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VIOLET SHARPE KEPT MYSTERY TRYST ON NIGHT OF KIDNAPING

By Warren Hall

The woman proprietor of a Yonkers lunchwagon told police yesterday that Violet Sharpe, the high-strung Morrow maid who committed suicide rather than face further questioning about the Lindbergh kidnaping, waited nervously in the lunchroom with two blankets under her arm the memorable night of March 1, 1932, until two men picked her up in an automobile.

Simultaneously, a Bronx garage owner located service records which showed that Bruno Hauptmann brought his green sedan to the garage on April 3, 1932, the day after the $50,000 ransom was paid, and had the body painted black. (A witness testified at the trial in Flemington on Wednesday that he saw Hauptmann in "a dirty green sedan" near the Lindbergh estate.)

The reference to Violet Sharpe, which may be siezed by the defense to bolster their contention that the kidnaping was an inside job, came from Mrs. Anna Bonesteel, 45, who operates a small eating establishment at the Yonkers dock of the Alpine-Yonkers ferry.

The 28 year old English girl bustled into the place about 7:15 that evening, Mrs. Bonesteel said, and asked if she could wait there for some friends. "A German girl who used to come into my place with her told me she was employed at the Morrow estate, but I didn't know her name," she explained. "She waited about an hour and a half, walking up and down with two gray blankets under her arm, looking out the window every few minutes. Finally a dark sedan drove slowly past and stopped about 150 feet away. She ran to the car and jumped into the rear seat. Then the car drove away toward the center of Yonkers. Two men were in the front seat."


LETTERS LINK HAUPTMANN TO BABY'S ROOM

By Martin Sommers
(Staff Correspondent of The News)

Flemington N. J., Jan. 11 -- The sly hand of Bruno Richard Hauptmann was thrust into the nursery window of the Lindbergh Sourland Mountains mansion here today. For the first time, the State was able to put the hand of the German in the now famous southeast window on the night curly-haired Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnaped and murdered.

When new and compelling evidence moved him still nearer to the electric chair for the inhuman killing of the child, Hauptmann grew extremely nervous. His eyes darted around the courtroom as though he feared immediate harm, and he talked frantically with his attorneys.

The accused murderer's hand was placed on the window sill over which Baby Charles was snatched to a cruel death by the clearest and most elaborate exhibition of handwriting comparisons ever prepared for any murder trial, plus the deadly pointer of a white-haired, world-famous expert, Albert S. Osborne.

STOP WHISPERING, HAUPTMANNS TOLD

By Grace Robinson
(Staff Correspondent of The News)

Flemington, N. J., Jan. 11 -- Mrs. Anna Hauptmann has made several attempts to pass confidential information to her accused husband during the morning and afternoon recesses of his trial, The News learned today.

All her efforts have been frustrated by police, who have insisted that any conversation between Bruno and his yellow-haired wife in court should be in English, and loud enough for his guards to hear. At the start of the trial, the couple attempted to use German, but this was immediately stopped by Attorney General Wilentz, because Hauptmann's court guards didn't understand German.


STAGE MAKES BID FOR JAFSIE'S ACT

Flemington, N. J, Jan. 11 (A. P.) -- Principals in the Hauptmann murder trial are being swamped with offers to tell -- and act -- their parts in the Lindbergh case.

Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon has been offered "thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars," Attorney General David Wilentz said today, to tell his story. There has been no indication that the former lecturer on education would accept the offer, although he said previously he would take up to $50,000 -- the amount of the ransom he paid for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh -- to restore it to the baby's father.

Miss Betty Gow, the Lindbergh nurse, and others figuring in the case have received lesser offers.

Even the jury has not been overlooked. A vaudeville booking agent is said to be prepared to offer them $300 a week each to tour the nation's circuitds in a unit show.


VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Melting Pot Stew

Brooklyn: You call yourself an aristocrat, Reggie, and say you want special subway cars reserved for you and your class. Well, New York is said to be the melting pot of the world. That means the best and most worthwhile part of the soup remains in mass at the bottom of the pot, while the scum rises to the top. So what does that make you, Reggie? -- JACQUES DE COSTA


Change Of Venue

Bronx: Move the Hauptmann trial across the river to Madison Square Garden, and charge $1 to $5 admission. Give the money to Lindbergh, or give it to Mrs. Hauptmann and the baby if Hauptmann burns, or maybe just give it to us unemployed. -- STOOGES RAY AND OTTO


Scot Living Standards

Brooklyn: If Irisher, who tells Mr. Reilly in the Voice that Betty Gow could live the rest of her life in Scotland on $650, has ever gone to Scotland, he would know that thousands of his fellow Irish have gone to Scotland and taken jobs which the Scotch should have, because the Irish will work for half the wages the Scotch demand. I know, because I come from the west of Scotland. -- SCOT
 

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The nmurder articles read like a Law and Order episode. It takes so many twists and turns. Good read, and thanks for posting! I enjoyed reading it over my coffee this morning at work. It was as if I was really reading the paper, checking in on the stories.
 
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Los Angeles resident Beth Short, "The Black Dahlia",
was probably in the process of being tortured to death.
What part did she contribute to causing her own demise?
What was the backstory - what message was being sent to who, by who -
this didn't happen out of the blue in a vacuum.
Also another example of LAPD bufferoonery or compliance.
 

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On this date 40 years ago the Jets and Joe Willie Namath beat Johnny Unitas and the mighty Colts (Baltimore) In Super Bowl III. It was the first victory for the fledgling AFL in the series between the well established NFL and the relatively new AFL. This victory put the AFL on the credibility map, and laid the groundwork for a merger of the two leagues into two conferences in the NFL.

OK, the thread is about the Golden Era's "this date in history," but it was a golden game in a golden time. It is now a long time ago, so that sorta makes it golden, right?. I remember it as if it were yesterday. Sorry I don't have any of those neat headlines as posted by LizzieMaine.
 

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OFFER BRUNO LIFE TO NAME HELPERS

By Robert Conway, Staff Correspondent of The News

Flemington, N. J., Jan. 13 -- Bruno Richard Hauptmann has been offered life in exchange for a complete confession, provided he names accomplices in the kidnaping and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. This compromise, first suggested to the German carpenter's discharged lawyer James M. Fawcett, has been renewed by the State of New Jersey since Hauptmann went on trial, according to a high prosecution official.

Restlessly pacing the bull pen of his cell in the gray stone jail here, Hauptmann today gave no indication, however, that he has any indication of swerving from his plea of innocence. Despite the cumulative chain of evidence produced by the State, the former German machine gunner apparently still hopes will create a reasonable doubt in the minds of the eight men and four women on the jury.

The fact that Hauptmann turned down a similar offer of life imprisonment, provided he confessed he wasn't acting alone in perpetrating the trial of the century was revealed for the first time after The News learned that the authorities in New Jersey are still more enthusiastic to solve the Lindbergh case and punish every possible conspirator, than they are to send Hauptmann to the electric chair and let others who may be implicated in a death house confession to escape.


REILLY PLANS FIERCE CROSS EXAMINATION OF OSBORN TODAY

By Martin Sommers, Staff Correspondent of The News

Flemington, N. J., Jan. 13 -- As fierce a cross examination as any so far unleashed in this trial will be directed by Bruno Richard Hauptmann's defense tomorrow at Albert S. Osborne, spearhead of the the State's handwriting drive, who Friday said the accused wrote the note left in the nursery window through which Baby Charles Lindbergh was snatched.

By going deeply into the pompous aged Osborn's record, Edward J. Reilly and other defense lawyers will do their best to discredit him as an expert and thus nullify the effect of the many direct hits the handwriting experts scored against Hauptmann. Osborn, for many years one of the busiest handwriting experts appearing in the courts of this country, has testified in scores of highly dramatic, sensational cases that made crime history. The defense will dig deep into them in an effort to puncture Osborn.


JAFSIE TELLS BRONX WOMEN THEIR BABIES ARE SAFE

From the Trenton, N. J. hotel where he is watching developments in the Hauptmann trial, the one and only Jafsie broadcast this message to fellow Bronxites through a Bronx newspaper:

To The Men, Women, and Children of The Bronx:

Dear Friends,

Your moral support, faith, and absolute confidence in me, in the borough of my birth, were beacon lights for me, whether I was tramping the snow-covered hills of Canada or the Everglades of Florida; whether I was negotiating in the mansion of the millionaire or conversing with the underworld in the dens and dives of iniquity.

