Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1936 — Page 1

GOVERNOR FIGHTING TO SAVE BRUNO

SCRIPPS TAX PLAN LAUDED IN STATE, STIRS U. S. STUDY

Keen Interest Shown in Washington on Estate Levy Reform. COUZENS SEES DEFECT Great Injuries Are Possible Under Present System, Is Consensus. BY ROBERT W. HORTON Timm Sim Hal Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Keen interest was displayed today at the capital in the proposal of Robert P. Scripps, controlline: stockholder of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, for reform of the existing machinery for the collecting of estate and inheritance taxes. Legislators interested in taxation agreed that under the present system great injury can be done the taxpayers as well as the government. They werp likewise unanimous in conceding that the collection of death duties from large estates is a problem not yet adequately dealt with and one deserving conscientious study. Mr. Scripps made the point that the present method of collection was virtually “cash on demand.” In the case of large estates where death taxes are correspondingly high, he pointed out that the present, system frequently jeopardizes the estate If it is a business enterprise by forcing liquidation of a large portion to pay the tax. Couzens Discusses Plan He said forced liquidation might cause enough damage actually . to deprive the government of a future taxpayer. His pj-opasal was to have the government accept notes or long-term paper <ls to 25 years) bearing prevailing interest and so preserve the enterprise intact and assure the government of collecting its taxes. Senator James Couzens <R.. Mich.) .multimillionaire sponsor of high taxes on wealth, discussed the Scripps proposal from the purely financial point of view. While admitting that the situation presented a definite problem, he felt that under the Scripps plan the government would not be properly protected. He said it would be extremely difficult to give the government a proper lien against the estate. Even if this were done, he declared, the government would have no voice in the management of the enterprise, no way of telling whether the management was adequate until too late. Puts Government iu Business But. said the Senator, assuming that it were possible for the government to be completely informed as to the “inside” of the business, could it foreclose, as a practical matter, if it were decided that such a course was inevitable? Senator Couzens ' also suggested that if the government accepted the paper of a business enterprise it could not, be denied that the government was actually in that particular business. He also pointed out that if a business should give the government a virtual lien against its physical assets. then the enterprise’s credit would be impaired to that extent. Another consideration, he said, would be whether the government should be authorized to discount the paper of the estate and thus make it bankable, or should hold it and thereby be deprived of the principal for the full 15 or 25 years. Careful Study Urged That the Senator considered a major point because the government is not in the investment business and can not depend upon interest for Its income, it does not invest its receipts and obtain what it spends from such an investment. Th? government lives upon its principal, so to speak, and were it forced to make a long-term investment in taxpayers’ notes or other paper, it would lose the full immediate benefit of the taxes, he said. All these, and other questions, the Senator said, must be taken into consideration, but they do not mean that the problem should not be studied and the present system, it passible, corrected. Senator George W. Norris <R„ Neb.), who has frequently discussed estate and inheritance taxes in the Senate, said that certainly some equitable arrangement should be made to prevent injurv to either the , government or taxpayers. “Valuable," Says Wagner He suggested that it might be possible for the government to accept tax payments on estates "in kind." I Should the estate involve substantial amounts of government or state and city bonds, he said, a scheme might be worked out for accepting j these in lieu of cash. Certanl.v, he said, the government! should accept its own bonds and at I par, even if they were selling under par.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Slightly cloudy .and somewhat colder tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature aiiout 26.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 263

Deserves Careful Study, Business Leaders and Officials Agree. HELPFUL, SAYS JACKSON Book and Kern See Merit in Proposal; ‘Right Track,’ Says Payne. Indianapolis business men and public officials today weighed taxation suggestions of Robert P. Scripps, terming his views worthy of careful study. Clarence Jackson, director of the State Gross Income Tax Division, saw in the suggestion a move “helpful to both the government and the t xpayer,” but one that should be ti ed only as a last resort. Both William H. Book, executive vice president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor Kern urged serious consideration, and Gavin Payne, investment broker, declared that the proposal was on the right track. Statements include: Mr. Jackson: "Mr. Scripps has outlined the problem of individual and corporations in the upper tax bracket in a very constructive manner and unquestionably he is seeking to make a suggestion that would be helpful both to the government and to the taxpayer. Fears Increased Expense “In the final analysis, as I read his suggestion, he is proposing that the government go into the ’credit business’ with its taxpayers. There are, of. course, some plans now in effect for the payment of taxes over a period of time, but Mr. Scripps’ suggestion as I read it would make his plan more or less a major part of the Federal tax collecting system. To do this, of course, would increase (Turn to Page Three)

