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-t, ifiiii i Si mwm I il I i i "i I i iiijrii.H ifi. fcM.in iHtifil.inWi.Wtfti' mmmsm aiii isiSiiSl! palace, termed the officers vote a "fraud." Miranda, a conservative, demanded the leftist president's resignation Sunday while Ovando was out of the capital. He said a junta should take over and arrange elections to be held by August, 1972. The president hurried back to La Paz, rallied the forces loyal to him said Miranda was fired and announced he would hold elections "shortly." But Miranda refused to surrender. NO VIOLENCE SO FAR So far no violence has been reported.

Miranda's revolt is the result of dissatisfaction among conservative officers with such leftist measures as expropriation of the U.S. Gulf Oil properties. A military coup ousted President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas Sept. 26, 1969. The armed forces issued a "revolutionary mandate" outlining government goals and naming Ovando as president.

Ironically, the mandate was signed by Miranda. Ovando named a cabinet of leftist civilians and con- A statement by Ovando issued -by Information Minister Carlos Carrasco said he decided to resign because "the confrontation within the armed forces, aside from dividing them and causing victims within their ranks, would also have resulted in bloodshed in the civil population." Later Ovando emerged from his home with his wife and two children, Teresa and Alfredo, said "I hope there will be no bloodshed," and left for an unknown destination. The president gave up after a meeting of army officers by a vote of 317-40 Monday called on both him and Miranda to resign. Ovando, who seized the presidency in a military coup, at first was defiant and said: "The destiny of the country is not decided by officials but by the people who ought to express their opinions at elections." But during the night he changed his mind. Ovando on Monday still had the support of two important regiments and the air force.

Maj. Ruben Sanchez, commander of the Colorado Regiment guarding the presidential LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) Gen. Alfredo Ovando Candia resigned as president today and two generals put in claims to succeed him. Gen. Rogelio Miranda, army chief of staff who launched the revolt Sunday, announced that he was assuming the presidency of a military junta.

He did not name other members. Shortly thereafter a group of officers of the air force who had remained loyal to Ovando reported Gen. Juan Jose Torres, retired commander of the armed forces, was declared "president of the revolutionary government." Torres was quoted as saying he would be provisional president and would try to avoid "the consumation of the rightist coup, whose leader is Miranda." In an attempt to avoid bloodshed, Ovando had asked military forces still loyal to him not to oppose Miranda's conservative rebellion. Miranda said he formed the junta "to direct the destiny of the fatherland with justice." Ovando celebrated his first anniversary as president just a week ago. i Woman Crushed to Death in Home Mrs.

Allen Roberts, 25, was crushed to death Monday when a nee, Okla. Two other persons were killed by the twister. (UPI Tele-tornado collapsed her hill-top frame home on the outskirts of Shaw- photo) Oklahoma Tornado Gives No Warning, Leaves Three Dead lij i home just before the tornado lifted skyward three miles from where it first touched ground. In addition to those killed, the Shawnee Medical Center treated 31 persons for injuries and admitted 10 of them. Mission Hill Memorial Hospital treated 49 injured persons and admitted five.

A Brackeen's showroom Bayh Compromise Bid Fails Senate Shelves Amendment ilEi'i iii! to dig them out. Rescue workers were blocked by the rubble from moving in heavy equipment and each piece of concrete had to be removed by hand. To get the body of Roy Lee Coats, firemen had to cut through a window, a metal roof that had collapsed and finally two 1971 model automobiles. The storm struck so suddenly, officials could not warn residents with the siren. "We were getting ready to push the button when it hit," Police Capt.

W. T. Buckmaster said. "It knocked that out too, so we didn't sound it." The City Hall is now a four-story skeleton that looks about ready to collapse. The police have condemned the building.

A radio tower dangles from the roof to between the second and the third story of the building. A window air conditioner hangs from the building, held secure only by the cord which plugs it in to the wall socket. Not a window remains. Presidential Vote Watt's Contract Extended SHAWNEE, Okla. (UPI) Seconds before the disaster Bob Brackeen and Jes Ikard hid under a desk.

