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12 THE COURIER. JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1956. SECTION 1 'Richard 11V Draws Displeasure Of Audience In Modern Tavern 96 In Congress Plan Fisflit on Race Rnliiiff to it i ii ill III I 1 i i' if Continued from First rage on the document. All the others were Democrats. does not conflict with the 14th Amendment." This interpretation, restated time and acrain.

became a nart Most Comments Arc Caustic Continued from First Page you right off beer and put you on champagne." 1:55 p.m. A lady at a table nudged her drowsy escort in the midst of an Olivier oration. "That fella sure can talk, can't he?" Except in the case of Tennes- 0f the life of the people of many of the stales and confirmed see and Texas, all or a majority their habits, customs, traditions, and way of life. It is founded on elemental humanity and common sense, for parents should not be deprived by government a quick' poll of 10 spectators to learn if they believed Shakespeare, Marlowe, or Bacon had written Shakespeare's plays. None had ever heard of Marlowe; one had heard of Bacon, but didn't think he was the author, and two had never heard of Shakespeare.

4:15 p.m. The battle was joined, and a wizened man entered, gazing at the panorama on the screen, and said, "These St. Patrick Day parades get better and better every year." 4:30 p.m. "So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams," (Act 1, Scene 4) was me reaction of many as the play ended and life returned to normal at Finegan's. The remaining customers relaxed and so did Finegan.

"Set down, set down your honorable load," (Act 1, Scene 2) was once more the spirit at Finegan's. of the right to direct the lives and education of their own chil of the House members from the 11 slates were represented. Only four of the 22-member Texas House delegation joined in. Ruling 'Plants Hatred' These other senators, besides those named as draftsmen, also signed: Byrd and Robertson of Virginia, McClellan of Arkansas, Ellender and Long of Louisiana, dren. inougn tnere nas been no constitutional amendment or act of Congress changing this estab lished legal principle almost a century old, the Supreme Court of the United States, with no Hill and Sparkman of Alabama, undertook to exercise their Eastland of Mississippi, Ervin naked judicial power and substi- Associated Prt Wlrtphoto POLITICAL PROBE When 15-month-old Richard Brenton, New York, choked Saturday night, rays, at right, showed an "Ike" lapel pin lodged in his throat.

Doctors removed the pin which Sister Margaret Carmela, at left, holds to show the youngster. tuted their personal political and social ideas for the estab he played rouh," the man added, subsiding into his beer. 2:33 p.m. The villains drowned Clarence in a barrel of malmsey wine. One customer asked Finegan if this scene was a plug for the saloon.

"Can't sell wine on Sunday," Finegan replied sadly. 3 p.m. During a commercial, a yellow-shirted bondsman ducked in from his nearby office and ordered a large glass of beer. He seemed to inhale, and the beer was promptly drained from the glass. "Good play," he said.

"I'm watching it in my office; bigger screen there. Got to go back. Good-by." 3:25 p.m. "An honest tale speeds best being plainly told." (Act 4, Scene 4). Or, as one customer said to Olivier's image on the way out, "He's speaking the King's English, and I don't understand a word of it." 3:30 p.m "But I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence" (Act 3, Scene 2) was no consolation to several disappointed souls who exited angrily with no kind words or laughter for Olivier.

"He's been talking all afternoon and ain't said nothing yet," a woman said. 3:35 p.m. The gory drama, involving 10 murders, was supplemented by "Love Is A Many-Splendoured Thing" from a jukebox. 3:55 p.m. "Wyatt Earp would have put this guy away long ago," said a GI as Richard arranged to murder two children.

4 p.m. "Who's that? Jimmy Cagney?" a lady cabdriver asked upon entering during an Olivier speech. 4:05 p.m. "It is a reeling world indeed, my lord," (Act 3, Scene 2) and interest quickened as the climactic Battle of Bos-worth Field took shape. I took and Scott of North Carolina, Johnston of South Carolina, and Smathers and Holland of Florida.

The statement said the court's ruling "has planted hatred and suspicion where there has been heretofore friendship and Cyprus Mob lished law of the land. 'Creating Chaos' This unwarranted exercise of power by the court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the states principally affected. It is Citizens Councils Seek 'Peaceful' Solution Stones British 2:15 p.m. The escort woke up, listened briefly to an Olivier tirade, and declared authoritatively: "That fella's drunker than I am." 2:20 p.m "Lend favourable ears to our request," (Act 3, Scene 7) might have been a prelude to less polite pleas that Finegan switch to another channel. Finegan was disappointed.

