Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1954-01-22 Mrs. Rosa Brown Bracy MEMPHIS WORLD AMERICAN'S STANDARD RACE JOURNAL 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, 1870 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder: C. A. Scott, General Manager Mrs. Rosa, Brown Bracy Acting Editor Charles W. Hairgrow, Jr. Circulation Manager The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper—non-sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unbiased and supporting those things it believe to the interest to its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 Year $5.00 — 6 Months $3.00 — 3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) The Constitution Of The United States Still Prevails The early framers of the Constitution of the United States must be given credit for their far visioned anticipations. While the world and the people have undergone many changes and with these, customs and even warfare, there are still exigencies in the framework of the Constitution to meet the emergencies that might arise under a stated condition. From time to time, the Constitution has been amended; these Amendments have teen in conformity with the changes taking place under a progressive Republic with a progressive people. It is therefore not a matter of surprise that the great English statesman, William Pitt was so elaborate in his praise for the ably edited document. Within the framework of the Constitution every citizen in the land has access to those provisions for the enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A citizen also is clothed with the appelate right; that is to ask for a statement clarifying or telling exactly what the law says and means. The Constitution provided for three departments of government; Executive, Legislative and Judicial. While these departments are separate, they are important in their massive powers as guardians of all the people. Washington in his farewell address cited that under the political systems of the old world — they would always have some form of complication. In his warning, however, to the young Republic, which went along very much to the tone of the Monroe Doctrine, it has been seen that as time marched on, boundaries expanded and the world shrunk. With the earth on a ninety-hour proximity, it was seen that the oceans surrounding our borders no longer serve as barriers to intruders. The Constitution of the United States was so constructed that even Dred Scott would have been given a favorable decision if there had been a 14th., and 15th. Amendment. From time to time writs have been sued out by citizens when they became agrieved concerning their rights; every time the court has intervened in the cases involving the rights of citizens, its decision was effective. At no time has the court been openly defied with threats of insurrection and open rebellion. Once in the history of this government, certain states leaned so heavily upon states rights that they had to be shown, that while a state is clothed with sovereign authority, that authority does not carry with it the right to secede. This nation does not become even moderately disturbed when threats and counter threats are thrust at any wing of the departments so well founded and set apart by the Constitution of the United States. Citizens should not become unduly alarmed in a country like ours; with its swiftness of justice and the evidence it is showing every day in its activities in putting down un-American activities, surely we can trust the government. And we will. Carey Wins His Spurs At The UN Congress The first ninety days of the UN Congress is now history. This was the eighth session of the general assembly and unless it reconvenes, or, he is again appointed, our Archibald J. Carey, alternate delegate will have completed his assignment as the first such appointee of President Eisenhower to that important position. Dr. Carey, while a pastor in the AME Church at Chicago, is also a member of the Chicago city council. From such a position he "got his boot-training" for the UN Congress. During his tenacy on the UN Congress, Dr. Carey made the most of his ambition to study the fine point in diplomacy and high parliamentary usage. Here he applied himself diligently and became one member of the assembly to be reckoned with. Realizing the weight of his responsibility, he compares the congress with a city council, he states that they both work along the same level. But, he says—"a wrong vote in council will mean the loss of votes at the polls; the wrong vote in the congress might mean war." Dr. Carey is at least a grandson of Georgia; his illustrious father before him was born and reared in Georgia and after becoming a bishop and moving to Chicago, was civil service commissioner for the city of Chicago. In that, Dr. Carey is a worthy son and has made good in both the church and politics on his own accounts. President Eisenhower is to be congratulated upon his excellent selection of Dr. Carey as a member of that important world body. Here's hoping that he is reappointed. The NNPA Mid-Winter Workshop For the first time in the history of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, one of its major activities is being held in Alabama. The NNPA Mid-Winter Workshop is scheduled to be held at Tuskegee Institute, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Tuskegee Institute and the Alabama Newspaper Association are serving as joint hosts to the workshop. Those in the newspaper industry, like other business groups, find it to their advantage to consult with each other; sponsor training programs, exchange ideas, and fellowship. This is done to improve the product the newspaper sells and the services it renders. The workshop is a cooperative undertaking of the newspapers represented in the NNPA. Last year the annual workshop was held at Dillard University, New Orleans, La. and the annual convention took place at Morgan State College, Baltimore, Maryland. Both were delightful, profitable and successful meetings. In coming to Tuskegee Institute for the workshop project the NNPA is scoring a triumph. Few institutions have been more useful to the Negro-produced newspaper than this institution. Many of those who help to produce these newspapers were trained at Tuskegee Institute. NNPA will have a good opportunity to express its appreciation and to lay the groundwork for better coopation and assistance. Tuskegee Institute is to be congratulated for joining with the Alabama Newspaper Association in extending the invitation for the workshop to be held on its campus. This newspaper is deeply appreciative of this. We are also glad to welcome to Alabama the visiting members of the NNPA. Alabama has more Negro-directed newspapers than any of the other states. It is one of the few states where the Negro interest press is organized. This state has something to boast about in recognizing this. The Quest by ELSIE MACK Copyright, 1953 by Elsie Mack Distributed by King Features Syndicate "Trumpet at Noon, a novel on which Kelly Fraser bad long worked was about to be published in New York. But Kelly would not be present to sign the contract for it. Because Kelly Fraser was dead. Now Dale his oya and faithful Young widow would have to sign it for him. Their marriage had been happy and brief. WHEN Kelly came back with his bag, Dale was standing in front of the store by her car, a dark-green convertible, excitingly new. For years Grandmother had been saying that their old sedan should be put out to pasture before it tell apart on the road. And last month a high-pressure cat salesman had talked Grandy into buying a new model. The man's mouth had dropped open and remained open in a round O of awe. When Grandy said offhandedly. "Better make it two, Mister. One for my granddaughter, here. Time she had a car of her own, for that mail route of hers. Yes, make it two." The salesman finally closed his mouth and stopped staring at Grandy's bony elbows sticking out of his cardigan sleeves, and the patched old Jeans. "Cash, Mr. Collier?" he whispered. Grandmother winked with malicious enjoyment at Dale as Grandy said indignantly, "Certainly cash!" Kelly threw his bag in the back "How far?" he asked, climbing in beside Dale. "A mile. We're right on the lake." "A farm?" "Yes— Well, no. Not any longer Grandy retired this year" She slowed at the railroad tracks, crossed after looking both ways, and drove down a straight gravel road with tall cedars on each side. "The real-estate men barked at Grandy's heels for years to get him to subdivide the lakeshore property into lots for summer cottages," Dale said. "Grandy just sat back and barked right back at them. Said as long as he could plough a straight furrow, danged if he was going to have men in fancy shirts and women with bare midriffs overrunning his property!" Laughter rippled up appreciatively through the man at her side. "But Grandy is seventy-six." much comfort to a man who has helped bring as many calves and lambs into the world as Grandy has. A great man with animals, Grandy is." "You live with your grandparents?" Kelly asked. She nodded. "My mother was a nurse and my father a doctor They worked together in a hos pital at Nanking." Dale said. "Farming is no job for a man that old. He has sold most of the land and all the animals, and torn down all the outbuildings." Her eyes were briefly shadowed, as she said, "They both died of cholera when I was five." Her awareness of no sense of loss was an unconscious tribute to Helen and John Collier. "And you've lived here all your life?" Kelly asked. "All my life." Except for those five years, and the year in town taking a secretarial course, but even then she had come home every weekend "I work in the store, on Joshua Wragge's books. And I deliver the rural mail." "You could get a better job in town, with your training, couldn't you?" She shrugged. "I suppose I could I wanted to. But I like it here." She added, with real honesty, "I've never wanted to live anywhere else." She heard his indrawn breath at the unexpectedness of blue water through the stand of slender young birches, as she turned sharply right at the shore. "Here is the house," she said. While and square, it blazed in the sunlight, and all its windows shone. Wet weather joints or not. Grandmother polished her windowpanes, she also saw to it that the house was painted regularly. "Two things I can't abide. She often said dirty windows and peeling paint." Seeing the house now, through Kelly's eyes. Dale felt a surge of pride in it. A hundred yards from the shore on her left was a tidy box of a clipboard cottage. Dale pointed it out to Kelly through a cleft in the cedar windbreak. "The hired man used to live there," she said. "It's empty, now." The cottage, although Dale did not know it then was to be her heaven her haven her maelstrom but on that gold bright May afternoon she murmured. "It's empty now," and forgot it as she led Kelly into the big white house that was net home. Grandmother's capitulation to the new boarders charm was evident at dinner that evening in the hand-crocheted ace tablecloth — usually brought out only on anniversaries and at Christmastimeand the than old Georgian silver and the Majolica fruit-bowl centerpiece. But Grandy in his Chippendale elbow chair with its upholstered back and chair pads that in his usual place under the Falcon Hunter engraving ate heartily and reserved judgment. "Dale tells me that your hired man's cottage is empty, Mr. Collier," Kelly said, when Granmother was carrying in the dessert. "I'd like to rent it." "What fro?" asked Grandy bluntly. "To live in," Kelly said easily. "I'm writing a book. A place like that would shut me fine." "Aha!" said Grandy. "A book, hey?" He said it as if he had just discovered the presence of a communicable disease at his dinner table—which astonished Dale, who knew Grandy as an inveterate lover of books. "The cottage is not for rent," he snapped. "At my age, I'm not going to start landlording. For sale, it is." Kelly looked unperturbed. "I'll buy it, then." Grandy looked as if the were going to give this Kelly Fraser his comeuppance, and then he said mildly. "You always this impulsive, young man? Could be a pig in a poke." Kelly cocked an impudent brow at the old man. "Is it?" Grandy grunted. "Price is steep." "You name it, Mr. Collier." Two pairs of eyes met and held unwaveringly. Whatever Grandy saw in the younger man's must have satisfied him, for he finally nodded slowly. So Kelly bought the cottage, moved in, and set up his typewriter. "I had no idea writers worked so hard." Dale marveled one July evening. She was sitting on the dock with Kelly, watching the gulls swoop blackly through the sunset air and skim the shrimpcolored water. "Grandy" she added, "is impressed." Kelly laughed. "I had an idea, when he balked over selling me the cottage, that he lumped authors with congenital loafers!" She nodded, laughing agreement with him before she sobered. "But you do work hard. And it's perfectly obvious that you don't have to." "No, it's not for the money, Dale, he said thoughtfully. "My father left me a lot of money when he died. Maybe I don't want to use that, and this," he drummed his Knuckles on his wooden leg, "as an excuse for idleness." "Polished idleness." She nodded. "I've got something worth saying. Dale. That makes the sweat of writing—and its discouragements and despair—worth while. Besides, he grinned, "there's the odd moment of elation. And there's always hope. I like every doggone part of it." She sd her hand into his. "I know." SYNOPSIS by ELSIE MACK Copyright, 1953 by Elsie Mack Distributed by King Features Syndicate "Trumpet at Noon, a novel on which Kelly Fraser bad long worked was about to be published in New York. But Kelly would not be present to sign the contract for it. Because Kelly Fraser was dead. Now Dale his oya and faithful Young widow would have to sign it for him. Their marriage had been happy and brief. WHEN Kelly came back with his