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TO HERE'S BABY'S RANSOM BITING CO IRE STATE GRIP EMT CHINESE MAY MOVE CAPITAL TO THIRD CITY 1 f- i- vfm u.in.. uiiu iiu iuwujji5 a.wu, ui un i t-i suiiiii iR'nuimiuii ion is nua a iNewat'K bank, awaiting vord from the kidnapers cf Charles- A Lh.dbrreh, -What does S50.000 look like? Teicohoto at rifr'it. posed in New York bank, -hows that it in quite a pilj cf mon3y. Aristide FISH atesmao, if LINDBERGHS THINK KIDNAPED SA6Y STILL ALIVE Trenton, N. March 7 Beth po lice and the Lindberghs believe that kidnaped Charles Augustus Lindbergh, is still alive, it was announced tcday by Captain John J.

Lamb, of the New Jersey state police. It also was stated that state troop ers would do everything possible to help the kidnapers deliver the missing baby safely to the Lindbergh home if negotiations between Lindbergh representatives and the kidnapers turned cut satisfactory. Quuestions asked by newspapermen through Lieut. Walter Coughlin, of the state police, were answered by Captain Lamb. The questions and answers follow: Q.

What are the orders to state police in case negotiations with the kidnapers turn out successfully and an attempt is made to bring the baby to the Lindbergh home? A. State police will do everything possible to help the kidnapers deliver the baby safely to the Lindberghs. Q. Will Henry '-Red" Johnson, "boy friend" of Betty Gow, the baby's nurse, be detained further? A. That depends upon the outcome of the questioning of him.

Q. Is it true that police are working on a tip, which leads them to Sacc, A. The investigators assigned to that angle of the case have not yet reported. Q. Will the police say officially now whether or not there was a demand for ransom in the note left by the kidnapers? A.

No. Q. Did any note instruct Colonel Lindbergh to announce "Salvy" Spitale and Irving Bitz as intermediaries four days after the A. No. Q.

Did the kidnapers leave any token to identify their later communications from the fake messages? A. No. Q. Have the police or Colonel Lindbergh received any messages they believe are from the kidnapers? A. No.

Q. Do the state police or Colonel Lindbergh believe the baby is dead or alive? A. We believe the baby is alive. Q. Was Jchanson Junge tfriend of Johnson and husband of a maid in the house of Mrs.

Dwight W. Morrow, mother of Mrs. Lindbergh) released after being questioned in Newark last night? A. Yes. Q.

Has the report on the questioning of Johnson been received by state police at the Lindbergh home? A. No, not as yet. Q. Has Colonel Lindbergh asked the state police not to interfere with the negotiations and the safe return of the baby to the house? Has anyone made this request? A. Colonel Lindbergh has made no such request.

No one has made such a request. Q. Was the time at which the baby was put to bed on the night of the kidnaping his regular hour for going to bed? A. Yes. Q.

Will you tell the movements of Betty Gow (the nurse) from the time she put the baby to bed until the kidnaping was discovered? A. Her movements were the usual movements. Q. Are there any new clues on the ladder? are they? A. None.

Q. If the baby was ill why did Betty Gow leave him alone from 7:30 p. to 10 p. If she hasn't been asked this, why not? A. Lindbergh's baby was not very illhe had a slight cold.

Q. Did Colonel Henry Brecken-ridge (the Lindbergh's attorney and friend) have a conference with Spitale last night? A. Colonel Breckenridge did not leave Cclonel Lindbergh's house last night. OXE DEAD IX CLASHES Berlin, March 7 One person was dead today and nearly a score, injured as a result of political clashes thrcughcut the country waged mainly between Fascists and their enemies. Yesterday was the last Sunday before Germany's presidential election, and the size and fervor of the campaign demonstrations were convincing evidence of the high pitch of excitement into which the national electorate has been thrown.

