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10,1934
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
Want Ad Service—Caul 2-5151
SUSPECTS HELD
BY U. S. AGENTS
Government Men Smash Rainstorm Kept Flyer and
Way Into Underworld 1
Hideouts in Drive
RIENDS MO
WALTER SI
The Lindbergh Kidnaping Case
Nation’s Most Shocking Crime Had Setting In New Jersey Hills Lumber Firms Close As home, sis WeR Richmond a,
; officials of the company in Fort |
Worth to make the trip.
Mr. Sloan, 55, was hunting in |
West Texas last week when he |
received word of his brother’s In- '
juries. He quickly drove to his
TEXAS INDEPENDENT
LAUNCH CODE FIGH
Wife at Home on Night
of Kidnaping
By United Press y
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—red-
eral agents smashed thru more
underworld hideaways today in
their unprecedented narcotic drive
and brought the total number of
suspects held to 791.
Today’s raids, climaxing the
week-end offensive, netted an-
, other so-called "big shot,” Harry
Anslinger, federal narcotic
chief said. u . J The desolate, rain - drenched
„ Two shots now art held, 1 Hourlands Mountains of New Jer-
Anslinger, said. One was sey provided, during the dying
caught inBaltimore Saturday and winter of 1932, a setting for the
ano her in San Francisco today, most shocking crime In modern
They were expected to reveal more American history —the kidnaping
details of the widespread nature and murder of Charles A Lind,
of their activities on both coasts, bergh Jr.
Heroin Price Doubled. In an effort to escape the un-
1.1 u Anslinger said the- raids welcome attention and adulation
had been highly successful. In of the world ahd to rear his son
curbing the narcotie traffic and in the at. e of an average 1
pointed to a doubling of the price American—family, Col Lindbergh 4
illicit heroin in W ashington to had built his home, that winter 1
----4800 per ounce. in an isolated community near - i
Heroin ’ satd was, the chief the Dour foothills three ten 4
narcotic seized in the Saturday from the nrrie town of Hopewen.
tatdr He said’ that this drug The home was a -rambling,
was broushr into this country white manor, in French seignorial
mostly thru New York and sold architecture, dominating
at $10 an ounce, . .. . - "
After adulteration, which may.___
run as high as 10 times, Mr penetrated by qirtlne
Ansimeer said, the original ounce rough roads, lay a 10-mile tangle
for heroin , peddled to addicts of woodlands On its south were
War and 5100 per o nee rolling meadows and occasional
an A ,ociaie said first de. swamp land, descending gently
L of the raids and the typethe village,
% nuikanal 1 Col. Lindbergh, his wife Anne
that government in drive for otMorrow Lindbergh, and their 20-
traffic Mr Adel , month old son had not yet estab- - ------
Avant tn.. r — shed themselves permanently in I room, and prepared to retire.
- AuNL wNe MSN the great white house. " ......4"
their products in fast boat,
New York
20-Months-Old Baby Had
Cold When Tucked in
Crib Last Time
Challenge New Deal To
Enforce Oil Control
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is
the first of a series of articles
clarifying the case of the State
of New Jersey versus Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, alleged
Lindbergh kidnaper, who faces
trial next month for the crime.
Hy MIDNEY H. WHIPPLE
(Copyright, 1934, by United Press.)
miles
------------’ a knoll
which overlooked an estate
some 500 acres. To its north,
dirtianes and _
of
Little Charles Augustus
Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-
old victim, and the ladder down
which the kidnapers fled on
March 1. 1932, when they stole
the child from his parents’
home in Hopewell, N. J.
the great white house.it was
their habit, however, to spend
week-ends at the manor, super-
.vising the touches that were
transforming it into a year-round
residence, and to spend the re-
itmainder of the,week at the home
of Anne a mother, Mrs. Dwight
W.-Morrow, in Englewood, N. J
Rites Are Held for Jauto to Moorewemiasloan sped by
City Lumberman The business career of the prom-
-----inent lumberman might well be By Urited Press.
Fort Worth lumber yards closed the basis of a business romance WASHINGTON, Dec.- 10.—The
between 10 and 11 a. m. today in Coming here 24 years ago, be first New Deal was called upon today,
respect to the memory of Walter drove a wagon for the Shaw in the Supreme Court to defend
B. Sloan, director and form Brothers Creamery, the National Industrial Recovery 7
president hl and former Joined Lumber FirmAct from the assault of indepen- ,
f the Texas Retail In 190k he made . eenneaton dent Texas oil producers and re-
with the A. J.’Roe Lumber Co., finers.
Mr. Sloan’s own yard, at 201 . where the Fort Worth Club now The oil men challenge attempts
West Rio Grande Ave was closed stands, *nd learned the lumber of the administration to control
all day ‘ closed business. production of crude and refined
P Later going to William Cameron 011 under the petroleum code. They
Mr, Sloan died early yesterday and Co., Mr. Sloan made a rapid attack the validity of almost every
of apoplexy after a hurried auto rise and within three years was step in the Process from the pas-
trip to the bedside of his brother managerof the company’s retail see of N. I. R. A. to the execu-
yards and wholesale business here, tive orders of President Roosevelt
In 1920, Mr. Sloan organized whie made cantmnl *
the Sloan Lumber Co., of which
he was president and manager 117’’' yutawa • uu WAIU pruuue-
which he conducted up to the time 1 tion control is based are challeng-
of his death led as exceeding the power of Con-
He was a charter member of gress to regulate interstate com-
the Rotary club, an Elder merce and as unconstitutionally
^'srs shuren: th. Tamar of*** PRE ROME Into
Lodge arid Moslah Temple Shrine, •
and active in lumber organiza-
tions.
rooms of newspapers and press : ‘ uigsT ana former Joined Lumber Firm
associations into frantic action, president of the Texas Retail In 1905, he made a connection
Out of New York and into New Lumber Men’s Association. - ” 1 - connection
Jersey rolled an army of’ news
gatherers, special writers, pro-
fessional and amateur detectives.
Back of them marched another
division of workers—the com-
munications division with truck 1
j loads of telephone "equipment and
telegraph cable, to converge on
the sleeping town of Hopewell
and turn it, for a time, into e
news capital of the world. - ,
The advance guard of this army |
reached the village in the early |
hours of March 2. Its leader'
pounded at the door of Bebrart’s
general store.
Wake up, Pop." he shouted.
You 11 have 300 here for break-
| fast.”
I TOMORROW : The chase be.
Lgins.
James Sloan at Mooresville, N. C.
The brother is in a critical con-
dition from auto injuries.’
Rites Held Today
Funeral services for the
which made control effective.
The Recovery Act and particu-
larly Section 9 on which produc-
Fort
Worth man were to be held at
11 a. m. today at Millbridge. N.
C., bis boyhood home.
E. L. Kurth of Lufkin, director
in the Sloan Lumber Co., who
was in Washington at the time of .
1 Mr. Sloan’s death, was to attend |
services. - It was impossible for
The only survivors are
brother and Mrs. Sloan.
TAKES DAILY SWIM AT 7s
OAK BLUFFS, Mass. — Al-
though Mrs. Edmund Symonds la
his 75, she still takes her daily swim
at the beach here.
YOU'LL BELIEVE THERE'S
A SANTA CLAUS WHEN
YOU SEE THESE ROSEN.
THAL BARGAINS! BUY NOW!
ROSENTHAL'S
XMAS GIFT
TO YOU!
Col. Lindbergh recalled, after-
wards, that at some moment be-
tween nine and ten o’clock, he
was startled from his reading by
hearing a loud noise outside the
window. With a furious wind
; blowing, however, he laid the
sound to the possible crack of a
I tree branch, and resumed his
studies
China Has Traffic.
More recently he said, con-
derable traitie has developed
China both north and south of
the Great Wall as the result of
■ you: Europeal gangs being
A large number of the 791 art
renta fivolyed addicts who are ex-
Ptneted, to.give Treasury officials u — -,—......
. new tips on peddlers atterthey dlemal prospect, and decided not
are denied drums for a few dasi to Huk driving through the storm
The addicts are expected to be '" Englewood, with her son The
• -" ■ to the new nareotie farm at Aid had a slight cold. Accord-1
Lexington Ky operated hy the Iiye the tie d, shortly be-
I ted States Public Hi IE ...... fore hoon, to the baby s nurse,
ice. Betty Gow, who was at the Mor-
Treasury officials predicts row home, and told her of the
they w ” i eor 1 abe it 95-per rehanE# in plans.
cent of the peddlers | Betty, escottish maid who had
------ ...... attended the family since the
baby’s birth, promised to be at
nnUIDICTrinng the Hopewell home by midafter-
UUMPLETE WORK 5002 ORRE
ON MODEL HOME
*rth him that evening. Unable ..
