Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1959-04-04
Thaddeus T. Stokes

MEMPHIS WORLD
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April's Balmy Days
With the advent of April upon the scene, winter is well
in the distance. The danger of frost and freeze has passed, and
there is assurance that plant life is safe and the weather can
only swing from soothing raindrops to golden sunshine.
In that the meadow lures and the fishermen make ready
for those jaunts around the creek.
This is the time of the year when the peach trees can
bloom with the assurance that there will be bumper peach
crops and native fruit that will hail the coming of blackberry
summer.
We love those native haunts for their resplendent scenery
and blushing beauty. The rose crop, the azalea and the daffodil, 
all our native neighbors how take over from the primitive
pioneers, the dogwood and the lily.
It is with great joy that we welcome the April-tide, the
jovial and humorous sister of the year who always pours in
for time's shock obsorbers, her crop of April fools.
Many of our great spirits in history first saw the light of
day in April. By their minds and their works, they have immortalized 
this modest and unassuming star that leaps from
the elements to crown the queen of April.

Guarantees Freedom
Thoughtful men and women would oppose any tendency
in this country to place limitations upon the individual's right
to think and express his thoughts regardless of the topic discussed. 
Any effort to curb intellectual freedom in an attempt
to perpetuate the present status is an obstacle to progress and
freedom.
Even in educational circles sometimes, the course of inquiry 
and conclusion is restricted, usually to placate financial,
economic or religious groups, whose patronage and intelligence-dictators 
would either have continue or begin. The future 
welfare of humanity is sacrificed for such current favors.
Tolerance of discussion, based upon sincerity of belief, is
the foundation alike of both democratic government and the
maintenance of human liberty. Without freedom for criticism
of both doctrines and deeds, no error can be corrected and
no improvement may be looked for when human beings have
been totally subjected to mental control and censorship.

BETWEEN THE LINES

Serious students of social psyetiology 
know that feelings play a
much greater part in social solutions 
than thinking. The Negro
has proved a thousand times by
logic that he merits full citizenship 
in this country, but full citizenship 
is consistently denied
rearly 100 years after the signing
of the Emancipation Proclamation.
More than four years has passed
since the Supreme Court handed
down its momentous decision on
the illegal nature of segregation
in the schools of the land, but
segregation today is strongly entrenched. 

The enactment of laws has its
essential place, but unless someone 
has the moral courage to implement 
those laws, there is but
little change in the status quo.
One of the fundamental facts
about race prejudice is, it fails to
respond to logical argument. The
only cure for race prejudice lies
in creating a counter-feeling. In
other words feelings cannot be
fought by logic, or even law. The
only way to fight feeling is with
feeling Herein lies the glory of
the Negro who performs whether
in business or the professions of
athletics.
The argument of All-American
performance cannot be refuted. It
stands! As we look about the nation 
and find nobly inclined
whites standing up to be counted
in favor of full citizenship for
the Negro, we find men and women 
who have been convinced by
the logic of performance. The Negro 
who makes good is also a
fighter for the rights of the race.
One of the immortal sayings of
the immortal John Milton declares
"Thousands at his bidding's speed
and post o'er land and sea, they
also serve who only stand and
wait."
Even the little unknowns who
make good, are arguing by their
performance that full citizenship

for the Negro is past due. They
engender that counter feeling!
It is in athletics that we find
Negro performance dramatized no
less than on the stage. In the big
leagues, hardly a day passes without 
its mention of some baseball
exploits by the handful of Negroes
to be found In these higher echelons 
of baseball. Beginning with
Jackie Robinson, we have Negroes
who are making names for themselves 
in baseball.
ACCRA — (ANP) —Difficulties
in the matter of currency and social 
security services have halted
the proposed merger of Ghana and
Guinea, it was learned last week.
Guinea is still in the franc zone,
while Ghana adheres to the pound
sterling. Until these points can be
ironed out, the countries will be
linked for the next two years by
short term diplomatic and economic 
agreements.
Now comes the Associated Press
announcement of its All-American
five in basketball. Of the five,
two are Negroes.
Every time a Negro basketball
player shoots the ball through the
basket he is making friends tot
the cause of Negro freedom. He
is putting up an irrefutable argument 
that stands where logic fails.
When we think of the thousands
of college basketball players and
the few Negroes among them, we
get some idea of how proficient
the Negroes must be to have two
players on the All-American five.
When so few Negro players produce 
so many All-Americans, or
such large percentage thereof, we
have one more convincing argument 
that all the Negro wants is
a chance.
This point has been proved a
thousand times but each time it
is proved it will become more convincing. 
What the Negroes often
do against dreadful odds is prophetic 
of what they will do with

even odds. The fight against integration 
is a fight to keep the
odds uneven and against the Negro. 
But little by little such performances 
as those two Negro AllAmericans 
in college basketball
gave through the past season, will
help the Jericho walls of race prejudice 
to come tumbling down.
When a handful of Negro basketball 
players can produce two
out of five All-Americans, we and
the world have luscious food for
thought. The honor and fame
which has come to these two
young Negroes is not only an argument 
for full citizenship for the
Negro, it is an argument for performance. 
These recent honors
pose a two - fold argument, one
for the white man and the other
for the Negro. We are indebted
to the Negro who performs.
The All-American argument convinces 
and will prevail!

The All-American Argument

Serious students of social psyetiology 
know that feelings play a
much greater part in social solutions 
than thinking. The Negro
has proved a thousand times by
logic that he merits full citizenship 
in this country, but full citizenship 
is consistently denied
rearly 100 years after the signing
of the Emancipation Proclamation.
More than four years has passed
since the Supreme Court handed
down its momentous decision on
the illegal nature of segregation
in the schools of the land, but
segregation today is strongly entrenched. 

