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TH Indianapolis "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" 11 Cor. 3-17 TODAY'S CHUCKLE "We have a magic record player at school," said the little boy. "You don't have to use electricity just wind It up with a crank." TAR VOL. 66, NO. 78 A- it is THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1968 633-1240 10c rfDru ra WEATHER TODAY Unseasonably Hot High, 92; Low, 73 Yesterday High, 92; Low, 72 n1? Police Storm Prison Free 9 Guards Big Blast Opens The Way Sporadic Heavy Firing Still Heard In Prague si is 'if Two of the three Czech leaders, Alexander Dubcek (center) and Premier Oldrich Cernik (left) reportedly have been taken into custody by the Russians.

President Ludvik Svoboda (right) was not taken into custody. (UPI Telephoto) imm 5 Inmates in, 11 Columbus, O. (UPI) On orders of Governor James A. Rhodes, 500 National Guardsmen and police stormed the Ohio State Penitentiary in a hail of bullets and explosives yesterday, shot five convicts to death and freed nine guards held hostage for a day and a half. Warden M.

J. Koloski said a sixth convict was hospitalized in critical condition with a slashed throat inflicted by fellow prisoners before the charge began. Eleven other prisoners suffered gunshot wounds and required hospital treatment. A policeman and prosecuting attorney were injured in the fight but were not hospitalized. THE EXPLOSIVES 90 pounds of plastic tore gaping holes in the prison wall and roof to open the way for the troops.

The concussion shook windows a mile away and defoliated trees in the prison vicinity. The prisoners involved in the disturbance were herded into the prison courtyard and stripped nude. It was deathly quiet. Smoke, dust and the acrid smell of explosives and gunpowder lent a macabre in-cense. The entire episode lasted' less than two hours.

The explosives were detonated at 2:50 p.m. EST, the last shot fired at 3:18. There were up to 71 shotgun blasts and five bursts of machinegun fired from start to finish. SAFETY Director Frederick Simon said his men were ordered to shoot "if the prisoners didn't get into a cell." Leaders of the 350 rebelling inmates had threatened to exe- Turn to Page 18, Column 1 Sla Wounded 7 Deputy Sheriffs Win Council OK On $300 Raises -M fir -i. i MwineJf (left).

Police and guards climb through hole to break up rebellion and free nine prison guards. (AP Ohio State Penitentiary guards cringe below low wall and hedgerow at the prison yesterday at Columbus as debris from a set explosive blasts hole in wall National Assembly Building Struck By Rockets Hurled Against Saigon Prague (UPI) Invading troops of the Soviet bloc overthrew Czechoslovakia's liberal government yesterday and seized most of its leaders. Fighting flared in Prague near midnight and tracer bullets criss-crossed the night sky. There was sporadic but heavy firing in the capital, Light automatic weapons firing could be heard in the distance and the crump-crump of some slower firing gun. By midnight the only traffic consisted of ambulances, a large number of which kept roaring through the streets.

Soviet army soldiers and troops of four of their East European allies continued to tighten their grip on the country. The Czechoslovak news agency CTK ceased transmissions last night after reporting its headquarters had been invaded by "foreign troops." AT 11 P.M. (4 p.m. EST) yesterday, Soviet forces took over the Oberhaid crossing point between Czechoslovakia and upper Austria from Czechoslovak officials, Austrian radio reported. Before its telegraph lines went dead, CTK reported Czechoslovak reform leader Alexander Dubcek and members of his government had been "taken to an unknown place" by occupation troops who overran the little nation of 14 million people.

Dubcek's close associate, President Ludvik Svoboda, spoke last night on the occupation-controlled Prague Radio, which returned to the air for the occasion. He called for the "speedy withdrawal" of the occupying forces but urged Czechoslovaks to "avoid anything which could cause regrettable actions leading to irreparable consequences." SVOBODA SAID he had convened a plenary session of the national assembly last night to work out ways of reestablishing "the normal life of our country and the securing of its integrity." Earlier yesterday sporadic street fighting had ebbed. There was automatic weapons fire in Prague's central Wence- Turn to Page 16, Column 7 Editorial, "Moscow Shows Its Colors" Page 36. Editorial Padev, Star's foreign editor, comments on bitter disappointment at American and Western diplomacy Page 16. Awesome experience watching a small nation fall Page 16.

