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DEATH HOLDS BRUNO’S SECRET
• ' Richard Bruno Hauptmann lies today, his lips sealed, his chin
Jugh, m a convicted murderer’s grave.
No case in the history of America has been so replete with
mystery, drama, pathos-—and native humor. To apply the term
humor to a tragedy which gripped the heart of every American
seems incongruous. But what term could be applied to enter-
P r^j? g <r a - W^ . er3 ma<^e capital of so stirring a crime as to
peddle Lindbergh stepladders’ about the court house where a
man was on trial for his life! What could be more ridiculous
than some of the antics of Dr. Condon 1
While Bruno Hauptmann waited the final legal and political
maneuvers that, for weeks and months had virtually regenerated
into a ‘cat and the mouse’ be he guilty or innocent, the Lind
bergh family remained cloistered with their grief in their Eng
lish retreat. Betty Gow, the nursemaid of the Lindbergh baby,
who played the major role in sending Hauptmann to his doom,
remained on hir knees, days.and night, praying for the wretched
man. -.-<2 .. ,
Mrs. Hauptmann, who, ever since the conviction of her hus
band, has been the object of sympathy, stood by ‘her map’ to
the bitter end, then collapsed.
Truly, it was a sequel that befits the pen of any playwright’s
imagination.
It was interesting to follow the precautions taken by those
officials who were in command at the death house in Trenton
.where Bruno sat down with death.
Once—-twice—thrice, even to the fourth time, all spectators
were searched.. As they entered the prison, properly armed with
‘official invitations’ to the execution, their persons were gone
over. Every few steps, until they entered the death chamber,
the operation was repeated.
These officials were mindful of what happened in the cele
brated Ruth Snyder case.
Here, as a woman was about to meet her God, the enterprise
of two newspapermen, even though their cunning satisfied the
morbid readers of the world, earned the condemnation of the
ethical craft. A certain managing editor of a newspaper in
New York decided to attempt the impossible—secure an actual
photograph of a woman burning in the electric chair. Every
law of the land and decency forbade the venture, but, as stated,
he was enterprising. He sent to Chicago for a newspaperman
of know and proven ability. He unfolded his plan and for
months they practiced the camera stunt. It was quite simple,
but required accuracy. A small German camera was strapped
to the ankle of the newspaperman as he entered the death cham
ber. It was hidden by the cuff of his trousers . A cord, con
trolling the shutter ran up his trousers, into his pocket. As he
sat on the front row, watching the woman die, he clicked his
camera. A few moments later, a full size photo of the horrible
acene appeared on the front page of the paper.
Some will say that the last chapter of the Lindbergh-Haupt
mann case is written. But they will find that untrue. Finis will
©ever be written so long as there remains the aura of doubt as
to the man’s full guilt—and the disclosure of the identity of
persons yho, the world believes, were accomplices in the crime.
' LIKE BARNUM SAID—*
Imposing and trading on the credulity of old and infirm per
sons is the charge placed at the door of the Townsend National
Weekly, o cial organ of the Townsend Old Age pension fund
by prosecutors before a Congressional investigating committee.
The ‘official organ* underwent rigid inspection by the ingesti
gators and it was found that the advertisements were, in the
vast majority, those making impossible and lawless promises of
4 surt cures’, restoration of youth’s vigor and other magic
curealls.
One of the advertisements was headed: “Married Again at
120!” The patent medicine vendors went on to disclose how a
man had, after taking this medicine over a brief period of time,
■■ regained the ardor and vitality of youth, won a fair and young
maiden and enjoyed the paradise of marriage bliss—all for a
dollar.
Rejuvenation and. glandular remedy advertisements predom
i inated the pages of the periodical.
The merits of the Townsend plan, so far as the economical
theory is concern, is not at issue in the discussion of such bus
iness enterprise. The question of business ethics, and the right
of those who are in charge of the pension movement to foster
upon aged men and women who long to believe the words of
promise, are distinctly at issue.
It is said that the various and sundry methods of securing
revenue for the movement have netted untold wealth for those
who have made the question of caring for America’s aged and
inform the political football of Congress.
Os course, the entire scheme is Utopian. Everyone would
- favor caring for those who have reached the age that they can
not earn their daily bread, but few will approve tactics employed
by those who would drain what few pennies these helpless people
have under the guise of ‘dues’ to various movments and organi
zations and subscriptions to a magazine that build up fond hopes
■of the laws of science and ordinary
■intelligences wjsr***
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Three months of the good year 1936 have passed into his
tory and still Georgians, those not pestered with political bees
in their bonnets, find their state still doing business at the same
old stand. The State Capitol is still in Atlanta and the governor
seems to be functioning fairly well in the interest of the people.
