Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, not so cold, minimum temperatre about 20 degrees tonight; tomorrow cloudy, slightly warmer, probably followed by rain r snow at night. Temperatures—High- est, 29, at noon today; lowest, 12, at 7 am. today. Full report on page B-14. ah Closing N. Y. Markets, Page: No¥ 33,154 WORK-RELIEF BILL AMENDED 10 PAY PREVAILING WAGE Senate Committee Defies Administration Plan for Low Scale. PRESIDENT GRANTED POWER OF PURCHASE $4,000,000,000 Stands as Conserv- atives Fail to Raise “Dole” Issue Again. By the Associated Press The Senate Appropriations Commit- | tec today further amended the admin- | istration $4.880.000.000 work-relief bill by requiring labor on all public projects | “not less than the prevailing indu in the to be paid wage” of private locality. The amendment, offered by Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, and approved, 12 to 8. was in direct con- flict with administration plans to pay wages below those prevailing in pri- vate industry to avoid drawing workers away from private employment. This defeat was offset in however, by restoration of one pro- vision of the bill authorizing the President to acquire property by pur- chase or the power of eminent domain and to “improve. develop. grant, sell lease (with or without the privilege| or otherwise dispe property or interest of purchasing) of eny such therein.” Applied for Western Lands. Chairman Glass. Democrat, of Vir- ginia. explained this provision, re- stored at the request of Senator Nor- beck. Republican. of South Dakota, was put back to permit the purchase or condemnation of certain Western lands. Senator Carey, Republican, of Wyoming. said the language was needed to carry forwurd the vast tree shelter program from the Cana- dian to the Mexican border The committee did not conclude re- writing the bill. but called another session for tomorrow, when it was expected the work would be finished part. | 513,14& 15 Entered as second c|uss matter post office, Washington, D. C. MarylandT reasury Empty, Legislators Go Without Checks Lawmakers’ Attention Drawn to Report of Controller. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ' ANNAPOLIS, February 7.—Mary- land's financial crisis was brought home to members of the Legislature today when they went to draw their pay and were told the treasury is empty. Instead of getting their money the lawmakers had their attention called to the report of Controller William S. Gordy, which showed Maryland entered January with a deficit of $571,074. Last week Controller Gordy reported that State funds were running low, but the General Assembly has failed to pass any legislation to care for immediate needs. The weekly pay roll of the 148 members of the Senate and House and the 150 employes amounts to about $7,700. Controller Gordy said he hoped to nmeet the next legislative pay roll within a day or two, but did not divulge what means he expected to use to raise necessary funds. RODSEVELT SEEKS | i {Simple Changes in Recovery Act Sought Without Altering 7-A. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt, an informed source said today. would like Con- ! gress to change a portion of the na- ' tional Industrial recovery act so the lanti-trust laws would apply more | closely than in the past. This disclosure was called important | by Democratic leaders in Congress, | who looked upon it as a means of meeling “monopoly” accusations. | They recalled Clarence Darrow’s find- jings that N. R. A. was fostering | monopoly, and Senator Borah's belief {that the “little fellow” was being harmed The congressional leaders gathered ;late yesterday with President Roose- ! velt in a conference which tentatively ANTI-TRUST RULES WASHINGTON, D. C, HAWAI FORT LiNIT| SOUGHT BY IAPAN INNEW AGREEMENT Lifting of Restrictions on Fortifications in Own Is- lands Is Aim. STRENGTHENING RULE IN EAST SEEN RESULT Aide to Admiral Osumi Cites Ex- panding Chinese Air Forces Require Change. By the Associated Press TOKIO, February 3.—The status of United States fortifications in Hawaii and Great Britain’s powerful hase at | Signapore *“should be reconsidered,” | Japan believes, in any agreement | affecting Pacific Ocean fortifications | which may succeed the Washington | naval treaty. | At the same time she is convinced restrictions should be lifted on the chain of Japanese islands flung in a | huge arch along the Asiatic coast. | | Outlined by Osumi Aide. This version of the Japanese view- point was outlined today by the adjutant to Admiral Mineo Osumi in explanation of his statement yester- day that it was questionable whether | the provisions of article 19 of the | Washington treaty (relating to Pacific | fortifications) should remain in rnrceI “without revision.” | The effect of the changes sugge<tcd would be to remove