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a oo r- I -o COMPLETE NEW YORK STOCK TRANSACTIONS cor- i VOL. 82 NO. 154 SPRINGFIELD, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1972-TinRTYFOUR PAGES VTS nawax Mm Laadar mannrta. Ma. ssati New Weapons Backed Bayh Plan Moved 1' i 1 -1 Hou XL- MtWS i90i Sale Nixon Okay To He Midi se WASHINGTON (AP) A bill to ban the commercial sale of snub-nosed, easily concealable handguns not suitable for sporting purposes won the approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) Back- 1 Du.IJ..i nvr: i a game we could play with our national defense." The opponents argued the new Sen. Birch Bayh, chief sponsor of the measure, said it "jaw A- The authorization for planes, missiles, ships and all other U.S. weapons for the fiscal year-starting July 1 then was passed 334 to 59 and sent to the Senate. "We ought to take the President at his word that he wants to stop the arms race," said Rep. Robert L.

Leggett, in an appeal for the cuts. 3 www But House Armed Service Chairman F. Edward Hebert, had contended in opening debate that rejecting the new U.S. weapons development while the Soviets are permitted to continue arms improvements under the Moscow accords "would be the most dangerous vn sustained U.S. development of new offensive weapons under the Moscow accords, the Bouse decisively rejected proposals Tuesday for a cutback of more than $1.6 billion.

The House also rejected by 244 to 152 a proposal to order all U.S. forces out of the Indochina war by Sept. 1 in return for release of American prisoners. The House backed the President's request for accelerated development of the new Trident missile submarine and Bl bomber plus a Safeguard antimissile site for Washington and tighter Safeguard radars in a weapons bill. 47PI TnWpaala A House Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday opened hearings ftia control and heard Sea.

Edward M. Kennedy, who lost two brothers to guns, testily that Congress should "declare death by gunfire an epidemic." Leaking over a display of guns confiscated by the New York police department are, from left. Gov. Marvin Mandel of Maryland, another witness; Bep. Emaaael Celler, chairman: Kennedy; and Sep.

John M. Murphy, Y. margins. Bayh's long-dormant bill was jarred loose by the attempted assassination last month of Alabama Gov. George C.

Wallace at a shopping center in nearby Laurel, Md. Bayh said his bill would prohibit the sale of guns of the type used in the shooting of Wallace and the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in 19a. The only committee members voting against Bayh's bill, which now goes to the Senate for action, were Chairman James O.

Eastland, and John L. MrClellan D-Ark. Voting for it, in addition to Bayh, were Hruska, Kennedy and Sens. Philip A. Hart, Quentin Burdick, N.

John V. Tunney, Sam J. Ervin Edward J. Burney, Hiram L. Fong, Hawaii, Charles Mathias, Strom Thurmond, and Mariow Cook, R-Ky.

Bayh's bill would prohibit the sale, except to law-enforcement officers, research organizations, and government agencies, of revolvers with less than a 3-inch Gave Union Funds to Political Candidates Tony Boyle Sentenced weapons could undermine the U.S. -Soviet arms limitation agreements and Rep. Otis G. Pike, contended they should be rejected simply because they are too costly and not needed. "Obviously we've got the pow er to blow the Soviets to smithereens," Pike said.

"And all we're talking about here is how fine a powder to grind the other peoples of the earth into." Pike's amendment to reject all (445 million in the bill for de velopment of the Bl bomber to See WEAPONS, Page 5 desire to better the lot of his fellow miners," pleaded Boyle attorney Plato Caceris. "He has made no personal gain through the crime for which he was convicted. Incarceration would be of no benefit either to Mr. Boyle or to the Government." But Asst. Atty.

Charles Huff urged the prison sentence to deter others. "He has breached a trust the trust be assumed when elected by the unionand the court must take into consideration the impact the sentence today will have on others," Huff argued. 91,000 Held in India Report Favors Daley Challengers Credentials Committee Votes to Seat Alabama By NEIL GILBRIDE WASHINGTON (AP) United Mine Workers President W. A. "Tony" Boyle was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for illegally giving union funds to political candidates.

