Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1932, Page 23

BLAGDEN REVEAL KIDNAPING HOAX Sportsman Admits in Letter He Invented Story—Probe Is Dropped. By the Associated Press. MALONE, N. Y., February 23.—Harry H. Blagden, State police announced yesterday, has admitted that he “dis- appeared” voluntarily from a cottage at the exclusive Lake Placid Club and was_not kidnaped. The admission,” Capt. Charles J. Broadfield, in charge of State police for this Northern New York resort region, | said, was contained in a letter he re- ceived today from Blagden. Written at the Summer home of & friend at Arden, N. Y., 40 miles from New York City, the jetter sald Blagden had gone away to escape worries that had grown so heavy “there just seemed to be no way out.” Tells of Worries. Blagden, who operates a boys' camp near his home at Upper Saranac Lake sald he had been Worrying “about the times, my problems and the future.” The kidnaping story which he told on his appearance at Cleveland, Ohio, early | last week, he said, he invented as one “way out.” | The disappearance of the 45-year-old former big game hunter occurred at the | height of the Winter Olympic games at Lake Placid. Shortly afterward a brother, Augustus Blagden, received a letter in Harry's | handwriting demanding $1,000 for Har- ry's release. Relatives took the moncy to an appointed spot, but it was not claimed. Matter Is Dropped. Capt. Broadfield said tonight he did not know where Blagden was at pres- ent, but would not seek to question him further. He added that State police did | not see any cause for further action. | Yesterday's letter was written at | Arden Homestead, home of W. R.| Hunter, 8 New York broker. A butler told the Associated Press Blagdon stopped there Saturday, leaving later to | go “South.” MONTGOMERY COMMITTEE TO GET HEALTH REPORT Dr. Freeman of Johns Hopkins to Submit Result of Survey at Olney Session. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, SILVER SPRING, Md., February 23 —A report on the public health survey of Montgomery County, which he has| completed, will be made to the Execu-| tive Committee of the County Health Department tonight by Dr. E. B. Free- man of Johns Hopkins University, A discussion of the report will follow at the committee meeting, to be held at Olney Inn. Present will be Dr, R, H. Riley, director of the State Health De- partment, and the members of _the County Committee, consisting of Lacy Shaw, president of the Board of County Commissioners; Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, Dr. J. W. Bird and Miss Lavinia Engle. ‘The possibility of securing Federal aid for the administration of public health in the county will also be dis- cussed. Whether or not Montgomery County will receive such aid has been one of the reasons why the appoint- ment of a health officer to succeed Dr. | W _T. Pratt, who died recently, has been delayed. G..0. P. DRY ACT FOES CALLED TO CHICAGO Citizens' Committee to Consider ‘Ways of Getting Repeal Plank in Platform. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, February 23—Ray- mond Pitciarn, chairman of the Repub- lican Citizens” Committee Against Na- tional Prohibition, announced yesterday that a call has been sent out for a meeting of the committee in Chicago on | March 4. The purpose of the meeting is “to consider ways and means to place a| prohibition-repeal plank in the platform of the Republican party.” | Two business sessions, a luncheon and | 8 dinner will be held. Men of national | prominence, it was announced, will| speak at the dinner. Also on the con-| ference program are resolutions de- manding a repeal plank in the Repub- lican party platform, appointment of permanent officers for the committee | and appointment of a ways and means | committee, Pitclarn also made public a letter to Joseph R. Nutt, treasurer of the Repub- lican National ‘Committee, inviting him | to attend the meeting. LINDY FLIES TO GET NEW PILOT'S LICENSE| Completes Necessary Ten Hours Air by Taking 45- Minute Jaunt. By the Associated Press. HICKSVILLE, N. Y., February 23.— | Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made a short | flight veste v which thoe with whom he talked was necessary to com- plete the 10 hours of solo flying he needed for o renewal of his transport license, which expires soon. The colonel, the needed 45 minutes of flying t complete the minimum of 10 hours he air durirg the six months before license r He was accom r aged man and tw whom he had luncheon a some planes in the Long Island Avia- | tion Club’s hangar, re flying back | to Newark. | KANSAN REFiJSES TURKEY. AS NOT TYPIFYING STATE Democratic . National Committee- man Demands Beef at Banquet as Representative Product. y K and therefore s the mer The raised in Kansas. Only very rarely is metallic or native fron found in nature, all of the sources | or mineral ores from which the metal is obtained being compounds of iron with other elements, | Subscribe Today 1t costs only about 11, cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you regularly every evening and Sunday morn- m'gl'elé'phote National 5000 and the delivery will start immediate- ly. The Route Agent will collect at ths end of each month ~— . THE EVENING STAR. 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