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THREE HELD IN PLOT.

SUFFOLK, Va, July II LPD.-Oficers
who had been on the alert since they
received tip month ago last night
arrested three men whom they charged
with plotting to kidnap C. C. Vaughan
3d. wealthy chairman of the board of
Vaughan g. Co.. bankers at Franklin, Va
The men arrested were Jack Beale
80, of Holland, Va. and Detroit: Harvey
Norfleet, As, of Holland, and John R
Wade, 43. of Suffolk
They were apprehended. in lane
leading from a farm on BlackwateT
River south Of Franklin owned by the
Vaughan family shortly after Mr.
Vaughan had ridden up the lane on
horseback. The officers, who had been
told of plot to kidnap the banker and
hold him for 100000 ransom. said that
they found an automobile hidden in the
bushes near where the trio was found
and where it might have been used for
quick escape.
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they are still coming in at the rate
Of 500,0 900 a year. 1t is hard to con-
troll the sale Of pistols, but certainly
no private person has a right to own
a machine gun"
Senator Copeland said the most hope
full sign in the war on crime is the
fact that all Federal authorities. State
officials, district attorneys and other
persons and organizations interested in
fighting the criminals are cooperating.
He said President Roosevelt had offered
the full aid of the executive depart
ments, and that his conference today
with the Attorney General was arranged
by the White House.
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TWO SUSPECTS HELD.

WILMINGTON, Ohio. July II (P.-
Wilmington police officials today an
nounced that George Mccoy of PEBBLES,
Ohio, and Chester Baldwin. %, of Off,
way are being held for questioning in
he disappearance of 18-year- Marian
Buckley, daughter of a Cleveland school
official
Mccoy, 25, is being held in the Law
renee County Jail at Ironton pending
further investigation. it was said. and
Baldwin in the Jail at Portsmouth. Ohio
Chief of Police Ben South of Will
mington, said the men were being held
for questioning because stories they told
of giving a ride to a girl hitchhiker
answering Miss Buckley's description
did not tally.
No formal charge has been placed
against either, however, he added
Mccoy early last week told officials
and relatives of Miss Buckley here that
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kidnapping Is Big Business
$65O,OOO Demanded in Eight of Most Recent Cases.;
Many Other Abdnctions Have Never
Been Reported to Police.

