Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1935, Page 3

LINDBERGS EALE BLANED ON PRES Flyer Declared Angered by | Photographing of Son Jon. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The spectacle of two American citi- wens fleeing to England to get better protection against kidnaping of their only child is plainly a reflection on | the government of New Jersey, but there’s a story back of it relating to invasion of privacy that sooner or later will have to be dealt with by law. One particular incident is believed | responsible for the decision of the Lindberghs to live abroad. The deci- | sion was made several weeks ago. It | happened this way: | Ever since the murder of their first | son, the Lindberghs have been anxious to avoid publicity for their other boy— Jon. They have appealed to the press | nat to photograph the boy and to refrain from publishing articles that | might eoncentrate attention on the eecond boy or the movements of the family. Secrecy Shrouded Movemenig. Po prevent photographers from vio- lating this request, the Lindberghs | arranged for their boy to be taken to and from his home secretly fyom time | to time. Every effort was made to elude the photographers who picketed the Lindbergh home. Finally, two photographers determined to get a vscoop,” and they waited until the Ijndbergh automobile with a gov- erness was coming down the street. They ran their own automobile in front of the car in such a way as to force the Lindbergh car to the curb. | Then they made flashlights of the | child through the automobile window. | Publication of these photographs so | angered Col. Lindbergh that he de- cided the only thing he could do was to move abroad. Otherwise, he felt his son would grow up under constant annoyance by the photographers and | with a sort of self-consciousness that might affect the boy's own attitude and psychological reaction to life. | What Are Individual Rights. | Has an individual any rights to his own photograph? Can he be caught by the camera when he is riding in his own closed car, which, in a sense, 15 as much his private dwelling as is his home? Can a photographer tres- pass on the grounds of a home or enter the dwelling itself and take a | flashlight of the occupants? | | | The Lindberghs considered, it is reported, filing an assault suit against the photographers, but feared that | the publicity attending the suit itself | would only serve to focus attention on them when they wished supremely to be let alone. The idea of living | abroad has been suggested from time to time as a means of insuring privacy, J but the definite determination to seek protection and seclusion in England | probably was the culmination of a | series of incidents like those cited above. The Federal Government has made substantial progress in ridding the eountry of public enemies, but it is| @& travesty on justice in the severali States that kidnaping rings and | racketeers still ply their trade. Federal Government has no police power as such. This is the responsibility of the States and cities. Politics and corruption infest many of our larger cities, so that racketeers can continue their game of threat and extortion. Aroused Public Necessary. Until the American people revolt #gainst all manner of politicians, Federal, State and city, there will be little progress made toward cleaning up the conditions that have made Kidnaping or extortion a profitable game to criminals. There is no way of checking up on how much black- mail money has been paid to avoid kidnapings, but it is probable that the toll in this respect each year is con- | Eiderable. If the enforced exile of the Lind- berghs from their own country serves to direct public attention to the solu- tion of those situations existing in various American States and cities, the man who won the admiration of the whole world by his heroic feats in the cause of aviation may some day Justly feel that he has achieved an- ~other notable triumph in the cause of desant government. (Copyright 5 MULE CHANGES CAREER Philander McEntyze, 100, Kicked Out of War Record. ) MEDFORD, Oreg., December 24 (#). ~Philander McEntyre, who reached 100 today, is not a veteran of the Civil ‘War—and he'll tell you why. “A mule kicked me in the stomach end laid me up the day they fired on Fort Sumter,” explained the cen- tenarian. That ended the war for him. His three theories on longevity “Mind your own business, work hard, drink moderately.” The THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. O, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1835. Where the Lindberghs May Stay Ba¥ Lindbergh Chicago Mayor Believes, Quoted, His Action =TT 1 L] Comment If Colonel Was Correctly Is Ridiculous—Others Hit Law Enforcement Machinery. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24.—The departure of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to England with his wife and son brought varied comment from inter- ested persons. Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago “If Col. Lindbergh is correctly quote in the newspapers I think his action is ridiculous. It's all right for him to go away for a while, but to leave ithe country permanentlv on the | ground his child is not safe here is out | of order.” City Manager H. F. McElroy of Kan- | sas City, whose daughter was kidnaped and $30.000 ransom paid for her re- turn: “It is an act of cowardice. In | my judgment, the United States gives | more and better protection to its citi- zens than any other country.” Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, president of the National Congress of Parents and | Teachers, Chicago: “It's unbelievable that conditions should make it im- possible for people as valuable as the Lindberghs to live here.” Challenge to Lawmakers. Representative Jennings Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, chairman of the Special Congressional Crime In- vestigating Committee, Keyser, W. Va.: “This tragic incident * * * certainly challenges the lawmakers of the Re- public to declare an open season on crime.” Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Tulsa, Okla.: “It is regrettable. We sincerely hope that ere long the atmosphere will clear so that these most estimable citizens may | return to their native home.” Jack Maddox, aviation pioneer, Los {Angeles: It is a shame and a dis- | grace. * * * Slowness of our law | enforcement machinery and the op- | portunity afforded the politically am- bitious to make capital of big cases have destroyed respect for law in America.” Mrs. Edward Gaffney, whose son was kidnaped nine years ago and “I'd do the to never found, New York: same thing if I had the money do it with.” “Home Town" Folks Speak. “Home town” friends of Col. Lind- bergh, at Little Falls, Minn.: County Attorney Austin Grimes: “It is a sad situation in this country when the law is unable to protect & person and his family.” Carl Bolander, long friend of Lind- bergh's father: “I'm sorry that Lind- bergh feels this action is necessary.” | Martin Engstrom, shopkeeper,: “Charlie will come back. But what- ever his reasons for going, they are all right with me.” Miss Alice Morrow, an aunt of Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who lives with her brother, Gen. Jay J. Morrow, a brother of Anne's father, the late| Senator Dwight W. Morrow, at Engle- wood, N. J., said she believed Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh would remain in Eng- land “for at least a year, or longer if fnecessary. At any rate until this | Hauptmann thing has died down and | they can come back and lead a normal | life.” She added: “Isn't it terrible that this action is necessary and that they | have to flee their own country?” | Lindberghs Upset, | | Another sister of the late Senator, Mrs. Edwin L. Mcllvaine, of Tenafly, N. J, said that she knew Col. Lind- | bergh had been very upset since the | | revival of the Hauptmann case and that both the fiyer and his wife were dreading the night when the con- | demned man would be executed, be- | lieving that there was no chance that he woul.l be pardoned. | Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, whose activities in connection with the Hauptmann case were mentioned in some quarters as influencing Lind-| bergh's decision to leave, said merely | that the fiyer “must have had suffi-| cient reasons for taking this action.” | In Detroit, Mrs. Evangeline Lind- | | bergh, the aviator's mother, and an uncle, John C. Lodge. said they had | not been informed of his sailing. Lindbergh (Continued From First Page.) SPECIAL NOTICES. ON SATURDAY. JANUARY_ ElchbfrJ'A Auction, 1 Ryfl.l t. n will and - & M. GARAGE. 1 THE ANNUAL MEI OF T holdere of the American Bullding Assocla- on, Will be held at the office of the asso- ciation. 300 Pennsylvani Thursday. January 2. 19: hours of ‘2 and 7 o'clock p.m.. for directors for the election of officers and or_the transaction of may properly come before ensuing HARLES H. KINDLE. _de 830981 Secretary. OFT'ICE OF THE FIREMEN'S INSURAI Wacshington and Georgetown will meet at the office o MONDAY. 