Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1955-11-11 Raymond F. Tisby MEMPHIS WORLD AMERICA'S STANDARD RACE JOUNAL The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WOULD PUBLISHING CO. Every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 164 BEALE—Phone 8-4030 Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn., as second-class mail under the Act of Congress, March 1,1870 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager Raymond F. Tisby Managing Editor Mrs. Rosa Brown Bracy Public Relations and Advertising William C. Weathers Circulation Promotion The is an independent newspaper—non-sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to be of interest to its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00 — 6 Months $3.00 — 3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) Eisenhower May Run Again The President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was stricken several weeks ago with a mild heart attack and was hospitalized in Fitzsimons government hospital in Denver, has recuperated to the extent that he is expected to leave the government hospital in Denver over the weekend for Washington and from there to his farm in Pennsylvania. There is much speculation about whether he will stand for re-election. Many say that he will and some say he won't. His doctors say that he has made satisfactory progress. That statement, properly interpreted, means that he will be physically able to run in '56 again if he so desires. If he stands for re-election that will be bad medicine for the Democrats because as things stand today, there is not a man alive who could defeat Eisenhower for re-election providing that he has been restored to his normal health. Reason Number One for the above mentioned statement is Eisenhower brought peace out of confusion immediately after his inauguration by flying to Korea and with his magic power, a war that had lingered and taken so much in life, money and property, was stopped — the boys have returned home and againreunited with their families and loved ones. Number Two — there ore more people working today in the United States than at any time in peace time history. Thus the American people are not in the habit of turning people out of a job that have made good. There is no record, so far as I have been able to find, where the American people turned their backs on a president and refused to re-elect him when the nation was enjoying peace and prosperity. The Democratic Party must, by recorded deeds, be called the War Party because every Democrat president in the last 75 years, with the exception of Grover Cleveland, had a war during their administration. There have only been three Democratic presidents since Cleveland — Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, all of them nave us a War. The American people are tired of wars. The American mothers are tired and very tired of giving birth to male children to have them sacrificed on the field of battle in a foreign country to satisfy the aspiration of a high Democratic politician. Therefore if Eisenhower runs for reelection, and all the signs are pointing in that direction, our predictions are that he will be re-elected by a larger majority than he received in 1952. Who Said A Four Day Week? Walter Reuther, president of the CIO is the authority for the statement that within the next ten years labor saving machines can bring about a four day week. Speaking before a SenateHouse economic subcommittee, Reuther says that the introduction of push button machinery poses a tremendous challenge in the years ahead. Such a statement naturally disturbs labor, in that it would be the first to feel the pinch of the lay-off and the swing system now so offensive to labor. Said Reuther: "We have never been concerned about the challenge of push-button machines, or we would have had a stroke when the dial telephone was introduced many years ago.. Still he admits that a worker would be enabled to produce more, thereby lowering the price, or service and increasing the number of things the consumer can buy. But on the other hand it would seem absurd to imagine any marked progress along this line, because the push-button does not wear shoes, ride motorcycles nor buy up luxuries to go off on a vacation. One tractor, for instance can turn over more land than fifty mules and produce enough corn for twice as many without as much eating one ear of the corn itself. The invention of the spinning jenny did not wear clothes and hence was a producer without being a consumer. There is where the heckle hits. A four day week would produce a generation of weaklings; the populace would have too many vacation periods; it would have to begin planning another immediately upon its return from one. We would produce a soft and puttied generation of playfolks and in the end would hot have that necessary resistance when and if a crisis came. Some one has well said: "When the day comes when we are using push-button machinery and sitting on our posteriors three days a week, it will not be long before we will be superseded as the world's greatest power by more ambitious and enterprising people." The absence of a fair employment practice is proving equally as perilous. Industry has about gone as far as it can without beginning on the way back! Shop Early For Christmas The predictions are that 1955 will be a banner shopping yule year. There is good reason to believe that the predictions will come true, in that there are more people working today at good jobs! than any time in America's peace time history. Too, the announcement has just been made by Mr. Edward F. Dorset, President of Christmas Clubs a Corporation, that more than a billion dollars will be distributed throughout the nation to Christmas Club owners, Tennessee's amount of that huge sum is more than $10 million which is an all time high. Therefore the prediction of the banner spending Yule season will in all probability, become a reality because when people have money they will spend it. The prudent businessman will display his wares early and advertise them so that the people will know who has what. Now, since it is conceded that the nation