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MWJWM PRICE PER COPY TOTAL DISTRIBUTION YESTERDAY JC SUB EIGHT PAGES NO 72 BRYAN TEXAS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 1957 Compute Wire Service of Anociaied Preee VOLUME 82 Man Stabbed Governors By Bayonet Of South the Texas the Oklahoma Carrier Jets Collide In Sea Exercise NEEDED Gov Orval aubus of Arkansas wears a sible survivors The 8) I Uni the range near UK leave Oklaho afternoon for NEW YORK (fl The New York Daily News said in an editorial today: "President Ei senhower's ordering of 1000 101st Airborne Division para troopers from Kentucky to Little Rock strikes us as the ill advised act of a chief exec utive pressured by a hysteri cal and shortsighted palace guard" run the whole letter subscriber comes in himself not for his printed as we will but we do not use letters which are I said 1250 students were in class today making 750 absentees It was 50 more than yesterday when it was known the Negroes would not appear In an arc two blocks wide around the high school the par atroopers kept breaking up clus ters of people moving them back herding them onto porches and keeping the area clear They moved with swift pur poseful action It was in these operations that the two men were injur ed Blake 46 a railroad employe tried io grab a par atrooper's rifle soldiers said The trooper quickly reversing it struck Blake over the eye (See BAYONET Page 8) NEWPORT Presi dent Eisenhower returned to his vacation headquarters to day after telling the nation from Washington why he or dered federal troops into Lit tle Rock in the school integra tion crisis A Marine helicopter put the President down on the lawn of the Newport White House at the Naval Base vision will be made for students who miss classes because of ill ness to make up their work lat er without penalty Dr Lyons superintend ent of the hospital said this morning that about 1600 students are still ill with the flu There have been some new cases today but that there also has been a number of dismissals I Troopers Draw Blood Negroes Inside School in the Arkansas capital would turn out to be advantageous and that the bayonets are not there to force integration Several posisble courses of ac tion were topics of immediate discussion by the heads of states in the last outpost of legal ra cial segregation Of the three Republicans at tending the Southern Conference two endorsed Eis stand and his action in sending armed faderal troops into Little Rock The third de clined to comment The Democrats gave serious consideration to proposals by (See GOVERNORS Page 8) By Th Associated Pre The flu which swept parts of Texas like a grass fire over the weekend appeared to have slowed Wednesday TCU spokesmen at ort Worth said they appeared to be over the hump of a flu wave which hit the college last week South west Texas State College at San Marcos resumed classes as its sick toll diminished Texas College with 1 600 students bed ridden from attacks reported 200 new cases Tuesday compared with 500 new cases Monday Dr Harrington presi dent of Texas College said the college will continue normal operations and that pro By HELMAN MORIN LITTLE ROCK Ark (fl Hard eyed paratroopers in battle dress and with bayonets at the ready brought nine Negro students quietly into Central High School today in a new climax to the hate filled strug gle over integration in Little Rock One man was clubbed and an other stabbed in the arm by the soldiers in fights that followed A few white students left the school after the Negroes enter ed but there was no sign of a mass exodus A school official The Texas Aggies who meet the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Lubbock Saturday night departed for San Angelo at noon today in a sudden move to get in some workout time prior to the game Rain during the weekend at College Station forced the Ag gies inside Monday and more rain Tuesday night and Wed nesday morning which cov ered the practice field with water forced the sudden chaAge in the schedule The team will work out this afternoon enroute to San An gelo and continue their work out schedule there Thursdayand riday By The Associated Press Cloudbursts of up to inch es hit the San Antonio area Wednesday sending three creeks out of their banks clos ing streets and causing what may be a large scale evacua tion of homes The fire department report ed taking 25 to 30 persons from homes or cars and the rescue work was continuing General rains were forecast for Texas for the next two or three days Wednesday Streams in South Texas al ready soaked by three days of often torrential downpours spread further over lowlands The Weather Bureau said a cold front which moved through Texas last weekend was hang ing out in the Gulf circulating moisture over the state Skies were cloudy over the entire