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ZUtt. Secotd clue CamtxrUnrt. H4. CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1969 Preu UFt AP PolHkilly Independent Newspaper 10 PAGES--TEN CENTS Moonmen Released From Quarantine North Vietnam Regulars Overrun Two U.S. Marine Outposts Below DMZ Losses Top 100 As Units Withdraw Enemy Smashes Screaming Into Defense Perimeter SAIGON" (UPI)--Two co lumns of regular North.

Vietna- mese troops struck into South Vietnam from the demilitarized zone Sunday, overruning two U.S. outposts and killing or wounding more than 100 Ma- rines. The remnants of the Marine units withdrew to new positions farther south of the buffer zone dividing the two Vietnams. U.S. military spokesmen said at least 19 Marines were killed and 91 others wounded in the fighting, before dawn, much of it hand-to-hand combat after the North Vietnamese raced screaming through defensive perimeters and into the camps.

At least 17 North Vietnamese were killed, all of their bodies found within one of the camps. The toll of Marine dead and wounded was the highest for a single day's action in six months. Almost all of the Marines in one camp were either killed or wounded. High U.S. Toll The death toll was the highest for American forces in Vietnam in two months.

Both Marine camps were on a jungle promontory two miles south of the DMZ, where Allied sources have reported Commu nist troops increasingly active during the past week. The Marine bases were close to each other, blocking suspected infiltration routes into South Vietnam about 13 miles west of the Allied base at Con Thien. The North Vietnamese bit the first camp about 4:30 a.m., bombarding it with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades This Was A Restaurant The foreground shows all that is left of the Upper Krust Restaurant after a funnel-shaped cloud touched down Saturday night in Reading, a Cincinnati suburb. One automobile is shown overturned. Up to 235 persons were reported injured in the storm which also hit Madeira in the eastern part of Hamilton County, Ohio.

Four dead have been found and 460 families were forced from their homes. (AP Photofax) Tornado Hits Suburbs Of Cincinnati Damage Is Heavy With 4 Known Dead And 235 Injured CINCINNATI (UPI)--A de- vastating tornado that ripped through nine miles of suburbs left four persons dead Sunday and forced an estimated 460 families from their homes. The Red Cross, which said everyone in the storm's path had been accounted for, said most of the persons who lost their homes moved in with friends and relatives. Some 235 persons were injured by the Saturday night storm that cut a narrow swath as it skipped from town to town through northern Cincinnati and suburbs, but only 17 required hospitalization. About 525 living units and many businesses were de- stroyed, including 25 homes and classified Berserk Former Mental Patient Shoots 5 Police Neighbor Is Also Wounded Before Detroit Man Forced To Surrender DETROIT (UPI)--A former mental patient went berserk Sunday, barricaded himself in his home and wounded five policemen and his neighbor before sur- rendering, police said.

Lynn Willie Blackwell, 35, threw down his shot- gun and walked out when police assured him he would not be hurt, i Commissioner Johannes F. Spreen told a news conference. None of during a drizzling rain before hurling a 200-man assault force against the fewer than 100 Marines manning the base. While the fighting was still in progress in the first camp, 200 North Vietnamese attacked the neighboring camp where the same type of fighting occurred. Communist losses in the second attack were unknown, spokes- men said.

Nearly Wiped Out Although military spokesmen gave only total casualties in the two camps and declined to give the number for each camp, UPI correspondent David Lamb reported from Con Thien that the first camp attacked was almost wiped out. Of the fewer than 100 Marines in it, he reported, at least nine were killed and 62 wounded. "He reported the bodies of 17 North Vietnamese within the camp, as did military spokes- men in Saigon. Ten Marines were killed and 29 wounded in the attack on the second camp. Nixon Settled In West Coast White House SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(AP) --President Nixon settled down at. his seaside West Coast White House Sunday for a month's stay that will produce vital deci- sions on troops in Vietnam, the wealth and welfare of the people and the make-up of the Supreme Court. Nixon flew from Washington Saturday with word that this week would bring announce- ment of a new Supreme Court justice to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Abe Fortas. In addition, he plans state- ments about legislation to carry out his new welfare program and reappraisal of troop levels in Vietnam and a decision on additional withdrawals. Moments after Air Force One touched down at Orange County Airport, Nixon told newsmen an announcement of a successor to Fortas would be part of his (Continued To Page 2).

