Attempt Made to Kidnap Banker in Chevy Chase
Washington May 10 An apparent kidnap attempt on E Percival Wilson banker and secretary of the National Savings and Trust Company led to a police investigation. Wilson escaped after a car snatch in Chevy Chase Md while a scientist Leonard H Kephart later reported his car and money stolen near Soldiers Home drive. The bandit fled. Kephart was found injured and robbed near the Soldiers Home hospital.
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Washington
E. Percival Wilson
Wilson
National Savings and Trust Company
Montgomery County
Maryland
Leonard H. Kephart
Department of Agriculture
Carmen
Chevy Chase
MD. A
Chevy Chase Boulevard
Montgomery
Kephart
Soldiers Home Hospital
Landlide Buries Homes. Dozens Trapped in Italy
In Grottamare Italy a landslide collapsed the railway and buried many houses. Several people were buried alive and about 30 injured. Communications were cut off as rescue efforts began. In Monessen a 14 year old Frank Swansick was arrested for bootlegging at home, noted as the town’s youngest offender. Ray Goodwill remains jailed in Pleasantville awaiting Friday hearing on assault and battery charges. William Rossman from Warren to have Friday hearing on petty larceny charges.
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Grottamare
Italy
U P
Monessen
U.P
Frank Swansick
Ray Goodwill
Pleasantville
Clark E. Nelson
William Bush
Torpedo
William Rossman
Warren
Clark Nelson
Funeral and local news from Warren area
Live topics of the day include a funeral for Miss Evelyn D Erickson in Buffalo N Y attended by fourteen intimate friends from Warren and a Zion Mission church service. Other items report M F Masterson elected Warren Eagles president, Tony Brown winning his tenth straight fight, Miss Helen Graham and Kenneth Porter wedding, and the death of oil producer John M Preston in Titusville.
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Margaret Hanson
Warren
Evelyn D. Erickson
Jamestown
Buffalo
N. Y
Miss Erickson
Zion Mission Church
Brown
Tony Brown
Bradford Junction
Johnny Hart
Helen Graham
Kenneth Porter
Oil City
Mercer
Porter
Hig
Overtime arrests and local notices from Warren borough
Overtime Parker hearings continued Thursday with two arrests up to noon by Warren police. Two Warren men were fined seven dollars each for drunkenness at Justice Watts N. Davis court. Thad F. Lawson announced completion of his Burke's Glen building near the Smoky City stocked for a shooting gallery and penny arcade. Arcade Bowling alleys and Conservatory of Music building to close for off season from early June and reopen in fall. William T. Kelly Jr. accepts a position with American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., St. Louis, to begin after Yale graduation in June.
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Warren
Watts N. Davis
Bullding
Pittsburgh
Thad F. Lawson
Burke's Glen
Smoky City
Conservatory of Music
William T. Kelly, Jr
American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co
St. Louis
W. T. Kelly
Market Street
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale
Kane High School Graduates Set for Washington Trip
Eighty nine members of Kane High School’s graduating class will ride the morning train today to Washington D C for a three day educational tour of the capitol buildings and other places of interest. They expect to return home Monday. E B John superintendent of the Renovoa division of the Veteran Employees association was re elected president at its fourth annual banquet in Erie.
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Capitol
Kane High School
Washington, D. C
E. B. John
Renovoa
Veteran Employes’ Association
Renovo
Erie
TO GO ON BOAT
Theodore Thompson a Warren sail or boy in training at Newport Rhode Island expects to be drafted to a boat Friday per a letter to relatives He has trained for several months in preparation for service
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Theodore Thompson
Warren
Newport
R. L
Local births announced for Johanson and Mourer families
Mr and Mrs Henry Johanson of 112 Walnut street welcomed a daughter born at 1046 o'clock last evening weighing 8 pounds 6 ounces. Mr and Mrs Herman Mourer of Youngsville announced a son born at 715 o'clock last evening weighing T pounds 12% ounces.
