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26 Fall Day. Nicat aad Sanaa? Montgomery, Tuesday 3Iorning, January 31, 1956 44 Pages By The AsetrtsteJ l-rsas Price 5 Cents Jliip ilwMiv Mli-Jyiy JJ, i Rocks Residence Ty) I Ay Of Boycott Leader None Injured ast 'I Bu Folsom Wins Court Bout On Reshuffle State Supreme Court Rules For Governor On Reapportionment Reapportionment hopes' brightened yesterday when the State Supreme Court ruled that a constitutional amendment doesn't peed a two-thirds vote in a special session of the Legislature. At the request of Gov. James E. Folsom, the court handed down an advisory opinion holding that the two-thirds rule governing legislation not included in a special session call doesn't apply to prp-pesed changes in the Constitution.

Folsom called the present extraordinary session for a constitutional convention to rewrite the organic law. But since the Legislature has rejected that, he has endorsed a reapportionment amendment passed by the Senate last week. Until the governor raised thej Benson Faces New Troubles With Congress Muzzles Suggestion For Assistants To Eisenhower By WILMOT HERCHER WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 m-Sec-retary of Agriculture Benson came under fresh fire in Congress toT day.

with Rep. Burdick (R-SD suggesting that Benson and some other Cabinet members should "wear Demands for Benson's resignation arose last week after publication of a letter, signed with his name; applauding a magazine article which called the American farmer "our pampered tyrant. Benson's apologetic statement Friday that the letter to the editor of Harper's magazine was a staff "boner" added to the uproar on Capitoi Hill." COURAGE SHOWED But Sen. Bennett (R-Utah) told the Senate the secretary's frank acknowledgement of the error I I 1 I III. 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 i I it-- i ii ,11 if i If i .5 H- W-Vtr OF PRESIDENT James G.

Pruett (left)," outgoing president of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce, congratulates his successor, Mark W. Johnston, local banking official. Johnston was installed at the annual banquet last night. Photo by Kraus New Of Head Calls For 'Greater Cooperation' SCENE OF BOMBED HOME These are the shattered front windows of the home of the Rev. M.

L. King, Negro boycott leader, at 309 S. Jackson St. that was bombed last night. It was believed a hand grenade or a half stick of dynamite was tossed or placed on the front porch.

The bomb shattered the front windows, ripped a mailbox, from the wall, and split a pillar on the porch. JFWW I I'I'iiiiiiihiii Iiiwiiw lum ihiimump i mi "iimnii unpiu'wi'iiinmin I huh I inwili I J- -W- 1 ii 1 iaiG ADDRESSES NEGRO CROWD. The Rev. M. L.

King, Negro boycott leader, addresses the large crowd that formed outside his home at 309 S. Jackson St. last night after the house was bombed. He told the Negroes "not to get your weapons, be peaceful, and remember if I am stopped, this movement will not be stopped." Left to right are Fire Chief R. L.

Lampley, Mayor W. A. Gayle King and Commissioner Clyde Sellers. 'I 1 if speech in 66 years of annual banquets. COUNTLESS SUBJECTS Williams, possessor of a lively sense of showmanship, mixed wit and wisecrack in an hour-long speed; on countless subjects.

He was occasionally serious, as when he warned parents: "It's going to take right smart dynamic work nj you to dissipate the influence of comic books." Other Williams' samples: Communism: "If we can show them that our pruposes are high but our powder is dry, we'll ah get along a lot better." IGNORANCE WAVE Education: "There is a need for a well-financed program of education. It is needed to keep up with the growing wave of ignorance." Entertainment and music were supplied by the Fanny Marks Sei-bels sfring ensemble and Montgomery Jeweler Shearen Elebash. Dr. Henry A. Parker, pastor the First Baptist Church, delivered the 'nvocation.

James Folmar, chamber vice president, introduced special guests and President Clyde C. Pearson, the past presidents and directors. President World Policy i ranging more contacts between the Free and Communist worlds. Today's White House meetings focused mainly on the critical Middle East 'where half a dozen separate crises have allowed Russia to thrust its influence into the region. Specifically discussed, it was disclosed, were the bitter dispute between Israel and the Arab countries and Britain's quarrel with Saudi Arabia, as well as other issues in an area which includes difficulties over Cyprus, Egypt, the Baghdad defensive alliance and French difficulties in North Africa.

