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...Chicago police arrested Bror H. Petersen, petty swindler, who had married four wives in one month by giving them $500 promissory notes, telling them that he had inherited an ancestral estate in Sweden on condition that he bring back a wife. Said Bror H. Petersen: "I married those girls looking for the right one and decided pretty quick that I didn't want to take Madeline or Loretta or Mabel back with me to the ancestral estates. But Lydia! Ah, there's the girl...
While Lee, Higginson & Co. planned these changes last week the investigation of Herr Kreuger's affairs went on apace. In Stockholm police were searching 150 sacks of waste paper for clues regarding Kreuger transactions. The first actual jail sentence in the case came when Bror Bregberg, one of Kreuger's associates, was fined $162,000 and sent to jail for nine months at hard labor. In Manhattan Anders Jordahl, crony of Ivar Kreuger, admitted that Herr Kreuger might have "been short a few shares" at the time of his death. Other than this he had little...
...deposits to $17,000,000. Receiverships. Two notable companies passed into the hands of receivers last week: Celotex Co. of Chicago and Russell Manufacturing Co. of Middletown. Celotex is a big maker of wallboard and similar products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During...
Seeking Divorce. Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 51, Swedish-born U. S. sugar tycoon, president of Celotex Co.; from Mary Alexander Dahlberg, one-book author (Dagger); in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Texas-reared Mrs. Dahlberg refused to live in the U. S., prefers Europe...
...Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 48, was born in Norway, soon was taken to St. Paul. About ten years ago he conceived of celotex, made from the fibre of sugarcane, as a substitute for lumber. He organized the company whose phenomenal growth in sales has added unto it many a subsidiary. Behind the expansion was Mr. Dahlberg, shrewd in matters of manufacturing and sales. Also, he is generally credited with being the architect of its financial structure. In the past decade he is said to have made...