Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1955-12-02 Raymond F. Tisby MEMPHIS WORLD The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD 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 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00—6 Months $3.00—3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) The Chain And Its Weakest Links One does not have to possess a spirit of get-even-ness nor necessarily a grudge in order to subscribe to the fact that the state of Mississippi has encountered an appraisal in its overall department which does not do justice to the rest of the union nor those fine citizens that must be in the confines of that state who took no part in its humiliation. Neither did the fine people of SodomGomorroh and Phenix City. The rest of the world subscribing to the principles of morality felt keenly the debt due those people who persisted the spirit of righteousness and never felt that such an obligation was discharged until all remedial redress was exhausted. What happened to Mississippi is a long story. One traveling along the highway that leads out of west Texas, through Louisiana and thence into the state must marvel at the beauty of tropical scenery along the big river front and the picturesque lakes bubbling beneath the breeze-rippled palms. Here and there are markers denoting certain historic enactments of which those of yesteryears must have felt proud. But down in the bayou, the wild and wooly rural country, the lagoons tell a far different story. Gone from these are the pride of history. Little is cared for what posterity might choose to think of its forbears. With periodical outbursts of open lawlessness, kidnaping, murder, lynching and otherwise intimidations not chronicled. Mississippi marches on from one degree of perfidy to the other. First, Mississippi needs a political overhauling. This must come at the hands of the voters. Bad voters beget bad officials and bad officials ore put on their mettle to offer the voters the worst in their shops; those who desire office must try to outdo those in office and hence Mississippi is fast becoming the discarded receptacle of the outmoded relics of racism. Writing books, novels and newspaper articles is not the answer to Mississippi's troubles. There are thousands of fine citizens in that state who would like to do something about the bad record that Mississippi is making. Still many of them wink at the trouble because of the careful strategy in which the politicians and office holders label those who would lift even a finger of protest. So Mississippi drifts merrily on with her murder and horsewhipping records mounting as the days go by. The recent drama of a court trial of the men indicted for the Till murder would tend to link even the courts with the stigma that is ever impairing the usefulness of the state. Those states boasting of their tolerance, fine racial and economic relations should realize that Mississippi is an unfortunate sister. The blood of dead men cry up from the soil while many of her practices are fast affecting border states! There are some other states, not as bad as Mississippi who might be viewing her as an alternative if and when it becomes "necessary." The sister states of Mississippi should reexamine their Christian resources, implement their virtues and by some measure press the whole of our governmental machinery into service if needs be in time to save Mississippi and "curb a spirit of lynch-law and open violence. The good people of Phenix City, Alabama showed the world what could be done in an area of confessed and protected violence. While it took the Army to finally clean it up, nevertheless, Phenix was cleaned up. The spirit of violence that have been manifested in Mississippi must not be permitted to spread to other states. If need be, the armed forces should be brought in as in the case of other cases where law enforcement breaks down. Hot Issue subjects related to public and private grade and high school education, which the conference was to take up. Mrs. Mayme E. Williams, history teacher and counselor in the Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, was a member of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" and Lorimer D. Milton, president of the Citizens Trust Company of Atlanta and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard University, was a member of the Subcommittee on "In What Way Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" Each subcommittee drafted a paper on its subject, which was approved by the full committee and copies given to the participants. The working paper of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" said the Supreme Court decisions against segregatert schools are basic to any consideration of the question of what the schools should accomplish. It suggested, however, that discussions under, the heading of racial integration "should presumably be focused on the nature of school responsibilities in this area and not oh the constitutional decisions involved. The working paper said: "For some, the idea of equality of man is at the root of a democratic society and is the very basis of the idea of education for all. If the schools are to serve the individual and to be useful parts of the American democracy, they cancot avoid responsibility for helping to further, harmonious relations between children of differing race and color. "This responsibility transcends local and state boundaries, as does the policy of education for all. And the best lesson the school can teach is by example: in its own organization, there must be no distinction based on race or color. "For others, this argument caries the reponsibility of the schools far beyond their proper bounds The relations' of the races vary in different parts of the N United States. It is not the task of the schools to impose a national policy. "This is a matter to be worked out locally within the framework of the American government. The attitudes and beliefs of parents and other citizens must be the basis of school policy on teaching in this area." One of the topics discussed by the Subcommittee on "In What Ways Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" was the role of the Federal Government in education. This topic involved the controversy over Federal aid to education. Involved in this controversy are such questions as: 1. Whether the Federal Government will help pay for schools without in some part controlling them and whether any degree of Federal control is dangerous. 2. Whether Federal aid for schools should be given to states which threaten to abolish their public school systems rather than desegregate their schools. 