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= COUGHLIN ACTION SOENEDINRONE Intervention by Vatican Held Unlikely—Bishops Rulers of Dioceses. By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, June 22.—Prelates said tonight no alleged violations of Canon law on the part of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, fiery American critic and priest, had been brought to the at- tention of the Holy See. They declared any intervention by the:Vatican extremely unlikely, point- ing'out that the Pope rarely intervened | to discipline a parish priest since a | bishop is considered almost an abso- lute ecclesiastical ruler of his diocese. Before the Pontiff took steps, it was * asserted, any matter affecting an American priest probably would be | referred to the apostolic delegate at ‘Washington. | In any event, the prelates said, it | wa$ "unlikely that either the Vatican or apostolic delegate would take any | action on their own initiative. An appeal to them wouid have to be made | by ‘other American bishops or high cliurchmen, it was stated. Coughlin Lauds Tax Plan. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June 22| (/) —Father Charles E. Coughlin 1s in Florida “for a little holiday.” Here for a short visit yesterday, Father Coughlin left by automobile for| Miami. | He declined to discuss the coming | presidential election, but of President | Roosevelt, he said: “During the last| 40 hours Mr. Roosevelt has sponsored & very wonderful philosophy of social | Jjustice. I refer to his tax plan, social security ideas and the Wagner bill.” DEPOSED ETHIOPIAN EMPEROR SUCCUMBS | Lij Yasu Died 6 Months Ago, but Death Kept Secret, Paper Reports. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 22.—The newspaper Paris Soir in a copyright article re- ported today the death of the de- throned Emperor of Ethiopia, Lij Yasu, in a lonely mountaintop prison ip the Province of Harrar; far from Addis Ababa. The article, describing the former Emperor’s life as that of a “modern man in an iron mask,” said that he diéd six months ago, but that his death had been kept secret by the government. . Yasu was the grandson of Emperor Menelik II, who defeated Italian | tyoops in the battle of Adua in 1896. He was deposed in 1916 as the result | of a tribal rebellion and his aunt, | Zauditu, made Empress in his stead. Paris Soir asserts he was placed in a cage 60 feet square after his cap- ture in 1917. He was permitted to communicate with his guards by means of a drawbridge, but had no 1her company. SLAIN OFFICIAL’S KIN KILLED FROM AMBUSH ientucky Hill Town Strife Flares Anew—Death Is Third in Factional Feud. the Associated Press. ¢ MANCHESTER, Ky. June 22— factional strife which has been | smouldering in this county seat moun- | fhin town flared again today with the | lling of Bobbie Baker, 45, near| e same spot on Main street, where | Police Judge C. P. Stivers was as- sessinated three years ago. Baker was a brother of Tom Baker, ¥ho is wanted for the killing of Judge Stivers. He was an uncle of Frank H. Baker, the Commonwealth's | sttgrney, who was assassinated Sep- tember 19, 1932. The Commonwealth’s gttorney and a companion, Jogn Brockman, were killed by slugs firey from the Clay County Court House.| : Bobbie Baker, who recently came | from Indiana to visit relatives at| Purning Springs 8 miles from here, was struck with gun slugs and killed &t the wheel of his automobile this gporning. No arrests have been made. - GUARD HELD READY | oops Ready to Move Into Eu-| reka, Calif., Strike Area. ’ - SACRAMENTO, June 22 (A).—| Adjt. Gen. Seth Howard said late | foday he had been ordered by Gov. | Frank P. Merriam to have National | Guard troops in readiness to meet an-} mergency in connection with the| mber strike at Eureka, Calif. » Gen. Howard telephoned Capt. Jo- | §eph P. Bastler, in charge of the| 4th Infantry of the National Guard 8t Eureka, to be prepared to move his | ompany of 62 men and three officers to the trouble zone upon a minute’s Botice. * Gen. Howard said it was indicated fhat a band of lumberjacks was “mov- g in from the North.” = A riot flared in one of the Eureka fnills yesterday resulting in one death end the injury of several others. i R F. C. LISTS ASSETS > The Reconstruction Finance Corp. Peported to Congress yesterday that | ®n May 31 it had assets totaling $5,- 1,132, having disbursed $33,- 28,239 in loans during the month and feceived $73,468,291, including repay- | fments of loans and interest collected | 6n preferred stock and notes. : 3 By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 22—Ann Harding, ash blond screen star, today was ordered to show cause why she should not be held in contempt of | court for refusing to give a deposition in the suit of Harry Bannister, her divorced husband, for custody