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Ladder Picture
In Bruno’s Book
Rural Sections Tense
a window and a ladder—such as the articles which figured
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Court Ruling
On ‘New Deal’
Bruno Fights
For Life Like
Bull in Arena
No Bronze Plate Will
Advertise Atoka Prison
Sketch of Window Also Is Revealed in His
Account Record as State Springs New
Sensation; Bruno Admits Wife Not
Told About Ransom Money.
Testimony
In Detail
Sheriff Is Put
Unde r Rule Of
Huey’s Guards
Militia Seizes Control Over
East Baton Rouge Office,
'Death Plot' Center.
Retreat Impossible, Tired
Defendant Perries Quick
Thrusts of Prosecutor.
Citizens’ League
Picks V. V. Harris
As Its President
More Than 450 Enroll
At City's University
Independent Gardens
Are Planned by FERA
Parishes North of Louisiana
Capital Await Action
• After Armed Clash.
New Assistant Never Saw
Inside Prison, But He's
Eager About Job.
Enrolment at Oklahoma City Uni-
vanity. excluslve at downtown and
THREE—]House defeated etforts
for publie hearings for both bilis.
8EVEN—A pari-mutuel horse rac-
ing MU was tntroduced in the house.
H* wu no sooner seated than he
was engaged in a sober conrerence
with Pisher. A few minutes later he
ant
Dr/endMFf Wife is
Smiling During Chet
at the to
argument
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Key Chooses
Track Man As
Chief Deputy
SIX—Marland turned down the
Democratic central committee's list
of nominees for chairman at the
state election board.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28,—(R-
Mn Franklin D. Roosevelt announced
Monday she-wi give another serles
at commercial broadcasts starting
February 11, her topic belg "Women
of Today."
As in the previous broadcast, Mrs.
Roosevelt mid the money will be paid,
not to her, but directly to the friends'
service committee to be used on edu-
cational projects and for "things to
put communities on their feet"
Mrs Roosevelt wili receive $3,000
each for ten broadcasta.
General Key Accepts Post As Warden at State
Prison; Governors Request for Advisory
Opinion on Constitutionality Of
Program is Unprecedented.
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there might be an
bat it haan‛ a leg
PIVE-The governor released up-
to-date estimates on the state debt,
showing that Oklahoma will be in
the hole at least $21,000,000 by June
30, .
mine whether it can take jurladiction
in such cases.
house revenue and taxation com-
mittee for passage at the 1 percent
luxury stamp tax bill and a 3-cent
cigaret tax bill. Permitting no one
to leave the floor. house starts con-
sideration, obviously trying to rush
measures through Monday.
Too Wise To Marry, a novel of divorce, begins on
Page 10.
What the A. T. & T., the world’s largest corporation,
means to you. First of a series. Page 6.
There's more than relief in the presidents jobs-tor-an plan. ...
Hays-White House alliance? Merry-go-round. Page 4.
The presidents birthday party. Page 9.
Schools must elose early unless Uncle Sam helpa. Page IL
Picture news by wirephoto. Face 1C
Mrs. Roosevelt Will
Resume Broadcasting
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Baby Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., for whose murder Haupt-
mann is being tried, was stolen on March 1, 1932, from ths
crib of his nursery in Hopewell, N. J. The state charges he
was carried out the window and down a ladder which broke
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck, of
the state’s staff who was not present
in court Friday because of a severe
cold. was on hard.
Members of the defense staff. C
bergh jr.—went into evidence against Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann Monday as a prosecutor subjected him to a withering
fire of cross-questioning. The surprise was a sensation.
The accused man also admitted that he withheld from
his wife his “discovery” that a box which he said the dead
Isador Fisch gave him contained $14,600 in Lindbergh ran-
som gold certificates.
supreme courts give such advisory de-
etalons to governors and leglalatures
when requested.
BILOXI, Jan. 28.
—(P—James Mehaffey,
vice-president of the Square
Deal association of Louisi-
ana, who was arrested on
the postoffice building steps
Sunday in Baton Rouge and
questioned under Huey
Long’s martial law there,
said here Monday that he
would go to Washington
Monday night to seek an
audience with President
Roosevelt
Groups Rush Signers
For New Courthouse
Members.of the Ctvto Center cen.
tral committee were asststing the
county bar aasoclation and county
commtssioners Monday to obtaining
signatures to petitions asking for a
vote on the proposal for a new court-
bouse and jail
Final push for signatures must be
completed by Friday in order to per-
mit the election, according to Aw
Gilliland, president at the county bar
association. Approximately 4.000 sig-
natures have been obtained and 4,000
more are needed.
FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 28—(P)—Bruno Richard
Hauptmann admitted Monday under cross-examination
that he did not know Isador Fisch before the Lindbergh
baby was kidnaved. The admission virtually absolved
Fisch, now dead, of defense implications that he might
have copied Hauptmann’s writing in the ransom notea.
FLEMINGTFSN"N: " Arteta. of
Roy "Wash" Kenny
Track coach to deputy warden.
The state board of affairs decided
Monday that the Atoka sub-prion
needs no expensive plate of bronze to
advise visitors what the place to.
Board members rejected a bid of
$297 to provide such a piste for the
penal institutlon which stin is un-
finished although more than 5500,000
has been spent.
When .the new board first took of-
fice work was ordered halted until the
new members make a trip of inspec-
ton, •
to stand on m it to.
Aviation to an infant industry. It
to in the development stags. Okla-
homa should be one of the states to do
the moat to encourage flying, Instead
of standing in the first rank of the
states which levy the highest team
upon it
* Wb should like to am aviation gaso-
IBM exempted.
A—Hot every item.
Q—You kept the money your wife
earned, the money you earned, the
money people owed you?
A—Yes.
Q-And at the end of the year you
figured up what you and your wife
were worth?
A—Yes.
Q—You've always been very careful
about figures’
A—Well, Iu say so.
Q-You've always been very careful
about money?
A—Yea. •
Q-You were trying to accumulate
money for your family right up to
A—Yea.
Q—When you put the figures in the
book, they were correct—truthful fig-
ures?
Some Figures Hidden
Out From Hit Wife
t A—Them figures are true but I toft
some of them out of it.
Q—Whatever the figures are in the
book, that is honest and true?
Q—You don't want to change that.
Mr. Hauptmann?
A—I saved money besides, and my
wife should not know
Q—Oh, you were hiding it on your
wile?
Pisher objected.
Lindbergh, seated directly in front
of the witness behind the state's table,
looked carefully at the accused man.
WUents's voice had raised gradually
recorded in a book to hta own ba
SSL? m
and recelvins a anawer, 1
E0V6 MKM
“when to the Drat time xou i
FOUR—Goveror Mariand said
nominations for membership on the
state board of education probably
will be tom to the senate durins tho
Street and Draper funeral attend-
ants will take her body to Poster for
burial. Services will be at 3 p. m.
Tuesday.
Leading up the sketches, Attorney Genreal David T.
Wilentz asked Hauptmann:
“Didn’t you stop keeping accounts within two weeks of
the birth of the Lindbergh child, and didn’t start again until
a couple of months after the ransom money was paid?”
“I even didn’t know the Lindbergh child was born,
Hauptmann replied.
“But this is the fact about the dates. Isn’t It—July, 1980
to August, 1982, you kept no acounts that’s true, isn’t itr
I can t remember the day when I stopped.’’
Hauptmann Denies He Put Sketches
In Book; Parries Prosecutors Questions
Wilentz brought up Hauptmann’s notebook.
“There are some drawings there,” he said. “Are they
yours?”
“No, they are not mine.”
“How about the picture of that window—that isn’t yours,
the drawing of that window?”
“That should be a window? Hauptmann asked, looking.
“Well, what is it?"
“I don’t know.”
“Isn’t that a ledge, there?”
“I even can’t make out what it is.”
“But can you make out the ladder there with the dowel
pin?"
“What is that?” Hauptmann queried.
“Doesn’t that look like a ladderF
“Does it,” the prisoner parried.
“It doesn’t look like—”
“What is it? a book, a picture, a bookshelf, or what?
“I don’t know what it is.”
Mother of Dr. Morgan
Is Claimed by Death
Mrs J. B Morgan, 740 Northenst
Thirteenth street, mother of Dr.
Vance F. Morgan, interne at Univer-
sity hospital, died early Monday at
her home after a month’s hi™— She
was 62 years old.
Mrs. Morgan had lived to Oklahoma
City four yean. coming here from
Paula Valley. She was a member of
the Eastern Star.
Withering Examination By
State Makes Bruno
Misspell Again.
FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan.
28.—(P)— With mixed confi-
dence and defiance Bruno
Richard Hauptmann confront-
ed Attorney General David T.
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semester began regular sessions. New
students are expected to reglater all
week. .
The semester’s enrolment compares
"very favorably” with registration for
the same period last year. Dean T A.
Willlams at the Iberal arts school
declared.
Two new courses are the family by
Prof. H L Hoyd, and one to teach-
in* of Jmu by Prof. W. H. HUI
Final Home
Besides the son, she is survived by L--,------—.
three daughters, Mrs. H. R. Cummins, counts, you kept every item?
