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1 lAtQEST C1ICUUTI0N IN THl WEST, 445,130 OAIIY, 1,114.314 SONOAT VOL LXXXVI 3f SEVEN PARTS PART ONE CC THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1967 128 PAGES COTrigM We? DAILY 10c 1 mons vote to -7- is: t. i Back Red Defections for March Reach Record of 5,557 U.S. Officials in Saigon Unable to Explain Rise Beyond Tet Cease-Fire Strikers 11 Held in Berlin In Plot Against Humphrey's Life Group of Student Radicals Seized by Police on Eye of Vice President's Arrival I WITNESS IN SPECK TRIAL Corazon Amurao, only survivor of the mass slaying of student nurses in Chicago last July, is escorted by a Will Not Cross Picket Lines at Major Networks NEW YORK (UPI) Fifteen theatrical unions voted Wednesday to refuse to cross picket lines at network-owned television and radio installations here. Union officials said the sympathy action on behalf of the striking American Federation of Television and Radio Artists could cripple operations of network stations across the country. Programming has been hampered by the AFTRA strike since the walkout began last Wednesday.

The sympathy action was scheduled to begin this morning, but some members of two unions jumped the gun at NBC and ABC. Handful' Not on Job NBC reported that members of the National Assn. of Broadcast Employes and Technicians began honoring AFTRA lines at about 4 p.m. Wednesday. An ABC spokesman said a "handful" of employes represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers also respected picket lines at 4 p.m.

In both cases the networks reported no problems finding replacements from among supervisory personnel. But ATRA officials predicted that when members of all 15 unions stay away from their jobs, the networks would be hard hit. "Unless the networks have a tremendous supply of managerial help, they'll be in real trouble," AFTRA President Donald Conaway predicted. He hailed the unions' joint action as a "milestone." Kenneth Groot, executive secretary of AFTRA, said the networks would begin to feel the pinch almost immediately. "They're running out of programs bailiff as she arrives to testify at This Is the Man Says Nurse Who Survived Mass Slaying Speck Identified in Court as Killer of 8 Young Women by Witness Who Hid Under Bed During Chicago Crime Senate OKs Bill for Separate A.

Junior College District nmtm I TX Richard Specks trial in Peoria. Wlrephoto First, she said, Speck rounded up the young women in a bedroom and tied seven of them with strips cut from a bedsheet. Then he walked down the line of his captives, Miss Amurao said, until he came to the one at the head of the line. Pamela Lee Wilkening, 20. Speck, his breath reeking of whisky, squatted in front of the girl, cut the cloth which bound, her ankles with a knife and yanked her to her feet by her forearm, Miss Amurao said.

Then he pressed a gun to the girl's back and forced her from the room, the nurse said. Met Two Other Nurses As Speck was returning, Miss Amurao said, he met two other nurses, Suzanne Farris, 21, and Mary Ann Jordan, 20, in the hallway. He marched them into the bedroom at gunpoint, the nurse said, and then, with the words "you two come here," marched them out again. "I could hear yelling in a low voice," Miss Amurao said. And, before Speck's return in 20 minutes, she cpuld hear the sound of water running in the bathroom, as if someone was washing his hands.

Each time a girl was taken out, Miss Amurao said, she heard that same running of water. The frail-looking girl wept repeatedly as she recounted the departure of her friends. Nina Joe Schmale, 24, was next Please Turn to Page 11, Col. 1 H. LOOBY Writer approval to any agreement only after it was negotiated.

The refusal of the committee to grant Mr. Johnson his request will almost certainly weaken the President's stature when he arrives at Please Turn to Page 28, Col. 4 FEATURE INDEX BOOK REVIEW. Page 5, Part 4. BRIDGE.

