The Archive · 1937

WESTMINSTER ABBEY'S REOPENING SPECIAL TO THE "N.CD.N."

London, Aug. 29.

The Dean and Chapter announced to-day that Westminster Abbey will be reopened for public service on September 26 after being closed for 37 weeks in connection with the Coronation ceremonies—Reuter.

Decatur, Ala, Aug, 29, A new trial has been refused for the three Scottsboro negroes sentenced- last month on a- charge of assaulting a white woman in a freight-car in 1931. The three negroes convicted were—Charlie Weems, who was sentenced to 75° years' imprisonment; Andy Wright Belson Clarence' Norris: prisonment; and a who was sentenced to 99 years'

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