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SENATE WAGES BITTER BATTLE ON WEISS BILL Sheriff’s Fee Substitute in Line for Passage Tomorrow. PARTY LINES WRECKED Move to Throw Control to Commission Loses by One Vote. Following swift parliamentary' maneuvers and close votes in which j party lines were wrecked, the Senate today placed the Weiss prisonerfeeding bill in line for passage to- i morrow. The measure, offered late yesterday by Senator Jacob Weiss, Democratic president pro tern, of the Senate, as a substitute for the Treadway daily-fee bill, which opponents charged would triple the income of sheriffs of Marion and Lake Counties, was stoutly defended by the Indianapolis Senator. The Weiss bill would place fees charged by sheriffs for feeding county jail prisoners under the sole ’ control of the chief examiner of the ' State Board of Accounts. By the scant margin of one vote, the Senate rejected a proposed amendment by Senator Edward C. Hays <D., Marion which would have restored control over the fees to county commissioners. Also rejected was an amendment offered by Senator Ralph H. Jerne- J gan (R. Mishawakai which would : have inserted a clause prohibiting sheriffs from making any profit from the food allowances. Such a clause war. urged today by Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, original critic of the Treadway measure. Roll Call Demanded When the Jemegan amendment I was offered. Senator C. K. Watson iD, Ft. Wayne*, moved that it be placed on the table. Senator Jemegan demanded a roll call vote. Liet. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend refused to grant the de-, mand because of no seconder and a voice vote defeated the restriction, i Meanwhile the Indianapolis I Chamber of Commerce, whose criti- I cism of the Treadway bill resulted in a storm of protest over its pass- i age. declared the Weiss bill does not cure the objections to the Treadway food-fee measure. William H. Book, executive vice, president, today charged in a letter to every Senator, that the new bill “would make it possible, and we believe practically certain, that the sheriffs of Marion and Lake counties would make a profit from the feeding of prisoners.” Profit Motive Assailed Wliat is needed. Mr. Book told the Senators, is a strict provision preventing any profit n*kmg. This would not be anew provi- j sion of Indiana w’l, Mr. Book said, j citing the Acts of 1921 which provide that ‘ no profit shall accrue” to sheriffs as the result of food allow- ' ances. "This provision has worked satisfactorily since 1921. ’ Mr. Book said. "The difficulties that have arisen! from permitting food being brought I from the outside to the prisoners | could be stopped at any jime by the ! sheriff himself,” Mr. Book added. Senators were told that the present cost of feeding inmates in all I other Marion County institutions is approximately the same as for the County Jail, between 22 and 25 cents per day per inmate. 94800 Salary Recalled The Weiss bill would allow 13'.* cents a meal, or 404 cents a day. This rate "is far out of line with allowances for persons on public pool relief.” the Chamber of Commerce official said. "If sheriffs of these two counties are not receiving sufficient salaries.” Mr. Book declared, "then the salaries should be raLed in a regular and open manner. "The sheriff of Marion County recenes a salary of S4BOO a year together with a home in which to live, all of which was known at the time he ran for the office,” Mr. Book's letter charged. Any kind of a fee system for feeding prisoners m county jail is antiquated and a reversion to the unsound governmental practices of years gone by. Mr. Book concluded. Senator Weiss* bill establishes maximum cost* that may be paid, and wholly removes the authority of county commissioners to fix the feeding fees to be paid sheriffs. Maximum Fee Set The Treadway bill established fixed rates payable to sheriffs. The Weiss bill would permit the Board of Accounts to establish the rate at any figure less titan 134 cents a meal maximum. An effort to pass the Weiss bill yesterday by suspension of the rules was defeated m the Senate, when ' two-thirds of the membership failed to agree. Meanwhile, the Treadway bill remains on the desk of Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. As presiding officer of the Senate, which quickly passed the Treadway bill last Friday. Lieut. Gov. Townsend must first sign the measure before submitting It to the Governor. This has been deferred because of the storm of protest that followed its adoption. The Weiss measure is said to hare the approval of the Board of Accounts and the Indiana Sheriffs’ Associates.

