Klan Searches For Successor to Dr. Green
Imperial Wizard Samuel Green dies from a heart attack at 59 leaving the Ku Klux Klan to name a successor. The leadership faces public scrutiny as authorities call the group subversive and unmasking orders ripple through klaverns near Chattanooga Tennessee. Green was a longtime Klansman and Atlanta native with Emory and Eclectic Medical College training. He is survived by his wife two sons and a daughter with funeral services tentatively set for Saturday.
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Samuel Green
Ku Klux Klan
Klan
Ku Kluxer
Dr. Green
South
Green
Atlanta
Emory-at-Oxford
Eclectic Medical College
Cincinnati
Ohio
Samuel, Jr
Alfred J
Virginia
Train fireman Killed Near Farmer City in Freight Crash
Roy Bein a 45 year old New York Central fireman who lived on a farm west of Farmer City for 15 years was killed in a freight train accident near Mackinaw Thursday. He is survived by his wife Golda Johnson of Farmer City his mother Mrs Martha Bein a sister Mrs Earl Garrett and two brothers Clif ford Decatur and Mike Champaign. Funeral services set for 2 p m Sunday at Stensil funeral home Farmer City with burial in Riverside cemetery Saybrook.
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Roy Bein
New York Central
Mackinaw
Here
N.Y.C
Golda Johnson
Farmer City
Martha Bein
Earl Garrett
Champaign
Clifford
Decatur
Mike
Stensil Funeral Home
Riverside Cemetery
Saybrook
Eggplant Rounds Fried in Butter with Breadcrumbs
Thick slices of eggplant are dipped in salted peppered egg, rolled in fine dry breadcrumbs, then fried slowly in a small amount of butter or margarine until lightly browned and tender.
McNear’s Son Killed in Italy on Mount Blanc
James Graham McNear 21 son of Peoria railroad president George P. McNear died in a climbing accident on Mount Blanc. Dr John Frederick Speck 29 of the University of Chicago also perished. Dispatch from Courmayeur says rope failed during ascent of the Giant's Tooth. McNear's father was assassinated on March 10 1947 during a strike on his Toledo Peoria and Western feeder line.
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James Graham McNear
Peoria, Ill
Mount Blanc
John Frederick Speck
University of Chicago
Europe
Courmayeur
Italy
McNear
Spech
George P. McNear
Toledo, Peoria, & Western Railroad
Mountain climbers' bodies found by guides near Courmayeur
Mountain guides recovered the bodies of two American climbers and brought them to a mortuary in Courmayeur. One climber, Speck, was an associate in biochemistry at the Chicago school. The deaths mark the fifth and sixth such recent victims on the icy peak amid freak summer snows. The youth left a mother and siblings in Peoria and Moline. another brother, George P. McNear III, was killed in World War II as a navy pilot.
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Courmayeur
Speck
Biochemistry
Chicago School
John
Elizabeth
Peoria
Clinton
Moline
George P. McNear
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