PACKARD LEADS IN ACTIVE STOCK TRADE Dollar Falls Below Par With Gold Currencies. Bp United Pres* NEW YORK, Jan. 11. Stocks opened active and firm today, featured by a block of 20,000 Packard at 8 unchanged, and 8000 shares of Commonwealth Southern at 3'i, also unchanged. Bonds and cotton also advanced, while the dollar weakened to below parity with gold currencies. Oil shares continued active and firm. Standard of New Jersey opened 4700 shares at 55. up % and anew high for more than a year. Ohio Oil opened 2500 shares at 15’ 2 , up U and also anew top. Gold mining issues continued in demand and silvers were steady. Steels were steady to firm with National at 74’4, up i 2 , and Bethlehem at 54. up ?*. Rails made small gains featured by New York Central at 30. up '* and anew high. 'By Thomson Ac McKinnon 1 10:30 A M. Prev. . , . N Y. Close. Atchison 68' < 68 3 * £* O 53’, S3 7 * N A Cem 3(X 29 3 . Union Pac, 114 113' , 1 Am Loco 26 s * 26',* Gen Elec 39** 39** I Westinghonse Elec HU 3 , 102 3 * I Chrysler 90 7 a 90'* I Gen Motors 57 56 a 4 1 Briggs 52'3 52*. ! Elec Storage Battery 54 3 54'.* | Bendix 23 22 7 Douglas 56 7 * 56'* ' United Air 28 s * 27 7 , Am Smelting 62 62 ! Freeport 32*4 32', ; Allied Chem 169 1 -* 169 'a ' Monsanto Chem 96', 96 1 Atlantic. Resin 30 29 7 * 1 S O of Cal 41 s * 41 3 * I S O of 1nd33 7 37'* , S O of N J 55A* 54’* Am Rolling Mi 1153 3 3 32'* Rep Iron A: Steel 20', 20', I U S Steel 49 s * 49 s , : Am Tob B" xOO'a 100 Reynolds Tob 58 57 3 , Reynolds Tob 58 57 3 , i Am Sugar 54 53 i Gen Foods 35'4 35* : Coni Solvents 22'* 22'* Am Radiator ..’ 26'* 26 3 , Mont Ward 37'* 37A. Sears Roebuck 62 s * 62' 2 Am Can 133 132'* Western Union 76 3 4 77 Int Harvester 59'* 59', Conti Can 85 84>,

LONG FIGHT FORESEEN IN DU PONT TAX CASE Treasury Calls 1929 Losses Filed by Manufacturer, Aid Fictitious. Bit X'nited Pre** WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.—Lengthy litigation was foreseen today in the income tax case in which the Federal Treasury has charged Pierre S. Du Pont and his business associate. John J. Roskob, with engaging in •fictitious” security sales for the purpose of reducing their income tax payments. The Treasury, in an amended answer filed yesterday with the Board of Tax Appeals, claimed that Du Pom’s 1929 tax bill should be increased by $617,317 by disallowance of alleged losses of nearly $3,000,000 established by the alleged fictitious security sales.

Still Going Decatur Central, Ben Davis, Warren Central and Southport were to battle in semi-final games of the Marion County high school basketball tournament at the Armory this afternoon. Decatur Central, defending champions, was to tackle undefeated Ben Davis in the first game at 1:30. Southport was favored over Warren Central in the second fray at 2:30 The winners are to clash for the championship tonight at 8:30. Decatur Central and Ben Davis leached the semi-finals by scoring two victories each in yesterday’s opening play. Southport and Warren Central were required to register only one victory to advance into the round of four.