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Italy Demands Salute to Its Flag by Abyssinians As Troops Are Mobilized Formal Diplomatic Apology and $5,000,000 in Indemnity Also Requested by Mussolini; 100,000 Troops Prepared for Punitive Expedition. By Unit'd Press ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, Feb. 12.—The government probably will reject Italy’s demand for an apology and indemnity for recent border incidents, it was indicated today. (Copyright. 1935, bv United Press) ROME, Feb. 12. —Italy demanded of the Abyssinian government today a formal salute of the Italian flag in apology for attacks on naitve troops by Abyssinian tribes-

MERIT SYSTEM BILLJSPASSED House Approves City Police, Fireman Measure, 81 to 12. The Indianapolis police and firemen’s merit system bill, passed the House today by a vote of 81 to 12. An effort by Rep. Morris H. Coers •D , Indianapolis) to have the bill made a special order of business for tomorrow or Thursday was defeated on a motion to table and the roll was called following a short debate. "I'm for the bill but I want it held over to give several parties an opportunity to look into the measure.” Rep. Coers explained. Rep. Carl E. Wood (D„ Indianapolis) explained that the measure is purely local in nature and would aid in taking appointments to the police and fire departments out of politics. Mayor John W. Kern was one of the bill's sponsors. Merit selection of police and firemen has been urged by The Times. "If you pass this bill I'm going to introduce one placing all the police and fire departments of the state under the merit system or civil service. You know what has happened under civil service in the Federal government. I'm against this measure and I vote ‘No’,” declared Rep. Lenhardt E. Bauer <D., Terre Haute). The measure provides a merit commission of five members to make appointments following a training period. It also sets up a promotion as well as disciplinary board in both police and fire departments. JUDGES BEGIN DRIVE ON COURTLOITERERS •Fixers’ Warned by Signs Pasted in Corridors. Stirred by revelations in The Indianapolis Times last week that professional bondsmen and would-be "fixers” solicited clients in the corridors outside the Municipal Court, Chief Mike Morrissey and the Municipal Judges Dewey Myers and Charles J. Karabell, today placed in the halls of police headquarters sighs warning against loitering. The signs read: "Loitering in halls and corridors in this building positively forbidden.” Judge Dewey Myers said that he was reviewing the statutes to see what penalty could be enforced for violation &£ the order. COURTHOUSE CLOSED IN LINCOLN OBSERVANCE Banks Also Suspend Business; City Hall Closed at Noon. The doors of the Courthouse and locjr! banks remained closed today m observance of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The City Hall, although open this morning, closed at neon. The Federal Building, the Statehouse and the School Board offices remained open all day. A joint session of ‘he House and Senate was held at 11 in memoriam to the Great Emancipator. Exercises were held in public and parochial schools.

McNutt Desires Revision of NRA Bill, Weiss Says

Modifi-ation of the state NRA bill appeared probable today in view of a staten* -nt from Senator Jacob Weiss, president pro tern, of the Senate. that Gov. Paul V. McNutt did not suggest the loss leader and destructive price-cutting provisions of the bill. The Senate floor leader quoted the Governor as saying that all he

desires is a workable measure to facilitate state compliance with the National Recovery Administration. Because of the Governor's views, Senator Weiss is preparing an amendment which he believes will remove the objections voiced by, many Indian* merchants. The contemplated amendment will be a broad definition of the term "loss leader" and will permit sales on certain classes of merchandise, including broken lots, discontinued lines and goods that would deteriorate in value if held. No date definitely has been set for the public hearing on the bill, although Thursday night tentatively has been fixed by Senate Judiciary B committee. Faced with stron* opposition from state manufacturer: the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and