He was jailed immediately but released several hours later after posting $179,000 in appeal bonds. The order of U.S. District judge Charles Richey, who ignored an emotional appeal from Boyle's attorney not to send him to prison, was the latest in a long string of legal setbacks for the embattled 70-year-old presi WASHINGTON (AP) The Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention voted 69 to 55 late Tuesday to seat Alabama's 37-member de legation, including 29 pledged to that state's Gov. George C. Wauace.

At the same time, the 150 member panel received a report from a hearing officer which held strongly in favor of challengers trying to unseat Mayor Richard Daley and 58 other uncommitted delegates from Chicago. In another major devel opment, another hearing exam iner issued findings which appeared to support front-running Sea. George McGovera's claim to all 271 California delegates. The Illinois and California cases were to be taken up by the full committee later in the week. The vote to seat Alabama's regular delegation which was Pentagon Papers would "take out of the market place the weapons used most frequently by criminals without diminishing the opportunities of sportsmen and marksmen" to acquire pistols.

The committee approved Bayh's bill by a 12 2 vote after rejecting, 9 to 5. a rival measure by Sen. Roman L. rusk to set safety and reliability standards for handguns. Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy, tried to amend Bayh's bill to require registration of all firearms and the licensing of owners but lost by one-siried challenged by a predominantly black faction is almost certain to be disputed on the floor of the convention in Miami Beach. The delegation was accused by challengers of having in- adequate representation of women and minorities and improprieties leading to the dele gate primary last may. In another delegate fight, the convention's Credentials Committee Tuesday rejected by a vote of 70 to 56 a move to realign the South Carolina delegation on grounds it contains too few women. In the Chicago challenge, bearing examiner Cecil F.

Poole found that Daley and 58 other delegates from Chicago were slated in violation of party re form rules on "procedures, notice, openness and timeliness." Poole, in his report, marie no See CREDENTIALS, Page 5 Show tained when various newspapers printed portions of the 47-vol-ume Defense Department study on the Vietnam war last year. According to these new accounts, the portions disclosed this week start with a June, 1964, move by a Canadian member of the International Control Commission for Southeast Asia. The last effort involved an Italian diplomat. Giovanni d'Orlandi, who met with North Vietnamese officials in Prague early in 1968. He attempted and failed to get both sides to stress the future of South Vietnam rather than the military situation at that time.

D'Orlandi failed as did all the others from the time of the Canadian, J. Blair Seaborn, generally on the issue ttiat the Italian Ali Bhutto Demands Freedom for POWs A A With Jetliner Hanley Still Unconscious After Crash ST. LOUIS (AP) A young business executive whose car smashed into a hijacked jetliner at the St. Louis airport remained unconscious and in serious condition Tuesday at a St. Louis hospital.

He faces federal charges of damaging a plane in interstate commerce. David J. Hanley, 30. of suburban Florissant, was injured when the car a 1971 Cadillac convertible he had given his wife as a Mothers Day present-caromed oS the jet's nose gear and into the landing gear. A spokesman at St John's Mercy Hospital said Tuesday that Hanley had not gained consciousness since the accident Friday night.

He remained in the intensive care ward with multiple fractures of the head and internal injuries. Authorities were still trying to determine a motive for the action, which stalled the take off of the American Airlines flight after the plane was commandeered mora than eight hours earlier on a flight from St. Louis to Tulsa. The car was demolished and the hijacker was forced to use a backup plane to make his geta way with six hostages and a half million dollars in ransom. Doctors at the hospital said blood samples taken from Hanley showed he was not in toxicated at the time of the crash.

