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ihmm tru mmm. till "o) WIN ONA DAILY Cloudy, Coo! With Showers, Thundershowers Police Arrest Abernathy At Capitol WASHINGTON (AP) The 113th Year of Publication WINONA, MINNESOTA 55987, MONDAY, JUNE TOMORROW SUN RISES nn Li nnnji LTU MOON JUNE 25 r.0 UDD lyMMPGu 24, 1968 TEN 1 M2 ,4 it 7 4 ft i DFL Clouded by Potential Split ST. PAUL, Minn. Minnesota Democrats have given Vice President Hubert Humphrey a near three-to-one advantage in national convention delegates, but the state party is clouded with another potential party split. Humphrey supporters won all 20 at-large delegates to the Democratic National Convention at the state party convention Saturday.

On Sunday, they swept all 10 alternate posts. That left Humphrey with 38V4 votes on the first ballot and Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, with 13V4 in first ballot strength for the presidential nomination at the Democrat's Chicago convention in August. And the state convention adopted 616-456 a platform plank on the Vietnam War which calls for an immediate cease-fire and curtailment of American bombing in North Vietnam.

That coincides with the vice president's latest reported views of the war. Delegates at the same time rejected a dovish plank offered by McCarthy backers which urged a halt to all bombing and immediate withdrawal of 50,000 American troops as a first step toward complete withdrawal. When the dust had settled Sunday evening, a McCarthy campaign leader declared that Humphrey may have won the battle in the state convention but that he could lose the state in Novem CENTS PER COPY 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES Mi Wfiat Terms? When a man tells you he's on speaking terms with his wife, he seldom mentions what the terms are Today's youngsters are in a rush they start dating the opposite sex as soon as they find out there is one A politician (says the cynic) never forgets a promise he merely forgets to keep it A New Yorker complained about the recent rainy weather. "Spring arrived on time, all right but it was towed away." (For more laughs see Earl Wilson on Page 4A) 1 I '3! swept all 20 at-large dele-gates Democratic National Convention, president a lopsided margin in the state delegation. (AP FILING HIS CHOICE French President Charles de Gaulle, his portrait In the background, deposits his ballot as he votes Sunday in the nation's parliamentary election.

He voted in the mayor's house in town of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises where he has his country home. Voting was heavy. (AP Photofax) CONVENTION VISITORS Vice President Hubert Humphrey gets admiring glances from two women as he passes them at the Minnesota Democratic convention in St Paul. At Sen. Eugene McCarthy pauses during his address to the convention.

SETS 8:53 (CDT); NEW Ernie Maxwell said. Maury Koblentz, state corrections chief, said at least 20 persons were injured, including 10 prison guards. Maxwell said the hospital fire was the most critical of the disturbance. He said 92 to 100 inmates and employes were in the hospital, but were brought out by heavily armed guards and police. Hundreds of inmates milled in the prison yards, but an official -t ie frrsrs i Humphrey forces to the giving the vice over McCarthy Photofax) VT SET FIRE TO HOSPITAL Prisbhers Riot in Ohio Rev.

Ralph David Abernathy, leader of the Poor People's Campaign was arrested today as he sought to lead a group of demonstrators on to the Capitol grounds. Meanwhile, a small army of police was evacuating the campaign's camp, Resurrection City. Abernathy, who has frequently proclaimed he would be ar rested, offered no resistance as two policemen led him and oth er demonstrators to be photo graphed and then placed him aboard a bus. At Resurrection City, police were working their way through the camp from east to west. that is from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial arefc.

The residents were given a police ultimatum at 9:42 a.m. EDT to get out or be arrested. More than 1,500 riot-equipped Metropolitan and Park police were on duty to enforce the or der. Columns of black smoke threaded up into the muggy air. Police on the line near the Lincoln Memorial said the fires were in some of the plywood huts.

The blazes did not appear se rious. When the first fire trucks arrived they remained only a lew minutes and then withdrew, only to hurry back a few minutes later. John Diamond, a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff, said "upward of 100" members of the Poor People's Campaign were all that remained in the city when police entered. The opening movement to sweep out the camp was an- nounced about 11:30 a.m. by Grant Wright, deputy chief of me ar ponce.

The arrest of Abernathy took placs at the foot of Capitol Hill amidst a scene of confusion. Police, tourists, and newsmen were jammed into the area. The attempted demonstration and arrest took place in hot, sweltering weather. Officers and demonstrators sweated freely. No official estimate of the number of demonstrators or the number taken into custody at the Capitol was available.

The demonstrators gathered in various groups amidst the crowd of police and spectators that outnumbered them. The demonstrators chanted and sang, "Ain't 'gonna Let No body Turn U.S. Around." At the White House, press sec- (Continued on Page 2A Col. 1) POOR troop concentration 10.5 miles north of Saigon. The U.S.

