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Baily Eagle LATE NEWS THE WEATIIER By I). Weather Burein CLOUDY, WARMER TOD AT FAIRt COLDER TOMORROW. 94th YEAR No. 25 ENTERED AT THE BROOKLYN POST OFFICE AS 2D CLASS MAIL MAT1ER NEW YORK CITY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935 20 PAGES THREE CENTS rin AU QUI MM AS mm o) OJ Snow Neglect STALKS IN FEAR Hitler's Nerves Crack; Powers Already Curbed LINER DISASTER BLAME SOUGHT; 12 NOW MISSING AS LASHING OF WILENTZ TELLS Is Telling Suffers Fits of Weeping Military Club Is Hack of Move to Les Opening Stock Prices jsjlW 1 Stolid 'U breakable' Defendant Wilts in Cell as Prosecutor Prepares to Reopen Assault on Monday By WILLIAM WEER Stall Correspondent of The Eagle Flemington, Jan. 26 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is afraid.

The man they called stolid, cool, tough, unbreakable, the man nobody could brealc down, has broken down. In half an hour of cross examination yesterday, his carefully told story, told to the double refrain, "I didn't do it" and "It was Isador Fisch." was scattered in flying bits about him. In his Jail cell today, Hauptmann contemplated with horror the 30 minutes he spent on the witness stand while the Attorney General of New Jersey questioned him, ho The Strain roar Adolph rrT 3 mrm Kit 'A VMk gap I Critics Force City Hearing Transit Hoard Orders Ouiz of Companies i.axit With Long Island Railroad trains still running 15 to 20 minutes be hind schedule this morning, the Transit Commission has ordered a series of hearings for next week to determine whether there has been any negligence in the work of snow removal. I Although no formal complaints 1 have come to the commission, a number of telephone and oral criti cisms have come from users of the subways and trolley systems as well as the Long Island road, and the companies wil lbe given a chance to explain the delay. In its forecast for the weekend, the Weather Bureau predicted that today would be cloudy and wanner, and that It would be fair and colder Sunday.

There was no more snow in sight. Sections of Queens were still cut I off from offices and shops today, 1 but after a tour of the Sanitation forces engaged in snow removal last night. Mayor LaGuardia vigorously denied again today that there had been any delay in getting the work started or that it had lagged after It was started. The Mayor's office followed up his statement with the announcement that there were approximately 37.000 men engaged in the work of clear ing the streets yesterday, including 9,000 regulars of the Department of 1 Sanitation and 15.000 emergency workers. In addition, there were 3,315 from the Borough Presidents' offices under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Highways, 3,000 from the Park Department and 6,500 from outside contractors.

Third Rail Covered The Mayor stated that the same number would be used today. The night force is cut to approximately and 101 trucks in addition to the 102 5.000 men, with 645 plows. 79 loaders trucks that are hired from contractors engaged especially for emergency snow removal. The Long Island Railroad issued a statement today, giving as the cause of its delay the fact that the third rail was covered with several inhces of snow, preventing the movement of and in addition there were two derailments. The trouble began, the statement said.

Continurd on Page 2 Little Girl Kicked To Deatli by Boys Vale, Jan. 26 Feeling ran high in this little Oregon town todav over the death of 9 year old Phyllis Westfall, fatally kicked by four young boys. Upon the recommendation of Dr. Charles Palmer, who attended the girl, District Attorney M. A.

Briggs was preparing to order an autopsy. Dr. Palmer said an examination indicated she suffered from catarrhal jaundice. But she had been hit hard enough in the abdomen to cause the illness from which she died Sunday night. Dr.

Anna Pritchett, county health officer, said the girl's abdomen, hips I and legs were bruised. Four boys her own age. accused of fomenting and beating Phyllis while she was going home from school Jan. 9, vigorously denied they had kicked or beaten her. They were released after questioning by Deputy Sheriff Charles Leavitt.

who said the next step was up to the District Attorney. Artist Wins" 75,000 In Suit Against Wife A Supreme Court jury in Manhattan yesterday awarded $75 000 to Frederick L. Thompson, an artist and aviation promoter, in his suit against his wile. Mrs. Caroline G.

