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River Stages La Crosse 5.0 N.C. Lansing 7.5 fall 0.2 Dam No. 9 14.4 rise 0.2 McGregor 7.8 rise 0.1 Guttenberg 5 8 fall 0.2 Dubuque 8.5 fall 0.6 Davenport 5.9 fall 0.2 Keokuk 3.6 fall 0.7 Czech Censorship Law PRAGUE (AP) Czechoslovakia's National Assembly was called into session today to approve a censorship law incorporating instructions issued to newspapers and broadcast stations two weeks ago when Soviet occupation forces began letting them reopen. The maximum penalty provided in the law is suspension of publication for three months. Plant for Cordova ST.

PAUL, Minn. (AP) Cor dova, will be the site of a multimillion dollar chemical plant to be built by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing the firm announced Thursday. Cyril Pesek, 3M company vice president, said the plant is scheduled to open by the summer of 1970. Some 100 persons will be employed at that time, Pesek said. Bogus Bills Seized SAN JUAN, P.R.

(AP) Secret Service agents say they have broken up the largest ring of counterfeiters that ever operated in Puerto Rico and seized about $200,000 in bogus bills. Reliable sources said nearly a dozen suspects were picked up. Their names were not disclosed. A large number of counterfeit $10 and $20 bills showed up in Puerto Rico in recent months. Gunfire Is Exchanged AMMAN.

Jordan (AP) Jordanian and Israeli forces, exchanged machine gun fire for 15 minutes early today, a Jordanian military spokesman said. He claimed that the Israelis fired first at Tel Sukkar, in the northern Jordan Valley. The fire was returned, and shooting continued for 15 minutes, he said. No casualties were reported. Stokes to Lecture IOWA CITY (AP) Carl Stokes, Negro mayor of Clever land, Ohio, will open the University of Iowa's lecture series here Sept.

26, it was reported Thursday. Other lecturers at the series are to include C. Northcote Parkinson, English social critic, and Richard Armour, a satirist. Missing Mail DES MOINES (AP) "It could be in California, it could another building, it could 'be somewhere else in the city," a postal inspector said Thursday regarding bag of missing mail addressed to a Des Moines office building. Inspector Jerry White said, however, that a mail truck driver had reported dropping off five sacks of mail at the Insurance Exchange Building in Des Moines Tuesday.

A foot carrier who distributes the mail said he found only four of the bags. 168th Iowa War Death WASHINGTON (AP) Army Pfc. Ronald B. Clark of Run nells, Iowa, was listed Thursday by the Pentagon among 23 American servicemen killed recently in Vietnam fighting. His death brought the number of lowans killed in Vietnam this year to 168.

Planes Driven Away CAIRO (AP) Antiaircraft fire drove off two Israeli fighters that flew over Egyptian forces in the Suez area today, a military spokesman reported. The spokesman said the planes were on a reconnaissance flight at 10:30 a.m. He did not say what type they were. City News 2 Editorials 4 Comics, TV 5 Daily Report 7 Obituaries 7 Women's News 8 9 Farm News 1 10 11 Sports 12 13 Church News 16 Iowa Weather Cler to partly cloudy with little temperature change through Saturday. Low temperatures tonight SO to 55.

High Thursday 7t, law dyriiwj night 59 The Muscatine Journal Established 1840 Zip Code 52761 No. 217 Muscatine, Iowa Friday, September 13, 1968 Friday, September 13, 1968 Pocket Pups Two small pups hitch a ride with a SPOA peundfceeper on a walk to their shelter. The six week old spaniel cross breeds have tempor In Battles Near Cambodia SAIGON (AP) Allied forces battled strong enemy troops in two areas near the Cambodian border and killed at least 217 of them under a rain of bombs, artillery and machine gun fire, military spokesman reported today. An American task force reinforced by tanks and dive bombers clashed with a North Vietnamese regiment in a 14 hour fight Thursday that swirled through rubber plantations in an arc north to east of the pivotal district town of Loc Ninh, 65 miles north of Saigon. U.S.

Headquarters said 113 enemy troops were killed. But more important, a U.S. intelli ary accommodations while awaiting offers of ment broke out of secrecy a Jan. 5, 1968 order to refute a new North Korean allegation. The North Korean radio said the Pueblo was authorized to go as near as three miles from the North Korean coast, under a Feb.

28, 1966 order. The United States recognizes a three mile limit. North Korea claims 12. The State Department acknowledged such an order went out to "a great many" Navy vessels operating near foreign chnroe hill thic U7QC cimarcaHuf they claim on Jan, 23, four the case of the. Pueblo bv The secondary snooping job was disclosed for the first time Thursday as the U.S.

govern specific instruction Jan. 5, 1968. That message, couched in cryptic, often garbled military lingo, "set out general details for the Pueblo's North Korea spy Nor Going to Vietnam Now Reservists Paid $50 Apiece For Lawyer for Their Fight WASHINGTON (AP) A case that could affect some 38,000 reservist called to active duty in the Vietnam war buildup is going to be considered for a hearing by the Supreme Court. Justice William O. Douglas Thursday ordered, the government' to delay sending 113 Army reservists to Vietnam until the court decides whether to consider their challenge of President Johnson's authority to activate them.