JVhile the state may have been free from dust-storms during th e
past season, the people have had much dust thrown in their
eyes to blind them to the many political intrigues being engin
eered to embrrass the orderly carrying on of ordinary govern
mental activities.
Regardless of the tactics being used to force upon the tax
payers the burden of an extra session of the state legislature
apparently for no other purpose than to pass an appropriation
bill. THE STATE IS BEING RUN AT AN EXPENSE TWEN
TY PER GENT LESS, A SAVINGS WHICH THE LAST LEG
ISLATURE SEEMINGLY DID NOT CARE TO MAKE. CAN
ANY TAXPAYER OBJECT TO THAT? Can any citizen of the
state offer any reason, moral or legal, why the many wards of
the state should not be fed and clohted j
GERMANY AND FRANCE
AS VIEWED FROM U. S.
WASHIINGTON, April 2 Not i
few commentators upon European
affairs take the view that Germany
'• has no particular designs against
France: that the Nazis think rather
of aggression to the eastward.
Most of the diplomatic folk I have
talked with agree that the Germans
probably are willing to let the French
alone for the present if the French
will let them alone. They express
doubts, however, that the French
will do this once Hitler begins to
0 be conspicuously ambitious in the
5 eastwardly direction.
5 The theory is:
5 If Germany rebuilds its eastern
- strength, it again will be a menace
to the westward, and France believes
it once more will be a dangerous
neighbor as soon as It is able to be.
Therefore, French policy is to pre
sent the relch from regaining any
of its old potency whatever. What it
desires is a weak Germany, easterly
as well as westerly.
Thus, if the Germans cannot re-
3 cover their former prestige without
©astern expansion, and if their east
. ern expansion is vetoed by France,
they have not much choice but to
override the French veto—by force
of arms, of course, and if possible.
, WAR EIITHER WAY .„
It does not greatly matter:
The Germans may attack France,
fn order to squelch the Itater, to
guarantee themseles a free hand in
Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
Poland and possibly part of the Bal
kans.
Or they may take the initiative to
the eastward and be attacked by the
Frnch, In an effort to stop them.
It would mean war on the Rhine,
among many other places, either
way. ,
FRANCE AND U. S. S. R.
France has the advantage of Rus
sia, which is afraid of Germany, as
an assured ally to fight the Teutons
on their eastern front, giving the
'latter two frontiers to attend to.
That is all right from France’s
standpoint.
But Russia has Japan to consider.
If engaged with Germany, the gov
ernment is sure to have the Mikado,
pounding on its back door in Siberia,
to reckon with.
Two fronts for Germany! Two for
Russia! |
But Germany's two trots will be
only 300 or 400 miles anart. Bus-i
sia's will be 3,000 or 4,000.
A major war in Pacific territory
would considerably handicap the
Russians' military activities to tha
westward: the Soviets may not be asi
helpful to the French as the latter
hope for.
BRITAIN WITH WEAKER
Heaven alone knows how Great'
Britain will be aligned in the event’
of another world conflict.
’ The British historically are on the
side of the country or alliance op
posed to the globe’s strongest power
or group of powers. They were aainst
Spain when Spain seemed predlm
inant; against France when France
seemed predominant; against Russia
when Russia seemed predominant;
against Germany when the Kaiser
seemed to threaten. '
This policy is not from any sym
pathy with the “under dog’’; what
the British want Is to prevent any
country or set-up from becoming
periously powerful in comparison
with Britain.
If, in the coming clash, France
and Russia promise to lick Germany,
Britain can be gambled on to be pro-
German. If the decision appears l
likely to be pro-German, the odds.’
are that Britain will be pro-Franco-
Russian. Britain’s aim, In short. Is to'
help the weaker powers against the*
stronger powers: then, having trans
formed the weaker Into the stronger*
powers, to flop over, aiding the new-i
ly-wea.ker aianst the newly-stronger;i
and so on Indefinitely— always re
maining the king-pin In every com-j
bination.
IN THE PUZZLE ..
Italy enters into the puzzle, too.)
So does the United States.
So, also, do numerous smaller)
countries—too small and numerous,
as high school essayists express It,
to mention.
