Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1935, Page 4

MISSGOWHAUGHTY WHILE UNDER FIRE Novelist Finds Ex-Nurse Reproving as Reilly Questions Her. BY KATHLEEN NORRIS. FLEMINGTON, N. J, January 8 (N.AAN.A)—The Hauptmann trial gathers momentum, rolling slowly at first, it seemed to take its first spring forward on its fourth day. Yet nothing that sounded sensational was on the program. There was but one important witness. A slender Scotswoman, Betty Gow, occupied the stand and what she said was only what we all have known for almost three years, that the lost Lindbergh baby had a nurse, that her name was Betty Gow, and that after repeated questioning at the time of the trag- edy she had been acquitted of all knowledge of the crime, cleared of alt suspicion, and had presently returned to Scotland, whence she was brought by the State of New Jersey to be a witness for the prosecution in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Colorless as Ordeal Began. Yes, but knowing a thing, reading about it in the newspapers, is a dim, far-away business, and seeing this living, trembling, suffering young woman on the stand is something quite different. Something so poignantly impressive that to many of us this day's work seems the most vital of them all. Betty Gow impresses me as a highly sensitive, proud, dignified young ‘woman, and on the stand she was ob- viously nervous, obviously suffering. She has so often been described as “pretty” that it was a surprise to find her not pretty at all; her face is handsome, rather, with big eyes that are somewhat prominent, a wide, good mouth, well-modeled cheek- bones, a clear skin. She was absoultely colorless as she started her ordeal. That it was a most distressing ordeal nobody who saw her could doubt. Her long, rather thick throat throbbed, her mouth trembled more than once, and more than once she twisted her hands. Her voice is pleasant and low, and her accent that of London rather than Glasgow. Braced Self for Quiz. It seemed to me that as the At- torney General, in his always con- siderate and quiet fashion—for Mr. Wilentz has polished manners—began his questioning, she braced herself quite consciously. The horror of being made to remember was beginning now; she had long known that it must so be- gin, and she was determined to go through with it with her chin up and her courage high. She answered ques- tions simply, straightforwardly. Except for occasional inaudibility, when emo- tion overcame her, she was a good wit- ness for the State. But when Edward J. Reilly, Haupt- mann’s head counsel, took her on for cross-examination there was a change. Mr. Reilly showed indications of truc- ulence early in his cross-examination, and Betty Gow didn't like it. She showed now that she could be actually haughty. Reilly Got Short Change. In good old Irish argot, Mr. Reilly got very short change out of Betty. No question seemed to move her, and once or twice there was actual reproof in what she said. “Positively, I did not!” she replied hotly, when she was asked if she had or had not actually planted the evidence of the little lost thumb-guard. “I am!” she retorted with spirit when Mr. Reilly said, “you're a very bright girl, aren't you?” But as the hard two and a half hours wore away, she drooped. Her face grew tired and shiny, her shoul- ders sagged a little; she looked as she is going to look when she is 50 years old. The fine, dark eyes moved as quickly, flashed with as much feeling, but there were shadows around them when the morning’s work was over. She told us little we didn’t know— true; But even though I knew the facts, I hadn't sensed them. How manyf you mothers and wives who read this have visualized what’' went on in that house of sorrow and shock that night? How many of you have visualized what went on in that happy family that day before the soft, warm, little sleeping fellow was picked out of his crib? Nurse Told of Last Day. Betty Gow told of an adoring lit- tle mother who wouldn’t take & nurse on country week ends at the new home, because Anne Lindbergh liked to care for her baby herself. She told of his mother throwing pebbles up at the nursery window late that fatal afternoon, just to see ner baby smile down at her. She said that he went down later, to have tea with his mummy, and afterward he ran into the kitchen, like every adored baby who ever lived in a household of enslaved grown-ups. He galloped abcut the kitchen table; he was carried off for supper and bed by the nurse who loved him, and his mother came into his nursery to be sure that his small chest was rubbed, and his blankets held down by big pins. There had to be a dose of something from a spoon to help break up the cold, and of course he spilled it, as what baby doesn't? and so there were spots on the little nightie that is now State’s evidence in one of the most terrible of murder trials. It all sounded so homey, so sweet and safe and loving—tea with mother, and a race into the kitchen, and a flannel nightie, and a chest rub, and big safety pins. It is all so frightful now that it has come into this court house, and come so much too late! Like Judge Trenchard. ‘We of the long press tables exchange opinions as the day goes by. We all like Judge Trenchard and think he is handling everything with great fair- ness and calmness. We all wonder, a5 we consider the persons of Scotch, Svandinavian, English, German birth who are