Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight: tomorrow fair: much colder late tonight and tomorrow, with a cold wave, lowest temperature about 24 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 40. at noon today; lowest. 34, at 9 p.m. yes- terday. Full report on page A-9. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto services. Closing fi Y. Markets, Pages 11,12, 13 ch ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star SATURDAY'S SUNDAY'S Cireulation, 124,127 Circulation, Some Returns Not Yet Receive 133,751 ed oo Wa Entered as post _offic No. 33,137. ond class matter ashington, D. C. WASHINGTON, DINE, MONDAY, JANUARY BANDITS KILL TWO MEN WORK RELIEF BILL IN ROBBING CHEVY CHASE INTRODUGED AFTER TROLLEY BARN OF $1 800 Blood Trail in Snow Leads to Body. UNFIRED GUN FOUND IN DESK Robbers Familiar With Op(‘ralions. (Additional Pictures, Page B-1.) Two employes of the Capital Transit Co. were brutally murdered € this morning in a mysterious hold-up and robbery in the street car barn at Chevy Chase Lake. Md., on Connecticut avenue, 2 miles from the District line The dead are: James M. Mitchell, 58. 2216 Thir- tieth street southeast, a depot clerk Emory Smith. 40. of Be a, Md barn mechanic and watchman. Mitche as found on the office floor with a bullet wound in his head Body Found in Creek. Smith's body was discovered in Rock Creek, almost a mile from the car | barn. He had been shot and thrown nto the creek. His body contained four bullets, one of them in the face. The robbers got away with a sum of money estimated between $1.700 and | £1.800, car barn receipts of the com- pany over late Saturday and Sunday. First intimation of the tragedy came when Parker H. Hanna. an extra train- man. reported for duty at the car barn this morning at 5:20. He found Mitchell dead. In a nearby room at the time of the tragedy, F. E. Gregory, 1214 Evarts street northeast, was asleep on a bench. He said he had heard no ghots. From known facts. it is judged that the shooting took place between 4:30 £nd 5:20 in the morning Unfired Gun Found. In a desk under which Mitchell was found, an unfired gun told the gtory of a surprise attack. When police arrived on the scene Mitchell was the only accounted for cead. Nearby an empty automobile containing Smith’s overcoat set volunteer searchers on the trail of the second victim. He was found several hours later shot to death by the desperados. D. S. Schmidt, superintendent of | transportation for the company, said the robbery looked like the work “perhaps, of a former employe” as it was _di apparently by some one familiar with the surroundings Hanna found all the doors locked Wwhen he arrived for work and broke & glass pane to gain entrance. C. H. Smallwood of Kensington, Md., watchman at a nearby coal com- pany’s office, thought he heard shots and a scream. This was in the early hours of morning. Bullet Found in Desk, One bullet penetrated a board di- rectly back of the desk where Mitchell was found. Another bullet was dis- covered in the desk itself. Mitchell urdoubtedly was sitting at the desk which contained his pistol. | From the time clock in the office it was learned that Smith made his | last round at 4:30. With this as a | starting point, and the discovery of | Mitchell's body at 5:20, it is evident | the affair took place within a period | of 50 minutes. | Half an hour after the discovery | of the crime, Kensington and Bethes- | da residents went into action. | Volunteer firemen were called to search the woods near the car barn. ‘When dawn cut into the fog, a trail of blood was discovered on the snow. This led to Smith's body. It was found partially submerged in the waters of Rock Creek, some three- quarters of a mile from the car barn, taken part of the way in a car, and then dragged to the creek. The mere fact that Smith was taken | “(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) >~ TAX SURVEY STUDIED BY TREASURY HEAD Morgenthau Considers Report of Distriet Levies—Confers With Roosevelt. of | Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau was understood today to have | given his personal consideration to | the completed District of Columbia comparative tax survey over the week | end What disposition he will make of the report was not disclosed, but the! Becretary was a luncheon guest at| the White House and at 2 o'clock was to be in conference with Presi- | dent Roosevelt and others on holding- company legislation. | The Secretary recently announced he would ook over the survey during the, week end and would transmit it to the President as soon as it met with his approval. The survey was completed by the Research and Statistics Division of the Treasury Department under the direction of George C. Haas. Morgenthau was to be in confer- | ence with the President at 2 o'clock at the White House, with Attorney General Cummings, Donald Richberg and officials of the Federal Power Commission and Federal Trade Com- mission. Plane Passenger Rescued. BRINDISL, Italy, January 21 (#)— An airplane containing one Persian and two French passengers and a French crew tossed for five hours on a rough sea today, 30 miles from here, following its forced landing. while Believed | | | JAMES M. MITCHELL, EMORY SMITH. KARPIS GANG AIDE 15 REPORTED SHOT New “Public Enemy No. 17 Blazes Path to Freedom With Machine Gun. (Copyright. 