Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1956-04-24
Raymond F. Tisby

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The Farm Bill Veto Should Be A Great
Farm Awakening
President Eisenhower in the light of conditions, had no other
option than vetoing the much heralded farm bill. His veto message 
sustained the great courage of the President in the face of
the political framework of the bill. In addition to this, anything
which smacks of class legislation is further shown as foreign to
the policy of this country.
There is comfort for those whose abiding faith is sustained
in a Republic like ours in that in an election year when such a
move con be translated into many phases of political activity
there was a President in the White House with the courage to
veto a bill which apparently affected heavy voting interest in the
great form belts of the West.
The farmers are justly entitled to a just share of the common
earnings as all Americans. They have fed the nation for many
years of a loss. Only during recent years the farmers hove come
into the realization of those modern conveniences and appliances
affording wholesome living conditions.
For many years theirs have been muddy roads, poor housing
and old field schools for their children. Markets for their produce
were few and far between. Credit facilities have always been an
uncertainty and because of conditions beyond the control of the
small farmer, in many instances he had to move away and give
up land and all and seek a job in the city for the support of his
family.
Be it said here and now that the home farmer is becoming a
thing of the past. Many of them gave up and sold to cattle grazing 
interests who are absentees and not contributors to the
social environ that made rural communities powerful factors
in the sinews of our national life.
Since the farm has been revolutionized there must be a new
look into forming conditions to the end of timing with that precision 
affecting other industries. That will call for more than
political farm bills and those impossible dreams that have served
as will-o-the wisp delusions since the farm came out of the
corn-rows and went into politics.
The President had the courage to yeto the bill in the face of
the powerful political temptations it bore.

Civil Rights Program
(from The New York Times)
The Eisenhower Administration's civil rights program, as
finally announced at long last by the Attorney General, has considerable 
merit even thouqh it hasn't much chance of getting
very far and though it may be taxed now with some political
motivation. The program is still, on the whole, a commendable
one.
If any parts of it have the slightest possibility of being enacted 
at this session of Congress, they are the less important
parts; but even they would be well worth trying. Through Mr.
Brownell the President has now spelled out in detail his earlier
suggestion for on investigatory commission to inquire into infringements 
of the constitutional rights of American citizens because 
of their race or color, with particular reference both to denial 
of the ballot and to the exercise of "unwarranted economic
or other pressures" against Negroes.
The President himself could not set up such a commission,
though it would not have the legal powers of one established by
Congress, or he could call a conference of moderate leaders to
discuss the whole problem. He has chosen instead to stick to his
Congressionally appointed body of inquiry, which could indeed
be very useful and informative if Congress would only establish
it. The chances of Congress doing so are slim; but if the President
pushed hard enough perhaps he could put it over. The Administration's 
proposal to set up in the Department of Justice a fullfledged 
civil rights division (there is now only a civil rights section 
within the Criminal Division) may have easier going; and
certainly it too deserves favorable action.
However, the heart of the whole program lies in the brood
extension of Federal law to enforce the constitutionally guaranteed 
right of voting through civil-as distinct from criminal-proceedings. 
"The only method of enforcing existing laws protecting
this right is through criminal proceedings," Mr. Brownell avers,
and he suggests that civil proceedings "may often be for more
effective in the long run." To this end he proposes legislation forbidding 
anyone—not just state or local officials-from intimidating 
would-be voters in any election, including primaries. He
wants the Attorney General authorized to see injunctions or initiate 
other civil actions on behalf of citizens denied their civil
rights. He would allow individuals to go directly to Federal courts
without having to go through state courts first in these matters.
These are admirable proposals, doing nothing more than
seeking enforcement of the clear mandate of the Constitution; but
they have little chance of being accepted by Congress, especially
in the present frame of mind of the Deep South. There is no point
in dismissing them for this reason as a mere political gesture;
but there is also no point in assuming that the mere enunciation
by Mr. Brownell of this fine program acquits the Administration
of all further responsibility for trying to grope a way through the
grave and clouded problems, in both North and South, raised by
the varied and unconstitutional forms of racial discrimination.

Solon Urges

Government was good trough to
use him, I am sure it would want
to help him."
Mr. sieminski told the House:
"I think we should help Joe
Louis Joe Louis was a fine champion. 
He represented to the American 
youth a model of rugged individuality, 
honesty, and friendliness.
He typified the best that we look
for in sports competition.
"He was a great champion. He
went to war. He fought for the
benefit of various relief organizations. 
He always was a symbol of a
fighting champion.
"Now, he has tax trouble. He is
no great corporation. He has no
influential political friends in high
ranking places in the Government.
He is just Joe Louis, a former
World champion.
"Millions of Americans thrilled
to his accomplishments when he
was on the scene. His modest pride
brought for in a fondness that
the American people ten always
shared and felt. He always helped
when he was called upon."

Chaperoned

youngsters are hearing the rock
and roll music in unchaperoned
places and are not getting the kinds
of supervision that will be beneficial
to them."
A prosegregation group in Alabama 
recently charged that rock'n
roll music is part of a 'plot' to demoralize 
American youth and bring
about integration of the races.
Subsequently, Negro singer Nat
"King" Cole was attacked on an
Alabama stage by a group of white
Men, although he doesn't sing rock'n
roll.
Judge McKesson came to Louisiana 
to deliver a speech before the
State Parent-Teachers Association
in Monroe.

