Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1959-07-25
Thaddeus T. Stokes

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The NAACP At Its Fiftieth Milestone
It is highly significant that so conservative a paper as The
New York Times would take time out and give an editorial in
commendation to the National Association for the Advancement 
of Colored People in the setting of its Fiftieth Anniversary
celebration at its convocation in New York.
The meeting held sessions at the Coliseum and is attracting 
wide attention.
Two notables along with other celebrities have addressed
the convention in the persons of Senator Hubert Humphrey of
Minnesota and Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York.
Another highlight of the celebration was the intensification 
of what was described as "the beginning of the end" of
massive resistance to desegregation in the South.
The New York Times had this to say:
"The NAACP can be proud of its accomplishments 
and the Negroes of this country are deeply
thankful for its existence. So can Americans of every
color and race who know— even though they may
not openly admit the full implication of their knowledge 
— that all men are created equal" and have
"equal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." 

It must be said to the credit of this invaluable organization,—and 
it should be a tribute to the pride of every American, 
it has insisted faith in the Constitution of the United States
and at no time has ever gone beyond the framework of the
cardinal principles imbedded in that powerful document.
Among the significant statements mode at the recent
New York meeting, we rank very high one made by the organization's 
Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. In a speech at one
of the principal sessions, he issued a warning to Democrats
who hold two-thirds of the seats in the present Congress that
unless some Civil Rights legislation is enacted, the Negro voters
may increasingly turn to the Republican Party. This statement
reaffirms the non-partisan position of the NAACP. This is as
it should be. We have a strong conviction that in order to get
the maximum benefit from the exercise of the franchise, the
great mass of voters should be independent in voting. Office
seekers should be supported on the basis of what they stand
for rather than on the basis of a party label.
The NAACP completes fifty years of useful service. It has
made a laudable contribution to the support of the Democratic 
form of free government for all. It has demonstrated
the full content of wisdom and justice in our Constitution, as
well as the firm faith of the Negro group in the principles
proclaimed at Liberty Hall in Philadelphia and rededicated at
Gettysburg.

Appeals

order the school board to make
plans for the admission of pupils
on an integrated basis in the
county elementary schools at the
earliest practical day.
In asking the Supreme Court
to review the decision, the school
board asserts that the Court of
Appeals has stripped the District
Court of its discretion.
The Supreme Court is asked to
take judicial notice of the "calamitous 
results."
After the decision of Judge
Hutcheson, the school board employed 
an expert to study the problem 
of desegregating the county
public schools. The board now
states that the "precipitate action" 
of the court of Appeals has
"devitalized" the study.
The school board points out that
the Board of Supervisors, the governing 
body of the county, has
refused to levy any taxes or appropriate 
any money for public
schools for the year 1959-60. The
supervisors also have refused even 
to pay the salary of the Superintendent 
of Schools.
"Without money," the school
board says, "public education comes
to a stand still."
The board adds that as the resuit 
of the action of the Court
of Appeals in this case, there will
be no public schools in Prince Edword 
County the fall. Unless this
court reviews and reverses the
case, there will probably be no
public schools in the county for
many years to come."
The Supreme Court is asked
whether it intended for the Dis
trict Courts to have "broad discretion" 
in school desegregation
cases.
"If it did," the Prince Edward
County board says. "The Court of
Appeals was in error here and its
action should be reversed. If it
did not, the word 'deliberate' ha
been removed from the phrase all

deliberate speed.'
The Southern States are entitled 
to know whether the Court requires 
that colored children be admilted 
to white schools immediately
upon application.

EMPLOYED AN EXPERT

order the school board to make
plans for the admission of pupils
on an integrated basis in the
county elementary schools at the
earliest practical day.
In asking the Supreme Court
to review the decision, the school
board asserts that the Court of
Appeals has stripped the District
Court of its discretion.
The Supreme Court is asked to
take judicial notice of the "calamitous 
results."
After the decision of Judge
Hutcheson, the school board employed 
an expert to study the problem 
of desegregating the county
public schools. The board now
states that the "precipitate action" 
of the court of Appeals has
"devitalized" the study.
The school board points out that
the Board of Supervisors, the governing 
body of the county, has
refused to levy any taxes or appropriate 
any money for public
schools for the year 1959-60. The
supervisors also have refused even 
to pay the salary of the Superintendent 
of Schools.
"Without money," the school
board says, "public education comes
to a stand still."
The board adds that as the resuit 
of the action of the Court
of Appeals in this case, there will
be no public schools in Prince Edword 
County the fall. Unless this
court reviews and reverses the
case, there will probably be no
public schools in the county for
many years to come."
The Supreme Court is asked
whether it intended for the Dis
trict Courts to have "broad discretion" 
in school desegregation
cases.
"If it did," the Prince Edward
County board says. "The Court of
Appeals was in error here and its
action should be reversed. If it
did not, the word 'deliberate' ha
been removed from the phrase all

