Underhill Captured in Shawnee After Wild Escape
Dazed and wounded outlaw Wilber Underhill was captured in Shawnee Oklahoma shortly after 1 a m in a small furniture store. He offered no resistance as Oklahoma City police and deputies closed in. He had escaped a house siege while wounded and was taken to Municipal hospital with critical injuries.
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Shawnee
Okla
Wilber
Underhill
Desperado
Oklahoma City
Municipal
Kansas
Lamsing
R. H. Colvin
He- Yan
Agai
Wilbur’ Underhill
Elva Mae Nichols
Raymond Rowe
Hazel Hudson
East Main Street
Oklahoma City Police
Kansas Weather Forecast From Old Chronicle
Weather bureau notes unsettled conditions across Kansas with fair spell in the northwest and east. Tonight a mix of rain and possible snow flurries, colder in west and north on Sunday, with warmer extremes in the east. Morning observations cite cloudy skies and scattered rain in Arkansas City Emporia Ottawa Dodge City and Wichita roads reported good in Douglas County.
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Kansas
Arkansas City
Wheat bonus payments top Kansas as state leads nation
Washington reports Kansas wheat farmers receive 2,420,264 in bonus payments, boosting state total to 7,353,752 and placing Kansas first. Texas follows with 1,435,752. County figures include Edwards 46,099 Grant 223,261 Morris 24,879 Reno 332,444 Douglas 16,115 Reno 154,811 Jackson 13,148 McPherson 274,802 Osage 396 Riley 24,983 Stanton 156,854 Bills 355,927 Chase 11,526 Comanche 181,177 Marshall 51,151 Wilson 963 Woodson 36,015 Brown 35,627 Lane 198,112 Mitchell 237,880 Republic 39,789 Anderson 3,615 Doniphan 12,592 Johnson 741 Allen 2,175 Coffey 10,467 Elk 2,851.
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Washington
Kansas
Farm Administration
Texas
A Edwards
Grant
Morris
Reno
Douglas
Jackson
McPherson
Osage
Riley
Stanton
Bills
Chase
Comanche
Marshall
Wilson
Woodson
Brown
Lane
Mitchell
Republic
Anderson
Doniphan
Johnson
Allen
Coiffey
Elk
Relief program to stock Kansas families with beef and staples
Kansas relief officials announce a two month aid plan delivering about 2,000,000 pounds of beef and thousands of pounds of flour butter and eggs to relief households in January and February. About 500,000 pounds of fresh beef will be processed by Kansas packers with distribution starting mid January. Each family will receive roughly eight pounds of beef plus additional pork flour and butter where available.
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Toneka
Kansas
John G. Stutz
State Emergency Relief Committee
Stutz
Kansas Packers
Berinine
East Welcomes Relief From Record Cold Wave
The East sees relief from a brutal cold spell that froze the northern states and delayed shipping. New York City logged record lows since 1920 while Boston and Boston Harbor faced complete entry disruption. Fairfax Vermont hit 46 below, frostbite cases rose, and New Jersey reported a death as Baltimore reached nine above. The Midwest warmed as temperatures rose toward today.
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Associated Press
Upstate
New York
New England
New York City
New Fingland
Boston
Fairfax
Boston Weather Bureau
New Jersey
Baltimore
Mid-West
Toay
White New Year Hopes Rise in Kansas Weather Preview
Topeka AP reports federal meteorologist E R Laskowski cites a strong possibility of a white New Year’s Day in Kansas despite today’s warm spell. A high near Edmonton could push frigid winds into the state by tomorrow night, with temperatures 26 to 35 degrees and light sprinkles observed in parts of Kansas.
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Topeka
E. R. _Laskows
Federa
Kansas
Altho
Laskowski
Edmonton
Goodland
Five Year Plan Outlined for Soviet Industry Growth
Moscow reports a new five year plan to make the Soviet Union self reliant for all needs. By 1937 production would reach about 51 billion rubles annually, nine times 1932 levels, with large gains in consumer goods, coal, oil, steel, machinery, and transport, as Molotov and Kuibyshev present the plan to the party congress.
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Moscow
Russia
Soviet Union
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Council of Commissars
V. V. Kuibyshev
Supreme Council of National Economy
Communist Party Congress
Soviet Russia
Convicts recaptured after Atmore prison farm break
Eleven of twenty eight escapees were recaptured with officials still seeking the black inmate who killed Grover Kirby, a farmer, during the breakout. Three squads aided by guards overpowered guards and fled across the 8000 acre Atmore prison farm before exchanges of gunfire with Kirby and Parker.
