Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1958-08-20 Thaddeus T. Stokes MEMPHIS WORLD AMERICAN'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 — 3 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 be of interest to its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. Turning Point In The High Schools The Negro child in a southern high school is less educated than his white counterpart. This isn't to say, as the segregationists would have us believe, that the Negro youngster is born with an inferior capacity to learn. It means simply that education in southern Negro high schools is below the national standard. Now comes word from the Phelps-Stokes Fund in New York that the educational gap between Negro and white students has been narrowed as a result of a Rockefeller-financed experiment. The project, which may well mark a turning point in Negro high school education, has just completed its fourth year. In this brief period Negro boys and girls have improved their academic standing; they have learned to read better; attendance has taken a sharp upturn; more students plan to go on to college and are better equipped to do so. What has happened in these four years resembles a saga of an "operation Bootstraps." Sixteen typical Negro high schools in the south, comprising 10,000 pupils, teamed up with nearby Negro colleges in a big-brother type relationship. They examined each other's program, spotted their weaknesses, modernized and enriched their offerings, held joint seminars and institutes. Soon a new spirit breathed, through the classrooms, bringing new motivation and stimulation into the lives of the students. The high schools and the colleges were of course beneficiaries as well. Although the program has another year to go, two significant conclusions are already apparent. Given proper guidance and better instructional materials, the Negro child in the south can do better academic work. And, given a better education, millions of Negro boys and girls now suffering from inferior schooling will become a vast natural resource for future scientists, teachers and other professionally trained specialists. Meanwhile, the success of the Phelps-Stokes project is shared by many. Not the least of these is a board of 16 nationally known educators who serve as consultants to the Negro institutions engaged in the experiment. The Rockefeller Foundation, which has granted nearly $500,000 to the project, deserves congratulations for its generosity and its foresight. All will agree that only a beginning has been made toward solving a difficult problem. But the larger rewards are in sight. Congressman Powell Might Be A Symbol Naturally those fellow citizens wherever they are who believe in courage, fair play and the integrity to stand on ones feet regardless of circumstances and expediences, would sanction the recent great victory of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in New York. His smashing victory would be a reprimand to those who sought in so many ways other than the vote to forestall his coming bock to Congress. Congressman Powell, it will be remembered left the Adlai Stevenson camp in 1956 and supported, the Republican nominee, Dwight D. Eisenhower for President of the United States. Not only did he so declare himself, but lent his strong support to the Republican ticket. There were attempts to read him out of the party and with other candidates sniping on his trail, it appeared that his election would be determined by his Republican friends who believed in his high sense of independence. So, Congressman Powell has scored one on his political diamond; he has proved himself stronger than that wing of his party who would retire him. In that he has waxed in strength and gained such enviable power as to become a challenge to the future of the party's success in the huge New York state. The determining factor to what is to come to pass in New York state and the national picture, might stem from Congressman Powell's victory. The New York Congressman has sought to serve beyond his district those national causes for civil justice among minorities. He on more than one occasion has been the spokesman for those affected in the arena of denial of their civil rights. We are happy that a man of Congressman Powell's sense of justice and the realization of a moral obligation which transcended his district and state, comes back to victory. Having received the nomination of the Republican forces in his district and beaten the machine-backed Democrat, New York City Councilman Earl Brown in the primary, his election in November seems only a matter of time. President Eisenhower's Middle East Plan In a calm yet dramatic speech before the special session of the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday, President Eisenhower offered what we consider a sound six-point plan to bring about political stability and economic progress for that area. The plan is comprehensive and includes an immediate creation of a standby police force to keep the peace there and establishment of a world-supported regional economic development plan which would be "governed by the Arab states themselves." The U. S. would provide a substantial amount of the funds to carry out the development. The plan presented by the President included these points: 1. A STANDBY United Nations peace force. 2. AN ARAB-RUN Mideast economic development loan fund and a technical assistance program, financed jointly by the Arab states, the United States and other countries, presumably including Russia. 3. A CONSTANT U. N. check to curb inflammatory propaganda broadcasts to and from the Middle East nations. 4. A U. N. STUDY of possible controls on arms shipments to Mideast countries, including Israel, to avert an East-West munitions race in the area. 5. UNSPECIFIED new U. N. moves to guarantee Lebanon's security and independence after American troops are withdrawn. 6. AN EXPRESSION of U. N. determination to assure Jordan's survival as a nation, presumably by replacing British troops now there with U. N. personnel. Russia's spokesman, of course, attacked the Eisenhower plan and demanded again the immediate withdrawal of our soldiers from Lebanon and the British troops from Jordan. But this action would only further jeopardize the peace and therefore will be rejected until the U. N. forces can handle the sitution. To us the President was convincing and we believe the U.N. will follow his suggestions in the main. SEEING and SAYING By WILLIAM A. FOWLKES Managing Editor, Atlanta Daily World THIS IS A CRITICAL period for us. And, to be sure, reference to "us" means not only the American Negro, but the total community of the United States. We have found ourselves in an ironic position, at times, because visitors to our shores have not understood all that goes on in our front and back yards, not to mention the inner recesses of our national home. The foremost enemy to our "way of life" has easily made capital of our most glaring fault—vialation of the Second Great Commandment which calls for love of neighbor. Our examples of color injustice have not failed to impress the underprivileged peoples, even though it now appears that the Red propagandists would do no better—probably worse—for the meek and humble of the Earth. Little Rock is still with us, although a St. Louis Appeals Court decision on the Lemley "turn-back-the-clock" ruling must be at hand. Kasper is out of prison and at it again! Virginia, next door to the nation's capital, looms as the critical testing ground in September. There are decisions for integrating schools in several cities of the Old Dominion State, but Old Man Resistance—successor to Jim Crow—is strong and vigorous. Only One Answer — No! By WILLIAM A. FOWLKES Managing Editor, Atlanta Daily World THIS IS A CRITICAL period for us. And, to be sure, reference to "us" means not only the American Negro, but the total community of the United States. We have found ourselves in an ironic position, at times, because visitors to our shores have not understood all that goes on in our front and back yards, not to mention the inner recesses of our national home. The foremost enemy to our "way of life" has easily made capital of our most glaring fault—vialation of the Second Great Commandment which calls for love of neighbor. Our examples of color injustice have not failed to impress the underprivileged peoples, even though it now appears that the Red propagandists would do no better—probably worse—for the meek and humble of the Earth. Little Rock is still with us, although a St. Louis Appeals Court decision on the Lemley "turn-back-the-clock" ruling must be at hand. Kasper is out of prison and at it again! Virginia, next door to the nation's capital, looms as the critical testing ground in September. There are decisions for integrating schools in several cities of the Old Dominion State, but Old Man Resistance—successor to Jim Crow—is strong and vigorous. IN THE NATION'S CAPITOL By LOUIS LAUTIER, For NNPA and Atlanta Daily World A QUERY BROUGHT the reply that there had to be colored personnel on the Nautilus and Skate, the two atomic submarines which sailed under the North Pole — one from the east and the other from the west — because the United States Navy does not travel that far without stewards to serve the coffee. Representative Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia Democratic, showed courage in casting the only vote against citing Carl Braden of Louisville, Ky., for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions