Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-15
LITTLE ROCK
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school board and approved by
the Little Rock Federal Dis
trict Court.
| Within hours, Gov. Orval
Faubus ordered Central High
and three other city high
schools closed even before they
opened for the fall term. This
includes Horace Mann, an all
Negro institution.
He said he acted because
Central High faced forcible in
tegration and he feared violence
and disorder would follow.
White demonstrators rioted
last fall in attempting to re-
move nine Negro students from
previously all-white Central
High. President Eisenhower
sped 1000 paratroopers to the
campus. They drove the DEM
onStrators away at bayonet
point and enforced Federal
court Indignation orders.
Citizens considered today
momentous In the South's four
year struggle to preserve seq
regated schools.
This was for two reasons: Cd
1t marked the first time author
titles had invoked school closing
laws to prevent mixing of white
and Negro pupils in classrooms
and co the schools we're sched-
uied to open today until Gov.
Faubus acted.
Returns From Rest
The chief figures gathered
for the next act. which could
involve either high drama or
plodding steps through the
courts.
The Governor returned to the
mansion after a week end rest
in seclusion. q.
Federal District Judge John
E. Miller Of Fort Smith, Ark,
delayed pressing court business
to fly here yesterday. He said
he would be at the courthouse
today even though II have no
reason at present to anticipate
any legal action in this matter
coming before me-"
The Justice Department held
$50 deputy United States mar
shals in readiness, and pro-
cured signs waxnine persons
not to interfere with the off,
Ncers.
City police authorities can
celled all department vacations
and days off and drilled their
forces in use of gas guns, gas
grenades and submachine guns.
If the Governor expected any
immediate startling develop
ments involving him it was not
apparent during the night. The
mansion was guarded by a rou-
tine number Of State troopers.
Private School Move
He was expected sooner or
later to open Central High
and the other institutions as
private schools under lease
agreements and with the State
footing the bills.
Many expected him to delay
such action until after October
z, date Of an election in which
voters will ballot on whether
they want to keep the public
schools closed or want them
integrated.
The law setting up such an
election has an apparent in
surmountable block to a vote
favorable to indignation. De-
segregation must be approved
by a majority Of the districts
registered voters-not just a
majority of those casting bal
lots. Voters who don't cast ball
lots actually will be aiding seq
regationists.
Considerable speculation here
saw the Justice Department re-
naming inactive until Gov.
Faubus opens the schools as
private institutions.
Then the department could
again seek to integrate Central
Hogh on the grounds State
funds were being used and
therefore the Supreme Courts
i1tegration ruling still applied.
Arrest Plan Denied
Two segregation leaders. at
torney Amis Guthridge and the
Rev. Wesley Pruden, said dur
the week end that a source told
them the Justice Department
planned to arrest IL persons.
possibly including Gov. Faubus.
A Justice Department spokes-
man called this nonsense
Presumably any effort to ar
rest the Governor would be
based on a 1857 Injunction or
dering him not to interfere with
Central High indignation. He
honored the injunction by with
drawing National Guardsmen
he had posted on the campus.
A new Injunction of the
same sort could be issued.