. . Partly , sunny and eontimied cold today. High ,near 45, Clear and cold with frost tonight. Low. near 28. Partly - sunny and becoming , warmer tomorrow. High near .60: Cloudy and mild with showers likely Monday.. VOL. 69, No: 13 . . . ~ , k ,',". 4 front the is'iociated- 0riei5.: k r,.,,, , ,,-.- ' . . . . . - p • ; ~...‘ 13 • News,Roundu .. , . . • •. _ : I From the State, . . . _ _ d . „„ - UAC 'Quits on 'Stormy , . 4 4: l'i Nation &Wori , The.. World Viet Congilist Key Alekoag'Delta Bridge SAIGON Viet Cong rocketeers ,scored a direct hit on the' vital Ben Luc bridge 16 miles southwest of Saigon early today. They knocked out an 80-foot center span over the Oriental River. a government spokesman said. ' He also_ reported that at dawn terrorists detonated a packet of explosives in .a government administration building in Saigon's sth precinct, demolishing the' structure. - There were no casualties, the spokesman said. , .• The Ben Luc bridge is OIT Route 4, the main artery for fo odstuffs flowing 'into the capital from the fertile Mekong Del ta. Viet Cong have hit it:thre× since June; and 'South ViethameSe and U.S. Army engineers have scrambled each time to patch -it back together. - The bridge shelling and the blast in 'Saigon followed reports of sharp new fighting along the CambOdian border and stepped-up 'air strikes over North Vietnam's souther panhan dle. Economic Policy Divides Laborites BLACKPOOL; 'England Britain's ruling Laborites wound up their annual convention with a show of unity yesterday but the party was deeply divided'on a host of issues. The delegates were in revolt 'against the economic policy of Prime Minister Harold. Wilson's government. They repu diated by -an overwhelming• margin Monday the core of. that policy, an attempt•to limit wage increases to 15. per pent until the end of next year. It condemned the .Soviet invasion of Cze choslovakia but came within ,163,000 votes of more than six million bloc votes cast of demanding. a. reduction in Britain's commitment 'to the North Atlantic Treaty Organizaticin. . The convention also voted unanimously to - demand that the government cease supplying. arins to federal Nigeria for use against Biafra and directed the government to refuse in dependence to rebel Rhodesia until majority rule has been granted the African population. The Nation Spokesman Denies LBJ Holding Back Funds WASHINGTON —.- White House spokesman , George Chris tian sought yesterday to fasten a poison label on reports that President Johnson is withholding party funds and trying to thwart Vice President' Hubert H. Humphrey's bid for the presidency. The presidential press' secretary talked. of 'poison and poison pens in answering a flurry of - questions prompted by a newspaper column by' Roland - Evans and Robert Novak. It said $700,000 of Democratic party money is being secreted in a New York bank and withheld from the Humphrey campaign at _ President Johnson's orders. ' "I will make - this - statement without fear of contradiction': the President is not holding back on anything." Christian said. "That is ridiculous. "Other-than the President's statements on'the race and his quite 'apparent support for the vice presi -tent; rdoreritnoarhot‘retalodlgistite-tliarrardlsl--stiiff,-ex cept-te label it by name occasionally." Czech Foreign Minister Asks: UN To Stay Out UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Czechoslovakia's acting foreign minister appealed to the General Assembly yesterday to avoid cold war debate and to let the future of his occupied country be determined "in• talks between Czechoslovak gnd So viet leaders in•MosboW: " • ' The speaker, Vaclav Pleskot, asked member nations to understand Czechoslovakia's situation "and do nothing that would be in conflict with the wish of the government of Cze choslovakia looking toward a settlement of the .present si tuation on the basis of -the Moscow talks." Emerging from the Moscow talks yesterday was an nouncement of agreement on stationing in Czechoslovakia of some troops of the five Warsaw Pact countries that invaded the country Aug: 20 to stein Prague's liberalization drive. But appeals by Pleskot and those of Soviet Foreign Minister An drei A. Gromyko on Thursday were not expected to halt a full airing of the Czechoslovak Situation in the policy debate taking place in the 125-nation 'Assembly. Anti-War Protesters To Stand Trial BALTIMORE. Md. Chief Judge Roszel C. Thomsen re jected in U.S. District, Court Friday a defense