Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1932, Page 1

W (U. 8. Weather By Rain late tonight much change in temperature; lowest to- night about 38 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 51, pm. yesterday: lowest, 38, at 6 Full report on page 9. da Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ATHER. ureau Forecast.) and tomorrow; not at 5:15 .m. to- ch ¢ Foem ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. “From Press The Star's every city block a tion is delivered to to Home Within an Hour” carrier system covers nd the regular edi- Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 124,284 No. 32,082. Trierehes Entered as second class matter Washington, o D, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 1932—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. %% (#) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Pre LINDBERGH READY TO RANSOM BABY BOY NOTE PINNED TO NURSERY SILL THREATENS TO HARM ILL CHILD; NATION JOINS IN KIDNAPER HUNT Police Baffled by Lack of Any Clues. STOLEN WHILE PARENTS DINED VWind and Warped Shutter Lend Aid to Abductors. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., March 2—A post card was mailed to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh from here today, reading: ‘“Babe safe. Instructions later. Act accord- ingly.” The card was picked up in the noon collections from a box at the corner of Plane and Cen- tral avenues, in the heart of the city. It was spotted by a dis- tributor in the post office, who removed it from the mail and reported its contents. The message on the card was printed. The card was taken to New- ark police headquarters, where it was examined by fingerprint experts. Post Office officials said they intended replacing the card in the mail for de- livery to Col. Lindbergh after they finished their examina- tion. It was addressed to Col. Lindbergh at “Princeton, N. J.” Director of Public Safety William = Egan immediately called out the entire police force and 2 house-to-house search of the vicinity of Plane street and Central avenue was begun. The finding of the card strengthened the belief of au- thorities that an abandoned sedan found early today in Hill- side, a suburb, may have been used by the kidnapers in their flight ~from the Lindbergh home. i The car, unlighted and the bearings of its motor burned out from lack of oil, was found in a field near the Newark line. The street is within a few blocks of a road which runs directly to Somerville, linking there with a straight road to Princeton. i The car bore New York license plates and was reported stolen yesterday from Brooklyn. The owner was said by police to be A. S. Mandell, Brooklyn. Although police examined the car for fingerprints, they im- mediately began going over it again, (Copyright, 1032, by the Associated Press.) HOPEWELL, N. J., March 2.— Ransom has been demanded for the Lindbergh baby, kidnaped from its nursery last night, and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is will- ing to pay if he can get the infant gafely back to its mother’s arms. It was learned shortly before noon today that a note found pinned to the sill of the window through which the baby was taken from its sick bed by the kidnapers made a definite ransom | demand. Note Contains Threat. It also threatened harm to the child if the money was not paid, if the contents of the note was| divulged or if the method of pay- ment suggested in the note was revealed. So threatening was the note that fo: hours its very existence was denied by police investigating the crime. It was finally determined with abso- lute definiteness, however, that ransom demand had been made and that Col. Lindbergh had decided to meet any demand if by so doing he would get his baby bacs. 0 one would say how large the de- mand was, but a report that it was $50,000 went undenied by sources close to the Lindbergh family and to the widespread search Gov. A. Harry Moore and Republic- an legislative leaders, after conferring by telephone with Col abandoned plans to offer a reward of $10.000 or more for the apprehension | tion will be available immediately to aid | of the kidnapers. This morning puzzled police re- enacted the crime as part of their frantic efforts to solve tne mystery. Woman Believed Involved. Using the same makeshift ladder with which the kidnap band, believed to in- (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) Los Angeles Banker Dies. LOS ANGELES, March 2 (#).