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The Times from Munster, Indiana • 10

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Judge Will Try Hanrahan Case 4mmfm: Four years ago as leaders of a protest movement Jerry Rubin (left) and Abbie Hoffman (right) confronted the Democrats on the streets of Chicago. This year they'll be inside the Miami Beach Convention Hall with press credentials for a book they are writing. With them is Ed Saunders. Romiti said court would resume after the tour. IN A RELATED development, Bernard Carey, the Republican candidate for Cook County state's attorney, said that Hanrahan's decision to take a bench trial in the Chicago Black Panther case left suspicion of a political whitewash.

Carey said the long delays in starting the trial by use of "tricky delaying tactics" means that Hanrahan "owes it to the people of Cook County to face a jury of his peers and thereby avoid the suspicion of a Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley political machine whitewash." Carey also repeated his demand that Hanrahan step down from office while the trial is in session. GOP Fears 'Bug' Trial WASHINGTON (AP) The Committee for the Re-election of the President is worried that a hearing on a suit involving the break-in and bugging attempt at Democratic headquarters here cculd cause "incalculable" damage to President Nixon's campaign. For this reason, the committee asked U.S. District Court Monday to postpone the hearing o.i a $1 million damage suit against the committee until after the Nov.

7 election. The suit was filed by Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien after it was revealed that one of the five men arrested in the May 15 break-in was James W. McCord the security coordinator for the re-election committee. However, to hear the suit before the election, the committee said, could deter campaign workers and contributions, force disclosure of confidential campaign information and provide the Democrats with a reason to hold news conferences.

THE CONCERN EXPRESSED to the court contrasted with a statement by former Nixon campaign manager John N. Mitchell, who earlier had said the-Democrats' suit was a "political stunt" The suit claimed damages on grounds that the break-in interfered with rights of all Democrats. The five men allegedly were arrested inside the Democratic headquarters and were charged with burglary. Police also seized a quantity of electronic bugging equipment. Kenneth W.

Parkinson, attorney for the re-election committee, told the court that hearings prior to the Nov. 7 electon would "allow Mr. O'Brien and the Democratic National Committee to utilize this lawsuit as a forum from which to accuse this committee of complicity in criminal conduct throughout the election cam-pign." He denied the committee was involved in the break-in. But he said repeated mention of the "coincidental employment" of McCord by the committee would be particularly damaging. UMES lUA Tuesday, July 11, 1972 County Stalls Projects (Continued from Page One) zoning to skirt large proposed apartment buildings at U.S.

30, west of 1-65. SUMMIT. DEVELOPMENT, a division of Henderlong Lumber Company, plans the huge development on a 100-acre parcel owned by Bank of Indiana Trust No. 5870. The project includes industrial plants, office buildings, a nursing home, housing and recreation facilities.

The planning commission approved the concept of the development at a special meeting in June but complaints by J. J. Forszt, the county commissioner's representative on the board, were echoed by several other board members. Forszt said he doesn't believe the large project should be approved in a hurry. He said he could foresee a catastrophe on the two-lane highway running north and south because ambulances for Methodist Hospital emergency treatment will be rushing through.

He asked for pressure on the Indiana Highway Commission to get the road widened. Hickey said Merrillville Conservancy District has promised to service the facility when the land is annexed. "And what if it isn't annexed?" Forszt asked. METHODIST HOSPITAL has started construction to the south, Hickey said. "The sewer lines will run down Broadway." Gurnham said the hospital has only been issued a permit to build a foundation.

Construction cannot proceed further until the sewer problem is resolved, he added. Penney's Company, which plans two shopping complexes in the area, one at Mississippi Street and another at Broadway, and the hospital board have been talking to the conservancy district for more than a year but have not reached an agreement. If the land is annexed, the assessed valuation for the developments will be included in the conservancy tax base, but if the area is serviced through a metering system users will pay for usage. Forszt promised to investigate the promise of Jerry Fogelson to donate land in a housing-business development on 57th Avenue for a fire WALTER president of Merrillville Volunteer Fire Department, said Fogelson wanted $5,000 for the lot but the land was changing hands so often the department's attorney advised against the purchase. President Paul Wharton, also a park board member, said the park board has not had a chance to discuss the planned gift and doesn't know if it wants the land.