involved, whether it might not be a good idea to keep America Ameri- can for & few hundred years. And we are none of us in sympathy with the effort the defense makes to hint that & truly good and affectionate nurse wouldn't leave a baby alone for two hours on a quiet Spring evening, when he was snugly pinned into his crib, warm and fed and blanketed securely. Those of us who have raised babies know that only a nervous or seriously sick baby would need closer attention than that, and this baby was neither. ‘We've all left our babies upstairs in thelr cribs for the comfortable dinner ‘hour, the radio hour, the leisurely hair- brushing and cold-creaming of the early evening hours. Many of us can remember leaving them much longer than that, and thanking God for a blessed interval of peace and freedom after the exactions of the nursery day! (Coy ht. 1035. by the North American ”'“mm'?.m Alliance. Inc.) SR A, Oppose Beauty Tax. that it will diminish of Irish women, men of against the Free of ‘50 ,per. cent on rouge, and powdel,. sy d On the the beauty blin are tax Dul State Lipstick powers, -standards The League of Republican Wo tle, jr., Jormer Undersecretary of Si yesterday ajternoon -in-the May ‘heard William Cas- , deliver an address Hotel, in which he proposed that a board be created to shape American foreign policies. Left toright: Castle, Mrs. William F. Kelley, presi- dent of the league, and Miss Bertha Wolfe, p&rtmmmtunan. Extracts From Qil Ruling Chief Justice Hughes Holds Motives of President Constitute No A nswer to Validity of Section 9(c). By the Associated Press. Here are some pertinent extracts from Chief Justice Hughes’ opinion holding unconstitutional the adminis- tration’s legislation regulating oil shipments: “The question of whether such a delegation (to the President by Con- gress) of legislative power is permitted by the Constitution is not answered by the argument that it should be as- sumed that the President has acted, and will act, for what he believes to be the public good. “The point is not one of motives, but of constitutional authority, for which the best of motives is not a substitute. “While the present con tro- versy relates to & delegation to the President, the basic question has a much wider application. If the Congress can make a grant of legislative au- thority of the sort attempted by sec- tion 9(c) of the national indus- trial recovery act, we find nothing in the Constitution which restricts the Congress to the selection of the Presi- dent as grantee. Sees Broader Implication. “The Congress may vest the power in the officer of its choice or in & board or commission such as it may select or create for the purpose. *“Nor, with respect to such a delega- tiom;is the question concerned merely withi the transportation of oil, or of oil produced in excess of what the State may allow. “If the legislative power may thus be vested in the President, or other grantee, as to that excess of produc- tion, we can see no reason to doubt that it may similarly be vested with respect to the transportation of oil without reference to the State's re- quirements. That reference simply de- fines the subject of the prohibition which the President is authorized to enact, or not to enact, as he pleases. “And if that legislative power may be given to the President or other N. R. A. WILL FIGHT FOR CODE DESPITE DECISION OF COURT (Continued From First Page.) to prevent the demoralization of one of our largest basic industries.” Asked what he thought of chances for prompt enactment of oil legisla- tion, Chairman Rayburn, Democrat of Texas, of the House Interstate Com- merce Committee said “it's too early to make a decision on that.” “The thing could be cured,” he ad- ded, “by Congress passing a bill mak- ing it unlawful to transport oil pro- duced in excess of allocations instead of leaving that to executive orders.” He reminded that such a bill had been before his committee last Con- gress, but had been delayed pending investigation of the advisability of oil legislation. While some ofl leaders in the great East Texas field expressed fear the $1-a-barrel price structure would col- lapse under a flow of illegal oil and strove to prevent a return of “jungle law” in competition, one school of thought in New York contended the code and State regulation combined would handle the situation. New Legislation Proposed. Moves to present new legislation remedying that on which the high court turned thumbs down were already under way. Chairman Cole, Democrat, of Maryland of a House subcommittee handling oil matters said it would be a good guess that the committee would urge new legislation. He said the court decision “leaves the problem entirely to the States without any Federal assistance. Such assistance was invaluable in bringing the industry out of chaos and putting production more in line with demand.” The high court’s first decision on major New Deal legislation—a de- cision in which only Justice Cardozo dissented—brought a quick statement from Donald R. Richberg, President Roosevelt’s “No. 1” co-ordinator. ‘Warning against predictions as to what the court may decide about N. R. A,, he said: “The court, even by implication, has not cast a doubt on the validity of codes of fair competition.” “No one is justified,” he asserted, “in prophesying, on the basis of this opin- fon, the action of the Supreme Court in any case involving the validity of a particular code