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Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17
HI Court Edict Meaningless
In CitY's ReCreationa| Setup
Negro Boys Chased from Municipal
Park; Ordered Out Of City to Play
While Uniform Police Watch in Silence

Around Is eenage coored boys who were playing foot
ball the b?nd stand Macarthur park Sunday after
ordered off by park attendant the boys said
The boys live the park and had been in habit of
playing that spot for several years and according to their
report they to the park Sunday about o'clock in
the afternoon and started playing usual without any OBJ
lection from anyone About O'clock the caretaker show
ed up with two policemen and ordered them to get out the
park and off the ground and told them to out to Gillian
park if they wanted toplay.
The boys stated that they left without argument They
said the police said nothing.
The reticency of the police according to the boys
contrasting to the story popular young tells He stat
ed that he sitting in his car accompanied by young
lady eating lunch in the park day. when detective tod
him he should out to Gillian park and eat The said
that the officer added that he knew of law that prevent
ed him the of the park, but his might bring
about some disturbance
Gillian park referred to by the officer and the attend
ant, is out-of-theway spot located in the heart of
partially developed and highly nconvenient
the majority of colored people And yet it the only thing
that is destined to give Negroes recreation despite
moth bond issue passed years ago for recreatona
purposes for Negroes.
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17
Local Postman
Appointed TO Civil
Service Board

Fred c. Byrd, local postman
and president of the local letter
carriers association, has been ap
pointed to the board of civil
service examiners here. This i
probably the second appointment
Of a Negro to that capacity, the
first being the appointment o
Billie Smith a number of years
back 1t is the function of the
board Of examiners to conduct
all civil service examinations
scheduled at this point for all
personnel for government jobs
Mr. Byrd has just returned
from a trip to the convention of
the national association of lei
ter carriers at Cleveland, where
he along with Henry Hilliard was
a delegate. j. Ward Fisher and
Elihu B. Moore, jr. visited the
convention. Byrd was placed on
the insurance committee.
One of the outstanding events
of the convention was the elimi-
nation of the dual charter system.
From now on, all organizations
everywhere will be under one
See APPOINTED-page four
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17

ANNoUNCEMENT-Mrs, Andrew Tate Pine Bluff
mce the engagement and approaching marriage of her
daughter Doris Tate to Vernon King of Chicago Miss
Tate is chairman of the English department at Arkansas
Baptist college, Little Rock; graduate of AMIN college
and the University of Arkansas member of Sigma Gamma
Rho sorority Mr. King is chemist in the Preston abora-
tories in Chicago a graduate of Roosevelt college, and
member Of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity The wedding
will take place in October.
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17

The account of the wreck was
given by a state police who took
some of the injured to the hos
pital:
The cotton pickers' truck. driv-
en- by NJ. c. Buchanan, $40 East
30th met hay truck on a mar
row bridge. the hay truck moved
slightly into the other lane to
avoid brushing the railing on its
right side.
To avoid a sideswipping, Buch-
anan pulled his truck far to the
right. 1t skidded off the highway
as it pulled passed the bridge.
When Buchanan attempted to pull
it back on the road, the truck
jacknifed and ran off an en-
bankment on the opposite side.
Those listed as dead are:
See WRECK-page four
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17
Same Soup Warmed Over When
Local School Board
E:vades Petitioners

in thirty to sixty days, will be able to sit down
and talk with you" said Superintendent Virgil Bios
representing the Little Rock school board in its meeting
September g. with representatives of the Little Rock branch
of the NAACP and local petitioners asking for early pub
lie school indignation in Little Rock.
Spokesman for the petitioners Wiley A. Branton
Pine Bluff lawyer who after quick general summary of the
educational situation stated that the forthcoming statement
the Supreme Court would be only for the five states d
recy involved and that the purpose Of the meeting to
get recognize that segregation is illegal
it to We available for advice and
See LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD-page eight
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17
Indignation
FIops In VIVA.

gro students, under police protec-
ton to secure their books and
return to their own school
Some 900 parents protesting in
tegration had threatened at a mass
meeting Monday night to remove
bodily any Negroes who attempt
ed to attend White Sulphur Sprgs
high school Tuesday.
The demonstration against in
tegration is the first known by
parents and students since the
Supreme Court last May held seq
regation in public schools uncoh-
stitutional.
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17

