Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1958-06-28 Thaddeus T. Stokes MEMPHIS WORLD AMERICAN'S STANDARD RACE JOURNAL The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 546 BEALE — Ph. JA. 6-4030 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott General Manager Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn., as second-class mail under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 THADDEUS T. STOKES Managing Editor SMITH FLEMING Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00 — 6 Months $3.00 — 3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper — non-sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to be of interest to its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. A White House Conference With A New Proclamation Would Serve Good The four leaders who urged that President Eisenhower call a White House conference on ways, of complying with the Supreme Court decision, are fully in keeping with the tempore in which the measure should move. Roy Wilkins, Dr. M. L. King, Jr., A Phillip Randolph and Lester Granger, all known for their consistency and honesty of purpose from their well established records, betray the patience of saner minds on this frontier of educational and social adjustment. They set out in their preamble the desire of restoring harmony between white and Negro Southerners and urged the extension of the Civil Rights Commission for at least one more year beyond its currently stipulated two-year life. Possibly the leaders spoke the sentiment of all lovers of peace and order through regulated systems when they inferred that lack of adequate and clear statutory authority have made the federal government a mere spectator in the disgraceful maneuvering at Little Rock. For sometime the lag in accepting the court's authority has greatly rendered a disservice to our nation's influence; such has brought on Little Rock, our Tuscaloosas and others of wistful waiting for added encouragement in evading the law and flying into the teeth of the courts. Surely, a new proclamation which might forestall further Violent reactions would do no harm. Despite the fact that neither the President nor Attorney General Rodgers was ready to make any statement, it is well within the reach of reason that they listened sympathetically to the stories of the four leaders, which involved also bombing of churches, synagogues and the uproar at Dawson. We think the recent meeting with the President has brought the race question into clearer focus. "All's Well That Ends Well" When Governor-Nominee, John Patterson of Alabama, the Attorney General who spearheaded Alabama's court action against the Tuskegee Civic Association, asked that the temporary order be made permanent, an Alabama Judge, Will O. Walton, dissolved the injunction. He ruled that Patterson had failed to prove that the Tuskegee Civic Association as an organization had taken any action to promote the trade boycott, or had used any force to support it. The judge wrote: Thus far in this land, every person has a right to trade with whomever he pleases, and therefore the right not to trade with any particular person or business." The boycott started over a year ago in Tuskegee in protest against the enactment of a law by the Legislature which virtually deprived Negroes of the right to vote in Tuskegee. By rearranging Tuskegee's boundaries, the law left virtually all the 400 Negro voters on the outside of the city limits, while making no change in the status of the 600 white voters. Later the same General Assembly submitted a constitutional amendment, ratified by the voters last December, permitting the abolition of Macon County, of which Tuskegee is the county, seat as a means of keeping Negroes from gaining further political power. The motive back of these propositions is obvious. Governor-nominee Patterson came into fame upon being accorded the candidacy of Attorney General after his ill-fated father's death. From the post of Attorney General he easily got the gubernatorial nomination, which is in Alabama, lantamount to election. So, as Patterson awaits his high position, what partly contributed to some of his political success began crumbling beneath his feet. The Tuskegee movement in the direction of the civil rights of Negro citizens denied the right to vote, goes merrily on; it has presaged the building of a trade center in Tuskegee and those citizens who have been going to nearby cities for trade, will have a central trade center of their own. Herein would come that old writing copy-book sentence — "All's well that ends well." The Big Talkers In every community we have a variety of talkers. There are those who are adept at conversational gossip, there are those who can spin interesting yarns and hold their listeners in rapt attention, and there are those who have big-booming voices and who command respect, even though they seldom Say anything. It is interesting to watch the reaction to the various groups of talkers. It is quite a gift to be able to spin a tale with both charm and personality, so that the listener is fascinated by both the manner and the thoughts being exhibited. This is known as a "gift of gab," and is invaluable for salesmen, public relations men, and is an asset to almost anyone dealing with the public. The man or woman who has a graduate degree in the art of gossip, innuendo, tease, and general devilment, is an interesting conversationalist, even thought he or she usually tends to be sarcastic or cynical and is also usually guilty of berating practically everyone and everything around him. And, gossip in its purest form, is inherently a disease and can do much harm in our community as anything we know. But perhaps me most interesting of all the talkers is the big talker with the booming voice. If he is a large man, or woman, he commands respect because of his physical size. Add to this