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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-27

10 stare at Clay with look that
was like a curse.
"Theren be more" ne said
He turned and walked, still
slowly. out into the darkness OF
the night. =,
There was an almost tangible
feeling of nerves relaxing and
muscles growing slack as he DIS
appeared. Burl talking urgently,
leaned across the table. 49,,
q. dangerous as all hell!
Burl was saying emphatlcally'
Nobody worse on the whole
frontier. You've made yourself
an enemy"
Clay's eyes frightened in the
instructive response to cnai-
lenge that would always Starle
his friends and disturb and haraSS
his enemies. 80
Smiling, he pulled the bottle
to him and lifted 1t from the
table
enemies scattered from hell TO
breakfast. One more can't do a
thing except to add to the gen.
eral merriment and confusion.
THERE was work to be done.
L and for the next several days
CLAW and Burl lived in Whlrl-
wind of excitement as they as
sembled the equipment and goods
that would be needed for the trip
to Santa Fe.
There were wagons to be pur-
chased and packed, great red and
blue ConeStoga wagons, rising
high at PROV and stern like verit-
able prairie Schooners, with pom
derous iron wheel rims a good
six inches across to carry the
three to five thousands pounds Of
goods that made up each wagon S
load. There were mules to be Sc
lected and purchased. Then there
were the trade goods for Santa Fe
to be carefully and prayerfully
selected in BinghamS dark,
heavily beamed warehouse
wooden and cotton goods. calicoes,
shaWlS, bombazines, traps, knives,
looking glasses, pelisse cloths,
and all the thousands and one
other items that would find
ready sale in the exotic foreign
city far to the west.
Clay had planned to act as his
own teamster in order to reduce
expenses. but Bingham and Burl
diSsuaded him.
why, Clay" Bingham pro-
tested, "you can hire a good
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-27
WESIPORT
BY 20 NOLNG
Homer Hotfen
AP Newsfeo'vrss

Mexican 10 handle your mules for
eight or ten dollars month and
he'll save YOU ten times that
much before you're done. Buy
yourself one of these Orty-dollar
mustangs that are thicker than
fleas around here and you can
ride in like a lord and have a
chance TO run a few buffalo when
you get out in the Short-graSS
country
II was good advice, but whaa
it came to selecting the mustang
his Kentucky blood rose IN pro-
test at the thought Of riding one
of the shaggy little ponies across
the plains. and he eventually
spent far more than he should
have in acquiring a slim-legged,
spirited bay mare that he prompt
ly chriStened Kentucky. Clay's
funds had met only about half
of his Quitting costs, but Blng-
ham had been as good as has word
and had unheSitatingly extended
credit to him for the remainder.
Burl was taking SIX wagons and
they had arranged to travel to-
gether as far as Council Grove,
where individual groups of trad.
ers would rendezvous and organ-
ize into the large and we'll
manned caravans that would
travel together across the plains.
The DAYS had been far too short
for Clay to spend them with Sally,
but she had proved 10 be COM
pietely undiSturbed by her lack
of an escort. Day after day she
strolled up and down the streets
of WeStport, dropping into the
frontier stores, goSSiping with
transfers and traders, weaving
herself into the texture of the
brawling. hurrying frontier town.
And day after day she heard
the endless. excited talk of for
tunes 10 be made here on the
frontier. She saw that there was
money here-money in the Santa
Fe trade, money in the steamboats,
that lined the levee. money In the
land that was slowly but surely
rising in value. Her fingers itched
for it. Her whole body and mind
cried out for It,
Its getting into my blood
she told Clay excitedly. "There'H
be people come out of this hodge
podge with more money than you
and | ever dreamed about! Solid
money-money in land and prop
erty and goods. Money that keeps
on making more money. And I'm
going to have my share of it,
FTo be continued
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-27
Chapter Is

