Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1959-10-14 Thaddeus T. Stokes MEMPHIS WORLD 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 of its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. Why Not Grant An Audience To The Council, Mr. Armour? It would appear that Police Commissioner Claude Armour misunderstood the Bluff City and Shelby County Council of Civic Clubs when it requested an audience with him last week concerning alleged "widespread police brutality in predominately Negro neighborhoods." We came to the conclusion that he misunderstood the Council of Civic Club's request for an audience by the tenor of the written reply he sent to the Council's president, Rev. Alexander Gladney. Judging Commissioner Armour's reply to the Council's request "to have a conference" one would have concluded that the Council requested the commissioner to issue a statement of policy. Here is the text of that reply: "Dear Rev. Gladney: "Wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated Sept. 24, 1959, in regards to police brutality of the Negro race. Ever since I have been commissioner, this department has had a policy of investigating all complaints which have been reported, whether they be white or colored. After the investigation is completed, decisions are made as to whether or not action should be taken. These investigations are not secret, and are available to reporters of our newspapers as well as to the public." This department is instructed and taught to practice courtesy whenever possible. However, I do not expect police officers, enforcing laws and ordinances to be abused, ridiculed or injured while they are attempting to enforce the laws and ordinances of our city fairly and impartially, whether it be white or colored, without fear or favors of individuals or groups of individuals. "We are not going to tolerate, white or colored, who attempt to take a prisoner away from officers during their course of duty. If this practice continues, as has been noted recently in the press, this department will take a firmer action against this type of lawlessness. "We have a fine city and those who abide by the law have nothing to fear from the police, whether they be white or colored." "Hoping this answers your inquiry." We feel that the Council of Civic Clubs should have been granted an audience with you Commissioner Armour, because we feel that the Council is acting in good faith ...with the tranquility of Memphis as one of its foremost objectives. And if you are really as interested in keeping lawlessness at a minimum as your letter would indicate, then you will grant an audience to the Council immediately. Commissioner Armour, we share your expressed feeling when you say "this department will continue to enforce the laws and ordinances of our city fairly and impartially whether it be white or colored ..." However, we must take issue with you whenever you imply that your policemen are always justified in the tactics they employ . . . because no man ... or no group of men is infalible. If the police department has nothing to fear by a public investigation of this alleged "police brutality"... if there is nothing to hide about the policemen's modus operandi, and if law enforcement is being meted fairly and impartially whether it be white or colored, then why not grant an audience to the Council of Civic Clubs. Happiness Is Mental One of the secrets of life which we must all learn, before it is too late is that happiness is not the result of material things, but a mental achievement. You have probably often seen people who are in the most humble circumstances who are completely happy, who get much out of life and much out of people. No doubt you have also encountered those who have almost limitless sources of money but who are not happy, who are continuously chasing rainbows and who have few friends and get very little out of life. It is true that money does not necessarily bring happiness. A great many wealthy men will admit that the richer they became the less serene and the less fruitful their lives became. In summary the lesson of life is to learn to be happy with what nature has endowed us. We need not be the richest man or woman in our community, nor do we have to have great riches at all. If we are intelligent enough to be thankful for all the things we have (and all of us have many things) and get as much out of life as we can, as we go along, we can be happy regardless of the extent of our material wealth. YOUTH FACES Atlanta white women in their apartment. When the news about the reversal was relayed to him Friday morning. Smith bounced around like a maltese kitten, his attorney said. Attorney Phillip Slotin said he could read Smith's reaction like an open book. Slotin said first Smith had a look of confusion because he apparently failed to realize the legal significance of a Supreme Court reversal Then, Slotin related the explanation of terminology began. "The nerves in his face were visibly jumping," Slotin said. Then he relaxed and uttered a deep and relieved sigh when told that possible freedom was in the very near future. Then, Slotin said, he took the pressure as long as he could and said "I feel like yelling." Slotin said go ahead. The attorney boarded an elevator that would take him from the fourth floor, but before reaching street level a gusty yelp was heard. They all knew who it was. And Saturday, he looked at his wife and three sister who had come to visit him He said "You girls sure look good to me. Everything will sure be alright when I get out of here." "But how are you going to support your family?" someone asked. "I already have a job waiting for me on the outside whenever I get out. My future employer has always been in my corner." A middle-aged, pleasantly plump woman stared at Smith from a corner of the room. She said "I sure am glad for Melvin. I really prayed hard for him." Her statement was filled with irony. For she had two boys to pray for. She is the mother of a young teenage son who is condemned to die in the electric chair for the death of an Atlanta trolley operator "Melvin's recent success has really given me additional hope. I really prayed for that boy," she repeated. In a decision, with only one dissenting voice, the Supreme Court said Superior court Judge E. E. Andrews was "in error" by refusing a request for continuance of the second Smith trial until a court appointed attorney could thoroughly study the case. The stipulation by the Supreme Court that the lower court erred cleared the way for a new trial for Melvin smith by Superior court officials, if it is deemed desirable. In a portion of the court's opinion, it was stated that "The recital of facts .... shows that (the court appointed attorney) was wholly unprepared to proceed with the trial. He should have been granted a reasonable length of time to prepare for trial and the allowance of a few only minutes was an abuse of the court's discretion." "The court erred in not granting a new trial," the opinion said. Six of the seven justices who comprise the Supreme Court bench concurred with the opinion. Only one justice dissented. Melvin Lewis Smith, the 21-yearold father of three children, was tried and convicted March 25 on an indictment charging him with the rape of a South East Atlanta woman. Prior to that March trial, another jury had heard the case but that hearing was declared a mistrial by presiding Judge E. E. Andrews when an all-White jury deadlocked and could not reach a unanimous recision regarding Smith's guilt or innocence based on the testimony of the accusing women. Shortly after his conviction, Smith, through his defense attorneys, filed a motion for a new trial before Judge Andrews but the judge overruled the motion. The case subsequently moved to the Georgia Supreme Court early in September. The judges at the state's highest court deliberated over the appeal for approximately three weeks before rendering their decision Friday. The appeal to the high tribunal was based greatly on the defense attorney's contentions that Smith was represented at the second trial by a court - appointed attorney who was not familiar with the capital punishment case. The court - appointed attorney was originally named by the court to defend Smith at the first trial. But he withdrew from the case after discovering that Smith's relatives had engaged two other defense lawyers. The court - appointed attorney, in a sworn affidavit to the court, said he did not investigate the case when Attorney; Phillip Slotin and