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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Warmer Warmer temperatures and cloudy skies should replace At-lanta's rainy weather Saturday and Sunday. Details on Page 2- CARTY GETS No Bad News' HEFTY RAISE See Story on Page 1-C VOL. 103, No. 174 For 102 Years the South9 8 Standard Newspaper ATLANTA, GA. 30302, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1971 TEN CENTS 56 PAGES, 4 SECTIONS P.

O. Box 4689 L000 Flee Lifeboats After Ship roimdl in the Caribbean Burins Ag Wasden Quits as j- 1 111 1 Hill lg sf Majority From The U.S. No Casualties Are Indicated Top GOP State Changes Are Vetoed By BILL SIITPP Constitution Political Editor Wiley Wasden, 35 -year -old state Republican party chair man, resigned Friday after the state GOP executive committee turned thumbs down on Was- den's proposal to reorganize the party. Wasden said his resignation is By TONY COZIER BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) The French cruise ship Antilles went aground and caught fire Friday near tiny Mustique Island in the Caribbean, forcing an estimated 1,000 passengers and crewmen to take to lifeboats in shark-infested waters. Most of the passengers were reported to be Americans.

A Mustique usewlfe, reached at the island's single telephone, said survivors were coming ashore and "it would seem there have been no casualties." Mrs. Joy Sprott said the black-hulled 600-foot vessel "ran aground about a half mile offshore and everyone aboard has apparently managed to make it to Mustique. There was absolutely no panic and all the peo effective Feb. 1. A new state chairman will be chosen at the annual Republican "Inaugural mMtmMmmm 'r fVi ry i lis' Ball" at Callaway Gardens on Jan.

23. Fireman's Woe CLEVELAND, Ohio The ice covering the beard, hat and clothing of fireman Don. Campbell shows just one of the hazards firemen face on the job. Campbell is shown as he and fellow firefighters fought a blaze that destroyed a home. (Associated Press Wirephoto) A coalition of supporters of GOP Rep.

Fletcher Thompson and those supporting National Committeeman Howard (Bo) Callaway teamed up to give Wasden a vote of no confidence ffTA it-ft IHtiwmbwi lMnrrnii ri rmTffrr Associated Prett Wirephoto French Liner Is Shown at Dockside in Brest, France that resulted in his resignation. At issue was Wasden's pro ple who have come here are in posal to hire Ray Humphries of Inside Today Washington, a longtime GOP consultant, to help reorganize Georgia's Republican party and City Sewer Taps Halted By ALEX COFFIN to raise funds for the party in the state. Humphries was a paid City's Garbage Workers Picket, Stay Of Job consultant to the Hal Suit guber natorial campaign. Whether or not we hired Humphries wasn't the issue. The real issue was whether we A state order halting sewer taps for new construction in the TERRORISTS kidnap British ambassador in Uruguay.

Page 2-A GLOBAL NARCOTICS TRLAL series continues. Page 5-A GAS RATE increase critics come to an agreement. Page 8-A BIKERS scare people in hip area, residents say. Page 9-A Abby 1-B Movies Sec. wanted Wasden to remain.

The Atlanta area remained in effect Friday despite the city's entry of last-minute appeal requesting a hearing on the order, the vote was 11-7 against him," one decision on whether to keep the In what might be the start of source said. another Atlanta sanitation work strike going will come during executive secretary of the state's Water Quality Control Board By ALEX COFFIN and TOM SHERWOOD "We're more important than the Wasden, a Savannah broker, ers strike, trash collection crews the weekend. LAST AUGUST said. R. S.

(Rock) Howard said his was named chairman in May refused to work Friday night fol manent. He said the order would cops," Evans said, standing on lowing the aldermanic Finance remain in effect until modified, 1963 and was considered a close ally of his predecessor, G. Paul The union membership autho top of a car in the freezing driz rized a strike as long ago as last Jones of Macon. zle. "Those downtown folks The water quality executive secretary said a hearing will be Anderson 4-A Top campaign supporters of See TRASH, Back Page held within 40 days.

Committee's refusal to restore a union dues check-off procedure. Pickets began marching at the public works substation on Northside Drive a few hours after the committee's decision. both GOP gubernatorial candi team will be checking closely to be sure no sewer connections are made in the areas served by city's R. M. Clayton and Utoy Creek sewage treatment plants until the city acts to reduce pollution of the Chattahoochee River.

good condition." A U.S. Coast Guard plane, one of three sent to the site some 20 miles south of St. Vincent Island and 450 miles south of San Juan, Puerto Rico, reported the fire aboard the Antilles was raging out of control. In New York the agent for the ship estimated there were about 650 passengers aboard mostly Americans but also including some Frenchmen and Venezuelans. Reports reaching Martinique said local pleasure boats were helping tow some of the lifeboats in calm seas.