Thompson. 69. and Col. Horace J. Brookes.

90, of Martha's Vineyard. Mass. Thompson, who had asked for $1,000,000, charged malicious prosecution. Mother and Son Slay Two, Take Own Lives Lelircnki'auss Found Guilty Of Mail Fraud One Son and Salesman Also Convicted Two Others Are Acquitted Julius Lehrenkrauss, head of J. Lehrenkrauss Sons, the mortgage and securities house, was found guilty of conspiracy to use the mails to defraud by a jury before Federal Judge Clarence G.

Galston early this morning. Charles Lehrenkrauss. a partner, and James J. Fradkin, a bond salesman for the concern, were also found guilty on the same charge. J.

Lester M. Lehrenkrauss and Herman Richter, wto other partners, were acquitted. Judge Galston had dismissed the case against John Kaiser, another partner, during the course of the trial. Jury Out .1 Hours The jury brought In its verdict after deliberating for eight hours. The three convicted men were remanded for sentnee on Monday.

All those placed on trial had been indicted in connection with the founding of Lehrenkrauss Corporation, a holding company for all the Lehrenkrauss enterprises and the sale of securities of that corporation. The trial began on Jan. 2. '29 Massacre Suspects Seized Chicago Raiders Trap Maddox, Accused hy Bolton, Finger Man Chicago, Jan. 26 W) Claude Maddox, recently reported named in a confession by Byron Bolton as one of six men involved in the St.

Valentine's Day massacre of 1929, was seized early today by detective squads at his home in suburban Berwyn. He was taken to police headquarters for questioning by Chief of Detectives John L. Sullivan. Bolton, held in St. Paul on charges of complicity in the $200,000 kidnaping of Edward G.

Bremer, was reported earlier this week to have confessed tha he acted as "finger man" in the massacre which wiped out seven members of the George "Bugs" Moran gang in a North Side garage. Maddox was the only person named in the alleged confession who is not cither dead or in prison. Now 35 years old, Maddox was former owner of the Circus Cafe, where the gangsters were said to have consorted. Federal officials have denied that Bolton confessed. Miss Earhart's Plane Poised for FlightEast Albuquerque, N.

Jan. 26 OP) "Just going home and in no hurry," Amelia Earhart, noted ocean flier, and her husband. George Palmer Putnam of New York, had their plane ready today to continue their flight east. i The aviatrix. making her first trip east since her solo flight from Hono lulu to California, did not say what i route she would take eastward.

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He stopped at the airport at 2:05 to refuel and pick up the mail, then took off. After about ten minutes in which the plane apparently made no headway, it went into a dive and a moment later attendants saw flames at the scene of the crash. Airport observers said the accident may have been caused by ice on the wings or controls and this I was borne out after investigators found the motor "wide open. Taken Off Relief Rolls, Crippled College Graduate and Parent Go Mad in Chicago Kill One in Home, Other in Station Wound Two Chicago, Jan. 26 (P) Enraged because he and his mother had been removed from relief rolls, Henry W.

Arden, 27, graduate of the University of Chicago, and his mother, Mrs. Ruth Arden, 54, armed with mail order pistols, yesterday afternoon killed two Known Dead 34 U.S. In spectors Hear Tale of Faulty Steering Gear Total Rescued Is 117 Bodies Sought Off N.J. Government inspectors began a sweeping investigation today to fix responsibility for the Mohawk disaster in which 34 persons ars known to have perished and 12 are still missing. Federal officials, headed by Joseph B.

Weaver, chief of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, were in session at the Customs House, prepared to look into every phase of the crash. It was reported they were particularly Interested in the story of a member of the crew who yesterday revealed that the steering mechanism "went haywire" just before the Mohawk swung into her path, and was knifed by the prow of the Norwegian freighter Talisman off Sea Girt, N. J. 117 Rescued The list of rescued was placed at 117 today, 38 of whom were passengers and 79 crew. Of the known dead 12 were passengers and 22 crew.

