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showed Hauptmann a pay
which be said was hi*.
Q You got that money from this
employer?
A. Yea, that's the pay check for
March.
Be turned over the yellow check
thoughtfully in his steady fingers.
‘That’s the pay check for March,”
Hauptmann explained.
Tmat would be at the rate of $100
a month?” Wilent* asserted.
“It would have been MO if you
worked one half a month," the at
torney went on.
Q. The check is not for $40 is it?
A NO.
Q. If you worked one day less than
one half a month, they should have
taken off $2.66. But they took off
$3.S3. That wsa too much?
A. Yes.
Cheek Is Evidence
"I offer the check in evidence,”
Wilentz said.
Q Now you worked two more days
in April?
A. Yes
Q. And you got paid $3.33 a day?
A Ye*.
He identified the pay check for
those two days and it was accepted
in evidence.
Q. Now you cashed that check at
the National Lumber and Mill Work
company?
LA. Yes.
That was the lumber yard where
the kidnap ladder wood was traced
by state experts.
Q. You were employed there at one
time?
A. Yes.
Wilentz. changing hi* course, sud
denly introduced into the proceed
ings the name of the Morrow Estate
maid who committed suicide as sne
wa* to be questioned after the Lind
bergh kidnaping. A _ «
q. Did you know Violet Sharpe.
Q Did you know anyone who knew
Violet Sharpe.
q. you had never even heard of
Violet Sharpe?
A- There were stories in the news
^CjTTmean prior to March I, 1932.
A. No
Q You never knew anyone con
nected with the Lindbergh house
hold dtIot to the kidnaping?
WUantz wa* attacking the defend
effort* to throw auaplcion on Violet
Sharpe and other Morrow and
Lindbergh domestics.
The Interrogator next produced
Hauptmann’s large account book.
Q. In May. 1932. you bouglft a
radio?
A. Yea.
q How much did It cost? •
q You bought field glaase.s?
A- Yea
How much did you pay?
A. $126
q In July. 1932?
A Yes
Q Before you bought the radio
you had a Vlctrola in the front
room?
A Yea.
q. Did you put money in the Vic
trola?
A. Poaibly I keep the rent in It.
q. i mean lota of money, pack
ages of money?
A. No.
Q Didnt you put the Fisch money
in It?
q. Didnt you have $6,500 from
Fiach?
A. Ye*.
Q. At any rate, early in 1932 you
had no money In the Vlctrola?
A. No.
q unt it a fact you opened the
Vlctrola in the presence of Fritz
Hahn and there were two packages
of money on the top?
A. No absolutely not. <grinning).
Q You *ay now that when Mr.
' Hahn wa* in vour home in April or
May. 1932. you didnt open the Vic
troia and he saw the bundle* of
money**
Bruno Enjoys Answer
oNo (laughing tone )
q Didnt you tell him he could
not go in the bedroom?
A. I can t say that 1 said it.
q. Didnt Mr Hahn ask you about
the money?
A. No.
Q. He <udnt?
A. I really cant say he was ever
In our house.
WUentz then drew from the wit
he had taken the Hahns to
ftyc Beach and itopped at the
Hauptmann house
-I reallv can t say he was ever
in our house.” he repeated.
Q Mr Hahn is a good friend of
yours?
A* Yes 1
Q He dont owe you any money?
A. No.
Q. Do you remember saying to
Mrs. Hahn you were giving your
wife about $1,000 to go to Europe.
A. No (still smiling.)
Q will you say Mrs. Hahn was
ever in your house?
A. I can't remember.
q. Will you say she wasn't there?
A. Maybe when I was out—
q When you were there?
A. I don't remember.
WVntz. his voice graduaUy rising
to a badgering pitch, pressed the
witness to sav categorically whether
or not he had ever invited the
Hahrn to his house, but Hauptmann
said be could not recall.
WUentz turned to the friendship
between the Hauptmanns and the
Hahns. Wilentx asked if Halm ex
claimed about the expensive radio.
I “You are making a story, ’ Haupt
mann said.
“Well eee about that,” Wlientz
itpUed
Q. Didn't you signal your wife to
jump up when a witness was on the
stand?
A. That s ridiculous.
Q. Weren’t you told to change
vour story about the wood Monday ?
A. No
Wilentx swung to another line of
attack, that of his alibi for the kid
nnap night.
Q Who told you to change your
Iatorv and tell about the dog?
A. Nobody. I found out about it
myself.
Q. Never mentioned it, did you?
A. No.
Q. Never said anything about
walking the streets with a dog?
A. Z remember it afterwards that
I think of it.
Q. Why didn’t you think of it
then?
A. 1 guess I know but Z don t
think it was important
Q It wasn't important. The only
important thing in that extradition
proceeding was whether you were in
the Bronx the night of the kid
naping as you testified or In Hope
well a« New Jersey claimed?
A. Yes.
Q. So it was important, wasn't it?
A. Yes.
0
Seek to Market
The questions, shot rapidly at the
quiet-spoken defendant, turned to
the market transactions.
Q. You sold short, did you?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you buy put and call? In
other words its a hedge?
A. Insurance.
Wilents went into the technical
details of puts-and-calls, winding
up, "you learned all the tricks of
the trade in Wall street, didn’t
you?”
He got no answer from the wit
ness.
Hauptmann, smiling, corrected
Wiiemz that he did not lose but
won “a few dollars" on put and call.
Q. The only money you put in was
from Ftsch from furs and from your
bank account?
A. And a mortgage.
Q. You deposited hundreds of dol
lars in silver change?
A. I’d like to explain to the Jury.
The large amount of silver, the
state contends, came from the
change Hauptmann obtained by
passing ransom money.
Q Where did you get all that
silver?
A. It was a mistake. eameumes
on the slip, the deposit slip, when I
write it down. I get the bills down
below the line where it reads silver.