The enactment of laws has its
essential place, but unless someone 
has the moral courage to implement 
those laws, there is but
little change in the status quo.
One of the fundamental facts
about race prejudice is, it fails to
respond to logical argument. The
only cure for race prejudice lies
in creating a counter-feeling. In
other words feelings cannot be
fought by logic, or even law. The
only way to fight feeling is with
feeling Herein lies the glory of
the Negro who performs whether
in business or the professions of
athletics.
The argument of All-American
performance cannot be refuted. It
stands! As we look about the nation 
and find nobly inclined
whites standing up to be counted
in favor of full citizenship for
the Negro, we find men and women 
who have been convinced by
the logic of performance. The Negro 
who makes good is also a
fighter for the rights of the race.
One of the immortal sayings of
the immortal John Milton declares
"Thousands at his bidding's speed
and post o'er land and sea, they
also serve who only stand and
wait."
Even the little unknowns who
make good, are arguing by their
performance that full citizenship

for the Negro is past due. They
engender that counter feeling!
It is in athletics that we find
Negro performance dramatized no
less than on the stage. In the big
leagues, hardly a day passes without 
its mention of some baseball
exploits by the handful of Negroes
to be found In these higher echelons 
of baseball. Beginning with
Jackie Robinson, we have Negroes
who are making names for themselves 
in baseball.
ACCRA — (ANP) —Difficulties
in the matter of currency and social 
security services have halted
the proposed merger of Ghana and
Guinea, it was learned last week.
Guinea is still in the franc zone,
while Ghana adheres to the pound
sterling. Until these points can be
ironed out, the countries will be
linked for the next two years by
short term diplomatic and economic 
agreements.
Now comes the Associated Press
announcement of its All-American
five in basketball. Of the five,
two are Negroes.
Every time a Negro basketball
player shoots the ball through the
basket he is making friends tot
the cause of Negro freedom. He
is putting up an irrefutable argument 
that stands where logic fails.
When we think of the thousands
of college basketball players and
the few Negroes among them, we
get some idea of how proficient
the Negroes must be to have two
players on the All-American five.
When so few Negro players produce 
so many All-Americans, or
such large percentage thereof, we
have one more convincing argument 
that all the Negro wants is
a chance.
This point has been proved a
thousand times but each time it
is proved it will become more convincing. 
What the Negroes often
do against dreadful odds is prophetic 
of what they will do with

even odds. The fight against integration 
is a fight to keep the
odds uneven and against the Negro. 
But little by little such performances 
as those two Negro AllAmericans 
in college basketball
gave through the past season, will
help the Jericho walls of race prejudice 
to come tumbling down.
When a handful of Negro basketball 
players can produce two
out of five All-Americans, we and
the world have luscious food for
thought. The honor and fame
which has come to these two
young Negroes is not only an argument 
for full citizenship for the
Negro, it is an argument for performance. 
These recent honors
pose a two - fold argument, one
for the white man and the other
for the Negro. We are indebted
to the Negro who performs.
The All-American argument convinces 
and will prevail!

ILLOGICAL ARGUMENT

Serious students of social psyetiology 
know that feelings play a
much greater part in social solutions 
than thinking. The Negro
has proved a thousand times by
logic that he merits full citizenship 
in this country, but full citizenship 
is consistently denied
rearly 100 years after the signing
of the Emancipation Proclamation.
More than four years has passed
since the Supreme Court handed
down its momentous decision on
the illegal nature of segregation
in the schools of the land, but
segregation today is strongly entrenched. 

The enactment of laws has its
essential place, but unless someone 
has the moral courage to implement 
those laws, there is but
little change in the status quo.
One of the fundamental facts
about race prejudice is, it fails to
respond to logical argument. The
only cure for race prejudice lies
in creating a counter-feeling. In
other words feelings cannot be
fought by logic, or even law. The
only way to fight feeling is with
feeling Herein lies the glory of
the Negro who performs whether
in business or the professions of
athletics.
The argument of All-American
performance cannot be refuted. It
stands! As we look about the nation 
and find nobly inclined
whites standing up to be counted
in favor of full citizenship for
the Negro, we find men and women 
who have been convinced by
the logic of performance. The Negro 
who makes good is also a
fighter for the rights of the race.
One of the immortal sayings of
the immortal John Milton declares
"Thousands at his bidding's speed
and post o'er land and sea, they
also serve who only stand and
wait."
Even the little unknowns who
make good, are arguing by their
performance that full citizenship

for the Negro is past due. They
engender that counter feeling!
It is in athletics that we find
Negro performance dramatized no
less than on the stage. In the big
leagues, hardly a day passes without 
its mention of some baseball
exploits by the handful of Negroes
to be found In these higher echelons 
of baseball. Beginning with
Jackie Robinson, we have Negroes
who are making names for themselves 
in baseball.
ACCRA — (ANP) —Difficulties
in the matter of currency and social 
security services have halted
the proposed merger of Ghana and
Guinea, it was learned last week.
Guinea is still in the franc zone,
while Ghana adheres to the pound
sterling. Until these points can be
ironed out, the countries will be
linked for the next two years by
short term diplomatic and economic 
agreements.
Now comes the Associated Press
announcement of its All-American
five in basketball. Of the five,
two are Negroes.
Every time a Negro basketball
player shoots the ball through the
basket he is making friends tot
the cause of Negro freedom. He
is putting up an irrefutable argument 
that stands where logic fails.
When we think of the thousands
of college basketball players and
the few Negroes among them, we
get some idea of how proficient
the Negroes must be to have two
players on the All-American five.
When so few Negro players produce 
so many All-Americans, or
such large percentage thereof, we
have one more convincing argument 
that all the Negro wants is
a chance.
This point has been proved a
thousand times but each time it
is proved it will become more convincing. 
What the Negroes often
do against dreadful odds is prophetic 
of what they will do with

even odds. The fight against integration 
is a fight to keep the
odds uneven and against the Negro. 
But little by little such performances 
as those two Negro AllAmericans 
in college basketball
gave through the past season, will
help the Jericho walls of race prejudice 
to come tumbling down.
When a handful of Negro basketball 
players can produce two
out of five All-Americans, we and
the world have luscious food for
thought. The honor and fame
which has come to these two
young Negroes is not only an argument 
for full citizenship for the
Negro, it is an argument for performance. 
These recent honors
pose a two - fold argument, one
for the white man and the other
for the Negro. We are indebted
to the Negro who performs.
The All-American argument convinces 
and will prevail!

