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Yesteryears:Jun 5, 1991 Vol 1 No 1 Pretty Boy's crime strea ends on farm By Dale E. Shaffer HE EARLY 1930s WERE the final years fo:r T three famous despe:rados - John· Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson. Headliries of the Salem News :read "Pretty Boy Floyd Flees; Fou:r Wounded"(Oct. 22, 1934); "Floyd Trapped, Slain by Police, U.S. Agents" (Oct. 23, 1934); and "Baby Face Nelson, Gunman, Found Dead" (Nov. 28, 1934). One of the earliest memories I have is seeing Pretty Boy Floyd laid out on a cot at the Sturgis Funeral Home in East Liverpool. I was five years old at the time and remember that only his face was uncovered. Our neighbor, a Salem fireman, offered .to take my father and me along to view the bullet­ riddled body. It was Tuesday, Oct. 23, 1934 and hundreds were gathered on the streets outside the funeral. home. ·From this corn crib Floyd began a race for the woods, one Pictures of the crowd and the lifeless body of Floyd which ended in his mortal wounding hJI approaching law­ appeared in all the local newspapers. It was a men. He'd been sitting in Stewart Dykes Model A, waiting circus-like event of national significance. Widow Ellen Conkle poses in the kitchen of her farm home for the farmer to finish husking corn, unaware that the police There he was, the terror of the Oklahoma bad­ with the tray she prepared for Floyd when she fi'xed a meal were speeding toward the Conkle farm. lands, at the end of his 10 years of crime. His black for the gunman when he appeared at her door. patent leather hair slicked down meticulously even m death. The braggart, sought for the Kansas City Union Station massacre in June 1922, plus other kill­ ings and bank robberies, bore the marks of at least three bullets fired into his torso and arm. Dillinger had fallen under a rain of lead in Chica­ go three months earlier. Floyd then became Public Enemy No. 1. Like other desperados of the 1920s and '30s, he boasted that he would never. be taken alive. And that's the way it turned out. He was killed in a hail of gunfire on Monday, Oct. 22, 1934 at an isolated farm seven miles north of East Liverpool. Alone when federal and city officers poured a let­ hal dose of fire at his retreating figure, "Pretty Boy" remained a solitary figure in death. Two bullets tore through him, back to front, taking his life 15 minutes after he was struck. A third bullet lodged under a rib and a fourth pierced his arm. Floyd's name appeared in Ohio headlines on April 16, 1931 when be and Billy the Killer (William Frank Dawson of the . Sturgis Funeral Home (left) stands Miller, alias Willis Miller) of Ironton, Ohio fatally beside the body of Pretty Boy Floyd which was taken to the wounded Ralph Castner, a Bowling Green poJice­ East Liverpool funeral home, with Chester Smith, the East man. Sometime prior to that, Pretty Boy had made a Stewart Dyke and. his wife sit in the yarlor of their farm Liverpool policeman who shot the runaway Floyd with a deer spectacular escape from a train at Kenton, Ohio house. The couple were celebrities of. a kind after their rifle at the Conkle farm in Sprucevale before FBI agents encounter with Floyd whom they said was an extremely arrived on the scene. See PRETTY BOY, page 4 polite man. 'Yesteryears 'Wetfnestfay, Jwtt 5, 1991 Old news is good news By Lois Firestone I was six when. I walked through the huge doors of the Fourth Street School in to Bertha Hoopes' first grade class and the growing up experiences which would shape my life. The building was a magnificent place to my young eyes: the hugeness of it, the sweepingly hign ceilings and the massive curved staircase lead­ ing to the junior high where the ''big kids" studied on the second floor. When I think about the sad and glad years I spent there, though, it's the teachers I remem­ ber. Miss Percival's unique idea of having the class make date candy wben we were studying the desert people of the Tigris and Euphrates in the second grade. The terror we experienced with Miss Boao and her vicious blackboard pointer with which she once carelessly smashed a window to pieces in our basement (my mother put a stop to those tirades when I finally got the nerve to tell her what was going on). The willowy fourth grade teacher Miss Ospeck whom everyone was crazy about, especially the girls. Towns change. The school's gone now, like other buildings which were once landmarks but since torn down. Every one has these memories and stories to remember, and that's what we'll be doing every week in Yesteryears. Dale Shaffer, Dick Wootten and I are excited about the chance to share them with you, our readers. The everyday people who lived through the settling of the territory, the Depression, the wars, chronicled their experiences, but often they are hidden away in old newspaper dip­ Photos courtesy of Kennedy Galleries, New York Ctty pings, writings and photographs. With your help, we'll dig up the not-yet-told, brush off This 'U!atercolor pa~ntfngr "Building .