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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...textile war of the Carolinas. Three men were dead. There were 24 wounded (mostly in the back), including a woman. One of the wounded men died before the Marion mill whistle shrieked its next day's warning. Three more were dying. Sheriff Adkins, 13 of his deputies, two mill foremen and a mechanic were arrested, charged with murder. Governor Oliver Max Gardner sent in two companies of National Guardsmen, also an outside judge to investigate. Forty of the mill workers were arrested for riot and rebellion but released without bail. R. W. Baldwin, chief of the Marion Manufacturing...
...drawing p. 11); An unholy light filled the wide courtyard of Colorado's State Penitentiary at Canon City, the glare of floodlights and searchlights playing on Cellhouse No. 3. Two other cellhouses, the prison chapel and the messhall, were blazing ruins. In the prison "bull pen"-a sunken space at one side of the yard-some 400 convicts cowered in sullen terror, their shadows moving nightmarishly on the stone walls of the enclosure. From Cellhouse No. 3 where Danny Daniels, burglar-murderer, and five desperate comrades were inducting the worst prison revolt in Colorado's history, came sporadic...
...made the purchaser of liquor guiltless of any offense under the Prohibition law, the executive department of the government seeks here, by indirection, to make the same fact, namely the purchase, a crime subjecting the purchasers to a maximum fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for a term of two years...
Judge William Squire Kenyon, appeared in Washington Brig. -Gen. Smedley Darlington ("Gimlet Eye") Butler, famed marine, recent drier-up Quantico, Va. (but not of Philadelphia, where his strongarm methods were disapproved). For two hours he told them what he thought of Prohibition: "The grossest piece of class legislation in the country's history . . . like using 16-in. guns to kill sparrows...
...tournament would have achieved a suspense that it lost when Orcutt and Hicks and Collett were knotted in the same eighth of the draw. When the knot came undone, Orcutt and Hicks were out of the tournament and Collett was as good as champion. Or not quite as good. Two ladies clipped through their match and stood in her way. One was a slight, wiry lady in a brown sweater and a brown sports hat- Mrs. Dorothy Shearer Higbie of Detroit. At the beginning of her match with Collett the latter, though serious, seemed to be thinking of something else...