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WASHINGTON MV-Negroes now
will try to end segregation in
places set up with tax funds, such
as hospitals, bathing beaches,
state parks and public housing.
A representative of the National
Assn, for the Advancement of Col
ored People (NAACP) said this
effort will be made or, a broad
front.
The Supreme Court yesterday
paved the way for this with its
landmark decision outlawing seg
regation in the public schools of
the states on the gi-ound that it
violates the 14th Amendment.
That amendment says all citi
zens must be treated equally. But
for 58 years, until yesterday, no
court had said segregation by it
self was wrong.
Since 1896 this has been the posi
tion of the court: even though
Negroes were segregated, there
was no violation of the 14th
Amendment so long as they re
ceived treatment equal to that
given whites. The 18% doctrine
was based on segregation in rail
road passenger cars.
For years Negroes have been
inching toward yesterday’s ruling
by appealing to the Supreme Court
against various forms of segrega
tion imposed on them.
They had argued over and over,
and won case after case, that it’s
a myth to think segregated Ne
groes get equal treatment with
whites.
But for 58 years the court has
never overturned that ruling of
18% by saying segregation of it
self is unconstitutional.
It knocked out segregation on in
terstate buses and trains but lim
ited itself to saying Neg toes were
not getting equal treatment on
segregated trains and buses.
In 1950 the court said Texas and
Oklahoma must let Negroes into
their graduate schools but again
only on the grounds that Negro
graduate schools in those states
were not equal to those for whites.
Marilyn Monroe
Returns To Work
On 20th-Fox Lot
HOLLYWOOD UPl—Marilyn Mon
roe is working again, and that’s
worth a trip to Westwood any time.
I ventured to the 20th-Fox lot and
was told that Double-M could not
be disturbed at her labors. She
was in dance rehearsals for
‘‘There’s No Business Like Show
Business.” However, she sneaked
out word that if I would wait in
a small office off the rehearsal
hall, she would try to see me dur
ing a break.
The view was good. I watched
dance director Robert Alton and
Marilyn’s dance-in (corresponds to
a stand-in) teaching her the num
ber. They were all wriggling to an
Irying Berlin number, ‘‘After You
Get What You Want, You Don’t
Want It.”
After a half-hour of this stren
uous business, she took a break
and came over. She was frankly
worn out and looked it. She wore
blue jeans and a plunging sweater
top with a bare midriff. She had
not a trace of makeup and her hair
was tousled. Still, she looked good.
As usual when she is concen
trating on her work, her replies
to questions were generally in one
line. She said her hubby, Joe Di-
Maggio, was in town and had been
for some time. Furthermore, he
will not be commuting to the East
as he has been “thank good
ness.”
She said <he was negotiating a
TV deal that would keep him on
this coast, either here or in San
Francisco. He likes TV. He has no
ambition to enter the movie busi
ness “thank goodness.” He is
no longer associated with the
restaurant bearing his name; his
brothers handle that. He manages
to keep busy.
I asked how come she would
accept a relatively minor role in
her present picture and turn down
a starring role in “Pink Tights.”
“Because I didn’t like the script
of ‘Pink Tights,’” she replied.
Students Riot
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Uft-
Forty-three persons were injured
and 18 buses smashed as students
rampaged in Belem yesterday
against a bus far increase, the
Meridional New Agency reported.
Authorities blamed “Communist
elements” for the incident, which
left the city’s 200.000 inhabitants
virtually without transportation.
The agency said irate students
overturned and smashed buses
after a protest meeting against a
1-cruzeiro fare boost.
Thirteen persons were treated for
bullet wounds and 30 for other
injuries.
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The first foreign salute to Am
erican sovereignty was fired in the
Dutch colony of St. Eustatius in
the West Indies in 1776.
The World
Today
By James Marlow
With the Supreme Court sticking
rigidly to the doctrine of “separate
but equal” laid down in the 19th
century, the NAACP felt it had
to move slowly in trying to get
segregation itself declared uncon
stitutional.
If it had made its pitch—in the
cases of the buses’, trains and
graduate schools—solely on the
grounds that the segregation in
volved violated the 14th Amend
ment then—
The court might have stuck to
the 1896 decision and thrown out
the cases on the grounds that seg
regation was not unconstitutional.
