The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VO.. XLV., NO. 6884. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS " HAUPTMANN IS CONVICTED OF MURDER CHARGE JAPANESE FIS S0BS IN CELL, | RESERVISTS ARE TRAINED ABOARD SMACKS, CLAIM Californian Bares What He Says Is Oriental Pre- paredness Program HOPE FOR AIR BASE IN ALASKA BRIGHTER House Chalrman Predicts Victory for Air De- fense Measure WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 14— Paying no heed to the “shush- shushers,” Representative John G. Dockweiler, California Democrat, told the House Military Affairs committee today that 25,000 train- ed Japanese army reserves on the West Coast stood ready to take up arms. He said that packed into Los Angeles harbor were 150 Japanese | Holland tunnel Lindberghs’ Frantic Search for Son Held World Interest By CHARLES NORMAN paged throughout the country, was (Associated Press Staff Writer) |signed “Charles A. Lindbergh” and “Anne Lindbergh.” c The story of many dramatic| %) "o *ioter the underworid, en- headlines—the Lindbergh O 80| tered the plotine, Salvatore Spitale broke with sudden, dramatic and % 2 & and Iriving Bitz, two New York ,’;f:x.'c‘h“'}‘u'l‘;gz b aladi Sy oz‘charuurs. were authorized to act Af 11:02 pm. The Associated 35 intermediaries. Press bulletined-its member papers:| ?}:":“::" M‘i:;:';"m:“m s “NEWARK, N. J., March 1.—The = O 3 police automatic printer tonight be:’]‘hih:’n“h n:::e nl::;,sed ans ap- broadcast a report that the infant P® oug ot | “If the kidnapers of our child son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh had been kidnaped from the are unwilling to deal directly with| . us, we fully authorize ‘Salvy’ Spit- .ly.x:udbergh e e ale and Irving Bitz to act as our| go-between. We will also follow any | other method suggested by the kid- “News of the kidnaping was‘nnpers that we can be sure will verified to The Associated Press; brisle sile eun of onr child, by one of Colonel Londbergh’s clos- | Their efforts were fruitless. est friends. | Meanwhile ransom notes were Alarns Spreads Rapidly coming in . . . and finally lhere_‘ “The alarm spread quickly over anealgfi. on the ‘stage Dr. John ¥, New Jersey and New York state,| CJafsie” Condon, Bronx educa- tor whose advertisements in the “Special police squad cars were | shot out over Jersey highways, and Bronx Home News brought about‘ This was followed immediately by additional bulletin matter: a'close watch was placed over the PAYMent of $50,000 in ransom. and the vyarious! (One of the first witnesses | lWh OUT OF SIGHT CURIOUS A Hauptmann Breaks en Led Back to Ja —Is Depressed FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. M.— Out of the gaze of the 'curious and returned to his cell last 'night, Bru- no R. Hauptmann broke intp tears. Hauptnrarn fell face wn_on his bunk in his cell and broke fnto sobs. He sat on the edge of his bunk long into the night, still ecrying. Early today, Hauptmann fell into a fitful sléep, just as dawn was about to approach. Hauptmann was, awakened at the breakfast hour this morning by his guards and ate oatmeal, bread and coffee. He lay back again on his bunk, silent and depressed. This forenoon, after regaining his composure, defense atforneys fishing boats each with a cruising|ferries connecting the two states. range of 1,000 miles. ‘‘At least:PoIice had blanket orders to stop they appeared to be fishing boats,” ! and search all cars of a suspicious he said, significantly disregarding the admonition that such testi- mony should be given in secret session. Air Base Hearing The committee is holding a hear- ing on the measure which would provide air bases in Alaska, Pana- ma and the West Coast states. Later Dockweiler told reporters the fishing smacks were captain- ed by and that they had been built with financial assistance from the Jap- anese government. Some of them, he said, are capable of quick con- version into armed vessels and added that some of the vessels had air tanks pressure to launch a torpedo. Oth- ers are capable of accommodating small cannons and machine guns, he said. Meet War Vessels While the ships actually go out to sea fishing they also meet Jap- anese war vessels to exchange nav- al weiler said. Chairman Rogers of the House Japanese reserve officers; developing sufficient | reservists who have finished their training on the coast, Dock—‘ ! character. 