the bases from which Great Britain or the United States might operate offensively, sev- | eral hundred miles farther away from Japan's sphere of domination. At the ; same time it would greatly strengthen | Japan against Occidental interference ‘r in her Oriental hegemony. “The extended range of all navies," | | the naval minister’s aide said, makcs‘ | desirable from the standpoint of all | powers concerned that the status of | | Hawaii and Singapore should be re- considered. | Chinese Expansion Cited. | “Moreover, the Japanese navy feels | that expanding Chinese air forces | No attempt was made to revive the | decided upon extending N. R. A.'s Decessitate the removal of @resem Democratic conservative substitute to | slash the $4,000.000.000 work fund in half and confine the measure to di- rect aid or the “dole.” This lost b a 10-10 tie vote yesterday. Byrns Fights Dole. Another amendment adopted today, 13 to 7, provides that all construc- tion work on which skilled labor to the extent of 10 per cent or more was required. “shall be performed by contract awarded to the lcwest qualified bidder.” At the other end of the Capitol. * meanwhile, Speaker Byrns made his opposition clear to any substitution of a dole for the $4,000.0C0,000 work plan as an action t would “ab- solutely destroy the fundamental idea of the measure.” | A further development in the projected public works program was a ; warning by Gov. James A. Curley of | Massachusetts that the Government' no longer can expect cities and States to contribute to such projects. es Declared Without Funds. “Very few American cities and very | few States are in a position to make | further expenditures,” Curley told| reporte! “As a result of wholesale | borrowing last year, they cannot as-| sume further debts. If the admin- istration’s $4,000,000,000 relief fund is to be expended it must be on a 100 per cent Federal grant basis. I can't see any other way.” Three Democratic members of the committee are due back in the city before the committee takes a final vote. Leaders believed two of these, Tyd- ings, Maryland, and McKellar, Ten- nessee. would support the adminis- tration. They are returning from a Philippine mission. Senator Overton of Louisiana, who has been ill in Baltimore, was not | counted for the bill as it stands. but | administration leaders did not know | definitely how he would vote. So crucial was the situation con- sidered that leaders called the whole Senate into session today to swear McKellar, who had not yet taken the oath. Previously they had planned to give the Senate a day off because there is no legislation to consider. Senate Backing Expected. Whatever the committee might do, Democratic leaders expressed the be- lief the Senate as a whole, in the last analysis, would not stand for cutting the Roosevelt bill to pieces. The insurgent movement vesterday found Senator Glass and three olhcr‘ Democrats—Adams, Colorado; Cope- land. New York. and McCarran, lined up with six Republicans to cut two billion off the measure. The Re- publicans were Senators Hale, Keyes, Steiwer, Dickinson, Townsend and Carey. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, who led the administration fight—and kept in close touch with the White House while doing it—did not regard the tie vote as an index of what the Senate would do. Adams and Copeland, however, indicated they may carry their fight to the floor. Supporting the Roosevelt program in the vote yesterday were these Democrats: Hayden, Thomas, Okla- homa; Byrnes, Russell, Coolidge, Bankhead, O'Mahoney, McAdoo, Tru- man, and Republican Norbeck. Sen- ator Nye, Republican, of North Da- kota was reported as not voting. Adams proposed an original sub- stitute to cut the entire amount to $1.880,000,000. but before the tie vote Copeland boosted this a billion dollars. Doubts Plan Will Work. The Coloradan said he did not be-l lieve the works program would be successful and that if almost $5,000,- 000,000 was spent without the desired effect, the result would be “disastrous.” He said the Government might as well have this money to help maintain its good credit and national defense if the need arises. “Experts have offered no available plan to put these people to work,” he said, “and in my opinion it is geo- graphically impossible. What we need is development of productive industry.” | man rule. basic principles for two more years. Chnn.u to Be Few. *Afterward” Senator Robinson - of Arkansas, Democratic leader, said the | hanges to be suggested would be few, simple and dictated by “experience.” From another source it was 1éarned that one of the features the President does not want changed is section 7-A, which guarantees the right of labor to bargain freely and without coercion through representatives of its own choosing. It was said the President desires no