Daily Hansan
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1964
62nd Year, No.48
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
GO HAWKS—The basketball team opens its season tonight in Fayetteville, Ark., against the Arkansas Razorbacks. Pictured here is Riney Lochmann, Wichita junior, who will be starting tonight in a forward slot. Tonight's game will be the team's first under the direction of coach Ted Owens. (Related story on page 9.)
ASC Starts Work On 'Unpassed' Bills
The All Student Council will attempt to revive "dead legislation" at its meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
Twenty-seven pieces of ASC legislation are technically "dead" even though they have been passed previously by the council. These bills and amendments were passed between Oct. 6, 1963, and May 12, 1964, but were not sent to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for his approval or veto.
Without action by the Chancellor the legislation is dead.
IT CAN BE resurrected tonight, however, if it is passed by members of the Council.
The legislative process under which the council operates involves four stages. All proposed legislation must be submitted and read to the council at a regular ASC meeting. It is then sent to the Committee on Committees and Legislation which must review it, recommend any changes, and report on it at the next succeeding ASC meeting. The council then discusses and votes on the legislation.
If passed by the council and approved by the student body president, the legislation then goes to the Chancellor.
THE LEGISLATION facing the council tonight has reached the third stage. Council members will discuss and vote on the items, which if passed, will be sent to Chancellor Wescoe.
The bills were to have been read at a special ASC meeting Nov. 17, but the meeting was subsequently cancelled. This reading was to have met the first requirement of the legislative process.
Instead the council is considering
the first requirement of submitting the bills at a council meeting.
SINCE THE LAST regular ASC meeting, Nov. 10, which was adjourned with no action on the bills, the legislation has been sent to the Committee on Committees.
An amendment similar to the antidiscriminatory clause which was proposed earlier is expected to be presented at tonight's meeting. Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, said he did not know who the sponsors of the new amendment would be.
Several programs established by the legislation have been functioning since the beginning of the school year. These include the ASC freshman leadership program and the People-to-People advisory board.
It was an action on a proposed amendment to this bill which uncovered the fact that 27 legislative items had not been sent to the Chancellor.
The most controversial bill among the legislation is ASC Bill No. 1, a civil rights bill.
THE COUNCIL'S membership will also undergo a change at tonight's meeting. This is the last ASC meeting for members who did not run for re-election or who were defeated in campus elections Nov. 11 and 12. Replacing them are 30 newly elected representatives from KU's living districts.
New council members will be sworn in by Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C. senior and student body president.
Before they are sworn in, however, the departing council members may follow an ASC tradition and speak a few words of advice or admonishment to the council.
Rebels Turn Congo War Into Guerrilla Battles
LEOPOLDVILLE, THE Congo — (UPI) — Communist-inspired rebels appeared today to be digging in for a Viet Nam-type guerrilla war against Congolese army troops and white mercenaries.
"Everytime we pick one off, another six rebels take his place," one white mercenary said.
Rebel pressure against government forces was increasing. The rebels maintained a grip on a 250,-000-square-mile area of the Congo and held upwards of 1,000 white hostages as pawns in their antigovernment revolt.
The status of Stanleyville, self-
proclaimed capital of the rebel "People's Republic of the Congo," was in doubt.
LATE REPORTS from Stanley-
ville said the airport from which
more than 1,600 hostages were saved
last week in a spectacular U.S.
-Belgian mercy mission was no longer
secure.
Other reports said Kindu, 250 miles south of Stanleyville, was in danger of being re-captured by rebel troops. Government forces took Kindu last week in their drive toward Stanleyville, but only 13 mercenaries and a handful of Congolese soldiers were left behind to guard it. There were reports that the troops had fled in the face of rebel counter-attacks.
Maj. Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, the former British army officer who heads the biggest unit of white mercenaries, sounded a note of pessimism. He said a political solution to the Congolese problem would have to be found in his forces were not strengthened in rebel-controlled territory.
MERCENARY-LED Congolese troops yesterday captured the rebel stronghold of Bunia but discovered that all whites in the area had been dragged into the jungle as hostages.
Forty more refugees arrived here yesterday, bearing new familiar stories of rebel atrocities. They included Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Gunningham and their two children—John, three, and Elizabeth, one.
U.S. Asks Court To Change Trial
NEW ORLEANS — (UPI)— The government has asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to try the governor and ex-governor of Mississippi in New Orleans, rather than in their home state, on charges of criminal contempt in the 1962 University of Mississippi crisis.
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday took formal action to get Gov. Paul Johnson and former Gov. Ross Barnett tried in New Orleans, instead of Mississippi.
Mrs. Gunningham is an American from Yakima, Wash. Her husband is British. They were working at the Heart of Africa Mission in the village of Titule.
