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...farm leaders, spokesmen, organizers and agitators to the White House after March 4 and keep them there until they agree among themselves upon a legislative program for him to sponsor. The makings of such a program began to take definite shape last week when the National Grange convened at Winston-Salem. the National Farmers' Union at Omaha. The Grange is the oldest (66 years) and most conservative of the nation's farm organizations. Its master is Louis John Taber, a Dry Ohio Republican. This year it took the Grange ten daysto rehash its familiar problems of money, markets...
Dropped. The case of North Carolina v. Elsbeth Holman ("Libby") Reynolds, 26, & Albert ("Ab") Walker, 19; by a nolle-pros action; in Winston-Salem, N. C. Cleared, not exonerated, were defendants Reynolds & Walker of the murder last July (TIME, July 18; Aug. 15) of Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, eccentric heir to the Camel cigaret fortune...
...Love, Drama, Crime" copy the gaudy Journal last fortnight outdistanced other papers of its type with a front-page series whooping up next month's trial of Torch-Singer Libby Holman for the murder of her husband Smith Reynolds, tobacco scion. The Journal sent its correspondent to Winston-Salem, N. C. to interview everyone in the case, accompanied his reports with elaborate picture layouts under such sympathetic headlines as: FACTS HELP LIBBY'S DEFENSE. PROSECUTOR LACKS LIBBY MOTIVE, CLAIM LIBBY 'EXONERATED' BY SECRET AUTOPSY...
From Miami, where he had arrived from South America, Playboy Richard Joshua Reynolds, 26, hurried home to Winston-Salem, closeted himself with family lawyers who told him what they knew about the death of his brother Smith, for which Smith's widow, the former Libby Holman, and his best friend Albert ("AB") Walker are awaiting trial. "R. J." Jr. read the coroner's inquest testimony, then announced: "In view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer...
...Winston-Salemites had been ready to accept the suicide theory. Young Reynolds was known to have talked of suicide often. Then gossipy newshawks began to arrive from New York and spread stories about Libby Holman, darling of Broadway. It was learned that she was a Jewess, that her father had changed his name from Holzman. She had married a queer backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem...