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Show PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW KIDNAPING OF LINDBERGH BABY STIRS WHOLE WORLD ' C No Crime in Modern History Has Aroused T ouch Universal IndiPTiatinn Tnn List of Abductions. Long No crime In recent history 10 roused the entire American public as tbe kidnaping of the young boo of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Llnd- borgh. Little Charles Augustus, Jr Is the nation's bahv. lie is a.na tlonal character and has been since the day he was born. Ills abduc tion was a dastardlv crime resent d by every red-blooded American, grown-ups and children alike. Every parent grieved with the stricken father and mother. They knew the anguish Ihey endured. They cduld feel the heart throbs and the Immeasurable erlef. The? could realize what the finding of that empty crib meant to the grief- stricken parent They knew the darkness that settled over Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh as they viewed tne dirty foot-tracks left by the vll-lians, vll-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 grief-stricken parents. " A little delicate child, only twenty twen-ty months of age, had been dragged from the affectionate embrace of his parents, -from the tender care with which he had been surrounded, and spirited away Into the foul hands of the most dotestlble type of criminals. There . was no more touching incident of the whole dastardly das-tardly affair than the nathetie arv peal of the mother to the kidnapers to feed her sick baby properly. It was addressed by Mrs. Lindbergh to tne kidnapers of her son and broad cast through the press of the na tlon. In It she said : i ; "To the kidnaper of the Lind bergh baby: - ; "Here is a heartbroken anneal dl - feet from the mother of the chlM you -stole. "The baby has been sick and Its recovery may depend on the 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 ill 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 bahy thief. "Here is the diet, accompanied by the fervent proper of a grieving mother; , s, "One quart of milk during the day. , "Three tablespoons of cooked "Te-real "Te-real morning and nighty "One yolk of egg dally. -v "One baked potato of rice once a day. ' . "Two tablespoons of stewed fruit dally. "Hall a cup of orange Juice on waklnl "IMf a cup of prune juice after - me rtternoon nap "And fourteen drops of medicine calwd viosterol durlnz the dav, "that's all, kidnaper of the Lind l. 1. 1 1 , M.1 . 1 , . I . . vtu uauj. iuiu s wiibi me DHDy 8 mother wants you to give the boy. Flow her request and you mav In sme small portion redeem yourself la the 1 eyes of a contemptuous .-world." The fathers of the nation In spirit "tramped with Colonel Lind bergh the woods about the laree estate, searching with him for clews that would lead to the recovery of the stolen child. In spirit they repeated re-peated his prayers and his curses. To, the mothers of the nation tha - abduction was a real, a personal tragedy. Not one of them but fplt liwitn - Anne Morrew-Lindbergh the devastating blow that had been struck American motherhood, not one of them but suffered the keen est of all agonies fear for the safety and life of the child she had Dome, and not one of them but said In her heart, "What if It had been AIT baby? It Is no exaggeration to sav that 100,000,000 Americans immediately lormed 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 arras. rora the highest to the most lowlv. news of the Lindbergh kidnaping was tne ail-important . topic, It Is nnt fifton that . I..n . . ----- m rsiuriit of the United States puts from his mind even for a little while m. mentous affairs of state because of concern over what has happened to some individual. But that Is what happened inthls case. Uerbert jioover, in the. midst of pondering over the solution of pressing na tional ana international problems, forgot for the moment that he was -nier Executive of a nation and re- ..r...ir1Cu vwj mat ne wot an i near the Lindbergh home In New jersey. .through the aeenev of th toio. type the alarm reached the police or new York, Newark, Jersey City, anzaDetc, Camden and Philadel phla within "a few minutes ot the receipt of the first news at Trenton- All of them quickly swung into ac tion, as did the New York and Pennsylvania state police. Orders were flashed to everv nrn- clnct by the police teleirraDh svs- tem to be on the alert for suspicious suspi-cious cars, while the new police radio station WPEQ flashed word to the short wave station of the patrolling detective cars to Join In the watch. Similar steps, thouch on a small er scale, were being repeated simultaneously simul-taneously In even cltv for manv miles around the Llndhorirh homo Posses of motorcycle and bandit squad policemen from Philadelphia, ra and New Jersey state troonera 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 Cn-nn. ration of the federal, government In hunting down the kidnnnera una oirered to the New. Jersey stAt mi. murines. Attorney-General WH nam D. Mitchell hurried to the White House for a conference with President Hoover and Immediately anerwards the Department of Justice Jus-tice announced that every agency of the department would co-operate to the utmost with the state au- thorltles. Following ii second conference between the President and his at-tom-geMraL ... Jt was. announced that the government had Disced Its prohibition enforcement officers as well as all of the other department ofjustlee agents on the case. All agents in the eastern' section of thp country, acting under direct orders from the President, transmitted through the" iustlee bureaus of Investigation In New xork and PhlladelDhia. were in. Jtructed to be on thelookout-4or the crime. It la doubtful If ever before be-fore In 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 denomlna; lions Joined In broadcasting Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers BONDS FAVORED HAY IS SHORT SHEEP CARRY ON 4-H LEADERS MEET AUTO LICENSE DROP Window Used in Kidnaping Lindbergh Bab 3 suspicious characters. Between these two offices the states of New lork, Pennsylvania. Delawnre N Jersey and Connecticut, were im mediately .covered with a network of Investigation by the most skillful skill-ful sleuths in the Uprvlr-o nt tba United States. But more strikins thnn th im. mediate action taken bv the rnnsM. tuted authorities of the law for dealing with the criminals who" had stolen away the Llndherirh huh was the Instantaneous reaction of private Individuals everywhere to prayer for the safe and speedy return re-turn of the Llndbereh 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 Chapel-Woosung bat- tlefront The French nress. to which Colonel Lindbergh has been a nero since his conquest of the At lantic in 1926, was filled with the story of the crime. Germany for got for a moment Its heated Dolltl- 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 oubllshed the kidnaping on their front pages, along with numerous photographs, an extraordinary occurrence In that country, where political issues In variably occupy all available front page space, even when an election campaign Is not In progress. England's anxiety over the fate of the little boy was nearly asl keeo as America's. The news of the aB duction paused a sensation In Mex ico where the baby's grandfather. tne late Pwight Morrow, had been ambassador from the-UnitedStates. A stream of telegrams was sent to the Lindberghs from their manv friends In Mexico. President Ortiz Rublo, Foreign Secretary Manuel CL Tellez and J. Reuben Clark, who succeeded the late Senator Dwight Morrow as ambassador, asked to be kept closely informed of any de velopments In the search for the kidnapers. T'he-uctiott:was-bronirhtnmH---IANi to Mexicans all the more vivldlv he- cause of the fact that it had oc curred on the third abnlversary of Colonel LIndberch'B arrlvnl in the Mexican capital on the visit before his last trip to Mexico, in the days when he was courtine Anne Mor row in the romantic atmosphere of Ouernavaca. Just as the news of the kidnaping BEAVER, UT. Taxpayers and school patrons of Beaver voted for 9KCu hnnil IssnB nt A TlUbllfi w ViVfVw i 1 " - mass nwtine in order to maintain schools of the county .for the balance of the current scff)l term, -PRESTON, IDA. With 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 Jtiiver Valley Grain Growers, Inc., a local unit nt thn Tnfermountaln Grain Growers, Inc. The new organization expects to bandle 200,000 bushels of grain this year. . , LOGAN. UT. One hundred 4-H eluh londpra frnm 20 POimtles of the tjit p-nthprpd here to attend the 4-H club leaders school at the Utah State Agricultural college. The school lasted one week. PRnVft. TTT. The cost of the nronosed prtension " of Provo cltv water mains into' the Grand View and Pleasant Viewdistricts, north of this city, would be approxi mately $G3,000, according to the report re-port ''of the City Engineer. PRICE. TIT. The Carbon board of education is considering thepro-i 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. SheeD which-are ! being wintered in southern Utah are reported to be In fair condl tlon and the loss this year will not be unusual In spite of the severe winter. FAMOUS KIDNAPINGS Aiwncan rawer, go-he mv nrvw. that he was to be kept Informed of me latest developments In the case no matter at what hour of the night the news should arrive at the White Douse, What was true of the President was true of other high government officials, both state and national. xne nrst activity In trying to run lu na tne criminals was, of course, on the part of local nolle lol Char a R0 .ni.n i. eermantown, pa., never recov- red and supposed to have been Killed. 4AAA . isuv toward. Cudahv wa J XV kidnaped by 1 Pat Crowe, who served a prison sentence. Cud. any was returned. 1!K Billy Whltla. Sh.ron Pa., recovered after $10,000 ran- ffmewas paid. iKIdnapers Im- pnsonea. 1811 Baby Hencki CMmaa oeiieved slain.- Abductor, in toilet prison. i!in Lloyd Trezko. Cl.. land,Found In-Galifornla f. nrteert years. 1915 Catherine Winters, kid "feu in Newcastle.. Ind- nv.r lound. Jimmy Glass. Jirtev Kiiy, niij . miaslna and bllverf nin. 1917 Baby Llovd K.. opnngneid, Mo, slain. 1919 Billy Dansev. kMn,n.j - -. in new Jersey. Body found In wamp months later. 1924 Roy Borth. kldna nerf bv . . . moron in Chicago. Found un nanmed after a week. 1924 Bobby Franks, kldnan.rf and slain In Chicago by Richard i-oeo and Nathan Leopold, wha are eervinaJIfL sentences - in prison. i- Marian Parker, twslva years old, Los Anoelei. kldnan.rf and. slain by William Hickman wno was captured and executed. 