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Page 2--The Robesonian, Monday, August Z8.1912 News Briefs Los Angeles Quake LOS ANGELES (AP) Another earthquake has rattled parts of Los Angeles, but authorities said there were no reports of damage. The temblor measured 3.1 on the Richter scale at 4:49 a.m., EOT Sunday, a spokesman at the California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena said. The quake's center was in West Los Angeles and it was felt up to 15 miles away, the spokesman added. Only 37,000 Left In VN SAIGON (AP) The U.S. Command announced today that American troop strength in Vietnam dropped to 37,700 men last week, 1,300 below the level President Nixon ordered by Sept.

1. Nixon is scheduled to announce another withdrawal quota this week, and the expectation is that it will total about 15,000 men. This bring the total American force remaining in Vietnam to below 25,000, compared to a peak strength of 543,000 in April 1969. Another 100,000 U.S. servicemen are fighting the war from air bases ifi, Thailand and Guam and U.S.

Navy ships off the coast of Vietnam. The U.S. Command said in the seven-day period ending last Thursday, the force was reduced 1,500 'men. Top Brass Killed BANGKOK A Two generals, three colonels and seven other military and police officers were killed today in the crash of a helicopter about 50 miles southwest of Bankok, the government reported. Lt.

Gen. Kriangkrai Attanant, commander of the army in the Bangkok area and one of the most powerful men behind the ruling military government, and the other officers were on their way to troop maneuvers. A major general also died in the mishap. The helicopter went down on its way to a remote mountainous area where government troops are sometimes attacked by terrorists. Officials said the crash was still under investigation and they did not know if the helicopter had been shot down.

Stone-Age Birth MANILA (AP) A boy was born on Sunday to the Stone Age Tasaday tribe in their mountain cave in Cotobato Province, 640 miles southeast of Manila, a spokesman for the presidential assistant on national minorities said today. Both the baby and his mother were reported doing well. The birth increased the Tasaday population to 27, the spokesman said. The Tasadays were discovered last year, and the government set aside a preserve for them in the rain forests of Cotobato. Annual Bed Race REDMOND, Wash.

(AP) Cowlitz County Grange Group has won the fburth annual Bed Race at the IJomona Picnic, pushing a Bright orange, stripped-down tyed through an obstacle course. The five team members had to maneuver their entry over two saw horses, outline a figure eight between two barrels, run over a group of automobile tires, circle a pole, dip three wheels into a pool of water and run backwards, pulling the bed across the finish line. Utah Outfoxes Students SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Twenty towering dirt mounds Covered with grass at the University of Utah were designed K) keep students off the grass feecause most students don't fyant to climb hills. 1 In addition, says Arden university landscape archi- ject, the grassy mounds act as yisual screens to block out the view of a i from walk-on iampus system, and act as ftoise barriers, shielding the University from sounds of near- by parking lots. Larson said that because grass absorbs less solar energy than heavily concreted and asphalted areas and looses water through transpiration and evaporation, he mounds act as giant air conditioners keeping the campus 8-15 degrees cooler than downtown areas in this sweltering western city.

But, he added, the mounds require extra maintenance. And, to the chagrin of landscapers, the grass must be cut with hand mowers. Big, 'Big Bertha' PORTLAND, Ore. -tier boyfriend told her she Didn't have the guts to audition a position as a topless go-go Cancer. So Susan Foust, who weighs 809 and measures 54-46-59, took up the challenge.

I She was hired on the spot by tale Alberts, manager of a lo- cal cafe, who explained: "The crowd just stared." Now Miss Foust, under the stage name Bertha, does her act nightly on the cafe's mirrored stage. Business has boomed in the five weeks since Bertha's advent. Lion Wrestler Tries Again I OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -Pablo Noel, a Spanish lion ta- tmer with the Ringling Bros. iBarnum Bailey Circus, ex- Ipected to go on with his act today despite a mauling by a 400- pound lioness Sunday night.

