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...Sioux Falls, wistful-looking Verne Sankey, arrested week before in a Chicago barber's chair, made a noose of two cravats and hanged himself to an iron cross beam. Next day he was to have pleaded guilty to the kidnapping in 1932 of Haskell Bohn of St. Paul (ransom: $12,000) and in 1933 of Charles Boettcher II of Denver (ransom: $60,000), whom he hid on his Dakota turkey ranch. Next day Sankey's accomplice, Gordon Alcorn, was sentenced to serve the rest of his natural life in Leavenworth for his part in the snatchings...
...Urschel, were last week fed a pint of milk every four hours through a hose up the nose. Reason for the feeding: a hunger strike which they later quit. Reason for the hunger strike: solitary confinement. Reason for solitary confinement: refusal to reveal the hiding of $100,000 unrecovered ransom money...
...with all the tricks of the stage.* A few years ago the prima donna had a dozen great impresarios. Last week General Motors, preparing for motor show festivities, called the roll of its past executives. Among them were William Crapo Durant, Henry Martyn Leland, Alexander Winton, John D. Maxwell, Ransom Eli Olds, Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin- impresarios...
Three hours later the telephone rang in the Hart home in San Jose. To Brooke Hart's sister a voice said: "Your brother is being held for $40.000 ransom, and if the family notifies the police, they will never see Brooke Hart again." A printed card and two letters arrived later from the kidnappers: "Your son is o.k. and treated well. ... Be ready to take a week's trip on an hour's notice. . . . Brooke is not with the writer but is held at a remote point. ... He is being treated as well as possible...
...almost simultaneously, came a barrage of statistics to back up Editor Fishbein. It is generally agreed that the U. S. is one of the unsafest places in the civilized world to have a baby. Four years ago the New York Academy of Medicine appointed a committee, headed by Dr. Ransom S. Hooker, to find out why. In New York City, home of specialists and medical centres, where maternal mortality is considerably less than that of the U. S. as a whole, the committee set out to analyze the cause of every death of a woman in childbirth. Last week...