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The man for drink of water, then was killed was identified as Albert Bunn 33. Wlrtphota CREEPING OUT First test version of Saturn 5 man-to-moon vehicle ond its service tower emerge from assembly building on huge crawler for slow trip to launch pad. The rollout primarily was a test of the crawler, a 5.5-million-pound machine that moves on tank-like treads. fltry fft 7, Ptrt I unwlrtphot SOUTHLAND 110 miles east of Seoul. Two other Communist agents escaped.

Following the incident, Home Minister Eun Min-yung warned that North Korean Communists could be expected to increase the activity of their agents In a effort to cause turmoil in the south prior to general elections in 1967, White supremacist Rhodesia began enforcement of its order that its landlocked neighbor, Zambia, must-pay in advance in cash for rail traffic through Rhodesian territory. The action could block shipments from Zambia, a major copper producer, and threaten the nation with economic paralysis. The railway system is Jointly owned by Zambia and Rhodesia, which declared independence Nov. 11 in a dispute over Britain's insistence on eventual rule by the colony's overwhelming African majority. Meantime, a British delegation headed by Judith Hart, junior Commonwealth relations minister, met again with Zambian officials in an effort to resolve the railway crisis.

Zambia President Kaun-da has demanded Britain use force to topple the Rhodesian regime. Smoke was still rising from the hilltop palace of Buganda's King Edward Mutesa, but there was no official word as to whether the rebel monarch was taken prisoner or died in the assault by central government forces. (See Page 20, Part t) Labor Minister Ray Gunter summoned both sides in Britain's 10-day-old maritime strike to meet in his office today in a new government attempt to get the nation's ships moving again. But George Woodcock, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, the equivalent to the AFL-CIO, said there appears to be no quick way out of the seamen's strike that has paralyzed British ports. Seamen's headquarters said 558 ships and 16,132 seamen have been idled since the strike began.

Newly Independent Guyana, formerly British Guiana, must now face up to the problems that go hand in hand with independence. (See Page 12, Part t) Airlifting of Cubans to the United States, suspended last week, was resumed with the arrival of 106 refugees and one U.S. citizen at Miami, Fla. The American was not identified pending processing by U.S. authorities.

THE NATION Ky Puts Pressure on Holdout City of Hue The South Vietnamese government of Prime Minister Ngyen Cao Ky turned its pressure on the rebel holdout city of Hue. Meanwhile, there were authoritative reports that the rebel troop commander there had returned his forces to government control and that the people of the ancient imperial capital were already beginning to feel a mild pinch from a blockade. (See Paget) Government troops and riot police broke up a Buddhist march in Saigon by 4,000 persons, most of them monks, nuns, students and children. (See Page 16, Part 1.) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony from a psychiatry professor who warned of ominous implications" in what he sees as a similarity between the Vietnam war and the holy wars of former times. (See Page 16, Part 1.) Draft Director Lewis B.

Hershey testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee that the present Selective Service system is better for national defense than the universal service training proposed by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNama-ra. The armed forces should not be burdened with the educational, physical and moral rehabilitation which would be needed under the universal system, Hershey said. In a speech; to editors at Montreal last week, McNamara proposed a two-year period of national service for every young American in either the military or such programs as the Peace Armed services manpower went Over the 3 million mark last month for the first time in 11 years, a Pen tagon report disclosed. The report said the manpower total of 3,005,019 was reached nn Anril SO.

A liiiUrliin because of the Vietnam war is aimed at a goal of 3,093,000 men in uniform by July, 1967. Of the total, the Army had 1,150,488 men; Air Force, Navy, 741,557, and the Marine Corps, 250,248. The Senate passed by voice vote a bill to authorize $975 million in military construction. The measure now goes to the House. It contains a ordering Defense Secretary Robert S.

McNamara to give priority to some $620 million in projects approved by Congress last year and then halted by McNamara. The new appropriation includes 646 projects at 262 bases in the United States and overseas. More than half of the authorization some $515 million-is for military housing. Billy Graham, in England for a crusade, took a needling from the British press. (See Page 1.) Two veteran diplomats and a senator have agreed that French withdrawal from NATO poses a crucial to the' Atlantic alliance.