Chapter Is
inlay waited until the blade
~ was almost at his waist before
he moved. Then, with a swift,
easy movement like a matador
sweeping a cape before a charg-
ing bull. he swung backward and
to the right, pivoting upon the
toe of his left boot and letting
knife and man drive past, the
point of the blade a scant frac-
ton of an inch away from his
chest. But the game was not over,
for as Royle hurled by Clay
shifted his weight to his right
foot, raised his left boot, and
drove it with terrible, Furnishing
force into the small Of Royle' 5
back.
Hurled forward by the IN
checked force of his own attack
and thrown off balance by the
crushing blow of Clay's boot.
Royle staggered forward, his arms
wildly failing the air before him.
He struck the hard wall like a
thunderbolt and fell to the floor,
his legs and arms twisted gro
tesquely beneath him, his knife
a spinning circle of light on the
floor a dozen feet away.
There was an involuntary gasp
from the crowd in the room and
a sharp furry of excited voices
a spate of talk that checked itself
in midStream as Clay strolled
leisurely across the room and
picked up Royle's knife. Prob
ably there were not a half
dozen men in the room who did
not expect him to plunge it into
Royle's unprotected back, for
chivalry was more often ignored
than observed on the fringe of the
frontier. Instead, he walked slow
ly back to his table, grinned
cheerfully at Royle, and took a
long draught of whisky from the
bottle he had obtained at the bar.
Royle had rolled over on his
back and now he sat up, Vince Nng
hoarSely, looking around him Ike
a man half dazed. not sure OF his
surroundings.
He looked up at Clay and a
look of implacable hate swept
across his face.
Then slowly he pulled himself
to his feet and slowly, aWkWardly
stumbled across the room to the
door that led out into the street.
In the open doorway he paused
again, turning for long moment
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-27
Toduy's Business Mirror

The textile industry continues Il
improvSe A few months ago the
talk was all of unemployment To-
day there's delivery problem in
some lines. with mills reported
running behind in filling orders for
some synthetic fiberS.
The Textile Information Service
reports that in August sales of
carded cotton yarns topped pro-
duction and untitled orders in
creased by four million pounds.
Glove factories are Dusier than
at any time in the last three years,
according to the National Associa-
ton of Leather Glove Manufac-
turerS.
The liquor industry has been in
the dumps because Of falling
off in sales and growing invento-
ries. But hopeful word comes
even in that depressed business
Maryland boasts that there Is
no hay fever in Garrett County IN
that state.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

dice Of white owners and handi.
caps the possibility Of decent re-
lationS between white and Negro
neiGhbOrs.
In Chicago, this migration may
mean not only broken windows
and anonymous threats but arson
and an occasional bomb. In De-
troit, the InteFraciAl Committees
intelligence work and willing po-
lice cooperation have at least now
fixed II 20 that a Negro with
enough cash can usually build
himself q house without Gripping
sabotage. Before proper police
protection was availaple, such q
project often meant q mysterious
fire or n bulldozer arriving late
ut night 10 do a job on fOunda-
lions and building materials.
know Of no commissions get
ing anywhere with the real
estate sharpshootsrs who fan
these flames Real-estAte AasOcIa-
lions tut-tut readily. but say that
few Of tho vultures are members.
50 they are not susceptible 10
Self-policing. But there are meth.
DDS Of dealing with the Improve
ment associations. often nation
Rl-groupIsh in character. whose
loud-mouthedneaS 10 often spawns
violence.
Both the Detroit and Chicago
commissions foster another kind
Of neighborhood association ~ an
antidote--not n snArling phalAnx
Of lily.whites but q leaguing to-
gether of both established whites
and house-pridefui Negroes max
ing sure that high neighbOrly
standards prevent their mixed"
neighborhoOds from getting run
down.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

less luck holds while steps are
taken.
Philadelphia II making q bold
start, prayerfully backed by its
commission, on stopping Segrega-
ton in public housing. SO far,
formal protest has come only
from n small. hotmouthed vet
Grams group. In preventive prepG-
ration for arrival Of Negro ten
ants In previously lily-white de-
velOpments, n special police squad,
every man trained Chicago-style,
has kept the affected areas under
plain clothes surveillance for
weeks-exactly the right step.
PhilAdelphia's commission II
tRckling another typical segregA-
ton problem privately owned
swimming pool that, actually
commercial. ostensibly operated as
club excluding Negroes, Evil
dence OF circumvention Of public
accommodation laws recently re-
suited In the owners turning the
pool over TO the city for public,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

