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CONSTITUTION ATLANTA THE Hot Net Paid Circulation 200,989 For April, 1939 VOL. XCI, No. 273 Partly cloudy, rather hot Tuesday and Wednesday. Extreme anticipated: 68 and 90 both days. Monday extremes: 63 and 88.

For 91 Years the South' Standard Newspaper TEL. JA, 2-5030 P. 0. Box 4689 ATLANTA (2), TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1959 40 PAGES, 3 SECTIONS Price Five Cents OA3LPH Jnry Get Mg j'l i i it On MgliMo-Qiiiz Law; The following column was cited specifically by the Pulitzer Committee as an example of the editorial Writing which won the Pulitzer Prize for Ralph McCill. The column appeared on Oct.

13, 1358. A Church, A School i s. V' -j I It i -4 'J I I Aides Coiifer IK Can Face Accusers, Code Says A new Fulton County grand Jury being sworn in Tuesday may get some instructions on a 1943 law giving certain state officials the right to cross-examine grand Jury witnesses, it was learned Monday. Judge Jesse M. Wood is sched uled to charge the May-June term jury which probably will be pre sented evidence against State Compt.

Gen. Zack D. Cravey, whose attorneys have pointed up the law's requirements. CAN CROSS-EXAMINE Under the law, a state official faced with a charge involving wrongdoings in office may face his accusers before the jury and cross-examine them before any action on an indictment is taken. Former Rep.

Hoke Smith, one of Cravey's lawyers, contended staff Photot Hugh Stovall ager Frank Vinson said he put a cardboard box on the lobby floor, went to make a phone call and when he returned the queen and her subjects were in the box. He'll deliver them to a friend. Only stinging victim was Patrolman W. D. Johnson.

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? These pedestrians were besieged Monday afternoon by a swarm of bewildered bees searching the Peachtree street-Carnegie way areaf for their queen. The queen alighted in the outer lobby of the Paramount Theater. Man- High Court Backs Health Searches By KARL R. BAUMAN WASHINGTON 3 The Supreme Court'ruled 5-4 Monday that a health inspector may search your home without a warrant. RALPH McGILL Constitution Editor Cited McCUVs Calls In His Loan Examiners By BRUCE GALPHTN Cmpt.

Gen. Zack Cravey's loan examiners were told in a called meeting Monday that Cravey would be present to hear any testimony they might give the new Fulton Grand Jury. That information was delivered by Cravey's attorney, Hoke Smith, at a gathering called by the Rep. Brooks is drafting bill to knock out "two trials" for public officials. Story on Page 10.

comptroller general at the Capitol Monday morning. It was the second such summoning of employes by Cravey in the past eight days. The comptroller general had his loan examiners called in from all over the state by telephone to the Monday conference. There he introduced them to Smith, who, he said, was representing them against the charge that he instructed employes to campaign for him at state expense last summer. Zack Cravey himself an at torney, also sat in on the meet ing, along with Cravey Sr.

and Ralph Cadle, chief deputy loan commissioner. Smith told them that In effect, none of the evidence submitted in the case to the grand jury which went out last Friday was valid. This was in line with his con tention in Fulton Superior Court last week that no witnesses could Continued on Page 8, Column 1 INSIDE TODAY U.S. Testing Red Sincerity Page 2 CUT US IN on any tax raise, Atlanta asks Page 7 URBAN RENEWAL financing completed Win Pulitzer Prize that Sol. Gen.

Paul Webb and Special Prosecutor Paul Caden-Lead illegally presented evidence against Cravey to the now-discharged March-April terra Jury by not complying with that law. Smith, it was learned, discussed the matter with i Judge Wood Monday. DELAY HALTS PROBE Delay caused by the court action Cravey brought to halt the jury's investigation of his office held up any action on a proposed indictment against Cravey and Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill has i 'V' 1 Staff Photo Charles Pugh GETS TOP AWARD for Editorials and Leadership Columns his editorial The regarded as journalism's Rape Suspect Found Dead In Mississippi BOGALUSA, La. (AP) The body of Mack Charles Parker, 23, Negro who was savagely beat en and dragged from a jail at nearby Poplarville, 10 days ago, was found Monday. It was snagged on underbrush in the Pearl River.