request for dismissal of the 'indictment charging nine Catholics with burn ing_ Selective Service records last May. The defendants who go.on trial Monday,. are accused of seizing the records May 17 at Board No. 33 in suburban Catonsville, then burning them on a parking lot outside the building. ' The formal charges against them are. mutilating and destroying government property, hindering administration of the Selective Service Act, causing injury and depredation to government property and conspiring to do all of those things. Two of the' nine defendants were among four members of the Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission convicted of pouring blood on records at another Selective Service Office in October, 1967. - . Those two, the Rev. Philip F. Berrigam 44, a Josephite priest, and Thomas P. Lewis, a 27-year-old Baltimore artist, are serving six-year sentences in the .federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa. - . , • :The State Mrs. ,Hurnithlw Hits State ,Campaign Trail PHILADELPHIA Muriel Humphrey made a campaign ;pitch in Democratic Philadelphia yesterday for • the presiden tial ambitions of her husband, Hubert. • think. we'll make it,"-'Muriel said quietly answering the shouts of several'hundred.sPectators. - . There was nothing she didn't do for . the hope of a vote next Nov. 5. - ' . She kissed' babies. She at pizza. She toured a" housing develoinhent in alle,grO ghetto. She rode to a Ahopping center in a Republican suburb.. - She shook hundreds of hands among the small- crowd of shoppers' who stopped, more in curiosity, -along the sidewalks. There was-no prepared' outdoor tally or parade. - - She cut - ribboni officially opening headquaiters for . the Ibibert.Hunplirey-Edrnund Muskie_Demearatic ticket. For .'two hours -during' the luncheon.' period, she' - had America's .First. La'dY - by her, side Mi s Lyndon Baines Jcihnion. And-the'crowds were - warm and Iriendlyfor the two smiling, smartly dressed women, . .• „ , Minister ssiti Lehigh ' 'BETHLEHEM,United'-Nation-should - call a special session-just to solVe its own problems,lSraers.fOreign minister suggested.' yesterday:— • , : _ Aba Eban said the..l.7lVs work - is only "marginal" because of. disharrneby .artong,menitiers - and its' ciwn-- - PiockitiresJ- He - Cited: four areas- where, he said the UN "Li not dealing effectively Vietnam, , Biafra, ,Czechoslovakia • and:tlie Mid dle East.: - - ' here for a series -,of of lectiirEs at tehigh:Viiive - rsity, also criticized; public. debate cruciardffiliviatioiisSues: • indicated support' for , critics 'or thi'AnicleaF.nlinProliferation treaty.' He retied• the- point- that , thearcrisoring-.'countries, all • nuclear ,poiVers, are not disarming. . • . Eban said' he thinki the addition of Airierican Phantod.jets ,to the, Israeli' Air Farce 'Maintain ' the'ciirient 'balance - of power' n theMiddleintd-'l.97l.;yjithoilk them; lie-said the Arab'stateeti4ay take -= • 2 ;. - ; _ , _ . . . . 47 1.P.57'.447„ 6 .. tt, „AV' i d &— . , *. . . .1...6, 4 , 74 .vo - .1*" :z... :: : ). ,..4) . 4 . -2, r -7- _ att I 40 ... ....s. Q,,Eittet 1 I A - . . . * * * * * * * * * * * * * 4 Pages WASHINGTON (AP) An organizer of the stormy antiwar protests at the Democratic Na tional Convention testified yesterday he went behind the Iron Curtain to meet with Viet Cong agents two months before the Chicago disor ders. The protest leader, Robert Greenblatt, told a House subcommittee on un-American activi ties he met with Viet Cong officials in Prague, and spoke at a meeting in Cyprus attended by Communists. Greenblatt Was a founder and coordinator of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which helped mount the demonstrations that led to four nights of bloody street battles with police in Chicago. Hearings in December His testimony Caine just before the sub committee broke off its hearings on the disor ders until December. Greenblatt told the panel he was willing to do everyhing possible to end what he called il legal U.S. aggression in Vietnam. ' The trip in ..Tune took place while Gre enblatt said he was helping plan the Chicago protests. Greenblatt did not mention any discussion of the protests with the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong during his testimony. He said he made the trip to find out how the Paris peace WALLACE'S RUNNING MATE: —a party pr. left, is pictured with retired Air 'Force, General Curtis E. LeMay at a news conference Thursday in Pittsburgh where