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Norfolk police tactfully kept hands off the case, but Coast Guard patrols and Baltimore police boats combed Chesapeake Bay in the belief that the babe was being held aboard some craft concealed up a bayou. Meantime, Boat-Builder Curtis evaded the police over Easter weekend, reappeared with the news that negotiations with the kidnappers were in their "semifinal stage...
...locate the main body of Admiral Leigh's command. In that he failed to do this in seven days, at which time Admiral Frank Herman Schofield. commander of the Fleet, called off hostilities, Admiral Willard "lost" the war game. But even after the tactical discussion of the affray aboard the Saratoga this week, when a report will be drafted for the Navy Department, no layman will ever know who won, who lost. The Navy prefers to consider that neither side loses or wins a maneuver, but that all hands gain experience...
Died. Agnew Thomson Dice, 69, president of Reading Co. (railroad); of heart disease while returning from the theatre with his wife aboard a street car; in Philadelphia. Self-made, he obtained his first job (flagman of a section gang) from the late President Rea of Pennsylvania R. R., then a track supervisor. He joined the Reading in 1897, became president in 1918. White House Physician Joel Thompson Boone is his nephew...
Troops. Three Japanese transports left Shanghai with 20,000 troops aboard last week, but 30,000 troops remained. Sufficiently remarkable were the farewell words of General Yoshinori Shirakawa to the embarking troops...
President's Cohu's next official duty was a sad one. He had to investigate the crash of an American Airways plane with five passengers aboard at Calimesa, Calif., near San Bernardino. Pilot, co-pilot and passengers were killed. Among the passengers was a humble 21-year-old Avco employe, Albert Coburn, outgoing President Coburn...