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Page Six LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. J Artmxoru Board How Lindys' Baby Was Stolen From Expense Not Paid . SALEM, Mar. 8 W ' The secretary of state has no authority to author lze payment of expenses Incurred by an advisory board, or any other board not constituted by law, Attorney Oeneral I. H. Van Winkle held In au Hie maid called the Lm&creW and ' Colonel Lindbergh ur.mcfiiaicly summoned stale police. f V Tuesday, March 8, 1932 Nursery Crib '. s - N fHJ : j . Baby Lindbergh, dressed in a blue sleeping suit was put to bed al 7:30 p. m. 1 "INSIDE JOB" THEORY NOT r DROPPED YET (Continued Prom Pago One) thing that will exonerate any or all members of tho household?" ; To this Col. Bchwartzkopf replied: ; "Investigation Incomplete." :. r List of Answers Tho full list of questions submlt- ' ixa to Col. Bchwartzkopf and his an swers follow: ; Hos Arthur CJarflold Hays (lawyer) been at thi Lindbergh home In the 'past 24 hours? . Not known to the police. f" Has Dudley Field Malone (another noted lawyer) been at the Lindbergh home in the last 24 hours? Not known to the police. I . One (Jilery Unanswered ; v When did Col. Henry Breekmridgo vCol. Lindbergh's attornoy who Is conducting a private Investigation 'from tho Lindbergh homo) last ar U'lvb at tho Lindbergh homo and I where Js he now? No answer. i Did Col. Lindbergh ask the state police to permit a strange car to reach the house unmolested laBt right or today? No. ' i Did a car from the Lindbergh home , mo3t a train In Princeton last night ! or early today? Not known to tho police Has Col. Lindbergh received assur ance the baby 1b safe and will be re I turned In 12 hours? 1 Not known to tho police. Is Pat Roche, Chicago Investigator, communicating with the Now Jersey Tragedy .' My Bruce Ciitton )i . (NEA Bervlco Writer) " The kidnaping of small children fms made some of the moat tragic wetorlcs American newspapers ever bavo printed. From tho days of the sensational i' Chnrllo Boss case down to the pros ptnt disappearance of tho Lindbergh Mbaby, tho . nation's criminal history Is studded with records of kidnaping. 6 in some caseB relatively few the missing youngsters Inter havo turned ""up nllvo, unharmed, and rostorett to their porentB. n more, only a corpse has been found. , In a few, tho mystery never has : been dispelled. A child vanishes, an energetic search Is conducted, a myr- lad clues are run down In vain 'and there the matter has ended, with ' nothing definite ever learned about the child's fate. ! Undoubtedly the moat wldely J known kidnaping of Iormor years was that of Charlie Ross. This case lllus i t rates, also, how futile uoinethneB are the most painstaking efforts to clear ; up such a mystery. ! Chaiilo Hons was Tour yoors old, tho son of a welt-to-do Phllndel phlan. On u July day In 1874 he was playing on the lawn of his father's estate when two men aruv up in a spring wagon and enticed him owny. Ills older brother, Walter, went with him on a promise of randy. At a drug storo a few blocks away 'tho wagon halted and Walter was given, 35 cents and tent to get the candy, llo wont Into tho stove, the wagon drove off and to this tiny no ono knows cortalnly what happened to Charllo Ross after that. - For years the search went on. Un pndlng rumors have been circulated about tho little boy's fate. Even within tho last decade reports have appeared purporting to clear up the mystery. Various claimants to tils name have appeared, and each claim has been disproved. I Somewhat similar was the equally mysterious disappearance of Httjc Freddie Lelb In Qulncy, Ill.T'ln m. Freddie, five years old, simply toddled out to play one afternoon near his home and never came bnok. A sonrch that extended from one ccasl to the other was begun, dozens of "messages" were received, scores of rumors Were investigated but nothing wns learned. Tho only tangible clue wns that furnished by a woman living on the i edgo of town, who reported thnt on I .the Klay the boy vanished she had seen a man go past her home In a; buggy, accompanied by a weeping ' boy. The man explained, she