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Wednesday, April 15, 1970 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS My Lai Cause Is House Probe Goal WHITE, BICKEL 2 Testify Against Douglas Underworld Connections Charged tain told newsmen yesterday he has been told the number is no less than 175. This includes 102 deaths for which Lt. William L. Calley Rep. L.

Mendel Rivers. chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, announced last weekend he will try to stop the court-martial of Medina, Calley and other sol-diers a in connection with the alleged massacre. But Hebert said his inquiry will be ordered to stand trial. Hall was communications chief of Task Force Barker, of which Medina's company was an element, assigned to clear suspected Viet Cong strong-holds from villages in the My Lai area. One question before the panel is whether higher command WASHINGTON (AP House Republican Leader Gerald R.

Ford has set the stage for a possible impeachment move against Supreme Court Justice Wil-ijam 0. Douglas, charging Douglas may have had long-time ties with gambling and underworld figures. a platoon leader in Medi- na's company, is charged and four slaymgs for which Medina is charged. At Atlanta yesterday, Medina declined to talk to newsmen after emerging from the first formal hearings on the charges against him. The a i at Fort Mc-Pherson was the formal beginning of an Army investigation to determine whether Medina is no witch-hunt, nor is it a whitewash." Vaccinate your children against tA I a (German measles), a major cause of birth defects.

monitored company radio mcs- sages from the My Lai operation March 16, 1968 particularly an alleged transmission by a helicopter pilot that Vietnamese civilians were being slaughtered by U.S. troops. jug Ifournext: WASHINGTON (AP) The head of a house inquiry into the My Lai massacre said today his goal is to "find out exactly what caused the evolu tion of the alleged incident." Chairm'an F. Edward Hebert, D-La of the special House armed services subcommittee emphasized he is conducting an inquiry not a trial. One of the leadoff witnesses at the inquiry was Capt.

Ernest L. Medina, charged with responsibility for at least 106 of the killings allegedly committed by members of his company at My Lai March 16, 1968. Hebert said: "We're trying to find out what happened, if it did happen; what course was taken to investigate it and wha1 conclusions were arrived at." He said all witnesses, many of them to be either defendants or witnesses at the upcoming Army court-martial, will be heard in closed sessions to protect their rights. MAY PUT OUT PUBLIC REPORT But Hebert said House rules do not prohibit him from putting out a public report on his subcommittee's findings before the court-martial, and he would not preclude the possibility he might do so. In addition to Medina, who maintains an Army court-martial will clear him, another witness called by the subcommittee, was Sgt.

lc Cecil D. Hall, who handled radio communications at. the time of the alleged incident. 1 The Army has not announced the specific number of slayings for which Medina is accused of being responsible, but the cap- Direct Vote WASHINGTON (LTD The Senate Judiciary Committee summoned presidential campaign chronicler Theodore H. White and Yale Law School Professor Alexander M.

Bickel to testify today in opposition to direct popular election of the president. The committee is under an April 24 deadline to vote on sending to the Senate floor a proposed constitutional amendment eliminating the electoral college. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Birch Bayh, has passed the House. It provides that the presidential candidate receiving the most votes nationwide wins the election, if he gets at least 40 per cent of the total vote cast.

If no candidate received that percentage, there would be a runoff election between the two high men. Bayh forced a vote in the committee on the amendment by tying it to a vote on the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell. Southerners on the committee, including Sen. James O.

Eastland, the chairman, generally are opposed to direct elections. But to get the Carswell nomination onto the Senate floor they agreed to a vote on electoral reform. Both White and Bickel have written extensively against direct elections. White, who wrote three "Making of the President" books, has cited the danger of election frauds. cigarette On Baker's registration card, according to Ford, was a notation that he was with Douglas.

