Word: roane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Roan June 18 Bryan, Tex. Shot
...above 23 listed by N. A. A. C. P., TIME recognizes 18 as lynchings. Beginning with Willie Kirkland as TIME'S sixteenth, John Willie Clark made seventeen (TIME, Oct. 13) and Bill Roan (No. 9 on above list) must be added, making 18. Bill Roan, accused of rape of a white woman, was seized and shot by what newsmen first reported as a sheriff's posse. Later investigation showed that the killers had not been legally deputized, were therefore lynchers...
While U. S. Producers were conferring with M. Pisart last week, executives of African copper companies were gathering in London. A major topic was coöperation in smelting. Katanga (Union Miniere Haut Katanga) is now the only African Company with smelting facilities but Roan Antelope is building a smelter, and three other companies (N'Kana, N'Changa Mufalira) expect to follow...