Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1959-01-03 Thaddeus T. Stokes MEMPHIS WORLD AMERICA'S STANDARD RACE JOURNAL The South's Oldest and leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 546 BEALE — Ph. JA. 6-4030 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn. as second-class mail under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 THADDEUS T. STOKES Managing Editor SMITH FLEMING Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00 — 6 Months $3.00 Months $1.50 (In Advance) The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper—non sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to the interest of its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. Beginning Anew It is well that there come periods in which one is conditioned that a new beginning is being made. Herein lies the suggestion that in spite of errors made and unpleasant consequences, a new start would enhance the morale and give impetus to one to go on again; that it is possible that the mishaps and otherwise circumstances not in the anticipations of a regular procedure might be overcome. At any rate, psychologically as well as chronologically, we begin again. The old records are destroyed, a new page is begun and we set out in a renewed spirit to recapture the favorable, the inviting and win over what has been lost. It must be said for it, the old year had many splendid accounts. Coming in as it did amidst one of the record freezes the South has ever witnessed, it bore the promise of an excellent crop year. The germs were destroyed on a large scale, many unwanted roots of vicious plants were killed and many favorable conditions moved in the direction of the planter, those people of farming pursuits. Locally, there came the completion of some of the much needed expressways into the arteries of our city. Travel has been enhanced and there are on the credit side, many new industries that have been attracted by the availability and convenience of our surroundings. Nationally, the federal government has come in to more intensely and emphasized the strong arm of law and order. This year saw the initial point of the Civil Right Commission as well as its first setting in the famous Alabama voter registration case which proceeded out of Tuskegee to reach Barbour and Bulloch Counties, Alabama. The people at Tuskegee went on record as introducing a new phase in Negro business by buildjng a million dollar commercial center in Tuskegee proper, which cut off much of the Negro trade going to Opelika, Auburn, Montgomery, Union Springs, Alabama, and Columbus, Georgia. At the race level, the trial balloons sent up in the school closing business in Virginia have proved boomerangs which are returning to their throwers in no uncertain terms of impossibilities. The year has seen possibly the greatest change of heart here in Georgia where not even a taken of compliance with the Supreme Court's order has been attempted. First, the White ministers have enjoyed wide and favorable discussion in behalf of keeping the public schools public. Like amendments have come from such high standard institutions as Emory University, a Methodist school; Agnes Scott College, a female seat of learning of the Presbyterian faith in nearby Decatur, the students and P-TA, the physicians of the city, and the faculty of Georgia School of Technology. In spite of the incoming governor's outright expressions of disfavor of compliance, the sentiment among the intellectuals and the cultural forums continue to build up. This year has seen the improvement of the health of the President of the United States. He has written imperishable history across the lintels of world history and will beyond all doubt be able to carry out one of the most fruitful terms of office in recent history. Our people in this locale made a record achievement in voting. Their average in actual participation in elections chalked up a higher rating than those of the opposite group. No one knows what the future will bring, but there are strong indications that new frontiers will be reached, better relations and improved racial status may come in to make the year one long to be remembered. No one knows what the future will bring, but there are strong indications that new frontiers willbe reached, better relation and improved racial status may come in to make the year one long to be remembered. So, as the joy bells chime in the glad New Year; we begin again to the tone of the times. With great vigor and courage and confidence, we begin again. Respect Pedestrians' Rights Every driver of a motor vehicle has a tender regard for the rights of the pedestrian when he happens to be the pedestrian. On such occasions, they are in a position to understand that approximately 65 per cent of all persons injured or killed in automobile accidents are pedestrians. After a narrow escape from some driver, they are then willing to believe that a pedestrian is entitled to safety, and that whether he is in the right or wrong, the driver should protect him. We hope that every automobile driver who reads this, will make up his or her mind to drive carefully, having regard for the presence of children in the streets, the location of schools and playgrounds, and the natural tendency of children to ignore danger of which they are not fully aware. Let's, all give a thought to the children particularly. They furnish one third of the fatalities that result from automobile accidents. They are entitled to safety, and if drivers do not give it to them, then it is time for the State to step in and, by laws strictly enforced, to see that the children of our state have as nearly absolute protection as can be obtained. 