28 Acquitted In
Negro Lynching
(By Romney Wheeler)
GREENVILLE, S. C. </P)—28
white men were acquitted at their
mass murder trial last night of
charges that they lynched a 23
year-old negro. .
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The verdicts were returned last
night in Greenville county’s stif
ling courtroom after a nine-day
trial unprecedented in southern
history.. The state had demanded
conviction — but not death —
against the alleged murderers of
Willie Sarle, who was taken from
Pickens county jail before dawn
Feb. 17 and lynched in reprisal
for the stabbing of a white taxi1
driver. ,
Agents of the federal bureau of
investigation and local and state
police moved quickly into the case
and within 24 hours had incrimin
ating statements from self-ac
knowledged members of the mob.
Eventually, 26 defendants signed
unsworn statements, admitting to
police that they had helped take
the negro to an old slaughter pen
where he was bludgeoned, slashed
and shot to death. > i
A county grand jury indicted 31
men for murder, conspiracy to
commit murder, and of being ac
cessories both befort and after the
fact. All were brought to trial in
Greenville criminal court. Three
won directed verdicts of acquittal.
NEW YORK, (JP) — Since late
Saturday night a pigeon has been
an unregistered and unwanted
guest in the lobby of a mid-town
hotel. A youth with five caged
birds tripped in the lobby and the
birds escaped. Four were caught, i
but the fifth has stayed on, ignor
ing food and cajolery.
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Urge Increase Of
Vet Subsistence
'WASHI NGTON, UP) — Rep.
Edith Nourse Rogers <R.-Mass.>
chairman of the House veterans
committee, said today that a sub
committee soon would recom
mend a boost in the subsistence
allowance 6f veterans attending
college under the G. I. bill of
rights.
Mrs. Rogers appeared before
the House rules committee to ap
peal for floor action on another
measure wh ch would permit an
increase in the ceiling compensa
tion for veterans participating in
on-the-job training programs.
She and Rep. Ramey <R.-Ohio>,
chairman of the sub-committee,
said a bill will be approved within
a few days to give single veterans
in college a subsistence allowance
of $75 a month rather than the
present $65. Married veterans,
who now receive $90, would get
$110 with $15 extra for each child.
Mi’s. Rogers told the rules com
mittee that the present ceilings
are so low that many veterans are
refusing to participate in the pro
gram. She quoted Veterans Ad
ministrator Omar Bradley as es
timating the increase would cost
about $149,000,000.
The committee had before it a
measure by Rep. Kearney <;R.-N.
Y.> which would raise ceilings on
wages and allowances for some
600.000 veterans, who are training
for jobs by working at them.
Before Franklin P. Adams was
a columnist or a radio celebrity he
was an insurance salesman, and
also collaborated in 1909 with O.
Henrv on the musical comedy,
“Lo.”
No Steel Strike
For Two Years
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (/P)—A
♦wo-year ban on strikes ordered
b” united steelworkers president
v‘i:!:p Murray paved the way yes
'•:d. y toward what he said would
■''» urrr.terrupted production in
’*e mt'on's steel industry and an
opportunity for stabilizing our
eon./ry’s internal economic af
fairs.**
?Tv.'V. holding down the dual
role of United Steelworkers presi
d nt and head of the parent CIO,
•'<ued the no-strike order last
night :n a letter approved by the
union’s 41 -man board of directors
at their biennial meeting here.
Murray said the no-strike rule
was “vital to preserve the integ
rity” of the recently concluded
two year wage agreement which
he described as “one of the most
notable achievements in the an
nals of our nation’s collective bar
gaining history.’
Fleet Visits
San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, l/P) — The
super battleship Iowa steamed
through the Golden Gate early
yesterday to lead the first large
concentration of naval warships
to San Francisco Bay since war
time.
Flying the three-starred flag of
vice admiral Alfred E. Montgom
ery, the Iowa was flagship of the
first task fleet. 29 ships, includ
ing a flotilla of submarines, de
stroyers. cruisers and supply train.
The fleet visit is a part of naval
reserve week in San Francisco.
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$750,000,000 Cost of
German Food Bill
r 1ANKFURT, Germany </P)—A
bill t:i the American taxpayers for
rmroximately $750,000,000 for
feeding 46,000,000 Germans in
v. e tern Europe was described
yes.erday by U. S. economic
ources as “a prospect for 1948.”
These sources said the British,
worriedly making deep inroads on
their post-war loan from the
United States, would be compelled
in the next few months to ask the
United States to pay Britain’s dol
lar share of German food imports.
Under the American-British
economic fusion of their occupa
t.'on zones, each of the two coun
ties this year presumably were
naving half of the estimated cost
of $692,000,000 to save the bi
zonal population of 40,000,000
l orn starvation.
Nearly 60 per cent of the popu
lation is in British territory, but
{he American military govern
ment agreed last winter to accept
hall of the financial obligation be
cause it reasoned that the U. S.
7/'ne never could be self-suffi
cient alone.
VANCOUVER. B. C. </P>—Hope
for an increased volume of trade
between Canada and New Zea
land was voiced Thursday by A.
J. Malcolm. New Zealand trade
commissioner to Canada.
In ’an address prepared for de
livery to the fifth national foreign
trade conference, Mr. Malcolm
said that the volume of New Zea
land trade with Canada “makes
us a customer worty of attention
and, as time goes on,,there should
undoubtedly be opportunities for
the increase of reciprocal trade.
Bulgaria Opposes
U. N. Border Watcli
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LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. oP)—
Bulgaria served notice on the
United Nations security council
yesterday that she would oppose
any move to keep a permanent U.
N. border watch commission op
erating in the Balkans.
Such a plan is now being de
bated in Geneva by an 11-nation
temporary investigating group,
which still has an interim body
posted in northern Greece.
Boyan Athanassev, Bulgarian
representative to the council, said
he doubted that any nation would
agree to any body, no matter what
its origin, to remain indefinitely
within its border.
The current issue before the
council was a Russian resolution
vvhieh would sharply curtail the
powers of the interim watchers.
British-American sources predict
ed defeat for the Soviet Union.
KITTY IN NEW ROLE
CHICAGO, (/P)—Clarence Till
ing’s Persian cat, Squeaky, step
ped into the role of a family
“watch dog” yesterday. The 60
year-old Tilling said he was
awakened by Squeaky licking his
face. A man’s hand was reaching
‘hrough a window toward the
chain on a nearby d >or of his
apartment. A moment later the
man walked in, but by that time
Tilling had .45 and 25 calibre
guns ready.
Instead of firing, however, he
put the weapons down and told
the intruder “I’m going to beat
the stuffing out of you.”
Police, summoned by neighbors,
took a badly bruised 23-year-old
prowler into custody.
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