3. Whether the states which have dual school systems and whose schools are the most inadequate are making the maximum effort to better the education they are affording the children. At the Tuesday morning session Mr. McElroy announced a gag rule forbidding debate during sessions of the conference. Mr. McElroy made the announce ment in reply to a question raised Monday night by Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, a member of the School Board of Arlington County, Vircinia for the past eight years. She asked that the delegates be allowed to vote on whether or not they would like to name a special resolutions committee which would bring resolutions for discussion on the floor. Mr. McElroy said: "We found no way in which we could have both round table discussions and resoluting sessions." Instead of adopting or rejecting evolutions, the conference engaged in a series of roundtable discussions which were supposed to produce "concensus" reports on various questions. The conference got down to business Tuesday with delegates assembled around 166 tables of ten members each. President Eisenhower told the opening conference session Monday night that "If the Federal Government doesn't step in with leaderchip and with providing credit and money where, necessary, there will be a lack of schools in certain important areas. And this cannot be allowed." Addressing the conference Monday night. Vice President Nixon also urged Federal aid to education. The need of getting and keeping qualified teachers is more critical than the need for new classroom construction, estimated to cost $31 billion in the next ten years for elementary and primary classrooms alone. The Vice President said the salaries paid to teachers in public and private schools from the college level down "are nothing short of a national disgrace and if the situation is not corrected it could load to a national disaster." "Some additional Federal activity and responsibility, is inevitable land necessary in the field of education." Mr. Nixon declared. HISTORY TEACHER subjects related to public and private grade and high school education, which the conference was to take up. Mrs. Mayme E. Williams, history teacher and counselor in the Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, was a member of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" and Lorimer D. Milton, president of the Citizens Trust Company of Atlanta and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard University, was a member of the Subcommittee on "In What Way Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" Each subcommittee drafted a paper on its subject, which was approved by the full committee and copies given to the participants. The working paper of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" said the Supreme Court decisions against segregatert schools are basic to any consideration of the question of what the schools should accomplish. It suggested, however, that discussions under, the heading of racial integration "should presumably be focused on the nature of school responsibilities in this area and not oh the constitutional decisions involved. The working paper said: "For some, the idea of equality of man is at the root of a democratic society and is the very basis of the idea of education for all. If the schools are to serve the individual and to be useful parts of the American democracy, they cancot avoid responsibility for helping to further, harmonious relations between children of differing race and color. "This responsibility transcends local and state boundaries, as does the policy of education for all. And the best lesson the school can teach is by example: in its own organization, there must be no distinction based on race or color. "For others, this argument caries the reponsibility of the schools far beyond their proper bounds The relations' of the races vary in different parts of the N United States. It is not the task of the schools to impose a national policy. "This is a matter to be worked out locally within the framework of the American government. The attitudes and beliefs of parents and other citizens must be the basis of school policy on teaching in this area." One of the topics discussed by the Subcommittee on "In What Ways Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" was the role of the Federal Government in education. This topic involved the controversy over Federal aid to education. Involved in this controversy are such questions as: 1. Whether the Federal Government will help pay for schools without in some part controlling them and whether any degree of Federal control is dangerous. 2. Whether Federal aid for schools should be given to states which threaten to abolish their public school systems rather than desegregate their schools. 3. Whether the states which have dual school systems and whose schools are the most inadequate are making the maximum effort to better the education they are affording the children. At the Tuesday morning session Mr. McElroy announced a gag rule forbidding debate during sessions of the conference. Mr. McElroy made the announce ment in reply to a question raised Monday night by Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, a member of the School Board of Arlington County, Vircinia for the past eight years. She asked that the delegates be allowed to vote on whether or not they would like to name a special resolutions committee which would bring resolutions for discussion on the floor. Mr. McElroy said: "We found no way in which we could have both round table discussions and resoluting sessions." Instead of adopting or rejecting evolutions, the conference engaged in a series of roundtable discussions which were supposed to produce "concensus" reports on various questions. The conference got down to business Tuesday with delegates assembled around 166 tables of ten members each. President Eisenhower told the opening conference session Monday night that "If the Federal Government doesn't step in with leaderchip and with providing credit and money where, necessary, there will be a lack of schools in certain important areas. And this cannot be allowed." Addressing the conference Monday night. Vice President Nixon also urged Federal aid to education. The need of getting and keeping qualified teachers is more critical than the need for new classroom construction, estimated to cost $31 billion in the next ten years for elementary and primary classrooms alone. The Vice President said the salaries paid to teachers in public and private schools from the college level down "are nothing short of a national disgrace and if the situation is not corrected it could load to a national disaster." "Some additional Federal activity and responsibility, is inevitable land necessary in the field of education." Mr. Nixon declared. FOR ALL subjects related to public and private grade and high school education, which the conference was to take up. Mrs. Mayme E. Williams, history teacher and counselor in the Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, was a member of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" and Lorimer D. Milton, president of the Citizens Trust Company of Atlanta and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard University, was a member of the Subcommittee on "In What Way Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" Each subcommittee drafted a paper on its subject, which was approved by the full committee and copies given to the participants. The working paper of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" said the Supreme Court decisions against segregatert schools are basic to any consideration of the question of what the schools should accomplish. It suggested, however, that discussions under, the heading of racial integration "should presumably be focused on the nature of school responsibilities in this area and not oh the constitutional decisions involved. The working paper said: "For some, the idea of equality of man is at the root of a democratic society and is the very basis of the idea of education for all. If the schools are to serve the individual and to be useful parts of the American democracy, they cancot avoid responsibility for helping to further, harmonious relations between children of differing race and color. "This responsibility transcends local and state boundaries, as does the policy of education for all. And the best lesson the school can teach is by example: in its own organization, there must be no distinction based on race or color. "For others, this argument caries the reponsibility of the schools far beyond their proper bounds The relations' of the races vary in different parts of the N United States. It is not the task of the schools to impose a national policy. "This is a matter to be worked out locally within the framework of the American government. The attitudes and beliefs of parents and other citizens must be the basis of school policy on teaching in this area." One of the topics discussed by the Subcommittee on "In What Ways Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" was the role of the Federal Government in education. This topic involved the controversy over Federal aid to education. Involved in this controversy are such questions as: 1. Whether the Federal Government will help pay for schools without in some part controlling them and whether any degree of Federal control is dangerous. 2. Whether Federal aid for schools should be given to states which threaten to abolish their public school systems rather than desegregate their schools. 3. Whether the states which have dual school systems and whose schools are the most inadequate are making the maximum effort to better the education they are affording the children. At the Tuesday morning session Mr. McElroy announced a gag rule forbidding debate during sessions of the conference. Mr. McElroy made the announce ment in reply to a question raised Monday night by Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, a member of the School Board of Arlington County, Vircinia for the past eight years. She asked that the delegates be allowed to vote on whether or not they would like to name a special resolutions committee which would bring resolutions for discussion on the floor. Mr. McElroy said: "We found no way in which we could have both round table discussions and resoluting sessions." Instead of adopting or rejecting evolutions, the conference engaged in a series of roundtable discussions which were supposed to produce "concensus" reports on various questions. The conference got down to business Tuesday with delegates assembled around 166 tables of ten members each. President Eisenhower told the opening conference session Monday night that "If the Federal Government doesn't step in with leaderchip and with providing credit and money where, necessary, there will be a lack of schools in certain important areas. And this cannot be allowed." Addressing the conference Monday night. Vice President Nixon also urged Federal aid to education. The need of getting and keeping qualified teachers is more critical than the need for new classroom construction, estimated to cost $31 billion in the next ten years for elementary and primary classrooms alone. The Vice President said the salaries paid to teachers in public and private schools from the college level down "are nothing short of a national disgrace and if the situation is not corrected it could load to a national disaster." "Some additional Federal activity and responsibility, is inevitable land necessary in the field of education." Mr. Nixon declared. ANY DEGREE subjects related to public and private grade and high school education, which the conference was to take up. Mrs. Mayme E. Williams, history teacher and counselor in the Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, was a member of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" and Lorimer D. Milton, president of the Citizens Trust Company of Atlanta and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard University, was a member of the Subcommittee on "In What Way Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" Each subcommittee drafted a paper on its subject, which was approved by the full committee and copies given to the participants. The working paper of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" said the Supreme Court decisions against segregatert schools are basic to any consideration of the question of what the schools should accomplish. It suggested, however, that discussions under, the heading of racial integration "should presumably be focused on the nature of school responsibilities in this area and not oh the constitutional decisions involved. The working paper said: "For some, the idea of equality of man is at the root of a democratic society and is the very basis of the idea of education for all. If the schools are to serve the individual and to be useful parts of the American democracy, they cancot avoid responsibility for helping to further, harmonious relations between children of differing race and color. "This responsibility transcends local and state boundaries, as does the policy of education for all. And the best lesson the school can teach is by example: in its own organization, there must be no distinction based on race or color. "For others, this argument caries the reponsibility of the schools far beyond their proper bounds The relations' of the races vary in different parts of the N United States. It is not the task of the schools to impose a national policy. "This is a matter to be worked out locally within the framework of the American government. The attitudes and beliefs of parents and other citizens must be the basis of school policy on teaching in this area." One of the topics discussed by the Subcommittee on "In What Ways Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" was the role of the Federal Government in education. This topic involved the controversy over Federal aid to education. Involved in this controversy are such questions as: 1. Whether the Federal Government will help pay for schools without in some part controlling them and whether any degree of Federal control is dangerous. 