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HEPPNElt GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932. PAGE FIVE r... Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buschke were visitors In the city Tuesday from their farm In the lone section. For all the years that Mr. Buschke has been farming, he has used horses, but la now convinced that the prop er system is the tractor, and he ia contemplating adopting the gas ma chine for the farm work. It is yet a little too wet to go Into the fields for plowing, but conditions are shaping up so that spring work may be undertaken quite generally in Mr. Buschke's neighborhood. G. L. Bennett, formerly of Al pine, where he put in some eight years raising wheat, was up from Portland Saturday to attend to some business affairs in the coun ty. He made Heppner a short visit. Mr. Bennett, since going to Port land last fall, has engaged in the real estate and auction game, but reports to this paper that it has been pretty hard sledding. He Is rather anxious to return to Morrow county and engage in farming again. "I'm going into the poultry bus iness," announced Tim Rippee who was seen on the street Monday with several Mammoth Bronze tur keys which he had just acquired from Chas. Acock of Irrigon, in the tonneau of his automobile. His special pride was the big torn, weighing 41 pounds. Mr. Rippee expects to raise a number of chick ens as well as turkeys. F. M. Lovgren of Eight Mile was looking after business here Tues day. He reports it Just a little too wet out his way for doing any farming just now. The grain fields have been well soaked by the snow and rain of the winter and he hopes that more may come later, to in sur a good yield. He was accom panied to town by Mrs. Lovgren. Among interested farmers and others attending the tax league meeting here Saturday were Henry Smouse, John Louy, Bert Johnson, H. O. Ely and Raymond Crowder of lone, R. B. Rice, R. B. Wilcox, Chas. Valentine of Lexington, E. E. Rugg and Clyde Wright of Rhea creek. E. S. Duran who returned to his Black Horse home recently from Heppner hospital after undergoing a major operation, is recovering slowly, according to the report of his friends. He is still confined to his bed and enjoys visits from his friends. R. L. Benge, in from the Rhea creek farm Tuesday, states that it had just got about dry enough so they could get around when the big rain hit again on Monday, and most everywhere it is mud again. The rain out that way was a soaker. Mrs. Isabelle Corrigall and daughter, Mrs. Wilbur Gorley were visitors here on Tuesday from the Corrigall ranch below Pine City. Lambing is reported to be very gen eral down that way, with good weather conditions prevailing. E. E. Rugg was here from the McKinney creek ranch Saturday and was hoping to see the weather turn warmer. He put up a lot of ice during the cold winter weath er, and remarked that it was still keeping well. Bert Johnson drove up from the farm Saturday afternoon to attend the tax league meeting and hear the address of Mack Hoke of Pen dleton. Farmers about lone are busy with spring farming just now. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Olden of Fair view and Mr. and Mrs. Tyndall Robison of Hardman were south end people doing business in the city Tuesday. NEW ACCOUNTS Life is a gamble but we all play our own cards. This bank is a Financial Service Station for you and all the people of this com munity. Our officers are eager to ad vise with you on money mat ters or business problems. If time is money many are rich and don't know It Don't put your problems off put 'em OVER. Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank There is No Substitute for Safety Oscar Keithley, in the city Mon day morning from Eight Mile, re ported showers for Sunday night, and it was raining when he left home. Farmers are appreciating the change for warmer weather. Harry Duvall, south Lexington farmer, was in the city yesterday on business. He announced that the Wells Springs Gas and Oil company expected to start drilling operations again shortly. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Neill, with members of their family, were in the city Saturday from Pine City. They report better conditions on Butter creek, with more spring like weather. Chas. J. Anderson was attending to business here Saturday after noon. In the lower Gooseberry sec tion the farmers are very busy with spring plowing, and crop prospects seem good. Charley Becket reports spring slowly approaching at the Eight Mile farm, though still somewhat like the end of our depression, it is still just around the corner. Howard Anderson is visiting with relatives in Morrow county. He came up from The Dalles the end of the week and spent a few hours in this city Monday forenoon. H. O. Ely, who is residing in lone this winter, visited Heppner with others from his locality Saturday. F'arming is moving along rapidly in his part of the county now. Oscar E. Peterson, who farms in the lone vicinity, was in the city Tuesday on business. Crop condi tions are looking good, he said. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Becket and Mr. and Mrs. Harley Anderson were among Eight Mile farmers in this city Saturday afternoon. Harvey Miller and family spent a few hours in Heppner Saturday afternoon from their Swjaggart Buttes farm. Adrian Engelman was here from lone Saturday afternoon, being called to town by matters of busi ness. Add A Stitch club will give an apron bazaar Friday, March 25th, at Slocum building, Main street 2 George R. White, extensive grain grower from north of Lexington, was a Heppner visitor Saturday. Otto Ruhl, wife and young son were among Lexington folks in this city Saturday afternoon. To Rent 3100 acres of range land on Wall creek, good grass and plenty of water. H. C. Robertson, Box 529, Heppner. 51-n2p. For Sale S. C.-R. I. Red baby chlx. Hardv farm stock. " Henw layers. Blood tested. Sunny Slope Matcnery, Baker, Ore. 52-3. Crime of Kidnapping Becoming More Popular By CALEB JOHNSON. Never before since the world be gan has the interest of so many persons been focussed upon a sin gle individual, and that individual a child less than two years old. The kidnapping of" Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., from . his crib In the country home of his parents, the famous flier and "Anne," on the slope of Sourland Mountain near Hopewell, N. J., instantly crowded all other news ofT the front pages of the press of the en tire world. The trouble between China and Japan, the vitally-important activities in Washington! looking toward the revival of busi ness and Industry, every other kind of news which ordinarily takes first place was relegated to the background. The only thing people all over the world wanted to know was: "Has the Lindbergh baby been found?" Presidents and Kings telegraphed their sympathy to the stricken young parents. Nurse-girls In Par is and London, mothers in San Francisco and Berlin and Tokyo, every human being charged with responsibility for a child, felt a new fear, guarded the little ones as they had never been guarded be fore and joined in the world-wide prayers for the safe return of the little son of the "Lone Eagle." The police resources of the nation were mobilized with a single purpose, the discovery of the child and the capture and punishment of his kid nappers. In Congress a bill to make kidnapping across interstate lines a Federal offense punishible by death was already under consid eration, and its discussion took precedence over measures of the greatest economic import There was hardly a place of worship in the whole world, Protestant, Cath olic, Jewish, Mohammedan or Bud dhist In which prayers for the Eaglet's safe return were not of fered during the week-end follow ing the night of March First, when the little one was taken from his crib and carried down a rough lad der which had been placed at the window of his sleeping room. The kidnappers left a note de manding $50,000 ransom money for the return of the little boy. For once public sentiment swept aside all considerations of cold law and abstract justice and applauded Col. Lindbergh's announcement that he would pay the money and make no effort to capture the criminals if they would only bring back his ba by boy. Not even the most legal ists minds could find it in their hearts to criticize. The kidnapping of-a little child is the foulest of fense against society and the indi vidual that it is possible to Imag ine, and its perpetrators deserve the worst punishment that society has power to mete out; but of grater importance than the punish ment of the criminal is the life and THEY MUST BE GOOD EE When you consider that MONARCH CANNED FOODS j H have been favorites of the American public H for more than 60 years you can come to but g one conclusion "THEY MUST BE GOOD" QUALITY FOODS ALWAYS AT Huston's Grocery 19320 Novoot ' Features by Betty Co-Ed 0flo2)G They're clever . . . and becoming to every face ! Lovely straws, fascinating trimmings . . . and a price unbeliev ably low I Buy Now for your Spring wardrobe ! anas i $ (Tj ! , 3DT safety of the child itself. So the Lindberghs felt, and the world agreed with them. Kidnapping for reward is a form of crime which has become increas ingly prevalent with the rise of gangsters and racketeers in recent years. There have been many scat tered instances of this crime in the past to be sure, but it is only lately that organized criminal gangs have made it a source of revenue on a large scale. It is one of the easiest of all crimes to perpetrate, whether the victim be a child or an adult, and the detection of the kidnappers and the rescue of the person kid napped is peculiarly difficult be cause of the danger that the crim inals, if cornered, may kill their