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Judge Hears California Case Bulletins. Tomb Found Deal Offered The tomb, of Italian Renais. offered Bobby FLORENCE, Italy (AP) LONDON, (AP) A British sance architect and sculptor Fischer a deal worth 50,000 Filippo Brunelleschi was re- pounds $130,000 at official ported found today under the parity to entice Fischer to Florence Cathedral whose play his Soviet rival Boris dome he designed. Spassky for the world chess Brunelleschi was credited title. with starting Italian Renais- James D.

Slater, an investsance architecture. He was ment banker, said in making born in Florence in 1377 and the offer, "Fischer has said died here in 1446. that money is the problem. Well, here it is. What I am saying to Fischer now is, Blast Rogers out and play." ATHENS (AP) Former politicians, including the last HST Satisfactory constitutionally appointed pre- KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(AP)mier, issued statements today Former President Harry S. criticizing Secretary of State Truman was in satisfactory William P. Rogers' visit 1 to condition today after entering Greece. They urged him to Research Medical Center Hosbring about a radical change pital Sunday for routine exof attitude by U. S.

govern- aminations for what his docment toward the Greek auth- tor described "lower gasoritarian regime. trointestinal problem." The trip to the hospital, Truman's second within five days, 11 Killed was described by a hospital NORVALSPONT, South Af. spokesman as "a routine exrica (AP) Eleven persons amination that had been planperished and 27 were injured ned." today in the predawn derailment of 2 Port toJohannesburg passenger train. Plan Revealed NEW YORK (AP) The International Telephone TeleWelcomes Pact graph Corp. sent a plan to the DACCA, Bangladesh (AP)- White House last October deBandgledesh gave a condition- signed to oust Chile's Marxist al welcome today to the agree- president, Salvador Allende, ment signed by India and Pak- the New York Times said toistan.

day. "Our first reaction is. that it The newspaper said the Nixis a success toward the road on administration did not act to greater success and the on ITT's 18-point plan, but path to a durable peace," later applied certain measures Foreign Minister Abdus Sam- of its own against Allende's ad Azad told newsmen. government. HALT HEROIN TRAFFICKING.

Report information on pushers at any hour of day or night by calling the Heroin Hotline-(800) 368-5363-nationwide toll-free telephone number manned by trained operators in Washington, D.C. The caller need not identify himself, and his rights will be fully protected. Jet Hijacker Is Killed SAIGON (AP) A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger Sunday. The hijacker was tentatively identified today as a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he had studied fishery science on a U.S.

government scholarship and graduated with honors last month. young man, carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name Nguyen Thai Binh, met violent death after the pilot tricked him and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled destination, in defiance of his demand to fly to North Vietnam. The 135 other passengers safely evacuated by slidwere ing used to down empty the emergency plane quickly, of case of explosion. Several suffered minor persons scratches or bruises and one passenger, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, broke his leg.

To back up his threats, the hijacker carried a long knife and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese police sources said two homemade grenades were in the and there was no indication whether they could package have exploded. But the airline described them as harmless "egg-shaped objects" wrapped in aluminum foil. The hijacking attempt began after the jumbo jet, flight 841, left Manila on the last leg of its San Francis flight. Binh, who had boarded in Honolulu, grabbed stewardess May Yuen, 23, a Hong Kong Chinese, as a hostage and sent two notes to the control cabin demanding that the plane be diverted to Hanoi.

The hijacker, in the rear passenger compartment, also talked with the pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, 53, of Scottsdale, over the intercom. "I am doing this for revenge," Vaughn said he told Your bombers are maiming and killing our people of the Vietnam. You are this going Democratic Republic of North, me to Hanoi and airplane will be destroyed when we get there." Vaughn kept up the conversation, telling the hijacker the jet would have to be refueled and contact made with North Vietin order to cross the denam militarized zone. Meanwhile the first offficer landed the jet at Saigon's Tan Nhut airport where it was ringed by troops and ambulances.