Dan Copeland entered the case and had completely dismissed the case from his mind until Judge Andrews ordered him to carry on with Smith's defense with only sgt preparation. Slotin and Copeland contended that the refusal to continue or postpone the trial abridged the right of the defendant to have the benefit of counsel guaranteed to him by the Constitution of Georgia and by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that "In the refusal of the court to continue or postpone the trial of the case, to afford appointed attorney time to prepare for trial, the court committed an error." The opinion further said, "The Constitutional guaranty of benefit of counsel to one charged with an offense against the laws of this state means something more than mere appointment. Such counsel is entitled to a reasonable length of time to properly prepare his defense. The court erred in not granting counsel's request for a postponement of the trial." Slotin, in tracing what could happen to the case now, said new trial for Smith could be set down on the Superior Court calendar or the prosecuting attorneys could place the case on the "dead docket." On the other hand it could be "nol prossed." By "dead docket," Slotin referred to a file kept by Superior Court officials where cases with insufficient state evidence to convict are placed. The case can be recalled from the "dead docket" at any time the state feels enough new evidence has been collected to bring on a conviction, or, as in many cases, it can lie dormant for eternity. When a case is "nol prossed," it is completely dropped by the solicitor general's office. It is usually dropped for lack of evidence and it cannot be recalled even if more evidence does appear later. It simply means that the case will not be prosecuted. Slotin said he and Attorney Copeland were scheduled to have a conference with Solicitor General Paul Webb Monday in connection with the Smith case. "I feel sure they will dead docket the case," slotin said. In the event the case is not "dead docketed," it will be placed at the top of the Superior Court calendar for retrial in about two or three weeks, Slotin said. Everybody seemed, happy Saturday at the prospect of release for Smith. Attorney slotin said when Smith first heard the news, "He really relaxed." FATHER OF THREE Atlanta white women in their apartment. When the news about the reversal was relayed to him Friday morning. Smith bounced around like a maltese kitten, his attorney said. Attorney Phillip Slotin said he could read Smith's reaction like an open book. Slotin said first Smith had a look of confusion because he apparently failed to realize the legal significance of a Supreme Court reversal Then, Slotin related the explanation of terminology began. "The nerves in his face were visibly jumping," Slotin said. Then he relaxed and uttered a deep and relieved sigh when told that possible freedom was in the very near future. Then, Slotin said, he took the pressure as long as he could and said "I feel like yelling." Slotin said go ahead. The attorney boarded an elevator that would take him from the fourth floor, but before reaching street level a gusty yelp was heard. They all knew who it was. And Saturday, he looked at his wife and three sister who had come to visit him He said "You girls sure look good to me. Everything will sure be alright when I get out of here." "But how are you going to support your family?" someone asked. "I already have a job waiting for me on the outside whenever I get out. My future employer has always been in my corner." A middle-aged, pleasantly plump woman stared at Smith from a corner of the room. She said "I sure am glad for Melvin. I really prayed hard for him." Her statement was filled with irony. For she had two boys to pray for. She is the mother of a young teenage son who is condemned to die in the electric chair for the death of an Atlanta trolley operator "Melvin's recent success has really given me additional hope. I really prayed for that boy," she repeated. In a decision, with only one dissenting voice, the Supreme Court said Superior court Judge E. E. Andrews was "in error" by refusing a request for continuance of the second Smith trial until a court appointed attorney could thoroughly study the case. The stipulation by the Supreme Court that the lower court erred cleared the way for a new trial for Melvin smith by Superior court officials, if it is deemed desirable. In a portion of the court's opinion, it was stated that "The recital of facts .... shows that (the court appointed attorney) was wholly unprepared to proceed with the trial. He should have been granted a reasonable length of time to prepare for trial and the allowance of a few only minutes was an abuse of the court's discretion." "The court erred in not granting a new trial," the opinion said. Six of the seven justices who comprise the Supreme Court bench concurred with the opinion. Only one justice dissented. Melvin Lewis Smith, the 21-yearold father of three children, was tried and convicted March 25 on an indictment charging him with the rape of a South East Atlanta woman. Prior to that March trial, another jury had heard the case but that hearing was declared a mistrial by presiding Judge E. E. Andrews when an all-White jury deadlocked and could not reach a unanimous recision regarding Smith's guilt or innocence based on the testimony of the accusing women. Shortly after his conviction, Smith, through his defense attorneys, filed a motion for a new trial before Judge Andrews but the judge overruled the motion. The case subsequently moved to the Georgia Supreme Court early in September. The judges at the state's highest court deliberated over the appeal for approximately three weeks before rendering their decision Friday. The appeal to the high tribunal was based greatly on the defense attorney's contentions that Smith was represented at the second trial by a court - appointed attorney who was not familiar with the capital punishment case. The court - appointed attorney was originally named by the court to defend Smith at the first trial. But he withdrew from the case after discovering that Smith's relatives had engaged two other defense lawyers. The court - appointed attorney, in a sworn affidavit to the court, said he did not investigate the case when Attorney; Phillip Slotin and Dan Copeland entered the case and had completely dismissed the case from his mind until Judge Andrews ordered him to carry on with Smith's defense with only sgt preparation. Slotin and Copeland contended that the refusal to continue or postpone the trial abridged the right of the defendant to have the benefit of counsel guaranteed to him by the Constitution of Georgia and by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that "In the refusal of the court to continue or postpone the trial of the case, to afford appointed attorney time to prepare for trial, the court committed an error." The opinion further said, "The Constitutional guaranty of benefit of counsel to one charged with an offense against the laws of this state means something more than mere appointment. Such counsel is entitled to a reasonable length of time to properly prepare his defense. The court erred in not granting counsel's request for a postponement of the trial." Slotin, in tracing what could happen to the case now, said new trial for Smith could be set down on the Superior Court calendar or the prosecuting attorneys could place the case on the "dead docket." On the other hand it could be "nol prossed." By "dead docket," Slotin referred to a file kept by Superior Court officials where cases with insufficient state evidence to convict are placed. The case can be recalled from the "dead docket" at any time the state feels enough new evidence has been collected to bring on a conviction, or, as in many cases, it can lie dormant for eternity. When a case is "nol prossed," it is completely dropped by the solicitor general's office. It is usually dropped for lack of evidence and it cannot be recalled even if more evidence does appear later. It simply means that the case will not be prosecuted. Slotin said he and Attorney Copeland were scheduled to have a conference with Solicitor General Paul Webb Monday in connection with the Smith case. "I feel sure they will dead docket the case," slotin said. In the event the case is not "dead docketed," it will be placed at the top of the Superior Court calendar for retrial in about two or three weeks, Slotin said. Everybody seemed, happy Saturday at the prospect