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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1932 RACKET CHIEF IN SEARCH FOR PLANKS BARED BY CANDIDATES FOR ASSEMBU Men Discus, State Troopers Seeking Lindbergh Clues in Remote Jersey Spots fc -i LINDY'S BABY Underworld Leader Is Seeking Contact With Kidnapers. AIDE ALSO GO-BETWEEN -5 4 5 "11 Primary. GANGL0FF FOP, Job Relief. Dr Pensions f. tlOHS RpVir.

,..4. z. Hunts for Knowledge of Tot's Abductors Among Gang Elements in New York. (Continued From Page One.) Hi 'I II TTH Mini x'x n4 W-eV iti I sir Six 1 th-i I rni 4. iX XYr 'Ow yV Wsi -u? 4 r- 'rA'wV' rightpicture had no better luck when they searched a workshop in a deserted barn near the scene of the kidnaping.

Kvery abandoned and vacant holism in the district for miles around has been examined. throughout the Hopewell section of the state where the Lindbergh home is located. At the left the troopers arc soen examining an abandoned well near the Lindbergh estate The troopers in the Members of the New Jersey state police, taking part in the Intensive hunt for kidnaped Charles A. Lindbergh, son of Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, have fruitlessly sought clues in the case Racketeer to Help FOREIGN NEWS Dicker on Ransom rolice activities had developed no substantial thread that might lead to a solution of the crime.

"We fully authorize 'Salvy' Spitale and Irving: Bitz," the Lindberghs wrote. "to act as oik- go-between. We will also follow any other method suggested by the kidnapers that we can be sure will bring the return of our child." Bitz Is Only Henchman. Bitz is merely Spitale's henchman a small timer. In the words "any other method suggested by the kidnapers" some observers read tonight a lignificant admission that the Lindberghs or the underworld leaders already had certain information in their possession which would give hope of success.

others, it was believed that this was a final, desperate move by the Lindberghs, enlisting the underworld on their side in the name of humanity and granting additional assurance to the kidnapers that they may deal "safely" with the negotiators. Finances Hunt Himself. Whatever the answer to those questions, Spitale and his body-guard. Hit dramatically recruited in the cause, disappeared in the purlieus of Lower New York on their mission of mstery and mercy. Spitale is known to have admitted that he is faced with the possibility that amateurs committed the crime.

If so, his efforts at persuading the kidnapers to trust him will be difficult. But if the kidnaping was accomplished by any person known to the racket world, he is confident of a "break." During the day Spitale was engaged in conferences with certain of the sub-chieftains of the New York underworld, to aid htm in the search for the child. Spitale made it clear he was not a detective, hunting for clues, but anticipated that any "professional" kidnaper engaged in the stealing of the Lindbergh child, "would know how-to make contact" with him. He is not "going hunting in any cellars looking for the baby." His only fear of failure lies in the possibility that an amateur or a maniac committed the deed. A Jt ''fc.

PERU PRESIDENT HIT BY BULLET Permian President Woimdi-d In Miouliler at Inm li hy M'-iiilx Of Rival Political Faction. UMA. Teru. March (1'nited News.) President Jose Sanchez Cerro was shot and wounded today by a would-be assassin. 42-year-old pres.

ident was wound'-d in the shoulder. H.s assailant a member of the ApriMa fact ion. i .4.. Colonel Ignores Police, Turns to New York Underworld Characters as Intermediaries in Return of Son. PLANTS IN OHIO TO BEGIN WORK Many to Be Employed In Big Mills On River.

MARTINS KERRY, March LT) Increased industrial operations affecting hundreds of workers are scheduled for this week along the Ohio river front in Belmont county. The Wheeling Steel Corporation mill in Martins Ferry will resume operations tomorrow, after a one-week suspension. It is expected that additional men will be recalled to work at the Laughlin plant of the American sheet and Tin riate Com- pany here. The Imperial Glass Company at (Continued From, eharsie of the investigation about them. Colonel Lindbergh you know is a quiet chap and doesn't explain all the things he does." Police Bow to Wishes of Colonel.

