« 4 TrTT>r»•+*? '-^<YroiuHa*o V •__*,..,? lfT t - •- ^9 >*Mi»sa,ml„^lei • w. OHIO aWt MUSJUW XtSBAiH 15TB * BIOII ST. COLU_BUS. OHIO HOW TWO STUDENTS NOB VIOLENCE IS DISCOVERED9 U. S_ IN LITTLE ROCK a Stories On Page 3 LITTLE ROCK RULER VOL. 9, No. 17 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1957 20 CENTS COLUMBUS, OHIO The Inside Story .. WOMAN KNIFED BY * * PEN ESCAPESlorEy On Pag e 2 . ' :'. i COPS ASSIGNED TO GUARD LITTLE ROCK'S school opening neared, Coswell, who was mowing a lawn Central High school ask William Coswell, center, to near the school, left the area as requested. leave the school vicinity. With tension mounting aa /•: ______•_• 1 V' > I - a - LITTLE ROCK NEGRO leaders, Mrs. L. C. Bates (top) president of Arkansas NAAQ P, and Wiley Branton (center), NAACP lawyer who handled original Little Rock integra­ tion suit. Bottom is Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann. All were generally of same . I opinion concerning statements ONE TROUBLEMAKER WHO DIDN'T GET get lost in the mob. With the state trooper in hot .pur­ on meeting between Pros. MRS. ARDEILA CUNNINGHAM OF Columbus was attacked with a knife by an escaped Ohio penitentiary trusty after she re­ away during rioting at Central High. After jumping suit, around' cars and through the mob, trooper finally Eisenhower and Gov. Orval aboard a truck, smashing rear window and hittintr Ne­ ba™ged 1 '"> •*--f-'i" «,.•! Vimitn^ \vi«ui',v. n""-''"" off to Faubus—"double talk, vague fused to accompany him on and escape flight. Mrs. Cunningham is shown recovering from serious sfabwounds at Grant hospital. gro driver in the face, he was off and running, trying to jail. - und ambiguous. Photo of her attacker on Page 2. _$*& mamsjeasstssm :'__J_fl|v): 1H BE ^ -•• 7^mm a ifrttor. •*«• r.V'rnni'io > •»_/-_• __-___HMH___ PAGE 2 THE OHIQ SENTINEL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1957 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1957 THE OHIO SENTINEL PAGES THEY DISCOVERED AMERICA Knowland GOP Dinner Speaker Escaped Con Knifes Woman 1 WHITE: 'Why Don't They Let Us Alone?' SEN. William By JOHN B. _t»MBS BOS THREAT8, the said, were gtT den. e, tbe arresting eftteer Is storm sewer. F. Knowland, A love crazed Ohio Peniten­ made by letter and by phone. reported to be the husband ef She died • few days later. NEGRO: found Justice Works For All' Senate mi­ tiary trusty who attacked a 33 Finally he promised to kill j MeG-ee's sister. He was convicted of second nority loader, year old Columbus woman with (These two stories are re­ A GREAT PART OF \ha stu­ A BRASSY-VOICED harridan will address himself if she didn't go away McGhee, records ahow that he degree murder and sentenced a knife and fled from the city printed from the N. York Post. dent body was absent. I have no eavesdropping on th* conver­ 'more than with him. struck and fatally injured his to life hi Ohio penitentiary, last Saturday waa expected to mm Melba Patillo is a 15 year old way of knowing what they will sation bellowed: 2000 Repub­ wife, Ruth L. when she disre­ which he entered June 1, 1949. be back behind the prison walls By that time, she said, "I Negro girl. The name of the do or say when they return with "Aw, she's not talking for licans ex­ garded his order and went to a Warden Ralph W. Alvia said late this week. realized 1 bad made a terrible white student Is not given for their prejudices. All I can do the kids in the school." pected to mistake, and when he con- ?. club meeting. McGhee had been a trusty since obvious reasons. Each in her is hope for the best. attend $50 John E. McGta.e, 41, sen in. about 1954. • The girl glanced wearily—it tinned to repeat his frightful He reportedly followed her own way "discovered" her coun­ Th* few children who were was hard to believe that bloom­ a plate a life term f*r murdering his threats, "I decided to inform j try on Sept. 25, 1957, at Central wife, was captured to Roanoke, dawn the streeta knocked her He would have been eligible nice today helped my outlook on ing youth could produce such Republican the penitentiary ot his acts." down and her head struck • for parole in 1859. High school, Little Rock, Ark., Vs., where be fled after at­ life tremendously. Little things a world-weary glance—at the party fund V. 8. A.) tacking Ardella Cunningham Friday of last week, she went Cf,' do mean a lot. woman as if to say, "You're raising dinner when she refused te accompa­ to the penitentiary and advised _S • • • Last night as I prayed I hum­ what we're up against." Wednesday, Oct. 9. at ny Mm on aa escape flight an official ot McGhee's threat* By MELBA PATILLO bly thanked my God, for truly Then the girl rushed on In i JOHN E. MeGHEE Final Riles Held Youth Center and of his plot to escape. After LITTLE ROCK.