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Romance Ruth Hanna McCormick Weds Ex-Congressman From New Mexico.

IS 7 United Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 9.—A romance that started In congress today culminated in the marriage of Ruth Hanna McCormick end Albert Gallatin {Simms. The Rev. Paul G. Roberts, rector of the Grace Episcopal church,

performed the ceremony in the bride’s modest home in fashionable Broadmoor, in the presence of twenty - five close friends Mrs. James L. /'ilshire of Boise, Idaho, was matron of honor, and the groom's brother. John Field Simms, former justice of the New Mexico court, (was best man. “He's the only

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one on my side that’s here,’’ said the handsome Simms, former rep-f-s.-ntative of New Mexico in the national capital. Socially, politically and financially one of the outstanding women of the country, Mrs. McCormick met Simms, tall, grayhaired westerner, when she was congressman-at-large from Illinois. Both arc Republicans. They occupied nearby seats in the house. “But she was a progressive and T was a conservative,” Simms said. “We may have differed on some of our votes, but we never had a fight. I'm a. consei.ative because J think that is the best way to progress, but we never let our political views interfere with our friendship.” A lawyer and rancher. Simms planned to take his bride to his new Mexico ranch after the ceremony. tt tt tt Bon, Cops’ Cold Fret J> 1/ United Press SCHENECTADY, N. Y., March 9. —There'll be no more cops with cold feet, if an invention demonstrated here today is adopted by traffic policemen. The new device provides an electrically heated uniform and shoes for patrolmen.

All the traffic officer need do is stand on a metal plate in the street pavement. Electric current and the metal plates in the heels of the policeman's shoes do the rest. u n tt Bridge Before Business By United Press DALLAS, Tex.. March 9.—So many mothers of school children snond their afternoons at bridge clubs that enumerators arc making slow progress with the local scholastic census, Leo Stadther reported. tt tt u Mule Comt Witness Jiu United Pres* SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. March 9.-Twenty-five human experts having failed, .Judge Franklin Swart called in his pet mule today to decide that big hay suit. The judge was unconvinced by the opinion of the twenty-five humans, who solemnly chewed samples of the hay to determine if it was red oats No. 1.

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Will Tevis Jr„ noted poloist, claimed it was not and refused to pay farmer F. E. Crowell $2,000 for it. Crowell claimed it was and sued for the money. Judge Swart will take his mule to Tevis’ stables and hand her some hay. If Maude eats, the judge hinted. Tevis must pay. a a a Here’s a $15,000 Tip OKLAHOMA CITY, March 9. Five years ago Evelyn Mount, Oklahoma City university student, lost the tip of her nose in an autobus accident. The Oklahoma supreme court has affirmed a judgment against the Oklahoma Railways Company awarding Mrs. Wilton Casparis, the former Evelyn Mount, *15,000 damages. ya a a Hooks a Shark; Hooked lhj l nited NEW YORK, March 9.—Louis Mutelin. chief pastry cook on the liner France, fished for shark through a porthole. He hooked one. The shark pulled and Mutel’s hody lodged in the porthole. Fellow workers stripped Mutel and greased his body with lard before they could pull him back. VALERA IS DAIL CHOICE Republican Elected President of Irish Free State Council. Hu United Prttti DUBLIN, March 9.—Eamon De * Valera, Republican leader, reached ihe climax of his career today when ihe dail eirann elected him presiV dent of the executive council of the {lrish Free .State. _

