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Klansmen jailed by FBI for Mississippi murder
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—The FBI today announced the arrest of 13 members of the Ku Klux Klan in connection with the fire bomb death last January of Vernon Dahmer, a Hattiesburg, Miss., Negro civil rights leader.
A 14th man, Sam Holloway Bowers Jr., the imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi, was being sought.
DAHMER, 58, was killed Jan. 10.1966, when night riders tossed Molotov cocktails into his house and store near Hattiesburg. His wife and 10-year-old daughter were severely burned.
The Klansmen were arrested and charged with violations of civil rights statutes barring intimidation and violence to civil rights workers.
If convicted, they face sentences ranging up to 15 years in prison and fines of $10,000. The FBI said the suspects will be arraigned before a U.S. commissioner in Hattiesburg.
Dahmer was a past president of the Forrest County branch of the NAACP.
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WASHINGTON —(UPI)—The Supreme Court today backed up the Justice Department's use of federal law in civil rights murders that have gone unpunished by local authorities.
The 9-0 decision means trials can go ahead in a Mississippi case where a federal indictment was thrown out by a lower court. Justice Abe Fortas spoke for the court.
The indictment charged 17 Mississippians, including three law enforcement officers, in connection with the 1964 murder of three young civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Miss. The victims were Andrew Goodman and Michael H. Schwerner of New York and James E. Chaney of Meridian, Miss.
The court at the same time ruled in an opinion by Justice Potter Stewart that the government can go ahead with the trial of six men growing out of the fatal shooting of Negro educator Lemuel A. Penn on a Georgia highway in 1964.
In the Penn case, two men were tried for murder and acquitted under Georgia law.
Spring Fling-
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Spring Fling winners were fifth floor McCollum Hall and eighth floor Hashinger Hall with 73 points. Second place went to third floor Templin Hall and fourth floor Ellsworth Hall with 71 points.
At the invitational banquet Sunday, John Hill, Waverly junior and AURH president, announced that KU will host a national residence hall convention next year.
CHERYL BALL, Olathe junior, has been named national conference chairman. The official name of the convention is the National Conference of the National Association of College and University Residence Halls. It will be held during spring semester next year, Hill said.
Students protest war in organized rally
About 150 persons, many of them KU students, voiced their protest against the war in Viet Nam in an organized and disciplined demonstration in Kansas City Saturday as part of the International Days of Protest.
In the two days of protest on Friday and Saturday, protests and rallies took place in Berkeley and other campuses. On Saturday, thousands turned out to protest across the country and abroad.
New SUA officers picked by operating committee
Kansas Congressman Robert Ellsworth, speaking at the banquet in Templin Hall, told Spring Fling workers that "today total leaders are needed—citizens who are willing to take a position on what should or shouldn't be done on issues that require total involvement."
Dave Waxse, Oswego junior, has been chosen president of the 1966-67 Student Union Activities Board by the Kansas Union Operating Committee which conducted interviews for board positions last week.
Vox—
Mission junior; Arts and Exhibits, Jennifer Speer, Wichita sophomore; Entertainment, Tom Sullivan, Wichita junior; Music and Drama, Sallie Lillard, Salina junior; Forums, John Hoppe, Ottawa sophomore; Hospitality, Linda Maher, Hinsdale, Ill., junior; Travel, John Green, Kansas City junior; Recreation, Bruce Peterson, Prairie Village sophomore; and Special Events, Tom Swale, Prairie Village sophomore.
Other SUA officers chosen were: vice-president, Dick Warner, Lawrence junior; treasurer, Bruce Warren, Emporia junior; secretary, Pam Bayless, Shawne
Pi Sigma Alpha, Honorary Political Science Fraternity,
Presents
Continued from page 1 possibility of rescinding the constitution for the election.
The Intellectual Mind — What Is It?
Presentation by Drs. Allen, Fields, Sandelius Critique by Drs. Lujan and Riehm Discussion to Follow
Tuesday, March 29—7:30 Sunflower Room, Kansas Union
Daily Kansan Monday, March 28, 1966
Refreshments Will Be Served.
"Jacke said she wanted to get in touch with some of the people in the Greek houses, and she asked Charlie (Whitman) to see if he could talk around among the girls in some of the houses to get the rule rescinded," Mrs. Masters said.
"There was no agreement to support UP if they would support her. She merely clarified the fact that she intended to support UP regardless of what they did."
A vote was taken by the three editors two days prior to the editorial's publication to decide which of the two presidential candidates to endorse.
Beck wrote the editorial. It was then approved by Frailey and Miss Thayer.
The editorial, which was run under the headline, "We Endorse Martin," was signed by Miss Thayer, Justin Beck, co-editorial editor, and Fred Frailey, managing editor of the UDK.
Nichols says lists of race on time
Payroll sheets requiring a listing of the race of all KU employees are meeting their deadlines reaching Topeka, Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance, said today.
"This directive from Roy Shapiro, state comptroller, met opposition last week when I issued it to KU employees but I think that the announcement of the reason for the addition to the payroll sheets had cleared things up," Nichols said.
THE REASON for the addition of a race listing, Shapiro said, is to give the Kansas Civil Rights Commission a means of determining how effective their work has been in bringing fair employment practices to state offices.
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