of release for Smith. Attorney slotin said when Smith first heard the news, "He really relaxed." FILED MOTION Atlanta white women in their apartment. When the news about the reversal was relayed to him Friday morning. Smith bounced around like a maltese kitten, his attorney said. Attorney Phillip Slotin said he could read Smith's reaction like an open book. Slotin said first Smith had a look of confusion because he apparently failed to realize the legal significance of a Supreme Court reversal Then, Slotin related the explanation of terminology began. "The nerves in his face were visibly jumping," Slotin said. Then he relaxed and uttered a deep and relieved sigh when told that possible freedom was in the very near future. Then, Slotin said, he took the pressure as long as he could and said "I feel like yelling." Slotin said go ahead. The attorney boarded an elevator that would take him from the fourth floor, but before reaching street level a gusty yelp was heard. They all knew who it was. And Saturday, he looked at his wife and three sister who had come to visit him He said "You girls sure look good to me. Everything will sure be alright when I get out of here." "But how are you going to support your family?" someone asked. "I already have a job waiting for me on the outside whenever I get out. My future employer has always been in my corner." A middle-aged, pleasantly plump woman stared at Smith from a corner of the room. She said "I sure am glad for Melvin. I really prayed hard for him." Her statement was filled with irony. For she had two boys to pray for. She is the mother of a young teenage son who is condemned to die in the electric chair for the death of an Atlanta trolley operator "Melvin's recent success has really given me additional hope. I really prayed for that boy," she repeated. In a decision, with only one dissenting voice, the Supreme Court said Superior court Judge E. E. Andrews was "in error" by refusing a request for continuance of the second Smith trial until a court appointed attorney could thoroughly study the case. The stipulation by the Supreme Court that the lower court erred cleared the way for a new trial for Melvin smith by Superior court officials, if it is deemed desirable. In a portion of the court's opinion, it was stated that "The recital of facts .... shows that (the court appointed attorney) was wholly unprepared to proceed with the trial. He should have been granted a reasonable length of time to prepare for trial and the allowance of a few only minutes was an abuse of the court's discretion." "The court erred in not granting a new trial," the opinion said. Six of the seven justices who comprise the Supreme Court bench concurred with the opinion. Only one justice dissented. Melvin Lewis Smith, the 21-yearold father of three children, was tried and convicted March 25 on an indictment charging him with the rape of a South East Atlanta woman. Prior to that March trial, another jury had heard the case but that hearing was declared a mistrial by presiding Judge E. E. Andrews when an all-White jury deadlocked and could not reach a unanimous recision regarding Smith's guilt or innocence based on the testimony of the accusing women. Shortly after his conviction, Smith, through his defense attorneys, filed a motion for a new trial before Judge Andrews but the judge overruled the motion. The case subsequently moved to the Georgia Supreme Court early in September. The judges at the state's highest court deliberated over the appeal for approximately three weeks before rendering their decision Friday. The appeal to the high tribunal was based greatly on the defense attorney's contentions that Smith was represented at the second trial by a court - appointed attorney who was not familiar with the capital punishment case. The court - appointed attorney was originally named by the court to defend Smith at the first trial. But he withdrew from the case after discovering that Smith's relatives had engaged two other defense lawyers. The court - appointed attorney, in a sworn affidavit to the court, said he did not investigate the case when Attorney; Phillip Slotin and Dan Copeland entered the case and had completely dismissed the case from his mind until Judge Andrews ordered him to carry on with Smith's defense with only sgt preparation. Slotin and Copeland contended that the refusal to continue or postpone the trial abridged the right of the defendant to have the benefit of counsel guaranteed to him by the Constitution of Georgia and by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that "In the refusal of the court to continue or postpone the trial of the case, to afford appointed attorney time to prepare for trial, the court committed an error." The opinion further said, "The Constitutional guaranty of benefit of counsel to one charged with an offense against the laws of this state means something more than mere appointment. Such counsel is entitled to a reasonable length of time to properly prepare his defense. The court erred in not granting counsel's request for a postponement of the trial." Slotin, in tracing what could happen to the case now, said new trial for Smith could be set down on the Superior Court calendar or the prosecuting attorneys could place the case on the "dead docket." On the other hand it could be "nol prossed." By "dead docket," Slotin referred to a file kept by Superior Court officials where cases with insufficient state evidence to convict are placed. The case can be recalled from the "dead docket" at any time the state feels enough new evidence has been collected to bring on a conviction, or, as in many cases, it can lie dormant for eternity. When a case is "nol prossed," it is completely dropped by the solicitor general's office. It is usually dropped for lack of evidence and it cannot be recalled even if more evidence does appear later. It simply means that the case will not be prosecuted. Slotin said he and Attorney Copeland were scheduled to have a conference with Solicitor General Paul Webb Monday in connection with the Smith case. "I feel sure they will dead docket the case," slotin said. In the event the case is not "dead docketed," it will be placed at the top of the Superior Court calendar for retrial in about two or three weeks, Slotin said. Everybody seemed, happy Saturday at the prospect of release for Smith. Attorney slotin said when Smith first heard the news, "He really relaxed." SWORN STATEMENT Atlanta white women in their apartment. When the news about the reversal was relayed to him Friday morning. Smith bounced around like a maltese kitten, his attorney said. Attorney Phillip Slotin said he could read Smith's reaction like an open book. Slotin said first Smith had a look of confusion because he apparently failed to realize the legal significance of a Supreme Court reversal Then, Slotin related the explanation of terminology began. "The nerves in his face were visibly jumping," Slotin said. Then he relaxed and uttered a deep and relieved sigh when told that possible freedom was in the very near future. Then, Slotin said, he took the pressure as long as he could and said "I feel like yelling." Slotin said go ahead. The attorney boarded an elevator that would take him from the fourth floor, but before reaching street level a gusty yelp was heard. They all knew who it was. And Saturday, he looked at his wife and three sister who had come to visit him He said "You girls sure look good to me. Everything will sure be alright when I get out of here." "But how are you going to support your family?" someone asked. "I already have a job waiting for me on the outside whenever I get out. My future employer has always been in my corner." A middle-aged, pleasantly plump woman stared at Smith from a corner of the room. She said "I sure am glad for Melvin. I really prayed hard for him." Her statement was filled with irony. For she had two boys to pray for. She is the mother of a young teenage son who is condemned to die in the electric chair for the death of an Atlanta trolley operator "Melvin's recent success has really given me additional hope. I really prayed for that boy," she repeated. In a decision, with only one dissenting voice, the Supreme Court said Superior court Judge E. E. Andrews was "in error" by refusing a request for continuance of the second Smith trial until a court appointed attorney could thoroughly study the case. The stipulation by the Supreme Court that the lower court erred cleared the way for a new trial for Melvin smith by Superior