Vaughn went to the rear compartment where the hijacker told him to halt and added, "You have deceived me." Vaughn said he asked to come closer because the lan. guage problem made it difficult to understand the Vietnamese. "This seemed to disarm him mentally and I saw my chance," the pilot said. "I jumped him. I grabbed the arm that was holding the bomb and it flew onto the floor.

spun him around and got an arm lock on him. He was flailing with a knife in his other hand but all it got was a bit of Turn to Page 2A, Story No. 11 CLOUDY The Weather VIRGINIA Considerable cloudiness with a chance of thundershowers toshowers or and Tuesday. Lows tonight night in the mid or the upper low 60s. Highs Tuesday in or middle 80s in the northern of the state and in the middle upper 80s in.

the portion or south. The EXTENDED National Weather Ser. VA. FORECAST extended outlook for for the period of Wed. vice's Virginia nesday through Friday: A chance of showers Wed.

otherwise fair. It will be cooler with daytime high nesday, temperatures in the 80s and nightly lows in the 60s except lower in the western highlands. NORTH CAROLINA: Partly Doubts MEMBER The see TOBACCO WAREHOUSE. Bee. ASSOCIATED PRESS Founded February 1 1899 Danville, Monday Afternoon, July 3, 1972 50c Weekly Delivered Price: TEN CENTS To Home By Carrier Vol.

LXV, No. 2460 Red Forces In Retreat Twisted Boxcars Along Southern's Main Line U.S. Planes Strike With Cluster Bombs This aerial photograph, taken this morning, shows a cluster of twisted and broken boxcars along Southern Railway's main line between Danville and Chatham following the derailment of a southbound freight train yesterday. Crews were working feverishly to clear the tracks hope. fully by this afternoon of the some 44 railroad cars which sprawled along Southern's route north of the city, temporarily blocking traffic coming and going.

Southbound passengers were being sent to Greensboro, N.C., and northbound passengers to Lynchburg, railway officials said. (More pictures on Page 1-B.) Freight Train Derails Near City Southern Railway crews busy today clearing the main railroad line between Danville and Chatham in the wake of the derailment of more than 40 cars of a 140-car freight train some miles north of the city yesterday. The derailment happened about 3 p.m. between Twin Arch and the Smith-Douglass fertiilzer plant near White Oak Mountain. No one was injured.

According to Charles O. Morgret, Southern's manager of public relations in Washington, D.C., the accident involved 20 loaded freight cars, 24 empties and one diesel unit of southbound train No. 153. Included in the derailment were a variety of rail units, such as tankers, flatbeds and a "slave unit," the diesel locomotive placed in the middle of the train for added power. One loaded tank car was reported to be emitting a gasoline-like odor shortly after the wreck.

Morgret said this morning, "We don't know exactly what was in it, but it was not a hazardous, chemical or thing kind." Morgret said there was no immediate indication of what caused the will have to await an investigation" -but it was reported locally that the train apparently split a switch near Star Paper Tube Co. and then derailed on the Turn to Page 2A, Story No. 8 Grocery Safe, Stolen Truck Both Recovered A safe burglary involving use of a stolen truck turned out to be a wasted effort, with the safe recovered intact along with the vehicle a few miles from the city yesterday. It was shortly after 3 a.m. yesterday that a break-in was reported at Strader's Super Market, at Claiborne and First St.

Entry was gained from overhead via the two-level roof and through a ceiling and the store's safe was removed from the premises, It was not until later, about 9:20 a.m., that police were notified of the theft of a panel truck belonging to Blackwell Motors on Union St. The safe and truck were found together in a wooded area off the Mt. Cross Road some four miles from the city, where it appeared that the thieves had been frightened away before they could tackle the safeopening job. The safe, undamaged, was found in bushes where it had Turn to Page 2A, Story No. 3 Action Illegal Delegates Lost By McGovern SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese marines, supported by U.S.

-bombers dropping cluster bombs on fleeing North Vietnamese troops, moved forward today toward Quant Tri City. Associated Press correspondHolger Jensen reported from the northern front that the North Vietnamese were fleeing in small groups before the steady movement of the marines, apparently hoping to escape the U.S. air strikes and the shelling of American Navy ships offshore. U.S. B52 bombers flew 13 missions around Quang Tri City, striking ahead of the marines to within three miles of the town's southeastern edge.

U.S. fighter-bombers hit the North Vietnamese with antipersonnel cluster bombs. The marines reported the North Vietnamese attacked them on their eastern flank with a force of infantry and tanks. But spokesmen said the South Vietnamese and their air and artillery support drove off the attacks, killed 100 of the North Vietnamese, destroyed four tanks and captured another. The spokesmen said five marines were killed and 17 were wounded.

Thirty miles to the south, 30 rounds of heavy artillery fire hit Hue, military spokesmen said, but there was no immediate report of casualties. Nearly 70 shells crashed into the former imperial capital Sunday, killing 12 civilians and wounding 53. It was the first Turn to Page 2A, Story No. 10 Today's Queer Story MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (P) There is An old tombstone, its name broken off, leaning against the walls of the police station here. It was brought to the station after suspected vandalism occurred at the Middletown Cemetery.

