Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1950-08-08 Lewis O. Swingler MEMPHIS WORLD The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 164 BEALE—Phone 8-4030 Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn., as second-class mail under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1879 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II. Founder, C. A. Scott, General Manager LEWIS O. SWINGLER ...................Editor A. G. SHIELDS, Jr..................... Advertising Manager The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper—non sectarian and non-partisan printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to the interest of its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Year $5.00—6 Months $3.00—3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) "Better Late Than Never" We are glad to note that Representative Henderson Lanham recognizes what a bad actor he demonstrated himself to be last Friday at a committee hearing when he threatened physical violence against a Negro member of the Civil Rights Congress. Lanham, the record says, threat was made against William Patterson, Negro director of the Civil Rights Congress, when the latter, invited by Lanham to testify as to Communist affiliation, charged that Georgia is a lynch state. "When he started slurring my state of Georgia," Lanham said Saturday, "I simply lost my head along with my temper. "I never should have done it." We think Mr. Lanham was proving the point made by Mr. Patterson when he lost his head and his temper by threatening physical violence. Lanham is head of the Committee on Lobbying. He was conducting the hearings and Patterson was there at his invitation. And he owed Patterson the courtesy of a respectful hearing, no matter how distasteful his testimony might have been. We can think of a hundred other ways Mr. Lanham could have challenged Patterson's charge other than by violence. He could use his brain, rather than his fist, to work with Georgians in proving to the world that Patterson is a liar and that Negroes can and do receive fair and impartial trials in Georgia courts. He can help the state, by his personal conduct and influence, to live down the Mallard lynch trial stigma. He can work with his constituents back home and persuade them not to become parties to cross-burnings and threats which cancelled a Negro musician's appearance at a white school. He could declare to the world that the better people of Georgia are not a part of the threats against a white minister who accepted an invitation from an aged Baptist Negro preacher to deliver his anniversary message. There is really no limit to the good things Mr. Lanham could have done and can still do to disprove the charge that Georgia is a lynch state. REVIEWING THE NEWS By WILLAM GORDON Economic discrimination in our present day society, has been a most detrimental instrument in tearing away the foundations of a well organized and most desirable democratic state. In the complex area of human relations, the incidence of discrimination because of race, color or creed or national origin reflect prejudices deeply rooted in traditions. This prejudice, which ultimately determines the attitudes and behavior of an individual or group, invariably develops the characteristics and force of habit. The elimination of this most horrible disease must be sought by every legal weapon man has at his disposal. It should be done by both the legal and process of education It is to be' a most effective elimination. Orderly redress should be set up to combat the manifestations of prejudice if we are to eliminate a most unfavorable situation now present in our midst. The school of thought which contends that legal redress will create disruption and disunity. is very much in error. On the contrary, a law against the evils of discrimination is a necessary safety device. By maintaining impartial machinery for the orderly redress of grievances, provides one of the best means of preventing racial Strife. Those who suffer discrimination would be less likely to be driven to violent or unlawful behavior, or to be misled by an un-American propagandist, when they know they can turn to the government for justice. Discrimination in employment is one of our mast vile evils. If it wen eliminated, a lot of confusion am misunderstanding between the race would not be present. Economic factors are largely responsible for our total action in hu man relations. Human nature being what it is, even the Ten Commandments need to be implemented by legislation. The function of government in a democracy is to make public opinion the law of the land. Public opinion is effective only if it invokes sanctions for the total good of the community. Discrimination, growing out of prejudice and all of its manifestations, cast a deathly shadow across all that is good in this country. Eliminate discrimination and all that it stands for and we will eliminate police brutality, insulting remarks made by bus and trolley motormen. Eliminate it and all that it stands for and we will be setting up a real example of a true democracy and