—Wil- Yam B. Hunnewell, 60, for many years manager of the Southern -California branch of the National City Co. of New York and a prominent Pacific Coast bond man, died at his Beverly Hills 1heme yesterday. He had been ill several outha the | Lindbergh, | For the Sake of the Baby IT MAY AN APPEAL FROM THE STRICKEN PARENTS TO THOSE WHOM CONCER! CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, 3d. the fervent prayer mother: One quart of milk during the day. Three tablespoons of cooked cereal morning and night. ‘Two tablespoons of cooked vegeta- bles once a day. One yolk of egg daily. One baked potato or rice once & day. Two tablespoons of stewed fruit daily. Half a cup of orange juice on waking. Half a cup of prune juice after the afternoon nap. And 14 drops of a medicine called viosterol during the day. That’s all, kidnaper of the Lind- bergh baby. That's what the baby'’s mother wants you to give the boy. of a grieving By the Associated Press. Here is a heart-broken ap- recovery may depend on the treat- today the strict diet she has been spark of humanity even in the heart *SEEN N KDNAPING OPEWELL, N. J., March 2.— H To the kidnaper of the peal direct from the mother of the child you stole. ment it gets from you. You must be especially careful about the diet. following since the baby fell {ll. She did this in the hope you might read of a baby thief. Here is the diet, accompanied by Head of “Secret Six” Says No Big-Time Criminal Lindbergh baby: The baby has been sick, and its Mrs. Lindbergh issued to the press this story and that there was some LUNATIC'S SCHEME Would Attempt It. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 2—Col. Robert Isham Randolph, head of Chicago’s fa- mous “Secret Six,” said today he was convinced that the Lidnaping of Charles | Augustus Lindbergh, 3d, was the act of an insane person. Two years of running down kidnap- ers from coast to coast have convinced him, Col. Randolph said, that “no or- ganized gang of kidnapers ever would attempt such a crime.” There is nothing for authorities to do in the case, he added, until ransom demands are made or other clues uncovered. “There are lots of kidnaping gangs with enough facilities to carry out the i job," Col. Randolph said, “but none of them They know that the whole country ould be looking for them—and that man who flew the Atlantic alone wouldn't b2 an easy victim. “Organized kidnapers are looking for easy victims—not for children whose fathers zre world héroes. largely on gamblers, bootleggers, and other criminals whose personal affairs prevent them from calling the law to their aid.” The fact that no extortion demands were made before the kidnaping also in- dicate the Lindbergh baby abduction is the work of a demented person, Col. Randolph said the present to get the child back safely apparently has already been done,” Col Randolph said. “Highways are being | guarded and persons with knowledge of the Lindbergh home undoubtedly are being investigated.” He expressed belief that the child soon will be returned, pointing out that resources of the entire Nation can | readily be devoted to the case. If it appears that any of ths gangs which the “Secret Six” has traced is responsible, Randolph said, then the | facilities and agents of that organiza- in the search. “This case certainly is an argument for the bill now before Congress making kidnaping a Federal offense and death the penalty,” Col. Randolph added. S - S SHOUSE IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, March 2 (#).—Jouett Shouse, chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Democratic | party, arrived in New York today to speak at a meeting of woman workers in the Democratic_“victory drive” in the Empire State Building this after- noon. He declined to be interviewed. “I have nothing to say,” he sai’ “You'd only be wasting your time and mine—and I have a full day.” - is brainless enough to try it.| “All that could possibly be done for| BOY, 11, KIDNAPED - ONWAYTO SCHOOL Son of Niles, Ohio, Contractor Seized by Two Men, Girl Informs Police. By the Associated Press. VILES, Ohio, March 2.—James De Jute, jr., 11, son of a prominent con- | tractor here, was kidnaped today while | on his way to school, police reported The boy was driven off by two men in a small brown coupe, Anna May Mellina, 12, of Ashtabula, cousin of the boy, told Niles police. James fought off the kidnapers once when they grabbed him, Anna May | told police. They clutched him again ‘nfler he broke away and drove off, but did not attempt to molest her, she | | said |, Anna May is visiting the | family. | She said that about 8:15 | they were crossing a vacant lot, they | noticed the brown coupe and that one | of the men had the hood up as if he | were making repairs. | _One asked the children if they knew De Jute | where the contractor, De Jute, lived. | They prey | They told him. Then, she said. the | kidnapers asked James, jr., if he were | the contractor’s son. | James said that he was. | napers then grabbed him, | police. On first reports the police did not learn the direction in which the men drove or obtain descriptions of them. Girl Saw Struggle. Catherine Lambing, 14, daughter of Laurence Lambing, Niles, told police that she saw the kidnaping and fight between the boy and men from the | opposite side of the street. She said that the automobile had | different license plates. One of them, she said. was Ohio 830-353. She did not get the other. The license number of the automo- bile wes issued to a man in Johnston, Trumbull County village. Police believe the automobile was stolen. | . While the mother was distracted at her home here, the father joined Sheriff | John C. Risher and three deputies in | the hunt for the kidnapers. | Persons working in business houses | near the Dejute residence said that they had seen a strange automobile near the boy's home for several days recently. The description of the two men in the automobile tallied with that of the two | kidnapers as given by Anna May, but | the automobile was different. Havana Bomb Hurts Several. HAVANA, March 2 (P).—Several persons were injured today when a powerful bomb exploded in the i ness section. Radio Progr: she told | on Page A-12 am, as| The kid- | Justice Agents Ordered to Aid ‘ Hunt. ALL FEDERAL . FACILITIES USED Congress Will Push Bill Providing Death Penalty. | Mighty and farflung agencies | of the Federal Government cen- | tered their attention today on | tracking down the kidnapers of |the world famous baby of Col. | Charles A. Lindbergh, as congres- |sional leaders considered imme- diate passage of legislation mak- ing kidnaping a Federal offense. | | News of the kidnaping last night | of 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 3d, from his bed room in the Hopewell, N. J., home of his noted flying parents shocked the ‘Capnal from President Hoover down. Confers With Mitchell. Taking an immediate personal interest in the case, the President conferred this morning with At- torney General Mitchell. As a re- sult of the conference at the White House the Attorney General directed that the extensive Na- tion-wide detective service of the| department be placed at once at the disposal of New Jersey State | police. Immigration, customs and offi- cials have directed that their operatives co-operate to the fullest ex- tent possible. Indignant members of Congress saw in the kidnaping the final element needed to drive the might of Federal law against terroist extortionists now apparently organized in a kidnap “racket” of Nation-wide proportions. Senator Patterson, Republican, of Missouri, declared he would press for immediate action on his bill to make kidnaping across interstate boundaries a Federal crime penalized by death sentence. A colleague from Connecti- cut, Senator Bingham, asserted the deed brought the kidnaping “racket” to public attention as never before and in- dicated he favored legislation to curb it. Similar Bill Pending, Another bill is before Congress trans- forming kidnaping into a Federal offense. It was introduced by Representative Cochran of Missouri and hearings were held on it last week by the House | Judiciary Committee. Chairman Sum- | ners of that committee announced: to- | day he would request permission of the House to sit this afternoon to hold further hearings on the measure. The Senate bill, introduced by Patterson, has been favorably reported by the sub- committee headed by Senator Water- man, Republican, of Colorado. J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Justice Department’s Bureau of Investigation, advised by Attorney General Mitchell of his conference with President Hoover, telephone immediately to the bureau’s New York office, instructing | “every available assistance be rendered New Jersey State police.™ Connelley to Aid. Hoover said he talked to E. J. Con- nelley, head of the New York office, and directed that every facility possible be placed at the disposal of the New Jer- " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) TWO DIE IN GERMAN RIOT Police Intervene in Communist Attack on Hitlerites. BERLIN, March 2 (#).—Two persons were shot to death and several hurt at Tannenwalde, near Koenigsberg, today when police intervened in a Communist attack on a group of Adolf Hitler's Nazis. Some 20 Communists and half a dozen Nazis were injured last night in a pistol fight at Bildstock near Saar- brueck. The Communists had invaded a Fascist meeting. At Essen today 11 Nazis were beaten PROPOSEDINCIVIL Other Reductions Suggested in Independent Offices Appropriation Bill. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. priations, including $91,290 in salaries under the Civil Service Commission in ‘Washington, are proposed in the inde- pendent offices appropriation bill re- ported to the House today by Repre- sentative Clifton A. Woodrum of Vir- ginia. Another “economy” is the elimination of the Lee Highay Bridge unit, which is an integral part of the original Arlington Memorial Bridge project, the Supreme Court Building project has been reduced by the Approptiations Committee to $1,500,000 “upon assur- ance of the architect of the Capitol.” Representative Woodrum told his col- leagues, “that this amount will be suf- ficient to carry on the work without interruption.” Bicentennial Budget Cut. The budget estimate for the George Washington Bicentennial Commission was reduced $152,230, of which sav- ing $27,230 is for personnel, $50,000 for special and miscellaneous expenses and $75,000 for printing and binding. The bill includes $300,000 for the work of the commission during the fiscal year 1933, making a grand total of $1,- 222,770 for all expenses connected with the organization and direction of the Nation-wide celebration. Classification Board has been reduced $73734, of which $23,734¢ was reco mended by the budget and $50,000 ad- ditional lopped off by the Appropria- tions Committee, assigning as the rea- son that “the provisions now being in- cluded in all the appropriation bills limiting salary increases through real- location will operate to reduce mate- rially, if not altogether eliminate, the reallocation work of the board.” Veterans' Board Hit, The veterans' administration suffers the biggest slash under the budget figures of any of the independent es- tablishments, a total of $51,161,732, and the Interstate Commerce Commis- | slon comes next with a reduction of $1,533,231, Among other important reductions under the budget recommendations, are: Federal Farm Board, $880,000; Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, $134,120; Employes’ Compensation Com- mission, $32,900; Board of Mediation, $17,730; National Advisory Commission for Aeronautics, $30,000; Smithsonian Institution, $5,710; Board of Tax Ap- and knifed in a street row with Com- munists. peals, $10,000, and Federal Oil Con- servation Board, $5,000. (Mother By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J, March 2.—The Lindbergh baby, Charles Augustus, 3d, who was kidnaped last night from his crib, was {ll with a severe cold, his mother, the former Anne Morrow, re- vealed today. She expressed fear lest the child, clad only in night clothes, suffer from ex- posure. |~ Mrs, Lindbergh, striving to maintain her self-control with .narked effort, told Patrolman Charles E. Williamson of the Hopewell police about the child's illness. lshe sald he had been under treatment for several days. Williamson's searcht of the Serserg— ! j2 'BABY iS ILL WITH BAD COLD, | MRS. LINDBERGH TELLS POLICE Fears for Health of Child Taken Out of Bed Clad Only in Nightclothes and Without Blankets. he was the first officer to reach the Lindbergh estate following news of the abduction—revealed that no blankets had been taken, lending substance to Mrs. Lindbergh's fears that the child was taken away improperly clad. The patrolman said also, quite em- phatically, that there was no note on the window sill, although State police- men later said such a note was found, but refused to divulge its contents. Williamson quoted Col. Lindbergh as saying: “It was very windy outside during the early evening, and the noise of the wind could very easily have blanketed strange sounds that at another time Many important reductions in appro- | for which the budget included $160.000. | The budget etsimate of $,000,000 for | SERVIE BUDGET ‘ Seeks Seat 4 o MAJ. GEN. SMEDLEY BUTLER. BUTLER T0 OPPOSE DAVIS IN PRIMARY General to Seek Republican Senate Nomination in Pennsylvania. | By the Associated Press NEWTON SQUARE, Pa., March 2— Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler today an- nounced he is a candidate for the Re- publican nomination for United States Senator against Senator James J. Davis. Gen. Butler said he would run on a bone dry platform and would have the | I full f Gov. Gifford Pinchot. The appropriation for the Personnel | L. SuPPort of Gov Senator Davis recently announced he favors a modification of the Federal prohibition amendment. Gen, Butler made his announcement after a_conference here with P. S. Stahlnecker, secretary to Gov. Pinchot. The general said he would have no ex- tended statement to make until after he returns from his next lecture tour. The primary will be held April 26. The general will leave on his lecture tour after the marriage at West Chester Saturday of his daughter, Miss Ethel Peters Butler, to Lieut. John Wehle of Norwalk, Conn., an officer in the Marine | Corps. NAZIS ISSUE APPEAL FOR HITLER ELECTION Call for Day of Reckoning Against What Is Described as “Mis- rule of fie’pnblic." By the Associated Press. MUNICH, Germany, March 2.