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MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1972 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3D Bobby Fischer Cancels Flight To Chess Match opinions ranged for the right to televise the 24-game match scheduled to start July 2. Speaking to reporters at Kennedy International Airport before boarding Icelandic Airlines Flight 508 to Reykjavik, Cramer said, "Fischer won't play under anything but fluorescent lighting it is very important to him." Cramer said that the televi Marquis Chiles Vietnam And The Election WASHINGTON BY WAY OF AMBASSADOR Ellsworth Bunker Saigon, South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu sent a warning the other day that the decision-makers here can hardly ignore. Thieu said that the chance of a new North Vietnamese offensive in October could not be written off. Coming at the climax of the presidential campaign, it IHIIllMlipi 4 i could make the Vietnam War a principal issue.

It would shatter the comfortable conviction of Republican strategists, that with Vietnamization and the effectiveness of surgical, push-button bombing the war can be ruled out of the campaign. In the posture of hard-headed realist Hubert Humphrey is also convinced that President Nixon is invulnerable on the war and on foreign policy in general. Having been derided as a one-is- and was begun by Father Schlattmann when he was pastor of St. Francis Church at Portage des Sioux. He is now pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Florissant.

(Post-Dispatch Photo by Nick Brooks) BLESSING THE FLEET: Keeping alive a 16-year tradition, the Rev. Edward B. Schlattmann blessed watercraft on Alton Lake yesterday. The ceremony takes place annually at Our Lady of the Rivers shrine at Portage des Sioux To Use Political Force Tells NE A ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., June 26 (AP) The new president of the National Education Association says the only way to meet the educational needs of all children is with "raw political power." Mrs. Catharine Barrett, a Syracuse, N.Y., inner city elementary teacher for more than 40 years, will take over leadership of the organization Friday at the conclusion of its annual meeting.

In an interview, Mrs. Barrett said her two top i i i would be to "make teachers Childs sue candidate, George McGovern could, in the event of a new offensive from the north, challenge the President's claim to end the war and bring peace to Indochina. Under the circumstances, with the cost of the air and naval war escalating in new billions of dollars, this could be a vital issue once again. EVERY EFFORT WILL be made by the Nixon Administration to see that this does not happen. The goal is a negotiated settlement or, as a minimum before November, a cease-fire and an exchange of prisoners.

But those who should know within the Government here see nothing in train looking to serious negotiation. Recent remarks by China's Premier Chou En-lai indicate his belief that the war will go on and surely be a factor in the American election. He was reported as asking visiting Americans about McGovern's chances in November. Despite the mining of the harbors and the bombing of rail lines close to the Chinese border, China and the Soviet Union have it in their power to fuel an offensive. But the Administration drive to keep the war off the political stage cannot be dismissed.

The scenario for next month offers some extremely interesting possibilities. The Democrats will be meeting In Miami Beach and their platform is likely to put the war high up on the issue list. Former Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford, testifying before the Democratic Platform Committee, said it would be the "cardinal issue." The President and Kissinger will be in San Clemente and taking the headlines away from Miami Beach will have high priority. What better way then to announce a new step toward a negotiated settlement of the war? THE PRESIDENTIAL campaign has blocked out the horrors of the Vietnam war of the past three months; the dead, the maimed, the starving, those horribly burned with napalm, the thousands of new refugees herded into hastily improvised camps.

These are Vietnamese, added victims of the surgical war that has ravaged not less than one third of the entire population of Vietnam. The conscience of America may be so numbed by years of this unending war that these nameless victims, these small people who stand defenseless under the rain of bombs from the B-52s, can no longer stir any chord of compassion or indignation. And yet who can ever forget that news photo of children fleeing with terror and pain on their faces from the napalm attack that, by a mistake on the part of South Vietnamese pilots, fell on a civilian refugee center? We supply the napalm. We supply the planes. We pay the pilots.

