Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 1

JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE VOL. 122 NO. 167 122ND YEAR JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1967 32 PAGES 3 SECTIONS TEN CENTS Report Mao Ending Cultural Revolution Earlier Story Page 10 HONG KONG (AP) The Hong Kong Star reported today that Mao Tse-tung has given Premier Chou En-Iai full executive powers to stop Mao's cultural revolution purge and restore China's economy. The Star said its report came from "its own sources inside China" but did not identify them further. The Star's report coincided with an announcement by the Hong Kong government that Red China's exports to Hong Kong, its biggest dropped more than $8.2 million in January.

Trade circles blamed the upheaval on Mao'i purge and predicted Chinese exports would drop' still further. The Star, an English-language tabloid published and edited by Australians, also said Defense Minister Lin Piao had disagreed with Mao over several aspects of the purge. Lin Piao is believed by many Western observers in Hong Kong to be the guiding power behind Mao, but the Star quoted its sources as saying Lin believed Mao had gone too far in five specific cases or areas: purge punishment of army chief of staff Lo Jui-ching was, in Lin's opinion, too harsh. Earlier reports from China indicate that Lo was expelled from his job, publicly humiliated, and then arrested. cultural revolution should not have been extended to the army.

Hua should not have been purged from his job as director of tht political bureau of the Army. should have been no demonstrations outside the Soviet Embassy in Peking and there should have been no violent demonstrations against Soviet women and children at the Peking airport. cultural revolution should not have been allowed to interfere with agriculture at a time when spring planting was about to begin. The Star said its sources reported Lin went to Chou En-lai, aid before him his complaints N. Vietnamese Maul U.

S. Marines, Artillery INDICTED IN NESKOBA SLAYINGS ba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price (front center in white hat) leaves federal court building at Meridian, after he was reindicted on charges stemming from 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers. Also indicted and directly behind Price is Neshoba Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and at upper right is Edgar Ray Killen, Baptist minister who was among 19 persons indicted. Price is currently candidate for sheriff. (AP Wirephoto) GM Plants in City Reopen Tomorrow Full production wili resume at Janesvjlle's Fisher Body and Chevrolet plants tomorrow.

General Motors announced today. announcement means about 4,400 hourly-rated workers will return to their jobs. AQ but 650 truck line workers here lost their jobs as of last Wednesday, following a wildcat strike at a Fisher stamping and fabricating plant in Mansfield, Ohio, two weeks ago. Tht Ohio strike ended Thursday, but not before GM plants all around the country were forced to shut down. Employes here lost six working days, including today.

"Production will resume (tomorrow)," GM's announcement today said. "All employes of both plants, both shifts, should report at the regular starting times of their shifts tomorrow." Asked if parts from Mansfield were flowing into Janesville on a normal schedule again today. Fisher Superintendent John McCarthy said, "We will be going tomorrow, and we hope to be able to sustain production from there on in." The unemployed workers have been entitled to benefits from the state unemployment security office during the layoff. Garrison Issues 1st Subpoena NEW ORLEANS Lewallen, wanted by the district attorney for questioning in the probe of the presidential assassination, was expected to give a statement later today. He was served with a subpoena Tuesday night in the parking lot of state police headquarters.

Earlier, his mother had said he probably was spending the night with firends. Garrison's office declined to disclose information about Lewallen in its brief announcement. But District Judge Bernard Baggert, who signed the subpoena, said Lewallen had refused to take lie detector test and that the subpoena was issued to require him to report to Garrison's office today to make a statement. The city directory identified the only James Lewallen listed as an inspector at the Boeing Company and gave his residence as 4406D Paris Ave. One of the first things a child learns in school is that other children get allowances.