John, 30, and Roy Lee Coats, 23 believed to be brothers and Charles Brodt just stood there. Then the southwest wall of the building housing Brackeen's automobile showroom collapsed showering down tons of debris and concrete. The Coats brothers were two of three persons killed here Monday when a tornado ravaged the city's business district, cut a three-mile swath up through Shawnee's newest school building and then skipped 15 miles to the northeast where it descended again on Prague and killed one other person. The third victim was Mrs. Allen Roberts, 25, killed in her WHERE TO LOOK THIS EDITION: 3 Sections, 28 Pages and a 16 Page Advertising Tabloid.

Amusements 8 Classified 22-27 Contract Bridge 7 Comics 18 Crossword Puzzle 7 Deaths 5 Editorials, Columns 4 Frankfort 14 Markets 22 Radio 6 Sports 19-21 TV Page 18 Weather 2 West Lafayette, Purdue 12 Women's Pages 8-9 year after the House approved it, was the amendment brought up in the Senate. Two attempts to shut off debate fell short of the required two-thirds majority. A third attempt had been scheduled for today's session, but it was washed out when Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, obtained unanimous consent to shelve the whole issue. Bayh had conceded another cloture vote would have been fruitless. He repeatedly said he thought the proposed amendment could muster the two-thirds majority required for approval if only it could be brought to a vote, but other senators disputed this.

Sen. Robert J. Dole, who had offered a compromise, said it was apparent there was done." He referred to bringing in the necessary funds through each division by the end of the drive. Although the first report meeting is a few weeks off, slated for 4 p.m. Oct.

22 at the Lafayette Country Club, Wymer had some reports for the praised the one-day drive At Kickoff, United Fund $151,535 Toward Goal See BOLIVIA, Page 5 no electoral reform proposal on which two-thirds of the Senate could agree. Many different proposals were advanced during the course of the debate, but none of them ever came to a vote. The unanimous-consent agreement obtained by Mansfield provides the issue cannot be brought up in the Senate again before Nov. 16. There is no guarantee a lame-duck session will be held in November, but if there is, Bayh said, he and other supporters of the direct-election amendment hope to persuade Mansfield "to let us have another crack at it." If it can't win approval, he said, he will try some other plan that would be an improvement over the electoral college system.

in the Lafayette School which raised $18,853, as well as the recently completed 24-hour hair-a-thon which brought in over $1,600 through the efforts of beauty operators in the community. Wymer told of an estimated 75 per cent of firm gifts already in, with a goal of $79,000 in sight for the industrial division. He also had praise for the farm and rural division, Fauber Construction drive and the Duncan Electric Engineering drive. Joseph Mooney of Eli Lilly Co. introduced the loaned executives for the 1970 campaign and Dave Howarth, chairman of the public relations com-m i 1 1 thanked those who helped his committee in preparations.

Throughout the evening's program the multi-talented Purdue Glee Club drew the appreciation of the crowd, with a program and soloists and songs that included, "I'll Walk With God" by Phil Ballard; "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" by Bob Ford; "Soliloquy from Carousel" by Maj. Duane Myers, United States Army, and "Climb Every Mountain" by Ken Knowles. Windy, Warm It'll be windy and warm 'With a chance of showers or thunder-showers early tonight. Highs Wednesday should be in the 80s. Details on Page 2.

For WASHINGTON (AP) After nearly a month of wrangling, the Senate has shelved a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college and provide for the direct election of the president. The move came abruptly Monday after the collapse of efforts to find a compromise. Sen. Birch Bayh, chief Senate sponsor of the proposed amendment, said he hopes it will be given another chance if Congress holds a post-election session in November. The House approved the amendment last year by a 339-70 vote and President Nixon subsequently endorsed it.

But in the Senate it ran into delaying tactics by opponents and all efforts to bring it to a vote proved futile. Not until Sept. 8, nearly a drive will include an estimated 800 volunteers working to reach the $690,341 goal to help support the 21 member agencies which last year aided an estimated 38,000 recipients. Associate Campaign Chairman Chris B. Hansen told the division chairmen, as he introduced them to the crowd, "If you don't do it, it won't get YOUR AIR SUM Brodt survived the ordeal, which lasted less than half a minute, relatively unscathed.

"Everything just fell down on us," he said. "But somehow it missed me." Both Brackeen and Ikard were buried under six feet of concrete but managed to survive. It took 60 volunteers and National Guardsmen 45 minutes contracts also would be extended an extra year. "If we don't extend the contracts next year, we don't want anyone to think their jobs are in jeopardy because we didn't follow the procedures of this year," she said. Middleton said he was in favor of granting raises, but he was opposed to the extension of the contracts for an extra year.

