SATUI RDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE SATURDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1967 TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY Seven Found Guilty Trial Poverty Bill STORMY CONFERENCE: 401*rtIy -W uk Is 70 In Mississippi Deadlock On Three Cases Unresolved Guilty Verdict First Of Kind in Mississippi Since Reconstruction MERIDAN, Miss. (A)-A deputy sheriff, a Ku Klux Klan leader and five other men were convicted by an all-white jury yesterday of conspiracy charges in the 1964 slaying of three young civil rights workers. Eight defendants were acquitted. The jury of seven women and five men, who had deliberated more than 14 hours, reported a hopeless deadlock in the cases of three others. The convictions marked the first time in Mississippi since Recon- struction that any jury had re- turned a guilty verdict in a major civil rights case. Those found guilty included De- puty Sheriff Cecil R. Price and Ku Klux Klan leader Samuel H. Bow- ers Jr. Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey was among the acquitted. Ethel G. "Hop" Barnette, the, Democratic nominee for sheriff, was one of three on whom the jury failed to reach a decision. The seven convicted were found guilty of conspiring to deprive the three victims of their civil rights. The federal charge grew out of the murders of Michael Schwerner, 24, Andrew Goodman, 20, both white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, 22, a Meridian Negro, near Philadelphia, Miss. Conviction car- ries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a $5,000 fine. No state charges have ever been filed in the case. Judge Cox ordered two of those convicted, Deputy Sheriff Price and Alton Wayne Roberts, former part-time Meridian night club bouncer, taken into custody im- mediately and placed in Hinds County jail at Jackson, Miss., a repository for federal prisoners. The three men involved in the mistrials were permitted to remain free under their $5,000 bonds. Trial of the 18 defendants, all white, came after a three-year in- vestigation by the FBI. Testimony in the trial that began Oct. 9 re- vealed that the FBI had paid a total of $25,000 to informants for information on the Klan and the workers' deaths. Horace Doyle Barnette's state- ment to the FBI named "Jim Jor- dan" as the man who shot Chaney. Barnette renounced his statement but it was admitted into evidence after the names of other defend- ents we're omitted from the text. Cox allowed the jury to consider the statement only in Barnette's case. i To Stress Local Role House Fight Expected Over High Spending Of OEO Program ' WASHINGTON (R) - An anti- poverty bill that would put more' c o n t r o l over the community- action programs in the hands of local officials was approved yester- day by the House Education and Labor Committee. After months of struggle, includ- ing sessions lasting until midnight this week, the committee finally adopted a bill expected to bring on an even fiercer fight on the House floor. The bill would -authorize a two- year extension of the several an- tipoverty programs administered by the Office of Economic Op- portunity at a funding level of $2.06 billion. Amendments Defeated Approval was by voice vote after the Democrats had used their 19-! 12 majority to roll over most amendments put forward by the Republicans. The proposed spending level is not regarded as realistic even by the most optimistic of the bill's' supporters. The economy-minded House has already served notice it intends to slash deeply into the program when it gets a chance. Drastic changes in other parts of the bill are possible when the House takes it up in two or three weeks. Republicans and conserva- tive Democrats have combined to maul the OEO at every opportu- nity recently, even voting to de- prive its employes of a federal pay raise that would go to every other agency. Tighten Local Control It was in hopes of blunting some of this opposition that the com- mittee voted to tighten state and local control over community-I action programs, the most contro- versial feature of OEO activity. GAP Governors Block Support ABOARD SS INDEPENDENCE said) (A')-Republican governors block- every ed a Democratic effort yesterday Wh to have the nation's governors de- Gov. clare themselves "committed to was the successful conclusion of the with struggle for freedom in Southeast confe Asia." tion.. At a stormy session of the 59th ed 31 National Governors Conference, Repu each side accused the other of suspe playing partisan politics with the As Vietnam war. was Texas Gov. John Connally, a resoli Democrat, likened the GOP gov- to re ernors who prevented action on I nated the measure to dissenters who he dent World News -Associated Press THE FOREMAN OF THE JURY that convicted seven men of conspiracy in the slaying of three civil rights workers, Langdon Smith Anderson (upper left in glasses) is accompanied by other jury mem- bers during a recess in the trial yesterday. The jury convicted seven, acquitted eight and a mistrial was declared On three of 18 defendants. FEDERAL SPENDING: Senate, House CoTflict Seen -. ).d 1 ! By The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. - Mariner 5; chattered away flawlessly yester- day, relaying scientific observa-' tions it stored on tape during an historic two-hour sweep past Venus Thursday. Distortion of radio signals by Venus' atmosphere as the craft looped behind the planet has told scientists the atmosphere is very dense-confirming a finding of the Soviet Venus 4, which para- chuted an instrumented capsule into the carbon dioxide clouds Wednesday. WASHINGTON-Rep. John S. Monagan (D-Conn.) said yester- day that Gov. Ronald Reagan of California is subject to criminal prosecution for releasing a tele- gram from the White House to Price Dainiel, the administration's liaison man with the governors' conference. Monagan told the House that Reagan's action falls within a, provision of the U.S. Code which "sets forth criminal penalties for the unauthorized divulgence of a telegraph message by a person who is not the agent of the sender." The telegram was from White House aide Marvin Watson. It told Daniel to question two Re- publican governors, James A. Rhodes of Ohio and John H. Chafee of Rhode Island - about their Vietn PI striki terda whet work An a day. Th a te four- Th eight have mon woul to tI VA can's appe bish easin on non- Au year can's decl lits t Mal all n Cath He shou pens regu ding Cath ness of Viet Policy have created problems during! Gov. Calvin L. Rampton for- war in American history. mally