"Malignant Pigmentation"

Acting Captain Chow Jockie brought his 5,000-ton British freighter into Port Elizabeth's bustling, cliff-rimmed harbor. A veteran officer in the British Mercantile Marine and a welcome caller at many a port, the sea-beaten Chinese skipper had never before been in South Africa.

He and four occidental fellow-officers dropped ashore to bunk at Henry Meyer's middling Palmerston Hotel. Chow Jockie went to his room, began to unpack. Ten minutes later came a message: the guest must return his key. The Palmerston didn't cater to colored people.

Next day angry, pride-wounded Skipper Jockie sued Hotel Proprietor Meyer for $800 damages. Magistrate Willem van Lingen ordered a payment of $200-plus-costs to the plaintiff.

A long jump up the coast from Port Elizabeth, in subtropical Durban, U.S. Negro Bishop John Gregg stopped over on his way to visit U.S. Negro troops in the Middle East. No hotel would put him up. Finally he got bed & board in the McCord Hospital for Negroes. Said Bishop Gregg: "Maybe this hospital is the right place for me. After traveling half around the world I have suddenly discovered in South Africa that I suffer from an incurable disease, malignant pigmentation."

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