Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1935, Page 4

A—4 = “IMTIRED,” SAYS AMELIA, LANDING Completes 2,400-Mile Solo Flight From Hawaii to Oakland. (Oontinued From First Page.) - gasoline was running low before she | ched the coast. They asked if she ' been worried. ! “Worried?” she echoed. “Oh, I! thought I would like to have the sight | of land a couple of times.” Miss Earhart asserted she never was lost, but sald she veered south of her course and first sighted land about 60 miles south of San Francisco. i Miss Earhart said commercial flights to span the 2,400 miles between the | islands and California were “entirely feasible. They are inevitable and we'll be flying everywhere in a short me. Miss Earhart expressed bellef the use of two-way voice radio communi- cation was advisable for planes making | distance flights. This type of radio was & part of her equipment. As she snuggled down into a soft ! bedd in her hotel room she sighed and said: 1“X want sleep more than anything else.” In a moment she was sleeping deep- 1y and hotel attaches said she planned to slumber two to six hours—"or may- be more.” Took Three Hours Longer. ‘Miss Earhart took only 3 hours and time of the kidnaping. UROPE IS TENSE AS SAAR BALLOTS 17 minutes more to fly solo from Hono- | 4 o Tulu than the time required by sir| Threat of Disorders Mini- Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australian, and his navigator, Capt. P. G. Taylor. Kingsford-Smith and Taylor made the first West-East trip, November 3 and 4, 1934, in their long journey from Australia, in 14 hours and 59 | minutes. This was at an average of 160 miles an hour. - Miss Earhart, doing her own navi- gating while handling the plane, made | the flight in 18 hours, 16 minutes. Her average speed was 133 miles an hour, although she said she throttled down the last five hours to conserve fuel. The finale of the epochal flight was short as it was swift. On reaching the coast she made a bee-line north- ward for the airport. She slid straight down to the run- way and drove the plane to the very doors of a hangar. The fleld was a bedlam of noise, cheers and action, colored with un- counted bouquets of American Beauty roses and other flowers for the woman who became “one up” on the male flying fraternity. Crowd Is Shut Out. First one door of the hangar was slammed shut and then the other. cutting Miss Earhart wund her plane off from the milling crowd. Many persons reached the side of her plane and managed to grasp her hand and say & word or two before the police closed in. “I'm tired.” was her first word. “But I had enough gasoline left to have lasted several hours,” she said. A police escort took her in hand and | sped to an Oakland hotel. For almost three and a half hours prior to her landing the whole cali- fornia coast was on edge over her whereabouts. She was reported va- riously 600 miles at sea, 50 miles from the coast, off her course, south of San Francisco, battling fog, and possibly facing the prospect of dwindling fuel tanks while still over the sea. * Except for her first remark on land- ing, only once on the whole grilling journey did she admit fatigue. E.cven hours out, she said: “I'm becoming quite tired.” “Enjoying Scenery.” Forty-five minutes later, at 10 am., Eastern standard time, she had for- gotten the irksome feeling. however, and reported she was “enjoying the aenery.” Miss Earhart was a lot less con- cerned about her venture than Coast Guard and naval officers, who stood watch through the long hours and wondered why she buzzed along so blithely without ever reporting her mized by Leaders—Ger- many Is Confident. (Continued From First Page.) scattered parts of the globe—Europe and Asia, Africa and the Americas— and Nazis paid the passage for most of them. Lines Sharply Drawn. Because the vituperative, often vio- !lent campaign that has raged in the |area for weeks has sharply drawn the line between Communism and Nazism, however, some observers be- lieved the anti-Nazis tomorrow might poll more votes than expected. Welded into one common front ,-n\mt Hitlerism and Naziism are | such sometime mutually hostile ele- | ments as Communists, Socialists and part of the basin’s overwhelmingly Catholic population. The Communists and Socialists see in the vote their last stand against Europe's dictatorships, and the ballot- | ing will provide the supreme test be- tween their forces and those of Naziism. For the world, too, the vote has | significance in that it will be the first {time Hitler and his doctrines have { free election. Should the German cause poll 90 | (Nagh) German front have sald the overwhelming indorsement given Hite ler in last August's Nazi-controlled | German election wounld be strikingly vindicated. A lesser majority for the Nazis. observers believe, would indicate |strong anti-Nazi sentiment in the ‘ basin, since many of the region's pre- | dominantly German population are expected to vote for reunion with Ger- many even though they do not ap- | prove of Hitler. Polls to