Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1955-08-19 Raymond F. Tisby MEMPHIS WORLD AMERICA'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 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 unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to be of 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) President Pleases Neither South Nor NAACP On Civil Rights (From The Montgomery Advertiser) President Eisenhower has pleased neither the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People nor the whites in the pro-segregation areas of the South with his civil rights viewpoint. President Eisenhower doesn't believe in segregation. As a matter of fact, never for sometime past, nor ever again will there be a President in the White House who upholds segregation. That's just a fact of life. This week the President said that his administration has "advanced far" in the field of civil rights and "all of us have reason for just pride." The President said further: "As Americans we believe in the equal dignity of all our people, whatever their racial origin or background may be; in their equal right to freedom of our common citizenship. During this administration we have advanced far on every front of our daily life." But the NAACP said in answer: "However, he has not recommended any civil rights legislation to the Congress, either the 83rd or the 84th." Just there is the one difference between President Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, Truman and the other Democrats. In the 1952 Campaign The Advertiser frankly pointed out that Eisenhower did not agree with Alabama on segregation. But whereas Stevenson was finally pressured into an endorsement of an FEPC, Eisenhower bluntly rejected an FEPC enactment. That is why FEPC has been largely forgotten in this Congress; there have been no FEPC filibusters as in the time of Truman and Roosevelt. An FEPC (fair employment practices act), be it remembered, is a congressional enactment that would hound every employer with federal cops to see that he did not refuse to hire somebody because he was a Negro. This, Eisenhower rejected as an unbearable intrusion on private affairs (schools involve public facilities). Stevenson, like Truman, favored this. This Eisenhower opposition to FEPC may be cold comfort. But if we had an FEPC along with the school decision, our sea of troubles would be double. Nehru May Be The Prophet The World Is Waiting For Day by day as conditions turn the spotlight on heretofore hidden possibilities of little heard of nations in Africa, the more it occurs that Africa holds many answers to our problems of expansion and the uncovering possibilities. Not so long ago an African student was in our ranks and he told of the untouched wealth and imbedded riches in his small African tribal region. He spoke of the need of engineers of our group in the little republic and the industrial opportunities abundant on every hand for young men in search of profitable vocations. Now it comes to pass that the able and aggressive Nehru sounds a signal warning for the African people to come into their own under their own vine and figtree. Scoring tyranny in Africa, the Prime Minister, made the claim that the African people should be given a chance. Opening the Department of African studies and the African Society of the New Delhi University, Nehru stated the way Africa has been treated by other countries during the last 200 years made it necessary for them to do some atonement for the exploitation and oppression of that great continent. So, again African possibilities and enterprise come to be reckoned with despite the strait-jacket of colonialism that has almost crushed its prostrate form out of existence. The time Will come when young engineers and those industrial minds of young American Negro college men, will turn their attention to the virgin fields of African gold and diamond deposits and there find veritable Liberia for a new outlet of an adventurous spirit — bursting at the seams. Medical Progress A new series of chemical compounds will enable victims of heart failure to live longer, more active lives, according to a report published in the current issue of Annals of Allergy. The report by Dr. Ethan Allan Brown of Boston is the first appraisal of the result of widespread clinical use of a new group of synthetic drugs introduced experimentally several years ago. The new compounds are laboratory-built chemicals that successfully utilize the healing properties of mercury, long known to be the most potent drug available for the treatment of heart failure, but eliminate the toxic properties that caused earlier forms of mercury to be discarded by doctors over 50 years ago. Some of the new compounds, the most common of which is known as mercuhydrin, were administered by injection while the most recently developed, neohydrin, is used in simple pill form and is taken orally. Combined with other advances in the treatment of heart failure including diet low in salt content, these new drugs mean "the man or woman with a failing heart lives a much longer time," Dr. Brown points out. Wide experience with these new laboratory-built compounds indicates, according to Dr. Brown, that the chemists have at last succeeded in retaining the valuable medicinal properties of mercury, known as far pack as the ancient Greek and Egyptian physicians, but have synthesized away the undesirable properties that made it useless for therapeutic purposes. Heart failure known medically as congestive heart failure, now affects over two and a half million people in the United States and is steadily increasing, Dr. Brown points out, because of the advancing age level of the population. It results when any form of heart disease damages that organ so that it can no longer pump an adequate supply of blood through the system. This failure results in the accumulation of fluids in the body cells and eventually in the lungs and this eventually causes the heart to give out unless the strain is lessened. In 1920 it was observed by chance that certain organo-mercurial drugs, then being experimented on in the treatment of other diseases, caused the body cells to lose their excess fluid, and this gave relief to congestive heart patients. This observation revived interest in the long-forgotten properties of mercurial compounds and laboratory researchers began a 30-year search for new compounds that could be used in the treatment of heart failure. First to be developed was mercuhydrin, which proved useful in the form of an injection. However, in severe cases of heart failure this necessitated either hospitalization or frequent visits to the doctor's office. Further research by the Lakeside Laboratories (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) led recently to the developmental neohydrin, which is effective in oral form. HOPE FOR FAILING HEARTS A new series of chemical compounds will enable victims of heart failure to live longer, more active lives, according to a report published in the current issue of Annals of Allergy. The report by Dr. Ethan Allan Brown of Boston is the first appraisal of the result of widespread clinical use of a new group of synthetic drugs introduced experimentally several years ago. The new compounds are laboratory-built chemicals that successfully utilize the healing properties of mercury, long known to be the most potent drug available for the treatment of heart failure, but eliminate the toxic properties that caused earlier forms of mercury to be discarded by doctors over 50 years ago. Some of the new compounds, the most common of which is known as mercuhydrin, were administered by injection while the most recently developed, neohydrin, is used in simple pill form and is taken orally. Combined with other advances in the treatment of heart failure including diet low in salt content, these new drugs mean "the man or woman with a failing heart lives a much longer time," Dr. Brown points out. Wide experience with these new laboratory-built compounds indicates, according to Dr. Brown, that the chemists have at last succeeded in retaining the valuable medicinal properties of mercury, known as far pack as the ancient Greek and Egyptian physicians, but have synthesized away the undesirable properties that made it useless for therapeutic purposes. Heart failure known medically as congestive heart failure, now affects over two and a half million people in the United States and is steadily increasing, Dr. Brown points out, because of the advancing age level of the population. It results when any form of heart disease damages that organ so that it can no longer pump an adequate supply of blood through the system. This failure results in the accumulation of fluids in the body cells and eventually in the lungs and this eventually causes the heart to give out unless the strain is lessened. In 1920 it was observed by chance that certain organo-mercurial drugs, then being experimented on in the treatment of other diseases, caused the body cells to lose their excess fluid, and this gave relief to congestive heart patients. This observation revived interest in the long-forgotten properties of mercurial compounds and laboratory researchers began a 30-year search for new compounds that could be used in the treatment of heart failure. First to be developed was mercuhydrin, which proved useful in the form of an injection. However, in severe cases of heart failure this necessitated either hospitalization or frequent visits to the doctor's office. Further research by the Lakeside Laboratories (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) led recently to the developmental neohydrin, which is effective in oral form. The time is rapidly approaching that the school bells will be ringing far and near for millions of schools children to enter kindergarten, elementary, high schools and colleges. It seems like time has passed so fast that we can hardly realize it is almost Autumn. Sweet summer has almost gone away. This is a reminder of the old saying "Time and Tide awaits no one." If we value this saying, we will make good use of this epoch, also teach our children to value being on time at home, church, and school. If this is trained in them they will be good citizens. Punctuality should be the "Key Word" This will be a great success to any one future progress. It is a good rule, a good habit. Good habits are formed by practice. When we disregard time, we infringe on the rights of others. This could result in much friction. Time is measured by seconds minutes, and hours. By using the instruments, clocks and watches. We call these time pieces. Time is measured by days, months and years. We think of each as four seasons of the year spring, summer, fall, and winter. The schools and colleges have their schedule by which there may be an orderly routine of work carried on daily. God has a wonderful schedule He wants us to be punctual to carry His program on orderly also. He made the day for man to work, and the night for sleep, so that the night schedule wouldn't conflict with the day. Isn't it a pity so many sleepy folks in the world? Just won't go to bed early, enough to rest and drive cars into ditchees and kill themselves and others? All this is from disregarding time. To everything there is a season and timed to every purpose under the heaven Ec. 3-1. And that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. Romans 13-11. Tell Her It's Murder Copyright, 1954, by Helen Reilly by King Features Syndicate ANDRUS was down on the walk a couple of yards from the steep steps when he all but ran into Barry Lofting. It disconcerted him. How long had Lofting been around, how much had he heard, seen and why was he on foot? Andrus asked, "Where's your car?" Lofting said it was over at the inn. "Some storm. I was afraid I'd get stuck. I'm going to stay at the inn for the week end anyhow. He made a movement to pass. Andrus said, "There's no use your going into the house now Susan's going to bed with a headache, and Regina feels miserable and doesn't want to see anyone. Come on Back to the inn with me and I'll buy you a drink and give you the latest on our friend. Mr. Trout." The two men moved off into the storm. Later that night David Redgate was shot. The medical examiner, Parr, was the only other doctor who lived on the Hill. Parr's telephone rang at shortly after 11 o'clock. It was Amy Redgate, crying out in an anguished voice that she had just found her brother lying in a pool of blood and she couldn't get a pulse. "Hurry, doctor, hurry." Parr called the police, and grabbed a