bag, Dale was standing in front of the store by her car, a dark-green convertible, excitingly new. For years Grandmother had been saying that their old sedan should be put out to pasture before it tell apart on the road. And last month a high-pressure cat salesman had talked Grandy into buying a new model. The man's mouth had dropped open and remained open in a round O of awe. When Grandy said offhandedly. "Better make it two, Mister. One for my granddaughter, here. Time she had a car of her own, for that mail route of hers. Yes, make it two." The salesman finally closed his mouth and stopped staring at Grandy's bony elbows sticking out of his cardigan sleeves, and the patched old Jeans. "Cash, Mr. Collier?" he whispered. Grandmother winked with malicious enjoyment at Dale as Grandy said indignantly, "Certainly cash!" Kelly threw his bag in the back "How far?" he asked, climbing in beside Dale. "A mile. We're right on the lake." "A farm?" "Yes— Well, no. Not any longer Grandy retired this year" She slowed at the railroad tracks, crossed after looking both ways, and drove down a straight gravel road with tall cedars on each side. "The real-estate men barked at Grandy's heels for years to get him to subdivide the lakeshore property into lots for summer cottages," Dale said. "Grandy just sat back and barked right back at them. Said as long as he could plough a straight furrow, danged if he was going to have men in fancy shirts and women with bare midriffs overrunning his property!" Laughter rippled up appreciatively through the man at her side. "But Grandy is seventy-six." much comfort to a man who has helped bring as many calves and lambs into the world as Grandy has. A great man with animals, Grandy is." "You live with your grandparents?" Kelly asked. She nodded. "My mother was a nurse and my father a doctor They worked together in a hos pital at Nanking." Dale said. "Farming is no job for a man that old. He has sold most of the land and all the animals, and torn down all the outbuildings." Her eyes were briefly shadowed, as she said, "They both died of cholera when I was five." Her awareness of no sense of loss was an unconscious tribute to Helen and John Collier. "And you've lived here all your life?" Kelly asked. "All my life." Except for those five years, and the year in town taking a secretarial course, but even then she had come home every weekend "I work in the store, on Joshua Wragge's books. And I deliver the rural mail." "You could get a better job in town, with your training, couldn't you?" She shrugged. "I suppose I could I wanted to. But I like it here." She added, with real honesty, "I've never wanted to live anywhere else." She heard his indrawn breath at the unexpectedness of blue water through the stand of slender young birches, as she turned sharply right at the shore. "Here is the house," she said. While and square, it blazed in the sunlight, and all its windows shone. Wet weather joints or not. Grandmother polished her windowpanes, she also saw to it that the house was painted regularly. "Two things I can't abide. She often said dirty windows and peeling paint." Seeing the house now, through Kelly's eyes. Dale felt a surge of pride in it. A hundred yards from the shore on her left was a tidy box of a clipboard cottage. Dale pointed it out to Kelly through a cleft in the cedar windbreak. "The hired man used to live there," she said. "It's empty, now." The cottage, although Dale did not know it then was to be her heaven her haven her maelstrom but on that gold bright May afternoon she murmured. "It's empty now," and forgot it as she led Kelly into the big white house that was net home. Grandmother's capitulation to the new boarders charm was evident at dinner that evening in the hand-crocheted ace tablecloth — usually brought out only on anniversaries and at Christmastimeand the than old Georgian silver and the Majolica fruit-bowl centerpiece. But Grandy in his Chippendale elbow chair with its upholstered back and chair pads that in his usual place under the Falcon Hunter engraving ate heartily and reserved judgment. "Dale tells me that your hired man's cottage is empty, Mr. Collier," Kelly said, when Granmother was carrying in the dessert. "I'd like to rent it." "What fro?" asked Grandy bluntly. "To live in," Kelly said easily. "I'm writing a book. A place like that would shut me fine." "Aha!" said Grandy. "A book, hey?" He said it as if he had just discovered the presence of a communicable disease at his dinner table—which astonished Dale, who knew Grandy as an inveterate lover of books. "The cottage is not for rent," he snapped. "At my age, I'm not going to start landlording. For sale, it is." Kelly looked unperturbed. "I'll buy it, then." Grandy looked as if the were going to give this Kelly Fraser his comeuppance, and then he said mildly. "You always this impulsive, young man? Could be a pig in a poke." Kelly cocked an impudent brow at the old man. "Is it?" Grandy grunted. "Price is steep." "You name it, Mr. Collier." Two pairs of eyes met and held unwaveringly. Whatever Grandy saw in the younger man's must have satisfied him, for he finally nodded slowly. So Kelly bought the cottage, moved in, and set up his typewriter. "I had no idea writers worked so hard." Dale marveled one July evening. She was sitting on the dock with Kelly, watching the gulls swoop blackly through the sunset air and skim the shrimpcolored water. "Grandy" she added, "is impressed." Kelly laughed. "I had an idea, when he balked over selling me the cottage, that he lumped authors with congenital loafers!" She nodded, laughing agreement with him before she sobered. "But you do work hard. And it's perfectly obvious that you don't have to." "No, it's not for the money, Dale, he said thoughtfully. "My father left me a lot of money when he died. Maybe I don't want to use that, and this," he drummed his Knuckles on his wooden leg, "as an excuse for idleness." "Polished idleness." She nodded. "I've got something worth saying. Dale. That makes the sweat of writing—and its discouragements and despair—worth while. Besides, he grinned, "there's the odd moment of elation. And there's always hope. I like every doggone part of it." She sd her hand into his. "I know." CHAPTER THREE by ELSIE MACK Copyright, 1953 by Elsie Mack Distributed by King Features Syndicate "Trumpet at Noon, a novel on which Kelly Fraser bad long worked was about to be published in New York. But Kelly would not be present to sign the contract for it. Because Kelly Fraser was dead. Now Dale his oya and faithful Young widow would have to sign it for him. Their marriage had been happy and brief. WHEN Kelly came back with his bag, Dale was standing in front of the store by her car, a dark-green convertible, excitingly new. For years Grandmother had been saying that their old sedan should be put out to pasture before it tell apart on the road. And last month a high-pressure cat salesman had talked Grandy into buying a new model. The man's mouth had dropped open and