Hostile Crowd Jeers HUAC-Produced Film

A hostile, jeering crowd filled up even the standing room in 2 Divinity Ave, yesterday, to see an NROTC-sponsored showing of a movie prepared by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The film. "Operation Abolition," shows "communist-inspired" students demonstrating last May against the Committee's San Francisco hearings. Its aim is to counteract the recent movement among certain liberal groups to abolish the Committee.

NROTC students (who were in uniform, since the showing was this week's drill for them) sat in a body in the front section of the auditorium. They were much more subdued than the civilian" rear sections, which kept up a steady fire of laughter, hisses and cheers for the demonstrating students. At no time, however, was the film inaudible, and there were no incidents of violence...