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The Washington times., 1932-05-13
Billions For Jobless
Pressing Necessity

Have lawmakers imagination? Can't they hear?
Can't they seef
Have those Senators and no understand
ing of what is happening home while they bubble and
squabble here.
Dom they know what increasing terrible unemployment
doing the people of this country? And haven't they
the slightest CLEAN of intelligent understanding what
they do for this country in its time of peril?
Our lawmakers knew what to do in 1917
Then this country at 1t needed soldiers, guns,
ammunition, arplanes, ships 1t needed Army encamp
ments factories, shipyards 1t needed LIBERTY LOANS
to make possible the waging of
No patriot in Congress hesitated then Our lawmakers
opened the taps and money flooded forth The nation
unified energizd and strengthened for and SEVEN
TEEN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS rushed to combat.
We have more terrible enemy now. We face business
sagnaon the ideness of millions of workers. the breakup
of hundreds of thousands of homes the hearbreak of
country.
Don the lawmakers know what these great perils
to their beloved country?
They could enemy across ocean, in foreign
land 1917 and could imagine then the necessities of vic
torous and could ncaculable treasure achieve
that victory Is it possible that they the
enemy that is here at home and imagine what it
unemployment and stimulate American courage again and
bring their country back normal comfort more
What seventeen billions of dollars did in 1917 and 1915
WAR, prosperity loans would do in 1882 blessed peace
and employment
The country it's heart hope and anxiety Men,
women and helpless children for work and bread And
the politicians fiddle and fuss and blinded the
simple direct methods that succeeded in and would
succeed magnificently in these sorry times of peace
They could do something-they do nothing When will
they take courage their hands and common sense
their counsel and vote the prosperity bonds need
desperately?
The Washington times., 1932-05-13
Thermos Bottle Beside Corpse Hints
Kidnapers Tqrried Near Indy Home

While during the past two
months, the world peered into its
shadows for trace of the kid
mapped baby and his keepers, the
quiet body of the two-year-old
innocent lay bundled under the
leaves in a gully only five miles
away from the Lindbergh estate.
Label it the greatest American
tragedy.
It was on a. second hillock, only
rs feet from the road from Hope
well to Princeton, that the
missing babe was found by q
negro truck driver-found with
his skull Dashed in and a hole
suspiciously like a bullet apper-
ture behind his right ear.
The emergency telephone lines
of the police Investigators grape,
vined within few feet past his
still body.
Then william Allen, negro
truck driver. stumbled on his
grim find. He called the police.
They found a thermoS bottle
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FINDER Of BODY
GASPS TALE
Of HORROR
Allen, Father of a, Shouts for
Vengeance; Hope They Get
Devil He Cries

HOPEWELL, n. j., May 13
1N.S. ).-William j. Allen, a
mild hammered 42-year-old
Virginia negro, found himself
hurled into the spotlight of
publicity today as a result of
accidentally finding the body
of the Lindbergh baby less
than five miles from the home
from which it was kidnapped
70 days ago.
1t was Allen who alighted from
truck yesterday afternoon on
the road from Hopewell to Prince.
ton to stare with fascinating hor-
ror at what had been the most
famous baby in the world.
Allen, the father of four chill
dren and the grandfather of six,
was still so horror stricken today
at having been singled out by
fate to solve the mystery of the
missing child that he could only
gasp out his story in disconnected
phrases. He shouted:
81 just hope they get the
devil who killed that baby.
"OnIy a devil could have
done that. There was big
hole in the baby'S head"
Call Police
When he saw the child lying
there he called to Orville Viii.
son who was riding the truck
with him. He narrated:
Il said to Orvile, there is a
baby lying here in the woods
OrviIIe said, 'what'Il we do
about it?' told him we'd bet
ter tell Charley williamson"
The two men, forgetting the
load of lumber they had set out
after, hurried to Hopewell N
search of Williamson, one of the
two members of the police force
Allen continued:
1--WE looked all over for
Charley. Finally 1 see him in a
barber shop, and 1 tell him:
Charley, we found a baby in
the woods Charley said: Come
in and tell me about it,
$50 l die and then we drove
Charley and some State police
back to where we found the
baby. 1 left them off, and then
went home to get ny dinner"
DEAD TWO MONTHS
The child on his knee began
to pull Aliens hair, and the man
halted his narrati"e to rub a low
ing hand over its face.
81 was having my dinner
when the police came Ind took
me to tn, garage at Colonel
Lindbergh'S home. Up to then
/ never thought that it might
be the little Lindbergh baby. l
never thought that"
DR.. Charles H. Mitchell, county
physician, performed post-mor-
tenn on the body. The lines Of
the physicians face were grim as
he came from the little room in
the back of the morgue. He said:
THAT body has been there
for at least two months. And
it was murder"
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Mayor Walker Orders Entire New York
Police Force TO Search for SlaverS