men. Demands made on Abyssinia were announced as members of the Supreme Defense Commission, called only in emergencies, gathered for a meeting under Premier Benito Mussolini to consider political and military phases of the crisis. The demands included: 1. Formal salute to the Italian flag. 2. Formal diplomatic apology. 3. Indemnity for the attack. 4. Appointment of a mixed commisison to delimit the AbyssinianItalian Somaliland frontier. 5. A guaranty that the frontier would be respected. As mobilization proceeded, Italian outposts in Somaliland reported that 30.000 Ethiopians were massed on the frontier where preparations for war seemed being rushed. Mussolini appointed Gen. Rudolpho Graziani commander of the Italian expeditionary force. He is 53. and former vice governor of the Cyrenaica colony in Africa. Gen. Emilio de Bono, high commissioner for the colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland, will be in general charge. It was believed that Italy would demand from Abyssinia a money indemnity of $5,000,000, with part of which provision would be made for families of Italian native soldiers killed by tribesmen. The money might be used to repair damage to Italian outposts also, unless specific demand were made for compensation as regards them. The indemnity demand was based on a computation of 200 men killed, w-ith a demand for 1000 Abyssinian thalers (about $500) for each man killed and 150 thklers (about $75) for each man wounded. In token of the manner in which the government regards the possibilities of long fighting, officers for the expeditionary force are being recruited on the basis of two years' service. MARKETS~ARE CLOSED Security and Commodity Exchanges Observe Lincoln Birthday. Principal security and commodity exchanges throughout the country were closed today in observance of Lincoln's birthday. Banks and trust companies here and in other cities also suspended business for the day. Business in all markets will be resumed tomorrow. AUT 0~ PIC TUR ESTRIN TED Scrambled Contest Material on Page 4 of This Edition. The second group of Scrambled Auto Pictures in the contest conducted by Indianapolis auto dealers in The Times is on Page 4 of this edition. Times Index | Bridge 7 i Broun 9 | Comics 15 j Crossword Puzzle 15 i Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Hickman—Theaters 13 Pegler 9 I Radio 2 Sports 12-13 State News 16 Woman's Pages 6-7 Druggist Is Held L*p A bandit armed with a 12-gauge shotgun last night robbed unarmed Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hall, of sl3 in their drug store at 2320 W. 10thst. Then he ran.

business leaders the Dyer "fair trade Dill” today was being held in the House Corporations Committee to await study of amendments. One of these amendments will strike out the section which would have made it unlawful for any one to buy or attempt to buy any com • modity at a price lower than the actual cost price, or to sell the commodity for the purpose of creating competition at a price that is unfair to the general trade. Added to Section 1 will be a provision that nothing contained in the act shall prevent a "discrimination in price wiich does not exceed the actual difference in cost to the seller occasioned by differences either in grade, quality or quantity of the commodity sold.” Allowances would be permitted for difference in selling and transportation costs.

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WILENTZ DEMANDS BRUNO’S DEATH IN SENSATIONAL APPEAL TO JURY

LAUNCH PROBE INTO PRINTING GRAFTCHARGE $4200 Paid for Advertising Never Printed, County Attorney Told. BY DICK MILLER Times Staff Writer A double-edged probe into the payment this year by Marion County officials of more than $4200 for services alleged never to have been performed has been launched, The Indianapolis Times learned today. First, John Linder, county attorney, is seeking to determine the legality of the payment of $4261 to the Indianapolis Commercial, a daily publication of legal news, for advertisements —of sales of property for the collection of delinquent taxes —which never was published, and would have been illegal if they had been published. Secondly, County commissioners, armed with at least one instance in which the county rewrote, and continued to pay premiums on, an insurance policy covering a car which has been in the junk heap for some time, sought to determine how many more such cases there are and how much money is involved. Advertising Never Published Attorney Linder has before him these facts in the payment of the money to the Indianapolis Commercial for advertising never published: (Developments are chronological.) Jan. 11—Senate Bill 18. providing for a year's moratorium on the sale of property for delinquent taxes, was passed by the Senate under suspended rules. The bill, its sponsor said, was intended primarily to save thousands of dollars which counties otherwise would have to spend advertising these sales. Jan. 14—The bill passed the House under suspension of rules. Jan. 14—County Commissioners John Newhouse and Dow Vorhies signed a voucher directing the county to pay to the Indianapolis Commercial the sum of $4251.60. This sum was billed by the Commercial as charges for the publication of 14,172 items advertising sales of property for delinquent taxes. Check Is Made Out These were to have been published on Jan. 19, Jan. 26 and Feb. 2. The sale was to have been Feb. 11, set by law as the first sale date for 1935. Jan. 15—The House corrected a technical mistake in the bill, passed it again under suspension of rules, and sent it to Gov. Paul V. McNutt for his consideration. Jan. 16—A check for the money was made out by the county auditor’s office, payable to the Commercial. Jan. 16—County Auditor Charles Grossart left for a vacation in Florida, where he still is. Jan. 17—Gov. McNutt signed the bill, which became a law immediately because of the emergency clause. Jan. 17—'The check was cashed and returned to the auditor’s office. Thus, The Indianapolis Commercial on one day was paid, in advance of publication, for advertising on sales for delinquent taxes that on the next day were themselves rendered illegal by the action of the Governor. Moreover, there was never, until Feb. 7. attached to the bill submitted by the Commercial and paid by the county, any proof of publication—since the notices never had been published—nor any proofs to show that the notices ever were set up into type in readiness for publication. On Feb. 7 a roll of proofs was attached. Newhouse Joins Linder Attorney Linder will seek to determine whether the labor cost of setting up type for the advertisements that never were printed was a legitimate expense that the county should have paid, and, if so, whether payment should have been made before a court case with presentation of sworn testimony. Commissioner Newhouse said he had been led to believe that the bill was for advertising published before Jan. 1 when he came into office. He Joined forces with Attorney Linder. Commissioner Ernest Marker was at home ill Jan. 14 when the voucher was signed. He said he would not have signed it had he been at the meeting. Commissioner Vorhies says he ! thinks the payment was legal. Mark Gray, editor of the Commercial and 18th Ward Democratic chairman, says the payment was legal and conforms with proceedures of other : years.