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TELEVISION -RADIO. Pages 12-14, Part 4. VITALS, WEATHER. Page 30, Part PEORIA, I1L (UPI) Filipina nurse Corazon Amurao pointed at Richard Speck Wednesday and said "this is the man" who led eight fellow student nurses to their deaths while she cowered in hiding under a bed. In halting English, Miss Amurao testified that she could hear the young women screaming after Speck marched them at gunpoint from the bedroom where the other victims waited for the slaughter.

Once, she said, Speck told the nurses, "Don't be afraid I'm not going to kill you." But she found all eight nurses dead strangled and stabbed when she crawled from her hiding place in the dormitory apartment the nurses shared in Chicago last July 14. High'Point Arrives The high point of the trial came when Miss Amurao, barely 5 feet tall, stepped from the witness stand and walked to within two feet of the chair where Speck, the lanky, 25-year-old defendant, slouched. Miss Amurao pointed a finger and said, "This is the man." Speck jerked his head to stare upward at the finger. His face was stony. Miss Amurao, 23, is the only survivor of the massacre of the nurses.

The state's case against Speck may stand or fall on her identification of him as the man who broke into the apartment on the night of July 13 and awakened her with four knocks on her bedroom door. ACADEMY AWARDS ON AND OFF AGAIN IN 3-WAY DISPUTE BY DIAL TORGERSON TifflM Staff wrfttr Motion picture leaders vowed Wednesday that the Academy Awards program will be held Monday, without television, if a TV strike continues. But a major network disagreed. Said a spokesman: "If the academy puts on a show, ABC will televise it" ABC has a five-year contract to televise any and all awards shows. But ABC is involved in a strike by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

An AFTRA spokesman was equally unequivocal: "If ABC televises the awards, well picket it." And, all agreed, a picket line would mean no show. The stars scheduled to appear in the lV5-hour program have said they would not Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 1 now," he said. "It is only a matter of time until they will have to use older and older tapes and reruns qt try to revive live programming using their nonunion personnel." AFTRA struck ABC, NBC and CBS in a drive to win higher wages, a bigger share of sponsors' fees and greater security for news commentators and announcers. Negotiations between AFTRA and the networks broke off indefinitely in Washington last Sunday and federal mediators have been unable to revive them.

The strike i3 directed so far only at originating points for network shows usually New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington but an AFTRA spokesman said the union could throw up picket lines at Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 5 1968, on which of the two boards they prefer to serve, Lombardi said. Then, in April, 1969, an election would be held to fill vacant positions on both the two seven-man boards after the seven members of the Board of Education decide on which body they will serve, he said. The junior college district board would begin operations on July 1, 1969. Its members would be elected to staggered terms.

The junior college district includes all of the unified high school-junior high-elementary district in addition to the Palos Verdes, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Alhambra, Montebello and Culver City districts plus the Las Virgenes School District in the Calabasas-Agoura area of northwestern Los Angeles County. The latter districts are covered by the Los Angeles Junior College District for education of junior college students only. Sen. George E. Danielson (D-Los Please Turn to Page 34, CoL 1 majority vote needed to avoid a runoff.

So he will face Dr. Julian Nava, a Mexican -American professor at Valley State College who was trained at Pomona and Harvard. He finished 65,000 votes behind Smoot in Tuesday's election. The winners include Councilmen Please Turn to Page 3, CoL 2 THE WEATHER U.S. Weather Bureau forecast: Mostly sunny today.

Cloudy and not so cool tonight. Clearing Friday, becoming mostly sunny and slightly warmer in the afternoon. Rainfall probability 30 tonight, 10 through Friday. High today, 64 -High Wednesday, 64; low, 48. BY BAY ZEMAN Tlmts Sacramento Bureau Chief BERLIN (fl West Berlin police seized 11 youths Wednesday night and accused them of plotting bomb, chemical and stone assaults against the life or health" of Vice President Humphrey on his scheduled visit today to Communist-surrounded Berlin.

