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...Vicksburg, Miss, one day last summer, young Louis Mize, learning that his wife had gone automobile riding with a married man named Martin Decelle, decided to go after them. He got the sheriff and his chief deputy to go along, so there would ''be no trouble." They found the couple parked on a lonely road. Louis Mize argued for a while with his wife. Then he whipped out a pistol, shot Martin Decelle dead...
...trial in Vicksburg last week the sheriff and deputy were witnesses for both prosecution and defense. They testified that the defendant had done his killing "in an insane moment brought about by a fit of passion." After deliberating six minutes, the jury acquitted Louis Mize...
...National League's weakest team last week appeared to be the Cincinnati Reds. Their owner, Powel Crosley, spent the winter pouring $200,000 into minor-league treasuries for new players, of whom the most promising, First-Baseman John Mize, cost $50,000. But the team will start the season with an infield of four rookies, a weak pitching staff. Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston are likely to finish in the second division. Among the serious contenders, most experts think the Pittsburgh Pirates, with capable but unreliable pitchers, the Chicago Cubs, with dubious pitching and an experimental infield, are too weak...
...Pulaski County, Ky., Teacher Bertha Mize of the Short Creek School, thirsty, drew herself a glass of water from the school cooler. It looked, she thought, a little queer. The water seemed cloudy. Lifting the cooler lid, she was startled by a puff of smoke. None of the 70 pupils had taken a drink yet that morning, so none was poisoned by what authorities judged to be sulphuric acid dumped into the cooler by the same malcontent or malcontents who two days prior had smashed the school window panes and electric lights. Between Fundamentalists and Evolutionists of that countryside, suspicion...