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- ,TUrD “From Press to Home WEATHER. (D 8 Westher Bureau Forecast.) W ithin an Hour'' Rain late tonight and tomorrow; not _ . much change in temperature; lowest to- rne Mars carrier system covers night about 38 degrees. every city block and the regular edi Temperatures—Highest. 51, at 5:11 tion is delivered to Washington homes p.m. yesterday; lowest, 38. at 6 a.m. to- as fast as the papers are printed, day. Full report on page 9. _-___ .— ■" ■■ ■ - ■ i ■- i ii. i i — “ Clown; N. Y. M»AtU, Page» 14 nnd 15 Yortordoy’, GrcoUti.., 124,284 X' 99 AQ9 Kntered as second class matter Meant Associated Press. L Y\ O C ENTS. -AO. O»,uo4i.. post office. Washington. D. C. ■■ ■ ■ — - ■ ■ ■ ■ -.— --- - LINDBERGH READY TO RANSOM BABY BOY NOTE PINNED TO NURSERY SILL THREATENS TO HARM ILL CHILD; NATION JOINS IN KIDNAPER HUNT Police Baffled by Lack of Any Clues. STOLEN WHILE PARENTS DINED Wind and Warped Shutter Lend Aid to Abductors. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., March 2.—A post card was mailed to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh from here today, reading: “Babe safe. Instructions later. Act accord ingly.” The card was picked up in the noon collections from a box at the comer of Plane and Cen tral avenues, in the heart of the city. It was spotted by a dis tributor in the post office, who removed it from the mail and reported its contents. The message on the card was printed. The card was taken to New ark police headquarters, where it was examined by fingerprint experts. Post Office officials said they intended replacing the card in the mail for de livery to Col. Lindbergh after they finished their examina tion. It was addressed to Col. Lindbergh at “Princeton, N. J.” Director of Public Safety William Egan immediately called out the entire police force and a house-to-house search of the vicinity of Plane street and Central avenue was begun. The finding of the card strengthened the belief of au thorities that an abandoned sedan found early today in Hill side, a suburb, may have been used by the kidnapers in their flight from the Lindbergh home. , .. , The car, unlighted and the bearings of its motor burned out from lack of oil, was found in a field near the Newark line. The street is within a few | blocks of a road which runs directly to Somerville, linking there with a straight road to Princeton. The car bore New York license plates and was reported stolen yesterday from Brooklyn. The owner was said by police to be A. S. Mandell, Brooklyn. Although police examined the car for fingerprints, they im mediately began going over it again. (Copyright, 1932. by the Associated Press.) HOPEWELL, N. J„ March 2 — Ransom has been demanded for the Lindbergh baby, kidnaped from its nursery last night, and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is will ing to pay if he can get the infant safely back to its mother’s arms. It was learned shortly before noon today that a note found pinned to the sill of the window through which the baby was taken from its sick bed by the kidnapers made a definite ransom demand. Note Contains Threat. It also threatened harm to the child if the money was not paid, if the contents of the note was divulged or if the method of pay ment suggested in the note was revealed. So threatening was the note that for hours its very existence was denied | by police investigating the crime. It was finally determined with abso lute definiteness, however, that the j ransom demand had been made and that Col. Lindbergh had decided to meet any demand if by so doing he wculd get his baby back. No one would say how large the de mand was, but a report that it was $50,000 went undenied by sources close to the Lindbergh family and to the widespread search. Gov. A. Harry Moore and Republic an legislative leaders, after conferring by telephone with Col. Lindbergh, abandoned plans to offer a reward of $10,000 or more for the apprehension of the kidnapers. This morning puzzled police re enacted the crime as part of their frantic efforts to solve tne mystery. * Woman Believed Involved. Using the same makeshift ladder with which the kidnap band, believed to in (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.j '■ ..- - • ■■ — Los Angeles Banker Dies. LOS ANGELES. March 2 UP).