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Militia Guard Nine
Negro Youths At
White High School
Bv the Associated Press
National Guardsmen forced a
path through a yelling, punching
crowd of 400 to 500 angry men
i Thursday so nine Negro youths
could enter classes at the pre
viously all-white high school in
Sturgis, Ky.
It took the troops about tive
minutes of hand-to-hand struggle
to escort the Negroes into the
building and they then used
bayonets to clear the jeering mob
of farmers, miners and towns
people from the school area.
The militiamen were armed
with machine guns and carbines
but no shots were fired and no
one was seriously injured. Tanks
drawn up outside the school took
no action.
After the Negroes were in the
building, the soldiers seized five
members of the crowd and state
police took them away.
While troops were in action
supporting integration in this
town of 5,000 in the western
Kentucky coal fields and other
National Guardsmen passively
supported desegregation in Clin
ton, Tenn., mixed classes contin
ued quietly at dozens of towns in
Kentucky, Maryland and other
border states.
This first week of school saw
no efforts toward integration in
the “Deep South” states.
Gov. A. B. Chandler of Ken
tucky ordered four national guard
units into tense Sturgis Wednes
lay night only a few hours after
President Eisenhower in Wash
ington urged that integration
problems be solved without vio
lence.
Soviet Newspapers Play
Up Reports of Race Riots
In U.S. School Disorders
MOSCOW, Wt — Soviet news
papers played up reports of race
riots in Clinton, Term., under the
headline “Outrages of American
Racists.”
They quoted liberally from edi
torials in New York newspapers
and expressed full support for
one comparing the case to street
disorders of Nazi youths in the
early 1930’s.
Although the sun is about
93,000,000 miles away, it is close
to the earth in comparison with
other stars. The next nearest star
is nearly 300,000 times as far
away as the sun.
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