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Show KIDNAPING OF LINDBERGH BABY STIRS WHOLE WORLD No Crime in Modern History Has Aroused t Such Universal Indignation Tops Long List of Abductions. No crime In recent history bo aroused the entire American public as the kidnaping of the young son of Col and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Lind-bergh. Little Charles Augustus, Jr., Is the nation's baby. He Is a national na-tional character and has been since the day be was born. Ills abduction abduc-tion was a dastardly crime resented resent-ed by every red-blooded American, grown-ups and children alike. Every parent grieved with' the atrlcken father and mother. They knew the anguish they endured. They could feel the heart throbs and the immeasurable grief. They could realize what the finding of that empty crib meant to the grief-atrlcken grief-atrlcken parents. They knew the darkness that settled over Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh as they viewed the dirty foot-tracks left by the Lillians, Lil-lians, and the ladder 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 grlef-strlcken parents. A little delicate child, only twenty twen-ty months of age, had been dragged from the affectionate embrace of bis parents, from the tender care with which he bad been surrounded, and spirited away into the foul bands of the most dolestlble type of criminals. There was no more touching incident of the whole dastardly das-tardly 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 kidnapers of ber son and broadcast broad-cast through the press of the nation. na-tion. In it she said : "To the kidnaper of the Lindbergh Lind-bergh baby: "Here Is a heartbroken appeal direct di-rect from the mother of the child you stole. "The baby has been sick and Its recovery may depend on the treatment treat-ment it gets from you. You must be especially careful about the diet "Mrs. Lindbergh Issued to the press today the strict diet she has been following since the baby fell 111 She did this in the hope you might read this story and that there was some spark of humanity even In the heart of a baby thief. "Here is the diet, accompanied by the fervent prayer of a grieving mothers "One Quart of milk during the day. "Three tablespoons of cooked cereal ce-real morning and night , 'One yolk of egg dally. "One baked potato or rice once a day. "Two tablespoons of stewed fruit dally. "Half a cup of orange Juice on waklny. "Ua'if a cup of prune Juice after the rfternoon nap. . "ind fourteen drops of medicine callod vlosterol during the day. "that's all, kidnaper of the Lindbergh Lind-bergh baby. That's what the baby's mother wants you to give the boy. Fellow her request and you may In small portion redeem yourself 1j the eyes of a contemptuous world." The fathers of the nation In spirit tramped with Colonel Lindbergh Lind-bergh the. woods about the large estate, searching with him for clews that would lead to the recovery of the Btolen child. In spirit they repeated re-peated his prayers and his curses. To the mothers of the nation the abduction was a real, a personal tragedy. Not one of them but felt with Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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 bad borne, and not one of them but said In ber heart, "What if It had been Ml babyr 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 baby in safety as soon as possible to his mother's arms. From the highest to the most lowly, sews of the Lindbergh kidnaping was the all-Important topic. It Is not often that President of the United States puts from his mind even for a little while momentous mo-mentous affairs of state because of concern over what has happened to some Individual. But that Is what happened in this case. Derbert Hoover, in the midst of pondering over the solution of pressing national na-tional and international problems, forgot for the moment that he was Chief Executive of a nation and remembered re-membered only that be 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 Bouse. What was true of the President was true of other high government officials, both state and national The first activity In trying to run to earth the criminals was, of course, on the part of local police near the Lindbergh home In New Jersey. Through the agency of the teletype tele-type the alarm reached the police of New York, Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth, Camden and Philadelphia Philadel-phia within a few minutes ot the receipt of the first news at Trenton. All of them quickly swung Into action, ac-tion, as did the New York and Pennsylvania state police. Orders were flashed to every precinct pre-cinct by the police telegraph system sys-tem to be on the alert for suspicious suspi-cious cars, while the new police radio station WPEQ flashed word to the short wive station of the patrolling detective cars to Join In the watch. Similar steps, though on a smaller small-er scale, were being repeated simul taneously la every city for many miles around the Lindbergh home. Posses of motorcycle and bandit squad policemen from Philadelphia, Pa., and New Jersey state troopers, clamped down a heavy guard on every bridge over the Delaware river. But the circle of activity soon widened beyond state borders. Within a few hours the news reached Washington, the full co-operation of the federal government In hunting down the kidnapers was offered to the New Jersey state authorities. au-thorities. Attorney-General William Wil-liam D. Mitchell hurried to the White House for a conference with President Hoover and Immediately afterwards the Department of Justice Jus-tice announced that every agency of the department would co-operate to the utmost with the state authorities. au-thorities. Following a second conference between