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Monday A.Ctermon. September 23, !957Governors AgreeContinued trim Page Oneance of an order by Acting Gov. i Nathan Gordon for 30 state police to surround Little Rock’s Central ,High School, where Negro stii*' dents may seek entrance today.PRESERVED PEACEFaubus. the lion of this confer-'ence, evidently looked upon this a? a victory for his contention that he had acted primarily to preserve the peace when he called out the National Guard two weeksIago to surround the school.1 He withdrew the Guard, which■lhad prevented Negro students from entering, alter a conference* ’with President Eisenhower and in i compliance with a federal courtorder.Faubus’ action centered attention on him here. But his colleagues gave him gingerly admiration and, with the exception of Gov. Raymond Gary of Oklahoma,* tri£d to steer clear of any controversy over the touchy school : |irtegration issue.Gov. Luther H. Hodges of North Carolina, chairman of the conference. told a news conference that *t would do no good for the gov-; ernors to discuss le integration : issue in their formal program. He said there was no ‘‘basic agree**ment” among them on the mat- ' — ter.”Points Towards Camp Site .... j. Garv made that evident by tell-l\Standing beside a mail box, Sheriff J. J. Wittmann points to a wooded area in DeSoto National newsmen that regardless of‘Forest where Cowboy Dale Morris said he hid out for nearly a month following his break from: personai jfeelings of the gov-the Harrison County jail. Officers said Morris stated it was by this box that he was let out of = fs , fest ™ing *?r every*an automobile the night of his escape and where he was met by Preston Rellew and Douglas]. ua if ,start Setting readyThomas. Shown with Sheriff Wittmann are Chief Deputy Archie Fairlev, center, and Deputy; aJ*e , Supreme Court Claude Miller.—(Herald Photo by Smith). ~ tend ” W IS ^ °f ****FLORIDA SITUATIONCollins said “we are keeping our fingers crossed” in Florida, where there has not yet been any integration. He said he believes the prevailing sentiment in the na- . tion—including the South — “belie v^es that the decisions of the United States Supreme Court afp the law of the land and insists that ours be a land of the law.”“It does not sanction violence, defiance and disorder,” he said. “Above all, it abhors hate.“The Southern leader who understands and accepts these facts ; will iind himself not opposed to , national sentiment but in harmony with it. He who does not might as well stay home.“If the South should wrap it-1self in a Confederate blanket and consume itself in racial furor, it would surely miss its greatestopportunity for channeling into a wonderful future the products of change now taking place. And we should face up to the further factthat it would also bury itself politically for decades to come.” Collins said the country now is j choosing up sides politically on a j national, rather than a sectional,; basis. He said the South no longer* can be considered in the bag for* any political party.For 'this reason, he argued, a Southerner can be elected president if he has “forceful, absolute and unquestioned” allegiance to the national interest and welfare.McKeidin said the South canhave a successful presidential candidate only if it “accepts a full voting membership in thetwo-party system of the sisterhood of states.”“When the Southern states stop County Attorney Hewes resides, or making political affiliation a sort Wiggins, residence of the district , ternp°ral state religion and^ 'attorney, the three officials re-'wh«“ he rlclUzef£ declare theirvealed. Morris said the plan would polltlcal independence in state andmake it difficult ior him to escape county el?i’tions as well as occa-Continusd from Page One i Johnson, ostensibly to ask her to and might miss with a pistol, ‘ ^a b' jjdP an 6effective Darty^ofcome to the iail but actually to ask according to the three officials. ?,nd Duim an e“ective party ot“And wp have am ole witnesses . e P , tbe opposition, the national con-' and testimony to bear it out ” the woman if the jail escape plans Morris told the officials several vention delegates of both parties1 a * . A f . were all set. alternate plans were suggested. He wm beein to weigh with more sin-2“ 9 i Assured plans were ready. Mor- waK quoted by the investigators cCv The virtues ToSh?.Cl. ,u • Vris allegedly told Cuevas the two as'sa'inS tha* Bel lews offered to statesmen,” he said,tj Sheriff Wittmann said the j a i l,girs were on their wav and ‘-he provide an automatic shotgun With obvious reference to thel escape plan, and subsequent at- would uke to be placed on the sun loaded with five rounds of h i g h- controversy on integration, Hodgestempted murder plot. originated roof wajt for his,” Wittmann de-’P°wered buckshot and a driver to sajd he doesn’t believe anv South-while Morris and Bel lew occupied clared. take Morris to the officials’ resi-.erner will be elected president in^adjoining cells- ‘c the Harrison j Qnce on tbe sunroof and ajter denees. 