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Reilly Tells Jurors Case %/ Must Be Decided on Law Declares Hauptmann Is Innocent of Crime and Says Indictment Is Pattern Which Must Be Followed for Verdict, (Continued From First Page.) he went on, his voice louder, but a steady, serious tone maintained. "It Is the rule you must follow as you would In playing a game. It Is the pattern for this crime, as a pat tern for a dress. You can use no other." "That is the pattern," he added, "they must foUow in proving guilt." The State's case to support a con viction must have shown, he pointed out. that the baby died instantly. Reilly's voice had risen to an ora torical pitch. His face grew redder as he warmed to his task. Hauptmann watched Reilly's broad back and blinked occasionally as the chief coun sel's big hand smacked the table to emphasize a point. Lindbergh, too, fixed his gaze on Reilly. He reminded the attentive jurors that a man is presumed to be inno cent until proven guilty. "In this case it is very apparent that since the defendant was arrested the burden of proving his innocence shifted to him." His fist smote the table. ■"This is the crime of the century. "You'll have that howled into your ears by the gentlemen who will reply to my words. "There is no doubt it was the crime of the century. I'm not here to fool you. Comes Down to Question of Horse Sense. "It's come down to horse sense. We'll take the witnesses one by one and weigh their words with common sense against the testimony of a lot of technicians and experts working for so much a day." he said. "This is the crime of the century," he went on, "the worst crime, the lowest crime that the books hold. But the defendant is not guilty." Reilly said he admired and sympa thized with Col. Lindbergh and his family. He said he was impressed with the colonel's trans-Atlantic flight. "But," he shouted, "we cannot be ewept off our feet when there is no evidence."' Reilly pointed to the diagrams of the Lindbergh home, "built for his wife and baby." "Bruno Richard Hauptmann never drove a nail in that house," Reilly said. "He never stopped near Prince ton Airport. He never went on that estate." "They would have you believe," Reilly went on. "that Hauptmann was a master mind, in one breath, and j in the next that he was the worst fool in the world. "They want you to believe he wore : gloves when making the ladder and then sat for an hour and a half talk ing to Dr. Condon with his face ex posed." As the recital continued, Haupt mann's eyes blinked rapidly and he raised a finger to a cheek as though brushing away a tear. Col. Lindbergh Listens With Set Face. Col. Lindbergh set listening with ; Interest, his face set. Col. Schwarz- ; kopf and Col. Breckinridge listened, j chins resting on hands. Reilly mentioned Charles B. Rossi ter. the man who said he saw Haupt mann near the Princeton airport the j Saturday before the kidnaping. "Shifty-eyed," Reilly snapped, as he spoke of Rossiter on the stand. "He left this court without me knowing him, without you knowing him." He said Rossiter was a typical character for "this wonderful sce nario." "This wonderful scenario," he re peated loudly, "but it's not founded on honest facts." "I don't believe Rossiter, any more than I believe Whited. because Haupt mann was never near Hopewell." He permitted his voice to drop «lightly. "There are certain concrete facts In this case which stand out like sore thumbs. "One of the first things you must ask yourself when you enter the jury room is: "How in God's name did Haupt mann in the Bronx know anything about the Lindbergh house." "Col. Lindbergh was stabbed in the 1 back by those who worked for him,'' Reilly declared. First Time Family Stayed Over Tuesday Night. "No one could get into that house Unless some one inside aided. "It's in the evidence that the fam ily was staying over for the first time on a Tuesday night. "No one outside the household knew that" "No one but Col. Lindbergh, his family, the Morrow household, the nurse, Betty Gow; the Morrow serv ants and 'Red' Johnson knew that." Betty Gow knew that the Land berghs were staying a night longer, he pointed out. "Col. Lindbergh," he added, "can have all the confidence in the world In Betty Gow. "I have none. She came from Scot land when they gave her $700. Other Wise she wouldn't have come." "I say this to you: Nobody in God's world knew that baby