Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1957-08-31 Thaddeus T. Stokes MEMPHIS WORLD A AMERICA STANDARD RACE JOURNAL The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 546 BEALE—Ph. JA. 6-4030 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn., as second-class mall under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 THADDEUS T. STOKES Managing Editor MRS. ROSA BROWN BRACY Public Relations and Advertising ALYSON E. WISE ———–Circulation Promotion SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00—6 Months $3.00—3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper—non-sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unblasedly and supporting those things it believes to be of interest to its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. LABOR DAY Next Monday, September 2, will climax the long week end holiday. Safety council promoters, newspaper editors, radio announcers, and television analysists are telling the people about the hazards of a long week end holiday and are predicting the number of people that will lose their lives to automobile accidents, drowning, fires, and other accidents with chief interest placed Labor Day. Throughout the nation the people will pause from their regular routines to participate in the Labor Day celebration. In previous years, the above mentioned people have sent out warnings to the people urging them to be cautious and careful during the holidays and their predictions of the number of people that would lose their lives have been almost accurate. Now since they are warning you again on this approaching holiday week end, we are urging that you sit up and take notice. Thousands of irresponsible drivers that are driving these high-powered automobiles should, in particular, be careful in their driving during the week end holiday. A hint to the wise should be sufficient. It is nonsense to get on the highway to make a race track out of the highway and some of the drivers delight in telling the story of their car making excessive speed from—say 70 to 100 miles an hour. That is far too fast to travel the type of roads that we already have. Then the silliest part of it all is the driver's life is involved along with the lives of countless other people. It seems that if the driver is not interested in the lives of other people, he should be interested in his own life. So drive carefully—refuse to drive if you are drinking. You may save a life and that life may be your own. If you are cautious and careful in all the things that you do on this week end holiday you, in oil probability, will be here to tell the story when the holiday week end is over. Efforts To Shelve Rights Beaten An epochal date of worthy commemoration will attend through the years with the passing by the House of Representa- j tives of the United States of the first civil rights bill in eighty years. Coincidently, the three greatest events in the lives of the, Negro race in this country, were enacted during a Republican administration. Thusly, along with the Emancipation Proclamation, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the handing down of that momentous decision lifting the ban on our race in public schools, begins its pose in the focus of a free human society. On each occasion, it was seen that the country could not long endure with segments of its citizens circumscribed and denied the precepts forming the very framework of the government itself. On August 27th, the House passed a revised Civil Rights bill by a 279 to 97 vote. This was overwhelming enough to support the country on the side of that liberalism in keeping with its insistence upon the four freedoms That Have made America what it is today. After all, civilization has seen those creatures along its stratas who unknowingly and sometimes willingly lent themselves to spurious interests. The surprise move by Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina would be in this category. He would kill the bill for the present by sending it to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which graveyard it had fortunately bypassed early in its stages. Thanks to Almighty God that Thurmond's motion was resoundingly slapped cold in its tracks. Some day a thesis writer will account the many strange and unfortunate maneuvers the bill encountered on its way to the clear sunlight of American principle and procedure. A brief catalogue would point out a few highlights the illfated opposition encountered its bungling. The Thurmond show which threw for a time the Senate into parliamentary confusion comes to book. It was apparently a one-man show, staged without the knowledge of others in the Southern bloc. Early in the week there was seen another spectacle which historians will not forget. Congressman James C. Davis made a speech in Georgia criticizing the two Georgia Senators for not staging a last ditch filibuster. He was met with a rejoiner by Senator Russell, to "mind your own shop." Senator Talmadge was possibly more pronounced, for he intimated something that if few Georgians seem to have realized. He said, or inferred that if Rep. Davis would change positions, matters would look differently, he reminded not only Davis but all Georgians soon or late must look upon the United States Senate as a powerful body of many strong minds. Many people who do not venture far and who look upon those they have rewarded for playing upon their passions, will see by this that the Seriate of the United States is not blown by the opportunist trade-winds that whisper through a one-party broomsedge. After all Senators Russell and Talmadge in their last retorts might have made a contribution to their great state which now needs more light than heat. However, both Georgia senators have done about all they can do to prevent passage of Civil Rights in the senate. Both of them have spoken at great length against the bill. Just yesterday, the junior senator gave a three hour speech in opposition. Talmadge Talks the day's session which opened at 10 A: M. EDT. One of them, Sen. John Stennis (D) Miss., denounced the bill as a "willful arbitrary, political compromise." Sen. Spressard Holland (D) Fla., called it "monstrous." Sen. Herman Talmadge (D) Ga., lambasted the bill as "rank" and "political hypocrisy." Sen. Olin D. Johnson (D) S. C., termed it "a monstrosity" and its jury trial provision "the most asinine, puerile have ever known about or heard." Talmadge held the floor for three hours and yielded for speeches by other Senators. He declared that it "will be a sad and lamentable day in the history of this republic when the desire" for members of the Senate and House "for a vacation can cause them to hold their noses, shut their eyes and turn their backs upon their sworn responsibility to uphold the constitutional rights of the American people." It Seems To Me By Dr. O. B. Taylor KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE — It is not the most encouraging when conditions are allowed to rise in the south, where-by members of both racial groups feel justified in staging economic boycotts against each other, even On a limited scale. The economy of the section seems to be so interrelated, that whatever serves to injure one group injuries both. Can a satisfactory solution be found for differences? If so, what is it? Whenever men geer their minds to a particular course of action, they are prone to bend their energy in that direction, until failure or success materializes. The question of a possibly better way out, too often has but little bearing. Men are not always prepared to sit around the council table, where concessions from both sides of an issue, might be required. Can it be that arrogance, pride and lack of the spirit of humility work in harmonious relationship to prevent this? A settlement of issues brought about the hard way, seem too often the method of choice. Too often, those who are better prepared, by attitude and inciination, are not permitted voice where needed adjustments are to be mad; thus passions sometime replace patience, and emotions dominate reason. Having partially at least, grownup messenger boy in the office of the Supt of the Seaboard Air Line railroad, served to facilitate my being employed as a train Porter, plying between Richmond and Columbia, S. C. I quite vividly recall my first trip to the South Carolina city. As I attempted to board a street-car a Negro, possibly in his fifties, and in none too kindly voice, yelled at me, saying. "Hey there you wait." Being some 359 miles from home, who there could know me? was the thought which occupied my mind. Certainly, I did not relish permitting the car to go away without me. Coming closer, the man asked in a manner almost void of politeness, "Where are you from?" My, youthful age at the time did not support me in giving the first answer suggested by my wounded pride. He continued." No selfrespecting Negro rides street cars here." He then began to explain more in detail, their reasons for staging a boycott. "We are just fed-up on being kicked around on account of our color, by the Traction Co." To shorten a long story, I left him under my own power, for a long walk in a strange city. That was more than 50 years ago. Right or wrong, discrete or indiscrete; wise or other-wise, boycotts are not new. Possibly 2 years before the event at Columbia. Jim-Crow came to the street cars in Richmond. By far more complainst arose among white than Negro people. Many whites were heard to say, "telling me where I may and may not sit in a public facility, is going a bit too far". Whites urged Negroes to employ a certain Attorney, noted for his Constitutional skill and with offices at the time in both Washington and New York. It was brought to light that such an undertaking would cost $20,000. After several mass meetings were held, the amount of money raised by us fell far short of the desired goal. I used the term "we and us" advisedly, as I now recall having given fifty cents. Aid from white friends carried the effort over the top, and for several weeks the legal battle raged in the Federal Dist. Court, with thefinal, decision unfavorable from the Negroes point of view. It was many years later, before old "J. C" took charge of the waiting room at the Main St. Station, served by the Seaboard; C. & O. and R. & A. railroads. In Atlanta, not many years ago, a city councilman who was also a successful Dairyman, strenuously objected to the school board turning over to Negroes a school building, formerly used by white students student, so it was alledged. Sales, of his products suddenly dropped by 50 per cent was reported. His objections it was said, were withdrawn; the Board carried out its orginal plans and in time, it was said, the Dairyman's scales assumed their normal level. There are those claim that the misunderstandings down in Montgomery, Tallahassee and more recently, at Tuskegee are something new, but is hardly compatible with facts. Let's hope that day will soon dawn when it will become increasingly clear to all concerned, that the spirit and practice of co-operation offer rewards to both racial groups, that dissensions can never bring. It is hardly conceivable to conclude that the majority of the people of both groups, do not already share this view. Of course, in a democratic society such as ours, many viewpoints are permissible, and everyone is not going to agree on every matter that may be raised. It might be well it is that way. But is not disagreement possible without disagreebleness? U. S. Warned Race Attitude Can Cost World Leadership Dr. Rudolph Rosenthal noted Rabbi of the Temple on the Heights of Cleveland, Ohio, told the 85th Summer graduating class of Paul Quinn College that even though America's industrial and natural resources made her the potentially mightiest Nation in the world, her religious practices and racial attitude could cause her to lose her role in world leadership. "Even as new nations are being born all around us," Rabbi Rosenthal observed, "the false beguilements of communism are winning spectacular victories because some nations doubt our sincerity." "The action of the Supreme Court in strengthening the cause of human rights," Rabbi Rosenthal continued "is evidence that the area of freedom in America is enlarging" "America is safe as long as her religious institutions do not slacken in their effort to strengthen the moral fibers of our Society, Rabbi Rosenthal said. Bishop H. Thomas Primm, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Paul Quinn College said, that, "the bonds between men of courage are ecoming more secure each day Barriers of race, color, and creed are constantly being tampled as men of faith lead this nation to higher ground." Dr. John H. Adams, president of Paul Quinn College told the thirteen Summer graduate that "they each represent the faith of Christian people who gave willingly to the support of this institution and believe in the building of a highly religious nation." The honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities was ionferred on Rabbi Rosenthal and thirteen students were awarded the Bachelor's degree. BISHOP CITES SECURITY Dr. Rudolph Rosenthal noted Rabbi of the Temple on the Heights of Cleveland, Ohio, told the 85th Summer graduating class of Paul Quinn College that even though America's industrial and natural resources made her the potentially mightiest Nation in the world, her religious practices and racial attitude could cause her to lose her role in world leadership. "Even as new nations are being born all around us," Rabbi Rosenthal observed, "the false beguilements of communism are winning spectacular victories because some nations doubt our sincerity." "The action of the Supreme Court in strengthening the cause of human rights," Rabbi Rosenthal continued "is evidence that the area of freedom in America is enlarging" "America is safe as long as her religious institutions do not slacken in their effort to strengthen the moral fibers of our Society, Rabbi Rosenthal said. Bishop H. Thomas Primm, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Paul Quinn College said, that, "the bonds between men of courage are ecoming more secure each day Barriers of race, color, and creed are constantly being tampled as men of faith lead this nation to higher ground." Dr. John H. Adams, president of Paul Quinn College told the thirteen Summer graduate that "they each represent the faith of Christian people who gave willingly to the support of this institution and believe in the building of a highly religious nation." The honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities was ionferred on Rabbi Rosenthal and thirteen students were awarded the Bachelor's degree. WISHING WELL Registered U. S. Patent Office. H is a pleasant little game that will give you a message every day. It is a numerical puzzle designed to spell put your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. If the number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the upper left-hand corner of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers, left to right. Then read the message the letters under the checked figures give you. MEMPHIS WORLD Want Ad Information Call JA. 6-4030 FEMALE HELP WANTED Senate Boosts postal rate increases. The House has approved the rate increases, but the Senate Post Office Committee has not acted on it so far. Knowland said that if wages are increased for postal workers they should also be raised for classifiedfederal employees and military personnel. If this were done on the same scale as the postal pay increases the added cost to the government would be one billion, 500 million dollars a year. The Senate then began consideration of an across-the-board 11 per cent wage increase for nearly 967 000 government employees at an added cost of about 537 million dollars a year. Passage of the postal pay measure followed a warning by Sen. Frank Carlson (R) Kan., that it "could not in good conscience be signed by the President." Carlson, senior GOP member of the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee, said that if the salary increases go into effect, Congress must pass a 279 million dollar supplemental money bill to pay for them. The administration has been outspokenly opposed to any general pay raise for government workers this year as inflationary. However Sen. Richard L. Neuber ger (D) Ore., chairman Of the Senate Federal Pay Subcommittee said the postal workers are the "victims" rather than the cause of the recent raise in the cost of living. RATE INCREASES postal rate increases. The House has approved the rate increases, but the Senate Post Office Committee has not acted on it so far. Knowland said that if wages are increased for postal workers they should also be raised for classifiedfederal employees and military personnel. If this were done on the same scale as the postal pay increases the added cost to the government would be one billion, 500 million dollars a year. The Senate then began consideration of an across-the-board 11 per cent wage increase for nearly 967 000 government employees at an added cost of about 537 million dollars a year. Passage of the postal pay measure followed a warning by Sen. Frank Carlson (R) Kan., that it "could not in good conscience be signed by the President." Carlson, senior GOP member of the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee, said that if the salary increases go into effect, Congress must pass a 279 million dollar supplemental money bill to pay for them. The administration has been outspokenly opposed to any general pay raise for government workers this year as inflationary. However Sen. Richard L. Neuber ger (D) Ore., chairman Of the Senate Federal Pay Subcommittee said the postal workers are the "victims" rather than the cause of the recent raise in the cost of living. 11 PER CENT postal rate increases. The House has approved the rate increases, but the Senate Post Office Committee has not acted on it so far. Knowland said that if wages are increased for postal workers they should also be raised for classifiedfederal employees and military personnel. If this were done on the same scale as the postal pay increases the added cost to the government would be one billion, 500 million dollars a year. The Senate then began consideration of an across-the-board 11 per cent wage increase for nearly 967 000 government employees at an added cost of about 537 million dollars a year. Passage of the postal pay measure followed a warning by Sen. Frank Carlson (R) Kan., that it "could not in good conscience be signed by the President." Carlson, senior GOP member of the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee, said that if the salary increases go into effect, Congress must pass a 279 million dollar supplemental money bill to pay for them. The administration has been outspokenly opposed to any general pay raise for government workers this year as inflationary. However Sen. Richard L. Neuber ger (D) Ore., chairman Of the Senate Federal Pay Subcommittee said the postal workers are the "victims" rather than the cause of the recent raise in the cost of living. ADMINISTRATION OPPOSED postal rate increases. The House has approved the rate increases, but the Senate Post Office Committee has not acted on it so far. Knowland said that if wages are increased for postal workers they should also be raised for classifiedfederal employees and military personnel. If this were done on the same scale as the postal pay increases the added cost to the government would be one billion, 500 million dollars a year. The Senate then began consideration of an across-the-board 11 per cent wage increase for nearly 967 000 government employees at an added cost of about 537 million dollars a year. Passage of the postal pay measure followed a warning by Sen. Frank Carlson (R) Kan., that it "could not in good conscience be signed by the President." Carlson, senior GOP member of the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee, said that if the salary increases go into effect, Congress must pass a 279 million dollar supplemental money bill to pay for them. The administration has been outspokenly opposed to any general pay raise for government workers this year as inflationary. However Sen. Richard L. Neuber ger (D) Ore., chairman Of the Senate Federal Pay Subcommittee said the postal workers are the "victims" rather than the cause of the recent raise in the cost of living. MEALTIME MELODIES! Chicken is listed among the many plentifuls for September. That means fee prices will continue to be reasonable. This gives perfect background for delicious chicken paprika, a poplar dish any day of the year. The cup of cream used in this recipe helps to furnish the ever needed nutrients in family diets. Your family will like this tasty chicken served on a platter surrounded with individual molds of quick-cooking rice and spiced peaches along with a tossed salad using Italian dressing. Chicken paprika 3 1-2 to 4 lb. broiler chicken 1-3 cup flour 1-2 teaspoon salt 1-8 teaspoon pepper 6 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon paprika 1 teaspoon sugar 1 package onion soup mix 1 1-2 cups hot water 1 cup cream Cut broiler in frying-size piecesand coat with seasoned flour. Melt butter in skillet. Stir in paprika and sugar. Brown chicken about ten minutes. Stir onion soup mix into hot water. Pour over golden brown chicken, cover, and cook for 20 minutes. Pour cream over chicken pieces, cover and cook 10 minutes more until chicken is fork tender. Serve over your rice and enjoy it. Makes 4 to 6 servings. YOU CAN DIE LAUGHING BY A.A. FAIR (ERLE STANLEY GARDNER) 1957 by Erla Stanley Cardon Regressed by arrangement with William Morrow & Co., Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. The well-known Cool & Lam private investigating agency baa a troublesome case involving a missing person. After letting drop an indication that his problem is a mineral rights deal. Texan Lawton Corning employs the agency to locate a Mrs. Drury Wells, Donald Lam and his partner, Bertha Cool, find the assignment to be more complicated than Corning had confided to them. Upon driving to the home of Drury Wells in Southern California Donald finds Wells to be both uncooperative and unconcerned about his wife. Wells story is that she walked out on him three days earlier. A neighbor, Mrs. Frances Raleigh tells Donald that she suspects Mrs. Wells was murdered by her husband. After reporting this to Corning. Lam notifies Frank Sellers, of police homicide, of the suspicions. Angered, Corning orders Lam to drop the case. Research in newspaper flies by Bertha discloses that a short time previously, Mrs. Wells, the former Yvonne Clymer., Inherited California property and 515,000 from an uncle in Texas, Aaron Bedford. The date on which Drury Wells rented his home was a few days after that. Bertha has a hunch there is oil on the inherited property and tells Donald; "We'll round up this babe and get her mineral rights for ourselves. Then Coming can deal with us." While Donald IB arguing that this would be unethical. Frank Sellers arrives to question Donald. Now it seems, both the Wellses are missing. When a phone call comes in to Sellers, instructing him to report to the Wells place, the detective insists that Donald accompany him. They find the Wells home very much occupied—by a stunning redhead in shorts, tidying the house. YVONNE WELLS walked to the kitchen, her hips swaying in a slightly exaggerated motion. She turned hot water into the dishpan. "Want to stick around and dry the dishes for me?" she asked. Sellers walked over to lean against the doorjamb. "Where's your husband now?" he asked. She laughed and said, "According to Mrs. Nosy over in the next house, he took off 'abruptly.' I guess he got tired waiting for me. I'll get the place cleaned up and be a dutiful little wife. If he comes back, we'll forgive each other and live happily until we have the next spat. If he doesn't come back. I'll find out when the rent's due and have the place all cleaned for the next tenant. My God! A man certainly can mess a place up! He's let this house run to seed." She was busily engaged in sliding dishes through the dishwater, putting them in the draining pan and pouring hot water over them. "The dish towel's over there on the rack," she said. "Not for me!" Sellers told her. "They'd kick me out for conduct unbecoming an officer." "Well, at least get the towel and bring It over," she said. "My hands are all wet. I don't want to drip a trail over the kitchen." Sellers went over and got the dish towel. He dropped it over her shoulder. "Let me see that clipping," he said to me. I gave Sellers the clipping. "What's, that?" Mrs. Wells asked, looking up from the dishpan. "Just checking," Sellers said. "Oh, I know. That's the San Bernardino picture." "How does it happen you never got in movies?" Sellers asked her. "They, never invited me," she said. "I thought perhaps a few pictures in the newspaper would do it." "That why you left home?" Sellers asked. "Is that the real reason?" She laughed and turned toward him. "You boys can ask the damnedest questions," she said. "Why don't you run along over and talk with Mrs. Nosy next door? I know you're dying to talk with her, and she's busting a blood vessel trying to and out what it's all about." Sellers sighed, handed me back the clipping, and started for the door without a word. "Come again sometime," Mrs. Wells invited. We went out the door and down the steps. "Damn it!" Sellers said. "You got me into this, Lam." "Into what?" "This murder case. Then the corpse shows up alive and well!" "Mrs. Raleigh was the one that started it," I told him. "Not with me she wasn't," Sellers said. "However, we'll go have a talk with her." Mrs. Raleigh Hung the door open as soon as we got on the porch. "Well, good morning, good morning!" she said. "Do come in. I'm dying, to know what's happened over there." Sellers stood in the doorway. "Just one question," he said. "You've seen that woman over there?" "That's right." "Is that Mrs. Wells?" "Yes," she said. "That's the woman you thought had been killed?" "Why, how you talk, officer! I didn't say I thought she'd been killed. I said that I felt there were suspicious circumstances. I'd heard a quarrel, and then I heard her scream, and I'd seen the man carry something." "The way you were telling about it," Sellers said, "it was a corpse wrapped in a rug. It was heavy and swayed." "Well, a person can't tell how heavy a thing is just by looking at someone carrying it." "You can tell by the way a man walks whether he's carrying something heavy," Sellers said. "Well, I— Of course, it was night. I only tried to tell you what had happened, officer. That's ail. I was just doing my duty." "You told, me you heard the sound of a blow?" I asked. "What if I did?" "I just wasted to check." "That, of course, is neither here nor there. Any man can strike his wire, but I didn't say I had heard the sound of a blow. I said I heard a sound that have been the sound of a blow." "Have you talked with Mrs. Wells about this?" Sellers asked. "No, I have not." "There's no question that that's Mrs. Wells who is over there now?" I asked her. "That's the woman who—?" "Do you think it's possible to mistake woman?" Mrs. Raleigh asked. Well, I guess that does it," Sellers told her. "Come on, Lam. Let's go!" We started back to Sellers' car. Mrs. Raleigh stood in the doorway and said, "I certainly trust you'll keep my name out of it." Sellers didn't even bother to look back or to reply. "Okay, mastermind," he said, when we got in the car. "You got me into this, how get me out of it." "What is there