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VOL. 68, No. 107
from the associated press
j News Roundup: 1
| From the State, j
j Nation & World jr
The World
N, Vietnam Hit in Largest U. 5. Raid
SAIGON U.S. fighter-bombers, in the year’s biggest
raid on the North, have hammered its southern panhandle
in an effort to Mow the flow of men and supplies to South
Vietnam, the American command said yesterday.
After 45 missions Thursday, the command said first
checks showed, the planes destroyed or damaged 4 bridges,
13 trucks and 16 supply ships, cut bridges and roads in
many places and touched off explosions and fires that in
dicated fuel and ammunition dumps were hit.
In South Vietnam, Air Force 852 s launched six more
raids late Thursday and early yesterday on' the A Shau
Valley, the probable destination for many of the soldiers
and supplies moving through the panhandle.'
An enemy build-up in progress in the valley for weeks
threatens the old imperial capital of Hue 25 miles to the
northeast. The Stratofortresses dropped about 1,000 tons of
bombs on suspected troop concentrations, truck parks and
gun positiohs in the valley.
Czechs Want Proof of U.S. Goodwill
PRAGUE Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister charged
yesterday that the United States had failed to show “any
proof of good will” toward improving relations with the
new Communist leadership here. It is struggling to find
an independent course away from the Soviet Union.
“Our relations with the United States are not good,”
Foreign Minister Jiri Hajek told reporters. “The respon
sibility for this does not lie with Czechoslovakia.”
Hajek, who took his post 10 days ago, said the United
States “simply repudiated” a 1961 accord outlining princi
ples of a settlement under which 18,400 kilograms of
Czechoslovak gold were to be returned to the Prague gov
ernment.
The gold, worth around $2O million, was looted by the
Nazis and at the end of World War IT fell into American
hands. Technically, a tripartite commission created to han
dle such matters is still in charge of the gold and recent
reports indicated it might be returned to the new anti-
Stalinist government here.
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Plan to Protect Europe Too Costly
THE HAGUE, Netherlands The United States and
half a dozen Atlantic allies shelved as too costly and un
certain yesterday a plan for protecting Western Europe
by means of an antiballistic missile system.
Clark M. Clifford, the new secrecary of defense, rep
resented the United States at the meeting of the nuclear
planning group founded by his v-.cdecessor, Robert S.
McNamara. The two-day session also brought together
cabinet ministers from Britain, West Germany, Italy, Can
ada, Holland and Greece.
Their final statement said: “The ministers felt that
present circumstances did not justify the deployment of an
antiballistic missile system, in Europe, but agreed, that it
tyas-necessary to keep developments in their field under
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The United States has decided not to build such a
system for its own defense against the Soviet Union. But
it is undertaking a cheaper “thin” defense of the same
kind against Red China. It would fire missiles designed
to bring down missiles launched by the enemy.
The Nation
Cosa Nostra Figure Slain in Brooklyn
NEW YORK An ex-convict with Cosa Nostra con
nections was machine gunned in a Brooklyn luncheonette
yesterday, in a killing that bore all the earmarks of an
organized gangland rubout.
The victim, Cologero Lo Cicero, 64, known in the
underworld as “Charlit the Sidge,” was sipping coffee when
a masked man entered the luncheonette, leveled a sub
machine gun and s let go with eight bursts. Then the killer
fled.
Police sought to determine if Lo Cicero’s slaying marked
the opening of a second front in a two-year war for control
of the Cosa Nostra family of Joseph “Joe Bananas” Bonan
no, which already 1 has claimed five lives.
Lo Cicero was said by police to be a lieutenant in the
family headed by Joseph Colombo, hitherto not known to
be involved in the Bonanno family warfare. However, there
has been bad blood in the past between Colombo and
Bonanno.
Powell Predicts Negro Extermination
BIMINI, Bahamas Adam Clayton Powell said yes
terday he will launch a campaign May 4 to regain a seat in
Congress and will tell Harlem Negroes they are in danger
of extermination by whites.
