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• i ffiriiri W K B P r n i Thar She Blows! It's a Good One Kite Flying Goes Scientific Pull Doesn't Depend on Its Size warning: Fre«h winds •T HHMato ColWg« mostly northeast; rain, alect or snow Indicated. Loadam off Different Which, In the lexicon of boyhood, ' Philosophic. during the kite-flying season, is as vital a message as comes to any •fHIRD BEST air mall pilot burling his plane through the clouds oo his regular run. Who Olvo Frooly to For. the kite season Is here. With the beginning of March every budding Ben Franklin develops symp- Mako Othors Happy Find Succassful Careers. toms familiar to mothers; an untidy mess in the kitchen or living room, missing scissors, a great 1—Oet while the fetUnc U good. splattering of paste and demands 1—Play the game of life on the for bits of cloth and quantities of level but share nobody's burdens string. other than your own. 3—Give td others freely that you Already they're in the air. One ly be happy yourself. flown successfully in Battle Creekbig, flexible kites In many sections. Then there are the several kinds of box kites and the airplane-type kites, three-sided and carrying wing surfaces. It is these last-named kites which are, perhaps, the most interesting. J THE ENQUIRER AND -EVENING NEW^ , DIBECTOR TELLS HOMESTEAD PLAN Million of Acraa of U. 8. Land Open, Norman D. Huff, Welfare Official, States. TRACTS IN WEST MOSTLY Grand Trunk Fuel Consumption Is Below Average of 121 Roads RELIGIOUS INSTITUTES WILL TRAIN PARENTS Battle Creek boys are developing Covernment Requires Living a high degree of skill in kite construction. The whole secret is balance. Perfectly balanced, kites can Three Years, Etc. Seven Months a Year for be pulled into the air when apparently there isn't the slightest breeze til they read Mr. Huff's announcement. three years, and make it productive seven months out of every year for along the surface of the ground. Battle Creek has many persons A And, if there are clouds in the sky interested in the government's At present the United States has to some degree, either by some form —denoting air currents, they'll remain aloft. homesteaders. The first requisite or cattle. If he follows these stand- ! through George homestead land projects, Norman millions of acres of land open to of agriculture, or by raising chickens for the Baptist organization but D. Huff, director of the welfare department, has discovered. F. Sturtevant. dlards set down by the government Ordinarily, however, kites need for obtaining the land is that the rector of Christian education of the observer counted 18 kites being about a l6-mlle breeze to remain applicant must be at least 21 years he will be deeded the land at the Michigan Baptist state convention, Recently Mr. Huff decided that flown from a vacant lot on Quest aloft. A wind velocity of more than old and either a native-born American or naturalized citizen. Any Mr. Huff says that any persons In- Council of Religious Education, end of three years. and also a member of the State needy and unemployed persons in ^niose are the, three principal street Monday. And, at least until 30 miles an hour Is almost too the city might be interested In obtaining homestead land from the - t>hilosopies of life. Dr. W. O, Spencer. president of Hillsdale college, with marbles and one ol' cat in the Balance, too. determines in large ments is eligible to be a homesteader. given every possible aid by the welal affairs. the first of June, the sport will vie strong. person who fulfills tnese requireterested in homesteading will be they were made interdenomination- told a group of 220 gathered at the affections of boyhood. measure how long they'll remain In government and made an announcement that he was sending for ma- Some in Michigan fare department to enable them to The one which includes Battle acoutleaders* training course at the In recent years kite-flying in Battle Creek has graduated from its tree-sitting stirred a fickle fancy, the air. Two summers ago, when Most of the land available for take some land. Creek and Calhoun county will be Boys* club last night. You can find terial relative to the project. He homesteading is in the far west although there Is some still left in held at the Baptist church in Marshall. them represented In every group ordinarily purely amateur status one boy kept a kite in the air for has not received any information of penwns or In any community, he into a sport which has almost as 24 hours—thereby hanging up ^ record at which other boys have been Qoalificatlons Given and the south. There is no home- of the state board of managers of BODIES ARE IDENTIFIED from possible homesteaders. PLAN FOR CONVENTION Michigan, other middle western states Lansing, Mar. 2.—(TP)—Members mOT many technicalities and Intricacies Actual Case Cited as golf. shooting ever since. That was almost a perfect kite and, during the called at Mr. Huff's office asking for applicant for homesteading can take and Teachers met here Tues- man and woman who committed More than two dozen men have stead land in the east, however. The the Michigan Congress of Parents New York, Mar. 2.