during the three-day hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in Atlanta. The committee, headed by Representative Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania, appears bent on harassing southern white liberals but will not investigate the subversive activities of the White Citizens Council or the Ku Klux Klan. Braden, formerly a copy editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, was convicted by Kentucky courts of sedition because he acted as the straw man in the purchase by a colored family of a home in a white neighborhood in Louisville. The theory of the state's case was that Braden's act tended to incite rioting. His conviction was set aside by the Supreme Court. When President Mordecai W. Johnson of Howard University testified before a House Education and Labor subcommittee oh the bill providing for the Federal Government to give Freemen's Hospital to the university and construct a new 500bed hospital, he disclosed the sixpoint program for the university which the House Appropriations Committee has approved. Of the six major objectives, only the hospital detail has been delayed. If Congress had passed the bill at this session, the new hospital could not have been readied for operation before the beginning of the 1962-63 school year. But the union, representing a monority of the 654 nonprofessional employees at Freedmen's, who are under Federal civil service, jockeyed and got a delay until the next Congress convenes in January. The five points of the program which have been accomplished are: 1. Negotiations have been completed for Howard to have one-third of the teaching facilities (265 beds) in the District of Columbia General Hospital, and use of these facilities has begun. 2. A new dental building has been erected, and Congress provided funds for its full equipment. 3. A new pre-clinical medical building has been erected and is in use, and the old pre-medical building is being renovated so as to blend the two buildings into an inter-related unit. 4. Congress has provided for building up the pre-clinical teaching staff in medicine and dentistry. 5. The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare now has under consideration an item for the 1960 appropriation for doubling the clinical staff in medicine and dentistry. Perry W. Howard, Washington attorney, represented John Bitonti of Detroit before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee. Bitonti, whoborrowed $40,000 from the Teamsters welfare funds, was accused of borrowing $50,000 and giving Jimmy Hoffa, the union's president, $10,000. Belford V. Lawson, another Washington attorney, represented Herbert Grossberg of Chicago, chief accountant of the union, and Max Stern of Detroit. Capt. Norman E. Parker of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Baltimore, has assumed command of the 631st Quartermaster company at Fort Drum. N. Y., after a three-year tour of duty in Germany. Capt. Arthur C. Longmire, an F100 jet pilot, of Cleveland, Ohio, has recently been transferred from the Langely Air Force Base to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, N. C. An Ohio State graduate. Longmire was recently integrated into the Regular Air Force. Lieut. Col. Roy W. Sorrell of Washington, D. C., and New York City, a battalion commander with the United States Army Training Center at Fort Dix, N. J., for the past two years, has been awarded an Army commendation ribbon by the Secretary of the Army. Col. Sorrell assumes command of the ROTC unit at Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio, this month. Major Steven B. Mayo of New York City, executive officer of the First Battalion, Sixth Cavalry Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky., has been selected to serve as a National Guard adviser in Boston, effective in October. Six colored officers were among the Army lieutenant colonels who have been selected as eligible personnel for promotion to lieutenant colonels. They are: Hyman Y. Chase, Infantry, professor of military science and tactics at Howard University; W. D. Fisher, Corps of Engineers, Staff Officer, Toul Engineer Depot, France; James A. Nichols, Infantry, Staff Officer, New York Military District; Louis J. Beasley, Chaplain, Fort Devens, Mass.; Charles S. Finch, Medical Officer, Okinawa, and John F. Harris, Medical Officer, Kaiserlautern, Germany. Major Robert L. King, United States Air Force, has been awarded a master of arts degree by the University of Pittsburgh and will report for duty with the United States Air Force headquarters hi Ramstein, Germany, next month. Personnel On Subs By LOUIS LAUTIER, For NNPA and Atlanta Daily World A QUERY BROUGHT the reply that there had to be colored personnel on the Nautilus and Skate, the two atomic submarines which sailed under the North Pole — one from the east and the other from the west — because the United States Navy does not travel that far without stewards to serve the coffee. Representative Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia Democratic, showed courage in casting the only vote against citing Carl Braden of Louisville, Ky., for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions during the three-day hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in Atlanta. The committee, headed by Representative Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania, appears bent on harassing southern white liberals but will not investigate the subversive activities of the White Citizens Council or the Ku Klux Klan. Braden, formerly a copy editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, was convicted by Kentucky courts of sedition because he acted as the straw man in the purchase by a colored family of a home in a white neighborhood in Louisville. The theory of the state's case was that Braden's act tended to incite rioting. His conviction was set aside by the Supreme Court. When President Mordecai W. Johnson of Howard University testified before a House Education and Labor subcommittee oh the bill providing for the Federal Government to give Freemen's Hospital to the university and construct a new 500bed hospital, he disclosed the sixpoint program for the university which the House Appropriations Committee has approved. Of the six major objectives, only the hospital detail has been delayed. If Congress had passed the bill at this session, the new hospital could not have been readied for operation before the beginning of the 1962-63 school year. But the union, representing a monority of the 654 nonprofessional employees at Freedmen's, who are under Federal civil service, jockeyed and got a delay until the next Congress convenes in January. The five points of the program which have been accomplished are: 1. Negotiations have been completed for Howard to have one-third of the teaching facilities (265 beds) in the District of Columbia General Hospital, and use of these facilities has begun. 2. A new dental building has been erected, and Congress provided funds for its full equipment. 3. A new pre-clinical medical building has been erected and is in use, and the old pre-medical building is being renovated so as to blend the two buildings into an inter-related unit. 4. Congress has provided for building up the pre-clinical teaching staff in medicine and dentistry. 5. The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare now has under consideration an item for the 1960 appropriation for doubling the clinical staff in medicine and dentistry. Perry W. Howard, Washington attorney, represented John Bitonti of Detroit before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee. Bitonti, whoborrowed $40,000 from the Teamsters welfare funds, was accused of borrowing $50,000 and giving Jimmy Hoffa, the union's president, $10,000. Belford V. Lawson, another Washington attorney, represented Herbert Grossberg of Chicago, chief accountant of the union, and Max Stern of Detroit. Capt. Norman E. Parker of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Baltimore, has assumed command of the 631st Quartermaster company at Fort Drum. N. Y., after a three-year tour of duty in Germany. Capt. Arthur C. Longmire, an F100 jet pilot, of Cleveland, Ohio, has recently been transferred from the Langely Air Force Base to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, N. C. An Ohio State graduate. Longmire was recently integrated into the Regular Air Force. Lieut. Col. Roy W. Sorrell of Washington, D. C., and New York City, a battalion commander with the United States Army Training Center at Fort Dix, N. J., for the past two years, has been awarded an Army commendation ribbon by the Secretary of the Army. Col. Sorrell assumes command of the ROTC unit at Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio, this month. Major Steven B. Mayo of New York City, executive officer of the First Battalion, Sixth Cavalry Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky., has been selected to serve as a National Guard adviser in Boston, effective in October. Six colored officers were among the Army lieutenant colonels who have been selected as eligible personnel for promotion to lieutenant colonels. They are: Hyman Y. Chase, Infantry, professor of military science and tactics at Howard University; W. D. Fisher, Corps of Engineers, Staff Officer, Toul Engineer Depot, France; James A. Nichols, Infantry, Staff Officer, New York Military District; Louis J. Beasley, Chaplain, Fort Devens, Mass.; Charles S. Finch, Medical Officer, Okinawa, and John F. Harris, Medical