the former Alabama governor announced LeMay as his party's candidate for vice president: Confident Nixon Meets S.C. Crowds, Cheers SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) Richard M. Nixon told cheering southerners yesterday that the only way Hubert Humphrey 'can win elec tion to.the White House is if those unhappy with the administration vote for" Goerge Wallace. Without mentioning the third-party can didate by name,' the Republican presidential standard bearer said, "If those who want a change divide themselves it is the only way we have a possibility that the man who has sup ported" present policies can win the election. He spoke to 8,000 persons in Spartanburg at a rally and after thousands more crowded around him as he .motorcaded through the , neighboring textile city . of Greenville. - Nixon drew enthusiastic, friendly crowds as he campaigned through the western South Carolina Piedmont area -where Wallace, the American Independent party candidate, is showing strength. .- At Nixon's. side were some big 'names Sen. -Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), retired New York Yankee baseball •star Bobby Riblardson and Mark Clark, retired ArmY general of World War II and Korea. Urges Fund Sharing; CallsforGrantConsalidation HHH WASHINGTON (AP)'— Vice the plan "as 'a means to Spur . permit state' and "local govern- President Hubert H. Hum- state tax reform. Merits ,to allocate •their own phrey endorsed yesterday -a • The funds would come from - funds more efficiently and to :task force proposal for federal- growth federal revenue which ' use more effectively all the Y., state revenue-sharing and call- he said comes to some $l5 bil- - resources available to them." - „ed ..also for, :consolidation, 'of -lion each year. - , He added that consideration federal - grant ' programs to • - Although the Democratic - should be'given to the creation . make it simpler for_ cities and presidential ....-,-. nominee - ha s 'of -,a system .-,of federal coor . states to. btain funds. - .. ~ discussed the need for revenue- - otinators in metropolitan - . areas sharing in general terms, aides .. - to dear- 'with all .., He said" the federal govern-federal . , ~ said that his three-page state- programs and aid in the area. m'ent , should funnel meet marked his. first formal ß esting after a -grueling 15- • automatically-to the states be- endorsement of the idea which, day campaign swing that took tween Ss,billion and $lO billion 'Re - Publicans also endorse in --' him from New England to the : ,annually, "primarily allocated.their platform this year. : -- West'. Coast and then down :by population." He added' that : - More Efficient Allocation ' .. through the, South, Humphrey i-,p, substantiarpart of the funds '.-- Humphrey said. the hundredii held - a series of private meet .'should be' passed on to locali,.. - of• federal grant programs - - Inks' • Friday with campaign ties. ' , - .- "should be' combined into - aides ' and =his economic task - --Humphrey , envisioned' use 'of , broad" , grant categaries:::that. .force. ~ ' - UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., - SATURDAY MORN;NG, OCTOBER 5, 1968 Chicago Protest Leader Testifiesßefore Adjournment Sii s Wallace 'Shouldn't Be President' Crowds Enthusiastic talks were . progressing and how the war was going. They three days of hearings were recessed without testimony from other major figures in the Chicago protests, including Yippie leaders Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman; balding David bellinger, who led the 1967 peace march on the Pentagon, and Thomas Hayden, who has been active in obtaining the release of American prisoners by North Vietnam. The subcommittee chairman, Rep. Richard Ichord CD-Me.), told all of them to return for more hearings Dec. 2. Ichord said he had to interrupt the hearings because of the press of other business. Con gress is expected to adjourn next week' and all House seats are at stake in the elections. Communist Charges Ichord voiced charges that Communists inspired and planned the peace protests that led to four nights of bloody clashes with police in Chicago. He didn't cite any names. Jerry Rubin, the bearded, beaded leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), shouted at the hearing that his room in a hotel on Capitol Hill owned by Congress had been tear-gassed by American Nazis. Rubin said he also received a threatening telephone call. Rubin walked out of the hearings along with balding David Dellinger, the pacifist who Thurmond and Richardson are working in a "Thurmond Speaks" campaign throughout the South in which the senator speaks for Nixon in hopes of counteracting the popularity of . Wal lace. 