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Keep our white schools
white'D appeared. Where did
they come from? The defend
ant Ray Woode. And they were
the same as the badges Kasper
was passing out.
Where did the white Youth
membership cards come from?
The Seaboard White Citizens
Council in Washington. The
executive secretary was John
Kasper.
(Police) Chief (Francis L.
Moore (of Clinton) testified he
had had no trouble around the
school. Why. he didn't even
have an officer there until
Tuesday, November 81. He let
students at Clinton High School
handle the crossing. But
trouble started then inside the
school and outside the school,
SO he put on three officers in
addition to himself.
Some of the defendants are
identified - on every one of
those days, Wednesday, Thurs
day. Friday. Monday. Tuesday
as having parked their cars
there in that intersection.
Now. if the court please,
again I say each of these de-
PENDANTS on at least one occa-
sion have been with John Kas-
per under circumstances that
warrant inference of conspir-
acy to violate your honor's or
ders.
ask that the defense mo-
tons be denied.
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B-47 Crash Kills a,
DC. Native Dies

1t. Frank B. Kelly, "a, a
Washington native, and three
other crewmen were killed
Wednesday night when a BAT
Stratojet bomber crashed into
a creek near Abilene, Tex.
The plane. on a training
mission, fell south of the run
way at DyesS Air Force Base
Landing in Little Elm Creek, il
exploded and burned.
Other victims were Maj. Will
liam P. Price. 40, of Bastrop,
Tex, the plane commander;
Capt. Coleman L. Adams, 35,
Carrollton, Mo-, the pilot, and
S/Sergt. William C. Burdette,
jr.. %. Talladega, Ala, crew
chief.
1t. Kelly was navigator of
the plane attached to the 10th
Squadron of the 341st Bonn
bardment Wing.
He Joined the Air Force
seven years ago after he was
graduated from Mackin High
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Continued From First Page
Judge Taylor in response tt
Mr.. Simmons renewed motion
The judge then recessed court
and summoned opposing law
yers into his chambers for 6
conference on procedure fol
the remainder of the trial.
1t was decided that the clos
ing arguments will be heard
Monday. with three hours al
lotted to attorneys for the
Clinton 10 and one hour for
Mr.. Simmons. The Governs
ment will have an equal amount
Of time.
The court then recessed at
1883 am. until Monday.
The first of two closing Gov
arguments probably
will be handled by United
States Attorney John c. Craw-
ford and a second by Assistant
United States Attorney James
M. Meek.
Charge Due Tuesday
The judges charge to the
jury, instructing them on their
duties and on the meaning of
evidence, is expected Oh Tues
day.
Then the all-Tennessee, all
white. all-Protestant jury OF 10
men and two women will go
behind locked doors to DELHI
crate on their verdict.
When the jury energies, the
fate of KaSper and the Clinton
10 will have been decided
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Quake Kills 3 Miners

