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Showers Mild, mattered showers Friday, Saturday. Extremes expected Friday, 60 and 70; Saturday, 60 and 74. Extremes Thursday; 62 and 76. Price Five Centa ATLANTA TITUT Stocks Mixed; date improvement, Bonds-Mixed; governments improved, $4,190,000. Cotton Steady.

For 90 Years the South Standard Newspaper VOL. XC, No. 93 TEL. JA. 2-3030 ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1937 56 PAGES, 4 SECTIONS RALPH PolicemeB Acqraitted; Markets All 7 ml The 14th Amendment 9 Other (Loiraetecl ram Ing 9 4 More Are Cleared Of Lottery Charges By GENE BRITTON A federal jury Thursday cleared seven suspended Atlanta policemen and four other persons in the Horace Ingram lottery conspiracy trial.

vi ill, -H 4 Ax- Lj I 'V. II-' i 4 I If" I -w P4V a 4 -H Georc Slate Paul Bcnnfit --J v- 't'. ft Faubus Is Willing To See Ike But Refuses Total Surrender From Wire Report! LITTLE ROCK, Oct. 3- Gov. Orval E.

Faubus, today told a news conference he was willing to negotiate further with President Eisenhower in the integration crisis. But he said he felt the atmosphere was not ripe now for further negotiation and Other stories relating to Little Rock on Pages 2, 5, 7, 10 and 16. added he would never agree to a 'complete and unconditional sur render." The President, in Washington, threw cold water on a suggestion that he and Faubus might meet again. He said the troops would stay until Faubus assured him un equivocally that law anq order would be maintained. Faubus said he had no sugges tions or proposals regarding me deadlock to offer Florida's Gov.

Leroy Collins with whom he was in contact today. Collins was one of four Southern governors who tried to work out an armistice between Faubus and the White House. Another of the four governors, North Carolina's Luther Hodges, said In Raleigh that he devoutly hopes for an agreement to end federal troop occupancy of Little Rock. "A solution to the problem must be found and can be found, we must find a solution as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, segregationists or integra-tionists," Hodges said. Faubus sent his lawyers to U.S.

district court in Little Rock and appealed the Eighth U.S. circuit court of appeals against an injunction by a U. S. district court Continued on Page 13, Column 2 Associated Press Wirephoto SCENES OF TURBULENCE PREVAIL AT LITTLE ROCK OVER INTEGRATION Lejt, National Guardsmen Make Students Move; Right, Home-Owner Points to Effigy Guard Strengthened; 75 Pupils Walk Out By JACK NELSON Constitution Stiff Writer LITTLE ROCK. Oct.

3 The Army strengthened its guard at turbulent 'Centra! Burclette Turns Back Yanks, 4-2 Ex-New Yorker Bests Old Mates By OSCAR FRALEY NEW YORK, Oct, 3 (UP)-Lean Lew Burdette, coming out of the past to haunt the New York Yankees, today hurled the Milwaukee Braves to a 4 to 2 triumph which squared the World Series at one game each in a comedy of errors and insinuations. Burdette whipped his curve, his slider and his screwball past the Yankees for a seven-hitter which sent little Bobby Shantz down to a bitter defeat in a game marked by brush-back pitches and spitball charges and made the Yankees sorry that they let Burdette go in deal which won one world championship and now could cost them another. YANKEES MADE ERRORS But, as the mighty Yankees buckled at the seams with a pair of errors which astounded 65,202 spectators sitting under chill blue skies, there were a handful of Milwaukee heroes heading happily home for Saturday's third game. There was rousing acclaim for: Young Wes Covington who sin gled home the winning run and made a spectacular, saving back hand catch off the grim Shantz Battling Johnny Logan who socked the first home run of the series. And veteran Andy Pafko whose football block on tough Ku bek provided Milwaukee with an insurance run.

BAUER HITS HOME RUN There were goats, too, in this one but they were among the Yankees even though Hank Bauer saved some' face by hitting a home run for the Bronx Bombers. In addition to Kubek's crippling error, Mickey Mantle the glamour boy of the Yankees mis-played a fly ball into a triple and Yankee error. Burdette could have been a Continued on Page 33, Column 6 Polish Militia Battles in Student Flareup WARSAW, Oct. 3 im-Polish police and militiamen used tear gas and clubs tonight to smash a demonstration by some 2,000 students protesting government clos ing of an anti-Stalinist student newspaper. More than 30 students were arrested after two pitched battles in which police tired tear gas into the shouting crowd at least three times.

