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A HERA I. WVdnMiluy, January Jl, 19d9 Dayton, Ohio Man Jailed PS! William C. Baggs Bi Father At RadcUlfc In Saigon Editor, War Go-Between arvard Coed Found Axed Slayin SAIGON (AP) A suspect in the assassination of Education Minister Le Minn Tri has been arrested, sources said last night. They described him as a South Vietnamese marine who was discharged last March after he was wounded. A government spokesman asserted again that the assassination was the work of Commu By I llltfil lirirrnjitliinitl CAMBRIDGK, Mass.

(LTD The attractive brunette daughter of a Kadeliffo college vice president was found axed to death in her blood-splattered apartment yesterday. The body of Miss Jane Britton, 22, clad in a blue nightgown, was found sprawled across her bed by a boyfriend, worried because she had missed an examination. The building was the same one in which Beverly Samans, a 23-ycar-old graduate student at Boston university, was stabbed to death in 1963 in the 10th of 13 murders attributed to the Boston strangler. Death was caused by a "massive laceration of the skull," according to Detective Lf. Leo Davei.port.

"It was something sharn. like a hatchet or cleaver." nists. But this time he emphasized it was only his personal view. lems, including war, by stating the problem clearly. Last April 5, Baggs and Ash-more can-led from Hanoi to Vientiane a secret aide memo from the Central Committee of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Hanoi government) to the United States.

The message set down conditions for talks preliminary to peace negotiations including "cessation of U. S. bombing raids and all other acts of war." The two men wrote a book entitled "Mission to Hanoi: A Chronicle of Double-Dealing in High Places." Baggs had been editor of The Miami News since 1957 and a member of the paper's staff since 1946. The newspaper won the Pulitzer prize three times while he was editor. Baggs is the only working newsman from the United States known to have visited wartime Hanoi twice.

He also had worked for the Greensboro (N. News and the Panama Star Herald. MIAMI (AP) William Calhoun Baggs, a newspaper editor who served as go-between for Hanoi and Washington in paving the way for peace talks on the Vietnam war, died here yesterday. Baggs, 46, a World War II combat officer who became a harsh critic of America's Vietnam bombing and the war policies of President Johnson, was editor of The Miami News. He entered Miami Heart institute Sunday reportedly suffering from pneumonia and influenza.

Baggs recently was hospitalized over an extended period for an undisclosed illness. His trips to Hanoi, in January, 1967, and the spring of 19G8, were with Harry S. Ashmore, chairman of the executive committee of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Baggs was a board member at the center, a private organization created by the Ford foundation to seek answers to prob- TV Davenport said no weapon was found and there was no sign of last summer on an arr.heologi- forced entry, The Dead girl was the of J. Boyd Britton, administrative vice president of Rad-cliffe, sister to Harvard Uni cal expedition in Iran.

The previous summer she was In France. The spokesman said Miss Britton was a bright student. versity, good She was a 1967 graduate of i "very talented and artist." However, if the man was an ex-marine, this would fan new speculation about motives for the bombing of Tri's car at a crowded Saigon street corner. In the fighting, meanwhile, U.S. B-52 bombers hammered Communist lairs around Saigon with more than 600,000 pounds of bombs and then attacked Red positions in the central highlands.

The heavy emphasis on softening up threatening Communist positions via the air followed two Communist assaults almost on the dexn-step of the capital. Communist raiders kidnaped 150 Vietnamese civilians from one village near Saigon and brought another village under intense mortar fire. But in a William Calhoun Baggs Carried Secret Memo Miss Britton's parents live in Needham, a suburb southwest of Boston. Miss Jane Uritton, 22 Ohio Senate Gets Proposals On Death Penalty, Voting Radcliffe and a second-year graduate student in Antliro-IKilogy at Harvard. Police the Britton girl lived alone in a Three-room apartment in the dingy four-story brick building.