Without any suggestion from anyone and without any renumeration from any source whatsoever, I determined to rid our "Borough Beautiful" from the scourge of gangsterdom, which seemed to grasp sections of our great United States in its vice-like grip.

Tell the mothers of the Bronx that they may leave their babies sleeping in their cribs while they are busy with their household duties, and that my efforts for the return of the little golden-haired Lindbergh baby were directed for their protection and the safety of every child in the world.

Truly yours,
JOHN F. CONDON


DORIS BLAKE'S LOVE ANSWERS

Have you a perplexing love affair on which you need the counsel of a friend? Write to Doris Blake, care The News, 220 E. 42nd St., New York, N. Y.

FOOLISH SPENDING

Dear Miss Blake: What is your opinion of a girl who calls you cheap after spending approximately $300 on her in less than four months? -- BARNEY

You are a fool to spend money so freely, especially in these times. It's not expected or wanted by the nicer class of girls. And gold diggers are never satisfied.
 

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LizzieMaine said:
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DORIS BLAKE'S LOVE ANSWERS

[I]Have you a perplexing love affair on which you need the counsel of a friend? Write to Doris Blake, care The News, 220 E. 42nd St., New York, N. Y.[/I]

FOOLISH SPENDING

Dear Miss Blake: What is your opinion of a girl who calls you cheap after spending approximately $300 on her in less than four months? -- BARNEY

You are a fool to spend money so freely, especially in these times. It's not expected or wanted by the nicer class of girls. And gold diggers are never satisfied.[/QUOTE]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Barney should have invested in fedoras instead. Then he might have met a nicer class of girls. [/FONT] ;) :)
 

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Aw, Fletch, not all girls worry about earning power; some of us are as attracted to shallow good-looks as ever! ;)
 

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BRUNO SPIED ON JAFSIE, SURPRISE WITNESS SWEARS

Trailed Him During Ransom Negotiations

By Martin Sommers
Staff Correspondent of The News

Flemington, N. J., Jan. 14. -- Bruno Richard Hauptmann, stalking as close as fifteen feet behind the aged teacher from whom he hoped to get $70,000 for a lie, shadowed Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon tirelessly during ransom negotiations, a surprise witness testified today at the German's trial for the murder of Baby Charles Lindbergh.

Pretty, pouting Miss Hildegarde Alexader, snappily dressed lingerie model who blew the breath of Broadway into this antique courtroom, told how she caught "Bruno Richard Hauptmann" watching intently the movements of Jafsie. She turned her own liquid hazel eyes straight on Hauptmann and told the court that he was the man she had seen trailing Jafsie at the very time the patriarchal teacher was busy receiving ransom notes from "Hauptmann" -- as handwriting experts identified the writer of those missives.

After the shapely model, who showed a great capacity for pouting indignation under cross-examination, told the sensational story of how she saw Hauptmann shadowing his aged victim, another state handwriting expert declared positively that the accused had written the ransom notes.


FISCH DEATH WATCH 4 TO ARRIVE TODAY

By Robert Conway
Staff Correspondent of The News

Flemington, N. J., Jan. 14. -- Four persons who kept a death watch over Isidor Fisch, Jewish friend whom Bruno Richard Hauptmann said gave him $14,800 of the Lindbergh ransom money, will arrive under guard on the liner Ile de France from Germany tomorrow.

Secret plans were made tonight to transfer the four, Fisch's brother, his sister, the young woman nurse who attended him at a hospital in Leipzig, Germany, and his unidentified best friend, to a revenue cutter at Quarantine, and rush them to New Jersey for questioning by Attorney General David Wilentz.


DOG RACING EVICTS BRAVES FROM PARK

By Jimmy Powers

The baseball situation in the National League reached a record low yesterday when it was learned that the Boston Braves, through financial difficulties, had secretly surrendered their lease and now have no place to play their games in 1935. This astounding state of affairs, coming on the heels of the accountant's statements that the Cubs lost $600,000 in the last three years, the Reds dropped $264,000 and other clubs were on the financial rocks brought about a panicky call yesterday for a special meeting of league directors.

