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Titus connty court house along
with gevAcai for qjicstlQa-
ing. He had been seen talking
with the dead man the day before
the body was found. Ward de-
ciareti he wan innocent, but dur
ing the questioning he was slap
ped by a constable named Red-
fearu.
BcrauHe there was no reason
for holding him, he \vns allowed
to return homo- Questioning; f
other suspeets followed, hot no
evidence of the guilty persou wss
obt^iwd.-NeverlhelesM, Ward was
ar»eeted the following Tuesday
nisht at a church j>arty, without
warrant, taketl from eouiity to
county, lodged in jail* for brief
periods, all the while being ques-
itoned and threatened. Ward
testified that he was bejUen,
whipped and hui'ned with cigar
ette butts.
It was not until he had t>ecn
driven to six different counties
under^threats and eonBtnHt fiurvwl
lance that he made the confesBion.
The Suprem* Court held that
the state’s coat«ntion that he was
moved about to protect hin» from
moh violence did not uem valid*
“W« molt conclude that thn
tbnfessfon watf not free and vblun
t#ryi” the Supreme Court held,
‘^‘but wag the product of coercion
and duress, that pctitipix'r was no
longer able freely to admit or tp
deny or to refuse to anawer and
that he ivas willing to make *ny
statement that the officers want
ed him to make.
“The court has set aaide con
victions ba«ed upon- confessions
eztortod from ignorant gersw^s^
who have tRSS suhjected to per
sistent and protracted question-;
in^, orf who have been’ thrc{itened
with mox violence, or who have
been unlawfully held incommuni-
cade ij^ithout advice or friends or
counsel, or_jvho have been taken
at night to lonely and isolated
places_for questioning. Any one
of t"Eese grounds would be Buffi-
eiet\t for reversal. All of them
aro found in thi^ ease.”
The court rjelated upon four pre-
■ TDOT THHes" won iipffore Tt by the ^CfiUfy
NAACti; Chambers vs. Florida,
WendeO WHLKIE
ContiiMied Frote Page One
“Mr. WiUfciv’a mterest in the
Nefro predate, by |nany years the
now famous address at Freedom
House just a few months ago, in
which he championed ao vigorous
ly and ao effectively the pk-a of
file Negro to ^erve more widely in
the Navy.”
Twenty years ago, in his nativs
Middle AVest, he fought the Ku
Klux Klan to its timely death.
A ad over since, the record fhows
that be has had a deep and sint^e
«oi»er» for- "aad^ fair
play in matters affecting a gen-
iune democracy.”
“Hampton Intititute welronuis
to its board Mr, Willkie’s sound
counsel and courageous 'ader
ship.”
1. Stack newspapers Jn large
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1*0X88, and Brown vs. Missinsippi.
Operator
FOUNDER’S DAY SPEAKERS
LIVNGSTONE GRADUATES LARGEST CLASS
J, B. Parham, operator ol tthe
Parham Oulf Service . located-at
Fayetteville and Olenti streetts
and owner of the Star Taxi Com
pany of Darham. Mr. Parham is
owe of the leading bnsjnena men nf
the city and the recest improve*
ment of his station is in keeping
with hig progressive ideas of a
first class business.
1942 GRADUATING CLASS
Hamptofl President
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Processor Maaoo furnished juusie
fdr the aeadenaie procession,
* Dr. UaeLeao condemned dis-
*erimioation in all of its many
ifornte and said that as long as
t-hftt
evil of class distinction, the speak
er said that there would always
be fighting until people adopt the
attitude of Abraham Lincoln, who
said, ‘‘I will be the slave of no'
one, nor will I be the masltr of
anyone. ’ ’
Stating that it may appear to
Neg^roes. aliens and Jews that
lT!olate„ the biokgical truth of the
vbrotherhood of man, then general
*ton after generatiou will have to
tface bloody, bitter death dealing
^ar. Warning the audience of the
“alter 80 years iT Ts some johTo
make our constitution a constitu
tion,” Dr. MacLoan pointed out
that as the lesnlt of the effort of
our model President, discrimina
tory practices in industry .% n d
governmental personel depart-
irventa are slowly qisappearing. He
urged the graduates to bend all
their efforty tp bring the princi
ples of a true democracy into
realization. In place of individual
class, national or racial distinc-
tion. he exhorted the members ol
life.
As, diplomag were handed out to
the graduates, Dr. J. S. N. Tross,
divisional secretary of the Ameri
can Bible Society, Charlotte, pre
sented each graduate a Bible as
a gift.
thj graduating class to adopt Ih^'
spirit of cooperation in meting
the many and varied problems of
if Victory Gardens may be the
idea now but \/e might uie ’em
for food later on.
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that it may be over optimistic.
Previously the Association had
called to the War itfpartment’s
uttciition” iiTfGTin^tttni it
that propaganda against Neiro
soldierg in the American Expedi
tionary Force is being spread
where American* troops hgve land
ed. This propaganda was likened
to the viciors tales spread about
NegroCg in France in World War
I. The proposal to provide mater
ial for lecture^ on the necessity
for respecting all soldiers of the
United Nations regardless of
race or color was made May 13
by the Association’s board of
directors in an effort actively to
correct the situation.
and truck service fo,r mail ej^presa
passenger trains’'Woi 23gi1|nd No..
236 between
Mont.
Logan 8od 3utte,
The 1942 Comcienc^nt Eiterises of Livingstone ^oljege^'
saw one of the largest cjisses in the history of the scho«(I . re
ceive degrees. The above photo*shows’the class ashcmbled
after-the closing of the program.
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