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It Seems to Me HEVM BROUN MIAMI. Fla., Jan 4 —The House of Rimmon is a nice place few a visit but I wouldn't live there If you paid me. To be sure this is sheer speculation since nobody has paid me much except a dog called Trawler and a horse named Bushmaster. Incidentally. I wrestled hard with the question of betting this year. I went to seven of my most radical friends and asked each one in turn if it would be all right for me to make a few modest wagers at the track and even mention the matter in this column. The last one

said it would be all right. That was lucky because I was blame near run out of radical friends, before I got the opinion which I sought. But even this friendly counsellor added a word of caution. “You would be unwise,” he said, "to mention roulette or even to play it,” and so I vowed to abstain from this peculiarly pernicious form of gambling, and I have kept mv word. By a curious coincidence there hasn’t been any roulette in Miami this season as yet. The boys are waiting for the word to go, which is a local custom. Go is quite a simple word but some of the officials who participate annually in

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the spelling bee seem temporarily tonguetied. It's even money now that the happy day will be Jan. 15. Unfortunately I will not be here to show my iron will and strength of character. Asa rule the lid goes off on New- Year’s Eve. a a a There Was a Delay THE delay this year has been occasioned by the fact that a local mobster met with a nasty accident a few nights ago at the guns of persons unknown The ministers of Miami have taken it amiss. And that is not like the ministers of Miami who are generally good fellows prearhing only against the Hittites and the Moabites while the season is on. One prominent local resident asked me with concern whether I thought the papers of the North would give prominent play to Miami’s altercation. It war. my opinion that in the eyes of New York the sudden death of a run of the mine gangster would hardly be considered hot news. And I comforted my respectable friend by asking him what else could be expected under the capitalistic system, which reminds me that on New Year’s Eve I got separated from the slightly younger and more radical Broun. I was at a table arguing trades unionism with a Wall Street broker and Woodie was far across the room. I ventured over to inquire how he was faring in the new year. "Fine,” he replied, “I am debating Communism with the gray-haired man. I don't know his name, but he’s a banker and I’m putting it all over him.” I don't know what the younger generation is coming to and still less how to bring them up. a a a The Brauns Argue UNFORTUNATELY my modes are such that I’m not in a good position to say, “Shut your blame mouth and quit arguing with your elders.” Still I suppose I'll have to teach him manners and the next time he gets to debating I’ll break in stemlS and bawl at him in a loud voice, “Woodie, Mr. Jones is a good deal older than you and if he thinks that almost all the unemployed are simply people who are too lazy to work, let the fathead have it his own way. Never let it be said that the Brouns art rude except in talking to each other.” The House of Rimmon is a lovely place and in it you must min; your manners and speak well of the huge grapes which grow high upon the wall. Still diminishing returns would not be a hot name for the chateau. The gay life tapers off like a mashie shot against the wind. Across the room there comes that inevitable man whom you must certainly have met some time, somewhere and he joins the party saying, “I want you to meet this little lady with the crushed strawberry lips. Don’t you think she ought to be in pictures? And what a title ‘The Little Lady With the Crushed Strawberry Lips.’ ” ‘‘l think,” somebody says, “that lips would be just as good.” “Crushed would be my suggestion,” remarks a large fat man who has grown a little weary and is fumbling in his pocket for the time table to New York. (Copyright. 1935)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

