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-T i 4e- iMsrT rv 1 'tVw WEATHER i a I 1 a a -----r fvL jn lj I lk--i 1 ri CI E) IT 01 ro BAY AREA Fair and mild through tomorrow except for fog near tho otearrnxf ending -inland tomorrow morfting tonight 45 to 53. NorthZ west winds 1 0 to 20 m.p.h. in the afternoons. tS.ou.ntu PEBRUAHY FRIDAY. APRIL 1 lOAA, 93rd YEAR, NO.

91 i 1 9 wv 1 i i i urn---: l. i ii II An ii iisr ii rr -y twkt -vr I It II -JT II II II IWK More riles --hfe i maT Ji If 4 I 1 4 II hi 4 (rr Ih Compiled from AP and UPI SAIGON American pilots and 4 B52 jet stratofortresses staged saturation bombing-of sus Navy gunners rained tons of explosives on Viet Cone centers port of government troops heavily, engaged by a Communist detaclunent eight miles north of Phu My? in coastal Binh Dinh province. A Vietnamese army spokesman said the planes killed 200 Viet Cong. today, pursuing the routine of pected enemys torage and staging; areas on infiltration routes into Quang Tri province, which Continued Page Col. 5 war in tne wake of a bloody terrorist attack on a U.S.

officers By GENE AYRES Mayor John Cr Houlihan has told The Tribune that a 1 his records in the estate of Mrs. Sarilla Whitlock are already in-custody of the court and he has no information for an accounting beyond what' is contained there. At the same time, Houlihan declares he will Voffer my to a district, attorney's investigation into his handling of the elderly widow's estate billet in Saigon. Three Americans and three Vietnamese were killed and 143 s. including 13 Ameri cans, were wounded by blasts Mo Whimpering Also, Houlihan today told and gunfire that battered the the city council he will 10-story Victoria Htrtel before mover MU his announced dawn: Vietnamese 0 1 i arrested two men who fled the scene on a motorbike.

Thev said one ad- resignation date as Oakland's mayor from April 30 next Wednesday. Houlihan, back in town today after a two-week absence, is mitted he wa a member of the A Navy lieutenant from Ala. terrorist squad and the other injured in the explosion was highly suspect. U.S. Ambassador Henrv Ca- bot Lodge inspected the wreck age, conferred with officials at summoned -to produce a final accounting in the Whitlock estate at 2 p.m.

Monday in Probate Court or possibly be jailed until he does. DOESN'T HAVE THEM Asked if he could make the required accounting, the mayor replied that he has not the scene and denounced the at-tack as "typical Communist violence of the criminal kind." The three Americans killed mat tore tnrougn the officers' quarters in Saigon today, ignored his own hurts to praise some "gutsy" Vietnamese children also injured in the blast. Lt. (j.g.) Walter S. Turner, 28, was cut by flying glass when the windows were blown out in his room on the ninth floor of the billet.

Turners who arrived in Viet Nam only a week ago, said he was not badly cut bv the blast were military policemen shot in death in a gun fight with the terrorists who set off one small blast and then detonated a huge a 0 of explosives which in possession of the Whitlock records recently. Those files were handed over to Thomas Ferro, attorney for ine wnmocK neirs December. and "when the exDlosinn ripped the face off the 10-story themselves against the floor. Expanding political unrest led Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to appeal in a speech for solidarity. The" records, including canceled checks and bank documents, since have been turned over to the Probate Court as e.

over, I went downstairs to see if I could help in any "When the ambulances arrived, a medic asked me if I was badly hurt. I told him that MAYOR HOULIHAN HEARS ORDER THAT HE APPEAR IN COURT Sheriff's Deputy Herb Dobberpuhl (left) reads citation at airport Laborites Swamp Tories in Election 'A Lift A crowd of 9,000 in Hue, the oldj I wasn't," said whose FRANK H. OGAWA Ogawa Is Named to Council hibits. Some of them have been entered into evidence in a civil action filed by Ferro which alleges that Houlihan may have fraudulently disposed of some estate assets. rather, Winfield S.

Turner, is an electronics supervisor at Alameda Naval Air Station. The family home is at 1219 Pearl St Turner, a graduate of San Jose State College, said he h. uuyciieu tapiuu, neia as nos-tage the secretary-general of the ruling military directory, Maj. Gen. Pham Xuan Chieu.