The FBI was able to identify the body through fingerprints. Parker was kidnaped by a gang of masked and gloved raiders two days before he was to go on trial on a charge of raping a pregnant white woman last February. FBI agents and officers di rected by Mississippi Highway Patrol Chief B. S. Hood pulled the body from the water on the Mississippi side of the river near Bogalusa, about 20 miles from Poplarville.

The body was clothed in only men's underwear, shorts and undershirt. An announcement of the Identi fication was made in Washington by Atty. Gen. William Rogers. cElroy To Reveal New Arms By C.

P. TRUSSELL (Coprrli ht M5, The New Tork Timei CO WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense McElroy told senators Monday that would soon disclose to them "quite spectacular" im provement in national safety against attack. He would do it, he said, in a closed session and un der full secrecy wraps. McElrov volunteered this promise as he began discussing his de partment's $40,945,000,000 program for the fiscal year starting next July 1. He gave no hint of the improvements he is now holding under cover.

There was speculation, of course. The improvement, it was held in some quarters, might be, in addition to the race to missile and anti-missile production, a warning system that would give the United States twice the time now estimated to put into the air a devasating retaliatory action against a sneak attack. Secretary McElroy mentioned in his formal statement that satellites encircling the earth could detect the blasts of enemy missile launching faster than anything now programmed publicly. McElroy spokes with high con fidence of the adequacy of his $40,000,000,000 budget. The fluctuations of international situations, he told the Senate Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations, had caused no material changes in the military program worked out last fall.

Canada Air Link VIENNA (UPD-The first direct air connection between Canada and Austria was opened during the weekend, when a Trans-Can ada Airlines Super Constellation arrived from Montreal. Officials said the company will fly the route once a week. Dvnamite in ereat auantity Sunday ripped a beautiful Temple of worship in Atlanta. It followed hard on the heels of a like destruc- Ition of a hand some high school at Clinton. Tenn.

I The same rab iA mo H.H A I IU, mlfllll VI I without question behind both They also are Jine suurce ui ine- vious bombings in Florida, Ala hnma and South Carolina. The school house and the church are the targets of diseased, hate-filled minds. Let us face the facts. This is a harvest. It is the crop of things sown.

It Is the harvest of defiance of xourts and the encouragement of citizens to defy law on the part nf many Southern DOliticians. It will be the acme of irony, for ex ample, if any one of four or five Southern governors deplore this bombing. It will be grimly humorous if certain state attorneys 'general issue statements of re- cret. And it will be quite a jon for some editors, columnists and commentators, who have been savine that our courts have no jurisdiction and that the people should refuse to accept their au thority now to deplore. It is not possible to preach lawlessness and restrict it.

To be sure, none said go bomb 1- -U1 Gates Opened But let it be understood that when leadership in high places in anv decree fails to support con stituted authority, it opens the cates to all those who wish to I take law into their hands. There will be, to be sure, the customary act of the careful aside of skirts on the 'part of those in high places. "How awful," they will exclaim. "How terrible. Something must be done." But the record stands.

The ex tremists of the citizens' councils, the political leaders who in terms violent and inflammatory have repudiated their oaths and stood against due rrocess of law have helped unloose this flood of hate and bombing. This, too, is a harvest of those so-called Christian ministers who have chosen to preach hate instead of compassion. Let them now find pious words and raise their hands in deploring the of a synagogue. You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story.

It is one I repeated over and over again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe. Hate and lawlessness by those who lead release the yellow rats and encourage the crazed and neurotic who print and distribute the hate pamphlets. The Harvest The series of bombings is the harvest, too of something else. One of those connected with the bombing telephoned a news service early Sunday morning to say the Job had been done.

It was committed, he said, by the Confederate Underground. The Confederacy and the men who led it are revered by millions. Its leaders returned to the Union and urged that the future be committed to building a stronger America. This was particularly true of Gen. Robert E.