—(JF)—A young To Illustrate the point he cited The reason is the annual tournaments, sponsored by the Civic Rec- time It was in the air. there wasn't information about homesteading. his choice of any land that Is availday to draft plans for the state con- suicide in a Hotel Hampton here three persons, each representing one of the philosophies, whom he had reational association in cooperation the faintest suggestion of a breeze evincing considerable Interest over able. After he chooses the land he vention of the organization to be have been tentatively identifled by met during coUege. The first type, with the schools, and held usually on the ground. the prospect of obtaining some land. has obligations in order to obtain held in Kalamazoo. April 20-22. Mrs. police as James Veruslo. 30. of New he explained, believed In playing in May. In fact, an authority on kites explains, balance makes all the dif- heard of the homestead project undence on the land, live on it for dent, presided. dress unknown. None of these interested had ever a title to it. He must establish resi- David Steward of Baginaw, presi- Rochelle. and Peggy Lush, 23, ad- square only Inasmuch as It was Last year approximately 125 boys convenient. The second was In favor of fairness only as long so the port. In previous years the con- does not govern Its "pull" on the entered competition at Kellogg airference. Within limits, size of a kite other fellow did the right thing. tests had been held at the Kellogg kite string. A well balanced kite The third, a classmate in coUege. ball park. may pull less than one half its size * was always ready to lend a helping There are ribbons for winners In which is less well balanced. And it hand even to an enemy. The latter. he said. Is today teaching in a various classifications—for the is the pull which breaks strings and length of time kites are kept in the loses kites. university near Shanghai when he air, for height at which they are The string which is found most might be president of an American flown and for design. satisfactory for kite-flying is a good Competition is open to boys under 15 years and It always is keen. wire, sometimes used, is frowned grade of cotton cord. Fine copper college. RUSH! RUSH! RUSH! upon because of- Its conductivity As to the relative value of the Just why March. April and May and the possibility It may touch three he cited examples from the should be kite-flying season In boyhood's calendar of events is a mys- lightning discharge. power lines or get In the way of a Bible of the fate that befell those of the first two classes and how tery unless it is that the fresh those of the third had won everlasting recognition. "Even Christ themselves to the sport. kite-flying city. Its hills set up air winds of March naturally lend Battle Creek is almost an ideal had a chance to wear a crown on Under the tutelage of C. C. Rapson. instructor at Ann J. Kellogg petus and there are areas, not too eddies which give the requisite im- earth and passed It up, to serve others." he said. He also used numerous Illustrations from American Creek's schools has reached a high ed space for kite flying and at the school, kite making in Battle far out, which offer almost unlimit- history. Taking the characters of degree of excellence. The best of same time lack the hazards of trees Aaron Burr 'and Alexander Hamilton he pointed out that the one ry fate through the breaking of the Though a new material, cello- the kites, those which escape a sor- and poles. point of historical Interest In the kite string or becoming entangled phane, Is coming into use as a kite former's character was his jealousy in telephone wires, usually are entered In the tournament. disfavor. A good, strong paper still material its transparency Is in Its while the portrait of the latter could be found on every $10 bill In circulationtion, of course, are the "barn door" for greater visibility. Tails, as In Best known to an older genera- has the call, preferably red or black He concluded with a plea that or six-cornered kites and the "diamond" or four-cornered. But acoutleaders give themselves to now- scouting. Tbe results win be better scouts, troops and acoutleaders, he said. In a abort talk that preceded Dr. Spencer's, Lee V. Mulnix, former acoutleader of troop three and at present a scout commissioner at Orand Rapids stressed the need for scoutmasters to have confidence In their boys. If you expect a boy to be bad he will display the worst ; men and boys alike live up to their reputation, he said. Battle Creek Last Bight's meeting was again presided over by B. J. Welsh, principal of Southwestern junior high. Besides the speeches, dinner, group ringing and regularly weekly classes in scoutleadership. prises were presented to two troops having perfect re-reglstration records and to the scoutmaster coming the farthest distance to attend the scoutleaders course. Last night's meeting was dedicated to scoutmasters from Marshall. A large group including Ex- Mayor Harold C. Brooks was present. A report on troop analysis, made recently by the national scout council, was presented by T. Ben Johnston. The report showed that the Battie Creek council ranked second In the seventh district with a rating of 98 points. First place is held by a Chicago troop. The United States Is divided Into 13 districts The seventh Includes most of the north central states. The two troops winning re-registration prises were 42 of Augusta and 53 of Marshall. Scoutmaster . of troop 79, Woodland, won the longest dis- prise for coming the tance. Short Memory Puts Bootlegger in JaU For His Third Time -Ban Diego, Calif., Mar. 2.