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AT LADON IA Canadian Plane Wanted in Bank The daring robbery of the little Farmers and Merc a nts State Bank in Lationia took an intemational twist Wednesd a when a Dallas Negro charged in the case hijacked a Canadi a airliner. A 22-year-old Negro named Charles Laverne Beasley pulled ESCAPE FOIL Charles Laverne Beasley, 22, of Dallas, charged with the robbery of the Ladonia bank on Aug. 19, now is in the hands of Canadian authorities. He tried to hijack an Air Canada plane. (AP Wire- photo).

a pistol on the captain of an Air Canada turbo-prop just out of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, and ordered him to fly to Cuba. When the plane landed in Montreal for re-fueling, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer talked Beasley into giving up his gun and asking for political asylum in Canada. It was then that officers learned Beasley's identity and that he was wanted by the FBI on a warrant for the Aug. 19 holdup of the Ladonia bank.

Extradition proceedings will now be instituted to bring Beasley back to the U.S., once the airliner hijacking incident is cleared. Beasley is believed to be one of the two gunmen who. entered the Ladonia bank in Fannin County, and robbed it of $13,111.76 at mid-morning on Aug. 19. The bank's executive vice president, J.

B. Eastman, was pistol-whipjjed and left in a pool of blood on the floor. A second man charged in the Ladonia robbery, Fred Lou i Bell of Dallas, is in federal custody in Tyler. Officers believe him to be the driver of the getaway car. The second gunman in the Ladonia holdup, plus the man who drove a second getaw a car, are still at large.

Hijacke Robbery HIJACKED PLANE PILOTS Capt. Ronald Hoilett fiett) and first officer Robert Bromley leave the immigration office at Montreal International Airport Wednesday after the attempted hijacking of an Air Canada Viscount '-he gunman who sought to divert the plane to Cuba has been identified as one of the suspects in the Aug. 19 rob- baiy of the Ladonia, Fannin County, bank. (AP Wire- photo). Marcello Draws The '22-year-old Beasley boarded the Air Canada i s- count, with 17 other passengers, two stewardesses and two pilots', at Moncton, N.B., with a ticket he had bought earlier in Halifax, N.B.

The Viscount's pilot, Capt. Robert Hoilett of Toronto, said that about 10 minutes after the plane had left its intermediate stop at St. John, N.B., Beasley pointed a fully-loaded .22 caliber Colt revolver at a stewardess and ordered her to take him to the pilot's cabin. "He just barged in. brandished a weapon and told us we were going to Cuba," Hoilett told reporters.

"We told him, sir. We are willing to No shots were fired. While Beasley stood behind the pilot and co-pilot, pointing his gun at them, iJollel" told him it would be impossible for the medium-range Viscount to make it to Cuba without refueling. He agreed that they would land in Montreal for refueling. The 17 passengers and stewardesses promptly debarked at Montreal.

Beasley was locked in the flight compartment with the captain and first offi Ronald Bromley of Toronto. The plant was refueled and the airline, notified by radio of the hijacking, prepared a plan for a flight to Havana, with a fueling stop at i ton a lem, N.C. Canadian Mountie J.R.R. Carriere rushed to the airport, found he couldn't get aboard the plane, but called the pilot on the airline radio circuit. Beasley, still holding the gun, contended lie was fleeing from the Central Intelligence Agency.

He said he belonged to a ''Black drganizati and wanted to go on to Cuba or get political asylum in Canada. The Mountie told Beasley that if he would hand over the gun and leave the plane, his application for asylum would be given the same consideration as any other. Beasley agreed, turned i gun over to the pilot and sat down to eat lunch served by the pilot from hot food in the plane's refused to leave the plane until he finished eating. Officials said later Beas 1 ey entered Canada three weeks ago at Windsor, Ont. Police found $175 in Canadian funds on him wJien he was searched.

Beasley told Canadian offi- das he was born April 2, 1946. at Rosser, in the next county See WANTED Page 2 Col. 4 DIES Two-Year Term D0 AT TAY NINH HOUSTON (AP) Carlos Marcello, alleged Cosa Nostra chieftain, drew a two-year prison sentence today and a fine for assaulting an FBI agent. U.S. Dist.

Judge John Singleton handed the sentence. Marcello, 58, was convicted here Aug. 8 on a complaint that he assaulted Agent Patrick J. Collins 39, at the New Orleans Airport Sept. 30, 1966.

