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Gl's in Korea Angered by US Cease-Fire Stall Coroner’s Jury Workers of the World, Unite ! Clears Murderer Of Florida Negro PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By Albert Parker Vol. XV - No. 47 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1951 PRICE: FIVE CENTS “ Give them a new trial,” ordered the U.S. Supreme Court, after Samuel Shepherd and Walter Lee Irvin were sentenced to death two years ago on a frame-up charge of “ rape” in Groveland, Lake ® Negro Looked at County, Fla. helps to uphold the rule of white oppressors and to inspire fear Girl; Charge: Rape “ I ’ll give them a new tria l •— among their victims. The monstrous conviction of with bullets instead of jurors,” Max Ingram, North Carolina FBI “INVESTIGATES” raged Sheriff Willis McCall. In Negro tenant farmer, of Gl’s in Korea Meanwhile the Department of Angered cold blooa, he shot the two of “attempted assault” on a them down, after putting them Justice, receiving indignant pro­ woman from a distance of 75 in his car to transport them to a tests from Negro and labor organ­ feet last June now has an hearing in connection with the izations, announced that it had equally grotesque sequel. new trial. Shepherd was murdered decided to “ investigate” the case. White supremacists, incensed on the spot; Irvin, critically McCall must have chuckled when at Ingram for appealing the wounded, survived only because he heard this. Because what the frameup, added a new indict­ he seemed to be dead too. FBI was going to investigate was ment of “assault with intent By U.S. Cease-Fire Stall whether or not the civil rights to rape” carrying a sentence LYNCH LAW of Shepherd and Irvin had been of 1 to 15 years. $ McCall was expressing the violated. I f the FBI should decide Ingram, who was sentenced views of the whole Jim Crow that these rights were violated, to two years solely on the Lynch-Law in Florida system — the rich Whites who then it could seek to get McCall strength of the testimony of a Want War Stopped Now; Ask had launched a reign of terror in and Yates indicted under a fed­ white girl that he “looked at Lake County in 1949 when eral law. But what Florida grand her peculiarly” is the father of Negroes living there began to jury would indict them? (An nine children, and a little Why Brass Add New Terms voice discontent w ith their peon­ effort to get a grand jury indict­ better off than the average age conditions; the Ku Klux ment of McCall two years ago Negro tenant farmer since he By Harry Frankel elements who burned down the when he beat and tortured the owns his own tools and thus homes of Negroes and drove 400 defendants had failed miserably.) gets more of the crop. Better- U.S. troops in Korea are becoming angry. They are c f them out of the community; And even if they were indicted, off Negro tenants are resented convinced the Pentagon is deliberately holding up a cease­ the police officials, who shot and what jury in Florida would by the Southern white farm fire in Korea. The soldiers are asking: Why don’t the killed one Negro for “resisting convict them? And even if they bosses. brass hats want a cease-fire now?® arrest” and tortured three others (Continued on Page 2) It seems that every time the until they signed “ confessions” of Chinese and Korean negotiators rape; the local press, which p rint­ agree to U.S. demands and make ed inflammatory demands fo r the an armistice possible, the U.S. 1,712 More death penalty; the members of brass kills that possibility by American troops, impatient Walter Irvin Describes How the lily-white jury, whose verdict adding new demands. The troops and resentful at the stalling of of guilty was so obviously biased are asking: “ Why?” U.S. brass at the Panmunjom that the Supreme Court told them This information is contained conference table, have good they would have to hold another Sheriff Shot in Cold Blood reason to desire the ending of trial. in a special dispatch to the N. Y\ Lying on a hospital bed, fighting for his life, Walter Times by George Barrett, front­ the war. The Defense Depart­ JIM CROW JURY line Korea correspondent, printed ment, in reporting another Lee Irvin told under oath how he and his fellow-prisoner, week’s Korea casualty fig­ And hecause McCall did what on Nov. 12. Samuel Shepherd, were shot down in cold blood by Sheriff ures, lists 1,712 more American the ruling class wanted, he had The dispatch begins: “ Recent boys killed, wounded, or miss­ nothing to fear. A coroner’s jury Willis McCall in Lake County, n~ developments in the negotia­ •Fla., early on the morning of didn’t say nothing. So later he ing in action, bringing the was quickly assembled. It paid no tions . have convinced some snatched us, he shot me again, in total thus far in the “police attention to Irvin’s hospital-bed Nov. 8. Following are extracts, troops on the fighting front that the shoulder, and s till i. didn’t action” to 99,226. report of what had happened. It reprinted from the N. Y. Post, their own commanders, for say anything at all, all that time. ignored his charge that McCall from Irvin ’s sworn testimony reasons unknown to the troops, End the slaughter! Bring the And I knew I was not dead and had shot them without provoca­ about what happened after the are throwing up blocks against troops home now! I heard him say, ‘I got rid of tion. It shut its ears to his sheriff put the two prisoners, an agreement.” A t the same time, them, I killed the sons of accusation that McCall’s deputy, handcuffed together, into his car the dispatch continues, the bitches.’ those who are the best informed James L. Yates, finding Irvin still and drove o ff to the town of Chinese - Korean negotiators are “ He ran around the car and cn what is happening at Pan- alive, had also shot him. It Tavares, fo r a scheduled hear­ being pictured by some “ con­ called the deputy sheriff on the munjona. pretended it did not know that ing on a retrial ordered by the fused” soldiers in the role of radio and I heard him say, ¿Pull The Tokyo correspondent of McCall once said he wanted to U.S. Supreme Court: peace - seekers. McCall turned the car off the around here rig ht quick. These the Christian Science Monitor, see Shepherd and Irvin “ flinch” main road, after arranging for sons of bitches tried to jump me WHY NOT NOW? fo r example, says: “ I t seems ap­ as they died, and that Yates once and I did a damn good job on parent, however, that the Com­ told Shepherd, “ Wish you all his deputy, James E. Yates, to The Times correspondent got go ahead of him in another car. them.’ munists have agreed to almost would run so that I could shoot this opinion from actual discus­ everything the UN originally the damn hell out of you.” A fter proceeding fo r a while, he “ In about 10 minutes the deputy sions among fron t - line troops. stopped the car, saying there was requested in connection with a sheriff was there. And the He says: "In a visit last week cease-fire line. To some news­ NO EXCEPTION something wrong with a tire, took deputy he shined the ligh t in my to three major United States his flashlight with him, and got man here, consequently, it seems What jury in the South ever face and he said to the sheriff, units and two smaller outfits on that when the Communists agreed out of the car. ‘That son of a bitch is not dead,’ accepts the word of a Negro over SWP $18,000 Fund Drive the front, this correspondent-sat to the original allied demands, that of a white? This jury was “ Then,” Irvin continued, “ he and then he said, ‘Let’s kill him.’ in on several ‘bull sessions.’ In came around to where Sammy the Allies then boosted their no exception. It listened with “ The deputy sheriff then point­ most of them, ranging from a demand. What can be gained satisfaction to McCall’s lying was sitting on the right-hand side ed the pistol on me and pulled the generals’ mess to a roadside of the car. I was sitting in the by such tactics — other than a story that the manacled prisoners trigger — snapped the trigger — Aims at 1952 Campaign troop squabble, the same ques­ delay in an armistice settlement middle. had attacked him, and to his ex­ and the gun did not shoot. tion usually came up: ‘Why don’t — is not clear.” planation: “If I was going to do “ Then he said, ‘You sons of “ So he took it around to the By M. Stein w ill clear the decks for the presi­ socialists to resist reaction is we want a cease-fire now?’ ” bitches get out and get this tire it (shoot them), I ’d have done it car lights and looked in it and The National Committee of the dential campaign and whatever put to the test. The response to This suspicion of U.S. inten­ END THE WAR! a long time ago.” And it ruled: fixed.’ I didn’t see any tires in shined the ligh t on it and then Socialist Workers Party decided special funds may have to be the $18,000 Organization and tions in the cease-fire talks ap­ What is clear, is that the “ The said shooting was justifi­ back, but we had to obey be­ something they said was about unanimously at its Plenary meet­ raised fo r that purpose.
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