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Ernst Lothar “The Clairvoyant,” by Ernst Lothar, the first book to be published by H. C. Kinsey Cos., is the March choice of The Book League of America. It is published today and the title clearly Indicates the dramatic material cf the story. BY WALTER I). HICKMAN EVERY time that a novel of Tiffany Thayer is published it is safe to say that there is going to be a lot of talk because of the subject matter as well as the method of telling the story. Thayer’s “Thirteen Women,” just published by Claude Kendall, New York, and selling at $2.50, is going to cause as much talk for and against as his sensational “Thirteen Men.” The story concerns the tragic effect that a round robin letter, an endless chain letter, had on the lives of twelve women and another. In "Thirteen Women,” the orginator of this endless chain letter system, not only causes physical and mental suicide but attempts murder by poisoning and by continually placing the fear af death with certain of those who receive the letters. As certain parts of these chain letters are printed in the story, the result of the effects of the letters are shown as we have continual action following each letter. Some of the sex experiences of the women in this novel are as sensational as they are disgusting. But disregarding some of the distasteful subject matter, “Thirteen Women” is revolutionary in form and is expertly written. u The Modern Library is rapidly increasing its list of good reading at 95 cents a copy. The new list includes “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker; “The Old Wives Tale,” by Arnold Bennett; “The Magic Mountain,” by Thomas Mannans; “The Brothers Karamazov,” by Dostoyevsky. nun Indianapolis also is represented in the best selling class by Booth Tarkington whose “Mary’s Neck,” published by Doubleday-Doran, is a best fiction seller. tt tt Have been asked to “kindly recommend the best book concerning the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt. So far my selection is "This Democratic Roosevelt,” an “authentic biography," by Leland M. Ross and Allen W. Grobin. This is as near a nonpartisan study as I have read. a t> u Am receiving a lot of letters from readers of this department thanking me for recommending Ward Greene’s “Weep No More,” published by Harrison Smith, as mighty fine reading theater. Here is a most readable story, the best of the kitchen drinking stories I have encountered because all the characters are hitman beings and not fiction. SPORTSMEN ORGANIZE Lawrence County Group Will Work to Preserve Wild Life. By United I’rtss BEDFORD, Ind., March 4.—Lawrence county sportsmen today launched plans for a permanent v sportsmen’s organization to further interest in preservation of wild life and conservation of natural resources. The organization will be named the Lawrence County Fish, Game and Forestry Protective Association. Working in harmony with the state conservation department, members plan to hold regular meetings to discuss projects to be undertaken in Lawrence county.

CHAPTER OF TRAGEDY ENTERS LINDBERGH’S LIFE AND TURNS LUCKY DAYS INTO SORROW

Lindy’s platie collided will another 10,000 GTS He became a world hero overnight by flying Odnoe flood victims mobbedhTplane the atr and he leaped to safety with his parachute. across the Atlantrc. wU he brought them medicine. Baby son kidnaped from home at Hopewell, N. J.

"T UCKY LINDY," they called htm. ■■-..Four times he cheated death thousands of feet in the air by leaping with his parachute. Once when his plane collided with another 10,000 feet over Kelly field, Texas. Again when his ship went into a dreaded spin. And twice when mail planes ran out of gas in hdPtvy fog on the St. Louis-Chicago run.

