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THE CHINA MAIL,

Dynamite In Dixie

Ou Tour in the South,

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Tuesday,

"It's going to take a long, long tune for school Integration to como lo Alabamo, if ever. run things our

own way

com Alabama,"

I do not think the Press is to blame, and I believe that almost every correspondent covering HE mob has struck the story of violence has shown

restraint, Tennessee, in extraordinary Kentucky, and in ridering that so many have been Texus. The coloured roughed up and told to get out student has been turned away from the white school, has been guarded by men with tanks, rifles, and fixed

of town.

on

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arc

The Southern Governors

Even Governor Allen defant." Shivers, of Teocas, after 'restor last order" in Manteld, barred coloured students from a white

More trouble can break out any time in any part of the

school and ordered them back South, and everyone knows it.

Hudding Cirier, ot the to a Jim Crow school. Greenville Delta Democrat "If the courts don't like it bayonets, or has remained Times, mys: "A wave of terror they can arrest me," Shivers at home in fear.

threatens the South, and don't said.

mistake iiheuཅ it. la two years 4. Iter!

Official silence Love make

could Suprime United Statea

Cut There Citizens Councils which become a new Ku Klux Klan." THE situation would not be so

THE delivered the judgment

Bistion Author Jim

styA; explosive it this were was to light a new torch of fren

There is dynamite in Dixie," election year (that comes doen: but the torch seemme to b

Blean Wilson, who

wrole everything), going out.

The Man in the Grey Flannel Serports that poller officers

Blei

Tim: "A drud thing that eger is the only will quarten.

around things

The South, which first sabi il was against milket while wind Worki black schoul

"gradually" try to carry out the

low of the ind, has har

and become angrier,

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Now much of it is dead against any intermingling in the schools,

Out of 17 States which prae-

11 before tixed Court's ruling only - 1x made any progress, anal ther others claim they have pingress towards pugive

Shirtles

I am touring the Sith trying

to get this Ime

inter perspe*:

tive. It is not a simple

Who's to blame?

SOME

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hve protest these Armstrean nathing, by Prat wall kaw what Amerun's awn observers are my ing

My own feving in Dut the Couret valinut is faut Supreme going to be razmicet it for muay not for evache, and, in for ww Ga Deep South, not zerodes 01

a quarter of a

10

Century

It is signakant ve been no phot of the troops

that

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"What about vaating journal - ists being 201

towa out

- canterns being smashed, and re

porters roughal up"

To that their answe testor tel

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21st at hove whipped Ft Kauf in Gurga the people in an orni pant

lund. 1 The Alabama.

whil Suulheres believe it

nut Into

At a time when leadership is needed President Eisenhower In saying little. As for Vice-Presi dent Nixon's boast that it

WILK

Republican Chief Justice, Earl Warce, who handed down the Supreme Court's decision, well, he white Southerner will never forget that.

The Negroes here, who might be expected to speak up and say good for Nixon and for Warren, shuttle and wirisper, "We don'! want no more trouble."

At the moment the South. that

is the white South, which

has the vote, Hem rafidly for Adind Sevenson, who is trying to keep out of the scrmegation fight.

Steven6011

However, the legg has to say the deeper will be-

of the suspicion

1148 Negro in the North, who many millions of votes.

Conne

The Negro viter could swing this election, (1 could become a black versus white election,

Gnawing foar

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1956.

"Pity you've got to rush back-l'd have liked you to have seen some more of our 'feather-bed' farming."

THE OVAL

Tthe hospital all of

the late Charles Bowerman's clothing and possessions were laid out for their inspection, but examination of them gave no answer to Quarles's two questions.