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Importer Abolished, Taxes Slashed in New Liquor Bill Roadhouses Are Doomed Under Provisions of Drastic Measure to Be Offered Tomorrow in Senate. BY JAMES DOSS Times Staff Writer Sharp reductions in both whisky and beer taxes, outlawry of the roadhouse, elimination of the beer importer monopoly and establishment of a bi-partisan state control board are reported to be the principal features of the long-awaited liquor bill to be introduced tomorrow in the General Assembly. *

In preparation for weeks in the hands of a committee acting for the Administration, the measure was reported taking final form today for introduction in the Senate. It is a voluminous measure in its original content. Objections of numerous groups have been met and their ideas carried out as far as is compatible with the objective of writing a model bill to replace the experiment under which the liquor and beer business now is operated in Indiana. Efforts have been made to keep the provisions of the measure a secret until its introduction. The following forecast of its content is based on information obtained from several sources believed to be authoritative. Sharp Tax Cut Proposed The tax provisions of the bill are reported to include a reduction of the 25-cent pint tax on whisky to 10 cents a pint and a reduction of the $1.55-a-barrel tax on beer; to $1 a barrel. The whisky tax figure was arrived at in an effort to reduce bootlegging, primarily, and secondarily, on the theory that increased consumption of legal liquor would more than make up the revenue lost by the reduction. With the object of outlawing the roadhouse, the bill is reported to go further than originally intended when it was decided that no liquor could be legally sold outside of areas which have police protection. Roadhouses Are Outlawed The restriction now has reduced booze boundry lines to the corporate limits of cities and towns. If the original plan had been adhered to, liquor retailers could have operated outside the larger cities where police have authority extending several miles past the city limits. The bilL tentatively sets the annual minimum hard liquor license at $750, it is reported, and the minimum beer license at S2OO. A provii.’on may be inserted to make a dis diction in the license scale between first ana second-class cities. Wholesalers will become the beer

4 Stand by Phillips Lord in Refusal to Abandon Ship, Seth Parker Radios

Editor* Note—The following dispatch was received by radio direct from the schooner Seth Parker to the United Press in San Francisco. (Copyricht. 1935. by United Press) ABOARD SCHOONER SETH PARKER (by Radio to the United Press), Feb. 12.—Capt. Phillips Lord and four of his crew refused today to abandon the schooner Seth Parker in the South Pacific in the face of a renewal of the tropical storms which since Feb. 5 have lashed the four-masted round-the-world ship. Those who elected to remain aboard with the captain when the British warship Australia came to our rescue were Carey Sweeney, radio engineer of the National Broadcasting Cos., and seamen Flink, Payes and Reuschele. The other nine members of the crew, most of them young college boys from New York and New Eng-