Command said ground observers in the training camp area southeast of the capital reported that secondary explosions lasted for six minutes after the eight-engine bombers left the site. A secondary explosion means ammunition or fuel going up after the 500- and 750-pound bombs have exploded. In the last two weeks, the B52s have flown nearly 100 missions within a 75-mile radius of the capital, trying to cut infiltration corridors from the Cambodian border and prevent enemy troops from massing for a threatened attack on Saigon next month. In five raids Sunday, the B52s aimed at enemy troop concentrations and infiltration routes in Phuoc Long Province, next to the Cambodian border 75 miles north of Saigon. Saigon was spared of any shelling for the third consecutive day today, but the Vict Cong shelled two airfields, a province capital and four government military posts.

Government headquarters said the shellings killed two government soldiers and wounded six soldiers and 15 Vietnamese civilians. It was the quietest night in two months in the capital and almost everywhere else in the country. U.S. sources said the enemy likely may be "laying back" to receive replacements, retrain, refit and resupply for fresh attacks. Hanoi Radio rejected a U.S.

appeal for a halt to the shelling of Saigon saying North Vietnam is "ready to fight the U.S. aggressors anywhere in Vietnam." Gaullists Take Overwhelming Lead in France PARIS (AP) President Charles de Gaulle's forces appeared headed today for an overwhelming majority in the French National Assembly after strong gains in the first round of the national elections. Left-wing extremists warned that "the battle has only begun" aa preparations began for the runoff elections next Sunday, Frightened by the May weeks of violence and nationwide strikes, the French people heeded De Gaulle's theme of "Gaullism or Communism" and elected 142 of his followers Sunday. Gaullist candidates also were in favorable positions for the runoff elections in 150 other districts, indicating that the president and Premier Georges Pompidou might win a majority of more than 100 in the 487-seat assembly. In the last assembly the Gaullists and their allies had a majority of only one.

It was an unexpected triumph for the 77-year-old general who less than a month ago threatened to resign at the height of the national convulsion. It was also a stinging defeat for De Gaulle's opponents of the center and left. said ne neuevea tne aisturDance was led by a cadre of only IS to 20 convicts. The cause was not known immediately, and Koblentz said there had been no communications with the rioting inmates. He said he had no knowledge of any demands by the convicts.

At least seven fires erupted inside the walled prison, which houses 2,750 inmates. Some of the fires were still burning three hours later. 4 TWWWfc B52s Hit VC Training Area Near Saigon ber if he becomes the party's presidential nominee. The public impression of tactics by Humphrey forces may have hurt the vice president, said Hopkins Holmberg, Mc Carthy's floor leader at the convention. He added: "What really came ont was that the Humphrey people took a very hard tine.

They dumped some of their own supporters who didn't take a hard line. That's indicative of the differences in this party. "Humphrey may have won the convention but may lose the state." Holmberg pointed out that Minnesota, a politically unpredictable state, could wind up with a large chunk of the independent vote against Humphrey. Two years ago, the Democrats suffered a deep party rift when the state convention dumped incumbent Gov. Karl Rolvaag for re election in favor of endorsing Lt.

Gov. A.M. Keith. But Rolvaag, campaigning in the primary as the people's choice, swamped Keitn better tnan two-to-one, then went on to lose to Republican Harold LeVander by some 73,000 votes. Republicans also captured all but one of six other statewide posts.

Pro McCarthy backers had won control of party machinery earlier this year in the three large congressional districts centering on the Twin Cities, while the party regulars had the upper hand in five outstate districts. Humphrey's state campaign leader, State Rep Wendell R. Anderson of St. Paul, said in response to Holmberg's comments, "We felt the big issue was who would win delegates. This was our objective.

We were successful." He added that the vice presi dent's supporters had not tried to be unduly harsh even though they had the votes. Anderson noted they had not opposed re election of Forrest Harris, a McCarthy man, as first vice chairman of the state party. We hoped that would be a gesture to keep McCarthy people in the party in spite of differences," he said. An aide to Humphrey, William Connell, said the vice president nad not seen the Vietnam plank which was adopted. But he said that Humphrey was in general agreement with its views.

Humphrey has called for the exploratory Paris peace talks to continue while any cease fire is in effect in Vietnam. Connell called it a "curious coincidence" that the plank paralleled the views expressed by Humphrey in an interview with the New York Times. McCarthy backers proposed that the 50,000 troop withdrawal would be the prelude to "a total and unremitting commitment to a complete withdrawal." supporters of the senator staged an unusual demonstra tion in presenting their Vietnam resolution. As many of them wore armbands, they paraded silently through the hall and sang songs like "We Shall Overcome" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Maxwell said the hospital fire was "out of control 10 to 20 nun utes." There was never any danger of a mass break-out," Koblentz said. Maxwell credited a number of inmates with helping to put out some of the fires.