of fair competition, or any provision of such a code.” Decision Pleases Borah. From Senator Borah (Republican), Idaho, who has hurled many criticisms at phases of N. R. A, came this com- ment: “I entirely agree with the decision of the court.” On the question whether Congress has the power to prohibit the oil ship- ments in interstate commerce, the de- cision read by Chief Justice Hughes said the tribunal assumed “for the present purpose, without - deciding,” that such power existed. &1 But it found that Congress uncon- stitutionally gave away its legislative without hyln&‘dm policies or by which President A ' grantee, it would seem to follow that such power may similarly be con- ferred with respect to the transporta- tion of other commodities in inter- state commerce with or without refer- ence to State action, thus giving to the grantee of the power the deter- mination.of what is a wise policy as to that transportation and authority to permit or prohibit it, as the per- son, or board, or commission, so chosen, may think desirable. Says Section Unambiguous. “Section 9 (C) is brief and unam- biguous. It does not attempt to con- trol the production of petroleum and petroleum products within a State. It does not seek to lay down rules for the guidance of State Legisla- tures or State officers. “It establishes no criterion to govern the President’s course. It doés not require any finding by the President as a condition of his action. * * * So far as this section is concerned, it gives to the President an unlimited authority to determine the policy and to lay down the pro- hibition, or not to lay it down, as he may see fit. And disobedience to his order is made a crime punishable by fine and imprisonment. “But the other provisions of sec- tion 9 afford no ground for implying s limitation of the broad grant of authority in section 9 (C) * * * We turn to the other provisions of title 1 of the act. * * % This general out- line of policy contains nothing as to the circumstances or conditions in which transportation of petroleum or petroleum products should be pro- hibi othing as to the policy of. prohil ., or not prohibiting, the tral tion of production exceed- ing what the States allow.” “The Congress did not undertake to say that the transportation of ‘hot ofl’ was injurious. The Congress did not declare in what circumstances that transportation should be for- bidden, or require the President to make any determination as to facts or circumstances. Among the numerous and diverse objectives broadly stated, the President was not required to choose. * * * The Congress left the matter to the President without standard or rule, to be dealt with as he pleased.” to act or requiring him to make any finding of fact before acting. It said the section “gives to the President an unlimited authority to determine the policy and to lay down the prohibition. or not to lay it down, as he may see fit.” Return to the States of power to handle the problem through co-opera- tive compacts was foreseen by Senator O’Mahoney (Democrat), Wyoming. Tighter Control Predicted. A view that even tighter Federal control of the industry would be at- i tempted was expressed by Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma. “It will lead to & decision to bring about Federal control of the ofl industry,” he said. Section 9 (C) of the recovery act, the one under attack, follows: “The President is authorized to prohibit the transportation in inter- state and foreign commerce of petro- leum and the products thereof pro- duced or withdrawn from storage in excess of the amount permitted to be produced or withdrawn from stor- age by any State law or valid regu- lation or order prescribed thereunder, by any board, commission, officer or other duly authorized agency of a State. “Any violation of any order of the President issued under the provisions of this subsection shall be punishable by fine of not to exceed $1,000, or imprisonment for not to exceed six months, or both.” Hurley Praises Decision. Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War, took occasion on his 52d birthday today, to praise the Supreme Court decision. ¢ “It was fine and right,” he declared. “It will strengthen the authority of ofl-producing States, which have ap- proved, five to three, the Maryland plan, whereby two or more States capable of producing two-thirds of the Nation’s oil will fix allowables, with the help of the Federal Government.” Senator Nye (Republican) of North Dakota said he was “wondering how much more of the New Deal is going to be challenged now that the Supreme Court has made one break in it with its ofl decision.” “We are up against the question now of writing legislation to get us out of this oil mess,” he said, adding: “I would like to see an agreement accomplished that would enable the industry to get away from this fright- ful competition and establish itself on '; X;ll; trld:dbnh‘ uf would want the agreement written by a majority of the parties interested rather than a majority of the production represented. I don't ::rne: thetsundnrd Ol Co. writing an 'ment, for instance, for all ducers to abide by.” P 8. C. V. Ball to Be Planned. Plans for the annual ball of Wash- ington Camp, No. 305. Sons of Con- federate Ve , will be discussed at a regular meeting of the camp at 8 o'clock tonight at the Confederate Memorial Hall, 1322 Vermont avenue. The ball is to be held at the Willard Hotel