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' HOFFMAN DASHES NEW TRIAL HOPES But Some Lawyers Hold Governor Misunderstood I Trenchard. B> the Associated Press. TRENTON. N. J.. March 28.—A •tatrment attributed to Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard by Gov. Harold G. Hoffman today that the Justice could not now legally grant a new trial to Bruno Richard , Hauptmann or stay his execution, re gardless of new evidence, projected new legal speculation into the case tonight. Justice Trenchard could not be reached for comment, but other high legal sources took an opposite view and expressed the belief the Governor had misunderstood the presiding jus tice at Hauptmann’s Flemington trial. Such a ruling would virtually close , the courts to Hauptmann regardless of developments. The Governor said Justice Trench ard expressed this view to him in response to an inquiry, and said the Court of Pardons was still open in the event of an important develop ment. The justice’s purported attitude was said to be based on an old ruling that new trials could not be granted after expiration of a six-months’ per iod following conviction, except where it was shown the trial court lacked jurisdiction or there was fraud in obtaining the conviction. This, together with Hauptmann's new clemency plea to be heard by the Pardons Court Monday, raised the question fonight as to what new evi dence the defense—or Gov. Hoffman —have discovered in the last 11 weeks. Until a week ago. C. Lloyd Fisher, Hauptmann's chief counsel, said he would ask Supreme Court Justice Trenchard for a new trial before ask ing for mercy. Instead, he went di rect to the Pardons Court, a move Interpreted as meaning he did not have enough evidence to warrant a new trial. Since filing the new clem ency appeal, however, he has stated he had sufficient evidence for a new trial request. If the Court of Pardons, basing its decision on the new evidence before * It, denied Hauptmann's application, it is considered doubtful that Trenchard would act. * That would leave the case squarely up to the Governor, who has said he has no legal powers of reprieve, but may be advised otlierwise before the time of execution—Tuesday night— arrives. -•-— ’ Fares < Continued From First Paget the reductions, argued roads else where had found similar cuts bene ficial. Aligned against the fare reduc tions were such lines as the New York Central. Pennsylvania and the New York, New Haven & Hartford. After the B. <fc O.'s victory in th° commission’s approval of the reduced fares. W. B. Calloway, general pas senger agent, said he felt they were 1 “sufficiently competitive with the cost : of travel by private automobiles, and by busses to promise a return of some of the short-haul business to the rail roads.” He predicted they would result In putting "more trains into operation, so that more frequent and better serv ice can be offered to the traveling public.” FARE DISPUTE IN PROSPECT. — Other Eastern Roads Due to Oppose B. A O. Cuts. Prospects of a passenger fare dis pute in the East, similar to that pre- i cipitated in the South two years ago by the Southern Railway, was seen by observers here yesterday with an nouncement of the Baltimore <t Ohio Railroad that it would abide by the Interstate Commerce Commission for e 2-cent-a-mile basic rate. When the commission ordered a re duction of the 3.6-cent basic fare cut to 2 cents in coaches and 3 cents in ; Pullmans, with elimination of the Pull- . man surcharge, effective June 2. East- i ern railroads got together to study the j situation. It was announced yesterday they would ask the commission to postpone its order pending experi ments with fares. Heads of other roads had been hope ful Willard, who attended some con ferences. would “go along" with the experimental fare plan. His statement today, however, seemingly blasted this hope, although it was pointed out that If the other Eastern lines should be ; successful in procuring a delay from the commission, Willard might be blocked temporarily from instituting the lower fares. Rail authorities said if the Eastern lines had gone to the courts for relief 'Willard probably would remain free to cut the fares. By asking delay, however, it is possible for the com mission to refuse to permit the B. <fe O. to cut rates. The commission, two years ago, however, refused to prevent the South ern Railway from cutting passenger fares in the South to l'j cents a mile when other roads protested. The result is that in the South most pas senger