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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1928
Page
10
Wayne Neville, a Kansas City based air mail pilot on the Chicago-Dallas route, died when his plane encountered a severe windstorm and crashed near Lebo Kansas about 20 miles east of Emporia.
New York June 22 The picture of Governor Smith in the prohibition film Deliverance will be deleted to avoid unfavorable light. Stanley's Advertising Co making the film for Robert E Corradini research secretary of the World League Against Alcohol will deliver the version without the governor's flash. George B Graves secretary to the governor warned newsreel firms against commercial use. The Y M C A motion picture bureau said it would block any showing featuring the governor without consent.
Amelia Earhart tours Toynbee Hall and the East End slums of London returning to social work after her Atlantic flight. Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon helped place a wreath at the Cenotaph and plan to wreath Sir John Alcock’s grave in Manchester tomorrow.
Georgia sportsmen group the Blue Heron Club will meet in Brunswick on June 30 to approve plans for a club house pier and pavilion on Blue Heron Island off the Georgia coast. Hal M. Stanley of Atlanta is president. the island lies seven miles from Brunswick and will be connected to Blythe Island by road to Coastal Highway for automobile access.
The piece lists members of the governing board including C. B. Conyers and Peter S. Twitty, with others from Georgia cities. It notes Proctor fainted, pests causing limited damage so far, rising cotton spot demand, and weekly southern sales totaling 29,201 bales versus 17,421 last year. Magnolia Mississippi reports first cotton bloom, while Corpus Christi cites blight causing leaves and bolls drop at Woodsboro.
Roanoke Va June 22 forty eight uninstructed Virginia Democrats will cast the state's 24 votes in Houston next week and demand a dry plank in the national platform. The convention wrote a dry plank in the state platform and decided without a predicted fight to send an uninstructed delegation. The delegates will not be bound by the unit rule unless applied at the convention.
Athens Georgia June 22 Abundant Georgia peach crop prompts use of trucks to distribute to southern towns. Hiley peaches ready around July 1 in Americus Fort Valley and Macon areas. Quality peaches in sound condition and attractive containers speed sales and profits. poor fruit leads to losses. Two key goals: profit and customer satisfaction.
Five men in Houston were held without bond on murder charges connected to the lynching of Robert Powell a 24 year old black man accused of killing a detective. Wheeler said he joined a raid on Jefferson Davis Hospital to abduct Powell who was under guard after a gun battle that killed Detective A W Davis. Wheeler named six others in the raid, four of whom had been arrested.
The Dallas News weekly summary reports Texas cotton has improved greatly this past week yet remains two to three weeks late. Weevils and other pests are mentioned as ongoing concerns affecting yields.
Nicholas Lee Eagles 32 Samuel Moreno 20 and John Proctor 19 were executed today in the District of Columbia jail for the September 1926 killing of Policeman Leo W. K. Busch after a long legal fight that reached the Supreme Court and President Coolidge. The district’s second electric chair execution followed a recent substitution of the chair for the gallows.
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