Three Escape From Tecumseh Jail
Oklahoma officers comb the state for three fugitives Leonard Blair Ted Roberts and Maloy Kuykendall who overpowered a jailer and forced him into a cell after locking Sheriff Roberts family members. Sixteen prisoners remained jailed as the trio fled with a machine gun rifles and pistols.
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Shawnee
CLP
Oklahoma
Tecumseh
W. A. Roberts
Leonard Ablair
Ted Roberts
Maloy Kuykendall
Ed Millican
Capone Transferred to Alcatraz in Secret Move
Capone, once America’s top public enemy, is being moved from Atlanta to Alcatraz with 42 other inmates. The trek involved two screened cars and armed guards as reporters caught glimpses of the famous prisoner. An official refused special treatment, saying Capone would be treated like the others.
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New Orleans
al Capone
America
John Dillinger
Atlanta Penitentiary
New Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
Capone
Atlanta
Alcatraz
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Mississippi River
Republicans Open Campaign at Enid
Republicans of the eighth district opened their autumn campaign in Enid Oklahoma with T J Sargent as keynote speaker. The district convention criticized national Democratic policies and adopted resolutions opposing subversive doctrines and advocating soldiers bonuses while opposing actions that would diminish crops and livestock.
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Enid
Okla
Eighth Congressional District
T. J. Sargent
National Democratic Administration
Armored truck held up in Brooklyn raid for 427000
A band of robbers in at least two cars and a speedboat raided an armored car outside the Rubel ice plant on Bay 19th street Brooklyn seizing about 427000 in cash. Officers cordoned exits and searched for the gang while the driver fired at fleeing vehicles.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
New York Bay
New Jersey
Rubel Company
Bay 19Th Street
Cropsey
Bath Avenues
William LiJilenthal
Rubel
Joseph Allen
John
Wilson
Lillienthal
Ice Company
Allen
John J. Ryan
Bensonhurst
Gravesend Bay
Coney Island
Bank of Manhattan
86Th Street
20Th Avenue
Edward M. Shelby
Bath Beach
Shelby
New Enemies Rise in Prohibition Era Gang Wars
Chicago reports on the shifting ranks of public enemies from Capone to Murray Humphreys and John Dillinger era figures. It notes Capone’s 11 year sentence, Dillinger’s death, Nelson’s ranking, and the fates of Gunmen Aiello White Barker Zuta and McErlane.
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Chicago
Scarface
al Capone
San Francisco Bay
Scarface al
Chicazo
al Brown
Gangzland
Frank J. Loesch
Chicago Crime Commission
Loesch
Capone
Public Enemy
Murray Humphreys
Humphreys
South America
Indiana
John Dillinger
Dillinger
Department of Justice
George
Baby Face
Joe Aiello
William
Jack
Nazi Youth Leader Calls for War on Christianity in Germany
Berlin reports reveal a Nazi driven anti Christianity campaign led by Hitler Youth figures with calls to abolish Christianity and intensify church conflicts. Reichbishop Mueller plans a broad drive while Goebbels warns Catholics, raising tension amid Hindenburg’s death and Vatican concordat delays.
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Germany
Berlin
Hitler
Hamburg
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Ludwig Mueller
Heirarchy
Vatican City
Paul von Hindenburg
Dr. Mueller
August Hoppe
Hitler Youth Press Department
Nordland
Alfred Rosenberg
Third Reich
Hoppe
Kirchenblatt
Mueller
von Hindenburg
Government to rehabilitate drought families in Oklahoma
More than 20 000 families unable to earn living in cities will return to farms when drought ends under a federal rural rehabilitation plan. About 65 000 rural families on FERA rolls. 22 500 expressed desire to go back to land. 100 000 affected. Government to lease land, provide improvements, livestock and seed. tenant terms not fixed. Estimated cost 1009 to 1500 dollars per family. Land leases to begin next month pending heat relief. Governor candidate E W Marland supports a similar state subsistence plan.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Farms
FERA
Andrew Cole
Cole
Carl Giles
Giles
E. W. Marland
Family of Three Detained Near Jail in Sheriff’s Car
Report notes a woman and her two sons held in quarters below the jail while all three sat in the sheriff's automobile. The fragment suggests a custody or housing situation linked to law enforcement. Further details are not provided in the readable text.