2. Whether Federal aid for schools should be given to states which threaten to abolish their public school systems rather than desegregate their schools. 3. Whether the states which have dual school systems and whose schools are the most inadequate are making the maximum effort to better the education they are affording the children. At the Tuesday morning session Mr. McElroy announced a gag rule forbidding debate during sessions of the conference. Mr. McElroy made the announce ment in reply to a question raised Monday night by Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, a member of the School Board of Arlington County, Vircinia for the past eight years. She asked that the delegates be allowed to vote on whether or not they would like to name a special resolutions committee which would bring resolutions for discussion on the floor. Mr. McElroy said: "We found no way in which we could have both round table discussions and resoluting sessions." Instead of adopting or rejecting evolutions, the conference engaged in a series of roundtable discussions which were supposed to produce "concensus" reports on various questions. The conference got down to business Tuesday with delegates assembled around 166 tables of ten members each. President Eisenhower told the opening conference session Monday night that "If the Federal Government doesn't step in with leaderchip and with providing credit and money where, necessary, there will be a lack of schools in certain important areas. And this cannot be allowed." Addressing the conference Monday night. Vice President Nixon also urged Federal aid to education. The need of getting and keeping qualified teachers is more critical than the need for new classroom construction, estimated to cost $31 billion in the next ten years for elementary and primary classrooms alone. The Vice President said the salaries paid to teachers in public and private schools from the college level down "are nothing short of a national disgrace and if the situation is not corrected it could load to a national disaster." "Some additional Federal activity and responsibility, is inevitable land necessary in the field of education." Mr. Nixon declared. TEN MEMBERS subjects related to public and private grade and high school education, which the conference was to take up. Mrs. Mayme E. Williams, history teacher and counselor in the Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, was a member of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" and Lorimer D. Milton, president of the Citizens Trust Company of Atlanta and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard University, was a member of the Subcommittee on "In What Way Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" Each subcommittee drafted a paper on its subject, which was approved by the full committee and copies given to the participants. The working paper of the Subcommittee on "What Should Our Schools Accomplish?" said the Supreme Court decisions against segregatert schools are basic to any consideration of the question of what the schools should accomplish. It suggested, however, that discussions under, the heading of racial integration "should presumably be focused on the nature of school responsibilities in this area and not oh the constitutional decisions involved. The working paper said: "For some, the idea of equality of man is at the root of a democratic society and is the very basis of the idea of education for all. If the schools are to serve the individual and to be useful parts of the American democracy, they cancot avoid responsibility for helping to further, harmonious relations between children of differing race and color. "This responsibility transcends local and state boundaries, as does the policy of education for all. And the best lesson the school can teach is by example: in its own organization, there must be no distinction based on race or color. "For others, this argument caries the reponsibility of the schools far beyond their proper bounds The relations' of the races vary in different parts of the N United States. It is not the task of the schools to impose a national policy. "This is a matter to be worked out locally within the framework of the American government. The attitudes and beliefs of parents and other citizens must be the basis of school policy on teaching in this area." One of the topics discussed by the Subcommittee on "In What Ways Can We Organize Our School Systems More Efficiently and Economically?" was the role of the Federal Government in education. This topic involved the controversy over Federal aid to education. Involved in this controversy are such questions as: 1. Whether the Federal Government will help pay for schools without in some part controlling them and whether any degree of Federal control is dangerous. 2. Whether Federal aid for schools should be given to states which threaten to abolish their public school systems rather than desegregate their schools. 3. Whether the states which have dual school systems and whose schools are the most inadequate are making the maximum effort to better the education they are affording the children. At the Tuesday morning session Mr. McElroy announced a gag rule forbidding debate during sessions of the conference. Mr. McElroy made the announce ment in reply to a question raised Monday night by Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, a member of the School Board of Arlington County, Vircinia for the past eight years. She asked that the delegates be allowed to vote on whether or not they would like to name a special resolutions committee which would bring resolutions for discussion on the floor. Mr. McElroy said: "We found no way in which we could have both round table discussions and resoluting sessions." Instead of adopting or rejecting evolutions, the conference engaged in a series of roundtable discussions which were supposed to produce "concensus" reports on various questions. The conference got down to business Tuesday with delegates assembled around 166 tables of ten members each. President Eisenhower told the opening conference session Monday night that "If the Federal Government doesn't step in with leaderchip and with providing credit and money where, necessary, there will be a lack of schools in certain important areas. And this cannot be allowed." Addressing the conference Monday night. Vice President Nixon also urged Federal aid to education. The need of getting and keeping qualified teachers is more critical than the need for new classroom construction, estimated to cost $31 billion in the next ten years for elementary and primary classrooms alone. The Vice President said the salaries paid to teachers in public and private schools from the college level down "are nothing short of a national disgrace and if the situation is not corrected it could load to a national disaster." "Some additional Federal activity and responsibility, is inevitable land