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Alabama University Bars Negro Student To Prevent Further Violence
Tuesday, February 7, 1956
Trustees Vole
'Police Powers'
To Exclude Girl
Tuscaloosa, Ala. U.R) The
University of Alabama barred
Negro student Autherine Lucy
from classes today to prevent
further violence and Insure her
safety.
University trustees voted in
emergency session Monday night
to use "police powers" to ex
clude the 26-year-old Negro girl
from classes following tense
demonstrations in- which eggs
and rocks were hurled.
Her attorney, Arthur Shores,
aid in Birmingham the trustees'
action appeared to be "planned."
We won a federal court case to
get her admitted to the univer
sity as its first Negro student.
Dr. O. C. Carmichael, univer
sity president, called trustees
,wlnto emergency session Monday
night about the same time Gov.
James E. Folsom refused to send
National Guardsmen. C a r m i-
chael warned the violence might
force the university to close.
Demonstrators Toss Eggs
The tense hours of Miss Lucy's
third day of classes Monday
were followed by a third mid
night demonstration during
which one egg was thrown at
Mrs. Carmichael and two pelted
Police Chief W. C. Tompkins.
Highway patrolmen spirited
Miss Lucy from the campus a
few hours earlier while decoy
autos were pelted with eggs and
rocks. She. was not harmed.
Demonstrators marched and
drove about the campus and
Into town Monday night and
early today shouting "Hey hey,
ho ho! Where in the hell, did the
' Nigger go."
The crowd swarmed upon the
executive mansion demanding
to see Carmichael and when
Mrs. Carmichael came outside
to explain that he was away
someone threw an egg, which
missed.
"Are you a nigger lover?"
lome one in the crowd shouted.
Students Form Cordon
University Police Chief Allen
Rayfield and a handful of stu
dents formed a cordon to shield
the woman while she ducked to
safety just as a handful of grav
el "showered upon ' the .front
porch.
Students . spurned i literature
handed out by members of-pro-segregation
White Citizens coun
cils picturing interracial mar
riage ceremonies with snouts of
"This is Communist stuff, let's
burn it." They started a bonfire
on the steps of a campus build
ing. . '
The trustees said they would
exclude Miss Lucy from classes
until further notice because of
violence and "threats of vio
lence participated in by outsid
ers."
Westinghouse Negotiations Open Under Formula by Government
Pittsburgh OJ.R) Nego
tiations in the 114-day old West
inghouse Electric Corp. strike
began today under a govern
ment formula to hasten settle
ment of the bitter walkout by
bypassing the major company
time study issue
Under the government plan,
talks on the time efficiency
study dispute would be post
poned temporarily while bar
gainers ironed out terms of a
90-day moratorium and such
Former Policeman
Questioned on
Swindle Charges
Portland (U.R) A former
police officer of Bremerton,
Wash., is being held in the Port
land city jail today on a charge
of writing a $600 worthless
check, but detectives are ques
tioning him also about the al
leged $53,000 swindle of an Os
wego woman. ' '
Held for investigation is . Or
val Quincy Mitchell, 32, who
is accused by Martha A. Robins
of Oswego, of bilking her of
"many thousands" of dollars, in
cluding the $600 check.
Loses Police Job
Mitchell was arrested in Bre
merton in 1946 for cashing a
$1150 check on a bank in which
he had no account. During that
time he was on bail he obtain
ed a job as chief of police for
Sweet Home, Oregon, but was
discharged within 10 days.
He received a 15-year sentence
oft the Washington check charge
but obtained a habeas corpus
which resulted in the grand lar
ceny count being dismissed. . He
subsequently was sentenced to
a one year term on a petty- lar
ceny charge arising from the
case.
Operated Fish Company
Mitchell operated the Exotic
Fish company in Portland when
Mrs. Robins purchased the Os
wego Pet Shop in 1954. She
says he presented her with a
bill for fish sold to the shop and
subsequently suggested that she
go into business with him and
she began advancing money.
In the transactions that fol
lowed i- she says she mortgaged
property holdings and sold a
ranch to raise money which she
turned over to him.
Minimum Wage Upped
In Canning Industry
Portland (U.R) Norman O.
Nilsen, state labor. commissioner,
said today that minimum wages
for women and minors in two
branches of the canning indus
try will be raised 'as the result
of a hearing yesterday.
Women and minors engaged
in cherry stemming and pitting
had been receiving a 35-cent
maximum wage while those in
nut processing and cracking had
a 40-cent wage floor. -
The state wage and hour com
mission will raise the minimum
for both groups to 66 cents an
hour.
Proposal Offered
For Highway Program
-Washington (U.R) The
House Ways and Means commit
tee today greased the gangway
for an $800,000,000 - a - year tax
boost for highway users.
' The bill introduced Monday
by Rep. Hale Boggs (D-La.) with
the blessing of Democratic lead
ers would help finance a
$51,000,000,000 national high
way building program.
The committee scheduled pub
lic hearings beginning Feb. 15.
It hoped to complete - them in
less than s week. -
Boggs predicted his bill would
be sent to the House floor with-
Lout substantial change.
The Republican House leaders
and President Eisenhower. -have
agreed to support a pay-as-you-go
plan to finance the highway
program . but so far they have
not said how they stand on par
ticular tax increases.
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strike issues as wages, length
of contract and arbitration.
However, apparent union and
company differences on terms
of the moratorium appeared to
be a possible roadblock in the
negotiations.
The formula called for the
44,000 striking members of the
International Union of Electri
cal workers to return to work
during the 90-day "truce" per
iod while negotiators attempt to
resolve differences on company
time studies of non-incentive
day-rate employees. -- .
Strikers Remain Out
The ' union emphasized,"' how
ever, that until both sides reach
agreement on all points,: , the
strikers will remain off the job.
"There would be no return to
work until there is agreement
on details of the so-called mor
atorium in the time' study ne
gotiations" as well as the other
issues, the IUE said.:
The government plan, was pro
posed Saturday by Federal Me
diation Director Joseph F. Fin
negan, who flew '. here . from
Washington to take charge of
the talks. The formula provided
that if. time study differences
were not resolved in the first
60 days of the 90-day period,
Finnegan. would then "recom
mend that the parties voluntar
ily submit any unsettled ques
tions to fact-finding or other
appropriate procedure."
'Ground Rules' Sought
. On the time-study issue, the
IUE was insisting on specific
"ground rules" to forestall pos
sible "firings and wage cuts" as
a result of the controversial
studies. Management contended
it must have the undisputed
right to study employees' work
methods in order to reduce "un
necessary labor costs.
- The union will not go back
to work until it knows "the
details of the moratorium, what
is fact-finding, what is the out
come of fact-finding; before
signing any agreement," ; IUE
Secretary-Treasurer Al Hartnett
said. ' -
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