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JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE VOL. 122 NO. 183 122ND YEAR JANESVILLE. WISCONSIN MONDAY. MARCH 20.

1967 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES TEN CENTS Threats, Force Mark Action in Area Rock County was taking its force and threats connected with the National Farmers milk action today, but at noori no reports of violence had been received. A report reached the Gazette shortly noon that a milk- house at rural Whitewater, Walworth County, had been blown up. A and Trucking Co. of Footville continued to take the brunt of overt action in the strike today. A spokesman this morning said forn- trucks had been held on farms all night while attempt, ing to nniake pickups, and a fifth was stopped this morning.

Rock County Sheriff Leonard Alderson said today his department was handling all requests for escorts, but that "our cars will not go onto private Thus the A and trucks wer9 still trapped on the farms at noon. The trucking qiokeiman said BOM of drivers had beeo roughed being fed, and not being hurt, but they are being held on the farms." Aldtrson said the sheriff's department had escorted about 150 trucks over the weekend. He said escorts are continuing today, but that no cars are assigned to Backlash against Walworth County NFO activities OR Paige stake out any particular firm or farm. A and had been heavily picketed by NFO members Friday and Saturday but the spokesman at A and said the office was being left alone today. Meeting Called A retaliatory meeting was to be held at the Footville Legion Hall at 1:30 this afternoon, informants told the Gazette this morning.

The meeting wias being planned by non-NFO members, reportedly to discuss ways of getting their mlHc to past any NFO blockades. In a statement to the Gazette at noon today, a spokesman read a release from Gov. Warren P. Knowles, which said in part: "Throughout the weekend we have been deluged with reports of violence and illegal especially in Rock, Walworth, Green, Lafayette and Monroe "Last night a farmer's milk- house near Whitewater was blown up we've received numerous reports of telephone threats and kerosene being poured into milk tanks." The governor's statement said the attorney general's office has been asked to determine if organized criminals are taking part in the lawlessness and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been asked to cooperate with Wisconsin authorities. The governor also said, "Anyone who blockades a milk truck is liable under the for punishment up to one year or a $500 addition, a farmer (who hu been prevented from moving his milk) can sue for damages." Pounds Lost Saturday, one A and truck lost about pounds of milk, the drii'er reported, when the tank spigot was opened as he attempted to pull from a farmer's driveway after a pickup.

Gov. Warren Knowles took a personal hand in the deteriorating situation Sunday when, after consultations with the attorney general's office, he ordered the truck holding action to be stopped. Elsewhere in the state, milk houses were broken into and storage tanks emptied, trucks fired at or stopped and the contents emptied. According to Lafayette County Sheriff Kenneth Pratt, a tractor blocked the exit of a truck called in to collect milk on a farm near the village of Viola. Fifteen NFO members were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct when they refused to move Aa vefifcle.

Sheriff Pratt said another arrest may be made today of the driver of a truck which drove down the main street of South Wayne and sprayed the road with milk. Bayfield County Sheriff E. 0. Embertson was aided by about six men from the police department when niore than 20 NFO members threatened to dump milk from a bulk truck in the town of Eileen. Embertson said the trucker was stopped by NFO members for about an hour and a half.

Richland County Sheriff Larry D. Wyman said that five carloads of inen stopped a truck about three miles east of Richland Center and opened the spigot on the tank. The sheriff said about 1,500 pounds of milk spilled onto the road. Nonviolence is the NFO's stated policy in this withholding action, in light of an incident during a meat holding action in whidi two Wisconsin men were killed two years ago. PMA 'Holds' Support of NFO Milk Strike WAR CONFEREES BEGIN TALKS This wai scene in Giiam today as American and South Vietnamese leaders sat down to talk over Vietnam war and kindred problems.

Left to right, from lower left. Ambassador Diem, Gen. Thong, Minister Do, Premier Chief of State Kyuqen Thieu, Gen. Vien, Gen. Tri, Minister Haiiik, Prof.

Thuc, Gen. Westmoreland, Gen. Wheeler, Ambassador Bunker, AID official William Guad, Secretary of State Rusk, President Johnson, Secretary of Defense McNamara, Ambassador- Harriman, Ambassador Lodge. (AP Wirephoto) Ky Clashes With LB Asks War Escalation The Pura Milk AssociatiMi, at Its annual convention in Chicago Saturday, declined to go on record in favor of the National Farmers Organization milk withholding action. Gerald Earleywine, Brodhead, district 2 president of PMA, led the NFO faction move to get PMA sympathy for the milk strike.