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Atmore
Ala
Grover Kirby
Escambia County
William F. Feagin
State Convict Department
Kirby
Parker
Two Women Set New Flight Record In Miami
Frances Marsalis and Helen Richey completed the longest sustained flight by women, 237 hours 52 minutes, after departing December 20 and landing at 10 47 a m EST. They matched the prior eight days four hours five minutes and set a new mark amid rain squalls and choppy winds with a ceremonial greeting from their ground crew and aviation officials.
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Miami
Fla
Frances Marsalis
Helen Richey
Department of Commerce
James R- Puckett
Long Beach Aviator Sets Upside-Down Flight Record
Milo Burcham of Long Beach again holds the world record for upside down endurance flight. He flew his plane on its back yesterday for four hours, five minutes, and 22 seconds, surpassing Lieut Falconi by 59 minutes and 22 seconds, according to official timers.
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Beach
Cal
Milo Burcham
Long
Burcham
Falcons
Royal Italian Flying Corps
Long Beach
Lieut
Falconi
Stomach Clinic Tuesday at City Hall opens year
The stomach and diagnostic clinic, led by Dr G W Jones, will open at 8 30 Tuesday morning January 2 at the new city hall. Patients should report with empty stomachs. Phone 44 University Goal Co Ady.
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New City Hall
G. W. Jones
University Goal Co
Ady
Al Smith 60 Hopes to Reach Ninety on Birthday
New York December 30 AP Al Smith former New York governor and 1924 Democratic nominee celebrated his 60th birthday in the Empire State Building office. He spoke of a better business climate and expected further rise in the new year. He credited improved purchasing power to natural economic laws and NRAs hour reductions and minimum wage fixes.
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New York
al Smith
Empire State Building
Banks Hold Up NRA Plan To Raise Bank Charges
Washington December 50 AP Banks nationwide were ordered by the NRA to withhold proposed schedules intended to sharply raise charges to customers. Hugh S Johnson canceled the increased levies saying the order was suspended indefinitely after a miscommunication. Johnson denied approving the banking code and dismissed Cary N Widsigery Jr who had announced Johnson’s approval. The proposed plan would have created a metered system with higher fees for many services including per check charges and deposits slips. Johnson promised careful scrutiny in the public interest and extended the filing deadline to February 1 for clearing house associations to submit schedules.
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Washington
NRA
Unon
Hugh 8. Johnson
Johnson
Code Authority
Tohncon
Cary N.widsigery Jr
Cary N.widsigery Jr, Aeputy
Banking Code Authority
Altho
Clearing House
One Man Missing in Kansas City Roundup
Wilbur Underhill was captured and 10 of 11 indicted for the June 17 union station shootings have been arrested or slain. Richard Ark says Galatas of Hot Springs remains at large. Galatas reportedly aided Mrs Nash and was with her in Joplin and Chicago area. Other indicted include Bailey Miller Mulloy Brady and Connor. Miller slain near Detroit, Bailey in Leavenworth, Brady captured and returned to Lansing, others free on bond.
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Kansas City
Wilbur Underhill
Oklahoma
Hot Springs
Nash
Discy
Galatas
Joplin
Herb. Farmer
Louis Stacci
Chicago
Union Station
Union
Stacci
Farmer
Harvey Bailey
Verne C. Miller
Frank
Fritz) Mulloy
Robert B. Brady
Underhill
E. B. Connor
Stock Market Index Shows Slight Dip Amid Trading Day
The daily report notes the stock index of 90 stocks at 80.2, down from 79.1 the previous day. Mentions of Ford and V-5-Hamilton appear in fragmented terms, with unclear context and no full events.
Funeral for Ted Dodson Held in Seminole Morgue
The body of Ted Dodson, a 25 year old bandit fatally wounded by Officer Ralph Hubbel, was laid in a cold stone slab at the Funk mortuary in Seminole. Dodson’s wife and relatives declined to claim the body. Identification was by tattoo marks amid reports of prior robberies. officials weighed a possible inquest.