was going to be there that Tuesday night, except the Gow girl," he shouted. Lindbergh's expression never chang ed as Reilly denounced the baby's nurse. He kept his eyes on Reilly, and they twinkled occasionaUy as If the attack on "his disloyal servants" amused him. Reilly then turned his guns on the ghost of Ollie Whateley, the Lind bergh butler who died a year after the kidnaping. "There was one agency in that house that would respond only to its master, and that was the fox terrier," Reilly said. "Who controlled that dog's move ments that night—the butler! A dog which could smell any stranger who stepped on the grounds." Reilly declared he didn't know much about these people—the serv ants—but there was evidence point ing to "their guilt." Betty Gow, he declared, said she "loved this little baby," but while it was ill she remained away from It that night from 8 o'clock until 10. Must Place Bruno In Lindbergh Nursery. "Keep before you these particular Important bits of evidence before you consider the other matters that have been dragged into the case, the hand writing, the flnegerprints, the board. "You've got to place Hauptmann In that nursery," he thundered, smack ing the table with his fist. "The State says he was in that room. Let's see If he was." He then launched into a study of the nursery on the kidnap night, recalling how Betty Gow and Mrs. Lindbergh went around closing the windows and shutters. Reilly inquired rhetorically how the shutters of the nursery window, the only one unlocked, became warped. A ι The shutters were closed. He pointed out ω far as they would go. After the crime they were closed again, he declared, and the window was down. "Hauptmann," he asserted, "wouid have had to know a great deal about the house to have commlted the crime "Hauptmann Is not going to be drawn to his death through the squares of Flemington because you are Influenced by the prominence of people In the case." Reilly reiterated that Hauptmann could not have been In the house with out knowledge of Its interior and of who was in it. Scenario Does Not Ring True to Common Sense. "This is a scenario they have writ ten," he charged once more, "but It doesn't ring true to common sense." He turned then to the kidnap lad der, and told the jurors the State ex pected them to believe that the ladder was placed against the wall, its top most rung reaching a point about 30 inches below the nursery window sill. "Of course," he commented, "they get around that. They say Col. Lind bergh heard something falling. It might very well have been a limb of < a tree snapping, for there was * howling gale that night. "The colonel didn't think enough of that sound to investigate. It was a tree limb cracking. "The ladder," said Reilly, walking slowly back and forth between the ladder and the Jury box, "was stuck in the mud. They would have you believe Hauptmann put up two sec tions and climbed up. The top of the second section was 30 Inches be low the window sill." Describes Climbing Procedure as Impossible. Reilly described the ladder climbing procedure as though it were an im possibility. He said the State wanted the jury to believe that the kidnaper reached from the top of the ladder, opened the shutters and window, reaching five feet higher. The State's theory, he said, consid ered it possible for a stranger to climb in, not knock over the beer stein on the sill, not bump against the table, pick up the child, who gave no outcry and go out. 'The person who picked that child," Reilly declared in loud and emphatic tone, "out of its crib knew the child and the child knew that person." "He goes back with a 30-pound child in his arms, swings himself out of the window in the darkness, and is able to And the top of that rickety old ladder, three feet below the window. "They'd have you believe he climbed down to the dowel pin and ' the dowel pin broke. That's what they say. but what they say is not evidence." Reilly picked up a photograph of the ground beneath the window show ing the ladder holes. Reilly Declares Ladder Was a Plant. 