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VOLUME 1JL NUMBER 30
Seek Bead
By E. M. DeAli i
- Charleston ? The Charleston 1
Business League, a newly organ- 1
*lzed group of business and pro- 1
Sessional men, took to the Char- l
lestoin County legislative Com- (
mittee a request that something \
definite bc^ done to provide a 1
beach for Negroes somewhere in 4
: the vicinity of this city during
1 its meeting on Monday January |
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Leading the group who pre- ;
sented this petition to city fath- |
- ers was Walter Johnson, outstanding
business man and Civicleader,
who has been elected i
president of the organisation. ,
L. . Other officers ?f the organiza!fv
tiort are, Mrs. Mary McNeil, Sec- |
\ " retary; flobert F. Morrison, and <
Charles Mason po-chairmen of a I
. dommittee^rgafnized for the pur. j
pose of * furthering the beach ]
-JBr. Morrison, said he had <
been working toward such la <
t recreational development for
aeveai'years; he1 first reminded
^ the delegation that $50,000 was
appropriated for a "Negro beach
in 1950, "but that is the last we _
t , Aflrar. making thir statement |
quoted - ?t length from an an
uup? A Vfn/I I. -VJ VIJ itftiofoiuit: uy
there were 19- .
^ ask him it he has recommended
an appropriation tor this purLi^
P??e- There is a difference/'
said Senator, Wallace," in talk
f and action. So far as I know, no
State department has recommended
an appropriation for a
Negro Beach. The $50,000 was
appropriated upon our own ini?tiative."
Ef''Rep. Nathaniel W. Cabell said
that the $50,000 was still avail-j
;; able but that the main trouble]
< ? was finding a beach area avail-]
>-"] able for sale for the purpose ofj
Ey' being used ? as a Negro beach, j
Re .stated that he did not think j
the problem was one of money ,-j
! but rathor of finding a site. j,
k'v.; Morrison pointed out that the
only beoches available to Ne?
groes are Atlantic Beach, immediately
north of Myrtle
Beach, and Huntington Island,
.? which hc said wn.g used by hun- I
dreda of MPfrrtV^, h.,? - . j f gx
them wCTe from' Savannah and
I Augusta. He said a beach in the
] Oharleston area, would serve
i); from HJorry O^unty to. Alle<ndale,
L The group asked the Delera.
h tlon to arrange a conference|
| Red Cross Mobile
Blood tJnit To Be
t At Benedict
Mfct A MxVbile Blo<\i tJnit of the
If American Red Cross will be set- <
g . no At Benedict College here on
I February 6, it was announced*
p. Tuesd-ay.
K The Unit is being placed there
I to facilitate the donation of blood <
r- by citizens to the national bloodT 1
bank Citizens are urged to do- *
I nate a pint pf blood during the <
R present campaign, whic' is a 1
F; painless conidibution. 1
|P< Persons making sue hdonatio^a <
I are1 requested n<>t to eat any
R fatty foodaTfroan - four to Ave i
I hours before making the dona-j 1
ij tion. ' . > J
I The.Unit will operatr betWCerf !
I 11 a;m. and 6 p.m. on Ffebru- 1
Lskanr 6..
Sistt
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be
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b Kesort
Jn Coast
.vith Gfiv. Janies F. Byrnes, with|
a view to quick action.. But no I
action was taken* on the pro_,
p^>sal, and since another large,
group was waiting to cli^cuss an-j
>ther problem- with the delc-j
gation the discutssion ended'
vtthout a formal decision onth-i
?r way. . ,?
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Grovefemd New
IVial Reset For
Court February 11
Mlitir Vr?rlr ~'1
JL11V Jl Vll 1 Ct 1 1)1
Walter I-.ee Irvin, the surviving
defendant in the Groveland
"rape" case of 1949, has been
postponed again and is now'
.cheduled t? take place in Ocala,;
Fla., starting February n attor-j
"veys ft>;; we'NAACP learned
Friday.