Officer, Kaiserlautern, Germany. Major Robert L. King, United States Air Force, has been awarded a master of arts degree by the University of Pittsburgh and will report for duty with the United States Air Force headquarters hi Ramstein, Germany, next month. SIX-POINT PROGRAM By LOUIS LAUTIER, For NNPA and Atlanta Daily World A QUERY BROUGHT the reply that there had to be colored personnel on the Nautilus and Skate, the two atomic submarines which sailed under the North Pole — one from the east and the other from the west — because the United States Navy does not travel that far without stewards to serve the coffee. Representative Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia Democratic, showed courage in casting the only vote against citing Carl Braden of Louisville, Ky., for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions during the three-day hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in Atlanta. The committee, headed by Representative Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania, appears bent on harassing southern white liberals but will not investigate the subversive activities of the White Citizens Council or the Ku Klux Klan. Braden, formerly a copy editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, was convicted by Kentucky courts of sedition because he acted as the straw man in the purchase by a colored family of a home in a white neighborhood in Louisville. The theory of the state's case was that Braden's act tended to incite rioting. His conviction was set aside by the Supreme Court. When President Mordecai W. Johnson of Howard University testified before a House Education and Labor subcommittee oh the bill providing for the Federal Government to give Freemen's Hospital to the university and construct a new 500bed hospital, he disclosed the sixpoint program for the university which the House Appropriations Committee has approved. Of the six major objectives, only the hospital detail has been delayed. If Congress had passed the bill at this session, the new hospital could not have been readied for operation before the beginning of the 1962-63 school year. But the union, representing a monority of the 654 nonprofessional employees at Freedmen's, who are under Federal civil service, jockeyed and got a delay until the next Congress convenes in January. The five points of the program which have been accomplished are: 1. Negotiations have been completed for Howard to have one-third of the teaching facilities (265 beds) in the District of Columbia General Hospital, and use of these facilities has begun. 2. A new dental building has been erected, and Congress provided funds for its full equipment. 3. A new pre-clinical medical building has been erected and is in use, and the old pre-medical building is being renovated so as to blend the two buildings into an inter-related unit. 4. Congress has provided for building up the pre-clinical teaching staff in medicine and dentistry. 5. The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare now has under consideration an item for the 1960 appropriation for doubling the clinical staff in medicine and dentistry. Perry W. Howard, Washington attorney, represented John Bitonti of Detroit before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee. Bitonti, whoborrowed $40,000 from the Teamsters welfare funds, was accused of borrowing $50,000 and giving Jimmy Hoffa, the union's president, $10,000. Belford V. Lawson, another Washington attorney, represented Herbert Grossberg of Chicago, chief accountant of the union, and Max Stern of Detroit. Capt. Norman E. Parker of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Baltimore, has assumed command of the 631st Quartermaster company at Fort Drum. N. Y., after a three-year tour of duty in Germany. Capt. Arthur C. Longmire, an F100 jet pilot, of Cleveland, Ohio, has recently been transferred from the Langely Air Force Base to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, N. C. An Ohio State graduate. Longmire was recently integrated into the Regular Air Force. Lieut. Col. Roy W. Sorrell of Washington, D. C., and New York City, a battalion commander with the United States Army Training Center at Fort Dix, N. J., for the past two years, has been awarded an Army commendation ribbon by the Secretary of the Army. Col. Sorrell assumes command of the ROTC unit at Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio, this month. Major Steven B. Mayo of New York City, executive officer of the First Battalion, Sixth Cavalry Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky., has been selected to serve as a National Guard adviser in Boston, effective in October. Six colored officers were among the Army lieutenant colonels who have been selected as eligible personnel for promotion to lieutenant colonels. They are: Hyman Y. Chase, Infantry, professor of military science and tactics at Howard University; W. D. Fisher, Corps of Engineers, Staff Officer, Toul Engineer Depot, France; James A. Nichols, Infantry, Staff Officer, New York Military District; Louis J. Beasley, Chaplain, Fort Devens, Mass.; Charles S. Finch, Medical Officer, Okinawa, and John F. Harris, Medical Officer, Kaiserlautern, Germany. Major Robert L. King, United States Air Force, has been awarded a master of arts degree by the University of Pittsburgh and will report for duty with the United States Air Force headquarters hi Ramstein, Germany, next month. COUNSEL FOR ACCUSED By LOUIS LAUTIER, For NNPA and Atlanta Daily World A QUERY BROUGHT the reply that there had to be colored personnel on the Nautilus and Skate, the two atomic submarines which sailed under the North Pole — one from the east and the other from the west — because the United States Navy does not travel that far without stewards to serve the coffee. Representative Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia Democratic, showed courage in casting the only vote against citing Carl Braden of Louisville, Ky., for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions during the three-day hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in Atlanta. The committee, headed by Representative Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania, appears bent on harassing southern white liberals but will not investigate the subversive activities of the White Citizens Council or the Ku Klux Klan. Braden, formerly a copy editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, was convicted by Kentucky courts of sedition because he acted as the straw man in the purchase by a colored family of a home in a white neighborhood in Louisville. The theory of the state's case was that Braden's act tended to incite rioting. His conviction was set aside by the Supreme Court. When President Mordecai W. Johnson of Howard University testified before a House Education and Labor subcommittee oh the bill providing for the Federal Government to give Freemen's Hospital to the university and construct a new 500bed hospital, he disclosed the sixpoint program for the university which the House Appropriations Committee has approved. Of the six major objectives, only the hospital detail has been delayed. If Congress had passed the bill at this session, the new hospital could not have been readied for operation before the beginning of the 1962-63 school year. But the union, representing a monority of the 654 nonprofessional employees at Freedmen's, who are under Federal civil service, jockeyed and got a delay until the next Congress convenes in January. The five points of the program which have been accomplished are: 1. Negotiations have been completed for Howard to have one-third of the teaching facilities (265 beds) in the District of Columbia General Hospital, and use of these facilities has begun. 2. A new dental building has been erected, and Congress provided funds for its full equipment. 3. A new pre-clinical medical building has been erected and is in use, and the old pre-medical building is being renovated so as to blend the two buildings into an inter-related unit. 4. Congress has provided for building up the pre-clinical teaching staff in medicine and dentistry. 