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A—4 FORESTS HAMPER KIDNAPER SEARCH Lindbergh’s Craving for Soli- tude Works Against Efforts to Recover Baby. By a 8taff Correspondent of The Btar. HOPEWELL, N. J, March 3.—The eraving of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh for solitude and escape from the crowds that have made his life & public show for the past four years is the factor that is making most difficult the search for the daring criminals who kidnaped his baby. When the “Lone Eagle” sought an aerie in the New Jersey hills, where he might find haven from the prying world, he succeeded better than he realized. The home he has built among the rocks and forests is as wild and inaccessible as the nest of any eagle. His home is surrounded on three sides by dense forests, the trees of which rise from a bewildering rubble | of boulders ranging from the size of & coconut to that of & bouse. It is a tangled. wild and impenetrable area of hills and valleys and it affords. in- numerable hiding places for a desperate man, Believe Lindbergh's patrolling the They Are Nearby. fellow pilots, who are air above his wilderness | home, believe the kidnapers have not escaped from the immediate vicinity of the house, but are hiding in the fast- nesses of the hills which are Lind- bergh’s” protection against his inquisi- tive fellow beings. The jumbled rocks and tangled for- ests of the Sourland Mountains, on the highest point of which Lindbergh built his home, are historic as & sanctuary and hiding place for the hunted. It is related that one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, fleeing from British dragoons at Trenton, escaped into these same wooded hills and there holed up like a fox until his pursuers gave up in disgust and left him to his easy-won freedam. Commercial and military pilots who have gathered at the scattered airports in the Sourland country have been in- structed to watch for the gleam of a campfire or a tell-tale wisp of smoke which may betray the hiding place of the kidnapers, in case they are still lurking there. Whole Region Aroused. The kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby has aroused this rural countryside as has nothing else in the memory of the oldest farmers. The daily pursuits of life virtually have come to a standstill in the Sour- lands. The able-bodied men and boys for miles around are taking part in the search. The town of well, near- est community to the Lindbergh home, has taken on the aspect of a little county seat on court day. The town is overrun with newspaper men. police and W) THE 'EVENING Lindy’s Missing Baby This picture of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby was made two weeks ago and was given out yesterday by his father in an ort to ald the search for the child. —Wide World Photo, NATIVES RELATE EERIE TALES OF REGION OF LINDBERGH HOME Sourlancls of Mercer-Hunterdon County Line Notorious in Local Folklore as Scene of Weird Happenings. By the Associated Press. | turn to earth and stalk the living along HOPEWELL, N. J, March 3.—The the lonely roads. And high in the deso- Sourlands—that group of eerie and |late reaches of the stony hills Pete uninhabited hills on the Mercer-Hunt- | Nixon's wraith floats along to the sad- erdon County line in which nestles the | dening music of his fiddle, in vain home of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind- | quest of the head of Ben Peterson bergh, is notorious in local folklore as| removed with a shotgun in 1877. the _scene. of strange and weird legend. Charley Sutphin, who has lived in the Woodchopper Marked. region ail of his 70 years, will tell you| U) from their graves in the sour- lands come the restless souls of others | in the ‘temporarily Princeton Airport, about 10 miles from the Lindbergh home. It was from this field that a tri-motored Line transport plane, ordered out the National Capital, made its survey flight z vfla and New York newspaper men and photographers plloted by Fred in the afternoon h home and its ‘Taking off into the amazingly clear, crisp air of a perfect Marc¢h afternoon, Davis pointed the nose to the westward, where the low but dominating . The hnldwlpe !firumln‘ below grew amazingly primitive, considering the proximity of New York, Philadei- phia and the teeming metropolitan areas of New Jersey. fitattered farmhouses stood in the valleys, and on the ridges were homes of wealfhy metropolites, as aloof and remote as ancient baronial- fortresses. Most lonely and remote of. them all was that of the Lindberghs. The farm- lands had given way almost entirely to forests and rocks, The nearest