He went by Drane, rather than Walter or Hugh.
During most of his career with the F.B.I., Assistant Director Drane Lester reported immediately to Director J. Edgar Hoover. This caused newspapers to sometime identify him as "the number two man in the F.B.I.," which caused him some awkwardness. At least twice his employers were unhappy with this and investigated the claim. The investigations concluded that he was entirely innocent of such misrepresentation.
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The Panolian
BATESVILLE, PANOLA COUNTY, MISS.,
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941
One Killed, Three Injured
Major Drane Lester Killed In Kentucky
A horrible car wreck occurred near Elizabethtown, Ky., when Maj. Drane Lester en route to speak tonight at Cincinnati, Ohio was instantly killed and Mrs. Lee Byers and son, Lee Logan en route to visit relatives in Anchorage, Ky., were seriously injured. The driver, M. S. Moore, colored, was also injured.
The accident occurred when the car driven by Henry Lyon, of new Hope, Ky., and Bellwood Porter of Bardstown, who was with Lyon. Both men were injured.
Maj. Lester was for several years assistant director of the FBI, and well known for his activities with the organization.
The body of Drane will arrive this afternoon, services will be held Friday afternoon it is generally thought.
A message from Louisville, Ky., states that Mrs. Byers died at 9:00 o'clock this morning, that her son remains in serious condition.
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Lloyd, James B., Editor. Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. pp. 294-295. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson. 1981:
"LESTER, W. H. DRANE: 1899-1941. The son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Lester of Batesville, Mississippi, W. H. Drane Lester was born in 1899. He matriculated at the University of Mississippi in 1917, where he was editor of the Ole Miss (annual) and the Mississipian, the school newspaper. Some of the "Hayseed Letters" which he later collected originally appeared in the Mississipian; they provide a fine example of college humor in the 1920's. In 1921 Lester received his B.A. from the University of Mississippi, and the following year he took an M.A. Chosen a Rhodes Scholar, he received a bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University before returning to the University of Mississippi for his LL.B. (1925). After working as a lawyer in Memphis for several years, Lester joined the FBI in 1932 and was working as Director of Public Relations for the FBI at the time of his death in June, 1941, in an automobile accident in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
Ole Miss Alumni News, 1941, 1943.
and Jiggitts, Louis M. Hayseed Letters. University, Mississippi: n.p., 1925."
During most of his career with the F.B.I., Assistant Director Drane Lester reported immediately to Director J. Edgar Hoover. This caused newspapers to sometime identify him as "the number two man in the F.B.I.," which caused him some awkwardness. At least twice his employers were unhappy with this and investigated the claim. The investigations concluded that he was entirely innocent of such misrepresentation.
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The Panolian
BATESVILLE, PANOLA COUNTY, MISS.,
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941
One Killed, Three Injured
Major Drane Lester Killed In Kentucky
A horrible car wreck occurred near Elizabethtown, Ky., when Maj. Drane Lester en route to speak tonight at Cincinnati, Ohio was instantly killed and Mrs. Lee Byers and son, Lee Logan en route to visit relatives in Anchorage, Ky., were seriously injured. The driver, M. S. Moore, colored, was also injured.
The accident occurred when the car driven by Henry Lyon, of new Hope, Ky., and Bellwood Porter of Bardstown, who was with Lyon. Both men were injured.
Maj. Lester was for several years assistant director of the FBI, and well known for his activities with the organization.
The body of Drane will arrive this afternoon, services will be held Friday afternoon it is generally thought.
A message from Louisville, Ky., states that Mrs. Byers died at 9:00 o'clock this morning, that her son remains in serious condition.
_____________________________________________
Lloyd, James B., Editor. Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. pp. 294-295. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson. 1981:
"LESTER, W. H. DRANE: 1899-1941. The son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Lester of Batesville, Mississippi, W. H. Drane Lester was born in 1899. He matriculated at the University of Mississippi in 1917, where he was editor of the Ole Miss (annual) and the Mississipian, the school newspaper. Some of the "Hayseed Letters" which he later collected originally appeared in the Mississipian; they provide a fine example of college humor in the 1920's. In 1921 Lester received his B.A. from the University of Mississippi, and the following year he took an M.A. Chosen a Rhodes Scholar, he received a bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University before returning to the University of Mississippi for his LL.B. (1925). After working as a lawyer in Memphis for several years, Lester joined the FBI in 1932 and was working as Director of Public Relations for the FBI at the time of his death in June, 1941, in an automobile accident in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
Ole Miss Alumni News, 1941, 1943.
and Jiggitts, Louis M. Hayseed Letters. University, Mississippi: n.p., 1925."
He went by Drane, rather than Walter or Hugh.
