WEEKEND CONFERENCE NEEDS ATTENTION See page 4 Y , t i tl ~Iaii4r CLOUDY, SNOWERS Sixty-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXVII, No. 38 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1957 SIX PAGES Davis Plans To Appeal Conviction Ex-Math Instructor Guilty on 26 Counts By VERNON NAHRGANG Daily Editor Former University mathematics I Instructor H. Chandler Davis, found guilty yesterday on 26 counts of contempt of Congress, has said he will appeal his con- viction. In a statement to The Daily, Davis cited the "wide applicabil- ity" of the Supreme Court's recent decisions in the Watkins and Sweezy cases as hope for him in an appeal. Davis, who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to testify before Kit Clardy's House Un- American Activities subcommittee in 1954, was tried late last Novem- ber. District Court Judge W. Wal-. lace Kent had been silent since the two-day trial until yesterday. Davis will be sentenced Aug. 5. Amendment 'Violated' Throughout his trial and the legal maneuvers in what Davis considers his "test case", he has maintained that the First Amend- 4 inent "is violated by such hear- ir gs as are customarily held by the House Committee on Un- American Activities." A committee of Congress that sets out to expose and publicize political ideas, Davis has argued, is violating the First Amendment. "The Supreme Court, in the Watkins and Sweezy cases," Da- j vis told The Daily yesterday, "af- firmed that legislative hearings of this character could damage the free speech of the people. "The court reversed Watkins' and Sweezy's convictions without going so far as to declare all such legislative hearing invalid," Davis said. "However, it made clear that these decisions had wide applica- bility. It sent several other de- fendents' convictions back to low- er courts for reconsideration in the light of Watkins." Court 'Satisfied' Judge Kent, in yesterday's eight-page decision, said, "the court is satisfied that the pre- sumption of innocence has been overcome and that the govern- rment has established the guilt of the defendant beyond every rea- sonable doubt." Davis, who had not seen Judge Kent's decision as of late yester- day, said the judge "handed down his decision after the Watkins and Sweezy decisions, from which one gathers that he found my case could somehow be distinguished- hat my refusals to answer are t covered by the Supreme See DAVIS, page 2 ADA Official Urges Ike Aid NAACP DETROIT (')-The convention of the National Association for the Advancenment of Colored People was told yesterday the White 1z Related Story Appears on Page 2 House should throw its weight be- hind the organization to halt "the current effort in many southern states to put the NAACP out of "business." ' In an address in the Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium, Joseph L. Rauh Jr., national vice-chairman of Americans for Democratic Ac- tion, said "the attacks upon the NAACP are nothing less than a broadside assault upon the consti- tution of the United States." Declaring the NAACP's "legal fight must be supplemented by ef- forts in other areas," Rauh pro- posed that President Dwight D. Eisenhower "use his great influ- encc to call for an end to the attacks upon the NAACP." USAF Fires :Wo Missiles MISSILE TEST CENTER, Cape Canaveral, Fla. (VP)-The Air Force fired two missiles from the test Ca Idwe ii Urges Changes in US. Education Calls Global Awareness F ve 1 'M " * * * w * * * Nations A INecessity By RENE GNAM "One of the most glaring weak- nesses" of American education to- -Daily-Eric Arnold day is its failure to prepare youth ASIAN CULTURES LECTURE-Oliver J. Caldwell yesterday told for understanding of global prob- an audience of 150 that American education is failing to prepare lems, especially those of Asian youth for realization of global problems. nations, Oliver J. Caldwell said yesterday. Caldwell, Assistant Commis- FIVE ESCAPE DEATH: sioner for International Education of the United States Office of Ed- ucation, opened a series of nine Auger Frees Miners lectures on "Asian Cultures and the Modern American," before 150 persons in Aud. A, Angell Hall. TrappedMany Hours Caldwellsaid "Personal rela- dtiens of Americans overseas will STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (P-Five veteran coal miners were freed argelynde ermine whethe Asians late yesterday from a tomb of rocks and dirt in a hillslide tunnel. gether. Our people," he said, "are Two-score rescue workers and a great mechanical monster bored poorly prepared for this chal- 200 feet to reach them after 14 / hours of imprisonment. lenge." A cheer rose from nearly 1,000 spectators in the flood-lit strip Proper education ,he indicated, mine pit as the miners crawled out the rescue shaft behind a huge could reverse this. auger. 0 New Strategy Needed Reduced Arm I 'It Was Cold in There' "My God, it was cold in there," said Fred Sabol, 33 years old, of Harrisville, the first one out. Doctors pronounced the miners in Fiery Roar To WInd U Fire College Firebugs, attention! "There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight." At 4:30 p.m. today an automo- bile will burn on Ferry Field and tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. the house at 1945 West Liberty will be set ablaze with the assistance of the Ann Arbor Fire Department. No. the town hasn't been affect- ed by the heat. These proceedings will climax the 29th annual Mi'h - gan Fire Colege, which has beern in session &ruce Tuesday under the sponsorship of Extension Service. Beginning the ist two days tf the meeting at 9 V m in Raclkrmx Lecture Hall, 1'. t Bergn x, chief of the Fire Administration Division of the Department of Conservation will speak on "Rural Fire Control Problems." "Investigating Automobile Fires," will be the subject of the next speaker, William Davis, manager of the National Automobile Theft Bureau. To make his point clear he will give an automobile fire demonstration in the afternoon. Friday's sessions begins at 9 a.m. with Lloyd Layman, director, Fire Office, Technical Advisorly Service, Federal Civil Defense Ad- ministration, lecturing on "Look to the Future." Harry Wolff, field representative of the Western Actualial Bureau, will then speak on "Developments in Fog Fire Fighting." Closing the Fire College session Fire Chief Ernest Heller, and the Ann Arbor Fire Department, will participate in the "Experimental Burning of a Building Demonstra- tion Several Methods of Fire At- tack."