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State, National, International News
Power Struggle Grows In Civil Rights Debate
WASHINGTON—(UP)—A power struggle flared in the Senate between the Democratic and Republican leaders Thursday over a proposed jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill.
Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, who favors the amendment, sought to enlist strength by reporting to the Senate that the presidents of 12 railway labor unions have endorsed the jury trial provision.
Republican Leader William F. Knowland, defending the administration's position that the amendment would weaken the bill, replied that the AFL-CIO executive committee is on record against it.
These developments came as the Senate was preparing to turn from the civil rights bill—in the fourth week of debate—for a few hours to complete action on Defense and Agriculture Department appropriations. The White House Thursday renewed a plea by President Eisenhower for fast action to enable moneyless agencies to meet their August payrolls.
Meanwhile, supporters of the jury trial amendment rallied behind a reviled version which they hoped would win over enough doubtful senators to assure its approval.
Trial Supporters Rally
The amendment would guarantee trial by jury for persons charged with criminal contempt of court for violating a judge's order issued to protect Negro voting rights. The revision, made Wednesday, was intended to insure that Negroes would be eligible to serve as jurors in federal courts.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) told the Senate that the modification in the jury trial amendment could stand on its own. He urged the Senate to defeat the jury amendment and then write in a provision to insure selection of jurors in federal courts without discriminator as to race.
Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), a sponsor of the amendment and 10 other senators—eight Democrats and two Republicans—offered the modification in the closing hours of Wednesday's long Senate session which ended at 9:45 p.m. EDT.
The modification was accepted immediately by Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.), chief sponsor of the amendment, that made it part of his amendment without needing a separate vote.
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Movie Stars Face Trial
HOLLYWOOD — (UP) Many top movieland celebrities Thursday faced the grim prospect of revealing secrets about their private lives in the criminal libel trial involving Confidental and Whisper magazines.
Superior Judge Herbert V. Walker Wednesday turned down actor Rory Calhoun's last-minute appeal to get out of testifying at the trial which gets under way today.
Calhoun was the first of nearly 50 subpenaed Hollywood personalities to challenge the summons. The defense subpenaed the stars in an attempt to establish that stories printed about them were "true."
Walker's decision set the stage for what might turn out to be one of the most sensational exposes in filmdom history. The trial will feature testimony from such stars as Lana Turner, Gary Cooper, Corinne Calvet and Maureen O'Hara.
Hospital Board Submits Budget
TOPEKA — (UP) — Budget requests amounting to $18,129,300 to operate state hospitals and institutions next fiscal year were submitted Wednesday by the State Board of Social Welfare.
The proposed budget will be reviewed by the governor, fiscal experts and the legislature.
Dr. George W. Jackson, state institutional director, said the requests were increased because he has asked for 363 additional employees. The hospitals and institutions now have 3,805 workers. The board asks 4,168 employes.
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Hopes Protestors Will Be Arrested
LOS ANGELES—(UP)—The leader of the National Committee for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons said Thursday he hoped members of the group are arrested during planned demonstrations against nuclear tests.
He said the days selected for the demonstration are the anniversay dates of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Lawrence Scott of Chicago, coordinator of the group, disclosed here Wednesday that some 35 to 40 members would gather starting next Tuesday at the entrance to the Nevada proving grounds to "protest the senseless atomic testing that is morally wrong and is not leading us to peace."
"The prayer vigil will begin our project of civil disobedience against the Atomic Energy Commission's tests," Scott said. "During the period between Tuesday and Friday individuals and groups will attempt to enter the test site in violation of the law."
The AEC at Las Vegas, Nev., warned the group that any attempt to enter the restricted testing area would be repulsed by armed guards. The AEC added that unauthorized individuals found in the area would either be ejected or jailed.
Army Still Can Not Move Cattle Rancher
ALAMORGODO, N. M. —(UP)— Aged rancher John Prather repeated Thursday he is "not about to move" from his 32,000 acre spread on the McGregor guided missile range despite a court order to get off the land by midnight.
It was not known whether the Army would make another "strategic retreat" from the newest deadline for his removal from its 1,000 square mile range.
Jan. 8 is a legal holiday in Louisiana in honor of Andrew Jackson for his defeat of the British at New Oreans in 1815.
Prather, who still rides herd on his cattle at the age of 82, said "any moving done will be by the Army. The next move is up to them."
Disarmament Delegates May Start Presenting Plan Today
LONDON—(UP)—Western disarmament delegates meeting with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles agreed Thursday to start presenting their joint aerial inspection plan to the Soviet Union either today or next week.
Informed sources said U. S. disarmament expert Harold E. Stassen would submit it formally in the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee.
French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to London Thursday but was delayed in traffic en route from the airport and did not make the morning's two-hour session.
U. S. delegation sources said Stassen's presentation of the new Western plan and his step-by-step explanation of it to Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin would require two weeks more of meetings here.
Today's meeting, already twice postponed, is expected to approve a report to the parent disarmament committee and request permission for continued meetings of the subcommittee. It was beloved Zorin had agreed to this Wednesday at lunch with Dulles and other Western delegation chiefs.
London sources said the delegates were agreed on an American "open skies" inspection system but were reported to have encountered West German objections to a Soviet plan to install ground observers in the West.
But a West German government spokesman in Bonn denied that West German objections to ground inspection were holding up the London disarmament talks.
Well-informed German sources said any difficulties in the ground inspection scheme arose out of the problem of controlling the inspectors. And the German sources said West Germany was reluctant to see Soviet inspectors roaming around Germany.
A meeting by Dulles, Pineau and Lloyd would be the first big three get together since the Suez crisis.
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