Floyd Flees Trap as Police Circles Pretty Boy Floyd
Central Missouri soil swarmed with lawmen chasing Charles Pretty Boy Floyd and two companions. Reports say the trio split routes from Mexico toward Kingdom City then Moberly with one wounded. sightings near Cairo and Macon followed a noon stop at a Moberly farmhouse. Authorities intensified state and federal searches across the region.
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Charles Arthur
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Phanton
Missouri
Mexico
Kingdom City
Kansas City
St. Louis
Moberly
Cairo
Macon
McIntire
Southwest
Kansas City Union Station
Oklahoma
Jefferson City
Missouris
Charles
Pretty Boy Floyd
Ed Ginther
Ransom Paid as Stoll Wife Kidnap Case Focuses Search
Louisvill e news confirms Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll’s ransom paid and family awaiting instructions. Kerry V. Stoll, husband, says they followed all terms and await fulfillment while investigators pursue a coded lead from Hodgenville to Elizabethtown. A bandaged head clue tied to the suspect vehicle sparks renewed chase across Kentucky.
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Louisville
Alice Speed Stoll
Kerry V. Stoll
Here
Stoll
U S 10 Probe Ties Gang Alliance To Massacre
Federal agents pursuing the Union Station massacre case link a political and gangster alliance to the 18 month old slaying. Vi cian Miller widow of Verne Miller was questioned in Chicago as part of ongoing investigations alongside Joe Lusco and Richard Galatas who remain jailed. The probe targets whether Frank Nash was delivered by the gang and if a grand jury will convene October 22.
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Illinois
Jefferson City
Oklahoma
Union Station
Kansas City
Washington
Washington Evening Star
Kansas City Union Station
U.P
Vician Miller
Verne Miller
Miller
Detroit
Chicago
Joe Lusco
John Lazia
Lusco
District Attorney's
Galatas
Lazia
Plaza
Richard T. Galatas
New Orleans
Frank Nash
Nash
Contracts Set For Texas School Books
Thirty five textbooks for Texas public schools were announced by the State Board of Education during a textbook session in Austin. Five book groups were chosen to form multiple lists for Class A high schools with contracts ranging from one to six years and an estimated $2,070,000 overall value.
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Austin
Texas Public Schools
State Board of Education
Pioneer farmer Ike McNew injured by freight train near Big Spring
Ike McNew 75 a pioneer farmer of Howard County was struck by a freight train near the stock yards in Big Spring yesterday suffering two broken legs and a fractured skull. Doctors said he has a fighting chance at recovery.
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Big Spring
Ike McNew
Howard County
McNew
Yugoslavia Quiet Despite Reports of Riots
Belgrade reports calm across Yugoslavia after sensational overseas notes of riots and anti Italian demonstrations. Interior Minister Zivko Lazic says reports were untrue and urges restraint while noting anti Italian sentiment exists but not street violence. He appeals to the U S to believe him and says authorities were ordered to prevent any untoward acts toward Italy.
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Associated Press
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Sarajevo
Ljubljana
Zagreb
Split
Subotica
Ossick
Zixojin Lazic
Italy
United States
New Mexico Seeks Man Held at Pampa
Sheriff Ira Allen of Quay County asked the governor to extradite Jim Poe held in Pampa Texas on a burglary charge. Poe is linked as an associate of men recently arrested and jailed in Las Vegas and Estancia for robberies across Quay Harding San Miguel and Torrance Counties.
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Tucumcari
N. M
Ira Allen
Quay County
A. W. Hockenhull
Jim Poe
Pampa
Texas
Poe
Allen
Las Vegas
Estancia
Quay
Harding
San Miguel
Torrance
Four Million Families Aided
Franklin D. Hopkins the relief administrator announced at a press conference that relief rolls rose from 3.8 million in July to 4.0 million in August. He put August unemployment relief at 147 million dollars, up from 130.9 million in July, with 500 thousand single persons on relief in July and not yet available for August. Preliminary September city reports showed little change in rolls and relief outlays fell to 46.3 million from 49.3 million in August, though Hopkins warned of further caution.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Hauptmann’s alibi strong in Lindbergh case
New York October 12. Bruno Richard Hauptmann will prove beyond doubt that he was not in New Jersey the night Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was stolen. James A. Fawcett, his attorney, promised to present this proof in supreme court Monday for a writ of habeas corpus to stop extradition to Flemington New Jersey where Hauptmann is indicted for the baby's murder. The attorney said he will wage a vigorous legal fight to prevent extradition and to secure acquittal if extradited.
