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NO. 289 DIAL 837 6000 or 837 6001 Kane and ML Jewett. Thursday, August 22, 1968 TEN CENTS A COPY 'l!" im wrd.m iff Mf I 1 1 run in pd Temperatures Overnight low 59 Noon recording: 81 THE 7 1 LLLj REPUBLICAN CZECH INVASION Mil! liiss an ii A llhu iu did unioin in GLOBAL COlilSy An AP New Analysis By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent In one swift stroke, the Russians have reimposed the cold war, altered the course of politics around the. globe and possibly even ignited the long fuse a major crisis in world communism.

The sudden invasion of Czechoslovakia makes it abundantly clear that Moscow's hawks prevailed over its doves in the Soviet Politburo. This in Itself has the elements of a future internal Soviet political crisis. But much more than that has happened. If Crowd of 20,000 Calls For Release of Reform Minded Leader Dubcek By PtTER REHAK Associated Press Writer PRAGUE UP) Czechoslovaks massed today on Vaclavske Namesti, Prague's main square, in a violent demonstration against the Soviet led occupation and the arrest of their reform minded Communist chief, Alexander Dubcek. i mmmm 'Hy77, I lj 7 4 I 1 i ijii hi 5.

CZECHMATED Following broadcast advice, Czechs go about their business In Prague a Soviet tanks move along the street during the Warsaw Pact invasion (Cablephoto) CENTRAL FIGURE In the War saw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia Is Alexander Dubcek (above), first secretary of the a 1 1 n's Communist Party. Dubcek's liberalization program triggered the Kremlin led takeover. HOT OBJECTS VALUED IT OVER SI Route 321 North from Kane Borough is Slated for Letting December 28 by Highway Dept. Final segment of Route 321 relocation and reconstruction north S.2 miles lrom Kane tt intersect Route 59 adjacent the U.S. Forest Service center near Klondike Is scheduled for "letting" on Dec.

28. A meeting of various agencies Involved along the reconstruction starting at the Kane Borough line is scheduled at Clearfield District highway offices' on Sept. 26. The Route 321 project is the last of the major replacement's, relocations and reconstruction in the Pennsylvania area of the Kinzua waters. Last major segment involved in relocation is the present project of the O'Block Construction Company extending about 7.5 miles south from Route 59 to a point about two miles north of Red Bridge.

The contractor was not obligated to keep the route open, to local traffic during construction which has been, underway for more than a year. Finishing work now is underway, berm work and guard rails. The route has been given the blacktop treatment, but remains blocked to traffic possibly into September. The last segment extending from Kane borough nortli to the Plante Camp has been surveyed numerous times as result of the difficulties of terrain. On the basis of the "tentative design plans," subject to contract bidding, the segment will be about 90 percent, or more relocation starting in Kane borough, cutting through a portion of the "edge" of Glenwood Park to straighten out the numerous curves.

The route will be higher, mostly west of the existing Plnchot type road, crossing the present route only a few times. Known as "the Kinzua Road," the route, once 18 miles to Kinzua, now goes east! of reservoir waters starting at Red Bridge, nine miles north of Kane and intersects Route 59 several miles east of the Complanter (Casey Bridge). A connection 'has been planned with new highway extending north from Route 59 into the Willow Bay area and north into New York state. The route via Willow Bay into New York which lias been opened for a year Is accesible via old Route 59 near Marshburg. Although Route 321 north when completed will provide a more direct access to the Kinzua Dam itself, a still more direct and shorter route will develop with completion of the U.S.

Forest Service highway which leaves Route 321 just south of Red Bridge to service Kiusutha Recreational Area, Camp Cornplanter and other recreational developments of the VS. Forest Service along the west side of the Kinzua arm of the Allegheny Reservoir. Huge slides, involving some 150,000 yards of earth, held up the project for a year. The route is hlackfoppod from the intersection with the Jake's Rocks Overlook Road near Route 59 and the project is contracted for all but a few hundred feet. There is no immediate word available on the future of Route 321 south from Kane to Wilcox and intersection with Route 219 at that place.

