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The Washington times., 1933-04-17
FACTOR AGENTS
IN TOUCH WITH
K|DNAPERS
Capone Successor Is Go-Be-
tween in Deal to Ransom Son
of "Jake the Barber"

CHICAGO, April II G.N.S0-
Murray Humphreys, leader of the
gang which AL Capone formerly
headed, today was directing pr1-
vate negotiations for the release
Of Jerome Factor, 19-year-old son
of John ~Jake the Barber'D fac
tor, who is being held by kid
napers for $4,000 ransom.
That Humphreys has been en-
listed by the multimillionaire
stock promoter to treat with the
abductors, was established when
a second ransom note was de-
livered to Factors S100-a-day
hotel headquarters here by tele-
graph messenger boy, Anthony
Schneider, IT.
Told Not to Talk
Assisting Humphreys in the ne
gotiations was Lieut.. Leo Carr, a
Chicago policeman on sick leave.
Carr was described as a close
friend Of the ex-HalStead street
barber who became a multimil-
lionaire through foreign stock
promotions. Factor and his ad-
visers were reluctant to deal
through police.
In answer to all questions after
police had interviewed him,
Schneider said Humphreys
wouldn't let him talk"
Factor dashed from his hotel
quarters at midnight and de-
parted in an automobile only to
return shortly afterward when he
discovered that police were fol-
lowing him.
Whether the second ransom
note modified the first demand
for $4,000 or gave specific in
structions regarding payment was
unknown. The original note was
delivered on Friday, two days
after the kidnapping, and demand
ed $4,000. Otherwise. the note
warned. the boy would be sent
home Gin parts"
Factor is facing extradition to
England for trial on charges Of
swindling investors out of $7,o00,-
600.
Negotiations Begun
Although Factor issued repeated
denials, it became increasingly ap.
parent that he and friends had
begun negotiations with the kid
napers or their intermediates
through the remnants Of the Ca
pone gang.
Humphreys is generally re-
garded as titular head of the.
gang which AL Capone headed he
fore he was sentenced to Atlanta
penitentiary.
Schneider made the statement
about Humphreys after police had
questioned him in an effort to
obtain a description of the
stranger who had thrust the
envelope and a quarter into the
messengers hand and hurried
away after instructing him to
deliver it.
The envelope was addressed to
William Bleet at the hotel where
Factor has his elaborate head
quarters, but the message was
obviously intended for Leon Bleet,
a business partner of Factor, who
has been at the stock promoters
side since the kidnap vigil began.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
WIRE FROM D. {.
T URGES MOVE
F., BY LAWYER
Arizona Attorney General, in
\ Washington, Suggests 1t;
ll Plea to Mrs. Roosevelt

u
r STATE PRISON, FLORENCE.
.Ariz., April II d.N.S0.-Winnie
ruth Judd may win an. addi-
stional reprieve.
Her attorney. o. v. Wilson,
stoday received a telegram from
aArthur T. Laprade, Arizona's
'attorney general, requesting him
Ito file a request for reprieve.
elaprade is in washington, D. c.
The move was a surprise, as
6he pardon board only recently
slhad denied a move for an addi-
gtional reprieve so counsel might
adequately prepare evidence in
f$he eleventh hour to save the
sblonde double trunk murderess"
9from the gallows.
Jury Tests Sanity
Mrs. Judd's sanity now is
ebeing tested by jury. She is
Aunder sentence to be hanged next
Friday for the murder Of Agnes
ANNE Leroi, the State having
Saccused her of killing Mrs. Leroi
land Hedvig Samuelson, whose
kdiSmembered bodies were shipped
Ain trunks from Phoenix to Los
angeles.
It was thought that numerous
dprotests of Arizona citizens had
Induced the board to give Mrs.
kJudd more time in which to
Apresent her case before the jury.
1.-The case, it was reasoned, may
kextend beyond the time scheduled
afor her hanging.
If by a three-quarters vote of
Mhe jury Mrs. Judd is found in
Hsane she will be committed to the
AState Hospital for the Insane at
,Phoenix.
Examination Today
A controversy over whether
Estates alienists would be allowed
Il to examine the "velvet tigress"
was to be settled officially today.
Superior Court Judge E. L.
Green said he would allow DR.. Jo-
aseph Cation, of San Francisco,
and DR.. Paul Bowers, alienists. to
visit Mrs. Judd in her cell today.
Yesterday influential citizens
sent a telegram to Mrs. Franklin
-. Roosevelt asking her to plead
;for Executive intervention, and
making the suggestion that the
department of Justice investigate
tehe case.
Prison authorities meanwhile
said Mrs. Judd does not under
stand the bitter legal battle being
waged to save her from the gal
1ows. She is, instead, making
vague plans for the future, plans
that include trip to Alaska, a
flight to South America, and edu-
cation of children she never has
borne.
Absent From Services
According to A. G. Walker, war
den of the State prison, Mrs. Judd
,is to be given all the rest possible
Nduring the present hearing.
Although several hundred pris-
.Oners attended Easter services
yesterday, Mrs. Judd was not
present.
Her father, the elderly and
Jwhite-haired Rev. H. j. McKinnell,
apleaded for salvation for Mrs.
Judd.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
Y. NJ. C. A. to Stage
Jubilee Luncheon