“Let it be known that this week sounded tHe begin
ning of officially sanctioned genocide in America,” Powell
told newsmen called to this island where he has resided
since his ouster from Congress.
He said Chicago’s Mayor Richard J. Daley, who criti
cized police for not shooting arsonists and looters after the
killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., laid the “adminis
trative ground floor for the extermination of black people.”
“First we shoot to kill looters; we shoot to kill arson
ists,’ Powell said. “Then we shoot to maim persons for
disorderly conduct, then breach of the peace. And finally
we shoot niggers for just being niggers.”
Re-elected to Congress last year, Powell did not claim
his seat. He has asked the Supreme Court to restore his
seniority and said, “I still hope to get it back.” '
The State
Western Electric Strike Affects Beil
Communications Workers of America picketed about
400 Western Electric Co. facilities across Pennsylvania yes
terday, but Bell Telephone Co. said the strike and related
walkouts had little effect on telephone service.
Approximately 21,300 CWA workers in the state joined
a nationwide walkout.
Although there are no CWA employes working for
Bell of Pennsylvania, some unionized Bell employes re
fused to cross CWA picket lines at Bell installations. Many
Western Electric facilities are located in Bell buildings.
Despite the walkouts, said Bell, local and direct dial
long distance calls were handled by automated equipment.
There were delays, however, in calls to operators and in
installation and repair service, said Bell.
Bell said about 60 per cent of its 8,000 operators across
Pennsylvania failed to report. Most are represented by the
Pennsylvania Telephone Union.
Bell also said about 37 per cent of its 1,400 accounting
department employees reported and 90 per cent of its
2,600 business office workers showed up.
Charges Against Three Men Dropped
PHILADELPHIA Charges of plotting to murder
city officials and blow up public buildings were dropped
against three men yesterday when the court was told one
had become a worker for nonviolence in his community. •
Police commissioner Frank L. Rizzo, one of those
allegedly marked for death, has agreed to leniency, the
court was told if “it would help insure peace."
Assistant Dist. Atty. William H, Wolf Jr. told the
court that two, George Anderson,. 22, and Karl Clowers,
had, agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge—conspiracy
to breach the peace. When they were arrested, police de
scribed them as members of the Revolutionary Action
Movement, a Negro extremist group.
Charges against George Anderson’s brother, Lonnie
Anderson, 19, were dropped Friday.
, All three had been- charged after their arrest last
September with solicitation of murder and solicitation to
commit riotous destruction.
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THEY WAITED AND THEY WAITED Thursday night in the Hetzel Union Building Ball
room, -prior to the USG election result announcements. At top (right, sitting) is vice
president-elect Harv Reeder. At bottom (left) is Dick Weissman, Student-Lion Party
chairman, showing concern as the crowd (right) keeps the vigil.
Police Seek Ray in King Killing
WASHINGTON (/P) The-.elusive Eric Starve Galt,
who is wanted for the killing of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., was identified by the FBI yesterday- ; as a 40-year
old drifter and ex-convict named James Earl' Ray.
The FBI said Galt’s real identity was traced through
“a systematic and exhaustive search of latent fingerprints”
developed in the King case against the fingerprints of
more than 53,000 persons for whom wanted notices are on
file in the bureau’s identification division. •
Galt is only one of the names Ray has used in brushes
with the law which began, according to the' FBI dossier,
when he was 21.
The FBI said he has- used the names of James Mcßride,
James Walton, W. O. Herron and James O’Connor.
He was described as about 5 feet 10, weighing 163 to
174 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair and two scars:
a small scar in the center of the forehead and another on
the palm of his right hand.
At the time King was shot and killed by a sniper in
Memphis, .Tenn., April 4, Ray was being sought on a jail
breaking charge.
