Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 5

Tuesday, May IS, 1957 Cbt Clarion-LeBgft 5 PJEMIEY'S MISSISSIPPI NOTEBOOK By TOM ETUMDCE Public Picks Portia STRATFORD, Conn. (i -The public has picked Portia Merchant of Venice" for the second role Katharine Hepburn will perform during her tandem appearance at the American Shakespeare Festival. John Houseman, artistic director, said that drama received 40 per cent more votes in an audience poll than any other on a list of five plays by Shakespeare. ''y, -y 1 nothing says summer like Penney's COOL Be the Girl with the Flawless FASHION, lands for 17 years, after the war, until 1882 when he retired. Jefferson Davis then brought a friendly foreclosure suit in the present courthouse at Vicksburg.

Montgomery reportedly received $200,000 in the sett'ement, making him the richest Negro in Mississippi at the time. "NONE MORE FAITHFUL" Two years later Benjamin Montgomery passed away. His funeral was attended by many mourners of both races, including his old master Jefferson Davis. Said Mr. Davis at the grave: I have bad in my life many true and faithful friends, but none more faithful than he whom this day we have laid to rest." That's the story as offered by the Chicago Tribune take it or leave it.

HUEY LONG TRADITION Down in Louisiana, stomping ground of the late Huey P. Long, a legend persists concerning the Lueina An all combed cotton material guaranteed washable, wrinkle resistant and requires no ironing. It's to I cool, so beautiful and so fashion wise! Complexion HELD FOR QUESTIONING Dennis Weiss, 17, left, blood streaming from his face, was brought into the sheriff's office at St. Paul, for connection with strangling of his great grandmother, Mrs. Anne Pederson, 90, with whom he lived.

The officers are taking off the handcuffs. Poice said he cut his face on some rafters when he jumped when captured. Deputy Sheriff Roger Johnson, 37, was critically wounded from four 38-calibre slugs which police said were fired by Weiss. Clarion-Ledger AP Wirephoto. Childbirth MASTER AND SLAVE The traditional friendship between white and colored races in Mississippi has been emphasized by a recent feature item published in the Chicago Tribune.

It concerns Jefferson Davis and his faithful Negro 6lave, Benjamin Montgomer. Whether true or not, the story Is heart warming and of interest to Mississippians who cherish the tradtitions of the Old South. Following is the gist of the Chicago Tribune UNIQUE PROPOSITION When Confederate armies tarted suffering major reverses in the Civil War, there was a fear among Southern leaders that the Federal government would come along and confiscate their lands. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, owned considerable plantation property near Vicksburg, directly in the line of Grant's impending campaign. It was a faithful Negro slave, Benjamin Montgomery, secretary and bookkeeper to Mr.

Davis, who thought up a way to tave his master's lands. He went to Mr. Davis and said: "The Yankees are going to eize your properties. Why don't jfou pretend to sell them to me?" SECRET AGREEMENT Mulling over this startling pro-fjosition, Jefferson Davis replied: "A slave cannot own land under Mississippi law." "President Lincoln has issued proclamation freeing slaves behind Southern lines." Montgomery pointed out. "Give me my papers of freedom and we can make the deal" So Jefferson Davis freed Benjamin Montgomery.

He lent the Negro $10,000 to buy the Davis properties, exacting a promis-ory note for another $20,000 due in 10 years. Then they signed secret papers retuxnbg the lands to Mr. Davis. YANKEES FOILED A week after Grant captured Vicksburg, in 1863 so the story goes, a U. S.

Treasury agent appeared and started proceedings to confiscated Mr. Davis plantation holdings. Montgomery, the freed slave, promptly showed up and registered a protest. "Jefferson Davis owns no land in these parts," said Montgomery to the Federal agent. "It nil belongs to me now." He then showed legal documents to establish his ownership.

The Federal agent departed and Montgomery managed the Vicksburg Kidnap Case Is Upheld without fear The Mississippi Supreme Courtj Guire could not be charged with more than simple assault or as Monday upheld the kidnap conviction of a Vicksburg man accused of trying to entice a 9-year-old sault and battery. Disagreeing, the court in ar girl into his home or some other opinion by Justice Robert G. Gil place. lespie said: Attorneys for Harry wcuuire, alias Red McGuire, did not con test the evidence but argued Mc- I i Ji i Gives yov thot tL young, flawless I I 5 look whfe if cA protects your skin against 1 1 i Illy Si MX Wi; tl Ske "It is undisputed that appellant used some force and a great deal of persuasion and maneuvering to get the child to go with him appellant made an effort to get her to go where he had no Kingfish which is roughly similar to the aforementioned pact between Mr. Davis and bis slave.