—^P>— Frank O. Ward. 77, scrutinised the face of Prohibition Agent Willard A. Long yesterday in an evident effort to stamp It indelibly upon his memory. Twice he had mistaken that face to his grief. He served jail terms in each Instance on charges of selling liquor. "Say, old friend," he said, Tve been in Jail since I saw you last. Do you want to buy a bottle?" Long arrested him. • "My eyes must bs getting bad," Ward said later, -but Vm going to remember that fellow the next time I see him." The judge decided Ward would not meet Long on the street again for at least six months. mSTIBSD BISHOP DIES New York Mar. 2.—(*>>—Bishop Francis Wesley Warne, a retired bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church who was a missionary in India for 41 years, is dead here from a complication of disease at the age of T7. adays, there are styles of which boys of yesteryear never dreamed —star kites, bird kites, butterfly and bow kites, all given names of the objects which the kites represent. And. In last year s tournament, were entered two dragon kites—believed to be the first ever made and LOUIS A. WEIL ELECTED ONE OF VOTING TRUSTEES Port Huron Editor Fills Vacancy Left by U. S. Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Announcement was made here yesterdajT^f the election by Federated Publications, Inc.. of Louis A. Well of Port Huron, as one of the three members of the voting trust holding the common stock of Federated Publications, Inc.. in trust for voting purposes. Mr. Well, who Is editor of the Port Huron Times-Herald and life-long newspaper man of prominent standing in the state, was elected to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg the oldsters' boyhood days, still are constructed either from bits of cloth or paper. Some of the more adept among Battle Creek's juvenile kite flyers frequently let out 900 feet of string on a kite. Much more, and the risk of losing the kite mounts too rap- Idly. It s a good sport, kite-flying. of Grand Rapids, former publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald, who resigned because of the pressure of his public duties and his extended absence from the state. Federated Publications. Inc.. is the owner of the common stock of the corporations publishing the Lansing State Journal, the Grand Rapids Herald and the Battle Creek Enquirer and news and of the Newspaper Engraving Co. at Grand Rapids. The other voting trustees are Russell J. Boyie, publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald, and Albert L. Miller, publisher of the Battle Creek Enquirer and News. Mr. Miller Is president of Federated Publications. Inc. Inland waterways America's freight. ^eWholesome SAKIHC carry 2% of Hundreds of men in Battle Creek who comprise the Grand Trunk family, from the engineers of the road's crack trains to the humblest wipers in the roundhouse, find pride in a record made by the road during the last year. • Annually the American Railway association determines the average of fuel burned by locomotives in hauling 1,000 Urns of freight and equipment one mile. In railroad parlance It's the average for "l.000 gross ton miles." That average for 1931 waa 119 mtm Brawny backs march the weighty sacks of plump green berries into the mammoth Kroger roasting plants. Out comes the fragrant coffee — timed to the second^ browned to a turn. Into the packages it goes—away it's whisked by swift motors to the Kroger Stores. Rush! Rush! Rush! That's how Kroger puts the whole-flavor of freshly roasted coffee into your cup. Kroger beats time— the thief of coffee flavor. Beats it by rushing the oven-fresh coffee into the Kroger Stores. Just a little at a time. Just enough to sell quickly while it's at the peak of fullest flavor. Drink in the indescribable aroma that drifts from the coffee-grindcr in any Kroger Store. Only the freshest coffee could have such a bouquet. Taste Kroger coffee. Ah!— a golden, glorious flavor that has won the pounds of coaL The Orand Trunk's average 118 pounds, one pound under the average for 121 railroads in the United States. And, while the factors which enter roads' fuel consumption are almost unintelligible to the layman, as explained by a railroader, one senses the pride with which B. J. Farr. general superintendent, says: "It is very gratifying to the Orand Trunk to know that it is under the average for 121 railroads of the country favor of millions. Price Kroger coffee. It's always surprisingly low. Sold by the thousands of pounds every day, Kroger can afford to take a smaller profit. Sold direct, without the tax of in-between handling, Kroger can sell it for less. It must please—or your money hack! Try any one of the Kroger coffees—in the price range you prefer. Brew it your favorite way —boil it, perk it, drip it. Then sip it, taste it—if, penny for penny, it's not the bestflavored coffee you've ever bought, return what's left in the package and we'll return your'money. That's how confident Kroger is of its better, fresher coffees* KROGER'S kill First notices of an Institute f< religious training of Sunday school wortoers awd parents of children under 12 to be held at Marshall. March IB, are being mailed to Sunday school superintendents and children's workers in Calhoun county this week by Miss Lulu Young, superintendent of the Calhoun County Council of Religious Education. The institute will be for workers in several counties and is one of a number of such gatherings being held throughout the state. The insttutes were first planned by and f
