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UCV NCX 101 PARIS, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY IS, EIGHT PAGES ESTABLISHED Clyde Barrow In Machine Gun Five Convicts On Prison Farm TEXAN LAUDS MONEY CVTj IN ROOSEVELT PROGRA Stormed Farm High Spot In Career Says TomConnally SHEPPARD PREDICTS i RETURN OF DRY LAW Co-Autbor ot Amendment Senate Prohibition Will Tells (Jf) Senator Morris Sheppard of Tesss. co-author of the iSth. amendment. Tuesday chose the fourteenth birthday I cf that dead law to predict in the Devaluation Is the Right senate that -it will inevitably re- A turn." IV to Aid People AS- Declaring to Ills colleagues that new campaign to bring back national prohibition already is der -way. Sheppard asserted in an ttS.Charges Oil Company In Code Suit: 'i Government Asks Injunc- Escaped tion to Prevent Of Premiums N.

The fed- serts Senator WASHINGTON, ConnaUv of Texas Tuesday describ-' address from tae floor repeal had government fucd siut the ed-President Roosevelt's program been brought about by organized District of Columbia sapreine court for devaluation of the dollar as! propaganda financed by the rich to Tuesday against the Standard Oli "thte high spot- in Ms Ions legis- escape taxes, iative career. i On January. 24 last year tiiej Texan arose on tJbe floor of the senate to suggest devaluation he said, and sub-j sequeriUy he reiterated his belief i in floor dabate, He submitted, a bill on the arub-1 Polities In Louisiana jiect durinsr the session, but the; measure was unsuccessful -at the time. He suggested devaluation, at around 65 per cent. Company Xew Jersey- charging violation of the oil code and aslcing an injunction against the company to prevent it froza giving premiums.

The suction was filed on behalf of Secretary Ickes, the oil admin- istraxor. Jlearins on the suit -was for 'January 30. i The suit was the first to be filed I fV agamst a major oil company for JL UlYVx Vft i alleged, voiiation of code. Tie.specific'charge-was that tlie Standard-Oil Company of Xew and sey and its subsidiaries had Inau- 1 3 Whole Thing Was rauged, Says Manager of State Prison System 3 PISTOLS PLANTED, TO HELP Fog Aided In Flight and Escape, of Quintet of. Desperadoes TC3C.

(JPJ Simmons, general manager of" the Texas Prison system, said the liberation of five convicts from the remote Eastham state prison farm, 45 miles north of at Tuesday undoubtedly was prearranged. A party headed by a. man identified as Clyde Barrow, notorious sontiiwest desperado, aided the prisoners in brer-king away from their guards- Barrow manned a machine gran in a- nearby ditch, and protected the convicts in. their flight to a. Tvalting automobile.

One of the prisoners freed was his-former companion, Raymond Hamilton, "Three pistols had been planted in s. brush, pile where the convicts -vrere clearing: timber;" jgrn- 2 GUARDS SHOT AS LEAD HAILS FROM SJX GUNS MADISONVUXE, Texas, £P) W. V. Jones, city marshal here, said Tuesday afternoon he had received reports that a car wrth a machine gun roped to its side had through wood; Midway and Buffalo. The automobile believed to be carrying Clyde Barrow and part of the convicts liberated a few hours earlier from the Eastham state prison farm.

Jones said a party of was in pursuit of the mobile. Buffalo in Leon county between here and The automobile got on the Crockett-MadisonviHe highway at the Austonia river crossing near Crockett, Jones was told. It was reported to have proceeded through Midway to isonvflle, and then to have turned through Buffalo sicana and Dallas. AUSTIN, Texas, (3 General Henry Hutchings ordered Texar Ranger companies in Houston and Dallas to aid in the search for five convicts who escaped in an armed delivery at the Eastham state prison farm early Tuesdays General is holding the Austin Ranger company ready fcr action as soon definite word of the of the escaped convicts and their deliverers is received. DALLAS, A Dallas police broadcast at noon day said that the two automobiles carrying Clyde Barrow, Bon; nie Parker and five convicts who escaoed from: the prison farm, were seem daring the morning at Texas, 1 about 50 mfles south of Palestine.