bag. Redgate was sprawled on the floor of his study unconscious. Amy Redgate kneit beside him, tears channeling furrows in her weatherbeaten cheeks. After a quick examination Parr was able to reassure her. Redgate wasn't dead, or in any immediate danger of dying. There was what appeared to be a gunshot wound in the right thigh. The police arrived a few minutes later. The doctor was lifted to a bed in the surgery and with Amy helping him, Parr went to work. So did officers Dupasse and Baker Todhunter, who had drifted in with them, hovered on the sidelines. Half an hour later they had the picture. Redgate had been shot through the open study window with a 22-caliber rifle. No attempt had been made to conceal or carry off the weapon. It was lying in show-covered bushes close to the window where it had been Bung. The rifle belonged to the Redgates. It had hung, with another rifle and two shotguns, on the wall of the little corridor leading to the doctor's waiting room. Once Amy Redgate knew the brother she adored wasn't going to die, she tried to pull herself together. She said that at around 9 that night she had started down for the rental library on Charles street and had a blowout. There was no garage anywhere near and no phone. A passing motorist and finally helped her put the spare on, but instead of being out half an hour, she'd been away more like two. Both the Redgates went hunting every year. It was the one vacation the doctor took. "We thought we might be able to get away soon, maybe by the eighth." Amy had the guns apart and oiled them earlier in the week. They weren't loaded, of course, but the ammunition for them was in a carton on the chest beneath which they hung ready for packing. The door to Redgate's professional quarters in the east wing was never locked until late. Someone had come in, taken the rifle down, slipped bullets into it, and then gone outside to the open window and pulled the trigger. There were no footprints, but there wouldn't be Todhunter made a footprint of his own and timed it in exactly eight minutes it was completely covered with fresh snow. David Redgate regained consciousness, he was exhausted from loss of Blood and shock but able to talk. He knew precisely when he had been shot. He had come in at around half past 10 and after putting his bag away had gone into the study to read some new stuff on anti-biotics. Before he settled down he had opened the south window, as the room was close, and looked at the clock. The time was 10:40. It was as he was taking the pamphlets he wanted from the bookcase shelf that he had been shot. "Item of interest," he said drily. "A bullet feels like a blow from a fist." The doctor couldn't think of any reason why anyone should have tried to kill him. He had no angry or disgruntled patients. His evening? After dinner he had worked for a while on a paper he was doing and at shortly before 9 he had gone over to the Wolf Hill Inn in response to a call from Regina Pelham's ex-husband, Henry Trout. He found Trout in bad shape, jittery and complaining of his heart. He was going back to New York that night and wanted something to put him on his feet, Redgate said, "It wasn't his heart, it was alcohol, and plenty of it. I advised him to lay off it for a while and left him some bromides." Henry Trout was the last person the doctor had seen. Dupasse said, "You had no trouble with Mr. Trout, doctor? I mean, sometimes drunk's—" Redgate said quickly and curtly, "None." Todhunter slipped away and used the doctor's phone. Henry Trout had already left the Wolf Hill Inn. He had paid his bill after dinner, which had been served in his room at 7, but no one knew what time he went, except that it was before 10 o'clock; the chambermaid had done the room over then. Todhunter hurried to the Pelham house. It was after 12 but there were lights on the first floor. He climbed the steep steps to the porch and rang the bell. A long wait, then a voice called, "Who is it?" The voice was Regina Pelham's. Todhunter gave his name and Mrs. Pelham opened the door and let him in. He shook snow from his hat and coat in the vestibule. Hall and living room were empty. There was someone in the kitchen. China rattled distantly. Todhunter said, "Is, Mr. Trout here, Mrs. Pelham?" "Henry?" Her fine eyes opened wide. "Why do you ask?" Todhunter said in his murmuring voice, "Dr. Redgate was shot a little while ago." Gripping a chair back, Regins gasped, "Is Dave—dead?" Before Todhunter could speaks they were joined by Susan Dwight, who came running down the stairs and Mrs. Casserly coming in from the kitchen, Both women were in robes and slippers. Todhunter told them what had happened. The effect on Susan Dwight and the nurse was almost as strong as on Regina Pelham—in fact, if anything, the nurse was the hardest hit. "No," she gasped, falling back into a chair, "not the doctor," Susan asked. "Is Dave badly hurt, Mr. Todhunter?" "Badly enough," Todhunter said, "but not fatally. Now, about Mr. Trout—" Regina Pelham said, "Henry went back to New York. He told me this afternoon that he was going, and said good-by. I believe he's leaving for the west coast tomorrow or the next day." No, he hadn't given any forwarding address, said he'd write. "Were you home all evening, Mrs. Pelham?" "Yes." The answer was even, unhesitating; she betrayed herself with a hand half raised to her hair. Todhunter had already noticed it. Damp tendrils curling around her ears broke its smooth sweep. She continued almost without a break, "If you mean by home, the grounds outside, I like snow and I walked about in it for a while, around the lawns," Without, comment, Todhunter turned to the nurse. "Mrs. Casserly, were you out—we're asking these questions because we're anxious to find someone who might have seen the man who shot the doctor." Mrs. Casserly said, "Oh, yes, I was out. I always go out before I go to bed, rain or shine winter or summer. I did hear something. I went around the block, and as I was turning out of Highland place, that's the doctor's street, into Evergreen, I heard What sounded like a shot. I thought it was a car backfiring." She was either very bold or she was telling the truth. She placed the time at 20 to 11, and put herself practically on the spot. Todhunter asked Regina to let him know if and when she