Pre-trial motions to be arg- 1
ed in the Marion County Circu.t;
Court on Saturday, February 9, j
Include a motion to re-admit
NAACP Special Counsel Thurgood
Marshall and Assistant
Special Cans el Jack Greenberg
to the case. The two NAACP
lawyers were barred from the
trial by Ctrctrii , Judge?T.?Jr
Futch., who -apcused the Association
0?; stilting lip trouble in
the community. . . ... . ' ' . 1
Alex Ackerman, Jr., and Paul
Perkins, Orlando attorney* for
the defense,. will .also argue a
mfotion to suppress certain evlOf
F^rida Bias
Washington ? Intensification;
of the hunt fof the kller or kill-J
ers "of Mr. and Mrs. Harry T.
Moor^e of Mims, Florida, hasj
been assured by Attorney-Gen-!
oral J. Howard McGrath.
The nation's chief law enforce-1
mcnt officer gave this assurance
to a delegation of represonta-i
tives of 16 national Organizations;
who consulted with h.im here onj
Janutrv 8 and demanded "that
th0' investigation now underway!
be expedited and intensified!
so^ that there will ho iromeiatej
apprehension and arrest of the;
guilty parties."
FLASH!!
THE HAG IS BACK
T n atAowiv**. 4?v - J a ?
* ? ico|n/?ia0 iU t'UIISliini FCquests
of readers, starting this
week, the column "The Hag
"Walks will appear regularly.
This week's "Ilag' may be
found on the back page.
NEW HOME
MYSTERIOUl
BY E. M. DEALI.
Oxford, N. C.?A dynamite
blast which shook a wide areai
>f Southern Granville C?unty
early today damaged a newlyj
completed residence owned by
oae Of the successful Negro farmers
of tis oction.
Friday night Sheriff's deputies,
working with State Bureau o*f
Investigation, after a day long
?fforf, w> re without information
that might" reveal the identity *
af the party who set off two
charges of dynamite Thursday
light undo the home of Sanford
Molding, 55, ahd father of 11,
children.
The blast occurred in Brassfield,.
N. C-, township near the
Wake County line, and one mile
from Orissom.3fr*.Holding -told1
sncrirr E. P. Davis that he hadj
heard rumors that an attempt j
wtMild be medio tP damatfe the:
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LUMBIA, SOUTH CAROL IN/
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Left to right arc shown,
IMWhui^t. instructor C'oluml
Majv Harriet Dawley, Nurse
Officer, Third Army; Miss Fra
Educational Director Columl:
Capt. Adeline Boland, WAC
State Baptist Leac
Byrnes During Plaj
The President of the United|
States and the Governor oil
South Carolina came in for aj
bit of Criticism by members oft
of. the executive boarded! thei
State Baptist Convention, which
met here Wednesday to make
plans for te annual State Baptist
Convention,which meets in
Mu]iil*& in May.
The religious leaders denounced
the appot, atnvnt of General!
Mark Clark as ambassador to
th<? Vatican by President Harry
S.Truman, and the^portion of
.sembly in which he outlined|
plana for continuing racial seg-!
rogation in public schools. Two
^committee groups were named t?
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Tobias' Son in-Law j
Dies In What Is
Believed Suicide
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New York City ? William,
Henry Dean. s^n-in-Iaw of Dr.!
(.'banning Tobias, alternate dele-!
gate to th0 UN General Assem-1
bly. was found dead Tue^iav
morning, January 8tH in the gas
filled kitchen of Dr. Tobias* apartment,
35 Wot 110th Stf:.ugr?
??Mr." Dustt.-was~TI year< old
and was an executive of the
United Nations until his death.
His wife, Mary Dean and two
children Channing 13 and Joyce .
12 survive.
His father-in law, Dr. Tobias!
and his family are in Paris
where they went for th?*? UN,
Genera 1 As-cniblv S'-ssjon.
Pending investigation of Mr.
Dean's d<<ath. police listed it as^
' .'apparent ^uTThIcTT
BLASTED BY
S BOMBERS
house.
