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GIVAN REVEALED SIOO,OOO FEND, WEISS ASSERTS Attorney Approached Him With Offer to Become Co-Counsel for Users Cos., President Pro Tern, of Senate Tells Gas Probers. TIMES RECORDS BEFORE COMMITTEE Political Influence More Important Than Legal Talent, Is Opinion Expressed at Hearing by Leader of Upper House. John W. Smith, president of the Detroit City Council and prime mover in the Middle Western municipal proh. into natural gas activities, agreed today through the Indianapolis Times to appeal Monday beforr the Indiana legislative committee investigr' ; ng gas activities here. An Indiana legislative committee was catapulted into its investigation of natural gas operations in Marion County today by testimony of Senator Jacob Weiss (D., Indianapolis) and by records and data subpenaed from the files of The Indianapolis Times. Not yet 24 hours old, the six-man committee already had in its record Senator Weiss’ statement that it was Clinton H. Givan who asked him to be co-counsel for the Users’ Gas Cos. and said there was SIOO,OOO from those back of the

Users’ Cos. for distribution among attorneys in Marion County. In its record also were photostats of memoranda on the Indianapolis natural gas situation, exchanged between large operators as far back as 1931. and of minutes of huge companies’ meetings devoted to Indianapolis natural gas negotiations, all subpenaed from the files of The Times. Members ot the investigating committee are Senators Ralph H. Jernegan <R., Mishawaka), an attorney; E. Curtis White (D„ Indianapolis), printing pressman at The Indianapolis Star, and Edward C. Hays <D.. Marion), an attorney, and Reps. Fred E. Barrett <D„ Indianapolis). an attorney; Carl E. Wood <D.. Indianapolis), an attorney, and Joseph A. Andrew <R., Lafayette), an attorney. White Opens Hearing The committee requested the presence of Atty. Gm. Philip Lutz and his deputy. Josef 1 McNamara, who were present, representatives of the city and County Commissioners will be invited to all future sessions. Almost immediately the committee became deeply involve! in a background of tangled pipe-l.ne interests. bickerinc financial giants, smooth promoters, receiverships, charges and counter-charges of operators who, it appeared, had sought to bring in or keep out natural gas. Senator White, elected chairman, opened the hearing with a statement that the committee was about to investigate a matter of serious importance for the public. He said the hearings would be public, the testimony would belong to the public and the findings would become the property of the Legislature. Weiss First Witness Mr Weiss, president pro tern, of the Senate, was the first witness. He repeated to the committee charges he made on the floor of the Senate during a debate preceding passage of a law that sought to make more difficult the granting of a franchise to operate in Marion County to the Users Gas Cos. Senator Weiss charged then and repeated today that he had been asked to be co-counsel for the Users and was told that there was SIOO.000 for distribution to Marion County attorneys. Today he said Attorney Givan had made the offer. Mr. Givan. attorney for the Users in its bitter fight to secure the franchise. has refused to identify publicly his clients, the backers of the Users Cos., which is nominally incorporated for SSOO and is now inoperative. except in its efforts to get the franchise The law opposed by Users makes it necessary for Users now to show cause to the Indiana Public Service Commission why a second operator should enter the gas field in Marion County and get its permission before it can apply to the Marion County Commissioners for the franchise to operate. Stresses Political Influence The courts had held that under the utility law in force before the Legislature amended it the Users Cos. was entitled to a franchise so long as it was not an exclusive franchise. The Citizens Gas Cos. now has no franchise with Indianapolis, but is operating under an indeterminate permit granted in 1921 by the Public Sen-ice Commission. In inciting representatives of the County Commissioners to be presiTurn to Page Three) OFFERS BILL AIMED AT •FLOATING VOTER’ Rep. Black Would Bar Such Peraone as Witnesses. Floating" voters whose ballots be bought rlso couia be hired to testify they voted illegally for the opposing candidate, according to Ftep. William J. Black >D, Anderson), who introduced a House bill to remove the right to use such persons as ant nesses for election recounts.

