Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1959-05-23 Thaddeus T. Stokes MEMPHIS WORLD The South's Oldest and leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 564 BEALE—Phone JA.6- 4030 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager Entered In the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn., as second-Clam mail under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 THADDEUS T. STOKES Managing Editor SMITH FLEMING Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year $5.00—6 Months $3.00—3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper—non sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to the interest of its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. Signs Of A New Revival Of Communications Through the medium of effective communications, the country and the world at least have enjoyed a soft peace in these times of rumors and cold wars. By communications there is being held together the United Nations, and it cannot be denied that certain clearances have been directly responsible for what has been salvaged through' diplomacy, in the realization of good relations. Much of the confusion and attendant unrest and misconstruction around this school question in the deep South, are due directly to either a breakdown of communications or a refusal on the part of the people to indicate such a tolerant spirit as would encourage politicians that the house is now set in order. for factual understanding. A study commission up in the state of Virginia, a tight resistance state, apparently in a mood to prompt frankness, hands the massive resistance states this to ponder over: "Neither the General Assembly nor the governor has the power to overrule or nullify the final decrees of the federal courts in the school cases." This is an entering wedge into the tight wad of communications. It would pass along the idea that massive resistance is not the answer; that the decision interpreting the law is an accomplished fact, and that no state nor state official has the authority to stand up, as some are doing, and tell a people that, certain portions or a federal court decision are unconstitutional. In the dim distance, when this powerful renaissance was in flower, politicians inoculated the voting public with the soothe that "this could not happen here." Thusly, the people had no reason to honestly condition themselves for the inevitable. Beefing and bluffing did not do the job, and what loomed as a speck, on the belly of the waters of the ocean, dimly seen, now casts its advancing waves against the pebbles of the shore. Neither is there anything heard these days about a certain "manifesto" by a deep South congressional delegation, in these times of upsets of "what couldn't happen here." By this spurt in communications, one of the most liberal governors Georgia ever had in recent times, exploded the county unit myth and made himself once again available for public office. The opening of honest and forthright communications, might do much in these times when the people are actually awakening from the long Rip Van Winkle sleep to which they have been reduced by those whom they kept in office upon a guarantee to protect them from the terrible malady, of which their forefathers made a terror, while even in the dark ages of slavery, were preaching white supremacy by day, and mixing the races by night. Now, like Mr. Micawber, in Dicken's tales, waiting for something to turn up, we linger to see if a sale can be made of the Constitution being unconstitutional. Verboten - Alabama Style After Hitler and his Nazi gang gained control of Germany, 'verboten' signs were a common sight there. Trade unions were forbidden, democracy was forbidden and so was the Jews' right to live. Not long ago, in Montgomery, Ala., the Citizens' Council issued its own 'verboten' sign. Making use of a half-page ad in a local newspaper, the Council declared: "No white person should participate in any consultations directed towards 'working out' the 'school situation' with any person of either race who is promoting integration in any way . . . In no discussions between any groups of persons shall any proposals to alter or modify our segregation pattern in the schools be a subject of consideration or discussion. Any person who violates these standards will; in our sober opinion, be adjudged and marked by the people of these communities to be an enemy of the white people and a traitor to the heritage and cause of white people ..." The Council did not fail to mention what would happen to so-called traitors "to the heritage and cause of white people." The ad made clear that "an aroused and informed public will make it unprofitable and uncomfortable for any (such) person to remain in our community . . . From now on the Council must call a spade a spade, and name the names of friend and enemy." The Citizens' Council meant what it said. The segregationists hounded members of interracial groups, took flash pictures and noted license numbers of their cars as they come out of meetings. Soon after the segregationists revealed the names, license numbers, and telephone numbers in their publications, the integrationists received anonymous telephone calls in which vile and obsene insults were hurled against them. There had been some carelessness in taking