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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-21
JAPS|E'S LONG HUNT
FOR RANSOM JOHN
BELIEVED NEAR END
Strange Teutonic Symbol on
Letter Led Dr.. Condor to
Deliver $4,000

New York, Sept. 21.-(F-Jafsies
quest of the Lindbergh ransom
reaper ran swiftly to q close Friday.
A strange Teutonic symbol. marked
on q letter, led DR.. John F. Condor
into the Lindbergh kidnapping case
and duped him into tossing $4,000
ever q Bronx cemetery wall to man
known as "John," even while the
baby was dead.
From that time, the 74-year old
retired educator pursued the kid
napers on his own initiative, scam
ming hundreds Of faces. meeting as
many disappointments, but never
losing confidence that one day he
would again meet John"
Thursday night he faced Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, an unemployed
German carpenter from his own
Bronx, and Police Commissioner
Organ announced the man was
identified as the one to whom the
ransom money was paid.
Hopes to Identify John
The aged educator saw Hauptmann
at the police station Thursday after
noon and again at the Bronx county
courthouse Thursday night but it was
learned that he had not identified
the man as John" Neither had no
said positively that Hauptmann was
not the man to whom he gave the
ransom money.
Only two weeks ago, DR.. Condor
had viewed q suspect at his home.
I. was not John" It was the last
time the doctor confronted 4 sus-
pect before he saw Hauptmann.
A series Of startling events swept
Doctor Condor into the Lindbergh
case as an intermediary and brought
him into contact with persons estab-
lished to be the actual kidnapers.
It was soon after the kidnapping
that Doctor Condor. aroused by the
crime. announced through the Bronx
Home News that he would add 81 ,O00
t. the ransom money II the child
were returned.
He received q mysterious telephone
call from = man who told him the
child would be returned. and asked
him to act as intermediary. Hi
suspicious aroused, the doctor told
the man to write him . letter.
Reads Letter to Indbergh
The letter came, and enclosed wa!
q letter to Colonel Lindbergh. Doc
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Believe German
Guilty of More
Serious Charge
Sullivan Declares Extoon Case Against Man Perfect Hints
Actual Abduction May Be Count When Court
/ Action Is Finally Taken
Police Characterize Explanation Of Ransom Money Left by
Friend as Fantastic; Record Shows He Was
Bad Boy in Native Town
BULLETIN

Washington, Sept. 21-(AP)-The Washington Evening
Star said Friday three tiny pin holes the link by which
federal authorities definitely connecting Bruno Richard
Haupann with the actual kidnapping and murder of Charles
Augustus Lindbergh Jr.
In story by Rex Collier who has followed federal efforts
to solve the crime from the outset, the Star said:
Handwriting comparisons and other of Identified
ton may be questoned-but when the writer of the Is
letters received after the kidnapping drew two mystic inter-
locking circles at the bottom Of each mssve and pucured
them with three tiny holes he convincing
proof he the actual kdnaper He cnched the proof by
submitting later piece Of cloth positively identified by Betty
Cow part Of little Lndy's clothing
Even the strange symbol of buenk circles, with their
overlapping portion filled in with red ink conceivab could
have duplicated by mposterbut earth
other than who wrote the note found pinned to the
babys could have duplicated those holes Investigators
declare"
New York, Sept 21-(AP)-Bruno Richard Hauptm m
mild hammered German fdgeted under the glare OF spotghs
the police lineup platform Friday and heard Assistant IN
spector John j. Sullivan declare he would have to answer
serious charge than extoron in the Lndbegh kdnap
short time later it disclosed that warrant for
Hauptmanns exadon charge homicide had been sign
ed Thursday night by Governor Harry Moore Of New jersey
where the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped and slain.
Sullivan told detectives assembled at the lineup that the
police have "a perfect extorton against this man, and
added here doubt in mind that he will have to answer
q serious charge"
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Perfect Case Against
Hallptnlat1t,, Says Chief
German Alien Denies knowl-
edge Of kidnapping, Friend
Left Money With Him

