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... were under
HARU£r the president s Ball
the Mr*t the E3 Jardin hotel
fanesday night
.show will be prasented by
Dwalski and Jane Daugherty,
- for the dance will bo
»y the Rythm Acee.
use to the ticket sale in
Brownsville has been excellent. Jack
Daugherty, general chairman, de
clared Tuesday. Daugherty urged all
those who have not purchased tick
ets to the ball to do so immediately,
and stressed again the point that 70
cents of each dollar taken in at the
dance will be turned over to the
Brownsville Associated Charities for
charity work within the city.
The first ticket to the ball will be
auctioned off on the floor of the
dance to the highest bidder immed
iately after the president s address
at 10:30 o'clock. <CST>. The Miller
Radio shop of Brownsville has in
stalled a radio in the hotel patio,
where all those attending the danoe
may hear the president s message.
Daugherty said that volunteers
had been asked to present the floor
show as one o< the features on the
dance program.
The notel patio and the banquet
room will be decorated In the na
tional colors. Daugherty said.
Another phase of Brownsville’s
observance of President Roosevelts
birthday is 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 is 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 naralysis
The Rsmoo Radio shoo has in
stalled a radio at the church so that
those who attend the orogram there
can hear the president s message at
10:30 o’clock.
HAUPTMANN
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quarrel with Mrs. Achenbach about
pay.
Mrs. Hauptmann also offered an
alibi for her husband for the night
of April 2. 1932, when Dr. John F.
(Jafsie) Condon testified he paid
him the $50,000 futile ransom.
She said Hans Kloeppenburg and
Hauptmann and herself were in the
Hauptmann home.
“And what were you doing? ‘
Reilly asked
“My husband and Hans make
music, play the mandolin and
guitar; and after this we played
cards, all three of us.
She rebuked state hints that her
husband had been untrue to her.
About Mrs. Greta Henckel with
whom, the state brought out. Haupt
mann drank coffee in the mornings
while Mrs. Hauptmann was abroad,
she said:
“Mrs. Henckel was not only a
friend of my husband, she was my
friend, too.”
"Did you ever entertain any
thoughts or opinions that your hus
band was untrue to you?”
"Never,” she said.
Edward J. Reilly, chief of the de
fense attorneys, opened Wednesday
morning's re-direct examination of
the defendant,
Q You testified in the Bronx you
went down to the Majestic apart
ments March 1, 1932 to look for
work?
A. Yes.
Q Did you go down a week or
two before?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you go to an agency?
A. Yea The Reliable—I got a
letter from the agency about the
27tli (February).
Q. Are you right handed or left
handed?
A. Right handed.
Q Now there was something said
about that trunk you kept the
money in. And you said the trunk
was broken at one time?
A. Yes.
Q. When was that?
A. In *33. I dtdn t have any
motiey in it anymore.
Reilly was examining Hauptmann
on the trunk which he said he kept
in his home with large sums of
money in it. He said he frequent
ly took money from it. at a time
when the state contends the unex
plained sums came from ransom
money.
Q. Was there at any time any
thing improper between you and
Mrs. Henckel?
A. Nothing.
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Turm to Dictionary
Reilly turned the questioning to
Hauptmanns German-English dic
tionary. He asked the attorney
general for the letter Isador Fisch
sent him after his return to Ger
many.
While the correspondence was be
ing produced Reilly asked Haupt
mann to enumerate the books he
had read during his stay in the
county jail.
The defendant spoke of a life of
Lincoln, a north pole expedition
story, “stories ol Canada” and “an
cient history.
The questions returned to the
Fisch letters and Hauptmann said
there were 6 or 8 and several poet
cards
Q. The letters (rom Isador to
you, where were they m your house?
A. I don't know.
Q You don t know where they
are now?
A. No.
Q Do you remember the contents
■ of those letters?
A. Yes.
Q. What was the contents of the
first letter?
A. He didn't say anything par
ticular. Only about his trip and
he is well Only little things.
Hauptmann said he sent Fisch a
portal card in reply and subsequent
ly received a postcard from Fisch.
Wiients produced a postcard,
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pr^Jan Hauptmann Undo These Fatal Links?
Deadliest link in the chain of evidence—the kidnap
ladder carried into comrt! Testimonial proof thawed
It contained wood from Hauptmann's attic!
