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FEDERAL AGENTS' | AID IS OFFERED Congress Ready to Push Bill to Make Kidnaping Cap- ital Crime. (Continued From First Page.) sey authoritles. Connelley is well | known here for his participation in the | investigation several vears sgo of the sensational Virginia McPherson stran- | gling case. He directed the exhura- tion of the body of Mrs. McPherson and had charge of other phases of the | inquiry. “I told Connelley.” Hoover said. “to co-operate to the fullest with Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, head of New | Jersey State police. Schwartzkopf by long distance and ad- vised him that we would be glad to ex- tend every possible assistance in run- ning down the kidnapers of the Lind- bergh baby." Later Hoover called Rhea Whitley, chief of the Philadelphia office of the; Investigation Bureau, and gave him in- structions similar to those he tele- phoned to Connelley. Between the two offices, the States of New York, Penn- sylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut arc covered by Justice De- pirtment operatives ] Whether any men have been essigned | to the case by Connelley is noi known. | Hoover s: it was left to the discretion of Connelley and Whitley to assign men and he assumed that as many men as necessary would be detailed to the | case, May Call in Others. “If they haven't enough men in New ‘York, we have other offices throughout | the country,” said Hoover. “And in that way I believe we can be of material assistance in tracking down the kid- napers. Where State authorities are confronted with State boundaries and roblems of witnesses, we, on the other d, have a free hand.” The Investigation Bureau chief dis- | closed, however, that there is no Fed- | eral statute under which the depart-: ment’s operatives can work on the case, ! but that his office “had stepped in in | the hope and belief that the kidnapers may be wanted for Violation of some ! Federal lay or laws." “But with passage of legislation by the Congress making kidnaping a Fed- eral offense we will be able to assign men to every case where there is a sus- icion that the kidnapers are working tween States.” Plan Close Watch. Attorney General Mitchell also point- ed out that thus far there is no in- dication the Lindbergh case is within Federal jurisdiction. He said the de- partment plans to keep close watch upon developments “on the chance that the perpetrators of this crime in this or gome other activity may have touched Federal authority.” “Every official of the Department of Justice has the depest anxiety that the child be restored to its parents,” said the Attorney General. ‘Every agency of the department will co-operate to utmost with State authorities.” The President himself had no com- ment. There were indications, how- ever, that he is keeping in close touch with developments. Attorney General Mitchell, at the same time, added the weight of his opinion to those in favor cf passage of legislation placing kidnaping within the Jjurisdiction of Federal authorities. House Committee Stirred. “There ‘are bills pending in Congress to make transportation of kidnaped per- sons across State lines a Federal of- fense. Becduse of budget limitations and recent reductions in appropriations for the detective forces of the depart- ment, I have not felt able to recommend such legislation, but I have no objec- tion to such a measure if Congress de- sires to pass it.” At the House Judici: Committee hearings last week a handful of veteran Congressmen were stirred to a pitch of determined indignation after hearing a terrible tale of kidnaping and torture for ransom, operated wholesale in the Midwest by an alleged ring working in many citles, spiriting victims from city to city to place the barrier of State ‘l:nes between the criminals and the . Hardened to moving pleas, slow to encroach upon jurisdiction of the States, these men—members of the committee —are out for a Federal law with “teeth” enough to promise the electric chair to the kidnaper it catches, such a bill as that of Representative Cochran. “It is wal pronounced Chairman Sumners after Robert I. Randolph, head of Chicago's famous “Secret Six" anti-gangster unit, and a group in- cluding both Chicago and St. Louis professional and volunteer crime fight- ers, had told their story. Story Kept From Public. It was a stolid recital, delivered in clipped, unemotional sentences, of in- stance upon instance of skillful, nerve- racking torture of children, mothers, business men, by criminal bands clever enough to baffle and stall the most de- termined efforts of local authorities to apprehend them. Part of the story the public has not heard, for the committee closed its doors when Detective Sergt. Leroy Steffens, ace of the “Secret Six” inves- tigators, started to tell his part. The ‘“racket,” these men indicated, is being run by ex-bank robbers, who have found it an easier way to cash in on crime, who are fiendishly ingenious in devising torture to make the victims and relatives “come across.” ‘There have been two barriets to enactment of & Federal anti-kidnaping law—economy and States’ rights. At- torney General Mitchell raised the first | objection, holding adequate enforce- ment of it impossible on the present | inched budget. The second so far has n a cause of hesitation in Congress. Even Chairman Sumners and others favorable to the law do not want the States to “leave it to Uncle Sam.” But a bill providing the death penalty for abduction across the State lines is vir- tually certain to be recommended by them. The Lindbergh kidnaping should go & long way to insuring its passage