SAIGON, (AP) North Vietnamese troops have inflicted heavy casualties on two U.S. Marine companies and hammered at positions of long-range American guns south of the demilitarized zone with intensive njortar barrages, U.S. spokesmen announced today. The official report estimated the Communists fired 1,000 mortar shells at Marines during a day-long battle, Tuesday about 10 miles south of the buffer territory that separate North and South Mietnam. Evidently seeking to interrupt the shelling of North Vietnam across the zone, the Communists lobbed 475 81mm mortar shells at the positions of some self-propelled 175mm guns that had been moved to within two miles of the zone.

A spokesman said there was no damage to the big guns, which can fire shells up to 20 miles, and that American casualties were light. In the Zone theater adjoining the Cambodian frontier, American planes and artillery killed more than 130 Viet Cong after the Communists badly mauled a company of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, the U.S. military command reported. The six-hour battle Tuesday was the biggest to date in the week-old Operation Junction City, a US.

squeeze on the Communist jungle stronghold near the Cambodian border. The company of 178 American infantrymen suffered heavy casualties, meaning it is no longer an effective fighting force until it receives replacements. North Vietnamese regulars operating just below the demilitarized zone fired off a tremendous mortar attack in an effort to knock out the long-range U.S. artillery guns which last week began shelling across the six- mile zone into North Vietnam. U.S.

headquarters said the North Vietnamese fired 475 mortar rounds against the 175mm guiis in two Sellings Tuesday night. A U.S. spokesman said "miraculously" there was no damage to the big guns and only light casualties to American troops. The 175mm guns, the biggest in Vietnam, are positioned two miles south of the demilitarized zone. The U.S.

Command announced last Friday that the huge artillery pieces had begun firing at military targets in North Vietnam and in the demilitarized zone. The Sniper Is Dead Marine No Complainer Complaints don't come easily from Marine Pfc. Frederick L. DeVoll, Edgerton, who is spending his time in a Vietnam hospital, waiting to return to action. DeVoU, 18, had been in the Asian country two and a half weeks before suffering a gunshot wound.

In a recent letter to his father Roy, 412 Randolph he said: "You most likely got the news from the War Department telling you I was wounded. It was a gunshot wound. I caught it in the shoulder and it came out the base and front part of my neck. It isn't as bad as it sounds, I feel fine. "I got it the second day on that operation I was telling you about.

It was a sniper that got me, he is dead now. "When General Walt gave me the Purple Heart, he said it was for risking my life for my country, but everybody over here is doing that. I was just unlucky or lucky depending on how you look at it. "I should only be out of ac- Order Filing of Briefs in Annexation Dispute tion three of four weeks, maybe less. The food in the hospital is great.

There are even nurses "I ihougiit 1 'wu tp let you know I afong fine. I should be up and around soon, so there is no need to worry. Love, Fred." DeVoU graduated from Edgerton High School last June and entered the service in August. FOR HIS DeVoU, son of Roy DeVoll, Edgerton, receives a Purple Heart for a wound he suffered in Vietnam. The Marine, wounded in the neck and shoulder, wrote his father, the officer presenting the honor said it was for risking his life for his country, but DeVoll said, "everybody here is doing that." What caald be an extended court fight over the Beloit annexation began yesterday in Circuit Court with a defeat for the City of Beloit and a promise of speedy action by the presiding judge.

Circuit Richard W. Orton, Lancaster, who is hearing the case because Judge Arthur L. Luebkc disqualified himself, dismissed the city's motion to rule out some arguments against the annexation as not relevant to the dispute. The hearing, which began at 1:30 p.m. quickly bogged down over arguments on the city's contention that the court lacks jurisdiction in the case under fundamental limitations set in the state constitution.

Judge Orton called for briefs from the townships of Rock, Beloit, and Turtle, who are contesting the annexation, by Mardi 31 solely on the city's jurisdictional challenge. Attorneys for the city must file their reply brief by April 15, he ordered. The court's right to rule in the dispute was labeled a "substantial" question by the He took up the question because the city objected to holding the trial of ts annexation before its challenge of the court is ruled upon. promises Action Commission of the briefs means the case won't go to trial this month but the judge promised rapid legal tcUoa "I havs a deep feeling that speedy justice is usually good justice," Judge Orton told the opposing attorneys. "In this case I feel that I do need help because the question is novel to me and I think it's a substantial question." Earlier in the hearing the judge had ruled against the city's motion that some of the evidence ihe towns wish to present against the annexation is not relevant to the case.

