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fUnnr A tag to Erapfej mm Felled by Barrage in Somerville Ambush; Attacker Eludes Officer Who Saw Shooting Three men were shot and wounded in Somerville at 1:05 this morning, in what police said was a renewal of gangland warfare. fc though the shootings were wit-, nessed by a police officer, Patrolman James Bavin of Somerville. Bavin pursued but lost the man in the rear of the abandoned Capitol theater on Broadway, Somerville. 1963, Globe Newipaper Co. rHeg.Hr.S.

Pat. Off, in connection with the shooting of Bernard McLaughlin, one of the strongarm McLaughlins, but was cleared by a Suffolk County grand jury. A few years -go someone planted five sticks of dynamite rigged to a set-off in McLean's car, but he discovered the bobby trap in time. At the time of the gunfire this morning McLean and his companions, with an unidentified woman, had left after spending the evening at a Winter Hill lounge. The three men walked across the street to a car and the woman remained on the sidewalk near the cafe.

Patrolman Bavin had Most seriously wounded was James J. (Buddy) McLean, 35, of Snow Somerville. He was hit by shotgun blasts under the heart, in the temple and scalp. Suffering lesser gunshot wounds were Anthony D'Agostino, 37, of Emmons East Boston, and Amer-ico Sacramone, 27, of Carlson Everett. D'Agostino was hit with seven slugs in the chest and left arm, and Sacramone, a former boxer, has scalp wounds.

The gunman escaped, al sounded his duty call from a street box nearby a few seconds earlier. The officer entered the Winter Hill cafe for a routine check and as he looked out the window saw a man lurking in the shadows of the unused theater lobby. As Bavin watched the man steped out, brought up a shotgun, and commenced firing at the three men who were about 60 feet away. Bavin heard six or seven shots as he raced out the door with revolver drwan. SHOOTING Page 3 "THE BOSTON GLOBE VOL.

188 NO. 122 AVenue Clear, Cool Tonight Low in low 40s. Tomorrow Fair and mild. High tide today, 4:12 p.m. Full report on Page 2.

Targets of Gunman TAKEN BY SURPRISE James J. (Buddy) McLean, 35 (left), and Americo Sacramone, 27, of Everett, who were cut down by gangland bullets on Somerville street. Both are in hospital. Sacramone claims he has only a slight acquaintance with McLean. Viet Hand-to-Hand War Yanks Beat Off 'Human Wave 'SAIGON (AP) U.S.

Marines, using pistols and fighting hand-to-hand from their tents, beat off a "human wave" assault by the Communist Viet Cong In the early morning darkness today 10 miles southwest of Da Nang. Somerville Police Chief Raymond Gleason announced in the early morning hours that a single barreled automatic shotgun apparently brand new had been found in an alley behind the theater. With it was a knotted nylon stocking which the gunman used as a mask, he said. McLean was held in 1961 Kerrigan called for more homes for the city's elderly. Candidates and incumbents for both the comittee and round of rallies, house meeting and speeches for the week-end.

CAMPAIGN Page 3 omul 4 4 J-S A GANGLAND SHOOTING SCENE Gunman stood in doorway of Somerville's closed Capi- tol Theater sidewalk as (left) and his three fired along Broadway targets walked casually toward parked car on Dick Fallon) the right. SATURDAY, OCT. 30, 1965 10 PAGES 10 CENTS 8-8000 in tonights globe Book Bridge Comics Cross-Word Deaths Editorial 10 1 Port News 9 10 Radio-TV 9 8 Sports 4,5 8 1 Star Gazer 8 2 Theaters 10 6 Women's 9 ior U.S. military sources gave another indication of increased activity. They reported North Viet Nam has sent waves of fresh troops into the highlands north of the capital for what could be one of the showdown battles of the war.

The sources said 10 to 11. regiments are roaming the area now. Seven of them were described as North Vietnamese units accompanied by heavy weapons VIET NAM Page 3 Soviets Hint Trial For Bay State Man MOSCOW (AP) Newcomb Mott, 27, of Sheffield, an American tourist jailed in Murmansk, has been informed by Soviet authorities he should obtain defense counsel, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said. Mott was arrested Sept.

4 and accused of illegally crossing into the Soviet Union from Norway without a visa. He was in Norway as a tourist. The Soviet Foreign Min-istryinformed the embassy that Soviet authorities have completed their preliminary investigation but did not say what results the investigation yielded. The ministry report that Mott had been told to get an attorney was a strong indication he will be tried, although the Soviet sometimes drops cases even after the step has been taken. night's April in Paris ball.

"My wife's a vice chairman. I just follow." The baron, the Duke and Durness of Windsor, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy and Pierre de MontfMjuInu of Paris were among 1000 guests who dined and danred at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The ball Is expected to raise $200,000 (or charities.