ATHLETIC PROWESS

Serious students of social psyetiology 
know that feelings play a
much greater part in social solutions 
than thinking. The Negro
has proved a thousand times by
logic that he merits full citizenship 
in this country, but full citizenship 
is consistently denied
rearly 100 years after the signing
of the Emancipation Proclamation.
More than four years has passed
since the Supreme Court handed
down its momentous decision on
the illegal nature of segregation
in the schools of the land, but
segregation today is strongly entrenched. 

The enactment of laws has its
essential place, but unless someone 
has the moral courage to implement 
those laws, there is but
little change in the status quo.
One of the fundamental facts
about race prejudice is, it fails to
respond to logical argument. The
only cure for race prejudice lies
in creating a counter-feeling. In
other words feelings cannot be
fought by logic, or even law. The
only way to fight feeling is with
feeling Herein lies the glory of
the Negro who performs whether
in business or the professions of
athletics.
The argument of All-American
performance cannot be refuted. It
stands! As we look about the nation 
and find nobly inclined
whites standing up to be counted
in favor of full citizenship for
the Negro, we find men and women 
who have been convinced by
the logic of performance. The Negro 
who makes good is also a
fighter for the rights of the race.
One of the immortal sayings of
the immortal John Milton declares
"Thousands at his bidding's speed
and post o'er land and sea, they
also serve who only stand and
wait."
Even the little unknowns who
make good, are arguing by their
performance that full citizenship

for the Negro is past due. They
engender that counter feeling!
It is in athletics that we find
Negro performance dramatized no
less than on the stage. In the big
leagues, hardly a day passes without 
its mention of some baseball
exploits by the handful of Negroes
to be found In these higher echelons 
of baseball. Beginning with
Jackie Robinson, we have Negroes
who are making names for themselves 
in baseball.
ACCRA — (ANP) —Difficulties
in the matter of currency and social 
security services have halted
the proposed merger of Ghana and
Guinea, it was learned last week.
Guinea is still in the franc zone,
while Ghana adheres to the pound
sterling. Until these points can be
ironed out, the countries will be
linked for the next two years by
short term diplomatic and economic 
agreements.
Now comes the Associated Press
announcement of its All-American
five in basketball. Of the five,
two are Negroes.
Every time a Negro basketball
player shoots the ball through the
basket he is making friends tot
the cause of Negro freedom. He
is putting up an irrefutable argument 
that stands where logic fails.
When we think of the thousands
of college basketball players and
the few Negroes among them, we
get some idea of how proficient
the Negroes must be to have two
players on the All-American five.
When so few Negro players produce 
so many All-Americans, or
such large percentage thereof, we
have one more convincing argument 
that all the Negro wants is
a chance.
This point has been proved a
thousand times but each time it
is proved it will become more convincing. 
What the Negroes often
do against dreadful odds is prophetic 
of what they will do with

even odds. The fight against integration 
is a fight to keep the
odds uneven and against the Negro. 
But little by little such performances 
as those two Negro AllAmericans 
in college basketball
gave through the past season, will
help the Jericho walls of race prejudice 
to come tumbling down.
When a handful of Negro basketball 
players can produce two
out of five All-Americans, we and
the world have luscious food for
thought. The honor and fame
which has come to these two
young Negroes is not only an argument 
for full citizenship for the
Negro, it is an argument for performance. 
These recent honors
pose a two - fold argument, one
for the white man and the other
for the Negro. We are indebted
to the Negro who performs.
The All-American argument convinces 
and will prevail!

GUINEA, GHANA DISCUSS
PROBLEMS

Serious students of social psyetiology 
know that feelings play a
much greater part in social solutions 
than thinking. The Negro
has proved a thousand times by
logic that he merits full citizenship 
in this country, but full citizenship 
is consistently denied
rearly 100 years after the signing
of the Emancipation Proclamation.
More than four years has passed
since the Supreme Court handed
down its momentous decision on
the illegal nature of segregation
in the schools of the land, but
segregation today is strongly entrenched. 

The enactment of laws has its
essential place, but unless someone 
has the moral courage to implement 
those laws, there is but
little change in the status quo.
One of the fundamental facts
about race prejudice is, it fails to
respond to logical argument. The
only cure for race prejudice lies
in creating a counter-feeling. In
other words feelings cannot be
fought by logic, or even law. The
only way to fight feeling is with
feeling Herein lies the glory of
the Negro who performs whether
in business or the professions of
athletics.
The argument of All-American
performance cannot be refuted. It
stands! As we look about the nation 
and find nobly inclined
whites standing up to be counted
in favor of full citizenship for
the Negro, we find men and women 
who have been convinced by
the logic of performance. The Negro 
who makes good is also a
fighter for the rights of the race.
One of the immortal sayings of
the immortal John Milton declares
"Thousands at his bidding's speed
and post o'er land and sea, they
also serve who only stand and
wait."
Even the little unknowns who
make good, are arguing by their
performance that full citizenship

