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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
HYDE IS FAVORAbLE.
TO ECONOMY SHIFT
Transfer of Roads Bureau
Might Save Money,
He Declares.
Rv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Hyde testified before the
House Expenditures Committee today
that If the agriculture viewpoint were
retained in the Bureau of Public Roads
he saw no objection TO its transfer to
an administration of public works.
Sees Chance for Saving.
Appearing at the special invitation Of
the committee to give his views on q
bill pending to create an administra-
ton Of public works, the Secretary said
he thought there might be some re-
sultant saving from the consolidation
of building activities into one depart
ment, bur that he could not put my
finger on specific saving"
The appearance of Hyde led Chair
man Cochran to say he might yet have
to withdraw my charge that cabinet
officers aren't cooperating" with Con-
gressmen seeking to reduce expendi-
lures by merging Government activities.
Pressed by questfonery as TO what
specific saving" would be achieved by
the consolidation, Hyde said:
Unable to Give Details.
Once more I say 1t is impossible
to put my finger on any individual man
we could be able to discharge, or any
particular work we would be able TO
do away with, but do think it would
be possible to make savings by taking
advantage Of seasonal demands for ex-
perts on different kinds of work"
: Hyde promised to make a thorough
survey and tell the committee about
specific reductions in expense he
thought might be achieved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
DOAK WILL ADDRESS
VOCATIONAL SESSION
Annual Conference of Directors
and Supervisors Will
Open Monday.

Secretary Of Labor Doak will be one
of the speakers at an annual confer
ence of State directors and State and
local supervisors of vocational educa-
ton in agriculture and home economics
converting at the Wardman Park Hotel,
beginning next Monday.
The conference, under auspices Of
the Federal Board for Vocational Edu-
cation. will bring together workers in
the fields OF vocational education in
home economics and vocational educa-
ton in agriculture from Is North At
lantic and II Southern States.
Among other speakers scheduled to
address the assembly are Miss Florence
Hale, president National Education
Association; DR.. F. J. Kelly and Miss
Bess Goodycoontz. Office of education
Department Of Interior; DR.. Harry M
johnson, head Of department Of educa-
tional psychology, American University
and DR.. J. C. Wright, director Of agri-
cultural education service.
In addition to the business program
of the conference, arrangements have
been made for luncheon meetings, g
banquet to take place March 9 and sew
eral educational trips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
RATE FIGHT DELAYS
NEW REVENUE BILL
House Group Argues Proposal
for 2 IA Per Cent Manu-
facturers' Sales Tax.

Failure Of the House Ways and
Means Committee to agree on the rate
OF the proposed manufacturer sales
tax yesterday caused delay in compile
ton Of the new revenue bill.
The snag was struck soon after the
full group met to consider the tentative
draft of the bill, now estimated to bring
in about 81 loo, 900 900 to balance the
budget in 1893.
When 1t was found the revised esti-
mated yield Of the proposed 2 per cent
rate for the sales tax would be but
Sol7,OO0,000, opponents Of excise taxes
recommended on several articles ad-
yocated "a per cent rate. i!
The yield of the additional one-ouar-
ter per cent was estimated at $50. OOO.-
600, bringing the total to S583, 000. 900,
which is still short Of the original ex-
pected return of more than $500 900, 600
from 2 per cent levy.
bipartisan movement of growing
proportions to boost the rate of az per
cent was reported. Supporters of excise
taxes sternly protested, and no agree
ment was reached.
Acting Chairman Crisp announced
the committee was divided on the pro-
posed sales tax rates. but declined to
make details public. He made it known
it had agreed on the levying of a gift
tax and an increase in the estate tax,
but the rates were withheld
The committee expects its proposed
increases in individual and corporate
taxes will yield about $3.50. 600, 600. and
that administrative changes in the ex-
listing law will result in 500 0OO. 900 ad-
ditional revenue. Economies In Govern
ment operation totaling $150,00o, 0OC
with the new bills returns are expected
to meet the Treasurys prospective ST.
24l. 900 900 deficit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
HOPEWELL LIKE GOLD.RUSH TOWN
AS HUNT FOR KIDNAPER GOES ON
Police, Newspaper Men and Photographers Throng
Village-Phone Lines damned Lunch Room Filled.