He asked that because of PMA's impnrtance in milk delegates should support the strike in "a true spirit of The resolution was seconded but was tabled by a vote of 7,196 to 1.866. NFO member Alfred Haujgeii'Of'Offordville had earlier tried for a resolution that no proposal be tabled without discussion but the motion was ruled out of order. Tabling of the motion was called for, when the vote came, by a Goodland, delegate, who said "what the NFO does is its own busiriess and we have no right to contradict it. but the PMA has been active longer and has more experience and level heads." The NFO got a jab from Edward Kaderly of Juda, who noted the group had promised no violence in the holding action but said "yesterday we bad 28,000 pounds of jnilk Farmers who lost their milk are GUAM President Johnson's avowed intent to focus his Guam conference on the works of peace clashed today into a call by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky for a sharp escalation of the Vietnam war. Johnson also got a report from his own close advisers that tha Communists are doing some escalating of their own.

At the first formal conference session, atop the highest hill on this damp tropical island, Ky in his opening public statement questioned wneihcr the time had come for the United States to bomb Hanoi, block the harbor at Haiphong and expand the war inio Laos and Cambodia. Reds Quicken Pace The public expressions of such questions made it apparent that Ky thinks the United States should dd all those things. But both Sefretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, meeting with newsmen after the session, emphasized repeatedly that there was no discussion of escalation. Rusk contended that'Ky raised his questions only in the context that Hanoi is unwilling to seek peace.

However, both McNamara ktid Gen, William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. cominander in Vietnam, said Joiinson was told that the fighting in South Vietnam is becoming niore intense and the are step- lip the tempo of their offensive operations. McNamara said the chief executive's military advisers reported: "The tempo of the war has increased' significantly in recent weeks but, despite this fact, they believe the trend of the war in our favor." said tha Communists are using new weapons rockets and bigger mortars and are making an unsuccessful effort "to salze the Initiative," "Tha enemy is by no means beaten," said the defense chief, is 00 longer capaUk of winning a military victory." Rusk, McNamara and Westmoreland said several times that the afternoon of talk produced no discussion of sending more American troops to those already about specific military measures. Rusk said ihe emphasis in the first round of talks was on the civilian side political processes, pacification, economic He said talk of military affairs was confined to a brief report.

Says Reds Suffer He stressed twice that, as he sees it, the govcinment of South Vietnam is in full accord with the search for peace. McNamara said desptie the moves, their efforts have been unsuccessful, their morale is suffering and their losses are running 60 per cent higher than a year ago. Westmoreland said that in the past year, Communist losses from all causes have doubled, the number ot prisoners taken has mcreared fourfold, defectors have doubled, their losses of weapons are two and a half times higher, and only half of their 134 maneuver battalions are fully combat effective. Johnson had indicated in advance that his main purpose at the Guam conference would be to discuss the works of peace. He told the opening session of the two-nation conference that more effective efforts are required on all fronts military, social, economic and political.

Ky responded by rejecting the idea of ever rdmitting representatives of the National Liberation the political arm of the Viet any coalition government that might take power in Saigon after peace talks. The dapper little premier was equally pointed in a seiies of Questions all in effect calling for a major escalation of the U. S. war effort. wmidering who will pay for it.

Would you call that cooperation?" PMA has about 10,000 members, two-thirds of them in Wisconsin. It is the largest bargaining group on the Chicago market and second largest in the country. In other convention business, A. L. McWilliams, PMA general manager said the controversial proDosed merger of dairy co-ops in the Chicago market probably would come, but not until after more discussion.

He said it would be up to PMA whether they wanted to join. He said the new co-Op, which would include Souftem Wisconsin and Central Illinois and Indiana, should allow only farmers as members. In other resolutions members were to: for dairy import controls through their congressmen. a butter substitute spread to compete with oleomargarine, and insist that oleo be taxed 10 cents a pound to pay for dairy research. Note that PMA's bottling plants are operating in the red, despite a 25 per cent increase in sales.

