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———— | Brent _Buge nt_ Bu agksdale,. 22, of Los Sar dgeies: Guy Hughes|- penne tare 32, also of Los entertainer with] 4 IAT HAGHEANDER: -4 mony ADDECTRD INR AIA 1 Th RAID and musician, and Perry Mac- . Kaye@turges, $4, Shelter Island |: Heights, N.Y. Loa ape dls Padlock Petition Against} ‘me men, as well as others “at the school, had been participating | School Being Prepared |i ee ihe regular summer After Whisky Found workshops conducted by the insti- ——— tution which has admitted its Special fo The Chattenoooa Times strong advocacy of racial ‘integra- MONTEAGLE, Tenn.—-Armed] tion. .jwith search warrants obtaine Atty. Gen. Sloan said the pad- late Friday night from a jus-liock petition against the school tice of the peace at his home,twould be presented to Circuit and state officers Jed) Judge C. C. Chattin, explaining iby Dist. Atty. Gen. A. F. Sloan|that the school then would have): raided the controversial High-/tive days to appear in cour? and/: Jander Folk School near here. answer the petition. and broke up a banquet attend-' e attorney general saig his, ed by 30 or more Negro couples petiffon ‘‘in all likelihood’ } and several white persons. | Sel Pere Eleven, Column One —_" ‘ Jeadera from throughout the na- ‘denied repeatedly any Commu- f ' Stiehlander : many years has beck oustating alectrefiing school for labor tion, but especially in the South, ‘and has pushed openly for a speed-up in school integration in the Southern states. Moat of: the seminars and workshops st} : Highlander are operated on an. ‘ Integrated basis. Charges that the school has, Communistic leanings were ex- plored rather thoroughly by the| legisiative committee, several members of which felt teat the ultra-liberal positions of High- lander officlals place them in the cless of “Ieft-wingers.” Hor- ton and others on the ataff have nist connections and the inv tiggtora failed to turn up reg proof to support the char, T committee, however, ; regjmmend that the schoogs, status as ea tax-exempt inst!-/ tiitian ba tution be ended and its charter revoked, i Should Judge Chattin sustain: the attorney general's plea for ACs ae All were released early Sat-) : urday morning after posting’: \cash bonds for appearance atl, in preliminary hearing next/| |Thursday at 4 p.m. in Alta. moni, presumably before Squire| John P, Wright, who issued the search warrants. ry Mrs, Clark’s bond was set at $500 on the whisky posses- The men. rélessed aah th, Plat | at ah sion charge. under bond of $250 each on charges of drunkenness, inter- fering witieweiiigars and resist- | ing arrest, were identified as|| { Sloan disclosed Saturday that / , oToss sas er asew —Tpadlocking the school, the order me tc was preparing a padlo k A RESTED IN R4ID would remain in effect until the! — jBetition againet the school, go| October term of circult court ife presented in court “wi ' From Page One when another hearing would be; | ‘he next few days.” . —_—— be acheduled on the question of: er ig ' : wr also Include a request for an or-[making the order permanent, | Mrs. Septima P.“Clark, der that the charter of Highlander} Sloan said Saturday that he The Chatta—- jwho identified herself aa a be revoked. If such en order were had no intention of denying i} nooga Times rector of education at the. issued, It would be directed to the | Patentalan et the school, but! i | 8-2-59 ‘school, was placed under ar- secretary of state. n, nt i one reat after officers discovered| A logisiative tnvetgnting| Sha prokibit thelr eentinued : Page 1 lon the of whisky and gin! committee earlier this year con-ipse as gathering places and sites’ }) | Chattanooga, on the property. cluded its probe of the school: for the institution's regular op- Tennessee | Tpree young men, who re-h by urging action leading toward | Tetons, ay, f iportedly interfered with the of-|| revocation of the charter. _ 7 eeeeeeee i Me ebdn ec ficera in their efforts to take|/ gioan said he would charge in | MaLeiite we +s Clark into custody, also|! nis padiock petition that the Ochs , Editor were arrested and taken to the, school is a “public nuisance” and ! ‘|Grundy County jail in Alta-! is “enga fn law violations” mont ’ v4 o cceweing “and serving whisky ! i Knoxville Balescad an Bend and other intoxicating beverages | office in a dry county. t Mrs, Clark, an elderly Negro woman, was the only school offi- cial present when the raiding party arrived late Friday night, Myles Horton, director of the] school, reportedly is abroad with his family. Mrs. Clark told officers she was in charge in Horton's ab- sence. «wointng Sloan in ‘the ‘raid were Elston Clay, Grundy County sher- iff; Kenneth Shelton, Tennessee | reau of Criminal Identification; | county deputies nee emamlers ol | the highway patrol. ALL INFORM ATION CONTAINED ~~ | HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE able BY SP§ = rh oy eta