deliberate speed.'
The Southern States are entitled 
to know whether the Court requires 
that colored children be admilted 
to white schools immediately
upon application.

WISHING WELL
Registered U. S. Patent Office.
HERE is a pleasant little game that will give you a message every
day. It is a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune.
Count the litters in your first name. If the number of letters is 6 or
more, subtract 4. It 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.

Judge Dawkins

forbidding them to do so.
In his opinion also, Judge Dawkins 
virtually considered the commission 
a court of law. He did not
say so directly, but dwell at length
with the contention that the registrars 
would not be permitted to
cross-examine complainants. He did
not mention, however, that both
Negro and whites were to testify at
the hearing.
By its very nature, the Civil
Rights commission is not a court,
although Judge Dawkins called its
conduct of hearings, quasilegal." 
R has no enforcement
powers and only make recommendations 
to the President and Congress.
On one point, however, Judge
Dawkins favored. He refused to go
along with the plaintiffs contention 
that producing records as requested 
by the commission would
subject them to criminal action by
the state. He said the state law
permitted them to submit records
only upon order of a "competent
court," and under the law, that
body would have to resort to the
federal court in order to force compliance. 

The ruling followed closely an attempt 
by Dixiecrat members of the
Senate Judiciary subcommittee to
kill a pending civil rights bill, affecting 
the life of the commission.
The bill squeaked through the committee 
by a vote of 4-2.
It is believed that not only will
the court uphold the constitutionality 
of the commission, but Judge
Dawkins' ruling will be thrown out.

COMMISSION A "LAW COURT"

forbidding them to do so.
In his opinion also, Judge Dawkins 
virtually considered the commission 
a court of law. He did not
say so directly, but dwell at length
with the contention that the registrars 
would not be permitted to
cross-examine complainants. He did
not mention, however, that both
Negro and whites were to testify at
the hearing.
By its very nature, the Civil
Rights commission is not a court,
although Judge Dawkins called its
conduct of hearings, quasilegal." 
R has no enforcement
powers and only make recommendations 
to the President and Congress.
On one point, however, Judge
Dawkins favored. He refused to go
along with the plaintiffs contention 
that producing records as requested 
by the commission would
subject them to criminal action by
the state. He said the state law
permitted them to submit records
only upon order of a "competent
court," and under the law, that
body would have to resort to the
federal court in order to force compliance. 

The ruling followed closely an attempt 
by Dixiecrat members of the
Senate Judiciary subcommittee to
kill a pending civil rights bill, affecting 
the life of the commission.
The bill squeaked through the committee 
by a vote of 4-2.
It is believed that not only will
the court uphold the constitutionality 
of the commission, but Judge
Dawkins' ruling will be thrown out.

U. S.
DISCRIMINATION


Leadership Council

civic and welfare, social and other
organizations, including veteransand 
social groups."
A standing committee was appointed 
by Chairman Charles Williams. 
Others who compose the
committee on permanent organization 
are Mrs. Allura Stam Lee,
Atty. Estes, Dr. Vasco Smith, Mrs.
Lucille Price, and Frank Kilpatrick. 

At later meetings, President
Gladney appointed Howard Jackson 
of Klondyke as parliamentarian
and Atty. S. A. Wilbun as vicechairman 
of the committee.
The second committee was named
the screening committee, and Atty.
Estes was appointed chairman with
Mrs. Marjorie Ulen being selected
is secretary. Other members named
to the committee were Rev. H. C.
Nabrint, Mrs. B. E. Callaway, James
T. Walker, and Maceo Walker.
The screening committee has conducted 
numerous interviews with
candidates who seat election. Some
seventy or more organizations have
sanctioned the position that the
support of candidates recommended 
by the Leadership Council will
be vigorously supported in the election 
by the Negroes of Memphis,
and that there will be no two political 
camps or splitting of votes.
A Council spokesman pointed out
that "a new area is born in the
city of Memphis which is typified
by the expression, "One For All
and All For One."
On July 21 at Mt. Olive Cathedral, 
a public meeting was held
endorsing candidates who seek
posts in the election. The candidates 
made their appearances and
speeches concerning their platforms. 