Asked whv the slate police had not been advised about the had lu-z Ccrro in I Thirteen' The elections last po'i- 'gangland negotiations, the major vate matter. Colonel Lindbergh That statement indicated the morrow after a week's shutdow n. fact that by their remaining outside of the negotiations the Another plant scheduled to resume chances of getting the baby back safe and sound would not be tomorrow is the Penwood. W. endan Tred PrT trm Although a wall of silence was built up around the circum-laire.

I stances of the strange message that emanated from the Lina- bergh home shortly after Saturday midnight with an urgent re- LOVE RULE CITED quest that the newspapers and press services give it widespread fall and which repeatedly has Sanchez Cerro, threatened d.sturl.ances In Peru sim the new president took office. The shooting occurred while the president was attending muss at Miiafiores church, at the summer resort of Mirafluies. Pre-Election Riots Staged in Germany P.KRR1N. March 6. Univei sal I Service) Countrywide dai-hcs between opposing political factions with at least one death marked Germany's final Sunday liefore the pres-idential elections.

Fascists and Com- munis.ts met in North Rctlin and fought it out. Police reported one dead and several wounded among- the combatant. Mounted police patrolled downtown rlin and truikloads of reserves ere shot to outlying rectors at every report of disorder. Monster political rallies were held in the capital, Hamburg, and else- here. Throughout the country bands of partisan voters fought It out with publication, it was deemed virtually certain that the communication was the first step toward payment of the $50,000 ransom demand.

Kidnapers Believed Professionals. Typewritten and signed in ink by Lindbergh and his wife, the message read "If the kidnapers of our child are unwilling to deal direct we fully authorize 'Salvy' Spitale and Irving- Bitz to act as our go-betweens. We will also follow any other methods suggested by the kidnapers that we can sure will bring the return of our child." Early in the afternoon Police Chief George F. Darrow, of Ridgefield, X. accompanied by Mrs.

Edith Winter, of Ridge-field, arrived at the Lindbergh home at Hopewell. Darrow said he had been pledged to secrecy regarding Mrs. Winter's mission. He added, however: "I believe it has a very important bearing on the case." rage One.) replied: "It is strictly a pri -wants his baby back. police were reconciled to the MISSING WIFE AT NEIGHBORS Woman of 2, Sought by McKeespnrt l'olice For 21 Hours, Rejmrted Safe.

Sought by McKeesport police for 24 hours. Mrs. Lena Olson, 72, of 131 Freeman way, McKeesport, was found in the home of neighbors early yesterday. After Frank Olson, the husband, had reported that his wife had left home wearing only a bathrobe, McKeesport police began dragging the Youghiogheny river Saturday, Olson had said his wife had been despondent recently, but Mrs. Olson ia reported to have told police that she left home following a domestic quarrel.

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fists and clubs. Gunfire marked r' many brushes. Rumors that Presi- i dent Von Hindenbnrg will refuse to i Keeps Whereabouts Secret. Spitale is keeping his present whereabouts and telephone number private to choke off any flood of hoax crank messages. How Spitale came to receive the appointment was something that he refused to reveal.

It was suggested, however, that Colonel Henry Breckenridge, Lindbergh's advisor, had received a "recommendation" that Spitale be employed. The recommendation, it was hinted, came from "somebody pretty high up" in legal circles, who realized Spitale's power in the underworld and his general reputation that, despite his occupation, his word could be relied upon. "I am going to make every possible effort," he is quoted as saying. "I'll" finance the search myself and make no request to Colonel Lindbergh, either before or after, whether I am successful or not. I have two children of my own, and I know how he must feel." Spitale's children, bright, happy youngsters, are Jane, who is 12 and who is now attending a fashionable dancing school, and 5, who is about to enter the New York public schools.

The late Jack (Legs) Diamond, envious of Spitale's success and jealous of his reputation, was one of his bitterest enemies. But Diamond was a petty grafter compared with Spitale's commanding place. Diamond Accused Him. When Diamond was shot at the Monticello Hotel a year before he was finally put on the spot in Albany, he directly accused Spitale of being concerned in the attempt to "rub him out." Spitale laughed at the charge and intimated that Diamond was too insignificant to figure in his affairs. Spitale's first move after the authorization of the Lindberghs to deal with the kidnapers was made known to him, was to make a tout, early Sunday morning, of the "hot spots" where he is a familiar figure.

