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STAIE POLICEISWarner SaysBoard’s WorkIs HamperetRanger Says Lamb Slaying Started Officers On Hunt For Lscap^d Convicts.Hot Springs, Ark., Aug. 17.— f S^ate Ranger William Armstrong V said Monday night the slaying here Sunday mgnt ox Allred Lamb, 20 y years old, started Arnansas officers on a rounuup oi a gang of 0 live escaped Texas convicts who ?, had been making Hot Springs their ■- headquarters tor the last twomonths.Armstrong revealed that the entire gang attended a night spot here last Saturday night and scattered in different directions early Sunday.He said a man giving his name y as Carl Harrison, 24, arrested Sun-t day at Bonton, and another giving \l his name as T. N. Norris, 25, wounded in a surprise raid at £ Kogeis early Monday were other members ci the gang.'1 he other, two, he said, are ^ being sought, but declined to say whether early arrests were indi-eated.0State Police Lieutenant Earl Scroggin said at Little Rock Monday that fingerprint records showed Harrison was Sam Segal 1 Haines, sought by Texas authorities in investigations of a slaying and two robberies.Armstrong said Lamb, shot to death in a house loss than a dozenDemands For Prererentia Treatment of Applicants For Jobs Claimed.Little Rock. Ark., Aug. 17.—DiK. O. Warner, state personnel di rector, said Monday the efforts t fill jobs in the state welfare de partment through civil servie methods had been “considerably hampered” by demands for prefer ential treatment of job seekers.“Direct requests for preferrelt; treatment of certain applicants havi likewise been received, a direc violation of both the spirit ant letter of the merit system regulations,” Dr. Warner wrote Welfan Commissioner Gussie Haynie. ;Ihe personnel chief said thi civil service law would be carriec out in both letter and spirit.“Within the last few days,’ Warm r wrote Miss Haynie, “j •jiit-.aticn has arisen which lias eon-•idurably handicapped our staff ir its work of completing this examining program.. “With the time permitted foj tiie project expiring die first o. September, work must go for ware at the fastest possible rate. We am hampered in this hy the fat-i that we are receiving an increasing number of telephone calls, letters arc! callers, each one concerning some applicant who has not tc date been notified to appear foi the oral interview. * * *“As provided in the law, ample opportunity will be afforded ah applicants for examining their tesl papers after final announcement oi the examination grades has been made public. Those who demon-blocks from the city’s business sec- , . , ,lion, was wanted for murder and £lIJ e. y )e satisfaction of thearmed robberies in Texas. He declined to name the other two fugitives at large.Group Spotted Saturday NightThe ranger said the gang hadcommission that any grevious errorhas been made in their gradingwithin the 30 days of that date may be heard and if their complaint is justified a correction will
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Thu, Aug 19, 1937
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