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METROPOLITAN Page 2, Port 1 3 fLoS angcltsf lEimrS Newsmakers. Was Nonexplosive Feighan Loss Takes Celler Out of Dumps The dean of the House of Representatives, Emanuel Celler observed his 82nd birthday with a gift that can enable him to retire with a peaceful mind an old political enemy has been defeated. Rep, Michael Feighan D-Ohio), with whom Celler has feuded for years, lost in Tuesday's primary in Cleveland. Celler, chairman of the important Judiciary Committee, has refused to retire, his friends say, because as second-ranking Democrat Feighan would have succeeded him. Now next in line for tlie chairmanship is Rep.

Peter W. Rodino 60, whose liberal philosophy is essentially similar to Celler's. "I was short-stringed," complained Arthur TV. Worm ley, write-in candidate for Democratic committeeman in Columbus, Ohio, after Tuesday's primary. Worm-ley explained that the strings attached to the write-in pencils were too short to reach the-slot "where they have to put my name to vote for me." "If God wants to use me" with a message for the youth of todayt THE NATION 'Nitroglycerine' A clear liquid found in! the of a Long Beach apartment was a chemical catalyst for fiherglass not.

nitroglycerine as originally Long Beach police said. Miss Jackie Samay, 22, of 021 Broadway, Long Beach, said a friend had told her it nitroglycerine and suggested she throw it at possible muggers, police said. They cleared a four-block area around the apartment house and sent for the bomb disposal squad at-Ft. MacArthur. Extensive analysis of the substance, however, disclosed it to be nonexplosive.

More than 8,000 TRW employes heard Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Hais'e and Jack Swigert commend them during brief ceremd-nies at the TRW facilities in Redan-do Beach. "It was the teamwork of thousands of people many of them from that worked continuously during our flight to make'-, sure that, we could come back to earth," Lovell told the crowd. TRW makes the engine that usually lands i the Apollo Lunar Module on the moon. But on Apollo 13, that engine suddenly became the astronauts' I ticket home following an explosion -in the service module during the flight last month. A city Fire Department helicopter crasnea wnne attempting an emergency landing in the parking lot of a fire station at.

1090 Veteran firemen reported. None of the three occupants was injured. According ta firemen, the craft was piloted by Donald Carter, 33, and "carried Fire Commissioner Lee Hamer and Fireman James Patten. Carter said he was at an altitude of 2,000 feet when the helicopter iost power. He said he was using an emergency rotation method to bring the craft down when, a few feet from the ground, the tail section of the helicopter was sliced off by a broken rotor blade, Nine policemen have been disciplined following an inquiry into allegations of terrorism on black residents of Venice during a narcotics raid.

(See Part 2, Page 1.) Two men escaped from the David Kennedy Foresees Budget Deficit News of THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1970 THE WORLD Cambodia Drive The War fn Vietnam American forces sweeping through Cambodia have captured enough individual weapons in the Fishhook area to equip eleven 600-man battalions and enough, rice, to feed them for 2Va months, a U.S,' spokesman said. They also bagged 64 trucks. (See Page l.V The 'House rejected an attempt to limit use of U.S. troops in Cambodia, but only after a strong attack by antiwar forces. (See Page 1.) Four national church leaders attacked the U.S, invasion of Cambodia as futile and a violation of the Constitution and international agreements.

The protest was issued jointly by Mrs. Theodore 0. Wedel, president of the National Council of Dr. William P. Thompson, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Dr.

Robert Moss, president of the United Church of Christ, and Bishop John Wesley Lord, president of the Council of 'Bishops of the United Methodist Church. Hawaii's Senate adopted a resolution requesting President Nixon and Congress to stop all U.S. military activity in Cambodia. It said escalation of the conflict "does not end the war but further subjects the nation to continuing loss of lives and human misery." The South Vietnamese government moved four battalions of troops into Saigon as a precaution against growing civil unrest in the capital. American servicemen were ordered to stay out of the city except on official business, The Soviet Union called for resumption of Sino-Russian cooperation and said their joint, action had helped solved the Indochina question in 1954.

