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Southerner PaysFor Defacing BusOf Cleveland ChoirROCKINGHAM, N. C.—After twoNegroes had been picked up as suspects, a white man was found guilty of defacing the Wings Over Jordan bus while the choir was singing in the auditorium of the Courthouse here.After discovering that the lettering on the new bus had been obliterated by some mischievous vandal, Rev, Glynn T. Settle, originator and director of the organization, immediately called police authorities, who sent several scout cars to the scene, *An empty aiumnium paint can and a paiht brush were found in the hedges surrounding the Courthouse, From the assembled crowd, police hustled one Negro to jail for questioning, later picking up another Negro as a suspectMeanwhile, business people opened their stores to locate a remover for the fresh paint, and several volunteers restored the bus to the shiny conveyance it had been.Later that night two state troopers called on Rev. Settle to inform him that the guilty party had been apprehended and had confessed to the misdeamenor and asked that Rev. Settle remain for a 10 o'clock hearing next morning.Rev. Settle, Miss Mildred C. Ridley, manager of Wings, and the entire choir were greeted by a throng which overflowed the Courthouse next morning. The culprit was met with cries of derision.Though the lawyer for the defendant attempted to win a motion to dismiss the case for lack of evidence, the Judge ruled that the defendant was guilty not only of tampering with a vehicle belonging to ' another, but of also tampering to with the works of God. The man was fined $500, sentenced to six months on the chain gang and ord- j ered to pay full damages.*
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Call and Post
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 06, 1946
Page 5
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