BATTLE CWECK, MICH., WEDNCBOAT, MARCH t, USf THE ENQUIRER AND EVENING NEWS UNDBERGH CASE CLIMAXES TWO-YEAR WAVE OF KJDNAP1NGS i.iii on ienE Noted Aviators REPORT $50,000 ASKED FOR SAFE RETURN OF BOY Form Posse to ABDUCTION IS UIO ~ PERSONS SIOLEII Hunt K idnapers TO MIDDLEWEST GANG flings Torturo and Tarroriza Victima Into Paying Millions of Dollars. SEEK FEDERAL WEAPONS Famous Abductions Data Back To tha Diaappaaranca of Charlas Ross In 1874. Chicago. Mar. 2.—iff)—The kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Jr.. came as a rltmay to what anU-crime crusaders here said was a two-year wave of kidnaping in which 3.000 or mora persons were abducted for ransom in the United During those years, authorities said, kidnaping joined robbery, liquor. vice and drug traffic as a "big money crime." Kidnaping syndicates tortured or terrorised victims into paying millions of dollars ransom. they said. lUlneis Is Hoi Bed •There probably were 400 kidnaping* In Illinois during 1930 and *31." said Alexander Jamie, chief investigator of tha "Secret Six" here. -Forty-nine victims reported officially paid ransom, many others were released without ransom, and several hundred made no olllcial reports. In a desperate fight to stem the wave, midwest crime fighters have banded together to obtain federal legislation that would deter abductions by making transportation of a kidnaped person from one state to another a capital crime. A petition for such legislation has bean submitted to congress by Col. Robert Isham-, Randolph, head of Chicago's famous "Secret Six." Walter B. Weisenburger. president of tha St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, and others. The Most Famons Cases Although organized kidnaping for rantom -are a comparatively recent outgrowth, the authorities recsiied that the kidnaping of the Lindbergh a long list of abductions of tha last few decades, of which these reoeived nation-wide attention: Fa., never found although large T - wards have been offered for his safe 'return. ' 1896—Gerald Lapiner. Chicago. Later found in Ohio. 1900—Edward Cudahy. of the fa- . mous meat packing family. Pat Crowe served a prison term for this . kidnaping. ' 1907—Rose Giordano. New York. Returned home and abductors artwo years later. -Billy Whitla. Sharon. Pa., after payment of $10,000 ransom. Kidnapers sentenced to - I • r-ifc-i prison. 1910—Michsel Solmeca, New York. Held for $8,000 ransom and later found slain. 1911—Letha and Hasel Gretchel. • Chicago. Brought back from Kenosha. Wis.. unharmed; Baby Bracks. Chicago. Her fate is still a mystery although she was believed to have been slain. 1913 — Catherine Winters. Newcastle. Ind. Never found. 1915—Ginny Glass. Jersey City, K. J- believed to have been slain. 1917—Baby Lloyd Keet, Springfield. Mo., found slain. 191S—Billy Dansey. New Jersey, found -months later in a 1994—'Bobby Franks. Chicago. Slain for a "thrill" by Nathan Leojnld and Richard Loeb. university stodents now serving Ufe and 99- year terms in the Illinois penitentiary at Joliet for the crime. Marian Parker Slain 1897—Marian Parker. 13. Los 'Angeles. Her mutilated body was returned to her father and after a sensational hunt. Edward Hickman was hanged In 1938 as her "thrill slayer". Melvin Horst. 4. Orrville. O.. never found. Two men went to prison, convicted of kidnaping, but later won new trials and acquit- SNIFF—SNIFFLE Mt. Holly. N. J.. Mar. 2.—(JF) —Sniff, sniff. Troopers Armano and Erwin did just that as a truck passed them on the highway. What they sniffed prompted a peek. A stiU. first portable outfit of its kind on record, waa bubbling merrily inside the truck. Three Philadelphia's accompanying the machine miffed also when brought Into court. Bat it was a different kind of a sniff—more like a I sniffle. r - ^ &nr?t .Gof. r' Mi^hawaka. O.. ved alter be—The kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby likely will prove the final element needed to drive the might of federal law against terrorists extortioners? now apparently organized in a nation-wide kidnap "racket."' A handful of veteran congressmen only last week were stirred to a pitch of determined indignation after hearing a terrible tale of kidnaping and torture for ransom, operated wholesale in the midwest by an alleged ring working in many cities, spiriting victims from city to city to place the barrier of state lines between the criminals and the law. Hardened to moving pleas, slow to encroach upon Jurisdiction of the states, these men—members of the house judiciary committee—are out for a federal law with "teeth" enough to promise the electric chair to the kidnaper it catches. Such a bill is now before them, introduced by Representative Cochran of Missouri. "It is war!" pronounced Chairman Sumners after Robert I. Randolph, head of Chicago's famous "Secret Six" anti-gangster unit, and a group including both Chicago and St. Louis professional and volunteer crime fighters, had told their story. • It was a stolid recital, delivered in clipped, unemotional sentences, of instance upon instance of skillful. nerve-breaking torture to children. mothers, ' businessmen, by criminal bands clever enough to baffle and stall the most deter- FAMILY FORTUNE OVER 20 MILLION Lindy and Anna Worth Over Two Million and Mrs. Morrow Has Nearly 19 Million^ New York. Mar. 2.