In a Chinese-language broadcast, Radio Moscow said talk about a Soviet attack on China was imperialist propaganda. Despite Moscow's warning to Washington Monday against ex- -tending the war in Indochina, no in the hitherto cordial and workmanlike atmosphere was reported at strategic arms limitation talks in Vienna. The sixth meeting -in the current series took place at the American Embassy, and participants agreed to meet again Tuesday at the Soviet Embassy. A former member of Britain's Parliament was cleared of eight charges of passing secret information to 'Communist agents. Frail, white-haired Will Owen, 69, had pleaded innocent.

The Crown charged he was paid by Czechoslovak intel-" ligence agents over the last nine -years for information he gained as a BUSINESS The stock market closed with a good gain after tracing a zigzag pattern that sent it up sharply in early trading and then downward in mid-session. The Dow Jones industrial Index closed up S.6a at 715.39- Union Oil Co. of California announced it will start selling low-lead gasoline on Friday instead of its present regular grade. IOS the huge Geneva-based mutual fund complex, has suffered Its first quarterly loss and is negotiating to sell control to outside organizations, sources said. See Financial Section the Day Camelled from the i suoplomenlary nws anenelss.

Nets Guns, Rice member of the Defense Estimates Committee of the House of Commons. Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch iold Parliament he fired two senior government ministers because they tried to import arms into Ireland illegally. Opposition leader Liam Cos-grave called on Lynch's government to resign. Lynch addressed Parliament after winning approval from his ruling Fianna Fail Party to oust the ministers in a dispute over the use of force against Northern Ireland. Israeli air force jets were sent to silence Egyptian guns bombarding Israeli troops in the northern sector of the Suez Canal, a military spokesman said in Tel Aviv.

"Provided thai our security is maintained and our defense is not harmed," Abba Khan, Israeli foreign minister, said in Jerusalem, "Israel is prepared to make an extra effort and make concessions that would startle the world." The United States said the Soviei Union had failed to give a satisfactory explanation of what Russian pilots are doing in Egypt. Officials said that the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, Jacob Beam, met with Dep. Soviet Foreign Minister Sergei A. Vinogradov on Tuesday to express American concern over their role.

A twin-engined Piper Aztec crashed into a small thatched home near the airport in Manila, killing at least 17 persons in the plane and on the ground. Three families lived in the house, which was no more than 20 feet square, and nine of the fatalities were children. Mrs. Eugenie Niarchos, wife of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos. died from an overdose of barbiturates, according to an Athens mortuary burial permit.

Mrs. Niarchos, 44, died Monday morning on her husband's private island, Spet-sopoula. The Vatican has ordered bishops throughout the world to set up local priests' assemblies to advise them in the government of their dioceses. Vatican sources said the aim was to give priests, who often complain they are not sufficiently consulted, a bigger role in the government of their dioceses. The Netherlands demanded the recall of a Soviet, diplomat and an embassy assistant for spying, saying the two illegally possessed a map marked with Dutch military installations and "had engaged in activities incompatible with the functions for which they had been admitted to the Netherlands." A Soviet Embassy spokesman called the decision "an unfriendly gesture." SPORTS Wilt Chamberlain broke loose for 45 points against New York, playing without injured Willis Reed, to pace the Lakers to an easy 135-1115 victory that evened the NBA besl-of-7 championship series at three wins apiece.

Mets' pitcher Tom Seaver won his 16lh straight game and his seventh in a row over the Dodgers as New York defeated Los Angeles, 5-4. Ben Hogan, golf's legendary "Hawk11, will make his first, tournament start since 1967 when he competes in I be SI 15.000 Houston Champions golf tournament, See Sports Section County Central Jail hospital -'ward -by sawing their way through a small glass; and steel partition and scaling a 12rfoot wire fence. Sheriff's deputies them as James J. Swahson, 26, and Richard Marler, 25, both being held for narcotics found two h-spital gowns and a hacksaw blade, outside the fence. The escape was discovered after the pair failed to answer a morning rollcall.