to get out of?" I asked. "Oh, nothing. Nothing at all" he said. "Just reporting a murder that didn't happen. Getting all excited over a gossip story about a dead woman and then having the dead woman show up alive and well. I've had three, shifts of men watching that house on a twenty-four-hour basis. I've kept it sewed up so when Wells showed up, we could question him. I've got to make a report on that. My face is going to be red." "You've gone this far," I said, "Why not keep it sewed up until Wells enter the picture and question him?" "About what?" Sellers asked me scornfully. "About having a quarrel with his wife? The question is, have you got any ideas for getting me off the hook?" "Maybe. We'll find out a little more about Corning before we close the case," I told him. "You stall things along as much as you can. He must have tipped Wells to take a powder." "Now look, bright eyes," Sellers said. "I'm from Homicide, remember? Don't think you're going to get me out on the end of a limb with a hot tip arid then save me by turning up some bunko game. I'm Homicide." "You don't mean you have to have a corpse.?" He said, "I want an out. Have you got one?" "Not yet." "Do you have any ideas?" "I have a sort of a half idea." "Weil," he announced mournfully, "you've got a lot more than I have and you'd better let this Half-baked idea of yours grow up. When it gets so it can stand up, call me." WHAT IS HAPPENING BY A.A. FAIR (ERLE STANLEY GARDNER) 1957 by Erla Stanley Cardon Regressed by arrangement with William Morrow & Co., Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. The well-known Cool & Lam private investigating agency baa a troublesome case involving a missing person. After letting drop an indication that his problem is a mineral rights deal. Texan Lawton Corning employs the agency to locate a Mrs. Drury Wells, Donald Lam and his partner, Bertha Cool, find the assignment to be more complicated than Corning had confided to them. Upon driving to the home of Drury Wells in Southern California Donald finds Wells to be both uncooperative and unconcerned about his wife. Wells story is that she walked out on him three days earlier. A neighbor, Mrs. Frances Raleigh tells Donald that she suspects Mrs. Wells was murdered by her husband. After reporting this to Corning. Lam notifies Frank Sellers, of police homicide, of the suspicions. Angered, Corning orders Lam to drop the case. Research in newspaper flies by Bertha discloses that a short time previously, Mrs. Wells, the former Yvonne Clymer., Inherited California property and 515,000 from an uncle in Texas, Aaron Bedford. The date on which Drury Wells rented his home was a few days after that. Bertha has a hunch there is oil on the inherited property and tells Donald; "We'll round up this babe and get her mineral rights for ourselves. Then Coming can deal with us." While Donald IB arguing that this would be unethical. Frank Sellers arrives to question Donald. Now it seems, both the Wellses are missing. When a phone call comes in to Sellers, instructing him to report to the Wells place, the detective insists that Donald accompany him. They find the Wells home very much occupied—by a stunning redhead in shorts, tidying the house. YVONNE WELLS walked to the kitchen, her hips swaying in a slightly exaggerated motion. She turned hot water into the dishpan. "Want to stick around and dry the dishes for me?" she asked. Sellers walked over to lean against the doorjamb. "Where's your husband now?" he asked. She laughed and said, "According to Mrs. Nosy over in the next house, he took off 'abruptly.' I guess he got tired waiting for me. I'll get the place cleaned up and be a dutiful little wife. If he comes back, we'll forgive each other and live happily until we have the next spat. If he doesn't come back. I'll find out when the rent's due and have the place all cleaned for the next tenant. My God! A man certainly can mess a place up! He's let this house run to seed." She was busily engaged in sliding dishes through the dishwater, putting them in the draining pan and pouring hot water over them. "The dish towel's over there on the rack," she said. "Not for me!" Sellers told her. "They'd kick me out for conduct unbecoming an officer." "Well, at least get the towel and bring It over," she said. "My hands are all wet. I don't want to drip a trail over the kitchen." Sellers went over and got the dish towel. He dropped it over her shoulder. "Let me see that clipping," he said to me. I gave Sellers the clipping. "What's, that?" Mrs. Wells asked, looking up from the dishpan. "Just checking," Sellers said. "Oh, I know. That's the San Bernardino picture." "How does it happen you never got in movies?" Sellers asked her. "They, never invited me," she said. "I thought perhaps a few pictures in the newspaper would do it." "That why you left home?" Sellers asked. "Is that the real reason?" She laughed and turned toward him. "You boys can ask the damnedest questions," she said. "Why don't you run along over and talk with Mrs. Nosy next door? I know you're dying to talk with her, and she's busting a blood vessel trying to and out what it's all about." Sellers sighed, handed me back the clipping, and started for the door without a word. "Come again sometime," Mrs. Wells invited. We went out the door and down the steps. "Damn it!" Sellers said. "You got me into this, Lam." "Into what?" "This murder case. Then the corpse shows up alive and well!" "Mrs. Raleigh was the one that started it," I told him. "Not with me she wasn't," Sellers said. "However, we'll go have a talk with her." Mrs. Raleigh Hung the door open as soon as we got on the porch. "Well, good morning, good morning!" she said. "Do come in. I'm dying, to know what's happened over there." Sellers stood in the doorway. "Just one question," he said. "You've seen that woman over there?" "That's right." "Is that Mrs. Wells?" "Yes," she said. "That's the woman you thought had been killed?" "Why, how you talk, officer! I didn't say I thought she'd been killed. I said that I felt there were suspicious circumstances. I'd heard a quarrel, and then I heard her scream, and I'd seen the man carry something." "The way you were telling about it," Sellers said, "it was a corpse wrapped in a rug. It was heavy and swayed." "Well, a person can't tell how heavy a thing is just by looking at someone carrying it." "You can tell by the way a man walks whether he's carrying something heavy," Sellers said. "Well, I— Of course, it was night. I only tried to tell you what had happened, officer. That's ail. I was just doing my duty." "You told, me you heard the sound of a blow?" I asked. "What if I did?" "I just wasted to check." "That, of course, is neither here nor there. Any man can strike his wire, but I didn't say I had heard the sound of a blow. I said I heard a sound that have been the sound of a blow." "Have you talked with Mrs. Wells about this?" Sellers