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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31

till I find out where my girl is.
You're wanted anyway, my laddie
buck; there's legal reward on your
head, right now-and part of it was
put up by me-"
81 heard that" Bill Roper said.
"When I get ready to leave, I'll
leave, all right. My advice to you is
to begin using your head. I may be
in a kind of funny position. But it
puts me where I know things about
the Montana range that neither you
nor your outfits have got any clue to.
If you want your daughter back you
better figure to use what I know
about the Deep Grass"
Lew Gordon compelled himself to
temporize. What he couldn't get
around was his own belief that Rop.
er knew something definite, specific,
about where Jody had gone-or had
started out to 60. He must have
known also, in spite of the bluff to
which anger had prompted him, that
he could not hold Roper here when
Roper decided to leave, nor force
any information from him in any
way whatever.
''What is it you want to know"
he asked at last, helpless, and angry
in his helplessness.
''In the first place, l want to know
what made you think Jody was
with me?"
"You swear" Lew Gordon de.
manded, "you don't know the an.
swer to that?"
81 don't swear anything" Roper
said. II asked you question, Lew"
Lew Gordon hesitated. It was q
good many years since anyone had
talked to him in the tone Bill Roper
took; but for once the purpose ir
hand empowered the violence of his
natural reaction. He turned from
his litter of papers, and handed Bill
Roper the little scrap of Jody's
handwriting which was all she hac
left to indicate where she was gone
zone of you must be made to see
reason. I am going to talk to Billy
Roper myself
When Bill Roper had read that
the eyes of the two men met in hos
tile question.
"This looks mighty like a false
lead, to me-" Bill Roper said at last
Like as if she aimed to cover ur
where she really went Don't
hardly seem likely she'd start Out
| to come to me-
81 know she went looking for you
because she said she did. My CIR.
don't lie"
Roper shrugged. "Why should she
do that?"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31
INSTALLMENT Is
THE STORY so FAR:

Jody Gordon. and her father. After wiping
Thorpe out of Texas. Roper conducted a
great raid upon Thorpe's vast herds In
Montana. Roper left for Lew Gordon's
home when told that Jody had disappeared.
Unable to reconcile her father with Roper.
beyond his age, in a face so dark
and lean-carved it was hard to rec
ognize behind it the face of Dusty
Kings kid. He made no attempt
to answer a question which was nee
essarily meaningless to him. He
finished pulling off his gloves, unbut-
toned his coat, and hooked his
thumbs in his belt before he spoke.
81 heard yesterday that Jody has
turned up missing" he said. 81
came to Miles hell-for-leather to see
if it's so. From what I could find
out down in the town, no word has
come in on where she is. If that's
true, l don't aim to give my time
to anything else until she's found" "
''You mean to deny you know
where she ISL" Gordon shouted.
Roper's voice did not change.
"You talk like a fool" he said.
Lew Gordon's eyes were savagely
intent upon Roper's face; he was
trying to discover if this man could
be believed.
"You may be lying" he added at
last, "and you may not, but I'll tell
you this-you sure won't leave here
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31
CHAPTER XIX

A tired horse is not much in
clined to shy, toward the end of
long days travel; and when Bill
Roper's horse snorted and jumped
sidewise out of it's tracks the rider
looked twice, curiously, at the car
cass which had spooked his pony. A
dead pony on the winter range be-
ing fairly common thing, he was
about to ride on, when he noticed
something about this particular dead
pony which caused him to pull UP
and dismount for a closer examina-
ton.
After leaving Lew Gordon he had
ridden deep into the night. Half an
hour would bring him within sight
of the Fork Greek rendezvous, and
he was eager to push on, so that his
deduction as to Jody's whereabouts
might have quick answer, one way
or the other; but when he had ex-
amined the dead pony he was glad
that he had checked.
This was no winter-killed pony.
The bright trace of frozen blood that
had first caught Roper's eye was
the result of two gunshot wounds in
neck and quarters.
A dark foreboding possessed Rop-
er as he studied the dead pony. Rop-
err himself was short-cutting through
the hills, following no trail. The CO.
incidence that he had stumbled upon
the carcass in all those snowy
wastes could be accounted for only
in one way: both Roper and the
pony had followed a line of least
resistance through the hills-a line
that had the Fork Creek rendezvous
at it's far end. His discovery told
him that there had been fighting at
Fork Creek within the last forty
eight hours. If he was right in
believing that Jody had come to
Fork Creek
He remounted and swung north
ward, mercilessly whipping up his
weary pony, but approaching the
Fork Creek camp roundabout, be-
hind masking hills and through hid
den ravines. An hour passed be-
fore he threw down his reins and
crept on hands and knees to the
crest of ridge commanding the
valley of the Fork.
He moved half mile closer and
resumed his watch; but for some
time he could make out nothing.
Then just as the sun set, three
men moved out of the cabin. For a
moment or two they stood in the
snow close together. One went back
into the cabin. The two others dis
appeared for moment, to reappear
mounted. They separated, and Rop-
er watched them ride in opposite d.
rections up the nearest slopes of the
hills. These passed beyond his sight,
but in another minute or two their
ways were retraced by two other
riders
"Outposts,' Roper decided.
Somebody's keeping hell of a
careful watch"
fTO BE CONTINUED
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31
Notes of an
Innocent ByStander:

The Wireless: There's no great
loss to American dialers in Italy's
ban of our newscasters. Their copy
had been whitfield to nothingness by
the censors anyway. You'll recall
VIM. Shirer decided to quit Berlin
when all they left him to say was
Goebbels' propaganda i. :. The
Goering item showed that the news
lest stuff originates outside the Axis
borders Sen. Taft, who was
the darling of the COP. dailies not
long ago, can't get them to cover
his broadcasts nowadays. It's sad
when your supporters decide you
haven't got anything to say worth
listening to Some of the shows
faded to a whisper the other eve
ming, the reason being the explosion
of hydrogen gas up near the center
of the sun disk. Things have come
to pretty pass when we have to
depend on another planet to silence
some of our radio comedy =.
Daddy is beginning to make us
boiler "Uncle!" Some of the
bandleaders are now trying to be
clever and toss their quips as
though they were bricks.
The Story Tellers: Dictators'
gratitude, as reported by Francis
Hackett in what Mein Kampf
Means to American good book
for Senator's When Adolf penned
"Mein Kampf," it was such a mass
of hysteria and ignorance it had
to be edited. A priest, Father
Stamepfe, blue-penciled the Hitter
acies and rewrote the rest. Hitler
couldn't stand the priest knowing
him as such dope. and had him
murdered in 1884, with the rest of
his best friends Best of the
anecdotes in the SEP's piece on Col.
Mccormick, Chi. Tribune publisher,
reports the time the State of Rhode
Island got under his hide The
Colonel expelled that state from the
Union, removing star from the
flag in the daily's lobby Very
timely, and very attention-worthy is
Gree Man Speaking" by W. F.
Bigelow in Good Housekeeping
BY all means read Edgar A. Now
rer's comparison between America
and France in Look If his revela-
tons don't wake you up-then,
brother, you amt asleep-you're
dead.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31
SECRET NEW AAA GEAR

American Farm bureau and Ma
tional Grange moguls are smart pol
iticians. Although their bill to Gre
ate an independent, five-man board
to rule the AAA has not yet seen
the light of day on Capitol Hill,
they are already greasing the way
by canny wooing of possible oppo-
nents.
Latest to be "propositioned" is
Rudolph ("Spike') Evans, ambi-
tious head of the AAA, who might
be vigorous foe of their scheme
to gain control of his own agency.
The farm leaders have sent word to
Evans that they will back him for
chairman of their proposed board if
he will go along with them.
An inner group of II decided on
this move at secret pow-wow dur
ing the recent conference in Chi
cago of the Farm bureau, Grange
and National Coop council on the
defense emergency.
The master minds also accepted
Walter Randolph of Alabama as the
Farm bureaus selection on the
boards, pledged themselves to take
whomever the Grange picked, and
agreed to allow this hand-picked trio
to name the other two board mem
bers.
The plan is very pat, but the mys-
terry is where Roosevelt and Secre-
tary Claude Wickard fit into the
picture Under the law the Presi-
dent appoints board members, and
on agricultural selections he natur-
ally would consult Wickard. Appar-
emily, the Grange and Farm bureau
manipulators propose to do the pick
ing and force Roosevelt and Wick
ard to go along.
No Chance.
Actually, the five man board
scheme has no chance of getting
anywhere this year.
Not yet even introduced, it faces
such a long battle when it does ap-
pear that months will elapse before
it goes through the committee proc
ess. Further, there are indications
that certain Farm bureau moguls
privately don't want the legislation
considered at all this session.
According to Farm bureau insid-
ers, Earl Smith, Illinois big-gun,
and Francis Johnson, Iowa chief,
secretly want to make it political
issue in next years congressional
election. Militant New Deal foes,
they are said to believe that lot
of COP campaign hay can be made
in the rural districts by raising the
cry of "give the farmer control of
the AAA."
How much control he would have
is shown by the fact that the boys
already have made sure that they
would do the controlling.
MERRY-GO-ROUN
H~,1 H..
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31

