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Sunny BeiininfftOEtBanner Saturday, mostly sunny and not so cold. Highest temperature in the teens in the north and the 20s to near 30s in Mhe south. Fair and no important change in temperature Saturday night and Sunday. Precipitation to date this month, 1.07 inches; same period last year, 2.47; total to date this year, 3.69 inches; same period in 1967, 3.83. Total snow to date this year, 25.25 Inches; last year, 31.01.

Bennington, Vermont, Saturday, February 24, 1908 Weekly founded in 1841, Daily t903 No. 20,324 10 Cents I April Draft Call Hits 48,000 Men (I II corps estimates It cannot gain through enlistments, which are expected to average about 8,000 men a month the first half of this year. The Joint Chiefs, It was learned, have proposed mobilizing nearly 50,000 men "across the board, from the National Guard and from Reserve forces of each service, If the President decides to send more than 525,000 men to Vietnam. The Marines, who have been bearing the brunt of the fighting near the Demilitarized Zone In Vietnam and suffering heavy casualties at Khe Sanh and Hue, will get their first men from the ranks of Inductees since March, 1966, the end of a four-month period during which they took In 19,000 draftees. The 4,000 Marine Inductees In April will represent the number of needed replacements the Commander Denies Attacks Provoked Legislators At Work Bennington area legislators do a lot of listening in a days work at the Statehouse in Montpelier while legislation is explained and debated in the House of Representatives.

At left are Reps. Hugh Clark and Robert Kearns, Democrats of Bennington. At the right is Rep. William E. Dailey, D-Shaftsbury.

(Santarcangelo) WASHINGTON (UPI) The Defense Department Issued a draft call Friday for 48,000 men in April, the second highest In the Vietnam War and the first Involving Marines In two years. At the same time, it was disclosed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have proposed ordering nearly 50,000 National Guardsmen and Reservists to active duty If President Johnson decides to Increase the authorized troop level of 525,000 men In Vietnam. The Texas White House said Johnson had not received a formal mobilization plan and that "certainly no decision has been reached. The President presumably Is awaiting a report from Gen. Earle G.

Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs who Is In Vietnam. One purpose of Wheelers visit is to discuss the entire question of military manpower with Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. war commander.

Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told UPI: "Theres no question about it. Additional men must be called up. He Indicated he expected a decision by the administration In a few days.

The Joint Chiefs mobilization plan, which they have submitted to Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara but which informed sources said had not been recommended to the White House, would If approved-mean the first callup of reserve ground troops since the war began. The heavy draft call for April was necessitated, Pentagon officials said, by the need to replace soldiers and Marines Viet Cong Hammers Khe Sank Base WASHINGTON (UPI) The commander of the two U.S. destroyers In the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident said Friday night his ships definitely were attacked by the North Vietnamese and denied the attacks were provoked. The Tonkin Incident led to the first U.S.

bombing raids against North Vietnam and overwhelming congressional approval of a resolution requested by President Johnson In support of his war policy. Critics of the war, particularly the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have questioned the administration version of what happened that fateful night. Chairman J. William Fulbrlght has accused the administration of supresslng Information that casts doubt on whether the destroyers actually were attacked. Others said the U.S.

destroyers provoked the North Vietnamese Into attacking them. who were Inducted during aha m'iL'1, ierrlck t7 i big manpower buildup for Wftrren Mlnn" who was abMrd Vietnam In late 1964 and early the destroyer Maddox and lh hit the civilian air terminal at the airfield. U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops at Hue fought the dying remnants of communist troops desperately holding to the imperial city Inside the Citadel. U.S.

officials estimated about 150 communists were holding onto positions Inside the Imperial city. At Hue, Allied troops caught a battalion of communist reinforcements trying to slip Into the Citadel and killed 223 of them In a vicious battle. Sharp fighting broke out all you would stimulate an electronic reaction," he said. He said his ship carried only passive" radio equipment. It could only listen.

The Naval officer, now stationed in the Norfolk area, also denied that a secret Navy message made public by Morse had been addressed to his ships. The message cited by Morse said the U.S. vessels would proceed north to demonstrate determination, possibly to draw North Vietnamese torpedo boats northward away from South Vietnamese naval operations and to keep the U.S. ships away from these South Vietnamese navy actions. Capt.

Herrick and administration officials said the message cited by Morse actually was addressed to Adm. U.S. Grant Sharp, U.S. commander of Pacific forces in Honolulu. It was sent by Adm.