Overton, Texas; Mrs W. O. Coleman, ‘ ----------
Greenwood, 8 C., and Mrs W. R.
Wiley, Foster, and four other sons.
Claude W., Percy and H. O. Morgan,
all at Oklahoma City, and R. L
Morgan. Shawnee.
during the questioning, untilit
paerKEEL.TOHAUPTMANN
not BIT TEMTEKATURES
I „inihe
guardsmen Monday - took
charge of the 'East Baton
Rouge sheriffs office.
A militia lieutenant and a corporal
visited the office of Sheriff Robert L
Pettit, whom Senator Huey P. Long
has sought to deprive by legislative
act and supreme court writ of the
right to name his own deputies, unless
with the senator's approval, and as-
sumed physical possession of it after
a conference with the sheritt.
The guardsmen found the door of
the sheriff's office locked. Petit ap-
peared and the guard lieutenant said
he wished to inspect the office arms
and ammunition, the sheriff turned
over everything including ths of-
floe safe for the inspection. Guns and
ammunition were examined and the
lieutenant left. leaving the corporal in
charge
Although the militiamen took phy-
steal possession of the sheiirrs de-
partment, Pettit was told by the so-
diersthat he could conduct the office
routine as usual. The guardamen how-
ever, demanded complete records and
names at everyone ha might arrest,
place in jail or release from jail.
The East Baton Rouge sheritrs ot-
ftee was named by Senator Long Sat-
urday in the senator's "court inquiry"
in what he said was a plot to "mur-
der" him.
Long tried to show by testimony of
The Luxury Tax
A/ proposed Monday is the
house, a Marland revenue
raising Hl would place a 5
percent tax on:
All cosmetics, patent medi-
cines, toilet preparations,
razor blades, tooth pastes,
hair restorers, petroleum jelly,
perfume, hair oil. powder,
mouth washes, cough drops,
medical syrups.
It would exempt:
Hain bath soap, theater
tickets, radios, musical instru-
ments, chewing gum, candy.
Jan. 28.—(P•State national examination in the Lindbergh
• -- - kidnaping case.
Other developments at the state- E
house Monday as the legislature ;
swung into its fourth week,were:
ONE—Appointment at Brig. Gen. O
W. a Key. former warder, as war- t
den of the state penitentiary at Me- B
Alester.
Warmer Weather Seen
For Oklahoma Tuesday
Increasingly warm weather was
forecast for Oklahoma through Tues-
day by Harry Wahigren, federal
weatherman, Monday.
Although Monday'e fog will lift dur-
ing the day and skles will be generally
clear Monday night, partly cloudy
conditions win return Tnreday. No
precipitation is expected.
A minimum of between M and 40
degrees is expected early Tuesday,
compared with the low at 28 degrees
early Monday. The week-end's sub-
treezing weather was caused by a high
pressure area that dipped into the
state unexpectedly.
Hauptmann denied the drawings in the book were his.
Hauptmann was still on the stand when the noon recess
. was taken.
Governor Marland revealed Monday he is drafting a re-
quest to the state supreme court asking an advisory opinion
on the constitutionality of his new deal recovery program.
The governor’s action, unprecedented in this state, was
disclosed by the chief executive at noon. He said he also
plans to request the attorney general, Mac Q. Williamson,
for a legal opinion of the constitutionality of powers pro-
posed for the three new state boards to carry out the huge
housing, subsistence homestead, flood control, and new
industries projects embraced in new deal legislation now
pending before the lawmakers.
It is the first time in the history of Oklahoma that a
governor has asked for an advisory opinion.
EIGHTEEN PAGES-OKLAHOMA CITY, MONDAY, JANUARY 2I» UK " PRiCE, THREE CENT1"
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State Produces
HLEMINGTON, N J. Jan 28.-()
I —A jammed courtroom watched
Bruno Richard Hauptmann fighting
Monday to save himself from guilty
admission in the Lindbergh kidnap-
slaying.
Colorless but apparently unafraid
he slouched in the witness chair and
faced Attorney General David T.
Wilentz, in cross-examination.
He gave no heed to the crowd, yet
he must have left its grins and titters
as Wilentz scored one point after sn-
ot her.
He grinned himself once or twice,
but when the smile passed, his face
again seemed lifelesa. He slipped his
foot around the leg of the chair and
sat there awkwardly, waiting. waiting.
The crowd waited. too. and there
was the feeling sensitive spectators
have at a bull fight, weighing the
odds against the animal watching
the skillful thrusts of the picador.