proposed the Vietnam war ien the crucial vote came, resolution. It sought a conference James A. Rhodes of Ohio declaration of wartime unity the only Republican siding "above partisanship and beyond 25 Democrats to have the any question of approval or dis- rence consider the resolu- approval of the strategic and tac- Adoption would have requir- tical decisions which are not our * votes-two thirds. Eighteen responsibility." blicans voted against a rule Right to Dissent nsion to permit action. "We as governors are supposed- it was, the measure voted on ly leaders of public opinion in our a toned-down version of a states," Rampton said. "We each ution Republicans had vowed have the right to dissent." But he sist. The new version elimi- said the governors had an obli- I direct reference to Presi- gation to speak out on the war Johnson's Vietnam policy, issue. --_ _That brought California's Ron- ald Reagan to his microphone R ou -i with a caustic comment that Ron ndup abr= P proved, to be a crucial tactical P__ _error. "This is just one more step in views on President Johnson's what has been recognized by some am war policy. of us, and what we believe to be * * the introduction of partisan poli- TTSBURGH-Leaders of the tics intp the governors confer- ing steel haulers decided yes- ence," Reagan said. y to let the drivers vote on Connally promptly demanded her they want to go back to and got the right to reply to Rea- under compromise proposals. gan. "I consider it a personal answer is expected by Mon- affront for you to say that I'm acting for partisan political pur- .e decision was announced in poses," the Texan said. rse statement following a He said a statement of affirma- hour meeting in Cleveland. tion by the governors was vital e 16 representatives from the "in this time of confusion" and states where steel haulers division. "There is no intent on been striking for two my part to inject politics," Con- ths wouldn't say whether they nally said. d recommend the compromise As the votes were cast, Mich- he strikers. igan Gov. George Romney, voting * * *against consideration, said once LTICAN CITY - The Vati- again that the conference was no stop. Christian unity expert place for foreign policy decisions, paled at the Roman Catholic "Past resolutions have been mis- ops synod yesterday for an used," he said. "They have added ig of the Church's regulations to the confusion, not alleviated marriages of Catholics to it." Catholics.. Key Passage igustin Cardinal Bea, the 86- The key passage in the original -old president of the Vati- resolution proposes that the con- s Christian Unity Secretariat, ference "reaffirm to the Presi- ared 'the Church should drop dent, to the American public, to traditional demand for for- the servicemen and women of the promises that the children of military forces of the United nixed marriages be reared as States and its allies its resolute iolics. support of our commitments and e also said local pastors responsibilities in the world, in- ild be given permission to dis- cluding our support of the mili- e with in certain cases the tary defense of Vietnam against lation that for validity a wed- aggression and our continuing must be performed by a search for a meaningful solution olic priest before two wit- assuring peace and stability in es. that area." uver nua WASHINGTON EPs-The Senatei Appropriations Committee rejected yesterday a House move to force President Johnson to chop $6 bil-] lion to $8 billion from the national1 budget-thus setting up an intra- Capitol struggle over federal, spending. By a 16-4 vote, the committeeE approved a resolution simply ex-I tending to Nov. 15 the temporary authority of federal agencies to continue spending at last year's rate. The Senate is expected to, take up the measure Tuesday. The House on Wednesday voted1 such an extension until Nov. 23 but attached a directive to Johnson to rework his fiscal 1968 budget on, virtually everything except mili- tary spending to the levels of fiscalj 1967-and to cut federal employ-9 ment by more than 100,000. Budget Director Charles L. Schultze told the Senate panel this approach would force cuts of $6+ billion to $8 billion and called the plan unworkable. About half the government de- partments and major independent agencies are operating now under u u trrop satsBy an 18-11 vote it approved an etamendment by Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore, that would make state or temporary spending authority have been enacted only for the local governments the official voted earlier. This authority ex- Treasury, Post Office, Interior and agencies for distributing anti- pires automatically at midnight Defense departments and for con- poverty funds. Monday and after these agencies gressional expenses. The amendment would provide theoretically would be without At the heart of the prolonged that where the state or local gov- money and unable to function. tussle between Congress-partic- ernment fails to establish a coi- However, as they have had to do ularly the House-and the Pres- munity-action agency, a project in the past, the offices are expect- ident is Johnson's insistence that can be funded directly by the ed to keep on operating, at least a 10 per cent income tax sur- OEO. for a few days, while House and charge must be voted to help meet In an equally sensitive area- Senate conferees seek agreement Vietnam costs and stem inflation, the participation in voter-registra- on a stopgap resolution. House leaders, including some tion drives by antipoverty work- But Senate leaders would not powerful ones in his own party, ers-Mrs. Green won approval of hazard any guesses on what would have refused to take up any tax an amendment designed to prevent happen if the conference commit- increase proposal until spending is the use of funds, personnel or tee finds itself in a prolonged cut sharply. programs for such purposes. stalemate. Southern, conservative Dem- ocrats teamed with House Repub- TONIGHT at licans in Wednesday's 238-164 vote to force the budget-cutting task into the President's hands. k But in the Senate committee 1421 HILL STREET test even some of the Republicans14 :31LS.E turned from this approach in favor 8:30 P.M. of the administration's contention DAVE SIG L I N and SH ELLY POSE N that Congress should pass all ap- propriations bills, cutting them as (of Toronto, Canada) it sees fit, with Johnson doing SINGING CITY FOLK MUSIC further trimming when he knows ployng 6- and 12-string guitar and banjo what he has to work with. 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