Police said they wore called by James Humphreys, 27, whom ihey described as Miss Britton's boyfriend. They said he had gone to the apartment after his morning classes. Detectives said Miss Britton' had a brother due to leave for Vietnam yesterday and her parents were trying to locate him. Neighbors described Miss Britton as "very attractive" and "very nice." A spokesman at Harvard Uni Sobell Max Go Free Friday third encounter heavily reinforced American troops killec! When The Mike Waih, The Cradle Will Rock COCHIN, India (AP)-A new step in automation of baby-sitting is claimed by Mitra Das, 13, a Cochin schoolboy. Finding it hard to do his homework and rock Tiis baby sislor whenever she cried, he rigged up a microphone device to pick up cradle wails and convert them into electric Impulse NEW YORK (AP) Morton Sobell, convicted in 1931 of passing atomic bomb secrets to Soviet agents, could be freed from prison this week if the U.S.

2nd circuit court of appeals wide referendum in November. It requires an amendment to the constitution. Similar measures in previous sessions have met with little success, with most failing to get at least 58 Reds in a Mekong Delta battle. Spokesmen said the eight-engincd B-52s dumped about 600,000 pounds of bombs Tuesday on Communist base camps ranging from 29 miles north to 36 and 46 miles northwest of Saigon. Another bomber raid conviction with Julius and Kthel Rosenberg.

So far, all have failed. The Rosenbergs were executed June 19, 1953. The convincted spy, serving a 30-year term, says he should be given credit for about eight months he served between his arrest Aug. IS, 1950, and sentencing April 5, 1951. believes the death penally is basically wrong." There are now 28 men on death row in the Ohio penitentiary.

Ocasek noted that Ohioans have not voted on the issue since 1912 when the death penalty came within 100,000 votes of being abolished. "And rules in his favor. out of committee. COLUMBUS-(AP) What has become a perennial attempt to abolish the death penalty and another resolution proposing lowering the minimum voting age to 19 were introduced in the Ohio Senate yesterday. But Sen.

Oliver Ocasek (D-27 Summit) predicted another "uphill battle" in trying to do away with capital punishment. Ocasek sponsored a resolution asking that the controversial issue be voted upon in a state that activate two valves that Ocasek said that the lawyers versity's anlhroK)logy depart Sobell, now 51, has made more than a dozen appeals for freedom since his March 29, 1951, struck the area of Tuesday's ment said Miss Britton wanted stalt a mor that rocks the to be an arrheologist and spent cradle with a connecting rod. on the Senate Judiciary committee do not like his resolution, but added, "No one has Mekong Delta battle. i that was before had the vote," he said. been executed in Ohio since March, 1963.

This indicates to Ocasek said the homicide rate has not gone up in the 13 states me that the state administration which have abolished the death penalty. The move to lower the voting Ohio Study Group Urges age picked up steam as the legislators met briefly in the second day of the new session Ocasek and two others, Sens Douglas Applegate (D-30 Steu beville) and William B. Nye (D-28 Summit), sponsored resolution to change the constitution to allow 19-year-olds to vote. But the resolution stipulates that no one under 21 could be elected or appointed to any pub lic office. This was the second resolu tion presented to the senate asking for a referendum to lower the voting age to 19.

The New Taxing Authority By Anaorialrd Vrrt COLUMBUS A legislative committee yesterday recommended that local government be given "new and expanded authority" to raise taxes to meet their "total financial needs." The Committee to Study the Funding of the Police and Firemen's Pension Fund, a Legislative Service commission committee appointed by the last legislature, indicated that new sources of revenue would help relieve cities of the huge debts they owe the fund. On Monday a committee member, Sen. John H. Weeks (R-Cuyahoga) introduced a bill in the senate that would provide more revenue for cities. His bill would allxv city councils to adopt a maximum 2 per cent city income tax without a vote of the people.

The present limit is 1 per cent. The bill provides that a tax of more than 2 per cent would have to be approved by a simple majority at an election. To increase the present 1 per cent a 55 per cent majority is reeded. Weeks said cities with huge pension fund debts could use some of the increased revenue to help pay them off. first was introduced during the opening day Monday.

Similar resolutions are expected be introduced in the house. Meanwhile, the house yester day met for an hour and approved a handful of "housekeeping" resolutions. They in cluded establishing auto mile age rates for representatives and assigning committee rooms. Speaker Charles F. Kurfess (R-4 Wood) urged members "to get their bills in so we can have a productive session." an en is row rortune lyiiagaziinie oescriins tine artroated cliareeal iStei It "VT.

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