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FOURTEEN DIE IN EXPLOSION ATGASPLANT Five Others Seriously Injured by Terrific Blast in Camden, N. J. ON TEMPORARY JOBS All of Victims Were Men Given Work After Long Unemployment. By United Press CAMDEN, N. J., March 9.—A number of workmen taken from unemployed ranks to fill temporary jobs were killed today when fire caused explosion of powerful gases at the gas plant of the Public Service Corporation here. Eight bodies were recovered before the flames became so intense that workmen had to cease the search. An announcement said fourteen had been killed and five others seriously injured. Officials fear the toll may be higher, as it was believed between twenty and twenty-five men were at work on the tank where the explosion occurred. None of the bodies recovered could be identified. They were charred and torn by the terrific explosion. Some May Have Escaped How many of the other workmen managed to escape before the blast occurred could not be learned un- | mediately. Some injured were i taken to nearby hospitals. The explosion occurred in a large j metal tank perched on girders fifteen feet in the air. The tank was used in the gas plant and periodically it was cleaned of the black substance forming after manufacture of illuminating gas. Gases included sulphuric fumes. For this work, the company obtained workers from the unemployed groups of the city. Most of the workers on the job today were obtained in this manner. Plant in Tenement District Rudolph Walker, 40, a Negro, said he was working within the plant when he saw a small fire in one corner. “Come on iellows, let's get out of here before something happens,” he said he shouted to other workers in the tank. Walker scrambled over the top of the tank and had just reached the ground when the dull roar of the explosion came. “I saw flames shooting toward the sky after the explosion which nearly busted my ears,” he said. “I didn't know what to do, so I ran.’ Re was uninjured. The plant is located in the south end of Camden, near the Delaware river. It is a congested district, I where there are many tenements. Flames Block Firemen Residents were aroused by the blast and the accompanying sheet of flames, and hurried to the scene. A police guard kept them back from danger. Benjamin Plevinsky, said he heard the blast, saw the flames a;.d called fire department aid. The first firemen to arrive donned gas masks and tried to climb the ladder which scaled the side of the tank. The flames were so bitter, however. they had to abandon this system and a block and fall apparatus was erected which permitted fire- ; men to enter the tank and remove bodies of the dead and injured.

WOOD SLAPS LABOR Voted No on Anti-Injunction Bill, He Tells House. (Other detail!! on Page 9) By Times Special WASHINGTON. March 9.—Representative Will R. Wood, veteran Republican congressman from Lafayette. Ind.. arose in the house chamber today and demanded he be recorded as voting against the Norris-La Guardia anti-injuncition bill. Wood held in his hand a copy of the congressional record listing him as among those who voted for the measure when it passed the house Tuesday night. His request for a correction in the record w’as granted. The only other Indiana congressman who voted against the bill was representative Albert H. Vestal, Republican. of Anderson. Representaitve Fred Purnell of Attica did not. vote.

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Occasional snow flurries tonight and probably Thursday; continued cold; lowest temperature tonight about 10.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932

FATHER FORCED TO LEAVE DEAD GIRL, POST BOND HERE

''' '' ssStiiii* % Muncie Hk* Caplain Is Freed: Mercy Denied by U. S. Officers. Jfitg (Half Cleans Up Mnnrie Story on Paitr 5) Law trampled on mercy in the Muncie liquor conspiracy case today. | jßfc'-?' While his daughter. Nina Park- | hurst, 21, lay dead in Ball Memorial j|§|||f M hospilal, W. A. Parkhurst, police : captain, indicted with George Dale and others, appeared in federal court here to give $5,000 bond. Forty-eight hours of freedom on jjr