Q You mean that some of the
deposit slips show silver but what
we call silver were really bills?
That right?
A. Yes.
Wilents produced the deposit slips.
Q Take a look at this it shows
coins $186
A. That is wrong. It means bills.
You can't expect to carry $200 In
silver in my pocket.
Q. But Isn't that your handwriting
on that slip?
A. Yes. But I never carried that
much silver.
Wilents showed him another slip.
Q. You put the bills in the right
place then?
A. No, that's aH right.
Mistakes' In Deposits
Another deposit slip was shown
him and again Hauptmann said it
was all right, the bills and coins
being in the correct place.
A red blush suffused the carpen
ters face as the questioning pro
gressed
Q. What's this $8 in bills 812 in
coins and 180 check?
A. That's all right
Q. Now here $62 in bills $12 in
coins?
A. Yes.
Q. Here Is $12 in coins.
A. That means bills.
Q. Between bills and checks?
A. Thai is bills.
Q Another — coins $84.
A. That's a mistake. I didn't
pay so much attention to the fig
ures how I wrote them.
One after one Wilents showed him
deposit slips in his handwriting
showing large deposits of silver.
Hauptmann seemed to be getting
confused and his explanations be
came more Jumbled.
"It should be bills. It should be
bills,” he repeated monotonously as
he looked at the deposit amounts he
had marked beside the word "sil
ver' on a deposit slip.
Wilents hammered questions about
a counterfeit quarter among tha
deposits and Reilly protested. Tlic
Justice advised Hauptmann he
would have "opportunity to answer.'
Q Here is $200 in bills deposited
in September 1932. You weren't
working. Where did you get the
money?
A. Pom the fur business.
Wilents and the defendant contin
ued th« identification of the de
posits. the attorney general citing
many com deposits which Haupt
mann said were mistake#
Can’t Remember
Wilents showed Hauptmann a $12
coin deposit.
Q. You didn’t deposit $12 in coin
in all the years before 1932?
A. Whet s that?
The question was repeated
A. I can't remember.
There were two deposits of silver,
one $12 and the other $10. both
made shortly after the ransom pay
ment.
Q. Where did you get that sliver?
A. Some of the money out of my
trunk In the house.
Q. When you had the $4,300?
A. Yes.
Hauptmann explained ms wire nad
complained at the small bank bal
ance in their account and he had
dipped into his money trunk and
took out some money.
You can go over all dem slips and
you will find no more than 112 In
silver,” Hauptmann volunteered.
Q <12 and $10 aud $10 is $33.
though, in nickels?
A. I didn’t have a nickel shop.
The jury nudted the deposit slips
carefully as the questioning pro
gressed .
While the Jury studied the deposit
slips as court paused for a con
ference between Reilly and Wllentz.
Hauptmann pored over his large fi
nancial ledger which had been giv
en him on the stand.
Q. Did you deposit $750 in gold In
the Central Savinas bank?
A. Let me explain I went to the
strong box (safety deposit box) and
took it out and deposited it.
Q. You took the $750 In gold bills
to some place exchanged for other
bills and deposited In the Central
Savings bank?
A. No.
Q. That was March, 1933, when
President Rooeevelt called In gold?
A Yes.
Hauptmann turned the pages of
the book, while Wilentx stood at his
elbow, waiting.
Q. That's your book Isn't it?
A. Yes
Q. A book In which you kept ac
count of your stocks .your dealings
with Plsch?
A. Yes. all ol it.
Q: You kept the book for your
own information?
A. Yes.
Q You didn't keep It to fool any
one?
A. No.
Q. You weren't trying to hide any
thing from anyone?
A. No.
Q So It’s a true and accurate re
cord?
A. Yes, but not all is In it,
Q It’s a true and accurate state
ment of all that's in it?
A. It's not correct.
Q. Everything in it Is correct but
you left something out?
A. Yea Let me explain please.
Q. If your book »ys $12,000. It
was $9 500?
A. Y*». That * correct
Q. If you wrote to the Piach fam
ily m 1934 and said you put up
$12,000 worth of stocks, was that a
lie?
A. No.
Q. But you had put up only $9,500
stocks?
A Yes.
Q You did put up $12,000 m se
curities?
A. Yes, that's correct.
Q. When you wrote to Isador a
family after his death did you say
anything about the stock you bought
for him?
A. No. I did not.
The defendant launched an ex*
Sanation of the stock dealings of
sch. He said the little furrier did
not make enough. Hauptmann sug
gested that he buy Plsch s Interest
for twenty per cent of value and the
partner would participate 50-50 on
profit and loss.
Tisch said O. K. * Hauptmann
concluded.
Q When did you and he start tbit
account where you were to put up
917.50b and be waa to put up 917.500?
A. October the end of October. 1933.1
Q You never bad any etock dealing*
before October, 1833?
A. That waa the 90-50 account.
Q. How about the account in which
be had 30 per cent interest?
A. That really never got started.
Q So Pitch waa never in the market
prior to October. 1933?
A Oh, yes. Jit waa In m 1933
Wilentz changed the subject and ask
ed if th* wltnaas had bought a canoe
and taken hunting tripe after the kid
naping.
The witness admitted he took one
trip.
Q And you weren't working?
A. No.
Wife Quit Work
Wilentz reviewed the tripe of
the Hauptmanns to California
and Florida and th* purcnaae of the
9400 radio since 1933.
Q. And your wife quit work too?
A. Yea. in June. 1932.
Q And you made only 9200 aluo* ae
a carpenter?
A. Yea.
Q. Your wife was disgusted at yoc
quitting the job and you went and put
money m the bank?
A. She wasn t noliertng at me.
Wilenu led Hauptmann to his ar
rest and the circulation of ransom bills
immediately preceding.
Q Why. because you needed the
mony?
