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VISITORS TO WII,M)W WOOD ESTATES—Lent Sunday miw bun-
drerie of pereonn thronging t* Willow Wood estates to in*pect, view, and
obtnin information alx>ut the numerous, beautiful new homes in this elite
Subdivision, developed by I* R. I'lets.
The group shove was pictured on the estates picnic grounds, from which
•reft I'lets offered boating on the Salado to visitors.
From left to right: Mrs. Ham Blevins, president of the Ladies of
Cbarinsa; Mrs. Betty Jo Itrid^cH. Mrs. Kdwurd White, Mrs. Marcelius
PleaKJint, and daughter, Pamela; Mrs. William Huber, MIms Marjorie Stew-
art, Mrs. (leo Mr. and Mrs. Harry V. Burns, and son, Walter, and
L. R. Plets, Willow Wood developer. Most of the group above are membera
of Ladies of ('harissa, one of the city's most dittinguifthed organisations.
Sunday saw one of the largeMt crowds, to date, availing itself of the
the picnicking facilities, boating on the Salado, and visiting the magnificent
homes on the 1 IB-acre development.
Pleta instituted the boat-riding feature, some time ago, with scores of
l>ersons having enjoyed this attraction for the pa*t several Sundays, and
on the Fourth of July holiday, Wednesday.
—S. A. Register photo
'Bama Road Gang
Escapee 33 Years,
Given Freedom
ActionAgainst Escapee,
A Model Citizen for
33 Years, Dropped
By the Asso< lated Negro Tress
PORTSMOUTH, Va—A 83-year
ordeal ended on a happy note last
week for Robert Jackson who in 1913)
escaped from an Alabama road gang
and later settled here to become a
model citizen.
Jackson won his freedom when all
legnl action against him wus drop-
nt.
"I'm »o hupi'.v—it'* on* of injr hnp-
(ilmt day*—I'm (re*!"
Then* were ih* word. ol * rrlifvwi
■■■
Jurkaon, wlum. r**l nam* ia Rufua
Taylor, mad* a perfect eocni* from
lb* road itanf, but lie w»» n*v*r abl*
to dlamiaa il entlreljr from bla mind.
In 11*40, b« and hia wife Lucille
adopted a (til-week-old baby boy.
From that tima on, Jarkaon waa
mor* and more bothered by hi* pait.
Mia a*rr*t waa bia alone until May
26. when be vaa arre»ted at bia
rleanlnit and preaalnf ahop on an
Alabama fugitiv, warrant. Ht waa
traced through finiterprinta made
April 14, when he waa arreated for
drtinkenneaa in public, a charjre be
denied. He aaid he waa 111 at the
time.
In routine procedure the prlnta
w*nt to FBI h*adi|iiart*ra In W«*h-
inffton, wh*r* Jfduon waa li.ted, cor-
rectly. aa Rufua Taylor. The prlnta
matched and th* |tant b*pan to catch
up with hint.
Mr*. Jackson did not learn of her
hualwud'a 1!»2» ewnpe until May of
thia year. Hi* Hon, Robert, Jr., bad
not known either.
Jackaon, now (HI. related the ac-
counta leading to hia nrreat and sen-
tence to the 20-year priann term In
Alabama. lie anid he was lure<l Into
stealing by a white private detective
who was al»o a law enforcement
officer.
The detective, tubaeqaent de-
velopment. Indicated, engineered
the rolibrrlea In order to convince
bualnessea and plant* that they
needed hia aervlcen aa a .ecurlty
apecialiMt.
The man who "jlllt walked out"
while nerving the priain term when
he waa 'H had thia to aa.v after his
arrext 011 the fugitive warrant:
"Last night waa the firat time I
have alept soundly In 25 hard year,
of wrestling with my conscience."
But last week, the picture bright-
ened for the Jackson family. The
atmosphere at their spacious and at-
tractive home wn» not that of a Jubi-
lant celebration but one of quiet and
deep relief. ....
Friends came by to ahake hands,
ethers kept the telephone busy. An
old employer of Jackaon'a from pome
«) years back called from Washing-
ton to congratulate him.
"We don't hare any complaint
•gainst anyone," explained Mrs. Jack-
aon. who wa, only thankful for the
belp that waa freely given i>y many
people of all race* "from tie mayor
oo down."
The Jncksons have coplea of tie
many petitions that were submitted
to Virginia Governor Albertla B.
Harrtaon, Jr., testifying to Jackson*
Character. Th® petitions came from
f usiwo nai—cLu??h T.'crkf rs,
it school principal, and from many
Wend*.
On* buslneaa aaaodat« dMcrlbed
Jackson a* M "outstanding dtisen,
Cgaeat and fMMrcaful In lit business
ilthogn they r*maia*d calm
^.jnt IVsr* war* tb# nomarw*
J trouble*, l abort parlol tt w«
PItb' ths°orieaI ^r,°3kk»® «M
^Ht*wftfl on* of my moat generous
was on* of my most generous
tooney-flvars to ths cause of Christ.
