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THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES One Hundred Ninth Year- No. 14 LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, MONDAY, MARCH 22, PAGES. FOUR O'CLOCK HOME EDITION-PRICE 2 Inmates Die After Poison Sip Two inmates died Sunday at HIP Kansas SI ale Penitentiary and three others are hos- after drinking poisonous nu'ihyl alcohol, Warden Sherman Grouse today. The dead men aire John R. Ronic, 27, and Robert F.

Anderson, '5-1. The three others who admitted faking a drink are in no apparent the warden reported. None was identified. Anderson for first degree Ronic and serving life murder. Unnic, a native of CJary, was sentenced from Leavn- worth County in for tho slaying of Mix.

Hetty Simpson. Andcrsor sentenced from County in 1950 to serve life and 10-21 years for degree murder and iob- bTV. He was a native of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Warden said tlr.it. lion- io, a clerk in the, soap factory, presumably stole some of the.

rnrllivl alcohol, which is used in the soap factory. The methyl is kept under lock, and the containers are labeled "poison" the a said. Ronic and Anderson were cellmates. They from drinking the same mixture which killed two state penitentiary inma os and blind two rs in IVrembcr 19G2 a January IV-'h were removed to the IVivis Roriii- on the U. S.

Disciplinary Barracks, Ft. wlien lie stabbed Simpson to death during a robbery at a tavern 7th an.l Cheyenne'Sept. 21, 1959. He pleaded guilty at his and received a life term. STARTING ON THEIR SECOND LAP A straggling line of civil rights marchers move away from their camp off busy Route 80 near Selma, today on the second lap of their 5-day, 54-mile march on the Alabama state capitol at Montgomery.

Tents where they spent last night are in the background. Portable rest rooms which move along on trucks with the marchers are on the truck at left center. (AP Wirephoto) Nonlethal Gas Used Against C7 The Viet WASHINGTON (AP) The Defense Department today con- firmed reports (Mat Sooth Viet 1 Nam is using a typo of nonlothal gas against Communist Viet Cong forces to make "the ene-1 my incapable of fighting." The Pentagon sai'd the gas is released from dispensers operated by Vietnamese personnel in helicopters, and compared its use to disabling gases normally used in riot control. The announc'emem followed i reports from Saigon that such' experiments are under way. "In t-actiral in which the Vici Cong intermingle with or take refuge among noncombatants, rather than use artillery or aerial ment, Vietnamese troops have used a type of tear gas," the Pentagon said.

"It is a nonlolhal type ol ga which disables personnel temporarily, making the enemy incapable of fi.gliding." Helicopters and fighter bombers reportedly have been equipped to dispense the gases over bat.tle-fields. One objective of this gas war- fnre is to immobilize the enemy quickly to permit (lie rescue of prisoners held by the Viet Cong. Another use for gas, military sources said, is neutraliaztion of I lie enemy in tunnel areas. Associated Press photographer Horsl Faas w-as on one such operation Sunday. Gas was to be used if tihe Viet Cong pinned clown the at la-eking government force.

There proved to be a major shortage ol gas masks. One tank unit had masks and 1.16 men. Those without gas masks were given pieces of lemon and handkerchiefs. An infantry battalion in the operation had 170 masks for its 400 men. The Vietnamese troopers obviously were unfamiliar with the gas masks, Faas reported, and the masks were too big.

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) Gradually improving conditions raised hopes today that two fine-ly-honed American astronauts would be ab'e'to pi- oncer s-me vital "steering" in space Project r-'ic -a's for the first two-man Gemini flight pored over car's morning weather rep-n-ts. Then a spokesman said: "These conditions would be well the requirements for a launch." "It locks good for a launch, if these conditions hold." The Tuesday morning forecast for Cape was broken skies, no rain, temperature about 68 degrees, winds from the east at 10 miles an hour, two- to three-foot waves off the launch area, and a cloud ceiling of 10,000 feet. Still worrisome, however, was the area 2-10 miles south of Bermuda where astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W.