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MIDWEST CITIES ASK U. S. P'JiZ Mayors Petition Senate for Sweepici Inquiry of Gas Setup. BY TIPTON BLISH Times Staff Writer COLUMBUS, o, Jan. 29. —A senatorial investigation which may be as earth-sharing as the famous Teapot Dome probe seemed assured today as a result of the meeting here of mayors of Middle Western cities banded together against what they charge is a grasping, greedy and unscrupulous natural gas monopoly. The conference memorialized the United States Senate to make a full and complete inquiry into the industry last night and they did so with the knowledge that Senator Gerald P. Nye (R„ N. D.) earliei had assured them, through The Indianapolis Times, that he would introduce such a resolution if they asked it. John W. Smith, president ot Detroit's City Council and chairman of the conference, thanked The Times on beha'f of the conferees for its ' thoughtfulness and enterprise' (Turn to Page Three I NEW BILL OFFERED ON DISPOSAL PLANT BONDS $76,000 Issue Authorized to Pay Patent Infringement. Anew bill authorizing the Indianapolis Sanitary District to issue $76,000 bpnds to compromise a sewage disposal patent infringement suit may be introduced in the House as the result of the withdrawal yesterday of such an enabling law.

Move for Quiz on Coers 9 Utility Charge Is Delayed Extended Debate on Pari-Mutuel Measure Prompts Andrew to Put Demand 0vc r Until Tomorrow. t Unexpected House debate on the Black pari-mutuel bill today caused Rep. Joseph Andrpw iR.. Lafayette) to postpone until tomorrow his demand for a thorough legislative investigation of alleged bribery charges in connection with the Coers' utility curb bill. Rep. Andrew had announced he would make another attempt to have the House reconsider its refusal yesterday to conduct an investigation

of Rep. Morris H. Coers' charges that he had been approached with | tentative bribery offers if he would drop the bill, which would prevent -the operation of radio stations and sale of merchandise by utility companies. Persons legitimately interested in defeat of the bill had considered seeking to nave Rep. Coers called | before the Marion County grand j i jury to explain his charges, but found that legislative immunity would prevent such a step, unless Rep. Coers voluntarily went before the grand jury. Twenty-nine votes are supposed to j be pledged to passage of the bill in the Senate. Attitude of the Adi ministration, however, is expected j | to determine the measure's future in : the upper house. "111 get someone who voted with the majority on the first motion to put a motion today to reconsider.” > Rep. Andrews had said. "The 40 members who voted against Rep. Coers’ bill won’t accept the imp ication that they were bought off by the hiterests. We will keep at this until we get an investigation.” Rep Herbert H. Evans <R„ Newcastle) attempted to have an amendment tacked on to the concurrent resolution investigating gas interests activities in the General Assembly, which would also include

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The joint committee of the Indiana General Assembly today moved with celerity in its investigation of the natural gas situation in Indiana by hearing its first witness. Senator Jacob Weiss <D„ Indianapolis), president pro tern, of the. state Senate. Left to right at the bench. Senator E. Curtis White <D.. Indianapolis) and Rep. Fred Barrett <D„

$30,000 Offered in Rental Fee for Race Meet at Fairground Contingent on Adoption of Pari-Mutuel Bill

BY JAMES DOSS Times Staff Writer New Orleans racing interests have offered $30,000 for sixty days of racing in Indianapolis at the State fairground, if the pari-mutuel betting bill pending in the House of Representatives is enacted. This became known today with the return from New Orleans of Richard Heller, secretary to Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. SenatoiRussell Henry <D.. Shelbyville), and Rep. Harry Hill <D„ Edinburg). Tbe offer, an oral one, was made by the Cattarnich-Eddy combine which operates the Fairground race track at New Orleans. T.— 530.000 offer, as it was made to the Indiana delegation which inspected the New Orleans racing plant, would be the lease price for the fairground here and would include only the right to race, use of necessary barns and the programs. The State Fair Board, under whose jurisdiction racing here would be POISON BOOZE DEATH TOLL REACHES 29 Several Blinded by Liquor, Officials Reveal. lift I H it< ■i Pres* UTICA. N. Y.. Jan 29.—The death toll 1 from poison liquor mounted to 29 m Utica and other nearby towns today when officials reported 12 deaths at Gloversville. Officials have made several arrests and ordered police to stamp out the poison liquor source at any cost. Several persons have gone blind. Os 14 cases reported at Gloverpville Hospital, four persons died early today. Eight succumbed earlier. The liquor, believed similar to the concoction that caused the deaths in Utica, was brought to the laboratories here for analysis. In Utica, another person was reported dying from the effects of the poison liquor. Three of the dead were women. In most cases, death was preceded by blindness and intense agony.

electrical "ompanies. His amendment was defeated after a roll call vote.

