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Died. Dr. Samuel ("Sam") White Small, So, editorial writer for the Atlanta Constitution, religious and political writer; after long ill health resulting from a fall which broke his hip when he was covering the Republican convention in Kansas City in 1928; in Atlanta, Ga...
...lynchees were "certainly innocent" of any crime. At Mount Vernon, Ga., black S. S. Mincey, local G. 0. Politician, pressed his partisan agitation too far for the comfort of Democrats. A masked mob dragged him from his home, beat in his skull, left him to die from concussion of the brain. At Thomasville, Ga., black Lacy Mitchell dared to testify against two white men charged with raping a Negro woman. Four men, the defendants' friends, dragged Lacy Mitchell from his home, shot him dead...
Lassiter caught the Army kick-off and was downed on the Yale 22-yd. line. Lassiter got up but an Army end who had tried to tackle him did not. He, Richard Brinsley Sheridan,* of Augusta, Ga., lay motionless, sprawled on his back. The Army trainer ran out from the sidelines, knelt beside Sheridan. Then two cadets lifted Sheridan onto a stretcher and carried him off the field. The game continued and ended...
Birthplace of Methodism in the U. S. was Savannah, Ga., where John Wesley preached and Charles Wesley sang hymns in their first U. S. meeting (1736). To see relics and memorials of the Brothers Wesley this week will go 550 delegates to the Sixth Ecumenical Conference of Methodism, which opened its meetings last week in Atlanta. Held every ten years, it was the second ecumenical conference to meet in the U. S., the first to meet in the South...
...Macon, Ga., James Henry Watts laughed, dislocated his jaw. He went to a hospital, had the jaw set, departed, laughed again, returned, had the jaw set again, departed, laughed a third time, went back and had his jaw taped up so he could not laugh. James Henry Watts now titters through his teeth...