Marcello's lawyers contended the testimony about Cosa Nostra, the crime syndicate, prejudiced the jury. The conviction is being appealed. Marcello testified he didn't touch Collins but only waved his hand in a gesture of dismissal. His lawyer claimed Collins posed as a newsman to place Marcello under surveillance at the airport. Newsmen at the airport when Marcello arrived testified that he asked, after picture taking, if the photographers had enough J.

Gatifnier, a photog- fcr New Orl:" 1 then "starter! cursing th? swinging his took wild swing" at Conns. FBI Joseph Aviagone, 30. testified he saw Marcello "swing a roundhouse right." He the blow went past his face and "I didn't see if it struck Collins." He sairi Marcello was restrained by companions. SAIGON (AP) Two small skirmishes were reported on the fringes of Tay Ninh City today, and enemy troops ambushed a U.S. convoy farther out, but U.S.

advisers said it appeared that enemy forces had pulled back for the moment. The fighting was reported on the southwestern and southeastern edges of the city as 2.000 South Vietnamese paratroopers and marines swept through areas that Viet Cong and North Vietnamese infiltrators had occupied Wednesday. South Vietnamese military headquarters in Saigon said: "The situation is now calm in Tay Ninh City. There is no major fighting." Enemy troops opened up with small arms on a convoy from the U.S. 25th Infantry Division six miles to the south along route 22, the major highway leading from Tay Ninh to Saigon, 45 miles to the southeast.

The Americans returned the fire with machine guns atop armored personnel carriers. Fourteen enemy soldiers and one American were reported killed IP. the brief fight. Another five U.S. soldiers were wounded.

trucks, rn armored personnel carrier an-j a helicopter were slightly damaged, a U.S. spokesman said. Meanwhile, the allied command in Saigon reported that U.S., South Vietnamese and enemy casualties all dropped sharply last week, reflecting a The cotton harvest in Lamar County, delayed by heavy spring rains, got its first bale Wednesday. The Noble Co-Op Gin processed a bale for J. D.

Burnett of Route Petty, at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday for the first bale to be reported in Lamar. It was one of the latest "first bales" in history. Gin Manager Walter Cooper said the bale ginned out at 470 pounds. Planting of the Lamar crop was delayed by heavy spring rains.

The harvest is expected to reach well into the fall and earlv winter. slowdown in ground action after two weeks of intensified fighting. American casualties were 195 killed and 1,400 wounded, about half the total reported the week before. One U.S. adviser at Tay Ninh said the majority of the enemy force has withdrawn "but he may have withdrawn only a short way or into a different area." He can come right back." South Vietnamese headquarters said 22 enemy soldiers had been killed in fighting at Tay Ninh since Wednesday.

Government losses were put at 13 killed and 91 wounded. Hay Day Entries Total fl2 Here Lamar County's 1958 Hay Day Show has attracted 412 entries for the Sept. 26'event that will 1)0 held on the parking lot of the First National Bank. Hershel McKinney. committee member for the annual event that is sponsored by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and the Lamar County Professional Agricultural Workers, said that entries set a new record and far exceeded the 259 who entered the show.

A bale of hay was left by all contestants earlier this week at the high school in their area. Samples uii! be taken from the hay and stint to a laboratory for analysis as to protein content. The higher the protein content of the hay, the better the rhancc for the grower to win first place in the three divisions of the contest. Protein amount counts for 75 per cent of the challenge while hay identification amounts to 25 per cent of the test. Powderly High School received the most entries as 163 left bales for analysis.

Following are the collections at the other schools: Delmar, 23: Roxton 17; West Lamar. 10: Central, 3S; Chicota. 29; Paris, 48; Blossom, 33: East Lamar, 17; Deport, 26. and Cunningham. 8.

99TH YEAR. NO. 63 PARIS. TEXAS (75460), THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1968 20 Pages in Two Section, Seen in ation Forces Move to Countryside PRAGUE (AP) Most occupation troops appeared today to be withdrawing from Czechoslovakia's major cities to new positions in the countryside. Downtown Prague was generally clear of Russian tanks for the first time since the invasion three weeks ago.

The Soviets during the night evacuated the capital's last tank encampment, in a park between the main railroad station and St. Wenceslas Squart 1 Similar evacuations were reported from Bratislava, Kosice and Brno, the latter preparing for several thousand foreign visitors to its annual international trade fair starting Sunday. A number of planes were hoard taking off from Prague during the night. This could indicate a thinning out of the Soviet troops, but there was no immediate confirmation. Soviet military police were on ihe roads outside the capital, directing traffic, stopping trains and holding railway crossing gates open for convoys, jeeps and tanks.