human habitation was a half mile or more from | the Lindbergh house and within an area of several miles there were less than a half dozen scattered farm- houses Rough, muddy, rutted roads were the only arteries of travel near the home, though Lindbergh has had a stretch of a half mile or so of the road leading up to his tome graveled. From the air the stretch appeared to be badly cut up and the cars traveling there seemed to have difficult going. Curious Autoists Stopped. Outside the entrance to the Lind-, bergh grounds, police were stopping cars of the idly curious and they were lined up along narrow country trails which probably see few vehicles in normal times A score of cars had climbed tke hill and were clustered in the walled court- yard in front of the white brick home of the Lindberghs. Clusters of gray- uniformed State policemen. newspaper men and State and county officials | gazed up as the plane droned over- head. Their attention was attracted, probably, simply because it was & tfi- motored ship and the planes which had been circling around all morning were smaller, single-motored srips. It did not seem to be a happy crowd. No d. though the plane roared w 50 the photographers might out through the open doorway of the plane, the door having been re- moved for the purpose Having completed his mission. Davis flew his passengers back to Newark little more than a quarter hour away. and the Washington observers werc flown back hc last night on the regular Ludington airliners LEARY TO COMMAND | ‘Will Take Charge of U. 8. 8. Port-‘ This Summer. A native Washingtonian, Capt. Her- | bert F. Leary, U. S. N, will command | | land what he has seen and heard. who were looking for their ancient On cold still nights, when the frost is In the ground, Charley says he has | friends, the rye and applejack distillers at Dawlis Mills in the vilage of Am- heard the roars of Stook the butcher | and the frenzied shrieks of Stook’s girl | well, at Drake's, in Woodsville; at old Peter Dilts' place in Post Town, near as she feels her lover's fingers on her throat. the Deyils Half Acre, and at Larisons Near the road at the Buttonwoods|Corner, Ringoes, Neshanic and Van Corners, T on a flat blue-jingler | Liews Corner and Mount Rose. rock, Knitting Betty tirelessly knits.| OId Charley affirms the episode of Charley has seen her. She vanishes| the muzzy woodchopper ~who, made when apy one comes too close. Her | brave by applejack, dared, touch one haunt is now part-of the Lindberghs | of the spectral females, or, rather, tried back: yard. to. Her hand slitheted across his cheek and to his death he bore the im- Devil's Own Stronghold. prm hfir wrath. R i Other things has Charley seen, and things, also, do rley’'s wife, many more 25 he hesrd. Once this|Rene Wilson Sutphid, and his brother- place was the devil's own stronghold | in-law, Hank Wilson, belleve and re- and when he wanted to build & wall to | peat. “And they are not afone, for Wil- separate the East from the West he flew | liam Dean of North Mafn_stréet tells to Maine for material. Back he came, |of the affair of the late Rev. George soaring over New York and the bay A. Eaton, who once served the baptistry across Navesink, turning where the | of the Sourlands. Raritan flows, slyly winking at & par- Tait mis Ares Ksclecs s hter in- Bridgewater. and iysss o o e ® 5 Late one night on tne Rileyville- on to Neshanic, and there his apron strd broke and the rocks came Hopewell road, riding home from the death bed of & member of the congre- tumbling down. gation, the minister met a man on &a: And Charley (himself has seen l:m‘ Yhite horse. He recognized him as the s 2y uilt i G O e e e ehr hame. | man who had died within the hour. where the Lindberghs make their home, I and the focks called the Three Broth- “Meet me tonight in the dark woods, ers, standing over against the skyline said the wraith on the-hill, named for the hermit Pero,| “I can not,” said the clergyman who lived nearby in a cave. “Then hold out your hand,” com- Sam Cruse, colored and racial broth- | manded the spirit. p er of Charley, was shot to death in| The minister put out his hand and Princeton Basin and Dory Cruse was the wraith touched it. From that time fatally beaten in 1873, On certain | until his death Mr. Eaton’s arm was nights, legend has it, their manes re- useless, Dean affirms. HYDE IS FAVORABLE WILKERSON'S 0.K. T0 ECONOMY SHFT ~URGED BY LOESCH Transfer of Roads Bureau Senate Committee Hearsf Might Save Money, Head of Chicago Crime He Declares. Board Ask Confirmation. | I | | By the Associated Pres:. Confirmation of Judge James H. Wil- kerson of Chicago as circuit