Demonstrators marched in two towns previously unaffected by the anti-American, antigovem-ment Dalat and Qui Nhon. fighter-bomber operations included a sweep in sup $100,000 ISSUE LONDON (AP)-Prime Minis IT. (J.O.) WALTER TURNER billet 'They were cut by; flying glass. He was cleaning out the cuts; some deep and painful, those kids never whimpered, Continued Page 4, CoL changes in seats wonCohsa-va, erro contends that morel ter Harold Wilson" returned mentary districts with the net gan tending to the wounds of than $100,000 is unaccounted triumphant to No. 10 Downing uve 252, a loss of 51; Labor 362, a gain of 48, Liberal 10, a gain tnree Vietnamese phildren who lived in a house across from the ic nau a -vei iuicu puouc 3C- untant examine the Whitinpir support America's pdicy pi Southeast Asia.

"rr Returns general election showed Wilson and the Labor party rolling to an impressive victory over Edward Heath and the Conseratives, with a House of Commons ma The Oakland City Council go- ot 2: lrisn tiepublican Partv 1. files or a month before filing inuiiiu ucwie mine a gain of 1. day agreed to name horticul: ihe court action against Houli- si. toaay witn a landslide election victory over the Conservatives. He immediately pledged new initiatives for disarmament and an end to the war in Viet Nam.

While seeking a peaceful set The nonvoting speaker was re han. turist Frank H. Ogawa to fill Ferro has declared in court the unexpired council term of jority of about 100 seats. Wilson Brown elected. -v POPULAR VOTE that the files received from' Mayor-designate John Reading, held but a three-seat majority in uie oia House.

tlement to the war, Wilson has said that Britain will continue to Labor had piled up a popular vote of 13,022,946 or 48.1 per cent: 11.383.102 or 41.9 ner cent Returns from 626 of 630 parlia- The decision was announced by Mayor J6hn. Houlihan following a brief executive session et Budg Houlihan are incomplete and inadequate. Houlihan was asked: "Is it your position, Mayor, that you make no explanation beyond what is contained in those for the" 2.286,074 this morning. He did not revea Rail Union Offer the vote, but it was learned Scuftfed records?" or 8.4 per cent for the Liberals. Looking fresh despite less than, four hours sleep, the 50-year-old prime minister spoke Ogawa received the appoint ment on tne second ballot, didate for the seat was Negro He answered yes.

WILL CALL COAKLEY The mayor said he intends to By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign News Analyst Red China had suffered' a se- increasing. sunrjort if th To Call Off Strike attorney Carl Metoyer. The tot ballot resulted in a split vote By ED SALZMAN Tribune Capital Bureau call Dist. Atty. Frank Coakley vere blow and the Soviet Union United States escalated hostile- 10 reporters on tne steps of his official residence.

He foreshadowed stern action to seek a cure for Britain's financial ills. toaay. ities and Le Duan. Hanoi's Nn witn ogawa holding a majority, he added. The second vote was SACRAMENTO Assembly i a public figure." he said.

WASHINGTON" (AP) The Chrvsler and' Ampriran Mn. taken" on a motion to make the "and I think I owe it to him." Republicans early today deci has achieved ah important advantage, it was revealed today at the Soviet party congress in Moscow. The resident of North Korea "The decision of-the country striking Railroad Firemen's I t0rs. whose onerat inn are mr appointment unanimous. Mrs.

Whitlock, widow of a for 2 appealed to the Rus-' sians for more help. North K6rean President Choi told the delegates "it will beV come possible to frustrate the' 10 give tne government a clear union offered today to end a mer Safeway executive, died Ogawa will replaca Reading i iu mi 1 1 'r Lin iii'jn nncn ri rnn im vviimuiiu UlUll UIUOC VI U1C III' 38-state walkout if certain con mandate is good for the future last May. at age 74 as councilman for tne Seventh sively defeated Gov. Edmund G. Brown's record $4.6 billion labeling it "incomplete, premature, fiscally unsound and radically unbalanced." ditions are met by the eight Choi Yong Kun.

attacked Com of Britain, he said. "This decisive mandate will Houlihan was her attomev for policy of aggression and war1 District, which covers Oak land's extreme east Read major earners involved munist China indirectly before the congress, which is attended give Britain greater authority in live years, court-appointed conservator for the last four vears in a win Decome Mavor on by more than 5.000 'delegates of hre life, and the executor of Wednesday, -replacing Houlihan, With 54 votes needed for pas or ine American imperialists" in Viet Nam when all Communist forces are united. This is highly significant be-' cause Red China has repeated-; me worw ana aDpve all in the search for international disarmament and international peace." from all over the world and is nerwui. wno nas resigned. WASHINGTON (AP)-A fed eral appeals court let stand today a lower court's back-to-work order against the railroad firemen's strike against eight sage, the roll call was 38 ayes dustry's two largest companies, were in near normal operations but there was some question how long; it would continue.