GUNNINGHAM SAID he was held captive by the rebels for three weeks and subjected to shameful indignities. At one point, he said, the rebels formed him to run naked through the village singing the "Lumumba Hymn" under the threat of seeing his children massacred.
Three Americans were among 85 foreigners slaughtered by savage rebels last week.
U. S. Embassy sources here said the rescue of the Gunninghams left only one American unaccounted for—William McChesney of Phoenix, Ariz., also a member of the Heart of Africa Mission. He was believed to be a hostage at Wamba, 250 miles northeast of Stanleyville.
The intensity of the rebel strength in Stanleyville was underscored Sunday night when a Belgian airliner carrying Congolese refugees crashed at the airport after rebel machinegunners opened fire on it.
SEVEN BELGIANS and a Congolese girl were reported killed. The victims included four Belgian military advisers to the Congolese National Army. Nine survivors were flown here and hospitalized.
- Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe met in Paris with French President Charles de Gaulle in an attempt to obtain diplomatic support for the Congo's anti-rebell war.
- In related developments:
- Fourteen African nations indicated in New York that they would demand a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the Congo crisis.
- Anti-American demonstrations protesting the U.S. role in the Congo were staged yesterday in communist China and Hungary.
Two U.S. Planes Hit By The Viet Cong
"After the rocket pod ignited, the crew landed the aircraft, which exploded a short time later," the spokesman said.
An American military spokesman said the American crewmen in both incidents "escaped serious injury" and were rescued by American helicopters.
The first craft downed by Viet Cong ground fire was a U.S. Air Force A1E Skyraider fighter-bomber. The second craft downed was a turbojet HU1B Helicopter, which was destroyed on the ground after it made a forced landing when hit by Communist ground fire. The four U.S. army aboard escaped without injury.
SAIGON, South Viet Nam, — (UPI) — Communist guerrillas shot down two U.S. military aircraft today on the fringes of the so-called red-controlled "iron triangle" 30 miles northeast of Saigon.
Meanwhile, the spokesman reported, one U.S. Army and four Vietnamese special forces soldiers were wounded "when a mine exploded during road clearing operations in the town of Ben Cat, about 24 miles northwest of Saigon." The
wounded American's condition was described as "good."
BEN CAT IS a district capital. The spokesman did not explain why it was necessary to clear roads or streets inside the district capital.
Other developments;
Prime Minister Tran Van Huong again challenged South Viet Nam's resless Buddhists by reappointing a national police chief who was forced out of the same office under Buddhist pressure only two months ago. At the same time a professional police officer was appointed yesterday as chief of police of Saigon; he is the first professional policeman in memory to head the capital force, which always has been run by an army officer.
The Vietnamese government warned Cambodia today that it would be committing "an act of open hostility" by concluding proposed border agreements with the Communist Viet Cong rebels.
THE GOVERNMENT charged that the Cambodians had attacked Vietnamese territory yesterday with troops, ships and mortar fire.
Petitions Filed to Save GI Killers
KANSAS CITY, Kan. —(UPI)—Efforts to save GI killers George Ronald York and James Douglas Latham today took a new tack which their attorney said probably would permit another round of appeals "through all courts."
The attorney, Ray Cook, revealed he had filed duplicate petitions in district courts at Russell, Kan., and Sharon Springs, Kan., seeking a stay of execution on grounds that the admitted killers of seven persons now are insane. He asked appointment of a sanity commission to rule on the question.
Weather
The Weather Bureau forecasts a low tonight in the 20's. It will be partly cloudy and colder Wednesday.
Within hours after Cook's petitions were filed last Friday, Justice Byron C. White of the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of the double execution which had been set for tomorrow. It was based, however, on another aspect of the case, lack of legal counsel for the two during police investigation.
YORK, 20, of Jacksonville, Fla,
and Latham, 21, of Mauriceville,
Texas, were sentenced to die for
Cook said the question of the men's sanity at the present time had not previously been raised and would permit new appeals to be carried again "through all courts." He filed petitions at two points "to be on the safe side," he said. The men were tried at Russell on a change of venue. The crime of which they were convicted was committed in the jurisdiction of the court at Sharon Springs.
the murder of Otto E. Ziegler, 63- year-old railroad man who was the sixth of seven persons they admitted killing in a cross-country crime spree in 1961.
In his latest move to save them, Cook said both York and Latham "went into fits and various other mental relapses which would indicate an abnormality" at the time of the last execution at the Kansas state prison, where they are held on death row.
He quoted relatives of each man as saying his behavior was "not normal at this time and that his actions and conduct would indicate that of an insane person."
Before their trial at Russell, a sanity commission found both men sane, able to understand their position, and to assist in their defense. Evidence regarding their mental condition also was presented to the jury which convicted them.