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...Hawk. On the grounds of an insane asylum at Ransom. Pa. the head farmer noticed his chickens scurry suddenly for cover. A hen hawk, he thought, must be about. Overhead he saw what looked like a huge predatory bird. The "hen hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society...
...last year, piracy was unknown along China's northern coast. Then one March morning pirate junks attacked the British-owned coasting steamer Nanchang, waiting for a pilot off the mouth of the Liao River. Contrary to all rules, four British officers were captured, three of them held for ransom for five and a half dreary months. To while away the time and keep track of the days, one of them kept a diary. Enthusiastically introduced by Peter Fleming (Brazilian Adventure}, Pirate Junk is a first-rate addition to what he calls "the literary photography of experience...
...legislation makes it a Federal offense to: 1) send ransom notes or kidnap threats across state lines; 2) kill or assault Federal officers on duty; 3) flee across state lines to avoid prosecution for a felony or testifying in a criminal case. The new laws likewise authorize the death penalty for kidnappers who fail to return their victims unharmed...
...name "Boettcher" at ten pedestrians and nine are likely to answer "kidnapping." Snatched one night in February 1933 while he and his wife were putting their car away, Charles Boettcher 2nd of Denver was kept prisoner 17 days on a South Dakota ranch, released just before $60,000 ransom was paid. In a Sioux Falls penitentiary one year later, Verne Sankey, 'legger, made a noose of two cravats and hanged himself just before he was to plead guilty to the Boettcher kidnapping (TIME, Feb. 19). Last week in Pierre, S. Dak. the trial of Snatcher Sankey's widow...
Within a few hours of each other, one evening early this week, two western kidnapping cases came to happy endings. Found in the desert near Tucson, Ariz, three weeks after she had been snatched was June Robles, 6, granddaughter of a Tucson cattleman. No ransom was paid, no snatcher caught. From Chicago officials had received a special delivery airmail letter directing them to a spot g-2 mi. from Tucson. They found June Robles lying in a shallow hole, chained by her ankles, covered with tin, burlap and cactus. Beside her lay a jug of water, a loaf of fairly...