Vet Hanged for Murder in Kansas City Park Trap
Paul H. Kauffman, 35, World War veteran and former minor league player, was hanged at the county jail for the murder of 17 year old Avis Woolery of Webb City. He lured her to Swope Park four years earlier, choked her, buried the body, and confessed before the first trial. He addressed the crowd from the scaffold and recalled his baseball days with Reading.
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Kansas City
Paul H. Kauffman
Avis Woolery
Webb City
Swope Park
Columbia
Kaufman
Shear
Kauffman
Reading Club
International League
Harry G. Kauffman
Paramount and other film listings with Stand Up and Cheer
The Mission's Stand Up and Cheer leads the week with an all star cast Warner Baxter Shirley Temple Madge Evans John Boles and more. Warner Brothers First Nations plans 60 features next year including Anthony Adverse Gold Diggers of 1935 Black Hell Lafayette Escadrille and Casino de Paree. Fifty stories chosen. some in production. Additional titles include Oil for the Lamps of China Tale of Two Cities I'm Back in the Chain Gang Skipper of the Ispahan Air Devils Flirtation Walk Sweet Music and more.
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Mission
Allstar
Warner Baxter
Shirley Temple
Madge Evans
James Dunn
John Boles
Ralph Morgan
Stepin Fetchit
Warner Brothers-First Nations
Anthony Adverse
Hervey Allen
Lafayette Escadrille
Cartain Blood
Boulder Dam
Cinch
Dick Powell
Locke Learns Oil Lands In Law's Clutches
Austin June 20 UPN Locke freed by an order appeals bond today found oil properties he owns at Gladewater in the hands of a court receiver Martin L Allday of Waco and N Avery of Austin were named receivers by District Judge A Wheeler A receivership had been ordered last March in gasoline tax suits against Locke the Locke Drilling Co and the Locke Refinery The state sought active receivership to meet a 40000 tax claim and the receiver was not active due to an agreement Assistant Attorney General Willis Gresham reported All Day in charge there
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Austin
UPN
Locke
Gladewater
Martin L. Allday
Waco
N. Avery
A. Wheeler
Locke Drilling Company
Randolph Bryant
Willis Gresham
Allday
RKO’s 50 Features Listed With Stars And Titles
A compiled list previews RKO’s upcoming slate of fifty features including adaptations and star turns such as Barbara Stanwyck in A Lost Lady James Cagney in Gentlemen Are Born and A Perfect Week End Jean Muir in Glorious and The Magnificent Amersons plus The Case of the Howling Dog Roadhouse and more. The news notes the public release schedule and mentions Mrs Frank Blankenbleckler Betty visiting relatives at L G Fitzpatrick’s Herring Hotel during the period.
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Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
Pasteur
Barbara Stanwyck
Booth Tarkington
Mister Pickwick
Guy Kibbee
Herbert
Joan Blondell
Frederick Hazlitt Brennan
Applesauce
The
Erle Stanley Gardner
Warren William
Gardner
William
Roadhouse
Arthur Somers Roche
RKO
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Frank Buck
Texas
James Cagney
Lawry Killer
Parents
Rex
Kane Richmond
Rialto
Bob Steele
Mystery Squadron
Harley Sadler
Ray Sanford
Nat Night Club
Roseland
Bob Mueller
Law
Frank Blankenbleckler
Betty
L. G. Fitzpatrick
Herring Hotel
Matt Summer
PTA 20
Ata
Ivory
Kellogg's
Aniel
Buchanan Street
Lh. Carton
Potter County Relief Bureau
Irs
Tucker's, &Lb
Cart
Alaska
RISCO
Crisco
John Lb
Borden's
White House
INS
Sunkist
California
Decker
Post Bran
Swan’s Down
Schilling
Karo
Msystem
Lana
Kraft’s
New York
Lipton’s Tea
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