A Jubilee luncheon will be held
tomorrow at the Y. M. C. A. to OBJ
serve the fiftieth anniversary of
the international committee of the
association and the dedication of
a million dollar building in Jeru-
salem by Field Marshal Edmund
L. Allenby, a ceremony which is
to be broadcast.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
cardinal MundeIein
To Speak in N. Y,

NEW YORK, April II (U.SO.
Cardinal Mundelein, of Chicago,
will come here on May 7 to at
tend the Tooth anniversary of the
founding of the Catholic Church
of st. Nicholas, founded by Ger
man-speaking immigrants. Cardi-
nal Mundelein was born in the
parish and attended it's parochial
RchO0l
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

class, discussion Of sex problems
was taboo. AdOIeScent youth
was encOuntering social situa-
tiOns with which he was utterly
unable to cope. He was thrown
in contact with dangers which
nothing in his experience had
taught him to recognize and
avoid.
"Such situations n c ! u d
either with Illicit relations or
with ill-advised marriages that
are physically, temperamentally
and educationalIy inharmOniOus
and which terminate in divorce"
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
LAUNCH CRUISER

NEW YORK I.N.S.). - With
President Roosevelt in attend
ance the new 10.000-ton treaty
cruiser, the New Orleans, will be
launched in Brooklyn Navy Yard
on April IL. The new ship cost
about $1,000, 900.
The Washington times., 1933-07-15
STATE POLICE STATION
pREqAQEO 70 ANSWER
ANY CALL

he could go. But they neglected to report their
findings to the man at the entrance. The sentry,
in the absence of word from the house. had
meanwhile strung heavy, specially-constructed
chain between the two stout stone pillars on
either side of the driveway entrance to make GER
tain that the car could not leave the grounds
until he found out what it was all about.
Presently he saw the cab tearing down the
driveway. The chauffeur was still in very much
of hurry. The area near the entrance is quite
dark at night and the cabby didn't see the chain
strung across his path. Nor did he heart warn
ing shout of the sentry. The hood of the taxi
struck the chain with terrific force and the car
rebounded thirty feet and turned turtle, total
The Washington times., 1933-07-15
|rRESS FOR A CHILD