the other at a drug store in the next
block.
The long distance trunk lines were
busy without let-up hour after hour, and
callers were forced to stand BY some
times for many minutes, waiting for a
line to clear so calls could be put
through. In short order. however, tele-
phone and telegraph crews, rushed from
Trenton and New York were on the
scene, stringing special lines and put
ting in their instruments
The lunch room people were hard put
to keep up with the appetites of the
hungry horde Of law enforcers and news
gatherers. Foraging parties went out
repeatedly to farms all about for eggs
and chickens, and the wooden tables
were never empty in the dining room.
Though the people of Hopewe!l are
enraged over the kidnapping and have
nothing but sympathy for the Lind
berghs. they realize the resulting hula
bslloo is doing -their town no harm.
These are boom days for Hopewell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
PRAY FOR LINDBERGHS
AT CATHEDRAL HERE
Episcopaleans Hope for Speedy
Restoration of Kidnapped
Baby.

Prayers for the safety of the Lind
bergh baby and his speedy restoration
to his parents were offered today at
all services in Washington Cathedral
and In the chapel of st. Adams, the
National Cathedral School for Boys.
At the celebration OF the holy COM
munion in the Chapel of the Resur-
rection this morning the Rev. william
L. DeVries offered a prayer for Col.
and Mrs. Lindbergh and their infant
son and then gave the intercession
from the book of common prayer.
Ambassador Pugi of Mexico today ex-
tended his sympathy to Col. and Mrs.
Lndbergh.
The Ambassador, former member
of the Mexican cabinet, is well &C
quainted with Col. Lindbergh and the
family Of former Ambassador Morrow.
His telegram to the colonel said:
Shocked by news concerning your
child. Hope he will be found well and
soon. My heartfelt sympathy to Mrs.
Llndbergh, Mrs. Morrow and yourself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
OLD-TIME "LINDY" OVERCOMES
FEAR IN EVICTING REPORTERS
Colonel Receivers Belligerency After APP
pearing Like Badly Frightened Boy
in Quest of Child.

