Show JL OF LINDBERGH BABY STIRS WHOLE WORLD no crime in iii modern history has aroused such universal indignation tops long list of abductions no crime in recent history so aroused the 0 entire american public as the of the young son of col and mrs mrs charles A lindbergh little charles augustus jr Is the nations baby he Is a national character and has been since the day he was born ills his abduction was a dastardly crime resented by every red blooded american grownups grown ups and children alike every parent grieved with the stricken ricken st 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 stricken parents they knew the darkness that settled over colonel and mrs lindbergh as they viewed the dirty toot foot tracks left by the all clans and the ladder on the lawn outside the window that told so vividly the fate that had befallen their young son eon 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 from the tender care with which be had been surrounded and spirited d away into the foul hands of the most detests ble type of criminals there was no more touching incident of the whole dastardly affair than the pathetic appeal of the mother to the kidnapers to feed her sick baby properly it was addressed by sirs mrs lindbergh to the kidnapers of her son and broadcast through the press of the nation in it she said to the kidnaper of the lindbergh baby nere ile Is a heartbroken appeal direct from the mother of the child you stole the baby has been sick and its recovery may depend on the treatment 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 b baby aby fell 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 nere here Is the diet accompanied a aled by the fervent prayer of a grieving mother bother one quart of milk during the day three tablespoons of coo cooked ked cereal morning and night one yolk of egg dally daily one baked potato or rice once aday a day two 0 tablespoons of stewed fruit dally daily half a cup of orange juice on waking halt half a cup of prune juice after the afternoon nap and fourteen drops of medicine ailed during the day all kidnaper of the lind bergh berga baby what the babas mother wants you to give the boy follow her request and you may in some small portion redeem yourself in the eyes of a contemptuous world the fathers of the nation in spirit tramped with colonel lindbergh bergh the woods about the large state estate searching with him lor for clews that hat would lead to the recovery of the he stolen child in spirit they repeated his big 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 of all agonies fear for the safety and life of the child she had borne borne and not one of them but sat said d in in her heart what it it had bad been UT MY baby it Is no exaggeration to say that americans immediately formed themselves into a searching party in spirit it if not in body with the sole purpose of restoring the lendbergh baby in s safety as soon as possible to his mothers mother s arms from the highest to the most lowly news of the lindbergh Lindh ergh was tho the all important topic it Is not often that a president of the united states puts from his bis mind even tor for a little while momentous affairs of state because of concern over what has happened to some borne individual but that Is what happened in tills this case herbert hoover in the midst of pondering over the solution of pressing national and international problems forgot for tile the moment that he be was chief executive of a nation and remembered only that he 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 I hour our of the night the news should arrive at the white house 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 Und lendbergh bergh home in new jersey through the agency of the teletype the alarm reached the pollee police of new york newark jersey city elizabeth camden and philadelphia within a few minutes of the receipt of the first news at trenton all of them quickly swung into action as did the new york and pennsylvania state police orders were flashed to every precinct by the police telegraph system to be on the alert for suspicious cars while thi the D new police radio station flashed word to the short wave station of the patrolling detective cars to join in the watch similar steps though on a smaller scale were being repeated simultaneously in 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 coop co op aeration of the federal government in hunting down the kidnapers was offered to the new jersey state authorities thorl ties attorney general william D mitchell hurried to the white house for a conference with president hoover and immediately afterwards the department of justice announced that every agency of the department would operate cooperate co to the utmost with the state authorities ties following a second conference between the president and his at torney general it was announced that the government had placed its prohibition enforcement officers as well as all of the other department of justice agents on the case all agents in the eastern section of the country acting under direct orders from the president transmitted through the justice departments bureaus of investigation in new york and philadelphia were instructed ted to be on the lookout for suspicious chai characters ackers between these two ollices offices the states of new york pennsylvania delaware new jersey and connecticut were immediately covered with a network of investigation by the most skillful sleuths in the service of the united states but more striking than the immediate 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 everywhere to the he crime it Is doubtful if over ever before fore in the history of america have so many millions of her citizens felt tho the personal obligation to aid in a gigantic manhunt in spirit it if not in reality ATIa aviators tors who had bad been buddies of the famous flying colonel immediately placed thes themselves elTes and their planes at his disposal to aid in the search thousands of amateur detectives tec tives were busily engaged in watching for or clews which m might leht aid the authorities in catching the malefactors in new york the clergy of throe three rellous religious denominations joined in broadcasting a prayer for the safe and speedy return 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 was told in big bead headlines lines alongside the news of the chinese defeat on the chapel woosung battlefront tle front the french press to which colonel lindbergh has been a hero since his conquest of the atlantic in 1920 was filled with the IS tory story of the crime germany toris for a moment its heated political atmosphere arising from the th e presidential election campaign and was swept by a wave of sympathy for the parents of the lost baby all berlin newspapers published the on their front pages along with numerous photographs an extraordinary occurrence in that country where political issues invariably occupy all available page space even when an election campaign Is not in progress En glands anxiety over the fate of the little boy was nearly as keen as Amer americas leas the news of the abduction caused a sensation in mexico where the babas grandfather the late dwight morrow had been ambassador from the united states A stream of telegrams was sent to the lindbergh Lindberg bs 3 from their many friends in mexico president ortiz bublo foreign secretary manuel CL 0 and J reuben dark clark who succeeded the late senator dwight morrow as ambassador asked to be kept closely informed of any developments in the search for tho the kidnapers the abduction was brought home to mexicans all the more vividly because of the fact that it had occurred on the third anniversary of colonel lis arrival in 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 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 jr was born june 22 1930 30 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 jersey in which his parents were married may 27 1029 lle he weighed seven and one halt half pounds ills his hair bair was blond and curly ile he looked just like his father in the four days interval between june 22 and the day the birth certificate 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 lie he was to bo be Jun junior lor and it was understood to have been mrs Lind berghs choice all along it was reported too that lindbergh had favored calling callin his son after his father in law but t 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 ivas was to accompany them they did not take the infant on any of these trips however though the reports were so persistent 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 bis reticent father declared in an interview which was printed in october 1930 in the pictorial review that charles jr s future was in his own hands 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 that he can decide tor for himself ahen the be t time comes personally I 1 do not want him to be anything or do anything that he himself has no taste or aptitude tor for I 1 believe that everybody should have complete freedom in the choice of his lifes work 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 in such profusion that they soon boon became an embarrassment nis ills parents were quoted as saying that the boy would have to remain an infant for ten years at least merely to wear out the baby clothes which had bad been sent to him |