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lit D2XD return to his home. 1 (Special to the Courier) MONTGOMERY, Ala. The immovable has met the irresistible here in connection with the city wide boycott of Montgomery's public buses and the issue may not be decided until the case is settled in court. The boycott has paved the way for litigation which would contest the right of public mass transportation concerns to discriminate against paying pas sengers because of race or color. Negro leaders have termed the boycott an "economic reprisal" against the Montgomery City Lines for the arrest and fining of Mrs.

Rosa Parks, who had refused to move toward the rear of a bus. MBS. PARKS has appealed the fining and is free under $100 bond. She is being represented by Atty. Fred Gray, former NAACP state president, and Atty.

Charles Langford. 4 Both Messrs. Gray and Lang ford have refused to commit themselves publicly on whether Warn George M. Neal, neru 25, a postal em ploye in Springfield, Ohio, has been awarded the Navy Cross, the highest naval dec oration, for valor in combat with a rescue unit in North Korea during 1951. Soy Admits Ediling ICin GONZALES.

Tex. (ANP) The heinous murder burning of 58 year old Herbert Johnson, well to do Schulenburg farmer and com munity leader, was solved when a 15 year old nephew of the. man confessed to the crime. Because Johnson was president of the Schulenburg branch of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colofed People, first inferences were that the murder had racial Implications Inferences that were bitterly denounced and denied by town of ficials and citizens Johnson had been beaten with maniacal fury and sadistic sav agery. body and automobile were doused with an Inflammable substance and set afire.

The body was badly burned except about the face and shoulders. The automobile was almost voifiirfelely destroyed. The bov confessing the crime, grandson i.WU liftTuyn one.oftihe rnon whp first wenfclo Jarm.tpearch for Johnson when he failed to mm N'yx 'tjfJ mil or not they Intend to reshape their briefs on the case into an attack upon the laws of Alabama which "legalize" segregated publio transportation. The Montgomery case is not alone. In Richmond, the U.

S. Court of Appeals has ruled that egregation on buses in Colum bia, S. must come to an end. This test case is already before the U. S.

Supreme Court awaiting adjudication. MBS. PACKS, a 42 year old seamstress in a local department store, has a reputation of being "Christian, church going wo Her. arrest was maae on he premise that she had violated a local ordinance which gives bus drivers the power to enforce local im crow laws. This charge was later changed at the request of City Attorney Eugene Loe to that of an alleged violation of Alabama State law.

The state law author izes the enforcement of. separate transportation facilities for Negroes and white and provides for a maximum fine of $500 as punishment. The Montgomery City Lines are owned by the National City Lines of Chicago. THE BOYCOTT has been 90 per cent effective. Negroes have staved off the buses and are using other means of transporta tion.

The boycotters held a mass meeting In support of the boycott at a local Baptist Church which attracted 5,000. The protesters charge that Negro riders have been Insulted and intimidated by bus drivers and assert that they are willing to meet with bus line officials to discuss titelr grievances. They have also suggested that seats be on a "xirst come iirst served" basis. The local city coun cil has suggested that Negro driv ers be hired on lines which carry a predominant number of Ne groes. 3 A' A.

A ft. A '4 '1 4 i Uom Fortune smiled on tht buaboy ttt i tx Jrws i 5 ASS.V Ixvg i fxVv A 4X v.v A ,1 Ay V4Vl 2L Two Courier newsgals, Conchita Nak OUner ai5 atanif and Eveyn Cunningham, thank Julius Thomas, industrial relations secretary of the National Urban League, after he had presented them journalism medals, awarded annually by the Independent Press Service. Awards were made on the stage of Harlem's Apollo Theatre, New York. Layne Photo. Cofe and Wife Silent jsteirfibini Cose ioffies CCukog CHICAGOIn the wake of the sensational news involving fabulous Mary Cole in an extortion plot, is the unwinding of a story of a self made man, who pulled himself to a fortune 6y his own boot straps.

