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tmmcnpt North Adams-- Adams-- Williamstown Massachusetts FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1967 16 1C CENTS U.S. Marines Attack Demilitarized Zone SAIGON (AP)-Tlie U.S. Marines invaded the southern halt of the demilitarized zone be- I ween North snd South Vietnam today for the second time in the war. Their targets were the North Vietnamese mortar and artillery positions which have been shelling Leatherneck posts just south of the zone. The U.S.

Command also announced another dogfight over North Vietnam with a MIG21 probably shot down and seven U.S. plane losses over the North Onetime Leader Of Carolina Klan Dies in Car Crash GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) James "Catfish" Cole, convicted of inciting a riot while leader of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan in 1958 was killed in a traffic accident near Greensboro Thursday night. Paul Louis Ledair, 40, of Greensboro, identified as the driver, also died when the auto went out of control and overturned down an embankment south of Greensboro. The highway patro! listed high speed as the cause of the accident.

Cole, 44, whose home was Kinston where his estranged wife and their two adopted children live, had in the last few months regained some of his influence in the Klan. His popularity reached a low ebb afier his conviction on charge of inciting a riot when Lumbee Indians routed a Klan rally near Maxton in 1958. He served an 18-month prison sentence. Just two weeks ago Cole was arrested in connection- with a cross burning during a Klan rally near the Greensboro home of the Rev. Frank Williams, the first Negro to move to the ail- neighborhood.

Cole was" free on bond. After his release from prison In 1D60, Cole organized his own Klan group separate from the United Klans of America, which has J. Robert Jones Granite Quarry as its North Carolina grand dragon. In late March of this year, Cole said he was moving to Greensboro and shortly thereafter was admitted to a United Wans klavern there. Jones objected and ordered him expelled along with the Hev.

George Dorsett, Klan chaplain, and Clyde Webster, another Greensboro Klansman, The dispute had not been resolved. which had not been revealed before. Just Before Dawn Men of the 9th Marine Regiment moved into the demilitarized zone before dawn just north of Con Thien, the Leatherneck outpost 10 miles from the South China Sea where a Red barrage killed 2 Marines and wounded 12 Thursday night. There was no immediate report that the Marines had encountered any enemy opposition. It was the first American penetration into the three-mile-wide southern half of the zone since May 10 when the Marines and South Vietnamese troops invaded the southern sector to root out North Vietnamese gun posts.

The allied force withdrew after a week. U.S. Command said since then the Communists have again begun digging in artillery and mortars. The latest dogfight took place Thursday when a pair of MIG21S tried to jump an Air Force reconnaissance i north of Hanoi but were attacked by a pair of Air Force Phantoms flying escort. The MIG's dived with the phantoms in pursuit and one phantom pilot fired a Sidewinder missile.

The missile was right on the MIG's tail when the Red disappeared into a cloudbank, the pilots said. The Air Force scored it as the llth probable JUG kill of the war. Plane Losses The plane losses announced today brought the total number U.S. combat planes reported lost over the north to 624. The rate of losses over the north is now running at slightly more than one plane daily.

U.S Command said the latest jet downed was an Air Force Phantom Wednesday, with both crewmen listed as missing. No details were given on the other losses but it was understood they were downed during the past week. Air strikes against Vietnam continued undiminished Thursday. U.S. headquarters said 130 missions were flown, mostly against supply lines between the Hanoi-Haiphong area and the 17th parallel border with South Vietnam.

But one Air Force group hit the rail line connecting Hanoi with the industrial area of Thai Nguyen 40 miles above the capital. Tile Marine penetration of the demilitarized zone was the most significant ground action reported although the U.S. Command said scattered contacts were made throughout the night and 35 major infantry operations were in progress. Johnson Asks Prayer for Racial Peace, iohBegin ames Commission to Seek Riot Causes 11 -Man Team To Seek How WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson's ll-member special Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders named to investigate origins of recent disorders and to recommend preventive measures, are: --Chairman Otto Kerner, 58, a Democrat and an. attorney elected Illinois governor in 1961.

--Vice Chairman Jolui V. Lindsay, 45, Republican and an attorney elected mayor of New York City in 1966. --Fred R. Harris, 36, an Oklahoma Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in 1964 after serving 10 years in the State Senale.