Mack Ray Edwards, whose trial in the murder of three small children was to have begun, later in the day, was rushed to County-USC Medical Center where lie was reported in critical condition after taking an overdose of tranquilizers in his jail cell. Sheriff's deputies said they -could not account, for his possession of the tranquilizers. 'A 5,5 increase in municipal-electric rates was recommended for approval by the City Council's Water and Power Committee. The -increase, which would also apply to commercial and industrial users, w'puld boost the average private consumer's hill about 40 cents a mnnfh. a Department of Water and Power spokesman said.

Former Gov. Goodwin Knight, 73, has returned home after more than eight weeks of hospitalization for a serious intestinal illness, it was revealed. He was discharged from Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood after a final checkup following four weeks in a convalescent home and three and one-half weeks at St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank. Mrs.

Knight said he is "well on the way to recovery-" Gov, Reagan elevated Las Angeles Municipal Judge Julius M. Title, 54, to the Superior Court bench and named Miss Marion L. Ohera, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, to a Municipal Court judgeship. Title, a resident, of Cheviot Hills, succeeds retired Judge Walter Allen in the post. Miss Obera succeeds retired Judge Ronald Redwine in the mb.

From Beached Ship come of a 90-day examination and formal sentencing. Jose Aguirre, 21, Thermal, pleaded no contest' in Superior Court at Indio to assault with a deadly weapon. Patrolman James Parsons, 23, was wounded in the abdomen when he stopped Aguirre on suspicion of drunk driving on State 66 in Coachella. San Diego city employes called off a one-day strike after resumption of bargaining talks with the cily. The Municipal Employes Assn.

and Local 127 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes agreed to bargaining sessions after an exchange of telegrams with Mayor Frank Curran. feated revenue producing measure. (See Page 1.) A $12.5 million libel suit against Look magazine was filed in Sacramento Superior Court on behalf of Tommy Lee Thomas, who provided some information for a Look article which alleged San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto has ties with the Mafia. The suit contends that Richard Carlson, co-author of the article, broke an agreement with Thomas that an interview between the two not be tape-recorded. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Carlson took the witness stand in Alioto's li- hel suit, against the magazine, Ali to's attorney, Maxwell Blechety sought to show that the authors were more interested in sensationalism than facts.

Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the budget may show a deficit of $1 billion or 52 bil lion in the fiscal year that ends next month. Kennedy said, however, the budget over this year and the next would he "in relatively near balance." He predicted the economy would be "turning the corner" by the latter part of the year. In a letter to President Nixon, Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel warned that the Administration was embracing a philosophy that appears to lack concern for young people.

(See Page 1.) The Senate approved a bill to take passenger service away from the railroads and turn it over to a new corporation. (See Page 1.) A transit system using cars that can be driven manually on conventional streets or automaticaily on special "guideways" will be completed within 18 months at a Ford Motor Co. test track. (See Page 1.) President Nixon will hold a news conference Friday, the White House announced. No time was set.

Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said he assumed the conference would be televised. The Defense Department issued a draft call for 15,000 men for June-all for the Army. It was the same as the May quota. Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) said he would propose a penny-a-pound disposal fee on all products including cars likely to end in the junk pile within 10 years of manufacture.

"Such a nationwide fee would provide a steady source of funds and an incentive for polluters to control the waste they generate," Proxmire said in a Senate speech. Robert H. Finch, secretary of health, education and welfare, announced that Vermont would be the test state for the Administration's welfare reform proposal. Vermont will formulate a model plan for federal administration of most, basic state welfare services in preparation for putting the proposed plan into effect. The amount of the grant to fi- Celler a gift to relish.

in nhola "I want to do it," said Martha Mitchell. That was the comment the blonde, dimple-cheeked wife of Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell gave after talking to a Washington College youth on her desire to visit college campuses and talk to students about drug abuse and harmful narcotics.

She said the Washington youth's first reaction was, "Mrs. Mitchell, you can't do that. You might be killed," But Mrs. Mitchell indicated at a luncheon in Washington, D.C., that she has no plans at present for such visits. nance the project has not yet been negotiated.