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Another link—Hauptmann'» carl
Ha am seen in it and his ladder
fined inteUt if mm testified.
Wore damning evidence—the orig
inal ransom note, . Hauptmann's
hand wrote it, Osborne swore!
' Bruno Hauptmann, central figure in chain oj
evidence, at he looked after arretl.
'Money speaks! It’s the “hot” ransom money, secretly
pocketed in a joist in Hauptmann's garage. Largest
hollow (arrow) contained a gun!_
Some of the meet important loops in the chain, which the prosecution has the Lindbergh home; the H a up urns nr garage; tae r leuungvon courwK.ua.
encircled around Hauptmann, are shown above against a background of land the jury which must decide!
which Hauptmann identified as
from Fisch. Reilly Introduced it in
evidence.
Hauptmann read In English the
message in German on the card.
Fisch spoke of getting a Christmas
card from him, of conditions In
Oerman y and of hit plan to write
Hauptmann a letter.
Q. The next communication was
it a card or a letter.
A. It was a letter.
Q Do you remember what he
said?
A. He wrote about his skins he
had laying over here.
Here an objection interrupted the
heavily accented words of the alien.
Wlienu objected to Hauptmanns
recital of the contents of the let
ter as “mere hearsay.’*
Reilly told the justice he thought
he could establish that the letter
was received.
Wiienti argued that the testi
mony was not proper re-direct evi
dence.
Accent Is Heavy
The justice asked the two attor
neys to step to the bench and ex
plain what was sought from the
letters.
After the brief conference Reilly
told Hauptmann to confine answers
cm the letters to what Fisch said
about the fur business.
The letter I got from Mr. Fisch
was about the furs. He only wrote
me about the advance in price of
20 or 25 per cent.” Hauptmann ex
plained. Again he was pronouncing
the word "furs” as If it were "fours.”
Q So there was a continuous
I correspondent between you about
the furs?
A Yes
Q. And was there correspondence
about the stocks.
A. Yes. In every letter he asked me
about the stocks.
Reilly produced a booklet and ask*
ed Hauptmann to spell the word des
ignated. The word was “boat” and
Hauptmann spelled it correctly.
Q. Is It not a fact the Oerman
*** is different from the English
A. The German is dilfcrent.
Q. And this word you say vou
wrote it b-o-a-t?
A. Yes
Reilly was apparently referring to
the same * notebook entry which
Hauptmann said under cross-exa
mination was -b-o-a-d/’ spelled the
same as the last ransom note spelled
(•’boat.”
Q. When was tt the president said
gold was no longer legal tender?
A. In March *33.
Q Thst was when you turned in
the 1750?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you know that if they sent
you any questionnaire on the gold
you would be discovered to be an
! alien and be sent back to Germany?
A. Yes I know dat.
Q. During what time were you
passing those bills?
A. From the time I found them un
til my arrest.
Q. For a period of over a month?
A. Yes
Q. During all the time you didn’t j
change your license plate: You j
didn’t change your name, did you?
A. No.
Q. You took vour wife to buy shoes
with one of-the bills, openly?
A. Yes.
Q. When you were arrested you
didn't try to conceal that you had
a gold certificate?
A. No
Q. And when the man at the gas j
station asked you about the bills you I
made no effort to hide your license
plates, did you?
A. No effort at all to hide any
thing.
He was speaking of the passing of
the bill which led to his arrest.
Q. Now I ask you again, did one
dollar of the Lindbergh ransom1
money pass into your bank or brok
erage accounts?
A. Not one dollar.
Reilly took a new tack.
Q Did you knoy Harry Uhlig and
Fisch had an apartment in some
other part of New York?
A. I did not.
Fisch lived in one small room, the
witness previously testified.
Q. What was the private bank ac- 1
count you and Fisch had?
A. The private bank account was
the $5,500. TO make it short I put it:
• private bank account.”
Q In “your private bank account,” j
you meant your private records, ]
didn't you? I
A. Yes
•50-30 Relations’
Hauptmann reiterated that the
business relation with Fisch was
“50-50.” He explained that in some
of the stock deals It was “twenty
per cent.”
Q. When was it proposed?
A. Summer time. 1933
Q Then after a few days I&ador
said he didn't want it any more?
