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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 816 STATE ST UAOISON ST UADISON WIS 58706 COM? V- w.aH.-aj.7 v44r--. tVr seek a 1 1 ey wil wTTia on SALT LAKE CITY (UPD Lt. William CaUey's defense team says it will seek a new trial based on the finding of a "missing" GI witness to the My Lai massacre. "We still have work to do on putting together the evidence and working out more leads," said George Latimer, chief defense counsel during the military trial that ended with Calley's conviction 16 months ago. A former Army private, identified as Charles Dean "Butch" Gruver of Stotesbury, was located last week.

Graver served under Calley when more than 100 unarmed civilians were killed in the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Latimer said Sunday that he sought Gruver during Calley's court-martial and that a new trial would be based on the ex-soldier's testimony. PreUminary work would take a week to 10 days and the petition for a new trial would be filed within a "reasonable" time after that, said Latimer, a former Utah Supreme Court Justice and judge on the U.S. Court of Military -Appeals in Washington, D.C. Gruver recently told an Oklahoma City newspaper that he had been available to testify more than a year ago; but was not asked to do so.

Calley has been under house arrest at Ft Benning, since his conviction. He had -been sentenced to life imprisonment but the time was reduced to 20 years. Appeal of the conviction is pending before the U.S. Army Court of Military Review in Washington, D.C. Latimer, in an interview in his Salt Lake City office several months prior to the Calley trial, blamed extensive television and press exposure of the war for creating the My Lai incident "The deep trauma of war previously felt by men in the field is being felt in livingrooms all across America," Latimer said at the interview, conducted in the summer of 1970.

"If the people had a solidifying cause, they would do more fighting and less complaining," he said. "Atrocities have occurred in all wars past, but people were too busy fighting to pay much attention to them." CBiinipipcBwa ffimAILIBMEILIEBmAKfl i'- 11 V' VliMiXwa Urn m.mnmi I sum 1 qii7g MONDAY, JULY 17, 1972 VOL. 102 NO. 167 CHIPPEWA FALLS, WISCONSIN 2 SECTIONS 26 PAGES 1 i 3 II I tit i "missing" GI witness. LT.

CALLEY pins hopes on HER A LD-TELEGtl AM pedestrian safety award Chippewa Falls' fatality-free pedestrian safety record for the past year has earned an award for pedestrian safety achievement from the Wisconsin-Division of the American Automobile Association. Francis J. Eckerman, Director of Safety for the Wisconsin AAA, (left) last week presented an engraved plaque to Chippewa Falls Mayor Robert Halbleib (center) and Chief of Police James Buchanan. The award is based on the city's participation in the AAA National Pedestrian Safety Inventory, in which 2,146 cities in the United States compare safety efforts. Sirice the program was started in 1937, pedestrian fatalities have been reduced 33 per cent while motor vehicle registration has increased 274 per cent and vehicle travel 340 per cent.

Non-pedestrian fatalities have nearly doubled since 1937. Chippewa Falls is one of 59 Wisconsin cities without a single pedestrian fatality for periods of one year or more. Greendale has been pedestrian fatality-free for 33 years. "These commendable records are the result of dedicated efforts by local officials, police and citizens who take action to keep their streets safe for pedestrians," said Eckerman. The AAA Pedestrian Program in Wisconsin is sanctioned by the State Division of Highway Safety Coordination.

slash in war funds test of McGovern WASHINGTON (UPI) Congress returns' from its Democratic convention recess today, facing a new battle in the effort to end the Indochina war by legislation. The struggle over the proposal by Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield to. cut off funds for U.S. combat forces in Vietnam after Aug. 31 could provide a test of the influence of Sen.

George S. McGovern; the Democratic presidential nominee. Congress also will be asked to provide swift aid for the victims tropical storm Agnes. Senate Republican lead-: er Hygh Scott said he would introduce an administration $1.8 billion relief bill. Scott said he expected Congress to deal with the legislation quickly.

The $1.8 billion would be in addition to the $200 million authorized earlier by Congress. It would be used to liberalize cash grants and loans to property owners, residents, communities and businesses in areas devastated by the floods last month. Funds also are included for federal agencies to increase relief work. Debate was scheduled to -resume today on Mansfield's end-the-war amendment, which is attached to a foreign aid authorization bill. The amendment is supported by McGovern, whose antiwar stance helped him rise to leadership of the Democratic McGovern planned to fly to South Dakota today for a vacation.