BANDITS STAB VICTIM * '
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 4 (TP) 1
—Edward Zipp was set upon by
brutal bandits today who stabbed
him 30 times and robbed him of i
S7B. The bandits got away. |
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By JAMES ASWELL
NEW YORK, April 4—Para,
graps in Asphalt: Young Milton
Berle is to me the swiftest and fun
niest of the comedians now practis
ing in the night places. He is a bi
zarre illustration of the Manhattan
success story.
City born and bred, Berle is the
eternal village cutup smarbaleck,
shovr-off, “card” of the high school
picnic. He never hestitated to ap
propriate any material in the acts
of other comics which pleased his
fancy. As master of ceremonies
he hugged the spotlight and monop
olized attention so that none of the
other entertainers was allowed a
chance to score.
Probably no professional funny
man of recent years has evoked
such violent detraction, yet he is
master of the rapid fire, insane
badinage of the Informal soiree. He
induces first, distaste, then nervous
giggles, finally explosive and almost
hysterical laughter.
He is undoubtedly the comer a.
mong the new crop of Pagliaccis.
At the Paradise, where he romps
currently, I have seen Eddie Cantor,
Ben Bernie, Lou Holtz and Bert
Lahr at a single performance, howl
ing at the Berle patter—even
though it bristled with the gags of
all those comedians, which he has
impudently pilfered and even made
sound funnier.
« * «
This reporter always gets a wry
wallop out of those contest ads of
fering large prizes for short essays
about some product. I mean the
ones which advise:
“Absolutely no literary ability re
quired. Simplicity, sincerity and
tenseness will win you this prize.”
As if those qualities weren’t the
warp and woof of all literary abil
ity!
• ♦ •
Time was when performers shied
away from violently unsympathet
ic stage and screen roles. They be
lieved that for long term success,
audiences must not despise the
characters they portrayed too bit
terly.
The adage would seem to be no
longer sound. I am thinking of
Florence McGee, the little Pretoria.
South Africa, girl who wowed
Broadway in “The Children’s Hour.”
as probably the most revoltingly
vengeful and unpleasant brat ever
conceived by a playwright. During
the run of the play, which is in
its second year, she has solidly en
trenched heself professionally. The
fans, despite the repellent charac.
ter which she depicts consummately
appear to react toward her person
ally with affection. Her fan mail
is enormous, the stage door auto
graph seekers a nightly problem.
Then, there is the case of Bette (
(pronounced Betty) Davis, newest
big name in filmdom. She won her
great acting plaudits with several
roles which most cinema darlings
would have cracked contracts to
escape. In one she went crazy real
istically in the middle of the pic
ture; in the other she was a world
ing of the most distressing and
n'eurotic weakness.
Indeed, although Miss Davis is
most expert at miming the hysterias
and emotional upsets which can be
set her sex, she is most popular
among women. Actually, she is an
extremely self-possessed and inci
sive young woman. She told me she
had never had hysterics in her life 1
and could not understand the ease <
with which she was able to simulate 1
them before the cameras.
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The readers of this newspaper 1
are Its greatest asset. They can t
make It an even greater success <
by patronizing Its advertisers. t
New Sleep -
Problems
Now Arise
Youngsters Wake Up Earlier
As Days Grow Longer
By GARRY C. MYERS. PH. D.
Head Department Parent Education
Cleveland College, Western
Reserve University
Many a child from three to ten
wakens with the morning light,
adually earlier, therefore, as thq
grow longer. And these same
children, even on the longest day
■ f the year, may not go to sleep
, uitil after it is dark. Not only is
rneir sleep unduly shortened, but
I the mother’s is also.
| Mothers who accept the usual ad
. vice of child experts on this prob
. lem, are, on that account, less like.
>ly to solve it. since they advise'
'■>et the child get up immediately
on waking.'*
As you have observed, I am out
t step with other writers every
now and then. Certainly I would
strongly disagree with this advice
On the contrary. I would urge par
ents to train their children to sleep
regularly to a definite, reasonable
hour each morning—but not expect
the child to sleep later on Sunday
or a holiday than any other day
Often too early waking in the
• morning in the young child grows
out of too early feeding time. This
period easily can be shifted. Some
times the child of two or three
awakens very early because he
wets or is disturbed by bladder
pressure. To take this child up
late at night, calling yourself with
a clock, might solve the problem—
hardly advisable if you cannot eas
ily go back to sleep.
