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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1930
Page
3
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Chicago opens a unified crime clearing house in a Loop skyscraper led by acting Commissioner John W. Alcock and top officials from Cook County. The drive aims to solve the murder of Tribune reporter Alfred Jake Lingle and reallocate 700 of 900 detectives to patrol duties.
The John M Youngs will filed for probate in New Berry Michigan on June 20 proposes an affordable funeral. It calls for a monument not exceeding 150 dollars with musicians as pallbearers playing non religious pieces and a lively tune at the grave. The executors are to buy 100 cigars for attendees.
Mobile Alabama June 20 Authorities resume steps to identify the charred body found in Harold Schroeder's burning car near Indianapolis Indiana May 31 A possible lead links to Anthony Janulewicz of Manticoke Pennsylvania A hitchhiker and a blanket marked S A H 5 are key clues as investigators reassess the case and await new information from Indianapolis authorities
Harold IV Pattee Jr of Pomona College won the national intercollegiate oratorical contest on the constitution in Los Angeles. He earned 1500 dollars with runners up Doyle of St Xavier and Lar son of Augusta College securing 1000 and 750 dollars respectively.
Spokane June 20 Dr William Muhlberg of Cincinnati president of the association of life insurance medical directions says golf is harmful. He cites frustration and anger on the course that can raise a golfer's blood pressure while addressing life insurance agents.
Fragmentary report describes a funeral where pallbearers and hearse drivers smoke from start to finish. An executrix pledges to purchase candy and gum for women and children, promising a good time on the speaker.
In Kilby prison near Montgomery, three Black men were executed by electric chair in Alabama's first triple execution. Roy Lee Miles slain Union Springs Mayor O A Barbaree. Sedgar Harris beat postmaster Hugo Moss to death. Jack Bowen, Harris co-defendant, shared the Moss killing. Union Springs police chief J J Brabham said Miles fired first. Harris walked in defiantly and smoked a cigar as straps were secured.
Weather Bureau notes mostly fair conditions in Thoronaville and vicinity with high temperatures near 100 degrees in the Cotton Belt. Report covers precipitation totals since month start and January first, humidity, and remarks on cooler upper Missouri Valley and Pacific states. Oklahoma farming trends show larger, fewer farms per a survey by Oklahoma A and M college.
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