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DAILY NEWS, DECEMBER 4, 1S74 3 Tunatown 9 opsf I mm Bystasid nearby Elizabeth St. police station. Plainclothes and uniformed cops poured into t.e restaurant, rescued the besieged officers and seizeJ several suspected gang members. Wu, of 80-15 41st Elmhurst, Queens, died an hour later in Beekman Downtown Hospital. Leong, of 29 Hawthorne Brooklyn, was reported -in critical condition at the same hospital.

Both men apparently had been drinking in the restaurant and had no connection with the Ghost Shadows, investigators said. Wu came here from Taiwan four years ago and was never a gang member, according to his brother, Richard Wu. Released from Beekman Downtown after "treat- ment for cuts of the neck, head and scalp, Cupo went to the Elizabeth St. station and started to question the -suspects. He collapses again in the station house and was taken by ambulance to Beth Israel Hospital, where doctors said he had a possible concussion.

Gung shooting and oihar recent gang violence, the cops decided to see what the young hoods were up to. They walKed into the restaurant and found themselves in the middle of an argument between young gangsters and adult patrons and employes. The officers, who were in civilian clothes, flashed, their police shields. Then, investigators said, Ghost Shadows pelted the cops with beer bottles, glasses, chairs, fists and feet. Heineman ran -outside to call assistance.

He looked around, saw that Cupo was not with him and went Lack inside. He found his partner sprawled on the floor, bleeding from face and scalp cuts. Several youths were punching and kicking him, police said. Heineman drew his revolver, helped Cupo up and tried to back out the door with him. Cupo collapsed near the restaurant entrance and the crowd surged forward.

Heineman fired two shots. One 'bullet hit Yi Tsu Wu, 31, in the right side. The other shot struck Jimmy Leong. 38, in the chest. A passerby heard the shots and notified the By FRANK FASO and PAUL MESKIL An undercover ccp fired two shots in a Chinatown restaurant, killing1 one man and wounding another, after he and his partner were attacked by bottle-throwing members of a Chinese youth gang early yesterday.

Police Officer Louis Cupo was injured in the melee, which started when he and Officer Joseph Heineman, who did the firing, followed a dozen gang members into the Jade Chalet, 199 Worth near Mulberry St. Cupo and Heineman are part of a special unit assigned to Chinatown in an effort to halt a wave of stickups, muggings and shootings. Many of the crimes have been blamed on the Ghost Shadows, which one police official described as "not just a youth gang but a vicious criminal gang." Cupo and Heineman were on Mulberry St. about 1:45 a.m. yesterday when they saw the Ghost Shadows enter the jade Chalet.

Recalling the Hong Now That's Conservation Wolf Urns on iamb Set to Huff and Puff Dec. 72 By CAUSEWELL VAUGHAN A Bronx savings and loan association is prepared to ring down the final curtain on the 100-year-old Lambs Club because of the theatrical club's failure to keep up payments on a 8360,000 mortgage. Attorneys for the Tremont Savings and Loan Association said yesterday they will start advertising Dec. 12 for a foreclosure sale of the Lambs' six-story building at 128-134 W. 44th and die sale could taxe place early in January.

The club is about $100,000 behind (in mortgage payments and also owes city taxes as well as money to suppliers. A final hearing will be held Friday on the bank's motion to But last night, in a last-ditch effort to raise cash, the club staged a gala Celebration" for which rickets cost up to $375. According to David Aldrich, the Lambs' chairman, all tickets were sold. Aldrich said the sale of 330 tickets most we could get in because of the fire and. of donated artworks during the evening "should remove the Lambs from bankruptcy." The Lambs took out the mortgage In July 1972 and was supposed to make monthly payments of plus taxes.

However, at a Manhattan Federal Court hearing in August, the savings and loan reported that no payments had been received since July 1973. Bankruptcy Judge Edward J. Ryan delayed the bank's motion to foreclose and directed the Lambs to "come up with some very, very hard cash," which the gala was supposed to produce. asAoaSead Hero Peopb i Mexico City, Dec. 3 (Combined Dispatches) Guerrilla chieftain Lucio Cabanas is dead, but his legend as a hero among the poor people of Mexico lives on.

