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Kidnap 3 Amer missionaries, M S Weil, L Koebbe and K H Beck, in Hunan Province; others escape attack
F Kearney killed, son, R, wounded and wife thrown from auto between New Brunswick and Hadley Field by bandits believed to have been lying in wait to hold up air mail truck
Coms on Taxation and Public Service of N Y S Chamber of Commerce recommend increase to make old and new subways self-supporting
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4 (AP). -- The Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in the United States had no further details today of the kidnapping by bandits of missionaries of that church in China, except that the matter is in the hands of the American Consul.
Entry a signal for revival of German newspaper in Paris
1926Avraham Adan, Israeli general (died 2012)[ā ]
Avraham "Bren" Adan was an Israeli major-general and author. Prior to Israel's independence, he served with the Palmach, an elite formation within the Haganah paramilitary force of the Yishuv community in British Mandatory Palestine. Adan fought under the Haganah and later under the newly formed Israel Defense Forces during the First ArabāIsraeli War, and was photographed while raising the Israeli Ink Flag at the site of what is now Eilat to mark the end of the war. He served with the Israel Defense Forces from 1948 to 1977, and fought in all of the major ArabāIsraeli wars that occurred during that period.
1926Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer and educator (died 1979)[ā ]
William Francis Unsoeld was an American mountaineer who was a member of the first American expedition to summit Mount Everest. The American Mount Everest Expedition was led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, and included Unsoeld, Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Barry Bishop and Tom Hornbein. Whittaker, with Sherpa Nawang Gombu, reached the summit on May 1, 1963. Unsoeld, Hornbein, Bishop and Jerstad reached the top on May 22, 1963. Unsoeld and Hornbein's climb was the first ascent from the peak's west ridge, and the first major traverse of a Himalayan peak. His subsequent activities included working as a U.S. Forest Service smokejumper, Peace Corps director in Nepal, speaker for Outward Bound, faculty member at Oregon State University and The Evergreen State College and mountaineering guide. He died on Mount Rainier in an avalanche.