nonsegregated management.
As Negroes use the pool, the
commission fears. whites may do
what one distressed Philalelphian
calls people running away from
each other" Then the pool will
60 spontaneously Jim Crow. So
local groups are being urged to
get their white members to 60
swimming there and show the
neighborhood that nonsegregation
can work. A good try, a fine ex-
ample Of the preventive slant Of
a foresighted commission. But re-
turns won't be in for some years
In the cities looked into here,
cryptic encouragement OF Me-
groes in hotels, restaurants. thea
ters, seems to be fighting q los
ing battle against open-door pol
icies encouraged behind the scenes
by the commissions.
Negro leaders usually see a gra-
tlfying change Of climate almost
everywhere Of late. Negroes en-
tering the harder-nosed Philadel-
phiA diners need no longer expect
to be grudgingly served and then
see the counterman break and
throw away the dishes from which
they ate, Negroes calling a cop to
cool off the recalcitrant manager
OF Detroit restaurant are not
so likely-though II still happens
to find the law ignorant Of the
local public-accommodation ordin-
ance and inclined TO say: You're
not supposed TO eat around here
anyway--go on back where you
belong" A smart commission tries
gradually to persuade manage
ment, by blarney and example.
that II can make profits and yet
operate in line with what the law
says.
School Problems Difficult
Negro migration also brings
changes in public-school popula-
tons. These raise problems which
are difficult to solve. As a given
school includes more Negro pupils.
the rush gathers momentum. so
do chances of violence. In Phil
adelphia, schools theoretically
segrogate neither pupils nor
teachers. But teachers may apply
freely for transfer. often on a plea
of wanting TO work nearer home.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

| ing with the pen it pitiably small
All this is by way of intrOduc-
ing the story OF the cOlored writ
ing aspirant who told another one,
I've finally written something
that win be accepted by any
magazine in the country"
What is it,"
"A money order for a years
subscription" answered the tyro.
Another aspirant said to q new
acquaintance, I'm an old news
paperman."
Us that So" said the second
man. rs used to collect old news
papers myself"
And then there's the story of
would-be poet who got UP In the
middle Of the night to jot down a
few lines that came to him out
of the night when the entire
world lay quiet in a blanket of
darkness. A friend commented
that the poet was going from bed
TO verse.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29
FACT and FUN
BY Dick Wright

It's a fact: The weaker sex is
the stronger sex because OF the
weakness OF the stronger sex for
the weaker sex.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

that fast" The fact Ia, these COM
missions would earn their keep
II all they did was such unobtru-
sivc investigation and consequent
rumor scotChinE. They're no
RlRrmists," says Chicago's OCon-
nor comfortably.
In spite OF having the largest
proportion OF Negroes Of any Nor
thern city some 20 per cent --
Philadelphia has never quite had
Detroit-or Chicago-style troubles,
perhaps because, though growing
fast, her Negro population has
not skyroCketed quite so senaa-
tionally "a that OF those cities.
Nor are her racial and national
groups quite so explosivsly con.
centrated a. the Negroes in Chi
cRRo'S Black Belt or the Poles
around Detrolt's HAmtramclS. Per
haps also milder local traditions
such as that Of the QuRkers, keep
frictions somewhat In check.
but say some OF that to Phil.
adelphia's new police commission.
or, Thomas Gibbons, and he eros.
Aes his big fingers. He knows
what could happen any time un'
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29
We Con Drive H0ee
From Our Cries .

(cont'd. from page 3. Sect. ~
rights cOmmissions.-mean that
more Negroes can afford 10 leave
existing BLACK ghettos." In 1913,
the Supreme Courts restrictive
covenant" decision wiped out for
mer legal bars to Negro purchase
Of houses Plenty Of unwrittsn law
StiIl operates against Negroes,
Few people will sell a Negro q
new house. Nobody win rent him
a house in q hly-white area.
White-mAnaged banks usually re-
fuse him mortgage money for
buying into existing hly-whitS
blocks. But not infrcquently, by
subterfuge or secret dealing. and
sometimes financed by q Merge
bank or insurance company, the
Negro will buy q house In an area
where his skin color means
trouble.
Stun Fears Disregard Reason
White reaction seldom waits for
the facts. Such q Negro may
make an much as anybody on the
block and. partly through person.
al decency, partly through want.
ing 10 help Negroes get q good
name. may keep his premises
heater. train his kids better and
make less noise than many local
whites. But the panic Ia on any
way, The whites assume anRrIly
that this II the start Of q Stun.
No matter what the nsIghbor-
hood. vultuFish TeAl-estats dealers,
some white. some Negroes work.
ing for whites or on their own.
get fine piokingS. They flood
alarmed blocks with postcars ad-
using selling while there's stlII
time, send out house
propagandlsts. telephone cleverly
spaced successive offers 10 create
a picture Of values already drop
ping Each such gesture inflRmes
the already ingrRined race preju-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

never learn to get along together
unless they start being together
under circumstances that demon
strate or enforce peaceable be-
havior. So the commissions chip
away now and again. And some
Tuesday or maybe some Thursday,
an encouraging hunk of accom-
plishment turns up.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