Four Killed, Twenty-Six Injured
In One of States
Worst Accidents

truck loaded with cotton pckers off embanl-
men about $3.50 Monday morning miles south of Scott
and about onehaf mile from Keo where four killed
and 26 reported injured The truck overturned and land
ed right side up again.
Ambulances and dispatched to the help
bring the victims to hospitals here.
En- route to the hospital six of the injured and state
police hurt, in head crash that occurred the
Broadway bridge. The police, identified Sadwel
lered a compound fracture of the left leg
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17

According to an Associated
Press dispatch, Indignation in the
Greerbrier county schools was
ended Tuesday, five days after
the whites and Negroes started
school together
At White Sulphur Springs, W,
Va. white angry parents VITA
drew their children from the
school and white students began
school strike and the school
board was forced to turn the
school back to segregation
The school was closed a half
dav to allow the twenty-five NJ
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17
Parson Accused In
Gaming Raeket"
Gets Suspended

Reverend w. Harry Bass. dis
trict superintendent of the Meth
odist church. arrested last week
and charged along with ten 9TH
ers with operating a gambling
house, was suspended from his
office last week by Bishop w,
See BASS-page eight
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17

SUNDAY AT BETHEL - Mrs.
r. X, Young will deliver the
Woman's Day address at Beth
ell AME church, eleven a. m.
Sunday. Mrs. Young is grad
uate of Tougaloo college. Sac
also attended Alabama State
Teachers college in Montgom-
cry, Alabama and the local
graduate center Of the Univers-
ity Of Arkansas. She has taught
in the public schools Of Baton
Rouge, Louisiana and in Dan
iel Payne college at Birming-
ham. Mrs. Young Is the wife
Of Rev. Rufus K Young, pastor
Of Bethel. Mrs 7, S. Gravclly
will introduce the speaker, and
Mrs, Ruth Miller, program
chairman, will preside. Mrs.
Georgia Miller is co-chairman
of the program
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17
While ScItoo! Boards Fret
DesegregatioI1 Hits
|nArkansasSc1ooIS

While Many school board heads losing sleep seeking
Deruges to eVade the Supreme Court ruling outaWing
Segregation in public schools the president of the school
BOARD at Charleston up with this announcement that
negroes and whites have been attending school together
since August %.
The school board official said the to indignation
vas made an economy measure He said the district will
save about $4OO5 this year in tuition and transportation
costs sending the Negro students to out-oftown schools
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17

SPEAKER-Dr. J. L. Tolbert,
general secretary of evange-
lism of the CINE church will
be guest speaker on Mems day
Sunday morning at II, Bullock
CINE church, 18th and Cross
streets, Rev. c. F. Odom, pas
tor. He will also begin the fall
revival at 1880 p. m. and will
continue through next Sunday,
DR.. Tolbert is a graduate of
MI college, Holly Springs, Miss.
and owner of the Tolbert's I'M
dertaking company, New Alba
ny, Miss.
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17

grafton, and Superintendent Chris
Corbin, representing the Fort
Smith school board were both
literally applauded by a mixed
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17

FT SMITH-Jackie Shropshire,
Little Rock attorney representing
tho Fort Smith branch OF the
NAACP and petitioners for inte-
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17
To Emulate Little Rock
Fort Smith School Board Is
SUITE 'Waititus", Too

promptly in the board room at
7:30 p. m. The crowd OF interest
ed observers was so great how
See SCHOOLS--page eight
Arkansas State press., 1954-09-17

audience after they finished their
respective presentations.
The school board Frank Beck
man, president, in the chair, met
Evening star., 1954-10-04
Dovid Lawrence

Were tens of thousands of
American lives sacrificed in
Korea as q result of treachery
inside either the French or the
British governments?
Was Americas military
planning with respect to ward
ing off Intervention by the
Communist Chinese armies in
Korea leaked to Soviet Russia
and Communist China?
Was the war in Indo- China
won by the Communists be-
cause they were being con-
stantly advised by spies from
inside the French government
just what the strategy and
composition Of the French
forces were?
These become pertinent
questions now as the follow
ing news developments are
reported:
1. Two officials inside the
French government who had
access to the secrets of the :
French National Defense
Council topmost military
planning body - have con-
fessed that they supplied infor-
nation regularly to the Com
munists.
2. Gen. Van Fleet, former
commander of American
troops in Korea, told the SEN
ate internal security subcom-
mittee that the Red China
government most assuredly
must have known that the
United States had in 1850
ordered its forces not to fly
over Manchuria either for" re-
connaissance or to bomb the
bases beyond the Yalu River.
Knowing this. Gen. Van Fleet
says. the Red China govern
ment had no hesitancy in Or
dering the attack against
American forces. He said alsoa
that "some embassy source"
may have conveyed the secret
information to the Peiping
government.
3. Confederation of Gen.
Van Fleets theory was given
in a letter written in April.
1853. to Senator Harry Byrd
of Virginia. Democrat. by Gen.
Douglas Macarthur and read
last week into the record of
the Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee. 1t said in part:
My own military estimate
was that with our largely un-
opposed air forces with their
Evening star., 1954-10-04

