Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1947-07-25 | Page 15

Ready to Unlock Secrets THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINEFRIDAY EVENING JULY 25 1947 R Three-Fourt- hs Peacetime Military Training Six Out of Seven Threatened Lynchings Are Being Averted By Roanney Wheeler ' ATLANTA Ga July 25 (AP)— Six out of every- - seven potential lynchings are being prevented in the south today ly courageous peace officers alert public officials and by popular reaction against This is the finding of Tuskegee Institute which has tabulated lynchings since 1882 Prevented lynchings are not spectacular Frequently they are dismissed with a line or two in a local newspaper in contrast to nation-wid- e g publicity for a Tuskegee records show that in the last 10 years there have been mob-murd- er mob-killin- Food Store Phone [phone]nd WE DELIVER at 10:00 AM and A 7 If V Roil IIVK RMarft NinZfr:' Syrup ST2 Br Denton's Grapefruit Juice 2 Cans Tuna water Oi Hiegaic olored C Iw Quart Cocoanut 4oz 17c Biscuit Flour A i 43c All Brands Miiy Will 4 cans Corned Beef II Hash Genuine Deviled Ham Crushed Pineapple Brooms Par SoapPLkar Mop Sticks Simonizwrid 59c woman One Negro Godwin Bush saved his own life last May 23 when he threw himself from a lyncher's car and escaped after having been taken by a mob of masked men from the Jackson jail near Rich Square N C He later surrendered to the Fresh Beef Veal Pork Fresh Dressed FBI Although lynching is still a problem there has been a significant decline in recent years dropping from 28 in 1933 to six in 1946 and one in the first half of 1947 The figures are national but a majority occurred in eight southern states There have been intensive efforts to stop lynching The Texas Sheriff's association in 1942 assailed lynching K as murder and urged all of the state's 254 sheriffs to aid in stamping it out In T POULTRY Fresh Fruits & lvnchings were ' pre first six months of vented in the one victim— Willie while 1947 S C—died at Greenville Earle of Tuskegee lists the hands of a mob from mob viosaved six Negroes in Georgia lence in Alabama oneand one in four in Mississippi North Carolina Ohio is credited with preventing men the lynching of two whiteanother Massachusetts with saving white man and Kansas wrth saving a threatened Negro resourcefulness and PmtPBffP have helped to thinking quick well as ceaseas check lynching less appeals to public opinion by newspapers and civic leaders Three Georgia peace officers underscored this in defying a mob Ga An Alarecently at Carrollton bama mayor and public leaders checked mob violence by argument on June 10 In Tennessee a clergyman and city officials turned back a mob last December by appeal to reason Loss of 4717 Lives Thpir success has been the bright er side of a problem which since 1882 has taken 4717 lives a At Carrollton hand Eddie Brown farm Negro with murder By Jr was charged his own confession he had killed a white man He insisted it was accidental When a mob formed to three peace officers lynch him lives to resist it holdrisked their mob until reinforcethe off ing ments threw a cordon around the w CHB White or VIhaiv4 f Prevented Vegetables wai-ongeri- ng war-mindedn- atom imiAifv er amntwn jail Their successful rejection of drew commendation lynch-lafrom Gov M E Thompson of Georgia and widespread editorial acclaim for Deputy Russell Lambert Police Chief Rader Thread-gi- ll and Chief Deputy Otis King Previously at Hurtsboro Ala quick action by Mayor Hurt Vann and three others checked a mob about to hang a The suspect was on Jimmy Harriswith a noose around the ground his neck when Vann succeeded in talking the mob out of its intent A week later the Negro was sentenced to 20 years for attempted rape Mob action similarly was averted at ' Murfretfsboro Tenn last Dec 16 when a crazed Negro shot and killed a police officer A Presbyterian minister the Rev Hubert Covington and city officials addressed the mob from the courthouse steps and induced it to disperse Governor Stepped In Gov Millard Caldwell of Florida averted a probable lynching near Tallahassee last September sending six cars of highway patrolmen to protect a Negro after an auto wreck had killed a white Magnolia Medium Onritr p 17 Report opposed the peacetime training buX But todav's survev finds an over The second by enlistment trainapproval of suchfile whelmingly objection raised the poll finds is of and rank the among that military training makes for ing union members questioned WW& and sample The third is that because of the £ of "jus- m 4:00 PM H tice" its version a a force of sufficient size bomb we no longer need big entifically selected to represent all armies and the fourth objection is By George Gallup institute of Twalks of life was mtervipw that American Director peacetime training disrupts a the following: Public Opinion "In the future do you