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The Weather Forecast: Tonight and Saturday (air; Little cbrie III temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 82 Lowest thla morning - 4? ebforb Mail Facts Not Claims Tou take no ohanees on A. B. C. circulation. No clalma mads the auditor'! flguree tell the etorv. The Matl Tribune la Medford's Only A. B. C. Newspaper. Twenty-Seventh Year HEDFOKD, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1932. No. 45. M Tribune o Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS OPE! It la the bright star, shln lng on ahead, that leads ua through the murk ot aorrow and dis appointment and .heartache that set ties at tlmea into the Uvea ot ua all; that keepa us struggling on In the dark hours when the going seems rougher than we can bear. For Colonel and Mrs. Cbarlea Lind bergh, thla morning, hope la dead. ONLY a mother 'can Imagine the atark terrors the past two montha have held for Anne Morrow Lind bergh. No day, for her, has held a ray of aunahlne; no night has been free from horror. But through these two months of Qethaemane the star of hope has shown above her; still has beckoned on to believe that her baby would be found and restored to her. The atar la gone; fallen from the aky; Its light extinguished. Poor Anne I FAME and glory? Wealth. High poeltlon. A young and beautiful wife who has been also a companion. A golden-haired son. All these things have been brought to Colonel Lindbergh by that bold flight acroea ttie foggy seaa. But also, let us not forget. It has brought him down into the valley of the ahadow of death; that dark valley In which the star of hope no longer shines. For It was the fame and glory, the wealth, the high poeltlon won tor him by that spectacular flight that made him the mark for the fiends In human form that kidnaped and alew his Infant son. MOCKERY and' ashes. The flavor of Dead Sea apples.' These, to Colonel Lindbergh this morning, must be the meaning of fame and glory of wealth and high' position. ' THESE gangaters, these acum ot the earth, these Jackals that live on the fringea of society: these wolvea In sheep's clothing that have been talking so blg-heartedly about recov ering the Lindbergh baby. What of them? IF YOU have read carefully the stories in this newspaper yesterday you have noted that according -to the moat expert opinion available the Lindbergh baby waa slain aome two months ago. That muat have been almost Immediately after he waa tak en from his crib. What doea that mean?' It means that these gangaters who were pos ing as stricken by the sorrow of a young father, who professed to be generously offering their services to recover the lost baby, were simply "muscling In" on the publicity capitalizing an opportunity to make themselves appear leaa horrible In the public eye than they really are. IP YOU are so-constituted that you are capable of Intense loathing and contempt, pour out today upon the heads of these enemies of decency all the loathing and contempt which you are capable of feeling. They deserve It all. AND w,hat of Gaston B. Means that delver Into the filth of the guttera, who for the money he would get out of the Bale of the book drag ged the name of a dead President of the United States In the muck; who, still Itching for filthy money, angled In the watera stirred up by the Lind bergh kidnaping and brought up a hundred thoussnd dollars from a woman who aought to bring back the baby to Its dead mother? Think what you will of him. But remember that you can't possibly think of him as much evil as he dc serves. a a IS THIS world, there is much of good. Thla writer, who la a sin cere optimist, and haa no regrets therefor, la .....te convinced that the tood In thla world outweighs the evil. But la thla Lindbergh kidnaping. this deed of dsrkness that has so tugged at the heartatrtnge of all hu manity, and in the nasty efforts to capitalise upon it that have followed, there la much of evil, much of dls Uuslonment. The world has a long way to go jet before It reachea perfection. Jenkins Comment Continued from Thurdy em this year for their crop. This doesn't Include the money that will go into labor for packing. JUST a word more, partly In repe tition of what has already been said In this column: In California, average production of tomatoes la around seven tons to the acre. In the finest tomato ACoatiniiaVl pa L BATTERED BODY Lindbergh Visits Under taker's Place Mother Reported Bearing Up Well Drop Secrecy Man Hunt TRENTON, N. J., May 13. (AP) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh ar rived late today to see the body of his kidnaped baby taken to Linden lor cremation. The little battered body had been placed In a light oak casket and a hearse was waiting at the door of the undertaker's establishment where the autopsy was performed when Col. Lindbergh drove up In an automobile alone and entered the building. It was not known whether he viewed the body before It waa taken out to the