necessary in the field of education." Mr. Nixon declared. Votes Will Help Implement Court Editor Asserts In a talk before the weekly meeting of the Atlanta Chapter of the Frontiers of America Tuesday, C. A. Scott, editor and general manager of the Atlanta Daily World, reviewed the important developments in this country since the Reconstruction period and since World War I in international sphere to explain the present day situation at home and abroad. Editor Scott appeared as guess speaker of the club and urged it and other groups "to give our people the able and unselfish leadership they deserve." He pointed but that the recent important court decisions were powerful moves at eliminating second-class citizenship in the nation and they would offer greater, opportunities and responsibilities to our racial group. "The decisions are fine," he said, "but the extent to which they will be implemented will largely depend upon our wise use of the ballot." To make our section more important in national affairs, we must work for the two-party system, he added. J. O. Thomas is president of the local club and R. R. Moton, introduced the speaker. After transaction of its other business, the club adopted a resolution "that this group pledge its support to such organizations that are concerning themselves primarily with the stimulation of the Negro in registering and voting and actively assuming his rightful responsibility as citizens of a free democracy." At a previous meeting, Miss Anna R. Jones spoke to the Frontiers Club on "The Program for the Mentally Retarded" in the Atlanta Public School." In her speech she gave the system of classification of such children and also the objectives of the over-all program. Letter To The Editor Dear Sir: I am trying to locate a former Miss Ida Mae Utley of your city. Her married name is riot known to me. She is a native of Memphis or someplace near there. Her brother, William Utley is very 11 in this city. The hospital has not been able to give much information. Is there anything your paper can lo to help us find this woman? The woman is a choir member of a church in your city, I think I remember her brother paying Union Baptist Church. His age is around 60 or 65. His former address is 31, Edgecombe Avenue, New York 31, N. Y. MISS MARIE BROWN, SEEKS WHEREABOUTS OK IDA MAE UTLEY Dear Sir: I am trying to locate a former Miss Ida Mae Utley of your city. Her married name is riot known to me. She is a native of Memphis or someplace near there. Her brother, William Utley is very 11 in this city. The hospital has not been able to give much information. Is there anything your paper can lo to help us find this woman? The woman is a choir member of a church in your city, I think I remember her brother paying Union Baptist Church. His age is around 60 or 65. His former address is 31, Edgecombe Avenue, New York 31, N. Y. MISS MARIE BROWN, Rites Set Sunday up his mind as to what he wanted to do in life, so he began devoting most of his spare time to barbering. He worked hard and saved money to buy him a two-chair shop and within the next 10 years he had five shops in operation in Memphis at the same time. Success seemed to have just come his way, but with five shops in operation he could see better the need for trained barbers, as his barbers were not giving the kind of service he really wanted them to give ... and the fact was they really did not know enough, about the trade ... so the idea of a barber college formulated in his mind. He wanted to pass on to others his own personal knowledge of barbeing; still he felt he lacked the proper training from an authoritative source! It was then that he took time out to attend evening classes at Moler Barber College and is the only Negro in Memphis to hold a diploma from this institution. His diploma was awardede in 1920. After opening his Barber College he was awarded contracts from the Educational Department from Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas to teach handicapped students. Not even he has a record of the exact number of persons he has trained but his students can be found in nearly every state in the Union. As far back as 1929, Mr. Martin visioned the need for organization and was the guiding spirit and leader in bringing into existence the Associated Master Barbers. He served as secretary and treasurer of this organization at the time of his death. The Associated Master Barbers most recently brought out shorter hours, and uniform shop practices, which included stepped up prices for both haircuts and shaves in helping with the general rising cost in living. TELEVISION TIME SOME FUN! Requests Meeting With papers gave front page space to the letters. Milton Bowers, present pre sident of the board of education, was out of town at the time the the letters were apparently received, but in his stead vice-president John T. Shea acknowledged receipt of the letters and was quoted to effect that the letter will be presented and handled in the usual manner. The conclusion drawn from Mr. Shea's statement is that the letter will not he considered until after Jan. 1 when the board, including recently elected member Mrs. Frances Coe., will begin its new term. Commenting, on the letter, to the park commission, Chairman John Vesey who recently stymied the efforts of Negro leaders to have the 17th annual Blues Bowl game played at Crump Stadium, said the letter would be referred to the commission's attorney. Latest figures reveal that though comprising at least 40 per cent of the Memphis populace, Memphis Negro public facilities are not in line with their population percentage. Of the 57 city parks and playgrounds 18 are set aside for Negro use, 39 for white of the six city golf courses one a nine hole course is for Negroes of the four community centers one is for Negroes and of the 26 tennis courts, three are for race use. In the area of municipal swimming pools, the distribution is near ly even. At present, there are four white, swimming pools and three Negro, with a fourth Negro use pool now being built. Negro admittance to the public zoo and amusement park is now on a limited basis with Negroes toeing admitted to Overton Park Zoo only on Thursday, providing a holiday does not fall on a Thursday at which time Negro day is rescinded and only on Tuesday to the Fairgrounds. The letters by the Memphis NAACP, which earlier this week joined James T. Walker president of the Bluff City and Shelby County Council of Civic clubs, in rapping a socalled 'Forward Memphis, meeting to which only white civic organizations were invited marks the first formal move locally by the NAACP since the recent Supreme Court rulings. Death Of Brock Jr., 8 months—showed no marks of similar violence, Kearns said. Their mother, Mrs. Irene Brock, was working as a night waitress in a tavern when the fire broke out about 3 a. m. Saturday Smoke and flames from the fire prevented the East Chicago Heights volunteer fire department, headed by the dead