1 by the Associated Press.) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. January 21—Harry Campbell, companion of Alvin Karpis. the Nation's “public enemy No. 1.” was reported today to have been seriously wounded in the machine-gun escape he and Karpis made ‘rom a police trap yesterday. Hospitals were being watched and a Washington order was issued plac- ing the offices of phvsicians known to treat gar ters under close check. Karpis .s a co-leader of the gang which kidnaped Edward G. Bremer. | Authorities said they are certain the two men are bottled up in At- lantic City. since highway bridges | connecting the resort island with the | mainland are under heavy guard. Karpis was ciad in trousers, slippers and an overcoat. Police said Karpis land Campbell probably would attempt to acquire more clothing to divert suspicion, and asked that a& warning be broadcast to clothing store oper- ators to be on the lookout for the men. Women Caught. The police learned their identities | from two women companions seized in ! the raid on a little hotel. The women were listed as Dolores Delaney, 21, and Winona Burdette, 22, also known as Mrs. Louise Campbell. Shot in the leg the Delaney woman | was treated at a hospital where she | already had registered in anticipation of childbirth. A detective's cheek was gashed by a submachine gun slug. Department of Justice agents poured into Atlantic City with sub- machine guns and tear gas bombs. “Shoot first and talk afterward” was the advice from Chicago, where offi- cials thought Karpis might seek a new hideaway. “Shoot first and talk afterward” echoed police wireless and telephone- typewriter alarm systems throughout the East. New York and Philadelphia police | guarded bridges and ferries leading into those cities. State troopers pa- trolled the intervening highways. Karpis committed a tactical error when he came to Atlantic City—he picked as a hideaway the resort with the fewest exits of any important city in the State. Atlantic City is on an island and only three highway bridges connect it with the mainland. The alarm for the fugitives was out before they could have reached any of the bridges yes- terday. Four Highways Out. If Karpis and Campbell did get across a bridge, only four highways offered the Midwest gunmen well- marked trails to other possible refuges, Two swing west to Philadelphia, one north toward New York and the other (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) PEN INVEl:lTOR DIES Paul E. Wirt, 85, Patented First Self-Inking Quill. BLOOMSBURG. Pa, January 21 (/). —Paul E. Wirt, 85, attorney and inventor of the fountain pen, died early today. Wirt started experimenting to make a fountain pen as the result of the constant annoyance of spilt ink on his legal papers. and in 1885 placed the pens on the market. They created a sensation and won prizes in several interna- tional expositions. A general cold wave warning today sped the work of eliminating slushy remnants of Saturday’s snow in ad- vance of freezing weather. Tomorrow night should be the cold- | est of the season, according to Weather Bureau officials, who are predicting the approach of a frigid wave expected to sweep most of the United States east of the Rockies. Three hundred District workmen are completing the clearing of important intersections, hills and gutters near big catch basins. They probably will be aided by thawing rain this afternoon and early tonight. The local forecast calls for rain, fol- lowed by colder weather and clearing fiving from Corfu toward Naples. The passengers and crew were rescued by a motor ship. ) skies late tonight and tomorrow. The mercury is not expected to go » He obtained a patent | r MINEBLASTKILLS 1S FELLS 30 | | L G Poison Fumes Spread in Colliery After Sixth Level Explosion. | By the Associated Press. | GILBERTON, Pa.. January 21—At | least two miners were killed and more than 30 overcome by poison fumes to- day in an explosion in the Gilberton Colliery of the Philadelphia & Read- ‘mg Coal and Iron Co. More than 200 men were at work in |the mine at the time, about 30 of | them on the sixth level. where the ex- | plosion occurred. Nearly 100 men had been removed three hours after the | blast. Of