Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-11-07
Conference To Probe Discrimination In Kaiser Yards
NATIVE SON
INSTALIMENT
BY RICHARD WRIGHT
INSTALLMENT

mind the fear of being caught. He
lowered his head against the driv-
ing snow and tramped through the
ICY streets with clenched fists. AL
though his hands were almost
frczen he did not want to put them
in his pockets, for that would have
made him feel that he would not
have been ready to defend himself
were the police TO accost him sud-
denly. He went On past street
lamps covered with thick coatings
of snow, cleaning like huge
frosted moons above his head. His
face ached fro mthe s,lb-zero cold
and the wind cut into his wet
body Ike loi.g sharp knife going
TO the heart Of him with pain.
He was in sight Of Forfv-seventh
Street now. He saw, through
gauzelike curtain of snow. g. bow
standing under an awning selling
papers. He pulled his cap visor
lower and slipped into a doorway
TO wait for car. Back of the
newsboy was stack of papers pil.
ed high upon a newsstand He want
ed to see the tall black headline,
but the driving sncw would not let
him The papsrs ought 80 be full
OF him now 1t did not seem
strange that they should he, fol
al his life he had felt that things
had been happening to him that
should have gone in to them. But
only after he had acted uopr
FEELINGS which he had had for years
would the papers carry the story,
his story. He felt that they had
not wanted to print it as long as ii
had remained buried and burning
in his own heart. But now that he
had thrown it out, thrown it al
those who made him live as they
wanted, the papers were printing
It. He flshed two cents out of hi.
pocket; he went over to the boy
with averted face.
Tribune
He took the paper into doorway
His eyes swept the streets above
thetop Of it; then he read in tab
black type: MILLIONAIRE HEIR.
ESS KIDNAPPED. ABDUCTORS
DEMAND $4,000 IN RANSOM
NOTE. DALTON FAMILY ASK
RELEASE OF COMMUNIST SUS-
PECT. Yes; they had it now. Soon
they would have the story of her
death, Of the reporters finding
her bones in the furnace. of her
head being cut eff, of his running
away during the excitement. He
looked Up, hearing the approach
Of q car. When it heaved into
sight ne saw it was almost empty
of passengers. Good! He ran into
the street and reached the steps
Just as the last man got on. He
paid his fare, watching to see Il
the conductor was noticing him;
then went through the car, watch
ing to see il any face was turned
to him. He stood on the front plat
form, back of The motorman. II
anything happened he could get
eff quickly here. The car started
and he opened the paper again
reading:
A servants discovery early yes.
terday evening Of a crudely pen
ciled ransom note demanding $40:
eco for the return of Mary Dial.
ton. missing Chicago heiress, and
the Dalton family's sudden de-
mand for the release OF Jan Err.
lone, Communist leader held in
connection with the girls disap-
pearance, were the startling de.
vel0rments III a case which is
battling local and state police.
The note, bearing the signature
Of Red" and the famed hammer
and sickle emblem of the Com.
munist Party, was found sticking
under the front door by Peggy
O'Flagherty, cook and house
keeper in the Henry Dalton resi-.
dence in Hyde Park.
Bigger read q long stretch OF
type in which IVES described the
questioning OF a Negro chauffeur"
the half-packed trunk "the
Communist pamphlets" drunken
sexual orgies" "the frantic par
ents," and "the radicals contra
dictory story" Bigger's eyes skim
med the words: "clandestine meet
ines offered opportunities for alb
duction," Police asked not to in.
terfere in case," Anxious family
trying TO contact kidnappers"
and:
1t was conjectured that perhaps