RITES SET FOR BLASTVICTIMS Four Others Hurt in Town Hall Explosion in Critical Condition. Time* Bpeeinl PENDLETON, Ind., Jan. 11.— While four victims of the Town Hall explosion remain in critical conditions in an Anderson (Ind.) hospital, services for one of the dead were to be conducted here today. Mrs. P. S. Kemper, Cincinnati, 0.. came here today to supervise and attend services for Clarence Campbell at a local funeral home. Burial is to be in Grove Lawn Cemetery here. Services for Irvin Taylor, factory worker, whose exploratory match set off the gas and caused the explosion that wrecked the Town Hall Building and then swept in flames Thursday night, are to be Monday. The body of Frank Wapienik, Indiana Reformatory trusty who was to have been paroled from a 2-to-14 burglarly sentence yesterday, is to be sent today to his home in East Chicago, Ind. On-* body Is unidentified. It is believed the victim’s name v's McLain. Meanwhile, Raymond Cory, 28, town electrician; Frank Eakes, Everett Brattain; and William Longtoft, SO, town council president, remain in critical condition. The Anderson fire department has loaned Pendleton a truck which is housed in a private garage here and constitutes the only fire protection. The fire department was housed in the ruined building and its trucks destroyed. Until the council can meet again, no plans are to be made to replace the ruined $20,000 structure. Thought It Was Quake Guv H. Kelsey, Indianapolis engineer, who was injured in the Pendleton Town Hall explosion, was back today at his apartment in the Roosevelt. “When the explosion cam*,” he said, "we were on teh second floor. Ithought firstthat it was an earthquake. I never had any experience like it before. “Then the floor fell to the ground and we were on top of it. When it landed I folnd that I had some debris across my legs. I found I found I wasn’t penned in and I freed myself and crawled to safety.”

YEGGS CRACK TWO SAFES, OBTAIN S9SD Police Check Fingerprints in Daring Raids. Police today are checking fingerprints obtained from two safes blown and battered open last night, i Total loot was nearly $950. A charge of explosive enabled robbers to gain entrance to a seven-j foot safe in the office of the H. J. 1 Heinz Cos.. 900 N. Senate-av. Loss was estimated at $l5O by C. L. Bogert. manager. Nearly SBOO and a number of checks were taken from the safe at the Central Buick Cos.. 2917 Central-av. Sledges were used to batter open the safe doors.

U. S. Officials Plan Soil Program to Replace AAA

Bit I'ni/rd Pre** WASHINGTON. Jan. 11. —Department of Agriculture officials, supported by President Roosevelt, worked out details today of a soil conservation program, embodying crop production control, to replace the defunct AAA. An enthusiastic reception from nearly 100 farm leaders, gathered here to discuss the problem of replacing AAA. for the plan outlined by AAA Administrator Chester C. Davis, apparently confirmed the belief that it would be approved by farmers in general. Attorneys of Agriculture and Justice Departments were put to work at ironing out legal difficulties and bringing the plan into shape so that it will not encounter the samd

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1936

SENATE MAPS SUBSTITUTE IN BONUSBATTLE Compromise Bill Would Pay War Veterans With Bonds. EXPECT QUICK PASSAGE Measure to Be Introduced Monday as Substitute to House Vehicle. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—A compromise bill to pay the ex-soldiers’ $2,000,000,090 obligation with bonds maturing in 1938 has been prepared by Administration leaders in thg Senate and will become the vehicle for the fight that begins there next week. They expect to introduce the bill Monday as a substitute for the measure which the House passed yesterday by 355 to 59, rush it through the Finance Committee, which has been called to meet Monday, and push it to enactment by the week-end. Though final details remain to be worked out, the bill would authorize issuance of bonds to the war veterans for the sums due in 1945 under their Adjusted Service Certificates. The veterans could discount the bonds immediately, probably getting at least 97 per cent, or they could wait for two years and get the full amount. Bear 3 Per Cent Interest The bonds would bear 3 per cent interest. Senate Democratic leaders are passing around word that President Roosevelt probably would sign such a bill. It is true that he has been consulted during drafting of the measure, but his approval is doubted by o.hers, who point to the Presidents strong veto message on the Patman greenback bill last session. As for the political effect, they argue that the President probably would gain more by remaining consistent than by seeking to appease veterans whose resentment he already has provoked by his earlier veto. Co-operating in preparation of the Senate bill were Senators Harrison (D.. Miss.), Byrnes (D., S. C.), Clark (D., Mo.) and Steiwer (R., Ore), who consulted both with Senate Majority Leader Robinson (Ark.) and Minority Leader McNary (Ore.), They likewise sought the assistance of heads of veterans’ organizations. who united behind the Vin-son-McCormack-Patman bill passed by the House, and of Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, Veterans Administrator. Forecast Passage Over Veto Members whose job it is to assess Senate sentiment forecast passage of a bonus bill over a veto. They felt the inflationary features of the Patman bill were responsible for the Senate's upholding the veto last May, 40 to 54. Senate leaders were critical today of the failure of the House to provide a means of payment. This was left to the Treasury. The overwhelming vote by the House indicated what a back-to-the-wall fight is ahead of bonus opponents in the Senate. They lack the support of Administration leaders. The Democratic triumvirate of Senators Robinson. Byrnes and Harrison is up for re-election this year. The Senators are anxious to vote for the bonus. Senator Byrnes voted for the Patman bill last session, but I the two others voted against it. j favoring a compromise. Because of i the way the bills were maneuvered last session, neither Mr. Robinson nor Mr. Harrison got a chance to vote for anything, and both are determined that this won't happen now. Inflation Urged By United I‘rcxx WASHINGTON. Jan. 11. The currency inflation issue surged up in the House today into one of the most momentous controversies of the session. The two threats involved: The Frazier-Lemke $3,000,000,000 infla(Turn to Page Three)

