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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that specifically aimed blow at the U.S. Supreme Court and its 1954 school desegregation decision,* Circuit Judge Sebe Dale, 62, last week empaneled the Pearl River County grand jury, charged the jurors to "go into the jury room like men, do your duty, come out like men and keep your mouths shut." With 23 cases to consider, the khaki-clad farmers and paper-mill workers returned 17 indictments. Notably missing: indictment of lynch-law executioners of Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape suspect dragged from the unguarded Poplarville jail last April and shot to death...
...grand jury in Biloxi for indictments charging the mob with violation of Parker's civil rights and conspiracy to deny his legal rights. The Greenville Delta Democrat-Times called Mississippi-born Judge Dale's bluff better than the fulminating Northern papers: "Nothing could have occurred that would go further to establish the point that a federal anti-lynching law is necessary and that the state is incapable or unwilling to accept the responsibility of prosecuting lynchers . . . Every citizen who expects protection of himself and for his family should fear for his safety if this is the true climate...
...observers in Laos has put a considerable damper on overt Communist activity. And at week's end U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold decided to fly to Laos himself to determine whether the situation warrants some kind of permanent, though informal U.N. surveillance-a measure the Laotians feel would go a long way toward keeping the Red aggressors on their own side of the jungle...
Except for this affirmation that the Soviet Union would go on spending for arms (at least a quarter of its total income this year), the order of the day was peace and friendship. Giant, red corn stalks and eight-foot ears of corn festooned one square, and the moon was gaily displayed as the latest Soviet plaything. Holiday marketers crowded the shops. Restaurants were jammed. And at the Kremlin reception, there was dancing for the first Nov. 7 since Lenin and Trotsky took over the place in 1917. After leading the grand march into Vladimir Hall, Premier Khrushchev begged...
...Prime Minister's first bold move was a 16-day amnesty offer to Triad hoodlums who wanted to go straight. If they would confess past misdeeds, their testimony would not be used against them as evidence; the police would make every effort to protect them from predictable Triad reprisals; most important of all, they would not be subject to the sweeping new powers that Lee's government was giving the police, which in effect deprive all known criminals of habeas corpus. Confessions from suspicious crooks were few at first, but under constant radio and press warnings to "give...