It Is Ready For Burial The Klan’s Decline Noted In North Carolina
In Bill Baggs column the judge in Whiteville, North Carolina, sentenced Thomas L. Hamilton and 62 Klansmen after hooded violence. The piece argues the Ku Klux Klan is near death across the South, lamenting the era of terror and praising legal action against its leaders.
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Bill Baggs
Daily News
Mr. Baggs
Thomas L. Hamilton
Mr. Hamilton
South
Carolinas
Ku Klux Klan
Pacific
Atlantic
Old Tom
Hamilton
Dixie
Whiteville
GOP Woman Awards 1000 Eisenhower Scholarship to Negro Girl
Mrs. Geraldine L. Thompson, former New Jersey RNC woman, gave Barbara Williams a $1000 Eisenhower scholarship at a United Women's Republican Club meeting in Monmouth County. Williams, 17, from Middletown, scored 92 at Middletown Township High and was accepted by Cornell but lacked funds. Thompson hopes to spur further awards for worthy colored students.
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NEW York
ANP
Geraldine L. Thompson
Republican National
Williams
Tindall Road
Middletown
Middletown Township High School
Cornell
Thompson
Racial bias hurts U.S. image abroad at Vassar event
Elea nor Roosevelt told a weekend Christians and Jews conference at Vassar College that race tensions and prejudices undermine democracy. She urged Americans to build moral backbone and foster global tolerance, insisting citizens must act as better neighbors to prove democracy works.
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Poughkeepsie
ANP
Eleanor Roosevelt
Vassar College
United States
Vet Dies After Release by Hospital
Mary Louise Brown seeks probe into the death of her husband James A. Brown a 28 year old IRT subway change agent who collapsed on a street after being struck on the head with a metal toy pistol during an attempted holdup. He died two hours after receiving treatment at Unity Hospital. An ambulance was summoned from Kings County Hospital about a mile away though Unity Hospital was only half a block away.
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Brooklyn
ANP
Mary Louise Brown
James A. Brown
Unity Hospital
Kings County Hospital
Barbara's Gift Honors Birthday And Nominee
Barbara immediately offered a thousand dollars to the girl, citing her 80th birthday and support for the Republican presidential nominee.
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Barbara
Johnson-Knight's Singers At Lib-City Drive-In
The Johnson-Knight's Singers will perform in Miami at Lib-City City Drive-In on Sunday August 10 at 7 30 p m before a double feature. The five member group includes John Hall Jr Leon Rutherford Clara McDowell Adela Rutherford Lois Jones James Laider and Ethel Lewis with Mrs Cole as accompanist. Director Task presents Lovely to Look at a Red Skelton Kathryn Grayson Anne Miller cast plus Dial 1119 with Marshall Thompson and Virginia Field. Both parts offered at no price increase.
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Johnson-Knight
Miami
John Hall Jr
Leon Rutherford
Clara McDowell
Adela Rutherford
Lois Jones
James Laider
Ethel Lewis
Mrs. Cole
Task
Red Skelton
Kathryn Grayson
Anne Miller
Marshall Thompson
Virginia Field
Woman Shuts Mouth of Friend in Detroit Fight
Eliza Pritchard 48 and Jessica Jones 41 argued about gas stove lighting. Pritchard allegedly warned she would close Jones mouth and carried out the threat. Jones lost her lower lip and three fingers on her right hand. she was taken to Receiving hospital. Pritchard was charged with assault and battery.
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Detroit
ANP
Eliza Pritchard
Jessie Jones
Mrs. Jones
Dorothy Dandridge to star in See How They Run
Hollywood reports Dorothy Dandridge will headline the Metro Goldwyn Mayer production See How They Run. The project marks a rare occasion in Hollywood history with a screenplay by a Black author reaching release after Earlier 1920s entries like Wallace Thurman’s Wednesday's Children.
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Hollywood
Cal
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Talkies
Wallace Thurman
East
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