fact he has a loud, booming voice, and you have the ingredients necessary for gaining attention, domineering, and perhaps leadership. The point of all this talk about talking is that it is what is said that is important, and not how it is said, or the volume in which it is said. THE TIP OFF BY EMORY O. JACKSON PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (SNS) — In this city where the "Father of American Journalism" once lived, the National Newspaper Publishers Association came for its 20th annual convention. The. 74-year-old twice-a-week Philadelphia Tribune, and the 28year-old Philadelphia Independent are the two home-based Negro publications in operation here. The Tribune is the NNPA convention host. The Diplomatic Corps present, whose names are top difficult to be handled by this correspondent, stood when their names were called by Mrs. Crystal Bell Fauset. The audience showed real appreciation as these representatives stood there surveying the publishers and the local leaders who made up the banquet group. Introduced by Municipal Court Judge Theodore Spaulding, Ambassador Chapman related the Ghana story, which is that of the building of a nation. It fitted in with the Memphis story as told by Alexis Wilson and the Little rock story as related by Mrs. Daisy Bates at the awards banquet the following night. It was an inspiration to hear the Ghana story told as no book can deliver it. In a book you miss the setting the audience gave, the way the diplomatic corps seemed to have followed his message, and the eagerness with which the publishers listened. Some of these publishers had been to Ghana, read widely of the history of the country, but they were interested in the way Chapman told the story, of which he was one of the leading participants. CONVENTION NOTEBOOK — Marshall Cabaniss who formerly headed the Alexander Company at Tuskegee Institute, Ala., is living here and attended one of the NNPA sessions. . . . J. B. Pickney who once managed the Afro-American Life Insurance Company office in Birmingham, Ala., area director of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company, attended the two banquet sessions of the convention. The Pinckneys recently moved into their newly - acquired four - story home. . . Mrs. Mabel Gates who served on the Citizens Committee to entertain the NNPA inquired about Dr. and Mrs. E. W, Taggart of Birmingham. . . A lawyer here tried to interest NNPA leaders in the "Fletcher Mills Case" of Tuscaloosa, Ala He said Mills is presently serving a 10 - year prison sentence . . . Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Jamar, representing the Huntsville (Ala.) Mirror were among those attending the convention. LOANS —ON— Automobiles - Furniture Equipment - Signature You will like our prompt friendly service, courteous treatment and desire to help. Open Thursday And Friday Nights Until 8 P.M. Saturdays 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. DIXIE FINANCE CO. 152 MADISON - JA. 5-7611 HOME OWNED HOME OPERATED TELEVISION TIME WHO KNOWS? THEY'VE BEEN THREE FOR WEEKS! Little Rock white students to return together to the school. Branton said Judge Lemley spoke for the NAACP at one point, however, when he pointed out that they had not been deprived of the right to appeal. In his argument Monday Branton urged the judge to stay, his order because of the time it would take to appeal the judge's decision. Little Rock school board attorney Arch House opposed the stay requested by the NAACP because he said they were granted only in "extraordinary circumstances and we see no such circumstances here." In his memorandum Judge Lemley stated "that from a practical standpoint to grant this motion and stay the enforcement of our judgment would to a large extent nullify our order in the cause..." "The situation at Central High School," the judge continued, "which we have found to be intolerable from an educational standpoint, would continue from the beginning of the approaching session to the final ruling of the Supreme Court on the merits of the case." The next step in the critical integration issue will probably come when NAACP attorneys file a motion of supersedeas with the Eighth, Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. Branton told newsmen that if the St. Louis court turns down their motion "then we would present it to a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States." He said a single justice could hear their motion to stay Judge Lemley's order but that he had no particular justice in mind. "Sometimes they go from justice to Justice if one turns them down," Branton explained. In the memorandum on Monday's action. Judge Lemley cited the order assigning him to the case which gave him until Sept. 1 of this year to decide it. Judge Lemley said he "speeded up as fast as we felt such could be done" the court hearing and filing of the opinion on the matter. This was done, he said, "in order that any aggrieved party might apply for appelate relief before the beginning of the next school session. "We do not feel that the plaintiffs (the NAACP) are deprived of the opportunity for securing an appellant, ruling on their motion for supersedeas by reason of the action we are now taking." Before school opens in September, the judge concluded, the NAACP can apply "at least to the Court of Appeals . . . for a stay of the enforcement of bur judgment in this action." School boa attorney House stated agreement with the judge's decision by saying he did not think public interest would be served if Negro students returned to Cental High School next fall. Judge Lemley's order called for integration suspension at the high school until mid-term 1960-61. First reaction to the end of integration In Little "Rock was that it was an appeal to more disobedience of the law. L. C. Bates, husband of the NAACP Arkansas president, said the ruling "will lend support to