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Press democrat California 22, Stanford 14 Ohio State 20 Michigan 9 UCLA 45, ISC 20 Notre Dame 3, LSU 0 Nebraska 28, Oklahoma 21 Arkansas 24, Texas Tech 10 Colorado 49, Air Force 19 Tennessee to, Kentucky 0 Dartmouth 28, Penn 0 Missouri 28, Kansas 7 Purdue 40, Indiana 0 Wisconsin 39, Minnesota 14 The Redwood Empire's Leading Newspaper jj SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA The City Designed for Living. -SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1970 cent u. Retaliates, N. Vietnam So I A i Ti ill Massive Attacks Continue 28 Hours PARIS (L'PI) A North Vietnamese spokesman said today the United States lost six aircraft and attacked a camp of American war prisoners during raids on North Vietnam during the night. The North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris talks at a hastily convened news conference condemned the resumed U.S.

air attacks as "an extremely serious act of war." But Hanoi diplomats declined to say whether the Communists would attend or boycott next Wednesday's scheduled peace talks session in Paris. "Wait and see," said the Hanoi delegation spokesman, Nguyen Than Le. He said only that the raids "gravely affect the Paris conference on Vietnam." "A camp of captured American pilots was also hit and a number of the captured American pilots were wounded," he said. Le pointed on a wall map to areas hit by the bombing raids but he declined to pinpoint the location of the allegedly bombed prisoner camp. SAIGON (UPD-Waves of; Coupled with the biggest U.S.

warplanes flew a 28 1-2-j American offensive in Indochi-hour bombing blitz over North: na since the into Vietnam Saturday and Sunday' Cambodia six months ago was the first massive retaliation in' an announcement by U.S. more, than 'six months forj military spokesmen that Communist antiaircraft attackscan warships sank a Commu-on American reconnaissance! nist ship Saturday night in a planes. I battle in the South China sea Military sources said the' off the coast of South Vietnam, raids ended Sunday morning at; North Vietnam said six the time announced earlier in' American aircraft, five planes Washington by the Pentagon, 7 and a helicopter, were shot a.m. (6 p.m. EST Saturday).

(down in the bombing raids. The raids began at 2:30 a.m.; Hanoi said the blitz hit Saturday (1:30 p.m. ESTlpopulated areas as far north as Friday). I Haiphong and caused casualties among the civilian population' Denouncing the raids as "an as well as among Americans! extremely serious act of war," held in prisoner of war camps, (Continued on Page 6A, Col. 7) Mitchell Staff Photos bv Jeff Lt INDIAN LEADERS RICHARD OAKES, LEFT, AND SON ROCKY, WITH GUN Thorn Marrufo and Jon Marrufo Also Manned Barricade Acquitted On My Lai FT.

HOOD, Tex. Sgt. Dagid Mitchell, hand smoothing the (UPI) S. I with his family after the past, his right ii months of strain since he' two neatjfirst was charged by the Armed Indians Charge Toll On County Road By Staff Correspondent ber of the group fired the rifle STEWARTS POINT Mili-in the air three time earlier in 4.1 rows of Army medals clipped to his green wool Army tunic, said Saturday he wants to be a soldier for life Take Your Choiee: -An Itch in Time "The Scratch Pad -Nudes Take a Powder -The Scratching Halt -No Nudes is Good Nudes LONDON (UPI) A nude ballet performance by the Nederlands Dans Theater troupe ended in an uproar Friday when somebody threw a handful of itching powder on the stage. Dancer Nils Christe and his partner Rita Bolvoorde had just begun their final pas de deux, danced in the nude, when the itch, struck.

"We were in absolute agony," he said later. "At one point we were supposed to lie on the floor and keep still for five minutes. But we" could only last four seconds. "Rita was so bad she was crying in the shower trying to rub the stuff off," Christe said. Another 12 supporting dancers clad only in body stockings had the scratches as well, and fled the stage of the Sadler's Wels Theaiter as manager Gail Law offered an explanation to the audience.