Sheriff Davis told reporters,
that he knew of no racial differences
{n th0 community where;
^thXexplosion occured, but Mr.f
Holding said he had experienced
trouble over the location of his'
prperty line. Mr. Holding, a for-!
mer resident of Wake County,
* Irvert iY? tViic *. -
r- --J -" > w.yiiuil.lj J"l|
.17 *cl is ' thoi
oj+^ne fnrnv
The u^*3?L" liJ^,fr!V> was situa-|j
ted on a Vlv 'C ji ^y'ly use<j[ by
the Old HouV \T- th vlist
Church formerly u?'ifis, a.meet-i
lng place for w^*'- ^ethodist.I
According to TwH *' "*) '.if, he;
to* whom it had VBvertr-d yfterj
purdhnsed the land gfrnm hoirs
Its wa f*yr Church pUEposes"ond-'
?fjL sa'd that h* intended toj
k<*rp the. -nroperfv under guard
hereafter.
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Mrs. Eunice Nurse I'rocui
)iu hospital: olin;i! N lirspi
Procurement Allison, Ada
nces Burgess, cille Miller. F
?ia Hospital; Dawtey on th
! WAF and Army at the
lers Hit Truman,
lining Meet Here
forward the organization's stand
or> both matters, respectively,
the President and Governor.
Tire meeting was held in the
-library-of Bonodict CollegeT T5e:
votional services were conducted
hy Ttev. W!, L. Wilson o Spartanburg,
vice president of the Statt
Convention. Rew, R. E. Boykir
an J. J. Abney were elected
members of the executive board
filling vacancies caused by dh<
deaths last year of Rev. J. W
Boykirts of Camden and A. W
Hill of Florence. _ _ _ * ^
PROGRAM PLANNED 1
As for the co.nventorv itself
the" executives adopted "the fol
lowing program:
Devotional messages, by Dr
Charles H. Brown of Columbia
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XJl. LJ.LJ. Lit:wi> <>L V^nax iL'hl'JI
nnd H. E. Hardin Of Morris Col
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
Additions
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Editor John If. MoC'rs} liiis
wit k:ann<>(J:TPi\s 'th'.- f ll'?\vin*
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tt-.tu . i v 111 iu_UIlU_CUiLLLg-Cjv '"1 Hit
pors'nnel of Ti.-r Lighth-'U and
Informer:
K. M. DeAli general news edi.
t' i, Mr. D Ali, a-native <>f Brit,
ish East Africa, < >>nvert>d from
Mohamme?jism to Christ inn it %
by nn.-ssionari s is a veteran re.
p?.rter and newsman who has
worked "a numerous west-ern
""1?u'b> to?pope r 1.
Robert E. Howard, sports editor
JleasJ-telball c-aeU _?4 Wtk.
inaon high sch ol in Orangeburg,
Mr. Howard is a native of
Georgetown and a veteran exp:
rt and nrden'-h-ver of athletic
events
Mi-. Th ma-ina (Tommie)
Air
Chinese Dancing
Girl At Nite Spot
Too Nude?The Law
FayettfVillo, N. C.,?When Ainy
Fung. a Chinese dancing girl,
failed to appear in Recorder's
court Friday to answer t-? charts
o/ lmmteral performance, her
$100 Ixmd was ordered forfeited,
She was arrested seveal days
ago after giving n performance
at the Town Pump, a Fayette
vine night spot, in which police
said she was insufficiently clothed.
A FVug,' of aiding and abetting
- ^munoral performance
was lodged against >ne James I,
Carpuchacl. master -of --eertTrrrrr
ies of the show. TTo apjicarod in
court Fridav. but the h*"r king
;
was continued pending dVotion
of F,orer.