—Where were yesterday has'shown me that tremulous voice. on Ohio fair­ Mrs. Cunningham, 475 Fair­ relating her story, the official As he stabbed her, h* de­ you about 9:15 yesterday morn­ In my America there Is liberty "I'm here because I just grounds, Co­ field av., suffered a stab wound told her to return th* next day manded to know why she had ing (Sept. 23) ? I was just dis­ and Jostles for alt want to go to school. in one lung and a laceration on For 101 Year Old lumbus, under and bring some of the threaten­ not visited or written him. covering a wonderful America, • • • "We've got the guts to stick the left arm. She was reported ing letters. "You think you are better an America with freedom and By A POST CORRESPONRENT it ont. We can't fight the law. auspices ot in good condition at Grant hos­ than me'. Mrs. Cunningham, Justice for all. LITTLE ROCK. — A girl of There was a colored girl ta my Ohio Republi­ pital but w_uld^ possibly have She bad planned to take the Mrs. Susie Smith co-owner of a lunch counter at I did not know what to do as about 16, a white girl, tears gym class today. We got along. can Finance to undergo surgery. letters, bet before she eeald Final rites were held Monday the Apex club, 740 E. Long st., I arose yesterday morning. I streaming down her cheeks, Sbe was—well, taken La by us. Committe*. de so, McGhee came to the in the chapel of Whittaker's fun­ quoted McGhee as saying. had prayed to the utmost of dashed off the Central High cam­ She was accepted. From her Grant hospital bed Plata hotel and told her be After stabbing her a couple eral home for Mrs. Susie Wright my abUity but I stUI had pus and grabbed a reporter by Monday, Mrs. Cunningham re­ bad "walked away" frem the Smith, formerly of 223 N. 21st "All you have to do is be po­ at times, she said he drepped doubts. Then suddenly It hit the elbow. lite. Don't the people know that? lated in sequences the strange central warehouse at the Dept. Columbus. set.of events climaxing on the tb« knife aad sbe retrieved it. me: I must go to Central High "I've got to tell my story," • • • of Mental H. gene and Correc­ She chased hlra down the Mrs. Smith was 101 years old again. ' V second floor hallway ot the Pla- tion, where be was working she said. "You must bear my "IF THEY WOULD have left *a hotel. 738 E. Long st.; when hallway ef the hotel and then and died at Alum Crest hospi­ story." litters' Come as a trusty. tal of a heart ailment. My heart ached Monday after us alone, there might have been she was attacked by the man passed eut. And here is her story, for the a few bloody noses in the school. ... She was born in Newark, O., having been taken from Central she met on a visit to the peni­ A police ambulance took HS. I wondered just how does world to hear: But that's all. To Trail's End tentiary over a year ago, while "I TRIED TO persuade him her to Grant hospital, March 28, 1856# but most of her lfie in Circleville and Columbus this system of law that we have "I went to lunch In school "We could work out our own Two 25 year old Chicago wo­ acwrnipanying a friend who was to go back,'* Mrs. Cunningham • • • work. She is survived by a son. and there was a colored boy problems. No. No. NO! Don't men came to the end of the shop­ visiting an inmate. Tbe inmate asserted, "but he refused to do MeGHEE 18 A native of Roa­ sitting alone by himself. That's __ked his visitor to have Mrs. Frank Wright, 197 Lexington av. Previous to Monday I thought take my picture. You just lifting trail Friday when they so. saying, 'I can't go back be noke, and, by an odd coinci­ not right. A white girl and a make it Worse' for me. Just were sentenced to one to seven Cunningham write McGhee be­ cause they have missed me by Burial was in Green Lawn that a few people could not de­ dence, he was captured there boy finally asked him to eat listen to how some of us feel.