And they were enormous bootstraps, because 73 year old Robert A. (King) Cole, stands 6 feet 5 inches in height and weighs a mere 278 pounds. Cole, one of the most important businessmen in the SoutU Side's Negro community, came to Chicago in 1905, practically penniless. AMBITIOUS TO the exrmne, he worked as a busboy, dishwash er, handyman and Pullman porter before Dame Fortune smiled on him. At one time Jie was owne of the lamed American Giants baseball club, and along with the late Gus Greenleeof Pittsburgh; the late Tom Wilson of Nashville, the late Roy Sparrow, Bill Nunn dies Washington and John L.

Clark, helped to intro duce the first East West game.l an institution which later grew into the greatest sports spectacle in Negro America. COLE SAVED his money and founded the Metropolitan Burial Society. In 1946, It was reorganized as a mutual legal reserve life insurance company. The business is now located at 4445 South Parkway in a mil lion dollar building, complete with business offices, the Parkway Ballroom, a fine dining room, a chapel, garages, rolling stock, etc. Nearly 200,000 Negroes belong to the company, which employs over 600 people in white collar, skilled, technical and professional 1 eoWa 'ieadinV'figufe in Midwest and Sdirthtrh 'society circles, is 41 years old, and Is Vxx CHICAGO (ANP) The start ling extortion case which broke here last week involving Mrs.

Mary Cole, prominent in socia and mortuary circles, still has Chicago gasping. Charged by police with being party to a plot which mulcted two officials of the Chicago Metro politan Mutual Assurance Com pany, of more than $20,000 over the last several months, Mrs. Cole, released on bond after her arrest, stoutly denies being guilty. Little more has been learned from the principal figures in the tragic situation. Robert A.

Cole, president of the Chicago Metro politan and husband of Mrs. Cole declined personal comment. It was learned he is still living at their palatial home. The two insurance officials at whom the plot was aimed, Horace G. Hall, vice president and general manager, who gave up $20, 000 of his own money under threats against his life, and James D.

Grantham, who turned over to Paul R. Smith, the "collector" In the case, In marked bills, both pointed out that the case is in the hands of the police. They preferred to remain silent until the case comes up in court, Dec 23. Hown for her glittering As president, of the Metropolitan Funeral Home, Mrs. Cole presents, a striking picture in the business lfle of the community.

Her parties, held in their palatial, mansion like, three story home, have housed some of the most famous names In the nation's social, civic, professional, diplomatic and business circles. AlMn all the Coles Mary neveMtf be drgotten team. Comes" IecV 23 r1. that's art Other chapter. GLENDORA, Miss.

Here, for four bright eyed children and a horrified, broken hearted widow and mother, there will be no Christmas in 1955. Their daddy and Santa Claus, Clinton Melton, 33, is dead dead because a white man, calling him a "smart Negro," in a local filling station, Dec 3, fired double barreled shotgun blasts through, the wind shield of Melton automobile, killing him instantly. Melton, reported to have been a well liked worker and World War II veteran, was attempting to flee from trouble, according to Lee McGarrh, filling station owner and Melton's employer, when Elmer Kimbell, 34 year old cotton gin manager, making good on a promise made minutes earlier, ac counted for the fourth Mississippi Negro to die at the hands of white suspects since Sept 3. McGarrh told police officers that he had urged Melton to leave the station; that the act resulted from a dispute about the amount of gasoline Kimbell ordered McGarrh to pump Into Klmbell's automobile. Mo Garrh says he told Melton to fill the tank of Klmbell's.

machine. The latter said he ordered $2 worth of gasoline. Scheduled to be heard by three justices of the peace on Monday, this week, Kinbell claims he shot Melton in self defense, and revealed a pistol wound for which he blames the dead man. McGarrh said Melton was unarmed, did not fire a single shot" A physician said the white man suffered a flesh wound and said the bullet was fired from a .33 caliber pistol. Enlightened Mississippi opinion, silent until now, rebuked Kimbell for his act The Glen dora Lions Club led the way, Haying "We humbly confess in repentence for.

having so lived as a community that such an evil occurence could happen." The case will be tried at Sumner, ten miles away, where two. white suspects were freed, last September, of responsibility for the death of Emmett Till, 14 year old Chicago boy. Meanwhile, letters written to Santa Claus by the Melton tots will remain unanswered unless a drive is launched by the Negro public to rescue the surviving family from a shattering experience. W.i. i r.i "ivMat Mi cols; Jt a munition, dauling pcrtit vl 1 '7v Dee.

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