judge was recommended to a Senate Judiciary Committee today by Frank J. Loesch, ! president of the Chicago Crime Com- | mission. Loesch, who was a member of the Wickersham Commission, said he was supporting Wilkerson because of “the | way in which he handled the Capone matter.” { Judge Wilkerson, Loesch said, had shown himself to be “perfectly fair, very industrious and very courieous.” Loesch was presented by Glenn, Republican, of Tilinois, supnorting Wilkerson's nomination. Glenn placed In the record resolu- | tions indorsing Wilkerson by the bar | associations of the Northern Illinois counties in his present district All but two of the associations have indorsed Wilkerson, Glenn said, and one of them explained it was contrary ) its custom. Glenn also placed before the commit- By the As d Press Secretary Hyde testified before the | House Expenditures Committee today that if the sgriculture viewpoint were Tetained in the Bureau of Public Roads he saw no objection to its transfer to | an administration of public works. Sees Chanee for Saving. | Appearing at the special inyitation of the committee to give his views on & bill pending to crcate an administra- tion of public works. the Becretary said | he thought there might b= some re- sultant .saving from the consolidation | of building_activities into one depart- | ment: bur that he could mot “put my (finger on a specific saving.” The appearance of Hyde led Chair- man Cochran to say he “might yet have to withdraw my charge that cabinet officers aren't co-operating” with Con- gressmen sceking to reduce expendi- tures by merging Government activittes, P by questioners as to what “specific saving” would be achieved by | the consolidation, Hyde said: Unable to Give Detalls. | “Once more 1 say it is impossible the new cruiser U. S. S. Portiand, when she i commissioned in the late Sum- mer. The Navy Department today issued orders directing that Capt. Leary, ncw under instructicn at the Naval War Col- lege, Newport, R. I. proceed tg Forc River, Mass., 10 the plant of the Bethle- hem Shipbullding Corporation, where the U. S. S. Portland is being con- structed Capt. Leary will have charge of the fitting out of the new craft. first officer assigned to command the new cruisers authorized by t! of February 13, 1929. OUSTS CUPID,WEDS ROMEO ‘Woman Divorced in Reno Likes Romantic Christian Names. Mrs. Bertha M. Buckley lost her faith in Cupid, but she feil for Romco. She was grantsd a divorce at Reno from Cupid Buckley, and then married Romeo Whitton. is the one of he set — Beggar Leaves $250,000. Forsythe, a deaf-and-dumb London, England, lefs an $250,000. tec indorsements of Wilkerson by offi- cers of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Eleciric Ratlway Employes of Chicago Willlam Quinlan, president, said Wil- | kerson “always evinced a fair and attitude toward the cause of to put my finger on any individual man | we could be able to discharge, or any particular work we would be able to I do think it would do awsy with, b i be possible to m advantage of scason: diff k | - survey specific thought might L. D. Bland, editor of the organiza- tion's Ohicago journal, said Wilkerson had been “fair and impartial” toward | labor. the committee about expense he achieved. — | ART T0-GO ON BLOCK | Loescl |story of his battle against corruption 0. Million-Pound Collection in Ch Sold in U. 8. ‘ Without iterruption, he told of vise iting Al Capone in 1928 to appeal for LENOX, Mass., March 3 (#—The |Lerd | George-Nathaniel Cureon a fair election in the pell. “I remonstrated with him for his conduct and told him he ought to be a better American citizen,” Loesch said. edlesten art collection will be brought to this country from England for dis- posal on the block, Cortland Field, Bishop of Lenox. announced yesterday. Pinally Loesch said he asked Capone | to “keep your damn Italian hoodlums lection. | The collection is worth in the vicinity {of a millicn pounds. Lord Curzon wes | out of the el Capone offered him a drink. Loesch {said, and then replied: “I'l help.” Loesch addad 1400000 votes were I8 former goyorncr gencral of India. | 3t I the election and “there was no The announcement by the bishop was his second within a week to cause a stir among art collectors the world over. | He recently ganounced thit his Ameri- disorder of any kind.” “It was the only honest election in can art galleries in New York had taken g« the Sir™ collection Chicago in 30 years,” the witness said, “Wiliam sale at suction. h told the committee a long to Be The smow bunting, & birdiraely scen TEiaRe na Reivenon Monniatos. | point of the excitement STAR, WASHIN 100,000 MEN SEARCH FOR MISSING BABY Hunt for Kidnapers of Lind- bergh Child Largest Made in U. S. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 3.—The kid- naping of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's baby son has set in motion the most widely flung police search this country has ever known. Every law-enforcing agency of the Eastern half of the United States and Canada is taking part in the man- hunt, with thousands of civilian volun- teers also offering their services. Police here estimate that more than 100,000 police officers and citizens are making the search for the child and his ab- ductors. Every communication artery from the Canadian border subjected to constant tiay. Thou- sands of automobiles are veing stopped and searched hourly and their occu- pants compelled to identify themselves. Ferries, bridges, rallroad trains stations, ship lines and interurban busses are being closely watched, Radio Facilities Used. The radio facilities of the Nation have also been pressed into service to aid in the man hunt. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the New Jersey State Police, has made a direct appeal by radio to the citizens of his own and neighboring States to enlist in the search for the Lindbergh baby and his kidnapers. Broadcasting systems kegt their key | stations here on the air throughout the night to inform the public of develop- ments. They also broadcast the diet | on which the baby has been subsisting and appealed to the kidnapers to give him the proper food and treatment. ‘Telephone switchboards of the broad- casting companies were flooded with calls again today from listeners who had suggestions to make in connection with the case. A number of them urged that Mrs. Lindbergh be asked to make a plea | by radio for her baby’s safe and speedy return, [ Among the units co-operating In the | man-hunt are State and local police de- partments, customs and immigration of- ficials, prohibition agents, trained in- vestigators of the Department of Justice and the Post Office Department and such groups as the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Hundreds of Messages. Hundreds of messages are being transmitted hourly over a complex net- work of telephone, telegraph and tele- type wires. connecting scores of State and city police departments, as all re- ports bearing on the case are flashed to those directing the search. Alrplanes took off from half a dozen airports in this vicinity as the Quiet Birdmen, s secret freternal order of famous fiyers, organized a fiving posse in a search for clues that might aid their fellow pilot, Col. Lindbergh, in trailing the kidnapers. Two planes with photographers and special map- ping camera have made aerial maps of the terrain surrounding the Lind- bergh residence near Hopewell, N. J. (Copyright, 1932.) DOAK WILL ADDRESS VOCATIONAL SESSION Annual Conference of Directors and Supervisors Will Open Monday. Secretary of Labor Doak will be one of the speakers at an annual confeg- ence of State directors and State ani local supervisors of vocational educa- tion in agriculture and home economics convening at the Wardman Park Hotels beginning next Monday. The conference, under auspices of the Federal Board for Vocational Edu- cation, will bring together workers in the flelds of vocational education in home economics and vocational educa- tion in agriculture from 13 North At- lantic and 12 Southern States. Among other speakers scheduled to address the assembly are Miss Florence | Hale, president National Education Association; Dr. F. J. Kelly and Miss Bess Goodycoontz, office of education Department of Interior; Dr. Harry M Johnson, head of department of educa- tional psychology. American Universit and Dr. J. C. Wright, director of agri cultural education service. In addition to the business program of the conference, arrangements have been made for luncheon meetings, a banquet to take place March 9 and sev- eral educational trips. $2,500 ASKED FOR G. A. R. Bill Would Provide Money to Dec- orate Graves of War Heroes. Appropriation of $2,500 for use by the Grand Army of the Republic in the purchase of flowers and flags to deco- rate graves of the Union dead in na- tional cemeteries in the District and in Aryington National Cemetery is sought in ‘a bill pending in Congress today. It wes Introduced by Senator Robinson, Republican, Indiana Tobacco for veterans in Federal hos- pitals and homes was sought in a bill introduced by Senator Watson, Repub- lican, Indiana. It would not be fur- nished to those recplving money while being cared for. ROAD ROUTS TOLL HOUSE An old toll house which has stood 