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Seeking Action This week there came from New York City a story reporting that sixty "leading educators, clergy and other citizens from all parts of the country have joined in an appeal" seeking action on the Asbury Howard "Vote Sign Case." This distinguished list of influential citizens have directed their appeal to the United States Department of Justice. In brief, Mr. Howard, president of the Bessemer Voters League and eastern vice president of the Mine, Mill and Smelter. Workers Union, is serving a six-month hard labor sentence in the Bessemer City jail. He is accused of the violation of a Bessemer city ordinance in connection with having an editorial cartoon reproduced. The newspaper cartoon showed the drawing of a Negro man in chains praying, "Lord help all Americans to see that you intended human beings to have the same rights." To the original art piece was added this punch line, "Vote Today For A Better Tomorrow." This newspaper has commented editorially on the "Vote Sign Case" in three or more editorials. We say again that we believe Mr. Howard was convicted upon an unconstitutional application of a law af questionable validity. We have also called attention to the so-called defective appeal which bars the application of this law from legal challenge. We insist that the riddle of this case lies in the acts surrounding the unsuccessful appeal. Leaders in other parts of the nation have indicated a disturbing concern over the alleged attack by a mob on Mr. Howard inside the Bessemer City Hall. There have been reported attacks on Negro persons since then in Tuscaloosa and in Shelby County. There is the recent incident of reported activity by a hate-bearing organization in the Black Belt which seeks to muzzle freedom of speech, serve as custodians of civic behavior, and function with legal authority subordinated to it. Let us be reminded that this newspaper has urged the Mayor of Bessemer to check into the circumstances under which Mr. Howard was arrested; probe the manner appeals from Recorder's Court are usually made and investigate boldly the alleged mob attack on Mr. Howard. He might also try to determine why good men in Bessemer have become silent men in this trying hour when Bessemer's good name is at stake. Men of good conscience are not likely to let this case die down. We revise and adopt as our own counsel the words which Mr. Howard would have added to the cartoon, "Register now and be ready to vote at every opportunity for a better tomorrow, even a better Bessemer." An oppressed and down-held group must not only pray, but sacrifice and work so that all God's children may "have the same rights." No appeal made for justice is ever actually lost when there is a public free to read, willing to evaluate the facts, and concerned about due process and basic decency. This campaign for justice for Asbury Howard, Sr. must go on until it is eventually won. The Civil Rights Commission Reaches Georgia Housingwise At last the citizens of the state of Georgia have been somewhat host to the President's Civil Rights Commission, although housingwise. It was an epochal era for those citizens who have long had matters they wanted someone to hear as a neutral arbiter; a rationalizer and an the end — a worthy counselor. Impressive was the parade of citizens that steadily streamed before the interesting panel, presided over by Dr. John Hannah, president of Michigan State University. It was also interesting in that Dr. George M. Johnson, former dean of Howard, University Law School, appeared on the commission, in the place of the late J. Ernest Wilkins, pending his confirmation. The President wisely included another Negro on the commission which is representative of his policy of balancing the commission. Those who appeared before the commission well represented our side of the question. From glowing reports of finding among Negro financial institutions funds to carry on an extensive housing program, to the buffer, or the "deadline" which across the years has strangled in many instances the expansion of a wholesome housing program. Our testator made for the record that sad picture of Negro citizens owning land themselves and unable to get permits to build on that land. This tract was identified for the record as land lying out La Vista Road. It was well that the theme ran along the line of "all of God's chilluns want homes." Another brilliant testimony was to the effect that either "all men are valuable or no man is valuable"; mode its way to the heart of the situation seeking equal and adequate housing alike for all. As was significantly pointed out from the beginning, that the federal government should not participate in discrimination of its "own children", the fact was written into the record that discriminations of various sorts had intercepted an all-out housing program. Some of the blame was laid at the door of "our city fathers" by another witness. All in all the hearing was interesting. It was also evident that this hearing to the commission was not a mere gesture. The panel listened intently to every spokesman. Dean Storey, a member of the commission, asked one of the spokesmen to amplify what he said regarding the county unit system in Georgia. Citizens of this state are well acquainted with the recent war declared on the county unit as a devise not representing Georgia citizens. Mayor William B. Hartsfield, who was the top city spokesman, was the last to