by Congress. Favors Death Penalty. Summers said he was not “going to be panicked” because of the kidnapin, of the Lindbergh child, but rxpress!g himself strongly as favoring the death penalty for the crime of kidnaping. He sald he has scheduled for early action the Cochran bill and would take it up today, if possible Pired by the news of the kidnaping, the House Post Office Committee today voted a favorable report of the bill for Federal prosecution of those send- ing kidnaping threats and taunts through the mail Official red tape was slashed in order to rush into the kidnaping case the expert criminologists of the Bureau of Investigation. While the Department of Justice has no specific authority to investigate kid- napings as such, there is a provision that special agents of the Bureau of Investigation may take part in cases “in which the United States may be & party in interest.” Uses Liberal Interpretation. It is under a liberal interpretation of this provision that the bureau is lend- ing its assistance to the New Jersey au- I also called Col. | P | | pressed our commi | advisable, while the Congress and the may be able to lend valuable aid is| through the facilities of its vast finge:- | printing service. If suspicious finger- prints are found at the Lindbergh| house, they will be rusned here for comparison with prints of known crimi- nals. There are nearly 5,000,000 prints of law violators on file at the bureau. A lookout for the abductors of the Lindbergh baby was brozdcast by Wash- ington police today on ark authorities. The lcozout ins.ructs | members of the local force to arrest the occupants of an old automobile bearing Pennsylvania tags. As Congress met, it soon was how deeply the crime had struck legislators. Senator Barbour called it & “ghastly tragedy” in tte Senate, while Repre- sentative Seger of New Jersey cited to | the House the shock felt everywhere. Barbour asked for early consideration | by the Judiciary Committee of the bill | to make kidnaping a felony. He suc- ceeded in the Senate the late Dwight | W. Morrow, grandfather of the kid- | ive Seger told the Hous(‘! of no crime that cuts the and couces more ani to father and mother than the kid- naping of their child. As a father and ndfather. I appeal to the House to the bills pending. making kid- naping a Federal crime.” Norris Announces Bill. Senator Norris, chairman of the Sen- ate Judiclary Committee, announced the Patterson kidnaping bill would be given early consideration by his com- mittec. Off the floor, he said: “If there is anything we can do, it ought to be done, of course.” He ex- pressed doubt, however, the Government could go further than to legislate on interstate kidnapings Chairman Mead of the Post Office Committce, which today reported an anti-kidnaping bii id “The latest fler act hes so im- ttee that it is deemed country are in a stcte of preparation to report this legislation when its chances of consideration and approval are_excellent. “It will bring to the assistance of the States and localities the aid of the Federal Government in stamping out this most atrocious form of crime.” BORDER CLOSELY WATCHED. Authorities at Canada Line Orders From Washington. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, March 2 (®)—Scarch for Charles Augustus | Lindbergh, jr, and his kidnapers ex-| tended to the international border to- | day. United States immigration and| customs authorities here received in- structions from Washington to keep close watch on the border to prevent the escape of the abductors to Canada. Instructions from Washington were to pay particular attention to auto- mobiles bearing New Jersey license plates. All cars licensed in that State crossing the bridges were subjected to thorough search and their occupants rigidly questioned. 300 AUTOMOBILES SEARCHED. Under Buffalo Police Guard Routes Leading Into Canada. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 2 (P).— Within a few hours after receiving the police teletype notice of the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby, Patrolman Ray- mond J Bundschu of the Buffalo Po- lice Department searched more than 300 automobiles before permitting them to pass over the Peace Bridge into Canada. City police at all routes leading into Canada were instructed to be on the watch for any car resembling, even re- motely, the car believed to have been used in the kidnaping. Canadian customs and immigration officers voluntarily joined hands with American officers in their watch for the car, and, without waiting for formal orders, were closely guarding The Peace Eridge, two bridges at Niagara Falls and one farther down the Niagara River at Lewiston, “That car won't get through here,” said one of the Canadian officers. NEW YORK POLICE ACTIVE. Mulrooney Orders Fullest Co-operation in Baby Search. NEW YORK, March 2 (#)—Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney at the police line-up today instructed 200 detectives and many ranking officers of the uniformed police force to co- operate to “the fullest” with New Jersey authorities in the search for the kid- naped Lindbergh baby. Describing the kidnaping as “most vicious,” Mulrconey told the detectives to concentrate their search in the con- gested areas of the city and advised the inspectors and captains present to pass this order on to the patrolmen. Hospitals and nurseries where babies ere treated or accepted also should be watched closely, the commissioner said. Commissioner Mulrooney told the detectives to make an investigation of all houses where any one with a baby moved in. When detectives think they have a “lead” they should work on the case