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...poultryman named Patrick Fallon was taken from a farm at Bridgewater, Mass. Frederick J. Persons, 16, son of an East Aurora, N. Y. bank president, told how he had run away from two men who tried to snatch him on a dark street. In Atlanta, President John K. Ottley of the First National Bank identified two boys who had seized, later released him fortnight ago on his way to work (TIME, July 17). Three men were arrested as they lay in wait for another banker, Cecil C. Vaughan, near Franklin, Va. John C. Lyle, mail carrier of Crawfordsville...
Motoring down to his presidential office in Atlanta's First National Bank (largest in the Southeast), John King Ottley, 65, saw a fruit peddler to whom he had often given a lift to town. This time the peddler flourished a pistol, took the banker for a ride to the country, left him in charge of a 17-year-old boy armed with a blackjack. It took Banker Ottley only a few minutes to persuade the boy to release him, accompany him to nearby Suwanee, lead a posse to the fruit peddler's hideout...
...Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton, Bermuda: in 3 days 3 hr. 42 min. 29 sec., with a time allowance of, 5 hr. 53 min. 41 sec. Clarence Kozlay of West Orange, N. J. was drowned when the largest boat in the race, James H. Ottley's schooner Adriana, caught fire and sank 80 miles off Montauk. Four days after the race's end, the U. S. Coast Guard began hunting for the missing Bermuda fisherman Spanish Rose and the ketch Curlew, manned by six Brooklynites...
...that men who have spent a lifetime in scientific research now find themselves on the street without a job." One of the American Museum's staff who did not let the museum's comparative poverty stall him was Harold Elmer Anthony, curator of mammals. He and Gilbert Ottley found enough money to sail last week for a two-month trip to Venezuela, to hunt "everything that lives" for his department...
...balance of the board: Livingston Erringer Jones, president First National, Philadelphia; Arthur E. Braun, president Farmers Deposit National, Pittsburgh; John King Ottley, president First National, Atlanta; Frank Bartow Anderson, chairman Bank of California; John Maffit Miller Jr., First & Merchants National, Richmond; Edward Williams Decker, president Northwestern National; Walter Scott McLucas, chairman Commerce Trust Co., Kansas City; Nathan Adams, First National, Dallas...