'Something To Hide' The Richmond Times-Dispatch, a leader in Virginia's "mass ive" resistance strategy has published a roundup of Virginia newspaper opinion On the refusal of Alabama officials to cooperate with the Civil Rights Commission: Defiance of this sort will not help Alabama or the South Behind defiance of the commission is fear of political control by Negroes in areas where they outnumber whites, but this is a problem that cannot be dealt with by barring Negroes from the exercise of a fundamental right of citizenship. Roanoke Times. The language of the Fifteenth Amendment is unequivocal ... Their (the Alabama officials) refusal is bound to be interpreted as evidence that they have something to hide. Charlottesville Daily Progress. Open defiance of a federal commission will get the state nowhere in the long run In the case of the Alabama officials, they were not making a good impression by what appeared to be a bald effort to cover up their actions on Negro voting. Lynchburg Daily Advance. Former Governor Battle of Virginia ..... is trying to tell Alabama officials ...... that stubborn, blind resistance ... will foster rather than retard an anti-south attitude in the rest of the country. —Northern Virginia Sun (Arlington). The white South may, on the whole, disapprove of school desegregation. But that does not mean it disapproves of "the exercise of a fundamental right of citizenship." Use It Or Lose It REV. LOUSIE LYNOM This God — his way is perfect; the promise of the lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him". 2: Samuel 22: 31.) 1958 is history and history is a record of things which are past but which keep on influencing life present and future. As we begin this new year let us keep constantly in mind that what we do day by day this year, will be making or marring the future for us, our children and our children's children. Let us take a new look at our lives and others this year, let us see how many souls we can win for Christ. I was asked how would you go about winning souls for Christ. There is no more beautiful promise in the Scripture than those to soul winners. He that winneth souls is wise," It is related of St. Patrick that at onetime he was greatly discouraged regarding his work for the Master. His efforts did not seem to be fruitful. In a dream he saw a great tree filled with birds of very beautiful plumage, and as he gazed upon the tree he heard a voice saying, "The multitude of these birds represents the multitude of souls which you have won to Christ. I wish to point out a few of the fundamental qaulifications necessary to prepare one for personal work in soul winning. 1. First of all I name genuine love for men. Soul winning without love is utterly impossible. 2. A second qualification of the soul-winner is the inducement of disciples that the Holy Spirit would weight of one's interest and love to impress another in a divinely saving way. 3. A third qualification for the soul-winner is the enducment of divine power. Jesus promised the disciples that the Holy Spirit should endue them with power. 4. A knowledge of the Scripture is essential to the soul-winner. 5. A further qualification of the soul-winner is alertness of mind and heart to discover possibilities for soul-winning. 6. I name as a further quality, skill in presenting truth. The saving truths of the gospel in the clearest possible means. PRAYER: Grant, O God, On New Year's Eve, That we might save souls for thee. Give us the heart to hope, believe, Relinquishing the pain of strife, want and fear. Help us to bless those we hold so dear, And this new year so young and new, Help us each day to be More conscreated to thee Amen. THE NEW YEAR: REV. LOUSIE LYNOM This God — his way is perfect; the promise of the lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him". 2: Samuel 22: 31.) 1958 is history and history is a record of things which are past but which keep on influencing life present and future. As we begin this new year let us keep constantly in mind that what we do day by day this year, will be making or marring the future for us, our children and our children's children. Let us take a new look at our lives and others this year, let us see how many souls we can win for Christ. I was asked how would you go about winning souls for Christ. There is no more beautiful promise in the Scripture than those to soul winners. He that winneth souls is wise," It is related of St. Patrick that at onetime he was greatly discouraged regarding his work for the Master. His efforts did not seem to be fruitful. In a dream he saw a great tree filled with birds of very beautiful plumage, and as he gazed upon the tree he heard a voice saying, "The multitude of these birds represents the multitude of souls which you have won to Christ. I wish to point out a few of the fundamental qaulifications necessary to prepare one for personal work in soul winning. 