Word: clevelanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Butcher. When thick-muscled, thick-headed Frank Dolezal confessed that he had beheaded one of 13 dissected human torsos found in Cleveland since 1934, Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell thought he had "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (TIME, July 17). When ex-Butcher Dolezal told first one story and then another about how he disposed of his supposed victim's head, worried authorities reduced the charge against him from murder to manslaughter, wondered whether they had a simple lunatic instead of a killer. Last fortnight Frank Dolezal hanged himself in his cell with a towel. Last week...
...Traditionally Democratic Cleveland, Ohio last week found it must choose as its mayor in the October third primaries one of two Republicans, either incumbent Mayor Harold H. Burton or John O'Donnell of the School Board. Behind this novelty was a pretty piece of Democratic boggling. Two equally powerful party factions fought themselves into the ground, refused to compromise. Desperate leaders turned to the local version of Texas' Maury Maverick, Councilman William C. Reed, begged him to accept the nomination. On a strict "no strings" platform, Mr. Reed accepted tentatively, if a $25,000 campaign fund were raised...
Ohio: William R. Cowser, 18, of Cleveland; West High School...
Robert C. Martin Jr., 18, of Dayton; Glenville High School, Cleveland...
Richard C. Sanborn, 18, of Cleveland; Collinwood High School...