tampering with this clause. Just what bearing, if any, this has on the recent disagreement between , | the administration and the lead | of the American Federation of Lal T was not stated. Though the feder- ation leader, William Green, some time ago expressed the opinion that section 7-A should be continued un- changed, some other have desired alterations. labor circles Company Unions Hit. They have said the section should be re\amped to eliminate “company unions.” Industrial leaders, fighting such changes, have sought alterations of their own. For one thing, they have said, the law should prohibit “coercion” groups of employes as well as by em- ployers. The section has been one of the | most controversial in all New Deal legislation. Informed sources also said it was suggested at the White House con- ference that President Roosevelt should be given authority to decide whether N. R. A. shall be admin- istered by a board or returned to one- Another idea expressed was that some penalty clauses be lightened. A presidential message on the fu- ture of N. R. A, which expires June 16, unless it is renewed, is expected this week. Congressional leaders do not expect the administration to send a bill to Congress. They believe the President will leave the task of draw- ing the legislation to the legislators themselves. PAY BILL SCANNED Restoration Measure Reaches ‘White House. The deficiency bill, carrying the | amendment providing for a restora- tion of the remaining 5 per cent of the Federal pay cut as of April 1 reached the White House late yester- day for President Roosevelt's action. Before studying the legislation, the President had the bill sent to the Budget Bureau for comment and prob- ably also will refer it to the Attorney General before he gives it his per- sonal attention. Bank Receiver, Traces Owner Thanks to the work of Carter B. Keene, receiver for the defunct United States Savings Bank, the grand daughter of a late United States Su- preme Court justice today received a check for 65 per cent of a substantial savings account established for her 29 years ago by the distinguished jurist. Mrs. Henrietta Wells Kennard was 1 year old when her grandfather, Justice David J. Brewer, opened the account for his granddaughter. He neglected to tell the child’s parents and she grew to womanhood unaware she possessed a substantial sum of money, the exact amount of which Keene declines to divulge. ‘When Keene took over receivership and began paying dividends on the frozen deposits, none of his staff could locate the’owner of the account listed to Henrietta Wells. The account card was bought to the attention of the receiver, who recognized the signature 1 by union men or other | | limitations on our right to strengthen | the defenses of Formosa and Pesca- dores, separated from China by a| | narrow strait and a half hour’s flight. | “It must be remembered that when ‘ the Washington Treaty was negotiated | there was strong opposition in Japan against inclusion of islands considered | to belong to the Japanese homeland. | “Our people believed and still be- lieve the non-fortification agreement applied not to portions of the Japanese homeland, but only to the colonial possessions of America and Great | Britain. “If a new agreement is negotiated, this opposition is certain to be even stronger.” LAFFOON REVOKES QALI. FOR SESSION| !Primary Law Move of Lieuten- ant Governor Undone by Executive. By the Assoclated Press. FRANKFORT, Ky.. February 7— The call for a special session of the General Assembly to pass a com- pulsory primary law was revoked today by Gov. Ruby Laffoon. A temporary restraining order to prevent the call being revoked was obtained in Franklin Circuit Court, but at the Secretary of State’s office it was declared the revocation had | been formally ordered before the re- straining order had been served. It | was announced the Governor had signed the order today at 410 am. upon entering the State near Ashland. In the absence of the Governor yes- terday, Lieut. Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler as acting chief executive, called the special session to carry on the fight of the anti-administration Democrats to force a primary as re- quested by President Roosevelt. ‘The Governor got back from Wash- ington today and immediately revoked the proclamation. A convention to nominate candidates for Governor and other State-wide offices was ordered recently by the Democratic State Central Executive Committee, dominated by the Laffoon faction. l OIL MAN FOUND DEAD | DALLAS, Tex., February 7 (#).