Five minute pep talks were given
at this meeting by persons representing 
various organiztions.
Charles Williams spoke for the
Masons, Mrs. Elizabeth Russell
spoke for Eastern Star; Mrs. Marie
Adams, Federation of Women's
Clubs; Mrs. Allura Lee, beauticians
Mrs. Marjorie Ullen, sororities; Dr.
A. Maceo Walker. Shelby Country
Democratic Club; J. A. Bradfield
the barbers; Frank Kilpatrick., the
Bluff City and Shelby Country
Council of Civic Clubs; Mrs. Willa
McWilliams Walter. Bluff City
teachers; Atty. Estes, the veterans
Dr. S. A. Owen, the Interdominational 
Ministerial Alliance; and
Miss Lucille Price.
Others appearing on the program 
were Atty. Wilbun. Rev. Gladney. 
Rev. W. L. Vernado, Mrs.
Kaeen Irby and group, James
Walker, Lt. George W. Lee. Rev. M.
L. Freeman, and the candidates endorsed 
by the organization.

JACKSON PARLIAMENTARIAN

civic and welfare, social and other
organizations, including veteransand 
social groups."
A standing committee was appointed 
by Chairman Charles Williams. 
Others who compose the
committee on permanent organization 
are Mrs. Allura Stam Lee,
Atty. Estes, Dr. Vasco Smith, Mrs.
Lucille Price, and Frank Kilpatrick. 

At later meetings, President
Gladney appointed Howard Jackson 
of Klondyke as parliamentarian
and Atty. S. A. Wilbun as vicechairman 
of the committee.
The second committee was named
the screening committee, and Atty.
Estes was appointed chairman with
Mrs. Marjorie Ulen being selected
is secretary. Other members named
to the committee were Rev. H. C.
Nabrint, Mrs. B. E. Callaway, James
T. Walker, and Maceo Walker.
The screening committee has conducted 
numerous interviews with
candidates who seat election. Some
seventy or more organizations have
sanctioned the position that the
support of candidates recommended 
by the Leadership Council will
be vigorously supported in the election 
by the Negroes of Memphis,
and that there will be no two political 
camps or splitting of votes.
A Council spokesman pointed out
that "a new area is born in the
city of Memphis which is typified
by the expression, "One For All
and All For One."
On July 21 at Mt. Olive Cathedral, 
a public meeting was held
endorsing candidates who seek
posts in the election. The candidates 
made their appearances and
speeches concerning their platforms. 

Five minute pep talks were given
at this meeting by persons representing 
various organiztions.
Charles Williams spoke for the
Masons, Mrs. Elizabeth Russell
spoke for Eastern Star; Mrs. Marie
Adams, Federation of Women's
Clubs; Mrs. Allura Lee, beauticians
Mrs. Marjorie Ullen, sororities; Dr.
A. Maceo Walker. Shelby Country
Democratic Club; J. A. Bradfield
the barbers; Frank Kilpatrick., the
Bluff City and Shelby Country
Council of Civic Clubs; Mrs. Willa
McWilliams Walter. Bluff City
teachers; Atty. Estes, the veterans
Dr. S. A. Owen, the Interdominational 
Ministerial Alliance; and
Miss Lucille Price.
Others appearing on the program 
were Atty. Wilbun. Rev. Gladney. 
Rev. W. L. Vernado, Mrs.
Kaeen Irby and group, James
Walker, Lt. George W. Lee. Rev. M.
L. Freeman, and the candidates endorsed 
by the organization.