The accidents of war, yes, but will anyone be able to tell that girl of 11 or 12 who had ripped off her clothes in her agony why it happened? THE PRESIDENT HAS ALWAYS had the option of hardening American opinion behind a "support your President in a war" majority. That is apparently what is happening. But if the American conscience, the last best hope on earth, is a casualty, then the price is very high. Joseph Kraft A Tone Set For Dirty Work WASHINGTON SOLID, PRACTICAL REASONS argue that Republican leaders were not directly connected with anything as inept as the recent attempt to enter Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex here in Washington. But you don't hear anvbodv savine that President Nixon Catharine Barrett NEA president 1 0 American Federation of Teachers.

The NEA board of directors last week by a 75-tb-10 vote ap-proved a policy authorizing NEA talks with AFT for a confederation, but vetoing any affiliation that would require membership with the AFL-CIO. 4 4 1 1 tip v. Mffl it Blames Inflation, More Use For Blue Shield Losses sion contract, "in six figures," called for filming the match in color and that fluorescent lighting did not have "the proper color spectrum for color film," "The television people have insisted that they will use additional lighting such as incandescent or tungsten-halogen," Cramer said. Fischer is opposed to any additional lighting, Cramer said. EIroy A.

Wollam Services TomorroWl Funeral services for Elroy A. Wollam, who had rtired from McDonnell Douglas will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Kass-ly Cahokia establishment, 1201 Camp Jacksoji Road, Cahokia, 111. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery Mr. Wollam, 69 years old, died Saturday after a long illness.

He lived at 37 St. Lambert Drive, Cahokia. A lifetime member of the Musicians Union, Mr. Wollam was alsoji member of the Junior Order American Mechanics. He was, a member of the Senior Citizens of Cahokia and Cahokia Moosi Lodge 423.

Surviving are his wife, Bear trice; a son, Paul A. Wollaaai a daughter, Mrs. Joe Irene Voss; nine grandchildren -and four great-grandchildren. it Jean C. Witter Dier fin PIIEDMONT, June-26 (UPI) Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow Jot Jean C.

Witter, one of three cousins who founded Dean WiU ter Co. Mr. Witter died Saturday. He was 80 years old. Mr.

Witter joined his cousins Dean and Guy Witter in 1924 in founding the investment auid banking firm of Dean Witter Co. Ends Visit To Francs PARIS, June 26 (AP) Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethioplj visited the tomb of Gen. Charles de Gaulle at Colombey-Ies-Dejif-Eglises in eastern France yesterday. The Emperor then eiti-ed a four-day stay in this (fOUff-try and went on to Yugoslavia 2 SB From PoNt-nUpateh Wlrf Scrvlrnf NEW YORK, June 26 Bobby Fischer, the unpredictable challenger for the world chess championship, abruptly canceled last night his flight to Reykjavik, Iceland, where he is to begin his match next Sunday with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Col.

Edmund W. Edmonsdon, head of the U.S. Chess Federation, said he had no reason to believe that Fischer would not appear for the match. However, Fred Cramer, past president of the federation, indicated that the long awaited chess match might be canceled because of a dispute over lighting. Cramer, a consulting illumination engineer and a friend of Fischer, said a dispute was brewing between Fischer and television producer who had ar- Emigrant Jew Center Visiled By Mrs.

Meir SCHOENAU, Austria, June 26 (UPI) Israeli Premier Golda Meir, in Austria to attend a meeting of the Socialist International, visited this village just south of Vienna yesterday to go to Schloss Schoenau, a nineteenth century manor housing hundreds of Russian Jews emigrating to Israel. Until now, the manor has been kept very hush-hush by the Jewish' agency, a relief organization that helps resettle Jewish emigrants and rents the schloss from a countess. The Austrian government officially neutral shuns all publicity. "The place must be private," a government spokesman said. "In that case, it has nothing to do with us." But, behind the scenes, gov-e sources said the Austrians were fuming at Mrs.

Meir's trip because it cast a shadow on Austria's position of neutrality. "The less said about Schoenau the better," a Jewish official said. "We must respect Austrian neutrality and, naturally, we are very vulnerable to Soviet pressure." Ex-Gov. Huxman Of Kansas Dies TOPEKA, June 26 (UPI) Former Kansas Gov. Walter August Huxman died yesterday.