So inch by inch the fight was made
to get rid of segregation by argu
ing that Jim Crow on buses, trains
or graduate schools meant unequal
facilities.
Then a couple of years ago the
NAACP, together with some Ne
gro and white lawyers not connect
ed with it, took the big step:
It asked the court to rule that
segregaton of Negro children in
public schools—whether or not the
schools were as good as the white
children’s—was unconstitutional by
its very nature.
If the NAACP had lost on this
gamble its efforts to wipe out seg
regation in schools might have
been set back 10 to 20 years until
the mood of the country and the
membership of the court had
changed.
Yesterday’s decision meeting
the issue of segregation head on
and declaring it wrong— meant the
court had opened the door to one
suit after another to end segrega
tion in publicly financed places.
The NAACP has been anxious,
for instance, to wipe out segrega
tion on public beaches. But, be
cause the count had been follow
ing the separate but equal doctrine,
the NAACP had been arguing
that beaches for Negroes were not
the equal of beaches for whites.
Now the organization can shift
ite argument and plead that, in
view of yesterday’s decision, there
should be no segregated beaches,
not because they are unequal, but
because they are segregated.
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march.—Citizen Staff Photo* Karns.
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BEFORE—Crew members of the USS Darby show how they spent off-duty hours in cramped- AFTER!—By removing all sleeping quarters and lockers and installing transoms with individual
looking surroundings before a modified version of the Meredith-type messhall was installed. four-man tables, both messhall and recreational areas aboard the USS Darby are now vastly im-
Visitors to the ship on Armed Forces Day saw result of the Navy's efforts to improve ship-board proved. The entire color scheme of the modified Meredith-type messhall was designed by Ray
life for its men. mond Lowey, noted industrial designer.—Official U.S. Navy Photos.
Major Labor Negotiations Begin Today
By WLLAM A. SWARTWORTH
PTTSBURGH W*> U. S. Steel
Corp. and the CO United Steel
workers kick off the first major
labor negotiations of 1954 today
with the big union’s bargaining
power weakened by a six-month
old slump in the nation’s steel
industry.
The talks open the USW’s new
contract drive in the basic steel
industry, employing some 600,000
une 30.
An estimated 190,000 steelwork
ers are idled by layoffs, an addi
tional 257,000 are working only
part time and steel mill opera
tions hover around 70 per cent
of national rated capacity.
This leads observers to believe
the union will do everything pos
sible to avoid a strike.
The negotiations are of national
importance because:
1. U. S. Steel, the nation’s top
steel producer, generally sets the
pattern followed by other basic
producers in their talks with the
union.
2. The stepl industry is the back
bone of the American economy.
Steel prices do much to determine
Ihe over-all cost of living. It's pos
sible that steel producers may
pass any added contract costs on
to the manufacturers of autos,
refrigerators, stoves and the thou
sands of other articles made of
steel, causing higher price tags.
3. The USW is one of the pace
makers among labor groups and
other union leaders are sure to
watch closely what the USW man
ages to win for its members.
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Announced objectives of the USW
this year are a guaranteed annual
wage, a wage increase, improved
hospitalization and pension plans
and better terms on such contract
items as overtime, vacations and
holidays.
David J. McDonald, union pres
ident, hasn’t disclosed how much
of a pay increase the USW seeks
for members now earning between
2.14 and 2.24 an hour.
Last year the union won an
8-cent hourly wage raise. It is
expected to settle for less this
year.
Premature Quads Die *
CHICAGO (A—Quadruplets were
born within 29 minutes yesterday
to Mrs. Catherine Stenson, 32, but
all died during the day. The in
fants, two boys and two girls,
were BV4 months premature.
There are about 250,000 eleva
tors in the United States.
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Employes Want
Right To Smooch
TOKYO UR Employes of a
Tokyo pinball parlor are striking
for—among other things—the right
to pet on the job.
Eleven men and three women
complained also about workjng 13
hours daily for 9 a month, food
and lodging.
But their loudest howl was the
prohibition against petting. Two
couples were fired for displays of
affection.
The owner had ruled petting on
the job “detrimental to peace and
order in the shop.”
Although the conquering Span
iards found that the people of Peru
had large numbers of emeralds,
the source from which they obtain
ed them never has been discover
ed.
In 1950 three-quarters of the ba
bies bom in the United States had
fathers under 35 years old.
Tuesday, May 18, 1954
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