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Ian. UVJ fn) JiJd Newly Wed Lose Draft Exemption WASHINGTON (AP) Men between the ages of 19 and 26 who got married after midnight last night will be subject to the draft on the same basis as single men under an executive order signed yesterday by President Johnson. Says Lid Kept On By Police By NELLIE KENYON Metro police had constantly checked but found no gambling in two Nashville nightspots raided Wednesday by the FBI, Mayor Beverly Briley jaid y. V- jaK.fc. 1 --eSt $mM fc -f i4 xv- Since Sept.

10, 1963, i a yesterday. Two other clubs entered by federal agents in eluding the Ridgetop Dinner Club in Robertson County, which the FBI I Wed Fathers' Draft Eases; married men have been in a special category and not subject to the draft as long as single men were available. Joseph Califano, a presidential assistant, said the change in draft regulations to apply to newly married men was recommended by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Lt. raided yesterday are outside Metro jurisdiction.

4 Lay Firings To Hoffa Case Gen. Lewis Hershey, director of the Selective Service System. HE SAID JOHNSON also WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Adam Clay By BEN JOBE Married men with children will have less ctiance of being drafted as a result of President Johnson's new draft regulations, a Tennessee Selective Service official said yesterday. Col.

Tom Ketterson, deputy di checked with leaders of the House and Senate Armed Serv ices committees and that they ton Powell, made 1 recommended the change. public yesterday allega The revised regulation will have no effect on the draft tions by four Negro work status of men already married. "I think they wanted to get back to gambling," Briley said of the Nashville establishments, the Uptown Dinner Club. 145 Third and the Tines Club, 102 Sixth N. "But the police were checking them too frequently." U.S.

ATTORNEY James F. Neat had no comment last night on Briley's statements. The KBI justified the raids before they took place in affidavits which said agents had information gambling was being conducted. Metro police said thev had no advance notice of the FBI raids. Briley said he thought the raids were executed under a federal law which prohibits storage of gambling equipment.

Briley said the police still have orders to carry out his policy of enforcing all laws. The policy was proclaimed last winter in citywide crackdown on gambling and liquor violations which was accompanied by the closing of the two Nashville clubs. If a draft-age man becomes father before being called into service, he will then go into the same deferred class as other ers that they were fired after becoming involved inadvertently in post-trial investigations of the 1961 conviction of Teamsters rector of Selective service in Tennessee, said that while newly married nonfathers will be given the same draft consideration as single men, family men between AP Wirophoto fathers. Married men without children, while not formally deferred, Napalm Bomb Smoke Marks Offensive the ages of 19 and 26 will have fewer worries. President James U.

Hoffa have beeen passed over for in duction so long as they were liv "Although married men with children are classified as 3-A, SAIGON Smoke from a napalm bomb curls around the rising sun as a U.S. Air Force F100 jet, upper left center, pulls out of bombing run near Ap La Ghi, South Viet Nam. The bombing preceded an assault by South Vietnamese government troops from river assault boats. Little contact was made with the Viet Cong during the operation. ing with their wives.

Divorced or separated men of draft age at Chattanooga, on a jury-tampering charge. they are never called until the available supply of single men were subject to call. CALIFANO SAID that with Powell, chairman of the House Labor Committee, released the is exhausted," Ketterson said. "UNDER THE new regula letters at news conference. He Clement Opens tions, men between 19 and 26 who married after midnight draft quotas increased due to the war in Viet Nam, some of the President's advisers advised Thursday would be called along ine mayor loia a news conference that the Uptown Club said he has sslined an Invet tlgator to examine the com plaints.

Hoffa was convicted in March, 1964, in Chattanooga on a charge B52s Attack VC Positions By EDWIN Q. WHITE with single men, it they were had been checked at least once needed. -40; Hits Press him there had been an Increase in draft age marriages. An Associated Press survey last week showed such marriages were on the increase in 20 Policemen Promoted By WAYNE WHITT of tampering with the jury that had convicted him of conspiracy "With more men available to choose from, the married family man Is farther down the line and Is less likely to be called jsasnvtiie, is2. Hen-teneed to eight years and fined many major cities, A number of other cities, however, reported By LARRY DAUGHTREY Gov.

Frank G. Clement for than his childless counterpart." SAIGON (AP) U.S. Johnson's new order is not re little or no change in that mar riage rate. mally opened Interstate 40 from B52 Stratof ortresses staged their 11th attack troactive, and applies only to men between 19 and 26 who Nashville to Lebanon yesterday with a few verbal slaps at his marry after last midnight. Califano said It will be up to each local draft board to decide whether to draft men married after last midnight.

He said he an hour since It reopened about three weeks ago with the police checks often made every 20 minutes. The Pines Club was kept under similar surveillance, he said. "SURE, WE KNOW some gambling goes on, but when we find it, we will prosecute and run It out," Briley declared. FBI Agent Norman L. Casey said in an affidavit that he visited the Uptown Club Aug.