Estate at EnglewOod, N. j., Showing Just How
inst Intrusion, as Protection for Colonel and
!, Jon. Heavily-Armed Guards, Trained Dogs,
ID Storehouse of Weapons and Ammunition
Undesirable "persons not wanted"
re lying in wait for the taxi when it approached.
Everything, it so happened, turned out to be
rmless enough. The cab bore one Of the Nor
" servants, who had been out visiting for the
ening. The driver, who had been in more of
rush than the average cabby, had merely
pensed with the formality Of stopping at the
Oth for permission to proceed into the grounds
The guards at the house, after concluding
Rt everything was all right, warned the driver
yer to repeat the performance, then told him
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upon it by the impact of the speeding machine,
didn't reveal single weak link.
So you that it's one thing to get into
the grounds and yet another to get out.
Every eventuality has been anticipated by
those who mapped out the details for guarding
the baby. The private wires that run between
the Morrow property and the State and Engle-
wood police are buried underground part of the
way, so that it is almost impossible to cut them.
The wires are frequently tested, to make certain
that they would serve their purpose, should the
occasion arise.
One guard is never very far from the police
telephone in the mansion, so that no matter what
happened outside of the house he would have
ample opportunity to send through the alarms.
The wires from the house would be utilized in
the event that someone somehow managed to slip
past the guards who patrol the deSolate outposts
of the property. The concealed telephones in
the trees would be the tip-off mediums if a mo-
torcade of three or four cars suddenly swept into
the grounds through the driveway. One of the
men on duty near the entrance, merely by press
ing the buttons attached to the hidden extensions,
could notify the police before the cars were half
way up the driveway.
A CONCERTED effort to storm the grounds
"A would not only necesstate the intruders fac
ing the whitening fire of the eVer-aleFt guards;
they would be up against His lneXorable Majesty
Time. They could not allow themselves one in
slant more than ninety seconds on the property
sumed driving to and from the house, if they
hoped to make a getaway before the arrival of
the police. For the efficient and ever-ready
Englewood police, with their plentiful supply of
riot and machine guns to augment the armamentS
at the mansion, would be on the scene in not more
than minute and half The State police would
be there in less than five minutes EngleWood
Headquarters is little over mile distant and the
Alpine barracks of the State police is less than
three miles away. The swift journey to the Nor
row home from each point has been clocked; it's
not theory.
And, if wanted" car did get in and out, it
wouldn't get far. Every possible road would be
closed by State and local police for the fugitves
would not have a start, as did the Hopewell kid
napers.
For several months after joins birth, the State
Police and the Englewood authorities were in
charge of the patrol at the Morrow estate. Now
the watch is kept entirely by private policemen,
who are paid each week by Colonel Lndbergh.
These men, whose number and identities are
a secret, are thoroughly experienced in police
work of one form or another. All are crack shots
and all have come through the acid tests of brav-
cry and integrity, not once but many times. Their
records are open books. The authorities placed the
career of each man, from his birth on, under the
official magnifying glass and submitted detailed
report to Colonel Lndbergh forhis personal okaX.
The Washington times., 1933-07-15

This Is the Gate on the Spear Avenue Side of the
Morrow Property. 1t Has Been Chained Up Since
Jon Morrow Lndbergh Was Born. Any Attempt
to Tamper with the Chain to Scale the Gate
Regardless Of the Hour-Quickly Brings Several
Armed Men to the Scene.
The guards never leave the grounds, except
when they have day off or when they patrol
the roads surrounding the estate. They eat their
meals in the mansion and sleep there. Their jobs
are good as long as they care to stay, inaSrnuch
as Colonel Lindbergh and the former Anne Nor.
row have no intention of relaxing the vise-like
vigilance over their second son. Then, too, the
Morrow family has long been noted in exclusive
circles for being most considerate of their en-
ployes. Very rarely is anyone discharged. Conn
paratively high wages are paid and everything
is done to make the employees happy.
THE guards have no specified routine. Like all
police work, their activities are attuned to
prevailing conditions. On murky, moonless nights,
when visibility is poor, they cover considerably
more ground than on clear nights, when they
could spot an intruder hundred or more feet
distant
Of pleasant Sunday, when many automo-
biles pass the property, there is more concentra-
ton on the entrance than there is, for instance,
on dull weekday When little Jon is wheeled
over the lawn by his nurse, Betty Cow, the vigi-
lance naturally is at it's zenith. At no time since
he was dramatically whisked to the Englewood
estate following his secret birth in New York
apartment has the baby been more than few
feet away from at least one guard. For always
there remains the spector of another golden
haired little boy before Jon.
The Washington times., 1933-07-15

NEXT WEEK: Still exclusive details hoo
the LindGergh baby 10 sGfeguGrded the MOTrOas
EnEleOOd, NeO yersey here eUeTy recognized
"oder" 'cie"tc deUce utilized protective agency
by the family Of yeGr-Od little Jon" set forth BY the 'ore'
NrhO is acknowledged to be authority the subject
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(Above) > .:
A Motorist Ques- 7
toned by aGuard
Before Being Al
lowed to Drive
Through the Nor
row Estate. All
Strangers Are Log
ically Regarded
with Suspicion.
wreck. The driver
m j r a u Gus ~
escaped death, the
chain. despite the
strain i'm nose
The Washington times., 1933-07-15