SNEAKS HOME
GALESBURG, Ill. —Taken to a
hospital for X-rays, Robert Hiatt
14, overcome by homesickness,
sneaked out of St. Mary's Hospital
and walked home through snow
and freezing temperatures clad.

Scovell Richardson To
Speak At Elks Meeting
According to an announcement
by James E. Derrick of Knoxville,
state president of the Elks, the state
convention of the Elks will be held
here May 5 thru May 8, with some
2,000 "Bills" and Daughters expected. 

Hosts for the state meet will be
the Bluff City No. 96 and Orange
Mound No. 1361. Lodges and the

Anna S. Church No. 695 and the
Orange Mound No.997 Temples.
One of the highlights of the state
Elks meeting will occur on Sunday

afternoon, May 6, immediately after
the Patriotic Parade when Scovell
Richardson, former dean of the now
defunct Lincoln University (Mo.)
Law School and now chairman of
the U.S. Parole Board, will be keynote 
speaker for the Goodwill Program 
at 3:30 in the Beale Street
Baptist Church.
A calendar of key activities during 
the convention include:
May 5: Conferring of state degrees, 
reception, open house.
May 6: Patriotic parade, goodwill
program, state oratorical contest,
bathing beauty contest and dance.
May 7: Opening session state
lodge, joint session and banquet.
May 8: State temple pageant,
state association dance, closing sessions. 


2,000 Bills And
Daughters Expected To
Convene May 5-8
According to an announcement
by James E. Derrick of Knoxville,
state president of the Elks, the state
convention of the Elks will be held
here May 5 thru May 8, with some
2,000 "Bills" and Daughters expected. 

Hosts for the state meet will be
the Bluff City No. 96 and Orange
Mound No. 1361. Lodges and the

Anna S. Church No. 695 and the
Orange Mound No.997 Temples.
One of the highlights of the state
Elks meeting will occur on Sunday

afternoon, May 6, immediately after
the Patriotic Parade when Scovell
Richardson, former dean of the now
defunct Lincoln University (Mo.)
Law School and now chairman of
the U.S. Parole Board, will be keynote 
speaker for the Goodwill Program 
at 3:30 in the Beale Street
Baptist Church.
A calendar of key activities during 
the convention include:
May 5: Conferring of state degrees, 
reception, open house.
May 6: Patriotic parade, goodwill
program, state oratorical contest,
bathing beauty contest and dance.
May 7: Opening session state
lodge, joint session and banquet.
May 8: State temple pageant,
state association dance, closing sessions. 


THE AMERICAN WAY
THIS OUGHT
TO WORK JUST
AS WELL!
POLITICAL
PLANNER
Gumming Up The Works

REVIEWING
THE NEWS
She was a slightly pale looking woman. Although still young,
the roughness of her hands, the growing wrinkles across the brow
spoke of suffering and neglect.
But the suffering, and kind of work the did, seemed to matter
little to her concept of things.
"I come 18 miles to this very spot everyday," she said. "I
come here to get a ride to my job."
There were children in the family, but someone else cared
for them while she come to Montgomery every morning to work
as a maid in a private home.
There were more than fifty others, like this woman, all standing 
in the beaming morning sun of Montgomery, waiting for
someone to drive up to take them to work.
Many of them lived far from the center where they have
been gathering now for months in protest of the Montgomery bus
situation. After talking with some of them, I learned that distance
matters little to them. They have been orientated into hardships;
many have gone lacking for the little pleasures, many of them
knew before the bus protest. Waiting, praying and sometimes
walking to and from Work have been an obsession with them.
And they will tell you without reservations:
"We will continue to walk. We will walk in the rain, the
bitter cold weather and even snow if necessary, but we won't ride
any buses until some consideration is given us. "We will crawl
first."
I passed through the crowd as the automobiles, some new,
some old, rolled up and pulled out filled with people who work
hard for their living. There were ministers, housewives, business
men, doctors, all contributing their time to the cause.
The ground on which the motor pool is located is owned by a
Negro doctor. He also owns the parking lot there where white
people have come to park daily. The bus protest has done nothing
to halt their coming. I saw many of them, driving into the Negro
parking lot, smiling and leaving their cars as usual where the
Negroes themselves, waited patiently for someone to carry them
to their respective jobs.
I saw a white man pats through the crowd. He spoke politely,
Negroes spoke back in kind.
The question of getting to work on time came up.
'We get there when we can," was a woman's reply. "My
people say nothing when I show up, they greet me and I go about
my job. They are very nice to me."
Almost everyone there expressed the some feeling.
While people in Montgomery, it seems, are saying nothing
now about the protest. Those who speak voice sympathy for the
Negroes cause.
"Out of their conscience," one woman said, "they just know
we are right." This feeling seem to run much deeper than what
he newspapers are willing to print. There are many white people
in Montgomery, who still respect and like their loyal Negro employes, 
and they will do what they can to see that they get justice.
The testimony of a chef cook in a big downtown restaurant
was revealing.
"I have worked for these people almost thirty years. They
keep telling me to tell my people to hold out in this cause,
they were not sincere, they wouldn't tell me this," he said.
His case could be multiplied many times. It seems that here
in this former cradle of the Confederacy -there is an awakening,
deep in the hearts of all, that human souls should take preference
over all that's material. The fight for freedom has become a religion 
with the Negro people in Montgomery, and many of their
white friends are subconsciously joining them in the struggle. It is
true that almost every conceivable scheme to divide and distort
these people in their efforts, has been used.
Their unity of purpose and their courage to hold out seem
to stem from an inherent religious ferver which very few groups
have been able to product. Theirs is a spiritual consciousness,
unparalled in human history. As one white man said:
"This is difficult to fight, this is difficult to divide, even in
the "cradle of the confederacy."