of their 7-year-old daughter, Jane. The order was signed by Edward | T. Bishop, presiding judge of the | Superior Court, on application by Bannister's lawyer, Michael G. Luddy. Twice Miss Harding had refused to answer Luddy's questions. When ANN HARDING. Actress Threatened With Contempt Charge for Refusing Deposition. —A. P. Photo. ’(wriwr-dlmtar of Hollywood) Luddy asked the actress in the last deposi- | | tion hearing. | “Yes” replied the actress. “Has he ever been a guest in your | home, and have you ever made any trip with him?” Gurney Newlin, Miss Harding’s law- yer, objected to the line of questioning and instructed her not to answer further. | Child’s Custody Question. | Miss Harding and Bannister are fighting for custody of their daughter, awarded last year to the actress by she objected to his questions in her | & Reno, Nev,, courl_m‘der that modi- dressing Toom at a Hollywood studio | fied the original divorce decree she | last Thursday, Luddy appealed to the | obtained in Reno in 1932. She claims | court for an order. Contempt Charge Possible. The court ruled Miss Harding must appear personally July 1, and show cause why she should not answer the | questions, either before a notary public or before the Superior Court. Should she refuse to answer, she could be cited for contempt, Luddy said. “Do you know Dudley Murphy?” the California courts do not have jurisdiction in the case. Bannister contends the Nevada courts are without jurisdiction, that | the child is legally a resident of Cali- { fornia, and that Miss Harding is not {a bona-fide resident of Nevada. He challenge the legality, not only of the ! vorce as well. OFFICIALS CONE T0 D OF BOYS Huntington Youths, Sen- tenced to Life Term, to Be Given New Trial. By the Associated Press. officials intervened today to obtain a new trial for two Huntington, W. Va., boys under sentence to serve life terms for the kidnaping of a Southern Indiana sheriff. Philip Lutz, jr, attorney general, said he had been in conference by telephone with Judge John L, Sumner, judge was willing to set aside the severe punishment and accept a plea of guilty to a lesser offense, probably auto banditry. The boys, Bascum Ray, jr., 14, and Maurice Sheridan, 17, are to be Monday. Their case came to the attention of Gov. Paul V. McNutt and the at- torney general when A. F. Miles, re- formatory superintendent, refused to admit them, declaring the law forbids incarceration of life-termers in his institution. Miles also said reformatory rules barred admission of Ray because of his age. Sheridan could be admit- ted except for the life term, Miles asserted. Bascum Ray, sr., father of young Ray, was reported en route here to confer with an attorney, T. Ernest faholm. The attorney indicated he would press for a new trial, regardless of what action is taken by State of- ficers. Judge Sumner has declared that when the boys pleaded guilty to kid- naping he had no alternative, but was compelled by law to impose life terms, UNDRESSED BY SAW Worker Unhurt After Spinning Circular Strips Him. TROY, Idaho, June 22 (#’).—A spin- ning circular saw undressed Charles Gieser, a sawmill worker, right down to his boots, but he was alive today to tell the story. Gieser's trousers caught in bolts on the saw shaft and he was dashed unconscious on.the floor. When he regained his senses, he was nude, ex- cept for his shoes, while his clothing whirled around the shaft. Three Army Flyers “Bail Out” c In Thrilling Escape F rom Fire Press. Calif., June 22—An #air thriller” rivaling the movies’ best enacted today when three Army yers cheated death in a flaming $Plane by taking to parachutes. * Crashing near Banning, where it iy the Associated ~ RIVERSIDE, the cadet pilot gamely stayed with the controls while his captain made his way to the pilot’s seat. Dugan was unable to leave the plane from the observation post so near the whirring With the motor cut off, McDuff frantically worked with his ailerons and stabilizers to slow as much as sible the swift: descent. 2 ‘As Capt. Dugan leaped over, the plane went into its final dizzy pitch. A forest lookout at Barton Lake saw McDuff bolt downward beside the plane. The cadet was only 300 feet from the ground when he took to his parachute. Capt. Dugan was lavish in his praise of the cadet pilot. “At the risk of his life, he saved mine,” said Capt. Dugan. “He stayed at the con- trols until I had made my way to the rear and jumped overboard.” | 3 INDIANAPOLIS, June 22.—5!1‘4‘ who sentenced the lads, and that the | brought before Judge Sumner again | LEFT THREATENING - NEW CUBA REVOLT |“Joven Cuba” Assails Pol- icy of U. S. Embassy. “Only Recourse Violence.” By the Associated Press. HAVANA, June 22.