Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1932 — Page 14

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PIGEONS BRING FANTASTIC NEW KIDNAP 'LEADS’ Llndy Probers Study Notes Found Attached to Dead Carrier Birds. BY BATES RANEY T'nitrd Vrr%% Staff (orrcnondrnt HOPEWELL, N. J., March 21. Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh waited today for some sign from the persons holding their kidnaped oaby son, while police continued to check every avenue available for trace of the boy. Police investigation has entered the fantastic. Dead carrier pigeons with curiously worded notes attached to them have been found and the notes sent to police. Mysterious movements of persons In the Hopewell area on the night of the kidnaping have been reported. Police admitted little credence could be put in many of the reports. but all were being investigated carefully in the hope of finding some trace of the child stolen from its crib March 1. Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkapf, superintendent of New Jersey state police, Issued the following statement to the press this morning: Two Carrier Pigeon Notes “Two notes carried by carrier pigeons have been reported to us. The first one is alleged to have been a note in code. This was supposed to have been taken off the carrier pigeon which was beaten down by a heavy storm in Connecticut, and upon being decoded by a local bootlegger is read approximately as follows: “ ‘All lines unsafe. Kid in yacht making no ports. Well trained care outside United States jurisdiction. Return bird.’ “The informant did not see this note and had only the word of the unidentified bootlegger to go by. “No additional information was available and the informant refused to identify the source of his information. Charles E. Stein, Lehighton. Pa., and Arthur L. Vaughn, East Stroudsburg, Pa., brought to these headquarters a dead pigeon ! with a note folded and attached to the band on the pigeon’s leg. The band bore the number AU 30 S 34181 and the note read: “ Pulled off the job in fine order. Made a clear,getaway. No one even | suspects -me. Will meet you Mon- i day as planned. Will have the j dough with me. Ours, Red.’ Johnson Still Being Held “The band is such as would not indicate particularly that this had anything to do with the Lindbergh kidnaping. However, the investigation is continuing to determine the exact meaning and significance of I this communication. “Several people were interviewed at this headquarters Sunday purporting to have information concerning the case. In each of these instances the information w r as offered in confidence, and this confidence will be respected. All of the information so received is now being investigated. “Following a telephonic communication with Jersey City we find that Henry Johnson still is in the custody of Jersey City, and has been there continuously since his return to the city Sunday night. Indications are that he is about to be turned over to the federal immigration authorities. “Investigators are out all over the state following up information re- i ceived and no reports are available as yet from any of them.” P.-T. A. FEDERATION TO HOLD ANNUAL SESSION Annual meeting of the Indianapolis Federation of ParentTeacher Associations will be held Wednesday afternoon and night in Caleb Mills hall, with Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam. president of De Pauw university, as the principal speaker. Mrs. S. M. Myers, president, will be in charge.

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BY BEN STERN ONE of the greatest evils of politics—and one which rarely is accorded recognition—is the plague of panhandlers who grab the opportunity to put the “bee” on a candidate for amounts ranging from a jitney to a saw-buck. Candidates in the primary having business in the courthouse must steal from room- to room or run the gantlet of chiselers who congregate in the lobby. The evil particularly Is acute this year, because of the great number of unemployed who crowd into the building to keep warm. Many are the expedients resorted to by experts in the line. Holidays, of course, get a full play. tt a a St. Patrick’s day, with the innumerable dances and card parties, offered an excuse which was grabbed eagerly, and the victims had to buy tickets from almost every precinct committeeman and hanger-on. Among the hard luck stories getting the big play is the act put on with an old medicine bottle. The bedraggled panhandler will approach a candidate and sob out a hard luck yarn about the wife and children having the influenza. “Why, I haven’t worked for a year and we can’t get any 'medicine. Here is the bottle,” he cries, pulling out a dirty container, “and I am trying to get enough money to have it filled.” # * He then will whine that the medicine costs $1 or $1.25 and if the candidate is particularly susceptible he will pay the full amount. Those accustomed to the story, who have been hit before, give any

