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FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935. Witnesses At Kidnaping Trial Roosevelt Plans To Take Federal Government Out Of Direct Relief Business Defendant Man Who Said 'Hey Doctor9 To 'Jafsie'As Condon Paid Huge Ransom Mrs. Lindbergh Bares SouljCoIonel Almost Shouts Name As He Identifies Defen dant As Man Getting $50,000 For Return Of Kid- -naped Baby Hauptmann Watches Effect On Jury Tells Congress He Aims To Initiate Long Range Of is- Unemployed Back To Work OBJECT TO GIVE SECURITY TO INDIVIDUAL 1ft FAMOUS AVIATOR DENIES HE IS ARMED By GEORGE Washington, Jan. 4. President Roosevelt went before a iympathetic Congress today a Congress eager to do his 1 1 1 By JAMES L.

KILGALLEN Courtroom, Flemington, N. Jan. 4. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, on the witness stand identified Bruno Hauptmann through his voice as the man he heard say "hey, Doctor" to Dr.

John F. "Jafsie" Condon, the Lindbergh intermediary, the night Lindbergh and Condon went to a cemetery in the Bronx and paid overe $50,000 ransom iiuuiug wiwi a oruaa program oi governmental planning Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the child Bruno Hauntmann is accused of slaying, takes the. witness stand and identifies tne ransom rect relief business, and (2) 1 1 j.i i jny-j mum.

ii'Ti. oi useiui puouc worms mac win put irom inree to iour million unemployed back to work. The cost of this program will be said, "and we" shall not shrink IImmIaJ 1L. I I I 1 I II 1 11 1 1 It in th fiitnrA note iouna in the baby room and Anne' Lindbergh, mother of the i -1 I CENTS PER COPY, direct examination. He 'had related the tragic events of the night of March 1, 1932, when his baby was stolen from his crib.

Along about 9:15 p. while he was reading, Lindbergh heard a noise "like a ladder breaking." Later, Betty Gow, the nurse came to him, greatly excited, and asked if he had the baby. Lindbergh left the room he "knew something had gone Lindbergh Recalled Lindbergh tfft recalled to the stand at 10:09 a. m. Attorney General David T.

Wilentz immediately resumed his questioning about the footprints Lindbergh said he found i.in the nursery. "They were faint and yellowish as 1 hough of clay," the flyer said. "They were plain, in front of a chest of drawers." Wilentz asked Lindbergh if he found a ladder outside the nursery window. The witness replied he did. "Was it strange to the house?" "Yes, it did not belong to th house." "Did you find a chisel too, out side the house?" "No but one was reported found and brought in.

It was also strange to the house." Lindbergh testified a dowell-pin he had never before seen also was found outside the house. Wilentz then held up a yellowish letter. "Can you idenify this?" he asked. "Yes" Lindbergh replied after studying it. "It is the third ransom note, which was mailed to Colonel Breckenridge in New York." The note was marked for identification.

Wilentz then asked Colonel Lindbergh if he had received a call from Dr. John F. "Jafsie" Condon, the elderly New York City educator. "Yes," replied Lindbergh, "i was on March 9, I believe." "And after that, did you receiva these notes from Dr. Condon?" asked Wilentz.

He handed the Colonel four or five of the ransom notes Dr. Condon had received trom the kidnaper and which Condon had brought to Lindbergh's Hopewell home. "Yes." Lindbergh replied and these notes also were accepted as exhibits. "And didyou "then authorize Dr, (Continued On Page 11.) attitude endearing herself to th hundreds who frequently visited her. She leaves her husband.

Frank, and these children: Patrick Ashley: Cornelius city; Harriet and at home; also a sister, Mrs. E. R. Cavan, Kingston, and six brothers, Dennis, James and Cornelius, all of this city; Hugh of Canada: Peter. -Jacksonville, Fla and Samuel of Hazleton.

j-TKerurimrwnT-be-rie Wi morning with a requiem mass -St. Mary's Church and interment in St. Mary's Cemetery. Har.over. Worker Found Dead Joseph Wysocki, 54, of 1103 South Washington avenue.