—“Joven Cuba,” Cuba’s strongest and most feared radical organization, lifted the veil ‘hldlng its operations today to assail “the iron-fist policy, backed by the American Embassy,” and to threaten to take “the only road—revolution.” A statement of the Central Com- mittee, directed to the American peo- ple, presented the radical group’s “side” of the political battle raging between anti-government and gov- ernment forces. It declared matters in Cuba, under President Carlos Mendieta, had reached such condition that “vio- lence is the only recourse.” “Joven Cuba,” organized by the late Philadelphia-born Antonio Guiteras, former secretary of war, navy and interior, has become admittedly one of the government’s chief sources of anxiety. Its members have been charged with one crime after another, includ- ing the $300,000 ransom kidnaping of Eutimio Falla Bonet several months ago and dozens of robberies and ex- tortion attempts. |HASTY GAMBLERS RAIDED | Chicago Curbs Handbook Opera- tors Until Bill Is Signed. CHICAGO, June 22 (#)—Capt. Daniel Gilbert, head of the city’s uni- formed police force, served notice on all police captains today that hand- book operators could not operate in anticipation of legalized gambling provided in a law enacted by the Leg- islature this week, but not yet signed by Gov. Horner, An hour later police raided an al- leged handbook on Randolph street, dispersed about 100 patrons and ar- rested Joseph Educate, 27, for opera ing a handbook. The raiders got or- ders to destroy the elaborate equip- ment. Drunk Misses Fire AsSnake Charmer But All Ends Well Glee Turns to Grief When Rattler Strikes —Minus Fangs. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 22— Aided by spirits, Roy Prather, unem- ployed cook, set out today to become a snake charmer. Women screamed and men ran when they saw him advancing un- steadily down a street, a 7-foot rat- tler draped about his shoulders. “Oh boy, oh boy, if I only had a turban and a flute, I'd be thé world’s snake charmer,” Prather | modified Reno decree, but of the di-| Hearing Slated Tuesday in Baltimore on Elimination of Car Tracks. By a Staff Correspondent of The Sta: BETHESDA, Md., June 22.—The Capital Transit Co's petitions for per- mission to abandon the two electric railways it operales in western Mont- gomery County will receive strong support from civic runks when the Maryland Public Service Commission meets at Baltimore on Tuesday morn- ing to consider the traction firm's pleas. A large delegation 1epresenting vir- tually every citlzen association and trade body in the affected area will attend the hearing an< urge the com- mission to approve the company’s plan to substitute modern bus service. Included in the grcup will be of- ficials and members of the Montgom- ory County Civic Federation, the Bethesda, Rockville and Kensington Chambers of Commerce and various other organizations which have been engaged in the campaign to have the transit company dispense with its lines along Wisconsin avenue to Rock- ville and on Coanecticut avenue to Chevy Chase Lake. The hearings are to be held in the commission’s offices begining at 10 o'clock, with the Connecticut avenue petition scheduled first. The Wiscon- sin avenue petition will then be taken up. No difficulty is anticipated mn ob- taining the commission’s approval, for sentiment in the affected communi- ties is overwhelmingly for busses. | Efforts already are being made by | the Bethesda and Rockville Chambers of Commerce to have the State Roads | Commission pave the Wisconsia ave- | nue right of way between the District line and Old Cecrgewwn road after the traction firm surrenders its claim 10 the center of that thoroughiare. A similar move is being made by Chevy Chase residents. who propose to have the commission pave the | railroad’s right of way along Connec- ticut avenue from Eradley lane to Chevy Chase Lake. 'TROTSKY IS ACCUSED| OF ANTI-RED TERROR Communist Party Official Names | | Him an Instigator of Kiroff's | Assassination. By the Associated Press. | MOSCOW, June 22—Leon Trotsky, | | cused today of inciting terrorists to strike at the Soviet Union. Stanislas Kossior, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist party, listed Trotsky, now living in Norway, Leo Kameneff and Gregori Zinovieff as instigators of the as-| sassination of Sergei Kiroff, Joseph Stalin’s close friend, at Leningrad last | December 1. Reporting to the Ukraine Com- | munist party, which he heads, Kos- sior said evidence of Trotsky's direct | connection with Kiroff's death had | been unearthed in connection with | the recent expulsion from the party of Abel Yenukidze, ex-secretary of the | All-Union Central Executive Com- mittee. He listed the exiled former head of the Soviet army as an outright | enemy of the Soviet Union, saying, ““There no longer is any difference be- tween Trotsky and the White Guards.” N STATE PACTS STUDIED | Lehman Names Group to Con- sider Industrial Agreements. ALBANY, N. Y. June 22 (®).