Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1932, Page 5

KIONAPING JOINS | “BIGMONEY” GRIME More Than 2,000 Persons Have Been Abdticted in Two- Year Wave in U. S. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 2.—The kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 3d, came as a climax to what anti-crime crusaders here said was a two-year wave of kidnaping in which 2,000 or more ; persons were abdusted for ransom in the United Staics During those years, authorities said, kidnaping joined robbery, liquor, vice and drug traffic as a “big-money crime.” Kidnaping syndicates tortured or terrorized victims into paying mil- lions of dollars ransom, they said. “There probably were 400 kidnapings in Illinois during 1930 and '31," said Alexander Jamie, chief investigator of the “Secret Six"” here. “Forty-nine vic- tims reported officially paid ransom, many others were released without ran- som and several hundred made no offi- cial reports.” Seck Capital Offense Law. 1In a desperate fight to stem the wave, midwest crime fighters have banded to- gether to obtain Federal legislation that would deter abductions by making transportation of a kidnaped person irom one State to another a capital crime. A petition for such legislation has been submitted to Congress by Col. Rob- ert Isham Randolph, head of Chicago's famous “Secret Six,” Walter B. Weisen- burger, president of the St. Louis Cham- ber of Commerce, and others. Famous Kidnapings Recalled. Although organized kidnapings for ransom are a comparatively recent out- growth, the authorities recalled that the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby tops a long list of abductions of the last few decades, of which these re- ceived Nation-wide attention: 1874—Charles Ross, Germantown, Pa., never found although large re- wards have been offered for his safe Teturn. 1898—Gerald Lapiner, Chicago. Later found in Ohio. 1900—Edward Cudahy of the famous meat packing family. Pat Crowe served & prison term for this kidnaping. 1907—Rose Giordano, New York. Re- turned home and abductors arrested two years later. 1909—Bill Whitla, Sharon, Pa., re- leased after payment of $10,000 ran- som. Kidnapers sentenced to prison. 1910—Michael Soimeca, New York. Held for $8,000 ransom and later found slain. 1911—Letha and Hazel Gretchel, Chicago. Brought back from Kenosha, ‘Wis,, unharmed. Baby Hencks, Chi- cago; her fate is still a mystery, al- though she was believed to have been slain. 1913—Catherine Winters, Newcastle, 3nd. Never found. 1915—Ginny Glass, Jersey City, N. J., to have been slain. Baby Found Slain. 1917—Baby Lloyd Keet, Springfield, Mo. Found slain. 1919—Billy Dansey, New Jersey. Body found months later in a swamp. 1924—Bobby FPranks, Chicago. Slain for a ‘thrill” by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, university students, now serving life and 99-year terms in the Illinois Penitentiary at Joliet for crime. 1927—Marian Parker, 12, Los Angeles, Her mutilated body was returned to her father and after a sensational hunt, Edward Hic was. hanged in 1928 @s her “thrill slayer.” 1928—Melvin Horst, 4, Orrville, Ohio, Never found. Two men went to prison, convicted of kidnaping, but later won new trials and acquittals. 1929—Jackie Thompson, Detroit. Re- ‘turned after payment of $17,000 ransom and three men convicted and $5,000 re- covered later. 1930—Michael H. Katz, drug company head, Kansas City. Paid $100,000 for his release two days after abduction. 1931—Mrs. Nell Donnelly, Kansas City manufacturer. Held for $50,000 ransom, but returned safely, supposedly without payment. Dr. Isaac D. Kelly, St. Louis. Held for $150,000 ransom, but released after paying undisclosed sum. 1931—Marian McLean, 6, Cincinnati, found dead from criminal assault. Charles Bischoff, 45, confessed, was de- clared insane, and was sent to the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane for observation. 1931—Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13, #on of Percy J. Orthwein and grandson of August A. Busch of St. Louis, was returned safely after being held 20 hours. Family denied paying ransom. Charles Abernathy, colored, now serving 10 years in prison for the kidnaping. e LEAVES CREDIT JOB TO NEW U. S. BODY National Credit Corporation Closes | . Activity as Reconstruction { Heads Take Charge. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORE, March 1.