court officials, if it is deemed desirable. In a portion of the court's opinion, it was stated that "The recital of facts .... shows that (the court appointed attorney) was wholly unprepared to proceed with the trial. He should have been granted a reasonable length of time to prepare for trial and the allowance of a few only minutes was an abuse of the court's discretion." "The court erred in not granting a new trial," the opinion said. Six of the seven justices who comprise the Supreme Court bench concurred with the opinion. Only one justice dissented. Melvin Lewis Smith, the 21-yearold father of three children, was tried and convicted March 25 on an indictment charging him with the rape of a South East Atlanta woman. Prior to that March trial, another jury had heard the case but that hearing was declared a mistrial by presiding Judge E. E. Andrews when an all-White jury deadlocked and could not reach a unanimous recision regarding Smith's guilt or innocence based on the testimony of the accusing women. Shortly after his conviction, Smith, through his defense attorneys, filed a motion for a new trial before Judge Andrews but the judge overruled the motion. The case subsequently moved to the Georgia Supreme Court early in September. The judges at the state's highest court deliberated over the appeal for approximately three weeks before rendering their decision Friday. The appeal to the high tribunal was based greatly on the defense attorney's contentions that Smith was represented at the second trial by a court - appointed attorney who was not familiar with the capital punishment case. The court - appointed attorney was originally named by the court to defend Smith at the first trial. But he withdrew from the case after discovering that Smith's relatives had engaged two other defense lawyers. The court - appointed attorney, in a sworn affidavit to the court, said he did not investigate the case when Attorney; Phillip Slotin and Dan Copeland entered the case and had completely dismissed the case from his mind until Judge Andrews ordered him to carry on with Smith's defense with only sgt preparation. Slotin and Copeland contended that the refusal to continue or postpone the trial abridged the right of the defendant to have the benefit of counsel guaranteed to him by the Constitution of Georgia and by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that "In the refusal of the court to continue or postpone the trial of the case, to afford appointed attorney time to prepare for trial, the court committed an error." The opinion further said, "The Constitutional guaranty of benefit of counsel to one charged with an offense against the laws of this state means something more than mere appointment. Such counsel is entitled to a reasonable length of time to properly prepare his defense. The court erred in not granting counsel's request for a postponement of the trial." Slotin, in tracing what could happen to the case now, said new trial for Smith could be set down on the Superior Court calendar or the prosecuting attorneys could place the case on the "dead docket." On the other hand it could be "nol prossed." By "dead docket," Slotin referred to a file kept by Superior Court officials where cases with insufficient state evidence to convict are placed. The case can be recalled from the "dead docket" at any time the state feels enough new evidence has been collected to bring on a conviction, or, as in many cases, it can lie dormant for eternity. When a case is "nol prossed," it is completely dropped by the solicitor general's office. It is usually dropped for lack of evidence and it cannot be recalled even if more evidence does appear later. It simply means that the case will not be prosecuted. Slotin said he and Attorney Copeland were scheduled to have a conference with Solicitor General Paul Webb Monday in connection with the Smith case. "I feel sure they will dead docket the case," slotin said. In the event the case is not "dead docketed," it will be placed at the top of the Superior Court calendar for retrial in about two or three weeks, Slotin said. Everybody seemed, happy Saturday at the prospect of release for Smith. Attorney slotin said when Smith first heard the news, "He really relaxed." O'Connell Says tory hiring produces, Mr. O'Connell said, relates not only to the handicapped work but "to the older worker, the woman worker, the non-white workers." Continuing, he said: "More and more, employers are going to find that in order to meet Skill and training demands, they are going to have to forego the long established hiring - preference test which favors the white, male worker between 25 and 44. "It appears then, that real equal opportunity — or something close to it — is destined to become a fact of our times by virtue of sheer economic necessity. That is, it will for those who are willing to react to these trends in terms of skill development through train ing and re-training. The future belongs to those who prepare for it. TOUGH SADDLE BY MATT STUART BY Matt Stuart,1959 from the Dodd, Mead & Co. novel; distributed by king Features Syndicate. The only girl who ever stirred Link Asbell has become a worry to him. Her father's death left Sue Vincent with the responsibility of maintaining the Big Five ranch against range rivals and outlaws. She has given her attention to little except a round of gala parties. As foreman of the ranch. Asbell has had to make all the decisions and face all the problems alone. In making the rounds of line camps on the Big Five. Asbell found a cabin burned to the ground and its sole occupant. Packy Lane, dead in his bunk. Convinced it was a case of murder. Link rode to Big Five headquarters to inform Sue. A noisy party was in progress. LINK ASBELL tramped around to the rear of the Big Five ranchhouse and stepped into a Kitchen full of light and warmth and the stir of anxious activity. Here Tonio Diaz was busy with a steak knife over a oin of beet, while his wife, Rosa, bustled about the big ranch stove. Rosa turned at sound of his entrance. She was a buxom woman her round, olive cheeks strong with color, from the stove's warmth. She glanced at the sack of food which she had prepared for Packy Lane. "It was not' needed, Senor Link?" "Not needed Rosa." He lowered the sack into a corner. "Your mistress—I would speak with her." Rosa hesitated, visibly distressed. "If I call her away from her friends for even a little time, I know she'll be angry with me. Already today she has scolded me. though as always. I do my best." Tonio Diaz, small, wiry and very swarthy, looked up from his work and spoke with a deep earnestness. "My Rosa and I. Senor Link, we have given the good years of our lives to this house, faithful to it and its people. It was our happiness to serve the old master while he was alive. We have watched the daughter flower from child to woman, and we have loved and cherished her as our own. Yet tonight, I must say this! "The wisdom and strength of the old master is no longer with us and the time has come when Rancho del Cinco Grande again stands in need of a strong man's will and sternness. For life Senor Link. It cannot be all fiesta. You must see our mistress and make her understand that!" Asbell considered these two good people for a grave moment. Long and well had they served. Their loyalty and sincerity were beyond doubt. He nodded. "I will see her and do what I can After that I have business in town and will want supper before I leave." "It will be waiting for you," Rosa promised. Asbell went out into the night again and circled the long east Wing of the big ranchhouse. Just inside the patio entrance he paused, his glance quick searching. People stood about Lamp glow, spraying thinly from deep, casemented ranchhouse windows created an illusory mixture of half-light, half-dark which gave substance to these people one moment and made shadows of them the next. As always sight of Sure Vincent sent swift emotion gusting through him. No other woman, he vowed ever walked quite like her. Smooth, effortless grace was as natural to her as was breathing. Put a crown on that auburn head of hers and she'd match any queen who ever lived. He stepped out of the deeper shadow and she saw him and came swiftly to him. Yet the moment she spoke, the warm glow of feeling left him. For her words were curt, her tone sharp with annoyance. "What is it, Link? Couldn't it have waited until morning?" He did not answer immediately just stood quietly a tall, grave figure, still of face intent of glance. They