President Avery Vose said that a consulting management firm has been hired to run the operation. Much More Inside THREE WORKERS at Fisher Comics 12 Body plant in Janesville are Editorial Page 6 cited for heroic actions in aid- i ing another employe. Page 4 pgrm 19 Movies 8 ILLINOIS COACHES submit Radio, Television 12 resignations in face of Big 10 Society 9 mandate. Page IS Sports 16, 17 Green' U.S. Division Hurls Back 2 Attacks Swarms of Communist troops smashed Monday at two positions of the newest U.S.

division in Vietnam and were hurled back with the loss of 279 counted dead. A dozen miles southwest of Saigon a Viet Cong outfit of unknown size attempted to overrun another outpost of the 9lh and left 55 dead on the battlefield. With the war in one of the fiercest periods of fighting this year, bitter struggles were reported up and down the country. Communist gunners in one area destroyed three helicopters and damaged 13. One U.S.

plane was shot down in South Vietnam Monday, another was lost on Saturday and another went down 9ver North Vietnam Sunday, The U.S. Command reported Cong attacked an armored ouac of the U.S. 9th Division north of Saigon. But after heavy fighting and air and artillery attacks, the Reds reeled back, leaving 224 bodies for U.S. bulldozers to push into mass graves.

29 Americans were killed and 131 wounded in the past 24 bom's. U.S. Air Force and Navy planes kept up new campaign against North Vietnam's industrial heartland, now in its second week. Sunday they bombed two thermal power plants and the steel fabricating plant at Thai Nguyen and Vict Tri, 29 to 38 miles north of Hanoi. All had been hit before.

The i9th Infantry Division, which is the freshest in Vietnam, arriving only last December, covered itself with glory in its sharpest fighting yet. One of its armored units of about 300 men bedded down Sunday night at tha vUlage of Bau Bang on bloody Route 13, some 31' niiles north of Saigon, the scene of at least thiee attempted Viet Cong ambushes in the past 18 months. At midnight Red mortar fire began to fall and within minutes an estimated 1,000 to 2 ,000 Viet Cong were dashing in. Some were screaming "Americans die" and swirling around the encircled units in wild assaults which tha GIs later compared to an Indian attack on a Western wagon train. American warplancs streaked down by flarelight within an hour to plaster the assaulting Viet Cong with clusters of antipersonnel bombs.

Another armored column plowed up tha road to join the fight. When the battered Viet Cong corhmander pulled his men back at dawn, their retreat was marked with foot-wide ribbons of blood. NOT APPROVED. BUT IT WORKS Blowing into barrel of a .45 caliber pistol to clear it may not be listed as accepted method in GI manual, but it is effective way to get water out of weapon, especially if you're 25th Division infantryman who has just fallen into waterhole during patrol in Plain of Reeds, northwest o( Saigon in South Vietnam. Wire- photo) OH NO, NOT AGAIN! Don Kerl contemplates several inches of snow he is about to shovel off Janesville sidewalk in the business district this morning.

The wet, heavy snow makes wonderful nowballs but poor driving conditions. (Gazette Photo), Winter Deposits 5-Inch Coat of Snow lor Spring Was it gallantry that made departing winter lay down a fresh white coat, snow for spring to slip in on at 1:37 a.m. tomorrow? Southern Wisconsin citizens didn't think so. They think it's just plain rotten and spring isn't doing the slipping today. They are, in cars and on foot.

Some of the worst drifing. conditions of thft winter made blue Monday bluer for drivers this morning as snow, that piled up to 4.8 inches by noon, iced the highways and reduced visibility. The forecast is bad, too. Snow wOI continue tonight, as winter ticks off its final hours. Partial clearing is forecast for Tuesday but temperatures will be far from springlike, the overnight low to be 25-30, Tuesday's high 3.540, accompanied by northerly winds of 10-20 miles an hour.

Newest of the many snowfalls of the winter must be 46 with 2 to go, according to the formula of Fred Ties, Brodhead snow Sunday evening after a dreary day, continued until midmorning when it ended briefly, then started up again around 10:30 a.m. It put the Janesville area considerably above average for total snow for the season. By noon today, the season's total hit 38.3 inches and the season's, average, over the past 22 years, has been 32.7 inches. Snow was heavier to the west than in the Janesville area. By 9 o'clock this morning it measured 6 inches in some places in head, 8 inches in others.