Irish Fear New Outburst BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)--A gasoline bomb de- stroyed the home of a Roman Catholic family in Belfast Sun- day and renewed fears of fac- Baby Girl Is Killed In Plane Crash LOS ANGELES (AP)--A baby girl, cradled in her mother's arms, was killed Sunday when a light plane piloted by the in- fant's father crashed on the Pepperdine College campus, narrowly missing the presi- dent's home, police said. Dead at the scene possibly with a broken neck was 18- month-old Lisa Houghton of Huntington Beach. Her mother, Wanda Houghton, 32. climbed into the back seat of the plane with the infant when the crash seemed apparent, police said. Mrs.

Houghton was taken in critical condition to Orthopedic Hospital. Her husband, Ray- Military spokesmen said 71 of the wounded had to be (Continued To Page 2) 300 Japanese Leftist Students Battle Riot Police OMURA, Japan (AP) Slo- gan-chanting, banner-waving student radicals stormed into a detention camp here Sunday and battled riot police in protest against the government's pro- posed immigration control bill. Police said about 300 leftist students meeting in this western Japanese city to mark the 24th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki hurled rocks and shattered windows of the camp which houses South Koreans who have smuggled themselves into Japan. The students claim the bill, if it becomes law, would impose tighter controls on political and other activities of foreigners living in Japan. On Inside Pages Ann Landers 9 Bridge 9 Comics 7 Crossword 7 Cryptoquote 7 Deaths 4 Dr.

Van Dellen 3 Editorial Page 3 Racing 7 Sports 5, 6 State News 2 Tri-State News 4 Want Ads 8, 9 tional violence in Northern Ire- land. Police said the bomb, appar- ently hurled from a car, explod- ed as 17-year-old Mrs. Anne Lo- gan was nursing her 8-month- old daughter. Mrs. Logan and her husband, Harry, 22, fled un- hurt with the baby, but the flames gutted their home.

Police in Londonderry were braced for fresh outbursts of ligious violence in that city Tuesday when the Apprentice Boys, a Protestant group, stage a parade to commemorate the sart Protestant apprentices played in defending the town in 1689 against the beseiging forces of the dethroned Catho lie King James II. mond, 40, was hospitalized in fair condition, authorities said. A Federal Aviation Adminis- tration spokesman said the sin gle engine Piper Cherokee sent a distress message shortly after 8 a.m. which was monitored by the tower at suburban Van Nuys airport. The Houghtons were jound for San Jose.

Controllers said Houghton re ported his engine had stoppec and that he would attempt a powerless landing on the col ege's athletic field. A student on desk duty -at a men's dormitory, Oda Kent, 25, said the aircraft hit a concrete wall and overturned behind the home of Dr. M. Norvel Young, president of the college. A spokesman for the college said Dr.

Young was not home at the Lime, but his three children were awakened by the crash. Premier Rumor Is Given Vote Of Confidence ROME (AP) Premier Mari- ano Rumor won his first vote of confidence Sunday for a sum- mertime minority government pledged to maintain civil order until a majority coalition can be back together. The vote in the Chamber of Deputies gave Rumor's one-par- ty government approved by 346 to 245, 50 votes more than need- ed. The Christian Democrats have only 265 votes in the 630- member chamber. Their major ity was won with the pre pledged support of the two So 350 apartment units as a total loss.

cialist parties which split in Apollo Crew, Companions Non-Infected Physicians Plan Regular Monitoring For Abour A Year SPACF: CENTER, Houston (AP)--The Apollo 11 astronauts, free of signs of lunar wore cleared Sunday to leave their quarantine. Astronauts Neil A. A strong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins had been in strict quarantine for 21 days Sylvester Del Corso, the Ohio National Guard adjutant gener al, estimated damages at $7 million.

The twister affected an area about a city block wide in each community it struck, but in no case was an entire block flattened. Most of the damage, was concentrated in the center of each area hit. The dead were identified as Mrs. Carolyn Deborde, 21, of Cincinnati, her sons Delbert, 5, and Rodney, 3, and Mrs. Zelphia Taylor, 45, of Williams- burg, Ohio.

