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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Rescued Negro Halls
Workers Solidarity
Thibodeux TO Speak at
LID. Meet Sunday

NEW YORK.-'I never knew that
y1ids solidarity between whites and
blacks existed anywhere on earth, %
\ .de, jared Norman Thibadeeux, 19-
ywsr-old Negro youth who was
h3Ssged by white lynchers in Louisi-
anatbut rescued by white workers, in
commenting yesterday on the Inter
national Labor Defense.
Il never dreamed that there was
an organization like the I. L. D." he
declared. This is the greatest work
in the whole world. Before the
lynching from which I escaped I had
never heard of the !. L. D. and I
never knew that this solidarity be-
tween whites and blacks existed
anywhere on earth. Can you imagine
how feel? In the old days 7 knew
only terror in the South: it seems
almost as if by magic I find myself
here in New York and surrounded by
friends, Negro and white.
Il should say that the most i'm
Dortant thing that can be done to
save lis all from the gallows and
especially to save the Scottsboro
boys is to build this L L. D. until it
becomes Q real power in the United
States, North and South.
ThibadeauX viii be present at the
New York district membership meet
ing, Jan. IA, and at the I. L. D.
bazaar at Manhattan Lyceum, Feb.
p to IS, inclusive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Luggage Workers Map
Plans for Organizing
in Eastern States

NEWARK. N. J.-Plans to organize
the Suitcase, Bag and Portfolio
workers were worked out at two
day conference at the Newark Labor
Lyceum Dec. 1880, in which execu-
i've boards Of the locals of New York.
Newark and Philadelphia partiei-
pated. About 30 delegates were pres
ent.
The conference gave special at
tention to the situation in Newark,
where the industry is practically IN
organized, and TO activities in Balti-
more, Woodbury. and other towns
where luggage is manufactured.
A joint fund was created, to which
the three locals will contribute in
proportion TO their membership.
Organizers reported on the activi-
lies in each city and the gains and
shortcomings Of the general strike
were analysed.
Delegates promised TO bring the
olans before the membership and
lelp carry out the decisions of the
conference to build a strong united
organization Of luggage workers OF
View York, Newark and Philadelphia
The locals are affiliated with the
United Leather Workers Interna-
ionaI Union Of the A. F. of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

NOBLE art OF catch-aS -catch-can
wrestling were concerned.
Browning was lousy, Steele
went into the tank and Curley was
bum who arranged these things.
The gallery gods expressed their dis
pleasure with the evenings proceed
ings in no uncertain terms.
WE had taken the frau to the
w Browning Steele match with in
ward apprehensions. Carefully and
with what We fancied was high
degree Of skill, we explained that all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Earl Browder Is Main Speaker
AT Manhattan Lenin Memorial
Tri-BOrOugh Meetings in N. Y. StacheI TO Speak
in Milwaukee; Chicago, Seattle Announce Meets

NEW YORK.-Earl Browder, Gen
eral Secretary of the Communist
Party, U.S.A., will be the main speak
er at the central Lenin Memorial
mass meeting on Saturday evening,
Jan. 20, at st. Nicholas Arena, 81
West Goth st. at pm. Memorial
meetings will also be held at the same
time in Arcadia Hall, 918 Halsey st.
(near Broadway, Brooklyn, and in
the Bronx Coliseum, East 177th st.
Speakers at the Manhattan meet
ing concentrating the Tenth An
niversary of the death of Lenin in
clude Rose Wortis Of the Trade Union
Unity Council, Steve Kingston of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
and John Little, new organizer of
the New York District of the Young
Communist League.
Minor in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn meeting, under the
Craftsmanship Of Fred Biedenkapp,
leader of the New York shoe workers,
will hear Robert Minor, member of
the Central Committee of the Com
muniSt Party. Other speakers in
clude Richard B. Moore of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, Sadie
Van Veen of the Unemployed Council
and Neil Carroll of the Young Com
munist League.
Charles Krumbein, N. Y. District
organizer of the Communist Party,
James w. Ford, Harlem Section or
ganizer of the Party, Juliet Stuart
Poyntz of the Trade Union Unity
Council and Ben Gold, Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union leader, will
speak at the Bronx Coliseum meeting
Splendid programs of music and
other entertainment have been ar
ranged for all three meetings.
Memorial in Chicago Sunday
CHICAGO, Jan. S.-The Commu-
mist Party and MANY revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
NE. ShoeUniOnCalIs
Strike on Pay Cuts
Officials Made Secret
Deal With Bosses