The broadcast said that Raymond Hamilton, Barrow 7 Clydft Barrow, above, one cf the mer companion, riding with him and the girl Southwest most sotonous cnm- i other four prisCJ in another car, our people their burden, and I convinced, as I was in January year aso, that this is the Only Monday Senator Connally introduced a. oil! designed to empower the government to take over all ilic sold, incicuing that held by the Federal Keserve Banks. In public statements he has served notice he -would oppose jFedcral Ke-serve Banks to withhold any paid and thus make profit in devaluation. The goveminsnt, he has contended, must be the sole ai- WASHINGTON, A forma! the contest, coupons Senator Qverton 3-ou) was filed dreri wiio is. turn distributed them with, the senate Tuesday by the to friends, relatives or neisixbors women's comniittee of Louisiana, to be presented one at a.

time by shortly after the committee- head-; adults to Standard stations ed by Senator ConnaUy Tex.) dealers. had submitted a report condemn- Prices were to be sriven to tlie iag political conditions in the boy or girl credited with the srea.t- state. est nurnber of coupons turned in Shortly after the Conr.al!y re- in his or her name, it was claimed- port had been submitted, describ- Tfee complaint further cited that ing X-ouisiana political conditions since January 3 the Standard by row from the Eastham. prison atm reBcb one-time inmate of naper of Paris" Dr. F.

IICLS a long 1 record of crime in tee sssaolt Long "abhorrent" and a upon the rights of citizens" I profiter in the; the women's committee filed Tvith i vice president Gamer its protest i against Overton's election, The committee, headed by Mrs. I Hilda, Fhelps Hammond, contend-? ed that election -xvas 1 "accomplished by the use of fraud, i i coercion, intimidation corrup- tCoatinued On Eight) Bad Man Who Was Held In Is Gone had told that there pistols i would be planted because i knew -where to look: for them. "As the convicts reached "work, one of them, Joe Palmer, dived into a. pile of brush, and came- out i with a .45 automatic pistol-in his hand- He let go with it light away, i "Two other convicts also dived into the brush otrt with the same kind of guns. "The air was full of whistling: bullets in a minute.

i cut loose at Bozeman aag Law Always Too Late to Nab Barrow (Continued on Page Leader Goes to Jail Books In Nex Qr- leans rorcimy rested From Kinef islvs Men Officials said the protest would 1 not constitute a "contest" in the in which it was used by thel comrnittee- A. senate contest can! only be filed by aa opponent, they: explained. Held At Farm Desperadoes Kept On Eastham Where cape Was Made B. Frencli, Oklahoma i Convict, Paris i er, Also Freed Barrow's Criminal Record Desperado Lone Souglit For Murder and bery In Midwest most notorious desperado; Tuesday ambushed a. party at the Eartham prison farm, 45 from here, laid a machine gun barrage as a convict worlobss in concert with shot two guards and freed former companion, Hamilton, and four other long-term convicts.

LAST ESCAPE NOVEMBER 27 The last break from tlie Easths.m farm, occurred wren sbc bold' convicts, neaviiy bound up two guards seven other prisoners and escaped in a large green sedan. They were J. D. Forest Gibson. Frank Snelton, Monroe" Sammy.

Norman Adams and Charles Oraii Harrison. They neaded north toward Central Tesas and tnen separated. Some of them -were captured later. The car in which they-escaped was stolen from a nearby town in Sontli Texas. B- French, on registration books In the city Tucsdav fore- by a fcly wresved frorrv of the ious.

sr political orgraniza- upon of Voters C. EASTSAM FARM. HO us tor. County, Texas, yp). Eastham.

from -which five convicts "WASHINGTON. Louisiana. shot themselves to freedom, is one Political conditions and election of tracts of Texas praciices Tuesday xi-crc rebuked Caate cosnraittee as "abhorrerst" and a "fraud of eport placd before DAIJQAS. is the Ihe five I criminal record of Clyde Barrow. i cc-avlcts freed from the i.listed third the fopitives Texas prison farm Tuesday by sonsrht by the Department of Jrcs- Clyde Barrow, -was sentenced from i Larcar countv eitrly in IS 2 3 on a charge, of robbery witli firearms arrested in Dallas fort ia connection xvith the kidnap and robbery of F.

L. off I Paris. French had escaped, from 1 the Oklahoma prison at Granite ham prison farm in Tuesday has 1926: iHxr. 3, automobile theft. Feb.

arrested in. fort Worth ...5 senate bv its special comniit- S. Barnes was placed behSad pris- whJch bars by city police and a Civil District ordered his removal frorr. office, placing deputy chcrifrs charge of the re tion records- maintains for purposes of reha- i onlv a sbort before the kid- criminals, Uiis napins ol Br Wcar hcre Ho captured in Kansas and i bere for trisu. i here, he Oct.

