Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1950-09-05 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) Word To School-Aged Youth There is no short cut to success. Twelve years for high school education, four years additional for college, and one or more years for specialized or professional training seems like a long time. It probably is a long time requires hard work and study, but those long years of studious application of time and talent are necessary. Success is most likely to come to the person who endures to the end. The higher he goes, the most likely his success. Our young people today most be made aware of the importance of education. Our schools and colleges are beginning to open their doors for the return of students. It is urged that every boy and girl of school age would return at the opening of school. The parents and community need to cooperate whole-heartedly in seeing that every boy and girl gets at least the minimum education required by the State of Tennessee. The Memphis World joins the Urban League and other groups and individuals in urging youth to go back to school and to diligently apply themselves to study. The Right To Vote With the support by the United States Court of Appeals of Judge Waties Waring's historic decision, the last fragments of walls of discrimination in the Democratic Party in South Carolina fell open to Negro citizens. This also did away with the last barrier to Negro voting in the deep South. Such a precedent as set by the courts of this country, established faith and interest on the part of the Negro to take a greater part in the shaping of legal procedure for himself and for his country. The so called "white primary" which has long been a barrier to Negro suffrage has passed away like a shadow before the early morning sunlight. The impact of this decision along with others has reflected in the expanded Negro vote. In South Carolina, some 60,000 formerly disfranchised Negroes registered to vote after Judge Waring's decision had been affirmed. In the state of Alabama where previously fewer than 10,000 Negroes were registered, the number who able to go to the polls during the past election amounted to 50,000. In the state of Louisiana, where Negroes had long met with difficulty, the number rose to 20,000, which was 15,000 higher than the previous number. Much of this expanded Negro vote is directly traceable to the activities of individuals, groups and organizations for the Negro people. The response has been heartening to working in the interest of the race and further achievement all those who wished to see political democracy restored in the Southland. While this vote has expanded, more candidates for political office have turned to the Negro for support, Likewise, more and more Negroes have made themselves available for political office. Dairy Council Mrs. Bland will work with teachers in the schools in the use of Dairy Council materials and loan projects. She will be available to all club groups as a free community service of the Dairy Council to preaent programs and show films emphasiging the importance of eating right. She will conduct a radio program each Saturday morning at 7:15 over WDIA. Her program will be known as "Breakfast With Bell," and will have many helpful hints for homemakers. Mrs. Bland lives at 2195 Marble. She has a daughter, Mary Alice,. who will be in the first grade at Hyde Park School this year. Her father, Prof Andrew Bland is principal of Hyde Park. Urban League Office of the Housing Expediter, will be a discussant. That evening Ralph H. Blanchard, executive director, Community Chests and Councils of America, Inc., will speak at a public meeting on "Social Work's Responsibility in the Field of Human Relations.' At this meeting, Mr. Granger will present his annual address on "The State of the Urban League." On Tuesday, September 5th, Dr. Remus G. Robinson, Diplomate, American College of Surgeons will speak to a luncheon group on "Health" That evening Hon. David L. Lawrence, Mayor of Pittsburgh and president, United States Confarence of Mayors, will address a public meeting on "Government and the Urban League." Wednesday noon, S. A. Galatas, president, Local 302, Kansas City, (Mo. Laundry Workers' International Urban, AFL., will speak to a luncheon meeting on "The Community." That evening Jacob S. Potofsky, international president, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CIO, will address a public meeting on "Organized Labor and the Urban League." Thursday morning September 7th, a discussion of "The Community" will feature Reginald A. Johnson, National Urban League Field Services director, and Robert L. Neal, associate executive secretary, Division on Education and Recreation. Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago. At noon, John J. McCarthy, assistant manager, Gimbel Brothers, New York, will speak to a luncheon meeting on "Employment and Vocational Guidance." A discussion session will follow on the subject featuring John D. Gruener director of employee relations, International Harvester Company; Louis Simon, secretary Laundry Workers Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CIO, New York; Carl M. Horn, professor of education, Instatute of Counseling, Testing, and Guidance, Michigan State College; and Julius A. Thomas, director of Industrial Relations, National Ur ban League. Mrs. Thomasina J. Norford, chief Minority Group Services Division, U 8 Employment service, will speak at a dinner session on the USES-National Urban League cooperative agreement. Thursday evening President Garrison will present service awards to Urban League personnel, and will present the annual "Two Friends Award" for cooperative contribution by a Negro and white American to the furtherance of Democracy. The 1950 Award goes to Dwight R. G. Palmer, president, General Cable Corporation, and John H. Sengstacke, editor and publisher, Chicago DEFEENDER. Both men were members of the Pre sident's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, which accomplished much in the integration of Negroea in, and elimination of discriminatory practices in the nation's armed forces. Friday afternoon, September 8th, the closing Conference meeting will consider the finding of the Resolutions Committee. PITTSBURGH MAYOR TO SPEAK Office of the Housing Expediter, will be a discussant. That evening Ralph H. Blanchard, executive director, Community Chests and Councils of America, Inc., will speak at a public meeting on "Social Work's Responsibility in the Field of Human Relations.' At this meeting, Mr. Granger will present his annual address on "The State of the Urban League." On Tuesday, September 5th, Dr. Remus G. Robinson, Diplomate, American College of Surgeons will speak to a luncheon group on "Health" That evening Hon. David L. Lawrence, Mayor of Pittsburgh and president, United States Confarence of Mayors, will address a public meeting on "Government and the Urban League." Wednesday noon, S. A. Galatas, president, Local 302, Kansas City, (Mo. Laundry Workers' International Urban, AFL., will speak to a luncheon meeting on "The Community." That evening Jacob S. Potofsky, international president, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CIO, will address a public meeting on "Organized Labor and the Urban League." Thursday morning September 7th, a discussion of "The Community" will feature Reginald A. Johnson, National Urban League Field Services director, and Robert L. Neal, associate executive secretary, Division on Education and Recreation. Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago. At noon, John J. McCarthy, assistant manager, Gimbel Brothers, New York, will speak to a luncheon meeting on "Employment and Vocational Guidance." A discussion session will follow on the subject featuring John D. Gruener director of employee relations, International Harvester Company; Louis Simon, secretary Laundry Workers Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CIO, New York; Carl M. Horn, professor of education, Instatute of Counseling, Testing, and Guidance, Michigan State College; and Julius A. Thomas, director of Industrial Relations, National Ur ban League. Mrs. Thomasina J. Norford, chief Minority Group Services Division, U 8 Employment service, will speak at a dinner session on the USES-National Urban League cooperative agreement. Thursday evening President Garrison will present service awards to Urban League personnel, and will present the annual "Two Friends Award" for cooperative contribution by a Negro and white American to the furtherance of Democracy. The 1950 Award goes to Dwight R. G. Palmer, president, General Cable Corporation, and John H. Sengstacke, editor and publisher, Chicago DEFEENDER. Both men were members of the Pre sident's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, which accomplished much in the integration of Negroea in, and elimination of discriminatory practices in the nation's armed forces. Friday afternoon, September 8th, the closing Conference meeting will consider the finding of the Resolutions Committee. TO DISCUSS COMMUNITY Office of the Housing Expediter, will be a discussant. That evening Ralph H. Blanchard, executive director, Community Chests and Councils of America, Inc., will speak at a public meeting on "Social Work's Responsibility in the Field of Human Relations.' At this meeting, Mr. Granger will present his annual address on "The State of the Urban League." On Tuesday, September 5th, Dr. Remus G. Robinson, Diplomate, American College of Surgeons will speak to a luncheon group on "Health" That evening Hon. David L. Lawrence, Mayor of Pittsburgh and president, United States Confarence of Mayors, will address a public meeting on "Government and the Urban League." Wednesday noon, S. A. Galatas, president, Local 302, Kansas City, (Mo. Laundry Workers' International Urban, AFL., will speak to a luncheon meeting on "The Community." That evening Jacob S. Potofsky, international president, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CIO, will address a public meeting on "Organized Labor and the Urban League." Thursday morning September 7th, a discussion of "The Community" will feature Reginald A. Johnson, National Urban League Field Services director, and Robert L. Neal, associate executive secretary, Division on Education and Recreation. Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago. At noon, John J. McCarthy, assistant manager, Gimbel Brothers, New York, will speak to a luncheon meeting on "Employment and Vocational Guidance." A discussion session will follow on the subject featuring John D. Gruener director of employee relations, International Harvester Company; Louis Simon, secretary Laundry Workers Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CIO, New York; Carl M. Horn, professor of education, Instatute of Counseling, Testing, and Guidance, Michigan State College; and Julius A. Thomas, director of Industrial Relations, National Ur ban League. Mrs. Thomasina J. Norford, chief Minority Group Services Division, U 8 Employment service, will speak at a dinner session on the USES-National Urban League cooperative agreement. Thursday evening President Garrison will present service awards to Urban League personnel, and will present the annual "Two Friends Award" for cooperative contribution by a Negro and white American to the furtherance of Democracy. The 1950 Award goes to Dwight R. G. Palmer, president, General Cable Corporation, and John H. Sengstacke, editor and publisher, Chicago DEFEENDER. Both men were members of the Pre sident's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, which accomplished much in the integration of Negroea in, and elimination of discriminatory practices in the nation's armed forces. Friday afternoon, September 8th, the closing Conference meeting will consider the finding of the Resolutions Committee. TWO FRIENDS AWARD Office of the Housing Expediter, will be a discussant. That evening Ralph H. Blanchard, executive director, Community Chests and Councils of America, Inc., will speak at a public meeting on "Social Work's Responsibility in the Field of Human Relations.' At this meeting, Mr. Granger will present his annual address on "The State of the Urban League." On Tuesday, September 5th, Dr. Remus G. Robinson, Diplomate, American College of Surgeons will speak to a luncheon group on "Health" That evening Hon. David L. Lawrence, Mayor of Pittsburgh and president, United States Confarence of Mayors, will address a public meeting on "Government and the Urban League." Wednesday noon, S. A. Galatas, president, Local 302, Kansas City, (Mo. Laundry Workers' International Urban, AFL., will speak to a luncheon meeting on "The Community." That evening Jacob S. Potofsky, international president, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CIO, will address a public meeting on "Organized Labor and the Urban League." Thursday morning September 7th, a discussion of "The Community" will feature Reginald A. Johnson, National Urban League Field Services director, and Robert L. Neal, associate executive secretary, Division on Education and Recreation. Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago. At noon, John J. McCarthy, assistant manager, Gimbel Brothers, New York, will speak to a luncheon meeting on "Employment and Vocational Guidance." A discussion session will follow on the subject featuring John D. Gruener director of employee relations, International Harvester Company; Louis Simon, secretary Laundry Workers Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, CIO, New York; Carl M. Horn, professor of education, Instatute of Counseling, Testing, and Guidance, Michigan State College; and Julius A. Thomas, director of Industrial Relations, National Ur ban League. Mrs. Thomasina J. Norford, chief Minority Group Services Division, U 8 Employment service, will speak at a dinner session on the USES-National Urban League cooperative agreement. Thursday evening President Garrison will present service awards to Urban League personnel, and will present the annual "Two Friends Award" for cooperative contribution by a Negro and white American to the furtherance of Democracy. The 1950 Award goes to Dwight R. G. Palmer, president, General Cable Corporation, and John H. Sengstacke, editor and publisher, Chicago DEFEENDER. Both men were members of the Pre sident's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, which accomplished much in the integration of Negroea in, and elimination of discriminatory practices in the nation's armed forces. Friday afternoon, September 8th, the closing Conference meeting will consider the finding of the Resolutions Committee. Bus. League win. North Carolina-Mrs. J. DeShazor Jackson, C. C. Spaulding, George W. Cox, J. J. Henderson. New York—James Jackson, W. P. Alston. Ohio—Horace Sudduth, W. R. Pickett, George Berry. Oklahoma—George R. Ragland, Sam Holsten, Roscoe Dungee. Pennsylvania—R. W. Mentte Rev. J. S. Benn, Mrs. Annie Lovejoy. Tennessee-Dr. J. E. Walker, Dr. Henry A. Boyd, Edward R. Kirk, F. B. Otley, Jr., W. V. Harper, R. E. Clay, Mrs. R. E. Clay. Texas—J. E. Robinson