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QUIET FUTURE IS SCHEDULE OF COOLIDGE Only Living Ex-President Shuns Busy World of Politics. HAPPY IN NEW HOME Spends Large Sum on His Estate and on Father’s Vermont Farm. Since he retired (rom the presidency, three years ago today. Calvin Coolidre's future haa been the subject of increasinc .peculation. He has not chosen to divulge his plans, but facts assembled by the United Press combine to indicate his mind is made up. These facts and the conclusion they point to are presented herewith. BY HENRY MINOTT (Copyright. 1932. bv United Press! NORTHAMPTON, Mass., March 4.—Calvin Coolidge seems resolved to spend the rest of his years in the quiet walks of life. Today, on the third anniversary of his retirement from the White House, it becomes increasingly evident that he does not choose to return to the whirl of world affairs —public or private. His name has been linked with many vacant posts in recent months, so much that one newspaper has called him “America’s handy man.” It was rumored he might succeed Dr. Arthur Stanley Pease as president of Amherst college (Coolidge’s alma mater); James A. Farrell as president of the United States Steel Corporation; or Oliver Wendell Holmes as associate justice of the United States supreme epurt. He was mentioned, too, in connection with the presidencies of a New York insurance company and of a projected New England dairy organization. Retirement Likely Permanent Meantime, the nation’s only living ex-President has maintained characteristic silence. Nothing has developed, however, to indicate that any open position interests him, and the following circumstances tend to support the belief that his retirement is permanent: 1. Soon after retiring as President, he bought a $40,000, 16-room mansion, “The Beeches”—an unlikely step if he contemplated only a temporary stay in Northampton. 2. He has made extensive improvements on his ancestral homestead in Plymouth, Vt., and will continue them in the spring, indicating he plans to spend considerable time there. 3. He spent nearly thirty consecutive years in exacting public capacities and seems happy in his comparatively carefree life of today. 4. Only once since he left the White House has he taken any part in politics. That was when he made one radio speech in behalf of his close friend, William Morgan Butler, in the 1930 Massachusetts senatorial contest. 5. He is understood to possess a tidy fortune, ample for his future needs. 6. He will be 60 next Fourth of July. Here in what long has been his home city, Coolidge leads almost as simple a life as when he was holding his first public office—city councilman—in 1899, Not Active in Law Though in the city directory, just above the name of Assistant Postmaster Austin B. Cooney of Hadley, one sees listed, “Coolidge, Calvin, lawyer,” there is nothing to indicate he is practicing this profession. Lettered on the door of the Coolidge office at 25 Main street is “Coolidge & Hemenway,” but this old-time law firm does not appear in the latest street and telephone directories. They reveal that Ralph W. Hemenway, Mr. Coolidge’s former associate, now has his son Kenneth as a partner. Nevertheless, Coolidge still walks or motors daily the mile between "The Beeches” and his office. There he spends much time answering his voluminous correspondence and dictating occasional magazine articles.

i ‘ Lucky—and resourceful,' they said, when he piloted the glistening Spirit of St. Louis across the treacherous Atlantic to Paris, in 1927. Overnight he became a world hero, the idol of youth, worshiped by millions, feted by kings and queens. Before he was 26. some 30,000,000 persons had cheered him. He was called th% “ambassador of good will,” and carried that fWrtfolio to more than half the capitals of the world.

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‘WORST OF ALL CRIMES; Child Stealing Appalling in Brutality