objections as those raised against AAA by the Supreme Court in its Hoosac Mills decision. Officials believe the plan can be worked through payment of rental fees and subsidies to farmers complying with certain conditions designed to prevent soil erosion and conserve the nations soil fertility. “Payments financed by direct appropriation out of the United States Treasury, but conditioned in such a manner as to go only to farmers who meet conditions aimed to con - serve their soil and to bring about positive use of the land taken out of intensive cultivation might be a way out for this group to consider,” Mr. Davis said. Meanwhile, a committee of 13 ' (Turn to Page Three)

READY TO GIVE BRUNO REPRIEVE

Bruno Hauptmann

Jafsie’s Sudden Voyage Creates Intense Puzzle Eccentric Educator Not Available for Questioning at Hauptmann Pardon Court Hearing. By United Prcxt TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 11.—Seven days from death, Bruno Richard Hauptmann makes a desperate last stand today against his apparently inevitable fate. Supporting his plea with secret evidence that his attorneys described as sensational, he will beg the State Court of Pardons to save him from electrocution next Friday for murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

The court’s eight judges assembled in a closely guarded room of the capitcl to hear his plea and his evidence of innocence and indicated they would answer him tonight—granting him a reprieve, commuting his death sentence to imprisonment, pardoning him, or making irrevocable his sentence to die. Failure Thought Certain Persons close to the court believed his appeal was almost certainly foredoomed to failure. As Hauptmann’s attorneys assembled documentary evidence and witnesses at the Capitol to supoort charges that he was made a scapegoat of a sinister prosecution, Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon, principal witness against him, sailed on the S. S. Santa Rita for South America. The eccentric Dr. Condon's sudden departure created intense speculation, since it has been assumed he would be held in readiness by state attorneys to refute any attack before the pardons court on his credibility. Court judges indicated that they would refuse to hear Hauptmann in person. He asked the personal hearing two weeks ago in a letter to Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, presiding officer. Precedent was against him. Represented by Three Lawyers He was represented before the court by three lawyers hired with the defense fund raised by Mrs. Anna Hauptmann in a tour of the country last spring. C. Lloyd Fisher, his chief counsel, was to present (Turn to Page Three)

WAR PROBERS REST QUIZ UNTIL MONDAY Morgan to Be Grilled on Individual Loans. By T utted Pm tv WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The Senate muntions committee studied wartime records of American financial houses today while the inquiry into J. P. Morgan & Cos., transactions was in recess until Monday. Then Mr. Morgan and his partners are to be questioned concerning each loan made to the Allies prior to America's entrance into the World War. It hopes to show that commercial interests led the United States into the war. The inquiry so far has revealed close alliance between Morgan bankers and Allied borrowing and purchasing of war materials in this country. The committee sought to show the Morgan company obtained ‘inside information” and passed it across the Atlantic. The committee sought also to develop details of the floating in 1915 of a $500,000,000 Anglo-French loan. ‘High pressure” methods of putting the loan across were alleged. CUBANS ELECT GOMEZ, SLOW COUNT INDICATES Candidate Claims Victory in Every Province of Island. By T'nitrrt Pmtt HAVANA. Jan. 11. Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez was believed assured of election to the presidency today while returns from yesterday s election came slowly into the capital. Jubilantly. Mr. Gomez asserted he had been victorious in every province. In a statement, he promised close, friendly relations with the United States.