Pope expresses anguish over invasion Page 16. Saigon (UPI) Communists fired 20 long-range rockets into Saigon's National Assembly Building and other crowded downtown areas yesterday, killing 14 and wounding 65 persons. It was the first rocket attack on Saigon in two months. Saigon Hospital, where most of the casualties were taken, said the ground. Windows were shattered in both of the hotels flanking the building, but apparently no one was seriously injured.

IT WAS THE FIRST time in any of the Saigon shellings that a so-called major target was hit. United States military spokesmen said all 20 rounds hitting the city were 104-pound, 122mm rockets, one of the most deadly with a range of about 6Yt miles. Police said several other shells struck the city's four precincts across the Saigon River from the downtown section. Sixty miles northwest of Saigon, American troops re Ike Suffering Neiv 'Heart Irritability' By JEP CADOU JR. The Marion County Council yesterday approved $300 an nual pay raises for deputy sheriffs as it began trimming the 1969 county budget.

The raises will be the same as the City of Indianapolis plans to approve for policemen, according to Council President Beurt R. SerVaas. The council approved $600 raises for sheriff's officers above the rank of deputy. COUNCILMEN explained that the deputies received a $300 annual raise in June but the officers received no in crease at that time. Sheriff Lee R.

Eads asked for $700 raises for the depu ties but he said he was satisfied with the increases granted by the council. In its first day of budget trimming, the council lopped $221,275 from budget proposals of 11 county departments. Most of the decrease, approximately $184,000, came on the sheriffs Jail budget, which was the only big-budget department reviewed yesterday. The council will resume its budget hearings at noon today and hopes to be done by 7 p.m. The council increased the salaries of beginning (proba-f tionary) deputies from $6,300 1 to $6,600.

i Salaries of deputies with one I year's service were boosted I trom to uepu- ties with two years of service were increased from $6,700 to $7,000. City policemen are expected to start at $7,000, providing the City Council I I 1 f. goes ahead with plans for the $300 increase. There are 166 deputies on the county payroll. TECHNICAL corporals were boosted from $6,600 to $7,200.

Sergeants were hiked from $6,800 to $7,400. Lieutenants received increases from $7,300 to $7,900. Captains were boosted from $8,300 to $8,900. Maj. Ronald F.

Bryant, the sheriff's executive officer, was increased from $10,300 to $10,900. Jail matrons were increased from $4,600 to $5,200. Clerical and secretarial personnel in the sheriff's department were given 4 per cent cost-of-living increases, equal to those being given to workers in other departments. The council cut the sheriffs share of participation in the helicopter to be operated under an inter-governmental agreement from $20,000 to $15,000. It deferred action until today on the sheriff's request for medical insurance for merit employes.

SerVaas said the city council has tentatively agreed to give city policemen $100 a year toward the cost-of-health insur- TurntoPage 16, Column! CRIME ALEUT au any uniawiui or AL U8Plcl "Uvity to the "Mention of police through the Crime Alert number- 633-2811. 6ii fat, ifrJt '4. rrj a tv at least 1 1 persons were killed, most of them civilians. The last previous shelling of the capital was June 16 when almost nightly waves of rocket and mortar attacks abruptly stopped. The 6-foot, 122mm rockets, fired in two bursts, hit the assembly building, the central market area and the water front district.

Two of the rockets struck the National Assembly Building in the center of Saigon. The building stands in a square between the city's most fashionable hotelsthe Cara-velle and the Continental. The first shell tore a large section off the roof of the white stucco building. The second rocket slammed into the structure some 10 minutes later, caving in part of a wall and leaving a 4-foot crater in Sorry, Hoosiers! The Heat's On For A 4th Day A continuation of hot, muggy weather, with temperatures soaring into the 90s for the fourth straight day, was predicted yesterday by the Weather Bureau. The temperature hit 92 yesterday and the forecast calls for continued unseasonably warm and humid weather today and tonight and the same Friday, except there'll be a chance of afternoon or evening thundershowers.