state! Wednesday with light rain anid drizzle extending from the coast north to Austin KEEPS NEWSMEN Yuzo Kawachi presiding judge in the Ja panes trial of airman William Girard wearing firin coal and straw hat gestures io ita a a Vaj Ottawa Ill is placing an empty SOMAGAHARA Japan A prosecution witness testified today that jninutes before Wil liam Girard fatally shot Mrs Naka Sakai he chased otherJapanese brass collectors on a US firing range The witness Hidetsugu One zeki said Girard pursued six or seven Japanese for more than 50 yards on Somagahara Girard of charged with cartridge case in a rifle grenade launcher and killing Mrs Sakai Testifyilng at the final out door session on the range One zeki gave this account: After chasing th scaven gers Girard returned io his foxhole and threw cartridge cases toward th Japanese Mrs Sakai approached and Girard called to her in Japa nese: NEW YORK A bill for bidding discrimination in city housing appeared stalled at least until after a city election Nov 5 There was growing evidence that City Council members con sidered it politically too hot to handle at this time Some con ceded privately they were re luctant to vote on so contro versial a measure now because their mail was running at least 3 1 against it With the backing of Mayor Robert Wagner the measure was introduced test May 21 It would make liable to fines up to $500 anyone refusing to rent or sell dwelling space for rea sons of race color religion na tional origin or ancestry Councilman Earl Brown of Harlem the predominantly Ne gro section of Manhattan made a plea yesterday that the bill be passed quickly Brown is a Democrat as are all the City Council members except one TO NATIONAL CONTEST Members of the Texas 4 state championship dairy tjudg ing team and the Texas dairy team posed yesterday afternoon for a picture just be fore leaving for fhe national contests at Waterloo Iowa Pictured Jcneeling left to right are Charles Nichols Henry Brewer Joe Novosad and Joel Potts the 4 champions from Brazos county Top row left to right are Wallace imbrough coach of the 4 team and county agent Arvill Newly Dannie Gansky James Traweek and Dr Murray Brown coach (Eagle Staff Photo by Don Biseit) Testimony In Murder Trial LEVITTOWN Pa Bristol Township Manager Henry Rol fes said today he would advise the owner of a house adjoining the home of first Negro family to stop using the house as a club meeting place A group calling itself the Dogwood Hollow Social Club has been holding sessions in the vacant house since Sunday aft ernoon William Myers Jr head of the Negro family asserted the group with harrassment of his family State police began a 24 hour watch at Myers' home Monday at his request A few weeks ago state police had helped break up mob gatherings that followed the Myers family arrival "I wish the people would dis continue this war of nerves and go Myers said last night when about 35 persons met in the vacant house and about a dozen white visitors met with Myers in his home PHILADELPHIA if teen teenagers were arrested yesterday when they ignored orders io move on after police broke up with disorders a crowd of several hundred white and Negro high school See NERVE WAR Page Surprise! WASHINGTON (fl A man 80 got a big surprise yesterday when he tried to mail a letter in a little red box at a Wash ington corner Eight pieces of fire equipment answered the alarm which resulted from the man's error day and a half working classes of all breeds at State air The team will ma City riday St Joseph Mo where a work out is scheduled at the Danned Mills research farm Plans call for a workout visit to another dairy in Missouri before leav ing for Iowa The team will ar rive in Waterloo Sunday morn ing A meeting is sched uled in Waterloo Sunday night with the national judging con test getting underway at the Hippodrome early Monday morning The contest is part of the Na tional Dairy Congress nowr in session at Waterloo The clubbers will work 10 classes of dairy cattle and give two sets of oral reasons three sets of written reasons for their ver dicts Results of the contest will be announced Monday night at a banquet on the Iowa fair grounds The Brazos contingent headed by County Agent Wallace Kim brough the state coach ii bting accompanied to Waterloo by the Texas College dairy team Dr Murray Brown coach and the state A dairy team from Halletsyille coached by Bill Roberts and Davis Extension Service dairymen lan iiu The Health Department said Tuesday that as of Saturday were 9151 cases of in fluenza like Asian Hu The De partment said however only a score had been definitely con firmed by' laboratory tests as the new disease Dr Peavy Department epidemiologist said priorities suggested for distribution of As ian flu vaccine do not include football players Spokesmen at both the (See LU Page 