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FLEE ABROAD
TO PUT 3-YEAR-OLD Jon OUT
OF U. 5. K!DNAPERS' REACH
Colonel and Anne Will Remain in England
Permanently, if Necessary; Family Now
at Sea on Liner American Importer
Continued rom

raDgements were made with
steamship company for the Lind
berghs' exclusive passenger occu-
pancy Of the ship. Officials of the
British. as we'll as the United States
government. it was said. co-operated
to assist the secret departure.
Neither the name of the ship nor
the port from which it sailed were
disclosed. On the sailing day. the
Lindberghs went directly from En-
glewood to the port. No servants
accompanied them. and only few
members of the family.
Schooling Problem Mounting
The Lindberghs do not intend to
give up their American citizenship,
but are prepared to remain in Eng
land permanently if necessary to as
sure their son the normal life that
he should have
Reluctantly, they concluded that
so long as they remained in this
country their household would be
surrounded by an atmosphere of
fear which the child could not help
sensing.
The precautions necessary for his
safety, they felt, would make it i'm
possible ever for him to have the
freedom which a healthy. growing
boy needs. AS he became older, the
problem of his schooling would be-
come increasingly difficult.
Most of the threats which kept
the Lindberghs in constant anxiety
were the work of cranks, but they
could not be ignored Always there
hung over them the memory that
their first born had been kidnapped
and murdered.
Feel Britain Is Safest
The Lindberghs chose England
for their home, it was said. because
they felt that there they would be
safest and least molested. that
there the people had greater respect
for law than any other place in the
world.
While their primary concern IS
for the safety and freedom of their
son, Col. and Mrs Lindbergh also
desired peace and privacy for them
selves-peace and quiet that never
has been theirs
Mrs. Lindbergh has been able to
continue her writing, notably her
best selling account of the flight
which she made to the Orient with
her husband, and Col Lindbergh
has done some valuable research
work on scientific and aviation
problems But the atmosphere of
uncertainty and worry always hung
over them.
When they have settled down
somewhere in England. they hope
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to be able to pursue their interests
with tranquility.
Inactive for Some Time
What further work in aviation
may be planned by Col Lindbergh
could not be learned. It was said
that he had not severed completely
his connections with air lines which
he has assisted as technical adviser.
but for some time he has not been
active in these companies or in
other aviation work.
Threatened From Start
The safety of Lindbergh and his
family has been threatened. by let
ter and otherwise, almost since the
day in 1927 when the lean f1ier from
the West astounded the world by
flying solo from New York to Paris.
With fame came thousands of
letters. mostly innocent. but many
menacing. Mostly, of course. they
were the work OF deranged minds
and were dismissed by Col. Lind
bergh as such. Each incident that
brought him back into the head
lines, such as his engagement and
marriage to Anne Morrow in 1929.
brought with it new threats.
Then in 1881 Col Lindbergh chose
the isolated Sourland Mountain
section Of New Jersey for his home.
He had spotted it from the air "a
a section where surely he, Mrs.
Lindbergh and their first son.
Charles Jr.. could fine peace. Thew
were less and less III public atten-
ton. When they moved into their
new home early in 1882 the threat
ening letters practically had ceased.
World Shocked by Crime
But the peace they found there
was cut short the stormy night of
March /. 1882, by the crime that
shocked the world-the kidnapping
of the baby from the nursery of his
home, The arrest of Hauptmann.
the trial at Pennington at which
Col Lindbergh testified brought the
family into the glare of publicity
again and again. There were threats
of every description.
Once again these died away. onlv
to mount again with the approach
OF Hauptmanns execution, the ex-
preston Of Gov. Harold Hoffman of
New jersey that many felt the case
was not solved in its entirety, and
all the consequent discussion.
The new threats included some
that might carry a real menace to
the safety of young Jon. Those let
tiers and finally the incident of the
automobile ride from school con-
WINGED the Lindberghs that there
was only one thing to do-to leave
America.
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DOG GOES A. w. Q. l.:
ARMY FOLK WORRIED
1S-Year-Old Boston Bull Leaves
While on Visit Here.