take the county unit to the federal courts. The hearing, however did not run politically wise, but where such a feature crossed the path of security and representation of citizens and their all out sponsorship af adequate housing, it was nothing strange for so current a customer as the county unit, to not remain a mere bystander. It is earnestly hoped that the hearing will bear fruit. At least a portion of our side of this question got safely into the records. This will not be read, listened to and walked off from and forgotten. We will hear more of this important hearing and it is certain to bear abundant fruit. The commission sat in Georgia although it was housingwise. SEEING and SAYING By WILLIAM FOWLKES World's Managing Editor GEORGIA'S NEGRO TEACHERS have just concluded their state convention in Atlanta. They were a good looking, handsome, lot. They were well dressed and appeared well fed. They seemed to be intellectually alert and able, both the city and country contingent. In the professional seminars, they seemed desirous, of gleaning all the information and guidance possible to better teach their charges. And, there was certainly a telling awareness that they must aspire to be not only the best Negro teachers" but the best teachers available during the looming desegregated society. THE MEMORY of one man flashed through my mind as I observed this mass of Georgia teachers, in whose hands lies the future of "Johnny Black." It was that of the late and lamented Charles L Harper, first executive secretary of the Georgia Teachers and Education Association and, incidently, first principal of Atlanta's first public Negro high school. MR. HARPER was the "bravest old man" I have ever known. His bravery was exhibited in the somewhat dangerous field of "fighting for the needs of poor little Negro children." He was identified with those who rebelled against poor and inadequate facilities for Negro kids; he was in the forefront for equal teacher pay and for equality where anything was concerned for American citizens. Above his leadership of the Atlanta Branch and the Georgia NAACP was his confirmed theory that Negro teachers should pool their resources, establish cooperative businesses and enterprise to benefit themselves and future generations. Mr. Harper had a way of always looking to the future, thinking always of the "needs of poor little Negro children." NEVERTHELESS, the teachers association, itself, is a manument to Prof. Harper. Now 10,000 strong, they have put several of his theories into practice, and, according to information, more things are soon to transpire. All in the spirit of a great man, whose only desire was to establish justice, liberty and equality of opportunity for "poor little Negro children!" The Spirit Of A Great Man By WILLIAM FOWLKES World's Managing Editor GEORGIA'S NEGRO TEACHERS have just concluded their state convention in Atlanta. They were a good looking, handsome, lot. They were well dressed and appeared well fed. They seemed to be intellectually alert and able, both the city and country contingent. In the professional seminars, they seemed desirous, of gleaning all the information and guidance possible to better teach their charges. And, there was certainly a telling awareness that they must aspire to be not only the best Negro teachers" but the best teachers available during the looming desegregated society. THE MEMORY of one man flashed through my mind as I observed this mass of Georgia teachers, in whose hands lies the future of "Johnny Black." It was that of the late and lamented Charles L Harper, first executive secretary of the Georgia Teachers and Education Association and, incidently, first principal of Atlanta's first public Negro high school. MR. HARPER was the "bravest old man" I have ever known. His bravery was exhibited in the somewhat dangerous field of "fighting for the needs of poor little Negro children." He was identified with those who rebelled against poor and inadequate facilities for Negro kids; he was in the forefront for equal teacher pay and for equality where anything was concerned for American citizens. Above his leadership of the Atlanta Branch and the Georgia NAACP was his confirmed theory that Negro teachers should pool their resources, establish cooperative businesses and enterprise to benefit themselves and future generations. Mr. Harper had a way of always looking to the future, thinking always of the "needs of poor little Negro children." NEVERTHELESS, the teachers association, itself, is a manument to Prof. Harper. Now 10,000 strong, they have put several of his theories into practice, and, according to information, more things are soon to transpire. All in the spirit of a great man, whose only desire was to establish justice, liberty and equality of opportunity for "poor little Negro children!" Civil Rights ber of acres of land and have been living on it for more than 50 years, but have been refused residential building permits for the past five years or more years though the land zoned as residential," Williamson contended. In answer to a question posed by Vice - Chairman Storey regarding the connection of city officials with the bombing of 15 Negro owned houses in the Atlanta area. Williamson flatly stated that city officials were to blame for the "continuation" of those acts of violence because they controlled the police department and the police department allegedly provided inadequate protection to Negro home owners in the transitional areas