down license numbers. Soon ads appeared in the local press saying: "We are segregationists, we were not at the meeting . . . etc." It didn't take long for frightened people to disassociate themselves from one another. Husbands hesitated to defend wives and churches hesitated to defend their members. The segregationists were successful in raping the minds of Montgomery's citizens. Their fear of being obstracized from the community was so great that they readily conformed, sub mitted to the will of the segregationists in so doing, they gave up their-individuality, their self-respect for a program that runs contrary to Christian thought and the Constitution of the United-States. Like the Germans who under Hitler were made to believe they were Germans only if they were Nazis, the citizens of Montgomery are no longer enemies "of the white people" as long as they support the segregationists' point of view. WISHING WELL Registered U. S. Patent Office, HERE is a pleasant little same that will give you a message every day. It is a numerical puzzle designed to spell out 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 figure give you. Implementing Victories Seen As "Future Task" Of Negro Lawyers The Negro lawyer's future task "is the implementation of hard won victories achieved in the highest judicial tribunal in ' the western world," Attorney A. T. Walden told the Butler St. YMCA Hungry Club Wednesday as the Gate City Bar Association highlighted its celebration of Law Week. "He must be the author, the architect and fabricator of the frame of reference in which and by which his fellows must march forward to the realization of the ultimate goal of first class citizenship in the lifetime or the present generation." Speaking on the theme "The Negro Lawyer In The Changing Scene," the dean of Atlanta Negro lawyers traced the background Of American constitutional law and observed: "Every lawyer and every judge takes an oath to uphold and detend the Constitution of the United States. The first thing that the law school learns in the study of constitutional law is the fact that the Constitution of the United States, the laws of the Congress and treaties negotiated by the President and ratified by the Senate constitute the Supreme Law of the land. "That question was settled more than one hundred and fifty years ago and since then there has been no judicial dissent from the same. It is inconceivable, therefore, that officials in high places who know better should seek to influence laymen to believe otherwise. They are rendering a distinct disservice to their country and to constitutional liberty and everytime our country is striving with might and mane to convince the uncommitted world of the virtues and efficiency of our democratic ideals." Mr. Walden declared that "the struggles of the Negro people of this country for equality under the law afford the finest and most striking demonstration of adherence to law that has ever been witnessed in the age - old fight which men and races have carried on against the oppression of the mighty. They have not resorted to violence to accomplish their objectives, They have taken recourse to the orderly processes of the law and what they have not been able thusly to achive, they have appealed, to and left to the consciousness of right -thinking people among their countrymen." The role of the Negro lawyer in securing civil and political rights for the group was traced with high tribute to the performance of the late Charles Houston, Judge William H. Hassie and Thurgood Marshall. "In the case of the Negro lawyer," Atty. Walden asserted while giving credit to the contribution of education and the church for racial progress, "there have been few instances in our racial history when so many have become so vastly indebted to so few." He pointed out however, that all the walls of Jericho have been leveled and all the Rubicons have not been crossed. The Jericho walls or racial superiority and hate, with their evil offspring, imbedded for centuries in the innocent consciousness of tender babes, no not bulge, even with the multiple blows of the righteous people of the world," the speaker noted. "The barriers of Rubicon floods do not subside overnight. The promised tend of full equality under the law, even when entry therein has been achieved, does not yield its fruitage without the tremendous expenditure of sweat and blood and tears." In his presentation of the speaker, Atty. S. S. Robinson noted that there are only 21 Negro lawyers in the Atlanta area, some 400 in the South and around 2,000 in the entire nation. Mrs. R. Pruden Herndon, president of the Gate City Bar Association, introduced lawyers present, while Assistant School Supt. Hilliard, Bowen moderated the session and H. S. Murphy presented guests. Atty. Cassandra Maxwell Birnie conducted the question - answer period. The May 20 Hungry Club session was the final in the 1958 - 59 service. The new series, to be planned this summer, will start in September. Supreme Court To corporate tax from the NAACP for the preceding seven years. The court ruled last year that the state of Alabama could not force the NAACP to disclose its membership lists as a step in Its efforts to oust the organization from the state. In challenging the Little Rock and North Little Rock ordinances, NAACP attorneys