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THE DAILY" ARGUS, MOUNT VERNON, N. Y„ TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1935
Secrecy Guards Arrival Of Witnesses For Hauptmann Tr\
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HIGH SOCIETY
VISITS TRIAL
Detective and Charges
From Europe Taken
Off In Cutter
Government Officials'
And Judges' Wives
In Courtroom
HIDDEN FROM VIEW
MINK COATS RULE
Destination of Ship Party
Unknown as Vessel
Leaves
Woman Who Helped Seize
Harte's Kidnappers
Here From Coast
NEW YORK. Jan. 15 (AP).—The
customs Cutter Raritan left Quarantine at 10:47 A. M today after
meeting the liner He De France
and presumably taking off detective Arthur Johnson and three mystery witnesses he brought from
Europe for the Hauptmann trial.
The Cutter Calumet also met the
liner and headed up the bay toward Manhattan about the same
time the Raritan left the ship.
Customs officials said before the
ship arrived at Quarantine that the
Raritan, usually assigned to convey customs inspectors to ihcomlhg liners, today would be used for
the special duty of taking off Johnson and his party of witnesses and
transporting them to an unannounced destination. They said the
Calumet today would carry the
customs inspectors to the He De
France.
Carefully Guarded
Police, at the request of New
Jersey authorities, took elaborate
precautions to guard the identities
of the witnesses and shield them
from the public.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz, chief of the prosecution staff
In the Hauptmann case, said yesterday that the prosecution, was
keeping the witnesses "secluded,"
that he did not know the names of
all of them, but could not disclose
the names of those he did know.
Although the cutter was seen to
head toward Brooklyn as it left the
liner, police plans were to have the
cutter land the party at some point
In New Jersey for an automobile
* trip to Flemington, N. J., scene of
Hauptmann's trial. Acting Deputy
Inspector John A. Ryan and Lieutenant John A. Dinee, of the New
York Police Department, went
down on the cutter to meet Detective Johnson.
Relatives, Report
European police and consular
officials, at the request of New
Jersey authorities, closely guarded the identities of the witnesses
when they sailed from Europe.
The New York detective spent
several months in Germany investigating Hauptmann's b a c k ground and the late Iaador Fisrh,
the furier Hauptmann claims gave
him for safekeeping the ransom
money without telling him what it
was.
Later there came from Europe
reports that the three persons accompanying Johnson were Pincus
and Hannah Fisch, brother and sister of Issdor; and a former corporal who trained Hauptmann in the
German army.
FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 15
CAP).—Wives of judges, attorneys
and Government officials were
prominent today among spectators
at the Hauptmann trial.
The blue-eyed, mink-coated wife
of Frank Igoe, Narcotic Division
head of the International Revenue
Department, and Sara M. Lewitt,
a Newark attorney 'in a green,
lepard-trlmmed costume, had front
seats.
One mink-coated party included
Mrs.
John Kephart and Mrs.
George Maxey, of Philadelphia,
wives of Supreme Court Judges.
Mrs. Walter D. Van Riper, handsome wife of a Newark Common
Pleas Judge, also attended.
The gold-blonde wife of Jacob
Leichtman, BrdoMyn banker, sat in
the same row with Bruno Hauptmann. She wore a mink coat and
a little green hat like the one
Princess Barbara Mdivani recently
brought back from Paris. .
Behind her, in a green wool costume, sat a woman who bad crossed the country to view the trial —
Mrs. A. B. Cohn, of Stockton,
Calif., who assisted in the apprehension of Brooke Harte's kidnapers. She had kept them on the
wire when they telephoned to establish ransom contact, and tne
Sheriff arrested one as he emerged
from a telephone booth. Later the
two men were lynched at San Jose.
It was white scarf day fn court.
Both Attorney General David 1.
Wilentz, chief prosecutor, and Edward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel, wore them, and so did Anna
Hauptmann, the defendant's wife.
Reilly, in his fur-lined overcoat,
derby, spats and morning trousers,
bade women from Brooklyn a
hearty, "Good morning, Madams,"
as he entered.
He said he had cured his cold of
yesterday,by drinking "hot squeezy
things" last night at Stockton, a
neighboring town.