Scran-ton, was found dead today along Delaware Hudson Railroad tracks near Moosie Station. Both legs and a hand were severed. The body was discovered by a miner on his way to work. Officials of the railroad expressed the belief that Wysocki, (Continued On Page 11.) ITTrMrnmirMMMnaMMrinriMiM Hauptmann, accused of murdering her first-born. Lindbergh had been relating how he and Condon had gone to the Bronx cemetery to pay over the money and how he had heard a man talking to Condon in the cemetery.

Identifies Voice Walking 'close to the stand, Attorney General Wilentz asked: "You remember that voice?" "Yes." 40 "To whom did the voice belong?" "Hauptmann." The colonel almost shouted the name. Hauptmann stirred nervously in his seat. Hauptman did not move, except for his eyes, which shifted rapidly as though to catch the reaction to Lindbergh's damning testimony. It was one of the most dramatic moments of the trial. The court room was hushed.

"Have you seen Hauptmann since?" Wilentz spoke up: "You remember that voice?" "Yes." "Have yuu ever heard it since?" "Yes." "Where?" "In the Bronx district attorney's office." It was there that Lindbergh, wearing glasses as a disguise, observed and listened to Hauptmann when he was in custody there. Condon Brings Note After Dr. Condon paid over the $50,000 to the mysterious stranger in the Bronx Cemetery he came back to the car and reported to Lindbergh. Condon brought Lindbergh a note. "Did he bring this note?" asked Wilentz.

Wilentz handed the witness a letter. "Yes." "Then what did you do?" "We went back to Dr. Condon's house. I made arrangements to get a plane. "The next morning with Colonel Breckenridge, (Lindbergh's friend) I left for Bridgeport, in the plane." "What was the purpose of this trip in the plane.

"We were looking for a boat which the note said would have my son. We flew around Bridgeport for over two hours. I was at the controls." "But- your search was in vain?" "It was." Relates Tragic Events The Colonel was continuing his nuiiuiicu in inc Duagei message which Mr. Roosevelt will send to Congress next week. In today's message, the President confined himself to I general outline of what the administration proposes to do to better the lot of the economically forgotten individual.

Later messages will divulge the do tails. The broad objective of the gov ernmenfs effort, he said, is to create security for the individual security of a livelihood, security and the security of decent homes. To that end recommendation" wil dc maae on unemployment insur- ance, old age pensions, and similar social betterment undertakings. But for the immediate present, Mr. Roosevelt said, the Federal government is determined to end direct relief, which has cost more than two billion dollars, and to initiate a program of emergency public employment, which will put people back to work without interfering with private employment.

"The Federal eovernment." he said, "must and shall quit this business of relief. Dole Harts Morals The doling out of dollars and of iooa oasnets to tne destitute, fie described as cotributing to "spiritual and moral disintegration." "To dole out relief in this way," he said, "is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is a violation of the traditions of America. "Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers." Nor can the Federal government, he continued, go on paying real wages for raking leaves in the parks, or cutting grass for a few hours a week. That, he indicated, is merely charity in another form.

Five Milllop On Relief He estimated there are now about 8.000.000 unemployed worker on Federal relief rolls. A million and a half of these, he said, belong to groups that in the past have been cared for locally, and he declared they must ereturned to that care. With the other three nnd a half million, he said, the situation is different. They are the real victims of the national depression, and the Federal government is the only governmental agency capable to deal with their predicament "We have assumed this task," he 9' i i. also identifies Hauptmann voice.

slain baby, testifies at the trial of Whatley wait to be called to the wit for the murder of the Lindbergh and Mrs. Whatley was house STUDIES by a man who once had been a he luuld. He wag sOll'V lof 1116 you think of him the official close friends for years and at one when the latter was looking for "If you insist, he's hired. But doesn't perform, I'll have to get rid official said. "I expect him to do a you see fit." inrormea tnat the job was his.