victim, or leave him or her locked up to starve while they make their escape. Probably the most famous child kidnapping case of all time, cer tainly in the United States, before the abduction of little Charlie Lind bergh, was the kidnapping of Charlie Ross. That occurred on July 1, 1874, and the mystery of the little boy's fate has never been satisfactorily solved. Charlie Ross was four years old when he was taken from his parents' home in Germantown, Pennsylvania, by two men. His captors were seen but never accurately identified. They tried to extort ransom from the boy's parents, but were never clev er enough to devise a plan whereby the money they demanded could be exchanged for the boy without themselves being caught. Two bur glars who were killed in Brooklyn a few months later were thought to be the kidnappers of Charlie Ross, but that was never shown to be definitely true. For more than fifty years men have turned up from time to time with "confes sions" of being implicated in the Charlie Ross kidnapping, and there have been numerous cases of men who knew nothing about their own pasts, each believing that he might be the missing Charlie Ross. But no definite news of that boy's fate has ever been discovered, and no dpendable information about his captors has ever been discovered. The name of Charlie Ross be came a houshold word, and there is hardly an American over fifty who has not some memory of the furore which that crime caused. The word "kidnap" has its origin in London thieves' slang. "Kid" is slang for "child" of course, and "nap" is a corruption of "nab," a slang expression meaning to steal or snatch. The word came into use in America's colonial days. There was a great demand for la bor in the American colonies. Be- fore the effort was begun to solve the labor problem by the importa tion of Negro slaves from Africa, it was the practice to sentence con victed English criminals to depor tation to the colonies to work with out pay, in practical slavery, for planters who bid for their services. The records of the English courts in the late 1600'8 and early 1700's are filled with the names of men and women who had been convict ed of crime and were thus sent to America; many of these names, moreover, are those of families now proud of their Colonial de scent! But the criminal courts did not supply enough labor for the American demand, so organized bands of "crimps" in London took up the practice of waylaying young boys and selling them to unscrupu lous shipmasters who would bring them across the Atlantic and sell them at a profit to the Colonial planters. This practice became known in the slang of London's un derworld as "kidnapping." In the early law books the word is used only when a person Is sent out of his or her native country, but it has come to mean any forcible capture and Imprisonment of any individual t Don't overlook GILLIAM & BISBEE for your needs in gar den seeds, grass and flower seeds. Plow Repairs, etc. Sherwin Williams' sheep marking paint. 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Pat Crowe, who stole young Eddie Cudahy at Oma ha in 1900 collected $25,000 ransom, confessed his crime and lived to write a book about it, but was ac quitted when placed on trial. But the record of most kidnapping cases is the same sad story; no trace of the child ever found and the identity of the kidnappers never discovered. No trace has ever been found of ten-year-old Grace Budd, who went away from her New York home In the summer of 1928 with a man known in the neighbor hood only as "Frank Parker," nor has "Parker" ever been seen in the vicinity since or his real name dis covered. And that is only one of thousands of similar cases. The earliest record of kidnapping is found In the Bible, when Joseph's brethren sold him to the Egyptians. That .was a clear case of kidnap ping for money. Human nature being what it is, and differing little today from what it was thousands of years ago, it is certain that there will be kidnappings in the future, as in the past But while society cannot protect itself against the in dividual, occasional offense of this kind, it certainly seems as if some thing could be done to wipe out the criminal gangs who make a busi ness of this most vile of all crimes. The Gazette Times' Printing Ser vice is complete. Try it Lexington Farmers Warehouse Company Dealers in Flour, Poultry and Dairy Feeds OIL MASH and SCRATCH FEED For Your Winter Layers. ALSO ALL STOCK FEEDS. General Warehouse Storage and Custom Grinding. LEXINGTON, OREGON Heppner Gazette Times Only $2.00 Per Year LOW-COST TRANSPORTATION coupled with fast and efficient delivery service direct to your door at no addi tional cost should be considered in plac ing your freight oders. $10,000 Cargo Insuraoee for your protection. John Day Valley Freight line (Incorporated) M. VENABLE, Manager. 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