— Gov. Herbert H. Lehman tonight ap- pointed a committee of six citizens to study the advisability of New York i State’s entrance into industrial agree- ments with other States. The group, aided by State Indus- trial Commissioner Elmer F. An- drews and four legislators, will re- port to the Governor and the 1936 Legislature whether it believes the Empire State should participate in interstate agreements fixing uniform laws governing wages, hours and other factors involved in manufac- turing. TURKS TIGHTEN DEFENSE High Council Alarmed at Euro- pean Complications. ANKARA, Turkey, June 22 (#)— ‘Turkey’s high council of national de- dense, alarmed at growing complica- tion of the European situation, today announced a three-year plan for tightening land and sea defenses on the nation’s frontiers. Strengthening of the defenses of the Dardanelles was included in the plan, Two Die in Plane Crash. GARDEN CITY, N. Y., June 22 (®). —Garden City police reported wonight that two men were killed in a plane crash near Munson, Long Island. The dead pilot was Albert Whitney of Garden City, they said. The other occupant of the plane was not immediately identified. The plane was a two-passenger ship. How it crashed was not learned imme- diately. its wide implications will be dis- cussed by Senator Edward P. Costigan of Colorado in the National Radio Forum Thursday, June 27, at 10:30 pam. (Eastern standard time). The National Radio Porum is arranged by The Washington Star and broad- cast over the network of the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. regards the program outlined by the President as an important step to- ward bersking down the concentra- tion of wealth in this country in & few hands, Men and Women Who Decided on Death Penalty Howard B, Biggs. Phillp Heckenbury. Mrs. Ethel Stockton. Charles Snyder, £ ILE 14 judges of New' Jersey's final court of ap- peals consider the testi- mony in the Bruno Haupt- | mann case, to decide on a new trial or to sustain the verdict of the old, | 12 men and women who served on the jury lay bare their hearts for the first time in a summation of what motives actuated them in reaching & decision. The Star herewith presents terse interviews from each of the jury men and women gathered by the North American Newspaper Alliance, show- ing what transpired in the minds of those who held the fate of Bruno Hauptmann in their hands. Doing Duty as Citisens. Give Reason. Mrs. Rosie P Robert Cravatt, Charles Walton, Mrs. May Brelsford. CEMETERY MURDER CASE 15 SPEEDED Prosecutor to Ask Early Trial and Death Penalty for Confessed Attacker. «| By the Associated Press. # Elmer Smith. Mrs, Verna Snvder. Liseom C. Case. George Voorhees. about any one who could not show up in the court room. It is a good | thing for Betty Gow’s good name that | she came from Scotland to say her piece. “No one wanted to see the wrong person convicted. All we wanted was the facts.” Serious Work. Robert Cravatt, a clerical worker, says: “Each day’s work was most serious, far from fun. Had we taken it home with us, over all that period of weeks, we would have been unfit to give a clearly reasoned verdict. So our brains floated level every night to receive cor- rect impressions the next day.” In elaboration, Cravatt told of the in the car which resembled a ladder. We felt he knew what he was taiking about.” Bruno’s Manners Criticized. Philip Hockenbury, & railroad sec- tion worker: “When an accused person takes the witness stand he should be listened to without prejudice, even sympathet- ically. “Hauptmann's manner is sagainst him. Both he and his wife seemed, on the stand and off, to be trying to make up situations, by speeches and actions, which there was no excuse or reason for. “During the testimony of one wit- ness for the prosecution Hauptmann, it will be recalled, started up from PEORIA, 1, June 22—State’s | Attorney E. V. Champion tonight said | he would seek quick trial and the jdenh penalty for Gerald Thompson, | 25, who confessed to police the brutal | cemetery slaying of Mildred Hallmark, 19, pretty and popular cafe hostess. ‘Thompson, secretly removed from town after he broke under the strain of questioning by police, was held in the McLean County Jail at Bloom- ington for safekeeping under a formal charge of murder. Thompson, arrested last night on suspicion, but without any evidence then that he was implicated in the ravishing and slaying of the young woman last Sunday night, fended all queries at first but finally confessed, | Acting Chief of Police Fred Nuss- baum said, when he was trapped by a lie detector and his diary. “Yes—I did #t—I'll tell,” he sob- bed, detectives said. His diary, they added, recorded 16 other assaults on Peoria