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468716 WALL STREET Closing Stock Prices WALL STREET Closing Stock Prices LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy, continued warm tonight; cooler tomorrow 99th YEAR No. 262 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1940 rmtred it tha Brooklyn pnstoftlco a 5d Clasi Mali Matter iCopjrtshl 1940 Tht Brooklyn Danly Eaglet 'F 8 Corporation cm if mimf British Mebirs tout in Stem Cold Ruthlessness Of Child's Kidnaper Displayed in Note Hillsborough, Sept. 21 (U.R) Five of California's wealthiest families, two of them of the French nobility, raised $100,000 in cash today with which to redeem 3 year old Count Marc de Tristan from the captivity of a suave, hooknosed kidnaper.

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, State and local police, and newspapermen had Nazi Invasion Ports Methodically Blasted New Clock Like British Raids Reported By Germans Western Reich Is Bombed Berlin, Sept. 21 (UP) New British bombing attacks on Germany and methodical clock like blatsing of German held channel ports were reported officially tcday, but the high command said that Nazi bombers had "successfully" battered withdrawn from the vicinity of the beautiful home of the baby's parents, Count and Countess Marc de Tristan, to make it both easy and safe for the kidnaper to go about collecting his ransom. The family already had announced that they were ready and willing to pay and that the ransom was waiting. The San Francisco Examiner this morning carried the classified advertisement which the kidnaper had instructed the family to Insert as the first step toward obtaining release of the baby. The family telephoned the advertisement from Hillsborough at 10:10 p.m.

last night (2:10 a.m. today, E. D.T.). Fear for Child's Safety But some authorities entertained grave fears for the safety of the little victim despite the kidnaper's repeated assurances in a ransom note that he would be well treated. The kidnaper, a man between 45 and 50, apparently a Latin, with a prominent nose, had acknowledged an unstable mind by signing the note, "Unconventional Eccentric." Its tone Indicated the cold ruthlessness of its author.

E. J. Connolly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's kidnap expert, ar IjD 0 i 'ill 3 CENTS rived early today to assume charge of the case. He refused to talk to newspapermen. Charles Christenson, brother of the countess, interrupted his honeymoon of a week to return here.

It was understood he would be the family's intermediary. He married Miss Dale King at Santa Barbara last Tuesday. The kidnaper who snatched the baby from his nursemand In street of this wealthy suburb of San Francisco yesterday, struck at a family so prominent Itself and with so many wealthy connections, that the crime will be known as the California Lindbergh case. The young countess, Jane, Is the daughter of the late Edwin Christenson, multi millionaire lumber and shipping magnate. Her mother is now the wife of Louis Shattuck Cates, wealthy president of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, the copper firm.

Her father was drowned In a yachti accident in 1930. On his father'i tide, the elder count is a descendant of an old Fnnch noble family, and on his mother's, of the pioneer California banking family of Parrott which, at Continued on Page 9 and actions. And soon afterward, scientists would be processing articles in the laboratory, while experts thumbed through finger print records. All of which adds up to this: In the 185 solved kldnaplngs, the men have gained 367 convictions in which the courts have imposed 12 death sentences; 42 life sentences; 3,952 years In prison; 72 I years suspended; 108 years proba tion. and $34,270 in fines.

Only 24 Federal kidnap defendants have been acquitted. The "Lindbergh law," which made kidnaping a capital offense, resulted from the abduction and slay, ing of the infant son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh from their Hopewell, N. home on March 1.

1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for that crime. Heroic 'Suicide Squad' Digs Up Another Bomb London, Sept. 21 VP) The same "suicide squad" which dug up a huge unexploded bomb from near St. Paul's Cathedral was credited today with digging out another this time from the grounds of the German hospital in London.

Lt. Robert Davies of the Royal Canadian Engineers, chief hero in the St. Paul's exploit, crawled into the crater and pulled out the fuse. The bomb was taken to an outly ing marsh and detonated. IN TODAY'S EAGLE Spain's Entry Into the War Hinted by Axis Madrid Minister Seen Preparing for Visit to Mussolini Rome, Sept.