1 * TV, ο f ln/^flav ητη r- a nlnnt " ha <·■_ serted. "No one climbed that ladder. When it fell, if it did, it would have dug up mounds of earth beside those holes. Do you see any mounds?" He showed the photograph to the jury and pointed out that the holes were undisturbed. There was nothing else to show a man had fallen, he argued. "I say that points out very strongly that no one went up that ladder," Reilly went on. "Only one footprint. They would have you believe that the kidnaper walked through the night to the house, as the sailors say, by dead reckoning. But they found no footprints out that one." "I say that ladder was a plant, I say it was never up against the house that night." Again the fist pounded the table. Reilly stalked over to the kidnap ladder. He took it and smashed it against the wall with a resounding bang. He was demonstrating that the lad der would have hit the house wall when it broke, and have left a great gash on the house wall as it scraped iown under the weight of the kidnaper ind the child. "Their guess work," he sneered at the State's theory that the kidnap ladder was used and splintered under the kidnaper'» weight. The State wanted the jury to be lieve. he went on, that the man and the baby fell, but left no impressions m the mud. Reilly sought to show the difficulty ι kidnaper would have in carrying the ladder and the baby. "Folding it up nicely," he went on, ' 'putting it under a bush and leaving it some place else." Some one who knew the baby took it, he reiterated. Col. Lindbergh and his wife were having dinner out of sight of the door, he argued, and the first floor was otherwise deserted. He pointed his accusations again at ihe servants and Betty Gow's friend, 'Red" Johnson. Know Only That lohnson Was Betty Gow's Pal. "A telephone call came for Betty Gow," Reilly asserted, "from 'Red' Johnson that night only two hours after she had left him to go to Hope well." He poked his flnger at Mrs. Stock ton. Juror No. 5. "What do you know about "Red* Johnson? "What do I know about 'Red' Johnson? "We know nothing of him except that he was Betty Gow's pal. "The State ot New Jersey spent thousands of dollars, your money, to bring the Fischs to this country for the trial and only put one of them on the stand. "But the State never raised a finger to bring 'Red' Johnson back." His face flushed and his voice was raised to a shout. "Who's hiding things here?" he de manded. "Who's hiding the truth?" Reilly swung back to the signal h· said was given from the Lindbergh house on the kidnap night. "They got the signal: The coast Is clear." "Then that child came down one of those two stairways In the arms of some person the little child had con fidence In and trusted." "That's why the baby did not cry out or scream." "That's the first point you've got to hurdle. You've got to place Haupt mann in that room," he said. The big red-faced attorney, a flnger raised, turned to the cause and time of death of the child. He said the State's "theory" was that the skull fracture occurred in the fall from the ladder. "Direct Evidence," Necessary, Reilly Says'. Theories, he asserted, wert not enough. "Direct evidence" was neces sary. k Where Will Bruno's Footsteps Lead? Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. "Whenever the child received that blow," Rellly read from Wilentz's open ing statement, asserting that the child might have lived several days In any one of 100 hiding places near Hope well. "Whenever," Reilly declared, "does not mean March 1. 1932. That's the pattern. That's the indictment." Reilly raised doubt that ransom note could have remained on the ledge on a night "with a gale howling." He asserted it would have blown away instantly. "But when they entered the room," he went on. implying again the crime was an inside job. "The note was there, the window was closed, the shutters were drawn just as they had been and the beer stein was undis turbed." Hauptmann was absorbed in Reilly's recital, as the bulky Brooklyn lawyer again inveighed against Betty Gow's failure to visit the sick baby between the hours of 8 and 10. Reilly emphasized again that noth ing was disturbed in the nursery, and then spoke of the mud prints found on the nursery floor. " They say there were mud prints on the floor, but It's just as con sistent those prints came off Col. Lindberghs shoes as oil anybody else's." Believes Lindbergh Left Mud on Nursery Floor. Reilly said he believed that the colonel got mud on his shoes when he dashed out to search ror his child S"*» le" the mud on the nursery floor when he returned after a futile . defense attorney questioned JJle Plausibility of a kidnaper stepping notVe^LTltUnder Wlnd0W Λ was t8ken down those stal.s, he declared. Indicating the diagram of the house floor plan. thf0*?16 onf must have wiped off irgucdgerPr 111 the nurser>'· R«Uly "They didn't even And a finger print on the glass Betty Gow used to dared ChlW a drlnk·" Reilly de Sf«SenniSi the bungling of the KKSftftKiSys i5"K£?