AIR HERO'S CHILD

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 164, 4 March 1932, Page 5

AIR HERO'S CHILD

(Fress Assn.-

WHOLF AMERICAN NATION dfeBly stirfed by kipnappinc ' MOTHER'S TQUCHiNQ REQUEST

— By Telegraph— O/pyright).

Rec. Mar. 3, 8.1Q p.m. NEW YORK Wednesday. After a day "of cpnfusi'ng rumours. and vast biR ineffective efforts, tBe LindBqrgh bqby has still not Been fouiuj. Not " since the" w§r h§s any event arqused siicB Ratjqn^Ttide feeling. "Please Gqd g.uard .his safety anii br|ng Biin ^ack hoiqe." began. a leader in a newspaper. >v..; "Centlemen,'1 cjfeclared ia member

bf the House of Representatives addressing Congress, "what we need is tq put red blood in our veins and de- : termine hefore Cod Almighty that we ■: will make this country safe. We have Been permitting to grow up a superGoyernment with levies on the people and authorities to hurn out the eyes of their children if they do not pay." Nearly all business was suspended By Congress to-day and many addresses were delivered Burning with indignatiqri at the outrage Prayers for the child's safe return were broadcast bver the nation's radio siriiultaneously. It is revealed that a 12 year-old Youngston, (Ohio) 'boy, Janies de Jute, was als'b kidnapped to-day". Colohel Lindbergh's " e'siAtq is situated on a New Jer'sey niount'ain top, difficult of access, becau'se he desired ; privacy after tpo much public attention followirig his leap to f ame. Topight it was'like ari army iritellijgence headqu§rters'. The "cbiririiunicatibns company was compelled to strihg hrindreds bf new tel'ephone and telegraph "fldres to cater for the police qpd newspaper men. fpr B§By Mrs. Lindbergh has asked for - a

broadcast qf a menu for the phild, which had a cold, in the hope that he would repeive proper care from those detqining Bim. In the eastern spetiqn of the United States and in Southern Cqnada, 100,000 pfficers of the layr are engaged in the searcB, but tBe. clues left were few, namply a ladde.r pn which the kidnappers climhed to. reach the nursery wiridow in the seeqnd story, and tBe chisel which is believed to Bave been used in prising open the window. Foot prints, believed to be of two men and a woman, wearing mocassins or stockings were traced from below the window for two miles into the woods, and there . Iqst. Colonel Lindbergh was reported to be confident that the child would be returned. and is willing to pay a ransom, but the kidnappers have not jfet open«d negotiations, aecording to word from Colonel Liqdbergh late in the day. A Bill now heing debated in the various States and national legislatures, asking that kidnapping be punished by death, has been. suspended, in order not to frighten the' kidnappers into disposing of the child.