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SUNDAY NEWS, SEPTEMBER 1936 G'Men Foil Kitlnapings G'Men Trap 'Phantom 9 For $30,000 Threats To Two Society Girls By NORMA ABRAMS. A shabby hitch-hiker signaled for a ride. A drunk stumbled across the street and fell flat on his face. The amorous boy and girl in the parked car seemed to want nothing but privacy. An auto drove up, a man got out with a package in his hand, and a shadowy figure in the shrubbery of 16Sth off Grand Central Parkway, Queens, signaled by tipping his hat.

5 -'4 4 iS fifteen minutes later, a gawky, red-haired ioy ot la I 1 liTl. Tl 1 wm npn.A was in manacles, trapped as ine rnaniom wno uemanatM $30,000 from the parents of two vivacious Newxrt tlebu- Mm LtMUtfiO Eleanor Young Lucy Saunders 'The Phantom" picked them for extortion plot. BUD WANTS TO BLOOM ALONE Rudy Vallee Takes Smack At Wrong Man Toronto, Sept. 5. Rudy Vallee carried his "swing stuff" off the orchestra leader's podium and swung a left Dr.

and Mr. Truman Laurance Sounder, who received an extortion note demanding $20,000 to tave their daughter Lucy from kidnaping. MOTHER CITES RIGHTS IN SUIT FOR CHILDREN A mother who lost custody of her two children on considerations of Americanism and religion is basing her fight to regain them upon her constitutional rights. The American Civil Liberties Union has come to the defense of Mrs. Mabel Eaton who pleaded last Winter for the to the jaw of an unsuspecting Exotic, red-haired Sara Allen Watt, dancer, crossed her shapely legs, smoothed a chic, tight-fitting black skirt and announced she intends to divorce Don Watt, orchestra leader.

"It isn't that I don't love Don," she said. "It's just well, that I want to be free. You know, like a little prairie flower." She bowed her head and sniffed an orchid corsage. She looked up, blinking her warm, brown eyes like a confused doe. "Understand, I still think Don is the most wonderful man in the world," she went on.

"He's the ideal husband, but not for me. We're both too artistic, I guess. dancer. Husky attendants then threw out of the ballroom of the Canadian National Exposition the innocent son of one of Toronto's most wealthy and socially prominent women. And a few minutes later Rudy was apologizing.

Hits the Wrong Man. "Who threw that?" roared Rudy a second after an empty whisky flask had fallen spinning at his feet. Dancers were as startled as he. One of Rudy's musicians pointed tantes on the threat of kidnaping or death. The hitch-hiker, the drunk and the couple in the car were special of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, actors in a play iliut srnrpd a smash hit.

We've got too much temperament for one household." aid of 1 -women in her fight to keep her two children, Mabel, 10, and Warren 6. Mrs. Eaton was deprived of her children last at Newark, N. when Advisory Master in Chan-cery Robert The divorce, based upon incom patibility, will be filed in Chicago. "The Phantom," agents revealed in announcing his arrest, was William J.

Butler 18, of 139 Hancock Brooklyn, black-sheep son of a cop attached to the Empire Boulevard Station. Panicky and tearful, Butler promptly confessed to sending the letters. One of them went to Col. i he pair were married there in 1930 when Sara was dancing in "Nina Rosa" and Don was tooting Warren Eaton a saxophone in the Granada Cafe there. No alimony will be asked.

(I'icture on page l) 1 7 i yr a granted a divorce to Eaton. Groa-man decided that the son and daughter would be better off with a father, who is a Methodist and a believer in Americanism, than with a mother "who frankly states that she no longer considers herself a and holds Communistic beliefs. Under the court's decision Mrs. Eaton has the privilege of seeing her children once a week, but Grosman promised that this per- Band Leader to Hear Murder Trial Date New London, Sept. 5.