L. H. Spivey, R. A. Cavitt, H. M. Morgan, A. Maceo Smith, N. Dudley, Jr., Mrs. O. K. Manning A. E. Wagner, Mrs. V. A. Bradford. The president of the National Housewives League is designated as third vice president. The executive secretary is to be named by the board of directors. Presidents of all affiliates organizations are to serve as members of the board at large. Submitting the nominations was a committee of ten composed of J. E. Robinson, W. C. Patton Eugene Lacey, Rev. J. S. Benn, G. D. Rogers, George Ragland Theodore Speights A. E. Warner, L. H. Spivey and W. D. Morrison. J. J. Henderson, of Durham, gave an oral report for the auditing committee in which he said: Up through August 21 approximately $28,870.91 was collected. The accounts of disbursements were approximately $28,120.06 in expenditures; $189 protested checks and $494 in other charges. Which left a cash balance of $67.85. Collected during the convention was approximately $4,500 in fees from state associations and affiliates, together with approximately $1,000 in membership registrations. He said that was an estimated $5, 500 cash on hand with approximately $1,000 owed. Henderson explained in his auditing report that there were some $20,000 in pledges due the league on the "Headquarters Fund Campaign." He suggested that in the expenditures were items for promoting the campaign and buying equipment to operate the NNBL and to conduct the fund campaign. He estimated that approximately90 percent of the pledges were collectible. Sudduth, in a challenging speech, urged the delegates to return to their respective communities continue the fund campaign through Jan. 1. He expressed confidence that the money could be raised to complete the drive to establish Washington headquarters. Special gifts committee were asked to be organized. Delegates gave a standing vote of appreciation to Mr. Sudduth, as president for his leadership and devotion; and the same to Dr J. E. Walker, C. C Spaulding and Mrs. Rosa Brown Bracy. A report by Registrar Lee indicated that there were 134 individual delegates from 40 cities in 26 states, and 13 affiliates represented. Patton said that Alabama had paid $2,500 of its $5,000 quota. The Sumter County Negro Business League led in Alabama contributions. From the White House, Washington, D. C. August 29, 1950, President Harry S. Truman, sent the following telegram to Dr. F. D. Patterson: "Please extend my best wishes to the members of the National Negro Business League un the occasion of its Golden Anniversary celebration." "During its first fifty years, your organization has been a tremendous force in the economic achievement of the Negro people, and has made many contributions to the public welfare." "I know that in the ensuing years, with the inspiration of such a great American — your founder Booker T. Washington —you will continue the good work you have been doing, and that the Nation wi11 benefit by our endeavors. "I sincerely hope that you have a very successful gathering " "Harry S. Truman." PRESIDENT TRIMAN'S TELEGRAM win. North Carolina-Mrs. J. DeShazor Jackson, C. C. Spaulding, George W. Cox, J. J. Henderson. New York—James Jackson, W. P. Alston. Ohio—Horace Sudduth, W. R. Pickett, George Berry. Oklahoma—George R. Ragland, Sam Holsten, Roscoe Dungee. Pennsylvania—R. W. Mentte Rev. J. S. Benn, Mrs. Annie Lovejoy. Tennessee-Dr. J. E. Walker, Dr. Henry A. Boyd, Edward R. Kirk, F. B. Otley, Jr., W. V. Harper, R. E. Clay, Mrs. R. E. Clay. Texas—J. E. Robinson L. H. Spivey, R. A. Cavitt, H. M. Morgan, A. Maceo Smith, N. Dudley, Jr., Mrs. O. K. Manning A. E. Wagner, Mrs. V. A. Bradford. The president of the National Housewives League is designated as third vice president. The executive secretary is to be named by the board of directors. Presidents of all affiliates organizations are to serve as members of the board at large. Submitting the nominations was a committee of ten composed of J. E. Robinson, W. C. Patton Eugene Lacey, Rev. J. S. Benn, G. D. Rogers, George Ragland Theodore Speights A. E. Warner, L. H. Spivey and W. D. Morrison. J. J. Henderson, of Durham, gave an oral report for the auditing committee in which he said: Up through August 21 approximately $28,870.91 was collected. The accounts of disbursements were approximately $28,120.06 in expenditures; $189 protested checks and $494 in other charges. Which left a cash balance of $67.85. Collected during the convention was approximately $4,500 in fees from state associations and affiliates, together with approximately $1,000 in membership registrations. He said that was an estimated $5, 500 cash on hand with approximately $1,000 owed. Henderson explained in his auditing report that there were some $20,000 in pledges due the league on the "Headquarters Fund Campaign." He suggested that in the expenditures were items for promoting the campaign and buying equipment to operate the NNBL and to conduct the fund campaign. He estimated that approximately90 percent of the pledges were collectible. Sudduth, in a challenging speech, urged the delegates to return to their respective communities continue the fund campaign through Jan. 1. He expressed confidence that the money could be raised to complete the drive to establish Washington headquarters. Special gifts committee were asked to be organized. Delegates gave a standing vote of appreciation to Mr. Sudduth, as president for his leadership and devotion; and the same to Dr J. E. Walker, C. C Spaulding and Mrs. Rosa Brown Bracy. A report by Registrar Lee indicated that there were 134 individual delegates from 40 cities in 26 states, and 13 affiliates represented. Patton said that Alabama had paid $2,500 of its $5,000 quota. The Sumter County Negro Business League led in Alabama contributions. From the White House, Washington, D. C. August 29, 1950, President Harry S. Truman, sent the following telegram to Dr. F. D. Patterson: "Please extend my best wishes to the members of the National Negro Business League un the occasion of its Golden Anniversary celebration." "During its first fifty years, your organization has been a tremendous force in the economic achievement of the Negro people, and has made many contributions to the public welfare." "I know that in the ensuing years, with the inspiration of such a great American — your founder Booker T. Washington —you will continue the good work you have been doing, and that the Nation wi11 benefit by our endeavors. "I sincerely hope that you have a very successful gathering " "Harry S. Truman." "OUR DOUBLE STANDARD IS PROVING EMBARRASSING" BRETT HALLIDAY BLACKIE was tough. He stayed on his Knees with both hands planted on the floor to support his weight Me breathed heavily through, his open mouth and shook his head like a wounded and dazed animal. Shayne dropped his automatic into his coat pocket and cocked the hammer of the double-action 45 with his right hand. Blackie began to push his torso laboriously upward. His eyes were fixed on the cocked gun in the detective's left hand. Shayne said, "I like you better on the floor." He put the sole of his big shoe in Blackie's face and shoved. Blackie sprawled backward and lay there for a moment. When he pulled himself slowly to a sitting position, he grunted, "Evens us up. Who'd you say was killed?" "Mrs. Mark Dustin." "I don't know any Mrs. Dustin. I air't killed nobody Not recently," he amended, clearing his throat and turning his head to spit. "Did you send someone over to keep your dale with her?" "What date you talking about?" "The one you made by telephone," said Shayne irritably. "After you tried to kill my