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Phoenix Weather Mgh dottdlirtss but mostly sunny days. high neat ts, low abmit 43. Vcstfef Hay's high 94, low 4ft. Humidity: highest 87, Invest 15. Details, Page 10, 78th Yew, No, TELEPHONE! ZONA REPUBLIC A fnfflitt ftSraf Jww wli fattjtit flte fafftflt iiutt todrto tw fflfffijr fal mat Phoenix, At tama, Monday, Febwwry 5, 1968 FURY- IN HUE U.S.

colors fly oVer founded Marines in Vietnam's ancient capital, above. The embattled Leathernecks take to the ditch, below, joined by trooping ducks. (Report on Hue battle, Page 2.) Viet Guns Thunder 6 to Onensive Pueblo Could Have Strayed, Aides Admit Washington Post Service WASHINGTON The administration conceded for the first time yesterday that the U.S. Navy intelligence ship Pueblo may have intruded into- North Korean territorial waters. Secretary of Defense Robert S.

McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk stressed they had no evidence that any violation occurred. Both asserted, Related Stories on Page 2 however, that if a violation had taken place Washington would admit it and consider disciplinary action against the Pueblo's skipper, Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher. BUT FIRST, they said, North Korea must return the Pueblo and its 83-man crew to establish the facts from them and from the ship's log.

President Johnson's two top, cabinet secretaries appeared in an hour-long television interview. They began by sticking to the administration's previous position that the Pueblo at no time had cruised within North Korea's territorial waters, as North Korea charged when she seized the vessel on Jan. 23. But then, both Rusk and McNamara began to qualify their answers. "I THINK we can't say beyond the shadow of a doubt, at no time during its voyage it entered North Korean waters," McNamara declared.

Today's Prayer Father, the path I follow each day is deadly familiar, and my feet are lead, The same routine from room to work and back again; the same anxiety with each gray morning. Pour your light into my darkness and kindle fire in the gray that clouds my days. Amen. Baby Girl Kidnapfed From Bed By JAMES C. DOOLEY A 13-month-old baby girl wag reported kidnaped from her crib early yesterday by a-man who told the child's mother to "shut up and don't call the cops." The child, Johnianne Tharp, is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John C. Tharp Jr. of 1528 E. Cortez.

She was reported taken at 4:30 a.m. from the couple's modest northeast Phoenix home. A massive police manhunt was under way last night. Mrs. Carey Lou Tharp, 20, the child's mother, told police she was awakened about 4:30 a.m.

by a noise in the children's bedroom. "SHE SAID she went to the bedroom door and flipped on the light switch," said Detective Tom Ezell. "Mrs. Tharp said there was a man standing next to the baby crib. He had Johnianne in one hand and a large sportsman's type flashlight in the other hand.

"He turned around and looked at the woman and said, 'Shut up and don't call the Ezell said Mrs. Tharp told him. The kidnaper, described as being in his late 20s, 6 feet tall with long hair, walked through the living room of the two-bedroom house and out the front door with the child in his arms. THARP, 24, a salesman at Phil's Shoes, 3017 W. Van Buren, told officers he was awakened by the slamming of the front door.

"I walked into the living room and my wife said someone had kidnaped the baby," Ezell quoted him as saying. Tharp said he and his wife looked out the front window and saw a car moving away from the house with its lights off. Several hundred feet from the house, Tharp told police, the car's lights were turned on. OFFICERS SAID they were not called to the scene until 5:55 a.m. because "Mrs.

Tharp was so upset at what the suspect had said about not calling the police," Ezell said. Capt. Robert Flack said 15 Phoenix police officers and five FBI agents scoured the house and neighborhood all day yesterday and into the evening hours last night for clues in the abduction. Flack said the FBI agents were present during the investigation so that they would have full knowledge of the case if it is determined that the youngster might have been taken from the state, which would constitute a federal crime. "WE ARE WORKING on all aspects of this case," Flack told an Arizona Republic reporter.

"We have gone over the circumstances of the kidnaping over and over with Mr. and Mrs, Tharp in hopes that something they might remember may give us a clue to go on. We have checked the airport for anyone leaving with a child in the early morning hours. "As far as we can determine there was no motive for the kidnaping unless the man was a burglar and he took the child with him to help him make his escape." Officers said entry to the house was possibly made through an open side liv- (Continued on Page 5, Col. 2) HORSING AROUND Baby Face, 4-year-old chestnut mare of Joni Dwyer, 14, Scottsdale, fell Republic Photo by Yul conaway into family pool yesterday, with Joni aboard.

