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THE DAILY NEWS-TELEGRAM Wednesday, September 19, 1956.
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Editorial and Features
Champion of Truth
The death of Homer S. Cummings at
the age of 86 brought reminders of his
long, distinguished legal career capped by
service as U. S. attorney general under
Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1939.
But his memory will perhaps be most
deeply etched in history because of a mur-
der case he handled as a Connecticut
state’s attorney in 1924.
The case is required reading for Jus-
tice Department lawyers. Law schools
throughout the land point its moral.
Countless legal journals recount it.
On May 27. 1924, State’s Attorney
Cummiftgs rose in court to begin the mur-
der prosecution of one Harold Israel, then
a penniless man, who was accused of
shooting down a priest one dark February
night on the streets of Bridgeport.
Methodically, Cummings laid out the
damning evidence against the defendant.
He had confessed. He had led police
over his route of flight from the murder
scene, designating spots mentioned by wit-
nesses. He told police he’d hidden the
shell from the fatal bullet in his room.
They found it.
the bullet in the priest’s bbdv was .32
caliber, and. so was Israel’s revolver. Bal-
lasties experts declared his gun had fired
the fatal shot.
When seized. Israel wore a cap and a
dark overcoat with velvet Collar. Seven
witnesses said the murderer was so garb-
ed. Five positively identified Israel as be-
ing at, near, or some distance from the
murder scene.
One witness, a waitress friend, said
she looked through her restaurant window
near the scene and saw him wave to her
moments before the crime. This killed his
alibi that he was at a movie.
Cummings told the court there was no
indication violence or duress had been
used against Israel by police. But then
he added: -
“But it goes without saying that it is
just as important for a state’s attorney to
use the great powers of his office to pro-
tect the innocent as it is to convict the
guilty.”
Thereupon, without at single note to
guide him, the prosecutor proceeded point
by point to .demolish the entire case
against the defendant, until he walked
from the courtroom a free man. ; v
Physicians he selected told Cummings
Israel’s confession was made when he was
jittery, exhausted, and cowed by identify-
ing witnesses. After a deep sleep he re-
pudiated it.
Cummings showed that several wit-
nesses only recalled the murder’s cap and
velvet-collared coat after reading of it in
the napers. Some said the cap was green,
others gray. In fact, Israel’s was brown.
Cummings broke the waitress’ story.
He stood behind the restaurant counter
with her on a night like the murder eve-
ning. Windows were steamy and lights
cast odd reflections.
Next he proved the hidden shell in
Israel’s room was but one of nwrny.v The
defendant and two ex-armv buddie)* had
held target practice from a rooming house
window. And Cummings got -six gun ex-
perts to prove that the original ballistics
test was faulty. On top of this, his gun
was a dull black. All witnesses Said the
murderer’s was shiny.
At . this dramatic moment in court,
Cummings, then 54, spoke the universal
language of justice in a free society, lie
could ask no greater monument than to
be remembered for this championship of
truth at the expensing cheap victory. For
he saved a man’s life and made America
a freer place to live in.
Washington Letter...
BY JANE EADS
A. P. STAFF WRITER
Not Comfortable—But Still Alive
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Washington—Mrs. Wentzel dmPlessis, wife of
the new South African ambassador, says o many
farewell parties were given for them when they
left Canada, where her husband was his country's
high commissioner, that they “literally ate their
way out of the eouutij.''
From the numerous festivities welcoming them
to tjiis Capital's Embassy Row it looks a- if they're
also eating their way into the Cnitmi. State -. One
of the youngest-looking_ and most attractive new-j
comers to diplomatic ein les, Mrs. dii Plessis is,
the mother of a son Wentzel, 2!. and a daughter, |
Barbara. 17, who hopes t,. go to college here.
More and .more South African women are
participating in business and national affairs, tin-
ambassador’s lady says. The first woman senator
was elected recently, ami then- me about four
women in the South .V'ticmi Parliament's lower
house.
