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the weather Fair today through tomorrow except for low overcast night and morning. Slightly warmer days. Today's high will range from 60 to 70, the low from 45 to 55. West to northwest winds 12 to 25 miles per hour. here at home A bond measure to finance expansion of Washington Hospital in Fremont may appear on the November General Election Ballot.

Page 3. A 39-year-old Orinda man is killed in a grinding head-on collision on Niles Canyon Road in Union City. Page 3. The results of a public opinion poll conducted by Congressman Don Edwards, D-San Jose show that more than half of the 18,000 respondents favor establishment of acoalition government in South Vietman which would include the Viet Cong. Page 12.

in California San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto urges legislation at every level of government to control guns. He sets aside a week in July for San Franciscans to turn in any kind of guns with no questions asked. In tragedy as in triumph, the Kennedy family is together. When death came to Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel, expecting their llth child, was at his side.

From the fields of government, politics, the arts, show business and sports, the friends of Robert P. Kennedy gather in Los Angeles in homage. Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Evelle J.

Younger will seek a grand jury murder indictment today against a swarthy Jordanian immigrant accused of shooting Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. in the nation President Johnson proclaims Sunday a national day of mourning for Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy and asks Americans to "walk through this dark night of common anguish into a new dawn of healing unity." The body of Robert F. Kennedy comes home to New York by Presidential jet 14 hours after he dies in Los Angeles of an assassin's wounds at the most victorious moment of his political career. Page 1. The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, leader of the Poor People's March, urges President Johnson's new commission on violence in America to begin its work by studying "oppression, fear, greed racism, poverty and warfare." Page 10.

Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who faces a dilemma in appointing a successor to the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, calls for new leadership to bind up the nation's wounds.

Page 10. Veteran broadcaster John Charles Daly resigns as head of the Voice of America in protest against "'executive undercutting" of his position by his boss, Leonard H. Marks, the head of the U.S. Information Agency, it is disclosed in Washington. Page 12.

in the world The Assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy has upset North Vietnam's strategy at the Vietnam War talks, conference sources in Paris say. Page 11. President Nguyen Thieu, a bitter critic of Robert F.

Kennedy's Vietnam policies, leads South Vietnam in mourning for the murdered Senator. News of Kennedy's death stunned American troops. Page 11. U.S. headquarters in Vietnam reports 438 Americans killed and 3,870 wounded last week highest seven-day toll for U.S.

forces in the Vietnam War. Many fell in trying to crush Viet Cong bands invading Saigon. A stunned world expresses sadness and disbelief at the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

Flags around the world are lowered to half staff. the Astrology Automotive Bridge Comics Dr. Steincrotm Editorials 14 Financial 10 23-24 Helen Help Us! 18 Sports 1315 16 TV-Theaters 18 Want Ads 18-23 4 Women's Ntws i Story Of Anguish In Photos. Page 2 Statewide Award-Winner Best Spot Reporting Vol. IX, No.

55 Fremont-Newark, California, Friday. June 7, 1968 24 Pages 10 Cents Jet Brings Home Assassinated Kennedy's Body His Grieving Family Closed Rites Hanoi fears Tragedy May I'jisft Talks Strategy. I'uge I I South Vietnam's Thieu, Once A Hitter Kennedy Critic, Lends Nation's Mourners. Lawmakers Rush Rill 7(i Cuard ROBERT F.KENNEDY 1925-1968 NEW YORK (UPI)-The liudy of Robert F. Kennedy came home to New York by Presidential jet Thursday night 14 hours after he died 'in Los Angeles of an assassin's wounds at the most victorious moment of his political career.

The jet also bore members of the Kennedy family, including the senator's widow, Ethel, and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, for whom memories of a flight from Dallas with her own slain husband 4 1-2 years ago were tragically renewed. Mrs. Rose Kennedy, mother of the clan, had arrived earlier from Hyannis Port, to await arrival of her third son claimed by violent death.

REMOVED Kennedy's casket was removed from the plane at La Guardia airport for a hearse trip directly to St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan for a private family service. It will Ik' in state there all day Kriday before the funeral mass Saturday followed by a trip to Arlington National Cemetery for burial later that day. More than 300 persons waited behind airport barricades to watch the somber scene and the grieving family, who were greeted by Gov. and Mrs.

Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mayor and Mrs. John V. Lindsay, Sen. and Mrs.

Jacob K. U. N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and Roman Catholic Archbishop Terence J. Cooke.

New York police, 250 strong, imposed extreme security on the area and for a while refused to let out-of-town newsmen who Suspect Receives Murder Threats Shocked, Stunned Senate Ponders America 9 Plight WASIUNGTON (UPI) "What in the name of god has happened to us? "What does it take to awaken us from our deep sleep? "Are we so blind that we cannot see? "Are we so deaf that we cannot hear? "Are we so dumb that we cannot understand?" OPEN SENATE With these questions, and with only a handful of senators present, Democra'tic a Mike Mansfield opened Thursday's meeting of the Senate. The galleries were half-filled with tourists. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey presided. The session broke the tradition under which the Senate usually adjourned immediately when one of its members dies.

But Mansfield told reporters he had been in touch with the Kennedy family and said, "They said this is what Bob would like to have done." He introduced a resolution expressing the Senate's "pro- tound sorrow and deep regret'' at the death of Kennedy. Mansfield had delivered a eulogy to President John F. Kennedy in the Capitol Rotunda in the November weekend following his assassination in 1963. Now he delivered one to Robert Kennedy. "The assassination of our late the passing of a man of courage, dedication, integrity and patriotism," he said.

"I grieve for my country and for the Kennedys-all of them." He said, "We can learn from Massive Damage; To IJI Brain LOS ANGELES (UPI)-The bullet wound in the brain of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was so severe that even if he had lived there would have been "extensive damage," Coroner Thomas Noguchi said Thursday. "Scattered fragments of the bullet and bone tissue damaged the main portion of the right side of the brain," said the coroner. He refused to comment specifically on whether there might have been impairment of eyesight, speech and movement but said "the injury was so Women Ask Voluntary Area Gun Registration The assassination of Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy has prompted a group of Fremont housewives to seek voluntary registration of firearms throughout the city. Mrs. Dorothy Davis of 43244 Coit Ave. and another housewife have joined forces with Mrs.

Margaret Damery. who inspired the move, to circulate a petition throughout the city asking for voluntary registration of all guns. Mrs. Damery sent a letter to the Fremont city council which was read shortly after midnight Wednesday just a few minutes before Sen. Kennedy was shot She asked the city to consider a local regulation to control sale and use of guns in the city.

"I read the story in the paper this morning and conticted Mrs. Damery asking if I could help circulate petitions and get community support for the cause." Mrs. Davis said. Mrs. Davis said she was calling every neighbor she can and urging their heip or support to get the campaign underway to ask for voluntary registratio'n of firearms.

"I see no harm in it." she said. "A law abiding person should have no objections. It won't prevent them from having guns for the purpose intended, ihey shouldn't be ashamed to register their severe as to cause extensive damage." Noguchi said all the vital organs were removed from Kennedy's body, including the entire brain, and retained here for further pathological examination. START AUTOPSY The complete autopsy report will not be completed for a few weeks, said Noguchi. "It must be thorough.

Let me emphasize that we have the very best of facilities." he said. Noguchi. two pathologists on his staff and three medical consultants from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington. D.C.. started me autopsy at 3 a.m.

PDT and completed it at 9:15 a.m. "Hundreds and hundreds of colored pictures were taken." said Noguchi. The forma! autopsy bulletin said: "The cause of death is ascribed by me as a gunshot wound of the right mastoid penetrating the brain. Complete findings will be contained in the official autopsy report." Noguchi said it was undetermined which bullet struck Kennedy first. One small caiiber bullet entered the back portion of the right arm pit and traveled upward.

It lodged just beneath the flesh of Kennedy's neck. That bullet was removed and turned over to the police. It tore through layers of muscle tissue but did not penetrate any vital organs. what has taken place and attempt to find out the causes, seek the cures and do what we can to bring an end to the disrespect, irresponsibility and outright contempt for life and law which is so prevalent today." DELIVER TRIBUTES One by one, other senators entered and delivered tributes. Sen.

John Pastore. usually a fiery orator, spoke in hushed tones. He said Kennedy was a lawyer whose "clients were the penniless and the friendless." He was a senator from New Zork but "his real constitutents was the entire world of the underprivileged," he said. The Senate's major work was its 75-0 approval of legislation granting Secret Service protection to all major presidential and vice presidential contenders. LOS ANGELES (UPI(-The stiff security cordon around assassination suspect Sirhan Sirhan was tightened Thursday after the Los Angeles County Sheriff received a barrage of death threats.