unlawful violence. I can't see any other result from it." NAACP executive vice president Roy Wilkins said in Montgomery, Ala, that "I am sure this decision comes as a disappointment to all Americans who believe that integration should-proseed in an orderly fashion." Mrs. Daisy Bates, president of the Little Rock NAACP had no comment. Judge Lemley, said the Central High educational system had been impaired by integration. And he said that if integration is maintained next term "the board will have to have military assistance or its equivalent and it is financially unable to bear the expense of hiring guards." Central High School graduated the first Negro in its history. May 27 after the school was integrated under the bayonets of federalized National Guardsman and 101st Airborne paratroopers Sept. 25. Lemley said in a 35-page opinion that while troops can check vandalism and violence, "they cannot reduce or eliminate racial tensions or create a climate that is conductive to education." Lemley said that considering the "nature of the problem, two and a half years is not a very long time." "It is by the court considered, ordered, adjudged arid decreed, that the defendants be, and they hereby are, granted permission to suspend the operation of said plan of integration until mid-semester of the 1960-61 school year without being considered either collectively or individually in contempt of this court." "The court retains jurisdiction of this cause for such other and further proceedings as hereafter become necessary or appropriate," his opinion said. Lemley said the school board made a "prompt and reasonable start" on integration and has "actually put its plan into operation only to find it break down in practice with a consequent impairment of educational standards and demoralization of the faculty and student body." BRANTON URGED STAY white students to return together to the school. Branton said Judge Lemley spoke for the NAACP at one point, however, when he pointed out that they had not been deprived of the right to appeal. In his argument Monday Branton urged the judge to stay, his order because of the time it would take to appeal the judge's decision. Little Rock school board attorney Arch House opposed the stay requested by the NAACP because he said they were granted only in "extraordinary circumstances and we see no such circumstances here." In his memorandum Judge Lemley stated "that from a practical standpoint to grant this motion and stay the enforcement of our judgment would to a large extent nullify our order in the cause..." "The situation at Central High School," the judge continued, "which we have found to be intolerable from an educational standpoint, would continue from the beginning of the approaching session to the final ruling of the Supreme Court on the merits of the case." The next step in the critical integration issue will probably come when NAACP attorneys file a motion of supersedeas with the Eighth, Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. Branton told newsmen that if the St. Louis court turns down their motion "then we would present it to a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States." He said a single justice could hear their motion to stay Judge Lemley's order but that he had no particular justice in mind. "Sometimes they go from justice to Justice if one turns them down," Branton explained. In the memorandum on Monday's action. Judge Lemley cited the order assigning him to the case which gave him until Sept. 1 of this year to decide it. Judge Lemley said he "speeded up as fast as we felt such could be done" the court hearing and filing of the opinion on the matter. This was done, he said, "in order that any aggrieved party might apply for appelate relief before the beginning of the next school session. "We do not feel that the plaintiffs (the NAACP) are deprived of the opportunity for securing an appellant, ruling on their motion for supersedeas by reason of the action we are now taking." Before school opens in September, the judge concluded, the NAACP can apply "at least to the Court of Appeals . . . for a stay of the enforcement of bur judgment in this action." School boa attorney House stated agreement with the judge's decision by saying he did not think public interest would be served if Negro students returned to Cental High School next fall. Judge Lemley's order called for integration suspension at the high school until mid-term 1960-61. First reaction to the end of integration In Little "Rock was that it was an appeal to more disobedience of the law. L. C. Bates, husband of the NAACP Arkansas president, said the ruling "will lend support to unlawful violence. I can't see any other result from it." NAACP executive vice president Roy Wilkins said in Montgomery, Ala, that "I am sure this decision comes as a disappointment to all Americans who believe that integration should-proseed in an orderly fashion." Mrs. Daisy Bates, president of the Little Rock NAACP had no comment. Judge Lemley, said the Central High educational system had been impaired by integration. And he said that if integration is maintained next term "the board will have to have military assistance or its equivalent and it is financially unable to bear the expense of hiring guards." Central High School graduated the first Negro in its history. May 27 after the school was integrated under the bayonets of federalized National Guardsman and 101st Airborne paratroopers Sept. 25. Lemley said in a 35-page opinion that while troops can check vandalism and violence, "they cannot reduce or eliminate racial tensions or create a climate that is conductive to education." Lemley said that considering the "nature of the problem, two and a half years is not a very long time." "It is by the court considered, ordered, adjudged arid decreed, that the defendants be, and they hereby are, granted permission to