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...coach of the team is Sergeant Waldo Phinney of the Boston Marine Corps. He is one of the finest marksmen in the East, and his broad experience adds to his value as a coach, Kurt Groote of the Naval Science department and Gilman Blake, graduate student, assist in coaching the team...
This was the report received by Colonel Beverly Ober, State police head in Baltimore. He ordered every available trooper into Worcester County, sent Lieut. Ruxton Ridgely and Sergeant William H. Weber with orders to save the Negro women "at all costs." A member of Baltimore's exclusive Bachelors' Cotillion, twice married, good-looking Socialite Lieut. Ridgely spent his first honeymoon pursuing bootleggers, was famed for his exploits. No mob-fearer was Sergeant Weber, who was badly battered trying to stop the 1933 lynching. They flew to Salisbury, sped into Worcester County...
...that point Lieut. Ridgely and Sergeant Weber arrived. They grabbed the women, waded back through the non plussed mobsters, clubbing their way when someone tried to stop them. The report, later denied, was that they had fired one shot, pinked an oysterman in the hip. They stuffed the women into their car and drove away. By next morning one other Negro was in their custody-Charles Manuel...
Promptly a Washington, D. C. police sergeant arrested Mr. Pelley. Convicted in 1935 for transgressing North Carolina's "blue sky" security law, he was charged with violating his parole. After weekending in the clink, Mr. Pelley was released under a $2,500 bond, determined to fight extradition. The Dies Committee, wiping its collective brow, was glad to hear that Mr. Pelley had been removed...
...doubt of their guilt. The appeal we are making is ad misericordiam. Admittedly we have no case, but in our view there are higher considerations than stern justice and law." In Britain the Manchester Guardian, recalling the three Irish Republicans hanged in 1867 for killing a Manchester police sergeant, warned: "Nobody looking back on Irish history can fail to see the immense importance that the fate of individuals tried and punished by British authorities has had in Irish history...