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Lloyd ("Red") Barker was a little different from his desperate, murderous brothers Herman, "Doc" and Freddie, the baby of the family. He never killed anyone, but that wasn't because his mother Kate Barker didn't teach him well. It was just that the Federals got him first-in 1921, for a mail stickup in Baxter Springs, Kans. They put him away in Leavenworth for 25 years...
...Barkers to go. He got his in 1927, the day after a stickup in Newton, Kans. His body was found in the weeds on the outskirts of Wichita. Ma and Freddie were next, shot down after a blazing FBI siege at Oklawaha, Fla. in 1935, a year after they, Doc and Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis pulled off the $200,000 kidnaping of St. Paul Banker Edward Bremer...
...sound investment. Last week, the biggest crowd of the year (52,000) bet the most money of the year ($2,847,663) on the first big race of Doc Strub's rich Santa Anita winter season (TIME, Jan. 31). The track had been a quagmire much of the meeting, but sun and 1,000 tons of beach sand had finally dried it out. Most of the dozen four-year-olds were in patently poor condition. Ace Admiral quickly took the lead, was never in danger of being headed, and won by half a length in 2:02⅓. Said...
...bossed the whole Santa Anita operation from his cupola, rigged up a battery of telephones to connect him with every corner of the enclosure. It has worked, so far. Original stockholders, who paid $5,000 a share, have been offered $62,500 for them. Besides paying out whopping dividends, Doc plows great chunks of money back into his gold mine-giving paying guests more comfort, beauty, entertainment and $100,000 races. This winter, at a cost of $400,000, he opened a fancy new lounge and restaurant, a kind of clubhouse for the general-admission trade...
Last week Doc had more than the end of the boom to worry him. California's Governor Earl Warren said the state was not getting a fair share of racing's "fabulous" profits (the state now gets from 4 to 6? of every dollar bet at California horse tracks and would like to get more; Santa Anita's cut of the betting runs from 7% to 9%). But if Doc was alarmed he showed no sign of it. His greatest disappointment seemed to be that injured Citation, the wonder horse, would not run at Santa Anita this...