READ THE Funeral For Victim Sunday; NEWS Slayer Is Free On Bond WHILE IT IS NEWS A grief strickened 18-year-old Manasses high school senior FIRST was confining himself to the surroundings of his home and IN YOUR family Wednesday while funeral arrangements were being made for his 16 year old sweetheart syho was fatally wounded MEMPHIS WORLD in the heart by a bullet from, a .22 caliber pistol held in her lover's bunds. The young lover, mild mannered, VOLUME 27, NUMBER 78 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1958 PRICE SIX CENTS John Bradford, of 495 Buntyn, St, told investigating officers that the $ - g'un’ was accidentally discharged while he; was showing It to Ills 7' sweetheart, Angerqnia . Kathryn Loving, who was visiting his;;hcma .at. the. time. She wais'rushed to John Gaston hospital •.■ where she was pronounced dead. Miss Loving, a junior JsiSSfan. assas, lived at 5118 Yellow‘ Ave, in White Station. ' ? . Bradford who was released on bond, later- Tuesday; said tiie dnei- dent oeeured about 10 o’clock that . morning. He said the, ', came to his home to keep a date they had made several days previously. The. couple were thete alone, ac« Confesses Getting Angry cording to tile . lad’s mother. Tiie young man .said he first coll-, ed his father, who wag;on his job al Standard Oil Company-At 328 With Friend In Apartment Wisconsin, told him about ithd. in-, r idi'nt and said he . "believed the Serious trouble for o 21-yeor-old woman was started girl was dying’’. Next he called the twice on the second floor of a brick rooming house at 319 Her­ police. • -■ ' ■ nando St. The first time, pain and suffering was inflicted on .MOTHER TOI.D BY HUSBAND The boy's mother said she was her. The second time, she allegedly inflicted pain and suffering visiting a friend at 1010 S.^Park- on seven persons when she reportedly deliberately started a fire way East when: she was. informed ■ in a boy friend's second-floor apartment last Sunday night. of tlie accident, by her husband by At first the young woman. Mrs. telephone. She said On older son, Katerlne Jean Smith Banks, who James Bradford, Jr. 20. also a sen­ Regional Council Of gate her address as 1503 Thomas ior at Manassas, was accompanying Ft., told investigators she did not her. They were on their way down­ Negro Leadership To know what Ignited the olaze. How­ town on business. ever on Monday, she.admitted gett­ Mrs. Bradford, a day worker Hear Rev.H. D. Darby ing angry with her bo.v friend. Wil­ said, normally she would liave been at work. She said Jahn was in bed CLARKSDALE, Milss—Rev. H. D. lie Taylor. 25, and starting the "fire when she lefl her home about 8:16 YWCÀ WORKERS — Workers in the 1958 Mem­ Flora Churchville Cochran, Mrs. P. F. Carruthers, Darby of Prentiss, Miss., m^nfster by lighting a small heater and a that morning to drive her older ~ bership Enrollment of the Vance Avenue Branch anr civil rights leader, will address paper bag which she used to Ignite ■an to Manassas, but on the way ’ Mrs. Cleo Draper, Mrs. Gertrude Turner, Mrs. some loose wall paper. Taylor whs Young. Women's Christian Association; the Minister’s Conference of the she asked him to accompany her Carrie Smith Scott, Mrs. Mary Lou Taylor, and Seventh Annual Meeting of the Re­ still in John Gaston hospital suf­ downtown and report to school at Front row, left to right: Mrs. Mary Peeples Mrs. Elese M. Murphy; gional Council of Negro Leader­ fering serious burns. ■■loon. Bradley, Mrs. Hilda Kelly Helm, Sara Reed ship when it meets here April 25th. CHARGED WITH ARSON Mra. Bradford said she had never Dixon, Mrs. A. W. Jefferson, membership chair­ Third row; Mrs. Bertha Stegall, Mrs. Lilia Hall, Rev. Darby, along with Albert She was-charged with arson by met Miss Loving, hewever she had the fire marshal's office.' man, Mrs. Ruth O. Newson, Mrs. Belle Petti­ Mrs. Patsy Keys, Mrs. Emma Smith, Mrs. Lutisha Powell of Jackson, will also receive talked will) her several times by the organization's “Men Of The Mrs. Banks told Lt. C. E. Torlan telephone. "If she bad ever visited grew, and Mrs. Effie B. Flagg. Brown, Mrs. Maud D. Bright, Mrs. J. Ct Boyd, Year” awards. of the fire marshal’s office that my home before the Incident, I Second row: Mrs. Geneva Williams, Mrs. and. Mrs. Addie G. Owen. (Photo by Withers) The Ministers’ Conference is com- site .and Taylor had been drinking know nothing about it,” she related. prised .of clergymen of' all—deno^ “aifiOIgfiting lust before she started Miss Loving’s parents, Mr. and mlneffons and faiths’ from through­ the two alarm fire. She was being Mrs. Nathaniel Buggs, who also out the state.of Mississippi and are detained by the police. live at the Yellow Ave., add'.ess, National YWCA Week To using their , pulpits everywhere to . The woman') father J. C. Smith, raid they had never met their stimulate the drive for 100,000 Ne­ 66, a retired Oil Mill worker, told daughter's sweetheart. “We cannot gro registered voters Ln the state. the Memphis World Tuesday that say why she was visiting him at ,, The Rev. Darby has, recently she did not live at 1503 Thomas his- home. She had never mention- Be Observed April 20 26 Kills Superior gained national prominence by be­ St., his address. "I have not seen (Contln’wd On Page Eight) ing the. first person to challenge the her In two years, the last time she The Young Women’s Christian enrich their lives, the National registration laws of the State, of visited me," he declared. Association of Memphis announced YWCA Week Ls the time when. As­ Mississippi under the new civil Smith sa'd that h