Johnson activated the reservists under a 1966 congressional act that empowers the President to call up the reserves without a declaration of war or national emergency. Douglas, phoning from a vacation in Goose Prairie, acted only a day before the reservists were to be shipped out for Vietnam. The case is believed to be the first challenge to the 1966 act and Douglas said it raised substantial qu stions. Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Hugo L. both rejected review of the case last week in keeping with the court's past reluctance to rule on cases growing out of the war.

Douglas, however, and Justice Potter S'Jewart have called on their colleagues to come to grips with cases that challenge the legality of the war. Douglas' ruling grants a temporary delay for the reservists until the court begins its fall session Oct. 7. Should the full court decide to hear the case, the stay could be extended indefinitely. If it decides no to, then the1 stay would expire immediately.

The reservists claim the law is an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to the President by Congress. They also contend that even if the law is valid, they are exempt because they enlisted before it was enacted. The reservists, all from the Cleveland, Ohio, area and now stationed at Ft. Meade in Maryland, paid $50 apiece to hire a lawyer and make their fight. "It couldn't have been more llth hour," said their spokesman, Spec.

4 Bradish G. Morse. "It's really fantastic." gence officer said, "We think we probably pre empted an attack on the city." Fourteen Americans were killed and 60 wounded. The enemy force was believed to be the North Vietnamese 32nd Regiment which moved down from the central highlands earlier this summer to bolster the veteran North Vietnamese 7th Division operating north of Saigon. Fighting eased off during the.

night. The enemy regiment could have slipped back across the border into Cambodia, out of bounds to American troops, leaving a rear guard to cover its withdrawal. Enemy gunneiV (AP Photofax) Before Her Capture Pueblo Had Snooping Set WASHINGTON (AP) The USS Pueblo was told to snoop on Soviet ships passing near Japan as a follow up to her electronic" surveillance of North Korea, a U.S. document shows. The intelligence ship was supposed to visually inspect and photograph Soviet naval vessels, openly, while returning to the.

U.S. base at Sasebo, Japan. The additional mission was forestalled when the North Koreans captured the Pueblo in North Korean territorial waters, assignment, code named "Ichy tnynic One. A key passage, so far as the U.S. government's effort to refute the North Korean claim is concerned, said: "CPA (closest point of approach) to Korcom (Communist Korea) Soviet Land Mass Offshore islands will be thirteen NM (nautical miles).

Said State Department press officer Robert J. McCloskey: "We continue to have no reason to believe that the captain of the Pueblo did not adhere to the lamile restriction sailing At Least 3 Die As Executive Jet Hits a Building NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) An executive jet crashed into a building and cut a flaming swath through at least two homes today as it groped through fog trying to land at Hollywood Burbank Airport: Firemen said at least three persons were killed and several others injured. Two of the dead were in the plane and the third was in a car on the ground, the firemen said. One injured boy was taken away from the area in a private car.

The jet, which disintegrated in a ball of fire visible from the airport tower, was on an instrument approach with visibility three fourths of a mile because of the fog and low clouds, the FAA said. Waterloo Has Fire Bombing WATERLOO (AP) A fire bomb was tossed through the window of Shepard Lumber Co. Thursday night, causing only minor damage before firemen extinguished the blaze. Police said it was one of several acts of vandalism reported during the night in the area of Waterloo East High School, troubled by racial tensions this week. Over 200 Enemy Troops Die slammed 25 mortar rounds into the Loc Ninh airstrip during the night.

The Viet Cong tried unsuccessfully to take Loc Ninh last November and more than 1,500 of their men were killed. U.S. planes flew 107 missions over North Vietnam's southern panhandle Thursday, and the Command announced the loss of an Air Force F105 Thun derchief and its pilot 45 miles above the demilitarized zone. The command said i cause was not known. It was the American warplahe "reported downed in combat'over the North, 16 Pages Price 10c Fortas Refuses More Testimony WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Judiciary Committee, turned down by Justice Abe Fortas on a request that he testify further, received testimony today that Fortas was paid $15,000 for teaching a nine week summer law course.

The funds, it developed, were raised from tax deductible contributions solicited by his former law" partner, Paul A. Porter. The testimony was given by Dean; B. J. Tennery of the American University Law School: at reopened hearings for which Fortas declined to appear for new questioning on his nomination to succeed Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Fortas." a member of the court since 1965, sent Chairman James O. Eastland, a letter respectfully declining to return for questioning shortly before the start of today's hearing. Tennery, the first witness, said that Fortas had taught. this summer a seminar on law and the social environment at the law school under a new program designed to provide a broader education for a selected group of students. There is nothing illegal about such teaching, but 'Sen.

