Northwest Arkansas Times from Fayetteville, Arkansas • Page 1

THE PUBLIC INTEREST IS THl FIRST CONCERN Of THIS NEWSPAPEI TEtmes Associated Press Leased Wire AP, King and NBA Features Local FnyeEtevUIe and i i i Pa clomiy. Ihundershrtwers, mode tn henry tonight tomorr silently cooler tomorrow; traci a i Temperature. 1 High 94; 80; low 72. Sunrise jur VOLUME 87, NUMBER 279 FAYETTEVIUE, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Jones Says Reds Not Welcome On U.A, Faculty But There Will Be No "Witch He Declares The following statement of policy was issued yesterday at a called press conference in his office by President Lewis W. Jones of the University.

A copy was sent to Rep, John S. Woods of Georgia, chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee, who had requested a list of textbooks used by the University. President Jones sent the list, and included this statement. Congressman John S. Woods of Georgia, chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has called upon approximately 70 Institutions of learning-, which he selected at random and which includes the University of Arkansas, to submit to his committee lists of textbooks used In social science courses in the various educational institutions.

This action by Congressman Woods has resulted in bitter controversy, not only among the schools and the public but also among the members of the House Committee itself. It seems appropriate for the University of Arkansas to make known, in explicit manner, ils own attitudes in regard to the action of Congressman Woods, since this institution is one of those asked to submit to the House Committee a list of textbooks. The University of Arkansas is public institution, dedicated to the high ideal of education of young men and women and to service of all the people of this state. It nothing to hide; its record is an open book which all may read. It will gladly comply with any reasonable request to supply the public with Information pertaining to the operation or the aims of this institution.

To Moke Awards To Winners At Horse Show In accordance with the request of Congressman Woods, the University of Arkansas is i i the House Committee on Un- Arnerican Activities a complete list of textbooks used in all courses taught in the various divisions of the main University at Fayetteville during the spring semester of the 1948-49 school year. In doing this, the University of Arkansas has accepted fit face.value the signed statement of Congressman Wood that "the Committee does not desire to interfere in any manner with academic freedom, nor does it intend to censor textbooks." In event that Congressman Woods, as an individual official of the United Slates Government, or the House Committee, on Un- American Activities uses the information which this institution has supplied as a springboard in any attempt to interfere with freedom of thought or freedom of discussion, or to censor textbooks used in this or any other institution of learning, the University of Arkansas will resist such encroachment upon the high ideal academic freedom with every resource at its command. The prized freedoms of oOr people, which were bought and have been maintained at such terrific price, are not to be surrendered to the dictates of governmental agencies, committees, bureaus, or pressure groups of any hue of policital or economic philosophy. Federal dictation of educational policies within the states is to be resisted without -jroipromise. Plant Improvements A University Planned I Includes Sum The University of Arkansas has no sympathy for or a i in the Communistic form of government.

It will not tolerate communists on its faculties, for communists are not free to seek the truth. It will not permit advocacy of Commun- is for America in Its courses of instruction. Neither does the University df Arkansas have atiy sympathy for nor faith in political and economic pressure groups with special axes to grind at the expense of others. It no sympathy for or faith in the Hitlers and Mussolinix, big or little, either from foreign lands or from within our own America, who would impose their will upon others. The University of Arkansas will fight encroachment upon others.

The University of Arkansas will fight encroachment upon academic freedom from all these quarters with the same vigor that it will fight encroachment upon academic freedo from commun- Jst sources. Nonetheless, the University of Arkansas--along with every other free educational institution of America--has a duty to perform. has taught, and it continue to teach, in unbiased manner the bayic principles of the political, economic, and social philosophies of all governments and peoples CONTINUED O.V PACE TWO Baiesville City Policeman Held After Shooting Operator Of Filling Station Slain As Wife Looks On Batesville, 23-WVA Batesville city policeman, Jess Long, was held in an undisclosed jail today under a charge of first degree murder. He is accused of the fatal shooting of Tom Williamson, 27, filling station operator, here early yesterday. Alvis Ball of Batesville testified at a coroner's inquest that Long and another policeman stopped automobiles he and Williamson occupied, that he was struck with a blackjack and stunned but revived in time to see Long shoot Williamson twice and attempt to shoot him a third time.

Mrs. Ball and Mrs. Williamson, the latter an expectant mother, were present. Mrs. Ball gave testimony similar to that of her husband.

The couples were returning home from a barbecue. Mayor Harney Chancy said the officers stopped the men on the belief that they were intoxicated. Long and the other policeman, Ernest Brookson, did not testify at the inquest. Funeral for Williamson was planned for this afternoon. Dr.

Ivey Of Wichita To VA Hospital Here Dr. Hubert T. Ivey has been i transferred to the Veterans Hospital here from the VA hospital at Wichita, as clinical director. He succeeds Dr. Grady O.

