SATURDAY. :SEPTEMBER 22: 1962 3 . . l ole*ise Officials Cleared of Contempt MERIDIAN, Miss. ap) U.S. Dist: Judge Sidney Mize cleared three University of Mississippi of- Eelsls of contempt charges yester day in the James H. Meredith de segregation case. t The judge held that "all pow ers were vested solely and con clusively in the hoard of trustees and direct officials of the uni versity." The faces of the three defend ants chancellor John, D. Wil liams, liberal arts dean Arthur B. Lewis and registrar Robert B. Ellis—broke into wide . smjles when. the:. judge ruled at the end of a three-hour hearing.. The 13 members of the state college board named by the judge as the ones with the real power in the matter—are sched uled for a hearing themselves on contempt ,charges in the sth 'U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans Monday.: • - The Justice Department moved against both groups the three COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF MEETING Old Staffers Only . Attenciance Compulsory 128 Sackett Sunday, 23 - 8:00 THE DAILY C school' officials and the trustees —in the wake of Govi-Ross Barn ett's -refusal to register the 29- year-old Negro Thursday. Barnett, clothed in the authori ty of the state college board and acting as registrar, •handled the matter personally in a meeting with Meredith on the campus. In turning away Meredith. he defied the orders' of-three federal courtsranging all, the way up to the U.S. - Sup reme Court that Meredith must be .admitted and 114 years of segregation at the in stitution must fall. Despite the fact that •the 64- year-old governor took it upon himself to reject-Meredith's appli cation, the Justice !Department ignored him completely in aim ing its legal counter7punches. Instead it sought contempt cita tions against the persons actually named in the court order the university officials Send the board members. UNIVERSOY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA • Guido Recovers -. lthm . Collapse I BUINOS AIRES (N) Presi dent Jose Maria Guido dramatic ally asserted his authority over warring Argentine army , factions last night and ordered an end to hostilities that threatened. to en gulf. the . nation in civil war. hißounding back after a siege of tigue, the 52-year-old president pUblicly fired two loyalist army generals who had been named by rebels as part of a military clique that planned a military dictator-1 alifti in this key South American' nation. Guido's announcement In a nationwide radio address gave indication he was switching his allegiance to rebel forces. I The chief of the military rebels, Gen. Juan Carlos Ongania, broad cast a warning to loyalist troops in the. Buenos Aires area to sur render or face air bombardment. The warning was ignored, how ever, and ' Ongania's deadline passed without incident. GUIDO. making round-the-clock efforts to settle the four-day strug gle among the army generals, collapsed at Government House. He was attended by Dr. Tibui cio Padilla, public health minister and a heart specialist. Friends said Guido was baffled after seven months of trying to reconcile differences among the military commanders who ousted his friend, 'Arturo Frondizi, from the presidency. Guido holds the powers of a strong man but has the spirit of a compromiser. Within a few hours altar he pro claimed a cease-fire, ri , fal army commanders opened up a new bat tle of communiques that left the president where he was when the crisis erupted four days ago—only this time leaning toward the reb els favoring strict canstitutiorial government and elections ass soon as possible. The president had fired his whole Cabinet and the top ;mili tary leaders earlier in an Wirt to appease the rebels who cherged that he was being used as a stooge in their plot to set up a military dictatorship. THERE WERE also reporte yes terday of shooting In Florentio Varela. a quiet suburban town south of the capital. The reports could not be confirmed. PAGE .7)4REE
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