Rather incautiously. Mr..
Halleck argued that they had
had trouble getting the pro-
gram printed in the news
papers - an Adlai Stevenson
attack in reverse. He also men,
toned "diversionary attacks"
and conceded he meant Sem
ator Mccarthy.
Other sources disclose that
one trouble encountered by
Mr.. Halleck and Representa-
tive Richard Simpson, the
Pennsylvania pr otectionist
who is chairman of the House
campaign committee, is that
not all Eisenhower Republicans
are warming up to the project
to re-elect a Republican Con-
gress. No doubt the President
was told he needed to gall
vanize these supporters into
action.
On the record, Mr.. Halleck
put it, 1--WE are in a tough
fight. I am not as optimistic
as Len Hall (national chair
man." Mr.. Hall has claimed a
gain of 18 in the House.
Congressional claims will get
another spokesman when Vice
President Nixon arrives this
week. But coming, too, are such
men as Sherman Adams, pres
idential assistant, and Defense
Secretary Wilson who will re-
inforce the don't stick your
neck out too far" school.
Evening star., 1954-10-04
Some Questions Of Treuchery
Arrest of Spies French Defense Council Seen as indication
Reds Got Leaks on IT, Plans and Korean War Strategy

atomic potential capable of
destroying at will bases of at
tack and lines of supply north
as we'll as south of the Yalu
River, no Chinese military
commander would dare hazard
the com m i t m n t Of large
forces on the Korean penin-
sula. The risk of their de-
struction through lack of sup
ply would be too great.
"But by one process Or an
other, it was conjectured by or
conveyed to the Red Chinese
that even though they entered
the fray in large force it would
be under the sanctuary Of be-
ing relieved from any destruc-
tive action of our military
forces within their areas. Such
a limitation upon the utiliZa-
ton of available military force
to repel any enemy attack has
no precedent. either in our own
history or, so far as I know.
in the history of the world.
"The results were disastrous
beyond imagination and are
still incalculable. When the
Chinese Communists actually
struck without warning and
my orders to destroy the
bridges at their points of entry
over the Yalu into Korea were
Immediately countermanded
from Washington, I realized
for the first time the extra
ordinary decision which had
been made to deny me the use
of my full military power to
safeguard the lives of my SOL
diers and the safety of the
Army"
Gen. Marshall. who was
Secretary of Defense at the
time of the historic hearings
in May, 1851, concerning the
dismissal of Gen. Macarthur,
testified before the Senate
Armed Services Committee
that the American Far East
ern commander had been for
hidden by directives sent him
through the United States
Joint Chiefs of Staff to do any
accommodating or bombing be-
yond the Manchurian border.
Secretary Marshall also re-
vealed that on November 13,
1850, after the Chinese inter-
vention, the United States
asked the thirteen other gov
ernments which had troops
under the u. N. command in
Korea for permission to lift
Evening star., 1954-10-04

1t would be just as fatal to-
day to ignore the pronounce
ments of Red China's Chou
En-lai and of high-ranking
officials in Moscow regarding
the Communists intentions
toward Formosa as it was to
ignore Hitler's utterances be-
fore he unleashed World War
II.
This warning has been given
by high military men in Wash
ington and in the Pacific to
those policy makers here who
still regard the bellicose state
ments of the Red leaders as
propaganda for "home con-
sumption"
Our intelligence services
know about the preparations
Of the enemy but cannot put
their finger accurately on the
time the enemy has chosen to
strike. They were in the same
position in the case of Nazi
Germany, Japan before Pearl
Harbor, and Korea. But only
the incurably wishful thinkers
doubt that the Chinese Com
munists are determined to
strike - unless the United
States accepts Clement Attlee's
form ula of "pensioning"
Chang Kai-shek and the other
Nationalist leaders and hand
ing over Formosa to the Reds.
There is no question that the
Peiping regime has been great
ly encouraged by the British
Labor leaders recent utter
ances. A general election is ex-
pected in Britain next year
and everything points to a de-
feat of the present Conserva-
tive government. Mr.. Attlee
will once more be prime minis
ter. But instead of being under
the influence of his own right
wing or middle-of -the-road
factions. he will have to play
Evening star., 1954-10-04

