Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1955-06-10 Raymond F. Tisby 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 mall under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager Raymond F. Tisby Managing Editor Mrs. Rosa Brown Bracy Public Relations and Advertising William C. Weathers Circulation Promotion The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper—non-sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unblasedly and supporting those things it believes to be of interest to its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00—6 Months $3.00—3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) Sometimes We Read Anonymous Letters Somehow there ore people in this world with certain ideas and views they feel will make a contribution to society if gotten over. However sincerely they subscribe to these, they prefer to remain anonymous insofar as assuming responsibility. By this token alone, such letters are usually ignored as the writer in the first place chooses to ignore himself. How such letters sometimes rise to the level of comment is the charitable feeling on the part of the commentator to let the public get an index of such blinded prejudice that many a coward possesses who does not write in his views unsigned. We are in receipt of a letter unsigned and mailed to this office from one who appears to be grieved by the decision of the Supreme Court to outlaw segregation in the public schools. The writer takes his portion out on the alleged high disease rate among Negroes. He then poses the question — "Should white people want such as that in their schools?" He further alleges that 61 per cent of 6,708 persons in prison, are Negroes. He says they are too lazy to work; they want the government to feed them; then to further inflate his wind-bag he asks the question — "How many of the NAACP members are card-carrying Communists?" Of a given figure 6,708, he states that 91% of the illegitimate children born are Negroes. The writer is, according to the postmark on the envelope, an Alabaman while he does not confine his statistics to any particular state. The wonder is where he got the broken-down "statistics" with which he sets out to prove that one race is a liability to the other. We attempt no debate whatever when the writer asserts that the Negro doesn't do for himself, is not even dependable or trustworthy, a shiftless creature and a drag on society. For this has been answered all around the world and brought to the contrary, the glowing accounts of the achievements and basic responsibilities of the race and its progress in America in so short a time. If this writer is honest in his beliefs and desires some information, if he will submit his name and address we will be glad to furnish him with some information by which he will come into more wholesome enlightenment. His contentions are bum and hardly worthy of printing, but it is felt that a service will be rendered by passing along for the record that there are still people who do not wish to associate themselves with their own beliefs or charges. Vann, Crane just had diplomas (foolish) ... All had the symbols of having been to school—lamos—but some hart oil in them, the others nothing. Lamps without oil are worse than useless —worse because they so easily beguile the bearer into believing he is equipped to meet the darkness and he is not. Dr. Crane's one of America's most popular ministers, speaking primarily of the five (foolish) girls whose lamps had no oil said that there is need of the oil of insight for the/lamp of information, of ethical motivation for the lamp of efficient methodology, of deliverance for the lamp of discipline, of character for the lamp of cleverness, and the oil of synthesis for the lamp of specialization. by Helen Reilly Copyright, 1954, by Helen Reilly. Distributed by King Features Sybducate. Jim Andrus had served a prison term for the vehicular slaying of eight-yearold Roger Pelham whose lovely mother. Regina Pelham. Jim had been about to wed Overindulgence during his bachelor dinner had blacked out Andrus mind, and be bad awakened next morning to find the lad dead in the driveway of the Pelham home in a suburb of New York. Unmistakably Andrus car had Killed the boy but Jim had no recollection of having driven his car that night! THE THING Andrus was looking for was the silver flask Regina Pelham bad given him the day before they were to have been married. He had been sure of finding it. It wasn't in the topcoat or the suit he had worn up the river to jail. It wasn't in his room in the Wolt Hill inn when he left it to start on that journey. His volatile, vivacious aunt, Jude Carmody had arrived as he finished packing. Jude had taken charge of the bag, no longer volatile and gay, out white faced and sad. "I tried to get here before. Jim, but your uncle Is very ill. I'm sorry. He had been almost a year in jail when the first doubt entered his mind. The blank he had pulled was not quite complete. It had very gradually thinned in a couple of spots. One spot was concerned with the silver flask. He had handled the flask after he left the inn on the night young Roger