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iiOTig initiates peace with No Yietaam i- rt '-'I talks SAIGON (AP) President Tran Van Huong has initiated talks with North Vietnam on negotiated peace settlement, a' high-ranking government official said tonight. The official said Huong is trying to send a minister of Cabinet rank to Hanoi to get the Communist side's views. He said the United States is also trying to get the talks going and has approved the Cabinet minister's flight on a U.S. Air Force plane to Hanoi. Huong met Thursday night with U.S.

Ambassador Graham Martin and early today with French Ambassador Jean Marie Merillon. It was believed that the French were urging him to give in to Gen. Duong Van Minn's demand that the presidency be turned over to 1 stalled could be evacuated in one day by helicopter. They said North Vietnamese forces are in position to deny American transport planes use of Saigon's airport. The airlift has taken out few-, er than 10,000 of the 130,000 South Vietnamese the U.

S. government has been talking about removing. But the U.S. Congress was still at work on legislation to authorize the use of American troops to protect the evacuation. The director of the evacuation, L.

Dean Brown, said in Washington among those being removed were Vietnamese who worked on the Phoenix Program in which suspected Viet Cong were murdered. In Paris, a Viet Cong statement assured that Vietnamese who worked for the Americans would be "treated correctly" and did not need to be evacuated. West of Saigon, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units ot company strength hit at government militia posts. The attacks appeared to be designed to press the bickering politicians into getting together and coming to an arrangement with the Communists, making an attack on Saigon unnecessary. The Pentagon said 14 divisions of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops are now around Saigon, with a 2-1 numerical advantage over the government's forces, and could attack the city "any minute." See VIETNAM Page 2, Column 4, This Section him.

Minn, the leader of the 1963 coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem, is the nominal leader of a loose grouping of "neutralist" opponents of former President Nguyen Van Thieu's clique. Huong on Thursday asked him to become premier, with "full powers," but the retired general reportedly held out for the presidency. As the U.S. airlift of fleeing Americans and Vietnamese continued, loud explosions were heard in Saigon. A police official said it was the government destroying ammunition at the Bien Hoa air base, 15 miles north of the city.

In Washington, officials said ha more than 1,100 Americans would be left in Saigon by the end of the day, and that number Traffic 15 Scenes like this were commonplace Thursday after nearly two was snarled as water reached six feet is some sections. The volunteers. Inches of rain fell during a four-hour period in Louisville. Traffic foreign car at left eventually was pushed to higher ground by (APWirephoto) Reds agree not to attack Monday prior to Vol. 97-No.

99 Paducah, Kentucky, 42001, Friday, April 25, Sunday 1975 Geijer said the gang rejected an offer of safe conduct out of the country in exchange for the hostages. Some 500 heavily armed police ringed the building and occupied the ground floor while the terrorists and their hostages were on the upper floors. A deadline set by the terrorists passed, and about half an hour later they released three women who were among the hostages. Then just before midnight the gang set off the TNT on the top floor and tried to slip out in the confusion, but the police spotted them and rounded them up without firing. disclosed other countries for a cease-fire and a political settlement.

In South Vietnam, a high ranking official of the Saigon government said President Tran Van Huong has initiated talks with North Vietnam on a negotiated peace settlement. Huong was said to be trying to send a minister of Cabinet In escape attempt by terrorists Gerpian embassy bombed Western Kentucky is pelted by heavy rains, hail, wind Thunderstorms packing Works Department reported a could find no evidence that a wind, rain and hail moved rainfall measurement of 2.09 twister had touched down, across Western Kentucky and inches for the 24 hour period A tornado was SDOtted on eluding West German Ambassador Dietrich Stoecker, who was slightly burned. The other five terrorists known to have been in the building were captured, police said. They included a woman. Earlier reports said there were seven in the gang, but the police revised the figure.

The explosions which the gang set off on the top floor of the embassy just before midnight Thursday burned out the four-story building. The West German government's refusal to meet the terrorists' demands was a complete about-face in policy after nearly three years of surrender to Arab guerrillas and more recently to West German anarchists. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was to explain the change to the Bonn parliament today. The gang invaded the embas Saigon WASHINGTON (AP) The senior Republican on the House International Relations Committee said today there is a "tacit understanding" the North Vietnamese will not attack Saigon until at least Monday to permit evacuation of nonessential Americans. Rep.

William S. Broomfield, told reporters he had learned of the "tacit understanding" from Ford administration officials. Broomfield said the arrangement was made through negotiations involving unspecified third countries. He said it was not certain what would happen after Monday, but declared that the United States "should seize the opportunity to get nonessential Americans and their dependents out of Saigon." President Ford has said publicly there is no direct contact between the United States and the North Vietnamese. At the same time, he said the United States was working through un Kressenberg.