early in March. Comdr. Gor- don Wilkins. will preside st tonight's -~ F-8tar St Photo, MRS. TERESA DEAN EXPIRES AT HOME First Woman War Corre- spondent Was Known as “the Widow.” Mrs. Teresa Dean, first woman war correspondent, died today at 10:20 am, at her residence, 1619 R street, after a long illness. Death was due to natural causes. She was in her 70s. After a journalistic career that be- gan in the early 80s, Mrs. Dean left the Midwest, where she ran a daily column on a Chicago paper, to take over a weekly symposium on old Town Topics, then owned by the late Col. W. D. Mann. She wrote a page captioned “Reveries of a Widow." The reveries were published in book form and Mrs. Dean became known throughout the world as the Widow, conducting her page in Town Topics under that name for 26 years. She covered every war and cam- paign in which this country has been engaged since the Spanish-American War of 1898, when she was among the first to reach Tampa, and it was her investigations that were largely in- strumental in starting the embalmed beef scandal. To China in 1900, Mrs. Dean was in Tientsin and Peking all through the Boxer Rebellion, and her Widow articles from the battlefront and later from the Philippines, where she cov- ered the insurrection until the sur- render of Malvar in 1902, were copied throughout the English-speaking world. To Cuba again in 1906 the Widow | gave inside information on the Ameri- can occupation during Gov. Magoon's me, and then wrote a series of Widew articles from the various Euro- Peanl, capitals. Mexico attracted her next, and her angle on Mexican affairs written dur- ing the troublous days of 1912-14 were considered the most authentic of any inside information that came out of Mexico. Friends alike with the Maderas, Huerta and Pancho Villa, Mrs. Dean’s slant on the Mexican situation was always enlightening. During the World War Mrs. Dean | carried on as the Widow and came to Washington to live in 1923. Mrs. Dean is survived by her son, Col. Warren Dean, who left the Army some years ago and is now engaged in the mortgage loan business here. * POLICY ADVRCATED William Castle, fr.,‘Urqes Non-Partisan Boarkl in Address. —_— Formation of s non-political plan- ning board in the State Department to wark out a consistert and continu- mfleflu policy independent of ad- ministration changes was suggested yesterday afternoon by Willlam Cas- tle, jr., former Undersecretary of State, in an before the League of Repub! Women in the Mayflower Hotel. . Such a body should function in a similar manner to the general boards of the Army and Navy, Castle said, explaining that he would have it meet at regular frequent intervals to con- sider future moves. Reduction of the State Department appropriation by some $200,000, called for in the budget President Roosevelt submitted to Congress, will mean that 30 or 40 career men must be dis- charged, he said. He warned that the professional machinery of the depart- ment is threatened with destruction by such slashes. Charges Hypocrisy. Criticizing the treaty which was the outcome. of the meeting in Monte- video of United States and Latin American diplomats, he charged: “We have signed our names to something we are not going to live up to if any rouble comes.” This statement was in reference ‘to the section which to intervene forcibly in the internal affairs of another country, through use of the military or diplo- matically. “Any government which would re- fuse to use force if its citizens were in danger in foreign lands ought to be put out of office immediately,” he de- clared. Reviewing developments in Cuba during the past two years, Castle said there is no doubt that Sumner Wells went to that republic for the specific purpose of getting rid of former Presi- dent Machado, and that American recognition or non-recognition of the succeeding governments there was used as a club, rather than in a proper manner. “I don't think we should have in- tervened in the way we did” the speaker declared. “That intervention, although fortunate as it turned out, is a thing thoughtful Cubans will not soon forget.,” Turning to the reciprocal tariff agreements sought with other nations by the Roosevelt administration, he called them “bargaining treaties” and said he did not see how they could benefit commerce. The only way to revive world trade, he declared, is to remove the two bar- riers which now exist. He named these as the “high American tariff” and “monetary instability.” “The Department of State, how- ever,” he added, “is too obscessed with these bargaining tariff treaties to think of anything else except peace | in a vague way.” “Ballyhoo” Decried. Castle decried what he called “the ballyhoo” which has accompanied the present administration’s foreign pol- icy, and particularly declarations nations. ‘The Republican women were told by aspects of foreign policy have been aired to “draw a red herring across a domestic trail.” “Did you ever notice how often when lar about something at home the pa- pers suddenly will come out with a sensational story about some foreign question?” he inquired. Castle was introduced by Mrs. Wil- liam F. Kelley, president of the league, who presided. Miss Mary Apple, con- tralto, sang to the plano accompani- ment of Claude Robeson. D COMING pledged all signatory nations never | either | which might tend to antagonize other | | the former diplomat that sometimes | | years as secretary. people