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MURDER LAID TO LINDBERGH SUSPECT

END 1 EXTILE STRIKE, PLEA OF ROOSEVELT

President Asks Workers to Resume Jobs on Basis of Board Report. Peace believed ne'ar Employers Urged to Take Back Men Without Discrimination. B v > titled Prist WASHINGTON. Sept. 21 —Textile strike peace after more than two weeks of bloodshed and sabotage appeared imminent today as strike leaders rushed here for a decision on the federal mediation board's peace plan. It was learned authoritatively that strike chieftains felt that peace was near. The President s unexpected request that the strikers return to work on the basis of the Winant board's program lor adjusting problems tn the industry was received without comment at the office of Francis J. Gorman, strike leader. Members of the textile union’s executive council were hastening here for a conference at which a formal decision will be made. Many of them are in strike areas and may not be able to reach Washington until late tonight. Strike Council Meets Mr Roosevelt s appeal was contained in a formal statement as follows : In formally approving the report submitted to me by the board of inquiry for the cotton textile industry. I want to express the very sincere hope that all employes now out on strike will return to work and that all textile manufacturers will take back employes without discrimination. • At the same time I am confident that manufacturers will aid the government tn the carrying out of the steps outlined. •'Settlement of the problems involved will be reached with the exercise of a spirit of co-operation and fair play on both sides. Mr. Roosevelt’s statement was In support of the report of his special board of inquiry which was pre- j sented to hi myesterday for ap-1 proval. Meanwhile the executive council of the textile strike met to decide j whether the great walkout will be! called off on the basis of rccom- i mendations by this board. The meeting was called by Francis J. Gorman, strike director, immedlately after receiving the report ot | the board headed by Governor John | G. Winant. At the same time George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute and spokesman for the industry, prepared to poll mill owners on their reaction to the findings. Interpretations Differ Interpretations of the report by labor wnd management differed. Gorman characterized the report as an “indictment of management" but would not indicate whether the strike would be called off prior to : conferring with the executive council. Sloan said the recommendations were concerned primarily with machinery for administering the textile code and that the board had recogniDPd “the “far-reaching improvements for employes” effected by the code. Proposals of the board were: Creation of an impartial threeman board similar to the Steel labor board and the national labor relations board to protect labor's collective bargaining rights and other labor provisions of the code. An independent study by the de- j partment of labor and the federal | trade commission of economic con- ! dit ions In the industry with a view to discovering what changes in hours and wages can be made. Stretchout Supervision Asked Supervision of the stretchout by the proposed textile labor relations board and creation of a special com- j mittee to study the problem and recommend permanent measures not later than Jan. 1. Study by the labor department s of job classifications as an aid toward preventing minimum code wages becoming maximum wages. “The board.” it stated, “is con- : fident that these findings and rec- > ommendations are fair and reasonable and that they offer the possi- j bihty of a Just and lasting settlement. "We therefore earnestly hope that the United Textile Workers will call off the strike on the basis j of these recommendations. At the] same time we request the employers in the Industry to take back the workers now on strike without discrimination ” Only one of four demands by the were met directly by the prol of the board. These demands a thirty-hour week without reduction, an impartial arbi-! t ration board, recognition of the union, elimination of abuses of the stretchout Vloarty Temperatures 6a. m ... 68 10 a. tn . .78 7 a m ... II a m. 80 Ba. m 73 12 noon i 80 8 a. m 75 1 p. m 81

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Alleged by New York police to be the man who received $50,000 ransom money in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping from “Jafsie,” Bruno Richard Hauptmann is shown here with his wife in a picture released by New York police. Hauptmann, an alien unlawfully in this country, arriving as a stow-