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Henry Johanson
Walnut Street
Herman Mourer
Youngsville
Deaths and Funerals in Jamestown area
Alfred J. Benson 57 died Thursday after a long illness at 1:55 am at his home 207 Walnut. Survived by three daughters Ellen Leona Florence at home two sons Hilmer Meadville and Raymond Warren mother Mrs Caroline Benson Jamestown three sisters Mrs John Sampson Chicago Mrs Raymond Johnson Miss Hulda Benson James town and two brothers Carl and John Jamestown Funeral arrangements pending. William Eldred Buhl 76 died at home in Sugargrove borough Wednesday morning at 6 am Services Sunday 2 pm at home officiated by Rev F W Shope Interment Sugargrove Cemetery Survived by widow Helen Samson Buhl daughter Della Anderson brother Edwin Buhl Garland sisters Mrs Geo Hadlock and Mrs William McCollough Garland Moose MACabeES lodge member and former councilman born December 12 1860 Christine Gustafson died at sister Mrs Charles Erickson Brown Hall services Friday 2 pm Erikson home Interment Mission cemetery Chandlers Valley Louise Johnson died Warren General Hospital Wednesday 1:05 pm services Friday 2 pm at Mrs H Kylander 18 Brook Street Rev G Harry Nelson officiating Interment Chandlers Valley cemetery
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Alfred Benson
Alfred J. Benson
Walnut Street
Ellen
Leona
Florence
Hilmer
Meadville
Raymond
Warren
Caroline Benson
Jamestown
John Sampson
Chicago
Raymond Johnson
Hulda Benson
Carl
John
Benson
Swedish Lutheran Church
Vasa
Kane and
William Eldred Buhl
Sugargrove
F. W. Shope
Sugargrove Cemetery
Buhl
Helen Samson Buhl
Della Anderson
Edwin Buhl
Pittsfield
Geo. Hadlock
William McCollough
Garland
Macabees
Cold Brook
Pittsfield Township
Christine Gustafson
Charles Erickson
Brown Hall
Erikson
Mission Cemetery
Chandlers Valley
Louise Johnson
Warren General Hospital
Funeral services for James W Bleakley held in Sugargrove
James W. Bleakley died at his Sugargrove home Wednesday morning. Funeral services will be at the Methodist church Saturday at 2 PM, with a 1 30 PM prayer service at his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Bleakley
Sugargrove
Bleakley Rites Held for Local Resident at Five Points
Interment followed the services at Five Points cemetery for Mr. Bleakley aged around 64. He was a retired farmer who lived near Sugargrove most of his life. Survived by his widow Agnes, daughter Bette, and stepmother Mrs. Amelia Bleakley of Sugar Grove.
Funeral rites for Mrs Louis Sherman held in Freehold
Mrs Louis Sherman died by her own hand on Monday. Funeral services were conducted at the family home in Freehold township this afternoon as cautious buyers peruse classified ads. Motor clubs in Melbourne, formed by suburban residents, operate buses for members only to dodge bus taxes, drawing complaint from the Minister of Railways over evasion of the law.
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Louis Sherman
Wrre
Freehold Township
Australia
Melbourne
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M. F. Masterson
Warren Fraternal Order of Eagles
Ther
W. F. Meas
Joseph Sullivan
Theodore Speckman
F. L. Kirberger
Dominic Juliano
Jerry Eldridge
William Sterry
John M. Preston
Titusville
Preston
Shaffer Music Store
WHBA
WLEW
Walter Haskell
Clarion County
Joseph Poplar
That County
Palace of Sweets
Carver
Sktany
Ralph Simpson
W.J. Nicholson
Wetmore
Bernice Gevin
Meadville, Hospital
Phil Wood
Duke Schiller
Bremen
Ireland
Old Orchard Beach
Wood
International Newarsat
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Warren, Pennsylvania
Live and
American Legion Building Fund
Warren and
Vicinity
Rochester
New York
A.L. Hodges Clothier and Men's Furnisher
Warren National Bank
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