heard from Henry Trout and said goodnight. Back at the inn which he Just barely made, as the snow was thigh deep in places, he went to a telephone booth in the darkened lobby and called the inspector. "Redgate," McKee exclaimed, and listened without further interruption until Todhunter finished. "No taxi?" he asked. Todhunter said Trout hadn't called one from the inn. "Maybe he got a lift off the Hill, inspector." McKee said yes. "We'll try and get a line on Trout if he did come down to New York. You can't do anything more there tonight. Go to bed and get some sleep—you may be going to need it. "I'll join you tomorrow." CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Copyright, 1954, by Helen Reilly by King Features Syndicate ANDRUS was down on the walk a couple of yards from the steep steps when he all but ran into Barry Lofting. It disconcerted him. How long had Lofting been around, how much had he heard, seen and why was he on foot? Andrus asked, "Where's your car?" Lofting said it was over at the inn. "Some storm. I was afraid I'd get stuck. I'm going to stay at the inn for the week end anyhow. He made a movement to pass. Andrus said, "There's no use your going into the house now Susan's going to bed with a headache, and Regina feels miserable and doesn't want to see anyone. Come on Back to the inn with me and I'll buy you a drink and give you the latest on our friend. Mr. Trout." The two men moved off into the storm. Later that night David Redgate was shot. The medical examiner, Parr, was the only other doctor who lived on the Hill. Parr's telephone rang at shortly after 11 o'clock. It was Amy Redgate, crying out in an anguished voice that she had just found her brother lying in a pool of blood and she couldn't get a pulse. "Hurry, doctor, hurry." Parr called the police, and grabbed a bag. Redgate was sprawled on the floor of his study unconscious. Amy Redgate kneit beside him, tears channeling furrows in her weatherbeaten cheeks. After a quick examination Parr was able to reassure her. Redgate wasn't dead, or in any immediate danger of dying. There was what appeared to be a gunshot wound in the right thigh. The police arrived a few minutes later. The doctor was lifted to a bed in the surgery and with Amy helping him, Parr went to work. So did officers Dupasse and Baker Todhunter, who had drifted in with them, hovered on the sidelines. Half an hour later they had the picture. Redgate had been shot through the open study window with a 22-caliber rifle. No attempt had been made to conceal or carry off the weapon. It was lying in show-covered bushes close to the window where it had been Bung. The rifle belonged to the Redgates. It had hung, with another rifle and two shotguns, on the wall of the little corridor leading to the doctor's waiting room. Once Amy Redgate knew the brother she adored wasn't going to die, she tried to pull herself together. She said that at around 9 that night she had started down for the rental library on Charles street and had a blowout. There was no garage anywhere near and no phone. A passing motorist and finally helped her put the spare on, but instead of being out half an hour, she'd been away more like two. Both the Redgates went hunting every year. It was the one vacation the doctor took. "We thought we might be able to get away soon, maybe by the eighth." Amy had the guns apart and oiled them earlier in the week. They weren't loaded, of course, but the ammunition for them was in a carton on the chest beneath which they hung ready for packing. The door to Redgate's professional quarters in the east wing was never locked until late. Someone had come in, taken the rifle down, slipped bullets into it, and then gone outside to the open window and pulled the trigger. There were no footprints, but there wouldn't be Todhunter made a footprint of his own and timed it in exactly eight minutes it was completely covered with fresh snow. David Redgate regained consciousness, he was exhausted from loss of Blood and shock but able to talk. He knew precisely when he had been shot. He had come in at around half past 10 and after putting his bag away had gone into the study to read some new stuff on anti-biotics. Before he settled down he had opened the south window, as the room was close, and looked at the clock. The time was 10:40. It was as he was taking the pamphlets he wanted from the bookcase shelf that he had been shot. "Item of interest," he said drily. "A bullet feels like a blow from a fist." The doctor couldn't think of any reason why anyone should have tried to kill him. He had no angry or disgruntled patients. His evening? After dinner he had worked for a while on a paper he was doing and at shortly before 9 he had gone over to the Wolf Hill Inn in response to a call from Regina Pelham's ex-husband, Henry Trout. He found Trout in bad shape, jittery and complaining of his heart. He was going back to New York that night and wanted something to put him on his feet, Redgate said, "It wasn't his heart, it was alcohol, and plenty of it. I advised him to lay off it for a while and left him some bromides." Henry Trout was the last person the doctor had seen. Dupasse said, "You had no trouble with Mr. Trout, doctor? I mean, sometimes drunk's—" Redgate said quickly and curtly, "None." Todhunter slipped away and used the doctor's phone. Henry Trout had already left the Wolf Hill Inn. He had paid his bill after dinner, which had been served in his room at 7, but no one knew what time he went, except that it was before 10 o'clock; the chambermaid had done the room over then. Todhunter hurried to the Pelham house. It was after 12 but there were lights on the first floor. He climbed the steep steps to the porch and rang the bell. A long wait, then a voice called, "Who is it?" The voice was Regina Pelham's. Todhunter gave his name and Mrs. Pelham opened the door and let him in. He shook snow from his hat and coat in the vestibule. Hall and living room were empty. There was someone in the kitchen. China rattled distantly. Todhunter said, "Is, Mr. Trout here, Mrs. Pelham?" "Henry?" Her fine eyes opened wide. "Why do you ask?" Todhunter said in his murmuring voice, "Dr. Redgate was shot a little while ago." Gripping a chair back, Regins gasped, "Is Dave—dead?" Before Todhunter could speaks they were