1. First of all I name genuine love for men. Soul winning without love is utterly impossible. 2. A second qualification of the soul-winner is the inducement of disciples that the Holy Spirit would weight of one's interest and love to impress another in a divinely saving way. 3. A third qualification for the soul-winner is the enducment of divine power. Jesus promised the disciples that the Holy Spirit should endue them with power. 4. A knowledge of the Scripture is essential to the soul-winner. 5. A further qualification of the soul-winner is alertness of mind and heart to discover possibilities for soul-winning. 6. I name as a further quality, skill in presenting truth. The saving truths of the gospel in the clearest possible means. PRAYER: Grant, O God, On New Year's Eve, That we might save souls for thee. Give us the heart to hope, believe, Relinquishing the pain of strife, want and fear. Help us to bless those we hold so dear, And this new year so young and new, Help us each day to be More conscreated to thee Amen. To Seek the State of Alabama prove it is true to its own face." The Negro minister said the court decision "does not mean the Supreme Court retreated in any sense. The court still stands on its decision that equal but separate facilities are inherently unequal and always will be." Jews Asked To Help Achieve Racial Harmony The Jews Sunday were asked to help achieve racial harmony. Dr. Norman Drachler, addressing the convention of National Federation of Temple Educators, urged religious educators to intensify efforts in promoting understanding among peoples of different ethnic, religious, and racial groups. He said that recent studies indicate that in the next 15 years more than 50 per cent of the population in large cities will be composed of Negroes. He said this would specifically include such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and Detroit. CHRISTMAS COURTESY A busy traffic policeman found time for a bit of Christmas courtesy the other day. Mrs. Mary Constantine and her mother waited at a busy intersection. Due to the heavy auto traffic, they were unable to cross, although the light was with them. Finally the policeman held up the line of vehicles to permit the two women to cross. 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 letters in your first name. If the number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the upper left-hand corner of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers, left to right. Then read the message the letters under the checked figures give you. India Lauds Ghana Chief "Africa's Man Of Destiny" Dr. Kwane Nkrumah, Prime Minister of Ghana, who was visiting India, has had an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters conferred upon him by Delhi University. He was introduced as "Africa's Man of Destiny." Among those at the ceremony were Jawaharal Nehru, Prime Minister of India and Mr. RadhaKrishnan, vice president, who is chancellor of the university. Mr. Radhakrishnan said, "We are proud to count you as one of us." In reply, Dr. Nkrumah said the honor conferred on him was symbolic of the friendship and goodwill felt towards a representative of resurgent Africa. He added that Ghana was seeking to develop a balanced system of education as a valuable contribution to the future of improvement of material standards and moral quality among the people. Dr. Nkrumah landed at Delhi airport Wednesday. He was welcomed by Mr. Nehru and the diplomatic corps. Students atired in colorful apparrel joined in the welcome by singing and dancing to the beat of drums. A guard of honor was formed by units of the three defense services. Mr. Nehru in his speech of welcome said he hoped Dr. Nkrumah's visit would help to strengthen the ties of friendship between India and Ghana. Large crowds lined the eight-mile route of the drive to the residence of Dr. Prasad, President of India, where Dr. Nkrumah stayed. Later in the day Dr. Nkrumah met Mr, Nehru for discussions on matters of mutual interest including recent developments in Africaand the proposed union between Ghana and Guinea. On Saturday Dr. Nkrumah visited the India Air Force station at Pujam where he inspected flying and technical units. He also witnessed a day's flying training in which supersonic jet aircraft participated. Dr. Nkrumah arrived in Bombay on Dec. 22 for a 15-day visit to India. Thousands of Bombay citizens, including ministers of the state government, the mayor of Bombay, high ranking military and civil officials, members of the Consular corps and about a dozen Ghana students studying in Bombay gave a warm welcome to Dr. Nkrumah at Santa Cruz Airport. Replying to a question from newsmen about the union with Guinea, Dr. Nkrumah said: "It is coming off well. But the main job is to work an initial constitution in such a way that we can accommodate others when they come to join in the Union." As Dr. Nkrumah stepped out of the plane, he was received by Dr. Jivaraj Mehta, Bombay's finance minister. After inspecting the guard of honor provided by the Indian Navy, Dr. Nkrumah was introduced to the ministers and deputy ministers