21 (U.R) Possibility of a declaration of war on Great Britain by Spain was discussed in Rome today as German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop continued conversations with Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. The newspaper II Telegrafo of Leghorn, owned by Ciano's family, hinted that Spain soon would join the Axis Powers in war on Britain and it was reported that soon after Ribbentrop returns to Berlin Ser ano fiuner, Spanish Minister of the Interior, who is now conferring in the German capital, would come to Rome to see II Duce and Ciano. "Regarding the struggle against England it appears evident that henceforth in this decisive phase the lineup will include not only two but three European powers, namely, Italy, Germany and Spain," Telegrafo said. Saya Spain Has Role "Spain as well has accounts to settle and above all a role to play in the reconstruction that Is being carried out by the Axis Powers." Responsible quarters said that no definite plans have been made for a Rome visit by Suner, a brother in law of Spain's General Franco. But is was said that the possibility "should not be excluded." It was believed here that should Suner visit Rome after his Berlin conferences 'it would mean that Continued on Page Jobs for 200,000 Vichy, Sept.

21 W) Two hundred thousand unemployed workers in unoccupied France will be given jobs on a vast new public works program expected to take five years, years, the government announced today. The work will include improving and lengthening rail lines, rebuilding bridges and extending telephone and telegraph service. Wide World photo KIDNAPED Marc de Tristan, 3 year old son of the Count and Countess de Tristan, who was snatched in California yesterday, is shown in a recent photograph. Odds 93 to 1 Abductor Of BoyWill Be Caught FBI Has Solved 185 of 187 Cases Since 'Lindbergh' Law Was Passed Washington. Sept.

21 () The kidnaper, or kidnapers, of 3 year old Marc de Tristan took a 93 to 1 chance of ending up in prison or worse. Since passage of the "Lindbergh" law in 1932, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has Inves Army Recruiting Hits New Peacetime Record Reveal Thousands of Enlistments Here As Guard Units Prepare to Leave for Camps One Jettisons Bombs in Sea; Drive Slackens Blast Near Famous London Football Field Wrecks 12 Houses London, Sept. 21 () Adolf Hitler's air raiders, inaugurating the third week of mass assaults aimed at London, roared through channel mists and drizzling rain today but were reported to have run into a storm of British anti aircraft fire along the Kentish coast. One group of raiders appeared over the British capital after a night long series of attacks and British counter assaults on Nazi held channel "invasion ports." BROADCASTS TO N. Y.

London, Sept 21 (U.P Lord Mayor of London Sir William Coxen said in a broadcast speech to the United States Conference of Mayors in New York today that London faced its greatest ordeal but looked to victory "sure and London has been attacked frequently in its long history, Coxen said, and added: "These paved streets shall and will be defended to the last." Anti aircraft guns blazed away for a short time In entral London, the first formation of raiders soon disappeared and the brief raid alarm ended. Bombs Dropped in Sea Exchange Telegraph News Agency reported three of the raiders over Kent retreated In the face of the heavy British fire, one of them Jettisoning its bombs in the sea. Later a lone Messerschmitt fighter tried to steal in above the clouds, only to turn tail when It was sc Continued on Page 9 COOL BREEZES IN OFFING AS SUMMER FADES It was partly cloudy today and moderately warm and, the Weather Bureau predicted. It will be partly cloudy and cooler tomorrow. The weatherman also mentioned that the astronomical end of Summer is due tomorrow or the day after, he added, depending.

It works out this way. At 11:46 p.m. tomorrow, the sun crosses the equator, Southbound, and at that instant climaxes Summer in the Northern Hemisphere. But it's 11:46 p.m., Eastern Standard time. In Daylight Saving Time, however, that becomes 12:46 a.m., Monday.

So our Summer will actually stretch on until then. It's unprecedented, that's what it Is. GO TO CHURCH TOMORROW For Religious Newt, Sermon Topict, ere. All Denomination TURN TO THE Church News Page IN TODAY'S Brooklyn Eagle As various local units of the New York National Guard prepared today to leave for a year's training during the weekend or the early part of next week, officials of the Army Second Corps Area announced that every peace time recruit industrial and railroad target', in raids on southeastern England. Two fleets of British planes were driven back from Hamburg and Berlin, according to Nazi sources, but an official reporter on the English Channel coast admitted for the first time that British planes, night after night, had been bombing the Nazi held ports (bases for invasion of Britain) with "the regularity of a clock." Night Attacks Called Inaccurate The raids became more intense when the German air force began repilaal raids on London, the reporter said, but the British have attacked in the day time infrequently.

The night attacks were described as Inaccurate because of German anti aircraft fire which brought down 12 British planes In the last week around Ostend alone. Using a new "secret weapon" which was said to permit bombing crews to see through clouds, fog and rain, the German war planes continued "retaliatory" raids on London, severely damaging several new objectives which the high command said were in the center of the city and west of the great bend in the River Thames. German planes overcame the British in several battles over southeast England and were said to have made many hits on the Royal Albert docks, and military industries in southeast London, as well as air fields and military objectives in south England, the high command said. Report Starting New Yi'ts New fires were reported started In London. The British attacks on Germany were said to have destroyed "homes" in western Germany and hit a church and graveyard.

