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Pin jDOD TUESDAY XL) 1 LrdD wmm wmwm i I LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE WEST, 445,150 DAILY, 1,184,384 SUNDAY I Copyright IM7 Lo Angelet Times 94 PAGES TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1967 PART ONE VOL LXXXVI KO) Youthful Gunman Shot Dead by Other Officers at Scene FIVE PARTS DOUBLE DEATH Policeman, left, who was slain by other officers after n- 7 BY GORDON GRANT Times Staff Writer A rookie police officer was shot and killed Monday night when a 16-year-old sniper opened fire at a patrol car from the shadows of a Van Nuys playground. JffWf'iS 1 11 If DAILY 10c Clay Indicted for Refusal to Serve in Armed Forces HOUSTON (UPI) A federal grand jury Monday indicted Cassius Clay for refusing induction into the armed forces. Clay later posted $5,000 bond and pleaded innocent to the charges at a preliminary hearing before U.S. Dist. Judge Ben C.

Connally. The heavyweight champion strolled the streets of Houston while the grand jury handed down the indictment. He later walked into the Houston federal building, kissed a Negro baby, and got into an argument with a Negro woman who scolded him for refusing to serve. "Little girl, you don't know what a hard, tough world you're coming into," Clay told 1-month-old Clair Marie Woods, daughter of Mrs. Madelyn Woods of New Iberia, a visitor to the federal building.

The indictment, by a grand jury which included one Negro, left Clay open to a five-year prison term and a $10,000 fine. He has already been stripped of his heavyweight boxing title by most world-recognized agencies for refusing to be inducted April 28.. A Negro woman of about 35 who works for the Veterans Administration in Houston told Clay he was Please Turn to Page 5, CoL 7 A YEAR behemoths. New passenger linen are smaller and cheaper to run. Each of the queens was losing $2.1 million a year.

The Mary held the transatlantic speed record for every year except one (in 1937, when France's Normandie took it) from her christening until 1952 when the United States set the still-standing record from New York to Southampton of 3 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes. Thousands of American troops sailed to World War II on the Mary and the Elizabeth. The ships crossed alone, their 28.5 knot -speeds too fast for convoys and for German submarines. Taking their place as the star of the Cunard fleet will be a new $70 million vessel now on the ways. The Q-4, as she remains designated until her official name i3 revealed, wiU begin service in 1969.

She will be a lighter ship, 53,000 tons. The sniper also was killed when the dead policeman's partner and an off-duty officer returned the gunfire at Van Nuys Recreation Center, 14301 Vanowen Ave. Another policeman who was attempting to circle behind the sniper during the shooting was wounded in the leg by a ricocheting police bullet. Roger R. Warren, 23, who was graduated from the Police Academy two weeks ago, was shot once in the heart and was dead on arrival at Valley Receiving Hospital, investigators said.

The youth, William McKinley Miller, of 7323 Tyrone Van Nuys, was shot at least three times and was dead at the scene. He was found crouched behind a two-foot concrete wall at the sidewalk edge of the park with a 30.0Q caliber rifle at his side, police said. Officer Stops Patrol Car Officer James P. Woodman said he and Warren were driving south in the 6900 block of Lennox Ave. when they noticed a figure in the darkened park near a barbecue pit.

Warren made a U-turn, stopped the patrol car and Woodman got out to investigate. As he peered over a parked car at the curb next to the park, he said, he heard a "bang." "I didn't realize what it was at first," he said. "Then I heard a couple more and yelled to' Warren to Please Turn to Page 9, Col. 1 LOSING $4 MILLION being put in an ambulance, right. Photos by Henry Saffold 4-Month Attempt Johnson to Get Peace Parley Told BY JOHN M.

IIIGIITOWEIi AP Staff writer WASHINGTON For more than four months, from mid-December to late April, President Johnson held U.S. bombers away from the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in an effort to find out whether President Ho Chi Minh would open secret peace talks or take steps to scale down the war. North Vietnam was Informed of what Mr. Johnson was doing and was invited to respond. The story of what happened, beginning last November with a Polish maneuver, now can be told as it is known in official Washington.