—The Na- tional Credit Corporation, of which! Mortimer N. Buckner is the active| head, has definitely ended the most active phase of its rescue work and gradually is giving way to the new and larger governmentally sponsored organization, the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation, it was learned in Wall Street today. While formal figures have not yet been presented, it was estimated in banking circles that loans of the Na- tional Credit Corporation stand at about $150,000,000. Its work is being made permanent by two governmental moves—the new uction Pinance Corporation and the Glass-Steagall act, designed to remove certain credit and currency structures on the Federal Reserve system. ‘The National Credit Corporation was formed last October, American banks having subscribed to the capital struct- ure of $500,000,000. Thus far the| corporation has called for payment of $150,000.000 of these subscriptions. A% the end of January the corporation had made 644 loans. some of them ranging down to $10,000 in size. 8ince the Reconstruction Pinance Corporation was formed the National Credit Corporation has had fewer calls for assistance. This improvement be- came pronounced in the last few weeks, when k suspensions fell off abruptly. OFFICIALS CUT SALARIES Edako Governor and State Em- ployes Accept 10 Per Cent Slash. BOISE, Idaho, March 2 (#).—Gov. C. Ben Ross and all State officers and employes under his direction who recetve $100 & month or more took 10 per cent salary cuts yesterday. ‘The Governor made the announce- ment after a conference with depart- ment heads. He said he disliked to make a reduction, but felt it was in keeping with the times, as the farmers, who constitute a large part of the State’s population, “are receiving almost mothing for their crops.” , ‘The amount of the saving was esti- imated at_between $30,000 and $50.000 year. Ross’ Photographs of Lindbergh Family and Home Where Kidnaping Occurred THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1932. GREAT FORTUNES BEHIND LINDBERGH Flyer, Poor in 1927, Now Has $2,000,000 Aside From Morrow Wealth. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 2—The fortune on which the kidnapers of the Lind- bergh baby apparently seek to lay hands constitutes one of the largest in New Jersey. Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh are believed in aviation circles here to be worth between $2,000,000 and $3,- 000,000, while the fortune which the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow, a for- mer Morgan partner, left to Mrs. UA bergh’s mother has been popularly e mated at nearly $19,000,000. Col. Lindbergh was a poor boy when he hopped off in a borrowed plane for Paris in a flight that made him the world's foremost birdman. smiled. He got the $25000 Orteig prize for the fight, and the St. Louis group which backed his venture, gave him the “Spirit of St. Louls” plane in recogni- tion of his success. He received an un- disclosed sum from Daniel Guggenheim for making a tour of the United States after his return, later becoming tech- nical adviser for Pan-American Air- ways and T. A. T, as well as serving in an advisory capacity for the airways division of the Department of Com- merce. His salarles from the two avi- ation concerns are reported to total $50,000 yearly. Large sums came to him from news- paper syndication, and from & book he wrote. The first check he received for the book was $100,000, aviation circles said, and royalties are still coming in Miscellaneous awards in recognition of his flight swelled the total, while in 1929 newspapers said the then Amba sador Morrow had established a $1, 000,000 trust fund for his daughter Anne, Lindbergh's wife. ————— WORD FLASHED HERE Police Radio Car Picks Up ‘“Look- Out” for Kidnap Car. A lookout for the automobile believed to have been used by the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby was received here by two sixth precinct policemen shortly after 3 o'clock this morning. The officers. J. K. Eawards end F. L. Ach, were cruising in a radio-equipped police car when the message was rz- ceived. “It was brodeast by a rddio station in Buffalo,” d it requested police in all part: country to be on the lookout for a machine bearing New Jersey tags num- bered A-115! 