August Luer. Alton, ILL.,, July 10, I'M
announced.
Peggy McMath's kidnapers were
caught and the ransom money returned.
Mary McElroy's kidnapers were caught
at least authorities think they got them
all-and some of the money was recov-
cred. Some of Boettchers kidnapers
and some Of the ransom were taken by
police.
John Jake the Barber" Factor
bcasted he paid no ransom for the re-
turn Of his son Jerome, but now a gang
is supposed to be holding the Barber"
while the son anxiously tries to effect
his release.
Hamm's friends, who paid a ransom,
said they didn't pay all that was de-
manded. but they haven't said how
much they did pay.
O'Connell's relatives say they can't
possibly raise the quarter of a million
dollars his captors demand, but they'll
do their best
The kidnapers haven't even told Mrs
Luer how much she will have to pay to
See her husband alive again.
That's only part of five month rec
ord OF kidnapings. There have been
plenty more, say authOritieS-plenty
which never get into police records or
newspapers pleaty which no one tells
about
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Copyright. 1893. by the Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, July 11.-Kidnapers
operating throughout the United States
have sought at least $1,000 from vic
TINS families and friends In the last
five months.
They haven't received that sum
probably. No one knows. But the
racket has paid them more then q
quarter of a million dollars in that
time.
Every law-enforcing power In the
country, from private detectives to the
President of the United States. has
taken an interest in the wholesale pro-
ceedings, which steadily have increased
in scope.
Here in brief, are the kidnap de-
mands Of only the most notorious cases
of the last five months:
Charles Boettcher II, Denver. Feb
ruary IL, 100000.
Jerome Factor, Chicago, April Is
$50 00O
Peggy McMath, Harwichport, Mass.
! May 2. 100000.
Mary McElroy, Kansas City, May p
10000.
William Hamm, st. Paul, June Is
100000.
John Factor. Chicago, July l, 500, 900
John j. O'Connell, jr,, Albany, July
| T. S250000.
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FRENCHMEN LEAD WORLD
AS CONSUMERS OF WINE
Nation Drinks 1859 Liters Per
Capita; Italians Second and
Russians Last.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 11.-Frenchmen are
the worlds heaviest wine drinkers, a
report to the World Economic Confer
ence today showed
Italians rank second as lovers of
wine with Aleerians third and Portu-
guese fourth.
In 1882, Frenchmen drank 1853
liters per capita: Italians. 1O7.5; AL
gerians. 75.5. and the Portuguese, TOT
Others fall far behind Russians
consume the smallest amount, .O3 liters,
ArgentineS, 22.3: Chileans. GIG; Mtxi-
cans. IT'S. and Canadians, Is. Amer
leans were not listed.
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! prominent citizen of Alton. was abb
Quoted Sunday night by comely
young woman and two men. No word
of his whereabouts has been received
since his disappearance in the abduc-
tors motor car.
Relatives, processing no knowledge
of the identity of the kidnapers. today
anxiously awaited receipt of ransom
demands They feared for the captive's
life, even if money payment is ar
ranged.
He has been in partial retirement
because of frequent heart attacks. A
recurrence. without the aid of medicine
he habitually uses, might easily prove
fatal.
No Trace of Automobile.
An ever-spreading search by police
of Alton and neighboring cities failed
to find any trace Of the automobile in
which Luer and his captors disappeared.
The large machine was last observed
mile and quarter northwest Of
Alton, where it was traced by neigh
Dor who witnessed the seizure
Fifteen months ago the banker re-
ceived letter threatening his life if
$1,000 was not forthcoming. He made
no response to the letter but hired a
bodyguard. Later the guard was dis
charged
Police were inclined not to connect
the previous threat with last night S
kidnapping.
Entrance by the kidnapers into the
Luer home was obtained by ruse The
young woman and a companion pre-
sented themselves at the door, and in
quired for Henry Busse. a neighbor
The bankers wife explained he lived
nearby and invited them inside when
they asked if they might use the tele-
phone.
Woman Cuts Telephone Wire.
Immediately upon entering the
woman stepped to the phone and
severed the wire. Her companion hur-
ried to the front room where Luer was
listening to the radio and seized the
banker by the shoulders
His wife screamed, and third burly.
middle-aged man appeared, dragged
Mrs. Luer to another room, and flung
her to the floor. Her head struck the
corner of a mantelpiece, inflicting a
cash. Bleeding from the wound. she
rushed back into the hall to see the alb
ductors dragging her husband into a
motor car which had been parked in
the drive
Screaming carl, they've stolen
papa" Mrs. Luer ran toward the street
to summon her son. who lives across
the thoroughfare Both Carl Luer and
his wife heard the commotion and
reached the front door in time to see
the abductor's machine pull away
They said it carried an Illinois license
TWO SITSpECTS uCJn
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IcIOItcu tIlc gen.
Fordney by the way. here's prc,i.
lem for New York's best sleuthhoup.'
1t intrigued me. Let's see what yo,
can do with it." He lifted his bull
walked over and took volume l of III:
nous English Trials" from the lei
hand corner Of book shelf and sac.
These three books have been stackpl
togther here for years. Just before ~:
arrived 1 wanted to refresh my memo5f
about the Dillon case, and I fou"H
that book worm had gotten under t'a:
front cover of volume l and had eattu
his way through page 300 Of volume 2
Each of these three volumes has ?e,
pages and each hundred pages mea9-
ures exactly l inch. The covers of ca, b
book are "a inch thick. Now. sleuta.
hound. tell me quickly how far thu
book worm travelled" p.
Kelley took sip of the excellent pr: !
and replied: That's easy. The wo''h
travelled :"
HOW FAR?
(See Page A-4) -
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nAASSN VA SA
Fordney SIN i | e y.
Help yourself, D.,
friend, and y@.'
might pour me 4
spot. too" he coE
tinued. rightly 10
terpretipg Kelley.
look at the decan.
ter on the table.
You criminold
gists do manage =
hit it once in =
while. don't you.
laughed the CALI :,
taking advantss'
Of the invitation.
"OccaSi ona llr,.
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Kelley Drops In.
BY H. A. RIPLEY.