They said the fire erupted in the engine room and flared out of control. The captain, senior officers and fire crew remained aboard to battle the blaze. An Armada of rescue craft was en route to the area. The cruise vessel Empress of Canada and two island cargo craft steamed out of Bridgetown, with the Empress due at the scene before midnight. The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2, which was heading for Barbados, changed course for Mustique and the U.S.

Coast Guard Cutter Courageous sailed out of San Juan. The Barbados cable station picked up the first SOS from the Antilles at 6:22 p.m. local time dates Jimmy Bentley. and Hal In the meantime, any taps without permission from his 4-A 1-C 4-A 1- 2-B SecT Sec.T Murphy Outlar Reston Sports Stars Teens TV Suit were sharply, critical of Wasden's efforts throughout th Quad Girls Born board will be against the law, A crowd of about 75 workers can't stand the stinking." 97S MEN Although the union leaders declined to say the work stoppage would continue next week, all sips indicated a strike is in the making for the 975-man sanitation division. Atlanta suffered a 37-day sani Business 5-C Churches 6-A Comics 2-B Crossword 2-B Deaths 3-B Editorials 4-A Heloise 1-B Jumble 2-B McGrory 4-A campaign.

Both sides expressed See POLLUTE, Back Page disappointment at the amount of Jack water pollution control expert for the City To Idaho Couple time Wasden devoted to Repub gathered across the street from the substation where union leaders Jim Howard and Tom Evans urged the men to stick together. Want Ads Weather 4-B 2-A lican politics. JEROME, Idaho (UPI) A Women 1-B Public Works department, said the no-tap order remains in effect and means an estimated Robert Shaw of Atlanta, first Mooii Rover tation strike during March and vice chairman of the state GOP 23-year-old truck driver's wife gave birth Friday to quadruplet $500 million In construction in the two areas in Atlanta and giris at St. Benedict's Hospital i and acting chairman in Wasden's absence during the summer, is the top contender for the Charges on Sun in Jerome. Fulton and DeKalb counties could be affected.

April of last year. That strike spread from the sanitation divisions to laborers in other city departments. Sanitation division chief Ralph Hulsey shut down the regular Dr. James Sloat, the attending Republican chairmanship. MOSCOW (AP) Lunokhod pnysician, said the mother and snaw voted in favor of Was babies were "doing fine." 1, the Soviet Union's robot moon vehicle, flipped open its solar den's proposal Friday and at He said a few.

requests for taps have come in since the order was imposed early last The parents have one other tempted to get Wasden to 120-man Friday night collection panel Friday and began re child, a daughter, Karen, 2. "We had planned on having change his mind about resign charging its batteries for an i 4 month, but no major construction is involved yet. "We haven't operation, leaving garbage sitting on the curbside In much of downtown Atlanta. ing. other round of patrols across the only one more child because Sea of Rains, Tass reported.

felt the impact yet," said that's all the family we could af Jim Hudson, executive secretary of the GOP, said he also at Hulsey said the Friday night The craft had been in hiberna 5:22 p.m. EST. ford on my Income," said Springer, who earns between $90 and tempted to convince Wasden to tion for its second lunar night. Howard said the appeal filed Eight minutes later, another strike "put us out of business" and predicted the work stoppage retract his oral resignation. $120 per week as a truck driver.

from Dec. 23 until late Thurs by the city at noon Friday didn't radio call said "abandoning ship Wasden told the executive would go on into next week. "But, I guess it was what the day when the sun dawned on Lu do anything but prevent the no- Union leaders said an official See LINER, Back Page man upstairs wants," he added. nokhod's position. See WASDEN, Back Page tap order from becoming per Army Bases Its Case On Hutto Statement Blast Rocks Soviet's Center in Washington the job of protecting foreign em By JAY PERKINS tion rested its case that the mili bassies.

A spokesman for EPS tary judge rule the 22-year-old the "Let our people go," soldier not guilty due to "insuffi Action Line gets answers, solves problems, cuts red tape, rights wrongs. For help dial Action Line 523-5161 betteeenll am. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Or write Action Line, The Atlanta Constitution, Box 4689, Atlanta, Ca.