The city case is that the court, if it have jurisdiction in the question, needn't rule on the evidence in question in order to determine whether the annexation is in the public interest. The state annexation statute says public interest is the criteria the courts must use in passing on an annexation. It wasn't made clear what evidence the city objected to. However, the towns have informod the court via petitions filed two weeks ago, that they feel some city officials have a "personal interest" in the annexation. Another charge was that improper inducements were made to get isome residents in the annexed area to sign the petition requesting annexation.

Dozen Spectators Judge Orients handling of the proceedings drew chuckles on several occasions from the dozen spectators in the courtroom. At one point, as the attorneys' argumeoti grew more complex, he commented "A little bird told me a long time ago that when you get assigned to a case outside your district it's a stinker." Present for the city was Beloit City Atty. Samuel Loizzo and Trayton Lathrop, of the Madison law firm of Orr, Isaksen, Werner, Lathrop and Heaney, hired to assist in the litigation. Town attorneys Roger O'Neal, Beloit Township; David MacDougall, Rock Township; and David Y. Collins, Turtle Township, provided the opposition.

The hearing was scheduled to determine whether the towns could intervene in the action which would make them a part of the litigation. But the city's constitutional challenge quickly dominated the session. Judge Orton suggested that the towns be permitted to intervene and a trial date be sent for the annexation. Lathrop, who handled all of the city's verbal arguments, argued that the city hoped to avoid an expensive proceeding by settling its question first. Judge Orton said the towns have a "clear statutory right to intervene" and indicated he would so rule when the occasion arises.

Much of the argument involved fine points of the state's laws governing annexations and (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) Snowy? Springy? 31-Day March Will Give Answer ZONE Mostly clouSy anil warmer lonight. Thurwlay variable cloudiness and warmer. Lows tonight 25-21). High Thursday in (lie iOs.

South to southeast winds increasing lo nt.p.h. tonight. Thursday winds becoming westerly 10-20 m.p.h. Precipitation probabilities: 10 per cent tonight, 5 per cent on Thursday. It seems the weatherman was overly optimistic about the lamb-like qualities of March.

The first day of the month was sunny enough but the noon temperature of 26 gave no evidence that the mercury would climb to around 40, as he predicted. The past three years Janesville has had 50-degree maximum temperatures on the opening day of March. Anyway, the forecaster was Suggests Mondays Be for Families SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) What's good for American families is good for democracy, says a New Mexico legislator who has that every Monday night be set aside as "family get-together" night. State Republican Sen.

William A. Sego, 27, introduced a memorial, to proclaim observance of the family night by New Mexico family. Sego, a businessman, is married and has two chUdreu. right in pcedicting that it would be cold last night. The mercury plunged to 6 above here before dawn today, but then it was 13 below on this date in 1962.

Tonight and tomorrow will be warmer, says the prediction. A low of 25-30 is forecast for tonight, a high in the 40s for tomorrow. It was 20 below along the Wisconsin Upper Michigan line this morning, 90 above in Los Alamitos, yesterday. It'S'too early to give up hope for March which not only brings spring on the 21st of the month but last year furnished Janesville's Irish with a St. Patrick's Day temperature of 74.

Of course it has been, known for some of the heaviest snowfalls of past years, too. Among them were the 9.7-inch snow of March 4 and 1964, the 8.1-inch of March 8, 1961, and the 10.4- inch snow of March 14-15, which followed close on the heels of the 8.8-inch snow March 5 and 6, 1959. Also in the northern end of the country, U.S. Marines reported killing at least 26 enemy troops in several sharp fights below the demilitarized zone and along the South China seacoast. More bad weather over North Vietnam Tuesday held American pilots to 56 strike missions which cost one plane.

