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A A N. UIGIST CIICUIAIION IN THt WEST. 139.735 DAILY. 1,165.394 SUNDAY VOL. LXXXV 2f SIX PARTS-PART ONE CC FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1966' 116 PAGES Coeyntnt Lot Angtltt Tlmtt DAILY 10c fx tate Po iiiqli Court Kills Taxes in Virginia -rWP'TM 'I hi ii.ii.

i I I I. I I I 1 l-, I Jry fcftK; JlS- FLAMING GUSHER Fire from broken pipeline on Beach, foreground, and odioinina buildina. Group'of- hill spreads to house at 1901 Condon Antiwar Units Visit Goldberg Berkeley's Charter Day Activities Face Protest Moves; Dance by 'Topless' Mother of Eight Gets Spotlight U.S. NAVY LEADER WARNS OF ENEMY UNDERSEA THREAT Bxctuslv Tin TlmM frtm Staff Writtr WASHINGTON A single, hostile 'submarine torpedo could change the entire picture of U.S. operations in Southeast Asia, Adm.

David L. McDonald, chief of naval operations, declared Thursday. "Considering the strategic location of certain sea routes," he said, "it is conceivable that any hostile submarine power could interdict shipping at one or more focal points, such as the Malacca Strait (between Indonesia and Malaysia) or the Suez, without disclosing who was the actual perpetrator of the first overt act. "In Southeast Asia, one torpedo, fired by one unidentified submarine, could radically change the entire concept of our operations in this area. "Our effort on land could be affect-Please Turn to Page 16, Col.

1 Massive Viet Cong Offensive Expected With Rains in May BY TED SELL TlmH Stiff Writtr WASHINGTON The Viet Cong probably will launch a new. large-scale monsoon offensive when the-South rainy season starts about May 1, U.S. officials said Thursday. Despite heavy U.S. attacks, the Communists have been able- to increase their manpower and to stockpile supplies and concentrate troops in key areas, the officials said.

U.S. efforts in recent weeks, both on the ground and from the air, have been directed to "spoiling" Red preparations. But the pattern of Communist activities, officials said, indicates they are laying a foundation for new offensive action at a time of their choosing expected to coincide with the onset of the summer monsoon. 50,000 Bed Dead Communist losses have reached a level of about 50,000 dead a said. Despite this, Red strength has grown during the last year and infiltration from Communist North Vietnam may be above, the 4,500 men a month Secretary Robert S.

McNamara predicted in November. At the time, Communist infiltration was running about 1,500 a month. American and other Free World forces are in better shape to withstand a new offensive than they were last year, officials said. There are 220,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam and more than 30,000 South Korean, Australian and New Zealand men.

About 675,000 South Please Turn to Page 19, Col. 1 BY WILLIAM TROMBLET Tlm EduutiM Writtr BERKELEY Tw'O antiwar groups will try to upstage the speaking visit cf U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg on the UC campus here? to-xjay-But he will have avoided being possibly further upstaged by a San Francisco dancer who bills herself as "The Topless Mother of Eight" cards ran out as flames struck Phots by Kniahfon Photo 9 Escape Death in Redondo Gas Blast-House Destroyed BY PAUL BECK "A thundering explosion Wd destroyed one home and damaged twb other structures Thursday in Redondo Beach after a bulldozer broke a pipe line carrying butane gas. No one was injured, in the spectacular, blast but nine persons barely escaped death or "We watched it come down the hill. Then we smelled gas and it exploded, right in our window.

Flames shot into the house. don't know how we ever got out of there." That's how William Dengle, one of eight women playing pinochle Thursday morning, described the explosion and -fire that nearly claimed, their, lives. i "The whole house went up in flames. It was miracle we got out of-there. I thought 'sure we.

were-' goners," she said-V- -) Pipe Line Severed The explosion and fire occurred after a bulldozer working on i hill above the home of and Mrs. Peter Sabolewski of 1901 Condon Ave. broke the pipe line. The Sabolewski home was virtually destroyed. Next door, a meeting hall of the Lion's Club was extensively damaged and one other home was scorched.

"7 The eight and Mr. Sabolewski who had been asleep in the house escaped injury. But a Please Turn to Pg. 3, Col. 1 ecision 6-3 Vote Rules Levies Abridge 14th Amendment BY ROBERT J.