A bOOK ~AT pgr BY BRUCE CATTON THE murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Serajevo in 1914 was not the work of a single fanatic. It was done by a secret society of fire-eating young Serbians who had been conducting a campaign of assassination and terrorism for more than a decade, and the shot that plunged the world into war simply culminated a long series of violent outbreaks. The story of this society and its turbulent career is told in ”They Call it Patriotism,” a tangled, intense sort of historical novel by Brun Brehm, translated from the German by Margaret Goldsmith, and offered in this country by Little, Brown & Cos. at $2.50. “They Call It Patriotism” begins in 1903, when the Serbian hotheads launched their campaign to revive the ancient glories of their fatherland by murdering their king and queen and looting the royal palace. It follows their adventures down through the years and gives an exciting, clear-cut picture of the fatal day in Serajevo. # * n Francis Ferdinand, it appears. was murdered because he was the one man in Austria-Hun-gary who wanted to give the Serbians within the empire a fair break. The hotheads at Belgrade feared that this would end forever their plan of re-establishing the ancient kingdom—so, inspired by the highest patriotism, they killed him and set the world on fire. The first part of the book is extremely hard to read, if for no other reason than that the names of all the characters are utterly beyond hope of pronunciation by an American. But once you pass the first few chapters, you find that the book holds you. It not only gives you a new impulse at the background of the war, but it tells an interesting story as well.

amount of small change and suggest that others be solicited for the remainder. Another good act is that with the torn shoes or the pair exhibited with gaping holes in the soles. This is an especially good gag in cold weather. The amount necessary for repairs is begged, but anything, a nickel or a dime, will do. Then, of course, there is the ordinary moocher who only wants the price of a cup of coffee. Their name is legion. What price politics?

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By United Press CHICAGO. March 21.—The blase police officers of central station are convinced today that Gertrude Luchsinger, 7 years old, with flaxen hair and a twinkle in her blue eyes, shows great promise in the field of fiction. Officers William Fuller and Arthur Smith found Gertrude on a loop corner. She told them with tears in her eyes that she was cold and hungry. They fed her and took her to the central station. There she spun a tale that held listeners spellbound. Her father, she said, was killed in a war in England six years ago. Her mother, she said, gave her away to another lady. For three days, Gertrude told them, she had been living in the loop getting her meals in a vague manner and sleeping in “nice clean beds that nice ladies” offered. As strange adventure followed strange adventure from the lips of Gertrude, the telephone rang. A Mrs. Luchsinger was calling to report that her 7-year-old daughter Gertrude, had been missing for four hours and did the officers have any trace of the child. LEGION COMBATS BILL Oppose Move to Ban Oath to Bear Arms in Naturalization. By Scripps-H award Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 21.—The Griffin bill to remove the oath to bear arms from naturalization requirements, now suffocating in a house immigration committee pigeonhole, is the target of anew attack by the Americanization committee of the American Legion. Legion posts and members of congress have been circularized to oppose it, and also to resist the pending attempt to reduce appropriations for the army and navy. According to John Thomas Taylor, the legion’s legislative agent, the Americanization committee is acting under instructions of the Detroit convention. Poor Relief to Be Topic Marion county poor relief activities will be discussed at a luncheon of the Democratic county central committee at 12:15 Tuesday at the Washington, H. Nathan Swaim, chairman, announced today.

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Just to get even with Butler university “co-eds” for declaring “thar ain’t no sich animal” as an ideal man, the university’s youths have turned “thumbs down” on blonds. They declare a blond was behind the recent survey of the school and a search for an ideal man. Left—Miss Virginia Taylor, a blond “co-ed,” getting the regal razz from four brawnys. But from Miss Taylor’s eyes it looks as if she’s handing back a package or two of “regust.” Right—A group of co-eds hunting for their ideal man in the person of Frank Reissner, 3925 North Delaware street. 12 INJURED IN BLAST Explosion Rocks School at Springfield, 111. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111, March 21. Prompt inquiry was made today in the mysterious explosions which rocked the $1,000,000 high school building, and injured a dozen persons, several seriously. Investgators hunted trace of malefactors who are believed responsible for a recent series of disastrous fires in central Illinois. Six firemen, a newspaper reporter, two high school students and several townspeople were injured in the blasts which followed the outbreak of a small fire in the basement of the building. The first explosion came after the group had entered the basement to investigate the fire, which proved to be of little consequence. After the first blast, a series of smaller detonations was caused by igniting gas. SEVEN DIEJN PLANE American Airways Liner Hits High Tension Wire. By United Press REDLANDS, Cal, March 21. Toll of an accident which wrecked an American Airways liner near here Saturday night stood at seven lives today, after death of the one passenger who was not killed almost instantly. Arthur R. Thomas, Tucson, Ariz, died in a Redlands hospital Sunday, Six other occupants were killed as the big plane, flying low through a dense fog, struck a high tension wire ten miles east of here and burst into flames as it hit the ground. Plan $27,000 Building Program ANDERSON, Ind, March 21.—As an aid to the “war on depression,” the Masonic Temple Company has announced a $27,000 program of improvements on the building here. The work, which will start soon, will include the construction of anew front.

