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The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 12

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The Morning Calli
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Allentown, Pennsylvania
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12 THE MORNING CALL, Allen town, Ta, Tuesday, IeC. 1953 Negro's Arrest, $14 Fine May Lead To Court Test on Bus Segregation SUPBR MARKETS I MONTGOMERY, Dec. $my iThe arrest of a Negro who refused to move to the colored section of a city bus may bring a court test of segrated transportation in the cradle of confederacy. While thousands of other Negroes boycotted Montgomery city lines In protest, Mrs. Rosa Parks was of the National Assn.

for the Ad-! vancement of Colored People, E. D. Nixon. Gray and Charles Langford, another Negro lawyer representing the 42-year-old department store seamstress, refused to say" whether they plan to attack constitutionality of the segregation laws affecting dinance which gives bus drivers police powers to enforce racial segregation. But at the request of City Atty.

Eugene Loe, the warrant was amended in court today to charge violation of a similar state law. Passed by the Legislature In 1947, the state statute authorizes bus companies to provide and enforce separate facilities for white and Negro races. Violation is pun (public transportation. ishable by a maximum fine of $300. 'Erery Issue Hill Be Raised But Gray told The Associated Press that, "Every issue will be raised that I think is necessary to defend my client." No hearing on the appeal has been set in Circuit Court.

The Supreme Court in Washing Brief Hearing Mrs. Parks was fined $10 and costs by Police Judge John Scott in a hearing that lasted only five minutes. Neither the defendant nor any XJYy OR K'VS. ANDS jj ABOUT THE 14 QUALITY, FLAYOR iother defense witnesses was called fined $14 in police court teiy for disregarding a driver's order to move to the rear of a bus last Thursday. Negro passengers ride In the rear fit buses here; white passengers 'In front under a municipal segregation ordinance.

I Bus Boycott Along with the bus boycott, there were other threatened acts of retaliation by Negroes. The boycott was organized after circulars were distributed in Negro residential areas Saturday urging "economic reprisal" against the bus company. Mrs Parks appealed her $14 fine and was released under $100 bond eigned by Wegro attorney Fred Gray and a former state president ton already has before it a test case against segregation of buses operating in Columbia, S. C. The U.S.

Circuit Court of appeals in Richmond, has ruled in this case that segregation must be ended. If the Supreme Court sustains the decision the effect will be to outlaw segregation in all states and cities. The Negro woman was first to testify. Meanwhile, other Negroes by the thousands found other means of transportation or stayed home today in an organized boycott of City Lines buses, operated by a subsidiary of National City Lines at Chicago. charged with violating a city or Asiatic Tour Spectacle: Troops Alert As Russians Tour Burma Churchill Urges Caution In Allowing Soviet Chiefs To Visit Britain in April Eden has gone ahead, naming Min ister of State Lord Reading to make arrangements for the Soviet leaders' visit even though the date has not yet been firmly fixed.

Vf LEAN BONELESS SMOKED flfonw(lbEi SJSj WOODFORD, England, Dec 5 Sir Winston Churchill tonight called the Asiatic tour of the Soviet a surprising spectacle and Iauggted that the British govern-; merit weigh carefully whether to i let them repeat it here, i Soviet Premier Bulganin and Communist party chief Khrushchev are due to visit Britain in April. you Couldn't Buy Better Milk Than LEHIGH muty" nmym swm wort IMR 11 tit QUASI Eisenhower Going South After Yule I Speaking to a rally of Young (Conservatives, Churchill said: Lean, No Was just the sit yey want 1 to lVa ibs. I "I have no doubt you all have been following the exhimtion there Is no other word which the RANGOON, Burma, Dec. 5 WV-Soviet Premier Bulganin and party boss Khrushchev visited in the thick of insurgent Communist activity in Burma today and then returned to this capital. At Maymyo, old army headquarters town where they reviewed a crack Burmese brigade, troops were fighting Communist Insurgents just a few miles away in a dense jungle.