(Dale Cleans Up Muncie. Story on Page 5) Law trampled on mercy in the Muncie liquor conspiracy case today. While his daughter, Nina Parkhurst, 21, lay dead in Ball Memorial hospital, W. A. Parkhurst, police captain, indicted with George Dale and others, appeared in federal court here to give $5,000 bond. Forty-eight hours of freedom on his own recognizance was at an end. Even death gained him no longer stay from the law. “I promised to be back and I'm here,” he said, as bond was posted. Then, so stricken with grief that he only could nod his answer to expressions of sympathy, he entered an auto with Will McClellan, his attorney, and returned to the deathbed of his daughter. Show No Mercy A few hours before her father was arrested Saturday, Nina Parkhurst was rushed from her home to the hospital, critically ill. Despite the fact that doctors declared she had only a few hours to live, Parkhurst was taken to the Muncie courthouse, held there several hours, and, though bond was offered on* the spot, brought to Indianapolis and kept in custody here until 4 o’clock Monday afternoon. He then was allowed to go free on his own recognizance, for a twoday period. He sat at the bedside of his daughter through Monday night and all day Tuesday till the end came. Evidence of new pressure on those indicted with Dale to turn state’s evidence was revealed in Muncie Tuesday afternoon. Told to “Get Right” Raymond (Red) Hoover, police garage mechanic, under indictment, but ill at his home, declared that a federal officer called him by phone, “suggesting” that he “tell the whole story and get himself in the clear.” Hoover’s reply was an emphatic “No.” Federal officers today were reported in Muncie, starting an investigation of transfers of property to provide bond for Dale. They are seeking details of transfers from Charles to Mrs. Lily Indorf and from Mrs. W. F. France to her husband, Dale, bondsmen. Mayor George Dale and ten of the men indicted with him by the government on liquor conspiracy charges were back in their home city today, free on bond. Thiteen men were indicted by ihe federal grand jury and "with ten out on bond, one man, Ernie Flatters, still is in Marion county jail, and one other, name withheld, is a fugitive. Six Freed Tuesday Six of the men held here were released from jail Tuesday. Dale was released Monday on SIO,OOO bond. Tuesday afternoon Frank F. Massey, police chief, provided SIO,OOO bond, as did Fred C. Ellis, Republican secretary of the safety board. Bond for $7,500 was provided by Kenneth (Pete) Horstman, city detective, and similar bond was made for Dan Davis, patrolman, and Ray F. Powell, patrolman. Bond of $3,500 was posted for Charles H. Nelson, detective. Efforts were being made today to provide bond for Flatters, who is charged with collecting “protection money.” All of the defendants will be arraigned before Baltzell on March 17. Dale returned to Muncie Tuesday afternoon to draw his plans for his trial, promising to carry the fight right to Washington. Dale reiterated his charges of "high-handed tactics” and refusal to accept bond by Harry E. Gates, deputy federal marshal, who made the arrests at Muncie Saturday on capiases. Gatestfhas denied all the charges.

Nina Parkhurst and her father, Police Captain W. A. Parkhurst.

NEW HAMPSHIRE IS ROOSEVELT'S Al Smith Defeated, 2 to 1, in Presidential Primary. By United Press CONCORD, N. H., March 9. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has won New Hampshire’s eight convention votes for the presidential nomination in the nation's first presidential preference primary. Incomplete returns with the vote from 247 towns and wards out of 294 tabulated showed that Roosevelt had won, 2 to 1, over Former Governor Alfred E. Smith, largely because of his great support in the country and small towns. The average vote for Roosevelt delegates was 12,490: for Smith delegates it was 7.045. The first test of strength between the two was believed to give Roosevelt a firmer claim to the Democratic nomination, and to weaken the claims of Smith’s supporters, although it had been conceded that Roosevelt would win most of th3 delegation. ASK MERCY FOR KOS Leslie Deluged by Clemency Pleas in Manslaughter Case. Governor Harry G. Leslie is being deluged with pleas for clemency for Max S. Kos, under sentence of from one to ten years on a manslaughter charge, and out on an appeal bond. Kos’ conviction resulted from an automobile accident in which two Indianapolis Street Railway employes were killed. His attorney, Ira M. Holmes, says Kos is unable to perfect his appeal due to lack of funds.

MOTHER OF SEVEN HEROINE AS FLAMES DESTROY HOME

Pictures on Pate Three. Heroism of a mother of seven children was credited with saving the lives of an entire family at midnight Tuesday when fire damaged the home of a city policeman, driving nine persons into bitter cold in their night clothing. The fire, occurring at the home of Patrolman Charles Avery Viles, 2330 Barrett avenue, in “Happy Hollow,” wiped out all belongings of the family, and left the seven children suffering from exposure and smoke. As the family of nine were sheltered in the home of relatives, officials of the police department, soliciting fellow-officers of Viles, had obtained nearly SIOO this morning and had rented and furnished a home for the Viles family at 1118 South Belmont avenue. Viles was left without clothing in which to return to work today, and his wife and children were being clothed in borrowed garments. The fire, fanned by high winds accompanying wpather, j broke out as the entire family was