BY BRUCE CATTON NEA Service Writer THE kidnaping of small children has made some of the most tragic stories American newspapers ever have printed. From the days of the sensational Charlie Ross case down to the disappearance of the Lindbergh baby, the nation’s criminal history is studded with records of kidnaping. In some cases—relatively few—the missing youngsters later, have turned up alive, unharmed, and restored to their parents. In more, only a corpse has been found. In a few, the mystery never has been dispelled. A child -vanishes, an energetic search is conducted, a myriad clews are run down in vain —and there the matter has ended, with nothing definite ever learned about the child's fate. Undoubtedly the most widelyknown kidnaping of former years was that of Charlie Ross. This case illustrates, also, how futile sometimes are the most painstaking efforts to clear up such a mystery. tt u tt CHARLIE ROSS was 4 years old, the son of a well-to-do Philadelphian. Ona July day in 1874 he was playing on the lawn of his father’s estate when two men drove up in a spring wagon and enticed him away. His older brother Walter went with him on a promise of candy. At a drug store a few blocks away the wagon halted and Walter was given 25 cents and sent to get the candy. He went into the store, the wagon drove off—and to this day no one knows certainly what happened to Charlie Ross after that. For years the search went on. Unending rumors have been circulated about the little boy’s fate. Even within the last decade reports have appeared purporting to clear up the mystery. Various claimants to his name have appeared and each claim has been disproved. Somewhat similar was the equally mysterious disappearance of little Freddie Leib in Quincy, 111., in 1871. Freddie, 5 years old, simply toddled out to play one afternoon near his home and never came back. A search that extended from one coast to the other was begun, dozens of “messages” were received, scores of rumors were investigated, but nothing was learned. The only tangible clew was that furnished by a woman living on the edge of town, who reported that on the day the boy vanished she had seen a man go past her home in a buggy, accompanied bv a weeping boy. The man explained, she said, that he was taking the boy to an orphanage. Efforts to find him were futile, however. tt tt tt MORE recently there was the tragic case of Melvin Horst of Orrville, O. Melvin, a lad of 5, was last seen by his mother playing in the back yard of his home a few days after Christmas in 1928. Night came and the boy did not come in for supper. A search began that has been carried on to this day—but no trace ever has been found of the boy nor word as to his fate. After a year of investigation, two neighbors were arrested on a charge of kidnaping the boy, and were tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison. The state supreme court granted them anew trial, however, and they were acquitted. Still later, one of Melvin’s playmates told a story accusing two other men of stealing the child. The two were arrested, and each told a rambling and unconvincing story accusing the other of killing the boy. Neither story carried much conviction, and since no trace of Melvin could be found the case was written down as another unsolved mystery. SOMEWHAT like the kidnaping of Baby Lindbergh, in its beginning, at any rate, was the kidnaping of 12-month-old Blakely Coughlin, stolen from his crib in his father’s summer home near Norristown, Pa., in the summer of 1920. The kidnapers got into the nursery through a window in the middle of the night and carried the boy away. For five years so-called clews dn this case kept turning up,

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- ticed awa V from home by a irn WBBBF B killed and left in a cellar T nV' murderer, a feeble-minded man, w J WSm 'V * later arrested and confessed, but all proved groundless on in- fgpy v . j, * | ayyiw tt tt yestigation and the child was not J i TNFINITELY more pleasant ; found. WM f I ~ ... ‘ . Equally terrible are many of the |P||i : 1 ■***> ’ . 6 kldna P in S stones wh: cases in which the mystery has have “happy endings.” been cleared up. pipilhi One of the most sensational v Most notorious of all was the kid- the kidnaping of Edward Cuda naping of little Bobbie Franks of Wmimk. I HHM Jr _ J _ .• Chicago by Nathan Leopold and f n mo h ! P ? f Richard Loeb. This, the sensational ELj!? O, by Pat Crowe ’ fam<

but all proved groundless on investigation and the child was not found. Equally terrible are many of the cases in which the mystery has been cleared up. Most notorious of all was the kidnaping of little Bobbie Franks of Chicago by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. This, the sensational “thrill murder,” drew the attention of the entire country. Bobby Franks vanished -hile on his way home from school. After his father had received a letter demanding ranson, the boy’s body was found under a culvert on the outskirts of Chicago. Leopold and Loeb, sons of wealthy Chicagoans, were, arrested a little later, were saved from capital punishment by the eloquence of their lawyer, Clarence Darrow, and now are serving life sentences in the state prison at Joliet, 111. Almost equally notorious was the tragedy of 12-year-old Marian Parker, kidnaped in Los Angeles in December, 1927, by William Edward Hickman. The girl’s father, high official in a bank, received a note a few days later demanding $1,500 for return of the child. He went to a designated spot, paid over the money—and was given the dead body of his daughter, horribly mutilated. Hickman was caught later and was hanged in San Quentin prison before a year had elapsed. tt u LITTLE Billy Dansey, aged 3, went out to play near his home in Hammonton, N. J., one afternoon in the fall of 1919—and never came back. For six weeks the boy was sought everywhere in the United States—until his body was found in a swamp near the town where lie lived. He had been murdered and shortly after the discovery of the body the father of one of his playmates was arrested and accused of the crime. Six-year-old Mary Daly was another New Jersey child. Her parents lived in Montclair, and she was kidnaped one afternoon by Harrison Noel, a young man who had been held in an asylum for the insane for some time, but who had been paroled in the belief that his mental condition was all right, Noel murdered her and tried to collect ransom money from her father. He was* caught, found insane, and sent to an asylum for life. The same grewsome note runs through the tragic story of Dorothy Schneider, 5, of Mt. Morris, Mich., who was kidnaped, murdered and buried in a forest by Adolph Hotelling, a church elder, the father of five children and a supposedly reliable and decent citizen. Hotelling was caught, confessed and was sentenced to prison for life, after a mob of 15.000 had been prevented from storming the jail and lynching him only by the presence of a company of state militia. Similar was the murder of 6-