' At an ? rate, let the child learn
that no amount of crying will cause
you to take him up in the morning
before a regular time or ringing
of the clock. As soon as this child
can climb, train him not to stand
up before you come for him He
will soon learn to remain down If
every time :. e gets up before the
permitted time, he receives several
lusty slaps with your bare flat
hand on his bare fat thighs. This
training, if well done, will take
only a few days, certainly not over
a week. X :
Go Back to Sleep - j
1 he learns that there Is no
possibility of getting up except to
imeet with instant pain, he will,
with the world so dull, go back to
'sleep. j
Os course, If there are excep
tions, doubts, arguments, It won’t 1
.work. And many parents will not
fbe able to make it work, lacking,
ithe stuff of character to devise a
program and follow it to the let
.ter. For them it will be wiser to
Igo on expecting the child to get
iup when he feels like it, and them
selves to have their own sleep
greatly shortened.
We easily ma ’e it work with our
children, and almost wtihout any
'punishment. Scores of other par
ents who have followed my advice
on this technique report to me it
i works. And see the difference it
i makes to them and their children.
For your many encouraging let
iters to me and the editor of this
paper about my column, I am grate
ful. And I like to get your prob,
lems and try to Leip you solve
them. Just write me when you feel
. like it, in care of this paper, en
closing a self-addressed, stamped
' envelope, and I will answer you
personally as soon u.s I am able.
■ pOLiTfcS'GAGGED ~
LAUREL, Miss., April 4 (TP
Folks in Laurel got tired of having
their mail boxes filled wit b . cam
paign literature. They also got tir
ed of sweeping electioneering fold
ers off their front porch. They sent
up loud complaints. Now the can
didates in the next election have
promised to issue no printed adver
tisements. The radio, and street
corner addresses, they say, will be
their electioneering mediums.
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J A PBYCHIE THAT FAILED
Sometimesa psychie call produces
1 surprisingly effective results. At
other times it makes its bidder ap
1 pear foolish. Such a bld with the
deal shown did neither of those
things. On the whole the bid was
well concevied, as will be seen.
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Bidding went: South, 1-Heart;
West. l.Spade (in case partner sup
ported spades West proposed shift
ing to no trumps, with possible
game prospects, if East had any
thing capable of winning a trick
or two. If opponents held divided
spade strength West’s call of the
suit might stave off game, I doub
led, West had a diamond call (in
reserve); North, 1-No Trump;
South, 2-Hearts; North, 2-No
Trumps; South, 3- Spades; North,
6-Spades. finally detecting the psy-j
chic; West, doubled.
The poneing lead was the K of
diamonds. Dummy’s Ace won. De
clarer started establishment of
hearts, by leading, dummy’s K. The
J of spades followed, and West was
in with his lone Ace. West return
ed the 10 of diamonds, as the bot
tom of his original sequence in that
suit. Declarer’s 8 of spades ruffled.
South’s K of spades picked up the
last opposing trump, still leaving
declarer with the Q of trumps.
Dummy discarded Its lowest club
on South’s Ace of hearts. The J
of hearts was covered with West’s
Q. Dummy ruffled. At the eighth
trick dummy’s last diamond was
led, and ruffled with declarer’s last
trump. The 10 of hearts was led.
On it dummy’s last low club was
discarded. The four remaining
trickJ belonged to the declaring
side, as dummy had three long
trumps and the olen Ace of clubs,
just giving South his small slam
contract. The opening lead of the
K of clubs would have defeated the
contract.
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South is declarer. Hearts are
trumps. Deolarere has 30 points to
ward game. The opening lead is
the Q of diamonds. South wins. He
leads the X of hearts and West is
in. The return lead is the J of
diamonds. Before tomorrow see
whether South can go game. The
famous Chicago player, Mr. Nils
M. Waster, was declarer.
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And So He Dropped
Two Scots were mountaineering
in Switzerland when one of them
slipped and fell i .to a crevasse. The
other, peering over the edge, saw
his companion holding on almost
by his fingernails.
“Are ye a’richt, Macpherson?**
. shouted the man in safety.
“Not exactly that,” said the other,
“but if ye run down to the village
an’ get a rope. I’ll try to hang on
here till ye come back. Hurry, for
heaven’s sake.”
His companion disappeared, and
was gone nearly an hour. Suddenly
his face appeared again over the
edge of the cliff.
“Are ye still there Macpherson?”
he called down.
“Aye,” in a low, weary tone.
| “Have ye got the rope?”
“No, indeed. The dirty dogs in
the village wanted 2 pounds for
it.”