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7-lc Welcome1 Music, WAITING eterae Briand, Who Was 68 Years Of Age, Was Twelve Times Premier of France, Member of 18 Cabinets And Well Known. Paris, March 7 Official announcement of the death of Aristide Briand was made in the French chamber of deputies this afternoon. The veteran statesman died at his country estate at Cocherel at 1:30 p. m. He was C8 years of age.

Briand had returned to Cocherel only Saturday from a conference in Paris Friday with Premier Tardieu on the proposed Danubian entente and the question of the League of Nations' lean to Austria. He appeared much improved in health and rumors circulated earlier in the afternoon that he had died were denied by servants at his home in Paris. Briand was twelve times premier, member of eighteen cabinets and internationally known as an apostle of peace. His name was linked with that of Frank B. Kellogg, then American secretary of state, as joint-author of the Kellogg anti-war pact though it was Briand who actually made the proposal that led to the negotiation of that famous treaty.

Gradually failing health and a shifting political arena led to his retirement from the foreign office with the recent reorganization of the Laval cabinet, the predecessor to the present Tardieu ministry. For weeks it has been known that Briand's health was failing, but the fact that he had been in conference with Tardieu as recently as Saturday made it seem inconceivable to his countless friends and admirers that has sudden death was a tragic reality. Briand's death was due to dropsy. The condition became extremely acute last night and he died early this afternoon without warning. Briand dropped into a coma at 10 o'clock this morning.

A physician was called immediately, as well as Briand's nephew and niece, M. and Mme. Bil-lou, and his closest friends, Gilbert Peycelon, who were with him when he died. They assured him that his election was certain, that it would be a fitting 'climax to his glorious career. But 'when the senate and the chamber of deputies assembled at Versailles to choose their new president, politics injected itself into the proceedings an extraordinary occurrence in a French presidential election and the honor went to Paul Doumer, 74-year-cld father of four sons who were killed in the World war.

Continued on Page 3 Dies TRYING TO DO WHAT FORCES OF UW CANT Two "Regular Guys" In Underworld Are Sowing Seeds Which May Bring Back Home the Missing Baby. New York, March 7 Somewhere within the borders of the uncharted kingdom of gangdom, "Salvy" Spitale and Irving Bitz, two "regular guys" in the underworld, today were sowing the seeds which may bring back home the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. Officially appointed by Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh "goodwill" ambassadors to conduct negotiations with the abductors, -the two racketeers were trying to do what the combined forces of the law had failed to do.

A blank wall of stony silence had confronted the nation's best detectives since Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was plucked into the cold night from his snug nursery crib last Tuesday. "Bring back the baby get the money no questions asked." This was the message being relayed the grapevine of the under world by Spitale and his "right arm," Irving Bitz. The intimation was broadcast through the shadowland of racketeers that if any of the boys had "the kid" and didn't come across it would be just too bad. Since the two ministers of mercy extraordinary were designated by the Lindberghs, they have been missing from their homes and usual haunts.

Spitale was reported to have been out on a mysterious mission most of the night and after a brief cat-nap to have left for another unannounced destination. Bitz simply has disappeared. He is reported to be working in another direction, as prearranged with his boss. Police have declared both in New Jersey and New York that they are leaving the two alone. In fact.

Captain John J. Lamb, of the New Jersey, state police, today declared that in case the kidnapers attempt to bring the baby home they will receive every assistance. "Police will do everything they can to help the kidnapers deliver the child," said Captain Lamb. The "grapevine" had it that the Lindberghs had approached a number of the "big shots" among the racketeers to represent them in possible negotiations with the baby-snatchers. All of them turned thumbs down on the preposition for fear of the publicity.

Then Spitale and Bitz were nom- (Continued on page 12) FIRE DESTROYS GARAGE, 2 CARS A garage and two cars owned by E. Beeman of LafTerty Hollow, were destroyed by fire this morning. At 9:45 o'clock the Central fire station received a call and engine No. 2 was sent to LafTerty Hollow to combat the flames. Despite the condition of the pavement due to the snow and ice, the firemen made good time.