It closed schools in Brodhead, Juda, Albany and Monroe and others as far south as Warren. In the Brodhead vicinity, some school buses started out but were forced to turn back. At least 8 inches of snow fell at Prairie du Cbien and Beloit had 6 inches Fater, and fresh snow to bad driving conditions overnight and today. Traffic was reported getting through on all roads in this area, but pavements were, as slippery aa any time this season. County highway department equipment was sent out at 8 p.m.

Sunday and continued working part of the night on the state highways. The scraping of the wet slush and snow continued today, along with salting and sanding operations. With continued snowfall, the situa- tion was not greatly improved at noon and there was the prospect of more work for the snow removal equipment tonight, depending upon weather. City snow removal equipment began work at 5 a.m. today, and by noon had main streets cleared and snow hauled away.

Some parking lots were hieing cleared of snow by that tima also. Snow removal will be under way during tha night unless temperatures rise so much that the snow cover melts, it was stated at city garage headquarters at noon. If snowplows are out clearing streets as expected, tha city's snow ordinance will be in effect, and parking on the streets will be prohibited until the job is done. Supreme Court Okays Secrecy lot Protecting Police Tipsters WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court upheld today the right of police to make an arrest on the basis of information supplied by an informer and without obtaining a search warrant. The court said in its 5-4 decision, state prosecutors do not have to reveal the tipster's identity to establish "probable cause" for arrest.

The four dissenters said the decision "effectively rewrites the 4th Amendment," which prohibits unreasonable searche.s and seizures. The narrow ruling was given in an Illinois naix'otics case, appealed to the high court with broad challenges to use of secret informers in state prosecutions. The decision, given for Ih" majority by Justice Potter Stewart, dealt primarily wilh efforts to suppress evidencf: prior to trial. Stewart said that when the trial judge is convinced that police officers "did rely in good faith upon credible information supplied by a reliable informant" he does not liave to require police to reveal the identity of the informant to the suspect. Summing up the majority's position, Stewart said the Supreme Court "has consistently declined to hold that an informer's identity need always be dis- Pieodom of speech i.s guaranteed in Communist China, too.

can say anything you least one time. closed in a federal criminal, trial, let. alone in a preliminary hearing, to determine probable cause for an arrest or search." Justices Hugo L. Black, Tom; C. Clark, John M.

Harlan and: Byron R. White formed the ma-j jority with Stewart. The foia-! were Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Wil-' liam 0. Dougla.s, William Brennan and Fortas. Speaking for them, Douglas; the majority had reached a conclusion contrary to the 4th -Amendment.

"No warrant for the' arrest. obtained in this case," Douglas wrote. ''Tha police, instead of going to a magistrate and making a sliowing of 'probable cause' based on their informant's t.ipoff, acted on their own. "They rather than the magistrate. became the ai'biters of cau.se.' The court's approval of that process effectively i-ewrites the 4th Amendment." Today's case involved George McCray, arrested in Chicage Jan.

16. 1 on an informer's tip to a cruising police car "Boobie George" was out on tha streets peddling narcotics. Powell's Victory Speech Is Delivered in Bimini BIMINI, Bahamas Clayton Powell delivered his "victory speech" on Palm Sunday but not to his huge congregation at Harlem's Baptist Church. Instead of a pulpit. Powell, spoke fi'om the white coral steps i of the Bimini Hotel.

The message was brotherly love. Some 72 hours before he deliv-; ered the sermon, Powell an-! nounced he had decided against returning toj Harlem for Palm Sunday. He said he was staying on the island because he feared his possible arrest in New York would bring violence and rioting. At the Harlem church about; 10 members of a black national-' ist group who call themselves 1 Mau" out when the associate pastor. David N.

Licorish, warned of "extremist elements in our midst." The Mau Mau members had distributed leaflets at Uie doof proclaiming their readiness to "prevent Adam Clayton ell's arrest." In Bimini. Powell held forth for seven minutes on a sermoft entitled "Ride On. King He told his audience to not of black and white but of tim brotherhood ot man. "What the world King Jesus to ride on unUt fighting ends in Vietnam black, and to live er racial harmony," ha His audience waa equally blacks mi.

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