Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1935, Page 4

A4 s - WIREPHOTO BRINGS PICTURES IN'NEWS Salient Events of New Year Day lilustrated in Papers of 25 Cities. By the Assoclated Press. . NEW YORK, January. 2.-+Pictures and stories of half a hundred salient news events of New Vear day rode the leased wires side by side and with equal speed yesterday between 25 cities of the United States, as 46 daily news- papers, in conjunction with the Asso- clated Press, introduced wirephotos to American journalism. The electric eyes of wirephoto ma- chines ranged the Nation from 3 am.,, Eastern standard time, when the serv- ice for transmission of news pictures by wire was inaugurated over a 10,000-mile transcontinental network. They saw, in time for publication in morning papers in New York, the greeting of San Francisco's Chinatown to 1935. They saw, in time for evening newspaper publication in Atlanta, action pictures of the Alabama-Stan- ford foot ball game yesterday after- noon at Pascdena, Calif. Many Events Hlustrated. They saw the fireswept ruin of the | South Carolina Alms House, where | five aged men were burned to death, and the reinauguration of Gov. Leh- | man at Albany, N. Y. They watched | the winning float pass by in Pesadena’s | Tournament of Roses. They witnessed | foot ball games between East and West at San Francisco, Tulane and Temple at New Orleans and Bucknell and Miami at Miami. They caught | Hiatus first across the finish line at | the Tropical Park, Florida, race course. They delivered these pictures coun- try-wide so rapidly that newspapers went to the streets with visual as well as verbal records of events thousands of miles away. The electric eyes even reached out- side the United States for picture news. The finish of the opening race of the season at Havana's Oriental Park at 2:30 was placed in newspaper offices | throughout the Nation in the early | evening. From Mexico to the wire- | photo circuit by way of Dallas came a photograph of young Mexican Red Shirts arrested as an aftermath of Sunday’s clash in which five Catholics were slain, Two Radio Descriptions. Two Nation-wide radio broadcasts describing wirephoto as an epochal forward step in newspapering marked the inaugural day of the new service. President Frank B. Noyes of the | Associated Press, speaking _ from ‘Washington over the National Broad- casting System, hailed the service as the realization of a dream cherished by newspapers for many years and called wirephotos “perhaps the most important development in journalism since the first news dispatch was sent over a telegraph wire in 1846.” In the New York wirephoto room of the Associated Press, while Norris A. Huse, executive editor of the As- sociated Press news photo service, explained the wirephoto process to listeners on the Columbia Broadecast- ing System, a photograph was taken and immediately transmitted to all other cities on the wirephoto net- work. Less than 15 minutes later the program was shifted to Washing- ton, where the reception of the photo- graph was described by Byron Price, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press. WIRES CONGRATULATIONS. | | Dean of Columbia School of Journalism Hails Wirephoto. NEW YORK, January 2.—Carl W. Ackerman, dean of the Columbia Uni- versity School of Journalism, yester- day sent this telegram of congratula- tion to Frank B. Noyes, president of the Associated Press, on the inaugu- ration of the new Associated Press wirephoto service: “May I congratulate the Associated Press on another pioneer development in American journalism? Through the courtesy of Mr. Huse and Mr. Honce I have had the great privilege this morning of watching the trans- mission of photographs by wire from New York to the four corners of the United States, and from the most im- portant news picture centers of this country to New York. .“This is a marvelous synchroniza- tion of science and journalism which will mark an epochal day in the his- tory of the press. I congratulate you, Mr, Cooper (Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press), and the whole Associated Press organiza- tion, on a great achievement.” EDITOR HAILS SERVICE, Maj. Cohen Terms Wirephoto Most Important Development. ATLANTA, January 2 (#).—Maj. John S. Cohen, president and editor of the Atlanta Journal, yesterday de- scribed the Associated Press wirephoto as “the most important development of this century.” Maj. Cohen spoke over Radio Sta- tion WSB, owned and operated by the Journal. “In behalf of the Journal,” Maj. Cohen said, “I bid you welcome to this latest and rarest service of the Fourth Estate and wish for you all and each a golden new year, “The wirephoto service is the prod- uct of many minds and many years. It is the crowning achievement of at least a century of patient experiment and research, of bold enterprise and ad- venture, “Without the truth-seeki - entists, many of whom p:‘s?egd ;xscx:- known to fame, and persevering in- ventors, few of whom saw their dreams (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) Justice Trenchard appeared on the bench. A steady buzz of conversation and laughter ebbed and flowed across the room which was brightly lighted for the benefit of news photographers