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f7mI SFrn ji WEATHER Cloudy and continued cold Tuesday and Wednesday, with occasional snow flurries. METROPOLITAN FINAL EDITION 1831 OVER A CENTURY OF SERVICE 1932 ioist Year. No. 309 TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1932 26 Pages THREE CENTS uuvi JV 1 Baby's Kidnapers Send Two Notes to Lindbergh TEAR GAS BOMBS HURLED AS RIOT RAGES IN DEARBORN MURDER CHARGES ASKED AFTER RED MOB FIGHTS POLICE Communists Inflamed by Foster Hurl Stones and Clubs in Pre-arranged Outbreak Harry Bennett and Others in Hospital Following Battle Started When Agitator Fires Six Shots Six shots fired by a Communist hiding behind a parked car were cited by police Monday night as the match which touched off a riot at the Ford Motor Co. plant, Miller Road, early in the afternoon in which four men were killed and 29 seriously injured.

Scores of others among some 2,500 rioters were beaten and bruised before they were dispersed by Dearborn and Detroit police, State troopers and deputy sheriffs with pistols, shot Ford SrviV nnarmn guns and tear gas. Harry Bennett, head of the wounded and is in Henrv Stories conflict as to how he PiiSllPiiii 'iliiiftliliiS y'K- 1 ti5v. I mmKl I iz2iiL ir 3 dtiB0(iij o(S COO iissisM.isWiMiiiJiwtiiiraiwaMMi (riwniiini iwiim vmmtesmMMmmm Three May Face Murder Charges Three reported ringleaders of the mob, who may be charged with murder, are amunp- 29 nrinni.r fiw are women, held at the County Jail and Dearborn Police Headquarters. They gave addresses in Detroit, Lincoln Park, Melvindale and Dearborn. The riot, brewing for more to have gathered a la 1- v- "'Ji' ouuu livill iwy meetings in Detroit Sunday addressed by William Z.

Foster, 1CrtUcr, wno urgea me men and women who heard him not to miss Monday's "hunger march to Ford's." Immediate arrest of William Reynolds, Communist agitator who was identified as another inciter of the Ford plant riot, was ordered Monday night as a search continued for Foster. Reynolds, one time candidate fm- Minr u.t. is a chronic agitator, a leader ituu ngurea as a victim ot the lashings administered to Communistic sympathizers by hooded men at Dearborn. He was convicted of Ai wwaauwvt, iWJiU rVliifcf mil unemployment demonstration last October and sentenced to serve 90 days in the House of Correction. The October demonstration resulted in a riot in which :n.t policeman was injured when me uiaiui nance.

Sheriff Henrv Behrenrlt enough information he would BILL TO FEED uu oiaie Lincoln Fark, former secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, whose papers have been seized; Shelley Rogers. 33 vear nld CHILD IS SAFE, NEW LETTERS TELL PARENTS Governor Says Mail Now Goes Directly to Family SENATE DELAYS ACTION ON LAW HOPEWELL, N. March 7 fA.P.) Information that the kidnapers of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, have been in communl-ealion with his parents came to-right from an apparently authoritative source. Two notes were received Sunday by the Lindberghs. One was typewritten, bvit handwriting experts agreed the other was In the same writing as a ransom demand loft behind last Tuesday night by the kidnapers before they fled with the child.

All three were on the same kind cf paper, it was reported. The last two bore the same post-mark. The baby was described as safe and well. State Police Confusing The source of this information supplied these details despite a confusing series of public pronouncements by officials. From a morning State Police press conference came denials both of the existence of an original ransom note being left by the kidnapers last Tuesday and of any contact with them since that time.

Later, police said "none through the police" when asked if any communication had been established with the abductors. At the last press conference of the day. officials refused to answer any questions covering these two phases of the case. Tonight Oov. A.

Harry Moore announced that henceforth police will open none of the mail taken to the Lindbergh home, where it is known every effort Is being made to deal with the kidnapers on the basis of the three appeals made by the parents. Family to Get Mall Police will see, the Governor said, only those letters to the family and its representatives which the Lindberghs and their agents desire to turn over to them. Amplifying the statement a short time later, the Governor said: "If the kidnapers wish to get into touch with Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh, they can do so by mail with perfect security.

Only such mail as contains leads or tips are turned over to the police. The In tegrity of Col. Lindbergn is so oe-yond question that the kidnapers can entirely depend upon his word." At the same time It was learned that only a skeletonized police force was being kept at the Lindbergh home, at the request of the (imnni flier himself. Meantime a letter to Col. Lindbergh demanding $500,000 for the leturn of the cnilO ana selling mfpting place was taken from the mail at Elmira, N.