An enterprisingg person has attached a handwritten note to the bottom of the stone. The original lettering read: "Died, 1, 1849. Aged 29 years. Remember me as you pass by, as you are now so once was I. As I am now, so you must be.

Prepare for death and follow me." The added note read: "To follow you is not my intent, unless I know which you went." WASHINGTON (AP)A federal judge questioned today whether a constitutional issue was involved in the Democratic Credential Committee's action stripping away more than half Sen. George S. McGovern's California delegates. District Judge George L. Hart Jr.

said "It might not be cricket, it might even be dirty pool, but is it unconstitutional?" Attorney Joseph L. Rauh Jr. seeking an injunction against the committee's action, maintained that a clear issue of due process protection of of law the as well laws as wasual stake. The request for a restraining order by the court was brought by McGovern supporters in California just a week before the Democratic National Convention is to convene in Miami Beach. The Credentials Committee threw out the state's winnertake-all primary and ordered the California delegates divided proportionately to the popular vote among the rival candidates, Hubert H.

Humphrey, George C. Wallace and others." Judge Hart said that if there was a provision of consitutional rights, "surely the court will step in." However, he told Rauh that there had to be a clear constitutional issue "or otherwise the courts will get so far into the political thicket we could never get Rauh said the Credentials Turn to Page 2.4, Story No. 9 Paratroopers Are Stationed Near Miami Fatality Among Smashups In Locality Over Weekend Pedestrian Dies Single Injury On Route 86; In Accidents Cyclists Hurt Within City A pedestrian was killed and three young men were injured in two separate traffic accidents over the weekend in nearby Caswell County, N.C. Killed instantly by a car earyesterday in front of his home on Rt. 86 some four miles north of Yanceyville, N.C., was 26-year-old Richard Gwynn Jr.

Admitted to Memorial Hos. pital after a head-on collision of two motorcycles Saturday on a dirt road near Wildwood Lake were William Price Atkinson, 19, of Pelham Rt. 1, N.C., Roger Gillispie, 25, of Providence Rt. 1, N.C., and Wesley Daniels of Blanch Rt. 1, N.C.

They were listed in satisfactory condition today. According investigating N.C. Highway Patrolman H. L. Avant, Gwynn died about 1 a.m.

yesterday when he stepped into the path of a car operated by Bobby Lawrence Jones, 26, of Danville Rt. 4. Trooper Avant said Gwynn was struck about three feet from the center line in the northbound lane and died instantly of multiple injuries. He said Gwynn had just gotten out of a car in of his home and started 'across the highway when the accident happened. Gwynn was a member of Sassasfras Grove Baptist Church and was employed by Dan River Inc.

Surviving are his wife, Ruby Bethel Gwynn; two daughters, Rhonda and Regina Gwynn of the home; his mother, Mrs. Lethanel Gwynn of three Williamson sisters, of Mrs. Hyattsville, Bever. Toni Madden and Miss Nancy Gwynn, both of Yanceyville; and two brothers, Turn to Page 2A, Story No. 7 Through the first part of the long Fourth of July holiday period there was no apparent inin traffic accidents in crease, with only one injury reported in Saturday Sunday crashes and damages ranging from a $10 low to $800-plus.

A rear-end collision at 5:10 p.m. yesterday on Robertson Bridge near Park Ave. brought a report of neck pain from Ebbie Harry Williams 149 Howeland Circle, whose station wagon was struck from behind driven by Barbara Stephens Taylor, 132 Capri Court. There was an estimated $100 damage to the of his vehicle. Police reported $400 damage to the front, windshield and left door of the Taylor 1 Turn to Page 2A, Story No.

Belfast Has Seven Killings Over Weekend BELFAST (AP) Seven men were killed in Belfast during a violence-ridden weekend that threatened the flimsy cease-fire in Northern Ireland and fanned fears of "eye for an eye" warfare between Protestant and Roman Catholic gunmen. All seven men were shot in the head, and some were bound and hooded, the trademarks of the Irish Republican Army's execution squads. But at least two of the victims were Catholics. Although there was some speculation that had been killed by IRA punishment squads, authorities believed they were the victims of Protestant extremenists. Turn to Page 2A, Story No.