of the Bombay government and high ranking civil and military officials. William T. Turner, the United States Consul General in Bombay, as dean of the consular corps, presented the members of the corps to to visiting prime minister. Dr. Nkrumah was cheered by large crowds as he drove from the airport to Raj Rhavan, the governor's residence. An estimated 100,000 people lined the 14-mile route cheering the visitor. Santa Cruz Airport and important road junctions were decorated with the Indian and Ghana flags. To Press Ahead For Alford Bar Some House Democrats said Tuesday that Speaker Sam Rayburn may have taken the steam out of a drive by liberal Democrats to deny party recognition to Rep.elect Dale Alford of Arkansas. But Rep. John A. Blatnik, D. Minn., leader of the anti-Alford forces, said he would press ahead with his effort to bar the tittle Rock segregationist from House Democratic ranks despite Rayburn's stand. Blatnik revealed Monday that the speaker had written him warning that it would be a "major operation" to bar Alford from the party if Alford continued to insist he is a Democrat. People Of Ghana Show "Gratitude" To Their Leader While Egypt and Ghana strengthened the ties between them by agreeing to exchange goods, the people of Ghana showed their gratitude to their timeless young leader, Kwame Nkrumah, by purchasing the $840,000 luxury yacht "Radiant" for his use on state occasions. Meanwhile the busy Premier now conducting a 19-day tour of India, took time out to relax and joined India's Prime Minister Nehru for a play break two pet Pandas were the objects of their affections. Meharry May Be Among Schools To Get 'Atom' Fuds The Atomic Energy Commission, John A. McCone, president has announced the establishment of a new program of assistance to colleges and universities for education and training in radioisotope, principles and technology. Purpose of the program, which provides for direct financial assistance to colleges and Universities, is to increase the number of scientists engineers and technicians qualified to contribute to and support the growing industrial use of radioisotopes and nuclear radiation. Among colleges and universities utilizing radioisotopes and sharing in the commission technical projects, is Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., a school devoted to the training of Negro doctors and nurses. Requirements for submission of proposals for equipment grants under this program and the criteria used in evaluating proposals may be obtained from the Director, Office of Isotopes Development, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington 25, D. C. $45-Million For L&N Improvements Planned "The Louisville and Nashville Railroad will spend over $45,000,000 in 1959 for improvements and new equipment." John E. Tilford, President announced Tuesday in his annualyear-end statement. President Tilford predicted a rise in the business cycle, with 1959 showing decided improvements over 1958. "The large capital expenditures authorized for 1959 is a continuation of the program of improvements and modernizations on which the road has spent more than $1 Billion since World War II," President Tilford stated. The principal item in the railroad's expenditures for 1959 is the amount of $28,000,000 authorized for the purchase of 3,000 new 70-ton coal hopper cars. These have already been ordered and delivery will begin in January. Miami Manhunt A NEW SUSPENSE NOVEL By WILLIAM FULLER MARTA was standing by a tree on the bank of a stream when I saw her. Her body was tense, almost rigid. Her hands were on her cheeks, fingers splayed. Her face was white and her eyes were drawn with fear. When she'd recognized me her body sagged. She leaned against the tree. Seconds later she was in my arms. And she was sobbing. I stroked her back. I buried my fingers in her tangled mass of hair and tilted her face toward me and kissed her eyes and her nose and then her lips. Gently. The sobs lessened. And then they stopped. I said quietly, "What happened, Marta?" Her eyes were huge. "There's somebody else on this island, Brad. Not Ramez. Not any of his men. Somebody else!" My fingers bit into her arm. "Did you see him?" "No! But I know! I'll show you. Now that you're here I'm not afraid to go back." She shuddered. "I heard you fighting your way through that undergrowth. You were all bent over. I couldn't tell who you were. I didn't think you'd be coming from that direction. I thought" I Kissed her again. "When you weren't at the pool when I got there I thought things, too, Dozens of things. None of them good!" "Come on!" She led the way. The stream turned Once to the left and then, a few hundred feet farther along, to the right. We were on the right bank, the inside of this last turn. Halfway around the inside of this turn we struck Knee-deep water. The water was not flowing so it couldn't be a converging stream. A backwater, I thought, choked with growing brush. Marts had stopped. I looked at her. She was looking toward the pile of brush that covered the neck of the backwater I followed her look. There was something wrong with that pile of brush. Something false. And then I had it. I'd been very stupid not to see it at first Those plants and bushes weren't