150 years on Ridge Pike, Pa. will be moved 100 feet from its present location because of plans to widen the highway for_motorists. ‘The house was abandoned 40 years ago. GTON, PATTERSON URGES | uth is being | d | force the law effi- D. C, THURoDAY, SPEEDY U. 5. ACTION Author of Kidnaping Bill Points to Need for Death Penalty. BY ROSCOE C. PATTERSON, United Btates Senator from Missourl. On December 10, 1931, I introduced a bill making it a Federal offense that may be punishable by death to trans- port from one State to another & ki naped person. There have been in recent months 283 kidnapings in various parts of the coun- try. Thirteen vic- tims have been murdered. Many others have been tortured. Large sums of money have been obtained from either the victims or relatives. Many of the vic- been | tremely difficult for the authorities of the State to en- clently, as the po- lice power of the State does not extend beyond the State boundaries. Witnesses Intimidated. A part of the program of the Kid- naping racketeer is to intimidate wit- ne: by ihreats against ihe witness himself or against his family. The re- sult is that witnesses will refuse to g0 to another State to testify, for fear they will arouse the wrath of the cruel racketeer who will visit his vengeance upon such witness or his loved ones. This situation emphasizes the impor- tance of the Government, both State and National, exercising all of its pow- ers to suppress these outrageous crimes. The kidnaping of Col. and Mrs. Lind- bergh’s baby has forcefully accentuated the necessity of using all of the powers of the Government in combating these crimes. ‘The bill which T introduced, denounc- iny kidnaping as a Federal offense, was | referred to the Committee on Judiciary in the Senate, and Senator Norris. chairman, promptly appointed a sub- committee, consisting of Senators Wat- | erman of Colorado, Schall of Minnesota | | and Neely of West Virginia, to consider the bill. | Passage Recommended. The subcommittee has recommended‘ the passage of the bill to the Judiciary | Committee. I do not think that there | is any serious opposition to this needful | legislation. It is my opinion that the | only reason the bill has not been rec- | ommended to the Senate by the Judi- clary Committee for favorable action is that the Judiciary Committee has been exceptionally busy during the present session with the anti-injunction legis- lation and other matters of much im- portance. A companion bill to the one I in- troduced in the Senate was introduced in the House by Representative John J. Cochran of Missouri, and full hearings have been held by the committee. It is my understanding that the commit- tee will make a favorable recommenda- tion to the House of Representatives, and I am hopeful that the bill speedily will pass Congress and become a law. The very passage of such a bill by the Federal Government, giving juris- diction to Federal Courts of this heinqus,| crime, will have a deterrent effect upph the criminals engaged in the racket. " | (Copyright. 1932. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) i e S : DEER IS MAN-HATER A blunder of nature which places a fine set of antlers on the head of a female deer also makes her a “man- hater,” according to field men of the California division of the Fish and Game Association. A handsome buck deer was placed in | the pen of such a freak of nature and | she immediately engaged him in dead- ly combat. She is now being watched to see if she sheds her antlers as males | do at this time of year. CAT MOTHERS CHICKENS Takes Them Under Wing After Fire Destroys Incubator. An incubator on the chicken farm of W. A. Brice, near Toledo, Ohlo, was destroyed by fire Wkhercupon a number of baby chicks were placed in a barrel with a cat. The results, centrary to expectation, | were beneficlal to the chicks. Letters Get Big Results, but Arrest | In Alleged Fraud Man Held in Toronto Charged With Mislead-| ing Advertising Concerns. Senator Patterson. By the Associated Press. | TORONTO, Ontario, March 3.—Wil- fred Edey, 27, was arrested tonight and held in '$10,000 bail charged with at- tempting to defraud more than 1,000 Unlr:ea States advertising firms of $2.20 each. Police sald Edey mailed more than | 1,000 letters to advertising firms advis- ing them a cut for {llustration purposes had been received for them at the “C. M. Greenshields Co.” and that the sum | of $2.20 in express charges was owing The response to his demands was % | enormous, they said, Edey and his “un- | | named confederates” abandoned the enterprise, They sald Edey received checks from about 700 firms, but had not had time to cash most of them. | HOPEWELL LIKE GOLD-RUSH TOWN AS HUNT FOR KIDNAPER GOES ON Police, Newspaper Men and Photographers Throng Village—Phone Lines Jammed—Lunch Room Filled. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HOPEWELL, N. J.. March 3.—Hope- well, a peaceful little New Jersey farm town, snuggled at the foot of the Jersey Hills, resembles & gold-rush town as the search for the Lindbergh baby goes on. It is the headquarters for scores of State and county police, newspaper men from all over the Eastern United States and a horde of news photographers and newsreel men, to say nothing of the every-day curious citizenry from nearby towns and cities. The town's lunchroom, operated by a man named Gebhart, was the focal Here newr paper headquarters were set up and i shcrt order the ordinarily quiet and subdued little lunch room became the nerve center of the greatest news story “1"“12;3:""11 out of H elephone lines opewe! m front of the two in the town, one at the 1l were Lines booths room, | the other at a drug store in the next block The long distance trunk lines were | busy Without let-up hour after hour, and callers were forced to stand by somc- times for many minutes, walting for a line to clear so calls could put through. In short order, however, tele- | phone and telegraph crews, rushed from Trenton and New York, were on the | scene, stringing special lines and put- ting in their instruments. The lunch room people were hard put | to keep up with the appetites of the hungry horde of law enforcers and news gatherers. Foraging | Tepeatedly to farms all abcut for eggs | and chickens, and the wooden tables ! 1632, MARCH 3. «Contractor’s Son Kidnaped | | | | 3 K Only & few hours after Charles A. Lindbergh, jr. was kidnaped, James De Jute, jr. 11-year-old son of a wealthy Niles, Ohlo, contractor, was abducted while on his way to school. Two men seized him yesterday morning and drove away with him, despite his struggles, his cousin, Anna May Mellina, 12, who “1'1’. with him, told police. Mrs, James De Jute, sr. (above) near a state of | collapse. OLD-TIME “LINDY" OVERCOMES FEAR IN EVICTING REPORTERS Colonel Recovers Belligerency After Ap- pearing Like Badly Frightened Boy in Quest of Child. it was the old “Lindy” who said it. “This road is going to be cleared. If you don' there was a flash of blue fire in the n{lnz colonel's eyes. The colonel went from one newspaper encampment to the other, always with the | the same message, “This road is going to be cleared.” He was calm and he was sure. So | Special Dispatch to The Star. HO! N. J, (NANA)—For many hours Col. Charles Lindbergh was not the “Lindy” of the out-thrust jaw, the sharp word, the self-sufficient shoulders squared, a bit belligerently sometimes, to clamoring world. He was a frightened boy with tousled heir and wide blue eyes, blurred with |celm and so sure that one instantly a pain that is incoherent. He spoke, |leaped to the conclusion that he knew but he had trouble making his lips | why that road was going to be cleared. frame words. His lips became stiff and | There came to them visions of & car cold and stuck to his teeth. His face | with drawn shades, of engines whir- was & cameo of pain cut from & white | ring, of speeding wheels that clawed the | marble biock . |mud and slithered through the ruts— | Last night the colonel appeared out | visions that rooted weary reporters and of the darkness at his home. His head | photographers to the spots on which | was still bare, his blond hair tousled, | they received the colonel's command— | identity, OHIO PARENTS WAIT KIDNAPERS' TERMS Search 2 Jute, 11, Extena iree States. Clues Lacking. By the Assoctated Press. NILES, Ohio, March 3.—Like Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, two Ohio parents walted in anguish today for the hoped-for safe return of a kidnaped son. . The boy, James De Jute, ir., 11, son of a wealthy Niles contractor, was over- powered and stolen by tfo men from near his home here yesterday. They fled with him in an automobile Although two witnesses of the kid- naping gave police a good description of the abductors and their car, no defi- nite trace of them was found. Search in Three States. Police throughout Ohic, Western nnsylvania and West Virginia were, , K:ked to be on the lookout today for the boy and the men. James was de- . scribed as 41, feet tall, light complexion. and dark hair. He was wearing a gray leather coat with sheepskin collar and a gray cap. Mr. and Mrs. De Jute expected to receive today a note demanding a heavy ransom for the boy's return. The con- tractor said he knew of no enemies, and that witbout doubt the