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termine if civil rights of Negroes
had been violated.
He quoted threats of loss of
jobs for the Negroes if they per-
sisted in trying to get their chill
dren into the all-white high
school.
A National Guard force in
Clinton dwindled from 633 to 200
today as the city prepared for
complete withdrawal Of troops.
School attendance at the 300
pupil Clinton High School edged
upward from Mondays low of
266 as 419 youngsters including
~ Negroes reported for class
yesterday.
1900 Population
Clinton has a population Of
1000, which includes 800 Negroes.
The city government rushed
through emergency measures
aimed at maintaining order after
reviving an auxiliary police force
and pleading for cooperation
from its citizens.
AT pm. curfew for all persons
under 81 years was passed and
also a ban on the use of public
address systems and on outdoor
assemblies without a permit OBJ
tanned 48 hours in advance.
The situation at Mansfield ap-
peared under control after Texas
Rangers moved in and Gained
tensions after a mob threatened
to harm an Episcopal priest who
had shamed them for trying to
keep Negroes from enrolling at
the high school.
At Lawrenceville, Ca, a white
seventh grade teacher said she
would fight for her job after a
petition was circulated to GUST
her for refusal to sign a state
'ment that she does not believe
in racial indignation.
Mrs. Colleen Marie Virgins,
26, a former Methodist mission
airy and wife of a divinity stu
dent, was under fire for telling
her class she would not object
to teaching Negro and white stu
dents together.
Teacher to Fight
A source close to the Board of
Education said he expects the
Board to be petitioned at its
next meeting to fire the teacher.
An off -the-campuS racial Incl
dent f1ared at Prichard, Ala.
where the home of a Negro can
didate for city council was shot
up by .38-caliber bullets.
Joshua Barney, 68-year-old
preacher and first Negro to quail
ify for council in the southwest
Alabama town of about 10000,
said he hasn't decided whether
he will withdraw from the race"
Il need more time to think it
over before / express my inten-
TONS" he said.
Other segregation develop
ments included:
Greenwood, Miss. population
20, 000)-White Citizens Councils
distributed a bulletin noting
practically all agitation for in
tegration in the South comes
from States which have no Negro
problems" offered to set up
agencies to speed migration Of
the States Negroes to Northern
States.
Miami, Fla. (250,000)-A Fed
eral judge denied the city's mo-
ton to dismiss a suit brought by
IA group of Negroes for integra-
ton of the golf course at Miami
Springs Country Club.
II hope you will make an effort
to work out this problem" said
Judge Emett c. Choate. I'm
not telling you to but hope you
will"
Attendance Drops
Matoaka, w. Wa protest
boycott against racial indignation
dropped attendance sharply at
four schools in the area.
Chatham. Va.-Two members
of the National Association for
the Advancement Of Coloree
People asked the Pittsylvania
County School Board, to comply
with the United States Supreme
Courts desegration ruling.
The board lacked a quorum
and took no action on the matter
but promised to consider the re-
quest at a future date.
Texarkana, Tex. (25,000).-A
picket line of about so persons
turned away three Negro stu
dents attempting to register at
the TeXarkana Junior College.