will go on a spending spree during the Yule season, the prudent shopper will shop early to avoid the rush. He will shop early before the things that he wants have been picked over. He will shop early so that the merchants can give him individual attention while buying. Of course people are not in the habit of accepting good advice to shop early for Christmas, thus the rush will start as it has in years past and gone only a few weeks before Christmas. There are plenty of people who are planning to buy for Christmas who are financially able to shop now so that late shoppers will have an opportunity to Shop without being pushed and shoved too much. Thus the early shoppers for Christmas will be rendering a distinct service to the merchants and the late shoppers if they shop now We have been told that the merchants are ready for the Xmas rush, in that their stores are packed and jammed with the things that you need and want for Xmas. lf you will accept this simple suggestion shop early for you will be glad that you did. Take Read Holy Bu This year millions of Americans of all faiths will join in daily Bible reading from Thanksgiving to Christmas in the twelfth annual observance of Worldwide Bible Reading, sponsored by the American Bible Society. The program, which began when a U. S. marine on Guadalcanal wrote his mother asking that the family join him in reading the same passages of Scripture each day, has spread in scope to the peoples of more than forty nations. The readings are without note or comment, and one may use whatever version of the Bible he prefers. Below are the readings for each day, in the theme of personal faith as selected by numerous people from many denominations. NOVEMBER Holy Bu This year millions of Americans of all faiths will join in daily Bible reading from Thanksgiving to Christmas in the twelfth annual observance of Worldwide Bible Reading, sponsored by the American Bible Society. The program, which began when a U. S. marine on Guadalcanal wrote his mother asking that the family join him in reading the same passages of Scripture each day, has spread in scope to the peoples of more than forty nations. The readings are without note or comment, and one may use whatever version of the Bible he prefers. Below are the readings for each day, in the theme of personal faith as selected by numerous people from many denominations. DECEMBER Holy Bu This year millions of Americans of all faiths will join in daily Bible reading from Thanksgiving to Christmas in the twelfth annual observance of Worldwide Bible Reading, sponsored by the American Bible Society. The program, which began when a U. S. marine on Guadalcanal wrote his mother asking that the family join him in reading the same passages of Scripture each day, has spread in scope to the peoples of more than forty nations. The readings are without note or comment, and one may use whatever version of the Bible he prefers. Below are the readings for each day, in the theme of personal faith as selected by numerous people from many denominations. Well Known Labor Americans. Mr. Randolph, who is known as one of the world's outstanding speak ers today, has devoted the greater part of his life to the fight for equal rights. He organized and heads the only International Union in the world which was organized and run from top to bottom by Negroes. During World War II, he organized and led the famous March on Washington Movement which forced President Roosevelt to set up the Fair Employment Practices Commission and led to many thousands of Negroes securing good jobs in war plant and government services. After the war he organized and led the Committee against jim crow in the Armed Services In spite of all kinds of threats against him, he kept up this fight until it succeeded in eliminating separate jim crow units in the Army, Navy and Air Force. He is a member of the National Board of the NAACP and was awarded the Spingarn Medal for his contribution to the fight for complete equality of all Americans. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Mr. Randolph express the firm belief that even though some progress has been made in the fight for civil rights, now as never before Negroes should understand their position as an underprivileged minority and put forth their greatest effort to become first class citizens in fact. They point out things such as the organized opposition to the Supreme Court decision against jim crow schools and the unpunished murder of the Till boy in Mississippiare definite proof that the Negro's fight for freedom and equality is not over, but just beginning. The program at the mass meeting promises to be one of the best Memphis has ever heard. In addition to Mr. Randolph, there will be short speeches by T. D. McNeal international Vice President of the Porters Union of St. Louis and an outstanding speaker from the NAACP, who has been invited. The public is invited and urged not to miss this opportunity to hear I these outstanding leaders discuss the most important subject concerning Negro Americans today. Mr. Randolph will also be guest of honor at a banquet sponsored by the organization the next night Nov. 14 at 8 P. M. at Currie's Club. RANDOLPH LED MANY FIGHTS Americans. Mr. Randolph, who is known as one of the world's outstanding speak ers today, has devoted the greater part of his life to the fight for equal rights. He organized and heads the only International Union in the world which was organized and run from top to bottom by Negroes. During World War II, he organized and led the famous March on Washington Movement which forced President Roosevelt to set up the Fair Employment Practices Commission and led to many thousands of Negroes securing good jobs in war plant and government services. After the war he organized and led the Committee against jim crow in the Armed Services In spite of all kinds of threats against him, he kept up this fight until it succeeded in eliminating separate jim crow units in the Army, Navy and Air Force. He is a member of the National Board of the NAACP and was awarded the Spingarn Medal for his contribution to the fight for complete equality of all Americans. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Mr. Randolph express the firm belief that even though some progress has been made in the fight for civil rights, now as never before Negroes should understand their position as an underprivileged minority and put forth their greatest effort to become first class citizens in fact. They point out things such as the organized opposition to the Supreme Court decision against jim crow schools and the unpunished murder of the Till boy in Mississippiare definite proof that the Negro's fight for freedom and equality is not over, but just beginning. The program at the mass meeting promises to be one of the best Memphis has ever heard. In addition to Mr. Randolph, there will be short speeches by T. D. McNeal international Vice President of the Porters Union of St. Louis and an outstanding speaker from the NAACP, who has been invited. The public is invited and urged not to miss this opportunity to hear I these outstanding leaders discuss the most important subject concerning Negro Americans today. Mr. Randolph will also be guest of honor at a banquet sponsored by the organization the next night Nov. 14 at 8 P. M. at Currie's Club. NEGROES NEED UNITY NOW Americans. Mr. Randolph, who is known as one of the world's outstanding speak ers today, has devoted the greater part of his life to the fight for equal rights. He organized and heads the only International Union in the world which was organized and run from top to bottom by Negroes. During World War II, he organized and led the famous March on Washington Movement which forced President Roosevelt to set up the Fair Employment Practices Commission and led to many thousands of Negroes securing good jobs in war plant and government services. After the war he organized and led the Committee against jim crow in the Armed Services In spite of all kinds of threats against him, he kept up this fight until it succeeded in eliminating separate jim crow units in the Army, Navy and Air Force. He is a member of the National Board of the NAACP and was awarded the Spingarn Medal for his contribution to the fight for complete equality of all Americans. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Mr. Randolph express the firm belief that even though some progress has been made in the fight for civil rights, now as never before Negroes should understand their position as an underprivileged minority and put forth their greatest effort to become first class citizens in fact. They point out things such as the organized opposition to the Supreme Court decision against jim crow schools and the unpunished murder of the Till boy in Mississippiare definite proof that the Negro's fight for freedom and equality is not over, but just beginning. The program at the mass meeting promises to be one of the best Memphis has ever heard. In addition to Mr. Randolph, there will be short speeches by T. D. McNeal international Vice President of the Porters Union of St. Louis and an outstanding speaker from the NAACP, who has been invited. The public is invited and urged not to miss this opportunity to hear I these outstanding leaders discuss the most important subject concerning Negro Americans today. Mr. Randolph will also be guest of honor at a banquet sponsored by the organization the next night Nov. 14 at 8 P. M. at Currie's Club. Mrs. Opal Ragsdale all they can do. I felt sure you would want to have a part in re-building this dormitory. So please, please do not throw my letter aside until you have answered it. I will be looking forward to hearing from you. Address tout letter to the Baptist Academy Fund, 314 Baltimore Building, Memphis, Tenn. I am enclosing one of my latest pictures along with this letter. Will you please send one dollar. Just think if ten thousand would send one dollar we could rebuild this for them; Please do not leave this up to someone else. This letter is to you. We will list the names of all donors in the newspapers, unless you ask your name omitted. I am planning to write you again when the dormitory is completed and tell you all about it Until then, please remember me in your prayers, also the leaders of this school that they might have the courage to carry on until the job is finished. Thanking you for any consideration. OPAL RAGSDALE UNFINISHED CRIME SARA managed to control her voice. "Capt Sanders, there is some mistake. If I were under oath, I should say the same thing. This man is an impostor. I never saw him before in my life. He is not Gerry Hone, Don't you understand? Gerry was taken away last night and now this stranger has been sent to take his place. He never came back at all." Capt. Sanders looked at Sara as if there were-something freakish in her appearance—Hair dyed green or a broken nose. "Miss Dacre, you're overwrought. There is no question of mistaken identity. I came here this morning with a search warrant hinking I might find some clue to Mr. Hone's disappearance among his papers. I was going to get a key from Miss Jenkins. Can you imagine how I felt when I walked into the vestibule and found Mr. Hone himself calmly taking letters out of his mailbox?" "Honestly, Sara!" The stranger's voice was a shade lighter and higher, than the real Gerry's. "You've made us both ridiculous. The captain says my name's on file at the missing persons bureau. Are you out of your mind? I was only gone a few hours." "He calls me 'Sara.'" Her face set stubbornly. "The real Gerry called me. Dacre, but an impostor wouldn't know that." "For Petes sake!" The young man was a good actor. He turned to Sanders with a kind of humorous despair that was completely in character. "Ask him where he was last night," said Sara, implacably. "I've already told them," put in the stranger before Sanders Could answer her. "Yes, he has," confirmed Sanders. "He was staying with a cousin, Mrs. Caleb Harrison, who has a place on Long Island. He told the woman who cleans his apartment that he would leave the keys in an envelope in his mailbox. Fortunately the envelope was still there to prove his story when we got here this morning. I asked him to jot down his cousin's Long Island address. He did, and his handwriting is the same as the handwriting on the