HEPPNElt GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Most modern kidnappings, how
ever, have had adults rather than
children as their victims. Accord
ing to Col. Robert Isham Randolph,
head of Chicago's "Secret Six," an
organized gang of kidnappers has
recently succeeded in many cases
in abducting wealthy men, or men
with wealthy connections, and in
extorting huge sums of money in
exchange for their lives and liberty.
Similar gangs are said to have op
erated in Detroit and elsewhere.
Charles M. Rosenthal, a young New
York broker, was kidnapped by a
gang which released him when his
mother paid the $50,000 ransom de
manded; but the four members of
the gang were later captured and
sentenced to 60 years each in pris
on. Kidnappers have sometimes been
let off lightly. 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.
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