Although no heat records are in sight, the forecaster offered little hope of relief through the weekend. Northside Land Sale 1 Of County's Biggest pelled three human-wave attacks by a battalion of Vict Cong and killed 182 Commu nist soldiers. The Americans reported losing one killed. AMERICAN sources said an estimated 600 Viet Cong a tacked a convoy of armored personnel carriers belonging to the U.S. 25th Infantry Div.sion near the Ben Cui rubber plan tation, about 14 miles east of Tay Ninh City.

The G.I.'s drove back two human wave attacks with machineguns and called in air and artillery strikes to help repulse the third wave. The battle lasted about two hours, the sources said. The Turn to Page 16, Column 3 North Eastway Park (near Castleton) and Shadeland Avenue. Ansin is executive vice-president and general manager of Sunbeam Television Corporation of Miami Beach. The firm has large land holdings throughout the country and ranks as the second largest landholder in southern Florida.

PLANS FOR the land, now largely undeveloped pasture and wood lots with a sprinkling of small farms, call for development of a community of schools, churches, single and multi-family units, an office complex and commercial buildings, including a shopping center and motel. A recreation area in the southwest corner of the main tract would be. centered around a 40-acre lake site which lies in a 110-acre flood plain. Ivan Chalfie of Ivan M. Chal-fie and Associates, Indianapolis broker and development firm, who acted as agent in the sale for Ansin, said negotiations are under way with engineering firms here for a comprehensive land study to Turn to Page 16, Column 1 By JAMES L.

ADAMS Purchase of 637 acres of land in northeast Marion County possibly the largest land sale in the history of the county for development as a "complete community" costing more than $50 million was announced yesterday. Edmund N. Ansin of Miami Beach, bought the acre age from Jose-Kuhn Lumber Company and Oscar A. Jose Inc. for an amount in excess of $1 million.

The land Is bounded roughly on the north by 96th Street, on the south by 86th Street, on the west by White River and on the east by Washington (AP) former President Dwight D. Eisenhower has suffered new spastms of his scarred heart and Army doctors said last night there has been an increase In what they called "heart Irritability." In a medical bulletin at 9:30 p.m. EST the doctors said: The Weather Joe Crow Says: A political party needs a platform broad enough for er to stand on, but not so Impos ing that anyone will remember It after the nominations. Indianapolis Generally fair and continued unseasonably hot and humid today and tonight. Partly cloudy and humid tomorrow with chance of afternoon or evening thundershowcrs.

Indiana Generally fair and continued unseasonably hot and humid today and tonight throughout the state. Partly cloudy, warm and humid tomorrow with chance of afternoon or evening thundershow-ers. High temperature range 00-93 north and mid 90s south. DIRT-DUST COUNT 136 micrograms of dust per cubic meter of air. (Average dally count In 1967 was 118).

POLLEN COUNT 133 "General Eisenhower has again shown some increase of heart irritability since this afternoon's bulletin. He is presently resting comfortably and his vital signs remain stable." EARLIER YESTERDAY doctors reported that a new heart drug has appeared to be effective with Gen. Eisenhower. The drug is a synthetic substance called lidocaine, which is under extensive clinical investigation for use in managing certain disturbances in heart rhythm. These disturbances include ventricular fibrillation, or very rapid unco-ordinatcd contractions, which have threatened the 77-year-old Mr.

Eisenhowers life In his current heart attack, the seventh he has suffered. DOCTORS AT Walter Reed Army Hospital did not say how long they had been administering the drug. They disclosed they had been using it after issuing a medical bulletin at 10 a.m. saying: "Gen. Eisenhower spent a very comfortable night and his spirits remain excellent.

The trend toward a decrease in the frequency of cardiac irregularities and episodes of rapid heart action indicated in last night's bulletin, has continued throughout the night. "While the physicians believe this is an encouraging sign, they still view the general's condition as critical." IN A STATEMENT supple-menting their medical bulletin, Turn to Page 16, Column 8 Inside Today's Star 1 id age 3 Statistics 64 TV-Radio 34 Want Ads 64-75 Weather 34 Werner 36 Women 10-14 mi Amuiement Paget. 24, 25 Area News. 49 Bridge 9 Collins 76 Comics 58 Crossword. 22 Deaths.

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