asked. "No, I have not." "There's no question that that's Mrs. Wells who is over there now?" I asked her. "That's the woman who—?" "Do you think it's possible to mistake woman?" Mrs. Raleigh asked. Well, I guess that does it," Sellers told her. "Come on, Lam. Let's go!" We started back to Sellers' car. Mrs. Raleigh stood in the doorway and said, "I certainly trust you'll keep my name out of it." Sellers didn't even bother to look back or to reply. "Okay, mastermind," he said, when we got in the car. "You got me into this, how get me out of it." "What is there to get out of?" I asked. "Oh, nothing. Nothing at all" he said. "Just reporting a murder that didn't happen. Getting all excited over a gossip story about a dead woman and then having the dead woman show up alive and well. I've had three, shifts of men watching that house on a twenty-four-hour basis. I've kept it sewed up so when Wells showed up, we could question him. I've got to make a report on that. My face is going to be red." "You've gone this far," I said, "Why not keep it sewed up until Wells enter the picture and question him?" "About what?" Sellers asked me scornfully. "About having a quarrel with his wife? The question is, have you got any ideas for getting me off the hook?" "Maybe. We'll find out a little more about Corning before we close the case," I told him. "You stall things along as much as you can. He must have tipped Wells to take a powder." "Now look, bright eyes," Sellers said. "I'm from Homicide, remember? Don't think you're going to get me out on the end of a limb with a hot tip arid then save me by turning up some bunko game. I'm Homicide." "You don't mean you have to have a corpse.?" He said, "I want an out. Have you got one?" "Not yet." "Do you have any ideas?" "I have a sort of a half idea." "Weil," he announced mournfully, "you've got a lot more than I have and you'd better let this Half-baked idea of yours grow up. When it gets so it can stand up, call me." CHAPTER 10 BY A.A. FAIR (ERLE STANLEY GARDNER) 1957 by Erla Stanley Cardon Regressed by arrangement with William Morrow & Co., Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. The well-known Cool & Lam private investigating agency baa a troublesome case involving a missing person. After letting drop an indication that his problem is a mineral rights deal. Texan Lawton Corning employs the agency to locate a Mrs. Drury Wells, Donald Lam and his partner, Bertha Cool, find the assignment to be more complicated than Corning had confided to them. Upon driving to the home of Drury Wells in Southern California Donald finds Wells to be both uncooperative and unconcerned about his wife. Wells story is that she walked out on him three days earlier. A neighbor, Mrs. Frances Raleigh tells Donald that she suspects Mrs. Wells was murdered by her husband. After reporting this to Corning. Lam notifies Frank Sellers, of police homicide, of the suspicions. Angered, Corning orders Lam to drop the case. Research in newspaper flies by Bertha discloses that a short time previously, Mrs. Wells, the former Yvonne Clymer., Inherited California property and 515,000 from an uncle in Texas, Aaron Bedford. The date on which Drury Wells rented his home was a few days after that. Bertha has a hunch there is oil on the inherited property and tells Donald; "We'll round up this babe and get her mineral rights for ourselves. Then Coming can deal with us." While Donald IB arguing that this would be unethical. Frank Sellers arrives to question Donald. Now it seems, both the Wellses are missing. When a phone call comes in to Sellers, instructing him to report to the Wells place, the detective insists that Donald accompany him. They find the Wells home very much occupied—by a stunning redhead in shorts, tidying the house. YVONNE WELLS walked to the kitchen, her hips swaying in a slightly exaggerated motion. She turned hot water into the dishpan. "Want to stick around and dry the dishes for me?" she asked. Sellers walked over to lean against the doorjamb. "Where's your husband now?" he asked. She laughed and said, "According to Mrs. Nosy over in the next house, he took off 'abruptly.' I guess he got tired waiting for me. I'll get the place cleaned up and be a dutiful little wife. If he comes back, we'll forgive each other and live happily until we have the next spat. If he doesn't come back. I'll find out when the rent's due and have the place all cleaned for the next tenant. My God! A man certainly can mess a place up! He's let this house run to seed." She was busily engaged in sliding dishes through the dishwater, putting them in the draining pan and pouring hot water over them. "The dish towel's over there on the rack," she said. "Not for me!" Sellers told her. "They'd kick me out for conduct unbecoming an officer." "Well, at least get the towel and bring It over," she said. "My hands are all wet. I don't want to drip a trail over the kitchen." Sellers went over and got the dish towel. He dropped it over her shoulder. "Let me see that clipping," he said to me. I gave Sellers the clipping. "What's, that?" Mrs. Wells asked, looking up from the dishpan. "Just checking," Sellers said. "Oh, I know. That's the San Bernardino picture." "How does it happen you never got in movies?" Sellers asked her. "They, never invited me," she said. "I thought perhaps a few pictures in the newspaper would do it." "That why you left home?" Sellers asked. "Is that the real reason?" She laughed and turned toward him. "You boys can ask the damnedest questions," she said. "Why don't you run along over and talk with Mrs. Nosy next door? I know you're dying to talk with her, and she's busting a blood vessel trying to and out what it's all about." Sellers sighed, handed me back the clipping, and started for the door without a word. "Come again sometime," Mrs. Wells invited. We went out the door and down the steps. "Damn it!" Sellers said. "You got me into this, Lam." "Into what?" "This murder case. Then the corpse shows up alive and well!" "Mrs. Raleigh was the one that started it," I told him. "Not with me she wasn't," Sellers said. "However, we'll go have a talk with her." Mrs. Raleigh Hung the door open as soon as we got on the porch. "Well, good morning, good morning!" she said. "Do come in. I'm dying, to know what's happened over there." Sellers stood in the doorway. "Just one question," he said. "You've seen that woman over there?" "That's right." "Is that Mrs. Wells?" "Yes," she said. "That's the woman you thought had been killed?" "Why, how you talk, officer! I didn't say I thought she'd been killed. I said that I felt there were suspicious circumstances. I'd heard a quarrel, and then I heard her scream, and I'd seen the man carry something." "The way you were telling about it," Sellers said, "it was a corpse wrapped in a rug. It was heavy and swayed." "Well, a person can't tell how heavy a thing is just by looking at someone carrying it." "You can