remained open in a round O of awe. When Grandy said offhandedly. "Better make it two, Mister. One for my granddaughter, here. Time she had a car of her own, for that mail route of hers. Yes, make it two." The salesman finally closed his mouth and stopped staring at Grandy's bony elbows sticking out of his cardigan sleeves, and the patched old Jeans. "Cash, Mr. Collier?" he whispered. Grandmother winked with malicious enjoyment at Dale as Grandy said indignantly, "Certainly cash!" Kelly threw his bag in the back "How far?" he asked, climbing in beside Dale. "A mile. We're right on the lake." "A farm?" "Yes— Well, no. Not any longer Grandy retired this year" She slowed at the railroad tracks, crossed after looking both ways, and drove down a straight gravel road with tall cedars on each side. "The real-estate men barked at Grandy's heels for years to get him to subdivide the lakeshore property into lots for summer cottages," Dale said. "Grandy just sat back and barked right back at them. Said as long as he could plough a straight furrow, danged if he was going to have men in fancy shirts and women with bare midriffs overrunning his property!" Laughter rippled up appreciatively through the man at her side. "But Grandy is seventy-six." much comfort to a man who has helped bring as many calves and lambs into the world as Grandy has. A great man with animals, Grandy is." "You live with your grandparents?" Kelly asked. She nodded. "My mother was a nurse and my father a doctor They worked together in a hos pital at Nanking." Dale said. "Farming is no job for a man that old. He has sold most of the land and all the animals, and torn down all the outbuildings." Her eyes were briefly shadowed, as she said, "They both died of cholera when I was five." Her awareness of no sense of loss was an unconscious tribute to Helen and John Collier. "And you've lived here all your life?" Kelly asked. "All my life." Except for those five years, and the year in town taking a secretarial course, but even then she had come home every weekend "I work in the store, on Joshua Wragge's books. And I deliver the rural mail." "You could get a better job in town, with your training, couldn't you?" She shrugged. "I suppose I could I wanted to. But I like it here." She added, with real honesty, "I've never wanted to live anywhere else." She heard his indrawn breath at the unexpectedness of blue water through the stand of slender young birches, as she turned sharply right at the shore. "Here is the house," she said. While and square, it blazed in the sunlight, and all its windows shone. Wet weather joints or not. Grandmother polished her windowpanes, she also saw to it that the house was painted regularly. "Two things I can't abide. She often said dirty windows and peeling paint." Seeing the house now, through Kelly's eyes. Dale felt a surge of pride in it. A hundred yards from the shore on her left was a tidy box of a clipboard cottage. Dale pointed it out to Kelly through a cleft in the cedar windbreak. "The hired man used to live there," she said. "It's empty, now." The cottage, although Dale did not know it then was to be her heaven her haven her maelstrom but on that gold bright May afternoon she murmured. "It's empty now," and forgot it as she led Kelly into the big white house that was net home. Grandmother's capitulation to the new boarders charm was evident at dinner that evening in the hand-crocheted ace tablecloth — usually brought out only on anniversaries and at Christmastimeand the than old Georgian silver and the Majolica fruit-bowl centerpiece. But Grandy in his Chippendale elbow chair with its upholstered back and chair pads that in his usual place under the Falcon Hunter engraving ate heartily and reserved judgment. "Dale tells me that your hired man's cottage is empty, Mr. Collier," Kelly said, when Granmother was carrying in the dessert. "I'd like to rent it." "What fro?" asked Grandy bluntly. "To live in," Kelly said easily. "I'm writing a book. A place like that would shut me fine." "Aha!" said Grandy. "A book, hey?" He said it as if he had just discovered the presence of a communicable disease at his dinner table—which astonished Dale, who knew Grandy as an inveterate lover of books. "The cottage is not for rent," he snapped. "At my age, I'm not going to start landlording. For sale, it is." Kelly looked unperturbed. "I'll buy it, then." Grandy looked as if the were going to give this Kelly Fraser his comeuppance, and then he said mildly. "You always this impulsive, young man? Could be a pig in a poke." Kelly cocked an impudent brow at the old man. "Is it?" Grandy grunted. "Price is steep." "You name it, Mr. Collier." Two pairs of eyes met and held unwaveringly. Whatever Grandy saw in the younger man's must have satisfied him, for he finally nodded slowly. So Kelly bought the cottage, moved in, and set up his typewriter. "I had no idea writers worked so hard." Dale marveled one July evening. She was sitting on the dock with Kelly, watching the gulls swoop blackly through the sunset air and skim the shrimpcolored water. "Grandy" she added, "is impressed." Kelly laughed. "I had an idea, when he balked over selling me the cottage, that he lumped authors with congenital loafers!" She nodded, laughing agreement with him before she sobered. "But you do work hard. And it's perfectly obvious that you don't have to." "No, it's not for the money, Dale, he said thoughtfully. "My father left me a lot of money when he died. Maybe I don't want to use that, and this," he drummed his Knuckles on his wooden leg, "as an excuse for idleness." "Polished idleness." She nodded. "I've got something worth saying. Dale. That makes the sweat of writing—and its discouragements and despair—worth while. Besides, he grinned, "there's the odd moment of elation. And there's always hope. I like every doggone part of it." She sd her hand into his. "I know." NAACP Asks Justice Dept. To Aid 50 Arrested GI's The Department of Justice has been asked to act on behalf of the 50 soldiers arrested in Columbia, S. C., on Thanksgiving day last year, in an interracial incident. The Assistant Secretary of the Army, Hugh M. Milton II, assured the Washington Bureau of the NAACP that none of the men involved should be disciplined by the army. The soldiers were arrested and fined in Columbia because one sat beside a white woman on a bus bound from Columbia to Fort Jackson where the men are stationed. White soldiers on the bus were released but all of the colored soldiers were jailed. One of the men, 1st Lt. Austell O. Sherard, was arrested after he sought to aid in preventing an argument which as caused by a white bus driver trying to force the soldier who was sitting beside the white passenger to give up his seat. At the police station one of the arresting policeman said: "We have a smart nigger officer here. Let's book him for disorderly conduct and for interference with a police officer." Clarence Mitchell, director of the NAACP Washington Bureau, said he had specifically