kidnapping of Denver official fuels nationwide police hunt
Benjamin P. Bower, 62, a Denver baking company official, was abducted from his home more than 25 hours ago by two well dressed gunmen who demanded a $50,000 ransom. Police found the abductors car late last night and offered a $400 reward as hundreds of officers secured the city. Mrs. Bower pleaded for her husband’s life while officials considered motives possibly tied to revenge.
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Denver
Colo
Benjamin P. Bower
Baking Company
Bower
Elyria Public Schools to Trim Staff and Enrollments
Elyria public schools will cut about 74 students next semester due to graduation of 74 seniors and no new entering class under the annual promotion plan. Four teachers will depart, reducing the corps to about 175, with high school enrollment rising by 129 from eighth grade entrants.
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Elyria
Nellie Stargill
Franklin School
Frances Stinebring
Hamilton
Mildred Stegman
Ely
Elma DePew
Jefferson
R. C. Maston
Franklin
Ohio Weather Forecast Tracks Disturbance Northward
Occasional rain tonight and Friday with a drift of a disturbance from eastern Iowa toward the Lake region. Temperatures expected to fall slightly on Friday as conditions turn cooler.
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Ohio
Iowa
Lake
Judge Webber Sits On Bench For 80th Birthday
Judge A R Webber celebrates turning 80 while continuing duties as Common Pleas Court judge. He arrived with niece Adelia Arndt and friend Maxine Pool, recalling a long career since 1876, including roles as prosecutor and congressman, with lifelong motto do it now. He received a Bernard Jay edition of Franklin biography at a Round Table gathering.
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A. R. Webber
Common Pleas Court
Adelia Arndt
Medina
Maxine Pool
Elyria
TAREE BANDIT GET FORTUNE IN JEWELS
Three bandits forced entry into Harry Glemby’s Fifth Avenue apartment and escaped with jewels of considerable value. The burglary left Glemby and his wife bound in a bedroom and the wall safe emptied. the butler was unconscious from a head blow. Police reported the Glembys own jewels valued at more than $500,000.
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New York
Harry Glemby
Fifth Avenue
Glemby
Guarantee of 60 foot right of way on Wakeman Belden road
County commissioners approved a resolution guaranteeing the state highway department a 60 foot right of way on the Wakeman Belden road from Pittsfield to Belden if the state takes over the road as part of the state system. The move follows a LaGrange meeting with residents officials and highway staff. The ten mile strip connects Leavitt road and the Avon Belden road.
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State Highway Department
Wakeman-Belden
Pittsfield
Belden
LaGrange
Leavitt Road
Avon-Belden
State Prohibition Dept to Hire No New Personnel in 1932
Columbus Ohio January 21 State Prohibition Commissioner Edmund G Mathews announced no new appointments in the prohibition department for 1932 due to limited operating funds. The policy affects the vacancy left by inspector C C Barton who died by his own hand in Cleveland after being removed on drinking charges. Governor White ordered budget cuts across all state departments.
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Columbus
Edmund G. Mathews
White
Prohibition Department
C. C. Barton
Sidney
Cleveland
Baptists Plan Two Week Evangelistic Services
A two week series begins January 24 at the First Baptist Church near Sun day night. Rev. H. O. VanGilder of Central Baptist Church Columbus will conduct nightly talks January 25 to February 7 excluding Saturdays. He will focus on the Revelation with music directed by Abe Yost, tenor soloist of the local church.
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First Baptist Church
H. O. VanGilder
Central Baptist Church of
Abe Yost
Baptist Church
Senate panel backs destitute fund measure
The Senate Manufactures Committee voted 6 to 2 to report favorably a bill providing 375 million dollars in federal funds for the destitute unemployed. The measure, sponsored by La Follette and Costigan, would allocate 125 million by July 1 and the rest in the next fiscal year to states for unemployment relief. McNary and Goldsborough opposed.
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Washington
Senate Manufacturers Committee
LaFollette
Repn
Wis
Costigan
Dem
Colo
McNary
Ore
Goldsborough
Bulkley and White to Speak at Lorain Jackson Day Banquet
Governor George White and Senator Robert Bulkley will speak at the Lorain County Jackson Day banquet to be held February 6 at the Methodist Church in Elyria. The event, sponsored by the Lorain County Democratic Executive Committee and the Democratic Men's Club of Elyria, aims to host about 500 attendees with W. H. France as entertainment chairman.
