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-o “about 22 “hours of testimony. | The comnettas adjourned at a.m. subject to gah of Chane man Barton Dement of Mur- freesboro, The panel is due to report to the legislature Tues- day. The committee dies with adjournment of the legislature. Most of today's bearing was aimed at the school's financial polictes, Rep, J. Alan Hanover, an attorney, questioned Horton closely on the school’s bank ac- counts and deposits with a sav- {ngs and loan association in Cal- ifornia, Horton said the school had a total of about $28,000 on deposit. He was vague abont Interest rates, end agreed to produce a complete audit for the committee. The Wednesday afternoon ses- sion Was highlighted | by testi- mony of Arkansas Atty, Gea. Bruce Bennett. Bennett, a Vanderbilt. Univer- sity echoo! of Jaw graduate, told the five-man Senate-House com- uiiste: that he believes High- lander is Communist dominated and the Reds have had a hand in stirring up racial “unrest in the South. Myles Horton, §4-year‘old di- rector and founder of the school, lecated near Monteagle, is sched- uled to return to the stand this morning. Horton, who spent nearly five hours testifying Wednesday, has denied that he js a Communist ‘or hag any communistic lean- mgs. He maintains that the Communists dislike. Highlander. PL ae *Theas Characters’ Bennett Mnked “these charac- ters" either with, Highlander or Pete “Reegzer, Chattanooga guttartst- -singer, who has taken part in Highiander activities; cited 66 times for subversive ae- tivities. The Rex Claude. Paris, Ark. unfrocke terfan ‘minister, who espoused jand feform in Arkansas sim- ifar td the Chinese Communists; clted 25 or 30 times for aubver sive activities. Luctated&och, former head of the now défunct=Gommon eolth Colle Mena, ATE., whic ci@Sed as a nuisance, and wid 4o be a friend of Horton's. JameesDombrowski, bead of tha golthem Conference on y- man Welfare which closed dow! after ‘belrig placed on subversive Liew, aw pend of successor group Southern Conference Hdu- cation Fund of New. Orleans; charter signer of Highlander, cited for subversive activities “& times. tA. flliams of Presby- | | pe F |e | | | | gskggee Dean chdries ee linn, dean of Tuskege® Ala, Institute, “mem of Highlander execiltive who was instrumental egro professor to find “soft spots” Aubre 4, NOW “ publish- er of odical in Birming- ham/)-@iosely ddentified with Highlander a spéaker at its o5th annivefsary celebration in 1957; for subversive ac- tivitles 28/times. ee Abné egro,_-Hetitified a Confmunist, who attended an- * versary celebration; cited 2 times. ee morch, active in evi pete cial disturt- ance; -once connected with Fisk University and Highlander per- ticlpants; once took the Fifth Amendment before o Federal dn- vestigating committee when quérjed sbout Commupist eon- nections. . Tia A The Arkansas orricial charged that Horton attended a secret North Carolina meeting which espoused revolutionary ideas. “The Highlander Folk School,” he said, “keeps pretty close to the party Une and in clone touch with Communist fronts.” United Front " Bennett also aaid that Horton in 1935 took an active interest . _jn the United Front, a combiner tion of the Socialist and Com- | ir | ite.” po ‘ounist parties "whose objective ‘was to overthrow our way of ” Referring to Arkansas integra- tion troubles and closed-down Commonwealth College, Bennett said, “the same events have oc: curred in our state which have been unfolded in your state. “You people certainly have a, problem here.” | . He stated that an ‘arkansas in- vestigative committee recently found “subversive connections In ~ racial unrest, * He said §50,000 . was spent promote” .Tacial | atrife in Arl Ed Friend, a photographer for.. the Btate of Georgia, who tnfil- trated the achoo] to report to the | Georgia Commission on Educa- + tion said Highlander “is sud- versive to the way I have been - taught to live in America.” me te interracial Photos . Friend took both atili and mov-. ing pictures of interracial activi- ties at the school. "The motion pictures showed whites” and Ne- groes swimming together. Friend said his wife, who at- tended some of the Highlander sessions with him, was “go a “gusted she cried.” Ajso here on invitation of e conmimittee ts Joseph A. Malone, i an asaistant state attorney, gene eral from AJabama. ; :