He has helped • number of youths to
finish their oollegs education. Hs
^in unusually good to me as nil pfts-
P
Quite anilou* to forget bla dM>ng*
tb tha law, Jacksoa plana bare
nam* legally changed to A* *•♦
bear* now.
Captain
(Continued from Page I.)
euce course. He entered the service
nine years uk>i after completing two
years of college. The captain is a
tutor Bitot with mors Uuui 9JOO
hours of flying time, 1,700 of which
are in jet aircraft.
While in the air force, he has con-
tinued his education through night
school study, and received bis bache-
lor's degree in aeronautics through
the Bootctrap program at Arizona
State university In 1067. He now
attends the University of California
night school, working toward a mas-
ter's degree.
In his hometown, Dwlght attended
Our Lady of Perpetual Help school.
Ward high school, Donnelly college
and Kansas City, Kan., Junior col
July
(Continued from Page 1.)
unit are listed below.
July 5, ft—Robert's Conoco station.
No. IS, GUV t 'upples road, 12, novu,
to 6 in the evening.
July 10—Jack Ammnnn, Incorpor-
ated. ittl Hroadway. 0 in tlie morn-
ing to 2 in ths afternoon.
July 11—nandy Andy. No. 22,
1."'jo Austin highway, 12, noon, to
6 in the evening.
July 12—HEB, No. 15, 2011 Vance
Jackaon road, 12, noon, to 6 in the
evening.
July 16, 17, 18—HEB. No. 4, 1601
Nogalitoa, 12, noon, to 6 in the eve-
ning.
♦
Harassed Sitter
Plops Tot in Hot
Water, Killing Him
By the Associated Negro Presa
I»S ANGE3LBB—▲ two-year-old
child, who had a fear of bathtubs, be-
cause he once received a slight burn
while taking a bath, suffered third de-
gree burns in a bathtub of hot water
and bleach last week and died houra
later.
Dead la Dean White. XTIs death
has been listed as accidental.
Mrs. tJloria DuBois left Dean and
her other two children In the custody
of Ossie liee Mosley, while she went
to the hairdresser.
Shortly after she left, Dean soiled
his clothing and Mosley took him
upstaira to clean him.
Once In the bathroom, he found
ths floor soiled and he got the mop
to acrub It, Mosley told officers.
Finding the mop was sour he pour-
ed half a bottle of bleach and a
large quantity of soap powder in a
tub of hot water to cleuu the mop,
he said.
Just as he finished. Mosley told po-
lice, he heard the front door open
and thought one of the other chil-
dren was going outside.
He said he then picked up Dean,
and, for some unexplained reason,
placed him in the tub, forgetting lie
had put the bleach and soap In the
water.
Mosley claimed he ran downstairs
and brought the other child inside
the house. Then he remembered Dean i
was in the water in the bathtub, he :
arid. '
Mosley said he rushed upstairs and
took the victim out of the tub. He
called a neighbor who called an am-
bulance. The tot died later in the
I.oe Angeles County (Seneral hospital.
Husband Kills
Wife Found in
Auto with Negro
By the Associated Negro Presa
SOUTH NORFOLK, Va—A *V>-
year-old white linotype operator who
said he found his wife in a car with
a Negro man, has pleaded guilty to
voluntary mannlnughter in his spouse's
death.
Edward F. Tcrle, oliarged with the
murder here of his wife, Mary Agnes,
37, on May 16, 1001. admitted the
killing to climax a 45-minuts trial
in a filled courtroom before Judge
Jerry G. Bray, Jr.
Judge Bray withheld sentencing
and ordered a report by probation
officers. He set July 20. for hearing
their findings. Bray refused to fix
bond In the interim and Terle, who
had been free on $10,000 bond, was
tuken into custody.
Commonwealth's Atty. William L.
Forbes ngreed to reduce the charge
against Terle from murder to volun-
tary manslaughter, saying a "re-
view of all the evidence'' indicated his
plea should be accepted. Maximum
l»ennlty for voluntary manslaughter
Is five years in prison.
Mrs. Terle was found dying In a
field near the Campostella bridge.
She had been beaten with a three-foot
board found nearby.
In a confession, put into evidence,
Terle said he found his wife in a car
with a Negro. Ilia statement said
he had come home the night before
to find his wife and their car gone.
Having heard "rumors of a try^t*
involving his wife, Terlft said, he
went out to look for her.
When he found the couple in the
car, the statement said, Terle be-
came enraged and tried to grab the
n, who escaped, ne then pulled
his wife from the car, "thrashed her"
with the board, and left.
lege.
He is married to the former Sue
Mllian James. They have two chil-
dren, Tiua, 0, and Edward Joseph,
III, 4.
('apt. Dwight Is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward J. Dwight, Sr., of Kan-
sas City, Kan. He has four sisters,
Mrs. Rita "Wilson of Topeka, Kan.;
Berserk —
flirt,"
whll*
started
going
(CanUnu.d from Psj, J.) .
"* putor aald. "But tfur ■
>jX
•Wfcoop,
In ths pulpit and
ft as was preaching,
up
Ing Uks
•p, whoop, whoop' all ths
tima.
"Whs® hs started tearing up the
Bibls psfe by page, we buspected
that •oarthinjr wna wrong with him,
and whM hs kicked over ths lecteru,
ws know there wan."