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New York
U.P
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
New Jersey
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Hopewell
James A. Fawcett
Hauptmann
Fawcett
Supreme Court
Sankey Betrayer Accidentally Slain in Colorado
Fort Collins report states Roy Gibbs, known for betraying Verne Sankey once the nation’s top kidnapper, was accidentally shot to death near Estes Park, Colorado, on October 12.
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Fort Collins
Colo
Roy Gibbs
Verne Sankey
Estes Park
Texas Legislature Opens With Tax Relief Drive
The 43rd Texas legislature convened to address tax relief and unemployment projects on the Colorado and Brazos rivers while funding the Texas Centennial. Governor Ferguson urged tax penalty and interest remission as vital to economic recovery in a five point program valued at 100 million dollars.
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Austin
Texas
Colorado
Brazos
Senate
Bob Barker
Miriam A. Ferguson
Ferguson
Insults Takes Gift of 25 Million Dollars
A column notes claims that Insults received a 25 million dollar gift. The piece blends figures with opinion on public affairs, mentioning a pharmacy week and Death Valley as a source of borax riches. It references trials in Chicago and a whirling whirlpool off Cape Cod with safety notes.
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United States
That
Los Angeles
Death Valley
Weather outlook for Amarillo and region
Forecast calls for light rain this afternoon and tonight with a partly cloudy Saturday. West Texas shows mainly cloudy skies with possible showers in the west and north tonight and Saturday. New Mexico expected to be fair with little temperature change. Temperatures range from 53 to 64 degrees by 1 o'clock.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Plot to kill Alexander of Yugoslavia backers linked to government
Police report complete confessions from Vladislas Benes and Nalis Sukomir in Paris indicting an international secret society and foreign financing for the assassination plot. They said orders came from an unknown man after meetings in Munich and Zurich with two pistols provided, with Marseille and Paris as targets. The case ties to a larger web of suspects and continues to unfold.
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United Press
Paris
U.P
Alexander of
Jugoslavia
Rene Petit
Annemasse
Vladislas Benes
Nalis Sukomir
Bénes
Petit
Benes
Lukomir
Hungary
Munich
Germany
Zurich
Switzerland
South America
Wiffel Totter
Kelemen
Alexander
Marseille
Barthouw
Barthou
Peterus Kelemen
Fontainebleau
Predicted Rain For Panhandle Plains Tonight
Weatherman H. T. Collman forecasts light rains across the Panhandle plains this afternoon tonight and tomorrow morning. Expect slow drizzling rain overnight from New Mexico with around a quarter inch moisture and little temperature change. Rain should end by noon tomorrow as conditions persist until then.
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H. T. Collman
Plains
Children Reign at Fair School Day in Texas State Fair
Dallas on Columbus Aviation and Children's Day hosted events as 100000 children were expected to attend. Officials sent over 300000 free tickets to schools and streetcar lines distributed 105000 for transport. Boy Scouts monitored returning children while Manuel King staged acts and a Dallas Fire Department drill entertained spectators.
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Dallas
U.P
Manuel King
His
Lions
Dallas Fire Department
Grant’s Descendant Drops Russian Title to Regain Citizenship
The granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene, appeared in district supreme court and had her Russian title restored citizenship returned as plain Mrs. Julia Cantacuzene. The New York set wedding had linked her to Major General Prince Cantacuzene Count Speransky in Newport Rhode Island.
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Washington
Ulysses S. Grant
Princess Cantacuzene
Speransky
District Supreme Court
Julia Cantacuzene
Julia Dent Grant
Prince Cantacuzene
Count Speransky
Newport
R. I
Death Ends Career Of Daddy Browning
Edward West Browning known as Daddy Browning, a wealthy New York real estate operator and husband of Frances Heenan, died at Scarsdale after a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 63, had been ill since June and discharged in September to Birch Hall Drive home. Browning, seen as a publicity magnet, faced mixed views as a flamboyant figure in New York real estate and society.
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New York
Edward West
Browning
Frances “Peaches” Heenan
Scarsdale
N. Y
New York City
Birch Hall Drive
Scarsle
Cate
Carmel
Supreme Court
Daddy
Heydey
Marion Sunshine
Mary Boas
Peaches Heenan
Bunny
West 50Th Street
Manhattan
Edward Franklin Browning
Lucy A. Richardson
Columbia Law School
Midtown
West Side
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