Carolina-Virginia Fair Opens Next Week
The Carolina Virginia Fair announces numerous new features with opening day set for next Tuesday. Secretary Linville leads a large staff and expects expanded exhibits, plus mid way attractions from Nat Reiss shows and nightly fireworks. Adult admission 50 cents, children 25 cents, parking free, school-day free entry for pupils, and extensive exhibits from Park Mountain Institute, Jersey cattle, poultry, and Live-At-Home displays.
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Linville
Nat Reiss
Agricultural Department
Dobson Schools
Park Mountain Institute
Institute
Pine Hurst
Leonard Turfis
North Carolina
Mr. Cole
Patrick County
Grayson County
Richmond
R. H. Leonard
J. H. Hall
Westfield
J. Luther Wood
Jersey
G. W. White
Surry County
Eleven Year International Checkers Match Ends In Draw
York South Carolina reports a world-record length checkers game lasting 11 years played by Ernest Jackson of York and James McGregor of New South Wales. Moves were sent by correspondence every two months, spanning 1914 to recently, ending in a draw with both players eager for a rematch.
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York
S. C
Ernest Jackson
Southern Checker Association
James McGregor
New South Wales
Australia
United States
Pacific Ocean
Jackson
Mr. McGregor
Submarine S-51 Victims Die Instantly After Sinking
At New London October 2 divers confirm all aboard the S-51 perished when the submarine was rammed and sunk by the City of Rome off Block Island. Of 36 crewmen, 3 lived, 33 died. bodies recovered include 4 from the wreck. Salvage operations proceed under Admiral Christy with bodies to be identified.
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U. SS
New London
Conn
City of Rome
Block Island
U. S. Camden
Rome
Washington
H. H. Christy
Two Black Men Die On Electric Chair In North Carolina
Raleigh October 2 The ousted chair carried out executions of John MacMillan alias John Hamilton and Tom Robinson capital felons against white women. Robinson denied guilt while MacMillan confessed. The first inmate spoke to heaven while the second confessed and both were strapped into the renovated chair as officials watched the current deliver the deaths.
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Raleigh
John MacMillan
John Hamilton
Tom Robinson
Commonwealth
Robinson
McMillian
Norman
Warden Thomas
Louisburg
Thomas
Brother Knight
Lawrence Waring
Moore County
Knight
MacMillan
Mount Airy High Beats Pilot Mountain 13 to 0 on Muddy Field
Mount Airy highs defeated Pilot Mountain 13 to 0 in a muddy Friday clash. A 60 yard Hollfield run set up the first score, Brannock punched in from three yards, and Johnson added a second TD in the second period with Brannock kicking the extra point.
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Mount Airy
Pilot Mountain
Ormond Declines Blood Plea in Cole Murder Case
Rev. A L Ormond of Nashville visits Rockingham to see William B Cole murder case defendant. Ormond says he seeks justice, not clemency, and attends church with his daughters. Cole, jailed, discusses life in prison and faces cross examination by Clyde Hoey. lawyers prepare evening sessions as the jury nears verdict.
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Cole
Rockingham
A. L. Ormond
Nashville
William B. Cole
William
Ormond
McLean
Mr. Ormond
Rockingham Methodist Church
Ormonds
Little Green Hill
Bill
Union County
Ole
Elizabeth
Katherine
Richmond
Robert
Duke University
Clyde Hoey
Finley
Elizabeth Cole
Bill Ormond
Slandered Daughter Output Drove Rockingham Slaying
In Rockingham North Carolina on October 2 William B Cole wealthy cotton mill executive testified he killed William W Ormond in August after receiving a February letter alleging Ormond and his daughter Elizabeth Cole had a husband wife relationship He claimed he feared an attack and cited mental instability from the harassing letters and visits as factors in the fatal shooting with Ormond seated in a car and unarmed
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Rockingham
N. C
William B. Cole
William W. Ormond
Cole
Ormond
Elizabeth Cole
Miss Cole
Fred Bynum
Bynum
Elf
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Carolina
Virginia
Ager
J. D. Minick
Robert J. Lovill
Moore
McMillan
Joe Stone
Mounty Eleven
Mountain Team
W. B. Cole
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