what it stands for. Prejudice, A Deadly Weapon By WILLAM GORDON Economic discrimination in our present day society, has been a most detrimental instrument in tearing away the foundations of a well organized and most desirable democratic state. In the complex area of human relations, the incidence of discrimination because of race, color or creed or national origin reflect prejudices deeply rooted in traditions. This prejudice, which ultimately determines the attitudes and behavior of an individual or group, invariably develops the characteristics and force of habit. The elimination of this most horrible disease must be sought by every legal weapon man has at his disposal. It should be done by both the legal and process of education It is to be' a most effective elimination. Orderly redress should be set up to combat the manifestations of prejudice if we are to eliminate a most unfavorable situation now present in our midst. The school of thought which contends that legal redress will create disruption and disunity. is very much in error. On the contrary, a law against the evils of discrimination is a necessary safety device. By maintaining impartial machinery for the orderly redress of grievances, provides one of the best means of preventing racial Strife. Those who suffer discrimination would be less likely to be driven to violent or unlawful behavior, or to be misled by an un-American propagandist, when they know they can turn to the government for justice. Discrimination in employment is one of our mast vile evils. If it wen eliminated, a lot of confusion am misunderstanding between the race would not be present. Economic factors are largely responsible for our total action in hu man relations. Human nature being what it is, even the Ten Commandments need to be implemented by legislation. The function of government in a democracy is to make public opinion the law of the land. Public opinion is effective only if it invokes sanctions for the total good of the community. Discrimination, growing out of prejudice and all of its manifestations, cast a deathly shadow across all that is good in this country. Eliminate discrimination and all that it stands for and we will eliminate police brutality, insulting remarks made by bus and trolley motormen. Eliminate it and all that it stands for and we will be setting up a real example of a true democracy and what it stands for. Sweatt Told uate work at the University of Michigan, you are eligible for admission to the law school," H. Y. McCown, registrar and dean of admissions, wrote to Mr. Sweatt. Further registration materials and instructions will be furnished later, the registrar said. Daring Patrols ship" was not known but it was doubted that North Korea had any! vessel that size at the outbreak of the war. It was officially speculated that the ship—either a transport or a freighter—might have been Russian. Carrier-based planes of the U. S. Marines Joined American and Australian craft in setting a new Korean war record of 550 fighter sorties in one day Friday. B-29 bombers, continuing a new heavy punishment of the enemy supply lines, plastered the marshaling yards at Seoul with 80 tons of high explosives in a "successful attack." On the ground, the Communists maintained heavy pressure against the 27th and 35th U. S. Infantry regiments in the Masan area, but Den. MacArthur said the persistent Communist assaults were stopped dead with heavy losses inflicted upon the Red Troops." It was here that the 27th Regiment killed 600 of the enemy in one battle on Thursday. Says Inaction tion was necessary, he Council declared in a letter signed by Elmer W. Henderson, ACHR director, to strengthen America's hand In the present international crisis and to meet problems demanding immediate action on the domestic scene. The bulletin reported on a tour of Army, Navy and Air Force in-) stallations made by ACHR Director Henderson as a guest of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. The tour included a naval task force demonstration on the U. S. Aircraft Carrier Midway. A review of local council activity in a number of cities was also included and a report on visits made to ACHR councils of Cincinnati, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio, by Patricia A. Roberts assistant director. The role of the American Council on Human Rights in support of the successful policy of non-segregated swimming pools in Washington. D. C, was set forth. The swimming pools were ordered operated on anon-segregated basis by Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman in the face of a great hue and cry by bigots and reactionaries of all stripes. In spite of the hostile agitation Negro and white swimmers are using the pool without friction or incident of any kind. Vets Corner Here are authoritative anwsers from the Veterans Administration to four questions of interest to veterans and their dependents: Q. Under provisions of the G1 Bill, how long can an on-the-job training course last? Q. I am a disabled veteran and wish to go into training under Public Law 16. Will I be permitted to decide my job objective? Q. My son