Agreement Ends Strike Threat at National Refining Plant
In Coffeyville Kansas officials of National Refining and five craft unions reached a late yesterday agreement on working conditions. Wages were not disclosed in the pact which dissolved strike clouds that had hung over the refinery for months. Two hundred forty one workers were affected by the settlement.
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Coffeyville
Kan
National Refining Company
Governor McNutt Accepts Legion Convention Invitation
Oklahoma City reports Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana has accepted an invitation to address the state American Legion convention to be held September 1 to 4. McNutt is a former Legion national commander.
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Oklahoma City
American Legion
Paul V. McNutt
Indiana
Legion
Two Buildings Burn at Cardwell Missouri
Paragould Arkansas report says a fire in Cardwell Mo destroyed two frame buildings on a business block. The blaze, possibly from defective wiring in a theater, damaged the John Warren feed store and the Mary Dale theater, with losses estimated in the thousands.
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Paragould
Ark
Cardwell
Here
John Warren Feed
Mary Dale
A. A. A. Office Faces Space Crunch in County
The Agriculture Adjustment Administration in the county operates across offices with J. B. Hill and a team of staff handling Bankhead provisions seed loans and cotton checks. Daily foot traffic ranges from a hundred to four hundred fifty, prompting a push for more space and expanded staff to manage payments and upcoming programs including drought relief cattle purchases and emergency feed and seed loans.
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Agriculture Adjustment Administration
J. B. Hill
Jessie Brewer
Vesta Hardberger
Hazel Dearman
Eudal Blake
Florene Kilpatrick
Floyd Wilson
W. B. Johnson
I. R. Gilmore
W. H. Mundy
J. E. Chandler
Phil McLachlan
N. S. Olivo
Earl Rose
L. E. Emerson
J. 35. Stanfield
Virgil Hunt
Henry Little
Earlin Haskins
Quinn R. Bevers
Tom Carmichael
L. L. Lillard
R. E. Lillard
Randolph Cochran
Roy Glover
A. M. Pharr
R. L. Alexander
Ai. Ee Rowlett
L. Hewett
J. C. Kelso
Ratiock
W. Chaffin
John Schribner
J. W. McNarty
Eldred Solomon
Harry Smith
Cather Floyd
Truitt Youns
R. C. Jumper
Drouth
Blanks
Large Sum Allocated to Buy Cattle in Oklahoma Drought Areas
Oklahoma City reports an appropriation of about 6500000 set aside by FERA to cover pasturing feeding and distribution costs for cattle bought in drought regions. Fresh meat distribution begins Wednesday with a truck leaving for Norman Purcell Chickasha and El Reno, then expands statewide within two weeks via eight trucks to county commissaries and ultimately to the needy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
FERA
Oklahoma
Norman
Purcell
Chickasha
el Reno
J. C. Treadwell
Diversion Of Gasoline Funds Opposed In Oklahoma
The State Anti Gasoline Tax Diversion association formed in Oklahoma City plans to repeal a law diverting 40 percent of the gasoline tax to retire treasury deficit notes. H. J. Denton of Oklahoma City was elected president. Vice presidents include Tom W. Cheek E Bee Guthrey and G E Warren. L A Ann of Ponca City named treasurer and W J Milburn of Sayre secretary.
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Oklahoma City
State
Treasury
H. J. Denton
Oklahoma Cotton Grower
Tom W. Cheek
Oklahoma Farmers’ Union
E. Bee Guthrey
Tulsa
G. E. Warren
State Federation of Labor
Rogers Plea for More Students Reaches Relief Chief
Oklahoma City August 21 The office of Rep Will Rogers congressman at large advised Harry Hopkins head of the national relief administration to raise the number of students who may be ...
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Oklahoma City
Will Rogers
Harry Hopkins
National Relief
AAA Submits Plan for Cotton Loans to Roosevelt
The AAA plans to present a program to President Roosevelt for cotton loans pegged near 12 cents a pound. The scheme, backed by Senators Bankhead Smith and Thomas, would use the Commodity Credit Corporation to advance farmers the loan value and hold cotton off the market until prices rise. The plan envisions continued crop curtailment with acreage limited to 25 to 45 million acres next year.
