Word: coder
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city hall steps (immediately after their release from jail) by 14 kidnappers, allegedly Klansmen, to a secluded spot where they were flogged with ropes and left bound & bleeding. Neither victim was again heard of. Haled before District Judge Grover Adams to tell the source...