The battle continued for more than an hour. The students marched on Narutowicza Square for a mass meeting after plastering the town with Dosters proclaiming "De mocracy is in danger." demonstration that exploded This is a piece about the 14th Amendment. It's in all the en cyclopaedias, with more detail man tnere is room for here. The Fourteenth Amendment is in the news and letters to the edi- 4 tors because the Supreme Court relied on it for its 1954 school de- i i n. As has been noted here before, for purposes of background information, the Supreme Court had, one might say, for some years been blowing the whistle for the crossing.

It was making antisegrega-tion school decisions on the basis of the 14th Amendment as early as 1938. This first was in Missouri where the law school was ordered to admit a colored citizen of the state. Similar decisions followed in Oklahoma and Texas. In these, and other less important cases, the court made use of the 14th Amendment. First Section The text of the first section of what is a rather lengthy amendment, is as follows: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." It is this first section which several times has been employed by the court to mean that no citizen may be treated differently from another because of race, color or religion that no state may make any laws which in any way abridge or infringe on the rights of any citizen. The amendment is a long one and all citizens ought to read it thoroughly and discuss it at home. The fact is, as any thoughtful citizen will agree, that the 14th Amendment is as necessary as the first 10, called our bill of rights. None of us would like it if a state could make laws abridging or infringing on our rights guaranteed by the Constitution. If there weren't such a guarantee in the Constitution we would all be trying to get one.

Why, then, do we hear and read people saying (hat the 14th Amendment is not legal when, quite obviously, it is legal and is one so valuable to all of us? Iragic lime The answer is out of another tragic and troubled time in the South. Lincoln had a plan for peaceful, honorable return of the Southern states to the Union. The South always has had the bad luck to be hurt by its fanatics John Wilkes Booth murdered Lin coin. In the emotional orgy which followed, the radical extremists took charge of the Congress. In 1865, after the adoption of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, a number of Southern states angrily passed laws deny- ing the newly freed persons the right to vote, to own property or to give evidence in court.

This was just what the radicals had been hoping for. The South was vulnerable. The 14th Amendment was presented as an answer to this unfortunate state legislation. All Southern stales, save Ten nessee, rejected it. There followed excesses of injustice, persecution and occupation which are a blot on our history.

No state could be readmitted to the Union unless it did ratify the amendment forbidding any state to abridge the rights of any citizen, in time all the states did, under this heavy pressure, vote for the amendment. They suc ceeded in making it less harsh, in mis generation various eva sions of it such as the white primary, for example, have been declared unconstitutional. The 1954 decision invalidated one of 1896 setting up the doctrine of eparate-but-equal. It is the element of coercion which causes some to argue that the amendment is not valid. We should not lie to our selves about it.

It is valid. And despite its vengeful origin, it is a necessary protection for all of us. Let us. for the purpose of perspective, note what hasty, angry extremes will do. The unwise, unjust state legislation forbidding civil rights to the newly freed persons provided the radicals with an excuse for their graver Injustices.

Ingram and nine other defendants were found guilty. The jury acquitted Police Sgt. George W. Slate, Paul Frank Bennett, Gene Paul Hicks, Clyde Ed-w i Carter, George H. Wade, Roy H.

Fleming and Foster El- lington all sus-, pended police-4 men-and Will i h. W. A. Watu Fain, Tommie Oeno Hicki Reid and Mrs. Ruby Ingram.

Only Ingram and Rufus Jenkins were convicted on all three counts of the federal indictment. Count one charged conspiracy to defeat and evade federal revenue laws on gambling. Counts two and three were misdemeanor counts charging failure to register and pay a special gambling tax as required by federal law. Found guilty on the conspiracy count were Mary Parks Law, Frank Christian, L. E.

(Slick) Smith, Eugene Thomas, Richard Lee Turner, Robert Lee Lewis Robert Lee Lewis John HiU Jenkins and Ingram. Asked if the seven exonerated police officers would be put back on the force immediately, Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins would only say. "The jury has spoken. Any other comment would be super fluous." Three of the officers, Wade, Bennett and Carter, are still under indictment in Fulton Superior Court on charges of bribery. Sgt.