Open Early. The polls open at 8:30 a.m. tomor- row (2:30 am., E 8. T), with the Saar’s rich coal mines and all the country around blanketed in the | season’s first snow. | A holiday spirit prevailed tonight, | despite Saarlanders’ taut nerves, as | patriotic Germans lighted up their | houses with candles, paper lanterns |and electric lights, strung evergreen garlands everywhere, set bonfires along the German border ablaze and | decorated their homes with Christmas trees. In_ anticipation of the celebration the Nazis are certain will follow the position. | announcement of the plebiscite re- Four Coast Guard cutters sped out 100 miles from San Francisco Bay at 3 am.. Eastern standard time, ready to speed to her aid if necessary, but they were left to their own guesses as to the position of her plane and started back to port before she fanded. Exasperated by her refusal to make, position reports, Lieut. Comdr. Clar- ence Williams, who plotted her course, seid in Burbank he did not know whether to “thumb & ride to Oak- land or stay here and wait for her.” | Earhart Log I By the Associated Press. (All time Eastern standard.) FRIDAY, JANUARY 11. 10:15 p.m.—Left Wheeler Field. Hono- lulu, to attempt first solo flight from Hawaii to California, 2,408 miles. 10:21 pm—Two thousand feet up, headed for Diamond Head and the open Pacific. 11:15 p.m.—Radioed “Everything OK.” SATURDAY, JANUARY 12. 12:40 am —Tremendous static inter- fered with radio communication but land stations heard “Flying 8,000. ‘Weather overcast outside, Temper- ature 45 degrees.” 2:5;0 am—Flying 3,000 feet through 0g. 3:15 am—“Everything O. K.” At 8,000 feet. 8:50 am.—“All well.” Flying 6,000 feet over low, scattered clouds. 4:19 am—“All 0. K.” Thanked hus- band for broadcast greeting. 4:48 am—"“All O. K." 5:17 al should be almost half way. O. K.” Eight thousand feet up. 5:57 am~—"All 0. K.” 6:17 am.—Flying in scattered clouds, visibility good. “O. K.” 6:50 am.—"All O. cast; visibility fair.” 7:20 a.m—Ran into high fog at 7,000 | to 8,000 feet. 7:49 am—"Am still 0. K.” 8:12 a.m.—Out of the fog at 6,000 feet. ‘Plane nosed down to 700 titude oL 6,000 feet.” ‘All 0. K.” ‘Everything 0. K.” 12 noon—"“Flying low over fog bank. Everything O. K.” 2 p.m—Sighted by steamer President Pierce, 250 miles off San Francisco. 2:35 p.m—Radio stations reported plane fiying through fog and off course. 3:25 pm.—“Am on my course; will be in any moment now.” 4:15 p.m.—Sighted off Lobitos, 20 miles south of San Francisco. 4:31 p.m—Landed at Oakland airport, completing first solo flight ever made Getween Hawall nn‘ California. sults Tuesday, many in the Saar today were purchesing swastika flags. All in the iny territory thought of nothing else beside the morrow’s election and heated arguments con- tinued well into the night. This was true from Saarbruecken, the capital, to the tinfest village. . Wild Rumors Afloat. The wildest blood-and-thunder rumors were circulated, meanwhile, as both sides put in the final licks in their campaigns of propaganda. Newspapers, which for weeks have been little more than party propa- ganda, sheets, appeared with burning headlines. The Freiheit, of which Max Braun, Socialist leader and head of the anti- Nazi common front, is editor, coldly announced that Nazis were preparing to kill every Saarlander who votes for the status quo. Earlier Jewish residents of the basin, who make up only one-half of 1 per cent of the population, said they had been “advised” to go to Ger- many tonight and return next week after the voting, having their pass- pn:;ls stamped td show they did not vo The “advice,” the Jews charged, came from the Nazis, who intimated that they might escape reprisals after the plebiscite if they took the advice. Arguments of the contending fac- tions were well summed up in the statements of two party leaders. Opposed to Hitler. “Those few persons who have not been persuaded to join the German front,” said Jacob Pirro, Nazi leader, “are men of our own blood* influ- enced by false prophets not to prevent but only to postpone a return of the Saar territory to Germany.” “We are all Germans and we want eventually to return to Germany,” said the Socialist Braun. “But we are determined that the Saar shall not go to Hitler. There is & difference between Germany and Hitler.” In huge red headlines the Social- ist organ Volkstimme, which Braun also edits, today announced that Hit- ler had been in a sanitarium since January 1, with the exception of a brief visit to Berlin a week ago for the meeting of Nazi leaders. “Hitler,” the newspaper said, “through his envoy, Joachim von Rib- bertrop, has agreed to let the terri- tory go ‘status quo’ rather than per- mit the League to divide the basin.” (Under the interpretation placed on the treaty articles providing for the plebiscite, the League of Nations Council is empowered to divide the territory at its discretigh if any part or parts of it vote against Germany.) “That is why,” the Socialist news- paper said, “Hitler has not sent a single message to theé