The Fourth District candidates include incumbent George Harris of Salem and Johnny Boatwright of McCracken County. The Third District consists of the city of Paducah and the Fourth District includes McCracken County outside Paducah and Livingston County. Morgan told the sportsmen that they "need not worry about state gun control laws," only federal regulations. "We've had it (gun control proposals) in the state legislature four or five time and so far we've been able to keep it bottled up in committee," Morgan said. "I can't see See CANDIDATES Page 2, Column 7, This Section Cents Daily 20 Cents IV is IT 1 i sy shortly before noon Thursday and shot and killed Baron Andreas von Mirbach, the military attache.

Identifying themselves as the, Holger Meins Commando, they threatened to kill the ambassador and the others in the embassy at the time unless 26 members of the Baader-Meinhof gang of anarchists wefe freed from West German jails, given $520,000 and flown to another country. The terrorists also warned they had placed nearly 35 pounds of TNT about the building and would set it off if the police attacked them. The West German government set up a crisis staff in Bonn, and Schmidt was in frequent telephone communication with Swedish Premier Olof Palme. Swedish Justice Minister Lennart Geijer entered the embassy to act as go-between. worthless checks.

Guilty pleas were entered by Dennis Malcolm Heath, charged with criminal trespass in the first degree; James Darnell George, charged with first degree robbery, and Boyd See TRIAL Page 2, Column 1, This Section days remain to register for May elections Gun control opposed by House candidates Southern Illinois Thursday night causing a tornado watch for the area and dropping more than four inches of rain in some parts of the area. Tornadoes spawned by the storm, which covered most of the nation's midsection, left 1 I 1 live ueau aim uuzens injured after touching down in Missouri and Tennessee. Paducah recorded more than two inches of rain in the Deriod. but Marion was the hardest hit in Western Kentucky, record- ing 4.55 inches of rain from the storm. The Louisville area meanwhile suffered from flash flooding from the heavy rains in that area, according to the Associated Press.

In Paducah, the sewage treatment plant of the Public Weather ii7 .1 ma ni Trial dates are set in 55 McCracken cases hours, while 5,587 South Vietnamese were, being evacuated. Clark said the State Department reported 1,357 Americans remaining in Vietnam, but that no new figures were supplied on dependents, who numbered 562 in a report 24 hours earlier. See REDS Page 2, Column 6, This Section weather radar in the Bowling Green area but the twister apparently didn't touch down, The tornado was sighted at 1:10 a.m. on National Weather Service radar at Louisville prompting a tornado warning for Warren, Barren and Met- calfe counties about the same time that a severe thun- derstorm dumped large hail and heavy rain on Warren Pnnntv. A State Police dispatcher at Bowling Green said high winds accompanied the storm and a broadcaster reported hail stones one-half inch to one and one-half inches in diameter within the city limits of the See TORNADOES Page 2, Column 4, This Section Today index Toliinhnno T7 1 iv.rvuv 3 Sections, 34 Pages Classifieds 11A 15A Editorials 4A Family News 1B.2B Landers-Thosteson 12B, 13B Sports Sylvia Porter SA auvu.v.

-u Weather Roundup 11A Church 10A TV 4 Pages I i rank to Hanoi to get the views of the Communist side. The Saigon government official said the United States had approved the minister's flight on a U.S. Air Force plane. Sen. Dick Clark, D-Iowa, said he was not satisfied with new figures showing that the number of Americans in Saigon had declined by 324 in the past 24 beginning at 6:30 a.m.

Thurs- day. Federal Aviation Administration officials at Barkley Field, meanwhile, reported an accumulation of 1.69 inches of rain from 6 a.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. today, mi i i mey reported or an incn from midnight to 6 a.m. The FAA also reported winds gusting up to 25 mph at 1 a.m.

todav and a 13 minute barraee of quarter-inch sized hail falling at 11:25 p.m. Thursday. They said there wasno delay in air traffic. Kentucky State Police at Mayfield received an "un- verified report of a tornado," and, "a little wind damage" around Fulton about 2 a.m. today but troopers said they forecast I i ii viluiiihv iu-j.

frprmiLHLmii I i i By BILL BARTLEMAN Sun-Democrat Staff Writer Candidates in the Third and Fourth District state House races pledged Thursday night to block legislation which will take funds from the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission the governing body of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and said they would not support any form of state gun control. The candidates spoke at a meeting sponsored by the West Kentucky Sportsmen's Club, which was held at the West Kentucky Wildlife Management Area near Grahamville. The candidates in the Third District are incumbent Fred Morgan, James Kelley and Bill (rr earner map, niver ana Lane uaia on rage iiA) PADUCAH AND VICINITY -Partly cloudy and a little cooler tonight with widely scattered showers, low in the 50s. Partly cloudy and mild Saturday with a slight chance of showers, high in the 70s. Partly cloudy and warm with a chance of showers Sunday.

