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tie Citv Edition Partly Cloudy 101st Year as a Daily and Sunday Newspaper Established as a Weekly in 1839 Shreveport, Louisiana, Monday, July 3, 1972 1.14th Year Vol. 101 No. 218 Telephone Ten Cents Bid to Overthrow Foreign Power Linked to Arrests Here, U.S. Officials Say V8 Conferee Talks Begin At Austin By Garth Jones AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Ten Texas legislators began compromise talks Sunday night over a $4.1 billion appropriations bill to finance operations of state government for the next year.

The conference committee negotiations began Sunday night after sleep-groggy House members finally passed, on voice vote, their version of the big spending bill at 3:15 a.m. Sunday following more than 16 hours of debate. The Senate version of 1973 appropriations, which the House refused to accept, passed that house early Wednesday after a filibuster of 42 ours and 33 Agreement Signed India, Pakistan Pact Calls For Partial Troop Pullouts By Arnold Zeitlin SIMLA. India (AP) The leaders of India and Pakistan signed an agreement early Monday calling for partial I troop withdrawals along their 800-mile common border. Pakistani spokesmen also said the two sides agreed to told newsmen: "There is an unfortunate deadlock." The accord appeared to be a stepback from the Indian position, seeking a package solution to the dispute between the two countries, including settlement of the Kashmir problem.

iBoth countries control parts of what was once an autonomous, princely state inhabited by a predominantly Moslem population. Kashmir was ruled by a Hindu maharajah in 1947 when Pakistan was formed. Because of its strategic location between the two countries as well as its borders with the Soviet Union and China, Kashmir was wooed by both sides. reduce tension in disnuted Kashmir including troop pull-backs from the explosive cease fire line there, and that the pact did not include handing over territory taken in the India-Pakistan war last Indian sources maintained, By Hugh Morgan NEW ORLEANS (AP) -Federal officials said Sunday nine persons arrested in Texas and Louisiana were allegedly conspiring to smuggle munitions for the overthrow of a foreign country, presumably Cuba. The arrests were made Saturday night and a DC-4 aircraft was seized in Shreveport, containing 15,500 pounds of plastic explosives, 2,600 electrical blasting caps, 7,000 feet of prymacord and 25 electrical detonators.

Among those arrested were a prominent South Texas rancher-banker and a former inspector with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. The two were arrested at Eagle Pass, where they lived. Federal officials said approximately $465,000 was to be paid for the explosives and the cost of the plane trip to deliver them to a secret landing strip near Vera Cruz, Mexico. Presumed for Cnba U.S.

Atty. Gerald Galling-house of New Orleans said the charges allege the explosives were to be sent to Mexico for "future trans-shipment to another country, presumably Cuba." In addition, two of those arrested were charged with knowing "the material would be used in an attempted overthrow of a foreign nation." Gallinghouse refused to say specifically that the nation to be overthrown was Cuba. But when asked about the two separate statements indicating Cuba, he said "that's self explanatory." However, Gallinghouse sair later Sunday night in a telephone interview that "We have no reason to believe that the munitions were destined for any other country other thar Cuba." One agent had earlier men tioned the possibility of ship ment of munitions to a Eu however, that the agreement did not call for withdrawals in Kashmir. talks on the return of Pakistani prisoners of war sometime between this summit and the next meeting of the two leaders. No Date Set No date was mentioned for the next summit, which probably would take place in Pakistan.

Officials said the agreement would lead to a "durable peace" between the two hostile neighbors, who have fought four wars since 1947, when Pakistan was carved out of British India and granted independence. A Pakistani official said the troop withdrawals would occur "all along the line." Military sources in Pakistan say India and Pakistan have have been building up their forces along the cease-fire line, particularly in the areas where the Indians seized high points controlled by Pakistan before the December 1971 war. That war resulted in creation of the new state of Bangladesh out of the former East Pakistan. The two leaders talked for two hours and went for a walk alone together in the chill air of the Himalayan foothills. Simla is where the partition of India and Pakistan was planned in 1947.

Six hours earlier, Bhutto had Thirteen Cars Of a 141-car Kansas City Southern train derailed four miles south of Vivian at about noon Sunday. Most of the cars were empty, although two were filled with shelled corn and one, a tank car, was filled with crude oil. KCS officials said cause of the derailment was undetermined. The derailment occurred just south of the intersection of Louisiana Hwy. 1 and Louisiana Hwy.

2 on a KCS track that parallels Hwy. 1 between Vivian and Oil City. No injuries were reported. (Times Photo by John Moseley) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Truman Is Hospitalized For Ailment of India and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan signed the agreement at a hastily arranged ceremony nine hours before Bhutto was scheduled to return to Pakistan, culminating five days of tough summit bar Enemy Troops Beaten Back On Eastern Quang Tri Front gaining at this Himalayan hill station resort. Indian sources said other points of the agreement were renunciation of force to settle disputes and the settling of mutual problems bilaterally without calling in third parties.

