"managed," Davis hedged: "I don't know. I've never been to either place." Asked about his yesterday's radio statement that even if drafted he would not fight in Vietnam, he repeated yesterday's performance by trying to hedge. But when asked more bluntly "If drafted by the U.S. Army, would you fight if sent to Vietnam?" He replied, “No, I would not fight." We had intended to give our listeners the benefit of much more of the record of this young man, Philip Davis, than Davis and his local pals, Dennis and Eisenscher have elected to divulge. That will have to wait until tomorrow night. For, at airtime, we received the following release from Gov. Warren Knowles: [Office of the Governor, State capitol, Madison, Wis.-For release Mar. 10, 1965] MADISON. GOV. Warren P. Knowles today received a reply to a letter sent last week to University of Wisconsin President Fred Harvey Harrington. In his initial letter, the Governor asked Harrington for comments on "the independence of the Daily Cardinal and the possibility of the establishment of another publication on the Madison campus," and on "the registration of the DuBois Club" at the university. Harrington's reply, dated March 9, 1965, states: "DEAR GOVERNOR KNOWLES: I am glad to answer your March 3 letter on university policy toward student publications and organizations. "First, however, let me congratulate you on your stirring statement made at a recent press conference, in which you supported the freedom of expression which is so essential to our democratic system. "I am proud of the Daily Cardinal, and deplore the unfair attacks that have been leveled at that publication. The Cardinal is one of the best student newspapers in the country, and has been the training ground for many of our outstanding Wisconsin journalists. It reports campus news in a factual manner and opens its columns to expressions of all shades of opinion. I often disagree with the Cardinal's editorial positions (sometimes they criticize me); but I do believe that students as well as other citizens have the right to express their own opinions. "The Cardinal is supported through subscriptions and advertising. Its staff is chosen by the student members of its governing board who are elected by the general student body. The university provides financial and other practical advice, and houses the Cardinal in the school of journalism. The Cardinal, in return, provides the school of journalism with a complete typographic laboratory, pays in full for its operation and maintenance, buys any new equipment needed, and sells the university subscriptions at cost. It is in sound financial condition. "As for the establishment of another publication on the Madison campus open to the expression of student views, I assure you that these already exist. Insight and Outlook, the organ of the Young Conservatives, is a notable example. While our student life and interests committee generally discourages the proliferation of student organizations of all types, the door is not closed to new ones as needs arise. The procedures for gaining registration for new student organizations are outlined in the Student Organization Handbook. Proposals for new organizations are considered both by student government and the student life and interests committee. "The DuBois Club was established on the Madison campus through the same procedures noted above. Once recognized, it was free to hold an intercollegiate meeting by registering it in advance. "The university continually makes it clear that registration of the DuBois Club, The Daily Cardinal, or any other student organization, while providing certain university privileges, does not imply endorsement of its views. "Since you are pressed for time at your press conferences you may want to advise reporters who ask questions about university policy to contact us directly. "You may release this letter if you choose. "Cordially, "FRED HARVEY HARRINGTON, President." Bob Siegrist's statement of reaction to President Harrington's letter to Governor Knowles-March 10, 1965 HOGWASH President Harrington, as usual, has begged the issue but he has not buried the issue so far as this reporter is concerned. We shall continue to report and document the DuBois Club situation as it may develop. If President Harrington believes that we may have delivered "any unfair attack" upon the Cardinal, President Harrington is welcome to be a guest on this program at any time that he wishes and specify and document precisely where we have been unfair just as we have had to document, at all times, that which we have had to say and as we will have to continue to document all things, at all times, in the future. Earlier today Governor Knowles addressed a group of about 100 students from Beloit College who had just completed a 2-day 50-mile march up the highway-to express appreciation that they lived in a State in which, unlike in Alabama, they could enjoy such freedoms as highway marching and voting. Knowles told them: [Office of the Governor, State Capitol, Madison, Wis.