1960. But he said the time is com-f .^usine Va Hav room adjacent \o the^'1e Jader had returned downstairs. PLANNED TO WIRE CAR ing when the South will have aius!fg,f ^ room adjacent to ,jviorris secured the concealed bolt Finally, Morris stated. Tommy major candidate and will see himcell block j cutters and cut a hole in the wire Beiiew came up with a plan to placed in the White House.He said Beiiew began to talk to:mesh 0f the exercise cage. wire Holleman’s car with dyna- The governors scheduled as the'Morris about helping the Montanan: The officials said Morris told m^te which would explode when opening topic of discussion the'get out of jail on bond “in them he pulled the cut wire in to the ignition switch was turned, more effective use of existing edu-exchange for a favor” after the him, and slipped out through the the officials related. cational facilities'* This revolved^ cowboy’s third trial in Hancock hole, taking the bolt cutters with About four weeks after the jail;around the proposal for use oft'County Circuit Court in Bay St. him. They said the husky ex-cow- escape, Morris said Peggy Goude- schoolrooms throughout the year.Louis had ended in a mistrial. . boy crept across an enclosed run- lock, a former Gulfport woman1; Hodges and others indicated there PLOTTED MURDER i way connecting the new jail build- who had become Morris’ girl would be a determined effort toAlter Morns was refused bond dig with the courthouse, entered friend while the cowboy was in prevent the injection of the inte-e by Judge Grant in an April 29 va- the °ld jury room, stepped into the jail, came back from Caiiforn a gration question into this discus-h cation hearing in which the jurist second-floor courtroom and drop- after being informed by Ruth'sion.r\ opined “the proof of the guilt of Ped through a window to the Johnson ol Morris’ whereabouts. : * 1... ft M n JDale Morris’ Camp Site . . .Sheriff's Deputy Claude Miller points to spot where Cowboy Dale Moms directed officers today in the White Plains community. Morris said he camped here nearly a month before he and a woman companion fled westward to subsequent arrests. Other officers shown, left to right, Deputy E. T. Vincent, Deputy H. R. Richards, Chief Deputy Archie Fairley, and Sheriff J, J. Wittmann.—(Herald Photo by Smith).MorrisEscapenRECEIVES RELIGIOUSCITATION.«:« automobile driven by the Negro, The ^iau had sald sng ,irst tional guide, for contribution’ too£ met Morris in the stockyard sec- world Christian fellowship.^the prisoner is evident.” fittiVFV »v mfpro Holloman acknowledged this in-propositioned Morris that he would DRIVEN Bi NEGRO formation contradicted a story toMj!help him escape providing Morris pre-arrange ,?^ris dy the Goudeiock woman following! NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP —!would kill Holleman and Hewes, IT ? . ua^ pas^ , Markham ,jier arrest last Aug. 19 at Idaho Chicago Artist Warner SallmanI the sheriff said. Hotel swimming p°° . immediately Fallslt; Idahoon a charge of har- has received a citation from Xha Holleman said Morris ^ ie coiirthouse. and found,boring Morris. Upper Room, international deyo-‘ stated Beiiew bragged “aoout be-a!l automobile driven by the‘Negro,[' ing able to handle a jurv in Ha;- ^huny Brewer. waiting for hime rison County” and that ‘‘he had ™ ^ tlT tat^ u! ForL Wui'th' Te* ’ but Sallman painted the wi d e 1 y^ been able to keep from being in- ment Holleman commented, P e g g y known Head of Chri§t. ine.del°le- .. Holleman said Morris stated thefhe whole story. Rev. Di. J. ^lann^n^R^i^s*e; Morris quoted Beiiew as say: ig Negro drove Morns to a mailbox- Following the Goudeiock worn- tor of The Upper Koom, saiaK “it looked like the only way he near t|ie preston Beiiew residence an*s return to Mississippi, Morris more than 60 million reproduc-lt;Bellew could get his feet on the,jn tjle thinly-settled White Plains said ttie woman persuaded him tions of the work have been sold -:ground was to kill Holleman, a:id|community on Highway 57 about not 10 attempt ihe planned assas- in many lands.