where the bombings occurred. Asked what he believed to be the primary Weapon against segregated housing and the ills that reportedly result from living discrimination, Williamson declared that "open occupancy" is the key that will overturn all problems stemming from racial segregation. Rev. William Holmes Borders, testifying, for Bishop William R. Wilkes, put the housing question on an "all or none" basis, in describing his view of discrimination in housing and in all other areas. The Wheat Street Baptist Church paster told the Commission members that "either all men are valuable or no man is of value," and that no man, or group of men, has the right to set themselves up as a superior body to determine that one group of people should or should not live at any designated place on the earth. Borders cited the progress made in Atlanta during the past 20 years, in the area of adequate housing for minority groups, and said that he believes the "shorteat way to heaven was from Atlanta," however, he noted that all is not well and that many improvements need to be expected A partial solution to the problem of restrictive areas for Negroes was offered by Robert Thompson, Housign Director for the Atlanta Urban League. Thompson declared that increased Negro voting helped erase many social evils that existed up until 1946. He noted that the heavy increase in Negro voting has helped more to bring about additional available land for Negroes recently than the action of any city official. He maintained that Negro voting definitely helped the social climate in Atlanta and changed a lot of attitudes regarding the necessity of adequate facilities for Negroes in the city. Several witnesses, including John O Chiles, chairman, Atlanta Housing Authority. M. B. Satterfield, executive director, Atlanta Housing Authority and Cecil Alexander, chairman, Citizens Advisory Committee on Urban Renewal, told the Commission that housing integration by law would not be wise. nothing but chaos and tragedy" Chiles said outright that he sees nothing but "chaos and tragedy if housing integration is "forced" by federal law upon the South. He added that housing integration by law would destroy the "good race relations in Atlanta." His final statement was "We are not ready." Mayor W B Hartsfield said that segregation is supported by public opinion and, with inter-racial cooperation and confidence, the discrimination is best for all concerned. J. B. Blayton Sr., chairman of the Negro Advisory Committee to the Atlanta Housing Authority, complained, as did Williamson, that houses of the same type cost more in Negro areas of Atlanta than in white residential sections. He blames this fact on the restriction of lands "allowed to Negro buyers and the great demand for a limited amount of land that is available to Negro consummers. Blayton added that the immediate effect of enforced desegregation of federally financed housing may be "something like Mr. Chiles described," but he predicted that "in the long run housing desegregation would be greatly beneficial." The Civil Rights Commission chose Atlanta for a study of housing problems to determine what has been achieved and what problems still exist in minority Housing. A similar hearing was recently concluded in New York City and a like hearing is scheduled for Los Angeles and Chicago in future months. Members of the Commission said they would remain in Atlanta overnight Friday seeking once again to obtain certain registration records from North Louisiana voting officials to check on claims of 65 Negroes who said they were denied the right to vote on account of race. An administrative session of the Commission was scheduled for Friday night to discuss the Louisiana situation, a commission aide disclosed. Presiding at the Friday hearing in the Aldermame chamber at City Hall was Ex-Florida Governor Doyle E. Carleton. Other Commission representatives present at the hearing were Chairman John Hannah, president of Michigan state University. ViceChairman Robert G. Storey, Dean of Southern Methodist University Law School in Dallas and George M. Johnson, former dean of Howard University Law School. Johnson presently serves as director of the Commissions Office of Laws, plans, and Research, pending his confirmation by Congress to replace the late J. Ernest, Wilkins ALL OR NONE ber of acres of land and have been living on it for more than 50 years, but have been refused residential building permits for the past five years or more years though the land zoned as residential," Williamson contended. In answer to a question posed by Vice - Chairman Storey regarding the connection of city officials with the bombing of 15 Negro owned houses in the Atlanta area. Williamson flatly stated that city officials were to blame for the "continuation" of those acts of violence because they controlled the police department and the police department allegedly provided inadequate protection to Negro home owners in the transitional areas where the bombings occurred. Asked what he believed to be the primary Weapon against segregated housing and the ills that reportedly result from living discrimination, Williamson declared that "open occupancy" is the key that will overturn all problems stemming from racial segregation. Rev. William Holmes Borders, testifying, for Bishop William R. Wilkes, put the housing question on an "all or none" basis, in describing his view of discrimination in housing and in all other areas. The Wheat Street Baptist Church