said. I that he was taking the boy to an ! orphanage. Efforts to find him were futile, however. J i ' ' . More recently there was tho trnRic j ,n?e of Melvin Horst of Orrvlllc. Ohio. I i Melvin, n lad or five, wns last seen j by his mother playing In the back i yiird of his home a few dnys after ! -nnimns in 1U2B. Night came and the boy did not come In for supper. A search bee nn that has been carried on to this day but no- trace ever police about the cose? No. Has ho specifically mentlonod Qua Winkler? -No. (Then came the question and an swer pertaining to examination .of members of the Lindbergh house hold). . ' Where were Col. and Mrs. Lind bergh when Betty Oow (the bnbys nurse) told them the child was miss ing? . , On tho ground floor. Would It have been possible for anyone to bavo left the house by any j porlod during which the baby was kidnaped on last Thursday nignt) without Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh knowing It? Y03. ' No New Developments ' Are there any new developments? Nono. Was the broken shutter en' the opened window? Yes. Did an automobllo figure In tho kidnapers' escape? Don't know; probably. Did Colonel Lindbergh receive a telegram from' Minneapolis Informing him to takO'Salvl (Salvl Spltulo and Irving Bltz are tho two underworld go-betweens appointed by Col. Llnd bergh) out of New York and deal di rectly with Chicago? Several barrels of mall and telo- groma have been received. Do not tvnuw. ' II TU'fl lir.l.I) IN KV.W 11AVKV NEW HAVEN, Conn., Mar. 8 W)i Shortly after Tony Mclso was placed I under $26,000 bondu on a technical Idleness charge so he might bo ques- has been found of the boy nor word ns lo his fate. After a year of iuvcMlgutlon. two neighbors wore arrested on a chargo cf kidnaping the boy. and were tried, oonvlcted and sentenced to prison Tho state supreme 1 court granted them a new trial, however, and they were acquitted, Still inter, one of Metvln's play mates told a story accusing two other men of stealing the child. Tho two were arrested, and each told n ram bling and unconvincing story accus ing the other of killing the boy. Neither story carried much convie- j tlon. and since no traco of Melvin could bo found, tho case wns written down ns another unsolved mystery, i Somewhat like the kidnaping ol i BnhU t.lnrlhMT-nlt .-... .. . . , ......... tlt ,ln uiTKiiiUillS, 11 V J any rate, wns the kidnaping of 13- i muuui-uiu uiaxeiy uuughlln, who I was stolen from his crib In his fntb , er'a tummrr home near Norrlstown. Pa.. In the summer of 1020. The kidnaper pot into the nursery through a window m the middle of tho night and earned tho bov away. For five years so-called clues'in this case kept turning up. but all proved groundless on Investigation and the child was not found. Equally terrible nre many of the ensos in which the mystery tins' been cleared up. Most notorious of all wns the kid naping of little Bobby Franks, of Chlcnuo. hv Nnt hnn IrmnM Richard Loeb. This, tho sensational ' "thrill murdpr." drew tho attention of the entire country. W&S1- lj ' : - Jp " . mm ' V. dira 1 1 Al 10:30 p. m., the maid entered the nursery and discovered that the child had vanished. Colonel and Mrs. Undbeigh had been .in the house all (he time. Lindy Jr. ( Imili's Aiiiitus l-liKHicrjrli tr., nvvrr tm been out of Hie public v?-?h. Wnen lie wo horn thp whole world took nollro. Ami his Hrst photograph (lert) taken when he ttus nearly three tveeks old, attracted tho ey of millions 4if ncwHimprr renders. Next ho nunc to the attention of thfe public nt the egc of tt year when the picture ut the right m published. At 20 niouths of ngo his kldnnplhff has aroused the entire world. And the center picture the latest taken of him shows 'hi in nt thnt age. tloned llbout the Lln(lberBh baby kid . ,. . . .... taken to the state's attorney's office Meloo was held, offlcinls sntd, after a woman nt Colchester, Conn., had sld sha had heard htm and two Five child victims hi notorious American kldnapliiRs arc .shown uhove. I'piM'r left, Marian Parker, of Los Angele.s, whose lifeless body wns tossed to her father by William Edward llhkmi:n. Next to her, little Robert Trunk, or ( ItiiMiRO. slain by young I.oeb and Leopold, the thrill murderers. Iielmv them, Ailolphns Hum-Ii Orthweln, son of the millionaire St. lnils family, khlnaptMl but returned nllve. I'pper rljjht. ('har)le Hnss, nnottter son of a wealthy mmllr, who vmiUheri In 1ST I to become a legendary fig ure of klittmplug hKtory. Outer, helow, M.