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1 THE WEATHER East Texas: Mostly cloudy, warmer in southeast portion tonight; Sunday, cloudy, iooler In north portion. Moderate to fresh ioutherly winds on the coast Themometer Readings 8 9 10 11 12 1 3 48 56 60 64 66 68 70 70 FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE MARKETS AT A GtANOBj NEW YORK, March Bonds steady: changes narrow. Curb irregjil tics easy. Foreign Exchanjea steady; S4.DO. al I.

XXXVI. NO. 81. CORSICANA, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, U'34. PAGES PRICE FIVE GENTS OHN DILLINGER ESCAPES JAIL Ford Bradshaw, Noted Oklahoma Bandit, Slain At RoadHouse Saturday FOET SMITH, March Bradshaw, slippery bad b'oy of the Cookson hills, met his death at the hands of a roadhouse proprietor at Arkoma, five miles from here, early today.

The Oklahoma state bureau of criminal identification made the announcement of Eradshaw's identification after checking scars and other markings on the body of the slain man. Bradshaw, hoodlum reared in the Eastern Oklahoma hills, was slain by Bill Harper, LeFlore county deputy sheriff and proprietor of the roadhouse, after the desperado had terrorized the place for three hours. The 'bank robber, killer and round bad man who was a reputed confederate of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, outlaw couple, was hit by six bullets as he attempted to attack Harper while the latter and officers escorted him from the roadhouse under heavy guard. The "smart Alex" outlaw had been disarmed when Harper's brother, Bob, slipped away and notified police at Fort Smith, who proceeded to the place, walked in on the hoodlum and took from him a new .45 calibre revolver and a bulletproof vest. Escorted by.officers, Bradshaw was started from the rear door of the house when he suddenly attacked Bob Harper.

Bradshaw then attempted to strike BUI Harper. The deputy sheriff shot him six. or seven imes. C. M.

Eeber, identification ex- MISSISSIPPI WOMAN DOCTOR CONVICTED IN mm MURDER DR. RUTH DEAN GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF DR. KENNEDY pert at Oklahoma City, made the announcement of the identification of Bradshaw after a telephone conversation with Fort Smith police. Wrong Classification. "The police had the wrong fingerprint classification," said Re- "but that is just an error.

3 man is Bradshaw." larlier police iiere and from Ok- pma had believed the slain Snerado to be Clyde Barrow, no- Southwestern criminal. Bradshaw, who had held all customers and employes of the road house under guard for three hours and forced them to drink with him, made tho declaration then that he was Barrow. Today, with Bradchaw's body lying in a morgue at Poteau, a woman giving her name as Mary Jane Fields of Muskogee, was held 1.1 jail at Poteau. She was captured when Bradshaw was slain. Carthage, officers recently had "picked up" the woman for Investigation.

she was arrested, they said, when an attempt was made, to capture Bradshaw and his pal, CharJ.es Cotner. She was released shortly Admits His Identity. At the jail, the woman, a 22-yenr- cld, pretty brunette, told officers, "he has a sister. Rema Dcetgin, who lives near Vian." Rema Deet- gin is Bradshaw's sister, A 'few minutes later, she said "he is Ford Eradhaw." Officers at Poteau found about $100 in bills in Bradshaw's pocket. An automatic shotgun, a quantity of shotgun and pistol ammunition and luggage also were lound in the new automobile in which Bradshaw and he woman had come to the roadhouse.

Local officers said there was a letter in the luggage written from on Page Seven) AMAZING INCREASE INTEREST OF: PEOPLE IN THE GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT FINDS THIS OUTSTANDING FEATURE FIRST YEAR IN WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, March 3. (f) Roosevelt today pronourtced the outstanding feature of the first year of his administration the" "amazing and universal increase" in the interest of the people in government. On the close of his year in office, he gave notice in an address at exercises of the American University that the "new deal" was not temporary and was pointed to "eradicating the deeper causes the immediate illness and of many other illnesses of the body politic." This address was at installation of Dr. Joseph M. M.