24 and talked with James F. Barnes, identified by the FBI as one of the operators of the place. Casey said Barnes told him critics. Mayor Beverly Briley promoted 13 members of the Metro police department to the permanent rank oi lieutenant and 7 to the rank of sergeant yesterday. "While getting married will no longer eliminate a young man of the summer yesterday on suspected Viet Cong installations in South Viet The 20-mile superhighway link between Old Hickory Boulevard did not think the number would from the draft, students are still deferred," Ketterson said.

be particularly large. He acted on the recommendation of Police Chief and Highway 26 at Lebanon was opened at a ribbon-cutting cere Nam. A Selective Service spokesman said Hershey approved of Hubert Kemp who said he felt the men were well KbTTtHSON said the new mony on the Davidson-Wilson boards have a larger pool of qualified. County line. A spokesman announced the target was in the D-Zone jungle (Turn to Page 8, Column 1) be is appealing.

AT conclusion of the Chattanooga trial, Hoffa's at torneys charged the Jurors with excessive drinking and unsuccessfully sought a new trial. Three of the four workers who wrote Powell said they were working at the Read House hotel in Chattanooga, where the Jurors stayed. The fourth said his only connection was that he knew some of the hotel bell boys. Albert M. Crouch, Read House manager, reached by phone in Chattanooga last night, said ha had "no comment" about the allegations Powell plsced against his hotel.

He would not deny or confirm reports that he fired the three employes. One of the complainants, Virgil Culpepper, now of Atlnnta, "Tennessee is on the move, no matter what you read or what Kemp also announced the re structuring of the criminal in' men to choose from. 'It will help us a little in our bookkeeping," he said. "Previously, we could elimi 30 miles northeast of Saigon. The fleet of Strategic Air Com the club had been operating for you hear," Clement told a crowd vestigation or detective division Tennessean Today about 10 days but without mak of about 150, including many of the department would be nate a boy from the induction Ing much money, with most mand bombers $8 million, eight-engine jets with a wing span of Nashville and Wilson County of ficials and state employes.

call if he got married on the way Page 1 Gas Firms To Be Merged By ALBERT CASON Business News Editor 183 feet and a range of 10,000 come effective Sept. 1. The changes were recommended by the International Association of Chiefs of Police which made a Ida Jean to the induction office. "Now we will have a more or "I WISH WE could get all peo Kain 26 miles flew in from Guam for another explosive contribution pie, or at least the news media, Obituaries 37, 38 derly flow and things will be a detailed study of the needs of to emit tearing down and help Radio-TV 18 fiamblars betting only "a dol-ar because the police were visiting the club every 30 minutes." The sworn statement by Casey also said the agent was told by a porter, Hercules Mc-Whorter, that gaming tables were being run In the same little easier on us. to the air war that smaller planes wage day by day from the department.

us build up a greater Tennessee. HE SAID THAT since 1963. bases in South Vict Nam. PROMOTED to lieutenant Sports 32-34 Steincrohn 29 Amy Referring to reports he may Page Amusements 28 Anne Adams 24 Ask Andy 35 Bridge 24 Business 31. 36.

37 Classified 38-45 Comics 35 Crossword 35 Editorials 14, 15 Fashion 23 Furnishings 27 Horoscope 35 the age of induction had dropped Sept. 1, were: James C. Aber- run again against Sen. Ross In an exchange of THE RAID WAS the fourth from 23 to 20. "The average age Vanderbilt 26 nathy, Glenn E.

Bowers, Wil Bass next year, Clement told the who said he had been a Read by B52s since June 18 on the for marriage by men has been crowd Weather Map 13 stock valued at more than bellman, wrote in part: Laura liam A. Ogles, Oscar G. Harper, William A. McDaniel James A. York, R.

B. Owen Joseph manner as before the crackdown, but without the same volume of business. "my critics say I snaxing a going down for many years, he said. D-Zone, a guerrilla-infested wilderness and an old bandit hideout of about 600 square miles $5 million on today's mar AFTER THE trial was lot of hands nowadays. But there Wheeler 25 Word Game 35 Tennessee's call for September no' election this year and ket, Tennessee Natural Casey said he entered Barnes' W.

Bryan, Charles L. Stoner, John A. Sorace, Edward T. Grif ranging from a point north of over, some investigators for Mr. Hoffa came to the hotel and asked several of us working Woman's World 23-29 Saigon eastward toward the (Turn to Page 8, Column 1) (Turn to Page 3, Column 3) fith, Thomas W.

Edmondson, office through a room in which a large table was located under a bright light. South China Sea. Gas Lines, parent firm of Nashville Gas there what we had seen about and Alton D. Barnhill. In keeping with new security All 13 were on either the out BARNES TOLD HIM.