There's concern today in the
family of Capt. George Barnes,
Quartermaster Corps. United States
Army. over the whereabouts of Jer-
ny. 12-year-old Boston bulldog. who
has romped on nearly every Army
post in the country.
Last night the dog went A. w.
o. l.. from the home of Lyman H,
Thompson, 2047 N. Delaware st.
where Capt. Barnes, his wife. ana
their 17-year-old son are spending
the holidays. The Barnes family
lives at Camp Holabird, Mo
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SANTA STUBS HIS TOE
Al Losche Needs Substitute After
Accident at Home.

Indications today were that some
one will have to pinch hit for All
Losche. city purchasing agent, who
was TO be Santa Claus at a City
Hall Christmas party tomorrow.
Mr.. Losche suffered a broken toe
this morning when he stumbled at
lis home.
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GALES IGNORES PLEA
DEMANDING EXPULSION
MexicO's Iron Man No Problem.
President Tells Nation.
81 United Press


MEXICO CITY, Dec. 23,-Plu-
tarco Gales, former president and
Mexico's iron man, remained in
Mexico today, undisturbed by
parades throughout the nation yes
terday demanding his expulsion. He
played golf at Churubusco Country
Club while President Cardenas told
the country that Gales was no prob
lem, that there was no reason to
eXpel him.
President Cardenas, harangued by
$4,000 demonstrators in front of his
palace, quoted fears of intervention
by the United States because of re-
ports that Gales had support of the
neighboring government.
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BASCA co. BUYS
LOCAL FACTORY
Metal Stamping Concern
Purchases Plant of
HoudaiIIe Corp.

Purchase of the Houdaille- Hershey
Corp. plant at 3019 Roosevelt-av by
the Basca Manufacturing Co., max
erS of muff1ers and metal stamp
ings was announced today by Curtis
H, Rottger, chairman of the indus
trial commission of the indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce.
The Basca company has been
leasing 10000 square feet of floor
space at indianapolis Industrial
Center, 1854 E. 19th-st. The new
plant has about 100000 square feet
of space.
officers of the company are l.. l..
Swartz, president: c. l.. Crawford,
vice president: and treasurer; H. L.
Healing, secretary, and Fred Boil,
superintendent.
The commission also announced
that the Melba Trim Co., manufac-
turing milliners, had leased 5000
square feet of space in the Ratti
Building, 238 S. Meridian-St Maurice
Siegel is company operator.
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OTHER CITIES AT : A. NJ.
Probe Alleged kidnapping

By Cntted Press
LOGANSPORT. Ind, Dec. 90
Cass County officials today sought
two men who are alleged to have
kidnapped oscar Alter, 38, Fort
Wayne, in that city yesterday and
brought him to New Waverly before
releasing him.
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WOMAN SLAYER FREED
Judge Suspends Sentence on Wife
Who Slew Pretty Secretary.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Mrs. Eta
Reisman. IS, was freed today when
County Judge Charles S. Golden
gave her 6-to-l2-year suspended
sentence for the Staying of Miss
Virginia Seigh. her husbands pretty
secretary.
Mrs. Reisman was convicted of
irst-degree manslaughter last week
by jury which recommended Glenn
ency.
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a dozen such sites. The children
in the photo, are, left to right,
Martha Jane Ketcham. Richard
Mohr, Rob Romer and Fred An
derson.
Upper Right-This, ladies and
gentlemen. is an automobile. 1t
was parked during the heavy snow
at 38th and Meridian-sts.
Lower Left-A scenic view in
Warfleigh along White River
where light traffic hardly broke
the whiteness of the snowfall.
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PLEA
WINS LITER FREEDOM
Joseph Everett Cleared of Old
Charge in Second Trial.

ny tNtttN fFtSS
DECATUR, Ind, Dec. 23.-Joseph
Everett, SO, was free today after
acquittal on a second-degree muir
der charge by jury in Adams Cir
cult Court last night
1t was Everett's second trial in
connection with the death of Doras
Werling, slain near st, Mary's River
here in 1881. He was convicted on
a frst-degree murder charge and
was sentenced to life imprisonment
in 1881. He was granted q new trial.
Everett pleaded self-defense.
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Bendix Honors Employees

~ z NffFN FFFNN
SOUTH BEND. Ind. Dec %
Christmas greetings. accompanied
by SIS checks for each of its $500
employees. were mailed today by the
Bendix Products Corp.
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The series of articles by Mrs.
Edith Liggett, previously an
nounced for today, are not now
available for publication in this
newspaper.
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Winter hit Indianapolis with
four inches of snow today that re-
suited in many accidents and
slowing of Christmas buying and
transportation. However, the
snow provided great outdoor fun
for the 10000 school children
whose holiday vacations began to-
day.
Upper Left-These four children
observed the law by shedding on
Capitol-av between SD and 54th-
SITS, where police roped off one of
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RCA MADE DEFENDANT
IN S15,OOO,OOO SUIT
Violation of Antitrust Laws Is
Charged in Complaint.