He was 85 years old. Mr. Huxman, a Democrat, was elected governor in 1936 and served from 1937 to 1939. In May 1939 he was appointed to the Tenth United States Circuit Court of Appeals, where he served until retirement in 1964. the Four KENTUCKY BOURBON Inflation and increased use of benefits by members were blamed primarily today for the second straight year of operating losses reported yesterday by St.

Louis Blue James B. Hughes, president of Blue Shield, told the annual board meeting of the medical insurance organization yesterday that Blue Shield lost in the fiscal year ending April 30. In the fiscal year ending in April of 1971, Blue Shield reported a net loss of $428,641. In previous years, Blue Shield, a nonprofit organization, has either broken even or made enough to place some money in reserve. Because of the losses of the last two years, the reserve will be used to compensate, a Blue Shield spokesman said.

"We announced after the annual meeting last June that we were going to put in some dues increases to compensate for losses sustained then," the spokesman said. "Then the wage and price controls postponed those increases." The loss in the last fiscal year was not as high as that of the previous fiscal year be on merging with other teaching groups. Donald E. Morrison of San Diego, outgoing president, predicted that the proposed constitution would be approved but not without hot debate on parts that might force out of NEA such affiliated organizations as the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the National Association of School Administrators. Other controversial provisions, he said, would be creation of a 30-person board of directors in place of the present board of 101, changing the status of state and national staff personnel from member to associate member without voting privileges, and extending the president's term of i to two years with the privilege of seeking re-election twice.

If approved by the assembly, the constitution must be ratified in November by at least half the states and half the total vote cast. Probably the most emotional issue, Morrison said, will be what national policy is established for the NEA and its affiliates to merge with other teacher groups, especially the AFL- get and John Mitchell couldn't have been involved because they are too honorable and high-minded, too sensitive to the requirements of decency, fair play and law. The absence of even an attempt to make the moral case points up the true connection between the Republican chiefs and Watergate affair. The central fact is that the President and his campaign manager have set a tone that positively encourages dirty work by low-level operators. The President's record goes back a long Teachers recognize political force" and to "achieve legislation which by 1976 will see the Federal Government contributing one third the cost of education." With teachers organized politically in 42 states, Mrs.

Barrett said, she is hopeful that they will have an impact on presidential balloting and congressional elections in November. The 7000 NEA delegates convening today are expected to focus on two main issues adoption of a new constitution radically changing the association, and a national-level policy cause some dues increases were allowed in March. Losses were reported even though the last fiscal year's dues income for Blue Shield rose to more than $31,000,000 from $28,500,000 in the previous fiscal year. This reflected the trend toward increased enrollment in more adequate protection programs that cost more, Hughes said. Dr.

James C. Sisk, a dermatologist, was re-elected chairman of the Blue Shield Board of Trustees at the annual meeting in the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel. On June 7, St. Louis Blue Cross reported that it had oper ated in the black for the first time in three years. The non profit hospital insuror reported dues income was $112,500,0 about $10,500,000 more than Blue Cross expended for hos pital coverage.

Administrative expenditures cut the surplus to $5,500,000. Blue Shield covers payments to physicians. Blue Cross pro vides cost coverage for hospital care. At Pensacola said. They had planned to return home late Saturday.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Our Lady of Providence Catholic Church, 8870 Pardee Road. Giacoma was graduated from the University of Missouri at Rolla and had been with Monsanto for five years. He was 42 vears old. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy; two sons, Fred III, 10 and Paul three daughters, Cathy, 12; Mary, 7 and Judy, his parents.

Mr. and Mrs. 1-redA. Giacoma a brother, James and a sister, Mrs. Mary Lorine Schwartz, all of the St.