A. Ob no 1 didn’t need the money
Q. Why did you put it In circulation?
A. I thought 1 wouldn't take the check
' from my stock account so I put this
money into circulation and uaed it.
Q So you took the money because
1 you didn't want to take it out of yotn
j stock account and you had living ex
P«n»M?
A. Tea.
Q. When you and your wife went to
buy her shoes you took one of th* bills?
A. That's correct.
Q. Before, when you needed living
expense money, you took It out of your
I stock account?
A. That'* right.
“Altogether 1 put In circulation, I
' figure, from 13 to IS bills,** he con
cluded.
Q. For your living expense*?
A. Yes.
Q. Prior to that tune you should have
| taken the money from your banking
I or brokerage accounts?
A. Yes.
Q So then whenever you needed
j money you dipped into that money and
took out a bill at a time?
A. Yea. but I took 4 or 9 bills at a
! time.
Q. But you didn't take it out just
l to cash it. to get it changed to other
; money?
A. No. for living iexpenses).
Q You didn't take th* bills out and
cash them Just to get rid of them?
*8011*1101 Up far Trip*
Q Why uia you ucpusit *soo during
[August and Septemoer. 1834 when you
ueeded money for expenses?
i A. This banx was closed and I opened
in another bauk in Mth Street.
Hauptmann explained that at- opened
an account in a Mt. Vernon bank in
I September. 1994, to build up "little by
ilttl*” a fund to go to Germany. His
wife, he said, did not know about the
account.
Q. A special account.
A. Yea. 1 wanted to start a special
account for our voyage to Oermany.
4 You weren t worried about having
enough money for that trip?
A. Not worried, that a r.gut. But if
you take a trip—if you buud up uttle
oy little, you aon’t (eel it so much.
Q Bui you had thousands of dollars
m September. 1134. Thousands?
A. In my stock account.
4- You didn’t need money in Septem
ber you had thousands?
A. tt was easier to build up little
by little than take out $1,000 all at
once.
4 You only used a Uttle of the money
t ransom j?
A. I was going to return the rest to
Mrs. Fisch.
Q. You took about $300 of gold certi
ficates and was going to give bock the
rest to the Fisch family?
A. 1 got U from risen.
Q So you intended t» return the 3.-\
of the gold to the Fuchs?
A. Yet.
Q Then why did you spend the 13 or
13 bills you took?
A. Fisch owed me.
Hauptmann then explained be divid
ed the money Into two packages, one of
$3,000. and tbe other of $13.u00 "to be
on the sale side.*'
He eeld Fisch owed him that 93,UQO
end he wanted to be sure of getting
that money. He was afraid Fisch •
orother would refuse to give It to him
Q. What were you afraid of. What.
was the trouble?
A. Because their wasn t any written
between Fisch snd me.
4. What trouble were you afraid of?
A. Fisch a brother.
Q. What trouble were you afraid of?
A. Ht wouldn’t believe me.
4 You would tell him you had his
mousy?
A. Yea but I didn t have any eiipe or :
records. FUch owed ms 13,000.
Might Talk’
Q You were go.ug to separate the j
$3,000 and give them the rest
A. No. But if I gave h.m aU the money
he might talk about It.
Q. They asked you to tell what Ptach
left in this country t
A. Yes.
Q And you answered a couple of old
trunks with nothing in them?
A. Yea.
Q- Why did you hide the money in
the trunk?
A. Somebody might come in. I bad ’
to hide it somewhere.
4- Why didn t you tell Pitch's broth- i
er?
A. I jras going to write end I got ar
rested.
Hauptmann said be wrote one letter
end was waiting, before writing again,
for an answer from the first
4. Yesterday you said you didn t;
write because Flash's brother was com- j
lag over?
A. That was my answer.
4 Now you say you didn't write be- i
cause you didn’t get a reply.
A. You are wrong again.
4. As a matter of fact you knew at!
that tune you were planning to return i
to Oermany?
A. Oh that was plan over a year al
ready.
Hauptmann eald he plenned to write |
Fisch'* brother explaining he was bring
tng beck all of his effects.
The trip was planned for IKU be
cause. Hauptmann said, tus mother
would be TO years old
4 How you had $4.300 in a trunk la i
1831?
A. Yes.
4 And you always kept money m that j
trunk?
A. Yas.
4 You always took off some money j
to Mde away?
A. Yes
Q You always had money in the
trunk.
A. Yes I spent everything. All the
money was invested.
Q Ao you didn't always have money
in the trunk?
A. No
Q How much money was la that
trunk in February 1833?
A. Gold certifies tea* I
Q How much?
A. I can't remember. Zt was aU gold
certificate*.
Q. Cant you state about how much
you had?
A. 9750 about in gold certificates.
Q. What etna? t
A. That's all there was.
Q. How much did you have la there
December, 1932?
A. The same
Q. How much In June. 1931, if you
can rtmembtr,
A. A little bit more than 91.000. I ex
plain It dls way—
Q. Just a minute. Do you want to
cornet your answer?
A. That’s correct. Bad of May I took
out ll.SOO and in Jims it put it back.
Wllenu walked over to t # -tagd
holding a ahaaf of ransom letters m
his hand as ha returned questioning the !
witness.
Q. How, June 1. you mid you had a
Uttla over 91.000 in the trunk?
A. Tea. ___
Q You had more In May and took
soma out to buy the mortgage?
A. About the end of the year.
Q. In May 1932 you took out 91.500?
A.' I put It in furs.
Q Anyhow you took 91.500 out of the
truuk at the end of May. and what did
you do with that?
A. I put It in furs.
Q. That left you on the 1st of June
with 91.000 or 91 500 in the trunk?
A. Yes that's about right.
Q How much money did you have
in the trunk April 2. 1932.
A. M.300.
Q. So you took out between 12,000
and 93.000 between April and June,
1932?
Can't Remerooer
A. I don t remember exactly.
Q. The 91900 you took out (or the
fur*, you deposited that where?
