C.3.- \ I suppose it was inevitable - inevitable that there should hQve been an outbreak <l$i Fleming ton. An outbreak in the courtroom and something of the sort among the crowds outside. The crowds had come at such a rate, £he court room packed with such a suffocating jam} riotous holiday spirit mingled with half hysterical emotionalism!- 5n top of that^the Attorney General*s an relentless and impa^ioned demand all day long today, that Hauptmann be sent to the chair. These were factors likely to cause an emotional explosion. Oj ^ It came late this afternoon. Attorney General hilentz was blazing his picture of Kaux>tmann as a monster of crime and insistently calling for the death penalty. There was a sudden, vivid disturbance as a man arose in the stifling courtroom and shouted to the Judge, a man wearing a Roman collar, a priest apparently: tTYour Honor”, he cried, ”1 have some information about this case.” Instantly an alert deputy, Alvah Niper, seized him, clapped a hanu ever his mouth, and half smothered the rest of his statement. What he said never got to the ears of the jury. But here is vAiat it was:- ”ln my church somebody confessed to this crime.” : |; Lli^DBShGH - 2 tie was quickly hustled out of court, while the lawyers for both prosecution and defense crowded before the Judge, debating the strange interruption. Judge Trenchard oi'dered the court room cleared of the spectators,and the deputies and state police proceeded to drive the thronging mob out of the court room, down the stairs and out into the street. The interrupter turned out to be the Reverend Vincent Burns, Paster of a undenominational church at Palisades, New Jersey, a church not affiliated with any other religious body, either Catholic or Protestant, They say he is a brother of the man who wrote the book: nI am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang." He could have been held for contempt of court, but they did~nit bother. They merely hustled him ouh5 of town. The disturbance inside the court room was almost equalled by the disturbance outside. All day long cars and busses from many miles away brought hosts of people to Flemington, They milled around in front of the courthouse, a surging, shouting, laughing mob. They tried to burst their way in. The doors of the court house had to be barred to keep them from being forced open. T T _t _ ”7 ^ ^ Vihen vhe jurors emerged, trie crowd swooped down on them, fhe state troopers had a battle on their hands, before they could 'OlOO» the way. -ney were finally able to beat back the mob. and in front of the courthouse. *'-nd to finisn it -off, soaebody tried to take a punch at one of cat assistants to the attorney -cntral. It happened aftc, court nau a-d^ouraed. hr. Peacock tf the prosecution staff was pushing his .;.a, through the mixing throng then a nan attacked nip, tried to nit nix. Ihe assailant fas flattene-a by one of the deputy sheriffs -no janceu nix in the pit of the stomach tith an si bo,- and annexed the c lad out of nix. o LINDBERGH The day long attack of Attorney General WiLentz was a blistering performance* The prosecutor was having his Mg day. Xet it began with that honeyed courtesy that often opening sweetens the^ajBin±H^ of a lawyer*s address. Defense Attorney Reilly in his surnma t i on^ pai(Pc ompliments to his rival* But Wilentz ott-trlvaled Reilly — so much so that he got a laugh. "Not even in five thousand years of experience,»» he declaimed, "could I even approach that masterly | bm £ performance of Mr* Peilly yesterday." Then he added a finishing touch of flattery by describing Mr* Reilly in ttoxxxx these terms: "He*g a most imposing fellow,u cooed the prosecutor, "a good: looking fellow*" q Hot even the best friends of Edward 1. Reilly would claim a prize beauty for him. His majestic qualities are those of a A A paunch, a jowl and double chine, as is the case with many of us. But wha* the sugar of politeness was ov^r, Wilentz launched into a vitriolic denunciativn rhlch did not spare those scand al shining merits of Attorney Reilly- "It’s a x*xx*Zx^ and an outrage," shouted r.ilentz, "that conns el should be sole to LDTD BERG H - 2 assassinate the character of honorable people.’’ And that, of course, has reference to the way Reilly has been smearing prosecution witnesses all over the place. The keynote of the prosecutor’s speech was summed up in a phrase of Wilentz when he called Hauptmann wPublic-Enemy- Number-One-of-the-worid .He pictured the Bronx Carpenter in sinister terms: "You can see him when he comes into this court, walking like a panther.w However, Hauptmann may walk naturally; when he comes into the courtroom he does have to worm and sidle through the crowd. He struck an exceedingly contrasting note when he referred to Jafsie, whom Reilly had virtually skinned alive. Wilentz described the vociferous doctor as "sweet as sugar and pure as snow." He gave a new and darker picture of the crime. LINDBEKGH - 3 when he attacked the defense argument Iki that the child didn’t cry out v/hen Kidnapped and hence must have been taken by servants in the house. "If the kidnaper was a stranger, why didnH the child cry out?" V/ilentz demanded. "Because he crushed the life out of the the child in that very room. -Right in tk its crib, the little si voice was stilled forever." That doesn’t jibe with the common prosecution notion that the baby was killed when fell from the ladder. A The Attorney General was more dramatic today than the Defense Attorney was yesterday. He gesticulated more. He pounded, the table more. He employed a bit of forensic acting when he came to the defense claim thatHauptmann was framed. "Schwarzkopf, stand up," cried wilentz. And the head of the State troopers in charge of the case against Hauptmann, itrose. *5ov look at him," tiler. tz called to the jury, "there re stands, an honorable san, a graduate of the unitec States Military Ao&desy. He has German blood in aim* hoes re look like a man who would deliberately frame Hauptmann?” The prosecution*s deniluKi tfaahould K A be sent to the electric chair ended with a dramatic plea to the jury —- to be firm* nBe strong,n cried the Attorney General to the fcelve ms men and women who will decide Hauptmann1 s fate. The judge will charge the jury on points of law tomorrow morning* And then those twelve men and women will