Hiram Fong, Hawaii, asked Tennery if he felt a Supreme Court justice "should hire himself out" for services for pay. The law school dean replied, "Yes, in terms of what be did for us." Tennery said that it is "by no means rare" for a sitting justice to teach in a law school. The dean said the $30,000 was raised to finance the course, aft his" Fortas 'indicated he might be interested'' in teaching. First explaining that it was not "normal policy" for the university to. reveal the names of donors, Heart Patient Dies in Houston HOUSTON, Tex.

(AP) James Elbert Singleton, 47, a Fort Worth, toolmaker who underwent a heart transplant Sept. 5, died today. A Methodist Hospital spokesman said Singleton suffered a cardiac arrest at 4:30 a.m. and died at 10 a.m. Singleton received the heart of Paul C.

Mason, 17, a Long Beach, youth who died of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident in the California city. Singleton was Houston's 12th and latest heart transplant patient. His was the second one performed by Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, internationally known cardiovascular surgeon.

Tennery said these five men contributed: Gustave L. Levy of New York City, Troy Post of Dallas, Mau rice Lazarus of Boston, John Loeb of New York City and Paul D. Smith of New York City. Sen. Strom Thurmond, S.C, who arranged for Tennery to be called as a witness, wanted to know if Porter had approached Tennery or whether the law school dean had gone to Porter.

"No, he didn't approach me." Tennery said. "I approached him." "Had Justice Fortas suggest Gregory Says Blacks Want Constitution AMES (AP) "White folks think the blacks have forgotten," onetime comedian Dick Gregory told a capacity crowd at the Iowa State Armory Thursday night. "Just wait 'til the end of September," added the Negro rights activist, who called for an end "to a government which takes away their (Negro) inalienable rights." "Either this country is going to straighten up and become the most beautiful example of democracy or it will crumble in the next 18 Gregory predicted. ed that?" asked Thurmond. In reply to questions from Sen.

Thurmond, Tennery said he didn't know if any of the five donors were former clients of the firm in which Fortas and Porter had been partners and added he assumed they were men of means. Thurmond won Tennery's agreement that the five donors were able to deduct what they gave from their income tax. Thurmond "Then the taxpayers of this country helped to finance Mr. Fortas' salary." The senator, a strong opponent of confirmation, asked the dean what was the highest salary ever paid at the law school for a seminar other than the one Fortas conducted. The dean said he did not know exactly but agreed it was "considerably less" than $15,000.

Fortas submitted to extensive questioning by the committee for four days in July. He was invited Tuesday to return for interrogation." A secretary in Eastland's office called the senator at home and read the letter to him. She said he had no immediate comment. Earlier this week, the committee decided to vote next Tuesday whether to recommend Senate confirmation of the. nomination.

Fortas has been an associate, justice since 1965. Person's Thoughts Motivate Electrical Artificial Arms BOSTON (AP) Battery powered artificial arms that move just by thinking about where you want them to go have been developed by a team of doctors and engineers. The arms were demonstrated Thursday by two men who lost their limbs in. industrial accidents. The movement of the arms is controlled by muscle generated electrical impulses and they flex like a natural arm.

Rudolph Paquin, 59, of Tiverton, R.I., said, the so called Boston arm enables him to do many more 1hings than he can with his regular artificial arm and "without so much effort." Parker Rand 20, of Bangor, Maine, agreed the Boston arm works better. The artificial arms are powered by small electric motors in the elbows, which get their "instructions" from minute electrical signals given off by muscles in the upper arm. The signals are received from electrodes attached to the skin to detect electricity generated by muscles when a person wants to move his forearm. The artificial arm weighs 2 pounds 1 ounce. The battery pack, about the size of a portable radio and carried on the waist on a shoulder strap, weighs about 3 pounds.

An amputee can lift about 10 pounds and hold about 50 pounds with the arm. Mann estimated that with mass production the cost per arm could be less than $1,000. It was developed by a team drawn from the staffs of Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Liberty Mutuallnsurance Co. "The Boston arm requires no deliberate training of other muscles it uses the same ones a man normally would," Mann said. Dr.

Melvin J. Glimcher said those participating in the first patient tests of the new arms have learned to use them in brief training sessions in contrast to "the weeks, months or never" that other artificial arms required. Kl IHbIIkHb aij(jjji Amputees Demonstrate 'Thinking Arm' Parker Rand. 20, Maine amputee (second loft) and Rudy Paquin, St year old Tiverton, R.I;, far mar, demonstrate, with blocks, an electronic arm Boston Thursday. At left is Dr.

Allan Cudwbrth of the Liberty Mutual i Insurance Co. who together with Massachusetts Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital limb. (AP Photofax) (See Harvard, IV and above.).