and motion picture men. The State attorneys were the fut to appear. County Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck, Special Assistant Attorney General George K. Large, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Lanigan and others of the State staff filed in shortly before 10 am. They took their places at the prosecuiion table directly in front of the witness stand and near the jury box. Associate Defense Counsel C. Lloyd Fisher was the next to appear. Attorney General David T. Wilentz, jaunty and dapper, and big, broad Ed- ward Reilly, the defense chief, en- tered court almost together and their arrival was the signal for a fresh barrage from the flash bulbs of the photographic contingent. Stares Into Space. From where he sat Lindbergh could not see the man accused of the ab- duction and killing of his first-born son. Between the two chief figyres in the trial sat members of the defense staff. Hauptmann, his face set, stared fixedly into space. If Lindbergh saw the stolid Bronx alien when he was led manacled into the court he gave no sign. Neither did the German defendant show any indication he had seen the man whose child he is accused cf murdering. Lindbergh never glanced in Haupt- mann’s direction, although the men were only about a dozen feet apart. The reading of the jury list ended and Justice Trenchard asked if both sides were reddy. rProsocu'.or Anthony M. Hauck, jr., o moveq for the trial to start. Justice Trenchard then directed the impaneling of the Hauptmann jury to proceed. The buzz in the court room died down and there was a brief quiet interlude. Flyer Faces Accuseed. The start of the trial, carrying to a climax the crime of the century— the infant’s kidnaping and slaying— brought Hauptmann face to face openly for the first time with the father of the victim. . ‘The famous flyer was the only one come for the selection of a jury to decide whether Hauptmann should be the electric chair. This peaceful colonial hamlet, swol- len suddenly from its normal pro- portions of 2,700 persons to a boom town of 3,500, heralded the trial busily, but without excitement. ‘The hundreds of strangers, come to record and to take part in the judg- ment, and the approximate $50,000 a week they will spend, were received as a matter of course. The State’s legal forces closed their months of preparation with a pains- taking review of all phases of the case and a final questioning of Betty Gow, who was nurse to the Lind- bergh baby. The defense counsel had conferred at length in New York. Hauptmann Restless. Hauptmann, nervous and restless, spent the final hours pacing the floor of his county jail cell abstractedly, try- ing to read and resting fitfully on his cot. The story of the crime will be un- folded chronologically. After pre- liminary witnesses describe the geo- graphy of the scene of the crime on Sourland Mountain and the layout of the white Lindbergh residence, Lind- bergh, his wife, the former Anne Mor- row; Betty Gow and Mrs. Ollie Wheat- ley, widow of the Lindbergh butler, will tell what happened the night of the kidnaping. The Hauptmann, manacled and guarded closely, who hears that story day by day is a different man from the artisan who was arrested in Sep- tember. He is leaner, the sharpness of his features is more pronounced and the prison pallor shows on his face. But he is as inscrutable as ever, and he wears the familiar gray flannel double-breasted suit in which he has appeared in pretrial proceedings. Of a piece and fabric with the nar- killing is the chain of evidence co- ordinated carefully for the trial, both by prosecution and defense. State’s Charges. ‘The State charges Hauptmann, the prosaic, phlegmatic carpenter, single- handedly perpetrated the most shock- ing crime of modern criminal history. On an intricate web of circumstantial evidence the State relies for conviction. Seven witnesses will be called by the State in an attempt to establish the all-important point that Haupt- manne was in the vicinity of the Lindbergh estate at or before the time of the kidnaping, March 1, 1932 Then come the evidence exhibits. First is the ransom note left in the nursery, demanding $50,000 for the return of the baby, and with this will be the other letters of the ransom negotiations. State experts will tell the jury that Hauptmann wrote those notes with their cryptic symbols, and they will compare them with speci- mens of his handwriting to establish their claims. The kidnap ladder, another impor- tant clue left' at the scene of the crime bulks importantly in the State's case. A lumber expert is to testify the wood of that ladder came from a lumber yard where Hauptmann was employed and that one piece of it matches a piece found in the car- penter’s Bronx home. Then the “hot” money—the $50,000 paid for the safe return of a baby, already dead. Witnesses by the dozens will tell of the $14,590 found in come true, this marvel of the 1935 would not have been.” ki Hauptmann's possession, of other ran- som currency he allegedly passed, of bundles of currency seen cached in a REMINGTON RAND Inc,, Announce A Change of Location From 1106 G St. Northwest to the New Building at F & I13th N.W. Facilities at our new location will enable us to render much