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i) Telephone Platnfield 6-8000 PLAIN FIELD, N. COURIER-NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCII 2, 1932 PAGE TEN Zae5 Picture of Mrs. Lindbergh Latest Picture of Baby Lindbergh World Interest Has Centered About Lindbergh's 20-Months Old Child Since It Was Born 4 ft from Page 1.) i "-ft 9 4 r'. 7 Continued and countless others. France "adopted" the child in a transport felicitation.

In New Jersey little children picked daisies and carried them to the guards for Tandy's baby." Gifts poured in. from baby carriages to fuzzy togs and the nursery became jammed with an assortment of toys that would delight any child's heart. Mothers throughout the nation read all about it with avidity. It was important news when a despatch from Washington told that 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 "yes peer out from a chubby face, and his locks have a way of curling and rumpling like his father's. He had begun to toddle about and lisp. Mother Chose 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 he became.

Before he was very old his father yielded to the eager requests of newspapermen and, taking photo I This i the most recent picture of Charles Augustus Lindbergh son of the firing colonel, uho teas kidnaped from the Lindbergh home near UopevceU. It shots hint in the care of his nurse at the Morrow summer estate in Maine and teas made just before his father and mother bade him goodbye for their flight to the Orient. The kidnapers entered the baby's nursery through window. The first the Lindberghs learned of the crime teas tchen the frightened nurse ran down stairs screaming that the child had been kidnaped. Lindbergh Kidnaping Tops List of 2,000 in 2 Years; Millions Paid in Ransom Lindbergh Baby With Mother and Associated Press Photo TAi the most recent photograph of Mrs.

Charles A. Lindbergh, whose son was kidnaped from their home in Hopewell, it was made when she spoke over radio hookup in A etc York Feb. 21 I Their Famous w- So" fc 4 F.J. a- Mother Falls Into Collapse After Telling Of Kidnapins (Continued from Page 1) attracting the attention of any of the five adults in the house. "It was very windy outside," the Colonel was quoted as saying, "and the sound of the wind could very easily have blanketed strange sounds that at another time would have been heard." Mrs.

Lindbergh maintained her composure throughout tne ques tioning, the officer said, but when it was over, she was taken upstairs to her room, where she collapsed sobbing. Williamson also said that, accom panied by Colonel Linibergh. they found traces of the tire tracks of the kidnaper's car in Featherdeaj Lane, a continuation of the Hope- well-Wertville Road, which runs past the Lindbergh private lane. It was impossible to determine in what direction the car was facing. Williamson said.

ths car hal sped in one direction, it would have to pass through Hopewell; if it went the other way, it would reach Skillman, and have before it the labyrinth of good roads that spread throughout Northern New- Jersey. Williamson told his story tdMre Associated Press in Hopewell, as the news of the kidnaping, already known throughout the nation, had just begun to spread slowly through this sleepy, mid-state hamlet Lindbergh's closest neighbor knew nothing of what had hap pened until a number of hours after it had happened, when reporters woke him up to ask for the use of his telephone. The story spread by word of mouth with the clear dawn, witif. little knots gathering in the street to discuss it, while the town's single restaurant ran out of provisions after hungry newspapermen descended upon it. U.

S. Mav Meet Kidnap Racket By Death Penalty Washington The kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby likely will prove the final element needed te drive the might of federal lay against terrorist extortioners non apparently organized in a nation wide kidnap "racket" A handful of veteran Congres men only last week were stirred to a pitch of determined indignation after hearing a terrible tale of kidnaping and torture for ransoma, operated wholesale In the Midwest by an alleged ring working in many cities, spiriting victims from city to city to place the barrier of state lines between the criminals and the law. Hardened to moving pleas, slow to encroach upon Jurisdiction of the states, these men members of the House judiciary committee are out for a federal law With "teeth" enough to promise the electric chair to the kidnaper it catches. Such a bill is now before them, introduced by Representative Cochran of Missouri. There have been two barriers to enactment of a federal antikid-naping law: economy and states' rights.

Attorney General MitcheR raised the first objection, holdin adequate enforcement of it impossible on the present pinches budget. The second so far hat been a cause of hesitation in Congress. Even Chairman Sumners and others favorable to the law do not want' the states to "leave it to Uncle Sam." But a bill providing the death penalty for abduction across the state lines is virtually certain to be recommended by them. N. J.