Casey regulations, the spokesman de will acquire Chattanooga Gas Co. under terms of a clined to disclose details. In said, that the dice and chips in use were the same ones used standing or well-qualified list certified by the Metro Civil Service Commission. All except Owen, Bryan, Abernathy and York were acting lieutenants. before Barnes was Indicted by past raids, from 25 to 30 of the Stratofortresses have taken part.

The bomb load in each proposal announced yes a federal grand jury last March. Full Gemini Mission. Prospects Rise Again terday. Promoted to sergeant, effec case was reported to have to taled about 500 tons. The an Victor Hugo Pickle of the Ridgetop Club, was Thomas W.

Goodloe. president (Turn to Page 8, Column 3) Some Clouds NASHVILLE: Partly cloudy, warm and humid today, tonight, and tomorrow with scattered showers. High today 88 to 96. Low In the 70s. Map, other data, page 13.

tive Sept. 1, were: William J. of Tannessee Natural, said the nounced aim Is harassment of Barnes, L. T. Dickens, Ralph R.

arrested in the raid there yesterday and charged with using firm seeks to acquire the East Tennessee gas distributing com known centers of Viet Cong ac tivity. Kimbro, W. B. Merry man, Robert L. Ezell, Robert Q.

Mot interstate commerce facilities to promote gambling. In air strikes into North Viet ley and Joseph T. Lyle. pany by exchanging one snare of Tennessee Natural for two shares of Chattanooga Gas, Pickle was later released on Kemp said a command level (Turn to Page 8, Column 2) school would be conducted for (Turn to Page 8, Column 1) which has 650,000 shares out standing. the new officers by members of the staff of the police chiefs as By ARTHUR EDSON HOUSTON (AP) Prospects brightened early today, for a full eight-day flight for the troubled Gemini 5.

The bid price of Chattanooga sociation in the near future. Gas listed on the over-the-coun FOUR OFFICERS will re ter market yesterday was $8. This would make its stock worth $5,200,000. Tennessee Natural's V- main as acting lieutenants. They are Roy Hornbuckle, Ernest Underwood, Charles Klmbrough and George Griffin.

stock was listed at $15 bid. Flight director Eugene Krantz GOODLOE, who is also a vice president of Equitable Securities Beginning Sept. 1 there will be two vacancies for lieutenant said the proposed exchange ratio based on a study by an in the department. Kemp said these would not be filled at this time because there was no need for them at this time. independent firm of public utility security analysts and con said at a post-midnight briefing: "From all the indications we have right now, if they are correct, we've got a go." He spoke after mission control officials had time to study the seriousness of a fuel cell and other problems.

sultantsis considered fair by the management and directors He said there were a couple of of Chattanooga Gas. vacancies for sergeant. The or- He said the offer will be made ganizational plan for the de- With their power shut down, the astronauts broke two Rus (Turn to Page 8, Column 3) (Turn to Page 12, Column 6) sian endurance records and slow ly tumbled over and ever In space as they tried to reach their 121-orbit, eight-day goal. Politics Ihi If W' In By Joe Hatcher GOP Lethargy To Yield Soon To Campaign Building for 1966 i ney aia little else. Flight director Christopher C.

Kraft said that if condition grow worse he may have to end the mission Saturday instead of Sunday. "WE'RE DOING everything we can to get to eight Kraft said, "and I believe wt will do it." Too much tumbling can cause motion sickness, but astronaut' L. ordon Cooper Jr. and Charles (Pete) Conrad Jr seemed unconcerned as their spaceship turned end over end onoe every hour. At 9:45 p.m.

(CST) they had completed 84 orbits. Shortly after Kraft discussed he fuel cell problem at a newi conference Conrad told a com municator In Hawaii: "THE VEHICLE'S tumbling. (Turn to Page 8, Column 4) 1 rri I with eyes on congressional, U.S. senatorial and gubernatorial and legislative campaigns. HURST'S outlined plans call for the state headquarters organization in Nashville, with three regional setups, a youth organization, a publicity director and eventually county organizations.

Expenditures are set around annually to ope-rate the headquarters, and fund-raisin? banquets art set for October and November to Republicans will shake off the lethargy of "dog days" In mid-September to start again the machinery for the 1968 campaign year. State Chairman Julius Hurst has called a pow-wow for Chattanooga tentatively set for Sept. 18 to finalize plans for opening permanent state headquarters and permanent state-wioe and regional and local or ganizations for the conduct of the 1966 campaigns for state offices. Potential candidates will begin to Btir at the same time -Staff photo by Bill Preston AP Wirephoto CAPE KENNEDf Although astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad haven't returned from their Gemini 5 mission, preparations are under way for the next in the aeries. Technicians perform a compatibility test on the Gemini 6 spacecraft and its Agena booster.

Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford will be aboard Gemini 6, Scheduled for launch this fall. Ridgetop Dinner Club Operator Arrested Hiding behind a handkerchief, Victor Hugo Pickle Sr. is taken into custody by a deputy U.S. marshal. The FBI made a gambling raid yesterday at Pickle's Ridgetop' Dinner Club.

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