coach fares are l’i cents a mile and Pullman fares 3 cents. Willard attended several confer ences with the heads of Eastern lines, but apparently definitely broke off negotiations at the session here yes terday. The open split had been antici pated in rail circles here. Officials pointed out that the commission or der specified exactly the fares Wil- ! lard had been seeking and there thus would be little reason for him to ‘•compromise” with other roads. Austrian Industries Boom. Industrial production in Austria is breaking records. “We Build Everything” | Porches Built, Inclosed Garages—Fences Plastering—Painting ; Brickwork—Plumbing Roofing—Gutter-Spout STUCCOING CONCRETING WATERPROOFING Guaranteed Euco Method Done on inside STONEBRAKED ^^E0RGIA3400n| Left for the District to Clean Up A glimpse inttf two back alleys of the Capital gives a graphic idea as to some of the messes the refuse disposal department encounters. These photographs were made last Summer._ Streets i Continued From First Page 1_ cover this area even once daily, offi cials said. Examples of the reduction in street cleaning facilities, while this city has grown daily more littered with filth, are numerous. Here are a few: One “white wing" gang numbered more than 60 during the 1920's. The gang now delegated to the same area numbers less than 20. Another cleaning group has been more than cut in half in less than i 16 years. The Refuse Division has been able to assign only 13 laborers to clean all paved streets north of Quincy street in an area bounded by Rock Creek Park, the Soldiers’ Home, Rock Creek Church road and the District line on Eastern avenue. One of Washington's dirtiest areas— in the experience of the Refuse Divi sion—is a thickly populated down town section bounded roughly by Third, Fourteenth and 1 streets and Florida avenue. There are only 17 “white wings” to clean streets in this territory. Economies Hard to Fathom. Some of the alleged economies in street cleaning appropriations seem paradoxical. Although 1932 was con sidered more depressed than current times, the appropriation was $568,000. largest in history. It was $526,000 in 1930. when the paved street mileage was 230 miles less than at present. : In 1925 there were only 283 miles of 1 paved streets, yet the appropriation : for street cleaning was $10,000 more than that for 1936. Street cleaning foremen recalled when their men could cover the busi- | ness districts thoroughly once every hour or two. They are "lucky," offi cials said, to complete their tours once a day now. and in outlying resi dential neighborhoods can clean their territory only once every other day, if that often. Puzzling to the Refuse Division, ! which finds it one of the greatest hin drances to adequate street cleaning. , is the problem of parked cars. Visitors frequently comment on the extraor- 1 dinary spectacle of thousands of auto mobiles lined along Washington curbs day and night. Their surprise is no > greater than the fact, but is mild in comparison with the obstacle which 1 such conditions present to the street cleaners. Flushing Not Total Cure. "Flushes." trucks with high-pressure sprays that swish dirt off the street, are able to accomplish only so much. The dirt is washed into curbings and the task of cleaning the street thor- I oughly then becomes a question of worming under the parked cars and scooping out the debris that has been driven there by the flushes. The problem is driving cleaning foremen and their men almost to dis traction. their degree of frustration increasing in direct proportion to the Increase in automobiles here. The parked-car enigma Is com paratively new. Fifteen years ago street cleaners found it possible to "scrub up" from curb to curb with j a speed almost dazzling contrasted I with the laborious process of today. The difference in the number of auto mobile registrations then and now ex plains the growth of this serious hin drance to a clean city. In 1920, there were 34.161 registrations; in 1925. 103.092; at the end of 1935, 211.158 more than six times the 1920 total, more than twice the total 10 years ago. -• Newcomb Professor Dies. NEW ORLEANS. March 28 </P).