Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, not quite so cold tonight, migl- mum temperature about 14 degrees; jo- morrow party cloudy, not so cold. peratures—Highest, 24, at 3:30 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 6, at 7 a.m. today./ Full report on page 9. / Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 15,16 & 17 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. A.F. OF L. REFUSES 10 ABIDE BY AUT0 CODE AS EXTENDED BY THE PRESIDENT Green Tells Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Act Has Failed and Forces Unlim- ited Hours. No. 33,148. Stock Exchanges May Close on Day Of Gold Decision By the Asso:iated Press. The Securities and Exchange Commission was authoritatively reported today to be giving serious consideration to closing the stock exchanges if the Supreme Court’s gold case decision is made public during market hours. The commission has full legal power to close the exthanges in emergencies. No decision has been reached, but the commission will be ready to act on Monday if the court hands down its ruling then. In the recent oil decision the court’s opinion was not delivered until after the market closed in New York, but it was before the close on Western exchanges. ‘The commission’s problem con- cerns New York and some 46 R other exchanges. CONNECTIONS SEVERED B“ 5 WITH AUTO LABOR BOARDISUV'ET SH_UP | Need for Compulsory 30-Hour Week Declared at Hand—Ad- ministration Points to Recent Detroit Elections Showing Few Allied With Unions. Y BESCRIPED Hull Says Debt Plan Failure Must Decide Fate of Credit Bank. By the Assoclated Press. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, an- nounced today organized labor would “not accept” the automobile code, Which had been extended until June | A move to scrap the bank set-up to 16, by President Roosevelt last night. ! foster credit to Soviet Russia was s;::eu;n.'m‘;d‘e :-be Sstglemen_!"bflfofeUconsiuered by officials today after udiclary Subcommittee con- SBering fthe | Blask S0-hour week Oil1 | attempts to reach a settlement of $hiht Wopds: i Moscow’s debt to the United States ‘We protest against this code. We i\had collapsed. Will not accept it, not recognize it, | he way for such action was opened not yield on it. i nyeen said the code had “abso- | by Secretary of State Hull last night lutely failed” to spread work “because | after a final talk with Ambassador under it the workers are compelled | Troyanovsky at which the United or required to work almost unlimited | States flatly refused to meet the hours at the discretion of the auto- | Soviet government's condition for a mobile manufacturers. debt accord. This condition was By the Associated Press. @h | train at the railroad depot surrounded Many Declared Not Affiliated. A recent ballot conducted among automobile workers by the National Automobile Labor Board showed 90 per cent of workers voting in nine ! plants recorded themselves as not affil- jated with any labor organization and slightly more than 5 per cent affiliated with American Federation of Labor. Votes cast numbered 46,211, Green said from time to time labor had sought amendments to the ccde, but each time it had been renewed without such amendments. Finally, he said, labor thought it would be better to have no code at all. ‘The renewal last night. he said, was | worse than ever because it incorpor- ated the Automobile Labor Board as the settlement agency instead of the National Labor Relations Board. Labor Severs Connections. He told the judiciary group that: labor. on the advice of its attorneys, had severed all connections with the Auto Labor Board, believing it had a legal right to do so. Green mentioned the auto code as ah illustration of the necessity of a compulsory 30-hour week to bring about a spread of employment and in- creased purchasing . power masses, one which “has glven us a notable record of improved return on in- vestment.” General Motors. he said, had re- ported a “net of $94,769,000 in 1934 agamnst $83,213.000 in 1933." “Yet,” he added, “they say -either renew this objectionable code in its present form or there will be no code at all, and after the peak season is over, these noble men recruited from every section and serving in the in- dustry are cast aside just as you would a machine which had com- pleted its purpose. ; “And cities like Detroit are feeding these people who, having worked in the peak season, are now cast-off *human units. Expired Last Night. After a conference with Donald Richberg, N. R. A. officials and lead- ers of the industry, President Roose- velt acted last night just a short time before the auto code was due to expire at midnight. He extended it to June 16, with two changes. One provided for the introduction of new- car models in the Fall, instead of January. The other calls for time- and-half pay for overtime worked in excess of 48 hours a week. Both are devices to spread em- ployment. By helping iron out peaks introduction of models aims to give ‘workers three months additional em- | ployment a year. ‘When informed the code had heen renewed without the changes desired by the A. F. of L. Green said “aban- donment of hearings is highly ob- Jectionable to labor.” The federation’s demands for er: Sure of the “merit clause (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) 11 GERMANS ARE KILLED AS AIRPLANE CRASHES Pilot, Flying Low in Fog Rain, Sends Craft Into Side of Hjll. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 1.—Eleven per- sons were killed when a passenger airplane crashed at 7 p.m. last night at Poderjuch, near Stettin. The dead are the plane’s crew of three and its eight passengers, all Germans. The ship was a low-winged plane of the German-Russian Airways, en route from Koenigsberg to Berlin. Fog and rain clouds forced the pilot to fly low. Close to the Stettin Air- drome the radio operator announced the plane’s altitude at 500 feet. Ten minutes later the plane ran full speed into a hill 450 feet high. and of the! Green cited the auto industry as of production, officials said the earlier | understood to be a $100,000,000 cash ;loan from the American Government. | Reporting that the year-long nego- | tiations “must now be regarded as having come to an end,” the Secre- tary added that it devolved upon the | trustees of the administration’s Ex- port-Import Bank to decide now whether there is “any good reason” for continuing its existence. No statement was forthcoming im- ‘mediately from the bank, which was | established to guarantee credits ex- | tended by private industries on anti- ! cipated Russian orders. Meeting Soon Expected. It was regarded as likely, however, | that its officers would meet soon to { discuss the situation. Such a meeting {would have to be summoned by George N. Peek, president of the bank, in his capacity as foreign trade ad- viser to the President. Significance was attached to the fact that both R. Walton Moore, Assistant Secretary of State, and Robert C. Kelly, chief of the State Department’s Eastern European Di- vision, who participated actively in | the debt discussions, are officers of i the bank. In unofficial circles the prediction was made also that as a result of the failure of the debt negotiations and the blow to hopes for a trade revival between the two countries, the Government might not find it necessary now to build its own embassy in Moscow. A structure costing $1,- 250,000 had been planned. H Facilities of the Export-Import { Bank had never been made available to the Soviets because of the John- son act prohibiting financial aid to governments in default to the United | States. Under its provisions Russia | | was held to be a defaulter because | of the Soviet government’s repudia- | tion of a $187,000,000 Kerensky debt to America and $86,000,000 in pre- j war Czarist bonds. American nationals in addition have | preferred claims estimated at $400,- {000,000 for property confiscated or | lost after. the bolshevik revolution. $100,000,000 Guaranteed. Credit guarantees in excess of | $100,000,000 would have been ex- tended to Russia if it had agreed to jfund its debts, the total of which this Government already has scaled down considerably. Ambassador Troyanovsky conferred | with Secretary Hull 4!, minutes yes- | terday. When he emerged he refused ito make a statement. He only re- cently had returned from Moscow, where he went to present American proposals direct to the Kremlin. Secretary Hull later issued the fol- lowing statement: “You will recall the fact that in an effort to arrive at an agreement with the Soviet government with re- spect to debts, claims and credits for trade, negotiations were begun more than a year ago in Moscow and continued in Washington, but that no understanding had been reached when Ambassador Troyanovsky left Wash- ingtton in October to visit Moscow. “In_our last conversations with " (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) |PITTSBURGH SCHOOLS CLOSED TO RADICALS Meetings to Be Barred From Buildings—Attacks Made on Federal Government. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa, February 1.— Dr. Ben G. Graham, head of the city school system, said today that meet- ings of persons regarded as Commu- nists and others looked upon as “too radical” will be barred from buildings. | { ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. FH¥ HUEY LONG ORDERS BRUTAL BEATING OF PHOTOGRAPHER Senator, Arriving in New Orleans, Tells Guards to Go Limit. STOOPING CAMERAMAN HIT WITH BLACKJACK Situation Tense as Troops Patrol State House With Opening of “Murder Plot” Hearing. BULLETIN. By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., February 1. —Ernest J. Bourgeois, president of the Square Deal Association of Louisiana fighting Huey Long’s dic- tatorship, was arrested today at association headquarters here. A detachment of Guardsmen surrounded the skyscraper build- ing in which the Square Deal offices are located, went upstairs, and placed the militant Bourgeois under arrest. He was led down ‘to the street by the Guardsmen, followed by a great crowd of spectators. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, February 1.