"Next time I try this, I'm going to watch it at home with a pint of whisky, a bowl full of ice, and some ginger ale. I'd enjoy hell out of it that way." But he refused to turn the dial. 2:25 p.m. "And I in all unwillingness will go." (Act 4, scene 1). Seeing that Finegan was determined, several customers began to drift out.

2:30 p.m. "Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein" (Act 4, Scene 2) described the passers-by who sipped quick beers and left. One guessed the show was "Disneyland." Another listened to a few words and said, "It's Korean." 2:31 p.m. "I knew Richard the Third when I was a boy," a sarcastic old-timer proclaimed. "He and I used to play together when we were kids." On the screen, two murderers disposed of the Duke of Clarence, at Richard's behest.

"But Hero-Author It said the signers "commend destroying the amicable relations the motives of those states which between the white and Negro have declared the intention to raCes that have been created Continued from First Page membership. We are nonpolit- Continued from First Page resist forced integration by any through 90 years of patient effort reflecting anger at the British lawful means." by the good people of both races. 125 Algerian Rebels Killed, French Report Algiers, March 11 (P) French military sources said tonight 125 rebels were killed in a battle near Souk Ahras in eastern Algeria. They said "a large number of the 75 Algerian infantrymen who deserted to the rebels last Thursday were among the dead, and 24 of the deserters were captured. Earlier reports from French sources had listed only 30 killed in the clash.

Catholics Buy St. Louis Hotel St. Louis, March 11 (JP) Purchase of the 16-story DeSoto hotel in downtown St. Louis by the Catholic archdiocese of St. Louis for use as a residence for the aged was announced today.

over the deportation of Arch bishop Makarios from Cyprus. Meel-helmeted troops rein forced police squads guarding the British, American, and Turk ish embassies in Athens after It has planted hatred and suspicion where there has been heretofore friendship and understanding. Without regard to the consent of the governed, outside agitators are threatening immediate and revolutionary changes in our public-school systems. If done, this is certain to destroy the system of public education in some of the states. yesterday's anti-British rioting in Here is the text of the "Declaration of Con-stituttoial The unwarranted decision of the Supreme Court in the public-school cases is now bearing the fruit always produced when men substitute naked power for established law.

The founding fathers gave us a Constitution of checks and which more than 80 people were injured. British flags were burned here and on Crete in the ical. We are not organized to make a profit. "We are something new in the South the majority organizing to protect its rights by legal and peaceful means." Asa "Ace" Carter of Birmingham, executive secretary of the North Alabama Citizens Councils, thinks, as I reported yesterday, that the Montgomery group is a phony. Says Issues Evaded Jit an interview in his office several floors above an old theater, he declared: "Politicians just can't see any movement make progress, grow large, without wanting to control hostile demonstrations.

Expulsion Demanded The Government also ordered balances because they realized With the gravest concern for into jail for violating our State laws." "This is our last chance," the filling-station operator and former States'-right radio commentator told about 100 persons. "There's very little time left. But the politicos still think we can evade the issue. "We want the trouble now! We want the problem now, and to quit hiding from it." Carter was asked if his group is anti-Semitic. "There isn't a word of truth in it," he declared.

It was pointed out that the separate constitutions of the north Alabama councils list as a requirement for membership: "Belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ." "Doesn't that keep Jews from joining?" I asked. "Yes, I suppose it does," Carter replied. "But that is not aimed at Jews or any other religious group. Our thought is that the great danger to the South today, and to America as a whole, comes from the atheistic, anti-Christ, Communist forces that are abroad in the land. "We believe that our hope lies the closing of the British In the inescapable lesson ot mstory the explosive and dangerous condition created by this deci sion and inflamed by outside stitute and four other British-subsidized institutions in Athens.

Greek trade unions demanded the expulsion of the British ambassador in Athens, Sir Charles Peake. The Confederation of Labor said his "presence is undesirable and constitutes dangerous provocation to the Greek people." Only a small number of the British-owned buses operated in it. That's what the Montgomery meddlers: We reaffirm our reliance on the Constitution as the fundamental law of the land. We decry the Supreme Court's encroachments on rights reserved to the states and to the people, contrary to established law and to the Constitution. We commend the motives of those states which have declared crowd is trying to do.

Well, politicians are all alike. They are Drop Your Laundry and Dry Cleaning at forever dodging, forever evading the issue, forever backing up, forever temporizing. that no man or group of men can be safely entrusted with unlimited power. They framed this Constitution with its provisions for change by amendment in order to secure the fundamentals of government against the dangers of temporary popular passion or the personal pre-' dilections of public-office holders. Called Abuse of Power We regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as a clear abuse of judicial power.

It climaxes'a trend in the federal judiciary undertaking to legislate, in derogation of the authority of Congress, and to encroach upon the reserved rights of the states and the people. The original Constitution does Athens. Demonstrators slashed "We here in north Alabama don't believe In evading the their tires yesterday. issue. We believe in lacing it.