Precipitation probability is 30 per cent tonight and Saturday. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Variable cloudiness and mild through Saturday with a chance of a few periods of thunder- STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Terrorists who held a dozen persons hostage in the West German embassy for 12 hours dynamited the building in a futile attempt to escape after the Bonn government refused their demand for the release of 26 anarchists. Police said there were three dead: the embassy's commercial and military attaches and one of the terrorists who shot himself and died in a hospital. Two policemen and a hostage were hospitalized in serious condition. Several others received minor, injuries, in- $3 million loan set for co-op MAYFIELD, Ky.

David A. Hamil, REA administrator, has notified West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative that its application for a $3 million loan has been approved. P. L. Finks, general manager of the Mayfield-based telephone cooperative which serves almost 11,000 subscribers in the area, said the loan will be used to complete installation of a one-party service in the Lynn Grove, New Concord and Hazel exchanges, and to begin work on upgrading service to some 1,205 members in the Farming-ton, Lynnville and Sedalia exchanges.

Contracts on the two projects are expected to be let later this spring, Finks said. The cooperative presently is upgrading service to one-party lines in the Fairdaling, Hardin and Kirksey exchanges. L. O. Drayton, Dyersburg, is the contractor and work is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.

XT a I aiiuweia. uuw luiiiiil iiitf probability is 40 per cent tonight and Saturday. TEMPERATURES 11a.m. 67, low 58; 1974 high 69, low 41. Miss Davis raps society; demonstrators gather, too A total of 55 cases were set for trial during arraignment proceedings in McCracken Circuit Court on Thursday as only three persons entered guilty pleas.

In addition, arraignment for six persons was continued until Wednesdayand four cases were continued until the next term of criminal court. Court officials commented during arraignment proceedings that the May term of court will be one of the heaviest in recent years and Judge J. Brandon Price has extended the term into June. A total of four murder cases, 10 cases involving illegal possession or sale of drugs and two arson cases were set for trial Most of the other cases involved robberies or uttering 3 no nm: A MTUtl Jim By JOE HALL Sun-Democrat Staff Writer MURRAY, Davis spoke before a capacity crowd in Lovett Auditorium Thursday night while a peaceful crowd of more than 100 demonstrators stood outside the building in protest of her appearance on the Murray State University campus. Miss Davis, an outspoken socialist activist and member of the Communist Party, lashed out at several facets of American society during her remarks, which drew applause at times as well as boos and heckling.

She was speaking as part of MSU's "Insight" series, but was not welcome by the group of demonstrators, led by Second District State Rep. Lloyd Clapp, Wingo. "It's just our feeling," said Clapp, "that she is not a Christian and she has denounced her American citizenship by saying she belongs to the Communist Party; and we just don't feel like they should use our facilities for a forum." Meanwhile, Miss Davis, co-chairman of the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Oppression, stressed the importance of "people's movements" in this country to fight social and racial injustice. very much cognizant of the outcry of thousands indeed hundreds of thousands of people in this country who demanded that I receive a fair trial, demanded that I be freed, by participating in meetings demonstrations Miss Davis said. She was acquitted in 1972 by a San Jose, jury after standing trial for murder, kidnap and criminal conspiracy charges which arose from a 1970 shootout in which a judge and three others were shot to death.

Miss Davis, a black and former UCLA philosophy instructor, told the crowd that as the economic situation in America becomes worse, many white, working class people are beginning to "suffer and learn what oppression is all about." Speaking on law enforcement, Miss Davis said: "There are literally thousands and thousands of people who have been victimized in one way of another by the criminal justice system." She maintained that at least 90 per cent of all criminal cases in this country "never even go before a jury. "Often a public defender will tell them (accused persons) they will get a lighter sentence if they make a deal." Of the protesters, Miss Davis remarked: "Let them demonstrate, because I'm only interested in the people here who care about injustice." Miss Davis was especially critical of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, blaming him for the multiple-deaths at-Attica State Prison in New York during a prisoner uprising there and scorning the vast financial holdings of the Rockefeller family. Miss Davis, who advocates a limit on individual wealth, drew snickers from the audience when referring to Richard "I'm not a crook" Nixon and Gerald "secondhand" Ford. She also condemned Rockefeller's refusal to grant amnesty to the prisoners in- See MISS DAVIS Page 2, Column 3, This Section I i tvL) 31 Angela Anti-Angela Second District Rep. Lloyd Clapp (right) holds a picket sign, along with over 100 followers, Thursday night in protest of black activist Angela Davis' appearance on the Murray State University campus.

Clapp said the group was there for a peaceful expression of their anti-Communist sentiments. Clapp also said he felt the public building should not be used by the felf-Bvowed Communist, whom he said gave up her constitutional rights when she became a member of the Communist Party. Angela Davis, a member of the Communist Party, spoke before a capacity crowd at Murray State University Thursday night, condemning the criminal justice and prison systems in this country, as well as the vast amount of wealth controlled by a select few such as Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Outside the buflding where she was speaking, more than 100 demonstrators protested ber speaking appearance. -Staff Photo by Joe Ball.