“ Hewes was just as bad after him'12 miles north of Biloxi where Mor- xinations and the pair began mak- The Upper Room is published)land he wanted to get the pair of1 ris got out and whistled as a sig- ing plans to get away from the by the Methodist General Boardthem.” _ nal. ' Beiiews, it was brought out. ,oi Evangelism.County Prosecutor Hewes said Morris, the officials said, was The opportunity came about--=r^-=.^=======:.-.-.: ^The .statement showed Belliw then met by Preston Beiiew and Doug- July 16 when, Holleman said, Mor- ris was later extradited to Mis-1 began making arrangements for a]las Thomas who gave the cowboy ris and Mrs. Goudeiock took the sissippi to fact a fourth murder pair of bolt cutters to be brought two sacks ol groceries and led him woman’s car, which had been con- trial in Bay St. Louis, into the jail by Ruth Johnson—a' into heavy timber behind the Pres- cealed in underbrush near the The Goudeiock woman told Hoi-j frequent visitor to Beliew s jail ton Beiiew house. Preston Beiiew house, and drove leman and Wittmann from a jailI cell. 1 They said the next day Douglas off under cover of darkness from cell in Boise, Idaho, that she andBROUGHT CUTTERS Thomas brought Morris two jugs the forest camp where Morris had Morris “lived like animals” whileThe county attorney said the of water and a .22 caliber woods- been hiding for over a month. iieeing and said she left Moms at .Johnson woman carried the bolt ir»an s pistol. # DROVE .WEST Jackson, Wyo., after Morris al-eutters to Beiiew concealed in her. “at®r restcJa Bellcny allegedly with the .22 caliber and .45 call- legedly heather in a drunken rage,'purse on a night visit. The visit d Moms, Now ueve helped der pistols ceoncealed beneath the culminating a series of physical was pre-arranged by Beiiew and £«« a‘‘d you td car seat, the pair drove westward abuses.a night jailer, Levi Cuevas. lt;Cuev- ^ n noiieman and aiong a route through Saucier, Ne- In another important develop-as was fired by Sheriff Wittmann, . , . , icaise Crossing, then followed the.ment in the fast-moving cse, Morfor violating orders following tlieir.hs.nppc ,/An QnH v_u Lyman-Poplarville highway, Mor- ris led Sheriff Wittmann and dep-jail escape). . Sve one at him Pr “,nnl'v! ris told the officials. ,uties. Archie Fairley. Claude Mil-Hewes said today Sheriff Witt- , Mnrric’ in Eventually they arrived at Fort ler, E. P. Vincent, and H. R. Rich-mann had been directed to bring ,____, ® , Worth where they stopped for ajards today to his former forest hidwhile before continuing a flight!away where the officers recoveredthrough western states which; the rusted bolt cutters which Mor-evantualiy led to the Goudeiock1 ris said he had concealed after cut-in Cuevas for further investigation ^°wboy s three trials which on the former jailer’s part in ther^e dlstrict attorney had prosecut-occurrence.curieuue. I ___ . evaniuauy iea 10 me vjuuaeiucts. ns saia ne naa wuvcdicu divcx 1,-Sheriff Wittmann noted previous] J™ s^d woman’s arrest in Idaho and Mor I ting his way out of the county jail.reports that Morris had used the!^e^™ ' J® C^Kb^irPiS4w1 »»WuS pretense of receiving a’long dis-!n0 p stdl f°r a Job hke hetance t^lepone call to get out of *uL° au,’°.‘cell an'd stage the midnight escape madc w lch had been concealed were erron^uc somewhere “m a rusty can.”ul SjffiSwtt* now in pos- ,session of the officials showed, in- j M°ms stated he laid low or stead, that Morris had tricked1 adout 11 days in a heavily-timber-Night Jailer Cuevas into thinking ed section of the DeSoto Nationalarrangements had been made fori Forest near the Preston Beiiew two women to visit the jail—4ione 1 house and £oth Preston and hisbrother, Tommy Beiiew, visitedhim and became more insistent that Morris go through with the assassination plan.Morris bodged, telling the Bel-lews he was not familiar with thefor Morris and one for Levi.REMOVED FROM CELLWittmann said Cuevas removed K iris from hit third-floor jail cell at 12 p.m. on June 6 and took Morris to the jailer’s desk downstairs wherfe Morris telephoned Ruth‘roads around Gulfport, whereOPEN TOMORROW NIGHT UNTIL 9AtMERC HIST ON-HALLFOR FURNITURE — DRAPERIES AND CARPETSEASY CREDIT PLaN!No Money Down —SC Months To Pay!
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