a veteran of World War 1, died of a service-connected disability about three years ago. I understand I should have filed for burial allowance within two years of his death and it is now too late. Is this true? And is there a deadline date for applying for compensation? (Veterans wishing further information regarding veterans' benefits may have their questions answered by contacting the nearest VA office.) Keep The Klan Out Of The Army BETWEEN THE LINES THE PACE THAT is Pearl Harbor will go down as one of the most humiliating in this nation's glorious history. In spite of our attempts to cover our carelessness and stupidity by calling it a "sneak attack" the fact remains that we were caught flatfooted and unprepared and we were saved from utter ruin by sheer luck - Just plain old-fashioned luck. Nobody has ever explained why Japan should have been expected to notify us of her intention to strike. No nation ever was so stupid. It is the fond hope of stalwart American patriots that America will never be so naive and peurile as to notify our enemies when and where we are going to strike, nor how. This nation has been most fortunate in two world wars in that it has had somebody to fight until it got ready. In the first and second world wars Britain and France held the lines until we got there. We always came in at the eleventh hour and our boast In victory can be heard around the world. We were lucky. It begins to appear that in the next world War we arc going to be in there from the beginning and this is going to make a great difference. It begins to look as if we are going to bear the brunt of the next war and that we did not so prepare ourselves is one of the great mysteries. We were caught unprepared at Pearl Harbor and we were unprepared in Korea. What is the mystery of our unpreparedness? We never tire of boasting of being the greatest and mightiest nation on earth and we are always found unprepared for the initial emergency. One of the brighter aspects of the current crisis is the willingness of the press of the nation to get the nation told of its shortcomings The press covered up to some extent the debacle that was Pearl Harbor; but it is laying on heavily as to the debacle that is Korea. There can be no doubt that somebody is fumbling the military ball in this country and the sooner we find out who it is the better. Our congress finds plenty of time to defeat civil rights programs and it is ever alert when the full citizenship of the Negro is under consideration; but when it comes to preparing to hurl back a foreign foe we must always take the initial beating. One of the brightest aspects of the cur-, rent campaign In Korea is the seeming determination of the press to get the nation told of Its shortcomings and of the dangers of its unpreparedness. We covered up the debacle at Pearl Harbor under the pretext of a sneak" attack but we are today calling the hands of our higher ups who have blundered badly. When Congress was threatening filibusters and whiling away precious time in an attempt to defeat Truman and his civil rights program it was later than they thought. It would be exceedingly unfortunate if the nation did not realize that such low-brow campaigns as have been recently conducted in the South, on the plans of race hate and race villification are detriments in times of peace no less than in times of war. The nation really cannot afford such campaigns as have recently been conducted in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is Just such practices and programs that explain why we are not prepared in the times of grave crisis. We were lucky in World War I and II and here is hoping that we may be as lucky in World War. But if we are not we have nobody to blame but ourselves as we try to conquer Negroes first and the foreign foes secondly. Every Negro in this country should feel proud to note what is taking place in Geor gia and North and South Carolina and what is taking place in Korea. At bloody Yechon Negroes are dying to save a nation that plays politics with their blood and suffering and in each crisis yields to the whims of its Bilbos and Talmadge and its Strom Thurmonds. This will be corrected someday and until such day may God have mercy on our nation! No nation can afford to send its loyal sons to the front of battle and in time of peace turn a cold shoulder to their pleas to equality and protection. Even the great United States cannot much longer afford such, for it is doubtless becoming increasingly difficult for this nation to take pride in such specious record. This nation cannot forever cry for unit in time of war and for disunity in time of peace' War must not muffle the voice that tells the nation of its sins! FOUND UNPREPARED. THE PACE THAT is Pearl Harbor will go down as one of the most humiliating in this nation's glorious history. In spite of our attempts to cover our carelessness and stupidity by calling it a "sneak attack" the fact remains that we were caught flatfooted and unprepared and we were saved from utter ruin by sheer luck - Just plain old-fashioned luck. Nobody has ever explained why Japan should have