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a a a a a a a a a a a a a a BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1932 2 3 Racketeer Off on Lindbergh Mission; Moore Willing to Withdraw Police Underworld Goes to Aid of Go-Between Twenty Help Spitale and Bitz in Baby HuntJohnson Is Still Heldl Continued From Page: 1 West. He has the build of a Jack Dempsey and the reputation of a "bad man to cross." He formerly operated in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just as Bitz was known in East New York. To a Manhattan newspaper, Spitale issued a statement yesterday, supplementing the earlier statement of Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh appointing him and Bitz the official underworld go-betweens for the return the 5 child. "I ask," his statement said, "whoever has the child to communicate with me at the earliest possible opportunity." And he added: "Nothing in the world would have brought me into this very delicate situation if I did not know what it is to be a fatherhaving two children of my ownand if I did not know that the missing child is not only the child of the Lindberghs, but the 'child of it is professional kidnapers who have the child, he thought, he would get it back.

He had "methods of his own" for getting into communication with them, he said. He himself is "not involved in any kidnaping racket." "I'm Ta father," 'he declared. "I was brought into this through friends of Colonel Lindbergh. I disliked to act because I knew the immediate assumption would be that I was involved in the kidnaping. I propose to work through channels not open to everybody." Has His Theories He would express no theories as to where the child might be, how soon it might be returned.

"I have my theories but I'm not expressing them. Theories aren't worth anything just now. I want this baby turned back to its mother and father." Late yesterday afternoon a luxurious automobile, thought to have been Spitale's, was seen passing through Staten Island. In it was a muscular-looking figure thought to be "Salvy." And today, he and Bitz were -somewhere. In Trenton, where New Jersey State troopers had been directing their own so.

far unsuccessful search, Capt. Lamb said today that the police, have orders to "do everything possible" to help the kidnapers deliver child, same to help Spitale and Bitz to the end. No request, said Lamb, had been made by Colonel Lindbergh, either to do anything in the matter or to refrain from doing anything. The police had made the decision on their own. The State police in Trenton meanwhile, through Captain Lamb, expressed the belief that the baby is alive.

Under the system of interviewing Insisted on by the police, Lamb answered 21 questions previously submitted, allowing no further questioning. One of the 21 was: the State police or Colonel Lindbergh believe the baby is dead or alive? The answer was: "We believe the baby is alive." Johnson Still Held In Newark, N. meanwhile, Henry (Red) Johnson, deckhand and friend of Miss Betty Gow, nurse ct the Lindbergh baby, held for further questioning, 'although most of the items of suspicious circumstantial evidence against him were said to have fallen down. The New Jersey milk bottle, dated Wednesday and found in Johnson's car an Hartford early Wednesday morning. was explained on the basis that it the Wednesday of the week before the kidnaping.

Johnson said he bought a bottle of milk almost daily and then carefully saved the bottles so as to get back the deposit on them. In Trenton there was some belief that the appointment of Spitale and Bitz indicated that Colonel Lindbergh had at last made that "contact" with the kidnapers for which he had repeatedly pleaded. Even as the congr-3s of police officials of every large city from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River were concened there to map out the best means of effecting the return of the and the apprehension of his abductors. Colonel Lindbergh was in communication with the kidnaper and acquiescing to an apparent demand of those who have the child in custody that accredited members of the underworld only would be considered as intermediaries. The announcement that Colonel Lindbergh had designated known and finger-printed members of the New York City underworld to act for him has stunned every duly constituted law enforcement agency, Please Turn to Page 13 Radio Station Facing Quiz on Kidnap Tale The Federal Radio Commission in Washington today took cognizance of reports that one or more radio stations have been broadcasting allegedly untrue facts about the Lindbergh baby search.

Complaints were being investigated, Chairman Saltzman declared, and immediate action would be taken if the complaints were upheld. An unnamed station, it was broadcast an unfounded, been report that obtained. a confesA number of radio stations vesterday announced that only facts officially confirmed by the authorities would be broadcast. CHILDREN PRAY FOR RETURN OF LINDBERGH BABY Ever since the kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

the 500 children in the St. Michael's Catholic Orphanage at Hopewell, N. within a few miles of the scene of the crime, have prayed daily for the swift and safe return of the Lindbergh baby. Photo shows several of the mites praying in the chapel of the orphanage. 11 the kidnappers of our child are unwilling to deal direct we fully authorize "Salvy" Spitale and Irving Bitz to aot ba our go-between.