5. The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare now has under consideration an item for the 1960 appropriation for doubling the clinical staff in medicine and dentistry. Perry W. Howard, Washington attorney, represented John Bitonti of Detroit before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee. Bitonti, whoborrowed $40,000 from the Teamsters welfare funds, was accused of borrowing $50,000 and giving Jimmy Hoffa, the union's president, $10,000. Belford V. Lawson, another Washington attorney, represented Herbert Grossberg of Chicago, chief accountant of the union, and Max Stern of Detroit. Capt. Norman E. Parker of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Baltimore, has assumed command of the 631st Quartermaster company at Fort Drum. N. Y., after a three-year tour of duty in Germany. Capt. Arthur C. Longmire, an F100 jet pilot, of Cleveland, Ohio, has recently been transferred from the Langely Air Force Base to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, N. C. An Ohio State graduate. Longmire was recently integrated into the Regular Air Force. Lieut. Col. Roy W. Sorrell of Washington, D. C., and New York City, a battalion commander with the United States Army Training Center at Fort Dix, N. J., for the past two years, has been awarded an Army commendation ribbon by the Secretary of the Army. Col. Sorrell assumes command of the ROTC unit at Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio, this month. Major Steven B. Mayo of New York City, executive officer of the First Battalion, Sixth Cavalry Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky., has been selected to serve as a National Guard adviser in Boston, effective in October. Six colored officers were among the Army lieutenant colonels who have been selected as eligible personnel for promotion to lieutenant colonels. They are: Hyman Y. Chase, Infantry, professor of military science and tactics at Howard University; W. D. Fisher, Corps of Engineers, Staff Officer, Toul Engineer Depot, France; James A. Nichols, Infantry, Staff Officer, New York Military District; Louis J. Beasley, Chaplain, Fort Devens, Mass.; Charles S. Finch, Medical Officer, Okinawa, and John F. Harris, Medical Officer, Kaiserlautern, Germany. Major Robert L. King, United States Air Force, has been awarded a master of arts degree by the University of Pittsburgh and will report for duty with the United States Air Force headquarters hi Ramstein, Germany, next month. DEFENSE COMMAND By LOUIS LAUTIER, For NNPA and Atlanta Daily World A QUERY BROUGHT the reply that there had to be colored personnel on the Nautilus and Skate, the two atomic submarines which sailed under the North Pole — one from the east and the other from the west — because the United States Navy does not travel that far without stewards to serve the coffee. Representative Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia Democratic, showed courage in casting the only vote against citing Carl Braden of Louisville, Ky., for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions during the three-day hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in Atlanta. The committee, headed by Representative Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania, appears bent on harassing southern white liberals but will not investigate the subversive activities of the White Citizens Council or the Ku Klux Klan. Braden, formerly a copy editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, was convicted by Kentucky courts of sedition because he acted as the straw man in the purchase by a colored family of a home in a white neighborhood in Louisville. The theory of the state's case was that Braden's act tended to incite rioting. His conviction was set aside by the Supreme Court. When President Mordecai W. Johnson of Howard University testified before a House Education and Labor subcommittee oh the bill providing for the Federal Government to give Freemen's Hospital to the university and construct a new 500bed hospital, he disclosed the sixpoint program for the university which the House Appropriations Committee has approved. Of the six major objectives, only the hospital detail has been delayed. If Congress had passed the bill at this session, the new hospital could not have been readied for operation before the beginning of the 1962-63 school year. But the union, representing a monority of the 654 nonprofessional employees at Freedmen's, who are under Federal civil service, jockeyed and got a delay until the next Congress convenes in January. The five points of the program which have been accomplished are: 1. Negotiations have been completed for Howard to have one-third of the teaching facilities (265 beds) in the District of Columbia General Hospital, and use of these facilities has begun. 2. A new dental building has been erected, and Congress provided funds for its full equipment. 3. A new pre-clinical medical building has been erected and is in use, and the old pre-medical building is being renovated so as to blend the two buildings into an inter-related unit. 4. Congress has provided for building up the pre-clinical teaching staff in medicine and dentistry. 5. The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare now has under consideration an item for the 1960 appropriation for doubling the clinical staff in medicine and dentistry. Perry W. Howard, Washington attorney, represented John Bitonti of Detroit before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee. Bitonti, whoborrowed $40,000 from the Teamsters welfare funds, was accused of borrowing $50,000 and giving Jimmy Hoffa, the union's president, $10,000. Belford V. Lawson, another Washington attorney, represented Herbert Grossberg of Chicago, chief accountant of the union, and Max Stern of Detroit. Capt. Norman E. Parker of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Baltimore, has assumed command of the 631st Quartermaster company at Fort Drum. N. Y., after a three-year tour of duty in Germany. Capt. Arthur C. Longmire, an F100 jet pilot, of Cleveland, Ohio, has recently been transferred from the Langely Air Force Base to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, N. C. An Ohio State graduate. Longmire was recently integrated into the Regular Air Force. Lieut. Col. Roy W. Sorrell of Washington, D. C., and New York City, a battalion commander with the United States Army Training Center at Fort Dix, N. J., for the past two years, has been awarded an Army commendation ribbon by the Secretary of the Army. Col. Sorrell assumes command of the ROTC unit at Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio, this month. Major Steven B. Mayo of New York City, executive officer of the First Battalion, Sixth Cavalry Regiment, Fort Knox, Ky., has been selected to serve as a National Guard adviser in Boston, effective in October. Six colored officers were among the Army lieutenant colonels who have been selected as eligible personnel for promotion to lieutenant colonels. They are: Hyman Y. Chase, Infantry, professor of military science and tactics at Howard University; W. D. Fisher, Corps of Engineers, Staff Officer, Toul Engineer Depot, France; James A. Nichols, Infantry, Staff Officer, New York Military District; Louis J. Beasley, Chaplain, Fort Devens, Mass.; Charles S. Finch, Medical Officer, Okinawa, and John F. Harris, Medical Officer, Kaiserlautern, Germany. Major Robert L. King, United States Air Force, has been awarded a master of arts degree by the University of Pittsburgh and will report for duty with the United States Air Force headquarters hi Ramstein, Germany, next month. 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. Howard Believes the defendants are the five grand trustees, John T. Freeman of Philadelphia, chairman of the trustee board; Quinn R. Bank, Washington, Pa.; Fred Grant, Hamilton, Ohio; James H. Fultz, Newark, and Dr. L. W. Williams, Valdosta, Ga. Other defendants are Robert H. Johnson, Philadelphia, grand exalted ruler; William C. Hueston, Washington, grand secretary; Perry B. Jackson, Cleveland, grand treasurer; Hobson R. Reynolds, director of civil liberties; Charles P. McClane, director of public relations, and George W. Lee, Memphis, commissioner of education. The five plaintiffs are asking the court: 1. To adjudge the individual defendants to be constructive trustees for the grand lodge, a New Jersey corporation. 2. Require them to account for all monies received by them on behalf of the grand lodge. 3. Hold them liable for all losses suffered by the grand lodge due to their disbursements of grand lodge funds. 4. Direct them to produce all grand lodge records and file them in the New Jersey office of the corporation for examination and inspection. 6. Appoint a receiver to examine into the financial affairs of the grand lodge and take over its property. State Board To go to the University of Southern California and major in chemical engineering, while Smith has his heart set on Howard University, where he has a $2,000 scholarship and where he intends to major in research chemistry. Douglass' Ralph Prater of 1094 Hollywood St., has scholarships to other colleges and universities, but wants to attend Memphis State because of the economy factor. Prater, who had earlier expressed a desire to go to Fisk, Howard or Meharry, wants to become a doctor like his father and late grandfather. Williams, who was active in student affairs at Manassas and a member of the Ole Timers Club, wants to be a lawyer, will take courses in that category. Miss Gandy of Douglass will major in fashion illustrations, Miss Kneeland of Hamilton will take up music, Miss Burnett; BTW salutatorian, will go info technology, and Miss Roddy of Hamilton plans to maor ijn philosophy. Like Prater, the other five students have expressed a desire to attend Memphis State because of the economy factor. They are hoping that the State Board will affirm its November ruling of 1957. If the State Board does affirm its ruling of last November, the six, students will be the first to attend a previously all-white Memphis school. At present, all Memphis schools are segregated. PIONEER STUDENTS go to the University of Southern California and major in chemical engineering, while Smith has his heart set on Howard University, where he has a $2,000 scholarship and where he intends to major in research chemistry. Douglass' Ralph Prater of 1094 Hollywood St., has scholarships to other colleges and universities, but wants to attend Memphis State because of the economy factor. Prater, who had earlier expressed a desire to go to Fisk, Howard or Meharry, wants to become a doctor like his father and late grandfather. Williams, who was active in student affairs at Manassas and a member of the Ole Timers Club, wants to be a lawyer, will take courses in that category. Miss Gandy of Douglass will major in fashion illustrations, Miss Kneeland of Hamilton will take up music, Miss Burnett; BTW salutatorian, will go info technology, and Miss Roddy of Hamilton plans to maor ijn philosophy. Like Prater, the other five students have expressed a desire to attend Memphis State because of the economy factor. They are hoping that the State Board will affirm its November ruling of 1957. If the State Board does affirm its ruling of last November, the six, students will be the first to attend a previously all-white Memphis school. At present, all Memphis schools are segregated. MEMPHIS WORLD Deadline For Classified Ad Is Tuesday for Saturday's Edition and Saturday for Wednesday's Edition Want Ad Information Call JA. 6-4030 Deadline For Classified Ad Is Tuesday for Saturday's Edition and Saturday for Wednesday's Edition FURNITURE FOR SALE Duncan Phyfe drop leaf dining room table. $25: Set of six Needlepoint chairs, $35; Duncan Phyfe Sofa. $65, newly upholstered in muslin; also Lounge Chair in muslin, $40; Peer glass mirror, $50; Antique cherry bed, spring and mattress in excellent condition, $75; Pair Marble top end tables, $25 each; Lovely genuine mahogany kneehole desk, $75; Victorian bed, chest, dresser, music, stand, chair, together or separately. 