ONE in, come in. Kelley.
~ called Prof. Fordney heart
lily in response to the rap
~ on his library door. :,
And how did you know y
was me?" the inspector demanded
opening the door and seeking his fa'
vorite chair. >,
las if any one could mistake the1
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mi | kl t Is
| MYSTERY
GAP You, @3b
yOLWN

DR.. Fordney is professor Of criminolosy
at famous university. His advice is
often sought by the police of many
cities when confronted with particularly
battling cases. This problem has been
taken from his case book covering hum
dreds of criminal investigations.
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he gave a girl he identified as Miss
Buckley a ride in his automobile to the
Kentucky end of the Ohio River bridge
at Ashland. KY, on July 3.
Subsequently, Chief South said, it
was learned that Baldwin was McCoy's
companion on the trip, and decision to
hold them came, he said. when ques-
tioning of the two separately revealed
differences IN their stories.
Miss Buckley disappeared from her
Cleveland home July /. after she had
told her parents she was going for a
walk" A former Wilmington College
student. it was first believed she would
come here, and search was concen-
trated in this region. McCoy's report,
however directed the search to the vi
cinity of Ashland. KY. H. M. Buckley,
the girls father. has expressed the opin-
ion that McCoy's story furnished the
most definite trace to the girls where
abouts.
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N.B.:

1t is not our practice to purchase
special merchandise for sale" tnr-
poses. The selection is ample Sow,
but complete size ranges at all prices
cannot last long.
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being gypped by AL He's a clever
worker. He took the Seventh Ma
tional on one of these check
gags.
He started an account in the
Seventh National and ran a few
checks through it until he was
known to the paying teller. Sew
eral times he presented checks for
payment and each time the teller
These exposures Of racket a
the
(Oopyrii
Evening star., 1933-12-07
"Free' Speech Hit,
Club Members Use
Expensive Words
Coins Jingle in Banks
When Fraternity Men
Rule Out Depression
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December THE right OF
free speech has been barred members OF
the Intrafraternity Club and It's proving
financial boon to charity.
Warren Piper, a diamond importer,
who has been named dictator" of the
club For period of five weeks, explained
today that the idea was his and was in
stituted as a sort of test.
Upon entering the club rooms one
comes face to face with a large sign
headed by the word proclamation" 1t
goes on to state that the word "depres-
sion" is not to be used within the con-
fines of the club and among other things
says:
"Criticize If you must the Congress,
cabinet, codes and the Washington
FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt within the walls
of this American club of educated men
the President of the United States Is en-
titled to respect"
For every violation members are re-
quested upon their honor to deposit q
silver coin in one Of the numerous banks
placed conveniently to raise funds for
the clubs charities.
So far Piper said the imposing Of a
fine on the right to speak freely has had
the magic effect Of loosening the tongues
Of members and-incidentally-their
pocketbookS
Evening star., 1933-12-07
WOMAN IS MISSING
FROM HOME
Invalid Husband and Family
Fear Misfortune Has
BefaIIen Wife.

"MissinRl"
Not word: not even a hint, since
Saturday noon!"
Clyde Graninger. %, sank back in his
wheelchair this morning. The little
room at 716 Madison street was very
quiet while he sought to regain his COM
posure.
She was only going to a picture
show" he continued at length, my wife,
Eleanor. Left with 80 cents In her
pocket. That was the last any Of US
heard OF her.
I'VE have notified police, and they
called the hospitals, sent out descrip-
tions. inquired everywhere.
Had Few Friends"
Although infantile paralysis" he
said, nodding to his crippled legs, did
this to me when I was years old,
know she was happy with me these two
years since our marriage.
She never spent a night away from
home; had few friends except the
family, and was a quiet, shy girl. She's
only 19 now, and can't help but be-
lieve something has happened to her"
The husband sat with his head In his
hands for moment and then resumed,
in firm voice. He said his wife was
wearing a gray sport coat, green hat,
black swede slippers and maroon dress
when she disappeared. Mrs. Graninger
is feet inches and weighs about l45
pounds
The former Miss Eleanor Hitz, she Is
native Of Washington. Graninger
said his wife's family, like himself, are
frantic with anxiety over the girls
disappearance.
Took No Belongings.
He said the only relative Of Mrs
Graninger,s living out of town was an
uncle In Chattanooga, Tenn, but was
certain she had not gone there.
Mrs. Graninger took no belongings
from her home, where she and her hus-
band lived with his parents, and made
no preparation for possible trip.
Wherever she Is" Graninger said.
Il only hope she can get this mes
sage-that We miss her and want her
back. She will know how much we
want her back!"
Evening star., 1933-12-07
CAPITOL FURNITURE SOLD

An assortment Of discarded furniture,
which was once used in Offices in the
Capitol, was put on the auction block
and disposed of today.
The accumulation Of old desks. chairs,
bookcases, filing cabinets and other Of
flee equipment filled corridor in the
basement of the Senate Office Building.
1t was the first auction sale held at
the Capitol In the past three years and
was under the supervision of j. Mark
Trice, assistant sergeant at arms of the
Senate.
Evening star., 1933-12-07
GERMANY MAY RENEW
LEAGUE MEMBERSHIP
Foreign Chief Says Versailles
Treaty Is Main Obstacle
to Re-entry.
BY the Associated Press.


