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MONTGOMERY, Ala. Faced with a tremendous financial loss, Oty Commission granted a bus fare hike to the Montgomery City lines, effective Monday. The fares were Increased from Id to 15 cents, with children's fares up from 6 8 cents. MONTGOMERY, Alau An economic squeeze with reverse English has the Montgomery CSty Lines, local bus company, hanging on the ropes! VBvi The squeeze, in the nature a boycott by Negroes of the city, following a long series of abuses and mistreatments, has accomplished the following: 7 a UBS. RG3A PARKS I vicf li 0 ltu bio INSTITUTE, Va.

Robert Rutherford, 57, business manager of West Virginia State CnHege during the past twenty four years, took his own life here Friday at his residence" by firing a J22 caliber pistol bullet through bis head. School officials 1 said Mr. Rutherford had beer in ill health since last Associates in the administra tive office report that the deceased was at work on the day of the fatal incident, apparently in normal spirits. An unassuming type, he gave no hint of the impending suicide. There were no witnesses.

A native of Wolf W. Va the deceased was graduated from' the local liberal arts cc) lege in 1927 and the very next year, 1928, was made bookkeeper. In 1933, after serving three years as acting business raanf ager, be ascended to the foil tesponsibffity of that position. Weil known in college circles, especially throughout the Middle west, Mr. Rutherford is survived by his widow, MrsVCynthia Rutherford, and by Theodora Rutherford, a daughter, who lives in New York Qty.

1 Other surrivors inciade his laother, Mrs. Cynthia Cnther .4 ford, of Pocahontas, a sis v' tcr, Mrs. GartheSa Johnson, cksis9 of Pocahontas, and three trothers: Ishmel, of New York JrOifl ohn, of Detroit, Mich Ji James, of Ironton, Ohio. Air. Rutherford was a xnenv of the West Virginia State eouege Ainieoc txanmlttee, the Administrative Council and was an active person in civic affairs, was alsp a member of the Alpha Psi Fraternity aad TO r.

ft 1 Forced an Increase in bus fares. 8 Proven per cent ttve for the dta Ne 5 Pointed op the fact that 73 per cent of the bus riders, under normal drcomstances, are Negroes. 4 Forced 80 per cent of the buses to be laid upwith "3 per cent of the bus drivers laid off. yy; tegroes are walking: to work (some as far as five miles) with Negro taxi companies ferrying passengers at 10 cents per head, phw hundreds of car pools. 6 Aroused the sympathy of many whites, some who are joining Negroes In' their "Don't Bide the Bus" campaign, with white housewives picking up Negro domestics In their car and taking them to and from work.

This fabulous rebellion first of its kind in recent Southern history isn't getting much attention in the nation's press. Because it has proved concha Dr. Bennett Rev. Ahernathy sively that the threat of ah Neconomic squeeze," weaporf of the White Citizens Councils of the South, Is A two way street. Montgomery's Negroes, who 'IK' :3 i RUTUS A.

UCWIS i kjr Jlgure in boycott have taken, the action, without violence or threats of bloodshed, have hit the white South where it hurts' most in thefr pocket books! And it Is a graphic lesson to Negroes in other sections of the South that they, too. have' a weapon of devastating and destructive power. THE BOYCOTT action4 was touched off by the Dec 1 arrest 1 4 IF lint mill. 7T i Mr AiieAl 79DArincc VaUieQ ylJL AireSTb titiori, "For Colored Only," which relegates non whites to an inferior position, caused the arrest of seYinry two DUIard and Xavler Uni and Dect 5 conviction of Mrs. Rosa Parks, under the city's "move back" segregation laws.

When Mrs. Parks refused to move oack topw a white person to sit down on a crowded bus, she was arrested by the bus driver (who has police powers to arrest) and fined $14. This was it! Negroes quit riding the hoses. The action was unorganized, spontaneous, full blown In a matter of hours. Forty thousand Negroes in this city are walking it out, riding it out and the only thing that looks like an organization directing the action is a committee of teachers and lawyers and preachers.

It's a thing of majestic awe and mystery and It's so effective that the Chicago company which holds the franchise under which the local buses operate, is threatening to pull out. TheyYe losing money dally. Four fifths of their buses are in garages, with most of their drivers out of work. AiHjLjthey can't make Negroes ride the buses. The boycott, nearing the end of Its sixth week, is Still being sparked by twice a veek mass meetings, attended by or more people.