The government said that the 36-year-old leftist leader was killed in a shootout yes-day in the rugged Sierra Madre mountains near Acapuleo, climaxing two days of fighting in which 27 other guerrillas and two soldiers were slain. Cabanas and his band were denounced by the government as "common criminals," responsible foi nearly 10 years of ambushes, kidnapings and murders. But cafe folk ballads had glorified him as a modern day Robin Hood who distributed his booty among the peasants of Guerrero state, one of the country's most impoverished regions. In the last year, police blamed Cabanas and his guerrillas for four kidnapings and a take of $720,000 in ransom. Last May, Cabanas kidnaped Sen.

Ruben Figueroa when the millionaire transportation magnate tried to negotiate a truce between him and the government. Cabanas demanded $4 million in cash, weapons and freedom for number of prisoners. On Sept. 8, the Army trapped the guerrillas, killed 17 of them and liberated Figueroa. But Cabanas got away.

The end for Cabanas came yesterday at a ranch not far from where Cabanas began his revolutionary movement in what he described as a continuation of the 1910 peasant uprising led by EMilianc Zapata. I i til 7 JCTZP Li Associated Press Wirephoto Workmen get national Christmas Tree in shape for formal lighting on the Ellipse behind the White House. The top ornament is new but the tree is held over from last year's display. Brought to the capital in October 1973, it will be first national tree to be lit by two Presidents, will have 2,000 lights and 450 twinkle lamps. The Mills of Are Grinding in the House successfully for the Senate, is temporary chairman of the organization.

The freshmen have hired a two-man staff for an office located near the Capitol on New Jersey Avenue. They have been provided financial help from the National Committee for an Effective Congress, an outfit not noted for any conservative tinge. And they don't like to be called freshmen; they prefer to be called "new members." These new members are seeking to avoid the problems that resulted in argument and fragmentation in other years when efforts at organization were at-' tempted. This time, they are dedicating themselves to reform not to substantive issues that provoke debate. What the new members want most, at the outset, is the placement of some of their number on major committees such as Ways and Means, and Appropriations.

The coveted memberships on these two have long been reserved strictly for congressmen with noticeable seniority. The second goal is help from the House leadership for new members from marginal districts who need recognition badly to win a second term. By JERRY GREENE Washington, Dec. 3 It now appears that the "winds of change" shaking the foundations of the House consist mainly of a well-organized machine which is taking a deadly aim at the seniority system through which a few have ruled the many in Congress. The immediate targets of the reformers are Rep.

Wilbur Mills the chairman of the House Wavs and Means Committee; Rep. Wright Patman the chairman of the House Banking Committee; and Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio), the chairman of the housekeeping Administration Committee. Others may be added to the list before the end of the month. Rep.

Phil Burton the activist liberal elected chairman of the Democratic Caucus yesterday, borrowed the "winds of change" phrase to describe the success of the movement, -which scored another victory today. The reformers won enlargement of Mills' Ways and Means Committee from 25 to 37 members; they re confident of un-' loading Mills himself in January. Mills' well-advertised problems provided a convenient, spotlighted excuse for his colleagues to slice away his power, but the attack against him would have been launched anyway, without the help of the Tidal Basin Bombshell, dressed or undressed. Caucus Chairman Burton has been mouthing about reforms in the House (OAP DTO LA for years without stirring up enough support to wobble the thrones of the potentates sitting as committee chairmen by virtue of seniority. He was delighted to discover almost overnight what could be a dominant bloc thinking mostly along his own lines the 75 new Democratic congressmen elected in 'November, who will take office nest month.

Perhaps for the first time in history, the freshmen congressmen already are organized and have agreed upon a strategy. Richard Ottinger of New York, a freshman again despite prior service broken when he" ran un a broad consensus behind a plan to give the party Caucus authority to unseat a committee chairman. Burton and his older liberal colleagues are ahead of them on this point, which why Mills, Patman, Hays and a few others are marked for extinction. The skids were greased two years ago in a largely overlooked compromise deal. Formerly, the Committee on Committees, which was Mills' Ways and Means Committee under a separate presented to the Caucus recommendations for chairmen, always- the senior Democrats when the -Democrats were the majority.

This power was taken, from Mills yesterday in the Burton coup and handed to a steering committee. Even with Mills apparently firmly in the saddle, the reformers in 1972 obtained the approval of a measure? requiring that recommended chairmen must win a majority in a secret ballot of the entire Caucus. It was agreed that this new rule would not become applicable until 1975. Burton and friends including the freshmen intend to apply the hotfoot next month, leaving the super-seniors ample time to go skinny-dipping in the Tidal Basin whenever they please. Already the freshmen have developed.