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April 3, 1936

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ANOTHER REPRIEVE HINTED; Hoffman Is Said to Feel Wendel Investigation Is Not Yet Closed. WARDEN TO SEEK ADVICE Grand Jury Adjourns Without Indictment, but Fails to Dispose of Charge. HEARS GOVERNOR, WILENTZ Defendant Retells His Story at All-Day Session -- Handwriting Experts Testify. GRAND JURY DROPS WENDEL INQUIRY

By Russell B. Porterspecial To the New York Times

Wendel jury adjourns without indictment but fails to dispose of murder charge after hearing Wilentz, Hoffman, Wendel and others; new reprieve hinted; statement by Freeman

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PROFITS TAX PLAN WILL AID MONOPOLY, BUSINESS MEN SAY; Noel Sargent of the Manufacturers Association Testifies Thrift Would Be Penalized. WANTS CAUTION ON BUDGET Larger Corporations Favored at Expense of Smaller Ones, House Committee Is Told. BLOW TO CREDIT PICTURED Franklin Fort, Banker, Sees in Levy the 'Most Direct Attack on Capitalism Made Yet.' PROFITS TAX PLAN HELD MONOPOLY AID

By Turner Catledgespecial To the New York Times

N Y C commodity exchs, at bearing, urge exemption for profits realized by foreigners in hedging transactions in Amer markets

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Notable Births

Jimmy McGriff

1936Jimmy McGriff, American organist and bandleader (died 2008)[†]

James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader.

Harold Vick

1936Harold Vick, American saxophonist and flute player (died 1987)[†]

Harold Vick was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.

Notable Deaths

Bruno Richard Hauptmann

1936Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer (born 1899)[†]

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German-American carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as the "crime of the century". He was executed in 1936 by electric chair at the Trenton State Prison. Both Hauptmann and his wife, Anna Hauptmann, proclaimed his innocence.

Historical Events

Bruno Richard Hauptmann

1936Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.[†]

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German-American carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as the "crime of the century". He was executed in 1936 by electric chair at the Trenton State Prison. Both Hauptmann and his wife, Anna Hauptmann, proclaimed his innocence.