Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1935, Page 5

TRIAL LAWYERS | ROLES DRAMATIC Wilentz and Reilly Seen as Opposite Types in Court Battle. ANNZ GORDON SUYDAM. Special Dispatch to The Star. FLEMINGTON, N. J,, February 2.— Among the most interesting char- acter parts on this Flemington stage are those played by the lawyers. Belasco himself could not, for sheer dramatic contrast, have discovered two such different star players as At- torney General David Wilentz for the State and Edward J. Reilly, chief de- fense counsel. The one is & Russian who came to this country as an immigrant, and who, until he was_appointed attorney general of New Jersey a few years ago, was little known. He had gone quietly about the business of making a name for himself, when suddenly fate gave him his big opportunity and now he finds himself in the limelight. If it be true that he was made attorney general through the influence of Mayor Hague, it was probably due more to his ability than to out-and- out patronage. Certainly he shows few of the familiar and often unde- sirable traits of the political ap- pointee. Reilly of Long Experience. Reilly, in direct antithesis, is an American-born Protestant Irishman and a criminal lawyer of long and often lurid practice. He has de- veloped to a high degree the gentle | art of securing acquittal for thugs, crooks and murderers who, according | to every reasonable law of retribution, seemed headed for the gallows. His clients were not always of this low order, however. More mghly] strung individuals, particularly ladies who in a little tempest of feminine feeling had pumped lead into their boy friends, could turn to the gallant Reilly and count on his eloquence, his great-hearted understanding to ab- solve them of even the faintest stigma of guilt. Ia fact, so moving has been his plea for the outraged virtue of mal- treated murderesses that juries have been known to dissolve in tears over the wronged little woman and the plunge of her knife into a man’s ribs | has been made to seem as innocent as ; the thrust of a playful kitten's paw. ‘Wilentz Purrs and Pounces. Wilentz is dark, slight, immacu- lately groomed. His hands are often soothing, even deprecatory; his man- ner is most caressing at his deadliest; he purrs before he pounces upon his victim, who has often been lulled int01 false security by those gentle tones.| As you come to appreciate his artistry | you wait in fascinated suspense for | the moment when he will leap from | his easy conversational manner, his casual roving of the court room floor and fiing himself with bared teeth upon his prey. 5 He leans familiarly over the wit- ness chair, he rests elbow upon its arm, he converses with the witness as though they were two old neigh- bors chatting over the back fence, and suddenly, just as you begin to feel that surely the quiet of this man they once rested in debonair ease, and seem to fling thunderbolts at his cowering prey, and his form of lan- guage, as well as his words, stripped of all amenities, assume a dire and dreadful starkness. Hauptmann Showed Fear. Hauptmann, for all his poise, was fraid of Wilentz when he strolled to the chair and rested his arm upon it. [He had learned the ways of the man during those weeks before he took the stand in his own defense, while he watched him hour after hour, and he was not deceived by that sly, amlable approach. No one who bas seen Wilentz's preliminary tactics could fail to understand the unbearable significance of his hand upon the wit- ness chair. ‘You put yourself in that same chair and you know that, guilty or innocent, you would want to shout out, “Take your hands off me, I'll tell you every- thing if youwll only keep away.” Reilly is so direct an opposite to Wilentz that the two, seen and heard together, seem like those gigantic sym- bolic creations of Milton. He is heavy, rubicund and coarse of feature and form. He wears a morning coat and gray-striped trousers and white carna- tion by way of embellishment. Some- how that inevitable white carnation has a flaunting insolence in this dingy court room. Witnesses Balked Reilly. I think Reilly was floored by the high caliber of the State’s witnesses. ‘The rumored rift in the ranks of the defense, when his cohorts are said to have been disgusted with his inept cross-examination, may well have grown out of his complete unfamiliar- ity with such witnesses as these in a murder trial. For, with the exception of Millard Whitted and one or two rather unnecessary and unconvincing identifying witnesses, the persons who took the stand for the State were dis- tinguished by reputation, intelligence and respectability. To a man ‘whose own star witnesses have turned out to be a shoddy lot of hole-and-corner bootleggers and itinerants, the high character of the State’s witnesses ‘whom he had to cross-examine seemed to have presented a psychological problem beyond his experience or imagination. After the peculiar and seemingly incongruous manner of lawyers, these two professional antagonists in the greatest criminal battle of our gen- eration, who differ utterly in race, religion, temperament and principle, bow and smile and defer to each other on minor points with disarming gra- ciousness. “In consideration of my distin- guished adversary’s request, I will