An Air Force F105 Thunder- chief was shot down by North Vietnamese ground fire. The pilot, Capt. James S. Walbridge of Williamsport, bailed out and was rescued by a Jolly Green Giant helicopter from the jungles north of the Mu Gia Pass on the North Vietnamese border with Laos. Walbridge was plucked from a tree in which he landed and had been hanging, suspended by his parachute harness, for an hour and a half.

Officer Says Cong Long for Peace PHUOC THANH, South Vietnam (AP) A North Vietnamese lieutenant captured by Korean troops said today the failure of the lunar new year truce to produce peace negotiations has put "Viet Cong morale at an all-time low." "Night and day the Viet Cong long for peace," said Lt. Truong Hiep, a platoon leader with the 3rd Company, 85th "Independ ence" Battalion, a Viet Cong main-force element. "They had high hopes for negotiation. Now they know they cannot win without direct help from Russia or Red China," he said. The lieutenant was interviewed through an interpreter at the wire-enclosed stockade of the Korean Tiger Division here in the central highlands 290 miles northeast of Saigon.

A Korean private captured him this week with a karate blow. The lieutenant was attempting to fire his German Walther pistol at a Korean patrol that surprised him as he was returning to duty from a Viet Cong hospital hidden in the mountains. A North Vietnamese regular, Truong infiltrated from Hanoi a year ago and was assigned a special cadre to work with Viet Cong main-force troops in Phu Yen Province, which actually was his home. Like many other idealistic young Communists, he went north during the 1954 armistice that followed the Geneva agreements and rose through the ranks of the North Vietnamese army. Truong's special job was guarding provincial officials of the Viet Cong shadow government operating in the tactical area being swept by Korean troops.

He was badly scalded in January while trying to boil water in an ammunition box and was taken to a Viet Cong dispensary deep in the mountains. The hospital once had consisted of four buildings, but because of air strikes had been reduced to a- single hut staffed by one doctor, two medics and a nurse. The lieutenant as a cadre officer he had been told to indoctrinate his troops with tJie idea that a truce would soon come about with a coalition government of Viet Cong and South Vietnamese representatives ruling the country, following the immediate withdrawal of all American and other foreign troops. against Mao, and also told him he wanted to be responsible only for the Chinese army and not for the civilian administratis of China. Then, according to the Star, Chou, Lin and "several other important leaders" put the matter before Mao.

After two days of consideration, the Star said, Mao gave Chou full executive power to: the cultural revolution and stop power seizures. spring planting started and factory production going again. all foreign affairs, including Soviet-Chinese relations. the army out of the political power struggle, orders against physical torture or public humiliation of cadres and public officials. planning for development of the national economy.

The trade figures released by the Hong Kong government showed imports from Red China during totaled $42 million, a drop from $50,243,800 previous month. Chinese ports to Hong Kong totaled 682,000 last year, mostly in food, light industrial products and textiles. From Tokyo earlier today came a report that Mao's porters in Shanghai admittmf that the 73-year-old Communist party chairman cannot regain control of the party and government administration or consoIU dated his hold without the help HOSPITAL MAiUNG PLANS FOR LUCI The entire top floor of Holy Cross Hospital, new, modernistic structure in poor section of Austin, will be turned into giant maternity ward for Luci Johnson Nugent's first child, Austin doctor revealed yesterday. The doctor's comment on plans for birth of President Johnson's first grandchild was apparently first medical that Mrs. Nugent is pregnant.

(AP Wirephoto) Luci, Child Will Have Hospital Unit to Selves AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Luci Johnson Nugent will give birth to President Johnson's first grandchild in a giant maternity ward taking up the top floor of an Austin hospital. An Austin doctor, who asked that his name not be disclosed, gave the first medical confirmation of Luci's pregnancy Tuesday. The doctor said the top floor of Holy Cross Hospital will be reserved for Mrs. Nugent and visitors.

