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Show Thursday, September 8. 1932 . " J THE - Aaron Burr place one of the most dramatic events in American history what has been called "the greatest criminal trial in American history and trials in the anV one of the notable N'o less a person nals of the law." than Aaron I'.urr, but lately Vice President of the United States, was on trial tor ins lire ana tne cnarge against mm was that of committing a crime which was a threat to the safety of not just one person or a group of persons but to the safety of the whole nation, the crime of high treason. Although Burr was acquitted by what was substantially a Scotch verdict of "not proven, my lord," and historians are still doubtful as to whether or not the famous "Burr Conspiracy" was actually a treasonable scheme, the name of Aaron Burr has come down in popular belief among our "galaxy of scoundrels" second only to Benedict Arnold. Whether or not he has been assigned such a place justly or unjustly is a matter over which again historians disagree. In the Presidential election of 1800 Burr and Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic-Republicacandidates, each received 73 electoral votes, a tie which threw the election into the house of representatives, which was strongly Federalist After balloting for a week, ten votes were cast for Jefferson and four for Burr, and under the Constitution as it stood then this made JefferBeson .President and Burr, Vice President, cause of political Jobbery with the Federalists, Burr lost whatever regard the leaders among the new party held for him. Then he became Involved in a bitter struggle for supremacy In New York politics and because of the antagonism of Jefferson all the patronage was thrown to Burr's rivals, the Clintons and the Livingstons. Accordingly he accepted Federalist support in the gubernatorial race of 1804, an alliance which was fought bitterly by Alexander Hamilton. The result was the defeat of Burr, who held Hamilton chiefly responsible for his humiliation. Then followed the famous duel In which Burr's pistols ended the great career of Washington's secretary of the treasury and made Burr a political and social pariah. Discredited in the East where he had been a leader. Burr turned to the West to recoup his fortunes, hoping to capitalize on the unrest among the' Westerners where talk of disunion was rife. Crossing the AUeghenies he arrived at Blennerhassett's island In the Ohio river where lived Harman Blennerhassett, a wealthy Irishman, who had settled there In 1798. To Blennerhassett Burr proposed a wild scheme of raising an armed force In the Old Southwest, driving the Spaniards out of Mexico and establishing a great southern confederacy composed of these conquered Mexican possessions and the American territory west of the AUeghenies where the sentiment for disunion seemed so strong. was enough Impressed by Blennerhassett Burr's scheme to mortgage his vast possessions to furnish the necessary money. They also hoped to gain the aid of Great Britain In carrying out their scheme and, further to Insure the success of the plan, Burr won the support of General Wilkinson, then governor of Louisiana territory, commander of the United States a villain as ever served armijj;1 "asStates government" '0"VYout 1805 and 1800 Burr developed his ploWrwIeh became well known throughout the West The federal authorities, however, seem to have been strangely blind to what was tak- ing place until at last Wilkinson betrayed the scheme to Jefferson who on November 27, 1800, Issued a Presidential proclamation calling for the arrest of all those Involved. Wilkinson and the others, to save their own skins, deserted Burr and, In the modern parlance, he was made the goat of the whole affair. Attempting to flee, Burr was arrested In Alabama and brought back to Virginia for trial on the charge of treason. His case was tried In the United States cir cuit court sitting at Richmond and never, per haps. In American history has there been gath ered together In a courtroom such a galaxy of notables as assembled In that little room In 7 n Burr-Hamilt- two-face- d thpt;d ,. PAGE THUEB zz fSH Wng of the Clouds wiE f BEVERLY HILLS Well all I know is just what I read in the papers, or what I see here and there. You know Its been weeks since the Olympics finished, but for a couple or three weeks after it was over It felt out here like a kind of an old Ghost Town. We had gotten so used to going to the Stadium every day, and we had seen the Athletes ao often, and the thing kinder got next to you. Well one of the last to leave was some of the Japanese, and among them xaa little Nlchl Baorn N'ichl, be Is the one that won the high jumps with his horse. He was Just about the most popular little rascal that was here. They say he is tremendously rich in his own Country but no one knew that till after the games were over. He was Just "Another" Japanese cavalry officer to everybody. They made a lot of friends the Japanese did over here. That Shanghai and ManchurUi thing had just about put em In the dog house as far as were were concerned, but they acted so fine and were such good sports that they went away in the good graces o everyone. Course they hadent any more