secretary and pretended it was me talking over "the phone." "Look, Shamus, I don't know what you're talking about. So I slugged you tonight... by mistake. So, all right. Now you slugged me. So we're even. I don't know about this other stuff." "I suppose." said Shayne angrily, "you—don't know anything about a ruby bracelet." "That's right." Blackie folded has bare arms across Inn chest and sighed. I got to sit here all day?" Shayne said, "What about a busted fender on the limousine?" "Sure. I got a bunted tender fixed up at Mickey's." He ran thick tongue over his thick lips. "Me an' the Kid took the big job out without the boss knowing about it and scraped some paint off. I was getting it patched up when you barged in." "How do you mean you slugged me by mistake?" "I must of got mixed up on the phone," Blackie explained readily. "I thought you was sticking your nose in my business and trying to shake me down by threatening to tell the boss about the busted fender." "So you called him up to find out what to do?" Shayne jeered. "I Just pretended to call up." Blackie explained swiftly "To see what you'd do. You fell for that gag, huh?" His story, Shayne realized, had been well rehearsed. When the boss had changed his mind, for some unknown reason, about dealing with the insurance company on a reward for the return of the rubies, he had realized it had been a tactical error to have Shayne slugged. So, he had evidently ordered Blackie to shoulder the full responsibility for that error. "I know you're lying right down the the line," Shayne told him dispassiontely. "As you say, we're even on the slugging, but we're still not even on a couple of other things. I don't like mugs who come in my apartment and answer my phone... and slap my dolls around." "Honest to God," Blackie protested, "I've never been inside your apartment." "That's easily checked Get up." "I sort of like it here on the floor." Shayne said, "You'll have a chance to stay there forever if you don't start moving." He gestured toward the door with the cocked .45. His tone convinced Blackie that the discussion was ended. He lumbered to his feet and Shayne said, "Walk out that door and straight down the rive to the street. Then turn to the right to the corner and then to the left My car is parked halt-way down the block. We're going for a ride together, and if you make one single move or sound I don't like I'll blast you with your own gun. The cops would thank me for doing it because I've got you framed right in then middle of a murder rap, and they can use a fall guy. Get going." Blackie got going. Shayne followed him out the door and down the drive to the' street. The sun hung like a red ball or fire behind the misty clouds above the rim of not the ocean. Birds were singing in the shrubbery, and the new day held a clean warmth that promised muggy heat within -a few hours. They encountered no one on their walk to the corner and to the detective's car. "Get under the wheel and drive," Shayne ordered. "To the County Causeway and then turn left on Biscayne Boulevard, I'II be resting easy in the bark seat with a gun on you." Blackie opened the front door and got in. Shayne eased himself into the back seat and tossed the keys across to the driver. Blackie drove carefully and expertly, and at slow speed. Shayne kept his eyes on the back of his head and let his mind wander into the unknown equations that were into beginning to unravel. Blackie would talk soon enough. He was grimly sure of that. As soon as Lucy identified him as her attacker and he realized the spot he was in. His denial of Mrs. Dustin's murder had sounded genuine enough, and he might have been telling the truth. It was plausible to presume that Blackie had contacted his employer after the telephone call and sent him to keep the appointment with Mrs. Dustin which had resulted in her death. In that case, Blackie might well have been honestly surprised to learn that she had been murdered. That was all the more reason why he would talk when he realized how neatly he had been framed for the job. If be were guilty, he might continue to ob stinately deny any knowledge of the telephone call, but it innocent, he would be a tool it he didn't spill everything tie knew. One thing troubled Shayne as they turned down Biscayne Boulevard. He felt positive he held the key to recovery of the bracelet, but if he let the policeman on guard at his apartment hear Blackie's confession, the secret would no longer be his and any possible reward would slip out of his hands like hot butter. He had an angle figured by the time they reached the foot of Flagler Street He said to Blackie: "Swing over to Second Avenue and then toward the river. I'll show you where to pull up just this side of the drawbridge." When the car was parked, Shayne took the keys and said casually, "We're going in through the hotel lobby and up to the third floor. There's a Miami cop in my apartment. Figure things out for yourself. It you'd rather keep this whole thing private, just between you and me, use your head and I'll tell him you're a friend. We'll get rid of the cop and talk it over after he's gone. If you want to make it tough I'll take you in with a gun on you and hand you over to him on two charges: Murder and attempted murder." Blackie turned a swollen and frightened face toward Shayne and said hoarsely, "Honest, I'm not hunting no trouble. I don't know what all this stuff is about murder, but I'd rather do my talking outside bars than behind them." "Fair enough, but don't forget I've gut two guns on me. Let's go." He thrust the revolver inside his trousers waistband and buttoned his coat over it, then led the way around to the front entrance and they entered the lobby. The night clerk was still on duty. He yawned and watched the two men approach with redrimmed eyes. Shayne stopped by the desk and said, "You know my friend don't you. Jim? He was up to see me last night when I was out." The clerk studied Blackie's face intently He said, "I don't believe I do, Mr. Shayne. Is Miss Hamilton going to be all right?" "I' m on my way up there now. Dr. Price thought she was okay when I left a few hours ago." The elevator was waiting, and when they got In, Shayne said to the operator, "Take a good look at this man. Ever see him before?" "Listen ..." Blackie began to protest, but Shayne silenced him with a look. "I don't know as I have or not," the boy said reflectively. "I might could remember better, Mist' Shayne, was you to tell me jest when I saw 'im." Shayne said, "We'll skip that for the moment." They got out of the elevator and started for his apartment. Copyright, 1948, by Brett Holiday: Distributed by King Features Syndicate. CHAPTER THIRTY BRETT HALLIDAY BLACKIE was tough. He stayed on his Knees with both hands planted on the floor to support his weight Me breathed heavily through, his open mouth and shook his head like a wounded and dazed animal. Shayne dropped his automatic into his coat pocket and cocked the hammer of the double-action 45 with his right hand. Blackie began to push his torso laboriously upward. His eyes were fixed on the cocked gun in the detective's left hand. Shayne said, "I like you better on the floor." He put the sole of his big shoe in Blackie's face and shoved. Blackie sprawled backward and lay there for a moment. When he pulled himself slowly to a sitting position, he grunted, "Evens us up. Who'd you say was killed?" "Mrs. Mark Dustin." "I don't know any Mrs. Dustin. I air't killed nobody Not recently," he amended, clearing his throat and turning his head to spit. "Did you send