That request and most others were deferred until August or September. Include din deferrals was a 40-acre parcel at 1-65, on the southwest corner of 61st Avenue and Mississippi Street, owned by Lake County Trust 1834. Herbert Lasser, Gary lawyer representing developers Elbert Mayer Associates of Chicago, said the firm does not want to cut density in the apartment units planned for the site. A motel and restaurant are also proposed. Merrillville town board members will meet with plan commission representatives to iron out some of the problems relating to requested zoning in the town.

Inside Men Humphrey Withdraws From Democrat Race CHICAGO (UPI) Cook County State's Atty. Edward Hanrahan and his 13 codefendants have opted to let a judge decide their fate in the Chicago Black Panther case, giving up all rights to a jury trial. The defendants announced their decision Monday at the opening of the long-delayed trial. Circuit Court Judge Philip Romiti, who will hear the case, polled each man individually to make sure he knew what he was doing. HANRAHAN FACE somber and hands clasped behind his back, faced the bench after the other 13 defendants, and said clearly, "I understand." The 51-year-old prosecutor, a protege of Mayor Richard J.

Daley, is charged along 'with 13 codefendants of conspiring to block prosecution of police who raided a Black Panther apartment on Dec. 4, 1969. Two Panther leaders, Mark Clark and Fred Hampton, were killed in that raid, and the defense asked Romiti Monday to personally tour the premises where the deaths occurred so he would have a better perspective when hearing evidence. Romiti agreed and put off opening arguments in the trial until today so he could take the tour. But when he arrived at the West Side slum apartment with Hanrahan and attorneys for both sides, he found the building boarded up.

The landlord, who was not advised that the group was to visit, said he would have to unboard the doors, which he kept nailed up to keep out dope addicts. The group agreed to return this morning, and South Viet Closing In SAIGON (AP) U.S. helicopters landed hundreds of South Vietnamese marines north of Quang Tri City today, putting Saigon forces on three sides of the enemy-held provincial capital. Field reports said the American helicopters ran into heavy antiaircraft fire, and at least two of them were shot down. But their crews were reported rescued.

The U.S. Command said it had no additional information on the loss of the helicopters, which were from carriers off the coast. THE MARINES WERE landed 24 miles north-northwest of the city, on the eastern side of the Th3ch Han River opposite the Quang Tri combat base. For the fifth successive day, entrenched North Vietnamese forces managed to stall the South Vietnamese drive to recapture the city lost 10 weeks ago. Tank-led North Vietnamese infantrymen and South Vietnamese paratroopers and marines battled at four different points on the northeastern and southeastern outskirts of Quang Tri City.

The Saigon command reported that 104 North Vietnamese troops were killed and eight tanks destroyed, six of them in one battle, by U.S. naval gunfire and South Vietnamese artillery support. Government losses were six men killed and 13 wounded, the Saigon command said. "The North Vietnamese are in there to stay," said Capt. Don Dickenson, 25, of Bradenton, an adviser with the paratroopers.

"The guys who are there have been ordered to stay there." ASSOCIATED PRESS correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front that Dickinson told him North Vietnamese troops were well dug in and around the Citadel, in the heart of Quang Tri City. "There are in well-prepared bunkers," he said. "They've been there for two months and they've used their time judiciously." "You can put 105 and even 155 artillery on those bunkers and you'll only give them a headache." Dickenson said he had seen 500-pound bombs dropped within 20 yards of the North Vietnamese bunkers and they failed to hurt anyone inside. 70 80 Figurtt Shew High TtmpnolurM Expected For Poyiime Tudoy Itelalerf Predpitalien Nt Indlcettrf- Centvlr Tto I I -n 17- EXPERTS SEE FISCHER WIN REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI)-Amer-ican challenger Bobby Fischer was the favorite of the experts in the "chess match of the century" today but Iceland's thousands of chess fans gave their almost undiluted backing to the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky. Fischer stayed in seclusion but Fred Cramer, vice president of the U.S.

Chess Federation and on of Fischer's assistants, said "Bobby is go, go, go." Democrats Exile Daley (Continued from Page One) mitteemen, powerful Aid. Thomas Keane and Rep. Roman Pucinski, the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate. Singer, working 16-to-20-hour days at the convention lobbying with other delegations to keep his convention seat, yelled breathlessly to his contingent as the roll call began, "This is it." When the roll call was over, he yelled, "We did it.