·Λ »* Col Schwarzkopf smiled as Reillv attacked the methods of tte jS prims*" the nursery for flnger Reilly launched into an invective i* pollce for Silure to use ?Un and huntln& d°&s in the search for the baby immediately, r )Î!fu spZke s°ttly next of how Mrs 'ir > ih^ i411. Co1' Llndbergh prayed ror their Jon s safety. Scorn in Voice 4» He Mentioned Betty Gow. "e s*m hLad scorn In his voice, how "T non'H mentioned Betty Gow. i can t imagine any prayers coming rrom that woman that nieht tVi» «man who contacted the «ηί£\:^ Johnson) from Denmark. He gestured toward the jury fore man. * ure don't ^ow what the motive freed, gain, spite, or vengeance "But. my God, it could not be plan ned by one man. It had to be th® tfork of a gang," he shouted. "The State stands here and §ays kill Hauptmann/ let everybody else Jink into obscurity." Reilly shouted and close the case." ' "The mob demands "km the Ger nan carpenter' on circumstantial evi lence. Reilly referred to the Wvchoff nurder case of 20 years ago, when a local man was nearly convicted on circumstantial evidence. The people .lamored for "blood," he asserted. .K^brought β protest from Wilentz that there was no such evidence So everybody waited and every. »dy prayed, but there is no evidence ?.*? ild was ωΐθ<1 that night. Now if you want to convict Haupt mann as the mob wants you to, all ίϊΐ™ Prayera »nd pleas won't help nlm. However, I think you value that 08 " Jurors more h'8Wy than Hauptmann could not be convicted >f murder, he declared, because he had ■ ansom money. | Could Have Called 5nt the National Guard.' . bungling of the police," he as 'went on. They could have »lle<J out the National Guard of this when chlld of the Uvta« American had been kid tiapecL Col Lindbergh flushed at the appel Kw' t^lrlne,ihe attack on Λβ 8tat« no?iAeIjÎneed up at the clock and It hantf eon receaB w" near wiStS^ *? the juro™· he Mld he hhZ^.^i^ve iw? Noughts with they went to hinch. There is no evidence in this case " be declared, "that Hauptmann was in nursery that night, and there is no evidence whatsoever that the waa killed that night." It waa on this note he closed and k At left: Bruno Hauptmann behind the bare of a Bronx county, Ν. Y., cell before he was extradited to New Jersey to (tand trial In the Lindbergh kidnaping. If acquitted, he will be returned to the Bronx to face charges of extortion In receiving the Lindbergh ransom. At right: The death cell at Trenton, where New Jersey executes , Its murderers. B» Justice Trenchard ordered adjourn ment at 12:25 pjn. until 1:45 p.m. As the Jury filed out, Wilentz turned and smiled at Col. Lindbergh, who shook his head dubiously. Reilly, alter asking for the luncheon recess, sat down at the defense coun sel table and conferred with Pope on the course of his summation. Be nodded his head as Pope talked. ! At the noon recess. Wilentz, com : men ting on ReiUy's summation said: "Mr. Reilly is a delightful gentle i man, but he hasn't begun to talk about the Lindbergh case yet." Ransom Note Charts To Be Used by Defense. When the Jury returned from lunch I eon. it found one wall near the box ι covered with large photographic charts i showing the ransom note writing side ι by side with Hauptmann writing for ι comparison. These were the charts of ι State experts, but Reilly apparently intended to use this evidence in his summation in an effort to confute the I testimony against Hauptmann. Court reconvened at 1 48 p.m. After the jurors were polled, Reilly came back over to the Jury box. "It would be utterly impossible," he began, "for any lawyer to repeat all the testimony taken, in the period aUotted to me for summation." He explained he would touch only the "high lights," but requested the Jurors not to think that he was omit ting a discussion of various evidential points "because I'm afraid of them." Any such omissions, he declared, would not be because he wanted to. but because they were not highly im portant point;. He believed, he said, the attorney general would make similar omissions when he addressed the Jury tomorrow. Reilly then began an analysis of the testimony of the State's handwriting experts. "Now