had been killed. There were pictures attached to the flask, the picture of a tossing motion. He had been going to throw the flask somewhere. There were sounds, too, the sound of a voice, peevish, complaining. "Come on now, you don't want to do a thing like that." A thing like what? He bad built on the flask's telling him when he looked at it, bandied it again. They said that tie had got out of bed driven over to the Pelham house, killed Roger, driven back to the inn and had then fallen into a drunken stupor behind the wheel until morning. There was more to it than that. He had done other things. He had hoped that the sight of the flask would widen the gap, bring back those other things ... Odd that it wasn't in the bag. It certainly hadn't been left in that inn bedroom and Jude had brought the bag here the next day and put it in his locker downstairs. No one could get it there ... Who would want to? Besides, if it were a of pilfering, why lane the flask and leave the rings, which were much more valuable? Andrus got heavily off the bed and went into the bathroom and a shower and changed into er clothes. There was a dining room on the first floor. He couldn't face it. He called room service, said, "A couple of chicken sandwiches—" and paused, gripping the instrument a hard. Give in now arid he was through. He added, "and a bottle of ale, as soon as you can make it." He filled 15 minutes walking around and thinking about that flask When the bell rang he thought it was the waiter with the food. He opened the door and stared into Barry Lofting's face. Lofting was to nave been his best man at the wedding that had not taken place. Regina had arranged it. He was an agreeable fellow with a long face, long chin, long nose and expressive brown eyes— inclined to ride hobby, horses, but with a sense of humors. Andrus led the way into the living room. "How did you And out I was back?" Lofting sat down and lit a cigaret with deliberation. "Well, Susan saw you get out of a cab and come in here. She lives down the street ... You look tine." Susan was Susan Dwight, Regina's stepsister. Andrus smiled. "I feel fine. It wasn't too bad, on the whole, not unlike the Army between pushes. They gave me good jobs. I was cook part of the time I was sorry they took me out of the kitchen. I like cooking." Lofting said earnestly: "Look, Andrus, if there's anything I can do ... I don't know what your plans are, but if there's any way I Can help—" Andrus said, "Susan Dwight sent you here didn't she?" "That's right. But I would halve come anyhow." "What does your wife want to know?" Lofting looked startled. "My wife? Susan and I aren't married. What made you think so?" Regina had Wanted them to marry. She was fond of Lofting and thought her young stepsister would be happy with him. Evidently it had not come oft. He repeated the question. "Why did Susan Dwight send you here? What does she want to know?" Lofting's nose grew longer. He said, "Susan's worried About Regina Regina's just beginning to pull out of it. If she were to see you—" "New York's a big place, Lotting, and Regina doesn't come into town very often." "No But your aunt lives up there on the Hudson, doesn't she?" "Yes in Hastings." They wanted an assurance from him that he would steer clear of Regina Pelham and any place she might happen to be, Andrus thought. He said abruptly "Do you know anything about the silver flask Regina gave me the day before we were to have been married?. Did it turn up anywhere later on?" Lofting stared at him frowning. "A silver—" His face cleared "I remember it, a nice thing Susan and I helped Regina pick it out Wasn't it with your stuff? You want to send it back to her I suppose? I wouldn't, Andrus." Andrus said, "I have no intention of trying to see Regina. You can tell Susan Dwight that." Lofting was openly relieved. He did not like the errand he had been sent on, and was glad to have done with it. He got up. He had to run ... Andrus agreed o lunch some day soon, closed the door behind Lofting There were a lot of things he didn't know about these people. They were all comparative strangers Maybe Susan Dwight hadn't seen Lofting. Maybe Lofting had come on his own ... Andrus snatched up his topcoat. Out in the hall he all but ran down the waiter with a tray. Herald, "Put it in my room," tossed a dollar bill at the man and made for the freight elevalor around the corner that the waiter had come up in. The door was open. Andrus got in and pressed the ground Boor button. There was no sign of Lofting on the street. Light streamed from the windows of a restaurant in the next building. Andrus looked in. Lofting' was in there at the bar. His back was toward the door. Susan Dwight sat on a high stool beside him. Andrus could see her vivid face in profile. It was taut with emotion. A fur cape was thrown back froth her shoulders. She had no hat on Her brown hair was smooth and shiny. Very pretty. She's looking at me in her mind, Andrus thought, the man who killed her nephew, and ruined her stepsister's life. He turned away from the window and walked off. When he got upstairs and into his apartment he found his aunt there with la strange