BUS DESEGREGATION ORDER SERVED HERE; NEGROES VOTE TO CALL OFF BOYCOTT TODAY

Montgomery Negroes joyous at arrival here yesterday of a Supreme Court mandate ending segregation on city buses, voted last night to end their 12-month bus boycott this morning.

City and state officials gave no indication that any action would be taken to circumvent the integration of the buses.

Within recent weeks both the city commission and Public Service Commission President Jack Owen have intimated that "legal" means to get around the integration of buses would be implemented if the Supreme Court ruled segregation unlawful.

BOWED TO RULING

Acquiescence has been the keynote, however in afternoon developments following receipt of the Supreme Court order here yesterday.

Judge Walter B. Jones, though condemning the integration order, bowed to the ruling and dissolved a Circuit Court injunction in which he had banned the Montgomery City Lines from enforcing integration.

PSC's Jack Owen promptly issued telegrams to all bus companies over the state other than the local one to emphasize that they must continue to enforce segregation.

There was no immediate response from the city commission. Mayor W. A. Gayle and Police Commissioner Clyde Sellers were out of the city when U. S. Marshal began serving the writs of injunction.

The commission issued a statement earlier in the week, recognizing the Supreme Court ruling but promising a means of getting around it.

Rev. M. L. King Jr., Negro leader of the boycott, brought some 1,200 applauding and happy Negroes to their feet with his call for a standing vote to return to the buses "on a non-segregated basis."

But King, who started the boycott in the same Holt Street Baptist Church one year ago, insisted that the return be one of absolute non-violence.

"If you can't take it, keep walking," King exhorted the group, the first of two to hear his message last night.

"No one goes on that bus tomorrow alone," King told the frequently cheering crowd. "Every Negro bears on his shoulders the weight of responsibility of the 50,000 Negroes in Montgomery.

"Violence must not come from any of us," he continued. "For if we become victimized with violent intents, we will have walked in vain."

A second group of about 1,000 added their accord to the return to the buses a few moments later the First Baptist Church at Ripley street and Columbus avenue.

The mandate from the Supreme Court actually a notice stating only that an appeal for a rehearing had been denied, was received here by Federal court Clerk R. C. Dobson about 10 a.m.

Dobson then issued writs of the original injunction impose here last June by Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. and the marshal's office took over to serve them on the parties named.

The injunction was restrained while the appeals were decided by the Supreme Court.

Judge Johnson and Judge Richard T. Rives paved the way for the injunction by voting - as members of a three-man panel of federal judges - that the city and state bus segregation laws were unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court upheld that decision and when a rehearing was asked, declined to consider the decision again.

The injunction writs, notified the City Commission, Police Service Commission, Police Chief G. J. Ruppenthal and the bus company "you and each of you, your successors in office, assigns, agents, servants, employes and persons acting in behalf be and you are hereby permanently enjoined and restrained from enforcing (city and state bus segregation laws) in the City of Montgomery."

REPORT TO POLICEMEN

Police Chief Ruppenthal read the injunction writ to all Montgomery policemen at each change of shifts.

Ruppenthal said he has issued no specific orders to his men because "they know how to police" and they know what the court decision means.

"We have our regular number of shifts on duty for tonight and we expect no trouble whatever," he said.

"A policeman is on duty 24 hours a day but we do not expect to call any extra men to duty tonight "Policemen can only step in after arguments have started or after complaints have been made by some citizen," he added.

Concerning the Montgomery Improvement Association's request for added protection in what they considered "danger zones," Ruppenthal said:

"We will furnish only our regular protection. We have a limited number of men and cannot assign them to special detail. We must have men to patrol the streets."

Atty. Gen. John Patterson said "I don't care to comment on the matter until I've had an opportunity to study the writ issued by the clerk of the Federal Court.

"We have been studying the problem here in this office and have been conferring at length with Jack Owen, president of the Alabama Public Service Commission, about the course of action that we should take," he said.

Gov. James Folsom was not available to discuss the writ. His executive secretary, Ralph Hammond, said "The governor has not commented on the bus boycott in the past and he won't comment today."

Jack Owen, PSC president, pledged his support to the Montgomery City Commission "In any manner that I can be of assistance."

Owen sent the following telegram to all state bus companies.

"You are hereby reminded and notified that the writ of injunction issued by the clerk of the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama on this date does not purport to enjoin and restrain this commission from enforcing the state law requiring segregation of races except to the extent that such sate law may apply to transportation by bus in the City of Montgomery, Ala. Segregation on all other public transportation companies operating in Alabama is to be continued as in the past."