Mrs. Deborde bodies wore ren and her child- found by firemen early Sunday. They lived in an old schoolhouse converted to 'apartments in the community within the of Hartwell, city limits. just The twister tore off two top floors from the Deborde's building husband and and Mrs. two other sons suffered fractured skulls.

July and caused the downfall Mrs. Taylor, who died Sunday 'evening at Bcthesda Hospital, suffered head injuries Saturday those injured was critically hurt. "Here again we see the vital importance of gun control laws," Spreen said. He said it was legal in Detroit for a person with a history of menial illness to buy a gun. Spreen said Blackwell ap- parently had been engaged in a dispute with his neighbor, Edison Favors, 46, who hailed a police car and said his windows; had just been shot out.

The two officers approached Favors, Spreen said, and a shot rang out. Favors felt wounded on his lawn, across the street from the northwest Detroit house from which the shots were fired. He attempted to get up, but another shot struck him and he fell again. I "The officers then radioed hat they were under fire. Several cars responded to the and they were met by iail of gunfire," Spreen said.

Patrolman Charles McKinney vas wounded immediately, 'olice responded with blasts of unfire from all sides. Oiversinary Gunfire 'The gunfire was necessary order to drive the man away rom the window, so he couldn't ire again, and to remove the bodies of Favors and McKin- ney," Spreen said. In the shooting that followed, Scotland Yard Ends Protest LONDON (AP) An Ameri- can dressed as a Roman centu- rion chained himself to the rail- ings of Buckingham Palace Sun- day, hoping to persuade the British government to spend more on preserving old build- ings. Walter Yearick, a former U.S. Air Force master sergeant now living in Britain, said he was prepared to stay two days if necessary.

Scotland Yard cut him loose and took him away in 20 minutes. Rumor's center-left coalition government. He has pledged his new all- Christian Democrat government to stay in power only until the Socialists can be wooed back into the old center-left alliance. The Senate starts debate on the new government Monday and a vote of confidence there is expected Wednesday. The government is opposed by the Communists, Proletarian Socialists, Liberals, Monar- chists and Fascists.

Rumor said his stopgap gov- ernment would assure civil or- der and carry forward the old center-left coalition's social re- form program. He deplored Saturday's ter- rorist bomb attacks on nine trains in which 12 travelers were injured at the height of It- aly's tourist season. The bomb- ings have been blamed on ter- rorists seeking autonomy for the German-language majority in the Alto Adige, which Italy took over from Austria after World War I. 1,600 Celebrities Invited To Dinner For Astronauts LOS ANGELES (AP) A glittering guest list of 1,600 awaits President Nixon's dinner for the Apollo 11 astronauts Wednesday night. Said a White House advance man: "Every- body coming is a dignitary in his own right." Those invited to dine with as- tronauts Neil A.

Armstrong, Ed- win E. Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins include diplomats, the 50 governors and their wives, avia- tion pioneers including Charles Lindbergh and entertainers Jack Benny, Don Ho and, Gen.e Autry. Sources here said recluse in- dustrialist Howard Hughes had been invited as an aviation pio- neer. If Hughes comes, it will be his first public appearance since 1952.

Former Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson were invited. Truman declined because of ill health and John- son said he wouldn't come be- cause his wife Lady Bird would be out of the country visiting friends. President John F. Ken- nedy's widow, Jacqueline Onas- sis, also sent regrets.

But few others on the guest list are expected to miss the dinner at the Century Plaza Ho- tel. Today's Chuckle Sign on a garbage truck: "Used Vitamin Convoy Serv- ice." (C) T-H UW, CM. Fca. Corp.) Tanker Severs Fishing Vessel; Crewman Drowns MAZARA, Sicily (AP) A 27-ton Italian fishing ship was cut in two and sunk in a colli- sion with an unidentified tanker seven of the eight crew mem- of the downed vessel clung .0 floating wreckage for 14 lours until Ihey were rescued. The eighth weakened and drowned.