—Huey | Long arrived in New Orleans today from Washington and got off of the| by a throng of bodyguards, whose first act was to beat up a news pho- tographer and smash his camera to pleces on the concrete floor of the railroad shed. ‘The photographer was Leon Trice of the staff of the Associated Press,| who had taken a picture of Senator Long stepping off of the train from Washington. Long Encourages Attack. As he snapped the picture Joe Mes- | sina, Long’s chief bodyguard, struck Trice in the mouth with his fist.| Trice. who was no match physically | with the husky bodyguard, dropped his camera. Long, who was looking on, shouted: | “Give it to him, Joe! Do anything | you want to with him!" With that Messina struck the pho- tographer with a blackjack on.the back of the head and knocked him | down. The bodyguards destroyed the camera and stalked off with the Sena- tor. The cameraman was struck with the blackjack as he leaned over to pick up his camera. It came without warning, as the bodyguards had not sald objection would be made to pic- tures. Trice was taken to a hospital where his wounds were dressed. Surrounded by Guards. Senator Long declined to say any- ‘ thing bearing on the military-political state of affairs, and hurried off to his hotel surrounded by a group of guards and followers. HEARING IS DELAYED. | Many Gather at State House for | “Murder Plot” Probe. By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., February 1. i { i 1of the New York Shipbuilding Co., GLAD To SEE You AND | HOPE You BROUGHT A SNow AND ICE REMOVER ! \‘\ | AR NN “}\\\\}‘\\x \ DEMOCRATS' PLEA T0 SHPMENBARED Aid Sought to Elect Roose- | velt to Keep Pacifist Qut of White House. By the Associated Press. Copies of letters sent from Demo- cratic headquarters in the Fall of 1932 | asking shipbuilders to contribute to | the Roosevelt campaign fund to put “other than a pacifist in the Whte | House” were introduced in evidence | today at the Senate Munitions Cnm-“ mittee hearing. The letters bore the typed name of | Arthur P. Homer, Washington marine | architect, who yesterday was described variously as a former $25-a-week paint salesman and a close friend of Presi- | dent t. He was said by a committee investi- | gator to have once stated he was asso- | ciated with the President in the lob- ster business. - | Vandenberg Offers Letters. The letters were introduced by Seh- | ator Vandenberg, Republican, of Mich- | igan, sole committee member present at the time. Vandenberg listed Homer as head of the “marine division of the Demo- cratic National Campaign Committee, Biltmore, Hotel, New York City.” Barely were the letters introduced than Charles .angell, chief estimator testified that while material and labor costs on cruiser construction increased about $900,000 from 1927 to 1934, the contract price charged by the com- panies mounted from about $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. One of the copies of Homer's let- ters presented by Vandenberg was ad- dressed to Charles M. Schwab of the Soldiers Replace Italian Teachers WORK-RELIEF CASH To Tutor for War, SPUHE I]E]UBTEI] Mussolini’s Vast Military | Program Launched on | Glass Says Senate Group Fascist Birthday. Lacks “Earmarking” Information. By the Associated Press. ROME, February 1.—Military edu- | | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 132,522 Some Returns Not Yet Received TWO CENTS. EXPERT DENIES BRUNO WROTE KIDNAP NOTES; FISCH LINK DROPPED Witness for Defense Criticizes State’s Authorities in Pointing to Writing Characteristics. FIRM OPINION OF PROSECUTION AIDES 1S DISPUTED BY CHARTS (#) Means Associated Press. Hauptmann Lawyers Formally Disclaim Any Contention That Dead Furrier May Have Written Letters. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 1—The combined opinion of eight State experts that Bruno Richard Hauptmann wrote the Lindbergh ransom notes was disputed today by the first defense expert, and Hauptmann's attorneys formally disclaimed part of the so-called “Fisch myth.” Former intimations that the dead Isador Fisch might have written the notes or kidnaped and slain Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., were wiped away by the defense chief, Edward J. Reilly, during a recess argument. Reilly held. nevertheless. to a contention that Fisch, not Hauptmann, was the receiver of the futile $50,000 Lindbergh ransom. John M. Trendley of East St. Louis, Ill, declared it his opinion , that the important first ransom note, known as the nursery note, “W?'S‘ written by a left-handed man trying to disguise his hand- writing.” He charged, moreover, that the chart prepared by Albert S. Osborn, the chief handwriting expert for the State, which was used by Osborn and other experts to illustrate basis for comparing the ransom notes with Hauptmann’s handwriting, ignored all but three words in the first note. & Up to the noon recess, when he was still undergoing direct examination, Wilentz Protests Trendley took up the nursery note cation began in earnest today through- | out Italy with the motto, “Every citi- | zen a