experts' testimony, I believe his honor will charge you," he said, "is nothing but opinion. "You can disregard that and use common sense." The State, Reilly declared, had a long time and spared no expense In preparation of its case. The defense, in contrast, had little time and little money, he added. Honest Enough to Admit Few Mistake*. w. m. irenaiey, ine oniy aeiense handwriting expert, to testify, Reilly said, was honest enough to admit that he had made a few mistakes In his 40 years' experience. "I can't imagine what the bill will be for this procession of experts," he said. Turning to the ransom note found in the nursery. Reilly spoke of the handwriting experts' testimony as "pretty slim evidence, guesswork evi dence, to put a man in a nursery." "Of course, it is important to the State to pin the handwriting of the nursery note on Hauptmann," he went on. "That's part of their scenario. And that's the only thing they have to put Hauptmann in the nursery, baaed on the opinion of experts." Changing his line of attack again, Reilly spoke with incredulity of the possibility of a kidnaper taking the baby down the ladder. "We ask you to consider whether Hauptmann, at night, put the baby on the window sill, stepped oht on the ladder, put the note on the ledge, picked up the child on a breezy night, closed the window and the shutter and descended." He flourished the nursery note be fore the jury. "Every expert who took that witness stand said this handwriting wu dis guised. "If there Is & disguised handwriting, where is there any standard by which it can be examined with a certainty such as you would want to send a man to his death." Kidnaping Work of a Gang, Reilly Say·. Reilly abruptly halted his comment to return sharply to his thesis that no one man could possibly have commit ted the kidnaping alone. "This kidnaping was the work ot a gang," he proclaimed loudly. The defense counsel then picked up the main thread of his discourse, and he spoke of the defense expert and hie testimony that the notes were written by a left-handed man. He asked the jury to study the notes when they retired, with magnifying glasses and "use your Ood-given com mon sense." If the police had watched every mail box in New York after the sec ond note was mailed, the kidnaper, Reilly declared, would have been ar rested before the third was tent. "Just another *battle of Jutland,' just bungling, mumbling, jumbling,'' he cried. "The battle of Jutland" referred to by him was the siege by State police of a farm house near the town of Jut land, about eight years ago, in which Miss Beatrice Meaney, middle-aged spinster, was killed by police bullets. Several of the troopers and their officer» were tried and a few of them were convicted. When the troopers attacked the farmhouse, Miss Meaney's two brothers resisted with shotgun and rifle fire. The battle and the trials aroused the country folks against the State police. "Then," he went on, "we come to the picture of what Attorney General Wilentz describes as a patriotic gen tleman of the old school." He was bringing Dr. John F. Con don, the ransom intermediary into the case. "Well, Gen. Wilentz may think what Born jn Illinois, Not U. S., Woman Says in D.C. Court Assistant United States At torney John W. Fiehelly was questioning prospective members of the special P. W. A. grand jury today. He asked one woman: "Were you born In the United States?" "No, minois," she replied. he pleases of Dr. Condon, but I don't share that opinion. Condon Stands Behind Something Unholy. "Condon," he snouted, "stands be hind something in the case that is unholy. I'll bear it out, I believe, by his testimony and his actions here in this court." He expressed his skepticism of Dr. Condon's entrance into the case. "Here, over in the Bronx is that man," he said, "living close to City Island, close to the water fronts. He may have all the college degrees In the world, so have many of the great est criminals In our prisons." "There's no criterion," Reilly said, "because you come from one school or another. "There's one thing that sticks out in this case. I'm reading from Dr. Con don's testimony. Condon of the Bronx knew nothing about 'Red' Johnson un less he had connection with him." Reilly searched through a newspaper report of the transcript. He read Condon's statement that he entered the case because suspicion pointed to "one poor sailor. Henry 