Payment Urged In

South."
(The commission's authority to
investigate was limited by the 1957
Civil Rights Act to voting, and,
in its latest move, the commission
has been enjoined from proceeding 
with an investigation of the
purge of colored voters in Northwest 
Louisiana by a Federal District 
Judge.
(Unless extended by Congress,
the life of the Commission is due
to expire Sept. 9.)
The resolution reiterated the
position taken by the 1958 NAACP
convention favoring amendment of
the Senate filibustering rule by a
majority of Senators present and
voting.
Under the existing rule, as
amended in January, debate may
now be shut, off by a two-thirds
vote of Senators present and voting. 
Previously a two-thirds vote
of the entire Senate membership
was required.
Congress was called upon to
abolish the seniority system by
which committee chairmen are
selected. The resolution states that
the seniority system had resulted
in control of key committees by
persons who lack a sense of fair
play and who use their chairmanships 
to block civil rights and
other desirable legislation.
The resolution also asked for
assurance that colored members of
Congress will not have their seniority 
nullified When vacancies occur. 

Other resolutions called for the

right to vote and home rule for
bia and condemned the continuaresidents 
of the District of Columtion 
of racial discrimination in the
Police Boys Club of the District.

HIT FILIBUSTER RULE

South."
(The commission's authority to
investigate was limited by the 1957
Civil Rights Act to voting, and,
in its latest move, the commission
has been enjoined from proceeding 
with an investigation of the
purge of colored voters in Northwest 
Louisiana by a Federal District 
Judge.
(Unless extended by Congress,
the life of the Commission is due
to expire Sept. 9.)
The resolution reiterated the
position taken by the 1958 NAACP
convention favoring amendment of
the Senate filibustering rule by a
majority of Senators present and
voting.
Under the existing rule, as
amended in January, debate may
now be shut, off by a two-thirds
vote of Senators present and voting. 
Previously a two-thirds vote
of the entire Senate membership
was required.
Congress was called upon to
abolish the seniority system by
which committee chairmen are
selected. The resolution states that
the seniority system had resulted
in control of key committees by
persons who lack a sense of fair
play and who use their chairmanships 
to block civil rights and
other desirable legislation.
The resolution also asked for
assurance that colored members of
Congress will not have their seniority 
nullified When vacancies occur. 

Other resolutions called for the

right to vote and home rule for
bia and condemned the continuaresidents 
of the District of Columtion 
of racial discrimination in the
Police Boys Club of the District.

International

Matthews urged his audience to
"take the lead in exploring the
tremendous possibilities available
in both the wild and cultivates
flowers of these lands." He said
the florists could thereby open the
door "to help educate Americans
to the culture" of these new nations. 

While encouraging the florists
to expand their trend toward the
unity and cooperation necessary to
protect their own position "in a
monopolistic world which threatens
the survival of the independent
operators," he also called upon
them to use their influence in the
attainment of important goals outside 
the world of business.
He ridiculed the recent action of
the school board in Charlottesville,
Va., in which students in integrated 
schools were ordered separated 
by sexes.
These and other gestures, the
editor said, 'give evidence of how
little confidence white people have
in their own womanhood...that
they take such fantastic precautions 
to prevent them from normal
social contact with colored men.
"This is the only logical conclusion 
to be garnered from these
actions." Matthews continued, "because 
both white men and Negro
women have always been free to
associate both legally and illicitly
as proved by the presence of so
many mulattoes among us" He
said the number of the latter has
been "constantly increasing since
the days of slavery."
A new note has been added to
this freedom, 'Matthews said, by
the "opportunities opened to colored 
women in the fields of entertainment 
and other arts, Nearly 
every top-ranking colored star,
like Lena Home, Dorothy Dandridge, 
Pearl aBiley, Mattlwilda
Dobbs, Anne Brown and many
others have white spouses Ever
since the days of the slave cabin
the masters fell in love with our
beautiful women, but when the
natural charms are enhanced with
a five-figure pay check, they become 
positively irresistable."
Instead of "wasting their resources 
in time-consuming legal
battles," Mathews suggested, "the
NAACP should round up thousands
of pretty and talented girls, give
them each a few thousand dollars, 
and white men will rush to
marry them so fast that the race
problem would be solved overnight." 