than got on the boat till we read in the papers that Japan was taking Jehol. Jehol Is a province in China. Its a kind of a "Buffer" province. It lays between Manchuria, and China property, and the Japanesse claim that they have to have It as It allows the Chinese to be too near to their operations in Manchuria. They was messing around about it when I was over there away last fall. They are always going tc have a lot of w JJ s' wikV- . "Tv $ f ' trouble over there, but Its a long way from our how. I sure wish our State Department was as far away from things as our folks are. ' ' ' ' fiTH V--' I"" ' V"i i Politics is just a boiling trying to Jell. I sit around and try to keep my ear to the ground. Nothing between it but a pillow, but I cant get heads or tails put of whats going to happen. Everybody on both sides if you talk to em will be so confident, that it makes you ashamed of how little you know yourself. Now I get this news from a fel Courfroom low the other day and he is a man CW.JEFFERY5 TROM THE PAINTING ty that should have some idea for he irt "THE PAGEANT of AMERICA" . L"SV is doing nothing but just travelius Courtesy vale university press; around taking "Hearings" on pub lic opinion. "Have been since I saw you at the Convention in Chi cago in every city east of there, so have a pretty good Idea of what will happen in the Fall. First of all I think we will get a Democratic Govenor in Maine. Moses 1 think will be defeated in New Hampshire. Will get the Democratic Govenor in Indiana but will lose the Senate to Watson. Roosevelt will get Ohio and Michigan by slim majoritys but will lose both of them to Republican Govenors. The Far South dont even know Hoover Is running. If he gets a vote south of the Mason and Dixon line it will be some stray kin folks of his. Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky will all go for Roosevelt. Democrats havent got a chance in Pennsylvania, but will take an even bet that they get Maine and Vermont. I have fifteen east and midwest states, and start off into the Thomas Northwest and west right away." Now you have it. He tries every Richmond. John Marshall, chief Justice of the1 nernassett s island could not be regarded as he can to get the opinions. He way court of the United States presided his act, even granting that he had advised It, Supreme over the trial. Luther Martin and Edmund Ran- for, said they, advising war is one thing but just holds a clinic over every voter. But a vote is a funny thing. dolph were counsel for the accused and William levying it is quite another. If this interpretation It dont make much difference Wirt was counsel for the government The was correct, then no overt act of levying war, who is in or who Is out, they both foreman of the grand Jury which brought the either within the jurisdiction of the court or Indictment against Burr was the waspish but stated in the indictment, had been or could be draw the same salary. I have al ways claimed brilliant John Randolph of Roanoke. And not shown against Burr. they should the least of the great figures in this case was Next Chief Justice Marshall handed down an that elected for Burr's charming daughter, Theodosia, of tragic opinion accepting virtually the contention of be life. The Sufame later. Burr's attrneys and when the prosecution was tt4 Court is to unable two witnesses who had actual preme produce Although Aaron Burr was upon trial on the our most remost serious charge which can be placed against ly seen Burr procure the assemblage on the Is spected gang, so the citizen of a country. In reality he was little land, lt allowed the case to go to the Jury. It might work was the thereafter verdict more than a pawn In what was at the time Shortly following in our other regarded as a test of strength between the Re- returned: "We of the Jury say that Aaron Burr branches. Now Is not to be guilty under this indictment proved publican President Jefferson and the Federalist this take year Chief Justice Marshall. The trial lasted from by any evidence submitted to us. We therefore for March 27 to September 7, 1807, and the full find him not guilty." At the order of the chief what instance can they story of the legal maneuvers executed by the Justice this Scotch verdict was entered on the do towards helpcourt as a records of "not the two clashing forces would require a book for simple guilty." ing the Country? Acquitted, Burr became an exile and an out- Nothing. the telling. They have all got to be Under the Constitution, treason against the cast- The man who came within one vote of be trying to get back in. of the President United States wandered ing United States consists "only in levying war This Is the year when they realty about Europe for four years, borrowing small but its for themselves and against them, or in adhering to their enemies, work, dubious promotions, urg you cant blame em. They have attempting giving them aid and comfort," and no person amounts, the French to seize Louisiana In 1810, and had a taste of it and they like it. may be convicted of It "unless on the testimony ing of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on finally returning to his own land with a false Ti Is something about holding and his whiskers. after arrival he wig