paster told the Commission members that "either all men are valuable or no man is of value," and that no man, or group of men, has the right to set themselves up as a superior body to determine that one group of people should or should not live at any designated place on the earth. Borders cited the progress made in Atlanta during the past 20 years, in the area of adequate housing for minority groups, and said that he believes the "shorteat way to heaven was from Atlanta," however, he noted that all is not well and that many improvements need to be expected A partial solution to the problem of restrictive areas for Negroes was offered by Robert Thompson, Housign Director for the Atlanta Urban League. Thompson declared that increased Negro voting helped erase many social evils that existed up until 1946. He noted that the heavy increase in Negro voting has helped more to bring about additional available land for Negroes recently than the action of any city official. He maintained that Negro voting definitely helped the social climate in Atlanta and changed a lot of attitudes regarding the necessity of adequate facilities for Negroes in the city. Several witnesses, including John O Chiles, chairman, Atlanta Housing Authority. M. B. Satterfield, executive director, Atlanta Housing Authority and Cecil Alexander, chairman, Citizens Advisory Committee on Urban Renewal, told the Commission that housing integration by law would not be wise. nothing but chaos and tragedy" Chiles said outright that he sees nothing but "chaos and tragedy if housing integration is "forced" by federal law upon the South. He added that housing integration by law would destroy the "good race relations in Atlanta." His final statement was "We are not ready." Mayor W B Hartsfield said that segregation is supported by public opinion and, with inter-racial cooperation and confidence, the discrimination is best for all concerned. J. B. Blayton Sr., chairman of the Negro Advisory Committee to the Atlanta Housing Authority, complained, as did Williamson, that houses of the same type cost more in Negro areas of Atlanta than in white residential sections. He blames this fact on the restriction of lands "allowed to Negro buyers and the great demand for a limited amount of land that is available to Negro consummers. Blayton added that the immediate effect of enforced desegregation of federally financed housing may be "something like Mr. Chiles described," but he predicted that "in the long run housing desegregation would be greatly beneficial." The Civil Rights Commission chose Atlanta for a study of housing problems to determine what has been achieved and what problems still exist in minority Housing. A similar hearing was recently concluded in New York City and a like hearing is scheduled for Los Angeles and Chicago in future months. Members of the Commission said they would remain in Atlanta overnight Friday seeking once again to obtain certain registration records from North Louisiana voting officials to check on claims of 65 Negroes who said they were denied the right to vote on account of race. An administrative session of the Commission was scheduled for Friday night to discuss the Louisiana situation, a commission aide disclosed. Presiding at the Friday hearing in the Aldermame chamber at City Hall was Ex-Florida Governor Doyle E. Carleton. Other Commission representatives present at the hearing were Chairman John Hannah, president of Michigan state University. ViceChairman Robert G. Storey, Dean of Southern Methodist University Law School in Dallas and George M. Johnson, former dean of Howard University Law School. Johnson presently serves as director of the Commissions Office of Laws, plans, and Research, pending his confirmation by Congress to replace the late J. Ernest, Wilkins SOLUTION ber of acres of land and have been living on it for more than 50 years, but have been refused residential building permits for the past five years or more years though the land zoned as residential," Williamson contended. In answer to a question posed by Vice - Chairman Storey regarding the connection of city officials with the bombing of 15 Negro owned houses in the Atlanta area. Williamson flatly stated that city officials were to blame for the "continuation" of those acts of violence because they controlled the police department and the police department allegedly provided inadequate protection to Negro home owners in the transitional areas where the bombings occurred. Asked what he believed to be the primary Weapon against segregated housing and the ills that reportedly result from living discrimination, Williamson declared that "open occupancy" is the key that will overturn all problems stemming from racial segregation. Rev. William Holmes Borders, testifying, for Bishop William R. Wilkes, put the housing question on an "all or none" basis, in describing his view of discrimination in housing and in all other areas. The Wheat Street Baptist Church paster told the Commission members that "either all men are valuable or no man is of value," and that no man, or group of men, has the right to set themselves up as a superior body to determine that one group of people should or should not live at any designated place on the earth. Borders cited the progress made in Atlanta during the past 20 years, in the area of adequate housing for minority groups, and said that he believes the "shorteat way to heaven was from Atlanta," however, he noted that all is not well