NEXT Week.-Mrs. chronicle Of the desperation which
american students and others plunged BY life in Paris
under modern conditions will be continued With narration Of
OF the tragedies which have ovetaken young
and whO had hopefully sought
in the French capital
The Washington times., 1933-07-15

temptations placed before her. but the young Texas
girl level of head and could not be turned Union
with the count not successful and the countess out
to tour the world She said recently that she had idea
where the count that he out of her life.
The Washington times., 1933-07-15

shy (Right), Nephew Of the J. P. Morgans.
10 Shot Her and Then Himself After He Had
Wearied of Wild Parties in Paris.
en in Paris is the triumph its pitfalls of beauti-
fexan who became a countess.
The Countess Ladine Young de Martino, known among
friends Queen of the Globe Trotter met her Count
exico and they married. They lived all over the
ID, but for long time in Paris, where the countess
Invariably the center of regiment Of admirers Many
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01
AMERICAN DICTATORSHIP ?

Stanley Baldwin, good-natured and somewhat stupid Conservative party leader in Great Britain, classified the United States with Germany; he says both nations are dictatorships, and he looks forward to the "backwash" in both.
 Such an accusation of dictatorship sounds rather comical coming from a man who belongs to national coalition government, party die tatorship if there ever was one. That coalition took power when no one party seemed to have clear majority of the House of Commons, and has held power ever since, by alarming the British people with vague threats about grave dangers. The British municipal elections the other day indicate that the Labor party is making tremendous gains, and is more than likely to upset the national government in the I drIIanIOiICuI OrOVOI0no. D-iI win had better look out for the "backwash" in his own country Ex.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01

bearing of the yigilantes with the animal-like howl of mob recruit ed from the speakeasies of San Jose and you have the difference.
 IL is unnecessary to point out the futility of mass violence in execut- ing justice. The southern states nave been experimenting with this sort of justice" ever since the Civil War, and the score is about the same, year after year.
 Granting the guilt of the two San Jose murderers. and that they got what they deserved, there is no guarantee that the next mob may not lynch an innocent man. Nor does the psychology of lynch law limit the mob to kidnappers and murderers.
 In Greenville, S. C., last week a mob of hooded men lynched a 73 year old negro for disagreement with white neighbors. The very nature of a mob makes it's irrespon- sible.
 A national criminal investiga- tion force, free from political in fIuence-similar to Scotland Yard and the French Surete-together with the repeal of certain archaic institutions like the grand jury; the speeding up of court procedure; the selection of highly intelligent jurors these are some of the subjects that demand public attention if Anglo-Saxon ideas of law and jus tice are to prevail.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01

Leo Mccormack returned home from the states. During his absence
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01
JUSTICE

Now that the hysteria over the recent lynching in San Jose of the two kidnappers and murderers, Thurmond and Holmes, has partial ly subsided, MT. Average Citizen may take time to catch his breath and devote a few moments to serious reflection of the event and deter mine whether he is entirely satis- fled with the way the affair was handled.
 No estimate of the value of the property destroyed by the mob is available at this writing, but it is thought that the damage to public buildings and parks will run we'll into the thousands. The sheriff and several of his deputies are confined to the hospital with serious injuries which may prove fatal.
 Holmes father, on the advice of his attorney, threatens suit against Governor Rolfe and the state of California for a million dollars, harging that his son was executed without due process of law, and the tax payers of San Jose county will undoubtedly bring suit for damage to the county buildings.
 But the damage to life and prop erty in dollars and cents is negli- gible compared to the loss of public confidence in the chief executive of a state which boasts as high a cul- ture as the state of California. Gov ernor Rolfe, by refusing to send aid to the sheriff of San Jose County, not only made the lynching possible. but condoned the action of the mob by promising pardon to the ring leaders.
 Many persons VIII try CU see III the action of the mob the spirit which impelled the old western vigilantes to gather their forces. But it must be remembered that the vigilantes operated with a semblance of law, in localities where the machinery of law had not yet been set up. They were led by men of high character, and the accused was permitted to speak in his own defence and summon wit nesses. Compare the stern, dignified
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01
To the Editor:

10 the EulIOT.
 Your editorial "Pitiless Publicity last week warrants reply.
 l. Affirming by innuendo that the Alaska Native Brotherhood is an unpatriotic, psalm-singing or ganization is not pertinent to the argument at issue. Your retraction is called for.
 2 The resolution should be given space so that your readers might judge without your editorial bias as to its worth or unworthiness.
 B. The thing that hits the Dem ocratic politicians of Alaska is that this resolution has put them on the spot and they know it. One leader walled in Juneau, "Why didn't you give us time-at least wait until you see the regulations in December" The Brotherhood is not waiting any longer and it is going to put on the spot every friend and enemy of the fish trap system.
 1. Sale of the Panhandle first was broached right here in Wran- gell and we would not be surprised but what some of the petitioners are still living here and none. of them members of the Brotherhood. About 1928 the British Columbia legislature considered a resolution calling for negotiations between that country and the United States to consider the purchase of this same territory. Lastly the late Ed ward Morrissey while editing the Ketchikan Chronicle advocated this very idea.
 These men have not been charged with unloyalty.
 There is no question as to the effectiveness of the Canadian fish cry system, canners and fishermen are alike satisfied because the laws are applicable in fairness and just ness to all concerned. The American system has placed the territory in the control of plunderbund repre- ;sented Tn a vicious cannery com bine. Not all canners are members nor all in harmony with the raping
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01

of Alaska's resources.
 If the Sentinel and other Alas
 kans prefer the un-American domi-
 nation of affairs by such a vicious
 combine they may continue to
 starve under that system. The
 Brotherhood and other Indians pre-
 fer to starve in an easier manner
 and perfer not to be choked to death by the political machinations of racketeerrp politicians or racketeering
 canners.
 In closing and touching upon
 the loyalty of these people I will
 assert that in spite of politicians
 and officials-territoria and fed
 eral-these people have remained
 loyal to their government. Taxation
 with virtually no representation;
 taxation without benefit from those
 funds-direct and indirect taxation.
 Remove the entire purchasing power of the Indians from the Alaska economic system and how much taxes will the white population
 bear? Yet our full-blood children
 are barred from territoial schools;
 all Indians are barred from terri
 torial aid for destitute, aged and
 even from the federal funds under control of the courts, because per
 chance they are otherwise eligible to aid from the Indian Bureau. Laws
 have been passed to discriminate against these people and the can ners themselves refuse to hire these people; the E. c. w. funds are op- erated by the Forest service only for white citizens as the officials have refused point blank to employ any Indian.
 Why go On with all this rot per petrated upon loyal people by "paytriotic'' citizens. Let us keep to the text and purpose of the reso- lution and not wander all over Webster's dictionary trying to find WOTuS SulIdDlS lOT Jue COnu6lnudIlOh of the resolution without having really studied or understood its purpose.
 Respectfully yours, LOUIS F. PAUL
 [ Ed. Note
 Last weeks editorial comment was directed principally at the
 "direct action" resolution (which fortunately was rejected) advocat- ing the destruction of fish traps by violent means. Such sentiments are incompatible with the Brother l hoods motto, Competent Christian Citizenship. The Sentinel wishes
 no dictation as to what it shall
 print, nor to the prominence it gives news or views
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01

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ANNETTE ISLAND MAY BE
 OPENED TO PROTECTORS

Delegate Dimond has announced his intention to work for the open ing up of Annette Island to pros pectors and miners when Congress convenes in January. Producing mines would be compelled to pay a royalty on mineral taken out, five percent of which would go to the Federal Treasury. twenty per cent to the Territory and the remaining
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01

Reckless Driver-Hear them cyl finders knockin'
 Terrified passenger-It isn't the cylinders; it's my knees.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01
COMMUNICATIONS

Opinions herein expressed do not necessarily reflect the at titude of this paper. The Sen tinel is glad to publish the views of it's readers on any subject, but asks that such views do not express personal animosity.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-12-01

75 per cent to the Metlakatla In- dians residing on the reservation. Annette Island has been held as an Indian reservation since the pio- neer missionary, Father Duncan. founded his church at Metlakatla in the early days of the Territory. Excellent mineral indications have been found on the island, but actual mining development has been pro- hibited.
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