Hayes, who will leave tomorrow for Bay Pines, where he has been 'transferred as clinical director. Dr. Ivey has been with the Veterans Administration about 15 years. He and his wife and daughter, Mary Helen, will live on the Veterans Hospital reservation. Typhoon Kills 143 Tokyo, June po- lice today set the oflice death toll in Tuesday's devastating typhoon in Southern Japan at 143 persons Award winners at the Fayetteville Horse Show this weekend will receive their honors fro the group of pretty misses shown in the picture above, taken yesterday by Photographer Ed Puska.

Seated, left to right, Phoebe Ann Johnson, Susie Wade, Mary Anne Maddox, Gretchen Stevenson, Patsy Thompson. Standing, Anne Whitfield, Nancy Lane, Carolyn Butler, Susannah Handy, Lorita Lashley. Prairie Grove To Provide Home For Former Slave Missouri Senate Would Put End To Blue Laws Jefferson City, June 23- (XP)-The Missouri Senate decided to legalize what many Missourians do right along without thinking anything of The Senate would let youths under 18 smoke cigarettes. It also would make it legal for people to play cards, or take part in horse racing and cock fighting on Sunday. It even decided deformed persons or animals like those in sideshows and carnivals can he exhibited without violating Missouri statutes.

The Senate advanced three bills yesterday which would wipe off the books old, unforced blue, laws --laws telling people what they can't do. Opposes Loans To Weak Firms a i Wilson, the only Negro residing in Prairie Grove, is going to have a new home. lie now lives In a tiny trailer which is too small for comfort. Today a group of Prairie Grove business men began pooling their money to fix up a house for him. Born a slave at Prairie Grove, he has lived there all his life.

Before being freed he belonged to two brothers, A. Wilson and J. Wilson, both of whom are now dead. He was a little boy during the Battle of Prairie Grove, and remembers it vaguely. His age is somewhat uncertain, but he thinks he is 91.

He has no relatives. As long as he was able to, he did hard tabor and did odd jobs around Prairie Grove. Now that he can no longer work, his only income is an old age pension. He likes to spend his time visiting around town. Life Sentence In Slaying Of State Trooper Veteran Is Found Guilty On Charge Of Murder Yellviiie, June Kenneth D.

Speegle, 24, veteran of Pacific combat, was under a sentence of i imprisonment today for the fat.il shooting September of State Trooper S. V. Pavatt. A jury Inst night found him guilty of first degree murder and fixed his purii.shment nt life. It could have said death in the electric chair.

The trial started Monday. Defense aiiorneys gave no immediate indication whether they would appeal, Nor did Prosecutor Gene Moore say whether he would bring Speegle tn i a on a companion charge that he shot to death Zue E. Crook, retired railroad man a few days before he i killed Pavatt. Speegle was A.O.W.L. from the A at the time, and his attor- a building just east of the Prairie I neys, pleading he was innocent because of insanity, declared "he was lighting the war all over Oscar Bain, man and his a retired business i gave Charlie 40 Feared Dead In Dutch Plane Crash Grove park, so he would be handy to town.

Herschel W. Clark, a jeweler, took it upon himself to see that the building was made habitable. For about a month he has been a i to i business men about reroofing the 16 by 30 foot structure, sealing it inside, fixing the flue and putting in windows. This morning the Rev. G.

Bidwell and Sam i started contacting business men to collect money for the project. I Carpenters were to start roofing When work Bfiri, I a engincti IvLM (Uoyal Dutch Airlines) plane fell into the sea off this Southeastern Italian port today, killing between 3Q and. 40 persons. Americans, Dutch and Turks were said to have been abroad. A a there were no survivors.

A Biri port i i a said 24 bodies had boon recovered, many badly burned. These included 16 men, five WDnicn and three children, he Recovery of other bodies believed trapped in the wreckage was hindered by choppy seas. Italian Navy divers and patrol craft were a i i in the recovery operations. The plane crashed in bright, clenr weather. A light northeast i was blowing.

Some accounts said the transport went clown in flames from a height of about 15,000 feet. KI.M officials In Rome indicated the plane may have been off its course and possibly was ing for an emergency landing at an airport near Bart. The plane was en from Ilatavia, Java, to Amsterdam. New Oberman Building Planned Al Harrison Harrison, June An effort to finance a new $100,000 two story building to house an expanded Oberman garment factory here, i be a by the I i a Corporation of the Harrison Chamber of Commerce, Shares will be sold. With the addition of the a building to the present one now in operation, Oberman will employ 400 persons here.