joined by Susan Dwight, who came running down the stairs and Mrs. Casserly coming in from the kitchen, Both women were in robes and slippers. Todhunter told them what had happened. The effect on Susan Dwight and the nurse was almost as strong as on Regina Pelham—in fact, if anything, the nurse was the hardest hit. "No," she gasped, falling back into a chair, "not the doctor," Susan asked. "Is Dave badly hurt, Mr. Todhunter?" "Badly enough," Todhunter said, "but not fatally. Now, about Mr. Trout—" Regina Pelham said, "Henry went back to New York. He told me this afternoon that he was going, and said good-by. I believe he's leaving for the west coast tomorrow or the next day." No, he hadn't given any forwarding address, said he'd write. "Were you home all evening, Mrs. Pelham?" "Yes." The answer was even, unhesitating; she betrayed herself with a hand half raised to her hair. Todhunter had already noticed it. Damp tendrils curling around her ears broke its smooth sweep. She continued almost without a break, "If you mean by home, the grounds outside, I like snow and I walked about in it for a while, around the lawns," Without, comment, Todhunter turned to the nurse. "Mrs. Casserly, were you out—we're asking these questions because we're anxious to find someone who might have seen the man who shot the doctor." Mrs. Casserly said, "Oh, yes, I was out. I always go out before I go to bed, rain or shine winter or summer. I did hear something. I went around the block, and as I was turning out of Highland place, that's the doctor's street, into Evergreen, I heard What sounded like a shot. I thought it was a car backfiring." She was either very bold or she was telling the truth. She placed the time at 20 to 11, and put herself practically on the spot. Todhunter asked Regina to let him know if and when she heard from Henry Trout and said goodnight. Back at the inn which he Just barely made, as the snow was thigh deep in places, he went to a telephone booth in the darkened lobby and called the inspector. "Redgate," McKee exclaimed, and listened without further interruption until Todhunter finished. "No taxi?" he asked. Todhunter said Trout hadn't called one from the inn. "Maybe he got a lift off the Hill, inspector." McKee said yes. "We'll try and get a line on Trout if he did come down to New York. You can't do anything more there tonight. Go to bed and get some sleep—you may be going to need it. "I'll join you tomorrow." COLLEGE ARMY "QUEENS"— Newly elected "Queens" of the Army ROTC regimental units at A&T College, wear their new summer uniforms, in white lightweight worsted. They are from left to right: Misses Margaret Martin, Mebane, N. C.; Margaret Bell, Jackson, N. C; Shirley Richardson, the new "Miss A&T", Wilmington, N. C., and Evelyn Dillard, Martinsville, Virginia. Texas Legislature May Get Call To Discuss School Desegregation Evidence mounted Wednesday that Gov. Allan Shivers will call the Texas Legislature into special session this fall to tackle the school desegregation question. Attorney General John Ben Shepperd said he believes there is "serious doubt" that state money can be paid this year to any school district which has integrated the races. El Paso and Lubbock, however, have already ordered complete desegregation in compliance with the U. S. Supreme Court decision. Several other cities, including Austin and San Antonio, have taken steps toward partial desegregation this September. Gov. Shivers wan not immediately available for comment on widespread reports—many of them from influential members of the Legisla ture—that he is preparing to call a special session. Rep. Jim Lindsey of Texarkana speaker of the House, told International News Service that he has heard "rumors" that a "special session is imminent but has heard nothing "official" Lindsey said: "There's a lot of talk in East Texas." The Houston Chronicle Wednesday quoted Sens. Ottis Lock of Lufkin and A. M. Aikin, Jr., of Paris, two of the chief writers of the state's overhauled school laws in 1949, as saying a special session is "inevitable" and will probably be called in October. The State Board of Education last July 4, decreed that state funds would be allocated this fall to school districts regardless of whether they are integrated or segregated. But the so-called "Texas Citizen's Council," an anti-integration group, has filed suit in Big Spring asking that state funds be cut off from integrated schools. The Council claims present state laws plainly state that funds be allocated to separate schools for whites and Negroes. Attorney General Shepperd has not been asked for an official opinion on the question and said he would not render one while the Big Spring case is in litigation. NO CONFIRMATION Evidence mounted Wednesday that Gov. Allan Shivers will call the Texas Legislature into special session this fall to tackle the school desegregation question. Attorney General John Ben Shepperd said he believes there is "serious doubt" that state money can be paid this year to any school district which has integrated the races. El Paso and Lubbock, however, have already ordered complete desegregation in compliance with the U. S. Supreme Court decision. Several other cities, including Austin and San Antonio, have taken steps toward partial desegregation this September. Gov. Shivers wan not immediately available for comment on widespread reports—many of them from influential members of the Legisla ture—that he is preparing to call a special session. Rep. Jim Lindsey of Texarkana speaker of the House, told International News Service that he has heard "rumors" that a "special session is imminent but has heard nothing "official" Lindsey said: "There's a lot of talk in East Texas." The Houston Chronicle Wednesday quoted Sens. Ottis Lock of Lufkin and A. M. Aikin, Jr., of Paris, two of the chief writers of the state's overhauled school laws in 1949, as saying a special session is "inevitable" and will probably be called in October. The State Board of Education last July 4, decreed that state funds would be allocated this fall to school districts regardless of whether they are integrated or segregated. But the so-called "Texas Citizen's Council," an anti-integration group, has filed suit in Big Spring asking that state funds be cut off from integrated schools. The