Louis area. Urges Year Round Daylight Time WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) Representative Daniel D. Ros-tenkowski (D Illinois, proposed today that daylight saving time be used all year. Currently daylight saving time is observed between April and October. Legislation is pending in both chambers to cut the period to Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Rostenkowski said his bill, introduced today, would be of special benefit to urban dwellers. He noted that serious crimes such as rape, aggravated assault, robbery and murder most often occurred in early evening hours. "The additional hour of daylight provided by this bill would ensure greater safety for commuters who go home in the dark during winter months," he said. I i Kraft Fred Giacoma Jr. Killed iKentucky I Kentucky gMf Bourbon By Lightning Fred A.

Giacoma 9340 Tearose Drive, Crestwood, was killed by lightning Saturday when he and his family were walking from the beach at Pensacola, Fla. His father, a Southwest Bank vice president, said the family had feared the possibility of lightning that morning. Mr. and Mrs. Giacoma had kept the children off the beach in the morning because of intermittent storms.

That afternoon, they began walking from the beach when another storm began. Giacoma, a research engineer at Monsanto was with his wife and five children when the lightning bolt struck, his father Religious Festival Curbed Hy Colorado GRANBY, June 26 (UPI) Grand County officials, in an effort to prevent a Fourth of July weekend religious youth gathering at nearby Strawberry Lake, announced yesterday their decision to declare the gathering a health nuisance. The county commissioners ordered the closing of the county road leading to the campground. The order and roadblock will not affect the several hundred young persons, including many children, who have camped at Strawberry Lake for a "meeting of (he tribes" religious-type festival scheduled for July 1 to 4, a sheriff's deputy said. A spokesman for the Rainbow Family of Living Light, which is organizing the gathering, said the group would go ahead with the event.

way. Every election ne lougni since 1946 has featured smear charges, knees in the groin and thumbs in the eye. That includes the 1970 election when he campaigned as President. PREPARATIONS FOR the 1972 election indicate some change in the old pattern. Mr.

Nixon seems to be trying to stand above the battle. Hence the rarity of press conferences and other personal appearances. But there are still signs of the old Adam. On Vietnam the White House often implies -and occasionally says flatly that those who disagree with the President are helping the enemy. So it is a question of whether Mr.

Nixon can stick to the aloof stance. The more so since he has Mr. Mitchell as campaign manager. The remarkable thing about Mr. Mitchell is how so intelligent a man could have compiled, in such a brief career as a public figure, so many deep associations in matters involving chicanery and the cutting of corners.

The most delicate cases he brought as Attorney General the charges against the Berrigan brothers, the Chicago 7 for conspiracy, and Mayor Joseph Alioto of San Francisco turn out to have had an astonishing insufficiency evidence. His claim of authority to bug domestic subversives without advance judicial approval was unanimously rejected by a Supreme Court dominated by Nixon appointees. The man he chose to head the sensitive criminal division at the Justice Department had to retire after figuring in a gamy Texas scandal involving fraud and bribery. EVEN AS MR. MITCHELL became campaign manager for 1972, the Republicans refused, in plain contradiction with the spirit of the new law on campaign spending, to divulge the names of big contributors who gave before the statute became applicable.

The very name of Mr. Mitchell's new outfit the Committee for Re-election of the President smacks of deception. It implies that the candidate is no familiar shopworn you-know-who from Whittier, but some noble, heroic spirit with a permanent claim on the White House. Probably the gang that tried to break into Democratic headquarters had reasons of their own. The attempts to link them with Mr.

Nixon through Charles Colson of the White House staff show association but not guilt. It is hard to believe that there was anything at Democratic National Committee headquarters the Republicans wanted badly enough to run the risk of being caught in the act of breaking and entering. But members of the gang have important Republicans as Clients. At iome putot in arranging the Watergate affair they had to stop and ask themselves what these patrons would think of the caper. Given the climate generated by the President and Mr.

Mitchell they could come to only one conclusion. Namely, that doing the dirty work on the Democrats would earn them good marks and high favor. SO THERE IS A CONNECTION, albeit indirect, and also a lesson. Unless the President and Mr. Mitchell clean up their own operations, they are going to be made to pay a WWiusky a 5- for THE TRUE OLD-STYLE.