He is an attorney. --Edward W. Brooke, 47, a Massachusetts Republican who became last year the first popularly elected Negro member of the Senate after serving four years as stale attorney general. --William M. McCulloch, 60, an Ohio Republican elected to the House in 1947.

--James Corman, 46, a California Democrat elected to the House in I960 after previous experience in private law practice and as a member of the Los Angeles City --Roy Wilkins, 65, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1965 and an official of the organization since 1931. Abel, 58, president of the AFL-CIO United Sfeel Workers since 1965. Charles B. Thornton, 52, chairman of the board and president since 1953 of Litton Industries, Inc. Katherine Graham Peden, 39, a former radio station official and now Kentucky commissioner of commerce.

Herbert Jenkins, 60, who joined the Atlanta, Police Department in 1931 and became Us chief in 1947. Red Sox Gatekeeper Breaks Boys' Hearts BOSTON (AP)-The guy at the gale said there were no more seats and it broke the hearts of 75 Marblehead School Patrol boys bent on seeing their heroes--the Boston Red Sox. What hurt most was the fact the kids had their tickets. But they got to the park too late to claim their seats for Thursday's game with California and the management sold Ihem to others. The youngsters returned to their bus, now trapped by automobiles that jammed the parking lot.

They spent the next two hours in the hot bus, listening to the ball game on a portable radio, Mrs. John F. Kennedy f. Qf( $aVS Spending Cuts Notes 38th Birthday 3 HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) --Mrs.

John F. Kennedy observes her 38th birthday today with a quiet celebration in the family compound. The former First Lady and her two children Caroline, 9, and John, 6, are vacationing at their summer home here on Cape Cod, On Saturday, the infant son of U.S. Sen. and Mrs.

Edward M. Kennedy will be chrislened by Richard Cardinal Gushing, Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston. The newest addition lo the Kennedy clan, Palrick Joseph Kennedy, was born in Boston July 14. Could Avert Tax Increase WASHINGTON (AP) House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford says deep cuts in federal spending on space, public works and foreign aid would offset any need for a tax hike this year.

The cuts can be made in defense as well as nondefense spending, Ford said, in reit- eraling his opposition to the six per cent income lax surcharge proposed by President Johnson. Answers Questions Here are Ford's responses lo questions from The Associated Press: Priest Given Leave to Head New Mexico War on Poverty SANTA FE, N.M. (AP--Aiming at what he calls total involvement in community life, a Roman Catholic priest has been granled an indefinite leave from his church duties to direct New Mexico's multimillion-dollar war on poverty. Some eyebrows were raised when Gov. David F.

Cargo appointed the Rev. Robert Garcia, 32, first as acting director and later premancnt director of Ihe state Office of Economic Opportunity this year. Quick Slarl Father Garcia has jumped into his new job with both feel, sometimes kicking up controversy as he works with the federal government to push the war on poverty in many poor New Mexican areas, particularly in the northern portion the state. Garcia, who doesn't care if persons use the "father" when addressing him, said he has been called a "rebel, a radical ctoctrinally unorlhodox, and perhaps even a heretic." But the priest, no longer wearing clerical garb, is not concerned about his status in the "institutional" church--thai is, the traditional parish approach to community problems and affairs. "As has been said, need to bring the church out of the cloister and into the market place, out of the temple into the city.

What has the church been doing wilh its head in Ihe temple ail these years?" More Involvement Garcia wanls a fuller involvement in human problems by the clergy, including government, politics, problems of living, and personal assistance. He sees no problem over separation of church and state. "There is no comparison between the fulfillment of parish work and this work (anlipover- ty program," he said. "This is one area where the action is, whereas Ihe parish structure is fairly conslrictive in working where the action is." HC said he is "doing more fully what the pastor is sun- posed to be doing of what Christian life is supposed to be doing," He receives $10,500 annually from the state and applies the money lo his private use and not to the church, Q. How much reduction would have to be made to stave off a tax hike? A.

The Congress and the President, working together, can surely achieve whatever spending cutbacks are necessary to match the revenue which might be obtained through a tax increase. To date, the only definite surtax figure we have heard from the President is six per cent. The administration has estimated the revenue from imposition of a six per cent surtax on income taxes at $4.5 billion to $5 billion. I feel that federal spending can be cut sufficiently to offset the President's demand for additional revenue in that amount. Areas Cuts Q.

