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—Centra! Press.JOSKPII S. GEIDKKSActing on charges of Joseph S. Gelders (above), former Universityof Alabama instructor who was ao-aucted by t!i~ee unidentified men in Birmingham and then severelyhogged because of his activities on behalf of political prisoners, Gov. Bibb Grave.* ordered the chief of the plate highway patrol to got to the bottom” of the affair. Gelders, whois secretary of the Committee for Defenpe of Political Prisoners, recently had opened an office in Birmingham and was working toward the release of Jack Barton, serving a long prison sentence on a charge of “distributing subversive literature.”
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Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 05, 1936
Page 6
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