TEGHOES hold the political balaner kn America's Ave histest riflem. They dominato electoral Sintes that cast 158

three-the the number voley newsied to elect a President. The politicians know it,

and the white Southerner knows it. there

telle me The nigger may callest be rumming things up North and

Deep

sugu, but he ain't rushing in Chlouge, Mississippi. things here, never

States

The white Southerner has the back worth art- PHOTO

gnawing wurry ever-present, and infinitely Jess

The one day the roloured wit gentle man, flot +-- Welle, „anent editor of the Clinton Courier al rand than the States

which outnumber, swamp, and domin-

theo am touring nerd where News

Whit asks despairingly

vidence is taking place. bas happenest to my Chaton"

Whites Bad Negron The has not been trouble in down peacefully

the the Derp South because

gadget with while there they have calmly ignored egulators came

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To the white coat Quarles gave particular attention, but it Was simply umpire's white coat, with two deep open pockets. In the right-hand pocket was the computer, a little metal Bix Angers sticking up out of it, rather like those on an old-fashion- ed bezique scorer. Quarles clicked these up and down, as the umpire would have done, and assured himself that the computer was perfectly harmless, although slightly eccentric, way of counting the six balls in an. over. Apart from the com- puler there was absolutely nothing in the coat's pockets, and nothing concealed in the Hning,

Odd assortment

The pockets of Bower- man's trousers contained money, his jacket pockets the odd assortment of things that,men carry about with them, a long piece of string, an eraser, a nail Ale.

a

bunch of keys, a hand-

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So far

TEST MURDER

PRIVATE detective Francis Quarles soen to The Oval, sa

the guest of Dr Gregory Kane, to see the first day of the Anal Test: he slays to investigate the murder of umpire Charles Bowerman, who collapses In the middle of the Aus- trallan innings,

Bowerman, who is a patient of Kane, is taken to hospital, where he dies of atropine poisoning. Quarles learns that Bowerman was on bad terms with radio commentator Leo

also thai, during Maclean, and

the lunch interval, ho quarrelled with an unknown man in the writing room in the

baerman was overheard to say: "I've got the proof.

I'm going to ruin you." Quaries tells Inspector Leeds that they will not solve the caso until they have answered two questions:What was the "proof"? And why did Bowerman think that his fellow umpire, Jack Petty, had laken his white coat?

THE ENTRY

UNDERLINED IN RED INK........

kerchief, a letter asking for Bowerman didn't take pills

his autograph.

"Gat out," Mrs. Bowermän said.

"I never want to see you again.”

by JULIAN SYMONS

She said 10, and asked him why he wanted to know.

with the orthodox family pic- lures cf zunts and unales, cousins and bobles, were other photo- graphs-one of a field of wheat. "Thore cre possible ways by another of children on a desolate which this poison might have seashore of quite a different boen administered. Do you know qualy

Quarles saw that they wore Initiated "E.B." end re- Quaries called the membership card of his mouth

slightly be Then

gulped. simply wanted to tell her-"

Maclean

None of it to my knowledge. Anything speechless, seemed very helpful. In his soluble in the mouth."

wallet

notes and two ten-shilling "Or by hypodermic ?"

stick

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"I can tell you what he want-

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She made a face,

"He was Chorle's doctor, and Charlie liked him. I went to him onco or husband's twice, thought he was a horrid пода. Toki me I hadn't got cough to do, ought to find some She nodded, "He Whs very

The way of occupying myrolf, keen on photograph. Those wero two that won prizeaz a show, last time he prescribed anything What can I do to help you. Mr for Charlle was-ch montha Quarles?"

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who was identified theoretically. But in prac- conlully. "You're Mr

you? I'vo Been Kane us Mrs tice out of the question I aren't Greg

should say

after all, you ploture in the papers. He told Bowerman, and membership

a hypodermic me that he'd seen you und cards of the AA, the An- can't

needle into

a man with pellee inspector carter this even

He looked at her and thought cient Order of Buffaloes,

out his noticing

that some- 12. He said he hadn't seen mo

Greg Kane

bad

been the Philatelists' Society and

for months, im't that go? What less than just. She was pake, cer- the Amateur

Photograph. thing."

he didn't ray is that he's becu tainly, and her features wero "I'd telephoning coce or twice a week too irregular, for beauty, but the Quarles nodded, thought of that. I'm going making me to go out with him combination of honey-gold hair cway. He blue eyes, delicate mouth and down to see Mrs Bowerman came down here to ask me to thin cins and legs had a china

Are now.

doll prettiness and charm. along?"

diary looked

There was also a which Quarles through quickly. Most of It contained simply notes Bower- of places at whch man had stayed while um- piring: "Nottingham. Good hotel, the Crowden, dull Rotten "Swansea. game," food, match rained off," were examples,

neck."'