Ford also says Douglas was in the Dominican Republic in 1963 at the time of the presi-d i a 1 inauguration of his long-time friend Juan Bosch and that Baker, Levinson and Parvin also were there. Among the stated reasons for Douglas' presence, Ford says, were that he was there to help Bosch write a constitution and aid Parvin in setting up an educational television program for the country. At about the same time, according to Ford, a number of alleged underworld figures also showed up in the Caribbean nation, including Angelo Bruno, John Simone, Joseph Sicarelli, Santo Trafficante Jr. and Sam Giancanno. Ford suggests what brought the mob elements was the desire to get a piece of the country's legal gambling empire and that this also was behind Parvin's presence.

Ford cites reports Douglas met with Bosch and other officials of the new-Dominican government and also met with Baker and Parvin. In August of 1963, according to Ford, Bosch awarded the sought-after gambling franchise to former Nevada Lt. Gov. Clifford Jones and at that point Parvin departed the country for good, abandoning uncrated equipment for the proposed educational television program. should be the blend that's famous for its light air-cured burley tobacco: Lucky Filters.The taste will tell you that you've made a good move.

Ford's attack on Douglas, drafted for presentation to. the House today, covers a wide range of the 71-year-old jus-' tice's activities, including his voting record on the court, his olf-the-bench writings and his relationships with Las Vegas figure Albert Parvin and possibly with Parvin's assocaties. Nixon Plan On Welfare In House I WASHINGTON (UP I) -President Nixon's breakthrough family allowance plan went before the House today. Passage was expected tomorrow. reform measure provides minimum annual payments to the working and non-working poor and had bipartisan leadership support.

Its $4.4 billion yearly price tag would Rouble present welfare spending. Ater three days of hearings and a one week postponement, "4Jie House Rules Committee jcleared the bill yesterday for today. Although a vote '-Could come today, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, the bill's man-lager, said he expected "over-whelming" approval tomorrow rules barring amendments.

Nixon's proposal is designed 'to provide incentives for adults welfare families to get jobs, without completely losing their Welfare benefits. I Presently, a male adult with low-paying fulltime job disqualifies a family from Federal 'walfare payments. The Nixon approach would a family of four $1600 if it had no other income. As work-ling income rose, the Federal payments would be cut off gradually until earnings "reached $3,920 when the government stipend would cease. In addition, the state would I supplement the nonworking 'poor's benefits, and welfare families would get food stamps.

'Adults, with exceptions, would be i to register for -work, or training. Gerald Ford Douglas' dealings with Parvin began in 1950 when he aided in setting up the Albert Parvin Foundation and became a director and later its president at $12,000 a year. Douglas resigned from the post last May. Ford charges Parvin has long been connected with underworld figures, the assoca-tions dating back as far as 1946 when he was hired by Bugsy Siegel to decorate the Famingo Hotel, a Las Vegas gambling palace. Parvin later purchased a large share of El Rancho, another Las Vegas gamlbing enterprise and, according to Ford, eventually a up with William Israel "Ice Pick Willie" Alderman to run the Flamingo.

In I960, the Parvin group decided to sell the Flamingo and began casting about for buyers. KNOWLEDGE DENIED The Associated disclosed last year the Miami-based gangster Meyer Lansky introduced the Parvin group to a trio of Miami hotelmen whao bought the Las Vegas enterprise. With his share of the proceeds of the sale, Parvin funded his foundation, set up with Douglas' aid. Lansky was paid $200,000 as a finder's fee. Douglas has denied any knowledge of Lansky's involvement.

Ford questions the propriety of Douglas' aid to Parvin on the grounds that it constituted giving legal advice while he was on the Supreme Court. In addition, Ford says that in October 1962, onetime Senate aid Bobby Baker later convicted of tax evasion, theft and fraud stayed, at a Las Vegas hotel and had his bill paid by Edward Levinson, a Parvin associate and sometime lawyer. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 86 PROOF. DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY THE FAMOUS OLD CROW DISTILLERY FRANKFORT, IT. I Wish You Love with a diamond solitaire.

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