European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse We in Obama the government s chief advocate he it dead politically. Be talked of for governor or . Senator Neil there u a Chance 1 could make a Mew bowing he talk. And laughed. Iri highly entertaining but b Verlou enough to have begun a Olet Survey to feel out Send Lent toward the letter Are getting More favourable said. A Long tactile in another office Rai piled with letters. Another Ini Ghl to Flowers thinking Poul Bly was Given Rhen he was asked if the growing negro vote in Alabama would hurl a candidate. No 1 Don t believe the negro Vole Prill automatically polarize the White i Sta Agal nit it he Laid. The facial Issue he Ald. Will be the big. Inder lying. Red hot thing in the nest Downor i Raco but i be got an idea coir a to be a closer Vole than la a if Ukwen does run for governor hell Lave i Lent out his them la a Alabama 1 changing. And he won t be running against Wallace. Because the state ran Tutu ton limits the governor to on term. Flowers will also have to run a different kind of Campaign Thun he has in the past. During hit state Senar career. Flower was known As a a Alhar Happy go Lucky fellow who was in great demand at a storyteller. He had a huge Reper Toire of negro dialect Florien he has quit telling those stories. Well that was More or less Folk lore he amid. "1 never did that with any Flowers said he has changed become More serious because of the responsibility of he office. When he Wai running for attorney Gen eral he recalled his old Friend Jim Folsom. The former governor asked you going to laugh your Wuy into officer i told him. This is a race that nobody pays any attention to and it is just a popularity contest Flowers Aid. Ills Outlook is much More serious now. He opposes racial i cusses. On either Lide. There can be no Luw to which obedience u optional he Siml in a to bile speech last september. Demonstrations Flowers in s. Have Long since passed any awful purpose i won t be labor the Point that they might have jarred people. Hut this just completely cuts the legs out from under the moderate or the Man in my position. That s when you in Kin to won Der Why the Hill should i i i chopped up on both sides Flowers i up. To Gether with the led by or. Martin King or. A rare enl extremist views. They up d on Rich 1wh. Flowers sharply critiqued a dal agitators in the a inning him Strug Glennd threatened to seek injunctions against demonstrations. He filed suit in Federal court contending that the slate could not be forced to desegregate Flowers said he would defend the governor it Wallace was a turd unjustly. And last june Flowers reported that his investigation of charges of racketeering in the Wallace administration s Highway contracts showed that the . Bureau of Public roads erred in in i widespread talk in Alabama that Flowers u jockeying for a Federal appointment probably a judgeship. This he denies. I am not interested in a Federal he says. Ijes Rte the insulting Telephone culls and threats despite the possibility of no political future Flowers says he has no intention of quilting the fight. My rewards Are he said. I be got an 83 year old Mother and she a she s just As proud of me As she can be. My cruet Irald athletic son is or mid of me the son Klch mond or. Is a High school track Star who signed a scholar ship at the University of Tennessee this Are two other children. Jeffer son. 13. And Mary 10 my. Flowers said the harassment on the Telephone had been quite bad at times hut it is the Only stand he could Lake Wilh the Posi Tion he holds she said. He has a people Don t cont Lre to do by Joseph e. Mohbat a scoff writer we aunt his lofty and dignified of fice like u pair of old slippers Thurk oud Marshall leans against the polished wooden podium and chats with the Olno justices of the supreme court. In a forum where some men Pale and stammer the greying barrel chested Man Wilh the trim moustache is about As keyed up As if he were pleading the merits of spinach before his two Young he seems at Home this Bear of a Man who pleaded the negroes Case in the famous i a school desegregation Case. It s with Good reason. Marshall at 57 the 13rd solicitor general of the ., Hai walked this Road Many times since the iwo. As a private lawyer be argued before us supreme court More than most solicitors general do in their entire Termi of office. Ills average Wai better than .we1 successes in n arguments. Not bad tar the grandson of a Maryland slave who bad been plucked from the Congo by a big game Hunter. Today Marshall holds Down one of the most imposing offices the . Hai to offer and one of the loftiest Ever attained by a negro. As solicitor general he u the government s chief advocate before the Giixh court the chief referee Over what cases shall be taken before the court and the third ranking official of the deportment of Justice. He cot the Job last summer when president Johnson asked him to leave the lifetime tenure of the . Court of appeals and take a pay Cut to 2k.500lo replace Archibald Cut. Who had left the solicitor s office to return to his Harvard Law school professor ship. "1 was reluctant at Marshall recalls. But when the president Wai through with me. I was ashamed i had t volunteered. But if marshal is awed by his new Roll or by the persistent speculation that he will be the supreme court s first near member he does t show it before the court he ii utterly relaxed. Although he u an Augurt figure to feet i. Ill Pound draped to us traditional morning Coal it Kjad trousers and Veit of nil office ail manner is More reminiscent of some of television stand up Colci. One recent appearance his first major argument for the government was on a educate and weighty it tue. Whether act of racial Terro Buu can be tried Ai Federal Crimea on the ground they deprive negroes of Marshall s weapons were a quiet taut thoroughly reasoned argument Deadpan expression and a kind of Legal wit that for the supreme court anyway brought Down the Home. People Don t conspire to do Good he insisted. I think one of the most impressive things about this Man says one close associate a thai he u not in the least self conscious about the subject of race or negroes. After you have first met judge Marshall you re Apt to forget forever what color he la. He la utterly unconcerned about the fact that he s Brown and you re jul ails All s Early life Wai Pleura no and secure. He says he changed his name legally from Thoroughgood. The name a Grandfather born nameless those for himself ills boyhood was spent in Baltimore till father William Canfield Marshall Wai a writer and one ume Steward at the Wank Gibson Island club in Chesapeake Bay mar Hall s Mother a schoolteacher pawned her engagement and wedding rings to Send him to Howard University school after his graduation from in Coin University in Pennsylvania my father 1 Marshall recalls never told me to become a lawyer. Hut he turned me into one by leaching me to argue to prove every statement i made and by challenging my logic on every Point Man Hall had begun College hoping to become a dentist he changed direction and was graduated at the top of How Ard s my Law clan after which he be Gan private Law practice in Baltimore. Trav Eung around Maryland to take on civil right Cam be forced the univer sity of Maryland to accept Iii firs negro student and the state u pay Negre teachers us lame salaries As . E soon caught in with the National association for the advancement of cat ored people and to 1kh became 111 chief Legal s Hois. Attorney general Nicholas kale Baeb is not Given u extravagant Public Praise of others but be i unstinting in his admiration of his solicitor general. He is one of the greatest american alive today. It s no exaggeration to say that a Good measure of the civil rights Progress we be made u built on what this fellow has done Over the Marshall s first wife of ii years. Vivian Urey Marshall died of cancer in ims. A year later he married Cecilia sural. A tiny hawaiian of filipino de scent lie Calls her club or shorty and they live in a new town House in Washington s Southwest Section. Their sans. Thurgood or. I. And John William 7. Attend the private Georgetown Day a 1�64 the Stais and St mks Page it
