Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1950 — Page 7

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Young Girl Sticks To Murder Story --- SsrsriM 11 I At Triol Ir Texas £ BroCr, Tea.. J*». IS.—(UP)— Tb» state’s star witness. wise.rsckteß 15-yearoM Oretta Fa. Mostaso, clung to bat surprise testimony today that eke, rather than Sandto PMsrson, mar Sered a motorist who picked them up a» they hitch-hiked Mrvaah Texas. The tlny. iniMdeat girt refuted io retract her testimony. made suddenly yesterday, that she heid the gun which killed Lewis Patterson, a Brady busttiessman, teat Aug. 15. s*k> kaA k*M Mkllmfl m tka arms*. Blit? |U*w EvWVEI valim *8 InW prtWtoS’ < ulion’s chlet witness against Miss Peterson, brunet from Somerville. Maas, who was on trial tor Pattersot’s murder Her sargrise testiloony shocked district attorney Rah stdh P. Haan and the puked courtroom. “1 had the rm all the time.” she said. Loretta Fas cannot be tried tor murder now under Texas law because she h a juvenile. Mias Peterson confessed to the slaying at the time of her arrest last August, but she could not be chanted formally until she reached her IStb birthday last month. Loretta Pae said Miss Peterson smoked tour marijuana cigarets several hours before Patterson was slain and did not know what was MANYNEVER' SUSPECT CAUSE OF BACKACHES As «to Wt elder. rtnua and strata. rwCVrrttaß. dnUmMWR MBfrhto* OT tapuUUrr to cold catoHtatou RfcrWh down hntaey funrfitm This Mjr toed mnny folks to complain of naMlH* backache Inaa of pep and energy. taubetti and dlsainaaa. Otting t up nights or frequent paaaagM may result _ from minor blsfkter irritation* due to cold, dampness or dietary >ndi»« retions. If your disonmforta arc «hw tn ttaas causes, don't wait. try Doan's Mita, R miM diuretic. Used sucocaefulty by mlmni for over GO years. While these ayß*pto«vu may often otherwise oRSRg. ft‘a aNMMdag how many times Domr* mw happy Rvltaf — help the IS mile* of kmey tubes and fitters flush out waste. Get Doan's Pills today!

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happening. , "We got Into a quarrel.” Loretta Fae said. ”1 pulled the gun ip show her she couldn't push me around Mandi a grabbed my band and knocked me out of the car as Patterson tried to separate ns. I rolled on the ground, but kept the gun. I tired four times. "Psttersou fell dead in a ditch." Loretta Fee said she led tM dasedM.ee Petersoa to believe she had killed Fattereon Patterson's murder on the evidence of her own "caafeeakra" and a statement made by Loretta Fae "Why did you change your story? The bewildered Haun ask'im' i~ i 1.■.„ l. 'Berasse I wanted her to go to the electric chatr first," Loretta Fae said , "You told me as late aa last night that it waa Sandra, and not you.” Haun roared. But Loretta Fee. a former Inmate of a state correctional Institute, declined to change her story. Mies Peterson, Who had been quivering during Loretta Fee's tesgmony. fainted twice before she eould b« taken from the courtroom. , “Wba- hoppenedT' Lorretta Fae asked as officers helped Miss Peter son to a police car. —Told that Miss Peterson had tainted and that court was recessed. toe asked: "Well, what the devil am I doing here then?" Then she asked a~ policeman: "You gotta match for a cigareet?" As the officer walked toward her, she shouted: "Watch your hands. Buddy Watch your hands." I'nt 11 the trial started Monday, Mias Peterson had been hard boiled and defiant while Loretta Fae had been calm and meek. Paying the trial, however. Miss Peterson showed nervousness, as Ltretta Fae's conduct became more t bold. Haun said Loretta Fae would be sent to a juvenile home when the trial end’ ' ... "it Im sure and In Brady, she 'll -be charged not only tor perjury but murder the day she is is years old," he said Chasing squirrels is prohibited In Topeka. Kans -

