NEWSPAPERS: Topeka State Journal  - 1934 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/shawnee/newspapers/tsj09jan1934.xt

Dontated by: Susie Hastings  <Praeda@aol.com> 
July 06, 2002

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Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (KS)

Topeka State Journal January 9, 1934 p.10 col 7

Clara M. ELA desires divorce from R. E. ELA and custody of their minor child, 
Richard, and of the family furniture, she says in her suit filed in the 
office of the clerk of the district court.

Margaret M. FULLERTON likewise desires divorce from Howard G. FULLERTON.  
Both charge extreme cruelty and gross neglect.  The ELAs were married in 
Kansas City, Mo, in June, 1900; the FULLERTONs in Los Angeles, Calif., June 
31, 1931.
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Belle WATSON, filing suit for divorce from Clifford WATSON, says they were 
married October 13, 1929, that Clifford is guilty of gross neglect and 
extreme cruelty, and that she has been compelled to leave home.  She wants 
permanent alimony, and obtained from Judge Paul H. HEINZ, in second division 
Shawnee county district court today a restraining order to prevent Clifford 
from disposing of property.
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Eli C. RUTH today filed a motion to obtain custody of Idell RUTH, 3, daughter 
now with her mother, Alice M. RUTH, at a place unknown, he says, to him.  F. 
O MARTIN is named as Mrs. Ruth's attorney.
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Police arrests Monday afternoon and night included Ralph GABRIEL, who gave no 
address, and Glen YARRINGTON, of Maryville, Mo., both held on charges of 
vagrancy; and Charlie COON, Wisconsin Indian, who gave his address as the 
Railroad "Y", and is held on a drunk charge.  GABRIEL, booked at 2:30 
o'clock, was the first arrest for the day.
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Before Frank FLACK, United States Commissioner, today was arraigned the first 
person who had been charged with violation of the internal revenue act, so 
far as it applies to the liquor business, since the Eighteenth amendment went 
into effect fifteen years ago.  The accused man is John MYERS, resident of 
Shawnee county outside of Topeka.  He is charged with failure to pay a 
special tax required of wholesale liquor dealers.  He was arrested by Major 
Jim GOING, former operative for the federal prohibition department, now a 
deputy collector of internal revenue.  Unable to furnish bond for $1,000 he 
was placed in the Shawnee county jail.
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