Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1959 — Page 8

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Mob Victim’s Body Is Found In River

BOGALUSA, La. (UPI) — The battered body of a young Negro, lynched by a white mob, was found floating in the Pearl River near here Monday. Results of an autopsy were to be made public late today. The FBI intensified a search for the nine or 10 hooded white men who dragged their screaming victim, Mack Charles Parker, from an unguarded jail cell in Poplarville, Miss., April 25. He had been held on charges of raping a white woman. Parker’s body was found by an FBI agent and a Mississippi state trooper, his head protruding above thick underbrush in the swamp-country river, 20 miles west of Poplarville at the Louisi-ana-Mississippi state line. Parker’s head was reported to

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have been mutilated. But authorities said that may have been caused by debris in the river. The autopsy results were to be disclosed at Poplarville. Taken To Mortuary Parker’s body was taken from Charity Hospital here early today in an ambulance to Hall’s Mortuary in Hattiesburg, Miss. Parker was awaiting trial at Poplarville on .charges of raping a 23-year-old white mother Feb. 24 while her four-year-old daughter looked on. The alleged assault occurred near Lumberton, where the rape victim’s car had stalled. The attack was made after the woman's husband left the vehicle to go to a garage. Parker’s body was pulled from the river six hours after it was found. The delay resulted from the convening at the scene of a Washington-St. Tammany Parish (county). La. coroner’s jury. The body was bleached, apparently from the long period of submersion in the 40-yard-wide river. When Parker was snatched from his cell he was wearing a pair of trousers in addition to his underwear. The trousers were missing when tte body was found near the Mississippi shore of the river a little over a half-mile south of this City. * - - Found Near Bridge Parker and the lunch mob had been the objects of one of the South’s largest manhunts. Neither the 40 FBI agents nor the large Mississippi Highway Patrol staff working day and night on the case had reported any clues. A bridge which joins Mississippi and Louisiana just above the river where the body was found may have been the dumping spot for the victim. There were no weights attached to the body. Parker was carried feet first, i screaming and shouting, from his I normally unguarded third - floor 1 Pearl River County Courthouse

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jail by the men, who first hit him with their fists. He was tossed into a car and a convoy of four or, five vehicles sped him out of the south Mississippi town. A farmer, passing by the jail, saw the incident but could not identify anyone. The woman who allegedly was raped now lives in Petal, Miss., but formerly lived in the Bogalusa area. She is the wife of a guitar player who formerly lived in New York state. She identified Parker as her assailant. Parker denied attacking her.

Auto Smashes Into School Bus At Gary GARY, Ind. (UPD — A car driven by a man who was arrested for drunken operating smashed into a bus containing a group of youngsters enroute to a school for crippled children today. Two of <the children and their ipatron were injured. ' Jean Smith, 17, and Jessie Weaver, 9, were taken with the school matron, Anna Davis, .47, to Gary Methodist Hospital for treatment of their injuries. Albert Turner, 31, Gary, also was injured. Police identified him; as the driver of the car which rammed into the bus on a city street. Turner was treated at a hospital and taken to jail where he faced charges of drunk and reckless driving. Oscar Perry. 50 Gary, driver of the bus, said Turner drove on the wrong side of the street for two blocks before the car hit the bus with such force it knocked the front wheels out from under the bus. National Tea Co. Boosts Dividend The board of directors of National Tea Co. has increased the quarterly dividend rate effective for the second quarter of 1959 to 20 cents per share, according to announcement today by H. V. McNamara, president. Dividend will be payable June 1, to all shares of the company’s $4 par value common stock on record as of May 15. This new dividend rate of 20 cents per share for the quarter on $4 par value common would be equivalent to 60 cents per share on the basis of the previous issue $5 par value common shares prior to the three for one stock split, the record date for which was March 26, 1959. Derby Winner Out Os Preakness, Belmont LOUISVILLE, Ky (UPD-Ken-tucky Derby winner Tomy Lee turned his back on racing’s Triple Crown today, leaving the others to fight it out in the Preakness and the Belmont. The little English-bred colt was taken out of contention for the $150,000 Preakness Monday after trainer Frank Childs and owner Fred Turner Jr., Midland, Tex., decided he would not be ready for the May 16 classic at old Pimlico in Baltlinore, Md. ELECTRIC CLOTHES DRYER SS r ly 19c

