The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 1

MILD Expected high today 52 low tonight 68 this low 65 high 90 (Details on Page 2) LEGION Oklahoma lawyer elected national commander of Legion at Chicago (Story on Page 8) VOLUME CXXXIII NO 248 MACON CHASTER ED in TELEGRAPH ESTABLISHED ICS O' BOX 1019 MACON GEORGIA FRIDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 5 1958 AP CPI PHOTOFAX PRICE me CENTS Invokes New Civil Rights Act To Force Terrell County To Grant Votes To Negroes RULING Ike Warns Sino Reds Force If Needed WiU Use Arlington Gets Go-Ahead For School Segregation ful scrutiny of this evidence and that is going to require Bryan did not explain exactly why he wanted to hold up his action until the Supreme Court acts in the Little Rock case But his earlier questions indicated he telt that the high court that school integration should be carried on with deliberate stand in full 21 that ail would be ordered sent to white schools of their choice or 31 some Negroes would be sent to Integrated and some to segregated schools evidence will' have to be weighed in the light of whether or not there was before the administrative agency valid evidence that aupports its he said will require a care DEADLINE SET UAW Plans Meet On Strike Target ALEXANDRIA Vn iUPIl Federal Judge Albert Bryan Thursday gave Arlington County schools the go-ahead to open on a segregated basis Monday pending his decision on applications ot 30 Negro children to enter seven white schools Bryan took the petition of the Negroes under advisement after three days of testimony and arguments He told attorneys the case would require very meticulous and tedious on his part He also said he did not want to announce his decision until the US Supreme Court has acted on an appeal Involving school integration at Little Rock Ark far as the court is concerned the schools may he opened and pupils enter the schools in places assigned to them Reserving to themselves without prejudice- in any way the right to still insist to change their assignment after the case has been Bryan said Seea No Difficulty School Superintendent Ray Reid said after the court adjourned that he saw no reason why the schools could not reopen on sched ule Monday In view of the judge's statement The case revolved around an Arlington County school board ruling that the Negro children were unfit to enter white schools for scholastic or emotional reasons It said race was not involved Bryan said the first test he would apply in his decision was whether the action violated the US Constitution or any statute If not the Judge said he then would determine whether there was evidence to support the findings of the board or whether its action was and capricious'' as attorneys for the Negro children contended Has Three Choices Bryan said he had three choices in handing down a ruling: 11 that the assignment of nil 30 Negroes to Negro schools would Partly Goudy Weather Seen Mild and partly eloudy weather is expected to continue in Macon and vicinity today and tonight with possible showers Saturday the weatherman says The expected high today is 92 the expected low this morning 65 and low tonight 68 The high yesterday was 90 HOL'ELT TEMPERATURES NEWPORT I The United States warned Red China Thursday this country will move In with and military force including possible bombing of the Red Chinese mainland if necessary to save the islands essential Formosa's defense A top-level statement likewise said this country's acquiescence to the use of would threaten peace everywhere President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles issued the statement following an hour and 45 minute conference at the summer White House It said Eisen- Other story on Pg 2 bower would not hesitate to order US fighting forces into action if Red China makes an all-out effort to conquer Formosa and offshore islands Dulles who flew here from Washington to discuss what he called a serious situation in the Far East at the same time the Communist bombardment of offshore Quemoy is not necessarily a prelude to Invasion Chance To Retreat He also gave Peiping a chance to back off by saying: President and I earnestly hope that the Chinese Communist regime will not again as in the case of Korea defy the basic principle upon which world order depends namely that armed force should not be used to achieve territorial He also urged that the Communists pursue their territorial claims by peaceful means Eisenhower- Dulles meeting the First ever held here went tbe farthest this country has gone in expressing US intentions to halt Communist aggression (n the Formosa Strait The statement which Eisenhower authorized 'Dulles to make did not mention specifically that US planes might