It has been pieced together in a weeks-long check of various sources. It can be told now because the episode i3 closed, although officials believe some of the work done may contribute eventually to peace in Vietnam. Through Polish and other diplomatic channels word was sent to Hanoi last December that if Hanoi would take some parallel step to de-escalate the fighting, the United States would be prepared to make other moves. Hanoi, campaigning to Please Torn to Paje 18, CoL 1 cer Roger R. Warren, whose body.

is The sniper fired from behind a concrete wall in a Van Nuys playground. ENEMY USES FLAMETHROWERS Marines Repulse Savage Assault by Reds T1AT 1 1 A. fn At- i. 1 a. A stands over body of youthful sniper he had shot and killed rookie offi marines killed and 140 allied troops wounded.

South Vietnamese militiamen lost 14 dead. Five Americans in a U.S. Special Forces unit and five Navy Seabees were among the wounded. The North Vietnamese regulars demonstrated their growing strength along the demilitarized zone. They made this one of four coordinated attacks against what is known as "Leatherneck Square," an area of about 50 square mile3 south of the eastern part of the zone.

North Vietnam is believed to be trying to win a prestige victory somewhere along this zone, and in the attack near Con Thien the North Vietnamese almost killed Lt. Gen. Lewis W. Walt, commander of the 75,000 Marines in Vietnam. Walt was inspecting the battlefield when the North Vietnamese opened a mortar attack.

One shell exploded 15 feet from Walt He was not wounded but his operations officer was hit in the face by a shell fragment and his aide suffered a concussion. For the attack at the Con Thien Please Turn to Page 20, Col. 1 FEATURE INDEX Two Ocean Queens Will End Reign, Give Way to New Ship SAIGON (3? About 1,200 North elite troops attacked a U.S. iAarine outpost with mortars, rockets and flamethrowers Monday and pierced the defenses at two points before being thrown back with heavy losses. Then the Leathernecks launched a pursuit in an attempt to trap the enemy.

The 400 U.S. marines and a mixed force defending the position near Con Thien, two miles south of the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam, counted 197 enemy dead after the three-hour battle. -The defenders also suffered heavy losses. Battlefield reports listed 44 BY ROBERT C. TOTII Timet Staff Writer Eisenhower Reported on Road to Recovery From New Illness LONDON The end of the two famed queens of the Atlantic was announced here Monday by Cunard Lines.

The Queen Mary, launched in 1934, will be taken from service at the end of this summer and her sister ship, the 29-year-old Queen Elizabeth, will make her final voyage a year later. They are the largest passenger ships afloat 81,237 tons and 83,673 tons, respectively and their passing will end the era of such THE WEATHER Light smog today. U.S. Weather Bureau forecast: Night and morning low clouds but partly sunny afternoons today and Wednesday. Cooler daytime temperatures.

High today; 75. High Monday, 81; low, 61, BOOK REVIEW. Page 11, Part 4. BRIDGE. Page 8, Part 4.

BUSINESS FINANCIAL. Pages 815, Part 3. CLASSIFIED. Pages 1-20, Part 5. COMICS.

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EDITORIALS, COLUMNS. Pages 4, 5, Part 2. ENTERTAINMENT, SOCIETY. Pages 1-21. Part 4.

METROPOLITAN NEWS. Part 2. MOTION' PICTURES. Pages 14-17, Part 4. OBITUARIES.

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Pagt 13, Part 3. WASHINGTON (5) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 76, who has weathered various major medical end surgical storms, appeared Monday to be on the road to recovery from a new illness for which he was admitted to the hospital about midnight Saturday. He entered Walter Reed Army Hospital beset by what doctors provisionally diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the lining of the stomach and small intestine. Monday the hospital Issued this bulletin: "His condition continues to improve and he is able to take liquid nourishment today." The hospital also said the former President "had a comfortable night last night and he slept well." The five -star general's wife, Mamie, was reported at hi3 bedside.

Thus the evidence appeared to be building up that Gen. Eisenhower who wa3 attacked suddenly by nausea, vomiting and abdominal Please Torn to Fife 12, CoL 1 a i.