and that many improvements need to be expected A partial solution to the problem of restrictive areas for Negroes was offered by Robert Thompson, Housign Director for the Atlanta Urban League. Thompson declared that increased Negro voting helped erase many social evils that existed up until 1946. He noted that the heavy increase in Negro voting has helped more to bring about additional available land for Negroes recently than the action of any city official. He maintained that Negro voting definitely helped the social climate in Atlanta and changed a lot of attitudes regarding the necessity of adequate facilities for Negroes in the city. Several witnesses, including John O Chiles, chairman, Atlanta Housing Authority. M. B. Satterfield, executive director, Atlanta Housing Authority and Cecil Alexander, chairman, Citizens Advisory Committee on Urban Renewal, told the Commission that housing integration by law would not be wise. nothing but chaos and tragedy" Chiles said outright that he sees nothing but "chaos and tragedy if housing integration is "forced" by federal law upon the South. He added that housing integration by law would destroy the "good race relations in Atlanta." His final statement was "We are not ready." Mayor W B Hartsfield said that segregation is supported by public opinion and, with inter-racial cooperation and confidence, the discrimination is best for all concerned. J. B. Blayton Sr., chairman of the Negro Advisory Committee to the Atlanta Housing Authority, complained, as did Williamson, that houses of the same type cost more in Negro areas of Atlanta than in white residential sections. He blames this fact on the restriction of lands "allowed to Negro buyers and the great demand for a limited amount of land that is available to Negro consummers. Blayton added that the immediate effect of enforced desegregation of federally financed housing may be "something like Mr. Chiles described," but he predicted that "in the long run housing desegregation would be greatly beneficial." The Civil Rights Commission chose Atlanta for a study of housing problems to determine what has been achieved and what problems still exist in minority Housing. A similar hearing was recently concluded in New York City and a like hearing is scheduled for Los Angeles and Chicago in future months. Members of the Commission said they would remain in Atlanta overnight Friday seeking once again to obtain certain registration records from North Louisiana voting officials to check on claims of 65 Negroes who said they were denied the right to vote on account of race. An administrative session of the Commission was scheduled for Friday night to discuss the Louisiana situation, a commission aide disclosed. Presiding at the Friday hearing in the Aldermame chamber at City Hall was Ex-Florida Governor Doyle E. Carleton. Other Commission representatives present at the hearing were Chairman John Hannah, president of Michigan state University. ViceChairman Robert G. Storey, Dean of Southern Methodist University Law School in Dallas and George M. Johnson, former dean of Howard University Law School. Johnson presently serves as director of the Commissions Office of Laws, plans, and Research, pending his confirmation by Congress to replace the late J. Ernest, Wilkins Louisiana Fights the commission and the Louisiana law unconstitutional and enjoined enforcement by the commission. In asking the Supreme Court to review, the commission raises the issue of states rights vs. Federal rights. The commission asserts that the issues involved are substantially those of the rights of a sovereign state as opposed to the rights of the Federal Government, and the degree to which the, rights of the states under the 10th and 11th Amendment's to the Federal Constitution have been watered down or nullified by adoption of the 14th Amendment. Gordon And Family around of growing African nationalism. The journalist was able to meet African leaders including prime Minister Nkrumah of Ghana, President Tubman of Liberia, Tom Mbova of Kenya. Dr. Hastings Banda of Nyasaland and heads of the African National Congress, the leading political organization in many of the emerging African countries. He said he was "especially struck by the non-violent attitude of the present-day African leaders and the strong affinity they hold for the United States." He added: "We should work to hold this friendship: We should try to broaden our view and interest in this part of the world, while the people still look to us. Africa is no longer a so-called dark continent, but an enlightened continent, emerging with a democratic point of view and ready to join the rest of the free world. The African leaders were especially interested in the plight of the American Negro, he said. Africans constantly asked why American Negro businessmen, technicians and specialists did-not show more interest in Africa. "They look to the American Negro," Mr. Gordon said, "as a symbol of achievement by black people everywhere. There are no doors closed to the Negro in countries governed by Africans." He said Africa is three times as big as the United States. There are over 200,000,000 people on the continent and 95 per cent of them belong to the non-white race. By 1960 more than half of the population will be independent and governing themselves. 