Pupils may transfer outside their
districts TO school with room 70
spare-a system sometimes back
ed by Negro parents wanting bet
ter schooling for their kids than
Is afforded by rundown, largely
Negro schools. You hear Of gerry
Wandering of school districts 10
match population shifts. So, some
how, certain Philadelphia schools
happen 70 develop strangely high
proportions of Negro pupils
taught by the bulk of the systems
Negro teachers.
This is no special reprOach TO
Philadelphia. Jim Crow also feels
at home in Detroit or Chicago
schools. One result Is constant
danger Of rooters' mob violence
when all-Negro teams play lily
white rivals. Another Is lack Of
advancement for Negro teachers.
They are mighty scarce in most
Philadelphia high schools Most
serious Is the denial TO both white
and Negro children Of opportunity
to find. by willingly learning and
playing together. that some Of
their preconceiVed ideas about
each other may not add up.
So far as I know. no commits
sion has yet made a real dent In
this problem. All keep trying. Chi
cago may have got a little father
than the average. But school sys-
TENS include a lot Of personnel
and are often highly decentralized
and VIGOROUSLY set in their ways.
The press, too. may need hand
ling by commissions. White Cen
tile Protestant" wording in help
wanted ads can be, and often Is,
ruled out by law. But consistent
labelling of arrested criminals as
Negro" Is a matter OF editorial
discretion. For years. Cleveland
papers have followed an anti
discrimination news policy.
spanked by the Cleveland Press
long before the commissions day.
And the late Tom Wright was
proud OF Chicago's record in
learning not to play up stories
likely to spawn trouble. The prin-
ciple here Is: Cover the story,
sure, but treat II 50 the newspaper
reader or radio or TV listener isn't
moved to mix in.
Commissions also worry about
Jim Crow in hospitals in jails
. in unions . about national
group athletic clubs parOchi-
al-public-schoO feuds South
ern hillbilly immigrants, whom a
recent survey showed as being
bigger targets OF Detroit bad feel
ing than the Negroes .. petty
hate merchants scattering anti
Semitic leaflets Negro news
papers just as stubborn about the
white" label as the big dailies
are about Negro"
A doctor might call much OF
this symptom treating. But as
Frank Loescher. director OF Phil
adelphia's commission. a Quaker
and a man OF mark in the field,
always starts by saying. It's
pretty hard to get people to love
one another"
The same doctor would admit,
however, that. in many diseases,
effective symptom treating often
helps the system start itself to-
ward recovery. The idea Of the
commissions Is that people will
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

IL . a lAGIs HC "SohGI SCA 10
the stronger sex because OF the
weakness OF the stronger sex for
the weaker sex.
The canvasser went into his
talk as soon as the housewife
opened the door.
These stockings in my hand
are the latest pattern, fast colors,
hole-pdoof, won't shrink, priced
far lower than elsewhere, and the
very best yarn"
Yes" said the housewife as
she shut the door, land you tell
it very well"
Emerson said II and 1t will do
no harm to consider II: A smile
creates happiness In the home,
fosters good will in business, and
the countersign Of friends. Yet it
cannot be bought. begged, Dor
rowed or stolen, for 1t is some
thing that is Of no earthly good
to anybody until it is given away.
The business of authorship Is a
hard lot for anyone. but particu-
larry so for the Negro. Today.
more than any other time in the
past. Negro writer's are coming
into their own. Negro writer's
have invaded the theater. radio,
television, and the best-seller lists.
Yet, except. for those who find
work with some phase OF the Ne
gro press, the number of Negro
writers who make their entire liv-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

INVITATION: You are invited
to air your beliefs on any public
issue in the Letters to the Ed
itor" column OF this paper. No use
keeping your views hid under a
bushel basket. Write TO the editor!
At less than eight cents per
copy by mail this paper is the
best newspaper buy in the history
of Negro journalism in the North
west.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