Only five days ago an insurgent band penetrated Maymyo itself and kidnaped two World Health Organization doctors, one an Italian, from a house hardly 300 yards from where Bulganin and Khrushchev were quartered. Area Well Guarded Consequently Burmese security forces were especially alert during the Russians' stay. Soldiers with Sten guns guarded every house and cordoned off every road which the Russians visited or traveled. All unauthorized movements were halted. At Maymyo, after reviewing the polished brigade with its glistening equipment, Khrushchev' commented: "The most important task is de-fending one's own country," I heads of the Russian state have 91 pkmAl i been making of their tour through By ROBERT S.

ALLEN WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 Presi India and Burma. "It certainly has been a suxpris dent Eisenhower is going South, Mm 111 o. if, iUng spectacle and one which Her I 7 after all. Despite recent White House rtt- iMajesty government will no doubt Lancaster Brand SLICED BACON Rath's Black Hawk Brand CANNED HAMS Lancaster Brand Smoked BEEF TONGUES Lancaster Brand 1EEF HEARTS, BEEF TRIPE BEEF KIDNEYS, BEEF TAILS ports to the contrary, the Presi istudy carefully before they allow lit, with suitable variants, to be dent and Mrs.

Eisenhower will spend a week or so at Augusta, repeated here. f. Frequent Coughs immediately after Christmas. 45 YoirCioioe 23 I Laughter swept the audience of They will be in Washington for Christmas. But the following week 1,000 here in his own constituency, Churchill, suffering from a cold.

they will fly to Augusta and re I Interrupted his talk -with frequent main there until Congress reconvenes and is ready to receive the President annual State of the Union message and the new budget. The 84th Congress reassembles Lehigh Valley Irradiated Vitamin Fresh Milk Is Homogenized and Pasteurized makes a wonderful, nutritious and healthful drink. Add its extra creamy goodness to cereals, fresh fruits, and other desserts and discover a special flavor-treat. NEW GREEN SOUTHERN Jan. 3, but several days are usual ly required for organizing pur Khrushchev said.

"I wish your army would have Its own officers and soldiers and generals. To achieve this aim, you should have poses. That will enable the President your own military academies and to stay a week to 10 days in the institutions. South. Boil with Smoked Butt (or tty wk (The Foreign Office London Preparations are already under said it had no idea what Khrush way for these unannounced plans.

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I He concluded his remark on the Russian leaders by warning that I their behavior "must not lead us suppose that Russian power and 6 capacity is not growing in many tether directions." Tense Situation Churchill swung then into talking about "technological education" and did not elaborate further on the strained situation created by the blasts at England and the West by Bulganin and Khrushchev in their tour of the former British colonies. Prime Minister Eden extended an invitation to Bulganin and Khrushchev during the Geneva mimmit conference in July. Britain Christmas and the resumption of Congress. In February, the President, may do FALSE TEETH Rock, Slide or Slip? PASTEETH, an Improved powder to be sprinkled on upper or lower plates, holds false teeth more firmly In place. Do not slide, slip or rock.

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5 Seven men. including four district have been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries in this area, state police said today. Charged with receiving stolen foods are: j. Tony Puskarich. 55, tax collect-; or in neighboring South Union Township and proprietor of the Victory Inn at Continental No.

2 lln that township; his son, Elmer; Theodore Antoon, 48, owner of a Uniontown Tavern; Carmen Elar-ido, 34, owner of a Uniontown restaurant, and Louis Ritz, 38, of I Uniontown, R. I Charged with burglary are: I Raymond Chamberlain, 24, and David Gibson, 36, both of Browns- Ville, 12 miles west of here. I State police said that since last July Chamberlain and Gibson have been stealing whisky and auto tires 1st various places in Fayette and Washington counties and selling i the loot to the other five. BUY FROM MORGAN COMPANY SPo fill vs. I sN TO THOUSANDS OF YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE MORGAN USERS MAUD VITAAAIN II '7 7 11 i i The charges were filed before Justice of the Peace James Gdder of Brownsville Township, Fayette County.

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