LINDBERGHS ARE SILENT ON CASE

Remain in Seclusion on West Coast: Make No Comment on Case. K y I'nitnt Prrn* LOS ANGELES. Sept. 21.—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh remained in seclusion today, still silent concerning arrest of a suspect in the lcidnap-murder of their first child. Thev_ isolated themselves in the spacious ranch home of Will Rogers, who several days ago cabled themselevs to make it their home during their stay in southern California. Colonel Lindbergh could not be reached, but Jack Maddux, former airline executive and a close friend, said no statement would be issued until the noted flier receives word from his attorneys in New York. Tile Lindbergs planned to fly to San Francisco today for a short stay before returning to Los Angeles, but these plans were reported canceled. Whether they planned instead to return to New York could not be learned. The small plane in which they flew west last week still was hangared at Santa Monica. Mr. Maddux said Colonel Lindbergh appeared “little interested" when advised of the arrest in New York of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. “When I heard of the arrest I immediately reached Colonel Lindbergh, giving him all the details.” Maddux said. “Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh have nothing to say about the case, nor of their plans for the immediate future, but will issue a formal statement when they are ready. "Colonel Lindbergh did not seem much interested when I told him.” The Rogers home is not far from Clover Field. Santa Monica, where Colonel Lindberghs plane is in a hangar. Rumors that he might take off from that field for a quick return flight east grew when a large Douglas transport ship was wheeled out of a hangar early today and prepared for a flight. Times Index Page Broun' 25 Classified 33. 34. 35 Comics 37 Crossword Puzzle 19 Curious World 37 Editonal 26 Financial 36 Food Page 32 Hickman—Theaters 22 Let s Go Fishing 29 Modernize Your Home 30 Pegler t 25 Radio 10 Serial Story 37 Spcrts . 28. 29 Woman s Pages 20, 21

SUSPECT, CAPTURED IN LINDBERGH KIDNAPING CASE

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NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED ON U. S.-RUSSIA DEBT Hull and Troyanovsky Make New Effort at Settlement. Bjr l nitrd Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 21.—Negotiations for settlement of the $500,000.000 Soviet Russian-American debt tangle were resumed today between Soviet Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky and State Secretary Cordell Hull. Folowing a lapse of several days, Troyanovsky arrived at the state department with new’ instructions from his government to resume the conversations. CHIEF STEWARD OF SPEEDWAY IS DEAD W. D. (Eddie) Edenburn Passes in Detroit. W D. (Eddie) Edenburn. a familiar figure annually at the famous 500-mile Speedw’ay race here for more than twenty years, died today in Detroit, Mich., his home, from the effects of uremic poisoning. He had been ill several days. Mr. Edenburn, once automobile editor of the old Indianapolis Stm, predecessor of The Indianapolis (Turn to Page Fifteen)

Strikers’ Action Here Up to Gorman , Says Leader

Word from Washington that President Roosevelt had requested textile workers to return to their machines brought an answer from local United Textile Workers of America officials today that any such action in the strike here against the Indianapolis Bleaching Company could come only on word from national strike headquarters in Washington.

“My specific instructions are that the strike will continue in full force until Francis J. Gorman, general strike chairman, has issued orders to return to work,” declared Chares P. Drake, business agent of Local No. 2069. conducting the strike here. Mr. Drake, who said he felt employers had had ample opportunity before the strike to take the steps now suggested by the Presidents special textile labor board, explained that the agreement to await definite word from Mr. Gorman was made so that workers in various textile centers could not be tricked into going back to work separately. This morning. Mr. Drake and other union representatives conferred with Chief Mike Morrissey over alleged police brutality on the picket line Monday afternoon. Mr. Drake and the chief differed in their reports of the conference, but it was obvious that the chief intended to back patrolman Charles Springer, against whom charges have been filed with the safety board. Meanwhile, the situation remained tense after turbulent scenes late <1

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away eleven years ago. was arrested w'hile trying to pass a ten-dollar gold certificate and police found $13,750 of the ransom money under a garage neaf\ his home. Hauptmann is an unemployed carpenter. 'v

FATAL HOLDUP IS DESCRIBED Motor Bus Firm Cashier First Witness in Dean Trial. Speaking calmly and so softly as to be almost inaudible in a tightly packed criminal courtroom, a cashier for the ’ Peoples’ Motor Coach Company today began the testimony which, the state hopes, will send Edward (Foggy) Dean to the electric chair on charges of having killed Police Sergeant Lester Jones in the coach company barns i holdup Feb. 7, 1933> The cashier, Wayne W. Fritts, did not mention Dean in any part of his tesimony. but he painted in vivid detail a picture of the holdup in which Sergeant Jones was killed and in w’hich, the state says, Dean used the submachine gun which killed him. Dean, said by the state to have been a lookout in the holdup, sat. a dapper figure, with his hands cupped over an ear as Mr. Fritts testified. He appeared nonchalant. Grouped in the courtroom were : several of his relatives. Grim-faced I detectives stood near doors and windows. Three armed bandits entered the (Turn to Page Nineteen)