Y. Fail to Appe' It was written In red Ink, and demanded that a representative of tlie Lindberghs be sent with In $20 bills wrapped In a newspaper to the Cross Trail Restaurant near Mansfield, tonight. A message from Mansfield stated that no one had appeared at the Crosi Trail Restaurant to represent the Lindbergh kidnapers. The message said that scores of persons were waiting in the street in the bitter cold for the appearance of someone who might be the kidnapers' messengers. After the money had been delivered, it said, the child would be left at the same place.

At Newark, N. Henry (Red) Johnson, sailor suitor of the Llnd-hTRh baby's nursemaid, still was being held after three days and three nights of questioning. Supports Johnson's Story In Bridgeport, a man told police he had ridden from New York to Bridgeport with Johnson early last Wednesday. This tended to bear out the sailor's own story his movements. A searrh of a baby farm In Saco, operated by a relative of Johnson disclosed no trace of the missing child, Capt.

Lamb was asked police had a tin Tnh noun una nn bis way to the farm when nrreRted and replied that Investigators as- -mi to tnat angle of the case nave not reported as yet." As the confusion over conflicting developed here, Capt. Lamb as asked when it would be to obtain an interview with -oi. Lindbergh to clear up the nu- discrepancies. 'There are no discrepancies given Airom here" replied. Officials previously had said no were found in the nur- Officlals Stories Conflict Je noon press conference a IrfJ offlclal thR' footprints had been found on the nur- sU1 and the floor, and that th-y had been compared w'n the footprints of a number of "without identification." -Do the State Police and Col.

'-ibergh b(-lieve the baby is dead Continued en Fa, 4. Column and Paul James, 27 years old, Foster Faces Ford Hosnital. tint in lanerr was injured. than a week, is said by police vi 'twu a i of the Unemployed Council, and aiA reserves were called to quell tnld ask warrants for murder against 1469 Hartford Ave. Riot Action move at 2 o'clock.

Chief Carl Brooks, of the Dearborn police, said Monday, night that he would confer with the Prosecutor Tuesday with a view to obtaining warrants charging Foster, Reynolds and others with inciting the fatal disturbance. Meanwhile, a police guard was established at the home of Chief Brooks, who is ill in bed. Information has reached them, police say, that Chief Brooks and Bennett are the particular targets for attack chosen by the riot leaders. Threats of the dispersing mob to return later in the night and wreck the whole damned works" resulted in the concentration at the plant Monday night of police, troopers and deputy sheriffs, and 200 men of the First Battalion, 125th Infantry. Michigan National Guard were on call in the Brush St.

Armory under command of Maj. Frank H. Rine. At midnight, after the shifts at the Rouge Plant had changed, the bulk of the police guard maintained there was withdrawn for rest. A detail of a dozen State Troopers remained and it planned to bring the rest of the officers back at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning to be held in readiness in the event of further disturbances.

The National Guardsmen in reserve downtown also were sent to their homes. The Ford Motor in a statement, expressed itself mystified over the attack, "since this company pays higher wages and employs more men than any industrial organization in Detroit." The mob began to gather at Oakwood Blvd. and S. Fort St. about 1 o'clock in the afternoon.

Its members came afoot, by street cars and automobile. Conductors said they had fist fights in some instances trying to collect fares. Another report, unverified, was that belligerent groups commandeered 10 D. S. R.

busses in the downtown district and compelled the drivers to run them as far as Oakwood. Crowd Cheers New Arrivals In the main, the crowd was orderly, and a squad of 70 Detroit police, detailed to the intersection to see that there was no trouble, found no reason to interfere. There was a profusion of banners: "Come on Workers, Don't Be Afraid!" "Down with the Men Who Destroy Milk!" "We Want Jobs!" "Now Is the Time to Act!" The crowd rushed out to meet each arriving street car, booing the police good-naturedly and cheering additions to their own ranks. The marchers were heterogeneous. All were not Communists, although faces of familiar agitators were in the ranks.

In line were known radicals, habitual demonstrators, former Ford workers, professional paraders, and jobless men hoping somehow, to obtain work by parading. The line-up, however, was a good three-quarter Red. Ahout 1.200 were on Vianrl hundred of thpm women SCORE KILLED IN COLD WAVE Thermometer Due to Rise Tuesday Premature notes of spring were drowned out Monday by the roar of the March Lion. The entire nation was in the grip of a frigid wave which arrived Saturday night and Indications Monday were that temperatures will flirt with zero before the passage of the storm king. Relief from the cold within 24 to 36 hours, but not until temperatures have fallen to five or 10 degrees above zero, was forecast Monday by the Government weather bureau here.