These nsighboThood decency
deals are only one kind Of private
or quasi-publlc group that a smart
commlssion can use-and some
times help create. CleVeIand's
Community Relations Board relies
heavily on the local tradition. Of
being what one CleveIRndsr calls
the meetingest town In the
world"
Our ocCupatIonRl disease" says
Frank Baldau. its director. rs
committee-mcctinR bottom" Quick
action by Civic-mInded groups Of
ten roots out trouble before II can
spread.
Mexican.Italian feuds in the
Ninth Ward Call up a Catholic
welfare man and sec what local
Catholic organizations know and
can do about II. Puerto Rlcans are
thronglng into Cleveland and, to
Judge from other cities. threaten
now nationRl-Eroup problem ?
The Community Rotations Board
suggests that the Cleveland Wei
fare Federation get down there
and organize settled Puerto Ricans
10 steer their people out Of trouble
on arrival. A Negro maid tells her
boss about NegrO-whlte frictIons
ON certain Detroit busesH Out
goes a Negro investigator TO ride
those buses and see what gives
A copy Of his detailed report .--
verdict, nothing much In IT.
goes 20 the director Of the bust.
ness association that tossed tho
tip To the committee, The director
showed II 20 me cnIouaiy.
"Golly," he said. Il wish could
hire a few people who would give
me that quality OF investigation
The Nome nugget., 1952-12-08
Rush of Claim Stalking
In North. Saskatchewan
Follows RumOrs of Finds

REGINA, Saskatchewan, up 80
A fresh furry Of claim stalking
was reported to have started in
the Lake Athabaska uranium area
of northwestern Saskatchewan
Thursday. -
Mining sources here are not
certain as to the reason for the
new claims rush but believe fresh
runners Of finds might be respon-
sible Ski-equipped aircraft now
are taking in many prospectors.
About 1000 claims have been
filed in northern Saskatchewan
this year, 1900 in the Uranium
city area alone
The Nome nugget., 1952-12-08
Sen. LANCER Favors More
Internal Security Action
Against US. Reds in U.N.

WASHINGTON, pa posi-
BILE obstacle to continuation of the
Senate Internal Security Subcom-
mittee-and it's search for Com
munists among American employ
ees Of the United Nations-was
cleared away Saturday.
Sen. LANCER R-NDD told a re-
porter he wants the subcommittee
kept alive and is strongly in ia
vor Of continuing its investigation
of U.N. employees"
LANCER previously had declined
to state his position, of particu-
lar interest because in the new
GOP-controlled Senate he will be
in line to- be chairman of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee, parent
body of the internal security unit.
LANCER, one Of the two senators
who voted against ratification Of
the U.N. charter in July, 1850,
fought to uphold President Tru-
mans veto of the Internal Secur-
ity Act written into law in the
fall of 1850.
The Nome nugget., 1952-12-08
Motion Made to Dismiss
All Counts in Indictment
Against Ex-Bank Officials

ANCHORAGE, (P-A motion
for the dismissal Of all seven
counts in the Indictment against
two former officials of the Union
Bank of Anchorage has been
made in US. district court here.
Attorney Peter Kalamarides
made the motion in behalf of
Stanley McCutcheon and A. U.
Hassman, former secretary and
president, respectively, of the
bank.
The indictment alleges seven
misdemeanors under territorial
banking laws. -a..-
Kalamarides asked the ,dismis-
sal on the contention that none of
the counts set forth facts to con-
stitute crime against the United
States. They .allege improper
banking procedure and failure to
follow orders of the Territorial
Banking Board. @
The Nome nugget., 1952-12-08
Walter Donnelly, German
High Commissioner, Quits
To Enter Private Business

WASHINGTON, P-President
Truman accepted the resignation
of Walter j. Donne1ly as U. S.
high commissioner for Germany
Friday.
The President heaped praise on
the 56-year-old diplomat for an
Outstanding coreero' in the for
eign service.
Donnelly will retire on Dec 81,
after nearly 80 years Of govern
ment service.
The New Haven, Conn, native
has been high commissioner in
Germany since July Is when he
was named to succeed John j.
McCloy. .. ~.
A career officer in the diplo-
matte service, Donnelly is expec-
ted to go into private business.
No successor was named i'm
mediately.