Tresca case suspect grilled by prosecutor
Aides, seeking motive, examine the files in office of slain Italian-American editor
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Indict 5 men in lynching Mississippi Negro
Jackson, Mississippi (UP) –
Five Mississippians faced early trial in federal court today, charged with having been parties to the lynching of a Negro.
The indictments were returned by a federal grand jury made up of local white residents. They were the first of their kind returned in the South since 1904.
The lynching victim was Howard Wash, 47, who was convicted in state court Oct. 16 of murdering his white employer, Clint Welborn. They jury voted 10–2 against the death penalty. The next day, a mob took Wash from the jail and hanged him.
Among those indicted were Luther Holder, deputy sheriff, who was in charge of the jail when Wash was taken.
One wife too many jails plane worker
Los Angeles, California (UP) –
Aircraft worker Bernard J. Lewis, who lived under one roof with two wives and families, was alone today in the country jail.
Lewis, 25, was arrested on complaint of wife No. 2, Dorothea Kohr Lewis, 21, who said he married Wilma Wilson Lewis of Santa Clara in July 1938 and had a son by her.
In October 1940, he married Dorothea in Las Vegas and later moved to Bryn Mawr, Washington, where she joined him just before her daughter was born on May 18, 1941.
Beneš visit due
London, England (UP) –
Dr. Edvard Beneš, president of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile will visit Washington and Moscow in the near future, it was reliably reported today.
Tokyo says our losses greater than revealed
San Francisco, California (UP) –
The Tokyo radio asserted today the United States, in announcing the loss of the aircraft carrier Hornet and ten other warships on Monday, failed to report that two other carriers and a battleship were also sunk.
Quiz important figures in Darlan murder
Algiers, Algeria (UP) –
A French military board of inquiry questioned today a second batch of prisoners – some important figures – suspected of complicity in the assassination of Adm. Jean François Darlan.
A spokesman, who announced last night a “number of additional arrests,” said the suspects would be court-martialed, if the board decides they were involved.
Darlan’s assassin, a young Frenchman who has never been officially identified, was executed the day of Darlan’s funeral. The spokesman said “some Algiers personalities” were arrested:
…for questioning, because inquiry sowed that the killer had some accomplices.
Petrillo asks for protection by Congress
Says union wouldn’t resort to ban if law safeguarded his men
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Army discharge makes citizen of veteran
Naturalization to substitute for birth certificate
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Navy hero held for homicide
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