1952 Thor washer with interchangeable dish washing unit, $50. Rexair vacuum, $25, and miscellaneous items. G 2-5628. 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Write: Accurate MFGR'S, Freeport, N.Y. J. Ernest Wilkins were trying to woo the AfricanAsian bloc at the UN, the President and George Lodge may alienate the Afro-American bloc in Washington. According to Mr. Pearson, Mr. Wilkins is being asked to resign to make way for young Lodge to become Assistant Secretary of Labor. One oddity about the Pearson column was the fact that persons who are quick to call Pearson a liar and charge that there is not a shred of truth in some of his columns denied nothing he said concerning Mr. Wilkins. At his press conference Friday morning, James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, was asked about the Pearson column. "I have nothing here on it at all," he replied. "I have not checked. There is nothing I can say." Mr. Hagerty referred reporters to the Labor Department. Asked whether he knew if Mr. Wilkins had discussed resigning with the President when he had an appointment at the White House two weeks ago, Mr. Hagerty said he did not know. When Mr. Wilkins talked with the President two weeks ago, he came and left by the side door and reporters at the White House did not see him and had no chance to ask him about what he talked with the President. At that time, an informed source told the NNPA that Mr. Wilkins had called to thank the President for the opportunity to have served in the Government under him and to tell him that he was resigning on the advice of his physicians as both Assistant Secretary of Labor and as a member of the Civil Rights Commission. Pearson, in his column, pointed put that "a big fuss" was made over Wilkins some years ago as the first colored person to attend a Cabinet meeting. At that time, Secretary Mitchell was absent and Mr. Wilkins sat to for him. "But now he's told by his boss, Secretary Mitchell, Pearson continued "that he should spent all his time on the Civil Rights. Commission of which he is a member and to which he was appointed as a step toward easing him out of the Labor Department. Pearson said Wilkins objected to this. "He took his case direct to President Eisenhower and a pathetic scene followed," Pearson said. He added that Wilkins "wept over the idea of leaving the 'Little Cabinet.' Asked for comment on the Pearson story, Mr. Wilkins said: "No a word." George C. Lodge, Director of Information for the Labor Department, was out and not available for comment, his office reported. John W. Leslie, Deputy Director, when asked about the Pearson story, said: "We know nothing about it." Pearson also reported that Wilkins had refused to be fired by Sherman Adams, the Assistant to the President, who usually handles such matters. "He argued that as Assistant Secretary of Labor, ap pointed direct by the President, he had a right to state his case," Pearson stated. At the session which followed Pearson wrote, Wilkins told the President that he enjoyed his work and believed that a colored American in a top international relations position could do the United States much good with countries whose people are of darker skin. "Adams had told Eisenhower that Wilkins was ill and had to retire for that reason," Pearson wrote. But Wilkins told the President that he was not ill." NO COMMENT were trying to woo the AfricanAsian bloc at the UN, the President and George Lodge may alienate the Afro-American bloc in Washington. According to Mr. Pearson, Mr. Wilkins is being asked to resign to make way for young Lodge to become Assistant Secretary of Labor. One oddity about the Pearson column was the fact that persons who are quick to call Pearson a liar and charge that there is not a shred of truth in some of his columns denied nothing he said concerning Mr. Wilkins. At his press conference Friday morning, James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, was asked about the Pearson column. "I have nothing here on it at all," he replied. "I have not checked. There is nothing I can say." Mr. Hagerty referred reporters to the Labor Department. Asked whether he knew if Mr. Wilkins had discussed resigning with the President when he had an appointment at the White House two weeks ago, Mr. Hagerty said he did not know. When Mr. Wilkins talked with the President two weeks ago, he came and left by the side door and reporters at the White House did not see him and had no chance to ask him about what he talked with the President. At that time, an informed source told the NNPA that Mr. Wilkins had called to thank the President for the opportunity to have served in the Government under him and to tell him that he was resigning on the advice of his physicians as both Assistant Secretary of Labor and as a member of the Civil Rights Commission. Pearson, in his column, pointed put that "a big fuss" was made over Wilkins some years ago as the first colored person to attend a Cabinet meeting. At that time, Secretary Mitchell was absent and Mr. Wilkins sat to for him. "But now he's told by his boss, Secretary Mitchell, Pearson continued "that he should spent all his time on the Civil Rights. Commission of which he is a member and to which he was appointed as a step toward easing him out of the Labor Department. Pearson said Wilkins objected to this. "He took his case direct to President Eisenhower and a pathetic scene followed," Pearson said. He added that Wilkins "wept over the idea of leaving the 'Little Cabinet.' Asked for comment on the Pearson story, Mr. Wilkins said: "No a word." George C. Lodge, Director of Information for the Labor Department, was out and not available for comment, his office reported. John W. Leslie, Deputy Director, when asked about the Pearson story, said: "We know nothing about it." Pearson also reported that Wilkins had refused to be fired by Sherman Adams, the Assistant to the President, who usually handles such matters. "He argued that as Assistant Secretary of Labor, ap pointed direct by the President, he had a right to state his case," Pearson stated. At the session which followed Pearson wrote, Wilkins told the President that he enjoyed his work and believed that a colored American in a top international relations position could do the United States much good with countries whose people are of darker skin. "Adams had told Eisenhower that Wilkins was ill and had to retire for that reason," Pearson wrote. But Wilkins told the President that he was not ill." CLAIM HEALTH ADVICE were trying to woo the AfricanAsian bloc at the UN, the President and George Lodge may alienate the Afro-American bloc in Washington. According to Mr. Pearson, Mr. Wilkins is being asked to resign to make way for young Lodge to become Assistant Secretary of Labor. One oddity about the Pearson column was the fact that persons who are quick to call Pearson a liar and charge that there is not a shred of truth in some of his columns denied nothing he said concerning Mr. Wilkins. At his press conference Friday morning, James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, was asked about the Pearson column. "I have nothing here on it at all," he replied. "I have not checked. There is nothing I can say." Mr. Hagerty referred reporters to the Labor Department. Asked whether he knew if Mr. Wilkins had discussed resigning with the President when he had an appointment at the White House two weeks ago, Mr. Hagerty said he did not know. When Mr. Wilkins talked with the President two weeks ago, he came and left by the side door and reporters at the White House did not see him and had no chance to ask him about what he talked with the President. At that time, an informed source told the NNPA that Mr. Wilkins had called to thank the President for the opportunity to have served in the Government under him and to tell him that he was resigning on the advice of his physicians as both Assistant Secretary of Labor and as a member of the Civil Rights Commission. Pearson, in his column, pointed put that "a big fuss" was made over Wilkins some years ago as the first colored person to attend a Cabinet meeting. At that time, Secretary Mitchell was absent and Mr. Wilkins sat to for him. "But now he's told by his boss, Secretary Mitchell, Pearson continued "that he should spent all his time on the Civil Rights. Commission of which he is a member and