A ND then, in 1929, the hands of fate began 1 writing anew chapter—a chapter of tragedy I —into the colorful story of Charles A. Lindj bergh. He took his bride-to-be, Anne Morrow, for a j flight at Mexico City, a few weeks before their i marriage. A wheel came off and the plane ' turned over m landing. Lindy’s shoulder was

Five child victims in notorious American kidnapings are shown above. Upper left, Marion Parker of Los Angeles, whose lifeless body was tossed to her father by William Edward Hickman. Next to her, little Robert Franks of Chicago, slain by young Loeb and Leopold, the thrill murderers. Below them, Adolphus Busch Orthwein, son of the millionaire St. Louis family, kidnaped but returned alive. Upper right, Charlie Ross, another son of a wealthy family, who vanished in 1874 to become a legendary figure of kidnaping history. Center, below, Marian- McLean of Cincinnati, most recent kid-nap-murder victim whose mutilated body was found in a dank basement. year-old Marian McLean in Cincinnati in December cf 1931. Marian had been kidnaped by Charles Bischoff, a # 45-year-old shoemaker, who murdered her and hid her body in. a cellar. He was caught after the greatest man hunt in Cincinnati’s history, and his case now is awaiting disposition. This crime, in turn, was like the murder of Irving Pickelny, aged 5, of New York City. Irving was enHOOVER GRIPS HELM Starts Last Year of Term Confident Worst Is Over. By Uyited Brest WASHINGTON, March 4.—President Herbert Hoover at noon today began the fourth year of his “hard-luck” administration with a definite feeling that he has seen the worst of the depression and that better times are ahead. Mr. Hoover is in excellent health. He has had but one brief vacation in these three years, but keeps fit playing medicine ball daily, rain or shine. He seldom goes out, but he and Mrs. Hoover of necessity entertain frequently. He wound up his third year in the White House without ceremony, spending another ten hours at his desk. He had no statement to make.

dislocated. His fiancee was less seriously hurt. Then, in the summer of 1931, Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh started on what they expected to be a carefree vacation flight to the Orient. Their plane was forced down in the,Pacific and they narrowly escaped death. The plane upset in the Yangtze river, hurling both occupants info the water. Lindy flew with meiiicine to aid the stricken millions in China’s flood area and those

