Slain gunmen traced after prison escape in Indiana
Federal agents and local police traced the crime trail of two Texas convicts shot to death by deputies in Indianapolis after escaping Wynn state prison farm at Huntsville July 24. Identified as John Bowman and Tigham Van Acker, the trustees had robbed shoppers and storekeepers before the ambush.
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Indianapolis
Texas
John Bowman
Tigham van Acker
Wynn State
Huntsville
Tex
R. H. Baughn
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Thomas Coady
Kokomo
Giusmen
Irwin
Rosenbaum
South Bend
Bowman
Jess Williams
Gregg County
Blackwell
Oklo
van Acker Wes
Tarrant
Harris
New Mexico
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Ex-Senator Gore Plans Return Yet Sees Exile In Washington
Former Senator T. P. Gore, blind since his congress years, lives in Washington as an exiled former law practitioner. He dreams of Oklahoma grazing and says political life is a sealed book. Gore plans October return to Oklahoma to visit friends from Cimarron to MecCas. He represents a tribe in northern Oklahoma and expects to be retained by another tribe soon. His hobby is literature, with attic shelves full of non fiction and detective tales to end his day.
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Washington
T. P. Gore
Oklahoma
Congress
Gore
Oklahomma
Cimarron
MecCar
Devil's Island
Rene Belbendit
France
French Guiana
Roosevelt
Belbenoit
Navy Seeks 200 Million Dollar Boost in Funds
Admiral Leahy announced after meeting with President Roosevelt that the navy would ask Congress for about 200 million dollars in addition to the regular appropriation of roughly 546.9 million. The request covers the cost of completing a fleet expansion plan including two battleships four cruisers eight destroyers and six to eight submarines. Roosevelt will decide if the new battleships will be built at the 45,000 ton class.
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Washington
Willam D. Leahy
Roosevelt
Navy
Congress
Leahy
Court Threat To Road Commission OKLAHOMA CITY Aug 0
Attorney General Mac Q Williamson warned the highway commission he would sue to curb actions affecting the department deficit if the governor acts. Governor Marland ordered halt to state aid projects through Sept 31 and demanded a reduction of the one time 7 000 to 83 500 000 by Jan 1 1985. Audits show a possible 870 000 year end deficit. Grisso's meeting may be held today as he recovers from illness.
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Oklahoma City
Mac Q. Williamson
Highway Commission
Marland
Commission
Williamson
Maayland
W. E. Grisso
Grisso
Osborn Secretary Says Wrote Letter
Oklahoma City August 31. Police Judge Merrel Siler received a letter signed by Monroe Osborn chief justice of the state supreme court. The note asked that two traffic tickets for parking on the wrong side of the street be explained and resolved. Chamblee secretary to the chief justice said he wrote the letter. Osborn was on vacation. Bill Neulfer reports tickets issued August 9, 14, and 23. Chamblee will pay $3 total this afternoon per the letter’s suggestion.
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Oklahoma City
Merrel Siler
Monroe
State Supreme Court
Tam
Peti Chambree
Osborn
Bill Neulfer
Chamblee
Via
Oned
Neutter
Court Orders Boy Taken To Hospital
A Bartlesville county court ordered 11 year old farm boy burned while siphoning gasoline remanded to hospital care despite his mother Mrs RB Clark’s refusal to read the order. Undersheriff J D Engle said she later agreed to hospital transport. The child, in critical condition, and his father were burned at their farm home near Vera. The boy claimed visions of seeing the ford as he faced treatment.
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Bartlesville
Doe Clark
J. D. Engle
RB. B. Clark
Lake Hire
Engle
Vera
Marie Davis
Open class prizes and invitational tournament in school sports
First place in the club exhibits and vials is to be awarded for the open class. An invitation grade tournament is held in girls softball and boys baseball on the same date. All schools with one to three teachers are invited to send teams.
Phillips To Open Inspection Tour In Oklahoma
Democratic candidate for governor Leon C. Phillips announces a statewide inspection tour visiting Miami Vinita Claremore Muskogee Warner Sallisaw Norman Woodward and Norman again to examine state institutions and facilities. He notes stops at colleges hospitals and schools and plans to return to Oklahoma City before the Democratic convention on September 19.