requested that none of the men be disciplined because, in the past, local commanders have reprimanded and even court-martialed soldiers who were the innocent victims of local jim crow practices and prejudiced policemen. Solon Begins Probe Of Missing American POW's Sen. Charles E. Potter (R) Mich., said yesterday he has begun investigating reports that some American war prisoners are still being held in camps in Russia or Red China. He told newsmen he is conducting inquiry as a one-man "task force" assigned by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee to look into Communist atrocities against Americans captured in Korea. Potter reported he is making a preliminary check of reports that Japanese troops returned recently from prison camps in Russia claimed to have seen Americans there. The senator said he is asking the Pentagon whether military intelligence has learned anything significant from the repatriated Japanese. On the basis of the Defense De partment's answer, he said, he will decide whether to' send a subcommittee investigator to Japan to interview the returnees. Potter said he had "discussed the matter informally with representatives of the Japanese Embassy" in Washington and would clear any decision with them as well as the Pentagon and State Department. The lawmaker said he is curious as to whether the Americans reported to have been seen were military personnel and, if so, whether they were from the Korean War or World War II. Subcommitee Chairman Joseph R. McCarthy (R) Wis., has reported hearing of claims that the returnees saw U. S. World War I veterans in the Soviet camps but Potter said he had "no knowledge of that." McCarthy mentioned to newsmen several days ago that he had been told of published reports that American prisoners of the World War I era had been seen by the Japanese. The Wisconsin senator did not elaborate on his statement. Potter, indicated he thought McCarthy might have meant to say World War II prisoners. SAW AMERICANS Sen. Charles E. Potter (R) Mich., said yesterday he has begun investigating reports that some American war prisoners are still being held in camps in Russia or Red China. He told newsmen he is conducting inquiry as a one-man "task force" assigned by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee to look into Communist atrocities against Americans captured in Korea. Potter reported he is making a preliminary check of reports that Japanese troops returned recently from prison camps in Russia claimed to have seen Americans there. The senator said he is asking the Pentagon whether military intelligence has learned anything significant from the repatriated Japanese. On the basis of the Defense De partment's answer, he said, he will decide whether to' send a subcommittee investigator to Japan to interview the returnees. Potter said he had "discussed the matter informally with representatives of the Japanese Embassy" in Washington and would clear any decision with them as well as the Pentagon and State Department. The lawmaker said he is curious as to whether the Americans reported to have been seen were military personnel and, if so, whether they were from the Korean War or World War II. Subcommitee Chairman Joseph R. McCarthy (R) Wis., has reported hearing of claims that the returnees saw U. S. World War I veterans in the Soviet camps but Potter said he had "no knowledge of that." McCarthy mentioned to newsmen several days ago that he had been told of published reports that American prisoners of the World War I era had been seen by the Japanese. The Wisconsin senator did not elaborate on his statement. Potter, indicated he thought McCarthy might have meant to say World War II prisoners. KOREAN OR WORLD WAR II Sen. Charles E. Potter (R) Mich., said yesterday he has begun investigating reports that some American war prisoners are still being held in camps in Russia or Red China. He told newsmen he is conducting inquiry as a one-man "task force" assigned by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee to look into Communist atrocities against Americans captured in Korea. Potter reported he is making a preliminary check of reports that Japanese troops returned recently from prison camps in Russia claimed to have seen Americans there. The senator said he is asking the Pentagon whether military intelligence has learned anything significant from the repatriated Japanese. On the basis of the Defense De partment's answer, he said, he will decide whether to' send a subcommittee investigator to Japan to interview the returnees. Potter said he had "discussed the matter informally with representatives of the Japanese Embassy" in Washington and would clear any decision with them as well as the Pentagon and State Department. The lawmaker said he is curious as to whether the Americans reported to have been seen were military personnel and, if so, whether they were from the Korean War or World War II. Subcommitee Chairman Joseph R. McCarthy (R) Wis., has reported hearing of claims that the returnees saw U. S. World War I veterans in the Soviet camps but Potter said he had "no knowledge of that." McCarthy mentioned to newsmen several days ago that he had been told of published reports that American prisoners of the World War I era had been seen by the Japanese. The Wisconsin senator did not elaborate on his statement. Potter, indicated he thought McCarthy might have meant to say World War II prisoners. WISHING WELL Registered U. S. Patent Office. HERE is a pleasant little game that will give you a message every day. It tea numerical puzzle designed to spell out 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. Key Witness Arrested By Sheriff Hill Sheriff Jenkins A. Hill, whose slaying of a former witness against him touched off widespread probes a month ago. Wednesday arrested another man who testified against him in a liquor conspiracy trial. Hill, whose second trial on the U. S. charges is set for February 8, announced at Grove Hill Wednesday morning that he arrested Carlos (Slats) Blackwell on bootlegging charges. The 35-year-old Blackwell was a key witness in the first trial of the lawman and last fall spent almost a full day relating that he had handled moonshine for a "ring" which paid Hill two dollars per gallon for protection. Blackwell is expected to testify for the government at the new trial. Sheriff Hill said officers from Wilcox and Monroe counties and his own Clarke County deputies were with him when he made Wednesday's arrest. The lawman said bond was expected to be posted shortly for Blackwell, who is charged with operating a still on a houseboat in the Tombigbee river. The sheriff shot and killed Moses Jones, Bessemer, Ala., Negro who also had testified for the government, last December 28. Hill said Jones tried to grab his gun as he was placing the Negro in jail after returning him from Bessemer to Grove Hill on a fugitive warrant. PRISONER IN COBB COUNTY CHANGES MIND A man who refused to leave the Cobb County prison camp changed