The Cradle Of The Confederacy....
She was a slightly pale looking woman. Although still young,
the roughness of her hands, the growing wrinkles across the brow
spoke of suffering and neglect.
But the suffering, and kind of work the did, seemed to matter
little to her concept of things.
"I come 18 miles to this very spot everyday," she said. "I
come here to get a ride to my job."
There were children in the family, but someone else cared
for them while she come to Montgomery every morning to work
as a maid in a private home.
There were more than fifty others, like this woman, all standing 
in the beaming morning sun of Montgomery, waiting for
someone to drive up to take them to work.
Many of them lived far from the center where they have
been gathering now for months in protest of the Montgomery bus
situation. After talking with some of them, I learned that distance
matters little to them. They have been orientated into hardships;
many have gone lacking for the little pleasures, many of them
knew before the bus protest. Waiting, praying and sometimes
walking to and from Work have been an obsession with them.
And they will tell you without reservations:
"We will continue to walk. We will walk in the rain, the
bitter cold weather and even snow if necessary, but we won't ride
any buses until some consideration is given us. "We will crawl
first."
I passed through the crowd as the automobiles, some new,
some old, rolled up and pulled out filled with people who work
hard for their living. There were ministers, housewives, business
men, doctors, all contributing their time to the cause.
The ground on which the motor pool is located is owned by a
Negro doctor. He also owns the parking lot there where white
people have come to park daily. The bus protest has done nothing
to halt their coming. I saw many of them, driving into the Negro
parking lot, smiling and leaving their cars as usual where the
Negroes themselves, waited patiently for someone to carry them
to their respective jobs.
I saw a white man pats through the crowd. He spoke politely,
Negroes spoke back in kind.
The question of getting to work on time came up.
'We get there when we can," was a woman's reply. "My
people say nothing when I show up, they greet me and I go about
my job. They are very nice to me."
Almost everyone there expressed the some feeling.
While people in Montgomery, it seems, are saying nothing
now about the protest. Those who speak voice sympathy for the
Negroes cause.
"Out of their conscience," one woman said, "they just know
we are right." This feeling seem to run much deeper than what
he newspapers are willing to print. There are many white people
in Montgomery, who still respect and like their loyal Negro employes, 
and they will do what they can to see that they get justice.
The testimony of a chef cook in a big downtown restaurant
was revealing.
"I have worked for these people almost thirty years. They
keep telling me to tell my people to hold out in this cause,
they were not sincere, they wouldn't tell me this," he said.
His case could be multiplied many times. It seems that here
in this former cradle of the Confederacy -there is an awakening,
deep in the hearts of all, that human souls should take preference
over all that's material. The fight for freedom has become a religion 
with the Negro people in Montgomery, and many of their
white friends are subconsciously joining them in the struggle. It is
true that almost every conceivable scheme to divide and distort
these people in their efforts, has been used.
Their unity of purpose and their courage to hold out seem
to stem from an inherent religious ferver which very few groups
have been able to product. Theirs is a spiritual consciousness,
unparalled in human history. As one white man said:
"This is difficult to fight, this is difficult to divide, even in
the "cradle of the confederacy."

Bluff City Society

Guest models who modeled for
Keel School last Sunday were:
Edna Seay, Margaret Nubia, Maudine 
King, Willa Jones, Lois Simmons, 
Lenora Steinberg, Dorothy
Johnson, Gladys Steinberg, Denise
Rochelle Amelia Threat, June Tucker, 
Gladys Graham, Beverly Coleman, 
Ernestine Davis. Barbara
Kimball Jesse Hill, Anna Barbara
Mitchell and Martha Jean Steinberg 
who will reign as the significant 
fashion model.. Mrs. Alma
Booth is principal of Keel School
for Handicapped Children.
A group of the younger women
who formed the St. Monica Sodality
Club at St. Augustine elected officers 
Sunday at their first meeting.
Officers are; Miss Erma Laws,
president; Mis Doris Jean Humphries 
secretary, and Miss Gloria
Lewis, Director of Spiritual Activities, 
Father Comas Herndol is
Spiritual Advisor. Many of the
members come from St. Anthony.
MISS MARGARET BUSH, Registrar 
at LoMoyne College is in
Detroit this week where she is attending 
a meeting of the Registrars 
and Miss Bush is guest at
the famous Bank Cadallac Hotel.
MR. and MRS. SHERMAN COLEMAN, 
former Memphians who
have been the house guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Lewis, Jr. for the
past two weeks, left yesterday for
Detroit where they will visit Mrs.
Coleman's brother before returning
to the West Coast Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis drove the Coleman's to chicago. 

MRS BEULAH HILL has returned
to her home in Detroit after visiting 
her daughters here
DR. and Mrs. U. L. MAYFIELD
have returned to their home in Ft.
Worth after visiting their son-inlaw 
and daughter, Dr. and Mrs.
Fred Rivers on Arkansas Street.
Dr. Mayfield spent part of his
Spring vacation in Hot Springs.
MR. STEVEN BLACK is home
from Santiago where he is stationed
in the Navy Mr. Black, a recent
graduate of LeMoyne, is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Black. Sr.
MR. JIMMY TAYLOR, also a
recent LeMoyne graduate, was
home from the Armed Forces.
Jimmy is stationed just out of ChiCago. 

