Evening star., 1948-12-03
0hioan Says TaImadge
Pledges operation
On Ambush Staying
BY the Assoeioted Press

| ATLANTA, Dec. 3.-Gov. Herman
Talmadge talked with Joseph M.
Goldwasser of Cleveland today
about the Staying of Negro near
Lyons, Ga, November 20 and said
mo one has produced any evidence
yet"
Mr.. GoldwasSer, a member of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancen1ent of Colored People, who
came into the State to investigate
the case privately, few here today
from Savannah for his 10-minute
meeting with the Governor.
He promised to return later with
photostatic copies of information he
said he had obtained from Amy
James Mallard. widow of Robert
Mallard, the Staying victim. The
widow charged her husband was
killed in an ambush and Mr.. Gold
wasser said she named two white
men as the slayers.
Hold Private Talk.
The Governor greeted the press
at his regular conference with the
question, where's the gentleman
from Ohio?" Mr.. Goldwasser STEP
ped forward and the two talked
privately.
Mr.. Goldwasser said as he came
out, "the Governor promised full
cooperation in every respect"
"You have wonderful Governor
down here and I think he is alb
solutely sincere" Mr.. Goldwasser
said to newsmen as he left Gov.
Talmadge's office.
On his way here, Mr.. Goldwasser
said he was a little perturbed over
his possible reception by the Gov
yernor, but said, If he asks why
I'm mixed up in this case, can
only say I'm following the dictates
of my heart"
The Georgia Bureau of Investiga-
ton has said it did not have enough
evidence to take out warrants in the
case and the sheriff of Toombs
County, r. E. Gray, said he wouldn't.
The Midwesterner is president Of
the Peerless Department Store and
Peerless Rubber Co. in Cleveland.
Mr.. Mallard was shot by robed
white men, his widow charges. She
later was charged with his murder,
but the charges were dropped.
Editorial Attacks Inaction.
Meanwhile, Ralph McGill, editor
Of the Atlanta Constitution, says the
Nation cannot understand the delay
in apprehending the slayers of MIR.
Mallard.
He devoted his editorial page COL
umn to the case yesterday.
Mr.. McGill said:
Here Of late it has been possible
to see, and feel a turn in the Ma
tional concept of the Southern rae
ial problem. Golfers Magazine, the
New York Herald Tribune. and vari-
GUS other less known Eastern mag
azines and newspapers, recently
have published excellent, intelligent
and constructive comment on the
South. ."
But now comes the murder near
Lyons, Ga. A Negro was stopped by
a road block. A shot was fired
through the windshield, killing him
in a wanton, cold-blooded manner.
His wife and other witnesses have
identified at least one of the men.
But what happens?
Nothing at all. No one Is ar
rested. The murder was more or
less suppressed for four days. There
is good reason to believe that had
the newspapers not dug it out-and
the Associated Press deserves good
hand for its job-no legal action
would have been attempted by any
one concerned. It would have
blown over 1t may do that any
how.
Equal Justice Demanded.
''Now the sheriff says. according
to quotes from reporters, that if
no warrants are sworn out the evi-
dence will be submitted to a Feb
ruary grand jury.
1T is precisely this sort Of thing
the Nation cannot understand. The
Nation knows that had a white
man been shot in cold blood by q