'Red' Johnson." Dr. Condon testified. Reilly read on, that he always tried to help "the under dog." Dr. Condon "found out that Johnson was not that kind of a fellow," Reilly read further. "Building up an alibi for a man," Reilly declared, "who was never brought back for this trial." Continuing to pound away at Con don, Reilly read from the intermedi ary's testimony that he "knew the night of the kidnaping" that Johnson had phoned Betty Gow. "Caught off his guard," Reilly de clared, "by a quick question." Dr. Condon corrected his testimony, explaining he knew later that the call had been made. Reilly Expresses Doubt of Condon Ad. "Now. doesn't he figure in this band, this band that robbed Col. Lindbergh oi his child?" Reilly demanded as he finished his recital. He spoke next of Condon's adver tisement in the Bronx Home News ; which brought his designation as in- j termediary. "I don't believe there ever was such an advertisement," he shot at the Jury. "No one saw that letter. They didn't see fit to introduce it here. An other thing that's been kept out of the case." The Jafsie letter in the Bronx pa per was a signal. Reilly shouted. "It was the same kind of a signal that passed between Betty Gow and 'Red' Johnson at 8 o'clock that night. When Dr. Condon put a small ad in an obscure paper, instantly from Brooklyn comes a reply for Dr. Con don." ADAMS SCHOOL AGAIN TO BE USED FOR PUPILS Condemned 26 Years Ago, Old Building Must Believe Crowded Conditions. Old Adams School, ordered aban doned by the Board of Education back in 1908, soon will house classes again in the District school system. The old building, badly damaged by Are recently and condemned for school purposes 26 years ago and with poor heating and plumbing systems, will have to undergo some moderniza tion before the classes start. The board recently ruled that be cause of crowded conditions children again must attend school there. FARMERS NUMEROUS IN IOWA LEGISLATURE DES MOINES, Iowa (JP).—Iowa'a House of Representatives lists 44 farmers in its membership, while 15 members of the Senate have rural addresses. Attorneys have the next largest j representation, with 13 in the House | and 11 In the Senate. Other professions include insurance 1 men, pharmacists, bankers, doctors and business men. There are five newspaper editors in the forty-sixth 3eneraiy Assembly. Shop Closed by Marriages. NURNBERG, Germany UP).—Nurn berg's largest photographic shop shut down for two days. It was mostly cupld's fault, with some assistance from the state. The entire firm, IS of them, decided to accept a government offer of $250 loans for newlyweds. They all married the same day in the same church and set out on a com· posite honeymoon in a taurine car. r "Things Look Dark" to Bruno, His Special Guard Declares Defendant Is More Worried Now Than Ever Before, Says Deputy Who Is 66Somewhat Attached" to Him, B7 ιηβ Associated rreu. PLEMINOTON, Ν. J.. February 11. —McVey Low, the special deputy who has spent more time with Brunc Hauptmann than any other guard, said today, "I believe he thinks things look very dark." "For the first time, he asked me what I thought the outcome would be." Low said. "I replied. 'Richard, that's In the lap of the gods.' He said. Ί am In nocent,' and I answered, 'don't worry.' " Low said he had seen many changes in Hauptmann's demeanor "In the two months I've been with him for six hours a day." "He Is more worried now than he ever has been before." Hauptmann is "wrought up," he said, "over what he feels Is a rift between his attorneys. He thinks Lloyd Fisher wants to do things Eellly won't let him do." Fisher Is a Flem lngton attorney and Edward J. Reilly Is chief of defense counsel. Still an Enigma. "After all these weeks." Low said, "Hauptmann's still an enigma to me. There's a question In my mind whether he understands himself." The deputy's eyes were grave behind his glasses. "Watching Hauptmann hasn't been a pleasure," he said. "It has been a unique experience and I'll never for get It. I've never been In close con tact with such a situation before, and it's given me a new slant on human nature. "Naturally I became somewhat at tached to him. There's something aort of likeable about the fellow. He isn't all bad "For example, he ta very clean. He likes to take baths, and stands under the shower for half an hour. Feels Sorry for Him. "I feel sorry for the man," Low continued. "He's