Thomas Moorer, then U.S. naval commander in the Pacific. Officials said the message was sent by Sharp to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who did not approve It. They said It never became an order. Copies of the message were sent for Informational purposes to both the MSddox and Turner Joy.

Other points made by the captain: There was never any doubt aboard the ships, he said, that sonar reports showed torpedo firings. The only doubts, he said, were over how many torpkloes had been fired. SAIGON (U PI) Communist troops slammed mortars and rockets Into Saigons Tan Son Nhut airport Saturday morning and followed up a massive artillery bombardment at Khe Sanh with a ground attack. North Vietnamese forces hammered thevU.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh with 1,307 rounds of high explosive shells begin nlng Friday and lasting through- UA forctf 500 communists followed the artillery barrages with a frontal attack against a South Vietnamese Ranger guarding Khe Sanhs perimeter.

U.S. officials said the attack was the heaviest to date against the Marine post guarding the western end of the DMZ. 6,000 mark. Communists "are trying very desperately to reinforce their men Inside The Citadel. Overall American casualties In the battle of Hue have not been announced.

U.S. and South Vietnamese reports have placed the Communist losses near the U.S. B52 stratofortresses made seven raids Thursday night and Friday morning In South Vietnam, most of them around the menaced Marine base at Khe Sanh, In the northwest corner of the country. The B52s flew four around Khe Sanh while smaller Jet flghter-boiqters logged 230 sorties against Communist troops, gun positions and storage areas In the Jungled hills surrounding the base. Over North Vietnam U.S.

pilots flew 59 missions Thursday, U.S. spokesmen announced. Using radar In poor weather, they hit the Hoa Lac MIG base 20 miles west of hanol. F105 Thunderchlef pilots also struck at two radar sites 85 miles northwest of the North Vietnamese capital. Pearson Government App SafeTin Parliament Crisis Citadel.

Just North of Hue Communist troops ambushed battalion helicopter a U.S. Air Cavalry and shot down a gunslilp supporting ears challenge to Britain's so-called long Parliament" as they delivered blistering attacks designed to force Pearson out. Pearson, his government in deep trouble after being defeated on a major tax Increase bill last Monday, opened debate on the formal confidence motion by asking the opposition leaders whether they really wanted an nationwide general election now. Is this the time? Are these 1 the drum stances for our country to face an election," 1 Pearson asked. Amid opposition Jeers and Pearson said he did not Intend to revive the The communists hit Tan Son Nhut, where both U.S.

and South Vietnamese commanders maintain military headquarters, with 24 rounds of mortar and rocket fire shortly before dawn Saturday. At least six rounds of the shells fell Into civilian areas on the fringe of the base. U.S. officials said at least 14 persons were killed and 21 wounded In the attack. was second attack hue base and airfield In PAmtvtuni rA4i aa Ann six days.

Communist forces sent more than 100 of the powerful 122mm rockets into the base starting last Sunday morning. That attack tfaS the first time the communists had used the deadly rocket around Saigon. None of the shells Saturday power. The eight votes he controls more than make up the two-vote loss on major legislation the government suffered Monday night in the House of Commons on a tax bill that precipitated the crisis. Pearson told newsmen Caouette's decision was an encouraging development" but the crisis would continue until the vote, possibly Monday, actually came.

Caouette, a fiery French Canadian speaker in the House, told newsmen he had not voted against the bill in order to defeat Pearsons government. Pearson introduced the motion of confidence Friday designed to save the Liberal government but Commons Immediately erupted into a rowdy debate that ended in putting off a decision until next week. The prime minister hotly BOV.rnment 'syf; Party. That Is an Insult to Mr. Caf)uee sld In Frlnov'fl hoa In Friday's heated debating, opposition leaders shouted, In the name of God, go," In an to fve resign without the formality of a confidence vote.

Conservative leader Robert Stanfield and New Democratic party chief T.C. Douglas both used Oliver Cromwells famous lllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMllillllllllillllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllMllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Novelist Fannie Hurst Dies; Was Frequent Manchester Visitor the Americans Two Cavalrymen were killed and 25 wounded before the American battalion shot Its way out of the trap. To the north along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where the North Vietnamese have massed some 50,000 troops for a threatened offensive, Communist gunners unleashed a barrage of 669 rockets, artillery and mortar shells on allied positions. A total of 377 of the shells hit the surrounded U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh, killing nine Americans and wounding 18.