-For release Mar. 10, 1965] (Prepared for delivery to Beloit College marchers) Few incidents in recent years have so aroused the conscience of the Nation as the repressive and violent measures taken by police and State officials in Alabama against those who were peaceably affirming their right to vote. Tear gas and clubs used against defenseless men, women, and children may be effective temporarily in restraining such demonstrations, but the basic rights of citizenship cannot long be denied by such means. Your presence here is evidence of your belief in America, your concern for all its citizens, whether they live in the North or the South, and I join you in the hope that freedom and justice will soon prevail in all the States of the Union. Nothing pleases me more than the interest that college students are taking in the great issues of our day. Your long march from Beloit to Madison is dramatic evidence of the climate of freedom in Wisconsin. You can walk without harassment. You can gather here on the capitol steps without being driven away. You can express your aspirations and ideals without being shouted down. admire your fortitude and courage in making this long march. You are to be commended for your concern with the major problems that face our Nation. I I welcome you and appreciate the effort and sacrifice you have made in coming this distance to show your sympathy to those whose rights are denied and to demonstrate your own freedom in Wisconsin. (By William O. Bryant, United Press International) Meanwhile more than 1,000 Negroes marched on Alabama's State capitol, then sat in the road not far from Governor Wallace's office. They were surrounded by police, State troopers and mounted deputies. There was no violence. The march was orderly. A crowd of whites watched silently from the sidewalks and a group of Alabama legislators peered down from the capitol steps above the officers. The marchers sat down in the middle of Dexter Avenue and were still there 3 hours later (at 5:30 p.m. e.s.t.). They sang "Governor Wallace We Love You, We Love You Best of All" and took a vote to remain in the street. A majority shouted in favor of continuing the squat-in but there appeared to be some dissension among the students and their adult leaders, who urged them to go home. (By Leon Daniel, United Press International) SELMA, ALA., March 10.—Dr. Martin Luther King's aids organized a "prayer" march on the Dallas County courthouse in sympathy for a white minister near death as the result of racial violence. Two earlier marches, one of them led by six Roman Catholic nuns, were turned back today by helmeted police. At Montgomery, about 50 miles west of here, 1,000 negro students marched on the capitol in support of "our brothers in Selma." The group was surrounded by city police, State troopers and mounted deputies. There was no violence. The Montgomery marchers had intended to try and present a set of grievances charging racial discrimination to Gov. George C. Wallace. But they did not attempt to gain admittance to Wallace's office when they found troopers ringing the Capitol Building. Instead, they squatted in the middle of a street for hours and sang, "Governor Wallace we love you, we love you best of all." Plans for the Selma prayer march were announced shortly after officials disclosed that three white men had been arrested in connection with the beating of Rev. James Reeb, a Boston, Mass., clergyman who was assaulted last night. Reeb is near death in a Birmingham hospital as a result of multiple skull fractures. He and two other white clergymen were set upon after they left a Negro restaurant. All three had participated in a mass march yesterday led by King. MARCH YESTERDAY LED BY KING SELMA, ALA.-News of the prayer march swept through the estimated 600 demonstrators who were assembled at Brown's Chapel. Many were about to leave in disappointment because earlier marches had stopped short of their goal. Hosea Williams, one of King's top aids, brought news that the Negro leadership had decided on another march. Williams told the crowd that when they reached the troopers this time to tell them: "You beat us, or arrest us, or let us through." Demonstrators were asked to come prepared to "stay all night." A heavy force of State troopers and local police still blocked the street on both sides of the church where the meeting was held. This put one line of State troopers about 500 yards from the other line. In New York, James Farmer, head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) said Negroes would stage another march on Washington unless the Federal Government takes steps to insure voting rights in Alabama. Farmer also said that King would attempt another march on Selma next Sunday. There was no immediate violence in Selma, but tempers on both sides appeared strained to the near-breaking point. ARRESTS WITH ALABAMA SELMA, ALA., March 10.-Public Safety Director Wilson Baker announced today that three men have been charged with assault with intent to murder and a fourth is being sought in connection with attack last night on three white ministers. The three arrested are William Stanley Hoggle, 36, R. B. Kelley, 30, and Elmer Cook, 41, all of Selma. A warrant was issued for the fourth man who was not identified. Baker said they were being held without bond while the Rev. James Reeb of Boston, Mass., remains in critical condition at a hospital in Birmingham. He was one of those beaten last night. Baker said the men were associated together in a used car business in Selma, but would give no further details about the three. Selma police made the arrests with the cooperation of State authorities and the FBI. Baker announced the arrests at a news conference in front of the Brown Chapel Church. CORE-WITH ALABAMA NEW YORK, March 10.