THE MOTOR pool of 300 cars costs approximately $1,000 per week to operate and the ears are still running. There are approximately fifty dispatch stations and almost twen ty nick uD stations fro where the 300 cars operate. Dairy newspapers in the city are predominantly fair, publishing many letters to the editors, which reveals the position of both Negroes and sympathetic whites. Acknowledged leaders of the protest movement (they don't call it a boycott) include the Negro ministers of Montgomery and their congregations, the Methodist Ministerial Alliance, the Rev. J.

W. Hayes, presidents; the Baptist Ministers Conference, the Rev. H. H. Hubbard, president; the Rev.

R. D. Abernathy, secretary; the Interdenominational Ministerial AliiancertheRevrtrRoyennett, president; the Rev. J. C.

Parker, secretary, and the Montgomery Improvement Association, Dr. M. L. King, president, and the Rev. U.

J. nelds, secretary. Leaders, in discussing the sit uation, state, "At no time have the participants of this movement advanced or anticipated violence This is. a' mGvement rtf naisivp resistance; depenfng on moral and spiritual' forces." and sp: insulting New Orleaw Public 5.rvic fca: Tha ifudentt wersrefurnina from JLm ti 72 Taken Into Custody a basketball game removed the" a Poiioe I. I ar AavierdTtaium wnen one partition.

Lunnon Photo. ugimirofigj HQS ILm7 By JOHN E. EOtfSSEAU NEW ORLEANS Municipal Judge Andrew G. Bucaro Thursday night found all seventy two DilUrd and Xavier University students not guilty of disturbing the peace on a public service bus. Four white attorneys, Charles Denechaud Leon Cambon, Robert E.

LeCorgne Jr. and Ralph N. Jackson, nleaded the case. "5 Bus Driver Francis Roux and white passenger James J. Serpas refused to testify against the students saving, "Theirs was just a normal reaction after a basketball gime." Patrolman Edgar Rodriquez volunteered to sign the affidavit but was unable to identify a girl whom he said led the disturbance caused by removing a jim crow seating sign.

STATE JIM CROW LAWS coupled with the presence of the one white passenger on a public service shuttle bus Wednesday night caused the arrest of three students and their friends who were In Montgomery Bus ftccJers MONTGOMERY, Ala. Negroes in Montgomery, now in the sixth week of MboycottIng, the Montgomery Bus Company, have asked that the following conditions be met before they ride again: (1) Assurance that more courtesy be extended bus riders. (2) The seating of paasen gers be on a "first come, Ant served" basis, with Negroes be I hog aeated from the rear to the front and whites being seated from the front toward the rear. (3)Negro bus drivers be employed on the bus lines aerv lag predoininantly Negro areas. Leaders are asking immediate action on the requests are shunning all talk about "compromise," and hint that unless action Is taken, the requests be changed to for' fufl and complete Integration.

en route home from a basketball game between Dillard and Xavier universities. All were charged with "disturbing the peace by being loud and boisterous" except one Dillard student, who was charged with "inciting a riot." All were paroled to Dr. Albert W. Dent, president of DUIard University. According to police, the students boarded the bus on South Carroll ton Avenue, ona half block from Xavier University where the game was played.

The driver, Francis Roux, S6, CC3 Tucker Street, and one white passenger, lames J. Serpas, C31 North Alexander Street, were on the bus. Roux told police one of the students removed the Jim crow Screen," a small wooden partition which divides white and Negro passenger seating areas, and other Negro students took seats in all parts of the bus. He quoted the state law that if there is one white passenger on a bus, the races must be separated. POLICE SAY Roux comptiLned that his remonstrations with the students led to general cat calling and confusion and their refusal to comply, so he lipped the bus near South CarroDton and Tulane and contacted his supervisor.

Five patrol wagons went to the scene and transported the students to the District police Records Osclosed thai fifty were female and that sixty one were Bated as DUlaxd students. A check with Xavfer University brought Information that four "students from that Institution were Involved. This is the second mass arrest of Negroes in New Orleans for disregarding jthe Jim crow seating signs on buses. It is recalled that in 1946 some twenty flve r'egroes twere hauled off to Jail whUe i 'hQnie Jrom an EaifcWesJ basehl game.in Peli.