BV JHtftd FfCSs
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Radio
Corp. of America today was made
defendant in a suit brought by the
Raytheon Manufacturing Co Of
Massachusetts. asking $15,000,000 for
damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned because of the control RCA
is alleged exercise over radio tube
patents.
The suit charged violation of
antitrust laws.
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
BAROMETER

: a. 1868 p. m 29'S
Precipitation "a hrs. ending a. M. OBI
Total precipitation since Jan. H.. 81 35
Deficiency since Jan. 1.............. Ola
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Richmond Merchant Dead
RICHMOND, Ind. Dec. 23.-Wil-
liam H. Bartel, IS, veteran merchant.
died here today. He formerly was
a city councilman.
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BEGIN HERE TODAY

Jean Dunn, pretty, 2l-year-old
secretary, and Bobby Wallace,
young automobile salesman, spend
an evening at The Golden Feather
night club.
Art Lanning, the proprietor, in
PRODUCES them to Sand Harkins,
who explains he is in Dover on
business. Sandy and Jean dance.
When he asks if he can telephone
her she evades.
Later Sandy has a mysterious
conversation with two men who
mention jeans employer, Donald
Montague, and hint they may be
able to do some business"
Larry Glenn, federal agent,
talks with Jean and Bobby. After
they leave Mike Hagan, detective
on the local police force, joins
Larry, who shows him several pho
tographs of pretty girl and asks,
Ever see her before?"
Explaining his presence in Do
yer, Larry recites details of a re-
cent bank robbery.
NOW &C ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER V
The girl. Larry explained, came
into the story indirectly, but she
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you are" he said. Being with
the Department Of Justice. Lock
at the way you guys can operate,
and then compare it with the way
we have to work here in Dover.
Now guess | wrote you, didn't
|, that l got promoted to ser
geant in the detective bureau last
month";"
Larry nodded.
"Well," said Hagan, "1ook at
the difference. With you people,
the chief problem is to find out
who you want and where he is.
With us, the tough part is to try
to figure out some way of doing
anything to the guy after we do
find all that out. In the first place.
we haven't got the facilities YOU
people have. If he goes outside of
Dover, we have to trust to luck
that the coppers in the next town
will cooperate with us and pick
him up, and like as not they won't
If he stays in Dover, he's prob.
ably a friend Of some politician
or other-so what happens? W.
pick him up, book him and turf
him over to the prosecutor; ther
he hires Dan Montague or some
other high-powered mouthpiece
and there's some now-you-see-it
now-you-don't business off behint
the scenes, and first thing W.
know he's loose again, and W.
have to grin and take it.
"And the worst of it is, tn
people see these known crimi
nails walking the street and say
Jaw. the COPS are all crooked O
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sale contained in the judgment
heretofore rendered in the above
entitled cause dated the 23rd.day
of September, 1885, in which the
undersigned was appointed Com
missioner and ordered to sell the
lands hereinafter described, the
undersigned Commissioner Will, 90
Monday, the 28th day of October,
1885, sell at public auction at tho
Courthouse Door Of HendsrssE
County, in Hendersonville, Morn,
Carolina, at 1900 o'clock noon -
the highest bidder for cash, thS
following described lands, situate,
lying and being in HendersoK
County, North Carolina, and
bounded and more particularly
described as follows: t---s&
All that real property bounded
and more particularly described In
Deed from Anchor Finance Corr
poration to D. A. Agnew, recorded
in the Office of the Register ut
Deeds for Henderson County,
North Carolina, in Book 160 1T
page 6; being also further .pas.
ticularly described as lots 9, 10
and II of the w. j.. McCanless
property as shown on Plat record
ed in Book 2 at page al in the
Office of the Register of Dee4e
/ for Henderson County, North
Carolina; to which said Deeds and
Plat reference is hereby made Tor
all purposes. :. :
j This the 23rd day Of SeptasaI
Der, 1885. -c5 -
CLAUDE L. LOVE, "a
,9-23-Mon-4tp Commissioners.
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The FEATHER
. 1925 NEA Service, Inc.