it was the old "Lindy" who said it.
This road is going to be cleared. If
you don't"-there was fash Of blue
fire in the flying colonel's eyes.
The colonel went from one newspaper
encampment to the other, always with
the same message, This road is going
to be cleared"
He was calm and he was sure so
calm and so sure that one instantly
leaped to the conclusion that he knew
why that road was going to be cleared.
There came to them visions of car
with drawn shades, of engines whir-
ring, of speeding wheels that clawed the
mud and slithered through the ruts-
visions that rooted weary reporters and
photographers to the spots on which
they received the colonel's command
visions OF ransom car
A rendezvous with life!
But the camps nevertheless were
broken. The caravan turned toward
Hopewell. And never was a town more
appropriately named
(Copyrtght, 1882. by the North America
Newspaper Alliance, 1nc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
AL CAP0NE OFFERS
REWARD FOR BABY
Gangster Says He Could Help
Lindbergh if He Were
Out of Jail.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 3-Men who
match wits daily with the underworld
cunning veterans of Chicago's crime
wars-and the man known as the city's
most notorious gangster, have offered
their aid to track down the kidnapers
of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 80, and
restore him safely to his famous par
ents.
The celebrated Secret Six, nemesis
of kidnapers, bank robbers and other
denizens of gangland, last night ex-
pressed a desire to assist, through its
head, Col Robert Isham Randolph. for
the last two years leader in the civic
drive on crime.
The States attorneys Office was re-
ported to have delegated Pat Roche
ace Of its Investigators and recent cap
tor of an alleged Midwest kidnapping
ring. to finecomb the Chicago area for
possible clues to the abduction.
And from his prison cell in the
county Jail, "Scarface Al" Capone. de-
posed gang lord, announced he would
pay $4,000 for information leading tc
the safe return Of the Lindbergh boy
| and the arrest and conviction of the
kidnapers.
IT'S the most outrageous thing ]
have ever heard Of" said Capone. who
is under an ll-year prison sentence
| for income tax evasion. IF I were out
of jail I could be of some real assist
ance"
In a copyrighted story written espe-
cially for the Associated Press. Col
Randolph advised that payment of the
reported $4,000 ransom demand made
upon the Lindberghs seems to be the
only possible procedure under the cir
cumstances.
After the baby is safely back al
home" he wrote, there will be time
to think of apprehending the person.
responsible. Until then, the child's
life Is too precious to run risks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
10000 MEN SEARCH
flor MISSING BABY.
Hunt for Kidnapers of Lind
bergh Child Largest
Made in U. S.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 3.-The kid
naping of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's
baby son has set in motion the most
widely flung police search this country
has ever known.
Every law-enforcing agency of the
Eastern half Of the United States and
Canada is taking part in the man
hunt, with thousands of civilian volun-
teers also offering their services. Police
here estimate that more than 100000
police officers and citizens are making
the search for the child and his abb
ductors.
Every communication artery from
the Canadian border south is being
subjected to constant scrut!ay. Thou
sands Of automobiles are being stopped
and searched hourly and their occu-
pants compelled to identify themselves
Ferries, bridges, railroad trains and
stations, ship lines and interurban
buses are being closely watched.
Radio Facilities Used.
The radio facilities of the Nation have
also peen pressed INTO service to aid
Soh,.a ,,Lnnf bead p, r. NJ. w mai
Stnte poiica hoe ,node o direr, Jersey
bv rsdio r. the citizenS If bic OWN %pp1 ca
nsie hboring states to enlist in 1 tha
search for the Lindbergh baby and his
kidnapers.
Broadcastinp systems liant their kev
stations here on the air througho,,t ths
nioht r. irforr, the nnhIio ~ doIa,o,.
,,,snts rrhsu alSo hrood cost ~ slo.
~, ,Uh,or thS babv hos haer s, ..e u,e.
ond annaoiad :" fba Eidnansr S" 70 ,;,es
him ~ nroner food and trestrnen, s"e
Teienhone sw1tchboards of the broad
casting COMPANIES were Hooded with
caIls eoaip TO-DAY from listenarc pbo had
sungasfions ~ r,ots IN connan+io,, ,,,i.t.
tS ,or,har ~ 49,. ',I w s
Nc s,te eIse' I,.itoet y. .iiei u seo u,aI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
|OH|O PARENTS WAIT
'K|DNAPERS' Terms
Search g lutte, III,
Extend J. Tree States.
Clues Lacking.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NILES. Ohio, March 3-Like Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, two Ohio
parents waited in anguish today for the
hoped-for safe return of a kidnapped
SON.
The boy. James De Jute, IT,, IL, son
Of wealthy Niles contractor, was over
powered and stolen by t&o men from
near his home here yesterday. They
fed with him In an automobile
Although two witnesses of the kid
mapping gave police a good description
of the abductors and their car, no def
mite trace of them was found
Search in Three States. s.
Police throughout Ohio, Western
Pennsylvania and West Virginia were
asked to be on the lookout today for
the boy and the men. James was de-
scribed as Az feet tall, light complexion
and dark hair. He was wearing a gray
leather coat with sheepskin collar and
a gray cap. $50
Mr.. and Mrs. De Jute expected to
receive today a note demanding heavy
ransom for the boys return The con-
tractor said he knew of no enemies, and
that without doubt the kidnapers were
looking for easy money" He offered
$1,000 reward for their capture and
conviction.
James was stolen while going to
school with his cousin Anna May Mel
lima, IL. After making certain Of his
identity, the kidnapers grabbed him.
They did not bother the girl
Woman Heard Screams.
Anna May said James struggled loose
once before the men finally got him in
their automobile, small coupe Of light
tan color.
Hearing the screams Of the frightened
youngsters. Mrs. H. L. Woodward
rushed to their rescue from her home
nearby, but arrived too late. She gave
police the license number of the auto,
but they said the tags, which had been
stolen January 18, were probably dis
carded soon after the fight began
and that the kidnapers also probably
changed automobiles.
One OF the NEST likely clews to the
kidnapers' trail was a report that a car
like theirs was seen 20 minutes after
the abduction speeding through Brook
field, Ohio, toward Sharon, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
W|LKERSON'S D. K.
URGED BY LOESCH
Senate Committee Hears
Head of Chicago Crime
Board Ask Confirmation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Confirmation of Judge James H. Will
kerson of Chicago as circuit judge was
recommended to a Senate Judiciary
Committee today by Frank J. Loesch
president of the Chicago Crime Com
mission.
Loesch, who was a member of the
Wickersham Commission, said he was
supporting WilkerSon because of 1.-THE
way In which he handled the Capons
matter"
Judge Wilkerson, Loesch said, had
shown himself to be perfectly fair
very industrious and very courteous.
Loesch was presented by Senator
Glenn, Republican, of Illinois, who il
supporting Wilkerson's nomination,
Glenn placed In the record resolu'
lions indorsing Wilkerson by the bal
associations of the Northern Illtnoi:
counties in his present district.
All but two of the associations have
Endorsed Wilkerson. Glenn said, ano
one of them explained 1t was contrary
TO its custom.
Glenn also placed before the commit
tee Endorsements of WilkerSon by off,
GERS of the Amalgamated Association Of
Street and Electric Railway Employe:
OF Chicago
William Quinlan, president, said VIII
kerson always evinced fair anc
friendly attitude toward the cause Of
| labor"
L. D. Bland, editor of the organiza'
TONS Chicago journal said Wilkersor
had been fair and impartial toware
labor.
Loesch told the committee lonI
story of his battle against corruption
in Chicago.
| Without interruption he told Of Wis
iting Al Capone in 1928 to appeal 10
a fair election in the poll
/ Il demonstrated with him for nj
conduct and told him he ought TO b
q better American citizen" LoeSch said
Finally Loesch said he asked Capon
to keep your damn Italian hoodlum
out Of the election"
Capone offered him drink, Loescl
! said, and then replied: I'm help"
Loesch added 100000 votes wer
cast In the election and there was n
disorder Of any kind
'It was the only honest election IL
Chicago in 80 years." the witness said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
DEER Is MAN-HATER