— Nicholas Paul Antoniades, president of the Petro Corpo Oil Corp., was found shot to death in an apartment hotel here today. A pistol was on the bed where his body lay. The Petro Corpo Oil Corp. is & Russian concern. as Detective, of Old Account of Justice Brewer, whose name ap- pears on two diplomas awarded Keene by George Washington University. Keene learned that one of the orig- inal incorporators of the bank, and for a time its president, was the late James L. Kerrick, a son-in-law of Justice Brewer. A further check-up was made of the account in the records of the Dis- trict Probete Court, where Justice Brewer's will was administered, and from there Keene traced the owner- ship to Mrs. Kennard, now a resident of Cambridge, Mass. Keene said today many first divi- dend checks have been ready for months for delivery to former patrons of the bank who have proved their claims, but have not called to receive payment. He said the bank is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and every assist- ance will be rendered to those who call to inquire about their accounts. HUGE LOSSES LAID 10 BOOTLEG RING 1$2,000 Daily Held Evading | day. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING E THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, INE BULLETl?\JS \ Tax, as Gang of 34 Works in District. The District and Federal Govern- ments, it was disclosed today, have lost $300,000 and are now losing $2,000 | daily in unpaid taxes as a result of | the operations of a huge liquor ring which is alleged to be smuggling into the city 1,000 gallons of alcohol a Details of the case are to be ! placed before a special grand jury | this month. Evidence relating to the activities | of the gang, said to involve 34 men with headquarters here, will be put | before the special grand jury by As- | sistant United States Attorney Henry | pointments, DITION CAUGHT IT FROM ME Roosevelt Favors Civil Service Eligibles for Works Program Patronage Appointments Dealt Blow by Recommendation to Congress Revealed Through Letter. Dealing a blow to patronage ap- President Roosevelt is recommending to Congress that em- | ployment under the new $4.880.000.000 relief bill be given to civil service eligibles This became known today when a letter from the President to the Na- tional Civil Service Reform League was made public by the executive sec- retary of the league. H. Eliot Kaplan, who had proposed that such action be taken The President said: “Replying to your letter of January 22 in connection with section 3 of the | $4.880.000,000 work relief bill, in which you suggest an amendment which | would allow the utilization of existing registers of the Civil Service Commis- 0 %iaf 1935—FORTY-TWO PAGES. | vast administrative forces which will! handle this money, with the President empowered to make such exceptions as he desires. If the legislation goes through it will be the first time that an emergency agency has been put un- der civil service. At present the Civil Service Com- mission is making a study of the emergency groups at the instance of the President to decide which might | logically be brought under civil serv- ice. When this study is completed, it is presumed the President will recom- mend legislation to Congress accord- ingly. When the Civil Service Reform League urgéd employment on a merit | system basis for the personnel which | | will handle the huge work relief fund. | it was argued that the public would Schweinhaut after the jury Cflmplews | sion, ¥ am glad to tell you that this nave far more confidence in the dis- | its pending investigation of P. W. fraud charges. The smuggled liquor, it was said, consists of iarge quantities of alcohol from Trenton, N. J, and smaller amounts of moonshine from nearby | Maryland and Virginia. The alcohol was smuggled into the city with a fleet of 30 automobiles. Of the 34 men involved. 15 were described as “big fellows.” who store | the liquor in five caches in different sections of the city. Schweinhaut ex- pressed the belief that a conviction of this gang will break up the first major bootlegging ring to develop in Washington since repeal of the eight- eenth amendment. Special investigators for the Alco- hol Tax Unit claim the liquor. after | being stored here. is sold in small lots by petty bootleggers. HOOVER NOT TO GO, CUMMINGS STATES Attorney General Praises Him in Spiking Reports in Press Parley. Persistent reports that J. Edgar Hoover will resign or is to be ousted as director of the Justice Department's Division of Investigation were squelched today by Attorney General Cummings, who said “he is one of the most efficient public servants in of- fice.” Cummings was prompted to deny the rumors after they had broken into print today. He said they are with- out any foundation whatsoever. “I am proud of Mr. Hoover's work,” the Attorney General announced at a press conference. “He has my com- | plete confidence. Those who say any- thing to the contrary simply don’t know what they are talking about.” “He isn't going to resign because he likes his job. Mr. Hoover and I have been