Council claims present state laws plainly state that funds be allocated to separate schools for whites and Negroes. Attorney General Shepperd has not been asked for an official opinion on the question and said he would not render one while the Big Spring case is in litigation. SCHOOL BOARDS' STAND Evidence mounted Wednesday that Gov. Allan Shivers will call the Texas Legislature into special session this fall to tackle the school desegregation question. Attorney General John Ben Shepperd said he believes there is "serious doubt" that state money can be paid this year to any school district which has integrated the races. El Paso and Lubbock, however, have already ordered complete desegregation in compliance with the U. S. Supreme Court decision. Several other cities, including Austin and San Antonio, have taken steps toward partial desegregation this September. Gov. Shivers wan not immediately available for comment on widespread reports—many of them from influential members of the Legisla ture—that he is preparing to call a special session. Rep. Jim Lindsey of Texarkana speaker of the House, told International News Service that he has heard "rumors" that a "special session is imminent but has heard nothing "official" Lindsey said: "There's a lot of talk in East Texas." The Houston Chronicle Wednesday quoted Sens. Ottis Lock of Lufkin and A. M. Aikin, Jr., of Paris, two of the chief writers of the state's overhauled school laws in 1949, as saying a special session is "inevitable" and will probably be called in October. The State Board of Education last July 4, decreed that state funds would be allocated this fall to school districts regardless of whether they are integrated or segregated. But the so-called "Texas Citizen's Council," an anti-integration group, has filed suit in Big Spring asking that state funds be cut off from integrated schools. The Council claims present state laws plainly state that funds be allocated to separate schools for whites and Negroes. Attorney General Shepperd has not been asked for an official opinion on the question and said he would not render one while the Big Spring case is in litigation. 3 Charged With bedded in facial wounds of Rev. Lee giving rise to the conjecture that he lost control of his car after being shot by three white men in a convertible car. Subsequent investigations substantiated this theory. Some NAACP leaders called the slaying a modern day lynching and attributed it to the work of the "Citizens Councils" which have vowed to fight public school integration by economic pressure and other means. Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, declined to place direct blame on the Citizens Councils, but inferred that their actions possibly led to the slaying. Seven Arkansas She has won 14 county awards and many of them have placed in state activities. State 4-H Club President Charlene Shaw, 17, of the Christ Church School club in St. Francis county, is to be a delegate. A runner-up in leadership last year, home improvement and gardening have been her chief 4-H projects, Lula Bell Johnson, 19, of the Tipler club in Cross county is the fourth girl selected. A state winner in foods and cookery and second place in achievement last year, her major projects have been in gardening and canning. Franklin D. Purdy, 20, Weona 4-H club in Poinsett couty was second in achievement last year. With projects in garden crops at the TriState Fair in Memphis and also won an award for livestock judging. Robert L. Moore, 18, of the Gill 4H club in Lee county was third in leadership last year, won first place in dairy achievement in 1953, and was field crop winner in 1952. With the theme, Improving Family and Community Living," the Arkansas group will participate in a full week of activities that will include a tour of Washington to such places as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monument, and Mount Vernon All seven of these 4-H'ers attended the 13th annual. Negro 4-H Club Camp on the campus of A. M. and N. College in Pine Bluff, August 9 to 13, before leaving for the Regional Camp in Washington, D. C. Move Of Welfare quirements, no public assistance grant may be made payabale to a minor. This means that an unmarried girl under 21 years of age who has a child cannot receive an aid to dependent children grant in her own name. If the girl is living at home, a grandparent of other close relative may be the payee. If the girl is not living with relatives, aid cannot be granted for support of the child unless a guardian is appointed for her or unless her minority is removed by marriage, court action or legislative act Some girls who have left home either voluntarily or under pressure, may thus be encouraged to return to the homes of their parents. Assistance grants may not be made payable to mentally incompetent disabled persons. Provision has been made, however, for a guardian to receive the payment for a person adjudicated mentally incompetent. A guardian or conservator may receive the payment for a person determined by the Department's Medical Review Board to be mentally disabled. In aid to dependent children cases the other parent may be the payee. MEALTIME MELODIES BY LEODA GAMMON Did you hear about the old lady who wouldn't eat ice cream because she thought anything that good couldn't be right? She was right about one thing, ice cream is good. It is not only good, it is good for you. This refreshing treat is surprisingly low in calories too, if you are concerned about keeping that maidenly figure. What is more delightful than ice cream in the summertime? Here's an idea for one of those family suppers Serve this menu: Relish Plate Hot Rolls, Butter Baking the rolls and finishing the ice cream pie will be your only last minute jobs. The ice cream pie is so easy to make. 2 cups vanilla wafers crumbs (about 6 oz. wafers) 1-4 cup chopped nut meats (your favorite) 1-4 Cup butter, melted 1 1-2 quarts strawberry ice cream Roll vanilla wafers into fine crumbs using rolling pin. press through sieve to make them uniform. (If you want to be real thrifty use that left over cake for these crumbs). Combine thoroughly with melted butter, and press firmly around bottom and sides of 9-inch pie pan. Chill in refrigerator for several hours. Fill with ice cream and sprinkle with sliced