the President and his attorney-general. It was announced that the government had placed its prohibition enforcement officers as well as all of the other department of Jiistice agents on the case. All agents in the eastern section of the country, acting under direct orders from the President, transmitted through the Justice department'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 Yprk, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut, were Immediately Im-mediately covered with a network of Investigation by the most skillful skill-ful sleuths In the service of the United States. But more striking than the Immediate Im-mediate action taken by the constituted, consti-tuted, authorities of the law for dealing with the criminals who had stolen away the Lindbergh baby was the Instantaneous reaction of private individuals everywhere to FAMOUS KIDNAPINGS 1874 Charlie Ross, stolen In cermantown. Pa, never recov-ered recov-ered and supposed to have been killed. 1900 Edward Cudahy was kidnaped by Pat Crowe, who served a prison sentence. Cudahy Cud-ahy was returned. 1909 Billy Whltla, Sharon, pa, recovered after $10,000 ransoms ran-soms was paid. Kidnapers lm: prisoned. 1911 Baby Hencks, Chicago. Believed slain. Abductors In Jollet prison. 1911 Lloyd Treatke. Cleve land. Found In California after fifteen years. 1913 Catherine Winters, kid naped In Newcastle, Ind.; never found. 1915 Jimmy Glass. -Jersev City, still missing and believed slain. 1917 Baby Lloyd Keet, Springfield, Mo, slain. 1919 Billy Dansey, kidnaped In New Jersey. Body found In swamp months later. 1924 Roy Borth, kidnaped by moron In Chicago. Found unharmed un-harmed after a week. 1924 Bobby Franks, kidnaped and slain. In Chicago by Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, who are serving life sentences In prison. 1927 Marian Parker, twelve years old, Los Angeles, kidnaped and slain by William Hickman, who was captured and executed. 1927 Billy Gaffney, four years old, Brooklyn, kidnaped for ransom and never found. Believed Be-lieved to have been slain. 1928 Billy Ranlerl, ten years eld, kidnaped but later restored to parents. Two kidnapers sen-tenced sen-tenced to 25 years In prison. 1930 Adolphus Busch Orth-weln, Orth-weln, thirteen years old, grandson grand-son of millionaire brewer, kidnaped kid-naped from home near St Louis but released 20 hours later. Kid-naper Kid-naper sentenced to prison. 1931 Marian McLean, six years old, Cincinnati, kidnaoed and assaulted, and later found dead In basement Slayer captured cap-tured and confessed. the crime. It ! doubtful if ever before be-fore la the history of America have so many millions of her citizens felt the personal obligation to aid In a gigantic manhunt In spirit if not In reality. " Aviators, who had been buddies of the famous flying colonel. Immediately Imme-diately placed themselves and their planes at his disposal to aid In the search. Thousands of amateur detectives de-tectives were busily engaged In watching for "clews" which might aid the authorities In catching the malefactors. In New York the clergy of three religious denomina tions 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 Chaptl-Woosung bat-tlefront bat-tlefront The French press, to which Colonel Lindbergh has been a hero since his conquest of the Atlantic At-lantic In 1026, was filled with the story of the crime. Germany for got for a moment Its heated polltl cal atmosphere arising from the presidential election campaign and was swept by a wave of sympathy for the parents of the lost baby. All Berlin newspapers published the kidnaping on their front pages, along with numerous photographs, an extraordinary occurrence in that country, where political Issues in' variably occupy all available frontpage front-page space, even when an election 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 ab duction caused a sensation in Mexico Mex-ico 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 Itubio, Foreign Secretary Manuel OL Tellez and J. Reuben Clark, who succeeded the late Senator Dwight Morrow as ambassador, asked to be kept closely Informed of any developments de-velopments 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 oc-curred on the third anniversary of Colonel Lindbergh's arrival In the Mexican capital on the -visit before his last trip to Mexico, in the days when he was courting Anne Morrow Mor-row 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 world-wide interest Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was born June 22, 1930, 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 bom. The baby was born In the Morrow home In New Jersey, in which his parents were married May 27, 1929. lie weighed seven and one-half pounds. Ills hair was blond and curly. lie looked "Just like his father." In the four days interval between June 22 and the day the birth certificate cer-tificate was filed members of the Morrow and Lindbergh family participated par-ticipated 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 under-stood to have been Mrs. Lindbergh's choice all along. It was reported, too, that Lindbergh 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 short Jaunts by airplane it frequently was reported that Charles Jr. was to accompany them. They did not take the lnfaqt on any of these trips, however, though the reports were so persistent that Charles Jr. would be brought np rrom earliest youth with the idea of making an aviator out of him. So widely was this conviction held that his reticent father declared de-clared In an Interview, which was printed in October, In the Pic-! torial Review, that Charles Jr.'s fu-1 ture was in his own hands. j "Our son." Colonel Lindbergh was1 quoted as saying, 'has hardly; reached the age to have his future determined for him, and, in any1 case. It is a