There was something implacable to
the way Wilentz approached him. He
came at the defendant with a ques-
tion or two, retired and drew close
again And because Hauptmann
seemed to show little fear it all be-
came more terrible to contemplate
He could not retreat. He sat alone
in hta chair, the evidence piling up
against him. hta prosecutors cool,
alert
Mrs. Hauptmann watched anxious-
ly, her pale face marked with grtaf.
a sad. unpretty face she, too. seemed
alone in that assembly of mink coats
and bright, cheerful faces.
The PERA wi have gardens in
every county this spring, but they will
be made independently as PERA proj-
ects and not tn partnership with local
agencles, John ddleman, administra-
tor, said Monday.
A request of the Oklahoma City
Community Fund for labor and seed
for a JOO-acre plot was dented, he said,
for the reason that the FERA would
not get the output
Mariand soM mmany other states 1, 1.
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wAth“deiitnKatonoanaantherewnoka and caused his death.
HRIENDB of aviation are making an
I organised effort to get the Okla-
homa law taxing aviation gasoline
knocked out We support this move-
ment with our small voice.
Airlines eroasing Oklahoma use
more than 131,000 gallons of fuel
annually. Lore than 10,000 gallons to
sold interstate airlines in klahoma.
They simply buy gasoline in emergen-
etas because the states bordering
Oklahoma make no tax on avlation
gasoline and it is easy for tot Mg
ships to so handle their fuel load that
thry^need not spend extra money in
The state has done nothing for avi-
ation. There to no good reason why
a heavy tax should be levied on avi-
ation gasoline. If the income from
this source went to the development
Lloyd Pisher rind Egbert Rosecrans,
arrived s mmorrent before the defend-
Wilentz Monday as the state in the abduction and murder of Baby Charles A. Lind-
renewed its pounding cross- h—| * *" - “ . _ i
fine arts schotaa. pamed the 4M tnark The Weather
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89 Directors Named; To Hire
Secretary-Manager.
(Pletare en Page 1)
Perfecting a permanent organisa-
tion for the promotion of good gov-
ernment, the Citizens' league Monday
elected V. V. Harris. attorney, presi-
dent of the organization after a board
of 39 directon was chosen.
Other officers named included J. R.
Keaton and Theo Green, vice-presi-
dents, and L D Lacy of the Morris
Plan bank, treasurer.
Robert B. Hedberg was chosen ex-
ecutive secretary. He will open of-
floes immediately.
An immediate campaign tar mem-
bership in the league was urged by
members of the board. The secretary-
manager and the executive committee
will have charge of the membership
drive. Memberships will be lasued
upon payment of an annual fee of 13
and wlU be solicited from among all
persons interested in good government.
The executive committee constats of:
OTA. C. Ecott, Lee Langston, Floyd
Broderson, Car C. Magee. T. E. Bra-
niff, Keet Stephens and Mrs. George
E. Calvert.
In addition to the nine directors
named last week, the board was com-
pleted Monday by unanimous selec-
tion of thefoowing:
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The governor. In asking the state
supreme court for an opinion on his
new deal legislation, took note of the
increasing tide of legislative doubt on
the legality at the recovery measures.
"I am addressing a request to the
state supreme court asking an advis-
ory opinion on the constitutional
guestions involved in the measures I
have recommended," he told state-
house newsmen.
"In many states, the supreme court
renders advisory opinions at there-
quest of the chief executive, and at
the request of the legislative branch
of government I hope that the gu-
Fu2n 588^ SESSION
smile on his face, as if he was confi-
dent.
Mrs Hauptmann, her face wreathed
in smiles, came in as the jury filed
into the box. She held her regular
morning chat with the defendant.
Edward J. Reilly, chief defense
counsel strived end immediately con-
ferred with Hauptmann and Fisher
Justice Thomas W. Trenchard re-
buked the audience for the loud burn
of conversation, with a lithe, firm
step, Hauptmann went back to the
withess stand.
Wilentz started cross-examination.
WUentt Asks About
Ride in Airplane
Q—Mr defendant, have you ever
been up in an airplane?
A—Yea. in Loa Angeles
Hauptmann looked swiftly around
the room. His face was set as he
looked at Wilentz. His voice was
colorless as he made answer to the
first questions in sing-song tones.
Wientz's voice was low, encourag-
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lQJLs. avenng Mitten at Tha Dany oxiahoman
. Wilentz turned the page and ahowed
anregarg-rdgnsmwEauptmame
•'Well, doesn't that look like a
drawing of a window with some sort
of dote or marks on it for something*
You don't know vbat it to?"