Maintain High Wage Principle, Avert New Collapse, A. F. of L. Leader Urges Nation's Industrialists

(Editorial on This Subject on Page Twelve) Scripps-Howard Newspapers, 230 Park-av, New York City. Gentlemen —The thing that most distinguishes the American economic system from all others is that in th ; r "tntry the principle of high wsr . nerally accepted as a ba. , .osperity, while in other business leaders almost without exception believe kiat prosperity is based upon low wages. The principle of high wages underlies the NRA and. the entire recovery program, but it was also generally recognized in this country during the New Era period of 1919-1929 and even, to a somewhat lesser degree. for decades previously. During the years preceding 1929, the principle became almost uni-

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hand Ted if the pari-mutuels are legalized. would be able to lease other concessions at the track to other persons. The Indiana delegation to New Orleans did not go there, it was made plain, for the purpose of bargaining with the Cattarnich-Eddy interests. The offer was unsolicited. If the $30,000 rental offer were accepted, the New Orleans combine still would have to pay the SIOO a day license fee provided in the pending bill and also give the state 2 2 cents on every dollar that went through the pari-mutuels. The sym' cate would retain cents plus the odd penny breakage on the betting odds. The state's share further would be increased by a 10-cent tax on admissions, under terms of a pending bill. Meanwhile in the House a determined effort was bjing made to have the Public Morals Committee report favorably today the bill offered by Rep. William J. Black <D., Anderson) allowing pari-mutuel betting. Spirited debate resulted shortly before noon in the first House vote on the Black pari-mutuel bill with the result that the measure was transferred from the Public Morals Committee to the Committee on Ways and Means. The bill, which had been unexpectedly reported out of the Public Morals Committee, attacked by Rep. Morris H. Coers <D.. Indianapolis), committee chairman, who signed a minority report. Rep. Coers had scheduled a public

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Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 28 10 a. m 26 7a. m 26 II a. m 28 8a- m. ... 25 12 (noon).. 29 9 a. m 26 1 p. m 30 Tomorrow's sunrise. 6:55 am.; sunset, 5:02 p. m. SUPREME COURT RULES ON INDIANA TAX LAWS Upholds Constitutiona'ity of Two State Measures. The Indiana Supreme Court today issued a ruling upholding the constitutionality of both the state gross income tax law and the state intangibles tax. The state has been involved in considerable litigation on both tax measures. The high court upheld the ruling of Superior Judge Russell J. Ryan, Marion County, on the gross income law. The opinion of the St. Joseph County Superior Court was reversed in the intangibles decision. The Huntington Circuit Court and the Delaware Superior Court both had declared the intangibles law constitutional. 3 Dead in Argentine Train Wreck BUENOS AIRES. Argentina. Jan. 29.—Three were dead and 20 injured. today when a train overturned on the Saboya line.

versally accepted not only by exceptional industrialists like Henry Ford, but by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., and most of our industrial leaders, as well as by former President Hoover and practically all of our leading statesmen. Mr. Hoover, for example, predicted that a larger and larger proportion of the product of industry would go to the consumer in the shape of lower prices and to the employe in the shape of higher wages and salaries. After the panic of 1929, the pressure against wages became irresistible. but even then leaders in the various fields of activities still maintained that the best way of resisting still more serious collapse was to keep wages just as high as practicable. During the worst years of the depression, 1930 to 1933. wages continued to fall, but nowhere was the

Indianapolis) respectively chairman and secretary of the investigating committee. In the witness chair, Senator Weiss testifies while a stenographer records his statements. At the extreme left, Senator Ralph H. Jernegan <R., Mishawaka) is questioning Senator Weiss. In the foreground with backs turned are Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz and Joseph McNamara. Deputy Attorney General.