envelope. See?" Sanders pointed to the center table. There were two keys and a crumpled envelope. Sara remembered the envelope she had seen in Gerry's box last night. Now she could read the message scrawled on it. "Key? inside. G. H." Beside the envelope was a sheet of paper with the notation, "Mrs. Caleb Harrison, Mill House, Wiliowbrook, Long Island." The handwriting seemed the same as the scrawl on the envelope, but. . . . "I never saw. Gerry's handwriting," said Sara, slowly. "You've never had a letter from him?" Capt Sanders' voice sharpened. "You didn't know him very well, did you, Miss Dacre? According to your own story, you've seen, him only 10 or 12 times. How can you be so sure this isn't Gerry Hone?" "You forget I last saw him only a few hours ago. One doesn't for get a face—or a voice—that quickly. There was someone in Gerry's apartment last night Anybody could have seen that envelope labelled 'keys' sticking out of his box, used the keys and returned hem later." "Sure," agreed Sanders grudgingly. "And it was a fool thing to do. But people who don't expect trouble do things that seem foolish to policemen all the time. And you can't get by the handwriting. It is the same." "How do we know the real Gerry wrote the message on this envelope?" returned Sara. "Other people will know about his hand writing—his partner in radio, James Peters, and his landlady, Judith Jenkins." "Then suppose we ask Miss Jenkins to step up here." Sanders went to the telephone. "Miss Jenkins, I'm in Mr. Hone's apartment . . . Yes, as soon as you can, please." The stranger's face was red with fury. "Sara, how cut you. . . . This is fantastic. What motive could anyone have for impersonating a man like me?" Sara looked at him thoughtfully. "Because of the ruby. You must be someone who thinks he can get his hands on the ruby by taking Gerry's place." "The ruby?" He repeated the words as if they had no meaning for him at all. But Capt. Sanders pounced. "You didn't say anything about a raw to me last night, Miss Dacre." "I didn't know about it then. Do you remember my telling you I was buying a piece of junk jewelry when I met Gerry in the 10-cent store?" "Of course," "After I left you I went to see my great-aunt, Mrs. David Larch. She had two friends with her, Dickson Clive, the art dealer, and Gregory Sallust, a friend of his. I was wearing the pendant I had bought in the 10-cent store. Mr. Clive said that it was a real ruby, a museum piece, probably stolen, and that the thief might have hidden it temporarily among the fake jewels in the 10-cent store because police or hijackers were closing in on him. Then I remembered the man who was killed in a street accident just then and there. You had said he was a thief." "An embezzler." "When I got home from Aunt Caroline's last night there was a man in my apartment. You remember the East Indian who sat at my table in the Automat 7 It was he, and he thought I had the ruby. He said it was called the Fire of India, and Moxon had stolen it from a shrine in Mogur during the war, but was never brought to trial for lack of evidence." Capt. Sanders' face had passed through doubt to amazement. "Why didn't you call me while this Indian was with you?" "He wouldn't let me go near the telephone." The note of melodrama brought the captain's doubts back. "When we checked the building earlier yesterday evening every door was locked. How did he get in?" "Through a skylight on the roof, he said. He came through the building next door. "His name?" "He didn't tell me his name." Her voice faltered as she realized that it sounded like the weakest of lies. "He said that he represented the Rajah of Mogur." "Mogur has no representative in this country," said Sanders. "Not even a consul. The country is too small and too poor. Obviously this Indian wants the ruby for himself. He is a crook, perhaps a killer, who lied to you. What became of him?" "He went away!" "Just like that? And you did nothing?" "It was late. I was tired. I drank a little sherry and fell asleep in my chair. When I woke he was gone. For a moment I thought it had all been a dream. . . ." The stranger cut in sharply. "Why don't you ask her to show us this ruby? If there is a ruby or anything like one!" Sara said, "It disappeared at Aunt Caroline's when I was showing it to her guests, Dr. Sallust and Mr. Clive. We were passing it from one to another someone— Dr. Sallust, I think—put it down on the card table and then, a moment later, it just wasn't there." "And you did nothing, of course? Sanders' irony was blunt enough to bruise. "After all, who cares about a mere ruby worth only 50 grand or some such chickenfeed?" "Aunt Caroline didn't want a police investigation. She's old, an invalid, in a wheelchair." "So you all went home to bed without, bothering to search anyone?" "Oh, no We had a personal search. Edna made us." "Edna?" "Miss Creel, my aunt's companion. I searched Edna and Aunt Caroline—they both insisted. Edna searched me. Stevens, Aunt Caroline's houseman, searched the two men. There was no sign of the ruby." "Obviously one of the men could have bribed Stevens." "Oh, don't be absurd!" cried Sara. "Stevens is the dearest old man—as old as Aunt Caroline. Money is nothing to him. Besides, Clive and Sallust were both there in the library together during the search. They can't all three be in it!" "We'll have to see all of them now, you understand," said Sanders wearily. "Even your Aunt Caroline." "I hate to have her bothered. I wouldn't have told you if it hadn't been for Gerry's sake. I mean the real Gerry. . . . ." She turned abruptly to stare at the stranger. "What have you done with him? Who sent you to take his place? Was it the others?" "The others?" he echoed blankly. "That's what the Indian called them—the others." "She's making it all up!" protested the stranger bitterly. "If she is, she must have quite a morbid imagination." Sanders eyed her narrowly. "Ever have a nervous breakdown or any symptom of emotional instability?" CHAPTER SIXTEEN SARA managed to control her voice. "Capt Sanders, there is some mistake. If I were under oath, I should say the same thing. This man is an impostor. I never saw him before in my life. He