A heavy concentration of airborne and armored troops remained near Prague's international airport, where most scheduled flights resumed this week. Occasional armored cars were siill seen in the city and some tanks were still inside the Soviet Embassy's grounds, but tiiey were hidden from public- view. At the downtown tank park early today, the only evidences of the three-week occupation were the marks left by the tank treads and a smoky fire burning empty army supply cartons and discarded copies of Pravda, the Soviet Communist party newspaper. The major part of the occupation force, estimated at 650,000 men at one time, was believed to be still in the country to back up political pressure being exerted on Czechoslovakia's liberal Communist leaders by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov, who arrived last Friday, discussed "problems of mutual interest in the present context" Wednesday with National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsky.

Prague Radio reported. The assembly is expected on Friday to pass into law the major Soviet demands for press controls and a ban on opposition political parties. Under the agreement which President Ludvik Svoboda, Premier Okirich Ceniik and Communist party chief Alexander Dnbcek negotiated in after the invasion, occupation troops are to be withdrawn in stages as the Prague government re-establishes controls on anti-Communist elements. VETERAN OFFICER UUKF DAN BILLS Oct. 1 Police Chief Bills to Two Named Urban Pane Two Paris businessmen have been appointed to the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Lamar County's Rural-Urban Relations o- gram.

They are Glenn Edwards, owner of Famous Shoe Store, and H. D. Jackson, manager of the Store here. Other members of the Finance Committee are Chairman Arthur Skeen and Austin Sellers. Another longtime member, Dub King, died recently.

The two new appointments were announc jointly by Chamber Presid nt Bill Thompson and Chair an Skeen. The next Rural-Urban Dinner is planned on Tuesday nig t. Oct. at Chicota School with a "Salute to Law Enforcement." The veteran chief of the Parks Police Department, a Bills, will retire effective Oct. 1.

His resignation came in a letter to City Manager Hubert Kennemer and the City Council yesterday, and will end a long and dedicated law enforcement career for the Paris lawman. No successor has been named. City officials said the Paris police chief will be named in time to assume command of the department on Oct. 1. Chief Bills leaves on vacation th i weekend.

He was 62 this month. City Manager Kennemer received the following letter yesterday from Chief Bills: "HONORABLE CITY A NAGER AND CITY COUNCIL: "To the Honorable City Manager, H. c. Kennemer, and the City Council of the City of Paris, I became 62 years of age on the 2nd day of this month and became eligible for retirement; therefore, I am requesting retirement as your Chief of Paris Police Department effective Oct. 196S.

ft has been a privilege and pleasure to work with you and for you for the past nine years. 1 have worked hard to please you and the rest of the citizens of Paris. I believe that the City of Paris has one of the best, if not the best, Police Department that can be found in the State of Texas. January 1, 1969. I would have been a peace officer in Lamar County sixteen years, and I know of no other work that I would have enjoyed any more.

My work has been pleasant and I have made many friends. "My sixty-two years have been spent in Lamar County, the last thirty of which a been within the City of Paris, and I plan to continue my residence at my home at 1745 Belmont. I want each of you to know and understand that the latch string at my home is always hanging on the Respectfully submitted. DAN A. BFLLS Kennemer commended Chief Bills for the fine service he has given, and noted that "he is leaving the post with the same enthusiasm when he took 1 Bills became chief on Jan.

1960. Kennemer said the Couric i I hopes to "choose someone who do as good a job as (Chief Bills) has done. He has had a fine relationship with all concerned, ami there has been substantial growth in the police department while he headed it." The department had 24 officers when Bills assumed comma d. and now has 34 officers a clerks. to becoming Par i police chief.

Bills was sheri of Lnmar County. He first ran for sheriff in 11)52. winning the race, and in that jwsl until resigning to income chief of the Paris Police Department. In 1957, ijc was awarded a certificate of merit from Attorney General John Ben Sheppard Sec RETIRE Page 2 Col. 6 NORTHEAST TEXAS: Fair a little warmer tonight and Friday.

Low tonight 56 to 65 High Friday 82 to 30. OKLAHOMA: Fair and a little warmer tonight. Fair east and partly cloudy west Friday Lows tonight 5G io Ho. LOCAL U. S.

Weather Bureau information for the 2-i-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Thursday, courtesy of Observer W. J. Thomas. High temjjeralure Wednesday 83, low and overnight low 56.

Temperature at a.m. Thursday 58, Temperature range on this date last year Record high for this date IM in 1011. record low 47 in 1040. No rainfall. Rainfall to date this year 4U.32 inches.