HAVERHILL, Mass, Jan. 9.-The
District Council of the Shoe Work
ers' Protective Union, now part of
the United Shoe and Leather Work
ers' Union, voted to sanction strike
at the Holtz and Goldberg shops
against a wage cut. The bosses,
without announcing a cut, deducted
the amount from the workers pay
envelopes. The strike which will in
volve about 400 workers is scheduled
TO be called unless the bosses meet
the demand Of the workers to re-
turn the stolen money.
In the discussion at the district
council meeting, it was revealed that
District Agent Keleher had a secret
understanding with the nanufactur-
ers in regard to cutting the workers
wages by the trick of paying the
workers on the End grade price list.
although they were working on a
first grade shoe.
Keleher failed to appear at the
Council meeting to answer charges
preferred by Joe Costello of Local
IL, at a mass meeting held last
week, when Keleher called police to
prevent the workers from hearing
the final plans for amalgamation
from the coordinating committee.
Costello, militant worker demanded
that the Council arrange mass
hearing to try Keleher on the charge
OF disrupting the membership meet
ing, calling police and blocking
amalgamation. The hearing is to
be held tonight at the Protective
Building
A motion was adopted that Keleher
pay the police Out if his own pocket
or that it be docked from his pay.
More than $50 workers attended
the Council meeting to see that the
! Council acted on their demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

PENDANTS may be tried under new
charges, if not taken out and lynched
by storm troopers"
German Workers Fight
Asked by a Daily Worker reporter
about the fighting spirit of the Ger
man masses, Baer, the militant sea-
man whose speech is expected to be
the central feature Of tonight's Cen
trail Opera House demonstration, re-
piled:
''The German workers by no
means accept Hitler. While out
wardly they may show few signs of
real feelings, privately they are al
most unanimous in their hatred of
Der Fuhrer' and his Nazi bands.
Leaflets are constantly being dis
tributed. Only the other week anti
fascist leaflets flooded the street
from the top of Bamberger's de-
parment store in Hamburg. In the
same city the harbOr workers re-
fused to obey the order that Nazi
cells be organized within their own
ranks.
1.-THE order and support of the
Hitler regime is only on the surface.
Actually there is little or no voIun-
tary support of the Nazi regime
among the working class. When a
demonstration is called which one
is not compelled to attend, it is al
most always a fiascO. The demon
stration on the Bremen Green
called by the Nazis was typical.
Only 1900 people showed up, few
of whom were workers"
Bread United Front
Anti-fascists from many organiza-
tons will address the demonstration
Among those who will speak are An.
ME Gray, director of the Woman.
Peace Society; Otto Sattler, editor
of Solidaritaet, organ of the Work
mems Sick and Death Benefit So
ciety; William L. Patterson, nationa
secretary Of the International Labor
Defense; Alfred Wagenknecht, secre-
tary Of the National Committee tc
Aid the Victims of German Fascism
and Pauline Rogers, local secretary Of
the same organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Mass Protests Win
Stay of Execution
for Willie Peterson
LID. Pushing Fight to
Save 9 Negroes Named
for Mass Execution

BIRMINGHAM Ala, Jan. 9.-Stay
Of execution and a hearing" befoel
Gov. B. NJ Miller, for Willie patter-
on, framed-up Negro coal miner and
Jubercular war vet, has been an
lounced following renewed demands
Of the International Labor Defense
and the launching of a mass protest
campaign against this legal lynching.
This partial victory was obtained
after Mrs. Henrietta Peterson, the in
nocent Negroes wife, had asked the
LID. to make renewed efforts to
ave Peterson's life by mass pressure,
although the legal handling of the
case has been tied up by the Ma
cional Association for the Advance
nent Of Colored People. The LID.
had called for hundreds of reSolU-
lions and teelgramS Of protest to halt
The electrocution planned for Jan. u,
and had issued thousands Of leaflets
n Alabama showing the direct con-
aectiOn between this planned murder
and the killing Of R. E. Thompson,
white jobless war veteran in the
Birmingham city jail this past week.
Both Negro and white workers have
been aroused by this leaflet and by
the series Of protest meetings ar
ranged in workers neighborhoods by
The LID.
1t has been brought out that two
Judges before whom Peterson's case
vas tried during the past two and a
half years, Heflin and McElroy, both
denied the defense the opportunity
70 submit important evidence, includ-
ing a description of her alleged muir
derer 10y one Of the girls Peterson
is accused Of killing. The descrip-
ton was given before many witnesses
about the girls death bed, and could
not possibly have described Peterson
as it specified gold dental work
Competent dentists have testified
that Peterson could never have had
such inlays
The continuation of the campaign
and the sending of a delegation tt
the Governor in Montgomery which
viii demand freedom for Peterson anc
the halting Of the planned mass MUIR
DER OF nine other Negroes, victims Of
Al2bans's white ruling class Jus
5ice" has been announced by the
Southern District office of the LID
The delegation will be headed by Mrs
Petersen. it is planned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Ten Teams Open 1884
Workers Basketball