to which he was appointed as a step toward easing him out of the Labor Department. Pearson said Wilkins objected to this. "He took his case direct to President Eisenhower and a pathetic scene followed," Pearson said. He added that Wilkins "wept over the idea of leaving the 'Little Cabinet.' Asked for comment on the Pearson story, Mr. Wilkins said: "No a word." George C. Lodge, Director of Information for the Labor Department, was out and not available for comment, his office reported. John W. Leslie, Deputy Director, when asked about the Pearson story, said: "We know nothing about it." Pearson also reported that Wilkins had refused to be fired by Sherman Adams, the Assistant to the President, who usually handles such matters. "He argued that as Assistant Secretary of Labor, ap pointed direct by the President, he had a right to state his case," Pearson stated. At the session which followed Pearson wrote, Wilkins told the President that he enjoyed his work and believed that a colored American in a top international relations position could do the United States much good with countries whose people are of darker skin. "Adams had told Eisenhower that Wilkins was ill and had to retire for that reason," Pearson wrote. But Wilkins told the President that he was not ill." JAMES KEENE'S powerful new novel JUSTICE, MY BROTHER! © Copyright 1957, by James Keene; reprinted by permission of the novel's publisher, House Inc.: distributed by King Features Syndicate. THE GUTHRIE LAWYER for Luther came n on the evening train and went into an immediate huddle with Cord. Marshal Ledbetter had already telegraphed the facts to Oklahoma City, and word came in that they were sending a government prosecutor since we had no legal recourse in Ponca City stronger than a justice of the peace. Luther's attorney was a thin man, as straight standing as an undriven nail. When I asked what he thought of Luther's chances, he just looked at me sourly and walked out. I hadn't spoken to Edna since Luther had been arrested, figuring that she never wanted to clap eyes on me again. But she surprised me by coming to my hotel room. I invited her inside and closed the door, then waited for her to speak her piece. "I need help, Smoke. Go and talk to Luther. He asked to see you." This was a surprise. "I didn't think he'd want to see me. If I'd have Kept my mouth shut, he wouldn't be in this fix." "You can't be sure of that," she said quickly. "Smoke, I believe he's innocent. Can't you believe it?" "Then he ought to change his story. The one he's told is pretty thin." "He hasn't any story to change," Edna said. "Please, Smoke, believe in him. Believe in him because if you don't, he'll hang for something he didn't do." "You really sound convinced," I said. "Smoke, I'm begging you. Help me. Help Luther." There was no doubting the sincerity in her voice, whether stemming from her love or her desire to believe; I couldn't be sure which. But it was there. I picked up my hat. "It Ledbetter will let me see him, I'll do it." "And listen to him, Smoke. Listen with your heart." "All right, Edna." There was a good deal about this woman that I didn't understand, but I was learning fast. "You really love him, don't you?" "Yes," she said. "Weaknesses and all, Smoke. I love him." Before I closed the door, I said, "You want my opinion, I think Luther got himself a better woman than he bargained for." Then I walked down the hall to the marshal's room. He patted me to see if I was trying to sneak a pistol to Luther. I'll wait outside," he said. "Half-hour all right?" "Yes, and thanks." The door closed and I drew up a chair by the bed. Luther propped himself on one elbow: his wrist was handcuffed to the bed rail. "I'm getting darned tired of laying down," he said. "You look well fed." "Three meals a day and not a lick of work," he said. Then the humor drained away, leaving his worry exposed, like rocks at low tide. "I've thought a lot about what you did, giving the marshal the rope. And I guess the reason you did is because you're honest. And right now I need an honest man on my side. Smoke, I didn't kill Wade Everett. I know there's evidence against me, but it's only circumstantial. When Heck Overland swears on the witness stand that I left his place in the early evening after Cord and I had a beet, it will look bad, but it don't mean I went to Everett's place and killed him." "What was the argument about, Luther?" He laughed without humor. "The same old thing, when I'm going to be permitted to think for myself. We didn't settle anything, Smoke. Who can settle anything with Cord when you can't even understand him? After I left Heck's place, I just rode along, free and easy, stopping when I felt like it, trying to figure a way out." "A way out of what?" He looked at me as though trying to figure out whether I was playing cagey or dumb. He must have thought the latter for he said, "A way out of the mess I'm making out of my life. Smoke, I love Edna. I'm glad I married her. She's my wife and I don't want another man doing for her, making her smile; not even my own brother. Cord picked her for me, like I was feeble-minded or something and couldn't choose for myself." "You didn't have to take her." "Didn't I?" Luther smiled. "Smoke, he never let up on me, always asking whether I'd written her, and what I wrote, and telling me what I should write." Luther shook his head. "Cord knows how to work on a man, Smoke. You don't realize because you've always been so contrary. But I was never that way, which is why I'm in this mess right now." "The lawyer Cord hired will prove that you didn't do it." "No!" He seemed almost angry. "Smoke, he won't prove it because he isn't supposed to. Listen to me. Smoke, Everyone doubted me, even you. Yes you did, when you turned me in. Ma did and I guess still does because she cries when she comes here. And Cord, he thinks I'm guilty as hell. All he can talk about is the dirty tricks his lawyer will have to pull to get me off." He paused. "But there is only one person who believes without even askingEdna." "She loves you," I said simply. "Is that so, Smoke? How do you know for sure?" His hand shook when he raised it to his face. "Can't you sec I've got to know?" "She told me," I said. "Told me in a way that I could never doubt. You've got a wife who'll stick by you, Luther." He cried then. I went to the window and took I out until he gathered himself under control. Finally tie said, "Thanks, Smoke. I'm all right now." I turned back to him. "She loves me, Smoke; I made her love me. Cord had nothing to do with this." That's right," I said. "Cord had nothing to do with it." He fell silent for a time, then said, "Someone stole my rope and hung Wade Everett with it. Find out who, Smoke." "I'll try." "Watch Bill Hageman," Luther said. "He hasn't been in town since I was arrested." "You don't think..." "He had reason enough!" Luther lay back on the bed. "Keep your eyes and ears open, Smoke. Sooner or later you'll find out who killed Everett, because I sure didn't." Bud Ledbetter unlocked the door when I knocked and I went back to my room to consider the things Luther had talked about. He was telling the truth. His story was straight-told and too mixed up to be a lie. You've heard good liars. Every little detail falls into place, all the reasons are there; that's because a liar has time to figure the story out Luther didn't and the truth sounded pretty limp. All of which set me to thinking. To steal the rope and hang Everett, time had to be juggled, and stories warped to make them ring true. I tried to think of Bill Hageman as a killer, but the role didn't wear well on him. Even if he broke the O'Dare hold across the river, he wasn't in a position to buy, and if he could steal it, he lacked the money to make anything out of it. Only the O'Dares could profit by Wade Everett's death, and then only by a small bit of land.... CHAPTER 28 © Copyright 1957, by James Keene; reprinted by permission of the novel's publisher, House Inc.: distributed by King Features Syndicate. THE GUTHRIE LAWYER for Luther came n on the evening train and went into an immediate huddle with Cord. Marshal Ledbetter had already telegraphed the facts to Oklahoma City, and word came in that they were sending a government prosecutor since we had no legal recourse in Ponca City stronger than a justice of the peace. Luther's attorney was a thin man, as straight standing as an undriven nail. When I asked what he thought of Luther's chances, he just looked at me sourly and walked out. I hadn't spoken to Edna since Luther had been arrested, figuring that she never wanted to clap eyes on me again. But she surprised me by coming to my hotel room. I invited her inside and closed the door, then waited for her to speak her piece. "I need help, Smoke. Go and talk to Luther. He asked to see you." This was a surprise. "I didn't think he'd want to see me. If I'd have Kept my mouth shut, he wouldn't be in this fix." "You can't be sure of that," she said quickly. "Smoke, I believe he's innocent. Can't you believe it?" "Then he ought to change his story. The one he's told is pretty thin." "He hasn't any story to change," Edna said. "Please, Smoke, believe in him. Believe in him because if you don't, he'll hang for something he didn't do." "You really sound convinced," I said. "Smoke, I'm begging you. Help me. Help Luther." There was no doubting the sincerity in her voice, whether stemming from her love or her desire to believe; I couldn't be sure which. But it was there. I picked up my hat. "It Ledbetter