An official of the Pakistan Foreign Office said the agreement also will lead to separate Two Are Protestants up by any attempt to take the old imperial capital. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the far north that paratroopers spearheading the five-day-old counteroffensive were in contact all day within three miles of the enemy-held Quang Tri, capital of the province of the same name. Along the lengthening western flank of the counteroffensive, 150 enemy soldiers were reported killed in several battles near the foothills three to five miles west of Highway 1. South Vietnamese losses were put at 9 Three Men Found Slain Near Belfast Sniper Site miles east of Quang Tri on the "Street without Joy." The latest reports brought claimed casualties to the South Vietnamese drive to nearly 700 enemy killed and 50 Saigon troops killed and 180 wounded. Saigon spokesman said 46 enemy were slain in clashes around the front on Saturday at a cost of one South Vietnamese soldier wounded.

Ammunition Cache Vietnamese marines also reported uncovering a 16-to-20-ton ammunition cache on the eastern wing of the front on Saturday. The latest actio left government troops in command of a 12-mile broad front running southwest from the South China Sea at a point about eight miles minutes by Sen. Mike McKool of Dallas. The 10 conference committee members all veteran floor leaders in their respective houses are bound by joint Senate-House rules to merely adjusting differences between the two houses. Final Version Thursday Speaker Rayford Price said after Saturday's marathon session that he did not expect the final compromise version to be laid before legislators for a vote until Thursday at the earliest.

Both houses, with the exception of the conference committee, plan to take off Monday and Tuesday, which is July 4th. Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes has predicted the special session will end about Friday, if the appropriations negotiations go the way expected. The mandatory end of the 30-day session is July 13.

During the 16 hours of House debate on the bill, which began at 10 a.m. Saturday, representa-t i considered 95 amendments, approving 47 and defeating 43, including two knocked out by parliamentary technicalities. House members took a 55-minute break for lunch Saturday but had no time off for supper. Semifestive Air During the Saturday night debate there was a semi-festive air to the proceeding. Wives and girl friends crowded the House chamber, many of them bringing sack lunches for their legislators.

Informal bars were set up in several legislators' offices for the thirsty. Later in the night and early Sunday the visitors slowly left the chamber, leaving just the fatigued legislators, who refused several times to put off the final vote on the bill until Sunday. One of the most controversial amendments, Republican Rep. Bill Blythe, Houston, would block expenditure of state funds to bus school children. After 45 minutes of hot and sometimes angry arguments the proposition was watered down through a substitute offered by Rep.

Jim Nugent, Kerrville, that would allow state money to be used if the busing was ordered by a federal court. The vote on Nugent's compromise was 132-2. An amendment by Rep. Lane Denton of Waco to force all state government files open to the public except those made confidential by law was tabled. 86-45.

Appropriation chairman Bill Finck said there had been no committee evaluation of the proposal, and "you can't tell what damage it would do." By Richard Blystone SAIGON (AP) North Vietnamese troops and armored vehicles attacked South Vietnamese forces along the eastern Quang Tri front Sunday but were beaten back with heavy losses, the Saigon command reported. Spokesmen said the South Vietnamese killed 100 enemy troops with the help of artillery and tactical air strikes, and destroyed four tanks and captured one. Government losses were put at five killed and 17 wounded. Thirty miles to the south, the enemy sent scores of heavy rocket and artillery rounds crashing into Hue and defense posts on its souther and western perimeter. However, the shellings were not followed KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(UPI) -Former President Harry S. Truman, 88, was hospitalized in a wheelchair Sunday suffering a gastrointestinal ailment. Doctors said he was in "satisfactory" condition. Dr. Wallace H.

Graham said the "lower gastro-intestinal problem" was related to the ailment for which Truman spent 12 days in the hospital last year. "He is doing quite well but a re-examination is indicated periodically," Graham said. "Routine examinations are planned to include X-ray studies of the lower gastrointestinal tract." Graham said he decided to hospitalize Truman "to check his status with his condition when he was hospitalized in 1971." Truman's wife, Bess, 87, was at his bedside at Research Hospital and Medical Center. Graham said the intestinal problem was related to Truman's 1971 bout with colitis, an inflammation of the large intestine. The nation's 33rd president was driven in a car 15 miles to the hospital on Kansas City's south side from his 17-room Victorian mansion in Independence, Mo.