We will also follow any other method suggested bring the return The note signed by Col. naming two men believed to between themselves and the Jury Summoned To Indict Pair as Kidnapers of Boy Ohio Police Seek Third Man as 'Brains' of Plot -No Ransom Demanded Niles, Ohio, March 7 (AP)-A special grand jury was summoned today to consider indicting two alleged kidnapers of James De Jute 12, who was rescued Saturday after 76 hours of captivity. A third man, described as a former bootlegger, was still hunted as the suspected leader and "brains" of the plot. The other two who said they were Dowell Hargraves and John Demarco, both of Youngstown, were hiding with the boy when they were captured in a secret room of an abandoned gambling den near Youngstown. Under Ohio law, the men, if convicted, will face prison sentences of one to 20 years.

Ten years additional might be added if evidence was found that ransom was demanded, but the father of the child, a wealthy Niles contractor, already has denied that any money was asked. Life imprisonment for kidnapers is provided in Ohio only when they demand ransom for a child younger than 12 years. Hargraves, the officers said, was one of two men who overpowered Jimmy near his home Wednesday and secreted him in the old gambling den and liquor storehouse. Demarco claimed, they said, that he had just gone to the place to buy liquor. by the kidnappers that we can be sure 111 of our child LA A muz and Mrs.

Charles A. Lindbergh to the kidnapers of their child, be well -known Broadway racketeers, to act as "go-between" kidnapers. Milk Sold to Man for Baby In Auto New Kidnaping Clue Norwalk, March 7 (P)-1 Jimmy Bistany, owner of a restaurant on the Boston Post Road between Stamford and Norwalk, reported to Norwalk police today that he had sold a bottle of milk at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday to a man accompanied by a woman and baby. Bistany told police the man, who was riding in A green coupe, answered newspaper descriptions of Henry (Red) Johnson of Englewood, N.

detained in Newark, N. for Rail Merger Report Asked in Senate Washington, March 7 (P)-Favorable action on a resolution calling for a Justice Department, report on whether the proposed eastern railroad consolidation ciolates the antitrust laws was voted by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Britain in Extend Gold Standard Ban London, March 7 of the Gol dStandard Suspension Act. probably for six months, is provided, it was understood, in a financial emergency enactment continuance bill read for the first time in the House of Comtions this afternoon. Mrs.E.H.Hoxsie Dies; Widow of Physician Mrs.

Eleanor Evans Hoxsie, widow of Dr. Edward H. Hoxsie and a former resident of 39 Halsey died yesterday in the Westerly Hospital, Westerly, L. I. The funeral will be held from the home of her sister, Mrs.

Charles E.Sherman, 50 Elm Westerly, at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Interment will be in Riverhead Cemetery. Kidnaping Described as Job Of Prohibition-Bred Racket Dr. Arthur Frank Payne, noted psychologist, in his weekly radio talk over.

WOR yesterday, devoted the entire half hour to the aspect of the Lindbergh kidnaping. "It was. not an inside job," he said. "It was deliberately planned and executed by. racketeers.

The racketeer is an offshoot of prohibition, introduced by the bootlegger. I was one of those who worked for prohibition, but now I realize its "For God's sake leave the Lindberghs alone. There is altogether too much interference. How could the kidnapers possibly get in touch with them under the present Dog's Silence At Kidnaping Puzzles Police Lindbergh Pet's Failure to Give Alarm Points to Inside Job, Is View By H. V.

WILKINS Staff Correspondent of the Eagle Trenton, March 7-One of the angles of the Lindbergh kidnaping case, which is puzzling the police, is the failure of Trixie, the wire -haired terrier of Colonel Lindbergh, to give any alarm while the kidnapers were at work. Ordinarily any dog would immediately sense the presence of any stranger about the house. But Trixie, as far as the investigators can find, made no commotion, gave no indication that any strange person was near the establishment. What the investigators are trying to ascertain is what Trixie was doing while the kidnaper was placing the ladder against the wall of Lindbergh home. entering the nursery and snatching the child its crib.

Another dog was brought into the story today when it was reported that the Sealyham terrier, which was really the Lindbergh watchdog, had become ill the Saturday preceding the kidnaping and had been removed to the Princeton Kennels. The terrier left at the Lindbergh home was the playmate of little Charles Augustus Jr. The movements of Trixie are important. If some one was stroking the ears of Trixie from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.

when the abduction was discovered, there is an explanation of why no alarm was sounded by the dog. A dog receiving the attention of a person is only interested 111 the attention which is being given. A dog wandering about the house is keenly alert to everything which is transpiring. As far as the officials can ascertain no one was giving Trixie any particular attention last Tuesday night. The position the dirt from the feet of the kidmaper in the nursery Is also of prime importance.