suspend the operation of said plan of integration until mid-semester of the 1960-61 school year without being considered either collectively or individually in contempt of this court." "The court retains jurisdiction of this cause for such other and further proceedings as hereafter become necessary or appropriate," his opinion said. Lemley said the school board made a "prompt and reasonable start" on integration and has "actually put its plan into operation only to find it break down in practice with a consequent impairment of educational standards and demoralization of the faculty and student body." HAVE APPEAL PLANNED white students to return together to the school. Branton said Judge Lemley spoke for the NAACP at one point, however, when he pointed out that they had not been deprived of the right to appeal. In his argument Monday Branton urged the judge to stay, his order because of the time it would take to appeal the judge's decision. Little Rock school board attorney Arch House opposed the stay requested by the NAACP because he said they were granted only in "extraordinary circumstances and we see no such circumstances here." In his memorandum Judge Lemley stated "that from a practical standpoint to grant this motion and stay the enforcement of our judgment would to a large extent nullify our order in the cause..." "The situation at Central High School," the judge continued, "which we have found to be intolerable from an educational standpoint, would continue from the beginning of the approaching session to the final ruling of the Supreme Court on the merits of the case." The next step in the critical integration issue will probably come when NAACP attorneys file a motion of supersedeas with the Eighth, Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. Branton told newsmen that if the St. Louis court turns down their motion "then we would present it to a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States." He said a single justice could hear their motion to stay Judge Lemley's order but that he had no particular justice in mind. "Sometimes they go from justice to Justice if one turns them down," Branton explained. In the memorandum on Monday's action. Judge Lemley cited the order assigning him to the case which gave him until Sept. 1 of this year to decide it. Judge Lemley said he "speeded up as fast as we felt such could be done" the court hearing and filing of the opinion on the matter. This was done, he said, "in order that any aggrieved party might apply for appelate relief before the beginning of the next school session. "We do not feel that the plaintiffs (the NAACP) are deprived of the opportunity for securing an appellant, ruling on their motion for supersedeas by reason of the action we are now taking." Before school opens in September, the judge concluded, the NAACP can apply "at least to the Court of Appeals . . . for a stay of the enforcement of bur judgment in this action." School boa attorney House stated agreement with the judge's decision by saying he did not think public interest would be served if Negro students returned to Cental High School next fall. Judge Lemley's order called for integration suspension at the high school until mid-term 1960-61. First reaction to the end of integration In Little "Rock was that it was an appeal to more disobedience of the law. L. C. Bates, husband of the NAACP Arkansas president, said the ruling "will lend support to unlawful violence. I can't see any other result from it." NAACP executive vice president Roy Wilkins said in Montgomery, Ala, that "I am sure this decision comes as a disappointment to all Americans who believe that integration should-proseed in an orderly fashion." Mrs. Daisy Bates, president of the Little Rock NAACP had no comment. Judge Lemley, said the Central High educational system had been impaired by integration. And he said that if integration is maintained next term "the board will have to have military assistance or its equivalent and it is financially unable to bear the expense of hiring guards." Central High School graduated the first Negro in its history. May 27 after the school was integrated under the bayonets of federalized National Guardsman and 101st Airborne paratroopers Sept. 25. Lemley said in a 35-page opinion that while troops can check vandalism and violence, "they cannot reduce or eliminate racial tensions or create a climate that is conductive to education." Lemley said that considering the "nature of the problem, two and a half years is not a very long time." "It is by the court considered, ordered, adjudged arid decreed, that the defendants be, and they hereby are, granted permission to suspend the operation of said plan of integration until mid-semester of the 1960-61 school year without being considered either collectively or individually in contempt of this court." "The court retains jurisdiction of this cause for such other and further proceedings as hereafter become necessary or appropriate," his opinion said. Lemley said the school board made a "prompt and reasonable start" on integration and has "actually put its plan into operation only to find it break down in practice with a consequent impairment of educational standards and demoralization of the faculty and student body." No Discrimination intend to do so. The Terrell board in denying charges of discrimination said: This furniture and equipment was removed from some colored schools to other colored schools as well as from white schools to other white schools and also from white schools to colored schools. "No discrimination was made in the transfer of any of this equipment as between colored schools and the white schools. The sole and only consideration in transferring the equipment from one school to another was solely in account of the usage and needs of the same for the particular school. The statement said "All of this action was