Those missing included three women passengers and 22 crew. Anxious friends and relatives were given little hope that any of them might have survived. AU were believed to have been drowned or frozen to death in the frigid waters where the crash occurred. In the hope of clearing up the mystery as to their fate Coast Guard craft still patroled the scene this morning. In Washington it was reported that a change in shipping laws designed to give the Government supervision over ship designs had been recommended to President Roosevelt.

Late last night 33 bodies of victims, all frozen stiff, were placed in the Bellevue Hospital morgue. They had been brought in by various Coast Guard boats. The bodies were quickly identified by relatives. Among those still missing at an early hour today was Capt. Joseph E.

Wood, reported to have gone down with the ship. Chief Officer Cort M. Pedersen was believed to be the sole surviving ranking officer of the liner. Julian Peabody, the noted architect and social leader of Westbury, Continued on Page 2 Stocks Easier In Early Trading Early stock prices today were mainly a trifle lower. A few of the rails worked a trifle higher and much of the general list was unchanged.

Trading was an extremely dull affair and no Indications of a change in the recent backing and filling movements was given. Dollars continued their rise, sterling falling 4 cent to $4.864, practically the old parity. Francs were down a point at 6.52 cents, and other Continentals also declined. Gold rose 3 pence In London. Wheat was firmer in Liverpool, and cotton dipped a little.

Cotton here lost 20 to 25 cents a bale. Actor Turns Banker, Bride is Ann Gould San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 26 OP) "Higyhl recommended," a young bank clerk is at work in the Groos National Bank, here, "learning the business from the ground up." The young man is Frank Spencer Meador, former actor who eloped a month ago with Ann Gould, granddaughter of the late Jay Gould, New York financier. In Today's Eagle, Amusement, IS Art Arthur 1 Comic, 13 Brldce 1 Clilflrd Ad, 17 1 Death Notice, 11 Dr. Brtdy 1 Edltorll 14 Guild New, 1 Loit nd Found, rersonil, Movie, 1 Novel 19 Radio School New, It Stock rrirrs Sermon Pare 6 7 Pnlp New, A Rorlflv 4 Sport, ft ft Theiter, IS Womsn'i ttn 1 en His Dictatorship By ROMVU'S Berlin, Jan.

26 Adolf Hitler, Reichfuehrcr and Chancellor, is facing curtailment of his unlimited powers, it is said In well informed circles here and in Munich. The General Staff is reported fully aware that their leader has within the past two weeks been suffering from weeping fits and "nerve shocks," which make him for the being utterly incapable of meeting his official respoasibilitics. Stens looklnz toward curtailmpnt I of his dictatorship are said to be actually underway Whether Hitler is prepared to meet the proposed chaimes In his personal fortunes and position in a spirit of compromise, or whether he will resist even the slightest check is a matter of speculation, with opinions among the initiated about evenly divided. Opposition Is Powerful The men who are credited with having plans for shaping the future I destiny of the chancellor along new lines constitute the most powerful their predecessors under the rule of the Hohenzollern. With his genius for apt and telling definitions, the late Woodrow Wilson had called them the "military masters of the German people." Today this caste is represented In the general staff of the Reichswehr, the armed forces of the country.

Among the rapid and profound changes that have come over Ger Continued on Page 11 27 More Dead In Flo Area 25,000 Suffering Loss $3,000,000 in 3 States Menace in LeveeBreak ICopyrlght, 1935, by the Associated Pressi Marks, Jan. 26 (P) Raging floodwaters ploughed a new path of destruction southward today, leaving 27 dead by in three States and vast property damage. Relief workers estimated that the damage in northwest Missisi.ippi, where the flood is centered, stood today at more than $3,000,000 and that 25,000 persons were suffering in the overflow of the Coldwater River. There were 21 deaths attributed to the flood in Mississippi, five in Tennessee and one in Arkansas. 5.000 Menaced The waters receding in Tennessee and Arkansas, broke through pri roared on down toward the ricli vate levees and protection dykes and Tallahatchie River basin in this State, menacing 5.000 residents in the low section.