BERLIN, December 7.-Dr. Alfred
Rosenberg, head of the Nazi party's
foreign political division, said last night
Germany might possibly return to the
League Of Nations If the Versailles
treaty was separated from it.
He made the statement in connection
with comments on the resolution passed
by the Fascist Grand Council in Rome
urging drastic revision Of the Leagues
structure.
Writing in volkischer Beobachter, he
said: If the Italian attack should de-
mand separation Of the discriminating
treaty from the League. at once condi-
tons would be created again making
possible international meetings.
Rosenberg found other nations in
sympathy with the Italian attitude
toward the League. "It is now up to
the League to meet the demands of
our times or sink into empty moth
ingness," he wrote. THE shaky struc-
ture has received a new blow from
which 1t will never recover in its old
form"
Evening star., 1933-12-07
LIQUOR STILL BANNED
AT U. S. ARMY POSTS
Secretary Dern Says Soldiers Must
Be Content With 3.2
Beer,

Secretary Of War Dern today served
notice on the Army at press confer
ence it will have to be content with
80 beer. Mr.. Dern said he had no in
tention of changing the 32-year-old
regulations of the Army prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating liquors at Army
posts.
These regulations were adopted to
meet the experiences of the Army, he
said, and since they were in effect years
before national prohibition there is no
reason to change them now that pro-
hibition has been repealed.
Lest Spring Secretary Dern amended
the regulations to permit the sale of
80 beer in States which permitted the
sale of the duly legalized beverage.
I'VE will stand by 80 beer" he said
emphatically when asked If beer of a
higher alcoholic content would be per-
nlitted in Army canteens.
Evening star., 1933-12-07
House Committee
HOnOrs Dickinson
On 84th Birthda,
Only Civil War Veteran
in Congress Presented
Roses by Associates.

: The House Ways and Means Com
nnittee suspended work on revenue legis-
lation today to pay tribute to its
veteran member, Representative Dick
inson of Missouri, on his eightyfourth
birthday anniversary. The event was
announced to the committee by Repre-
sentative Cooper of Tennessee, and
Representative Treadway of Massachu-
sets, ranking Republican member, pre-
sented Judge Dickinson with a basket
Of roses on behalf of the Republican
members Of the committee.
e Judge Dickinson was a Confederate
soldier, and is the last of the Civil War
veterans in Congress.
He emigrated to Missouri from Vir-
ginia when young man. He is direct
descendant Of Capt John Dickinson,
who, in command Of Colonial troops,
built the fort on the Southwestern
frontier and commanded in the wars
against the Shawnee and Cherokee
Indians.
Evening star., 1933-12-07
MARRIED COUPLES
WIN BRIDGE PRIZES
Doggetts and Brahanys Top Pairs
in National Press Club
Tournaments.