Word comes from the St. Louis
Links, Inc. that Link jewel Speight
will appear in the St. Louis Links
Inc's production of "Little Women"
to be given May 18th.. jewel
Joined her husband, Dr. Oscar
speight in St. Louis early in 1955.

TOP MODELS IN FASHION RE-
VUE AT KELL SCHOOL

Guest models who modeled for
Keel School last Sunday were:
Edna Seay, Margaret Nubia, Maudine 
King, Willa Jones, Lois Simmons, 
Lenora Steinberg, Dorothy
Johnson, Gladys Steinberg, Denise
Rochelle Amelia Threat, June Tucker, 
Gladys Graham, Beverly Coleman, 
Ernestine Davis. Barbara
Kimball Jesse Hill, Anna Barbara
Mitchell and Martha Jean Steinberg 
who will reign as the significant 
fashion model.. Mrs. Alma
Booth is principal of Keel School
for Handicapped Children.
A group of the younger women
who formed the St. Monica Sodality
Club at St. Augustine elected officers 
Sunday at their first meeting.
Officers are; Miss Erma Laws,
president; Mis Doris Jean Humphries 
secretary, and Miss Gloria
Lewis, Director of Spiritual Activities, 
Father Comas Herndol is
Spiritual Advisor. Many of the
members come from St. Anthony.
MISS MARGARET BUSH, Registrar 
at LoMoyne College is in
Detroit this week where she is attending 
a meeting of the Registrars 
and Miss Bush is guest at
the famous Bank Cadallac Hotel.
MR. and MRS. SHERMAN COLEMAN, 
former Memphians who
have been the house guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Lewis, Jr. for the
past two weeks, left yesterday for
Detroit where they will visit Mrs.
Coleman's brother before returning
to the West Coast Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis drove the Coleman's to chicago. 

MRS BEULAH HILL has returned
to her home in Detroit after visiting 
her daughters here
DR. and Mrs. U. L. MAYFIELD
have returned to their home in Ft.
Worth after visiting their son-inlaw 
and daughter, Dr. and Mrs.
Fred Rivers on Arkansas Street.
Dr. Mayfield spent part of his
Spring vacation in Hot Springs.
MR. STEVEN BLACK is home
from Santiago where he is stationed
in the Navy Mr. Black, a recent
graduate of LeMoyne, is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Black. Sr.
MR. JIMMY TAYLOR, also a
recent LeMoyne graduate, was
home from the Armed Forces.
Jimmy is stationed just out of ChiCago. 

Word comes from the St. Louis
Links, Inc. that Link jewel Speight
will appear in the St. Louis Links
Inc's production of "Little Women"
to be given May 18th.. jewel
Joined her husband, Dr. Oscar
speight in St. Louis early in 1955.

ST. MONICA SODALITY CLUB
FORMED AT ST. AUGUSTINE

Guest models who modeled for
Keel School last Sunday were:
Edna Seay, Margaret Nubia, Maudine 
King, Willa Jones, Lois Simmons, 
Lenora Steinberg, Dorothy
Johnson, Gladys Steinberg, Denise
Rochelle Amelia Threat, June Tucker, 
Gladys Graham, Beverly Coleman, 
Ernestine Davis. Barbara
Kimball Jesse Hill, Anna Barbara
Mitchell and Martha Jean Steinberg 
who will reign as the significant 
fashion model.. Mrs. Alma
Booth is principal of Keel School
for Handicapped Children.
A group of the younger women
who formed the St. Monica Sodality
Club at St. Augustine elected officers 
Sunday at their first meeting.
Officers are; Miss Erma Laws,
president; Mis Doris Jean Humphries 
secretary, and Miss Gloria
Lewis, Director of Spiritual Activities, 
Father Comas Herndol is
Spiritual Advisor. Many of the
members come from St. Anthony.
MISS MARGARET BUSH, Registrar 
at LoMoyne College is in
Detroit this week where she is attending 
a meeting of the Registrars 
and Miss Bush is guest at
the famous Bank Cadallac Hotel.
MR. and MRS. SHERMAN COLEMAN, 
former Memphians who
have been the house guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Lewis, Jr. for the
past two weeks, left yesterday for
Detroit where they will visit Mrs.
Coleman's brother before returning
to the West Coast Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis drove the Coleman's to chicago. 

MRS BEULAH HILL has returned
to her home in Detroit after visiting 
her daughters here
DR. and Mrs. U. L. MAYFIELD
have returned to their home in Ft.
Worth after visiting their son-inlaw 
and daughter, Dr. and Mrs.
Fred Rivers on Arkansas Street.
Dr. Mayfield spent part of his
Spring vacation in Hot Springs.
MR. STEVEN BLACK is home
from Santiago where he is stationed
in the Navy Mr. Black, a recent
graduate of LeMoyne, is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Black. Sr.
MR. JIMMY TAYLOR, also a
recent LeMoyne graduate, was
home from the Armed Forces.
Jimmy is stationed just out of ChiCago. 

Word comes from the St. Louis
Links, Inc. that Link jewel Speight
will appear in the St. Louis Links
Inc's production of "Little Women"
to be given May 18th.. jewel
Joined her husband, Dr. Oscar
speight in St. Louis early in 1955.