A. I Rare It to risch.
WUenti read from a ransom note
"because this kidnaping eras planned
for a year already ’’
He continued with another "this kid
naping was prepared for a year already."
Q You've heard those two expressions
and your statement about the trip to
Germany "oh that is planned for a year
already .'• Is that your method of
speech?’ _
A. 1 don't know any other way. How
would you say it?
Reilly objected and said WUenta had
asked no questions during the discourse
He demanded that Wllenta follow up
with questions about the ransom notes
The interrogator. Reilly asserted, had
tried to give the jury an inference that
because he planned a trip to Oermany
a year ahead there was some connection
with the ransom notes. k
Trenchard directed the record on the
disputed questioning be read. While part
of the record which had been taken from
the court was being brought back. Wit
entz took up a new line of interroga
tion.
Q. When you were arrested did you
say you didn't turn in the gold certifi
cate* because you were afraid "they
would hook you up?"
A. I don’t remember There were so
many questions. Besides it wasn't my
money
Q. You were is this country illegal
ly. that's why?
A. Yea.
Q That's why you changed your ac
count to your wife's account?
A. That s another reason
Q Didn't you tell the authorities you
didn't know where there was a federal
reserve bank?
Can’t Remember
A I can't remember my answer.
There was so many questions. X cant
think that fast
Q And all the time you were say
ing that, you had been into a federal
reserve bank already to deposit gold?
A. I didn't remember first.
The question* were interrupted for
a reading from the record of the pre
ceding queries on Hauptmann s expres
sion that the trip to Oermany was
"planned a yaar already"
Q. When you were asked about the
federat reserve bank, after your arrest,
you said you didn’t know where there
was a federal reeerra bank?
A Yd.
Q And now you tell us you did know
where the federal reserva bank was?
A. Yes. later I remembered It.
Q Didn't the authorities say to you
"why didn't you take this to a federal
reserve bank and you said you didn't
know where there was one?"
A I can't remember die
Hauptmann said he had 9690 In gold
in a safety deposit box and 9120 at
home.
©. well you Knew tn* wivj m goia
coins you had tn your home you knew
that money was Just sc bad and ti
lers!?
A. No. I read from Mr. Roosevelt
somethin* that It would be all right
to keep $100 tn gold
© So you kept $120?
A. Tea.
Wllenu had the witness redeserib*
how he counted the ransom money and
separated $2 000 from the main pack
age of the money.
Q Where waa that $2 000?
A. I put It on the shelf with a board
across
Q You put up a certain number of
package* with peoer over them. They
had $1 000 In each?
A Newspaper
Q You got to $12,000 then to $13.
000 then to $14 000 what did you do
with the odd money?
A. T wrapped It.
Q So the last two packages were leas
than $1,000 where did you put them?
A. On the shelf
Q What did you put In the wood’
A Part of the first $1,000.
Q Did you count the money you put
in the board”
A. 1 count It yes
Can't Remember
Q How much did you count’
A. t can’t remember. Seven or eight
hundred dollars.
© Once you put the beam up to tha
wa*l vnu didn't disturb It again’
A No
Q in July. 1931. how much did you
have Id the trunk about $4,300?
K Yr*
q in July 1M1 now how much did
you have then in that trunk. $4 300?
A. July’
Q. Yes the time you took the trip to
California
A. 1 don't know.
q Now what did you do with tha
money you had in that trunk, when you
went to California? . „
A. I put tt in a small satchel and left
it with my uncle in Brooklyn._
Hauptmann said hit uncle dldn t
know there was money in It.” The furni
ture waa put la storage and "a few
things left with the uncle.” Almost $4.
000 was in tha satchel.
© You needed money for the trip?
A. I took tt out of the bank.
WUents In hla Questions brought out
that Hauptmann did not resort to the
garage hiding place used for ransom
money.
Not in Trunk
The wltneea said he used a tin bo*
in 1933 for valuables at home.
©. When the police came to your
house there was not a dollar, of money
In that trunk?
A. No Because it waa gone.
© Bo you didn't always keep large
•urns cf money in that trunk?
A. No.
© You remembar Mr. Prank testi
fied your brokerage aocounta was about
$1$ ooo?
A. About right.
©. And his testimony was there $9,000
In bank deposits?
A. That's hla way. Thera wasn’t that
much.
' Because It’e this way. You hare $3.
000 in a bank—1 take out $1,000 and put
It to work. I buy stocks or fun. hater X
put the money back. It la the same
money in the same channels." he said.
This la tha “repeat money" Haupt
mann a counsel urges a* an explanation
of the deposits the state claims came
from the ransom.
‘ If vou follow my books, from the
time Mr. Plsch left, you will find no
new money was coming in.” Hauptmann
explained. •
Q. How much did Pitch lorn la the
stock accounts?
A. About $15,000. IB November. 1183.
he was about even.
Q How much did you put ta?
A. Very little. There waa 10 aharee—
Q. How much cash?
A. $2,000 or $1,900.
Q You took soma pan of the ran
som money for your living expenses?
A. I never had any ransom money.
© How about the bills you were
•pending tn August and September?
1934?
A 1 o dn t Know It was ransom money
Q. But you did spend 1th did yOB?
A. Yea, I know now
Q Then you did toln mom money
out of your acoounta for your Uving
before November. l«3?
Q
Q vui you ataad os your books?
A. Tee.
Q WlU you stand on the fur ac
counts?
A. No.
Q. WiU you stand on the statement
12 000 was all you got from Plsch?
A. No.
Q So you won't stand an your books.
A. To a certain extent.
Q WiU you find me any item in that
boos or yours which showa Plsch put
in 115 000?
A. It's not special marked.
Q. WlU you show me one line In that
book which shows Plsch put in any sacra
than that *2.000 ha did put in?