A FASCINATING set of approximate statistics about the un verse are set forth by S:.r James Jeans in his newest book, “Through Space and Time.” They are easily remembered by the relative sizes of things in the universe. Jupiter, the biggest planet in the solar system, Is about 1000 times bigger than the earth in volume. Sir James points out. The sun is about 1300 times larger than Jupiter in volume. Stars in general range in size from some smaller ' that. ->ur own sun to some which are many times larger. The hottest and brightest blue stars average just about 1000 times the sun in volume, Sir James continues, while the biggest known stars, the so-called red giants, are about 1000 times the volume of the blue stars. If we put these statistics together into a table Os volumes with the volume of the earth .represented bv one. we get, Sir James shows us, the following table: Earth, 1; Jupiter. 1000; sun. 1.000.000: blue stars, 1(000.000.000, and red stars, 1.000,000.000,000. a a a GO outdoors tonight and look at the constellation of Orion, shining triumphantly in the southeast. Look at the bright red star which shines above the three which form the familiar belt of Orion. It is the giant red star, Betelgeuse. Now refer again to Sir James’ table. It means that if Betelgeuse were hollow you could pour into it a trillion globes like our own earth. Then remember that there are 100.000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way. By now’ you begin to appreciate the size of the universe. a a a SIR JAMES has become one of the most successful of book-writing astronomers. His recent books, which include "The Universe Around Us.” “The Mysterious Universe.” "The Stars in Their Courses,” and “The New Background of Science.” have sold more thar 300.000 copies in England and America. That fig" e may not sound large after the astronomical f res. but ask any publisher about it! Through Space and Time" represents the lec.•es given by Jeans at the 1933 Christmas season the Royal Institute in London. Ever since the i.ays of Faraday, it has been the custom at the Royal Institute to have a series of Christmas-lectures for children by some distinguished scientist. Sir James writes in his preface, the lecturer is confronted each year “with an eager and critical audience, ranging in respect of age from under 8 to more than 80.”

Questions and Answers

Q—Give the meaning of the name Barnard. A—Firm bear. Q—Were the Marx brothers, comedians, born in the United States? Are they of Jewish descent? A—They were all born in how York City and are of Jewish descent. Their mother came to the United States from Germany. Q—W’hat is the salary of President Kalinin of the Union Central Executive Committee of Soviet Russia? A—Six hundred roubles a month, which at the current rate of exchange, is equivalent to $522. Q—Where is the Blackstone river? How lone is it? A—lt rises in Worcester County. Mass., traverses the northeastern part of Rhode Island, and enters the Providence River near tne city of Providence. The lower part of its course in Rhode Island is called the Pawtucket or Seekonk. Length about 75 miles. 4

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BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER Times Special Writer BRUNO RICHARD HAUPTMANN is on trial at Flemington, N. J., charged with the most celebrated crime in your lifetime or mine. He is accused of the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., infant namesake and son of the flier. This is a resume of the state’s against him: The state alleges that Hauptmann entered the Lindbergh home in the Sourland Mountains on the xnght of March 1, 1932, in a premeditated attempt to steal the child and take other valuables (presumption: its clothing); that he did the child to death, and that he buried the body in a shallow, roadside grave. In proof of this, the state contends: That Hauptmann was seen near the Lindbergh home before the kidnaping. One Theodore Kuchtiak is expected to testify that a man resembling Hauptmann was seen hanging around the grounds before the kidnaping. Charles Galumbos of nearby Manville is expected to testify that he rented a g£ rage to a man resembling Hauptmann shortly before the kidnaping. That Hauptmann was seen near the estate on the day of the kidnaping. Millard Whited is expected to testify that he saw Hauptmann on his property adjoining the Lindbergh estate the day of the kidnaping. Mrs. Mary Szibla, formerly a stewardess at the Hopewell Valley Country Club, is expected to testify that a man resembling Hauptmann tossed a package into bushes near the Lindbergh estate the day of the kidnaping. That Hauptmann was in the baby’s room. Experts will testify that the ransom note referring to “the note we left in the bay’s room” was written by Hauptmann. ana r T''HAT Hauptmann suffered a leg injury such as might have been caused by a fall from the ladder leading from the baby’s room. Witnesses will say that the ladder was found broken; Dr. Otto Meyer of New York City is expected to testify that in the spring of 1933 he treated Hauptmann for a leg injury of long standing, and Silvio Constantino, auto salesman, will testify Hauptmann limped and had a bandage on his left foot in March and April, 1932.

Th e DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. —Legislative history to be made on Capitol Hill during the next six months will be written chiefly by the Senate. In this thick-carpeted arena will be unfolded the real drama and color of the session.

