MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 112.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BABY WAS KILLED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO; SKULL
WAS FRACTURED; HOLE IN HEAD SIZE OF
25-CENT PIECE; BODY FOUND LYING FACE
DOWN IN SHALLOW GRAVE UNDER PILE OF
BRUSH; IDENTIFIED BY GARMENTS; DISCOV
ERY WAS MADE WEDNESDAY; FACT KEPT
SECRET FOR FULL DAY; MOTHER IN CARE
OF PHYSICIANS; COLONEL LINDBERGH DIS
PLAYS SINGULAR COURAGE
HOPEWELL, N. J., May 13. — Charles Augustus
Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of the world famous aviator,
was found dead Wednesday near the mountain home
which he was kidnapped 74 days ago. The announcement
was made by Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, who has
been in charge of the kidnapping investigation since the
baby was stolen from its crib on the night of March 1.
The body, reduced to a skeleton, was found by Wil
liam Allen and Orville Wilson, who were driving along
road from Trenton on what is known as Mount Rose Hill.
The body was beneath a pile of brush. The discovery was
made at 3:45 p. nr, and identified by a flannel shirt and
band which compared with the clothing known to have
been worn by the child the night of the kidnapping, which
left no doubt as to his identity.
The child was lying on his face, and from its position, indicated
that attempts had been made to conceal or bury it. Above the right ear
was a hole about the size of a 25-cent piece.
In his official statement, Colonel Schwartzkopf said: ‘We have to
announce that apparently the body of the Lindbergh baby was found
at 3:45 p- m., Wednesday, by William Allen, colored, of Trenton, who
was riding on the Mount Rose road toward Hopewell. He was riding
with Orville Wilson on a truckload of timber. They stopped the truck
and found the baby”
State police fiist examined the body and then went to the Lind
bergh home and obtained garments by which they might compare the
cloth to the fragments of material found near the body. A comparison
convinced them they had come to the end of the trail. The condition
of the body indicated that the baby had been dead for many weeks.
The baby had been murdered.
SENATOR ROBINSON HIS
PLANS RELIEF PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13.—
Senate Democratic Leaders Joseph
Robinson laid before the Senate a
business, unemployment and agri
cultural relief program.
The program includes a $400,
000,000 unemployment relief fund,
derived from a Federal bond issue,
to be advanced to States and mu
nicipalities; a $2,000,000,000 issue
of tax exempt bonds for construc
tion work and establishment of the
five-day siv-hour per day week.
TARIFF BILL KILLED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13.—
The Democratic tariff bill, vetoed
and criticized by President Hoover,
was killed in the House.
HOPPING ATLANTIC
HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland,
May 13, (A5)—Lou Reichers hopped
off for Dublin, Ireland, at 7:30 a.
m. today, eastern standard time.
After effecting repairs to his stab
ilizer broken when landing his
plane cn his hop from Newark, N.
J., here, he arrived at 5:25. He is
enroute to Paris and will attempt to
half Col. C. A. Lindbergh’s time
Though the weather is ideal the
flyer is behind his schedule.
1 COMPOUND FRACTURE
HOPEWELL, May 13. (/P) — The
Lindbergh baby was brutally mur
dered. The body, , hardly more
than a skeleton, was within five
miles of the Lindbergh estate.
A statement by County Physician
Charles H. Mitchell, who conduct
ed an autopsy on the body, left no
doubt of the callous brutality oi
the child’s abductors.
A compound fracture of the skull
caused death evidently soon after
the kidnapping. Physicians de
scribed it as a terrific blow. Nc
weapon was found. There is the
added possibility that the baby was
hurled violently from a motor car
“He was either hurled from an
automobile or struck over the
head,” Dr. Mitchell reported. The
baby had been dead for at leasl
two months, according to the cor
oner.
The coroner had not been able tc
determine whether the hole, the
size of a 25-cent piece over the
right ear, was made by a bullet oi
by some other lethal instrument.
It was evident, because of the
shallow grave and brush covering
that the murderers had beer
frightened away.
Despite the deterioration caused
by the elements, Dr. Mitchell said
his examination disclosed positive
evidences that the skeleton wa;
that of Colonel Lindbergh’s sor
and that he had met death by vio
lence.
Betty Gow, nurse of the Lind
berghs, said “she was quite certain
the body was that of the Lind
bergh baby.”
Mrs- Lindbergh and her mother,
Mrs. Morrow, are at Hopewell.
Lindbergh was engaged on the
baby hunt with Curtis but return
ed early yesterday.
Close friends said Mrs. Lind
bergh, who is preparing for an
; other baby late in the summer, ac
cepted the news with her “usual
equanimity.”