question that he can decide for himself when the time comes. "Personally, I do not want him to be anything or do anything that hej himself has no taste or antitude for. I believe that everybody should j have complete freedom In the choice ' of his life's work." j When word of the birth of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. went! around the world and even before' It was announced, gifts began to! arrive at the Morrow home for him I In such profusion that thp Ann became an embarrassment His parents par-ents were quoted as saying that the boy would have to remain an in fant for ten years at least merely to wear out the baby clothes which had been sent to him. THE LEW SUN. LEHI. UTAH I 1 1 n n-n-nwrrrrn """ Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers BONDS FAVORED HAY IS SHORT SHEEP CARRY ON 4-n LEADERS MEET AUTO LICENSE DROP nrrn t't Turnovers and school patrons of Beaver voted for a $25,000 bond Issue at a public mass meeting in order to maintain schools of the county for the balance of the current school term. PRESTON, IDA.-Witb snow still -on the ground from two to four feet deep, farmers do not expect ex-pect the hay in Franklin county to last until the end of the winter. TREMONTON, UT. Articles of incorporation and by-laws have been adopted by the Bear River Yalley Grain Growers, Inc., a local unit of the Intermountain Grain Growers; Inc. The new organization expects. to handle 200,000 bushels of grain this year. LOGAN, UT.-One hundred 4-H club leaders from 20 counties of the state gathered here to attend the 4-n club leaders school at the Utah State Agricultural college. The school lasted one week. PROVO, UT. The cost of the proposed extension of Provo city water maiDS Into the Grand View and Pleasant View districts, north of this city, would be approximately approxi-mately $05,000, according to the report re-port of the City Engineer. PRICE, UT. The Carbon board of education is considering the proposal pro-posal that one of the discarded school buildings In the district be moved to a central location and made into a county infirmary. MOAB, UT. Sheep which are being wintered In gouthern Utah are reported to be In fair condition condi-tion and the loss this year will not be unusual In spite of the severe winter. OGDEN,. UT. Twenty (men are employed at widening the road Just east of the concrete bridge at the mouth, of Ogden canyon. LOGAN, UT. Approximately 8 thousand pairs of license plates were issued this year at this city or only about 60 per cent of the number for 1931. - BOISE, IDA. Forms for making mak-ing application for crop production loans will be available In all parts of Idaho soon, according to announcement an-nouncement by the director of the university extension division. EPIIRAIil, UT. Snow measurements measure-ments made at the Oaks and Great Basin experiment stations show both depCi of snow and water content con-tent to be well above the ten-year average. PROVO, UT. A drop of more than $19,000 in the estimated receipts re-ceipts of the Provo city schools, may make it necessary to close the schools one month earlier than usual. PRICE, UT. The state of Utah will foreclose 1,300 acres of valuable val-uable farm land together with all water rights, canals and a diversion diver-sion dam in a few days. The value of the land and water rights Is about $140,000. The transaction Is the biggest foreclosure on record in eastern Utah and is believed to be one of the biggest In the state. BOISE. IDA. Opposition to the proposed interest rate on deferred reclamation construction charges was expressed in a telegram sent oy tne president of the Federal Ir rigation congress to representatives in congress. WALLACE, IDA. Residents in the vicinity of Burke, Kellogg, and Mace nave been ordered by the authorities au-thorities to leave their homes, as a result of the dozens of snowslides that have occurred here recently. DOWNEY, IDA.-Four school districts in this vicinity have consolidated con-solidated their funds with Downey schools and are sending their children chil-dren to Downey in order to reduce expenses and at the same time keep children in school. Utah's nineteenth clean-up and paint-up campaign, sponsored by the state board of health and endorsed by Gov. George H. Dern, is underway. Each city, town and "village is urged to participate, par-ticipate, by sponsoring local units un-its of the drive. Civic organizations wishing to promote euch projects, as community com-munity "good turns", are requested re-quested to write to the state board of health now for particulars. particu-lars. An honor-roll enlisting each town, participating and non-participating, will be published by the state after the campaign closes on May 30. ICIIFIELI)' tT.-Payment for -w worth of road work will be made in Savior - --MA OVIllH, according to a decision reached by the countjr commission. WEXDOVER, UT.-A check on tie number of sheep wintering in SnJvCvUy, ,f Wendover 8h0 UAJ.UUO head. Man Hmnnnj. v j. . . uiuuuuj nave died from starvation and exposure. BOISE. IDA. The Idaho Income nx law earned $1356 during Feb-"ary. Feb-"ary. according to the report la-wed la-wed by the income tax commis- Window Used State troopers re-enacdng the the ahdnetoriL I ' ' ' ' ' I ' t : p J li If Pi fTmA W ii i V - i - ' PL! kk r - v Four Generations of Lindbergh-Morrow Family h - ' V - M"'""" li Mrs. Charles Loner Cnttav er; Mrs. Lindbergh and the ki fin n noil THE PARENTS US 5m tUF - J Characteristic dos f , nd Mrs. Lindbergh taken afteri one of their ion flit. f i 'v:-7'l ' . I t V rV' II! in Kidnaping LindberghT kidnaping of Baby Lindbergh, showing the window hi ! i - 1 - - iTiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiii - iiMri mrnmrMirmmm" ; 11111 """ nwiirht Morrow, hhw . 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