SAIGON CENTER FIRST TIME IN 2 MONTHS By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer 'i SAIGON (AP) Enemy rockets smashed into the center of Saigon for the first time in two months today and mortars hit more than a dozen other and allied installations in a fifth straight day of widespread enemy attacks. Heavy ground fighting also was reported at half a dozen points. Military communiques reported 45 Vietnamese civilians were killed and 117 wounded in the rain of t' more than 500 rockets and mortars that hit Saigon and cities' to the northwest and south. Japanese news correspondent, Tatsuo Sakai, 33, ulso was killed in the Saigon attack, becoming the 19th correspondent to die in the war. Only five Americans were reported wounded in the widespread shellings.

Two rockets crashed into the National Assembly building in downtown Saigon. The explosion tore off part of the roof and smashed several windows in the Caravelle Hotel, where many Americans were sleeping. There were no reports of any Western civilians being hurt. An American soldier was fatally shot in the back while cycling downtown Saigon. The shootirig touched off running motorcycle gun battle that left a South Vietnamese soldier and one of the three Vietnamese assailants wounded.

The wounded assailant was later captured. The two other men escaped. The intensified pace of the war included shellings and ground attacks against at least six allied bases blocking invasion routes into Saigon and a fifth straight day of heavy fighting for control of a road 40 miles northwest of Saigon. The road is a vital supply route for American forces astride a key Viet Cong infiltration corridor leading from Cambodia. A senior U.S.

officer said the stepped up fighting across the country with more than 1,400 enemy troops reported killcl since last Sunday could be the Start of the long awaited third Viet Cong offensive. But he qualified this by adding that "It's too early to make an assessment." The officer conceded that it is "always possible" the latest attacks, mainly those on allied bases, may have been a diversionary move to distract allied forces while enemy troops maneuvered into position for a subsequent ground attack on Sii gon. "They've done this in the past," he noted. Gen. Creighton W.

Abrams' headquarters termed the renewed shelling of Saigon "indiscriminate harassing rocket attacks." "No military installations were hit," a communique from Abrams' headquarters said. Abrams, riding in a military jeep, toured some of the areas in Saigon that were hit by the 20 round barrage of 100 pound Russian made rockets. Viet Cong gunners also fired rockets on a U.S. Navy ammunition ship and three merchant ships, including the British tanker Caiter Newcastle, in the Long Tau channel to Saigon. Headquarters said two of the ships received minor damage.

U.S. headquarters said the rockets that hit Saigon were fired from positions southeast of the capital. Humphrey to Pick Richard Hughes as A Running Mate? By JACK BELL CHICAGO (AP) Backers of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, confident they have the Democratic presidential nomination in hand, surveyed today the possibilities for a running mate. Outstanding among these was Gov.

Richard J. Hughes of New Jersey, who has been wending his way through the labyrinth of delegate challenges and contests initiated by Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, Minn with what is regarded by most Democratic pros as a remarkably cool approach. The handsome, dark haired and youthful appearing governor of New Jersey becoming a star performer on television in these hectic preconvention days in sweltering Chicago is cast as the most logical choice If McCarthy refuses to play second fiddle to his former close associate in Minnesota's strident politics.

There remained no doubt in the Humphrey camp that McCarthy would help the vice president in the general election more than any second man he could pick. But McCarthy remained a political enigma, who might even head off into a fourth party foray if he disagrees with the outcome of next week's party nominating convention. 45 29 Nixan Edge Humphrey's confidence in the presidential balloting obviously was shaken by a Gallup poll which indicated that GOP nominee Richard M. Nixon held a 45 29 percentage lead over the vice president in popularity at this point. Humphrey's people contendi in Washington, where the vice president remained, that this represented only public reaction to Nixon's nomination at the Miami Beachi Republican Convention and would change quickly when the Democratic nominee was selected.

There was no doubt that Humphrey would be glad to accept Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, for second place on the ticket if the senator would reconsider his reiterated statement that he would not be a candidate for any office this year. Kennedy returned to the political scene Wednesday with a speech at Worcester, In which he called for an unconditional cessation of the bombin; of North Vietnam. But he stopied short of a vo cating any advance commit, ment for Communist participation in a new Saigon government, a point McCarthy has urged and Humphrey has Moscow has served notice on Communist nations that none can ever hope to escape from the Soviet grip.