The FBI said he escaped on April 23, 1967, from the
Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, where he
Federal Reserve Chairman
Sees U.S. Financial Crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) A quences of a new and danger
warning that the country is "in ous “over-all boom.”
the midst of the worst financial Martin’s speech to the'edi
cnsis we have had since 1931’ tors was interpreted as an at
was issued by Chairman Wil- tempt to increase pressure on
ham McChesney Martin Jr. of Congress for the 10 per cent
the Federal Reserve Board yes- income tax surcharge request
terday. e( j by President Johnson.
Martin told the American So
ciety of Newspaper Editors that De ay Actum .
unless huge deficits and infla- lhere was some belief, how
tion are curbed in the next sev- e . v ® r - that the board’s money
eral years, the dollar could be lightening action of Thursday
borne down “in a worldwide de- might encourage some lawmak
valuation of currencies.” ? rs “ e * a y tax action longer.
r v i i, „» In an apparent effort to fore
man hour-long address, Mar- stall such delay, Martin held
tin called upon his audience of o ut hope that if ' taxes are
550 editors to marshal public raised, the credit squeeze may
support for a tax iiicrease and be lessened and a epetition of
expenditure cuts. He said the the 1966 “credit crunch” avoid
nation is plagued by “an in- ed
tolerable balance of payments
deficit, side by side with an in
tolerable domestic deficit.”
Recession or Inflation
“Both have to be corrected,
and both have to be corrected
over the next several years, or
the United States is going to
face either an uncontrollable
recession or an uncontrollable
inflation,” Martin said.
He spoke one day after the
Federal Reserve Board took
strong money-tightening action
by raising its discount rate
from 5 per cent to 5%. per cent,
the highest interest rate on
loans to commercial banks
since 1929 when the discount
hit 6 per cent.
The action is expected to
push up interest rates and
make credit scarcer through
out the economy. It was taken
on the same day that Chair
man Arthur M. Okus of the
President’s Council of Eco-.
nomic Advisers said the coun
try is suffering the conse-
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1968
Scarred
Cites Deficits, Inflation
Slave Sale
Scheduled
Gamma Sigma Sigma, na
tional service sorority, will
..ponsor a slave auction at
1:30 p.m. today. Bidding will
take place in the semi-circle
at the foot of Old Main lawn.
Laurence H. Lattman, pro
fessor of geomorpholog;, will
serve as auctioneer for the
slave sale. Girls will be
auctioned to clean apart
ments, iron shirts, wash cars
and perform other such
menial chores.
Proceeds from the auction
will go toward Gamma Sigma
Sigma’s pledge project, an
outing with an orphanage on
May 12.
Eric Starve Galt an Alias
was serving a 20-year sentence for armed robbery in.
St. Louis.
Ray, who is now being sought on a Tennessee murder
charge in the King slaying, has an arrest, record dating at
least to 1949 wljen he served time in Los Angeles on a
burglary charge.
This followed his discharge from the Army. The FBI
said he served as an enlisted man from February 1946 to
December 1948 when he received a general discharge for
ineptness and lack of adaptability.
His Army record showed a three month sentence at hard
labor for being drunk and breaking arrest, the FBI said.
The bureau’s dossier on Ray indicates he has been a
drifter since he left school in the 10th grade at Alton, 111.
He has worked as a baker, laborer and color matcher.
In 1902, according to the FBI, he was convicted in
Chicago for armed robbery and served two years in' Joliet
and Pontiac, 111. state prisons. In 1955, the FBI said, he was
convicted of forging U.S. postal money orders in Missouri
and was confined to Leavenworth penitentiary until 1958.
Longtime Con
The FBI said Ray was sent to the Missouri State Pen
tentiary on March 17, 1960, and spent some time in Septem-
Martin divided blame be
tween the administration’s
gcns-and-brtter Policy and the
“recalcitrance of Congress" in
refusing to approve a tax in
crease and spending reduc
tions.
Federal Reserve to point out
the disastrous efforts of the per
petual deficit, both in our bal
ance of payments and in our
domestic economy ” Martin
said.