Shortly confession in open court." The crux of the whole of.".' that must just get right next case against Burr was whether or not on a cer- encountered the breaking of the one tie that to i. And they are seldom ever him His when to beloved Theo the earth tain date (December 10, 1S0C) Burr had actual- held good any more for anything who had stood by him when the whole ai'j else. ly "levied war against the United States" by dosia, But are all likable world seemed to have turned against him took cusses. You they cant help but like em, assembling an armed force on Blennerhassett's htm In from to meet South New the York, ship island and on the day following had set In moand they are always smarter than tion this same armed force In an expedition The ship on which she sailed never reached the people that elect em. So our to and Is was this day an election what her fate port every four years is Just against the City of New Orleans. One of the most tragic pic unsolved what we need. We dont know The prosecution produced a series of wit- tures in mystery. all American history Is that of the what we need lt for but Its for nesses, mainly servants of Blennerhassett. to broken, disgraced Aaron Burr, a devoted fa something if its only to get one half prove this point Then lt announced Its inten- ther whatever else he may have been, going of our folks sore at the other half tion of introducing evidence to show Burr's down to the battery every day for years, search every foiir years. connection with the assemblage on the Island, Ing the horizon for the sail of a ship which We are all excited now. Six whereupon the defense sprang a surprise which never came the ship bringing back to him his months from now we will look back turned the tide In Burr's favor. Developing the long-los- t a And as final then touch daughter. wonder why. Politics is just fact that on the night of December 10 Burr had to an career was his unfortunate mar- and a custom, and has nothing whatnot been present at the Island, but had been 200 to the famous Madame Jumel who divorced ever to do with civilization. miles away In Kentucky, they contended that riage him on the day he died. 1932. Udiafghl Syndtcoti. Inc. under the Constitution the assemblage on Blen- (& by WMtarn Ntwipaptr Union.) lis- ft m lt -- -- Jcene fgfT?fei3iBtBg5)BqC Jefferson r "" - f itr By ELMO SCOTT WATSON AND TWENTY- XE HUNDRED tive years ago the eyes of the whole nation were turned toward Richmond, Va.. for there was taking NEPHI. UTAH S. ,, Hhe Trial of M Aciron TIMES-NEW- John Randolph at Burr'sTrial de II d W Ladles of Equatorial Africa. as meaning "King of the Clouds" and Ruwenzorl Is not a single mounone of the world's range. RUWENZOUI. masses, has tain, but a "pocket-size- " been scaled by a Belgian ex- With Its foothills It Is approxl-matel- y (to miles long and 20 miles pedition entirely In Belgian terriwide. The nnmlng system that has tory, according to reports from the been followed Is rather complex. Belgian Congo In which a pnrt of the mountain lies. The feat, not Topping the mountain mass are six hitherto accomplished, required a explored groups of snowy peaks, climb of 10,000 feet of difficult, trail-les- s and a few other heights not yet climbed. Each group Is given a Jungle and rocky slopes. Ruwenzorl is unusual in Its very name as a mountain, and each peak situation. It lies almost Immedi- Is then separately named. From north to south the snowy mountain ately under the equator, surrounded groups which have been climbed are by rank, steaming tropical forests Baker and plains covered Emin, Gessl, Speke, Stanley, with tall elephant grass t yet it and Luigl di Savola, each named for an of Ruwenzorl itself pushes Its peaks up to eternal or of explorer neighboring portions of Afsnows. Nowhere else are there rica. comparable heights under the equaNumerous small glaciers extend a contiof from heart the tor, rising down from the snowy peaks to relanent. The Andes of Ecuador, about 14,000-folevel, and from tively close to the coast, and the them trickle From many streams. mountains of the Island of New Guinea are the closest competitors. whichever side the drainage comes, Weather conditions do their part It finds Its way Into the surrounding lakes and rivers and flows, In contributing to the strangeness of this African mass, and In throw- through Lake Albert, Into the Nile. Ruwenzorl thus fulfills the ancient ing an almost literal veil of mystradition: it is the "Mountain of hidtery around it. The peaks are den to observers from the plains the Moon" on whose white crest river is born. Egypt's and forests by clouds and fog exThe of Ruwenzorl lying portion rea As Intervals. rare cept at north of Mounts Emin and Gessl sult, the definite existence of the has never been climbed. In addmountains was unknown to Euroition to making a survey of the westpeans until 1804 when Sir Samuel ern slopes of the entire range, the Lake while Albert, exploring Baker, saw "a blue mountain to the south." Belgian expedition plans to climb His observation went unverified the peaks of this northern region. Odd Facts About the Equator. until 18S7 when Stanley saw the snow has While Ruwenzori's peaks and made known the fact, for been a popular "hard to believe" the first