for the Negro is past due. They
engender that counter feeling!
It is in athletics that we find
Negro performance dramatized no
less than on the stage. In the big
leagues, hardly a day passes without 
its mention of some baseball
exploits by the handful of Negroes
to be found In these higher echelons 
of baseball. Beginning with
Jackie Robinson, we have Negroes
who are making names for themselves 
in baseball.
ACCRA — (ANP) —Difficulties
in the matter of currency and social 
security services have halted
the proposed merger of Ghana and
Guinea, it was learned last week.
Guinea is still in the franc zone,
while Ghana adheres to the pound
sterling. Until these points can be
ironed out, the countries will be
linked for the next two years by
short term diplomatic and economic 
agreements.
Now comes the Associated Press
announcement of its All-American
five in basketball. Of the five,
two are Negroes.
Every time a Negro basketball
player shoots the ball through the
basket he is making friends tot
the cause of Negro freedom. He
is putting up an irrefutable argument 
that stands where logic fails.
When we think of the thousands
of college basketball players and
the few Negroes among them, we
get some idea of how proficient
the Negroes must be to have two
players on the All-American five.
When so few Negro players produce 
so many All-Americans, or
such large percentage thereof, we
have one more convincing argument 
that all the Negro wants is
a chance.
This point has been proved a
thousand times but each time it
is proved it will become more convincing. 
What the Negroes often
do against dreadful odds is prophetic 
of what they will do with

even odds. The fight against integration 
is a fight to keep the
odds uneven and against the Negro. 
But little by little such performances 
as those two Negro AllAmericans 
in college basketball
gave through the past season, will
help the Jericho walls of race prejudice 
to come tumbling down.
When a handful of Negro basketball 
players can produce two
out of five All-Americans, we and
the world have luscious food for
thought. The honor and fame
which has come to these two
young Negroes is not only an argument 
for full citizenship for the
Negro, it is an argument for performance. 
These recent honors
pose a two - fold argument, one
for the white man and the other
for the Negro. We are indebted
to the Negro who performs.
The All-American argument convinces 
and will prevail!

UP FROM GEORGIA

April

PLANNING LeMOYNE CHARM CLINIC —
The current 
self-improvement series at LeMoyne College 
will be climaxed with a Charm Clinic in
May. The college's Women's Affairs Committee
is in charge of these programs. Seated, left to
right: Mrs. Lilas Andrews, Miss Lucinda Edwards, 
director of Charm Week; Mrs. Velma

McLemore and Mrs. Juanita Rayner. Standing,
left to right: Florida Adams, Mary Ella Falls,
Johnnie Mae Baptist and Josephine Isabel, student 
members of the committee; and Miss Mae
Isom Davenport and Miss Martelle Trigg, chairman 
of the committee.

Its Gotta Be Done

of public schools in state and local
governments.
An outspoken opponent of school
integration, Talmadge attacked
what he called "a facet of progressive 
philosophy that equality
is more important in education."
Speaking at the annual banquet
of the Atlanta Public School
Teacher Assn., the senator said
his amendment "would assure the
uninterrupted instruction of all the
children of the nation regardless
of their color or place of residence.
He said the amendment would
"preserve the constitutional right
of the states and their citizens to
run their own affaire."
Talmadge attacked the Supreme
Court, saying it has sought to establish 
itself "without benefit of
constitutional or legislative authorization 
as a super board of education 
superior to the Constitution,
to Congress and to the consent of
the people."
Talmadge said the nation has
grave problems in the field of education 
and "the fault is not the
teacher's but society's." There
is nothing wrong with American
education that cannot be cured by
stiff doeses of discipline, regorous
training in the three R's, a shift
in major emphasis from more
clossrooms to more classwork and
a return to the fundamentals of
integrity, intellect, wisdom and will."
"All we have to do," said the
senator, "is to throw the schemes
of the theorists into the discard
and put the dedicated teachers
back to teaching."

Invasion Of Haiti

as who should be the leader.
The Nicaraguan exiles are aroused 
because Communists are trying
to take over the rebel movement
against President Luis Somoza and
they want to have no dealing with
the Reds.

Murder Trial Of

Sommrville.
On Wednesday testimony in the
trial moved into high gear but attorneys 
were hesitant to predict
when it was likely to end.
The star m the trial-Rev. Burton, 
who has been held in jail since
last Sept. 22 in lieu of $25,000 bond,
had not taken the stand in his defense 
by deadline Wednesday; however, 
he was expected to be put on
the stand Thursday.

WISHING WELL
Registered U. S. Patent Office.
H is a pleasant little game that will give you a message every
day. It is a numerical puzzle designed to spell put your fortune.
Count the letters in your first name. If the number of letters is 6 or
more, subtract 4. If the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is
your key number. Start at the upper left-hand corner of the rectangle 
and check every one of your key numbers, left to right. Then
read the message the letters under the checked figures give you.

Fund Established

were still in command of the defensive 
tactics.
As a result of what local citizens
termed "inadequacies" revealed in
the women's stories at the trials and
the apparent lack of proper preparation 
by the defense at the second
trial, the "Melvin Smith Defense
Fund" was set up by an interested
group of citizens in an attempt to
solicit funds from the general public 
to support the defendant's legal
defense should a new trial be granted. 

The appeal was first voiced for
the fund Tuesday morning and the
co-chairmen of the temporary fundraising 
committee said Tuesday
afternoon that the response had
been encouraging.
The leaders reminded all citizens,
however, that a very substantial
amount of money will be needed to
properly defend Smith in a new
trial and that the contributions to
the fund should be submitted
promptly in the interest of saving
a young father's life.
The fund drive is also picking up
new interest from citizens who have
indicated their wish to become a
part of the defense committee. The
addition of Rev. L. H. Pitts, executive 
secretary of the Georgia Teachers 
and Education Association, and
Fletcher Coombs, of the Mutual
Federal Savings and Loan Association, 
at 205 Auburn Ave., N.E., was
announced Tuesday night.
The two additional men joined
other community leaders on the
fund committee that includes: cochairmen 
Jesse O. Thomas, Rev.
Arthur Perkins and C. A. Scott,
editor-publisher of The Atlanta
Daily World; Rev. M. L. King, Sr.;
Bishop J. W. E. Bowen; Rev. William 
Holmes Borders; Rev. E. R.
Searcy; Rev. A. Franklin Fisher;
Jesse Hill; Clarence Coleman and
P. J. Woods.
Warren Cochrane is acting as
the group secretary while Dr. Miles
Amos, of the Amos Drug Store, at
Hunter and Ashby Streets, was selected 
as the committee treasurer.
Coombs was selected to serve as
assistant treasurer.
Any contributions can be forwarded 
to any listed member of the
committee, and especially to the
treasurers. Amos and Coombs, according 
to the co-chairmen of the
committee.
Meanwhile, the man who is to
be the recipient of the generosity
of scores of his neighbors, still sits
gloomily, but hopefully, in a confining 
county jail cell, praying that
a new trial will be granted and
that the financial resources will be
available to hire adequate legal defense. 