I- i Our Citizens Councils believe in facing it. We are not going to let the politicians get So Convenient With Plenty of the intention to resist forced integration by any lawful means. Appeal to Other States We appeal to the states and people who are not directly affected by these decisions to consider the constitutional principles involved against the time when they, too, on issues vital to them, may be the victims of In support of his claim that Red Attempt Feared The archbishop of Greece appealed for cancellation of nationwide anti-British demonstrations scheduled to begin tomorrow. He said he feared Communists might attempt to break up the meetings. Archbishop Spyridon announced over Radio Athens that "hostile elements" planned to exploit the demonstration "in the Montgomery group is trying i Parking Space in adherence to Christian principles.

That is why we insist that our members believe in the divinity of Jesus." So, what you always come up with is words words words. And no way to evaluate them except to watch the groups in action. to steal the thunder of the movement in north Alabama, Carter asserted that the Mont- not mention education. Neither judicial encroachment. gomeryites "tried to buy me Even though we constitute a does the 14th Amendment nor any other amendment The de off." Tomorrow: What happens at a Says He Spurned Offer white citizens mass meeting.

I Yt TC If bates preceding the submission of the 14th Amendment clearly show that there was no intent that it should affect the systems of education maintained by the states. The very Congress which proposed the Amendment subsequently provided for segregated schools in the District of minority in the present Congress, we have full faith that a majority of the American people believe in the dual system of government which has enabled us to achieve our greatness and will in time demand that the reserved rights of the States and of the people be made secure against judicial usurpation. We pledge ourselves to use all lawful means to bring about a reversal of this decision which order to create bloody clashes. Bull Slinger And Farmer Does It Literally, After Struggle Seymour, March 11 (U.R) Harry Healey, 86, proved today you're never too old to throw the bull. It happened on his farm.

A spirited bull ran out the barn and headed for the wide-open spaces. Oi tv.nl "They had that meeting down at Montgomery and announced they were forming a state organization," he related. "They offered to hire me as a professional organizer. "I turned them down. They tried to get the north Alabama councils to affiliate with them.

I told them we would have to send a delegation from every council, and they would heip name the officers. They wouldn't agree. So we're still separate. We are the Citizens Councils." Carter, a vibrant, impassioned speaker, went another step toward making his (and pre i tit 'Approved Segregation' is contrary to the Constitution When the amendment was adopted in 1868, there were 37 and to prevent the use of force Cold Front Trails Snow In Midwest Continued from First Page help for nine persons stranded in a stalled car, died of exposure. The others were rescued.

Two Illinois National Guard officers were killed in the crash of a plane in the blinding snowstorm in west-central Wisconsin. Two other officers survived, but were badly burned. The storm stranded basketball fans overnight at two Wisconsin tournaments when winds drifted the highways shut. Some of the 2,000 marooned at Neenah slept in the high-school gym states of the Union. Every one implementation.

In this trying period, as we Healey chased the animal. Then the bull did an and went after Healey. The bull and Healey tangled. of the 26 states that had any substantial racial differences among its people either approved the operation of segregated schools already in existence or subsequently established such schools by action of the same Healey finally got hold of the nose ring and led the bull back all seek to right this wrong, we appeal to our people not to be provoked by the agitators and troublemakers invading our states and to scrupulously refrain from disorder and lawless acts. i'A XL to the barn.

He received hand cuts which required 20 stitches. sumably his group's) position clear at a meeting of his Fairfield Highlands Council here. Wants Laws Enforced "Our State laws provide for segregation," Carter declared. "We want them enforced. We've lawmaking body which considered the 14th Amendment.

As admitted by the Supreme Court in the public-school case (Brown V. Board of Education), the doctrine of separate-but-equal schools "apparently originated in Roberts V. City of Boston (1849), upholding segregation against attack of being violative of a State constitutional guarantee of equality." 'Began In The North' got to tell the politicos that if they aren't enforced, they (the politicians) are going to get out of Alabama. "We've got to tell the Federal Government that the first Negro forced into our white schools is going to be arrested and thrown This constitutional doctrine began in the North not in the South, and it was followed not only in Massachusetts, but in Negro Minister Fasts In Support Of Bus Boycott Connecticut, New York, Illinois nasium. Radio stations helped find accommodations in private homes for one third of the 1,500 trapped at De Pere.