Story of how Baby Face got out is on Page 8. CEP Committee Didn 't 'Get To Bottom By CHARLOTTE BUCHEN Mayor Graham told The Arizona Republic over the weekend that committee had not "really gotten to the bottom of this thing" when it made its controversial recommendations for correcting the woes of the city's Concentrated Employment He said he will suggest to the Council tomorrow that he call the cSm- mittee together again this week for a meeting with him, City Manager Robert Coop, and the U.S. Department of Labor's manpower representative here, Wilbert Soltau. THE COMMITTEE'S recommendations, according to Republic sources on the committee, make the point that the $3.5 million program has been a failure and that it should be stopped until it can be restructured for effectiveness. Mayor Graham, who has declined to disclose the contents of the committee's report, said it will be released to the Cape Town or Die 1,000 Miles for New Heart CAPE TOWN, South Africa (UPI)-A heart patient traveled more than 1,000 miles from Mozambique to Groote Schuur Hospital here in the hope of getting a new heart from transplant surgeon Dr.

Christiaan Barnard, it was disclosed yesetrday. The frail patient, Horacio de Jesus Mesquita, 42, arrived by train from Lourenco Marques so weakened by the trip that he had to be given oxygen when he entered the emergency room at the hospital. A RAILWAY worker who helped carry the Portuguese patient from the train to an ambulance said he "was as light as a feather and his heart was beating in his chest with what seemed like hammer blows. I can't understand how he is living." A decision on the Mesquita case was expected when Barnard returns to Cape Town from his trip abroad this week, Barnard's second heart transplant pa- tient, Philip Blaiberg, remained in satisfactory condition, although his progress is not as rapid as doctors had anticipated. His discharge from Groote Schuur Hospital was postponed until after Barnard's return to Cape Town from a tour of Europe.

BARNARD TOLD reporters at the end of his Paris visit yesterday that he believed at least 20 French surgeons had enough knowledge to perform heart transplants. He said his conferences with heart specialists and visits to hospitals in Paris had been "absolutely marvelous." The South African doctor left Paris yesterday for Milan. He was to meet with the head of the publishing house Monda- dori which is issuing Barnard's autobiography, including exclusive photographs of his heart transplant operations. The surgeon also was scheduled to visit a hospital in Genoa before returning to Cape Town. press tomorrow when it is brought before the City Council with his comments and recommendations.

He said that a direct reference to the committee's call for a moratorium, that is, a temporary pause in operations, was deleted from the final draft of the report to the mayor and council. THE MAYOR INSISTED that the final version does not call for a moratorium except by "strictest interpretation." However, he said that the committee members did feel that "there was no point in taking additional people at the present time, interviewing them, and then telling them, stand back until we get to you." Republic sources, who are members of the committee, said that the "sense" of the recommendations was that the program should be halted temporarily until the restructuring could take place. "The sense of it is to stop it," one committee member said. "What we're saying is to get the Department of Labor out here and re-work this thing and change the people involved. They can't do anything else but stop the program the way it is." HERMAN CHANEN, chairman of the 13-man committee, declined to comment on the recommendations or reports of their content, He said the committee was charged with the task of reviewing the CEP and it was asked to make recommendations and suggestions to the mayor and council.

"It is now up to the mayor and council to take action," he said. The mayor said he definitely wants the program restructured, but that he does not want to halt operations while the restructuring is taking place. He said City Manager Robert Coop has been told to (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) U.S. Marines Stop Drive on Khe Sanh Hill SAIGON (AP) North Vietnamese troops launched A heavy artillery and ground assault against U.S.

Marines at Khe Sanh early today that could signal the start of their long-awaited offensive in the northwest corner of South Vietnam. The Marines repelled a fierce ground attack at Hill 861 near Khe Sanh after the North Vietnamese had penetrated their outer defenses. U.S. HEADQUARTERS said the combat base at Khe Sanh itself received heavy rocket, artillery and mortar barrages. Elsewhere in the country, the biggest coordinated Communist offensive of the war entered its seventh day with savage house-to-house battles in Hue and fresh fighting in Saigon.