time, that they were snowcapped. It was not until more than subject, there are other facts about a decade later that the snow line the world's hot line that are, perwas first reached; and the crests haps, equally strange. For example: were not attained until 1900 when The equator crosses no deserts. the duke of the Abruzzl led his ex The equator does not touch conpedition to the top. The name, Mountains of the tinental Asia. h Less than of the equaMoon, Is believed to have arisen from a mistaken translation from tor traverses land. The equator cuts Africa nearly In Arabic; but it has fitted well into the atmosphere of mystery that sur- half, traversing the middle section rounded Ruwenzorl for centuries; of Kenya, severing the northern' and it has a figurative Justification third from the Belgian Congo and because of the weird appearance of bisecting the toiigue of French the mountain elopes, The relatively equatorial Africa which, with An? few white men who have made the goa, nearly squeezes the Belgian arduous climb have all noted the ImCongo off the Atlantic coast In the 2,300 miles across equapression that they had blundered torial Africa there are no deserts into same alien world. The combination of excessive moisture, alti- but torrid Jungles, some parts of which are so canopied by trees intude and equatorial sun has produced a unique vegetation that In terlaced by vines that only pencillike rays of sunshine penetrate. In many ways Is utterly fantastic. this region the traveler meets with Is Extraordinary. Vegetation tribesnaked, black, kinky-haireAfter emerging from the dense men, and such unfriendly beasts as lower of forests the slopes, wild elephants, lions and hippopotatropical a climber feels like a Llllpntlan vis- muses. iting the meadows of Brobdingnag. Just below Ruwenzori's western He walks among parsley plants slope Is the bailiwick of the Bam-but- e nine feet high, "bird-seed- " three pygmies, shy, diminutive folk times his height, and heather plants, of the Jungles, and beyond Is the dorelatives of the low Scottish shrub, main of Bantu tribes, some of whom that have expanded Into great relish human flesh. The MasaL trees 70 and 80 feet tall. To add among the world's fiercest nato the weirdness, colored mosses tives, Inhabit the regions to the brown, yellow, green, white and east of the mountain. red are all about under and overBetween the western coast of Afhead. They grow in huge cushions rica and the coast of South Amerthat encircle the limbs of the ica, the equator crosses no land. In heath trees like giant mushrooms the mouth of the Amazon It traImpaled on a skewer. The unearth- verses Mexiana Island and then ly appearance Is heightened usually plunges Into 2,000 miles of Jungle by fog, through which the strange land, almost as Impenetrable In growths loom dimly ; and there Is places as the Jungles of Africa. a continual drip of water from South America's Jungle. limbs and moss clumps. The way South America is the Equatorial often leads through swamps and land of Indians of yellowish and muck up to one's knees. reddish hues with straight hair Above the heath forests, on less which Is cut as though soup bowls swampy ground, giant lobedlas had been applied to the natives' heads cover large areas sending their as guides for bnrbers' scissors. The spikes up to twenty feet or more. largest animal Is the tapir, and ant All about are a variety of weeds, eaters are abundant to the magnitude of grown almost At the eastern base of the Andes, trees. Further up are thickets of meets the bamboo through which progress Is the equatorial traveler natives who are proud of The difficult. extremely highest their art In shrinking human heads slopes, Just below the snow line, are to the size of an orange, with the covered with a thick growth of ever- hair and skin Intact. lasting flowers. From their hot Jungle homes, the Except on its lowest slopes Ru- JIvaros can see the wenzorl Is uninhabited, and above Andes of Ecuador and western Brathe tropical forests there Is not zil. Quito, capital of Ecuador, much animal life. The soggy heath nestles In the Andean hills, about forests are almost devoid of anififteen miles south of the equator. On other mals, birds and insects. The equator begins Its trans-Pacifiparts of the slopes, where sparse "flight," by crossing the Galaanimal life Is found, It forms a pagos islands and then makes a few a small queer assortment; to the EaBt Indies, long mountain antolopes; leopards that where Jump traverses lt Celebes, Dutch prey on them ; hymxes, which are Borneo and Sumatra, missing Singabats pore, the nearest harelike conies; fruit-eatin- g point of contiof two feet; nental with a "wing-spread- " Asia, by only 00 miles. These and a few birds and Insects. regions are inhabited by brown-skinne- d Really a Mountain Range. natives, some of whom show traces of Mongolian, Hindu and MaThe name, Ruwenzorl, was selected by Stanley as the most common layan blood. From Sumatra westamong a large number of native des- ward, the equator touches no land until It strikes Kenya, East Africa, ignations. It has been Interpreted Fashionable (Pnparad by th National D.GMirraphlo C.) Society, Wanhtnirtoii, (WNU Service.) 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