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Second Charlie Ross kidnapping was chiefly significant as an interesting coincidence until its solution made it a major crime in its own right. This was when, at Santa Anita race track last January, Federal agents arrested a 27-year-oldex-lumber-jack named John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, whose pockets were stuffed with $14,000 in ransom bills. The lumberjack confessed kidnapping Mr. Ross, corroborated his confession by guiding his captors to a cave in the Wisconsin woods northwest of Spooner where were found the frozen corpses of Ross and one James Atwood Gray. Lumberjack Seadlund jauntily explained that...
...case of the misused PWA money: Because of irregularities in the expenditure of PWA money for college buildings, the university had to return $32,000 to the U. S. Government. Particularly pointed were alumni references to the mystery of the "missing" lumber, $545 worth of PWA wood which President Johnson was accused of having spirited away at dead of night...
...gangsterism." His answer to the charges: 1) He had asked Dean Slowe to suggest an acting dean, sent her a note hoping she would soon be back; 2) Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes had found "no implication of dishonesty" in the handling of PWA money or PWA lumber; 3) Laboratory Assistant Thompson had failed to produce evidence of a seduction...
...shipped by other people. Last week, as hundreds of Mr. Loeb's arboreal monstrosities lay on the docks of Portland's Oceanic Terminal, the Pacific Northwest forest experiment station announced that as many burls were exported in 1937 as in 1936, despite the fact that northwest lumber exports as a whole were off by half. Total burl production, including those going to domestic veneer manufacturers and those sent to New York by rail before being shipped to Europe, was 1,500 tons...
...keynote speech at the Republican National Convention of 1936 on the "Three Long Years" of the New Deal. Since then Fred Steiwer has been notable chiefly as one of the 16 Republicans in the Senate. Even in Oregon, the memory of his patient services in boosting tariffs on lumber, wool, and fruit and his reputation as The Veterans' Friend have been dimmed by more spectacular political personalities to the point where Fred Steiwer's chances for re-election this year were doubtful indeed. Lately his colleagues understood that the only thing that kept him from resigning to return...