The college boy who wrote
Daddy up and enlisted in the
marines-right after getting that
plump royalty check for his first
hit! Jimmy Stewart is dating
Georgia Carroll when he gets
"leave." He's no dope.
Mrs. John Steinbeck is working in
a New York ad agency. She adj
mits to chums they've parted, which
you reported months ago and then
"retracted"-just cause you were
asked to do so i. Chaplin, I hear,
has already made million from
Dictator" and is supposed to have
created trust fund with the coin
for all his employees who worked
with him on the picture Hendrix
Willem Van Loon is ill at his Old
Greenwich home.
Golfers rowing correspondent,
Frank Gervasi, sent the longest
radiogram from Cairo. Says N. Y.
newspapers pilloried 1t. Col. Philip
Ashley for "mucking up relations
between American press and Gen
eral H'quarters Middle East" This
isn't true, Frank says, Astley's CIV
en- everybody a fair shake, is
great guy, etc., and even broke
some old fashioned rules to be of
help to U. S. scribes Patricia
Garfield is pulling this brand of
baby-talk (calls it game), to wit:
"What's the color of marriage?"
(Answer: "Wed'D "What's
the color of non-trespassing sign?"
-("G'way!'O Whats the color
of ghost?" "Boo!" "a baby
ghost?" F. "Baby boo!" All
right, doctor, I'll go quietly.-Your
Girl Friday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31
CHAPTER XVIII

Perhaps Lew Gordon should have
known that if Bill Roper learned of
Jody's disappearance at all, Roper
would come directly to him.
And, knowing this, he should have
prepared himself. But Lew Gordon
had not met Roper face to face in
nearly two years; and nothing was
farther from his mind than the pos
sibility that Roper would walk in
upon him now.
Upon this night Lew Gordon was
pacing the main room of his little
Miles City house; forty-eight hours
had passed since his daughters dis
appearance and the old cattleman
had lashed himself into state of
repressed fury comparable to that
of trap-baff1ed mountain lion, or
a goaded bear. Everything that
could be done to locate his daugh-
ter was being done.
He knew that Jody's disappear
ance was voluntary, and he knew it's
purpose. The brief but highly in
formative note that Jody had left
him told him that much. 1t simply
said:
Zone of you must be made to see
reason. l am going to talk to Billy
Roper myself"
What this did not tell him was
where Roper was, or how Jody ex-
pected to find him. Impatient of
mystery and delay, he could not I'M
derstand why his many far-scattered
cowboys could dig up no word. For
all he knew, his daughter was by
this time lost somewhere in the
frozen wastes of snow, in inmedi-
ate desperate need of help.
Lew Gordon sat alone for a little
while. For the moment his help
less anger was burned down into
heavy WEAKNESS. His mind was full
of his daughter, whom he persistent
ly pictured as a little girl, much
more Of a child than she actually
was any more.
Suddenly it struck him how curl
Gus it was that in this bare room
in which he sat there was no sign
of any kind that Jody had ever been
here at all. This was partly be-
cause she had never lived here nor
even been expected here; but it
brought home to him sharply how
much of his life had been given
to cattle, how little to his daughter.
It made him realize how little he
knew his daughter, and how little
he had ever given her of himself.
This was Lew Gordon's state of
mind as the door thrust open, let
ting in a brief lash of wintry wind;
and he wheeled in his chair to face
the last man on earth he had ex-
pected to see.
Bill Roper shook powdering of
dry snow off the roll of his coat
collar, then stood looking at Lew
Gordon in cool hard silence as he
pulled off his gloves. Once this man
had been almost son to Lew Cor
don-the adopted son, in lectuality, of
Lew Gordon's dead partner. But a
definite enmity now replaced what
a little while ago had been a friend
ship as deep and close as the vari-
ance in their ages could permit. All
the meaning of their association, al
most as long as Bill Roper's life,
was gone, wiped out by those two
smoky years since the death Of
Dusty King.
For a moment or two Lew Gordon
stared at him in utter disbelief. Then
he whipped to his feet.
Where is she?" he demanded in
tensely, furiously. "What have you
done with herr"
Bill Roper nc longer looked like
the youngster Dusty King had raised
on the trail. His gray eyes looked
hard and extremely competent. old
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31
Pattern No. 1884