Saarlanders since the campaign opefied.” Nazis Make Last Apeal. Nazis, meanwhile, their last- minute guns through organ, the Abendblatt. “The French u"mfl: to greet At the left is Bruno R. Hauptmann, on trial as the Lindbergh kidnaper, and at the right is Robert Scanlon, shown in an Associated Press wirephoto taken yesterday at Flemington, N. J. He may be called surprise witness for the defense. He n the vicinity of the Lindbergh homs | been tested in the fire of an absolutely | per cent of the votes, leaders of the | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 13, 1935—PART ONE. Hauptmann and “Double” Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. id to have told police he t Hopewell, N. J,, at the emigrants with concentration camps,” the newspaper asserted. “Two are al- ready prepared.” Other Nazi editors contented them- selves with giving the entire first pages to pictures of Der Feuhrer. The newspapers published their last editions tonight, the Plebiscite Com- mission having forbidden all publica- tions tomorrow. Unwittingly the Council played a joke on the League Council sitting at Geneva. The coun- cil had drafted an appeal to Saar- landers to carry out the plebiscite in an orderly manner. But the com- mission has suspended the newspapers before the appeal arrived. and so the voters will not know about it when they go to the polls. Plebiscite officials, determined to make the first League-supervised commission an entire success, worked anxiously tonight to plug all possible | holes and prevent ballot box stuffing. Nine hundred “dictators for a day” —the foreigners selected to supervise the voting and given wide powers to refuse the ballots to persons indicat- ing how they intend to vote—appeared | to hold the key to the smooth operat- ing of the balloting. Although they were given absolute authority to throw out any vote, they | were carefully instructed to use leniency. | Fraud Precautions Taken. The election has been so prepared that the possibilities of fraud, experts say, are reduced to the minimum. ‘The voting will be alphabetical, so that a voter living on one side of Saarbruecken may vote on the other side of the city, rather than in his home precinct. This measure is in- tended to prevent either side's dis- covering how any given precinct voted. The League’s international army 1 BRUNO WILL STAKE LIFE ON SIX “NO'S" Last Question to Defend- ant Will Place Blame on Fisch. studied the notes, and indicated that the experts believed the notes were written not by Hauptmann as con- tended, but by Isador Fisch. No announcement concerning their findings at the end of today's exam= ination was made, Reilly stating that | because members of the prosecution staff had been present, the “jury of experts” would not make known “their findings and bellef.” One flurry of interest which de- veloped last night had subsided to- day when it was announced that the panknote found in Gettysburg, Pa. and which was said to have been part of the ransom money, had been dis- covered to have no connection with 1t. The State, through & member of the prosecution staff, said that its cus had reached “the half way mark. The number of witnesses yet to testily has been reduced, according to Attor- ney General David T. Wilentz, from about 70 to 46 or 50. Wilentz said he may conclude his case by the end of next week. State Satisfied. In reviewing the eight days of the trial, Judge George K. Large of the prosecution stafl said: “Our witnesses have withstood effectively the cross- examination by the defense, and their evidence stands unimpeached. The State is ready to refute any effort by the defense to show that other persons than Hauptmann perpe- trated the crime. The State, Large pointed out. has presented five independent identifica- tions of Hauptmann—by Col. Lind- bergh, by Dr. John F. Condon the ransom intermediary, by the cab driver Joseph Perrone, who told of carrying s ransom note from Haupt- mann to Condon, by Amandus Hoch- muth, who said he saw Hauptmann in the vicinity of the Lindbergh home on the murder day, and by Albert 8. Osborn, handwriting expert, who tes- tified Hauptmann wrote all the notes. Attorney Large said Hauptmann has established himself “ principal by his own handwriting, nd regardless of our one-man theory of the crime, he can be convicted of first-degree murder under New Jersey law.” Large expressed the convictian that the defense could not show that Isador Fisch wrote the notes. Assistant Attorney General Joseph Lanigan, who has prosecuted the handwriting phase of the State's case, was present when Rellly's chiro- graphers looked over the exhibits at Trenton today. Reilly said that he addressed the handwriting experts as follows: “You were brought together by the tonight was discreetly prepared for | 4orence pecause of your desire, after any eventuality. Radio cars will cruise the territory, maintaining con- stant contact with barracks. so thati i o 'ihe originals.” troops can be quickly called out. Armored cars and tanks are held in