CASTLE GATE. Utah, July 19
R.-A small earthquake broke
seals in a coal mine here yes
terday, releasing methane gas,
which killed three men. Supt.
Donald Newberry of the hide
pendent Coke & Gas Co., said
the small quake, which he called
a bounce" shook the ground
about $50 am. and broke the
mine seals. More than 100
other men were in the mine, but
escaped unhurt.
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the East Tennessee Reporter.
Defense Counsel Grover 8
Mcleod brought out that Mrs
Davis had been subpoenaed a.
q government witness but had
not been called. He had her
identify herself as secretary OF
the White Citizens Council of
Tennessee.
DO the defendants belong?"
she was asked.
Some do"
How many members are
there?"
Hundreds"
Mrs. Davis then was instruct
ed to read the names and adj
dresses of all persons on the
membership list-a task that
took her SO minutes and put
into the records identification
Of 495 persons.
John Roy. an Oak Ridge en-
ploye. was brought to the stand
AS defense attorneys told
newSmen later-to diScredit
earlier testimony about late
night meetings in AIMS Cafe at
Clinton.
Mr.. Roy. who identified him
self as a member Of the right
wing Tennessee Federation for
Constitutional Government,
said that, in addition to the de-
PENDANTS at those meetings, he
also saw three of the top men,
bers Of the defense legal bat
tery-Mr. Mcleod, Mr.. Dobbs
and Thomas Gore of Nashville.
The implication was left with
the jury that the meetings were
for the purpose of preparing a
legal defense against the pres
ent charges.
Jim Garrison of Clinton. a
White Citizens Council men,
Der, was asked to introduce in
evidence a petition bearing 427
names. The petition, dated
II. 1856, read:
I'VE. the undersigned, are
against Negroes entering Gin
ton High School or any other
white school in Anderson
County, Tenn"
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assuming that the jury Is able
to reach a verdict.
Conviction on the criminal
contempt charge, when tried
before a jury, carries with it q
maximum sentence of six
months in jail and a fine of
81 900.
The defense opened its case
yesterday afternoon after Judge
Taylor dismissed charges
against four defendants but
rejected defense pleas for dis
misSal as to Kasper and the
other 10.
First defense witness was An
derson County (Clinton) School
Supt. Frank Irwin, who testi-
fled to the apparently peaceable
aims OF a group which waited
on the county school board last
September and October. The
group, he said. included one or
two of the defendants.
The group, Mr.. Irwin said.
did not want the school board
to do anything in violation of
the court order. they represent
ed themselves as wanting him
to try to find legal means to
avoid indignation.
Mr.. Irwin also was asked
about a conversation he had
with the Rev. Paul w. Turner,
a Baptist minister who was
beaten after he escorted Negro
students to school. Mr.. Irwin
said Mr.. Turner asked him to
go along to Foley Hill where the
Negro students lived.
MY reply in essence was
that I felt the board and I
had complied with the court
order when we opened the doors
of the school to the Negroes,
and it was not my responsibility
to take them to school" the
superintendent said.
Woman Testifies
Second defense witness was
Mrs. Sybil Davis of Clinton, a
bland-faced handsome young
woman on the staff of a new
white supremacy weekly called
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School. 1t. Kelly was married
May ~ to Miss Madeline Gil
strap of Abilene.
Other survivors include his
mother. Mrs. Mary s. Kelly Of
1440 Otis street NE: his ia
theE Comdr. Frank B., Kelly
Of Lakehurst. N. j.. and two
brothers, John Patrick and
David. and a sister, Mary Anne,
all of the Otis street address.
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New Telephone Cable
To Link Europe, u. S.

