The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 127, Ed. 2 Thursday, October 5, 1939 Page: 5 of 14
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October 5, 1939
•Thursday Evening, October 5, 1939
GENERAL NEWS
THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
Tune In On KRBO
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Outlaw Trio Revives Oklahoma's Bank Banditry With Nitro Holdup
KIDNAPED SALESMAN ESCAPES
‘AFTER BEING HELD TWO DAYS
PICHER, Okla., Oct. 5.—Ori-
Three desperadoes revived Oklaho-
ma’s rip-roarin' bank banditry days
41th a sensational threat to blow up
a Picher bank with nitroglycerine
after kidnaping a salesman and
holding him captive more than 40
. hours. Y-
The $1,195 holdup of the First
State bank here and another at
, Webbers Falls were the first in 19
months in Oklahoma—once the
scene of almost daily raids by such
bandits as Pretty Boy Floyd
The nitroglycerine bandits started
their splurge Monday night with the
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kidnaping of Raymond C. Quirk, 49-
year-old Tulsa salesman, at Vinita.
Tuesday they robbed a Miami filling
station for "cigaret money."
Yesterdy they sent their leader, a
25-year-old blond, to rob the Picher
bank while a second stood guard
outside and a third held Quirk hos-
tage‘17 miles away.
The blond youth demanded of
Clarence Miller, bank employe:
"Do you know what nitroglycerine
is?”.
Miller, bewildered, turned to
Constable Clarence (Blondie)
McLanahan, who had just walk-
ed in, and repeated the ques-
tion. :
Without waiting for a reply,
the bandit pulled out a bottle
partially filled with a colorless
liquid and announced:
“Well, you know what it is
now.”
He quickly disarmed the consta-
ble, lined up him, Miller and three
customers and demanded *5,000 from
Cashier W. A. Brewer “or I'll blow
this place sky-high."
Brewer shoved out a stack of bills,
meantime pushing *4.000 in curren-
cy into a wastebasket.
The youth grabbed the money,
fled to a waiting car and returned
to Quirk. The salesman said “he
threatened to shoot me with a big
45 but I protested I hadn’t done
anything so they decided just to tie
me up in my automobile.
“I had a penknife and managed
to get it and cut myself loose."
Quirk said he apparently was
kidnaped for his car.
Two shabby youths, about 24 years
old, held up the Webbers Falls State
bank at gunpoint and fled with all
its cash—an undetermined amount.
"Were poor boys and we need it,"
they told Cashier 8. L Weatherly,
who added: They cleaned us out.
They took everything in the cash
drawer and then went through the
vault."
ENTRY IN AN EARLY DAY ABILENE FAIR PARADE
Jones Farmers War
On Raven Flocks
ANSON. Oct. S-l(Spl)-As in
Europe there are armed guards in
Jones county, not guarding over
prisoners but over crops of peanuts
over the county guarding them
from ravens in largeenumbers.
The acreage in the county has
been greatly increased the past two
years and when they are plowed
up the ravens flock down and strip
the vines. To put a stop to this two
Jones county farmers are taking
turns in fighting off the ravens with
guns. Their crops are on adjoining
farms.
Both these men, J A Jones and
A. T. Ryan, of the Elliot com-
munity, saw service during the
World war. Jones was in the army
and was in France while Ryan
served in the navy and was also in
France, later serving 18 months
with the army of occupation.
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Highways 80 and 80-A
Are Being Improved
EASTLAND, Oct. 5.—(Spl)—With
the state highway department spon-
soring the work in cooperation with
the WPA, U. S highway BO is being
widened from Cisco to Ranger.
The highway will be widened
three feet on each side of the road
from the intersection of the old and
new highways west of Cisco to the
Ranger city limits.
The WPA will furnish an average
of 150 men for labor for approxi-
mately six months. Total cost of the
work will be $66,464.
Officials also announced that
work was started this week on a
WPA project which calls for leveling
and seal-coating of U. S. highway
ANSON, Oct 5.— (Spl.)—Dec-
orated surreys are novelties to-
day but the gaily bedecked con-
veyance above was something
to be proud of back in the early
1900’s.
This surrey was entered in a
80-A from Breckenridge west to the
Shackelford county line.
The project is being sponsored by
the state highway department To-
tal cost will 6e $32,624. Road being
improved is 10.3 miles in length.
parade st an Abilene fair short-
ly after the turn of the century
The picture was made at the
corner of Fourth and Butternut
streets.
In the front seat of the sur-
rey are Vardeman Cockrell and
Granville (Tat) Triplett, who is
holding the lines. In the back
seat are Aurelia and Sarah
Cockrell, daughters of Eddie
Cockrell of Dallas
The surrey belonged to Mrs.
G. B. Triplett, pioneer school
teacher of Abilene, and the
horse was owned by the late
Judge J. V. Cockrell.
Dr. R. W. Varner
Announces
Removal of Offices
to 814 Hickory
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Electric Co-op
JOHNNY COX
issuance of a charter in Aus-
tin to the Taylor Electric Co-
operative me yesterday capped
weeks of preliminary labors on
a rural electrification project in
this vicinity.
It brought a step nearer real-
ization the proposed building of
I a 150-mile line to serve a mini-
mum of 350 customers, most of
them in Taylor county Others
would be in parts of Nolan and
perhaps Jones and Shackelford
counties.
Incorporators of the cooperative
unit were Johnny Cox of Mer-
kel. Sam Butman Jr of But-
man, and O S Moore, Merkel
Route 4. all officers of the or-
. ganization. There is no capital
| stock
J Marvin Brown: coordinator
1 who has been working with of-
ficers of the cooperative, said
the work is 10 days ahead of
schedule.
Jury Is Formed
To Try Youth in
Dancer's Death
LOS ANOELEB Oct J—or- Aft-
er pleading guilty a month ago to
charges of murdering Anya Sosoye-
va, blonde former follies-dancer, 20-
1 year-old De Witt Clinton Cook
switched his plea to innocent Wed-
| nesday and then listened stolidly to
selection of a jury to try him
He pleaded guilty to four counts
of assault in connection with attacks
on two other young women and two
counts of burglary
Over the protest of Deputy Dis-
trict Attorney, U. U Blalock, senten-
ring on the latter charges was post-
| poneti until next Monday He argu-
ed that sentence, a possible maxi-
mum V life imprisonment should
be pronounced before Cook was
brought to trial on the murder
charge
In court and ready to testify
against the youthful defendant were
Della Bogard, 17-year-old film dan-
cer, and Myrtle Wagner, 17, a do-
1 mestic, both of whom were brutally
clubbed by their assailant.
Big Spring Bank
BIG SPRING, Oct *.—(Spl)-De-
posits showed pronounced gains
while loans declined slightly quar-
terly bank statements revealed here
today in comparison with corre-
spending dates a year ago
The deposit figure was $4,702,115
for both local banks, a gain of
*1*2*48 Loans and-discounts were
down to $2,177,612, a decline of $27,-
972. Cash was listed at $1,790,503.
up by $248,378 and. total resources
increased by $245,582 in amounting
to $4.702,115.
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