hearse. Previously It had been announced that neither Col. Lindbergh nor his wife would view the body, as they wished to keep fresh In their memo lies the picture they had of their baby before he was kidnaped. PRINCETON. N. J.. May 13. (AP) Dr. John Grler Hlbben, president of Princeton university and close friend of the Lindberghs, said today that Mrs. Lindbergh, although over whelmed with grief, was "bearing up just as she has all along." HOPEWELL, N. J., May 13. (AP) The Lindbergh baby Is dead; mur dered, brutally. They found the body It was hard ly more than a skeleton late yes terday afternoon. A negro truckman, pushing his way through thick brush of the Sourlands not five miles from the Charles A. Lindbergh estate made the dlscoverly. Police were called. Identification was confirmed. A baby hunt, cau tious and painstaking, was ended; a man hunt, wideflung and intense, swept forward In Its place. To Quiz Intermediaries .Two 'Intermediaries of the baby search, men who for weeks had been moving In and out of the back ground, their movements carefully guarded for fear of endangering the child's life, were called to give an accounting of their hidden activities. One of these men was Drv John F. Condon, the 72-year-old educator of New York City who, negotiating through the newspapers as "Jafsle," (Continued on fage Pour) EAGLET'S COFFIN WILL BE SEALED FROM KIN'S EYES TRENTON, N. J., May 13. (AP) The broken little body of "The Eag let" will be laid away without his par entt having seen It. Ann and Charles Lindbergh will al ways remember their lost son as a handsome little chap, with yellow curls and blue eyes and a radiant smile. Prank W. Swayze, the undertaker In charge of the body, said today he had been Informed that neither Col It. onel nor Mrs. Lindbergh would see It will be placed in a sealed coffin before It Is delivered to them, he said, he did not know when the burial would take place, or what the funer al arrangements were. Police today held back a throng which loitered In the street outside the funeral establishment. In the morgue at the rear the curtains were drawn. Of those whom ne had learned to know and trust In the few months that were his span of life only his nurse. Betty Gow, saw the body of little Charles Lindbergh. He used to call her 'Oow." Watauga settlement In Tennessee set up Its own government In 1772 and became the first Independent state In America. WIL 1 KIDNAPED CH LD Flash of Lindbergh News Associated Press 'Scoop9 NEW YORK. May 13. (AP This la the manner In which the finding ci the body of the Lindbergh baby, one of the greatest news beats In newspaper history, was given to the world : Francis A. Jamleson, Associated Press staff correspondent In Tren tn. was working on another angle of the kidnaping when he learned Colonel Norman H. Schwarzkopf, su perintendent of New Jersry police, had summoned newspaper men to the Lindbergh home In Hopewell for an announcement. Samuel O. Black man, another Associated Prww staff man. was on his way to Hopewell. Jamleson Immediately ran to the executive offices of Oovernor A. Harry Moore In Trenton. Oovernor Moore was not there. Jamleson called the governor at home. While waiting he phoned the New York office of the A. P. and held the wire open. Governor Uoare said bs b4 Just Will Rogers Hopes Slayers Of Infant Arrested, Punished SANTA MONICA, Cal., May IS (AP) Brushing away tears, Will Rogers said: "There's nothing one can say that means anything In a time like this. I knew the little fel low, held htm In my arms a few weeks before he was killed. "I hope the responsible ones are caught and caught quickly and that there's a full measure of Justice ready for them when they bring them In. no TRENTON, N. J., May 13. (AP) The Trenton Times today said Prose cutor Erwln E. Marshall, In a confer ence last midnight with Or. John P. Condon at the Lindbergh home, was Informed the sleeping suit missing from the Lindbergh baby's body had been turned over to him in the nego tiations which resulted In payment of $50,000 ransom money. The sleeping suit, r. Condon said. Is In the possession of Col. Lindbergh. Two other bits of evidence sup posedly establishing the authenticity of the alleged kidnaping group that dealt with Dr. Condon, also are In the possession of Col. Lindbergh, the paper said Dr. Condon told the prose cutor. They are two diaper pins. A diaper which the baby wore when It was kidnaped Is missing. Dr. Condon told Prosecutor Mar shall, the Times said, 'that early In the negotiations with the supposed kidnapers the diaper pins were sent to him to prove the men he was deal ing with had actually stolen the baby. In the final negotiations, when the $50,000 ransom money was turned over, the baby's sleeping suit was given as the final bit of evidence of the kidnapers' Identity. TRENTON, N. J., May 13. (AP) After a lengthy conference with offi cials of Mercer and Hunterdon coun ties. In both of which the Lindbergh estate lies, Attorney General William A. Stevens left the state house today on a mission he Indicated might pro vide developments. "When we come back," he told re porters as he left with several other officials, "we will have something for you." TRENTON, N. J., May 13. (AP) District Attorney Erwln Marshall an nounced this afternoon that nothing had been found to Implicate Dr. John P. Condon, the "Jafaie" of the search for the Lindbergh baby. "Ha has been releaaed and has gone back to New York," Marahall aald. PrTTSBTJRaH, May 13. (AP)l-Clty detectives, on request of New Jersey state , police, today began checking court records of two sisters employed aa domestics and arrested here in 1939.