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Last month in her little schoolhouse outside Maryville, Mo., Schoolma'am Velma Colter, 20, was raped, murdered. To the crime Raymond Gunn, Negro, confessed. Last week he was being taken from the Maryville jail to the courthouse to stand trial when a mob snatched him out of the hands of Sheriff Havre English, noisily marched him out of town toward the rural schoolhouse. Hundreds followed the procession, heard Gunn beg for mercy...
...Governor-solid, persevering, long-mustached Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt of Arizona who lately failed of reelection for his seventh term (TIME, Nov. 12) walked quietly down the Capitol steps. He explained that the blow he had received was "inadvertently brought about when State Senator Colter moved his arms in argument...
Argument in the Southwest has arisen bitterly and often over the subject Governor Hunt and Mr. Colter had been discussing-the Swing-Johnson bill, pending these several years in Congress, for the construction by the U. S. of a 550-ft., $125,000,000 power and irrigation dam (world's highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson...
...Arizonans are bitter-enders. The Hunt-Colter fracas last week was only a minor skirmish on one side of the lines that will join battle again in Washington this winter...
...line-up: HARVARD. BROWN. LeMoyne, Burgess, l.e. r.e., Russ Parkinson, l.t. r.t., Webb Robinson, Carrick, l.g. r.g., Fletcher Sugden, Wilder, c. c., Colter A. Marshall, r.g. l.g., MacGregor, Leland Meier, r.t. l.t., Higgins Bowditch, Montgomery, r.e. l.e., Schwinn C. B. Marshall, q.b. q.b., Scudder, Schwartz Nichols, Harrison, l.h.b. r.h.b., Curtis, Pearsall Hurley, r.h.b. l.h.b., Walsh Schoellkopf, f.b. f.b., Heckman...