An*>ng those entertaining for the du Plessis
were the South African Charge d'Affaires, An-
thony Hamilton and his wife. Witli their children,
Vanessa, 14, a young daughter, Kathy, and an oili-
er son, Kim, the Hamiltons have been seeing the
U. S. from the'ground up to' the top of her highest
mountain peaks since coming here from London.
Last year the family went on a thOOO-mile mot-
or trip out west, camping in tents *'<ir a -pell in
Yosemite Valley and stopping at motels. This year
they went camping in the Aditonda.ks, the Cat-
skills, New Hampshire’s White .Mountains, and
various spots along the Gaspe. Peninsula. w
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Afghanistan King
Is Unhappy Ruler
himself to the task of' liberating
Kabul and liquidating the usurper.
Zahir’a father became king and
he devoted himself to the task of
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* EDSON IN WASHINGTON *
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President Sets Pace for
Keeping’ Campaign Clean
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
Washington—(NEA)—President Eisenhower’s determination to
run a clean campaign, speaking no evil of his Democratic opponents
personally, has set a high standard for his followers to live up to.
When Vice President Richard M. Nixon announced his first two-
week, 15,000-fkile airplane swing through 82 key states, he comment-
ed that President Eisenhower had his responsibilities of office to
carry out, and therefore couldn’t campaign on a whistle-stop basis.
“President Truman did that in'4948,” Nixon observed. “But he
is not in the same class with President Eisenhower.”
There was a ripple of laughter among reporters over this indi-
rect dig at Nixon’s old sparring partner. A couple of. sentences later
Nixon referred back to it to correct the record.
“1 intended nothing derogatory to President Truman,” Nixon
explained in reference to his earlier remark. “I was just making a
comparison of their popularity.”
Republicans thought they were pretty smart, doing a lot of
early advance planning to sign up a lot of five:minute spots at the end
of the most popular radio and TV programs, for short political speech-
es. They ended up with 85 of these periods, two and three a day,
beginning in mid-October.
Then the Democrats came along later, went to the networks and
said in effect, “We want the same thing, only more of it.” Federal
communications law requires networks and individual stations to make
equal time available for rival candidates when demanded.
So the way the thing stands now is that the Democrats have a
schedule for 59 of these five-minute broadcasts. The Democrats are
also planning to put their candidates on live as much as possible. The
Republicans will use a good bit of film and recordings for studio-
produced shows, perfect in detail.
First edition of the “Republican Speakers Book” has disappeared
from circulation. It was a handy little vest-pocket size, paper-backed
booklet of 100 pages in a red cover. Issues were arranged in alpha-
betical order, one issue.to a page. It was full of ready reference fails
end figures to help campaign orators prepare their masterpieces.
The fyooklet came out last June, and.a few copies got into eir-
i nlation. But word from GOP headquarters now is that the booklet
"as never really issued. And it was withdrawn because objections
were raised to some of its arguments by White House staff members.
A new and revised edition is in preparation and will be issued
soon.
Just to show how times have changed and how much brotherly
love there is in the .GOP today, Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois has
sent in a request to Republican National Committee headquarters
The Literary Guiriepost
By W. G. Rogers
Washington. Sept. 19 iJ*—There i in March 1955. It was further
is one man in Afghanistan who in aggravated a few months later
not very happv-ovci the arms deal when Permier I)uud of Afghani-
j with the Soviet bloc. He is Mo-j stan demanded a buffer state in
“| homed Zahir Shah, the king oT aia nation-wide broadcast. The
country in transition. His 40,000- .speech aroused such mob violence
I man army is needed to maintain that Pakistan pas forced to clast-1 1 |MJ program of i
i the Khvbcr Pass between the two - planned by the fathe
making Afghanistan a modem ....... _ .............. ........ .......... ............