The authorities have been vague on this question. Last night it was impossible to find any one who would definitely state whether dirt was found in the room at the time. Ladder Risky Affair Another angle of the case which is puzzling investigators is whether any one would risk ascending and descending the ladder presumably used by the kidnapers. At least it is a fragile affair. From a lay standpoint it is believed that it would not bear a man weighing 150 pounds.

It tapers sharply at the top. Investigators are having a hard time believing that the kidnapers would risk descent on this ladder with a sleeping baby on one shoulder. All of which points to the possibility that instead of the baby being taken from its second-story nursery, the baby was handed out to the kidnapers by some one in the house, and that the ladder, instead of being 8 bit of vital evidence, was used as a blind to throw investigators off the real means by which the child was whisked into the night. The absence dog's barking, the vagueness of the evidence of tracks of the kidnapers in the nursery floor and the fragility of the ladder, the belief that kidnaping prompt, the Lindbergh baby was an "inside" job. Policeman Trying To Aid Woman Kicked Patrolman William Petersohn of the Clymer St.

station was kicked about the head and face early today while attempting to rescue a woman who was being dragged intc a hallway at 91 Sanford St. Patrolman Petersohn knocked out three of the men and arrested them, but the fourth escaped with the woman. Those under arrest on the charge of felonious assault are Edward McCarthy, 23, of 188 Greene James Bannon, 23, of 116 Nostrand and James Finnerty, 24, of 91 Nostrand Ave. They refused to reveal the identity of the fourth man and the woman. Theaters Protest Admission Tax A protest against the proposed 10 percent theater admission tax as "discriminatory" in "the face of a general manufacturer's tax of percent" has been telegraphed to the members of the House Ways and Means Committee by representatives of practically all organized groups in the New York legitimate theater field.

THE LINDBERGH GO-BETWEENS The two men, "big shots" of the underworld, whom Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has empowered to treat with the kidnapers of his baby. Salvatore Spitale and (right) Irving Bitz. Check Alien Colony For Kidnaping Clues 'Jackson Formerly of Red Hook Section of Brooklyn, Eyed at Skillman -Got Lumber Similar to That Used in Ladder Special by Eagle Trenton, March 7-Emigres Brooklyn, who compose the foreigners at Skillman, today police seeking possible clews to Skillman is conceded to the wildest, toughest settlement in the Sourland mountain range.

It lies but seven miles north of the Lindbergh home. The residents, mostly common laborers, exist by doing odd jobs in the neighborhood, attending occasionally some farmer's crop or getting work on such jobs as building the Lindbergh home. Strange tales come out of Skillman concerning the activities and social life in the foreign colony there. The State police list these people under the title of "Jackson Whites." which corresponds to "Pineys" for the illiterates of South Jersey. Called a Menace With the "Jackson Whites" blood ties are ignored, inbreeding is prevalent, only a casual regard is given to proper paternity.

This has developed a group which authorities admit is a constantly growing potential menace. A large portion of these people come originally from Brooklyn. Taxicabs bearing New York licenses ofter appear there. This usually is the signal for a lengthy revel where Four Rounded Up In Kidnaping Joke Astoria police last night questioned four persons about their "knowledge" of the whereabout of the Lindbergh boy. The four were: Dr.

Joseph Marino of 78 E. 72d Manhattan: his office girl, Theresa Heuser, 21, of 533 E. 17th Manhattan: Estelle Miller, 31, of Hargrave and George Scott, 31, electrical contractor, of 31-03 5th Astoria While at an Astoria motion picture house last night, Scott walked into the manager's office, asked if he might use the telephone, called Miss Miller and asked her to "tell where the Lindbergh baby is." The theater manager called the police. who rounded took up Scott the into others. custody and The Miller girl insisted that it was a "joke" on the other three.

Police were inclined to believe her story. Lost Washington Documents Found Philadelphia, March 7 (P)-Considered lost for more than a century, original deeds for the purchase of Wakefield, birthplace of George Washington in Virginia, have been found and are on exhibit today in the Free Library. The ancient documents are part of a collection of Washington letters and papers owned by Dr. A. S.

W. Rosenbach, now being shown for the first time. REFEREES APPOINTED By FAWCETT, J. Mater of Glick v.S. Bloom, Hieronimus A.

