Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prison at Kilby, Ala. was Negro Haywood Patterson, 24, convicted for the fourth time in January 1936 of raping Victoria Price, and sentenced to 75 years. In the jail at Birmingham were Negro Clarence Norris, 24, similarly convicted last fortnight and sentenced to death; Negro Andy Wright, 25, rape-convicted last week and sentenced to 99 years; Negro Charlie Weems, 26, rape-convicted last week and sentenced to 75 years; and Negro Ozie Powell, 22, excused from the rape charge but sentenced to 20 years for knifing a guard last year...
Some weeks ago the Archbishop of Canterbury took as Primate of All England a straddled position on the bill, saying he would abstain from voting, and this freed the tongues of such unconventional clerics as the Bishop of Birmingham who last week cried: "I challenge the suggestion that bishops of the Church of England should not vote for the bill because remarriage after divorce is contrary to the traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery...
While traveling in Arabia several years ago Lytle White, a student from Howard College at Birmingham, Ala.,* became chummy with Sheik Farced J. Imam. After his return home White received a letter from his friend, who "in his usual sparkling way suggested that I (White) befriend him by being on the alert for a beautiful and competent girl, who might be purchased to honor the position as chief wife of his harem...
White told this story in the summer of 1935 to Miss Ellen Ansley, Howard College correspondent of the Scripps-Howard Birmingham Post. Another reporter was assigned to interview White and the Post published a story saying, "although Mr. White will not take responsibility of selecting Sheik Imam's wife, he will be glad to make contact with the Arabian for those interested. Mr. White can be reached by telephone at 9-1817 or by mail at Roebuck Springs...
...case went to trial last week in Birmingham. The Post claimed its story was substantially true, introduced evidence to show that White had told the same story to other people. The jury, out 15 minutes, found for the Post. White announced he would file a second appeal...