hearing for Thursday night on the bill. In a surprise move the bill was reported out for first reading by Rep. Wm. J. Black (D„ Anderson), after a hurried meeting of the committee's majority. Protesting the surprise move Rep. Coers leaped to his feet and gaining recognition, said, “This is the poorest piece of politics I’ve ever. seen. It will act as boomerang. Every Democrat will pay for this at the polls.” He cha r ged bad faith in bringing the bill for first reading without first having a public hearing, and declared the bill would legalize gambling and that it would take money out of the state by putting it in the hands of foreign syndicates. The bill was defended by Rep. L. E. Bauer (D„ Terre Haute). Rep. Herbert H. Evans (R., Newcastle) protested the bill on the g-'ounds it would bring “thugs and pickpockets into the state.”

2ND DISTRICT AT FOILS;J/D IN RACE Halleck and Durgan Foes in Special Election. By United Press Voters in the Second Indiana Congressional District ballotted in special election today to fill the lone vacancy in the national House of Representatives. The vacancy was created by the death of Frederick Landis. Logansport, who was the only Indiana Republican to win a seat in Congress last November. Mr. Landis died nine days after the election. Only two names were on the ballot today. They are Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, youthful prosecuting attorney of Jasper County, the Republican mominee, and Former Congressman George R. Durgan, Lafayette, Democratic nominee. AVIATOR DROPS FOOD TO STARVING FAMILY Risks Life to Save Four Trapped on Snow-Bound Farm. By United Press LAKEHURST, N. J.. Jan. 29.—A pilot who risked a crash in snow drifts on the naval air station field carried food today to a man, woman and two children facing starvation in a snow-bound farm house. Pilot W. F. Wiley and G. F. Pickering, chief petty officer, made the flight of six miles to the farm house where Bingham Myers, his wife and two babies have been marooned since last week. The naval fliers flew over the farm, dropping the food by parachute. The food landed about 100 feet from the house and they saw Mr. Myers come out and carry it inside.

low wage doctrine preached in this country as it was and still is preached in Europe. The very moment a recovery program was formulated in Washington, the high wage principle was made a basic feature and was definitely embodied in the NRA. However, the wage increases under the NRA were tied up with in-*; creases in prices made possible by j that measure. And the time has now arrived when further price increases in many industries seem to be impracticable or undesirable. We have, therefore, come to a new phase of the recovery movement. The maintenance or increase of profits now depends either upon a decrease in the cost or an increase in the volume of production or on both. America has been through such periods before without abandoning the high wage principle. But some of our leading industrialists now Joe- i

ENMESHED IN TANGLE OF CONTRADICTIONS, BRUNO STAMMERS AND SQUIRMS

COUfTMOMS FIGHTTOCURB ■BRIMS Levees Costing $150,000 to Be Erected Starting in Few Weeks. Work on two Marion County flood-control projects, involving expenditure of $150,000, is expected to begin within a few weeks. J. A. Crawley, Works Director of the Marion County Federal Emergency Relief Administration, announced today that county engineers have plans for building a levee on White River from the Southport-rd to the Marion County line and for repairing the levee north of the city from River Park I to Haverstick Park. The two projects can be com- ; pleted at a cost of approximate^ ! $150,000 with the Federal govern--1 ment bearing approximately 90 per I cent of the expense. Three hundred relief workers will be given jobs on the Southport-rd project and approximately 100 more on the River Park project. Water Company Project The two county projects will bring flood prevention expenditures to almost $3,500,000 along White River within the county’s boundaries. In addition to these two projects and to a SI,OOO project within the city, the Indianapolis Water Cos. is building anew levee, and repairing its old levee, near 71-st-st. south to the White River. Although not as large an outlay in money is involved as in the $1,000,000 opening of the Kentucky-av bridge bottle-neck, which begins tomorrow under FERA, the South-port-rd bridge project will be beneficial in protecting hundreds of acres of farm land along the White River south of the old covered bridge on the Southport-rd. -In turn, the River Park levee repair will be beneficial in part to the oft-flooded River Park area as well as to the lower river resorts of Liberty Beach and Ravenswood. Because the major portion of the north section of White River in Marion County flows through lowlands, flooding of farms and summer resorts can not be completely prevented without a prohibitive cost, which would result in protection for tittle in livestock, human habitation and life. Dispute Halts Progress The town of Ravenswood seeks flood protection, as does Liberty Beach, but residents ol the two dis- | tricts are at odds over the methods of flood control, with the result that FERA men are being used in ! Ravenswood merely to build streets j under the town board. A partially built levee in the summer resort was abandoned when factional strife developed over the levee. One proposal to build levees completely around Ravenswood and thereby wall the town in from White River waters also proved to be objectionable in that It would be necessary to build the levee south of the town higher than the road which it was proposed the levee was to join. A few residents of Libprty Beach, which lies north of Ravenswood, objected to a levee blocking off the river from their beach. River water, in flood times, has broken through Liberty Beach and coursed its way into Ravenswood, flooding that town’s streets. Continue in Flood Lines Objectors to the Liberty Beach levee, which would be built to a point past Jack Dillon's old training camp, say they don’t want a wall of earth interfering with their river view. The result of these objections from both Liberty Beach and Ravenswood probably will result in both districts continuing to be, in flood lines, little Venices where rowboats are necessary for transportation.