Herold. Hamilton Savings Loan Association vs. Powers, Michael Stein. Emsara Realty Corpation vs. Ruskin.

Baright. Vanson Realty Mortgage Corporation vs. Weisser, John J. Lee. Dime Savings Savings Bank vs.

Linn, R. Emmet Doherty. George Bank vs. Betjemann, Brush. Abraham vS.

Menzer, Michael Diemert. Empire Title Guarantee Co. vs. Rohde, Joseph M. Conroy.

St. Springfleid Corporation Vs. Walsh, Francis E. Carberry. Baby's Eyes Are Brown, So Lindbergh Clue Fails Waukegan, March 7 (P)-A third of the way across the continent last night telephone wire hummed with information about a baby boy with crinkly blond hair.

At one end was Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. At the other was Dr. John Foley, Waukegan City health officer.

"He reached for the telephone," said the doctor. "That's what he'd do," said Lindbergh. "Brown eyes," continued the sician. 'Brown eyes, and the voice the flying Colonel trailed off. There was a conference between Lindbergh and Capt.

J. J. Lamb of the New Jersey State Police. As- Spitale Suave, 'Good Rose Rapidly Began Career as Bouncer in Williamsburg Dance Hall- -Has 2 Children enemy of Has Two Children Salvator Spitale is by far the better known of the two underworld mediators appointed by the Lindberghs. According to those who know him, he started his career a3 a bouncer in a Williamsburg dance hall, Suave and a good mixer, he made is way rapidly.

He is well to do and is said to have large interests in Harlem cabarets and restaurants in the Times Square district of Manhattan, He owns considerable real estate, including the four -story brownstone residence at 603 Bedford Brooklyn. Spitale lived there with his family until last August, when he moved to his present residence, the apartment at 241 Central Park West. He is said to belong to no gang but to be friendly with all of them. Never in Trouble In Williamsburg racketeers and even police with respect and some admiration. He was "never in trouble" in Williamsburg.

only contacts with the police being when he was taken into custody by Manhattan headquarters on suspicion that he put Legs Diamond "on the spot." He was thereafter released without having been formally under arrest. He is better known, it is said. in Pennsylvania and New. Jersey than in New York, since beer trucks' have been operating in those states and "coming through" constantly. His reputation is that he runs "good beer." He has always--until the Lindbergh appointment forced him into the limelight-kept in the background.

letting others, like the late Diamond, bask in the heat of publicity. He Diamonardec as a bitter Staff Correspondent from the Red Hook section of "Jackson Whites" colony of are being checked by State the Lindbergh baby kidnaper. the apple flows and joy is neither refined nor confined. Police on such occasions usually put them down as celebrations for some underworld coup and let it go at that. Skillman Scrutinized Today, however, Skillman is beIng given a careful scrutiny.

Once more the ladder used by the kidnapers looms into the picture as the best bit of evidence in the hands of the investigators. Fifteen months ago the Moldenky cottage, an addition to the State Home for epileptics at Skillman, was completed. Many of the "Jackson Whites" were employed on this job, which was by Marcus Peterson, Perth Ambov, N. J. Contractor Harry Bernhardt of 28 Beach this city, was the foreman.

Today Bernhardt revealed that three sectoined ladders similar in construction to the one used in the Lindbergh kidnaping were used in erecting the Moldenky Cottage. Lumber is Donated Peterson, over the telephone, confirmed the fact that when the job was completed a considerable quantity of odd-sized lumber was given to the "Jackson Whites" he had employed. This lumber is said to be similar to that used in fashioning the kidnaping ladder. few weeks after the Moldenky Cottage was finished work started on the new Lindbergh home. Several of the men who had worked on the State job were hired for the Lindbergh operation.

These men, theremore, had intimate knowledge of the layout of the residence. Efforts are now being made to see if there is any way line up the lumber given away after the Moldenky cottage was built with any of the workmen hired on the Lindbergh job. If such a man is found he will loom large in the present picture. SAW COUPE Frank L. Shipman, owner of a filling station and repair station Rocky Hill, photographed in front of his station when he reported to officials he had seen a car at 6:30 a.m.

the morning after the Lindbergh kidnaping parked on the State highway near here with a baby in it. Later he said he saw a green coupe similar to that driven by Henry Johnson, who was questioned by Connecticut officials for. some valuable time information. without gaining Shipman was to be questioned further. Spitale is married and has A daughter, 12, and a son, 5, both of whom are being carefully educated.

far removed from the underworld environment their father knows. Spitale once owned an interest in the Monticello Hotel, in which Diamond was mysteriously, shot in October, 1930. attackers were never run down. He and 27 others were once arrested in 3 a murder that grew out of a fur robbery in Brooklyn, but he was exonerated. Bitz, who is said to have gone under the name of Morris Grossman, is said to be a lieutenant of Spitale's.