Police swooped down, they said, as the plotters prepared explosive materials, hut authorities declined to label ib.e scheme as an outright assassination attempt against the Vice President Investigators sought to determine whether what was planned was a spectacular display of some kind that would in fact have endangered Humphrey's safety. A police statement said those arrested were, from a "very small radical group within politically interested student groups." Some Girls Among Those Seized Some girls were reported among them. Leftist-influenced students in West Berlin have been active in recent months staging anti-Vietnam, anti-American and anti-p 0 1 i demonstrations. Besides bombs, the plotters planned assaults today "with plastic bags filled with unknown chemicals, or with other dangerous instruments such as stones and so on," the police statement said. Forestalling of the reported plot did not change Humphrey's plans to fly later from Bonn to Berlin to reaffirm the U.S.

position in the pro-Western citadel deep inside the Soviet sphere of Germany. 1 The Vice President will be the highest ranking U.S. official to visit Berlin since the late President John F. Kennedy made his famous "I am a Berliner" speech here in July 1963. One source said he understood the materials seized Wednesday night were to have been thrown along the route Humphrey is scheduled to travel and also into West Berlin's city hall during his visit.

Chemists Analyze Materials What seemed a prime factor in the investigation was the nature of the materials to be used. Early today, police chemists had not made public the results of their analysis. The 11 were questioned but police refused to give immediate details of what was learned. Reading from a prepared statement, Guenter Dolgener, an officer of the political section, said those arrested were being investigated "for planning a crime and preparing a crime with explosives." Departing from the prepared statement, Dolgener added: "It is certain that they (those arrested) wanted to use (the materials) in a spectacular manner during the visit of the Vice President." Meanwhile, members of the leftist German Socialist Students were reported to have attacked a vehicle parked outside their downtown headquarters, breaking off the car's antenna and letting air out of its tires. They were trying to turn the vehicle over with its occupants inside when police arrived, a police report said.

Occupants of. the car ap- Please Tarn to Page 18, Col. 1 IRS Bugged Jury Room, Quiz Finds BY RONALD J. OSTBOW Tlmtt staff Writer WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service monitored a federal grand jury witness room in 1964 by. placing a woman there with a transmitter hidden in her purse, Senate investigators were told Wednesday.

The incident took place in Detroit shortly after the IRS tried to record conversation in a municipal judge's chambers by placing a cooperating lawyer there, also armed with a hidden transmitter. It Sen. Edward V. Long chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on administrative practices and procedures which is probing eavesdropping, cited both attempts to illustrate the danger of permitting monitoring of conversation when one participant agrees. President Johnson's right-of-pri-vacv bill would allow conversations to, be monitored If one party had.

Please Turn to Page 8, CoL 1 BY WILLIAM TUOHY Times Staff Writ SAIGON -An all-time record for Viet Cong defections to the government side was chalked up in March with a whopping 5,557 reported. The previous monthly high was registered in February when 2,917 Vietnamese left the Viet Cong under the government's "chieu hoi" (open arms) amnesty program. U.S. officials are somewhat at a loss to explain the government's sudden good fortune. But they insist the figures are valid.

They show that during the- first three months of 1967, some 10,746 "hoi charm" literally "returnees to a just cause" have come over. This figure compares with 5,521 defectors for the same period last year. Thus the rate has nearly doubled in 12 months. The total returnees since the "chieu hoi" program began in 1963 reached 58,970 by the end of March. Numbers Rose Sharply At first, when the number of returnees rose sharply, U.S.

psychological warfare advisers to the program thought the Vietnamese were merely reaping post-Tet dividends. Tet, the lunar new year, occurred in February and was accompanied by a cease-fire. Ceasefires normally bring a rise in defections. But the high rate of returnees is still holding up well beyond Tet Returnees in the week ending April 1 totaled 1,000 persons. They included military personnel, 301 political cadre and 69 others.

The heaviest influx was in the southern half of South Vietnam, with the III and IV Corps areas reporting 714 of the total. U.S. officials admit that the great bulk of the returnees are fairly low-level, disgruntled guerrillas. It is still rare when a high-ranking, hardcore Viet Cong comes over. The last such figure was Lt.

