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...claimed credit in income tax returns for local taxes not paid. Should appeals fail, the teachers promised to picket business establishments known to be delinquent in taxes. Resentfully they rejected County Treasurer McDonough's suggestion that they call on individual delinquents to collect taxes due. Said Teacher Nell W. Reeser: "The County Treasurer apparently thinks of us as a body of super-gold-diggers, who, by some magic wand, are able to conjure money out of the well-lined but carefully guarded pockets of the rich tax dodgers. But tax collecting isn't our business. If [the officials...
Into Birmingham's Jefferson County jail last week walked an agitated family. One member of it was Nell Williams, daughter of a prominent lawyer. Last summer, she was riding with her sister Augusta and another girl near Birmingham when a Negro jumped on their car's running board, made them drive into the woods, threatened to "get even for what your race has done to mine." He then shot and killed Miss Williams' sister and the other girl (TIME...
...surprised to find a revolver. The family was then led into a room where a Negro named Willie Peterson, suspected of the crime, was to be re-identified by Miss Williams. Willie Peterson had been arrested fortnight before when, walking in Birmingham with her brother Dent, Nell Williams had suddenly pointed and screamed, "That's him! That's him!" Brother Dent had covered the Negro with a gun until police came...
Three young girls of good Birmingham families were out for an evening motor drive. They were Nell and Augusta Williams, daughters of an attorney, and Jennie Wood, whose father is a produce dealer. Suddenly out of the shadows of a wood sprang a Negro in overalls. He leaped on the running board, ordered the girls at gunpoint to drive up a lonely road. There he robbed them. Not satisfied with that, he began insulting the frightened young women, threatened "to get even for what their race had done to his.'' At this point, Nell Williams made a grab...
Score--Naval Academy 12, Harvard 1, Goals, Fibgerson, Elliott 2, Castrel 2, O'Nell, Bowers 2, Morrill, Moncure 3, Pope. Referee--Withington (Yale.) Time--30m. halves...