- The New Jersey authorities did not say whether the Information was wanted In connection with the hunt for the killers ot Charles A. Lind bergh, Jr. The detectlvea aald, how ever, the requeat came from sn offi cial who went abroad in the Lind bergh kidnaping Investigation. ' The telegram to Pittsburgh officers said the sisters were named "either Tlnko or Tlnco." Major Charles Schoeffel, assistant superintendent of the New Jersey state police, went to England and Scotland In connection with the Lindbergh case. FINDER OF BODY WOULD LIKE JOB HOPBWKLL, N. J., May 13. (AP) William Allen, quiet-spoken negro who found the Lindbergh baby's body, doesn't care o much about a cash reward, but he would like a bet ter Job than helper on a truck. "I feel I'm entitled to some money," he said, "but If Col. Lindbergh has none, but can find me a Job. I'll be satisfied. I just hope that police catch the man who killed the baby. He must be a devil." learned Col. Schwarzkopf had been trying to reach him by telephone. Jamleson asked the governor If he would call Schwarzkopf Immediately. While the governor talked on an other line to Schwarzkopf. Jamleson held the wire be had Into the Moore residence. In a second or two Governor Moore shouted to Jsmleson; "I have ssd news for you. The Lindbergh baby haa been found dead." Then came the other details, quickly relayed by Jsmleson to the New York office through the adja cent telephone, even as ha talked mith the governor. But over the Associated Press news circuits running to all sections of the world, flashed one of the great' est news be ate In newspaper history: "Plash Oovernor Moore announces Lindbergh baby 'found dead." More than one hour later Co Schwarzkopf made the formal an nouncement at Hopewejj, FEDERAL SLEUTHS WILL TAKE TRAIL OF BABY SLAYERS X President Orders Unrelent ing Search to Bring Crimi nals to Justice Strong Language Is Employed WASHINGTON, May 13. (AP) President Hoover today directed the law enforcement agencies and secret service of the federal government to set out upon a hunt for the mur derers of the Lindbergh baby, "never to be relaxed until those criminals are Implacably brought to Justice." The president, employing strong language, directed the federal police authorities "to make the kidnaping and murder of the Lindbergh baby a live md never to be forgotten case." The federal government does not have direct police authority In the present case, he pointed out, despite lt brutality and the nationwide horror It has caused, but federal agencies will be "unceasingly alert" to bring the murderers to punish ment. The president Issued the follow ing statement: "I have directed the law enforce ment agencies and the several secret services of the federal government to make the kidnaping and murder of the Lindbergh baby a live and never to be forgotten case, never to be relaxed until these criminals are implacably brought to justice. "The federal government does not have police authority In such crimes, but Its agencies will be unceasingly alert to assist the New Jersey police In every possible way until this end has been accomplished." FOR RELIEF GOES TO SPECIAL GROUP WASHINGTON. May 13. (AP) Senate Democrats turned the 'Hoover compromise $1,500,000,000 relief plan over to a special committee for study today. A second conference of the Demo crats failed to develop an absolute approval of the compromise. The special committee was determined upon to go over the plan. Senator Robinson. Democratic leader, whoae conference with President Hoover opened the way for a compromise, will serve as a member. Other members are Wagner of New York, Walsh of Montana, pittman of Nevada and Bulk ley of Ohio. As a result of last nights confer ence at tie White House between the president and Republicans of the senate banking committee. Republi can leaders were confident of a gen eral agreement In their ranks on the proposal to extend federal aid to the states for unemployment relief and to finance public and private construc tion by means of the reconstruc tion corporation. CAMPAIGN HOOEY A letter, signed by a rancher of the Rogue River valley, assailing the sheriff, the county court, and the circuit Judge, was received today, and la under consideration for future ac tion by the proper officials. The epistle rambling and misspelled has one bit of humor It alleges that some of the officials, are "full of Swedish d liter bancs, as we used to call It In Cripple Creek, Col." The Bible Is quoted, and Wall street, the bankers, the method of construction of roads, and things In general are assailed The gangland phrase "bump" for death Is used two or .three times. Circuit Judge H. . Norton, is de scribed "as placing himself above the Creator.'' The letter Is attributed to a crank, Inflamed by campaign chatter. DUNFORD BITTEN BY RATTLESNAKE While leading a aearch for Marlon Lon(. 