The meeting, to be held here Friday, will attempt to rescue the foundling Braves. The villian in the squeeze plot, the dastardly gent who stands on the threshold and smugly curls his moustachios, is the giant, mythical figure of a sleek greyhound.

Here is the lowdown: the Gaffney Estate, owner of Braves Field, received no dough from the strapped ball club last year, and so it granted a lease to the Boston Kennel Club for use as a dog track. Judge Emil Fuchs, president of the Braves, went to Tom Yawkey, president of the Red Sox, confidently expecting permission to lease Fenway Park. This was refused yesterday.

With the Gaffney Estate insisting on having the dogs run -- a gold mine venture which will clean up a fortune -- and with the Red Sox hollering "Nix!" in various legal ultimatums, the poor Braves are positively without a wigwam. Friday's emergency meeting will seek to effect a compromise.


BOB HOPE SAYS MEN PAY MORE ATTENTION TO DRESS THAN EVER

By Al Taylor

Bob Hope, talented young comedian who has recently completed a run in "Say When", and of whom we shall soon hear more, told me the other evening that men have certainly become a lot more clothes conscious. Not only are more men donning evening clothes for less excuse in the evening, but they are paying far more attention to their daytime outfits.

Bob himself admitted that he likes to dress evenings. It gives him a lift. He's going to give himself considerable of a hoist soon by getting a midnight blue evening cape.

His idea of a pretty swell ensemble for day wear is a midnight blue suit, double-breasted, light blue shirt, and solid color maroon tie. He also likes a blue suit with white tab shirt and a plain blue tie.

Brown or grey suede shoes are favorite members of his wardrobe. In the summer he wears them in town. He is also partial to sports clothes, odd combinations of jackets and trousers. One that he wears in season is brown gabardine slacks with a shepherd check sports jacket.


BUS RATE WAR!

If you go now, you can enjoy FIRST CLASS bus service at new rates far below cost to many points -- with hot water heat, porters, free pillows, safety speed control! Reluctantly we are forced to declare war and meet the cut-rate prices of operators defying the N. R. A. Motor Bus Code.

CHICAGO -- $13
Cleveland -- $9
Buffalo -- $8
Los Angeles -- $40.25
Miami -- $20.40
Pittsburgh -- $7.50
St. Louis -- $16

HOURLY SERVICE TO PHILADELPHIA

Phone WIsconsin 7-4000

GREAT EASTERN BUS TERMINAL
 

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Popular malapropism

They said "foundling" when they meant "foundering."
I'd love to see Bob Hope with his bluse suit, blue shirt and maroon tie.
Regarding the Hauptmann trial, I've seen some things on TV which strongly suggest he was railroaded. His lawyer was a drunk who was often out cold during the trial. Apparently a lot of the testimony was bogus. We still have trials that are circuses from time to time, but I think the standard of evidence has improved considerably since those days.
BTW, does everyone know that the Schwartzkopf who was involved in this famous trial was the father of General Stormin' Norman Schwartzkopf? Same guy who in the early 1950's helped overthrow the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh.
 

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Bob Hope

He was the star of the Broadway production of "Roberta", one of his biggest breakthrough roles. The movie of "Roberta" had Fred Astaire in the role. As much as I love Fred Astaire, I've always wished I could have seen Hope in the role. Also, in the fashion show at the end of that flick, you'll see a very young Lucille Ball as a fashion model.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled topic.
 

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Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – ca. January 15, 1947) was an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia, Short was found severely mutilated, with her body severed, on January 15, 1947 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. The murder, which remains unsolved, has been the source of widespread speculation as well as several books and film adaptations.
 

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'BRUNO'S HYPHEN' USED BY FISCH

Defense Scores First Victory In 10 Days

By Martin Sommers
Staff Correspondent of The News

Flemington, N. J., Jan. 15. -- After losing ground steadily for nine straight days in the fight to save Bruno Richard Hauptmann from the electric chair, the German carpenter's defense finally scored today on the tenth day of his trial for the murder of Baby Charles Lindbergh.

