Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1935, Page 6

A—6 » MRS. CATT OPENS WAR CURE PARLEY i 11 Women’s Organizations Are Participating in Annual Session. By the Associated Press. A four-day Conference on the Cause: and Cure of War was opened here today by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who hailed it as an influential sgency for the promotion of peace. Eleven women's organizations, mak- ing up the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, are par- ticipating in the annual meeting THE EVENING Torturing Fear of Hauptmann Seen Etched on Countenance !Character Termed a Paradox, and Likened to Ice That Burns—Wife Watches Him With Adoration. asleep, and Hauptmann might get his gun, and then we might all stay in New Jersey forever, and possibly BY ANNE GORDON SUYDAM. Special Dispatch to The Star. FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 22.— The color of Bruno Richard Haupt- | & few feet underground. mann’s face is now the color of the | Thus Anni is wheeled intc the bull belly of a dead fish. He exudes such | pen, to Hauptmann's cell, and through a clammy miasma that you feel he | the meshes of her circus cage, and ! must be cold to touch, if you were | through the bars of his cell, these | allowed to touch him. But there is a | two are allowed to converse uninter- | dry ice which burns, and I believe | ruptedly. She cannot pass him poison, Hauptmann to be just such a strange | she cannot pass him physical relief paradox—a human being made up by | in any form, be it sleep or death, and { just such a curious chemical formula. | such information as she may give him He is the ice which burns; he is the | through wires and bars can avail him cold ether which paralyzes and then | nothing in this his final judgment. his mind, his whole | She probably says, “Hans says he STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WHITE HOUSE HAS %00 FOR LUNCHEON Mrs. Roosevelt Says Over- flow Event Is Sign of Better Times. By the Associated Press. An embarrassing situation developed temporarily at the White House yes- " terday when 300 women were expected for luncheon and 900 came. The guests, coming from 35 States, | included more than half of the 1,700 | members of the Chautauqua Women's | Club, some of whom are delegates to the Cause and Cure of War Conference here. TUESDAY, traysful. Paper napkins were swiftly substituted for linen. While the vanguard of guests was going down the receiving line the V’hite House housekeeper telephoned orders ior more supplies, just to be sure she could feed 1,000 if necessary. Screened from view and protected by a heavy cloth, the famous gold piano was transformed into a serving table for the cake. Behind the screen, t00, & panorama cameraman set up his tall tripod, meanwhile musing that he'd been taking pictures here for 25 years and it was the first time he'd ever known of a panorama pic- ture in the east room. Tribute to Chautauqua. All of which was Mrs. Roosevelt’s tribute to the trail-blazing of chau- tauqua in the adult education field JANUARY 22, 1935. and to Mrs. Pennybacker, president of its woman’s club. | Because of the numbers it was a picnic lunch—ham, potato salad, buns, pickles, coffee, ice cream and cake. ‘Wonderfully managed,” was the compliment of velvet-gowned Miss Anne Gray of Washington, oldest member present, who will be 90 on March 17. She stood with the rest along the wall and insisted on standing even when Mrs. Roosevelt rose from her own chair and offered it to her. Visit Other Nations. Nearly 10,000 schol children of Eng- land visited other countries, including the United States, Canada, Italy, Greece, Czechoslovakia and Finland, last year. Night Final Delivery The first of a list of speakers, Mrs. | Stirs the senses: Catr. 76-vear-old feminist leader and | being. is the volcano which has formed | peace advocate, reviewed for the dele- | the cold, metallic lava which is his | gates the 10 ye e she founded | body. | and declared that it had carried out its determination to promote peace, “omitting emotion, sentimentality and superficiality.” the organization Viewed With Suspic first,” she recalled, “Congre: clearly viewed us with suspicion and military groups outspokenly pro- nounced us a menace. We felt hos- ity everywhere about us. When it all over, we were not quite cer- ain whether our first conference had been a comedy, a tragedy or an ex- periment. It turned been a brave beginning."” “At On the first committee which sum- | cures for war Was Mrs. nklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, who will address the con- ference banquet tonight on “the out- look for peace.” Peace Steps Listed. Ten steps toward peace in the past 10 vears were outlined for the con- ference by Dr. Stephen A. Duggan, director of the Institute of Interna- tional Education. He listed them as: Development of the principle of re- gional pacts such as the one assiring Aisace-Lorraine to France, the 1930 London Naval Conference, the Lau- sanne agreement, the 1934 German- Polish treaty guaranteeing status quo in the Polish Corridor for the next 10 years, the admission of Russia to the League of Nations, the Roosevelt “good neighbor” policy toward Latin America, the Laval-Mussolini confer- ence in Rome. the Saar plebiscite and “the exposure of the munitions x Morlev. editor of the Wash- n Post, said the real test of tk Senate Munitions Investigating Com- mittes would come on the manner in 'h it supports the State Depart- ment toward munitions control in the international field R. F. ROPER RESIGNS DEMOCRATIC POST National Committee’s Executive Secretary Will Join Balti- more Firm. By the Associated