—Dr. , Melvin Albert Martin, professor of! psychology at Newcomb College, died at Baptist Hospital last night. He will be buried at West Point. Va.. hi» native home. Newcomb faculty mem bers announced today. Hauptmann • Continued From First Pag* 1 constructed the kidnap ladder, but found it was too short and used a rear stairway to enter the Lindbergh nursery. Continuing, the statement said he took the child from the crib, leaving the ransom note, and returned to Trenton in an automobile. He was quoted as saying he kept the child at his house for three days, but the baby fell out of bed. fractur ing the skull. He added that he took the body to the Hopewell-Mount Rose road, where the Lindbergh baby's body was found, and that no attempt was made to collect ransom. Not only were State police at work on this latest development, but the Governor's private investigators were continuing their check-up on the man's story. Court'* Power Not Questioned. The opinion of the prosecution that the Court of Pardons could reprieve Hauptmann for an indefinite period was shared by a member of the State's highest tribunal. The Pardons Court has confined its judgments in the past to pardons, commutations of sentence and remit tances, and has never granted a re prieve. But this high judicial officer, who would not permit use of his name, de clared: "There is no limitation on the power of the Court of Pardons and they could grant a reprieve if they saw fit. There could be no appeal, as the court is absolutely supreme.” Hearn Plea Monday. The Pardons Court—consisting of Gov. Hoffman, who has stated he would grant a reprieve if he could do so legally, and seven members of the Court of Errors and Appeals—will hear Hauptmann’s second clemency appeal Monday. It was pointed out. too. that though Hauptmann's execution hour has been fixed for 8 o'clock Tuesday night, the condemned man might live legally until late Saturday night, at the dis cretion of Col. Mark O. Kimberling. principal keeper of the State prison. The death sentence, as pronounced by Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, fixed the execution for "the week of March 30.” Col. Kimberling said today that should the Governor grant another reprieve, he would ask Attorney Gen eral Wilentz for advice and follow it as to whether the execution should be carried out. "If the attorney general says I am legally bound to carry out the order of the court and disregard the Governor, that is what I would do.” Kimberling said. Revamps His Statement. Later Kimberling revamped the statement to read: "If the Governor grants a reprieve, [ will seek legal advice from the at torney general. If the attorney gen eral tells me I must follow out the court's orders to execute Hauptmann, regardless of the reprieve. I propose to put off the execution until later in the week. In the interval, I would decide whether to await a court action to de ermine whether I should enforce the ieath warrant or wait until a court iecision Is rendered on the subject." Gov. Hoffman has described as "in :erested” in the new interpretation of :he powers of the Pardons Court. A prosecution source also stated a jelief a reprieve was within the court's power and that should the court take ! such action, it would not be chal- ' lenged. This was recognized as a possible neans for Gov. Hoffman to delay the ;xecution indefinitely while he con tinued the investigation of the Lind bergh kidnap case he started several months ago. This likewise would not involve the Governor in any dispute over his own powers of reprieve, which he has been informed have expired. The prosecu tion source said that only a reprievi by Gov. Hoffman would be challenged. Gov. Hoffman said today he had no , intention of granting a second re prieve, but was silent on what he might do in event of a confession or some other extraordinary late develop ment. Five I'pheld Conviction. Five members of the Pardons Court, sitting on the Court of Errors and Ap peals, voted to uphold the conviction of Hauptmann, and likewise sat at the Pardon* Court hearing which ejected Hauptmann's first clemency plea. Two members of the Pardons Court did not hear the case in the appeals court. Attorney General Wilentz. stating that Hauptmann is "as guilty today as he was the day he was convicted," has | reiterated that there ls no power in the Governor's reach that will permit any further delay in the execution. The Governor, however, might base a second reprieve on one gubernatorial precedent—a case in which Gov. Edward I. Edwards reprieved a man after the 90-dav period had ex pired, but his statement to the Asso ciated Press today that he had "no intention" of staying the execution left only slightly ajar the door to Hauptmann's strongest hope. Wilentz, in his statement today replying to the Governor's criticism of the conduct of the case, did not make public his position on another reprieve. He said the Governor had indicated he would ask him his opinion and that he could "withhold it until that time.'