Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1933, Page 10

"A=10 FLORIDA AT ITS BEST Highest quality citrus fruits, tree ripened and fresh. Not storage fruit Templc oranges. ‘Tangeloes, Kumquats. We grow them—buy a bushel. Merchants, we will save you money. ANDREWS BROTHERS 751 14th St. NW,, at H SE0000GIVEN GANG FOR HER'S RETURN Boettcher Freed Soon After Money Is Dropped on Denver Road. RED PIMPLES ON FACE Itched and Burned. Healed by Cuticura. “‘My face broke out with pimples and blackheads, and my skin was rough. The pimples were hard and red, and itched and burned so I could not rest. My face was disfig- ured so that I was ashamed to go anywhere. “I tried different creams but none of them scemed to help. A friend advised me to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment so I purchased some. In less than two weeks there was a wonderful improvement and at the endofamonthmy skinwas smooth. 1 was completely healed.” (Signed) Miss IvaGibson,221Monterey Ave., El Monte, Calif., March 19, 1932. Use Cuticura to clear your skin. Soap e, Qintment 3 sad t0e, Taleum 25c. Pro- Potter Drug & Malden, prictons: eal Corp., By the Associated Press. DENVER, March 2—A ransom of | $60,000 was paid shortly before Charles | Boettcher, 2d, 31-year-old heir riches, was freed here last night, ending nearly 17 “days and nights of black- ness, discomfort and threats” in the hands of kidnapers. It was revealed today that Dr. John M. Foster, young physician and friend dezvous with the abductors in behalf of Claude K. Boettcher, the multi- millionaire father, and paid the de- manded $60,000. “Thank God, it's all over,” young Boettcher said in his first utterance since the kidnapers released him from an automobile in the stockyards district unharmed. The climax to the West's most amaz- ing kidnaping came with startling sud- denness. Shortly after 6 p.m. last night, Dr. Foster drove to a desls'n:ud spot near *the municipal airport. his automobile he had the $60,000. Kidnapers Waiting. | There the kidnapers were waiting. Although they remainded out of sight themselves, they allowed the physician | a glimpse of their blindfolded victim., Foster dropped the bag containing the | money and raced for Denver to inform Soon after young Boettcher tele- phoned his mother, Mrs. Millson Mc- 7th, 8th, and E Sts. Cormick, from a ‘drug store in the vicinity ‘'where he had been released. Foster and Norman Baeru sped to the spot and picked him uj Whmlwuheldmdby'haml do not know,” young said. “It appeared to be in some house 18 )wurs by fast automo- bile from Denver. Neither do I know who my abductors wzre but there ‘were two of them—possibly thr He said a stop was made ‘some place |along the way returning to Denver, | “and T got the impression another man joined us. That'’s what makes me think there were three in the gang.” Thankful for Release. “Finally,” he related, “the men said they were going to let me out. They said that after I had been let out I should count to 150. ‘Then go around the corner where you will find a tele- phone. Be sure and call your parents as they are worried about you' I called them and here I am. Sixteen days—it seems more like 16 years—of blackness, discomfort and threats— thank God, it’s all over.” “I am thankful that they treated me as gentlemanly as possible under the circumstances. They even shaved me when I complained that my beard was | growing so long.” “Desperadoes? — Undoubtedly. that's all over now. Unless I about it. | “About 11 p.m. on February 12, my wife and I had just returned home and | 1 started to drive into the garage when two men in a small sedan drove up. [ ] “Both men were armed. They put | me in their car and started to drive. One man was in the back seat with m e immediately put a strip of ad huhe tape over my eyes and another piece over my head to hold the first strip on. They also roped my wrists— | see the marks? | “‘We're going on a long trip and will | get along all right if you behave,’ they ubes B | . “They meant what they said.: A long | trip—we drove all that night, all the . | next day and into the next night. | Get Your Radio | " “Occasionally the man sitting with | . | me would poke me with his gun and Working TOP“?“’}‘ remind me ?:be goeod e For Inauguration | Three Stops Made. | All new tubes, in the “We stopped for gasoline three times. original boxes, and carry the Where I do not know. Each time we | full factory guarantee. Bring ‘ stopped, the man made me lie down in the back of the car so I couldn’t be your old tubes in to be tested at no cost to you. \ But dream seen. I couldn’t tell what direction we were gcing. Some times we seemed to be going in circles. “During my stay I heard no evi- | dence of any women in the place— only the two men who brought me. I | believe they were Americans. They | talked fairly well. | ““I was fed principally on sandwiches | and soup. I hope I never eat cither | again. The reason I believe it was a | basement room was that the only light | seemed to be artificial. There was a bed in the room and I slept remark- ably well considering the circumstances. The days were the worst part—they ‘ seemed interminable. Regular Special \ Price Price 69c 69c 69¢c 69¢ No. 327 .. 326 .. 380 .. 371-A 301-A 69c 324-A 89¢ 345 .. 