INTERMEDIARIES QUESTIONED
The two intermediaries of the
baby search, the men who for weeks
j have been moving in and out, keep
ing the background of their move
ments carefully guarded for fear
of endangering the baby’s life
have been called to give an ac
counting of their hidden activities
They are not under arrest. On€
Is Dr. J. F. Condon, 72-year-olc
educator, known as “Jafsie” whc
established contact with a man tc
whom $20,000 of Lindv’s money wa*
paid on a promise, never fulfilled
that the child would be returnee
“alive and well;” the other is Johr
Curtis, one of the three Norfolk
intermediaries, whose recent infor
mation sent him to coastal waten
i^ear Long Island /where it was
hinted contact had been made witt
the kidnappers.
In Close Seclusion
Mrs. Lindbergh is in close seclu
sion under the care of physicians
She will soon become a mothe
again. Colonel Lindbergh is dis
, playing the same courage whic!
l has characterized his career anc
; suffering of the past few months
The tragedy is described as gang
! dom’s most sinister challenge t(
the American people; a warnins
| from gangdom that the people hac
! better submit to gangdom’s de
mands. The real power of gangdon
has aroused the entire Unite(
States to a state of indignatioi
seldom equalled in the country’
history.
ALLEGED KIDNAPPERS
HOPEWELL, May 13. (A5) — i
check up by the police brought in
formation that the reference to th<
Curtis negotiations with a grou]
“whom he has proven to be thi
kidnappers, Colonel Schwartzkop
meant a group of alleged kidnap
pers with whom the Norfolk boa
builder had been negotiating.
IN ACTUAL CONTACT
TRENTON, May 13, (IP) — Th
broken little body of the “Eaglet
will be laid away without the par
ents having seen it. The Lind
berghs will always remember thei
lost son as a handsome little cha]
with yellow curly hair, blue eye;
and a radiant smile.
Frank Swayze, undertaker ii
charge of the body, said he hat
: been informed neither of the Lind
berghs would see it. It will b
placed in a sealed coffin before i
is delivered to them. He said hi
did not know when the buria
: would take place.
Of those whom the “Eaglet” kne\?
and learned to trust during hi
few months of life, only the nurse
Betty Gow, saw the body. He uset
i to call her “Gow.”
j Officials did not say what th<
i theory was favored by the polic
as to a motive for the brutal crim
but it is known they had unde
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was Murdered
■EMC DUNGS
COMMUNIST, ATHEIST
SOCIETIES, GERMANY
BERLIN, May 12, (JP)—President
Von Hindenburg issued a dictorial
decree disbanding all Communists
and atheistic societies coincident
with the pronouncement of drastic
sentence of Leipzig Supreme Court
on the ten Communists charged
with revolutionary agitation among
the Republic’s armed forces.
The President also decreed that
all semimilitaristic organizations
were subject to control of the Min
istry of Interior. Decress were aid
ed to enforce the governments re
cent drive against the Extremists,
such as the disbanded Brown Shirt
Hitler Army and the Communists
Red Front. s
LEFT $68,000
LONDON, May 13.—Edgar Wal
lace, mystery story writer, left a
gross estate of $68,000, according
to his will dated 1926, filed for
probate. His estate went to his
wife and four children.
SOUTH FHILED
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 13.
(Jp)—A plot to kidnap the six-year
old daughter of Dr. David M. Gard
ner, general chairman of the
Southern Baptist Convention ses
sion here, failed because the con
spirators “got cold feet.”
Learning that the Lindbergh
baby had been murdered, two men
are held and three others are be
ing sought for conspiracy to ab
duct Edith Marie and demand $30,
000 ransom from convention dele
gates. __
SUPERIMPOSED INFAMY
The Lindbergh child is found.
What a thrill of elation could have perme&ted every honest
breast if it could be said that it had returned unharmed.
Instead, like a withered little flower, no longer able to cling
to its stem, it is found cold in death; the baby lips whose utter
ances came as an epithalamium of spring, to cheer, to soothe and
to keep alive the majesty of the God through whose miracle it
I had come to bless America’s perfect home, are silent. The tiny
hands, as soft as rose petals and warm with the life-blood of she
who went down into the vailey and the shadow of death that she
might recement the pledge of her love, may no longer electrify
with its gentle touch.
As if not content with compelling father and mother to
plumb the nethermost depths of grief, the super-fiend, so low
in the scale of biological identity that it would insult the most
despicable of the animal kingdom to make a comparison, lashes
again at the open wound as if spurred on by an inseasate beast
iality.
And all for gold.
The crime is so loathesome that it cannot be enumerated
among the shortcomings of the Anglo-Saxon race. It could come
only from the scum, spawned in the filth of a degenerate and
outlaw people, who have transplanted their viciou^ness from pre
cincts where they were driven out by a strong hand and risen to
flourish and fatten in the land which gave them equality and
freedom.
jn The crime cannot be individualized. It lays at the door
[ 9 of a law enforcement organization wrhich is a disgrace to all civ
1 9 ilization. It does not stop at the door of the underworld char
■ 9 acter, but rises above these and finds sanctuary in the White
9 House, in the Congress of the United States, among myriads who
* 9 wear the brand of respectability because America has forsaken
’ R the gods of its fathers and bowTed at the feet of Mammon, gorg
ing and fattening upon the filth of illicit gains until all
faith has been destroyed and more than, eight millions of honest
men and women brought to the verge of starvation.