* "Nothing Has Happened." Wilentz said ‘nothing has hap pened” to change the decision of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Ap peals that the "proofs point unerringly to guilt.” "We dispute the right of the Gov-v ernor to place the prestige of his office behind his latest accusation that 'the case reeks with unfairness, pas sion and prejudice.' ” Wilentz said. "He usurps the functions of the courts when he attempts as Governor to pass upon this phase of the case.” A high source said today that Haupt mann's chances of escaping the chair next Tuesday, in view of the Gov- i ernor’s no-reprieve statement and the onee-adverse decision of the Pardons Court, are 1 to 100. The "new evidence" which C. Lloyd Fisher. Hauptmann's attorney, said he possessed and on which he said he believed a new trial could be granted, was still undisclosed tonight. One of the Governor's investigators. Robert W. Hicks. Washington criminologist, flew in today with reports on the re sults of his investigation on Cuban angles of the case. The Governor expressed deep Interest. Fiseh Signature Identified. One of Hick's investigations con cerned a report that Lindbergh ran- j som money had been offered for sale in Cuba by Isidor Fisch. the man Hauptmann blames for all his trouble. Dr. Alfonso Gonzales told Hicks of having seen the letter and he said the signature was identical with signa- . lures of Fisch that Hicks showed him. J Hicks also showed the Governor an affidavit by Samuel W. Garelick of Bayonne, N. J. mow serving a life sentence for extortion) concerning a reputed meeting at Miami between Garelick and Dr. John F. Condon tJafsie) in Uecember, 1934—only a few days before the opening in Flem ington of the Hauptmann trial. This evidence is intended to show that even on the eve of the trial. Dr. Condon was not satisfied In his Identification of Hauptmann. Despite all Indications to the con trary, including the Governor's own statement, the prisoner himself re fused to abandon hope. He faced a lonely week end. His wife Anna did not visit the prison today, and no visitors are permitted In the death house on Sunday. Her last chance to see her 36-year-old husband—unless his execution Is stayed—will come Monday. Won’t Visit Hauptmann. Gov. Hoffman, who paid a surprise visit to Hauptmann in the death house last October, said In his Interview with the Associated Press that he had no Intention to go there again. "Would you visit him again If a re quest came?” he was asked. His answer was: "It Is impossible to say what I would do until the occasion arises.” "Do you Intend to see Dr. Condon (Jafsiei?” "It would be futile. I will not visit him in his home and the conditions he has outlined would make It Impos sible for me to question him as I de sire.” The Governor continued: "I shall continue my investigations of the Lindbergh case, regardless of whether Hauptmann is executed. I believe several persons were Involved in the kidnaping and I intend to do everything I can to obtain a full so lution. One reason why some people want Hauptmann to die Tuesday night is their belief that his death will end interest in the case and discrep ancies will be forgotten. However. I have no definite plan as yet for pur suing the investigation. G-Men Consider Case Closed. “I have no interest in Hauptmann as a man. I have three children my self and if I were satisfied Hauptmann was guilty I'd be willing to pull the switch myself. My action in pro longing his life was in the Interests of justice and a full solution of the case.” f rom Washington during the day came word that the Department of Justice regarded the case as "closed” so far as Federal participation is concerned. Secretary of Interior Ickes, however, advised Gov. Hoff man that the services of Arch Lonev, department wood tester, would be available to him. if wanted, though in a "strictly personal capacity.” I,oney is the wood expert who has expressed doubt concerning the "wood evidence” which was regarded as so important in tracing the kidnap lad der timber to the attic of Haupt mann's Bronx home. ZIED RESIGNED TO FATE. Man Slated to Die With Hauptmann Await* Hour Quietly. TRENTON, N. J , March 28 —While storms of controversy and speculation whirled about Bruno Richard Haupt mann. the prisoner who has been con demned to be his partner in death sat quietly in his cell tonight awaiting the fatal hour. Charles Zied. 37. Philadelphia gang ster. Is the man who has been paired with Hauptmann for Tuesday night's match to the electric chair, but unlike the German carpenter he has no hope of salvation. Zied was sentenced to die for the murder of William T. Feitz, jr., a Camden detective, on September 2, 1934. 