-rlan .Mcl.enn, of 'lu clnnatl, nnwt iwent khlnap murder victim, whtxe nuitllnted body s ft u ml I u n d a uk basement. Bobby Franks vanished while on his way home from school. After his fnther had received a letter dc mnndlng rantom, the boy's body was found under a culvert on the out skirts of Chicago. Leopold and Loeb. ecus of wealthy Chlfagoaus. were ar rested a little Inter, were saved from "Wfe "H "ITT" 18 vJtuiies - Jrianm ( Pi The slate troopers found a grour.d was a 30-foot ladder. It was assumed (he child had been earned down From First To Latest Photos other men talking ten months ago about the Lindbergh baby. , t, . One of the men, the woman wns quoted ns reporting, was to try to get work at the Lindbergh es&te at Hopewell, N. J., while it wns under construction. capital punishment by the eloquence of their lawyer, Clarence Darrow, and now are serving life sentences In the state prison at Jollet, 111. , Almost equally notorious wns the tragedy of lll-yenr-old Mnrlon Porker, kidnaped in Los Angeles In Decem ber. 1927, by William Edward Hick man. The girl's father, high ofMclnl In a bank, received a note a few days later demanding $1500 for the re turn of the child. He went to a designated spot, pnld over the money and was given tho dead body of his cnughter, horribly mutilated. JHickmnn ufcyt caugNt later a.nd was hanged In San Quentln prison before a year had elapsed. t ! Little Billy Dnnsey, aged 3. went out to play near his home in Ham- monton, N. J., oije afternoon In the inn or and never came back. For six weeks the boy wns sought everywhere In the united States until his body wns found in a swnnip near the town where he lived. He had been murdered and shortly after the discovery of his body the fnther of one of his playmates was arrested and accused of thf crime. oix-yrnr-oui Mary uaiy was an other New Jersey child. Her parents J lived In Montclnlr, and she was kid naped one afternoon by Harrison Noel, a young man who had been held In an Insane asylum for some time but who had been paroled In the belief that his mental condition was all right. Noel murdered her and tried to collect ransom money from her father. He was caught, found In sane and sent to an asylum for life. The same gruesome note runs through the tragic story of Dorothy nursery window left open. the ladder by the kidnapers. Mclso refused to answer a question, police said, as to whether he had been employed in New Jersey. . LOS ANGELES ON THE WATCH L03 ANGELES, Mar. 8 UP) Polic-j were notified here today to be on History Schneider, 6, of Mount Morris, Mich., who was kidnaped, murdered and burled In a forest by Adolph Hotel ling, a church elder, the father of fivo children and a supposedly re liable and decent citizen. He Wiling was caught, confessed and was sentenced to prison for life, after a mob of 16,000 hart been pre vented from storming' the Jail and lynching him only by the presence of a company of stato militia. Similar was the murder of 6-year-old Marian McLean In Cincinnati in December of 1031. Marian hod been kidnaped by Charles Wlschoff, a 45-ycar-cld shoemaker, wno murdered her and Jiid her body In a collar. He was caught after the greatest man hunt in Cincinnati's history, slnd hlv case Is now awaiting disposition. Thin crime. In turn, was like the murder of Irving Pickelny, aged 6. of New York City. Irving was enticed away from home by a man, killed and left In a cellar. The murderer, a feeble-minded man, was later ar rested and confessed. Infinitely more pleasant are (he kldnnping stories which have "happy ondlngs." Ono of tho most sensational was the kidnaping of Edward Cud any Jr., son of the Omaha meat packer, in 1000. by Pat Crowe, famous bandit. Crowe and an accomplice1 released the boy unharmed on receipt of $25, 000 ransom money. Crowe later