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...Federal anti-lynching law officially became Item No. 1 on the N. A. A. C. P. schedule. The White argument, ceaselessly drummed into Negroes and white legislators alike, was that while talk is long, the rope is short ?that in the 13 years between the Dyer filibuster and the filibuster that wrecked the Wagner-Costigan bill, mobs had lynched with practical impunity more than 290 U. S. Negroes...
...Parkways and Land Values" by Henry Vincent Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton professor of Regional Planning and John Nolen, late lecturer in City Planning, 135 pages, 30 illustrations, $1.50. Examining both the nature of a parkway and their values, this volume presents a mass of expert information that may be used for valid judgment in particular cases of proposed parkways...
Wearing a WPA badge and serving as a volunteer policeman at the scene of the discovery of the bodies was slim, 32-year-old Albert Dyer who had known the three little girls from his year's work as a traffic guard in front of the Centinela grammar school. At the discovery of the bodies, he asked men in the crowd not to smoke "out of respect to the dead." That night his 24-year-old wife Isabel helped him add the day's newspaper clippings about the tragedy to a scrapbook he had begun when the girls...
This week from Los Angeles' skyscraper jail where police had taken him to prevent a lynching attempt, came the name of the murderer to Mrs. Dyer. It was her own husband...
Weeping, shuddering, fainting at one point in the questioning. Murderer Dyer told how he had urged the girls to come with him into the Baldwin Hills where they would catch rabbits. They met him Saturday afternoon and walked back into the gullied wilderness where they built a fire. To catch the rabbits the girls were to be placed separately at different spots. "I left Jeanette and Melba sitting there, I took Madeline up the canyon. . . . After I choked her there with my hands ... I tied a piece of rope around her neck to make sure she was dead." Then...