A federal judge handed out jail terms ranging from three months to possibly 10 years to nine antiwar protesters, including four priests, a nun, two seminarians and a former nun for ransacking the Dow Chemical offices in Washington, D.C., March 22, 1969. Police arrested the defendants after they splattered red paint on the walls, upset files and overturned furniture to protest Dow's involvement in the war- The Census Bureau apologized for a note in census instruction sheets implying that members of the Church of Jesus Christ, of the Latter-day Saints Mormon) still practice polygamy. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett (It-Utah) said Census Director George H.

Brown also had ordered deletion of the offending passage. Under a section defining the wife of a head of the household, census takers were advised that "among American Indians, Mormons, there may be more than one wife." The Mormon Church officially ended the practice of polygamy more than SO years ago, The bishops of Mississippi's Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches have voiced support, for a merger. Episcopal Bishop John M. Allin and Catholic Bishop Joseph Brunini at a news conference in Jackson endorsed a statement issued in New York by the Joint Commission on Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations that would pursue the goal of "full communion and organic union." National Airlines' flight engineers, in an effort to get the airline back into operation after a 14-week labor deadlock, voted to cross the picket lines of the Air Lines Employes Assn. of clerical workers and station personnel unless the union begins promptly "meaningful negotiations." The president of the striking Boston Teachers Union was sentenced to 30 days in jail and the union fined S4.000 after the union was found guilty of criminal contempt.

The judge also ordered the union, nn strike since Friday, fined an additional $1,000 a day for each day the strike continues. Blue-collar employes of the Hawaii state government and four county governments walked off their johs to protest the Legislature's failure to give them a pay raise. About one-third' of the United Public Workers Union failed to show up for work, A Union Electric Co. spokesman said the utility was surprised to hear that a federal report stated St. Louis would be one of the cities facing possible dimouts because of electric power demands this summer.

"We anticipate no trouble," he said, and the company is not thinking of ing customers to limit air conditioner use, or other appliances, during the warm months. The Department of Transportation announced the recall of Goodyear tires that the agency said "could he hazardous under certain conditions." The company will recall 34,000 size 700-13 Power Cushion passenger tires and 11,000 size 01.5-15 Custom Power Cushion tires because of test failures. A Washington County, grand jury returned murder and conspiracy indictments against each of the five persons charged in the slayings of United Mine Worker insurgent Joseph A. Yablonski, his wife and daughter. Trial is scheduled for June 22.

But all five are in Ohio jails and extradition proceedings are expected to delay the trial until the fall. MOURN VICTIM OF KENT SHOOTING Mr, and Mrs. Arthur S. Krause and daughter, Laurie, 15, at Pittsburgh funeral for Laurie's sister, Allison, 19, one of four Kent State University students who died on campus when national guardsmin opened fire. SOUTHLAND Oil Will Be Pumped A private firm under contract with the state will begin pumping oil from the former cniise ship La Jenelle today.

The ship was blown ashore at Oxnard last April 13, and has been leaking oil into the sea. The owners were ordered to remove the oil last. Friday, but failed to do so. The state Water Resources Control Board, uncertain now over who owns the vessel, provided $5,000 to have the oil removed. A spokesman said the state will attempt to recover the funds.

A migrant farm laborer accused of shooting a California Highway Patrol officer in Coachella last Jan. 31 was ordered confined to the Chino Institution for Men pending out- THE STATE Ft. Ord Trainees Receive 'Reward Cards' Army trainees at Ft. Ord are being issued "reward cards" that are punched three times a day by drill sergeants. Credits may be exchanged for special privileges a telephone call home, a movie pass or a visit from a girl friend, The Army's new technique is based on the theory that rewards are more conducive to maintaining high morale and discipline than the threat of punishment.

Gov. Reagan requested University of California and state colleges to shut down today through Sunday. (See Page 1.) Gov. Reagan's $1 billion tax- reform program was stymied when Assembly Democrats blocked a move for reconsideration of an already de-. bodia, When this picture was made, his company was pinned down by sniper fire from the village.

EXHAUSTED A Gl lying on ground takes drink from canteen during on assault on Tasuos, Cam.

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