is not Gerry Hone, Don't you understand? Gerry was taken away last night and now this stranger has been sent to take his place. He never came back at all." Capt. Sanders looked at Sara as if there were-something freakish in her appearance—Hair dyed green or a broken nose. "Miss Dacre, you're overwrought. There is no question of mistaken identity. I came here this morning with a search warrant hinking I might find some clue to Mr. Hone's disappearance among his papers. I was going to get a key from Miss Jenkins. Can you imagine how I felt when I walked into the vestibule and found Mr. Hone himself calmly taking letters out of his mailbox?" "Honestly, Sara!" The stranger's voice was a shade lighter and higher, than the real Gerry's. "You've made us both ridiculous. The captain says my name's on file at the missing persons bureau. Are you out of your mind? I was only gone a few hours." "He calls me 'Sara.'" Her face set stubbornly. "The real Gerry called me. Dacre, but an impostor wouldn't know that." "For Petes sake!" The young man was a good actor. He turned to Sanders with a kind of humorous despair that was completely in character. "Ask him where he was last night," said Sara, implacably. "I've already told them," put in the stranger before Sanders Could answer her. "Yes, he has," confirmed Sanders. "He was staying with a cousin, Mrs. Caleb Harrison, who has a place on Long Island. He told the woman who cleans his apartment that he would leave the keys in an envelope in his mailbox. Fortunately the envelope was still there to prove his story when we got here this morning. I asked him to jot down his cousin's Long Island address. He did, and his handwriting is the same as the handwriting on the envelope. See?" Sanders pointed to the center table. There were two keys and a crumpled envelope. Sara remembered the envelope she had seen in Gerry's box last night. Now she could read the message scrawled on it. "Key? inside. G. H." Beside the envelope was a sheet of paper with the notation, "Mrs. Caleb Harrison, Mill House, Wiliowbrook, Long Island." The handwriting seemed the same as the scrawl on the envelope, but. . . . "I never saw. Gerry's handwriting," said Sara, slowly. "You've never had a letter from him?" Capt Sanders' voice sharpened. "You didn't know him very well, did you, Miss Dacre? According to your own story, you've seen, him only 10 or 12 times. How can you be so sure this isn't Gerry Hone?" "You forget I last saw him only a few hours ago. One doesn't for get a face—or a voice—that quickly. There was someone in Gerry's apartment last night Anybody could have seen that envelope labelled 'keys' sticking out of his box, used the keys and returned hem later." "Sure," agreed Sanders grudgingly. "And it was a fool thing to do. But people who don't expect trouble do things that seem foolish to policemen all the time. And you can't get by the handwriting. It is the same." "How do we know the real Gerry wrote the message on this envelope?" returned Sara. "Other people will know about his hand writing—his partner in radio, James Peters, and his landlady, Judith Jenkins." "Then suppose we ask Miss Jenkins to step up here." Sanders went to the telephone. "Miss Jenkins, I'm in Mr. Hone's apartment . . . Yes, as soon as you can, please." The stranger's face was red with fury. "Sara, how cut you. . . . This is fantastic. What motive could anyone have for impersonating a man like me?" Sara looked at him thoughtfully. "Because of the ruby. You must be someone who thinks he can get his hands on the ruby by taking Gerry's place." "The ruby?" He repeated the words as if they had no meaning for him at all. But Capt. Sanders pounced. "You didn't say anything about a raw to me last night, Miss Dacre." "I didn't know about it then. Do you remember my telling you I was buying a piece of junk jewelry when I met Gerry in the 10-cent store?" "Of course," "After I left you I went to see my great-aunt, Mrs. David Larch. She had two friends with her, Dickson Clive, the art dealer, and Gregory Sallust, a friend of his. I was wearing the pendant I had bought in the 10-cent store. Mr. Clive said that it was a real ruby, a museum piece, probably stolen, and that the thief might have hidden it temporarily among the fake jewels in the 10-cent store because police or hijackers were closing in on him. Then I remembered the man who was killed in a street accident just then and there. You had said he was a thief." "An embezzler." "When I got home from Aunt Caroline's last night there was a man in my apartment. You remember the East Indian who sat at my table in the Automat 7 It was he, and he thought I had the ruby. He said it was called the Fire of India, and Moxon had stolen it from a shrine in Mogur during the war, but was never brought to trial for lack of evidence." Capt. Sanders' face had passed through doubt to amazement. "Why didn't you call me while this Indian was with you?" "He wouldn't let me go near the telephone." The note of melodrama brought the captain's doubts back. "When we checked the building earlier yesterday evening every door was locked. How did he get in?" "Through a skylight on the roof, he said. He came through the building next door. "His name?" "He didn't tell me his name." Her voice faltered as she realized that it sounded like the weakest of lies. "He said that he represented the Rajah of Mogur." "Mogur has no representative in this country," said Sanders. "Not even a consul. The country is too small and too poor. Obviously this Indian wants the ruby for himself. He is a crook, perhaps a killer, who lied to you. What became of him?" "He went away!" "Just like that? And you did nothing?" "It was late. I was tired. I drank a little sherry and fell asleep in my chair. When I woke he was gone. For a moment I thought it had all been a dream. . . ." The stranger cut in sharply. "Why don't you ask her to show us this ruby? If there is a ruby or anything like one!" Sara said, "It disappeared at Aunt Caroline's when I was showing it to her guests, Dr. Sallust and Mr. Clive. We were passing it from one to another someone— Dr. Sallust, I think—put it down on the card table and then, a moment later, it just