An official statement said "the fraternal parties" meaning the Kremlin "will never allow anyone to drive a wedge between Socialist states, to undermine the foundations of the Socialist system." The statement is likely to cause some alarm In Romania, whose Communist regime, while adhering to strict party rule internally, has tended to go its own way in foreign and trade affairs. It can even cause some alarm in Yugoslavia whose leaders, along with the Romanians, supported Czechoslovak liberals. The invasion has severely set back, if not destroyed, hopes in the near future of East West accord to remove world tensions or to scale down the nuclear weapons race. It Is bound to place American troops on the alert In Korea and elsewhere. It throws into doubt Soviet plans for an international Communist conference in Moscow in November, where the Russians had hoped to plug up some of the gaping holes in the fabric of what once was considered a monolithic world movement.

It probably will have a heavy impact on the U.S. political campaign. Displays of Soviet military might tend to unify Americans, just as they tend to frighten and unify the allies of the United States. Moscow has taken what many around the world had discounted as an unthinkably rash step. Various analysts had expected that the Soviet Union would apply all manner of, pressure against the reform regime of the Czechoslovak Communist party to halt moves toward liberalization.

But invasion had been ruled out as something which would cost the Kremlin far more than it might gain. Once again, the Kremlin has delivered a severe jolt to Communists outside its orbit. This was a move feared by parties such as those in France and Italy. For them it represents deep crisis. They had been making headway by representing themselves as advocates of legal progress to power.

The shock of the Soviet move can be costly to them. Communist parties have been severely set back in the past by Soviet actions such as the invasion of Finland before World War II, the Nazi Soviet pact which opened the floodgates of war, the crushing of the Hungarian revolution in 1956. E.ich time the recovery process for Communist parties is longf.r and more difficult. Leadership Shakeup? Internally, the Soviet leadership may have to pay a price. It seems fairly clear that there was tense debate in the ruling Soviet Politburo over what to do about Czechoslovakia involving Pope Paul Arrives In Colombia for Three Day Visit By BENNET M.

BOLTON Associated Press Writer BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Pope Paul VI arrived today cn the first papal visit to Lat'n America and was greeted by upwards of 10,000 persons at the airport. A cool wind blew over the vast plain where this 8,600 foot high city nestles between the ranges of the Andes as the blue and white Avianca jetliner completed the long journey from Rome, bringing the Pope to the 39th Eucharistic Ctngresa. Police and troops in steel helmets patrolled the route to the airport as city folks in their Sunday best mingled with peasants to get vantage points for a view of the pontiff. A scarlet carpet was unrolled to the plane, leading to a stand where dignitaries were gathered, headed by President Carlos Lleras Restrepo. The pontiff's visit was marred by his concern over the Soviet bloc invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The Pope was kept Informed on the crisis throughout his 12 hour flight. Avianca said the pontiff demanded full reports on the latest developments, through the communications system of the Tvianca's U.S. built 707. As the Pope's plane first entered Columbia's air space, the Bogota radio began playing the national anthem und the announcer said: "Welcome to Colombia Holy Father." STOLEN AT BRADFORD BRADFORD, Pa. (AP) A police chief says burglars "just Jpened a kitchen window and walked right on in" to steal V5 rt objects valued by the owner it $1,394,000.

Stolen were paintings by such reknown artists as Picasso, Ce janne, Latour, Degas, Goya and Modigliani and two cast bronze ies by Rodin, were part of a collection of about 1,000 art pieces collected by Dr. T. Edward Hanley over 45 years. Thieves broke into the Hanley house Wednesday morning and made off with the art objects, all on the first floor, while the 75 year old Hanley and his sister in law were sleeping in two upstairs bedrooms. Hanley's wife, Tullah, a mer Egyptian dancer, was In New York on a business trip.

She rushed back after being notified of the robbery and. made the loss estimate. Mrs. Hanley said the two most valuable pieces were a 27'i inch 'v 21 inch Picasso painting en led "Moulin Rouge" valued at $500,000 and an 18 inch Cezanne watercolor entitled "portrait of Vallicr" valued at $450, 600. The Picasso was done in 1901 and the Cezanne in 190G.

Police Chief Earl Bridge of Foster Township said the thieves walked up a short stairway on a back porch and slit the screen on a kitchen window. "Then they forced the window," Bridge said. "It was one of those old, semicircle locks and when they pushed, it Up, the nails popped loose. "They just opened the window and walked right on in," the chief said. "Everything else was open.

