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Negroes Slated To Die
For Rape Of White Girls
' THE KING of beasts, Caesar, wet in tranquil mood when
the Herald and Newt photographer, Otto Ellis, arrived.
The majestic animal i.s one of four male and six female lions
performing under command of Prince El Kigordo during
the Polack Brothers Circus at the fairgrounds tonight.
Pasha, a 9 months old tiger, has just been acquired but
is not ready to join the act. Prince El Kigordo was injured
last May and hospitalized with many lacerations and
severed arteries when he was attacked by his stir per
former. He returned to the big cage as soon as his injuries
permitted.
Youth Arrested As Thief;
Tells Of Nightly Escapades
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) iinto.ll homes and businesses in
LA GRANGE, Ga. (AP) Three
Negro men have been sentenced
to die in the electric chair (or the
multiple rape of two young white
women during a night ot terror
near this west Georgia city.
An all-male jury, including one
Negro, convicted the Negroes
Tuesday night after deliberating
nearly five hours.
The jury did not recommend
mercy and Superior Court Judge
Samuel J. Boykin sentenced the
three to be electrocuted at Reids
ville State Prison Oct. 2.
Attorneys for the Negroes said
the verdict would be appealed.
The appeal must be filed within
30 days.
The verdict was read in a tense
courtroom closely guarded by
State Patrolmen and Georgia
Bureau of Investigation agents.
The first three rows were cleared
and spectators warned against
any outbursts.
The three young defendants.
George Alford Jr., 18, of Dayton.
Ohio; Clifford Johnson, 22, and
Brannon Epps, 24, both of La
Grange, accepted the sentence
with the same stoical' expressions
Horace Rideout suspected that his
home was being broken into at
night. Three times in three weeks,
he said, there were things missing
when he and his wife woke up.
On Monday night, the 32-year-eld
mason's helper shut off his
lights early and sat, silently, in
.his bedroom. At midnight, the
burglar appeared.
Rideout saw a thin arm reach
for the unlocked bedroom window
and push it open. A small boy
' crawled in.
Amazed, Rideout scuffled 'with
' the child and caught him. The boy
managed to cut the man slightly
'. with a letter- opener.
' At the police station Tuesday,
the boy told a 'story of breaking
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' BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)
! Frustrated Gov. Earl K. Long to
day planned to "carry my fight to
'the people" after a rebellious Leg
islature killed his special session
'.before it was an hour old.
. Long, trying to rally forces after
a stunning and swift defeat, had
his sights set on a downtown. New
-Orleans rally tonight home
'grounds of his political foe, Mayor
DeLesseps Morrison, one of his
.'opponents in the December Demo
cratic gubernatorial primary.
1 The governor had little or noth
ing to say to newsmen after he
'shuffled from the Legislature ash
men faced, behind him the echoes
of lawmakers applauding their ad
journment victory.
But his cronies brushed aside
the sudden end as an act of defi--ance.
They contended that Long,
inow cast in an underdog role,
would make political hay out of
the incident.
"This will mean 100.000 voles for
the governor," said Lt. Gov. Leth-
er Frazar.
! Frazar, who' presides over the
Senate, was unsuccessful in hold-
. ing back an adjournment stam
pede, after news got to the Senate
. of the House's vote to quit.
the past year. Police said the boy,
a Negro, whose name they with
held, is eight years old.
He took $35 and some jewelry
three visits to .the Rideout
home, police said. He got the let
ter opener at a school building
He specialized in homes, but once
broke into an amusement center,
they said.
The police asked the boy why
he did it
The child explained that he, like
most other eight-year-olds, had an
appetite for candy and toys. So,
when his parents tucked him into
bed at night in his tenement home,
he wouldn't go to sleep.
He would wait until his parents
retired, then sneak out of doors
and into the night to visit the un
guarded houses in the neighbor
hood. He took small items, and small
amounts of money, police said.
He used just about all of the mon
ey to buy candy and toys.
LLOYD PRICE
Display Set.