Noel was wrestling two lions at the Oakland Coliseum Arena when one turned on him and clawed his face. As a handler prodded off the big cat, Noel finished the remaining three minutes of the act, though dripping blood. A spokesman said this was not just a matter of going on with the show before 7,000 spectators, but a matter of discipline for the lion. Noel had 20 stitches taken in his face. Army Tries Orangeburg ORANGEBURG.S.C.

(AP)-Orangeburg's city government operations will be closely observed for four days this week by an Army team from Ft. Bragg. Thirty officers and men from BIGGS FUNERAL HOME Phone 738-2211 Ambulance Service Schedule of Services Mr.HinyardBrltt 3 P.M.Tuesday Biggs Funeral Chapel Meadowbrook Cemetery Mr. Jimmy Dale McLamb Funeral Plans Incomplete the 42nd Civil Affairs Co. will study active city government at first hand as part of theoir training for running civil affairs in occupied areas during war.

The Army men, commanded by Maj. Dick Kamerling, will spend one day cleaning up an old school building that is being converted to other uses. Sea Rescue SOUTHPORT, N. C. (AP) -Five members of a Leland family whose boat sank off Fraying Pan Shoals, were rescued Sunday after spending the night in the Atlantic clinging to life jackets and bits of their boat.

A Coast Guard spokesman said Carl Price, 42, and his family were in good condition. Their 17-foot boat's engine failed Saturday and they were rescued by the Coast Guard's USS Cape Upright about 2 a. m. Sunday. Hopes For 325 Million Alabama Boy 'Mails Out 9 For McGovern FIRST INDIAN LAWYER Three young men were admitted to the North Carolina Bar association in oath-taking ceremonies in Robeson Superior Court today with Judge Henry A.

McKinnon, administering the oaths. New lawyers are, from left, Charles Christopher Smith of Shelby, who will join with W. Earl Britt of Fairmont in practice, Horace Locklear of near Lumberton who was introduced by John W. Campbell, and George Duncan Regan of St. Pauls, introduced by his brother, John C.

B. Regan of Lumberton. Locklear will establish offices in the professional building, just behind the court house and Regan will return to Fort Knox, but plans to return to Robeson to practice law. He is the son of John B. Regan, superior court solicitor.

Locklear is the first Indian ever to be admitted to practice law in North Carolina. (Bruce Photo). Fischer- Spassky Draw 19th REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky drew the 19th game of the world chess championship match Sunday, putting Fischer only two wins or three draws from capturing Spassky's title and ending Soviet domination of the sport. The draw gave Fischer an 118 lead over Spassky with a maximum of only five games left. They play again Tuesday.

Wins count a full point 'and draws a half point. The 29-year-old challenger needs 12V2 points to take the title and Spassky needs 12 to retain it. Fischer and Spassky have drawn the last six games. Both played a high level of chess in them, but the Russian was unable to narrow the three- point lead on which Fischer is coasting to the world title. Experts said the six draws haye included some of the most solid chess of the match even if they didn't have the excitement of the earlier encounters, when Fischer rocketed into the lead from an early two-point deficit.

Sunday's draw was especially hard fought. Deaths and Funerals CLARENCE W. LOCKLEAR PEMBROKE Funeral for Clarence Willis Locklear, 80, who died Thursday was conducted Sunday in Bear Swamp Baptist Church by Rev. James Dial, Rev. Davis Locklear and Rev.

Roy Maynor. Burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Buddy Johnson, George Chavis, Wilton Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, Conley Jacobs, Josh Locklear and W. B. Strickland.

Criminal Prosecution Recommended ERNEST BRUMBLES FAIRMONT Ernest Hinson Brumbies, 76, died at his Orrum Route 1 home Sunday afternoon. The funeral will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Prevatte Funeral Chapel, by Rev. George Wallace. Burial will be in Proctorville Cemetery.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eula Brumbies; his daughters, Mrs. William G. Herring of Morehead City, Mrs. George Caulder of Baltimore, and Miss Myrtle Brumbies of Miami; his sons, Jack Brumbies of Orrum Route 1 and Julian, Brumbies of Miami, his sisters, Mrs.