tell by the way a man walks whether he's carrying something heavy," Sellers said. "Well, I— Of course, it was night. I only tried to tell you what had happened, officer. That's ail. I was just doing my duty." "You told, me you heard the sound of a blow?" I asked. "What if I did?" "I just wasted to check." "That, of course, is neither here nor there. Any man can strike his wire, but I didn't say I had heard the sound of a blow. I said I heard a sound that have been the sound of a blow." "Have you talked with Mrs. Wells about this?" Sellers asked. "No, I have not." "There's no question that that's Mrs. Wells who is over there now?" I asked her. "That's the woman who—?" "Do you think it's possible to mistake woman?" Mrs. Raleigh asked. Well, I guess that does it," Sellers told her. "Come on, Lam. Let's go!" We started back to Sellers' car. Mrs. Raleigh stood in the doorway and said, "I certainly trust you'll keep my name out of it." Sellers didn't even bother to look back or to reply. "Okay, mastermind," he said, when we got in the car. "You got me into this, how get me out of it." "What is there to get out of?" I asked. "Oh, nothing. Nothing at all" he said. "Just reporting a murder that didn't happen. Getting all excited over a gossip story about a dead woman and then having the dead woman show up alive and well. I've had three, shifts of men watching that house on a twenty-four-hour basis. I've kept it sewed up so when Wells showed up, we could question him. I've got to make a report on that. My face is going to be red." "You've gone this far," I said, "Why not keep it sewed up until Wells enter the picture and question him?" "About what?" Sellers asked me scornfully. "About having a quarrel with his wife? The question is, have you got any ideas for getting me off the hook?" "Maybe. We'll find out a little more about Corning before we close the case," I told him. "You stall things along as much as you can. He must have tipped Wells to take a powder." "Now look, bright eyes," Sellers said. "I'm from Homicide, remember? Don't think you're going to get me out on the end of a limb with a hot tip arid then save me by turning up some bunko game. I'm Homicide." "You don't mean you have to have a corpse.?" He said, "I want an out. Have you got one?" "Not yet." "Do you have any ideas?" "I have a sort of a half idea." "Weil," he announced mournfully, "you've got a lot more than I have and you'd better let this Half-baked idea of yours grow up. When it gets so it can stand up, call me." 2nd Class Citizenship Soon To Be Thing Of Past-Furbay Dr. John Furbay speaker at the opening session of a three-day Teacher-In-Service Training Institute at City High School August 26, to city school teachers said that second class citizenship will be a thing of the past in world history in the near future, as reported by Bob Gorham. Dr. Furbay, Educational Director for Trans-World Airlines, never used the word integration in his well-received talk, but his meaning, was obvious. "Second-class citizenship does not apply to Negroes alone, it is not a local issue with you alone" Furbay said. "India has it with their 'untouchables' who are really just slaves. "One Indian told me recently that now they want us to send our children to school with the untouchables' children." "When I asked what they were going to do about it he replied over our dead bodres." "But second-class citizenship, such as the Jews, have in Arab countries, is the kind that belonged to the world of yesterday and it will be a better world when it passes out. "We must prepare our children for this or the world is going to be shocking to them. It is going to happen. Why not do it in a manner where everyone will toe friends instead of dragging our feet and letting there be hatred afterward? This desire for human dignity was one of several things Furbay pointed but as "dreams of man." The others included a "decent standard of living, and a world where everybody rules himself." Furbay received a lengthy burst of applause and when he left the platform, it became even louder. Dr. Shane McCarthy, executive director of President Eisenhower's Council on Youth Fitness was the second speaker for the opening session. Several dignitaries, including Mayor Olgiati; County School Supt. Sam MacConnell and State Legislator Don Moore were on the platform for MacCarthy's talk, in which he emphasized the need for physical fitness among youth and the importance of teacher emphasis in this program. "Push button living is making us soft," MacCarthy said. "We must now do by choice those chores such as washing dishes, laundering, etc., that we used to do through necessity." The Rev. Cecil P. Hardin pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, brought the devotion for the program. Following the noon recess, curriculum group meetings were held in the afternoon. Group meetings on instructional material were held Tuesday morning. The institute closed with faculty sessions in individual schools Wednesday, August 28. Second Class Citizenship On Way Out, Dr. Furbay Dr. John Furbay speaker at the opening session of a three-day Teacher-In-Service Training Institute at City High School August 26, to city school teachers said that second class citizenship will be a thing of the past in world history in the near future, as reported by Bob Gorham. Dr. Furbay, Educational Director for Trans-World Airlines, never used the word integration in his well-received talk, but his meaning, was obvious. "Second-class citizenship does not apply to Negroes alone, it is not a local issue with you alone" Furbay said. "India has it with their 'untouchables' who are really just slaves. "One Indian told me recently that now they want us to send our children to school with the untouchables' children." "When I asked what they were going to do about it he replied over our dead bodres." "But second-class citizenship, such as the Jews, have in Arab countries, is the kind that belonged to the world of yesterday and it will be a better world when it passes out. "We must prepare our children for this or the world is going to be shocking to them. It is going to happen. Why not do it in a manner where everyone will toe friends instead of dragging our feet and letting there be hatred afterward? This desire for human dignity was one of several things Furbay pointed but as "dreams of man." The others included a "decent standard of living, and a world where everybody rules himself." Furbay received a lengthy burst of applause and when he left the platform, it became even louder. Dr. Shane McCarthy, executive director of President Eisenhower's Council on Youth Fitness was the second speaker for the opening session. Several dignitaries, including Mayor Olgiati; County School Supt. Sam MacConnell and State Legislator Don Moore were on the platform for MacCarthy's talk, in which he emphasized the need for physical fitness among youth and the importance of teacher emphasis in this program. "Push button living is making us soft," MacCarthy said. "We must now do by choice those chores such as washing dishes, laundering, etc., that we used to do through necessity." The Rev. Cecil P. Hardin pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, brought the devotion for the program. Following the noon recess, curriculum group meetings were held in the afternoon. Group meetings on instructional material were held Tuesday morning. The institute closed with faculty sessions in individual schools Wednesday, August 28. 