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12 Men Seized In Raid Fined on Gaming Charge Twelve men arrested Oct. 25 Chief Prosecutor John P. Evans reduced a charge of frecoenting a snmbling house to of gaming on reccmmendaliao of detectives of the Special Service division, William C. Ellison. 15.

of 1M Wheeler avenue, proprietor of (he club, was fined tlOO for keep-ling liquor with intent to sell. The charge of keeping gambling house was nailed. Mr. Evins said, ot the Special Services division had been keeping the' premises ol the club under surveillance when (bey decided to raid it. There was a supply of liquor found, about S5 Julius Johnson, 16, ol U3S How S3.

Wilton Benson, The Bridgeport Telegram Wf.ilher Forfcjst COOLER FAIR, MILD SUNDAY Fthfidd Moraine FIRE HITS BERKSHIRE A forest lire brake West Hiinnhj la PitufttM, Mw. ud earning 91 Ktn Mm by headrests at fint-lighten, Irm Stockbridge, Lanesbara, Hancock ud vauuteers a Utww, N.Y. Parched East Stays Dry; More Rain, Snow in West Scattered Precipitation Does Nothing to Ease Crisis rnr. wmniti Most of (he nation's bone dry eastern half ren severely shrunken rainless in a gambling raid at the Elite Tioay wniie me weii-soaKed west Social club. 1W7 Stratford rain and snow.

Mawtooaki. in Circuit court, Ua There was a little light shower activity along a frontal system the Gulf coast, and some light rain and snow fell in the northern Great Lakes area. Thai scattered precipitation did nothing to ease the critically de veloping watei Plies. Some hope was held that a widespread weather disturbance over the central Rockies would shift in rainmaking influence eastward to the dry regiun. The slnrm produced snow in the monitainr and the GTeat Basin, including 7 inches at Craig, and 5 inches It Utah in a iperiod.

On the ivest coast. Point In reality, we have a thin Arena, about 100 miles north of case, so far as the gaming house San Francisco, received 2Vi inch-charge is concerned," accord ei Df rain in heavy showers in ing lo Information Irom Lt. hours. There was hail in one Zelinski. Capi.

John Carroll and thunderstorm it Astoria Ore Supt. Joseph A. Walsh, the pro- Hecord High Temperature sccutor said. Temperatures were cool, except 'There is liille question that, for quHe along the avenue, Kenneth Johnson. n(.

LOS ANGELES. Actor I 12 Green slrtet, Rayniont) Kilbride, who has amus-j 40, ol New Haven. Walton 'd millions Pa Kettle in a of movie comedies, was re-j Continued on Page Sill ported in critical condition ves- terday at Good Samaritan hos- 'Pii'i- I Wednesday is a result RtHDOETORT and 'of an accident in Hnllvuw Today 8 ro IHE TIDE 7:16 a.m. 1: 10a.m. ha svss.

S3: Chef Classified Ads Comics jCrossword Puzzle Abby Editorials fashions Financisl News Jacohy. on Bridge Obituaries Sports Thfiter Ntws TV md Rsdio Clay Undergoes Surgery; Fight Is Off Indefinitely Champion Rushed to Boston Hospital for Hem La Operation Ry JACK CUDDY BOSTON Heavy-weigh! champion Cassius Clay underwent successful emergency surgery Friday night to correct hernia which forced the Indefinite postponement of his title rematch Sonny Listen. The surgery, performed at! Boston Cily Hospital, was described by chief surgeon William McDermotl as a "com. plete success." The opcralion look about an hour. McDermotl said the abdominal weakness thai led to the.

hernia had been present since! Clay's birth but was not noticeable be to re Friday night. Clay was stricken his fight headquarter; at the Sherry Biltmore shortly eating a steak dinner. He was! aaen 10 the hospital by police As soon as his illness was diagnosed, the promoters of the widely heralded Boston Garden i rematch between him and Lis-! (on announced a postponement until Clay was sufficiently recovered to fight again. nanjr Neat Year However, they said, the 22. year-old champion might have gone several more hours before hospilaliiation with danger.

When Clay arrived at the hospital, he turned to a doctor and said, "doc. bo ahead and I fix it" Dr. McDennolt said there would he no lasting affects from the hernia, which he1 described as "an incarcerated, inguinal or common hernia." The doctor aaid Clay's wife, his manager, his trainer and his brother would be allowed to see him Friday night. About five doctors were pres- Dermntt said. body rel of tie.

a other seriously Hounded Clay No section of the intestine had to be cut out, Mc Dermott said. He said that had an operation not been performed, the trouble would have become progressively worse. Strangulated Hernia The hernia would have become strangulated and the blood supply might have been cut off. Then if might have been "lethal." the doctor said One nurse told Casslus "you're the greatest" as he wis brought in and Clay lold her, "Not lonieht." hosnital forlAilaniir followinF ihe oc-craiion bv Dr. I Mekong rvver delta yesterday when their jeep was blown up by a large viet mine.

The (wo men reportedly turn.rft a coiner near a church in Uinh Tuong province AIDS IN Linda snetsoo, IS, high school vnhanwr credited bv her father wKh psychic powers has beta called la by police 3-year-old Boy The fight still will be held in! Boston, probably sometime e.r'-l in Lowell, Mass ly next year, according la all' Tuesday. (Story on Page sources. wen; Clay Chou Ends Soviet Visit Observers See Talks Failing to Resolve Bitter Dispute MOSCOW (APJ-Chou Ei had a farewell talk with Soviet reaaers yesterday (hat seemed t( have no curative influence cn Soviet-Chinese split. Then the Chi nese premier and his entourage took a plane for Peking. Chou's eight-day visit did nothing that informed observers could see to resolve Ihe bitter dis pute between Moscow and Peking that has fractured the whole communist world.

Chou and his delegation of pens talked with the new Soviet leaders headed by Leonid Breih-nev and Alexei N. Kosygin "in a frank, comradely atmosphere," a communique said. It said nothing mere. Reiterates PaHcles Instead. Ihe Soviet communist party newspaper Pravtta reiterst.

ed policies, such as peaceful co existence with the United Stales, that are denounced by PeVing, Throughout Chou's vjsil the Kremlin leaders v.rrrii once upneia oy Njitita Khrush. cnev ana savagery attacked by Illegal purposes," be- added. Icester. had G3 de-reci lMcDermatl. Dr.

George Stark-L. r-uKii j. ihe record high Inr Unconfirmed reports from sour to said there was a sunder- 13 fCsutiaued Page Fowlers) ns lrorr standing of (he law- regarding! M. ol I0SI Stratford outh Bend, destroyed 10.000'acresi lllme Kills Peking early rent vc-ar. In 'thi blackening a H-mile swath nder dry landThursday and aided Samuel Woodhousc, raced at a S0-miu riin Also, Ronald Crisp.

25, of 5i Randall avenue. Hobie Gibson ot 50 East In Illinois, state forest lands (Conilnurd on Page j'Pa Kettle' Reported SAIGON, One U.S. Army (Continued on Page Six) iZ nines southwest ol here, SAIGON, Viet must have weighed about 52 pounds, amonp ihe heaviest used. The wounded man sulfered a broken elbow, a broken jaw and lung, and was in serious Saiuon. the U.S.

Navy hospi- 23 ger. former wife of bandleader Whilemsn, tesliHed In secrei a grand jury Monday 16 night. She was brought from a 18 convalescent home where she is 26 undergoing Ircilment for a liver a ailment. tt Police said a Miff, Mrs, Sadiei reported seeing Lootes Layoffs Hit 33,500 at Ford Plants Strikes in 4 Key Units Blamed for Shortages of Parts DETROIT (Ap) Blaming pans shortage which it attribu ted to strikes in four key plants. Ford Motor company laid off 11,500 workers yesterday and forecast the possible shutdown of all its auto-making operations By next weekend.

At (he same time. Ford nounced that it had agreed to a request or the United Auto Workers union for a meeting nest inursaay or their top ncgotiat V.m idled The layoffs brought to 57.600 the number idled at Ford plants in eigm states, with 24,100 oi (hem on strike. The UAW called out lis work ers in nine Ford plants a week ago in support of local-level demands being made for inclusion in at-tbe-plant agreements which supplement Ihe company union national contract. Since, settlement has been reached at two struck plants. But these-were in assembly op.

erations at Dallas, ini Louisville, and in no aneviate the company's reported pans snortage. Ford said thai prior fr start of the strikes Nov. I assembly plants were turning oul SC.OOO to 55,000 can and 10,000 trucks weekly. This week, production was down to 36,000 cars and 6.000 trucks. Ford said.

A spokesman said the drop i week will be "much more vere." He said would not tempt an estimate. Ford and the UAW reached accord on a new Ihree-year tional contract Sept. 19. cur imai and Binding signing was mage conungent on wrap ping up locai-icvel agreements inaivmuai nam manag ers and 90 UAW bargaining units me i-oro i.wujrnai complex. Ken BantKM, UAW Ford de-i eclor, said the of national-level bargaining teams was in rinc out wny.

it full local-level settlement had been reached by Thursday, fk- expressed hope there would be no neeo tor tne meeting agreeing to the meeting, Denise said- "We see no reason why the current ill-advised strikes should be continued that long." GM Out Sis Weeks The UAW struck General Motor Corp. nationally in Septcmberl in suppurt of national cuntract demands, bul after agreement at this level was reached it madcf barbed wire at Dien Hong pal-'j Be'ore going home, the students ace, where the government "down with dictatorship, There was no violence, although riot police and paratroopers eventually were used to hold back the demonstrators. The youths, alarting from Saigon Student union headquarters. coffee. Laboratory tests tiisclos- stormed through four police a residue ot carooe tecracnior-on Insir way toward thr water.

lH Ms la UU tun, I treat naiaea whan Huong wsa tui.uHuiusm aim neutralism." inside the Huong beg. goa tor an end to ooliticil bir-Vi ing support fcr civilisi government to ssve the country Lnaos. Apparently unsaiisriea ny his answers to questions, itte council cslM meeting for today. can throw him out of office, lust as it put Two-Hour Battle Flares On Israel-Syria Border LBJ, Mexican Presi dent-Elect Conclude Wide-RanginE Talks JOHNSON CITY. (API President Johnson and President elect Gustavo Diaz Ordai Ford Vice President Malcolm discussed Cuba and sweep of nlher subjects yester- men concluded what described as an enormously heip- No changes appe the American policy isblate Fidel Castro and commu- nlst Cuba from the test of hemisphere cr in the Mexican policy of continuing to maintain the wrapup of local-level diplomatic relations wjih Cuba ments.

As a result. GM was But diplomatic sources said ail knocked out or crippled for six if be emphasis was on a friendly weeks, jinierchanKc or views im- Chrysler (he firsi undertanding. And there sign, set the pattern of higher be n0 nceotialians op wa-es and pensions, earlier rc- since Dim Ordaz tiremenl and broader insurance taite office until Dec. 1. and experienced no trouble na-! Called 'Geod Visit" lionally or locally.

American! The visiiing Mexican Ms Motors the last to look off the airstrip at cleared at both levels alter Johnson ranch in mid-after-bricr walkout. Inoon. The slruclc key Ford units Are tfen a very guod visit," I Diai Ordaz said. fConlinued on Page Sir) Beiore the visitors Guerrillas Advance In Viet Nam Flood Areas Johnson wa to domestic 4 ROYAL SM1LF. FOR A COMMON across corner of raincoat placed in path by a University of from Washing- swill jet.

snitching back I Secretary of Labor Wirtz land Secretary of Welfare Anthony J. Celebrezze to (he parade nr cabinet members who lie have come lo the LBJ ranch for Two Bears Outgrow Cages Facinjr Death FRESNO. Calif. CAPI and Josephine, two playful hrown are unaer a sentence death. The 300-pound, 3-year-old hruins are loo big and potentially dan gerous for.

their cages al the Fresno museum and officials say they will be destroyed Monday s' a joo offers to lake the bears or is donated for con-sinictioit of a new. stronger cage with a moat around it. George and Josephine, the mu seum's biggest attraction, were given to the museum in 1961 after their parents were shot. Recently. George scratched a visitor, Fish and same officials say the bears probably would die II returned to the "We feel like murdrrs.

hut we hive to be realistic," says mu- The Redevelopment agency an nounced yesterday Federal ap proval has oif.n reCMved for the Bridgeport Gas company panded plans to buy and develop land in ihe State street renesval project. Meeting at City Hall with chair man Arthur Clifford presiding, the agency also: Asked Common Council per' iion Id condemn two proper- tics; heard a report that the new Lsfayette boulevard and circle area will be fully open to traflic ahead ol schedule in two weeks; disclosed that the Peerless Fumi lure company and Lindquist Hard ware company quire land near their present buildings; disclosed that the roughs Public Library is draft-; a site improvement plan voted to pay JJI.SW in (a, I the city treasurer. P'lce Not Disclosed After redevelcinment morel Joseph Dearborn' reported that nance agency has approved the Gas company's proposal, the local agency a motion by Judge John P. Flanagan authorized the preparation of documents for sale or ritr- land. The price has been disclosed publicly.

ihe oifer, given preliminary ap- in their vehicle. huddles on budeets and nr-IProva! earlier by the local agency Aulhorities esiimated the T7 grams for (he cumins reprcsrnis purchase of extra land Fair and ceoltr today with 21 when he and fellow ac-j nerthwest breeze. High taday Sa'lor Salf Brfnnnf 71 ivcrc struck Man lSfOIintl Dead; difd at in Poisoning tcnerarty fair with seme high: Kilbride was pcrmiiled In resli SAN FRANCISCO. Wil- of the year. Fifty-third bun rises at a.m.

and A. 35 p.m. TEMPERATURE Kighcil yesterday Lowest ye5lcrday Highest year ago yesterday Lowest year ago yesterday jai home for three weeks priorlliam W. Cootes, sought lor ques- jreery. He cnler- lioning in the slow poisoning of sureerv.

He enier- linninp in thp slow "iHtmnin. nil while in the capital Prenner Tran Rers and shouted slogans from a.nu ftcintinued on Page SIi) van nuong siooo on two cnal- marLncrs caned Icr a cab- lenses his new rceime. inet reshuffle anrt 1 a rnrlMMICan ushered them bouyanl mold': The crowd Nam thai at a lime rational 3Iler ueiegatios ol stude disaster, Buddhist students WJ.S Permitted to present onstrated demanding an end to a One student leader said Huong's young regime. And r( be no more High National council that ALMANAC -lr, ibc brain HelpVess ta slop Ihe soulhward cil inuide oalar. Saturday, Nov.

ed the hospital Wednesday. his wealthy aunt, a 66-year-old infiltration of (he Viet Cong be-he was unaware the demanstra Thicc hundred nineteenth day lormer Zieeficlrl fnllirc djnrsr I cause of wrecked communica-ition had heen PRECIPITATION Yesterday For Month Ilsrometer (i p.m.) Humidity (g p.m.) j'of Features Tor Everybody in downtown lions' putj Like some members of the High In Telegram Everv Day I said the pry-: that cowed student topplers tifjfied with the makeup of Huong's Ichologist apparently died of Vietnamese I government, which contains some to P1113- lnc IrucKloads ot iroops, including! mtnnitians wnn served under iDinoay was discovered by a maid elite airborne units, poured into; president Ngo Dinh Diem before 1 DL Saigon, A company ol uvennrow and death vanaa notl soldiers took no "ovemoer. photographer. (Continued Page Sis) a FJiiabeth II al kritala steps itnoent tfarhn vhit itoa, Eagland, yesterday. Peter Heme, a postgraduate political stodestt Ic coat and placed it over a paddle as the Queen approached.

The Queen anil gesture, just as her tuunesake, Elisabeth esrlkTliitr so legend has it, threw hb cleak dawn for her. Cuban Issue Discussed Gas Plans to Buy Renewal Land Approved Federal Agency Gives Green Light to Sale in State St. Project Oklahoma Jurist Gets 3-Year Term For Tax Evasion MUSKOGEE, Supreme Court. Justice Earl weich yesterday was sentenced to three nasrj in nrison for evading federal, income taxes, but he termed loss of his positim nts prolession a severe, puniih-Weich. 72, also was fined jn.SO*1 cy u.s.

ujsrrrct Judge Hoy Harper, who said the srntencine was "particularly unpleasant in tfu'a! instance. Harper denied a motion for' a new inal before imposing the penalty on a total of five: counts of evading $13,040 In tajtes during imr-tu, wcicn couia nave- received five. years in prison -and a SIO.000- a total ot 25 years and on each count. He was freed on 55.000 appe aE bond. "1 could not be but little more punished (if this conviction takes me nut of my position and my profession," Welch, a lawyer since 1911.

and justice 1933, said in- court. He said he was "proud of -mj aetense" and happy that "all In vestigation his found no lion in my career." Harper said, "I've never a tax. case that was simpler" or seen one wilh leu actual defense." In denying the new trial motion, (Caatlaued en Sta) Baltimore Girl Crowned Miss Teen-Age America uai.i.as-ia^) s-anyti Migmnl.jDf Toledo, Ohio; Andrea Lynn1 ilihii njreis. in, ureenvnie, s.u-Ballimore who wants to be a Linda Diane Liccisrdi 17 Broadway singer, was crowned Francisco. Miss Teen-Age America of tn last night The brown-haired beauty sang "Love Makes the World Go is the contestant from the 6.

She is 5 leet 3 with a dimpled and models part- in; Kcr selection fajt a telev-jslori audience capped a week ot festivities centered around 52 contestants. A special award of excellence went to 17-year-old Kathleen Frances Ross of Pittsburgh, named runner-up. Jeanine Zavrel of Falls Church, yielded the title after judges hjd narrowed the field to ftoe finalisls. They Included Miss MigJlini, IMst Ron, Debts Diethalm, II, scholarship, the new Miss Teen- Age receives lour of (he United Mates, a new car and a le wardrobe. Judges ot the fourth pageant trimmed the list of can.

dldates to 10 semi-finalists Thurs-day. looked for girls whol were not only attractive hut poised, talented and personable The whtnet wis Ann Sims o( Minneamolis. Amoni the tehcast waj Texas Gov. John Comity theNew York Yasskees; cohimnlst Abigail Van actor Gary a msmi rmgtrsid, American Airline Each Side Accuses The Other Casualties Heavy'; Is. raeli Jets Hit Pasta In 'Worst' Clash AVIV, Israel (AP) lanatl Syrian border posts day to Ok wont dash oc Syr- daasaged by Syrian ganam.

tie Syrians the by actacadag an Israeli array imaes of afr and land fightlssj 3S rm kes north of the of said OwJsraeUs Syria Mesa Fneatt Syria lodged sn urgent com-aint with the UN Seamtr nn. cil New York and the UN Truce vsuVjo team, JinnUi The. Syrian canmninicjue said Is- It artuiery shelled two onarm-Arsb villages in the dentflKv- tesaou hnlgtitrsM by Is-raei nnchio. to taaspssa; i oram river anal Arab a imJiii of kmg Syrian-Isrneu bcaatatr. Bat yesterdays battle was by far the tenons nan tne first utajtv- fnflscsile air attack.

wrth nsenrne gna iBre, damage, hitting two koosea, de stroying ewctne tnsUlWiens and blowing up a fuel tank, he said. Mffnsj. DeMrsTM The Israeli radio said last night tat a school, bam. museum Tand agricultural equipment were de- nroyeo. The Israeli spokesman said the Syrians fired from Jits positions.

Hid the German Panzers knocked rait by from Israeli unks. He said the Syrian fire came from NouUtaile, Tel Harna, Aiyiiat. Tel Knott id Tel Banies. When firina he Israeli planes were ordered (ntn the air and destroyed one posi- wuh napalm and strafed Israelis threw Ha assort-int of Mysterna, super lysteres. Mrrue and Vutarre the adaon, ncrord- ing to Brig.

Ear Watsnnnn, cornmaaxasr in chief of the raeli sir force. Wttnaasta is a Israel's first Pres- The Syrians ordered.

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