For more than four hours the State appeared victorious in a sometimes funny, sometimes bitter duel over the handwriting which told such cruel lies in the ransom notes. Then John F. Tyrrel, wizened and stubborn 65 year old handwriting expert, who starred in the Leopold and Loeb case in Chicago, suddenly was forced to admit that his experting sent the wrong man to jail in a Milwaukee forgery some ten years ago.

Following up swiftly, the defense scored once more when Tyrrell, who had been impregnable under hours and hours of pounding, was shown the handwriting of dead Isidor Fisch, from whom Hauptmann says he got the $14,600 ransom money found in his garage. The embattled old Tyrell was forced to admit that the tell-tale hyphen -- the tiny particle of punctuation by which Hauptmann's life may hang -- also was evident in Fisch's writings, if placed somewhat differently than Hauptmann's.

DEAD BABY'S CURL TO BALK DEFENSE

By Grace Robinson
(Staff Correspondent of The News)

Flemington, N. J., Jan. 15 -- A little golden curl, treasured by a heartbroken grandmother, will confront Bruno Richard Hauptmann tomorrow if his counsel launch their expected attack on the identification of the Lindbergh child's body.

This pathetic bit of evidence will be linked with Hauptmann by Mrs. Dwight Morrow, if the State cohorts carry out their tentative plan. Mrs. Morrow, mother of Anne Lindbergh and widow of the late United States Senator and Morgan partner, Dwight W. Morrow, will then be the last of the grief-stricken trio of wome whose evidence the State confidently believes will speed the taciturn carpenter on his way to the electric chair. The others, who have already testified, are the child's mother and his nurse, Betty Gow.

A week before March 1, 1932 -- when Baby Lindbergh was the playful winsome pet of adoring parents and in-laws -- his nurse trimmed his golden silky curls so that he should not become too girlish in appearance. As the curls fell, there were the usual oh-s and ah-s of regret from the baby's mother and grandmother. Mrs. Morrow then did what grandmothers have done since time began. She saved one of the glistening soft curls and placed it among her keepsakes. A few days later her grandson was gone forever.


WHOOPING NAZI MOBS THREATEN SAAR JEWS

Wild Rejoicing Threatens 90 Pc. German Vote

By Richard B. McMillan, United Press

Saarbrucken, Jan. 15 -- Anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out in the Saar tonight after the League of Nations' decision to award the entire territory to Nazi Germany as a result of Sunday's plebiscite. Jewish shopkeepers began putting up shutters to ward off mobs that threatened to destroy their property.

Hundreds of Communists and others who dared vote against reunion with the Reich in the 90 per cent victory of the Hitlerites began fleeing over the French frontier.

Eventually it was expected that as many as 50,000 of the Saar's 800,000 populartion will seek refuge in France as Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler assumes control of the territory, for fifteen years under League of Nations mandate.


SEVEN CLUB LEAGUE LOOMS FOR NATIONAL

By George Kenney

The once mighty National League may become a seven-club circuit next Summer, with the Boston Braves definitely tossed into the discard.

This problem was advanced yesterday when, discussing the meeting of National League club owners which he has called for Friday to consider the plight of the Braves, Ford C. Frick, president of the league, admitted that drastic steps would have to be taken, "even if we have to remain in session for a month and make surprising changes."

Dropping the Braves would be lamentable, he said, but it would be perhaps the only alternative if the National League is to escape the ignominy of holding the well-known sack -- containing an orphan baseball club -- and is forced to operate the Braves as a stepchild organization for whom a new home would eventually have to be built.

Ownership of the Braves, it was also learned yesterday, has changed hands three times in a recent series of hocus-pocus deals that preceded their eviction from Braves Field by the latest claimants of the lease, the Boston Kennel Club. The lease, together with the stock in the original baseball club, was relinquished to a holding company formed by trustees. They, in turn, have agreed to surrender the lease to the greyhound promoters, leaving the Braves out in the cold.


VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

The British Are Coming!

Manhattan: There's too darn much British on the radio, in the movies, and on the stage. If I hadn't resided on the other side for a short while and seen how beloved Americans are NOT, I might be tickled to death by this foreign invasion, but nay nay, Pauline. Most true Britishers would rather die than buy anything American. Oh, for the spirit of 1776! -- JOHN HUNTER

Yorkville Rears Up!

