Word: murphysboro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week no official action was taken to arbitrate the miners' war. Governor Flem D. Sampson had refused troops to Webster County many times previously, was not last week asked. But State and Federal authorities acted quickly to apprehend Flyer Paul Montgomery of Murphysboro, Ill., who said he had been forced by death-threats to take a bomb-dropper over Providence. Said Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics: "The dropping of explosives or anything else from a plane in flight, deliberately with intention . . . or by negligence, is a crime...