Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1935, Page 5

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 10, 1935—PART ONE. 12 DEAD, T0 HURT IN DIXIE STORM Texas and Louisiana Com- munities Buffeted by Twisters. By the Associated Press. GRAPELAND, Tex., February 9.— Tornadic winds, ripping an erratic trail of westruction through east Texas and part of Louisiana, left 10 persons dead tonight, more than 70 injured and untold property damage. A driving rain storm, extending into other parts of Texas and accompanied by thunder squalls, was raging last night when a funnel-shaped cloud vented its fury on a plantation com- | munity 15 miles west of Grapeland. Nine colored persons lost their lives. Forty others were injured, some se- riously. The dead: F. M. Bass, Ardell Lewis, John Campbell, Sam Johnson. Lissie Murphy and four children, Cosie Lewis, Chester Warfield, Emma Lewis and another Lewis child. Wide Area Damaged. Mrs. Guy Parker and her baby were killed when a tree fell on their house at Schwab City in the Living- ston oil fleld. Parker was stunned and children sleeping in another part of the house were hunhurt. In Reynard community, a few miles away, Ella Hayden was injured fatally A survey disclosed the winds struck furiously at communities and towns ! scattered from the Gulf Coast to Marshall, hundreds of miles north. At Nineveh, a farming town in Leon County, 15 colored tenants were hurt. Twelve Groveton residents were in- jured. Orange, on the coast, reported four injured. Relief agencies. with the Red Cross sending workers into the stricken area, swung into action today. About 50 families were made homeless at Grape- land, Two Planes Destroyed. At Marshall a “twister” struck a hangar at the municipal airport, de- stroying two planes. One prepeller was shoved through a sheet iron door of the hangar. De Quincy, La., suffered damage estimated at between $10,000 and $20,000. The Kansas City Southern freight warehouse was blown from its foundation. Four persons were hurt when a tornado touched the southern part of Orange, wrecking 10 buildings ARKANSAS NIGHT SLATED! Former Gov. Brough to Speak at Racquet Club Fete. Former Gov. Charles H Brough of Arkansas will be chairman of Arkan- sas night, sponsored by the Demo- cratic League of the District. to be held at the Racquet Club Wednesday. Senator Joseph T. Robinson and Senator Hattie Caraway will be guests of honor. Representatives W. J Driver, Claude Fuller, John Miller, John J. McClellan, Ben Gravens, David D. Terry and Tillman Parks also are expected to attend. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy and eolder preceded by rain today; tomer- row fair; moderate northeast shifting to northwest winds. Maryland—Cloudy, A or snow in extreme west and by rain in preceded by rain | central and east portions, slightly colder today: tomorrow fair. Virginia—Cloudy, probably preceded by rain today, slightly colder tonight; Where Texas Storm Took 12 Lives Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Photo taken late yesterday at Grapeland, near Dallas, Tex.. shows colored man sitting in ruins of home demolished by tornado. were injured. The storm wrecked 31 tenant h Court Takes on Solemn Aspect As Evidence Come Hauptmann Counsel—Wife, Ha He, Is Consoled by BY ANNE GORDON SUYDAM. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 9.—‘ The case rests. After years of tireless | seeking for the murderer of the Lind- bergh baby. after combing the con- tinents of the world for any clue, however faint, which might lead to his | apprehension, after the arrest of Hauptmannr two years and a half after the crime and the subseouent investi- gation of every phase of his life and cnaracter, after weeks of preparation | prior to the trial, and after 29 gruel- ling aays in court—the case rests. As thos2 solemn words rang out in the court room this afternoon, and we 1ealized that the long stream of per- sons coming to and going from that witness chair was ended, and the flow of fateful or inconsequential words which have poured into our waiting | minds was stopped, our hearts ceased | beating for an instant. Brief Conference Held. When Mrs. Dwight Morrow, grand- mother of the murdered baby. and last of some 125 witnesses called in this case, left the stand and