Here in New York city, Mayor
James ]. Walker put the entire
police force on extra duty. All
restraint that hitherto had been
exercised by the police, so as not
to endager the life Of the baby
during what was felt might be
sincere negotiations, was thrown
aside and leads" that previously
had been dealt with cautiously
were now being investigated with
a vigor unapproached at any time
since the baby was abducted from
his crib.
Assistant Chief Inspector John
j. Sullivan. head of the detective
division in New York city, ex-
pressed the opinion that the
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Colonel Lindbergh would
not have paid over the money
had he not felt virtually GER
tain that the man whom
"Jafsie had contacted was
the actual kidnaper, the police
reason. They pointed out that
when the baby was found
dead, his skull deeply frac-
tured, the child's night gar
ment was missing.
Prosecutor Erwin E. Mar
shall, of Mercer county, said
that DR.. Condor first con-
tact was made in New York
when a man purporting to
represent the kidnapers turned
over to him two pins from a
baby's diaper.
These pins were given to
Colonel Lindbergh. who compared
them with other pins in his nur.
sery and said they correspondent
to the pins used in the clothing
of his missing son. Then the
contact man" for the kidnaperS
produced a nightgown which
, Colonel Lindbergh said, after ex-
aiming it,. appeared to be the
garment worn by the baby when
he was kidnapped.
To Ask Murder Writ
The Mercer county grand jury
is in session, Prosecutor Marshall
pointed out, adding:
II have no tangible evidence
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HOOVER ORDERS
K|DNAP HUNT

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every way possible in clearing up
the case.
Following President Hoover's
announcement heads of the vart'
GUS law enforcement agencies in
the Treasury and Justice Depart
ments sent special instructions
to their field forces to cooperate
in every possible way in the
search for the slayers.
Order Quickly Obeyed
Chief w. H. Moran, of the
Secret Service: j. Edgar Hoover,
Chief of the Bureau Of Investi-
CATION: Commissioner Amos w.
w. Woodcock. of the Prohibition
Bureau; Admiral F. c. Billiard,
of the Coast Guard: H. j. Ans
linger, head of the Narcotics Blu
reau, and Commissioner F.. x. A
Eble, of the Customs Bureau.
took immediate steps to put the
Presidents instructions into
force.
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MRS. BELMONT 7.
PARALYZED

PARIS, May 10 UNSJ.-Mrs.
Oliver H. P. Belmont, American
social leader, was stricken with
paralysis here today,
Mrs. jacques BalSan, the for
mer Consuelo Vanderbilt, a daugh-
ter of Mrs. Belmont by her first
marriage, rushed to her mothers
bedside with her husband.
1t was announced that her two
sons, william K. and Harold Van
derbilt, would leave New York
for Paris aboard the Majestic,
sailing tonight.
Mrs. Belmont has long been an
active participant in women's SUI
frage and social improvement
work.
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DUE
IN STOCK QUIZ

Declaring rotten practices rob
bling the public" have been UNI
earthed, Senator Norbeck R)
of South Dakota said today the
Senate Banking Committee, OF
which he is chairman. would re-
sumo public hearings on its i'll
vestigation of the New York stock
market next Thursday.
Norbeck made the announce
ment following a private session
of the Steering Committee during
which William A. Gray, special
counsel for the committee, gave
the results of his two weeks eX-
animation of New York brokers
records. Norbeck said:
"Gray is working on 10 or IL
cases and has uncovered plenty
of evidence of rotten practices
for rObbing the public. We
have decided to reopen the
hearings next Thursday and
some of these cases will be dis
closed then"
The Washington times., 1932-05-13
S|LENT,FR0ZEN,
ANNE FACES
HER WOE
Mother Of Indy, Jr., Bears
Up With Courage for Sake
of Baby Yet Unborn
By DOROTHY DUCAs