growing there! They'd been cut and piled there in such a way that they seemed to grow there! And the leaves were fresh and green and I knew they couldn't have been there more than two or three days at the very most! I ran to the file of brush and flailed my way through it. On the other side was a boat, an eighteen-foot sea skiff, lapstraked, broad beamed and capatle looking. A good sea boat, for the size of her. The deck of her cockpit was stacked with five gallon gasoline tanks. I leaned into the boat and tugged at the first four or five of the tanks I reached. They were all full. In good weather, it would be an easy day's run to the mainland. And that's just exactly what somebody had in mind! Marts stood beside me. Just as I started to turn to her, she screamed. I followed her gaze beyond the boat. A man leaned against the rock he'd obviously been waiting behind. He held a rifle I thought it was a 30-30. The muzzle of the rifle was pointed at my chest. "I wouldn't move," he said. I saw his face. I recognized the bulging eyes, the tense jaws and lips it was Tom Lear. "Now," Lear said, "we'll all take a nice long hike. All the way back to the house on the Other side of the island." "And if we don't feel like taking a hike?" I asked. His face twisted into what I supposed was meant to be a grin. He waved the muzzle of the rifle. "Then I'll make you feel like it. I'll start out by shooting one of you. Probably you. You both know where the money is. One of you is all. I need And I'd rather split the take in half than in thirds. But I'm a reasonable, generous man. And I don't like killing people unless I have to. The three of us will go to the house. We'll get the money. We'll get in my airplane and fly to Miami. We'll split the money three ways. I'm scheduled to fly back tonight anyway. Ramez will never know." I'd play along with him until I found out exactly what was cooking. After all, I really didn't have a choice. "Why won't Ramez know?" "Because he won't be there. And neither will Manuel or Alfredo. There will be one armed guard and the cook, who goes to bed early. The guard goes to the kitchen for his supper at nine on the dot. He stay there for forty-five minutes. That's his routine and it's a regular thing. Manuel and Alfredo are to have dinner on the Teresa with Ramez. I was there when he asked them to be there. They'll go aboard around sundown, have dinner around nine. They'll probably sit around drinking and making plans for several hours after that. Whatever they do after they eat makes no difference to us. We'll be on our way to Miami!" Fat chance, I thought! If we did know where the money was and let this character see the color of it we wouldn't end up in Miami. We'd end up dead! My mind was racing, and I hoped Marta's was racing in the same direction. For forty-five minutes tonight we could have if what Lear said was true, and I didn't think he'd lie about that the run of that house! And Marta had told me that she'd be able to figure out where her husband, being the sort of a man he was, had hidden the foot! And she'd said she could fly. And if we were weathered in or couldn't get to the plane for some reason we could always come back here. And with Lear out of the way we could beat Our way back to the mainland in this boat that Lear had hidden here! But our best bet was to play ball with him. Maybe he'd get careless. If he did I'd take him over. At least then we'd have a weapon. And transportation off this island. "What do you say, Dolan, Marta? Do you want this the easy way, or the hard way?" "One thing you haven't made clear," I "said. "And it might be important. Where does Rames think you are right now?" "Hunting." "Us?" His face twisted into that simulated grin again. "Wild hogs," he said. "This island's full of them. Ramez isn't very smart, you know. He just looks smart, talks smart. Me, I'm just a dumb pilot. I'm not even supposed to know what's going on around here! I'm supposed to fly the airplane, run his lousy errands for him!" He was working himself info a rage again, the way he had when I'd first met him in that barroom on Key Biscayne. A very unstable character, this one. "Listen!" he said. "I was onto this deal right from the start! I told you Forbes used to talk a lot, didn't I? Well, he did a little talking in the wrong place and it got back to me. Islands in the Bahamas, and stuff! I'knew he'd been working for Ramez. I started putting two and two together. They didn't fool me! None of them. Not Forbes or Ramez or Joan Morris He clamped his lips together to stop the flow of words. Things were beginning to add up for me. Tom Lear had been the only man who knew I was going to see, or going to try and see Joan Morris that night. The night she was murdered! "I braced myself for the shot that didn't come. And then" Brad Dolan's nightmarish adventure continue tomorrow. CHAPTER 32 A NEW SUSPENSE NOVEL By WILLIAM FULLER MARTA was standing by a tree on the bank of a stream when I saw her. Her body was tense, almost rigid. Her hands were on her cheeks, fingers splayed. Her face was white and her eyes were drawn with fear. When she'd recognized me her body sagged. She leaned against the tree. Seconds later she was in my arms. And she was sobbing. I stroked