In what areas would you propose reductions? What specific programs! A. The House has already cut presidential appropriation requests by $3.47 billion. Additional cuts will be made in Ihe remaining appropriation bills. If the Senate will act accordingly, the Congress can reach the S4.5 billion lo $5 billion goal I cited. 1 believe the space, public works, foreign aid and mililary construction programs and non- Vietnam defense items can stand substantial cuts.

There is nothing sacred about the man- to-lhe-moon timetable, and many public works projects could be deferred at least a year without harm. Q. Could reductions be made in defense spending without impairing the war effort? A. There is no question in my mind that defense spending for fiscal year 1968 can and should he cul. The House voted reductions of $1.22 billion in defense appropriations bills.

The Defense Department could, on its own initiative, achieve further reductions without hurting the war effort. RIOT AFTERMATH Somber faces show many homeless. City was relatively calm in food line set up in Detroit where riot- today, death toll held at 38. IAF Wire- ing that wracked city since Sunday leff phofo) Nation's Cities Quiet Down As Civil Disorder Slackens (By the Associated Civil disorder throughout the nation abated in intensity today, bul Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, touring his strife- torn city, was caught in crossfire as snipers and police and National Guardsmen exchanged shots.

The mayor was unhurt and apparently calm from the only incident of significance during the quietest night since last Sunday. The Detroit death toll went to 39--four more than perished in the Watts area of Los Angeles in 1965. President Johnson proclaimed this Sunday a national day of prayer for racial peace. Quietest Night Detroit had only isolated incidents as it passed its quietest night since racial terror began there Sunday. The death toll remained at 38 and a curfew was enforced primarily to discourage curiosity seekers.

Gangs of young Negroes rampaged through the business districts of Albany, Poughkeepsie and Peekskill, N.Y., Thursday night, smashing windows and taunting passersby, hut the outbreaks were of relatively short duration. National Guardsmen were brought into Lorain, Ohio, early today as a precautionary measure while other troops remained on the alert in Toledo. Guardsmen also stood watch in South Bend, and Cambridge, Md. Police in Waierbury, issued small pressurized cans of tear gas to help rout groups of rock-throwing and looting Negroes on the city's North End early loday. At least one Negro was reported shot and 15 were arrested.

New York was quiet again Thursday night, and in Phoenix, a curfew appeared to have brought an abrupt.halt to two nights of violence. Limited Emergency In Philadelphia, Mayor James H.J. Tate invoked a 117-year- old law placing the city under a state of limited emergency for fear that scattered disorders, might erupt into full-scale rioting. The statute gives police authority to arrest all persons in groups 12 or more unless they're engaged in organized recreation. The police were working 12-hour shifts with days off and vacations canceled.

Rain helped hold down incidents in Chicago where there were 11 more arrests Thursday. Firemen answering a false alarm were pelted with bottles and firebombs but no injuries were reported. Both Sacramento, and Seattle, experienced disturbances by youths. In the California city the police chief called it the worst in three nights as two dozen minor fires were started. In Detroit Thursday, United Auto Workers President Waller P.

Reiulher announced that Ihe combined forces of the labor movement in the Motor City have pledged lo remove "the ugly scars of our hours of madness." Fire Chief Charles J. Quinland loured the riot areas and estimated property damage by fire would exceed $250 million. Teh Detroit Chamber of Commerce estimated another $500 million lost in retail business and city prepared two tons of poison bait to control the hordes of rals thai have appeared in Ihe ruined stores and buildings. Viet Cong Chief Said Replaced TOKYO (AP) A broadcast from Hanoi today suggested Tran Nam Trung, once identified as commander of the Viet Cong, has been replaced. Trimg, 53, is a revolutionary notable primarily for the lack of information put out about him by the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front.

The North Vietnamese News Agency, quoting a dispatch from the Viel Cong's Giai Phong Press Agency on a meeting in South Vietnam July 23, identified Trung as "vice president of Ihe presidium of the front's CC (Central Committee) and head of the Commission for Foreign Relations." The foreign relations post had been- held by Tran Buu Kiem. The broadcast said nothing about who may have succeeded him in the guerrilla military jobs or what happened to Kiem. Captured Gl Rescued Under Own Shellfire BORDER, Vietnam (AP)--Andrew York bit desperately into the crude ropes binding his wrists, tearing at the strands with his tcelh and unmindful of the blood the rough fibers drew. Minutes earlier the slim, year-old infantryman from the 4th Infantry Division, was being carried into captivity by North Vietnamese soldiers who had overwhelmed his platoon in the rain forest along the border between Vietnam and Cambodia. Legs Shattered Both of York's legs had been shattered by a mortar round as he was firing his machine gun at the dozen brown-clad Vietnamese rushing at him through elephant grass.