In what may have been the
first public admission by a high
government official that a de
valuation of the dollar is con
ceivable, Martin sa.d: “Unless
we reverse our current trend,
it will inevitably le-d to world
wide devaluation of curren
cies."
•Perpetual Deficit
Afterward he told reporters
h e was including the dollar in
that statement but added that
he was “not making a predic
tion—we still have it within
our power to prevent this.”
He emphasized in his speech
that his diagnosis "of “the worst
financial crisis we have had
since 1931” did not mean a
business crisis, but a financial
crisis.
The difference between 1931
and today, he said, is that the
country was in a depression
then and is in an inflation now.
“We ha”e worke-', ourselves
slowly into a situation of grow
ing, perpetual deficit,” Martin
said.
At a closing banquet the
editors installed a new presi
dent—Vincent S. Jones, of the
Gannett Newspapers, Roches
ter, N.Y. Jones succeeds
Michael J. Ogden of the Provi
dence Journal-Bulletin.
West Results
Still Uncertain
By DENNIS STIMEUNG
Collegian USG Reporter
The outcome of the West Halls con
gressional race remained undecided last
night because of a controversy between the
Undergraduate- Student Government-Su
preme Court and the USG Election Commis
sion.
Edward Dench, elections commissioner,
said no re-voting will take place under the
direction of the Elections Commission.
Dan Clements, Supreme Court chief jus
tice, said an election will be run, however,
next Tuesday and Wednesday.
. Early yesterday the Supreme Court had
announced that the West Halls congres
sional election results would be discarded,
and the election-would have to be run again.
This, was the last contest to be decided in
the USG Spring Term election campaign
held Tuesday through Thursday of this week.
In the original race, the candidates were
Barry Todd of the Student-Lion Party and
Garry Wamser of the New Party. In addi
tion, Jay Hertzog entered the election as a
write-in candidate.
Clements said his decision to rerun the
contest was based on the court’s belief that
“there was a reasonable dpubt as to how
the instructions for voting for a write-in
candidate were given to students by the
Elections Commission.”
Hertzog had presented an affadavit to
the court signed by seven students- who al
legedly had been denied information on
write-in voting or had been given incorrect
information.
Dench said the Supreme Court “accepted
the charges made by those seven people
without any verification of the names and
without allowing the members of the Elec
tion Commission to refute the charges made
against them.”
Army Dropout
GEORGE L. DONOVAN
Retiring after 33 Years
Student
Affairs VP
Retires
George L. Donovan, assistant
to the.yice president for student
affairs, has retired, completing
33 years of service in student
activities at the University. .
In recognition of his service,
the 1968 La Vie, which will be
published in June, has been
dedicated to him.
Following his graduation
from Penn State in 1935 with
the bachelor of arts degree in
comerce and finance, Donovan
was named to head the Student
Union program, Which was or
ganized in 1930 to promote stu-,
dent extra-curricular activities.
On leave during World War
11, he served with the U.S.
Navy as a commissioned offi
cer. .
Returning to the campus, he
was named in 1947 to head the
Associated Student Activities
office as well as the Student
Union.
“The court deliberated on this case for'
only about 10 minutes, while spending much
more time on all other contested races,”
Dench added.
“This may be due in part to the fact
that two members of the Supreme Court
are or were members of the West Halls
Men's Residence Council, and Hertzog hap
pens to be president of West, also under
MRC,” he added. ...
Dench said he doubted that the charges
could be substantiated and added that he
was “angered because the Supreme Court
apparently did not trust the Elections Com
mission.”
A high ranking USG official informed
The Daily Collegian that Todd had defeated
Wamser in the original race by more than
a three-to-one margin. He added that Hert
zog, had received “only a handful of votes.”
. Dench said in return. that “a re-vote
will only give the second. place candidate
another chance to defeat the person who
has been.elected. This is most unfair, par
ticularly when the . write-in ' candidate re
ceived such a negligible part of the votes.”
Dench added that a new election could
change the results, because “those who
voted, in the first race may not vote again,
or Hertzog might get a sympathy vote.”