argued that they were invalidated by the Alabama decision. But they were ovhaving been subpenaed in SeptemCourt. Their appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court followed. In other actions, the high court: Refused to upset an order permitting the Internal Revenue Service to examine the records of a. Philadelphia teamster local The records now are In the custody of the Senate Rackets Committee, having been supenaed in September 1957. Set aside, 5-4, a $23,177 damage award against the AFL - CIO Electrical Workers for picketing a Sioux Falls, S. D. construction project. The action was in line with a recent court ruling on Denied a hearing to six men facing the death penalty for various crimes. They were Walter J. Byomin in Ohio. Edward Simon Wein and Clyde Bates in California. Joseph Oliver Jerkins in Louisiana and Edward Eckwerth and Leroy Keith in New York. FACE DEATH PENALTY corporate tax from the NAACP for the preceding seven years. The court ruled last year that the state of Alabama could not force the NAACP to disclose its membership lists as a step in Its efforts to oust the organization from the state. In challenging the Little Rock and North Little Rock ordinances, NAACP attorneys argued that they were invalidated by the Alabama decision. But they were ovhaving been subpenaed in SeptemCourt. Their appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court followed. In other actions, the high court: Refused to upset an order permitting the Internal Revenue Service to examine the records of a. Philadelphia teamster local The records now are In the custody of the Senate Rackets Committee, having been supenaed in September 1957. Set aside, 5-4, a $23,177 damage award against the AFL - CIO Electrical Workers for picketing a Sioux Falls, S. D. construction project. The action was in line with a recent court ruling on Denied a hearing to six men facing the death penalty for various crimes. They were Walter J. Byomin in Ohio. Edward Simon Wein and Clyde Bates in California. Joseph Oliver Jerkins in Louisiana and Edward Eckwerth and Leroy Keith in New York. Loeb Opposes Orgill his first four-year term in public office. Orglli, who was defeated in his try for governor last year, is completing his first term as mayor. He said in his announcement. If he is elected, he will hot seek another public office while he is mayor. Eliehue Stanback benefits of their tax dollars?" He continued, "I propose to equalze tax assessments where the above and other unfair conditions exist." Stanback also criticized the city commission form of government I favor a strong mayor form of government and I will work toward that end." He added, "the City commission form of government is in the minority in Amerca less than 400 cities. It night be alright for small towns but recent history shows that it s a disadvantage, for Memphis." He continued "wherever absolute authority Is vested in the lands of a very raw individuals, they can manipulate votes, twist he affairs of state into a dictaorial and a tyrannical fashion." Stanback, who has lived in Memphis more than 30 years, attended LaRose and Melrose elementary schools, graduated from Bunker T. Washington High School and atended Central YMCA College and S currently studying to become a certified public accountant in the LaSalle Extension, University of Chicago." He is married to the former Miss Ellen Richmond of Holly Springs, Miss. They are the parents of two sons, Eliehue Jr. 16, William Earl, 13, and two daughters, Deloris Ann, 2 and Alice Marie, 11 The Stanbacks reside, at 2485 Deadrick Ave. Man Slain In Battle old Abadee were relied as they reached the front porch Two other officers, Chief Cal List and Assistant Chief Donlon Richey were wounded, and police retreated - unable to reach the bodies of King and Abadee. Victor apparently took the pistols of the slain officers. Fears rose for the safety of the boys, and police took up positions on nearby rooftops and behind shelter at the rear and sides of the house. The area, located near the Lalayette Airport, was roped off to keep back crowds of curious spectators. The sporadic gunfire could be heard over the city, police used loudspeakers to warn curiosity seekers of the danger. The gunbattle ended swiftly alter the youngsters were released Officers began a crossfire that shattered windows of the house. Tear gas bombs were hurled inside, and the house caught tire. Officers advanced cautiously when the shotgun fire from within ceased They fired from behind police cars and ambulances. Victor's body was, found riddled at least 10 times' with bullets and shot. His body was charred by the heat and flames. Mrs. Duchome was killed by two blasts from the shotgun fired into her chest. Police said the boys, passing on the street, saw Victor run from the house. They said we seized them at the point of the shotgun. HOUSE CATCHES FIRE old Abadee were relied as they reached the front porch Two other officers, Chief Cal List and Assistant Chief Donlon Richey were wounded, and police retreated - unable to reach the bodies of King and Abadee. Victor apparently took the pistols of the slain officers. Fears rose for the safety of the boys, and police took up positions on nearby rooftops and behind shelter at the rear and sides of the house. The area, located near the Lalayette