Thirteen civilians were killed and many wounded, but 14 British planes were shot down, the communique re ported. One German plane was reported missing. The high command said that three German submarines had sunk Continued on Page 9 Today's Scratches Aqueduct 1 Blushing Bride, Dollr." Wr Bugif. Weather clear; trick last. Narragansett 1 Khar, Brown Bomb, Dark Beau.

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I Weather, clear. Track, fast. TOKIO WARSHIPS STEAM INTO BAY AT INDO CHINA Crack Chinese Troops Massed for Invasion If Japanese Strike BULLETIN Hanoi, French Indo China, Sept. 21 () The French Indo CMtna Government reported a turn for the worse today in negotiations with Japan after there had been indications the crisis had passed. Hong Kong, Sept, 21 The British owned newspaper China Mail reported today that "since yesterday morning" Japanese warships had moved into Tonking Bay "as a persuasive gesture" to back up Japanese negotiations for military rights in French Indo China.

At the same time Chinese sources said crack Chinese government troops were massing along the borders of Kwangsi and Yunnan Provinces ready to move into French Jr.ao China if Japan should resort to force. Chinese government officials in Chungking were represented in Chinese dispatches as convinced that Japan's primary ambition in Indo China is to usurp French authority there, with securing of a backdoor route for invasion of Yunnan, a secondary objective. Highly connected Japanese quarters here said Japan was ready for military action aimed at seizing the whole of Indo China should the demand that an unlimited number of Japanese troop be al Continued on Page 2 Uruguay Reports Arrest of No. 1 Nazi mmUmla Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept. 21 (U.R) Arrests of Germans charged with anti governmental activities today was reported to have resulted in seizure o.

Arnulf Fuhrmann, reputedly the leader or a Nazi movement throughout South America. Fuhrmann was said to be a native German but a naturalized Argentinian. He was said to have been arrested at Salto, Uruguay. Three Germans were seized and detention warrants were issued against five in a renewal of an Nazi u.lve that started in June The round up of suspects came after Judge Hamlet Reyes had instructed officials to order the arrest of persons previously cited by a committee investigating activities contrary to the interests of the state. Those detained included Rudolf Patz Todt, described as the leader of a secret Nazi organization; Otto Klein, allegedly directing propaganda activities, and Rudolf Meiss r.er, suspected 01 being an agent of the German secret police.

D. Luis Bouzas, in charge of the investigation, said the activities undei inquiry were a "grave and complex problem" and threatened to "impair our national sovereignty for the first time in more than 100 years." ing record has been broken by a wave of enlistments. The total of new enlistments since Sept. 1 reached 2,647 in the area which includes New York, New Jer and Delaware. The total for the entire month of August was 2,656.

The Fourth Corps Area leads the whole country with 18.222 recruits Continued on Page 2 Lvj. nw tigated 187 kldnaplngs and solved 185. The unsolved cases are those of Charles Mattson, 10, kidnaped at Tacoma, Dec. 27, 1936, and Peter Levine, 12, New Rochelle, N. seized Feb.

24, 1938. Both boys were slain. The FBI declined to comment immediately on reports of the de Tristan kidnaping in Hillsborough, yesterday, but there was no doubt that the men were watch ing developments closely if the search for the man who grabbed the child after threatening his nurse with a gun. If the usual pattern in a kid 1 naping case was followed, however, I immediately upon being informed of the crime, J. Edgar Hoover, di rector of the FBI, referred to a large map facing his desk.

It shows the location of every FBI agent, and Hoover knows each one personally. Only 24 Were Acquitted He would note quickly the ablest men who were near the scene and order them into action. In a matter of minutes, the FBI machine would be in full swing. Dozeas of the world's most thoroughly trained investigators would be going over every inch of ground and every article, questioning, requestioning every person Involved in the case. At Washington headquarters, specialists would have begun searching files for names and faces, studying reports from the scene for a familiar note in conversations WHERE TO FIND IT ii ii lillo i llffi Bliven Page 9 Lost and Found Page Bridie Page 6 Movies TfC IS Church Newt Page lt Novel fxft Clifford Evans Page 4 OBITUARIES Page Comics Page 7 People in Politics Page 4 Crossword Page 6 RADIO Page 7 Dr.

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