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mum HOME Edition Mississippi's Leading Newspaper For More Than A Century Established 1837 PRICE 10a AP Leased Wires Wirephoto JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 19153 VOL. CXXX NO. 248 52 PAGES Held In Attack On Police tation 3 0 A4 I I IV yii wy Panther 'ArscnaP Confiscated In N.J. College Assault Repulsed JERSEY CITY, N. J.

(AP) Three members of the Black Panther Party, one a state leader of the militant group, were arrested Thursday in the hit-and-run sniper attack on a police i GIVERS CAMPAIGN LACKS 4 PER CENT The latest audit figures show the United Givers Fund campaign goal only 4 percentage points away from "victory." With reported, only is needed to reach the 1969 campaign goal of "The campaign stands at 96 per cent," said chairman Bob Swittenberg, "but by Dec. 12, the date set aside for our budget committee meeting, we hope to be at 100 per cent." precinct in this tough wa SAN FRANCISCO (AP)- terfront city. Police said they confiscated a Strikers stormed the San Francisco State College Administration Building Thursday and Vietnam Action "small arsenal including tried to get at Acting President guns, ammunition, explosives and plans for making bombs. Commenting on the arrests, Mayor Thomas J. Whelan said, S.

I. Hayakawa, but were repelled by six policemen with drawn pistols and Mace repellent. Several hundred police who Heats Up "The Black Panthers are had been held in reserve off the campus quickly cleared the quadrangle outside of about Perry Bank through in Jersey City." Arrested were Isaish Rowley, 24, and Charles Hicks, 36, both of Jersey City, and Victor Perez, 19, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Rowley identified himself as New Jersey minister of defense for the Black Panthers. The sniper attack, carried out by several men in a speeding Holdup Is Laid To 5 2,000 persons in a club-swinging struggle.

At least 13 persons were arrested, including Dr. Carlton Goodlett, Negro publisher; and the Rev. Jerry Pederson, Lutheran chaplain at Ecumenical House, staging center for the demonstration. As the crowd of about 150 that SAIGON (AP) The ground war's quickening pace, which last week brought the heaviest U.S. battle deaths in two months, spread in the northern combat zone Thursday.

U.S. Marines reported killing 88 enemy in three clashes while losing one dead, three wounded. And the U.S. Command reported destruction of enemy bunkers and machine-gun nests in the demilitarized zone. It was the 33rd "significant" incident in the zone reported since America stopped bombing "most stylish." Miss Pritchard is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Hayden Pritchard, 5036 Stanton Jackson. Miss Sissell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.

W. Sissell, 516 Pine Lane Drive, Jackson. Photo by Joe Sarcone. ELITE AT THE "VV Vivid fall colors and "Men Lady" beauties are a pre-winter delight for all eyes at MSCW. Peeking from a cluster of oak and gum branches are, from left: Susan Pritchard, "most beautiful" at MSCW, and Myra Lillian 'Buzz' Sissell, HATTIESBURG (AP) Dist.

car, occurred iriaay nigni when 20 shots were fired from a machinegun or automatic rifle at the station house. One bullet knocked a patrolman's night Atty. James Finch lodged armed robbery charges here Thursday against five Alabama people for the $12,000 holdup Julv 16 of the Beaumont branch stick from his hand and another slug passed through an officer's had burst into the Administration Building fled in confusion, one of them dropped a brief case. Out popped a .45 caliber automatic. Inside the case were batteries and wires.

of the Perry County Bank. Arrested and pailed at Mobile North Vietnam on Nov. 1. 228 KILLED Steadily increasing fighting across the South last week re hat. Two days later, four members of the Neaark, N.J., Black Panthers were injured in an explo were Percy Albert Green, 65, Two Young Girls On Trial In Thrill-Slay ings Of Tots Mobile; Patsy Mcllwain Fair- About 200 other police, stationed off the campus, quickly sion outside their headquarters.

The Panthers contendedthe incident was a "bombing" in re cloth, 26. Mobile; James Harold Parker, 22, Prichard; sulted in U.S. casualties of 228 dead, 1,094 wounded. The U.S. Command's report Thursday also listed U.S.

combat deaths for November first month under the bomb halt-as 681. That arrived. Hayakawa, acting president taliation for the Jersey City at Thomas Randal Watson, 26, tack, but Newark authorities who reopened the strife-shaken college Monday, ordered' over a loudspeaker from his office: said thev suspected a home "Clear the campus immediately. You are no longer innocent bystanders." England (AP) Two girls, aged 11 and 13, stood accused Thursday of murdering two little boys "solely for the n'epsure and excitement afforded by killing." Prosecutor Rudolph Lyons de made Panther bomb accidentally exploded. Rowley, Hicks and Perez were charged with assaulting a police officer.