Only this story had a slightly different ending. We have heard many times that Huey Long, while Governor of Louisiana, entrusted certain friends with considerable sums of cash, so that his true wealth could not be ascertained by investigators and tax collectors. Tradition has ft that Huey once handed a stenographer in his office a large roll of brand new $100 bills, with instructions to keep it safely for him. It was strictly secret, with nothing at all in writing THE GAL LOOKED BLANK One fine day, the Kingfish had occasion to use the money he had entrusted to the young lady's care. "Okay, baby," Huey is supposed to have said, "Cough up." The stenographer looked blank, demanding to know what on earth her boss was talking about.

Huey raged, cussed and pleaded (so they say) but all in vain. Of course she lost her job, but so what? Somefhere, in a safe place known only to her, was enough cash to support the young lady in comfort for quite a spell. Or so the story goes. Some folks down in Louisiana swear it is true. Others say it is merely another of many vicious liescir-culated against one of the most controversial figures in Southern political history.

9 School Buildings Approved authority to take her and where the child did not want to go, and where she would be beyond the control of her parents. "What appellant intended to do with or to the child if he had succeeded in taking her to his and pain Now, Dr. Grantljr Dick Read's newest book on natural childbirth is condensed in the June Ladies' Home Journal. Read actual stories from his casebook learn whv Dr. Read says natural childbirth can be an exhilarating, wonderful experience that means healthier, happier babies and mothers.

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require such purpose or motive to be proven. But there can be no reasonable doubt that he did in- Included are: Columbia municipal separate dis-j tend to kidnap her within the met. white elementary, szoi.ow'"'""; U1 uc ataimc, Testimony was that McGuire ap including $219,142.50 in state, funds and $42,405.50 in local funds. McComb municipal separate district, Burglund Negro High, including $311,737.50 in state funds and $98,393.50 in local funds. SIZES 10 To IS proached the child, who was his cousin, and offered her "some gifts" if she would accompany him to his home.

Both her parents were at work at the time and the girl was on her way to the beauty 1295 Vicksburg municipal separate shop where her mother was em district, supplementary application for white high school increasing jP McGuire said to have Clerk Finds 434 Not Qualified On Petition held the protesting child by the shoulder while seeking to persuade state's share of $1,613,591 project from $311,189 to $342,303. Covington county school district, supplementary application increasing allocation on semi So full of beauty this sleeveless dress with form fitting bodice and sweeping skirt decked in beautiful pastels and darks for cool summer wear. Smartly detailed and tailored to be welcome in any company. her to accompany him, once offering her $5 to buy ice cream and following her to the door of the beauty shop. If the petitions are ruled valid, the Governor will appoint a cow nary white high vocational building from $40,957 to $43,245.

Coahoma county school district. cil of three chancery judges who Goiusr Back I A KA ttJyX7 I i I Dublin Negro elementary, The first sheriff ouster petition filed under Gov. J. P. Coleman's recall act of 1956 hung in the balance here Monday as the chief executive sought to determine whether the document contains nough signatures of qualified electors.

Baridt Largo) Magasintfr gomta nAtl 000 NEW YORK (fli-Prize winning Playwright Tennessee Williams is planning to make New Orleans his headquarters again. Hinds county school district, Ray will determine whether an election should be called to give citizens of the county an opportunity to vote on whether to turn Rutherford out of office. Cleman's proclamation advised mond Negro junior high, $243,623 Warren County school district, Redwood White high school Jett White high school Under terms of the law, 30 per i-ntinff strpnpth of 'the sheriff "the Governor will tp- 387.50, nn'ceive any sworn statement in writ-l Itawamba county school district, Mantachie White high school, petition before it can be sub-i? jch the said George Ruth- 100; Tremont white high school, misted for dismissal of a sheriff. $128,900. Deosto county school district Olive Branch Negro high school.

$336,440. reference to the qualifications of any or all" of those signing the petitions. The recall move, headed by 84-year-old Booneville Attorney J. A. Cunningham Sr.

began after N'ationl Guard raids last January on liquor handlers. Later vandals I A Citizens' committee in Prentiss county submitted a petition carrying the names of 1,956 persons, urging the recall oi Sheriff George W. Rutherford, on the claim that he allows bootlegging to flourish in that county. 434 NOT QUALIFIED However, the circuit clerk of Prentiss, Nick Rutherford, of Booneville, found that 434 of the persons signing the petition were A smashed windows in several iiiTlO'-OOoyT by5-00 1 7 IOCA1IOHS downtown business houses in Booneville. The vandalism was blamed on bootleggers.

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An authority higher than clerk, this source said, is the county election commission, whose three members were apiwinted by Coleman, Secretary of State Heber Ladner and Atty. Gen. Joe T. Patterson. THREE JUDGES In the proclamation' which the law requires.

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