Bears Down On Kidnaping Crimes Across States
A sweeping law push and swift trials mark the crackdown on kidnapping. Basil Banghart, The Owl, convicted in Chicago for the John Factor case and sentenced to 99 years. Others, including Roger Touhy’s group, face sentences. one member slain. Albany and Racine cases add to the crackdown, with victims and suspects named. Delaware, Ohio, and California move to harsher penalties. governors brace for further abductions. Davis, an escaped convict, will be tried in California, not custody by Kansas.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Basil Hugh
the Owl) Banghart
John Factor
Pane
Roger Touhy
Charles “Fee Wagon” Connors
Albany
N.Y
Manny Shens
John J. O'Connell
Strewl
St. Louis
Nellie Tipton Muench
E. D. Kelley
Racine
Wis
George Wolf
E. P. Adler
Davenport
Delaware
House of Representatives
Bas
Senate
Ohio
John Dillinger
Desperado
George White
Dillinger
Columbus
Mary
California
Albert A. Stapp
al Reinke
Liberty
Keala
Davis
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Edna
Los Angeles
Alf M. Landon
Baron Fitts
Puff and tiger on London film plans headline a busy page
The column lists showbiz notes with Puff the cat, Jean Muir shoe size, John Farrow ring return, Myrna Loy Beverly Hills move, George Raft Mae West clash, Bette Davis hair dye, and a spotlight on The Sin of Nora Moran at the Dickinson. It notes shorts and a golf close-up, then a classified ad pitch for vacant property in the Journal-World.
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London
Jean Muir
Garbo
John Farrow
Maureen O'Sullivan
Myrna Loy
Beverly Hills
George Raft
Mae West
Bette Davis
Nora Moran
Dickinson Theater
Zita Johann
Theater Guild
Alan Dinehart
Nora
Charlie Murray
Bobby Jones
Leo Diegel
Journal-World
Kansan Reads Hollywood Gossip Chatter From L.A.
A Kansan Sees Hollywood by Richard Doan notes Mae West fading from fame while Peter Arno plans to co produce a musical at the Hollywood Music Box. Virginia Pine secures a part in Kay Francis’ next film as Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi clash in The Black Cat alongside Jacqueline Wells’s rumored comeback. Tracy contemplates a Brit offer.
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Hollywood
Cal
Mae West
Peter Arno
Hollywood Music Box
Virginia Pine
Kay Frantis
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
Jacqueline. Wells
Tracy
Wednesday Concert Series by Roy Underwood Peerennink
A brief concert program lists pieces by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Thomson arranged for high school contest events. The 6:00 p.m. slot includes Songs Without Words, Variations on Nel corpi, and Scherzo Caprice. A science Q and A session follows at 6:15 with Dr. Dinsmore Alter addressing moon and star topics and telescope questions.
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Roy Underwood Peerennink
Mendelssohn
John Alden Carpenter
Nel Corplu
Beethoven
John Thomson
Dinsmore Alter
Mars
Pasadena
Rhymes and Revelations From K U Student on Mt Dread
Robert Lamar a KU liberal arts junior tore out two notebook leaves and offered rhymed ideas on Mt Dread. He defends the verse as his academic work, presenting it with no apology while acknowledging the odd method.
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Robert Lamar
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
K. U
Mt. Dread
Dream Castle and Classes Echo Mock Muse of School
A mixed artful note opens with verses on Physics class and a pedagogy rant, moves through a dreamy allegory of a castle attacked by Math, then reports a marriage license issued to George Buck and Alice Jones of Tonganoxie and a Topeka business talk by Dr. F. C. Allen.
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George Buck
Alice Jones
Tonganoxie
Smith
Tonsanoxie
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Jeanette MacDonald
the Cat and the Fiddle
Charles Butterworth
56Th Street
E. F. Engel
Robert Haig
Bobby
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Chamber of Comercé
Avro Ev
Beth
Plomdy Lica
Ruth Etting
Laurel and Hardy
Terraplane
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Bright New
Tar R
Reisha
Lionel Atwitt
Richard Bennett
Phillips Holmes
Muriel Kirkland
Dorothy
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Antists
Zola
Paul Gregory Hershhel von Leibnitz
E. E. Alexander
Dodge Brothers
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