lours and starts riffling through
his cards. After about an houf'
he discovers that there are IN the
! United States exactly four men
with criminal records who lack
that particular finger. He gG'
their cards out and had a looA'
cone of them is a safe-cracker
who is now right in the middle OF
a 10-year stretch in the MasSa-
chusetts state prison. Ihat leC
him out as far as this job was
concerned, Of course. The sec
ond was a Chicago racketeer VINO
got put on the spot and klllea
with load of slugs from a sawed
off shotgun just two months ago.
The third was a fake oil stock
promoter who did a stretch IN
Atlanta prison and got out two
years ago. He's living in FLORIDA
now. 1t took one of our men from
the Miami office just half day
to prove that he hasn't been with
in 500 miles of this Nicola bank
for eight months.
| "That left us with just one
man. He's a bird named Lewis
Wingy Lewis, they call him, due
apparently to the fact that ne
got winged once by bullet in
some saloon fight or other and
thereby lost this telltale index
finger. Now this Wingy Lewis
used to be a confidence man out
west. A year OF so ago he's be-
ilieved to have joined the bank.
robbing mob of the notorious Red
Jackson.
Hagan nodded thoughtfully.
! There was no need for Larry to
tell him who Red Jackson was
Red Jackson, a desperate criml-
nal wanted for more crimes than
could be named in one breath,
who roamed all across the country
in a way that left city and state
police forces utterly helpless and
who gloried in the title Of "Pub-
lie Enemy Number One No,
there was no need to tell Hagan
or anyone else who Red Jackson
was.
so" resumed Larry, "you see
{ where that gets us. 1t indicates,
to begin with, that this job was
the work of Red Jackson's gang.
It gives us an avenue of approach
to the case. Instead of just hav-
inc a missing finger to go on, we
have a name, a photograph, a
set of fngerprints, and so on"
"Did you show this Wingy
guys photos to the bank people,
asked Hagan. 49,. :.
"Of course. They identified it,
but in a rather hesitant and I'M
certain way. Honestly, they were
all so iittery that I'm not at all
sure that their Identification
would stand up in court. There's
perfectly good chance Of course
that our four-fnger bandit is
someone we never heard of before
someone that never got arrest
ed and consequently has no rec
ord at Washington. But we're
working on probabilities, and so
far the probabilities seem to point
in the direction of Red Jackson'S
outfit" ;, ..
"Wen. that makes it all very
! simple" drawled Hagan with a
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grin. "AIl you've got to do now
IS round up Red Jackson"
Larry grinned ruefully. "Yeah
simple, isn't it," he asked. "The
gang has dropped out of sight.
Nobody knows where they hang
out. The fact of the matter I'M
doubtedly is, of course, that they
keep drifting about from one part
of the country to another. They
used to hang out in Chicago, but
according to the best information
we can get they haven't been
there in months. That Nicola hold
up makes it look as if they are
working their way east through
the middle west, but we've moth
ing more to go on.
But l have got this much OF
a lead. 1t seems that about SIX
months ago our friend Wingy be-
came smitten with the charms of
one Evelyn Brady, featured, IN a
minor way, on one of these middle
western burlesQue circuits
strip dancer, or something.
anyhow, Evelyn went for
Wingy just as hard as Wlngy went
for her. She quit the burlesque
business cold and stuck to Wingy.
I've even heard that she actually
married him; | don't know wheth-
er that's true or not, but I'm
pretty well satisfied that where
Evelyn is, there-or Whereabouts
-Wingy is also.
"Now I'm coming to the point
of all of this. The hunt for Wingy
has more or less resolved itself
| into a hunt for Evelyn, so I've
been making inquiries. Until re-
Gently, l could find no trace Of the
girl. Then a week ago, I got trans
ferred. They put. me in charge OF
the regional office here in Dover.
| I no sooner got settled here than
! l bethought me that one of the
burlesoue houses in this city is
on the circuit which our friend
Evelyn once adorned with all hel
girlish beauty"
! Hagan gaped at him, round
eyed.
"What beautiful English" he
murmured. Larry grinned and
tapped out his cigaret in the ash
tray at his elmboW.
$50 he said, 81 dropped
around and got acquainted with
the manager of the theater-with-
out, of course, letting on that I'm
with the Department of Justice,
And he said, after a while, that
someone or other had told him
that Evelyn has been seen right
here in Dover recently.
"The next step was fairly OBJ
vious. All of these mobsters and
their satellites are bound to play
the hot spots. They just can't stay
away from joints like this Golden
Feather. So the thing to do was
to keep shopping about these night
clubs, keeping the eyes open for
Evelyn Brady. Once we spot her,
provided that all our information
| is correct, we ought to begin get
ting the scent of Wingy; and if
we do that, We'll be on Red Jack
sons trail"
He put the sheaf of photographs
back in his pocket.
$50 there you have it ALL" he
said.
Hagan nodded absently and
stared off into cloud of drift
ing cigar smoke. At last he shrug-
ged despondently.
"You don't know how lucky
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BY Robert Bruce