The U.S. Command said the Communists had lost 18,976 troops in the offensive they launched last Tuesday. It said 1,477 allied soldiers were killed, 471 of them Americans. U.S. SPOKESMEN have said the assaults the Communists launched against' 35 major population centers may have been intended in part to divert attention from the demilitarized zone, where four and possibly five North Vietnamese divisions were reported poised for invasion.

In today's first action, the U.S. Command said, the Marines on Hill 861 pushed the attacking North Vietnamese off the hill and out of the barbed-wire defensive perimeter in the initial 25 minutes of fighting. HOWEVER, headquarters reported, the Communists resumed their ground attack at 6:20 a.m. But by 7:25 "the contact had terminated with the enemy's withdrawal," the command added. During tba period from 4 a.m.

to 6:45 a.m., the Marine base at Khe Sanh was under heavy artillery, rocket and mortar attack, headquarters said. By 7:45, "Khe Sanh was reported as quiet and the airfield remains open." It was still too early to say for certain whether the heavy attacks meant the beginning of the major North Vietnamese offensive which Gen. William Westmoreland has predicted will be their "main effort" of the war. THE U.S. COMMAND announced, meanwhile, that allied forces killed 16,976 enemy troops in the period from.

6 p.m. last Monday to midnight yesterday. The toll was nearly 2,000 higher than the 14,997 enemy dead announced a day earlier. In the same period, the command said, 1,477 allied soldiers were killed, including 471 Americans and 993 South Vietnamese. The command reported 6,075 allied wounded, including 2,744 Americans and 3,229 South Vietnamese.

The allies brought their air superiority to bear in an effort to beat off the enemy along the demilitarized zone and to root out the Communist troops in Hue. American bombers raided the North Vietnamese in the North and South Vietnamese planes blasted Hue's old citadel in an apparently unsuccessful effort to breach the walls for an infantry assault on the enemy holed up inside. U.S. MARINES fought from house to house in a style reminiscent of World War II. (Continued on Page 2, Col.

4) House geroes in on Reorganising State Auditing Stories on the Inside ByBERNlEWYNN The Arizona House of Representatives will go into Phase 2 of its governmental reorganization operation today, consolidation of the state's far-flung auditing functions. As it now stands, the state auditor doesn't audit at all. She just checks legislative appropriations to make sure state agencies spend the money properly. The real auditing is done by two other men, the state examiner and the legislative post auditor. News Analysis But neither is equipped to do a firsk class job.

HOUSE BILL 2, which proposes to revamp this structure, will come up for a public hearing at 7:45 p.m. today in Room 312 of the House Legislative Wing. Rep. Scott Alexander, R-Pima, is chairman of State Government Committee, which is charged with the responsibility of moving the bill to the floor late this week for debate and a vote. Alexander said the preaudit functions of the state auditor are moved over to the State Finance Department, along with certain other duties of the auditor.

The postaudit functions of the state examiner and legislative post auditor will be consolidated under a state auditor general appointed by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. The auditor general will be charged with annual checks of all 110 state agencies, county districts and precinct officers such as justices of the peace and constables. Alexander said the bill is being amended to transfer the highway department's check writing authority to the state finance commissioner as a further check and balance "THE PREAUDIT function, which is a powerful executive tool, will be placed under the jurisdiction of the governor," Alexander said. "The governor will be able to see that the funds contained in the executive budget are spent as the legislature dictated." Accompanying House Bill 2 will be the necessary resolutions calling for constitutional changes, such as abolishing the office of state auditor and state examiner. HOUSE SPEAKER Stan Turley, R- Maricopa, said the first step in governmental reorganization was creation of the State Finance Department.

Another important step was House passage of the merit system bill calling for uniform pay and job classification. NO TO MAPA Phoenix Mexican-Americans apparently want little to do with militant political-oriented group called MAPA. Page 19. RETAIN OR DESTROY? Opposing opinions on the city-county building at First Avenue and Washington are expressed by county manager and his predecessor. Page 19, FIRE KILLS 9 Blaze in $2-a-night Boston hotel kills nine; arson squad begins investigation.

Page 3- COPPER STRIDE ISSUE Washington hearings seeking way to end copper strike underline that real fight is over size of union bargaining unit, not wages and working conditions. Page 4. HANOI VETOES PEACE Secretary of State Rusk reveals U.S. limited bombing to back up efforts at peace talks, an4 says Hanoi knew it, but answered with ferocious, widespread attacks of last week. Page 8.

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