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THT7RSDAY. MAY 24, 1954, DES MOINES TAIBUNE PAGE TEN Convicted of Harboring Outlaw Bonnie's Poem Saw Fate Langer Trial Delay Denied They Just wipe the slate clean defendants on charges of conspir ing to solicit poiiucai from federal employes was denied by Judge Andrew Miller in federal court Thursday. Continuance naa Deen Dougm. because of the illness of one of the defendants. Pmfita from workshops in the (Virginia penitentiary at Richmond totaled $3,993 for a six-monw period and the entire amount was spent for the benefit of prisoners.

YxK'V A Sixth and Locust St. Judge Refuses Con tinuance Plea. BISMARCK, N. D. motion to continue the trial of Gov.

William Langer and seven of eight DRUG Add HTo for Mail Orders 3 Vt f' "41 i (Jeam STORES PORTFOLIO VACATION NEEDS TOILETRIES AND DRUG STORE SUPPLIES lord Baltimore 11 Barrow Role At Dexter, la. Told Hoogner He Was 'Broncho Clyde Champion Barrow told E. Hoogner, 3203 Eighth st, he was a "broncho buster." Hoogner recalled Thursday a conversation he struck up with the bandit chief in Dexter, last July on the day before the gang's fight with the Iowa posse In Dex-field park. Hoogner stopped In Dexter to service a canteen machine. He took notice of the Barrow car because two steer horns were fixed to the radiator for decora tion.

Clyde stood outside the car and a woman and man were inside. Hoogner, of course, did not know who they were. "Are you fellows broncho bust ers?" Hoogner said, passing by. "Yeah," Clyde replied. He said he was waiting for a rodeo circuit to start up in Iowa.

Hoogner said he passed on and remarked to a companion, "That guy doesn't look like a bronk rider." Next day, after the Dexfield park shooting, Hoogner recognized Clyde's picture in the papers. Tales Differ On Shooting Mrs. Ross Says She Tried to Kill Self. DAVENPORT, IA. (if) The Scott county district court jury In the murder trial of Mrs.

Augusta Ross of Molir.e, 111., Thursday was confronted with the problem of deciding whose story of the shooting of Roy Franey on the night of Apr. 2 was correct that of his widow, Mrs. Kathryn Franey, and his sister, Mrs. Irene Burry, or that of Mrs. Ross.

When the defendant went on the stand Wednesday she testified that Franey was shot when he leaped upon her as she was pointing the gun at herself to commit suicide. Mrs. Franey and Mrs. Burry had testified that he rushed at Mrs. Ross after they had heard the shot fired, saw the flash of the gun and saw a blood stain appear on his shirt.

Counsel for Mrs. Ross planned to renew the motion for a directed verdict following the testimony of Dr. Walter Matthey, the final defense witness. Tract to Be Dedicated. ESTHERVILLE, IA.

Plans for dedication of a historical grove of 17 trees set apart in Fort Defiance state park, with the permission of the state conservation board, have been made for June 18. Fifty sheets of high grade linen, twenty-four envelopes to match. Convenient and compact. Just the thing for home use and traveling. Evelyn Frechette (in white coat) and Dr.

Clayton May (hiding DALLAS, TEX. (Vf.) Bonnie Porker, machine gunning underworld lassie who met a gunman's death, had her softer side. She wrote poetry. The following manuscript was found among her effects and is reproduced here just as she wrote it. The reader trill discover that Bonnie had a good vision of the fate that teas to overtake her and a correct estimate of the wages of crime.

Story of Bonnie and Clyde. By Bonnie Parker. You have read the story of Jesse James, Of how he lived and died. If you still are in need of some thing to read. Here Is the story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang, I'm sure you all have read How they rob and steal. And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. There are lots of untruths to their writeups, They are not so merciless as that; They hate all the laws, The stool pigeons, spotters and rats. They class them as cold-blooded killers, They say they are heartless and mean, But I say this with pride That I once knew Clyde When he was honest and upright and clean. But the law fooled around, Kept tracking him down And locking him up in a cell, Till he said to me, "I will never be free, So I will meet a few of them in hell." This road was so dimly lighted There was no highway signs to guide.

But they made up their minds If the roads were all blind They wouldn't give up till they died. The road gets dimmer and dimmer, Sometimes you can hardly see. Still it's fight man to man. And do all you can. For they know they can never be free.

If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are Invited to fight By a sub-machine gun rat-tat tat. If a policeman is killed in Dallas And they have no clews for a guide; If they can't find a fiend And hang it on Bonnie and Clyde. Two crimes have been done in America Not accredited to the Barrow mob. For they had no hand In the kidnaping demand ur tne Kansas City depot job. A newsboy once said to his buddy.

"I wished old Clyde would get Jumped. In this awful hard times We might make a few dimes If five or six laws get bumped." The police haven't got the report yet, Clyde sent a wireless today Saying: "We have a peace flag of white We stretch out at night, We have joined the NRA." They don't think they are too tough or desperate, They know the law always wins. They have been shot at before But they do not ignore That death was the wages of sin. From heartbreaks some people have suffered, From weariness some people have died, But take it all in all, Our troubles are small. Till we get like Bonnie and Clyde.

Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a few it means grief, To the law it's relief, But it is death to Bonnie and Clyde. Iowan Reports Car, $50 Stolen DAVENPORT. IA. Ciecomo Vico, who said he lives in Des Moines, told county authorities that he had been robbed of his automobile and $50 on Highway 6 a mile east of Durant at 4:45 a.

m. Thursday. The license of his car was 77-3944, he said. Asks Probe in Finding Of Embalmed Baby VINTON, IA. (U.P.) Coroner John R.

Burrows Thursday re quested an investigation by the state board of health into discovery of the body, of an embalmed baby found in a quart fruit jar in a vacant building at Urbana. Burrows said that the body was found by children playing in the building, formerly occupied by an undertaking establishment. The structure now owned by Benton county, has been used to house Exquisite CARA NOMA FACE POWDER Three pleasing tints: Naturelle, Kacliciie Light or Dark. Has an irresistible appeal to the most critical. $1.00 and $2.00 Roxbury FOUNTAIN SYRINGE OR HOT WATER BOTTLE Guaranteed 2-Qt.

Size Each 49c Aided Dillinger ST. PAUL, MINN. Far from downcast was Evelyn Frechette as she walked from a courtroom here after receiving a sentence of two years and $1,000 fine for conspiring to harbor her sweetheart, John Dillinger. Dr. Clayton May, Minneapolis, received a similar sentence on the same charges.

Dr. May was charged with giving Dillinger medical attention with the knowledge Dillinger was a fugitive. Dr. May's nurse, Mrs. Augusta Salt, was cleared of similar charges.

Spina Is Missed In Prison Roll CHICAGO, ILL. When they called the roll of inmates of the detective bureau's "escape proof jail," George Spina was missing. He had slipped by the "electric eye," an apparatus which rings a bell whenever a bit of metal on a prisoner comes near, despite his 240 pounds. Detectives said they thought he wore rubber heels. Charmona FACE POWDER with PUFF "Stays on Longer" Comes in Natur elle or Rachelle THERMOS BOTTLE Keeps food or liquids hot or cold.

Handy for motor trips and outings. Quart Bottle House Cleaning Needs RUBBER GLOVES LARVEX 67d Pint FLIT 40d Pint Clyde, Bonnie Back in Dallas Graves to Separate Outlaws. DALLAS. TEX. Clyde Barrow and his sweetheart, Bonnie Parker, who combined their talent for crime and ran up a tally of a dozen murders In the southwest, came back home to Dallas Thursday to be buried In different graves.

The pair met death Wednesday Bonnie had predicted they would. Cruising down a highway near Arcadia, they were ambushed by Texas and Louisiana Officers. For once Barrow and his aide were on the receiving end of the leaden hail. They died quickly, Bonnie with her machine gun cuddled in her lap. Bonnie, in a rambling poem, had expressed the wish that she and Barrow be buried together, but Thursday her mother, Mrs.

Emma Parker, said the wih would not be observed. "He Took Her From Me." "No, I would never consent to ber being buried with him," she aid. "He took her from me when he was alive but I'm going to take her from him now. She's going to be all mine from now on. "Bonnie wrote that poem all right, but I talked with her after she wrote it.

She didn't really want to be buried with Clyde." Mrs. Parker intimated her daughter would have left the perilous company of Barrow but felt she was in too deep. "She felt she would be arrested or killed if she were away from Barrow, and naturally she wanted her freedom." Beside Brother. The Rev. Clifford Andrews of Dallas will officiate at both services.

Barrow will be buried beside his brother, Marvin, who was wounded fatally In a fight with police near Dexter, lat July. Bonnie Parker will be buried beside her niece. Henry Barrow, who went to Arcadia Wednesday night to claim his son's body, had agreed to permit the double funeral and Joint burial If Mrs. Parker did not object. Reared In Slums.

Both Barrow and Bonnie were reared In the slums of West Dallas. Barrow's first petty thieving was done in that section and It was there he first met Bonnie. They did not throw in with each other, however, until after Barrow had been paroled by a Texas governor and Bonnie had seen her husband off to the state prison where he still Is. It was after the parole, a couple of years ago, that Barrow devel oped into a killer. His reputation for a quick trigger finger spread rapidly as the number of his victims mounted.

Never more than a small time thief, however, there were no big "jobs" to his credit. A small town bank robbery would be his best effort. "He Ain't Smart." He never led a numerically Important gang. Raymond Hamilton, whom he freed from a prison camp and with whom he later split, Is now In jail. Of Hamilton, Barrow recently said In a letter to police: "He ain't smart like I am." Say Dillinger Sought $3,000 Report He Planned to Flog Man.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. (U.P.) A persistent rumor that John Dillinger had planned to horsewhip an Indianapolis man who was said to have withheld $3,000 of the outlaw's money was partially confirmed Thursday. Lieut. Chester Butler of the state police revealed that a whip. similar to those used in old fash ioned buggies, was found in Dil linger's car which was abandoned after a wreck near Nobleavillc Apr.