was arrested, but since Nebraska had at that time no. law to punish kidnapers of children more than 10 years old and Edward Cuti ahy Jr. was just beyond that age he had to be tried on a charge of robbing the father of $26,000. Public sentiment at the time was running strongly against the "meat barons," and Crowe was acquitted. Another child of wealth was' kid naped a little more than a year ago Kidnaping Overturns Lindbergh Plans For Shielding His Baby ly W. F. Brooks -NEW YORK W) The carefully laid plans of Col. Charles' A. Lind bergh, whtch usually work to smooth conclusions, failed him when It came to his Infant son. Early last spring I went to Colonel Lindbergh's small office in the law suite of Henry L. Breckenrldge at 23 Brondway. I wanted to consult the flier concerning his plans for the celebration of his son's birthday. I thought thnt perhnps the colonel would not know exactly whnt he had in mind for the child, but he was quite definite. Charles A. Lindbergh Jr was to be shielded completely from publicity. There were to be no photographs of him on his birthday, the flier de clared. He said both he and Mrs. Lindbergh had discussed the matter at length and they both felt the child should have every chance to stay out of the public eye. The colonel talked quietly, smiling ns he made his point. He explained that the pressure he. and his wife were under as the re the lookout for an automobile, bear ing New Jersey license plales and having as Its occupants two men. a woman and an Infant, which sped through Rnton, N. M., early today. A telegram, signed by Al Davis, who did not identify himself, Bald the baby In the automobile appeared to be between IB and SO months old. and expressed the opinion the child might be the Lindbergh baby. Other cities and towns on the Santa Fe Trail were also said to hare been notified. i The New Jersey license number of the car was given as 18630-P. TWO MEN ARRESTED BOSTON, Mar. 8 (fP) Two men. one of whom said he was trying to telephone Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh to tell him he knew a man who knew where the missing Lind bergh baby was hidden, were arrested In the north station of the Boston and Maine railroad today. The men Identified themselves as Earle Edwards, 40, of Derry, N. H. and Samuel Black, 61, of Lawrence. A man using a telephone book at the station -overheard Edwards pass a call to the Lindbergh home at Hopewell, N. J. He told William J. Crlmmlns, a railroad policeman. Traf fic policemen surrounded the booth and arrested Edwards and Black. - Edwards said his father-in-law in Haverhill, whom he said could neith er read nor write, had described the Lindbergh baby and the Lindbergh home to him in detail. For this rea son he believed he knew more about the case than he was tclilng. Ed wards said his father-in-law's last name Was Belanger and "he thought the first name was Charles." when Adotphus Busch Orthweln, young grandson of August A. Busch, of the Anheuser-Busch brewing con cern, waa spirited away from his par ents' home near St. Louis. After 5000 police and deputy sheriffs had searched for cfays for him In the vi cinity of St. Louis, he. was released unharmed. Jackie Thompson, aged 6, son of p, wealthy real estate dealer in De troit, was kidnaped in 1029 by James Fernando, who held the lad until the father paid $25,000 ransom for hla return. Jackie was unharmed by his experience. And, ft little later, when Fernando was caught, Jackie attended his trial and saw him sen tenced to 50 years in prison. " 'A sehiiation wns created in Phila delphia irt 1924 when Corlne Model!, n 10 -week -old baby, was stolen from a car parked ift front of her par ents' home. A few days later she wad found In possession of a woman Who lived only a few blocks away. The woman confessed that she Wad stolen the child and had tried to make her husband believe that it was her own; Baby Corlrie wns none tho worse for her' experience. In 1023 Albany. N. Y.. was stirred by the kidnaping of Leopold Mln klng, the 7-year-old son of a city judge. After three days the lad was found, alive and well. In Newburgh, N. Y. He had been kidnaped by a nursemaid