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Act lUrrh 1CT 1 1 0 MARCH 23, 1968 Sundays Holldiyj 20 PAGES Jl! heitw PRICE EIGHT CENTS Westmoreland's Promotion Stir! eolation On Strategy Change U.S. Copters Sink Communist Sampan Fleet Dog's Nome Just Too Much MILWAUKEE. Vis. Kathleen Mllligan, whose pel German shepherd was accused of nipping an 8-year-old boy, yesterday in Milwaukee Counly Court on a charge of- keeping a vicious Miss Milligan, 18, told Judge F. Ryan Duffy Jr.

that her dog was gentle, and that she had never known it to attack anyone. Duffy asked her the dog's name. "Fang," she said. "Ten dollars and costs," Duffy said. SAIGON (UPI) Helicopters pounced on a sampan fleet moving Communist war goods through canals near the Cambodian border and sank 30 of them with a furious maehincgun and rocket attack, U.S.

spokesmen said today. The choppers hit the supply fleet while palroling Ihe canal- filled Mekong Delta. The water- Nixon Raps Disrespect For President ways with' provide the Viet Cong major supply funnel, JANESV1LLE, Wis. (AP) Republican Richard M. Nixon, defending Democrats against election year demonstrators, has cautioned voters lest tern, pcrs Inflamed by Vietnam disrupt Ihe campaign and give the world "an ugly image" of tha way America is choosing a president.

That came as Nixon concluded another installment of his own campaign for the GOP presidential nomination. election in wartime is a particular test both for the candidates and the people," Nixon fold some 600 persons al a Jay- cce dinner last night. "And now we are i a very difficult war and we arc having an elcc-, lion." said he had seen television films of a speech Thursday by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman at the University of Wisconsin. Freeman's appearance was cut short by the jeers ot Vietnam a protesters.

Fears "Ugly Image" don't happen to agree with some of the programs of this administration," Nixon said. "But when l.saw the students at the university shouting him down and not Listening to him, 1 realized a we arc running very great danger in this election with tempers as high, as they arc of having Americans present an image to the world, an ugly image, rather lhan the great image of responsibility we should present." "I don't agree with Lyndon Johnson on a number of items," he said. "But Lyndon Johnson is the President of the United States and when he travels lo any city in this country lie deserves respect as the President of the United Stales." That drew a round of applause. "Deserve Respect" "So my friends," Nixon said, "whether it's Lyndon Johnson or Sen. (Eugene McaCrthy or Robert Kennedy or any'of the other candidates or noncandi- dates who may be speaking, let us understand disagree with them but let's respect them as men who are'trying in their own way lo -work for peace They're all tor peace, they're all patriotic Americans.

"And by doing that, we can raise the level of the debate and caif-avoid those' deep, emo- lional'tearing actions which can destroy the very soul America;" the former vice president said. U.S. military sources said originates in Cambodia. The sources said convoys of trucks deliver the supplies to the border where they are transferred to the sampan fleets for movement into South Vietnam. They said much of the a and ammunition for the Viet Cong New Year's offensive entered the country through the delta's canal laccwork.

SAIGON A U.S. Navy planes raided a 'North Vietnamese chemical plant for the first time in the war yesterday and Ihe U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh came under the heaviest enemy bombardment in recent days. Military communiques shared the spotlight with news that the more lhan half million U.S. Iroops in Vietnam will have a new commander in July when Gen.

William C. Westmoreland returns lo Washington lo be come Army chief of staff. Chemical Plant Hit The chemical and fertilizer plant which came off Ihe Pentagon's restricted list was the Haip Duong facility 21 miles northwest of Haiphong. Navy pilots flying all-weather AG Intruders, said their bombs touched off several secondary explosions. Air Force fighter-bombers flew within 18 miles of Red Chi ni and hit the a i a i rail road yard, on the main north east rail link between China an Hanoi, for the third time this month.

