Word: sikeston
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...ALDRICH Sikeston...
...last January at Sikeston, Missouri, Cleo Wright was shot, dragged behind an automobile, and burned in gasolene. That was at 2:30 p.m. At 3:30, the bloody details were known throughout the South, as well as in Malaya, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and the islands of the Pacific. With a Japanese broadcast to the colored peoples of the world, the American institution of "lynch law" had become a deadly enemy of democracy in a very real as well as in a theoretical sense...
...hundred neighbors. Exciting examples: Joseph Chase Allen's "With The Fishermen" in the Martha's Vineyard Gazette (tangy dockside gossip about a picturesque industry); Douglas Meador's "Trail Dust" in his Matador, Tex., Tribune (sentimental homilies on the old Southwest) ; "The Pole Cat Editor" of the Sikeston, Mo. Standard...
...Sikeston's "Pole Cat" is Editor Charles Blanton himself, a salty, 75-year-old veteran of small-town journalism whose son Henry is Federal District Attorney in St. Louis, whose daughter, Catherine, is Senator Pat Harrison's secretary in Washington. Incensed by the Negro sharecroppers who camped alongside a road in nearby New Madrid County last month, "The Pole Cat" backed up and let fly as follows: "The question was asked if the babies and small children in the exodus to the roadsides had milk to drink, and was answered by an onlooker that the only milk given...