oN O~NS \ "A \ ~SS&4S
HOPEWELL, n. j., May Is
(I.N.S. And so endeth the
story.
1t is indeed the end. Not
until the lifeless body Of her
baby was found did Anne
Lindbergh believe it. But now
she knows her staunch hopes
were mere will o. the wisps.
Now she realizes there is moth
ing more worth mentioning to
be said.
Who kidnapped little Charlie
Lindbergh? Why did they kill
him? Where can they be found?
These may be important ques-
tons for the police, for society.
To Anne Lindbergh everything
has been told in one word
dead"
She sits silent today, silent and
frozen. Her mother and the de-
voted friends, who have tried for
70 days to cheer her, find moth
ing to say. save that she must
be brave for the sake of the new
baby to be born in September.
All Over For Her
She mods woodenly. OF course,
she will bear up for that unborn
childN sake. But why not? 1t
is all over now-the anxiety, the
futile prayers, the eager search
for a missing baby.
Gone is the mothers self
hypnosis, induced by repetition
of the, consolation:
'He is safe and sound"
The baby who would have had
two candles on his cake next
month is dead. No use telling
herself comforting fairy tales
now.
But Anne Lindbergh does not
sob, scream, nor call out loudly
against a fate that has snuffed
out little boys life. Always reti-
cent, reserved, undemonstrative,
even now she keeps the torrents
Of her emotion locked up tight.
Tries To Get Husband
They say she did not weep
when the police informed her,
gently of course, that a body had
been located. Instead, she went to
the telephone and tried to get in
touch with her husband, who had
been gone for some days on
another of his hectic searches for
the boy. She tried for almost an
hour before she reached him.
They did not let her see the
partially decomposed body OF the
baby that had been chubby and
rosy when last she saw him. They
did not tell her that the coroner
had reported the baby's head had
been fractured, and that there
was a hole in his forehead an
inch wide. If they had, she might
have consoled herself with the be-
lief it was not her baby-no one
could prove it was!
Nurse Goes To MOrgue
But Betty Cow, the Scotch
nurse, who tended the child, went
to the morgue in Trenton, and
saw the little SHELTON that had
been lying under leaves for more
than two months. She looked, her
mouth swung open, she cried:
"Ah!" In a gruesome whisper,
and leaned heavily on the two
State troopers who stood at either
side of her.
For she saw the twisted first
and second toes of the right foot
that were the identifying marks
of the baby from the first; she
recognized his blonde hair, his
eight upper teeth, his large head.
And the nurse was convinced
that this was her little charge.
Completely overcome, Betty
Cow returned to the Lindbergh
home to face the mother of that
dead baby. One look at her face
and Anne Lindbergh knew the
worst.
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yet, but / am ready to ask q
murder indictment"
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopt,
superintendent of the New Jersey
State police, who has been in
charge of the investigation since
the kidnapping on the night OF
March / last, went into confer
ence shortly before noon today
with Attorney General William
A. Stevens, of New Jersey, and
Prosecutor Marshall. in the State
house at Trenton.
Hordes of detectives and State
police were securing the region
for miles around from where the
body was found, in a patch OF
woods in the Sourland Noun
tains, less than five miles from
the Lindbergh estate at iHopewell.
Schwarzkopf ordered a COM
plete check on every known weak.
minded person in this area. He
said:
1--WE have under suspicion q
group Of persons suspected Of
being the kidnaperS, and prompt
steps are being taken to accom-
pliSh their arrest"
Schwarzkopf also disclosed in
an official bulletin" that, at the
very time the body of the baby,
was found, a gang Of swindlers
were attempting to mulct Colonel
Lindbergh out Of more ransom
money. The gang was trying to
convince the distracted father
they we're the kidnapers and had
the baby
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not far away from the little
bundle of death. It indicated
that the kidnapers had hidden in
the vicinity, had grown afraid
of the pursuit, and had slain the
child.
Police Criticized
Methods employed by the police
came in today for caustic COM
ment. Ellis H. Parker, Burling.
ton county IN. j. detective, who
Is credited with having solved
noted criminal cases, took occa-
sion to score the authorities. He
said:
Failure to make q thorough
search Of the entire community
within q wide radius of the
Lindbergh home Immediately
after the kidnapping is inexcuS-
able and shameful. It is very
strange that the baby could
have been any length of time
where IL was found without
having been discovered"
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crime was the work Of a maniac.
Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
mother Of the baby and the most
tragic figure of all in the case,
was Frustrated, according to the
authorities.
The body, lying face down in
a depression and partly covered
with dead leaves and wind blown
debris, was found by a negro
truck driver. The discovery was
made by accident at 3:15 yester.
day afternoon when the driver,
stumbling afoot through the
woods near the road, came upon
the innocent victim Of a crime
that has touched the hearts Of
people all over the world.
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only a few hours before the