Mamie Grooms of Charlotte and Mrs. Annie Calhoon of Miami; a brother, William Brumbies of Charlotte; five grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Ralph Home, Wendell Rhodes, James Bullock, William W. Barnes, James Barnes and Russell Barnes. The family suggests that in lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Baltimore Baptist Church building fund.

IRS Wants To Know Who Leaked 'Scott Probe' HINYARD BRITT Hinyard Britt, 64, died Sunday afternoon in Southeastern Hospital after a short illness. The funeral will be Tuesday at 3 p.m. in Biggs Funeral Chapel, conducted by Rev. Vernon Williamson. Burial will be in Meadowbrook Cemetery.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Agatha Britt; his sons, Wilton of Greensboro, David of Washington, and Ronald and Albert Britt of Lumberton; his daughters, Mrs. Fran Smith of Greensboro, Mrs. JoaneBrown of Shiloh, and Miss Alma Joyce Britt of the home; eigth grandchildren. RALEIGH (AP) The Internal Revenue Service is investigating to determine whether one of its officials was involved in the disclosure that criminal prosecution has been recommended against 13 of Gov.

Bob Scott's 1968 campaign aides and contributors. The IRS regional inspector in Atlanta, Delbert Janney, said in a telephone interview Sunday that his office "is only in- vesH.gating whether or not IRS people were involved in the disclosure." He would not say whether the present investigation is in response to a request by Gov. Scott that Justice Department investigate the information leak. Scott wrote to Atty. Gen.

Richard Kleindienst Friday asking him to investigate the leak and stating that the action could have violated the federal law and the "civil and constitutional rights" of' A'th'e "13 men. Scott's office made the letter to Kleindienst public Saturday. The director of public information for the Justice, Department, John W. Hushen, said in a telephone interview from Washington Saturday that the letter would probably not reach Kleindienst's desk before Monday. Hushen also said that if an investigation of the leak were to be made, it would probably be handled by the IRS.

An IRS inspector, Charles E. Turner, arrived in Raleigh from Atlanta Saturday to begin the investigation. He tentatively agreed to meet today with attorneys and executives of The News and Observer and reporter Pat Stith to discuss how they got the information. Janney said he had ordered Turner Friday to come to Raleigh, but he declined to say who had told him to begin the investigation. "All I can say is that the investigation began Friday," he said.

Janney said the only information he had about the case was from newspaper articles. He 'Heard Moans' stressed that the probe is an internal IRS matter and would probably be of "fairly short length." He said whatever evidence is found by Turner's investigation would be sent to the IRS office Washington, and officials to in there would decide whether seek criminal prosecution. The IRS regional counsel in Atlanta, in a report Aug. 18 to the Justice Department, recommended prosecution of 13 aides and supporters of Scott on charges of conspiring to violate federal income tax laws. The recommendation grew out of an investigation of the 1968 gubernatorial campaign in which Scott defeated Republican Jim Gardner.

The regional counsel recommended prosecution of the 13 men on charges of consp'ring to impede, impair or defeat the purpose of federal income tax laws. It also recommended that 11 of them be prosecuted for conspiring to evade corporate income taxes. By GREGG HERRINGTON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Morris Dees, who learned the direct mail business with birthday cakes and a list of 15,000 names, hopes to write 10 million Americans before election day in search of contributions for George McGovern's presidential bid. The massive effort, to be bolstered by television, newspaper and door-to-door appeals, will hopefully bring in $25 million for McGovern's campaign war chest, Dees says. The 35-year-old Montgomery, direct mail expert, cattle rancher and lawyer announced today $1.8 million in mail contributions had been received at McGovern headquarters between the Democratic convention in early July and last Friday.