He was admitted at 2:05 p.m. CDT and taken in a wheelchair to a private room. ropean Country, but a source close to the investigation said there was no reasonable basis men killed and 25 wounded. Vietnamese marines on the eastern sector of the front reported killing 37 North Vietnamese while losing one man killed and 6 wounded in a fight 6 At first it was believed that the two men found in the Cliftonville cricket grounds might have been killed in the shooting affray with British troops, who claimed to have scored two hits on the 14 snipers firing at them. The army said the attack was not considered a truce violation.

A prominent Protestant militant was kidnaped Sunday night Stroller to say that was in the plans. Five persons were arrested at Shreveport and two in New Orleans. Among those arrested in New Orleans was Murray Kessler of Brooklyn, N.Y., identified in the complaint as the man who arranged to obtain the weapons for a man identified only as "Carlos All I'ine were charged with conspiring to smuggle munitions to Mexico. Resident of Mexico Gallinghouse said agents were looking for Diaz, identified only as a person claiming to be a resident of Mexico. Federal officials also said there was another indictment against Kessler in New York, but would not sav what it wnne on ms way back to jail, above the former defense line at the My Chanh River.

Full Relations Resumed by U.S., Yemen 1 I vijirurfiuil a life Roman wnere ne is serving sentence for slaying a Catholic barman in 1966. BELFAST (AP) The bodies of three men at least two of them Protestants were found Sunday in West Belfast. Police said they had been executed by gun shots in the head. The two men identified as Protectants, aged between 35 and 40, were found by children playing on a cricket ground near the site of a predawn sniper attack on British troops. Protestants blamed the Irish Republican Army IRA but the outlawed group's Provisional command said its gunmen were not involved in the battle or other shooting incidents in the city.

It blamed the shooting on a small group of vigilantes outside IRA control and said the men were being "disciplined" a term that could mean execution. The deaths brought the number of slayings to six since an IRA cease-fire was declared last Monday. A total of 395 persons have died in the past three years of fighting in Northern Ireland. Been Beaten Badly The third man found executed was a 25-year-old man whose body was tossed out of a speeding car in the Forth River Road area. He had been badly beaten and shot in the head and back.

Chief oriiion BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -Yemen resumed full diplomatic relations Sunday with the United States. The resumption was an-n shortly before U.S. "I was always respected in the days of old, now neglected by many men untold; Some stand up high with hands over heart, and some just look away and slowly depart; I like it when I'm respected for I'm your country's sign, but even when I'm neglected I still concerned. Also arrested in Eagle Pass were Richmond Harper, a rancher and director of the must wave on high; Secretary of State William P. I Rogers ended a brief visit to Augustus Spence, 39, was a leader of the Protestants in the Shankill Road district of Belfast when he was sentenced to orison.

He was granted a two-day parole over the weekend to attend his daughter's wedding and to visit his sick mother. Police said Spence was being driven back to the Crumlin Road jail by his brother-in-law when the car was halted by another with three armed gunmen in it. The brother-in-law, Martin Corry, was beaten up and Spence was bundled into the other car and driven off at hifh speed. Protestant militants, meanwhile, dug in behind stee! barricades in Belfast in defiance of the British army. Frontier State Bank of Eagle Partly Cloudy, Warm Forecast I represent your country, it freedom and liberty, to all the people of the world when ere they look at me." Succumbs at 95 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -President Joseph Fielding Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints died late Sunday night at the home of a daughter in Salt Lake City a church official said.

He was 95. Church press secretary Henry Smith said the elderly leader of 3,000,000 Mormons died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bruce R. McConkie. Pass, and, Marion Hagler, a former inspector with the U.S.

Immigration and Naturalization Service. They were released on bonds of $25,000 each after their arraignment before a U.S. Mac- Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, and headed for the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain. Reached by telephone from Beirut, a spokesman for the Yemeni Foreign Ministry said the resumption of ties with Washington was announced to the nation over Sanaa Radio early Sunday. Yemen was the first Mideast Arab state to resume diplomatic relations with Washington severed in 1967.

istrate in Texas. This poem serves as a re- Col. Weathervane decided to minder dtizens fl their carry his umbrella to work fl on annive 'of this today -after reading the Nat nal independence It was Weather Services forecast for wrjtte fe ear-old KEN-Shreveport and vicinity NETH DALE BROBST of Hous- eii OTI forecast tQn Tex Cai'led aV PT 1 KENNETH is the grandson of 1 CXD linYc.ll!udyulk-I?!:Mrs. DALE BROBST of 3833 Kessler, held Sunday on $100,000 bor.d. and Adler B.

Seal of Baton Rouge, were arrested in suburban Kenner. I wild a Chess Play Delayed as Fischer Fails to Show ot a r- CK Timo storms this at- that along his parents ternoon through Ur Mrc hwatm rrorst tomorrow. ic th hnfuorc Saturday near the New Orleans International Airport. Seal was held on a $50,000 bond. Preliminary hearings for Kessler and Seal are scheduled July 10 in Nt-w Orleans.