Airport, was roped off to keep back crowds of curious spectators. The sporadic gunfire could be heard over the city, police used loudspeakers to warn curiosity seekers of the danger. The gunbattle ended swiftly alter the youngsters were released Officers began a crossfire that shattered windows of the house. Tear gas bombs were hurled inside, and the house caught tire. Officers advanced cautiously when the shotgun fire from within ceased They fired from behind police cars and ambulances. Victor's body was, found riddled at least 10 times' with bullets and shot. His body was charred by the heat and flames. Mrs. Duchome was killed by two blasts from the shotgun fired into her chest. Police said the boys, passing on the street, saw Victor run from the house. They said we seized them at the point of the shotgun. Rumors Of still. State Atty. Gen. Joe T. Patterson came to Poplarville Tuesday and conferred with FBI and local officials. Before meeting with FBI officials, Patterson conferred for an hour with Pearl River County Prosecuting Atty. William Stewart, Dist. Atty. Vernon Broome. Poplarville Mayor Pat Hyde and Sheriff Osborne Moody. The officials then went to FBI headquarters. Patterson, the first high state official to arrive on the scene of the lynching investigation, said he came to talk with the federal agents about aliened "harassment" of citizens by the FBI. The FBI would not comment on the meeting, but Patterson and Broome said the federal officers flatly denied any intimidation of citizens. Parker, 23 - year - old Lumber-, ton. Miss., truck driver charged with raping a white, woman, was taken from the Pearl River-County Jail here April 25 and wag shot. He was abducted from an unguarded Jail cell, by nine or 10 masked white men. The FBI entered the case almost immediately. Parkers body was found nine days later In the Pearl River, 20 miles west of here. He apparently was slain soon alter his abduction. FBI agents questioned a number of persons at length last week. Reports that two of those questioned suffered illness, possibly as a result of the Interrogation, brought complaints that citizens were being harassed and intimidated. MEMPHIS WORLD Want Ad Information Call JA. 6-4030 REPAIR SERVICE REMODEL-REPAIR-PAINT ADD-A-ROOM BUSINESS WOMEN - SELL NEWSBOYS WANTED GET YOUR VITAMINS REPAIRS HELP WANTED - FEMALE HELP WANTED MALE - FEMALE HOMES FOR SALE FOR SALE 48-INCH ATTIC FAN FOR SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR SALE FOR SALE CAFE FOR SALE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED HOMES Closing Schools Court handed down its ruling, Mr. Wilkins noted that progress had been made, "but not nearly enough While 400,000 Negro children are in integrated systems, some 2500,000 are still in segregated systems. Considering the unbroken pattern of segregation existing five years ago, some progress has been made, but considering the monumental job ahead, far too little progress has been registered." There is an answer, Mr. Wilkins declared two attempts by Mississippians to Justify the lynching of Mack Charles Parker on the ground that the supreme Court would have upheld a conviction because of the exclusion of Negroes from Jury service. There is a simple remedy for this problem, If problem it is," he stated, "and that is to permit or even encourage the registration of qualified Negro citizens so that they can vote and be eligible for service on Juries. The disfranchisement of Negro citizens in Mississippi is the mast scandalous in the, entire South." The fear of Governor James P. Coleman and others that the Poplarville lynching would stimulate strong federal civil rights legislation "constitutes an admission that the Negro vote outside of the Deep South has reached such a size and importance that the vote of white citizens in the Deep South's political position is at best a patchwork which no longer can count securely on an overriding racialism within the region, or on the indispensability of the Deep South white vote to either major party." The NAACP leader rejected violence as an instrument of racial advancement and reiterated disavowal of any "NAACP official who advocates violence even though he be a volunteer worker and head a small branch. Here is no question of free speech, for he has a right to that on violence or any other subject, in his own name Here Is no question of the right of self - defense, for the NAACP has stood squarely for. that over the years." RIGHTS LEGISLATION FEARED Court handed down its ruling, Mr. Wilkins noted that progress had been made, "but not nearly enough While 400,000 Negro children are in integrated systems, some 2500,000 are still in segregated systems. Considering the unbroken pattern of segregation existing five years ago, some progress has been made, but considering the monumental job ahead, far too little progress has been registered." There is an answer, Mr. Wilkins declared two attempts by Mississippians to Justify the lynching of Mack Charles Parker on the ground that the supreme Court would have upheld a conviction because of the exclusion of Negroes from Jury service. There is a simple remedy for this problem, If problem it is," he stated, "and that is to permit or even encourage the registration of qualified Negro citizens so that they can vote and be eligible for service on Juries. The