Execution Date Postponed While Chair Is Moved For Widening Two Streets Remodeling Of Old Main On Schedule Of Improvements The University is prepared 1 spend 5330,000 during ti Little Hock. next fiscM year for physical plat cution of a Rorle for a i i on the Fayettevill and i death his cstrang- i campus. Plans are under considers ed wife and her two children h.is tion for improvements on tb been postponed because the caninus ami at the University fan i chnir won't be ready on which, if a i out, would enta original date. The chair is being exnundlturo of an additional $50, moved to a new execution cham- 000. ber at Tucker prison a University President Lewis Web Henry Woods, Governor Me- i Jones announced these figure Math's executive secretary, said yesterday the electrocution would be deferred from 1 to Hnrie was convicted in Jefferson Circuit Court.

The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence. Portable "Lung To Liitle Rock yesterday, He released a list the physical Improvement proj ccts to be undertaken during thi fbcal year 1949-50. Principal item on the list remodeling of the school's Old Main, which i cost $130,000 Other a items include the ret modeling of Hill Hall, at present a men's dormitory, for journal- Ism buildins; widening of Maple itid Arkansas avenues which border the campus; Installation ot storm sewers couth of Razorback Stadium; construction of intramural playfields south of the stadium; and an addition to the Student Union building to house an iversity bookstore. A portable fron lung owned by volunteer members of the Fire Department, was delivered to University Hospital In Little nock last night. It will be nut I use in the hospital's i a i paralysis ward --crowded to capacity by the current polio epidemic.

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, A a a Division, is making an to locate The new structure will provide ever available respirator In Arkansas and have as many as possible sent to University Hospital. With every respirator at the hos- i a in use, officials fear that new patients may i arriving daily. Only certain cases require the use of an iron The MuHikin-Soulhwest Company of Dallas, Texas, yesterday shipped a stand-by respirator to the Fire Department here for possible emergency use until the de- 40,000 square feet of floor space, and i be leased to the Oberman firm for 10 years at rent of $7,500 per year, with the Industrial Corporation to hold title to the building. Aluminum Workers To Take Sfrike Vole Liitle Rock, June strike vote among some 1,500 to 1,600 aluminum workers in Arkansas is planned soon. The men are members of the United Steel Workers of America (CIO) and employes of the Reynolds Metal Company.

James Dickersrm, union director for Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma, said negotiations, looking toward wage Increases, pension plan and other Items, had broken again" while roaming through this nnd a VQte wouW be a within three days. Ozarks section. Defense witnesses said he was queer" and "abnormal." Physi- partment's lung is returned from Little Rock. The Red Cross i pay costs involved in bringing the spare i here and sending the unit to Little Rock. Employes at the cians called by the state said a at Jones Fulbright Heard On RFC Policy Washington, June 23-, Reconstruction Finance Corpora- he bu at noon is completed, the busmesi lion shouldn't make a policy in plan to a i aluminum i a was sane.

Speegle, bemedalcd in a Creek and the i es at a i soldier's uniform with sergeant's would be affected. chevrons, didn't testify. I vat was shot as he approached Crook's mountain cabin last September 23. Crook's body i was found later in a shallow grave nearby. 1 The slate introduced a state- I men't in which Speegle purporl- cdly admitted both slayings.

J. Lemmort Reported Drowned In Lake good times "of helping firm when its workers em failing! can get! in i i its A i i i gtri mptoyment elsewhere," Senator i iteeplejaCK i a r'ulbright of Arkansas said yes- terday. He declared it "seems a Freed By i a solutely wrong" for the RFC to I 38 Injured When Airliner Crash-Lands ng make loans for such firms, Fulbright expressed his views at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, at which he presided. The hearing was called in connection with a bill to forbid an RFC em- ploye from a i a job with any company to which he may have Hamilton, Ohio, June Henry Wilson, 45, steeplejack, dangled or three hours yesterday at the top of a 100-foot smokestack. Then a fireman succeeded in a i the rope that was IV holding his boa Is wain's chair.

had'part in a i a loan! HOVA Wilson was up there for two hours ever, it never got around to thai I before he could a a anyone's subject. attention. Memphis, 23-OPj-A pilot's skill and split-second judg- mcnl were credited today by the American Airlines with i i I 43 persons alive through a crash landing followed by fire. i i i of those aboard the two-engine Convair were i i when the a i i two minutes fiftcr taking off from i i a Airport here- yesterday, G. J.

I.ernmon, former instructor in psychology, was drowned in Lake i i a this week, according to a telegram sent by his brother to Miss Susie Dusek of Fayetteville. Lernmon was living with his brother in Canlon, Ohio, i He was on the university faculty from September, 1946, to June, Bishops In Romania Reported Tortured Vatican City, June Vatican source said today two leading bishops of the outlawed Uniate Church in Romania have been nut to Commun- ist officials in an effort to break their allegiance to Pope Pius XII. I The Uniate Church is a i manian branch of. the Roman! Catholic faith. It was dissolved i by the Romanian last December.