Chinese Tavern
Owner Gets Year
In Gun Death
A Chinese tavern owner —
arrested last month for slaying a
customer while shooting at a
woman — was convicted Thursday 
and sentenced to 12 months
in prison for "involuntary manslaughter 
in the commission of
a lawful act."
The Jury deliberated for more
than two hours and reached a verdict 
that placed the crime in the
category of a misdemeanor.
Yee Ling Hong, 52, a former Chicago 
laundry proprietor who has
operated a business here for nearly
five years, was arraigned in the
Superior Court of Judge O. C. Wood
after being indicted for fatally
shooting Willie Cummings. 32, of
552 Ira Street, on the night of
March 23rd.
The jury's finding indicated that
Hong accidentally killed Cummings
while justifiably protecting himself
from the woman at whom he was
shooting.
The Hong murder trial began the
morning after another jury went
out to deliberate the murder case
of Otis Brown. The Jury for the
Brown case finally rescued a verdict 
late Wednesday evening——
finding the defendant guilty of voluntary 
manslaughter and setting
sentence of one to five years in prison. 

Brown was convicted for killing
James Jones, alias Robert Feaster,
during a gun battle in an apartment
on Chestnut Way, N. B. Robert Givens 
and Claud Mullins also were
shot during the fracus, and Mrs.

Clara Eberhart was stabbed.
Hong, operator of a Northside
Drive restaurant called Yee Pop's
Place, was charged with fatally
shooting Cummings while firing at
a woman who had created a disturbance 
in his place of business
and had poured soft drink on his
floor.
The defense sought acquittal on
grounds that Hong had not intended 
to injure Cummings, a bystander
shot as he sat drinking beer. Defense 
counsels called the slaying
an unfortunate accident by the defendant 
as he acted in self defense
against Miss Carolyn Douglass, the
woman at whom he allegedly shot.
Attacking the defendant's claim
he was fearful for his life. Assistant
Solicitor Frank French in his summary 
asked:
"If he (Hong) is afraid of the

Negro population and afraid of
crowds, why did he open up this
type of place on Northside Drive?"
Testimony apparently damaging
to the defense came as Det. Howard
Baugh told the jury he heard Hong
tell his attorney that he (Hong)
had shot it man. Det. Baugh also
testified that Hong said he intended
to shoot the woman.
Miss Douglass told the jury she
as in the restaurant on the night
of the slaying and had engaged in
arguments with her "boy friend,"
A. C. Carswell, and with Hong.
Hong, she said, reprimanded her
for pouring "coke" on his floor,
causing a heated argument.
After the Chinese shot at her,
she ran and tossed a bottle at her
boy friend as she went out the door,
the said.
In her sworn statement Mrs. Lillian 
Anderson, of 299 Trenholm St,
S. W. a waitress at the restaurant,

said she begged Hong not not shoot
the woman after he fired the first
shot. The Chinese businessman followed 
the woman to the street and
continued shooting, witnesses said.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Henderson,
who also worked for Hong, she too
prevailed with Hong not to shoot
the woman.
General Banks, 21, of 499 Martin
St., told how three men placed
Cummings on a drink box after discovering 
he was shot.
Several character witnesses told
of the defendant's reputation for
good character.
Judge Wood charged the jury
from 3 P. M. until 3.30 on matters
of law to be considered in reaching
a verdict and on types of verdicts
the jury could bring. These included 
murder, manslaughter and Justifiable 
manslaughter as well as the
application of statutes pertaining
to accidental deaths.

BROWN CASE
A Chinese tavern owner —
arrested last month for slaying a
customer while shooting at a
woman — was convicted Thursday 
and sentenced to 12 months
in prison for "involuntary manslaughter 
in the commission of
a lawful act."
The Jury deliberated for more
than two hours and reached a verdict 
that placed the crime in the
category of a misdemeanor.
Yee Ling Hong, 52, a former Chicago 
laundry proprietor who has
operated a business here for nearly
five years, was arraigned in the
Superior Court of Judge O. C. Wood
after being indicted for fatally
shooting Willie Cummings. 32, of
552 Ira Street, on the night of
March 23rd.
The jury's finding indicated that
Hong accidentally killed Cummings
while justifiably protecting himself
from the woman at whom he was
shooting.
The Hong murder trial began the
morning after another jury went
out to deliberate the murder case
of Otis Brown. The Jury for the
Brown case finally rescued a verdict 
late Wednesday evening——
finding the defendant guilty of voluntary 
manslaughter and setting
sentence of one to five years in prison. 

Brown was convicted for killing
James Jones, alias Robert Feaster,
during a gun battle in an apartment
on Chestnut Way, N. B. Robert Givens 
and Claud Mullins also were
shot during the fracus, and Mrs.

Clara Eberhart was stabbed.
Hong, operator of a Northside
Drive restaurant called Yee Pop's
Place, was charged with fatally
shooting Cummings while firing at
a woman who had created a disturbance 
in his place of business
and had poured soft drink on his
floor.
The defense sought acquittal on
grounds that Hong had not intended 
to injure Cummings, a bystander
shot as he sat drinking beer. Defense 
counsels called the slaying
an unfortunate accident by the defendant 
as he acted in self defense
against Miss Carolyn Douglass, the
woman at whom he allegedly shot.
Attacking the defendant's claim
he was fearful for his life. Assistant
Solicitor Frank French in his summary 
asked:
"If he (Hong) is afraid of the