bomb the Chinese mainland' But a top official who had a lead role in composing it said when asked if the bombing of concentrations on the mainland might be a part of the defense of Formosa: might become so If Formosa was attacked or Imminently threatened from those MARKETS IK BRIEF NEW YORK Mixed most changes narrow Mixed governments steady Cotton Higher trade and New Orleans buying Total stock sales 3100004 Total bond sales 54430000 CHICAGO Steady mixed influences Corn Mostly lower bearish crop news Steady to 25 cents lower top $2055 Slaughter steers 25 to 50 cents lower than Wednesday's general trade top $27 A0 KEEP OUT signs were announced yesterday by Red China in setting new off-shore limits as shown by this map The announcement said all waters within the 12-mile zone were considered territorial This included the island of Formosa now held by the Nationalists 12-MILE LIMIT Red China Draws New Sea Border Storm Takes Toll Before Hitting Land NEW ORLEANS UPIl-Tropical storm Ella with at least seven dead and a shipwreck in its wake moved slowly over the' Gulf of Mexico Thursday toward the west Louisiana and Texas coast But the fifth tropical disturbance of the season remained a Juvenile by the hurricane standards of her sisters in "destruction The 4 pm CST weather bureau advisory said Eia had changed little from its earlier 12-14-mph speed and 40-70 mph winds It still had a the mark of an immature hurricane The latest weather advisory gave its position near latitude 24 longitude 89 about 450 statute south of Biloxi Miss moving west northwest Gaining Force Weather forecasters warned however that while Ella was expected to progress at the same speed and direction are for storm to regain hurricane force Thursday night The outer fringe of the storm swept over the Louisiana coast with heavy squalls and gusty winds reported at 40 and SO miles an hour Thursday morning Tides ran two feet above normal in southeast Louisiana scene of a disastrous hurricane in June of 1957 The bureau predicted tbe storm would continue in its present direction for the next 12-18 hours Ella lost hurricane status when it swept over Cuba claiming six lives there The latest Victim of the storm apparently was the skipper of an 82-foot fishing boat The Coast Guard at Houston Tex reported that John Calvert captain of the snapper schooner Fowler was reported missing shortly after midnight Calvert of Pensacola Fla disappeared from the boat five miles off Galveston Island Coast Guard planes from Corpus Christ! flew to the area and dropped flares but searchers found no trace of the missing man in the choppy Gulf waters Early Friday two large freighters anchored in the Mississippi River in St Bernard Parish near New Orleans collided when heavy squalls and high fringe winds from the storm area swept ini No injuries were reported when the two ships the Tontine and the Ocean Deborah slammed together Damage was slight On Alert Tbe Coast Guard civil detente oil companies the Red Cross and military air fields all along the Gulf Coast went on the alert to put evacuation plans into effect as Ella whirled across the Gulf of Mexico The Coast Guard search and rescue headquarters in New Orleans had its air and sea units on a hurricane alert Strike Keeps Presses Idle DETROIT Striking pressmen at the Detroit Free Press Thursday night refused to return to work after being ordered to do so by both their local union and international The pressmen went out Wednesday night and halted publication of the citys only morning newspaper Both the afternoon papers the News and the Times did not publish Thursday because of an agreement between the three publishers not to publish if one of the others is struck Five Accused Of Blocking Registration WASHINGTON gov- eminent tested its power under the 1957 Civil Rights Act for the first time Thursday by asking a federal district court to force a Georgia county to grant voting rights to Negroes The Justice Department suit filed in federal court at Colum- bus Ga accused the Terrell' County registrars of refusing to allow Negro college graduates to register to vote on grounds they could not read correctly The department asked the court to grant an injunction against the couny officials to bar them from prevening qualified Negroes from registering Assistant Atty Gen Wilson White who heads the department's Civil Rights Division said an investigation began last April and covered regstration actvites the county for tbe past wo years List Of Voters The complain revealed that In 1956 only 48 Negroes out of 5038 of voting age were registered In contrast the suit said 2697 white voters registered out of 3233 of voting age If the government succeeds in obtaining an injunction against the registrars