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...last person known to have seen 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was his nurse, a dark-haired, light footed little Scotch girl of 26 named Betty Gow. Nurse Gow immigrated to the U. S in 1928, has been in the Lindberghs' employ over a year. At approximately 8:30 o'clock one evening last week she went to his nursery. It is on the second floor southeast corner, of the home which Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh completed last autum three miles north of Hopewell, ten miles north of Princeton, on a wild, lonely stretch of high ground called Sourland...
...most famous child on earth, whose birth, and, up to last week, whose life were jealously guarded secrets. So successfully did his parents keep his name and face out of the Press that ignorant gossip whispered that he must be backward, deaf, perhaps defective. But four photographs of Charles Augustus had ever been made public, one of them snapped surreptitiously last summer in Maine when his parents were flying to China. Now there issued forth from Col. Lindbergh's private collection cinema films by the score. These went broadcast through the land by mail, wire, television while enormous headlines splashed...
...Pompei. . . . We have unearthed an ancient Greek market place unique in the world. Such, a find does not exist, so far as we know, even in Greece itself. . . . Some of the city walls must be of the Fifth Century before Christ. . . . There is a temple of the period of Augustus [contemporary with Christ] and there is a water clock of the Second Century A. D. . . . This city, called Minturnae, was the mainstay of the Romans, their base of operations so to speak in their wars with Carthage...
Died- Mrs. Matilda Allen Coffin, 51, wife of Howard Earle Coffin, automotive engineer; of heart disease; in Sea Island Beach, Ga. Next day Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover was to have been her guest at Sapeloe Island, famed home of the Coffins, at which have vacationed Calvin Coolidge, Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Californians. elected Mr. Giannini chairman. Taking a last crack at the Walker management, Mr. Giannini announced that he would serve without compensation in contrast to the former chairman's salary of $100.000. John M. Grant, manager of Transamerica's London office, was made president, replacing James Augustus Bacigalupi, onetime staunch Giannini friend...