Unhampered by gag rules, no longer subdued by the desperate depression which two years ago awed it into submission, and manned by a record number of aggressive, independent fighters the new' Senate will be the scene of fierce and momentous battles. And the probability is that these battles will not be so much between Republicans and Democrats, but between right and left groups within the Administration itself. That probability is the most significant thing about the coming session. It is indicative of the fight that may come throughout the nation. It is the reason why conservative business, once supremely critical of Roosevelt, now is more friendly. It is the big question mark of the New Deal. Can the President cope with elements within the country and within Congress which are much more radical than he ever thought of being? To many, once shocked by Roosevelt’s “left of center” policy, he is now considered the real bulwark of more conservative interests. aaa THE President, as so often demonstrated. is a master politician, a genius in handling men. But never has he met a test as rigorous as that w'hich confronts him in the Senate. On one hand he faces about 20 Progressives, men of accomplished strategy, of great courage, with determination to shape a legislative course more liberal than the New Deal. To them party labels mean little. There are almost as many Republicans in this group as Democrats. On the other hand. Roosevelt faces about 25 dyed-in-the-wool conservatives, men thoroughly out of step with his policies, men who would wreck the New Deal if they could. 4k

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That Hauptmann was capable of constructing the home-made ladder used by the kidnaper. Witnesses will testify that the defendant is an expert carpenter and others will testify that he purchased wood like that in the ladder from a Bronx lumber dealer for whom he had worked. A Government analyst is reported to have decided that wood from the Bronx lumber dealer resembles in cellular structure that used in the ladder and that marks upon the ladder are similar to marks made by tools found in the Hauptmann garage. That Hauptmann may have left some of the footprints found near the base of the ladder. Technical measurements of these footprints and those of the defendant have not been made public, but it is understood that they are of the same size. That Hauptmann wrote the entire series of ransom notes sent to Col. Lindbergh. Albert S. Osborn, handwriting expert, is prepared to testify that Hauptmann’s admitted handwriting taken from “request writings,” as well as handwriting on his auto license applications, is the handwriting of the ransom notes. Mr. Osborn’s testimony, of necessity technical, will be so prepared that the jury, gazing upon charts -and blackboard illustrations, can not fail to remark points of similarity. Mathematical tabulations will make clear the expert’s contention that no one but the defendant could have had the unvarying habit of making his “o’s” open at the top, the exact manner of tipping the upward stroke of the “r,” the same slant to the “9” and the “7,” the extraordinary “x’s” like two “e’s,” and many other eccentricities. a a a npHE expert will point out racial characteristics in Ha u ptmann’s handwriting and in the ransom notes, characteristics which long before Hauptmann’s

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These pictures reveal the method most likely used in making the symbol found on the Lindbergh kidnap notes—notes which the prosecution is expected to contend were written by Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Each step in making the symbol is shown—marking with the ink bottle bottom, with the cork, cutting with a file (through several sheets of paper)—and finally the figure “eight” shows the completed work.

arrest led him to declare that the writer of the ransom communications was Teutonic in origin. Some of these characteristics are added and superfluous curves at the top of certain letters, the manner in which the small “s” and the capital “P” were written, a peculiar capital “W” with low centers, small “t’s” finished close

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to the baseline, capital “I’s” resembling the English “T,” small “o’s” resembling the English “t,” disconnected small “a’s” and “g’s.” The chance of two people writing exactly alike, without distinguishing traits, the expert may state as one in 68,000,000,000,000. Furthermore, both Mr. Osobm and Federal agents are prepared to testify that all the ransom notes and the one left in the nursery bore the same symbol, a symbol which, for reasons previously well publicized, could not have been duplicated by an outsider. That Hauptmann negotiated for the ransom money. Witnesses will testify that one of the letters held to be by Hauptmann’s hand accompanied a sleeping garment torn from the stolen baby. John Perrone, taxi driver, is prepared to testify that Hauptmann gave him $1 to deliver a note to Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon during the negotiations. New York police are prepared to testify that Jafsie’s telephone number and address were penciled on a removable board in a closet in the Hauptmann home. That Hauptmann received the ransom money. While it is known that the state will make this contention, the method by which it is to be substantiated remains a secret until the state makes known the exact

DRY LEADER TO TALK The Rev. James Crain to Talk to Conference Monday Night. The Rev. James A. Crain, Temperance and Social Welfare Board Secretary for the Disciples of Christ, will address the workers’ conference of the First Baptist Church, Vermont and N. Meridian-st, at 6 Monday night.