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DRYS DERIDE REPORT ASKING TAXJN BEER Senate Subcommittee Says Legal Brew Would End Crime. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 21.—Prohibitionists today derided a senate sub-committee’s claim that a tax on legalized 4 per cent beer would yield the government from $374,000,000 to $1,100,000,000 in new revenue yearly. “Where are they going to get the money?” asked Superintendent F. Scott Mcßride of the Anti-Saloon League. “The rich don’t want beer and the poor people can’t afford it. It merely would be taking money out of the popr man’s pockets and putting it into the government’s.” The revenue estimate was made by Senators Jesse H. Metcalf (Rep., R. I.), and Robert J. Bulkley (Dem., O.), in a report urging adoption of the Bingham 4 per cent beer bill. The said beer would end “wholesale 1 crime and drunkenness.” The third committeeman, Senator Henry D. Hatfield (Rep., W. Va.) submitted a minority report against the measure. He said it was impossible to estimate possible revenue from a beer tax. The beer bill now goes to the i full sonate committee on manufactures. Chairman Robert M. La Follette said he would do everything possible to get the measure before the senate for a vote, but i informed circles counted the committee “dry” by at least two votes. On another angle of the prohibition issue, Mcßride reiterated that the Anti-Saloon League would clasify as “wet” all congressmen who voted to submit the liquor problem to the states, regardless of whether they recommended repeal. MURRAY ‘NO.BRYAN’ Disclaims He Has Adopted Commoner’s Platform. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., March 21.—W. H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray of Oklahoma favors increased coinage \ of silver, but is not seeking the Democratic presidential nomination on Bryan’s “16-to-l” platform. The Oklahoma executive clarified his position on currency reform in an interview before he left j for a speaking tour of the old south, ! “There can be no dispute about both gold and silver representing value,” he said. “Bank notes should represent a limited portion of the j value of some product, plus an ac- j tual reserve of money. “Since there is not a sufficient amount of gold in the world to do this, without a diminution of the ■ amount of money in circulation, it j would seem essential that silver be added, as was intended by the Constitution of the United States.” SHOOTS SWEETHEART AS WIFE LOOKS ON Cleveland Man Then Takes Own Life; Girl Innocent, Says Note. By United Press CLEVELAND, March 21.—Mrs. Maria Petroff, 46, prepared today to bury her husband John, 48, while her boarder, Miss Kathryn Petro, 21, of New Castle, Pa., suffered in a hospital from a bullet wound in the head. Petroff shot the attractive young woman Saturday night, then killed himself. Miss Petro was playing j solitaire at a table on which Mrs. i Petroff ate a bowl of soup. The husband left a note: “It has got to be this way,’ he j wrote. “Because love is stronger than anything else on earth. I fell in love with her. She is innocent.” Miss Petro was expected to recover.

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JUNGLE RESCUE TREK RELAYED British Embassy Holds Up Search for Explorer. By United Press RIO DE JANEIRO. March 21. Deparlure of a rescue party into the Brazilian jungles to seek Colonel P. H. Fawcett, British explorer missing for seven years, was delayed today at the request of the British embassy. Stephan Rattin. Swiss trapper and hunter, believes he saw Colonel Fawcett held captive by Indians at an island jungle village and had intended to begin the trek into the interior today. British officials asked him to wait until they received a communication from their government regarding the search. Rattin was encouraged by a message from Mrs. Fawcett, wife of the missing explorer. “I am so glad that Rattin is going to make a search,” Mrs. Fawcett said. “I believe in him and would much rather have him undertake the rescue than any one else. I thoroughly am convinced that my husband is alive and that Rattin will bring him to safety.” Shipping Board Official Dies By United Press WASHINGTON. March 21.—Edward C. Plummer, vice-chairman of the United States shipping board for eight years, died Sunday night. He was 67 years old and had been ill for a month.

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