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Funk
Ted. Dodson
Ralph Hubbel
Dodson
Seminole
Okla
W. J.cummings
Cummings
West Virginia
Bassett
Wesley Fetty
X Restaurant
East Ninth Street
Fetty
Welfson
Fritz
A. L. Wolfe
Grown
Hubbel
Payroll checks rise as 5 million folk on PWA rolls
Secretary Ickes said about 5,000,000 persons had received pay envelopes from Public Works Administration funded rolls in the first six months of operation and the total will mount. He cited 4,000,000 with Civil Works Administration, 300,000 CCC roster, and 730,540 in a public works payroll on December 9, with the figure nearing a million as unemployment relief continues.
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Washington
Ickes
Public Works Administration
Public Works Administrator
Civil Works Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
PWA
Two Sailors Shot in Manila Brawl
Two American sailors were shot in a Manila melee sparked by the arrest of a third sailor for disorderly conduct. One sailor was shot in the chest, possibly fatally, another wounded in the leg, while two Filipino policemen were battered and the other sailors fled. Augusta Johnson, 82, a Kansas building contractor who built many structures died in Augusta. He was born in Sweden and lived 64 years here with widow and two children surviving.
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Manila
Ottawa
Augusta Johnson
Kansas
Sweden
Kansas Young Republican magazine announced in Fort Scott
The Kansas Young Republican Clubs of Kansas announce a new publication titled Kansas Young Republican. Fred Seaton of Manhattan is state chairman and K K Friedel of Fort Scott is state publicity chairman. Kenneth G Meuser of Olathe will edit the magazine to be issued on Kansas Day.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Kansas
Young Republican
Young Republican Clubs“ of
Fred Seaton
Manhattan
Seaton
K. K. Friedel
Kansas Day
Kenneth G. Meuser
Olathe
Young Republicans
Claims total 536 approved for refunds on highway tax
State highway benefit district refund claims totaling over 16000 will reach Lawrence and Douglas County in about 30 days. A total of 536 claims were accepted from property owners along highways 40 and 73 W who paid benefit district taxes during construction. The average claim is about 31 dollars. 59 percent did not file. Representatives note literacy rates among Douglas County residents, as only two of 38 claimants signed with a signature rather than a mark.
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Lawrence
Douglas County
State Highway Department
Douglas ‘County
Missouri Legislature Near Abandonment as 1933 Ends
Jefferson City December 30 AP The Missouri Legislature still far from adjournment on the final workday of 1933 with Senate debating the sales tax bill and the House in recess until next Wednesday. Lawmakers have spent longer in session this year than any twelve month period since statehood. Regular session nearly four months, special session about two and a half months old. Principal items unfinished include public works utility bills and liquor control measures. An amendment to increase the sales tax rate from 6 to 7 percent failed in the Senate.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Senate
House
Senate Municipal Corporations Committee
Joint Conference
Governor Park
Roosevelt approves permanent code for retail food trade
President Roosevelt signs a permanent code effective January 6 affecting about 480000 stores employing over 1 million workers. The rules mirror other retail codes, ban loss leaders, and cap pricing at invoice or replacement cost plus labor. An optional 30 day hearing paused a transportation cost inclusion and adulteration provisions. Master Cleaner ad.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Johnson
Delay in sentencing Ronald Finney in bond forgery case
Topeka AP report states bond broker Ronald Finney, who pleaded guilty to 31 counts of forgery and sale, had his sentencing deferred by Judge Paul H. Heinz until 2 PM Tuesday due to differing views on length. Finney faces a possible 30 year minimum. the delay followed a memorial service for local judges and a court conference with state and defense attorneys.
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Ronald Finney
Paul H. Heinz
Heinz
Finney
Lester Goodell
State Supreme Court
Bar Association
Tate
George H. Whitcomb
Shawnee County
Frank Doster
Supreme Court
John. Schenck
Lansing
Age
Hutchinson
Tom B. Boyd
Leland Caldwell
Stores to Close All Day Monday for New Year
Most Lawrence stores will close all day Monday for New Year observance. Courthouse and city hall will close. sheriff's office and police station stay open. Post office closed. special delivery letters and outgoing mail handled, but no regular deliveries.
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Lawrence
Merchants Bureau
Pst
Oklahoma City Pigeon Drama Ties Wilbur Underhill
Deputy Sheriff W S Eads reveals Underhill led five men in a failed Harrah bank safe burglary two months ago. The attempt crashed the safe through a wooden floor, and a stool pigeon warned Eads that Underhill viewed the label amateur as a slight.
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Oklahoma City
Wilbur Underhill
W. S. Eads
Underhill
First National Bank of
Eads
Stoo
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