A blunder OF nature which places a
fine set Of antlers on the head Of a
female deer also makes her a man
hater," according to field men Of the
California division of the Fish and
Game Association.
A handsome buck deer was placed In
the pen Of such freak Of nature and
she Immediately engaged him in dead
ly combat. She is now being watched
to see If she sheds her antlers as males
do at this time of year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
Letters Get Big
Results, but Arrest
In Alleged Fraud
Man Held i'm Toronto
Charged With Mislead-
ing Advertising Concerns.
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Prest
TORONTO, Ontario, March 3.-Wil-
fred Edey, 81. was arrested tonight and
held in $4,000 bail charged with at
tempting to defraud more than 1000
United States advertising firms of 1920
each.
Police said Edey mailed more than
1000 letters to advertising firms advis-
ing them cut for illustration purposes
had been received for them at the &C
M. Greenshtelds Co." and that the sum
OF 1920 in express charges was owing
The response to his demands was SO
enormous, they said. Edey and his ''un-
named confederates" abandoned the
enterprise. \
They said Edey received checks from
about TOO firms, but had not had time
to cash most of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpeClAl OlSpaICH W Inc StAT.
HOPEWEIL- N. j., March 3
(N.A.N A. For many hours Col.
Charles Lindbergh was not the Indy"
of the out-thrust jaw, the sharp word,
the self sufficient shoulders squared, a
bit belligerently sometimes, to the
clamoring world
He was frightened boy with tousled
hair and wide blue eyes, blurred with
pain that is incoherent. He spoke,
but he had trouble making his lips
frame words. His lips became stiff and
cold and stuck to his teeth. His face
was a cameo Of pain cut from a white
marble block
Last night the colonel appeared out
of the darkness at his home. His head
was still bare, his blond hair tousled,
his face patch of whiteness in blue
black canvas. State troopers guarding
the entrance stepped aside to give him
passage. Three troopers accompanied
him. He had a purpose and a definite
one. He approached the nearest news
paper encampment.
Il must ask you to CO." he said, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
NATIVES RELATE EERIE TALES
OF REGION OF LINDBERGH HOME
Sourlands of Mercer-Hunterdon County
Line Notorious in Local Folklore as
Scene of Weird Happenings.