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A lecture on "Character Building and Citizenship Training are
Important Functions of the Home
and School," illustrated by charts
and graphs concerning happenings
in > education, was given by Dr.
Hugh H. Stewart, principal of
Davis High School, last night before members of DeWitt Clinton
Parent Teacher Association.
The speaker was introduced by
C. W. Mac Arthur, chairman of the
program committee. Before Dr.
Stewart's talk 'a one-act play was
given by the dramatic club of the
school. Those who took part were
Ruth Morris, Kenneth Bunker-and
Winifred Ruschin.
Mrs. Ina C. .Cantrell, soprano,
and William Mockridge sang severs! numbers. Mrs. Kitty Barnum
and Mrs. Edward Mullins were accompanists,
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The Junior High Orchestra, under
the d i r e c t i o n of Miss Harriet
Tooke, played four selections.
HOSPITAL CASES
Persons receiving emergency aid
at Mount Vernon Hospital yesterday included:
William Vahey. six, 2 N o r t h
Eighth Avenue, cut ns'ddle finger
right hand while sleigh riding.
Robert Crimley. six. 10 N o r t h
Eighth Avenue, contusion left shin,
fell from sled.
Anna Squero, twenty-six, 143
South Sixth Avenue, lost thumb
nat.i, left hand, caught In door.
Frank Gasperno, thirty-two 13
North Street, first and second degree burns face and right index
finger, caused by torch.
Joseph Bullock, fifty-nine, abrasion left side, chin, and right side
cheek, contusion of scalp and right
shoulder, was putting up shack at
550 South Fulton Avenue when section fell on him.
Nathaniel Wilson, seventeen, 357
South Eleventh Avenue, student at
Edison School, kicked while playing hockey, suffering contusion and
possible fracture instep right foot
ORCHESTRA AT RKO
GUESTS AT PARTY
Jim Lundford and members of
Jsif Cotton Club Orchestra, now
completing a run at Proctor's
Theater, were guests of S. J. Armbrister, leader of the orchestra at
the Ubangi Club In Harlem, at his
home at 409 South Tenth Avenue,
last night.
Armbrister's orchestra provided
music while Mias Elizabeth Maxey
sang and danced, and Bermcn Waters of New Rorheiie gave a ssxaphone solo and sang. Among the
guests was Teddy Hill, performer
1 the Ubangi p u b .
HILDEGARD ALEXANDER
JURY CONVICTS
MORTGAGE HEAD
Mount Vernon Man Also
Invojy$4 in Charges
Against Closed Firm
HACKENSACK, N. J., Jan. 15
<AP). — Samuel W. Silverman,
forty-seven, Jersey City real estate operator, was convicted last
night on a four-year-old indictment
charging him with fraudulently advertising a $500,000 bond issue for
the New Jersey Bond and Mortgage Company of which he was
president.
The verdict was returned to
Judge A. Demorest Del Mar in
Quarter Session Court by a jury
which deliberated only 20 minutes.
At the request of Prosecutor John
J. Breslin, Silverman was remanded to the custody of Sheriff Mort
L. O'Connell until- Thursday morning, when he will be sentenced.
Silverman is one of four .officers
of the closed , flrjn , under indictment in the case. Others awaiting
trial are Matthew J. Kurtz, East
Orange, former vice-president; Nathan Lieberfreund, New York City,
a former director, and Edgar Ross,
of Mount Vernon, general manager.
PRESIDENT GETS
BRONX SUPPORT
Fitzpatrick Falls in Line
With Roosevelt on
Relief Budget
(Special To T h » Dally Arjru*>
WASHINGTON, D. C . Jan. 15.—
Congressman James M. Fitzpatrick today fell in line with the
Democratic group in the House
which is in favor of President
Roosevelt's demand'that the four
billion dollars he wants for work
relief be not "earmarked."
The Congressman is in sympathy
with relief, but is opposed to dole,
he sai,d. Referring to the President's demand that the four biK
lion dollars be appropriated for relief work without limitations or
qualifications, or guidance by Congress, he said:
"The Administration is in a better position to know , where the
funds can be used to the best advantage, and I am willing to trust
to its good judgment. And if big
business and banks would cooperate with the Administration ' it
would not be necessary to, appropriate or spend the four billion
dollars."