had Known each other over a considerable time, had Link Asbell and Sue Vincent. When first met he was a lean silent, twenty-year-old cowhand. just signed on at Big Five by Mike Vincent and she a dashing youngster in her middle teens who rode with breakneck abandon, all slim grace and wild-flying hair and flashing, gray-green eyes. Well that was ten long years ago and it was he thought becoming harder all the time to reconcile the open-hearted exuberant girl of yesterday with this tempestuous proud and disturbingly self-centered young woman of today. In one respect however the resemblance was strong. The fresh beauty of the girl had become sheer loveliness in the woman. Under the steadiness of his regard. Susan Vincent stirred restlessly. "Well?" she demanded again. "Was it really necessary to bother me at this time with some trivial ranch business?" Abruptly, real anger gripped Asbell and he answered with a matching curtness. "I'll let you decide. I'm just in from Rosebud Greek Packy Lane is dead up there—in the ashes of the cabir" The bleak pronouncement of fact jolted her She caught her breath gave a tight little cry. "You're sure?" "Of course. I was there. I know what I saw." He brooded a moment then went on his tone bitter. "And while you may consider it trivial ranch business to me it's just a hell of a lot more important than all this sort of thing." His gesture took in the patio and the people it held. She had paled at first word of Packy Lane's death. Now indignant color flamed in her cheeks. "Do you have to be brutal? How could I have known you were bringing such word?" Her voice broke slightly and a quick moisture glinted in her eyes. "You couldn't of course," he admitted, gruffly contrite "Sorry. But what I saw has been riding me pretty hard." She turned away, dabbing at her eyes with a wisp of a handkerchief. Her tone was small, subdued. "How—how could such a thing happen?" He shook his head. "Right now I don't know. But I intend making a good try at finding out." There was an inference in his words, and an emphasis that brought her around to face him again. "You're suggesting it wasn't accidental?" Asbell shrugged "Knowing Packy, and the exact schedule of living he held to all day and every day, both in time and detail, I'm taking nothing for granted." "Then you are suggesting it." She paused, marking the impassive somberness of his mood, then went on protesting. "Who would want to harm a kindly old man like Packy—who and why.?" "Maybe" Asbell suggested carefully, "they weren't thinking of him as an individual so much as they were him being a part of Big Five. Maybe, in hitting at Packy they figured they were hitting at the ranch." "But why would anyone want to do that? Link, you don't know. You're not certain of anything." Again he was silent, his eyes narrowed in conjecture. Again he shrugged. "Two things I'm very certain of One is that Packy Lane is dead. The other is—there are those who fought Big Five in the old days." It was her turn to make a gesture, a quick, dismissing one. "Old days long gone and long forgotten." "Not so" he differed "Gone, maybe—but certainly not forgotten." "You're being ridiculous." she charged "Why one of my guests here tonight is Frank Dalmar." "So I hear" nodded Asbell drily. "But old Jonas Dalmar isn't. Neither is Bardo Sampson. They're not here, but they're still around and very much alive. And." he ended with a measured significance, "as your father would say. They do not like us and they never will!'" WHAT HAS HAPPENED BY MATT STUART BY Matt Stuart,1959 from the Dodd, Mead & Co. novel; distributed by king Features Syndicate. The only girl who ever stirred Link Asbell has become a worry to him. Her father's death left Sue Vincent with the responsibility of maintaining the Big Five ranch against range rivals and outlaws. She has given her attention to little except a round of gala parties. As foreman of the ranch. Asbell has had to make all the decisions and face all the problems alone. In making the rounds of line camps on the Big Five. Asbell found a cabin burned to the ground and its sole occupant. Packy Lane, dead in his bunk. Convinced it was a case of murder. Link rode to Big Five headquarters to inform Sue. A noisy party was in progress. LINK ASBELL tramped around to the rear of the Big Five ranchhouse and stepped into a Kitchen full of light and warmth and the stir of anxious activity. Here Tonio Diaz was busy with a steak knife over a oin of beet, while his wife, Rosa, bustled about the big ranch stove. Rosa turned at sound of his entrance. She was a buxom woman her round, olive cheeks strong with color, from the stove's warmth. She glanced at the sack of food which she had prepared for Packy Lane. "It was not' needed, Senor Link?" "Not needed Rosa." He lowered the sack into a corner. "Your mistress—I would speak with her." Rosa hesitated, visibly distressed. "If I call her away from her friends for even a little time, I know she'll be angry with me. Already today she has scolded me. though as always. I do my best." Tonio Diaz, small, wiry and very swarthy, looked up from his work and spoke with a deep earnestness. "My Rosa and I. Senor Link, we have given the good years of our lives to this house, faithful to it and its people. It was our happiness to serve the old master while he was alive. We have watched the daughter flower from child to woman, and we have loved and cherished her as our own. Yet tonight, I must say this! "The wisdom and strength of the old master is no longer with us and the time has come when Rancho del Cinco Grande again stands in need of a strong man's will and sternness. For life Senor Link. It cannot be all fiesta. You must see our mistress and make her understand that!" Asbell considered these two good people for a grave moment. Long and well had they served. Their loyalty and sincerity were beyond doubt. He nodded. "I will see her and do what I can After that I have business in town and will want supper before I leave." "It will be waiting for you," Rosa promised. Asbell went out into the night again and circled the long east Wing of the big ranchhouse. Just inside the patio entrance he paused, his glance quick searching. People stood about Lamp glow, spraying thinly from deep, casemented ranchhouse windows created an illusory mixture of half-light, half-dark which gave substance to these people one moment and made shadows of them the next. As always sight of Sure Vincent sent swift emotion gusting through him. No other woman, he vowed ever walked quite like her. Smooth, effortless grace was as natural to her as was breathing. Put a crown on that auburn head of hers and she'd match any queen who ever lived. He stepped out of the deeper shadow and she saw him and came swiftly to him. Yet the moment she spoke, the warm glow of feeling left him. For her words were curt, her tone sharp with annoyance. "What is it, Link? Couldn't it have waited until morning?" He did not answer immediately just stood quietly a tall, grave figure, still of face intent of glance. They had Known each other over a considerable time, had Link Asbell and Sue Vincent. When first met he was a lean silent, twenty-year-old cowhand. just signed on at Big Five by Mike Vincent and she a dashing youngster in her middle teens who rode with breakneck abandon, all slim grace and wild-flying hair and flashing, gray-green eyes. Well that was ten long years ago and it was he thought becoming harder all the time to reconcile the open-hearted exuberant girl of yesterday with this tempestuous proud and disturbingly self-centered young woman of today. In one respect however the resemblance was strong. The fresh beauty of the girl had become sheer loveliness in the woman. Under the steadiness of his regard. Susan Vincent stirred restlessly. "Well?" she demanded again. "Was it really necessary to bother me at this time with some trivial ranch business?" Abruptly, real anger gripped Asbell and he answered with a matching curtness. "I'll let you decide. I'm just in from Rosebud Greek Packy Lane is dead up there—in the ashes of the cabir" The bleak pronouncement of fact jolted her She caught her breath gave a tight little cry. "You're sure?" "Of course. I was there. I know what I saw." He brooded a moment then went on his tone bitter. "And while you may consider it trivial ranch business to me it's just a hell of a lot more important than all this sort of thing." His gesture took in the patio and the people it held. She had paled at first word of Packy Lane's death. Now indignant color