For the week ending May 7, 1936

SCHOOLS CLOSING FOR CIRCUS HERE

School children of Bend will have no temptation to play hookey next Thursday afternoon when the big Tom Mix circus comes to town, for Bend school officials are anxious to see the circus too. Superintendent R.E. McCormack, after a conference with members of the school board, announced today that all schools in the city, with an enrollment of 2,000 pupils, will close no later than 12 o’clock Thursday afternoon.

A survey showed nearly 1,400 of the 2,000 pupils in the grade schools and high school were planning to go to the circus, McCormack said.

The Bend High School band, 35 musicians under the direction of Homer Waltz, will be on hand Thursday morning at 11:45 o’clock to greet the Tom Mix circus, and will parade down Wall street during the noon hour.

The circus will be held on the Elks baseball field.

The time lost Thursday afternoon will be made up by lengthening school days next week, Superintendent McCormack announced.

ALVIN KARPIS, PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1, CAUGHT

Shackled hand and foot, Alvin Karpis, public enemy No. 1, was brought to St. Paul by airliner chartered by G-men today.

The stammering, pasty-faced, gunman, captured at New Orleans last night without a shot being fired, probably will be tried for kidnapping William Hamm, Jr., a wealthy brewer.

Barely 16 hours after the capture in New Orleans, he was returned to the city where allegedly he engineered two of the nation’s most sensational kidnappings, those of Hamm and Edward G. Bremer.

Today Karpis, the most hunted fugitive since the days of John Dilinger, was the central figure in the last chapter of the melodramatic saga of the mad band of machine gun killers.

J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal bureau of investigation, directed Karpis’ removal from the plane.

E.J. Connally, head of the department’s “kidnap squad”, also was on the plane.