Gray as chancellor of the university. The text: It is very delightful to me to become today an alumnus of American University. I am honored also In the association with your new chancellor which it affords. It Is a good thing for our American life that this university should be situated in the capital of the country. It Is good in the opportunity which it gives to higher education to come Into a (Continued Page Seven) Counterfeit Ten Dollar Bill In Circulation Here A counterfeit ten dollar bill was discovered by employees of the State National Bank Saturday, it having been received in the day's deposits.

The bill Is so nearly perfect that it is difficult to tell that it is counterfeit. Merchants and business men are warned to watch for others as there may be a num- GREENWOOD, March Sarah Ruth Dean 36-year-old baby specialist, today was convicted of the alleged "poison whiskey highball" death of Dr. John Preston Kennedy, 41 year old Greenwood surgeon. The Jury which fixed her' punishment at life imprisonment at hard labor. Obviously shocked, the woman physician heard the verdict read with her hands clenched in her lap.

She tried to smile as she arose to go to a waiting room, but broke into sobs as she swept out of the court, followed by women relatives 'and her attorneys. Half an hour later, however, she was composed and smiling as she returned to stand before Presiding Judge S. F. Davis for sentence. "The jury has found you guilty and fixed your punishment," the judge said gravely.

"It now becomes my duty to sentence ybu to spend the rest of your natural life at hard labor in the state penitentiary. "That is the verdict of the jury. I have no discretion in the matter." The judge asked if she had (Continued on Page Seven) WHIRLWIND BUDGET CAMPAIGN CHAMBER COMMERCE MONDAY HOPE TO MAKE CHAMBER CLEARING HOUSE CIVIC COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY ESCAPED FROM INDIANA JAIL bcr of them here, state. the bankers REPRESENTATIVES INDUSTRY 1 WILL BE ALLOWED TO VOTE ON POLICIES U. S.

GOVERNMENT TEXAS IS ASSURED CONTINUED RELIEF BY FEDERAL GRANT WILL COVEFMNTERIM UNTIL NEW STATE BONDS CAN BE SOLD "AUSTIJi March implCyment relief program was of uninterrupted contlnua- today by reason of an ad- Ice of $750,000 in federal funds this state could market some of its bonds authorized for alleviation of destituiton. Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson was advised ycserday by Aubrey Williams, assistant federal administrator, that upon receipt of a renewed application by her for money "duririr the interim" of sale of bonds, ids -vould be made available. Within an hour after she received the Williams telegram she had by air mail to Washington the necessary papers to bring tho money to hand within a day or two.

She sajid the funds would tide Texas' rjslief program over two or three jweeks. until more bonds could sold. The Texas relief i program of action, probably in- By JAIVtES COPE (Cnpyrirht 'lM4. by Thi- Associated Prrns) WASHINGTON, March Elected delegates of Industry, for the first time in American history, will be allowed to vote next week directly on policies of the government. NRA chiefs now plan the massed meeting of code authorities as a sort of loosely constituted congress of Industry.

Its thousands of delegates will be caJled upon to record by ballot their views on the more controversial issues debated In the code reform meetings. The votes will be advisory only and without the legal force of those cast in congress; but they will affect vitally the ensuing actions of the administration. Nearly 3,500 members of 400 code authorities, or committees charged with the completion of yet unfin- ifhed codes, will be In Washington next Monday, first to hear President Rosevclt review hijjllrst year In office and outline plans for the future, then to divide into five groups for debate and advisory action on Hugh S. Johnson's twelve-point revision program. Before them will be put the facts and statements gathered in the now ended roundup of public criticism.

They will bo called upon to refute or to propose correction of the charged abuses. They will he given opportunity to raise topics of their own. When they are through, probably on Thursday, Johnson will announce to the country a clearcut Expressing a desire to make the Corsicana Chamber of Commerce the clearing house for civic and commercial activitie in Navarro county and to participate in the extensive expansion of opportunities and In the conservation of the resources of this area, members of the board of directors of the organization and other assistants will make a whirlwind budget campaign for 1934 Monday morning, beginning at 9 o'clock with a goal set at $10,000 before nightfall. Pointing to the fact that a very effective organization for the extension 'of the interests of the county had been perfected and lacked only the wholehearted financial assistance of the community as well as the continued per- (Contlnued on Page Five) Installing Pipe Line Facilities At Cayuga Well PALESTINE, March Pipe line facilities were being installed today to handle production from the Texas Seaboard and Tidewater No. 1 Fee Cayuga wildcat well, which, on an official test, flowed 120 barrels an hour.