A. Plsch. he kept some books.
Q. So you ve got thle book ehowlng
the stock acoounta?
A. Thle Is only the 83.008.
O Does It Include the Ptaoh account?
A. It includes the Plsch account but
tn my name.
Q But you haven’t an account of a
•Ingle other dollar from Plsch?
A. No.
Q. Its your book. I didn’t write It?
A. I wrote It.
q When did you do meat of your fur
business?
A. I’m not familiar with fun.
Q Not familiar?
A. No Plsch he took care of these
Q pitch put tn most of the money,
you put In 81.500 or 82.000?
A. Tee. _
Wtlents brought out that Hauptmann
spent money on financial papers and
once spent 820 for a WaU Street fore
coat. ^ ^
Wtlents turned to the fur account sec
tion of the book.
Q. Show me when there Is some evi
dence when you got profit money out
of furs? .. ^ ^
Hauptmann studied hta ledger book,
while Wllenta directed that copies of
the acoounta be supplied to the de
fense.
A Tes. there are.
Wtlentr asked the witness to reed
off the fur proftta listed in the account
book
"8500 8408. 8437 TO. 3380.” he nod off.
Wtltntz supplied Hauptmann with a
pencial asking him to write down the
fur profits
The defendant wrote three and then
asked to see the book again.
“There to a couple more." the defen
dant said.
Hauptmann gave the total as 81.
735 50.
“That’s one month.” h# added.
Wtlents objected and Belliy asked
that the remark be recorded Justice
Trenchard called the noon recaee. rul
ing the answer could be given after
lunch.
FINAL DANCE
(Continued From Page On*)
had been caked to present the floor
show as one of the features on the
dance program.
The hotel pttk) and the banquet
roots will be decorated in the na
tional colors, Daugherty said.
Another phase of Brownsville a
observance of President Roosevelt’a
birthday to scheduled at the Metho
dist church Wednesday night, where
a Union church program has been
arranged.
The program is to be non-sectarian
and everyone la Invited to attend, it
was announced. The program will be
divided, the first part to take place'
at the main church auditorium where
a musical program will be offered
and Rev. O. C. Crow- will deliver a
short message and the latter part
will be held In the League room, and
will be In the form of a social Boy
Scouts and Girl Scouts will take part
In the program.
The principal address will be deliv
ered by John Mvrlck of Harlingen.
A free-will offering will be taken
during the program. 90 per cent of
which will be turned over to the
Brownsville Associated Charities, and
10 per cent will go to the president’s
commission on the study of Infan
tile paralysis.
The Rampo Radio shop has in
stalled a radio at the church so that
those who attend the program there
can hear the president's message at
10:30 o’clock.
City Briefs
- -
Mrs. Volney W. Taylor arrived
Tuesday morning from Washington.
D. C.. where she has been for the
past two weeks attending a meet
ing of the board of directors of the
Oeneral Federation . of Woman's
dubs, and where she was a delegate
to the Conference on the Cause and
Cure of War.
•’Guerlain” perfumes now avail
able in small bottles, for the first
time in Mexico, at The Basket Place.
Matamoros. The exclusive Guerlain
Importer. Adv.
The Wednesday night baseball
; came between the Kiwanls and Elks
has been postponed In order not to
interfere with the President’s Ball
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dennis and
children of Edinburg were visitors
in Brownsville recently.
Cabinets, Fixtures, Millwork. The
Geer Oo. opposite Brownsville Ice
Co, phone 1125—Adv.
Mrs. Katherine Strmgfellow, and
I two daughters. Misses Nan and
Katherine, spent the weekend in
Pharr as the guests of the formers
sister. Mrs .Marian Benway. Miss
Marian Hedrick. Mrs. Benway s
| daughter, is also visiting her.
Johnsons electric floor polisher
! and wax. Gsrxa Hardware, 639 11th
at.—Adt.
Leonard Trimble of Port Isa
bel. spent the weekend with his
sister and brother in the Trimble
home here.
Turquoise and Royal White enam
elware. Every thing for the kitchen.
Brownsville Hardware. Adv.
The Brownsville Herald carriers
were guests of John Panning, man
ager of the Capitol Theater, Mon
day night at a showing of “Bright
Eyes/' starring 8hirley Temple and
James Dunn.
Growers Praised On
Fruit Fly Campaign
HARLINGEN, Jan. 29—How Val
ley people have %!vcn up their
peach, plum and other trees which
are hosts to the Mexican fruit fly
in order to protect the citrus fruit
industry in this section was told at
San Antonio recently by N. O. Berry
of the U. 8. Bureau of Entomology
and Plant Quarantine laboratory
here. His talk on the co-operation
of Valley growers was given before
the Texas Entomological society.
Hound* Trail Man
HARLINOr.N Jtn. »—Blood
hounds Tuesday were put on the
trail of Carlot Oonzalet. sought by
police for questioning into the
wounding of Joe Cibrere here Mon
day night. Cabrera was shot <in the
hip with a load of birdshot from close
range.
Record Catches
Being Made On
Brazos Island
Waters near the northern tip of
Brazos island continued to yield ]
their ample supply of fish Monday .
and Tuesday, alter record catches <
of fish over the week-end.
One significant factor of the
fishing is that a large number of
commercial pole and line fishermen
have been fishing at the Braaos Jet
ty daily, selling their catch to fish
houses at Port Isabel.
One of the record catches of fish
was reported by Rufus Ransome and
George Houston of Brownsville.
These two veteran sport fishermen
gigged approximately 75 large floun
ders in the surf on Brazos Island
Monday night. Others gigged small
er numbers, and some flounders
were caught on bait at the jetty.
“I have fished in the Gulf ever
since I have been here, but this is
the first time I ever gigged floun
ders In the Oulf," Ransome said.
Bill Leonard of Port Isabel re
ported ten reds caught early Tues
day.
