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Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel III, 20, Philadelphia banker's scion, great-grandson of Jay Gould; and Helen Avis Howard, 21, Atlanta socialite; in Walhalla...
...Salle convertible coupe, dragged it 300 feet, seriously injured her daughter and son-in-law, Attorney William A. Ryan. Died. J. Frank Zoller, 54, General Electric Co.'s tax attorney, foremost U. S. breeder of Brown Swiss cattle; from injuries inflicted by a prize bull; at his Walhalla Farm outside Schenectady, N. Y. Died. Magnus Washington Alexander, 62, president of the National Industrial Conference Board; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An expert on industrial planning, in 1928 he called U. S. industry too sanguine. Died. Sir Horatio Gilbert Parker, 69, historical novelist (The Seats of the Mighty...
...Allen Green Apr. 24 Walhalla, S. C. Shot...
...sought Democratic renomination over James Francis Byrnes, onetime (1911-25) Congressman, and Leon W. Harris. As a "drinking Prohibitionist" Senator Blease openly condoned lynching, declared: "When the Constitution comes between me and the virtue of a white woman, I say to hell with the Constitution!" Candidate Harris, solicitor at Walhalla where he is prosecuting a lynching mob (TIME, May 5) ran a poor third in the primary. Senator Blease and Candidate Byrnes will enter a run-off election next week. Six years ago Senator Blease defeated Candidate Byrnes in a similar run-off for the Senatorial nomination after a whispering...
...South Carolina. Allen Green, black and 50, was suspected of raping an 18-year-old white woman, was held in the Oconee County jail at Walhalla. At midnight a masked mob of several hundred men and boys broke into the jail. Sheriff John Thomas tried to fight them off, to protect his prisoner. He was bashed over the head, had his skull fractured. The lynchers whisked Green three miles out of town by motor, tied him to a tree, tore his body to shreds with bullets...