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...secret that the family has not been at all happy of late. Not until the enactment of the "Lindbergh Law" in 1932 did Federal law officers enter importantly into the national crime picture. Only eight months ago were Department of Justice agents authorized to carry guns. Soon these same agents, a small, picked, apparently incorruptible band, were making a strong bid for national attention and admiration. Their swift comings & goings all over the country furnished romantic news stories. They showed themselves mightily effective in rounding up kidnappers, pinking public enemies. Score to date: 74 kidnappers convicted, 20-odd gangsters killed...
...COLONEL LINDBERG ARRIVING ON DAMSTERDYK" This telegram, received in a Liverpool shipping office, caused clerks, sailors, housewives and steamship officials to drop their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...
Died. Elisabeth Reeve Morrow Morgan, 30, sister of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, eldest daughter of New Jersey's late Senator-Diplomat Dwight Morrow; of pneumonia following an appendectomy; in Pasadena, Calif...
...failed to score with the capture of the culprits: Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, snatched last January; June Robles, 6, stolen from her Tucson, Ariz, home last April. Last week Federal sleuths cleared up their 32nd and 33rd cases of extortion and abduction since the Lindbergh Law in record time...
Kidnapping case in a class by itself is that of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Credit for the capture of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in that case, however, goes not to the Department of Justice but to the New York City Police Department. Fortnight ago the affairs of the onetime Bronx carpenter turned an important corner when extradition papers were signed by New York's Governor Lehman turning him over to New Jersey...