Then, accompanied by Bitz, he disappeared and was believed to be directing the operations of his "invisible government" from some secluded spot. NOTES OFFERED Seven Month and One Year Certificates Of $100 Up. Special to th rot-GaieU nil lh New York Time. WASHINGTON, March The Federal Government's March financial program will take the form of two issues of treasury certificates, amounting to $00,000,000, Secretary of the Treasury Mills announced tonight. The first series of $300, 000,000 will have a seven months maturity and will bear 3V per cent interest and the second, of JROO.OOO.OOO, a 12 months maturity with per cent interest rate.

Both issues will be dated March 15. at which time the treasury will retire about $624,000,000 in certificates, and also meet a $35,000,000 interest payment on the public debt. The public debt will be incerased by approximately $300,000,000. Applications for the new certificates will be received at the Federal Reserve banks. Bearer certificates will be issued in denominations of $100.

$1,000 and $.000. $10,000 and $100,000. The certificates of the shorter maturity will have one interest coupon and the certificates of the other series two interest coupons. MILITARY MEET TO BRING 1,000 rians Shaped for Reserve Officers' Association Convention HTe Next Month. More than 1,000 delepates representing: a membership of 138,000 in the United States will attend the tenth national convention of the Reserve Officers' Association of the United States in Pittsburgh, April 24-28.

Major C. R. Shaffer, national councillor and fcpneral chairman of the local convention committee announced yesterday. The convention will mark the first national 'gathering of the organization in Pennsylvania. Officials of the war department, military experts and noted advocates of preparedness will attend and speak at the convention at which the problem of national defense will be one of the major issues.

Colonel Charles C. McGovern is chairman of the committee on guests and speakers. Before the opening- of the national meeting, the Pennsylvania Reserve Officers' Association will hold its state April convention in Pittsburgh, "2-24. i i i x. 1 1 a it i Risher ripi.ed aside the plaster board and found Jimmy, pule and trembling, standing: an a package containing bonded liquor.

While officers took the two prisoners to Warren a fast county car rushed Jimmy the eight miles to his home. Jimmy jumped from the car to his father's irmi. His mother, overcome hy anxiety for the lad, was sick la bed. 900.000.000 -5fT 4 jk "II Xy iJZL'' TO PRESS WORK OF ARMS MEET Serious FtTorts Iteing to Gel ('(inference Functioning llcfore Latter Recess. Br Cable the (iarvMe.

Copyright, by New Tiiura. GKNKVA, March 6. Dekpite the handicap that the Ieaue of Nations assembly probably will continue meeting- through at least the first part of this week, serious effort will be made to get the disarmament conference into working shape before its adjournment for Faster. Re-hind that effort are the united force of President Arthur Henderson and all of those who are really seeking some practical results out of this conference, even thouph they necessarily must be small. Crown Prince Urged Anew for President I Former RKRR1N.

March Crown Prince Fiiednch Wilhelm emerged today as a possible candi date for president in the event that none of the candidates now in the field achieves a majority in the first a week from today. The former heir to he throne was dramatically pre-sented Friday night at a Na- Wilhelm. tionallst campaign meeting at the Sportpalast, and he was enthusiastically cheered by 15,000 in the audi ence. Political com- -l-' llini in lUI iiliri" preted this In- cident as a trial balloon to deter. CX mine -what the I'lll'IIV.

to his candidacy might be. Dr. Alfred II g- enbers, leader of the National party, was reported HuKenlxTg. highly pleased over the reception accorded the former prince. It is known that ha hopes Friedrich Wilhelm' would prove acceptable even to Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader, in the event Hitler did not win out in the first votin President Paul von Hindenburg is declared by political observers to be determined to stick through to the end no matter which candidate may be pitted asrainst him.