his mind Wednesday. Prison authorities reported that James Phillips, who was serving a 7-10 year sentence for manslaughter has not left the prison. Last week, Pardon and Parole Board officers quoted Phillips as saying he would not leave prison when he was told he had been paroled. Phillips has a wife and 10 children. Farmers Doubt Ratification Of 14th Amendment A half dozen Russell County farmers are allegedly promoting an idea which they hope will destroy the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. E. W. Calhoun announced here January 15 that he believes this amendment was never legally ratified by many Southern states who were under Carpetbagger and scalawagger rules when it came up for consideration. His movement is obviously inspired as a scheme to meet the school segregation challenge which is based upon this Civil Rights Amendment. Calhoun, a 46-year-old truck farmer of nearby Fort Mitchell, said that a mass meeting was set for Monday night, January 18 to draft a petition to the Alabama Legislature. He doubts that the 14th Amendment received approval of three-fourth of the states necessary 1868. He added that Gov. Gordon Persons had been sent a letter urging him to take executive and legislative action to initiate the movement in the South to kill the 14th Amendment. His plan is to have the pro-segregation states withdraw their ratification and offer a substitute formula providing for state option in segregation issues. Adams Also Says a breakdown on how many federal employes have been dropped for subversion and how many for other reasons. Adams predicted confidently that the Bricker Amendment which would limit the President's treatymaking powers will be passed by Congress in a form palatable to Mr. Eisenhower. He expressed the belief the lawmakers will approve a version of the amendment stating that no treaty will be valid which conflicts with the Federal Constitution. The optimistic statement indicated the Administration believes it has mustered enough support to beat down the objectionable provisions which Mr. Eisenhower contends would, in effect, give the 48 state legislatures veto power over some treaties. Adams cited as the Administration's chief accomplishment during its first year, aside from ending the Korean war, its success in halting inflation, carrying out a tax reduction program and achieving sizable cuts in spending. He said probably the biggest problems facing the Administration on the domestic front in 1954 are keeping the nation's economy on an even keel and continuing to make progress in balancing the budget and reducing taxes. Charles Browning that this accident occurred. He had flown to Little Rock in a chartered plane, from which he alighted to get the Chicago Delta, Plane to Chicago, Ill. The propellor of the special plane from which he had alighted hit Mr. Browning in the head twice cutting deep into his brain and knocking out one eye. He was carried to the Arkansas Baptist Hospital unconscious. Mr. Browning was operated on by Dr. Watson, a brain specialist and was under surgery for 6 hours. At the time of his passing, his mother was at his bedside also his brother, William S. Browning of Chicago. John Sengstack, Editor and publisher from Chicago Defender upon hearing the news, flew in Sunday night and remained with him until death claimed him. L. A. Wilson General Manager and L. O. Swingler, publisher of the Tri-State Defender both had vigilantly watched at his bedside. Traveling with Mr. Browning was Mrs. Primrose Funches, who is general missionary of the Baptist Church. She was going to Little Rock for a speaking engagement. In his serious condition he remained from Saturday night, January 16 until the time of his death Wednesday morning 10:30 a. m. January 20. Wife Of Ousted King Appeals To UN For Help Although there has been no official confirmation here at the United Nations, Nabageroka, the wife of Mutesa II, deposed king of Buganda, has appealed to the UN for assistance in the ticklish question of a possible federation of Uganda and Kenya. The information first appeared in an African newspaper in Buganda, Uganda Empya (New Uganda). The following is the text of the telegram sent to Queen Elizabeth on board of the Gothic: "I, Nabageroka, and subscribing signatories, loyally and humbly implore your Majesty's intervention in the matter of banishment of my husband, the Kabaka of Buganda. Our country is grief-stricken and it is our profound conviction that the continued exile of the Kabaka will not only imperil your Majesty's interest in the Protectorate as a whole but bring further misery on the Buganda people." The loyal wife of the deposed young monarch also forwarded similar messages to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India Mrs. Pandit, president of the UN General Assembly, as well as to Dr. Kwamo Nkrumah. Prime Minister of the Gold Coast. The telegrams were signed "on behalf of the women of Buganda." The current political difficulties in Uganda, whose minerals include now the precious uranium, the raw material of atomic energy, recall that Africans are on the directorate of the Uganda Development Corporation and that African local government holds actual shares in the Corporation's subsidiary projects and in the large agricultural developments of Busoga and Bunyoro. There are also divergent views on the political future for Uganda. Some Africans reportedly favor more "home rule" for each tribe now considered a political entity. More progressive Africans like the young Cambridge-trained Mutosa II, favor separation and self-govrnment for the people of Buganda. Also, the growing political organization, the Uganda National Congress, aims specifically at selfgovernment and the unity of all Uganda. Political observers indicate that it would be foolish to consider the Congress as being primarily a Buganda organization for its influence has already spread beyond the confines of Buganda. Members of the colonial government have attempted to place the blame for growing alertness among other people in Uganda on the work of the "agents" of the Congress. But all readily admit that it will be the Congress which, if possible, can create a national Uganda spirit based on common objectives. The curious twist in Uganda affairs is that European businessmen are beginning to feel that African political progress for the East African country is being "rushed." MEALTIME MELODIES! January is a good time to take a new look at our breakfast habits Nutritionists have convinced some of us of the value of starting the day with a nourishing meal. They have experimented and proved that more work is accomplished, students learn better, and there are fewer accidents in factories when one starts off the day with a good breakfast. You and I know that this is true but it's almost like running into a stone wall when we try to sell the idea to those family members who say they just aren't hungry in the morning and won't be convinced. Like all stone walls that must be cracked you've