give my consent,” says Wilentz. “As the learned attorney general has well remarked,” says Reilly. “No, no, my dear Alphonse.” “But yes, my dear Gaston.” And suddenly the air is charged with the sarcasm, the professicnal antagonism that flashes from one to the other, and they stand before the bench like two angry small boys de- manding justice from the ever-patient and impartial Judge Trenchard. Then, suddenly, a brief recess is ealled and Wilentz strolls over to Rellly, all arguments forgotten, and says, putting his arm about his shoul- ders, “Come on over here, Ed, I want you to meet my sister.” ‘You can’t help wondering what kind of & brood these lawyers are and if they are really able to completely de- tach themselves from the case and each other during adjournment, as the actor casts off his role with his grease paint. ‘Well, they are good actors, if it be acting. Reilly is the bull, Wilentz is the picador. Wilentz is the artist, Reilly is the showman. Each one brings out the other's most striking qualities, And, in any case, tomorrow “the w must go on.” THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! Faces—What Do They Mean to _You? o_ Hauptmann Films Under Fire Cut by Two City Theaters Other Houses Continue to Show News Reels . of Incident. News reels of Bruno Richard| Hauptmann being questioned by At- torney General David T. Wilentz dur- ing the trial at Flemington, N. J., will be eliminated from the Loew's Fox and Palace Theater programs beginning today, it was announced last night by the management of the houses. Wilentz telegraphed the principal news reel companies Friday complain- ing about the pictures, which were displayed for the first time Thursday night. The attorney general charged they were obtained while court was in session in deflance of the orders of Justice Thomas W. Trenchard. The Metropolitan and Earle, it was said, will continue to show their news reels of the trial, which are similar to those ordered discontinued throughout the country by the Loew's home office in New York. Justice Trenchard told all photog- raphers before the start of the trial he would permit the taking of pic- tures, stills or motion, only during recess. HAUPTMANN JURORS LEAVE COUNTY IN BUS Report Ride Is Ground for Mis- trial Denied by Judicial Authority. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, February 2. —The Hauptmann jurors took their regular Saturday bus ride today, left Hunterdon County for the first time since the trial began and had their bus pelted with snowballs. The 40-mile bus ride took the jury as far as Washington, in neighboring ‘Warren County. The snowball episode occurred in the little hamlet of Hampton, near the Hunterdon-Warren County line. The bright yellow bus was too much of a temptation for a group of street urchins and they pelted it resound- ingly. Liscom Case, juror No. 11, who has been suffering from a heart ailment, accompanied the others on the ride. The fact that the jury left the county gave rise to a crop of reports that it would be grounds for a mis- trial. One of the highest judicial authorities in the State, however, said he knew of no case in legal records to warrant such a conclusion. . Piper's Memorial Built. A large granite monument, bearing a set of Highland bagpipes in bronze and a replica of the Macpherson coat of arms, has been erected on the grave at Newtonmore, Scotland, of John Macpherson, champion piper of Scot- land, and unveiled to bagpipe strains. Up to 3 Years to Pay For Hot-Water AT Get our prices § before you buy. We American Rad- iator Co. prod- ucts — recog- nized as the world's finest. And it's easy to own & new hot- ‘water plant on our easy teams. Ask us. No Cash Required You don't need cash—we can help you finance this American Radiator Hot Water Plant on easy monthly terms. us give you complete facts Phone, write or see . AMERICAN HEATING ENGINEERING CO. 907 N. Y. Ave., Nat. 8421 “Identification” of faces, seen nearly three years ago, have figured prominently in the Hauptmann trial. Here are 21 men and women who figured prominently in the news in the last two years. after a lapse of two years? How many faces can you identify If you are merely a casual newspaper reader, you have seen all of them, some within the last week. Every one pictured is a head-liner in his sphere. The subjects have figured in sports, government, business, the theater and court news. Study the faces, then turn to page 6 for the names and test your memory. (See accompanying article.) —A. P. and Wide World Photos. How’s Your Memory of Faces? Survey Shows Average Is Low Hauptmann Witnesses Ma.y Be Correct in Recalling Details of Events, but Quizzes Cast Who is that person? Where have I seen him before? Is he the man who gave me the fake $10 bill, or is he the stranger who showed up at one of my birthday parties? By the way, which birthday was that? ‘Who else was at the party? Have you ever agked yourself these questions or ones like them? If you haven’t, you must have an unusually good memory or else you are so unobservant that a face brings no vague feeling of familiarity at all to you. In either case, you're a bit one side or the other of normal— just as so many witnesses in the Hauptman trial seem to be. Are they telling the truth? Is it possible they could remember? Ac- cording