The United States engineers at Memphis rushed ten huge flat bottom yawls to a temporary base at Clarksdale by truck to be used in rescue work. Rescuers scurried up and down the 40 mile overflow sector rescuing persons, supplying food and clothing and attempting to check outbreaks of influenza and pneumonia. The Quitman County Courthouse "esented a pathetic picmirc. Refugees were every where. Boats brought in 57 more refugees last night, adding to the almost 500 being cared for here.

The story was the same In the suffering communities of Sledge and Darling and others. Practically every hill was dotted with families. Many houses contained scores of persons. They lacked clothing. Food was scarce.

Ice still coated the flood waters. Red Cross workers were rushing in supplies. Hauptmann In First By ART ABIHl'R Flemington, N. Jan. 26 Will Bruno R.

Hauptmann confess to the kidnap murder of the Lindbergh baby? Will he crack over the weekend? Will the miserable moments he spent on the witness stand under blistering cross by Attorney General Wilentz shake vaunted will power? These were questions on the lips of everybody in the courtroom yesterday as adjournment time found Hauptmann reeling like a punch drunk fighter under the savage attack of the Attorney General. In the parlace of the boxing ring, 1 1 contemplated with terror a continua I tion of the ordeal still to come Mon I day. Back and back Hauptmann was driven in that half hour until It seemed to the crowded courtroom that at any moment he would cry I out, Yes, yes, he had done it kid naped the Lindbergh child and killed it, and was guilty of murder as charged. Change Is Sudden There was speculation in Flemington today as to what would happen when the slashing, crushing cross examination Is resumed. Would Hauptmann, trapped in some blind alley, break into a hysterical outbreak? Would his attorneys, perhaps, gather In a swift conference and announce that they wished to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity? It was speculation to which, of course, the defense attorneys gave no encouragement.

The change came over Hauptmann with startling and spectacular suddenness. All day the defendant had spoken for himself on the witness stand. He denied everything. He said he didn't kidnap the child, or make the ladder or write the ransom notes or receive and spend the ransom money. The $14,601.

in ransom notes found in his home? Mr. Fisch left that with him, in a shoe box. The large amounts he plunged In the stock market after the ransom payment? Mr. Fisch gave him the Continued on Page 2 Japanese Crush Chinese in Chahar Peiping, Jan. 26 W) The Japa nese military command at Kalgan, Chahar, reported today the dis I puted Jehol Chahar border district had been cleared of Chinese.

I Colonel Matsui, commanding the I Japanese Military Mission at Kal gan reported to Major Takahasht, Japanese military attache here that quiet prevailed in the border area. Chinese authorities said an agree I ment had been reached to negotiate a settlement of the delicate border I problems. Announcement of the clearing of the district and plans for negotia i Hons followed closely upon reports reaching here that Japanese bomb ing planes crossed into the Chahar and destroyed two towns. Forty I four Chinese, the reports said, were killed in the attack. Nanking.

China. Jan. 26 iVP) News of apparently imminent set i tlement. nf the rhahnr i incidents were received with evident satisfaction at the National Government's Foreign Office today. 1935 RELIGION Whcrf dop the Church jtanrl en social and rcormmic iues? On thf New Beginning Today On Page 3 prpirnn a serifs of three weekly articles bv outstanding clergymen discussing these questions.

The SchtJutr: Bishop Francis J. MrConnell of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Jan. 26. The Rev Wilfrid Parsom.

S.J., editor of America, Feb. 2. KihM FdwarH Inael, chairman Sorial Justice Commission of the Central Conferences of American Rabbil (1927 'JJ), Feb. 12. Hitler.

Long's Ai rmv Guards Capitol Militia Pours Into Baton Rouge After Citizens Capture Courthouse Baton Rouge, Jan. 26 A') Senator Huey P. Long arrived here early today after an autoinnbile dash from New Orleans, announced that "mob violence had stopped" and that he would immediately launch a court inquiry Into a plot to "murder" him. Baton Rouge, Jan. 26 (P) Huey Long's national guardsmen began to appear in Baton Rouge today as an answer to armed defiance of his rule here yesterday.