will let me see him, I'll do it." "And listen to him, Smoke. Listen with your heart." "All right, Edna." There was a good deal about this woman that I didn't understand, but I was learning fast. "You really love him, don't you?" "Yes," she said. "Weaknesses and all, Smoke. I love him." Before I closed the door, I said, "You want my opinion, I think Luther got himself a better woman than he bargained for." Then I walked down the hall to the marshal's room. He patted me to see if I was trying to sneak a pistol to Luther. I'll wait outside," he said. "Half-hour all right?" "Yes, and thanks." The door closed and I drew up a chair by the bed. Luther propped himself on one elbow: his wrist was handcuffed to the bed rail. "I'm getting darned tired of laying down," he said. "You look well fed." "Three meals a day and not a lick of work," he said. Then the humor drained away, leaving his worry exposed, like rocks at low tide. "I've thought a lot about what you did, giving the marshal the rope. And I guess the reason you did is because you're honest. And right now I need an honest man on my side. Smoke, I didn't kill Wade Everett. I know there's evidence against me, but it's only circumstantial. When Heck Overland swears on the witness stand that I left his place in the early evening after Cord and I had a beet, it will look bad, but it don't mean I went to Everett's place and killed him." "What was the argument about, Luther?" He laughed without humor. "The same old thing, when I'm going to be permitted to think for myself. We didn't settle anything, Smoke. Who can settle anything with Cord when you can't even understand him? After I left Heck's place, I just rode along, free and easy, stopping when I felt like it, trying to figure a way out." "A way out of what?" He looked at me as though trying to figure out whether I was playing cagey or dumb. He must have thought the latter for he said, "A way out of the mess I'm making out of my life. Smoke, I love Edna. I'm glad I married her. She's my wife and I don't want another man doing for her, making her smile; not even my own brother. Cord picked her for me, like I was feeble-minded or something and couldn't choose for myself." "You didn't have to take her." "Didn't I?" Luther smiled. "Smoke, he never let up on me, always asking whether I'd written her, and what I wrote, and telling me what I should write." Luther shook his head. "Cord knows how to work on a man, Smoke. You don't realize because you've always been so contrary. But I was never that way, which is why I'm in this mess right now." "The lawyer Cord hired will prove that you didn't do it." "No!" He seemed almost angry. "Smoke, he won't prove it because he isn't supposed to. Listen to me. Smoke, Everyone doubted me, even you. Yes you did, when you turned me in. Ma did and I guess still does because she cries when she comes here. And Cord, he thinks I'm guilty as hell. All he can talk about is the dirty tricks his lawyer will have to pull to get me off." He paused. "But there is only one person who believes without even askingEdna." "She loves you," I said simply. "Is that so, Smoke? How do you know for sure?" His hand shook when he raised it to his face. "Can't you sec I've got to know?" "She told me," I said. "Told me in a way that I could never doubt. You've got a wife who'll stick by you, Luther." He cried then. I went to the window and took I out until he gathered himself under control. Finally tie said, "Thanks, Smoke. I'm all right now." I turned back to him. "She loves me, Smoke; I made her love me. Cord had nothing to do with this." That's right," I said. "Cord had nothing to do with it." He fell silent for a time, then said, "Someone stole my rope and hung Wade Everett with it. Find out who, Smoke." "I'll try." "Watch Bill Hageman," Luther said. "He hasn't been in town since I was arrested." "You don't think..." "He had reason enough!" Luther lay back on the bed. "Keep your eyes and ears open, Smoke. Sooner or later you'll find out who killed Everett, because I sure didn't." Bud Ledbetter unlocked the door when I knocked and I went back to my room to consider the things Luther had talked about. He was telling the truth. His story was straight-told and too mixed up to be a lie. You've heard good liars. Every little detail falls into place, all the reasons are there; that's because a liar has time to figure the story out Luther didn't and the truth sounded pretty limp. All of which set me to thinking. To steal the rope and hang Everett, time had to be juggled, and stories warped to make them ring true. I tried to think of Bill Hageman as a killer, but the role didn't wear well on him. Even if he broke the O'Dare hold across the river, he wasn't in a position to buy, and if he could steal it, he lacked the money to make anything out of it. Only the O'Dares could profit by Wade Everett's death, and then only by a small bit of land.... State Baptists Hold nie Brodnax Vance, Adult Class in the Church School; Rev. W. G. Terry, The Role of Ushers in Christian Worship; Rev. S. H. Herring, Improving the Sunday Church School; Mrs. Katie Terrell, Administering the Baptist Young People's Union and Mrs. Alta Lemon, Administering the Baptist Adult Union. Mrs. M. E. Fisher was in charge of a "Vacation Bible School". Mrs. Samella Bowden was instructor of Leather Crafts. Others who served as instructors in the Skill Shop were Mrs. Julia Pulliam, Instructor in Flanned Boards and Arts in Teaching Children; and Rev. Leroy Davis taught a class in Advance Work in Leather Craft. The Reverend H. C. Nabrit, pastor of First Baptist (Lauderdale) and the Reverend A. L.. McCargo pastor of Salem-Gilfield Baptist Church were in charge of Seminars, Rev. Nabrit headed the seminar in "The Preaching and Teaching of Ministry and Rev. McCargo. "Doctrine and Democracy." Highlights of the Womens' Division for the Seventh-Fourth Ansion for the Highlights of the Womens' Division for the 74th. Annual session was an address by Mrs. B. L. Estes at which time she told of the year's work. Other leaders who took part on the Women's program throughout the week were Mrs. Mary Crisp, Whitesville; Mrs. Mamie Taylor, Mrs. Ada Nelson, Ripley; Rev. J. T. Freeman Rev. G. Terr, Mrs. Louise Turner, Mrs. Artie Nelson, Mrs. Julia Pulliam, Mrs. B. J. Basking who was in charge of the Missionary Clinic; Mrs. A. M. Lockard and Mrs. A. McEwen Williams. Mrs. Allene Walls, President of Matrons; Mrs. Jesse Sherman, Mrs. W. A. Owens, Mrs. Ethel Whitelow, Mrs. Julia Barbee, Mrs. E. L. Cur ry of Brownsville; Mrs. J. A. Caldwell, Mrs. Mary Black, Mrs. J. H. Seward, Mr. M. J. Owen, Rev. B. T. Hopkins of Brownsville, Rev. W. L. Reid, Hennings, Tenn.; Mrs. Mildred Kinnons, Mrs. Minnie Whitelaw, Mrs. Helen Matthews, Mrs. Aline Price, Mrs. Hattie Sanders, and Mrs. Pauline Gause of Durhamville. The choir program was directed by Mrs. E. McClinton. Other ladies assisting with duties in the building were Mrs. K. M. Terrell, Mrs. Varine Dickens, Mrs. Florence Hicks of Bells, Tenn.; Mrs. Minnie Evans, Ripley; Mrs. Louise Johnson and Mrs. Artie G. Nelson, leader of the West Tennessee District Association who presided. Members in charge of programs during the week were Rev. W. R. Gray, Rev. F. T. Jones, Rev. A. H. Brown and Rev. P. Parker, in charge of Devotion.... In charge of Divine Services were Dr. J. H. Seward and his alternate was Rev. E. L. Currie; Rev. W. E. Scott.... alternate, Rev. P. J. Gooch; Rev. S. A. Owen, Rev. A. L. McCargo and Rev. B. T. Hopkins and his alternate was W. L. Reid. Rev. L. J. Peppers, alternate, Rev. H. Harrell; Rev. S. H. Herring with Rev. W. L. James serving as alternate; Rev. W. A. Owens and Rev. J. R. Halliburton as alternate; and Rev. J. P. Jones with Rev. J. L. Webb as alternate. On Thursday afternoon a special program was given by the wives of Ministers, Deacons, Business and Professional Men of the Association. This session was followed by a elaborate pageant written and directed by Mrs. S. A. Owen, wife of the moderator. Over 150 women participated in the program illustrating the Bible. On Friday afternoon Rev. Lofton Prof. J. Jones, Prof. H. Willard and Mrs. Dorothy Graham spoke to the group on what Owen College offers. REV. OWEN SPEAKS ON THURSDAY nie Brodnax Vance, Adult Class in the Church School; Rev. W. G. Terry, The Role of Ushers in Christian Worship; Rev. S. H. Herring, Improving the Sunday Church School; Mrs. Katie Terrell, Administering the Baptist Young People's Union and Mrs. Alta Lemon, Administering the Baptist Adult Union. Mrs. M. E. Fisher was in charge of a "Vacation Bible School". Mrs. Samella Bowden was instructor of Leather Crafts. Others who served as instructors in the Skill Shop were Mrs. Julia Pulliam, Instructor in Flanned Boards and Arts in Teaching Children; and Rev. Leroy Davis taught a class in Advance Work in Leather Craft. The Reverend H. C. Nabrit, pastor of First Baptist (Lauderdale) and the Reverend A. L.. McCargo pastor of Salem-Gilfield Baptist Church were in charge of Seminars, Rev. Nabrit headed the seminar in "The Preaching and Teaching of Ministry and Rev. McCargo. "Doctrine and Democracy." Highlights of the Womens' Division for the Seventh-Fourth Ansion for the Highlights of the Womens' Division for the 74th. Annual session was an address by Mrs. B. L. Estes at which time she told of the year's work. Other leaders who took part on the Women's program throughout the week were Mrs. Mary Crisp, Whitesville; Mrs. Mamie Taylor, Mrs. Ada Nelson, Ripley; Rev. J. T. Freeman Rev. G. Terr, Mrs. Louise