Chark was when

you coming say nothing about it."

"Is that true?" Quarries asked.

"YCS.

But it doesn't mean anything," Mockan sald desper ately. "Pat here ́ can tell you. itzat.

It's simply that I don't went to be mixed up with tha sort of thing in my job, nothing more than that."

TOMORROW

Lock and Laker remambar

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in the

Initialled E.B."

"

"Thank you."

I loved him”

"Just

CTXO more thing. Mr think I Quarles. Perlays you and heartless, as therzch I'm not upset. Bellove me, that isn't "Mrs Bowerman, do you know to. Charlie and I had sur loved him, I cf anyone who might want to shru't aest

quarrels, but I

until I know who kill your hurtand?""

killed him,"

'Such a fuss" !

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"There were a 'tot cr proply who didn't like Charlo-bo coulá.

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Quarias nodded. It was the kind of thing that wives cften said, but it might still be.

truc.

Quistes est up thinking

trait

be very rude, end loved to tease the case until three o'clock on "Get out," Mrs Bowerman people, But nothing more than the following morning. He had For August 11, however,

Kane made a face. "No tald. Her valce was low, but she that." She fluttered her eyelids, the sense of trying to solve a

rounded as if she meant what "He

was awfully Jealous, thero was simply an entry: thanks, Maclean may think he said. "Get out. I never want know. Not that I ever gave him picco

you problem in which creusential was missing 'Then he "Morrin Hotel, Lewes. she's pretty, but to me to ree you pain.

cause, but he made such & fury went to bed and dreamed that Photograph," underlined in she's

when I went out a couple of he was batting against Lock and red ink. Surely Sussex

times with Leo. Mesicon that I Laker on a wicket where every just had to stop."

bail spui viciously. Once, ds played no county matches

The ball jumped at him, he raw at Lewes? Quarles made a

She leaned forward and sold in lis red rurtaco the grinning Whi's Macicon walked up the confidingly: "Why, this very face of Charles Bowerman. noto of it.

up outside the Bowermans'

Food, Quarles went into small, modern, semi-detach house. In the small, unnaturally at breakfast, asking me where I the morning he modo an awful scene

He had been in his office only ed house in what house tidy room that Mrs Bowerman

enlled the lounge, there was agents Inaccurately call the

ho telephoned me, his socratury, Molly Player, enino the-place

ins uncist bost part of Wimbledon, the moquette, a mall platu, a paper just didn't weice me up, but he tree. Two gentkomen outside to I was pricep end the telephone in, with a puzzled took on hor

Make a face

He turned to Kane.

don't see any sign hero of a guilty secret, do you? Look here, Greg, would it have been possible for the atro pine to have been adminie. tered by some other method than in a drink?”.

As Quarles was drawing

door opened and Leo: Mac- lean came out. Behind him Quarles anwa slim, fair woman wearing a brown frock

sulto

was et

4 other night come night,ør five minutes the next day Wheşi

ky front of the fropizee, a

television set, at nest of tables, I wouldn't believe that sloep see you. I've never seen them awfully soundly, “Mr. Quarles," below, but their faces scont

tamiliar light cak, brightly coloured a cycles suvered it are carpet, and several photographs in silver frames. French window Do you led out to a mall post garden, that would be?"! It-was; Ckidrios gucered, mord

as a replica of the other uses

in the most a pattern of subur.

ling ad

The detective pushed open, the

wellheak "Certainly Could have ally That was a quick visit ba boen in pillford, as you to your sodeloval You're here for suggested,

that BowermRES,

you Na lav et un

remember what night

agome time this month. I just

cani pemember ther date.

"Did your timburh

thing seces, pois pipe, or take pile, or wajahulo

of character. Blandeck, dáky:

"What ere their nome?"

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