1‘ “Meanwhile pickea detectives went into the underworld, on the alert for any possible clue.” An hour later, at Englewood, N, {J., Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, widow received the news of her grand- son’s kidnaping in a telephone con- | versation with Mrs. | bergh. onel Lindbergh, was told at De- | troit. It was reported that she was “greatly disturbed.” Appeal by Radio and Press Forty-eight hours later the Lind- | berghs authorized the following ra- {dio broadcast: only wish but hope that whoever is in possession of the child will make: svery effort to communicate with them.” And still the 20-month-old son of the flier, the ‘‘Eaglet,” remained among the missing. On March 4, the Lindberghs of .the late.Senator Morrow, had* Anne Lind- | | At the same {ime Mrs. Evange- ! line L. Lindbergh, mother of Col- “Colonel ana mrs. Lindbergh not | for the state at the trial of |Reilly, Fisher and Rosecrans called Bruno Richard Hauptmann was | on their client and he asked them: Colonel Lindbergh. Defense ' “How could anybody believe that Counsel Edward J. Reilly asked I, the father with a child like 1 the flier: Manifried, my little son, could kill } “Did it strike you as 'pe- anybody else’s baby?” culiar that an ad should be e | BALLOTS WITH - MERGY CLAUSE To which Lindbergh’ replied: “We realized that after this circumstance had originally Sixth Voting Results in Verdict Demanding Death Penalty happened, the sequence of events would probably be pe- culiar, not according to the FLEMINGTON, N. J, Feb. 14— | From a source close to the jurors, 'it is said that six ballots were tak- ordinary logic of life.”) Tragic Discovery May 12 en before the jury could agree that |ally snared Hauptmann, alien car-, Hauptmann should go to the | The tragic finals was not long in coming. Qn May 12, two and a! half months after the kidnaping, ! the flash went around the world"; penter, charged with the kidnap»‘chm_ ;r;ur;i;zr‘. Ho wai srresiod Se}nember'; From the same source, it is said % ‘ Robert Cravatt, Educational Di- His trial started Jamuary 2. |;e0ior of 5 GOC camp, held for | | 1 { dead.” | The relentless hunt and pains- ltakmg tracing of ransom bills fin- “TRENTON.— Governor Moore “Guilty” is the verdict returned; announces Lindbergh baby found‘] turned to the newspapers for aid.|by the jury on the night of Feb-| five ballots to a verdict of guilty committee predicted the air base'An appeal to the kidnapers, front- bill would pass. HOUSE DEFEATS CONTRACT LABOR BILL, VOTE 970 1 Fish Trap Tax, Eight-Hour Measures Are Special Order for Monday By a vote of 9 to 7 the Terri- torial House this morning killed the contract labor bill aimed at large concerns contracting labor on the outside for seasonal work. Sup- porting the measure were Barono- vich, Green, Growden, Lyng, Mur- ray, Patterson and Walker. Oppos- ing were Chamberlin, Lingo, Mar- tin, McCutcheon, Nerland, Nordale, Scott, Ziegler and Hofman. Prior to the vote, Speaker Hof- man had an opinion from Attorney General James S. Truitt read which declared the measure was uncon- stitutional and in violation of the law of contract. The Attorney General cited the Federal law which provides that no State can prevent a citizen from making a contract outside of that State, the same provisions applying to the Terri- tory. Special Order Monday The Hofman graduated fish trap | with recommendation of mercy. 12y 18, | On the first ballot Mrs. Rosie ALASKA COLLEGE TRUSTEES MEET HERE LAST NIGHT Two' Important Me a sures Affecting Employees Are Passed " 'Pill and Mrs. Verna Snyder voted | with Cravatt for mercy but swung over on the second ballot. The jurors, in presenting their verdict, showed more emotion than did Hauptmann. The members of the jury return- ed to their homes today after spending the night in their usual place, while sitting on the case. After the verdict was returned and they returned to their quar- ters, the jurors relaxed in dancing and singing. —————— AR, C. CHIEF | RETURNS FROM | WASHINGTON ;Greal Interest Is Shown in| Alaska by Nation’s Of- ficials, Taylor Says ' Adopting two resolutions that| Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer of | may be of far-reaching effect in|the Alaska Road Commission, re- the administration of the insti-|turned to his Juneau headquar- tution, the Board of Trustees of |ters on the steamer Victoria last the Alaska Agricultural College and | evening after an absence of three School of Mines at Fairbanks, met| months. Mr. Taylor spent the last in the Federal and Territorial| month in Washington, D. C., where Building here last night. | he attended numerous conferences Called to special meeting by Act-|and meetings pertaining to Alas-! ing President of the Board Andrew | kan matters and defended the bud- Nerland of Fairbanks, the Board“get estimates for the Alaska Road adopted unanimously the following | Commission before the Appropria- two resolutions: | tions Committee of the House of “l. In selecting all employees, Representatives. it is the policy of the Alaska Agri-| Mrs. Taylor and their two chil- cultural College and School