Touching briefly on the subject
of "society" and the relationship
to your fellow man," Matthews
brought up the recent Forest
Hills issue. "Miss Gibson should
have refused to play at Forest
Hills — our women have got to
uphold our men," he declared.
Affiliated with Negro journalism
for 35 years, the outspoken Matthews 
has a number of firsts to
his credit. He was the first correspondent 
assigned to cover a
presidential election Special, touring 
the nation with Wilkie, Dewey 
and Eisenhower. Prior to this
he served as foreign correspondent 
in Europe, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, 
Japan, Hawaii and Korea,
where he had an opportunity to
cover many historic events an
meet on intimate terms, the world
leaders of the present generator
including kings, potentates and
outstanding statesmen. He studied
at Morgan college and Columbia
University, and is at present
member of the board of director
of the National Negro Opera Company. 
He is married to Selma
Matthews of the Broadway an
European stage.

Greater Interest In

far from their own is another
notable trait, he said.
Mentioning the need for a permanent 
residence for African students 
centrally located in New
York City. Father Donovan pointed 
out there will be a large increase 
in their numbers studying
in this country in the very near
future.

Negro Is Named

until recently Commissioner of
Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity. 

Dumpson will be in command of
approximately 8,000 employees, and
the 49-year-old "little dynamo," a
career social worker, will become
supervisor of the annual expenditure 
of move than $300,000,000 in
city, state and Federal funds to
the needy.
Mr. Dumpson, a specialist in
the problems of underprivileged
children, joined the department in
1955 as director of the bureau of
child welfare. He became first deputy 
commissioner in 1957. He
has been a social service worker
since 1937, starting with private
agencies in his native Philadelphia
after a three-year stint as a public 
school teacher.
He is married to the former
Miss Goldie Brangnan, a nurse anesthetist 
at Harlem Hospital, and
they have a 12-year-old daughter,
Geraldine, and live in a new apartment 
in New York's new apartment 
in Park West village.

NOT BY GUNS ALONE
By E. M. Barker
&copyright; 1968 E. M. Barker; published by arrangement with Fund
R. Raynolds & Son; distributed by King Features Syndicate.
SLADE CONSIDINE wondered
if Frenchy Quebedeaux would
stand by and let the hanging go
on without a word of protest.
Under the spur of violent temper,
Frenchy was capable of almost
anything, but he had time to cool
off now. It was questionable, however, 
whether, now that there had
been some blows struck and some
noses bloodied, Frenchy could
stop the mob even if he wanted
to do so.
Anyhow Frenchy still seemed
to be angry. He swung up to the
back of his bay and watched
coldly while one of the Mexicans
tossed a rope over a strong limb
ot a cottonwood and another adjusted 
the knot around the cowboy's 
nock. Slade, sitting helpless
in the saddle with his hands
bound tightly behind him and two
strong natives holding his horse's
head, felt a wave of despair sweep
over him.
He opened his lips, half intending 
to try reasoning with the slim,
dark Mexican who seemed to be
leader of the mob, then dosed
them again without speaking.
There was nothing he could say
to them that would make any difference. 
It would only make them
believe he was afraid to die.
He turned to Frenchy. He wanted 
to tell the big sheepman that
he knew now he had made another 
mistake in jumping to the
obvious conclusion that Frenchy
had butchered the T Anchor calf.
These Mexicans had known about
Frenchy's arrest too soon. Only
the man who had left that calf
in his cellar could have forewarned 
them.
But the wanted to say it so it
wouldn't sound like begging (or
his life. Frenchy would have only
contempt for a man he thought
to be a coward.
"If you go through with this,
Frenchy, you will be making as
big a mistake as I did," he
warned quietly. "Whoever planted
that calf in your cellar wasn't
just trying to make trouble for
me. You will be"—
"Shut op!" the slim leader of
the gang said angrily, and slashed
a quirt viciously across his unprotected 
face.
Frenchy didn't seem to see or
hear. He was watching Bacho,
his sheepherder, with a queer
intent look on his dark face.
Bacho was off the little mule,
stumbling around in a seeming
half-drunken stupor. Slade met
his eyes, and the herder smiled
fleetingly, then kicked at a mound
that looked to be a bit of protruding 
cottonwood root.
The air was suddenly filled with
an angry h-m-m-m-ing, z-z-z-zing 
sound. Bacho slapped at his
cheek and gave another vicious
kick into the brownish clump
The next instant saw plenty of
action as the Mexicans began
fanning the air desperately with
their hats. One of the wasps
smacked viciously onto Slade's
cheek. He ducked his head against
his shoulder, wondering with a
curious resignation haw long it
would be before one of them
stung his horse. The rope was
tied at both ends now. The necktie 
party wasn't going to come
off exactly according to schedule.
Nobody was going to enjoy it
much, but it looked like they were
going to get the job done anyhow. 