. 40 • reach him at his boarding cant crib and then began a fran-
Interior Docoratare Dia house, she left word for him to He and fruitless search of the up-
niieiior Decorators Put call her at Hopewell. per room a. The conclusion dawn-
R --L - ’ - Col Lindbergh who was in ed that the child had been stolen. 1
New York, was not expected home. The open shutters of a nursery
— for dinner. He had promised to window warned shutters which
be present at the dinner of a New reould not he clesed- appeared to
I York organization, of university point the trail of the kidnapers,
are men a promise. It developed he Col. Lindbergh told that sauve,
had completely forgotten ‘ * en ......— °........
At 7 P m the child was put to
bed in his crib’ in the larger --------------,. an
nursery ON the second floor His desperation, he seized a rifle and
mother, ministering to his cold rushed aimlessly out of doors, to
had rubbed his chest with onl.be met by an impenetrable dark-
Betty Gow had dressed him ness, falling like a curtain betwen
warmly in a woolen sleeping gar-hi and-his kidnaped son.
’ ent to the sleeves of which own police a gmented by the
were affixed little aluminum cups, highest officials of the New Jer-
devices of modern- mothers to sey state police, headed by Col
prevent the habit of thumb H. Norman Schwartzkopf, reach-
sueking led the Lindbergh home within an.
hour. Teletype messages sput-
tered over the police wires of
three states, galvanizing the
Child Developed Cold.
But March came in like a lion.
On the morning of March 1. Mrs:
Lindbergh looked but upon the
The Crib Was I Empty !
A little before 10 p, m . Betty
Gow made a . final visit to the
nursery She turned on tie,
lights and went to the crib. It
was empty I
Puzzled she sought Mrs. Lind-Il
bergh and asked, "Did the Col- 1
Ionel take the baby?I
"Perhaps you d better go down 1
stairs and see Mrs Lindbergh 1
suggested casually. J
Betty Gow went down stairs toll
the study; The colonel, was a til
work and no child was to be
The baby isn’t in his room,’
said the nurse MI thought you
might hive him.
. Col Lindbergh and M s Gow
hurried upstairs. With Mrs.
Lindbergh" they stared at the va-
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Interior decorators today,
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Rio Grande Ave which will
be thrown open for s two weeks
display at 2 p m. Saturday,
1 B Sain ions chairman of
the housing committee. sald the
house would be kept open longer
It all the public had not had a.
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. ..e It will be anetioned off to the
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. The house shows what can be 1
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less than a month union crafts. * **, The lights were turned
men lave transformed it into a' . and she went below stairs, to
spick and span eoioniat home But with the impeccable English
W‘ Ilf.......hairman of the butler Oliver Whately, and the
p licity committee has called a buBerA wife Elsie.
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The committee will be on hand appearance. He inquired, as
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Turned Out the Lights.
Thereafter, at half hour inter-
Vale Betty Gow looked in at the
efficient buter, Ollio Whatley, to 1
call Harry Wolf, chief of the
Hopewell constabulary. Then, .In
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tired to his study, adjoining the
yinE room, and became engross-
led to work. Anne Morrow Lind.
| bergh, tired with the day’s events
( went upstairs to her own bed-
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Average Sale Last Week
NOVEMBER FIRE LOSS
IN CITY SHOWS GAIN
4. What is the name of the
red corpuscles of the blood? .
6. What is the first day of
Lent?
6. Where is the body of Wil-I
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* Who said: "We must all
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Was $1.30
• . However, Total For 11 Months Is
First response to the 1'134 man I Below Last Year
sale of Tuberculosis. Christmas
ritatio iatkkten wasbettentnaw
that of the same week of last
year’s sale, according to Presi-
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Worth-Tarrant County Tuberculo-
sis Society; ,
The average purchase last week
was more than $1.30. Last year
a total of approximately 2,000
people averaged $1.25 per pur-
chase
W. B. Dwiggins of Everman is
the only "first'’ purchaser of sev.
„.eral years’ standing to retain his
title this year F. J. Bates was
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Other first purchasers were:
. Handley, Miss Virgie Smith;
Grapevine, Mr Wiley Wilhoit;
Britton, Mr. S J. Watson; Keller,
Dr J W. Tottenham, Smithfield,
W. E. Rogers: Ilasict, T. P. Stev
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Crowley, Miss Neil Wadsworth,
BANK CLEARINGS thru the
Fort Worth Clearing House Asso-
ciation today were $734,595.55,
Fire Chief Standifer Ferguson
Ills November fire report to
City Manager G D Fairtrace to-
day showed fire losses in the caty
were higher than November 0f
1933.
8 in which country is the city
of Rangoon?
9 Who wrote the novel
"Henry Esmond”
10 What is the difference In
Himmbetween New York and
Denver?
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