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Washington
AAA
Roosevelt
Bankhead
D Ala
Smith
D-Sc
Thomas
D-Okla
Farm Administration
Commodity Credit Corporation
Fire Destroys Bridge Over Rodey Creek
Information arrived this morning of a fire that destroyed a wooden bridge over Rodey Creek several miles southeast of Ada. The 50 foot span on the Ahloso to Union Valley detour during the Highway 19 paving burned and fell into the creek around 3 am, waking nearby residents as traffic on the detour continued.
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Rodey Creek
Ada
Ahloso
Union Valley
Cotton spinning dips in July census figures
The census bureau reports the July cotton spinning industry operated at 74.3 percent capacity on a single shift, up from June 72.7 percent but below July last year’s 117.5 percent. Spindles in place July 30,937,816 with 24,417,682 active. active spindle hours totaled 5,151,979,342.
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Washington
Aus
Census Bureau
Tulsa Woman Strangled By Unknown Man
The body of Mrs. Gertrude Cooper, 30, was found in her Tulsa apartment with finger marks on her throat. Police say she was strangled after midnight, death estimated eight hours earlier. She was recently divorced, with three young sons cared for by her former husband’s parents.
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Tulsa
Gertrude Cooper
Fatal accident not at Rocky Crossing pool site
Elvin Hice died from injuries after a diving accident several miles down Boggy Creek, not at the Rocky Crossing pool as earlier reports claimed. B. T. Newton, pool manager, says safety precautions are followed and a government water test shows no typhoid or infection.
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B. T. Newton
Rocky Crossing
Ada
Elvin Hice
Hice
Newton
Rocky Crossing Pool
List of possible successors to Rainey grows in Congress
Washington August 21. Joseph Williston Byrns heads a list of likely successors to late Speaker Henry T. Rainey. Contenders include Sam Rayburn William Bankhead John McDuffie Clifton Woodrum John McCormack Lindsay Warren and John Rankin who announced his candidacy last night from Tupelo. Rankin had said he would not contend unless Rainey were out. McDuffie planned talks with Bankhead to align on rules. Party leaders anticipate intra party rivalries and seek a compromise to satisfy diverse groups including potential northern posts.
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Washington
Joseph Willinston Byrns
Henry T. Rainey
Tennessee
Sam Rayburn
Texas
William B. Bankhead
John McDuffie
Alabama
Clifton Woodrum
Virginia
John McCormack
Massachusetts
Lindsay Warren
North Carolina
John E. Rankin
Mississippi
Rankin
Tupelo
Congress
Rainey
McDuffie
Bankhead
Rules Committee
Patent House
What Would Jim Farley Say Right Now
A humorous anecdote describes an Indian customer buying three cent stamps and placing them upside down, prompting chatter about postal rules and a nod to Secretary Farley. The tale lampoons confusion over stamp usage and public curiosity about regulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lincoln
Railroads Ordered to Pay Pension Money
The Railroad Retirement Board ordered all class 1 railroads to pay one tenth of one percent of July payrolls to the U S treasurer for the railroad pension fund. The $125000 assessment must be paid by August 25. The board had prepared this and another order listing employees who would reach 70 by February 3, 1936. Justice Proctor denied a temporary injunction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Railroad Retirement Board
United States
Proctor
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Kidnaping Doubt Casts Shadow Over Evangelist Askew
R H Askew the 28 year old evangelist from Four Square denies being kidnaped by three men and released in Tennessee. Justice agents prepare to cross examine once his condition improves after arrival in Goldsboro North Carolina.
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Goldsboro
N. C
Tennessee
Department of Justice
R. H. Askew
Greater Returns for the Amount Invested News Classified Ads
Classified ad notes promise higher returns on investments with emphasis on value for money. Details are sparse but urge readers to consider opportunities offering greater earnings relative to the amount invested. Local business listings may follow.
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Home Savings and Loan Association
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EB. W. Kemp
Bernice Strickland
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Paul Jones
Pdella Bedford
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Albert Chamberlain
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