who longed to have a child to care for. . . - In 1910 little Billy ; Whltla fras stolen from his home in Sharon, Pa., by Jim and Helen Boyle. They took the lnd to Cleveland, Ohio, and held him for ransom, but their trail was discovered, they were caught and Billy was returned to his parents. The Boyles wenti to prison, the' hus band to die there and Mrs. Boyle to remain for a 10-year term". sult of their being world wide news figures waa of their own making and that they would do everything they could to keep the baby from any pub lic attention. Oh the birthday the Lindbergh plan worked' amazingly well. There were only brief details of the cele bration of the famous child's first anniversary. There were no photo graphs. So it continued. The only pictures obtained by the alert metropolitan j cameramen, were through the use of long range lenses,' while the child's inurse rolled him in his carriage. Then came the kidnaping. The very bolduess of the act probably was the only chief factor which carried. It to success and enabled the hldnapers to get the child from the house. The servants and nurse at the Lind bergh home never discussed the child with other, at least where then words would find a way tnto print. - Except for a few intimates of the Lindbergh, and Morrow families " Mrs. Lindbergh was. the daughter of. the hte Dwlght W. Morrow and Mrs. Fastened to the wqtdow sill was a note, presumably a demand for rtn - som, which police held secret LAFFERTY OFFERS $50,000 NEW YORK. Mar. 8 (fl William Lafferty, attorney, who was a col league in the house of representatives or the late Biop. fewlght W. Morrow, the kidnaped baby's grandfather,, has offered $50,000 tor the child's return. Mr. Lafferty, who says he "has known Llndy since he waa 8, waa once a member of congress from Port land, Ore., and now resides here. If the kidnapers will return the baby unharmed,, he oilers them legal de fense "to the last ditch" In case they are ever arrestee. FIRST VOTE IN HAMPSHIRE , : 'IS FOR SMITH (Continued From Page One) ago, six votes were cast for Smith and four for Herbert Hoover. The one-sided vote for the Smith delegates .was something of a sur prise as. tho' Roosevelt forces looked for the bulk of their strength in the rural sections. The second town to report,. Haver hill, a community of 3600 persons chose the Roosevelt elate, 27 to 4. SEATTLE VOTING TODAY SEATTLE. Mar. 8 in Heavy bal loting In Seattle's election during the first few hours of the day presaged a larger vote than in the primaries, observers said here today. Cleai1 sunny weather prevailed and was expected to bring out a record vote. ' , , John F. Dore, the 10 to 1 favorite for mayor, and the incumbent, Rob ert F. Harlln, rested on their oars. The polls close at 8 p. m. Grazing Per mits On Indian Land Denied WASHINGTON, Mar. 8 (Secre tary Wilbur, Upon the Insistence of the Klamath Indian business com mittee today decided to deny all grazing permits for white sheepmen this season on the Klamath Indian reservation. Grazing privileges have been assigned, after bidding, to In dian owners. Rejection of these bids decreases the Indians' Income approximately $20,000 a year but the action is in line with the policy of meeting the wishes of a majority of the Indians whenever It Is reasonably possible to do so. - . INVESTIGATION PLANNED SALEM, March 8 (.T) Charles M. Thomas, public utilities commis sioner, today announced he wouid make an immediate Investigation of charges made concerning the Port land street railway proposed fran chise and the reported activities of Carey and 'Harlan, rate experts, In its promotion. CITY HAS PLENTY OF CASH, , DEFERS TAX COLLECTIONS CANAbi.Ail, tex. m The busi ness slump has not affected the fi nancial standing of this little city of 2,000 persons. Canadian owns Its water, sewer, light and, power plants, and all of them are operating at a profit. The city has assets of $402,400 and a bond ed Indebtedness of only $147,600.. The tax levy Is $1, and the payment of 1031 taxes has been deferred -to August 1, the city having plenty of cash with which to operate. DRUG AND HARDWARE STORES LONGEST LIVED IN ILLINOIS