1 And while such atrocities as the Lindbergh tragedy were be
1 ing enacted, there walked up and down the land, like John
5 adreams, prostitutors of Holy Writ, urging on an army of political
I bigots to crucify every American constitutional right that the
I hideous prohibition nightmare should be perpetuated.
L Every honest voice, the press of the nation, lovers of Ameri
can institutions and the sanctity of the home have been raised
| in the hope that the constituted powers of the nation would find
* a leader of sufficient courage to accept the challenge of gangdom,
; marshal the forces within his grasp and forever end the dis
^ grace ;which is causing the United States to be held in scorn and
; contempt by the civilized nations of the world.
A nation’s heart bows down in grief with those of Colonel
and Mrs. Lindbergh.
! It was a little child which led the world from chaos and decay
i to exalted heights. Let us hope that the sacrifice of the be
reaved father and mother has not been made in vain—that it
will cement the forces of decency in the nation and spur them
on to expurgate from the nation the virulent poison now sapping
: at its vitals.
i
UNT-Sft
BADLY OHIO
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13
Overwhelming defeat of the Anti
Saloon League candidates in th
Ohio primaries has accomplishe
these definite results:
President Hoover has become re
ccnciled to the revolt against th
prohibition laws; adoption of a re
submission plank by the Republi
can National Convention at Chi
cago next month is almost inevit
^ able.
]The Anti-Saloon League polit:
cal reign of terror is at an end an
henceforth Presidents, Congress
men, Senators and political partis
- will no longer jump through ii
- hoop.
e Anti-prohibitionists were jubii
i ant, and bone-drys were stunnei
ANOTHER DEATH
e PARIS, May 13. — General Lou
- Archinard, 82, known as the “Cor
- queror of the Sudan,” died.
LIKE OLD TK
T
WILL BE HONORED AT ALASKA
COLLEGE BY DOCTOR OF
SCIENCE DEGREE
“Well, it’s like old times,” said
Brig. Gen. James Gordon Steese as
he held an impromptu reception
on the ocean dock immediately
after stepping ashore from the SS
Yukon yesterday afternoon. “Ev
erywhere I see old friends and ac
quaintances, the same smiles and
words of welcome.”
The General stopped long enough
to step over and shake hands with a
couple of longshoremen, recognized
as old acquaintances when he was
alternately chief of the Alaska
Road Commission, manager of the
Alaska Railroad and general help
ful support in all progressive Al
askan enterprises.
General Steese (his intimates
still call him Colonel), if anything,
| looks younger than he did when
! he was scurrying over every por
I tion of Alaska where road work
' was in progress, or hurrying to
: some coast point to supervise an
! activity of the Rivers and Harbors
| department. In fact, no sourdough
; in Alaska has had a wider range
I than the father of Alaska’s road
I system and the 10-year program.
Asked where he had been keep
ing himself, General Steese said
he had been wandering about
South America and South Africa.
“The first meal I ate in South
Africa,” he said, “was composed of
a can of sardines, a can of peach
es and soggy bread, served in a lit
tle tent. We sourdoughs can do
better than that right out here in
the bush.”
Then we put the question direct:
“Is your presence in Alaska signifi
cant with respect to the proposed
transfer of the Alaska Road Com
mission to the Department of the
Interior?”
“The first I heard of the trans
fer was when I arrived in Seattle,
after a trip to South Africa,” he
said. “I cannot give any informa
tion on the subject.”
Within a few minutes after the
liner docked, General Steese, ac
| companied by General Manager
Otto F. Ohlson, departed for An
I chorage by gas-car. From that
| point General Steese will journey
to Fairbanks, where he will receive
the degree cf Doctor of Science,
j This is the first degree conferred
j by the Fairbanks Agricultural Col
i lege and School of Mines and will
! signal the 10th anniversary of its
! establishment.
Following the investure, General
j Steese will return to Seward, pos
] sibly on next Friday’s train.
Those familiar with the career
and record of General Steese in Al
aska, see in him the one man cap
able of affecting any readjust
ments of Federal activities to the
best advantage and most satisfac
tory to all parties concerned. In
his multiple capacities, while sta
tioned in Alaska, he combined local
interest with national affairs and
proved a tower of strength in se
curing needed Federal improve
ments.
He has often been referred to as
Alaska’s ambassador to Washing
ton, due to his great influence in
shaping policies and securing funds
with which to carry them out.
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CHURCH CUTS OVERHEAD
ATLANTIC CITY, May 13, (/P)—
Seven Episcopal areas were elim
inated by the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
effecting economies calculated to
save the church $400,000 during
the fourth year period.
PUBLIC DANCE TONIGHT IN I. 0. 0. F. HALL