pERHAPS this is Chicken Little
and Ducky Lucky come to deco
rate baby's crib spread. Twelve
adorable blocks are done in out
line and lazy daisy, and border
of color and scallops of white fin
ish the spread.
The hot iron transfer for stamping is
1884, cents. There is a minimum of
embroidery on this delightful cover. Send
your order to:
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Frank Gri1lo, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
of the United Rubber Workers, is
slated for membership on the anti
discrimination committee that Pres
ident Roosevelt is planning to set
up to eliminate bars against Ne
groes and other minority groups in
defense industries.
On the desk of Lawrence Fly,
scrappy chairman of the Federal
Communications commission, is one
of those little plaster busts designed
for temperamental people to smash
when they lose their temper.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31
l\Ik||{@]
tWNU Service)
Memos of a Girl Friday:

Dear Mr.. w.: When William L.
Shirer, CHS correspondent whose
best-seller is Berlin Diary" got
back here after many years in Ger
many, he visited all the Mr.. Bigs
in the War Dept. They found his
observations on the German army
so interesting and Informative they
urged him to call on the command
ing officers of all the U. s.. Corps
areas and relay the same info. He
was provided with letters of intro
duction and reed warm welcome
and keen audience everywhere
with one exception Lieut..
General Yoo-hoo Lear brushed
Shirer off, virtually throwing him
out of his Office. His explanation
was that nothing a newspaper man
has to say about military matters
could possibly interest me-"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-31
Ne,u York Heartbeat:

NelU YORK. Heartbeat:
Sounds in the Night: At Club 10:
''He's the kind of teller who flies
into a rage and Fuckers up his
wrist" At Jack Spooner's:
"That old gag dunno what to do
with itself since Berle left town"
At the Hickory House: "Well,
they have this in common. He's rich
and she wants to be- At Clare
mont Inn: "The only capital he
has is at the beginning of his name"
At the Stork: you've got a
nice place here, Mr.. Billingsley.
Does it pay?"
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-11-01
Bolivar County Training School Gets
~ Oft To Fine Start

On Monday morning October 49, the Bolivar Coun-
tv Training School formally opened for the 1941
AZ session. There were many new students well
former students awaiting the hour registration
Some 800 students registered and the registration
was followed by the formal opening exercise pro-
gram consisting of Introductory remarks by the princ-
pal remarks by Mr. |. E. Edwards, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees Mr. c. " Thurmond Secretary of the
Board of Trustees nterspersed with music was render
cd representative group of patrons the student body
and faculty composed the audience The program was
followed with the reorganization of the PIT A. which
meets monthly This organization has rather elaborate
program outlined for the year which is quite in keeping
with it's policy of previous years.
The opening of this years work found among other
things library quarters. There in the IL
brary approximately 1000 useful books issues
of weekly and monthly periodicals. Through the coopera
ton of the WPA we have time librarian serve
the student body at any hour of the day.
The faculty including two additional members as
sumed their several responsibilities like veterans The
extra-class activity program has been planned that
there will be opportunities for everyone Interested At
this particular season all and centered
the athletic field where 20 rs boys being
whipped into shape to carry out brief though tough
football schedule.
The faculty chosen to the $50 students enroll
ed and the institutions where they trained as
follows:
LIST grade-Mrs. Ina Delaney B. s., Tennessee State
End grade-Mrs.. o. b. Ryals A. B. Tougaloo Col
lege.
3rd grade-Miss R. V. Falls A. b. LeMoyne College
18th grade-Mrs Lucille. Hbber, A. B., Jackson Col
lege.
9Th grade-Mrs. E. v Wood, Music B.. Howard Uni
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-11-01
IN OUR HOSPITAL
By
ELIZABETH HUDDLESTON

Rutha M Green, Yazoo City, Eleanor Green Yazoo
City, Ethel B. Beauchamp, Jackson; Willie Anderson,
Minter City; Girdie B. Howard, Tray Lake; Oslo Bell
Adams Camden; Willie Hawkins, Clarksdale; West
Lindsay Pickens Rosie Lee McCray, Pace; Louise Nit
chell Koscusko Lottie Richardson, Webb; Anna Sand
ers Beatrice Terry and baby, Koscusko Cleo Morrison
and baby, Indianola Laura Boone, ClaTksdale; Alma
Johnson Andng; Ellaweese Dudley, Jackson; Catherine
Ollie; Jewel Yarbrough jackson; Ade Woodley, Pace
Emma Line Rush, Holly Ridge, Cebell Ebert Jackson
PRIVATE PATIENTS
Henry Spencer; Sadye Branch, Canton; Willie Green
Webb; James Kelley, Louise Joe Donelson, Yazoo City
Mary Lee Rockingham, Brookhaven Blanch Jones; Hat
tye Parker; Ruth Donley, Grenada; Curtss Armstrong
Tchua Lee Andrew Moore, Lexington; Lawrence Cole
man, Tchua; Mable Hoover, Yazoo City; Baby Hoover
Henry Womack Myrthe William, Jackson; Annie Lee
Spencer, Indianoa.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-11-01
RECOGNITION Of Merit