He fainted, When he came lo, the roar of balllc was stilled, his wrists were lied lo his belt, and his Communist captors stood around him. Two of them grabbed his arms, two others his feet, and York--from the little town of Chelsea, Maine, married on May 5 to his childhood sweetheart and sent lo Vietnam a week later--was on his way to captivity. But Ihe battle last Sunday was by no means over. Circling overhead in a helicopter was the battalion commander, Lt. Col.

Thomas P. Lynch of Spokane, who called for silence on Ihe busy radio net so he could hear (he last man on llie platoon's radio set. "Charger (the battalion commander's code name), everyone else is dead," the voice said. There were some mumbled words about home and mother. Then "Charger, I'm The set went silent.

Lynch assumed everyone in Ihe platoon was killed. Numerous North Vietnamese could be seen below. He ordered in artillery barrages on top of them. Shells Fall York, numb with pain, was being carried into the jungle as the first rounds came in. The two Vietnamese carrying his legs were killed in the first blast.

The men at his shoulders dropped him to (he ground. "I realized they were our shells," York said later at a hospital. "1 was sure 'he Communists would kill me then, what had Ihcy lo lose? And if they didn'l, then our artillery would gel me. I thought I was dead for sure. All I could (lo was pray, and you belter believe I was praying." The barrage ended qiiickly.

York, was alone beside Ihe Iwo dead men who had been carrying his legs. He lugged painfully at his belt and pulled his wrists free so he could get his teeth lo the ropes. Then he started chewing feverishly. The North Vietnamese battalion (hat had overwhelmed the 30-man platoon-killing 18 of Hie Americans had reached (lie company perimclcr where an- other 30 Americans were lying in foxholes. Commanded by Capt.

William C. Pratt of Edinburg, they were soon under rocket and machine gun attack from the shadowy figures at the edge of the clearing. The big American guns to the rear slammed shell after shell at Ihe enemy, a total of 6,682 in Ihree hours. Bombers Arrive U.S. Air Force bombers roared in as the artillery lifted briefly, searing Ihe jungle and grassy clearings with napalm and heavy bombs.

Armed helicopters slashed at trails with Ilieir machine guns. One of Capt. Pralt's platoons fought its way back to the company perimeter. Then Capt. Neili D.

Buie of Wisner, burst across the clearing with 120 men. From then on, it became "a mechanical process," Lynch said, "a complete destruction and neutralization of Ihe area" wilh heavy gunfire, A lolal of 170 Communists were killed; Americans were dead. Alive amid the deslruclion were Pfc, York and 10 others in Iris platoon, all wounded. York had managed to bile through his ropes, had dragged his mangled legs through the jungle lo join up with some of his buddies, and gave a weak, painful cheer as (ho rescue troops arrived. WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson, proclaiming this Sunday a national day of prayer for racial peace, has created an 11-membcr commission to search out causes of race rioting--and to suggest ways lo avoid it in the future.

Johnson, center of a political slorm touched oft by pillage, arson and murder in Delroil, gave his views on mounting racial violence in a television-radio address from his White House office Thursday night. Crime, Not Prolcst Speaking deliberately and emphasizing his points, he said what happened in Detroit was not part of any civil rights protest, He said: "This is crime--and crime must be dealt wilh forcefully, swiftly, certainly--under law The criminals who committed these acts of violence against the people deserve lo be punished The violence must be stopped: quickly, finally and permanently." Johnson announced that to bolster the nation's law enforcement for this effort, all National Guard units will be given intensified riot control training, The chief executive, formally proclaiming Sunday a day of prayer, urged citizens in every town and in every city and in every home in the land lo go into Iheir churches--pray for order and reconciliation among men." Johnson began his carefully rehearsed address by saying, "We have endured a week such as no nation should live through; a lime of and tragedy." Names Commillce Then he announced appointment of a special Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to investigate origins of urban riots and recommend solutions to the White House, Congress, state governors and mayors. Democratic Gov. Otto Kerner of Illinois will be chairman. Mayor John V.