soldier!” | The military education program, decided upon by the cabinet Septem- | ber 18, previously had been tried ex- | perimentally but it went into effect | by Chairinan Carter Glass after the | nationally for the first time today, on | genate the twelfth anniversary of the found- | ing of the Fascist militia. Officers in uniform replaced teach- ers in class rooms. The obligatory | military instruction is for the boys only and is divided into three cate- gories, elementary, high school and university. It embraces military history, mili- tary mathematics, war geography and tactics and maneuvers. A college de- gree in Italy now is impossible with- out proficiency in this new subject. Ten thousand Black Shirts today marched in review before Premier | Mussolini in celebration of the anni- | versaty. TOWNSEND PLEADS FOR PEASON PLA |Warns Committee Voters Will Retaliate if Bill Is Not Passed. Judge J. D. Womack today ordered his court opened at 10:24 a.m. for resump- tion of Senator Huey P. Long's “mur- der plot” hearing but the “inquiry” ‘was’ continued until 2 p.m. As National Guardsmen in rein- | forced sentry details paced with fixed bayonets around the towering Lou- isiana State House, spectators crowded into the Supreme Court chambers in the building for the resumption of the “inquiry” by the Senator. The chamber’s limited seating capacity was filled quickly and State police turned away scores of other persons who sought admittance. Batches of witnesses, many wearing emblems of the Square Deal Associa- tion of Louisiana, appeared at the chamber and were herded into a side room ready to be called. Long swept into ton Rouge, now under martial law, With 700 soldiers and an undetermined number of State police, both in uniform angd plain clothes. He reached Baton Rouge in the midst of a tense atmosphere and with the town people subjected to 11 drastic martial law orders, one of which prohibits more than two people to congregate on the streets and prohibits newspapers from printing anything derogatory to the State administration. Reports had Long prepared to take an active part in the prosecution of charges against a group of citizens of a plot to assassinate him. After that Long was known to be considering the calling of a special session of the Legislature and perhaps a constitu- tional convention to rewrite the con- stitution of the State. CHILDREN MENACED BY CHINESE PIRATES Two Guards Reported Slain in Attack on Ship Bearing 75 Pupils. 1 { By the Associated Press. HONGKONG, “| former plant manager of the New " | inquiry into ssserted collusion shipbuilders United States Steel Corp., dated Oc- | tober 17, 1932. The letter described Roosevelt as “marine-minded.” Change Held Necessary. “As a result of the events of the last three weeks,” it said, “we believe that if the shipbuilders of the United States are to get a square deal, it will be necessary to make a change on November 8. “I hope that you are in accord with the idea. “If s0, we ask that you help us with a contribution to the campaign fund of Gov. Roosevelt, who, as you know, is marine-minded and hasn't the opinion that international affairs can be settled with 2 blueprint Navy. “Checks should be made to F. C. Walker, treasurer (personal checks, of course), and mailed to him in the in- closed envelope. The writer will per- sonally acknowledge your contribu- tion and see that the news of it reaches the Governor’s ears.” The Senator did not disclose where copies of the letters were obtained, but told newsmen several of the orig- inals would be introduced later in evidence, Recipients Named. He named as recipients of the let- ters, the following: Homer L. Ferguson, president of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry- dock Co. C. L. Bardo, president of the New York Shipbuilding Co. S. W. Wakeman, vice president of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., of Quincy, Mass. W. S. Newell, president of Bath Iron Viorks, Bath, Me. C. Stewart Lee, vice president, Posey & Jones Corp., Wilmington. J. C. Pow, president of the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa. ‘W. W. Smith, chief engineer of the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearney, N. J. Charles C. West, president, Mani- towoc Shipbuilding Co. of Manitowoc, Wis. Eugene Grace, chairman of the board of Bethlehem Steel Co. Cornbrooks Still Tl Plans to call Ernest I. Cornbrooks, York Shipbuilding Co., were aside because of his continued . He was reported likely to come Monday. He was described by committee members as the “key witness” in its among in bidding on naval con- By the Associated Press. Sixty-eight-year old Dr. Prank E. Townsend left a hospital bed today | to deny that his pension plan was “cock-eyed” and to warn members of Congress that “millions of people are watching your action on this bill and will be guided accordingly.” Appearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, the author of the $200-a-month pension plan for persons over 60 asserted that “much has been written and said that is false and misleading about this