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- enclosed a clipping from - crossed out with news from your old neighborhood (the Jeffrey Blvd. area), where a preacher who was working with the blacks was shot by one of 'em around about the time you had moved away. Preacher recovered, moved the Hell away from there. You may recall that Len Des Pres got two slugs from a "Zip" gun a few years ago - the two young Negroes who did it were caught later. No robbery, just had to shoot someone, and he does his best for blacks. Negro voters keep re-electing him.

 At least one killing daily, sometimes of mere boy children around 12-13 years of age, on the South Side, where even an old person dying of heart trouble (white)

used to be news when I was a kid, and so very little crime. No pubs in Englewood then - 1914-18, after which I went to N.W. Iowa to work on the G.N. Ry at a country station and first learned to hate farmers. This was 32 miles north of Sioux City, in Plymouth County, an area mentioned in Hard Times, the Terkel book. F.M.