The conference spokesman reported that in his view the differences are very narrow in American-British policy in this region. He declined to predict, however, whether this would result in a joint British-American program of action. The first Eisenhower-Eden meet ing, at luncheon, ranged not only into Russia's moves but reviewed Western European unity measures such as the Atlantic Pact and the organization for European econom ic cooperation, it was said. The meeting also covered new moves being planned, such as the Eiiro-(See EDEN, Page 2A burgh, and a sister, Anna Gertrude, make up the family. The old friends include Hamilton Owens editor chief of the Sunpapers; Frank Kent, political columnist for the Sun; James M.

Cain, the author, now residing in Hyattsville; Louis Cheslock and W. Edwin Mof-fett, surviving members of the old Saturday Night Club over which Mencken used to preside, and Siegfried Weisberger, former proprietor of the "Peabody Book Shop" in Baltimore. BRIEF ADDRESS August said either he or Owens would address the small assembly briefly. nVe'II simply tell them Harry (See MENCKEN, Page 2A) After Bombing Of King Home By JOE AZBELL Advertiser City Editor A bomb tossed on the porch of the home of the Rev. M.

L. King, Negro boycott leader, 309 S. Jack-' son St. about 9:15 last night shattered windows, ripped a hole in the porch and cracked a porch column. No one was injured.

Neighbors reported that a light colored automobile was seen at the time of the explosion. It was believed to have stopped in front of the home as a man got out and placed or tossed the bomb on the porch. Coretta King, wife of the Baptist minister, said she was sitting in the front room of the six-room white frame dwelling a half block: from the Ben Moore Hotel when she leard footsteps and a thud "like a brick hitting on the porch." She said she was talking with the wife of Roscoe Williams, Montgomery electrician, and that they feared the" "thud" might be "somathing dangerous." The two women ducked through a side door to the middle bedroom and went to a third room in the rear. As they -eached 4he third room, they said 'hat they heard the explosion. In (he rear room also was the Kings' seven and a half weeks old baby, Volanda Denise Vana Pruitt, assistant state toxi-cologist, said he believed the bomij to be either a hand grenade or a half stick of dynamite.

HOLE IN CONCRETE The bomb hit on the south side of the porch about two feet from the concrete steps. It ripped a slight hole about a half inch deep, four inches long and two inches wide in the tile-like porch covering. The bomb explosion shattered the four windows on the front of the house, sending, glass flying inside the living room on the north side and den and music room on the south side. The house is the parsonage of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. The house is about 15 feet from the sidewalk and about 30 feet from the street.

A neighbor, Ernest Walters, 301 Jackson, said he saw a light colored car stop in front of the King house and then move away in a "terrific hurry." Walters said he was walking up his sidewalk when he saw the car and immediately after heard the explosion. He said he saw one man driving the car. The Williams woman told essentially (he same story as the wife of King. She said she was "shocked by the explosion." PLEA FOR PEACE As a crowd of about 300 Negroes athced outside the house, the 27-year-old Rev. King, in a dramatic scene, addressed them, Ha began by asking the group to be "peaceful." "We believe in law and order.

Don't get panicky. Don't do anything panicky at all. Don't get your He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword. Remember that is what God said. We a.e not advocating violence We want to love our enemies.

I want you to love our enemies. Be good them. Love them and let them know you love them. I did (See BOMBING, Page 2A City Offers S500 Reward In Bombing The Montgomery City Commission last night offered a reward of $500 for the capture and conviction of the persons who bombed the home of the Rev. M.

L. King, Negro boycott leader. Mayor W. A. Gayle, speaking for the City Commission said: "We do not condone such acts of violence under any conditions in our community.