It started with a reception at 7 p.m. and ended with onion soup, for those with vigor, at 4 a.m. There wis a discotheque (in extra $13 a head) where dmcemtster Killer Joe Tiro tiught the (ruff, and a cisino with New York policemen miking sure the dice rolled for charity. The duchess, stunning In a A U.S. military spokesman said .56 Viet Cong, many of them teen-agers, were killed.

He rib casualties among the 300 marines as moderate. One Marine squad, however, was badly mauled. Two of its 11 men were killed and the rest wounded, the spokesman said. The Viet Cong also mortared the U.S. Special Forces camp at Plei Me in the central highlands and launched a flurry of new assaults in the Mekong Delta.

A 13-year-old boy was among the Viet Cong dead at Da Nang. Marines said he had been selling soft drinks to Americans in the area and they found drawings of key U.S. installations on his body. "We dropped a lot of Viet Cong with pistols," said Sgt Harry Dowdy of Salisbury, Md. "They came right up to our holes.

We fired at a range of 10 yards." The guerrillas broke through the Marine defense perimeter today and overran bunker positions. After an hour's battle, the Viet Cong broke and fled. Marines and Vietnamese fanned out in pursuit. The city of Da Nang today was temporarily placed off limits to all U.S. military personnel because of Viet Cong activity and a Viet Nam national holiday coming up Monday.

This meant the temporary cancellation of all liberty for .30,000 U.S. servicemen who often spend one-day leaves in Da Nang. In Saigon, meanwhile, sen A Tough's Tough You Hit Buddy, You Get Hit Back Campaign in Stretch Imbalance Spills Into Council Race itches' Brew Boils 'Tis the night of the witch and the goblin when the wee ones knock on the door, stick out their hands and say, "Trick or treat." Confusion roiled Halloween into a real stew this year because it falls on the same day as Sunday. Because of Sunday's religious significance, most communities and children settled upon today as Halloween. Some began Friday.

Others stuck with Sunday. And some will make a week-end of it. I 1 I 1 "I i il flue fl it By DOUGLAS S. CROCKET Boston's underworld today Is the beach before D-Day the Bulge before the battle. Everyone is waiting.

There isn't much more they can do. Three more men had been hit ard one of them was Somerville's Buddy McLean. And no one has ever hit Buddy McLean without getting hit back. He was the key to the early morning shooting on Winter Hill. The other two wounded men just happened to be in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

Who is Buddy McLean? In the world of the violent. As a brawler, he's Boston's version of "The Fastest Gun in the West." The young toughs rome from everywhere to meet him. A few rome to try him. he's a legend. $200,000 for Charities They Had a Per (Photo by And if he's ever lost a brawl, no one knows about it.

He's fought on the streets, in the bars, on the docks everywhere. He's the kind of guy that every hopeful tough in New England claims to know. When you want the other guys to think you really are "in." you claim to know Buddy McLean. il euady knew everyone who says he knows him, he could be elected President," one of his few close associates said one day. The story of his feud with the McLaughlin brothers of Charlestown has been told and retold one-hundred fold.

People who wouldn't know a gangster If they were belnf neid ud, knew or Buddy McLean and the McLaughlins. They even talk of them at cocktail parties. MrLEAN Page 3 the small Western Maryland college town of Emmitsburg. Covert said death wis due Stite Police nid a car carrying eight male students at Mt. St.

Mary's college collided with a car driven by John William Marsh, 46, and his wife, Barbara. 40, of Hte. 6, Carlylc, killing both. The dead students were Identified as: ACttDEMt TageS Out il respect li ttii ffitmtrj if HARRY N. BAKER SUPREME SPIRITS CO, IS Union ft toaton till bicUiii atl lay ttiif Boston's racial imbalance controversy has boiled over from the School Committee contest into the City Council campaign.

Council candidate Robert E. Dinsmore of West Roxbury charged that the council should have been working with the School Committee on the subject because it involves housing and economics as well as education. Dinsmore spoke before the State Club at the Harvard Club Friday. Also at the meeting Councilor John E. red gown, danced while the duke greeted well-wishers on the sidelines.

The candlelight dinner included 300 pounds of cheese, 500 pounds of chicken, 300 pounds of beef and 1000 bottles of French wine. But why pay $300 a ticket to have dinner with friends or more plausible, people you've never even met? "I have no Idea," said Daniel Hays, New York attorney. "I think we're all like children. We're told to go to bed but want to stay up lite. We want to creep downstairs and take a peek because we're afraid we'll miss something.

So here we are." PARIS BALL Pae 3 CHRISTMAS CARDS S1.00Boi Low At 39c! lift tm tn Itttmifi f.ot ti tMlirf NEW ENGLAND ART Juil off Mtt. ISt No. Ablogieo, WiM. Daily lit. lundtfUiJO tin fin in it.

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At Stritton, four men drowned last night when their car missed a curve and plunged upside down into fix feet of water In the South Branch of th Dead lUver. Dead are Thomas J. Nolin, 21: Lawrence Saucier, 19; William Tiner, 21, ill of Auburn, and Donald icker, 27, of Lewiston. Franklin County Medical Examiner Dr. S.

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