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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1933
Page
6
Five week old Charlotte Condia of Covington Kentucky survived acute pneumonia with round the clock care from Covington firefighters led by John Reid. She received oxygen via inhalator and was kept in an oxygen tent as her mother Lillian Condia watched.
Hugh R. Wilson, U S minister to Switzerland, is permitted by the state department to sit at the Geneva council table with the League of Nations special advisory committee. The United States, not a league member, will neither vote nor commit to follow the committee on the Far East, a move that may trigger an economic boycott.
Montana Governor John E K Erickson resigns to join the United States Senate after appointment by former Lieutenant Governor Frank H Cooney who becomes governor. Erickson, active in Democratic politics since 1897, succeeds the late Senator Thomas J Walsh in the Senate.
Three alleged Boettcher kidnaping gang members are under arrest in Denver for abducting the wealthy young broker. The broker’s father Claude Boettcher paid sixty thousand dollars in ransom. Key figures include Ruth Kohler, Carl Pearce’s sweetheart, who aided police by revealing a hideout location in South Dakota. Arthur Youngberg attempted self harm when confronted. Verne Sankey’s wife denies involvement as her husband, believed to be the gang’s brains, remains at large.
An imminent Austrian fascist revolt led by Austrian Hitlerites threatens a coup to restore the monarchy with Archduke Otto, son of the late King Charles of Hapsburg, who refused to renounce sovereignty. The former imperial palace in Vienna and Empress Zita appear as she hopes her son ascends the throne once held by Emperor Franz Josef.
Alder man Frank J. Corr of Chicago Seventeenth ward was selected by the city council as acting mayor despite counsel’s opinion. Corr, a Democrat, was chosen at a special council meeting to succeed the late Mayor Anton J. Cermak.
The navy assigns Commander Alger H. Dresel to command the U S Macon airship christened at Akron Ohio. Dresel previously led Los Angeles airships and the U S S Akron for months. The note adds that prospects for unemployed young men improve as time on the street corner talking baseball becomes a possibility.
In New York a man carries a bag of gold into the Federal Reserve Bank as thousands return gold coins and certificates for currency. A Fidelity Trust Co. Newark vault displays part of a half million dollars in gold re entered.
The remark suggests a future where a small number of holding companies could control a public utility. It notes this shift as a possible trend in the industry.
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