"The persons who committed this terrible crime should" be punished to the fullest extent of the law. "We are asking the cooperation of the entire community to find the guilty parties. We want any details, however smali they may be, that may lead to the arrest of the guilty parties. "Not in our community or any community in this land of ours should there be such terrible acts of violence. We are strongly in favor of law and order.

"We are offering a $500 reward for the arrest and" conviction of the guilty parties. We are provid-ing police protection for the Rev. King and we hope that the community will cooperate in furnishing us any facts that will helj to solve this crime." Mark Johnston, vice presi dent -of Union Bank and Trust became president of the Mont-gomeiy Chamber of Commerce last right at the organization's 66th annual meeting. Johnston, succeeding James Pruett, called for the cooperation of all n.embers and Montgomerians to push the city to greater growth in 1956. Handed the president's gavel by Pruett, Johnston told the approxi mately 700 persons persent at the VVhitlsy Hotel: "There is no limit to Montgomery's future." TV USED Soma 400 persons filled the hotel's Blue and Gray 'room where the ceremonies were held.

Another 300 watched the proceedings via a special closed-circuit television arrangement to the downstairs State Room. The membership presented outgoing President Pruett an engraved gavel, commemorating his year's tenure General Manager Paul Fuller was also honored with an oil portrait as he begins his 20th year with the organization. An Oklahoma lawyer, Jeff H. Williams, a humorist-philosopher made what Pruett called the finest Eden To Back In Position On WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 UP) Prime Minister Eden pledged Britain's full support today to President Eisenhower's statement of policy that Russia should ease world tensions by "deeds, not words." Eden personally assured Eisenhower of Britain's stand at the first of a series of White House meetings called to coordinate British and American policies.

A conference spokesman, speaking for both delegations, said Eisenhower and Eden reached full agreement in their appraisal of Russia's recent flurry of diplomatic, economic and political moves against the West. EDEN SATISFIED This joint British-American view was stated Saturday, to Eden's satisfaction, the spokesman said, when Eisenhower replied to a message from Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul-ganin. The President politely but firmly turned down Bulganin's bid for a 20-year friendship treaty with the United States. He called on Bul-ganin to prove Russia's peaceful intent by settling specific East-West problems, such as German unity and disarmament, and ar- question, many legislators and parliamentarians interpreted the Constitution to mean any measure outside the call for a special session required a two-thirds vote in each house to gel through. Section 76 of the Constitution says "There shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those designated in the proclamation of the governor calling such session except by a vote of two-thirds of each house." The justices of the Supreme Court ruled in their advisory opinion that Section 76 deals only with "legislation, namely the enactment of laws." In other words, the court said a constitutional amendment isn't "legislation." Consequently, the justices held that passage of constitutional amendments comes under Section 284 of the Constitution, which fixes a three-fifths vote in the Legislature as the majority needed to submit an amendment to the people The court's opinion could be highly significant in the current reapportionment battle.

On a close vote, it could mean the difference between success and defeat The two-thirds rule has been "Interpreted by the same court to mean two-thirds of a quorum vot ing in the Legislature. With all members present as they have been in recent days, it would take 24 votes in the Senate and 71 in the House to pass legislation outside the special session call. But a constitutional amendment can be submitted with three-fifths of the membership 21 votes in the Senate and 64 in the lower chamber. Meanwhile, race-conscious Black Belter in the House who are tra ditionally opposed to both reapportionment and integration may find themselves confronted with this problem today: Wouid a continued filibuster against reapportionment material ly affect their chances of passing a "Freedom of Choice" school bill aimed at preserving classroom segregation? The third week of the present speciai session roared to a close last Friday with small county members of the House stalling tor time tc prevent a vote on legisla tion to reapportion the House and Senate membership. Although the delaying action did block a showdown on that issue, it also prevented a possible vote on the school segregation meas ure aiready approved by the Senate and on the House calendar.

Reconvening after a weekend recess, the Black Belt bloc led by Rep. W. L. Doc) Martin of Greene See FOLSOM, Page J2A) City's Taxpayers Fight Deadline Long lines formed yesterday as Montgomery merchants and businessmen rushed to make last-minute purchases of city retail licenses. Deadline for license-buying is today.