wasn't there." "And you did nothing, of course? Sanders' irony was blunt enough to bruise. "After all, who cares about a mere ruby worth only 50 grand or some such chickenfeed?" "Aunt Caroline didn't want a police investigation. She's old, an invalid, in a wheelchair." "So you all went home to bed without, bothering to search anyone?" "Oh, no We had a personal search. Edna made us." "Edna?" "Miss Creel, my aunt's companion. I searched Edna and Aunt Caroline—they both insisted. Edna searched me. Stevens, Aunt Caroline's houseman, searched the two men. There was no sign of the ruby." "Obviously one of the men could have bribed Stevens." "Oh, don't be absurd!" cried Sara. "Stevens is the dearest old man—as old as Aunt Caroline. Money is nothing to him. Besides, Clive and Sallust were both there in the library together during the search. They can't all three be in it!" "We'll have to see all of them now, you understand," said Sanders wearily. "Even your Aunt Caroline." "I hate to have her bothered. I wouldn't have told you if it hadn't been for Gerry's sake. I mean the real Gerry. . . . ." She turned abruptly to stare at the stranger. "What have you done with him? Who sent you to take his place? Was it the others?" "The others?" he echoed blankly. "That's what the Indian called them—the others." "She's making it all up!" protested the stranger bitterly. "If she is, she must have quite a morbid imagination." Sanders eyed her narrowly. "Ever have a nervous breakdown or any symptom of emotional instability?" South Carolina Denied Bid To Return Fugitive Minister Governor George Bell Timmerman, Jr., is burned to a crisp because the United States Department of Justice has refused-to issue a Federal fugitive warrant for a colored minister who fled to New York in fear of his life for the part he played in the South Carolina school segregdion case. The decision was disclosed by the Governor Friday night in a statewide radio and television hookup which included stations in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia, and in which Timmerman bitterly denounced the NAACP and called its leaders professional agitators." Timmerman charged the Justice Department with "discriminating in the administration of justice" for refusing to help South Carolina get the Rev. J. A. De Laine back from New York oh a federal fugitive warrant. The Rev. Mr. De Laine fled to New York after a shooting incident at Lake City, Carolina. United States Attorney N. Welch Morrisette, Jr. earlier said he had instructions from the Justice Department in Washington not to issue such a warrant. Morrisette said he also was in structed to advise both Timmerman and Sheriff John Hanna of Florence County that the Rev. Deraine "is openly living in New York and can be reached in care of Bishop D Ward Nichols. African Methodist Episcopal Church, 2295 Seventh Ave., New York City." "It is therefore unnecessary under the circumstances to invoke the federal fugitive felon law," Morrisette said he was told to inform Timmerman and Hanna. The Rev. Mr. De Laine, who helped to get into the Federal District Court the Clarendon County school segregation case, which ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court, is charged with shooting at white men in a passing automobile. He claims they shot at him first. The NAACP in New York has pledged a court fight against any attempt to extradite the Rev. DeLaine on assault charges filed by the men on the ground that the minister is being threatened with violent reprisals. The Rev. De Laine has been indicted by the Florence County grand jury on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Hanna had asked Morrisette for a warrant charging the minister with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Timmerman charged that United States Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Jr.. has been using the integration issue to "promote his Republican politics" and said the De Laine case is "an excellent example of these tactics." 'Brownell's U. S. Department of Justice advised me that it will not enforce the federal fugitive felon act against the Rev. J. A. DeLaine, late of Lake City and now a fugitive from justice in New York," Timmerman said. "I do not know why the Justice Department should advise me of its action," he continued. "I did not ask the Justice Department to enforce the federal law. I assumed that it would always enforce the federal law. ". . .It is important for the public to know that the Justice Department in Washington has degenerated to a point where it will not permit the federal law to be enforced against an agitator for the NAACP. "I think our Senators and Representatives in Washington should institute an immediate federal investigation to determine how many other federal offenders the Justice Department is protecting and why it is discriminating in the administration of justice." The only course left for Hanna in his effort to bring the Rev. Mr, De Laine back to Florence County is to send a warrant for the minister to New York, It the Rev. Mr. De Laine should refuse to return voluntarily, and the indications are that he will not, extradition proceedings would have to be instituted through Governor Harriman of New York. The Lake City shooting incident followed the burning of the AME Church' there, of which the Rev. Mr. De Laine was pastor; on October 6 and reported insistence by Mr. De Laine of the throwing of rocks 6 and reported instances by Mr. and spoiled fruit at the parsonage. He also said his life had been threatened. Two shots were fired at an automobile occupied by four white men us they passed the minister's residence on the night of October 10 He said he was standing by the church ruins when shots were fired at him from the auto and he fired back. The men swore out warrants for him but when authorities sought to arrest the minister he and his family, had disappeared. After a time it was disclosed they were in New York. State insurance department investigators are still investigating the possibility of arson in connection with the burning of the church. The occasion of Timmerman's speech was a joint meeting of the South Carolina Association of School Boards