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P.S. "Shelif" is a pure-blooded Arabian three-year-old stallion registered No. 591 A. H. C. descendant of the Homer Davenport Importation direct from the desert in 1906.
In a paragraph on page 14 of your issue of December 2 you debit North Carolina with one lynching in the year 1929. This is an error. There has been no lynching in this State this year. Fact is, there has been no lynching in North Carolina since 1921.
The people of this State will appreciate your making the correction.
TIME'S source for lynching information was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which set down as a "lynching" the shooting of Ella Wiggins, white, in Gastonia last September. She was killed when a mob sprayed bullets in a truckful of men and women going to...
In your issue of Nov. 18, referring to the Senate Committee's investigation of the Southern Tariff Association, you state: "The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom, a Mrs. Darden, had a stage name for collecting money."