PARIS. July 10 (R.-France
and Germany signed an agree
ment last night with the Amer.
lean Telephone & telegraph
Co. for a new undersea tele-
phone cable between Europe
and the United States.
Up to now Great Britain
has had the only underwater
cable to America capable of
carrying voice conversations.
The new $40 million cable win
carry So conversations stimuli
taneouSly. 1t is expected to be
ready for use by late 1859.
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CLINTON, Tenn, on or about
August IS, 1856. The Negro
students were already enrolled
in the Clinton High School
about IL of them, along with
about 800 white students.
He came to Clinton stating
his purpose or design: To pre-
vent the indignation of the
school.
That day he went to Leo
Burnett's back yard and asked
Burnett to join him in blocking
Indignation.
The next day. Sunday, we
find him talking with defend
ant w. Till in front of the
court house.
Two or three days later, he
talks with Principal D. ]. Brit
tain and Britain told him
there were three things he
Id OCdiil-COulQ 90.
He could comply with the
court order: he could refuse to
comply and be in contempt, or
he could quit.
Sees UItimatum
Then Kasper gave Britain
an ultimatum-either the Ne
groeS go, or Britain goes.
Then we find him making
speeches.
And then come the events of
August 80 and 81 and Septem-
Der 6 here in this court. (the
dates of Kasper'S trial on
charges of criminal contempt
resulting in his conviction and
sentence to one year in PRISON. !.
Mary Nell Currier. Clyde Cook
and Alonzo Bullock, all defend
ants in this case, were here with
kasper, and not as witnesses.
On September 7, the injunc-
ton was made permanent and
Kasper was released on bail.
We find Mrs. Currier and Bull
lock and leila Nelson, the wife
of one of the defendants (and
a defendant herself until last
Monday with KaSper as he
leaves the federal building.
Surely. they had a right to
be here; it was legal. But you
can commit lawful acts to
achieve unlawful ends or de-
signs.
On October 8, Clyde Cook
and the husband of Mary Nell
Currier Joined with Kasper and
others in forming a White Citi-
zens Council. The charter has
been introduced and witnesses
have testified about this forma-
ton. This shows concert of ac-
ton.
Defendants Together
Later we find Kasper and
these defendants together at
meetings of the White Citizens
Council at Clyde Cooks place.
at the Embassy Club, at the
Southland Cafe. at AIMS Cafe,
at the block building on Route
25-W. on the street in Clinton.
The record shows that at one
or more of these meetings every
one of the 10 was present.
And on November 10 there
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was the matter OF the Tonnes
see white youth. Three girls
went to John Kasper to solicit
his aid.
Where did they get the char
ter? John Kasper.
Who told them how to file
it? John Kasper.
Where should they send it?
To the Secretary of State in
Nashville-John Kasper told
them that. The little girls said
they didn't know anything
about how to do it.
Who got the charter notar-
lied? Clyde Cook.
Where did the youth group
meet? At the Embassy Club,
where their parents-members
of the White Citizens Council
held their meetings.
Trouble Starts
And what did they do?
Trouble started in Clinton
High School. Mr.. Britain tes-
titled things we're calm in the
high school after about Sep
TENDER 10 until when? Until
some time in November.
After Kasper's acquittal on
November 20, things began to
happen.
At that trial in November Gin
a State court on charges of
Sedition. Of which KaSper was
cleared) many of the defend
ants were present. The defense
attorneys have criticized your
honor for permitting proof of
other defendants being at that
trial. Well, now: William
Brakebill. He was compelled
to be witness. But he didn't
have to 60 up to Kasper at
recess.
And Till and Cook. They hud-
died up around Mr.. Kasper
just as my friends here (at
the defense counsel table, hud-
die up.
If a man is subpoenaed as
a witness. it doesn't mean he
has to put his arms around
the defendant during recess. :.
And Bullock. l don't think
Kasper could get out of bed
without the Rev. Alonzo Bu-
lock being present. He was with
Kasper virtually from the mo-
ment Kasper came to Tennes-
see. He came over here to
Knox County and prayed at
meetings addressed by Kasper.
Most any place John Kasper
was, Mr.. Bullock was there,
too.
Hours at Cafe
Seven Of the defendants have
been identified as being at
AIMS Cafe in this period. AIMS
Cafe is an eating place, sure;
but they were there at night
from | to IL and sometimes
till midnight. Once Mr.. Kasper
was there till 3 in the morning.
About the Youth Council.
Mr.. Britain testified that up
till November he had had prac-
tically no trouble. Then these
badges worn by white stu
dents and bearing the legend,
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Prosecutor at Clinton
Summarizes u. S. Case
By a stan Correspondent Of the star

KNOXVILLE Tenn, July 19-Here is the of the
Governments case against John KdSper and the Clinton
in the words of S. Attorney John Crawford Federal
District Court yesterday:
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I'm recognition Of IFS outstanding
sofeiy record" Coost Line hos been
oworded The E. H. Horrimon Memo.
ricl Gold Medal.
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Shows 10 Stress
Outdoor Lures

NEW YORK.-A series of ex-
hibits pertaining to outdoor
recreation and travel will domi-
nate the showings at the New
York Coliseum during the early
months of 1857.
| Heading the list is the 47th
National Motor Boat Show,
scheduled from January 10
Through January 81. A 423-boat
fleet will be anchored on the
Coliseum's four floors. Included
in the exhibit will be 100 inboard
crusiserS and runabouts, ranging
up to a luxurious 53-foot prom
enade deck yacht, seven ea-go-
ing cruisers and a wide selection
of family cruising craft. Also
fishing boats, sedan cruisers,
sailboats and plus an air-pro-
PEELED cupboard designed for
both water or ice boating.
The first International Travel
rama will open February 2, last
ing through February 10. More
than 100000 vacation and travel
seekers are expected to attend
this exposition, in which every
phase of travel will be featured.
The 1857 National Sports and
Vacation Show will take over
February Is for a 10 day show
ing of the largest variety of
sports and recreation exhibits
ever staged under one roof in
New York City.
Besides the displays of fishing
tackle. camping, wildlife. arch
cry, hunting. boating. travel and
vacation exhibits, there will be
new and expanded sports chow
to" clinics on the second and
third floors.
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beaches, just right for picnics
and relaxing-or gay, cabana-
clad beaches lively with happy
sun worshippers.
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.Low-Cost Fures
To South America
Extended into SO