to the reactions of many per- sons questioned at random throughout ‘Washington, it is possible—but not probable—to remember faces as the witnesses did. Likewise, according to the scientific findings of Dr. John Bentley, professor of psychology at American University, it is possible— but not probable. Face Memories Vary. Dr. Bentley's findings indicate memories “for faces” vary in indi- viduals just as do their memories for mailing letters, wearing their rubbers, etc. Ordinarily, however, he believes, faces are forgotten almost as soon as they are out of sight. Dr. Bentley recalled a recent test in which a group picture of a gradua- tion class was cut up into pictures of individuals after it had been studied for a few minutes. In the group pic- ture the different persons were la- baled. In the separate pictures they were not. The subjects were asked to match names and pictures and made a very poor showing. Sometimes, Dr. Bentley said, there Grave Doubt. might be a peculiar expression an the face of a stranger which would enable one to remember it, although seen only for an instant, for years | afterward. As a test for persons in the ordi- nary walks of life, as are most of those who have been identifying char- acters in the Hauptmann trial, a porter for The Star interviewed a number of persons, asked each of them two or three memory-testing questions. Hotel Manager Quizzed. Raymond G. Iikes, assistant man- ager of the Willard Hotel, said: “Even in the case of & prominent man I could not be sure after a year that I had seen him in the lobby unless there was some specific reason for remembering. A guest may regis- ter and I could not tell a thing about that guest after a period of time unless there was some untoward in- cident connected with his arrival in the hotel. John J. Finegan, manager of a radio store, who lives at Cathedral Man- sions, and who before coming to Washington was a traveling salesman in Southeast Texas, says he cannot even remember the town he was in two years ago, on any date. “Some of the very red letter days in my life are blank in many respects,” says Mr. Finegan. “I cannot, for in- stance, tell you the names of all the guests who were present at my wed- ding. How many men can?” Salesman Remembers Well. Eddie H. Dowling of 4115 Wisconsin avenue, & salesman who meets many persons each day, claims he remem- bers everything he did on his birthday two years ago. “There were seven per- sons present,” he says, “and I can name the entire seven. I remember lMMEDlATE‘)ZN DELIVERY MOST MODELS OF THE 1935 PLYMOUTH " DE SOTO Full line on display at our showrooms 1711 14* St. N.W. DEcatur 5051 Mid-City Auto Co. De Soto—Plymouth Dealers Sol Stern, President Open 8:00 to 10:00 P.M. Wm. A. McGuire, Sales Manager Sundays—9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. | T went alone in the elevator to join | the party. Also, I remember March 1, 1932, as a very distinct event in my life. We were having a party. Some one turned on the radio. There was a news flash. It announced the kid- naping of the Lindbergh baby. We stayed up until 3 o'clock in the morn- | ing listening for returns. I remem- | ber that distinctly. We were s0 | anxious to get reports.” Brown Emery, 61 East Walnut street, Alexandria, Va., a bus driver, | says, “I wouldn’t remember at the end of the line who got on my bus in Washington and went to Alexandria | or vice versa. I wouldn't remembe: anybody in a bus unless there was trouble of some kind. Nor do I re- member what I did on my birthday two years ago.” Eugene B. Bell, 1370 Randolph street, 40 years a salesman in Wash- ington clothing stores, says that some- thing terrific would have to happen to make him remember a customer even over the next day. Forgot Buddy's Name. Lawrence W. West, 256 Ninth street northeast, a carpenter on the Internal Revenue Building, says he cannot re- member details of one of the most exciting moments in his life. He was working on the new House Office Building when one of his buddies fell Off the roof. He helped to pick up the man and carry him to a car, then to the hospital. Though they had worked together for many months Mr. West cannot now recall his name. Such is memory. “Not only that,” Mr. West said, “but I doubt if I could remember things that happencd to me in Richmond three years ago when I went to visit my old home town. I can remember my pals of boyhood days but I cannot remember anything that happened two years ago.” - Charles C. Hart, former American Minister to Albania and Persia, tried to recall some of the outstanding events in his career two years ago— and could not say definitely what they were, or when they took place. “It's just a question of not being able to pin the memory down to a given date or a given item,” Mr. Hart says. “As to remembering anything on my birthday, even my wife forgets that.” Probably the finest candidate for a memory test in Washington is Wil- liam P. Collins, superintendent of the Senate Press Gallery. He can re- member lots of things the historians have forgotten or neglected to men- tion in their books, but Collins can- not remember what happened on his birthday two years ago, nor can he remember any particular individual We'll be glad to honor well) to all who spend @ D. C,” FEBRUARY 8, 1935—PART ONE. he met even a year