He ducked his head against the
furious onslaught of the wasps,
and so did not see Frenchy suddenly 
spur his bay in close. But
the next moment he did feel a
knife slash the rope at his neck,
then the one that bound his
wrists.
Frenchy picked up the reins
and handed them to him. "Thees
way—queeck!" he said quietly.
A moment ago Slade had
counted himself a dead man, yet
now he was tree as easy as that
Nobody protested his going. The
Mexicans were busy taking care
of their own troubles. Batting
desperately at the vicious little
wasps, they scattered in as many
directions as there were menlynch 
fever, for the moment, completely 
forgotten in the excitement. 

Slade kicked spurs to the sorrel 
and followed Frenchy's lead.
A quarter of a mile away, at the
edge of New Town, they pulled
up. Slade's face was smarting
in half a dozen places where the
wasps had stung him, and he saw
Frenchy put up a hand and rub
his own cheeks gingerly.
"Where now?" the Frenchman
asked quietly, "To the jail—or
home?" There was the hint of a
twinkle in his black eyes.
Slade answered with a grin that
was more than a little sheepish.
"Home," he said. "And you can
take it has a promise, Frenchy,
that when I do get a, candidate
for that jail, I'm danged sure
now it won't be you!"
Frenchy hesitated before turning 
his horse. "Because you
theenk maybe I save your life?"
he asked soberly. "Because you
theenk you are—how you say it?
—in my debt?"
"Hell, no!" Slade said with such
emphasis that a smile broke over
Frenchy's face. "I know now that
you never, butchered that calf!"
He flushed, and hesitated for a
moment, embarrassed at how
often he seemed to be owing this
big, gruff Frenchman an apology.
"I'm new at this lawing business.
I made a mistake and I'm sorry.
Next time I won't be quits so
quick to believe the earliest answer 
is the right one,"
Frenchy put out his hand. "We
forget it" he said kindly. "Somelines 
— like today — when I'm
mad, I also make the meeatakes!"
"In the morning," Slade promised, 
"I'm going back where I
found that calf and check tracks
more carefully. Maybe I can
learn something."
A troubled look came over, the
Frenchman's face. "I theenk I—"
he began slowly, then checked
himself abruptly. "But notheeng!"
he said in answer to the look of
inquiry on the cowboy's face.

As the guitars and fiddles
started up again, Martha Kilgore
took another quick, surreptitious
glance at the watch she wore
on a long gold chain, tucked into
the waist band of her dress. It
was nearly eleven-thirty. After
this next dance, considering that
they had a ten-mile ride ahead
of them, she could, ask Wynn
Thomason to take her home.
She was tired of pretending
she was having a good time, although 
at first it had been fun.
There was a strange, foreign
world air that had delighted her
about this dimly lighted, lowceilinged 
room, with its crowd of
dark-skinned, shyly friendly people 
who smiled and spoke to her
in liquid Spanish, of which she
understood not a word.
The women, many of them with
babies in their arms and small
children at their knees, sat on
benches along the two long sides
of the room. The men clustered
in gangs around the windows and
door. Everybody, including blackshawled 
grandmothers and spindle-legged 
children, danced, but
they seemed to make a serious
business of it. They whirled and
skipped to the fast-thumping guitars, 
with grave, almost wooden
faces, holding their partners at
arm's length, and it seemed to
be a breach of etiquette to talk
while dancing.
Martha pushed a wave of hair
back from her damp forehead.
Her head ached. There weren't
enough windows in the room and
the air was heavy with tobacco
smoke. But not even to herself
would she admit the real reason
why the evening; bad lost its
savor for har.
The reason, of course, was that
Slade Considine bad not kept his
promise to meet her at the dance.