NEW YORK.-Ten teams officially
opened the New York workers bask-
etball season last week at the or
ganization meeting of the 1884 sea-
son Of the Labor Sports Union
Basketball League. The sole fee OF
the season is 81.
New teams wishing to apply for
membership in the league should
communicate with Leo Berner, care
Labor Sports Union, ia w. 14th St.,
City.
Schedule for the first game fol-
lows:
Spartacus-Aner. Youth, Jan. ~.
Yorkville-Y. G. L. No. 8, Jan. is.
Lyceum Boys-Red Sparks, Jan. II.
Rola-C alverts, Jan. is.
fremont Prog. Amer. Youth, Jan. IS.
I. w. o. No. 4O5-not scheduled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Furniture Union Calls
Strike in A. F. L. Shop
After Officials Refuse

NEW YORK-When A. F. of l..
workers came to the offices of the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union
and asked for guidance in calling a
strike against a wage cut at their
shop, the Livingston Parlor Suite Co,
1900 Sterling Pl., Brooklyn, the strike
was called.
Before this, the workers had ap-
pealed to the A. F. Of L. to call o
strike against the introduction of
piece work in their shop in viola
ton Of the agreement with Local rs
and against the discharge of a union
worker. Both times the A. r. of l..
stalled off their demand for 3 strike,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Harlem DAILY Meet
To Boost Circulation

NEW YORK.-The section Daily
Worker conference on Jan. IA to
increase the Daily" sales, will be
the first big attempt to spread and
circulate the Daily Worker among
the Negro workers in upper Har-
lem, on a real planned basis, in
order to crystalline the growing
struggle among the Negro people
against high rent, evictions, police
brutality, for jobs, etc. Workers
organizations, Negro and white,
are urged to send their delegates
to the Finnish Workers Club, Is w.
126th St., at 1920 am.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Defy Injunction AT
Drug Store Strike

NEW YORK.--Despite an injunc-
ion against the striking employees Of
he Lindemann Drug Co, 1873 Riv-
1gton ST., the picketing Of the drug
tore by the Pharmacists Union,
hitch is conducting the strike, is
ontinuing.
The Jewish Daily Forward, how
cs, published on Jan. 5, a statement
+ A. D. Lindemann, saying "There
no strike at my drug store"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Ballet De Burb

URLEY, you'll lose lot of customers for his" was the
leitmotf in the musical accompaniment to Monsieur
jacques Ballet De Burp at the Garden the other night
Raucous the voice undoubtedly oated down from
the dmness of the rafers amid the cheers peculiar to in
habltants OF the Bronx But had universally about
that made the evenings slogan far as the fans of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Pairing Cutters Local
Asks National Union
to Aid Daily Worker

BOSTON, Mass.-FolloWing a
discussion on the Daily Worker,
the Clark Island Branch of the
Paving Cutters Union, affiliated
to the A. F. Of L., passed a motion
proposing that the national union
Of the paving cutters contribute
from it's treasury $3.50 to help the
Daily Worker install its new press.
The Clark Island Branch intro
duced a referendum in the ma
tional union to carry through its
proposal.
All readers and sympathizers OF
the Daily Worker who are mem
bers Of the Paving Cutters Union
are asked by the Clark Island
Branch to rally aid for this pro-
posal when it comes up for ref
erendum vote in the various local
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

t h e grunting,
groaning, below
i n g, belching,
agonized owls,
pleading with the
referee for JUS
tice, hair-tearing
a n d beard pull
ing, was only a
travesty on the
science of wreSt-
ling. That Mon
sieur Curley, Bur-
ping Impresario,
had the whole
thing worked out
- A. -. - 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