been expected to notify us of her intention to strike. No nation ever was so stupid. It is the fond hope of stalwart American patriots that America will never be so naive and peurile as to notify our enemies when and where we are going to strike, nor how. This nation has been most fortunate in two world wars in that it has had somebody to fight until it got ready. In the first and second world wars Britain and France held the lines until we got there. We always came in at the eleventh hour and our boast In victory can be heard around the world. We were lucky. It begins to appear that in the next world War we arc going to be in there from the beginning and this is going to make a great difference. It begins to look as if we are going to bear the brunt of the next war and that we did not so prepare ourselves is one of the great mysteries. We were caught unprepared at Pearl Harbor and we were unprepared in Korea. What is the mystery of our unpreparedness? We never tire of boasting of being the greatest and mightiest nation on earth and we are always found unprepared for the initial emergency. One of the brighter aspects of the current crisis is the willingness of the press of the nation to get the nation told of its shortcomings The press covered up to some extent the debacle that was Pearl Harbor; but it is laying on heavily as to the debacle that is Korea. There can be no doubt that somebody is fumbling the military ball in this country and the sooner we find out who it is the better. Our congress finds plenty of time to defeat civil rights programs and it is ever alert when the full citizenship of the Negro is under consideration; but when it comes to preparing to hurl back a foreign foe we must always take the initial beating. One of the brightest aspects of the cur-, rent campaign In Korea is the seeming determination of the press to get the nation told of Its shortcomings and of the dangers of its unpreparedness. We covered up the debacle at Pearl Harbor under the pretext of a sneak" attack but we are today calling the hands of our higher ups who have blundered badly. When Congress was threatening filibusters and whiling away precious time in an attempt to defeat Truman and his civil rights program it was later than they thought. It would be exceedingly unfortunate if the nation did not realize that such low-brow campaigns as have been recently conducted in the South, on the plans of race hate and race villification are detriments in times of peace no less than in times of war. The nation really cannot afford such campaigns as have recently been conducted in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is Just such practices and programs that explain why we are not prepared in the times of grave crisis. We were lucky in World War I and II and here is hoping that we may be as lucky in World War. But if we are not we have nobody to blame but ourselves as we try to conquer Negroes first and the foreign foes secondly. Every Negro in this country should feel proud to note what is taking place in Geor gia and North and South Carolina and what is taking place in Korea. At bloody Yechon Negroes are dying to save a nation that plays politics with their blood and suffering and in each crisis yields to the whims of its Bilbos and Talmadge and its Strom Thurmonds. This will be corrected someday and until such day may God have mercy on our nation! No nation can afford to send its loyal sons to the front of battle and in time of peace turn a cold shoulder to their pleas to equality and protection. Even the great United States cannot much longer afford such, for it is doubtless becoming increasingly difficult for this nation to take pride in such specious record. This nation cannot forever cry for unit in time of war and for disunity in time of peace' War must not muffle the voice that tells the nation of its sins! LUCKY IN WAR THE PACE THAT is Pearl Harbor will go down as one of the most humiliating in this nation's glorious history. In spite of our attempts to cover our carelessness and stupidity by calling it a "sneak attack" the fact remains that we were caught flatfooted and unprepared and we were saved from utter ruin by sheer luck - Just plain old-fashioned luck. Nobody has ever explained why Japan should have been expected to notify us of her intention to strike. No nation ever was so stupid. It is the fond hope of stalwart American patriots that America will never be so naive and peurile as to notify our enemies when and where we are going to strike, nor how. This nation has been most fortunate in two world wars in that it has had somebody to fight until it got ready. In the first and second world wars Britain and France held the lines until we got there. We always came in at the eleventh hour and our boast In victory can be heard around the world. We were lucky. It begins to appear that in the next world War we arc going to be in there from the beginning and this is going to make a great difference. It begins to look as if we are going to bear the brunt of the next war and that we did not so prepare ourselves is one of the great mysteries. We were