of| dren, Jean and Lewis, who have Mines not to employ married men | been in Portland, Oregon, for the whose wives are engaged in gain-|last five months while the latter ful occupations for hire and not|took treatments from an eye spe- to employ married women whose, cialist, returned to Juneau with bill and the Nordale eight-hour day six-day measure, both on today's calendar, were made a special ord- er of business for 1:30 Monday afternoon. ‘Two other proposals fell by the wayside today. The Green memor- ial asking change in the Jones shipping law was defeated after a stormy session by a vote of 10 to (Coptinued on Page Two) b R A husbands are engaged in gainful occupations for hire.” “2. Tt is the policy of the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Agricul- tural College and the School of Mines to require members of the faculty during their respective terms of employment to limit their activities to the duties assigned to them: by virtue of their respec- tive appointments.” To Guide Bunnell These two resolutions, designed to guide the administration of President of the College, C .E. Bun- nell, are based upon the fact that Mr. Taylor. “There is greater interest taken in Alaska and Alaska’s problems in Washington, D. C., at this time APPEAL T0 BE TAKEN;DEFENSE MAKING PLANS Attorneys Are Preparing to Take Case to Higher Courts FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. 14— Death has been decreed for Haupt- mann but counsel is already mak- ing plans for a fight through the high courts which may last for months. Chief Counsel Edward J. Reilly said an appeal will,be carried to the Supreme Court, if necessary. than ever before in my experi-| Agvert Rosecrans, one of the ence,” Mr. Taylor said. “Dr. Er-|counsel, announced that all of the nest Gruening, Director of the|defense attorneys had agreed on new Division of Territories andjcarrying the case up and one of Island Possessions created last|them will visit Hauptmann during summer, is greatly interested in|today to inform him of their plans Alaska and assured me that he|and obtain permission to ¢o ahead would do his utmost to further any|with the appeal. development in the Territory. Dr.| Rosecrans said the case will be Gruening is also Chairman of thetaken to the State Court of Ap= Inter-department committee com-|peals and Errors immediately and posed of members of all Bureaus|if an appeal is denied, then t0 &p- (Continuea on Page Two,) (Continued on Page Eighy) (Continued on page 7 Science, Circumstance Made Case Against Hauptmann; New Jersey’s Evidence Built from Meager Clues of Crime; Contention IsClimaxed by Kidnap Ladder Testimony By B. L. LIVINGSTONE FLEMINGTON, N. J, Feb. 14— To the extensive case history of American jurisprudence the Haupte mann trial has been added as a notable example of criminal proses cution. Stranger than fiction, in many respects, were phases of the prose= cutfon’s case against Bruno Rich~ ard Hauptmann, the thin-faced German carpenter who lived as a nonentity until thrown into lone- ly relief before the world's eye by the calcium glare of the law's spotlight. Bit by bit, wora by word, the state of New Jersey drew upon circumstance and fact, the camera and the microscope, to construct a barrier of evidence between free- dom and the man it charged with the “crime of the century.” For months, years, the Lind- bergh case was categoried among the most baffling to come before law enforcement authorities. Be- tween the death of Charles Augus- tus Lindbergh, Jr, the baby mourned by millions, and Haupt- mann'’s arrest, almost three years intervened. Yet when David T. Wilentz, the youthful appearing attorney gen- eral of New Jersey, called his first witness to the stand in the ancient Hunterdon county courtroom, no paucity of evidence or witnesses existed. Mystery, Science in Case The story of the three-year hunt for the kidnaper of the Lindbergh baby, when it was placed precisely and implacably in the court rec- ords, constituted a real-life paral-| lel to fictionary adventure, many of its details, it surpassed| the imagery of A. Conan Doyle. Its elements were raw mystery, human patience and ingenuity, and the science of modern criminology, that almost always “gets its man.” Attorney General Wilentz built A packet of ransom notes, a questionable footprint, blurred and worthless fingerprints, “a |baby's thumbguard, the memory of a voice—these were the meager mak- ings of the prosecution’s case. In the annals of criminal cases, there have been comparatively few instances of the K drama, or inge- nuity of human endeavor, unfold- ed in the story which, with such apparent implacability, linked Hauptmann to the rickety ladder down which the kidnaper was sup- posed to have carried