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Northern Louisiana officials in the Shreveport area have refused to let commission investigators examine voting records in Complaints brought by 69 Negroes. The investigators have no subpena power, and a Louisiana law requires voting records be kept secret unless a registered voter, obtains signatures, of five other registered voters on a request to inspect the records. The full Civil Rights Commission, in a formal hearing, could issue subpenas for examination of the records as it did in Alabama. "If it develops that the required facts cannot be obtained without a formal hearing or hearings, that possibility will be considered and acted upon at the May meeting at Chicago," Executive Director Gordon Tiffany said. Southern Behavior schools in Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia. West Virginia, Kentucky. Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and on all Army posts in the South. "The South has not changed its attitude, but its behavior certainly is different. This is not ignoring the violence that has occurred in Clinton, Tenn.; Clay. Ky. and Mansfield Texas, either," Dr. Nabrit said. During the course of his speech, the prominent law school dean deflated four other Southern arguments which, he said, are being beamed as propaganda at the North through all channels of communication. He called untrue the argument that the South is making great efforts to afford the Negro separate but equal opportunities. Where school systems are better, it is the result of law suits, he declared. "Every step forward has been fought to the bluer end by the white South." Such resistance, he said, provides no justification for leaving the South free to segregate the Negro, on the premise that it has shown interest and good faith in its wide spread conferring of public benefits upon the Negro. SOUTHERN EFFORTS FOLLOW SUITS schools in Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia. West Virginia, Kentucky. Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and on all Army posts in the South. "The South has not changed its attitude, but its behavior certainly is different. This is not ignoring the violence that has occurred in Clinton, Tenn.; Clay. Ky. and Mansfield Texas, either," Dr. Nabrit said. During the course of his speech, the prominent law school dean deflated four other Southern arguments which, he said, are being beamed as propaganda at the North through all channels of communication. He called untrue the argument that the South is making great efforts to afford the Negro separate but equal opportunities. Where school systems are better, it is the result of law suits, he declared. "Every step forward has been fought to the bluer end by the white South." Such resistance, he said, provides no justification for leaving the South free to segregate the Negro, on the premise that it has shown interest and good faith in its wide spread conferring of public benefits upon the Negro. The New WAYNE D. OVERHOLSER Thriller THE LONE DEPUTY CHAPTER 23 SUSIE FARNUM was crying steadily, and several minutes passed before she quieted down enough for Price Regan to talk to her. When she was finally able to listen, he said. "You love Bruce, don't you?" "Yes," she whispered, rubbing an arm across her eyes. "The Potters never treated him good, and he was going to run away tonight He was going to get a Job and may he he'd have let me know where he was. Now they'll catch him and kill him just like they done with Cronin and the Potters—and Frank Evans." "Maybe not." Price said. "He's too smart to just strike off across the grass and take a chance on running into some, cowboy, I've got a notion he's hiding here along the Yellow Cat. There's lots of brush and a dozen side canyons where he could hide out a day or two and come, back We've got to count on him doing that." "Then maybe I'll see him!" Susie exclaimed hopefully. "He said he'd see me before he left." "That's what I was getting at," Price said. "Susie, if Bruce comes to see you, I want you to tell him something. It's important It's so important that maybe, it'll save his life and the lives of all of you Will you tell him?" She nodded, eagerly. "I'll tell him, Mr. Regan." "Tell him to come to town and see me. I'll protect him. I want him to tell me everything be saw. When I arrest Cole Weston and the Mohawk boys, I want him to testify at their trial. Will you tell him that?" The eagerness went out of her. "But that's dangerous, Mr. Regan. It they know he's going to testify. "Listen, Susie. Everything about this business is dangerous. If he keeps running, they're bound to find him. When they do they'll kill him. The way I've got it sized up, they shot the Patters so they couldn't tell what they knew. If I don't keep Jean in town, they'll kill her. This is the only way Susie. Don't you see that?" "I see," she whispered. "I'll tell him, Mr. Regan." "Good" He patted her on the shoulder and walked out beckoning to Farnum. Price said, "Jean says that Potter told Bruce to come back after he hid out a day or two. He won't know what happened to Potter, so chances are he'll, show up tonight or tomorrow night I want you to stay here and grab him it he comes Between you and Susie maybe we'll get him." "No." Farnum shook his head. "I ain't gonna hang around here and have that bunch ride in and do me like they done Sam. No, sir." Price stopped and took Farnum by the arm. He said, "Listen, friend You're in trouble. All of you, unless Weston hanga. I aim to see that he does, but I've got to have that boy for a witness." Farnum scratched the toe of his shoe back and forth in the dirt, his