Obey would be liable for (contempt of court for any violation of the order The suit was the government's first action under the Civil Rights Act approved by Congress in 1957 to provide protection for the voting rights of Negroes in tbe South and others White himself won Senate confirmation as head of the Civil Rights Division only after a long and stubborn fight by Southern Democrats Attorney General William Rogers announced that the suit was filed In federal court at Columbus Ga to end what he described as of three election registrars and two deputy registrars in To-reil County The suit accused the registrars of srbitrarily refusing register Negroes who demonstated themselves to be qualified to It said the Negro citizens Involved four teachers and a Marine Corps employe live in Dawson Ga Terrell County seat Defendants Named The defendant named In the suit were James Griggs Raine Dikon Oxford and Roscoe Radford registrars of Terrell County and Lawson Coik Sr and his wife Mrs Lawson Cook Sr deputy registrars of the county The Justice Department asked the Columbus court to issue a preliminary and a permanent injunction to forbid the registrars and all persons in active concert and participation with from discriminating against any applicant for regstration for reasons of race or color According to the complaint on last April 7 a number of Negro applicants appeared at the registrar's office to register It said none was permitted to register The four school eachers who were not allowed to register were: Edna Mae Lowe a mathematics teacher at Carver High School Dawson who holds a bachelor of science degree and a master of arts degree in education from New York University Teacher Turned Down Jane Breedlove an elementary school teacher in Terrtll County who holds a bachelor of science degree from Albany state College Albany Ga Davey Louis Gibson a Terrell County school teacher who holds a bachelor of science degree from Albany State and is now working on a master's degree at New York University Grace Boyd Gibson an elementary school teacher in Calhoun County Ga who holds a bachelor of science degree from Albany State George Lowe who attended Tus-keegee Institute and now works at the US Marine Corps supply center at Albany Ga also was rejected The government's suit said the four teachers were turned down' because of alleged inability to read correctly and intelligibly Lowe was rejected because of alleged Inability to write correctly and legibly Continued on Page 9 tiac plant at Kansas City and by 2150 workers at two Chrysler plants in Detroit boosted to 10665 the number of workers idled by walkouts Automotive News a trade publication aaid the series of strikes in the industry plus the holiday week and changeover to 1959 production will cut car output in tbe US to an estimated 13806 units this week That is the lowest figure recorded by the industry since the week ended March 2 1946 when 12050 cars were built in the early days of the return to post-war production Chrysler settled one strike at its Detroit forge plant Wednesday night which will enable 5100 workers to return to their jobs at five plants in the area But the company still is plagded by strikes of 700 workers at Imperial assembly and 1450 workers at Dodge truck plus the Amplex walkout The Fisher Body strike Involved a company request for workers to remain on overtime on the second shift Wednesday The workers refused on grounds there was an understanding no overtime work would be accepted while layoffs existed Chevrolet frame and stamping went down at 11:30 am an hour after United Auto Workers Local 659 delivered an ultimatum to the company to accept the demands with respect to grievance processing or be struck Similar ultimatums were delivered at Chevrolet's V-8 engine and manufacturing plants at Flint with an accept or else deadline of am Friday The Chrysler Amplex strike in volved the assignment of 1959 tooling work to vendors More than 2000 workers were idled by strikes in the industry last week but the Labor Day holi day prompted a short-lived back to-work movement so the hourly-rated employes could qualify for holiday pay I long day for both Elaine and Blackie But a real real happy one DETROIT UPI1 The United Auto Workers announced Thursday its International Executive Board will meet at 10 am next Wednesday to select a strike target and se a strike deadline if no offer is made by the auto companies by that time UAW President Walter Reu-ther and five other top officers of the union made a Joint statement saying they will Tecommcnd that the executive board ake the wo pre-strike steps there is no offer from the companies which can provide the basis for a fair and honorable The union has been working without