Young would land if the flight were terminated aifter two orbits. Winds of 15 to 20 miles an hour were forecast under a rainy, cloud ceiling, wit.h visibility limited to about five miles. Space officials like to have six 7 to 7 Is tlie Time To Vole Tuesday TJie polls open at 7 a.n> Tuesday for the city primary election. Polls will remain open until 7 p.m. The, voting places for tho city's 22 pree.incts were listed on page 12 A in Sunday's Times.

Results will bo available at Tho Times on MU 2-OR07, starting at 0 p.m. or as soon as they are available after lliat time. Tlie primary will narrow the field (o two candidates each in the contests for mayor and three of the four COIIL- mission posts. The general election will be held April 6. Forecast Pre-Easter I A fPE? LATE In Brief TOPEKA (AP) A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize pari-mutuel betting on horse and dog racing in Kansas was approved today by the State Affairs Committee of the House.

miles visibility areas. Gris.som and signed to lake of their spacecraft and orbit twice in iihe recovery Young are as- complete Brown" to change its in other words, INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) S. Truman today described as "silly" the march of Negroes and their supiwrters from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. "They can't accomplish a darned thing," he said "All they want is to attract attention." (Please Turn to Pitge Two) WASHINGTON (AP) The Navy's nuclear-powered task force, including the giant carrier Enterprise, will be shifted to the Pacific starting this fall, Secretary of Defense Robert S.

McNamara announced today. Cloudy and Coolitr AREA FORECAST Mostly cloudy tonight; low tonight 2Fi to Tuesday cloudy and cooler with easterly winds 10 to 20 mph; high Tuesday near 40. llifih 48 at 11 a.m. o2 ill 6 a.m. Range: Ili.Lili 47 fit 4:30 p.m.

Low i'i at 7 a.m. Oiit; yi'ar today. 55; 26. ST.UM-: 8.6J feet, down siin'c and 10.3S feet IK-I AV floo'l stayc-. and suuset, 6:32.

'HAPPY TO BE BACK' Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, ex-premier of South Viet Nam, said today that he was happy to be back at Ft. Leavenworth, where he was a student in the 1950's. He spoke to students in a closed session, and afterward was interviewed.

(Times Photo) Gen. Khanh Says Must Stay on the Offensive Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, ex- strongman of South Viet Nam who paid a surprise visit to the Command and General Staff College today, says his countrymen must remain always on the offensive. "It will be hard to win the war on the defensive," he asserted.

Following a speech to students ail the college he met with newsmen. lie said that the use of gas in the Vietnam war, first reported in Associated Press dispatches today, is nothing new. He said that gas been available to troops foi about a year. Khanh said that his countrymen "must use every means on hand" not prohibited by international law. He said that Brig.

Gen. Hunh Van Cao, nominated today at Saigon for appointment as armed forces chief of staff, is "a fine officer who is experienced in combat, and who wild (PleaseTTurn toPags Two) WASHINGTON (AP) House leaders today held out the prospect of a 10-d'ay recess as bait for pro-Easier action on voiing rights, aid to education and health care legislatiion. In the Scnai-e, Dome-cm, 'c Lender Mike Mansfic'd was 'n- form'ng memhe hat Easter recess wc-u'd be only a long weekend. The House calls for passage of p.H three major measures 'n the remaining vveelis be-fcre Easter. It for a 10-day start'ng several days before The bill to provide federal aid for elementary and secondary education now is before the House Rules Committee.