CHAPTER 16
By E. M. Barker
&copyright; 1968 E. M. Barker; published by arrangement with Fund
R. Raynolds & Son; distributed by King Features Syndicate.
SLADE CONSIDINE wondered
if Frenchy Quebedeaux would
stand by and let the hanging go
on without a word of protest.
Under the spur of violent temper,
Frenchy was capable of almost
anything, but he had time to cool
off now. It was questionable, however, 
whether, now that there had
been some blows struck and some
noses bloodied, Frenchy could
stop the mob even if he wanted
to do so.
Anyhow Frenchy still seemed
to be angry. He swung up to the
back of his bay and watched
coldly while one of the Mexicans
tossed a rope over a strong limb
ot a cottonwood and another adjusted 
the knot around the cowboy's 
nock. Slade, sitting helpless
in the saddle with his hands
bound tightly behind him and two
strong natives holding his horse's
head, felt a wave of despair sweep
over him.
He opened his lips, half intending 
to try reasoning with the slim,
dark Mexican who seemed to be
leader of the mob, then dosed
them again without speaking.
There was nothing he could say
to them that would make any difference. 
It would only make them
believe he was afraid to die.
He turned to Frenchy. He wanted 
to tell the big sheepman that
he knew now he had made another 
mistake in jumping to the
obvious conclusion that Frenchy
had butchered the T Anchor calf.
These Mexicans had known about
Frenchy's arrest too soon. Only
the man who had left that calf
in his cellar could have forewarned 
them.
But the wanted to say it so it
wouldn't sound like begging (or
his life. Frenchy would have only
contempt for a man he thought
to be a coward.
"If you go through with this,
Frenchy, you will be making as
big a mistake as I did," he
warned quietly. "Whoever planted
that calf in your cellar wasn't
just trying to make trouble for
me. You will be"—
"Shut op!" the slim leader of
the gang said angrily, and slashed
a quirt viciously across his unprotected 
face.
Frenchy didn't seem to see or
hear. He was watching Bacho,
his sheepherder, with a queer
intent look on his dark face.
Bacho was off the little mule,
stumbling around in a seeming
half-drunken stupor. Slade met
his eyes, and the herder smiled
fleetingly, then kicked at a mound
that looked to be a bit of protruding 
cottonwood root.
The air was suddenly filled with
an angry h-m-m-m-ing, z-z-z-zing 
sound. Bacho slapped at his
cheek and gave another vicious
kick into the brownish clump
The next instant saw plenty of
action as the Mexicans began
fanning the air desperately with
their hats. One of the wasps
smacked viciously onto Slade's
cheek. He ducked his head against
his shoulder, wondering with a
curious resignation haw long it
would be before one of them
stung his horse. The rope was
tied at both ends now. The necktie 
party wasn't going to come
off exactly according to schedule.
Nobody was going to enjoy it
much, but it looked like they were
going to get the job done anyhow. 

He ducked his head against the
furious onslaught of the wasps,
and so did not see Frenchy suddenly 
spur his bay in close. But
the next moment he did feel a
knife slash the rope at his neck,
then the one that bound his
wrists.
Frenchy picked up the reins
and handed them to him. "Thees
way—queeck!" he said quietly.
A moment ago Slade had
counted himself a dead man, yet
now he was tree as easy as that
Nobody protested his going. The
Mexicans were busy taking care
of their own troubles. Batting
desperately at the vicious little
wasps, they scattered in as many
directions as there were menlynch 
fever, for the moment, completely 
forgotten in the excitement. 

Slade kicked spurs to the sorrel 
and followed Frenchy's lead.
A quarter of a mile away, at the
edge of New Town, they pulled
up. Slade's face was smarting
in half a dozen places where the
wasps had stung him, and he saw
Frenchy put up a hand and rub
his own cheeks gingerly.
"Where now?" the Frenchman
asked quietly, "To the jail—or
home?" There was the hint of a
twinkle in his black eyes.
Slade answered with a grin that
was more than a little sheepish.
"Home," he said. "And you can
take it has a promise, Frenchy,
that when I do get a, candidate
for that jail, I'm danged sure
now it won't be you!"
Frenchy hesitated before turning 
his horse. "Because you
theenk maybe I save your life?"
he asked soberly. "Because you
theenk you are—how you say it?
—in my debt?"
"Hell, no!" Slade said with such
emphasis that a smile broke over
Frenchy's face. "I know now that
you never, butchered that calf!"
He flushed, and hesitated for a
moment, embarrassed at how
often he seemed to be owing this
big, gruff Frenchman an apology.
"I'm new at this lawing business.
I made a mistake and I'm sorry.
Next time I won't be quits so
quick to believe the earliest answer 
is the right one,"
Frenchy put out his hand. "We
forget it" he said kindly. "Somelines 
— like today — when I'm
mad, I also make the meeatakes!"
"In the morning," Slade promised, 
"I'm going back where I
found that calf and check tracks
more carefully. Maybe I can
learn something."
A troubled look came over, the
Frenchman's face. "I theenk I—"
he began slowly, then checked
himself abruptly. "But notheeng!"
he said in answer to the look of
inquiry on the cowboy's face.