got to start at some time and a good time to start serving breakfast to those who are not in the habit of eating it is Saturdays and Sundays. In most homes these are the mornings when dad and the kiddies don't have to dash off to school and work so you can "splurge" a bit in preparing an array of tempting breakfast food. For example, on Saturday morning those non-breakfast eaters could hardly resist the aroma of pork sausage frying and the sight of buck wheat cakes stacked high on a platter. Have plenty of butter and maple sirup on hand to be eaten with the cakes. This meal could begin with a frosty glass of tomato juice. And, of course, for the children top off the meal with milk. Smaller children may like to initiate dad's cup of coffee by drinking their milk hot from a cup. Speaking of milk, you know, the growth-ups need it, too. So if he adults at your house insist upon coffee for breakfast why not compromise and serve cafe a lait—that's half coffee and half milk. Comes Sunday—watch those nonbreakfast eaters yield to temptation when you serve a breakfast lined up with perky baked egg cups. A good starter for this breakfast main dish is stewed prunes or apricots. The two breakfast suggestions just given could hardly be prepared on morning when you have to get the man off to work and the small fry off to school, but special dishes on weekends can create and interest in breakfast and get a g habit started. The week-day breakfast can be made interesting, though with a variety of fruits. These may be fresh, canned, frozen or dried fruit. For example, the youngster will enjoy a bowl of oatmeal with raisins or prunes. Serve this with cream, accompanied with a glass of milk a piece of buttered toast and he is off to a good start. Here is the recipe for the Baked Egg Cups. It's recipes like this that perk-up a breakfast and make it something special. BAKED EGG CUPS January is a good time to take a new look at our breakfast habits Nutritionists have convinced some of us of the value of starting the day with a nourishing meal. They have experimented and proved that more work is accomplished, students learn better, and there are fewer accidents in factories when one starts off the day with a good breakfast. You and I know that this is true but it's almost like running into a stone wall when we try to sell the idea to those family members who say they just aren't hungry in the morning and won't be convinced. Like all stone walls that must be cracked you've got to start at some time and a good time to start serving breakfast to those who are not in the habit of eating it is Saturdays and Sundays. In most homes these are the mornings when dad and the kiddies don't have to dash off to school and work so you can "splurge" a bit in preparing an array of tempting breakfast food. For example, on Saturday morning those non-breakfast eaters could hardly resist the aroma of pork sausage frying and the sight of buck wheat cakes stacked high on a platter. Have plenty of butter and maple sirup on hand to be eaten with the cakes. This meal could begin with a frosty glass of tomato juice. And, of course, for the children top off the meal with milk. Smaller children may like to initiate dad's cup of coffee by drinking their milk hot from a cup. Speaking of milk, you know, the growth-ups need it, too. So if he adults at your house insist upon coffee for breakfast why not compromise and serve cafe a lait—that's half coffee and half milk. Comes Sunday—watch those nonbreakfast eaters yield to temptation when you serve a breakfast lined up with perky baked egg cups. A good starter for this breakfast main dish is stewed prunes or apricots. The two breakfast suggestions just given could hardly be prepared on morning when you have to get the man off to work and the small fry off to school, but special dishes on weekends can create and interest in breakfast and get a g habit started. The week-day breakfast can be made interesting, though with a variety of fruits. These may be fresh, canned, frozen or dried fruit. For example, the youngster will enjoy a bowl of oatmeal with raisins or prunes. Serve this with cream, accompanied with a glass of milk a piece of buttered toast and he is off to a good start. Here is the recipe for the Baked Egg Cups. It's recipes like this that perk-up a breakfast and make it something special. Says Fourth Of Tax Money Paid To State Employes About one-fourth of the tax money paid to the State by Georgia citizens is used for salaries of state employes. However, only a little more than one-sixth of the total money spent by the State goes to pay state employees. These figures are based on the annual summary of audits released this week by State Auditor B. E. Thrasher, Jr. The audit showed that while less money came in, more was spent during the past fiscal year. State spending increased from $306,490, 656.29 in 1952 to $322,663,350.57 in 1953. Yet, income from all sources in 1952 was $318,071,282.97. It dropped to $313,128,436.99 during 1953, with surplus funds being used for the additional spending. Money paid out to the 16,612 persons employed by the State during 1953 amounted to $59,665,998.37. The 15,641 persons employed by the state in 1952 received $52,468,652.02, or more than seven million dollars less. The state dipped into its twenty million dollar surplus to the extent of nearly ten million dollars during 1953. The argument over state finan has centered around these employees. Gov: Herman Talmadge maintains that the only way to get more services is to raise taxes, which neither he nor anyone else is suggesting. But his foes claim that merely by ridding the payroll of "useless employees," money can be saved to meet declining income. And some of these administrative foes claim that if these economies were instituted, there would even be money left over to give greater services. The issue of economy in government in Georgia has been submerged in talk that the U. S. Supreme Court might abolish segregation, but anti-administration leaders still promise that it will be an issue. The old adage among politicians that the average citizen wants more services and less taxes still holds true. And the politicoes are constantly promising more services and les taxes through economy in government. The figures listed here do not, of course, include school teachers' salaries. They refer strictly to those persons classified as state employees. The audit shows how much money of the total receipts was spent on the average Georgian for various purposes. Record capacity is built up by the steel industry. Almost 6,000,000 are now drawing Social Security benefits. SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS About one-fourth of the tax money paid to the State by Georgia citizens is used for salaries of state employes. However, only a little more than one-sixth of the total money spent by the State goes to pay state employees. These figures are based on the annual summary of audits released this week by State Auditor