lieve that a reduction in the cost of labor is necessary and that for this purpose wages must either be lowered or further increases prevented. Unfortunately, one business leader has made a public statement to this effect. The abandonment of the high wage principle in this country at the present moment would not only check the tendency toward recovery, but might lead us into anew collapse. It would mean the reversal of the principle that, has dominated our economic structure for decades. We can not shut our eyes to the danger—especially alarming at the present moment in view of the peculiar temptation to brmg about an early improvement in profits regardless of later consequences. Might I be favored with your views upon the foregoing? Sincerely yours. (Signed) MATTHEW WOLL. American Federation of Labor.

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Hauptmann Gropes for Explanations as State Flings Own Words at Him to Confuse, Confound Slaying Suspect. T CAN’T REMEMBER,’ HE EXPLAINS Wilentz Hammers at His Story But Gets Only Denials and Claims of ‘Mistakes;’ Grilling Is Relentless. Bo United Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 29.—Bruno Richard Hauptmann stumbled and groped for explanations today under the hammering cross-examination of Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz, who is trying to trap him into incriminating admissions in his trial on charges of murdering the infant son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. , Mr. Wilentz fiung at Hauptmann his own words, written down by the police in New York, to confound and confuse him, and to show how often the Bronx German has changed his stories. Before the noon recess, Hauptmann was involved in a tangle of discrepancies from which he was seeking to extri-

BRUNO SQUIRMS UNDER ATTACK Confused by Hammering of Wilentz, He Twists in Chair. By United Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 29. Confused ’by the hammering crossexamination by Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Bruno Richard Hauptmann twisted and squirmed in the witness chair today. He rubbed a nervous hand over the arm of the chair, and searched his agile mind for replies. His answers came slowly and haltingly. But he refused to give ground on any important issue, , except to say he had made “some mistakes.’ Hauptmann was led into court by a State Trooper and deputy sheriff. “Hello. Bruno, did you get any sleep last night?” asked Lloyd Fischer of Hauptmann’s counsel. “I slept pretty good.” Hauptmann replied. Hauptmann rubbed his hand across his orow and sat well back in his chair Q—Now, Mr. Defendant, you said on April 2. 1932, the night $50,000 (Turn to Page Three) PODERJAY ARRIVES IN N. Y. TO FACE TRIAL Admits to Police Officials He Thinks Polygamy ‘‘a Good Idea.” By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 29.—Expressing a belief in polygamy, Ivan Poderjay .came back from Vienna in police custody today to face investigation in the mysterious disappearance of 40-year-old Agnes Tufverson, to whom he was bigamously manned. The European adventurer, who married Miss Tufverson shortly before she disappeared and he sailed for Europe, admitted in response to questions by immigration authorities that he believed polygamy was a good idea. WORLD COURT ISSUE NO LONGER ‘IN THE BAG’ Senate Approaches Climax With Vote Still in Doubt. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Before crowded galleries and in an atmosphere of tense excitement. The Senate today approached the climax ol its long and bitter controversy over American adnerence to the World Court. With a vote expected by late afternoon, the issue still remained in doubt. Intensive efforts were made by court advocates and opponents to swing over doubtful votes. Neither side would make a definite prediction of victory. THEATER ROOF FALLS, 8 KILLED, 40 INJURED _____ New Yorker Among Victims in South American Disaster. By United Press MEDELLIN, Colombia, Jan. 29. Eight were killed and 40 injured last night when the roof of the Alcazar Theater collapsed on the audience. Many foreigners were among the victims. The dead included an American, Wallace Lambie of the National City Bank of New York. The Alcazar was the second theater built by the same architect to collapse in recent months. The audience was enjoying the picture “Bdlero” when, with a sudden ominous creaking, the ceiling fell, burying part of the audience in clouds of dust and plaster. Sleep sickness Kills Student I By United Press t CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind. Jan. 29.—Sleeping sickness was blamed today for the death of Donald H. Northcutt, 21, senior at Wabash College,