nuts. Serve at once. Makes 6 servings. This is a delightful-to-look-at and delightful-to-eat dessert. Just about the pleasantest thrift to do on a summer afternoon, any summer afternoon, is to have your friends and their children over for ice cream and cake-but with a spark of inspiration about it all. Before your guest arrive take an ice cream scoop and scoop out several flavors of ice cream in balls. I'd say strawberry for one, but make up your own collection, you can't go wrong. Roll them in shredded coconut You might do some in fine-ground walnuts and pecans, leave some plain and undercorated. Wrap in paper, refreeze until serving time. Arrange in a big bowl. If you want it very colorful garnish with green leaves and berries or cherries. Serve on the patio or cut in the shady back yard and let each guest take his or her choice. Macaroni - Cheese Salad BY LEODA GAMMON Did you hear about the old lady who wouldn't eat ice cream because she thought anything that good couldn't be right? She was right about one thing, ice cream is good. It is not only good, it is good for you. This refreshing treat is surprisingly low in calories too, if you are concerned about keeping that maidenly figure. What is more delightful than ice cream in the summertime? Here's an idea for one of those family suppers Serve this menu: Relish Plate Hot Rolls, Butter Baking the rolls and finishing the ice cream pie will be your only last minute jobs. The ice cream pie is so easy to make. 2 cups vanilla wafers crumbs (about 6 oz. wafers) 1-4 cup chopped nut meats (your favorite) 1-4 Cup butter, melted 1 1-2 quarts strawberry ice cream Roll vanilla wafers into fine crumbs using rolling pin. press through sieve to make them uniform. (If you want to be real thrifty use that left over cake for these crumbs). Combine thoroughly with melted butter, and press firmly around bottom and sides of 9-inch pie pan. Chill in refrigerator for several hours. Fill with ice cream and sprinkle with sliced nuts. Serve at once. Makes 6 servings. This is a delightful-to-look-at and delightful-to-eat dessert. Just about the pleasantest thrift to do on a summer afternoon, any summer afternoon, is to have your friends and their children over for ice cream and cake-but with a spark of inspiration about it all. Before your guest arrive take an ice cream scoop and scoop out several flavors of ice cream in balls. I'd say strawberry for one, but make up your own collection, you can't go wrong. Roll them in shredded coconut You might do some in fine-ground walnuts and pecans, leave some plain and undercorated. Wrap in paper, refreeze until serving time. Arrange in a big bowl. If you want it very colorful garnish with green leaves and berries or cherries. Serve on the patio or cut in the shady back yard and let each guest take his or her choice. Ice Cream Pie Milk BY LEODA GAMMON Did you hear about the old lady who wouldn't eat ice cream because she thought anything that good couldn't be right? She was right about one thing, ice cream is good. It is not only good, it is good for you. This refreshing treat is surprisingly low in calories too, if you are concerned about keeping that maidenly figure. What is more delightful than ice cream in the summertime? Here's an idea for one of those family suppers Serve this menu: Relish Plate Hot Rolls, Butter Baking the rolls and finishing the ice cream pie will be your only last minute jobs. The ice cream pie is so easy to make. 2 cups vanilla wafers crumbs (about 6 oz. wafers) 1-4 cup chopped nut meats (your favorite) 1-4 Cup butter, melted 1 1-2 quarts strawberry ice cream Roll vanilla wafers into fine crumbs using rolling pin. press through sieve to make them uniform. (If you want to be real thrifty use that left over cake for these crumbs). Combine thoroughly with melted butter, and press firmly around bottom and sides of 9-inch pie pan. Chill in refrigerator for several hours. Fill with ice cream and sprinkle with sliced nuts. Serve at once. Makes 6 servings. This is a delightful-to-look-at and delightful-to-eat dessert. Just about the pleasantest thrift to do on a summer afternoon, any summer afternoon, is to have your friends and their children over for ice cream and cake-but with a spark of inspiration about it all. Before your guest arrive take an ice cream scoop and scoop out several flavors of ice cream in balls. I'd say strawberry for one, but make up your own collection, you can't go wrong. Roll them in shredded coconut You might do some in fine-ground walnuts and pecans, leave some plain and undercorated. Wrap in paper, refreeze until serving time. Arrange in a big bowl. If you want it very colorful garnish with green leaves and berries or cherries. Serve on the patio or cut in the shady back yard and let each guest take his or her choice. Recipe of the Week We've, always liked swiss steak at our house, but I tried a new recipe for it the other day that made the biggest hit yet - Vegetables Swiss Steak, made with a Pet Evaporated Milk recipe. And, since Swiss steak seems to be popular with almost everyone, I thought you might like to try it this new way, too. It's so unusually good because it's made with canned vegetable soup, instead of just tomatoes, and the extra flavor you get from the vegetable soup is really wonderful. Then, too. I especially like this recipe because it includes milk, and it's an ideal way to add extra milk nourishment to a favorite main dish that usually doesn't have any milk at all. In fact, there's even more milk nourishment than you'd think, because Pet Evaporated Milk is whole milk concentrated to double richness, so that the Pet Milk in this recipe is equal to twice as much ordinary milk. Next time you're having swiss steak at your house, try it this way - and if your family doesn't say it's the best ever, I'll really surprised! 