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nature of the testimony of Jafsie and Col. Lindbergh concerning the meeting at St. Raymond’s Cemetery, the Bronx, where the money was tossed over a wall. That Hauptmann had $50,000 in his possession. A total of $14,560 in identified ransom money was found in Hauptmann’s home, $13,760 wrapped in old newspapers and SBOO concealed in auger holes in a beam in the Hauptmann garage. Federal accountants are expected to testify that his investments, his approximate living expenses for the time he was unemployed and other known expenses total surprisingly close to $50,000. a a a THAT Hauptmann passed a large number of ransom bills: Many witnesses shopkeepers and the like—are available to testify to this point, including the two service station attendants who took down Hauptmann’s auto license after he gave them a $lO gold certificate and thus led to

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his arrest. These men—Walter Lyle and John Lyons—are ready to testify that Hauptmann told them he had about 100 of the $lO certificates left at home. That Hauptmann’s alibi for the night of the crime is unconvinc-. ing and that he gave up his job on the day the ransom was paid. Hauptmann has been unable to show that he was working at the Majestic Apartments as carpenter on the day of the kidnaping, and his wife’s contention that he “must have” escorted her home from the bakery where she worked is unsupported. She has admitted that she can not be certain of this. The state further will show by contractor’s records that Hauptmann gave up his Majestic Apartment job on the very day that Jafsie threw $50,000 over the cemetery wall. That Hauptmann’s story accounting for the money is false. Hauptmann has stated that the ransom money found in his home had been among packages left

I COVER THE WORLD a a a a a a By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Legislation vital to United States foreigt policy and national defense will be introduced early in this ses' sion of Congress.

Action is expected on the World Court, League of Nations, Nicaraguan Canal, a bigger Navy, new statutes governing American neutrality in war time, and congressional authority for anew war debts settlement. Topsy-turvy world conditions, a stormy Europe and the upset balance of the Pacific and Far East, clearly have deeply impressed the new T Congress. They are far from united upon the course to pursue —some demanding still greater isolation, others closer international co-operation—but all seem convinced action is imperative. World Court membership will come up at the first meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, probably next Wednesday. “As early as practicable” thereafter this will come up for a Senate vote. The terms upon w r hich American adherence might take place have been in existence for the last five years. Drafted by Elihu Root, the protocols contain reservations, notably with regard to the court’s advisory opinions. aaa THESE protocols were accepted by the league in 1929, but ever since the Senate has haggled over taking the final plunge. Even today there is a question whether the committee will report favorably. It may insist upon further reservations. If so, the 49 nations w'hich feel they have already gone great lengths to satisfy America, may balk. Membership may thus be held up indefinitely. Entrance into the League of Nations will be proposed by Senator James P. Pope. Senator Borah's Democratic colleague from Idaho. Senator Bcrah, of course, will continue his fight against it. What happens to both court and league resolutions depends largely upon the White House. There are 39 Democrats in the Senate, five more than a twothirds majority. A firm word