Low-cost group excursion fare
rates for tourist and first class
flights to South America, in
troduced by the airlines last
April, will be extended for an
other year through March 81,
1858.
The group excursion fares,
which provide 80 per cent re-
duction in round trip costs for
two or more people travelling
together, substantially increased
tourist travel to that continent.
Airlines serving South
America and leading tour whole
salers throughout the United
States are now offering a wider
variety of new all-incluSive
package tours to South America
as a result of the extension of
the low cost fares.
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is $50 roundtrip. No passport
or visa is required and the dollar
and the Cuban peso exchange
even-steven.
But make no mistake about
this being a foreign land. Dur
ing its 400-odd years of exist
ence. Havana has acquired the
customs of a cosmopolitan city
while retaining its Old World
atmosphere and charm.
known as the Paris of the
Caribbean. this city of a million
inhabitants offers just about
every sort of entertainment.
With a little Imagination. one
can crowd a lot of living and
pleasant memories into an in
expensive week end,
During the daylight hours
there are ancient forts and
churches to inspect. Or one can
take fling at shopping, stroll
on the famous Prado or simply
sit at a sidewalk cafe and sip
daiquiris.
After dark. Havana is one of
the gayest cities in the world.
Nightlife can cost whatever the
tourist wants to spend.
Floor shows at the swankier
clubs are as lavish as anything
offered in Miami Beach or New
York. And tourist with that
lucky feeling and the what-it-
takes to back up the urge can
step into club casinos for a try
with Lady Luck.
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Dredges Adding
Home Sites Near
St. Petersburg

ST, PETERSBURG, Fla
Waterfront home sites are being
created by the tens of thou
sands along the mangrove isles
and sandy beaches of st. Peters
burg and Pinellas county. as
dredges build up great fingers of
land where shallow tidal waters
existed before
Thus that hoax of the twen-
ties. the water" lot. is sprout-
ing palm trees and typical
Florida homes.
From Candy Bridge on st.
Petersburgs Tampa Bay water
front. around the peninsula and
up both bay and Gulf shores of
It's western edge, half-a- hundred
thousand new waterfront homes
have been built where fish and
gulls once played in the shall
lows.
Off the southern tip of st.
Petersburg, between it and 300
acre Mullet Key county park.
work will soon be underway on
a fabulous new development
with homes for 10000 people on
q huge island to be dredged
from the Gulf. According to an
nounced plans. the island even
tuallv will contain luxurious
hotels. motels and shopping
centerS, cabana clubs. golf course
and Gulf of Mexico beaches.
1t will be the hub of a new
BayWay system Of roads and
bridges being constructed by the
State. The Bayway will rival the
famed Sunshine Skyway. to
which it will be connected with
a circular drive leading from St.
Petersburg.
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History Too

Saunter the historic streets Of
St. Augustine where you see
oldest us. structures. In Tai
lahassee view Prince Murat's
grave, ante bellum homes,
beautiful plantations, azalea
gardens. At Pensacola a giant
cross on the dunes marks the
site of the first mass celebrated
in America in 1859. Here, too,
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SIS Million Resort

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Thou
sands of cubic yards of fill are
being removed from the site of
the Diplomat Hotel in prepara-
ton for the development of the
SIS million hotel. motel and
country club resort, scheduled
to open December /, 1857.
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Recreation Program
Welcomes Visitors

MIAMI BEACH. Fla.-An all
year entertainment program to
which visitors are welcome is
conducted by the Miami Beach
recreation department. There are
separate divisions for adults and
youngsters.
Three community centers are
used for the program, which in
cludes concerts, moves, dancing,
games and craft studies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Vacation Costs

A great variety of accommo-
dations now offer such a wide
range of rates practically any
vacation budget is at home
here. So don't hesitate because
you've heard Florida is expen.
sive : that's nonsense! The
per-day cost Of a Florida holi.
day need be no more than
you'd spend each day of an
ordinary vacation anywhere.
Do come down this winter and
see how warm and happy you
can be without extravaganza.
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Spectator Sports

Thrill to the cry, they're off, "
at Florida's famed thorough
bred and greyhound racing
tracks, Watch jai-alai, worlds
fastest game. The seasons at
its sporting peak now through
March. See boat regattas,
rodeos, water pageants, the
national stock car races at
Daytona Beach running from
Feb. 3 to II. Take in Florida's
State Fair, Jan. % thru Feb. 9,
and visit the Gasparilla Pirate
Festival on Feb. a in Tampa.
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Visitor Can Go Abroad
In Hour From Miami

HAVANA.-No longrange planning pinch-penny saving
is for that trip abroad his sights on
this gay, cosmopolitan city
week end off and simple
suffice because Havana is quick and inexpensive trip
foreign land
Planes land here an hour after takeoh Miami
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Motoring Tips