in such a rotten jam. It depressed me when the evi dence against him seemed so damag ing. I felt as If I were walking the last mile with him." Low said that Hauptmann seems deep In thought all the time, and in the last few days has read very lit tle. "He feels badly for his wife and child," said the deputy. "That's the hole in his armor. "At first he was cold and stoical, and gave no outward signs of feeling. As the trial date approached, he showed signs of nerves, and later, in the first days of the trial, seemed to enjoy the limelight. "He spent time combing his hair and straightening his clothing before he entered court, Then he became annoyed about it all. Once when we went in and people stared, he said, 'silly people.' "And now he is worried." "Willie" Lincoln's Letter to Friend In 1861 Revealed Emancipator's Son Died First Year in Capital. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, 111.. February 11 — A letter, yellowed with age and writ ten In a boyish scrawl, today recalled several unhappy events which con fronted Abraham Lincoln, whoee birthday will be observed tomorrow. Written by Willie Lincoln, the little chap who died in the White House before his father's administration was a year old. the letter recently has come Into the possession of the Illi nois State Historical Society. Paul Angle, the society's secretary and a noted Lincoln scholar, said It was one of but four extant letters written by Willie during the brief period he spent in the White House. It has never heretofore vécu pub lished. he said. Dated May 3, 1861, during Lin coln's first year as President, the let ter was written to Henry Reman η, a Springfield lad with whom Wilae played before the Lincoln family moved to Washington. Reproduced as written by Willie, the letter follows: "Dear Henry: "I am sorry I have not wrote to you all since I left you all. "I told my brother Bob in my last letter that there was at least ten thousand soldiers stationed at the Capitol Building. I suppose tliat you did not learn that Colonel Ε. E. Ells worth had gone to New York and or ganized a regiment—divided into cem panys' and brought them here, and to be sworn in—I don't know when Some folks call them β-hoys ana others call them the fireman "Yours respectfully. "WILLIE LINCOLN." When Willie wrote the letter the Civil War had been under way but a few weeks. TRADE COMMISSION QUARTERS HUNTED Federal Reserve Board Soon to Build on Site—Space at a Premium. Government space Is at such a premium now that the National Park Service, which has charge of allocat ing space here, is puzzled over where » house the Federal Trade Commis sion. A. E. Demaray, associate di rector of the National Park Service, idmits he is stumped. The Government has sold to the Federal Reserve Board, the land at rwentieth street and Constitution ave nue, on which the temporary building lousing the Trads Commission now stands. This structure will be torn iown soon to make way for the new Reserve Board Building. Demaray has found that although iie buildings in the triangle are com pleted, there is no place to locate he Trade Commission. The alley IweUing authority, which is seeking » eliminate Washington's blighted ireas, has been lucky enough in the race for space to get a couple of -ooms additional in the new Post Of fice Department Building. DAVIS AMONG SPEAKERS ON RACE RELATIONS Representative O'Day, Bev. W. A. C. Hughes and Rev. Β. J. Clinchy Also Discuss Topic. Representative Caroline O'Day of Mew York, Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes Mid Rev. Russell J. Clinchy were the speakers at the thirteenth annual race relations program last night at the \sbury Methodist Episcopal Church. Eleventh and Κ streets. Dr. carl Ras •nussen, pastor of the Luther Place Memorial Church, presided. Her experiences as head of the Board of Public Welfare of New York 'or 14 years were described by Repre ientative O'Day She expressed the κ lief that "the brotherhood of man îas grown like a rising tide out of the essons taught by the World War." Senator Davis pointed out the effect rf the financial depression in the min ng districts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Rev. Mr. Hughes described i recent trip through the South. ftym&Aea/n&tvf NEWBCMG^DUajON • !