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XOXX'
CER
19, 1952 ..* '
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ement Officer For South Car*
Mary Willa Crawford, Betty bofl
Spence, Garnell -Mbrrfstm, Lu- j
oHowing a talk Riven by Major j ^
le need for nurses in the U. S.! ?hl
present time. the
Second Arson Try **
In Week Listed V
| At Augusta . hof
'{ Augusta, Georgia^
just
I According to police the second
' rasp of qr<?nn within w wkpU hitfl' |
' beent reported here by the city - ^
' fire department. ?yo^
Barly Saturday m?>rning fire- ?oi
t men answt-rcd a call to 1461 yoi
I Brown Street, only to find oil yoi
soaked rags stuffed under one G?<
'} corner of the house. The fire was B?
not serious. The house is owned of
by the Lucky Real Estate com- es'
panw, and /he records. sb?ws /
thaf4 is was . occupied t>v thr5^ ' salt
I women, Mrs. I>aisey Warren,I bf?
[ Mrs. M.-vttie Bell and Miss. Mat- r?ai
tie Mitchell. j the
Bisted last week as an arson! Mi
,i case wa a fire in the home of "I*
l Mb*. Will Barney Clark at 1532 h^
Fi wick Street, according to po- , got
j lic_' no arrest ii<as b<. en made.
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Made On j&
r^s Staff j?.
. Scot:, vivacious little school1 not
i kacher ind community worker, wvr(
' ; j?.
rTtrirty oli' r. T ?mmk- is a na-, r0!
1. live "f Horry county, is well " (
t known there, and generally for cut
. lift p? rs nalitv and knack for
' i - . dW
j keeping thing- going. , '^r
1! Rev. W. McK.inlCy Bowman, ^<mi
! j gues
; pastor Second Nazareth Baptist} Up
'i Church here, w> Uknown public j m0r(
' relations expert and radio mm. j ^
nvr.tator. rcljoto'^ } wj
! R v. Bowman ocoa??ionally wTites
t i some
1 the' column "Meants_and Ccan_,^ur-i
ments". I
J i page
i Adolph (Counts) Aikens, head j t inn,
j of advertising department. Mr.' Ar
A ikons, wh? comes to The Eight-! ate i
Iv'ii.so fr- m Savannah, Gn. where lar^
I ho fault a roputa>.ion in business son
soloN, has one of th<> kcenncst papianalyse*
of the Negro market in thlnj
fhc country. In Nine York City Oi
sov. ral years ago h0 pioneered then
the campaign of neighborhood roun
spending where the racp was part
recognized; since, he has handl- the ^
ed sales f r atitomobile com- then
pnnie-5, a radio station and one ?
ether newspaper. :M
James E. Crawford, printing m
^hop fpreman, continuing a po. ||g
sitron he's had sincft coming to
the newspaper .last .year. Mr.
Crawford got hi. printing train- ?
ing with the late Charleston l9
Messenger and at Tuskegee Inst. O
lb? has also worked en news.
; papers in Philadelphia and Gary,
! Tho add i tjoni_ ao?i- - rhanpc*, ?
"Mr. MoOav said, nrc a part of
,n rovomnlncr and enlarging, of frl
facilities pr"j:-ct of the newspa.
i par. Other* am rxpcc'ed to be ? .
rry>14*t Cb^th'. ' * N.C
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PRICE TEN CENTS <
ARE TO BE
(POPULAR'
iSTOR SAYSi ;
Charleston ? "Men who <
e to be unpopular lor J
I's righteousness, w* o give f I
r lives If necessary for un. j I
ding right never die," ' *
Reverend M_ E. Sharper ~
Columbia declared in his i
n?n at Central Baptist _
irch Sunday mrolng. M
Ic used the alternate sub- I t
s, "Devotion to a Cause" j
"Daring to be Unpopular."