caught unprepared at Pearl Harbor and we were unprepared in Korea. What is the mystery of our unpreparedness? We never tire of boasting of being the greatest and mightiest nation on earth and we are always found unprepared for the initial emergency. One of the brighter aspects of the current crisis is the willingness of the press of the nation to get the nation told of its shortcomings The press covered up to some extent the debacle that was Pearl Harbor; but it is laying on heavily as to the debacle that is Korea. There can be no doubt that somebody is fumbling the military ball in this country and the sooner we find out who it is the better. Our congress finds plenty of time to defeat civil rights programs and it is ever alert when the full citizenship of the Negro is under consideration; but when it comes to preparing to hurl back a foreign foe we must always take the initial beating. One of the brightest aspects of the cur-, rent campaign In Korea is the seeming determination of the press to get the nation told of Its shortcomings and of the dangers of its unpreparedness. We covered up the debacle at Pearl Harbor under the pretext of a sneak" attack but we are today calling the hands of our higher ups who have blundered badly. When Congress was threatening filibusters and whiling away precious time in an attempt to defeat Truman and his civil rights program it was later than they thought. It would be exceedingly unfortunate if the nation did not realize that such low-brow campaigns as have been recently conducted in the South, on the plans of race hate and race villification are detriments in times of peace no less than in times of war. The nation really cannot afford such campaigns as have recently been conducted in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is Just such practices and programs that explain why we are not prepared in the times of grave crisis. We were lucky in World War I and II and here is hoping that we may be as lucky in World War. But if we are not we have nobody to blame but ourselves as we try to conquer Negroes first and the foreign foes secondly. Every Negro in this country should feel proud to note what is taking place in Geor gia and North and South Carolina and what is taking place in Korea. At bloody Yechon Negroes are dying to save a nation that plays politics with their blood and suffering and in each crisis yields to the whims of its Bilbos and Talmadge and its Strom Thurmonds. This will be corrected someday and until such day may God have mercy on our nation! No nation can afford to send its loyal sons to the front of battle and in time of peace turn a cold shoulder to their pleas to equality and protection. Even the great United States cannot much longer afford such, for it is doubtless becoming increasingly difficult for this nation to take pride in such specious record. This nation cannot forever cry for unit in time of war and for disunity in time of peace' War must not muffle the voice that tells the nation of its sins! Slum Clearance Run Proceed As Planned Subject To War The government said Thursday the nation's one billion dollar slum clearance program will proceed as planned but is subject "to such later adjustments as the international situation may require." Administrator Raymond M. Foley of the Housing and Home Finance Agency issued the statement to assure communities that present slum clearing planning does not conflict with the Korean war effort. Foley pointed out that operations under the program are either in the preliminary or planning stages. BLOOD ON THE STARS CHAPTER TWENTY -THREE THE WHOLE THING seems rather clear now," Detective Painter insisted. "It all ties together. The careful way the robbery was planned . . . Dustin's resistance, which show be had no foreknowledge at it ... the man who answered your phone and immediately pretended to be you when be recognized Mrs. Dustin's voice." "Mr. X, mused Shayne. "Who is be and bow does he fit In the picture?" "It's as plain as the lump on your jaw," scoffed Painter. "He wag her accomplice. The guy who actually snatched the bracelet He was coming to you to arrange a fix. Maybe she'd decided to doublecross turn. As soon as he heard Her voice on the telephone, he Knew what was up and arranged to meet her outside somewhere." Shayne said again, "Maybe." He rubbed the uninjured side of his jaw, wandered across the living room to look out the window at the layout two Boors Below. At his left was the white strip of beach and the lazy rolling whitecaps of the Atlantic Ocean, shimmering and phosphorescent beneath the tropical moon. Like a long linger projecting seaward lay the wooden bathing pier tor the convenience of hotel guests. Directly beneath the window a concrete walk led along the back of the hotel room the street to the pier. All the lights, normally turned out this late at night, had been turned on again, and Shayne could see two men, presumably room the police force, strolling about aimlessly at although searching tor dues and didn't know where to begin looking. The inner door of the suite "opened as Shayne tinned back from the window. The resident