Negro population and afraid of
crowds, why did he open up this
type of place on Northside Drive?"
Testimony apparently damaging
to the defense came as Det. Howard
Baugh told the jury he heard Hong
tell his attorney that he (Hong)
had shot it man. Det. Baugh also
testified that Hong said he intended
to shoot the woman.
Miss Douglass told the jury she
as in the restaurant on the night
of the slaying and had engaged in
arguments with her "boy friend,"
A. C. Carswell, and with Hong.
Hong, she said, reprimanded her
for pouring "coke" on his floor,
causing a heated argument.
After the Chinese shot at her,
she ran and tossed a bottle at her
boy friend as she went out the door,
the said.
In her sworn statement Mrs. Lillian 
Anderson, of 299 Trenholm St,
S. W. a waitress at the restaurant,

said she begged Hong not not shoot
the woman after he fired the first
shot. The Chinese businessman followed 
the woman to the street and
continued shooting, witnesses said.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Henderson,
who also worked for Hong, she too
prevailed with Hong not to shoot
the woman.
General Banks, 21, of 499 Martin
St., told how three men placed
Cummings on a drink box after discovering 
he was shot.
Several character witnesses told
of the defendant's reputation for
good character.
Judge Wood charged the jury
from 3 P. M. until 3.30 on matters
of law to be considered in reaching
a verdict and on types of verdicts
the jury could bring. These included 
murder, manslaughter and Justifiable 
manslaughter as well as the
application of statutes pertaining
to accidental deaths.

CHINESE SLAVING
A Chinese tavern owner —
arrested last month for slaying a
customer while shooting at a
woman — was convicted Thursday 
and sentenced to 12 months
in prison for "involuntary manslaughter 
in the commission of
a lawful act."
The Jury deliberated for more
than two hours and reached a verdict 
that placed the crime in the
category of a misdemeanor.
Yee Ling Hong, 52, a former Chicago 
laundry proprietor who has
operated a business here for nearly
five years, was arraigned in the
Superior Court of Judge O. C. Wood
after being indicted for fatally
shooting Willie Cummings. 32, of
552 Ira Street, on the night of
March 23rd.
The jury's finding indicated that
Hong accidentally killed Cummings
while justifiably protecting himself
from the woman at whom he was
shooting.
The Hong murder trial began the
morning after another jury went
out to deliberate the murder case
of Otis Brown. The Jury for the
Brown case finally rescued a verdict 
late Wednesday evening——
finding the defendant guilty of voluntary 
manslaughter and setting
sentence of one to five years in prison. 

Brown was convicted for killing
James Jones, alias Robert Feaster,
during a gun battle in an apartment
on Chestnut Way, N. B. Robert Givens 
and Claud Mullins also were
shot during the fracus, and Mrs.

Clara Eberhart was stabbed.
Hong, operator of a Northside
Drive restaurant called Yee Pop's
Place, was charged with fatally
shooting Cummings while firing at
a woman who had created a disturbance 
in his place of business
and had poured soft drink on his
floor.
The defense sought acquittal on
grounds that Hong had not intended 
to injure Cummings, a bystander
shot as he sat drinking beer. Defense 
counsels called the slaying
an unfortunate accident by the defendant 
as he acted in self defense
against Miss Carolyn Douglass, the
woman at whom he allegedly shot.
Attacking the defendant's claim
he was fearful for his life. Assistant
Solicitor Frank French in his summary 
asked:
"If he (Hong) is afraid of the

Negro population and afraid of
crowds, why did he open up this
type of place on Northside Drive?"
Testimony apparently damaging
to the defense came as Det. Howard
Baugh told the jury he heard Hong
tell his attorney that he (Hong)
had shot it man. Det. Baugh also
testified that Hong said he intended
to shoot the woman.
Miss Douglass told the jury she
as in the restaurant on the night
of the slaying and had engaged in
arguments with her "boy friend,"
A. C. Carswell, and with Hong.
Hong, she said, reprimanded her
for pouring "coke" on his floor,
causing a heated argument.
After the Chinese shot at her,
she ran and tossed a bottle at her
boy friend as she went out the door,
the said.
In her sworn statement Mrs. Lillian 
Anderson, of 299 Trenholm St,
S. W. a waitress at the restaurant,

said she begged Hong not not shoot
the woman after he fired the first
shot. The Chinese businessman followed 
the woman to the street and
continued shooting, witnesses said.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Henderson,
who also worked for Hong, she too
prevailed with Hong not to shoot
the woman.
General Banks, 21, of 499 Martin
St., told how three men placed
Cummings on a drink box after discovering 
he was shot.
Several character witnesses told
of the defendant's reputation for
good character.
Judge Wood charged the jury
from 3 P. M. until 3.30 on matters
of law to be considered in reaching
a verdict and on types of verdicts
the jury could bring. These included 
murder, manslaughter and Justifiable 
manslaughter as well as the
application of statutes pertaining
to accidental deaths.


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consumers and the industry — Government 
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on menu at the times they are most
plentiful.
The National Meat Promotion
Committee, which represents the
entire livestock and meat industry
has scheduled a special promotion
campaign on beef from April 26 to
May 5, and the U. S. Department
of Agriculture is fully supporting
his industry's drive with a special
campaign in its Plentiful Foods Program. 

We hope we may count on your
continued enthusiastic co-operation
and assistance in order to make this
campaign an outstanding success.
Very truly yours,
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Administrative Officer.