The Republicans in the House
are opposed to the President's demand, and are of the opinion that
some system of budgeting must
have been used to'arrive at the
four billion dollars figure and they
think Congress should be permitted
to control the expenditure.
IN COURT TODAY
Sam Barletta. flfty^eight, 120
West First Street, charged with
threatening assault. Discharged.
Traffic Caee*
Morris Maggi, 22 Yonkers Avenue, Tonkers, charged with driving a car with improper plates,
and driving a car without an operator's license or registration card.
All charges dismissed.
John P. Sheridan, Bergenfleld, N.
J., charged with third degree assault. Discharged. Charged with
passing a light. , Adjournment until Jan. 22.
Edward P. Valentine, 260 South
Second Avenue, charged with third
degree assault. Discharged.
Jack H. Shanks, 467 East Third
Street, charged with damaging
City property. Discharged.
CUTS WRIST ON WINDOW
Four stitches were required to
close a cut of the right wrist suffered by August Nordone, twentytwo. 350 South Seventh Avenue,
early today when he accidentally
shoved his arm through a pane of
glass at the New Haven Plaza gasoline station where he is employed.
Thirty-two workers were killed
n coal mine accidents in Alabama
uring 1M4 as compared with 22
in 1933.
ADrEKTIIENEltTS
DONT GET UP NIGHTS
MARK THIS V* TEST
L'se Juniper nil, Buchu leaves, etc.,
flmh out excess acids and waste
Itter. Get rid of bladder irritation
.at causes waking up. frequent dere, scanty flow, burning and baek|ke. Get .Tunlper oil, Buchu leaves,
in little green tanteta called Bu•»*. thet bladder taxativa. In feur
fys If not pleased go back and get
lur 21c. Oet your regular sleep
M fee! "full of pep." Cheater Hill
haraaey. Greenspan Pharmacy.
Breaking of a bottle of black ink
on the sidewalk in front of the
building served as the' "christening" of a branch bank at Grand
Coulee Dam site, Washington.
JAFSIE RETRACES STEPS
TO PEACE OF BRONX HOME
Through at Trial, Elderly Educator Heads for 'Borough
Beautiful* Again—Offered Many Join Including
Chance to Referee Prize Fight
TRENTON. N. J., Jan. 15 (AP).
—Dr. John F. Condon, the Jafsie
whose journeys in search of the
Lindbergh ransom receiver took
him 10,000 miles, turned homeward
today.
The seventy-four-year-old educator believes he came to the end of
his odyssey when he identified
Bruno Richard Hauptmann as the
man to whom he gave $50,000 in a
cemetery rendezvous.
So, after attending the inauguration of Governor-Elect Harold G.
Hoffman, he is going home to rest
among his neighbors in "The Borough Beautiful", the Bronx.
There are some, among them Dr.
Condon's relatives, who believe his
wanderings have tired him. But
not so Jafsie.
Like the athlete who won't give
in—and Dr. Condon has trained
many of them—he laughs it off
with the remark:
"I've never been tired in my
life."
Dr. Condon's retirement began
last Thursday after his testimony
3 SADDLE HORSES
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and
cross-examination
in
the
crowded Flemington courtroom.
He came back to Trenton, to the
hotel where the prosecution has
made its headquarters, and relaxed while the State decided
whether to call him again.
He's been spending- his time
reading, chatting with friends, and
taking an occasional automobile
ride. An illustrated lecture lured
him to the Trenton High School a
few days ago.
The evenings passed quickly, for
his visitors were many—Attorney
General David T. Wilentz, Colonel
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, of the
State Police, and federal agents,
.-orae of whom he had not seen
since thee arly days of the investigation.
The mail is heavy, but the doctor
goes through it all. Threats are
still made on his life.
If he wants to go to work, he has
all kinds of offers to tell his story
again, and the mail brings new opportunities daily. And if he wants
to travel—well, he's been offered a
job refereeing a prize fight in Colorado.