—Wil liam B. Hunnewell, 60. for many years manager of the Southern California branch of the National City Co. of New York and a prominent Pacific Coast bend man. died at his Beverly Hills t hrme yesterday. He had been 111 several ^onthifc For the Sake of the Babv •/ AN APPEAL FROM THE STRICKEN PARENTS TO THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, 3d. I By the Associated Press. Hopewell, n. j„ March 2 — To the kidnaper of the Lindbergh baby: Here is a heart-broken ap peal direct from the mother of the child you stole. The baby has been sick, and its recovery may depend on the treat ment it gets from you. You must be especially careful about the diet. Mrs. Lindbergh issued to the press today the strict diet she has been following since the baby fell ill. She did this in the hope you might read this story and that there was some spark of humanity even in the heart of a baby thief. Here is the diet, accompanied by the fervent prayer of a grieving mother: One quart of milk during the day. Three tablespoons of cooked cereal j morning and night. Two tablespoons of cooked vegeta I bles once a day. One yolk of egg daily. One baked potato or rice once a day. Two tablespoons of stewed fruit daily. Half a cup of orange juice on waking. Half a cup of prune juice after the afternoon nap. And 14 drops of a medicine called viosterol during the day. That’s all. kidnaper of the Lind bergh baby. That’s what the baby’s mother wants you to give the boy. LUNATIC’S SCHEME SEEN IN KIDNAPING Head of “Secret Six” Says No Big-Time Criminal Would Attempt It. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 2—Col. Robert Isham Randolph, head of Chicago's fa mous "Secret Six," said today he was convinced that the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 3d, was the act of an insane person. Two years of running down kidnap ers from coast to coast have convinced him. Col. Randolph said, that "no or ganized gang of kidnapers ever would attempt such a crime.” There is nothing for authorities to do in the case, he added, until ransom demands are made or other clues uncovered. "There are lots of kidnaping gangs with enough facilities to carry out the job,” Col. Randolph said, “but none of them is brainless enough to try it They know that the whole country would be looking for them—and that the man who flew the Atlantic alone wouldn’t be an easy victim. "Organized kidnapers are looking for easy victims—not for children whose fathers are world hfroes. They prey largely on gamblers, bootleggers, and other criminals whose personal affairs prevent them from calling the law to their aid.” The fact that no extortion demands were made before the kidnaping also in dicate the Lindbergh baby abduction is the work of a demented person, Col. Randolph said. "All that could possibly be done for the present to get the child back safely apparently has already been done,” Col. Randolph said. "Highways are being guarded and persons with knowledge of the Lindbergh home undoubtedly are being investigated.” He expressed belief that the child soon will be returned, pointing out that ' the resources of the entire Nation can j readily be devoted to the case. If It appears that any of th? gangs which the ' Secret Six” has traced is responsible, Randolph said, then the facilities and agents of that organiza tion will be available Immediately to aid in the search. "This case certainly is an argument for the bill now before Congress making kidnaping a Federal offense and death the penalty,” Col. Randolph added. SHOUSE IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, March 2 (IF).—Jouett Shouse, chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Democratic party, arrived in New York today to speak at a meeting of woman workers in the Democratic “victory drive” in the Empire State Building this after noon. He declined to be interviewed. "I have nothing to say,” he said. "You'd only be wasting your time and mine—and I have a full day.” ON WAY TO SCHOOL Son of Niles, Ohio, Contractor Seized by Two Men, Girl Informs Police. By the Associated Press. NILES, Ohio, March 2.—James De Jute, jr„ 11, son of a prominent con tractor here, was kidnaped today while on his way to school, police reported. The boy was driven off by two men in a small brown coupe, Anna May Mellina, 12, of Ashtabula, cousin of the boy, told Niles police. James fought off the kidnapers once when they grabbed him, Anna May told police. They clutched him again after he broke away and drove off, but did not attempt to molest her, she said Anna May is visiting the De Jute family. She said that about 8:15 am., as they were crossing a vacant lot, they noticed the brown coupe and that one of the men had the hood up as if he were making repairs. One asked the children if they knew where the contractor, De Jute, lived. They told him. Then, she said, the kidnapers asked James, jr., if he were the contractor’s son. James said that he was. The kid napers then grabbed him, she told police. On first reports the police did not learn the direction in which the men drove or obtain descriptions of them. Girl Saw Struggle. Catherine Lambing. 