on their time off, if possible, the commissioner said. Meanwhile, police continued their guard at the Manhattan terminals of New Jersey ferry lines and at the Hol- land tunnel and the George Washing- ton Memorial Bridge. They had in- structions to stop all automobiles that agoused thelr suspicions and search them. VIRGINIA ROUTES WATCHED. State Considered Within Possible Ra- dius of Kidnaping. RICHMOND, Va., March 2 (#)—An ‘“on guard” order today set patrolmen watching every highway in Virginia for the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby, taken last night from the home of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh at Hopewell, N. J. Officers considered Virginia within the possible radius of movements by the kidnapers. Two of Lindbergh's closest Virginia friends, former Gov. Harry F. Byrd and William T Reed, reccived news of the THE EVENING TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WED 0.T.JESSE HASTENS T0 STATE CAPITAL Treasurer Leaves Arlington Soon After W. C. T. U. At- tacks Appointment. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, March 2.—Charles T. Jesse, Arlington County’s new treasurer, left hurriedly today for Richmond, 24 hours | after Gov. John Garland Pollard an- rcunced the receipt of a protest against h | Jessc’s appointment, by an officer of | the Alexandria-Arlington branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The purpose of Jesse's mission was not disclosed at his office in the Ar- lington County Court House. None of his associates seemed to know whether it had anything to do with the protest or whether it merely involved county business. Gov. Pollard has announced. however. that he had nothing to do with Jess appointment and, so far as he knew, the new treasurer was fully gqualified for the position. Excitement Subsides. In the meanti the te atmos- phere of excitement which prevailed at the ccurt house for the last weck as a result of discoverey of the alleged short- age in the accounts of E. Wade Ball, former treasurer, subsided materially. Conditicns appeared to nave returned to normalcy while the county awaits with snxiety the report of the five State auditors investigating Ball's books. Thus far the accountants, it was said, have failed to find any discrepancy in Ball's records. The investigation, how- ever, has only reached the point where the auditors have laid a foundation for their studies. County officials revealed one of the first steps taken by the auditors was to ascertain from the seven banks in which county funds were deposited the total amount on deposit to the credit of the county. The amount, it was said, was less than $6,000. County officisls declared there should have been at least $§175,000 on deposit. Other Offices Audited. Aside from the investigation of Ball's accounts, the auditors are making an independent audit of the financial rec- ords of all county offices. This audit is being handled by R. B. Jordan, who is supervising the staff of auditors at work on Ball's records. Jordan also is co-operating with Roy S. Braden, county manager, in working out a modern accounting system to be in- stalled in the treasurer’s office, as well as_in other county offices. The County Board will hold its reg- ular semi-monthly meeting Saturday morning at 10 o'clock and at that time a discussion is expected over develop- ments in the investigation of Ball's accounts. Although the Arlington School Board had planned to borrow $40,000 in addi- tion to the $40,000 advanced Monday by an Alexandria bank, definite steps have not yet been taken to negotiate the second loan. The $40.000 already borrowed, it was said, will keep the schools in operation through the cur- rent month, CHECK ON OFFICIALS SOUGHT. Arlington Body Asks Laws to Prevent Chaos. Special Dispatch to The Btar. LYON PARK, Va, March 2.—New laws, designed to prevent repetition of the economic chaos through which Arlington County has passed since the reported shortage in the office of the county treasurer, are proposed by the Committee on Resources and Expendi- tures of the Arlington Oounty Civic Federation, in a report adopted by that body here last night. First, the report proposes an act to empower the county board to inquire into the conduct and affairs of all county officers. Another proposal would create an act that would abolish the fee system for all county officers. In this con- nection the report cites that *despite the improvements made in the system under lezislation of 1926, it is not in harmony with proper functioning of the budget system.” An act to provide for a control and checking procedure for all county cffi- cials is also asked in the report. Would Make Report Mandatory. The report further proposes am act to make all reports on activities of county officials mandatory, all reports to become public property. The final recommendation of the committee is for an act to make it im- possible for any officer to set aside the duties imposed upon him Ly law Copies of the report, which was sub- mitted for the committee by Frederick E. Mann, chairman, were ordered sent to State Senator Rust, Delegate Reid and Harry A. Fellows, chairman of the county board. Lawrence Douglas, commonwealth's attorney, the speaker of the evening, commended Mr. Mann for his report and stressed the necessity for a book- keeping system in the county compar- able to systems employed by corpora- tions or munfi@ipalities the size of Ar- lington. Sucly a system, he declared, was contemplsed before the county's “recent difficuy” and will be put into effect in the near future. Urges Citizens to Keep Cool Douglas advised the meeting that he was not in a position at the present | time to go into details as to the condi. tions in the treasurer’s office and that probably nothing definite will be known until the audit is completed. Until that time, he asserted, it is the duty kidnaping today. EMPIRE SEARCH WIDE. Albany Police Join Those of State Watching Autos. ALBANY, N. Y, March 2 (#).