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...Glencoe, Ill., a smaller Chicago suburb seven miles north of Evanston, the Paul Reveres tub-thump against Communism and "subversive activities." Planning a nation-wide organization, they made a Colonel E. M. Hadley their president. In January, Evanston got its chapter, headed by one John A. Kappelman, insurance broker. Far from unusual in thesis or technique, the Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target one of the Methodist Church's ablest preachers. Rev. Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle, 47, social-minded leader in the Federal Council of Churches. Big and muscular, Dr. Tittle served...
Safely home last week came Charles Boettcher II, 31, wealthy Denver investment broker who had been kidnapped on the night of Feb. 12. His story: After being carried for some 18 hr. in an automobile, he was kept with eyes taped in a room which he judged by its musty smell to be a cellar. He never saw the two, possibly three, men who guarded him. Returning, they left him on a side-street in East Denver...
Young Boettcher's return set airplanes, radio cars and volunteer posses scouring the northern Colorado and southern Wyoming countryside in a hunt for the kidnappers. Meanwhile Denver, stroked its chin over reports of the young broker's slowness in paying large gambling debts. Declared the Rocky Mountain News: "The story of the victim is to say the least unusual. . . . Certainly many aspects of the case need clearing...
Office Department as the recognized patronage broker of the new Administration...
Married. Thomas James Walsh, 73, Montana's senior U. S. Senator, Attorney General in the Roosevelt Cabinet; and Mina Perez Chaumont Truffin, wealthy relict of a Havana sugar broker; in Marianao, suburb of Havana, Cuba...