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One of the most sensational summations in American court history was heard today when Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz delivered his closing argument to the Hauptmann

importer under terms of the new bill, it is reported, and will collect the tax as the much-attacked importer has done under the present system. The outgoing importer will be given an indeterminate period, probably nine months, in which to wind up his business or make any new connections he might desire to qualify as a wholesaler. By-the-drink whisky will be legalized and the present monopolistic feature which confines bottle sales to drug stores will be eliminated. Any reputable business may be allowed tor retail whisky, although a number of regulations may have to be promulgated to determine the degree of repute which would qualify a retail liquor license applicant. Wholesale whisky licenses are reported fixed tentatively at S2OOO annually and the law may give the state control board power to require wholesalers to put up a SIO,OOO surety bond. It is reported that city councils or town boards in communities of 5000 population or less would determine whether their communities would have by-the-drink sales or not. The state control board is reported given broad powers on licensing with one of the objectives the curbing of liquor sales to minors. There remains a great deal of argument about what price-fixing powers can be conferred on the control board, which probably will contain four members. The liquor commissioners may be paid an annual salary for full-time service or $lO per diem and expenses. 15-DAY-OLD STARVING BABY IS STILL ALIVE Infant Unable to Eat Since Birth Weakening, Is Report. By United Press GRANITE CITY, II!., Feb. 12. Attendants at St. Elizabeth Hospital announced this afternoon that Robert Jenkins, 15-day-old boy who has not eaten since birth, was "still living but worse.”

land, were taken aboard the Australia last night. Two hours after the rescue anew squall struck the battered schooner, whose rigging had been torn away in gales of hurricane force Sunday night. The weather was far from encouraging but Lord and his four companions chose to stay aboard pending the arrival of the United States Navy collier Ontario from Pago Pago, Samoa. The collier is expected to reach us Thursday night. She is proceeding at 10 knots to our rescue. The naval base she left Monday morning is about 500 to 600 miles from this comer of the South Seas in which we were struck by severe storms. Our troubles began Feb. 5 when we were caught in a tropical gale. We tried to run it unsuccessfully for six days. In oattling the storm our rigging

‘Murderer,’ Cries Attorney General During Stirring Summation of State’s Case Against German Carpenter. ASSAILS TACTICS USED BY DEFENSE Uses Expert Stagecraft in Presenting His Story; Judge Trenchard Pays Rapt Attention to Prosecutor. By United Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. 12.—1 none of the most sensational summations ever delivered in an American court, Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz today demanded the life of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The baby, he declared, was slain in cold blood before his kidnaper left the Lindbergh nursery. The prosecutor, vibrant with emotion, whipping himself to a frenzy in his demand for the death penalty, called the Bronx carpenter “this murderer in whose veins runs icewater —this man who is so cold.” And he demanded to know whether he would thaw “when the switch is turned.”

CASE MAY 60 TO JURYTODAY Judge Trenchard Has Not Made Up His Mind, He Reveals. By United Press FLEMINGTON. N. J„ Feb. 12. Justice Thomas W. Trenchard told the United Press this afternoon he had not yet decided whether he would charge the jury late today after completion of Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz’ summation, or wait until tomorrow morning. It had been reported that the justice would wait until tomorrow to permit the jurors a full dy in which to deliberate the fate of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. "I have not yet made up my mind,” he said. KENNAMER INSANE, COUNSEL CONTENDS Society Killer Sane Now, Attorney Says. By United Press PAWNEE, Okla., Feb. 12.—Phil Kernamer was insane when he fired two fatal shots into John F. Gorrell’s head last Thanksgiving, but he is sane now, his counsel contended today. Kennamer, 19, son of Federal Judge Franklin E. Kennamer of Tulsa, is on trial for his life in the admitted slaying which the state charges was premeditated.