—State and city police throughout Southern and Eastern New York were watching highways and searching automobiles today on the chance that the kidnap- pers of the son of Col. and Mrs. Charles g. Lindbergh had turned into New York tate. With the first word of the kidnaping over the State police teletype last night, the troopers took the highways in force, to gxlmrd the roads and search auto- mobiles. KEYSTONE STATE WATCHED. Troopers in Autos Comb Highways for Suspects. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 2 (#).— More than 120 troopers of the Pennsyl- vania State police patrolled all roads leading into the State from New Jersey last night in vain search for the Lind- bergh kidnapers. ‘The troopers were in automobiles and they covered little traveled by-ways as well as the principal highways, Maj. Linn G. Adams, head of the force, said today. Many stopped suspicious-look- ing cars and examined their occupants. WATCH COVERS BAY STATE. Automobiles Closcly Watched in Police thorities. The theory of officials here is that some Federal statute may have been violated by the kidnapers, making them subjects of Federal search. It is it ly the oulprits may have 'vehicle Hunt for Abductors. BOSTON, March 2 (#).—Massachu- setts State police joined the search for the Lindbergh kidnapers today under orders from Capt. Charles T. Beaupre, executive officer, who directed that all of all citizens to keep cool. RUM ANNULS MARRIAGE Wife Drunk When Wed, Film Ac- tor Testifies. LOS ANGELES, March 2 () .—The marriage at Rye, N. Y., March 9, 1929, of John Warburton, screen actor, and Doris Warburton was annulled in the Superior Court yesterday after War- burton testified his bride was too in- toxicated to be aware of her actions when the ceremony was performed. He told the court she “expressed sur- prise” the following day when she was told of the ceremony, and that she refused to live with hi Autonomy Plan Defeated. NEW DELHI, India, March 2 (#).— The Council of State yesterday defeated a resolution by Sir Sankaran Nair, non-official member from Madras, urg- ing immediate provincial autonomy for those provinces fit to administer it. The vote was 12 to 4. Rhode Island and New York were under especial scrutiny of officers. CONNECTICUT POLICE ALERT. Bridges and Principal Highways Are Closely Watched. HARTFORD, Conn, March 2 (P)— State police officials, advancing the theory that an attempt might be made to bring the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh into New England by way of Connecticut, or- dered guola from all State barracks today to guard bridges and principal highways. Maj. Frank M. Nichols sald every SUsPICious Jooking SIS —— ! Candidate | EMPLOYMENT DIRECTOR " SEEKS POST. JOHN ARTHUR SHAW, Director of the veterans' service di- vision, United States Employment Service. Department of Labor, a candi- date for the presidency of Federal Em- ployes' Union, No. 2, Who recently de- [ clared himself in favor of votes for | District citizens and opposed to dis- ! crimination in Government jobs on ac- count of sex of the workers. The can- didate said he belleved women should receive the same pay and consideration for the same work as men. PERSONNEL UNIT Would Consolidate AH Such Boards at Annual Saving of $630,000. By consolidating the various agencies of the Federal Government now en- gaged in personnel work in connection with Government employes, as proposed by President Hoover in a recent mes- sage to Congress, a saving of more than $630,000 a year would be effected, Thomas E. Campbell, chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, estimated today. Chairman Campbell made this state- ment at the White House following a conference with the President. He sald he had discussed detalls of such a con- solidation plan with Mr. Hoover and had mentioned the estimated saving. Mr. Campbell contends that, besides this an- nual saving, the consolidation plan would bring about a great increase in efficiency. Studied for Year. Mr. Campbell stated that he has been studying this consolidation plan, under Mr. Hoover's direction, for more than a year, and he feels confident that no wild claims relative to actual economies and efficiency to be made figure in his estimation. He stated he had placed a report on this consolidation plan with Chairman Cochran of the House Appropriations Committee at least 45 days ago. He added that a »re complete report will be placed in the hands of the special House Economy Committee, recently created to study reorganization and con- solidation, within tge next few days. ‘The latter committee was created to make a study of reorganization and to report back to the House by April 15. The plan proposed by Mr. Campbell, and sanctioned by the President, and which formed the basis of the Presi- dent’s reference to the personnel sec- tion of his recent message to Congress recommending reorganization, would call for the grouping under a single administrator the several agencles of the Government now engaged in per- sonnel activities. Names Several Boards. He mernitioned the grouping of the Civil Service Commission, the Bureau of Efficiency, the Classification Board, the United States Employes' Compensation Commission and that part of the vet- erans’ administration dealing with civil employes. “We want to have everything con- trolled in one place, and under one head,” Mr. Campbell said. “Under this plan we can handle in one department all of the personnel work in a more effi- cient and economical manner than is done at present. It would make it possible for the records to show at a glance any employe's record from the time application for employment in the Government was made, up to the time the employe left the service or died.” U. S. JUDGES SCORE LODGE RUM RAIDS Reverse Padlock Order on Seven Eagle Lodges and Denounce Ruse of Dry Agents. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, March 2.—Methods f prohibition agents whose raids led to padlocking of seven Eagle Lodges in Western Pennsylvania were denounced by judges of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday in reversing a padlock order imposed by the Federal Court at Pittsburgh last June. Two prohibition agents used lodge membership cards bearing fictitious names to gain entry to the lodge rooms, where they allegedly bought beer and liquor and later obtained search war- rants on which raids were conducted. ‘This subterfuge was denounced by Judge Warren Davis, former Baptist minister, and Judge Victor B. Cooley of Wik n, Del., as “unethical and illegal.” In dissenting opinion, Judge Joseph Buffington, senior mem- ber of the court, held that while the dry agents' tactics might be considered unethical, they were not illegal. ‘The padlocked lodges are at Pitts- burgh, Johnstown, Altoona, New Ken- sington, and three other places not named in the papers filed here. They were ordered padlocked for a year by leral Judge Nelson McVicar in tsburgh. A NITRATE FRAUD DENIED Former Evangelist and Ex-Banker Deny Guilt. LOS ANGELES, March 2 (, Isaac F. Hodge, 61, former evangelist, and Edeson J. Young, former Los An- geles banker, indicted recently in con- nection with the promotion of large nitrate deposits in the Mojave Desert, pleaded not guilty to eight counts of grand theft yesterday. Superior Judge Elliot Craig set their trial date as April 18. They remained at liberty under $20,000 bonds each. Hodge and Young were alleged to have obtained large sums of money from investors on the representation they controlled large nitrate deposits and that the Ford Motor Co. was de- maoou! buying the deposits for $100,~ T NESDAY. NDBERGH READY TORANSON BABY Note Pinned to Window Silll Threatens to Harm Kid- naped Son. (Continued From First Page.) clude a woman, stole through the iso- lated Lindbergh estate last night to snatch the sleeping child, cold, detectives sought to determine exactly how the kidnaping was accom- plished. Though they made no statement of their purpose it was belicved the in- vestigators by reconstructing the actua! crime as nearly as they could, hoped they might come upon some clue to lead them through the maze of con- jecture and despair surrounding the wrole case. Last night while Col. Lindbergh tramped the flelds and surrounding Woo%s in tireless search for his miss- | ing boy, and Mrs. Lindbergh sobbed in the house, refusing to rest, police made a thorough search of house and grounds. Mud Found on Sill. They raised a ladder of their own to the second-floor nursery window and studied minutely the muddied by stealthy boots and the warped shutter which would rot ciose when the baby | was put to bed and so left an of easy entrance to the kid This morning. however, while scores of police and private citizens carried on the search away from the house, detectives changed their methods of examining the scene of the crime and began following the course of the crim- inals as exactly as possible. Taking the rough improvised ladder found this morning about 100 yards from the house, they raised it to the nursery window and cautiously climbed its uneven steps. Standing on & rick- ety upper crossplece, just as the lurk- ing m! must have stood last night before he slid into the dark room to lay hands on the helpless infant, Inspector Francis Kelly mede a micro- scopic examination of sill and shutter. Study Believed Futile. Kelly is fingerprint expert attached to the Morristown police force, and was especially interested in determin- ing whether any identifying marks had been left by the kidnaper. After de- scending he declined to tell reporters if he had found anything of value, but a shake of his head to a superior offi- cer was interpreted as indicating that his hunt had been fruitless. The ladder was left leaning against the window, like a crooked finger pointing at the scene of the shameful crime. Occasionally one detective or another, moving slowly as though in concentrated thought, would climb laborfously to the top, pause for a momentary scrutiny, and then climb carefully into the nursery. The search for the flyer's son was extended into the air today. Authorities asked the Ludington Air Lines for a plane and a big tri-motored ship was immediately dispatched from MNewark Airport with Fred Davis, a veteran pilot, at the controls. Comrades Lend Aid. Col. Lindbergh's comrades of the air also found it impossible to stand idle while tragedy hung over him. The Birdmen, a secret flying organization of which Col. Lindbergh is a member, or- ganized a search party, with headquar- ters at Newark, the New York City Mu- nicipal Airport, and the Aviation Coun- try Club at Hicksville, Long Island. Plans were made to send a score of planes, some of them under control of world-famous _airmen, over the dense woodland of Sourland Mountain in an effort to ferret out the hideaway of the kidnapers. ‘There were no important results from the rch this morning and so far as could be learned no real clues were uncovered, A delivery