in each other's close confidence since the beginning. It has been a delightful association, and there is lots of work yet to do.” Cummings d been asked specif- ically about 'marks made in the House yesterday by Representative Culkin, Republican, of New York that an effort had been made to replace Hoover. Hoover today was in New York City to deliver an address before the New York State Chamber of Commerce. COURT TO CONTROL MONEY ADVOCATED Vanderlip Proposes Agency Free From Business and Political Influences. By the Associated Press. A “Surpreme Court” to control money and credit was proposed today by Frank A. Vanderlip, retired New York banker, at the Senate Agricul- ture Committee’s hearing on ways of increasing foreign trade. Vanderlip suggested setting up the monetary authority as an arm of the Government, but like the Supreme Court would completely isolate it from business and political influence. It would be given the exclusive power to issue currency. Congress would jinstruct it to so regulate credit and ¢firrency as to maintain the price index" level of 1926. Government would turn over all if# gold to the authority and this, alon§ with some silver, would be the bas! for its currency. [ B | | Former matter has already received considera- | tion at my hand. On instructions lmm me, the civil Service Commission has | prepared an amendment to this bill which would bring about the result you desire if Congress sees fit to accept | the amendment.” According to this, | away from the principle of patronage civil service re- quirements would be invoked for the 'permanent agencies. bursing methods applied if it naw known that political preferment was | not to guide selection of the workers involved. In recommending the amendment President Roosevelt has sought to get non- employment in presumably “FLYING BANDIT* FOUND WITH BODY Convict Trapped With Corpse After 2,000- Mile Trip. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif, February 7.—A murder suspect’s 2,000-mile motor car ride with the body of his alleged victim was disclosed at a lonely police outpost on the Cali- fornia-Nevada border today and solved the mysterious disappéarance | | of a Kalamazoo, Mich., trucking con- | | Federal agents who were bringing the driver | tractor end his employe. Clarence Frechette, 25. of the machine, was reported by Capt. Joseph Blake of the California State | highway patrol to have confessed he shot Robert Brown, 25, his employer, at Howell, Mich, January 29, and carried the body in the trunk of the machine for nine days. With the fleeing suspect, when he was taken into custody near Truckee, Calif., were three hitch-hikers, a man, a woman and a small boy. Jealousy Blamed in ng. Capt. Blake quoted Frechette as saying Brown was killed after the latter had told of intimate relations with Frechette's “girl friend.” Brown’s purported admission was made nine days ago, Blake quoted Frechette as saying, while the pair were driving from Kalamazoo to Pon- tiac, Mich. “I knocked him down,” the eas- serted confession read. “He crawled to the car and reached in a pocket and grabbed that gun. He pointed it at me and I grabbed his hand. “I don’t know whether it was his finger or mine, but the gun fired twice. “I put him in the trunk and I didn’t know whether he was dead or alive. I knew if I was caught I'd spend the rest of my life in prison.” Known as “Flying Bandit.” Blake said Frechette, a former con- vict once known as “the flying bandit,” spent that night in Pontiac and the next in Kalamazoo, where he went to a motion picture show. Then began the strange flight. It-was intended to end in China, the purported confession said. But it ended abruptly at midnight because " (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) Guide for Readers Amusements Comics ... Features Finance Serial Story Service Orders .... Short Story . Society . Sports BREMER SUSPECT | SLUGSD. . AGENT Leaps From Window and Escapes From Hotel in Automobile. By the Associated Press. AURORA, I, February 7—Jess Doyle, under indictment in connec- tion with the Bremer kidnaping. slugged a Federal Department of Justice agent last night and escaped by leaping through a window of a | hotel. Doyle was in the custody of two him to Chicago by airplane. The pilot. unable to locate the municipal airport, made a forced landing on | | the farm of E. L. Matlock of York- | ville, near Aurora and about 50 miles southwest of Chicago. With their prisoner handcuffed, the agents drove to the Hotel Nading, Yorkville, where one of the agents placed a call for the Department of Justice office at Chicago. ‘While his companion was phoning the second agent led Doyle to the hotel bar and removed the handcuffs. “The officer ordered two beers,” Grace Larrison, a waitress who wit- nessed the escape, said. “The prisoner sipped