turn to earth and stalk the living along
the lonely roads. And high in the DESC
late reaches of the stony hills Pete
Nixons wrath floats along to the sad
dening music of his fiddle, in vain
quest of the head of Ben Peterson
removed with a shotgun in 1877.
Woodchopper Marked.
Up from their graves in the sour
lands come the restless souls Of others
who were looking for their ancient
friends, the rye and applejack distillers
at Dawlis Mills in the village Of Am
we'll, at brakes, in Woodsville; at ole
Peter DiltS place in Post Town, neal
the Devils Half Acre, and at Larisons
Corner, Ringoes, NeShanic and Van
Liews Corner and Mount Rose.
Old Charley atfirmS the episode OF
the muzzy woodchopper who. made
brave by applejack,. dared touch one
of the spectral females, or, rather. tried
to. Her hand slithered across his
cheek and to his death he bore the i'm
print of her wrath.
These things, also, do Charley's wife,
Rene Wilson Sutphin, and his brother
in-law, Hank Wilson, believe and re-
peat And they are not a,one, for Will
liam Dean of North Main street tells
of the affair of the late Rev. George
A. Eaton, who once served the baptistry
of the Sourlands.
Left His Arm Useless.
Late one night on the Rileyville-
HopewelI road, riding home from the
death bed Of a member of the congre-
CATION. the minister met a man on a
white horse. He recognized him as the
man who had died within the hour.
Meet me tonight In the dark woods,
said the wrath.
II can not" said the clergyman.
Then hold out your hand" COM
manded the spirit.
The minister put out his hand and
the wrath touched it. From that time
until his death Mr.. Eaton's arm was
useless, Dean affirms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOPEWELL, N. j., March 3.-The
Sourlands-that group of eerie and
uninhabited hills on the Mercer-Hunt-
erdon County line in which nestles the
home of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh, is notorious in local folklore as
the scene. of strange and weird legend.
Charley Sutphin' who has lived in the
region all of his 10 years, will tell you
what he has seen and heard.
On cold still nights, when the frost
Is In the ground, Charley says he has
heard the roars of Stock the butcher
and the frenzied shrieks of Stocks girl
as she feels her lovers fingers on heI
throat.
Near the road at the Buttonwoods
Corners, resting on a fiat blue jins lei
rock, Knitting Betty tirelessly knits
Charley has seen her. She vanishes
when any one comes too close. Hei
haunt is now part of the Lindberghs
back yard.
Devils Own Stronghold.
Other things has Charley seen. and
many more has he heard. Once this
place was the devils own stronghold
and when he wanted to build wall to
separate the East from the West he flew
to Maine for material. Back he came
soaring over New York and the bay
across Navesink, turning wfRre the
Raritan flows, slyly winking at par
sons daughter in Bridgewater. Up and
on to Neshanic, and there his apron
strings broke and the rocks came
tumbling down.
And Charley himself has seen the
devils doorway he built near the place
where the Lindberghs make their home
and the rocks called the Three Broth
ers, standing over against the skyline
on the hill, named for the hermit Pero
who lived nearby in a cave.
Sam Cruise. colored and racial broth
er of Charley. was shot to death II
Princeton Basin and Dory Cruise was
fatally beaten in 1878. On certain
nights, legend has it, their names re
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
BIRD CLASSES PLANNED

Bird classes will be conducted by the
Audubon Society of Washington. in the
assembly hall of the Thomson School,
Twelfth and L street. on each Monday
afternoon to and including March 81.
The classes will be held without
charge and the students will study the
identification OF birds. Field classes,
restricted to six persons each, will hold
outings on each Saturday from April IS
to May 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
Nv n STAR corrsspondent Of The star.

HOPEWELL, N. j., March Slope
well, a peaceful little New Jersey farm
town, snuggled at the foot OF the Jersey
Hills resembles q gold-rush town as the
search for the Lindbergh baby goes on.
It is the headquarters for scores OF
State and county police, newspaper men
from all over the Eastern United States
and a horde of news photographers and
newsreel men, to say nothing OF the
every day curious citizenry from nearby
towns and cities.
The towns lunchroom, operated by a
man named Gebhart. was the focal
point of the excitement. Here news-
paper headquarters were set up and IL
short order the ordinarily quiet and
subdued little lunch room became the
nerve center Of the greatest news story
Of the day.
Telephone lines out Of Hopewell were
hopeiessly damned yesterday. Lines
formed In front Of the two pay booths
in the town, one at the lunch room,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
LEARY TO COMMAND
Will Take Charge of U. S. S. Port
land This Summer.

A native Washingtonian, Capt. Her
bert F. Leary, .. S. N, will command
the new cruiser U. S. S. Portland. when
she IL commissioned in the late Sum-
mer
The Navy Department today issued
orders directing that Capt. Leary, new
under instruction at the Naval War Col
lege. Newport. r. l.. proceed TO Fore
River, Mass, to the plant of the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding Corporation, where
the U. s. S. Portland is being con-
Structed.
Capt. Leary will have charge of the
fitting out of the new craft. He is the
first officer assigned to command one OF
the new cruisers authorized by the oct
of February 10, 1929.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
GIVES ORGAN CONCERT

Alexander McCurdy, jr., of Philadel-
phia, well known concert organist, will
appear In concert at the new Metro
politan Memorial Methodist Church
Nebraska and Massachusetts, avenues
at BIS o'clock tonight. The musician
pupil of Lynwood Farnam-is organ
list and choir director of the Second
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.