—Adolf Hitler's National Socialist headquarters issued an election appesl today lauding Hitler as Germany's savicr and calling for a day of reckoning against what it | described as the “misrule of the re-| public.” Accusing the government of having suppressed the “Nazi liberation move- ment,” it asked the voters to mete out punishment in the election on March 13. Strong terms were used in the doc- | ument. The Social Democrats were branded as “traitorous knaves” and the Catholic Centrists were called “hypo- crites” and “grave-diggers of the Ger- man people.” ‘The Jews, the statement said, were | sh “pseudo Democrats, inciting Germans against each other with a poisonous press, to profit by their discord.” With- out specifying names, the opposition was called “money bag patriots, flun- keys, henchmen of opportunists and profiteers.” ‘Young Germany will arise on election day, the statement predicted, on the second anniversary of the signing of the Young plan by President von Hin- denburg, “to claim its rights and elect Hitler, the only hope.” The Young plan, it said, plunged Germany “into misepy. Bungst and helplepmces,” = | who signed the petition will vote on 'TREASURY DEFICIT e REPUBLICAN WET PLANK PREDICTED BY PARTY CHES Resubmission in Some Form to Be Proposed, High Sources Indicate. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Prediction was made in bigh Repub- lican quarters today that the G. O, P. National Convention would adopt a plank in the party platform deé¢laring for resubmission of the eighteenth | amendment in one form or another. It was pointed out that the petition to bring a resolution amending the Con- stitution so as to restore control of the ligour traffic to the States was signed by 76 Republican members of the House. This leaves 138 Republicans in the House who failed to sign. The expectation is, however, a num- | ber of Republicans in addition to those March 14 for the motion to discharge the House Judiciary Committee and bring the Beck-Linthicum resolution be- fore the House. Strength Doubtful. Representative Beck of Pennsylvania, Republican wet leader of the House, gave no estimate of the final Republi- can strength in favor of the resolution, merely contenting himself with saying he believed that more Republicans would be found voting for the motion than had signed the petition. Estimates of the total vote which will be cast for the motion vary from 175 to 200. Should 25 additional Re- publican members of the House vote for the motion, then 101 would be on record as favoring amendment of the eighteenth amendment and only 113 against it. If the Republican membership of the House is shown to be -so evenly divided on the issue of resubmission of the eighteenth amendment it is reasonable to expect that the delegates to the Re- publican National Convention, chosen particularly in the light of the fact that prohibition is to be an issue in the com- ing campaign, will number many wets or near wets, as those favoring resub- mission of the eighteenth amendment are designated. Adoption Predicted. Indeed, the view was expressed today that if a resubmission plank is brought to the floor of the Republican Conven- tion it will be adopted. The Resolutions Committee of the Republican National Convention doubt- less, it was admitted, will report out a law enforcement plank. But it is ex- pected that a minority report from the committee, backed by a very consider- able minority, will be offered as a sub- stitute on the floor of the convention. That minority report, calling for resub- mission of the eighteenth amendment, "~ (Continued on Page IS $1,781,017,496 All Sources of Government Reve- nue Show Decrease From Last Year's Figures. By the Associated Press. The Government entered March with a $1,781,017.496 deficit. This was shown today In the Treasury report for February 29. For the eight months of the fiscal year the Treasury collected from all sources $1,334,563,076 and spent $3,115,580,572. The deficit threatens to approach the $3,000,000,000 mark uniess additional taxes levied by Congress change the complexion of the Government's ledger eet. As in the past two