approved by the board of education and the school superintendent was directed to relocate and transfer same." Negroes vehemently deny this and charge that the sole factor, surrounding the transfer was discrimination. There is widespread belief that board officials thought the newly-purchase furniture and equipment "too good for Negroes." Authority Secretary John Sims recently warned Terrell officials that "Bonds sold to finance school construction had to be protected and there must be no interference with the lein rights of the purchasers of the bonds." APPROVED BY BOARD intend to do so. The Terrell board in denying charges of discrimination said: This furniture and equipment was removed from some colored schools to other colored schools as well as from white schools to other white schools and also from white schools to colored schools. "No discrimination was made in the transfer of any of this equipment as between colored schools and the white schools. The sole and only consideration in transferring the equipment from one school to another was solely in account of the usage and needs of the same for the particular school. The statement said "All of this action was approved by the board of education and the school superintendent was directed to relocate and transfer same." Negroes vehemently deny this and charge that the sole factor, surrounding the transfer was discrimination. There is widespread belief that board officials thought the newly-purchase furniture and equipment "too good for Negroes." Authority Secretary John Sims recently warned Terrell officials that "Bonds sold to finance school construction had to be protected and there must be no interference with the lein rights of the purchasers of the bonds." 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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES MEN WITH VISION Written up in FORTUNE, BUSINESS WEEK, and OPPORTUNITY magazines. PRINTING If you want to enter the Printing Business, yon can share my Machine. Call JA. 7-6246 Nine-Point Civil of bombings of churches, synagogues, homes and community centers;" and "murderous brutality directed against Negro citizens in Dawson, Ga., and other communities," —Extension, of the Civil Rights Commission for at least one more year beyond its currently stipulated two year life. —Presidential statements expressing clear opposition to allocating federal money to "underwrite segregation" in federal aid programs to education, hospitals, housing and other fields. Methodist Hospital of the new facilities during the day. Visitors saw patient's rooms equipped with floor to ceiling windows, intercommunication facilities, and oxygen and suction, connections. Other features are draperies, baths, circulating ice water, air conditioning, and piped in music. Those who toured the new wing also visited service facilities which included operating rooms, delivery rooms, instrument cleaning facilities, doctor's lounge, nursing stations, and the main kitchen and dining room. Hospital Administrator J. M. Crews thanked the public for their their Sunday and groups attending special tours for three days before the dedication. Sections of the East Wing have been in use since May 19 and four patient floors are now in use. The 10-story addition will bring Methodist Hospital to a 500-bed institution. Solons Seek FBI to step in whenever interstate conspiracies were working to break state felony laws" and "would give the FBI the green light to put an end to this dynamiting conspiracy in the South," The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has called upon Congress to enact a federal law controlling the transportation, possession and use of explosives. Testifying before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee oh June 18, Clarence Mitchell, director of the association's Washington bureau, cited the Christmas night, 1951, bomb slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Moore in Mims, Fla., as an indication that this form of terror predates the public school integration struggle in the South. Moreover, he said, "the use of dynamite and bombs to intimidate or murder individuals is not confined to any one section of the country." There appears, Mr. Mitchell told the committee members, to be a "growing realization in the South that it is no admission of weakness to seek the help of the FBI and the United States Department of Justice in these matters." NAACP URGES FEDERAL CONTROL FBI to step in whenever interstate conspiracies were working to break state felony laws" and "would give the FBI the green light to put an end to this dynamiting conspiracy in the South," The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has called upon Congress to enact a federal law controlling the transportation, possession and use of explosives. Testifying before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee oh June 18, Clarence Mitchell, director of the association's Washington bureau, cited the Christmas night, 1951, bomb slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Moore in Mims, Fla., as an indication that this form of terror predates the public school integration struggle in the South. Moreover, he said, "the use of dynamite and bombs to intimidate or murder individuals is not confined to any one section of the country." There appears, Mr. Mitchell told the committee members, to be a "growing realization in the South that it is no admission of weakness to seek the help of the FBI and the United States Department of Justice in these matters." JAMES KEENE'S powerful new novel JUSTICE, MY BROTHER! Copyright 1957, by James Keene; reprinted by permission of the novel's publisher, Random House Inc.; distributed by King Features Syndicate LUTHER and I had an early breakfast and rode out to the herd. They had drifted a little toward Wade Everett's farm and we drove them back again. Everett was working