Hundreds of militiamen were headed toward the State capitol as Long's answer to a citizens' armed occupancy of the east Baton Rouge parish court house here yesterday in protest against the Senator's attempt to add the parish to his dictatorship. Two militiamen, shouldering guns and brusquely dismissing questions, stood on the main street, a block Continued on Page 2 "Estimated on Three lobs, Closed One" "The results to my Eagle Ad for painting and decorating work were a big surprise," says Mr. Theodorsen, 119 15th Brooklyn. "I estimated on three jobs, closed one and have another pending. Now that I know what a good producer of business your paper is.

you can count on me for continued advertising." Firms and individuals use The Eagle's Business Service Columns with profit. A Want Ad here readies thou. ands of home owners in Brooklyn and Long Island who have repairs and installations to be made. Telephone today! Call an ad taker at MAin 4 6000 and charge it. relief workers and themselves.

The workers killed were: Miss Alice M. Irwin, 27, graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, and Miss Caroline Wallace, 45, relief supervisor. One Slain in Mat Miss Irwin was killed in the Ar den's two room flat on the north side when she went there to talk about relief, but her body was not found until after the enraged pair had created a panic by shooting up a crowded relief station at 54 58 West Chicago Ave. After Miss Irwin had been killed, the mother and son, who once taught Spanish at North Dakota Agricultural College, walked into the relief station to finish their mad Continued on Page 2 15 Japanese Rescued By Ship in Raging Sea San Francisco, Jan. 26 (P) The rescue of 15 Japanese fishermen in the rough North Pacific off the coast of Japan was told today in a message relayed to Radiomarlne Corporation here by the steamship General Sherman from the steamship Roanoke.

The Roanoke said it sighted flares from the fishing vessel and stood by in heavy seas all night. At daybreak a lifeboat picked up the captain, mate and chief engineer. The Roanoke said it would tow the craft to Japan. Farley shouldn't have done that." Millard said his resolution would call on Farley to produce before the committee requisition and invoices drawn on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for "imperforate" stamps since March 4, 1933. The Postmaster General said he had autographed and presented sheets of 200 of the Mother's Day stamp to friends, including "a friend of a friend." He explained the "friend of a friencl" had sold his sheet and acknowledged the presentation had been a "mistake." In philatelic cir cles the stamps were estimated to have brought as much as $20,000 or stamp, Farley Stamp Gifts Liable To Put Him on the Griddle on Verge of Knockout Round of Wilentz Bout Washington, Jan.

26 OP) Complaints of stamp collectors that Postmaster General Farley has presented valuable first run stamps to friends, including President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes, brought a threat today of a Congressional investigation. Representative Millard said he would introduce a resolution to ln I vestigate the protests of 27 philatelic societies, some of which com I plained that part of the Postmaster General's gifts had been sold for I a large sum. A ranking Democratic member of the House Postoffice I Committee said he hoped the reso ilution would be adopted "because it looked for a while as though there I might be a one round knockout. Hauptmann was the picture of floundering distress, was hang ing onto the ropes under a rain of blows from the prosecution.

The adjournment came like the bell that has saved man a fighter in a simi l.ir pressed position. So ended round one. This weekend Hauptmann will be stretched in his corner while his seconds and trainers headed by Chief Second Reilly work over him i and his defence. They'll kr.oad his muscles, apply the smelling salts, wave towels and slap his lace. But it is doubtful, judging by the opening round, whether thev'll be able to get their badly winded i client into shape to stand off an other flailing onrush from the prosecution.

In fact, there are some who question whether Hauptm.mn will even answer the bell for round two. He may throw in the towel altogether by trying to strike a bargain with the prosecution over the weekend It on't set him anvwhTC but Attorney General Wilentz is keenly alive to the possibility. And he'll Continued on Page 2.