are getting hot under the col- | Joseph Bruno (left) leaving the Pa., under guard on his way to the Schuylkill County Jail at Pottsville, county court house, where he is on wnial, charged with murder in the Kelayres election-eve massacre. CAPPER PRAISED FOR VOTE MOVE Kenilworth Citizens Com- mend Plan to Enfran- chise District. Conference of Citizens’ Assoclation. In the only contest Paul Dallman and Samuel Murphy were elected delegates to the Community Council. They de- feated E. E. Dillion, Robert L. Keeler and Lewis G. Darnuit. The association commended the Police Department for its drive on traffic violators. It was announced that part of the avenue has been acquired and the | work on the new roadway will begin in the Spring or Summer. The request to retain the present Library with undiminished power was referred to the association’s legislative Senator Arthur Capper, Republican, | of Kansas was commended by the Kenilworth Citizens’ Association last night for introducing a joint resolu- | tion proposing an amendment to the Constitution empowering Congress to | give the citizens of the District of | Columbia the right to vote. John S. Driggers, past president of the association, praised the Senator highly for the efforts he has made in behalf of the citizens of Washington. Kenneth Buker was elected presi- dent of the association to succeed Fletcher B. Shipley, who declined to | accept re-election. Before yielding | the chair to the new president, Shipley | was praised for his work. Shipley | served two terms as president and 16 | Hudson Is Vice President. Other officers elected were Wisheart | F. Hudson, vice president; Mrs. Mabel | Hubbell, recording secretary; Paul, Dailman, sr, financial secretary; George Baur, treasurer; John 8. Drig- gers and Charles M. Maize, delegates to the Federation of Citizens’ Asso- ciations; Buker, Driggers, Mrs. Mae Hutchinson and Mrs. Hubbell, dele- gates to the Public School Associa- tion, and John F. Fitzgerald and | Saturday and return to the Cuban | Driggers, delegates to the Northeast committee for consideration. Action will be taken at the next meeting. The meeting was held in the new Kenilworth Recreation Center. CAFFERY IS 'EN ROUTE U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Flies From Havana to Maimi, Fla. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., January 8.—Jeffer- son Caffery, United States Ambassador to Cuba, arrived here yesterday in a Navy plane from Havana. He will leave tonight by train for ‘Washington, where he plans to lay before the State Department & num- ber of problems vitally affecting the island republic. Among these, he said, were the | political and economic questions. Outstanding among these is the sugar problem. He declined to dis- |cuss in detail the various matters which he will take up in Washington. The American Ambassador said he intended to. arrive back here about | capital by Navy plane. land for the widening of Kenilworth | FAST CAR SERVICE 10 TAKOMA ASKED Citizens’ Group Hears of Plans to Improve Type of Public Carriers. Improved sireet car service, supple- | mented by bus transportation and re- tention of present trackage facilities in the Takoma Park area were the paramount issues discussed last night at the mass meeting of citizens in the Takoma Park Branch of the Wash- ington Public Library, Fifth and Ce- dar streets. The meeting was called by the Citi- 2zens’ Assoclation of Takoma, D. C., for the purpose of crystallizing local sen- timent and was attended by represen- tatives of citizens’ associations of Brightwood, Manor Park, Chillum Heights, Sixteenth Street Heights and Petworth. Wallace C. Magathan p: sided. Present also were representa- tives of the Public Utilities Commis- sion, the Capital Transit Co., Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co. and the peo- ple’s counsel. Admits Service Not Best. William B. Bennett of the Capital Transit Co. admitted that the citizens were not receiving the best transpor- tation to which they were entitled. He outlined suggested changes that are under consideration to improve the service, = Riley E. Elgin, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, outlined the part the commission played in se- curing data by experts and said the technical question involved was in transporting large numbers of people | through a small belt in the downtown section. He told of the 20 new-type cars authorized by the new company and said that with cars operating from Georgia avenue over Seventh street, running time to the center of the city would be reduced about 15 minutes. W. A. Roberts, people's counsel, forecast the double-tracking of Ken- nedy street. He said he did not think it would solve the present problem, but that he found public sentiment in favor of the improvement. He favored s small underpass at Thomas Circle, | which would speed up the service and | relieve congestion in the downtown section and permit cars from the sub- urban sections to make better time. Extension Offered. Board of Trustees of the Public| TO CAPITAL BY TRAIN/ E. D. Merritt, president of the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co., expressed a willingness for his company to extend its lines northward to Takoma Park and give express service similar to | that now in operation on Sherman avenue, which he said had proven a | success during the rush hours. 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