8) LEAVES President Eisenhower leaves his vacation office in Newport RU after signing the Executive Order for removal of any obstruction of justice in the Little Rock Ark school integration trouble Press Secretary James Haggerty carries the order right The President ordered federalization of the Arkansas National Guard and authorized Defense Sec retary Charles Wilson io use any necessary regular armed forces in the United States io break up crowds in Little Rock resisting compliance with a school integration order (NEA Telephoto) manslaughter newsmen and Trim ni nirmnii vv iiitfliii irnniu wvoihim xuiu wwa photographers keeping them back at the Somagahara firing range in Japan before the start of the third trial session on the scene of the shooting of a Japanese womam Girard peers di rectly into the camera At right is Maj Stanley Levin legal advisor (AP Wirephoio) and San Antonio and hitting scattered southwestern points Rain or drizzle was reported at Galveston Houston Palaci os Cotulla Junction San An tonio" College Station Austin Beeville Alice Brownsville and Laredo The San Antonio River sent logs and debris past alls River where a crest of 17 feet 5 feet above flood stage was expected Several other South Texas streams were over their banks pr threatening Many cattlemen moved livestock to higher ground State 4 champion ship dairy judging team from Brazos county today is enroute to the national contest in Wa terloo Iowa The team Joel Potts Charles Nichols Joe Daniel Novosad and Henry Brewer left Bryan late yesterday afternoon and stopped overnight in Dallas After a workout this morning at Jack Guernsey arm the team left for Oklahoma City where they will spend a EAT II li BRYAN COLLEGE STA TION Nearly four inches of rain has fallen in the area since Monday Reports today show up to 15 inches of rain had fallen by noon today Coupled with rain the total is abejut four inches Bryan's downtown power plant had 127 up to noon today arm Service Department reported 53 up to 7 aKm and Easterwood had 122 by 10 a Temperatures remained in the low this morning noon reading 61 degrees a degree lower than the early hiorning minimum of 62 de grees maximum was 81 degrees SOUTH CENTRAL Occasional' rain locally heavy in north this afternoon and to night and in northwest Thurs day Not much change in tem peratures Soviet Blast WASHINGTON (fl Atomic Energy Commission has announced detection of another nuclear explosion in the Soviet presumably a test of a hydrogen bomb About 1600 Still III At New York Gty Drops Bill On Discrimination Helicopter Saves Two In Texas loods AGGIES GO TO ANGELO worried expression as he boards a plane at Sea Island or flight to Little Rock aubus said state officials felt he was needed there in view of the tense integration situation at Central High School and the fact President Eisenhower had ordered federalization of the Arkansas National Guard au bus has been attending the Southern Governors Conference in Sea Island (NEA Telephoto) New Year NEWPORT I (fl President Eisenhower extended best wish es to the Jewish people today at the start of their New Year KILLED HER MOMMY Six year old Claudia Jezior found a shiny pistol on a clos et floor when she came home from first grade for lunch at her home in Cleve land Thinking it was a toy she aimed it at her mother Mrs Jezior near the heart tol went off and a slug struck Mrs Jezior naer tne near: killing her almost instantly (AP Wirephoio) Says Girard Chased Japs Before Shot Conferring By HUGH SCHUTTE SEA ISLAND Ga (fl Southern Democratic governors alarmed by the historic move ment of federal troops into Lit tle Rock Ark sought means to day of preserving rights The governors found scant comfort in the assurance by President Eisenhower in his tel evised speech last night that the presence of federal soldiers On Negro In Levittown "LONDON Two 1000 miIe an hour US jet fighters collided in predawn blackness over the Atlantic today while taking part in NATO air sea exercises Two other American planes carrying four men each were re ported missing during an ocean search for marauding submarines in the The single seater 4D' Sky Ray fighters were based on the US aircraft carrier Sara toga The' other craft 2S trackers were from the car rier Essex Announcing the collision of the fighters a NATO spokesman in London added: "At the same time reports were received that two 2S antisubmarine trackers from the USS Essex were overdue It1 is believed thetrackers may also have collided hut that is not The carriers are part of a sev en nation NATO fleet taking part in exercise designed to guard the Atlantic against Russian attack especial ly from submarines The exercises were immedi ately suspended and ships and nlanes were ordered to search None were diagnosed as As for the missing planes and pos fh Liku GE'ORGE WEST Tex A hfrrfcopter