someone over to keep your dale with her?" "What date you talking about?" "The one you made by telephone," said Shayne irritably. "After you tried to kill my secretary and pretended it was me talking over "the phone." "Look, Shamus, I don't know what you're talking about. So I slugged you tonight... by mistake. So, all right. Now you slugged me. So we're even. I don't know about this other stuff." "I suppose." said Shayne angrily, "you—don't know anything about a ruby bracelet." "That's right." Blackie folded has bare arms across Inn chest and sighed. I got to sit here all day?" Shayne said, "What about a busted fender on the limousine?" "Sure. I got a bunted tender fixed up at Mickey's." He ran thick tongue over his thick lips. "Me an' the Kid took the big job out without the boss knowing about it and scraped some paint off. I was getting it patched up when you barged in." "How do you mean you slugged me by mistake?" "I must of got mixed up on the phone," Blackie explained readily. "I thought you was sticking your nose in my business and trying to shake me down by threatening to tell the boss about the busted fender." "So you called him up to find out what to do?" Shayne jeered. "I Just pretended to call up." Blackie explained swiftly "To see what you'd do. You fell for that gag, huh?" His story, Shayne realized, had been well rehearsed. When the boss had changed his mind, for some unknown reason, about dealing with the insurance company on a reward for the return of the rubies, he had realized it had been a tactical error to have Shayne slugged. So, he had evidently ordered Blackie to shoulder the full responsibility for that error. "I know you're lying right down the the line," Shayne told him dispassiontely. "As you say, we're even on the slugging, but we're still not even on a couple of other things. I don't like mugs who come in my apartment and answer my phone... and slap my dolls around." "Honest to God," Blackie protested, "I've never been inside your apartment." "That's easily checked Get up." "I sort of like it here on the floor." Shayne said, "You'll have a chance to stay there forever if you don't start moving." He gestured toward the door with the cocked .45. His tone convinced Blackie that the discussion was ended. He lumbered to his feet and Shayne said, "Walk out that door and straight down the rive to the street. Then turn to the right to the corner and then to the left My car is parked halt-way down the block. We're going for a ride together, and if you make one single move or sound I don't like I'll blast you with your own gun. The cops would thank me for doing it because I've got you framed right in then middle of a murder rap, and they can use a fall guy. Get going." Blackie got going. Shayne followed him out the door and down the drive to the' street. The sun hung like a red ball or fire behind the misty clouds above the rim of not the ocean. Birds were singing in the shrubbery, and the new day held a clean warmth that promised muggy heat within -a few hours. They encountered no one on their walk to the corner and to the detective's car. "Get under the wheel and drive," Shayne ordered. "To the County Causeway and then turn left on Biscayne Boulevard, I'II be resting easy in the bark seat with a gun on you." Blackie opened the front door and got in. Shayne eased himself into the back seat and tossed the keys across to the driver. Blackie drove carefully and expertly, and at slow speed. Shayne kept his eyes on the back of his head and let his mind wander into the unknown equations that were into beginning to unravel. Blackie would talk soon enough. He was grimly sure of that. As soon as Lucy identified him as her attacker and he realized the spot he was in. His denial of Mrs. Dustin's murder had sounded genuine enough, and he might have been telling the truth. It was plausible to presume that Blackie had contacted his employer after the telephone call and sent him to keep the appointment with Mrs. Dustin which had resulted in her death. In that case, Blackie might well have been honestly surprised to learn that she had been murdered. That was all the more reason why he would talk when he realized how neatly he had been framed for the job. If be were guilty, he might continue to ob stinately deny any knowledge of the telephone call, but it innocent, he would be a tool it he didn't spill everything tie knew. One thing troubled Shayne as they turned down Biscayne Boulevard. He felt positive he held the key to recovery of the bracelet, but if he let the policeman on guard at his apartment hear Blackie's confession, the secret would no longer be his and any possible reward would slip out of his hands like hot butter. He had an angle figured by the time they reached the foot of Flagler Street He said to Blackie: "Swing over to Second Avenue and then toward the river. I'll show you where to pull up just this side of the drawbridge." When the car was parked, Shayne took the keys and said casually, "We're going in through the hotel lobby and up to the third floor. There's a Miami cop in my apartment. Figure things out for yourself. It you'd rather keep this whole thing private, just between you and me, use your head and I'll tell him you're a friend. We'll get rid of the cop and talk it over after he's gone. If you want to make it tough I'll take you in with a gun on you and hand you over to him on two charges: Murder and attempted murder." Blackie turned a swollen and frightened face toward Shayne and said hoarsely, "Honest, I'm not hunting no trouble. I don't know what all this stuff is about murder, but I'd rather do my talking outside bars than behind them." "Fair enough, but don't forget I've gut two guns on me. Let's go." He thrust the revolver inside his trousers waistband and buttoned his coat over it, then led the way around to the front entrance and they entered the lobby. The night clerk was still on duty. He yawned and watched the two men approach with redrimmed eyes. Shayne stopped by the desk and said, "You know my friend don't you. Jim? He was up to see me last night when I was out." The clerk studied Blackie's face intently He said, "I don't believe I do, Mr. Shayne. Is Miss Hamilton going to be all right?" "I' m on my way up there now. Dr. Price thought she was okay when I left a few hours ago." The elevator was waiting, and when they got In, Shayne said to the operator, "Take a good look at this man. Ever see him before?" "Listen ..." Blackie began to protest, but Shayne silenced him with a look. "I don't know as I have or not," the boy said reflectively. "I might could remember better, Mist' Shayne, was you to tell me jest when I saw 'im." Shayne said, "We'll skip that for the moment." They got out of the elevator and started for his apartment. Copyright, 1948, by Brett Holiday: Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Memphis Play— Alice Mae Jackson of Lincon; Junior Boys 50-yard dash, Nathaniel Johnston of Washington. Junior Girls stick-the-peg Rosalie Gaines of Foote Homes; Junior Boys running broad Jump, James, Ivory of Lincoln; Intermediate Girls 50-yard dash, Armour Jean Brown of Boothe; Intermediate Boys 60-yard dash, Franklin Austin of Lincoln. Senior Girls 60-yard dash, Ernestine Semmes of Foote Homes; Junior Girls 40-yard shuttle relay, Foote Homes; Junior Boys 50-yard shuttle relay, Washington Intermediate Girls 50-yard shuttle relay, Boothe; Intermediate Boys 60-yard Shuttle relay, Douglass, Senior Girls hop, step and jump, Loretta Woods of Lincoln. Senior Boys running high jump, Monroe Anderson of Douglass; Senior