Verne Miller the Quick-Shooting Sheriff Turns Rogue
The fast gunman ex-sheriff from South Dakota, Verne C Miller, linked to the Urschel kidnapping and Union Station massacre, hid in a Kansas City Edgevale Road bungalow while plotting to free Frank Nash. Investigators trace his associates, noting a New York license plate tie to victims and his rapid fall from honor to outlaw.
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Don Huntley
Miller
Chas. P. Warren
Montana
Huron
Twin Cities
Edgevale Road
Kansas City
W. C. Moore
Moore
Chevrolet
Moores
No. 6612
Union Station
Edgervale Road
Nash
Verne C. Miller
South Dakota
George
Kelly
Harvey Bailey
Urschel
Bailey
Haskell Bohn
St. Paul
Charles Boettcher
Denver
Chicago
New York
Verne Miller
Kansas City Union Station
Local Socials and Community Events Reported
Mrs Earlene Ballinger hosts a Halloween room decorated dinner for friends at Hobson street featuring a four course meal. Modernistic Bridge club uses profits to buy milk for undernourished Leonard Street School children. William Penn High PTA elects Letisia Yokely as delegate for state meeting in Raleigh. Mrs Lampkin, NAACP field secretary, addresses mass meeting at St Mark s M E church detailing NC and national work and calls for renewed support, praising 24 years of organization service and welcome young leadership.
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Thomas B. Smith
Modernistic Club
Modernistic Bridge Club
Leonard Street
William Penn High School
Parent Teachers Association
Letisia Yokely
Raleigh
Leaders urged younger generation to take NAACP leadership
In Raleigh a mass meeting praised youth leadership and pledged long term NAACP program support. Winston-Salem officials W A Jones and E C Mitchell spoke as the drive for 1000 local members began, appointing ten captains to recruit 100 members each.
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Raleigh
W. A. Jones
Winston-Salem
E. C. Mitchell
North Carolina
G. E. Nightingale
Lenora Lee
Mary Women
Ora Paige
Fred White
FE. J. Hath
Charles Mat
Local Exchange Registrations and 1938 Gas Tax Total
The Community Exchange logged registrations including a white woman seeking professional child care, a white woman desiring wheelchair rental, an exchange offer for heater and baby carriage for yard work, and a man offering any work for clothes or cash. Rev Lomax chaired. Zeke Wright and H P Strw noted. Federal gasoline tax take for eight months in 1938 reached 100,309,272 dollars.
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Community Exchange
Central Friends to mark 50th anniversary with scholar visits
Central Friends church in High Point hosts a week of events for the 50th anniversary. Noted speakers include Dr. Rufus M. Jones of Haverford and Dr. Henry J. Cadbury of Bryn Mawr, with services, music, and social events led by Rev. Tom Alderman Sykes and others.
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Central Friends Church
High Point
Rufus M. Jones
Haverford College
Henry J. Cadbury
Bryn Mawr
Tom Alderman Sykes
Lewis M. McFarland
Bible School Assembly
Brotherhood
Norman Fidler
Florence Blair
Jones
H. A. White
Alpheus M. Briggs
Christian Endeavor
Joseph H. Peele
Cadbury
Samuel L. Haworth
Guilford College
Haworth
Sykes
Engine maintenance advice and bird strikes at Detroit airfield
All scale and rust should be removed from the engine jacket and the cooling system tightened before adding antifreeze. Pilots operating from Detroit city airport report pigeons attacking planes during takeoff and landing at the tied.
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Detroit City
Pela E
Also Mentioned on This Page
Killer
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Ureche
Acin
American Lion Post
Kiwanis
Frank Nash
Fort Leavenworth
Hot Springs
Heath
Ithe
Ibs
Mall
Hams
Lindsay Street
Colored News
Flapper
Fanny
Wea
Zeke Wright
H. P. Strw
Rev. Lomax
Burns
Wagger’s Jewelry CO
Central Friends
S. Robinowitz
Main and
East Washington Streets
NRA
Belk - Stevens
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