U.S. 652 bombers struck back with saturation attacks on the Communist gun positions. Inside Hues Citadel, South Vietnamese troops fought their way to the gates of the old Imperial Palace where a force of about 200 Communists was holding out on the 24th day of the battle for Hue. U.S. Marines who took the southeast corner of The Citadel Thursday were reported awaiting a "political decision from Saigon before pushing against the heavily fortified Imperial Palace, a walled city of Its own 200 yards along the southern wall.

The Marines delayed their final assault until they received permission to bomb and shell imperial Palace heretofore withheld for historical and cultural reasons or a firm order committing them to assault the fortress without air and supplies getting Inside. A U.S. spokesman said the OTTAWA (UPI) Canada's parliamentary crisis appeared to have passed Friday night when a small opposition party indicated it will support the government in a vote of confidence showdown. Credltiste leader Real Caoue-tte said he would support the government in any test of Police Battle Strikers MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) Memphis police used nightsticks and riot control gas to break up a brief, but violent, battle that occurred Friday during a protest parade by about 1,000 i.b".r bt pS pi nished dozens of others with their clubs and several officers were knocked to the ground, aT which the cou ncll ln ef ect rejected garbage workers American or artillery cover.

The latter alternative would be a costly move. Around Saigon, where three divisions of Communists posed a serious new threat to the capital, Viet Cong forces blew defeated money bill which Up a railroad bridge south of the city and lofted mortar rounds Into a subsector headquarters and a U.S. communlca-on the citys Increased taxes by 5 per cent, but he Insisted that his government was still In power. If this (confidence) motion tions center carries, then the government fringes. carries on.

If it does not, then But Hue, the battered former days. and death came at 1:13 the government resigns," Pear- Imperial capital 400 miles north p.m. EST. son told the packed Commons of Saigon, was again the focal Xhe raven-haired, white skin-chamber, point of the ground war. Government House leader Fighting In and around Hues Allan Maceachen tried unsuc- walled Citadel, covering more cessfully to extend the hours of than two square miles, cost the the Commons beyond 4 Communists nearly 400 lives Thursday and Friday as U.S.

and South Vietnamese forces maneuvered to tighten the noose and permanently cut off the flow of Communist troops A spokesman said Miss Hurst had delivered the manuscripts of two new novels to her agent only a few weeks ago. She had been bedridden for only a few ned writer who had the look of a proud Byzantine princess had turned out 18 novels, four plays, an autobiography, eight volumes of short stories, and six film scenarios. She had been a Truman-appointed delegate to the U.N. World Health Organization, emceed a flve-day-a-week television charge of both it and the destroyer Turner Joy, told United Press International In an Interview that there could be sps were attacked, Capt. Herrick denied a charge by Sen.

Wayne Morse, D-Ore. that the mission of the U.S. ships was to stimulate" North Vietnamese radars or radios into activity. "I dont know how HURST her autobiography, Anatomy of Me, In 1958, she said: dont enjoy looking back as much as looking ahead and living," but she admitted the book was cathartic as "a psychiatrists Invasion of self," In the same year she became a television star with her own program of interviews and opinion, but she soon went back to writing because the time the show took gave me a guilt feeling." She also had been a radio commentator with NBC. Early In her career she adopted the calla lily as her trade, mark.

It marked all of her writing paper and many of her personal effects. She wore a jewel- 1965 and who are now returning to civilian life. The call will provide 44,000 men for the Army and 4,000 for the Marines. The 48,000 total has been exceeded during. the war only by the 49,200 men on the draft call for October, 1966.

In addition, the Pentagon reported that the original draft call for March had been raised from 39,000 to 41,000 men. FANNIE bombarding magazines with manuscripts. By 1914 she was one of the nation's most popular and prolific magazine authors and was ready to try her hand at novels. Some of her best known works were Lummox, Five' and Ten," Lonely Parade," Hal-lelujah," Any Woman," and The Man With One Head." Imitation of Life" was made Into a movie twice and Back Street" three times. Her fiction was vigorous rather than subtle; emotional rather than intellectual.

She was a glutton for work, for Involvement in causes, for service to humanity and animals. Summing It up in NEW YORK Fannie Hurst, a prolific and popular American novelist who frequently visited Manchester during the summer season, died Friday at her Hotel des Artistes apartment after a brief illness at the age of 78. program, headed the National Housing Commission and the Authors Guild of America, and crusaded for antivivisection, civil rights, workmens compensation and slum clearance. Residents of Manchester recall' Miss Hurst as a frequent guest at the Worthy Inn who began her days at 5:30 a.m. with a three-mile walk before breakfast.