improved service to our customers. Hunterdon County arose and | of the State’s principal witnesses to | acquitted or convicted—and die in| rative of the Lindbergh kidnaping and | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935 Col. Lindbergh Fails to Notice Hauptmann as Court Convencs cabinet in his home. The State plans to trace $49,600 of the money to Hauptmann’s hands. § Sleeping - Garment Link. " The sleeping garment the baby wore the night of the kidnaping forms the link which connects the ransom money with the handwriting phase of the prosecution’s case. _ When the Lindberghs insisted they be given some proof that they were treating with the actual abductor of their child, the kidnaper returned the freshly-laundered suit in a package, which bore the same handwriting as the ransom notes. The most dramatic episode in the story is the payment &f the ransom in a Bronx cemetery. Col. Lindbergh will say the ransom collectors voice was that of Bruno Richard Haupt- menn. Dr. Condon, the “Jafsie” of the ransom contacts, is expected by the State to identify Hauptmann as the man to whom he paid the money, and a taxi driver also will name the deep-eyed German as the man who paid him to take ransom notes to Jafsie. To the defense this web is a flimsy creation of circumstance, to be de- stroyed by Hauptmann’s double alibi— that he was at home the night of the kidnaping-murder, and that he was given the ransom money found in his possession by a business ac- quaintance, Isidor Fisch, who has since died. As for the handwriting, the kid- nap ladder, and other angles of the case, the defense will match the State | | expert for expert in a battle of tech- nical testimony. Defense Claims Alibis. The two alibis are the major factors | in the defense. Hauptmann's wife | and others will swear he met her| in the bakeshop where she worked and drove her home the night of the crime. For the ransom money, the defense | hopes to explain it all by the story of | | the shoe box Fisch gave Hauptmann i as he sailed for Germany a few | months before he died early in 1934. | It was not until a few months before his arrest, so Hauptmann's story goes, that he discovered the box contained money and started to spend it because Fisch died owing him about $7,000. Against the possibility that the de- | fense would challenge the right to try | Hauptmann in Hunterdon County, in- stead of Mercer County, where the | body was found, the State relied on | evidence to be given by Miss Gow. The nurse found a thumbguard, worn by the child, in Hunterdon County, only 100 yards from the Lind- bergh home. The State contends that | the baby was dead or dying there, and that the kidnaper ripped the fast- ened guard from his hand as he tore off_the sleeping garment. How long the trial will last was a matter of guesswork, most est'mates running from four to six weeks. —_—— NINE ARE CHOSEN FOR KIDNAP JURY AS TRIAL OPENS | (Continued From First Page.) down from the witness stand and walked from the court. Mildred Young of Califon, a young, attractive looking weman, was calied next. She was excused by agreement of counsel, because she had recently been M. John P. Larason, retired, of West Amwell, was then called. Larason, a big man, wearing a dark |suit and a heavy goid watch chain, said he had “partly” former an opin- ion in the case. | He added he did not think this| would prevent him from giving a fair | verdict. He said he would have no objec- tions to returning a death verdict if there was evidence to support it. Fisher, taking over the questioning, when Hauck had finished, challenged for cause. Justice Trenchard then asked Lara- | son about his opinion, and whether he | could be guided by the evidence. | Larason said he “expected s50.”| Trenchard pressed the question and | Larason said he would so be guided. Through all the questioning of wit- | nesses, Lindbergh sat with his chin | cupped in his hand and his eyes rest- ing most of the time on the floor. Oc- | casionally he held a brief whispered conference with prosecution attorneys. | Once he glanced over at the row of witness chairs where County Judge | Adam O. Robbins was sitting. Rob- bins, who was the jurist that presided at the trial of John .Hughes Curtis, Norfolk, Va., boatbuilder convicted of obstructing justice in the Lindbergh case, smiled and nodded at the Colonel. Robbins could have sat with Justice Trenchard but asked to be excused in order to sit in neighboring Mercer County. Another Excused. Justice Trenchard turned gravely to Larason and examined him on the prejudice he said he entertained against Hauptmann. “If you are accepted as a juror in this case, can you and will you decide | the case on the evidence given you in | motioned to a letter on the judse‘l'the case?” she was psked desk and said:! “I handed that to you when I first came in this morning.” Larason then explained the letter was a certificate attesting to the fact that his wife’s health had broken and her physical condition made it dan- gerous for her to live alone. Trenchard cused the prospective juror, whosé Yexamination took 15 minutes. Charles Walfon, sr., a8 machinist of High Bridge, was next called. He is a youngish gray-haired man, father of several children. He was