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Lindbergh, standing by. spoke over the radio in New York a few days ago. Lower, left to right: Col and Mrs, Charles A. Lindbergh, photographed during their air trip across Canada on their way to the Orjent. last night at the Lindbergh home, near Hopewell, N. J., shortly after the kidnaping was discovered, and New Jersey State police, neighbors and reporters had gathered as the search for clues was made around the grounds. Picture of the Lindbergh baby taken last Summer and showing him in care of his nurse at the Morrow estate at North Haven, Me. Inset: Mrs. Lindbergh holding her baby son for one of his first pictures, at the age of about 2 weeks. FAMOUS AVIATORS FORM AERIAL POSSE Secret Organization Members Take Off From All Parts of East to Aid Hunt. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. March 2.—Famous air- men of the East, fellow members with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in the fra- ternal organization known as the Quiet Birdmen, formed an aerial posse tod: to attempt to discover from the air the hideout of the kidnapers of the flying colonel’s baby son. From the headquarters of the secret organization the bare statement was made that decision had been reached to organize a search party, but the identity of the flyers to participate was not revealed. They all want to avold any sug-| gestion that they are trying to get any publicity out of this,” an official of the order said. “They just want to do what they can to help their buddy and they're keeping their names out of it. They'll be taking off from various Eastern airports all mornfhg.” Among members of the Quiet Bird- men are such famous figures as Clar- | ence Chamberlin, Bernt Balchen, Rear | Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Charles (Casey) Jones, Wiley Post, Clyde Pang- born and many others LUDINGTON PL._NE SENT. ‘Trl-MomrEd hip to Search Hills for Kidnaping Clue. NEW YORK, March 2 (#)—The Ludington Air Lines announced today that at the request of the authorities it was sending a tri-motored airplane to Hopewell, N. J, to aid in the search for the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. The plane was to leave Newark air- port this morning and will be placed at_the disposal of State police. MATERIAL FROM OLD JOHN W. Thompson Home 1419 Eye St. NW. Wrecking Sale A wonderful uppormnity,_ if you act quickly, to secure fine material at attractive prices. Wall Mirrors Crystal Chandeliers Doors Lumber Windows Plumbing Walnut Trim and Paneling Many Other Items! For Saie Only on Job 1419 Eye St. NW. Hechinger Co. Wrecking Dept. By the Assoclated Press. | HOPEWELL, N. J, March 2.—No criminal would ask & more eerie and isolated spot for a crime and getaway | than the Sourland Hill section in which | the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped last | night | "tanding on the second highest emi- nence in New Jersey, the new Lindbergh estate—a $50,000 nome—is almost com- | pletely cut off from the outside world. A narrow road, stezp, rocky and muddy, | winds up from the farm country below, and it was along this that the kid- napers_fled. | Sourland Mountain, the eminence is | called. When the house was being built | last year, a visitor asked a watchman why it was named that. The watchman reached down, grabbed e handful of soil and placed it under the visitor's | nose. It had a sour smell. In the front yard of the Lindberghs'| 550-acre tract is & private landing field, | while behind the house are dense woods. The house s 70 feet long, and :ts entire length is fronted by a terrace, frcm | which Mrs. Lindbergh can see the | Flying Colonel as he swoops from the | sky after a trip. | The nursery from which the golden- | | curled child “was snatched is on the | second floor, with its windows looking | out on the road. The back docr of the | mansion, which suggests the entrance | |to such Colonial taverns as adorn | Christmas cards, opens into & paved parking space. Long ago this mountain country in- terested historians, geologists and seek- ers of atmosphere. Geologists have studled it because it is an example of how trap rock millions of years ago melted and forced its way up through 28 Years of Service DENTISTRY In All Bgaunche.s LOWER = PRICES EASIER TERMS FREE DENTAL X-RAYS RESTORING LOST TEETH During the many years of my dental practice I have developed & successful technique for re- storing lost teeth. I invite you to take advantage of this service. Dr. Carleton Vaughan DENTIST LINDBERGH HOME'S ISOLATION | LENDS HELP TO KIDNAPERS 'Sourland Hill, Long of Interest to Geolo- gists, Linked With World by Narrow, Rocl(y Road to Farmlands. T _A-S | LINDBERGH BABY EANOLS AT BRTH Report of His Arrival in June, 1930, Was One of Year’s Biggest News Stories. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 2.—Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 3d, is only 20 | months old, but he’s a world-famous person. His birth was one of the big- gest news stories of 1930, and his first photograph was one of the most prized pictures in the history of journalistic photography. And he's the “living image” of his famous father. He came as a birthday gift to his | mother, Mrs. Anne Lindberga, for she was 24 that day. June 22, 1930. His father was 28, and he's just past 30 | now. Grandfather Gave Tip. News of his arrival was “let out” an hour after the birth by his grandfather, the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow who told a friend “I'm a grandfather, and it's a boy But don't tell any’one.” | But the secret was one that could not | be kept long, for many friends had been aware of the preparations made at the Morrow home in Englewood. A short time after the birth, the news | was announced from the home to the Associated Press and flashed to the far | corners of the earth. | Within an hour messages came from | everywhere and every class of people. Strangers came in long processions to the gate. An hour after the news broke A& soI'g sung in the baby's honor was heard on the radio. World Sent Congratulations. Prom Mexico City, where the country’s most noted youth wooed Miss Anne Morrow, came telegrams from President Ortiz Rublo and countless others, France “adopted” the child in a transport of felicitation. In New Jersey little chilaren picked daisies and | :g:ea them to the guards for “Lindy's y." Gifts poured in, from baby carriages to fuzzy dogs, and the nursey became crammed with an assortment of toys that would delight any child's heart. Mothers throughout the Nation read 2ll about it with avidity, It was important news when a dis- patch from Washington told that the child’s first book was to be “The Painted Pig.” by his grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrow. At birth the child—robust and promising—weighed seven and one-half pounds. He is now strong and golden- haired. Blue eyes peer out from a chubby face and his locks have a way of curling and rumpling like his father’s. Given Father's Name. There was some discussion among the family as to what he should be called, but of course his mother was the final arbiter and “Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 3d, he became. Before he was .very old his father yielded to thedeager Tequests of news- | paper men and, taking photographs of him with his own camera, distributed | them to newspapers. They got front- page position everywhere. . The little tot has never taken a ride in an airplane. Before he was four weeks old it was reported he would fly | with his parents to the home of his grandfather at North Haven, Me. but Photograph taken | Kidnapers Face Five Years to Life Under Jersey Law By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, March 2.— Kidnaping is a high misdemeancr in New Jersey and any person found guilty of it is subject to a life sentence in State Prison at hard labor. The minimum sen- tence is five years. layers of shale to form the “backbone” of a mountain ridge. Near the Lindbergh home is & “rock | house” with a cleavage large enough to conceal a man. John Hart, a signer | of the Declaration cf Independence, is sald to have hidden there to escape BRITISH SHOW ANXIETY LONDON, March 2 to capture him. | Lindberg Col. Lindbergh and his wife chose | of the U their home site from the sky soon after the marriage. It is too high for fogs and faces the by world, between Newark and Camden. 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Even if cotton were stuffed into his ears, they said. the roar of the engines might impair his Learing for life. Stayed at Morrow Home, LINDBERGH’S MOTHER CONTINUES TEACHING| et st smew mome. | guarded like the precious youngster he —A. P. Photos. ]| Not Go to New Jersey Unless| is, and only left there to take several trips by train to Maine. When his parents flew to the Orient last year he was taken to North Haven for a long visit to escape the infantile paralysis epidemic which was sweeping New York and vicinity. [ Cranks, It was disclosed, had_ sent | several etters reatening anger to DETROIT, March 2.—Mrs. C. A. |40 oy and for a time special watch- Lindbergh, sr., mother of Col. Charles | men were hired to guard him. A Lindbergh, carried on in her chiss| For several months he has been at room at the Cass Technical High School | the private kindergarten of his aunt, here today desplte the kidnaping of her Eilz8beth Morrow, 8t Englewood. 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