There's a little swing door into the dining room and that's all." Bridge said the burglars, working swiftly and silently, snipped the electric cords loading to individual lights on each painting and took the paintings while still in the frame. Two bronze statues by Rodln a nude fawness and a nude dancer valued at $25,000 each also were stolen. All of the stolen objects were on the first floor of the rambling house, which sits off Pennsylvania 219 and is surrounded by think shrubbery and trees. There Ignoring requests by the clandestine Prague radio to maintain calm to avoid giving the foreign soldiers an excuse fcr further violence, a crowd of about 20,000 shook their fist at the Russians and shouted: "Russian murderers go home! They called for Dubcek's release. Shots were heard from the square.

It could not be determined immediately whether the soldiers were aiming at demonstrators or loosing warning shots into the air. Soviet tank troops, who had been covering all approaches to the square since their arrival Wednesday, immediately closed all bridges across the Vltava River, which divides the city. The move came as Czechoslovak Communists, reacting to the occupation by 200,000 Russian and Kremlin line satellite troops, convened in an extraordinary party congress that its liberal leadership had originally scheduled to open Sept. 9. This was a last ditch attempt to force the troops to leave through political pressure.

The clandestine proliberal radio announced 927 delegates met at 11:20 a.m. Though the broadcast did not specify the site, the delegates had been urged to go to the liberal controlled CKD factory on the outskirts of Prague. Under arrangements that had been made by Dubcek, 1.509 members would have been on hand for the September meeting. In that session it had been expected he would oust conservative opponents from the ruling party Presidium and the Central Committee. The seven Central Committee members who have declared loyalty to the Soviet led occupation troops, tried to shift today's meeting to the party owned Pra ha Hotel.

Soviet tanks and armored cars guarded the approaches to the hotel. Several black limousines were parked outside. The proliberal station broadcast warnings to congress delegates not to go to the hotel, which it said was a trap. The calling of the congress was another attempt to discredit the pro Soviet members of the Presidium, who include Slovak party chief Vasil Bilak and Dra homir Kolder, a former head of economic planning. The proliberal radio this morning mentioned Rude Pravo editor Oldrich Svestka as one of the pro Soviet members, but later broadcasts dropped his name.

He was reported arrested by Soviet troops Wednesday, although he has come out against some of Dubcek's policies in the past. Dubcek himself was still in Soviet custody, along with other leading members of his liberal regime. Protest Strike The radio said a general strike started in the South Bohemian district to protest the occupation. The radio also called on the army to protect President Lud vik Svoboda and not to take orders from anyone except from the legal government. Czechoslovak secret police, who have kept in the background since Dubcek took over in January, were arresting prominent writers and journalists.

Witnesses reported hundreds of political prisoners were arriving at Pankrac Prison. Meanwhile an American Embassy motor convoy taking U.S. citizens out of the country cleared a checkpoint outside Prague and was on its way to the West German border crossing point at RozvHdov. Embassy officials said Czechoslovak motorcycle policeman was escorting the convey of about 20 embassy and private cars. Dozens of British, Dutch and West German cars joined the American convoy.

Czechoslovakia's chief of state and Parliament insisted that the Russians and their allies Poles, East Germans( Hungarians and Bulgarians free cip tive liberal lenders and go (Continued on page 8) EX KANE RESIDENT, Ike Heart 'Irritability' is Reported WASHINGTON LP) Former President Dwight' D. Eisenhower continued to show increased evidences of heart "irritability" today but Army doctors said his over ull condition is unchanged and still critical. The irritability mentioned in the latest bulletin first appeared Wednesday night and refers to a weakening in the nerves that operate the heart muscles. "In spite of his long illness," said the medical report, "he has remained cheerful and continues to see members of his immediate family for brief periods daily. His vital signs remain stable and his over all condition must be viewed as unchanged but still critical." were no burglary alarms.

Ft Rridge said the walls of the I Father Dies in Ont LePny Birg, father of Mrs. George O. Welch of Kane, died Wednesday at his home in Western, Ontario. Mrs. Welch is the wife of the Rev.

George O. Welch, pastor cf Emmanuel Mission Church of Kane. Memorial services will be con ducted Saturday at Western. Miss Joan Holland, former Kane resident and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Leo Holland of Kane, succumbed unexpectedly at her home at Wilkinsburg yesterday afternoon. Miss Holland, born In Kane Jan. 25. 1921, the daughter of Leo and Josephine Staub Holland, attended local schools and graduated from Kane High School in 1940. She graduated from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing In Pittsburgh, received a degree In anesthesiology from St.