with him by Isidor Fisch, tubercular furrier, now dead. He said that he did not even know that the money was there until rainwater damaged one of the packages. When he found the money he spent it because he had loaned Fisch $7500, he said. But Henry Uhlig, who knew them both, is prepared to testify that Hauptmann did not meet Fisch until three months after the kidnaping and that Fisch was penniless when he died in Germany. That Hauptmann had a previous criminal record. Hauptmann’s German police record, sent to this country by Detective Arthur Johnson of the New York City force, shows that he was implicated in nine crimes and that on one occasion, taking part in a highway robbery at the age of 20, he urged his companion to fire upon two women pushing baby carriages when they refused to stand still as he had ordered. The charges, involving breaking and entering, larceny and highway robbery, resulted in a two-and-a-half-year prison senter-e. lauptmann escaped, was recaptured, served his time, was freed on parole. Arrested again in connection with a series of thefts, he again eluded his guards and stowed away to the United States. a a a THAT Hauptmann’s conduct was that of a guilty man. The State will show that he was reticent, secretive in his relations with his neighbors. It will call attention to the careful fashion in which he hid the money, his possession of a revolver (stowed away in another auger hole), the floodlights which could be operated from the house and which illuminated the ground about the garage, the fact that he refused his landlady and an oil burner repair man admittance to his cellar. They may cite such incidents as his tender of a $lO gold bill to a Bronx lumber dealer in payment for wood and his sudden decision not to part with the bill, which may or may not have been ransom money. Incidentally, Hauptmann, who had worked in that lumber yard, made purchases of lumber such as might have been used in construction of a ladder some time before the kidnaping. This, too, the State may bring out. And when this case has been presented in its entirety the State will demand that Bruno Richard Hauptmann be found guilty of first degree murder and sent to the electric chair. Tomorrow: Hauptmann’s Defense.

from President Roosevelt would likely suffice. Membership in the league also involves reservations. One would stipulate that the covenant of the league is to be interpreted in harmony with the Kellogg pact; another that neither Article 10, 16 or any other, is to be taken to mean employment of American troops at the league’s behest. a a tt WITH regard to Europe’s $lO 000,000,000 war debt to this country, few members of the new Congress appear to believe it will ever be collected. Many seem to think there must be a New Deal or America will never receive another cent. Only Congress can authorize a new settlement. It is known that anew war debts plan has been prepared unofficially, but with strong official backing. What the President’s attitude is. has not been publicly stated. There is reason to believe, however, that Congress may give him the necessary authority to make anew settlement. Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Committee will introduce a resolution to start the machinery going for a Nicaraguan canal. Japan's denunciation of the naval limitation pact is expected to give impetus to this project. * Naval construction is expected to be speeded up. A study of America’s neutrality and freedom of the seas policy, now in preparation, may find a far-reaching echo on Capitol Hill. Aero Club to Hold Contest Spot landing and ribbon cutting contests will be staged Sunday, Jan. 15. by the Indianapolis Aero Club, the club decided last night at a meeting in the Lincoln. Roy Hunt, nationally known aviator from Oklahoma City, Okla., was the club's of honor. t

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4. —Grim news comes to hand as the United States Congress assembles in Washington for the second hand of the New Deal. United States Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana has not taken a drink since last summer and he recently fired one of his state employes for drinking. He has also gone in for homely domesticity in an ostentatious way ~nd this. too. is a serious political development. The Louisiana statesman is a

candidate for the presidency as of 1936 and, in the meanwhile, if he should continue to turn dow T n his glass and shun his drams, he will have done something to overcome the natural prejudice of the churchgoing element against the man who got himself popped in the eye in the celebrated battle of the gents’ room at Sands Point. L. I. The battle of the gents’ room has been a source of considerable embarrassment to the Senator and unscrupulous political opponents in Louisiana and Mississippi did not scruple to spread a report that it was a Negro citizen who popped him.