B. E. Thrasher, Jr. The audit showed that while less money came in, more was spent during the past fiscal year. State spending increased from $306,490, 656.29 in 1952 to $322,663,350.57 in 1953. Yet, income from all sources in 1952 was $318,071,282.97. It dropped to $313,128,436.99 during 1953, with surplus funds being used for the additional spending. Money paid out to the 16,612 persons employed by the State during 1953 amounted to $59,665,998.37. The 15,641 persons employed by the state in 1952 received $52,468,652.02, or more than seven million dollars less. The state dipped into its twenty million dollar surplus to the extent of nearly ten million dollars during 1953. The argument over state finan has centered around these employees. Gov: Herman Talmadge maintains that the only way to get more services is to raise taxes, which neither he nor anyone else is suggesting. But his foes claim that merely by ridding the payroll of "useless employees," money can be saved to meet declining income. And some of these administrative foes claim that if these economies were instituted, there would even be money left over to give greater services. The issue of economy in government in Georgia has been submerged in talk that the U. S. Supreme Court might abolish segregation, but anti-administration leaders still promise that it will be an issue. The old adage among politicians that the average citizen wants more services and less taxes still holds true. And the politicoes are constantly promising more services and les taxes through economy in government. The figures listed here do not, of course, include school teachers' salaries. They refer strictly to those persons classified as state employees. The audit shows how much money of the total receipts was spent on the average Georgian for various purposes. Record capacity is built up by the steel industry. Almost 6,000,000 are now drawing Social Security benefits. SEGREGATION CASES About one-fourth of the tax money paid to the State by Georgia citizens is used for salaries of state employes. However, only a little more than one-sixth of the total money spent by the State goes to pay state employees. These figures are based on the annual summary of audits released this week by State Auditor B. E. Thrasher, Jr. The audit showed that while less money came in, more was spent during the past fiscal year. State spending increased from $306,490, 656.29 in 1952 to $322,663,350.57 in 1953. Yet, income from all sources in 1952 was $318,071,282.97. It dropped to $313,128,436.99 during 1953, with surplus funds being used for the additional spending. Money paid out to the 16,612 persons employed by the State during 1953 amounted to $59,665,998.37. The 15,641 persons employed by the state in 1952 received $52,468,652.02, or more than seven million dollars less. The state dipped into its twenty million dollar surplus to the extent of nearly ten million dollars during 1953. The argument over state finan has centered around these employees. Gov: Herman Talmadge maintains that the only way to get more services is to raise taxes, which neither he nor anyone else is suggesting. But his foes claim that merely by ridding the payroll of "useless employees," money can be saved to meet declining income. And some of these administrative foes claim that if these economies were instituted, there would even be money left over to give greater services. The issue of economy in government in Georgia has been submerged in talk that the U. S. Supreme Court might abolish segregation, but anti-administration leaders still promise that it will be an issue. The old adage among politicians that the average citizen wants more services and less taxes still holds true. And the politicoes are constantly promising more services and les taxes through economy in government. The figures listed here do not, of course, include school teachers' salaries. They refer strictly to those persons classified as state employees. The audit shows how much money of the total receipts was spent on the average Georgian for various purposes. Record capacity is built up by the steel industry. Almost 6,000,000 are now drawing Social Security benefits. 220-yard freestyle time 2:43:2 pool record, first: R. Brown. Tennessee, second. Crouch, Tennessee; third: Hamilton, Central. 50-yard dash; time 23.8 pool record; first: Jones, Tenn.; second: Dennis, Central, third: waters, Central. 150- yard individual medley; time 2: 59.4; first Mailey, Tennessee; second: Bell, Tennessee; third Jones, Central. Diving low board; first: Wade, Tenn.; second: Bell, Tenn., third: Cooper, Central. 100-yard freestyle; time: 55.6 pool record; first: Jones, Tenn.; second Dennis, Central; third: Wade, Tenn. 200-yard backstroke; time 2:46. 4 pool record; first: Brown, Tennessee; scond: Vestal, Tenn; third: Jones, Central. 200-yard breaststroke; time 2: 59.7 pool record; first: Featherstone, Tenn.; second: Stockton, Tenn.; third: Hodges, Central. 440-yard, freestyle; time 6:17.1; first: Crouch, Tenn.; second: R. Brown, Tenn.; third: Burton, Central. 400-yard relay; time 4:300 pool record; won by Tenn.: L. Jackson, Brown, Mailey and Jones. Munci, Ind. An inspired Tennessee State University swimming team answered a teammate plea by winning a dual meet over Ball State Teachers College here last Saturday afternoon 52-32. "Win this one for me" signed the rock was a telegram message the Tigertankmen received before going into the pool James Featherstone, Tennessee's breaststroke ace, was forced to leave the team to take a train to Washington, D. C., Friday, after a dual meet with Central State College, to be with his wife who underwent an operation. Sophomore Featherstone, telephoned Washington from Central State giving his permission for his wife's operation. Leroy Jones, sophomore dashman starred for the second day by winning the 50 and 100-yard freestyle to cinch Tennesee's victory over the Cardinals. Clifton Stockton swam at the breaststroke leg in the winning 300-yard medley relay that Featherstone won at Central, but Stockton and Clarence Bell Lost Featherstone's race, (200-yard breaststroke) to the Cardinals. Summary: Dual meet Tennessee vs Ball State Teachers College, score Tenn., 52 Ball State 32. 300-yard medley relay time 3:25. 9; won by Tennessee L. Brown, C. Stockton, D. Jackson. 200-yard freestyle; time 2:46.6, first: Crouch, Tenn.; second: Zimmerman, Ball; third: Brown, Tenn. 50-yard dash; time: 24.5; first Jones, Tenn.;? second: Marcroni, Ball; third Vestal, Tenn. 150-yard individual medley relays time 1:59.9; first; Mailey, Tennessee: Wade, Tenn.; points 145.39; third: Bell, Tenn. 100-yard freestyle; time: 56.0; 1st Jones; second: Marcroni, Ball; 3rd Pendleton, Ball. 200-yard breasttroke; time 2:49.5 first: Mathys, Ball; second: Bell, Tenn.; third: Stockton. Tenn. 440-yard freestyle: time 6:07.2; first: Zimmerman, Ball; second: Crouch, Tenn.: third R. Brown, Tennessee. 400-yard relay; time 3:58.4; won by Tennessee: D. Jackson, L. Brown, J. Mailey, L. Jones.