Olhcr Air Force pilots rcporl ed destroying six Noth Viet namoEc tanks or armored per sonncl carriers moving in a con voy toward the Mu Gia Pass into the Laotian infiUratton frail. 87 Missions Flown In all, American pilots flew 3' missions over the North ycslcr day despite continuing monsoon weather. At Khc Sanh, frontier outpost under siege enemy Iroops since January North Vietnamese gunneis fir'c in some 650 rocket, mortar'am (Continued on ADAM'S BACK--Adam Claylon Powell is and a light at the Renaissance Ballroom in Harlem early this morning after he returned to New York. Ousted- from the House of Representatives, Powell ended his self-exile in Bimini and.returned last night. (AP Wircpholo) Powell Comes Home, Freed On Parole NEW YORK (AP) Har 2m's best known itinerant Ban'- 1st' preacher, Adam Claylon 11, came liome light, staging a typically sud- and flamboyant entrance lo city he had avoided for a year and a half.

The former congressman! still moyanl and irrepressible more han a year after'thc House denied him his'cnngressional seat, clurncd to face the legal prob cms a kept him in self-im xscd exile on the island of Bim- ni in the Bahamas. Bill to his supporters, the only hing that, mattered was "Big Daddy" was back. And Powell, considerably grayer than Harem last saw him, played his oh- 'iously enjoyable, prcachcr-po- Castro Seizing All-Cuban Businesses HAVANA (AP) Prime Min isler Fidel Castro's drive to shut all private enterprise in Cuba is going ahead at full speed, with radio stations urging listeners to make war "on egotists and enemies oJ our socialist revolution." More than 800 small garages have been taking over already, press reports said, and their 1,300 mechanics arc now work- Ing for the state. week Castro ordered all bars and cabarets closed. Ho declared that they were hang, outs foif loafers, speculators and anligovernment elements.

A vigilante network operated by Committee for the Defense of Ihc Revolution hut sent its agenls. inlo the citizens 'and taking over private businesses Another College Cfos.es CHEYNEY, Pa. (AP)-Chc ncy State College has been do. ed "until further notice" aflc several hundred students marcl cd on the administration buili ing yesterday demanding rein statement of a dismissed st dent. Squads ot State Police wer called in, but no arrests were made.

Dr. Lcroy B. Allen, president of th predominately-Negro college in Delaware County, said the student, identified as Thorn as Hardie, 19, of Philadelphia, has been readmitted as a result of Ihe demonstration. Allen agreed lo consider a list of demands calling for the resignation of three administration officials, more student control ol campus activities and other changes. The students began asscm bling in Ihe college quadrangl In front of Biddle Hall, the Administration building, about 1 p.m.

Some sat on the grass outside, while others entered tho building and began carrying oul desks and chairs. As the dcnv iitician role to the hilt. Mob Screams Screaming with joy, Bobby Gets re? Publicity COLLEGE STATION, TM. (UPI4) Apparently no one consulted LBJ about the automobile license plates being yissued in Krazos County, his borne territory in Texas. The license plates causing confusion here are stamped with the initials "RFK." well ivishers mobbed the 50-year-old Democrat as he was first spot- led crossing a street near his Abysinnian Baptist Church.

"Keep the faith, sweetheart," TC shouted as one woman leaped and landed with her arms around his neck. "Daddy's Home," the crowd shouted. "Sock it to 'cm, dad," Powell choulcd in return. Powell, who has faced the threat of arrest here for criminal contempt since December 105G, flew in to Newark, N.J. surrendered to a sheriff in anhattan and was released in arole by State Supreme Court ustice Arthur Markewich.

"You're free now," his attor- cy said, "you can go anywhere ou want fo." Goes To Harlem Powell went lo Harlem is seeking re-election to the 8th congressional district scat held for 22 years. He made is way through his milling sup- wrlers to the Renaissance Ball- oom where a crowd had been Rule To Be Liberalized VIENNA (AP) Romanian Communist party chief Nicolae Ceausescu today appeared to have given (he starting signa for a Romanian liberalization drive. He announced every Ro manian "should be able lo free ly express his views on policies of the Communist party," indi eating this also applied to criti cism. Ceausescu, who is also Roma Law Change Ends Police Restriction Cohen, Shriver Nominated In Reshuffle WASHINGTON (UPI) In a reshuffle of top Great Society administrators, President Johnson has nominated Wilbur J. Cohen to be secretary 1 of health, education and welfare, and R.

Sargent Shriver, ambassador to France. Colicn, 54-year-old HEW un dcrsccrclary and architect of the Medicare program and Social Security overhaul, will succeed John W. Gardner, who re signed last month to return lo private life. Shriver, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and the last member of the in Johnson's administration, will succeed Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, who came home from Paris last month to become deputy undersecretary of slate and political affairs.