Job, the contractor left the scene. reputation, laid down on the job amused as tie watched the employe. Op hum 11 ni mi Agriculture, Industry And Merchants Benefit Under New Deal TEXT OF HIS MESSAGE Washington, Jan. 4. Mr.

President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The Constitution wisely provides that the Chief Executive shall re port to the Congress on the state of the nation, for through you, the chosen legislative representatives. our citizens everywhere may fairly judge the progress of our governing. I am confident that today, in the light of the "events of the past two years, you do not consider it merely a trite phrase when I tell you that I am truly glad to greet you and that I look forward to common counsel, to useful cooperation, and to genuine friendships between us. We have undertaken a new or der of things; yet we progress to ward it under the framework and in the spirit and intent of the American Constitution.

We have pro' eeftded nation -p meas-urable distance on the road to wards this new order. Materially, I can report to you substantial benefits to our gricultural population, increased industrial activity, and profits to our merchants. Of equal moment, there is evident res toration of that spirit of confidence and faith which marks the Airier ican character. Let him for specir lative profit or partisan purpose, without just warrant would seek to disturb or dispel this assurance, take heed before he assumes re' sponsibility for any act which slows our onward steps. Change Order of World Throughout the world change Is the order of the day.

In every nation economic problems. Ions in the making, have brought crises of many kinds for which the masters of old practice and theory were unprepared. In most nations social justice, no longer a distant ideal, has become a definite goal, ana ancient governments are be' ginning to heed the call. Thus, the American people do noi siana aione in the world in their desire for change. We seek it through testetf liberal traditions, through processes retain all or the deep essentials of that Republican form of representative government first given to a troubledworjd, by the United States." As the various carts In the nrn.

gram begun in the extraordinary session of the 73d Congress shaiie xnemseives in practical administra tion, tne unity or our program reveals itself to the nation. "The outlines of the new economic order. riing from the diintegration of the old. are apr-nrent. We test what we have done as our meas' ures take root in the living tex ture of lire, we see wnere we have built wisely and where we can do still better.

Recovery and Reform The attempt to make a distlnc-(Continued On Page 11.) SIX GUILTY IN MASS MURDER Jury Convicts In Kansas City Massacre (Picture on Page 11) Kansas City, Jan. 4. A verdict of guilty was returned today against all six defendants, tried in Federal court here on charges of -conspiracy in connection with the Union Station massacure June 17, 1933, in which a Federal prisoner and four officers were slain. The defendants are Mr. and Mrs.

Joe- RichiurdGaltar Mi Farther of JopUn, Frank Mul-loy and Louis Stacci. Charges against a seventh defendant, Mrs. Frances Nash widow of the slain convict were dismissed because she aided the government TREASURY BALANCE, Washington, Jan. 4. The treasury balance Jan.

2 was Testifying Against Hauptmann ACCUSED NEAR HOME By MARGARET GARRAHAN Flemington, N. Jan. 4. Anne Morrow Lindbergh today has the world at her feet. Slim, straight, fighting tears and clinging to a mother touching little baby garments, with a lightness almost a caress.

her soul to the world at the command the State Anne yesterday placed a dainty finger on a hard worldXjieart and won. "She's a Throughout this little town, packed "with 'hardened newspapermen accustomed to every conceivable scene, that though is ringing. "Did you ever see anything like it?" They are asking, still gasping at the most heart-clutching drama ever enacted before their eyes. Unblushingly, they admit to tears as they listened to her on the witness stand. a In a single stroke, metropolitan veneer has been wiped from the Flemington picture and curiosity has lost to shame.

"I had no right to watch her." one woman said. "I only came to stare why why was I allowed to stay? I'm so ashamed." It was in an atmosphere tense with expectancy that Anne mounted the witness stand to relive once more the happiness that was hers with her first son. Calmly she chose her words, testifying in a clear, low voice. Tears frequently welled to her eyes, but she always managed to fight them back. Once her voice broke.