After that, the license fees will include a 10 per cent penalty. For most of this month, City Comptroller H. L. Hughes said response to his pleas for merchants to buy early was sporadic. Hughes said total licenses sold may reach as high as 10.000.

Prior to this year, merchants who bought early were given a 10 per cent discount. However, that practice was abandoned because city officials said, the city needed the revenue. Lt. Col. Goodwyn Dies In Carolina Lt.

Col. Albert G. Goodwyn, a relative of Justice John L. Goodwyn and o-t Montgomerians, died Saturday night at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Charleston.

He was born in Robinson Springs and was a grandson of President Tyler. Funeral was held yesterday. Straight thru to Tampa. Miami on Trallwayj new Vista Liner 100. change of bus or baggagel Co Trail-Kara Phone 4-5326.

(adv.) showl courage and should per suade critics to withdraw their de mands that he resign. Burdick issued a statement suggesting that some members oi President Eisenhower's Cabinet are suffering from "hoof and mouth disease." "Every time they open their mouth." Burdick said, "they seem to pur their foot in it." He said the President should in sist thar these men wear muzzles. although he said he doubted whether muzzles "would stop the appearance of letters in the magazines under the name of a secretary who never saw or read or signed the publication." BENSON'S 'BONER' Benson's "boner" letter was written after Harper's published an article by John Fischer enti tled, 'The country slickers take us again." Benson's note was in repiv to a 'etter written by Horace A Knowles, the magazine's public relations representative, saying he thought Benson might like to see the article "in support of your position." And the department letter said: I ha'e read the article by John Fischer in the December issue oi Harper's with a great deal of in terest. It is excellent." Sen. Morse (D-Ore) said he thought the article was "a pretty accurate reflection of Mr.

Benson's agricultural policy," and that he didn propose to accept the sec-' "alibi" at its "face vai ue." He said it was "interesting' that fhe writer's views been associated with those of Benson 'FALSE ASSUMPTION "I think the American people are entitled to a secretary of agriculture who runs his office more effi ciently than that," Morse said. Bennett told the Senate Benson's resignation had been called for on the "false assumption" that he was the author of the letter bearing his name. Actually, it was written by Mrs. Irene Slagsvold, a 51-year-old Agriculture Department secretary, im-(See BENSON, Page 2A) Death Claims Col. Mardre Lt.

Col. Robert B. Mardre, 54. died arly yesterday at the Army Hospital, Ft. Lee, after a briet illness.

Col. Mardre is a graduate ol Auburn and was for many years superintendent of schools in Ope lika. He was called into active duty with the Army immediately after Pearl Harbor and served two tours of duty in Korea arid Japan. Before Col. Mardre left Korea in March, 1955, he received one of the highest citations that is given by the Korean government in recognition of outstanding service in setting up an educational system in the Korean Army.

Col. Mardre is survived by his widow a son, Robert Burton Mardre a senior at Alabama Polytechnic Institute; a daughter Mrs I. Judson Scott and her two sons, all of Opelika; and' three sisters. Mrs. C.

H. Patterson ol Atlanta, Mrs. J. W. Tid-more oi Auburn, and Mrs.

Hart well Oavis of Montgomery. Funeral will be in Opelika from the First Baptist Church, of which he was a member, Wednesday at 3 p.m. The family requests no flowers Judge Davis Stakely Seeking Renomination Justice Davis Stakely qualified yesterday as a candidate for re nomination to the State Supreme Court. He filed with the secretary ot state 'i- enter the Democratic pri mary May 1. ADVERTISER TODAY Page Pare Class.

Ada H1B Movies IB Comics Obituaries 3A Crossword IB Loral Radio-TV SB Editorial 4A Society A Hambone A Sports 4-5B Markets SB Weather Map 7B Columnists: MeLemore, Davidson, Tucker A msi Xf I 7 1 i fc-wvl It A Parley Set For Arrests On Sundays Tbe arrest Sunday of 10 merchants in the county for violation of the state's blue laws has brought on a meeting of county law officers to discuss the controversial Sunday closing statute. Court of Common Pleas Judge Alex Marks will meet today at 10 a.m. in the east courtroom of the courthouse for a conference with Circuit Solicitor W. F. Thet-ford, Sheriff Mac Butler, law enforcement officers and "any interested merchants." Sheriff's deputies arrested four store operators on the Troy Highway Sunday, two at Ramer, two at Waugh Community, and two others.