a contract at Ford General Motors and Chrysler since the end of May when the old three-year pacts with those companies ran out Rcuthcr Charges Reuther has Charged the companies with refusing to bargain in good faith making a out of negotiations Only Wednesday he announced he would present the side of the story to panels of public officials and emomunity leaders from key automotive centers in Michigan and Ohio next Tuesday A series of scattered strikes have beset the industry this month prompting charges from GM Vice President in Charge of Personnel Louis Seaton that the walkouts came on orders from Solidarity House the UAW headquarters in Detroit in an obvious attempt to stall early output of 1959 models Walkouts at the Fisher Body Division of General Motors in Marion Ind the Chevrolet frame and stamping plant in Flint Mich and Chrysler's Amplex plant in Detroit ended a brief period that existed over the holiday weekend The Fisher Body walkout idled 3500 workers the Chevrolet walkout 2500 workers and the Amplex walkout 15 workers Continuing strike by 2300 workers at the Buick-Oldsmobile-Pon- I saw your picture in the paper You are a pretty girl Thursday wai something of a islands It takes in Quemoy and Matsu which Is about 18 miles from the nearest point on the coast The Comunists said Matsu lies within the Chinese Inland Sea The announcement warned that aU foreign chips and planes must have Peiping's permission to cross the new 12-mile line This would: give them the pretext to regard as an invasion any attempt to break through a blockade of Quemoy The Reds charged that military occupation of Formosa is an illegal act violating Chinese territory and Repeating its claims to Formosa and issuing a veiled warning to the United States the Communist announcement said: has the right to recover Formosa at an appro priae time using all appropriate means This is China's internal affair in which no foregn nterference is US sources promptly called the new sea border Illegal When the Russians recently extended their sea borders the Westrn Allis also lodged strong protests calling the move illegal The protests were fruitless TAIPEI Formosa Com munist China drew a new sea border around its coastline Thursday and warned the United States against crossing it to help the Nationalist garrison on Quemoy The Peping regime pushed Its territorial limits 12 miles out to sea along the coastline and also declared the new limits applied to the waters around Formosa 100 miles off the coast and the Pescadores islands 30 miles west of Formosa This new challenge to the United States came as an American Sabre Jet unit flew in to help President Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists on Formosa who already are equipped with American weapons The planes and three American ships steaming here to Join the US 7th Fleet in the Formosa Strait presumably represent the American aid promised the Nationalists Wednesday by Vice Adm Roland Smooth chief US commander here The Reda new sea line replacing the old three-mile limit starts from a baseline connecting the mainland coast with its offshore Ailing Little Girl Gets Her Maconite Presents Her With Puppy CONTRACT SIGNED Bateman Frozen Foods Will Become Part of Seabrook -Finn By GEORGE LANDRY State Newt Editor BARNESVILLE Elaine and Blackie had a real good time getting acquainted Thursday Elaine's a little girl 10 Blackie'a a little girl dog 11 weeks old They met Wednesday night at Elaine's house here on Railroad Street Elaine is seriously ill and doctors say she can't get well The thing she wished for more than anything else in the whole wide world was a little Mexican Clii-huahua puppy to make her happy That's where Blackie fits into the heart-warming picture A Maeonite named Lake Greene brought the pup to Barnes-ville Wednesday night He saw Elaine picture in a Macon newspaper and rend about her being incurably sick and how bad she wanted a little dog Johnny Hannon of Ft Valley drove Greene up on the special mission with the dog They work at Robins Air Force Base Greene and his wife live at Chambers Road in Macon They raise Chihuahuas was so happy I didn't know what to is how Elaine described the big surprise Thursday First thing she did was name the pup A friend drove her and her new dog by the grammar school here and she was the envy ot her former clasmates now third graders Along with the new pup Elaine got a lot of mail Thursday morning even more than she usually does A card from a Milledgeville woman pretty well spoke for all the big-hearted Middle Georgia folks who writing to the little girl It said in part: You don't know me but I am going to pray for you and ask God to help get you well Operation agriculture and Industrial progress