on his barn and he watched us all the time we were near his fence. I waved at him but he ignored it. Luther said, "What the devil's the matter with that man?" He turned his horse and when I went to follow, he said, "Stay here, Smoke.' He rode around to the end of the fence, Bent down and unhooked the gate, then rode onto Everett's property. Everett came down from his lofty perch and stood in his yard as Luther rode up. By edging close to the fence I could hear what they said. "Don't you have the common decency to acknowledge a man's wave when he's trying to be friendly?" Luther asked. "I was busy," Everett said flatly. "And I'm busy now; you're wasting my time." The kids gathered by the soddy door and Mrs.. Everett stuck her head out. Even at sixty yards I could make out her frightened expression. Luther was getting down off his horse. "Damn you, Everett." he said. "You Just don't want to get along, do you?" "I don't start trouble," Everett said flatly, "which is more'n can be said for the O'Dares." I cupped my hands around my mouth and yelled, "Let's go, Luther!" He didn't even look at me, just waved his hand as if to tell me to go home. Everett was backing up one step at a time, and Luther was stalking him. "I got a gun," Everett said loudly "Don't make me use it!" "Ma!" Everett yelled, and then he was bowled over by Luther's fist. I'd seen enough. I backed my pony away from the fence, raked, turn with the spurs and charged, clearing by a comfortable margin Luther had Wade Everett on the ground and was whacking rum in the face. Everett's woman was screaming at the kids and trying to cock the hammer on the big trap-door Springfield 45-70. There wasn't time for me to dismount and drag. Luther off so I shook out my rope and after whipping a wide loop it made an underhand cast, beneath the pony's neck. My throw was good and as soon as the rope settled. the pony backed off to tighten it. Luther let out an enraged bleat, then I dragged him flat on his back for fifteen yards. He got up wild-mad and spitting dust, so I sat him down again. I did this three times before he cooled off enough to understand that the fight was over. Everett had raced to the soddy, grabbed the 45-70 from his wife and gave us both a clear look down the barrel. "Now you get the hell off my property! Git, and don't come back!" Luther's face was as white as a curd and I wasn't sure which way his anger was directed, at me or at Wade Everett. Anyway he didn't want to argue with a five-hundred grain bullet. He mounted and wheeled out of the yard and I followed, him, glad to do it. As we rode toward the home place I thought Luther was never going to speak to me again, but after a time he calmed down enough to talk. "I suppose I ought to thank you, Smoke. Everett's woman was all set to shoot me." "You pulled a damn fool stunt," I said. "Don't rub it in!" He blew out a gusty breath. "I was going to show myself that I could be as tough as Cord. It didn't turn out that way." "You better say nothing about this to Cord," I suggested. "I suppose," Luther said. "Thanks, Smoke. There'd have been real trouble if you hadn't roped me like-you did." We said nothing more about it and rode on. By the time we arrived, Bill Hageman and Julie were already on the front porch. Ma was coming out with a pot of coffee and Edna followed her with a tray of cookies. Cord was in his rocking chair, and after putting up the horses, Luther and I walked over. Cord took one look at Luther's dirty clothes and asked, "What happened to you?" "I tried one of Smoke's underhand roping tricks and tripped the horse," Luther said. He passed quickly into the house, brushing past Edna and Ma before Cord could launch a comment. I looked at Bill Hageman. There sure wasn't any love passing back and forth between him and Cord. Yet they hadn't gotten around to muttering threats at each other, which was a good sign. Bill's face was a mess if I ever saw one. His lips were out of shape and so thick he could hardly talk straight. Ma smoothed put the strained atmosphere by passing around cups of coffee and by the time everyone had a cup in one hand and cookies in the other's they discovered that there were no fists left to shake in each other's face. Julie smiled at me, which made my day all right, then she moved aside to speak to Edna, Cord was frowning and wanting to get on with business. Cord was peculiar that way; once be fought with a man, he didn't want to have anything to do with him afterward. Now I say that once it's over, forget, it. A fight isn't something on which to establish a hate; it's a way of clearing one up. "What have you got on your mind?" Cord asked, looking at Bill Hageman. The rest of us quieted down. Bill sat oh the porch rail, holding to his habitual silence. "It seems." he said, "that we had a set-to over something I didn't rightly understand at the time." "I understood it," Cord said. "And I guess you did too because I mentioned no names, yet you took it personal as hell." "Sounded to me like you were accusing me of rustling," Bill said. "What I said was, because a man's a neighbor, that don't make him honest. Randolf is a neighbor, So's Bingham. I meant to include 'em all." The way it sounded to me. Cord was asking Bill Hageman to shoulder all the responsibility for the fight, and Bill proved that he was up to it when he said, "I guess then I jumped off the handle. My mistake, Cord. "I figured that," Cord said, not showing an Inch of give. "I'm as tired of being rustled as you are," Bill said. "We were both touchy, half suspecting each other. But I think it's high time we got some sense and started to Work together. There are things we can do without jumping down each other's throats. I was hoping we could figure out something. Cord." "I agree to that," Cord said looking off at the flatlands, his eyelids pulled together. "We've been here a long time. We both started