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92 .. DL 43-T39 0!? latter three, one appeared at request of NAACP member, no officer involved; two alleged officers came to their residences 9/29/56 saying they had subpoenas and that plaintiffs must appear or be arrested. Dallas press, 9/30/56, indicates five of six Negroes questioned by Court of Inquiry, denied authorizing filing of Federal suit in their names or names of their children. Some discrepancies reported by press as to statements of witnesses compared to information appearing in statements furnished by MARSHALL. USA, NDT, states Of view that no Civil Rights violation indicated on basis of available information. .. C _ DETAILS: 1976/ At Dallas, Texas: THURDOOD MARSHALL, in accordance with Burea tions Special ,_na Assoc1ation_for the MARSHALL stated that he has been in the Dallas area for t past several days in connection with the suit of Texas Attorney General JOHN BEN SHEPPARD to obtain a permanent inJunction to prohibit NAACP from operating in the State of Texas. He said that on Saturday, September 29, 1956, he and other NAAOB attorneys were in Tyler, Texas, conferring with Attorney General SHEPPARD relative to an amicable settlement of the suit. Upon their return to Dallas on the night of September 29, 1956, MARSHALL, other NAACP attorneys and private Negro attorneys, received telephone calls from certain persona who are plaintiffs in the Federal integration suit affecting Dallas Public Schools which is to be heard before Federal Judge ATWELL, Dallas, on October 1, 1955. These plaintiffs informed that they had on the same date been required to appear before a Court of Inquiry in the office of Justice of the Peace H, E. 'BILL" ICHBURG, Dallas. - . -2- 92