girls, all chosen because they would not prose- cute for fear of publicity. In the confession Thompson as- serted he was driving home from a call on his “steady” girl when he sighted Miss Hallmark waiting for a street car. He “picked her up” drove toward Springdale Cemetery, and ended her resistence with a blow on the chin, the confession said. After assaulting her, he left the body in e ditch, the statement said. Police were holding Julian Baxter, 24, an amateur photographer they said was a friend of Thompson. In addition to careful planning of each attack, the police said Thompson carried scissors to cut his victims clothing and in some instances took photographs of them. If that had Hauptmann might still not been swept away. | been done, be at large, “The sawdust was there because some one had sawed a board out of | that attic floor. Mr. Koehler con- | vinced us that this board had been made into a rail for the ladder that The first juryman—the foreman, terrific experiences of the jury in | Charles P. Walton, sr.—says: | trying to find exercise, “to keep them- was found on Col. Lindbergh's prop- erty. As you may imagine, I looked his chair to call the witness a liar. “That kind of outburst did not | Radio Forum Speaker “We 12 people of Hunterdon County were in that Hauptmann jury box be- cause we were doing our duty as citi- zens. We were not on a lark, and we had not sought the service. “Since the trial we have become | aware of a wide variety of opinions as to our motives and actions. Our only | has announced publicly he intends to| famed Russian exile, was publicly ac- | motive was to see justice done. “Five days every week for five weeks, and for six days of the sixth week, we | listened and looked in silence. We heard and considered the evidence. “Four jurors were women, all moth- ers, one a grandma. Among the men we ranged from farmers through the | trade and office workers to a justice | of the peace. i “The defense lawyer, Edward J.| Reilly, showed his contempt for us| from the start. He tried his best to | fool and confuse us. But the evidence was what we wanted and what we con- sidered. “Pourteen thousand dollars of the ransom money paid for the Lindbergh | baby had been found in Hauptmann’'s garage. We all knew it, and no ques- tion was raised about that point. That detail alone would have needed ex- plaining by any one. “Don’t think any of us 12 jurors believe this alone made Hauptmann guilty of the murder. But it did make him the logical defendant. “Here is how we convicted Haupt- mann: “A ransom note had been left on the window sill of the stolen baby's bed room. The person or persons who left that note got the baby. How they entered the room and left, stairs or balloon. made no difference— he or they got that baby. “Some person. a man, gave Dr. J. F. Condon (Jafsie) the sleeping gar- | ment, in exchange for $50,000. “That money was recorded by bill numbers and all the bills were .on record. “Hauptmann was caught with $14,- 000 of those bills. “A million-and-a-half words of timony did not bury those simple facts. Every circumstance brought out made them clearer. “We have no regrets. We only wish the whole tragedy had never been.” “Bruno Got Every Chance.” Now comes George L. Vorhees tg the witness stand, and says: “Justice Trenchard stood like a rock against the frantic attempts of the chief defense counsel, Mr. Reilly, to break up the trial. “If there ever was an accused man who got every chance the law allows, Hauptmann was that man. Justice Trenchard gave him all the rope his | counsel asked, then chucked him the | entire coil. “Justice Trenchard knew the State had something to prove and he was going to make the State prove it. Hauptmann got all the breaks. “Reilly came down from Broadway to us hicks to show off his tricks. But if you want the truth about the impression he made on us, here it is. We thought he was a great big bluff. “It became evident to us that Mr. Reilly was trying pretty hard to cre- ate a mistrial. “When it came to chucking mud on graves, Mr. Reilly had no conscience. He seemed willing to say anything President Roosevelt's tax plan and% [ selves fit.” Impressed By Writers. May P. Brelsford, a housewife, gives her version: “Under our noses, day after day, | stretched two long rows of people of | & special sort—men and women, mostly | | young, all crouched over great stacks of paper and with their fists full of pencils. “These were the newspaper writers. “All through the trial the writers acted like exclamation points, punctu- ating the testimony. “We were not permitted any read- ing matter even remotely connected with the trial. “To tell the truth, we nome of us made up our minds to anything until the evidence had been presented.” The Mink Coat Brigade. Verna Snyder, a housewife, says of the so-called “mink coat brigade,” the expensive celebrities, the per- fumed visitors who pushed and shoved and wept their way into the court house, that “they supplied us with & show that was better than any they had come to see. But, more im- portant, they helped us arrive at a fair verdict. “‘The mink coat brigade’” this jurywoman says, was “there to see and to be seen, and by its presence it made the court room almost like a class room in which the witnesses and the defendants were pupils called upon to recite, getting a good grade or a bad grade, according to how smart they were in sticking to their story. “Outsid=, I heard later, the whole world had taken sides. But inside, we who had decided to remain un- decided until everything was in were let alone. And so when, on the last aay of the trial, we heard the crowd outside—the normal, every day, plain people—crying ‘Kill him! Kill him!’ it meant nothing to us. We were safe from the words of hate coming through the closed windows. We had been placed in such & frame of mind that no outbursts could move us to call what was untrue true. Got Used to Lindbergh. Elmer W Smith, an insurance agent and justice of the peace, takes the stand and says of his career as a juryman, stressing nis view of Col. Lindbergh, who sat during every one of the long-drawn-out days of the trial: “He was not, as so many people have said, a constant reminder to us of our duty. “Even when all the avidence was in, and he must have been convinced be- yond the shadow of doubt that the man sitting within arm’s reach was the man who killed his son, there was no change in the colonel’s eyes when they happened io fall on Haupt- mann. “Col. Lindbergh sat like a citizen soldier doing a duty without flinch- ing—so quietly, so much like just another member of the crowd, that most of the time we jurors simply forgot he was there.” State’s “All-Star Cast.” Charles F. Snyder, a farmer on the jury, says: “The State witnesses made up, without exception, an ali-star cast. They were well equiped with facts. ‘They appeared to know what they were talking about. And they stood up well under fire. “The apparent sincerity of a wit- ness always impressed us. The mere fact that he had a goou record as a citizen did not, in itself, make his testimony credible, His intent may have been good, but his memory faulty or his information weak. “On the other hand, a witness with & bad record may have been attempt- ing, this once, to be on the level and to reveal facts. That was vhat we had to try to determine. And every witness was important. We did our best to weigh and judge them ail. “Dr. Condon made a fine witness for had a great respect for him. “There was another old fellow who knew what he was talking about. That was Amandus Hochmuth, in his 80s. We observed him closely, and followed his examination with the greatest attention. For he nad been in the Prussiin army, and Haupt- mann is a German, of course. But Hochmuth didn't help Haupimann any. He identified Hauptmann and his car, and said there was something look natural. For an innocent man, it did not seem necessary, or genuixe. | “Next day Mrs, Hauptmann broke | loose in the same way. “Hauptmann took the stand in a way that seemed brazen. H~ gave| the impression that he was .here to | show the judge and the jury and the | all this exhibit over with a lot of interest. It was in my line.” “No Maudlin Sympathies.” Rosie Pill, a housewife and a grand- mother, tells how a woman feels about sentencing a man to his death in the electric chair. She says: “I believe the feelings of a woman lawyers a couple of things. on a death jury are the same as those “When his counsel was ques’ ing him, Hauptmann had an having been rehearsed. * * * Many of his questions and answers did not ring true, “When the prosecutor took over. the questioning, Hauptmann was loud and bold anc defiant in his answers. day on the stand the prosecutor was getting him pretty well mixed up. His shouting was even louder, but there was a lack of confidence in his voice. We thought Hauptmann was going to bresk down then, but ad- Jjournment saved him, I believe. “Next day he was ready to start lying all over again. For we had reached the conclusion that he was lying. And after definite testimony to the contrary and identification by local witnesses we didn't believe his denials that he had ever been near Hopewell when the Lindbergh baby was stolen. “Even if we had believed his ex- planation that he had dipped inte money left him by a friend, who later died, tha: wouldn't have boosted Hauptmann with us. There was a contradiction between his affectionate terms for this friend, Fisch, and his villingness to let the kidnaping be pinned on Fisch. “Mrs. Hauptmann on the stand loyal, determined to see her husband through, to stand by him to the