his beer slowly and seemed to be watching his guard's movement. Suddenly, just as the Federal officer raised his glass, the prisoner struck him on the chin and the officer fell to the floor. “Like a flash the prisoner turned around and leaped through the closed window into a side yard. I saw him race out the gate and across the street, where he jumped into an au- tomobile and_drove away while_the (Continued on Page 3, Column The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services: Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,598 Some Returns Not Yet Received %k 1) Means Associ HOLES NOT ed Press. TWO CENTS. INCRIMINATING NAIL IN LADDER, DR. HUDSON TESTIFIES Fingerprint Expert Certain There Was O nly One Hole When He Made Examination. FEDERAL EXPERT’S OPINION WOULD NOT CHANGE MIND Refuses to Say Hauptmann’s Prints, Had They Been on Board, Would Have Been Obliterated by Others. (Copyright, 1935. by the Associated Press ) FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 7.—Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s defense today pursued a hint of * ‘framed” evidence with an expert who insisted, in the face of photographs and Government reports, that three mcnmmat.mg nail holes in the Lindbergh kidnap ladder were not in existence when he examined it. This witness was Dr. E. M. Hudson, a New York physician and amateur fingerprint man. famed “rail 16”"—a part of the He clung to his testimony that the kidnap ladder which the State charges came from Hauptmann'’s attic and fitted there—had only one square nail hole when he saw it on March 13, 1932, 13 days after baby Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., was kidnaped and slain. The rail, in evidence, has four nail holes which State experts and police said jibed with nail h | attic. Out of court after Hudson's examined the ladder oles in the joists of Hauptmann’s testimony. counsel for the State | said that photographs of the nail holes were made before he d A State trooper said he noticed 10 nail holes | on the night of the kidnaping. Whited's Testimony Attacked. The defense also sought to weaken the identification of Haupt- f mann as a man seen lurking near the Lindbergh home before the | crime by calling William Whitehead to say that the reputation of | his relative Millard Whited for veracity was “not good.” The two men do not spell their names the same way. Whited had testified for the State, placing Hauptmann near the crime scene. William Diehl, another resident of the ¢ Sour!a'xd hills, followed. As to Whited'’s reputation for veracity, he said: 'Hour Deliberation And Acquitlal Is Seen by Reilly Wilentz Gives Jury ! Limit, But Is Certain of Conviction. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J,, February 7.— Speculation on what the Hauptmann | trial Jury will decide has begun among | counsel. Edward J. Reilly, chief defender for Bruno Hauptmann, predicted today: “Acquittal in one hour.” The State prosecutor. David T. | wilentz, gave the jury no time limit for deliberation, but said he was cer- tain of conviction in short order. Reilly added that if the jury did not return a verdict in one hour, it would | | continue study of the evidence for | 38 hours before reaching a decision. The defense attorney based his guess not only on the evidence, but on the fact the jury must return a verdict of first-degree murder acquit. A recommendation of mercy. carrying life imprisonment, also is a possibility. BABY BOND PRICE SET AT $75 T0 $78 | Treasury Fixes Tentative Levels for Issue—President First Buyer. By the Assoclated Press. A tentative price range of $75 to $78 for a 10-year bond maturing at $100 has been set by the Treasury for its first issue of “baby bonds” on March 1. In making the announcement, Un- dersecretary of the Treasury Coolidge said a price of $75 would yield 2.90 per cent interest on a 10-year matur- ity while the higher price would net | a return of 2% per cent. Coolidge held the view the bonds would not be eligible as collateral at commercial banks as they did not en- joy the transfer privilege. He said, | however, they would be readily nego- tiable at commercial banks as well as Federal Reserve Banks and all local | agencies of the Government. The amount of the first “baby bond” issue was not disclosed. These savings bonds, issued in denominations as low as $25, remain in the hands of the Treasury with the buyer obtaining a receipt. President Roosevelt will buy the first bond. Mrs. Cooke’s Warrant Against Son-in-Law Quashed in Court A warrant sworn out by Mrs. Howard de Walden Cooke charging larceny after trust to her son-in-law and former chauffeur, George Scar- lett, 3d, was dismissed in Rockville, Md., Police Court this morning by Judge Donald A. De Lashmutt. “This case evidently is e family affair,” the judge said. “For some