Springdale Tour To Be Here Tomorrow The Springdale jodco lour, advertising the Rodeo of the Ozaj ks, will be in Fayettcville tomorrow morning. The caravan of cars is scheduled to arrive on the Square at 10:15 m. complete with a a and olher a i Washington Groups To Probe Flogging Incidents In South Spokesmen for American Airlinc-s a (j a Hatch of Mem- Washington, June 23-fP)-The Justice Department teamed up with Congress today to investigate incidents of flogging in Alabama by hooded gangs. Representative Seller (D-NYJ, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said an attorney from the department's civil rights section was being assigned to help the committee in the inquiry. CeMer set off what he said would be a full-fledged investigation ol the floggings by directing a civil rights subcommittee yesterday to determine the extent to which federal civil rights laws have been violated, The chairman also disclosed the Department of Justice was working independently on the case.

Ccller said his group will move carefully to avoid jeopardiEing the department's work. Celler indicated the congressional inquiry might be extended to states other than Alabama if furnished leads. As plans for the congressional Investigation were made, the chairman of a veterans 1 committee in i i a said he had asked that it be called off. Carl i K. Wells, head of an Organized I Veterans' Committee A a i i Crime and Violence told a Birmingham mass meeting last night he had sent telegrams to Celler and Representative Hobbs (D-Alaj.

Wells said he told the congressmen tbe investigation "not serve, any useful purpose at the present time, but would agitate the issue of civil rights in Alabama. 11 pt. Ed Hatch of Memphis for the crMl in field a it across a highway and into a tree. Poultry Market The poultry market today reported by the i i ol Arkansas Bureau the Dairy and News Service of the U-S Depart mont of A i North Arkan-sns a weak; undertone unsettled; price paid f.o.b. a 25 to '28, niostly 25; of birds 2 i Ibs.

Republicans To Oppose Even Trial Run" Of Farm Program a i June 2, Kill the 1048 Aiken law. group of Republicans girded today which Is scheduled to ret up next for a fuiht against even a "trial year a flexible GO to GO per cent for the a adminlslra- of parity price support program lion's new a program. The for agriculture. Parity is a price level set arbitrarily some years ago as a standard considered fair to both farmers and consumers. 3- Create a nev; i a battle may echo in next year's congressional a a i i in farm Work on Old Main wil proceed as quickly, ss possible, President Jones said.

Included in the modernization of the structure, completed in 1875, nre a change In the design of the stairways in the building installation of an elevator, and the construction of three fireproof walls leading from the basement to Ihe roof i will seal off the stairways from the rest of the building. University officials feel that the main danger scot foi fire In the building is the stairwells. To preclude the spread of fire from one floor to another through the stairwells, the fireproof walls will btt built to separate them completely from the remainder ot the building. Automatic chemical sprinkler systems will be installed on the fourth floor ant! in the attic of the building, and automatic water sprinkler systems will be placed on the a i i floors. President Jones said.

Several other improvements and changes such as the replacement of damaged piaster, will be made In the building. The conversion of JHill Hall from a men's residence hall Into journalism i i will cost $1,500. The University printing plant student publications will be installed on the first floor of the building; of the journalism department faculty and classrooms will be on the second floor; and r.Hices of the Arkansas Traveler, the student newspaper, the Razorback the student yearbook, and other campus publications will 011 the third floor. Installation of the storm eewers south of Razorback Stadium will CONTINUED O.V PACE TWO Contest Winner To Be Named "Miss Arkansas" Little Rock, June 23-WP)-Mlss Arkansas of 19-J9 will be crowned about 10 o'clock tonight. The second a of the preliminary round to determine Arkansas' entry in the Miss America contest was to be reeled off this afternoon at the coliseum of the Livestock Showgrounds, The Held was to be narrowed to 10 following judges' decisions this afternoon.

The 10 girls parade before the in bathing attire and (ennuis and present talent numbers in the tonight Jurlgcs i select live contestant! for the final judging. How the finalists answer i determine the winner of the Mi5s Arkansas of 1949 crown. To the winner goea a ft''0 scholarship and a chance for Miss America title. income system, as a a nnd support prices A House Agriculture Subcnm- ot Research and miUce yesterday approved to 3 Poultry Market i a bill that would: 1. Permit Secretary of A i major crops a'.

100 per cent of that culture Brannan to experiment on standard. This might mean for three crops in 150 with his pro- most crops the highest price supposed "production payment" a i port ever attempted by the gov- program. Brannan contends his program w'uld mean cheaper i Prices of crops are now sup- food and assured income for ported at 90 per cent of the old i nt? DC Arkansas--Partly rloudy, scattered thNiKiershowers this afternoon and tonight and in east and south portions Friday; not much change in temperatures. It's not onlv the Rut.