12. attempted bnrgljirj- In Barnes, an ap of with men shortly tfTer vehcn police rnid- -ofrice in the city rnld Wat based on allrjiatJons thf a temporary orflcr of the local courts prohibiting the scratchir.i: of vrttcrs" namm otherwise tanfi- with thf polls hich win he used in thw January C3 mayoralty primary. Police they the Rr at work in the office at I a. hnndlinff thn rcsristratJon taken to a KpcrSal cK-tnll of thrown nbout city hall expenditures in the 1932 primary, in which John H. Ovcrton defeat- ued on Pajze Money Holds Stage Center ticular tarns are sent the itiost desperate of the convicts -when it is at all practicable to "farrrs" them out.

It is in Texas, Houston county, on the Trinity river, near the Httic.town of WcJdon. It comprises 15,040 acres. The IsnS is TO negotiate or cultivate when rain is triet: and i Oct. 18, safe burglary in 19SO: 2, bursriary. Auto theft a.t Allen escaped front Uie Paris jaii to 14 rears.

he shows signs of hav- and were recaptured near Donison. Mnrch 16. arrested Middle- 1 been otivcn hard, They were returned to Paris, tried i Ohio, a fosative. i On a scat and on the floor the and convicted- April 21. admitted to ttic officers find bandages, hairpins.

Before to the siate prison i penitentiary from sandwiches, full supplies of first DAiLL-iS. civde Barrow thus regained a companion in crinie and leader of the band -wrhich shot sev- I good Hamilton's boast when sentenced recently that "there era! guards and brought about the no prison that -will hold me; FH be back with Clyde before-yoi escape, of Haymond Ho-milton and i four other convicts Two others, a man and a woman reported to have been soiicht Bonnie Parker, who has been with Barrow afl of the three since Barrow and Hamilton launched into criminal careers, ed Barrow in shooting down the at the isolated farm and freeing; Hamilton and the others. Hamilton, under sentences totalling: 263 years for bank robbery and other crimes, was being herded with prisoners to their farm toil Tuesday morning -when, wit cut warning, the guards, Major Crowson and Clan were shot down with a fusillade from a partly covered near the Eastham farm headquarters. Trusting to the accuracy of the machine gun apparently by pre-arrangement, Hamilton and the fc convicts, dashed immediately towards the pomt of sy leaped into a parked sedan and roared away towartfc throughout rhe middle west for three years for murder and rob- bery. Officers have been close behinii him dozens of times b-at each time he has fled just in ibe nick of time, His means of escape almost in- variably has been a Ford V-S coupe or sedan.

Ke speeds away from the scene of a. crime, and. after cross- I ing: a state line, abandons his atrto- i mobile. Officers find it later and Frvnch TVOS convicted on a charge Will Rogers Less than haJ an the rix-er bottoms, subject to overflow. About acres are In timber and pasture.

There are two "well built chirps, where the convicts arc housed, on the prop- 1 crty. I In spite of the fact prison offi- clals consider it the best place i desperadoes, it does furnish a WASHTXGTON Tuesday i or less Ideal set-up for a sii- Jn conRress. sundry IcfrisIa'Jon kept wation where a yroup of convicts 1932: or for days after precipi- of robbery with firearms in 2. slanted srencral parole tati-on makes it botrsrv and sticky, coiimv. He Jiis corn pan- I 1 Ross of the land is in Jons robbed a man 23.

1,090 acrwarc-taUf an automoblU a short tirac 1 mm of after from Pans French saU ho was wil3l rears old while in Fsris. ne i Discuss Roosevelt's Legislation; Easy sage Is Expected appears to be even younger, rte is cool, affable and the irnpres- siOTi of boins anything: but a i criminal, his appearance. he has a loner criminal record, After escaping froin the Oklahoma i of NeuJhoff fn 5. assault to mnrder and of Atotai, officer. 16, TvidnapiTOC to Carlsbed, aid eQuipitiem 2nd an assortrnent of pistols and rifles.

Bonnie Parker, two-gun, ctgrarsmoking: companion of Barrow, has been implicated in almost as crimes as her partner. 5nc started out with Clyde from their west homes three years asro. The criminal r-ccord of The in floo- and com- i lay well-made plans to shoot in TIOO. Thft Trintty i western states until he and Lloyd i of The Jn that vicinity furnish an arrested in SO, assault to murder tn uth- AVharton Texass. Oct.