The ship, the Antonino Padre of this south Sicilian fishing port, went down at dawn Satur- day in the Strait of Sicily, 15 miles north of Pantclleria Is land. Survivors said the tanker continued on course, apparently unaware of the collision. Husband Of Princess Collapses In Church SINGAPORE (AP) Angus Ogilvy, husband of Britain's Princess Alexandra, coliapsec during a church service here Sunday. The princess told news men later her 44-year-old hus band suffered in his stomach." The princess and her husbam are in Singapore as guests the government for celebrations of the city's 150th anniversary night when the winds flipped her husband's car back onto the highway after he had pulled off the road. Jim Thomas, an off-duty Cincinnati policeman and his wife, still in bathing suits after an outing on the Ohio River, were -among the first to spol (Continued on Page 2) Clash Reported At Korean DMZ TOKYO (UPI)--The North Central News Agency a broadcast monitored ii 'okyo early Monday, said American troops led by tanks rossed the demilitarized zone nto North Korea Sunday.

The agency said the Ameri an force fired "hundreds" of hells and bombs as they advanced across the centra ector of the DMZ behind anks. "The North Korean guards mmediately returned fire ant caused loss of a number memy soldiers," the broadcas said. "The U.S. imperialist force yvhich is making efforts to star a new war advanced a number of armed troops into 'the nortl at 10 a.m." it said. No other details of th reported attack were given bj North Korean news agency There was no immediate comment available from South Sorea.

Nudist Sky Divers Make Safe Landing LYON, Wis. (UPI)--Seven male members of the Milwauk- ee Sky Divers Club dropped into a nudist camp Sunday--au naturel--under the critical but tolerant eyes of the law. "It was very colorful," mused Walworth County Sheriff William Cummings, who had since the moon walk by Arm- strong and Aldrin ended July 21. They had not moved freely since June 25, when they went into scmiquarantinc prior to the a toward the moon. Dr.

Charles Berry announced Sunday the astronauts arc clear any indication of lunar infec- tion and that a committee decid- ed to let them and the 20 other persons in quarantine out be- tween 10 p.m. EOT Sunday and 1 a.m. Monday if they pass final medical tests. They had been scheduled for release at 2 a.m. Monday, but Berry said Ihe earlier timo would permit the crew to rest for a busy week of personal ap- pcaranccs.

The space doctor warned, however, that the astronauts may come down with an illness during the next few weeks be- cause they have been in a rela- tively germ-free environment for such a long time. Israeli Planes Scream Across Jordan River Raid Follows Arab Guerrilla Attacks In Valley TEL AVIV (AP)--Israeli war- planes screamed across the Jor- lan River again Sunday, strik- ing at Jordanian military tar- gets and the Ghor irrigation ca- nal, the army announced. A Jordanian army spokesman! said a11 persons in tho in Amman said three will be monitored planes were shot down by anti- medically for a year, aircraft guns but Ihe Israelis re-l Thc announcement came after ported there were no losses. The hour-long raid, the fourth into Jordan in five days, fol- lowed a major escalation of Arab guerrilla attacks in the Beisan Valley south of the Sea of Galilee, a spokesman said. rolcd the quarantine.

Berry and three other Manned Spacecraft Center officials pre- sented data to an Atlanta meet- ing of the Inter-Agency Commit- tee on Back Contamination, a group of scientists who cent- He cited 38 incidents of shooting and attempted infiltration in the valley in the past 10 days. The planes encountered light Jordanian anti-aircraft fire as they made their runs opposite the Beisan Valley, the spokes- man said, but all returned safe- ly- During the day, the Israelis took steps to make Moslem reli- gious courts in occupied Arab V.UUJ. LJ 111 O.U our her officers were wound- a the Israe)i Unc a ed. All five policemen were in sever indr i Unks wilh Jor good condition and one had seen released from the hospi- al. Favors was in "temporarily ierious" condition with wounds to the chest and upper back.

Spreen said Blackwell had jeen released from Northville State Hospital in December, 1968, and had been in and out of other mental institutions since 1964. Blackwell also had been arrested and charged with assault and battery in the past, Spreen said. Bought Gun Recently 'Blackwell had bought this just within the last week," Spreen said. He said the Detroit -ommon Council had ignored requests for gun control legisla- tion in the past. Blackwell apparently was alone in his home at the time of the shooting.