flamed in her cheeks. "Do you have to be brutal? How could I have known you were bringing such word?" Her voice broke slightly and a quick moisture glinted in her eyes. "You couldn't of course," he admitted, gruffly contrite "Sorry. But what I saw has been riding me pretty hard." She turned away, dabbing at her eyes with a wisp of a handkerchief. Her tone was small, subdued. "How—how could such a thing happen?" He shook his head. "Right now I don't know. But I intend making a good try at finding out." There was an inference in his words, and an emphasis that brought her around to face him again. "You're suggesting it wasn't accidental?" Asbell shrugged "Knowing Packy, and the exact schedule of living he held to all day and every day, both in time and detail, I'm taking nothing for granted." "Then you are suggesting it." She paused, marking the impassive somberness of his mood, then went on protesting. "Who would want to harm a kindly old man like Packy—who and why.?" "Maybe" Asbell suggested carefully, "they weren't thinking of him as an individual so much as they were him being a part of Big Five. Maybe, in hitting at Packy they figured they were hitting at the ranch." "But why would anyone want to do that? Link, you don't know. You're not certain of anything." Again he was silent, his eyes narrowed in conjecture. Again he shrugged. "Two things I'm very certain of One is that Packy Lane is dead. The other is—there are those who fought Big Five in the old days." It was her turn to make a gesture, a quick, dismissing one. "Old days long gone and long forgotten." "Not so" he differed "Gone, maybe—but certainly not forgotten." "You're being ridiculous." she charged "Why one of my guests here tonight is Frank Dalmar." "So I hear" nodded Asbell drily. "But old Jonas Dalmar isn't. Neither is Bardo Sampson. They're not here, but they're still around and very much alive. And." he ended with a measured significance, "as your father would say. They do not like us and they never will!'" CHAPTER 2 BY MATT STUART BY Matt Stuart,1959 from the Dodd, Mead & Co. novel; distributed by king Features Syndicate. The only girl who ever stirred Link Asbell has become a worry to him. Her father's death left Sue Vincent with the responsibility of maintaining the Big Five ranch against range rivals and outlaws. She has given her attention to little except a round of gala parties. As foreman of the ranch. Asbell has had to make all the decisions and face all the problems alone. In making the rounds of line camps on the Big Five. Asbell found a cabin burned to the ground and its sole occupant. Packy Lane, dead in his bunk. Convinced it was a case of murder. Link rode to Big Five headquarters to inform Sue. A noisy party was in progress. LINK ASBELL tramped around to the rear of the Big Five ranchhouse and stepped into a Kitchen full of light and warmth and the stir of anxious activity. Here Tonio Diaz was busy with a steak knife over a oin of beet, while his wife, Rosa, bustled about the big ranch stove. Rosa turned at sound of his entrance. She was a buxom woman her round, olive cheeks strong with color, from the stove's warmth. She glanced at the sack of food which she had prepared for Packy Lane. "It was not' needed, Senor Link?" "Not needed Rosa." He lowered the sack into a corner. "Your mistress—I would speak with her." Rosa hesitated, visibly distressed. "If I call her away from her friends for even a little time, I know she'll be angry with me. Already today she has scolded me. though as always. I do my best." Tonio Diaz, small, wiry and very swarthy, looked up from his work and spoke with a deep earnestness. "My Rosa and I. Senor Link, we have given the good years of our lives to this house, faithful to it and its people. It was our happiness to serve the old master while he was alive. We have watched the daughter flower from child to woman, and we have loved and cherished her as our own. Yet tonight, I must say this! "The wisdom and strength of the old master is no longer with us and the time has come when Rancho del Cinco Grande again stands in need of a strong man's will and sternness. For life Senor Link. It cannot be all fiesta. You must see our mistress and make her understand that!" Asbell considered these two good people for a grave moment. Long and well had they served. Their loyalty and sincerity were beyond doubt. He nodded. "I will see her and do what I can After that I have business in town and will want supper before I leave." "It will be waiting for you," Rosa promised. Asbell went out into the night again and circled the long east Wing of the big ranchhouse. Just inside the patio entrance he paused, his glance quick searching. People stood about Lamp glow, spraying thinly from deep, casemented ranchhouse windows created an illusory mixture of half-light, half-dark which gave substance to these people one moment and made shadows of them the next. As always sight of Sure Vincent sent swift emotion gusting through him. No other woman, he vowed ever walked quite like her. Smooth, effortless grace was as natural to her as was breathing. Put a crown on that auburn head of hers and she'd match any queen who ever lived. He stepped out of the deeper shadow and she saw him and came swiftly to him. Yet the moment she spoke, the warm glow of feeling left him. For her words were curt, her tone sharp with annoyance. "What is it, Link? Couldn't it have waited until morning?" He did not answer immediately just stood quietly a tall, grave figure, still of face intent of glance. They had Known each other over a considerable time, had Link Asbell and Sue Vincent. When first met he was a lean silent, twenty-year-old cowhand. just signed on at Big Five by Mike Vincent and she a dashing youngster in her middle teens who rode with breakneck abandon, all slim grace and wild-flying hair and flashing, gray-green eyes. Well that was ten long years ago and it was he thought becoming harder all the time to reconcile the open-hearted exuberant girl of yesterday with this tempestuous proud and disturbingly self-centered young woman of today. In one respect however the resemblance was strong. The fresh beauty of the girl had become sheer loveliness in the woman. Under the steadiness of his regard. Susan Vincent stirred restlessly. "Well?" she demanded again. "Was it really necessary to bother me at this time with some trivial ranch business?" Abruptly, real anger gripped Asbell and he answered with a matching curtness. "I'll let you decide. I'm just in from Rosebud Greek Packy Lane is dead up there—in the ashes of the cabir" The bleak pronouncement of fact jolted her She caught her breath gave a tight little cry. "You're sure?" "Of course. I was there. I know what I saw." He brooded a moment then went on his tone bitter. "And while you may consider it trivial ranch business to me it's just a hell of a lot more important than all this sort of thing." His gesture took in the patio and the people it held. She had paled at first word of Packy Lane's death. Now indignant color flamed in her cheeks. "Do you have to be brutal? How could I have known you were bringing such word?" Her voice broke slightly and a quick moisture glinted in her eyes. "You couldn't of course," he admitted, gruffly contrite "Sorry. But what I saw has been riding me pretty hard." She turned away, dabbing at her eyes with a wisp of a handkerchief. Her tone was small, subdued. "How—how could such a thing happen?" He shook his head. "Right now I don't know. But I intend making a good try at finding out." There was an inference in his words, and an emphasis that brought her around to face him again. "You're suggesting it wasn't accidental?" Asbell shrugged "Knowing Packy, and the exact schedule of living he held to all day and every day, both in time and detail, I'm taking nothing for granted." "Then you are suggesting it." She paused, marking the impassive somberness of his mood, then went on protesting. "Who would want to harm a kindly old man like Packy—who and why.?" "Maybe" Asbell suggested carefully, "they weren't thinking of him as an individual so much as they were him being a part of Big Five. Maybe, in hitting at Packy they figured they were hitting at the ranch." "But why would anyone want to do that? Link, you don't know. You're not certain of anything." Again he was silent, his eyes narrowed in conjecture. Again he shrugged. "Two things I'm very certain of One is that Packy Lane is dead. The other is—there are those who fought Big Five in the old days." It was her turn to make