Col. Le Huan Chuyen, deputy chief of staff for the Viet Cong 5th Division, who has been made head of the National Returnee Center. Mostly Youthful farmers Most informed observers believe the majority of the returnees are youthful farmers who were impressed into the service of the Viet Cong, and their defections do not yet represent a real erosion of spirit among the true believers. Interviews with the most recent defector as read by U.S. officials indicate that the prevailing reasons for their return to government control are three: 1 Some feel the Viet Cong are not winning and cannot win.

2 This year's Tet provided many with the opportunity to go home and thereby break the surveillance bonds of the three-man Viet Cong cells. 3 The stepped-up U.S. and Saigon psychological warfare campaign provided cogent and appealing reasons why they should return. But an overriding reason, listed by most of the returnees, is that there Please Turn to Page 20, CoL 1 Famous Violinist Mischa Elman Dies NEW YORK WV Mischa Elman, world famous violinist who refused to retire, died 'of a heart attack Wednesday after putting In his usual three hours of practicing. He was 76.

Elman had come in from lunch, when he suddenly complained that he couldn't breathe and called to his wife, Helen. She was upstairs in the bedroom of their Central Park West duplex recovering from a foot fracture. She called a doctor, hut attempts to revive the violinist with oxygen were fruitless. Elman, reputed to have played more concerts than any other instrumentalist, began his long career at the age of 5 in his native Russia and made his first public appearance in Berlin when only 12. Two years later, he was acclaimed by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace.

He made hi3 American debut in 190S and became an' American Please Turn to Page 9, Col. 1 SACRAMENTO A bill to provide a new separate governing board for the Los Angeles Junior College District and another board for the remainder of the city schools was approved by the State Senate Wednesday. The measure, which was passed by the Senate 30-3 and is expected to have little opposition in the Assembly, has the support of the Los Angeles Board of Education, said board president Ralph Richardson. The bill is also supported by the presidents of the six existing junior colleges, faculty senates and most student councils, according to Dr. John Lombardi, assistant superintendent for junior colleges.

The Board of Education now governs both the junior college district covering 882 square miles and the unified school district of 711 square miles. Under the bill's provisions, members of the Board of Education would have to choose by Dec. 31, Johnson Says He Will Have to Just Sit and Listen at Latin Talk 2 Runoffs Slated for May 31; Snyder-Cook Contest in Doubt BY RICHARD BEBGHOLZ Timet Political Writer BY STUART Times Staff A I NGTON President Johnson told, a White House gathering Wednesday night that the-Senate had tied his hands and he would not be able to take any action at the summit conference of Latin American leaders next week. As a result, Mr. Johnson said, he would have to go to the conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay, and just listen rather than make any firm commitments to help improve social and economic conditions in Latin America.

He told a group of administrative assistants to Republican senators that there was nothing more he could do to reverse the action of the Senate Foreign Relations The President's remarks were an admission of defeat in a crucial, foreign policy showdown with Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) and other key members of the Foreign Relations Committee. Fulbright had fought Mr. Johnson's request for an open-ended resolution of support for any agreements the President signed at the summit conference opening Wednesday. He had, instead, brought out of his committee a resolution insist ing that the Senate give specific Two runoff elections and possibly three are all that remain from Tuesday's municipal balloting, other than some vexing problems of money and apathy.

As far as the winners and losers are concerned, all City Council and Board of Education incumbents were declared winners without the necessity of runoff elections except Councilman John Patrick Cassidy and school board member Charles Reed Smoot. Cassidy ran second to former Councilman Robert Wilkinson in San-' Fernando Valley's new 12th District and faces an uphill battle in the May 31 finals. But the incum-bent will have the full support of Mayor Sam Yorty, Smoot, seeking his third term, ran well ahead of his field of six challengers, but fell short of the A -9.