«NMeM>MIE CMMp 1ΊΜ knrlM tM. Far Hm FIRST TIME II tfMlt Mil CIMOICTIM Mr Ill aM II mn t> mar Sut "Tff eg"ιtSiiVc au. usimc ETZ—1217 G COLLECTOR PICKETS ! HOUSE FOR DEBTS Shouts Claims to Neighbors and Judge Bales Hi* System Is Lawful. LAKEWOOD, Ohio UP).—A one man collection agency has gone on the picket line here. On two consecutive mornings he has walked back and forth before a Lake wood house, shouting hoarsely: "Mr. owes me $5. Mr. owes me $5, and he wont pay me." Neighbors called police. When the collection agency knocked of! for the t ι day and climbed in his auto, he was j picked up for having a defective ! muffler—on the auto, that is. Police decided there was not much I they could do about his system, so | long as he told the truth and shouted no louder than hucksters and ash j men. Whereupon the man who gave his I name as William Esry said he guessed he would go back to work. RITES HERE WILL MARK j POPE PIUS' ACCESSION ■ 13th Anniversary Will Be Ob served at Services to Be At tended by Notables. The thirteenth anniversary of the accession of Pope Pius XI will be ob served ftt Catholic University tomor row, when a solemn high mass will be sung in the National Shrine of the : Immaculate Conception, in the près- j ence of a company including the 1 apostolic delegate. Most Rev. Amleto Cicognani: members of the diplomatic corps and other ranking members of the Catholic clergy. Archbishop Cur ley will attend, as will the university rector. Bishop Ryan. The sermon will be delivered by .Most Rev. Hugh C. Boyle, Bishop oi Pittsburgh. The observance is an annual one carried out in the capitals of the prin cipal countries of the world. Federal Trade Commission Accuses Several Firms of Dodging Levies. By the A3socim*.ed Pre··. Public utility holding ;ompaniee, which have been the target for many other charges by the Federal Trad· Commission, today were charged with ^ax-evasion practices. In another of lis long series of reports growing out of investigations, the commission declared holding com panies had saved themselves millions of dollars In Federal Income taxes through the use of evasion devices of various kinds. The report cited several instances which demonstrated, it said, how holding companies accepted tax money from the operating companies they controlled, which the operating companies would have had to pay had they been taxed directly by the Fed »ral Government, and then through a :onsolldated tax return actually paid only a small proportion of the sum to the Government. The savings, the commission said, were pocketed by the holding com· panles, and were not returned to the Dperating company, nor to the con sumer in lower rates. "During the years 1922 to 1930, Inclusive, Cities Service Co. collected [rom Its subsidiaries for Federal In Mme taxes the sum of $11.611,601.35. md paid In taxes during that period, an consolidated returns, the sum of 51,745,220.98," the commission said. "Therefore, Cities Service Co. col lected from its subsidiaries $9.866, 380.37 more than it paid the Federal Government in income taxes. Associated Gas Accused. "Under this practice, during the years 1926 to 1929. inclusive. Associat ed Gas & Electric Co. recorded as income $2,938,513.12 collected from subsidiaries, although during that period that company paid no Federal Income tax whatever. "Also, during 1927 to 1929, inclu sive, New England Gas ic Electric Association, included as income $514, 502.99 of such funds and paid no in· lome tax to the Federal Government. "During 1928 to 1929. inclusive, the North American Co. recorded as in :ome $1.274,915.17. a result of hand ling tax payments in this same manner." * VIRGINIAN IS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Emile A. Di Zerega Victim of Crash at Apalachia. Recently Married. Emile A. di Zerega, 29. son of Mr. &nd Mrs. Augustus di Zerega of Aldie. near Middleburg. Va., was instantly tilled yesterday in an automobile ac :ident at Apalachia, Va. Young di Zerega. grandson of the late Capt. Alfred L. B. di Zerega, U S. N., was a graduate of the Medi al College of Virginia at Richmond. He recently had been active in Young Democratic Clubs in Virginia. About six months ago di Zerega narrled Miss Nell Taylor of Apa lachia. SPEAKING COURSE READY The first of a series of classes in public speaking will be held this eve ning at 5:30 o'clock by the Junior Board of Commerce in the offices of the Board of Trade, Star Building. This activity, under the direction of J. O. 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