wagon driver who reported seeing & bundle which looked to him like “a doll baby” lying in the ditch more than a mile from the Lindbergh home was questioned. But he could give no added information and search failed to reveal any bundle. Farmer Tells of Strangers. Luther H. Harding, a farmer, who said a party in a green car stopped him on the road last night and asked the way to the Lindbergh estate, was ques- tioned at length this morning, but the results of his examination were not ‘made public. The investigators were completely baffled at the way in which all the forces of nature and coincidence seemed to have combined to aid the kidnapers. In the first place it was a blustery March night, the wind singing around the house and banging shutters to af- ford ample protection to the figures stealing into the room of the sleeping baby. Also it was a dark night with overcast sky, s0 that even had Col. Lindbergh looked out the window at the very mo- ment he probably would not have real- ized the lurking danger threatening their baby. Shutter Could Not Close. And most amazing of all was the coincidence of the warped shutter. It had been the Lindbergh's custom to open the nursery windows at night, but to close the wooden shutters. But last night Mrs. Lindbergh found one of the shutters so warped it would not ose. And through that unprotected window the hand of tragic crime reached In to steal the sleeping baby while the parents, unsuspecting any harm, en- Joyed a late supper on the floor below. Capt. John Lamb of the State police left the Lindbergh home early today headed, it was understood, for the Still- man Home for Epileptics, a State in- stitution, 4 miles east, to check in- mates with the authorities. The lean colonel, who dared death along the uncharted New York-Paris airway with silent calm, appeared numbed by the catastrophe that reached into the lonely hills to strike at him. Dressed in a leather jacket, an old cap and a worn of trousers, his shoes caked with the sour mud which gives name to the region, he tramped most of the night, seeking some clue to his lost n‘{(nu‘!kjfidbe h, th TS, Tgh, the att; P ter of the late Senator D;?:;l:ewda&gznh_ row, who expects another child with the late Spring, remained indoors, secluded from all callers. Mrs. Morrow in Englewood. Mrs. Dwight Morrow, the baby's grandmother, remained at her home in Englewood after first news of the kid- naping came to her over the telephone in the sobbing voice of the child's mother. It was believed she would come here during the day. Police had not intended to reveal their discovery that one of the kidnap- ers was & woman, but after the infor- mation had been inadvertantly re- vealed, they elaborated somewhat. They aald the clear mark of a woman’'s shoe n dist among thy formless ts of the man, or‘men': stockinged feet. Tracked Two Miles, Maj. Schoeflel of the State police sald the tracks of the kidnapers started from the west side of the Lind- bergh home and were traced a distance of two miles. There were several cross-roads, he said, where a car might have picked them up, but he would not say if tracks of & car that might have been used had been found. ~All roads were so by the visiting automobiles after was spread that it nue cut the who had | | been sick for several days with a bad Loesch Believes Kidnaping Work Of Midwest Ring, Wickersham Probe Mem- ber for Secret Drive to Protect Public. The opinion that the kidnaping of 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., was “obviously the work of profession- -~ and possibly was done by an organ- ?;id ‘kxi‘dnl:pmg Ting from the Midwest, was expressed today by Frank J. Loesch of Chicago, who was a member of the Wickersham Law Enforcement Com- mission. Loesch said he believed the only effec- tive weapon against organized kidnap- ing was the creation of a “national secret organization privately financed * Loesch, Who NOW is pr Chicago Crime Commission, emphatically the Lindbergh crime bore the stamp of kidnapings engineered by a gang he believes is centered in or near Chicago “It was a marvelously arranged af- fair,” he said. “It showed marked familiarity with the Lindbergh premises and those who did it must have been waiting for a long time and must have benefited from inside information—I mean casual or unwitting information gained from some member of the household.” Collection Seen Easy. Loesch saild he b ed it would be easy enough for the tract a large sum for release of the child, since the man set to collect the money probably Would know nofhing of the crime. idnapers to ex- | sident of the | declared oa | of his special knowledge of the sur- | TRAPPER SAYS ONE MANDID KIDNAPING Neighbor of Lindbergh, Wise in Woodlore, Follows Criminal’s Trail. By the Associated P HOPEWELL, N. J, March 2—Un- trained in conventional police methods, but wise in woodlore, Oscar Bush, vet- jeran trapper, neighbor of Col. Charle | A. Lindbergh, has decided that the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped by one man, and not by one or more men and a woman as detectives less believed. Called in by Col. Lindbergh, who knew rounding country, Bush made a careful study of the grounds and then gave his report. neighbors that late last night an auto- mobile turned into a lane near the Lindbergh estate and then turned off its headlights. Gives Theory of Crime. undergrowth which extends to within about 100 yards of the Lindbergh house. According to Bush's theory the kid- napers pulled his car off at the side of the lane and then pulled from the tcnneau the three sections of his home- made ladder. After removing his shoes "1t young Lindbergh had been