—(JF)—The fortune on which the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby apparently seek to lay hands constitutes one of the largest in New Jersey. Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindberg are believed in aviation circles here to be worth between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. while the fortune which the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow, a former Morgan partner, left to Mrs Lindbergh's mother has been popularly estimated at nearly $19,000,000. Colonel Lindbergh was a poor boy when he hopped off in a borrowed plane for Paris in a flight that made him the world's foremost blrdman. . Fortune smiled. Large sums came to him from a book he wrote. The first check he received from the book waa $100,000, aviation circles said, and royalties are still coming in. Miscellaneous awards in recognition of his flight swelled the total, while in 1929 newspapeprs said the then Ambassador Morrow had established a $1,000,000 trust fund for his daughter Anne, Lindbergh's wife. mined efforts of local authorities to apprehend them. promising—weighed seven and onehalf pounds. He is now strong and 1838 Jackie Thompeon. Detroit. REPORTERS ON SCENE golden-haired. Blue eyes peer out Returned after payment of $17,000 GET LINDBERGH GARAGE from a chubby face, and his locks ransom and three men convicted have a way of curling and rumpling and $5,000 recovered later. Hopewell, N. J., Mar. 2.—(**)— like his father's. He has begun to 1830—Michael H. Kate, drug company head. Kansas City. Paid tired after a hectic night's work In There was some discussion among Mud-spattered reporters, cold and toddle about and lisp. $HNM)00 for his release two days covering the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby, were given the flying called, but of course his mother was the family as to what he should be after abduction. 1531—Mra Nell Donnelly. Kansas colonel's garage as a headquarters the final arbiter and "Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Jr.," he became. Ctty manufacturer. Held for $50.- early today. 800»ransom but returned safely CoL Henry Breckenrldge, Lindbergh's attorney, served coffee to Before he was very old his father On Front Page Again supposedly without payment; Dr. Isaae D. Kelly. St. Louis, held for newspapermen and threw open the yielded to the eager requests of 8150.000 ransom but released after garage for those who were at the newspapermen and, taking photographs of him with his own camera^ paying undisclosed sum. scene earliest last night. Included 1831—Marian McLean. 8. Cincinnati, found dead from criminal ers of The Associated Press, first They got front-page position every- in the number were two staff writ- distributed them to newspapers. assault. Charles Bischoff. 45. confessed. was declared Insane, and was reporters at the aviator's home. where. State troopeis kept hundreds of - The little boy has never taken a sent to the state hospital for the curious spectators away from the ride In an airplane. Before he was criminal insane, for obeenration. estate. four weeks old it was reported he 1931—Adolphus Busch Orthwein. would fly with his parents to the 13. St. Louis, son of Percy J. Orthwein and grandson of August A. Haven, Me, but it was postponed, U. S. BORDER PATROLS home of his grandfather at North WATCH FOR KIDNAPERS Busoh, was returned safely after and later physicians vetoed the plan. being held 30 hours. Family denied paying ransom. Charles Aber- ears, they said, the roar of tho en- Even if cotton were stuffed into his Niagara Fslls. N. Y., Msr. 2.—(JF) —Search for . Charles Augustus nathy. Negro, now serving 10 years gines might impair his hearing for Lindbergh. Jr.. and his kidnapers In prison for the kidnaping. life. extended to the International border today. United States immigra- his life he stayed at the Morrow So, for the first few months of tion customs authorities here home, guarded like - the precious received instructions from Washington to keep cloee watch on. the border to prevent the escape of the abductors to Canada. Instructions i from Washington were\to pay particular attention to autonsobiies bearing New Jersey license plates. AU cars licensed in that state crossing tbe bridges were subjected - to thorough search and their occupants rigidly questioned. German architects, who are seeking to cbnstruct jointless houses, have presented to German chemists the rree'ficaticns for a plastic wall putty which will make such constructton RADY ILL WITH GDLD, HIS MDTHER REVEALS Anne Lindbergh Fears Child May Suffer from Exposure If Not Properly Glad. Hopewell, N. J.. Mar. 2.—(JF)— The Lindbergh baby, Charles Augustus, Jr., who waa kidnaped last night from his crib, was ill with a severe cold, his mother, the former Anne Morrow, revealed today. She expressed fear lest the child, clad only in night clothes, suffer from exposure. 