'Shouldn't Be President' Last night. Nixon did mention Wallace by name in a telecast beamed to 12 southern states. Nixon referred to a statement by Wallace that if a protester were to lie down in front of Wallace's car; it would be the last car he lay in front of. Nixon said anyone who made a state ment like that "shouldn't, be president." In his speech, Nixon alio hit hard at the law 'and order issue. "The present adminis tration has failed to deal with domestic violence," he said. "It has failed in energy, failed in will, fail ed in purpose." Greenvilie's . young people turned out in force to see the candidate. High school-age youngsters disregarded their personal safety and police requests to move back as they crowded around the open car. led the 1967 prOtest march on the Pentagon, and 11 other persons in a dispute over ouster of an attorney. Yippie Leader Arrested Police evicted lawyer Gerald . Lefcourt when he complained to Ichord that authorities were still holding Yipie leader Abbie Hoffman, arrested Thursday on charges of defacing the American flag as he tried to enter the building wearing a stars-and-stripes shirt. Hoffman, who was later released, Dellinger and Rubin are among the protestors sub poenaed to testify but not called yet. Rubin charged at a news conference that he found his room in the nearby Congressional Hotel clouded with tear gas when he returned to it Thursday night. He said he found a white card on his door bearing a swastika and the identification, "National Socialist White Peo ple's Party." The hotel, owned by Congress but leased to a private corporation which operates it. is the Washington residence of at least 11 congres smen, including one subcommittee member, Rep. William M. Tuck, D-Va. Refuses To Answer The walkout came while the panel was questioning Quentin B. Young. who refused again to answer whether he is a Communist. Generals Secure Peruvian Coup MA, Peru (AP) Denun on of the military over- lw of President Fe rnando Students Free for Riots title of . junta. But this time the tunde Terry erupted from Generals in the new govern- leaders are calling themselves iy quarters yesterday, but ment complained beca u s e a "r e volutionary govern generals appeared firmly . teachers and school superin- ment." The crisis follower. :ontrol of their new "revolu- tendents failed to reopen clas- a dispute over the signing of a nary government. — ses. They felt that school offi- new contract with Interne /pposition t o Thursday's vials are leftist and want stu- tional Petroleum Corp., a sub p is widespread, but is dents on the street to incite sidiary of Standard Oil of New organized and appears to violence. Jersey. The military leaders re little - chance of moving against Peru Peru's political future was issued a manifesto chargin' uncertain, but there were in- that there had been "deceitful :ctively :erful armed forces. The dications the military leaders use of executive power in th ay has acted swiftly to head intend to rule for some time, agreement with International 'any such attempt. In previous coups —Peru has Petroleum. leven members .inet sworn in only 14 hours (ore the coup were placed ler house arrest as they at- - . 1 1;ttgd....tP dr.ll- a eortirrwm.- calling for rebellion. !wspaper Calls for Revolt similar call came from Ar- Villaneuva. chief of the terful Aprista party, hated the military. The Aprista er La Tribuna came out . a special edition Thursday ing for the 'ouster of the ❑p makers." teking the Apristas was the , erful CTP labor union and trge segment of the student cement. rCum ors spread that a general strike might be called. Bclaunde, who was flown to exile in Buenos 'Aires at the outset ,of the coup, was reported offered political asylum by the governments of both Argentina and Bolivia. A dispalch from La Paz quoted Foreign Ministry sources there as saying the 55-year-old for mer president had asked for asylum in Bolivia. Student Killed by Police After a night of violence In which at least one student was killed in skirmishes with police, Lima returned to near normal •yesterday. Municipal employes were cleaning up the debris; shoppers crowded the streets. The U.S. Embassy said all of the 6,000 U.S. citizens in the country were believed safe. Flight