ev. Mr. Sharper, wh? Is alconnected
with the facul- n
at Morris College *n Sum- ^
, based his sermon on the t
nb-death of Harry T. Monte _ ^
Mime. Fin., who died along r
li his wife following the
rst mas night destruction of t
ir homo. j
Mr. *Umm? the minister fl
i d, "wa? hot generally a
>wn. But since Ms death, -f
haa become a world-wide ,
o in ttfee cause of , brother- \
? begun to Uve?aad #111 j
ie urged his congregation c
d and mop, a* the reward." t
cited numorotu examples
-among' them lenfs Christ,
ty pbidimr faith fhGod, ho
1, atiofirid .be the armOrput
re undertaking unpopular
i9cb. He ended 67 quoting
last words attributed to
Moore:
I die, I was only trying to
p my people; somebody has
ill Gets 'Em
... uucr ism summer our! i
Y about Mrs. W. Jack- y
of Anderj^nj^ Sbft decided c
enough people in her city _
> getting the Lighthouse arrd^i.
rmer and something had to 1
lone al>out it. S>o sho went 2
one. day anki gathered in
; to 40 subscriptions, I
tO had a vacation way up in h
ruHtieut later on. Yep, youi
sod it. She got on somt folk't
there and 'in come some1 tl
x subscriptions. a
^is" "ivvekT" fr0m re
she is presently doing t;
( work in school haw c0nrie. il
THTors, one as we close the ~
s with some more subscripid
how much do we appreciJ
it? It's worth a million dol_:
to ufc to know Mrs. Jack-i
likes so much the kind of
r we try to publish, and the,
?s for which we stand,
ir thanks go to her. Maybe
? are some other ladies a-i
d who'd give one day, or a1
;amp thing;-If so, wo invito ^ I
i to write us. I I
MARCH OFDIMlJ
4.oft to right: J. K. Dickson, Co
nor Hall Masons of South Carolii
ton, D C., Industry Rotations K?
Labor; J. K. Drake. Normal, A
tural and Mechanical College; K
!., National Board N.A A CP
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Bloody Elec
Victim Netti
By ?. M. DeAU
Savannah, Ga.? According to
h<j -chief of homicide' here, a
18 year old m<m 4s said to have
confessed killing his sister Friiay
afternoon by Striking her
hmr?the?head "several"?times
.vith an electric iron and pawnf>g
it for a bottle Of wlneTworth
ibout $1.00 and Fifty cents in
ash). 1 . ': T"
Captain Leonard J. Hamilton,
hief of the homicide squad,
dcntifted the man as William H.
3reener the brother of , Mrs.
ranie Williams, 54, and said that
ds confession was made in thd
>rfes( ncc of police Commissioner
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jaui'MU JL>UUC1 ctllU. OUpt'XlVT
Vew Flogging Of
iVhiteville Man
Fold In Report
By E. M DeAH , .
Whiteville, N. C.' ? Another
*ob violence incident, coming
n the wake of the sentencing of
hree meu. to two years each
or^Thre atoning to Klux a Nakita
farmer, was reported Friday.
Sheriff Hugh Nance'Identified
he victim* as H. D. Best, an <?mdoyee
of a local Automobile
rm, who was seized at his home
tear south Whiteville and tqgen
or ar ide and flogged.,
The^. flogging is reported to
rave taken place Tuesday night
>ut the facti in the case not disdos^d
until officers had com>letod
a preliminary invftigaion
oad Mi. Best imd feouverfd
from tile shock oI the beat
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According td a frtepprt from the
>fflce of Sheriff Nance, two men
a%c to pest's dhor and inquired
about how they could conact
a; certain automobile dealer
in WJilteyPle.
Best is said to have replied
hat he did not .know but would
kfcjmpt V) help them locate
naft by telephone. The TH
;tepped inside and seized him
rfter he bad picked up the teleihone
directory to look up the
lumber. A third man is said to
ilaced ? sack over his head.
?nu. - 1:11?
jioc itvggMig was a icpeunuii
rf other incidents which have
*me to the attention of authorises
since nifhtriders became
ictlve several months ago. Best
vas blindfolded and carried to
I point two or three miles disance,
forced to bend over a cai
'ender, and was beaten with a
leavy belt. He was let out of the
at about a mile from his home:
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\t Charleston
Charleston?Half of the twenV
l ?.1: - *
^ .wvivutvais casts reporiea
ere in November were colored.