Slate is still under indictment by a federal grand jury on perjury charges. Sources close to Chief Jenkins said the other three officers, Continued on Page 13, Column I INSIDE TODAY Russell Duels With Javils Page GIRL, 14 WEDS grandfather, 76 great-Page TEMPEST IN TEAPOT: Griffin vs. Brucker Page 5 Billy Graham 13-F Bridge 13-F Business 38-40 Classified Ads 23-31 Comics 14-F Crossword Puzzle Editorial Page 4 Food Section Section Jumble Obituaries 22 Ollie Reeves 15-F Political Notebook 5 Sports 33-36 Television and Radio 12 Theater Programs 14 Women's Features 18-21 THIGPEN, M.D., and HERVEY M. This is the true story oj one of the most remarkable cases of multiple personality in all medical history, told by the two doctors who treated the case. Two different and distinct personalities, Eve White, a shy, demure housewife, and Eve Black, a saucy, flirtatious party girl, were battling for possession of the patient's body.

Mostly, Eve White was in command, but Eve Black would emerge occasionally. Now, the patient is under treatment in the hospital. had relaxed into the buoyant ease of Eve Black. "Well, Doc," she said in the husky, brisk voice so unlike that of the other, "what you did just I Ike Says Courts' Sanctity, Not -Integration, Is Issue By ANTHONY LEWIS (Copyright 1957 by The New York Times Co.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 President Eisenhower said today that the issue in Little Rock is not school segregation but the sanctity of the courts, "our bulwarks, Foster Ellioctoa Clyde drier 1 i Hot Flemmlnl Georie Wad Woods Ruled Guilty, Must Die in Chair A Full on Superior Court jury found a 19-year-old Atlanta Negro guilty of murder Thursday and made no recommendation for mercy in the July 19 slaying of a finance company employe.

The jury deliberated 50 mon-utes before reaching its verdict at 3:57 p.m. against Henry R. Woods. Woods was sentenced by Judge Durwood T. Pye to death by electrocution Oct.

25 at Georgia State Prison in the stabbing and beating of Miss Joy Lee McCord, 26, at Rox Finance 126 Edgewood NE. Assistant Sol. Gen. Tom Luck asserted that Woods showed he knew right from wrong when he sent blood-stained trousers to a laundry and when he washed blood from an iron pipe and a knife. Court-appointed defense attorney Bill Hall said Woods' unsworn statement indicated he was "subnormal." Woods rambled, repeating, "To my knowing I never meant to hurt nobody.

To my memory, I never hurt nobody." One psychiatrist testified he believed Woods to be sane. CLECKLEY, M.D now sure made it easier for ma to get out." Her bright eyes roved briefly about the hospital room as if in amused curiosity. "I know pretty well what this place looks like all right," she explained, but I just thought I'd like to see for myself." She smiled, her affable face at ease, and then said, "She's really feeling a lot better. Of course, there ain't anything could bring her to her senses. But, Doc, I do think you somehow done her some good.

She's still scared, all right. I can tell that. But nothing like) what she was a week, ego." After considerable discussion, this Eva granted permission for the other to be informed of her existence. In our attempt to tell Eve Continued on Page 13, Column 1 our shield against autocratic "The courts must be sustained or it's not America," the Presi dent said. This was the principal theme of a press conference devoted almost entirely to the school segre gation problem.

The President discussed both the particular is sues in Little Rock and the broader question of how the South as a whole can be persuaded to com ply with the Supreme Court's school decision. The Little Rock dispute itself remained at dead center today. There were no further developments on the abortive peace plan drawn up by Eisenhower and four of a spectacular and eerie refusing to obey an Army officer. He was held in lieu of $5,0000 bond. Duncan, who said he has a daughter attending Central High, was arrested by soldiers when he failed to move from the school area.

The soldiers, members of the federalized Arkansas national guard, were dispersing a crowd of about 100 students and a few adults who joined them. Soldiers also took into custody Annette Harper, 15, sophomore, who defied a soldier's order to leave the area. She later was released but was suspended from school. Only eight Negro students-five girls and three boys attended classes xnursaay. me mntn, a girl, missed school because of a medical appointment.

It was the ninth day of integrated classes. As usual, the Negroes were transported to and from school in an Army station wagon, driven by a sergeant and escorted by two jeeps loaded with armed soldiers. With mounting tension in mind, the Army used a platoon of 40 men to surround the students and escort them to the main entrance when they arrived. They were met at the entrance by eight paratroopers who took them to classes. Sixty regular Army paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division were stationed in the school to prevent white students from molesting the Negroes.

Two of the Continued on Page 8, Column 3 and told her not to leave the parlor with the agents. The woman later called the parlor and found the girl was gone so she called the FBI office here about 5 p.m. She said the FBI told her the girl would be sent home. She got home after dark, about 6:30 or 7 p.m. The girl claims she told the agents that her mother didn't want her to leave the beauty parlor.