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Some English newspapers said life In America had been rendered un- | bearable for the Lindberghs by threats . e usss (o0 | of gangsters against 3-year-old Jon. k he The Lindberghs’ search for safety, the Daily Herald said, “has aston- | ished the United States. “The shock received by millions of Americans reading the news was com- cur in England should the Prince of | Wales announce he no longer felt se- cure in his own country.” | _ “There is little doubt that the Lind- berghs are anxious to be outside the United States when the execution of (Bruno Richard) Hauptmann (coa- | victed kidnap-slayer of the Lindberghs’ first son, Charles, jr.) takes place,” the | Daily Herald continued. “Another of their concerns is that their son Jon might be harmed or kid- naped by some crank.” The Daily Mail said “the Lindberghs, hounded by death threats against their | second son,” were coming to England, | “where they believe they can find the | safety and tranquility denied to them | in their native land. “The news of their departure sheds a piercing light on the anti-crime ma- chinery of the United States, which has not only failed hitherto to exact the penalty for the kidnaping and murder of their first son, but also has proved itself unable to check the in- undation of threats against Jon.” The latest American statistics, the mitted .very 45 minutes, 140,000 crim- Daily Mail said, showed “murder com= £ parable only to that which would oc- | inals in gaol and 400,000 persons hav- ing crime as a business.” The News-Chronicle, asserting the Lindberghs were “fleeing U. 8. A." published a trans-Atlantic telephone | conversation it held with Harry Gug- genheim, former United States Am- bassador to Cuba, at his Long Island, N. Y., home. “Yes, the Lindberghs said good-by to America for the time being and are well on their way across the Atlantic to your country,” Guggenheim was quoted. “They have gone quietly, and I'm afraid I can’t tell you why. The mat- ter is being kept secret. The newspaper said: “The little family have left America under an assumed name.” MAY LIVE NEAR CARDIFF., | Lindberghs Refuge Believed Likely to Be With Aubrey Neil Morgan. NEW YORK, December 24 (#).— The home of Aubrey Neil Morgan near Cardiff, Wales, is a likely refuge for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, his wife and their 3-year-old son Jon when | the family reaches England. Morgan was the husband of Mrs. Lindbergh's sister, Elizabeth, who died last December in California after an emergency operation for appendicitis. He sailed Saturday on the Western- land, a faster vessel than the Ameri- can Importer, on which the Lind- berghs are passengers. Wales, where Morgan has estab- lished his home, is near Liverpool, the English port designated on the Lindberghs’ ticket. Heavy Seas May Delay Ship. Heavy seas may keep Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh and their son on the North Atlantic for & New Year day celebra- 3:: as well as for Christmas festivi- An officlal of the International Mercantile Marine Co. predicted to- day that l’m erossing would de- 1 | tion, declined to comment on reports No. 1—Home of Aubrey Neil Mor« gan, near Cardiff, Wales, where Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind- bergh and their 3-year-old son Jon may stay for a time after their arrival from the United States. Morgan was the husband of the late Elizabeth Morrow, Mrs. Lind- bergh’s sister. No. 2—Mr. Morgan, who may be host to the famous family No. 3—Gate on the Morgan estate. Photos No. 1 and No. 3 give some idea of the isolation of the estate. RESTS ON LADDER Disputed “Rail 16” Expect- ed to Figure in Pardons Court Hearing. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., December 24— Part of the Lindbergh kidnap ladder, known as “rail 16" and identified as having been taken from Bruno Richard Hauptmann’'s Bronx attic, may figure in Hauptmann’s plea to the New Jersey Pardons Court for mercy. ‘The defense has kept secret any new evidence it has prepared for pres- entation to the court, but its peti- tion for commutation of the death penalty to life imprisonment was understood authoritatively to have prepared the way for an attack on the authenticity of “rail 16.” ‘The Court of Pardons received the petition yesterday. Later a meeting was called for next Monday to con- sider conditional parole of another prisoner to testify in a murder case outside the State. There is nothing, however, to pre- clude the court from considering the Hauptmann appeal at that time. Should the court determine to hear counsel, the defense, it was learned, may question the credibility of wit- nesses at Hauptmann's trial, who told of seeing him about the time of the | crime in the vicinity of the Lind- | bergh estate. BOAT SENT TO AID MAROONED IN BAY | 1150 Isolated by Ice on Smith Island, Off Crisfield, Guard Reports. By the Associated Press. was made yesterday by the committee right Ballou and C. Melvin Sharpe. James G. Yaden, Arno B. Cammerer, Mrs. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore A. Walters, HAUPTMANN PLEA Community Tree Is Approved Final inspection of the community Christmas tree in Lafayette Park in charge of arrangements. Left to Elizabeth K. Peeples, Dr. Frank W. Coast Guard headquarters said to- | day a 75-foot patrol boat had been sent to the assistance of 150 persons | isolated by ice on Smith Island, in | Chesapeake Bay, off Crisfield, Md. Officials said the Coast Guard's| Norfolk division was advised yesterday | | that the islanders, mostly fishermen, | wanted to reach the mainland, but | could make no headway in their small | | boats through the 2-inch ice around | | the island. Whether those on the island merely —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. lay the American Importer, on whi*h the Lindberghs are sailing to Eng- land, possibly to make a permanent home. The freighter, whose sole passen- gers are the noted couple and their little boy, is due at Cobh, Irish Free State, on December 29. and at Liver- pool the next day. Winter weather, the official said, often delays it There has been no indication where the Lindberghs, who boarded the ship | just before it sailed early Sunday, will disembark. Christmas Will Not Be Drab, Although their only companions will be the ship’s officers, their Christ- mas will not be a drab one. Basil Harris, vice president of the United States Lines, said the company sent a Christmas tree, several boxes of ornaments and three Santa Claus- size stockings aboard the freighter. Provision also was made for a Christmas dinner. Special food was placed aboard for Jon, including 15 quarts of grade A milk, graham cracker:, and other wafers. Harri; said he personally handled Col. Lindbergh's bookings. The regu- lar tarii. for two and a half one- way tickets to Liverpool, totaling $280, was paid, he said He quoted the colonel as saying he | had selected a small ship “to insure | much needed rest and quiet.” Not even Capt. John W. Anderson, a line official said, knew the Lind- berghs were to be passengers until | the night of the departure. Fifteen minute, before midnight Saturday | Col. Lindbergh arrived and told him: | “I am Charles Lindbergh and I am sailing with Mrs. Lindbergh and | | my son Jon.” The colonel and his wife brought | with them “tens of baggage.” the | official said, but he denied an air- plane was taken aboard. | The New York Daily News said | Col. Lindbergh yielded to the pleadings of his wife in making the trip. It| was his own wish, the newspaper added, to see to the end the case | of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, sen- tenced to die next month for the kidnap-killing of the Lindbergh's first born son. “He will return in the Spring,” the Daily News said, “flying westward | over the route which will rival the trans-Pucific service of the Pan- American Airways.” FEDERAL OFFICIALS SILENT. Justice, State and War Departments | Refuse to Discuss Lindbergh. Because of a policy of secrecy in such cases, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga- that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has re- ceived a number of threats from al- leged kidnapers and extortionists re- cently. Hoover explained that many fam- ilies have asked the G-men to in- vestigate threats of this kind from | time to time and that in each in- stance the families were promised the matter would be held confidential. For this reason, he said, he could neither confirm nor deny the Lind- bergh reports. The State Department, in con- formity with its settled policy, de- clined to say whether Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh had obtained a ‘passport to leave the country. Offiicals at the War Department said they had no information that Col. Lindbergh had resigned his Army Reserve commission. They also said they did not know whether he had obtained a leave of absence. e ROUND-TABLE TALK HELD Discussion Features Meeting of Birth-Control Committee. A round-table discussion featured a meeting of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control held at noon today at the Women's City Club. Mrs. O. W. Pearson and Mrs. Stella Hanau led the discussion. Guy Irving Burch, director of the Population Reference Bureau, will be | rected by Helen I Burton. wanted to spend the Christmas holi- | | days on the mainland or whether they were in need, headquarters was not advised. JEFFERSON PROJECT ALLOTTED $6,750,000 | St. Louis to Contribute 21/ Mil- FAR EAST STARTS | TOUNLOAD SLVER Slump in World Price Laid to Slow Movement of Huge Hoard. | BY THOMAS E. FLANAGAN, Associated Press Financial Writer NEW YORK, December 24 —The slump of nearly 30 per cent in the world price of silver in the last two weeks is attributed in Wall Street to the fact that the huge hoarded stores of the Far East at last have begun to come out. \ lions More for Memo- | rial. | By the Associatea Press. Allocation of $6.750,000 of