Solons Urge Federal Penalty Washington JP) Congressmen from the Lindbergh's home state. New Jersey, joined today to urge early action of measures to make kidnaping a federal offense. In the meantime. Rep. Summers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, laid the blame for such crimes on local communities, declaring that proper protection against kidnaping must be taken within the states.

Summers has said he favored capital punishment as a penalty for ths offense. Rep. Seger, Passaic, said he considered no punishment too great for the crime of kidnaping. Rep. Hartley, Kearny, said he had been in favor of the bill to make kidnaping a federal offense since its introduction, and that the abducr tion of the Lindbergh child his conviction.

Rep. Bacharach, Atlantic City, said he "certainly would support the legislation. Rep. Auf Der Heide. West New York, and Wolverton.

Camden, said they would do all in their power to further the kidnaping legislation, although pointing out that no Congressional action could aid In the search for the Lindbergh baby at this time. Letters andtelegrams have been received from the majority of police chiefs in New Jersey cities urging enactment of the kidnaping bUL The racket. It was said, was not unknown in New Jersey although more usual in the Midwest. Plane Leaves Newark To Hunt Over Woods Newark While a vast air armada was mobilizing to aid in the search for the infant son of Col. and Mrs.

Charles A. Lindbergh, a Ludington trl-motor plane took off today from the municipal airport to join the hunt. With the veteran pilot. Fred Davis, at the controls, the big plane had aboard her a number of newspaper men and photographers. They planned to fly over the densely wooded region surrounding Hopewell, almost inaccessible by other means of travel.

graphs of him with his own cam ra, 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 re would fly with his parents to the home of his grandfather at North Haven, Me, but it was postponed, and later physicians vetoed the plan. Even If cotton were stuffed into his ears, they said, the roar of the engines might impair his hearing for life.

So, for the first few monthi of his life he stayed at the Morrow home, guarded like the precious youngster he 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 letters threatening danger to the baby and for a time special watchmen were hired to guard him. For several months he has been a pupil at the private kindergarten of his aunt, Elizabeth Morrow, at Englewood.

He is described a3 an exceptionally bright child. famous meat packing family. Pat Crowe served a prison term for this kidnaping. 1907 Rose Giordano, New York. Returned home and fbductors arrested two years later.

1909 Billy White, Sharon, Pa, released after payment of J10.00C ransom. 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 Ken osha, unharmed; Baby Hencks, Chicago. Her fate is still mystery although she was be lieved to have been slain. 1913 Catherine Winters, New castle, Ind. Never found. 1915 Ginny Glass.

Jersey City. N. believed to have been slain. 1917 Baby Lloyd Keet, Spring field. Mo, found slain.

1919 Billy Dansey, New Jersey. Body found months later in a warn p. 1924 Bobby Franks. Chicago. Slain for a "thrill" by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, University students now serving life and 99- year terms in the Illinois Peniten tiary at Joliet for crime.

1927 Marian Parker, 12, Los Angeles. Her mutilated body was returned to her father and after a sensational bunt, Edward Hickman was hanged in 1928 as her "thrill slayer." 1929 Jackie Thompson. Detroit. Returned after payment of $17,000 ransom and three men convicted and $5,000 recovered 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 ransom but returned safely supposedly without payment; Dr.

Isaac D. KeUy, St. Louts. Held for ransom but released after paying undisclosed sum. Expert Declares Kidnaping Work Of Insane Person Chicago iJP)Co.

Robert Isham Randolph, head of Chicago's famous "Secret Six," said today he was convinced that the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh was the act of an insane person. Two years of running down kid napers from coast to coast have convinced him. CoL Randolph said, that "no organized gang of kid napers ever would attempt such a crime. There Is nothing for authorities to do in the case, he added, until ransom demands are made or other clues uncovered. "There are lots of kidnaping gangs with enough facilities to carry out the job," CoL Randolph said, "but none of them is brainless enough to try it.

They know that the whole country would be looking for them and that the man who flew the Atlantic alone wouldn't be an easy victim." The fact that no extortion de mands were made before the kidnaping also indicate the Lindbergh baby abduction is the work of a demented person. CoL Randolph said. He expressed a belief that even the moat amateurish gang never would select such a victim He expressed belief that the child soon will be returned, point ing out that the resources of the entire nation can readily be devoted to the case. If it appears that any of the nnn which the "Secret Six" has traced is responsible, Randolph said, then the facilities and agents of that organization will be avail able Immediately to aid in the search. Kidnaping Punishable By Life Term In iV.