New York, Sept. 2l.-(P-During
questioning Of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann concerning the Lindbergh ran
som money, Acting Chief Inspector
John j. Sullivan declared Friday in
police lineup: I'VE have q perfect
extortion case against this man.
Il understand this man." Sullivan
said. I'VE have a perfect extortion
case against him. There is no doubt
in my mind that he will have to an
swer more serious charge. There
is not a bit of doubt in my mind
about this man.
AS Sullivan fired questions at him.
Hauptmann blinked in the strong
glare Of the spotlight, focusing his
gaze on the floor. He seemed to have
difficulty in hearing his inquisitor
who frequently had to repeat his
questions.
In u. S. Is Years
How long have you been in this
asked Sullivan.
Thirteen years" Hauptmann re-
piled.
How did you get in this country
Il was a stowaway."
what port did you come in tor"
New York"
who did you know in New York;
continued Sullivan.
Il didn't know anybody"
Hauptmann said he lived on Need.
ham avenue, moving to his presen,
address from there.
what is your business?" Sullivan
asked.
Carpenter"
did you ever work in Lakewood
N. j.. as q carpenter?"
Eyes"
did you work in some big hous'
over there LakeWopd)?"
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Police characterized his explanation
fantastic" They are attempting to
strengthen their case against him by
q comparison Of the handwriting Of
the Lindbergh ransom notes and that
on Hauptmann's application for his
automobile drivers license. They also
were reported comparing it with the
writing on the note left in the Lind
bergh nursery the night Of the kid
mapping.
Rushed to West Farms Court in the
Bronx, the prisoner was held without
bail until Monday on q charge Of ex-
tortion Of the $4,000 Lindbergh ran
som money.
The Bronx district attorney an
nounced:
Testimony Is Conflicting
In the course Of our investigation
OF the Bruno Richard Hauptmann
case, we took q long statemant from
Hauptmann In which. while he did
not confess to being the receiver Of
the Lindbergh ransom money, he
made some damaging and conflicting
statements.
"Dr. John F. Condor. who made the
ransom payment for Col. Lndbergh.
did not identify Hauptmann as the
man to whom the payment was made. :
Meanwhile, the labor department
in Washington disclosed Hauptmann's
record showed he was bad boy" In
his native town of Kamenz, Germany,
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Lindberghs to Fly
Back to New York

Los Angeles, Sept. 2l.-(P)-Col-
onel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
were reported Friday preparing to
fly back to New York where Bruno
Hauptmann was held in connection
with the kidnapping and death of
their first son.
The Lindberghs were in seclus-
ion. Secrecy has surrounded their
movements since they flew into
Los Angeles Monday at the end Of
q leisurely cross-country flight.
It was said they knew In advance
that an arrest was expected.
One OF their intimate friends who
has entertained the famous couple
here, said they would have nothing
to say except to authorities. He
added that they were getting ready
to return to New York.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-21
Fall Business Shows
Improvement Already

New York, Sept. 2l.-lR-The fall
season already has succeeded, said
the Dun & Bradstreet Weekly Trade
review Friday, in making q more IA
vorable trade showing than appeared
likely from early estimates, despite
poor weather and . nationwide
strike.
The improvement thus far has been
confined to distributive branches Of
trade. the Review says. as . feeble
start toward industrial revival became
observable after q recession Of .
month and q hall.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-21
Youth C0nfesses to
ExtOrtiOn ATTEMPTS

Crookston, Mimi, Sept. 2l.-R)-
Howard johnson, II. Erskine, high
school senior here confessed Thursday
before q juvenile Judge he sent . SER
les Of notes during q four months per-
iod demanding from so to 5000 to
A. F. Croonquist. former Erskine
banker, upon penalty Of death.
Johnson admitted he wrote five ex-
tortion letters. He will be sentenced
Monday.
On instructions fror, officers, Groom
quist left dummy package ct 4 desig-
mated spot Tuesday night. A youth
appeared and when the beam Of q
flashlight was cast on him, fled, los
ing leather Jacket between the brush
and Erskine. Confronted later by
Croonquist, he confessed he wrote the
notes.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-21
OUer Thousand Dead
Is Toll of Typhoo,,
Along Japat, Coast
casualties Steadily Mounting,
property Damage Runs
Into Millions
OSAKA IS STORM CENTER
Called Nations Worst Disaster
Since 1923; Gale Aver.
ages 90 Miles an Hour