14. daughter of Laurence Lambing, Niles, told police that she saw the kidnaping and fight between the boy and men from the I opposite side of the street. She said that the automobile had different license plates. One of them, she said, was Ohio 830-353. She did not get the other. i The license number of the automo bile was issued to a man in Johnston, Trumbull County village. Police believe the automobile was stolen. While the mother was distracted at her home here, the father joined Sheriff John C. Risher and three deputies in the hunt for the kidnapers. Persons working in business houses near the Dejute residence said that they had seen a strange automobile near the boy's home for several days recently. The description of the two men in the automobile tallied with that of the two kidnapers as given by Anna May, but the automobile was different. Havana Bomb Hurts Several. HAVANA, March 2 UP).—Several persons were injured today when a powerful bomb exploded hi the busi ness section. -• Radio Program on Page A-12 Justice Agents Ordered to Aid Hunt. ALL FEDERAL FACILITIES USED Congress Will Push Bill Providing Death Penalty. Mighty and farflung agencies of the Federal Government cen tered their attention today on tracking down the kidnapers of the world famous baby of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, as congres sional leaders considered Imme diate passage of legislation mak ing kidnaping a Federal offense. News of the kidnaping last night of 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 3d, from his bed room i in the Hopewell, N. J., home of his noted flying parents shocked the Capital from President Hoover down. Confers With Mitchell. Taking an immediate personal interest in the case, the President conferred this morning with At torney General Mitchell. As a re sult of the conference at the White House the Attorney General directed that the extensive Na tion-wide detective service of the department be placed at once at the disposal of New Jersey State police. Immigration, customs and postal offi cials also have directed that their operatives cc-operate to the fullest ex tent possible. Indignant members of Congress saw in the kidnaping the final element needed to drive the might of Federal law against terroist extortionists now apparently organized in a kidnap “racket" of Nation-wide proportions. Senator Patterson. Republican, of Missouri, declared he would press for immediate action on his bill to make kidnaping across interstate boundaries a Federal crime penalized by death sentence. A colleague from Connecti cut, Senator Bingham, asserted the deed brought the kidnaping “racket" to public attention as never before and in dicated he favored legislation to curb it. Similar Bill Pending, Another bill is before Congress trans forming kidnaping into a Federal | offense. It was introduced by Representative ! Cochran of Missouri and hearings were | held on it last week by the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Sum ners of that committee announced- to day he would request permission of the House to sit this afternoon to hold further hearings on the measure. The Senate bill, introduced by Patterson, has been favorably reported by the sub committee headed by Senator Water man, Republican, of Colorado. J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, advised by Attorney General Mitchell of his conference with President | Hoover, telephone immediately to the 1 bureau’s New York office, instructing “every available assistance be rendered New Jersey State police." Donnelley to Aid. Hoover said he talked to E. J. Con nelley, head of the New York office, and directed that every facility possible be placed at the disposal of the New Jer (Continued on Page 4, Column T) TWO DIE IN GERMAN RIOT Police Intervene in Communist Attack on Hitlerites. BERLIN. March 2 UP).—Two persons were shot to death and several hurt at Tannenwalde. near Koenigsberg, today when police intervened in a Communist attack on a group of Adolf Hitler's Nazis. Some 20 Communists and half a dozen Nazis were injured last night in a pistol fight at Bildstock near Saar brueck. The Communists had invaded a Fascist meeting. At Essen today li Nazis were beaten and knifed in a street row with Com munists. BABY IS ILL WITH BAD COLD, MRS. LINDBERGH TELLS POLICE Mother Fears for Health of Child Taken Out of Bed Clad Only in Nightclothes and Without Blankets. By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL. N. J., March 2.