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to w.wawvww 00 CI Bv DICK LEE I I Council President Paul R. Screvane, Democratic may- oral contender, was accused yesterday or using lie mo- cratic workers in Queens to circulate Fusion Party nom- aSpJtaiSWbS: I sayinjr he must confer with his Fusion backers after the primary mm V2 cd I A i l- mi mM mating petitions. Queens District Attorney Frank D. O'Connor, candidate for Council president on the ticket of Controller Abraham Beame, Screvanes major opponent in the mayoral primarv, described it as a "das tardly attempt to destroy completely the Democratic Party in New York City." He said the Beame forces would ask Demo cratic State Chairman John Burns to exact a party loyalty pledge from Screvane. Edward N.

Costikyan, Beame's campaign manager, said circu lation of a Fusion petition for Screane was an "'admission of defeat." He charged that when the Screvane campaign manager. Robert T. Groh, handed out the petition forms Thursday night the workers were alerted to the fact that "polls have shown that Beame will carry Brooklyn by 7 to 30." Produces Copies Costikyan, who produced copies of the work sheet and petition blanks handed out at Screvane's Queens headquarters, 94-05 Queens BlvL, Rego Park, said the same address was used for the Fusion Party. He pointed out IVow There Are Four Those overcrowded voting machines for the Sept. 14 primary election picked up a line yesterday when the designating petition of Jesse Gray, Harlem rent strike leader, was withdrawn for the lack of sufficient legal signatures.

Gray's disqualification reduced the number of candidates for the Democratic nomination for mayor from five to four. Before Gray's attorney, John Bonina, announced the withdrawal in the courtroom of Supreme Court Justice Sidney A. Fine, attorneys for the challenger had filed an affidavit charging that "page after page of the petition consisted of forgeries copied directly from the voter enrollment books." that the committee on vacancies was made up chiefly of enrolled Democrats, largely city employes. "Screvane, in his refusal to make a forthright statement on oeiore maamg nis aecision, saia Costikyan. "It turns out that his 'Fusion' backers are chiefly Democrats on the city payrolls." Costikyan also pointed out the unusual position that Screvane workers must find themselves in when they solicit signatures for a Screvane nominating petition under the Fusion banner.

Under the law any Screvane voter in the primary is barred from signing an independent petition. Screvane, upon hearing of the Beame outcry over his plans for a Fusion petition in Queens, issued a statement which came fairly close to a declaration of his intention to abide by the results of the Democratic party. The statement read: "I have been a lifelong Democrat. I always will be a Democrat. Therefore there should be no doubt that I will abide by the results of the Democratic Drinurv.

However, I consider the subieet ine winner oi me primary and the candidate of the Democratic and Fusion parties on Nov. 2." acrevane. who was camoaira- ing on Bronx street corners Yes terday, struck at Beame in his reply to Conservative William F. Cong Aim Saigon. Anjsr.

27 (UP!) (NEWS foto by Ed MoHnart) Qnecns District Attorney Frank D. O'Coaaor bold fast party petition at press conference Edward N. Costikyan, Beame campaign manager, looks on. Buckley query as to -candi- dates' position on a city income tax or payroll tax. He told Buck- ley he was against either tax and mentioned that Beame has yet to i declare himself on that issue.

fn A AVTlo) TiusC to Stoo Saiaon's Food aimed at cutting food supplies to Saigon. Orders came from Red headquarters to blow by a ombb tions a ADout (AP) The local president of the Advancement of Colored today when his car blew up a long time, lately they were at I me, Evers said. hen he got capiiai carrwa ine in his car and turned the switch road-clearing operation of the on, it blew up." war. The FBI said it was investi- The Viet Namese formes op-gating, ened vital Highway 21 linking "There's going to be Rouble, Me of Dar Lac The Communist Viet Con? and terrorize rural outposts. huot for tho first time in six i u.

o. in 1 1 iimi luinonura an- nounced the arrival of 2.000 ad ditional American support troops over the past week. This boosts U.S. military strength in Viet Nam to more than 90,000 men. Moscow, Aug.

27 UPI Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev tonight told a Kremlin dinner in honor of visit-; ing United Arab Republic Presi dent A twirl Xau- that American actions in Viet Nam "og to the limit of cyncism and brutality." He said they were "doomed to failure." village chief taa'a wife after she waa today lauri launched a campaign Nasser' arrived this morning by plane from Cairo for a five-day official visit and talks with the new Kremlin leadership on Soviet-Egyptian relations and other topics. Washington. Aug. 27 (News Bureau) Secretary tit State Dean Rusk, declaring that "our war aim is peace," today said the U.S. might put a Viet Nam ceasefire on top on the agenda of any '-nconditional negotiations with Hanoi.

But first, he insisted, the Communists must sound a "clear signal" that they have abandoned attempts to subdue South Viet Nam by force. fAMciatc4 PrM fotp) tortured by Viet Cong gnerrillaa. Fcodsi Cac Natchez, Aug-. 27 the National Association for People was seriously injured as he turned on the ignition George Metcalf, who had been heading a voter registration drive in Natchez, was taken to the Jefferson Davis Hospital. Charles Evers, who took over from his ambushed brother Med-gar, as XAACP field secretary in Jackson, said Metcalf was leaving work at the Armstrong Tire and Rubber plant when the blast occurred.

Metcalf was blown out of the car. "We had been getting threats Checkmated By Cable Havana, Aug. 27 (UPI) American chess champion Bobby Fischer, 22, playing by cable Bobby Fischer from New York, today defeated Russia's former world champion Vassily Smyslov in the fourth annual Capablanca Memorial Tournament. Fischer was barred by the State Department from coming to Cuba. He is scheduled to "face" his next opponent, Victor Cioaclatea of Romania, Sunday.

roads, ha't truck traffic 4 )i communist guern -vnn-nt ma long a line stretching only 12 miles southwest to 15 miles northwest of the capital. Ironically, while the Viet Cong were trying to cut Saigon's food supply routes. fi.OOO government troops 170 miles northeast of the province, wnn i rang, i ney i -1 rw encountered no Viet Cong oppo- sition and supply convoys moved out toward isolated Ban Me i A mcrkan soldier handafes am af 1 "'S said. "The Negroes have armed themselves." i Evers said he was going to Natchez to take over the civil rights activities and try to keep Negroes under conrol. Aged Ala.

Negro Dies; Tongue Was Cut Out Greensboro, Aug. 27 (UPI) Perry Smaw, 87, a Negro who was found with his tongue cut out after he spoke out against civil rights demonstrations died today in Hale County Hospital without ever naming his attackers. Smaw never regained consciousness after the attack last Saturday. Authorities believed the beating and mutilation of Smaw was aimed at silencing his opposition to civil rights activities. West Point, Aug.

27 (AP) Michael Reuss, 18, son of a isconsin Congressman, went back to jail here today because a check for a fine against the civil rights worker had bounced. Chief of Police Tommy Smith said that after young Reuss and 11 other men were arrested during a demonstration, two friends put up $145 each for $290 fines. Smith said one check cleared but one was returned unpaid because of insufficient funds. Birmingham, Aug. 27 (UPI) Art Hanes, former Birmingham mayor and an unyielding segregationist, today agreed to represent three Ku Klux Klansmen accused of murdering Detroit civil rights workers Mrs.

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