1 1-2 lbs. round steak, 1-2 in thick 2 Tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt 1-8 teaspoon pepper 2 Tablespoons hot fat 1 can vegetable soup 1-2 cup water 2 Tablespoons finely cut onion 1-3 cup Pet Evaporated Milk Cut steak into pieces. Mix flour salt and pepper. Pound into both sides of meat with edge of saucer. Brown on both sides in hot fat in a skillet. Mix soup, water and onion. Add to meat in skillet. Cover and cook very slowly 1 1-4 hours or until meat is tender when pierced with a fork. Remove meat to warm platter, then stir milk into liquid left in skillet. Heat until steaming hot, but do not boil. Serve hot with the steak. Makes 4 servings. VEGETABLES SWISS STEAK We've, always liked swiss steak at our house, but I tried a new recipe for it the other day that made the biggest hit yet - Vegetables Swiss Steak, made with a Pet Evaporated Milk recipe. And, since Swiss steak seems to be popular with almost everyone, I thought you might like to try it this new way, too. It's so unusually good because it's made with canned vegetable soup, instead of just tomatoes, and the extra flavor you get from the vegetable soup is really wonderful. Then, too. I especially like this recipe because it includes milk, and it's an ideal way to add extra milk nourishment to a favorite main dish that usually doesn't have any milk at all. In fact, there's even more milk nourishment than you'd think, because Pet Evaporated Milk is whole milk concentrated to double richness, so that the Pet Milk in this recipe is equal to twice as much ordinary milk. Next time you're having swiss steak at your house, try it this way - and if your family doesn't say it's the best ever, I'll really surprised! 1 1-2 lbs. round steak, 1-2 in thick 2 Tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt 1-8 teaspoon pepper 2 Tablespoons hot fat 1 can vegetable soup 1-2 cup water 2 Tablespoons finely cut onion 1-3 cup Pet Evaporated Milk Cut steak into pieces. Mix flour salt and pepper. Pound into both sides of meat with edge of saucer. Brown on both sides in hot fat in a skillet. Mix soup, water and onion. Add to meat in skillet. Cover and cook very slowly 1 1-4 hours or until meat is tender when pierced with a fork. Remove meat to warm platter, then stir milk into liquid left in skillet. Heat until steaming hot, but do not boil. Serve hot with the steak. Makes 4 servings. Dixie Governors View Desegregation As Local Desegregation of southern schools can only be solved on the local level. That is the consensus of opinion of four southern governors interviewed by the Associated Negro Press at the 47th annual governor's conference at the Edgewater Beach hotel last Week. The chief executives interviewed were Allan Shivers of Texas, Robert F. Kennon of Louisiana, Thomas B. Stanley of Virginia and J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware. Gov. Shivers — the only outspoken opponent of integration interviewed — said the U. S. Supreme court decision abolishing segregation in the nation's public schools was "one of the greatest violations of states rights ever perpetrated upon the people of this great nation." He further stated that he favors Republicans over Democrats because "at least they (GOP) haven't passed any civil rights legislation." The conference chairman, Gov. Kennon, refused to commit himself one way or the other on the segregated school issue. He asserted that the proble mis out of his jurisdiction and that he does not concern himself with problems out of his jurisdiction. "Our state laws maintain segregation of races," Kennon said. When reminded that the nation's high tribunal had ruled segregated school laws to be illegal and unconstitutional, the governor countered with, "there are still some problems that must be handled by the states themselves." The Louisiana government head seemed surprised and asserted he wasn't aware of the NAACP's demands for desegregation in Louisiana. A strong advocate of the separate but equal theory of race relations Kennon maintained his state provides equal facilities for all its citizens. "Our school system is second to none and I am proud of the advancements made in this direction. I haven't heard any Negroes complain about our school system it fact, they are all very proud of it. Our teachers — white and Negro alike on all grade levels — are the best paid in the South ..... I have authorized the spending of $500,000 for a colored blind and deaf school. Yes, I feel Louisiana has done well by its unfortunate people ...." Arkansas Orval E. Faubus was unavailable for comment on the segregated school problem. However, an unofficial spokesman, close to the governor told the Associated Negro Press that "in Arkansas the situation created by the Supreme court's historic decision has been treated in a very practical manner and with a great deal of calmness and logic." Youth Held For "Grabbing" A 16-year youth, who said he just wanted to "have a little fun" is being held here on assault charges after he was identified as the person who grabbed two white women. Thomas Cotton, who said his home is in New Jersey, told police that he came up behind the women, grabbed them and fled when they screamed. "I just wanted to play," Cotton said. He was arrested by the chief of police and two officers after he has been identified by one of the victims. The attacks occurred on the consecutive nights. According to police, Cotton confessed to peeping into a white woman's window somewhere in the city for several nights. He did not know exactly where the house was located. Plan Filming Of "Bojangles Story" Universal-International Studio in Hollywood announced Monday it will film the life story of famed Negro entertainer Bill "Bolangles" Robininson. Edward Muhl, vice president in charge of production, said the picture to be called "The Bill Robinson, Story," will be one of the studio's most ambitious undertakings of its 1955-56 schedule. It will encompass almost half a century of show business–from the times of Robinson's birth in 1878, through the pinnacle of his singing, dancing and acting success and to his death in 1949. Muhl said rights to Robinson's film biography were obtained from the widow through Marty Forkins, who was manager, associate and mentor of the great "Bojangles" for more than 40 years. The movie will be produced by Aaron Rosenberg who performed a similar chore on the studio's greatest biographical success, "the Glenn Miller story. Rosenberg currently as guiding production on "The Benny Goodman story." Christian Recorder Editor at Paul Quinn Dr. Fred A. Hughes, editor of the Christian Recorder of the AMP Church will deliver the commencement address at the 24th summer commencement exercises of Paul Quinn college here. August 23, the college has announced.