from scratch and did all right until the government kicked us off. They broke our backs and there wasn't a darn thing we could do about it" "Best forget that," Bill suggested. "Thinking over something that can't be fixed will sour a man." "Sour?" Cord looked at him "Damned right I'm sour. Since the farmers came here we've been breaking our backs trying to get back on our feet again. When I lose a calf it's profit from my pocket. Profit I need bad. If I ever catch a man running off mystock, I'll take a rope from my saddle and stretch his neck." CHAPTER 13 Copyright 1957, by James Keene; reprinted by permission of the novel's publisher, Random House Inc.; distributed by King Features Syndicate LUTHER and I had an early breakfast and rode out to the herd. They had drifted a little toward Wade Everett's farm and we drove them back again. Everett was working on his barn and he watched us all the time we were near his fence. I waved at him but he ignored it. Luther said, "What the devil's the matter with that man?" He turned his horse and when I went to follow, he said, "Stay here, Smoke.' He rode around to the end of the fence, Bent down and unhooked the gate, then rode onto Everett's property. Everett came down from his lofty perch and stood in his yard as Luther rode up. By edging close to the fence I could hear what they said. "Don't you have the common decency to acknowledge a man's wave when he's trying to be friendly?" Luther asked. "I was busy," Everett said flatly. "And I'm busy now; you're wasting my time." The kids gathered by the soddy door and Mrs.. Everett stuck her head out. Even at sixty yards I could make out her frightened expression. Luther was getting down off his horse. "Damn you, Everett." he said. "You Just don't want to get along, do you?" "I don't start trouble," Everett said flatly, "which is more'n can be said for the O'Dares." I cupped my hands around my mouth and yelled, "Let's go, Luther!" He didn't even look at me, just waved his hand as if to tell me to go home. Everett was backing up one step at a time, and Luther was stalking him. "I got a gun," Everett said loudly "Don't make me use it!" "Ma!" Everett yelled, and then he was bowled over by Luther's fist. I'd seen enough. I backed my pony away from the fence, raked, turn with the spurs and charged, clearing by a comfortable margin Luther had Wade Everett on the ground and was whacking rum in the face. Everett's woman was screaming at the kids and trying to cock the hammer on the big trap-door Springfield 45-70. There wasn't time for me to dismount and drag. Luther off so I shook out my rope and after whipping a wide loop it made an underhand cast, beneath the pony's neck. My throw was good and as soon as the rope settled. the pony backed off to tighten it. Luther let out an enraged bleat, then I dragged him flat on his back for fifteen yards. He got up wild-mad and spitting dust, so I sat him down again. I did this three times before he cooled off enough to understand that the fight was over. Everett had raced to the soddy, grabbed the 45-70 from his wife and gave us both a clear look down the barrel. "Now you get the hell off my property! Git, and don't come back!" Luther's face was as white as a curd and I wasn't sure which way his anger was directed, at me or at Wade Everett. Anyway he didn't want to argue with a five-hundred grain bullet. He mounted and wheeled out of the yard and I followed, him, glad to do it. As we rode toward the home place I thought Luther was never going to speak to me again, but after a time he calmed down enough to talk. "I suppose I ought to thank you, Smoke. Everett's woman was all set to shoot me." "You pulled a damn fool stunt," I said. "Don't rub it in!" He blew out a gusty breath. "I was going to show myself that I could be as tough as Cord. It didn't turn out that way." "You better say nothing about this to Cord," I suggested. "I suppose," Luther said. "Thanks, Smoke. There'd have been real trouble if you hadn't roped me like-you did." We said nothing more about it and rode on. By the time we arrived, Bill Hageman and Julie were already on the front porch. Ma was coming out with a pot of coffee and Edna followed her with a tray of cookies. Cord was in his rocking chair, and after putting up the horses, Luther and I walked over. Cord took one look at Luther's dirty clothes and asked, "What happened to you?" "I tried one of Smoke's underhand roping tricks and tripped the horse," Luther said. He passed quickly into the house, brushing past Edna and Ma before Cord could launch a comment. I looked at Bill Hageman. There sure wasn't any love passing back and forth between him and Cord. Yet they hadn't gotten around to muttering threats at each other, which was a good sign. Bill's face was a mess if I ever saw one. His lips were out of shape and so thick he could hardly talk straight. Ma smoothed put the strained atmosphere by passing around cups of coffee and by the time everyone had a cup in one hand and cookies in the other's they discovered that there were no fists left to shake in each other's face. Julie smiled at me, which made my day all right, then she moved aside to speak to Edna, Cord was frowning and wanting to get on with business. Cord was peculiar that way; once be fought with a man, he didn't want to have anything to do with him afterward. Now I say that once it's over, forget, it. A fight isn't something on which to establish a hate; it's a way of clearing one up. "What have you got on your mind?" Cord asked, looking at Bill Hageman. The rest of us quieted down. Bill sat oh the porch rail, holding to his habitual silence. "It seems." he said, "that we had a set-to over something I didn't rightly understand at the time." "I understood it," Cord said. "And I guess you did too because I mentioned no names, yet you took it personal as hell." "Sounded to me like you were accusing me of