man. Jude was standing at a table eating one of his chicken sandwiches absently. She crossed the room and kissed him. "Jim, darling I'm so glad to see you." The man she brought with her was around 40, thin and dark and elegant Jude introduced him. "This is Dr. Fernandez, New York's chief medical examiner, Jim. He's come to dissect your Brain." CHAPTER TWO by Helen Reilly Copyright, 1954, by Helen Reilly. Distributed by King Features Sybducate. Jim Andrus had served a prison term for the vehicular slaying of eight-yearold Roger Pelham whose lovely mother. Regina Pelham. Jim had been about to wed Overindulgence during his bachelor dinner had blacked out Andrus mind, and be bad awakened next morning to find the lad dead in the driveway of the Pelham home in a suburb of New York. Unmistakably Andrus car had Killed the boy but Jim had no recollection of having driven his car that night! THE THING Andrus was looking for was the silver flask Regina Pelham bad given him the day before they were to have been married. He had been sure of finding it. It wasn't in the topcoat or the suit he had worn up the river to jail. It wasn't in his room in the Wolt Hill inn when he left it to start on that journey. His volatile, vivacious aunt, Jude Carmody had arrived as he finished packing. Jude had taken charge of the bag, no longer volatile and gay, out white faced and sad. "I tried to get here before. Jim, but your uncle Is very ill. I'm sorry. He had been almost a year in jail when the first doubt entered his mind. The blank he had pulled was not quite complete. It had very gradually thinned in a couple of spots. One spot was concerned with the silver flask. He had handled the flask after he left the inn on the night young Roger had been killed. There were pictures attached to the flask, the picture of a tossing motion. He had been going to throw the flask somewhere. There were sounds, too, the sound of a voice, peevish, complaining. "Come on now, you don't want to do a thing like that." A thing like what? He bad built on the flask's telling him when he looked at it, bandied it again. They said that tie had got out of bed driven over to the Pelham house, killed Roger, driven back to the inn and had then fallen into a drunken stupor behind the wheel until morning. There was more to it than that. He had done other things. He had hoped that the sight of the flask would widen the gap, bring back those other things ... Odd that it wasn't in the bag. It certainly hadn't been left in that inn bedroom and Jude had brought the bag here the next day and put it in his locker downstairs. No one could get it there ... Who would want to? Besides, if it were a of pilfering, why lane the flask and leave the rings, which were much more valuable? Andrus got heavily off the bed and went into the bathroom and a shower and changed into er clothes. There was a dining room on the first floor. He couldn't face it. He called room service, said, "A couple of chicken sandwiches—" and paused, gripping the instrument a hard. Give in now arid he was through. He added, "and a bottle of ale, as soon as you can make it." He filled 15 minutes walking around and thinking about that flask When the bell rang he thought it was the waiter with the food. He opened the door and stared into Barry Lofting's face. Lofting was to nave been his best man at the wedding that had not taken place. Regina had arranged it. He was an agreeable fellow with a long face, long chin, long nose and expressive brown eyes— inclined to ride hobby, horses, but with a sense of humors. Andrus led the way into the living room. "How did you And out I was back?" Lofting sat down and lit a cigaret with deliberation. "Well, Susan saw you get out of a cab and come in here. She lives down the street ... You look tine." Susan was Susan Dwight, Regina's stepsister. Andrus smiled. "I feel fine. It wasn't too bad, on the whole, not unlike the Army between pushes. They gave me good jobs. I was cook part of the time I was sorry they took me out of the kitchen. I like cooking." Lofting said earnestly: "Look, Andrus, if there's anything I can do ... I don't know what your plans are, but if there's any way I Can help—" Andrus said, "Susan Dwight sent you here didn't she?" "That's right. But I would halve come anyhow." "What does your wife want to know?" Lofting looked startled. "My wife? Susan and I aren't married. What made you think so?" Regina had Wanted them to marry. She was fond of Lofting and thought her young stepsister would be happy with him. Evidently it had not come oft. He repeated the question. "Why did Susan Dwight send you here? What does she want to know?" Lofting's nose grew longer. He said, "Susan's worried About Regina Regina's just beginning to pull out of it. If she were to see you—" "New York's a big place, Lotting, and Regina doesn't come into town very often." "No But your aunt lives up there on the Hudson, doesn't she?" "Yes in Hastings." They wanted an assurance from him that he would steer clear of Regina Pelham and any place she might happen to be, Andrus thought. He said abruptly "Do you know anything about the silver flask Regina gave me the day before we