Events

Oregon Mustangs. Three facts --1) the presence of nearly 40,000 wild mustangs in eastern Oregon; 2) the scarcity of rain in that section; 3) the need of mustangs, however wild, for water--caused A. L. Cross, head of the Oregon Humane Society, to announce last week that several hundred mustangs had died of thirst, that thousands were nearing death. Humane Society officers urged that the suffering mustangs be slaughtered and their meat shipped to Europe.

Utah Deer. Hunters and fishermen will do well to trek to Utah this autumn. For them, David H. Madsen, State Fish and Game Commissioner, has announced a para dise: "More deer than any white man ever saw in the State . . . 30, 000 to 40,000 pheasants in Salt Lake and Utah counties this fall... the largest fish producing plant in the United States." Utah has public shooting grounds of 12,000 acres with accommodations for 1,000 sportsmen.

Georgia Barbecue. A mingling of whites and blackamoors occurred last week in Woodland, Ga. The scene was a huge barbecue, given by a group of Caucasians for the Negroes of the vicinity. Members of the two races ran foot races toi gether, feasted together, laughed, gossiped. There was a baseball game for Negroes only. The chief white speakers, H. A. Alsobrooks and John Rigden, agricultural agents for railroads, lauded the Negroes for their thrift and industry, urged them to buy more farms and stay in the South. The Rev. J. R. Cason, Negro, replied that the Georgia white man is the Negro's best friend, even though there have been occasional misunderstandings.

Louisiana Bundles. "You have no right whatever to stop a person on the street and ask him what he has in a bundle, even though the contents of that bundle take the shape of a bottle. It might be a bottle of something other than liquor," said Judge Louis H. Burns of the U. S. District Court in New Orleans, to the Prohibition agent who arrested one John Masera. When Mr. Masera was accosted on the street by the Prohibition agent, he had quickly smashed his bottle of liquor on the pavement. Judge Burns dropped the charges against Mr. Masero without hearing any defense testimony.

Maryland Jail. Between the bank of the Choptank River and the village green in leisurely, New Englandish Denton, Md., stands the Caroline County Jail. It is a charming place, accommodating some 25 prisoners, 18 of whom are convicted bootleggers. Last week, Sheriff William F. Jackson made comment: "The fellows the Government sends down here are all right and do not cause me a bit of trouble. ... I believe in treating the boys fairly. . . . They are locked in their cells at night and then I let them out in the jailyard to get air. The boys can fish in the river if they feel like it, or sometimes they play pinochle or baseball. . . . Once the boys sat up on the front porch of the jail, but they threw too many cigaret stumps* about, so my wife made them stay in the yard. Then they went up on the porch of a neigh bor to sit, but I soon stopped that and told them they must stay around the jailyard. None of them has ever made an attempt to escape." Federal officials, shocked, planned to investigate Sheriff Jackson's jail.

*Marylandese for cigaret "stubs," "butts," "ends."