Tokyo, Sept. 2l.-(R-At least 1 34e
persons were killed and 1909 injured
Friday by typhoon which swept cen.
tral and western Japan.
The steadily mounting toll Of cas-
ualties Indicated that hundreds of per.
sons were missing. No immediate est.
mate could be made of the property
damage, but 1t was obvious that il
would amount to millions of dollars.
IN the city OF Osaka, police reported
l,067 persons were dead and 3,057 in
]ured. There also, the police said l8l
were unaccounted for. The storm
swept from Angasaki to Nagano.
Only hazy picture of the full sweer
OF destruction has yet reached Tokyo
for communications were badly bat
tered by the wind which in places
reached a velocity OF 100 miles an hour
and carried with it sea floods which
reached tidal wave proportions.
The casualties appeared to have
been concentrated in the cities Of
Osaka and Kyoto.
The countryside hardest hit was thu
center Of the industrial district.
Police reported that in Osaka alone
622 had been killed and ala injured
In Osaka and her suburbs 1913 schools
collapsed and pupils and teachers
We're buried under them. ,-.,-s e.-.~ aze.-,,-.
The Kyoto police reported they llac
found 203 dead and 858 injured.
Troops patrolled the darkened ano
debris strewn city of Osaka as auth
critics took up the task Of feeding ano
sheltering the approximately 100000
homeless persons. The Japanese army
is furnishing the supplies.
Shipping losses appeared to be COM
paratiyely light.
The newspaper Asahi reported that
200 patients of the Sotojima lepel
hospital at Osaka were missing and
feared drowned although $50 lepers
survived and were without lights anc
water.
Osaka faced a night of darkness
Her eletcric plants were out of com
mission; there were no street cars o.
newspapers. Her waterworks were
badly damaged. Thousands Of homes
were without drinking water and re.
servists began hauling water into the
city in trucks.
The picture is still fragmentary fol
communications were disrupted.
It is known, however, that the seas
swept in with tidal wave proportions
drowning many in the low-lying areas
Of the costal villages in the prefec.
ture Of Osaka.
The insane asylum on the outskirts
Of Osaka was washed away and its 81
inmates were missing. The big lepel
hospital in Osaka was inundated anc
DESTROYED and it was belived that be-
tween 40 and so Of its inhabitants
were drowned.
The railways between Nagoya ane
Okayama were disrupted. Nine o.
their trains were either derailed o.
overturned. The worst train wreck
was near Utsu where a paSsengel
train was overturned, killing 10 per-
sons and injuring l65.
9O-NIile an Hour Gale
The central meteorological observa'
tory at Tokyo reported that the ty.
nhoon averaged 80 miles an hour o.
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Ask Police Help in
Finding Local Man

,,o. disclosed Friday they nao
neen asked to keep a ,1 look o. Who ioo
Marion Saa 6. FOLSOM 4oi 18Th 18Th ST. Sunday M
d ,:a,,ipg or early Monday. NO c'u res
to his whereabouts nave 800
ce1ye e,ao sney about % years old. a, mao
fols onnnloyed in the state reeu una
been danartment laboratory fo ',s seor
era e. ne Xxx KFYR Boy Scout nano, could d
Of . .a,e i for his disappearance cou''
t he given by his friends
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-21
CHANCE FOR STRIKE
TRUCE BY SATURDAY
seen AFTER REPORT
union Leaders Well Pleased
With Recommendations
Made by Mediators
ROOSEVELT BACKS PLANS
Vote to Be Taken by Textile
Workers Either Late Fri.
day or Saturday