Si AHn(mrri1 Pru Photo. JOHN DF.MAKCO. The Uiy said that the men had not mi-di-eated him, except lhat they put him into the secret closet whenever a car parked outside. He naid they fed him plenty of auft-lxiiled eggs and allowed him to study sometimes. The suspects gave their names an John De Marco, JO.

and Pwvwell Har-graves, iT, both of Youngstown. rfhi.il.. am i i vi v. i IN KIDNAP CASE Speaker Declares TJndlterch Tragedy Overshadows NYar nterest. Willard McKay, former instructor in geology in the University of Texas, spoke last night at Utility Hal! for the Pittsburgh Kahai Assembly.

is subject was "Law, Science and Religion." "Love or cohesion," he declared, "is a universal law. For example, the world-wide wave of sympathy for the Lindberghs has replaced the concentrated interest in gathering war-clouds. Just as Colonel Lindbergh was an ambassador of eood-will to France when he male his flight across the Atlantic, so Baby Lindy has been the instrument by which the law of love has been established in the world-wide public mind." 90 RAIL, MILL HEADS TO MEET Notables to Address Annual Uinner Of Pittsburgh Traffic Club Thursday Night. More than 90 railroad and industrial presidents from all parts of the country- will attend the thirty-first annual dinner of the Traffic Club of Pittsburgh Thursday night in the William Penn Hotel. Speakers wiJI include F.

E. Williamson, president of the New York Central; Rev. Ir. Roy L. Smith of Wheaton, 111., humorist, and W.

S. Guy, president of the club. Gordon Fisher will be toastmaster. More than 1,000 are expected to attend the dinner. E.

L. Blandford is chairman and C. W. Trust, vice chairman for the dinner. ILLUSTRATED LECTURE I.

R. Gallyon, for 15 years a Y. M. C. A.

secretary in Brazil, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Our Latin American Neighbors" in the East Liberty Y. M. C. A. tonight.

take care of saying. he is quoted as A tragic coincidence lies in the fact that on the night that little Lindy was taken from his crib the Sealyham terrier, that had guarded the lonely white house on the hill was not there. He had developed a canine ailment, and had been taken to the Princeton kennels the previous Saturday. The only dog left to guard the curly-haired son of America' air hero was the friendly little black and white spotted fox lerrier that was Charlie, Jr's playmate. The fact that Acouche, as he is called, did not bark whn kidnapers steathily entered the dainty blue-papered nursery -on the second floor last Tuesday night, has not surprised the Lindberg family.

For the little fox terrier, chosen for a baby's playmate, is said to be the gentlest of dogs, and probably licked the heels of the men who perpetrated a crime that has aroused the world. Third Suspect Is Being Sought In Kidnaping of Boy at Niles PASTOR ASSAILS DAVIS' STAND Rev. (ieorge W. Shelton Attacks Senator for Running for Reelection as "Wet." Attacking Senator James J. Davis for his recent declaration that he will seek re-election as a foe of prohibition.

Rev. George W. Shelton last night declared in a sermon in Second Presbyterian church that "the senator seems willing to teach either that the world is flat or that it is round, according as he thinks will secure him the school." "Senator Davis declared a few months ago, publicly, that "prohi-Yiition is a moral said Rev. Phelton. "If it is a moral issue, every right-thinking man must fight for it.

Moral issues are not to be submitted to referendum, but are to be contended for. The senator ran 'dry' two years aco and now he is running Two years ago he was Hoover's man. Today he is Vare's man." CAN LEAVE BABY WITH GRANDMA Detroit, firosse I'ointe Police Heads To (lose F.yes if Return I Made to Lindy's Mother. DETROIT, March 6. vll Law enforcement officials here concurred in a statement that kidnapers of the Lindbergh laby may feel free to leave the child at the home of his grandmother, Mrs.

Charles A. Lindbergh, in Gros.se Pointe Park. The statement, issued by County Prosecutor Harry S. Toy, said: "In so far as it is possible I am willing to close my eyes to anything which will assure the child's safety. Of course, I have my duty to perform, but if I have no official knowledge of the matter, 1 see no reason for taking any action." Police Commissioner James K.

Wat kins of Detroit and William Shoemaker of Grosse Pointe concurred in the statement. Man and Wife Hurt When Two Cars Crash Mrs. Fannie Averbach, 48, of 4020 Murray avenue, suffered spine injuries and her husband, I. J. Aver-ba'h.

49, was cut and bruised when their automobile was struck by another car driven by Karl Sanrided, 3, Negro, of Simonton street, at Fifth avenue and Recehwood lioule-vard, last night. They were taken to Montefiore Hospital. Charges of reckless driving were placed against both driver. enter the second election if lie does not obtain a clear nmjonty next Sunday were current. Envoy Says Factions Cause Brazil Crisis F.N OS AIRES, March 6.