Hanley, described by friends as "a quiet, calm family man," was reportedly having drinks with a friend late Friday night at a motel bar near the airport while the hijacker waited for his plane to be refueled and for the ransom money. "Turn on the radio in a few minutes and you'll hear some thing that will rock the world Hanley reportedly told his friend. A snort time later, as the pi rated plane was about to take off, Hanley's car, with its born sounding, struck two parked See HANLEY, Page 5 Dozen Intermediaries Tried to Push Peace dent of the labor union. Boyle was sentenced for illegally contributing $49,000 in union money to political candidates, including $30,000 to the unsuccessful 1968 presidential campaign of Democratic nominee Hubert H. Humphrey.

In addition to the prison term, Boyle was fined $130,000 and Richey ordered him locked up until he can post an appeal bond for the total amount of the fines and the amount of illegal political contributions. "His only crime has been his voters required to place it on i the Nov. 1 ballot. Brown said an unofficial can vass of returns from Califor nia's 58 counties found the petitions for legalization of marijuana have signatures of 338487 voters. The initiative measure would allow persons 18 and older to grow marijuana for their per sonal use and to possess and smoke it, but sales would still be against the law.

Cultivation, possession and use of marijuana are now an punishable in California either as felonies or misdemeanors. Although most first offenders in recent years have received suspended sentences or short coun ty tail terms, the maximum penalty for first offenses is 10 W. A (Tony) Boyle (17 photo), the president of the United Mine Workers Union (UMW), was sentenced Taesday ks Wash-hgtoa to five years imprisonment and fined on charges of conspiracy and illegally diverting UMW funds to political campaigns. Federal Judge Charles R. Richey, who imposed the sentence, ordered Boyle Jailed immediately.

Would Okay Use, Prohibit Sale California Schedules Legal Marijuana Vote SIMLA, India (AP) On the of his peace talks with the prime minister of India, President Zulfikar Ah Bhutto of Pakistan demanded on Tuesday night that India release 91,000 Pakistani prisoners of war. "India has no justification, moral or legal, to continue to detain our men," he said in a broadcast over Radio Pakistan. He accused India of "flagrantly violating the Geneva convention" by holding the civilian and military prisoners since the years in state prison. The marijuana initiative is the eighth voter-initiated proposition to qualify for the California bal lot, a modern record. The other measures include proposals to reinstate the death penalty in California, tighten obscenity laws and restrict coastline de velopments.

San Francisco attorney Bob Ashford. who led the petition drive for the marijuana in ula 1 1 said his campaign crew which be said numbers over 10,000 volunteers will now launch a campaign to register young voters. Ashford also predicted the placement of the marijuana message on the ballot will have See MARIJUANA. Page 4 Boyle, handpicked by the late legendary Mine Workers boss John L. Lewis as his successor, has been president of the union since 1963.

Boyle was re-elected in 1969 over Joseph A. "Jock" Yah-lonski who was murdered soon after the voting. But the election was nullified by another federal judge and a new election by the Labor Department ordered for next December. But Boyle remained legally president of the union pending See BOYLE, Page India-Pakistan war last Decem ber. 'If by doing Oils India thinks that it can force us to accept humiliating terms it is mistak en," he declared.

"Pakistan will not barter principles for human flesh." By calling tor the Pakistanis' return, Bhutto apparently was serving notice that he planned to make the prisoners a central issue in hi talks Wednesday with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Their most immediate task in the sessions at this Hi milayan hill station will be to reach peace terms formally ending hostilities after their two-week war over Bangladesh The former East Pakistan de clared its independence after In dian troops supporting its rebel lion crossed the border and de feated Pakistani forces. Bhutto and Mrs. Gandhi also See BHUTTO, Page 5 Fischer Ready For Chess Play REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UP!) American chess challenger Bobby Fischer will be in Iceland in time for the start of his 24-game world championship match against Boris Spassky of Russia, one of his advisers said Tuesday. Fred Cramer, a former president of the U.S.

Chess Association, said Fischer "win be here in time" but he did not give a date for his arrival. Fischer, 29, was scheduled to arrive Monday but be cancelled his flight at the last minute asd sent Cramer instead to inspect the facilities. New York State. Five states were declared disaster areas ay President Nixon, qualifybg them for massive federal aid. The facets of the stora's caprice were many.

