L. T. - JUl.QCO - TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 1935 LDIH3BBGH GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY: And a special salute to you Senator Rogers, Gentlemen of the Pennsylvania Legislature - and our hosts. My first news item tonight is from New Jersey. The weho of testimony in the Hauptmann case today focuses around one statement that was made, an outright declaration be defense attorney Reilly. Everybody has known the final strategy of the defense would be to push all the blame over on to the dead man Eisch, Hitherto this has been merely implied, most plainly implied, in the testimony of various defense witnesses. But today, Reilly, while questioning a witness, stated the defense position outright in so many words. Today’s witnesses can be divided into two groups: those that talked about Pisch, and those that did not. fj;#( Sheet Xv;o. J1 I i IilQd.herah# %uest-witneEsr■ 4®#eneQ srtlrorney^hei3rh^-—. th&t t'ght -oif-feis j e vegffft&lhg»* <m i/ofe# Bertha Hoff, another of the housewife type of witnesa, told the story of how in nineteen thirty pne she had spent a vacation on a farm a few miles from Hopewell, a farm owned hy a man named Budreaiu Two years later, in nineteen thirty three, this man Budreau called on her at her home in Bays id©, Longlsland, in company of a man whom she identified as Isidor Fisch* Hisoh had some bundles, which he wanted to leave with her* This latter part of her story was complicated by a wrangle between counsel, and before she had time to finish, the witness was temporarily excused from the witness stand* The bundles of course tie in with the shoe box of ransom money which aauptmann claims i'isch left in Ms care* more-505p LIflPBEHGH - 3 The little furrier who went home to Germany to die must have been trying hard to leave packages of cash here, there and the next place. That is the inference. A glow of romance appeared in the court proceedings while Benjamin Heier, a young restaurant cashier took the witness stand. He testified that on the night of the ransom payment he saw a man jump over a gate or a wall at the St. Raymond's Cemetery where the ransom money was paid . He identified the mac *■ as Isidor Pisch, The question of how the witness happened to be near the cemetery brought forward the element of romance. He was sitting in a parked car with a young lady. Since then she married and died. He didn't want to tell who she was. He tried to keep it secret in the face of the cross examiners hammering questions, Finally he told the girl's name. It was Schwartz. This testimony placing Fisch at the scene of the ransom payment was rather vague. The witness said the man jumping over the wall landed right in front of his car. But he was none too positive in his identificat­ ion of Fisch. This testimony came late in the day, and then followed 0 , ahtet? giTC» Jjlnd^erab.# - y. the last witnesa—a steaiuahip agent* It was he who sold Isidor ij’isoli the ticket for the furriera return to Germany, SJhere was only one logical point, the descrip­ tion of jj’iach as a sick looking man, with a violent cough* It is known that the furrier died of tuberculosis* The defense brought forth the testimony about tii^oough, to connect it with Jafsie^ statement that the mysterious John to whom he gave the Jilndbergh money also had a bad oough* ik statement made earlier in the day declared that there had been a gang of three men in the fttSaymonds cemetery on the ransom night* This was told by the first witness of the morning, who was also the funniest* He was fhillip Moses, a little man with a. big voice, which he loves to use* He is also a man of many occupations* He said he had driven a taxi, operated a news stand, and worked as a runner in Jail Street* He has also been a more-5£lp LINDBERGH - 5 farmer, a song writer, an amateur dancer, an amateur actor, a motor truck driver, a radio broadcaster, and an imitator of Will Rogers - and probably prouder of being a truck driver than anything else. He proceeded to prove it all on the witness stand by giving an imitation of Will Rogers. After all of those interesting occupations he now has none. He's one of the jobless, unless you consider being the star witness at Rlemington as a job. Witness Moses seems to have been around Flemington basking in glory. The Attorney General in his cross examination brought forward evidence that Mr. Moses had been signing his autograph, and had signed him­ self with this comment; "I am the star witness'1. Attorney General Wilentz had rather a good time trying to make the witness appear something of a clown. And that vx took away some of the seriousness of the testimony that on the night of the ransom payment Moses, then in the taxi driver stage of his existence, had Aiinci~bexght - ^ driven tliree men to the cemetery, where they were joined hy a fourth. This waa brought up to support the defense content­ ion that the kidnapping was the work, not of one man, but of a gang. The remainder of the days testimony backed up var­ ious aspects of Hauptmanns story. Several witnesses, in­ cluding mrs. Hauptmanns niece, a pre-possesing brunette, , > corroborated Hauptmanns version of the party at which ffisoh gave him the shoe boot full of money. Other angle# of tea-tdaiony •were--:tnrou^it--ia to disprove tho statement of- prose cut ion~w-itt^eeseB-that Hagptmffjm^aina~ n i g —bill at the Greenwicih Village thea-taee» Court proceedings ended early when defense attorney Reilly ran out of witnesses, as he had done on previous days. The Judge spoke words of reproof. In answer they LIMP BERGH - 7 Blamed todays snowfall. The weathex- was cited as the reason for the non appearance of witnesses from here and there. SOPHIE DAWES Here's a story for gentlemen onlj/. All ladies tune out. It's about a dame named Sophie. Tbis is a good item for a men's banquet! An old evil story of bygone days is revealed in London It tells us of a wicked beauty of a hundred years ago, who with the connivance of a King, murdered a Royal Prince of Prance. Her name was Sophie Dawes, and her origins were shouded in meanness and shame. Her fortunes changed when she attracted the attention of two men of the most exalted rank. One was the Duke of Kent of the Royal House of Great Britain, The Duke was the father of Queen Victoria, The other man was of the Royal blood of