4 ABOVE, LOW MARK; COLD IS TO ME No Break in Sight, Says Weather Bureau: More Snow Likely. DEATH TOLL IS TAKEN Six Lives Lost in Midwest; More Than Score Missing on North Atlantic. Midnight .. 7 a. m fi 1 a. m 6 8 a. m 8 2 a. m 5 9 a. m 9 3a. m 5 10 a. m 11 4 a. m 4 11 a. m 12 5 a. m 5 12 (noon).. 13 6 a- m 5 1 p. m 15 “No break in sight,” was the announcement of J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief, after a temperature of 4 above was recorded at 4 a. m., the coldest since Nov. 27, 1930. There will be snow flurries tonight and Thursday, according tc the forecast, and the cold will continue with <i temperature of about 10 tonight. Street car traffic was interrupted early today on Pennsylvania street, when the cold snapped trolley wires at a point between Ohio and Market streets. Interurban line schedules are being maintained throughout the state without any difficulty, it was stated this morning by dispatchers of j various electric railroads. ) Bus operations also are on a ! normal basis. Lack of snow on ; tracks and highways has permitted ' service without interruption despite ; the low temperature. Airplane service was reported as operating without difficulty. Armington said the cold wave in the northwest, including the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan continues, and tem- : peratures in that section this morning range from 20 to 25 below. The area of high pressure, Armington said, continues and low temperatures prevail as far south | as Texas. Snow flurries brought the mercury down slightly Tuesday night in the upper Mississippi val- ; ley. but it is dropping again toll day. Cold Takes Death Toll By United Press CHICAGO, March 9.—Bitter cold held its grip on the midwest today and a number of deaths were attributed to the zero temperatures. There were four deaths attributed to the cold in Kansas and one death in Chicago. One Indiana death was reported. Heart disease, aggravated ’ey intense cold, was held responsible for the death of Amos Andrew Aldefer, 70, who dropped dead Tuesday night | while doing chores at his farm home ; near Argos. A blizzard in eastern Colorado and western Kansas added to suffering and caused concern for livestock on the open range. Havre, Mont., with a reading of 18 below zero, was the coldest point in the United States. 25 Missing at Sea By United Press NEW YORK, March 9.—A 50-mile gale, raging in its fourth day over the north Atlantic, held the fate of at least twenty men reported missing and prevented immediate i rescue of thirty-four others from the freighter De Bardeleben. A i number of vessels were reported helpless. The coal barge Deepwater 1, cut | loose from its tug, Mars, was feared 1 lost with five men. Two schooners, the Winifred M. and the Native, were missing with total crews of ! twenty. Several smaller craft sent in distress signals. The De Bardeleben, a vessel cf 5,000 tons, was driven helpless about 460 miles off New York while the liner Adriatic, with passengers bound for this port, stood by. Mountainous seas prevented launching of lifeboats. Meanwhile, eastern states dug out from under snow which blocked highways, marooned motorists and stalled a train near Sayre, Pa. Rodanthe. N. C., reported the battering of waves had been so severe at least a dozen homes had been I flooded by sea water.

asleep in upstairs rooms of the twostory dwelling. Mrs. Viles, sleeping in a room with her four daughters, was the first to be awakened by choking smoke fumes pouring through a hole in the flue in her bedroom. She told firemen that she noticed a night light left burning in the upstairs hallway had gone out. She felt her way to the stairway and braving clouds of smoke, ran down stairs. Seeing no fire, she returned upstairs to find flames licking near the bed in which her husband and a son were sleeping. Two other sons were asleep in another bed in the room. Mrs. Viles awakened her husband and Gerald. 10: Eugene, 4, and Geneva, 5. They hurried downstairs. June, 13. dragged Patsy, 2, downstairs and Charles, 8. followed. Mrs. Viles carried Patricia. 1, to the first floor. Viles, meanwhile, ran downstairs and returned to the second floor with buckets of water. These failed to halt the flames, then a roaring mass in both bedrooms.

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‘Progress Continues ’ in Search for Lindy Baby, Say Officials

LITTLE PAL’S GONE

Skeet Mourns for Lindy Baby

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh Tr., and Skeet ... in a crayon impression by George Clark, Times-NEA Service Staff artist.