end. | We never had a thought that she | had any kncwledge of the crime.” Wood Inferesied Carpenter. As the carpenter on the jury, Lis- com C. Case, says: “Testimony showed that the lad- der found at Col. LinGbergh's place on March 1, 1932, came from the Bronx, N. Y. “Arthur Koehler, student of woods, in the Forestry Service of the United States, had scmething to say about that ladder. More than two years be- fore Hauptmann was even suspected Koehler traced that ladder to the Bronx. “The ladder was made of a variety | of woods. Through forests, lumber camps, sawmills and freight yards Mr. Koehler followed these sticks. He visited something like 20,000 lumber | yards. “At last he narrowed the search {down to the Dorn Mill, in a small Soouth Carolina town named Mc- Cormick. There some of that ladder lumber had been sawed and dressed. Then it had been shipped, some to the Bronx. “In the yard of the National Lum- ber & Millwork Co., in the Bronx, been shipped by Dorn. It had the same markings of a plane knife gone dull that showed upon the ladder wood. “Then Hauptmann was caught and his house almost take part. In the attic there was a saw-cut stub end of a floor board. On the raw plaster of the ceiling lath below it was saw- dust. A board had been taken out of the attic floor, but the sawdust had “By the end of Hauptmann's first showed a different character. She was | Mr. Koehler found lumber that had | of a man. “Usually, a woman is expected to | soften. But we were beyond the pity that we might have felt normally. We had no maudlin sympathies for Haupt- mann. A fair-haired baby had been killed, Hauptmann was the killer, and | we four woman jurors were mothers. | “We women knew how we would have felt if our babies had been | murdered.” | “Business Partnership.” | Ethel Stockton, an employe in a lawyer's office, now tells her tale: “Contrast the testimony of Mrs. Lindbergh with the gaps Mrs. Haupt- mann left in her story. Here they were, a hard-working young couple, | she a waitress, he a carpenter, living with German thrft. Suppose my husband suddenly walked into the house with a $400 radio. I'd want to know where the money came from. | Suppose my husband toid me I could { quit my job mow. I'd want to know { why. Suppose my husband told me |1 could go to Europe. I'd want to | know who was going to pay for it. | “Theirs was a marriage where both husband and wife worked, and I know |that such'marriages are more likely {to be partnerships without business secrets than one in which the husband is the only provider.” Procedure of Jury. | How the verdict was reached Is told | by Howard Biggs, a bookkeeper: “It is late forenoon, the day after Lincoln’s birthday. “We agree we must not be hasty “Pirst we tackle the handwriting charts and graphs. “The ransom money is checked to see that the bill numbers actually match the bank record book. Haupt- mann's personal account books are gone over. “We take up the ladder and the wood exhibits. “We examine the floor board evi- dence from the Hauptmann home. | “Then a juror asks how we feel }sbouv. looking the exhibits over fur- | ther. We have all seen enough, one | deadly bit of evidence piled upon another. “Probably the deciding factor in the verdict were the testimony and evi- | dence presented by Koehler, the wood expert. | “So now comes the matter of taking | the vote. i “Instructions from the Justice are reviewed, and it is decided that we vote on ‘guilty or not guilty of murder | in the first degree,’ or any degree. i “Twelve ballots are passed and 12 | cast; one vote! “Guilty of murder in the first de- | “Death in the electric chair for | Bruno Richard Hauptmann.” Equader to Import Flour. QUITO, Ecuador, June 22 (#)—~The government today took over the busi- ness of importing fiour, announcing | it would be resold directly to bakers | to curb speculation. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Representative Lundeen of Minne- sota has recommended to Congress the printing daily of an eight-page digest of the Congressional Record with an experienced newspaper man in charge of the work. He would not disturb the present complete verbatim Congressional Record, but would im- prove it by the addition of a daily index instead of the present bi- monthly index. Representative Lundeen argues that members of Congress and busy con- stituents cannot find time to read thoroughty the present Congressional Record, which averages about 94 pages daily. Sixty copies of the Rec- ord are allotted daily to each member of Congress for distribution. Those that are read, even cursorily, Lundeen points out, reach only a very small mm“ber of constituents and only & smal time to read the Record. E Congressional Record Digest In 8-Page Daily Form Sought “We can perform a fine educational service,” he emphasizes, “by dis-