retire — to decide Hauptmann1s fate. P//?A^r /-, /??ST X—4-* ^ ZEKE MEYER £ I aa rather dizzy with the idea of speed tonight, peculiai ities of speed, irealcs of rapid motion. Meaning, that I have been talking with lieke Meyer whofs sitting here. Zeke is the veteran automobile racer who took care of the automobile side of that spectacular flight in which for the first time in history an airplane soared aloft, carrying a motor car slung ferontiear beneath it. His job was, from a mile high, to climb down through a trap door into the front seat of the Ford roadster, and start the engine of the car while the observation plane flew alongside to check the quick starting Blue Sunoco under those rigorous conditions, winter weather, high altitude and rushing airplane speed. I * ve been talking to Zeke-, and his experience was truly a record-breaker - and a curious one. He has been an automobile racer for nineteen years, one of tjie regular winners of prize money at the Indianapolis classic, but he had never been up in an airplane before - until he was engaged to make the Blue Bunco test in that airplane-automobile experimental flight just completed. 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' nix mr- nmr rmnrr .’ --■--- -—x - in. — misni me : isec m spin <— me mr aarmimi. xoa emm anan—1%. isimanm — ricni-ip .n: me TZ3c.cn n x vexmiLiC - '* lC -3- sti Jpeaze ;.'rx -:a:_ip, Jienar. ABYSSINIA behind the Imposing facade of the Italian-Abyssini an row, it is apparent tkat the Emperor Haile Selassie is in a touch spot, — however you say that in Abyssinian* The King of Kings and Lion of Judah has not only the frowning Black Shirt Dictator in Rome to contend with, but also his own tribal Ethiopian chieftains in their lion skins* And they are frowning too* One angle of the trouble along the border of Abyssinia and the Italian-African colonies has been -- the turbulant semi- independance of the Abyssinian tribes. The fighting between the Italian troops and the Abyssinian is explained in part by the fact that the dusky tribes have a way of going on the rampage whether the King of Kings says so or not. But it goes further than that. The Emperor in the barbaric capital of Addis Ababa has the most difficult sort of problem in the belligerant temper of his warlike nobles, powerful chiefs and tribes. He, having traveled in Europe and in this country too, knows something ABY3S DU A - 2 about modern armies anrt meohanizedi warfare, which the chiefs of the tribes do not. They haven't much idea of machine guns, motorized artillery, armoured tanks and bombing p.Vsnes. They just don’t know what they're up against. The hot-headed warriors merely recall that their fathers wiped out an Italian experti^onary force forty years ago. So why not rtQ it again? The report is that the Council of great nobles that surround Haile Selassie has been clamoring for war. Weeks age, at the very outset of the border troubles, they urged the King of Kings to declare war at once. But the Lion of Judah knew better. He's holding back from a clash, and by doing so he's risking the contempt and hostility of the great nobles of his semi-feudal domain. So the King who rules on the throne of the tyieen of Sheba is confronted with two thorny problems:- ABYSSINIA - 5 Can he restrain the tribal chiefs from making local attacks, going on the warpath against the Italians, raiding and sniping? 1^* he can* t, it will certainly provoke war. And moreover, can he, while trying for peace, retain-the support of his warlike nobles, who will look upon a peace-policy with scorn and indignation? Belle Selassie is massing hosts of his own warriors on the troubled frontier, while the mobilization is on In Italy. i Iff I III ;f However if perfectly apparent that Mussolini means business. He is m presenting iron-clad demands — that the Abyssinians must I I guarantee peace along the border, that they must pay an indemnity for the Italian troops killed. That they must make a formal i I! diplomatic apology, must xatinzs salute the Italian flag, and i must agree to accept the decision of a mixed Italian and Abyssinian commission, which will settle the dispute concerning the boundary. It is exceedingly significant that Balbo is called to the Home. As Governor General of^North African province of Lybia, he has been outside ex the bright circle of limelight. ABYSSINIA - 4 But now he steps hack into the highly illuminated picture. becoming a member of the war council at Rome and summoned to confer with the Duce. It is believed that if a war develops, Balbo will command the Italian forces. Mussolini^'is aware of the advantages in this. Bai^o, by his great mass flight across the Atlantic and back, made himself a glamorous figure for all the world. And he would lend regard and sympathy 11 if] to an Italian expedition into the dim fantastic land of Ethiopia, The title borne by the gre t nobles and war leaders of ! U the King of Kings is — Has. That's a familiar word in cross word puzzles. It may become familiar in the news, with many an Ethiopian Has, clad gorgeously in a lion skin, leading his horde III against ill ......... LINCOLN While the whole country celebrated the Birthday of the Martyred President, Abraham Lincoln, let’s see how two particular citizens observed it - the President of the United States and the only living Ex-President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, At the White House the President turned down all appoint­ ments, except one. He received William Henry Gilbert of York, Pennsylvania - a ninety-thref year old Civil War veteran. He is the only surviving member of the group of the guard that stood watch over Lincoln's bier in Philadelphia, while the funeral cortege of the martyred Emancipator was on its way to the Lincoln home at Springfield, Illinois. ifi m Hi U hqovbr Herbert Hoover ia taking today^s observance as the occasion for his first appearance at a microphone since he left the White House, he will make an address at the Lincoln Day Dinner of the National Republican Club, at the Waldorf in New York tonight. His speech will be broadcast, the voice of Herbert Hoover heard once again, throughout the land! And the voice of this particular speech maker will not be heard throughout the land any more tonight. And, SOLONG UNTIL TOMORROW. 1 1 1 il li !ii I I I mi mi ii^!