Smith's parting words, after an
extended visit by a Daily World reporter 
Tuesday were: "When will
the new trial come up? Please tell
them to hurry because I don't belong 
here and my family needs me
badly."
The "Melvin Smith Defense Fund"
leaders revealed Tuesday night that
a general public meeting will be
held at an as-yet unannounced site
"in a few days." The purpose of
the meeting, as planned by the
committee, will be to "fully inform
the general public on the history
and the future prospects of the
case."

RESPONSE ENCOURAGING

were still in command of the defensive 
tactics.
As a result of what local citizens
termed "inadequacies" revealed in
the women's stories at the trials and
the apparent lack of proper preparation 
by the defense at the second
trial, the "Melvin Smith Defense
Fund" was set up by an interested
group of citizens in an attempt to
solicit funds from the general public 
to support the defendant's legal
defense should a new trial be granted. 

The appeal was first voiced for
the fund Tuesday morning and the
co-chairmen of the temporary fundraising 
committee said Tuesday
afternoon that the response had
been encouraging.
The leaders reminded all citizens,
however, that a very substantial
amount of money will be needed to
properly defend Smith in a new
trial and that the contributions to
the fund should be submitted
promptly in the interest of saving
a young father's life.
The fund drive is also picking up
new interest from citizens who have
indicated their wish to become a
part of the defense committee. The
addition of Rev. L. H. Pitts, executive 
secretary of the Georgia Teachers 
and Education Association, and
Fletcher Coombs, of the Mutual
Federal Savings and Loan Association, 
at 205 Auburn Ave., N.E., was
announced Tuesday night.
The two additional men joined
other community leaders on the
fund committee that includes: cochairmen 
Jesse O. Thomas, Rev.
Arthur Perkins and C. A. Scott,
editor-publisher of The Atlanta
Daily World; Rev. M. L. King, Sr.;
Bishop J. W. E. Bowen; Rev. William 
Holmes Borders; Rev. E. R.
Searcy; Rev. A. Franklin Fisher;
Jesse Hill; Clarence Coleman and
P. J. Woods.
Warren Cochrane is acting as
the group secretary while Dr. Miles
Amos, of the Amos Drug Store, at
Hunter and Ashby Streets, was selected 
as the committee treasurer.
Coombs was selected to serve as
assistant treasurer.
Any contributions can be forwarded 
to any listed member of the
committee, and especially to the
treasurers. Amos and Coombs, according 
to the co-chairmen of the
committee.
Meanwhile, the man who is to
be the recipient of the generosity
of scores of his neighbors, still sits
gloomily, but hopefully, in a confining 
county jail cell, praying that
a new trial will be granted and
that the financial resources will be
available to hire adequate legal defense. 

Smith's parting words, after an
extended visit by a Daily World reporter 
Tuesday were: "When will
the new trial come up? Please tell
them to hurry because I don't belong 
here and my family needs me
badly."
The "Melvin Smith Defense Fund"
leaders revealed Tuesday night that
a general public meeting will be
held at an as-yet unannounced site
"in a few days." The purpose of
the meeting, as planned by the
committee, will be to "fully inform
the general public on the history
and the future prospects of the
case."

The Word Of God
"Not to all people, but unto witnesses 
chosen before of Gad, even to
us, who did eat and drink with
him after he rose from the dead."
Acts 10-41

AME Church Honors

appreciation of the thousands of
AME communicants and their leadership. 

Sears served as United Stages
Representative at the Silver Jubilee
of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia 
in 1955. He served as President
of the Trusteeship Council from
1955 to 1959. He was U. S. delegate
to the founding celebration of
Ghana in 1957. And U. S. representative 
in the resumed session
of the XIIIth General Assembly
of the UN in 1959.
He is a native of Massachusetts
and graduate of Harvard Univer
sity. 
He has served in the Far East
under the auspices of the Department 
of State. He was an early
enthusiast of aviation in New England, 
and a member of the Massachusetts 
Senate and House of Representatives 
for many years. And
he participated in both world conflicts 
before receiving his UN appointment. 

The district honoring him comprises 
Pennsylvania, New York,
Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts and
Bermuda.

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Veterans Benefit Of

Benefit A State Wide registration
campaign of all Veterans, wives,
dependents and relatives will begian 
shortly in every county in the
State of Tennessee announced a
news release. A county organization 
for State Bonus will be set up
in all Tennessee counties. Petitions
will be signed by Vetrans to obtain
the joint request of more than 15,000
veterans. Legislators in each county 
will be polled on their position
for voting on State Bonus.
The Veterans Benefit has already
received on record petitions requesting 
State Bonus from Chattannooga, 
Martin, Manchester, Uildo,
Fayetteville, Nashville, Savannah,
Tullahoma, Sparta, Dresden, Lexington, 
Winchester, Lewisburg,
Henning, Middleton, Church Hill,
Columbia and many other community, 
said the announcement.
Veterans of World War One,
World War Two, and Korean
service, who are qualified registered 
voters are eligible to sign the
Bonus petition. Veterans may write
Home Office, 860 Vance Ave., Memphis, 
and positions will be forwarded 
upon request.
Over 15,000 Veterans have expressed 
a desire to continue the hard
earned effort of making a State
onus possible for the Veteruns
of the State of Tennessee, stated
the announcement.
Nathaniel Hendrix, stale bonus
chairman, and Atty. J. F. Estes,
president and General counselor,
will conduct county wide meetings
for the organization of the Bonus
movement.
The Bonus petition is available for
signatures at the home office, 860
Vance, Memphis, Tennessee from
7 a. m. to 7 p. m. Mondays through
Saturdays. Meetings are being conducted 
in Memphis on Mondays and
Fridays nights from 8 P. m. to 100
p. m. All Veterans, relatives and
friends are urged to attend these
meetings, said the news release.