Press. The Democratic National Commit- tee has announced the resignation of Richard F. Roper, executive secretary for the last three years. He is with- drawing to be- come associated with the firm of Tongue, Brooks & Zimmermann, Baltimore insur- ance underwrit- ers. He was ap- pointed to his Postmaster Gen- eral and chair man of the Na- tional Committee Richard F. Roper. knowledging the resignation, Farley said he would “al- ways remember the splendid co-opera- tion I have received from you when you were first associated with me in the pre-convention fight for President Roosevelt and during the campaign that followed, and the able assistance which you so generously rendered to me personally in the performance of Yyour duties.” MAJ. HERNANDEZ DIES IN HOSPITAL Editor of Quartermaster Review ‘Was Composer of Military Marches. Maj. Randolph J. Hernandez, U. S. ! A, retired. editor of the Quartermaste Review, died Sunday in Walter Reed | Hospital after a brief illness. Born in Charleston. S. C., on June out that it had | In a letter ac-| | His sympathists (I coin a word be- cause these people are a cult) attribute his color to the well-known prison | pallor. It is true that Hauptmann has been incarcerated since the day of ¥ arrest. over feur months ago, and that, s| with the exception of his drive from | New York to Flemington at the time ot his extradition, he has not known | | the direct benefit of either zephyr or | | blizzard. During that drive he had | his latest glimpse of “that tent of blue which pri ers call the sky.” | Kept Fit in Bull Pen. Nevertheless, his warden reports he | eats well: he is reputed to have gained | a few pounds since beivg imprisoned— | which is an object lesson to many of | us to keep out of jail—and his exer- | cise in his own private bull pen is said to have kept him so fit that his muscles have not deteriorated Prison pallor may have played its part in developing his general ghastli- ness, but T believe that tortured nerves and torturing fear have etched their fearful handiwork upon his face. But not a tortured conscience. There are | those in this world who might spur themselves to a great crime and there- after be hag-ridden by remorse to the | end of their davs, but not so Bruno | Richard Hauptmann | He may have been shrewd enough to plan and commit this crime single- | handed. but I believe him to be so | supremely egocentric as inevitably to | make some such boast as that which immediately led to his arrest H 1 sit just behind Hauptmann's wife, and as I study her and occasionally { exchange a few words with her, I | believe that my reactions are those of any normal human being endowed ! presumably with one part heart and | one part brain. I am not inclined, | so far as I know, to let either senti- ment or cynicism run away with me ! My heart is inevitably and profoundly | pitiful to any woman entangled in | such a ghastly web. | Whether she knew about this crime | beforenand, whether she was told afterward, whether she became sus- picious only when Hauptmann quit his job and began spending money more freely than she had ever seen him spend it, or whether her first horrible realization came when she | accompanied the police to the Haupt- mann garage and saw them dig se- creted blood money from tin cans and wooden beams, none of us knows yet. But those of us Wwho have watched her from day to day, and { who have seen with what adoration | she watches her Richard, are inclined to believe that even though she knew him to be the original Judas, she | would be there to cut the noose from | around his agonized neck, and if he had spent his 30 pieces of silver, she | would try to redeem and repay his | guilty money by scrubbing floors or by standing hopelessly, but still hope- fully, on street corners. Speaks Through Cage. Twice a week she enters a three- sided wire-meshed cage, which is moved into Hauptmann's bull pen, and from which she speaks to him. Two armed guards, relieved every few hours, stand guard within the bull pen, |and one guard stays throughout the | night within his cell. This guard Is not armed—you see, he might fall i | | | | 2, 1878, Maj. Hernandez was educated | in San Francisco and Army at 16. He served in France dur- ing the World War as quartermaster at Brest. He received a citation from entered the | Gen. Pershing in 1918 for meritorious | service and in 1932 was decorated with the Order of the Purple Heart Maj. Hernandez was the composer of many amateur operetta and mili- tary marches and frequently had con- ducted the Army Band. was awarded the academic palms by the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. Retiring in 1928, he had lived in In 1919 he | | | i Mrs. Roosevelt hailed the gathering as a sign of better times, saying she would not have expected these women to come so far a year and half ago. Mounting a small platform which she carried, Mrs. Roosevelt had to make two speeches—one to the crowd lunching in the State dining room and one of those eating in the east room Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, 80-year- old club woman, got a great hand with her response: “We are here, Mrs. | Roosevelt, 1,000 strong!” She was the one who had estimated a 300 attend- ance. believes in you,” or “Elsa says she knows you couldn’t do such a thing,” or “Manfried asked for his daddy to- day.” But though she flung through those bars the most desperate mes- sage that ever woman conveyed, she is still the female and he is still the pacing lion, roving back and forth and occasionally emitting jungle snarls, Mrs. Hauptmann may or may not know that her lion is guilty. 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