rustling," Bill said. "What I said was, because a man's a neighbor, that don't make him honest. Randolf is a neighbor, So's Bingham. I meant to include 'em all." The way it sounded to me. Cord was asking Bill Hageman to shoulder all the responsibility for the fight, and Bill proved that he was up to it when he said, "I guess then I jumped off the handle. My mistake, Cord. "I figured that," Cord said, not showing an Inch of give. "I'm as tired of being rustled as you are," Bill said. "We were both touchy, half suspecting each other. But I think it's high time we got some sense and started to Work together. There are things we can do without jumping down each other's throats. I was hoping we could figure out something. Cord." "I agree to that," Cord said looking off at the flatlands, his eyelids pulled together. "We've been here a long time. We both started from scratch and did all right until the government kicked us off. They broke our backs and there wasn't a darn thing we could do about it" "Best forget that," Bill suggested. "Thinking over something that can't be fixed will sour a man." "Sour?" Cord looked at him "Damned right I'm sour. Since the farmers came here we've been breaking our backs trying to get back on our feet again. When I lose a calf it's profit from my pocket. Profit I need bad. If I ever catch a man running off mystock, I'll take a rope from my saddle and stretch his neck." MEALTIME MELODIES! ½ cup butter ½ cup flour ½ teaspoon salt Few grains pepper 2 cups milk 1 ½ cups diced cooked shrimp ½ cup diced celery cup chopped pimiento cup diced ripe olives 8 slices toast 8 whole shrimp Parsley sprigs Melt butter, blend in flour, salt and pepper. Gradually add milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Add diced shrimp, celery, pimiento and olives. Heat thoroughly. Spread generously between two- slices of toast. Garnish with 2 shrimp and parsley sprig. Makes 4 sandwiches. For a pleasant sandwich surprise try this creole shrimp recipe for your next noonday luncheon menu. With plenty of butter for flavor, and celery, pimiento and olives to add flavor surprises, you will find all of the family will enjay these tasty hot sandwiches for luncheon or Sunday night supper. High in protein as well as in flavor is this combination of shrimp with a generous amount of milk. Including milk in cooked foods is an easy way to help meet the daily requirements of milk for children and grownups too. Leoda Gammon Prepare a crisp green salad with a tart dressing as an accompaniment and serve milk for the beverage. A dish of your favorite ice cream, and some fresh butter cookies will complete the meal. For company or everyday meals Hot Shrimp Sandwich Creole is easy to make and substantial too. HOT SHRIMP SANDWICH CREOLE ½ cup butter ½ cup flour ½ teaspoon salt Few grains pepper 2 cups milk 1 ½ cups diced cooked shrimp ½ cup diced celery cup chopped pimiento cup diced ripe olives 8 slices toast 8 whole shrimp Parsley sprigs Melt butter, blend in flour, salt and pepper. Gradually add milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Add diced shrimp, celery, pimiento and olives. Heat thoroughly. Spread generously between two- slices of toast. Garnish with 2 shrimp and parsley sprig. Makes 4 sandwiches. For a pleasant sandwich surprise try this creole shrimp recipe for your next noonday luncheon menu. With plenty of butter for flavor, and celery, pimiento and olives to add flavor surprises, you will find all of the family will enjay these tasty hot sandwiches for luncheon or Sunday night supper. High in protein as well as in flavor is this combination of shrimp with a generous amount of milk. Including milk in cooked foods is an easy way to help meet the daily requirements of milk for children and grownups too. Leoda Gammon Prepare a crisp green salad with a tart dressing as an accompaniment and serve milk for the beverage. A dish of your favorite ice cream, and some fresh butter cookies will complete the meal. For company or everyday meals Hot Shrimp Sandwich Creole is easy to make and substantial too. SANDWICHING IN THE FLAVOR WITH MILK ½ cup butter ½ cup flour ½ teaspoon salt Few grains pepper 2 cups milk 1 ½ cups diced cooked shrimp ½ cup diced celery cup chopped pimiento cup diced ripe olives 8 slices toast 8 whole shrimp Parsley sprigs Melt butter, blend in flour, salt and pepper. Gradually add milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Add diced shrimp, celery, pimiento and olives. Heat thoroughly. Spread generously between two- slices of toast. Garnish with 2 shrimp and parsley sprig. Makes 4 sandwiches. For a pleasant sandwich surprise try this creole shrimp recipe for your next noonday luncheon menu. With plenty of butter for flavor, and celery, pimiento and olives to add flavor surprises, you will find all of the family will enjay these tasty hot sandwiches for luncheon or Sunday night supper. High in protein as well as in flavor is this combination of shrimp with a generous amount of milk. Including milk in cooked foods is an easy way to help meet the daily requirements of milk for children and grownups too. Leoda Gammon Prepare a crisp green salad with a tart dressing as an accompaniment and serve milk for the beverage. A dish of your favorite ice cream, and some fresh butter cookies will complete the meal. For company or everyday meals Hot Shrimp Sandwich Creole is easy to make and substantial too. Georgian Serves At Air Station Willie R. Price, airman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Artie V. Price of 30 Hill St., Newnan, Ga., is serving at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Cecil Field, Fla. Before entering the service in 1956 he graduated from Howard Warner High School. TIGHT-LIPPED The securityconscious Communist Korean Central News Agency Tuesday filed, a dispatch about a new reservoir in North Korea with the dateline: "from a certain spot."