Lee. Time after time he urged his students at Washington University to forget the War Between the States and to help build a greater and stronger union. But for too many years now we have seen the Confederate flag and the emotions of that great war become the property of men rot fit to tie the shoes of those who fought for it. Some of these have been merely childish and immature. Others have perverted and commercialized the flag by making the Stars and Bars, and the Confederacy itself, a symbol of hate and bombings.

For a long time now it has been needful for all Americans to stand up and be counted on the side of law and the due process oi law even when to do so goes against personal beliefs and emotions. It is late. But there is time. here Page 12 Annie Lou Hardy 18 Billy Graham 11 Business 37 Celestine Sibley 20 Classified Ads 23-27 Comics 30, 31 Crossword Puzzle 30 Editorial Page 4 Jumble 30 Obituaries 23 Ollie Reeves 23 Sports 33-36 Television and Radio 22 Theater Programs 14 Women's Features 18-21 The dissenters said the decision "greatly dilutes the right of privacy which every homeowner had the right to believe was part of our American heritage." Justice Frankfurter, author of the majority opinion, spoke of the need for maintaining basic minimum standards of community health to prevent the spread of disease. 'INDISPENSABLE' "Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places to treat a specific problem is of in dispensable importance to the maintenance of health," he said.

The power to inspect private dwellings, Frankfurter said, would be greatly hobbled by a blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search for evi dence of criminal acts. In another decision, this one unanimous, the court struck down the contempt conviction of an An-nandale, printer who refused to answer questions before a state legislative committee investigating racial activities. WAS SENTENCED The printer, David H. Scull, refused to answer questions about his connection with the National Assn. for Advancement of Colored People, the Fairfax County Council on Human Relations, and other organizations.

He had been sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $300. In striking down Scull's conviction, Justice Black said the purposes of the inquiry, as announced by Chairman James Thomson were unclear, in fact conflicting. Black said Scull therefore did not have an opportunity to understand the basis for the questions or any Continued on Page 7, Column 1 suicide of a banker whose books Hewlett slipped away from his wife Friday during a play, "The Crucible," a tense drama of a witch hunt in New England, Hewlett drove to a vacant lot, spread a blanket and shot himself with a .38 caliber revolver. FBI agents said Hewlett left his wife, Esther, a suicide note reading: "No one else Is involved in this horrible mess, or even has the slightest knowledge of it, but Johnny Hendrickson. We have not used any of the money ourselves.

It has all gone to John." Hendrickson, 40, father of seven, was arrested at his spacious home in San Rafael, near San Francisco. He operates an appliance busbies in Los Angeles and Se-bastopol near his home. He was Continued on Page 10, Column i 47 Named To Mental Care Board By JACK NELSON A state-wide advisory board- comprised of 47 prominent citizens and headed by the psychiatrist who led the way in the famous Kansas mental health reform-was appointed Monday to assist in Georgia's new mental health program. The Professional Advisory Board cf Georgia Association for Mental Health will hold its organizational meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Dinkier-Plaza Hotel Chairman of the board Is Dr.

William Rottersman, Atlanta psy chiatrist key figure in the mental health program that boosted Kansas from 47th to first in the nation in treatment of the mentally ill. Frank A. Smith, executive direc tor of GAMH, said the professional advisory group will be available to assist the soon-to-be- Continued on Page 8, Column 5 State Summons Outside Aid for Overhaul Study Georgia's governmental re organization study will utilize a team of national experts with a maximum budget of $9,000 a month. The group is Public Adminstra- tion Service (PAS), a non-profit organization formed 25 years ago solely to advise governmental units. Gov.

Vandiver, chairman of the Governor's Commission on Economy and Reorganization, advised the PAS that the commission would spend up to $9,000 a month for the study. "It is understood, however," the governor wrote, "that the act ual per diem charges will be less than this maximum." U.S. Prods Reds On 11 Airmen WASHINGTON Ml On, orders from President Eisenhower, the U.S. ambassador to tho Soviet Union Monday conferred with Premier Khrushchev regarding the fate of American airmen shot down by Soviet aircraft last September. The conference dealt with the fate or 11 American airmen still missing and unaccounted for.