It is slated for clearance in time for House debate and final action either late this week or early next week. It would be followed, if leadership plans aren't upset, by consideration of the health care biH which the House Ways and Means Committee maiy approve this week. That would leave a full week i before Easter for House action on the voting rights legislation now in the hearing stage in the House Judiciary Qommiittee. "We believe we can get all t.hree of these top priority bills through the House before East- Ranger 9 Is On Collision Run to Moon PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -Hurled with unprecedented accuracy, Ranger 9 streaked toward the center of the moon today with cameras hunting a landing site for U.S.

astronauts later in the decade. Scientists announced early today that they had decided against an 8:30 a.m. (EST) midcourse maneuver, the firing of a small steering rocket to aim the spacecraft closer to its exact target, the possibly volcanic crater Alphonsus. Instead, they said, the maneuver will he tried about 4 a.m. Thursday.

Alphonsus, about 16 miles in diameter, is only 400 miles south of the spot almost dead- center on the moon where Ranger 9 would impact without a change in course. The craift is capable of altering its path up to 6,200 miles on either side of the moon. Two interested spectators at Sunday's 4:37 p.m. launch at Cape Kennedy, were Virgil I. Grissom and John W.

Young, set to take a three-orbit spin Tuesday in the first of a series of Gemini spacecraft, forerunners of the three-man Apollo ship scheduled to rocket to the moon within five years. So accurate was guidance during the launching that, for the first time during the Ranger series, scientists said the spacecraft would hit the face of the moon without mid-course correction. Ranger 4 impacted on the back side of the moon without a change in its original trajectory. All other Rangers would have missed the moon by up to thousands of miles if their flight paths had not been altered. Plans call for Ranger 9 to crash into the moon at 9:07 a.m.

(EST) Wednesday taking thousands of pictures in the final 20 minutes. Ranger 7 snapped more than 4,000 photographs, and Ranger 8, more than 7,000 in the last miles of their quarter- er," a high-ranking House Democrat predicted privately. "What happens after that is up to the Senate." Marchers Move Slowly on Way SELMA, Ala. (AP) About 400 marchers led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

broke camp in a frost-covered cow pasture today and started trudging along the highway on the second leg of a 50-mile voter crusade to Alabama's capital. II, was clear and cri.sp TOPEKA (AIM The Senate under a bright blue sky i Assessment and Taxation Corn- when the marchers rolled took a out of their sleeping bags ancl ate breakfast. They were the remnants of thousands who started the trek Sunday from Selma. They dined on oatmeal, toast, jelly and coffee. Then about 8 a.m.

the march resumed. King said they would walk 11 miles loci a twice the Committee OK's Sales Tax Boost toward implementing Gov, Wil- That the Sen-ate plans to push far proinpf en the vc-'e bill nv Jr for -by April 9. mricn, by of G7 to 13, any 'rcuvor in the headed by James 0. '-n-d, D.T:•-.<;. It a'so pnctri 'o cur'b any lengthy after the bill re-aches the Sena'e President Johnson is pressing Congress for quick action on the voting rights bill.

"He wants it on the statute books before Easter," a House spokesman said. Less difficulty is expected in the Senate fcr school arid health care measures, both of which have been passed in various forms previously by that body. Neither has been a'ble to get through the House in recent years. distance covered in the first day! of the pilgrimage to Montgomery aimed at dramatizing his Negro voter drive. The temperature fell to 31 degrees overnight, but after sunup dhe weather grew warmer.

King slept in a pink and white heated house tracer placed in con'er of Mi? camp. Two 1 trn's vvrro fie in one, the en in the other. NVor.n! GiKirismen, liam IT. Avery's recommended tax program. The committee recommended passage of one of (he key items in the governor's financial program a measure to increase the sales tax to 3 per cent from The 40 per cent increase would become effective next Al-av 1.

Tho committee voted 6 to 4 in Birmingham Yields Horde BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) A potent iaily devastating dynmni.c bomb was found in a predominantly Negro by order, wr-Mi around sold'crs f'rrs, ICO yards. the earn p. kept own 'lie tents at aiboul ect'on today as authorities bolstered police patrols to guard pcsslblc targets. favor of the hike.

members who voted against the measure said tney wanted a smaller increase, to a 3 per cent rate. Action by the Senate on the proposed tax hike is anticipated before me end of the week. There were indications the proposed sales lax hike would be held on the Senate floor unflU other tax bills are ready for actiion. The Senate could then consider the entire program as a package. In addition to the proposed sales tax hike, a major share of the additional revenue sought would come from income tax increases.