reserve to put down riots, while all troops not assigned to guarding the voting urns or to other duties-will be kept in barracks. Despite tenseness during the last week, election officials were hopeful there would be no major disturbances tomorrow. They expected, howeyer, that minor incidents almost inevit- ably would be brought about by the stringent voting rules. Demonstrations Banned. Strengthening the bellef that the plebiscite might be held without grave consequence was the strict ob- servance of the governing commis- sion’s ban on demonstrations in’con- nection with the arrival of the Saar- landers from Germany. and the fact that last Sunday both Nazis and anti- Nazis held mammoth demonstrations in comparative order. Churches announced special serv- ices tonight for the convenience of those who plan to go to the polls. A novelty to the Saar tonight was the prohibition on the sale of liquor imposed by the Plebiscite Commission, | effective last midnight. For four | days only wine and beer may be pur- chased. WIFE FINDS BRUNO _IN “G0OD SPIRITS” Defendant Appears to Have Suf- fered Little From Experi- ences at Trial. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, January 12. ~—Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, visiting the Lindbergh kidnap-murder defendant in his cell today, saild he was in good health and good spirits. After eight days of the trial, Haupt- mann appeared to have suffered little from his experiences in the court room, where he was charged by five State witnesses with being the kid- naper. The slight effect was noticeable in increased nervousness and less in- terest in his meals. Mrs. Hauptmann spent the cus- tomary half hour allowed with her husband and returned, in apparently cheerful mood, to her residence near the court house. Meanwhile the Hauptmann trial Jury went for a bus ride over Hunt- erdon County's rolling highways. Shut in from the crisp Wintery air and carefully guarded by sheriff’s deputies, the jurors rode over a route outlined for them yesterday before the court recessed by Justice Thomas W. Trenchard. ———— One-Word Book Popular. Declared to be the shortest book in the world, “Who Rules the World” has been published in Yugoslavia. The author is Radivoj S. Momirski. Inside the tome is one word, “Money.” The volume has been so successful having examined such material as was published in the newspaper, to exam- . German Experts Called. He said the experts are being asked to visualize the handwriting in the German experts, two of whom were present today, have examined the specimens for Teutonic influences, said Reilly. “We do not intend to solve this | crime,” Rellly remarked at the close {of the examination. “We are here | to prove Hauptmann not guilty.” Reilly reiterated his contention that the money being spent on Haupt- mann's defense comes “out of our own pockets.” “No German societies,” he declared, “are contributing.” “I wish they would, though,” he added. ‘The State will continue during the coming week to present its case in the sequence of facts that arose after the kidnaping of the baby, Judge Large said, “I expect that most of the coming week will be devoted to handwriting testimony. It is so important to the State that we cannot afford to pass it over lightly.” “Following that we shall probably €0 on to the preparation of the ran- som money, and from there to the finding of the baby’s body.” Asked if it would be necessary to recall to the stand Betty Gow, the Lindbergh nursemaid, during the phase of the case dealing with the finding of the body. Large replied: “Miss Gow has proven a good wit- ness, and her reappearance would certainly do the State’s case no harm.” Witnesses Coming. ‘The Ile De France will dock in New York Tuesday, bringing three Ger- mans in the company of Detective Arthur Johnson of New York. The identity of the three has not been disclosed. It is believed one or more may be relatives of Fisch, who died in Germany last year, and it is con- sidered likely that one or more may be a handwriting expert. If the defense names Fisch as the ransom note author, the State will call relatives of the furrier as re- buttal witnesses, said one of the prosecuting attorneys. Reilly conceded again today the State had produced “evidence of ex- tortion against Hauptmann,” but said he will‘prove definitely that Fisch collected the $50,000 ransom. There may be seven defense hand- writing experts called to the witness stand. Those called to Trenton at today's conference were J. M. Trend- ley of East St. Louis, C. F. Goodspeed, New York; Mrs. Charles Foster, New York; Arthur P. Myers, Baltimore and Washington; Miss Julla Farr, Brook- lyn; Frau Eraunlich, Wurzburg, Ger- many, president of the Handwriting Experts of Europe, and Rudolph Thielen, Berlin. 8. C. Malone of, Baltimore, an asso- ciate of Myers, also offered his serv- ices to the defense, Reilly announced. Malone said he has testified in 2,000 cases in 38 years and lost only seven. 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