kidnapers were looking for “easy money.” He offered $1,000 reward for their capture and conviction. James was stolen while goifig to school with his cousin, Anna May Mel- lina, 12. After making certain of his the kidnapers grabbed him. They did not bother the girl. ‘Woman Heéard Screams. Anna May said James struggled loose once before the men finally got him in their automobile, & small coupe of light tan color. Hearing the screams of the frightened youngsters, Mrs. H. L. Woodward rushed to their rescue frcm her home nearby, but arrived too late. She gave police the license number of the auto, but they said the tags, which had been stolen January 18, were probably dis- carded soon after the flight began and that the kidnapers also probably changed automobile: One of the mcst likely clews to the kidnapers’ trail was a report that a car like theirs was seen 20 minutes after his face a patch of whiteness in a blue- | black canvas. State troopers guarding the entrance stepped aside to give him passage. Three troopers accompanied bim. " He had a purpose and s definite | He approached the nearest news- r_encampment. | 1 m ask you to go.” he said, and | visions of a ransom car. A rendezvous with life! But the camps neverthelss were broken. The caravan turned toward Hopewell. And never was a town more appropriately named. (Copyright 1032. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) PRAY FOR LINDBERGHS AT CATHEDRAL HERE Episcopaleans Hope for Speedy Restoration of Kidnaped Baby. Prayers for the safety of the Lind- bergh baby and his speedy restoration ; to his parents were offered today at | all services in Washington Cathedral and in the chapel of St. Alban’s, the National Cathedral Schoel for Boy At the celebration of the holy e munion in the Chapel of the Resur- rection this morning the Rev. Willlam L. DeVries offered a prayer for Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh and their infant son and then gave tne Intercession from the book of common prayer. Ambassador Pugi of Mexico today ex- tended his sympathy to Col. and Mrs. | Lindbergh. The Ambassador, a former member of the Mexican cabinetr, is well ac- quainted with Col. Lindbergh and the family of former Ambassador MOITOW. His telegram to the cotonel said: “Shocked by news concerning your child. Hope he will be found well and soon. My heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Lindbergh, Mrs. Morrow and yourself.” ‘AL’ CAPONE OFFERS REWARD FOR BABY Gangster Says He Could Help| Lindbergh if He Were Out of Jail. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 3—Men who match wits dally with the underworld— cunning veterans of Chicago's crime | wars—and the man known as the city's | most notorious gangster, have offered their aid to track down the kidnapers of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 3d, and res&ore him safely to his famous par- ents. The celebrated Secret Bix, nemesis of kidnapers, bank robbers and other | denizens of gangland, last night ex-| ressed a desire to assist, through its iead, Col. Robert Isham Randolph, for the Iast two years a leader in the clvic| drive on crime. The State’s attorney's office was re- ported to have delegated Pat Roche,| uce of its investigators and recent cap- | tor of an alleged Midwest kidnaping | ring, to finecomb the Chicago area for | possible clues to the abduction. | And from his prison cell in the county jail, “Scarface Al” Capone, de- ng lord, announced he would pay $10,000 for information leading to the safe return of the Lindbergh boy and the arrest and conviction of the kidnapers. | “It's the most outrageous thing T | have ever heard of.” said Capone, who is under an ll-year prison sentence for income tax evaslon. “If I were out of jaill I could be of some real assist- | ance.” In a copyrighted story written espe- cially for the Associated Press, Col. Randolph advised that payment of the reported $50,000 ransom demand made upon the Lindberghs seems to be the only possible procedure under the cir- o 5 to think of apprehending the persons | responsible, Until then, the child's life is too preclous to run risks.” BIRD CLASSES PLANNED Bird classes will be conducted by the Audubon Society of Washington, in the assembly hall of the Thomson School, | Twelfth and L street, on each Monday afternoon to and including March 21. | The classes will be held without charge and the students will study the | identification of birds. Peld classes, | restricted to six persons each, will hold | outings on each Saturday from April 16 to May 21. "CREPE MYRTLE, 75¢ Edmonston : (g:lzij:figk? | Just Think of It The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 