~ith Domed 7op". was paint~d by Charles Burchfield on Nov. 4, 1917. the familiar and put it all down on these The site of the painting was most likely somewnere m Columbiana County. Can you identify the spot? pages. By Dick Vv ootten Because Burchfield painted 4,000 paintings in his lifetime and details about some of their sites is Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) was Salem's most sometimes skimpy, art scholars are anxious to learn renowned artist. His paintings are displayed in art about their locations~ A new approach to art scho­ museums throughout the United States and Europe. larship called "site specifics" is coming into its own. In two years, the Columbus Art Museum will be A :recent book on American painter Edward Hopper celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth with a placed recent photos of sites side-by-side with large retrospective exhibition. Shown will be mo~e Hopper's paintings of those sites. · than 100 paintings and drawings from his ea:rly The Salem Historical Society has a Burchfield days to his last years as an artist. A 250-page cata­ Room which displays photos adjacent to reproduc­ log _is also planned to be published along with the tion of his paintings. teryears exhibit, which would also be on view at two other With the Burchfield Centenary approaching, more museums. The L.A. Museum in Calfomia is one_of information is being sought about the artist's A weekly historicafjournal the other museums interested in the exhibition. background. · Published by the Salem News The Salem Art Institute, a branch of the Butler Yesteryears will attempt to help by showing Founded June 5, 1991 Inst~tute of American Art, is expected to open in the reproductions of his paintings in which the site has 161 N. Lincoln Ave. fall. Butler Director Louis Zona said that Burchfield not been identified. Anyone who has any personal Salem, Ohio 44460 would play an important part in exhibits to be memories of Burchfield- he left Salem in 1921 but Phone (216) 332-4601 planned for the branch, whicn would be just east of later made some trips back here - is urged to share Thomas E. Spargur, Publisher/General Manager the Society Bank on State Street. with us those memories. Harry L. Stewart, Managing Editor Lois A. Firestone, Weekly Editor Marcia M. Hazel, Advertising Executive Staff Contributors Richard Wootten · Cathie McCullough Aleks Dolzenko Contributors Dale E. Shaffer William Kibler Gordon Calvin Frank C. Dawson Paul Niederhiser Dennis Niederhiser Charles Snyder John Litty Salem Historical Society Greenford Historical Society East Liverpool Historical Society Train depot was a busy place The. Greenford train depot (above a.nd belo.w) in the early 1900s, managed lJy Oliver and Elvira Walter. A bevy of ei:<_ht _young laftdzes pose for tlJ,e photographer while waztmg for the. tram. (below, rjght} Mrs. Walter can be seen in the foreo-round of fhe Bottom le pFzoto; holding a package to be sent on the Ene Railway tram lme. , 0 The railroad station at Greenford was a bustHng place in ages sent by train went out on time. the morning and late afternoons from the early 1900s and on into the 1930s. In an era when few people drove their horse-drawn car­ The Erie Railroad run went north and south twice a day. ria~es to work and before the automobile came along, the The daily starting point was at Canfield moving south, tram was the only means of transportation for them to get to their jobs further south. first to Greenford, then on to Washingtoriville, Leetonia ' and Lisbon. Most of them were worked in the fields and offices of Oliver and Elvira Walter managed the station for years, ~he Templin Nursery in Calla, one of the biggest employers checking schedules, selling tickets and making sure pack- m the area . 50 years ago in the sports columns of the Salem News 50 YEARS AGO: The Salem High tennis team stretched knocked out-a homer-for the Recreation while Gray did the its total victory string to 6 with a 5-1 rout of the Sebring same for the Furnacers. High racqueteers. Salem victories in the singles included Sebring used four pitchers, Gorbey, McEdie, Bradley and Ritchie over Hetherington, 6-4, 6-3; Baillie vs.
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