The White House and the Patrick J. Nugents, however, maintained their silence on the prospects for a presidential grandchild. The Secret Service will guard the special fifth-floor maternity setup, the doctor said, adding that an agent will be assigned to the baby at birth. The doctor said the identity of Mrs. Nugent's obstetrician and the date of the expected delivery were both well-guarded secrets.

Luci, 19, has refused to tell her condition, once telling newsmen, "My marital status is a private affair, and I intend to keep it that way." She was married last Aug. 6. But a spokesman for the hospital, a Roman Catholic institution in keeping with Luci's faith, said some arrangements had been made for her to enter the hospital. He added, "I can't discuss anything with you for a couple of weeks. It's in the talking stage." Published reports have said Luci's baby will be born in May or June, but she had not yielded in her determination to keep quiet about the baby.

"We're not in the announcing business," she told a newsman last month. The Austin doctor said that by clearing the floor of the 15-20 other patients, there would ba plenty of space for labor, delivery and recovery rooms, a nursery and approved visitors. Tha hospital does not have a designated maternity ward. Holy Cross, obuilt in 1965 with the aid of Hill-Burton federal funds and dedicated last June, is a modern, yellow-brick building that contrasts sharply with the poor, predominantly Negro neighborhood around it. The fifth floor appears spacious.

From the windows tha nearby Capitol, University of Texas tower and federal offica building where the Preadent has his offices can be seen easily. The Missionary Sisters of tha Immaculate Conception administer the hospital. Clark Named Atty. General; Father Quits Supreme Court WASHINGTON (AP) Nomi- Much More Inside MANY HIGHLIGHTS at the Comics 4A diamond anniversary meeting Editorial Page 6 of the Janesville YMCA. Every Day 6A Movies 12 FISHER BODY in Janesville Radio, Television 4A lists promotions of four men.

Society Sports ...14,15 nation of Ramsey Clark as attorney general will give President Johnson a Supreme Court vacancy to fill the result of a unique family double-play. After promoted Clark to the vacancy Tuesday, Supreme CDjrt Justice Tom C. Clark, tha nominee's father, said he'll retire by midyear to avoid lany conflict of interest. Early Sanate approval of the younger (-'lark's appointment is anticipated Three senators heartily endorsed the nomination, with Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, calling it "one of the finest any president has ever made." Justice Clark, 67, a 17-year the high court bench, said he'll review the court's docket "for any possible conflict of interests that arise during the remainder of the term" and then decide when to retire. The court term is scheduled to end in June. The justice's retirement would give Johnson his second Supreme Court appointment. Clark was appointed by President Harry S. Truman.

Ramsey Clark, 39, has been acting attorney general since last October when Nicholas Katzenbach resigjied to become undersecretary of state. He'll go before tlie Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday (or what is expected to be a brief re-examination of his qualifications. He previously received committee and Senate approval for appointments as RAMSEY CLARK assistant attorney general and deputy attorney general. Clark, who never uses his first name, William, would be the eighth youngest of the nation's 66 attorneys general, assuming he is confirmed by the Senate. During the four and a half months he was acting attorney geneiMl, Clark remained in his depiiry attorney general's office rather than move into the plush, Oriental-carpeted, oak-paneled attorney general's officie on the fifth floor.

Justice Clark's retirement by midyear will remove from the Supreme Court a generally jurist who some- TOM C. CLARK times swung to the liberal especially with his neckties; He is the fifth oldest of tha nine judges, third in seniority and the last of President Harry' S. Truman's three on the high court. If successor turns to be more conservative, tha court could tilt in that direction: if more liberal, the now-tenuolia liberal majority would be reiij- forced. The white-haired, affabla Clark took the judicial oatn, i Aug.

24, 1949, filling the vacancy caused by the death of liberal Justice Frsnk Murphy. He was', then 49 and had been attorney general four yaari..