disfranchisement of Negro citizens in Mississippi is the mast scandalous in the, entire South." The fear of Governor James P. Coleman and others that the Poplarville lynching would stimulate strong federal civil rights legislation "constitutes an admission that the Negro vote outside of the Deep South has reached such a size and importance that the vote of white citizens in the Deep South's political position is at best a patchwork which no longer can count securely on an overriding racialism within the region, or on the indispensability of the Deep South white vote to either major party." The NAACP leader rejected violence as an instrument of racial advancement and reiterated disavowal of any "NAACP official who advocates violence even though he be a volunteer worker and head a small branch. Here is no question of free speech, for he has a right to that on violence or any other subject, in his own name Here Is no question of the right of self - defense, for the NAACP has stood squarely for. that over the years." The New WAYNE D. OVERHOLSER Thriller THE LONE DEPUTY 1957, Wayne D. Overholser, From the novel published by The Memphis Ca, Distributed by King Features Symbols "THERE WAS ONLY SO much waiting a man could stand. and Price Regan had a feeling that Pete Nance could endure the waiting better than He could. The gunman was the biggest obstacle that stood Between Price and Cole Weston. Later there would be Weston and some of his Rocking C hands, Curly Blue in particular, but he wouldn't worry about that now. He turned to Laura. "Will you go tell Curly I'm here and I've got Bruce Jarvis?" She met his eyes, hesitating, then said, "All right, I'll tell him." "Good." He smiled as if there were no great importance attached to what he was asking her to do what take the horses to the stable. Jean, I want you to keep Bruce here in the hotel. I don't know what Weston will do when he hits town: but he's got to the end of his airing. With the murders he's got behind him now, one or two more won't make any difference." Bruce burst out, "What good will it do anybody If I do talk? We can't last without Walt Cronin and his store. Chances are folks are moving: off the creek now." "Maybe," Price said, "but what your neighbors do has got nothing to do with what you and Jean do And there's something else I reckon is the most important of all. Something you haven't learned but I have. I wan older than you when I learned it Maybe I never would have learned it if I hadn't been taught it by a good man named . Ralph Carew. I'd like to do for you what he done for me, but maybe you just don't have enough sand in your craw." Price walked to the door and opened it, motioning for Laura to leave She stepped into the hall, and Price wan over the: threshold before Bruce asked in a ragged voice, "What was it?" "Lock the door, Jean," Price said: He gave the boy a searching look, not at ail sure there was anything in the kid to tie to. After all, that was the real answer the intangible qualities inside a man that make him do the things he does. "What was it you learned?" Bruce cried. "I learned that a man who can't look at himself in the mirror and be a little proud of what the seea there just ain't no man at all. Right now you can't, so you'll run and you'll keep on running. Someday maybe you'll wind up shooting yourself, and nobody, Jean or Susie or nobody, will give a good thin damn," Price went out and shut the door. Laura put her hands up to his cheeks in a gentle caress. "Do you have to look into-"the mirror?" He nodded. "But there's something more important to me than that. I've got to live so you can look at me. She kissed him and she let him see how proud she was of him, than she whirled, h" skirt flow ing away from her ankles, and went down the front stairs. Price left through the back, walking to the Madden house, and, mounting his horse, led the other animal to the rear of the livery stable. He called. "Barney?" De Long came out of the tack room, hurrying along the runway. "Price, where in blazes have you been?" "Fetching in Bruce Jarvis." rice said. "Take care' of these horses will you?" When De Long reached for the reins, Price added. "I hear Pete Nance is in town." "He's gunning for you," De Long said. This is rotten deal boy if you get him you've still got to buck Weston and he's got a pretty salty bunch. Curly Blue, for one. He ain't gonna forget the licking you gave him. The odds are too long, Price. You can't win." "I've got to try," Price' said. "Looks to me like I'll be trying done." De Long retreated a step, "I'll take care of the horses." Price made a careful check of his gun. He wasn't at all sure he could take Nance. If he won, he felt there was a chance that Cole Weston and his bunch would cave. A slim chance, but still a chance, for Pete Nance represented a big investment on Weston's part, an investment aimed to take care of exactly this kind of situation So it was better to jump Nance now and not wait. But when he stepped into the street, Max Barker called from the jail doorway, "Price, come here. Barry Madden wants to see you." Price turned toward the jail, and stepped Into the office. Harker shut the door behind him. Madden sat at the desk that had been Price's from the time he had come to Saddle Rock. Madden got up slowly. He was a sick man, maybe a crazy