years, the chief cause of the deficit has been a severe drop in income tax collections. For the elght months this source of revenue has returned $658,121,342, compared with $1,171,431,024 in the same period last year. At the same time miscellaneous in- ternal revenue has dropped $34,000,000 to $345,000,000 and customs duties de- clined from $258,000.000 in the previous year to $247,000.000 this year. The gross public deor was increased nearly $2,000,000,000 last year, amounte $16,125,633,158, LS ——De l CHINESE FALL BACK FROM SHANGHAI AS PEAGE PROSPECTS ARE LESS HOPEFUL Japanese Describe Retreat as “Rout” but Defenders Claim Withdrawal Is Neces- sary Tactical Move. NANZIANG IS OBJECTIVE FOR RENEWED FIGHTING Geneva Receives Tokio's Acceptance of Terms to End Hostilities, but Foes Insist that Warfare Cease Before Entering Into Negotia- tions. (Copyright. 1032, by the Associated Press.) SHANGHAI, Thursday, March 3.—The Japanese advanced all along the Chapei-Woosung bat- tle line today and had almost pushed the Chinese back to the 1212-mile limit set by the recent Japanese ultimatum. Woosung alone held out against the re- lentless march of the big war machine. The Chinese Army at Shanghai was in a general retreat today as prospects for a cessation of hos- tilities and a peaceful settlement appeared somewhat slender. The Japanese described the re- treat as a rout, as they occupied Tachang, 4 miles west of Kiang- wan; Miaochungchen, a short dis- tance north; the north railway station at Chapei and the city of Liuho, 20 miles from Shanghai on the Yangtaze River. The Chinese described the re- treat as a tactical moye, made necessary when Japanese rein- forcements were landed at Liuho, thereby endangering Chinese communications. They said they would retreat as far as Nanziang, 10 miles west of Shanghai, where they will establish new lines and continue the fight. Fighting was heavy and the Japanese announced the day's casualties as 1,800 Chinese and 60 Japanese. The retreat, however, lessened the danger to the Inter- national Settlement. Tokio’s acceptance of the terms for an international conference to settle the Shanghai dispute was received at Geneva, but the Chinese refused to ac- cept until hostilities are halted. Japan continues to insist that the Chinese, armed forces be withdrawn 12 miles from Shanghai. Tokio formally told the Soviet gov- ernment that Japan has given no as- sistance to “white” Russians in Man- churia. The Japanese cabinet met in a spe- cial session when the Privy Council re- fused to approve an imperial ordinance approving an emergency bond issue of 22,000,000 yen to finance the Shanghai expedition. The Privy Council demand- ed that Parliament act upon the matter, but the cabinet opposed a parliamentary session, fearing other difficulties may result. CHINESE TROOPS FALL BACK. Defenders Plan to Form New Line fo Renew Battle; Retreat Called “Rout.” (Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Press.) SHANGHAI, March 2—China's now world-famous 19th Route Army was retreating westward tonight after five weeks of stubborn fighting at Shang- hai, closely pressed by a powerful Japanese war machine. The Japanese claimed that the Chinese soldiers. unable to stand any longer the terrible force of their ar- tillery, aerial and naval attacks, broke (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) \DRAFT COMPLETED FOR REVENUE BILL House Committee Speeded—Pres- entation on Floor Due Monday. By the Associated Press. The big new revenue bill, which is to raise more than a billion dollars a year for the Federal Government in addition to its present income, has been completely drawn at last and is to be ready for the House by Saturday. Acting Chairman Crisp brought the draft today before the full Ways and Means Committee after a subordinate group had whipped it together, includ- ing & 2 per cent ssanufactures sales tax to yield about $525,000,000; special excise levies on selected industries to produce $300,000,000, and increases in income, estate and gift taxes to bring dn an adu.’>nal $200,000,000. Crisp hoped to get all committee ac- tion done by Saturday, to start the House debate next Monday and speed it to the Senate. The bill will carry several changes in administration to stop leaks by which the Government is now estimated to lose $100,000,000 annually. It will not balance quite the budget submitted to Congress by the President, but the House Democrats, Crisp said, are calculating a saving of $125,000,000 in Government expenses. If it mate- rializes and the revenue bill gives the expected yield, the Government will find itself on an even keel again st the g *