“I aom"ano"asiz as"
prosecutor they were executed by a
"little child who used to come in our
house and play inside *
Hauptmann testified that he did not
tell his wife about his “discovery" at
$14,600 of Lindbergh ransom money
in a shoe box which he said the late
Isador Fisch had given him for safe-
you found 114,000 or more
in gold, how did you feel?" Attorney
General David T. wilenta asked him.
“I was excited," said the German
carpenter.
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-Panzontel your wife""
Later Wuentz asked, sarcastically:
“Well you are net very excited
now, are you?"
.3 g“eu "m**
“Were you earnest with your wit
when you found the 114,000?"
“That has got nothing to do with
my wife."
"Why did you hide that?"
“Should it be a pleasant murpris
for her sometime. Because my at-
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TN their desperate ettorta to find
1 something to tax in order to keep
» the wolf from the door, the revenue
and taxation committee of ths house
• of representatives has added razor
blades to a list of so-called luxuries
which will be walloped with a 10 per-
cent stamp tax.
In heaven's name, when did the
bumble end absolutely necessary raz-
or blade become a luxury?
Is it to be assumed that the honor-
able members of the house think that
the primordial and bewhiskered state
of man is the logical and practical
custom in times of financial diatrens?
Is every man who resorts to the daily
A scraping of the face to be considered
a member of a wealthy class? If a
clean Jew It a sign at plutocracy, we
know a citizenry that will shift into
goatees and van Dykes If it li possible
to evade the tax collector and keep
alive by such a method.
Our more or less useless We has
been devoted to urging struggling
young men to shave themselves clean-
ly every morning before appearing in
public. We urge this as good deport-
ment and a way to public favor, but
we find today that we were wrong
and that we have merely succeeded
tn getting them taxed and branded
aa a class of well-to-do.
We have not the heart to urge the
men of Oklahoma to let their whisk-
ers grow in order to evade the tax on
razor blades. Nor will we urge the
public to go back to the straight
edged razor, which is a menace to
life and limb. We will stand on the
ground that the razor blade is not a
luxury, but a necessity and built that
its use should be encouraged and not
discouraged.
Q—That was a pleasure trip?
A—Yes.
Q—On that trip west your wife and
Kloeppenburg (Hans Kloeppenburg. a
friend) were with you?
A—Yes.
Q—Were you on a boat anywhere
on that trip?
A—I cant remember. (He shook
his head.)
Q—Do you remember paying 75
cents a piece for a ride on a boat. for
yourself, Mrs. Hauptmann and Kloep-
penburg, altogether $2.25?
A—I cant remember.
Q—But you won't say you didn't?
A—I can't remember
Bruno Kept Account
Of Expemet on Trip
Q-You kept an account of your ex-
penses on this trip to California?
A—Yes.
Q—Groceries, and everything?
A—Yes.
Q—You kept accounts every day
since you arrived in this country?
A—Not the first dsy. In a year or
two.
quest to pass on constitutionality of
the bills the court mutt first deter-
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prison February 15 to become
deputy warden of that institution.
He will be walking into the flrot
prison he has ever seen.
From handling college athletes as
assistant football coach and head
track coach at A. and M. college to
handling criminals as in a big
prison is quite a jump, (broad or
running) but the 39-year-old Kenny
views it with few qualms. And his
naming means few will be able to
run sway from him.
“When General Key asked me to
take the job I told him I didn't
know anything about prisons—never
even have been through one," said
Kenny Monday. "But the general
said that was all right, he had nev-
er aeen one either when he went
down to take it over as warden the
flrot time.
"But even tf Pm not a prison ex-
pert I know that a prison should
have two objectives—to keep them
to prison, and to salvage as many
of them as possible."
pis training as an army officer
Al and as a coach, two jobs where
he has learned to handle men, will
stand him in good stead, predicted
Kenny. It was as a military man
that he became acquainted with W.
8. Key. the new warden and briga-
dier general of the national guard.
Kenny served overseas to the
eighty-seventh division from Ark-
ansas. When he returned to 1919
he completed his coUege work at
the Stlwater school playing foot-
ball and basketball and competing
to track. In INI. after obtaining
a degree, he joined the athletic
department as a coach and has
been- at it since.
He met General Key to 1926
through national guard wort, and
now is chief of staff of General
Key's artillery brigade with the
rank of major.
IENNY is married, has two chn-
Adm, a boy and a girl He
will sever relations with the college
and not attempt to get a leave of
absence, be said.
"I picked Kenny because of his
ex-service connections and his sterl-
ing character." said Key. "His
coaching record was a factor, too.
I believe his training in building
character to athletes will make him
a gpod man to handle prison in-
mates.''
Key mid he will be ready to
"take over” at the prison on Feb-
ruary 15, but he is not prepared to
dlscuss changes to personnel or
methods.
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