yesterday in which almost 200 pickets demonstrated against police through downtown streets and in front of police headquarters. The trouble started when some striker, or strikers, hurled stones at a group of cars, carrying working employes and guarded by police cars, as they left the plant of the Indianapolis Bleaching Company at the end of the working day. Police retaliated by rushing the picket line. James Ezell, 37, of 404 West New York street, one of the first to be arrested in the difficulties several days ago. was singled out for police attack, according to Mr. Drake and other union witnesses. These witnesses, who described Ezell as a cripple, said that the patrolman who arrested Ezell first handcuffed him. then drew a gun and threatened him and later slugged him on the way to headquarters. Ezell’s attorney said today his client was not a cripple. Infuriated, the union members started down Washington street for headquarters, yelling and singing as they marched.

GERMAN CONVICT SLEW AVIATOR’S BABY, DECLARE FEDERAL OFFICIALS; ‘LONE WOLF OF CRIME,’ THEY SAY

Bruno Hauptmann Conceived and Executed Whole Crime, Is Opinion of United States Agents; Hold Proof of Ransom Taking. HAD FEW ACCOMPLICES, THEY THINK Immediate Charges of Extortion Are Preferred Against Man Held in New York; Grilling Is Continued. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Federal authorities were convinced to their own satisfaction today that Bruno R. Hauptmann conceived and executed the Lindbergh kidnaping. He was, they believe, a lone wolf of crime—a stowaway immigrant, “smart as hell,” who carried out the century’s most stunning crime with few, if any, confederates of importance. They held apparently airtight proof that Hauptmann, seized in New York Wednesday, was the man who obtained the $50,000 ransom paid by Colonel A. Lindbergh—obtained that money when the abducted child’s body already lay in a New Jersey woods. Today the most skilled operatives of the department of justice were concentrated in the hunt for deadly evidence that would send the German carpenter to New Jersey to face trial for the actual kidnaping. Officials here felt morally certain that JJauptmann’s brain conceived the idea of abducting the nation's most famous child; that he made the preparations; that probably it was Hauptmann himself who placed a home-made ladder against the walls of the isolated Lindbergh mansion near Hopewell, N. J.. the night of March 1, 1932. crept up to the nursery and made off with curly-haired Charles Augustus Jr. Confident as they were, officials conceded it may be difficult to obtain decisive proof that would stand up in court. That is why the federal government, working in co-operation with New York City and New Jersey authorities, agreed on the plan of bringing immediate charges of extortion in New York City, where the ransom was paid. Government operatives were concentrating also in a hunt to determine whether Hauptmann had accomplices within the Lindbergh home. While convinced that Hauptmann was the foremost figure in the kidnaping, officials thought it likely that he had some secondary accomplices.

Hauptmann Resists Efforts of Police to Pin Murder on Him

By l nitrd Press NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—A stolid, thin-lipped ex-convict from Germany today resisted the combined efforts of police and federal agents to link him with the kidnaping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Weary, pale and at times with tears in his eyes, Bruno Richard Hauptmann refused to yield—when police confronted him with positive proof that $13,750 of the $50,000 Lindbergh ransom money was in his possession. Then they battered him with questions about an imposing array of circumstances designed to connect him with the actual kidnaping. -f

In the end—after Hauptmann had stood in.the white glare of lights at the police lineup and after he had been bound over without bail at his arraignment—the police and federal agents were convinced that the prisoner was involved directly in the planning and execution of the most sensational crime of the century. But Hauptmann and his exhausted, unstrung wife were as vehement as ever in their denials of his guilt. Standing in police lineup, Hauptmann denied knowing he had possessed the ransom money and denied ever visiting the vicinity of the Lindbergh home in New Jersey, from which the infant was kidnaped March 1, 1932. There were, however, significant developments in the drive of police to complete solution of the Lindbergh mystery—a baffling case which they believe Hauptmann’s arrest will solve. Different View Taken It w r as significant, for instance that whereas federal officials are convinced it was a one-man job, the New York police take a different view. Chief Inspector John J. Sullivan said the first visible break in Hauptmann's composure came as he talked to the prisoner. His shoulders sagged after many hours of questioning and tears came into his eyes. “This was a one-man job,” Sullivan said later. “Do you think Hauptmann chiseled in to get the ransom?” he was asked. “Lots of things are developing rapidly,” the inspector replied. “As it now Stands, if this man was not present at the kidnaping he had a hand in it. There are others in it, however.” At one time Hauptmann denied that he had ever read the Bronx Home News in which the ransom recipient carried on communication with Dr. J. F. (Jafsiej Condon, the intermediary. However, police said, a checkup showed that the newspaper had been delivered reguarly to him at one time. Indictment Is Due Hauptmann will be indicted by the Bronx county grand jury today or tomorrow. Andrew McCarthy, assistant United States attorney, announced. He said the prisoner told him he did not want a lawyer. Hauptmann was taken to Bronx county jfi-'l to await hearing on Monday. Meantime, it was learned that it is almost certain that he will be extradited to New Jersey to face charges of kidnaping and murder. Governor A Harry' Moore was understood to have sent a request to