those overcome by “black damp” some were in a critical condi- | tion. Rescuers said most of these were rescuers or miners working on the level above the spot where the blast let loose Semi-official reports coming to the | surface said none of the men had been {em?ved from the explosion-torn sixth eve Officials of the Draper Colliery, a mile away, reported “black damp” en- tering their mine. The bodies of the two dead were found about three hours after the ex- {plosion. They were identified as Roy | Morgan and Richard Evans. | e HIGH COURT DENIES MOONEY REVIEW ! Rules That Prisoner Has Not Exhausted Rights in State Courts. | | By the Associated Press Holding that Thomas J. Mooney had not exhausted his rights in Cali- fornia courts, the Supreme Court re- fused today to review his contention that he should be released from San Quentin Penitentiary, where he is serving a life sentence for complicity in the 1916 San Francisco Prepared- ness day parade bombings. This was the second time the high court had declined to pass on the merits of the controversy. In an opinion read by Chief Jus- tice Hughes, the court gave its rea- sons for refusing to interfere. Or- dinarily, applications for review are passed on without explanation. Had Sought Writ. ‘The 51-year-old convict had applied for a writ of habeas corpus to bring his case before the high court for a decision on whether California was him in prison. “Reasoning from the premise that the petitioner has failed to show a denial of due process in the circum- stances set forth in his petition, the (State) attorney general urges that the State was not required to afford (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) Thieves Rob Three Stores. CHICAGO, January 21 (#).—Three robbers, a car, 5 minutes’ work, total loot $50.61. Three Loop restaurants, seven blocks apart. were held up Sat- urady by fast-moving robbers. At 6:05 am., $12; at 6:08, §25; at 6:10, $13.61. ‘General Cold Wave Warning Speeds Snow Removal Effort below 24 degrees tonight, although it will be much colder tomororw. The general fog which accompanied today's thawing temperatures had grounded all passenger airplanes in this section. Pilots at the local air- port hoped for a break in the fog late today. The mercury has been rising slowly since early yesterday. The coldest spot on the weather map today was Devils Lake, N. Dak., -where 32 degrees below zerc was ex- perienced. The cold was moving east- { ward from the Rockies and should | reach all parts of the United States. with the possible exception of New England and Southern Florida. This is a condition seldom seen at the Weather Bureau, now issuing cold | wave warnings over the entire area. Weather men here expected the | rains and thaw to dispel the wet snow | before the cold strikes Washington. ¢ SEGRET HEARINGS $4,000,000,000 Measure Confers Wide Powers on President. RULE MAY BE INVOKED TO LIMIT ARGUMENT Expenditure of Vast Sum Left to Discretion of Roosevelt—House Test Due Tomorrow. The $4,000.000.000 work relief bill was introduced in the House today by Representative Buchanan. chairman of the House Apporpriations Com- mittee, Approval came after short hearings {at which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Acting Budget Director Danicl W. Bell and Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples, Treasury's Procurement Division, tes- secret | ified. The session | plan to bring the bill up for consider- ation probably tomorrow. The formal report on the bill will be made by the Appropriations Committee at that time. The Committee on Rules had until midnight to file a special rule under which the bill is to be consid- ered. This rule will have the effect of limiting emendments and debate. $880,000 Asked at Once. In addition to the $4,000,000.000 lump sum requested by the President. the bill provides for the transfer of | $860.000 from previous appropriations for relief to become immediately avail- able for relief work until the program | is put into operation. The administration’s bill gives the President wide powers in the handling | of the $4,000.000.000. It provides that !diately and remain available until June 30, 1937. It sets forth that the money shall be “used in the discretion and under the direction of the Presi- dent, in such manner” and for such about relief and employment. The | biil carries a list of projects for which the money may be used, but specifically states that it shall not be limited to them. Included in the list of purposes for which the money may be expended are slum clearance, rural housing. rural electrification, reforestation, soil ero- sion, blighted area and sub-marginal land reclamation, improvement of road systems and construction of na- tional highways, grade crossing elim- ination, Civilian