When they reached the scene of the fire the roof of the garage was gene and the walls of the building burning. The garage could not be saved, nor a chickencoop standing near. A Pcntiac car and a Buick, both 1931 models, which stood in the garage, were destroyed. The garage was located about .100 yards from the Bee-man home, but the house did not ignite. The owner carried no insurance, so he suffered a total loss.

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Murphy, 1900 Rand Building. Buffalo, N. Y. x3-4t "fJ Pennsylvania Gets Its Worst Bit of Winter Weather Thus Far Highways Blocked and in Dan- orerniic finnrlit.inn Whirling suddenly out of the northwest, biting cold and heavy snow gripped Pennsylvania today, giving the entire state its worst bit of winter weather thus far, blocking highways, disrupting communications and causing intense suffering among the needy. The storm, followed by a sharp drop in temperature, swept in Sunday and by nightfall state highways were either blocked or in dangerous condition from ice.

Trains were running hours behind schedule. Trains arriving in Pittsburgh from the east were from one to five hours behind time and trains from the west wrere also pulling in late. Highways, particularly in the moun tain sections, were covered with snow and ice which formed rapidly as the mercury shot downward. State highway department officials broadcast radio caution warnings and ordered out snow plows and cinder crews. Most of the through highways were being covered with ashes and cinders today while motorists were proceeding with utmost caution.

Telephone and telegraph communications also felt the force of the storm. Poles and wires snapped in many places, disrupting communications. Leased telegraph wires carrying thcusands of words of news to the offices of. Pennsylvania newspapers were rerouted when breaks in lines made maintenance of communication difficult. Air traffic was halted by the storm but it was expected the sky lanes would be opened later today by somewhat improved flying conditions.

Relief agencies were swamped with calls for emergency aid. The bitter cold wave brought additional misery to destitute and needy families, welfare workers reported, and efforts were being made to distribute emergency supplies of fuel, food and clothing to alleviate suffering. Health authorities warned the suddenness of the storm and the sharp drop in temperature may result in an increase in pneumonia and in fluenza cases and warnings were issued to prevent new outbreaks of disease. FIVE DEAD AND 40 MISSING IN GALE Atlantic City, N. March 7 Coast guards tcday were battling heavy seas in an effort to rescue the crew of a twe-masted sloop in distress off the! coast here, as a total of 5 deaths and 40 missing was exacted by the 70-1 mile-an-hour eale that has.

lashed: the coast for the past 24 hours. The sloop is thought to be the "Anna" with Captain Gunnar Peterson, of Atlantic City, aboard. It was not learned definitely whether the sleep carried a crew of two or five men. Five fishing boats, containing about 40 men, from the Cold Spring Harbor! Fisheries, near Wildwood, N. were still listed as missing.

BOY, 11, ON LONE SEARCH FOR BABY New York, March 7 With 40 cents in his pocket and unshaken faith in his detective skill, David Adams, 11, Brooklyn, today was believed to be near Hopewell, N. pursuing a lone search for the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. His father, Frank Adams, said David was missing from home since Thursday. The boy, a great admirer of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, was deeply affected by news of the child's abduction.

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x7-lc Nationalist Government Designates Sianfu, Capi-tr. of Shensi Province, as "Co-Capital" Fearful of Hew Jap Strength. Shanghai, March 7 While more than 5.000 men were added to Japan's Shanghai army today Chinese officials, fearful concerning the new Japanese strength and inland military cpera- tions, planned moving their national capital to a third city still further westward. New functioning temporarily at Loyang, whence it moved from Nanking, the nationalist government today designated Sianfu, capital of Shensi province, as "co-capital." The new Japanese forces were men of the fourteenth division, brought here from Japan aboard four transport ships. It was reported the remainder of tihe division was enroute, and that the total Japanese forces in the Shanghai area shortly would be 70.000 men.