Highways Reopened Storm-blocked highways were reopened in Wisconsin yesterday, permitting resumption of bus service which had been suspended north of Milwaukee. But side roads were still blocked and in Michigan's Leelanau Country, which juts into northern Lake Michigan, drifts were 7 to 8 feet deep. In other sections of the country, southerly winds warmed and brought showers to the Gulf states and the Southeast, mild weather continued in the Southwest, skies were mostly clear west of the continental divide, and the Rocky Mountain area had snow flurries. Alabama Trustees Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other Northern states until they, exercising their rights as states through the constitutional processes of local self-govern' ment, changed their school sys tems. In the case of Plessy V.

Fer Atlantic City, N. March 11 (JP) A Negro minister today launched a fast and prayer period and vowed to stay in the pulpit "as long as God gives me strength" in support of the Negro bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. The Rev. Russell A. Roberts, 37, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, put up a cot in his church and said he would live on a quart of vegetable juice a day.

The minister is a former boxer guson in 1896, the Supreme Court expressly declared that under the 14th Amendment no person was denied any of his rights if the states provided 7 for each additional pound Shirts finished at 20 additional when sent with SAVE Summon Students In Miss Lucy Case 4. and sparring partner of the one Tuscaloosa, March 11 (U.R) separate-but-equal public facilities. This decision has been followed in many other cases. It is notable that the Supreme Court, speaking through Chief Justice Taft, a former President of the United States, unanimously declared in 1927 in Lum V. Rice that the "separate-but-equal" principle is within the discretion of the State in regulating its public schools and time heavyweight king, Jersey Joe Walcott.

The congregation is joining in Trustees of the University of Associated Press Wireprtoro ROMANCE? Margaret Truman, right, visits with E. C. Daniel, left, former New York Times Moscow correspondent, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Daniels, center, of The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.

newspaper. Miss Truman refused to talk about a romance. prayer with him. Members plan to carry Bibles all day and show tags reading, "We are praying for our people." There is a CITY-WIDE PICKUP AND DELIVERY SERVICE With Two Locations to Serve You Guaranteed Odorless Cleaning All Garments Moth Proofed Free of Charge Alabama today called a number of students before an informal, closed-door meeting, reportedly held to discuss possible disciplinary action against those taking part in campus riots touched off by the admission of Negro Autherine Lucy. The meeting was the first since trustees expelled Miss Lucy last month.

Racial Unrest Held Prevalent In Nor th, Too It was reported that Leonard Wilson, a 20-year-old prelaw sophomore, and a campus segre down here doing the Alabama story, I propose to help fill their vacuum in New York," Hall added. The Alabama editor said that, with few exceptions, New York papers "merely peck" at stories of racial discrimination in the North. "However, they are characteristically pietistical kibitzers or hell-mouth gluttons when it comes to race strife under the Dixie magnolias," he said. Current said recent racial unrest in the South has brought the "dirty aspects of Jim Crowism" and mob violence "out into the gation leader, was one of the tudents summoned before the joard. Wilson has publicly criticized he university for admitting Miss Tucy originally.

He demanded "ast week that a "housecleaning" be conducted on the campus. lation can you say the problems of race relations have been completely solved." Hall made his comments in a letter to James A. Wechsler, editor of The New York Post. Current's remarks were included in an address to bus-boycott leaders at a Negro church. The Negro boycott is in protest of segregated seating on buses.

The Advertiser editor, whose late father won a Pulitizer Prize for fighting the Ku Klux Klan, said a New York Post columnist told him that an official map exists showing how school districts in New York "are gerrymandered to achieve segregation." Noting that reporters from all over the world covered the Montgomery bus-boycott slory, Hall proposed that Wechsler assign the collumnist, Murray Kempton, to him for a week in New York "to get something of the New York story for Alabamians." "Since all the New York reporters art Montgomery, March 11 (ff) A Southern editor and a Northern Negro leader charged that racial disharmony is prevalent in the North as well as the South. Grover C. Hall, editor-in-chief of The Montgomery Advertiser, said racial unrest in the North is even more significant because there are relatively few Negroes" and they start out with equality and theoretical acceptance." Gloster B. Current. New York, who directs the -program and organizational activities of 1,600 branches of the National Association for The Advancement of Colored People, had this to say: "In the North we struggle with the subtleties and hidden aspects of discrimination and segregation.

In no community in this nation where there is a suable jNegro popu Tobacco Distributors Meet UK. LAUNDRY I CLEANERS, Chicago, March 11 (U.R) More than 10.000 members of the Na tional Association of Tobacco Distributors tackled a slate of "The nation docs not like what it sees," Current continued, but "this is all to the good, for during the present conflict, a lot of soul searching is going on, and that ultimately means something constructive will be done." 1104 Bardstown Road (At Grinstead Drive), CL 8805 132 St. Matthews Avenue BE 2383 industry problems today as they opened their six-day annual convention,.

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