Conservation Corps “and other useful Federal or non-Federal work.” All Territories Included. The objectives of the bill are de- ciared to be relief from hardships at- tributed to unemployment, relief from economic maladjustment, the allevia- tion of distress and the improvement of living and working conditions. The appropriation is to be available for use in the United States ahd all its Territories, including the Philip- pine Islands. The President is given authority to establish and prescribe the duties and | procedure. functions of governmental agencies, including corporations. He also is authorized " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) HIGH COURT TO RULE ON RECOVERY ACT Promises to Review Decision by Alabama Judge on Timber and Lumber Industry. By the Associated Press. A direct ruling on the constitu- tionality of the national industrial re- covery act was promised today by the Supreme Court. It agreed to review a decision by Federal Judge W. I Grubb of the Northern Alabama Federal Court holding invalid both the recovery act and the code of fair competition for the timber and lumber products in- dustry This case—against William E. Bel- cher. Alabama timber producer and manufacturer—was selected by the acting within her rights in keeping | Government to test its authority over | labor’'s hours and wages through the code structure. Approximately 600 codes have been negotiated. Already the high court has held unconstitutional section 9 (C) of the recovery act, under which the Gov- ernment was regulating oil produc- tion. It ruled Congress had dele- gated too much authority to the President. Belcher was indicted for violating the lumber code. The Gov- ernment contended he had permitted employes to work more hours per week or at less than the minimum hourly wage provided in the code. N BOY SHOT SAVING DOG COLDWATER. Mich., January 21‘ (#).—The love of a small boy for ms! dog brought death to 10-year-old ! Gerry Paul Donnel yesterday. | Gerry and his brother James, 14, who lived with their widowed mother on a farm near here, went looking for rabbits in the woods nearby. James carried his .22-caliber rifle, and! Gerty's pet dog trotted along. Suddenly the boys saw a small ani- mal come bounding toward them. James raised his gun to fire. It was Gerry's dog. Guide for Readers Amusements Comics Features . Finance Lost and F Radio Serial Story . Service Orders Short Story . Society . Sports .. B .A-14- ? 15 chief of lhe‘ The Democratic leaders of the House | this sum shall become available imme- i | to utilize and prescribe | be heard. 1l i | 21, MOTONSFILED T0 FREE 2B0YS | Judge Bentley Contends Evi-1 dence Forced Terms in | Auto Theft Case. Citing 12 grounds for his action Attorney Ralph A. Cusick this morn- ing filed in Juvenile Court a motion to ! vacate and set aside judgment of the court in the cases of William Fred- erick Fanning and Arthur Thurston Penn. The boys were committed Sat- urday to National Training School for purposes as shall be necessary to bring | Boys during their minority on charges of stealing an automobile. They are | each 15 years old. A hearing on his motion will be held tomorrow morning. In the event it is disallowed, Cusick said he would appeal to the District Supreme Court for writs of habeas corpus under | which the boys might be freed. | Cusick's argument in favor of the motion includes: 1. That the defendants, of imma- ture years and understanding, were not advised as to their constitutional rights. 2. That the defendants were not| advised as to their right of ha\’mgi counsel. | 3. That the defendants were not | arraigned. Claims Charge Not Read. 4. That the defendants did not | have the offense with which they were | charged read to them. 5. That no trial was had. 6. That no offense or case Wwas proved, or attempted to be proved against them and they were not ad- | ed that they were entitled to such | 7. That no opportunity was given | to the defendants or their parents to | 8. That no opportunity was given | to the defendants or their parents to | be heard before sentence was pro- | nounced | 9. That the defendants were de- | prived of their rights to which they were entitled under the code of laws for the District of Columbia, title 18, page 175, section 262 10. That the docket fails to show an entry that a trial was had. 11. That the defendants, if guilty of any offense, were guilty of a felony and not as charged in the informa- tion. 12. For the reasons apparent from the facts set forth in the attached affidavit. Upon filing his motion with Assist- ant Corporation Counsel Mae Helm Cusick conferred at some length with Miss Helm and Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman. No statement | was issued following their conference. Complaints against Judge