'GOING TO HAPPEN" Dr. John Furbay speaker at the opening session of a three-day Teacher-In-Service Training Institute at City High School August 26, to city school teachers said that second class citizenship will be a thing of the past in world history in the near future, as reported by Bob Gorham. Dr. Furbay, Educational Director for Trans-World Airlines, never used the word integration in his well-received talk, but his meaning, was obvious. "Second-class citizenship does not apply to Negroes alone, it is not a local issue with you alone" Furbay said. "India has it with their 'untouchables' who are really just slaves. "One Indian told me recently that now they want us to send our children to school with the untouchables' children." "When I asked what they were going to do about it he replied over our dead bodres." "But second-class citizenship, such as the Jews, have in Arab countries, is the kind that belonged to the world of yesterday and it will be a better world when it passes out. "We must prepare our children for this or the world is going to be shocking to them. It is going to happen. Why not do it in a manner where everyone will toe friends instead of dragging our feet and letting there be hatred afterward? This desire for human dignity was one of several things Furbay pointed but as "dreams of man." The others included a "decent standard of living, and a world where everybody rules himself." Furbay received a lengthy burst of applause and when he left the platform, it became even louder. Dr. Shane McCarthy, executive director of President Eisenhower's Council on Youth Fitness was the second speaker for the opening session. Several dignitaries, including Mayor Olgiati; County School Supt. Sam MacConnell and State Legislator Don Moore were on the platform for MacCarthy's talk, in which he emphasized the need for physical fitness among youth and the importance of teacher emphasis in this program. "Push button living is making us soft," MacCarthy said. "We must now do by choice those chores such as washing dishes, laundering, etc., that we used to do through necessity." The Rev. Cecil P. Hardin pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, brought the devotion for the program. Following the noon recess, curriculum group meetings were held in the afternoon. Group meetings on instructional material were held Tuesday morning. The institute closed with faculty sessions in individual schools Wednesday, August 28. MCARTHY SPEAKS Dr. John Furbay speaker at the opening session of a three-day Teacher-In-Service Training Institute at City High School August 26, to city school teachers said that second class citizenship will be a thing of the past in world history in the near future, as reported by Bob Gorham. Dr. Furbay, Educational Director for Trans-World Airlines, never used the word integration in his well-received talk, but his meaning, was obvious. "Second-class citizenship does not apply to Negroes alone, it is not a local issue with you alone" Furbay said. "India has it with their 'untouchables' who are really just slaves. "One Indian told me recently that now they want us to send our children to school with the untouchables' children." "When I asked what they were going to do about it he replied over our dead bodres." "But second-class citizenship, such as the Jews, have in Arab countries, is the kind that belonged to the world of yesterday and it will be a better world when it passes out. "We must prepare our children for this or the world is going to be shocking to them. It is going to happen. Why not do it in a manner where everyone will toe friends instead of dragging our feet and letting there be hatred afterward? This desire for human dignity was one of several things Furbay pointed but as "dreams of man." The others included a "decent standard of living, and a world where everybody rules himself." Furbay received a lengthy burst of applause and when he left the platform, it became even louder. Dr. Shane McCarthy, executive director of President Eisenhower's Council on Youth Fitness was the second speaker for the opening session. Several dignitaries, including Mayor Olgiati; County School Supt. Sam MacConnell and State Legislator Don Moore were on the platform for MacCarthy's talk, in which he emphasized the need for physical fitness among youth and the importance of teacher emphasis in this program. "Push button living is making us soft," MacCarthy said. "We must now do by choice those chores such as washing dishes, laundering, etc., that we used to do through necessity." The Rev. Cecil P. Hardin pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, brought the devotion for the program. Following the noon recess, curriculum group meetings were held in the afternoon. Group meetings on instructional material were held Tuesday morning. The institute closed with faculty sessions in individual schools Wednesday, August 28. Mrs. Carrie Bingham the late Rev. Larry E. Bingham. She leaves to mourn Mrs. Mollie Brannon, mo her; Melvin Brannon, ham, son, and two daughters Joan and Frances Bingham, all of Memphis in addition to numerous other relatives. Funeral services to foe announced. Southern Funeral Home in Charge. s 100 Freshmen Approximately 100 students are expected to report to Lincoln University on September 12 when orientaiton for freshmen and new students begins. The number will represent an increase of more than 10 percent over the students who reported to Lincoln for the first time last year. The addition of McKay Hall, which was opened last fall, will enable the institution to take care of increased enrollment. Rory Calhoun Wins Over Joey Giambra Rory Calhoun, 158 1-2 won a unanimous decision Monday night in a brusing rematch with Joey Giambra, 160. San Francisco, at the San Francisco Cow Palace. Calhoun, satin-skinned White Plains, N. Y. middleweight Knocked down Giambra once in the fourth round With whistling right but bounced up before the timekeeper could begin a count. He came right back to even the round before the bell. The official scoring was 97-93, 96-95 and 97-93. Flu Epidemic Rages In Colombia Capital A flu epidemic was reported raging in Colombia as many as 30,000 cases recorded in the capital city of Bogota. In Montevideo, Uruguay, a flu epidemic, believed to be the Asiatic type, has increased in intensity to 5,000 cases a day.