Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1947 — Page 3

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* THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947 _

Judge Storms Out After Lynch Trial Jury Frees All Defendants

” White Veniremen Clear 28 Accused

In Murder and Conspiracy Indictments * GREENVILLE, 8. C, May 22 (U, P.),=All defendants in the mass

The defendants included’ burly Roosevelt Carlos Hurd, who was named by co-defendants as the “triggerman” who killed Willie Earle. A mob took Earle from a jail cell here last Feb, 16, An all-white “jury's verdict last night of “not guilty” brought a Nraete Gg We. sitwost, two against what they said was northWhile courtroom crowds rushed |e’? interference in southern affairs,

jubilantly toward the defendants,| Attorney John B. Culbertson once Presiding Judge J. Robert Martin|shouted: “I wish that more Negroes stormed . into Ris chambers, like Willie Earle were dead.” He. indicated displeasure at the| Attorney Tom Wofford had asjury's verdict of complete acquit-|sajled FBI agents who helped -obtal—even to the .indictment of coni-|tain confessions. In his summation | spiracy -to murder. to the jury he sail:

Gallery Deserted | “We get along all right down here

Dork he days Yusing ort until they start interfering with ug | mony the galery was a 5 | Y!trom up north, If they'd stop]

when the verdict was read. [trying to stir up prejudice in north-|

_ ‘hite nl as! fhe last Se a Wiis an weal, newspapers maybe we could i aS SEN Ente 0, Yealn : : Imake back the progress we lost, slaying in South Carolina was in| ° . : : g when they laid waste to our country 1848. In this same court Judge "° Se : : » |75 years ago. The only way we can John B. O'Neall imposed the death | ; : J : . stop these men is to return a ver-, sentence on a South Carolina Slave ict of not auilty und show the FHI owner for killing two slaves.) | guilty !

Both solicitors. Sam R. Watt [that we don't need their peddling.” Spartanburg, and Robert T. Ashe Martin Popper, vice president of more; declined to comment.

Me. (the National Lawyers guild who i Ashmore's closing arguments to the sat throughout the trial, stated that! jury of nine textile-hands, two sales-

the verdict “confirms the fact that vt tial | men and a farmer had accused he Tedoal witli esserual me” Mr defendants “from their own signed | 5 Rg < 0k ; statements of killing a man without

its annual meeting 'yesterday at

Popper said, “that several deputy i ot rw trial" sheriffs knew that the crime was to | nr n en 3 I and 15 take place ahd either condoned 2709 Tenants Face minutes to reach its verdict, The at the very least did nothing to |

verdict cleared defendants .on ail Prevent it.” Lockefield Ouster

, called for enactment four counts charging murder, con- Mr Popper ° 1 Sen : Ama Ei of a federal anti-lynching law as spiracy to murder, and accessory be- the only: rhedns. of HEIng or fore and after the faet, Oy EA The jury got the case yesterday democratic processes. ; {ternoon with empha ie structions Earle was killed in reprisa] for an living in Lockefield Garden apartmoon w tic instr St < iv I : jattack on Thomas W., Brown, a ments are te receive no from the bench to ignere all racial

issues are no longer eligible to occupy, Judge Martin had said: wii | them. i a court o ay Poised NO BIG PARAGUAY BATTLE DUE | color, no creed. nerefore, in-| et ho that under your the is | ASUNCION, May 22 (U.P), er : © “7 Reports from the Paraguayan civil Sat0rS Jou. are Hot to ‘Mow hy S0= war fronts said today that a major mgximum set by the federal public called racial issue to enter delibera-iy.ii1e was shaping up in the north- housing authority as a requirement tions.” lern Chaco sector and that fighting for occupancy. The maximu is Defense attorneys in their sum- was increasing. in most areas, $2050 a year for families.with no demations * had rendered’ a tirade despite heavy rains, ipendent children and $2300 a year

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VOTERS' LEAGUE ELECTS—Among new officers of the In- |

|” dianapolis League of Women Voters, elected as the group held

right) Mrs. Robert M. Loomis and Mrs. Lowell I. Thomas, first and

{to provide homes for low-income families : ‘mobilization period the FPHA al- | “Nearly one-third of the families lowed those aiding in the war ef-|

tices to va- due to the nousing. shortage. later cate their quarters because they:

These 259 families of a total of tome veterans.will be given pref- today.

__ 748 have become ineligible because rence in filling the vatancies. Of their incomes have risen above the the 1143 applications for occupancy ton, was selecetd from 47 actors teresting himself in the matter” had been madé through May 19.