ago on any given d’rflm. 1 remember the Bgllinger- Pinchot contest and that Pinchot had with him then Lewis Glavis, who is now ‘under fire’ in the Interior De- partment. I remember the investiga- tion of the Titanic disaster, with Senator William Alden Smith of Min- nesota as chairman of the investigat- ing committee.. Yet I cannot tell what happened on my birthday an- niversary two years ago, or even last year.” Birthday Forgotten. . Dick Spenser, nationally known art- ist visiting in Washington, was asked if he could remember what hap- pened on his birthday two years azo. “No,” he said, “I can remember noth- ing.” Nor could he remember what prominent persons he had sketched at certain periods of the year 1932, when he was making drawings for a na- tionally known magazine. - Louis J. Fosse, general manager of the Washington Auditorium, and before that general manager of the old Poli's and Belasco Theaters, has met hundreds of thousands of people in hotel lobbies—and seen that same number of faces through box-office tickers, but even he could not tell you who they were, or are. “As for going back two years, I believe it would be impossible for me to re- call any one I met in my theater, no matter what the circumstance— and pin it down to any day or night.” A. H. Whitney, 132 Longfellow street, a novelty salesman, now sell- ing stamps, says that he has come in contact with many persons in the course of his career—but he could not tell what happened in his life two years ago, on his birthday or off. “If I saw one person and were asked to recall that person, after two years, there would have to be some dis- tinguishing mark—Ilike a limp, or the loss of an eye or some deformity. Remembers Birthday Accident. R. H. Koontz, assistant manager of the Raleigh Hotel, says he couldn't remember anybody—even a woman with a baby—walking up to the desk if the event took place two years ago. “Not unless I wrote it down,” he said, “and had an accurate description of the party. About my birthday, March 30, there is only one thing I can re- member. I got four broken ribs that day—in an automobile accident. Only for that I would have forgotten it was my birthday.” Joseph L. Gooch, 1330 Montague street, who runs a novelty store on Pennsylvania avenue, believes it is impossible to remember any particu- lar event that transpired on any par- ticular day two years ago—unless that event is indelibly imprinted on the mind. Louis Conradis of the Cavalier Ho- tels, who has been in business here for many years, and meeting people all the time, claims it is impossible to remember anything back two years. Byron Dement, clerk at the Har- rington Hotel, says he would not be able to recall certain events that hap- pened two years ago, and yet there are many incidents that he can recall. “I can recall, for instance, some of the | old-time salesmen who came in at | that time, some of the men who are | now off the road—because of business conditions; but I am afraid it would be rather difficult to pin memory down to a specific event.” Dr. Marjorie Shaw Stuart, with the clinic for the feeble-minded at Gal- | linger Hospital, and formerly on the | staff at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, said: “In the first place, unless under some mental or physical strain, the average person could not remember anything that happened two years ago, or any | specific date; but, of course, the aver- {age person might remember some trivial incident on a given occasion— for no good reason—while at the same time something of great importance would slip a memory cog. That is why so few can remember what hap- pened on their birthday anniversaries over a period of years. Paradoxical as it may seem, they remember birth- day feasts of many years ago better than they do those anniversaries of recent date. The memory is rather a tricky mechanism. Razor Blade in Rooster. ‘What became of one old razor blade has been learned by A. Honey, poultry had lodged in the throat of a rooster, which he bought with other fowls in a crate. The bird refused to crow and ate little, so Honey killed it and found the blade, about 5 inches long, in its throat. The blade was not nicked and the rooster’s throat mem- branes were not cut, but very little food could get by the obstruction. % Specialising in :{ - Perfect DIAMONDS Also complete line of standar and all-American made watches. hop at the frie: goure slvays greet h & Smile—with no obligation to buy. 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The new Senate subcommittee ap- pointed recently to resume the investi- gation of the financing and reorgani- zation of the Mayflower Hotel will meet at 10 a.m. tomorrow to begin its work, it was announced last night by Senator Reynolds, Democrat, of North Carolina, subcommittee chairman. The other members are Senators Mc- Carran, Democrat, of Nevada, and Carey, Republican, of Wyoming. Senator Reynolds said the subcom- mittee would seek information gen- erally “to aid Congress in future legis- lation on the subject of corporate re- organizations such as that of the Mayflower Hotel, under section 77B! of the bankruptcy act passed by Con- | gress last Spring.” | Announcing the resumption of the | inquiry, Senator Reynolds reviewed | briefly some of the recommendations | that were made by the previous