Tritli tn Cot Texas. Roosevelt lepisla- almost impenetrable hiding placo I for fujritives. HKVKRI-Y with us had lax on liquor at xvrong Wo should had it on from to 1933. lH drinkSnc, A in the he-art of Valley ts not Sn a That Jripuneno ndmlral that rod America not a I6t of hut. no In fact, all writorw haven't -i jttijr: to jirortuce a veur they promised.

tninka thfry aro getting tt than and if thry fcnow that will WILt, igh Wire Artij Thrills To 5,00 He walked tion. Krnnk New York bankur, registered his approval of that a dollar of 1 to 60 cent of the present 1 statutory goW niony to tho house coinage com- This consmittco is at odds "with the banking committee as to which should set the danced to the music; he conversed legislation to dtspatch it with people on building tops and expected journey on the street; walked a hlsh conurrss. wire blindfolded; stood on his The St. Lawrence waterway on a ledsre; carried and fact that this ts a -woman across the tow wire he had erected. But he didn't falL That briefly, sums up the internationally daredevil- and wire walker up to S.OO* on Monday afternoon a part tt January vlllc, Kansas.

Sept. 20, 1332, in (Continued on Page Eight.) Oct. 11, murder of cleric, at Sbenwui, Tearas- and he talked; he County Chamber of Toward the dose Jan. 7. murder of Xfceputy SJhcr- iff Malcolm Ttevis In Dallas.

i April tS, mtirder and to murder in Joplin. Mo. April 2S. liKluapmc of Darby and Sophte Stone, Roscton. S.

bank robbery. theft in Dallas. It stretches across the seven-year period with robbers- burglary and kidnapirtcr listed as his outstar.ding From Missouri to Arizona the trail of crime leauls- The last close call Barrow and Bonnie Parker had was or. a highway between and Fort about a pgro. Tipped (Contiuaed on Page HUshtj WEATHER Skies were throughout the anniversary of the late eenth amendment takini; effect years afforded vehicles! for ncnnto discussion of proposrt- fur removed from the cold It became known elsewhere.

that RFC noon Monday fmrchawe of a development event, Commerce. of two wamvu, I-wocrnc. Indiana. Tuesday morning but hap- his act! May 2O, tranyportlnic of jpened and temperatures continuel to remain above normal. The high for the twenty-four hours ending Tuesday morning was 65 degrees the low was 53 degrees.

TEXAS: Cloudy, rain In good imitation of E. Bamron, trained ape on a low wire by! from to Ffcwhwsfca, in wivtc arcs, foot and' Vklnapinc of Sbcrtff hands on the wire. while Marshall Hardie. tiwr TTeU crowd roared. He faked falls and turned from the wiro backwards oncfe! mjnrlnir rVer.

tut he of the It was the only part of the ic WGuUl not try "up to hlsrh wire, In open ot his act walked fro tho top of the Bank buflrttnje to the in the lit Moderate tc north on COfcrt. OKLAHOMA: colder In the IWedncsday fair, warmer ton pOCtlOK. prisoners who with Hamfltcn were Methvin, acrviag-lO Joe PalnMtr, 25 years; W. serving a life sentence and J. B.

French, 12 years, i The other prisoners in the group made no effort to despite the fact afl are desperadoes. The Eastham farm Is one of six tracts of land which maintains for rehabflitataig: criminals and to it are sent most desperate convicts, i It 15 in deep Southeast Texas along: the Trinity river i the little town of Weldon. It comprises acres. The Tri I ity river bottoms in that vicinity readily an almost penetrable hiding; place for fugitives. Within a few minutes after Barrow and his companions laid their successful axnbosh and fled the scene the alarm spread throughout Texas and hundreds of peace officers on the highways.

They know they had desperate and men kfflers to cope with. Especial efforts marked the plans to entrap Barrow, Ston and Bonnie Parker near Dallas, where all have refa Frank J. Blake, in charge of federal department of I 6ce agents in Dallas, and three aides started south OR one i the two into Dallas from that direction, bearing, he "all the arms we can get." Major Crowson, more seriously wounded than Bom I was rushed to a Huntsvffle hospital, where he was i on in an effort to save his life. Before he wa, pot to sleep, he said: "The break happened at 7 a. m.

Boseman had taken squad of 17 men to the but had not begun to i "I asked Boxemaa to teB a captain to take Raymond ilton back into the aquad where be belonged. Hamoton i went into Bozeman's squad. one of the convicts, approached "Palmer then me in the abdoaaett. returned the fire but abo Hiiieed and Palmer then shot At tbat a ditch nearby Convicts ran.