Governor Herbert Lehman of New York, for extradition of Hauptmann to New Jersey. The procedure probably will be as follows: Dismissal of the extortion charge will be sought on Monday in magistrates court. Then the grand jury of Bronx county will have indicted Hauptmann and on Tuesday or later, Hauptmann will be arraigned before a Bronx judge to plead, unless the the move for extradition has gone through before that time. If he pleads not guilty, he will be given a swift trial. However, it is considered more likely that he will be extradited. In the dazzling white lights ot the police lineup this morning, with his nervous voice magnified by loud speakers, Hauptmann insisted that the ransom money was given to him by a friend who later died in Germany. Prisoner Is Shaken The prisoner, linked by federal agents to the kidnaping through half a dozen circumstances, including the similarity of his hand-writ-ing to that of the ransom notes, was a shaken and hesitant figure w'hen he mounted the platform at police lineup prior to being arraigned on extorition charges in the Bronx. Apparently, he had rested some since a long ordeal of questioning and he was freshly shaved. But he was nervous and at times slightly uncertain as he started through the glaring lights to the auditorium where detectives and patrolmen watched. An assistant police chief, standing at a microphone in the center of the room, shot questions in a clear, booming voice over the loud speaker system. He sought to clear up the links of the chain w'hich federal agents say bind Hauptmann to the crime —the ransom money, the "partial” identification of the prisoner by Dr. J. F. (Jafsie) Condon. The fact that Hauptmann, a carpenter, worked near the Lindbergh home in New Jersey; the fact that a carpenter undoubtedly made the kidnap ladder, and the fact that Hauptmann quit work, but had more money than ever in the summer of 1932. after the kidnaping. Studies Answers Carefully To each question Hauptmann gave a careful and studied reply, which was designed to clear himself. The ransom money, he said, was given him for safekeeping by a friend 'apparently J. Fische, who was once a partner of the prisoner in fur dealings! who later went to Germany and died there. “In addition I made some money

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in Wall street and made about SIO,OOO in fur deals,” he said. He admitted he had worked at Lakewood and Freehold, New Jersey, but said he had never been in Hopewell, which is nearest the Lindbergh home. He said he had had no work since April, 1932. Hauptmann stood nervously under blazing lights while being questioned. He spoke with a heavy accent. Garage Is Torn Down He moved his feet nervously as he answered questions and obviously was frightened. It was difficult to tell whether he had slept any since police and federal agents began questioning him on Wednesday, but it was considered unlikely that he had. He had been facing persons who sought to identify him as a passer of the ransom money almost all night. Meanwhile, a police emergency squad was sent to Hauptmann’s home and began tearing down the garage in search ot more money believed hidden there. Against Hauptmann, officials said, was a strong circumstantial case, strengthened by the identification of Hauptmann by every person who could possibly identify any one connected with the kidnaping and collection of ransom. Seek $26,000 More David Wilentz, attorney-general of New Jersey, the state in which the baby was kidnaped and murdered, was.with the prisoner all night. He hinted that Hauptmann soon would be transferred to the jurisdiction of the New Jersey courts. Detectives said they had learned that Hauptmann had $24,000 or $25,000 on deposit in a brokerage house. If that also should prove to be a part of the ransom, it would account for all the $50,000 except about $6,000, the detectives said. About $5,000 in $5. $lO and S2O bills had been passed before Hauptmann's arrest. One conflicting development emerged today in the efforts of authorities to complete their case. Manhattan police had said that Dr Condon and other persons identified Hauptmann, but after he was removed to the Bronx. Foley announced that no one had identified hifft. Wife Is Threatened Hauptmann’s 32-year-old wife, Anna, who had been held since last Friday, was released early today and returned to her home. Police apparently were convinced she did not even know of Hauptmann’s wealth. Neighbors had said that Hauptmann kept her on a close allowance and she frequently borrowed small sums to pay for groceries. News that the crime which shocked the world and sent thousands of police on a hysterical, months-long hunt.for the perpetrators was near solution aroused the greatest excitement not only in New York, but throughout the United States. A great crowd blocked traffic around the Greenwich street police station where Hauptmann was questioned until he was transferred to Bronx county last night. Mrs. Hauptmann, originally held with her husband, was taken to a