plan, in- cluding testimony before this com- mittee.” “I refer particularly to the assertion that it is ‘cock-eyed’” the Long Beach, Calif., physician asserted. Called “Cock-eyed” by Hopkins. “If you believe that, you must also believe that millions of people who are behind the plan are cock-eyed.” The description “cock-eyed” was applied to the plan by Harry L. Hop- kins, emergency relief itor. Arguing for his proposal on the basis it would remove 4,000,000 per- sons over 60 from jobs and give that work to younger people, Dr. Townsend asserted that in recent years “experi- ment after experiment has been tried and failed” with the result that the “rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.” Obviously weak from days in bed at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he un- derwent an abdominal operation, Dr. Townsend asked that he be excused from cross-examination. Ezekiel’s Belief Cited. The committee agreed and granted his request that Francis Cuttlg . of Riverside, Calif., be permitted to tes- tify Monday on the actuarial aspects of his proposal. Townsend said a “New Deal brain- Agriculture Department, contend- ed the United States could “easily (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) 625 PECS MINE STRIKERS QUIT PITS TO GET FOOD Last of Hungry Protesters End 85-Hour Vigil—Hostages By the Associated Press. A prediction there will be “no ear- marking” of the administration’s $4,- 880,000,000 relief bill was made today Appropriations Committee closed hearings on the huge money measure with the testimony of Secre- | tary of the Interior Ickes. | Glass said the committee would | meet Monday morning to begin | “writing” the bill “No member of the committee,” he | said in reply to questioning by a¢ws- | | paper men, “could know how to g basis of information we have. I don't believe there will be any earmarking. | That simply is my own conjecture.” I States on Day Basis. The hearings were closed as Fed- { eral relief cash dropped to $50.000,000 and Administrator Harry L. Hepkins put allocations to States on a “day- to-day” basis. - Both Republicans and some Demo- crats had tried for four days to get | some idea from adminstration Wwit- nesses as to how the money was to be spent, but Glass said after the hear- ings were concluded: “I don't know of any human being who has got all the information he wants.” he testimony has not cleared the | situation,” he added. “Nobody has | told the committee how the $4.880.- 000,000 will be divided up or allocated It's all to be spent in the discretion of the President.” Suggests Asking President. Then, with a smile, the veteran | Virginian said to the reporters: “If you want to know you will have | to ask him (the President). He's very | frank with newspaper men and I think he’d be very glad to tell you." | Earlier, before another Senate com- | mittee, a blast of criticism from organ- ized labor was directed at the admin- istration’s bill. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said the plan to pay a maximum of $50 a month on public works projects would “tear down the wage structure of private industry and reduce the purchasing power” of the workers. “We are, indeed, apprehensive about this,” he said. “Instead of being a benefit to wage earners it is going to injure them. We are insisting that in the expenditure of the money the prevailing wage of the locality shall be maintained. Curtailment of Hours. “So long as the output per worker per hour continues to increase,” he said, “we cannot realize full employ- ment unless hours of work per wage earner are sufficiently curtailed to off- set increasing productivity or com- pensation per employe is sufficiently increased to develop an ever-expand- ing market.” Green at the time was urging a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to ap- prove legislation for a national maxi- mum 30-hour work week. 60,000 SANDBAGS SAVE TOWN IN FLOOD PERIL Sleepless Residents of Glendora, Miss., Hold Levees Threatened by Coldwater River. By the Associated Press. GLENDORA, Miss, February 1.— Sixty thousand sandbags piled atop the levees this town in a three-day fight by hundreds of Glen- dora residents today held back the Coldwater River fiood which the Tal- about earmarking this fund on the | Newsreel Pictures Of Trial Scenes By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 1.—Attorney General David T. Wilentz today telegraphed the | | | | principal newsreel companies pro- testing the showing of pictures taken during the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann while court was is session. Such pictures were dispiayed for the first time last night. Wil- entz charged the motion pictu:: had been obtained in derance of court orders. Before the start of the trial Justice Thomas W. Trenchard told all photographers he would permit the taking of- pictures stills or motion, only during re- cess and that they would be permitted in the court room with their cameras only with that understanding. “ESTHER” APPEARS AT BRUNO’S TRIAL Girl Mentioned by Alibi Witness ‘Watches Mrs. Hauptmann in Court Room. B IR iy By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 1.