Eight to 12 telephone callers have threatened to shoot the accused assassin, bomb the County Jail and kill deputies guarding Sirhan, Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess told newsmen. Sirhan is being held in an isolated second floor cell on the remote hospital wing of the jail, the sheriff said, and is under constant surveillance by six uniformed guards. IN CELL One deputy remains in the 24- square-foot cell with the suspect at all times. A second guard maintains a constant watch through an unbreakable glass porthole in the door.

The square cell is painted grey and contains a bed, wash basin and toilet. Four other deputies constantly guard a narrow corridor outside Hit' cell. Five teams of two (Continued on Page 3, Col. s) had covered Kennedy's campaign and preceded the presidential jet In New York to enter the press area. There were as many newsmen of all media on hand as police and spectators.

BETTER WORLD Among the spectators was Mrs. Frances Williams, a Negro of Deer Park. N. with boy and girl twins aged 2 1-2. She said she know her children would not understand what they were seeing now "But I will be able to tell them he was a very great man," she said.

"I hope he did not die in vain and that we learn to make a better world." Two gray hearses waited at the airport in case one should break down. When the coffin was loaded, the cortege of 34 limousines began the trip to Manhattan, where Kennedy had established a honve less than four years ago when he ran for senator. SHRIVERS ARRIVE Arriving from Paris shortly before the presidential jet were Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her husband, Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver. With them was Mrs. Joan Kennedy who greeted her husband, Sen.

Edward Kennedy, the only surviving brother of the late President Kennedy, and former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. Kennedy, 42, died at 1:44 a.m. PDT (4:44 a.m. EOT) Thursday, 25 hours after he was hit in the brain by a bullet fired by an Arab immigrant, who was seized at the scene.

The departure of the plane carrying his body was delayed until 1:28 p.m. while authorities and pathologists conducted a six-hour autopsy. The post mortem was lengthy and meticulous because authorities were determined to avoid a recurrence of the kind of controversy that still stirs over (Continued on Page 3, Col. M.ow-Yield' Atom Device Tested YUCCA FLAT. Nev.

il'PIi- The Atomic Energy Commission Thursday exploded a "low yield" nuclear device at its Nevada Test Site. The A EC said the underground blast was the 20th announced detonation this vear. Water Unit Scans Budget Alameda County Water District directors continued a review last night of next year's proposed S3.233.030 budget. The chief item of discussion was the proposed purchase of a fleet of new service vehicles at 3n estimated cost of $24.000. No action was taken.

Last night's session was the thi in a series of meetings to produce a 196869 budget based on the same tax rate of 15 cents f'jr every S100 of assessed valuation. So. County Sets Rites For Kennedy Many churches throughout the South County will hold services this weekend in memory of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

A Requiem High Mass will be offered, at 11 IT a.m. today in the Holy Ghost Church in Fremont. Other churches in Washington Township are not planning special memorial services, according to a Ministerial Association spokesman but most ministers will pay honor to the memory of Sen. Kennedy in their Sunday sermons. Rev.

Karl Olson of the Fremont Congregational Church most churches will stay open for individual prayers. Bank of Fremont officials, out ot" respect lo the memory of Sen. Kennedy, have cancelled the Community Picnic scheduled Sunday at Linda Vista Park. Fremont GM Plant Walkout Twenty-four hundred workers walked out of the Fremont General Motors assembly plant at noon yesterday because they said a foreman had declared Robert F. Kennedy "got what he deserves." The plant then closed for the day.

The statement was attributed to a general foreman in charge of 120 workers in the cushion shop by two workers. Lonnie Davis and John Harris. The foreman was being asked repeatedly by workers for permission to take the day off because of the New York senator's death, according to the United Automobile Workers shop chairman. Denny Lemond. The workers said the foreman finally erupted.

"Robert Kennedy got what he deserved." The foreman involved has denied making the statement. And company spokesmen say that there is no substance to the (harge. a denies completely it ever happened, a spokesman said yesterday. The official company statement attributes the walkout as "out of respect for Sen. Kennedy." Workers also walked off the job in April in respect for Rev Martin Luther King..