physician at the Sunlux announced with professional solemnity, 'You may come in now When you question the patient try not to excite him with news of his wife's disappearance after closing the door. "How much" have you told him?" painter asked. "Nothing except that I teared me sedative had been too strong lot him and that I would cut the prescription in the future". He opened the door and stood aside the three men to enter the bedroom. Mark Dustn was propped up. bed on two pillows His normally tuddy space was sallow and had the drawn look of violent nausea. His injured hand was in a plaster cast and lay stiffly "extended on the coverlet He wet his lips nervous when he recognized Painter and Shayne. and burst out. "What's all this rumpus about Where's Celia Has something happened to "What makes you" think anything like that Mr. Dustin?" Painter asked. "You're concealing, something, from me That doctor's been giving me a lot of double-talk. If Celia's all right. where is she? "We thought you might be able to tell us that." Painter voice was silky. "So something has happened What in the name of God," Dus tin panted. "What time is' it? How long have I been passed out? What did that sawbones put in that pill he gave me?" "It's almost two o'clock In the morning, Mr. Dustin," Painter told him. "What time did you take the . . . sleeping tablet?" "A little after midnight As soon as the doctor left Celia fixed it for me." "And you took only one tablet, Mr. Dustin?" "Of course 1 took only one. He to take one ... and then another in half an hour If that didn't put me to sleep. You've got to tell me. "We want you to tell us," Painter interrupted. "How do you explain the fact that four tablets are missing?" "Four? But 1 only took the one. Do you mean Celia took the others? She didn't... she isn't...?" "So far as we know your wife is perfectly all right. Did she say anything about going out later?" "Of course not She said she'd stay right here to dissolve another tablet for me if I needed it" "Ah. Dissolve it, eh?" Painter pounced on the word happily. "Did she dissolve the first tablet for you?" "Of course. I can't lake the stuff in tablet form. Look here," the westerner went on, turning a strained lace to Shayne, "won't tell me what this is all about? Where is Celia?" "We don't know, frankly. It appears that she may have dissolved four tablets for you instead of one ... to make sure you didn't wake up while she was gone." Gone? Where?" Dustin ap peared weary and dazed. "We had hoped you could tell us," Painter cut in. "Did she say anything to give you an inkling of such a plan? Did you hear her telephone anyone?" "You're crazy. She wouldn't dope me like that and then slip out to meet someone secretly. We . . . we're in love!" His strong features were 'now twisted in anger. "None of us are intimating, that your, wife is keeping a rendezvous," said Shayne quietly. "We believe. she did give you an over dose of sleeping tablets and then went out to meet a man, but "we think she had some plan or idea at tracing the bracelet. Did she say anything about that? Any hint that she was holding any in formation neck from you?" "No," Dustin said slowly. "Not a thing I don't . ... it isn't like Ceil to keep anything from me." "Not even under these Conditions?" Shayne asked swiftly, gesturing toward Dustin's bandaged hand and head. "She knew you were in no shape to lake any action, and she wouldn't want to worry you. Don't you suppose she thought it best to leave you here safely asleep while she went out on her own?" "I see. I ... don't know, site might do that She was always trying to mother me . . . keep me out of trouble. But what clue did have? There couldn't have been anything . . . He paused and made a helpless gesture with his left hand. 'Shayne has advanced one pos sible theory, but 1 have another," said Painter pompously. "One which I believe fits the known facts better. Was your wife wealthy woman, Mr. Dustin?" "No, She was teaching school when I met her. We were married a few days after we met. But I had plenty, She always bad every thing she wanted." "Are you sure of that, Dustin?" Painter thrust his hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels, assuming the indulgent air and tone of a professor about to explain the facts of life to a group at adolescents: "There are many women married to wealthy Husbands who yearn tor money of their own. Don't misunderstand me. You may have been very lenient with her, even extravagant I have no doubt that Mrs. Dustin lived in luxury, but did she have her own bank account? Did she have economic freedom?" "I never refused her money," Dustin said angrily. "She had only to ask me when she wanted anything." "That's Just the point She had to you, and believe me, Mr. Dustin, we run into situations identical with this quite often Wives who have to ask for every dollar they ever have. Wives who . . ." "Hey," Dustin broke in angrily. "What are you trying to say" "Just this. You brought your wife a ruby bracelet tor one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. She knew it was insured," Painter continued profoundly, "for