and Association of School Administrators. He said since schools freely or forcibly admitting colored pupils would, by law, lack money to operate, "the sensible choice" of colored people "is to support separate but equal schools." He scored white people who "are professional haters" and said the NAACP lists on its board of directors such persons "with a purple passion against the South" as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Senator Herbert Lehman, Senator Wayne Morse and CIO President Walter Reuther. He called it the duty of every responsible colored person to "repudiate the false leadership of the NAACP and its alien white sponsors and to supply sound and sensible leadership for their people." Timmerman indicated that he thought the NAACP "may have failed to comply with state statutory requirements" for out-ofstate corporations to South Carolina. He said he has directed the State Attorney General to investigate and if he determines that the NAACP has violated our law have instructed him to institute appropriate action." Justice Dep't Refuses To Return Rev. J. A. De Laine From New York Governor George Bell Timmerman, Jr., is burned to a crisp because the United States Department of Justice has refused-to issue a Federal fugitive warrant for a colored minister who fled to New York in fear of his life for the part he played in the South Carolina school segregdion case. The decision was disclosed by the Governor Friday night in a statewide radio and television hookup which included stations in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia, and in which Timmerman bitterly denounced the NAACP and called its leaders professional agitators." Timmerman charged the Justice Department with "discriminating in the administration of justice" for refusing to help South Carolina get the Rev. J. A. De Laine back from New York oh a federal fugitive warrant. The Rev. Mr. De Laine fled to New York after a shooting incident at Lake City, Carolina. United States Attorney N. Welch Morrisette, Jr. earlier said he had instructions from the Justice Department in Washington not to issue such a warrant. Morrisette said he also was in structed to advise both Timmerman and Sheriff John Hanna of Florence County that the Rev. Deraine "is openly living in New York and can be reached in care of Bishop D Ward Nichols. African Methodist Episcopal Church, 2295 Seventh Ave., New York City." "It is therefore unnecessary under the circumstances to invoke the federal fugitive felon law," Morrisette said he was told to inform Timmerman and Hanna. The Rev. Mr. De Laine, who helped to get into the Federal District Court the Clarendon County school segregation case, which ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court, is charged with shooting at white men in a passing automobile. He claims they shot at him first. The NAACP in New York has pledged a court fight against any attempt to extradite the Rev. DeLaine on assault charges filed by the men on the ground that the minister is being threatened with violent reprisals. The Rev. De Laine has been indicted by the Florence County grand jury on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Hanna had asked Morrisette for a warrant charging the minister with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Timmerman charged that United States Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Jr.. has been using the integration issue to "promote his Republican politics" and said the De Laine case is "an excellent example of these tactics." 'Brownell's U. S. Department of Justice advised me that it will not enforce the federal fugitive felon act against the Rev. J. A. DeLaine, late of Lake City and now a fugitive from justice in New York," Timmerman said. "I do not know why the Justice Department should advise me of its action," he continued. "I did not ask the Justice Department to enforce the federal law. I assumed that it would always enforce the federal law. ". . .It is important for the public to know that the Justice Department in Washington has degenerated to a point where it will not permit the federal law to be enforced against an agitator for the NAACP. "I think our Senators and Representatives in Washington should institute an immediate federal investigation to determine how many other federal offenders the Justice Department is protecting and why it is discriminating in the administration of justice." The only course left for Hanna in his effort to bring the Rev. Mr, De Laine back to Florence County is to send a warrant for the minister to New York, It the Rev. Mr. De Laine should refuse to return voluntarily, and the indications are that he will not, extradition proceedings would have to be instituted through Governor Harriman of New York. The Lake City shooting incident followed the burning of the AME Church' there, of which the Rev. Mr. De Laine was pastor; on October 6 and reported insistence by Mr. De Laine of the throwing of rocks 6 and reported instances by Mr. and spoiled fruit at the parsonage. He also said his life had been threatened. Two shots were fired at an automobile occupied by four white men us they passed the minister's residence on the night of October 10 He said he was standing by the church ruins when shots were fired at him from the auto and he fired back. The men swore out warrants for him but when authorities sought to arrest the minister he and his family, had disappeared. After a time it was disclosed they were in New York. State insurance department investigators are still investigating the possibility of arson in connection with the burning of the church. The occasion of Timmerman's speech was a joint meeting of the South Carolina Association of School Boards and Association of School Administrators. He said since schools freely or forcibly admitting colored pupils would, by law, lack money to operate, "the sensible choice" of colored people "is to support separate but equal schools." He scored white people who "are professional haters" and said the NAACP lists on its board of directors such persons "with a purple passion against the South" as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Senator Herbert Lehman, Senator Wayne Morse and CIO President Walter Reuther. He called it the duty of every responsible colored person to "repudiate the false leadership of the NAACP and its alien white sponsors and to supply sound and sensible leadership for their people." Timmerman indicated that he thought the NAACP "may have failed to comply with state statutory requirements" for out-ofstate corporations to South Carolina. He said he has directed the State Attorney General to investigate and if he determines that the NAACP has violated our law have instructed him to institute appropriate action." 