70, missing since yesterday from his Ashland home, O. w. (Ike) Dunford. county Jailer was bitten by a rattlesnake. The accident occurred s'hortly before noon, while Jailer Dun- ford waa beating through the brush. The fangs of the reptile atruck Just above the right ankle. First aid waa applied by aute policemen, and the wound "bled". Jailer Dunford waa -a-moved to the Sacred Heart hospital HI- condition la not aerloua. The morning hunt for Long, re vealed no trace. One tneory now ad vsneed by authorltlea Is that Long la alive and travelling alcng the Pa clflc highway. NEWBERQ C. P.. Butler i:i erect uimsto caocery at hit aim north of town. BODY OF HASTILY t AsRormiPU Press leiepnoio ahnvC body of the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs. C'harlrs A. Lindbergh wus five miles from the Lindbergh home near Hopewell. i A i4 r?: y i UopyPi .ir vr 'Nir t ,. vcw . .. II i fljrti! first and exclusive photograph shown of the rlh In the nursery of the Lindbergh home "cur Hopewell, N. X, from which the hnny was stole March I and found dead 73 days later. This Associated Press tele photo, showing the rurried blankets, probably looks the same as when Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh saw It the night their son was kidnaped. COSHOW DENIES EOF. DALLAS. May 13. (AP) Judge Oliver P. Coshow. former chief Justice of the Oregon supreme court, today resumed his place on the witness stand here testifying In his own be half. He Is being charged with four other officers of the Empire Holding corporation with devising a scheme to defraud. Coshow, the second to be tried, faces Judge Arlle O, Walker's court In his fight to avoid the verdict rendered the first officer, Prank J. Keller, who was found guilty. Coshow took the stand late yester day and told of his connections with the holding corporation and of his activities as president of that group. He said he was a native Oregonlan and was 69 years of age. Ho related his early law career, and up to the time he assumed the office In the corporation. The judge declared all his acts were made In good faith. The vetern Jurist declared he was un aware of misstatements or of any violation of contracts or applications. The case, nearlng the close of the second week of trial, was expected to be completed and in the hands of the Jury early next week. C. OF C. SINGERS WILL TRY VOICES Tonight, at the At. Mark's Oulld hH on North Ofkdale. the first try out for organization of a men's glee club In this city will be conducted under direction ol Jsmea Stevens. All men Interested In music and forma tion of the local organization are asked to be present at 8 o'clock. Music to be wed arrived from Port land this morning. Accompaniments will be played by Sebastian Apollo, who. will also arrance munlc for the organization, which will b patterned after the Eugene Oleemrn. A lartte attendance Is eapeM attorHghr'f meeting. Tick Blamed for Death of Pankey KLAMATH PALLS. Ore . May 13. (AP William Pankey, Klamath county pioneer, died here Thurartsy from Rocky Mountain lira; fever. Although there have been many rases of the fever, thla was tM fust death. LINDBE' oH BABY BURIED IN WOODS Minwiug liewsiuniermen mid Hprrtatnm t vn w It 3 St f ORIGINAL RANSOM NOTE REVEALS CAREFUL PLAN NEW YORK, May U (AP) The New York American published today what It aald It had learned from re liable aourcea was the text of the ransom note left by the kldnapera of the Lindbergh baby. It read aa followa: "Dear sir Have IB0.000 ready. 2ii,ooo in $20 bills, ais.ooo in aio bills, and (10,000 In t9 bills. Have them In two packagca. Pour days we will Inform you to redeem the money. . BASEBALL RESULTS National. B. H. K- Brooklyn 8 11 0 Cincinnati 3 8 3 Battcrlea: Vance and I5pez; Ben. ton, Kolp, Ogden and Asbjornson. R. H. E. Boston 3 0 3 Chicago 3 11 3 Zachary, Bantwell and Hargrave; Bush and Hsrtnett, New .York at Pittsburg postponed; cold and wet grounds. Amrrlran. R. H. K. Detroit 0 3 0 Washington' T 11 1 Batteries: Wyatt. Herring and Hay worth, Suace; Crowder and Berg. R. H. B. St. Louis 4 8 0 Philadelphia - B 17 1 Batterlea. Blaeholder. Cotfman and Ferrell. Bengough; Earnahaw and Cochrane. Cleveland at Boston and Chicago at New York postponed; tain. DATES AND PLACES OF FLOWER SHOW I0LD . Th annual .flower show of the Medlnrd garden club will he ataged this year In the apacloua boya' gym nasium of the new senior high school May 2 and 27. according to an nouncement today. More complete plana for the