Voter registration drive fuels racial economic war in Tennessee county
In Fayette County Tennessee a white led campaign to register African American voters triggers economic pressure. Merchants deny Negro buyers, farmers mortgage farms for machinery, and a gas boycott disrupts fuel for Black farmers as leaders push to shift power at the ballot box.
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Somerville
Tenn
Cotton
Landords
White Citizens Council
Fayette County
Memphis
Mississippi
Roy Coleson
Falcon
Coleson
Movie Volcano Turns Real at Stockton Ritz Theater
In Stockton California a fake volcano scene at the Ritz Theater for Masters of the Kong Jungle fooled the projectionist and sparked a real blaze. Flames from the crater burned a hole in the roof and damaged the screen as manager Max Knauss estimated losses at 10000 dollars with patrons leaving calmly.
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Stockton, Calif
Ritz
Max Knauss
Knauss
Squeeze and tanker driver tense in quiet confrontation
A man at a local service station describes a tense incident with a tanker driver during the big squeeze. He says he could have stopped the truck but there was no threat and that he only talked to him.
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McFerren
Memphis
Ted Davis
Fayette County
Lyou
Somerville
Rube Rhea
Rhea
McFerjien
O. D. Maclin
Toring
Whitesville
Maclin
W. H.wharton Transport
Southern Petroleum Co., Inc
Davis
Reckless Driving Arrest In Liberal Car Sighting
Night patrolman Jack Call heard a noise and turned to see a foreign made car stalking him on the Liberal sidewalk. Driver Jim Ulmer was booked for reckless driving and forfeited $50 in police court.
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Liberal
Kan
Jack Call
Call
Jim Ulmer
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Tennessee County
John Cunniff
John McFerren
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Shep Towles
Towles
Shep
Ashable
High Point
Greensboro Road
Dupont
Dave
Marshall E. Ginsburg
Church Street
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