Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lynching anywhere, but a jury made legal race history last week in Jackson, Miss. by doing just that: indicting Deputy Sheriff Luther Holder of Jones County-as well as four leaders of a lynch mob-because he did not protest or protect the jail or cell of one Howard Wash and so failed to keep alive his prisoner...
...last October that a mob of men broke with suspicious ease into the strong Laurel, Miss. jail and snatched up Howard Wash, dark and worried because he had killed his white employer in alleged self-defense. The mob brushed politely past Deputy Sheriff Holder, past the open steel doors and heavy bars. They took Howard Wash away with them to Welborn's Bridge and left him there-hanging limp like a broken crow, his slack toes pointed down at the drying creek...
Clark Gable, who wanted to be an aerial gunner when he joined the Army last August, got his wish: he graduated from the Army Air Forces Gunnery School at Florida's Tyndall Field, was assigned to Fort George Wright, Wash., where bomber crews for combat duty are trained...
...best-selling beverages in & around Army camps are: coffee, malted milk, milk, soft drinks. At Fort Lewis, Wash., 400.000 bottles of one soft drink were sold in one month at post dances...
Died. Thomas C. Neibaur, 44, World War I private whom General John J. Pershing called the war's third ranking hero; in a veterans' hospital in Walla Walla, Wash. Among his decorations were the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart, the Croix de guerre. He was credited with stopping a German counterattack singlehanded in the Argonne. Sent with two other men to enfilade machine-gun nests, he stood off an attack by 50 Germans, was shot four times, fainted, revived, faced a charge by eight more Germans, shot four of them dead, captured the others, ultimately returned...