A. That a what he said.
Reilly stalked over to the witness
chair and picked up the plane which
state experts have said planed the
kidnap ladder
Q. Now they have made an exhibit
of a large plane. Is this your plane?
A. That’s my plane.
Q. How long before your arrest did
you use it?
A. This plane was never used since i
1928.
Q. When was it sharpened?
A. Not since
Q. Where was it in the garage?
A. It was on a rear shelf at the
rear wall of the garage.
Q And you have not used it since
1928?
A. No.
This was the defense attack on
the damaging testimony of Arthur
J. Koehler, who said his experiments
convinced him the Hauptmann
plane .had been used in the cons
truction of the ladder.
Hauptmann leaned around in the
chair and pointed to his tool kit. ex
plaining lie had used his "iron”
planes since 1928
He stepped down and crouching
in front of the kit he reached for
the planes.
He announced that a large iron
plane was not there. He placed the
tool cheat back against the wall
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Truck Markets
Carlot shipments of entire United
State? irporteo Tuesday. Jr.r 29:
G’apefruu: Arte 3. CfMi 2. Fla
3. Tex'-s 46 total US 124 tars.
Oranges: Caltf 213, Florida 103,
Texas l, total US 317 cars.
Mixed Citrus; Call/ 5, Fla 44. Tex
as 3. total US 32 cars.
Beans: Fla 7. total US 7 cars.
Cuba 3 cars.
Cabbage: Arte 3. Calif 9. Colo 1.
Mich 1, Minn 3. N Y 51, Pa 1, So
Car 3. Texas 26. Utah 1, Wise 12.1
total US 111 can.
Carrots: Arte 11. Calif 29. N Y 15.!
Texas 4, total US 59 can.
Greens: Arte 1, Calif 4, total US
5 can.
Mixed Vegetables: Calif 41, Fla 8.
Ga 1, La 1, Texas 12. othen 4, total
US 74 cars. Mexico 3 can
Peas: Calif 8, Fla 1. total US 9
cars. Mexico 5 cars.
Peppers; Total US none. Cuba
6 cars.
Spinach; Calif i, Texas 5, total
US 6 cars.
Tomatoes: Total U6 None. Cuba
33. Mexico 13 cars.
Beets: Texas 3, total US 3 cars.
Lower Rio Grande Valley ship
ments forwarded Wednesday morn
ing. Jan. 30:
Grapefruit 46. Mixed Citrus 3.
Oranges 1. Cabbage 19. Mixed Veget
ables 9, Spinach 5, Beets 2. carrots
1. beets and carrots 1. parsley 1,
mixed fruit and vegetables 1. total
89 cars Total to date this season
—Citrus Fruit 2639. Vegetables 3249.
mixed fruits and vegetables 19, total
5907; to the same date last season
—Citrus Fruit 1378, Vegetables 2023,
Mixed Fruit and Vegetables 12, total
3413 cars.
Representative prices to truckers
for Valley Citrus and Vegetables
Tuesday, Jan. 29:
Grapefruit: Boxes US Combina
tion 1.25-1.40. small sixes lower;
Bushels US Combination 65-75c, US
No. % 50-60c.
Oranges: Boxes US Combination
2-210; Bushels US Combination
1-1.10, mostly 1.10, few Temples
1.25. .
Broccoli; Per doz bunches 66-75c.
pony erts few 1.50.
Cabbage: Bulk per ton $25-30.00.
Carrots: Per doz bunches mostly
25c. half erts 95c-1.00.
Potatoes; Bliss Triumphs 50-lb
sacks US No. Is 1-1.10, 14 inch
min 90c-1.00
Spinach: Bushel baskets mostly
85-90c.
Turnips; Per doz bunches 20-25c.
erts few 1.50.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS Jan. 30. •*»»—
Cotton opened a little firmer Wed
nesday owing to some overnight
buying orders Liverpool cables
were about as due.
First trades had gains of 3 to 6
pointa with March at 12.35. May at
12.43 and July at 12.45. There was
no trading in new crop months at
the opening call.
March gained a point after the
start but promptly dropped back to!
the opening price. May soon eased
off one point to 12.42 and July lost
two points at 12.43. making the
price level near the first half hour
of trading 3 to 4 points above Tues
days close.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAGO, Jan, 30. —Firmness)
formed the rule in Chicago grain 1
prices early Wednesday. Trade
leaders said the market showed
signs of an oversound condition.!
and suggested a natural recovery.