CHICAGO (P) Drug and hardware stores have the lowest "mortality rate' among Illinois businesses.. In the five years from 1925 to 1930, n survey by. the University of Illinois showed only 24 per cent of the drug stores and 28 per cent of the hard ware stores tn 255 cities quit busi ness.' -. :'-'' Restaurants were the shortest lived, showing a 65 per cent mor tality, with garages next, 61 per cent. Fifty per cent of the grocery stores and 46 per cent of the meat markets closed up. Sod House In City's Celebration HUTCHINSON, Kan, (P) A sod house, similar to those common In this section years ago, will be built In downtown Hutchinson as part of the celebration of the city's sixtieth anniversary.. -. 4 . ; FOLLOWS BROTHER'S FOOTSTEPS KANSAS CITY ) Jim Russell, 16. young brother of Reb Russell, Northwestern university grid star. Is rated a fine t football prospect at Pembroke School for Boys. He also shines at basketball. Morrow 'j- the public knew little of the Child. K ttr rnnrfH a x.ti. resemble his father and to hae been jus? learning to talk and totter around -when his name became the center of a search which prohftMy hud no parallel la modern police history. opinion today. The opinion, was re- quested by Rufus C. Holman, state treasurer, when the secretary of state refused to authorize payment of a bill of $16.93 for telephone calls and stationery for the advisory board on bonds. , The advisory boardywas appointed by tho state treasurer to advise him on the purchase of bonds. In a let ter to Holman, Hoss questioned the legality of the expense voucher and suggested an opinion by the attorney general. . ;: ' i, RENEW EFFORTS TO HALT BATTLE (Continued From Page One) have ft hand In the new campaign. Informal negotiations have not been interrupted while the mediating board was adjourned, but it was said the Chinese representatives had not modified their attitude of opposition, to any armistice achieved by means of a "humiliating" concession. A representative of the Chinese govern ment summed It up In a, sentence. "It takes two to stop a fight as well ns to start It," he said. , The Chinese 'are still looking to the league of nations assembly for a solution, contending the Japanese have overstepped the la1 mile dead line to which General Uycda demand ed that the Ohtnese foroe withdraw. WINTRY STORM IS EASING UP TODAY (Continued From Pogo One) Frigidity settled over Dixie. In Maryland, where the storm took seven lives,: a dozen towns were severed from the world and , no word came from a bus held in snow with 26 passengers. Off the " Virginia-Carolina coast, cutters raced to three crippled craft. Three other vessels, stricken by wind and wave, were un reported. . ' . A $500,000 blow was struck at North Carolina's shad fishing Industry as almost all nets Were swept away. Off New Jersey's coast three fish ing schooners, with 20 men were missing overnight. Wreckage wash ed ashore near Delaware breakwater and another craft was reported aground on the Delaware coast. Over Cape Hatteras fishing villages a wall of water six feet high had washed. Small craft by thewoore were crashed ashore. ADMITS SHIPPING BODY OF WOMAN Continued from Page One) -. Fine, a former Philadelphia cloth ing manufacturer, was acquitted of a charge of attempting to murder his wife,' Mrs. Bartha Abramson Fine, '4S, last April, She chnrged he induced her to tako a soporific and then turned on the gas. She now is living In California. The body of Mrs. Schaaf, who ap parency had IJeen strangle was found within a trunk at a rooming house yesterday. It was identified last night by her negro maid, who said she had last seen her employer Tuesday. SLUMP I1KI.PS MANILA AUTOS ' MANILA (P) Motorists of tho Phlllpplno capital find some balm for business conditions In the fact that 700 carmotns, the two-wheeled pony carte which were & problem in Ma nila's narrow streets, were withdrawn from service when their owners failed to'rease the license fee of $4. SPECIAL WEINERS 2 Pounds 29c MINCED HAM 2 Pounds 29c VEAL LOAF 2 Pounds 29c SHORTENING 5 Pounds 29c Grande Ronde Meat Co. HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES at