The Chinese, through the central executive council of the nationalist government, in announcing the creation cf the "co-capital," declared: "The central authorities hereby solemnly swear they are determined to live or die with our gallant military comrades." TWO MEN ARE VICTIMS STORM Punxsutawney, March 7. Two men died here today, indirect victims of the blizzard which struck Pennsylvania over the week-end. J. Brant Nolth, prominent merchant, died at his home this morning a few minutes after he had some in from clearing off a snow-piled sidewalk. Doctors said death was caused by a heart attack brought on by the vigorous exercise.

A short time later Amos Mohney, 72, proprietor of a news stand, succumbed to a heart attack which also followed shoveling a sidewalk in front of his place of business. LAST RITES FOR SOUSA THURSDAY Washington, March 7 Pomp and ceremony in which his compositions played such a part in the life of America, will be shunned at his own request, when John Philip Sousa, 77. is buried here Thursday in the quiet congressional cemetery beside the graves of his parents. Sousa died following a heart attack late Saturday nisht at the close of a dinner given in his honor at Reading. Pa.

His body arrived here Sunday night, accompanied by a military guard of the 213 ccast artillery regiment. Sousa marches kept time for millions cf parading feet in his generation; the premier bandmaster for 12 years directed the U. S. marine band; a full military funeral and a grave with America's heroes awaited him, but he chose a quiet plot beside the lazy Anacostia branch, where scarce a hundred sightseers venture in a year. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Jane Scusa of Port Washington, N. Y. two daughters. Jane Priscilla Sousa and Mrs. Hamilton Abort of New York city, and a son, John Philip Sousa.

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With Democratic leaders determined to settle the tax question as quickly as possible the bill is slated to be called up Thursday with passage forecast in a week. The measure was received by the House with mixed feelings. It is strongly backed by both Republicans and Democrats of the ways and means committee and will have support of the administration. Rumblings of discontent, however, presaged a bitter fight on many features cf the measure. Many members questioned the wisdom of levying a billion dollar tribute on business at this time but committee members declared that the budget must be balanced to maintain federal credit.

The sales tax was approved before the committee by leading manufacturers as the only way to avoid undue burdens upon a few but this tax will be assailed as a burden upon the poor man and farmer who now escape income taxes. The excise tax on foreign oil, while only one half cf that demanded by independent oil interests, arrays the Atlantic seaboard against the oil producing states. Virtually all imported oil Is used in the north Atlantic states. Prohibition, too, is bound up in the tax fight. While the committee refused to tax beer it levied heavy imposts cu malt syrup and wort, used in making home-brew, and upon grape concentrates used for wine making.

Passage cf the measure in the House is expected, with all Democratic leaders and most cf the Republicans backing the measure as "a non-partisan, government bill." Strong opposition is expected in the Senate. Aristide liiiand WILL BUILD ROAD FROM COSTER TO THE COUNTY Hen. T. B. Wilson of Bradford, member of assembly, has received a communication from the governor, which is of interest to residents of Bradford and its vicinity, inasmuch as it has to do with the construction of much-needed piece of improved highway, beginning at Custer City and continuing west to the McKean-War-ren county line.

It has been the desire of all good-read users that this special piece be constructed and the fact that Mr. Wilson has been informed that it will in the near future is- of the ut most importance hereabouts. The letter, which is from the sec retary to the governor, follows and is self-explanatory: Harrisburg. March 5, 1932. Hon.

Thomas B. Wilson, Bradford, Pa. Dear Tom I am glad to tell you that the gov ernor has approved, and plans will start moving at once for the construction of the following mileage on the Federal Aid Program this year: Route 209 Beginning at a point on the macadam road southwest of Custer City and continuing west to the McKean-Warren county line. Length 10.82 miles. With all good wishes.

Sincerely yours. P. S. Stahlnecker. IE.