Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Boettcher's return set airplanes, radio cars and volunteer posses scouring the northern Colorado and southern Wyoming countryside in a hunt for the kidnappers. Meanwhile Denver, stroked its chin over reports of the young broker's slowness in paying large gambling debts. Declared the Rocky Mountain News: "The story of the victim is to say the least unusual. . . . Certainly many aspects of the case need clearing...
Japan's southern spearhead, plunging upward from Suichung, was for some reason largely composed of the Empire's most cold-hardened troops, soldiers from Hokkaido, northmost major island of Japan. To reach Lingyuan they would have to take two mountain passes of great natural strategic strength. Reputedly these passes were held by picked troops sent down from Chengteh by the Governor of Jehol, redoubtable Tang Yulin (see col. 1) and up from China proper by "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang of Peiping...
...exodus threatened to become a stampede, Peiping newspapers published an amazing story, impossible to confirm. Far north in Manchuria, they declared, 60,000 Chinese irregulars had suddenly appeared under General Yang Shou-chu, captured six towns, 600,000 rounds of ammunition, 1,200 rifles, 282 Japanese officers & men, 16 mountain guns, 14 field guns and 13 machine guns. To this Chinese-rumored victory was added the assertion that "20 of the captured Japanese were executed on the spot though $100,000 gold was offered to spare their lives...
...world's fastest natural ski course is a tamped snow swath without a jump down the nearly perpendicular face of a mountain near St. Moritz in Switzerland. For weeks men have curried and patted, dragged toboggans up & down, to make a flawless surface. Last week 16 ski racers stood at the top. At intervals along the course were men with bamboo poles to swish over the light snow between runs. The racers wore goggles, had no ski sticks because they knew they could not stand up against the terrific wind resistance. Their skis were 9 ft. long and heavy...
...Mount Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run at Lake Placid, N. Y. is no ordinary coasting hill. It is an ice-lined ditch 1 1/2 mi. long, twisting down the side of a comparatively small Adirondack mountain. The sleds that go down it are $400 machines equipped with steering wheel, brakes, and seats ten inches above the runners. They weigh 485 lb. and are stored in a garage at the foot of the slide. Such deluxe coasting is a new sport for the U. S. The Mount Van Hoevenberg run was constructed two years ago because the program of winter sports...