The test was made late yesterday over a three-hour period and through two, 3-4-inch chokes on the tubing. Casing pressure was gauged at 1,400 pounds and tubing pressure- at 900 pounds. Blowing in suddenly Thursday, the well opened up a new area northwest Anderson county. Oil men predicted the well, located on the Samuel Snider survey, would produce at least 8,000 barrels of oil dally. The oil sand tested was be- ieved to be well 'above the water "evel.

Royalty trading was on the aoorn and drilllrg was resumed at various tests In the vicinity, as a result of the Seaboard and Tidewater discovery well coming n. John Dillinger, called America's most murderous outlaw, charged In numerous bank robberies and killings, made his escape from the Crown Point, Indiana, jail Saturday morning. He fashioned a pistol from wood in his cell and used it to secure weapons from the jail armory. He then commandeered an automobile and escaped. SINISTER RUMORS OF SABOTAGE HEARD IN AIRMAIL FLYING CHARGES OFWATERED GAS AND TAMPERING WITH THE PLANES ARE PERSISTENT Favor Guarantee Principal Home Loan Bonds Also WASHINGTON, March The administration bill to guarantee the principal as well as Interest of home loan bonds was swiftly approved today by a senate banking tub-committee without a major change.

The bill would place a government guarantee, back of the 1 42,000,000,000 bond issue authorized at the last session to refinance home mortgages and save the homes of many from beinfe foreclosed. Similar legislation 'already has been enacted at this session to i cover the $2,000,000,000 issue of 1 LUC Seven). on Page Three). farm mortgage bouda, WASHINGTON. March Clarence D.

Chamberlain, internationally known aviator, today pledged co-operation with postmaster General Farlov In what he called efforts "to change the nation's air transportation system from organized octopus racket to a business." His telegram, made public by Farley, said commercial air lines were succeeding in building up a public belief that the contract cancellations wore bad policy. Commenting on the fact that DALLASITE SHOOTS ESTRANGED WIFE AS PEACEMOVE FAILS MAN UNDERPEACE BOND ALSO WOUNDS MOTHER- IN-LAW FATALLY DALLAS, March (ff 1 Giles S. Boggess, 43-year-old unemployed man, was called before the grand jury today to tell why and in what manner he shot and killed his estranged wife, Gladys Boggess, 40, and her mother, Mrs. Julia Woodward, 76. Al Templeton, assistant district attorney, who witnessed a statement BoggcE'S made, said Boggess was willing to appear voluntarily before the Jury and said he wanted to go to the electric chair.

Earl Boggess, 20, a son of Giles the army is on the job. Cham- ant i Bojrgcss by a former marriago, Roy Hideout, 22, a friend, berlain said "if army pilots don Bonham, were held as ma- know how to fly at night between I (erial witnesses and also were two fixed air fields on charted scheduled, to go before the grand courses thev had better jury. They were eye-witnesses to Their hardest job in war will be the shooting, which occurred in --to fly at night from temporary landing fields to moving ships or unfamiliar cities, deposit bombs there and return to base." Rumors of sabotage of army planes flying the mall, meanwhile, were not being taken seriously by Secretary Dcrn. He called them the home of a sister of Mrs. Boggess.

The bodies of the women were prepared for forwarding to Pales-! tine where funeral cervices will be held ALLISON SAYS ROAD SHOULD BE BUILT AT ONCE NO CAUSE "FOR DELAY- EARLY COMPLETION WILL MEAN MUCH TO COUNTY DALLAS, March Be- absurd" and denied reports of an cause his estranged wife refused investigation bcinb fade. to live with him again, Giles S. (Jack) Boggess whipped out WASHINGTON, March Sinister rumors rtf sabotage agalnrt the flying of the airmail by army planes flew about the (Continued on Page Seven) pistol and shot her to death, then slaw her aged mother. The marital tragedy yesterday was witnessed by Martha Julia, (Continued on Paga Seven) ROOSEVELT HAS ADMIRATION FOREIGN NATIONS BUT THEY 1 REFUSE PREDICT END POLICY (Copyright. 1934.