Bentley’s | decision in the case will be laid before | the special Crime Investigation Com- mittee. of which Representative Jen- nings Randolph of West Virginia <! chairman, in an executive session {o- night. | Chairman Randolph said today that | he and other members of the com- | mittee of seven have received re- | peated complaints which will be con- | sidered at this evening's session. He said that he is not prepared off- hand to discuss the merits of the case, but believes that complaints when made in good faith by citizens of the District to members of the District Committee in their capacity as legis- lators for the local government should be given serious consideration and at- tention. Fish Plans Study. Representative Hamilton Fish. Re- publican, of New York, said today that an impartial study should be made of the charges in the case and that if the facts were borne out, he would offer a resolution in the House to re- move Judge Bentley from office. Other members of the House believe. how- ever, that Judge Bentley should not be condemned until an opportunity had been afforded for finding out how much more there may be in the case than has been disclosed. For this reason they are ready to support a careful study by a proper subcom- mittee of Committee of the House. Mrs. Roosevelt, at her conference with newspaper women today, was asked to comment on the case. She said: “I have enough confidence in Judge Bentley to feel she would not have committed the children if she felt their parents were able to deal with them.” Meanwhile, Judge Fay Bentley, who committed the boys, explained her action by saying “the only service this court could perform for those bays was to give them the training opportunity of th: National School. I was well acquainted with the facts of this particula- case and the back- ground of the boys. Evidence was (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) a | | | 1935—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. 223 (#) Means Associated P ress. TWO CENTS. OH,CHARIE ! THANKS FOR THEM KIND WORDS Gold Ruling Put Off Until February 4th As Court Recesses By the Associated Press The Supreme Court recessed today until February 4 without ruling on the constitutionality of gold payment suspension legisla- tion. A decision on generally expected The question is whether the Government acted with consti- tutional authority when, in going off the gold standard. it wiped out the clause calling for the pay- ment of about $100,000.000,000 of obligations in gold or its equiva- lent Whether the court will split up along the familiar “liberal-con- servative” lines is a subject of much speculation. While no one except the justices themselves can know how the decision will go, past cases led some observers to believe that Justices Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo might be more apt to uphold abrogation of the clause than Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds, Suther- land and Butler. that date was TANKER INFLAMES FAR FROM SHIPS lWith Nearest Vessels Una- ware of Plight, Crew Quits Burning Craft. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 21.—Flames raged aboard the tanker Valverde 1,000 miles east of Florida's southern tip early today while the only vessels in the vicinity could not be summoned to the rescue until their lone wireless operators resumed their posts. Twe warships and four other vessels, meanwhile, rushed toward it, (with the | 10,000-ton British cruiser Frobisher predicting the earliest arrival at the scene—midnight tonight. The fire, which started in the en- gine room, had burst through the deck when the Valverde's operator sent an appeal for aid at 2:10 am. (Eastern standard time). The crew was fighting desperately to keep the blaze from reaching the full cargo of | fuel oil. Flames Gaining Rapidly. Only two lifeboats were left, the operator said, and he did not know how much longer he could hold out. “Flames coming up on deck,” he wirelessed. “Keeping headed into wind to keep fire from cargo. ing fast.” The Valverde sent shortly after midnight. Shipping men believed the British tanker Inverarder and the freighter Lagarto, out of Glasgow, were near the Valverde's isolated position, half way between Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Each carries only one wireless op- erator, however, and he was off duty during the night. 