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Show ' INTERSTATE TRAVEL: BaU fr'Tegregation of whrcolod pSeoPlegon busses tra eling across state lines inter- deI vUh interstate commerce, the Suoreme court handed down a 6 to 1 rulta- against the practice per-Luld per-Luld V statute in 10 southern ''parsing on an appeal brought up by Irene Morgan, a Negro, who was fined for refusing to leave the white section of a bus in Norfolk Va., he high tribunal decreed that since Sere was no overriding federal law regulating segregation individual state statutes might impose handicaps handi-caps upon travel. States affected besides Virginia include North Carolina, Caro-lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Ala-bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Ar-kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. In the sole dissenting opinion, Justice Jus-tice Burton claimed that the majority major-ity ruling was not based upon violation of the 14th amendment of the Constitution or federal law but upon consideration that the nation's interest in interstate travel was of greater importance than Virginia s statute involving racial relations. Primary Regulation Alabama is the scene of a growing grow-ing tilt between white Democrats seeking a tightening of primary election qualifications and white Democrats opposing the proposal on grounds that it would only lead to extensive court action. In seeking to strengthen voting qualifications after the Supreme court had ruled that Negroes could not be barred from primaries because be-cause of race or color, the Democratic Demo-cratic state committee has thrown its support to a proposed constitutional constitu-tional amendment which would require re-quire registrants to be able to read and write and "understand and explain" ex-plain" any section of the federal constitution. County boards of registrants would De tne soie juages oi a prospective pros-pective voter's qualifications, subject sub-ject to court action. While in principle, prin-ciple, everybody would be equal before be-fore the law, Rep. E. C. Boswell, who sponsored the amendment, declared he felt approval of the act was necessary nec-essary to "white supremacy." Meanwhile, Richard T. Rives of Montgomery has been heading opposition op-position to the amendment on the grounds that approval would encourage encour-age Negroes to take court action to enforce their right to vote and breed bad feeling between the races. Oddities in the News . . . With a full-sized hornet's nest built tightly against the outside of the breakfast room window of their San Francisco, Calif., home, the Walter Ohms have a ringside view of the busy bees at work. Picture Pic-ture shows the Ohms' four-year-old daughter studying the nest. HOTEL FIRE: Heavy Toll In what Fire Commissioner M J Corrigan said was the worst hotel fire he had seen in his 40 years of service, over 50 people perished and several hundred were injured as flame and smoke swept the towering tower-ing and stately Hotel La Salle In Chicago's loop. Long one of the nation's famous hostelries, the La SaUe's decora-tive decora-tive lobby and mezzanine with their rich paneling and pictures of Indians In-dians and French explorers lay charred and gutted. The four sue v."w,"5 "J's aiso suffered extensive exten-sive destruction. In all, damage was estimated at $100 000 While the first six stories of the hotel suffered the greatest dam! age, thick clouds of smoke rolled clear up to the 18th floor, terrorizing terror-izing hundreds of guests. Stating hat panic was one of the prime factors m the huge death toll Com rmssioner Corrigan said that hun! dreds of guests probably opened thelr rooms at the same time cre ating a terrific suction which tended to spread the fire. uaea Thousands of spectators jammed nearby loop streets to watch fte firemen's feverish rescue attempt While many of the hotel guests trooped down fire escarp ? were carried down six storv t " ladders. Many victin to jump to safety while otters su, located attempting to work V l f way down smoke-filled corridor One-hall block away p"ldo-massive p"ldo-massive city hall b2le 'C8g0 S verted into a morgue COn' ATOM TEST: Collections of seed, molds m . and animal disease mat iais insects wm be to exoinri nuclei when the atomic l ?5 wmbemadeinthe Included in department o, ' culture shipments arT 10 L"" cereal seed, 9 forage crops ,2 tables, 2 flowers L , ' 2 veSe- scientists a Tare L0"' The smut spores and 1 1 of infected with a virus P beans ried in the seed d'Sease car- |