— | Esther Ellison, the brown-haired ‘Bronx girl whom a Hauptmann alibi | witness said he went to New York {to see the night of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping, was in court today. A New Jersey detective accompanied her. With her were a middle-aged woman and two girls Elvert Carlstrom, a young Swede who testified he saw Hauptmann in a Bronx bakery the night of March 1, 1932, said he went to New York that night to see “Esther.” He added he did not see her, however, because he arrived too late. about the court roonf. Her gray-blue eyes often rested on Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, who said after “Esther’s” that she “knew her well” and that Esther “is a very nice girl.” PODERJAY ADMITS GUILT AS BIGAMIST Successful Pleading Admitted by Benefit of Attorney—Sen- tence February 14. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February benefit of counsel, Ivan Poderjay to- day again pleaded guilty to a bigamy charge for his marriage to Agnes C. ‘Tufverson, missing atorney of New York and Detroit. General Sessions Judge George L. Donnellan remanded him to the Tombs for sentencing Feb- ruary 14. Last Wednesday Poderjay, who was extradited from Vienna, Austria, tried his best to enter a guilty plea, but Judge Donnellan rejected it because he had no attorney. The attorney assigned by the court, Clyde Dart of the Volunteer Defend- ers’ Committee, stood by his client as the plea was entered. Poderjay married Miss Tufverson in New York on December 4, 1930, and his bride has been missing since sev- eral weeks after the ceremony. SESIISRIDNSEERE SHOOTS GIRL AND SELF South Carolinian Interrupts Dance, Dying of Bullet Wound. The young woman gravely looked | name was mentioned on the stand | 1.—With | line by line and word by word to show why ‘- he believed Hauptmann was riot the writer. Reilly declared: “We never contended Fisch wrote the notes or that he perpetrated the crime. I believe he got the ransom money. We don't know who wrote the ransom notes.” The argument concerned a Christ- mas card handed to Trendley with a query as to any possible similarities between the handwriting on it and the handwriting in the 14 ransom notes which followed the kidnaping and slaying of the baby. The State objected. The card was not immedi- | ately identified, though the discus- | sion that followed indicated it was from Fisch. Reilly argued: “We are not here to prove who | wrote the ransom notes, but to prove | Hauptmann didn't write them.” | Disguised Hand. Trendley testified that the first ran- som note, known as the nursery notc. was written in disguised hand, and said it was his opinion the left hanc may have been used sometimes. Court was delayed in opening by a conference in the judge's chambers. There was also a slight delay in the beginning of Trendley’s testimony be- cause the State wanted to get into the record a hospital record regard- ing the testimony of Louis Kiss, one of Hauptmann's alibi witnesses. Reilly asked Trendley: “As a result of your study and ex- amination of the ransom notes and the Hauptmann request writings. are you in a position to render an opinion as to whether or not Hauptmann. this defendant, wrote the ransom | notes?” “In my opinion,” “he did not.” ‘The ransom notes represent a card- inal point in the State’s case against Hauptmann. The first note was left on the window sill of the Lindbergh | nursery the night the baby was stolen. | March 1, 1932. The State contends that the man who wrote the first note also climbed a ladder at the window | of the nursery, stole the baby and | dashed it to death as the ladder broke | on the way down. Eight experts qualified by the State gave their positive opinion that Hauptmann wrote that note as well as the 13 others which were received by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh through divers means. Uses State’s Chart. One of the State experts, Osborn, declared the evidence that Haupt- mann wrote the notes was “irresistible, unanswerable and overwhelming.” Reilly used Osborn’s chart on the nursery note and had Trendley point out words and letters which he said the State expert had omitted. The chart was a photographic en- largement of certain words in the note. “Now Mr. Trendley,” Reilly asked, “is it possible to change the pattern of any handwriting by the use of the retouching pencil or the etching knife on the negative?” “No, it isn't,” Trendley said. “Is it possible that the lines can be shortened or made longer by the use of the camera?” “Well, yes, they can distort it.” “It is possible to distort the hand- writing in photography, is it not?” “Oh, yes; you can do a lot of that stuff with photography.” “€an a different slant be obtained in the way the negative is printed?” *“Or a different effect be produced (Continued on Page 4, Column 8.) | said Trendley, | Running Account of Today's Testimony, Page A-4. BODY FOUND UNDER ICE Unidentified Man Taken Out of Tidal Basin. An unidentified, well-dressed man