—The Lindbergh baby, Charles Augustus, 3d, who was kidnaped last night from his crib, was ill with a severe cold, his mother, the former Anne Morrow, re vealed today. She expressed fear lest the child, clad only in night clothes, suffer from ex posure. Mrs. Lindbergh, striving to maintain her self-control with marked effort, told Patrolman Charles E. Williamson of the Hopewell police about the child's Illness. She said he had been under treatment for several day*. Williamson'a search of the herserg— he was the first officer to reach the Lindbergh estate following news of the abduction—revealed that no blankets had been taken, lending substance to Mrs. Lindbergh’s fears that the child was taken away improperly clad. The patrolman said also, quite em phatically, that there was no note on the window sill, although State police men later said such a note was found, but refused to divulge its contents. Williamson quoted Col. Lindbergh as saying: “It was very windy outside during the early evening, and the noise of the wind could very easily have blanketed strange sounds that at another time would have beast beards____ WfioiMTS Im PRESIDED I 5AY<5 you must ipr 191,290 PAY CUTS PROPOSED IN CIVIL SERVICE BUDGET Other Reductions Suggested in Independent Offices Appropriation Bill. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Many important reductions in appro priations, including $91,290 in salaries under the Civil Service Commission in Washington, are proposed in the inde pendent offices appropriation bill re ported to the House today by Repre sentative Clifton A. Woodrum of Vir ginia. Another “economy” is the elimination of the Lee Highay Bridge unit, which is an integral part of the original Arlington Memorial Bridge project, for which the budget included $160 000. The budget etsimate of $2,000,000 for the Supreme Court Building project has been reduced by the Appropriations Committee to $1,500,000 "upon assur ance of the architect of the Capitol.” Representative Woodrum told his col leagues, "that this amount will be suf ficient to carry on the work without interruption.” Bicentennial Budget Cut. The budget estimate for the George Washington Bicentennial Commission was reduced $152,230, of which sav ing $27,230 is for personnel, $50,000 for special and miscellaneous expenses and $75,000 for printing and binding. The bill includes $300,000 for the work of the commission during the fiscal year 1933, making a grand total of $1, 222,770 for all expenses connected with the organization and direction of the Nation-wide celebration. The appropriation for the Personnel Classification Board has been reduced $73,734, of which $23,734 was recom mended by the budget and $50,000 ad ditional lopped off by the Appropria tions Committee, assigning as the rea son that “the provisions now being in cluded in all the appropriation bills limiting salary increases through real location will operate to reduce mate rially, if not altogether eliminate, the reallocation work of the board.” Veterans’ Board Hit. The veterans’ administration suffers the biggest slash under the budget figures of any of the independent es tablishments, a total of $51,161,732, and the Interstate Commerce Commis sion comes next with a reduction of $1,533,231. Among other Important reductions under the budget recommendations, are: Federal Farm Board, $880,000; Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, $134,120; Employes’ Compensation Com mission, $32,900; Board of Mediation, $17,730; National Advisory Commission for Aeronautics, $30,000; Smithsonian Institution, $5,710; Board of Tax Ap peals, $10,000, and Federal Oil Con servation Board, $5,000. Seeks Seat MAJ. GEN. SMEDLEY BUTLER. BUTLERTOOPPOSE DAVIS IN MARY General to Seek Republican Senate Nomination in Pennsylvania. By the Associated Press. NEWTON SQUARE, Pa., March 2.— Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler today an nounced he is a candidate for the Re publican nomination for United States Senator against Senator James J. Davis. Gen. Butler said he would run on a bone dry platform and would have the | full support of Gov. Gifford Pinchot. Senator Davis recently announced he favors a modification of the Federal prohibition amendment. Gen. Butler made his announcement after a conference here with P. S. Stahlnecker, secretary to Gov. Pinchot. The general said he would have no ex tended statement to make until after he returns from his next lecture tour. The primary will be held April 26. The general will leave on his lecture tour after the marriage at West Chester Saturday of his daughter, Miss Ethel Peters Butler, to Lieut. John Wehle of Norwalk, Conn., an officer in the Marine Corps. NAZIS ISSUE APPEAL FOR HITLER ELECTION -. Call for Day of Reckoning Against What Is Described as "Mis rule of Republic.” By the Associated Press. MUNICH, Germany, March 2—Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist headquarters issued an election appeal today lauding Hitler as Germany’s savior and calling for a day of reckoning against what it described as the “misrule of the re public." Accusing the government of having suppressed the “Nazi liberation move ment,” it asked the voters to mete out punishment in the election on March 13. Strong terms were used in the doc ument. The Social Democrats were branded as "traitorous knaves” and the Catholic Centrists were called "hypo crites” and "grave-diggers of the Ger man people." The Jews, the statement said, were “pseudo Democrats, inciting Germans against each other with a poisonous press, to profit by their discord.” With out specifying names, the opposition was called "money bag patriots, flun keys, henchmen of opportunists and profiteers." Young Germany will arise on election day, the statement predicted, on the second anniversary of the signing of the Young plan by President von Hin denburg. "to claim its rights and elect Hitler, the only hope.” The Young plan, it said, plunged Germany "into imiiiw uA he&kseneskr” REPUBLICAN WET PEANK PREDICTED BT PARTY CHEFS Resubmission in Some Form to Be Proposed, High Sources Indicate. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Prediction was made in high Repub lican quarters today that the G. O. P. National Convention would adopt a plank in the party platform declaring for resubmission of the eighteenth amendment in one form or another. It was pointed out that the petition to bring a resolution amending the Con stitution so as to restore control of the liqour traffic to the States was signed by 76 Republican members of the House. This leaves 138 Republicans in the House who failed to sign. The expectation is. however, a num ber of Republicans in addition to those who signed the petition will vote on March 14 for the motion to discharge the House Judiciary Committee and bring the Beck-Linthicum resolution be fore the House. Strength Doubtful. Representative Beck of Pennsylvania, Republican wet leader of the House, gave no estimate of the final Republi can strength in favor of the resolution, merely contenting himself with saying he believed that more Republicans would be found voting for the motion than had signed the petition. Estimates of the total vote which will be cast for the motion vary from 175 to 200. Should 25 additional Re publican members of the House vote for the motion, then 101 would be on record as favoring amendment of the eighteenth amendment and only 113 against it. If the Republican membership of the House is shown to be -so evenly divided on the issue of resubmission of the eighteenth amendment it is reasonable to expect that the delegates to the Re publican National Convention, chosen particularly in the light of the fact that prohibition is to be an issue in the com ing campaign, will number many wets or near wets, as those favoYing resub mission of the eighteenth amendment are designated. Adoption Predicted. Indeed, the view was expressed today that if a resubmission plank is brought to the floor of the Republican Conven tion it will be adopted. The Resolutions Commrttee of the Republican National Convention doubt less, it was admitted, will report out a law enforcement plank. But it is ex pected that a minority report from the committee, backed by a very consider able minority, will be offered as a sub stitute on the floor of the convention. That minority report, calling for resub mission of the eighteenth amendment, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) TREASURY DEFICIT IS $1,781,017,496 All Sources of Government Reve nue Show Decrease From Last Year's Figures. By the Associated Press. The Government entered March with a $1,781,017,496 deficit. This was shown today In the Treasury report for February 29. For the eight months of the fiscal year the Treasury collected from all sources $1,334,563,076 and spent $3,115,580,572. The deficit threatens to approach the $3,000,000,000 mark unless additional taxes levied by Congress change the complexion of the Government’s ledger sheet. As in the past two years, the chief cause of the deficit