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Show KIDNAPING OF LINDBERGH BABY STIRS WHOLE WORLD No Crime in Modern History Has Aroused Such Universal Indignation Tops Long List of Abductions. No crime In recent history so aroused the entire American public as the kidnaping of the. young son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Little Charles Augustus, Jr., is the nation's baby. He is a national character char-acter and has been since the day he was born. His abduction was a dastardly das-tardly crime resented by every red-blooded red-blooded American, grown-ups and children chil-dren alike. Every parent grieved with the stricken father and mother. They knew the anguish they endured. They could feel the heart throbs and the Immeasurable grief. They could realize re-alize what the finding of that empty crib meant to the grief-stricken parents. par-ents. They knew the darkness that settled over Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh Lind-bergh as they viewed the dirty foot-tracks foot-tracks left by the villians, and the ladder lad-der on the lawn outside the window, that told so vividly the fate that had befallen their young son. It Is one great American heart that grieved with those grief-stricken parents. A little delicate child, only twenty months of age, had been dragged from the affectionate embrace of his parents, par-ents, from the tender care with which he had been surrounded, and spirited away into the foul hands of the most detestible type of criminals. There was no more touching incident of the whole dastardly affair than the pathetic appeal ap-peal of the mother to the kidnapers to feed her sick baby properly. It was addressed by Mrs. Lindbergh to the bergh the devastating blow that had been struck American motherhood, not one of them but suffered the keenest keen-est of all agonies fear for the safety and life of the child she had borne, and not one of them but said in her heart "What If It had been MY baby?" It is no exaggeration to say that 100,000,000 Americans immediately formed themselves into a searching party, in spirit if not in body, with -the sole purpose of restoring the Lindbergh Lind-bergh baby in safety as soon as possible possi-ble to his mother's arms. From the highest to the most lowly, news of the Lindbergh kidnaping was the all-important all-important topic. It is not often that a President of the United States puts from his mind even for a little while momentous affairs af-fairs of state because of concern over what has happened to some individual. individ-ual. But that is exactly what happened hap-pened in this case. Herbert Hoover, in the midst of pondering over the solution of pressing national and international in-ternational problems, forgot for the moment that he was Chief Executive of a nation and remembered only that he was an American father. So he gave orders that he was to be kept informed of the latest developments in the case no matter at what hour of the night the news should arrive at the White House. What was true of the President was true of other high government officials, of-ficials, both state and national. The transmitted through the Justice department's de-partment's bureaus of investigation in New York and Philadelphia, were instructed in-structed to be on the lookout for suspicious characters. Between these two offices the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Delawawe, New Jersey and Connecticut, were Immediately covered with a network of Investigation Investiga-tion by the most skillful sleuths In the service of the United States. But more striking than the immediate immedi-ate action taken by the constituted authorities of the law for dealing with the criminals who had stolen away the Lindbergh baby was the instantaneous reaction of private individuals in-dividuals everywhere to the crime. It Is doubtful If ewr before in the history his-tory of America have so many millions mil-lions of her citizens felt the personal obligation to aid In a gigantic manhunt man-hunt In spirit If not In reality. Aviators, who had been buddies of the famous flying colonel, immediately placed themselves and their planes at his disposal to aid in the search. Thousands of amateur detectives were busily engaged in watching for "clews" which might aid the authorities in catching the malefactors. In New York the clergy of three religious denominations de-nominations joined In broadcasting a prayer for the safe and speedy return re-turn of the Lindbergh baby a prayer which found an echo in the hearts of millions. Nor was the excitement over the case confined to the borders of the United States. In far-off China, the kidnaping was told In big headlines alongside the news of the Chinese defeat on the Chapei-Woosung bat-tlefront. bat-tlefront. The French press, to which Colonel Lindbergh has been a hero since his conquest of the Atlantic in 1926, was filled with the story of the crime. Germany forgot for a moment Its heated political atmosphere arising aris-ing from the presidential election campaign cam-paign and was swept by a wave of sympathy for the parents of the lost baby. All Berlin newspapers published pub-lished the kidnaping on their front pages, along with numerous photographs, photo-graphs, an extraordinary occurrence in that country, where political issues is-sues invariably occupy all available front-page space, even when an election elec-tion campaign is not In progress. England's anxiety over the fate of the little boy was nearly as keen as America's. The news of the abduction abduc-tion caused a sensation in Mexico where the baby's grandfather, the late Dwight Morrow, had been ambassador from the United States. A stream of telegrams was sent to the Lindberghs from their many friends in Mexico. President Ortiz Eubio, Foreign Secretary Sec-retary Manuel C. Tellez and J. Reuben Reu-ben Clark, who succeeded the late Senator Dwight Morrow as ambassador, ambassa-dor, asked to be kept closely informed of any developments in the search for the kidnapers. The abduction was brought home to Mexicans all the more vividly because be-cause of the fact that it had occurred on the third anniversary of Colonel Lindbergh's arrival iu the Mexican capital on the visit before his last trip to Mexico, in the days when he was courting Anne Morrow in the romantic atmosphere of Cuernavaca. Just as the news of the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby circled the globe within a few hours after it had occurred, so'had the news of the birth of this baby been an item of worldwide world-wide interest. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Lind-bergh, Jr., was born June 22, 1030, which also was the anniversary of the birth of his mother, the former Anne Morrow, daughter of the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey. She was twenty-four years old the day her son was born. The baby was born in the Morrow home in New Jer-: sey, in which his parents were married mar-ried May 27, 1929. In the four days interval between June 22 and the day the birth certificate certifi-cate was filed members of the Morrow and Lindbergh family participated in an amicable discussion as to what the infant would be named. That question was settled when the birth certificate disclosed he was to be "Junior." And it was understood to have been Mrs. Lindherg's choice all along. It was reported, too, that Lindbergh Lind-bergh had favored calling his son after his father-in-law, but that for the first time since he hopped the Atlantic three years before he was turned back from his goal. During his first few months of life, when his parents were making occasional occa-sional short jaunts by airplane it frequently fre-quently was reported that Charles Jr. was to accompany them. They did not take the infant on any of these trips, however, though the reports .were so persistent that they gave rise to the impression that Charles Jr. would be brought up from earliest youth with the idea of making an aviator out of him. So widely was this conviction held that his reticent father declared in an interview, which was printed in October, Octo-ber, 19110, in the Pictorial Review, that Charles Jr.'s future was in his own nands. "Our son," Colonel Lindbergh was quoted as saying, "has hardly reached the age to have his future determined for him, and, in any case, It is a question ques-tion that he can decide for himself when the time comes. "Personally. I do not want him to be anything or do anything that he himself has no taste or aptitude for. When word of the birth of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. went around the world and even before It was announced, an-nounced, gifts began to arrive at the Morrow home for him in such profusion profu-sion that they soon became an embarrassment. em-barrassment. His parents were quoted as saying that the boy would have to remain an infant for ton years at least merely to wear out the baby clothes which had been sent to him. |