woman's son, Chief Samuel Camp from going into the lions The fire raged out of control during the 45 minutes before fire trucks arrived. Police theorized that a sex maniac invaded the home and had been surprised by Mrs. Camp. The maniac presumably stabbed her to death and set fire to live house to cover his crime. Held for questioning, this week is Ames Grim, 33, a distant relative of the dead woman. Sgt. William Hadnett of the East Chicago Heights police said Grim was given a lie test Saturday night, but it was not completed. He was ordered to take another test, earlier in the week. Grim was seen in the vicinity of the house shortly before the fire. He told police that he returned to the scene later when aroused by the sound of fire engines. Questioned and released were James "Jo-Jo" Meadows, who roomed in the house that was burned, and Paul Bluster, who lived in a two-room garage at the rear of the house. The garage also was destroyed by fire. Says Ike Can serve Mr. Eisenhower's strength. Hall added that he expects the President, now convalescing from a heart attack, to make known his intentions by next March, adding: "Naturally the medical report to be made in January enters into the decision." Hall reiterated he has "high hopes" that the President will seek another term, in the White House "if his health permits." He conferred with. Mr. Eisenhower at Gettysburg, Pa. Monday. Hall also said that the "peace and prosperity" theme would continue to play a major role in the 1956 GOP campaign. But he said Republicans can use that theme without injecting politics into America's foreign policy. Prominent Medic Dies in Penna Dr. Charles Crampton, prominent Dauphin County physician, known throughout the state as an ardent civic leader and perhaps the most distinguished, died here this week. He had been in ill health for several months. The well known physician administered medical care to school boys for well over, 27 years, and was the inspiration behind the building of the Forester Street branch of YMCA. As a boy he was adopted, into, the family of L. F. Copeland one of the foremost lawyers and industrialists of America. Dr. Crampton held ah important post in the Pennsylvania State Health Department for 16 years and was acclaimed for his service of distinction. He also served as vice-chairman for the Dauphin County Republican Committee and had, on several occasion, been honored by the party. UNFINISHED CRIME Caroline was grimly impassive, shrunk back into the recesses of her wheel chair like an old tortoise retracted into his shell. Clive was openly distressed: Edna, quite bewildered under her surface calm. Captain Sanders looked resigned and cynical. Only Gerry showed strong feeling. "What is this anyway, Sara? Was it planned?" "Yes." Her chin lifted defiantly. had to know the truth." "Well, you know it now and hope you're satisfied. I am Gerry Hone, and I think you're out of your mind." There was a sullen flush on his smooth, unblemished cheeks as he turned to Capt Sanders. "I hope you're satisfied, too? She's wasted enough of your time and mine." "All right, Hone." Sanders' voice was peremptory, but this time he used the name Hone without reservation. "This man is Gerry Hone," said Caroline. "You can't, get away from that. It's a fact Mrs. Harrison's identification cannot be impugned." "Does it matter?" said Sara, wearily. "Real or not, someone got the ruby. Who, we don't know. We probably never will.?" Sara was almost running when she reached her apartment house. She looked longingly at the lights in Judith's window. There was none in Gerry's. She hurried into the lobby, stopped, before the elevator. Not tonight She couldn't Not after hearing that footstep again in the street. She began to run up the fire stairs. At the first landing she had to pause for breath. She heard the whir of the elevator, mounting. Had she made sure the lock was caught when she closed the front door behind her? Perhaps not, but that must be Gerry in the elevator, going up to his own apartment from Judith's ... She toiled up the next flight, panting, and came out into the hall on her own floor. A lamp burned high in the wall beside the elevator. Beyond, in shadow, stood a tail, broad-shouldered figure, back toward her, and hand raised as if to knock on her door. So Gerry hadn't gone on to his own apartment. He hail stopped to make his peace with her. He turned at the sound of her step. His face was quite clear in the light from the lamp—warm brown eyes under heavy brows; sudden smile, friendly, quizzical. This was the way she remembered him, not at all like the sulky, selfimportant young man at Aunt Caroline's this afternoon. How could he be so different in different moods? Then she saw the three, tiny moles on his right cheek, spaced widely in a rough triangle. Not dust specks or freckles, but moles. There's something wrong, somewhere ... Something about his face ... Now she knew what it was. How could she have forgotten? The man at Aunt Caroline's this afternoon had no moles on his cheeks at all. She had noticed how smooth and unblemished they were when he Bushed. The man before her now was not the imposter. This was her Gerry and he was real. Her eyes watered. She was surprised and shocked and tired and ashamed and happy all at oncehappier than she had been for a thousand years. "Gerry! You weren't in Judith's living room a moment ago?" "No. I Just came in from the street. I was right behind you." "Then you're real and I'm not insane. Oh, Gerry!" She stumbled. He caught her before she fell. His arms were strong around her shaking body. His lips brought warmth to hers, still cold and trembling. "We can't stay in the hall, Dacre, Let's go inside." "Of course," Her laughter was shaky, threaded with tears. She fumbled in her bag for the key. He took it from her numb fingers and turned it in the lock. Her hand found the wall switch." "Wait." He was too late. Already the table lamps were glowing. Swiftly he crossed the room and drew the Venetian blinds. She closed the door and stood with her back against it. "You're not a fugitive, are you?" "In a sense, that's just what I am." "What does all this mean? What happened in the Automat? Why didn't you ever come back?" "Dacre, this has been awful for you. How awful I didn't realize until now. Just seeing you again has made me understand a lot of things about you and about myself." They moved to the small settee. He sat beside her, one of her hands in his. "Listen, Dacre. You'll just have to trust me, if you can. Because I can't tell you about it now." "Do you know there is another man in your place, an imposter? He's diabolically clever. He's deceived everyone but me—Judith, your cleaning woman, your secretary, your partner, even your cousin, Mrs. Harrison, and the police. Have you a twin brother?" "No but I know who the guy is, I've run into him before." "Who is he? Why does he look so much like you?" "You've heard of stand-ins for Hollywood stars." "You mean