Robert A. Simpson, handsome 23-year-old band leader, will learn next week when he Lj to go on trial for the murder of Ellen Sullivan, 17, pretty Robert R. Young of 720 Pail Ava. and Newport, whose comely titer, Eleanor, made her otfu'i Ik to society only three s.i. lie was ordered to pay Two other letters went Or.

and Mrs. Truman Lauraiic -ders of 121 K. 61st St. and Their daughter, Lucy, i a i hi of Miss Young, and Newpitrt v.i4 her the most beautiful iii in t'n lesort. The Saunders were ordered to pay $20,000.

It was the letter to the Yo.ingl which trapped Hutler. Thit ii-sive, dispatched Aug. fr.mt was nig-ned The i.tt, followed by two X's, 1 Young a week and a half to arrange for the money. The Instruction. The clubman wa directed lo put the money in a package, torn in a coupe by himself to lUSth SI.

at Cmnd Central Parkway at I'. and park the car there. He was to step out, wave handkerchief and it-ceive a himuI. The I'hantorn said he would ilieii take the car and money. Young: was advised to take it easy, hot to doublecroHs him or to do a ty-thing he would sorry for.

Things went off as scheduled. An agent dressed as a hitch-hiker I beside the parkway thumhinir ides. Another posed as a drunk. in a car on J68th St. jut iIT th parkway were two agetitx.

dressed as a girl in a lame Hurt hat. Still others were stationed inconspicuously nearby. He Heroine Timid. The auto drove up. and an FBI airent got out.

He niKiialf't, but Butler was timid. He imn-ly tipped his hat, and then atool in-dwiively in the shruhlxry, rf' i'1 to step out and take the Finally, the agents closed in on him. He was a iTIuch less datiu -min object than hi letters imin utcl. He was armed with ii.tper knife stamped, "Souvenir of Nimit-ara Falls." He had a nickel in ln pocket. It was the nickel that stampeded him into a confession.

"I'm going to the fiiovies," be Insisted. "On a nickel?" the agents demanded. At that, he broke dwn an I I Rudy Vallee to a man near the orchestra platform. "That's the guy, Rudy," he said. Rudy leaped from the platform and with a single blow knocked the man down.

Without a curl misplaced he strode back to strike up the band while his victim was hustled off the floor. Offers an Apology. A few minutes later, however, the victim reappeared. He was Moffett Dunlap, son of Mrs. D.

A. Dunlap, who last year gave to To ronto the great Dunlap ODserva torv. i Accompanied by friends and witnesses of the incident, he pro tested to Rudy, who quickly Mrs. Mabel Eaton "My lift stops when I don't them." stepped from his stand to apologize. A second apology was made later today, it was reported, when Robert A.

Simpson The late Ellen Sullivan telephone operator. When the Stale Supreme Court meets next Tuesday a date will be set for Simpson to face the Court. Vallee drove to Donalda Farms, the mission would be revoked if she magnificent Dunlap estate. The crooner has been held with-f- sought to "instill her atheistic and Mrs. Dunlap, reached by telephone, said no action against Rudy was contemplated.

TAUSSIG RESIGNS to death through a window of Danceland Casino on the night of Julv 18. The State charges that the girl was assaulted by Kimp.on a few minutes before she toppled from a window of the unlighted dance hall, where she and the young musician kept a rendezvous after the dance was over. out bail since Prosecutor Max Boyer presented a "skeleton case" against Simpson at a closed session of Police Court here. However, it is known that the prosecutor is basing his case against Simpson on the finding of Coroner Edward C. McKay that the girl wa attacked before aha plunged communistic beliefs" in them.

Mrs. Eaton denies that she is a Communist, and she affirms her belief in God. "I have to get my children back, Mrs. Eaton declares. "I lova them so it seems as though my life just stops when I don't see them!" Cambridge, Sept.

5 (U.f). Prof. Frank W. Taussig, 76, famed economist, has resigned from the Harvard College faculty to become.