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POISONING CASE MAY REACH JURY TODAY Judge’s Charge Expected by Mid-Afternoon. By United Prexx PORTLAND. Ind.. Jan. 11.—Jury deliberation was expected today in the trial in Jay Circuit Court of Ray Dawson, Modoc, alleged poison slayer. He is accused of placing strychnine in medicine taken by his 14-year-old stepdaughter. Mary Kritch, Nov. 15, 1932, causing her death. Attorneys were given three hour? each for closing arguments by Judge Hanson Mills, who was expected to charge the jury in midafternoon. Sheriff R. A. Cardwell of Tipton County, testified yesterday he was well acquainted with Dawson and said he was of excellent character. Dawson was implicated in the crime by his wife, Mrs. Mae Dawson, who is serving a life sentence for confessed participation in the crime. She also accused the defendant of poisoning her first husband. Walter Kritch, in Tipton several years ago. QUIET FUNERAL RITES ARE HELD FOR GILBERT Body to Be Cremated; Two Former Wives Attend Services. By United Prexx HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 11—Last rites for John Gilbert will be held today with only a few intimates, including two of his four former wives, present. The body will be cremated and the ashes placed in an undisclosed vault. Virginia Bruce, who divorced Gilbert two years ago. and Lea trice Joy, whase marriage to him also ended in divorce, are to attend. They are the mothers of Gilbert's two children. DRIVER BEATEN, ROBBED Truck Pilot Attacked by Two Negroes, Who Take S2OO. Frank C. McKee, 525 Parker-av, a truck driver of Hamilton-Harris & Cos., is in fair condition at City Hospital today after being beaten and robbed of S2OO last night by two Negro youths. He w ? as robbed near Minnesota-st and Keystone-av. Mr. McKee suffered severe head cuts and a broken finger.

Merit Plan Here’s the way it is about the naming of candidates to the police school, as explained at City Hall. The names are to be announced next week after approval by the Safety Board. All 60 men are expected to be Democrats. This is necessary, say officials, because there are now more Republicans than Democrats on the de\ artment and the law says the number shall be equally divided between members of the two parties. There are about 22 vacancies. Twelve men will be chosen from the 60 named. Maybe some Republicans will have a chance when the balance is restored.

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PLANS REPRIEVE REGARDLESS OF BOARD’S ACTION New Jersey Chief Executive Willing to Defy Public Opinion and Jeopardize His Future in Public Office. HOFFMAN ACTING ON INTUITION By United Prcn* , TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 11.—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman today ordered Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon taken into custody by state police for questioning. Condon sailed last night for a South American cruise. BY T FORREST DAVIS (Copyright, 1936. by Scripps-Howard Newspapers.) i REN TON, N. J., Jan. 11.—At a sleep-defying early hour today, Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey was prepared to fly in the face of his political future and reprievt Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted kidnaper of the Lindbergh infant, regardless of today's action by the New Jersey Court of Pardons. U nder the law, he may stay a death sentence for 30 days. The Governor, surrounded by documentary testimony pro and con, pondered the dilemma deeply in his suite at the Hotel Hildebrecht. He personally has studied the case for weeks. Early today he determined on a course of action. He was guided by a feeling, an intuition amounting to a conviction, that Hauptmann, awaiting his doom in death

Tells Story By United Prexx MONTREAL. Quebec.Jan.il. —Mrs. John Lynch , New Haven, Conn., told Montreal newspaper men today that she saw Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., “alive and well” in an Atlantic City hotel two days after the kidnaping. Mrs. Lynch claimed a gang of men, among whom was Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted slayer of the child, carried the baly into the hotel. She was certain of the identity of the child and immediately notified police, she said. Hauptmann was questioned at the time by police, she said, but was released. The other gangsters had left the hotel with the Lindbergh baby before police arrived, she contended. She said she was under constant police protection at the request of Gov. A. Harry Moore for several months following her “tip-off" to police. “Hauptmann was not the ringleader in the kidnaping’ she said. “There were others and the master mind is in New York today. He is the one who is supplying Hauptmann with all this money for his legal fees.”

