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Into the Fire. In Shawneetown, Ill., Gene Oldham and John Nelson broke into the city jail, robbed a prisoner...
...born in Shawneetown, Ill., graduated from the University of Illinois, and got her start in 1925 reviewing music for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. She had no musical training, but she knew what she liked and said so in quotable phrases, sometimes purple. The Journal lost her to Marshall Field's new Chicago Sun. In 1942 Bertie McCormick took her away with a fat boost in salary, which is now over...
Catfish in Season. Perhaps the greatest change-and the hardest for Cap'n Menke to swallow-is in the customers, now mostly heckling wiseacres from the big city. "When the folks come in from the little towns where we used to play our shows straight, from Golconda and Shawneetown and Chester, they look at me with a sad expression," he says. "Our shows've been spoiled, they say; the old days are dead." Then, toughening up, he adds: "Of course, we don't care what they come for, just as long as they lay their money down...
...some 1,500 residents of Shawneetown, Ill., sheltered behind their 60-foot flood wall, lost contact with Harrisburg, Ill., 23 miles away. The great Ohio Basin flood had cut them off from their nearest municipal neighbors and the world. As the flood waters rose, a Harrisburg ham (amateur short-wave operator), Robert Tompkins Anderson, volunteered to set up an observation post as near as he could get to Shawneetown and establish two-way radio communication with relief agencies that were trying to bring help...
...truck and boat (equipped with only one paddle), Amateur Anderson ferried his transmitter and receiver to a high spot six miles across the flood-swollen Wabash River from Shawneetown. When it became obvious that the Ohio would spill over Shawneetown's flood wall, Shawneetown's residents were evacuated to Indiana and Kentucky on orders received over Ham Anderson's radio. Evacuation was effected without loss of a single life. And after four raw, wet, sleepless days and nights, Ham Anderson went home...