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Another Try Made
To Save Pair In
Gwinnett Slayings
SAVANNAH, Ga. <UPD—An
other attempt will be made in
federal court here today to save
two condemned men, convicted
in the gangland - style slayings
o' three Gwinnett County police
men.
Attorneys for former Gwin
nett deputy sheriff Alex Evans
ci Buford and Venson Eugene
Williams of Atlanta will go be
fore U. S. District Court Judge
Frank Scarlett in habeas corpus
proceedings aimed at securing
new trials for the pair, now or,
“death row” at Reidsville State
Prison.
Evans is represented by Ro
bert W. Thompson of Gaines
ville and James Dorsey of At
lanta represents Williams.
The attorneys planned to cite
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia
(UPD —Chief of State Prince
Norodom Sihanouk banned all
foreign journalists, regardless
of nationality, from Cambodia
Monday.
Cambodia severed its diplo
matic relations with the United
States in 1965 because of the
Vietnam war.
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judicial errors and a biased
jury in their demand for new
trials. They will ask that the
pair be set free unless trials
are scheduled within a certain
time limit.
Williams, Evans and Wade
Truett were indicted in January,
1965, for the slayings of Jerry
Everett, Ralph Davis and Jesse
Gravitt April 14, 1964. The vic
tims were killed with their own
revolvers on a dirt road south
of Lawrenceville.
Truett turned state’s evidence
on a promise of immunity and
testified against Evans and Wil
liams, who were convicted in
October, 1965.
They were sentenced to death
by Judge Charles Pittard. Tru
ett was set free.
Both convictions were appeal
ed to the Georgia Supreme
Court and to the U. S. Supreme
Court but both courts rejected
pleas for new trials.
The hearing at Savannah was
an effort to initiate a new ap
peal procedure in the federal
courts, through the sth U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals and
possibly back to the high court.
Dr. Lester Rumble Dead
ATLANTA (UPD—Dr. Lester
Rumble, 73, a leader in the
Georgia Methodist Church, died
today at Emory University hos
pital after an illness of more
than a year.
Rumble had been pastor of
churches throughout the state
and served as trustee of Emory
Letson Tells About Computer
ATLANTA (UPD—The super
intendent of Atlanta public
schools, Dr. John Letson, Mon
day said teachers in the sys
tem could look forward to less
paperwork and more time for
student education and counsel
ing.
Letson said a new computer
system would begin processing
and reporting student registra
tion, daily attendance, lateness
and withdrawal records.
The job is now being done
manually by teachers, princi-
Walter Candler, 81, Dead
ATLANTA (UPD — Funeral
services for Walter Turner Can
dler, 81, son of Asa Candler,
founder of Coca-Cola Co., will
be held Wednesday.
Candler, who died Sunday af
ter a 30 - day illness, was a
sportsman and philanthropist.
He carried on the tradition es-
Search On For Man In River
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPD —A
search continued today for a
40-year-old man who fell in the
Chattahoochee River while fish
ing.
Witnesses said William Hutch
ins apparently lost his balance
while fishing below Oliver Dam.
Units of the Muscogee County
rescue squad and the Fish and
Game Department started a
search shortly after the mishap
early Monday afternoon.
Dateline
Georgia
■ University here and Paine Col
lege in Augusta. He was pastor
of the North Decatur Methodist
Church at the time of his death.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Leila Bagley Rumble, and
three children by a previous
marriage.
pals and school office workers
for all 120,000 pupils now en
rolled in Atlanta’s 157 public
schools.
“If the new system were ful
ly operational right now,” Let
son said, “it wuld save teach
ers, alone, about 110,000 hours
of clerical work a year.”
The system will go into oper
ation for three schools this fall
and is expected to be process
ing student records for all
schools within about three
years.
tablished by his father of sub
stantial aid to uimory Universi
ty.
Candler was a native Atlan
tan and 1907 graduate of Em
ory. He helped organize the
school’s alumni association
which has 25,000 members in 50
states.