her back. I buried my fingers in her tangled mass of hair and tilted her face toward me and kissed her eyes and her nose and then her lips. Gently. The sobs lessened. And then they stopped. I said quietly, "What happened, Marta?" Her eyes were huge. "There's somebody else on this island, Brad. Not Ramez. Not any of his men. Somebody else!" My fingers bit into her arm. "Did you see him?" "No! But I know! I'll show you. Now that you're here I'm not afraid to go back." She shuddered. "I heard you fighting your way through that undergrowth. You were all bent over. I couldn't tell who you were. I didn't think you'd be coming from that direction. I thought" I Kissed her again. "When you weren't at the pool when I got there I thought things, too, Dozens of things. None of them good!" "Come on!" She led the way. The stream turned Once to the left and then, a few hundred feet farther along, to the right. We were on the right bank, the inside of this last turn. Halfway around the inside of this turn we struck Knee-deep water. The water was not flowing so it couldn't be a converging stream. A backwater, I thought, choked with growing brush. Marts had stopped. I looked at her. She was looking toward the pile of brush that covered the neck of the backwater I followed her look. There was something wrong with that pile of brush. Something false. And then I had it. I'd been very stupid not to see it at first Those plants and bushes weren't growing there! They'd been cut and piled there in such a way that they seemed to grow there! And the leaves were fresh and green and I knew they couldn't have been there more than two or three days at the very most! I ran to the file of brush and flailed my way through it. On the other side was a boat, an eighteen-foot sea skiff, lapstraked, broad beamed and capatle looking. A good sea boat, for the size of her. The deck of her cockpit was stacked with five gallon gasoline tanks. I leaned into the boat and tugged at the first four or five of the tanks I reached. They were all full. In good weather, it would be an easy day's run to the mainland. And that's just exactly what somebody had in mind! Marts stood beside me. Just as I started to turn to her, she screamed. I followed her gaze beyond the boat. A man leaned against the rock he'd obviously been waiting behind. He held a rifle I thought it was a 30-30. The muzzle of the rifle was pointed at my chest. "I wouldn't move," he said. I saw his face. I recognized the bulging eyes, the tense jaws and lips it was Tom Lear. "Now," Lear said, "we'll all take a nice long hike. All the way back to the house on the Other side of the island." "And if we don't feel like taking a hike?" I asked. His face twisted into what I supposed was meant to be a grin. He waved the muzzle of the rifle. "Then I'll make you feel like it. I'll start out by shooting one of you. Probably you. You both know where the money is. One of you is all. I need And I'd rather split the take in half than in thirds. But I'm a reasonable, generous man. And I don't like killing people unless I have to. The three of us will go to the house. We'll get the money. We'll get in my airplane and fly to Miami. We'll split the money three ways. I'm scheduled to fly back tonight anyway. Ramez will never know." I'd play along with him until I found out exactly what was cooking. After all, I really didn't have a choice. "Why won't Ramez know?" "Because he won't be there. And neither will Manuel or Alfredo. There will be one armed guard and the cook, who goes to bed early. The guard goes to the kitchen for his supper at nine on the dot. He stay there for forty-five minutes. That's his routine and it's a regular thing. Manuel and Alfredo are to have dinner on the Teresa with Ramez. I was there when he asked them to be there. They'll go aboard around sundown, have dinner around nine. They'll probably sit around drinking and making plans for several hours after that. Whatever they do after they eat makes no difference to us. We'll be on our way to Miami!" Fat chance, I thought! If we did know where the money was and let this character see the color of it we wouldn't end up in Miami. We'd end up dead! My mind was racing, and I hoped Marta's was racing in the same direction. For forty-five minutes tonight we could have if what Lear said was true, and I didn't think he'd lie about that the run of that house! And Marta had told me that she'd be able to figure out where her husband, being the sort of a man he was, had hidden the foot! And she'd said she could fly. And if we were weathered in or couldn't get to the plane for some reason we could always come back here. And with Lear out of the way we could beat Our way back to the mainland in this boat that Lear had hidden here! But our best bet was to play ball with him. Maybe he'd get careless. If he did I'd take him over. At least then we'd have a weapon. And transportation off this island. "What do you say, Dolan, Marta? Do you want this the easy way, or the hard way?" "One thing you haven't made clear," I "said. "And it might be important. Where does Rames think you are right now?" "Hunting." "Us?" His face twisted into that simulated grin again. "Wild hogs," he said. "This island's full of them. Ramez isn't very