Opening *t-% up. May 95«i-%.'
wheat afterward rose further. Com
started at gain. May 82S-H.;
and continued to mount.
CHICAGO POTATOES
CHICAGO. Jan. 30—TP— <U. S.i
Dept. Agr.)—Potatoes, dull, supplies
liberal, demand and trading slow;
sacked per cwt.: Wisconsin round
Whites US No. 1, 80-85; fine qual
ity .90; commercial grade .75; Michi
gan round whites US No. 1. JO;
Idaho russets US No. 1 1.50-55: fine
quality, large sire. 1.80; US No. 2,
1.15-20.
NEW YORK STOCKS
NEW YORK. Jan. 30. (A»>—Stocks
acted a little better In Wednes
day’s miAet but showed no in
clination to step out.
Small fractional gains prevailed
by early afternoon, but trading was
the dullest in months. While mid
week reports of steel and electric
power production were favorable, a
number of factors still kept traders
on the sidelines, including expira
tion of the automobile code this
week, the gold decision expected
next week, end the forthcoming
rules for floor traderds. In com
modities. grains and cotton were a
little higher. Bonds were mostly
steady.
Farm implements attracted some
attention, with Case up a point and
Deere a fair fraction better. Issues
up small fractions included U. 8.
Steel, Republic Steel. American
Telephone Consolidated Gas. Gen
eral Electric, Westinghouse Electric,
Pennsylvania, American Tobacco B,
Procter Ac Gamble. Continental Can.
and Wool worth. Rather persistent
selling appeared in Sears Roebuck
which lost about a point.
Considerable interest was aroused
by Co-ordinator Eastmans plan to
unify regulation of transportation
as presented to congress. What it
would contain was pretty well
known tn advance, but the sugges
tion that the bankruptcy act be
further modified to make consent
of only 50 per cent of the^creditore
and security holders necessary for
approval of a reorganisation, at
tracted attention. Some quarters
thought this indicated a desire to
speed reorganization o fover-capital
ized roads.
Despite U. S Steel * poor showing
for the 4th quarter as reported aft
er the close Tuesday when a net
loss of *10.200.000 was shown, steel
reports remained optimistic.
NEW YORK CURB
NEW YORK. Jan. 30. OP—Curb
stocks were more steady Wednes
day with modest improvement
shown by a number of metals, oils
and specialties. Utilities continued
to slip backward, although there
was only a small volume of busi
ness in this group.
Lake Shore Mines advanced
around a point and fractional gains
were shown by Consolidated Copper
Mines. Pioneer Gold and Wright
Hargreaves, all of which were sold
rather freely in the previous ses
sions.
Losers of small fractions Included
American Gas. Cities Service, and
Penn Road. Electric Bond Ac Share
was unchanged.
HARLINGEN IS
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do and Harlingen as soon as the
proposed channel is comDleted.
24-Mile Channel
The channel will be about 24 miles
in length when completed. It will
be only seven or eight miles longer
than the proposed route through
a cut in Padre Island according to
district commissioners.
The district has ample funds on
hand with which to do the new
dredging, commissioners state
The property purchased near
Harlingen is a short distance down
stream from the Baden auction
yard at the bridge.
The district plans to build a 190
loot driveway leading to the arroyo.
opening into a nine-acre tract
hating a quarter mile frontage on
the arroyo. The channel will be
about six feet deco at this point
where docks wilt be provided for
barges and pleasure crafts.
Acreage on the arroyo here will
be landscaped.
Tiny electric lamps have been
mounted on the backs of a London
theater , seats to enable natrons to
read programs in the dark.
VALLEY PAYS
(Continued Prom Page One)
be auctioned Immediately after the
president's message is heard, and
the highest bidder will be awarded
the ticket. Advance sales in Browns
ville indicate that a large crowd
will attend the dance. The “Rythm
Aces” will furnish music for the
affair.
The other entertainment in honor
of the president on Ids birthday
is ached (fled at a Union Church
service to begin at the First Meth
odist church at 7:10 p. m
Rev I. P. Day will preside, and
the program will open with an or
gan prelude by Miss Aurora Otis
of the First Baptist church. The
choir of the First Baptist church
will lead the singing; Rev. (X L.