France, the Duke of Bourbon, who later became Prince Conde. One of the stories is that the two noblemen decided Sophie's destiny with a gamble -- to seed a coin for her. The Frenchman won. And so it was that Sophie Dawes became a glittering figure in Paris, under the protection of the Prince of Conde, #5,atieet 'Pwo aopxxie Ilie revelation of the sinister climax comes in a a hooi: just published in .London-the scandal of Sophie it Dawes* There was a revolution in Paris, the King fled* -JZ-S- A new King was crowned, Louis Phillipe, The Prince of Conde was a powerful adherent of the exiled King, and Louis Phillips was afraid of him* Sophie knew that the Prince of Conde was planning to leave Prance, and she informed the King* It is revealed in old letters that the King wrote to Sophie, telling her that the Prince must be prevented from escaping abroad, no matter what means had to be used. The prince had made a will leaving Sophie eight million dollars* The end comes with criminal logic* The Prince of Conde was found murdered* It was a matter of some surprise in that distant day why Sophie Dawes was never prosecuted for the crime* The Kings letters now make that quite clear. Sophie got tne eight million doj-lars left her by more-4£3p $ 6 t 3 neet Tiire© aoplxie I*uwe a ♦ tiie Prince and lived the reat of her life in England ta wealthy woman. Just another one of thoa© pa^zles of the dim past. oome to light and finally explained in this late day# In W&siiington the guesses ahoat Gold are more complicated tlian ever. Alter the dopesters have been racking their brains, trying to figure out what the decision of the Supreme Court will be, they are now confronted with a further problem. nWhen?,,• 7/hen will the High Justices hand down their verdict?* There may be all sorts of dynamite in the selection of the precise day* It has been rumored strongly that the Stock: iSxchanges might close on the day of the decision, because of tne fear that if the Supreme Court were to knock: out the Government Gold Policy, it might start a sudden wild flare in the market, something of a panic* The NewYork Stock Excnange officials have been qufetly but most seriously discussing this angle among themselves* The "Wall Street Jonamal" tells us that in well informed financial circles the word has gone around that the Stock Excnange Governors do not favor closing on that more— &oSp i “'Tf 11 GOLD - 2 Gold decision day. They helieve the trading market should remain open, no matter what the excitement of the Gold verdict might be. In Chicago though, the Mercantile Exchange feels that it should close all day, or at least part. These reasonings of course are based on the supposition that there will be advance word of the fateful day when the nine lonely men in Washington will speak their words, A Saturday decision, especially if not announced too early in the morning would not give time for any extravagant stock exchange flurry. Instead, it would allow a day and a half, until Monday, during which time the financial world would have lesiure to digest the news. Moreover, that week-end Saturday afternoon and Sunday would give the administration and Congress time to draft swift legislation to meet a decision against the Gold policy, Thatfs the way the dope is running, but I would like to point out that all these notions of precaution and of ^safety- first" would not have so much point, unless the Supreme Court were to turn thumbs down on the Government’s way with Gold, With GOLD - 3 a decision upholding the adrniniatration, there would not be much chance of violent ructions. It makes a nice logical problem, figure it out for yourselves. L. T. : I wonder if there are any of us here who can figure it out? VOICES; Noi L. f. ; The answer seems to be "no”, so let1 s move along to something less complicated. frliaiiMMjiiMMgiiii FOREIGN GOLD But, by the way, the Gold excitement is by no means limited to this country. In foreign nations, Canada in particular, holders of Uncle Sam1® bonds are waiting to see xit whether there is any chance of their being paid according to the full gold value of the one hundred cent dollar instead of the fifty nine cent revalued unit. And foreign law tribunals are waiting too! That lofty British Court, the House of Lords, - the Peers - recently handed down a decision in a case in which Belgian Electric Company bonds are tangled up with the Roosevelt Gold Policy. An appeal is ready to do to his Majesty’s privy Council, but that’s b ;ing held up -- until the Supreme Court in Washington decides —---------- —------------------ — Grivas Politicians in V/ashington are wondering how mticGa of a following Garter Glass can take along with him in a battle with the administration* The Virginia Senator, with his salty wit and peppery temper, seems to be groom­ ing himself for a bitter fight against the policies of the White House, He has been in opposition all along-that’s well known* And now tne most scarlet kin|jl of red flag is waving, to make Carter Glass angry* There are reasons of principle, and there is that personal angle which stings more sharply than any broad theory of the mind* In principle, Senator Glass- is opposed to the concentration in Washington of power over the nations credit* He believes that if the Federal Reserve Systems with the twelve regional centers, were unified by means of some sort of central controlling bank in 'Washington, why then the government would exercise a virtual #lf3neet ^vo Glaas* diotatorajaip over credit. Naturally, Carter Glass, lias a peculiar personal interest in federal Reserve affairs, he himself is the A, oreator of the system* He was the guiding financial mind wno in tne Wilson administration put across that m % then drastic reform on hanking* So naturally the Virginia senator feels as if the Federal Reserve system were his own child, Anything affecting it comes close He says he was promised a look at the new federal Reserve legislation, the laws that will alter and amend his brain cnild, Rut somebody forgot. Me hasnt been shown. Senator kletcher and Representative Steagall, in charge of Committees preparing new legislation, went right ahead Pltins for tiie centralization o± the -Federal Heserve ciyatem in .Yaaiiington have been in process of completion he hasnt been given a looJc in He^ a statesman with a hot head and a rasping . - 0