The ballet, Glen Tetley's "Mutations," continued after Which the stage was swept clean. A. theater spokesman said he (believed the powder was in protest against nudity on stage. "I love this uniform," said the man acquitted the day before of assault with intent to tant Indian leader i a me evening. Only Mr.

Oakes was arrested. 4 murder charges at the nation's (Oakes was arrested here early Ossie Brown, a civilian lawyer from Baton Rouge, and Mitchell's attorney, said the sergeant does not plan to testify at any other My Lai court-martials, including the Ft. Benning, trial of his Vietnam commander, Lt. William L. Calley Jr.

Seventeen men, ranging from general to buck private, face massacre charges. "I feel I got a fair trial by the military judge and the court panel," Brown said. "They extended every courtesy. I yesterday after he and group of first My Lai massacre wouldn't do anything to discre dit it." Porno Indians allegedly extract-led $1 tolls from motorists driv- ft 1 ing4hrough the Kashia Reserva After he was booked at county jail, Superior Court Judge Jo-, seph P. Murphy Jr.

set bail at $6,125. Later Released The judge later ordered the Indian leader released on his own recognizance after being tion in northwestern Sonoma A panel of seven Army officers, six of them Vietnam veterans, deliberated six hours County. and 50 minutes Friday night, The 28-year-old leader of the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz then declared Mitchell not guilty in connection with, the contacted by San Francisco at was accused of armed robbery But I still say there are certain changes that need to be madej sweep by U. S. combat troops torney Aubrey Grossman.

He is to appear before Munici "The shoe's on the other foot." Mr. Oakes said after through the South Vietnamese pal Court Judge James E. Jones hamlet of My Lai March 16, being released from county jail on his own recognizance. "They Jr. at 9:15 a.m.

Wednesday. 1968. When the verdict was read, Mr, Oakes told The Press in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. They've got to make it the same as civilian Brown said in his final arguments at Mitchell's court-martial that the My Lai massacre was fabricated by persons who want to ruin the took our land up there at Stewart's Point." He offered no resistance when Democrat he agreed to a "moratorium" on political action in order to be released. Mitchell, 30, of St.

Francisville, snapped to attention and faced the two colonels, three captains and two lieutenants who decided his fate. He then California Highway Patrol Lt. William Mulhare and Sgt. Harry C. Humes arrested him at 1:40 military.

a.m. saluted crisply. "I contend this is an attempt "What took you so long," he "I volunteered for the Army Montana Link To Zodiac Killer? because I wanted to be a asked calmly. by some segments or our country to gut the military and when you gut the military you In an interview, he said the "toll booth" was a "spur of the moment" act. However, Lt.

Mulhare said law enforcement agencies had received information Friday that Indians planned to block county roads leading through the Reservation. At 10:20 p.m., a man identifying himself as a United Press Officers said Mr. Oakes was soldier," said Mitchell, his hair neatly trimmed and wearing a along 18 to 25 Indians who barri gut this country," Brown said. caded Stewarts Point-Skaggs The government attempted to Springs rd. and Tin Barn rd.

LIVINGSTON, Mont. (UPI)- Baker testified for, the prove that Mitchell, acting with Both roads are lightly traveled Calley, herded 30 Vietnamese in what is one of the most re An attempt was made here Friday to link Montana's defense in the trial of Harry A. Stroup, 20, also of Sheridan, men, women and children mote areas of the county. International representative phoned the Santa Rosa district together, pushed them into a who was a hitchhiking compa Patrolmen said Mr. Oakes cannibal killer to the San Francisco Bay Area's mass drainage ditch then shot them nion of Baker.

u- CHP office to report the block had a loaded 300 Savage rifle in with bursts of rifle fire. murderer who calls himself ade had started. Only three of 21 witnesses at Lt, Mulhare, who was still Baker insists he alone killed James Schlosser, Great Falls, whose torso was found Zodiac. Stanley D. Baker, 22, Sheri INDIANS NETTED $8 BEFORE OAKES' ARREST Thorn Marrufo and Rifle Collect 'Toll' the court-martial said they saw puzzled yesterday about why this possession.