.s'nte. Lilt the monaich did not!for ex-Goverjior Thomas E, Dewey of New York to come to Illinois
mb for long, a f.iend of his. who f6r „ ^
had ini ii educated in Russia re- ,
rour years ago at the GOP convention in Chicago, Dirksen gave
a slashing verbal attack on Dewey. Dirksen was then supporting the
late Sen. Robert A. Taft for the presidential nomination. Dewey was
in
belled against hi.s mle ami was j
t > crutch A few yen is later, the;
fiieiiil's son killed the king and
that paved the way foi Prime- Za- a strong pro-Eisenhower man. Pointing to Dewey in the convention
THE ADRIAJIC SEA
Macmillan. SPAIN. By Yves P.nttineuu, trans-!
lated from French by O. ('. Warden. Essential |
books. A PROSPECT OF DETAIN. By And-ew 1
Young. Harper.
The end of summer useijl to be the time to j.-.it-!
travel books away, not get them o;i*. Put in tile]
different days thousands ofUn -till leave for for-j
eign lands in September and will be followed by i
a steady stream ail fall and winter. Or, then- i- i
always the excuse that, though you don’t want j
to read about where you're goipg. you do want |
.o lead about where yo . v* beer..
Two of these books concern places, Spain and j
order among the turbulent moun-jthe Khybcr Pass between the two
By Han y Hodgkinson. | ^Tribesmen underpins rule. Tbe| couhtries.
Prime Minister, Daud is a cousin
of the Shah. He took it upon him-
self to negotiate the arms deal
w ith the Soviet block after con-i
hir. He ai-ceeili-d to the throne in
19.’::). . *
The program of development
r was con-
ball,. Dirksen -accused him of having led the party to defeat in 1948.
There were loud boos from the convention floor.
It's all over now. Dewey made one of the best speeches delivered
at the Republican convention in San Francisco. And Dirksen wants
Shah would have preferred to deal
with the West, hut Russia lies
next door ^nd the West is far,
lai away.
tinued by tin son. Zahir Shah j Dewey to help him on to victory in his Illinois re-election campaign
negotiated with German firms be-
| this year.
Then, too, there is the fear
il at paki tdiv may some day lose
patience with it- neighbor. The
same old sniping and occasional
vincing the Shah that the Rus-
sians will not interfere in the na-
tion’s affairs. The Shah was not
convinced, but he bail no choice
which plagued the British j but to accept the inevitable be-
UatUj
the Adriatic, where in parts, the iveathei is not
too inclement in winter. England, the subject of
one of the most inviting volumes, lie- far to the
north, and hardy Dr. Young cariii
Scotland and the Hebrides. There
but this is primarily‘the .-lory of an inquisitive, I
informed traveler on the trail of places which par-
no* an directed against Pakistan.
Bitter words have been exchang-
ed between the two governments
and there is no telling what niay
happen in the future.
Afghanistan's dispute- with Pa-
kistan dates from 1947 when the
British leP India and the domin-
ion of Pakistan was formed. The
cause
fore tire war. Afghanistan w*Uf ___
neutral during the conflict. After I ,
it was- all over Afghanistan got1 doctor With a fashionable practice , ter
two loans from the Export-Import j some western capital.
Bank for the construction of var- ----* * . [shortly
ion- projects.
Last year, when Premier Bui-;
gaiiin and Communist Party Sc-c-|
rotary Khrushchev paid a visit to Today is Wednesday, Sept.
, protection against Indian
] raids. Baron died of the fever
Today in History
thereafter, but the re-
volt ultimately brought more lib-
eral rule to the Virginia colony.
MfTV q|* certain
Shah Zahir is 42. He'first went Kaj>u,‘ t,!<' Shuh Kegotiated a loan I 19th, the 263rd day
.....-*• 'There are 103 days
from the Soviet Union. |
But King-Sahir still lias manylJear- -
strike? against .him. There’s Rus-1 Highlight, in Hi.tory
-ia -on one side, Pakistan on the1 II may not be surprising that
Paris. Zahir actually wanted to be- i other and his own unreconstruct-1 . American colonies revolted
come a doctor and was doing rath--( ,l tribesmen ai! over the place, j Bg^inst English rule, for they
er well at medical school when i The king is slender, with dark I w*re peopled by men, who chuf-
to school in the capital at Kabul.