17 days before Hauptmann's arrest. Although the order of their going to the chair will remain tentative un til shortly before the zero hour, it was believed that Zied would go first. In that event he would pass the Lind bergh baby kidnaper's cell. Haupt mann, who occupies the cell nearest the death chamber, already has watched five men walk past, never to return. Zied was a reputed member of the notorious "tri-State gang." —-• THREE SHOT TO DEATH Couple and Child Found in Home of Wife's Sister. GREENVILLE. S. C. March 28 —Dewev T. Blackwell. 30-year-old tex tile worker, his wife and their 6-year old son were found shot to death late today in the home of Mrs. L. E. Sanders, sister of Mrs. Blackwell. After an investigation, police said Blackwell had slain his wife and son, and committed suicide. Mrs. Black well. they said, had left him after a quarrel and gone to stay with Mrs. Sanders. Poliitcal Effect of Hoffman Probe to Be Felt for Long Period. By the Associated Press. TRENTON. N. J., March 28 — Bruno Richard Hauptmann may die in the electric chair Tuesday night or he may live, but there is little doubt that the "reopened Lindbergh case investi gation” will have its effect on the political life of Gov. Harold G. Hoff man and the State for many a day. Even Hoffman's stanchest political allies shake their heads when the case is mentioned. None pretends to be able to forecast the future in politics of the jovial young Republican who went into office while most other candidates of his party throughout the Nation were falling under the Democratic deluge of 1934. All agree that Hoffman's chances for a place on his party's 1936 na tional ticket have passed unless some startling development comes from his investigation. So far as has been disclosed to date the four-month In quiry has produced nothing tangible. Throughout Hoffman has maintain! d that his only interest is to see that justice is done, that he does not j believe the case is solved or that I Hauptmann was alone in the crime, j and that he cares not what his activ ity doe» to his political future. Other Ambitions Claimed. On the other hand, there are those 1 who profess to see in the Governor's ! interest in the case a continuance of | a political “feud” with the Democratic 1 attorney general. David T. Wilentz; ! a desire to oust Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, superintendent of the State police; an attempt to gain pub licity on a nationwide scale to aid him in his ambitions. The Hoffman-Wilentz ’'feud,'* ac cording to well-informed sources, is I nothing more than the usual difference of opinion between rival political leaders. They both come from Middle ; sex County, Hoffman's home being in South Amboy, Wllentz's in neighboring Perth Amboy. j As with many politicians they have , run the gamut of invective during j rampalgns and after election have j shaken hands. The Governor and Col. Schwarzkopf oave been on friendly terms in the jast and. although their relations nave been somewhat strained since he new investigation of the case, the Governor has given no public indica tion as to his attitude toward re appointment of the State police head, whose term expires in June. Too Wise for "Long Shot.” Hoffman's supporters contend he is too wise to play such a “long shot” as the Lindbergh case except for a sincere belief that justice is not being done. Democrats have adopted a "hands off” attitude in the matter, feeling that, the courts having acted, any ex pressed criticism might rebound, par ticularly if the Governor should de- ' velop something worthwhile. In the Legislature they have sat back mostly and let any direct or indirect attack on the Governor's activities come from members of his own party. Whatever the reasons for Hoffman's \ many moves and statements on the case, the final result, good or bad, will tell on him politically. Some political observers expect the ictivitles to figure not only In the com* ng State political battles, but also In .he national campaign within the State. COLLEGE PROFESSORS’' PAY CUTS REVF.ALEC By the Associated Press. College presidents and professor* got depression pay cuts like most everybody else—if not more so. 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