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...unsuccessfully for dismissal of the charge because a white grand jury voted his black client's indictment. Sixty-five minutes after the testimony was completed and the State had made a plea for the death penalty, the twelve Negro sawmill workers found Negro Gentry guilty of slaying Negro Jasper Evans, sentenced him to five years. No one in Murfreesboro could recall a similar case in Arkansas history...
...Fishersville, Va. Farmer Jasper Davis won the title of "spittingest man in the South River District" when he scored a bull's-eye at 12 ft. 9 in. in a high wind...
Miners' wives clutched their children by the hand, jeered "Scab!" at any neighboring moppets who ventured to class. One zealous unionist smashed a schoolroom window with a brick. Another threatened to horsewhip a teacher. Now thoroughly agitated, the Teachers' Association met at Jasper Courthouse, unanimously agreed to keep clear of the A. F. of L., assured Superintendent Scott that no teachers were on strike. Whereupon Superintendent Scott appealed to Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves to get the students back to school...
...picturesque gaffer, who traveled for years about California in a cart drawn by three burros, 74-year-old Peter Voiss supplemented the meagre income he made from prospecting by posing for snapshots. Two months ago, when Dentist Jasper Gattuccio refused to pay for taking a picture, Prospector Voiss shot him dead (TIME, May 11). On trial for murder last week, the whiskery oldster sat calmly in a San José. Calif, court while his attorney argued: "Dr. Gattuccio brought about his own death by stealing an old man's living for his own amusement. . . . The only home...
Much weaker was the Left's Right, headed by Louis Waldman of New York and Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, Conn. Immediate grievances of the Right were that the Left-controlled National Executive Committee had taken away the charter of the Right-controlled New York State organization and given it to a Leftist group; that the National Executive Committee had approved the credentials of the 44 Leftist delegates from New York, leaving 44 Rightists without seats. But there was a bigger division on the question of compromising with Communist methods of violence. Said Mr. Waldman scathingly of the Left...