Mr. Oakes said he didn't have the rifle. He also said it wasn't loaded. A witness said another mem- Mitchell point his rifle toward the Indians blocked the seldom July 11 in the Yellowstone wisp of a mustache. "That's the life I chose for myself.

I thought it was a great organization then, and since I've been acquitted I think it's an even greater organization. I'm going to stay and make the Army my Mitchell, married and the father of- an 11-month-old daughter, enlisted 10 years ago land re-enlisted in 1968 in His present enlist-taet -expires in 1974. "I thank everyone who prayed for me," he said, smiling, when hewas declared not guilty of slaughtering 30 Vietnamese civilians. "And that was the whole nation. Now I know it's a great Army." Mitchell, the son of a Baptist the ditch.

Two former soldiers (Continued on Page 2A, Col. 1) a River near Yellowstone National Park. said they saw Mitchell fire into the ditch. If Mitchell had been dan, who has confessed to slaying a welfare worker and eating his heart, Friday refused to testify on Fifth Amendment grounds concerning the April, 1970, slaying of Bobby Salem in San Francisco. Baker says that he separated from Stroup several hours convicted, he could have been sentenced to 20 years at hard Pakistan Toll Now 153,340 before Schlosser died.

LavaFlows At Volcano In Hawaii Schlosser's head, arms and labor. Brown said before the verdict he would appeal all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court He was asked if he had cut legs were cut off and his torso off Salem's ear, eaten it, and if Mitchell was found guilty. dumped into the river.

Baker and Stroup were written the word "Zodiac" in Salem's blood. He refused to "But that's it," the attorney HILO, Hawaii (UPI)-Volca- Ambassador Farland said he had asked Washington to dispatch 50 outboard motor-boats in addition to the aircraft. Relief operation officials in Dacca cautioned newsmen from entering the worst hit Bhola areas for fear they would be mobbed by hungry and naked survivors. When asked when food, clothing and temporary, shelters would reach survivors in remote regions, one official replied, "We just don't know." answer. said Saturday.

lhe govern arrested by the California Highway Patrol south of Big But Salem is not one of the surged around the aircraft and struggled among themselves for blankets dropped to them. "It is a very, very serious tragedy: The devastation is extensive," Farland "It is a gruesome sight, believe me." The ambassador said he saw ment has no appeal. Thdre's preacher, said he planned to no watchers today could walk to within a few feet of streams five victims San Francisco go home to Louisiana to rest nothing they can do to us now." police say was killed by the of fiery lava inching down the slopes of Mount Kilauea. Sur. At the time, Baker was in possesstion of a I finger-bones, later identified as Schlosser's.

Dist. Judge Jack Shanstrom said he believed Stroup's case would go to the jury next Complete My Lai Review "It's quite a show, especially after dark," said ranger Arthur Sunday Index killer who calls himself Zodiac. What's more, Baker has been held by Montana authorities since August while Zodiac has written several taunting letters to authorities postmarked in the Bay Area within the past six For Lt. Calley Trwl DACCA, East Pakistan (UPI) The East Pakistan relief commissioner said Saturday the provisional death toll from the cyclone and tidal waves that battered coastal areas eight days ago had been revised upward to 153,3400 and could grow to "several hundred thousands." Many of the islands in the Bay of Bengal devastated by nature's one-two punch Nov. 12 still had not been reached or heard from.

On others, although contact had been and some disaster centers established, little in the way of food and relief supplies had found its way from central distribution points into the hands of Hewitt, of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. "Very, very being tried before a court of six SECTION A -MAIN BRIDGE CARMICHAEL CHESS 8 8 9 GRAFFITI 9 VITALS 6 Tuesday. Zodiac, sought for slayings in 1968 and 1969 in San Francisco, Vallejo and Lake Berryessa, has written notes to local newspapers claiming up to 14 killings in recent years. Police have only implicated him in five although detectives spectacular. The lava is flowing over cliffs and forming ponds below them." The glowing lava is visible at night from 20 miles away.