has been a severe drop in Income tax collections. For the eight months this source of revenue has returned $658,121,342, compared with $1,171,431,024 In the same period last year. At the same time miscellaneous in ternal revenue has dropped $34,000,000 to $345,000,000 and customs duties de clined from $258,000,000 in the previous year to $247,000,000 this year. The gross public debt was increased nearly $2,000,000,000 last year, amount tot to $i8,135m»5V. __^ CHINESE FALL BACK FROM SHANGHAI AS PEACE PROSPECTS ARE LESS HOPEFUL Japanese Describe Retreat as “Rout” but Defenders Claim Withdrawal Is Neces sary Tactical Move. NANZIANG IS OBJECTIVE FOR RENEWED FIGHTING Geneva Receives Tokio’s Acceptance of Terms to End Hostilities, but Foes Insist that Warfare Cease Before Entering Into Negotia tions. (Copyright. 1932. by the Associated Press.) SHANGHAI, Thursday, March 3-—The Japanese advanced all along the Chapei-Woosung bat tle line today and had almost pushed the Chinese back to the 1214-mile limit set by the recent Japanese ultimatum. Woosung alone held out against the re lentless march of the big war machine. The Chinese Army at Shanghai was in a general retreat today aa prospects for a cessation of hos tilities and a peaceful settlement appeared somewhat slender. The Japanese described the re treat as a rout, as they occupied Tachang, 4 miles west of Kiang wan; Miaochungchen, a short dis tance north; the north railway station at Chapei and the city of Liuho, 20 miles from Shanghai on the Yangtae River. The Chinese described the re treat as a tactical move, made necessary wnen Japanese rein forcements were landed at Liuho, thereby endangering Chinese communications. They said they would retreat as far as Nanziang, 10 miles west of Shanghai, where they will establish new lines and continue the fight. Fighting was heavy and the Japanese announced the day’s casualties as 1,800 Chinese and 60 Japanese. The retreat, however, lessened the danger to the Inter national Settlement. Tokio's acceptance of the terms for an international conference to settle the Shanghai dispute was received at Geneva, but the Chinese refused to ac cept until hostilities are halted. Japan continues to Insist that the Chinese armed forces be withdrawn 12 miles Irom Shanghai. Tokio formally told the Soviet gov ernment that Japan has given no as sistance to "white” Russians in Man churia. The Japanese cabinet met in a spe cial session when the Privy Council re fused to approve an imperial ordinance approving an emergency bond issue of 22,000.000 yen to finance the Shanghai expedition. The Privy Council demand ed that Parliament act upon the matter, but the cabinet opposed a parliamentary session, fearing other difficulties may result. CHINESE TROOPS FALL BACK. Defenders Plan to Form New Line to Renew Battle; Retreat Called "Rout.'’ (Copyright. 1933. by the Associated Press.) SHANGHAI, March 2.—China's now world-famous 19th Route Army was retreating westward tonight after five weeks of stubborn fighting at Shang hai, closely pressed by a powerful Japanese war machine. The Japanese claimed that the Chinese soldiers, unable to stand any longer the terrible force of their ar tillery. aerial and naval attacks, broke (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) DRAFT COMPLETED FOR REVENUE BILL House Committee Speeded—Pres entation on Floor Due Monday. By the Associated Press. The big new revenue bill, which Is to raise more than a billion dollars a year for the Federal Government in addition to its present income, has been completely drawn at last and is to be ready for the House by Saturday. Acting Chairman Crisp brought the draft today before the full Ways and Means Committee after a subordinate group had whipped it together, includ ing a 2 per cent aaw/actures sales tax to yield about $525,000,uoo; special excise levies on selected industries to produce $300,000,000, and Increases in income, estate and gift taxes to bring Jn an adtu. inal $200,000,000. Crisp hoped to get all committee ac tion done by Saturday, to start the House debate next Monday and speed it to the Senate. The bill will carry several changes in administration to stop lealts by which the Government is now estimated to lose $100,000,000 annually. It will not balance quite the budget submitted to Congress by the President, but the House Democrats. Crisp said, are calculating a saving of $125,000,000 in Government expenses. If it mate rializes and the revenue bill gives the expected yield, the Government will find Itself on an even keel again at tha mA at U)A M H*!1 " | — --*• —•*—v .A