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Troops Withdrawn From Coal Fields FRANKFURT, Ky. (UPI) — National Guard troops were withdrawn Monday from the eastern Kentucky coal fields following an indefinite extension of a federal court order against violence, Gov. A.B. Chandler, who issued the withdrawal order, said the U.S. District Court, which extended indefinitely the April 30 restraining order against the United Mine Workers Union, has assumed responsibility for keepng peace The UMW called the strike, now in its nnth week, to enforce a contract providing a $2 a . day wage increase, a ban on purchase of non-union coal and payment by operators of a 40 cents a ton royalty to the UMW wel- | fare and retirement fund. It was not disclosed just how many of the nearly 2,000 guardsmen ordered into the fields April 24 after a third negotiating session failed to bring agreement were still on duty when guardsmen were recalled. Federal Judge H. Church Ford's action Monday extended the fiveday order against the UMW districts 19 and .30 at the request of the Cincinnati regional office of the National Labor Relations Board. The order forbids mass picketing, violence and intimidation. A hearing was held in the District Court at Jackson Monday and attorneys for the NLRB and UMW agreed to the extension. Adj. Gen. J.J.B. Williams, commander of the guardsmen in the strike area, said all was quiet in the coal fields now. The strike earlier was marked by violence and shootings. Two .men were fatally shot. Final Rites Held For Christopher Spangler Services were conducted Monday for Christopher Spangler, 69, of Fremont, who died in his home Friday at 1:30 p.m. after an extended illness. Survivors are his widow, Bertha, of Fremont: a son, Charles Spangler, of Decatur: a stepson. John Burkholder, of Monroe, and eight grandchildren. Graveside services were conducted Monday at 10 a.m. at the Spring Hill cemetery near Monroe. BE SURE . . TO VISIT BOOTH HO. 8 AT THE DECATUR MERCHANTS SHOWCASE LEARN HOW VITAMINS CAN HELP “YOU” HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. - DECATUR, IND.

Connie Still Unsure Os Appeal Attempt ’ NEW WHITELAND, Ind. (UPD —Mrs. Connie Nicholas has only 11 days to decide a momentous problem but she conceded today she was no nearer making up her mind than she was on April 24. Mrs. Nicholas, now free on bond after being convicted and sentenced to 2-21 years in prison for the gun death of Forrest Teel, executive vice president of an international pharmaceuftical firm, must decide whether to attempt an appeal or serve the sentence. She is spending the 30 days of freedom gained on a gift bond in doing some of the things she longed to do during the nine months she spent in a hospital detention ward and in jail while awaiting trial for the death of her married lover. Sits in the Sun As a guest at the suburban home of her sister, Mrs. Mabel Blankenship, she is delighting in the chance to sit in the sun in the backyard and to try out recipes in the kitchen. She has had a chance to catch up on the soaky baths she discovered she had missed among modern conveniences not afforded jail prisoners. “But much of the time I just spend outdoors in the sun,” she said. “Jve gone in and out of town < mdianapolis) a few times and haven’t had any of the unpleasant incid.epts happen that I thought might when I went out into the* public again.” But her questions disclosed that she still is debating the big problem of appeal. To date, she indicated the pro and con factors haven't altered * greatly from the way they looked the first time she tackled the question. Her ability to grip anything with her hands and the need for further therapy is a major problem because she has almost no money. Leaves Braces Home “I still can’t use my right hand at all,” she said. Mrs. Nicholas

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