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ticed away from home by a man, killed and left in a cellar. The murderer, a feeble-minded man, was later arrested and confessed. tt a TNFINITELY more pleasant are the kidnaping stories which have “happy endings.” One of the most sensational was the kidnaping of Edward Cudahy Jr., son of the Omaha meat packer, in 1900, by Pat Crowe, famous bandit. Crowe and an accomplice released the boy unharmed on receipt of $25,000 ransom money. Crowe later was arrested, but since Nebraska had at that time no law to punish kidnapers of children more than 10 years old—and Edward Cudahy Jr. was just beyond that age—he had to be tried on a charge of robbing the father of $25,000. Public sentiment at the time was running strongly against the “meat barons” and Crowe was acquitted. Another child of wealth was kidnaped a little more than a year ago when Adolphus Busch Orthwein, young grandson of August A. Busch, of the Anheuser-Busch brewing concern, was spirited away from his parents’ home near St. Louis. After 5,000 police and deputy sheriffs had searched for days for him in the vicinity of St. Louis, he i was released unharmed. Jackie Thompson, aged 5, son of a wealthy real estate dealer in Detroit, was kidnaped in 1929 by James Fernando, who held the lad until the father paid $25,000 ransom for his return. Jackie was unharmed by his experience. And, a little later, when Fernando was caught, Jackie attended his trial and saw him sentenced to fifty years in prison. A SENSATION was created in Philadelphia in 1924 when Corine Modell, a 10-weeks-old baby, was stolen from a car parked in front of her parents’ home. A few days later she was found in possession of a woman who lived only a few blocks away. The woman confessed that she had stolen the child and had tried to make her husband believe that it was her own. Baby Corine was none the worse for her experience. In 1923 Albany, N. Y., was stirred by the kidnaping of Leopold Minking, the 7-year-old son of a city judge. After three days the lad was found, alive and well, in Newburgh, N. Y. He had been kidnaped by a nursemaid, who longed to have a child to care for. In 1910 little Billy Whitla was stolen from his home in Sharon, Pa., by Jim and Helen Boyle. They took the lad to Cleveland, 0., and held him ft* ransom, but their trail was discovered, they were caught and Billy was returned to his parents. The Boyles went to prison, the husband to die there and Mrs. Boyle to remain for a ten-year term.

he sought to aid mobbed the plane because they thought he carried food. The vacation ended abruptly in mourning when the famous flier and his wife, thousands of miles from home, received news that Mrs. Lindbergh’s father, Senator Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey, had died. And now kidnaping of their*' baby son, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., has added 4 new tragedy to their list of sorrows.

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ANGLO-FRENCH SUPPORT FOR JAPANBARED ‘Trade’ With Invaders Seen to Keep Yangtze Area Free From War. SEVERE BLOW AT CHINA ‘Understanding’ May Mean Certain Loss of Manchuria. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrinns-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, March 4.—lndications that Great Britain and France are supporting Japan, at least to the exent of a certain amount of moral backing, today cast a shadow across the far eastern stage. The price of this support apparently is abandonment of the Yangtze valley as a Sino-Japanese battlefield. Unless the Chinese throw a monkey wrench into the works, therefore, Japan is expected shortly to transfer her military and political activities in China to another terrain. This compliance with AngloFrench desires, it is 1 elieved, will make it possible for these two countries to prevent the League of Nations assembly, now in session at Geneva, doing anything drastic against Japan. Join to Block Action If the Shanghai truce materializes, France and Britain are expected to block any very definite action bearing on Manchuria and Mongolia until the league commission, appointed months ago, but which arrived at Shanghai only Thursday can make its report. The report, according to members of the commission, will take a long time—perhaps a year—to produce. Meantime, Manchuria and eastern inner Mongolia, which the commissioners are to investigate, have been transformed into anew and “independent” state. The former “boy emperor” of China, Henry Pu Yi, has been se- up as its “ruler.” If this new ‘independent” state thus carved out of China by the word of Nippon continues to give a fair imitation of functioning under its own steam, observers here predict, the league’s commissioners hardly will dare report back that its independence is a fake or that it is a puppet of Japan. Paves Way for Annexation Should Great Britain or France, or both, recognize the new state, admittedly the territory would be lost definitely to China and the way paved for annexation, “by request,” at the hands of Japan. And cables indicate that London is considering the move. British policy, under the present tory government, is directed by what is known the world over as the “Hongkong mind.” The Hongkong British are the most reactionary in the empire. China exists to be exploited. China’s 450,000,000 people are just a market and a source of cheap labor. Chinese nationalism is cockiness, something to be put down. To a certain extent, the Hongkong idea is prevalent elsewhere in Europe. Certainly France has been pro-Japanese from the beginning. Together, Britain and France successfully have blocked effective anti-war action by the council of the league from the start to the present time. British Act, When Hurt Neither country has any great material interest in Manchuria or Mongolia. When the Japanese attacked Shanghai, however, it was a different story—at least to the British. The Yangtze valley is Britain’s “sphere of interest.” And when it looked as if Japan intended to carry her war up that valley, into the interior, Britain began to act in earnest. Japan was given to understand very plainly that unless she called off her Shanghai show, Britain and France would find it difficult, at Geneva, to prevent the half a hundred smaller members of the assembly from getting away with a vote of sanctions.