As the antiwar debate is expected to continue for some time, assistant Senate Demo-" era tic leader Robert C. Byrd has scheduled a "tandem" work arrangement that will allow the Senate to debate the foreign aid bill for several hours each day and then devote the rest of its time to other measures. The Senate also had under consideration" today a bill that would increase the $1.60 per hour minimum wage to $2.20 during the next two years. The House already has passed a bill that would boost it to $2 over, two years. The House expected to take up routine bills early in the week while waiting for the Rules Committee to clear a $2.58 billion authorization bill for military defense construction.

A floor vote on that bill is to FUNDS Page 4 McGovern rated decided underdog WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen George S. McGovern flies home to. South Dakota today for a rest before he starts his underdog effort to unseat President Nixon. McGovern 's Democratic running mate, Sen. Thomas F.

Eagleton of Missouri, will remain in Washington for an attempt to persuade dissident labor leaders to support the Democrats' presidential ticket. It was generally agreed that the South Dakota senator was a decided underdog at this early stage of the 1972 campaign. A Newsweek magazine survey indicated that if the election were held today McGovern could be certain of only the four, electoral votes of his home state and the three of the District of Columbia. The survey gave Nixon 23f6 certain electoral votes at this stage. Republican National Chairman Robert Dole warned his party's regulars of "over confidence." He did say, however, he felt Nixon was in "a very strong position." Dole was interviewed Sunday on the NBC program "Meet the Press." McGovern spent the weekend at his Washington home resting from the grueling primary campaign that saw him move from the rear of the pack to capture bis party's nomination at Miami Beach last' week.

He planned to fly today to the Black Hills of South Dakota for two weeks at the rustic Sylvan Lodge near Custer. His schedule called for nothing but rest and recreation the first but aides said staff meetings on campaign strategy would begin the second week. Eagleton said Sunday he hoped to meet this week with AFI-CIO; President George Meany in an effort to close the rift between the labor leader and the McGovern ticket. Eagleton said he believed he could persuade Meany that the McGovern-Eagleton ticket would be preferable to that.oF Nixon and his running mate. "He just has to write down the two tickets and look at Eagleton said.

The AFL-CIO will convene its 35-member Executive Council Wednesday to consider the 13.5 million member federation's campaign course. Eagleton also predicted that Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley would not "take a walk" Turn to McGOVERN Page 4 EMS 18 EAT now it's Spassky's turn to protest REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Referee Lothar Schmid today upheld a protest from champion Boris Spassky and moved the adjourned third game of the $250,000 world chess-championships back into 1 Reykjavik's main sports hall, despite American challenger Bobby Fischer's earlier objections to it. The William Lombardy, Fischer's second, said the 29- year-old challenger would be at the board when the game resumes at 5 p.m. (1 p.m.

EDT). "Why shouldn't he? Bobby is going to win this game," Lombardy said after a two-hour emergency meeting with the match committee and representatives for the Russian camp. Spassky holds a 2-0 lead in the match but Fischer had a one pawn advantage and a stronger attacking position when the third game adjourned Sunday after 41 moves. Most experts gave Fischer the edge to take the game. Schmid said playing condi- tions in the backstage table tennis room on the first floor of the sports hall were inferior.

"Mr. Spassky had agreed to play there for one session only i and felt the conditionsirere very poor. He said there was noise from the streets outside, he could hear children play and the light and the chess board was not up to the highest standard. -5 ''I weighed the two venues against each other and decided to move the third game back into the big hall," Schmid said. The game was moved backstage Sunday after Fischer protested against the presence Turn to CHESS Page 4 DOESN'T REMEMBER James P.

Bergeron, 36, Route 3, Chippewa Falls, was taken to St Joseph's Hospital in Chippewa Falls early yesterday morning after his car had been struck in the rear and Bergeron had received cuts and bruises in the accident County Traffic Officer Al Dachel, who investigated the collision at 12: 10 a.m., reported that Bergeron did not remember what happened. The officer said in his report that Bergeron's car was parked in the northbound lane of State 178 with the lights on. Eugene Knowlton, 20, Route Holcombe, who was northbound on the road, came up behind the Bergeron auto and struck it Knowlton said he did not see the other car in time to avoid hitting it The Cornell ambulance delivered Bergeron to the hospital. Knowlton was admitted to the Cornell Medical Clinic for treatment for a bump on bis head. He was taken there by a squad car.