to the tune of the extreme
left-wingers headed by the an
ti-American Aneurin Bevan.
Whether the Reds will wait
until there is a new and even
more friendly government in
Britain before they decide to
strike in the Far East is a mat
ter of conjecture.
Many observers figure that
the 10 days which Messrs. At
tlee and Bevan spent in China
were not used only for sight
seeing and observation Of the
Chinese economic effort. There
were, according to some re-
ports, more meetings between
the Red and Laborite leaders
than have been officially an
nounced.
It may appear to many to
be in bad taste and cynical to
suspect that the British Social
lists whom this country helped
to the tune of $3.50 millions
to put their welfare programs
in force would stoop to joining
our enemies. But the British do
not consider their position on
Red China as a betrayal Of the
real interests Of the United
States.
The British say they are
merely pointing out to us the
right road toward peace
through co-existence and nom
violence. 1t is doubtful that
Messrs. Attlee and Bevan
realize that their utterances
concerning Formosa, which
have had worldwide circula-
ton, might lead to war instead
Of peace.
Clear-cut statements of the
highest personages in the Pep
ing and Moscow governments
leave no doubt to those who
heed the pages of contempo-
rary history that the Reds are
determined to take the re-
naming Chinese Nationalist
Evening star., 1954-10-04
Ihomos T. 9tokes-
Trouble for COP. in California
Plea for Republican Congress Seen Bunted by CossFne
System and Democratic Resentment of Treason Label

der which candidates can
enter the primaries of both
parties and win both nomina-
tions, as has often happened.
Consequently, you had in the
California Legislature, and
also in CALIFORNIA; delegation
in the House of Representa-
tives in Washington to :. lesser
extent. members who got the
support of both parties and SO
had no obligation to any party.
There was very little party re-
sponsibility as most States
know it in the California Leg
islature, a condition that often
frustrated Governors of Cali
fornia who were trying to put
through a program. With the
public generally, the emphasis
was on men, rather than party.
The cross-filing law recently
was modified to require desig-
nation of candidates by party,
but the old modes of thinking
persist, as Republicans are
finding out in trying to preach
the necessity of a Republican
Congress for the President.
One of them who has just re-
turned from a canvass of the
whole State put it thus:
There is, for example, a
Democratic Congressman rum
ming for reelection whom
voters like. He tells them he
has supported the President.
which is the case. and will
continue to do so, which may
or may not happen. of course.
The voters like him; they like
the President. they have be-
come accustomed to vote for
men. rather than party. This
makes it hard to get them to
see the Importance OF admin
istratior1 and party control Of
committees"
Republicans frankly are
Evening star., 1954-10-04
Week for Letters
Aims to Prod Lazy
Into Sending Mail

Postmaster General Summer
field would appreciate it if you
lost your reputation as a bad cor
respondent by sending a lot of
letters this week. -
Letters long owed to Aunt
Mamie, or whoever, would be
particularly ropriate, Mr..
Summerfield feels. He has set up
the week for just that purpose,
naming it National Letter Writ
ing Week"
Write Now-Today," says Mr..
Summerfield.
He pointed out that "the priv
ilege of communicating freely is
taken for granted in our free
society, but 1t is a privilege that
is not enjoyed by people every
where. In large portions of the
world today the postman does
not transmit uncensored mail be-
tween citizens"
Evening star., 1954-10-04
Richard NJ. Nixon