PATRONAGE RECORD MYSTERY DEEPENS Reason for New List is Still Puzzle. The Statehouse patronage record mystery deepened today with both principals out of the city, and unable to shed further light on why it is necessary to compile anew personnel list of state employes. Compilation of anew set of records was started yesterday by Earl Crawford, patronage secretary to Gov. McNutt, after a series of conferences with state department heads. Mr. Crawford said the sending out of new questionnaires relating to the political background of each employe was necessary because “he did not find any records” when he took office from his predecessor, Pleas E. Greenlee, “retired" by executive order. Mr. Crawford had gone to Milton today for the week-end and Mr. Greenlee was said to be in Shelbyville. However, Mr. Greenlee has been quoted as expressing surprise that Mr. Crawford found anew set of patronage records necessary because the records were left at Mr. Greenlee's office when he closed up shop. Times Index Amusements 4 Auto News 8 Births, Deaths 13 Bridge 6 Broun ; 9 Church News 2 Comics 15 Dietz 9 Editorial 13 Financial 11 Merry-Go-Round 9 Mrs. Roosevelt 7 Pegler 9 Radio 5 Serial Story 6 Sports 12-13 State Deaths 5 Want Ads 13-14 Woman's Pages .... 6-7]

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house cell No. 1 at the Trenton State Prison, is innocent of the actual kidnaping and murder. The Governor has numerous reasons for his skepticism. In the main they are supposition. But. predominating and tangible, he believes, I am told, the assurance of a voluntary witness, a professional penman, to the flat and unequivocal effect that Hauptmann could not have written the ransom notes—the blunt, illiterate demand found pinned to the window seat in the nursery at Hopewell and the 15 subsequent communications. Impossible, Says Expert Moreover, this witness, who may be railed before the Pardons Court, insists that the writer of the ransom letters was a man at least 50; Hauptmann is 36. He is slated to die next Friday at 8 p. m. Samuel Small, New York City, an engrosser of 25 years' standing, was seen entering the Governor's suite at the hotel last night. He remained nearly three hours. From other sources, it was learned that Small submitted to the Governor a detailed series of charts, magnified handwriting, etc., and from the charts reasoned that it would have been physically impossible for the youthful Hauptmann to have penned the ransom missives. Small's deductions, it was said, were based upon facts regarded by handwriting experts as incontrovertible. Explains Two Systems He maintained that Hauptmann writes the Zaner Palmer style of penmanship, a system taught in the German schools during Hauptmann s youth. The ransom notes, on the contrary, were written, he says, by a man trained in the vertical, round style, which was taught up to 40 years ago around the world. The Zaner Palmer system is one of slanting ovals, written with a wrist movement. The earlier method is finger movement writing. • Small convincingly told the Governor that Hauptmann, however he might have wished to disguise his chirography, could not have written in the vertical script. He quoted innumerable authorities including works by experts who testified for the state at Flemington— to prove that adults are unable to alter th* basic style of their writing. Other doubts, as have been said, move the Governor to his startling determination. Doubt Body Lindbergh's The defense attorneys, led by Lloyd Fisher, have assembled an array of affidavits. They propose to attack the identity of the child's body found near Hopeweli. contending that its reconstructed skeleton was five inches longer than Charles Augustus Lindberg Jr. and that the foot malformations of the body did not correspond with those noted by the family’s physician. Dr. Van Ingram. It will be suggested that the handwriting of isidor Fisch. tubercular fur workpr who died in Germany before Hauptmann's arrest, more nearly than Hauptmann's approximates the ransom writing. A series of utterances by Gaston B. Means, serving tims in Leavenworth for mulcting Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean of $104,030 during the kidnaping furore; and speculations over the diffused utterances of Dr. John F. <Jafsie> Condon since the trial interest the Governor, associates say, only mildly. He is profoundly impressed by the technical evidence submitted by Small. At this moment he intends giving Hauptmann, the German exmachine gunner, whose suit has (Turn to Page Three)