Rsv. EouQ'ii»»r said Woodard then
kicked ovsr the deacon's table, alter
which th* congregation fled from the
church.
"Ws first called tuo psychiatrists
but neither of them would c<mie,"
the pasfor sai l. "After that we had
to call th*- police on him."
Adcock said that when he arrived,
the congre;. iti«.ii was stonding on the
church atei»s.
"Homeon*- shouted to me that Wood-
ard had gone up the street," Adcock
said in s statement. "And when I
found him -it IT.'nd avenue and Buch-
anan atre. i he was standing out iu
the atreet waving his arms as If he
were direoing traffic.
"I pull"I my ear up beside him
and aakcl. 'What's the trouble,
trleud?' lb* cursed uis aud before
I could get out of the car gral>l»ed
me and ben in hitting me," the officer
said.
The patrolman said he succeeded in
getting hi* niisht stick but when he
attempted to hit Woodard, the man
grabbed tl«> -t i«*k from him.
Adcock said he radioed f«»r help
while the man was kicking and beat-
ing him.
"I dropped my microphone." Ad-
rock said, "and Woodard drew back
the stick to hit me again." That was
when he shot the man. the officer
said. Adfcoek said lie fired three shots
but that one of them missed.
Sgt. Fr<«l Iji*>iter arrived then
and helped Adcock subdue Woodard
who was still trying to fight.
nlfed S. A.
Passing Autoists
Take K
Man to Hospital
In an incident, Tburaday, about
which he declined to talk or gl'a de-
tails, Willi. Butler, 4«. 112 liorrla
alley, was stabbed In th. aboouien
and left ann.
Two autolst*, Warren Martin, 88.
SI 2 niliaMh road, and Leon Cliap-
pat, 20, Tin H'lUth I'ine street, aaw
tl>« wounded man Maggi-rlng down
the Itreet, at Olire and Iowa, and
carried him to th* Robert B. Green
botplUl, it was reported.
♦
S. A. Man Burned
By Flaming Grease
Charles McAdams, 84, 1906 flays
street, Buffered second and third de-
cree burns on the right wrist and low-
er arm, Monday, from flaming grease.
When a skillet of grease, that bad
been left on the stove, caught fire,
McAdams attempted to remove the
skillet, with his dumping the flaming
greas«* on his arm.
Mrs. Mar.r I*an»> of Kansas City, Mo.:
Hister Martin Mary Dwight of the
Sisters of Charity, Leavenworth,
Kan.; and Mrs. Elizabeth Chow.
Kansas City. Kao.
Car Falls on Man
Working Under It
John Leonard, .18, 12.T Lena Home,
suffered chest injuries, Monday, when
uu automobile, under which be was
working, fell on him.
I^eonard, at hia residence, had
jacked up bis car, and was working
under it when the jack gave way. He
was carried to the Robert B. Green
hospital.
STRUCK WITH HAMMER
Iu an altercation, Saturday night,
in the 700 block of Dakota, Edward
Thompson, 0o, KM Dakota, Buffered
head injuries when he was struck
with a hammer allegedly wielded by
Howard C. Porter. .'17. l'J7 Paul, who
was arrested und booked for aggra-
vated assault.
Adjacent —
(Continued from Fags L)
ths loas of $30.60, stolen from a cig-
arette vending machine. Two candy
machines and a ssfe Wert not both-
ered. The burglsry waa discovered
by Jos Henderson, 24, ifM Weat Hue-
sell, an employee, when he opened
the ststlon Thursday morning.
Burglars hit an East Commerce
street Uvern, Haturday morning, get-
ting an undetermined amount of cash
from a Juke bog and a coin o(»erated
power box, with the electricity being
cut off at 8:'J(h Indicating ths time
the power box was looted. Also stolen
was a quantity of beer. Ernest
Thompson. 51, 22-'>5 Hays, owner of
the robbed establishment—Downtown
lounge, 825 East Commerce—set his
bsises at fl(tf.
Calanths for 39 years,
with her serving ss worthy
for 80 yesrs.
Hhe was slso a member of Amsada
chapter No. 82, and Amaranths. Or-
der of Eastern Htar; of Higina Gam-
ica libo sorority, snd wbb a lifelong
member of Bt. Paul Methodist church.
Survivors induds the widower,
Chsrles H. Derry: son, Elmore
Dsrry; daughter, Mrs. Johnnie Blev-
ins; brother, John A. Hmith, Minna*
mucca, Xev.; and aunt, Mrs. Bella
Pmltb, Fort Worth.
Monday
(Continued from Page 1.)
Texas, before enterlug the Run An-
tonio school system, Sept. 1, 1923.
Her entire tenure, here, was at Cu-
ney elementary school.
After some 33 years' service, she
retired in 1950.
Hhe was married to Charles H.
Derry in 1913.
Mrs. Derry had lw»en a meml>er of
St. Cecilia court. No. IBS, Order of
UMon
Funeral Director
430 N. Cherry St.
CApitol 6-7283
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PEAS
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12 oz.
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15c
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FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
GEORGIA FREESTONE
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