7. Dillinger'g plan to horsewhip the Indianapolis man was frustrated by the wrecking of his car and his subsequent flight to Chicago, it Is believed. The elusive Indiana desperado was said to have entrusted the $3,000 to a friend here several weeks ago. John and Priscllla AMen's home at Duxbury, is still standing and It is near a monument to Capt. Miles 6landish.

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(By Starr Writer HOT SPRINGS, ARK The sixteenth annual council of the General Federation of Women's Clubs Thursday went on record as favoring passage of a group of crime bills now before the house ways and means committee in Washington. An emergency resolution objected to deletion of revolvers and pistols from the bills and urged that the measures be passed in their original form. The council telegraphed Us views to Representative R. G. Doughton, committee chairman, Joseph Byrns, house leader, Speaker Rainey and others.

lowans. Iowans attending the conference include the state president, Mrs. Eugene Henely of Grinnell, and Mrs. William Larrabee, of Cler mont, past Iowa state president, who Is now general federation transportation chairman. Many local Iowa presidents are here.

Mrs. Larrabee gave her report at the Tuesday morning session. All meetings are being held at the Arlington hotel, headquarters, ex cept those of the Junior division, which are at the Kingsway hotel. 1933 Convention. The board of directors has set June 4-12, inclusive, as dates for the 1935 triennial G.

F. W. C. convention with designation of Mrs. Edward Hammett of Sheboygan, national treasurer," as contact chairman to complete arrangements with Detroit city federation committees.

The annual midwinter meeting of the board will be In Washington, D. Jan. 14. Among the 17 Iowa women attending the sessions are Mrs. J.

W. Weltz, editor of the Iowa Club Woman; Mrs. H. H. Decker and Edith McBenth, junior representative from Iowa, all of Des Moines.

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bag 49 .60 Mum Des Moines Marble and Mantel Cotuuners Consolidated Coal Green Furnace Foundry Co. Des Moines Fencn Const. Co. Heat Eniineerinf Co. A.

T. McDonald Mlf. Co. Goods Gas Appliance Co. Buckkam 4 Co.

Tbomai Electric Co. Continental Steel Co. United Dea Moines Clay Products Co. Loetcber Burca Mff. Co.

Carr MoeU Co. Tounkeri Maytaf Bill PARTY AT THE FORD PLANT, 1800 GRAND AVENUE, DES MOINES It is a new idea for an automobile to give a lawn party. But the attendance so iar proves that it's a popular plan. Thousands of people from all over Iowa have enjoyed Ralph DePalma's stories of his 2000 victories in automobile races, have applauded the vaudeville acts and have admired the beautiful display of all Ford V-8 models and the Lincoln Salon. Have you been to the party? The Ford dealer nearest you will be glad to arrange transportation.

Of course there is no charge for admission to the Ford Lawn Party. Saturday is the last day. So don't wait too long. I Included on our program: RALPH DePALMA in person Replica of Ford stripped stock car at used in recent stock'car races, on display KSO ton pic tiudio oichtMtra CHARLES mlNK-King ot tht Banjo SUNNY HAHMAN-Oum o( thi Accordion HOOKER A CLAYTON Cancan in "Walt in a Dnaa" KLEVER ntwtainmint and "Vodtvtllm a la Mod" WHY IS THE FORD V-8 OUTSELLING ANY OTHER CAR IN IOWA? Go to the Ford Lawn Party. Inspect tho Ford V-8.

See the many unique, modern features. Look at the beautifully designed V-8 motor the only eight in the low priced field. Then arrange to drive a Ford 8. See bow it performs. Test it in any way you please for speed, power, get away, comfort, what have you.

Check the facts about its economy. Briefly stated these lacts are that the Ford V-8 costs less to buy and less to drive than cars with only six cylinders, and also lackingotherof Ford modern features. Then you will understand why the Ford V-8 leads in sales. II Mif Iowa Ford dealers At The Register and Tribune's MODERN HOME SHOW Tonight 7:45 NOTE: (It was erroneously stated that Miss Sally P.and would appear tonight Miss Rand appeared last night at the Modern Home Show!) RADIO STARS IN PERSON! Dark Town Strutter Three J's Denver Darling Bess Caplan Eddie Treman Al Davenport See what's new in home construction. Open noon to 10 P.

M. Admission free. 1 1, 3 iry urn mum These firms, exhibiting at the show will make your visit more enjoyable: Hon ImoUtioi Co. Tbi Rolicreea Co. Clokt Mackiacr? Supply Co.

Century Lumber Co. Standard Marble tad Tilo Cilcrest Lambtr Co. Oueal Umbel Co. Becluaai-Dawioa Roofinf Co. Merle 0.

Milliras Co. Des Moinea lea 4 Foel Co. H. E. Dunn, Inc.

Dea Moinet Steel Co. Add Cla? Products Co. Van Deck Furnace Co. Pitttburjb Plat Class Co. Des Moints Electric Co.

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