Police said weapons charges also were pending against the trio. He said that when Brian was first reported missing the two girls went out with Brian's sister and pretended to look for him. Brian eventually was found among concrete blocks in the neighborhood where the other boy's body was found. The trial continues Friday. Martin's mother shut the door in her face." Lyons said that in the case of Brian Howe each of the girls roundly accused the other of murder.

"You will have no doubt whatever that both girls were present when Brian was strangled, that he was killed deliber ately by either Norma In the presence of Mary or Mary in the presence of Norma, or by both together by their joint actions." Lyons submitted that both girls had sufficient maturity of intellect to know that "to squeeze a child's throat would strangle and kill him." Leaders of the strike, which has disrupted the college since it was called by the Black Students Union Nov. 6, made the march on Hayakawa's offiee at the climax to a lunchtime rally, Jerry Varnardo, Black Stu dents Union leader, shouted at Governor Says State Demo, Frisco City, age unknown; and Larry E. Rosson, 23, Theodore. The five were arrested by Federal agents in Mobile on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. The warrants were issued at the request of Dist.

Atty. Finch. They are charged by the state with armed robbery, a capital offense, in conjunction each other and others, in the burglary of the bank. All but Watson were taken into custody at Mobile Tuesday on indictments returned by a federal grand jury charging them with a series of bank holdups last spring and summer in south Alabama. Each must post a $30,000 bond on the charge of unlawful flight.

Additionally, the State of Mississippi has requested that they be held as fugitives on the armed robbery charge. was 27 per cent higher than the October toll of 536. The heaviest of the Marine actions Thursday erupted about 15 miles south of Da Nang when two companies from a Marina regimental landing team attacked an enemy force in well-fortified positions. The assault began after artillery barrages and air strikes had pounded what was described as an extensive bunker complex. Spokesman said the fighting went on for five hours until the enemy withdrew.

Fifty-eight enemy bodies were found, they said, and there were no Marine casualties. The second engagement began about niehtfall a few miles to the west. There, a Marine reconnaissance team spotted 15 sampans carrying 26 enemy soldiers, and called in artillery fire that killed 16. Spokesman said Continued On Page 16A Governor's Wife Goes In Hospital Mrs. John Bell Williams was admitted to St.

Dominic's Hospital in Jackson late Thursday The Governor's wife has been GOP Philosophies Similar specific total cost By KENNETH FAIRLY of the but that program had been set suffering from a severe cold for the rally, "We're going to call out the slave master. Call out the puppet today." A succession of speakers including Negro civic leaders demanded that the college be closed again and blamed Hayakawa for college difficulties. The college reopened last Monday with little violence. Thursday morning had passed quietly. The majority of the 18,000 students attended classes.

The Black Students Union's demands for greater Negro enrollment and more Negro stud scribed the case bfore Justice Sir Ralph Cusack as ''possibly without precedent." Contrary to usual practice in British courts, the names of the seised children and the victims were made public. Norma Joyce Bell, 13, and Mary Flora Bell, 11 unrelated but next-door neighbors pleaded innocent to charges of murdering Brian Edward Howe, 3, and Martin George Brown, 4. The girls, guarded by policewomen, sat on bench seats in the court instead of being put in the usual prisoners' cage. Their parents sat behind them. Judge Cusack, hearing the case with a jury of seven men end five women, told them it would probably last several days.

Attorney Lyons said of the girls: "They are charged with two murders- within the space of just two months, murders committed by asphyxiation solely for the pleasure and excitement afforded by killing." Lyons said the two girls were the past few days and a possible case of the flu. Mrs. Williams entered the hospital on advice of physicians. She is expected to be session in the next two or three months" to try again to enact a highway construction and improvement program would await informal discissions between his staff and members of the Legislature to determine the attitude of the lawmakers. OTHER AREAS one would be made if the Legislature is favorably inclined to support a new effort.

The governor, giving an emphatic "no" answer to a question on whether he would work within the framework of a Dem released in a day or so, Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Gov. John Bell Williams at a Thursday press conference said the National Republican Party at this time appears to be nearer the philosophy of Mississippi Democrats than that of the National Democratic Party. "I am not advocating," the governor said, "any move at this point to the Republican Party any move at this point would be premature." The governor said a special Charge Man ies sparked a month of turmoil ocratic party headed by Charles Evers, said he thought the state Continued On Page 16A on the campus. MOM ABANDONS CRIPPLE He said that at such a special i session, in the event that it was called, other matters could be considered, such as educational television financing, which he said needs "special attention." The governor said he did not believe that the Legislature, within the time mentioned for a Doctor Adopts Boy He Helped To Walk seke's 18-month search for tha possible special session, would be ready to take up the Medicaid implementation and did not rule out two special sessions during 1969. He said Medicaid studies are under way but that he doubted that the program would be ready for evaluation by the time of a special session on highways.

boy's mother to get consent for adoption. Mrs. Gieseke, 24, broke the child's fearful silence after three day's visits. She brought a punchball, the first of many gifts. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

(AP) A small boy given up by his mother after an auto accident left him paralyzed from the neck down has been adopted by the brain surgeon who helped him walk again. In March 1967, Angel Acevedo then a 3-year-old toddler was HiredWife's Murderers DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (AP) The service manager of a Scarsdale auto agency was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder, accused of hiring two men for $9,000 to kill his wife. Westchester County Dist. Atty.