4 WASHINGTON (AP) The Army will station between 1,000 and 3,000 paratroopers near Miami by the time the Democratic National Convention opens a week from today. Defense officials said timling and eventual movement size of the from federal-troop North Carolina to Homestead AFB, will depend on how Miami Beach authorities size up the threat of disturbances by militant groups and whether outbreaks develop. "What happens this week will dictate whether the task force will go down from Ft. Bragg early or not," one official said. There are indications the Army will keep several thousand additional troops on stand-' by at Ft.

Bragg, ready to be flown to Florida if needed. military advance party already is at Homestead AFB arranging shelter, eating facilities, communications and other details. The base is about 30 miles from the Miami Beach convention site. The Army regulars are being drawn chiefly from the 82nd Turn to Page 2A, Story No. 2 Plot Against Cuba Is Revealed NEW ORLEANS, La.

(AP) A plot U.S. officials say was foraimed at overthrowing a leign country--apparently Communist Cuba -has been revealed in the arrest of nine persons in a $465,000 munitions smuggling scheme. Allegedly stretching from New York to Louisiana, Texas Mexico, the plot came to and light with the arrests Saturday. of plastic explosives were In addition, nearly a seven tons seized in a DC4 transport federal plane at Shreveport, agents said. U.S.

Atty. Gerald Gallinghouse said Sunday federal officials "have no reason to believe that the munitions were destined for any country other than Cuba." The complaint charging two ON THE INSIDE PAGES Amusements Hal Boyle 8A AP News Digest Local, State News 1, 2B Bread Of Life Markets 2B Bridge 2C Mary Haworth Classified Ads Polly's Pointers Comics 4D, 6D Sports Crossword Puzzle 4D State Zone Forecast Deaths, Funerals 1B Television Editorials 4A Women's News -of the men, Murray Kessler of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Adler B. Seal of Baton Rouge, alleged they "knew and believed that this material would be used in an attempted overthrow of a foreign nation." Gallinghouse refused to say precisely that the overthrow plot involved Cuba, but he said the complaint and his statement Sunday were "self-explanatory." Federal officials said that Kessler was held Sunday in the federal prison annex in New Orleans in lieu of $100,000 bond and that Seal was held under $50,000 bond. They were arrested near the New Orleans International Airport Saturday. Turn to Page 2A, Story No.

5 India, Pakistan Leaders Reach First Peace Agreement; Issues Still Faced cloudy, warm and through Tuesday with scattered mainly afternoon and evening thundershowers. Thund. ershowers more numerous in the mountains. Highs this afternoon and Tuesday 80s mountains upper 80s to low 90s elsewhere. Lows tonight 60s mountains and upper 60s to low 70s elsewhere.

DOWNTOWN WEATHER LOG To 1 P. M. Today Hour tem. bar. wind dir.

mph 7 71 30.10 Calm 9 am 80 30.10 Calm 11 am 90 30.10 8 1 pm 93 30.09 10 24-hour low temperature 70. 24-hour high temperature 93 24-hour precipitation none All readings from The Bee's weather station atop the news. paper building. SIMLA, India (AP) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reached their first peace agreement early today and promised future negotiations on the other issues between their two nations, including Kashmir and the Pakistani POWs in India. The agreement, which came after five days of talks in this Himalayan resort, said Indian and Pakistani forces will withdraw from the territories they seized last December along India's western border except in Kashmir.

There they will maintain the cease-fire line established by the two-week war in Deember. The pact also contained a pledge to settle disputes bilaterally and peacefully and said steps should be taken to restore and normalize relations, which Pakistan severed Dec. 6 when India recognized Bangla- desh, the former East Pakistan. The agreement gave no timetable, but called for measures to resume communications and air links, promote travel between their countries, reopen trade, and carry out scientific and cultural exchanges. It said Mrs.

Gandhi and Bhutto would meet again "at a mutually convenient time in the future and that in the meanwhile, the representatives of the two sides will meet to discuss further the normalization of relations, including the questions of repatriation of prisoners of war and civilian internees, a final settlement of Jammu and Kashmir and the resumption of diplomatic Excluding Kashmir, India during the December war seized a total of 5,139 square miles of territory in West Paki- stan, while Pakistan took 69 square miles of Indian territory. In Kashmir, where the troops will remain in position, India took 480 square miles and Pakistan occupied 53 square miles. The agreement said the troops withdrawals would take place within 30 days after rati- Turn to Page 2A, Story No. 1 NO BEE TOMORROW There will be no edition of The Bee tomorrow, to enable employes and carriers to enjoy a Fourth of July holiday. Publication will be ed Wednesday afternoon..

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