J. Newark JP Kidnaping if a high misdemeanor in New Jersey and any person found guilty of it is subject to a life sentence in State Prison at hard labor. A lesser sentence may be imposed at the discretion of ths judg but the minimum is fir year. 0A fjiS3U Associated Press Phcto Charles' A. Lindbergh fr, kidnaped son of Col.

and Mrs. Lindbergh, ivas the center of this admiring fjroup little more than a year ago. With him are his grandmother. Mrs. Vwisht W.

-Morrow left), his sreat-grandmother, Mrs. Charles Long Cutter (center), end his mother. Window Through Which Baby Was Associated Press Photo Here is typical picture of the flying father and mother of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. It was made while they prepared for their flight to the Orient.

ASSOC tXi Grandmothers Kidnapped fivi w-W Senate Passes 4 Finance Bills Trenton (.) Four more meas ures to make resources of the Fed eral Reconstruction Finance Cor poration available to closed building and loan associations, banks, trust companies and insurance concerns have been approved by the New Jersey Senate. The bills were introduced by Senator Wolber, Essex, and ap proved yesterday, along with a wide variety of other measures. Despite predictions of a "financial a measure to nermit the state highway commission to let contracts In anticipation of revenue was also approved. Senator Richards, majority leader, opposed adoption of the bin and Senator Plerson was In favor of it Pierson said it would tinuatlon of work on such projects as me ixewarK-Jersey City diagonal rouic toe xiouana 1 unneL Isolated Location Mansion An Aid to Kidnapers Sff Chicago The kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, came as a climax to what anti-crime crusaders here said was a 2-year wave of kidnaping in which 2,000 or more persons were abducted for ransom in the United States. During those years, authorities aid, kidnaping joined robbery, liquor, vice and drug traffic as a "big money crime." Kidnaping syndicates tortured or terrorized victims into paying millions of dollars ransom, they said.

"There probably were 400 kid-napings in Illinois during 1930 and 31," said Alexander Jamie, chief investigator of the "Secret Six" here. victims reported officially paid raniom, many others were released without ransom, and several hundred made no official reports. In a desperate right to stem the wave, midwest crime fighters have banded together to obtain federal legislation that would deter abductions by making transportation of a kidnaped person from one state to another a capital crime. A petition for such legislation has been submitted to Congress by Col. Robert Isham Randolph, lead of Chicago's famous "Secret Six," Walter B.

Wefeenburger, president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, and others. Although organized dnapings for ransom are a comparatively recent outgrowth, the authorities recalled that the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby tops a long list of abductions of the last few decades, of which these received nation-wide attention: 1874 Charles Ross, Germantown, Pa-, never found although large rewardj have been offered for his safe return. 185 Gerald Lapiner, Chicago. Later found in Ohio.

1900 Edward Cudahy. of the Arrange Quarters For Reporters in Lindbergh Garage Hopewell Mud-spattered re porters, cold and tired after a hectic night's work in covering the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby, were given the Flying Colonel's garage as a headquarters early today. Col. Henry Breckenridge, Lindbergh's cttornev. served coffee to newspapermen and threw open the garage for those who were at tne scene earliest last night.

Included In the numbor were two staff writer of the Associated Press, first reporters at the aviator's home. State Troopers kept hundreds of curious spectators away from tne estate as police, still aided by CoL Lindbergh, continued their search for clews. Philadelphia Kidnap Group Is Suspected New York Scanning their lists of extortionist who strike at big money by seizing helpless vic- tlma nuthoritlM todav thought it might be such a gang as that re ported opera ling nere ai. which made away with Charles A. Several months ago rumors of a irMnan rAnt threw Drofessional and theatrical circles into fright.

Police were tipped that a highly or ganized group naa maraea a usi of these wealthy folk for spiriting WAV. extortion on a mass production basis had been attempted by a band operating from Philadelphia, no ne wan arretiea Grandmother Carries On With School Duty Tvtmit- CPt Mrs' C. A. Lind bergh Sr, mother of CoL Charles A. Lindbergh, carried on in her classroom at the Cass Technical High School here today despite the kidnaping of her grandson.

Aiihnnp-h ereatlv worried. Mrs Lindbergh indicated she would not go to New Jersey until there were new developments in the case, rniarles H. Land, her brother, said she believed she would be better if continued to conduct her flais9 tci chemistry. First word of the kidnaping of her grandson came to Mrs. iina-bergh at 11 p.

m. last night in a telephone call from Ann unaoergn Son Kidnaped lis? iC r- it i of Lindbergh Newark and Camden. In the dis tance beacons oftwo airlines flash at night. 'Quiet Birdman' Says Kidnaping An Amateur Job New York VP) "This is no job by professional kidnapers; none of them would be so foolish," said a member nf tha Oiitt nirti.n fi ittiBfaTfr secret fraternal organization of noted fliers, in commenting on the seizure. of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.