During most of his career with the F.B.I., Assistant Director Drane Lester reported immediately to Director J. Edgar Hoover. This caused newspapers to sometime identify him as "the number two man in the F.B.I.," which caused him some awkwardness. At least twice his employers were unhappy with this and investigated the claim. The investigations concluded that he was entirely innocent of such misrepresentation.
_____________________________________________
The Panolian
BATESVILLE, PANOLA COUNTY, MISS.,
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941
One Killed, Three Injured
Major Drane Lester Killed In Kentucky
A horrible car wreck occurred near Elizabethtown, Ky., when Maj. Drane Lester en route to speak tonight at Cincinnati, Ohio was instantly killed and Mrs. Lee Byers and son, Lee Logan en route to visit relatives in Anchorage, Ky., were seriously injured. The driver, M. S. Moore, colored, was also injured.
The accident occurred when the car driven by Henry Lyon, of new Hope, Ky., and Bellwood Porter of Bardstown, who was with Lyon. Both men were injured.
Maj. Lester was for several years assistant director of the FBI, and well known for his activities with the organization.
The body of Drane will arrive this afternoon, services will be held Friday afternoon it is generally thought.
A message from Louisville, Ky., states that Mrs. Byers died at 9:00 o'clock this morning, that her son remains in serious condition.
_____________________________________________
Lloyd, James B., Editor. Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. pp. 294-295. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson. 1981:
"LESTER, W. H. DRANE: 1899-1941. The son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Lester of Batesville, Mississippi, W. H. Drane Lester was born in 1899. He matriculated at the University of Mississippi in 1917, where he was editor of the Ole Miss (annual) and the Mississipian, the school newspaper. Some of the "Hayseed Letters" which he later collected originally appeared in the Mississipian; they provide a fine example of college humor in the 1920's. In 1921 Lester received his B.A. from the University of Mississippi, and the following year he took an M.A. Chosen a Rhodes Scholar, he received a bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University before returning to the University of Mississippi for his LL.B. (1925). After working as a lawyer in Memphis for several years, Lester joined the FBI in 1932 and was working as Director of Public Relations for the FBI at the time of his death in June, 1941, in an automobile accident in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
Ole Miss Alumni News, 1941, 1943.
and Jiggitts, Louis M. Hayseed Letters. University, Mississippi: n.p., 1925."
During most of his career with the F.B.I., Assistant Director Drane Lester reported immediately to Director J. Edgar Hoover. This caused newspapers to sometime identify him as "the number two man in the F.B.I.," which caused him some awkwardness. At least twice his employers were unhappy with this and investigated the claim. The investigations concluded that he was entirely innocent of such misrepresentation.
_____________________________________________
The Panolian
BATESVILLE, PANOLA COUNTY, MISS.,
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941
One Killed, Three Injured
Major Drane Lester Killed In Kentucky
A horrible car wreck occurred near Elizabethtown, Ky., when Maj. Drane Lester en route to speak tonight at Cincinnati, Ohio was instantly killed and Mrs. Lee Byers and son, Lee Logan en route to visit relatives in Anchorage, Ky., were seriously injured. The driver, M. S. Moore, colored, was also injured.
The accident occurred when the car driven by Henry Lyon, of new Hope, Ky., and Bellwood Porter of Bardstown, who was with Lyon. Both men were injured.
Maj. Lester was for several years assistant director of the FBI, and well known for his activities with the organization.
The body of Drane will arrive this afternoon, services will be held Friday afternoon it is generally thought.
A message from Louisville, Ky., states that Mrs. Byers died at 9:00 o'clock this morning, that her son remains in serious condition.
_____________________________________________
Lloyd, James B., Editor. Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. pp. 294-295. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson. 1981:
"LESTER, W. H. DRANE: 1899-1941. The son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Lester of Batesville, Mississippi, W. H. Drane Lester was born in 1899. He matriculated at the University of Mississippi in 1917, where he was editor of the Ole Miss (annual) and the Mississipian, the school newspaper. Some of the "Hayseed Letters" which he later collected originally appeared in the Mississipian; they provide a fine example of college humor in the 1920's. In 1921 Lester received his B.A. from the University of Mississippi, and the following year he took an M.A. Chosen a Rhodes Scholar, he received a bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University before returning to the University of Mississippi for his LL.B. (1925). After working as a lawyer in Memphis for several years, Lester joined the FBI in 1932 and was working as Director of Public Relations for the FBI at the time of his death in June, 1941, in an automobile accident in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
Ole Miss Alumni News, 1941, 1943.
and Jiggitts, Louis M. Hayseed Letters. University, Mississippi: n.p., 1925."
Inscription
W. H. DRANE LESTER
APR. 19, 1899
JUNE 4, 1941