On Mummies
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Next
month, for the first time in nearly
30 years, Egyptians will be able
to see the mummies of some of
their land's ancient rulers.
Beginning Sept. 1, Cairo Muse
um will open to the public the
chamber containing mummies of
tgyptian pnaroahs. The room was
closed to the public in the early
1930s on the ground that it was
undignified to display bodies of
past rulers in a museum.
In the intervening period, only
important scholars and dignitar
ies have set eyes on the mum
mies, some of them SO centuries
old.
The chamber contains about 30
mummies. The best preserved is
that Rameses II discovered in
18R6 and dating back 3.000 years.
Other famous mummies at the
museum are those of Cheops, the
pharoah who built the Great Pyra
mid, and that of Pharoah Ameno
phis and Tut-Ankh-Amen.
Dance Slated
For Monday
Lloyd Price and his 13-piece rock
n' roll orchestra are slated for a
dance and show at the Klamath
Falls Auditorium Monday, August
17. .
Price, a top name, is famous for
bjs ' recent hits, "Personality,"
currently rated the number one
rock 'n' roll song in the nation,
and "Stagger Lee," number one
for a time last year.
The latter has been named by
Cash Box Magazine the recording
most programmed last year.
Baldy Evans, promoter of a
series of rock 'n' roll dances in
Klamath Falls, says Price and his
crew are rated by promoters ev
erywhere as the greatest crowd
pleasing attraction in the rock 'n'
roll field.
Dick Clark, master of ceremo
nies of "American Bandstand," a
popular nationally-televised rock
'n' roll show, has picked Price
and his orchestra to headline
Clark's rock V roll show that will
tour the country this fall.
they had maintained throughout
the two-day trial.
They had nothing v to say when
then judge offered them an op
portunity to speak before passing
sentence. He ordered them held
in a safe place until they were
taken to the state prison.
There was no immediate indica
tion whether the three court-ap
pointed defense attorneys planned
an appeal.
Solicitor General (Prosecutor)
Wright Lipford said a second in
dictment returned in the case
would be dropped.
All three Negroes were charged
with raping a 20-year-old married
woman during the early morning
hours of Aug. 1. Epps and Alford
also were charged with raping the
woman's 18-year-old cousin.
Georgia law prohibits public
tion of their names.
Lipford asked the death penalty
so girls "would have the right to
walk the streets of La Grange
without being brutally ravished
and raped."
He charged that the Negroes
raped the women after taking
them first from their white es
corts and later from three Ne
groes who tried to help them.
The two women testified they
were forced to submit. Both told
of hours of terror during which
the 4rio raped them several times
The older girl, who was mar
ried for the third time six months
ago, broke down during sharp
cross examination and was sob
bing when she left the witness
stand.
The younger girl, a cousin from
West Hollywood, Fla., testified
she was thrown down in the back
of a pickup truck after her cloth
ing had been taken from her.
Ripped undergarments were intro
duced as evidence.
The three Negroes in the pickup
truck finally forced their car off
the road, the women said. One
of the Negroes brandished a knife
and made them get in the pickup.
The defendants each made un
sworn statements. Under Georgia
law, they could make any state
ment they desired and not
cross-examined.
Each Negro acknowledged hav
ing intercourse with the older girl
and two of them said they had
intercourse with the younger sir
Epps said he had known the old
er girl for years and had had sex
ual relations with her previously
for money. He said he paid her
$5 on the night of the alleged rape
and that no force was used.
Johnson told much the same
story and Alford said "they of
fered us their bodies for money.
We are not guilty of rape."
Both girls returned to the stand
and denied that they had known
the defendants before the incident.
The prosecutor said Epps' state
ment that he and the older woman
had gone together previously was
damnable lie." He added that
if such had been the case authori
ties would have fun her out of
town.
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Ex-Con Held As Robber
Eyed As Possible Killer
1SLIP, NY. (AP) - A husky,
crew-cut construction worker was
in jail on a robbery charge to
day, but authorities apparently
have been unable to connect him
with three recent murders on
Long Island.