ANOTHER SCOOP! From 10 pounds at birth to 61 pounds now. That’s the mark the Dionne quintuplets have set in this world since their birth, which, in itself, was a marvel, because the chances of quintuple birth actually are one in 57.000,000. This week the Dionne babies’ parents are in Chicagp, learning this and that about large city life, and from reports, apparently yearning to be home with their quintuplets and their other children. The story of the quintuplets will never get old. For years their progress in life and their activities will always be news. The Times Thursday and Friday will bring you the latest photo-portraits of these babies. Watch for the full page of exclusive pictures Thursday and a half page of pictures Friday.

was carried away. The wooden boat sprung leaks. Mountainous seas poured over our decks. With the seas becoming higher and the wind at gale force Capt. Lord decided to send a distress call Feb. 10. The battleship Australia, with the Duke of Gloucester, son of King George, aboard, answered our call. She reached us last night and look off nine members of the crew, the younger men for whose safety Capt. Lord had been apprehensive. They had joined us in New York and New England ports in a spirit of adventure. The captain did not wish to endanger their lives. We have aboard radio broadcasting equipment of considerable value. It was to protect this and also to save his ship that Lord decided to wait for the Ontario, which will tow us to Pago Pago, the United States nrval base at Tutuila, Samoa. The Australia is remaining alongside voluntarily.

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Hauptmann, the stolid defendant, his face flushed to a deep crimson, looked at him with rage and hate in his eyes, but never stirred a muscle of his powerful frame. It was the most dramatic day of the Hauptmann trial, and perhaps the most unusual bit of stagecraft was used to bring it to a climax. The attorney general, oliveskinred, his face only occasionally illuminated by a smile, sat on a table in front of the jury, and pounded his fists on the table. Occasionally he turned away from his audience of four women and eight men, but then only to point a lean finger at the prisoner and shout “murderer!” at him. Trenchard Watches Wilentz It was noteworthy that Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, who, during yesterday’s summation by Chief Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly, had busied himself wiih opening his mail, today kept his eyes on the attorney general from the beginning to the end of the morning session. The jury was fascinated by Mr. Wilentz’ bombardment. Even tha placid Verna Snyder, whose eyes wander over the courtroom, and Mrs. Rosie Pill, who is usually somnolent, seemed alert and absorbing every word. The attorney general not only matched his wits against the famous Reilly, the “Bull of Brooklyn,” but he matched his witnesses, cne by one, against the peculi ir array of men and women who came forth to testify in defense of the holloweyed, flat-cheeked carpenter. Stand Up Schwarzkopf He matched his witnesses in a melodramatic fashion, bidding them stand up and be counted, to be looked over by the jury, and to show if they were “crooks” or not. “Stand up Schwarzkopf,” he said at one point. Col. Norman Schwarzkopf rose. “Look at him —does he look like a crook; a graduate of the United States Military Academy; who served his nation on the battlefields of France?” roared Wilentz. “Schwarzkopf has been .pilloried around this nation. Schwarzkopf is good enough for the state, for the state Senate.” He then asked Police Inspector Henry Bruckman of the Bronx to stand up. “Does Ho Look Like That” Bruckman stood up quickly, and promptly sat down. “Bruckman is in charge of a police department that has 18,000 men,” Wilentz said. “And the defense says that because he is a German he wrote the Condon telephone number in defendant’s home. Look at him. Does he look like that kind of person?” Wilentz answered Reilly's insinuations that persons other than Hauptmann committed the crime, by citing the records of the Lindbergh servants, by reciting from their testimony, by showing to the jury the evidence they had presented in clear-cut fashion. He declared there were “more crooks among the lawyers than there were among the police.” That was his answer to the Reilly suggestion that his client had been the victim of a heinous plot to “frame him and thus cover up the blunders of the New Jersey State police.” Stands on Suitcase He demonstrated that it was not only possible, but probable that the kidnaper entered the nursery window by means of his kidnap ladder, and stepped to the flooi over a suitcase, by jumping on the very suitcase that was found beneath the window of the nursery after the kidnaping. “They said Hauptmann would have crushed the suitcase by the window if he had stood on it,” he said. “Give me that suitcase.” An attendant carried the suitcase before the jury box. Wilentz stepped on it and addressing the jury, he shouted: “Here—l’m standing on it—both (Turn to Page Three)