Rainfall to this dale last year 3S.72 inches. Sunrise Friday 7'14 a.m. Sun- 7:42 p.m. TRAIN WRECKS DKNISON, Tex. (AP) A southbound Missouri Kansas Texas freight irain was wrecked the IUul River today, blocking the main line and bridge with 15 derailed cars.

A concrete switching building was demolished. No one was retried injured. FAMILY SHOOTING HOLLAND. Tex. (A! 1 Authorities withheld ruling today in the bizarre shooting dcaihs of two sisters and the wounding of their mother.

The family dog also was found shot to doath. Hell County Sheriff Lester Gunn said the carnage may have been the result of a family argument that sparked murder and suicide. Found dead by officers Wednesday were Dorothy Martinets, 33, and her sister, Martha. Their mother. Mrs.

Albina Martinets, was in fair condition in a Temple hospital with two bullet wounds. The the mother said the older daughter shot her sister and then turned the .33 caliber pistol on herself. Gunn said Mrs. Martinets said that she ihon picked up the weapon and shot herself. The sheriff said an investigation was continuing.

POLICEMAN INDICTED MIDLAND, Tex. (AP) The grand jury indicted Midland policeman Michael Lee Moody, 24, today on charges he murdered Lori Margaret Gunn, 2. The grand jury returned the murder with malice bill after hearing testimony Tuesday and Wednesday. Moody remained in jail in ITAU of 525,000 bond. Dist.

Ally James Mashburn said he will seek the death penalty. An autopsy showed the little girl died of suffocation and had been sexually molested. Officers found her partially nude body Aug. 31 after a 19-hour search. It was discovered in a closet of house where the rookie officer was living.

YOUTH ELECTROCUTED ANDREWS, Tex. (AP) Hershel Griffith H. was electrocuted Wednesday when he tried to extricate a rabbit from a sprinkler pipe at the Andrews High School football field. Authorities said the youth was on his way io football practice when he tried to remove the rabbit. The pipe came in contact with overhead electric lines.

Justice of the Peace Jay Williams ruled accidental death. The victim's parents live at Frankel City, some 12 miles west of this West Texas city. NEW STRIKE SET NEW YORK (AP) A hew citywide teachers strike has been set for Friday "after threats of violence against teachers in Hill-Brownsville section the of Negro Ocean Brooklyn. Classes Ixjgan Wednesday for Li-million pupils after a two-day strike by the AFL-CIO United Federation of Teachers. AGAINST NUCLEAR WEAPON By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Presidential candidates Richard M.

Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey clashed head-on today over prompt Senate ratification of the multination treaty against spread of nuclear weapons. Nixon, the Republican candidate, endorsed the treaty in a statement Wednesday but said Senate ratification should be delayed until Soviet intentions in Czechoslovakia and other European nations can be reassessed. Humphrey, the Democratic nominee, s'aid today the very fact that tensions have increased among the superpowers shows a need for ratifying the treaty and building other East- West bridges. "For if nations shall be unable to build bridges between each other in year 23 of the nuclear Humphrey said in prepared remarks in "Wilmington.

Del. cannot hold much hope for the future either of ourselves or of the human family." Nixon said in Charlotte, N.C he favors the nuclear nonproliferation treaty although he has reservations about some of its provisions and "I hope that it can be universally adopted." "The posture and intentions of the Soviet Union toward Czechoslovakia and other nations of central and western Europe can be reassessed at a later time to see whether circumstances will then justify our proceeding with ratification." Nixon's statement on the treaty signed but not yet ratified in Washington. Moscow and London was distributed to newsmen as the candidate addressed Charlotte Piedmont College students on lawlessness. "It's time for new men and new poliaes who will stop the rise in crime and also establish respect for law all over this he said. "I pledge that kind of leadership." Humphrey aides before Nixon's nuclear treaty statement was publicized that the vice presidcm felt he had two good issues in the treaty and the controversial nomination of Abe Kortas as chief and was trying to smoke Nixon out on them.

Humphrey, who has called in the past for debates with Nixon, said in New Orleans Wednesday he is willing, to debate third party candidate George C. Wallace as well. Both Wallace and Humphrey addressed the American Legion convention in New Orleans. rioters and looters as "trash" and calling for military victory with conventional weapons in Vietnam if peace talks the better reception. Wallace also announced his American Independent party will.

not hold a nominating convention because, he said, it takes "the armed forces of the country to hold one." Republican vice presidential candidate Spiro T. Agnew said in Washington he is not going to turn his campaign into "a "big See CLASH Pase 2 Col. 1.