Husbands and wives can play bridge
together without resultant fatal shoot
ings The. National Press Club bridge
tournaments prove this.
Both winners Of the semi-monthly
tournament conducted in the club audi
torium Tuesday night were married
couples. Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton l. Dog
gett won first place with a top OF 85Ez
points out Of possible 1876 points, and
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas w. Brahany won
second place with 85 points.
The next tournament will be held
Monday, December 18. Tournaments
previously have been held on every al
ternate Tuesday, but hereafter they will
be held alternate Mondays. Weekly
winners are awarded silver cocktail COB
lets suitably engraved. A larger and
more handsome club prize will be
awarded this Spring to those with the
best score in 10 Of the IA semi-monthly
contests.
Evening star., 1933-12-07
U. S. SHUNS PLAN
FOR new LEAGUE
Roosevelt Not Favorable to
ENHANCEMENT Leading to
Part in War.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The Government of the United States
Is not interested in any new combina-
ton within or without the League Of
Nations, which would entail other
guarantees than those provided in the
Kellogg pact, It was stated in respon-
sible official quarters in reply to the
reports from Europe that Mussolini was
trying to revamp the present Geneva
organization, to include Russia and the
United States.
The idea that America would at the
present moment be inclined to partici-
pate with other powers in new or
ganization to dictate, If necessary.
peace, was born from the fact that
Mussolini made a vague proposal to
that effect after having talked at length
. with the Soviet foreign commissar,
Maxim Iitvinoff
Opposed to Entanglements.
It is known now that President
I Roosevelt and the representative OF the
= Russian government had discussed at
the increased menace of a world con-
Migration. The President is, of course.
hopeful that the present strained situa
tion throughout the world will not lead
to an armed conflict and is willing to
do all he can to avert new war. But,
1t is reliably stated, he is not at all
in the mood Of getting the United
States entangled in any international
combination which might require Amer
ica's direct participation in the COM
plicated quarrels of Europe.
He is reported to have reiterated to
Litvinoff that Europe's political quar-
rels are her own and that this Is not
the time for this country to take up
the role of the Good Samaritan. II
Europe can straighten out its political
difficulties, the United States will be
only too glad to return to the Llmita-
ton of Arms Conference and help to
settle the question Of limitation Of
arms But this country Is not willing
to interfere in the settlement Of the
political problems of Europe or Of the
nations in any other part Of the world
Move Held Gesture. .
The Italian suggestion for the revision
of the League of Nations is interpreted
here as a gesture on the part of Mus
solini to give to the principal European
countries, including Russia, the power
to discuss the political problems without
the interference of the smaller nations
which are mere satellites of some of the
leading powers. 1t is also interpreted
as a desire on the part Of II Duce to
bring Italy and Russia in the lead and
force, if possible, settlement of the
European problems outside the present
frame Of the League OF Nations and
outside the Versailles treaty. This pro-
posal is considered in well informed
quarters as doomed to fail since it is
beyond doubt that the French will not
accept such suggestion.
p The only important consequence Of
the Rome parleys and the Mussolini
statement Is that 1t brings Russia and
Italy much closer politically and 1t may
also have as q consequence an improve
ment Of the Russo-German relations,
an improvement which Italy considers
essential for the maintenance Of peace
In Europe.
Evening star., 1933-12-07
Won PAPEN URGES .
GERMANS UNITE.
Those Living Abroad Told to
Make Propaganda, Get
Orders.

BERLIN R.-Appealing directly to
Americans Of German descent to make
propaganda for the Fatherland, the
Germania, organ Of Vice Chancellor
Franz Won Papen, listed what it called
the instructions for Germans abroad"
In long discussion, where In the value
Of propaganda was stressed, the paper
urged each German-speaking person
abroad to become a bearer of the new
Reich's idea
Reciting successes achieved by France
In her Balkan propaganda policies, the
newspaper says Germany can accom-
plish the same things by the same
methods.
Propaganda for Germany is a ques-
ton Of honor and duty. The German
abroad must become the speaking tube
1or Germany, he must recount the will
to live, the will to work, Of the German
people"
The paper said this was particularly
necessary in districts taken from Ger
many by the provisions Of the treaties.
Germans Should Unite"
mot only in these districts" the
paper said, but also wherever Germans
live In more or less good understanding
with the host nation, as, for example, in
America, where many Germans have
possessed citizenship for generations"
Germans abroad were advised by the
paper to assemble contracts for German
industry. concentrating on collecting
contracts covering an entire branch Of
industry.
Discussing the possibility of using
advertising lineage as pressure on edi-
torial opinion, the paper continued:
Tn els 60
tising placement be centralized. 1t is
to be regretted, but nevertheless true,
that a number Of German firms, with
out knowing 1t, advertise in some for
eign newspapers whose reading texts
engage in the nastiest rantings against
Germany.
'1t must be possible here to group
all German industries together for the
purpose Of joint advertising insertions.
German-speaking people abroad could
form central Offices to deliver the
lineage.
Campaign Held Necessary.
"Only through the united action in
handling insertions can the complete
economic power be used as a soft, but
successful, pressure upon political ten
dency which, from the German side,
would be rewarded by orders to con-
siderate newspapers.
With a strong and courageous sub
sidy from the homeland, the German
abroad will become the best propagan-
dist Of Germany and fulfill his duty
with success" the paper said.
The article concluded that the prop
aganda campaign was necessary to win
back lost or neglected sympathies. In
this peaceful field campaign there is a
great goal-Germany;s freedom and
world legality"