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YOUNG MOTHER
SENTENCED TO LIFE
FOR DAUGHTER'S MURDER
In the only criminal case tried in
Catoosa County Superior Court re
cently, Mrs. Joyce McNeese, 24-year
old mother of five children was
found guilty of murder in the death
of her 2 year old paralytic daughter
by an all male jury. The jury rec
ommended mercy.
I Under the jury’s verdict, Judge
Freeman McClure was required by
law to sentence the defendant to
confinement “at hard labor” for the
rest of her life in the penitentiary.
If the jury had not recommended
mercy Mrs. McNeese would have
been sentenced to the electric chair.
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Teenage Brother and
Sister Are Acquitted
Of Father's Murder
Morris C. Hill 58
Leading Schley Farmer,
Dies Earl" Monday
Clarkesxille, Nov. 20—A teen- Ellaville, Nov. 22—Morris C. Hill,
age brother and sister charged with 58, leading Schley county farmer
the murder of their father were ac- an d a member of one of the coun-
quitted in Habersham county su- ty’s most prominent families, died
perior Court Saturday. early Monday in Americus-Sumter
The jury, after deliberating three Count y Hospital after an illness of
hours, returned a verdict of not five weeks -
guilty in the case of Willene Lathan 1 Graveside services Tuesday at 11
18, and Roy Lathan, 13, | a - m - Officiating minister Rev. W. E.
The children had been charged f cot ,! of Americus and Rev. J. F.
with murder in the death of their „ ,
father, Clyde Lathan, 42. The state' natlvaof s <*ley county, Mr.
contended the children and their H , ™ as tbe son of tbe late R - E -
mother 37, conspired to murder La- and Turner Hill. In 1922 he
than. married Miss Mervin Johnson of
Mrs. Lathan, found guilty of mur- E11 . av ?,l le ‘ ,,, ,
der and given a life sentence earli-' " World War I vet, Mr. Hill was
er this week, first said she killed a member of cit y Council for many
her husband in self defense but yearsan d the lo «U Masonic Lodge,
told the jury that convicted her that .,*1® T- 3 * a . member °f Ellaville
Roy did the shooting. She denied -^^ tbod, st church,
that she conspired with Roy and Surviving, besides his widow, are
Willene to Kill Lathan. a dau g bter - Mrs. Paul Lewis, Al-
Miss Rosie Lathan, blind sister of b . a ^J’! a son - Bob E ^ aville ! a
the dead man, was one of the s,ster > Mrs. Paul Coffin, Ellaville;
principal witnesses against the a bro ^ ber ' O. C. Hill, Ellaville; and
Noted Red Envoy,
Andrei Vishinsky
Dies of Heart Attack
a giandson, Paul Lewis, Albany.
children. She testified Willene
“would have killed her father with
a poker one time when he was
drunk” if a friend had not stopped
her. She also quoted Willene as say
ing, “I wish daddy was dead.”
Willene jumped to her fee tin the
court room and shouted “It’a lie!”
When Miss Lathan made the state-
men * - _ * Columbus, Ga.—Want to see a
Roy told police he killed his gigantic dolphin cavorting on
father after a fight ’between his Broadway, followed, by a bathing
parents.
Annual Christmas Parade
I Will be Staged At Columbus
Wednesday, December 1
3 CIRCUS HORSES DIE
IN HIT-RUN STAMPEDE
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 21—Three
show horses from the Ringling Bros.'
and Barnum & Bailey Circus were
killed Saturday night during a
stampede after they had been
frightened by a hit and run auto. 1
Lee Rowe, a circus employe, was Mastic
girl riding a huge snail.?
Or “Popeye the Sailor,” tall as a
giant?
Or an 80-foot-long “Sea Serpent”
and the dragon-like "Breast from 40'Russian and
Fathoms"? ijj S R
These and other wonders of the
mysterious deep will be featured in
the annual Christmas parade in
Columbus Dec. 1 .
Mammoth floats in the nautical
spirit are being readied for this fan-
fairyland, which also will
United Nations, N. Y., Nov. 22—
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, chief Russian,
delegate to the UN and prsoecutor
of the dread Moscow purge trials,
of the 1930s, died Tuesday of heart
attack.
The 70 year old venom-tonguedl
Vishinsky died at Soviet headquar
ters on fashionable Park Ave. at
9:30 a. m.. while preparign a speed*
he planned to give before the UI4
Assembly.