She said the agents whom she described as "two big, hefty men," told her it would be all right to go with them, that they would call her mother. She said the agents took her and Beverly Burks to the Post Office building in Little Rock and questioned them both in the same room at the same time. let us go about 6 Continued on Page 8. Column 1 High here Thursday in face from the tense racial crisis. A crowd of white students who walked out of classes at 9 a.m., 15 minutes after the opening bell, hanged and burned an effigy of a Negro in a yard across the eeet from the school.

In the excitement t.a tollowed, a man listed as Vernon H. Duncan, 47, was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace and government." Southern governors Tuesday to get federal troops out of the city and restore the federalized Arkansas National Guard to state control. The President said at his press conference that "two different situations could justify the withdrawal of federal troops." The first, he said, would be "unequivocal assurances" by Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas that court orders would not be obstructed and law and order maintained in Little Rock. The South-Continued on Page 8, Column 1 By A Staff Writer teen age girls incommunicado while questioning them on Central High's integration trouble.

In this connection, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued a statement which said in part: "Had Gov. Faubus been interested in securing the truth rather than disseminating falsehoods, a telephone call to the Little Rock office of the FBI or to me would have provided him with the facts." Mrs. Harper said this is what happened: Two agents came to her house about 2 p.m. on Sept.

14 and said they wanted to talk to her daughter. She told them the girl was at the beauty parlor and that they could question her there but could not take her off. Mrs. Harper then called her daughter at the beauty parlor State GOPs Support Ike On Troops A Georgia Republican's proposal to censure President Eisenhower's "naked use of force" in Little Rock was rebuffed Thursday by state GOP leaders who said the President was merely "enforcing the law." After voting to bar newsmen from its session in Atlanta, the Republican State Executive Committee debated 50 minutes before unanimously vetoing a censure resolution drawn up by Miss Margaret S. Twiggs of Augusta, a vice chairman of the committee.

Miss who did not at tend the conference, sent her pro posal deploring the "unconscionable invasion" of Arkansas state chairman William B. Shart-zer. SECRET DEBATE The committee voted to back Eisenhower following secret debate that was "not at all heated," according to Tom Hays, assistant to the state chairman. Hays released to newsmen a "statement of policy" drafted by the executive committee which said: "The Little Rock situation is extremely regrettable. President Eisenhower made clear he regretted taking this course of action; however, he is charged with enforcing the law as interpreted by our federal courts.

MUST BE BY LAW "If the problem of school integration is not to be handled by mob violence, it must be handled in accordance with the law. "This is not a political issue, and Republicans and Democrats alike in the South must not en-Continued on Page 13, Column 1 2 Humid Days In Low 70s Seen Showers and thunderstorms will keep Atlanta and north Georgia humid Friday and Saturday, the weatherman reports. The forecast is for mostly cloudy skies with temperatures ranging both days from 60 degrees to highs of 70 on Friday and 74 on Saturday. Thursday's extremes in Atlanta were 62 and 76. (Rainfall story, page 37.) The Three Faces of Eve Eve White Suffers Bad Shakeup When Spoken To By Eve Black Says the FBI Held Her and Friend for Quizzing By CORBETT H.

CHAPTER 6 After much consideration, and while Eve White still was in the hospital, we decided to seek another audience with Eve Black. Both of us felt zome reluctance about simply confronting our cooperative and insecure little patient with a forthright account of what we had learned about her alternate. On the two occasions that Eve White had been hypnotized, amnesia for the period of "sleep" or "trance" had been obtained. Hypnosis was therefore induced again. Eve Black was called by name and requested to speak.

The eyes opened promptly. Even before they moved, or so it seemed to us, there could be no doubt about vhom we dealt with. Almost instantaneously the figure LITTLE ROCK, Oct. 3-A 15-year-old girl, suspended from Central High for defying soldiers in Thursday's demonstration here, charges the FBI held her and another girl for questioning without telling their mothers where they were. Annette Harper said she and another 15-year-old sophomore, Beverly Burks, were interrogated for about four hours by two FBI agents on Sept.

14. They were questioned about racial trouble at the school, she said. Mrs. Kenneth Harper, the girl's mother, said she told the agents they could question her daughter at a beauty parlor where both girls were having their hair fixed. "I told them not to take my daughter away, but they did," Mrs.

Harper declared. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus has accused the FBI of holding.

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