man. He walked around the end of the deak, his hands trembling. Price gazed at Harker, who was wearing a star and had a gun under his waistband. Price sensed that this was trouble and not the kind he wanted. No matter how it turned out it would not answer the problem that faced him, and he wasn't sure what Harker would do Now the man turned to the gun rack and took down a shotgun. "Price," Madden said, "you're a fool The worst kind of a stupid fool. I told you to let this alone but you wouldn't listen." He stood ten feet from Price, his hands trembling more violently than ever, then, without warning, ha lunged at Price, swinging a wild blow to the head. Knowing Madden as well as he did, this attack was the last thing Price expected. Surprise held him inactive for a moment so that he barely ducked the blow in time. Price said sharply, "Stop it, Barry!" and backed up a step. Madden didn't, atop. Ha cursed Price in a steady monotone and tried to bit him again. Harker, standing by me gun rack, didn't say or do anything. Price, his patience frayed and seeing no excuse for this blocked Madden's inept blow with a hard right that retched the banker flat on the jail floor. Madden raised himself on an elbow and stared at Price as it puzzled by what had Happened. Price backed up to the wall to could watch both Madden, and, Harker. "What are you doing with that shotgun, Max?" thrice asked. "I'm the town marshal Harker said. "Seems to me that one of my duties is to Keep the town from being shot to hell. Price gave Harker a close look not quite sure what was in the store keeper a mind Maybe he was giving a warning not to start any shooting. "I don't get it Max," Price said You're a counter jumper. You're way over your bead, with things stacking up the way they are." "I'm the best 'here la." Harker nodded at Madden, who was still on the floor. "I'm better man that he is," He went to the deak, Hied his, pockets with shells, broke the shotgun and saw that it was loaded, then snapped it shut and moved to the door. "I m going outside and let you have a talk with Barry." He went out, closing the door, Price said, "Get up. Barry. Sit there at the desk. Looks like it's past time for us to have a talk," Madden got up, rubbing the bruise on his jaw, and sat down at the desk. That one blow had made a changed man out of him. The arrogance, the smooth. Confident manner, the desire to deminate the characteristics that Price had disliked in him so much now seemed to be gone. Instead, there was a kind of wonder as if he couldn't believe this had happened to him. "Nobody ever hit me before," Madden said. Maybe you never took a swing at another man before," Price said. "Did you expect me to stand there and let you beat hell out of me?" "I don't know," Madden said, "I guess I never thought about it." Price know he had to hunt Pete Nance down and brace him: he had to drive the man out of town or kill him. But set against that knowledge was the feeling that for the firs time since he had met Barry Madden, the man had been humbled enough to talk He had never understood why Madden had followed the rughless course Weston had led. Suddenly Price made his decision. It was important that he find out what prompted Barry Madden, Pete Nance could wait. CHAPTER 34 1957, Wayne D. Overholser, From the novel published by The Memphis Ca, Distributed by King Features Symbols "THERE WAS ONLY SO much waiting a man could stand. and Price Regan had a feeling that Pete Nance could endure the waiting better than He could. The gunman was the biggest obstacle that stood Between Price and Cole Weston. Later there would be Weston and some of his Rocking C hands, Curly Blue in particular, but he wouldn't worry about that now. He turned to Laura. "Will you go tell Curly I'm here and I've got Bruce Jarvis?" She met his eyes, hesitating, then said, "All right, I'll tell him." "Good." He smiled as if there were no great importance attached to what he was asking her to do what take the horses to the stable. Jean, I want you to keep Bruce here in the hotel. I don't know what Weston will do when he hits town: but he's got to the end of his airing. With the murders he's got behind him now, one or two more won't make any difference." Bruce burst out, "What good will it do anybody If I do talk? We can't last without Walt Cronin and his store. Chances are folks are moving: off the creek now." "Maybe," Price said, "but what your neighbors do has got nothing to do with what you and Jean do And there's something else I reckon is the most important of all. Something you haven't learned but I have. I wan older than you when I learned it Maybe I never would have learned it if I hadn't been taught it by a good man named . Ralph Carew. I'd like to do for you what he done for me, but maybe you just don't have enough sand in your craw." Price walked to the door and opened it, motioning for Laura to leave She stepped into the hall, and Price wan over the: threshold before Bruce asked in a ragged voice, "What was it?" "Lock the door, Jean," Price said: He gave the boy a searching look, not at ail sure there was anything in the kid to tie to. After all, that was the real answer the intangible qualities inside a man that make him do the things he does. "What was it you learned?" Bruce cried. "I learned that a man who can't look at himself