TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10;1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE _. Court To Ponder Draft Card Issue Justice Department Requests Ruling On Constitutionality of Burning Ban Talks Begin In Wildcat Steel Strike State Official Hopes. Settlement Possible Within Next Two Days PITTSBURGH () - Parties in the eight-state steel haulers strike met in a marthon' session yesterday "seriously trying to find areas of agreement" in the vio- lence-packed dispute. "Everyone has been coopera-t tive.* Everyone is seriously trying to find areas of agreement, and they recognize the problems," said Secretary of Labor William, J. Hart of Pennsylvania. PREPARE FOF '68: National Democrats Back War; 13 States Push Loyalty Pledge By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court announced yesterday it will decide whether the 1965 fed- eral law that forbids the burning of draft cards is constitutional. At the same time the court will decide if a draft card burner can be sent to prison for not pos- sessing his card The Justice Department had asked the court to hear the case after the U.S. Circuit Court in Boston ruled unanimously that the 1965 law abridges free speech and is therefore unconstitutional. Earl Warren Clark Say s Missile Plan BlastsHopes WASHINGTON' (P) , Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.) yesterday said that the decision to build a thin anti-ballistic missile system is likely to "crush the hopes for an arms control agreement",with Russia. If this happens, he told the Senate, the losers will be "all of us, everyone, and particularly those who will be hardest hit by the fact that money that should be going into the effort to rebuild our cities and heal the wounds in our society is being drained off to build Armageddon instead. "Americans who will be de- prived of a chance to get an ade- quate education, necessary health care, a decent place to live, a r chance for a job, for lack of funds -they will be the biggest losers. "But the real, ultimate losers are every man, woman and child on this planet whose lives are menaced by the threat of nuclear war, and whose only hope for genuine security lives in the ame- lioration of tensions, between the great nuclear powers and the ne- gotiation of effective agreements to halt the madness of the arms race and turn mankind toward the path to peace," Clark said. Clark's call for reconsideration of the decision to build the sys- tem drew support from five other Democrats-George S. McGovern (S.D.), Philip A. Hart (Mich.), Wayne Morris (Ore.), Frank Church (Ide.), and Gaylord Nel- son (Wis.). The Pennsylvanian said the planned system amounted to "very expensive flying erector set' which the Russians could easily and cheaply overpower by increasing their offensive missile striking force." As for the argument that the system is justified as a defense against Chinese missiles, Clark said "we have the capacity to devastate China many times over if her leaders should be so foolish as to initiate a nuclear exchange with us." THIS WEEK WEDNESDAY NOSFERATU (A FREE SHOWING) The classic telling of the Dracula Story THURSDAY & FRIDAY THE MUSIC ROOM dir. Satyajit Ray, 1958 From the director of The Apu Trilogy. Two U.S. Circuit Courts - in New York City and St. Louis- have upheld the ban on draft card mutiliation, which Congress added to the selective service law in 1965. Last Februay the Su- preme Court refused to review the ruling by the federal court in New York. However, the decision bynthe U.S. Circuit Court in Boston in April put the federal appeals courts in direct conflict. The current case centers on David P. O'Brien, 20, of Fram- ingham, Mass., who burned his draft card on the steps of the South B o s t o n courthouse in March 1966 to protest the draft. He was sentenced to six years in federal youth correctional institu- tions. Must Possess Chief Judge Bailey Aldrich of the Boston federal appeals court said O'Brien could stand con- victed for not possessing his draft card-but could not be convicted for burning it. "In singling out persons engag- ing in protest for special treat- ment the amendment strikes at the very core .of what the first amendment protects," Aldrich said. The Justice Department said in appealing that if Congress may require a draft registrant to carry his draft card "it would appear that it may also forbid him to destroy or mutilate his card." Private Schools In other action, the Supreme Court rejected a bid to review a Pennsylvania law that requires transportation in public school buses of ;pupils attending non- profit parochial and private schools. , The court announced in a brief unsigned opinion that it had dis- missed an appeal asking it to ex- amine the law, "for want of a substantial federal question." The Supreme Court also re- fused to reexamine the contempt of court convictions