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 days. Williamson's search of the nursery—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 emphatically, that there was no note on the window sill, although state policemen later said such a note was found but refused to divulge Its contents. Williamsoon quoted Colonel 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 been heard." BABY LINDY NOT YET TWO BUT HE'S WORLD FAMOUS (Continued from Page One.) in a transport of felicitation. In New Jersey little children picked daisies and carried them to the guards for "Lindy's Baby." Healthy from Start Gifts poured in, from baby carriage to Xuszy dogs and the nursery became crammed with an assortment of toys that would delight any child's heart. Mothers throughout the nation read all about It with avidity. ^ . It was important news when a despatch from Washington told that the child's first book was to be The Painted Pig by his grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrow. At birth the child—robust and youngster he is, and only left there to take several trips by train to Maine. When his parents flew to the Orient last year he was tahen to North Haven for a long visit to escape the infantile paralysis epidemic Which was sweeping New York vicinity. Cranks, it was disclosed, had sent several letters threatening danger to the baby and for a time special watchmen were hired to guard him. For several months he has been a pupil at the private kindergarten of his aunt, Elizabeth Morrow at Englewood. He is described as an eaceptirfflaJly brisfet Qhil^ - (Continued from Page One.) the Lindbergh estate—five miles back in the Sourland Bill country, as lonesome as a solo flight from New York to Paris—and there haa been no trace found of him since. There were clues, but the trial was vague. At least one of the kidnapers was a woman. Footprints told officers that. One of the men— there was one man and perhaps more—was in his stocking feet, or wore moccasins. There was mud on the sill of the nursery window. There was a three-piece ladder, mutely explanatory of the method by which the kidnapers reached the sleeping child. There were tracks leading a considerable distance and then being lost as the kidnapers apparently go into an automobile. The lean colonel, who dared death along the uncharted New' York- Paris airway with silent calm, appeared numbed by the catastrophe that reached into the lonely hills to strike at him. Dressed in a leather jacket, an old cap and a worn pair of trousers, his shoes caked with the sour mud which gives name to the region, he tramped most of the night, seeking some clue to his lost namesake. Sees Bundle in Ditch In the early hours of the morning a truck driver, arriving at Philadelphia. reported that he had seen a blanket - wrapped bundle "that looked like a baby doll" lying in a ditch beside the roadway a mile and a half from the Lindbergh place. State police, who Immediately searched the entire area, reported they were unable to find any such bundle. Police had not Intended to reveal their discovery that one of the kidnapers was a woman, but after the information had-been Inadvertently revealed, they elaborated somewhat. They said the clear mark of a woman's shoe had been distinguished among the formless prints of the man, or men's, stockinged feet. Major Charles Schoeffel of the state police said the tracks of the kidnapers started from the west side of the Lindbergh home and were traced a distance of two miles. Kidnapers Leave Note There were several crossroads, he said, where a car might have picked them up but he would not say if tracks of a car that might have been used had been found. All roads were so cut up by the visiting automobiles after the alarm was spread that it was impossible to distinguish tire marks. On the nursery window was pinned a scrawled note the contents of which have not been divulged, which the kidnapers left. State police intimated that It was a demand for ransom. The police flashed the alarm of kidnaping over their statewide automatic printer. Princeton police reported that a few hours before the kidnaping took place, two men in a dark sedan stopped a highway worker and inquired directions to the Lindbergh home. Police watched all main highways throughout the state for a car answering to a vague description of the kidnapers' automobile. Nurse Makes Discovery The kidnaping was discovered at 10 p. m. The baby's nurse. Betty Gow, had put him to bed at 7:30. When she returned to the nursery there was only a heap of disordered blankets In the crib. . She rushed screaming down stairs to the dining room, and told the colonel and his wife, eating a late dinner, what had happened. Colonel Lindbergh Immediately telephoned the state police and the news of the kidnaping was broadcast to police in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The first newspaperman to reach the Lindbergh residence, waa an Aasoclated Press reporter, who found the colonel, bare-headed as usual, nervously pacing the grounds, while state and local police and detectives went over the estate with flashlights. The house, ablaze with lights, was silhouetted against the foreboding background of the wooded Sourland hills. Household Won't