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Dynamic little "Mickey" O'Reilly will call the plays to a backfield of Captain Bill Karaban, one of the best triple-threat backs in the East, Perry Elrod, and either Norm Appleyard, Lea Beatty, or Guy Burt in the blocking post. Harry Spinney, the fastest man in the squad, will be ready to step into the Bruin backfield at any time...
...Knoxville Journal's front page of the same day was splashed a six- column close-up picture of the bare, bloody torso of a dead gunman, punctured by 23 police bullets. Such journalistic antics were unknown on the sedate Journal while Luke Lea owned it. But with onetime Publisher Lea in a North Carolina prison, the newspaper's control has been vested in the remote, impersonal hands of New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. and the present titular owner, Nat G. Taylor, son of Tennessee's late Governor. Meanwhile the editorial staff has delighted in doing as it pleases. City...
From North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh, Luke Lea Jr., son of Convict No. 29,409, was paroled after serving eleven weeks of a two-to-six-year sentence for bank fraud...
Died. Henry Hollis Horton. 68, one-time (1927-33) Governor of Tennessee; after a long illness: in Chapel Hill. Tenn. In 1931 an attempt to impeach him. charging connivance with Publisher Luke Lea (now in a Federal jail for misapplication of funds), was voted down...
When Colonel Lea came home he got into the newspaper and general promotion business. He became Banker Rogers Caldwell's political right arm and arranged to have Luke Jr., at the age of 18, legally come into his majority and take his place in his father's enterprises. Caldwell & Co. ("We Bank On The South") crashed four years ago (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Banker Caldwell managed to escape from the tangled financial wreckage but the Leas did not fare so well. Charges against them were filed in Nashville, Knoxville, Asheville. The Asheville charge took. For borrowing...