8mUh will lead in pray%; presen
tation of the flag will be made by
Brownsville Scouts; salute to flag
and pledge of allegiance will be led
by Boy Scouts and Oirl Scouts;
word of greeting by Rev. O. C. Crow;
address by John C. Myrtck of Har
lingen; a free will offering for
Brownsville charity and infantile
paralysis research work: hymn,
••America’ 'led by Rev. D. W. McEl
rov.
A social hour will follow the gen
eral program. Incharge of the Young
People’s union under Miss Hester
Clark. Mrs. J. J. Van Dyke and her
pupils will appear on the program,
and the president's message will be
h~d „e, _
CLARK TRIAL
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they stopped I went up the driver*i
side and Bud went up on the other
side. Bud told them to get out of
the truck and that all wtf wanted
was their money. The driver Mid.
“All right. It is right here In my
pocket." When he got out I search
ed him and took a roll of sills, his
pocketbook and a package of clga
rets. I walked him around the front
of the truck where Bud had the
youngest boy and we told them to
get through the fence. Bud went
first and the two Dobbs boys and 1
followed them. Bud told hie boy to
walk away from the fence.
“He was walking away from us
with his hands over his head when
Bud shot him. The boy said, “Oh.
mister, don t do that. ’ Then Ire fell
down. The other boy broke 4hd ran
and I shot at him. 1 missed him the
first time, hut shot him in the
back the second ttme. Bud said. aI
guess I killed mine. I told him I
guessed I had killed mine, too."
“Charley came back over the top
of the hill where he had gone when
we shot the boys ’*
Reed testified the three meh went
back to Ban Antonio in a round
about way. reloaded the truck with
produce at the South Pine Street
address and proceeded to Austln
He further testified that the slay
ings were carried out at Charley
Clark’s instruction, that he took all
the money except $20 he gave Bud
Clark when the trio stopped 20 miles
north of San Antonio to count the
money the negro took from the truck
driver. He said he had worked for
Charles Clark six or seven weeks
prior to the shooting and that the
only time he had ever unloaded
fruits or vegetables at the Pine
Street house in San Antonio was the
afternoon preceding the Dobbs slay
ing.
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1 City Briefs \
“Guerlam" perfumes now avail*
able in small bottles, for the first
time in Mexico, at The Basket Place.
Matamoros. The exclusive Guerlaio
Importer. Adv.
Cabinets. Fixtures. MUlwork. The
Geer Co., opposite Brownsville Ice
Co . phone 1125.—Adv.
Johnsons electric floor polisher
and wax. Garsa Hardware. 639 11th
St.—Adv.
Turquoise and Royal White enam
elware. Everything for the kitchen.
Brownsville Hardware. Adv.
Pony per cent of the fire tosses
on farms occur in farm dwellings,
such fires causing 940,000,000 worth
oi damage annually.
Held as Fagin '
Nelson B. Clark
Once candidate for governor of
Maesachueett* on the Progressive
ticket, 80-year-old Nelson B. Clark,
of Boaton, i» arraigned In New Yore
in connection with holdup by four
youthful associate* in whkb polic*
i man waa killed.
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Where Karpis Escaped in Battle
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Tracked to the little Atlantic City Hotel pictured above through the
automobile stolen for their flight from Florida, Alvin Karpte. last of
the Bremer kidnaping gang, and hie companion, Harry Campbell, shot
It out with police and escaped. The arrow points to the open window
of the rooms occupied by the gangsters.
Sun Won’t Gild This Lily
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Lily Damtta, vivacious French stage and movie star, is taking no
chances with her complexion as she sojourns at Palm Springs, Calif.,
desert resort. Her hat has a wide brim of sun-proof material to
protect eyes and skin from the glare of Old So), who can hardly be
blamed for his warm attentions.
Sheriff Clips Their Pretty Wings1
A couple of pretty desperate damsels are these, la the opinion of
Sheriff H H. Sherrill of Me A tester. Ok la., who stand* watchfully
between them. Mandle Lawson, left, and Eva RichetU. right,
sister of Adam RichetU. pal of the late "Pretty Boy" Floyd, have
made two attempts to escape and now they're handcuffed together
at night. They are being held on a charge of robbery with Ire JUT'IOi®*