Dees, who started in the direct mail business in 1956 selling birthday cakes to University of Alabama students, said Sunday, "We're already close to $2 million. That just leaves us $23 million to go." Despite the long road ahead, Dees said, he, McGovern and the other campaign planners are very optimistic about the response so far to appeals for funds. "We've been real pleased with our mail," Dees said. "It's not even the first of September yet. There's kind of a religious movement going on in this campaign.

People give almost like they give tithings at church. People really believe in this movement." Hurricane (Continued from Page 1) The storm, officially the first hurricane ever to evolve out of a neutercane, had highest sustained winds of 100 m.p.h. as it moved away from the United States. The hurricane kept "right on course," heading east-northeast at 20 to 25 m.p.h., meteorologist Neil Frank said. The second hurricane of the 1972 season was centered about .400 miles northwest of the outer edge of the Azores Islands at 5:30 a.m.

EDT. Dees said today 173,220 of them since the Democratic convention--have already joined what the campaign has dubbed the Million Member Club by contributing to McGovern's campaign this year. McGovern and his aides hope to rely more on smaller contributions from millions of individual voters than on the large donations from the so-called fat cats of industry, labor and other groups. Nevertheless, McGovern has courted those potential contributors as well. In many cities on his campaign trail he meets with likely donors in open receptions or closed meetings.

Dees, who said he works for McGovern on a volunteer basis and even pays his own personal travel and living expenses when in Washington, said an early batch of mail appeals is going to 505,000 people who have already given to McGovern or the Democratic Party. Those names were compiled, he said, by adding the 110,000 who contributed to McGovern during the primary elections this year, 75,000 names on the rolls at the Democratic National Committee and 320,000 people who pledged contributions during the party's telethon just prior to the national convention in July. "If I can't get those 505,000 people to give once over the course of the campaign by writing them several times, I'm going to turn in my license," Dees said. "But, to be conservative, I can surely get 75 per cent of them to give." British Uncle Fails To Rescue Seven Children In Fire (Continued from about 50 men and women in a vendetta the past two months. Two were Catholics whose bodies were found near Belfast's Old Park district Saturday, where at least half of the death squad victims have turned up.

Masked gunmen, presumably a revenge squad of Catholics, burst into the home of a 28- year-old Protestant early Sunday and killed him as he sat with his wife. She was grazed on the arm by a bullet when she clawed at the departing killers. GOP MCADENVILLE, N.C. (AP) The uncle of six children who died in a house fire early Sunday says he heard them moaning as he gropped through a window trying to rescue some of them. "I kept yelling to them," said T.C.

Crawford. He said he tried to reach five of the children who usually slept on a single twin-size bed in a back bedroom of the tiny four-room house in Gaston County east of Charlotte. "I tried to get in the window," he said, "but the heat and smoke was too bad. So I put my arm in and yelled for the kids to grab my hand. I thought I could drag them out that way.

bedroom. He said he climbed up a ladder and smashed through the window with a fist. "But it was no use," he said. "I couldn't get into the room." The father tried to rescue the children first through the front door, and then through a rear window. Graham said the surviving child told him she had awakened and found the house burn- ing.

"She said she called out to the other children, but couldn't get them up," Graham said. "She said she jumped out to get help." The uncle who tried to rescue the youngsters was at his father's house with Mrs. Graham when he heard Sandra calling for help. Firemen do not know how the fire started. Pilot Causes Air Disaster WASHINGTON (AP) Despite his co-pilot's warnings, the pilot of an airliner intentionally descended below a 'I knoaw they were on the altitude and the jet bed right under the window," Crawford said, "but I never felt a one touch me.

They were moaning at first and Calvin (one of the children) called-out one time. "When I didn't hear any I figured they were dead," he said. The bedroom where the five children were trapped was not much larger than the bed. The sixth child, a six-month-old baby, was in another room. A seventh child, Sandra Graham, 4, escaped through a rear window.

The parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Erwin Graham, were not in the house at the time. Graham, 26, said he had gone outside to to to the bathroom and when he returned he found flames "licking out the front door of the house." Mrs. Graham, 24, was at the house of her father, Johnny Crawford, who lived only about 75 feet away.