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Oklahoma City
Aus
Leon C. Prillips
Okemah
Miami
Oklahoma Junior College
Vinila
Easlern
Nagra
Phillips
Muskogee
Warner
Conners Agricultural College
Sallisaw
J. Altherrow
Northwestern
State Teachers College
Western Whlnehoma Hospital
Woodward
Sorthern Oklahoma Hospital
Eid
Colorado
Big Springs
Zex
Disney Area Rushed Grade School Near Grand River Dam
Stone masons labored to finish a grade school for 174 pupils of the Grand River dam boon area. The only previous building, a small country school, is isolated by construction. Expected completion in three weeks. The district is funding the project with state aid and transporting 40 high school students to Jay. two buses began service Monday.
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Disney
Grand
Cedar Grove to Hold Free Community Fair
Cedar Grove school district will host a free community fair on September 9 with 4-H club sponsors inviting all county members. Club members will exhibit items and others may enter displays. Prizes will be awarded for entries supporting the death penalty stance.
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Cedar Grove
State Supreme Court
Adam Richetti Is Re Sentenced To Die
Adam Richetti, under a death sentence for complicity in the Union State Massacre in June 1983, was re-sentenced by Circuit Judge Ra. G. Cowan to die in the state lethal gas chamber in Jefferson City. The Kansas City based case follows earlier court actions and confirms the death penalty after review.
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Kansas City
Adam ‘Righetti
Union State
Ra. G. Cowan
Jefferson City
Richetti Sentenced as Gas Execution Method Changes
Richetti was received by the circus court and will be taken to Jefferson City around September 2 or 3. The sentence was revised due to a gas execution method change after previous companions of Pretty Boy Floyd were condemned to death for union station killings.
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Richetti
Jeffeson City
Charles
Pretty Boy
Woman May Get Mercy In Case
Woodward Aug 31 Judge C C Wybrant said he would parole Rosa Lee Glazner a young mother charged with surgery if Kansas authorities do not seek custody and she finds a good home The woman and her one year old son Charles have lived with a county jailer and his wife while awaiting fate A minister is trying to place them with a family and an Oklahoma City woman offered help The judge said he would not send her to the penitentiary if possible and noted Glazner was on parole from a Kansas reformatory for forgery The county attorney must determine Kansas custody before action on the Oklahoma charge
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Woodward
C. C. Wybrant
Rosa Lee Glazner
Kansas
Oklahoma City
Wybrant Elid
Oklahoma
Gomer Smith Ordered to Account for Primary Expenses
Senate committee chair Sheppard said Rep Gomer Smith must file an accounting of his senatorial primary expenses within days or face possible committee action. Smith, who lost to Senator Thomas in Oklahoma, had extra time but did not respond by the deadline. Sally vs Drain is a separate civil action involving damages over a July theater incident in Los Angeles.
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Washington
Sheppard
Tex
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Gomer Smith
R. Oks
Smith
Thomas
Okla
Bama
Sally
Drain
Los Angeles
Fay Gancer
Salty Rong
Redlion
Hazel’ Drain
Miss Drain
Bally
Miss Rand
C. Br.’ Stanford
Crisis At Hand On Rio Grande Banks
Floodwaters of the Rio Grande rose above flood stage across the upper valley while spillways on both sides began draining to protect crops. Rio Grande City measured 31.1 feet, Midlago reported 22.1 feet, and crews lined levees with sandbags after Mexican workers fought to hold back a weakened levee.
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Brownsville
Tex
Rio Grande
Rio Grande City
Monterrey
Mexico
Texas
Las Rusias
Weather Bureau
Mellon Estate Valued At 35 Million In Appraisement
Pittsburgh August 31 Andrew W Mellon left a personal estate of about 35.12 million dollars, per an Allegheny county register of wills appraisement filed today. Real estate is not included. experts estimate it around 2.01 million. Executors say Mellon gave more than 33 million in securities and cash to the A W Mellon educational and charitable trust, plus a 30 million dollar art collection. The will leaves the entire estate to the trust except 180 thousand dollars for domestic and office employees.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
Alleghany County Register of Wills
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust
Jicarillas Mourn White Brother
Jicarilla Apache Indians mourn the death of Emmet Wirt 73 a trader to the Jicarillas for most of his adventurous life He died yesterday in Michigan Wirt won the tribe’s trust through development work and helped make them self sufficient in the modern New Mexico battles with encroaching white domination
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Dulge
N. M
Jicaria
Bike Ride Over Arbuckles Tough Ride
Tennessee brothers Oliver and Elmer Wallenbarger rode from Erie to Dallas in a grueling crossing of the Arbuckle Mountains. They planned to reach California, traveling with lighter loads after mailing suitcases home, and said they had not ridden far before deciding to trek west.
