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...papers chose to print the photographs of the victims as a Horrible Example. Among those that did were the Oakland Post-Enquirer, Santa Cruz News and Sentinel, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Medford (Ore.) Mail-Tribune, Prescott (Ariz.) Journal-Miner, Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle, Oklahoma City News, Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette, Anderson (S. C.) Independent, Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff News, Kingston (N. C.) Free Press, New York City Daily News, Mirror, American and Journal. The Los Angeles La Opinion painted shorts on Holmes, lengthened Thurmond's shirt. The Newark, N. J.. Star Eagle painted trousers on Holmes...
Died. Dr. William Joseph McGlothlin, 65, president of Furman University (Greenville. S. C.); of injuries suffered in an automobile wreck while driving to the Southern Baptist Convention; in Gastonia; N. C. His wife, Mary Brezeale McGlothlin, was also killed...
...onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits from Biltmore, hosiery from Morganton, coughdrops (Vick's) from Greensboro, thread from Gastonia...
There are in the U. S. some 500,000 Greeks, colonized chiefly in New York and Chicago. In the county and town of Gastonia. N. C. (pop. 17,000), famed for its gory mill strike three years ago, are some 2,000 Greeks. Gastonia has also a Karyae Park, assembly grounds for the National Karyae (social and athletic organization). Last week 3,000 Greeks, including many prominent churchmen, editors and businessmen, gathered near Karyae Park to see dedicated Monastery St. Stephanos, first of its kind...
...Stephano brothers bought from Gastonia bondholders 416 acres of land and five buildings (present assessments: $65,000) of abandoned Linwood College for Girls. These they gave to Archbishop Athenogoras, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North & South America. Monastery St. Stephanos will get a new chapel, will serve as a haven for aged Greek Orthodox priests and an orphanage where instruction will be given in Greek and English...