(This is the first In a series
OF articles By top erecuttUes
in the Eisenhower Admtntstra-
tion, designed as midtern re-
ports to the American people
on the administrations ac-
compliShments and plans. The
Stars use of the articles IS
made possible By the courtesy OF
the NeW York Herald TribuneJ
When Dwight D. Eisenhower
was elected the 34th President
of the United States just two
years ago, a whole new series
of governmental processes. a
fresh philosophy of American
politics, and a new course
for the Nations affairs at
home and abroad came into
being.
This administration took
Office 20 months ago with q
clearcut mandate from "a mil
lion Americans to deal with
four major problems:
End the Korean War and
develop policies which would
meet more effectively the
threat to peace of aggressive,
global communism.
Curb Federal spending and
imitation and, at the same
time, reduce the overwhelm-
ing tax burden and unleash
the United States economy
from crippling controls.
Deal fairly and effectively
with the Communist fifth
column at home.
Root out the corruption that
had diminished the effective
ness of our Federal Govern
ment and gravely impaired
it's usefulness in the eyes of
the American people.
Meanwhile, cynicism. confu-
sion. dissatisfaction and eco
nomic dangers were abroad in
Evening star., 1954-10-04
President Cauqht in the Middle
6. O. P. Candidates Say They Need His Election Help
But Top Aides Oppose Risking Chiefs Prestige

rather than a partisan poll
tician.
Sunday, House Majority
Leader Halleck put the case
to the President. Mr.. Halleck
is returning east from a Cali
fornia sortie to help a number
of House members who are, or
fear they are, in trouble. The
Pres d ent feels extremely
grateful to him for his good
work in putting through the
House so much of the Eisen-
hover program; their CONVEX
sation was long and doubtless
cordial.
An adroit politician, Mr..
Halleck was discretion itself
when he met with reporters
But he firmly made several
points.
The President, he said, is
the most effective salesman
for his party and his program.
The people, he thought, do
not understand yet how good
that program is and the ne
cessity of re-electing a Repub-
lican Congress to go on with it.
His conclusion, which he re-
Trained from stating, is clear.
He also ducked the question:
If the campaign problem is
how to put ,cross the Eisen-
hover program, why hasn't
the President had a press con-
ference in the six weeks he
has been here?
Evening star., 1954-10-04

the agency said, that con-
sumers' spendable income next
year will be relatively close to
that of 1884,
The department annually
makes forecasts for the year
ahead for use of farmers and of
it's own officials in mapping
farm production programs for
the coming season.
Sees Farm Prices Unchanged.
The agency expects the gen.
eral level of farm product prices
to change little from this year.
Currently, farm prices are 246
per cent of the 1904 average,
compared with 257 per cent a
year ago and the record high of
313 in February, 1851.
Today's farm prices average 88
per cent of parity, compared
with SO per cent a year ago and
the record high of 1913 per cent
set in October, 1916. Parity is a
farm price said by law to be fair
to farmers in terms of the costs
of what they buy.
In its outlook report, the de-
partment says prices of beef cat
tie and dairy products are not
expected to be sharply different
from this year. but that hog
prices may be lower. Hog pro-
duction has been increasing
rather sharply.
Corn May Rise Slightly.
The agency says corn prices
may average a little higher next
year, due to this years smaller
crop. But it expects prices of
soybeans to average lower next
year, rejecting this years rec
ord production.
Largely because of a heavy
expansion in output. the depart
ment says it expects egg prices
to continue at relatively low lev
els until midsummer next year.
Supplies of broilers are expected
to continue large and prices rel
atively low for the remainder of
this year.
Some reduction in production
of turkeys - anad increased
prices-was foreseen for the new
year.
Evening star., 1954-10-04
Thomos L. Stokes

LOS ANGELES-There are
two matters hardly in the
category of issues that are
giving Republicans trouble in
their campaign here in Cali
fornia in this critical year.
Both are involved likewise in
the campaign all over the
country, though one has a pc
culiar wrinkle in this State.
Well take that up first.
This is the argument, COM
ing to be stressed more and
more by Republican speakers,
that President Eisenhower
needs a Republican Congress
to avoid a divided govern
ment" that might produce a
stalemate between the Execu-
tive and Congress. Republic
cans concede that many DEM
ocrats in Congress have sup
ported the President in his
first two years in Office and
probably will continue to do
so on matters of vital national
interest. whatever party con-
trolls Congress. But. they
argue. the President must have
q Republican Congress so that
his party and administration
will control committees that
handle the Presidents legis-
lative program. Otherwise,
they contend. there would be
no line Of authority from the
White House to and through
Congress. but a possible block
ade If Democrats controlled
the machinery of Congress,
including its committees.
Republicans report they are
having difiiculty getting this
line Of reasoning over to
voters here in California. This
Is because Of the traditional
lack of emphasis on party and
party labels here. encouraged
Apy the cross-filtng system un-