(See Paget) Chancellor Ludwlg Erhard told the West German parliament on his return from discussions in London that he wants French troops to re-'main in Germany. French President de Gaulle last week threatened to pull French troops off German soil by July 1, 1967, unless Er-hard's government officially asks that they remain. In his speech, Erhard alsa turned down a Soviet proposal for a conference on European security without the United States. Britain and West Germany confirmed that their leaders had failed to reach agreement on how much of Britain's currency exchange costs, Cwhich are incurred in keeping troops in Germany, should be offset by the Germans. (See Page 11, Part 1.) Korean war turncoat Clarence Adams crossed the Communist China border into Hong Kong with his Chinese wife and their small son and daughter.

He had been expected May 9 after Red China notified Hong Kong authorities he was leaving after more than 12 years. Adams and his family were taken to a hotel, where they will await processing of 'papers permitting them to visit in Tennessee. Adams' departure left in China only two of the 21 U.S. prisoners of war who chose to remain with their Communist captors after the Korean "war. They are Howard Adams (no relation) of Corsicana, Tex and James Veneris of Hawthorne, Calif.

Twe South Korean police and a Communist North Korean were killed in a gun battle in Kangnung, I commitment to Romney for the nomination. Labor Department ted tape restricts the immigration of foreign workers to labor-short U.S. areas, Sen. Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy (D-Mass.) said in a Senate speech.

The purpose of one provision of the Immigration Reform Act, which Kennedy guided through the Senate last year, is to assure that an immigrant will have a job when he arrives and not worsen an unemployment problem. In passing the immigration law, Kennedy said, "the Senate anticipated that blanket employment certification would be established for certain skilled occupations with a shortage of American labor But he said this hasn't been done. Charlotte Ford NIarchos, 24, a daughter of Henry Ford II, gave birth in New York to a 7-pound, 1-ounce daughter. She wed Greek shipping magnate Stavros NIarchos, 56, in Mexico last Dec. 16.

Mother and child were doing fine, a hospital spokesman said. Federal regulation on shipment of animals for research should be limited to cats and dogs, the director of the National Institutes of Health told the Senate Commerce Committee. We do not believe that transportation and sale of guinea pigs, hamsters and rabbits pose problems requiring federal regulation," Dr. James A. Shannon, NIH director, said.

The House has passed a bill covering dogsfand cats. The Senate committee is considering this and other bills that would include other animals. The House civil rights subcommittee ended public hearings on the administration's civil rights bill with Rep. Emanuel Celler subcommittee chairman, disputing the contention of Sen. Everett M.

Dirk-sen (R-Ill.) that the bill has no chance of passage this year. Celler said the subcommittee will start working on the bill today and predicted it will come out of the House Judiciary Committee by the end of June containing a ban on discrimination in the sale or rental of dwellings. Conviction on F.laf desecration charges has resulted in Edward Anderson, an 18-year-old Negro, being sentenced to a year in a public works camp. Anderson is the second teenager convicted on charges stemming from a racial demonstration March 31 at the Crisp County courthouse in Cordele, where Georgia and U.S. flags were ripped down.

Alabama Democratic officials bowed to a federal court order and agreed to count votes in six boxes which would give moderate Wilson Baker the party's nomination for sheriff over incumbent segregationist James Clark in Dallas County. The officials said the votes thrown out after the May 3 primary will be counted at "an early date." The House Interior Committee approved a compromise bill aimed at getting construction of the $85 million southern Nevada water-supply project under way. The House committee would not go along with the Senate-passed version. If the committee's version goes through the House, the measure probably will go to a Senate-House conference committee. The proposed project would deliver, water from Lake Mead to southern Nevada cities, including Las Vegas.

Rifle shots from a speeding car killed Cornelius Hughes, 36, of Maiden, in what police said was another in a series of gangland slay-ings in the Boston area. Hughes, a longshoreman, was shot to death, as he drover alone on the Northeast Expressway in Revere, Mass. His slaying brought to 29 the total of gangland victims since March 15, 1964. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, her two children and two of their cousins will fly to Hawaii June 5 for a month's vacation.

Pamela Turnure, secretary to the. former First Lady, said Mrs. Kennedy has rented a large house in Kahala, a suburb of Honolulu, for herself, Caroline, John Jr. and two children of her late husband's sister, Mrs. Patricia Lawford.

kidnaped him bus driver surrendered boy in gun fight. He METROPOLITAN Officer Jerold M. Bova told a coroner's inquest that his fatal shooting of Leonard Deadwyler was an accident. (See Page t) A La Puente mother at the wheel of an empty school bus unwittingly ran over and killed her 6-year-old son. (See Page t) Elbert Thomas Hudson, 45, attorney, was elected president of the Police Commission by acclamation, the first Negro to become president of the commission.