accepted after Fisher asked if the fact thnwa:mmum ‘“‘was sur- rounded by troopers” would prejudice him. Wilentz object to -the question. The question wadgeread and Trench- ard sald: “There seems to be mo justification for that question.” ‘The atmposphere in the court room meanwhile had become so hot and op- pressive from the jam of humanity present that the justice ordered more ventilation. “You'll be guided solely by the evi- dence in the case?” questioned Fisher. The venireman nodded his head in the affirmative. Walton then stated he was not op- posed to capital punishment, and both sides expressed themselves as content with him. The gray-haired man in the blue suit was then sworn as the foreman of the Hauptmann jury, and took his place in the box. Linden Swackhamer, a carpenter, of Readington, was called next. He was excused by the court be- cause of his age—68—after the State accepted him. A five-minute recess was then de- clared. Flyer Chats With Lawyers, Justice Trenchard remained on the bench, and Lindbergh in his chair during the break in the proceedings. The flyer chatted with Wilentz and Schwarzkopf while the spectators stared, and reporters and others studied Hauptmann's reactions. Hauptmann, fresh-shaven and look- ing neat in his newly pressed double- breasted suit, sat quietly, his hands folded in his lap. His eyes, wide open and alert, were fixed straight ahead most of the time, but occasionally they darted right and left taking in the crowded court scene. The prisoner’s pallor was in sharp the de- fense. g’ “No, sir, T wouldn't,” shereplied. She declared she would be guided solely by the evidence, unipfluenced by anything she read of the grime. Mrs. Nonamaker sald sne had read “Criminal File No. 2310, satiri- cal pamphlet from Chicago, ‘but had not been influenced by its gontents. The defense made a perem; chal- lenge. 4 Another woman, Rosie ‘Pill, a stout, middle-aged widow of Califon, was sworn. She said she was 58 and the mother of two grown sons. Justice Trenchard, semsing confu- sion in the reaction of certain pros- pective jurors to counsels’ ‘Hterroga- tion, interrupted frequently with di- rect questions. It was apparent the justice would permit na dismissals without definitely establishing cause, despite the efforts of counsel to obtain the most favor- able jury without resort to the few precious peremptory challenges per- mitted, 12 for the Btate and 20 for the defense. Denies Discussing Book. Mrs. Pill said she had received the Chicago pamphlet. “Did you go to see same one and talk about it?” asked Fisher. g .. ' "Ridn'z you talk about it at all?” “No.” Fisher carried over to the witness stand a copy of the pamphlet. But Mrs. Pill said she had formed no opinion, nor had she discussed the case. Both sides accepted her and she was sworn in, Another woman, Minnie Mathenias, a Union housewife, was then called for examination. Her's was the thir- teenth name called since the task of empaneling & jury got under way. Full-faced and stoutish, the mid- dle-aged woman in a low voice said she was the mother of two young children. She said she had not “quite formed” an opinion on the case, that her mind contrast to the ruddy faces of his State trooper guards. Albert Trimmer, white - haired Frenchtown merchant, was the first venireman called after the recess. He said. in answer to questions by Hauck, he was married, had no prejudices to- ward capital punishment and could bring in a fair verdict. He told Fisher he had read of the case and had listened to radio broad- casts of the developments. The defense challenged him. Sherifft John H. Curtiss dipped again into the box containing the names of veniremen and drew the name of Elmer Stockton a youngish looking paper company employe from Union, a small village. “Have you formed any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of Mr. Hauptmann,” asked Fisher, repeating the stock defense query. “Yes, 1 have,” was the reply. But in response to other questions he said the opinion would not hinder him from deciding the case on the evi- dence presented in court. Pisher pointed out that Stockton's wife Ethel was one of the panel of prospective jurors and asked if they had discussed the case together. “Yes,” Stockton answered, “Do you and your wife agree in your opinions of the case?” “We always have agreed,” the tales- man said with a grin, and there was a laugh. ‘While Stockton was being questioned a group of laughing ¢hildren ran un- der the court room windows. Their shrill voices moved across the court room. 5 Fisher asked Stockton if he had served recently on a jury and whether he served on the jury which con- victed John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk, Va., shipbuilder, of obstructing justice. Wilentz objected to this question and was sustained. After some more questions Stockton was challenged preemptorily by the defense, The name of Elizabeth Smith, a middle-aged housewife of Readington, was next drawn. The justice was given a doctor’s cer- tificate that the woman was the sole care of two mentally deficient parents. “I don’t know if that presents any legal excuse,” said Justice Trenchard, but counsel for both sides agreed to excuse Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Sarah Nonamaker, & house- wife, was the first prospective juror to come from the town of Flemington. “Did you ever form an opinion in You do not have to be an athlete to have ATHLETE’S FOOT At the first sign of tenderness or cracked skin, apply DR. GORDSHELL’S ALL HEALING SALVE Also a valuable remedy for Burns, Boils, Cuts and Sores. 