Dr. E. F. Parker, chairman of
he medical affairs committee of
hi0 County Tuberculosis Assocition
disclosed that 20 new cases
f mnvi Mjuadi'ig In highly co'njgi<>us
stage, capable of passing
^-taotharsi
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1a; Lawrenee A, ?xley, Washjrcsmtative,
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la., President Alabama Ayrially
M. Alexander* Charlotte,
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court yoportci: J?N|i Z^iH
The report
wua being heM lii city. hstfcSBS
a charge of murder. lippS^^H
liame, lived at 804 West'?ih^jjB
According to
. (Trftene appeared at the l^ked 9
front door of hi? ?v?m> -.'.!l
ealiea out "to her once, end: went ||3
into spasms of grief 3g|)H|SKljs3
? ? over.
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Detectives R. L.
ney Barnes, Jr.,. Inspicto^a^tt^H
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1 wW%c
I Land anwered the call j
neighbors about 10:30 F>
uraiilng, According lo these officers
the sister was found lying . \
face down on the kitchen' floor,
dead, as the result of several ' . v
blows on the beck portion of he*
head with the edge of tl^^ron. . ?
The neighbors said although 4
Greene made convincing wauling
sounds, they did not notice
other ^igos of genuine'grief. -|
Captain Hail, re-constructed the
crime as follows:
Mrs. Williams was ironing a .J
dress, and had set the iron. 3
side to stretch another portion
of the dress over the board surface;
when she was struck fr^m
behind with the iron..
She fell on srglass jug of heroecjie^
breaking it and causing -j. j
several lacerations en her face. M
I <SbrOner Smith said that deal
came almost at ompe gram theB
I dieoovejy of a pair of
bloodstained overeflr befcmatnfrjgM
iron, led police to nneit Qf lii I
I gin. He m g
ter questioning and git
U*t. b*r *m ?
job throughout tbtfJMltfj
Greene's arrest
given poUce
lished that h?||Hl
Captain Hallraan toM t988
en that Greenf toM police^!
where to ?o to iWfrr the irenl^BB
and thejr^eupd the pawn value
had been a bottle of wide ajwM^WI
50 cents. The iron was reported
to have been in gd&C anupe and
of the type that ordinarily sells
for *12,50, 7 ' $
J Aft^r *Vn> r>r^n/*v t""B
called and his r?p?^(??pe*ived
tlie iron was aOoii suspcted as
> the murder weapon when it was
, noticed to be missing from the
familiar ironing day scene: a
Capt. Hailman, Greene
-the-kriiing"~resumed fr?TO a
lengthy quarrel . between him ;
fend -hie sister, about Greene's <
separation from his wife. The
polffce., however^ were Inclined
to cHcount this. They believe
that the re?l cause had to do ^
with money, perhaps a frustrated
desire of Greene's to obtain
a small ln?q\ from hU ?_
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Gets 18 Years For
Series Of TheftsCharleston
? - Walter Deleston,
slippery robbery suspect whom
local police dubbed the "Wizard
of Wappoo" after ha flipped
right out M their arms with ~~
handcuffs dangling, pleaded
guilty to 11 burglary counts in
general sessions court here last
week and draw 18 years at hard
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Presiding Judge James B. Pru- .
itt accepted the plea with reccommendation
for mercy. Ha
warned the defendant that he
could have received a tbtal of 55
years.
"I can understand ^
might get Into a fight, but there
Just'is, no excuse for stealing," i
| Judge Prtritt declared.
Deleston, n greem cutter at the ' *
Municipal Golf Cbtwse, Had stol-.
| tn m^re then $800 in small rob|
berles Whit+i had terrified the^ f,
^urburban Wappno section. He
eased out of a polic* car when
first arrested while officers wer? ,-M
mopping their brow after a ; .
heated chas*. He was rHs^Uir* ^9
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