$100,000 Offered for Return of Boy Torn Away from Nurse Hillsborough, Calif., Sept. 21. Five of. California's wealthiest families, two of them of French nobit* ity, raised US$100,000 in cash to redeem Marc de Tristan, three-year-old son of Count Marc de Tristan, from a suave, hook-nosed kidnapper today.
G-men said that the local police and press withdrew from the vicinity of the boy's beautiful home to make it easy and safe for the kidnapper ro collect the ransom.
Marc de Tristan, three year-old son of Count Mare de Tristan, was kidnapped from his nurse near his family home here yesterday.
An automobile believed to have been used by the kidnapper was found later on the Rayshore Highway. The kidnapper overpowered the child's nurse, threatened her with two revolvers and then handed her a ransom note before escaping with the boy.
The local police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were notified of the kidnapping immediately, although the -ransom note demanded "absolute silence and privacy."
Police believed the abductor was an amateur because he wore no mask and made not attempt to conceal the licence plate on his car.—United Press.
Enemy aircraft attempted a night raid on Aden causing slight damage io buildings in the suburbs. There were no casualties The aircraft were driven off by anti-aircraft gun fire.
Aircraft of the South African Alr Force carried out extensive reconnaissances in southern Abyssinia and Italian Somaliland, the communique concludes.
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