eyes on the ground. "I dunno," he said. Angry now, Price said, "You chuckle-headed idiot, don't you sea that if they want to kill you they'll do it whether you're here or at your own place? If you stay or run they'll get you it that's what they think they've got to do. Tour only chance is for me to get hold of that boy and send Weston where he belongs." Farnum looked up. "How are you gonna ride into the Rocking C and fetch old Weston out? It'd take an army to do it." "I don't know how, but I will," Pries said. "I've never failed to bring a man in that I went after. But that's not the point Right now I've got to have that boy." Farnum took a long breath. "All right, Regan, I'll stay here." Price nodded curtly and strode across the yard where the rest of them stood huddled in a tight little group. Price said, "You folks go ahead with the burying, Like I told you, I'm keeping Jean in town. Remember that Bruce Jarvis is the key to what happens to you and to Western and everybody else on this range. If Weston can commit murder and get away acot free, there will never be any law or peace in this country." They stared at the ground, silent, still scared. He went on, "I'm coming back in the morning to look for Bruce. If you haven't got him, I'll expect you men to help me look for him." He wheeled to his horse and mounted and rode back down the creek. They wouldn't help, he thought. He doubted if Farnum would keep his promise and stay at the Potter place tonight Even if Susie kept her promise and told Bruce to come in, he didn't think the boy would do it. A short distance below Frank Evans' farm, the sides of the Yellow Cat were less precipitous than they were upstream. An soon as the climb was not too difficult, Price turned to his left and, by taking a switchback course, was able to reach the top. From this point he could see Elk River Valley for miles. Across the river Rocking C range stretched south to the horizon, as good a Block, country as Price had ever seen. Weston should be satisfied with it and not play dog in the manger with the fertile valley land that could be farmed: But from His own expertence Price knew that a cowman of Weston's stripe was never satisfied." The one great fact that overshadowed everything else in Price's thinking was that twenty years ago, when - Ralph Carew had first taken the sheriffs star. the east end of the county was exactly like Elk River Valley was now. There had been Cole Wes tons on that range, too, but the pressure of organized society had forced them out of existence. That pressure was exemplified in Carew. Here, on Elk River, Carew's counterpart was Price Regan, a hell of a position for a man to be in, he thought sourly. Price took his glasses from the case, for the moment trying to forget how impossible his position was. He studied the country to the south, picking up half a dozen riders scattered over the hills. Looking westward down the valley, tie spotted two more. Broken Ring range to the north was much like Rocking C. to the south, stretching twenty miles to a high range of hills that heaved up against the sky in marked the north boundary of Broken Ring. After several minutes' scrutiny. Price discovered four riders who were on the move. Across the Yellow Cat on Bridlebit grass he could not see a single man. Price slipped the glasses back into the case and buckled the lid down, thinking about this. Red Sanders was dead, so for the moment no one on Bridlwbit was giving orders. Price turned his horse toward the river, and followed the rim of the Yellow Cat until it was no longer a rim, but a gentle slope. A few minutes later he reached the county road some distance upstream from Cronin's store and turned toward town. He wondered what would happen to Bridlebit, now that Sanders was dead. The Mohawk boys were as greedy and ambitious bb Weston. Maybe they would devour it, buying it from Sanders' widow for a song, or simply seizing and holding, it by force. No, Weston would not permit it, Price thought He would want to hold Broken Ring to its present size. Perhaps he would go to Mrs. Sanders' aid, ending her a foreman and additional riders who would give the Bridlebit the strength it needed to fight off the Mohawks. That would be like Weston. Price's thoughts returned to what he had seen, from the rim above the yellow Cat, a dozen or more riders, moving in a zigzag, apparently aimless, fashion. Now it was late afternoon, and Weston and the Mohawk boys had had time to return to their headquarters ranches after the hanging. There seemed to be only one explanation. They had ordered their men to search for Bruce Jarvis. And if they found him, Price's chance of getting a conviction, for the murder of Walt Cronin stood exactly at zero. "Cole Weston was the kind of a man who admired and feared tough, mid courage, and that was what it took to ride into Rocking O alone at Price was doing now ..." the story continues tomorrow. MY WEEKLY SERMON By REV. BLAIR T. HUNT PASTOR MISSISSIPPI BLVD. CHRISTIAN CHURCH TEXT: "Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place."