seized | he then penctrated the bush with his from the sidewalk,” Loesch said, “we clumsy burden and forged toward his might put it dowm as the work of & | objective, the crackling of trampled crank. This crime, however, showed the mark of months of preparation. The kidnapers must have known when the nursery would be empty and must | g have been able to traverse the prem- ises with absolute certainty.” Loesch's views conflicted with those of a high official of the Government's crime-detecting forces, who said he be- lieved the crime was the work of amateurs. Takes Opposite View. “It is fairly incredible,” he added, “that a national kidnaping gang did this job. An expert criminal, wanting only ransom, could have picked any of scores of babies of well-to-do but only locally prominent families. An expert would know that the identity of that baby would bring a concentra- tion of co-operation from every direc- tion.” He said the authorities would have to work on the possibilities that a de- ranged mentality conceived the plot. He also suggested that “inside informa- tion” was held by the criminal. —_— e ported that a few hours before the kidnaping took place two men in a dark sedan stopped a highway worker and inquired directions to the Lind- bergh home. Police watched all main highways throughout the State for a car answer- ing the vague description of the kid- napers’ automobile, The kidnap was discovered at IOJ).m. The baby's nurse, Betty Gow, had put him to bed at 7:30. When she returned to the nursery there was only :flgnp of disordered blankets in the She rushed screaming down stairs to Quiet | the dining room and told the colonel and his wife, eating a late dinner, what had happened. Col. ~Lindbergh immediately tele- phoned the State police and the news of the kidnaping was broadcast to police in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The first newspaper man to reach the Lindbergh residence was an Associated Press reporter, who found the colonel, bareheaded as usual, nervously pacing the grounds, while State and local police and detectives went over the es- tate with flashlights. The house, ablaze with lights, was silhouetted against the fe g m]c]ktrmd of the wooded Sourland The steely calm that Col. Lindbergh displayed in his rocket rise to fame did not desert him. Tight-lipped as ever on subjects touching his private life, his rumpled hair and grim face were the only indi- cations of his feelings as he tramped about his estate, flashlight in hand, in- specting the footprints of the escaped kidnapers of his son, and searching the muddy mountain for other clues. When a reporter asked him for a statement, he turned to Maj. Schoeffel of the State police, who had ordered all available troopers in the district to report to the Lindbergh home. “I prefer that you answer all ques- tlons,” the world's most famous airman said. “You know all about it.” Clothes Are Mud-Caked. “If you would excuse me,” he added to the reporter, “I would rather turn everything over to the State police. I am sure you will understand.” His leather jacket and worn gray trousers were mud-flaked, showing that his frantic search had been extensive, The butler, Ollie Wheatley, and Mrs, Wheatley likewise refused to make any statement, ‘The search of the ground of the estate yielded a scant handful of clues to the kidnapers, who had worked with such quiet and stealthy dispatch that the five adults in the house were never aware of what was happening in the nursery upstairs. The nursery, which is filled with every device for childish pleasure, is situated in the right-hand corner of the second floor front, and faces on the private roadway. The open window through “which the kidnapers entered is 30 feet from the ground. A cordon of police was thrown about the Lindbergh estate early today, to keep out the hundreds of private cars which sped there after hearing of the kidnaping. Roads were snarled in a hopeless traffic jam. Col. Henry Breckenridge of New York, Lindbergh's attorney, accom- penied by another man and a woman. arrived at the house early today and went upstairs immediately. Abandoned Car Found. An abandoned sedan found near Hillsdale, N. J., last night and answer- ing the description of the car thought to have been used by the kidnapers, was stolen from Brooklyn yesterday. The car belongs to Samuel Mandel of Brooklyn. When it was first found au- thorities thought they noticed an oder like chloroform, but Mandel explained he had spilled & bottle of perfume in it last week. Mud-spattered reporters, cold and tired after a hectic night's work, were given the fiying colonel's garage as a headquarters. Col. Breckenridge, Lindbergh's at- torney, served coffee to newspaper men and threw open the garage for those who were at the scene earliest last night. by 2 nerves — Bt dealiesing them. Contains no ¥ \on't upset for miles around | bl‘xsrées covered by the moaning March wind. Dragging his ladder across the mud- y expanse destined to be the Lind- bergh lawn he assembled the ladder and placed it against the nursey win- dow. A moment later he was scuttling through the dark with his tiny victim. Woman's Tracks Old. the ladder and tossed it into a nearby thicket, There it was found morning. Detectives who first examined the grounds decided from footprints they found that & woman was a member of the party and that there were probably two men. But Bush, accustomed to follow the faint tracks of animals through the woods, said the print of a woman's shoe was old, and that all the larger prints were made by one pair of feet. EX-DEPUTY 60LLECTOR'S DEATH TO BE PROBED Robert McCreary, 64, of Chicago Victim of Poison, Physician Tells Authorities. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 2—Robert Mc- Creary, 64, who was deputy collector of customs in charge of the marine divi- sion here 37 years, died yesterday in his Gold Coast home. Dr. A. F. Ste- venson informed the coroner death was caused by poison, and an inquest was ordered. McCreary was an authority on marine law. He retired only last December. He had been ill for a week. Robert N. McCreary, & son, said later he understood heart disease was the cause of death, \ The elder McCreary was born af Richmond, Ky., son of the late -James C. McCreary of Kentucky, who was Governor, member of ~Congress_and Senator. He was a graduate of Yale. The first Mrs. McCreary was drowned near Mackinac Island, Mich., 12 years ago and McCreary was married four wood, N. J, who survives him. A daughter, Mrs. Gatwood Gay, lives at Lexington, Ky. ARMY POLITICS CURBED trol Officers’ Activities. MADRID, March 2 (#)—Premier was approved by the National Assembly last night. It provides for the temporary dis- charge of all officers violating the na- tion's defense law and ohibits tAN ublication of unoffic] periodicals aring military names. .. Two Held in Cuban Plot. SANTIAGO, Cuba, March 2 (#).— Paco Vazquez, mayor of the small town of Jiguani, near here, and Olimpio tive in the House, were arrested yes- terday on charges of conspiracy to rebel against the government. The services are the He took as a premise reports of | That lane skirts a tangled patch of | Returning to the house he took down | this | years ago to Mrs. Alice Karcher, Engle- | Bpain Passes Bill Designed to Con- | Manuel Azana’s bill designed to control | the political activities of army officers | Fonseca, Conservative party representa- | FIGHT. . GONTROL - FOR MOFOR LINES Opponents of Interstate Reg- ulation Testify at Hearing. Opponents of regulation for highway motor carriers today attacked the pro- |posal to put interstate operation of busses and trucks under the jurisdice | tion of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission at the hearing conducted by the commission on the report of Attor- ney Examiner Leo J. Flynn. This re- 4port recommended contrcl of the rates and services of this form of transpor- | tation. | The argument was directed princi- pally in behalf of trucking interests, & group of witnesses saying it was im- practicable and not in public interest to regulate the public carriers. Fears Lack of ‘Sympathy’. H. S. Shertz, on behalf of the Inter- state Motor Carriers’ Association, o posed any immediate regulation of motor vehicles operating for hire on the |ground that neither the Interstate | Commerce Commission nor any other body has had sufficlent experience with highway operations to administer such regulations. He said, however, motor pera would not be against any reasonable regulation if som> practica- ble nlan were found after an intelligent study and investigation “by a sympa= thetic body."” He said the reilroads overemphasize the extent to which motor carriers | bave cut into their business. John S. Burchmore of the Natjonal Industrial Trafic League declared the public is entitled to the most economical transportation it can obtain by all means and agencies, and no legisiation should be attempted which would stifie any form of legitimate transportation. Control Principle Upheld. The principle of regulation was up= held yesterday by Stephen Robinson on behalf of the Jowa Board of Commissioners and by John E. Benton, representing the Natlonal Association of Railroad and Utilities Commis- sioners. The former propesed that the regula- tion should be effected by the Inter- state Commerce Commission in co-op= eration with State commissions. Mr. Benton favored joint State boards whose rulings would be subject to final action by the I. C, C. where necessary. T. R. Dahl, representing the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, re< iterated the opposition of that organi- zation to truck regulation, but said there was no objection to controlling bus transportation. e On the disputed question of whether the highway carriers pay for the roads in proportion to the use they make of them, Mr. Dahl said he doubted that maintenance cost was increased be- cause of the heavy vehicles, but if such was shown to be the case he had no doubt that the industry as a whole was willing to bear such increased cost. \CHEMICAL WARFARE REGULATION DOUBTED Student Representative to Armg Parley Predicts Disagreement - Among Nations. By the Assoclated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conp., March 2—A prediction m the Geneva Disarma< ment Conference will fail to regulates chemical warfare was made last by James F. Green of Kansas I Yale senior, who attended the confere ence’s early sessfons as a representae tive of American college students. “The gut powers are um.u!mousl; opposed to gas and chemical warfare, Green told a campus m: , “but are not in the least enth c for the. only method of control—prohibition of manufacture and strict supeérvision, with full publicity, of all chemical in- dustry.” Green that the American people shor be told of the relation of the War Depariment to the country's leading chemical plants and university research laboratories, “even if a spe< cial committee of investigation is neces- sary.’ “Delegates at Geneva are beginn! to discuss the ‘humanization of w’:’# and the formation of ‘human rules of war,'” Green said. “Nothing eould be more absurd. “‘Such phrases are but a smoke screem |thrown up to delude the simple~ minded.” France Files in Oregon. 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