Throughout her testimony she held 11 eyes, and none more so than those of Bruno Richard Hauptmann and his wife, the blonde Anni, whose thoughts, even as she list i ud, raced to her own tiny son, Marmfried. "I wonder if hes all right," she whispered. Mannfried is with relatives in the Bronx. It is the breath-taking moment when Anne identified the tiny garments her son was wearing that is traced idelibly in the memory of those whowere there to see. First, the little home-made vest, fashioned by Betty Gow from an old petticoat.

a moment Anne held back, then leaned forward, touched it and nodded. The baby's sleeping she inclined her head slightly to one side, looked long and carefully, and nodded again. Finally, the tiny sleeping suit, clean as it was sent back by the kidnaper as "proof leaned forward, took it and held it before her, then laid it across her lap and stroked it. Bravely, she went through it all toying with the thumb guard lost (Continued On Page 11.) NO APPRAISER IN THIS COUNTY Luzerne Not Included On State Mercantile List Harrisburff. Jan.

4. Mercantilp aoDraisers for 1935 were nnnnintpH today by Auditor General Frank E. Baldwin. No appointments were made for Delaware. Elk, Lackawanna, Lancaster and Luzerne counties, but they are expected in a few days.

The auditor general does not appoint appraisers in Allegheny and Philadelphia counties. Of the. 60 appointments 26 were rroiaoverr. T' Those named included: Philip S. Steinbach.

Bethel. Berks; Howard P. Davis, Edding-ton, Bucks; Mrs. Bertha R. Davis, Summit Hill, Carbon; D.

Francis Sheehan, Landenberg. Chester; Stanley W. Smith, Berwick, Columbia; Walter G. Mooney, Bethlehem, Lhignr Oliver S. Houpt, Glenside, Montgomery; Charles G.

Herb, Easton, Northampton, i William 'Jenkins. Edwardsvllle, was mercantile appraiser for. Lu-( Continued Cn Page 11.) R. HOLMES to initiate a long range series ii i frnm Tr i Hiitv dictated by every intelligent consideration of national policy to ask you (the Congress) to make it possible for the Unittd States to give employment to all of these three and one half 'million employable people, now on relief, pending tneir absorption in a rising tide of private employment." To this end, Mr. Roosevelt proposed that all emergency public works United in a "sio gle, hew "and greatly enlarged plan." Bv uch a plan, he said 'JERA can be suspcrseded by By such a plan, he said, the ERA can be stisrwrBivfpri hv a nn.

ordinated snthnritv pharerofj urH'n orderly liquidation of reiicf, and with substituting a national chart for giving out work. Practical Principles The practical principles which should govern this new program of public works employment the President enumerated as follows: 1. All work undertaken should be in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in Jiving conditions, or that it creates new for the nation. 2. Wages should be larger than the present dole, but still not so large as to encourage workers to iec Pflvate employment.

3. Only projects should be un- a-which are cerain to employ the greatest numbers. 4. Preference should be given those projects which are self-lia- the sense that there reasonable expectation of the gov- rairruna its money acn mf'nJil? ProJecta should be so asi ar little as l8 we Wlt? Private enterprises, shouId 80 Planned as rolls, but with an eye to tapering off proportionately as private abie to e-wta JobT- where thVy wUl "sTrve the greatest Pe. President said he had 'Very definite convictions" as to the i money necessary to Lout Program, which he would report in the budget mes- Su 1 you" he W.