this impostor was a Hollywood star and you were his stand-in?" Something like that You don't remember seeing anyone like us on the screen because it was so long ago and we've both changed so much. But you may remember the name—Mark Clifford." The child star who left the screen when he was 13 because his voice changed?" "Yes. That was in 1935. Mark never was a real actor. Just a child playing himself. "Well, he can act now," said Sara, bitterly. "And he looks exactlike you, except for the moles on your cheek and your smile." "Queer the police didn't' think of checking fingerprints in the apartment." "They did." She laughed. "Let me see your thumbs." He held out his hands, palms up. "There is a little scar on the left thumb. Yours were the prints they couldn't identify. There were lots of his and, of course, Lucy's. I suppose it was his resembl to you that gave him the idea taking your place. But why? W does he want? The ruby?" Gerry's eyes were no long musing — they were sharp a alert. "So you found out it w real?" "I wore it at Aunt Caroline" Two friends of hers were there Mr. Clive and Dr. Sallust. The told me. At first I couldn't lieve it. But later that night I ha a visitor—an East Indian from Mogur. He was looking for the ruby and that convinced me. you know him? A man with a c tattooed on his wrist?" "No." "Did you know from the ver beginning that this pendant was real ruby called the Fire of India? "Yes." "Why didn't you tell me?" "I didn't want you mixed up this, Dacre. I was following Mox that day I met you in the 10-cent store." "You knew Moxon!" cried Sar "Yes, I knew Moxon. And knew me. I saw him go into 10-cent store from Fifth Ave. rounded the corner and came the side entrance, so I could sur prise him face to face. He was afraid of me. When he saw me h dropped the pendant on the trinke counter. He thought I wouldn't see what he was doing. But I did Before I could force my was through the crowd to the ruby you had picked it up. Then you spoke to me. I let you buy the ruby and then offered to carry the package for you. That way I go possession of the ruby without fuss, but how was I to keep it I suggested the Automat because it was such a perfect place to give you the slip while I still had ruby in my pocket. Then all I h to do was walk through the crown put the side door. Ungallant in sense, but not in another. If any one was watching us, they would see the bulge of the ruby's bo still in my pocket! They would follow me and leave you alone You'd be safe and I would get the ruby without my haying to explain to you why I wanted it. "I walked to Grand Central station and went into a telephone booth, I thought I had made sure that no one was following me be fore I put my hand in my pocket I held the box carefully in the palm of my hand and lifted t lid. Then I got the shock of life. The box was empty. I were into the Commodore bar and had a drink. Automatically I reached into my pocket for change' to pa for my drink and—the box we gone. "I almost laughed. Then I dered another drink and though it over. There had been two thieves one had got the ruby an one had got the box." "And then?" "And then I came here." She gasped. "Here? It was you who overturned a chair in you own apartment last night?" "Who else could it have been? Did you fake a wrong number when I telephoned you?" "I had to. I knew you would want to see me at once and ask sorts of questions." "Where did you go? What have you been doing since?" CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Caroline was grimly impassive, shrunk back into the recesses of her wheel chair like an old tortoise retracted into his shell. Clive was openly distressed: Edna, quite bewildered under her surface calm. Captain Sanders looked resigned and cynical. Only Gerry showed strong feeling. "What is this anyway, Sara? Was it planned?" "Yes." Her chin lifted defiantly. had to know the truth." "Well, you know it now and hope you're satisfied. I am Gerry Hone, and I think you're out of your mind." There was a sullen flush on his smooth, unblemished cheeks as he turned to Capt Sanders. "I hope you're satisfied, too? She's wasted enough of your time and mine." "All right, Hone." Sanders' voice was peremptory, but this time he used the name Hone without reservation. "This man is Gerry Hone," said Caroline. "You can't, get away from that. It's a fact Mrs. Harrison's identification cannot be impugned." "Does it matter?" said Sara, wearily. "Real or not, someone got the ruby. Who, we don't know. We probably never will.?" Sara was almost running when she reached her apartment house. She looked longingly at the lights in Judith's window. There was none in Gerry's. She hurried into the lobby, stopped, before the elevator. Not tonight She couldn't Not after hearing that footstep again in the street. She began to run up the fire stairs. At the first landing she had to pause for breath. She heard the whir of the elevator, mounting. Had she made sure the lock was caught when she closed the front door behind her? Perhaps not, but that must be Gerry in the elevator, going up to his own apartment from Judith's ... She toiled up the next flight, panting, and came out into the hall on her own floor. A lamp burned high in the wall beside the elevator. Beyond, in shadow, stood a tail, broad-shouldered figure, back toward her, and hand raised as if to knock on her door. So Gerry hadn't gone on to his own apartment. He hail stopped to make his peace with her. He turned at the sound of her step. His face was quite clear in the light from the lamp—warm brown eyes under heavy brows; sudden smile, friendly, quizzical. This was the way she remembered him, not at all like the sulky, selfimportant young man at Aunt Caroline's this afternoon. How could he be so different in different moods? Then she saw the three, tiny moles on his right cheek, spaced widely in a rough triangle. Not dust specks or freckles, but moles. There's something wrong, somewhere ... Something about his face ... Now she knew what it was. How could she have forgotten? The man at Aunt Caroline's this afternoon had no moles on his cheeks at all. She had noticed how smooth and unblemished they were when he Bushed. The man before her now was not the imposter. This was her Gerry and he was real. Her eyes watered. She was surprised and shocked and tired and ashamed and happy all at oncehappier than she had been for a thousand years. "Gerry! You weren't in Judith's living room a moment ago?" "No. I Just came in from the street. I was right behind you." "Then you're real and I'm not insane. Oh, Gerry!" She stumbled. He caught her before she fell. His arms were strong around her shaking body. His lips brought warmth to hers, still cold and trembling. "We can't stay in the hall, Dacre, Let's go inside." "Of course," Her laughter was shaky, threaded with tears. She fumbled in her bag for the key. He took it from her numb fingers and turned it in the lock. Her hand found the wall switch." "Wait." He