think ycung man's educational plans 25— As One thing the survey brings out PRINCETON N J twQ every physically-fi- t a man young to is that endorsement of peacetime congress prepares (who has not already been in the of oui is uniformly high in all training major pieces remain armed forces) should be required have wide public support major groups There population to take military or naval are no striking differences by age training unfinished raise mini-oth- for one year?" amount of education geographical One is legislate to sex or party The vote: Yes 75 ? no 18 is the no section mum r Certain labor union leaders have 7 hill itntf opinion peacetime military Protection for Future vote If the country were to on today peaceand protection for in an official referendum the resuit thePreparedness future are the chief reasons training time military Bacon Ends lb 29c on the basis of given by the people in favor of the would be as follows -- 1 nnn nnn -pheihlp peacetime draft Next is a belief the estimated oi-lb 39c Pot Roast that a year's military training is last presidential of Kntrs at time "good discipline' for a young man el45!m000 voters in favor Third people say that in the curVeal Chops lb 45c 11 000 000 voters apposed rent difficulties Russia we with 4'300000 not voting should take steps to assure ourWeinera Results of Survey 3 lbs $ I selves of of manLunch the Meat sufficient results the military reflects That survey on military power Those opposed to peacetime ?ainLg an unofficial sampling voters in training say that it is not necesreferendum among the n sci- - sary that we should be able to all 48 states A against 273 prevented lynchings 43 cases in which a mob succeeded in executing of Voiers Okeh — —— -- --- Dr C Percy Powell library of congress official one of the few living: men who has laid eyes on the Abraham Lincoln papers in the famed Robert Todd Lincoln collection checks the lock on the inner vault where the papers are stored in secrecy - Lincoln's Papers to Be Opened 21 Years Alter Death of Son u IHC tdi ilUUCl idlUl'Ui It taa j j He has to answer daily questions on Lincoln and felt if ne saw the collection beforehand his answers would be colored by what it contained Unnin Iniiimw tJuiUVUUl Collection of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln When Lincoln's son donated the collection to the library he stipulated that it was to be "placed in a sealed vault or compartment and carefully preserved from official or public inspection or private view until after the expiration of 21 years from the date of my death" He died July 26 1926 The Library of Congress has observed this mandate of secrecy with as much zeal as the guarding of the atomic bomb Before he died Lincoln's son amended his He mandate slightly however into gave the library permission to was it before collection dex the be officially revealed Few Have Seen File Since the collection has been in the library's custody not more than four or five individuals have laid eyes on the contents — those who have worked on the indexing job The estimated 15000 documents of various sorts have been kept in special vaults in the basement Special permission is needed even to get in the outer vault And only a few persons have the combination to the special inner vaults where the collection has been kept The men doing the indexing job took oaths of secrecy and "are forbidden to make any use of their of knowledge even to the extent memfrom notes taking private ory for future use in scholarly work Even David O Mearns the Library's Director of Reference and one of the nation's outstanding all states a significant contribution has been made by state patrols and state constabulary of Southern The Association Women for Prevention of Lynchtoing has exerted vigorous efforts So ward preventing has the Asspciation for Advancement of Colored People and Tuskegee Institute mob-murd- j L Comnleted - gr Scholarly Dr C Percy Powell of the Library's Division of Manuscripts another authority on Lincoln has been completing the indexing job started by the late Dr John C Fitzpatrick In spite of the library's assurances that the collection only "may be presumed to clarify certain obscure but probably minute details in the life of this uniquely Amefs ican genius" Lincoln experts from all over the nation are planning to be on hand when the collection is Most of the experts will opened have to make their detailed studio from microfilm reproductions which the library estimates will cost them between $350 and $500 For the general public there will be an exhibit in two forms one win oe tne documents read determined to be of first int-iy pcrxance tne other a display of examples more characteristic of the entire collection Persons who can establish bona fide need will be permitted iu inspect tne origirafjRv! 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