Aniltassador J. F. de Assis Rrasil of Rrazil said last night there was a ministerial cris, in his country, lut no tuit'iver- sive movement. jl Disputi lies said hat i Minister (tswald.) I I Aranha atul h.s cabinet cul- leagues of the Rio Granie do Sul faction had resigned. The governor of he 'argas.

State of Rio Grande do Sul ordered vol-intcir regiments called to their barracks, the dispatches added. There were two factions In the Brazilian government, the ami. as. sador said. One wit-hid to continue 1he j.

resent govetnment t.f Provisional President Gctulio Vargas the "revolutionary priigrsin" was over, while the other, which resigned today, desired a return to "normality" within the hhortest time. The ambassador said he thoucht the cabinet crisis would 1 fettled legally and that he was going: to Grande do Sul within a few davs to confer with members of )oth factions. Gen. Balbo Wins World's Air Title It Calil tit tlia Caii-llr ('npyrmlit, IU.1-, by New Vurk Tlinca. PARIS, March 6.

General Halo Italic of Italy has been awarded the Harmon trophy aviation ham-pwn for r.t:n t.y the International League of Aviators. a It a I ho holds the wom-s n' distance record, was declared woman champion; Or. Hugo F.ckener. diriKible champion, aipl Prof. Ptccard, Mpherl- inti rniit innal 17- IUIIio.

cal balloon champion. Among those chosen for mediils us national winners were and Henidon and Miss Ruth Nichols cf the Ignited Slates, Air Commodoie Kinxsfonl-Smith (if Australia. Reri llinkler, Miss Amy Johnson and Peggy SHlaman of Britain, ou Grnnsu snd Msrra von Kt.dorf if Germany. u. PA 'V i I i 1 Morrow Expressed Fear For Safety of Grandchild Senator, Since Dead, Discussed With Family Possibility That Kidnapers Might Make Victim Of Lindbergh Child in Remote Home.

Jimmy Dejute Is Safe In Home After 76 Hours Captivity. Special to the rittat.iirgli Fnat Garrttt. NJRKS, March 6- With 11-ytar-old Jimmy Dejute safe in his home after 76 hours' captivity at the hands of kidnapers, Trumbull county authorities are hunting a third kidnaping: suspect, to join the two now in jaiL The third man is believed to be the ringleader. Jimmy was found shortly before noon yesterday in a secret compartment in a notorious gambling and liquor establishment, which has been closed for several niontha, about a mile north of Youngstown. He had been kidnaped while on his way to school Wednesday.

The boy was found a a result of a tip given to V. J. Harrison, Mahoning county detective. Harrison arranged to meet Sheriff J. C.

Risher of Trumbull county. Police Chiefs Barney Gillen of Warren and Charles Nicholas of Niles, T. R. McConnell, department of Justice operative, and policemen and deputy sheriffs. They surrounded the place, then broke in the front door.

The place seemed empty. There was no furniture except a ru, a mattress and a few pillows. A search proved fruitless, and the men were about to jrive up when Harrison found Jimmy's arithmetic book on the floor. A call brought an answer from Jimmy, apparently from behind a four-foot wall. Harrison and HOPEWELL, N.

March 6. (Universal Service.) It was a rainy Sunday, like the present one, when dripping skies were ominously gray, that the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow called together his little family in his. home in Englewood, almost a year ago, and discusseJ with his daughter, Anne, and his famous son-in-law. Colonel Charles A Lindbergh, the possibility that their little son might be kidnaped.

Just before the flying colonel and his young wife started for their aerial tour of the Orient, it was revealed by a close friend of the family today, the grandfather of the baby who is now the object of the most intensive man-hunt in hintory, expressed his fear that the remoteness of the Lindbergh home, then Under construction, might be dangerous. But Colonel Linderg laughed iwsy ma rears. "A couple of good watchdogs will In It lit a 1 on to leleplione poll, (nit of in CHlle.l fn, III I'll ill lied li Wilis I I 1 Splrk said lie no and lobbed him hein into a est bmnu wind..