Collapse Gives
Plumber Relapse
MILLWOOD, Jan. 15.—Do y o u
want a saddle horse? Three sad(Special To The Daily Argus)
dle horses are to be had for the
LARCHMONT, Jan. 15. —
asking at the rest farm ami aniFrank Ortis, recovering from
mal shelter of the Horse Aid Sohead and shoulder wounds
sustained six weeks ago
ciety here, Mrs. Stella Ehrlich, diw h e n the ceiling of his
rector, announced today.
plumbing shop at Post Road
The horses will be given to anyand Larchmont Avenue fell
one who can assure Mrs. Ehrlich
upon him, suffered a relapse
early today when the rethat they will receive good treatmainder of the c e i l i n g
ment and be well cared for. She
crashed down over his head
must be assured of the ability of
and shoulders.
those requesting the horses to care
As in the previous mishap,
for them properly. This is the only
p o l i c e took the injured
string attached to the gift.
plumber to Dr. G. C. Lyons
The shelter is on the Saw Mill
for emergency treatment.
River Road in Millwood about a
half mile above the Saw Mill River Road and Bronx River Parkway
Exports valued at $45,944,805
intersection.
were shipped overseas during the
first six months of 1934 from
IRISH MEET TONIGHT
Hampton Roads, Va.
The Mount Vernon Irish Association will meet in Foresters' Hall
tonight, when new officers will assume duties as follows: R o b e r t
Jennings, president; William Ryaa,
vice- president; Thomas Canavan,
treasurer.
Jennings believes it wUl t »
time before the dredges
on the main clearance
reach aa far aa the
The first work to be done on the Road bridge.
dredging in Eastfchester Creek will
BOY BURGLAR CAUGHT
be preliminary in nature intended
(Special To Th« Dally Jurcwft '
to clear up present shoals and ob
YONKERS. Jan. 18.—A twatvt
titructlons, R. J. Jennings, presi- year-old "lire escape burglar" trl«H
dent of the Eastchester Creek As his act once too often and W*
caught. The boy mad* too BtttH
sociation, said today.
This digging, which the Arm} noise going up a fire escape on 4l
Engineer Division expects to start apartment house and a radio aqua
ALBANY. Jan. 15 (AP). — Re- soon will not be carried out with was called. Police found him MM
funds from the July 3, 1930. appro ing in the rear yard. Ha admitUK
porting that New York farms are priation but from general rivers
three previous i burglaries and w *
being abandoned at the rate of and harbors money, he said. Mr. held for Children's Court.
100,000 acres a year, Governor
Lehman's temporary state planning board today pushed a drastic
MT. VERNON S CENTER OF SMART FEMININE FASHION
proposal for public ownership of
more than one-fourth of all land in
the Empire State.
The board proposed that the
State acquire vast areas of unproductive farma which now constitute
"a drain on state and local revenue."
In a formal report to Governor
Lehman, the board suggested last
night that 6,000,000 acres of such
land be gradually bought up for
public enjoyment, l u m b e r i n g ,
power and water reservoirs and
other " economic and social" purposes.
A 20-year program of land purchase at low cost was urged by the
board. Farmers and other owners
of abandoned and submarginal
farms would be offered a fixed
maximum price, but the board
added in caution:
"No compulsory removal of present settlers should be attempted."
. The "enlarged public domain" as
planned by the board consists of
9,000,000 acres. Specifically, if the
plan is carried o,_i the people of
New York State will own and manage:
1—More than half of Allegany,
Chemung, Lewis and Tioga counties.
2—Nearby half of Broome, Cattaraugus.
Chenango,
Cortland,
Delaware, Schoharie, Schuyler and
Steuben Counties.
3—Smaller portions of 26 other
counties, such as 4.8 percent of
Onondaga, 13.2 percent of Jefferson and approximately a third of
the area of Albany County.
4—Three-fourths of the Adirondacks and Catskills.
Provost A. R. Mann of Cornell
University is chairman of the
state planning board.
STATE PLANS
TO BUY LAND
DREDGES TO CLEAR
SHOALS IN CREEK
Lehman Board Would
Make Use of Much
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