As the guitars and fiddles
started up again, Martha Kilgore
took another quick, surreptitious
glance at the watch she wore
on a long gold chain, tucked into
the waist band of her dress. It
was nearly eleven-thirty. After
this next dance, considering that
they had a ten-mile ride ahead
of them, she could, ask Wynn
Thomason to take her home.
She was tired of pretending
she was having a good time, although 
at first it had been fun.
There was a strange, foreign
world air that had delighted her
about this dimly lighted, lowceilinged 
room, with its crowd of
dark-skinned, shyly friendly people 
who smiled and spoke to her
in liquid Spanish, of which she
understood not a word.
The women, many of them with
babies in their arms and small
children at their knees, sat on
benches along the two long sides
of the room. The men clustered
in gangs around the windows and
door. Everybody, including blackshawled 
grandmothers and spindle-legged 
children, danced, but
they seemed to make a serious
business of it. They whirled and
skipped to the fast-thumping guitars, 
with grave, almost wooden
faces, holding their partners at
arm's length, and it seemed to
be a breach of etiquette to talk
while dancing.
Martha pushed a wave of hair
back from her damp forehead.
Her head ached. There weren't
enough windows in the room and
the air was heavy with tobacco
smoke. But not even to herself
would she admit the real reason
why the evening; bad lost its
savor for har.
The reason, of course, was that
Slade Considine bad not kept his
promise to meet her at the dance.

SEES NO EASY END TO STEEL STRIKE—
Joseph P. Finnegan (top,
right), director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service, shakes hands in New York with David J. McDonald,
president of the United Steel workers or America. Finnegan,
who arrived from Washington on persona orders from President 
Eisenhower, also conferred with R. Conrad Cooper (bottom, 
left), chief negotiator for the steel industry. The mediator
said he could see "no easy or early solution" of the nationwide
strike by 500,000 workers. A lone picket walks his post al the
United States Steel plant in Los Angeles (bottom, right) while
in Homestead, Pa., Ellen Smalley (top) takes her father's
place in the picket line after she had delivered lunch to him.

Southern Opposition Loses
A Second Time On Rights
The House Judiciary Committee beat
down Southern opposition Wednesday and approved an administration 
proposal which would make it a federal crime
to obstruct court-ordered school desegregation.
The proposed crackdown on obstruction 
of such court orders by
force or threat is the first provision 
in an eight-point administration-backed 
civil rights bill now
pending before the committee.
The committee put its stamp of
approval on the controversial measure 
in an informal vote. It is
designed to prevent recurrence of
mob violence such as occurred

when central High School in Little
Rock, Ark., was ordered to desegregate 
in the fall of 1957.
At the same time, the committee 
sharply reduced the penalties
recommended by the administration 
in such cases. It voted for
maximum penalties of $1,000 in
fines and 60 days in jail instead
of $10,000 and two years in prison.
Southern congressmen, who con
stitute 
about one-third of the committee's 
membership, tried without
success to water down the legislation 
by making it apply to all
court orders.
The committee, headed by Rep.
Emanuel Celler D. - N. Y., originally 
had hoped to wind up its closed
door sessions on the civil rights
bill this week. But further sessions
were postponed until nest Tuesday
when Cellar suffered an ankle
injury.
Celler had complained Tuesday
that "progress was slow" on the
bill because of the "numerous
amendments from opponents,"
Meantime, Southerners served
notice they would attempt next
week to broaden a section in the
bill which would make it a federal 
crime to cross state lines to
escape prosecution for bombing
"any building, structure, facilities
or vehicle" used for religious or
educational purposes.
Southern members said they
would offer an amendment extending 
the provision to bombing of
any building or structure. This
could cover bombings in labor disputes 
or any other case.

EXILEE VISITS GHANA, GUINEA
Felix
Moumie, exiled leader of the banned 
Cameroons Peoples union in
the French Cameroons, recently
paid a week-long visit to Ghana and
Guinea.

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