DONOVAN Timtt Wtshimtwi Burtiu Chief WASHINGTON The Supreme Court sounded the death knell Thursday for the poll tax, which dates back to colonial times. On the verge of extinction for the past year, the poll tax was declared unconstitutional by the court. In a 6-3 decision, the court nullified the Virginia law requiring voters to pay a $1.50 levy to vote in nonfederal elections. The use of the poll tax in federal elections was prohibited under the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which went into effect Jan.

23, 1964. Reeling under this law, four states Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas nevertheless retained the poll tax in nonfederal elections. 'Coup de Grace' Comment Recently, however, lower federal courts overturned the tax in Texas and Alabama, leaving only Virginia and Mississippi with the levy, which for decades had effectively barred Negroes and poor whites from the polls in the South. The Supreme Court decision was so broad that Associate Justice John M. Harlan, in a dissenting opinion, said the court had administered the "coup de grace" the final demise of state poll taxes.

His view was shared by experts at the Department of Justice. Although the case was brought by four Virginia Negroes, the court decided it not on the grounds Of racial discrimination, but of economic discrimination. It said the tax was a deprivation of rights under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Speaking for the majority, Associate Justice William O. Douglas held: "We conclude that a state violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment whenever it makes the affluence of the voter or payment of any fee an election standard Limited to Qualifications "The interest of the state when it comes to voting is limited to the power to fix qualifications.

Wealth, like race, creed or color, is not germane to one's ability to participate in the electoral process. Lines drawn on the basis of wealth or property, like those of race, are traditionally To introduce wealth or payment of a fee as a measure of a voter's qualifications is to introduce a capricious or irrelevant factor. Tha degree of discrimination is. irrelevant." The three dissenters were Harlan, Potter Stewart and Hugo L. Black.

Harlan delivered a dissenting opinion for himself and Stewart. Black delivered his own dissenting opinion. Justice Harlan wrote: "Is there a rational basis for Virgl- Please Turn to Page 9, Col. 1 first official contact between a Pontiff and an Anglican primate. The Pope lifted excommunication for Catholics married outside the church.

He also eliminated the writ- ten pledge previously required of non-Catholic marriage partners to raise children as Catholics. But the church still insists that the children be raised as Catholics. Anglican3 week full equality between both spouses in a mixed marriage and ask that the children havt the right to choose their religion for themselves. In their unity declaration, both expressed hope that differences that have separated their churches since 1534 could be overcome. But they Please Turn to Page 22, Col.

1 THE WEATHER U.S. Weather. Bureau forecast: Partly cloudy Joday with some early morning showers clearing by mid-afternoon. High today, 74. High yesterday, 72; low, 53.

On behalf of an anti-war congressional candidate Mrs. Gaye Spiegel-man danced and stripped down to a bikini on the lower plaza of the campus Thursday. She did it even as: 1 The Peace Rights Organizing Committee, successor to the Vietnam Pay Committee, planned a placardr carrying walkout at the moment Goldberg is to receive an honorary, doctor of laws degree in the outdoor Hearst Greek Theater. Goldberg will speak at the UC Berkeley Charter Day ceremony there. 2 The Faculty Peace Committee, another antiwar group, devised a mode of protest against the war in Vietnam at a debate between Goldberg and Franz H.

Schurmann, director of UC's Center for Chinese Peking's Asian Allies to Attend Soviet Congress N. Vietnam and N. Korea Join Red China's Moscow Meeting Boycott BY HENRY SHAPIRO UPI Stiff Writer MOSCOW High-ranking delegations from both North Vietnam and North Korea will attend Russia's of world Communists despite Red China's bitter denunciation and boycott of the gathering, informed sources said Thursday. Vietnamese sources here said Hanoi's delegation will be by Le Duan, first secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party and right-hand man to President Ho Chi Minh. They said a South Vietnamese Viet Cong delegation also will attend.

Seen as Bitter Blow Attendance of the Asian Communists was seen here as a bitter blow to the Chinese in their struggle with Russia for influence in Asian affairs. North Vietnam and North Korea were considered China's two staunchest allies in Asia. China's vitriolic 'of congress was coolly ignored here. Observers saw it as making the ideological split between the two Communist, giants formal, a situation that could have far-reaching effects on world political alignments. The Vietnamese spokesman said both North Vietnamese and North Korean delegations will arrive Saturday after a stopover in Peking.