of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and seven other Negro ministers who led desegregation demonstrations in Birmingham in 1963. This means Dr. King, head of the Southern Christian Leader- ship Conference, and the other ministers can be jailed at once. Last June the court affirmed by a 5-4 vote the convictions of the eight ministers for holding the Good Friday and Easter Sun- day demonstrations in violation of an Alabama court order. Southern Integration The Supreme Court also re- fused to review a historic deci- sion by the U.S. Circuit Court in New^ Orleans calling for top-to- bottom integration of all public school systems in six southern states.' The high court gave no expla- nation in announcing that it would not hear appeals from the March 29 decision filed in behalf of six Louisiana and three Ala- bama school boards. This means the decision is left standing-and serves to give it added weight as a precedent for courts elsewhere. t 3 i I 1 i s But representatives of 13 West- ern states, meeting in advance of the National Committee's formal ratification of the choice of Chi- -Associated Press JOHN M. BAILEY, Democratic National Committee chairman, leans over seated Gov. Richard Hughes of New Jersey for a con- ference today during the committee meeting in Washington. $4.4 BILLION: Governors, Hit Request For Highway fCutback Hart, who came out of the cago for the convention site voted Because of the activity of anti-J meeting at the prompting of unanimously to back a loyalty newsmen asking for some indica- oath under which individual dele- tion of progress, said he was gates would have to give their neither optimistic or pessimistic. word that they would support the w "Anything you might say might ticket in the general election. o i e1 blow an agreement out of the The resolution supporting John- water," Hart said. But another son's conduct of policy in Viet- By The Associated Press official said he thought a solution, nam said the President "has PARIS-Andre Maurois, whose could be found within two days. sought an honorable resolution of humor and humanism distinguish- Gov. Raymond P. Shafer of the conflict in South Vietnam, by ed him as a giant of modern Pennsylvania, who convened the which the people of that nation French literature, died Monday at meeting, warned there must be a might be freed of terror and 82. stop to the "campaign of terror'' bloodshed, and enabled to govern His numerous biographical works no matter what came out of the themselves in conditions of free- combined an astute sense of psy- gathering. dom and social justice." ' chological insight together with a Pennsylvania state police re- At its opening session the com- characteristic light and human port that 28 persons have been mittee heard national chairman touch. Maurois was equally esteem- arrested and dozens injured in John M. Bailey urge members to ed as a historian. more than 400 incidents since the get out and fight for Johnson's M strike turned violent a month ago. reelection, which he said would . MERIDIAN. Miss.-An all-white The president of Latrobe Steel not be easy. He said the polls in- jury, seven women and five men. Co., Marcus W. Saxman III, said dicate the going is rough now, was picked today for the trial of { Co, MrcusW. axma II, sad,'a sheriff, a Ku Klux Klan leader the strike has caused a state of particularly with regard to Viet- and 16 other men charged with anarchy on Pennsylvania's high- nam, but predicted the situation conspiracy in the death of three ways. He called on Shafer to end will change before the 1968 vot- civil rights workers in 1964. it. Img. rl inlr o q7v~rnr WASHINGTON ({)-Democratic in effect, is running in the polls' National Committee members yes- against Superman, who can do terday endorsed President John- no wrong." son's war course, and predicted The loyalty-oath plan, aimed he will be renominated unani- primarly at dump-Johnson move- mously and reelected by a big ments instigated by some Demo-, margin. cratic dissenters on Vietnam, By a voice vote the committee E would apply also to Southern unanimously ratified the choice critics of Johnson's racial inte- of Chicago as the 1968 nominat- gration policies. ing convention for the ikeek of Cailfornia National Committee- Aug. 25. man Eugene Wyman said in an interview he intends to lay this proposal before a special equal rights committee headed by Gov. Richard Hughes of New Jersey: WASHINGTON (IP)--The John- son administration has struck an-t other politically sensitive nerve int its tussle with Congress over taxes) and spending cuts, and cries oft protest are rising across the land.I The outcries from state capitals are in response to telegrams that went out from Washington Sundayi inviting all the governors to com- ment "as rapidly as possible" onj what would happen if their federal highway aid funds were held back. Secretary of Transportation Alan