"they Will be within thn ,1 suunu Lieuii or the government." Slum Clearance In Cities As rnmirir n-iiVn'r. muuu U1C SCOpe OI in IS broad nmn-am Tl- tVjned slum clearance in the iuuiinucq un rage II.) ankles and physicians, who examined him, feared that a small bone in the left foot was fractured He was treated in Pittston Hospital and taken home. Mishap At 2 A. M. The accident occurred between 2 and 2:30 o'clock this morning, while the three men were returning in Nobel's car from Towanrin.

srhsM iho uaa 4k. Seven-County Firemen's Associa- uuu iMobel and Flan nery addres sed Jheccmvetion-jm4 McDevitt PntRftsinorf tVlA InlnKtni cDevitt with humorous stories. -Nobel was driving. The party entered Tunkhannock about 1 O'clock and stnnnH nf (OfianltriA station where they met a Martz bua driver who cautioned Nobel about the icy condition of the road near the Olrl Vnroet Coctlo opposite Coxton Yards of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, As he neared the point Nobel slowed down. but th monhino clrtWlal into the center pier of the overhead liommuM un rut U.I Betty Gow (left and Mrs.

Ollie ness stand at Bruno Hauptmann's baby. Miss (iow was the baby keeper at the Lindbergh home. Other pictures on Pages 2 and 9. LITTLE A former official was approached trial nurse 'Butch9 McDevitt, Nobel, Flannery Jim'tAsaT-Skid Wife, Paralyzed In Auto Mishap 6 Years Ago, Dies political ally. The visitor, out of work and in need, asked for assistance in securing employment.

He explained that a contractor former official knew had landed a big job and would need laborers. The oftieial peemiscd to do what man's plight. That night, he drove to the contractor's home' and made his request. "But that fellow's the contractor protested. "He's not used Councilman John Nobel, 68, if 95 Barney street; John J.

"Butch" McDevitt, 57, of 318 South Rjver to doing any work." Give him a chance, no matter asked. The contractor and he had been time he had befriended the contractor work. "All right" the contractor gave this won't be a' pension and, if he of him." "That's all right with meV the day's work and, if he doesn't do as The idle man was jubilant wnen what in. street and Thomas Flannery, 42, former fire chief, of 357 McLean street were Injured early today in a motor car mishap near Forest Castle on the Sullivan Trail, above West Pittston. Councilman Kobel, the most seriously injured of the three, is in Pittston Hospital, He suffered shock, probable internal injuries, a severe laceration of the fnrehpari He was to report the following day.

At the appointed hour, he was there and the contractor explained his duties. Busy with other phases of the Trew56ffiploy As a result of injuries received in an automobile accident six and one-half years ago, Mrs. Mary Sweeney, 74 North Main street, died this morning at 8 o'clock at hei home. Mrs. Sweeney was injured jn an accident on August 15, 1928.

as a result of which she was paralyzed, and had been confined to her bed since. Her death was due to com plications. Bornin Jfcqtlan.rL mbved to this country when a child with her-family, settling hrl Newport TownshiD bhe lived there about 20 years until she was married to James F. Sweeney 48 years ago. The couple moved io this city about .1894.

Mrs. Sweeney was a member of St. Mary's Church and its Altar and Rosary Society. Not only was she well known ia this city but she had a wide chicle of friends in Newport was a woman of magnetic personality and during her confinement, which lasted over six years, she endured tr- tlwfrTeqnifrttltfeClTposa- within a lew minutes alter tne contractor disappeared. The contractor, suspecting as much, went to the roof of the building and gazed down from above.

oie nose iracxure, oiacKened eyes, possible rib fractures high on the left side and hpsffoinlnrioa McDevitt is also a patient iiit At first chagrined, he became peering around the comer and in the rear of the building, presumably on the lookout for the contractor. After an hour of this hide-and-seek game, the contractor called the man's name. Unable to locate the source of the voice and not thinking to look up, the, employe stood there, puzzled. The contractor then yelled djwn that he was onthe roof, "You're fired," he added, with a finality hat left no room for doubt. The man slunk off the job.

A human version of leading a horse to water but not being able to make him drink. riuston Hospital, ne Buffered a possible fracture of the left leg near the ankle and leg and body bruises. While Nobel's condition was described as "only fair," Mc-Devitt's condition was said to be good. Flannery incurred injuries to both, legs. His limbs were bruised and swollen between the knees and her suffering with a cheerful 4: 1.