It is believed the Chinese will make, use of the stop to seek support of the Asian Communist delegates in the 1 ideological war. By Way of Peking The Viet Cong delegation will ar-'' rive Friday, also by way of Peking, The congress starts. Tuesday. The Hanoi delegation apparently was put in a birid.hy Red China's denunciation of the By its attendance, it runs the risk of pro-, voking hostility from, Peking, its strongest ally in the Vietnamese war. If it had refused, it would have run the same risk with Moscow, now its principal supplier of antiaircraft artillery, and missiles.

China's letter rejecting the Russian invitation shocked even seasoned diplomatic observers. It is expected' to have a powerful long-term effect on Communist affairs, but for Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 1 churches to program aimed at unity. Redondo women playing Set to Disrupt to UG Today Showers Drench Southlands Set Off Traffic Accidents BY DICK MAIN Tlm SMff Wrltw Occasionally heavy showers- accompanied by lightning and thunder drenched most of; Southern California Thursday, knocking out electrical power in some areas and contributing to an upsurge of traffic accidents. A woman driver was killed in Al-tadena when she lost control of her car during a blinding downpour, struck a power pole and plunged down an embankment on New York" Drive one mile east of Altadena Drive.

Miss Mariana Peterson, 21, of 791 Brookside Lane, Sierra Madre, was pronounced dead at St. Luke Hospital. Power failures were reported in at least five "San Gabriel Valley cities. In Monterey Park, a brief electrical failure forced the closing of a one-mile stretch of the new Pomona Freeway when traffic signs wera blacked out. At West Covina, a "hot" power line-fell on two parked police cars outside the police station.

Heavy showers and violent electrical storms were reported in Angeles National Forest but apparently no fires were started by lightning. Snow flurries and sleet were observed Please Turn to Page 21, Col. FEATURE INDEX English Archbishop Ends Visit to Pope With Unity Declaration Counters PROC Plans 3-Vice-Chancellor Earl F. Cheit countered PROC plans for the walkout by announcing that no one will be permitted to enter the Greek Theater with picket signs any larger than' 14 by 20 inches. Earlier, a PROC spokesman exhorted followers either to enter the theater or be removed by force.

4 'Chancellor Roger W. Heyns, saying no unruliness or outbursts would be tolerated, disclosed that campus and city police would be on hand to handle expected crowds of 12,000 at the Greek Theater and of 7,000 for the debate at Harmon Gymnasium. 1 5 The UC Board of Regents met In Sproul Hall on the upper plaza, K. Please Turn to Page 23, Col. 1 Bitter Gold Follows Midwest Blizzard ty AtwcltM Prau The second killer blizzard this month left the northern Midwest with-a heaVy cover of snow and' thoroughly chilled by bitter cold that moved in Thursday behind the storm.

The storm moved eastward, with-diminished winds, spilling occasionally heavy snow on areas adjacent to. the lower Great Lakes. Western Pennsylvania, for example, got as' much as 9 inches. It had left a snowy trail of death and hardship all across the Northern' Plains. At least 28 persons lost their, lives.

Hundreds of cities and towns were temporarily paralyzed by deep drifts and blinding whiteouts fashioned by' winds as strong as 70 m.p.h. during tha storm three-day passage from. Please Turn to Paga 8, Col. i '-r- 1 ft JA ROME The Archbishop of Canterbury ended his historic Christian unity visit to Pope Paul VI with a parting complaint Thursday that Roman Catholic concessions on mixed marriage are inadequate. Archbishop Michael Ramsey, leader of the world's Anglican Communion, made the statement at a news conference after he and Pope Paul had prayed together and signed an unprecedented joint ration committing their churches to work together for unity, He told newsmen he had expressed to the Pope Protestant dissatisfaction with the church's adjusted stand on mixed marriage.

"I have told everyone I've spoken to in Rome that the new instruction does not satisfy the consciences of Anglican Christians and other non-Roman Catholic Christians," Dr. Ramsey said. He was referring to the recent easing of Roman Catholic regulations for both parties in a mixed marraige. It was announced by the Pope five days before the archbishop's arrival Monday for history's ART NEWS. Page 8, Part REVIEW.

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A JOINT DECLARATION Pope Paul VI, leH, and Dr. Michael Archbishop of sign agreement in Rome committing tht Roman Catholic and Anglican.