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...justice. Greenville County deputy sheriffs and city police jumped into action. In a few days, with a hand from the FBI, they rounded up 31 men, got signed statements from 26 of them admitting participation in the lynching. The State Attorney General assigned a crack prosecutor, Samuel Ruth Watt of Spartanburg, to the case. In March, a grand jury indicted all 31 of the men for the murder of Willie Earle...
Midway in the second day, selection of an all-white jury was completed. Prosecutor Watt got down to work. His first witness was J. Ed Gilstrap, 62, the jailer at Pickens. Ed told about turning Willie Earle over to the mob. "I thought they meant business," he said, grinning. "They had a gun." Who was in the mob? Ed wasn't sure...
Looking ahead after the success of its first two post-war ventures in the literary world, the Advocate is currently making plans for an all-drama issue next November. Editor Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47 issued a preliminary request last night for contributions--particularly original one-act plays--to be submitted early in the fall term...
...page magazine has been edited by an interim committee of six men appointed by the Advocate trustees and headed by Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47. A full board will be elected from the candidate ranks sometime this week...
...reception hall of the Atlanta Journal's 50,000-watt Station WSB ("Welcome South, Brother"), hang three plaques-awards from Variety for outstanding community service. Last week Manager John M. Outler tacked up a telegram announcing that the station had just won a fourth-for improvement of race relations in race-riven Georgia...