He was, however, the prime
suspect at the moment," Suffolk
County Dist. Alty. John P. Co
halan said Tuesday.
The man, Francis H. Bloeth, 27,
an ex-convict, lives in a two-room
attic apartment near here with
his wife and baby daughter.
Cohalan said Bloeth was picked
up Monday night on a tip from
a former burglar who said he had
sold Bloeth a .32-caliber revolver
June and a .32-caliber auto
matic later. Police say the first
two murders were committed with
32-caliber revolver and the third
with a .32-caliber automatic.
Bloeth s home and car were
searched, but police say no gun
was found.
The three slayings, which took
place in the first eight days of
this month in a 30-mile area on
this eastern section of Long Is
land, netted less than $400. Two
men and a woman were killed in
three separate robberies.
All three killings followed a pat
tern. .The victims worked alone
at restaurants, and the holdups
STEERING EARLY
OKLAHOMA CITY OB Police
cited Aubrey Price, 39, for per
mitting an unauthorized person to
drive. Price was charged with let
ling his 13-y.ear-old son drive s
huge road grader and tractor.
TESTS SLATED
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. (AP) The Air Force is
starting tests to see if a 164-ton
vertical takeoff airplane will fly.
The X18, the nation's largest ex
perimental vertiplane, was trans
ported here from Moffett Air
Force Base after completing 90
per cent of its ground tests.
Actual night tests won't begin
until late fall. Hiller Aircraft Corp.
of Palo Alto, Calif., developed the
plane.
were around midnight.
Bloeth took a lie detector test
in Manhattan Tuesday at his own
request, but authorities said the
results would not be made public.
Bloeth claimed the test cleared
him. "I didn't do it, the machine
said I was right," he told report
ers. He is accused of a tavern hold-
up near here last month. Cohalan
said Bloeth admitted the holdup.
but Bloeth told reporters he didn't
do it.
Cohalan said the man in the
tavern holdup held a gun to the
head of bartender Joseph Prin
cipe and pulled the trigger four
times. Each time there was a
harmless click.
"Do you want to try for five?"
asked the gunman, and the bar
tender quickly handed over his
money only $60.
Bloeth's wife, Jane. 25, a former
waitress in a Greenwich Village
restaurant in New York City, said
she knew about Bloeth's record
he was first in trouble when he
was 15 when she married him,
two years ago.
As for the killings, she said "I
feel he's not guilty. He can't be.
not of that."
She was questioned Tuesday,
and later received reporters in
her $65-a-month apartment in
one-family house in a residential
neighborhood. '
A slender, dark-haired woman,
she said "he couldn't have done
those things and treated me and
the" baby with the tenderness he
She said her husband, who made
$150 a week as a construction
oiler, had no debts.
Bloeth was sent to prison for
auto theft. His first arrest as a
juvenile delinquent was for burglary.
OFFERS JOURNALISM COURSE
PRINCETON. N. J. (UPD -
Princeton University will offer a
course in journalism and public
relations for the first time during
the coming year. Douglass Cater
3fi. Washington correspondent for
"The Reporter" magazine will be
the first holder of a newly-established
chair of journalism and
public relations. However, no per
manent appointment was announced.
Lad's Life
Saved By Dad
DES MOINES. Iowa (AP) A
desperate father dug frantically
with his bare hands for almost
an hour Monday to free his 4-
year-old son, trapped by a ditch
cave-in.
The hoy was screaming some
thing awful," the father Ira Cur
tis said later. When the screams
stopped, tension rose.
"He must be gone, he couldn't'
have lasted that long," a youth,
said quietly. ,
But finally Curtis, with the help
of other rescuers, got young Billy
out alive. He was taken to a hos
pital, where an examination
showed he had only a few bumps
and bruises.
Three boys were playing in a
ditch near Billy's home when the
walls suddenly caved in. Billy'a
older brother, Donald, 9, wai.
buried chest deep, and a neighbor,
boy, Marvin Connett, 8, was bur-
icd up to his neck.
Donald managed to free himself
and ran for his father.
Police and fire departmenti
were called. .
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