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Detectives Move Slowly but Relentlessly in Effort to Solve Case. SUSPECT DENIES GUILT Received Money From Friend, Wall Street Investments, He Claims. restaurant by detectives for dinner. The crowd screamed insults at her and several enraged voices screamed: “Stone her! Hang her!” Hauptmann was spirited out 'he back way. Authorities had no fear of mob violence, but took every possible precaution. The circumstantial case against. Hauptmann was generally considered strong. Strongest was possession ot the ransom money and his identification as the man who has been passing it $5 and $lO at a time for months. Authorities believe the ransom Dr. Condon took to St. Raymond cemetery was paid to the actual kidnaper and not to an interloper. Picked From Lineup Before Dr. Condon paid, he received the sleeping suit which the Lindbergh baby wore the night he was stolen. His communications were signed by the same complicated geometic symbol that signed the original ransom note. Next link in the chain was the identification of Hauptmann’s handwriting as that of the original ransom note. Hauptmann is a German, given, even in conversation, to use of German idioms. The original note was so worded that experts were certain it had been written either by a German or a person with a German education. Dr. Condon picked Hauptmann out from a line-up of ten men. He felt he was the “John” with whom he held a moonlight conference in a park a week before the ransom was paid, but felt he should not. make a positive identification. “John’’ gave a taxi driver $1 to deliver a note to Dr. Condon while he was negotiating for the ransom. The taxi driver identified Hauptmann as John. Various merchants who had received $5 and $lO bills from the ransom money during the last year, identified him as the passer. Hauptmann is an expert carpenter. He admitted he had once worked in the neighborhood of Hopewell, N. J. Ladder Is Clew The ladder which the kidnaper propped against the wall of the Lindbergh home to gain excess to the baby’s room was constructed by an expert carpenter from lumber that bor a peculiar mark. Police definitely ascertained that Hauptmann had excess to a lumber yard which had lumber of a peculiar mark similar to the mark on the lumber in the ladder. Hauptmann had a criminal record in Germany, where he served three years in prison for theft after the war. He stowed aw r ay on a ship bound for America eleven years ago to avoid arrest for parole violation and has been in this country illegally since then. Hauptmann up until the time of the kidnaping worked at odd carpenter jobs, complaining to neighbors of hard times. After the kidnaping, he stopped working altogether and told neighbors there was no point in working when one could live well without working. He talked about Wall Street. He always had money, maintained a car. and sent his wife to Germany for the summer in 1932. Hauptmann stolidly withstood tha ordeal of continuous questioning without sleep and with only brief interludes for rest. He kept his blue eyes focussed in his lap for the most part, but occasionally lifted his head to say “yes” or ‘ no” to a question. Argues With Identifiers At the Greenwich street police station he angrily disputed with shopkeepers who identified him a 3 the man who gave them currency from the Lindbergh ransom. At the Bronx county courthouse, w here he was taken later, he didn t say a word when witnesses pointed him out. He sat on a wooden bench throughout the night, flanked by detectives. His arrest culminated the greatest manhunt in history that began a few hours after nurse Betty Gow entered the Hopewell nursery and found her charge missing. Never for a moment during all of the two and a half years since the tragic March, April and May. 1333, when Colonel Lindbergh sought by every means, even to soliciting the aid of the underworld, to ransom the baby the kidnaper insisted was alive and well, had the search relaxed. The United States Department of Justice, the New Jersey state police, and the New York City police ran down thousands of fruitless clews, finally centering all attention on tracing the $5, $lO and S2O bills that made up the ransom money Dozens of these bills were traced without result, but finally one turned up shat led to their man.