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Wrinkled ends indicate lack of freshness. Sweet potatoes can be purchased directly from the farmers of Farmers' Market at a "savings now, since this is the harvesting season. According to the U. S. D. A., sweet potatoes are listed as one of the plentifuls. Now is a good time to be thinking of new ways to glaze sweet potatoes for the holidays. The following recipe will make enough Candied Sweet Potatoes to serve 4. Cook covered in boiling water to cover until nearly tender: 6 medium sweet potatoes Pare and cut them lengthwise in inch slices. Place them in a shallow greased baking dish Sprinkle with. 1/2 cup brown sugar and a little salt. Dot with 3 tablespoons butter Pour over them 1/4 cup orange juice 3/4 cup Sherry wine Bake in a moderately hot oven, turning frequently, until glazed. The above recipe can be used with the yams also with good results. And the dish will be a grand compliment to that Thanksgiving Turkey. Cold sliced turkey is a favorite choice for a buffet. A splendid feature for the buffet is a tricky looking half turkey with the white meat sliced for service, yet left in place. The day before the party, roast a 20 to 24 pound ready-to-cook turkey without stuffing. This will require about 5 hours in a 325 degree F. oven. Put the hot turkey on a flat tray. Rub the skin with milk then cover with a cloth or foil to keep the skin from becoming dry. Keep in a cool place for two hours to hasten cooling, then place in the refrigerator. On buffet day, cut off the thighs and drumsticks, then sever the back bone at the natural hinge or breaking point in the backbone. To slice the white meat make a long cut above each wing to the rib bones. Next, begin slicing about 2 inches above the wings Cut down to the lengthwise cut Continue to make thin slices downward, starting each slice a quarter inch higher on the breast Cut similar slices parallel with the breastbone. Leave each slice in place. Slice the dark mead from thighs and drumsticks and heap these on the platter. Serve your other good dishes and end with a good ice cream dessert Your family and guests will be well fed and happy. A And T Students to 2.6000 and graduates from eight to more than 300. He sad that since 1947 the state has spent $10,000,000 for permanent improvements at the college. He quoted a state fiscal officer as describing A and T as the 'most efficiently run college in state.' He noted that A and T has furnished 52 per cent of the Negro high school principals in the state; 75 percent of Negro agricultural, vocational teachers; 90 percent of Negro agricultural agents and 80 per cent of the Negro college graduates in the trades in the state. State Court Backs Editor In Libel Suit The Mississippi State Supreme Court upheld a newspaper editor who commented on the sheriffs shooting of a Negro citizen. Sheriff Richard A Byrd had filed a $10,000 libel suit against Mrs. Hazel Smith, of the Lexington Advertiser and Durant News. The court's ruling overturned at Holmes county jury verdict which had found in favor of the sheriff The case was initiated after Mrs. Smith commented editorially on the shooting of Henry Randall, a Negro The court record brought out that the sheriff drove up to a group of which Randall was a member, and spoke to Randall about loudness At Randall's reply, the report continued, the sheriff made a threatening gesture toward him. Randall then fled into the wood and the sheriff shot him. Not in jured fatally, Randall was said to have made good his escape. State Supreme Court Justice Percy Lee wrote in his opinion "The right to publish the truth with good intentions and for just ends is inherent in the Constitution. The court said that Mrs. Smith's account was substantially true. Golf Suit Figures "I am just about to have a fit. Now I will be able to play before I get too old. If it had been held up much longer, I'd have been too old to play. I talked with my son in Talla dega (Rev. Oliver W. Holmes) and he too was so happy about it." Dr. Holmes said he was called arid congratulated by a white golf er who confided that he as a fellow golfer understood and wished him well. Attorney R. E. Thomas, Jr., chief of legal counsel handling the case said: "The ruling of the United State Supreme Court is indeed gratifying I am especially happy for those persons who have fought so long for this victory." Conversely, Attorney General Eu gene Cook bemoaned the decision However, he said: "I am not sun prised at the decision." "It seems the NAACP (Nations Association for the Advancement on Colored People) is able to get most anything it wants from the Supreme Court, as it is presently constitutes that is designed to further its program to force inter-marriage of the races." Jury Frees Cop Who Killed Chi. Motorist A coroner jury here has cleared a policeman who shot and killed a motorists after a traffic altercation. Jesse Brown, 28, said he shot Edward R. Jones 29, after Jones attempted to take the policeman's revolver; A crowd gathered after the shooting and threatened Brown until other officers arrived. Plan To Abandon reversionary agreements and stated that costly litigation would be required to remove the reversionary stipulations. Even then, he said, there was no guarantee the state would be able to free itself from the contracts. ACHING MUSCLES Relieve pains of tired, sore, aching museles with 8TANBACK, tablets or powders STANBACK acts fast to bring comforting relief because the STANBANK formula combines several prescription type in gradients for fast relief of pain. Taystee Bread Taystee