We did it." The challengers voted in caucus earlier in the proceedings to accept a compromise. However, Daley, thinking he could win all the disputed seats, apparently ruled out a compromise. Downstate Illinois delegates voted 76 to 30 in favor of seating the mayor. The 59 contested delegates were not allowed to vote. Three of Lake County's 10 delegates to the Democratic National Convention joined the majority in denying Daley's delegation seats at the convention.

Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, his secretary, Jani Grants and Gary school principal Vernon Smith voted against the Daley challenge. Anthony DeBonis, Jr. of Gary told The Times, "There is a great deal of bitterness over the Daley vote. Many feel it was a vote of punishment." Weather: Hot Humid Wet It'll be hot and humid tonight and Wednesday in the Calumet Region. Thun-dershowers are likely during the period.

Elsewhere tonight, showers are predicted in most of the nation except in the Southwest. It'll be warm throughout the country except for a cold front pressing in from Central Canada. A 'S TEMPERATURES: High 90, low 68. WEDNESDAY'S FORECAST: High 90, low 70. In the Chicago case, too, there were two votes as the McGovern side sought at the last moment to compromise even though Daley's side said compromise was impossible.

Former Gov. Frank Morrison of Nebraska, a McGovern supporter, sought to suspend the rules and bring the compromise to the floor a procedure requiring a two-thirds vote. But it failed to command even a majority, losing 1,483.08 to 1,411.05. Then, heeding the plea of fiery Rev. Jessie Jackson, who warned that "if one cancer remains in the body, the rest of the body politic will die," the convention voted 1,486.5 to 1,371.5 to reject Daley's bid to supplant the group led Jackson and Chicago Alderman William Singer.

Then, speeding adjournment of the first of four scheduled sessions, the convention agreed to drop credentials cases affecting delegates from Michigan, Texas, Rhode Island, Washington, Connecticut and Oklahoma. Earlier, it rejected a challenge seeking more women in the South Carolina delegation and the bid of a racially mixed group to supplant the pro-Wallace Alabama group. THE CALIFORNIA showdown highlighted a marathon opening-night session as the bitterly divided Democrats launched their convention under reform rules that brought in more women, blacks and young people as well as generating a dozen credentials fights. Until the crucial California contest, most delegates appeared to show little interest in the proceedings, talking with friends and neighbors and milling in the aisles despite O'Brien's best efforts to keep the business moving. But the 20-minute debate on California brought delegates to attention amid repeated rounds of applause and boos.

And a loud cheer went up from the McGovern California delegates, surrounded by throngs of reporters, as the two votes were announced, assuring the front-running South Dakotan the full 271 delegates he had won in the June 6 California primary. With addition of the 151 disputed California delegates, McGovern's committed first-ballot strength some 48 hours before presidential balloting begins Wednesday night reached 1,485.35 just 23.65 short of the 1,509 needed to win. A SWING OF uncommitted delegates is expected to put McGovern past that mark before the balloting starts. The clear, 380-vote margin of the California challenge was accepted by the defeated Hjmphrey forces. "It was a great fight," said San Francisco Mayor Joseph L.

Alioto. Confession' the other two Japanese were killed, and 67 were wounded. "I made my offer after six or seven hours in which he refused to talk," Zeevi said. "When I made the proposal, his mouth opened in a smile and he talked." The chief defense lawyer, Max Kritz-man, brought Zeevi into the case to prove his contention that the confession had been made under duress. Zeevi testified that he believed at the time that another Japanese killer was still at large.

"It was an operational plan to save lives, and anything serving this purpose was permissible," he said. The general said he and the 24-year-old Japanese signed a written contract in which Okamoto promised that when the interrogation was ended, he would give Okamoto a gun "for his own use." The agreement was witnessed by a Japanese interpreter, he said. (Continued from Page One) (Continued on Back Page This Section) Gov. George C. Wallace to deny Mc-Govern all the California votes.

THEN, EY an even broader margin of 1,689.52 to 1,162.23, the McGovern forces defeated an attempt by a Florida backer of Wallace to challenge the parliamentary ground rules set by the presiding oficer, Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien. 'Justice Applied (Continued from Page One) seat the main industries are pulpwood production and watermelon farming. THE WOODS from which the town was carved and from which it draws a major portion of its life blood is a subtropical forest inpenetrable in places even to the sun. The narrow blacktop leading to Monroe the nearest town of size 40 miles to the south is dotted with the remains of cottonmouth moccasins, rattlesnakes, raccoons, armadillos and oppossum.