The interstate Commerce Commission approved tempora-r emergency authority for trucks and buses to help out during the railroad strike." Each of the 82 ICC field offices was authorized to act as a boycotted by the Peking re The first Oriental ever to The mayor, who failed to an- CLOSE CALL serve on the councif. Ogawa and 30 noes. The governor accused the Re pear at three previous hearings on the Whit ock case, was will be formally appointed by major railroads. Even Heath came close to defeat in Bexley, the district he gime. To add 'to Peking's troubles and complicate its self-imposed isolation, a leader of the National Liberation Front, the noliu'cal publicans of attempting to force served with a citation issued hv The 2-1 decision by a panel of the court of.

aDDeals olaced the iy rejected soviet calls for unity in supporting the Vietnamese Communists and charged Mos-co wwith giving only half-hearted support. 1 Choi's position is another shift Judge Victor Wagler, as he a tax increase one year before it is necessary. "The Question represents. Heaths margin there over, a Laborite opponent off United Airlines decision for the immediate fu of taxes is not negotiable," he arm of the Viet Cong in South Flight 57 from Washington last central clearing house for trans was cut by half. -Wilson told reporters he would declared.

"What the Republi resolution at Hie next regular -meeting Tuesday. Ogawa, 48, has been on the park- commission since 1961, served as its chairman for two years and now is its vice chair-, man. He heads an East Oakland florist firm established in 1882 portation nignc- RECORDS SUMMONED ture of the strike back in the lap of president H. E. Gilbert of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.

He cans are doing is bordering on away from Peking to a more neutral stand in the Sino-Soivet rivalry. At one time North The Missouri Pacific Railroad traud. He also was served with a seo. announced.it will lay off more Only one Republican. Assem ond document ordering him to viet warn, walked the tight rope in the delicate balance of the bitter Sino-Soviet conflict.

The speaker was Nguyen Thi Binh, who lumped the "progressive people of America" with Russia and Red China Son his side in the Viet Nam and said the strike is still on." The union's appeal was from Korea was a completely docile'. Chinese satellite. But now it has blyman iticnard J. Donovan 01 oring any more Whitlock rec the order of U. Judfe San Diego County, broke ranks to vote for the spending pro cow with giving onlv half-heart Continued Page 4, Col.

3 1 Continued Page 4, Col. 4 man 20,000 employes 12 states as a result of the strike. UNION CONTENTION MoPac also announced it is preparing to sue officers and members of the firemen's union Alexander Holtzoff. SWIFT ACTION gram. Brown has announced nev's unity appeal in the opening, address to the was accorded thunderous ap that he will appoint Donovan to a judgeship at the end of the give priority to measures to maintain the strength of the pound sterling as an international currency.

He indicated there may be action to stabilize wages and prices, saying: "We really mean business in keeping sterling strong." Wilson discounted suggestions from newsmen that his promise to nationalize the steel industry might frighten foreign holders of sterling. "This has been in our pro-Continued Page 4, Col. The order came down less plause and a standing ovation for damages, suffered as a re- py tne delegates. than two hours after a one-hour argument before the three-judge current legisiauve session. 1 Three Los Angeles County Democrats Don A.

Allen suit ot ine "illegal strike. PRAISES PROTESTERS panel. 1 i The Viet Cong woman leader The delegates also heard the; usual boasts of Soviet military, strength. Defense Minister Rodion Mali-. novsky revealed that the Soviet Union has a "whple complex" of new strategic weapons and that its Polaris-type submarines are armed with nnHnr war.

In the hearing union attornev Tom Carrell. and Bob Moretti Joseph L. Rauh argued that the Rauh, on behalf of the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen told Continued Page 4, Col. 2 joined 27 Republicans to defeat highly praised the American "progressives" for joining the Hoitzoff order "would bust the the, bill. A -similar version" of the budg ettorts ot tne Soviet Union and Communist China in onnosinu the Johnson Administration poli heads that can be fired from strike and once you've broken a strike with a court order, the damage is irreparable.

