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...only one company, Aluminum Co. of America, which holds U. S. patents on the only profitable process. Aluminum Co. sells aluminum pig to independent fabricators but has its own fabricating subsidiaries to compete with them. Thus although most of the pistons in Ford cars are of Mr. Bohn's Bohnalite some are of Aluminum Co.'s Lynite. Mr. Bohn is not vitally disturbed by Aluminum Co.'s control of the virgin metal because most of his castings can be made from scrap aluminum, which has a free market. But it is a favorite charge of such independents...
Last week President Charles Benjamin Bohn of Detroit's Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp. announced that his company, after five years of research, had discovered a method, technically ingenious and commercially feasible, for producing virgin aluminum from alunite. Alunite is a whitish ore containing potassium aluminum sulphate...
...alone reveal the method, President Bohn would not even name the researchers who developed it. But he was eager to tell how he had started to build a $50,000 "pilot plant" in Detroit to iron out minor production kinks, and how he would later erect a big producing plant in Utah, which has the most extensive alunite deposits in the U. S. The Utah plant, said President Bohn, would bring his investment in the alunite process close to $10,000,000. That was an impressive figure, and observers saw no reason to question...
Charles B. Bohn (Bohn Aluminum & Brass...
...Dakota State Penitentiary at Sioux Falls, wistful-looking Verne Sankey, arrested week before in a Chicago barber's chair, made a noose of two cravats and hanged himself to an iron cross beam. Next day he was to have pleaded guilty to the kidnapping in 1932 of Haskell Bohn of St. Paul (ransom: $12,000) and in 1933 of Charles Boettcher II of Denver (ransom: $60,000), whom he hid on his Dakota turkey ranch. Next day Sankey's accomplice, Gordon Alcorn, was sentenced to serve the rest of his natural life in Leavenworth for his part...