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Only in China is kidnapping so common as in the U. S., but in China the prizes are seldom so rich, particularly since U. S. missionary societies have moved to discourage kidnapping by refusing to pay any ransoms whatever.* A rich prize is Capt. Charles Baker of Pasadena, who used to pilot a river boat from Shanghai up through the Yangtze rapids. In January he ran aground in Hupeh Province, somewhere near Kienli District which has a "Communist" bandit government. The Kienli bandits ferried Capt. Baker ashore, a most-valuable bit of salvage, and held him for ransom. Capt. Baker...
Because his Pasadena home had not enough privacy, Herbert Hoover Jr, bought an estate near the base of Mt. Wilson in California...
Married. Zoe Akins, 45, playwright (The Greeks Had a Word For It; Daddy's Gone A-Hunting); and Capt. Hugh Cecil Levinge Rumbold, 48, theatrical designer, half brother of British Ambassador to Germany Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold; in Pasadena...
Frederick Jackson Turner, Professor of History, emeritus, died yesterday at his home in Pasadena, California, where he was a research associate of the Huntington Library. He left Harvard in 1924, and was 71 years old when he died...
Prayers & Sympathy. In Pasadena, Calif. Albert Einstein said he thought kidnapping showed a lack of "social sanity." Law-abiding Londoners, aghast at a crime directed against "the American approximation of the Prince of Wales," could not understand why a Prince of Wales would leave his much-publicized infant unguarded. President Ortiz Rubio ordered the Mexican Army to watch the border for the kidnappers. The Changchow Merchants' Guild of Peiping sent sympathy. Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York ordered his flock to pray for the infant's safe return. School children and 500,000 Companions of the Forest of America also...