The lowest mark of the cold wave was predicted for early Tues day, with temperatures rising slow ly during the day. Fears that the sudden cold, which embraces the whole State, might damage crops were set at rest by Dr. Victor R. Gardner, Michigan State College horticulturist Dr. Gardner said Michigan crops had not grown sufficiently to be damaged by cold.

Zero reading continuing throughout Tuesday and snow flurries preceding the expected drop In temperature were expected at Lansing. According to Associated Press dispatches the frigid wave, which extended from the Florida Coast to Canada, and from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic seaboard, took a score of lives, including those of five coast guardsmen, who were drowned while trying to save the crew of a fishing schooner. Highway and telephone and tele graph communications were disrupted in Eastern States. Start the Day Right With the Free Press Pages Editorials 6 Edgar A. Guest, Poem 6 Good Morning 6 Around the Town 8 The Theater 6 Finance 19 The Screen 10 Society 12 Radio Programs 14 "Dancing Feet," Serial 25 Culbertson on Bridge 14 Crossword Puzzle 23 Grantland Rice 17 Westbrook Pegler 17 Pictorial Review 26 Dr.

Evans on Health 6 "I Rise to Remark" 6 Dorothy Lee 13 Personal Problems 13 Music 5 Comics 25 George Matthew Adams Head oi Princeton Waits for Spitale PRINCETON, N. March 7 (A. In the reception room of their home here tonight, Dr. John Grler Hibben and his wife expressed a willingness to meet Salvy Spitale and Irving Bitz, underworld characters, named by their friend. Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh, as his "go-betweens" In the search for the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. The silver-haired- couple ex plained they had heard reports the pair was coming from New York to confer with them. The seventy-year-old Princeton University president said he was not an official agent of the Lindberghs, but he was willing to act The whole situation seemed to puzzle the distinguished Princeton president, and the couple was frankly nervous. GASRATEBATTLE DUE ON TUESDAY Attorneys to Meet on Legal Procedure Corporation Counsel Clarence E.

Wilcox will confer Tuesday morning, with Alexis R. Angell, attorney for the Detroit City Gas when legal procedure in the City's fight for lower gas rates will be discussed. The meeting will mark th opening of the City's fight for lower rates. The meeting with Mr. Wilcox was called after Mayor Frank Mur phy rejected Monday a proposal submitted by the Gas company for cuts In certain rates.

The offer was considered unsatisfactory, Mayor Murphy said. The Mayor conferred witn Charles W. Bennett, executive vice president of the Detroit City Gas and W. G. Woolfolk, Chicago, representing the American Light Traction holding concern for the Detroit firm.

They Insisted it was impossible at this time to reduce the rate upop household gas. which could only follow six months after Introduction of natural gas Detroit The company's representatives volunteered to lower rates charged Continued on Page 5, Column 5. Pistol Mishap Kills Officer at Son's Crib MILWAUKEE, March 7 A. Policeman Harold Stroud came home today and stooped over the crib of his eighteen-month-old son to embrace 'he baby. Stroud's revolver fell from Its holster to the floor and was discharged.

The bullet struck the coliceman in the head, killing him. SHIELDS LOSES PRIMARY FIGHT Markland Leads Race in Highland Park John Shields, mayor of High' lana was nosed out of a place on the final ballot April 4, by 26 votes, It was announced when the last of the primary re turn had been tabulated late Mon day night. The two candidates for the office are N. Roy Markland member of the Council, who polled 1,354 votes, and James I. Ellman, attorney, 1.254 votes.

Mr. Shields received 1,228 votes, while Charles W. Seymour, former chief of police, trailed with 314. Joseph M. Hackett topped the field of candidates for the four positions on the ballot for City Commissioner with 1.980 votes.

Stanley Wilson was second with 1.601. C. Chester Mack, with 979 votes, and Colin J. McRae, with 921, were Insured of having their names on the final ballot. William Everist and Richard Nahabedian were eliminated.

The former polled 810, and the latter 744. Robert M. Smith, running unop posed lor treasurer, received 3,312 votes. Three candidates for con stable, all will have places in the final election. Charles J.

Robinson polled 2.684 votes; Gavin D. Smith 2,398, and Arthur J. tjonlln 1.Z1D. Two proposed amendments to the City Charter were defeated by close votes. A proposal to permit the City to borrow funds in antici pation of the collection or taxes was beaten by a margin of 492 votes.