the full amount Do you realize how a woman might feel . . . wearing a fortune in jewelry and yet without a dollar she can call her own?" "I think," said Dustin thickly, "I begin to see what you're driving at. It it's what I think, I don't like it were able to get off this bed, I'd. His left hand doubled into a white-knuckled fist. "Don't get upset, Mr. Dustin." Painter took a backward step. "I'm forced to speak plainly. Remember, the bracelet was stolen the very first time it was worn. The job had every appearance of being carefully planned. Yet you and your wife were the only ones who knew its value and that she planned to wear it tonight." "The jeweler knew it ... Voorland. And Shayne knew it," Dus- tin said, turning his ncad on the pillow to look at Shayne. "Your pipsqueak of a Dick Tracy here pointed that out earlier this evening. He was accusing you of the job. Now he is got around to accusing Cell, Why not me?" He turned back to Painter. "Because the theft wouldn't benefit you." Painter said indignantly. "Have you forgotten that your wife deliberately drugged you and slipped out to keep an appointment with a man whom she thought was Mike Shayne .... after telephoning him she wanted to see him about the bracelet?" "Wait a minute." Shayne cautioned. "We don't know what Mrs. Dustin said over the phone to Mr. X. We, don't know but what she wanted to see me about something else entirely." SEEING SAYING By WILLIAM. A. FOWLKES WHETHER OR NOT our "land of the free and home of the rave" shall survive the harrassing and onslaughts of the Red depends largely upon America's handling of the Negro issue and that pronto. Our diplomatic corps may preach a doctrine of democracy, but the little people of the earth are watching our Talmadges, our lynchings and our forutalities, our refusals of equality to acknowledged citizens and all our shortcomings, ignoring the dollar sign except for what it can buy of the bare necessities of life. The visitors said the Russians were using, with great effect, pictures and newspaper accounts of lynchings, extra-legal executions, brutalities, segregation and discrimination to show to the youth of their satellites that America falls far short of its claims of "liberty and justice for all." It is not a pleasant picture to stand before the world, in c role of leadership, and proclaim the tenets of the American Con stitution, while state after state in the South prevents Negroes from voting in a free election. It is odorous, in a large manner to have chief executives of commonwealths below the Mason and Dixon line declare, on virtually every issue involving the Negro, that he shall be kept from equality and that as long a they live Negroes will be kept inferior and away from the stream of American culture and enterprise. America Could Scrub Its Dirty Clothes By WILLIAM. A. FOWLKES WHETHER OR NOT our "land of the free and home of the rave" shall survive the harrassing and onslaughts of the Red depends largely upon America's handling of the Negro issue and that pronto. Our diplomatic corps may preach a doctrine of democracy, but the little people of the earth are watching our Talmadges, our lynchings and our forutalities, our refusals of equality to acknowledged citizens and all our shortcomings, ignoring the dollar sign except for what it can buy of the bare necessities of life. The visitors said the Russians were using, with great effect, pictures and newspaper accounts of lynchings, extra-legal executions, brutalities, segregation and discrimination to show to the youth of their satellites that America falls far short of its claims of "liberty and justice for all." It is not a pleasant picture to stand before the world, in c role of leadership, and proclaim the tenets of the American Con stitution, while state after state in the South prevents Negroes from voting in a free election. It is odorous, in a large manner to have chief executives of commonwealths below the Mason and Dixon line declare, on virtually every issue involving the Negro, that he shall be kept from equality and that as long a they live Negroes will be kept inferior and away from the stream of American culture and enterprise. New York's football fans are making their plans now to be in Philly for this one Hundreds 0f Negroes rooters are coming up from Baltimore. Washington. Richmond along the East coast, with others from the mid-west joining them, in the City of Brotherly Love. That will be just a name when the two teams lock horns. If it gets to be an annual event. Philadelphia once again will be a sports mecca–it has the Penn Relays, it has the Army-Navy game-now, here come the Eagles and the Browns Easiest thing to do now is to order tickets, sit back and relaxthat's going to be a game. Seek Extension Of Draft Benefits Senator Pepper (D)Fla., introduced an amendment to the "GI Bill of Rights" to extend its education and training provisions to veterans of the Korean conflict. Milk Company Bays NAACP Membership The Carnation Milk company has taken out a $500 life membership in the NAACP, it was announced last week. Navy in Arizona desert "revs up" 500 mothball planes.