French list Casualties
The
French army in Algeria put 1,172
rebels "out of action" and captured 
849 weapons during the
week ending March 29, French
headquarters announced. French
losses were put at 58 dead.

The New WAYNE D.OVERHOLSER Thriller
THE LONE DEPUTY
1957, Wayne D. overholser, From the novel published by
The Macmillan Co. Distributed by king Features Sy
TOM MOHAWK stared in surprise 
at Cole Weston. "Red
was gonna shoot me!" he said,
the reality of the situation hitting
him hard.
Weston nodded. "I saw it coming, 
so I was ready." Then he
added briskly, "Tom, get Red's
horse and load him on it. Well
dump him at Evans' place and
folks'll think the nesters killed
him. I'll take a look in the
house. Joe, you see about the
barn. I reckon the kid and the
girl are gone, but we'd better
make sure. If the kid ain't here,
we've got to find him."
Tom Mohawk was still shaking
his head as he mounted and
started after Red Sanders' horse.
"Tried to kill me, damn his
ornery hide. Why did he do it?"
"He was a woman," Weston
said contemptuously. "He had
skimmed milk in his veins."
A few minutes later they
started down the road, Weston
leading Sanders' horse, the body
draped across the saddle. Tom
Mohawk said, "You're wrong,
Cole. Took guts to pull a gun on
me. I just can't figure why he
done it."
Joe Mohawk grinned at Tom
and Tom grinned back. Now Red
Sanders' Bridlebit range was
theirs for the taking.
Barney De Long had never
seen the results of a lynching until 
he drove around the store
building and saw Cronin's body
dangling from the cottonwood
limb. He pulled up staring in
horror.
"It's not pretty," Price Regan
said. "Stay there. I want to look
around before we cut the body
down."
De Long kept staring at Cronin's 
body as if hypnotized by it.
He asked, "Who'd do a thing like
that?"
Price had stepped out of the
saddle. Now he looked at De
Long, wondering if the man was
serious. He said, "You can guess
as good as I can."
He turned his back to De Long,
walking carefully over the wet
ground. The river had overflowed
here not long before, leaving a
coating, of mud on the grass, so
the sign was easy to read. Four
horses, all right, just as Jean Potter 
had said. Two men had left
boot prints under the tree. Another 
man had ridden up close,
probably the one who had quirted
the horse out from under Cronin.
Price was able to follow the boot
tracks of the two men back to
their horses.
One thing was puzzling. From
the trades one of the men seemed
to have remained out of the activity 
completely. He must, Price
decided, have sat his saddle thirty
yards or so from the tree: then,
when it was over, he had swung
toward the road and ridden downstream. 
The others had followed.
For a time he stood pondering

this He was Curious about the
identity of the man who had
taken no part in the hanging.
Another point bothered Price.
Why had all four of them ridden
downstream? Only Red Sanders
Bridlebit lay in that direction.
Maybe they hadn't wanted to run
into anybody between Saddle
Rock arid the store.
Price had found nothing that
helped him identify the four men,
so it was more imperative than
ever that he find the Jarvis-boy.
If the kid had ridden off, Price's
job would be like hunting the proverbial 
needle in the haystack.
More than that, there was a good
chance the lynchers would run
into him. But it seemed more
natural for the boy to hide somewhere 
along the Yellow Cat and
come back in a day or two as
Sam Potter had told him to do.
At least Price thought it was that
way.
The kid would be safer if he
hid out near the settlers than if
he struck out across the open
range where he was likely to be
seen by a cowboy and brought in
to one of the three ranches. The
question, then, was whether Weston 
and the others knew the boy
was a witness to the hanging. If
they didn't know, they'd guess,
Price decided, once they realized
the kid was on the run.
"You gonna stand there all day,
Regan?" De Long demanded.
"Reckon I've stood here long
enough, Barney," Price answered,
and motioned for the liveryman
to drive the wagon under the limb
that held the body.
When the wagon stopped, Price
stepped up into the bed and, taking 
out his pocket knife, slashed
at the rope with his right hand,
easing the body down into the
wagon when the last strand
parted. He covered Cronin with
the canvas De Long had thrown
into the wagon before he'd left
town, then vaulted over the side
to the ground.
"Don't start back yet, Barney,"
Price said. "Drive to the front of
the store and tie the team. We
may find Rose around here somewhere." 

