Evening star., 1932-03-02
.L|NDBERGH BABY
FAMOUS At BIRTH
Report of His Arrival in June,
1880, Was One of Years
Biggest News Stories.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2.-Charles
Augustus Lindbergh, Sd, is only 20
months old, but he's a world-famous
person. His birth was one of the big
gest news stories of 1880. and his first
| photograph was one of the most priced
pictures in the history of journalistic
| photography.
And he's the living image" Of his
| famous father.
He came as a birthday gift to his
mother, Mrs Anne Lindbergn. for she
was "a that day, June %, 1880. His
father was %, and he's just past 80
now.
Grandfather Gave Tip.
News of his arrival was ''let out" an
hour after the birth by his grandfather,
the late Senator Dwight w. Morrow,
who told a friend:
I'm a grandfather, and it's a boy
But don't tell any, one"
| But the secret was one that could not
be kept long, for many friends had
been aware of the preparations made
at the Morrow home in Englewood. A
short time after the birth, the news
| was announced from the home to the
Associated Press and flashed to the far
| corners of the earth.
Within an hour messages came from
| everywhere and every class of people.
| Strangers came in long professions to
the gate. An hour after the news broke
sorg sung in the baby's honor was
heard on the radio.
World Sent Congratulations.
From Mexico City, where the
country's most noted youth wooed Miss
| Anne Morrow, came kilograms from
President Ortiz Rubio and countless
others. France adopted" the child in
a transport of felicitation. In New
Jersey little children picked daisies and
carried them to the guards for "Lindy's
baby"
Gifts poured in, from baby carriages
to fuzzy dogs, and the nursey became
crammed with an assortment of toys
that would delight any childs heart.
Mothers throughout the Nation read
al about it with avidity.
1t was important news when a dis
patch from Washington told that the
childs first book was to be THE
Painted Pig" by his grandmother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Morrow
At birth the child-robust and
promising-weighed seven and one-half
pounds. He Is now strong and golden
haired. Blue eyes peer out from a
chubby face and his locks have way
OF curling and rumpling like his
| fathers.
Given Fathers Name.
There was some discussion among
the family as to what he should be
called, but of course his mother was
the final arbiter and Charles Augustus
Lindbergh, Sd, he became.
! Be1ore ne was very old his father
yielded to the eager requests of news
paper men and, taking photographs of
him with his own camera, distributed
them to newspapers. They got 'front.'
page position everywhere.
The little tot has never taken a ride
IN an airplane. Before he was four
weeks old it was reported he would fly
With his parents to the home of his
grandfather at North Haven, Me- but
1t was postponed, and later physicians
vetoed the plan. Even If cotton were
stuffed into his ears, they said, the
roar of the engines might impair his
hearing for life.
Stayed at Morrow Home.
So, for the first few months of his
life he stayed at the Morrow home,
guarded like the precious youngster he
is, and only left there to take several
trips by train to Maine.
When his parents flew to the Orient
last year he was taken to North Haven
for long visit to escape the infantile
paralysis epidemic which was sweeping
New York and vicinity.
Cranks, it was disclosed, had sent
several letters threatening danger to
the baby and for a time special watch
men were hired to guard him.
| For several months he has been at
the private kindergarten of his aunt,
Elizabeth Morrow, at Englewood.