a gesture, a quick, dismissing one. "Old days long gone and long forgotten." "Not so" he differed "Gone, maybe—but certainly not forgotten." "You're being ridiculous." she charged "Why one of my guests here tonight is Frank Dalmar." "So I hear" nodded Asbell drily. "But old Jonas Dalmar isn't. Neither is Bardo Sampson. They're not here, but they're still around and very much alive. And." he ended with a measured significance, "as your father would say. They do not like us and they never will!'" OWENS COLLEGE NEWS Activity at Owen College goes into full swing as the largest group of students ever enrolled settled down for the long eventful months ahead. As part of the institution's participation in community and civic affairs: Mrs. D. T. Patterson and her corps of faithful students helphers prepared a display for the TriState Fair. Owen College has wos 3 second place premiums or awards by virtue of the fact that it is the only private college participating and the automatic second place award has gone to the college. The school spirit on the campus is at an all time high and this seems a good omen in that wonderful things should happen at Owen. Coach Ernie Mayes says the basketball team is taking shape rapidly and should develop quite a sting for opposing teams. Mrs. Dorothy Graham, Directoress of the choir, is putting the choir through its paces by regular rehearsal and prividing music for mid-week chapel services The college minister, Rev. Fred Lofton, announces that the regular monthly vesper services will be observed at the usual time of 4 p. m. Following the services a fellowship hour will be held in the social room where points may be discussed and questions answered concerning the sermon. Well-known local speakers will speak at these services. The public is invited. Mrs. D. T. Patterson, head of the Business Department conducted the secretarial contest on Friday evining at the Tri-State Fair. Contestants were chosen from high schools in the Tri-State Area. On Friday, October 16, at 7:00 p. m. the inauguration of the student council, Mr. A. D. Adams of Memphis, will be held in Roger Williams Auditorium. Mr. Sam P. Lacy, president of the freshmen class will deliver the challenge. The freshmen class will present its annual talent show directly following the inaugural ceremony. Mr. W. A. Adkins, president of the college Alumni Association, annual a special program to be held at the New Hope Baptist Church, 649 Pearl Place on Oct. 14, Rev. Curtis is an instructor in the English and Social Science Departments. He earned his B. A. degree from Union and A. B. D. degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and has done additional work at Memphis State University. All alumni are expected and the public is invited. Rev. Charles B. Buggs, Owen '56, is the pastor of New Hope Baptist. A HORNET'S NEST OF ACTIVITY Activity at Owen College goes into full swing as the largest group of students ever enrolled settled down for the long eventful months ahead. As part of the institution's participation in community and civic affairs: Mrs. D. T. Patterson and her corps of faithful students helphers prepared a display for the TriState Fair. Owen College has wos 3 second place premiums or awards by virtue of the fact that it is the only private college participating and the automatic second place award has gone to the college. The school spirit on the campus is at an all time high and this seems a good omen in that wonderful things should happen at Owen. Coach Ernie Mayes says the basketball team is taking shape rapidly and should develop quite a sting for opposing teams. Mrs. Dorothy Graham, Directoress of the choir, is putting the choir through its paces by regular rehearsal and prividing music for mid-week chapel services The college minister, Rev. Fred Lofton, announces that the regular monthly vesper services will be observed at the usual time of 4 p. m. Following the services a fellowship hour will be held in the social room where points may be discussed and questions answered concerning the sermon. Well-known local speakers will speak at these services. The public is invited. Mrs. D. T. Patterson, head of the Business Department conducted the secretarial contest on Friday evining at the Tri-State Fair. Contestants were chosen from high schools in the Tri-State Area. On Friday, October 16, at 7:00 p. m. the inauguration of the student council, Mr. A. D. Adams of Memphis, will be held in Roger Williams Auditorium. Mr. Sam P. Lacy, president of the freshmen class will deliver the challenge. The freshmen class will present its annual talent show directly following the inaugural ceremony. Mr. W. A. Adkins, president of the college Alumni Association, annual a special program to be held at the New Hope Baptist Church, 649 Pearl Place on Oct. 14, Rev. Curtis is an instructor in the English and Social Science Departments. He earned his B. A. degree from Union and A. B. D. degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and has done additional work at Memphis State University. All alumni are expected and the public is invited. Rev. Charles B. Buggs, Owen '56, is the pastor of New Hope Baptist. Party Advisers ment isurance programs. Strengthening of public assistance programs and welfare services. A new approach to make use of the over-65 worker group that will number 22,00,000 by 1976. End Of School throughout the state. Virginia like other NAACP state conferences, is in the midst of a national. NAACP drive for 500,000 members during 1959, Golden Anniversary year of the NAACP. Stolen Ambulance noie he heard in the rear of the funeral home where the ambulances are parked when not in use, Jordan established the time at near 3 a. m. Saturday. Qualls said he reported the missing ambulance to police department. He said a patrolman said he had seen the ambulance flashing a red light and blowing the horn headed south on Mississippi. A check of the record show that the ambulance had not been in Official service. Later the ambulance was recovered when Mrs. Jimmie L. Horris of 596 Hampton Ave. called the funeral home and said that the ambulance was parked out in the intersection of Orleans and Hampton. Mrs. Harris said she first noticed the ambulance at the intersection about 3 a. m. when she went outside with her son to pick up newspapers for his daily route. She said her husband noticed that a boy jumped out of the ambulance and ran. Qualls said that the Vehicle received same minor damages. 24 High School Louise Perry. Carve: Gloria Jean Johnson, Forestine Bethel, Joyce Williams, Annie Spearman, and Cora Collins. Lester: Clifford C. Townsend, TV, Dora L. Robins, Magdalene Moss, Josephine Jones and Frank Igre. Wife Chased home at 1447 Hemlock St. She said that she has applied for a divorce, but "he followed me and harrasses me." The attractive woman who is employed at Tarber Brothers upholstering company, said it all started like this: "I had just got off a car in front of my house and as I started up the steps to my front door. I heard a shot. I ran back to the car and jumped in the front seat. I didn't know who was firing at me until my husband ran to the car and started to shot at the driver, who jumped out of the car. I also jumped out of the car and ran around to the driver's side. My husband fired at me again. I stopped running and he caught me and threw me down in the street, and started to beat me across my head. "He then grabbed me by the arm with the butt of the pistol. He started to pull me down the street. When he got to Bellevue and E. Some yards from my house he started to pull me down Trigg until we got near Hemlock where some people were standing on the corner. "He pushed me in front of him and said you better keep walking ahead of me because I'm going to kill you tonight." "When I got in front of E. Trigg Baptist Church, about two blocks from home I broke and ran into the auditorium of the church." Mrs. Anderson said the man who drove her home "means nothing to me. He was just a friend who drove me home after he saw me standing on the corner of Vance and Hermando waiting for a bus. I had just left a theatre." She said that her husband, who lives on Pillow St. "doesn't even know the man who brought me home." Anderson who works at Bruce Carton Co. was carried to jail. Dr. Brewster said that his church's records shows that neither Mr. or Mrs. Anderson had ever been a member of his church. Mrs. Anderson said "I thought I would have been safe in church." Russian People the Soviet Union and among Russian-speaking