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Volunteer. In Raleigh, N.C., Escaped Prisoner Junior Daniel Watson came back after a year's absence, explained that he had since joined the Army, had come to the conclusion that prison was better...
Name? Occupation? In Raleigh, N.C., the local Young Democrats Club elected as its new president one Hoover Taft. In Syracuse, N.Y., a juvenile court warrant placed a piggy-bank-robbery charge against Moppet Jesse James...
Wrote Southern Editor Haskett: "The whole transaction was rotten . . . ungentlemanly, unsportsmanlike . . . worthy of no praise. . . ." Last week, thanks to his editorial, the U.S. press went to town on the case of Harvey Jones. Josephus Daniels' Raleigh News & Observer picked up the story first and its 85-year-old publisher sternly told Ahoskie off. United Press (14 hours ahead of the napping A.P.) took the story from there. Manhattan's underdog-loving PM launched a "Cadillac for Jones" fund. Kiwanis' national president, a North Carolinian himself, told the Ahoskie club to give Harvey a Cadillac. It wasn...
...editors and educators took the bait. Cried Josephus Daniels in the Raleigh News & Observer; "There was a time when a man uttering such an unsupported slander would have [had] his tongue cut out." Protested the Lawrence, Kans. superintendent of schools: "I just wish Mr. Green could have attended our junior-senior prom. . . ." The University of Wisconsin's dean of women coolly observed that "it is impossible for anyone to have the facts...
Spoilsport. In Raleigh, N.C., the state legislature pondered a bill that would prohibit the use of dynamite for entertainment purposes in fun-loving Bertie County...