Overall, A very is asking $60.9 million in new revenue. The Senate committee amended the sales tax bill to extend collection of the tax to participation sports where activities are open to the public. Private clubs would be exempt. Russian Says Ship 'Shook' At His Touch MOSCOW (AP) Space stroller Alexei Leonov said today he had difficulty getting back into Voskhocl 2 after 10 minutes as a human satellite. The spaceship shook and even seemed to lurch forward in relation to its constant, speed of .17,400 miles an hour when he pushed on it, Leonov said.

The ship's captain, Pavel Bc- lyayev, said it reacted to every movement of Leonov. "I could hoar when Alexei knocked on the cabin wall with his boot and moved his hands over the ship's surface," he said. Leonov and Belyayev described their 17-orbit trip at a news conference for Soviet journalists at the space center at Baikonur, 1,250 miles southeast of Moscow. It was reported by the official Soviet news agency Tass. Moscow prepared a customary big welcome for the two cosmonauts Tuesday, the day of the scheduled U.S.

two man space shot. This scheduling was assumed to be not just a coincidence. Leonov said leaving the cabin "was not difficult, even simple." But, he added, "the return to the cabin was more difficult." Tass did not elaborate. Moscow television had shown films of Leonov's emergence into space and floating freely there but did not show the return to Voskhod 2. Tass said Belyayev and Leonov are "feeling very well and are in a good mood." A security guard composed mainly of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee stood sen-try duty witihin the camp and at King's trailer.

The marchers were showered today by segregationist leaflets from the "Confederate Air Force." The yellow leaflets called upon white citizens to join in selective hiring, firing, buying ancl selling. The leaflets said "unemployed agitator ceases to agitate." i Dr. King, calling it a Gandhi- like procession, led the march from Selma Sunday as it lopped the Edmund PeMus Bridge, went down the other side and trooped eight abreast to the campsite. At nightfaM the marchers were 42 miles' from Montgomery, the state capital. They expert to reach there Thursday.

Campfires glowed in t-he dark- i ness around tihe camp. A pro-1 gram was canceled because of the near-freezing weather. Foot blisters were treated. Bedrolls were opened. Sleeping bags were laid out.

The weary marchers retired. While they slept, soldiers guarded the camp. Patrols rotated on guard duty, retiring at intervals to pup tents thrown up about 200 yards away. Sleeping in one of them was Brig. Gen.

Henry V. Graham of the Alabama National Guard, commander of the task force assigned to the march. Although the day's march was met witih some jeers, King said i he was surprised there were not more. The would be on the gross receipts from bowling, golf, tennis, swimming, skating, pool, billiards, dancing and" other F.ve of the devices which offi- participative forms of amuse- ccrs are conv.nced were meant ment, recreation or entertain- to explode were found Sunday in i ment. this Southern steel city which has a history of bombings since 1955.

The latest bomb was found beneath a panel truck in the parking lot of a Negro funeral home, Poole Funeral Chapel. The explosive device was disarmed" by the same Army demolition experts who dismantled the five bombs previously uncovered. The cheap alarm clock used as a timing device had stopped at 11 approximately (-he time used on similar devices in four of the other bombs. One of the other bombs was timed to explode at 6 o'clock. Its construction was similar to the other five 50 sticks of dynamite and a detonating device.

This brings the total number of dynamite sticks used in constructing the bombs to about 300. An estimate on the amount of revenue this amendment might produce was not. immediately available. The sales tax had been collected on bowling until a State Supreme Court decision held thda was not covered by the existing law. The proposed sailes tax Jn- creaise, along witih a corresponding hike in the liquor enforcement tax, wou'ld bring 1 in $37.4 million in the first year, said Sen.