Ramhap, in explaining the See, HIATT, Page 5 Hartke Predicts Viet Cease-Fire FORT WAYNE (AP) President Nixon will propose a dramatic, pre-election stan d-still cease-fire" for Vietnam, Sen. Vance Hartke, predicted Monday. In Fort Wayne for a Rotary Club luncheon, Hartke told a news conference, "Every indication points to the fact that President Nixon has finally become convinced that he is obligated to honor his 1968 campaign promise of an earnest effort to end the In-dochinese war." sage he hoped his trip had spelled out was that the United States "with its great power, does not threaten the independence of any nation in the world. "The power of the United States will be used to defend freedom, but never to destroy it," he said. The President said he returned with three basic conclusions about his journey: The U.S.

6th Fleet and the NATO allies "peace-keeping forces in the best sense of the word" represent the kind of strength needed to "deter potential aggression in the Mediterranean area and in Europe." The heads of state with whom he met largely approve of the U.S. peace initiative in the Mideast and hope that the current cease-fire will continue. He was encouraged to find a much greater understanding about U.S. attempts to achieve a "just peace" in Vietnam. Amended and extended three-year contracts were approved for J.

Russell Hiatt, superintendent of the Lafayette School and for his two assistants. The board took the action by a 5-1 vote during its Monday night meeting at Jefferson High School. Hiatt's contract, which was to expire in July, 1972, was extended through July, 1973, and his new salary is $27,500 per year. Leonard W. Smith and Francis Goodnight both were awarded new three-year contracts at salaries of $23,500 each per year.

Smith is assistant superintendent in charge of curriculum and Goodnight is assistant superintendent in charge of business. James Middleton was the board member casting the dissenting vote and Frank Flynn was absent. Mrs. John Glade asked if the board would be setting a precedent by extending each contract for one year at the same time it gave raises. She asked board president Richard Ranr hap if raises are awarded next year if white Air Force One taxied into a hangar at Andrews AFB Monday night.

Secretary of State William P. Rogers told reporters during the trip from Ireland that the journey was "very successful" in terms of its aims flexing American strength in Southern and Western Europe and lining up high-level support for U.S. peace efforts in the Mideast. Nixon told the crowd of 1,000 waiting for him at the air base that his trip may have "contributed substantially" to "a generation of peace for America and for all the people in the world." It was the same hope he expressed a half-day earlier and a continent away as he stood among the graves of his forebears in a misty Irish field. Vice President Spiro T.

Ag-new and members of Nixon's official and personal family gave him an enthusiastic welcome home. He told them the mes Nixon Readies Report Tomorrow to Nation By CHARLES W. McCLURE Inspiration through music, film and short pep talks from top leadership marked the kick-off dinner of the 1970 United Fund campaign Monday night. The 15th annual United Fund drive opened with the report that 22 per cent of the 1970 goal already has been reached. Floyd P.

Wymer, 1970 campaign chairman, told the estimated 275 United Fund backers on hand for the dinner that $151,535 has already been subscribed to the 1970 cause, which requires a goal of $690,341. "We have a tremendous job ahead of us, but we're going to get it done," Wymer told the crowd. Commenting on the 22 per cent mark reached before the official start of the seven-week campaign, Wymer declared, "This is a tremendous start for the whole campaign." Entertainment for the evening came from the Purdue University Glee Club, directed by Albert P. Stewart, and the program ended with a film entitled, "Who Will Answer?" the theme of the 1970 drive. Robert Whitsel, president of United Community Services for 1970, told the assembly he was privileged to be a member of a community that supports United Fund as Greater Lafayette and Tippecanoe County does and he called for recognition of the work done by the central administrative office of UCS, headed by Richard Claw-son.

Started as a United Fund campaign in 1956, this year's WASHINGTON (UPI) After nine days and 12,000 miles of spotlighting America's world power and promising an American-led peace to the people of Europe, President Nixon worked today on a report to the nation on new efforts to end the Vietnam War. Nixon planned to speak to the nation Wednesday, in a 9 p.m." television appearance. There was speculation he would reveal new moves both on the Paris peace table, and in battlefield withdrawal plans. Nixon and his aides still were caught up in their fervor for the accomplishments of the trip when the President's blue-and- Today's Chuckle A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living, but more often to the cost of high living..