Each was released, however, alt er posting bonds for $100. Sheriff Butler offered no comment on the wholesale arrests in the county Sunday, except that he hopes "something definite can be worked out" at the meeting today- concerning the enforcement of the state blue laws in Montgomery County. Police Chief G. J. Ruppenthal said no arrests for violations of the blue law have been made in the city since the recent crackdown.

"We have received no reports on any stores operating contrary to the Sunday closing law" the chief said, adding that "the merchants have been very cooperative with us." Among those arrested were R. T. Alford justice of the peace and operator of a store and service station on Troy Highway. Others included R. A.

Gipson, manager of Hayward Powell Store No. 2 and Hayward Howell, owner and operator of Howell's Store No. 1, both on Troy Highway; J. B. Phillips at Ramer; James Kahn, Kahn's Store at Pine Level; Clovis H.

Hitson, proprietor of Hitson's Store on Upper Wetump- ka Road near Flatwood Community; J. Massingill, operator of Massingills Grocery near Flat-wood; Caterina McCarty, operator of McCarty's Place at Waugh; Sam Dal Parto, proprietor of Dal Parto's Store af Mt. Meigs, and James F. Browder. sX Ramer.

No lover fare ANYWHERE than rrailways! Only S6.60 to Nashville, plus tax, ob Trailwajs Bus! Phon 4-5326. (advj WHERE BOMB HIT Police Officer M. L. Wray points to the spot on the front porch of the King home where a bomb hit last night exploding and shattering windows, a column and ripping a mailbox from the wall. The bomb left a shallow hol- about four inches long and two inches wide.

It was believed to be a hand grenade or a half stick of dynamite. FUNERAL TODAY Drinkard Denies Favoritism In Award For Fishing Lake Mencken's Ashes To Rest In Oblivion He Desired Conservation Director W. H. Bill) Drinkard denied emphatically yesterday he had shown any "political favoritism' in awarding a. contract to manage a huge fishing lake to E.

M. Moore, the father-in-law of Gov. James E. Moore has been awarded the contract to manage the new, 250-acre West Alabama Fishing Lake, located nine miles west of Tuscaloosa. It is the largest fertilized fishing lake in tnt world.

News stories published Sunday had been critical of the fact that Moore's contract had been award ed without competitive bidding. Drinkard confirmed this fact yesterday, but added "as far as 1 know never, in the history of the state have fishing lake contracts been let on a bid basis." "There were several applica tions made for the contract, and Moore was selected as he was much more experienced in that work and because of his good record in managing a state lake in Marion County," Drinkard said. "As to the charge that was made that Moore will make from $1,000 to $1,500 a day at the lake, I would like to point out that it would require 4,000 fishermen each day for him to make $1,000," Drinkard continued. "There might be that many there on opening day, but he certainly can't expect to average that much." "If he makes $25 a day it will be good," Drinkard added. Under the contract, Moore handles the selling of one-day fishing permits, boat rentals and concessions.

The fee for fishing is 50 cents a day, wih Moore keeping half of this. "There's a lot of hard work involved in operating a lake of this size. It's a 24-hour job," Drink-(See DRINKARD, Page 2A) BALTIMORE, Jan. 30 CD Because no one has ever produced a "suitable burial service for the admittedly damned" as H. L.

Mencken once suggested, the famed author's ashes will be laid to rest simply and unobstrusively tomorrow. Mencken died Sunday morning. "Such a libretto for the inescapable last act would be humane and valuable. I renew my suggestion that the poets spit upon their hands and confect it at once." he wrote Mencken's brother August said tonight just a few old friends and the immediate family will gather at a "mortician's place" at 1 p.m. The surviving brothers, August, and Chartes Mencken, of Pitts.