Show Missing Dry Feared Slain by Gangsters CD Br fly Untied Press NEW YORK Sept 9 Intimate 9 friends and relatives of Colonel Raymond Robins colorful reform leader who hast has has' been missing since Saturday went into conference today fearful he had been and murdered by rum runners Dr Frederick A. A Smith head oJ of the World Alliance for International Friendship and anda a a friend of Robins announced relatives and friend would organize a wide nation natIo search search If It Robins is not found by noon to to- to morrow Dr Smith said relatives and friends to the view reluctantly were coming view that violence overtook the dry leader while he was en route to keep an engagement engagement en en- ba ement with Hoover He SHe was a man the rum runners would want to get out of the way Dr Smith said He was a terror on them S CHICAGO Sept 9 W IP ff Mrs W. W Requa Bryant friend of Colonel Raymond Raymond Ray Ray- mond Robins for 20 years t today said she saw the he missing prohibition a and d peace worker on a a Chicago street yesterday afternoon I I am positive the man was Mr Robins she said I have known him since my childhood when he visited at our home He appeared distraught ht and md for that reason I didn't speak to him um I didn't know he was missing at that time Mrs Bryants Bryant's father Attorney Harod Harold Har liar old od L. L Ickes said he had talked at length with his dau daughter and was convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced the man she saw was Robins Ickes was a lifelong friend of Robins and they campaigned together for Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 he said Ickes said he be was inclined to beHave be- be Have Robins Robins' was in Chicago on a se secret secret se- se cret mission Colonel Robins was a social worker ii n Chicago for years serving for a I tune time as head of municipal lodging houses louses Ickes advanced the theory that hat Robins' Robins acquaintance In Chicago hi ngo ngom m might ht motivate his coming here if il he I were a victim of amnesia Copyright 1932 by United Press SOUTHWEST HARBOR Me Sept Sent SentI 9 I Colonel Raymond Robins who disappeared disappeared dis- dis appeared m mysteriously while en route to to see President Hoover Hoover Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver recently indicated a fear that his lis er emles were about to get him the he missing social workers worker's wife wIte re revealed revealed revealed re- re today Mrs Robins disclosed further that the he colonel feared something would Continued on lan Fat Two I MISSING DRY IS BELIEVED SLAIN Continued from Page Pace One happen to him on the trip from here hereto to o Washington last week and wrote for lor fora lora a note which said in effect I 1 case I should disappear I do not want you or any of our friends to offer a R reward or ransom I At her sisters sister's summer home here Mrs Margaret Dreier cultured and middle aged pictured her husband as fearless earless and cheerful in the face of scores scores cores of death threats during the last 25 5 years I D B Br United Frets WASHINGTON Sept 9 All 9 All the power of the federal government was wasl brought rought int into play today to find rind Colonel Cole Colo cola I ad nel Raymond Robins who vanished en route to the White House to confer with his friend President Hoover The secret service and the department depart depart- ment of justice thrust their forces into nto the search for the eminent pro pro- leader and social economist at the reported request of high government gov gay officials Robins' Robins failure to keep an appointment appoint ment at nt the White House on Tuesday brought to light the fact he had disappeared dis appeared from New York last Satur Satur- day FEARED Mrs Robins Robin from her summer summerhome summerhome home lome in Maine expressed t to government govern govern- ment meat officials here yesterday a fear that hat Florida bootleggers had kid kid- japed her husband This clue spurred the he powerful federal detective agencies agen agen- ics cies in their search W W. H. H Moran chief of the secret service had his best operatives at work vork on the case two days ago it was learned earned Their activities began after Walter Valter Newton White House secretary secre secre- tary ary became alarmed at the continued continued contin contino absence of Robins Newton explained that last Friday the be prohibition leader notified him he expected to be here on Tuesday and nd wished to sec see the president Newton Newton New New- ton arranged an appointment Tuesday Tues Tues- day lay went by and Newton assumed that hat Robins had been detained in New NewYork NewYork York and had inadvertently failed to notify the White House On Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day however the presidents president's secretary secre secre- tary became worried when the day passed and Robins had not put in an appearance Newton called the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City club of which the missing man was a member and ned learned he had checked out lost last Saturday The secret ecret service was then called in after atter a further check showed the expected White House caller calIer was unaccountably unaccountably ably missing CAPITAL IS SHOCKED The disappearance was a shock to official Washington President Hoover Hoover Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver and other high administration officials were among those concerned over what has happened to Robins The president continued to be advised advised ad ad- today of developments in the case casc and Secretary Newton kept in close touch by telephone with Mrs Robins in Maine In the mail box at the Dodge hotel are letters that are being held for the prohibition leader He usually stayed ed there here when at the national capital At the New York City club he left the he hotel as his his' forwarding address Indic indicating ting that he had no other plans but jut to come to Washington and see seethe seethe the he president president- En route he vanished Colonel Robins has been a familiar figure in Washington life for years He has known the president for 20 years and campaigned for him in 1928 Secretary Newton declined to say if il the White House had called department department department depart depart- ment of justice agents into the case but jut did remark It seems to me that thai 1 if or any other serious charges are made the department of justice operatives certainly will be on the job It was known the department got the search under way notified New NewYork NewYork NewYork York police authorities and asked a search of Manhattan hospitals and morgues Later Attorney General Genera Mitchell revealed at the White House that federal prohibition agents had hac been seen ordered to make a thorough investigation in in- of f. f the disappearance SECOND BIG HUNT Participation of the government agencies in the hunt marks the second time this year they have engaged in ina a search for a missing person person a local and state police tion They sought to find the missing son of Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh but withdrew after the baby's body was found Se Secret ret Service Chief Chic Moran said laid that friends of the missing man were cooperating with him and doing everything they can to find Mr Robin Rob Rob- ins in s. s Assistance of the service was asked by friends of Mr Robins he said |