A difference of only 49 votes defeated a motion to make the office of City Controller appointive Instead of elective. The result was 1,876 to 1,827. Holmes to Spurn Party on Birthday WASHINGTON, March 7-(A. The eve of Oliver Wrendell Holmes' ninety-first birthday finds him partly even with time for forcing him from the Supreme Court bench. Resigning recently because the work was too much for his strength, he promptly regained some of the physical vitality which kept him delivering opinions after practically all his early contemporaries were living only in memory.

The aged New Englander he was wounded three times during the Civil War will not attend the banquet tomorrow night in his honor. Justice Holmes hasn't gone out of his red brick house on I St at night in years and birthdays to him aren't Important enough to break any Beer Levy Urged in Tax Measure WASHINGTON, March 7 fA. The House today received the new $1,096,000,000 revenue bill and prepared for Its fiercest battle of the session over proposals to tax beer and manufacturers' sales. A group of members reserved the right to submit an amendment to legalize 2.75 per cent beer. They would levy $5 on each barrel.

Proponents estimated the revenue from this source would exceed $350,000,000. The proposed amendment Is carefully worded and provides that the manufacture of non-Intoxicating beer "shall be conducted under permits to be Issued In accordance with the national prohibition act." Meanwhile, opponents to the 2.25 per cent sale tax began to hold meetings on ways of opposing it WORLDllOURNS DEATH OF BRIAND Statesmen Pay Honor to Peace Apostle PARIS, March 7 (A. Arlstide Briand, France's most prominent statesman In the International field and symbol of her post-war striving for peace, died suddenly just before 1 o'clock this morning in his modest bachelor flat not far from the Arc de Triomphe. The man who 12 times was chief of his -country's government and was a leading spirit in the activities of the League of Nations passed away as a simple member of the Chamber of Deputies. M.

Briand, who would have been 70 years old May 28, succumbed to a cardiac attack. His valiant heart, which carried him through a turbulent militant socialist and parliamentary career for 40 years, failed him just at the moment when three specialists were hoping to restore him sufficiently to partake in the coming electoral campaign for the renewal of jthe Chamber, In which he was expected to defend his pacific policies with his old-time oratorical vigor. The Nation he served as premier during the dark days of Verdun as well as throughout the efforts to stabilize peace in Europe during the last 11 years', will accord him a state funeral. The services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday after-Continued on Page t. Column HIGH COURT REFUSES POWERS CASE REVIEW CHARLESTON.

W. March 7 (A. Harry F. Powers, under sentence to be hanged March 18 for the slaying of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, of Northboro, was denied a review of his case by the Stata Supreme Court today.

NEEDY SIGNED 40,000,000 Bushels of Wheat Released WASHINTON, March 7 (A. A huge store of Farm Board wheat 40,000,000 bushels In all-was placed late today to the credit of the Nation's unemployed and needy. President Hoover signed the measure without comment after holding a series of conferences with Attorney General Mitchell and John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, which will distribute the Government's donation. Payne raised a strenuous objection to a clause of the measure permitting the Red Cross to bake the erain into hrenri of tor milliner He asserted categorically his organization would not undertake this and suggested the President might well want a legal ruling upon it A few minutes later Mitchell was summoned, but neither he nor the President would comment The section to which Payne objected was: "In cities of over 25,000 poula-tion the American National Red Cross or any other organization designated by It may have the flour baked into bread provided that no part of he expense incident to such baking or processing shall be paid out of said wheat or flour and no part of the expense shall be borne by the United States or the Federal Farm Board." As Payne Interpreted the section, It would require the Red Cross to pay for the baking unless this could be obtained gratis from bakeries. The measure provides for a least 5,000,000 bushels to be used as feed for livestock.

Three Faiths Join to End Prejudice WASHINGTON. March 7-(A. A war on religious prejudice was opened here today by Catholic, Jewish and Protestant spokesmen. Speaking before the national conference of Jews and Christians, three church leaders Bishop James E. Freeman, of the Washington Cathedral; Rev.

Francis J. Haas, director of the National Catholic Sciool of Social Service, and Rabbi Abram Simon, of the Washington Hebrew Congregation-broadcast nationwide appeals. C. S. COXSIL DIES IN" VENICE WASHINGTON, March 7 (U.

Bernard F. Hale, American consul at Venice, died today, the Stata Department was advised. when the marchers began to They marched singing. They left Fort St. on Dearborn Ave.

and swung across Baby Creek Bridge to Miller Road. It was near this point that 30 Dearborn police, armed with tear bombs, barred the way. The first tear gas attack drove the marchers back 300 feet. Continued on Faa Column 1.