Girls 60-yard shuttle relay, Foote Homes; Senior Boys 75-yard dash, Eddie Fears of Washington; Senior Boys 75-yard shuttle relay, Douglass and Intermediate Boys base circling, John Moore of Douglass. Floods inundate valuable tea lands in Assam. Auto Collision the latter being awarded In 1928. She also studied at the London School of Economics, London, England. Since 1928. Miss Harris has been affiliated with YWCA work. She was former Industrial secretary at Indianapolis, Ind., and later became associate with the Phyllis Wheatley branch in Atlanta. She spearheaded the drive to help build the recently constructed Phyllis Wheatley YWCA building now located in the Morris Brown college environs. Miss Harris to survived by Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Arnold, uncle and aunt, Mr. Charles Harris, uncle, all m. of Columbus and Mrs. Betty Harris, an aunt of Chicago, III. LOOKING THINGS OVER By HELEN CALDWELL DAY As I was looking over various magazines and newspapers during the last month or so, I have been struck particularly by the brazen attempt of many of editors to perpetrate one of the greatest hoaxes ever wished upon an unsuspecting and weary human kind; that is, the attempt to identify democracy with capitalism, as if the two were the same thing or necessarily related, and not as they are, each fierce enemy of the other. Surely, the Negro, if no one else must be able to see that the more capitalistic a country is, the less democratic it is. In the early days of democracy, before it had felt the real honor of capitalism, the Negro, although a slave, was regarded with more respect and more insight into his dignity and worth as a man, than now, many centuries later, under capitalism. If Jefferson who said, according to G. K. Chesterton, that the sight of slavery in his country made him tremble, remembering God is just. But the modern southerner has followed consciously or unconsciously the "new" philosophy of Capitalism, maintaining that God Himself wills the injustices of inequality, they have lost by that philosophy the realization that only the fear and love of God makes democracy possible by combining freedom with responsibility, and private ownership with the christian charity of brotherhood. Jefferson feared the doctrine of "White Supremacy." The generation of his great grandchildren defends and justifies It unconditionally. He feared slavery and racial injustice because God is Just. Men like Dr. T. Montgomery of Memphis, having lost that tear of God insists-that they will maintain racial hate and injustices attached thereto despite the wishes of "presidents," Supreme 'Courts, some preachers, priests, rabbis, Sunday School teachers, Lay Churchmen, newspaper men, and so forth. His list of men being so comprehensive, I suppose the "and so forth" probably means "God, Himself. This change in the American pattern of thought can not be blamed on the democracy of Jefferson and mo like him, but only on the entrenchment of capitalism Into democrat principles. At its institution and in small communities, still relatively untouched by capitalistic invasion, democracy means the protection of the rights of all; especially the "little men" against oppression and exploitation. Because we let it, however, it is growing to mean more and more the protection of the big, the powerful, the strong and rich, against the little, the weak, the forgotten and the poor. Chesterton goes on to say, speaking in this same vein—what if slavery had somehow managed to exist until now, our pattern of thought being what it is, it is doubtful if the Negroes would ever have been emancipated. Or as he puts it "Why should the world take the chains off the black man when it was just putting them on the white?" It's all well and good to talk of free enterprise but free enterprise as it was conceived in a democracy, did not mean freedom to for trusts or monopolies to keep other enterprising young businessmen out of business. That is why, discounting the legal loopholes, such three are illegal The catch Is the loopholes. That's why we have three or four companies controlling the whole tobacco industry, a few flour mills doing the same thing in the flour Industry. Free enterprise like democracy doesn't necessarilymean capitalism. It also supposes right with responsibility and distinguishes freedom from license. But the attempt of some capitalists and their "hanger-ons" to identify their nefarious doctrine and practice with the democratic and Christian ideal is just the lowest form of cheating. It is an attempt to use our very real and natural fear of Communism to cram something Just about as bad down our throats—that is capitalism. It is like a man who would use another fear of death and disease as an opportunity to poison or train him under the pretense treating or curing him. Let us not be deceived by this pretense nor taken in by the fancy wording of taken scribling. Our alternative to Communism is something infinitely better than Communism. It is Christianity and the democracy founded on Christianity. Japanese Forgive A - Bomb Attack Hiroshima waking up Is Just like any other Japanese city of some 280,000 people stretching and yawning after an uncomfortable summer night scourged by lustful mosquitoes and sticky heat. Trolley cars ramble noisily aolng narrow streets, and beggars take their places at corners and shop fronts to receive alms gleaned from the pocketbooks of pedestrians. The sun, this morning hidden by grey coursing clouds, massed its rays for an assault on the dullness of dawn. As my photographer and I walked from the train station and up the street, we looked anxiously for some sign that Hiroshima, the city blasted by atomic fury some five years before, was different from other citles in Japan. There was none. Life in Hiroshima on this fifth anniversary of man's first atomic bombing, and in the city where man's first atomic bombing took place — was much like life elsewhere in Japan on sultry August mornings. Wizened Japanese sprayed Water on sidewalks and streets to eliminate such of the flying dust, and dirty mongrels sniffe hungrily, at fly-infested fish stands and meat counters. Japanese women shuffled back and forth on getas (a type of orlentl shoe), casting unseeing eyes on the photographer and myself as we carefully skirted playing children and vegetable stands laden with rotting merchandise To the unfamiliar observer, the town itself could be one of hundreds in Japan, except for the startling newness of many of the iity's structures. In the five years followin humanity's initial atomic bombing, when more than 60 persent of Hiroshima was obliterated, the city has acquired a "new look" astounding to the American who visits there expecting to see battered ruins and battle-scarred landscape. And the American expecting hidden glances and open hostility from the Japanese is in for another disappointment. Hiroshima's 1850 populace possesses the same polite docility of fashionably democratic Japanese one finds in Tokyo, Yokohama, or other large Japanese cities.