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...Killed (257 to 122) the anti-lynching bill introduced by Chicago's Arthur W. Mitchell, only Negro in the U. S. Congress. After a day during which Negroes crowded into the gallery to witness the first filibustering of the present session, southern Representatives, opposed to any kind of anti-lynching legislation, became strange legislative bedfellows of Representatives who wanted more drastic penalties than the Mitchell bill provided. This week, when the House considers the drastic anti-lynching bill sponsored by New York's Joseph A. Gavagan, southern members will have to seek other bedfellows. Negro Arthur Mitchell, whose...
...story of a doctor (Warren William)) pursued by the vengeance of a family which believes him guilty of the death of one of its members. The particular agent of retribution is Karen Morley, sister-in-law of the dead woman. The melodramatic note enters when a moh attempts to lynch both Morley and William. The lynching scene is about the most improbable and at the same time one of the most effective ever filmed...
Author Williams is the daughter-in-law of the late great writer Jesse Lynch Williams...
...earth, which is now springing back in desultory jerks. Last week's quakes were caused by upward jerks of this kind in northern Ohio. Seismologists declare that the recovery from glacial compression is not yet complete, expect it to continue but never to attain destructive violence. Father Joseph Lynch, S. J., of Fordham University guessed last week that rise & fall of the Ohio River flood may have accelerated the snap-back process. Father Joseph Sebastian Joliat, S. J., of Cleveland's John Carroll University disagreed with him, pointed out that Ohio has had seven tremors attributable to postglacial...
...meddlesome landlady learns about the murder trial publishes the story in the village newspaper. Simultaneously, the landlady's little boy becomes seriously ill. When she yanks out the tube Dr. Jones has inserted in his throat, the boy dies. The overwrought town then launches a party to lynch both Dr. Jones and Miss Stevens. With masterful courtroom technique, Lawyer Abbott saves the day. A minor investigation of the same mob violence which made Fury one of last year's outstanding pictures, Outcast fails to achieve equal merit because of a top-heavy plot which takes an interminable while...