Both cars were damaged beyond repair. 'EXCERCISE IN FUTILITY' skyjack score: 6 to 0 dies in Flambeau The death of a rural Sheldon man Saturday morning upped Wisconsin's 1972 traffic toll to 562 compared to 496 on that date a year ago. The victim, Allan M. Stuner, 21, was a passenger in a car driven by Leland Paul, 22, also of rural Sheldon. Paul's car jumped a curb at Ladysmith and plunged through a bridge railing into the Flambeau River.

The Ladysmith police reported that both men were thrown clear of the car, a convertible, when it went into the water. Shouts from the river were heard by two boys who found the spot where the car went into the water. Paul had managed to hang onto a concrete bridge abutment until he was rescued by the Ladysmith volunteer firefighters. The volunteers dragged the river and four -hours later recovered the body of Stuner. three were killed and 16 taken into custody by American officials.

The two exceptions were a man and woman who hijacked an airliner to Algeria on June 2 after receiving a $500,000 ransom payment. The money was returned by the Algerian government, and the hijackers remained in Of the 16 persons arrested, two were convicted and sentenced to terms of 40 and 45 years; one was convicted and is awaiting sentencing; one was committed to a mental institution, and 12 are awaiting trial. Airlines have paid out $7,712,000 in ransom money. All but $503,000 has been recovered. Outstanding is the $200,000 paid to "Cooper" and $303,000 paid to Frederick W.

Hahneman, who parachuted over Honduras from an Eastern Airlines plane. Hahneman surrendered but the money has not been recovered. Variable cloudiness tonight with showers and thunderstorms and lows mostly in the 50s. Tuesday partly sunny and cooler with highs in 70s. on an airliner with the idea of hijacking it for profit, he has really bought himself a ticket to prison or the morgue." The wave of hijackings for ransom started last Nov.

24 when a man known as "D.B. Cooper" hijacked a Northwest Airlines plane and parachuted with $200,000. He is still at large. Another Northwest plane was hijacked Dec. 24, but the pirate, Everett L.

Holt, was arrested and the money recovered. Shaffer said that the 18 hijack-extoruon attempts since the B. Cooper" incident all have ended in failure. Of the 21 persons involved in the 18 hijackings, Shaffer said. results conformed with the intention," Frisch said.

Okamoto implicated himself as a member of the three-man Japanese suicide squad that carried out the assault. His two companions died in the outburst of gun fire and exploding hand grenades. He told the court he was a soldier in the militant Japanese United Red Army and that it was his "duty as a good revolutionary soldier" tc carry out the attack. Throughout the trial, security arrangements were the toughest since Nazi Adolph Eich- Turn to HANGMAN Page 4 (UPI) There have been 16 hijackings of aircraft for ransom this year and all of them have ended with the pirates being arrested, killed or living under a foreign government. John H.

Shaffer, chief ofthe Federal Aviation Acuniirfslra-tion (FAA), cited the statistic today in arguing that hijacking is the "world's greatest exercise in futility." "Given this perfect failure rate for hijacking-extortions this year, it's amazing that anyone still delude himself about his ultimate fate when undertaking such a venture," Shaffer said. a person buys a ticket Avraham Frisch, president of the tribunal. Okamoto, asked to stand in his steel-plated wooden dock while the verdict was read, stood manacled at the wrists to two military policemen flanking him. He stared straight at the wall. His only movement was the blinking of his eyes.

The defendant fully admitted carrying out the deeds attributed to him in an undisputable way," Frisch said. "From his fnWks it can be understood ClhatSte undertook the action of jpasSwn' free "will and in full 3fThe implementation conformed with the plan and the young Japanese convicted for massacre, but beats hangman Whatever -V Happ ens 1 DON'T MISS THE CHIPPEWrVtAy.S CRAZY DAYS A ZRIFIN, Israel (UPI) A military tribunal convicted Kozo Okamoto today for his part in the Lod Airport massacre, but the prosecution waived the death penalty and asked for life in prison. The military court convicted the young Japanese on all four charges against him, three of which could have carried the death penalty. The court did not impose sentence immediately. v- "The deeds attributed (to Okamoto) were proven beyond any reasonable doubt and constitute proof of guilt to the charges.

Therefore, we convict the defendant," said Lt. Col. LEAVE LICENSE NUMBERS Colonel Lewis V. Versnik, director, of the department of transportation's bureau of enforcement, today reminded people leaving on vacation trips to make certain they leave their car license number with neighbors or relatives. Versnik said the State Patrol is often asked to contact travelers about emergencies at home, and can readily spot a license number.

"If we have a description of the car and the license number, there's a pretty good chance that it can be Versnik said..