36 Reported on Board. Glasgow reported the crew list of the tanker shows 36 men were on board when she sailed. The master is Capt. T. C. Thomas. An early message said the flames were approaching the ship's boiler room. threatening to disable the ves- sel entirely. The SOS said it was en route from Curacao to Hamburg. its first SOS Burn- | PAYRESTORATON CETSSTRONG PLEA | Spokesmen for Various Gov- ernment Workers’ Groups at Senate Hearing. A strong plea for restoration of the remaining 5 per cent of the Govern- ment pay cut. as of January 1, was made before a Senate appropriations | subcommittee today by spokesmen for the various groups of Government em- ployes. The subcommittee. headed by Sen- | ator Adams. Democrat, of Colorado. may meet again this afternoon or to- | | morrow to decide whether it will in- | clude Senator McCarran'’s pay restora- |tion amendment in a deficiency | measure now pending. An early de- | cision is looked for, because the sub- | committee has before it a joint resolu- | tion carrying funds, which must be | passed on by Congress immediately to provide for operating expenses of sev- eral Government commissions for the | next five months. Among Those Present. Among those who appeared before the subcommittee to urge pay resto- ration action were Luther C. Steward, National Federation of Federal Em- ployes: William C. Hushing. American | cock. American Federation of Gove ment Employes; M. T. Finnan, Na- tional Association of Letter Carriers N. P. Alifas. Metal Trade Department of Organized Labor. A score of others were present representing other or- ganizations, including Frank Coleman of the Central Labor Union and a representative of the National Customs Service Association. Others Participate. In addition to Senator Adams, those who took part in the hearing and | asked questions were Senators Glass of Virginia. Hayden of Arizona. Byrnes of South Carolina and Hale of Maine. Mr. Hushing told the committee the American Federation of Labor is strongly in favor of Government pay restoration because it is essential in promoting recovery and because what the Government does is an example to industry. Hushing placed in the rec- |ord a letter President William Green | of the A. F. of L. wrote to President | Roosevelt on the pay question. togeth- |er with President Roosevelt's reply, | dated January 7. Hushing said the | President’s reply. in substance, was that the economy law prohibited him from restoring the basic pay at this time. Hushing told the committee that he interpreted the President’s let- ter as indicating he would not be averse to action by Congress on the question. | The letter from the President to | Mr. Green read, in part. as follows “I am in full agreement with your contention that employes of the Fed- | eral Government should not be de- | barred from enjoying the increase in | “(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ANS BUREAU Press Agency Will Be Started Soon, Says Pope. VATICAN CITY, January 21 (#).— The Vatican is about to establish a press bureau, it was learned today. Although the idea had been spurned for many years, it will scon be put into effect. The Foreign Press Asso- ciation of Italy requested Pope Pius to make this change when he received its members at the conclusion of the holy year. i | VATICAN PL Infection Causing 110-Degree Temperature Fatal to Boy, 14 An infection of unknown origin that sent the body temperature to 110 degrees—an extraordinary height— caused the death yesterday of John Lee Hyatt, 14-year-old student of Paul Junior High School and son of Carl B. Hyatt, attorney in the Department of Justice. Young Hyatt was siricken with a high fever Thursday, and, after a consultation of physicians, he was taken to the Homeopathic Hospital, Dr. nosed the case as streptococcus in- fection, which usaally results from a wound. It was this type of infection, resulting from a chafed blister on the foot, that caused the death of Calvin Coolidge, jr. No injuries of any kind could be found on the body of the Hyatt boy, however. His temperature rose rapid- !ly. Dr. Shannon said today the fever | reached 107!; degrees Saturday. > William Arthur Shannon diag- | The temperature chart at the hos- pital shows that yesterday the youth's temperature shot up to 110 degrees. Nurses at the hospital got identical readings with several thermometers, which were known to be accurate. The temperature was taken in several ways and the results always were the same. Medical annals are said to record a few cases of temperatures as high |as 110 degrees—such figures some- times resulting from sunstroke. Blood tranfusion was resorted to in a desperate effort to curb the infec- tion, but in vain. The boy's body will be taken to Asheville, N. C., where he was born. | His parents came to Washington from Asheville, where the father formerly | was a judge of the Juvenile Court. He was connected with the Children’s | Bureau of the Department of Labor before being transferred recently to the Justice Department, ' Federation of Labor: E. Claude Bab- | BRUND'S ASSETS INGREASED §14.66 AFTER KONAPIG EXPERT TESTIFES Treasury Agent Gives De- tails of Family Financing as Justice Trenchard Has Testimony Repeated. “THIS MAY BE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE,” HE SAYS Reilly, in Cross-Examination of Witness, Brings Out Account When Closed Was Within $50 of What It Was When It Was Opened. BULLETIN, FLEMINGTO!