The dead children were Calvin Crawford, Jackie Graham, Andrew Graham, Milton Graham, Dafney Graham, 1, and Johnny Graham, six months. A brother-in-law of Mrs. Mra- ham, Thomas Delph, 21, of Gastonia, sprained and cut his right arm when he tried to rescue the baby from the front crashed on an instrument approach to fog-shrouded New Haven, airport last June, the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday. David G. Eastridge, 39, Lorton, the pilot of the Allegheny Airlines propjet Con- vair 580, was the only person who suffered fatal injuries in the crash.

But 26 passengers and the stewardess, Judith L. Manning, 27, Lemoyne, died of asphyxiation and heat in the fire that broke out afterwards. The co-pilot, James A. Walker of Memphis, and passengers Janet McCaa, Washington, D.C. and Norman Kelly, Prayer Service There will be a young people's prayer service at Saddletree Church of God Tuesday night at 7:30.

All youth of the county are invited. Mrs. Lorraine Scott will conduct the program. Waterford, were the only survivors. The co-pilot considered taking over command PS the plane descended, the boa 'd said, but decided it was better to have one person in charge than to have two fighting over the controls.

The Federal Aviation Administration was asked by the safety board to require use of fuel- inerting systems and other safety devices aboard all airliners to prevent or control in- flight and post-crash fuel system fires and explosions. Noting that the pilot had lost more than an hour by missing three landing approaches earlier at Groton, the safety board said that "in all probability 'fuel' and 'time' were occupying much of his attention." The report said Allegheny and other airlines pay a bonus in time or money when pilots beat a flight's published schedule. But it added that the board could make no conclusive finding on the pilot's motivation "to descend deliberately to a dangerously low altitude" at New Haven. Continued from Page l) attack what he called McGovern's "unbelievable" statements. McGovern, fresh from a quiet weekend with his family in Washington, scheduled a light day today in preparation for what has been billed as a major speech on employment and taxes in New York Tuesday.

His running mate, Sargent Shriver, spent the weekend relaxing, sailing and consulting with advisers at the family's Cape Cod, estate. American (Continued from Page l) block. The heavy shelling attacks wounded at least 40 South Vietnamese troops, and helicopters trying to evacuate them were driven back by North Vietnamese antiaircraft guns ringing the town. South Vietnamese rangers and infantrymen were reported trying to consolidate their positions at Que Son in an effort to hold the district capital. It fell to the North Vietnamese on Aug.

19. Cholera Plagues Kentucky (AP) -All movement of feeder and slaughter hogs in Kentucky has been banned, effective today, in an attempt to stem an outbreak of hog cholera that started in Kentucky last week and has spread to Ohio. The ban on movement of feeder pigs will last for 30 days, while that on slaughter pigs is effective for two weeks. Both started at midnight Sunday. An official of the Ohio De partmeht of AgricUttu'r'e saicl Sunday that one case of hog cholera had been confirmed in Greene County, Ohio, and that the infected hog was part of a shipment that originated in central Kentucky.

Officials in that state said 248 hogs at the site, would be slaughtered today. As of Saturday, 1,550 hogs in Kentucky had been destroyed, and farmers are to receive $75,000 in reimbursement. Presently, the federal government pays 90 per cent of the indemnity to farmers whose hogs are de-, stroyed, while the state pays the remainder. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's designation of "hog cholera free status" for the state has not been changed, but a department official indicated it is only a matter of time until it is removed.

At that point, the indemnity payments will be shared equally by the state and federal governments. A team of 50 state and federal veterinarians are seeking the source of the disease from headquarters set up in an Elizabethtown motel. They believe the source eventually will be found to be a violator of the state livestock regulations. The outbreak of the disease, which is fatal to hogs although humans cannot contract it, was first reported on a farm in Breckinridge County. Lumberton Gvic CHORALE AUDITIONS Monday Evenings 7 to 9 P.M.

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