Talk Colonel Lindbergh refused to make any statement. His butler. Ollie ^Theatley, who hovered anxiously near his master, likewise nervously declined to have anything to say. Mrs. Wheatley, the butler's wife, who was the fifth adult in the house when the kidnaping was staged, likewise would not talk. The only statement Colonel Lindbergh made was: "I prefer that Major Schoeffel answer all questions. He knows all about it. I would rather turn everything over to the state police. I am sure you will understand." The search of the ground of the estate yielded a scant handful of clues to the kidnapers, who had worked with such quiet, and stealthy dispatch that the five adults in the house were never aware of what was happening in the nursery upstairs. Cnrions Jam Reads The nursery, which is filled with every device for childish pleasure, is situated in the right hand corner of the second floor front, and faces on the private roadway. The open window through which kidnapers entered Is 30 feet from the ground. A cordon of police was thrown about the Lindbergh estate early today, to keep out the hundreds of private cars which sped there after hearing of the kidnaping. Roads fcr miles around were snarled In a hopeless traffic jam. Police have discovered no flngerprinta in the nursery. Tbe ledge of the nursery window by which the kidnapers entered was covered with dirt, evidently from the man's feet. • One Shatter Unlocked ' Both the nursery windows were unlocked. The shutters of the wlni dow are usually locked but last nitfit bo* Mrs. UnOhergh and tha nurse had failed to lock one of them. The catch would not work. The balky shutter was on the windo# which the man used to reach tt.j baby's crib. Police persistently refused to divulge the contents of the reputed ransom note left on the window sill. They did say. however, that Inquiry would be made whether the 50 men employed in the building of the Lindbergh mansion were paid by check to determine if there were any signatures similar to the writing in the note. CoL Henry Breckenrldge. of New York. Lindbergh's attorney, accompanied by another man and a woman, arrived at the house early today and went upstairs immedateiy. Go Over Ground Again Col. Lindbergh remained indoors from 5:30 to 6:30 this morning and then renewed the search about the estate. Accompanied by a group of troopers, he went over all the ground covered last night by the aid of flashlights. Colonel Breckenrldge, who has taken complete charge of the house, warned reporters not to follow the aviator around, under penalty of their being put off the estate. Mrs. Lindbergh could be seen through the windows. Like her husband, she showed the strain of the ordeal and her eyes were swollen and red from crying and lack of sleep. She was dressed in sport clothes. A trooper entered the house with a blanket but it was Immediately denied it was taken with the baby Lindbergh. TAX REDUCTION ARE SEEN AS SURE RESULT (Continued from Page One.) from 1910 to 1930 of 750 percent" as reason for such protests and reviewed the causes of the present burden of taxation. "The total cost of government, federal, state and local in 1890," said Mr. Lovett. "waa $855,000,- 000; in 1929 it was $13,048,000.- 000. On » per capita basis, it was $13.56 in 1890 and in 1929 It was $107.37. In 1913 the cost of government took about $1 Cor e^ery $15-50 of our national income, and now it takes about $1 for every $5 of our national income." State Tax But Small Mr. lovett discussed taxation division within the state and concerning taxation for state government said. "The state's revenue comes largely from specific taxes, and the burden upon property for the state tax is practically negligible, only about 10 percent of the tax total. The rate today for state purposes actually Is less than it was in 1910." He said the state budget for 1933 would be $28,783,000, compared to $29,315,000 in 1932, and praised the present administration's efforts in reducing the $8,000,000 deficit which faced it. Special Service Reviewed Mr. Lovett reviewed some of the special services being supplied by the state, and for which the taxpayers foot tho bill. "There are some two million dollars in the present state budget far medical services for children and for transportation of children in Michigan," he said. "No doubt this is a worthy service, but the question Is immediately—can the taxpayers stand it? "The extension work of the agricultural colleges among the farmers runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. That is a splendid service, paternalistic it is true, but can the farmer afford to psy for It? Can the taxpayers support this service? In the last 10 years in Detroit some 300 different activities have been added, all of which started slowly with a small budget, but expanded with such rapidity as can only be found in governmental service." "It Is quite apparent," he said, "that the state government has not added to the property taxes of Michigan. Where, then, has the great increase been. Inasmuch as there has been an increase in the total amount of taxes raised from 1910 to 1930 of 750 percent? Let's get back to local taxes. Local Taxes Blamed •County taxes In 1929 were 5.32 times as great as they were in 1913. School taxes in 1929 were 6.83 times as great as in 