Convict Frank Smith Dead After Surrounded Escape
In Madison on April 1, Frank Smith, 23, of Meade County, who escaped from the Sioux Falls state penitentiary last Saturday, died four miles west of Chester after a 6:15 p.m. shotgun suicide. He battled Carl Seefeld in a barn before Seefeld fled to alert neighbors. Smith, a two year burglary convict, had been planting potatoes on penitentiary property when he disappeared.
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Psfour
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Meade County
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Chester
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Smith
Guy Seelan
Guarded by Guarded Guards in Shreveport Mob
In Shreveport Louisiana April 18 soldiers guarded confessed killer Fred Lockhart after he admitted abducting and killing Mae Giffin a 16 year old girl. A mob of nearly 3000 gathered around Caddo Parish courthouse threatening renewed violence, but two companies of national guardsmen were deployed to contain them. Sheriff T R Hughes reported the confession and ongoing concern of outsiders joining the mob.
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Louisiana
Caddo Parish
Fred Lockhart
T. R. Hughes
Mae Giffin
National
O. K. Allen
Hughes
Lockhart
Olsen Quits Athletic Post At Sioux Falls College
Olsen resigns after eight years as athletic director and professor of physical education at Sioux Falls College. He filed the resignation with President C. R. Sattgast for presentation to the college executive board next Monday night. No successor has been chosen and Olsen did not confirm his withdrawal from athletic teaching or specify reasons.
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Olsen
5. F. College
Sioux Falls
Aprilee R. Olsen
Sioux Falls College
Pres. C. R. Sattgast
Colege
Pres. Sattgast
Recital Draws Large Audience at Huron College
A large Tuesday night audience attended a Huron college school of music recital featuring ensemble pieces from classic and modern schools. Grace Finley Camden Rayburn's piano duets and quartets, Sanderson's violin trios and quartets, Loftus Ward's girls and mixed opera selections, and seven boys performing a brass ensemble highlighted the program. The next recital is announced for May 7 in the college chapel during Music Week.
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Huron College School of Music
Grace, Finley
Camden Rayburn
Sanderson
Loftus If
Ward
Tig
College Chapel
YW Drive Workers To Report Tonight
At seven o clock tonight at the Y W C A cottage captains and their teams soliciting funds for 1934 will attend a pot luck supper. YWCA band of directors are hostesses and reports will cover progress in collecting pledges and funds.
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Y. W.C.A. Band of Directors
Madison Attorney Is Injured In Accident
Pierre April 18. H H Boldridge of Madison Lake County state attorney and AQ member of the state telecommittee is receiving treatment in a hospital for injuries from an automobile crash east of Blunt yesterday. He was not seriously hurt and was en route to Pierre for a supreme court hearing when the car overturned. He was cut about the face and badly bruised. Mrs Holdridge was not injured.
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Pierre
H. H. Boldridge
Lake County
Blunt
Holdridge
Supreme Court
Clark Reports Ready 414 eatele For 1934 Campaigning
William Watson Clark, once viewed as a top southpaw in the National League, reported to the Giants after treatment for a lame arm. Medicals say the arm is well, as Clark eyes a strong 1934 campaign despite past injuries.
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New York
Wiliam Watson Clark
National League
Giants
D&s
Iowa
Frank Wenig
Bill Terry
O'Doul
Sam Leslie
Brooklyn
Terry
Edmunds County Gets Relief Farm
Edmunds County in South Dakota to host a subsistence relief farm similar to Yankton center. About 50 homeless transient men will reside on 430 acre property five miles northeast of Ipswich with a nine room building for meals and recreation. Men will sleep in tents in summer and grow vegetables while receiving basic subsistence wages.
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Edmunds County
Simiar
Yankton County
H. M. Casy
South Dakota Relief Administration
Ipswich
Cass Gaid
Cass
B. L. Strevel
Faulkton
Britton Hit And Run Driver Arrested In Minneapolis
Police said Louis Runyon has been arrested in Minneapolis on a hit and run case involving Britton D D authorities want him for the traffic incident. Runyon reportedly would waive extradition as officers seek to bring him to trial.
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Minneapolis
Louis Runyon
D. D
Runyon
Federal Mortgage Bonds In Demand In April
ST. PAUL reports rising popularity of Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation bonds in April. The Federal Land Bank here closed 115 loans in land bank and commissioner's loans, the largest day since the switch from cash to bonds on March 26.
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ST. Paul
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation
Federal Land Bank
Soviet Industry Calls Off American Purchases In Retaliation
Moscow April 18 Soviet planers in heavy industry urged skipping American purchases in response to a new U S law blocking loans to debtor nations. The industry organ said Russia will not be coerced into a debt settlement and called Johnson law a menace to Soviet American trade.
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Moscow
United States
Hevay Industryy Department
Liberalize Republican Party forms in New York
A reform faction in New York launched efforts to rebuild the Republican Party along liberal lines after an attack on Roosevelt policy by his cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. The event followed the installation of Roosevelt as president of the National Republican Club, with young leaders including F. P. Davison named as second vice president.
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New York
Apr Paien
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Roose
Prue Bee Davison
Mason-Dixon Tennis Tourney Opens Amid Weather Hope
Weather permitting the 14th Mason and Dixon tennis tournament at White Sulphur Springs opens today after two postponements due to rains. Top US players seek the plaza bowl emblem in men's singles with Frank Shields Wilmer Aliso Laster Steefer Gregory Mingin Bryan Gram and George Lott among the contenders. Jane Sharp of Pasadena leads the women’s singles.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Plaza Bowl
Frank Shields
Wilmer Aliso
Laster Steefer
Gregory Mingin
Black attorney reports striking passing man in St Paul
A St Paul attorney named J Louis Ervin informed police he struck Brock Johnson during an incident on a city street. The brief report notes the parties involved and the date of the remark as April 18.
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ST. Paul
J. Louis Ervin
Brock Johnson
Regres
Local man attacked in high office incident
Police were told by Ervin that a Black man attacked him in a high office. The assailant claimed the attacker bore responsibility for a prior incident and cited his wife’s commitment to the state hospital for the insane.
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State Hospital For
Ervin
Studebaker Reorganization Considered by Creditors
Dow Jonat & Co said a tentative reorganization plan for the Studebaker corporation had been submitted to creditors. Details of the plan were not disclosed.
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Studebaker Company
WEW
York
Dow, Jonat & Co
Studebaker Corporation
Woman Plunges Into Old Well In Fairmont Yard
Mrs Gust Johnson of East Chain was raking a lawn when the ground collapsed and she tumbled into an abandoned nine foot well in Fairmont Minnesota. A neighbor heard her cries and pulled her to safety. The incident occurred April 18.
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Fairmont
Minn
Gust Johnson
East Chain
Dividends Move for National Biscuit Earnings Gain
National Biscuit announces quarterly net income of 1,066,620 dollars ended March 21, with earnings per share of 42 cents. This compares to 3,082,828 dollars in the prior year quarter, also 42 cents per share, amid ongoing financial results.
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New York
National, Biscuit Company
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