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George White
United States
Nator
Robert Bulkley
Lorain County
Democratic Executive Committee
Democratic Men’s Club of
Elyria
W. H. France
Taxes May Be Paid Without Penalty This Month
County Auditor N D Backus said taxes may be paid until month end without penalty as treasurer cites workload delaying closing books. Law allows delay without penalty if payments arrive before treasurer closes books, final date this year is January 20. About $800,000 in taxes collected and many payments await processing. offices remain open through month end.
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N. D. Backus
Backus
Elyria High Debaters Meet Oberlin In Home Contest
Elyria High School debaters face Oberlin High School at 8 p m Saturday in the school auditorium for their first Ohio State High School Debating League contest. The topic is compulsory unemployment insurance for several states. Coach Miss Alice Stofer leads the team with members Robert Denman Russell Fox Robert McWilliams and alternate Mildred Pallas. Howard R Buler presides and Prof Dana T Burns of Baldwin Wallace College judges.
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Elyrians
Elyria High School
Oberlin High School
Alice Stofer
Robert Denman
Russell Fox
Robert McWilliams
Mildred Pallas
Howard R. Buler
Dana T. Burns
Baldwin- Wallace College
Elyria High to Honor 74 Graduates Tonight
Final plans for Elyria High School’s seventy eighth commencement are set for the High School auditorium tonight. The 74 January graduates, 37 boys and 37 girls, will receive diplomas as alumni prepare to enter the ranks of thousands. Seats for the ceremony go on sale at 7 p.m. at the auditorium.
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Elyria High School
Three Generations Reach Elyria High SchoolDiploma
Duke Gull will receive his Elyria High School mid year diploma joining a family line dating to 1872 with grandmother Hat tie Boynton Dake and mother Margaret Dake Gull among 74 graduates in 1932. Lorain County Farm Bureau notes extensive 1951 extension projects across eight programs with hundreds of women and girls participating in home beautification, management, health, foods, clothing and Four H Clubs.
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Elyria High School
Duke Gull
Gull
Hattie Boynton Dake
Margaret Dake Gull
Beeza Boynton Kaiser
Clinton
N. Y
Lorain County
County Agricultural Extension Service
Tiss Alice Bird
Lorain County Farm Bureau
Hex murder case in Pennsylvania linked to voodoo symbols
Police report a Pennsylvania murder case where a Mennonite Church worker was found stabbed with a blood etched symbol on the brow. The paneled injuries include two crescents, horizontal slits, and vertical and diagonal cuts described as part of a supposed hex ritual.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Norman R. Bechtel
Supreme Court voids payment to architect in Lorain bridge case
Ohio Supreme Court upholds Franklin County appeals ruling denying $26,490 to Wendell P. Brown for a high level bridge plan in Lorain County. The 1926 project faced a bond issue dispute and a taxpayer suit led by Dr. A T Grills. Brown had been paid $35 600 before the suit.
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Dr. Grills
Lorain
Supreme Court of Ohio
A. T. Grills
Lorain County
Wendell P. Brown
Ohio Supreme Court
Columbus
Supreme Court
Brown
District Court of Appeals
Franklin County
Appeals Court
Black River
George Rhoads
C. D. Murray
W. B. Richmond
State Supreme Court
Wesley Grills
Grills
Foremen’s Club Meeting Draws County Leaders in January
About 175 foremen and executives from Lorain County plants are slated to attend the Elyria Foremen's Club January meeting at the Y M C A. Principal speaker TP Kearns of the Industrial Commission of Ohio will attend with Wellington Leonard. The program includes songs by Robert Burns and Harland Brown and a Leon Kelly sketch. The meeting will feature the presentation of 149 county safety contest awards.
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Lorain County
Elyria
Robert Burns
Harland Brown
Leon Kelly
TP. Kearns
Division of Safety and Hygiene
Industrial
Reconstruction Finance Bill Delights President Hoover
Washington reports the Reconstruction Finance bill should reach the President on the desk by tomorrow night. House and Senate conferees signed the report after 11 am and await final approval. Chairman Steagall noted a one day layover in the House, as Walcott said the President was delighted with the final form.
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Washington
Steagall
House Banking Committee
White House
Senate
House
Walcott
Brown Named to Radio Commission by Hoover
Washington January 21 President Hoover sent Trad H Brown of Ohio to the Senate for approval as a member of the federal radio commission for a six year term Brown currently serves as general counsel for the commission and is 52 years old.
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Brown
Radio Commission
Palletin
Washington
Hoover
Trad H. Brown
Ohio
Senate
Federal Radio Commissios
Commission
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