only a few hours before the
little body was discovered.
Mrs. Lindbergh, who is shortly
to become a mother again, was
greatly shocked. Her mother.
Mrs. Dwight w. Morrow, at
tempted to comfort her
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was
Immediately communicated with.
He was away from Hopewe9l con-
ferring with the three negotiators
who hoped for a contact with the
kidnaperS. Colonel Lindbergh
started back for his home.
The Lindberghs paid out $780,
900 ransom money to a party in
New York whom they we're con-
WINGED were the baby-StealerS.
Nothing developed after the
money was paid.
The official statement which
sent millions into ubiquitous
mourning was issued by Colonel
Schwarzkopf at eventide when
children throughout the nation
were being kissed a fond good
night and tucked in their beds. 1t
read:
I'VE have to announce that
apparently the body of the Lind
bergh Eaby was found at 3:15
p. m. today, by william Allen,
negro, of Trer ton. who was rid
ing on the Mount Rose road
toward HOpewell.
"He was riding with Orville
Wilson ON a truck load Of tim
Der. They stopped the truck and
he went into the woods. Going
under q bush he lowered his
head and as he raised his head
he saw a skeleton on the
ground.
POLICE ON THE SCENE
"He called back to Wilson.
Wilson ran into the woods, saw
what it was, and decided to
go to HOpeweII and get the
police. He notified Chief Wolf,
who notified these headQuar-
tiers.
Inspector Walsh, of Jersey
City; Sergeant MOffatt, of the
Newark police; Lieutenant Kea-
ton, Of the New Jersey State
police, and q number of other
detectives Immediately went to
the scene.
"They reported finding the
were immed:- -. called in"
body of a child estimated to be
between q year and q half and
two years old in a bad state Of
decomposition, but having blond
hair and wearing what appeared
to be an undershirt and a flan.
mel band around the body.
mot satisfied with this as
Identification, men WerG sent
back into HOpeWell to the Lind
bergh estate to get samples Of
the undershirt the taby wore
and of the flannel shirt the
baby had on the night Of the
kidnapping.
HOLE IN THE HEAD
This flannel shirt had an
embroidered ScallOp edge on it.
These articles were taken back
to the scene and compared with
the clothing found on the body
and mere matched closely
enough to afford an identified
ton of the body as that of the
Lindbergh baby.
1.-THE statement of william
Allen and Or lille Wilson says
that the body was pretty well
concealed in leaves. dirt and
brush.
The skull had q hole in 1t
about the size Of q quarter just
above the forehead. The body
was lying in a depression, as
though an attempt had been
made to bury it face down.
Mercer county physician, DR..
Charles III. Mitchell, and the
county coroner, Walter SwayEe,
were Immediately called in"
The Washington times., 1932-05-13
WORKER FIST
. HITS ALFONSO

MARsEfLLEs, May 10 GNs).
Former King Alfonso Of Spain
was struck in the face by a
Spanish laborer when he de-
parked from the liner Strathaird
on his arrival from Malta today
He came to MarSeilles to visit
his son, the Infante Don Juan.
now in the British navy.
Police arrested the ex-king'S at
tacker. Later in the day, Al
fonSo motored to Fonteinbleau,
near Paris, where he has a
chateau.
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Infant Slain Same Night 1t Was
Stolen From Nursery, Police Hold

The baby evidently had been
killed soon after he was stolen
from his crib in the nursery on
the night of March l. Whether
he had been slain with calculat-
ing purpose by criminals who
found it advantageous to them
to rid themselves Of the child or
whether he had been thrown
from 'fast-moving car by kid
napers fleeing in a panic were
points the police were striving to
clear UP today.
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After the baby was identified
the diagnosis of the cause of
death was officially given as re-
sulting from "a fractured skull
due to external violence"
The condition Of the body in.
dicated that the child had been
dead at least two months. There
were strong indications that the
baby was killed the very night
of the kidnapping.
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This is the
opinion Of
M | S S M a r.
jorie Durant,
daughter of
w. c. Durant,
A m e ic a n
m o or mag
nate, who has
just returned
to Paris after
a hunting eX-
petition by
air into At
RIGA She
said today:
my $4,000
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the famous
cross of gold
and crown of
t h o r n S y
speech. hi S
d a u G h t er.
Mrs. Grace
Bryan Har-
greaVeS, OF
Los Angeles,
today plan
ned to take
part in the
battle for the
nom i nation
of another
c a n d i d a tie
next month.
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Betty GOw and Physician Both Make
Identification of Infant Positive