— We had been informed that a peace ceremony, annually observed in Hiroshima on August 6, was to be held at 8:15 a. m., the exact instant of the atomic bombing by Americans in 1945. In order to witness what we believed would be a most interesting and inspiring spectacle, we had flown in from outside Tokyo to a city near Hiroshima, some 350 miles away from Japan's capital, and then rode a rickety Japanese train to the town. The state of feverish excitement and anniversary hub-bub we expected to find we lost in the normal attitude of Hiroshima's Japanese, to whom everyday affairs seemed far more important than the scheduled celebration which we had traveled so far to witness. The actual ceremony itself, nor mally highlighted by the releasing of peace" over the city, was postponed because of the Present Korean war, and Instead, the people of Hiroshima prayed for eternal peace. Police tood guard to prevent possible Communist demonstrations by the Reds In Hiroshima, who might have used the anniversary day for an anti-American rally. At the river near the explosion center, Japanese gathered in the "Peace Park" and participated in solemn Buddhist rituals in memory of the blast victims. Exploring the area about the island which received the full impact of the explosion. I found that contrary to a popular belief of most Americans, vegetation abounds in earth scorched five years ago by atomic energy. And the river itself, filthy with garbage, tiny crabs, and cluttered with Japanese canoes, glides peacefully in the shadow of architectural skeletons reminiscent of Grecian ruins. This one conspicuous remaining relic of the bombing is the denuded shell of the Industrial Exhibition hall, lying in ruins near the edge of the Hankawa river, and left standing as a symbol by the people of Hiroshima. The center of the atomic bomb explosion Is estimated to be 825 feet above the top of this building representing one of the most graphic testimonials to the destructibility of the A-bomb. In announcing its new call for individual enlisted reservists, the Army said the age limits win be 19 through 35, except for, some specialists in the technical and administrative services. Priority will be determined by the number of dependents each had and the need for their military skills. Of the 62,000 enlisted reservists covered by a previously anounced call, 32,000 have already received orders. THERE'S A STARTLING NEWNESS Hiroshima waking up Is Just like any other Japanese city of some 280,000 people stretching and yawning after an uncomfortable summer night scourged by lustful mosquitoes and sticky heat. Trolley cars ramble noisily aolng narrow streets, and beggars take their places at corners and shop fronts to receive alms gleaned from the pocketbooks of pedestrians. The sun, this morning hidden by grey coursing clouds, massed its rays for an assault on the dullness of dawn. As my photographer and I walked from the train station and up the street, we looked anxiously for some sign that Hiroshima, the city blasted by atomic fury some five years before, was different from other citles in Japan. There was none. Life in Hiroshima on this fifth anniversary of man's first atomic bombing, and in the city where man's first atomic bombing took place — was much like life elsewhere in Japan on sultry August mornings. Wizened Japanese sprayed Water on sidewalks and streets to eliminate such of the flying dust, and dirty mongrels sniffe hungrily, at fly-infested fish stands and meat counters. Japanese women shuffled back and forth on getas (a type of orlentl shoe), casting unseeing eyes on the photographer and myself as we carefully skirted playing children and vegetable stands laden with rotting merchandise To the unfamiliar observer, the town itself could be one of hundreds in Japan, except for the startling newness of many of the iity's structures. In the five years followin humanity's initial atomic bombing, when more than 60 persent of Hiroshima was obliterated, the city has acquired a "new look" astounding to the American who visits there expecting to see battered ruins and battle-scarred landscape. And the American expecting hidden glances and open hostility from the Japanese is in for another disappointment. Hiroshima's 1850 populace possesses the same polite docility of fashionably democratic Japanese one finds in Tokyo, Yokohama, or other large Japanese cities.— We had been informed that a peace ceremony, annually observed in Hiroshima on August 6, was to be held at 8:15 a. m., the exact instant of the atomic bombing by Americans in 1945. In order to witness what we believed would be a most interesting and inspiring spectacle, we had flown in from outside Tokyo to a city near Hiroshima, some 350 miles away from Japan's capital, and then rode a rickety Japanese train to the town. The state of feverish excitement and anniversary hub-bub we expected to find we lost in the normal attitude of Hiroshima's Japanese, to whom everyday affairs seemed far more important than the scheduled celebration which we had traveled so far to witness. The actual ceremony itself, nor mally highlighted by the releasing of peace" over the city, was postponed because of the Present Korean war, and Instead, the people of Hiroshima prayed for eternal peace. Police tood guard to prevent possible Communist demonstrations by the Reds In Hiroshima, who might have used the anniversary day for an anti-American rally. At the river near the explosion center, Japanese gathered in the "Peace Park" and participated in solemn Buddhist rituals in memory of the blast victims. Exploring the area about the island which received the full impact of the explosion. I found that contrary to a popular belief of most Americans, vegetation abounds in earth scorched five years ago by atomic energy. And the river itself, filthy with garbage, tiny crabs, and cluttered with Japanese canoes, glides peacefully in the shadow of architectural skeletons reminiscent of Grecian ruins. This one conspicuous remaining relic of the bombing is the denuded shell of the Industrial Exhibition hall, lying in ruins near the edge of the Hankawa river, and left standing as a symbol by the people of Hiroshima. The center of the atomic bomb explosion Is estimated to be 825 feet above the top of this building representing one of the most graphic testimonials to the destructibility of the A-bomb. In announcing its new call for individual enlisted reservists, the Army said the age limits win be 19 through 35, except for, some specialists in the technical and administrative services. Priority will be determined by the number of dependents each had and the need for their military skills. Of the 62,000 enlisted reservists covered by a previously anounced call, 32,000 have already received orders. "DOVE OF PEACE" RELEASED Hiroshima waking up Is Just like any other Japanese city of some 280,000 people stretching and yawning after an uncomfortable summer night scourged by lustful mosquitoes and sticky heat. Trolley cars ramble noisily aolng narrow streets, and beggars take their places at corners and shop fronts to receive alms gleaned from the pocketbooks of pedestrians. The sun, this morning hidden by grey coursing clouds, massed its rays for an assault on the dullness of dawn. As my photographer and I walked from the train station and up the street, we looked anxiously for some sign that Hiroshima, the city blasted by atomic fury some five years before, was different from other citles in Japan. There was none. Life in Hiroshima on this fifth anniversary of man's first atomic bombing, and in the city where man's first atomic bombing took place — was much like life elsewhere in Japan on sultry August mornings. Wizened Japanese sprayed Water on sidewalks and streets to eliminate such of the flying dust, and dirty mongrels sniffe hungrily, at fly-infested fish stands and meat counters. Japanese women shuffled back and forth on getas (a type of orlentl shoe), casting unseeing eyes on the photographer and myself as we carefully skirted playing children and vegetable stands laden with rotting merchandise To the unfamiliar observer, the town itself could be one of hundreds in Japan, except for the startling newness of many of the iity's structures. In the five years followin humanity's initial atomic bombing, when more than 60 persent of Hiroshima was obliterated, the city has acquired a "new look" astounding to the American who visits there expecting to see battered ruins and battle-scarred landscape. And the American expecting hidden glances and open hostility from the Japanese is in for another disappointment. Hiroshima's 1850 populace possesses the same polite docility of fashionably democratic Japanese one finds in Tokyo, Yokohama, or other large Japanese cities.