De Long obeyed. Price stepped
into the saddle and followed the
wagon. He dismounted, and tied
his roan beside the team.
"Let's take a look in her cabin,"
he said.
The cabin, was empty, as Price
had been reasonably certain it
would be. The interior looked just
about as he had expected.
De Long stood in the doorway,
his mouth curled in distaste. "She
sure was dirty," he said "Looks
like she pulled out in a hurry.
What do you suppose they done
with her?"
"Hard to tell," Price said.
He turned and walked out, De
Long stepping from the doorway.
They crossed the road to the
store. Price convinced they
wouldn't find the woman alive.
He wouldn't have been surprised

if they'd strung her up alongside
Cronin bet maybe even Weston
couldn't stomach lynching a
woman.
"They sure got rid at her," De
Long said. "Maybe they knocked
her in the head and threw her
into the river. Them Mohawks. 
. ."
He stopped, plainly regretting
he'd said that much. Price nodded
at him. "Might just as well say
it right out, Barney. You know
who did this as well as I do, and
you know Barry Madden is as
thick with them as five peas in
a pod. Where are you and everybody 
else in town going to stand
when this comes out into the
open?"
"I don't know nothing 'bout it,"
De Long mumbled. "I just wish
I'd stayed in town and let you
sing when you told me to some
out here."
Price let it drop, knowing he'd
given De Long something to think
about. He went into the store,
De Long lingering in the doorway. 
Here he found evidence of
a struggle and a rifle on the floor
at the base of the counter. Walt
Cronin had been a tough nut, but
not tough enough to buck the
four men who had come after
him.
Price wondered what had
prompted Cronin to come here
and open up a store and back
the settlers when he knew what
he was up against. But whatever
his motives were, he'd made a
bad mistake, foolishly overestimating 
his capacity to resist So
he'd bet his blue chips and he'd
lost, not even able to take Cole
Weston with him.
Stepping through the back
door, Price noticed the corner
made by the leanto room where
Bruce Jarvis had left Potter's
team and wagon. Well, there was
nothing more he could do. He'd
send De Long back to town with
the body and then he'd ride up
the Yellow Cat. hoping he would
find the boy.
He heard something from the
riverbank, Limbs breaking, maybe. 
He yanked his gun from nolster, 
calling, "De Long!" It could
be the kid, although this was the
last place where he expected to
find him.
He ran toward the river gaze
running up and down the screen
of willows. De Long appeared in
the back door of the store, holding 
back as if reluctant to give
any help. Price yelled above the
sound of the river, "Somebody's
hiding along here. Come on!"
Slowly De Long moved toward
him. Exasperated, Price shouted,
"Damn it get a move on! You
head downstream."
A moment later De Long called,
"I found her! It's Rose!"
"Terror was in her again and
she screamed. "They're going
to kill me!"—the story continues 
tomorrow with an evil
obsession bared.

CHAPTER 20
1957, Wayne D. overholser, From the novel published by
The Macmillan Co. Distributed by king Features Sy
TOM MOHAWK stared in surprise 
at Cole Weston. "Red
was gonna shoot me!" he said,
the reality of the situation hitting
him hard.
Weston nodded. "I saw it coming, 
so I was ready." Then he
added briskly, "Tom, get Red's
horse and load him on it. Well
dump him at Evans' place and
folks'll think the nesters killed
him. I'll take a look in the
house. Joe, you see about the
barn. I reckon the kid and the
girl are gone, but we'd better
make sure. If the kid ain't here,
we've got to find him."
Tom Mohawk was still shaking
his head as he mounted and
started after Red Sanders' horse.
"Tried to kill me, damn his
ornery hide. Why did he do it?"
"He was a woman," Weston
said contemptuously. "He had
skimmed milk in his veins."
A few minutes later they
started down the road, Weston
leading Sanders' horse, the body
draped across the saddle. Tom
Mohawk said, "You're wrong,
Cole. Took guts to pull a gun on
me. I just can't figure why he
done it."
Joe Mohawk grinned at Tom
and Tom grinned back. Now Red
Sanders' Bridlebit range was
theirs for the taking.
Barney De Long had never
seen the results of a lynching until 
he drove around the store
building and saw Cronin's body
dangling from the cottonwood
limb. He pulled up staring in
horror.
"It's not pretty," Price Regan
said. "Stay there. I want to look
around before we cut the body
down."
De Long kept staring at Cronin's 
body as if hypnotized by it.
He asked, "Who'd do a thing like
that?"
Price had stepped out of the
saddle. Now he looked at De
Long, wondering if the man was
serious. He said, "You can guess
as good as I can."
He turned his back to De Long,
walking carefully over the wet
ground. The river had overflowed
here not long before, leaving a
coating, of mud on the grass, so
the sign was easy to read. Four
horses, all right, just as Jean Potter 
had said. Two men had left
boot prints under the tree. Another 
man had ridden up close,
probably the one who had quirted
the horse out from under Cronin.
Price was able to follow the boot
tracks of the two men back to
their horses.
One thing was puzzling. From
the trades one of the men seemed
to have remained out of the activity 
completely. He must, Price
decided, have sat his saddle thirty
yards or so from the tree: then,
when it was over, he had swung
toward the road and ridden downstream. 
The others had followed.
For a time he stood pondering

this He was Curious about the
identity of the man who had
taken no part in the hanging.
Another point bothered Price.
Why had all four of them ridden
downstream? Only Red Sanders
Bridlebit lay in that direction.
Maybe they hadn't wanted to run
into anybody between Saddle
Rock arid the store.
Price had found nothing that
helped him identify the four men,
so it was more imperative than
ever that he find the Jarvis-boy.
If the kid had ridden off, Price's
job would be like hunting the proverbial 
needle in the haystack.
More than that, there was a good
chance the lynchers would run
into him. But it seemed more
natural for the boy to hide somewhere 
along the Yellow Cat and
come back in a day or two as
Sam Potter had told him to do.
At least Price thought it was that
way.
The kid would be safer if he
hid out near the settlers than if
he struck out across the open
range where he was likely to be
seen by a cowboy and brought in
to one of the three ranches. The
question, then, was whether Weston 
and the others knew the boy
was a witness to the hanging. If
they didn't know, they'd guess,
Price decided, once they realized
the kid was on the run.
"You gonna stand there all day,
Regan?" De Long demanded.
"Reckon I've stood here long
enough, Barney," Price answered,
and motioned for the liveryman
to drive the wagon under the limb
that held the body.
When the wagon stopped, Price
stepped up into the bed and, taking 
out his pocket knife, slashed
at the rope with his right hand,
easing the body down into the
wagon when the last strand
parted. He covered Cronin with
the canvas De Long had thrown
into the wagon before he'd left
town, then vaulted over the side
to the ground.
"Don't start back yet, Barney,"
Price said. "Drive to the front of
the store and tie the team. We
may find Rose around here somewhere." 