Boy, 15, Killed
In Wreck
DALTON, Ga. (UPI) — A 15-
year-old boy was Killed and his
18-year-old companion seriously
injured late Monday night when
the car in which they were rid
ing went out of control, struck
an embankment and overturned
into a creek.
Brent Hope was declared
dead on arrival at a local hos
pital.
DeWight Kiker, of Dalton,
was reported in fair condition
today from injuries suffered in
the mishap on the Tibbs Road
about two miles from the city.
Dies Os
Parachute Injury
FT. BENNING, Ga. (UPD —
Capt. A. L. Foker, 37, died at
Martin Army Hospital Monday
of injuries suffered during a
parachute jump at Ft. Benning
on April 18.
Authorities said Foker was in
the third and final week of
training at the airborne school
and was making his second
qualifying jump when he exper
ienced a hard landing, resulting
in head injuries.
He was the first airborne
training fatality at Ft. Benning
in more than two years. He
was on temporary duty here
from Ft. Bragg, N. C.
NEW CHIEF JUSTICE
NEW DELHI (UPD —Kailas
Nath Wanchoo, considered one
of this nation’s most eminent
jurists, was sworn in Monday as
the new chief justice of India’s
Supreme Court.
DIPLOMAT EXPELLED
ISTANBUL (UPD —Czech
diplomat Karel Patek w'as
expelled from Turkey Monday
for gathering military informa
tion, including NATO defense
secrets, Turkish officials an
nounced.
JESS MOODY
IS COMING!
Dr. Jess Moody
Pastor
First Baptist Church
West Palm Beach, Florida
will conduct
REVIVAL SERVICES MAY 1-7
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH GRIFFIN
Music directed by Jerrell Bunn
Soloists...
Ron Owens and Wendall Kitchens
Services 12:05 noon and 7: 30 P. M.
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Parole Okayed For
John (Fat) Hardy
ATLANTA (UPD — John R.
(Fat) Hardy, convicted in 1952
for the murder of 38 persons
who died after drinking his poi
son bootleg whiskey, has been
paroled.
The State Pardon and Parole
Board said Monday Hardy did
not intend to kill his customers
and should have been convicted
of no more than involuntary
manslaughter.
"Hardy had unfortunate phy
sical characteristics and the
rather prejudicial nickname ...
of ‘Fat’,” the board statement
said. “This coupled with his oc
cupation and reputation together
with the horrible results of the
crime and the sensational news
paper accounts all contributed
to his severe sentence.”
A notorious 360-pound Atlanta
bootlegger. Hardy has been
turned down for parole several
times.
In granting the parole Mon
day, the board relied heavily on
testimony by the judge who
presided at the Hardy trial.
Judge E. E. “Shorty” An
drews said he was convinced
Hardy did not mean to kill any
one and that he had more than
served the maximum sentence
he could have received for man
slaughter.
During a week of near panic
in the fall of 1951, ambulance af
ter ambulance was sent to At
lanta's poorer sections to carry
away new' victims.
Many who did not die were
permanently injured by the
whiskey and Grady Hospital
was filled with writhing and
moaning patients.
, Following the Hardy liquor
deaths, the sale of legal whiskey
soared as former customers
deserted bootleg joints.
At his trial, Hardy admitted
mixing the poison brew, but in
sisted he did not know methyl
, alcohol diluted w'ith well water
was poisonous.
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SEOUL (UPD -Ex-President
Posun Yun, who is seeking
reelection, charged Monday that
President Park Chung Hee’s
government is plotting to rig
the May 3 election. Yun,
candidate of the New Democra
tic party, charged that the
government has cut off the
opposition’s political funds and
"obstructed” the press.
Julian Bond--
Georgia’s
Reluctant
Radical
Julian Bond would not dis
avow an anti-war statement
of S.N.C.C. So the Georgia
legislature kicked him out.
Now seated by Supreme
Court order and no longer
an S.N.C.C. member, Bond
says, “I really don’t think of
myself as a Negro. I’m a
Southerner. I like the South
ern way of Life.” But the
chill in the legislature is still
on. How will Bond, the lon
er, make out? Read “The In
famous Mr. Bond” in t h e
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