Here Is Another Time The Anti-Trust Lawyers Were Wrong! _ . . .. . : ... i-i-sk--.- ' r ' •• , £mr dine* the anti-trust lawyer* fH*d their suit to put A&P out of budnam, they have been making, in ths newspaper* and over the radio, various "allegation*" about how they think this company does burinr**. Please remembee that "allegations” are charges that have not been proved. In this case they will bo disproved. There htta been times in the past when the anti trust lawyers made very damaging "allegations" about this company that th* rourts wVentually detiided were utterly without foundation. - r In oar het advortaoasent we told you about the time the anti-trust lawyers eharged that AdkP, two other ftoid AahtoandtwnldlMwumMto rnmapirudteffat the prim of head in Waihißßten. D. C. And yet, when this me came to trial, it was revealed that die defendants were actually idling bread cheaper than most other stores in Washington, and that there was abeohitaly no evidence flmt they had over engaged in any such M aHeged" conspiracy. __ V ' ’ ■ • . ■ .——. J • “ .. • . / . That was the time Federal Judge T. Alaa Goldsborough instructed the jury to bring inn verdict of "not guilty.’,’ ... -ZZZZ It wm the time he said to the anti-trust hwyers: . 7 **|f you more to show th* record to «ny experienced trW lawyer in the world, he snosdd toll you taut there mm not any evidence at ail. I hove never in my mmr forty yoart’ experience seen fried a case that was as ohsolutoly devoid of evidence aS this. That is the honest truth./hove never seen one lihe ft." —r- ‘ But this was not the only time that the anti-trust lawyers made such serious "allegations" against A& P which were false. Again, and still again, they brought case* against A&P and suffered defeat. As we have said, we think you are entitled tq know about these other cases. And now, we are going to tell you about th* second time the anti-trust lawyers were wrong.

In December, 1941, the anti-trust lawyers brought a criminal suit in Wilson, North Carolina. They charged that AAP’s fresh fruit and vegetable buying subsidiary, and other good American citizens, had conspired to fix and depress prices paid farmers for potatoes in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. Can anyone imagine any charge calculated to be more damaging to a retail grocery business that must rely on farmers, day after day. for the food We distribute to our customers? In this caae the anti-trust lawyers gave a story to the newspapers, telling millions of farmers that we were the kind of people who would force their prices down, deprive them of a decent income, and lower their families' living standard. These char get were falu. They made these charges despite the fact that it has always been A&P's policy to pay our farm suppliers fair market prices for all produce; to aid agriculture through better distribution of its products; to narrow the spread between farm and retail prices; and to help farmers build better markets for their products. That is why many thousands of farmers all over the country are now coming to our support. When the case finally came to trial, the anti-trust lawyers put on as their first witness a potato expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. This expert, who wag the anti-trust lawyers' own witness, testified that contrary to the anti-trust lawyers' "allegations," the defendants made every effort to help the Department of Agriculture in its efforts to aid the potato farmer in bettor marketing of his products and in getting a better price for hh products. When the anti-trust lawyers had put in their evidence and argued their caae. Federal Judge C. C. Wyche directed the jury to bring in a verdict of “hot guilty.”

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The North Carolina Potato Case-

Judge Wyche eaid to the anti-truat lawyera: - — - ‘7 have atudied thia cate from the very outlet. In my opinion there it no teatimony produced from which it can reaaonably be inferred that,the defendant! entered into a combination to depress or lower the price of potatoea. "I might aay that I never tried a caae in my life where a greater effort, more work, more inveatigation had been done, combing almoat with a fine-tooth comb to gather evidence, aa waa done in thia caae, . L..; . "But, aa waa aaid a long time ago, you can’t make brick without at raw, and you can’t make a case without facta" " r ..*• • z ■ So. here was a case in which the anti-trust lawyers made seriously damaging charges against A&P in which the Judge decided that there were no facts to support those charges. ’’ - ■— That is why we say the anti-trust lawyers can be wrong and have been wrong. That is why we say that they are wrong again, just as they were wrong in the Washington bread case and the North Carolina potato case. We are going to show the American people that the suit to destroy A&P is really a suit against efficiency and against real competition. The real question involved in this suit is whether businessmen are going to be encouraged to do a better and more efficient job; or whether we are to let the anti-trust lawyers in Washington blow the whistle on anybody who gate Ug by giving the people more for their money. No one can make ua believe that it ia a crime to try to cell the boot quality food at the loweat poauble price,

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