Clements answered Dench saying, “If
the first election was unfair, then the re
sults should possibly be changed.”
Dench said that any new election in
West Halls “will not be conducted under
the direction of the Elections Commission.”
He added, “The current president of USG
must appoint a new commission before
such an election can be held.”
Clements took exception to this state
ment and said, “An election in West Halls for
two days will only require about four or
five persons. We will not need the Elections
Commission;”
her 1966 in the maximum'security w'ard : at'the state hos
pital in Fulton, Mo.
The FBI said Ray has listed his birth date as March 10,
1928, and his birthplace as Illinois.
The city'clerk at Alton, 111., Paul A. Price, said a
James Earl Ray was born there on March 10, 1928, the son
of a laborer.
The principal at Alton Senior, High School said his
records showed three James Rays attended the school dur
ing the period Ray would have been there, and he was
trying to determine whether any of them was the man iden
tified by the FBI as Galt.
The bureau did not say what set of fingerprints in the
King case was matched with those of Ray, but it is pre
sumed that prints wOre found on a rifle dropped near the
scene of the killing as well as in the furnished room oc
cupied by the sniper.
The FBI also has reported recovering a white Mustang
automobile in Atlanta, Ga., believed to have been used by
the killer.
In a warrant obtained by the FBI Wednesday, the fugi
tive was accused of conspiring with an individual “alleged
to be his brother” to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimi
date Martin Luther King Jr.”
Hanoi Rejects
10 New Sites
TOKYO (IP) A North’ Vietnamese Foreign Ministry'
spokesman charged yesterday that Washington is engaged
in a “peace swindle” and practically wrote off 10 new U.S.-
suggested sites for preliminary talks. - ■
Secretary of-State Dean Rusk Thursday suggested l
Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Ceylon, Finland, Italy,
Japan, Malaysia, Nepal or Pakistan and called on Hanoi'
for “a serious and responsible answer.”
“Within three weeks only, the United States, which at
first did not set any conditions with regard to the choice '
of a site for talks, has come to pile up extremely absurd •
and insolent conditions,” Hanoi radio quoted the spokes
man as saying.
Demands Neutral Country
“Moreover, the 10 places advanced by Mr. Dean Rusk -
fail to meet even the conditions posed by the United States.
The United States demands the choice of a site where the
two parties have representations, but in the places advanced
by Dean Rusk there are only U.S. embassies.
“The United States demands the choice of a neutral
country, but many of the countries proposed by Mr. Dean
Rusk are not neutral. Some are support bases for the U.S.
war of aggression in Vietnam.”
The spokesman did not name the countries supporting
the United States in Vietnam, but a dispatch from Hanoi
by Tass, the'Soviet News Agency; said two were Japan and
Malaysia.
"American Peace Swindle"
While the United States has bases in Japan under a
mutual defense agreement, the only connection that Ma
laysia has with the conflict is that of providing rest and
recreational facilities for U.S. soldiers on furlough from
South Vietnam.
“The U.S. government’s tortuous maneuvers,” the For
eign Ministry spokesman said,- “calculated to create addi
tional difficulties and delay the preliminary contacts be
tween the D.R.V.N.—North Vietnam—and the U.S.A. have
exposed the American peace swindle.”
The spokesman insisted on holding the preliminary
talks in Warsaw. Considering Communist Poland hardly
neutral, the United States has rejected Warsaw. The spokes
man did not refer to Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, first
suggested by Hanoi but rejected by. Washington.
, Proposals Rejected
- - The United States first proposed Geneva, and when
that was rejected suggested India, Burma, Lacs or Indo
nesia. It has avoided mentioning Paris, one of the few
places outside the Communist world where the North Viet-,
namese have a permanent mission.
The official North Vietnamese newspaper Nhan Dan
also accused the United States of raising another condi
tion for the talks—the presence of the Vietnam war allies
at the first meetings. <
The newspaper said “this brazen move” helped to
prove a lack of good will on the pari of' the United States.
Review of the Week
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