Manhattan: Why you aristocratic punk, Reggie, where do you get off putting such a thing in the paper. People like you, who say they are too good to rub shoulders with the rabble in the subway, aren't good enough to shine the shoes of the fathers and mothers who work for an honest living. Just come around to Yorkville sometime, and we will either change your mind or change your face. -- TWO RABBLES.
 

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Today, January 19th, is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allen Poe.

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NO. 1 OUTLAW BLASTS POLICE IN HOTEL TRAP

By John Martin
Staff Correspondent of The News

Atlantic City N. J., Jan. 20 -- Surprised in a love tryst by a squad of Atlantic City police, Alvin Karpis, the nation's newly crowned Public Enemy No. 1, and Harry Campbell, his last surviving associate in the $200,000 Bremer kidnaping, machine-gunned their way out of a Boardwalk hotel today and escaped in a stolen car.

Tonight, with State police guarding every highway out of the city and squads of Department of Justice agents speeding here from all eastern cities, authorities were convinced that the last of the nation's kingpin gunmen were at bay someplace in Atlantic City and might be trapped before dawn. Campbell was thought to be wounded.

Twenty-five federal agents, each carrying a machine gun and a thousand rounds of ammunition, are combing the city, ready to battle the harried triggermen with their own favorite weapon whenever cornered. Abandoned in the desperate foray were the two gunmoll cuties with whom the long-hunted kidnapers had left the gang's hideout at Oklawaha, Florida, only three days before Ma Barker and her son, Fred, were trailed there by Government agents and slain after a six hour gun battle.

Karpis himself wounded one of the abandoned women. A bullet from his machine gun pierced a wall and scraped the leg of his sweetheart, Dolores Delaney, 22, an expectant mother who was in bed in an adjoining room.


BRUNO QUIT HIS JOB DAY RANSOM WAS PAID

(Special to The News)

Trenton, N. J., Jan. 20 -- The mystery of a lost day in the business life of Bruno Richard Hauptmann will confront the ex-German machine gunner when he takes the witness stand at Flemington this week, to attempt to absolve himself of the kidnaping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

Records showing that he absented himself from his regular carpenter job on April 2, 1932, the day Dr. John F. Condon passed the Lindbergh ransom through St. Raymond's Cemetary wall, will be introduced to impeach his story that he was unemployed on that date.

A high prosecution official said tonight that Hauptmann worked at the Majestic Hotel, 72nd Street and Central Park West, New York, on Friday April 1, skipped Saturday, and quit when he returned on Monday, chiding his brother workers about the futility of earning a good living at carpentry when large sums were to be picked up easily in the stock market.

Poor Before Kidnaping

Attorney-General David T. Wilentz announced tonight that $49,500, exclusive of reduplications and redeposits, had been traced to Hauptmann, including a $7,500 gift to the late Isidor Fisch. Before the kidnaping, Hauptmann had less than $1,000 in the bank besides his mortgage.

THE CORRECT THING

Elinor Ames will answer questions concerning etiquette sent to her by readers of The News. Address The Correct Thing, The News, 220 E. 42nd St, New York.

No Kissing Games

I am eleven years old and intend to have a birthday party. My mother insists that the guests must not play Post Office, a kissing game. I know my friends all play such games. Do you consider them wrong? Is my mother old fashioned? -- PUZZLED

Answer: Your mother is absolutely right! Kissing games are a silly waste of time and have no place at a little girl's party.

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Frankness Wins Frowns

Manhattan: I am a person who, like many other ladies, believes in smoking and drinking and having a good time in the presence of anybody. I do not and cannot understand why a certain batch of girls who belong to the same parish as I do are so sneaky. Butter wouldn't melt in the mouths of these dames., but when they are missing from one dance hall you can find them elsewhere in the same building drinking and smoking, etc. When one of us frank girls gets to feeling good, we are the talk of the parish, because we aren't sneaky about it. These sneaky girls get to feeling good, but never a word is heard about them. How do you make that out? -- TOOTSIE
 

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