LITIGATION, Betty Cow, nursemaid
of the Inflated child Of fame,
positively identified the garments
worn by the dead baby
She recognized the two baby
shirts on the body.
Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
mother of Charles Augustus,
came back from a visit to her
mothers home at Englewood
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DR.. Charles H. Mitchell. county
physician. who performed the
autopsy, said that Identification
was positive. 1t was determined
by means of the curly blonde
hair of the infant, the fact that
1t had eight teeth, and because
his toes overlapped
Supplemepting the official iden-
The Washington times., 1932-05-13
Jafsie Met the Kidnapers

Certain facts strongly support the theory that the person
who Contacted Dr. Condor on that he would return
baby $4,000 may have been the actual slayer that he
knew the time the baby dead having perhaps struck the
cho on the very night of the kidnapping and tossed
the tody into the thcket Hopewe N d. where 1t was
The Washington times., 1932-05-13

Mrs. Hargeaves was one Of
the delegates chosen by Cali
TO "a voters to support for the
presidency Speaker John N.
Garner of Texas, an old friend
of her distinguished father.
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spent exploring and hunting,
has convinced me there are no
longer thrills in aviation-even
in darkest Africa"
The Washington times., 1932-05-13
.ITURBI TO SAIL

NEW YORK. May 10 0N.SD.
Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist, was
booked to sail for his home in
Valencia todaH
The Washington times., 1932-05-13
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Marjorie Durant Sees
No Thrills in Aviation

PARIS, May 10 GN.S).
aviation is so safe there are
no thrills left in flying"
The Washington times., 1932-05-13
JAFS|E BELIEVED HOLDING
KEY TO CAP TURE
Of MURDERERS
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stimulated police of New Jersey and New York to the
utmost.
DR. Condor as well as John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk Va
another negoaor were questioned length by the author
ties as interrogation proceeded the police found them
selves strongly ncnng to the theory that Jat may be
able to provide that will the key to solution
of
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Bryan's Daughter Plans
Battle For Garner

LOS ANGELES. May 10
G.N.S0 I'm Chicago, where
William Jennings Bryan, made
Evening star., 1932-09-30
DEFEAT OF DUSEK
FOOLS MAT FANS
Vasse|Ps Victory Is Biggest
Upset of Year-Londos
Throws Mcmillan.

- earth" staged last night by
Messrs. Jim Londos and Jim
Mcmillan in Mr.. Grifiths ball
plant, produced no more than unex-
pected chills and a few extra thrills
but the faithfUlS tongues still are Wag-
ging today over the biggest upheaval
of form in a year-Rudy Dusek's de-
feat by unknown George Vassell in the
semi
Before a fairly large-sized crowd.
which was kept from being larger by
real topcoat weather, Londos, president
of the rassling racket was reelected,
while Mcmillan merely retained his
status as second vice president. Londos
won in 58 minutes and As seconds OF
the best Londos- Somebody match ever
staged in Washington.
DUsEK'S defeat however, really stole
u the show and set the stage for
return match. Rough Rudy. No. D
ranking grappler, according to the Ma
tional Wrestling Association, was
thought to be carrying" Vassell, but
the Greek crossed the dope by knocking
Rudy out of the ring so sincerely that
Dusek was unable to continue.
Mcmillan, Londos most persistent
challenger, lived up to advance notices
aS his greatest eXtender with the eX-
ception of Ray Steele), when he grap-
pied the Greek on even terms for over
so minutes Then if was the same old
story-LondoS' condition appeared to
tell as Mcmillan seemed to weaken.
However, instead Of the usual three air
plane spins and the pinning, Londos
required nearly three minutes to flatten
the former Illinois grid star after Nc
MILAN had discontinued offering any
opposition with the exception Of keep
ing one shoulder off the mat.
0N severa, occasions it looked as
~ though a new president was going
to be elected. Londos. apparently
grcggy near the end, was the l ipient
OF some of McMillan's very best nying
tackles but he always managed to evade
what was supposed to be the finishing
butt. 1t vas unofficially reported the
win was No. 573 since Londos won the
title.
In the preiiminarieS two minor upSets
were forthcoming when Dick Stahl
threw Son Jennings in 13 minutes and
Renato Gardini, who lost once to Berto
ASsirati in 55 seconds this Summer
avenged the fall with 6-minute vic
tory. Abe Coleman pinned Nino Dar-
naldi in 9 minutes in the other prelim.