-Negro Civil Rights Leader James Farmer today threatened a second nationwide march on Washington unless President Johnson orders Federal marshals and FBI agents to protect voting rights demonstrators in Selma, Ala. Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, said CORE chapters throughout the Nation have been alerted to prepare for a call Sunday for a march on the Nation's Capital. If the call is issued, he said the march would be set for early next week. Farmer said that CORE members and members of the student nonviolent coordinating committee plan to stage a march through the streets of New York City on Sunday afternoon in protest to Alabama brutality. He said he understood another march would be staged in Selma at the same time. "The President has not lived up to our expectations in Selma," Farmer said. "We have to keep up pressure even to keep our friends honest.' Specifically, Farmer asked the Johnson administration to order Federal marshals and FBI agents to make arrests in Selma and elsewhere in the South for civil rights violations. He also urged administration support for a bill introduced by Representative William Fitts Ryan, Democrat, of New York, to make it mandatory on the President to establish Federal registrar offices wherever they are needed in the South and to limit voting restrictions concerning age, residence, and sanity. "I consider our Nation is facing a grave constitutional crisis," he said. "The Federal Government has not lived up to its responsibilities." He said the Government must bear responsibility for attacks on three white ministers in Selma and the Federal court also must bear responsibility for its refusal to issue a court order restraining State police from turning back Negro marchers. "This was encouragement to hooliganism," Farmer said. Farmer returned from Selma today. He had participated in yesterday's march. "When I looked on the faces of the State troopers, I saw hostility and contempt and a belief they must be right," he said. He compared the Alabama State troopers to white mercenaries he saw on a recent trip to the Congo Republic. "The look on the faces of both said the same thing—'We've got to make these Niggers disappear,'" he said. APPENDIX III BOB SIEGRIST AND THE NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1965 As previously reported, Newsman Victor Riesel recently revealed that the DuBois Clubs of America are the "Communist youth apparatus" to whom, on February 7, the U.S. Communist Party-from a Chicago meeting dispatched "directives" calling for a campaign of telegrams to Washington and of street demonstrations across the country. The objective, said Riesel, was to demand "the withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam." This, "within a few hours after U.S. Navy aircraft retaliated against North Vietnam's dynamiting of American personnel" in South Vietnam. Riesel added, "This drive for 'withdrawal' was immediately coupled with a campaign to spark a national series of youth demonstrations to popularize the (slogan), 'I Won't Fight Even if Drafted'." "Not in decades," said Riesel, "has the Communist Party launched so ambitious a drive." Also as previously reported, Newsman Fulton Lewis, Jr., recently revealed that the DuBois Clubs of America were founded, last June, in San Francisco in implementation of orders by Communist Party Boss Gus Hall for "a new Marxist youth organization." Lewis cited "a confidential Government report" which, among other things, said, "Communist Party members are active at all levels of the DuBois Clubs organization," and "Many sons and daughters of leading Communist Party members are active in the DuBois Clubs." Beyond that, Lewis revealed that "top American Communists recently met in Moscow to map ** *** plans" for ("the 9th World Youth Festival, scheduled for Algiers in August"). Lewis said that in that Moscow meeting, those "top American Communists learned from the party's organizational secretary, Mortimer Daniel Rubin, that leaders of the DuBois Clubs would direct recruiting for" that Communist-dominated meeting in that capital city of Communist-backed Ben Bella's Socialist-run Algeria. Lewis added: "Another DuBois Club official, Carl Bloice, conferred recently with festival officials in Moscow." He said, "Bloice" is the "publications director" for the DuBois Clubs, and that Bloice "doubles as a reporter for the west coast Communist organ, the People's World." Against this background supplied by two of the Nation's most distinguished and knowlegeable anti-Communist reporters, let us consider the following development here in Madison this week. Eugene Dennis, Jr., and Mike Eisenscher, both sons of former Communist Party leaders, brought to the University of Wisconsin campus a man whom they identified as national chairman of the DuBois Clubs of America, Philip Davis, of San Francisco, and a |