organizations are working towards a
huge mobilization at the Lenin Me-
mortal here Sunday, Jan. 81, in the
Coliseum.
The Workers Cultural Federation
is preparing a mass pageant which
will depict the role of Lenin as the
leader of the toiling masses of the
world. The pageant will also por-
tray the lives and struggles of the
American workers and Negro people
against capitalism.
Stachel to Speak at Milwaukee
Memorial
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Jan. "A
conference attended by representa-
tiveS Of many working class organi-
cations here Jan. prepared for a
large Lenin Memorial meeting Sun
day, Jan. 81 at 2:30 pm. in the Balm
Fret Hall, 18th st. and North Ave.
Jack Stachel, acting National Sec
rotary of the Trade Union Unity
League, will be the main speaker. A
musical and dramatic program has
been arranged by the John Reed Club
with the participation of several
language singing societies.
SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. s.-Three
Lenin Memorial MEETINGS. will be held
in this city on three different days.
Saturday, Jan. 20 a meeting will be
held in the IO.GT. Hall, 11O9 Vir-
ginia ST., at pm. under the auspices
of the Communist Party.
The following Saturday, Jan. 27, a
memorial is arranged for Finnish
Hall, at 8 PM, while the next day
Sunday, Jan. %, Section 2 of the
Party has arranged a meeting in
Mount View Hall, at pm.
An excellent program has been ar
ranged for all three meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

gaWpulg at I n e
consummate skill
Of Jim Browning
at actin /
mean. Not a ges-
ture was wrong.
He would settle
down to the floor
with Steele's leg
in his hands, re-
sembling nothing
so much as a dog
chewing a bone.
A happy smile
would light up
Jim's face, only
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and offered them no assistance.

anu UIIeTeu Them no assistance.
Three other strikes are now being
conducted by the Industrial Union at
the Schulz Upholstery Co., "a Frank
lyn St, Brooklyn, Chase Upholstery
Co., at 1OS Amity ST., Flushing, L. I.
and the Central Bedding Co., at 100
Monroe St, N. Y. The Industrial
Union calls all furniture workers to
aid the strikes by picketing and COL
lecting funds for the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

Hoover since then and is sorry that
he wrote that.
Edward T. Clark, who was secretary
to President Coolidge and Is now q
lawyer also represented
Halliburton-and he told the COM
mittee he went to Patrick Hurley.
Hooyer's secretary of war, about his
client when it looked Halliburton
would be frozen out"
King testified that another associ-
ate of his and Halliburton's. Ford
motor engineer who had sold planes
to Halliburton, went to President
Hoover several times" to talk over
contract for Halliburton, and that
Hurley reported he had mentioned it
several times" to Hoover. At one
point Senator Black asked King.
This was at the time the airrnail
map was being divided and the cues
ton was who would get what?" In
airinail contract subsidies from the
Post Office Department. King said
1t was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS

The Building Maintenance Workers Union
will meet tomorrow at pm. at the Two.
Club, 8l3 T. 19oth ST., Bronx, bet Southern
Blvd. and Mapes Ave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Taxi Workers See Mayor
To-day to Demand That
Promises Be Kept

NEW YORK, Jan. "a delegation
of taxi drivers, led by the Taxi
Workers Union, will go to City Hall
this morning at II o'clock to confront
Mayor LaGuardia with the promises
he made to the 10000 hackmen of
New York City in the last election
campaign.
The Taxi Workers Union calls
upon all taxi drivers to be at City
Hall this morning to support the
delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
RANK. FILE WATERS, MEET

NEW YORK.-The rank and file group OF
A. F. Of L. Local / of the Walters and
Mattresses Union will hold = mass meet
Ing at Stuyvessnt Casino. ia2 Second Ave
on Thursday. Jan. II, at pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Protests Slow Up
Alabama Plan for
Mass Murder Of 9
LID. Forces Miller to
Grant Hearing for
3 Negro Workers

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. g.
Flooded by kilograms Of protest
against Alabama's legal lynch hoI-
day planned for nine condemned Ne
groes on Feb. 9, Gov. B. N. Miller,
Wednesday set clemency hearings for
eight of the nine.
No Clemeney For Woman
No clemency hearing was set for
Teaner Aubrey, Negro woman also
sentenced to die on Feb. g. She is
charged with killing her mistress. The
excuse given is that the Alabama
Supreme Court has heard her case
and has affirmed her sentence.
A delegation Of workers and sym
pathetic liberals is planned by the
Southern District of the International
Labor Defense to appear before the
Governor and demand stop to the
scheduled Roman holiday. Not "cle-
mency," but genuine rights for the
workers and Negro people, viii be de-
manded by the delegation.
The cases Of Ben Foster. Solomon
Roper and Champ Waller will be
heard at once on Jan. 16; those Of
John Thompson, Louis Cunningham
and Hardie White on Jan. 10. On
the Goth the hearing" for Fred Kin
ney and Leo Fountain will come up
before the Governor and the Pardon
Board.
Urge Protests to Gov. Miller
Protest meetings against the ex-
ecution of these nine and for the
freedom of Willie Peterson and the
nine Scottsboro boys are being held
throughout the South, the LID. an
| nouneed.
The LID. urges all workers and
sympathetic organizations to send
protests TO Governor b. NJ. Miller
and Attorney General Thomas E.
knight, at Montgomery, Alabama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
.ARTY TO HELP UNEMPLOYED CON-
VENTIQN