reason, two important witnesses have shown a reluctance to testify. The veracity of the prosecuting witness, who charges her son-in-law with the theft of her jewelry, is equal to the denial of the defendant. “Meanwhile, if the parties in this case decide they want to talk, they are not banned from relating their stories to the grand jury. Judge De Lashmutt referred to 22- year-old Anne Cooke, who was paged several times to testify in defense of her brother-in-law, and to the 4 elderly Mr. Cooke. Court attaches said both were present and both ex- pressed a disinclination to testify. Mrs. Cooke told the court her hus- band employed the 21-year-old Scar- lett last October as a chauffeur. She charged that she gave Scarlett a $2.000 cameo, three diamond rings valued at $2,000 and a necklace, with instruc- tions that he take them to be cleaned and repaired by a Washington jeweler. Mrs. Cooke testified this occurred shortly before Scarlett eloped with her daughter Jane. She said she tele- phoned the jeweler and was informed the valuables had not been received. Mrs. Cooke declared her husband was present when she gave some of the jewelry to Scarlett. The other valu- ables, she testified, were turned over when no one else was in the room. Scarlett denied ever having received (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) : Tain't any good.” George E. Lenz also said “not good™ as to Whited's veracity The State, in cross-examination of the three Sourland men. brought out that Whitehead had been in jail. that Lenz had trouble with Whited over a lumber bill, and that Diehl had signed a statement to the effect that he had not discussed Whited's reputation for veracity. Diehl explained he could not read the statement he signed. Fisch Never Paid Loan. Mrs. Augusta Hile, mother-in-law of Gerta Henkel, who testified yester- day, said the dead Isador Fisch, who is accused by the defense as the re- ceiver of the ransom money, borrowed $4,350 from her and never paid it | back. Fisch died in Germany. Karl Henkel, Gerta's husband, testified he had known Fisch since 1932; also that | he had never felt there was anything ' improper between Hauptmann and his wife, Gerta. It had ben testified Hauptmann | frequently drank coffee with Mrs. Henkel at her home in the mornings while his own wife was visiting in Germany. Fisch was a former business partner of Hauptmann’s. and it was from him, Hauptmann claimed. that $14,600 ran- som money found in the Hauptmann garage came. Henry Uhlig. mutual friend of the two men, described by himself as { “Fisch’s best friend,” was on the stand just long enough to testify that Fisch ran a “phoney” bakery. was in weak physical condition when he sailed | for Europe in December, 1933, and had | never loaned him money, when lunch- | eon recess interrupted. Dr. Hudson’s testimony about the nail holes in the ladder upwright was in the face of Government reports to the contrary. Attorney General Dawid T. Wilentz showed him a photograph and asked: “Assuming that this picture were taken in March. 1932, would you agree that possibly you were mistaken in your testimony?"” | “Well, under your premise I would say yes." Would Not Change Mind. “If this rail had been examined by | persons other than the State police of New Jersey in March. April and May, 1932, and reports were filed dur- ing those months showing these four nails holes, would that induce you to | believe that possibly you were mis- | taken.” “No, sir, that wouldn't.” “If the United States Government | report showed in 1932 that there were four nail holes, these four very nail | holes, would that lead you to change your mind?” “No, sir, it would not.” ‘The ladder rail was considered one of the State’s strongest links in the circumstances by which it seeks to | send Hauptmann to the electric chair | for the kidnaping and murder of Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, jr. | The attorney general also attacked | Dr. Hudson’s estimate that he had found about 500 fingerprints on the (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) | Running account of today's testimony—Page A-4 — FIRE DRIVES SIXTY INTO FRIGID STREET Smoke Chasers From Four Cities Combine to Quell Massa- chusetts Blaze. By the Assoclated Press. HUDSON. Mass., February 7.—Sixty persons were driven into the bitter cold today as fire destroyed the Chase block and damaged twc adjoining buildings. Crumbling walls seriously injured one fireman, several persons were car- ried out over ladders and the 20-odd guests at the Mansion House, hotel adjoining the Chase block, were roused and ordered to the street. The temperature stood at 15 degrees below zero as firemen from Marlboro, Maynard and Berlin helped fight the blaze, which Fire Chief M. P. Mitchell said did damage in excess of $200,000. The cause was unknown. » ¢