Major J. Harry Scroggins, of Philadelphia, Pa, has
scroll in his possession representing token of appre
cation esteem and honor from the firm of John Wanna
maker for fifty years of faithful service, gold watch
from the firm, and ring from elevator employees.
The gathering of the mourners who came to claim
the body of Christ from the has long been favor
tie subject with painters Cassed generally the Christ
ian Pietas, these studies held special in
terest for the painters of the Italian Renaissance who
produced many of them for church decoration,
This type of composition, that of sorrowlng fig
ures grouped around lifeess body off with first
honors last week in Pittsburgh when Tom Loftin john
sons american Pieta somber of relatives pick
ing up lynched negro the$100O first prize OF the
Carnegie Institutes new Directions In American Paint
ing" show, although the 41yearod johnson was born
in Denver and now lives in Bedford Village N w. it was
his automobile trips through the South-going to and
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-11-01
Tennessee ". Y. A. College Resident
Project Conducted at Tennessee
A. e /. State College

Approximately so young men ard women between
the ages of 16 and "a engaged in useful training
brouoh the only college resident project in Tennessee
conducted by the National Youth Administration ana OPP
Grating at Tennessee A. & l. College, Nashville
The work program including household arts, sew
ING woodwork auto mechanics, electricity plumbing car
nentrv steam fitting clerical work, and other trades
has for it's purpose the preparing of youth to 1T INTO
some ganful occupation in at least two year period or
less.
Courses which give related training to the work pro-
cram including Hygiene and First Aid, Applied Art ana
Desgnng and Music serve enrich the youths training
Miss (Wendolyn C. Hale Health and Physical Education;
Mrs R. B. j. Campbell English and Mathematics; ana
Mr. Charles Hunter Art and Mechanical Drawing are
staff instructors.
Mrs C. NJ. Denney, project supervisor, along WIN
directors and instructors. is putting forth an effort
through exra-currcuar activities to give the anee the
same type of all round development that could be Secr-
ed through regular academic training The youths under
teacher leadership participate in weekly programs Whch
allow them to the learning experiences OF the group
Only recently Nu Epsilon Alpha, NYA organization,
was created in the group in order to stimulate and lth-
er individual interest, achievement, scholarships ana
workmanship. Officers elected We're: President Milton
P Crook Chattanooga; Nice-President Thomas A. NC
Dowell Chattanooga; Secretary Marguerite DAVE,
Clarksvie assistant secretary, Forine Butler Pulaski;
Treasurer John H. Upton, Memphis; and Chaplain
Rufus Taiferro, Chattanooga.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-11-01

from his teaching post at Rollins College in Winter Park
Fla.,-whch inspired his sociaized "American Pieta.
Attorney Jose d. Locker is conceded seat in the next
city council of Cincinnati, Ohio The election of Attorney
Locker will give Negroes representation in the city
ment once more The late Frank A B. Hail. retired city
police officer the first member to seek place
in council and after unsuccessful campaigns failed to dis
courage him, he became Cncnnat's number one Negro
councilman es4 # III
Charles w. Anderson young attorney and ncum-
bent Republican member of the Kentucky legislature
reelected for fourth term recently as state representa-
time from the fftyeghth legislative district of Louis
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-11-01

versity
9th Grade-Miss P J. Thompson, A. B., Rust College
Social Studies-Mrs. A. L. Bolton, A. B.. Xavier Uni
versity
Mahematics-Mr. l. j. Hunter, B. S.. Alcorn College
Scence-Mr. Leo Burns B. S.. Alcorn' College.
Englsh-Miss Bernice Chisom, A. B., Rust College
Home Economics-Mss Juanta A. Wallace B. S..
Alcorn College.
Trades-Mr. w. J. Crump Tuskegee Institute.
Agriculture-Mr P. L. Slaughter, B. S., Alcorn Col
lege.
Teacher Traning-Mrs. Estee E. Green, M. A..
University of Michigan.
Principal-Mr c. M. Green, M. A, Columbia Unver-
sity
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1941-11-01

Vile Anderson defeated his Democratic opponent VIII
liam H. Childress local juvenile court OFFICER