Show POLICE GUARD SCHOOL AFTER RIOT STUDENTS HURl EGGS AND ST STONES AT DES President of Board Orders College Closed Indefinitely In definitely 3 4 h FACULTY A OUSTED Trustees Se Seek k Safety ty Ber Be Be- r t hind Closet Doors DES MOINES May 11 AP- AP AP Dr T. T T. T Shields president of the board of trustees of Des Moines university tonight ordered the in institution institution in- in closed indefinitely and placed it under police protection after a mob of students students' disrupted the closing session of th the board The controversy that caused th the discharge of or the entire faculty Including in including including in- in President Harry Wayman V was brought to a climax tonight when students stormed the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration building where th the board was meeting They threw y stones and eggs breaking windows and wrecking furniture and were not quelled until a a. p police riot call caR brought a dozen o officers r to the campus SEEK SAFETY Meanwhile trustees sought safety safety safety safe- safe ty in a closet One board oard member it was reported was held captive for a a. while by students No un undergraduates undergraduates under under- cr- cr graduates graduates' had had b been a st to- to tonight night DK Sl Shields Edith M. M U 11 s secretary the or-the board boari bo rd were taken to to police headquarter for safety prep preparatory atory to leaving Dc Deg Moines tonight The Tius Baptist Bible Dible Union of ot North America which controls the school will meet Tuesday at Buffalo N. N Y yin Y in annual convention At this meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing the university's fate probably will be decided it was understood tonight Dr Shields and Miss neb Keb- man are believed d to be planning to attend DES MOINES la Ia May ray 11 United Unit Unit- I ed I Protesting stud students at at Des Moines Moines Moines' university late today rioted in front of the administration administrationS building building- hurling eggs at the rooms where the board of trustees were meeting About twenty windows inthe inthe in- in the building were broken The meeting resulted from announcement an lm- n that all nIl forty faculty m members of oJ the university and President II It C C. Wa Wayman man had been asked to resign when their contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts empire e. The trouble arose over the old fundamentalist modernist fundamentalist modernist contro contro- vers versy The university is 19 controlled b by b 1 the tha Baptist union Dr T. T 1 I T T. T Sili Shields ld p president e nt of oJ the tle board of trustees who demanded the resignations was was the principal figure figure figure fig fig- fig fig- ure at whom the students directed their indignation Dr Shields was talking with newspaper men in in the administration tion building when the riot oc occurred oc- oc lie had just concluded telling the reporters that all fraternities fraternities fra Ira at the university will wall be abolished after June I 1 An meeting e earlier Inthe in inthe inthe the day was broken up when Dr Shields called the thc p police lice Dr Shields came camo here here- from Canada Canada Canada Can Can- ada a short time ago and there followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed immediately immediately-an an Inquiry to dc dc- Continued on page 9 STUDENTS HURL EGGS AND STONES I AT DES MOINES U. U Continued C from page i. i termine how many members of the faculty were strict fundamentalists Several teachers resigned The board of ot trustees held firmly with Dr Shields Students Students' at a amass amass amass mass meeting demanded demand cd his resignation resignation nation and that of Miss Edith M M. Rebman secretary of the tho board loard of ot control The students charged that the two had instigated a spy system to learn whether they held ld fundamentalist beliefs and declared that Dr Shields was using Canadian students who followed him here from Toronto as his spies Many of ot the students wore small American flags in their lapels as a protest Friday ay the board met to consider I the appeals by the students and after a session lasting lasting- g. g until early this morning the board members declared declared de do- dared themselves entirely In to n accord with Dr Shields They refused to consider demands for his resignation tion or Miss 1 Rebman's and announced announced an they repudiated with Indignation indignation indignation indig Indig- nation the espionage charges The Tho report that seven members of the faculty and S. S C. C Wayman Waynan president of the university had been dismissed precipitated the near riot riol today Students congregated d on the campus and for tor a time It was vas feared they would do violence Cries oJ of Lets get Shields sounded through the university grounds Dr Wayman pleaded with th the students to They cheered him but refused to do so Then Dr Shields called caned the police poUce The students students students stu stu- dents saw the officers coming and anc the meeting adjourned The announcement from the board of directors stated documents deans and students Were examined in liv its its' session It declared red the tho situation arose because of of bitter personal personal persona antagonism which was the result of an obviously deliberate and malicious malicious malicious ma ma- licious attempt to to impair the usefulness usefulness useful useful- ness of Dr Shields and Miss Reb Reb- man It was reported that Shields had sought dismissal of ot the faculty on charges of indiscreet utterances the context of which was not di- di closed Three board hoard members charged Shields with asking the resignations without cause and and they accused Miss Rebman of- of exceeding of-exceeding her authority authority au au- and embarrassing 6 ing the teach teach- ers As 5 yet no formal requests forthe for tor the faculty resignations have been made public |