} 21 (/P1.—Defer mistrial in tl ard murder in the Lindbergh ing. Ju e Trenchard der eating it very c The motion came after Attornev General David T. Wilentz had re- ferred to a purchase of aviati stock by Hauptmann Chief Defense Attorney J. Reilly charged that had admitted that the intention of his question on the aviation stocks. in which he brought in t name of Col. Charles A. Lindberg was intended to let the jury knos I the father of the kidna ested in aviation. | Edward Wiler FLEMINGTON 2 A Government accountant testified to- day that Mr. and Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann's assets swelled $44.486 | after the futile $50.000 ransom was | paid for baby Charles A. Lindbergh. jr. The State. which accuses Haupt- {mann of kidnaping and murdering the i Lindbergh baby. also brought to a driveway near the court. ready to show to the jury if the court permits, the automobile in which Hauptmann was alleged to have been seen near the Lindbergh home on the day of the kidnaping. March 1, 1932. One wit- ness has testified he saw a ladder in the automobile. To Refute Fisch Link. The State also announced itself | ready to refute any further attempt { on the part of the defense to implicate the dead German furrier, Isador Fisch, in the kidnaping and murder or col- lection of the ransom. A New York attorney. Albert D. Kurtz, the prose- cutor said, has a diary showing that he and Fisch were together the day of the kidnaping. Hauptmann claimed on his arrest that $14.600 ransom money found n his garage had been given to him by Fisch for safekeeping A defense announcement on the same point was to the effect it had in- formation Fisch used the name of | “John” when he went back to Ger- | many to die of tuberculosis. A wom- an giving this information. Mrs. Curt Schwarz. a Bronx housewife, has not promised to testify, however Mrs. Schwarz was quoted by a de- fense investigator as sayving Fisch also wrote she and her husband, signing his name as “John.” The man to whom the ransom money was turned over in St. Raymonds Cemetery. the Bronx. by Dr. Jol (Jafsie) Condon called himself “John.” Dr. Condon has sworn this was Haupt- mann. A puzzling development of the day was a report to police by a youth named Robert Grant. 18. at Hastings- on-Hudson. N. Y.. that he had been kidnaped by two men who threatened to hold him as a hostage to prevent testimony for the defense by a man named Manly. Grant told the police { he had furnished Manly's name to the defense. The figure on Hauptmann assets given to the jury by the Government accountant. William E. Frank. Treas- | ury agent. included the $14.600 found {in"his garage and $120 in zold coins | found in his home in the Bronx. J‘ Justice Thomas W. Trenchard sur- | prised the attorneys by ordering the | court reporter to repeat the amount | of the assets. $44.486, noting it, and | remarking | “This may be of great importance to me.” uary 21.— Lessons in Margins. Frank's testimony that three broker- lage accounts of the Hauptman jumped to stock purchases of $256, 442.15 in 1933 caused the defense to bring out on cross-examination a les- son in margin dealings. | Frank testified Hauptmann began to | deal on margin in 1930, and the de- | fense elicited from him acknowledp- ment that the books of a stock margin account would not show the money actually put in—that is, that it would not show the amount of the pur- chaser’s equity in the account. Attorney General David T. Wilentz brought out from Frank testimony that the $44.486 was exclusive of any cash loans made by Hauptmann. Hauptmann said after his arrest that he had loaned the dead Isador { Fisch $7.500. He also said that Fisch | had given him the ransom money for safe keeping and that, because of the unpaid loan, he had begun to spend it without knowing what it was. It was Hauptmann's expenditure of a ten-dollar gold note, a ransom bill, for gasoline, that led to his arrest in the Bronx, and to his subsequent indictment as the kidnaper and mur- derer of the Lindbergh baby. Frank gave this account of Haupt- mann’s stock purchases from 1929 to 1934, with 1930 omitted, and three separate accounts (Hauptmann, Mrs. Hauptmann, Mrs. Hauptmann in ir;x;izden name) being considered after 1929—$1,196. 1931—$2,836. 1932—$4,905.25. 1933— (three accounts), $256,442.15. 1934—$10,982.55. Frank said there was also one small commodity account in 1933 for which he had no figures. Reilly brought out in cross-ex- amination that Hiuptmann and his (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. [