Two hundred Ohio National Guardsmen were sent to their armory, but they were not called into duty at the prison. J'f Dead of any firearms by felons, mental incompetents, aliens illegally in the country, Americans who have renounced their citizenship and veterans who receive other than an honorable discharge. A measure pending before Congress and sponsored by the President would ban mail-order sales of all firearms, including rifles and shotguns. The AP survey, begun midnight Sunday, June 16, showed gunfire in Texas claimed 20 lives, the greatest number of any state, homicides there accounted for 14 deaths, almost double the next highest states-Illinois, 16, California, 13, Michigan and Ohio, 10. COLUMBUS, Ohio Rioting inmates set numerous fires inside the Ohio Peniten tiary this morning.

For a time nearly 100 persons were trapped in the prison hospital. The convicts battled prison guards and police with ball bats and homemade knives, duc state official said two hours later, "There is a degree of control within the prison by various law enforcement units. No shots were fired, Warden SOCCER STAMPEDE 71 Trampled To Death in Argentina BUENOS AIRES (AP) Ig. noring a loudspeaker warning that a gate was closed, hun dreds of soccer fans stampeded as they tried to leave Argentina's largest stadium Sunday and trampled 71 persons to death. Police said 83 persons were injured, many of them serious ly.

Most of the dead and injured were men. It was Argentina's worst sports disaster and recalled the worst such in the History of sports, a stampede at a soccer match in Lima, Peru, in 1964 in which 328 persons were killed. The Argentine tragedy oc curred just at sundown on a chilly winter afternoon at Gate 12, one of the 24 entrance-exit cates around the Estadio Monu mental, the 90,000 seat home of the River Plate Soccer Club. The stampeding crowd swept away the turnstiles in their pan ic. Most were Boca Junior fans from the cheapest seats in the stadium.

WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WINONA AND VICINITY Cloudy and cool with occasional showers and thundershowers through Tuesday. Low tonight 55-60; high Tuesday 70-74. Outlook Wednesday: Partly cloudy with temperatures a little below normal. LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m. Sunday: Maximum, 82; minimum, 60; noon, 76; precipitation, .20.

Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m. today: Maximum, 81; 60; noon, 68; precipitation .67. X- 'A a uy i 1 McCarthy Hopes To Confer With North Diplomats as police and firemen from Columbus sought to quell trouble. This overall view shows fires spotting the area. (AP Photofax) TROUBLE Riot and four fires hit Ohio State Penitentiary in downtown Columbus early today.

Two hundred National Guardsmen were called on a standby basis Gun Toll for Week SAIGON (AP) U.S. Air Force B52 bombers today smashed a Viet Cong training center 13 miles from Saigon. The B52s, have bombed closer to the capital only once. Last Feb. 13, at the height of the Viet Cong's Tet offensive on Saigon, they struck a suspected enemy not plan to participate in peace negotiations in Paris or to offer a proposal there on settling the war.

Humphrey said an immediate cease-fire in Vietnam would create a positive atmosphere at the Paris peace talks and end "fight and talk" tactics. Humphrey, during an interview with editors of the New York Times, said he would be prepared to offer a cease-fire "any hour of the day" but said Hanoi has shown no such interest. "But it may," he added. "I think we ought to keep pounding away at it." McCarthy was interviewed on ABC's "Issues and Answers." The Humphrey interview appeared in Sunday's editions of the New York Times. (Continued on Page 2A, Col.

McCarthy 6) at 189 WASHINGTON Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy says he hopes to talk to North Vietnamese diplomats in Paris this summer to learn prospects for a "settlement or accommodation" of the war. And Vice President Hubert II. Humphrey has adyocated an immediate cease-fire.

On the Republican side, California Gov. Ronald Reagan said Sunday it makes no sense to regard military victory in Vietnam as impossible but GOP presidential aspirant Nelson A. Rockefeller said the only way to an honorable peace is through negotiations. McCarthy, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said he hopes to talk to North Vietnamese representatives during a Paris trip in July or early August. But McCarthy said he docs Stands By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Gunfire killed 189 persons in the United States, a week-long survey by The Associated Press shows, and most of the deaths were homicides.

The survey, ended at midnight Sunday, was taken during the same week President Johnson signed an an- ticrime bill containing gun-control provisions. The shooting deaths included 109 homicides, 64 suicides and 16 accidents. In 1966, the last year for which FBI figures are avail able, there was an average of 125 shooting homicides a week. Demands for tighter cun-con- trol measures were made after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy all killed by guns. Proponents of gun control blame loose traffic in firearms for thousands of deaths each year.

President Johnson signed an omnibus anticrime bill last Wednesday, which contained a gun-control More stringent laws on gun control are being considered by Congress. Two of the provisions in the crime bill: Prohibit interstate mail-order sales of handguns and also their over-the-counter sale to nonresidents of a state and to people under 21. Make illegal the possession I.