Turner, Mrs. Artie Nelson, Mrs. Julia Pulliam, Mrs. B. J. Basking who was in charge of the Missionary Clinic; Mrs. A. M. Lockard and Mrs. A. McEwen Williams. Mrs. Allene Walls, President of Matrons; Mrs. Jesse Sherman, Mrs. W. A. Owens, Mrs. Ethel Whitelow, Mrs. Julia Barbee, Mrs. E. L. Cur ry of Brownsville; Mrs. J. A. Caldwell, Mrs. Mary Black, Mrs. J. H. Seward, Mr. M. J. Owen, Rev. B. T. Hopkins of Brownsville, Rev. W. L. Reid, Hennings, Tenn.; Mrs. Mildred Kinnons, Mrs. Minnie Whitelaw, Mrs. Helen Matthews, Mrs. Aline Price, Mrs. Hattie Sanders, and Mrs. Pauline Gause of Durhamville. The choir program was directed by Mrs. E. McClinton. Other ladies assisting with duties in the building were Mrs. K. M. Terrell, Mrs. Varine Dickens, Mrs. Florence Hicks of Bells, Tenn.; Mrs. Minnie Evans, Ripley; Mrs. Louise Johnson and Mrs. Artie G. Nelson, leader of the West Tennessee District Association who presided. Members in charge of programs during the week were Rev. W. R. Gray, Rev. F. T. Jones, Rev. A. H. Brown and Rev. P. Parker, in charge of Devotion.... In charge of Divine Services were Dr. J. H. Seward and his alternate was Rev. E. L. Currie; Rev. W. E. Scott.... alternate, Rev. P. J. Gooch; Rev. S. A. Owen, Rev. A. L. McCargo and Rev. B. T. Hopkins and his alternate was W. L. Reid. Rev. L. J. Peppers, alternate, Rev. H. Harrell; Rev. S. H. Herring with Rev. W. L. James serving as alternate; Rev. W. A. Owens and Rev. J. R. Halliburton as alternate; and Rev. J. P. Jones with Rev. J. L. Webb as alternate. On Thursday afternoon a special program was given by the wives of Ministers, Deacons, Business and Professional Men of the Association. This session was followed by a elaborate pageant written and directed by Mrs. S. A. Owen, wife of the moderator. Over 150 women participated in the program illustrating the Bible. On Friday afternoon Rev. Lofton Prof. J. Jones, Prof. H. Willard and Mrs. Dorothy Graham spoke to the group on what Owen College offers. WOMEN'S PROGRAM nie Brodnax Vance, Adult Class in the Church School; Rev. W. G. Terry, The Role of Ushers in Christian Worship; Rev. S. H. Herring, Improving the Sunday Church School; Mrs. Katie Terrell, Administering the Baptist Young People's Union and Mrs. Alta Lemon, Administering the Baptist Adult Union. Mrs. M. E. Fisher was in charge of a "Vacation Bible School". Mrs. Samella Bowden was instructor of Leather Crafts. Others who served as instructors in the Skill Shop were Mrs. Julia Pulliam, Instructor in Flanned Boards and Arts in Teaching Children; and Rev. Leroy Davis taught a class in Advance Work in Leather Craft. The Reverend H. C. Nabrit, pastor of First Baptist (Lauderdale) and the Reverend A. L.. McCargo pastor of Salem-Gilfield Baptist Church were in charge of Seminars, Rev. Nabrit headed the seminar in "The Preaching and Teaching of Ministry and Rev. McCargo. "Doctrine and Democracy." Highlights of the Womens' Division for the Seventh-Fourth Ansion for the Highlights of the Womens' Division for the 74th. Annual session was an address by Mrs. B. L. Estes at which time she told of the year's work. Other leaders who took part on the Women's program throughout the week were Mrs. Mary Crisp, Whitesville; Mrs. Mamie Taylor, Mrs. Ada Nelson, Ripley; Rev. J. T. Freeman Rev. G. Terr, Mrs. Louise Turner, Mrs. Artie Nelson, Mrs. Julia Pulliam, Mrs. B. J. Basking who was in charge of the Missionary Clinic; Mrs. A. M. Lockard and Mrs. A. McEwen Williams. Mrs. Allene Walls, President of Matrons; Mrs. Jesse Sherman, Mrs. W. A. Owens, Mrs. Ethel Whitelow, Mrs. Julia Barbee, Mrs. E. L. Cur ry of Brownsville; Mrs. J. A. Caldwell, Mrs. Mary Black, Mrs. J. H. Seward, Mr. M. J. Owen, Rev. B. T. Hopkins of Brownsville, Rev. W. L. Reid, Hennings, Tenn.; Mrs. Mildred Kinnons, Mrs. Minnie Whitelaw, Mrs. Helen Matthews, Mrs. Aline Price, Mrs. Hattie Sanders, and Mrs. Pauline Gause of Durhamville. The choir program was directed by Mrs. E. McClinton. Other ladies assisting with duties in the building were Mrs. K. M. Terrell, Mrs. Varine Dickens, Mrs. Florence Hicks of Bells, Tenn.; Mrs. Minnie Evans, Ripley; Mrs. Louise Johnson and Mrs. Artie G. Nelson, leader of the West Tennessee District Association who presided. Members in charge of programs during the week were Rev. W. R. Gray, Rev. F. T. Jones, Rev. A. H. Brown and Rev. P. Parker, in charge of Devotion.... In charge of Divine Services were Dr. J. H. Seward and his alternate was Rev. E. L. Currie; Rev. W. E. Scott.... alternate, Rev. P. J. Gooch; Rev. S. A. Owen, Rev. A. L. McCargo and Rev. B. T. Hopkins and his alternate was W. L. Reid. Rev. L. J. Peppers, alternate, Rev. H. Harrell; Rev. S. H. Herring with Rev. W. L. James serving as alternate; Rev. W. A. Owens and Rev. J. R. Halliburton as alternate; and Rev. J. P. Jones with Rev. J. L. Webb as alternate. On Thursday afternoon a special program was given by the wives of Ministers, Deacons, Business and Professional Men of the Association. This session was followed by a elaborate pageant written and directed by Mrs. S. A. Owen, wife of the moderator. Over 150 women participated in the program illustrating the Bible. On Friday afternoon Rev. Lofton Prof. J. Jones, Prof. H. Willard and Mrs. Dorothy Graham spoke to the group on what Owen College offers. IN CHARGE OF PROGRAMS nie Brodnax Vance, Adult Class in the Church School; Rev. W. G. Terry, The Role of Ushers in Christian Worship; Rev. S. H. Herring, Improving the Sunday Church School; Mrs. Katie Terrell, Administering the Baptist Young People's Union and Mrs. Alta Lemon, Administering the Baptist Adult Union. Mrs. M. E. Fisher was in charge of a "Vacation Bible School". Mrs. Samella Bowden was instructor of Leather Crafts. Others who served as instructors in the Skill Shop were Mrs. Julia Pulliam, Instructor in Flanned Boards and Arts in Teaching Children; and Rev. Leroy Davis taught a class in Advance Work in Leather Craft. The Reverend H. C. Nabrit, pastor of First Baptist (Lauderdale) and the Reverend A. L.. McCargo pastor of Salem-Gilfield Baptist Church were in charge of Seminars, Rev. Nabrit headed the seminar in "The Preaching and Teaching of Ministry and Rev. McCargo. "Doctrine and Democracy." Highlights of the Womens' Division for the Seventh-Fourth Ansion for the Highlights of the Womens' Division for the 74th. Annual session was an address by Mrs. B. L. Estes at which time she told of the year's work. Other leaders who took part on the Women's program throughout the week were Mrs. Mary Crisp, Whitesville; Mrs. Mamie Taylor, Mrs. Ada Nelson, Ripley; Rev. J. T. Freeman Rev. G. Terr, Mrs. Louise Turner, Mrs. Artie Nelson, Mrs. Julia Pulliam, Mrs. B. J. Basking who was in charge of the Missionary Clinic; Mrs. A. M. Lockard and Mrs. A. McEwen Williams. Mrs. Allene Walls, President of Matrons; Mrs. Jesse Sherman, Mrs. W. A. Owens, Mrs. Ethel Whitelow, Mrs. Julia Barbee, Mrs. E. L. Cur ry of Brownsville; Mrs. J. A. Caldwell, Mrs. Mary Black, Mrs. J. H. Seward, Mr. M. J. Owen, Rev. B. T. Hopkins of Brownsville, Rev. W. L. Reid, Hennings, Tenn.; Mrs. Mildred Kinnons, Mrs. Minnie Whitelaw, Mrs. Helen Matthews, Mrs. Aline Price, Mrs. Hattie Sanders, and Mrs. Pauline Gause of Durhamville. The choir program was directed by Mrs. E. McClinton. Other ladies assisting with duties in the building were Mrs. K. M. Terrell, Mrs. Varine Dickens, Mrs. Florence Hicks of Bells, Tenn.; Mrs. Minnie Evans, Ripley; Mrs. Louise Johnson and Mrs. Artie G. Nelson, leader of the West Tennessee District Association who presided. Members in charge of programs during the week were Rev. W. R. Gray, Rev. F. T. Jones, Rev. A. H. Brown and Rev. P. Parker, in charge of Devotion.... In charge of Divine Services were Dr. J. H. Seward and his alternate was Rev. E. L. Currie; Rev. W. E. Scott.... alternate, Rev. P. J. Gooch; Rev. S. A. Owen, Rev. A. L. McCargo and Rev. B. T. Hopkins and his alternate was W. L. Reid. Rev. L. J. Peppers, alternate, Rev. H. Harrell; Rev. S. H. Herring with Rev. W. L. James serving as alternate; Rev. W. A. Owens and Rev. J. R. Halliburton as alternate; and Rev. J. P. Jones with Rev. J. L. Webb as alternate. On Thursday afternoon a special program was given by the wives of Ministers, Deacons, Business and Professional Men of the Association. This session was followed by a elaborate pageant written and directed by Mrs. S. A. Owen, wife of the moderator. Over 150 women participated in the program illustrating the Bible. On Friday afternoon Rev. Lofton Prof. J. Jones, Prof. H. Willard and Mrs. Dorothy Graham spoke to the group on what Owen College offers. Prof. Hunt Better Prof Blair T. Hunt, principal of Booker T. Washington High School and pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, and a syndicated columnist for the Scott Newspapers, was reported feeling better at press tune after being seriously ill all last week. Prof. Hunt's physicians reported that the writer's 105 degree temperature which he suffered for several days had subsided and is now normal. A delegation from the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, headed by Mrs. Rosa Brown Bracy Haynes, said the professor was in "good spirits," but that he will be incapacitated for two weeks. Prof. Hunt's column, "My Weekly Sermon," can be found in this issue as usual. KHRUSHCHEV HAS TALK Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev conferred in Moscow Wednesday with former French Premier Pierre Mendes-France, Moscow Radio reported. The broadcast said Khrushshev and Mendes-France had a lengthy talk that covered a wide range of subjects.