His wife of 15 years had left with their six children on Wednesday, Spreen said, and his brother Eugene, had been visiting him from North Carolina had left Sunday morning. dan. Predicts End Of The World DURBAN, South Africa (AP) T.J. Farrow, a local medium, roused himself from a 50-minute trance and announced that the landing of men on the moon will result in nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and the end of the world. The committee ruled the as- tronauts were free of "abnor- mal health conditions." He said, however, the nega- medical findings on Arm- strong, Aldrin and Collins do not prove that moon germs do not exist and that future lunar visi- tors also will face quarantine.

The astronauts hold a news conference here Tuesday. On Wednesday, they fly to New York for a ticker tape pa- rade and an appearance at the United Nations. They then fly to Chicago for another parade. The day will end in Los An- gelcs wilh a state dinner hosted by President Nixon. On Saturday, the astronauts will be honored with a parade and a Texas-sized party in Houston's Astrodome.

Gary Firemen Vote To End 6-Day Strike France mposes A TnrT A I i i Price Freeze GARY, Ind. A Gary firemen voted 205-11 Sun-' day afternoon to end their six- day walkout on the condition that Mayor Richard G. Hatcher grant total amnesty to 79 sus- pended firemen. The amnesty condition in- cludes restoration to their for- mer jobs with no retribution, de- motion or layoffs. Local 369 of the International Firefighters Association voted to end the strike after the Gary City Council agreed to set up a a tlons closcl seven-man committee to discuss the firemen's 1970 salary and other issues.

The committee is to consist of three councilmen, three firemen and one person to be selected by the other six members. The council made no firm agreement to grant firemen wage increase larger than the' PARIS (AP)--France im- posed Sunday night a wide- spread wholesale and retail price freeze until Sept. 15 to give government and industry breathing space to study what price rises may be necessary following devaluation of the franc. At the same time, African na- to France decided at a meeting with the strike. The firemen asked for a S2.000 increase.

Nearly all of Gary's 268 fire- men belong to the union. French leaders to devalue their currencies in parallel with France. But Algeria, Morocco and Tu- nisia will not devalue. Finance Minister Valery Gis- said in a radio the government $60 the council agreed to before mp sed the pnce fre a TM 0 rf discussions with mdus- Burglars Strip Residence And Steal Brick Garage vowed to arrest the divers' for disorderly conduct and indecent exposure if they landed outside Running Bares resort. Cummings said, "There were no complaints.

Everyone ap parently landed where they were supposed to. No nudity could be observed from the ground where officers were." CHICAGO (UPI) Some Ihievcs steal everything but the kitchen sink. Not the burglars who looted Spencer Webster's apartment building. They took the sink, toilet, chandeliers, mailbox and even his brick garage. Webster, 63, an elemcntcry school teacher, left Chicago July 1 on a vacation trip to the West Coast.

Before he left he had his tenants vacate his three-story apartment building on the South Side so be could remodel it when he returned. There was scarcely anything left to remodel when he returned last week. First he noticed bis two-car brick garage was musing. Then he went inside and that the furniture, light iixtures, plumbing, electrical iixturcs and mail box were gone. Webster reported to police Saturday that neighbors told him three men parked a red truck in front of the building July 29 and began removing the contents.

For three days the trio worked from 8 a.m. until twilight, systematically strip- ping the building and dismantl- ing the garage, stopping only for lunch and coffee breaks. The neighbors said the area around Webster's building is an urban renewal tract and the neighbors thought the three men worked for the city. try, sector by sector, to see what effect devaluation had on prices. The order freezes wholesale prices of industrial products and retailers' profit margins, plus the prices of a wide range of furils and vegetables.

Prices of other staples such as milk and bread are permanently con- trolled. Six Children Die In Arkansas RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) Six children, sleeping in the same room, wore killed Sunday when fire destroyed their two- bedroom frame house. Sheriff Otto Brinkman of sellville said the childrens' par- ents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles lUy Ketcberside, escaped unharmed but were being treated for shock at a local hospital. A Russellville funeral listed the dead as Raady Ketcherside 10, Connie 7, Aaron Ray 5, Sheila Kay 4. nia Ray I and Mkhael Ray i.