All Os Us ' ;
By MARSHALL MASLIN
YOU’VE GOT AN EQUITY—Hand
Once upon a time, perhaps, you
bought a house . . . Paid a little
down every month, a tiny bit on
the principal, quite a chunk for in
terest on the loan . . . Sometimes
it seemed you’d NEVER get that
house paid for. What with taxes
and repairs and insurance and oth
er expenses, you didn’t seem to
own very much of it
But it WAS your house. You
could speak of it as My House.
You had an equity in it You were
not renting, you were owning . . .
Smart fellows could sit down with
a pencil and a piece of paper and
prove that it would have been
"cheaper to pay rent” ... But what
if they could? A man has a feeling
about his own house that he can’t
get from a stack of rent receipts.
Perhaps it IS depereciating in mar
ket value, perhaps he’ll never get
out of it what he’s paid into it, but
it HAS gained in value with the
years . . . Your equity has grown
and eventually you’ll own all that
home of yours.
Houses aren’t the only things you
can build up an equity in. Lives
are like houses.
When you’re young, you haven’t
much of an equity in your life. You
have been clever and ambitious,
.but your character hasn’t been ful
ly tried. You have friends, but you
have tested neither their friend
ship for you nor yours for them.
You haven’t lived with yourself
long enough to know lust what you
really are. Your equity is very
small. You may not even know you
have one.
But your equity grows. You suf
fer and you bear your grief. You
meet as many of those claims upon
you as you can. You find yourself
able to bear the more important of
Factographs
The ancient custom of wassailing
or toasting orchards by sprinkling
cider upon the largest trey is still
observed in some parts of England
and Germany. The ceremony wats
believed to cause the trees to ftoufr
ish and beax fruit. ? ,
• • •
A safe door just completed for a
European bank is believed to be the i
most impregnable yet produced. Itj
has 100,000,000 possible combina
tions, the locks being operated by
20 steel bolts, each five inches
thick —.
• • •
While no record is kept of the
number of colds occurring in the
United States, it is accepted that
they are more prevalent than any
other of the common disease.
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The i lunar rainbow, or
moon rainbow, is well known,
though not Very frequently seen,
owing to the relatively feeble.light
of the moon.
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A Texas oil well, readied after |
drilling to depth of 12,78(5 feet, is I
said to represent the deepest boring j
for oil in the world.
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It Is essential that white wine
vinegar be used to keep horseradish
white. Cider vinegar always dark,
ens it.
HOT TDDDY!"
EVANSVUJUEJ, Ind., April 4 (Tp)-U
—A democratic aspirant to -the sher
iffs office, Fred Clark, is opening
a “hot toddy” camoalgn. ' i
Clark say- he will serve steamin z.
hot toddies to voters between no\f
and the primaries. May 5.
“Hot toddies,” he said, “beat sane,
wiches an coffee when it comes tl
getting votes. I believe in giving th
peeople what they want.”-
your responsibilities. You test a fev
1 of your Opinions and prove tha?
i some of them are Truths . . . Ana*-
5 whenever you do that, or examine a
i Talent and prove it as a Power yoi
■ add to your equity.
1 That grows and you become a
t Man or a Woman. The bigger your
i Equity the stronger you grow, un
til at least even Death cannot take
' away what you have won from Life.
1 HAROLD LLOYD TO VISIT *
; HOME TOWN IN NEBRASKA
i BURCHARD, Neb., April 4 (TP)
[ —The 300 residents of Burchard
i are dressing up the village for the
. return of its most famous citizen —
i Harold Lloyd. • •
■ The film star sent word he In
tends to visit his birthplace next'
summer. So Burchard menfolks
promptly turned out and built a golf
course and tennis courts Then they
paved the main street.' Said one
today: “Bet a nickel Harold won’t
recognize the old town.” -<
PLAY PRODUCER FAILS
NEW YORK, April 4 (TP—Th*
play producer, Gilbert MiUer, sails
today for London to produce the
smash hit that’s runping qn Broad
way—“ Boy Meets Girl.” Miller, who
also has the courtroom drama,
“Libel,” running in New York, may
produce "Personal Appearance and
Petrified Forest,” two hits of the
past season.
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SAIILORS ICEBOUNDS i
CONNEAUT, Ohio, April 4 (TP*
—One hundred sailors on three lako
steamers are still icebound today ’,
three miles off Conneaut Some of
the great floes tower 20 feet high.
There is no hope that the ice will
break up within the next 14 hour*. ,