate of Holy Cross Academy. Young Scarlett was an cutstandine athlete at the Salisbury, N. C. High School, from which he was graduated in 1933. He was a star halfback on the foot ball team and was a main stay of the track and field squad. He went to Washington several months ago to seek employment. INK PLANT FOREMAN SOUGHT FOR PR1NTERY Civil Service Examinations In clude Those for Dredge Engine man and Shipfitter. The Civil Service Commission will hold an examination to fill the post of foreman of the ink-making plant, Government Printing Office, for which applications will be received until February 14, it was announced yes terday. The base pay is $3,200 annu j ally· Tests also were announced for .dredge engineman. Engineer Depart - 'ment, $135 to $175 monthly, and shipfitter, Portsmouth, Va., Navy Yard, 77 to 87 cents an hour. The former examination will be open until ! February 8 and the latter until Feb ruary 18. All base wages are subject to a statu tory cut. Details are available at the com mission, Seventh and F streets. Peak Scaled Again. The second known ascent of Can yon Peak, a mountain in the Bitter Root Range, Montana, was made by a group of the Montana Mountaineers last Summer. 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C., president of thé"American Cotton Association. Under the plan, unemployed farm ers would be placed on the lands and given a 15 to 20 year option to pur chase them with proceeds from hunt ing and fishing charges that would be made. · Fanners Jobless. Wannamaker estimated 40 per cent of Southern farmers were unemployed because of crop reduction programs, and said his plan would help to remedy this situation and at the same time remove millions of acres of poor lands from cultivation, thus minimiz ing the necessity for compulsory control. Counties and States also would be given an opportunity to buy the land from the Government after it had been stocked with game and fish or reforested by the Government. Confers With Officials. Wannamaker conferred with of ficials in the forestry, fisheries and game divisions of the Government here, quoting F. E. Silcox, head of the Forestry Service, and Charles E. Jackson, assistant fisheries commis sioner, as warmly receiving the sug gestions. He also saw Senator Smith of South Carolina. Wannamaker said he believed his plan could be worked out without ad ditional legislation by co-ordinating various submarginal land agencies in the Government. He said money for the program could come from the $4,880,000.000 relief fund. WISH POLITICIANS' HAILEDJVJARLEY Pride in Race Is Declared Reason for Celt Interest in Public Office. By til· Aiisociated Press. NEW YOKK, January 26.—The Irish are "politicians in every land," Postmaster General James A. Farley asserted tonight, because there never was "an irishman who denied he was descended irom a king." t Denied sovereignty and nationality in their own home, Farley continued, the Irish "have always devoted their talents to the establishment and pro tection of every nation to which they have given their loyalty." The Postmaster Genera! addressed the American Irish Historical Society at iu thirty-seventh annual dinner. "The Irish people who were most denied the right of nationality," he declared, "were those who have most helped others to achieve nationality. • · · The Irish were like slaves who fought to make others free, or poor men who worked that others might be rich. "If we search for the profound rea son why they who were nationless be came the nation makers, I think it must be found in the lofty conception they have of their ancestry. Has it ever struck you that other races are content to have their origin traced back to a monkey in a tree, but the Irish proudly insist on tracing their ancstry to a king on a throne? · · · "Don't blame men of Irish blood throughout our land for being poli ticians. Blame the long line of Kel leys and Burkes and Sheas before them whose lives were bound up with America. 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