1S27- Billy Gaffney. four years ld, Brooklyn. IdHnm.H for ransom and never found. Be lieved to have been alain 1928 Billy RanierL ten n old, kidnaped but later restored io parents. Two kidnaocr .... wicea to 25 years in prison. 1930 Adolphus Buech Orth weln, thirteenyeart old, orand- on or millionaire brewer, kid-tiaped kid-tiaped from home near s i but releatd-2a hours 4ater, Kid naper sentenced to prison. ioi Marian McLean. . i years old, Cincinnati, kidnaped no iuiiea. and iat dead In basement Kliv., - conresseo. ; of the" Lindbergh buby circled the giooe within a few hours after It had occurred, so had the news nf the birth of this baby been an item of Lworld-wide interest- - Charles Augustus Lindbergh, ir.. 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 born. The baby was born in the Morrow home In Ww Jersey, In which his parents were married May 27, 1929. lie weighed seven and one-half pounds. His hair was blond nnrf curly. He looked "lust lik hi father." In the four days Interval betwppn June 22 and the day the birth certificate cer-tificate was filed members of th Morrow and Lindbergh family 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 undpr. stood to have been Mrs. Lindbergh's i OGDEX. UT. Twenty men are employed at widening the road just east of the concrete bridge at the mouth of Ogden canyon. UT; Approximately 8 thousand pairs of license plates were Issued this year at this city or only about 60 per cent of th-9 number for 1931. BOISE, IDA. Forms for making mak-ing application for crop .pro'duction loans will he available in all parts of Idaho soon, according to announcement an-nouncement by the director of the nnlverslty extension division. R ... ... .. mm f l...hsrl .....-.....-1." ...'J : ;.. i: J. the fbductor0s.OPer8 re"enactlng th knaping of Baby Lindbergh, showing the window and ladda Four Generations of Lindbergh-Morrow Family EPHRAIM, UT. Snow measurements' measure-ments' made at the Oaks and Great Basin experiment stations show both depth of snow and water content con-tent .to be well above the len-jear average. PROVO, tJT. A droD of more than $19,000 In the estimated re ceipts of the Provo clly 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 tocefter with nil water rights, canals and a diver-Ion diver-Ion 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 hp 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 by the president of the Federal Irrigation Ir-rigation congress to representatives in congress. j WALLACE, IDA. Residents In -- e uiiiuuci s Y -w iw-wucuta lit I choice all along. It was reported,! the' viHuf, 0f I5urke, Kellogg, and Mace have been ordered hv the an thoritle3 to leave their homes, as a resHit of the dozens of snowslldes ttiat have occurred here recently. 1XJWNEY, DA. 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 cniiaren In school. too, that Lindbergh had favored calling bis son after his father-in-law, but that for the first time slnc he hopped the Atlantic three years oerore ne was turned back from his goat During his first few months of life, when his parents were mnk-lm occasional short Jaunts by airplane it frequently was reuorted tht Charles Jr. was to accomranv them They did not take the Infant on any of these trips, however, though the reports were so Dersistent thnt Charles Jr. would be bronuht nrv rrom earliest youth with th Mm of making, an aviator out of him. So widely- was this COnvlptlnn held that his reticent father rip. clared In an Interview, which was' printed In October, 1930, In the Pictorial Pic-torial Review! that Charles Jr.'s fu ture was ttrlits own hands. " 'Our son,? Colonel Llndbercb WHS quoted as saying, "has hardly reached the age to have his future determined for him. and. in in. case. It Is a question that he-'-can decide for himself when the time comes. "Personally, I do not want him t be anything or do anything that he nimseir has no taste-or antitnrto! -dt,,... I life's work - - - 4 """T,.111 t. nn script. Utah's nineteenth clean-nn tni palnt-np 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 un-ita un-ita of 4he drive. - Civic organizations wishing to promote such projects, as com-mumtx-gooi- turns", -are- requested re-quested to write to the state board of health now for Tin rH hi lars. .. ,., . , : Aa honor-roll enlisting each town, participating and non-par-tldpating, will be published by the state - after the closes on May 30. . & A v , v i ' ' - v - -Mr 7 ' . V THE PARENTS Latest Photo of Lindbergh Bat of his life's work." When word of the Charles AUndhergh, , cwroing to a decision reached by DIrth of . the county commission. Jp. wprift .-t-.-. . . ' around tie world and evpn hptv,, ""witK, UT. A check on It was announced, rifts h Z of sheep wintering In arrive at the Morrow borne for him So oo& hif TCT Bbew' In such profusion that they soon 1 f Ma"7 ttonsands became an ratani 5?f5 "d exposure. ents were quoted as saving that thA i - IdaIlft ln;ome boy would ave it fn " Jw H11 '1356 Feb- fant for ten year. t l ZLZ 7' CB,B to to wear out the hifvr7TST,. .i-. . Income tax- commit- had been sent to him. I " - :- I w (IK;;;,!! l '' ' if I ... '' - TT, vll . 1 i. vH- r f Y - V 2 t Li ; (, ft J Characteristic r and Mrs. Llndbenrh taken ft one of their long flighU. ' PhotoeraDh nt r.rf - f,miw ' 7. . u6 uai us juinaoergn, Jr, maae pu""v , tarnlly after th kidnaping to asst la the search for the child. , |