slipped from the court room with her daugh- ter Anne, there was a momentary pause, which was broken by the quiet words of Mr. Wilentz, “The State rests.” A brief conference at the de- fense table, and less than three min- | utes later Mr. Reilly announced with | equal dignity, “The defense rests.” Hauptmann stared unseeingly at his counsel, who were deep in discussion. | Mrs. Hauptmann, more harassed than ever, was proffered reassuring words by Mr. Reilly’s secretary; Col. Lind-| bergh, his body a little more tense | than usual, gave no other sign of ! emotion. Justice Trenchard leaned | over the bench, and enjomned tbe| jury with almost tender consideration tomorrow fair. West Virginia—Partly cloudy, slightly | colder, preceded by rain in east and; north portions today; tomorrow fair. | Midnight .37 12 noon 451 2 am. 2 pm. .51 4 am. 4 pm. .53 6 am. 6 p.m. 1 8 em. 8 pm. 10 am. 10 pm. . Record Until 10 P.M. Saturday. Highest, 54, 3 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 12. Lowest, 34, 5 am. yesterday. Year 2go, —6. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 59, on January 21. Lowest, —2, on January 28. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. ‘Tomorrow. e 1i12am. 2:10am 7:50 a.m. 8:49am.| 1:35 pm. 2:36 pm. | .. 8:29pm. 9:30 pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sets. Sun, today ...T: 5:39 Sun, tomorrow. 5:40 Moon, today..10:48 am. 1:06 a.m. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in | the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1935. Average. Record. January .527 355 7.00 '82 February .007 327 684 841 March 375 884 '91/ April .. 327 913 '89; May 3.70 10.69 '89 Jun. 413 1094 00, July 471 1063 '86 August .. 401 1441 '28 September . 3.24 1745 '34 October 284 857 '85 November 237 869 '89 December 332 1756 ‘01| Weather in Various Cities. Precipl- cTemperature~ tation. Max. Min, 8p.m. Sat. Fri Sat. to urday.night.8p.m. 8p.m 557445 0.08 0 | | | .45 High . Low High . Low .. 5! tianta. Ga. 68 5 Aliantic S, N . altimore, Md . Birmingham. A Chicago. Cincinnati, e EXe that they renounce their regular Sun- day bus ride and confine their out- ings to walking on the hotel balcony | or possibly around the block if the | weather permitted. Takes on Significance. With sudden clarity this variegated jury of 12 men and women takes on the solemn significance which its very existence implies, but which has some- times been obscured when the lime- light has tutned upon more con- spicuous figures. No longer is Ethel Stockton simply the lady in the red dress, or Liscom Case the carpenter with a bad heart, or Charles F. Snyder the grave-faced man who chews his fingernails during testi- mony. These 12 persons, who, in spite of our knowledge of their ulti- mate importance have seemed like so many automatons as they were taken to and from their seats in the | jury box, suddenly assume the guise | of 12 dire fates in human form | The jurors themselves seemed to be aware of the metamorphosis by which they now hold Hauptmann's life in their hands, and as Justice | Trenchard completed his little ad- | dress to them and gave them permis- sion to retire, they rose and walked from the court room no longer as Tobots, but as individual human beings whose serious faces reflected the knowledge that the greatest of hu- man responsibilities now lies upon! them. Sense of Finality Felt. ‘This has been a curiously different day from all which have gone be- fore. We have known that the case | was drawing to a close, of course, | and that the number of witnesses left could be counted upon our 10 fingers, and yet, when those six words. “The State rests,” “The defense rests.” were uttered this afternoon, they laid upon us a strangely unexpected sense of finality which was all the more dramatic because of the very quiet- ness with which they were spoken. The wistful little figure of Anne Lindbergh slipped into this dingy court room today for the second and last time. ' We have grown used to seeing Lindbergh sitting day after Hot-Water Get Our Prices Before You Buy— We sell ' American Radiator _Co, products_exclusively | ' Recognized as the world's finest heating equip- ::;u. Let u’l r’lu you lh"“ esti e on equipping your home with Modern Hot-Water Heat or Replacing We guarantee Stares to an Eml\ Unseeingly at rassed More Than Reilly’s Secretary. day in the same chair, listening with rapt attention to every word of tes- timony. and much as we respect him and his grief, we have often forgotten him in the stress of more stirring cir- cumstance. His free stride, his oc- casional youthful smile. even his care- lessly wrinkled gray suit. are fondly familiar to most of us, and while we are subconsciously aware of his pres- ence, he has ceased to occupy our minds. Wife Twice in Court. But a feeling of pity which was akin to reverence enveloped his gentle wife as she came in court today to be at her mother's side. Twice she has come to this court room, on the first day of testimony and on this, the last. In the long interim between those two appearances & hundred | strange and ill-assorted persons have | | come and gone, but with the memory of Anne Lindbergh's words as the first uttered by any witness in this trial, and her mother’s the last. the painful. logical cycle is complete. The dead Isadore Fisch, the dead Violet Sharpe, have been vindicated in court, and the live Hauptmann has today heard Arthur Koehler quietly and positively declare that the rail of the kidnap ladder came from a board in Hauptmann’s attic. The de- fense has clung desperately to their contention that this is not so, and in a dogged battle today, conducted by Frederick Pope, who pgides himself on his knowledge of woods, they sought to tear down the testimony of the imperturbable Koehler. Dimen- sions were reduced to the thousandth part of an inch, the quality of cllipers was painstakingly compared. and still Koehler, who admitted that his cal- ipers came from a 10-cent store, re- peated his unalterable conviction that The man escaped uninjured although 12 other colored persons were killed and 70 ouses on the farm of A, E. Murray and Murray’s private home. | |HAUPTMANN WANTS TO MAKE FINAL PLEA PERSONALLY (Continued From First Page.) the plan. He was said to desire two other members of his staff to join in | the summation C. Lloyd Fisher, Flemington attor- | ney, interrogating police officials in cross-examination and as defense wit- nesses, questioned the efficiency of their activities in the hunt for the perpetrator of the crime. The finger- print examiners failed to produce read- able marks, but the defense showed that 500 were on the Kidnap ladder. Hauptmann, one of his counsel said, !wnmed Fischer to point out to the jury the alleged uncertainty of the police investigation. The State po- lice were generally considered to be in charge of the hunt. Appeal on Troopers. In Hunterdon County for a decade | the State police have not enjoyed the whole-hearted friendship of the citi- zenry. State troopers were tried in 1926 for fatally wounding a farm woman after the family's alleged fail- ure to comply with regulations gov- erning cruelty to animals. Fisher, experienced in the attitude toward the police, was Hauptmann's selection for the presentation. The defendant, watching the State’s wood expert, Arthur J. Koehler, vir- tually put the kidnap ladder into his Bronx attic, was impressed. it was understood, with the refuting testi- mony adduced from defense witnesses by Frederic A. Pope of his staff. He wanted Pope, it was learned. to cite the alleged fallacies in Koehler's tes- timony in a summation. Fisher and Reilly went to New York for the week end and arrangement of the plan of summation may occur. FATAL AUTO COLLISION BRINGS $45,000 VERDICT Californian Wins Suit Against Virginia Gates McCafferty, Daughter of Penn. U. Head. I | Hauptmann's attic was the source of | the ladder rafl. Lumber Ineriminating. Money in Hauptmann's garage may not mean murder, but lumber from Hauptmann'’s attic in a kidnap ladder is a direct arrow, pointing to convic- tion. The defense knew it, as they fought to break Koehler and then to hold him by any means on the stand. Hauptmann knew it well, as his sunken eyes retreated even deeper into their sockets. And now, with awsome finality, the end is near. All that can be said for or against this man in direct testi- mony has been said. In the minds of these 12 jurors those millions of words will within a few hours resolve them- selves into a final conclusion. The case rests. 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