Hundreds of local residents and tourists have flocked to Kilauea to take advantage of the rare opportunity for a close-up view; of creeping rivers of hot lava. said several fingers of lava were visible over a mile-and-a-half front, some of them FT. BENNING, Ga. (UPI)-The way is open for the small courtroom of this center of infantry training to furnish a complete review of what happened in the Vietnamese of My Lai on March 16, 1968. "The entire transaction at My Lai has got to be disclosed in these proceedings," ruled a military judge, Col.

Reid W. Kennedy, who is presiding at the court-martial of Lt. William L. Calley. He ruled that both prosecu officers.

Under the rule it is quite possible there will be more testimony about the actions of S. Sgt. David Mitchell that day than was presented at his own trial, which ended Friday night with his acquittal of charges of assault with intent to murder 30 civilians. Calley is accused of murdering 102 civilians, and the prosecution has said it will call 67 witnesses to show either he or his platoon members at his order committed the "execu- said early this week that there weeks. Rain Likely Today, Tonight Occasional rain today and tonight followed by clearing skies tomorrow, says the- weatherman.

The U.S. Weather Bureau's extended forecast was for mostly fair weather in northern Cali-j fornia through Wednesday. Expected highs and lows: Santa Rosa, 60 and 45; Ukiah, SECTION I WOMEN ADAMS PATTERN ANN LANDERS APPLE BIB 'N' TUCKER CALENDAR I. GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY PARTIES AND PEOPLE PETALUMA PATTER PTA ACTIVITIES SHERI GRAVES BETTER HALF 1 CROSSWORD 1 CULTURE 6 EMWRE 7 HOME FRONT 9 HOWDY 4-5 RETIREMENT 1 TIDES 1 SECTION SPORTS, BUILDING BUILDING 8 BUSINESS 7 SPORTS 1-5 STOCKS 6 FAMILY WEEKLY ASK THEM YOURSELF 2 COOKBOOK ....26 HUGH O'BRIAN 35 JR. TREASURE CHEST 32 LIVE OFF THE LAND 9 PILGRIMS A SKIING 12 QUIPS AND QUOTES ...28 QUIZ ...27 WEEKEND SHOPPER ....33 WHAT IN THE WORLD 3J hundreds of dead people and cattle littering the ground "even at this late date." On the island of Hatiya alone, more than 200 persons who survived the cyclone have died of' cholera, smallpox and typhoid which set in after the storm and now have reached epidemic proportions.

The British High Commission announced four Royal Navy ships were en route to the afflicted areas with 650 soldiers to help bury the dead and join relief work- The British Air Force said three Hercules helicopters left Singapore for the East Pakistani capital of Dacca Saturday with food and transport equipment. Three U.S. C14 helicopters already have arrived in Dacca to help and three of the larger Huey helicopters were en route. 2 8 3 2 9 3 7 8 2 3 1 5, 7 survivors. "Transportation has been the sole major bottleneck" in the bogged-down relief effort, said is "a very good possibility" he also killed a Southern California coed in Riverside four years ago.

In his latest message, Zodiac late last month threatened the life of San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery, who has near the chain of craters road! SONOMA SMART SET tion and defense could query which winds through the park. The molten rock and cinders continued to flow over what used ttitnpssps" on cross-examination itions" by rifle fire. The 62 and 45: Fort Bragg, 58 and covered his story about all events within the prosecution in the Mitchell case U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Joseph S. Farland after a helicopter tour of some of the disaster areas.

Farland toured hard hit Bhola Island Friday aboard the first American relief helicopter to reach disaster areas and reported hungry survivors 48. San Francisco police said; to be a parking area near a hamlet of My Lai on the day called only three witnesses. SECTION EMPIRE LIVING, CLASSIFIED ASTROGUIDE 8 AVIATION 8 BEFORE YOU BUY 1 114th Year Two of the 14 witnesses heard Chance of rain: 60 per cent picnic ground and backed up! against a dike built by parkj employes to keep the lava flowi from destroying the road. they were investigating any possible connection between -t Baker and Zodiac, but declined further comment. in question.

The questions could be irrelevant to the four counts -of premeditated murder on which the 27-year-old Calley is No. 25 in four days of prosecution today; 50 per cent tonight, testimony here ending Friday! Weather statistics are on page (Continued on Page (A, Col. 3) 6A..

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