—Mark 6:31. In these days of hurry and bustle we find ourselves face to face with a terrible danger, and this it is, no time to be alone with God. In our rush and hurry we are in danger of being jostled out of our spirituality. We are too busy to be good, running too fast to keep our torch burning. So many are so filled with bustle end noise and hurry and excitement end fret and criticism that they cannot detect the gentle tick of God's telegraphic messages, or the soft cooing of the Heavenly Dove, or the footsteps of Jesus the Christ. Like, Mary of old, who chose the better part, let us sit at Jesus' feet. Marry knew it was needful to sit at the Master's feet. It is grandly true "they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as Eagles." The world today in this space age is running too fast; too fast to stop and pray for international and interracial peace. We feel we must keep pace and not keep peace. The result is no time to be alone With God and no inclination to be alone with God. Read the precious pages of Scripture and we rind that God's mighty men were those who had been in the school of God, and His school was simply this, in the desert alone with Himself. It was there they got their teaching. Far removed from the din and the haunts of men, there they met alone with God; there they were equipped for the battle of life. And when the time came that they stood forth in public service for God their faces were not ashamed, they were bold and fearless and victorious for God. For forty days and nights Jesus was away from the sight and sound or human forms and human voices communing with His Father. Then he returned to His disciples as a wondering teacher, preaching the good news of the kingdom." In the desert alone with God thinking and planning out His program. And now in His late ministry Jesus went away to the remote region of Tyre to make plans for Gethsamane. Jesus wanted to be away from the crowd. There in the loneliness of the desert alone except for that ineffable mystery of the divine communion Jesus decided that He would make men see Him by dying for men. Then He was able to say "And I if I be lifted up from the earth I will draw all men to me." ALONE WITH GOD By REV. BLAIR T. HUNT PASTOR MISSISSIPPI BLVD. CHRISTIAN CHURCH TEXT: "Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place."—Mark 6:31. In these days of hurry and bustle we find ourselves face to face with a terrible danger, and this it is, no time to be alone with God. In our rush and hurry we are in danger of being jostled out of our spirituality. We are too busy to be good, running too fast to keep our torch burning. So many are so filled with bustle end noise and hurry and excitement end fret and criticism that they cannot detect the gentle tick of God's telegraphic messages, or the soft cooing of the Heavenly Dove, or the footsteps of Jesus the Christ. Like, Mary of old, who chose the better part, let us sit at Jesus' feet. Marry knew it was needful to sit at the Master's feet. It is grandly true "they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as Eagles." The world today in this space age is running too fast; too fast to stop and pray for international and interracial peace. We feel we must keep pace and not keep peace. The result is no time to be alone With God and no inclination to be alone with God. Read the precious pages of Scripture and we rind that God's mighty men were those who had been in the school of God, and His school was simply this, in the desert alone with Himself. It was there they got their teaching. Far removed from the din and the haunts of men, there they met alone with God; there they were equipped for the battle of life. And when the time came that they stood forth in public service for God their faces were not ashamed, they were bold and fearless and victorious for God. For forty days and nights Jesus was away from the sight and sound or human forms and human voices communing with His Father. Then he returned to His disciples as a wondering teacher, preaching the good news of the kingdom." In the desert alone with God thinking and planning out His program. And now in His late ministry Jesus went away to the remote region of Tyre to make plans for Gethsamane. Jesus wanted to be away from the crowd. There in the loneliness of the desert alone except for that ineffable mystery of the divine communion Jesus decided that He would make men see Him by dying for men. Then He was able to say "And I if I be lifted up from the earth I will draw all men to me." SIX MINERS KILLED An explosion and cave-in Tuesday at a sulphur mine five miles from Taipei killed six miners, including three women, police reported. PRAYER FOR TODAY FROM The Upper Room Create in me a clean heart, O God, arid renew a right spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10,) PRAYER: O God, of all mercles and strength help us, to fill our minds and heart and lives, with Thy statutes, Thy love and Thy goodness. Keep us pure by the todwelling, of Thy Holy Spirit. Fit us to live in service worthy of Thy great gift of love. We pray in Jesus' name Amen. LAFF-A-DAY "Mother, when you're through with Daddy, may I use him for my homework?" Later when O'Keefe was temporarily freed pending an appeal, he returned to Boston and fought a gun battle with Elmer "Trigger" Burke. The wounded O'Keefe was jailed in Springfield, Massachusetts as a parole violator. Burke was lodged in a Boston prison on charges of attempted murder and carrying a machine gun. After 24 hours grilling by Wilson, according to Ebony, Burke confessed attempting to ambush O'Keefe as the link providing police with facts on the Brink's case. Then Wilson went to work on O'Keefe, quizing him an estimated 40 times for specific information on the case. Finishing the investigation is the thing that helped kill him last December. Close companions declare that he worked himself to death.