Memphis Area

been granted a new trial by Judge
Perry Sellers following a hearing
last week.
At presstime Willie Evans, 50, of
229 S. Lauderdale, was in jail
charged with murder and carrying
a pistol, following his alleged slaying 
of 62-year-old Bessie Smith of
203 S. Lauderdale.
According to police, Evans, who
was one of the guests invited to a
party given by the slain woman,
got drunk and got into an argument 
with Mrs. Smith and shot her
in the head.
The 45th anniversary commencement 
of the Gorine College of Cosmtology, 
Physio Therapy, Inc., will
be held Sunday afternoon, April 29,
3:00 p. m. at Centenary Methodist
Church, Mississippi and Alston,
with the Rev.—Atty. B. L. Hooks as
principal speaker.
The Rev. S. A. Owen, pastor of
Metropolitan Baptist Church, will
present diplomas to the 39 graduates. 
Mme. Gold S. M. Young is
Gorine president.

HELD IN FATAL
SHOOTING HERE

been granted a new trial by Judge
Perry Sellers following a hearing
last week.
At presstime Willie Evans, 50, of
229 S. Lauderdale, was in jail
charged with murder and carrying
a pistol, following his alleged slaying 
of 62-year-old Bessie Smith of
203 S. Lauderdale.
According to police, Evans, who
was one of the guests invited to a
party given by the slain woman,
got drunk and got into an argument 
with Mrs. Smith and shot her
in the head.
The 45th anniversary commencement 
of the Gorine College of Cosmtology, 
Physio Therapy, Inc., will
be held Sunday afternoon, April 29,
3:00 p. m. at Centenary Methodist
Church, Mississippi and Alston,
with the Rev.—Atty. B. L. Hooks as
principal speaker.
The Rev. S. A. Owen, pastor of
Metropolitan Baptist Church, will
present diplomas to the 39 graduates. 
Mme. Gold S. M. Young is
Gorine president.

GORINE COLLEGE
COMMENCEMENT SUNDAY;
ATTY. HOOKS TO SPEAK

been granted a new trial by Judge
Perry Sellers following a hearing
last week.
At presstime Willie Evans, 50, of
229 S. Lauderdale, was in jail
charged with murder and carrying
a pistol, following his alleged slaying 
of 62-year-old Bessie Smith of
203 S. Lauderdale.
According to police, Evans, who
was one of the guests invited to a
party given by the slain woman,
got drunk and got into an argument 
with Mrs. Smith and shot her
in the head.
The 45th anniversary commencement 
of the Gorine College of Cosmtology, 
Physio Therapy, Inc., will
be held Sunday afternoon, April 29,
3:00 p. m. at Centenary Methodist
Church, Mississippi and Alston,
with the Rev.—Atty. B. L. Hooks as
principal speaker.
The Rev. S. A. Owen, pastor of
Metropolitan Baptist Church, will
present diplomas to the 39 graduates. 
Mme. Gold S. M. Young is
Gorine president.

MARRIAGE for THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY TWO
ANN HAD said she wasn't mad.
But she was. Furious, in fact And
frightened. "Things" evidently
were not settled between Pinky
and Adam. Pinky still had a hold
on him, whether he knew it or not.
And the chances were good that
be did know it. He'd been downright 
smug, telling of Pinky's ideas
of him and his future, Ann had
ideas, too!
She went into the house, changed
her drew and fixed a little lunch.
As she moved about the kitchen,
she realized that she was slamming
cupboard doors, banging a spoon
against a pan with unnecessary
vigor She laughed at herself,
somewhat ruefully.
If only there were someone to
whom the felt she could turn.
She stood for another minute in
alert thought, then ran down the
stairs and picked up the telephone.
Her brother, Wendel, was planning 
a trip to California: he'd written 
about it, regretting that Santa
Fe was not on Highway 66. But
it was only seventy-five miles from
Albuquerque, and—
Eagerly, Ann got through to
Veda, enthusiastically proffered
her invitation. They must come to
see her and Adam! She'd be hurt
if they came so close and didn't
visit her. yes, of course, they had
room. "I want you to see our new
house out here, and there's a lot
of things around Santa Fe that
you should see. I'd  to take you
around."
Veda said that Wendel had
thought they shouldn't entirely
miss seeing Ann.
"Good. I'll expect you."
"I can't tell you definitely when,
Ann."
"No. That won't be necessary.
You're starting Sunday?"
The next week Ann put in some
busy days getting furniture for the
second bedroom, a studio couch for
the office—laying in supplies, making 
plans for the sight-seeing trips
they would take. She almost forgot 
her purpose of having Wendel
talk to Adam in her joyful anticipation 
of seeing her, brother, then
in actually seeing him, florid, blustering, 
cheerful.
The travelers retched the Canyon 
house in the morning, they
had spent the night before in Albuquerque, 
and arrived ready for
the first of Ann's trips. They'd
stay a few days, said Wendel, but
they might as well take advantage
of this nice weather.
Ann gaily assured him that the
weather was always nice in New
Mexico, and they started out. They
saw the Art Museum, the Governor's 
place, marveled at the depth
of the cut-away adobe wall. She
took them to San Miguel, and the
verger allowed Margaret to strike
the old, old bell with a wooden
mallet, explaining that there was
a full octave in tone between the
top of the bell and its rim. The
Oatmans bought replicas of the bell
for souvenirs, and countless postcards. 
Wendel look pictures of
"the girls" on the stone fence outside 
the oldest church in America.
Single file, they went down the
steep narrow street to where Ann
had left the station wagon.
"There's Uncle Adams car,"
cried Jeannine their daughter,
pointing to the red truck, plainly
marked with Adam's name.
"Adam isn't in it," said Wendel
dryly. His tone laid stress upon
the person who was in the seat—
Pinky, with her vivid hair tucked
Up under a bandanna, Pinky wearing 
a sweater of a color which
closely matched her tanned skinPinky 
looking very much at home.
"Let's go eat lunch," said Ann
quietly. "it's twelve, and the sun
gets terribly hot in the middle of
the day."
Wendel was puffing from the
unaccustomed exercise in that altitude, 
Veda's feet were hurting.
"I'll buy you some akin-shoes at
the gift shop," said Ann, guiding
them toward La Fonda.
The cool dining room, a refreshing 
drink and the food all helped
restore the Oatmans.
Wendel asked about Adam,
about his contracting.
Ann told him, taking the opportunity 
to mention that he was
building a house for the red-haired
woman they'd seen in his truck.
She went on calmly to tell a little
about pinky that she was a divor