Carl Vergari said John DeTore, 50, was charged in the Nov. 25 shooting of his wife. brought to the emergency room of Miami's Jackson Memorial The decision on calling a special session for another try at the highway program which he noted had been defeated by one chamber of the Legislature and again by the people in the Nov. 5 voting on a constitutional inseparable companions. He described Mary, despite the difference in age and size, as "possibly the cleverer and more dominant personality, a girl with remarkable knowledge of the world." The prosecution said Martin was found dead in a derelict house across the railroad tracks from the homes of the two girls and in an area used by local children as a playground.

The suspicion of murder did not arise until the death of the other boy, Lyons said. NOTES FOUND A day nursery near the girls' homes had been broken into and notes were found, obviously written by children. One note read: "We did murder Martin Brown." Another warned: "You had better watch out, there are murders about A third said: "I murder so I may come back." Lyons said the girls were ouestioned about the nursery Hospital after a car wreck. He had a brain concussion and a broken neck. Dr.

Gary Gieseke, a resident MUVVtt'" "-H "Si imiinii Mini'ii ttMlli -7' neurosurgeon, tola nis wite nay-dee several days later about the paralyzed child no one came to see. Dorothy, 47. Her body was found in the couple's home here. Vergari said the killers had ransacked the house and arranged the body "to give the erroneous impression that murder was committed following the burglary and sexual assault of the victim." Two men and a woman were amendment to remove highway bonds from the general bonded inebtedness would depend on the reaction he gets from talks with legislators. GASOLINE TAX He said informal discussions of a cent gasoline tax increase as a means of funding a highway program had been included in talks with the lawmakers, who will be queried as to whether they would vote more taxes for financing.

He said no He was in need ot somebody," Mrs. Gieseke said. "It became so normal it's hard to explain why I wanted him to be my son. He started calling me "Gary was always reminding me I was becoming too fond of the child. Our friends said I'd get hurt but I wasn't afraid of that.

There was something there between us. We understood each other," she said. A juvenile court judge In Miami appointed the childless Gie-sekes guardian in August 1967 after Angel's mother said she didn't want him. During the five months Angel was in traction at the hospital, his mother visited once. For his fifth birthday, Oct.

14, Dr. Gieseke, 33, bought Angel a two-wheel bike with training wheels to help overcome lingering problems of balance. The boy also has a slight shuffle, the only other remnant of the crash that nearly killed him. "It wasn't too practical for a doctor to become so attached to ail paliftot," taid Dr. Gieseke.

"Unknown to Dr. Gieseke, said Circuit Judge James Min-net, "his wife went to the hospital. He made his rounds one afternoon and found his wife sitting at this boy's bedside. That began the trail of love that just grew to adoption." Minnet granted the adoption Wednesday. Angel, now 5, took his new name, Derek Allen Gieseke, with a new birth certificate to make it official.

After the adoption, the story emerged of Mrs. Gieseke's daily trips for five months from her home north of Fort Lauderdale under arrest as witnesses. Police said the two men were go-betweens, arranging the payoff for the killing. The woman had an interest in the house where the deal was arranged, police said. Vergari said DeTore, who works at the Semmes Ford agency, paid the killers, believed to be two men, $5,000 in advance, with the balance to be paid after the slaying.

Vergari said DeTore refused to say whether tb $4,000 was paid. school break-in and a handwriting expert established they had written the notes. The prosecutor told how, after Martin's death, Mary and other gir's went to the house and asked to see him. Mrs. Brown, his mother, said: "I'm sorry, pet, Martin is dead." Lyons continued: "Mary smiled and said: 'Oh, I know he's Mrs.

Brown looked at her, incapable of speech, and y- 'ry v. on: i want to sec hoi lving dead in his INDEX Amusements Classified Ads 2D-9D Comics 10C Editorials 10A Financial 8B Miss. Notebook MA Radio TV Logi 7B Sports Sec. Wwnca 12C-15C to the hospital in downtown Mi and his wife Ilaydee. Dr.

Gieseke treated the lad and helped him walk; again, then adopted him and gave him a new name Derek Allen. AP Wirephoto. HAPPY FAMILY NOW Angel Avecedo, paralyzed from the neck down as a result of an auto accident, has been adopted by Dr. Gary Gieseke ami, the doctor battle with tne Welfare Department to be named guardian aud ISsi. Git- I 4 is 7.

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