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Show NEGRO KILLED IN SALT LAKE SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 9 (UP) Herbert Mendenhall, 30, a negro, was shot and killed last night- by Oscar Hall, 47,. negro, who charged that Mendenhall had paid unwelcome attentions to his wife. Neighbors, hearing the shots, summoned police who rushed Mendenhall Men-denhall to the emergency hospital, where he died within an hour. Hall will be formally charged with murder. Fearing that this murder may be but the forerunner of further shooting shoot-ing affrays due to unrest which has been brewing for some time in the j negro district of Salt Lake City, police today doubled their patrols in that section of the city. j |