She would describe herself as a morning person," and would say that with her arrival In town she was opening" Manchester. Miss Hurst's marriage to Russian pianist Jacques Danielson, who died In 1952, was a unique arrangement. They llv confidence debate would extend Into next week. ed Ivory brooch In the form of a lily, no matter what her costume. In 1963, she told a Banner interviewer that she associated the Illy with the time she met her husband, and that In any case she liked lilies.

That year she also confessed that she was momentarily between books" and added, you have no Idea how lonely It Is to walk into your study and not have someone waiting for you in your typewriter." As she talked, she held a tiny Yorkshire terrier she called Calla Lily. Another year she said that books were coming to her so fast that she was going to Europe and would stay there until she was with book" again. Miss Hurst discovered Vermont years ago when she came to Brattleboro with playwright Maxwell Anderson and his wife and an Arctic explorer, Stefansson, who subsequently talked the An-dersons and Miss Hurst Into spending a night camping on Stratton Mountain as a dry run for a proposed writers' and artists' colony. Miss Hurst much preferred her 14-room apartment near Central Park, and used to recall that she and the Andersons spent this night on Stratton Mountain listening to porcupines gnawing on their provisions. There were no Immediate survivors.

Funeral services will be held at Campbell's Funeral Chapel on Thursday at 1 p.m. EST. Burial will be later in St. Louis. niniiiiiiiiiiiiiniiMiimiiHiiHuiiitiimiiHUHNuimiui On the Inside An editorial scores a legislative black mark Page 4.

Columnist George Gordon proposes a solution to the rubbish problem Page 4. Candidates for selectmen state their on local Issues Page 5. Copper Shortage Shuts Down General Cable Operations1 demands that the Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes Union be named as their sole bargaining agent, and that pay scales be Increased. The strikers, marching 10 abreast, set out from the city auditorium, where the Council had met In order to accommodate that large crowd of spectators, and were proceeding peacefully when a man In the middle of the half-block line suddenly lunged toward a patrol car Jand began rocking it In an attempt to turn It over. Other strikers went to his aid, and police immediately waded Into the group with clubs flying.

During the melee strikers tried to kick In glass store fronts, but officers routed them with the riot control gas. The battle lasted only about 10 minutes. Memphis sanitation workers went on strike Feb. 12 toback up demands for union recognition and Increased pay. Pay scales presently range from 41.55 to $2.10 an hour.

Several strikers were arrested during the battle and merchants quickly locked up their stores, although the 7 violence came at the height of the Friday afternoon shopping rush. NEW YORK (UPI) Two of the nations largest cable fabricating companies employing 12,000 workers In 45 plants announced Friday they will begin shutting down much of their operations Monday because of the copper shortage. The General Cable Corp. here and the Okonlte Co. of Passaic, N.J., said the refusal of longshoremen Friday to unload Imported copper shipments in sympathy with the nation's striking copper workers had forced their decision.

General Cable operates plants In Willlamstown, Mass, and Pow-nal, Vt. Unofficial reports said the plant In Pownal would not be affected in the shutdown The longshoremen's stand immediately brought an angry reaction from the New York Shipping Association, which represents all of the employers on the New York waterfront. Alexander P. Chopin, chairman of the Shipping Association, called the longshoremen's action (flagrant violation of contract and a raw and crude demonstration of union power play that cannot be tolerated." Chopin said his Association would take legal action at once to halt the boycott, A. Leon Fergenson, president workers In 27 unions across the of the General Cable said country, has forced copper he had notified Labor Secretary users to buy from foreign Willard Wirtz the company will producers, close most of Its 40 plants An estimated $200 million in beginning Monday in the copper Imports have been northeastern states.

General purchased so far. Cable employs workers. Paul Dashlne, president of Okonlte, a shipboard cable producer, said the firm will start laying off 2,000 workers next week. It will closO two plants in New Jersey, one in Providence, R.I., and another In Santa Marla, Calif. Onfy tfcnp ed separately and renewed their marriage contract every five years If both wished, i hey claimed It was a happy arrangement.

In Hamilton, Ohio, Oct. 18, 1889, daughter of a shoe manufacturer, Miss Hurst got little encouragement at home in her desire to be a writer. After she was graduated from IVash-ington university In St. Louis In 1909, she escaped to New York to do graduate work at Columbia University and work as a waitress, sales clerk and nurse while i.