85¢ and 70c sizes at all druggists or write for free trial samples. The Gordshell Chemical Company court?” he demanded. Instead of answering, the talesman CLEANED a Just OF 15th_and H St $33833332838338833333838888328233338328833338333833388338 $388883s 3 g A NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL Thursday—Friday—Saturday ANY GARMENT . EXCEPT FUR COATS 33 1. Up-to-the-Minute Plant. 3. 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Fisher suggested to Justice Trenchard that under the circumstances she might be excused for cause. Would Serve if Necessary. Bhe told Defense Counsel Fisher she would have no resentment toward the defendant or his counsel, how- ever, if the defense acceptanee of her should force her to serve on the Jury. At this juncture a legal point was raised by the defense and a delay insued as law books were examined. Justice Trenchard asked her if she had applied to Sheriff Curtiss for éxemptions. She said she had not. A statute book was brought in at Trenchard’s suggestion and the law excusing parents or others who take care of children at home was read. Justice Trenchard suggested that both sides igree to excuse her, and counsel agreed. Louisa Dempsey, & housewife, was speedily excused for cause when she told the court that she had ‘moved| from Hunterdon County in October and had resided elsewhere in the | State. The name of Garrett B. Ry- i nearson, a clerk, of Flemington was called. Justice Trenchard had a let- | ter on the bench and announced | Rynearson was excused. Verna Snyder, a housewife and . the mother from Centerville, was then sworn. She said she had one child, a 6-year-old son. Mrs. Snyder was accepted by both State and defense and sworn as juror No. 3, making two women and one man in the box. “I wish the people in the room would refrain from talking,” Justice Trenchard said as a buzz of conversa- tion arose. The noise subsided and the name of Milton Williams, a laborer, of Glen Garden, was called. Justice Trench- ard read a letter from a physician asking that Williams be excused be- cause of the state of his wife, who was il and likely to have a stroke at any time, and should not be left alone. “Gentlemen,” said Justice Trench- ard, “I think that's a very good reason for 16t leaving her alone.” Bess Slack of Frenchtown, a gray- haired, modishly dressed matron, iden- tified herself as the aunt of Frances Opdyke, the woman at whose home Mrs. Hauptmann has been boarding. She said she had visited the Opdyke home several times—‘three times, 1 think”—since Mrs.® Hauptmann has been there, but added she had never met the wife of the defendant. She had no objections to capital punishment, nor would the fact that Mrs. Hauptmann is Hving at the home of her niece, influence her. 4 The defense accepted her, but the State made a peremptory challenge. Challenged by Defense. Ella P. Stryker, small bespectacled | Frenchtown housewife, was called next. She said she has two children, 23 and 29, and had formed no opinion of the case. “Have you formed an opinion in this case?” Fisher asked. “How could I when I haven't heard any evidence,” she answered. She was challenged peremptorily by the defense. Charles F. Snyder, Clinton Town- ship farmer, who curiously bore a re- semblance to Hauptmann, was imme- diately accepted by the State. Father of two children, 16 and 8, he said he had formed no opinion of finest the case. He was accepted by the dee fense and sworn in. [ Aaron L. Herder, a young from Whitehouse Station, Snyder. “I think that would > ssid when the Sefesc: .'f'..fefl“ifx'm'ii he would decide the case solely on the evidence and the law. “I believe 50" and “I expect so” he answered when counsel for Haupt- mann pressed him to state whether | he would put aside all prejudice if he were accepted. The defense challenged peremptor- ily and Herder stepped down. o Guards Are Sworn. Ethel Stockton, Union housewife, | was called next but Justice Trenchard | told her she would be questioned later. He then told every one to remain where they were, called for silence and directed guards be sworn for the four Jurors already chosen. Mr. Clerk, you may swear in three more officers and then we'll have four. | Let two of them be women officers and |one a man,” he said. | Justice Trenchard, after telling the | Buards to see that the jurors talk to no | one, said: | want you also to see that they | read nothing“of the case and hear no radio broadcasts.” He then called for luncheon recess of 1 hour and 15 minutes. . FALL PROVES FATAL Henry John Walsh, 73, died last night at Georgetown University Hos- | pital of injuries suffered November 22 when he fell down the steps of a house at 27 Adams street. He formerly re- sided at the house and had returned there on a visit. He was treated for a broken hip and internal injuries. rmer followed Japan Imports Steel. 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