1'ac per day and be These are boom days for Hopewell, RATE FIGHT DELAYS NEW REVENUE BILL House Group Argues Proposal for 2 1-4 Per Cent Manu- facturers’ Sales Tax. Failure of the House Ways and | Means Committee to agree on the rate | of the proposed manufacturers' sales tax yesterday caused delay in comple- ton of the new revenue bill. The snag was struck soon after the full group met to consider the tentative | draft of the bill, now estimated to bring in about $1.10 ""355‘ in 193; en it was found the revised esti- mated yleld of the proposed 2 per cent ate for the sales tax would be but $617,000,000, opponents of excise taxes recommended on several articles ad- vocated a 2!; per cen{ rate. The yield of the addftional one-quar- ter per cent was estimated at $66,000,- 000, bringing the total to $583,000,000, which is still short of the original ex- pected return of more than $600,000,000 Irom a 2 per cent levy. 0,000,000 to balance the A bipartisan movement of growing | roportions to boost the rate of 2% per cent was reported. Supporters of excise taxes sternly protested, and no agree- ment was reached. Acting Chairman Crisp announced the commitiee was divided on the pro- posed sales tax rates, but declined to make details public. He made it known it had agreed on the levying of a gift tax and an increase in the estate tax, but the rates were withheld The committee expects its proposed increases in individual and corporate taxes will yield about $250.000,000, and that administrative changes in the ex- isting law will result in $100,000,000 ad- ditional revenue. Economies in Govern- ment operation totaling $150,000,000 with the new biiis’ returns are expected to meet the Treasury's prospective $1,- 241,000,000 deficit. ot GIVES ORGAN CONCERT Alexander McCurdy, ir., of Philadel- phia, well known concert organist, will appear in & concert at the new Metro- politan Memorial Methodist Church, Nebraska and Massachusetts avenues, at 8:15 o'clock tonight. The musician— a pupil of Lynwood Farnam—is organ- st and choir director of the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. the abquction speeding through Brook- field, Ohio, toward Sharon, Pa. CABINET AID PLEDGED Members to Co-operate With House Economy Group. All cabinet members except Secretary Hyde have promised co-operation to the Special Economy Committee set up by the Democratic House to investigate | means of decreasing Government ex- | penditures. | Chairman Byrns expects an answer |from the BSecretary of Agriculture shortly. SOVIET REPORTS HIT “Regrouping” Held Motive in Far East Actiyities. MOSCOW;! March 3 (#).—Reports published abroad- that 100,000 soldiers of the Sovict Russian Army are con- centrated at strategic points along the Slhefllngder are regarded here as « 4 | xaggera! Because of its concern regarding the activities of “White” Russians in Man- churia the -army in the Far East is “‘regrouping;” military authorities said. but this is considered a strictly pre- cautionary measure. WRITERS MEET FRIDAY _— Discussion and Criticism to Fea- ture League Session. Discussion and criticism of the work of members wili mark the meeting of the Writers' League of Washington at the Thomson Community Center at 8 v'clock Priday evening, it was an- | nounced today. Stories will be read by {Miss Willard Howe, Miss Mary Od- denido and Mrs. T. L. Jones; original ~ verse will be contributed by Miss Anna Priestley, and an article on travel by Charles Cottingham. | D. C. WOMEN AT SESSION Attend Overseas Service League Meeting in Pittsburgh. PFive Washington women attended the meeting of the Women's Overseas Serv- ice League of the 3d Corps Area in Pittsburgh Saturday and Sunday it was learned here. Among them was Miss Faustine Den- nis, corps area vice president, who presided at the sessions. Othgr mem- bers of the Washingion unit who were | present included Mrs. Bryan K. Ogden, | president of the local unit; Mrs. Fred | W,, Pranke, secretary; Mrs. Florence | Burten Livingston, and Mrs. Wallace Chiswell. Five Wilner to Be Speaker. Morton - Wilner will speak on “The | Old Order Changeth” romorrow night at 8 o'clock before thne Washington Hebrew Congregation. The services will be read by Miss Kataryn Abel and ° Henry Brylawski. The Young People’s League will be in charge. i AIR‘CONDITIONED HOMES cooled through one plant with Cleanliness, healthiness, tors, are all features of this These homes are 34 feet i all modern conveniences. Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? Telephcne National 5000 and de- livery will start at once, D. C. 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