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Oklahoma City
Tennessee
Oliver
Elmer Wallenbarger
Erie
Rockies
California
Cu Ie
Roosevelt predicts Smith wins Democratic nomination by 40090 votes
White House aides said President Roosevelt predicted that Senator BD Smith of South Carolina would win the Democratic senatorial nomination by 40,090 votes. He commented that it often takes a long time to bring the past up to the present, relayed by Stephen Barry.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
BD. Smith
South Carolina
Smith
Stephen Barry
Married lawyer who helped get divorce ties knot in Elkton
Kathryn Faust Neely, once a advertising model, married Howard Gibbs a 24 year old lawyer who aided her divorce from her first husband. The ceremony occurred July 16 in Elkton Indiana, confirmed by Kathryn's mother Mrs Henry Faust. Kathryn first wed John Champ Neely as a teenage elopement to Maryland.
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New York
Kathryn Faust Neely
Howard Gibbs
Elkton
Ind
Kathryn
Henry Faust
John Champ Neely
West Virginia
Matthew ©. Neely
Maryland
Britain And France Push Warplane Orders From U S
Britain and France press for rapid delivery of warplanes from the United States as a European crisis looms. Officials say shipments likely four to five months away absent a broader conflict. Britain orders 400 planes from Lockheed and North American, France 100 from Curtiss-Wright. licenses for exports valued at about $5 million issued for warplanes. European tensions prompt talks between Roosevelt and Hull.
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Washington
Great Britain
France
Europe
United States
Roosevelt
State Department
Great Brita
Lockheed Company
North American Aviation Corporator
Curtiss-Wright
Britain
Munttions Centre Board
Acris
Germany
Munitions Control Board
Hull
Buses Replaced After State Safety Inspection
State board of education reports that about 500 school buses failing to meet safety standards last winter were replaced with new vehicles. Inspections found 1362 satisfactory, 981 fair, 351 dangerous. In a Jackson county fatal crash near Friendship on Aug 22, 4 died and ~40 injured. bus had 43 pupils onboard. Chief Cross urged prosecutions for the two drivers.
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State Safety Department
State Board of Education
Friendship
Jackson County
Howard R. Cross
The
Oklahoma Petrol
Weldon Ferris
Cross
Eace
Larry Matone
Iadian County
Big Check Paid To Discharged Workers
New York August 91 The presentation of a 40000 check by Todd Shipbuilding Company to 220 discharged employees as part of an agreement with two subsidiaries and the CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers was announced by regional labor board Director Elmore Herrick. The sum covers back wages and loss of time for workers discharged after a June 12, 1937 strike.
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New York
Todd Shipbuilding Company
CIO
Industrial Union ‘of Marine and Shipbuildings
Labor Board
Elmore Herrick
Tietjen & Lang
Hoboken
N. J
Hardy Trees for Oklahoma Climate Say Need Hardy Shade
STILLWATER Aug. 1 Special The best shade tree for Oklahoma is a hardy one, says Dr. O. Mornsmith horticulturist at Oklahoma A and M college The tree must be able to withstand heat drought and cold and survive Oklahoma conditions with little care.
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Drouth
Oklahoma
Stillwater
BR. O. Mornsmith
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Britains Ambassador Hends Long Trip To Berlin
Britain's ambassador Sir Neville Henderson flew to Berlin to deliver a personal warning to Hitler that Britain may not stay neutral if the German peril to Czechoslovakia escalates. He aims to relay a message from Prime Minister Chamberlain via Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, stressing potential French commitments and Britain's reluctance to see France defeated.
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London
Britain
Germany
Berlin
Europe
Neville “Henderson
Henderson
Joachim van Ribbentrop
France
Hoslovakia
Russ Chambers Badly Hurt In Speed Plane Crash
Los Angeles speed pilot Russ Chambers was badly cut when his Monasco powered racer crashed while attempting to qualify for the speed events of the National Air Races. He walked to a road to summon aid and was taken to a hospital after the crash several miles from Cleveland airport.
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Cleveland
Russ Chambers
Los Angeles
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Pretty
Ruth Hilde Lamer
Vienna
Eddie Cantor
America
Ruth
Britfisher
Lewis
Baumann
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Milton GC. Baumann
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