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...Atlanta. Ga., Jimmy Rosenfeld of Brooklyn was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a stranger whom he mistook for his sweetheart's husband. ¶In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., on the stage of the State penitentiary chapel, Convict Glen Murray stabbed Convict Florence Turner to death with half a pair of scissors, cried: "I did it because I loved...
...Lowndes County, Ala. State police last week raided the headquarters of a Negro sharecroppers' union whose striking members had ganged non-union Negro sharecroppers. Police claimed to have found "a pile of Communistic literature." A mob of white farmers mistook Newshawk William Bennett of the Montgomery Advertiser, whose redheaded editor is Julian Hall's Uncle Grover, for a "Red agitator." The mob thoroughly manhandled Bennett before he could identify himself...
...Braves' President Judge Emil Fuchs proposed to run dog races at Braves Field as a side attraction. The National League indignantly refused to allow it. Then Colonel Jacob Ruppert of the New York Yankees made Judge Fuchs a present of Babe Ruth. Dazzled momentarily by what he mistook for good fortune, Judge Fuchs soon learned that shrewd Colonel Ruppert had merely passed on his most perplexing problem. In June Ruth left the Braves in a rage because he had been refused permission to attend a party on board the Normandie. Last fortnight President Fuchs handed over his stock...
...family had enough money to send a son to college. At Ohio State, her son helps earn his way as a State House page. Christened James Cleveland Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom he gave his initials mistook them for his first name. He was too shy to correct her. Before he left high school he had won the U.S. broad-jump title, run 100 yd. in 9.4 sec. The 100-yd. world record, set by Southern California's Frank Wykoff in 1930, has never been broken...
...Last fortnight Exile Angel Morales, Dominican Minister to the U. S. under ex-President Horacio Vasquez (1924-30), hired a bodyguard of two, after an assassin entered his apartment, found his secretary shaving, mistook his lathered face for Morales' and killed...