— We had been informed that a peace ceremony, annually observed in Hiroshima on August 6, was to be held at 8:15 a. m., the exact instant of the atomic bombing by Americans in 1945. In order to witness what we believed would be a most interesting and inspiring spectacle, we had flown in from outside Tokyo to a city near Hiroshima, some 350 miles away from Japan's capital, and then rode a rickety Japanese train to the town. The state of feverish excitement and anniversary hub-bub we expected to find we lost in the normal attitude of Hiroshima's Japanese, to whom everyday affairs seemed far more important than the scheduled celebration which we had traveled so far to witness. The actual ceremony itself, nor mally highlighted by the releasing of peace" over the city, was postponed because of the Present Korean war, and Instead, the people of Hiroshima prayed for eternal peace. Police tood guard to prevent possible Communist demonstrations by the Reds In Hiroshima, who might have used the anniversary day for an anti-American rally. At the river near the explosion center, Japanese gathered in the "Peace Park" and participated in solemn Buddhist rituals in memory of the blast victims. Exploring the area about the island which received the full impact of the explosion. I found that contrary to a popular belief of most Americans, vegetation abounds in earth scorched five years ago by atomic energy. And the river itself, filthy with garbage, tiny crabs, and cluttered with Japanese canoes, glides peacefully in the shadow of architectural skeletons reminiscent of Grecian ruins. This one conspicuous remaining relic of the bombing is the denuded shell of the Industrial Exhibition hall, lying in ruins near the edge of the Hankawa river, and left standing as a symbol by the people of Hiroshima. The center of the atomic bomb explosion Is estimated to be 825 feet above the top of this building representing one of the most graphic testimonials to the destructibility of the A-bomb. In announcing its new call for individual enlisted reservists, the Army said the age limits win be 19 through 35, except for, some specialists in the technical and administrative services. Priority will be determined by the number of dependents each had and the need for their military skills. Of the 62,000 enlisted reservists covered by a previously anounced call, 32,000 have already received orders. RESERVISTS Hiroshima waking up Is Just like any other Japanese city of some 280,000 people stretching and yawning after an uncomfortable summer night scourged by lustful mosquitoes and sticky heat. Trolley cars ramble noisily aolng narrow streets, and beggars take their places at corners and shop fronts to receive alms gleaned from the pocketbooks of pedestrians. The sun, this morning hidden by grey coursing clouds, massed its rays for an assault on the dullness of dawn. As my photographer and I walked from the train station and up the street, we looked anxiously for some sign that Hiroshima, the city blasted by atomic fury some five years before, was different from other citles in Japan. There was none. Life in Hiroshima on this fifth anniversary of man's first atomic bombing, and in the city where man's first atomic bombing took place — was much like life elsewhere in Japan on sultry August mornings. Wizened Japanese sprayed Water on sidewalks and streets to eliminate such of the flying dust, and dirty mongrels sniffe hungrily, at fly-infested fish stands and meat counters. Japanese women shuffled back and forth on getas (a type of orlentl shoe), casting unseeing eyes on the photographer and myself as we carefully skirted playing children and vegetable stands laden with rotting merchandise To the unfamiliar observer, the town itself could be one of hundreds in Japan, except for the startling newness of many of the iity's structures. In the five years followin humanity's initial atomic bombing, when more than 60 persent of Hiroshima was obliterated, the city has acquired a "new look" astounding to the American who visits there expecting to see battered ruins and battle-scarred landscape. And the American expecting hidden glances and open hostility from the Japanese is in for another disappointment. Hiroshima's 1850 populace possesses the same polite docility of fashionably democratic Japanese one finds in Tokyo, Yokohama, or other large Japanese cities.— We had been informed that a peace ceremony, annually observed in Hiroshima on August 6, was to be held at 8:15 a. m., the exact instant of the atomic bombing by Americans in 1945. In order to witness what we believed would be a most interesting and inspiring spectacle, we had flown in from outside Tokyo to a city near Hiroshima, some 350 miles away from Japan's capital, and then rode a rickety Japanese train to the town. The state of feverish excitement and anniversary hub-bub we expected to find we lost in the normal attitude of Hiroshima's Japanese, to whom everyday affairs seemed far more important than the scheduled celebration which we had traveled so far to witness. The actual ceremony itself, nor mally highlighted by the releasing of peace" over the city, was postponed because of the Present Korean war, and Instead, the people of Hiroshima prayed for eternal peace. Police tood guard to prevent possible Communist demonstrations by the Reds In Hiroshima, who might have used the anniversary day for an anti-American rally. At the river near the explosion center, Japanese gathered in the "Peace Park" and participated in solemn Buddhist rituals in memory of the blast victims. Exploring the area about the island which received the full impact of the explosion. I found that contrary to a popular belief of most Americans, vegetation abounds in earth scorched five years ago by atomic energy. And the river itself, filthy with garbage, tiny crabs, and cluttered with Japanese canoes, glides peacefully in the shadow of architectural skeletons reminiscent of Grecian ruins. This one conspicuous remaining relic of the bombing is the denuded shell of the Industrial Exhibition hall, lying in ruins near the edge of the Hankawa river, and left standing as a symbol by the people of Hiroshima. The center of the atomic bomb explosion Is estimated to be 825 feet above the top of this building representing one of the most graphic testimonials to the destructibility of the A-bomb. In announcing its new call for individual enlisted reservists, the Army said the age limits win be 19 through 35, except for, some specialists in the technical and administrative services. Priority will be determined by the number of dependents each had and the need for their military skills. Of the 62,000 enlisted reservists covered by a previously anounced call, 32,000 have already received orders. THE ORIGINAL MADAM TODD IS BACK MADAM TODD American Palmist and Medium. Never been in your city before. 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