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immediately removed the card from the postoffice in the hope that it might contain some clue. The card said that the Lindbergh baby was safe and that further instructions would be given later. It also told Lindy to act accordingly.
 The police violated postal laws by removing the card from the postoffice but the police believe they were justified in it's removal. The card which was mailed was later identified as the one pur- chased by man and a woman in Newark. The man was described as being about 40 years of age. A house to house search has been started in an effort to locate the man and woman.
 Lindbergh was reported to have been in communication with the kidnappers and that he had paid the $50,000 ransom demanded. He refused to comment on this feature but said that the Governors office would give out all statements re- garding the case Lindbergh Is eager to pay the ransom and he can well afford to do so as his for tune amounts to $2,000,000 and Anne Lindbergh has $19,000,000 in her own name
 Word of the Kidnapping over shadowed all world news, even the war in Shanghai Millions of words were printed on the front page of almost every newspaper in the United States and in foreign coun- tries and even in Japan and China the news of the Kidnapping of the son of the United States, and prob ably the worlds, most idoliZed fig ures overshadowed even the war developments in their own coun- tries.
 President Hoover has conferred with Attorney General William Nit chen regarding the case and Con- gress was in furore over the kid mapping. They immediately began consideration on several measures tended to curb Kidnapping. They also gave consideration to the Cochrane bill which makes kidnap- ping punishable by a death Sen- tence and to be regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission on code similar to that deal with white slavery.
 A famous airn1en'S organization, known as the Quiet Birdmen, '' has expressed it's willingness to help their puddle, Lindbergh, out and all day today they have been taking off from various points to conduct an aerial search in the hope that they may discover the ! hideout of the abductorS. The or ganization is made up of such men as Richard E. Byrd, Clarence E. Chamberlain, Wiley Post, Clyde Pangborn and others, who have made a high mark in the history of aviation.
 There never has been such hunt in all time and the intensity of the ! search is not only because it is the son Of international figures, but because of the fact that the De- partnent of Justice seeks to break the threat of Kidnapping which may jeopardize the safety of many American homes in the future.
 All branches of the State and Federal government have been mobilized and directed toward the search which has now become na- tion-wide.
 Every State bordering on the At lantic seaboard is being searched by authorities and civilians.
 Expressions of sympathy are pouring in to the Lindberghs from every part of the world
 Neither parent have slept since their small son was Kidnapped; the Colonel said he would not sleep un- til his son is back in his arms.
 Yesterday the child's special diet was broadcast in the hope that the kidnappers would hear.
 At Trenton, a mysterious phone call was received by, newspaper, the speaker saying, "The baby is being cared for by trained nurse" then hanging up the receiver.
 Tn China and Japan the kidnap- ping is front page news alongside of war dispatches and hundreds of telegrams of condolensces were re- ceiyed from the Far East, where both of the Lindberghs visited last year.