in the mirror and be a little proud of what the seea there just ain't no man at all. Right now you can't, so you'll run and you'll keep on running. Someday maybe you'll wind up shooting yourself, and nobody, Jean or Susie or nobody, will give a good thin damn," Price went out and shut the door. Laura put her hands up to his cheeks in a gentle caress. "Do you have to look into-"the mirror?" He nodded. "But there's something more important to me than that. I've got to live so you can look at me. She kissed him and she let him see how proud she was of him, than she whirled, h" skirt flow ing away from her ankles, and went down the front stairs. Price left through the back, walking to the Madden house, and, mounting his horse, led the other animal to the rear of the livery stable. He called. "Barney?" De Long came out of the tack room, hurrying along the runway. "Price, where in blazes have you been?" "Fetching in Bruce Jarvis." rice said. "Take care' of these horses will you?" When De Long reached for the reins, Price added. "I hear Pete Nance is in town." "He's gunning for you," De Long said. This is rotten deal boy if you get him you've still got to buck Weston and he's got a pretty salty bunch. Curly Blue, for one. He ain't gonna forget the licking you gave him. The odds are too long, Price. You can't win." "I've got to try," Price' said. "Looks to me like I'll be trying done." De Long retreated a step, "I'll take care of the horses." Price made a careful check of his gun. He wasn't at all sure he could take Nance. If he won, he felt there was a chance that Cole Weston and his bunch would cave. A slim chance, but still a chance, for Pete Nance represented a big investment on Weston's part, an investment aimed to take care of exactly this kind of situation So it was better to jump Nance now and not wait. But when he stepped into the street, Max Barker called from the jail doorway, "Price, come here. Barry Madden wants to see you." Price turned toward the jail, and stepped Into the office. Harker shut the door behind him. Madden sat at the desk that had been Price's from the time he had come to Saddle Rock. Madden got up slowly. He was a sick man, maybe a crazy man. He walked around the end of the deak, his hands trembling. Price gazed at Harker, who was wearing a star and had a gun under his waistband. Price sensed that this was trouble and not the kind he wanted. No matter how it turned out it would not answer the problem that faced him, and he wasn't sure what Harker would do Now the man turned to the gun rack and took down a shotgun. "Price," Madden said, "you're a fool The worst kind of a stupid fool. I told you to let this alone but you wouldn't listen." He stood ten feet from Price, his hands trembling more violently than ever, then, without warning, ha lunged at Price, swinging a wild blow to the head. Knowing Madden as well as he did, this attack was the last thing Price expected. Surprise held him inactive for a moment so that he barely ducked the blow in time. Price said sharply, "Stop it, Barry!" and backed up a step. Madden didn't, atop. Ha cursed Price in a steady monotone and tried to bit him again. Harker, standing by me gun rack, didn't say or do anything. Price, his patience frayed and seeing no excuse for this blocked Madden's inept blow with a hard right that retched the banker flat on the jail floor. Madden raised himself on an elbow and stared at Price as it puzzled by what had Happened. Price backed up to the wall to could watch both Madden, and, Harker. "What are you doing with that shotgun, Max?" thrice asked. "I'm the town marshal Harker said. "Seems to me that one of my duties is to Keep the town from being shot to hell. Price gave Harker a close look not quite sure what was in the store keeper a mind Maybe he was giving a warning not to start any shooting. "I don't get it Max," Price said You're a counter jumper. You're way over your bead, with things stacking up the way they are." "I'm the best 'here la." Harker nodded at Madden, who was still on the floor. "I'm better man that he is," He went to the deak, Hied his, pockets with shells, broke the shotgun and saw that it was loaded, then snapped it shut and moved to the door. "I m going outside and let you have a talk with Barry." He went out, closing the door, Price said, "Get up. Barry. Sit there at the desk. Looks like it's past time for us to have a talk," Madden got up, rubbing the bruise on his jaw, and sat down at the desk. That one blow had made a changed man out of him. The arrogance, the smooth. Confident manner, the desire to deminate the characteristics that Price had disliked in him so much now seemed to be gone. Instead, there was a kind of wonder as if he couldn't believe this had happened to him. "Nobody ever hit me before," Madden said. Maybe you never took a swing at another man before," Price said. "Did you expect me to stand there and let you beat hell out of me?" "I don't know," Madden said, "I guess I never thought about it." Price know he had to hunt Pete Nance down and brace him: he had to drive the man out of town or kill him. But set against that knowledge was the feeling that for the firs time since he had met Barry Madden, the man had been humbled enough to talk He had never understood why Madden had followed the rughless course Weston had led. Suddenly