‘ 6-B—THE DETROIT NEaVS-—Sunday, March Profiles Bus Seat Heroine Calls of Slaying Ala. March ‘Impressive’ By JAMES L. KERWIN ditional segregation—on her re­ Suspects Slight and soft spoken, Mrs. turn yesterday from participat­ BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March ing in the civil rights march 27.—(AP)—Here are thumbnail Rosa Parks hardly looks or on Montgomery, the state capi­ acts like a pioneer. tal. sketches of the four men the Mr. and Mrs. F.BI has arrested in the slaying But it was her refusal in 1955 She covered the last six miles MRS. ROSA PARKS to give up her seat in a bus ofoi theme protest aemonstrationdemonstration. of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo: Tilt! that sparked the massive civil marching in the first rank with her mother, Mrs. Leona McCau­ Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr. is 21, CAPE TOW? Dr. Martin Luther King and ley, to Detroit where a brother, lives in suburban Fairfield. Says March 27.—(AP rights revolt in Alabama- other-civil rights leaders. Sylvester, worked in an auto Now a Detroiter, Mrs. Parks' factory. he is single and works at home ister Balthazar REFUSAL RECALLED as self - employed automobile recalled her stubborness — “I wasn’t frightened out,” vowed to banisl which led to the first successful Mrs. Parks, 52, a seamstress, she emphasized. “My *mother mechanic. Weighs about 170, is game in South challenge of Alabama’s tra- was sitting in the first seat of wanted my brother and I to about 5-foot-6. Wore dark brown gambling prohil the colored section of a bus be together.” shirt, dark trousers and was ing in Parliame in Montgomery on a cool De­ To stop hecklers, she keeps coatless at arraignment. are “evil” and her telephone number unlisted. anticipated cc cember day in 1955 when a U.S. Dist. Atty. Macy Taylor cafe owners. driver ordered her to get up She now works in the office said Wilkins was convicted in to make room for a white pas- of freshman Rep. John Conyers, Federal Court in Birmingham Detroit Democrat from the 1st l senger standing in the aisle, Congressional District. last November for possession of i She refused.. Although she has been back an unregistered shotgun, given , “I knew someone had to take to Alabama several times, this a suspended sentence of one the first step and I made up week’s march was the first year and a day and placed on demonstration she had taken probation for two years. Fair- my mind just not to move,” field police said Wilkins was SPECIAL TRAIN she’ recalled. part in. She went there aboard a chartered plane along with convicted May 5, 1960, on APRIL 30 The driver called a police­ 42 UAW members. charges of petty larceny and de­ man and Mrs. Parks was ar­ stroying property, fined $30 and Coach Pullman rested for violating the state’s WALLACE ‘PATHETIC’ given six-month suspended sen­ $54'5 . $10975 segreagation law. In court, she “It was a most impressive tence. He’s still in jail. was fined $14. and orderly demonstration,” Gary Tommy Rowe Jr. is 34, TICKET INCLUDES: Negroes in Montgomery im­ • TRAIN RESERVATION Mrs. Parks said. “Gov. Wallace lives in Birmingham. Says he is • MEALS ENROUTE mediately called for a boycott divorced, unemployed and the • TRANSFERS proved himself a pathetic char­ • RESERVE SEAT AT of the buses. The boycott, which father of four children. Says he CHURCHILL DOWNS lasted for more than a year, acter by refusing to see us.” is a native of Savannah, Ga. was so successful it nearly When she arrived in Mont­ Has red hair and is 5-foot-8. He bankrupted the bus system. gomery, colored airport work­ wore neat dark-grey suit with In 1957, federal courts ruled thin stripes and white shirt. At KIRBY bus segregation unconstitu­ ers immediately recognized here one time operated Birmingham TrULTEL, S-En^TJCjEu tional. and called out, “There’s Mrs. bar. Free on $50,000 bond. 126 W. Fort Dime Bldg. OBJECT OF HARASSMENT Parks.” Eugene Thomas, 42, employed Detroit 26 By then, Mrs- Parks, who had Mrs. Parks said the death by Fairfield Steel Works of U.S. Since 1919 been subjected to abuse and of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit Steel Corp., in Fairfield. Mar­ k WO 3-3965 harassment, had moved with volunteer killed Thursday night ried and the father of three chil­ near Selma, saddened her. dren. A native of Bessemer, 15 “The bigots know they can’t miles west of Birmingham. Is 3 frighten us Negroes, and her 5-foot-10 and weighs about 180. " 1WTU7A0I1 iwotdhi wiß fO nf MICH. death was an attempt to intimi­ Wore black shirt with gray date the white people trying sweater and black trousers. to help us. But I’m sure it Free on $50,000 bond. AT will backfire,” she saM. ' William Orville Eaton, 41, re­ A dinner tribute will be held retired steel worker who lives in for Mrs. Parks April 3 at Cobo Bessemer. Says he retired from VAI Hall. the Tennessee Coal and Iron Division of U.S. Steel in Fair- field on disability. He is mar­ Johnson Mail ried, the father of five children. He is about 5-foot-7 and is bald Sets Record except for fringes of grey hair. Wore brown khaki pants, white < WASHINGTON, March 27. shirt and brown jacket. Free on —(AP)—President Johnson $50,000 bond. < said yesterday he has re­ ceived more mail in a sin­ gle week than John F. Ken­ New Windsor U. A nedy or Dwight D. Eisen­ Building to Open hower did in any week of IN S their terms. Canada’s governor - general, Mr. Johnson told report­ Maj. Gen. George P. Vanier, SPECIA' ers he received 141,179 will officially open the new ad­ One of pieces of mail in a seven- ministration and classroom Rayon day period — the high for building at the University of few w.c his administration. He said Windsor on Wednesday the are . . Mr. Kennedy’s high was 87,- school has announced. texture 305, and Gen. Eisenhower’s The $2.6 million building was 82,065. completed in January and occu­ However, Mr. Johnson pied early this month by said Harry S. Truman ap­ administrative personnel. In ad­ pears to hold the record of dition to a six-story administra­ 292,135 pieces of correspon­ tion tower, there is an academic dence in a single week. Mr. wing of offices and classrooms. Johnson said 85 percent of An additional classroom wing the volume represented will be added as part of the pleas, many of them written school’s current $23 million on post cards, that Mr. Tru­ building program. man veto the Taft-Hartley Vanier, Canada’s head of labor relations bill, now state as Queen Elizabeth’s per­ law. sonal representative, was last at the school in 1961 when he opened its student center.