Arrested in Shreveport were James M. Miller Jr. and Joseph Mazzuka, both of Baton Rouge; Arthur Henrv Lussier of Fort Traffic Toll Reaches 341 Probability of i t0 Shreveport this' is expected mer X6 to De near ju per cent More STROLLER on Page 6-A through tonight. Iffy WW Lauderdale, and Antonio Maldcnado and Juan Martinez, both of Vera Cruz, Mexico. They He indicated that the cablegrams called for a postponment because of the state of Fischers health.

Euwe said the postponement was made after he and the official arbiter for the match, Chess Grand Master Lothar Schmid of Germany, asked Spassky and his assistants if they would concur. Neither the promoters nor Cramer's representatives would say whether the financial problem had been settled. Chess sources said this was the major stumbling block. were released on personal recognizance bonds. Winds over the city are expected to be mostly southerly to southwesterly at 10 to 20 miles per hour.

High temperature in the city today is expected in the mid 90s following an early morning low in the mid 70s. Temperatures in the city yesterday ranged from 75 to 95. Temperature extremes reported Piedras Negras Man Gallirghouse said warrants had been issued for the arrest of Francisco "Paco" Floras of said an Icelandic friend of Fischer, Freystein Thor-bergsson, was flying to New York "to try to persuade Fischer to here and play the match." "If he does not show up at noon on Tuesday for the drawing of lot," Euwe said "he will be disqualified and lose the right to play for the title." Fischer, unhappy over the financial terms arranged for the match, three times cancelled flights from New York last week and he failed to board the last direct flight that would have gotten him to Iceland on time Saturday night. Each player is permitted three postponements for medical reasons but these must be certified by the official match doctor. Fred Cramer, representing the 29-year-old challenger, said two cablegrams had been sent from the United a to Reykjavik one from Fischer's phyician and one from the U.S.

Chess Federation but he said both had been lost. By Ivan Westergren REYKJAVIK. Iceland (UPI) Bobby Fischer failed to appear for the 1 opening game in his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union Sunday but the match was postponed for two days to give the American challenger one more chance to play. "The simplest and maybe correct way to deal with this would be to disqualify Fischer from play," Dr. Max Euwe president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), said in announcing the postponement? The postponement was made primarily to protect the Icelandic financial backers of the match and to preserve the image of the game itself.

Euwe said. Robert Byrne, an American grandmaster, said he spoke to Fischer by phone from Reykjavik Sunday. "He said he was not fatigued and he was not sick, Byrne said. "He won't come because they (the organizers) are not meeting his financial Gudmundur Thorarinsoon, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said he still believed that the "financial differences could be overcome." He said Fischer also had demanded very strong security measures to protect him from newsmen and fans. If Fischer does not appear for the drawing of lots now scheduled for Tuesday at noon (7 a.m.

CDT) he will be disqualified and lose his i to challenge the 35 year-old Russian for the world chess title, Euwe said. The match between Fischer, 29. and Spassky original-lv was to have begun at 5 m. (12 noon CDT) Sunday in a Reykjavik theater especially outfitted to suit the demands of both players. Spassky arrived early last week.

In announcing the decision to postpone the opening of the 24-gam match, Euwe I Piedras Negras, Mexico, on a conspiracy charge. United Press International Traffic deaths mounted steadily Sunday as the long July 4 weekend passed the midway point. A United Press International count late Sunday showed 341 persons had died in traffic accidents more than five persons per hour since the 102-hour period began at 6 p.m. local time Friday. Forty-t persons had drowned and 19 had died in other accidents for a total of 3.

California had 38 traffic deaths. Texas 24, New York 19, Ohio 17. Indiana 16 and Georgia 14 During last year's three-day Fourth of July weekend, 635 traffic fatalities were reported. In one of the weekend's worst accidents, six persons were killed Saturday when the pickup in which they were riding crashed into a fuel truck on U.S. 550 near Waterflow, N.M.

Inside QTlte QHttMS I'D NOTION MOVV MUCH 1 10CK elsewhere included 96 and 74 1 with trace of rain in Alexan-: riria, 94 and 73 in Lufkin, and 93 and 74 in El Dorado. Ark. The weather map and other details may be found on Pase 5C. Three Sections 34 Pages Sr. Forum 4 Handyman 3-C Bishop dip on stage at Meth odist meeting Page 2-A Heloise 2-R by Alvarez Amuse Astrology Bridge Classified Comics Deaths Digest Editorials fi-B 4C 2-B 6-R R-C 6-C 11 -A 2-A 4 A Hijacker slain in Saigon passenger Page 6-A Today's Churlde It is almnrt too late to elect a President who was born in a log cabin, but perhaps in the future we may elect a President who was born in a mobil home.

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