Carroll Greninger was buried Tuesday, 11 days before he was to have married his high scbcol sweetheart, Gail Stout Van were at an inn south of Bati- more early last Thursday whta the raging Patapsce Rfrer swept them away. Miss Stout is still aussssg. A week ago. an English res taurateur, Harold Wheekr, See FLOOD, Page I WASHINGTON (AP) An-other batch of the highly classified Pentagon Papers has been disclosed, indicating that at least 12 efforts by third parties from 1964 to early 1968 failed to move the United States and North Vietnam towards negotiations on ending the Vietnam War. According to various newspaper accounts of the documents obtained by syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, there is little in this newest release of the papers that differs from material already published, including former President Lyndon B.

Johnson's 1971 memoirs. Anderson's columns and the newspaper stories apparently are based on a summary rather than the four volumes on diplomatic aspects that were not ob barrel and of pistols with an over-all length of less than six inches. Bayh said about 2.6 million handguns are sold annually in the United States. His bill would eliminate about a million. Hruska's bill drew the support of Eastland, McClellan, Thurmond and Gurney when it was offered as a substitute for Bayh's bill.

Kennedy's amendment to require the registration of rifles and shotguns as well as handguns was rejected 11-3. Only Tunney and Fong voted with Kennedy. www Defeated by 10-4 votes were Kennedy amendments to re-See HANDGUNS, Page 5 tried to avoid: the American bombing of the North and Hanoi's military intervention in the South. BetweenSeabora and d'Orlandi, diplomats and highly placed private citizens of several nations moved through various channels in search of a key to opening negotiations. In spite of their.failure.

President Johnson ordered a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam in March, 1968, and both sides agreed to open talks in Paris. One of the new details provided this week was an account that Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin startled the British in February 1967 by indicating he might act as an inter mediary. This was after Moscow had rejected such a role in the spring of 1965. See PAPERS, Page 4 WEATHER OZARKS Partly eloary warm and basaid with a chance of showers and thunderstorms through tonight.

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at. ar rwra Nt raw hod av as ti By DOUG WILLIS SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California voters will decide in November whether to legalize marijuana use in the nation's most populous state, the state's top election official announced Tuesday. Secretary of State Edmund G. Brown Jr.

said that a voter initiative to legalize the private use of marijuana by adults has qualified with more than the 325504 signatures of registered 'HI: 5 ft- ittl-jM Water Supply Major Concern IFIeod IPrGlbleiiis Tatktad Circuit Clerk Troy Garrison took blame for "short- age" in bis office la letter mailed before death. Pagel Dumping of "wash water" into Pea Ridge Creek by Fulbrfght treatment plant halted by state agency. Page It Australia may exceed share of beef quota. Page 11 Shaky peace returns to Northern Ireland. Page IS Jaha Mayberry pace Royals over White Sox M.

Page 13 By ARTHUR EVERETT Associated Press Writer Restoration of the normal water supply was the big problem bl 57 Pennsylvania comma-nities. la upstate New York, it was removal of 500,000 gallons of spilled Into the streets of a small town from ruptured storage tanks. Temporary bridge and road repairs held a high priority in Maryland. And service was being restored to 340,090 vseieM telephones. These were among a myriad of concerns in eight Eastern Seaboard states Tuesday.

48 hours after the end of the worst floods the modern history of i the area. I i Meanwhile, the discovery of more bodice raised the death toll in last week's disaster to 125. Damage stood well above $1 billion. While the East mopped ap, the Ohio River, swollen by ap-streara flooding, tore apart a marina at Cincinnati, wrecking or damaging mora than 85 pleasure boats, with a kws estimated as high as $1 million. Week-long rains la eoa-junctioa with Tropical Storm Agnes brought in tense flooding from South Carolina to upper 4 Ballet at Sundown Practicing asevesMwU beneath a setting swa ta LswJsviue, Maatday, these ballet daacers are bat fear of over 5e aUeading a saaaaaer ballet wwriuhwsv..

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