1913. Other local taxes in 1929 were 5.87 times as great as they were in 1913. Even without greatly ineerasing the valuation of assessed property on the tax rolls, the tax rate for county, school and other local taxes combined, increased from $17.90 per thousand of valuation, to $28.11 per thousand In 1928. It is manifest that the Increased burden on the general property tax Is being caused entirely by the socalled local taxes. "In addition to the enormous sums spent in taxation, the total bonded indebtedness of the political subdivisions of Michigan have raised the enormous sum of approxiately $800,000,000. "One oould go on analysing the statistlcs of taxation for hours, but we would all come to the ultimate conclusion that too much money has been spent for services which the people themselves should lock after and assume the responsibility for." Robert R. Thomson, president of tha Manufacturers' club. Introduced MT. Lovett and State Senator E. L Branson who briefly Tlinruvird the taxation problems which confront the state legislature at its special session which convenes on March 29. Week Of FaU Horace. Ken. Three men, during a recent severe storm here, abandoned their auto to sleep in one of four boaoars along a railroad siding. A strong wind during the storm blew the car in which they were sleeping on the main track. An approaching train struck the car, crushing it to splinters and killiwi the ttvea men.. ~" Member of Wlckaraham Commission Saya Job 'Obviously Was Work of Expsrts.' Washington. Mar. 3.——An opinion that the kidnaping of 30- month-old Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr., was "obviously the work of professionals" and possibly was done by an organized kidnaping ring from the midwest, was expressed today by Frank J. Loesch. who was a member of the Wickersham Loesch. president of the Chicago crime commission, declared emphatically the crime bore the stamp of kidnapings engineered by a gang ha believes is centered in or near Chicago. "It was a marvelously arranged affair," he said. "It showed marked famillary with the Lindbergh premises and those who did it must have been waiting for a long time and must have benefited from Inside information—I mean casual or unwitting information gained from some member of the household." ADMITS DISORDERLY CHARGE (Special to th« Knqnircr-Newa^ Coldwater. Mar. 3.—FraxKis Greeley, Matteson township, was fined in lower court here on a charge of disorderly conduct. He pleaded guilty to being responsible fot the breaking up of a religious gathering. He was fined $10. CHINA'S TROOPS BESIN RETREAT FROM SHANGHAI Tnntinned from Faoe One.) westward tonight on the heels ef the Chinees. The Japanese airplanes continued to speed the relreatlna Chinese as did the infantryman and marhine gunners, but the artillery remained behind. Chapel, which haa been reduced to a mass of wreckage sinoa the hostilities began, waa dsaerted by tha Chinese by 8 o'clock tonight. A number of huga fires roared In the battered city, demoliahing whatever waa left. The Cfilnsae rear guard kept up a running fire with the Japanese as tha army withdrew. Soldiers and civilians alike jammed the borders of the international settlement along Soochow creek in the first cruch of the retreat but the mass of humanity soon dwindled and disappeared westward. Following the departure of the Chinese, the hostilities which have threatened the very existence ol Shanghai for five weeks died down considerably. Some observers predicted the retreat would bring an end to the fighting but the Chinese insisted that the battie would be renewed. The Immediate danger to the international settlement from the huge forces surrounding It was at least temporarily lessened. Reports that the Chinese troops were looting and burning as they retreated were regarded here as without foundation. .Chinese Spirits High The soldiers seemed to be in very good spirits aa they began the backward movement, traveling on The Nation's Favorite COFFEE costs only 19 a pound EIGHT O'CLOCK COFFEE M I L D AND M E L L O Eight O'Clock has a glorious flavor and mellow smoothness that makes it the nation's favorite among all coffees. As good as Eight O'Clock Coffee is, you may find Red Circle or Bokar Coffee even more suited to your particular taste. Here are three blends of fresh coffee, different in Jlavor to cover the entire range of coffee tastes, but each of unsurpassed quality. We believe you will find one of them the best coffee you ever tasted. And remember, the coffee you like best is the best for you, no matter what it costs. The A 8lP Coffee Trio, far ouUelling any other three. coffees, have become the National Standards of Quality. IX foot and In -motor trucks after the* were a few out of • Chinese military advices said Jap-* anese airplanes continued lata thia afternoon. A bomb attack becun earlier in the day on the Shanghai- Nanking railway in the vicinity of Kunshan and also at Nanziang, 10 milee from Shanghai, in an attempt to cut off communications between Shanghai and Nanking. One of the chief targets for the bombs was a large steel railway bridge near Kunshan. The stations at Kunshan and Nanziang were demolished. The Japanese said the Chlneea lost 1,800 men killed, while their only 80. 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