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __

Dr. Mason Heads {Hoosier Dentists Officers Elected

At Conference Here

Officers who will assist the newly elected president of the ‘Indiana State Dental association next year were named yesterday by the organization's board of directors as the state meeting closed here. Dr, H. 'W. Mason, Indianapolis, was elected president, Other officers are: Dr. George E. Guse, Rushville, junior past president; Dr. E E Ewbank, Kingman, secretary; Dr. Frederick C. Baker, Hammond, treasurer; Dr. F. H. O'Halloran, Evansville, executive committee man; Dr, C. T. Mayfield, Kokomo, supervisor of clinics!’ Df. W. P. Me¢Nulty, Pt: Wayne, master of { exhibits, and Dr. H. C. Dimmich, editor of Indiana State Dental Association Journal. . > Dr. William Bogie, Vincennes, elected president in 1946 took office Tuesday. Dr. Mason will take office a year from now. Indiana State Dental Assistants | association meeting in conjunction | with the dentists’ organization also | eleated new officers yesterday before the close of its annual ses-

Hoffman and numbers by the Land: boys’ glee clubs, the orchestfs, choral ensemble and a junior group presentation. ns Accompanists will be Mabel ©, Lieve at the piano and Harriet ©. Cromie, organ.. Members of the music faculty are Mabel Lieve, Anns Marie Jack, Harriet C. Cromie and Octavia M. Landers.

Commencement will be at'$ p. m,

"GLAD | DID IT"—Mrs, Philomena Scavone, 4I|-year-old mother, is pictured as she reportedly told Assistant District: Attorney Samuel Y. Gitlin in New York City how she fired five bullets from the revolver he is holding into the chest, of her former friend, Mrs. Margaret Jannazzo, 3). She accused the slain woman of stealing her husband's affection. When photographers surrounded

sion. tomorrow at the auditorium. ; Miss Alice Krick, Indianapolis,| her at her confession, she told them, "Take ‘em nice, and don't | ye uates are Neal Url Bene was elected president of the.group.| forget my weight—94 pounds. . I'm happy now, and I'm glad | |ner, Butler, Ind.; Patricia Hoffman, the Hotel Lincoln, are (left to | Others are: did it." Walter: Luke E. Johnson, Renssa«

| Miss Lois Kay, Evangville, first| — sr RED laer; John James Russell, Andere | vice president; Miss Helen Burns, | ‘ son, and Roselynn Dolores Smith, | Plymouth, second vice president: | BFITON Criticizes DePauw Campaign += for families with three or more mi- | Miss Lois Lambring, Seymour, sec- | Gives Johvituiiies wy retary. ant Mie Renee ome. (German Food Cost ro Senelieen. The project was constructed in| Ft- Wayne, treasurer. | BERLIN, May 22 (U. P).—Alr At 4) Pct of Goal Sb. Jom of ARG CAO hava, 1937 under the U. S. housing act Tr | Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, Brit- " v will the invocation: bene. : Roland Winter to Pl ish commander in Germany, said| give and ay today that food imports to Ger-

diction. ' : Film Detective Role many were costing British and J. Floyd Seelig, of

The Rev, HOLLYWOOD, May 22 (U. P.).— | American taxpayers five times as Capitol Avenue Methodist-chureh, | much as the value of German ex-

: - / ] will give the class address on the fort to remain and pay higher rents Film Detective Charlie Chan, first | orts student union building at DePauw subject “You Are You.” : | 7 . 2. ; ) _|Played by Warner Oland and later| "nl c wode the statement in| university has reached 40 per cent] Walter Luke E. Johnson will sing Ineligible families will be given|by Sidney Toler, will be depicted |, wer to German charges that| f its $475,000 ‘goal. "Ave Maris." an extended period in which to find by New York stage actor Roland |piyain and America were respon- of its’ $475,000 ‘goa. : new homes. Pamilles of low-in< Winters, Monogram studios said siple for the German food crisis.| Robert E. Crouch, campaign director, agnouriced today that 1749

He said British Foreign Secretary : Winters, 43, and a native of Bos- | Ernest Bevin was “personally in-| contributions totalling $186,192.85

Times State Service

GREENCASTLE, Ind, May 22.— The campaign for a new memorial

During the war and de-

Dr. 8. M. Whinery, principal, wif§ present diplomas.

In Marion county, there had beem 195 contributions totaling $33, 717.50. ¥ The’ campaign closes June 14.

now on file, 382 “are from families Indiana contributions by 946 in-

dividuals total $117,749.62, he said.

tested. Oland died in 1938 and Toler l and confirmed that Bevin might this year. “8 + «| visit the Ruhr in the near future.

of low-income veterans.

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