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Scottsboro Boy Haywood Patterson, now 37, was a free man again last week. Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams refused to extradite him to Alabama, where Patterson and eight other Negroes were arrested 17 years ago on a flimsy rape charge. After that, a federal judge dismissed a fugitive warrant against him for breaking out of an Alabama jail...
...Gumps were conceived, named (after a favorite family expression, "Don't be a gump") and lovingly nursed by the late Captain Joseph M. Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News and president of the Tribune-News syndicate. For turning out the immensely popular strip, the syndicate paid Cartoonist Sidney Smith a record $150,000 a year. The Gumps survived Smith's death in 1935 (Cartoonist Gus Edson has drawn it ever since) and Patterson's in 1946, but their following slipped and a number of newspapers dropped the strip...
...With a $2,700 advance for his book from Doubleday, his publishers, Patterson traveled about the North, even made an audacious trip down to North Carolina to visit a girl friend. Last week in Detroit, where he was living with a sister and working as a laborer for $1.80 an hour, he was surrounded by four FBI agents as he stepped off a bus. They had arrested him at Alabama's request; it is a federal offense for fugitives to cross state lines to avoid imprisonment...
Sitting in jail with his suspenders loose and his eyes glinting with bitterness, Patterson said hopefully that he couldn't believe Michigan would send him back to Alabama. "Alabama is the rottenest place in the world," said he. "They make criminals there . . . Hell, they [want] to kill me." The Communist-line Civil Rights Congress put up $5,000 to get him out on bail. But unless he can fight extradition, he will be sent back to Alabama, which figures that Haywood Patterson still owes the state 57 years of his life...
People who were in or near Dayton last April were jolted by loud, explosion-like blasts striking down out of an innocent-looking sky. Most everybody suspected the Air Force, whose nearby Wright-Patterson Field is constantly testing peculiar and violent aircraft. But the Air Force admitted nothing...