Police raid nets quartet at Front Street boardinghouse
Four negroes were arrested in a raid on 110 Front Street by Agnes Smith, three charged with gambling and one for intoxication. Agnes Smith found guilty of permitting gambling. fined $15 and jailed six days. Williams and Blgett fined 5 each for playing Coon Can. Jean McCarter discharged after drunkenness reprimand as she and Silas McCarter plan marriage.
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Front Street
Agnes Smith
A. E. Lockard
E. Otto Waugh
Ed Williams
William Blgett
Jean McCarter
Silas McCarter
Waugh
Silas
McCarter
Cleveland
Ohio
Williams
Lockard
Hilkey Ordered to Pay Wife Four Dollars Weekly
Hilkey must pay his wife four dollars weekly for their son's support. Justice Ona C. Jefferys delivered the verdict on a non support complaint from Mildred Hilkey. Hilkey was arrested by city police, pledged to comply, and posted a five hundred dollar bond as security.
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Hayward Hilkey
Charles Warder Hilkey
Justice of the Peace
Ona C. Jefferys
Mildred Hilkey
Hilkey
Obstructing Traffic Led to Fine After December 5 Incident
Fay McVicker paid a $10 fine and costs for obstructing traffic on Cecil road as Magistrate Ona Jefferys ordered. State Trooper L. W. Emerick made the arrest. The report details a highway robbery gang and a gun battle with a posse at a mountain cabin, wounding Leonard Barrett of Morristown and taxi driver Gray Essary who pursued the robbers. Elements describe a prison escape by McCoig and others kidnapping Deputy Warden Ed Connors, later freed unharmed, with Moss captured later in Bunch town. associates linked to Clarence Bunch, slain gang leader from last year.
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Fay McVicker
Ona Jefferys
L. W. Emerick
Union County
Leonard Barrett
Morristown
Tenn
Gray Essary
Essary
McCoig
Dean
George Wilbur Moss
Ed Connors
Moss
Bunchtown
East Tennesee
Clarence Bunch
Bank Robbery Victims Stir Tennessee Vigil
Sheriff reports three gunmen robbed a New Tazewell bank of about $1000, killed Sheriff L B Hutchison during their flight, and wounded a posseman. Frank Hopson, 22, surrendered and admitted involvement. Mountain riflemen joined officers hunting two escaped convicts Gus McCoig 22 and Pete Dean 18 who abducted a deputy warden in a bold Nashville penitentiary break.
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New Tazewell
Tenn
Frank Riley
Frank Hopson
Claiborne County
L. B. Hutchison
Union County
Window Broken In Auto At Grafton Park Dam Site
D M Summers reported damage to his car at Grafton City Park noting a broken window and ransacked interior with nothing missing. The vandalism occurred between midnight and early morning. Police have opened an investigation led by Chief A E Lockare.
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D. M. Summers
A. E. Lockare
A. m
Grafton City Park
Summers
Carfare Deputy Warden Recalls Escape Incident
Deputy Warden Ed Connor recounts how U S deputies hunted three Tennessee prison escapees across west Tennessee. Connor says he was released unharmed two miles from Nashville by the convicts who tried to rob him. One convict gave him a dime so he wouldn’t have to walk back.
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Connor
U. S
Tennessee
Tennessee State
Nashville
Ed Connor
Jennings Randolph Addresses Collegiate Editors
Montgomery West Virginia delegates to the West Virginia Intercollegiate Press association heard founder Jennings Randolph speak. He started station 14 years ago as Salem College student editor and urged college papers to guide public opinion to counter subversive influence in learning institutions. He warned educational staffs may be influenced by the Communist International.
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Montgomery
W. Va
West Virginia Intercollegiate Press Association
Jennings Randolph
As Station
Salem College
College
Daily Press
Communist Internationale
Insurrection Law Ruled Unconstitutional in Herndon Case
Superior Judge Hugh M. Dorsey found Georgia's old insurrection law unconstitutional in the Angelo Herndon case, but remanded him to custody for 20 days to allow an appeal. Herndon, a Cincinnati Negro communist, had been convicted of attempting to incite insurrection by distributing communistic literature three years ago and sentenced to 18 to 20 years. He sought release on habeas corpus.
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Atlanta
Hugh M. Dorsey
Georgia
Angelo Herndon
Cincinnati
Herndon
Tut Curse Again Strikes Egyptologist Breasted
Dr James L Breasted 69 year old Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute of Chicago fell ill with malaria in New York. Some recall the King Tut curse linked to the Earl of Carnavon expedition nine years ago. Twenty one linked deaths cited locally.
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James L. Breasted
New York
Breasted
Oriental Institute of Chicago
Earl of Carnavon
King Tut
Egypt
Poor Father Ends His Life Fearing No Santa Claus
In Baltimore a 23 year old man Alfred J Satti hanged himself in a police station cell after his wife Emma found his body. He was frail and jobless, with a history of poverty and illness including two deceased children. He had tapped gas and electric lines to save for Betty May’s Christmas toys, hoping to provide gifts before his death.
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Baltimore
Betty May Satti
Santa Claus
Alfred J. Satti
Emma
Betty May
Satti
Satci
Betty
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