Frank Hodge, R- Hutchinson, chairman of Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee. A Private Club Vote Postponed TOPEKA (AP) A Senate committee vote on a proposed private club law was postponed today after several subcommittee amendments were considar- ed. The Federal and State Affairs Committee is expected to vote Tuesday on a amended version of the bill. Sen. Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, chairman of the sub-committee, said its recommendations have been discussed but not voted on.

His explanation: the people of t'his area "apparently ha.ve resigned themselves that the Negro movement is an unstoppable movement and that they cannot stand on the beach auid hold the tide back." The historic march is to take the demonstrators to t-'ie capital of "the heart of Dixie." which King said will be turned "into a state with a heart of brotherhood and "We shall reach our goals," he said. "Alabama will be a new Alabama. It.s children will finally enter the promised land." Fewer Weekend Vandalism Cases Leavenworth Man Fatally Beaten, Reno RENO, Nov. crippled John Joseph Coffey, 32, of Leavenworth, was found fatally beaten in his downtown Reno apartment Sunday. Leonard A.

Dodge, 36, Co'f- fey's roommate, was arrested and booked on a murder charge, Coffey, an auto mechanic, apparently was beaten with fists and a beer bottle, investigators said. Police in nearby Sparks arrested Dodge at the home of a girl friend. Officers said he had been released Sunday morning after serving 13 clays in jail on a conviction of assault and battery. Coffey had lived in Reno for three or four months. He was single.

The body will be returned to Leavenworth for funeral service and burvad. Coffey was born in Leavenworth Juno 12, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Coffey.

The family home is at 2619 S. -I'll. Leavenworth. Surviving other than his parents is a brother, Roy B. Coffey Jr.

The body will he received by the Larkm Funeral Home, A rang e- ments are pending. Oklahoma Court Justice Resigns OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Earl Welch, under conviction for federal income tax evasion, resigned today as a committee prepared to ask impeachment of him and another justice, N. B. Johnson, Demos Ask L.B.J. To Stop Bombing Weekend vandalism in their city is on the wane.

Only three cases were reported to the Police Department Saturday and, SACRAMENTO. Calif. i.A! 5 )Sunday. 1' no ember California Calvin Wilson, 1213 Kiowa, IV.iioeraiie Council is asking said his car was ransacked, the President Johnson call a halt windshield cracked and floor to U. S.

bombing of North Viet mats were stolen. iNain. Mrs. Ben Thomas, 902 Kan- Delegates to a state cunven- sas told Lt. Bill Katzung lion of the volunteer orguriiza- that someone broke a yard light at her home.

Mrs. Lowell G. Walker, 1024 Madison, reported that a small hole had been shot in the front window of her home. tion, a two-hour debate Sunday, adopted a resolution asking an end to the attacks and urging Johnson to seek a cease-fire I Nations. News Digest National Selm-ai to Birmingham ci-vil rights marchers start the second day of their 50.

mile trek to the Alabama capital. About 400 are making the pilgrimage. More homemade dynamite boms are found in areas of Birmingham. Army demolition experts have disarmed six such bombs since Sunday. Weather prospects for Tuesday's planned launching of the first U.

S. 2-man orbital space mission. Ranger 9 is os a collision course with the moon, due to take thousands of pictures before crashing Wednesday morning. InternationaJ The Defense Department confirms that South Viet is using a nonlethul against the Viet Cong, but there is a shortage of gas masks for the government forces, and the masks do not fit the South Vietnamese flglrei-s. Air strikes continua against the North.

The Russian who stepped outside his orbiting spaceship says the capsule shook when he touched it upon reentering it. Locally Ex Vietnamese strongman Lr. Gen. Nguyen Kh.unh visits Ft. Leavenworth.

Two Kansas Slate Penitentiary inmates die after tlu'ough the United I drinking poisonous methyl cohoL.