house party and dance to aid The Ma
aaai Convention Against Unemployment,
p De held this Saturday at 100 Clark
rect, Brooslyn TAKE west side IRT. to
Ak ST. $780,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
City Events
German Workers Fight

FUR WORKERS MEET TODAY AND
THURSDAY
NEW XORK.-Important section meetings
Of furriers will be held today and Thurs
day at Workers Center, 1913 Pitkin Ave,
Brooklyn, and 1904 Southern Boulevard,
Bronx, at 7:so pm.
KNITGOoDs WORKERS MEET TODAY
Knitgoods workers of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union will meet today,
right after work today, at the auditorium
Of the Union, 1sl w. 2sth st.
N.T.W.I,U. DREssMAKERs MEET TODAY
membership meeting of dressmakers,
members of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, will be held today imme-
distely after work at Bryant Hail. 9Th Ave.
and 4lst Street.
PHOTOGRAPHERS MEET
Photographic Workers Union meeting, q
pm. tonight, E. 10th st. to discuss the
c,W'A. and the unemployed situation.
LID. OPEN FORUM
Tom Mooney Branch LID, 1913 T. 18th
st. store, open forum tonight at 8:15 pm
Speaker, Paul Miller on 1.-THE Economic
Conditions of the American Working Class"
UNEMPLOYED CARPENTERS MEET
mass meeting of all unemployed car
penters viii be held tonight at pm. al
800 Broadway, near 18th St
SHEPARD TO SPEAK
Henry Shepard will speak at an Oper
Forum tonight on 1.-THE Role of the U. S
in Cuba" at the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, 1871 w 2Sth St.
|
N.T.WLU. TO DISCUSS LII. MEMORIAL
All young needle trades workers are in.
vited to an open forum at pm today t.
discuss the Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxembur,
Memorial and the anti-war struggle at tht
union office. 1871 W. 28th St
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

championship Of the world, it was
only because we were constantly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

LID. Bazaar Committee meets Thursday.
Jan. IL at 1903 E. 14th ST., Room 202, $50
ON. All delegates of the LID. branches
md mass organizations are invited
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
German Refugee to
Speak Tonight at
N.Y.DemOnStratiOn
Continued from Page u

PENDANTS may be tried under new
charges, if not taken out and lynched
by storm troopers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

Tom Mooney Branch LID, 1913 T. 18th
st. store, open forum tonight at S:15 pm
Speaker, Paul Miller on 1.-THE Economic
Conditions of the American Working Class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
PHOTOGRAPHERS MEET

Photographic Workers Union meeting 8
pm. tonight, E. 18th St. to discuss the
eva and the unemployed situation.
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UNEMPLOYED CARPENTERS MEET


A mass meeting of all unemployed car
penters viii be held tonight at pm. al
800 Broadway, near 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

Henry Shepard will speak at an open
Forum tonight on 1.-The Role of the u s.
in Cuba" at the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, 1sl w. 2sth St.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-10-06
EDWARDS CASE
GIVEN TO JURY
LAST EVENING
Young Man Accused Of
Killing Sweetheart, a
Prospective Mother

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Oct. g.
The case of Robert Edward was
given to the jury late last night.
The Judge instructed the jury to
return one of two verdicts, con-
viction or acquittal, on the first
degree murder indictment.
Yesterday forenoon Edwards re-
turned to the witness stand to de-
fend his story that the death of
Frieda McKechnie on the night of
July 30, last, while the two were
swimming in Harvey's lake, was ac-
cidental.
Il have told the truth" testi-
fled Edwards. He admitted he
struck his neighborhood sweetheart,
a prospective mother, with a black
jack while they we're bathing, but
insisted "Frieda was dead when ]
hit her"
He testified she fell while clamb-
ering into a boat and died, and
fearing he would be blamed, he
struck the girl to make it appear it
was an accident.
The state contended Edwards
killed the girl so he could marry
another young woman, Miss Mar
garen Grain.