Industries of this nature create expanding markets for agricultural products and thus con-tribute to the agricultural as well as the industrial economy of Georgia behalf of Georgia's farmers I take great pleasure in welcoming Seabrook to Georgia As a leader in their specialized field they are in a position ot render valuable services to our Bateman's Is one of the South's pioneer frozen foods operations The company distrlbntes beans black-eyed peas okra turnips coilards lima beans squash and peaches under the Dlxiana label The farming and marketing organization was founded by Bateman and his brother Clifford Bateman in the heart of Georgia's richest agricultural belt in 1908 Tbe freezing plant was opened in 1944 as a Birdsey co-packer Clifford Bateman died last year while attending a frozen foods convention In Chicago 111 Seabrook Farms a third-generation family operation maintains 54000 acres in New Jersey for the cultivation of quality vegetables The company purchased tne Snow Crop retail vegetable line last November The addition of the Macon plant gives Seabrook three major production plants The others are at Seabrook and Lewiston Ida Officials of the Bateman Frozen Foods Company and Seabrook Farms Company signed a contract here yesterday making the Bateman operation part of national organization The agreement was signed by President Dewey Bateman of the Bateman Company and President John Seabrook of the Seabrook Company of Seabrook A Bateman said that the agreement gives the Seabrook Company an option to purchase the Bateman Frozen Foods operation In the future if they desire Seabrook will operate the concern for the present he said A warranty deed filed in Bibb Superior Court yesterday showed that the plant on Fifth Street and Poplar Street has been transferred from the Bateman Pecan Company to Bateman Frozen Foodc Company Approximately $260000 was involved in the transfer it showed Bateman said it was necessary to transfer the plant into the frozen foods company name since Sea-brook's option is with the frozen foods concern Bateman Pecan Company has not been active in several years The Dixianna label under which Bateman distributes frozen vegetables throughout the South will be built up and expanded the officials said The current production of the Macon plant will also be increased from its present 8000000 pounds pr year to 12000000 per year by processing some additional products here for the Seabrook Snow Crop and private label lines Richard Knapp formerly president and sales manager of the Southern Frozen Foods Company of Montezuma was named vice president and general manager of Bateman Frozen Foods under the new management' Seabrook said his company Is this move to strengthen our position In the The organization has been active la the South since the early days of the frozen food industry Bateman said that the Seabrook Company bring added expansion to a growing Southern industry and provide a stable source of employment and income for Macon and surrounding farm lands are proud to have worked out an arrangement with Seabrook Farms Company whereby they can continue the manufacturing and sales operations of the Bateman Frozen Foods he said know that they have the' same interest in quality and in consumer service that we have always strived to Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Paul Campbell said when informed of the new agreement affiliation with Bale-man is a significant step i Gcor- i Very Satisfactory Results Froril All Of Our Ads" Mrs Perry 1J95 Carling Ave said recently: have used your Want Ads for 10 years in renting apartments in four apartment houses and have always had very aatisfactory results from Ml of our ads We consider the Telegraph-News Want Ads the best and only way to rent apartments quickly at small 50 Apartments For Rent CARLING AVE 1-room unfurnished apartment Ou bus Hue Newly painted Dial S-S376 22 or more people answered this ad and the apartment was rented the second day the ad ran An eaxy-to-plare economical Want-Ad in The Macon Telegraph and The Macon News will locate a tenant for your vacancy Place your ad by telephone A courteous Want-Ad Writer will help you compose your ad Dial 3-2621 IK TUIS EDITIOK Comics Pgs 26-27 Crossword Puzzle 24 Deaths 27 Editorials 4 Horoscope 22 Hospital Report 26 Markets 10 Sports 11-13 Theaters 2 TV-Radio 4 Want Ads 27-29 Weather 2 Section 13-17 A GIRL AND 1IER DOG both look mighty happy here as 10-year-old Elaine Thaxton of Barnesville incurably ill with a liver ailment hugs the one thing she wanted more than anything a Mexican Chihuahua puppy It was given her by Mr and Mrs Lake Greene of 4075 Chambers Rd after they read about request in local newspapers (Telegraph Staff Photo) A.