was too late. Already the table lamps were glowing. Swiftly he crossed the room and drew the Venetian blinds. She closed the door and stood with her back against it. "You're not a fugitive, are you?" "In a sense, that's just what I am." "What does all this mean? What happened in the Automat? Why didn't you ever come back?" "Dacre, this has been awful for you. How awful I didn't realize until now. Just seeing you again has made me understand a lot of things about you and about myself." They moved to the small settee. He sat beside her, one of her hands in his. "Listen, Dacre. You'll just have to trust me, if you can. Because I can't tell you about it now." "Do you know there is another man in your place, an imposter? He's diabolically clever. He's deceived everyone but me—Judith, your cleaning woman, your secretary, your partner, even your cousin, Mrs. Harrison, and the police. Have you a twin brother?" "No but I know who the guy is, I've run into him before." "Who is he? Why does he look so much like you?" "You've heard of stand-ins for Hollywood stars." "You mean this impostor was a Hollywood star and you were his stand-in?" Something like that You don't remember seeing anyone like us on the screen because it was so long ago and we've both changed so much. But you may remember the name—Mark Clifford." The child star who left the screen when he was 13 because his voice changed?" "Yes. That was in 1935. Mark never was a real actor. Just a child playing himself. "Well, he can act now," said Sara, bitterly. "And he looks exactlike you, except for the moles on your cheek and your smile." "Queer the police didn't' think of checking fingerprints in the apartment." "They did." She laughed. "Let me see your thumbs." He held out his hands, palms up. "There is a little scar on the left thumb. Yours were the prints they couldn't identify. There were lots of his and, of course, Lucy's. I suppose it was his resembl to you that gave him the idea taking your place. But why? W does he want? The ruby?" Gerry's eyes were no long musing — they were sharp a alert. "So you found out it w real?" "I wore it at Aunt Caroline" Two friends of hers were there Mr. Clive and Dr. Sallust. The told me. At first I couldn't lieve it. But later that night I ha a visitor—an East Indian from Mogur. He was looking for the ruby and that convinced me. you know him? A man with a c tattooed on his wrist?" "No." "Did you know from the ver beginning that this pendant was real ruby called the Fire of India? "Yes." "Why didn't you tell me?" "I didn't want you mixed up this, Dacre. I was following Mox that day I met you in the 10-cent store." "You knew Moxon!" cried Sar "Yes, I knew Moxon. And knew me. I saw him go into 10-cent store from Fifth Ave. rounded the corner and came the side entrance, so I could sur prise him face to face. He was afraid of me. When he saw me h dropped the pendant on the trinke counter. He thought I wouldn't see what he was doing. But I did Before I could force my was through the crowd to the ruby you had picked it up. Then you spoke to me. I let you buy the ruby and then offered to carry the package for you. That way I go possession of the ruby without fuss, but how was I to keep it I suggested the Automat because it was such a perfect place to give you the slip while I still had ruby in my pocket. Then all I h to do was walk through the crown put the side door. Ungallant in sense, but not in another. If any one was watching us, they would see the bulge of the ruby's bo still in my pocket! They would follow me and leave you alone You'd be safe and I would get the ruby without my haying to explain to you why I wanted it. "I walked to Grand Central station and went into a telephone booth, I thought I had made sure that no one was following me be fore I put my hand in my pocket I held the box carefully in the palm of my hand and lifted t lid. Then I got the shock of life. The box was empty. I were into the Commodore bar and had a drink. Automatically I reached into my pocket for change' to pa for my drink and—the box we gone. "I almost laughed. Then I dered another drink and though it over. There had been two thieves one had got the ruby an one had got the box." "And then?" "And then I came here." She gasped. "Here? It was you who overturned a chair in you own apartment last night?" "Who else could it have been? Did you fake a wrong number when I telephoned you?" "I had to. I knew you would want to see me at once and ask sorts of questions." "Where did you go? What have you been doing since?" Sees Farm Costs in 1966 About Same As This Year's U. S. Department economists expect overall farming, coats in 1956 to average about the same as costs in 1955. At the 33rd Annual Agriculture Outlook Conference being held in Washington November 28 through December 1, Dr. Kenneth L. Bachman, Economists in the USDA's Agricultural Reasearch Service, sum married cost surveys that provide the following information about probable 1956 farming costs. Tractors, farm machinery, and some building and fencing materials will average somewhat higher next year than this year. Taxes on real estate and personal property are expected to be about 5 percent. Fertilizer cost per pound are expected to remain at about 1955 levels with some slight decline possible. Fertilizer cost rates have been dropping since 1952. Seed prices are much lower now than last Spring. Unless seedings for conservation are greatly expanded prices for seed may average a little lower nest year than in 1955. Prices of feed can also be expected to average somewhat lower than they were last year, although not greatly different from current levels. Feeder and replacement livestock are likely to cost about the same in 1956 as in 1955. With continued relatively full employment of people on farm jobs wage rates for hired farm labor can be expected to move up a little again next year. The economist said these conditions add up to the prospect of lower average prices of feed and seed in 1956, which will in large part off set higher prices for many of the industrially-produced farmers use in their work. Faculty Asked To Support Public Schools The faculty council of the University of North Carolina has asked the citizens of the state "to set their faces firmly and finally against every proposal to abolish, abandon or weaken our public schools." The council composed of 70 faculty members elected by the whole faculty and presided over by Dr. Dudley D. Carroll, chairman of try faculty sent a strongly worded resolution to Chancellor Robert B. House, and through him to acting president J. Harris Parks and to the board of trustees of the university. "We believe that abolition of the public school would inevitably suit in illiteracy, ignorance, p erty and industrial stagnation the resolution said. "It would destroy the greate single heritage our finest pa leadership has bequeathed while denying the state, the portunity to produce its rights share of future leadership."