(See Page 3, Part 1.) The Council of Mexican-American Affairs asked for a federal investigation into an alleged "pattern of brutal behavior" by law enforcement officers against residents of East Los Angeles. (See Page 1, Part 2). A young man who says he is the younger brother of former Senate aide Bobby Baker was free on bail a court appearance on a prowling charge. Charles Norman Baker, 25, of 2754 Barrington was arrested Saturday when police found him perched nude in a tree in the Silverlake district. Officers quoted him as saying he was an executive with the Serve-U a vending machine company which figured in the Bobby Baker investigation, and that he had "taken a little LSD," a hallucinatory drug.

The Long Beach International Beauty Congress, an annual event since 1952, was canceled for the summer of 1966 because of too much competition. It was decided that with eight similar pageants crowding the summer months, a winter or summer date in 1967 would be more feasible. Terry Huntingdon, who was Miss United States in the 1959 Miss Universe contest, won a new trial in her paternity case against Hollywood attorney Arthur J. Crowley. The California Supreme Court reversed a lower court jury verdict which had absolved Crowley.

The justices based their reversal on instructions which had been given the jury pertaining to Miss Huntingdon's relations with other men. After a wrist-slashing suicide attempt failed, a 52-year-old former security officer from Gardena decided to rob a bank, he told police. Upon his arrest, Harold F. Zahn of 15820 S. Western Ave.

had $789 cash in his coat the amount assertedly taken from a Bank of America branch in Hawthorne. TV actor David M. Mazzel, 27, went to jail and cannot leave until his parents in Nutter Fork, W. return Mazzei's two young children to his estranged wife Sharon, 23, a nurse from Canoga Park. Mrs.

Maz-zei had been awarded custody May 12 of David II, 3, and Lucretia, 2, pending trial of a divorce contest. They disappeared three days later. Superior Judge Roger Alton Pfaff jailed Mazzei an indefinite period for "continuing contempt" Authorisation for a four -man task force" to visit Europe for a month was granted by the Los Angeles Harbor Commission. Commissioners approved a trip to Scandinavia, Germany and other European countries beginning June 9 by commission President George D. Watson, Vice President Pietro DiCarlo, John F.

Parkinson, the assistant general manager, and Fred Stanford, planning and research director. No specific appropriation was made. After one day's deliberation, a Superior Court jury voted life imprisonment for a second white man convicted of first-degree murder in the shotgun slaying of a Negro sailor on a Los Angeles street last February. Judge Herbert V. Walker ordered Ronald Raymond Stephanson, 19, ot 2422 N.

Naomi St, Burbank, to appear for formal sentencing June 27. John Jay Daniels, 56, community newspaper political writer accused of disturbing a meeting of the Board of Supervisors Jan. 4, was found guilty on two misdemeanor counts. A jury in Municipal Judge Joan Dempsev Klein's court found Daniels, of 6537 W. 84th Place, guilty of disturbing the peace and Interfering with a lawful assembly.

Daniels testified that he was merely trying to correct statements about the anti-poverty program. He will be sentenced June 15. Two men and a woman found guilty, of running a driver licensing racket were fined and given probationary terms by Superior Judge Adolph" Alexander; Russell Wool-folk ,44, of 820 N. Klansman Compton, former examiner at the Compton office of the Department of Motor Vehicles, was given three years probation and fined $500. John Nunes, 43, of 8323 Jackson Paramount, got two years' probation and a $500 fine.

Mrs. Lillian Young, 60, of 289 48th got two year's probation and a $250 fine. They were accused of accepting $25 and $50 fees from illiterates who paid the money to have driver's licenses issued to them. Appointment of a civilian administrative officer for the Fire Department was recommended to the City Council's Personnel Committee by Fire Chief Raymond M. Hill.

He said the appointee would be in charge of the department's supporting services and administrative activities except for the training of 'uniformed personnel and fire dispatching. Pay would range from $16,116 to $20,076 annually. THE STATE Lloyd N. Hand accused Lt Gov. Glenn M.