Later, when his father was ban-
ished by the then king of Afgani-
stan he continued his studies in
t ed under oppression
on up into [Afghans suggested that the 7 mil- j his father anil ancles decided t». hi own eyes and a mustache. He
re pictures ||ion tribesmen along the border go back to the homeland. A great j wears occidental clothes and or-;<|Uent'y *0,,k raattert!
allowed to form an indepen-I deal had happened there. An out- (|1>IV |,js ties f]0m pHrjg Be arts I °"n hands'
ili-nt state. The ............ ’
ticularly matter to-him aitrl which, thank
tate. The government
Karachi would not hear
at law tribe iiad killed the king ami
luuod »t 22s-SO M^n Strsrt. Sulplyjr Spring., Tr»M. nmrj
ttternoun merpt 8»tunUn and SuniUr morning.
PriUTtsi at th« rant Office m 8uipbur Springs, Tnun, M Meond
clu. m.it mstlrr. ____
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The Hodgkin.-on volume, too,' though it ha* a
few photos, relies pn text, on an admirable text
in fact, full of information but also, of color and j
movement and the drama of the elapsing cen-
turies. This sort of book makes you itch' to sail
away,
“Spain” comes closer to the conventional
guidebook, though it never gets down to prosaic
things like hotels, train.- and -o on. Here the
pictures, 1H3 of them, tell the story of cathedral,
museum, public building, ancient v-^ll, and vista
of mountain and plain.
r , . . . , . , On this day in
of such! taken over the capital - < tm 'Ml " a ln“ 111 ln I stance, Nathaniel Bacon led a
Then came a period of strife ir, J)'-s heart, according to his friends, j revolt in Virginia and burned
a crisis I which Zahir’* father .dedicated he would very much like to be a1 Williamsburg. He demanded bet-
By MERRILL BLOSSER
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In some foreign countries drums bring natives
up in arms. Most any instrument in the 'house
next door often'does the same.
On this day in 1777, the first,
of 1956. battle of Saratoga began,
left this) 0° this day in 1802, the Hun-
garian patriot—Louis Kossuth—
was born.
On this day in 1870, the French
surrendered Versailles to the
Germans.
On this day in 1881, President
Garfield died of wounds inflicted
by a political assassin,
j On this day in 1931, Japanese
1676, for in-j troops occupied the Mukden area
of Manchuria.
and fre-
into their
Ten years ago today, Winston
Churchill urged a partnership of
France and Germany, us the
first link in the United States of
Europe.
Five years ago today, Associ-
ated Press correspondent receiv-
ed the Silver Star for gallantry
in Ko^a.
One year ago today, a new
governor in Pakistan pledged
continued democratic govern-
ment.
Thought for Today
Instead of loving your enemies,
treat your friends a little better.
Story Races
PARTLY. fliT I CAME EARLY
WHEN I HEARD YOU'D MOVED
, BACK HERE RECENTLY! I
IqOT TO THINKING A60UT THE
GOO0 OlP PAYS, ANPI HAP
TO REV*IT THE scewe&j
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Meadville, Pa., Sept. 19 »JD —
A reporter for the Meadville Tri-
bune newspapers, John Karras,
had a story dumped in his lap
by his three-year-old daughter,
Kathy. Karras was inside the
house when he heard some fire
sirens. At the same time Kathy
. Jmlp
il.v that time the fire engines
were outside the Karras home.
There was no fire in the Karras
home, and it was the third false"
alarm from that alarm box yes-
terday. So Karras asked Kathy
if she had turned in the alarm.
Kathy was pretty frank about
it. She said some other children
had told her if she pulled the box
bundle she could turn on the
sirens. But, complained Kathy,
“I couldd’t turn them off.”
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 224, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 19, 1956, newspaper, September 19, 1956; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth827085/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.