Lindsay of New '-York will be vice chairman. "In their work," Johnson said, "the commission members will have access to the facts gathered by Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI will continue lo exercise its full authority to investigate these riots, in accordance with my standing instructions, and to continue to search for evidence of conspiracy." He gave no opinion on whether a conpiracy has been involved. Officials said earlier this week the FBI has, not independently investigated riots.

An FBI official said the bureau would have no immediate comment on Johnson's remark. Johnson, blamed for the riots by the Republican Coordinating Committee, hit back at GOP Congress members who have opposed his social legislation- legislation he said would help root out "the conditions that breed despair and violence." Ciles Rat Vote Citing last week's vole by a largely Republican House majority to kill a $2(t-mitlion plan to eradicate rats that prey on slum children, Johnson said: "A government that has spent millions to protect baby calves from worms can surely afford to show the same concern for baby boys and girls." With the GOP still his target, he continued: "There are some today who feel that we cannot afford a model cities program. They reduced my request for funds this year by two-thirds. "There are some who feel we cannot afford additional good teachers for the children of poverty, Or new efforts to house those most in need. Or aid to education.

"Theirs is a strange system of bookkeeping." Capitol Hill generally endorsed his creation of Ihe riot- probe commission, But Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he expected pressure (o continue for a separate congressional investigation. Republican Senate Leader Everett il, Dirkscn and House GOP Leader Gerald Ford backed the commission's objectives. There also was an echo in Johnson's speech of the continuing debate over whether he acted as quickly as he should have in committing federal troops lo Detroit riot areas. The President said the federal government should move to curb disorder only "in extraordinary circumstances where local authorities have stated that they cannot maintain order with their own resources." Departing from his text, he said in that case reliance must fall upon "federal authorily that we have limited authority to use." Michigan Gov. George Romney, who would like to be Johnson's Republican challenger in 1968, joined Detroit's Democratic mayor, Jerome P.

Cavanagh, in asking the President Thursday to declare the city a disaster area eligible for special federal aid. Johnson responded hours before his speech that emergency drugs, hospital equipment and some food would be made available, He did not mention the request for the disaster designation--for which there is no precedent in a riot situation. But press secretary George Christian said the matter was under study. In his speech, the President emphasized there would be no rewards or salutes for the Detroit rioters--perhaps indicating that those who burned their neighborhoods can expect no federal help in rebuilding. Yet, at another point, he said: "Let us condemn the violent few.

But let us remember that it is law-abiding Negro families who have suffered most at the hands of the rioters." iUrel Tomorrow WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson will meet Saturday with his newly-created advisory commission assigned to search for causes of race rioting, and lo find ways to avoid urban blowups in Ihe future. The Miite House said today Johnson will meet with the 11- niember commission in the Cabinet Room at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Alvin Julian, Dartmouth Hoop Coach, Dies HANOVER, N.Y. (AP)-Darl- mouth basketball coach Alvin Julian died loday in his home here.

He was 66 years old. Julian won 38G games and lost 342 in bis 31-year coaching career at Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Muhlcnberg, Albright and wilh the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. His Holy Cross team won the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball title. Julian had been basketball coach at Dartmouth for 17 years. He had suffered a stroke last December while coaching Dartmouth at the annual Kodak Classic basketball tourney in Rochester, New York.

Women Plan to Fight Laws Limiting Working Hours NEW YORK (AP) Determined business and professional women are declaring war on what they call outmoded stale laws lhal once perhaps protected the frail working girl, but now actually stand between her and getting ahead in her job. The 5,009 members and delegates who attended the annual convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, ending today wilh a national board of directors meeting, arc returning home armed with strategy and ammunition. Tucked among Iheir souvenirs from New York is a very businesslike little handbook, "How lo Secure Repeal of 'Protective' Legislation." The women plan a stale-by- slate mopup operation on laws that limit the number of' hours a woman can work, or require special rest and meal periods for her, or prohibit her working In specified fields, such as bartending or around mines, or limiting the amount of weight she may lift on the job. Such slatntes were originally enacted lo protect women from exploitation and industrial hazard. Today, however, the business women contend, the conditions which gave rise fo the laws arc no longer in existence.

Now all Ihe laws do is bar a woman from a wide variety of jobs or preclude her from supervisory positions which may require nighlwor'jc or overtime occasionally. The Weather Cloudy, wflrin, humid (tils afternoon ivilli sliowcrs and thunder sliowcrs lug Ihrough loniorinu 1.