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...Memorial Day morning, Warden Kirk Prather stepped out into the prison yard of the Kansas State Penitentiary. In one more day Warden Prather, a bald, big-nosed man, was to complete his two-year tour of duty. He had just come back from Washington where, as a deserving Democrat, he felt he had made a good impression. There was a chance that he might become head of the Federal prison at nearby Leavenworth ("The Bankers' Institute"). He turned his attention to the ball game in progress between two American Legion teams from Topeka and Leavenworth. Guards and most prisoners...
...convict who pinioned Warden Prather was Wilbur Underhill, "The Tri-State Terror" who had pleaded guilty to killing a man in Kansas (which has no death penalty) to avoid being extradited to Oklahoma, where he had killed two others. Three of his four years in the Kansas penitentiary had been spent in solitary confinement. He and Harvey Bailey-leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln (Neb.) Bank & Trust Co. holdup in 1930, who was finally caught while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they...
...seem to mind their taking his car and bottle, but swore that "no damned Irishman can take my hat away from me." A convict named Brady returned the hat. After that there was no further threat to kill the prison officials. "The liquor warmed them up," explained Warden Prather, who not long ago had allowed Underhill to take up a collection for an operation on his sick mother. Near Welch. Okla., the warden and guards were released about midnight. They were given a dollar to "get some eats and smokes...
...apartment dwellers have moved into the homes of friends and relatives. Vacancies in expensive apartments ($90 to $125) run as high as 40% despite rent reductions equally as big. Work continues on the city's big suburban development. Highland Park West, despite the fact that its backer, Hugh Prather, sold his $125,000 home and moved in with his partner & brother, Phil Prather...
...Texas that tune is not "Working on the Railroad," except in the sense that "America" is ''God Save the King" and "The Star Spangled Banner" is "Anacreon in Heaven." It is "The Eyes of Texas." There was a president of the University of Texas [William L. Prather-ED.], a generation ago, whose pet admonition to the undergraduates was, "Remember, the eyes of Texas are upon you." A collegian [John Lang Sinclair- ED. J to express irreverent student sentiment toward the repetitious phrase, wrote certain words to a popular air, and loudly a group of young men-keeping themselves...