Bv the Associat- Press). What does Europe think of Franklin D. Roosevejt? The Associated Press asked that question in the capitals and trade centers of the Old World on Lhe eve of the president's first year In office. Unanimous admiration for his courage a.nd populavity coupled with reluctance to predict thy international effects of his economic policies was the broad result. Here the picture; Germany Praises Action.

BERLIN, March Germany's admiration for President Roosevelt as a man and leader has not yet produced any final extension about his economic and reform at the end of tho firs year of his administration. Sentiment concerning Roosevelt ield all up and down the reicn was typically expressed in the Hamburger Fremdenblatt: "While the president's economic policies have brought no convincing results, nevertheless hia great is that through cou age he has Arnerlcto jicople to new their economic future." The magnitude of Roosevel's endeavors and hlg policy of quick action has consistent iy evoked praise In Germany. The verdict on his ultimate success has been held in abevance, the view being that it is still too early to pass judgment. "Konlly iv New Nation." PARIS, March Admiration for President Roosevelt's success rousing the American pco- from despair to hope, combined with doubt as to the wisdom of his economic policies marked French continental opinion today as his first year in office ended. "Really it IB a new America "Corsicana is now confronted with the opportunity of a lifetime," Fred M.

Allison, independent oil operator and one of the leading drilling contractors of the southwest, declared Saturday. "People from all parts of the state are clamoring for a road to the new Cayuga and contiguous oil fields and a majority of them have expressed a preference to make their homes and headquarters In Corsicana with the lack of a road as the only drawback to the situation," Mr. Allison said. "It would pay Corsicana, If highway 22 cannot be rushed through to completion Immediately, to construct a temporary road over some of the rural ronds that lead in that direction, and accommodate the hundreds of families who want to make Corsicana their home. If quick action is not taken they will go to other towns who are malting active preparations to secure a road to the desired destination.

The drilling contractor pointed out that a temporary bridge could be built over the Trinity River In such a manner that it would (Continued on Pace Seven) INSULL NOTIFIED MUST QUIT GREEK TERRITORY AT ONCE WHERE FORMER UTILITIES MAGNATE WILL GO NOT KNOWN AT PRESENT ATHENS. March The foreign minister today notified th minister of (heinterior that Samuel Instill, former Chicago utilities operator, must, leave Greece. The notification said that the final extension of Insnll's permit to remain in th country has expired. Insull previously had gained re- peatcd extensions of the permit by which he remained In Greece secure from United States government authorities who sought his extradition to fuco trial on charge of embezzlement and grand larceny in connection with the collapse of his Middle Western utilities organization. Whether Insull will go to the United States was not immediately certain.

He merely Is expelled from Greece, and now may RO whatever country will receive him. It was said that he may head for Syria. The action of the foreign mlnis- (Contlnuod on Pagn Five) Swirling Waters Of Ship Channel Claim Two Lives Man Called America's Most Murderous Outlaw In Sensational Escaped CROWN POINT, March the point a wooden pistol he had whittled out in his cell, John Dillinger, America's most murderous outlaw, broke out of the Lake county jail today. With the fake pistol, he forced jail attaches to surrender to him and a negro convict accomplice, confiscated two machine guns from the prison armory, coni- mandeered an automobile, and sped away towards Chicago with Sheriff George Blunt and Edward Sager, an employe of the Main Street Garage where the car was Dillinger had been held in the! Lake county jail, presided over; by Mrs. Lillian Holley, who had asserted "he will never the murder of an East Chicago, policeman, during a bank robbery.

Seventeen witnesses had pointed out Dillinger as the man who killed the policeman with a machins Prosecutors said they had an "airtight" case against him and that they would send him to the electric chair. He was scheduled to go on trial here March 12. The escape was one of the most daring on record. Eighteen extra guards and six deputy sheriffs had been detailed to the jail orders to kill Dillinger If he made the slightest move towards free-' CHICAGO WOMAN DOCTOR COMPLETED TESTIMONY TODAY DR. ALICE WYNEKOOP COLLAPSED DURING ORDEAL AT MORNING SESSION By MAURICE E.