They were aboard a U.S. transport plane which was shot down over Soviet Armenia last Sept. 25. won the Pulitzer Prize for Pulitzer Prize is generally highest award. The award was given McGill for the body of his work during 1958.

Specifically cited was an editorial column written immedi ately following the dynamiting of the Jewish Temple here last October. (The award winner is re produced in column The announcement Monday cit ed McGill'a "long, courageous and effective editorial leadership." McGill called the Temple dyna miting and the Clinton High School blast as the work of rabid, mad dog minds." He said in the column that "this is a harvest. It is the crop of things sown. It is not possible to preach lawlessness and restrict it." McGill. on the Sunday of the bombing, had been to Copper Hill, to make a speech.

He re turned to The Constitution Sunday afternoon and learned of the bombing. He sat down at his type writer, and 28 minutes later the column was ready for the typesetters. The standards set up by the Pulitzer Committee for the editorial section of the prizes read like this: "For distinguished edi torial writing, the test of excel lence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning and power to influence public Continued on Page 8, Column 1 a of to the matter will have to be han dled by the Incoming Jury, Webb said. Webb also said after the point was raised tnat ne "proDaniy will" allow Cravey to appear be fore the jury, although he has not conceded that Cravey has the right he claims. The solicitor said he might let Cravey go before the jury just to keep down any arguments in court The Jury had subpoenaed rec ords of a number of Cravey's employes involving their travel and expense accounts during last summer's political campaign when Bruce Edwards, Cravey's chief op ponent, charged him with using state employes for political purposes.

A Scorching 90 Due for 2 Days Partly cloudy and rather hot Is on tan Tuesday and Wednesday for Atlanta, the U. S. Weather Bureau forecasts. No rain la expected. Extremes anticlnated for both days are a low of 68 degrees and high of 90 degrees.

when he reached the runway to be greeted by the President. He carried his black homburg hat with his "Well, my friend, you're back again," the President said In an impromptu word of greeting. Sir Winston, his hand extended, said, "I arr. indeed glad to see you." The liveliest moment of the la-formal meeting occurred a feir minutes later when President Eisenhower, with Sir Winston at his side, took the position in front of the sound cameras arrarj'id on the runway apron. It was then that the British wartime made a remark that could only be interpreted as a swipe at n- Contlnsfd en Psse 8, Column 4 Churchill Arrives, Jabs Montgomery Promotion Drives Banker to Suicide LONG BEACH, Calif.

UV-Tha By FELIX BELAIR JR. (Copyright, 195 by Th Nw York TlmM Co.) WASHINGTON Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's former prime minister, arrived here Monday night on a three-day visit to Presi showed a whopping shortage was attributed Monday to his promotion to a job in another bank, making It impossible to hide a check dent Eisenhower. It was his first visit to the Capital since 1954 and those who witnessed his arrival at the airport and under the north portico the White House remarked on his advanced age and faltering tread. But they talked, too, about his spirited voice and apparent love of a fight. President Eisenhower was there meet him as Sir Winston came Truman sends regrets, unable to attend White House dinner for Churchill, Page 2.

down the ramp of the presidential special plane Columbine III, his gold-headed walking stick In one covering scheme. Federal authorities say three million dollars or more is unaccounted for. But bank officials think the shortage far less, probably well under a million. George Hewlett's suicide was followed by the arrest of John Hendrickson, a businessman im plicated by the banker's farewell noe. Hendrickson denied any knowledge of the missing funds.

A bank official who declined use of his name said the beginning of the end of Hewlett's promising career began last month when the U. S. National Bank of San Diego merged with the Long Beach National Bank, where Hewlett worked as cashier. He fras promoted to vice president of another branch in Long Beach. "The promotion made it impossible for bim to cover his tracks, the official said.

Anocia.d prw wirptioto nan(j and other firmly grasp-PRESEDENTS GREETS CHURCHILL IN CAPITAL ing the hand rail. A few Ike Doffs Hat, Sir Vimton Ezws SltuhV'j at National Airport of hair were blown by tho wind.

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