Other hauls included BiH Carlisle,
two reds, four flounders, and one
trout; C. C. Wentz and party, 110
fish including trout, reds, and
flounder; Bill Campbell, two reds,
four trout, four flounder; B. P.
Payne and Harry Kenser of Follette.
Texas, 17S pounds of reds, trout, and
flounder; Bill Lyles, 16 flounders.
The Valley is rapidly getting to be
fish conscious as good fishing is
made available to pole and line
fishermen at the jetty, and even in
week days as many as 100 persons
may be seen fishing there at a time.
FATHER OF 2
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once in the middle of the back and
once In the top of the head with
the bullet emerging above the eyes
and tearing away the front portion
of the head.
Attorneys late Monday completed
selection of a Jury 'to try Clark.
Members of the Jurv are:
W. R. Goodwin. Clegg farmer.
August Geffert, George West far- ‘
mer: Albert Burrell. Oeorge West
farmer: Robert Dowd. Oakville far
mer; F D. Johnson. Houston Oil
Company employe of ML Lucas; Ed
Holland. Three Rivers ranchman;
Sam Pinto, south Live Oak County
ranchman; Sam Kasper. Oeorge
West farmer; A G. Walton, Mikeska
farmer; C. G. Kidd, farmer living
eight miles east of Oeorge West;
T. J. Francis, farmer residing six
miles west of George West; and
John Dove. Oakville farmer.
District Attorney Cox qualified
all Jurors for the state on their
willingness to impose the death
penalty, indicating the state will
ask the extreme penalty for Clark.
Defense Attorney J. P. Taulbee of
Georgetown qualified jurors on their
willingness to acquit the defendant
If they felt a “reasonable doubt" as
to his guilt.
Clark’s brother. Walter L. (Bud)
Clark of Austin and a negro ex
convict. William Reed, are also
charged with the Dobbs slayings.
Charles Clark obtained a severance
from the co-defendants and they
obtained severances from each oth
er when the case was first called
for trial on January 0 in the reg
ular term of Judge W G. Gayle’s
36th Criminal District Court. A
mit trial was declared by Judge
Gayle on January 11 when District
Attorney Cox collapsed in the
courtroom and was placed under a
physician's care. He lias now fully
recovered
Crowds See Pictures
On ‘John Deere Day*
Hundreds of Brownsville people
visited the peeking plant of Mc
Davitt Brothers here Tuesday for
“John Deere Day." during which
moving pictures and demonstrations
i were presented.
More than 100 persons saw the
i first moving picture, presented
1 shortly before noon, and even larger
i throngs gathered in the afternoon
Tuesday.
The picture was brought here by
A. D. Weyland and B. F La wing,
factor representatives, from Dallas.
It showed the John Deere tractor
and other farm machinery being
made at the factory, end then show
ed the equipment in actual opera
tion in the field.
A demonstration tractor was
brought along by the two factory
men. who are traveling in a large
truck with their equipment. They
will appear at Mercedes Wednesday,
and Mission Thursday,
i The visitors were met at the show
by W. E. Me Davit, and P. G. Scott
of Harlingen, another representa
tive of the John Deere companv.
Am mg ti|* visitors were two .Vil
en in the Valley on vacations They
are Mrs. Florence Spencer Whelan
of Wisconsin, and C. J. Aneson of
North Dakota.
Final Rush For Poll
Taxes Is Anticipated
A last minute ruth for poll taxes
will develop Wednesday and Thurs
day over Cameron county as it is
estimated that approximately 4.000
poll taxes will be sold on those two
days, according to Information in
the office of Assessor-Collector
Ralph T. Agar.
Approximately 1.2tK> poll taxes had
been purchased through Monday
night and It Is estimated that the
county's voting strength will be
around 8,000 before the sale Is clos
ed midnight Thursday.
The Brownsville and Harlingen
offices will bs kept open until late
hours Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday according to announce
ment by the assessor-collector.
In addition to the La Peria.
Brownsville, Sail Benito and Har
lingen offices, an office for the sale
of poll taxes was being operated at
La Paloma Tuesday. Affr expect
ed to operate a sub-station at Los
Presnos Wednesday.
Series Of Deaths At
Houston Are Probed
HOUSTON, Jan. 29. UPh-Harris
county grand Jurors Tuesday inves
tigated the deaths of four members
of the Jones M. Bullock family dur
ing the last two years.
Chsrscti with the death of one
of the Bullock children are Mrs.
Dora Bullock Frost. 48. mother of
tl.ree children and widow of Jones
Bullock, all deceased, and her
second husband. Oeorge Frost, 40.
former Insurance sale&mam
I ...
TODAY’S MARKETS 1|
MARKETS AT A GLANCE
NEW YORK
Stocks heavy; list down in dull
dealings.
Bonds easy; secondary loans
decline.
Curb lower: trading quiet.
Foreign exchanges firm; gold
currencies recover
Cotton quiet; liquidation; Wall
street end foreign selling.
Sugar tower; easier spot mar
Coffee tower; European selling.
CHICAGO
Wheat weak; monetary uncer
tainty. ...
Corn weak; sympathy with
wheat.
Cattle steady to M tower; top
>l3 Hogs slow, steady to 10 lower;
top tTBO.
NEW YORK STOCKS
NEW YORK. Jan. SB. u<P>—Ttto
Atmosphere in most financial mar
kets continued somewhat murky
Tuesday and about all that aacurl
ties and staples did was to grope
feebly for guidance _.
While a brisk rally in foreign
exchanges helped to steady hot!:
stocks and staples, equity buy ers
were timid and sellers nervous.
Prices, on the whole, were virtually
unchanged in the stock list and the
dullness was so pronounced that
the creeping ticker tape only in
frequently broke the silence in the
boardrooms. Prime bonds were
narrow and secondary loans again
were a trifle uneasy.
