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...Memphis last week Rev. Claude C. Williams heard that a Negro sharecropper named Frank Weems had been flogged to death in Earle, Ark. by unidentified vigilantes. Preacher Williams and plump Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis socialite and social worker, got into an automobile, started out for the funeral. They never got there. As they sat in their car in front of an Earle drugstore, sipping Coca-Colas, six well-dressed men drove up, seized them, commandeered their car, forced them to drive a mile outside town...
Taken across a field to a river bank, Preacher Williams was lashed 14 times with a mule's belly-strap. Miss Blagden's turn came next. The huskiest of the six swung the belly strap, laid four solid clouts on her back & thighs. Miss Blagden and Preacher Williams were then told never to come back to Crittenden County...
...accident either. I played half one season with three broken ribs and finished up another year with a fractured shoulder. Cutts, our great halfback, got a broken neck a short time before the Yale game. It was placed in a plaster cast, and he was given permission to play. Blagden, our tackle, was packed in ice a week before this crucial game because of an attack of appendicitis, and yet he played. At 2 o'clock the following morning, he was operated...
...summary: HARVARD EXETER Neer, Shumann, l.e. r.c., Murphy Cammann, Bray, l.t. r.t., Wilson Gundlach, Cannett, deBraganca, l.g. r.g., Turner Gleason, Casale, Blagden, c. l.c., Bliss, Lyman Brookings, deBraganca, r.g. l.g., Staples Dow, Bray, r.t. l.t., O'Hare Emory, Hollis, r.c. l.e., Chubet Haley, Foss, q.b. q.b., Willis, Sullivan Locke, Litman, Sargent, Borden, l.h.b. r.h.b., Fisher, French Tenney, Swift, r.h.b. l.h.b., Lane, French, Sullivan Fuller, Bowditch, f.b. f.b., Heyser, Lyman...
Groton-Stroke, Grenfell; 7, Danielson; 6, Roosevelt; 5, Clark; 4, Eyer; 3, Birge; 2, Keppel; Bow, Blagden, Cox, Prescott...