It usually means the end of the strike." Effects of the Thursday walk- et was passed by the Senate on Wednesday. Unless a budget is approved by Monday midnight, the governor will be forced to call a spe- underwater. The Kremlin has been cies, bhe obviously was referring to the Americans who have marched American streets de March Goes Out Like a WHERE TO FIND IT Aitrology 1 1-A Aunt Elsie Bridge H-A Classified Ads .28 Comics 8-A Crossword Puixle 28 Editorial 22 Financial 7746 Bill Fiset .17 Focus 23 Landers .23 Martha Lee Martinez ....23 Perry Phillips 21 Riesel 22 Sports 41- Theaters .26, 27 out' continued to show in high manding, among other things. the congress to consolidate sup- -port In the struggle with Red China for leadership of the Communist World. The narndA way commuter jams, auto plant shutdowns and troubles in the movement of mail.

an end to the war and withdrawal of American forces. Lamb in Wool Continued Page 10, Col. 3 Indian Premier An estimated 65.000 auto Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania (to a lesser degree) now has been joined by North Korea. Thus. Peking's bovmtf workers were Idled or working short time todav as effects of BABE IN THE WOOD of dirty air trapped under a layer of warmer air.

This resulted the strike spread throughout the Of the' Congress mnv r-ncf A Ends U.S. Visit NEW YORK (UPI) Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi auto industry. AUTO OUTPUT HIT it dearlv unless fltiemnta in a smog reading of .12 at I She said: "Our people are very grateful for the support of the Soviet Union, China and other- socialist countries We are also grateful to the progressive people of America for their noble struggle against the aggressive war waged by the Johnson Administration in 0 Viet Nam." Her theme was: "Lnna livn ft eea reconciliation somehow mlro. noon in Oakland. Indications were that the rail- culously succeed, Propitious winds arose later, wound up her six-day American TEMPERATURES (M-hour priH tndinf t) mm iodty) Oakland Downtown 80 51 Airport 75 53 S.F.

Downtown 76 49 March went out like a lamb yesterday, but it wasn't a good day to wear wool. Oakland had its hottest and smoggiest-niay of the year. When the thermometer rocketed to 75 degrees by mid-afternoon at Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, it surpassed the previous high reading this year 70 on March 23. It was even hotter in the road walkouts would cut at least 10,000 to 15,000 cars from the week's Dlanned auto Droduo visit today and prepared to fly to London and Moscow for brief TV and Radio 10-A Vitals ................39 Weather 19 World of Woman 1-A talks with British and Soviet Medicare Filing tion schedules and wreck hones sweeping uaKiana atmosphere clean again before the eye-irritating level of .15 could be reached. Preliminary, a i this morning at the Oakland nir leaders before returning home.

of siting a 1966 weekly produc- MX Airport 76 46 Date Extended me invioiaDie friendship and militant solidarity of the peoples of South Viet Nam and the Soviet Union." I Mrs. who held two days of conferences in Washington 1 1 President Johnson earlier this week, planned to WASHINGTON I kP wifh analysis station Indicated there wouia oe virtually no smog here downtown area as pie mercury climbed to 80 bv mid-afternoon. General Motors was hardest hit, reporting it had seven plants closed, 10 on partial operation and 60,300 workers off the job. Ford Motor Co. said it faced the possibility of a general shut lunch Saturday with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson toaay.

In Contra Costa County. Pitts- Previous records are not recorded for downtown and then fly on" to Moscew TRIBUTE TO SOVIETS She praised the Russians as the Viet Cong's "true combat friends" and declared the Unitr ed States could never win "nn burg sizzled In 90-degree heat yesterday, while Walnut Creek The sun's strong: ravs were neither debate nor dissent, the Senate agreed today to, extend for two months the deadline for America's Iderly citizens to sign up for the doctors' bills ln-s a under the medicare The action was taken by unanimous "consent Few senator were on hand. No Final Dash, Page It accompanied bv. nearly eve- 5undayTto meet with Soviet Premier Alexsd Kosygin She was scheduled to depart for London at 8:30 n.m. EST mm mmm matter how long the war was close behind with 86.

Pleasanton also registered 86 Continued Page 4, CoL 3 smarting smog caused by a tem down of its 17 assembly plants and 38 manufacturing plants in the United States If the strike continues until Monday. perature inversion a pocket tonight from Kennedy Interna- inis fame, after Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Vietnamese Commu- uonai Airport..

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