Washington, Sept. 2l-lP--rer.
mlnation Of the textile strike by SAT-
uroay at the latest was indicated here
FRIDAY as the executive council Of
the United Textile Workers arranged
10 meet to act upon the report Of the
presidents mediation board.
Strike leaders, we'll pleased with the
report OF the presidents mediation
board, which they characterized as
IAN indictment" Of mill owners, ex-
planned that the strike could be ended
only BY instructions from the execu-
tive council.
A vote to accept the report and end
the strike Immediately was expected
late Friday or Saturday at the latest
if manufacturers also accepted the
recommendations of the presidents
board and agreed to take back all
strikers without discrimination.
Roosevelt Makes Plea
President Roosevelt made person.
al appeal for peace.
In declaration made public at
Hyde Park, the summer White House,
he expressed hope that all employees
now out on strike will return to work
and all textile manufacturers will take
back employees without discrimina-
tion."
His statement formally approved the
peace proposal laid before him Thurs
day by the special board of inquiry
headed by Governor Winant, Of New
Hampshire.
The spokesman for operators. George
A. Sloan. announced he would con-
fer promptly with members Of the
cotton textile code authority so as to
determine what means they will take
to ascertain the views Of the indus
try"
The peace report, made by a board
headed by Governor John G. Winant
of New Hampshire and hailed BY
President Roosevelt as excellent
recommended:
Four Recommendation Made
l. A textile labor relations board
to protect labor's rights.
2. A survey by government agen-
cieS to determine whether the indus
try can support an equal or greater
number Of employees at higher wages
3. A second board to regulate the
stretchout-a system whereby work
err tends greater number OF mach
ines.
4. An inquiry by the labor depart
ment to aid in settling the problems
of differentials between prescribed
minimum wages and the wages above
the minimum.
The board expressed the hope that
on the basis of the recommendations
the United Textile Workers would Cal
off the s. Ike and that employers
would take back workers without ais
elimination" -,,
The executive council Of the U.I:W
planned to meet Friday to decide. ma
tional strike leader Francis J. Cor
man, who said the report ap'
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Hauptmann Has Alibi

Hauptmann Has Alibi
:. His statement came at the end of
an extensive questioning Of the drawn
and tired Hauptmann. whose unshav-
en- face added to his wan appearance.
During his questioning Hauptmann
gave Sullivan an alibi to explain his
possession of $13,75O Of the Lindbergh
ransom money found in the garage
at his Bronx home. A friend he said.
Isadore Fsche. formerly his partner
in the fur business, had given him the
money. Police have ascertained that
Fische died in Germany last Decem-
k1nr
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
Real Estate Licenses
Bar the INSCRIPTIONS

The enactment of BILL recently reported favoraby by
the Senate District Committee provide for the regulation
and licensing of real estate brokers and statesmen in the
District would be boon to honest business of the
National Capital.
This or similar have been pending for years. but
despite the urgngs of the reputable estate dealers and
The majority citizens Congress has thus far failed to
afford the protection which such measure would give
BACK IN 1880 A SENATE COMMITTEE REVEALED
THE UNsCRUPULoUs PRACTICES WHICH THIS MEAS
URE IS DESIGNED TO PREVENT. THAT COMMITTEE
EXPOSED CONDITIONS WHICH SHOCKED THE CITY.
It demonstrated and proven by ncontroverble evil
dence that racketeers the g of real estate operators
were preyng upon the class Of citizens least able to
stand the losses to which they were subjected.
These racketeers for the most part nights
From other communities who into Washington and
with high pressure methods induced unwary investors to put
money into real estate out Of which they could never expect
D return their investment.
Very properly the methods drew the condemnation of
honest real estate of the CITY, But they well as the
constituted authorities powerless to put stop to the
operations.
There was way in which these operators could be
reached before they received their goen money They
could not be barred from the city They could not be forced
to meet any requirements to character reputation
The pending bill would put stop to such practices before
they could get start
It would require that every broker agent selling real
estate obtain license to do business
THIS REQUIREMENT WOULD NOT INTERFERE WITH
THE HONEST MAN. 1T WOULD NOT PENALIZE THE
REPUTABLE REAL ESTATE AGENT.
BUT 1T WOULD TAKE WASHINGTON OUT OF THE
GLASS OF CITIES IN WHICH THE UNsCRUPULoUs CAN
FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERFERENCE.
Its passage would be in complete line with the Governments
policy Of making the "seler beware
The Washington times., 1934-02-22