This was untrue but it goes to show the extremes to which politicians will go in attacking the character of a statesman. It will also go to show the sort of embarrassment which Der Kingfish has suffered as a consequence of an adventure which began as a dinner party at a suburban New York club. a a a Long Boards a Wagon MR. LONG is addressing his candidacy primarily to a section of the country in which churchgoing is one of the principal diversions of the citizens. His political charm is great, but his social habits have constituted an offset in the minds of many pious voters. His deportment in Washington during the last session sometimes was lacking in dignity and he moved from one hotel to another in a restless effort to land in surroundings which would be sympathetically tolerant and more or less permanent. The Senator was not a teetotaler then and it was the last hope of those who wish him less than the best of everything that he would ever decide to go up the pole. The theory is that as long as Senator Long did not go up the pole there was always a chance that he would do something to embarrass himself even more than he was embarrassed by the pop in the eye. His natural capacity for spectacular mischief, heightened by the excitement of a few noggins might lead him into iurther adventures and Senator Long might thus save his opponents the struggle to lick him by licking himself. Now, however, he has discharged a public servant who seems to have been no drunker than the normal degree, announcing in this connection that persons who wish to serve their dictator must not get drunk at all ana He May Stop Clowning THE belated honeymoon trip to Arkansas, timed to divert attention from another of his special sessions, w r as the first exploitation of the Senator’s felicitious home-life. He had lived stag in Washington and even in New Orleans had maintained a hotel suite downtown although his family home was in the city. The home-loving element then found their attention suddenly called to Mr. Long’s domestic side by a newsy announcement that he was going off on his honeymoon, after many years. This sentimental journey to Arkansas was attended by considerable endearing publicity, reminding his constituents that he had his home-life, too, even as Mr. Roosevelt. It was a phase of his existence which had previously been neglected in the political billing. The Senator is now engaged in a more or less open scrap with the President which may ripen into a brawl when he comes to Washington where, undoubtedly, he will make publicity in great volume. There have been many attempts to put him over a barrel but he is not over the barrel yet. Cold sober and with his active wits always about him he will be much more difficult to handle than he would be with a few nibbles aboard. The Senator’s future seems to be up to himself. His greatest problem is to stop clowning, and he has taken a dangerous step in that direction. •Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.t

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

WHEN you are attacked by a severe cold or by influenza, the first thing to do is to get to bed. The room should be airy and the ventilation should include a free current of air without chilling. If both ventilation and warmth carr not be obtained at the same timf, ventilation is more important, and warmth should be provided by proper coverings on the bed and use of screens to keep off drafts. The number and weight of bed clothes should not be determined by your decision as to whether you 0 feel cold or warm. The temperature of the room is a most important factor. Your own temperature can be controlled by use of sponging. Fairly frequent sponging with lukewarm water will take down a fever. Do not try to feed a cold and crowd your stomach with food until you are uncomfortable: neither is it desirable to starve a cold. aaa PERSONS with influenza and with colds must have plenty of liquids, taken preferably rather warm, but cold water may be had if you can not take water in any other way. Os great importance in such cases is relief from discomfort and pain, and plenty of sleep. You should not attempt to doctor yourself against pain and cold, because you may do yourself more harm that good. Far too many persons are incapacitated today because they got up too soon after having had a severe cold or influenza. The result has been weakened heart, unable to survive even the stresses of ordinary life. No person with a cold should get out of bed until he has been free from fever for at least two days. aaa THE doctor watches the pulse_ and the competency of the heart very carefully. You should be up at first only a small period of time, and this may be gradually increased if the heart and the muscles respond satisfactorily. At the same time, the diet is gradually increased and the doctor looks particularly at the condition of the blood. It may be necessary to prescribe plenty of liver and kidneys, and even additional iron to build the blood up to its normal level after depressing disease like influenza. At least a week or two after you get up and go back to work, you should have a complete physical examination to determine that your heart and kidneys, and particularly your lungs, are without any defects or complications as a result of the disease. If any such condition is discovered, prompt measures should be taken to handle it in its incipient stage, to avoid more permanent disease and disability. Q—ls there a publication called the “Bawl Street Journal”? A—A travesty under that title is published once a year in connection with the annual field day o! the Bond Club of New York. Q —Which is the largest of the crocodilians; where are they found and how large are they? A—Apparently the largest is the Indian Gavial, confined to northern India. They inhabit the Ganges and the Brahamapootra Rivers, and their tributaries, and the Indus and its waterways. A gavial 30 feet long has been shot, and the body was fully three feet in meter.

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