Clergy Aid Fight Against Diphtheria Clergymen in Red Hookc Gowanus section, the Department of Health announced today, will operate in the drive to make every child in the district safe from diphtheria. The Jewish Social Service Bureau has pledged its assistance and so have the Boy Scouts. More than 200 merchants have agreed to help in the distribution of anti-diphtheria literature. The section nas more than 9,000 children under the age of 5 years who have not been immunized. questioning in the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby.

Johnson, friend of Betty Gow, the baby's nurse, was taken to New Jersey after being questioned in Hartford. Bistany said his customer asked for hot milk and said it was for the baby. Mrs. Bistany asked the man if he wanted a little sugar in the milk. The customer went outside and returned with an affirmative answer.

Before leaving the store the man also purchased cigarettes. Frank Palmeri Dies In Atlantic City Frank Palmeri of 1448 Union a member of an old Brooklyn family, died Saturday at Atlantic City where he contracted pneumonia while on a short visit. He was born in Brooklyn, the son of the late Daniel and Amanda P. Palmeri, who died in 1927 after a married life of 60 years. Mr.

Palmeri was in the theatrical and later in the jewelry business. He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Clara Morris Palmeri; two brothers, Lawrence J. and Albert, and a neice, Mrs.

Vinie Palmeri Grant. He was a former member of the old 47th Regiment and belonged to Magnolia Lodge, I. 0. 0. F.

Services will be held in the Fairchild Chapel at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Snow and Ice Block Roads to Lindberghs Hopewell, N. March 7 (P) -The bleak Sourland Hills surrounding the Lindbergh estate were practically deserted today as a snowstorm replaced the driving rain of yesterday. A glare of ice under a thin coating of snow made the roads even more hazardous than the thick mud of yesterday, and even the most experienced motorists hesitated to try their skill on the aimost impassable highway to the Lindbergh estate.

The snow was driven by a stiff wind from the northwest and the barometer had dropped to considered low for this section. Old residents, casting their weather eye toward the wind, feared the signs pointed to a March blizzard. The temperature was moderately cold. During the night the weather became so severe that State troopers, apparently assuming that not even the hardiest would venture forth, withdrew the police guard from the barrier two miles from the entrance to the Lindbergh estate. Philadelphia Mayor Will Speak Here Republican County Leader Frederick J.

M. Kracke today announced plans for the second in a series of big political rallies. On the heels of United States Senator Simeon D. Fess, who spoke at the January rally, Mr. Kracke has obtained Mayor J.

Hampton Moore of Philadelphia as orator for the second big gathering. The session will take the form of a meeting of the Kings County Republican Committee at Kismet Temple on Tuesday, March 15. How about JUNIOR for he his have to education scramble will there be money to give him the best? Start a savings account for him today--yourself as trustee. Keep putting in a little money at regular intervals. You'll hardly miss it.

Then, when he grows up, there the money will be, plus the interest it has earned, to give him his chance: Resources over $190,000,000 Prosperous over 70 years THE DIME SAVINGS BANK OF BROOKLYN DeKalb Ave. Fulton St. Branch Offices: 86th St. 19th Ave. 83 Sands St: cumstances with every means of communication blocked? "Leave the solution of this case -to Colonel Lindbergh He was able to handle his notable flight to Paris without outside aid and I know that he can handle the present desperate situation, if he is not interfered with.

"The Lindbergh baby is not suffering because of his new surroundings. A child does not become really conscious of itself until it is about six years old. "The child has been brought up by the most sensible parents in the world. They have left him alone for considerable periods and baby has been accustomed to strange faces about him." sured that the eyes were brown Captain Lamb suggested that the baby, who proved to be Earl K. Woodley be allowed to continue with his parents to their home in Minneapolis.

The Woodleys were enroute by automobile from Toledo when the suspicions of a hotel manager were aroused. He called Sheriff Tiffany, and the latter telephoned to Lindbergh. Col. Lindbergh suggested the phyphysician's examination, and an experiment with a telephone. Baby Woodley, like the Lindbergh child.

is a telephone addict. He reached for A telephone. But his eyes are brown and baby Lindbergh's are blue, A.