Anderson of lying under oath before the McCone Commission about his part in calling out the National Guard in the Watts riot last August (See Page 3, Part 1.) In an effort to break a deadlock over the state budget, Gov. Brown interrupted a campaign tour at Santa Rosa and flew back to the capital to urge the Assembly to release the document. (See Page 3, Part 1.) The California Real Estate Assn. filed a 76-page petition for a rehearing in the State Supreme Court, charging that the court's numnca-tion of Proposition 14 contained "unprecedented deficiencies'' in the majority opinion. The court, in a 5-2 decision on May 10, overturned the controversial housing measure on grounds it was unconstitutional.

A San Jose physician, convicted of federal income tax evasion, decided to give 400 hours of free service to charitable institutions rather than pay a $10,000 fine. U.S. Dist Judge Albert C. Wolenberg gave the choice to Dr. Jack Greenberg, 60, after the doctor pleaded no contest to a charge of understating his income for 1961 by $25,000.

He was also assessed $70,000 in back taxes and civil penalties for an eight-year period. Greenberg's decision to do-, nate his time to charity means he will, in effect be paying off the fine at the rate of $25 an hour. Representatives of Standard Building Co. signed a no-discrimination agreement with an ad hoc committee for fair housing in a suburban development which had excluded Negroes. The firm's Serra-monte development in suburban Daly City had been picketed by the committee and the builder earlier conceded that salesmen were instructed not to show the new homes to non-whites.

Fire devastated San Diego's Circle Arts Theater, first of California's theaters-in-the-round, after burglars broke open empty safes and looted cigaret vending machines. Closed for nearly a year, the theater was to reopen next month with weekend shows. Investigators believe -the $50,000 blaze was caused by burglars trying to light their way with matches. A 24-year veteran of the San Bernardino police department has been dismissed following his plea of no contest to a charge of stealing about $100 worth of lumber from a lumber yard Jan. 19, it was disclosed.

The dismissal of Lt. John H. Bromilow, 54, was ordered by the City Civil Service Commission effective Jan. 21. Bromilow was ordered to appear in Municipal Court June 29 for a probation hearing.

The aeronaut who suffered three setbacks in his effort to cross the country in a hot-air ballon said he hopes for favorable winds to resume his flight early Friday. Tracy Barnes, 27, of Chester, S.C., was ready to ascend Wednesday from a point 15 miles northwest of Jacumba in southeastern San Diego County, but the weatherman said no. The takeoff site is where he crashed April 27 after his third ascent. Elimination of salary inequities for Santa Barbara County employes was recommended by the County Employes Assn. as an alternative to a proposed overall 5 pay increase for more than 1,600 workers.

The association told the county supervisors that inequities left some employes with salaries 30 below levels recommended by the group. Constable Marion (Earl) Walker, 43, of the Holtville Judicial District, a candidate for sheriff-coroner in the June 7 primary election, was killed when his crop-dusting plane crashed and burned at Tri-Valley Landing Field near Holtville. Walker was dusting crops with sulfur when his plane slammed into a power line. BUSINESS The stock market let profit takers have their day while managing to push its gaining streak through a fourth straight day. The Dow industrials rose 2.01 to 890.42.

The business outlook for Southern California remains bright with the exception of the home-building industry, a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce conference was informed. SPORTS Wes Parker's bases-loaded, two-out single in the ninth inning gave the Dodgers a come-from-bebind 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies before 19,572 fans at Dodger Stadium. Mickey Mantle swatted his third and fourth home runs of the season as the Yankees crushed the Angels, 11-6, in New York. Dean Chance was the losing pitcher. The House took the historic step of approving a minimum wage for farm workers.

But it also voted to exclude 1.6 million other workers proposed for coverage under the union-backed minimum wage legislation. (See Page 1.) Debate flared anew over how strongly the results of the Oregon primary could be Interpreted as a vote of confidence for President Johnson's Vietnam policy. (See Page 1.) Explorer 32, America's newest orbiting chemical laboratory, soared into space to begin mapping uncharted regions of the earth's upper atmosphere. NASA officials said a problem may be encountered because a Delta rocket, which burned too long, threw the 492-pound satellite into an orbit at least 200 miles higher than planned. The Air Force blamed last week's failure of an Atlas, carrying the Gemini 9 target satellite, on a short circuit that caused one Atlas engine to swivel out of control Failure of the rendezvous target to go into orbit delayed the flight of Gemini 9 astronauts until next Tuesday.

Republican Gov. George Romney will run for a third term as head of Michigan's government a run that some see as a workout for a distance race to the White House. While Romney was fending off 1968 speculation, sources close to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller said the New York Republican leader has made a firm 1.

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