smight we'll prove the key TO the
whole puzzle. To make clear her
connection with everything it was
necessary to do a little more ex-
planning.
Everybody down there had the
jitters," he said. They were all
too excited to know what they'd
seen and what they hadn't seen.
The stenographer was no help at
all. Evidently she'd never taken
her eyes off the pistol that had
been pointed at her. The young
teller wasn't much better.
"Oh, he gave us descriptions,
of course. But you know what
these descriptions amount to
medium height, clean-shayen,
dark hair, weighs about i6O
pounds, wore a blue suit and a
panama hat Lord, you could ar
rest any one of $4,000 people on
a description like that! The only
fellow we really got anything
from was the old cashier.
He'd been the worst scared OF
any of them, but he did remem-
Der one thing. The gunman who
took him under his wing had been
the one with the bag into which
all the loot was dumped; and the
old chap did manage to- notice the
the hand that held the bag-Che
left hand, it was. He said that the
index finger of this hand was
missing. He was sure of that, even
If he didn't know whether the
man had gray eyes, brown eyes,
or glass eyes. Apparently he'd
kept his gaze riveted on that hand
all through the holdup.
"Well, that was about all we
had in the way of Identification.
A missing index finger on the left
hand! Not much to go on, is IT.!
Hagan chewed his cigar and
shook his head.
We'll, it turned out to be quite
a lot" said Glenn. "Or | should
say that we hope it'll turn out
to be quite a lot. You see, | got
off report to the head office IN
Washington at once, and | en-
closed that bit about the missing
finger, of course. 1t was the only
definite description of any OF
these men that | had.
"Now here's where the Division
of Investigation is really valuable.
They've got more records down
there in Washington than you can
can shake a stick at. They've got
millions of fngerprints-literally
mil.ions-classified in every con-
ceivable way. They've got every
criminal record they've been able
to Law hands on. They've got de-
scriptions, fngerprints, photo
graphs, and so on Of Just about
every known crook in the United
States. and all are classified so
that you can look 'em up IN al
most any way you can think OF.
Look, now. All we know was
that here was a bank robber who
was minus the index finger on his
left hand. Now among other ways
of classification, they have all the
crooks OF whom they have any
record classified according to de-
formities, injuries, scars, and so
on.
$50 somebody down there takes
this meager little description CT
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42-Pets and Livestock
Special Notices

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and willing to train spare time
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cupation. Utilities Engineering
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Chicago, III.
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LOCK BOXES for rent, while they
last at less than one penny d
dav. Can you afford to be
without one. Come III ana
select yours today. First Fed
eral Savings & Loan Office, ~
H. Lee & Son, Agents, FourIR
Avenue Arcade.
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SEE US about your furniture re-
pairing, refinishing, uphoiiSter-
my, Grating, storing, re.Sllv We
ing mirrors rug cleaning. we
buy and sell household goods,
Railroad Salvage Co. 318 Main
ST nhone 998.
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NOTICE OF SALE BY COMMITS.
SIONER

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF HENDERSON.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT,
BEFORE THE CLERK.
CLAUDE L. LOVE, Administrators
of the Estate of D. A. AGNEW,
Plaintiff,
VS..
ROSE c. AGNEW, MORRIS
PLAN BANK OF VIRGINIA,
and the Unknown Heirs of D.
A. AGNEW, Deceased, Repre-
sented by Jonathan Jackson,
Their Guardian AID Litem, De-
PENDANTS.
Under and by virtue of the
power and authority and order Ct