An attache found Vishinsky
slumped across his desk shortly be
fore he was to have left for the UNi
headquarters to hear an address by
French Premier Mendes-France who
called for Russia to meet with the
Big Three western powers to ease
East-West tension.
The Assembly and the UN Politi
cal Committee adjourned at once.
The blue UN flag, with its silver
globe was half-staffed in the court
yard of the glass-iwalled UN build
ing on the East River, and the ham-
rrter-and-sickle flag of the Soviet
Union was half-staffed at Russian
headquarters.
There was surprise when Vishin
sky and his two chief aides failed
to appear at the General Assembly
to hear Mendes-France.
The French Premier had finished
his speech, sat for a while in the
chief delegates’s seat in the French,
section and had left the hall before
it was known what had happened-
A Soviet spokesman at the Rus
sian headquarters, handed out
copies of a communique, written in
translated into Eng.-
It said: “The delegation of the
Soviet Union to the UN announces,
with grief the unexpected death of
Mr. Vishinsky—the first deputy
minister of foreign affairs of the
Soviet Union—the present repre-
thrown from a horse and hospital- bring iTbands^’a bevyVTeauVy if’ nt f tiye J“V* 1 * Union ~ tbe
! lzed wdh undetermined injuries. ' queens and old Santa Claus and hi J bead of the delegation to the
| The Duval County road patrol reindeer t0 the downt0 wn street of ? h session of the General Assem-
isaid about 30 horses were being c 0 ] um bus |bly.
| led north on Edgewood Ave. from j Thousands will view the 1954' “ Mr ’ Vishinsky’s death occurred,
.the circus grounds to a railroad ed j t j 0 n of the Columbus Merchants Monday morning.
siding when a speeding car struc Association Yule parade, tradition- A secretary of the Soviet delega-
an automobile, crashed into the r 1 **
^ , ally the greatest crowd attraction tion said an aide found Vishinsky.
; herd and kept going. One horse was ng all the events of the chat J
killed and the rest stampeded. 'tahoochee Valley area. !
Another horse was killed when it i
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slumped over his speech manuscript,
a this desk.
, J Fables and legends of the myste-1 A delegation physician was sum-
leaped at a car driven by Mrs. Lee r jous and beautiful sea will be il- moned and oxygen was ordered,
H|Norder, 30, and a third died jump- i us t r ated in fabulous floats. These but it was to late^
| ing from a bridge. jwill j nc i ude “King Neptune,” andi The Soviet delegation said Vish-
= j None of the persons in the auto- ^Loreh” of the fatal charm. I insky died of acute paralysis of the
■ ! ~ ~~ ~ . I There will be merimaids, the Old heart.
lL AgneS Scott Ccdlege rec ^ lv ^ Man of the Sea, his train held by a| Approaching his 71st birthday on
li t ^ e l . n ! a;,0r ^ an “?? Va n aed fr °g b °y- and a Queen of the Sea Dec. 10, Vishinsky was a genial
■ at better! 4 million and 5 million ri ding the snail behind a playful looking, impeccably dressed man
■ dollars left by Mrs. Geo. C. Walters porpoise Jwho during the current General As-
The parade will begin at 5:30 p. sembly had noticeably softened his
m. Dec. 1, at Ninth Street and tone in keeping with Russia's cam-
Broadway near the courthouse, con- paign for “peaceful co-existence."
tinuing on Broadway to 13th St., But in Russia he will be remem
turning east to Fourth Avenue and bered as the chief prosecutor of the*
proceeding down Fourth Avenue to | purge trials of 1936 to 1938.
Ninth Street. I Then Vishinsky, day after day„
Bands scheduled to appear at in- week after week, poured out merci-
tervals with the floats are 11 in jess denunciation of, men with
number. ;whom he had worked for years,and
Beauty queens slated to ride in demanded—and got—the death sen-
the parade are Miss Phenix City, tence against them because they
Miss Muscogee County, Miss Tri- were accused of departing from the
County, and a number of Hi-Neigh- par ty line.
bor queens. j it was after that in 1940 that he-
Parade marshal will be Roy entered the field of diplomacy and
Tucker, and his assistants will be soon Was an ace man in the Soviet
Sam Howard and Fred Shiver. j Foreign Office.
; — Not long after Vishinsky died
The Man O’War trains between Monday, a Polish delegate Jab Lu~
Atlanta and Columbus will con- baez complained of feeling faint as
tinue to run on present schedule he sat in the UN Political Commit-
until May at least—with no trains tee. He was taken to the fifth floor
dropped, but minus club cars and clinic, where attendants said they
at a higher fare. believe he would survive.
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