JAPANESE TALK SHANGHAI PEACE Notify Chinese of Desire for Negotiations. BY HERBERT R. EKINS United Press Staff Correspondent iCoDVriKht. 1932. bv United Press) SHANGHAI, March 9.—The Japanese civil and military authorities at Shanghai are prepared to negotiate for peace on the terms of the league assembly’s resolution of March 4, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese minister, notified the Chinese today. The notification was sent through Sir Miles Lampson, British minister. Shigemitsu added that in view of the situation at the front, he deemed it a matter of urgent necessity to reach at the earliest possible date a definite agreement for complete cessation of hostilities and then discuss arrangements for the withdrawal of the Japanese forces. The Chinese government considered the way now open for beginning negotiations. The government wa s understood to be notifying W. W. Yen, its Geneva representative, of China's readiness to enter such negotiations, providing, first; They are limited to matters pertaining only to definite cessation of hostilities, and withdrawal of the Japanese forces, and second, no conditions be attached to such withdrawal. The assembly's resolution called for complete cessation of hostilities in Shanghai and negotiations for the Japanese withdrawal. Announce Casualties By United Press SHANGHAI (Thursday), March 10.—Japanese military authorities today officially announced their casualties in fighting in and around Chapei at 385 dead and 2,031 wounded. They fixed civilian casualties at 17 dead and 42 wounded, most of them from shell fragments and snipers’ bullets. DIVA SCORES SUCCESS Margaret Halstead Wins Praise in Cologne Appearance. By United rress COLOGNE, March 9.—Margaret Halstead, American soprano, scored a success Tuesday night at the Cologne opera in the role of Julietta in Offenbach’s “Tales From Hoffmann.” She responded to numerous curtain calls. Miss Halstead is the daughter of Albert Halstead of Cincinnati, United States consul-general at London.

At this point Carl Rouse, 2331 Barrett street, a neighbor, seeing the roof of the Viles home aflame, rushed into the burning house. Rouse dashed up the stairway and seized Geneva as the child halfturned to go back for her clothing. A few minutes later the house was enveloped in flames. While firemen, handicapped by having to lay 1,800 feet of hose to a water plug, fought the blaze, Viles and the family took shelter in the Rouse home, nearby. Only a few pieces of kitchen furniture were saved. Viles estimated loss to the house at $1,600 and loss of personal property at SI,OOO. None "Os the damage is covered by insurance. Arrangements were* being made by Viles’ superior officers, including Lieutenant Ralph Dean and Sergeants Clifford Richter and Dan Scanlon, to refurnish a home for the Viles. Viles this week purchased anew SSO police overcoat,, which was destroyed in the fir©*, in addition to two police uniforms.

By NEA Service. HOPEWELL, N. J., March 9. Until a week or so ago there l was a. second inseparable combi- | nation in the Lindbergh home j here, another “We.” It consisted of fair, little, curly- ! haired Charlie Lindbergh Jr., and his black, curly-haired Scottie, Skeet. Everywhere the baby went, the dog was sure to go! Today the child has disappeared as if the earth has swallowed him, and the dog remains, with the world outside saying insinuatingly: “He was in the house, yet | he didn’t bark when the kidnapers I took the child!” “But Skeet was in the dining ! room with all of us during dinner.” 1 Lindy has given the pet a perfect i alibi. For there is a long living I room and a spacious hall between | the dining room and the closed door upstairs, behind which kidnapers took the child. tt u tt NOW Skeet patters restlessly from room to room in the Lindbergh home, as if looking for his little playmate. Whenever two or three people begin to converse, he stops, tilting his little head inquiringly to j one side, as if listening intently j to hear news of his little lost I master. The only time he evinces the i least interest in life is when ; Lindy starts outdoors for one of j his restless, swift tramps of brief j relief through the woods behind the house. Skeet jumps forward eagerly, ! as if to offer his services, j To date, Lindy always has taken | the little black fellow with him. I He heels Lindy every step of the | way, never dashing off to hunt cats, as he used to do. Skeet practically is the same age as little Charlie, and has always been with him. When he was a little puppy, wabbling on his short black legs, 1 he would romp up in friendly ; manner to anybody approaching the farmhouse which th* 4 Lindberghs rented outside of Princeton. tt tt u “OKEET always plays with little Charlie,” the butler told them. “He gets right into the play yard with the baby when he’s out in the yard under that big elm. Charlie loves to pull him and push him and he never resents it.” So inseparable were the child and dog that when the baby was at Englewood, so w r as Skeet. When they brought him down here for a week-end at his father’s and mother’s home here, Skeet came too. Last summer, when Anne and Lindy took off for their oriental trip and the baby was with the Morrows in Maine, airplanes flew low oyer the estate trying to get pictures of the baby. Betty Gow had just wheeled little Lindy out under the trees and Skeet was frisking about when she heard the planes overhead. She started on a run for the house, pushing the baby carriage rapidly. But even in such an emergency, she remembered the other half of the “We” combination. tt SHE stopped long enough to grab up the little black fellow and throw him into the carriage on top of Charlie. Evt. j where Charlie went, Skeet had to go! He never was a watch dog. He was never meant for one. His whole life has been among friendly folk. His whole career was just being the happy lesser half of “We.” Now, dejected, he sadly awaits reunion with his little master. ‘HIT-AND-RUN’ IS VALOR ‘Live to FV.it Another Day’ Saves Chicago Man From Burglar. By United Press CHICAGO, March 9.—George R. Hess believes in the hit-and-run theory. When burglars entered his house, Hess knocked one of them sprawling, then ran to his bedroom as fast as he could, locked the door and telephoned police, who fousd the robbers had fled.