people elsewhere. Under a section entitled "The American Negro," accomplishments of the NAACP, starting with the reduction of lynlching are listed. The Russian people are told that progres is being made in solving the problems of the Negro" however the publication adds, this progress seems slow to most Negroes. Of the 60 pages included in the boklet, only one is devoted entirely to Negro Americans who represent 10 per cent of the nation's people. No Negroes are pictured in the 37 photos included in the United States Fact Book. The publishers said the purpose of the publication is to give "a better idea of our country with the hope that they (Russians here and abroad) will convey these ideas to their friends back home." Painting Of Early Circuit Rider Stirs New Interest In Artist Until his death in 1946, Harry Hayman Cochrane was little known beyond the boundaries of the New England towns in which he had painted murals on the walls of some 200 churches, lodge halls, and public buildings. But in 1945, a friend of his rescued from a barn where it lay buried in dust "The Man on Horseback." Since then his reputation has steadily mounted. The painting shows Francis Asbury, America's first bishop, fording a stream on his horse to carry the gospel to frontiersmen of Colonial days. Known as "the Prophet of the Long Road," Asbury is typical of the early circuit rider who stuffed his saddle bags with reading materials and braved the dangers of wilderness trails to bring courage and faith to the pioneer. He averaged 6,000 miles a year, or 265,000 miles in 44 years — riding horseback farther perhaps than any other man in American history. Together, Methodism's family magazine, is honoring Cochrane by reproducing the painting as the cover of its special 128-page November issue. The special anniversary number is the magazine's contribution to the 175th anniversary of the organization of Methodism as a church in America, to be observed nationwide Dec. 27-Jan. 2 on the anniversary of the famous Christmas Conference of 1784. Today the painting hangs in the United Church of Monmouth, Me. It was in Monmouth, back in 1794, that the first Methodist class meeting was organized by Jesse Lee in what was then the province of Maine. Here, at the request of Lee, Bishop Asbury journeyed as in the picture. Cochrane died penniless. But his growing reputation as one of America's great artists has New Englanders today rummaging through their attics and barns for more "undiscovered" products of his brush. Detroiter Gets Life Sentence In Holdup Slaying For $14 Cash A 28-year-old westside man, Ernest Lee Ford, father of three, and a Korean War Vet was found guilty of first degree munder Wednesday by a jury in the court room of Recorder's Judge Elvin L. Davenport in the May 14 slaying of a 27-yearold taxi cab driver. The victim was Robert L. Leitch of Taylor Township, who was found slumped over the steering Wheel of his cab in an alley near St. Antoine and Eliot. The holdup netted $14. After the verdict was announced by the foreman of the jury, Ford made an unusual request of judge Davenport. With tears running down his cheeks. Ford Said "Your honor, will you please allow me to be baptized before sentencing, me to life in Jackson?" Judge Davenport told Ford that arrangement for the baptism could be made through the sheriff. Ford's Japanese wife, Sachio, and their three children were present in the count room when the verdict was announced. Mrs. Ford wept openly and was led from the count room. She and the children are presently living with Ford's mother. He met his wife during the Korean War. Ford hired the cab in Dearborn to drive him to Detroit. Mrs. Gloria Leitch, 28, widow of the cab driver, and her daughter, Darlene, 4 were also in the count room for the verdict. Mrs. Leitch joined Mrs. Ford in her weeping after the verdict. Mrs. Leitch said. "I believe the verdict rendered by the jury was right." Ford will be sentenced to life in Jackson Prison Oct. 16. ASKS TO BE BAPTIED A 28-year-old westside man, Ernest Lee Ford, father of three, and a Korean War Vet was found guilty of first degree munder Wednesday by a jury in the court room of Recorder's Judge Elvin L. Davenport in the May 14 slaying of a 27-yearold taxi cab driver. The victim was Robert L. Leitch of Taylor Township, who was found slumped over the steering Wheel of his cab in an alley near St. Antoine and Eliot. The holdup netted $14. After the verdict was announced by the foreman of the jury, Ford made an unusual request of judge Davenport. With tears running down his cheeks. Ford Said "Your honor, will you please allow me to be baptized before sentencing, me to life in Jackson?" Judge Davenport told Ford that arrangement for the baptism could be made through the sheriff. Ford's Japanese wife, Sachio, and their three children were present in the count room when the verdict was announced. Mrs. Ford wept openly and was led from the count room. She and the children are presently living with Ford's mother. He met his wife during the Korean War. Ford hired the cab in Dearborn to drive him to Detroit. Mrs. Gloria Leitch, 28, widow of the cab driver, and her daughter, Darlene, 4 were also in the count room for the verdict. Mrs. Leitch joined Mrs. Ford in her weeping after the verdict. Mrs. Leitch said. "I believe the verdict rendered by the jury was right." Ford will be sentenced to life in Jackson Prison Oct. 16. Mass. Anti-Bias Agency Settles Housing Law Case The Mass. Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) has settled its first case under the recently passed fair housing law. According to Commissioner Walter C. Carrington an employee at the local Children's Medical Center charged that she had been denied housing accommodations by a Boston real estate agency. Subsequent investigation by MCAD revealed that the application for the apartment in question had been made a white girl who planned to share the apartment with a Negro friend. The white girl made application and left the customary deposit. However, when the real estate agency learned that the white girl was to share the apartment with a Negro, the application and deposit were returned. Although the agency claimed that the apartment had already been rented, MCAD officials disclosed that another Negro had experienced the same "prior rental" of the apartment she sought at the same real estate agency. Both cases have been conciliated by Commissioner Carrington and closed out within ten days after the original complain's were filed. The real estate agency has agreed to rent apartments to both complainants as well as to instruct its staff personnel on the provisions of the new anti - discrimination housing law. FATAL HUNTING TRIP Seventy - year - old Willie Douglas who was killed, last Saturday while on a hunting trip died "accidentally," a coroner's jury ruled after questioning the men who accompanied Douglas on the fatal trip. Charles Miller, 51, and Sam Harris, 45, told police that Miller shot Douglas when Miller spotted Douglas gray hat and thought it was a squirrel. Tenn. Ranks 10 In Hunting And Fishing Licenses Holders Nationally, Tennessee ranks in re big ten in the number of hunting and fishing license holders and as a drawing board, Tennessee is fourth in attracting outof-state hunters and fishermen. Hunting and fishing license sales have increased 82 per cent since 1949. Resident Tennesseans purchased thirty-two per cent more licenses in 1959 than in 1949, and non-residents purchased twentytwo per cent more licenses in comparing the same period.. 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Orlean Street Club Resumes Meetings The Orleans Street Community Social Club, after a Months vacation met recently with Miss Annie Bell Phillips at 1074 Shaw St. Mrs. B. J. Baskins taught the Bible lesson and plans were completed for the club's annual Tea to be given at a later date. Refreshments were served by the hostesses. Mrs. Jessie Banks is president of the club; Mrs. Velma Williams, secretary, and Mrs. Clara Beecher, reporter. Publisher Plans Scholarly Press Allen Angoff, former editor of the New York University Press, will discuss details for a projected Negro scholarly press at the 44th annual convention for the study of Negro Life and Literature at Florida A & M. University here on October 16. Angoff is presently a member of the staff of the Monlair, N. Public Library. He has served as editor of the Creative Age press and Tomorrow Magazine. The press will be devoted to the publication of books all as pects of Negro life.