Normal That Tells the Story of Healthy, Happy Baby Son of Lindberghs.

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. ... in a rare photo taken of him at the age of 1 month. By SEA Service YORK. March 4.—This is a word picture of the Lindbergh baby, and a story through which it is possible for the first time to tell something of the home life of the child with his illustrious father and mother. Little Charles Augustus is a healthy, normal child. Round, fat and merry, the child had lovely golden curls until last summer, when the curls were cut. He haa dark violet eyes like his mother s. About the mouth he resembles his father. For a baby of 20 months he shows great self-reliance. Even at this early date he shows evidence in his play of the extremely methodical ways of his father. Play-time being over, he carefully puts away his toys himself. And his nurse and the family have been impressed by the way in which he can fit bigger toys together. Charles Jr., has no fear of animals. He became especially fond of playing with Skeet, Mrs. Lindbergh’s black Scottie. The child’s affection for the bouncing puppy is thoroughly reciprocated. UNTIL late this winter the baby remained at Englewood at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, with his nursemaid. Because young Charles had no playmates here, he attended Elizabeth Morrow's day nursery in Englewood, being driven there daily by car. Charles Jr. never before had been taken to the new house on the big estate except for weekend visits. The kidnaping tragedy occurred during the family’s first extended stay in the country. Various Lindbergh baby rumors have been circulated and the family knew about them. They refused, however, to take any steps to stop such gossiping. It was proposed to Colonel Lindbergh that he have a movie made of the baby. He refused. Lindbergh also declined to issue any pictures of the baby beyond those taken within a few weeks after his birth. He said he hated his own baby pictures so much that he would not subject his own child to the same embarrassment.

,1 * * * LINDBERGH and Mrs. Lindbergh stood firmly together , on the ground that since the baby was theirs, they had the right to enjoy him privately, and were adamant in their refusals of the importuning of newspapers and magazines for stories or pictures of the child. Lindbergh declared in private conversations that he wanted Charles Jr. to grow up a perfectly normal boy. He said he did not feel this was possible if he had a constant spotlight of publicity turned upon him, even as a baby. The famous parents seemed to be highly successful in starting him out to be a healthy, happy boy. The baby is said never to have been ill a single day in his life, outside of the usuaf colds which every child has, and here is the daily diet to which the lusty youngster had graduated: 1 quart of milk. 3 tablespoons cooked cereal. 2 tablespoons cooked vegetables. 1 egg yolk. 1 baked potato. 2 tablespoons stewed fruit. 14 drops viosterol. When Charles Jr. awakened in the morning, he was given onehalf cup of orange juice. And as soon as he stirred from his afteri noon nap he was served a half cup of prune juice. a a a THE servants of the Lindbergh household at Hopewell, in addition to the child’s two nurses, are an English butler and his wife. The latter couple applied to the Lindberghs for employment at the time they rented the Hopewell place, before building the present place. Colonel Lindbergh asked the applicant butler why he came to him, when with such excellent references from England, and apparently such first-rate experience, he and his wife might get a swank job on Long Island. The man replied that he and his wife were not “smart” enough for the Long Island crowd. To which Lindbergh answered, that if they weren’t stylish enough for the Long Islanders, they were probably just the couple he was looking for. They were employed, and between them do all the work about the Hopewell household. BRIDGE CONTRACTS LET • -- Indianapolis, Boonville Men Get State Highway Work. Contracts totaling nearly $25,000 for four new bridges on state roads were awarded Thursday by the state highway commission. R. L. Schett, Indianapolis ccnl tractor, was awarded contract for | two bridges, one near Brown’s ValI ley and another near Crawfords- ; ville, both on State Road 47. Con- ] tract total was SIO,OBO. Henry V. Hay of Boonville, rejceived a contract for two badges on State Road 66 in Vandefiburg county on a bid of $14383,