Word: sheltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shelton, Wash...
...Copyright 1948 by Earl Shelton and Fred Henson...
...Carl Shelton was his name...
Thus another U.S. badman was sentimentally memorialized last week in a ballad freshly recorded for the jukebox trade. Carl Shelton, a country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40 lives. He equipped his boys with dynamite, machine guns and a fleet of armored cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October...
When nominations began, Murray learned that both the Eubanks faction and the leftist "independent-progressive" wings were stronger than he. For Murray's office, the Eubanks crowd put up 38-year-old Harry Martin, amusement editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Leftists entered 41-year-old Willard Shelton, onetime editor of the Christian Evangelist, now a Washington correspondent for Manhattan...