cee, had got a nice financial settlement 
and thought she wanted to
live in Santa Fe. There were a lot
of such people in this town.
"If they all look like her," said
Wendel heartily, "I'd be tempted
to locate here myself."
Ann smiled. "Pinky's a little
outstanding, even here," she told
her brother. She knew, vaguely,
that Wendel and Veda bad once
weathered a three-sided situation,
and she told them something of her
own problem.
Originally, she said, Pinky bad
been Ann's friend; that way Adam
had seen a good deal of her. She
was the sort to think all men were
ready to fall flat on their faces.
"Most of them are," laughed
Veda.
"You don't mean," said Wendel,
virtuously outraged, "that Adam
got himself tangled up with that
red-bead?" He went on to talk
largely of what he meant to tell
that young man about his duty as
a husband. This was not the first
time Adam had let his attention
stray from his wife!
Ann's cheeks reddened. "Women
are attracted to Adam," she said
in a troubled tone. Listening to
her brother, she realized that it
would never do for him to tell
Adam anything! It would only
make Adam angry. He'd think
that Ann had urged Wendel on.
"Oh," she cried, "you mustn't
get any idea that things are wrong
between Adam and Pinky!"
"Perhaps I'm a better judge of
such things than you are, Ann.
That dame sat there like she
owned his truck!"
"She sits anywhere like she owns
it. I told you-Adam's building a
house for her. He probably was
going to take her out to the site
to decide on some problem-"
"Hmmmmm," said Wendel, unconvinced. 

"Please don't suggest anything
of that sort to Adam!"
"You're just being blind," said
Wendel sulkily.
"Well, you're wrong!" Ann assured 
him. And you must not
speak of Pinky to him, wendel!"


MY WEEKLY
SERMON

BOSSED BY TRIFLES

Martha was lucky in having Jesus
for her guest; she was unlucky in
her way of expressing hospitality
She was a good housekeeper, industrious 
and painstaking. She had the
mothering instinct. She fussed and
hustled about busy with her cooking. 

Mournfully Jesus says, "Martha,
you are careful of many things. One
thing is needful, and Mary hath
chosen the better part."
In life we are bogged, dragged
down, and smothered by a multitude
of insignificant objects of our attention 
one mosquito in the wakeful
night sings as loud as any nightingale; 
a myriad such, nestling up to
humanity, breed malarias, fevers,
and death. A grain of dust is indistinguishably 
small, but cuddled in
the corner of the eye it commands
more attention than this big round
world.
A grass hopper is an insignificant
fiddler, yet his armies stop an express 
train, strip the corn fields and
devour the granaries of Egypt herself. 
We harness ourselves to the
treadmill of unnecessary drudgery.
We cannot see the forest for the
trees. Trifles boss us; ghosts haunt
us. We rush from duty to duty. We

wear ourselves out trying to do too
much. Instead of driving our business; 
our business drives us. Instead
of mastering trifles; trifles master
us. We allow ourselves to be bossed
......... tyrannized by trifles.
Mary indeed chose the better part
when, neither through laziness nor
unconcern but through a true perception 
of the values of life, she
sat uncumbered by many things
at the feet of Jesus. "But few things
are necessary." These things are
first, the soul of man. The soul of
man is bigger than the stars. Secondly 
the truth, that you are greater
than all your works, however cumbered 
and busy you may be. Always
remember man is greater than any
and all his work. Finally, you are of
infinite meaning and worth as you
listen to the voice of the infinite
teacher himself and realize the image 
of him who made you like him.
Martha is a good example of one
who is bossed by things. To have
the hand of Martha and the heart
of Mary is great gain. Things, pots,
pans, books, sports, houses, clothes,
automobiles, customs, become not
our servants but our bosses, our
routers.
Only a few things really matter
much. "Whatever happens to me is
unimportant but how I conduct myself 
when it happens is all important." 


$100,000 Fund Drive Opens
3-County Recreation Center
A $100,00 fund drive to build a
proposed three-county recreation
center on Highway 64 at Eads, will
open tonight (Tuesday) at a meeting 
of the Friendship Baptist Association, 
Inc., at the St. Stephens
Baptist Church, 508 N. Third.
The association is seeking to
build on a 20-acre site at Eads a
recreatioonal center that would
serve Shelby. Tipton and Fayette

counties. The proposed center would
boast a building where Bible study
groups could meet, a swimming
pool, baseball diamond, tennis court
and snack bar.
The Rev. J. F. Collins, pastor of
the Keel Avenue Baptist Church, is
serving as fund drive chairman.
Drive headquarters are at St. Stephens.