30302. I'm the president of a community choir and we need a piano. We do a lot of charity concerts and sing often for hospital patients. We sing gospel songs, but we don't have any musical instuments now for our rehearsals. We've tried to save money to buy a used piano, but have been unable to come up with enough.

All of us are volunteers in the community chorus and we're not able to contribute more than our time. A piano in good condition will help us continue our singing. T.T. One of our readers has donated a large upright piano for your rehearsals. The arrangements have been made and the piano is now in use for your practice.

I was in Grady Hospital in June 1970. I've been trying to get my bill settled since that date. My insurance company has writ ten the hospital, but nothing happened. I went to Grady the other day to see about my bill, but I couldn't get any information at all. George Allen.

The staff at Grady is sending your claim to the Insurance company Immediately. The forms have been completed and mailed. The hospital regrets any trouble you may have had. I've been out of school for two years, but now I'd like to continue my education by going to college. Could yon please give me any information on how I can go about getting financial aid? Rachel Hardge.

The Georgia State Scholarship Commission is sending you information about scholarships available and how to apply for them. I have some clothing of various sizes and in excellent condition that I'd like to give somebody who could use it. H.C- My neighbor has authorized me to give away a good gas stove to someone who could use it. It would have to be pickedup. I have a very nice cashmere coat and a large collection of caller said.

"Never again." cient evidence" that Hutto had committed a crime. By SAM HOPKINS shooting all the people anyway," the statement further said. (Torres also is scheduled for a court-martial at Ft. McPherson.) Hutto's civilian lawyer, Edward Magill of Miami, immedi "Never again" Is the motto of the militant Jewish Defense Sgt. Charles Hutto, in a sworn statement he made voluntarily to the Army in 1969, said he shot "men, women and children" at My Lai because he was "ordered to shoot everybody in the village." With that statement Introduced by the prosecution Friday, the government rested its wise neainst Hutto.

who Is He said the prosecution had WASHINGTON (AP) The federal government moved Friday to bolster protection around Soviet embassy buildings after a predawn explosion rocked the embassy's cultural center. No one was injured in the blast, police said, although windows in the first and second floor were shattered and a 50- to 60-pound iron door was hurled to a rooftop 250 feet away. League, which has conducted brought up nothing to corrobor several anti-Soviet demonstra ate Hutto's own statement. Magill said Capt. Ernest Med tions in this country the past year.

ately moved after theprosecu- The State Department quickly ina, the commander of Charlie Company, had given Hutto and the other soldiers "unequivocal assured Soviet officials additional protection would be given. The State Department immediately apologized for the and clear" orders "to kill" everyone in the My Lai village, It also said every effort would said Friday a permanent guard was not assigned to the cultural building at the time of the bombing but that roving patrols were making periodic checks. The agency later announced a fixed patrol has been assigned to all buildings of the embassy at the urging of the State Department. Two men were dispatched to stand guard shortly after the announcement The target building, near' DuPont Circle, houses the embassy's press relations department and the information office for Soviet Life magazine. Several families also live there.

The bombing was the latest in a series of anti-Soviet demonstrations and violent Incidents in several U. S. cities. All the re-See BLAST, Back Page a meeting to discuss the mount and that the government "nasn'i ing series of incidents in both be made to arrest those responsible for the bombing. "We have been making and bothered to tell us whether that Russia and the United States order was legal or illegal" and will make a very strong effort to over American Jewish reaction to the treatment of Soviet Jews.

that at no time had the soldiers during their training "ever re protect Soviet installations," a charged with assault with Intent to murder at least six Vietnamese civilians on March 16, 1968, during a search-and-destroy mission. "It was murder," Hutto said in the statement read to the jury of six officers at Ft. McPherson by Capt. Franklin R. Wurtzel, the chief prosecutor.

Hutto said at one point in the village Sgt. Esequiel Torres asked him for his machinegun and he gave it to Torres because he (Hutto) "wasn't too happy at The bomb went off about 4:30 department spokesman said. "It ceived one bit of instruction, one a.m. About a half hour later a is quite clear we will review our moment of direction as to what woman called the Washington security measures to see how was an illegal order, when to obey and when to disobey." they can be improved." The recently established Ex bureau of The Associated Press to report the bombing and to Magill declared there had ecutive Protective Service, an warn it was only "a sample of 'IT WAS MURDER' Sgt Charles Hutto See ACTION LINE, Page 2-A arm of the Secret Service, has things to come." See HUTTO, Back Page.