COLLINS Associated 1'ress Staff Writer. CRIMINAL BUILDING, Chicago, March Alice Lindsay Wynekoop today completed her appearance as a witness in her own behalf and the celebrated Wynekoop trial was adjourned until Monday. had been on the stanc one hour and 40 minutes during the morning session. The 63 year old defendant's second day in the box was marked by a collapse, which delayed the cross examination by almost half an hour. Gasping for air, Dr.

Wynekoop signaled to the judge, who ordered all windows opened. She rested for a few minutes, while bailiffs conducted the jury from chair was brought HOUSTON, March tf Swirling waters of the rain-flooded Houston ship channel today had claimed the lives of two Greek sailors who fell from a painters' rigging on the aide of their freighter. The drowning victims were Speros Katsaros, 26, of Korpus, and Stcllanos Stellanedes, IS, of Athens. Their bodies were recovered late yesterday, several hours after the accident. Apparently a rope supporting the staging on which they stood slipped loose and plunged them Into the water.

They were members of the crew of the freighter Rokos. Receivership For Ferguson Farms Refused Today DALLAS, March Judge W. M. Taylor refused today to place In receivership a part of t' Bell county farm of Gov. A.

Ferguson and her, James E. tho room. The wheel in, and Dr. Wynekoop was trundled into the judge's chambers (Continued Eleven) Woman Sheriff Joins Dillinger Hunt Saturday By JOB COLLIER Associated T'ros ((Writer CROWN POINT, March 3. -Diminutive Sheriff Lillian Holley was out with her men today hunting one of America's most desperate criminals.

Flustered at first when she received the news that John Dll- llnger had escaped, quickly regained her poise and took charge of the jail. She directed the dispatching of messages to surrounding cities, called the roll of her 23 deputies and divided them into hunting squads. (Continued on Pago Eleven) dom. Woman Sheriff Hysterical. Mrs.

Holley, who succeeded heK husband as sheriff after he killed by a madman, became hysterical. She immediately telephoned lice at Gary: "Send all tho police and you've loose." Before leaving the DlllinV WITH WOODEN CROWN OIN March John Dll- llngor was feeling highly elated as he left the Lake county jail today. After ho hnd forced all tho guards on duty In the jail to surrender their weapons and enter a cell, ha hold aloft the "wenpon" with which ho hnd forced them to surrender. "Ha, ha, ho," he chortled, "I did it with a wooden grun." locked up in a cell the only guards on duty. Then he ockcd all doors of the jail.

Other mrds on duty outside the jail ana not learn oC the escape at once, Two hours after the escape, DH-, Ingcr released at Pcotone, 111., men he had forced to )any him as hostages. The escape started at 9 when Deputy Sheriff Blunt went nto a cell where Dillinger, bert Youngbiood, negro, and another alleged murderer, and tares other prlsonurs were confined. Blunt began taking fingerprints of a new prisoner in I he coll, vhen suddenly DUHngcr confronted him with the fake pistol. He forced Blunt to surrender ils pistol, and then locked tho deputy in a nearby cell. Warden Locked Up.

Then the prisoners Waited qulet- until Warden Lou Baker ap- (Contlnued on Five) PRESIDENT HAS WAR DEBT AND AIRMAIL PROBLEMS TO FACE CONGRESS THIS YEAR WASHINGTON, March President Roosevelt, about to enter the second year of the new deal era, has two more major steps In mind before the congress, adjourns. One would press for legislation to handle the war debt situation, that problem which Is BO delicate, politically and Internationally. Another would re-establish a privately operated air mail system, shorn of what critics of the old system have called "abuses." Looking forward, the second month of tho adminletra' tlon seems now to promise such laws and presidential crees as tumbled into ernmental hopper Roosevelt took offl and Plans and. PRESIDENT THROWS SUPPORT BRITISH DISARMAMENT MOVE AMERICA INFORMS ENVOY AN5 TAN application Stock young, ardent, vibrant," wrote revenue York correspondent of the on a newspaper Matin today. Even the bitter criticism jvhlch a year ago greeted Roosbi'ejj monetary policies has to more favorable the press, the rea while furnish he is.