De Long obeyed. Price stepped
into the saddle and followed the
wagon. He dismounted, and tied
his roan beside the team.
"Let's take a look in her cabin,"
he said.
The cabin, was empty, as Price
had been reasonably certain it
would be. The interior looked just
about as he had expected.
De Long stood in the doorway,
his mouth curled in distaste. "She
sure was dirty," he said "Looks
like she pulled out in a hurry.
What do you suppose they done
with her?"
"Hard to tell," Price said.
He turned and walked out, De
Long stepping from the doorway.
They crossed the road to the
store. Price convinced they
wouldn't find the woman alive.
He wouldn't have been surprised

if they'd strung her up alongside
Cronin bet maybe even Weston
couldn't stomach lynching a
woman.
"They sure got rid at her," De
Long said. "Maybe they knocked
her in the head and threw her
into the river. Them Mohawks. 
. ."
He stopped, plainly regretting
he'd said that much. Price nodded
at him. "Might just as well say
it right out, Barney. You know
who did this as well as I do, and
you know Barry Madden is as
thick with them as five peas in
a pod. Where are you and everybody 
else in town going to stand
when this comes out into the
open?"
"I don't know nothing 'bout it,"
De Long mumbled. "I just wish
I'd stayed in town and let you
sing when you told me to some
out here."
Price let it drop, knowing he'd
given De Long something to think
about. He went into the store,
De Long lingering in the doorway. 
Here he found evidence of
a struggle and a rifle on the floor
at the base of the counter. Walt
Cronin had been a tough nut, but
not tough enough to buck the
four men who had come after
him.
Price wondered what had
prompted Cronin to come here
and open up a store and back
the settlers when he knew what
he was up against. But whatever
his motives were, he'd made a
bad mistake, foolishly overestimating 
his capacity to resist So
he'd bet his blue chips and he'd
lost, not even able to take Cole
Weston with him.
Stepping through the back
door, Price noticed the corner
made by the leanto room where
Bruce Jarvis had left Potter's
team and wagon. Well, there was
nothing more he could do. He'd
send De Long back to town with
the body and then he'd ride up
the Yellow Cat. hoping he would
find the boy.
He heard something from the
riverbank, Limbs breaking, maybe. 
He yanked his gun from nolster, 
calling, "De Long!" It could
be the kid, although this was the
last place where he expected to
find him.
He ran toward the river gaze
running up and down the screen
of willows. De Long appeared in
the back door of the store, holding 
back as if reluctant to give
any help. Price yelled above the
sound of the river, "Somebody's
hiding along here. Come on!"
Slowly De Long moved toward
him. Exasperated, Price shouted,
"Damn it get a move on! You
head downstream."
A moment later De Long called,
"I found her! It's Rose!"
"Terror was in her again and
she screamed. "They're going
to kill me!"—the story continues 
tomorrow with an evil
obsession bared.

Atlanta Judge Pleads For
Means To Fight Alcoholism

Judge James E. Webb, of Municipal 
Court, echoed an old challenge
to the church, state and public sentiment 
to help the common "drunk"
to rehabilitation. He said that the
jailing and abandonment of thousands 
of diseased alcoholics would
in future years be pointed out as
"barbaric" and the same as the
treatment of witches and the insane. 

Deploring the jailing and ill-treatment 
of these persons, Judge Webb
declared to the Butler Street YMCA
Hungry Club:
"We, in effect, sweep these individuals 
under the rug and forget
tney're there."
Alcoholism, according to the
judge, is "a sickness of the mind,"
"a troubled soul," "an inability to
grow up," "a displaced person"
whose illness manifests itself in excessive 
drinking.
Among the groups which Judge
Webb said are "doing something
about it" are Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Helping Hand Club, the
latter organization being the inspiration 
and expression of volunteer
Ernest Wright and other aides.
Alcoholism and its problems are
increasing yearly, the judge pointed 
out. Of the total Atlanta arrests
of 60,000 persons last year, some

40,000 were jailed for drunkeness,
it was stated. This shows the cost
of this illness to the taxpayer, Webb
declared.
A dramatic demonstration of the
"stuff" which alcoholics consume
was made by the speaker, who used
bay rum, canned heat, shoe polish
and "solox" as examples.
Society is making tremendous
strides in many scientific matters,
but failing to take care of problems 
like the sickness of alcoholism, 
Judge Webb declared while
calling for the state, the church
and public sentiment to help.
The Georgian Clinic, housed in
the former home of Asa G. Candler,
is presently offering physical therapy, 
psychiatry and other help to
alcoholics in the Atlanta area, it
was revealed.
Judge Webb was introduced by
Atlanta Detective J. D. Hudson, in
behalf of the Y's Men's Club of the
Butler Street YMCA, Roy Wolfe,
president. J. R. Henderson, of the
Hungry Club committee, moderated
the forum session.
A group of students from DePauw 
University, Indiana, and
others from Westside High School,
Anderson, S. C., were guests at the
luncheon.


A Franklin County Superior
Court jury deliberated two hours Monday night before bringing 
in an acquittal for a Banks County sawmill worker accused
of the axe-slaying of a 70-year-old Negro.
Sam Westbrook, about 38, was found not guilty in the
death of Lorn Little, a semi-invalid, March 6.
The elderly Negro was found butchered in his home in
the Ashland Community near Carnesville. Westbrook was
charged with the murder after he was found by police in his
stalled car near the scene of the crime.
In an unsworn statement permitted under Georgia law,
Westbrook told the court he had been drinking oil day and
didn't remember anything until he awoke in his car. But he
steadfastly denied the murder.