were to have been married?. Did it turn up anywhere later on?" Lofting stared at him frowning. "A silver—" His face cleared "I remember it, a nice thing Susan and I helped Regina pick it out Wasn't it with your stuff? You want to send it back to her I suppose? I wouldn't, Andrus." Andrus said, "I have no intention of trying to see Regina. You can tell Susan Dwight that." Lofting was openly relieved. He did not like the errand he had been sent on, and was glad to have done with it. He got up. He had to run ... Andrus agreed o lunch some day soon, closed the door behind Lofting There were a lot of things he didn't know about these people. They were all comparative strangers Maybe Susan Dwight hadn't seen Lofting. Maybe Lofting had come on his own ... Andrus snatched up his topcoat. Out in the hall he all but ran down the waiter with a tray. Herald, "Put it in my room," tossed a dollar bill at the man and made for the freight elevalor around the corner that the waiter had come up in. The door was open. Andrus got in and pressed the ground Boor button. There was no sign of Lofting on the street. Light streamed from the windows of a restaurant in the next building. Andrus looked in. Lofting' was in there at the bar. His back was toward the door. Susan Dwight sat on a high stool beside him. Andrus could see her vivid face in profile. It was taut with emotion. A fur cape was thrown back froth her shoulders. She had no hat on Her brown hair was smooth and shiny. Very pretty. She's looking at me in her mind, Andrus thought, the man who killed her nephew, and ruined her stepsister's life. He turned away from the window and walked off. When he got upstairs and into his apartment he found his aunt there with la strange man. Jude was standing at a table eating one of his chicken sandwiches absently. She crossed the room and kissed him. "Jim, darling I'm so glad to see you." The man she brought with her was around 40, thin and dark and elegant Jude introduced him. "This is Dr. Fernandez, New York's chief medical examiner, Jim. He's come to dissect your Brain." Scout Camp Opens June 12 Every Scout in Memphis, Shelby County, Mississippi, and part of Arkansas, are looking forward to Summer Camp. It opens at FULLER PARK starting June 12th and ending July 10th. The camp period is broken down into four camp weeks. First Week - June 12 - 19 Second Week - June 19 - 26 Third Week - June 26 - July 3 Fourth Week July 3-10. Scoutmasters who have boys going to camp should make reservations at the BRANCH 554 BEALE AVE., and pay a $1.00 reservation fee. Fred O. Harris, division executive for the Southern division will be in charge of camp. Three scout leaders, Maurice N. Gray North division executive, Harold Hughes, assistant scoutmaster of troop 116, Fred Williams, assistant scoutmaster of Troop 139, who will serve on the camping staff left Memphis Friday June 3rd for camp Beaumont St. Louis, Mo., where they will take seven days training in commissary, swimming and camperaft. LEADERS TRAINING: Every Scout in Memphis, Shelby County, Mississippi, and part of Arkansas, are looking forward to Summer Camp. It opens at FULLER PARK starting June 12th and ending July 10th. The camp period is broken down into four camp weeks. First Week - June 12 - 19 Second Week - June 19 - 26 Third Week - June 26 - July 3 Fourth Week July 3-10. Scoutmasters who have boys going to camp should make reservations at the BRANCH 554 BEALE AVE., and pay a $1.00 reservation fee. Fred O. Harris, division executive for the Southern division will be in charge of camp. Three scout leaders, Maurice N. Gray North division executive, Harold Hughes, assistant scoutmaster of troop 116, Fred Williams, assistant scoutmaster of Troop 139, who will serve on the camping staff left Memphis Friday June 3rd for camp Beaumont St. Louis, Mo., where they will take seven days training in commissary, swimming and camperaft. Business Investors Finance Slates Business Banquet June 17 At YMCA Employees of Mallory Air Force Depot, Kennedy General Hospital, Army General Depot, Firestone and International Harvester will be among the specially invited guests at the Business Banquet slated for Friday, June 17 at 8 P. M. in the Abe Scharff branch YMCA's auditorium sponsored by the newly organized Business Investors Finance Organization. The organization has been formed far the purpose of financing businesses and making personal loans to its members. Atty. J. F. Estes will deliver the main address at the banquet. He will speak on the subject "Now or Never" and will stress the needs of the Negro in business. Male choral groups from several city churches will appear on the program. Bishop Love Presides Over Methodist Meet "If God hadn't intended for races to mix, He would have fixed it so they could not," declared Bishop Edgar A. Love of Baltimore, addressing the annual session of the Holston Conference of The Methodist Church, meeting in Centenary Church here, last week. Bishop Love was invited by Bishop Roy. Short, who presided over the conference, to deliver the devotional address Friday morning. Bishop Love's territory of the Baltimore Areas included the East Tennessee Conference (colored), which section of the State the Holston Conference also covers. History was made when Bishop Short surrendered the chair to Bishop Love for a few minutes later Friday morning. This was believed to be the first time a Negro Bishop had presided over a Methodist Conference to be in the deep South. In his address Bishop Love affirmed his belief in the workability of school integration throughout the South. "Social integration is the big hitch," he said, "but eventually it will come." It does not necessarily lead to intermarriage, as many in the South believe. Intermarriage is very rare between Negroes and whites even in those States where it has been permissible by law through the years. There is something within people that binds them to their own race. However, we must come to know the oneness of the human family." A six-point plan recommending community-wide interracial religious services, among other things, was submitted by the conference Board of Social and Economic Relations and was passed unanimously. The recommendations also advised leadership training on an interracial basis, Negro visitors to white church es and vice versa, and interracial preaching missions. New Electronic Miracle now brings you than was ever possible before! Today—discover for yourself what modern science can do to increase your cigarette enjoyment! Try the cigarette made the — with Accu-Ray! With electronic accuracy, Accu-Ray checks and controls the making of your Chesterfield. So for the first time you get a... 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Graves, according to their testimony, was big enough to assign "exclusive selling "territories" to a number of peddlers. Atty. James K. Baker polled each member of the jury following the conviction, and immediately stated he would seek a new trial. Judge Vincent A Carroll said he would not get one. Sentence was meanwhile deferred until a later date. Steps Taken held June 8-12 in Morristown, Tenn. The Tennessee Conference, composed of 89 churches in Middle and West Tennessee, has a membership of 7,338 and 45 ordained ministers and 21 approved supply pastors. The conference will meet in annual session June 23-26 at Gallatin, Tenn. Booze's Booze Is Expensive To Him Booze caused booze to be out of $50 Tuesday. The first booze is the half ga lon of moonshine whiskey that was found in the possession of the second Booze, Haygood Booze, of Birmingham. The 45-year-old man admitted ownership in Recorders Court and was fined $50 and costs. Agricultural attaches and commodity marketing specialists were sent abroad to report back on foreign opportunities and on foreign competition and in other ways to assist U. S. agricultural trade. Atty. Hooks To Install Voquettes Offers Sun. ers of the newly orgainzed social club, the Voguettes, will be installed Sunday afternoon, June 12, at 4 p. m. in the Foote Homes Auditorium with Atty. B. L. Hooks as the installing officer. The installation will also be highlighted by the climax of the club's Grand Baby Contest at which time the winning baby among the many entrants will be awarded a $25 gift certificate to Goldsmith's. Officers to be installed are Mrs. Martel Jones; president; Miss Daisy Hill, vice-president; Mrs. Mary P. Parnell, recording secretary; Miss Adelle Mitchell, financial secretary; Miss Jacqueline Johnson, treasurer; Mrs. Ernestine Hooks business manager; Mrs. Frances Peques, reporter and Mrs. Katheryn Turner, chaplain. 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We are now celebrating our 50th year of dependable service to our policyholders throughout the country. Schools will be held in Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Alabama. You must apply before June 10th, 1955. The Word Of God "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after Godliness." Titus 1-1. Maria Holley. the Tate Red Sox will meet the FullRestricted Division Tor Saturday, Only one game is scheduled in the O-Pep Chicks Saturday at Lincoln Park at 2 o'clock. In the Western Division Saturday at Klondyke Park, Dave Dermon Gems play Ellendale at 3 o'clock. At Orange Mound Park Mallory Air Force play Letter Carriers at 3 o'clock. At Lincoln Park the Indians play Black Devils at 4 o'clock. Sunday's games: Humko vs. pirates at orange Mound Park at 2 o'clock; Warriors vs. Hardwood at Orange Mound at 4 o'clock..; Bluest vs. Bears at Lincoln Park at 3 o'clock; Athletics vs. Beavers at Klondyke, Park at 3 o'clock. BROOKSHIRE, Tex.—When his bulldozer broke a natural - gas pipe line, Garland Rhemann, 27, was killed in an explosion that shot flames 250 feet into the air, Rhemann was deepening a drainage ditch when the bulldozer blade hit the pipeline. Mme. McCleave Students In Recital Tuesday Students of tire Madame (Florence) McCleave School of Music will be presented in recital next Tuesday night. June 14 from 7:30 until 9:30 p. m. at, the Vance Avenue branch YWCA There is no admission to the affair. DAISY —starring— "THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNER" MARLON BRANDO PALACE ON BEALE The Silver Star Starting EDGAR BUCHANAN MARIE WINDSOR LON CHANEY EARLE LYON RICHARD BARTLETT BARTON MacLANE