Lois Duncan Steinmetz, known as Lois Duncan, was an American writer, novelist, poet, and journalist. She is best known for her young-adult novels, and has been credited by historians as a pioneering figure in the development of young-adult fiction, particularly in the genres of horror, thriller, and suspense.

Headlines from April 28, 1934

ARIZONANS CALL IN KIDNAPPER POSSES TO LET FAMILY PAY; Thousand Rangemen Lay Aside Pistols as an Intermediary Seeks June Robles. BUT ONE SQUAD GOES OUT Two Men, Seized at Phoenix on Schoolboy's Tip, Linked by Auto With Tucson. ARIZONANS CALL IN KIDNAPPER POSSES

JAPAN ASSURES U.S. ON RIGHTS IN CHINA; Gives British and Our Envoys Written Statement Pledging Adherence to Open Door. NANKING TO INVOKE PACT Will Ask Signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty to Hold Conference on Issue. JAPAN ASSURES U.S. ON RIGHTS IN CHINA

' Thunderbolt Rays' Are Discovered Constantly 'Spraying' the Earth; ' Runaway Electrons,' Loosed at Lightning Flash and Spread Thousands of Miles, Are Found Next to Cosmic Radiation in Power -- Physicists Told Sun Is a Dynamo. THUNDERBOLT RAYS SPRAY OVER EARTH

LIQUOR BILL VOTED BY LEGISLATURE; Permanent Control Law Is Rushed Through Just Before Adjournment. MOST ABC RULES ADOPTED Measure Provides for Board of Five -- Proposed 'Snooper' Force Is Dropped. LIQUOR BILL VOTED BY LEGISLATURE

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