Price made his decision. It was important that he find out what prompted Barry Madden, Pete Nance could wait. New Trial Denied grant the new trial. However, he was not Immediately available tor comment on the ruling following the hearing. Slotin and co- defense counsel Dan Copeland for three hours argued before -the Judge that smith was deprived of "due process of the law" at the second trial where the young father was convicted for the alleged criminal assault on two South Atlanta white women and sentenced to death in the electric chair. Their main contentions were that the court-appointed attorney who defended Smith at the second trial of the case was admittedly unprepared to lead the defense of the capital offense trial. Slotin and Copeland Introduced at the hearing a sworn affidavit from the second trial defense lawyer stating that the attorney was not adequately prepared to defend Smith and that ho had asked the court for a delap in the trial of the case based on the grounds of his defensive unreadiness. Rev. Needham Bentley tablished residence about 30 years ago after leaving Memphis. Rev. Bentley died at his residence suddenly May 13. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. B. Miller and burial was In the Booker T. Washington cemetery there. A native of Memphis, he once had an office in the old Solvent Bank building on Beale St., in the early 20s. At that time he- was In charge of the Woodman's Lodge here. Before moving from Memphis in 1929, he was a member of St James AM E Church where he was Sunday School superintendent before entering the ministry at age of 29. He received his education at the old LeMoyne Institute, now LeMoyne college. During his ministry, he pastured at Nowater, Okla., and other-cities in Oklhoma. Survival include his wife. Mrs. Margaret J. Bentley, one daughter, the Rev, Mother Viola Bentley Hall of Memphis; a grandson. Nathaniel Charles- Hall Of Los Angeles Cal., two granddaughters, Mrs. Emma Jean Hall,- Nadolyn Jean Hall, two great-granddaughters Miss Christie Anta Hall and Miss Gwendolyn V. Hall, all of Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Roxie Tucker, a brother, Robert Bentley of Memphis and a nephew of Chicago. A Good Way To Gel Rid Of A Bad Policeman Since some Negro Americans frequently complain about police brutality, we took special interests the following news release from Port; Moresby, New Guinea (Africa): "Cannibals in the Purari hills raided the village of Matuari and killed and ate Patrolman Obu, the village patrolman." This is a good way to get rid of a bad policeman. You simply raise enough money to send him to the Purari Hills on the pretense that you have forgotten his past actions and want to make up for any misunderstanding by giving him a vacation. Senator Hart For Douglas 'Rights' In a statement filed on May 13 with the Senate Subcommittee on constitutional Rights, Senator Philip A. Hart." (DMich.) urged adoption of the Douglas Civil Rights Bill (S. 810) as "the bare minimum of action by this Congress." Hart went on to state: "This problem is a reality throughout the Nation, North and South, city and country in Jobs and neighborhoods, in voting booths and church pews. Action by the Congress giving sanction to the decrees of our courts, giving sustenance to governmental fair practices in matters or race, religion and ethnic origin, giving national consistency to a patchwork of contradictory but on the whole favorable state practices is not only essential, It is inevitable. It can either be undertaken now in an atmosphere that is reasonably constructive, reasonably calm, reasonably hopeful, or we can wait as Attorney General Rogers suggests, and then later, after further-crimes enact the inevitable." Turkish violence over Inonu stirs bitterness. Klondike 8; Black Caps, 0. Tate Red Sox 12; City Gems 0. Orange Mound 5; Bruce3. Humko 6; Douglas Vets 1. Athletics 6; Magnolia Eagles 3. Melvin "Bubba" Mathis pitched the first no-hitter, no-run game of the season in the Semi-pro League striking out 13 men. Seek Recall Of Little Rock, Ark, Members of Board Petitions asking recall of all Six members of the Little Rock School Board were filed on May 12. Dr. Drew Agar, chairman to put a stop to this outrageous purge by a committee which wants to oust three staunchly segregationist members of the board for firing 44 teachers last week, filed recall petitions early on May 12. Late Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Margaret c. Jackson, president of the Segregationist Mother's League of Central High, filed petitions to recall the three socalled" racially moderate" members of the board. Dr. Agar's petitions carried 9 603 signatures. The petitions Mrs. Jackson riled had 7,200 names. Mrs. Jackson said her organizaton wants board members' Ted L. Lamb. Evorett Tucker. Jr. and Russell H. Matson Jr., recalled. The three walked out of last week's board meeting in protest of what they called "irregularities" on the part of the board members Robert W. Laster, Ed I. McKinley and Ben Rowland Sr. Lamb. Tucker and Matson were labeled "integrationists" by Gov. Orval Faubus when they announced they would seek election to the hoard last November. Laster, McKinley and Rowland proceeded, after the walkout, to fire 41 teachers and school officials who they charged were "integrationists."