Francis Hospital In Pittsburgh and her Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Miss Holland resided In the Pittsburgh area more than a score of years and was anaesthesist at Columbia Hospital In Wilkinsburg. Besides her parents in Ka'ie she is survived by one Mrs. Donald Montgomerj of Phoenix, two brothers, Leo B. Holland, Oak Ridge.

Tenn. and Thomas R. Holland of Fort Wayne, Ind. Friends will be received lit the Cumming? Funeral Home here 7 to 9 p.m. this evening and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

tomorrow. Rosary will be said Fri day evening at 8 o'clock. Solemn Requiem High Muss will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. at St. Cslllstus Church with the Rev.

Fr. Cail L. Lippert as celebrant. The Rev. Patrick F.

Sharp of St. Ann's Church, Wilcox, will serve as denron and th Rev. Charles Schmitt as subdeacon. Interment will be In St. Cullis tu Cemetery, hawks who wanted to crush the Czechoslovak movement quickly and doves who preferred the more cautious policy of waiting and applying pressure.

The argument seemed to have left in the middle the top political leaders of the Soviet Union: the party's general secretary, Leonid I. Brezhnev, and Premier Alexel N. Kosygin. Hardline Stalinists appeared to want. Immediate surgery to remove what they regarded as a thteat in Czechoslovakia to Communist patties throughout the orbit.

Eventually, this can mean 1 shakeup at the top of the Soviet power structure. The hawks are supported by Soviet generals preoccupied with world power politics. In Prague the Russians may reinstate Antonln Novotny, the pro Moscow, Neo Stalinist who was removed from the party and government leadership early this year when the Czechoslovak reform movement was gathering steam. Only Soviet arms could reinstall Novotny, who was widely hated and often blamed for the stagnant state of Czechoslova jr 1 tt'l i 7 is 4 Jt i i Curtis Reports Loss YORK Curtis Publishing Co. reported Wednesday to the Securities and Ex chance Commission that it lost in the first six months of this year, conimred with a loss of $.170,000 a year earlier.

The company lid revenue for the period was but that a comparable figure for a year earlier was unavailable because it didn't report revenue on an interim basis in 17. ns were covered with paintings and drawings and that the burglars left a lot of art objects behind. More pieces were stored in an outside garage. Left FIcshkoh Behind "They left some Picassos behind that were worth a half million dollars," Bridge said. Asked if he hud any idea how many men or if one man staged the burglary, Bridge said.

"That's something I can't tell you right now. "We dfcin't really get a chance to get started on this because Mrs. Hanley had to return and tell us what was stolen," the chief said. "But we're working on this. Everybody from the BI on down has been notified." Bridge said the area aiourd the Hanley house was black topped so authorities couldn't find any tire tracks that might indicate how the paintings were taken away and the heavy shrubbery and trees concealed the burglars.

Hanley, descendant of a Bradford oil and brick family, had recently showed some of his ait collection in galleries in New York and Philadelphia and more shows were slated for Chicago $nd Sun Francisco, "Counter artillery was fired within three minutes on suspected enemy positions with unknown results," headquarters said. Allied forces repulsed all of the ground attacks, headquarters said, with the help of dive bombers, artillery and helicoji ter gunships. During attacks on two American fire bases around Tay Ninh City, 45 miles northwest of Saigon, American artillerymen turned their big howitzers point blank at charging North Vietnamese. Military spokesmen said that 82 enemy were killed in the ground assaults on the wa bases of the U.S. 251 Infantry Division.

American casualties were six killed and 30 wounded. Headquarters said that 21Ci enemy troops had been killed In fighting Wednesday and Thursday In Tay Ninh Province, near (Continued ou pde S) T.S. Mil CIIKISTKM.II WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. With the shattering of a bottle containing water from the seven seas, America's newest und heaviest research submarine whs formally christened "Ben FrHnklin" Wednesday by a direct descendant of that scientist kia's economy. ALSO IN PRAGUE 'hen the Invasion came, former child Brezhnev made a hasty trip to Ur Shirley Temple Black, shown looking at props Czech Prague last December In an ef coronation Jewels with film executive Jaa Kala.

fort to keep Novotny in his posu (Continued oa page 8) i.