Abduction plan believed behind heiress kidnapping
Greenfield Mo Oct 15 Authorities say Mrs Alma Wilson McKinley heiress was kidnapped for ransom. Investigators believe abductors planned to seize her father Benton Wilson, a millionaire, and release her for 30000 after forcing her to write a note. The motor car became stuck in mud near Jarito Springs delaying the plan. The note was later found altered. Mrs McKinley released after hours of walking with her captor.
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McKinley
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Eddie Cantor May Tie Up In New Film Idea
Los Angeles gossip notes that Samuel Goldwyn and Eddie Cantor may co produce a West Coast musical comedy after Cantor’s stage show tours the area. Plans include stage to screen strategy with Goldwyn’s film craft and Milestone set to direct for Ben Hughes. The item mentions Front Page collaborators Hecht and MacArthur possibly adapting their play for film, with Geraghty considering contract talks and various Hollywood sightings at the Brown Derby and parties.
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Statue of Liberty
Ft Worth Oil Man Sued for Divorce
Fort Worth on October 15 an injunction restrains J. P. Das former Oklahoma supreme court justice and Fort Worth oilman from molesting Mrs Helen Das or gaining custody of Gilbert Das age 6 until the divorce trial. Mrs Das alleges cruelty in her divorce petition and states Day the second wife of the defendant.
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Fort Worth
J. P. Das
Supreme Court
Woman Protests Mills Sex Bar at National Meet
Mrs Clarence M Smith of the National Woman's party loudly objects to a plan to bar women from night work in mills. The proposal will be discussed at the Cotton Textile Institute annual meeting in New York.
Texas tops U0 in divorces granted
Washington reports 1920 matrimonial statistics showing Texas leading divorces with 16,356, Nevada highest for marriages and divorces per 1000, and statewide ratios indicating growing marriages but slower divorce growth amid laws affecting filings.
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Georgia
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Ohio
I Students to Face Tie Detector in Professor Tests
Chicago October 15 The lie detector machine will be used by Dr J A Larsen at the University of Chicago to test cheating students in examinations and to demonstrate its value in court.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Dre J. A. Larsen
Court of Law
Barefoot Ride to Feature at Exposition This Fall
Barefoot Ride will stage its ring at the International Exposition this year with an eight day racing meet. Children under 16 may enter all shows and riding devices on Saturday October 25 for one nickel, while general admission for local kids is five cents. Secretary-manager George Cabbell said over 100 horses are entered and preparations are in progress at the stables for the eight day event running each day with five races.
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Exposition Association
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Anniversary 2000 of Virgil Honored in Mantua
Italy marks two thousandth birthday of poet Virgil with nationwide celebrations in Mantua on October 16. The piece lists claimed divorce figures and merchandise counts across regions, highlighting New York and Michigan as examples amid a garbled data jumble.
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Page Group Greets Tutor at Welcome Luncheon
Miss Dorothy Holmes, a faculty member at Thomas Nelson Page Junior School, was greeted by the school booster club after returning from a three month visit to Europe. About one hundred ex-members and fifty present attendees joined a luncheon in the school cafeteria led by Alma Baker. Boosters officers and luncheon committee members are listed, with Charley Kebeer as president and Elizabeth Schulze chairing the luncheon group.
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Europe
Dorothy Holmes
Thomas Nelson Vage
Misa Alma Baker
The
Page Boosters
Charley Kebeer
Frances Wynne
Roy Mathews
Secondice
Bruce More
William McTellan
Helen Reinhard
Thosd
Elizabeth Schulze
Bruce Moore
Mildred Hattler
Doris Gordon
Ill Coessberg
William Rochtels
Airs
Wealthy Sultan Weds Helen Wilton in London Marriage
A sensational ceremony at a register office joins the wealthy sultan of Ja bore and Mrs. Helen Wilton, an auburn-haired Scottish widow, creating a union of vast wealth and power. The event crowns Wilton as queen of a rulers’ domain, with immense resources and palaces.
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Helen Wilton
Wilson
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