event will be reported In the Sunday Mall Tribune. ! WA8H1NOTON, May 1.1. (API ; President Hoover today renominated j Anthony Savage lor reappointment aa United Slates district attorney for I ut western aisiricv of jasuuviivraii Associated Press Photo. IimiImiir nv tue i,it nliern the found near Mt. Ruse, N. J., a scant "We warn you for making anything public or for notifying the police. The child la In gut care. "Identification for letters are slg nltures. Answer three fold (1-3-3-4). Two rings In blue Ink, with centra ring ot red. A blue Ink line ot the blue circles on the outer edge of the red. A hole on the outer edge ot each dark circle and one In the centre of the red. "Don't publlah thla letter." TLA! GIRL IN DEATH LEAP PORTLAND, Ore.,' May 13. (AP) Miss Msrjorle Kaufman, 17, was killed today when ahe leaped from tha sixth floor of a down town de partment atore, Employee of the atore aald they obaerved her for 30 mlnutea prior to the plunge in a dejected attitude at a table. Suddenly, after a fit of weeping, ahe daahed to the open window. ' Mrs.' M.'J! Braden and Mra. P. H Asbury, both of Los Angeles, were knocked down by the awning through Which the falling woman plunged. Neither was Injured. A note left by the girl asked that police notify her mother. The note said her family didn't "understand her. no SUNNYVALE, May. 13 (AP) Confronted with tha necesalty of valvlng out more of the ahlp'a helium supply In order to mske a landing. Commander C. E. Roaendahl of the dirigible Akron chose to cruise over this far-west naval air base today awaiting more favorable atmospher ic conditions before tlelng up at the mooring mast. A message dropped hy Com made r Roaendahl said It waa necessary to conserve his helium supply for fur ther operations, Indicating prevloualy announced maneuvers with the Unit, ed States fleet, now at sea, will be carried out, f If BATTL PARTY T Republicans in Argument Over Prohibition --Bitter Rift in Democratic Ranks Over Choice of Candidate Br HYROX PHK'B WASHINGTON. May 13. (AP The pre-convention curtain raiser to Vie 1033 campnlgn is ending, as It began, with the Republicans still ar guing about what to do about prohi bition, and the Democrats still dis puting what to do sbout a candi date. Recent developments appear to have deepened, if anything, the bit terness of feeling within the parties on these two prime questions. The present mood of the contending fac tions foreshadows that neither of the June conventions can be called ex actly a lovefeast. Oovernor Roosevelt continues to press strongly for the Democratic nomination, and so do his rivals. The Ohio primary has stiffened the hopes of wet Republicans, and the resist ance of dry Republicans. And so it (Continued on Page Five) IS :t PORTLAND, Ore., May 13. (AP) A directed verdict of acquittal ,-s ordered today In the esse of Mayor Oeorge L. Baker and four other defen dants on trial In circuit court hers on malfeasance chargea. They were accused of having agreed to pBy $200,000 too much for a municipal market alte. The other defendanta on trial with Mayor Baker were City Commissioners John M. Mann " and Earl Riley, ac cused with him of .malfessanca, and O. Laurgaard, city engineer, and C. Lee Wilson, contractor, Indicted ss scceasorles, , The arguments for and against the directed verdict of acquittal lasted two and a half days. The Jury waa excluded during these arguments. The trial opened 12 daya sgo. Judge ' Robert Tucker explained In handing down the decision that he would be derelict In his duties If he declined to grant the motion for acquittal and had submitted the case to the Jury, The four city officials and Wilson were accused of havlpg agreed to pay too much for the site, the sgreed price having been 1,409.963. In an effort to betteT conditions at Savage Raplda dam which they allege now make ascent of Rogue river difficult for fish. Prank Ovel man and Al Plche are today work lng to secure a caravan of valley sportsmen to visit and view the dam Tueaday morning, leaving tha local chamber of commerce at 8:30 o'clock. Care from Ashland. Medford and Central Point will Join the caravan and motion pictures of the caravan and fish conditions will be mads by Copco, according to Plchs, who asks anyone Interested to plan to make the trip Tuesday. WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 12. Now York, which always thinks it's ahead of everything, is going to "walk for beer." The rest of the country don't have to walk for it. Davo lngnils of Cleveland, Ohio, our naval aco in the world . war, is nominated on the Re publican ticket for governor of his state. His ticket was "Let the rcoplo vote on whatever they want to whether it bo pro hibition, kneo breeches for dip lomats or shall Mickey Mouse be allowed to produce sex dramas." The Democrats have already started arguing over who will be speaker at the conveution. What they better be worrying about is "who is going to listen to 1W0 delegates that will speak." OlHl.MHmtLVMIls, Itvr