his frail bur- den. Yet its dramatic climax to the trial did not stand alone. There of Anne Lindbergh, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Dr, John F. (“Jafsie”) Condon, which played on emotion and at the same time laid the foundation of fact by which the state backed its charge of murder. Opened Case in Nursery) Fittingly, per! , ‘the prosecu- tion opened its “case in the nurs- ery of the home which Colonel Lindbergh built in the remoteness of the Sourland hills. Anne Morrow Lindbergh began the tale which was to be taken up by more than four score witnesses | and bring before the jury in excess of 200 exhibits, “His hair was light—golden, It were other instances—the stories & was curly . . . I went into the baby's room. I found it empty.” On that note the state opened its fight on the life of Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann, Jury that C 0 n 'U i C t ed X bA;me they have taken our H au ptmannf Stolcally, ke his wife, Colonel | Lindbergh testified to the discovery of the kidnaping and the events &/ % % The jury that convicted Bruno| eading up to 1t. He told of hear | <aq | 108, but disregarding, a sound “Ii Richard Hauptmann was composed | 1 of the following: |a slat falling on an orange box | of . No. 1. ‘Obarles Walton, Sr; ma-|%f Snatching up a rifie when he i | discovered what had happened; of chinist; three children. Foreman. calltv B At s : No. 2. Mrs, Rosie Pill, widow;| mmng . fupf C;: Omwatr:s hep—r two childfen. y, futilely for the return of his son. No. 3. Mys. Verna Snyder, house- | The Fir wife; one ghild, adopted. | F Jantifnation, | 3 No. & .Cliiries ¥. Snyder, farm-| Then came the state's first DEATH PENALTY IS DECREED IN JURY'S VERDIC Bruno Must Die in Electric Chair During Week of March 22 SENTENCE QUICKLY ANNOUNCED, COURT Thirteen Times “Guilty” Is Spoken on Thirteenth Day of Month FLEMINGTON, N. J,, Feb. 14. —Bruno Richard Hauptmann has been convicted of the mur- der of the baby son of Col and Mrs. Charles A, Lindbergh “The defendant may stand.” Death Penalty As Hauptmann arose between h two guards, Justice Trenchard said: “Bruno Richard Hauptmann you have been convicted of murder in the first degree. According to the law you must suffer the penalty| of death at a time fixed by the court.” Hauptmann was then sentenced | to die in the week of March 22, Chief Defense Counsel Edward. J. Reilly broke the stifling silence in the court room with a request the jury be polled. The jurors were all polled sep- arately and all answered: Repeated 13 Times “Guilty of murder in the first degree.” This made thirteen times the verdict was repeated and on the Thirteenth day of the month, Mrs. Hauptmann sat wiping her lips, and eyes, accusingly fixed on the four women and eight men composing the jury. After the poll the jury was dis- (SRR g (Continued ot Page Seven) REILLY GIVES H1S VERSION ABOUT VERDICT Declares Prejudicial Inter- ests Kept Constant- ly at Work FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. 14— Chief Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly said this afternoon that he er; two soms. No. 5. Mrs. Ethel housewife; one child. crushing blow. Colonel Lindberghi Delleves that if substantial justice {led the jurors in narrative to St.|! €ver done in the Hauptuiann s“’c““n'lflnymond's cemetery in the Bronx, | ¢3¢, the verdict will be reversed. Reilly listed as probable reasons where he had gone with “Jafsie” No. 6. Elmer Smith, insuranceg, pay the ransom money and re-|f0F the severe verdict the *“mob agent; one child. No. 7. Robert Cravatt, laborer, In|CCC camp; single. No. 8, Philip Hockenbury, lab- orer; several grown children. No. 9 Qeorge Vorhees, farmer; three children, No. 10. Mrs. Mary F. Brelsford, housewife; two stepchildren. No. 11. Tiscom C. Chase, carpen- a case from a miserable handful of | ter. clues to a circumstantial bludgeon NO. 12. Howard V. Biggs, unem- verwhelming in its implications.' ployed of ‘Glinton, ’ | gain the baby. In the darkness, Lindbergh testi- fied, he heard a voice call: “Hey, doctor!” | The voice was that of “John,” the mysterious collector of $50,000 | ransom money paid for a hostage | even then dead. | ‘“Can you identify that voice?” “It was the voice of Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann.” (Continued on Page Sevem \ | psychology, screaming headlines in newspapers exhibited to the jurors as they walked to and from the court house, radio broadcast in the Jury’s hotel, giving a pro-state ver= sion of the case, excitable women in the lobby of the hotel who would call out to the jurors as they passed through the lobby and the powerful charge by the court in emphasizing the prosecution's evi= dence with more or less slight reference to the defense.”