No Surprise Johnson's announcement of the appointments yesterday came as no surprise. Shriver had been mentioned as Johnson's choice for the Paris posl or some weeks, and Cohen has been acting HEW secretary Gardner's departure March 1. Both appoinlments are subject to Senate confirmation. Shriver's nomination removes him from the ticklish position of having to work on domestic programs "with a President his GEX. W.

C. WESTMORELAND ALBANY, N.V. (AP) Poke and householders will have xpandcd authority to shoot at Timinal suspects or intruders, under a revision of" the state enal law. An amendment to 7- month-old law won' overwhelm- ng approval in the legislature, despite opposition from Senate and Assembly Democrats representing Negro and Puerto Rican conslituents, and was signed Thursday by Cav. Rockefeller.

Under the amendment, policemen may shoot to kill if they believe suspects had used or were going to use any kind of Home-owners or occupants of commercial premises arc authorized to shoot to repel criminal intruders. The amendment was prompt- brother-in-law is challenging in the 1968 elections. 'Shriver's wife is the former Eunice Kennedy, sister of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Johnson indicated to newsmen in his White House office lhat Shriver's connections with the Kennedys were considered before the nomination was announced.

onslralion grew, students began yelling, strewing papers on the ground and voicing their de mands. At that point Allen appearcc on campus and began talking with the students. The tcmpc of the crowd began to cool. At about 3 p.m..he dcclarci the college closed and urged al students to leave the campus a once. He said the closing wa until further notice.

Of the college's 1,600 student it was estimated that only 601 lived there. The rest commute including Hardie. Dean of Students i 11 Smith said Hardie was expcllc after being caught In a men dormitory in the early mornin hours recently. "He was using the dorm wit out paying," Smith slid. nia's president, stressed tho party would not mind if "di verse and even wrong views appear." "We must not see in this something damaging for the interests of the development of so- cioly.

We must not fear public debates," he said. Ceausescu spoke before a session of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist par The speech was published the Romanian news agenc Agerpres. Sleeping Child Mystery In Sc RAEFORD, N.C. (UPI) A psychiatrist said yesterday the children who appear to sleep every day in a first grade class here may be subconsciously remodeled penal law, which i took effect last September, was too strict. It provided that po- liccmcn and other persons could use "deadly physical force" only if they believed suspected criminals had used or planned to use deadly physical force in carrying out crimes or escaping.

Opponents of the amendment voiced concern that it would allow police to deal too harshly with members of minority groups. ren Provide 100! icallh hazard," said Dr. Harry McLean of the North Public Health Department. Schulte said a team 61 psy- "lologists from Duke University is investigating the nrnb. Approved By French The President said the French government approved Shriver's selection on Thursday.

The following day, Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk telephoned Shriver in Europe, where he is and asked him whether he still wanled the nomination submitted to the Scnale. Shriver said yes, according to the President. There had been speculation that because of Robert Kennedy's candidacy, Shriver might lave had second thoughts about aking on another job for Johnson and might instead work for Kennedy's campaign. fn reply to a question, Johnson said Shriver had not sought .0 resign from the antipovcrty job. Weak Ethics Code Passed By Senate WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has approved a code of ethics for its members and top employes but the lone senator opposing it called the new code a fraud.

The comment came from Sen. George D. Aiken of Vermont, the Senate's senior Republican, as he cast the only negative vole yesterday. The code was approved to 1. Other senators who had called for strict standards also said the adopted measure falls far short of what the public expects.

The code stems largely from the scandals involving former Senate aide Robert G. Baker and Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D- Conn. "I'm not going to be a a to perpetuating a fraud on the public lhat we are purifying ourselves when we actually are making it worse, Aiken said.

He called the code "the farce of tho year." Action Taken By Some As Rebuff WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson's decision to bring Gen. William C. Westmoreland back from Vietnam and make him Army chief of staff is cer- iain to be interpreted by as disenchantment with Westmoreland's conduct of the war, Westmoreland's a i lielghtened the impression of a. rebuff. regret to leave this war- ton! land before the battle is over and before peace is restored," four-star general said in Snigon after learning the news by telephone.