They would know," he ask ing that his name be omitted, "that a hunt unprecedented in the annals of the country would follow such a deed and that with practically every one in the country watching out for the baby and his captors, their chances of getting away with it would be slim. "My theory is that amateur kid napers, who never did a big 'Job before, are responsible. I think the idea that madmen did It must be ruled out because madmen don't run in pairs or trios." This member of the "Quiet an organization to which rl Lindbergh also belongs, declared me oener mat ir the child Is not quickly found, airmen all over the country wfl take up the hunt, and that probably Pan-American Airways and T.A.T., concerns for which Lindbergh is technical advisor, would send out planes to scour the Jersey hills and any other spots to which clues may lead. Looks Like Father II 1 1 Cf Charles Augustus Lindbergh de scrlption says he looks like his father. He's a cherubic, 20-months-old tot.

with blue eyes, curly blonde hair, fair complexion. About normal size for a child his age, he has begun-to walk and talk. 5 Mexican Amhassador Dumbfounded at News Mexico CHy jP) Ambassador J. Reuben Clark was dumbfounded when he was informed of the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, last night. "That is terrible," he said.

Fined for Speeding Stellario Santacattarina. 23, New York City, was arrested by Officer Ernest Paloccs charged with speeding in Somerset Street. North PI? infield. He was taken to Police Headquarters and arraigned before Recorder Augustus S. Dreicr, who happened to be there.

Following a plea of guilty the motorist was fined $5. Returns From Florida Mrs. Claire Williams, proprietor of the Claire ShOD. 15 Watchune Avenue, returned this morning from Miami, Fla. While vacationing in Florida.

Mrs. Williams visited the fashion shows and brings back to Hainneld latest style and fashion news. 1, c- v. 4 --c. Associated Press Phcto Here is the Lindbergh home at Hopewell.

The rrow points to the tvindow of the nursery through tthich baby Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was kidnaped. Footprints beneath the window showed that the kidnapers had removed their shoes and climbed a ladder To the second story. They spirited the child away with such stealth, that the Lindberghs, though in the house, heard no sound.

Hopewell (JP No criminal would ask a more eery and isolated spot for a crime and gefaway than the sourland hill section in which the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped last night. Standing on the second highest eminence in New Jersey, the new Lindbergh estate a $50,000 horne ts almost completely cut off from the outside world. A narrow road, steep, rocky and muddy, winds up from the farm country below, and it was along this that the kidnaperj 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 a handful of soil and placed it under the visitor's nose. It had a sour smell. In the front yard of the Lind-bergs 550-acre tract is a private landing field, while behind the house are dense woods. The house is 70 feet long, and its entire length is fronted by a terrace, from which Mrs. Lindbergh can see the Flying Colonel as he swoops from the sky after a trip.

The nursery from which th golden-curled child was snatched is on the second floor, with Its windows looking out on the road. The back door of the mansion. which suggests the entrance to such colonial taverns as tdorn Christmas cards, opens into a paved parking space. Long ago this mountain country interested historians, geologists and Beekers of atmosphere. Geologists have studied it because it is an example of how strap rock milLons of.

years ago melted and forced its way up through, layers of to form the "backbone" of a mountain ridge. Near the Lindbergh home is a "rock house" with a cleavage Inrge enough to conceal a man. John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is said to have hidden there to escape British soldiers dispatched from Trenton to capture him. CoL Lindbergh and his wife chose their home site from the sky soon after the marriage. It is too high for fogs and faces the busiest air une In the world, between Lindhersh's 3Iilkniaa Handed Taste of Fame Hopewell Wilson Southard, whose lonely milk route carries him to Lindberghs doorstep every morning, tasted fame today for the first time in his life.

The daily ritual of placing two quarts of certified milk, two quarts of grade milk and two pints of cream was duly photographed as part of the day's happenings at the home of the flier and Mrs. Lindbergh. Air Line Sends Ship To Assist In Search New York The Ludington Air Lines announced today that at the request of the authorities it was sending a trl-motored airplane to Hopewell. N. to aid In tne search for the kidnaped Lindbergh baby.

The plane was to leave New. ark airport this morning and will be placed at the disposal of State Police..