Shares that edged moderately
higher Included those of Douglas
Aircraft. United Aircraft. Interna
tional Harvester and Deere Among
issues moving a shade In either
direction were U. S. Steel. Chrysler.
Generwl Motors. Bethlehem. Santa
Fe. N. Y.. Central. American Tele
phone. Consolidated Oas, U. S.
Smelting, National Distillers and
Standard OU of New Jersey.
Market factors were little changed
from the previous session. Specula
tive forces were still confronted
with a confusing combination of
circumstances, including the recent
erratic tendencies of foreign ex
changes, the related pending gold
clause decision, the battle in con
gress between the inflationists and
anti-lnflatlonistr and possibly un
expected administration moves.
NEW YORK iTOCKS
Sales in 100a High Low Clow
A1 Chem6eDye 5 135% 134% 135%
Am Can 16 112% 111% 113%
Am Stl Fd 31 16% 16% 16%
Am Sug Rel • l 62 62
Am TdtT 35 104% 103% 104%
Am Tob 7 80% 80 80
Anaconda 24 10% 10% 10%
At TAcSF 54 46 % 44% 46%
Baldwin Loc 8 5% 8% 5%
Bendlx Avi 18 15% 15
Chrysler 94 38% 35% 35%
Con Oil 16 7% 7% 7%
Du Pont De N 26 93 % 93% 93%
Oen Asphalt 4 16 15% 15%
OE 136 23 % 33% 33%
Oen Fds 6 34 % 33% 33%
Oen Mot 128 31% 30% 30%
Goodyear 21 22% 31% 21%
111 Cen * 7 13% 13% 18%
Int Harvest 34 40 38 % 39
Int T&T 44 9 8% 8%
J Mam 35 50% 48% 49%
Keni’TJcott 30 18% 18% 16%
Mo Par 2 2% 2% 2%
Natl Stl 2 47 % 47% 47%
NY Central 41 17% 18% 17%
Penney JC 9 69 68% 68%
Radio 26 5 % 5% 5%
Sears 26 34 33 % 33%
Soc Vac 33 14% 13% 13%
S Pac 41 15% 15 18%
Sid Brands 30 17% 17% 17%
SO NJ 36 41% 40% 40%
Stude baker 246 3 1% 2
Tvx Corp 11 19% 19% 19%
US Ind A1 4 38 36% 36%
US Stl 86 36 % 36 36
Warner Pic 8 4 3% 4
WU 33 30 % 28% 29%
West ElA'M 48 37 % 36% 38%
Wool* 38 58 % 52% 53
NEW YORK CURB
NEW YORK. Jan. ,29.—— Curb
market stocks moved sluggishly
Tuesday. Many ordinarily active
Issues old not appear on the tape
during the first hour.
The trend was definitely down
ward. including metals, oils, utili
ties and industrials, but loaaea were
tmall Among thorn selling lower
were Bunker Hi!* At Sullivan Lake
Shore Mines and Wright Hargreaves
Pittsburgh Plate Olaas sagged 3
points under light offering. Dicto
graph lost 1. and smaller declines
occurred in such issues as Bherwin
Williams. American Cyanamid “B.
Electric Bond At Share, Penn Road.
Distillers Corp.-Seagrams and Cre
ole Ptroleum Swift At Co., gained
a minor fraction.
NEW YORK CURB
Cities Service 15 l*fc 1*4 1%;
El BAS 19 «'• 6 <
Ford Ltd 6 I'i 1*4 31*
Oulf Oil Pa 1 36 !4 56 H 56’4 |
Midwest Ut 16 >* H H
United Oas 3 IS 1%
—■mm.—■ —.1
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. » <**>—
1 Cotton opened somewhat easier al
though Liverpool came in about as
i due as tha starling exchange was
:: awhat firmer. First trades
showed losses of 3 to 6 points wtth
| in March at 1234. May at 12.36. July
f at 12.38 and October at 1237. May I
I and July gained a point soon after
tha start but lost this gain almost
immediately and the price level at
tha end of the first half hour ahow
: ed net lessee compered with Mon
day’s close of 3 to 7 points. October
showing the maximum decline.
Tha market became quieter as
tha morning progressed and prices
fluctuated rather nervously. After
easing off to 12.33 for Marcia, 1233
for May and 12.20 for Oct., or 9 to
7 points below the close of Mon
day, In sympathy with outside mar
kets, there was a moderate rally on
shorts covering.
March Unproved to 1234. May to
1239, July to 12.41 and Oct. to
1231. or 2 to 5 point* up from the
earlier lows, making the price level
near noon 3 to 1 points down com
pared with Monday's close.
.. NEW ORLEANS FUTURES ..
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 29.—*>—
Cotton futures eloaed steady at net
declines of S to 5 points.
Open High Low Close
Mch .. 1334 1237 1232 1233-12
May .. 1236 12.42 1236 1233
Jly ... 1238 1243 12.26 1239-40
Oct ... 1237 12.22 1236 12YON
Dec ... 12.37 12.37 13.34 1134.
FT. WORTH GRAIN
FORT WORTH. Jan 19. <#>
l Demand lor grain was moderate
‘here Tuesday. Receipt* wheat 1
care; corn 20 and *orghums L
Delivered Texas dull ports, ex
port rat*, or Texas common pout*:
Wheat No. 1 hard I08'%*llf%.
Barley No. 2 nominally 90-92; No. S
nominally 88-81. Sorghums No. I
mllo per 100 pounds nominally 313
213; No S mllo nominally Ill-Ill;
No I kafir nominally 300-01: No 3
kafir nominally ’98-203
Delivered Texas common points
or croup three—Corn No. 1 '*Mtt
Mexican 103%-103%; No. 3 «Ke
northern 113%-114%; No. f ywKW
107%-108*4. Oats No. 3 red 82-83;
No 3 red 61-83.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAGO. Jan. 39. ^—Uncer
tainty as to the validity of invent
mntt fold clause abrogation over
shadowed other factors at the iratxi
market opening Tuesday and price*
sagged fractionally.