Drive the brand-new Florida
turnpike between Fort Pierce
and Miami; scheduled opening
this month. Enjoy its speed
and safety to save time when
touring the southeast coast.
On the west coast cruise across
Tampa Bay on 15-mile-long
Sunshine Skyway, the worlds
longest open-water crossing.
For spell-binding beauty drive
across blue water and coral
islands to old Key West on the
highway that goes to sea.
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Ideal Weather

Warm, sunny days are the rule
all winter in Florida. There
are few extremes Of hot or cold.
Dress in shirtsleeve comfort
for favorite outdoor sports.
Velvety golf courses challenge.
Play tennis and Switchboard
or hunt in game-flled wood
lands. Try water skiing, or
take refreshing dips, and 90
big bass fishing in the crystal
clear lakes of inland Florida.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06
Famed features to enjoy
right now in FLORIDA

is old Fort Pickens where Ger
onlmo was once held prisoner.
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Sub tropic comfort
and spIendor,
unusual sights and
adventures plan to
take them all in
SUnswept Beaches

Reward yourself this winter in
the warm, blue surf and on the
sun-splashed sands of Florida's
magnificent beaches. They
border both coasts, from Pen
sacola to Naples on the Gulf
of Mexico, from Jacksonville
Beach to Miami Beach on the
Atlantic, and all around the
KEYS. Choose from secluded
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-06

gsplor. ali r,o-,a....,s OF good living
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VIRGINIA REPORT
Segregation Is Key Issue in the Primary

ofiice-seeker who has never won
an election. His name has been on
the ballot almost every year for
the last is years for one office or
another.
But for all the fuss Mr.. Carwile
is making. Mr.. Almond is paying
him no mind. The Attorney Gem
erals attentions have been focused
on the November general election.
when the Democrats expect q de-
termined Republican drive for the
governors mansion at Richmond.
The Legal Line
Most of Mr.. Almonds speeches
throughout the State have been
devoted to the necessity for pre-
serving segregated schools. Yet he
has stopped short Of promising to
close any public school where in
tegration occurs. and in Federal
Court he has argued that the
States new school laws do not al
together prohibit integration.
His adherence to the legal line
prompted one of Northern Vir-
ginia's more liberal Democrats
to comment recently: you know,
I think Lindsay will stick to the
law on this thing"
A fairer barometer of public
reaction to Gov. Stanley's school
closing, fund CUTOFF legislation
will be Alexandria, where Delegate
James M. Thomson, jr.. is seeking
denomination in the Democratic
primary against Albert A. Smoot,
former vice mayor.
Mr.. Thomson was Northern
Virginia's number one supporter
of the Stanley plan, and it is
primarily on that issue that Mr..
Smoot seeks to defeat him.
Mr.. Smoot advocates a local
pupil-assignment plan. which he
acknowledges could result in some
indignation. He has accused Mr..
Thomson of trying to fool the
public by saying schools can be
kept open and segregated Mr..
Thomson has defended his sup
port of the Stanley plan. and has
denied that it will result in any
long-term closing of schools. The
incumbent has accused Mr.. Smoot
and his supporters of seeking TO
force creeping indignation" on
Virginia schools.
Roged Since September
This, in a nutshell. is the fight
that has ragged ever since last
September.s General Assembly
session, when Virginia lawmakers
decided to scrap the more mod
crate Gray plan in favor of Gov.
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SANKEY'S no-integration plan.
The original Gray plan. recon-
mended by q commission that the
Governor appointed. provided for
local assignment Of students and
tuition grants for any students
who did not want to attend in
tegrated schools. After the State
constitution was amended to per-
NIT payment of the tuition grants.
the Gray plan was strapped and
the fund CUTOFF. school closing
plan was adopted instead.
Supporting Mr.. Smoot is one of
the leading foes Of the Stanley
plan in the General Assembly,
State Senator Armistead Boothe
Of Alexandria.
The campaign lines are SINH
larry drawn in Norfolk, where the
six incumbent Democrats who
voted against the Stanley plan
are opposed by three candidates
who adhere to the massive re-
sistance" doctrine.
The six Norfolk incumbents
seeking denomination are Delame-
ter D. Davis, John p. Harper,
Theodore Pitcher, Toy D. Savage,
jr., John F. Rixey and James w.
Roberts. Opposing them are for