Federal funds for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial at St. Louis was made yesterday by President Roosevelt. The Federal allocation will be matched by $2.250,000 to be contrib- uted by St. Louis, making available a total of $9,000.000 for the project, which will be carried out through the National Park Service. The President allotted the funds under the law of August 21, 1935, de- claring it to be a national policy to preserve for public use historic sites and buildings of national significance. CHILDREN ARE FETED AT KIWANIANS’ PARTY Annual Christmas Entertainment for Underprivileged Held at Roosevelt High. Scores of children were guests of the Kiwanis Club Sunday in Roose- velt High School, at the organization's annual Christmas party for under- privileged children. Santa Claus, in the person of Wil- liam R. Schmucker, distributed gifts, and music was furnished by Sidney Seidman and his orchestra. James C. Dulin, jr., welcomed the guests. The pyogram included a play, “The Nativity Story,” presented by the Children’s Community Theater, | cast were Jane Cookman, Frances | Shiflet, Dorothy Mae Belt, Millie Lou | Linton, James Beller, Jean Pilkington, David Redfield, Wilbur Rock. Martin Greenspan, Bettie Lou Dorothy Ann Washington, Rabinowitz, Jean Holzbeierlein, Paul- ine Hurley, Florence Bachrach, Marian Grove, Jean Mendelsohn, Charles Herndon, Myron Drapen, Roberta Shirky, Doris Peggy Nairn, Patricia Edgerton, Jaunita Isherwood, Jean Lawrence, Harriet Showell, Margaret Kennard and Anwonia de Luca. Season’s @rzztings WE WISH TO TAKE THIS OCCASION TO EXPRESS TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS OUR SINCERE WISHES FOR A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR CHESTNUT FARMS- CHEVY CHASE STREET AT PENNSYLVANIA AVENVE guest speaker at the meeting next Tuesday, it was announced. Rail Building. Chins has » new railway boom, L news A Kahn Jne. How great these stores may be is | a matter of conjecture, but most es- timates range from five to eight bil- lion ounces, or many times the amount of silver which the United States Treasury has acquired in pur- suance of the silver purchase act of 1934. Since the annual world production of silver is only about 200,000,000 ounces, and the amount of metal floating about in the markets was only some 100.000,000 ounces when the Treasury started to buy, silver circles then thought Uncle Sam could easily put the world price up and hold it there. But, since China, the principal coun- try on a silver standard when the buying program was started, has abandoned that standard for a man- aged currency, Wall Street silver cir- cles say the situation has been dras- tically altered. Most feel that the amount of silver which may come out of China is a matter of guesswork, but they think the recent action of Secretary Mor- | genthau indicates he does not propose to hold the bag. In the farthest corners of India, | along unmapped streams in the in- terior of China, the farming classes have used the white metal as a me- dium for savings for some 4,000 years. Unaccustomed to the use of paper certificate money, untutored in the di- | In the| | Donovan, | ‘ \ Walter | Turn your old trinkets, jewelry and | | | watches into MONEY at— YArthur J. Sundlun, Pres. '43 YEARS at 935 F STREET | DAIRY —=Star Staff Photo. theory of interest as a price to be paid for the loan of money for a fixed period, the inhabitants of India and China have clung to silver. F.R. B. POST STAYS OPEN Hoxton Successor Not to Be Picked Until Next February. ‘The post of chairman and Federal Reserve agent of the Richmond Fed- eral Reserve Bank, made vacant Fri- day by the death of W. W. Hoxton, will remain open until next February, Reserve System officials said today. On February 1 the personnel of the system, and the regional institutions, will be reorganized under broad pow- ers granted in the banking act of 1935. »¥% A3 LP HORNADAY, T3 WRTER, EXPRES Former President of Grid- iron Club Represented In- dianapolis News Here. James Parks Hornaday, one of the oldest of the corps of Washington correspondents, died of a heart at- tack today in his office in the Albee Building. He was 73 years old. Born November 7, 1863, in In- diana, he worked on the Indianap- olis News, com- ing to Washing- ton in 1901 as correspondent for that paper. He was a former president of the Gridiron Club and a member of the National Press Club. Mr. Hornaday attended the dinner of the Gridirom James P. Hornaday, | Club December 14 and appeared to | be in good health at that time He married Mary G. Willis of Water- loo, Ind., in 1893 and is survived by his widow and a daughter Mary, who is correspondent here for the Christian Science Monitor. 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