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WILD RUMORS ABOUT CHILD’S RETURNFALSE Kidnap Victim Not at Home of Morrows or Flier, Police Say Definitely. BY BATES RANEY Ynitfd Press Start Correspondent HOPEWELL, N. J., March 9.—Progress, reported by police Tuesday night for the first time in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, is continuing, j according to official announcei ment today. "Is the progress reported late Tuesday continuing?” the Lindj bergh police headquarters was asked I in this afternoon's press conference, and the answer was in the affirmaj tive. To this was added, however, word that there is “nothing definite at ! this time.” The baby is not in the Lindbergh ; home here or in the home of its grandmother. Mrs. Dwight Morrow at Englewood, it was stated definitely. Return Rumors Are Denied The latter word set at rest rumors of return of the child, though there ; still prevailed an atmosphere of i hope for success. A published report quoting Mayor ! James M, Curley of Boston as say--1 ing he had learned authoritatively , that the Lindbergh baby was re- ! stored to its parents Sunday night was denied at the mayor's office in Boston today. “The reporter who wrote that i story must have misunderstood the mayor,” a Curley spokesman said. ! “Mayor Curley, in talking with the ! reporter, merely mentioned what ! another newspaper man had told j him. “This was to the effect a fellow' ; who described himself as a New York banker appeared at the federal building here Tuesday and said the Lindbergh baby had been returned home Sunday night.” Mountain Country Searched Questions of reporters at Hopewell under the press conference arrangement, are submitted in writing at state police headquarters in Trenton j and sent to the officer in charge at the Lindbergh estate. A Lindbergh representative has an opportunity to see the questions and answers, before they are given the public. Meantime, the mountain country behind the Lindbergh estate was | searched anew for traces of the | baby. Reports that the child had been found, was about to be found, and even that it had come to harm were spread, but with no tangible basis. The basis for the new outburst of unconfirmed stories, some of them i too fantastic for dissemination, lay ■ apparently in the fact that hope j still ruled in the Lindbergh home, and the Lind&erghs were still very active in seeking restoration of the baby. Secret Errands Reported Colonel Lindbergh himself was long on the private telephone today. His friend and trusted adviser. Colonel Henry Breckenridge, had been on secret errands, and the authorities for the first time talked of “progress.” Meantime, a search through the I hills was made again. This was in part to get further clews as to j the place where the ladder was made by which the kidnapers entered the nursery; and likewise to check up reports that the baby might be in that territory. Connecticut Clew Fails Some of the hill folk, cold to strangers and anxious to keep aloof, were said to have "resented” the “intrusion” of the Lindberghs in settling hereabouts. Such a feeling, it was suggested, might have had a bearing on the kidnaping. Authorities at New Haven, Conn., lost interest today in the story of Mrs. Victoria Burba of Colchester, who told police she heard Tony Meslo offer last spring to finance kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby. Rumors Flood Country By United I’reta NEW YORK, March 9.—Fabricated rumors about the Lindbergh kidnaping reached anew height today, false alarms flooding into newspapers at short intervals. Among the many stories were: 1. The baby was going to be returned to his grandmother in Detroit. 2. The baby already has been returned, but the news is being kept secret on an agreement with the kidnapers, who have been given seventy-two hours to leave for abroad. 3. The baby had come to harm. 4. The mayor of Boston was quoted as saying the baby was restored to his parents Sunday night, but he firmly denied this.