S. Boyd disclosed Monday that he sent the telegrams, advising that cutbacks of as much as 80 per cent are being considered in current and prospective allocations for the $4.4-billion-a-year federal highway-aid program. Anti-Inflation A spokesman in Boyd's office emphasized that the aim would be to delay highway construction projects as an anti-inflationaryI measure, and not to cut them outl altogether. A similar freeze was ordered last November and grad- ually lifted when the threat of in-i flation began to subside.I Many of those protesting ac- cused the administration of using the threat of a road-fund cut to build pressure for approval of a tax increase which Congress has refused to consider until federal spending is cut deeply. Johnson says his proposed 10 per cent sur- tax is needed to combat inflation. Boyd's telegrams were another followup to President Johnson's temporary freeze on non-vital spending commitments, and it triggered an immediate predictable reaction. Trust Fund All of the money that would be held back comes from the federal highway trust fund, which is fed mainly by a 4-cents-a-gallon gas- oline tax. Late last week the Pentagon an- nounced a halt in the awarding of contracts for the politically im- portant rivers and harbors projects hahdled by the Army Engineers. It also announced a hold-down on all future commitments for mili- tary housing and other non-Viet- nam projects. As the steel haulers, Teamsters Union officials, trucking execu- tives and state house representa- tivgs from seven states sat down for the first time. Shafer demand- ed "that all violence end im- mediately." "Right now, pollsters are run- ning President Johnson against everybody," Bailey said. "And none of these Everybodys is re- quired to take a firm stand on any issue. "This means President Johnson, Chnarged un er a .-year-oi Reconstruction era law, the men are accused of conspiracy to vio- late the civil rights of Michael Schwerner, 23. and Andrew Good- man, 20, both white New Yorkers, and James E. Chaney. 21, a Meri- dian Negro. Conviction could bring ' war Democrats in California, Wy- man said he thinks the partly has to face up to what it is going to do about dissenters who might be elected as delegates and then re- fuse to support Johnson if he is re-nominated as expected. Illinois national commyitteeman Jacob M. Arvey said he does not have much worry about civil rights demonstrations at the con- vention. "I'm much more worried about these anti-war demostrators, but I am sure that Chicago authori- ties can cope, with them," Arvey said. ~Round up a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. LAGOS, Nigewria-Nigerian'fed- eral forces have opened a fourth front in their drive to crush the rebellion of Biafra, the army re- ported today. U% said federal troops seized a Niger River bridge about 65 miles west of the Biafra capital of Enugu and were shelling the market town of Onitsha on the eastern end of the bridge. LONDON-Two British histori- ans forecast Monday a fourth Arab-Israeli war-which they said Israel may nbt win, unless the Palestine refugee question is set- tled The war they envisaged would be neither the classical conflict of the past nor a Vietnam-type guerrilla struggle but "intercom- munal friction-the sniper at the upper window, the grenade lofted into the coffee house." gm CONTROVERSY 67. UNION-LEAGUE presents BARRY GOLDWATER H ILL AUDITORIUM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 3 P.M. TICKETS ON SALE: Students REACTOR PANEL FRIDAY, OCT. 6 $1.00 oWES VIVIAN FormerDemocrat Congressman Diag-9:00 SHAW LIVERMORE Union-I 1 :00-2:00 Non-Students Prof. of History DANIEL FUSFELD SUNDAY, OCT. 8 $.50 Prof. of Economics Hill Aud$-1:301ROBERT BLACKWELL State Labor Mediator Invitations to Reception at UAC offices-Union U. Wednesday & Thursday DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH - Student Laboratory Theatre 4:10 P.M. presents OVERRULED by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW OCTOBER 11th.& 12th Arena Theatre, Frieze Building ADMISSION FREE I 1r '""'""""""'" HOMECOMING '67 * HOMECOMING '67 * HOMECOMING '67 * HOMECOMING '67 ,UNION-LEAGUE / DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD OF OZ PRESENT "DOORS TO THE WIZARD'S LAB" presents THE SIXTH ANNUAL featu ring THE DOORS- DANCE1M FESTIVAL Three Performances in Hill Auditorium HARKNESS BALLET . . . . . . . Fri., Oct. 13,8:30 Program: Night Song; Feast of Ashes; Zealous Variations (Schubert, Op. 83); and Time Out of Mind OLAETA BASQUE FESTIVAL ... . Sun., Oct.22,8:30 Dancers, singers, and instrumentalists combine to provide dances and music of the Basque country-seven provinces on both sides of the Pyrenees, both in Spain and in France JOSE MOLINA BAILES ESPANOLES... Fri., Oct. 27, 8:30 I with The Long Island Sound Program of Spanish songs and dancing, including folk, classical, and flamenco II I ii .