335 | “Twice I was made to write letters s { to my father. Both times the band- 347 .. ages were taken from my eyes and the ropes from my wrists for only a 312-A ... few minutes and my captors siayed be- hind me so I couldn't get a g 0ok | Fourth Floor St the “Prequent warnings regarding what astest train s Chicago St. Louis . . Detroit HE Liberty Limited is winning a big following these days! Men of affairs prefer it—because it’s the fastest train from Washington to Chicago —to St. Louis and to Detroit. But not only the fastest. For the Liberty Limited offers all those little niceties of service— courtesy, extra-good food —that make the difference between “just another trip” and a really pleasant interlude. Other fast schedules daily to the Wess. Private Bedrooms Reduced! Ask ticket agents about reduced rates for single or double private bedrooms. The Liberty Limited Lv. Washington.4.02 P.M. Ar. Chicago.....9.00 A.M. . Ar. St. Louis. ...1.25 P.M. Ar. Detroit. ..... 8.25 A.M. Phone National 9140 for information or reservations. lvania Railroad ' of the kidnaped broker, kept a ren- | pun THE EVENING would happen to me if I didn't ‘behave’ were made, “Day after day, it was' the same— just sitting there, my eyes swelling and my wrists burning. “How the time finally pessed I do not know. I spent hours listening for the slightest sound which might indicate where I was being held, but without results. “My captofs told me little. I judge it was about midnight Tuesday that the men put me in the car sgain and be?ln to drive, ‘We drove all that nlzhe nnd all day Wednesday up to about 7 “On the return trip we atoppzd for gasoline three times, the same as we had on the origtnnl trip and I was forced to lie in the bottom of the car each time.” With his son safe, the elder Boettcher | early today talked guardedly of the! to | case. ase. “This is the beginning, not the end of this case,” he declared. “I might say that this is the end of one story and the beztmnn& of another. What the out- come of the second story will be remains to be seen.” He had previously vowed to devote the rest of his life and his fortune to ishment of the kidnapers if they harmed his son. The Boettcher family also has been urged to head a Denver secret six to combat kidnapers and other criminals here. Governs Third of Africa. France govers 366 of every 1,000 | square miles in Africa. STAR, HITLER PROMISES HELP T0 WORKERS Holds Benefits to Exceed What Communism Can Offer Labor. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, March 2—A promise by Chancellor Adolf Hitler that he would do more for the workers of Germany than they could expect from Commun- ism was before the electorate today. Addressing the National Socialist workmen last night, he said he planned to mortise the pillar of labor in the structure of state so labor would not be a separate entity. In one of the few specific elaborations he has made upon his four-year plan for workers, the chancellor sald his com- pulsory labor program would wipe out “class antagonisms” with “ennobling manual labor” for all. Capt. Hermann Goering, the chan- COAL YARDS WILL CLOSE INAUGURATION DAY March 4th at 10 AM. The members of the Coal Division of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association will close their Coal offices and yards at 10 A.M. on Inauguration Day, and respectfully request the co-operation of customers in anticipating their coal requirements, so as to permit their employes witnessing the Inauguration Ceremonies of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevek. RO AUCTION SALE CAPITAL ART GALLERY & AUCTION ROOMS, INC. 724 THIRTEENTH ST. N.W. SILVER, SHEFFIELD, GEORGIAN SILVER, STERLING SILVER, CARVED IVORIES, ORIENTAL RUGS, SILK RUGS, AUBUSON -A-BRAC, BOOKS, JEWELRY, RUG, CHINA, B ARMOR, STATUARY, AND OBJECTS OF ART. From the Collections of Mrs. William A. Morgan Thomas H. Bauchle, Jr. 2 With Additions To the Highest Bidder without Reserve or Limit Sale Starts 1 P.M. Each Day Fri. Mar. 3 Exhibitien Mornings Evening Sassions, 8:P.M. Thurs. Mar. 2 I IIM"H’HI"II"II‘HE SWORDS, SUITS OF FURNITURE, PAINTINGS Sat. Mar. 4 UL SRR TR T ST ORRERD PR T TR Beautiful Shoes BOOT SHOP ? 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Two Jewish clerks were held by po- lice after a raid last night on quarters of the Jewish Citizens’ Central Union where documents were seized. Raids end seizures continued to be carried on against Communists, with more than 500 arrested tnroughout the country since the of the Reichstag Bullding. The fire was blamed on Communists. Appeals to Catholics. Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen made an appeal for Catholic support of the Hitler government in Bavaria, home state of both himself and Hitler. Baron von Papen, who was formerly a leader in the Catholic Centrist parties which are strongly opposing the. pres- sent regime, declared he could not “imagine the reconstruction of a new Reich” without inclusion of Catholic conservatives. Despite threats of Hitlerites to over- throw the B ian state government, the Only 1c CASH (ON THE BUDGET PLAN) and $1.50 per week—enables any man to celebrate the “NEW DEAL INAUGURAL,” this week- end, in a brand-new, 1933 TUXEDO!!! 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