Opening %-% lower. May 98%-%
wheat later held near the initial
range. Cora started at %-% de
cline. May 82%-%. and eubeequent
ly went lower.
GRAIN CLOSE
CHICAGO. Jen. 29. <*)—ClONng
grain prices:
Open High Low Ctoee
Wheat—
Jan (unquoted)
May 96%-% 68% 96 93-86%
Jly 97%-% 68% r% 87%-%
Sep 88%-% 88% 86% 83%-68
Corn—
Moll •••« 88%
May 82%-% 83% 82% S2%-%
Jly 78*i 79% 78% 78%-%
Sep 75%-88 76% 76% 79%
Oats— 1
May 49%-% 30 48% 48%-%
Jly 42% 43% 42% 88%
Sep 40% 41 40% 40%
Rye
May 86% 87 88 88%
Jly 86 68% 85 66
Sep 63% 65% 84% 84%
Barley
May 75 •••• •••« 18 ^
Jly •••• •••• •••• 68
Sep
FT WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH. Jen. 28. (*>—
(U. 3 Dept. Agr.)—Hogs: UNO;
truck hogs mostly 16 lower; top
7.65; good underweights averaging
150-180 lbs 6.00-780; medium to
good butchers from doubtful terri
tory 4 00-5.75; packing sows meetly.
23 lower. 7.00 down. m*"
Cattle: 1.800 commercial. 100 lov-^
ernment: calves: 1.000; good fat
cattle scarce; general trade ail
claaoe cattle end calves fully steady,
weighty fed steers lacking; one load
well finished 2-year-old 9.76. other
desirable medium weight* 7.76;
good fat cows up to 4.80; butcher
sorts around 2.78-3.26; odd head
weighty bulla up to 3.76; ono load
good to choice lightweight fat
calves 6.75.
Sheep; 800; fat lambs weak to 35
lower; feeder lamb* strong; medium
grade fat lamb* 6.26-7.26; feeder
lambs 5 50-6 00
CHICAGO POTATOES
CHICAGO. Jan. 29. UP)—(U. 8.
Dept Agr.)—Potato**. dull, supplies
liberal, demand and trading rather
slow; Wlsconsh round whites US
No. 1. 1 90-86. fin* quality JO; Ida
ho russets US No. 1. 18*57%. ^n*
quality, large 160. US No. 2. 1 20;
Colorado McClure* US No. 1. 2.00;
Michigan round whites US No. 1, J8.
Truck Markets
Carlo! shipment* of enure United
State* reported Monday, Jan. 26
Grapefruit: Art*. S. Calif. I, Pin,
29. Texas 40. total US 76 earn
Oranges: Aria. 3. Calif. 136. fin
49. Texas 3, total US 346 oar*.
Mx citrus: Calif. 2, Fla. 29. Taxes
4 total US 34 cars.
Beans: Fla. 1. total US I car. Mex
ico l.
Cabbage: None.
Cabbage: Arts. t. Calif. IT. Fla. 2.
NY. 42 Texas 14. Wis. 14 other* ».
total US 97 cars.
Carrots: Aria. I. Calif. 34 NY 4
Texas 3. others 3. total US 54 can.
Greens Calif. 4 Fla 1. Texas 1,
total. US 8 can. «
Mx vegts: Calii. 45. Fla. 3. Oi'J
Texas I. others 2 total US 56 car*!
Mex S.
Peas: Calif 3. Fla. 3 total US •
cars. Mexico 2.
Peppers: Cuba 2 cars.
Spinach: Calif 1, Texas 4. total
US 5 cars.
Tomatoes: Cuba 1. Mexico 14
Lower Rio Grande Valley ship
ments forwarded Tuesday morning,
January 28: '
Grapefruit 40 orange* t. mixed
citrus 4 cabbeg* 13, mx. vtgta. 8,
carrots 2. spinach 3. parsley 2, pota
toes 1. total 72 cars. Total* to data
this season—citrus 2580. vegetables
3211. mx citrus and vegts. 14 total
5818; to same data last aeaaon—cit
rus 1364. vegetables 1974 mx. dtrus
and vegta 13. total 3353 can.
Representative price* to truckers
paid for Valley citrus and vega
tables. Monday, Jan. 26:
Grapefruit: Boxes US Comb. 1JI
1.40. small sins lower Bushels US
Comb 65-750- US NO 2* S5-65c
Oranges: Boxes UB Comb 1.80
2.10. few Templet 2.25-2.36. Bushels
US Comb 1-1.0. few Temples 1J6:
unclassified around 90c.
Broccoli: Per doe bunches few 85c.
Cabbage: Bulk psr ton around
130.00. /
Carrots: Per dos. bunches 334-350 /
Potatoes: Bliss THumphs 50-lb
sacks US No. is 1-1.10. 14 in. min.
90C-81
Spinach: Bu baskets few 180.
San Benito Plans
Features For Ball
(Spsctai to The Herat 4)
BAN BENITO. Jan. »*~-”Jass
mania described aa a new creation
in the art of tap work, will ba of
fered by the Garrtbrandt School of .
dancing a* one of the features of ■
the President a | Ball Wednesday
night. It was announced Tusaday.
Miss Betty Garrtbrandt will do the
"Russian Boyar.”
Dancing will begin at I o’clock
with music furnished by Lee Prauae
and his nine-piece band. The floor
■how Is scheduled for 10 p. m. At
11:30 the president’s address will be
heard over a radio installed at the
| San Benito club for the purpose.
Carl Hamilton, general chairman
, in charge, reported Tuesday that
.tale of tickets In San Benito has
been excel lent, Hamilton is assist
ed by Joe Taylor. Bob Collins. W.
W. Wilson. Leland Parsons and
Marshall Gauss.