he stepped into a pit which had
been dug by some pirates to
hide a keg of gold later in the
day. On crawling out, in no
very good humor you may be
sure, he fell forward into an
other pit which had been dug
by some other pirates for the
very same purpose. (The street
was known as PIRATE Pit
Street" and was a hotbed Tor
buried treasures).
On pulling himself out OF the
second pit. in no better humor
than before. you may be sure
he muttered to himself: This
sort of thing has got to STOP"
AS he said this, he looked down
into the first pit he had fallen
into, and there he saw his own
self, climbing out face to race
with him! So he dropped back
into the second pit and stayed
there. Explanation: There were
two pits.
A Philadelphia man who kept
COWS was one day doing his milk
ing, and, being slightly hung
over, was resting his head
against the cows side as he
MIXED. Suddenly his ear which
was pressed against the cow de-
tected the sound Of converse
ton being carried on in low
tones. He stopped milking but
kept his ear pressed tight, and
was rewarded by hearing the
talk change from soto voce
conversation to bitter argument,
increasing in tone until he
could distinguish every word.
The subject of the quarrel
seemed to be, as usual, a
woman.
The man left his listening
post and led the COW to q
bntcheb and, when it had
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
Washington EndureS
His Spirit a Guide


Reverence for the men who founded this nation
out fashion with those who believe in the fundamental
greatness of the ideals which they cherished and upon which
they builded.
It is for that reason this time of startling changes our
governmental philosophy and conception that thoughts
turn most naturally George Washington this anniversary
of his birth
The time of Washington not time Of stagnaton, it
was period of upheav and change Out Of that upheava
and that change he those associated with him. wrought
the principles upon which the nation became great and
which it has endured
There was occasion for fright in those days Of Washing
ton But the midst of the fright Washington un-
daunted.
There occasion for fright in these days just as there
has in the days which have INTERVIEWED But in the
midst of this fright people have remained undaunted
And the that people not and cannot be
frightened is the soity of the institutions which Washing
ton cemented and made enduring.
There no minimizing the difficulties which the nation
has recently encountered.
nation founded upon less enduring principles nation
conceived without fundamental soundness which actuaed
Washington would have persisted before conquerng those
difficulties.
There tendency upon the part of socaled leaders
TO erde those to the philosophy Of the founders
for and to the spirit OF the FOUNDERS Tor
recton in times of national stress.
Those socaed leaders, with their deon will endure Tor
only little while.
For the philosophy and the spirit of Washington are what
have made this country great
May they continue to do sol
The Washington times., 1934-02-22
Father of Public Education
For Every Young American
BIZ James T. Williams, Jr.

Free public schools, literally
supported by the people and
completely under the protec-
ton Of the Government of the
Co. .stitution we're, as WASH
ington believed, the cornerstone
of the American system of
public education to which he
committed the people whose
inc .oendence he won and the
government which he estab-
lished-the Government of the
Constitution.
Great Company
he nan or the woman in
us country who challenges the
truth of the assertion that
Washington's devotion to the
cause Of public education, fos-
tered and aided by the leader
ship of the Federal Gov
ern tent and maintained and
controlled by the governments
of thu several States, is either
ignorant of the truth or con-
ter tuous of its mandate. This
devotion was equaled only by
Washington's love of liberty
and his passion for justice.
"the breath of Liberty's being"
Washington's Birthday ought
to be commemorated every year
not only as the birthday of the
American who was, as the late
Wayne MacVeagh, who stood
with Lincoln at Gettysburg, so
eloquently said. "of good men
the greatest, Of great men the
BEST"
Washington's Birthday ought
also to be commemorated every
year by the fathers and mothers
and children of the nation as
the birthday of public educa-
ton, maintained by the Gov
eminent and protected by the
Government where the flag
flies,
And every one Of the ten
million trees planted during
the Bicentennial year in honor
of the Father of his Country is
among a great company of wit
nesses that he who was First in
War, First in Peace, First in the
Hearts of his Countrymen"
was, is now and ever shall be,
first in the great American
cause of public education for
every child who looks to the
Stars and Stripes for that pro-
lection in his or iler birthright
which was established by Wash
ington and saved by Lincoln to
provide the government of the
Constitution.
Copyright. 1884 The Washington
Times)