operations at Lima's airport were normal. Almost all shops were open, but storekeepers had their heavy protective metal screens lowered half-way, so the shop could be closed at a moment's notice in case of violence. The courtyard of th e presidential palace still swarmed with tanks that rum bled in early Thursday. The city's main squares were mblogy, student , University, directs, spraying of .tanks- and cargo as part of the war against plague infected rats in Vietnam. Siegfried is chief Saigons, area entomologist - for Pacific Architects' and Engineers In Vietnam. Sc:e story on p. 3. • C BINDING DEPT'. PATTEE. LIBRARY. Faculty Apathy an, COPIES Ichord told Young, "It has been charged that the Communists in this country have inspired, planned and played a part in the instigation of riots in Chicago." He said the doctor had loaned 51.000 for rent for the Chicago headquarters for demons trations to Rennie Davis, a protest leader who Ichord said had traveled to North Vietnam. Young, who arranged medical care for the protestors injured in the Chicago clashes, had cited the First Amendment's freedoms of speech and assembly when asked Thursday whether he was a Communist. 'You Embarrass Me' Ichord asked him, "Would you perjure yourself if you answered, 'No'?" The witness said, "You embarrass me, sir ... I see through that one." He declined to answer. The Chicago physician remained in the witness chair during the walkout after Lefcourt was ejected. Fourteen demonstrators and attorneys had been evicted by police after they staged a standing protest Tuesday on the opening day of the hearings. Protest leader Robert Greenblatt refused to answer questions and walked out with his attorney Thursday. Greenblatt returned at the start of Friday's session, then joined the new walkout. heavily manned by police and had six this century the soldiers. military emerged under the Sniper Fire Breaks Mexico City Calm MEXICO CITY (AP) A sniper firing from a social security building broke an uneasy calm in Mexico City yester day and wounded two persons on a street corner near the downtown sector. A renewal of general violence was threaten ed meawhile by a self-styled "liberation army." A printed statement dated Sept. 2S but distributed yester day by the underground group said it would wage guerrilla war against "the criminal government of President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz." It called itself the Constitutionalist Army of Liberation. The group also threatened to disrupt the Olympic Games, which open here next Saturday. It said it would not be respon sible "for, what happens to those who come to a country that, in fact, finds itself in plain civil war." The Sept. 28 date of the statement was four days before the current wave of disorders was touched off by a battle Wednesday between authoities and snipers that left at least 29. dead. There was no immediate explanation for the delay in delivery. Brundage To Consult Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, said he would consult with Mexican officials and the Olympic executive board about the threat. . Yesterday's sniping ended a period of quiet after two days of shooting, burning and fighting between troops and police and students protesting alleged government repression. Troops surrounded the social security building in the natelolco district, the area where Wednesday's battle took place. They searched office by office for the gunman. The anti-government force, which gave no information on its strength or leadership, said its activities "will be of neces sity military ones and will include urban and guerilla groups like those already functioning in the states of Guerrere. Sonora, Chhuahua, etc." Guerrillas Acknowledged ' The Defense Ministry has acknowledged that such guer rillas are operating in Chihuahua State to the north and last month announced that four, involved in burning a sawmill, were killed in a fight with soldiers. Two were identified as the Gaytan brothers, Mexicans who had taken guerrilla training in Cuba. The bulletin said the "army" will also use "other methods of armed combat for which reason it is recommended that the foreign public not come to the Olympics because, although under no circumstances will it attack the athletes, it will be necessary to carry out a large military operation against the government in the inaugural act and others following." --See Page 2 SEVEN CENTS Note
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