smart, you know. He just looks smart, talks smart. Me, I'm just a dumb pilot. I'm not even supposed to know what's going on around here! I'm supposed to fly the airplane, run his lousy errands for him!" He was working himself info a rage again, the way he had when I'd first met him in that barroom on Key Biscayne. A very unstable character, this one. "Listen!" he said. "I was onto this deal right from the start! I told you Forbes used to talk a lot, didn't I? Well, he did a little talking in the wrong place and it got back to me. Islands in the Bahamas, and stuff! I'knew he'd been working for Ramez. I started putting two and two together. They didn't fool me! None of them. Not Forbes or Ramez or Joan Morris He clamped his lips together to stop the flow of words. Things were beginning to add up for me. Tom Lear had been the only man who knew I was going to see, or going to try and see Joan Morris that night. The night she was murdered! "I braced myself for the shot that didn't come. And then" Brad Dolan's nightmarish adventure continue tomorrow. Seek Strong Leadership To Convince Others Of Worth "The most important contribution Highlander Folk School can make in 1959 is to strengthen Negro leadership concerned with integration and citizenship and to help white people understand that it is to their self-interest to support these efforts to make democracy a reality for all." foreign visitors attending a seminar were told by Myles Horton, the School's Director. "Fully integrated in its policymaking body, staff and participants, Highlander demonstrates the democratic way of life for which it aducates," Horton said. Dr. Morris Mitchell, president of Putney Graduate School of Teacher Education, who arranged the seminar, said that Highlander is one of the few institutions of learning in this country working on education for democratic living with intelligence combined with courage." Speaking of Highlander, Dr. Mitchell said, "I think of the profound, constructive influence of George Wythe in his teaching of the law at William and Mary prior to the Revolution. He rightly judged the meaning of his time, a revolutionary time which was destined to enhance the meaning of individual liberty and dignity and responsibility. His spirit breathes in the Declaration of Independence which one of his students wrote and he himself and another signed. "I like to think of the Highlander Folk School, for, since 1932, you have sensed aright the meaning of our time. How well you have known that we must continue to struggle to enhance the freedom, the rights, the dignity of the individual But you have known that the magic word of our time was community, that we must give community a new and higher meaning a richer and profounder concept. "Greatness must be seen now in a new perspective. Greatness is the capacity to perceive the true meaning of our time and in little ways and in lowly places to face up to our responsibilities with clarity of vision and courage. And Highlander Folk School has encouraged, not hundreds alone, but thousands to do just that. History may never recognize the contribution of Highlander. But you are pioneering on the forefront of social reconstruction in combatting, for instance, the human scourge of racism. And to the degree that you have touched the spirit and have given new self confidence to such a one as Rosa Parks, to that extent have you won your place beside George Wythe." The Word Of God "In the beginning God created the heaven and earth." Genesis 1:1. Maria Holley Peiping insists Mao is still Red China boss. Youths Admit member, said he understood one of the boys, aged 14 to 15, lived in the neighborhood where the house was sold and "presumably he was unhappy about the situation." The other boys "went along with him as a lark," Couch said. The youths burned the cross on the lawn of the Rev. Jan J. McCrae, 34, Saturday night. They were ordered to appear before juvenile authorities. McCrae and his wife have been harassed constantly since neighbors learned of the sale of their home in an all-white neighborhood to a Negro couple, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Carr. Police maintained a 24-hour patrol in the neighborhood. The family was threatened with violence several days ago and some one turned in a false fire alarm for the McCrae address Monday. Tires on the Rev. McCrae's car have been punctured three times. The family has received annoying phone calls and someone started a small fire in his backyard recently The Rev. McCrae is minister of education at University Christian Church here. He has three children and plans to move to a location closer to the church. "We have expected something of this sort," Mrs. McCrae said. 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I regards to Don's recent disturbance case, the Board voted, 2-1 to dismiss the charge that he, Newcombe, and his borthers, Harold and Norman, staged a brawl with former East Orange policeman Ulysses Ross last December. However, they race trial January 5 on assault charges. 'Just Lived' To 109 Mrs. Francis Freeman, one of the world's oldest living actresses, on turning 109: "Well, well, I'm 109. I didn't think I'd make it. I didn't accomplish anything. I just lived to be 109.