There are two food markets in town. The one movie theater has been closed down for several years due to lack of patronage. Many young people have moved to Monroe, Baton Rouge, New Orleans or Shreveport. A STRANGER in Farmerville must be as obvious as Salvation Army Brigadier visiting a Playboy Club. Conversations with townsfolk almost invariably produced a mild surprise that sich interest be displayed in the plight of a "niggah boy." "A fireman, huh? Good job is it?" "About $11,000 a year." A long appreciative whistle followed by, "That much." A quiet town moving at its own pace, Farmerville is, by most standards, a place where nothing much should happen.

Sometimes though, the standards go awry and things happen. A big-city fireman from the north is in jail on a theft charge and the night marshal who arrested him was gunned down by burglars. NEXT: Fireman Jones relates his version of that fateful night. Trick Got LOD, Israel (AP) An Israeli general testified today that he tricked Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto into confessing his part in the Tel Aviv airport massacre by promising him "my revolver and one bullet" to commit Maj. Gen.

Rehevam Zeevi, chief of Israel's Central Army Command, was asked if he meant to keep his agreement with Okamoto. "God forbid it was only bait," the beefy, bespectacled general replied. Zeevi testified on the second day of Okamoto's military trial for the machine-gun and grenade attack by himself and two other Japanese working for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Twienty-eight persons including POPE TRIED TO AID POWS VATICAN CITY (AP)-Secretary of State William P. Rogers said today that the Vatican has made a number of attempts to aid American prisoners of war in North Vietnam but "so far to no avail." Rogers said after a private audience with Pope Paul VI that the Vatican attempted, "directly or indirectly," to arrange an exchange of prisoners, more mail for the.American POWs and a report from the North Vietnamese on Americans missing in North Vietnam.

20 Drown MANILA (AP) At least 20 persons have drowned in floods that swept over the central plains of Luzon after tropical storm Susan last week. Dala From NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, NOAA, U.S. Dept. 0 Commtrct Unl Frcaf the Nation ira my cmua 111 izriw: 18-MONTH OLD BOY DROWNS MERRILLVILLE Eighteen month old Ronald W. Bishop drowned Monday in the swimming pool of his home.

Ronald is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Bishop of 2911 W. 76th Merrillville. Ronald was taken to Ross Clinic by ambulance where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Hospitality MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)-The Committee for the reflection of the President has a hospitality room in the Fontaine-bleu Hotel for newsmen covering the Democratic National Convention. KOTO OKAMOTO on trial I Temperature Readings Across Albany, cldy 78 64 Cincinnati, clear 89 69 Kansas City, cldy 93 76 Philadephia, cldy 86 68 Albu'que, clear 92 68 Cleveland, clear 84 69 Little Rock, clear 90 64 Phoenix, clear 100 84 Amarillo, rain 89 65 Denver, clear 91 56 Los Angeles, clear 87. 66 Pittsburgh, cldy 78 63 Anchorage, clear 75 52 Des Moines, cldy 98 72 Louisville, cldy 90 69 Pt'land, Me. clear 74 60 Asheville, cldy 80 54 Detroit, cldy 85 63 Marquette, cldy 65 55 Rapid City, clear 80 58 Atlanta, clear 83 67 Duluth, cldy 75 49 Memphis, clear 86 69 Richmond, cldy 86 62 Birmingham, clear 85 61 Fort Worth, clear 93 71 Miami, cldy 87 75 St.

Louis, cldy 87 72 Bismarck, cldy 84 47 Green Bay, cldy 87 70 Milwaukee, clear 85 68 San Diego, clear 79 67 Boise, cldy 85 55 Helena, rain 77 59 cldy 86 67 San Fran, clear 79 67 Boston, clear 83 69 Honolulu, cldy 86 .77 New Orleans, cldy 88 68 Seattle, cldy 64 56 Buffalo, cldy 76 65 Houston, cldy 83 72 New York, clear 84 70 Spokane, cldy 69 52 Charleston, rain 79 71 Indianapolis, cldy 87 67 Okla. City, cldy 91 71 Tampa, clear 89 74 Charlotte, cldy 82 64 Jacksonville, cldy 86 68 Omaha, cldy 92 67 Washington, clear 86 68 i 4.

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