sub- committee last year, designed to pro- | tect the rights of the large number of bondholders throughout the United v A$ RAE RELATINS NEETNGEALED All-Day Conference Will Be Held February 12 at Church Here, An all-day conference on better ment of race relations in Washinge ton will be held February 12 at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church under auspices of the Com- mittee on Race Relations of the Wash ington Federation of Churches. The purpose of the conference, it was announced yesterday, is to bring about & better understanding between the white and colored people of the District. The committee planning the cone ference includes: Rev. D. Butler Pratt, Rev. E. O. Clark, Clarence Phelps Dodge, Mrs. Frank E. Edgington, Miss Margaret Jones, Rev. R. W. Brooks, Dr. Ralph B. Kennard, Mrs. David Lum, Cannon Anson Phelps Stokes, Elwood Street, W. H. C. Brown, Ma Campbell Johnson, Bishop E. D. W. Jones, Mrs. E. E. Just, Mrs. Martha A. McAdoo, Rev. H. B. Taylor, Mrs. Mary Church Terrill and Carter G. Woodson. Co-operating organizations include States. One of these recommenda- tions, the statement pointed out, was “that the bondholders’ agreements obtained from the 7,000 or more bond- holders throughout the United States should be disregarded by the court unless and until their wishes were accurately known by a direct inquiry through an officer of the court up—i pointed for that purpose.” | After expressing the hope that the work of the subcommittee would be of value to Congress in considering any proposed amendments to the bank- the Inter-racial Committee of the | National Association for the Advance- | ment of Colored People, the Friends’ | Peace Committee, St. Monica's League, ;the Kappa Alpha Sorority, Xi Omega | Chapter of Howard University, Inter- racial Committee of the Council of | Social Agencies, the College Alumnae Club of Howard University and the Department of Social Welfare of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Wash- ington. The meeting will last from 11 am. to 10 pm. and include round table ruptcy act, the statement of Senator | conferences, a luncheon meeting and Reynolds continued: afternoon sessions, followed by an “By this investigation the Senate evening public session. subcommittee hopes not only to pro- | tect the public, but also to prevent| allegedly ~disinterested bondhnldcrs‘lM'NNEsoT'ANs PLAN committees from imposing their plans | upon the courts and thereby per- petuating their control over the bond. holders’ property throughout th country.” Senator Reynolds said the subcom- mittee will be assisted in the forth- coming inquiry by its counsel, Robert H. McNeill, who served in the same capacity last year. FLOTATION OF NEW STOCK ISSUES EASED Brief, Readable and Informative Prospectuses Permitted by S. E. C. Ruling. e By the Associated Press. Further action to make easier the flotation of new securities was taken by the Securities and Exchange Com- | mission yesterday with the issuance of revised and simple requirements for the prospectus which issuers give to potential buyers. prospectus is & summary of the registration statement which the issuer has previously filed with the commissien. The statement gives con- siderable detail about the company behind the security so as to enable Jjudgment on its merits. The commission requires all is- suers to inform investors that the commission has not approved the se- curity in question in any way or that it vouches for the accuracy of the facts reported by issuers. Corporations may, the commission said, now prepare prospectuses which will be “brief, readable and readily informative to the investor.” The commission urged brevity and re- quired that the prospectus inform prospective investors that additional data was available to them and to . 2 " yours in abundance! | BALL AND RECEPTION National President of American Legion Auxiliary to Be Honor Guest. ‘The Minnesota State Society of Washington will hold a military ball and reception next Saturday night in the Washington Hotel in honor of the national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. A. C. Carlson, | & Minnesotan. The national commander of the American Legion, Frank N. Belgrano, and Mrs. Belgrano also have been in- vited to attend as honor guests, The reception also will be in compliment to the military personnel from Min- nesota now on duty in Washington, as well as to other Minnesotans for- merly in the armed forces. Members of the American Legion and Legion | Auxiliary in Washington likewise have been mvited. Miss Bede Johnson, president of the Minnesota State Society, an- nounced the following committee chairmen for the occasion: William N. Morrell, national pilgrimage officer of the American Legion, Distinguished Committee; Representative Erest Lundeen, Congressional Committee; Representative Melvin J. Maas, Floor Committee; Mrs. Elmer J. Ryan, Mu- sic Committee; Miss Edna McIntosh, Box Committee; Mrs. Robert H. Mer- riam, Ticket Committee, and Repre- sentative Paul John Kvale, Program Committee. | e | Leaves 54 Descendants. Mrs. Susan Windle, 75. who died at | Clowne, England, left 54 descendants, consisting of 2 sons, 6 daughters, 32 grandchildren and 14 great-grand- dealer of West Geelong, Australia. 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