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cate himself by repeating, over and over, the words, “I don't know—l can’t remember.” The attorney general pressed his inquisition with the same relentless vigor that marked yesterday’s session. but the fruit of his attack was little more than anew series of denials or an admission that Hauptmann’s previous stories were "mistakes.” Mr. Wilentz demanded to know if Hauptmann had not told the police that he didn’t take the ransom bills to the Federal Reserve bank “because I was afraid they would lock me up,” and later said “it was because I didn’t know where the bank was.” The man charged with murdering Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. “couldn’t remember about that,” but said if he had, it was another “mistake.” 52500 “Long Gone” The state had shown that Hauptmann already knew where the Federal Reserve bank was because he had cashed gold notes there long before his arrest. One of the most dramatic incidents of the examination was Hauptmann’s declaration that he had planned to go to Germany “for a year already.” Mr. wilentz leaped at him with the coincidence that two of the ransom notes informed the Lindberghs that the kidnaping plot had been prepared “for a year already.” Hauptmann also said that while he had in May. 1932 from $2500 to S3OOO in a trunk at home, there was none of it left when police arrested him. “It was long gone,” he declared. Lied Over Money Matters Through his own words, too, tl.. attorney-general showed the prisoner to have lied over money matters to the family of Isidor Fisch, his fur-cutter friend, after Isidor died in Germany last March, claiming he had put $12,000 into business with Fisch, whereas his own reckoning of the vague business was that he had advanced less than SIO,OOO. Hauptmann said, rather weakly, that he had intended to spend only S2OOO of the ransom money he insists he found in Isidor Fisch’s shoe box, and to turn the remainder over to Fisch’s brother. Mr. Wilentz forced the prisoner to admit to another contradiction. Hauptmann nad blandly told the jury that Fisch “put in most of the money with which we operated on che stock exchange.” Today, Hauptmann admitted, when confronted with another of the books taken from his home and in his own handwriting, that the most Fisch ever could have put into the account was S2OOO. Quit Job on Ransom Day The attorney general showed, through nis slashing cross-question-ing. that Hauptmann, who had only a little money at the beginning of 1932, quit his carpenter’s job the day the ransom was paid, bought a S4OO radio and a $126 pair of field glasses, sent his wife on a trip to Germany, went on hunting trips, took an automobile trip to California, and planned to go to Europe himself—and that all this prosperity came to him after the kidnaping. He also drew from him the declaration that he didn’t know Violet Sharpe, the maid at the home of Dw-ight W. Morrow, who committed suicide, or any member of the Lindbergh or Morrow establishments. One of the most damaging pieces of evidence introduced were deposit slips showing that Hauptmann continually put silver deposits in his bank. Hauptmann denied they were silver deposits. “They were in bills.” he declared, "but I made a mistake in making out the slips." Needed Money, He Says It is the state's contention that ! this silver came to Hauptmann as j change, for small purchases made with large ransom bills. Mr. Wilentz challenged him to • tell why, when he had a brokerage account he could dip into, he u'd I the money taken from its hiding (Turn to Page Three)