from the Kingsville Naval Air Station rescued two South Texans stranded late yes I terday on a ranch west of here by the swollen Nueces River They are A Luedecke and Polk both of Alice They had gone to the Walker Ranch 35 miles west of here Saturday to inspect a hunting lease Heavy weekend rains sent the Nueces on a fast rise and the two were trapped Polk an oil company employe had a short wave radio in his car and asked the Highway Pa trol for help It is little known that the Rev Jackson then pastor of the Methodist Church and still a resident of Bryan converted Clarence Darrb'w one of most famous law yers and agnostics to Chris tianity The conversion occurred in 1936 when Darrow was on the campus to deliver a lecture Rev Mr Jackson now retir ed will fell the story of Dar row's conversion Sunday eve ning at 7 at Alexander Meth odist Church near Tabor on invitation of the pastor the Rev Clifford Edge and will also preach at the morning service at 11 am Darrow was the lawyer who opposed William Jennings Bry an in the Scopes trial in Tennessee in the mid 1 and a leading character (though given another name) in play The Gayle rench who carries Bryan Eagles on a route Garden Acres and adjacent territory has won a trip io the State air at Dallas the sec ond carrier io qualiiy He sold 20 new subscriptions A number of other carriers are near their goal Members of the Consol idated Tiger Band and the Band Boosters Club will be around selling listings on their birthday calendar in the next few weeks Proceeds will be used for addi tional uniforms and instruments Mrs Joe Brusse is calendar chairman but all of the Tiger bandsmen or Boosters will act as salesmen Meeting dates of clubs and organizations will be listed along with the birthdays An irat subscriber (and TV listener) writes in io ask about tha test pattern of KB TX being on the air 25 to 30 minutes before sign on time each morning jamming other stations Wo 1 unless the to identify name to be withhold it anonymous often fakes Anyway we called Harry Gil liam station manager and he says the signal is on the air for that length of time in order for service men in TV repair chops to align sets for Mid WestVideo to check its cable pick up and for KBTX to line up its transmitting controls Bill Guy Hugghins Ill Dodge Street Bryan has been regis tered as a freshman in the Uni versity of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston one of 129 enter ing the 66 year old school EIo Urbanovsky Texas Tech landscape architect and a graduate of Texas has been elected a director of the American Institute of Park Ex ecutives Mr and Mrs Edward Glockzen and family of 407 Eis enhower College Station are the latest to write us from Long horn Cavern THE UPPER ROOM Jesus said unto him If thou canst he lieve all things are possible to him that bchevethMrak 9:23) PRAYER: OGod who doesth wonders jn'all the earth help us to keep our eyes fixed upon Thee Give us such vision of Thy power that we shall expect big things from Thee and attempt outstanding thing? for Thee In name Amen 1 11 State Champs Heading or Iowa The Bryan Daily Eagle Eighty Two Years Serving the Brazos Valley scoop I O'BRYAN Rains Over State Expected To Continue or Several Days Begins Today RANKLIN (Spl) Testimo ny in the murder trial of 18 year old Norman Kizzee is ex pected to begin this afternoon Selection of the jury was completed at 2 am today in Judge court After the jury was completed the trial was recessed until 1:30 pm today The 200 member special ven ire summoned for the trial of Kizzee was cut to 153 by legal excuses or exemptions Kizzee is charged with the hammer slaying of 62 year old Stephen ulton on his farm south of here last May Kizzee was arrested the day following the killing after he sold the dead watch to another man Most of Monday opening day of the trial was taken up with Defense Attorney Mac Ben nett's effort to have the trial moved on grounds that because of the wide attention the crime had received in the county and because of the raciaLangle the Negro youth could not get an impartial trial here Judge McDonald overruled the motion after the court appoint ed defense attorney paraded three newspaper editors Ted Rickenbacker of the Hearne Democrat and Petty Jr and John Rutherford of rank lin to the witness stand to out line the coverage the murder and trial had received in their papers Bennett indicated after ques tioning of prospective jurors be gan late yesterday afternoon that his main defense will be to show Kizzee is insane Another jury two weeks ago ruled that Kizzee is sane after hearing testimony on that one issue 1 sa ys rile I Vs tr I 'id BMl YTC3 Kgww g'SS I ji aR tM i I vLua ww: In ight 4 m3BhR3HBE1 iW is' nSjapw i pjOITf i if' i3BsliSSSlZ2u "WsK I I MgSgnK 9E gL 4 I 1 1.

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