Westmoreland said he got tha word from Gen. Earle Wheeler, chairman of the i Chiefs of Staff--not from Johnson, who lias been considering Westmoreland's bid for up to about 200,000 more troops. Successor Not Named Tlic President's action, announced abruptly last evening, deferred selection of a successor. This raised speculatjrj'n Jnhnson might pass over Gen. Creighton Abrams, Westmoreland's deputy, in favor of a new face with a new strategy.

Westmoreland, who will replace retiring Gen. Harold K. Johnson as Army cbicf in tha Pentagon on July 2, said "I would hope" Abrams succeeds him as Vietnam war loader. "I have absolute confidence in the ability and leadership of Gen. Abrams," Westmoreland said.

Pentagon officials said it was common' knowledge in defense quarters for the past year that Westmoreland would leave Vietnam this summer after nearly four years in the demanding post. Will Have Friends of Major Koto Westmoreland, "Small Improvement" Among senators who supported the code, Sen. Joseph S. Clark, said "it makes a perceptible but not significant improvement in the recent standards of ethics." Sen. seeking lo counter any impres sion be is being sacked, argued the job of Army chief of staff can hardly be rated a demotion They noted lhat as Army boss Westmoreland will be on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and will have a major voice in formulating future Vietnam military policy.

It also was pointed out that Westmoreland will be left fo run he war for three more months -hardly comparable with tha summary, relief of Gen. Douglas HacArlhuf by President Harry S. Truman during the Korean War. And yet there were elements, uilding for hours. Upstairs on the ballroom lage, Powell--coatless and his ink-striped shirt pulled open (Continued on Page 14).

Students Raise $2,000 For Viet Orphanages COLLEGE STATION', Tex. AP) Five-thousand Texas AM i i students missed a meal al their dining lalls last night to raise $2,000 lor two Soulh Vietnamese orphanages. Leon Travis of San Antonio, chairman of AM's student- sponsored "miss a meal, feed a multitude" project, said the funds will be forwarded to orphanages atTay Ninh and Rach Kcin. Special dining provisions were made for the fewer than 150 students who did nol wish lo participate in the program. seeking attention.

the key word is 'seemingly' asleep," said Don Sehulle, psychiatrist at the Sand Hill Health Center in nearby Pinehursl. "There's a lot of question about whether they arc asleep or not. We feel like the kids arc getting some sort of return from this sort of gimmick. I don't mean lo they are- doing this purposely, although some of them may be." Schulle said the children, who have been dozing every day at mid-morning in Mrs. Hazel Galbreath's class, have been pickec up taken, to the school infirm ary and sometimes taken home "Right now we are trying to stabilize things by asking the teacher and parents to make as little of this as they can while al the same time check int backgrounds and talk with in dividual parents." Still, neither Schulte no other doctors have dcterminec there is no physical reason fo the phenomenon.

cm. He said the parents and nviror.ment of each child who as slept in class are being Schultc said the technique of gnoring the sleeping children as been helping since Wcdnes- ay- "If they. got. to. sleep we just et them sleep and by and large the last few days they have in a short time.

We'll irobably give these kids several vceks to- see' it this takes el." One boy in Mrs. Galbreath's class started sleeping about every third day -last October. He was'taken out of school 'and has not returned. There were a few more instances of napping in her class in February, but the problem intensified in March. Since March 7, up to a dozen pupils have appeared to drop into a trance-like sleep every day.

Dr; Mcljean and others who have seen the children say they are hard to arouse, and scmetime drop off lo sleep again Police Drive Hippies From Grand Central NEW YORK A Police using nightsticks broke up a milling, shouting crowd of some 3,000 hippies jammed into Grand Central Slalion today for a combination salute to spring and antiwar dem onstration. than 50 persons were arrested, and several were in jured; The young people, call themselves of the Youth International Party, an antiwar group--moved into Ihe high-domed main wailing room at midnight proclaiming a "yip-in." and chanling "Hell, no, we they marched back and forth bouncing balloons inlo the air and climbing atop Ihe circular information booth in the center of the main rotunda. Some wore colorful costumes. Police moved in after the hoodlums started hurling firecrackers and other objects into the main waiting room. About 100 patrolmen, members of the tactical patrol force, were on hand.

Aided by terminal guards, they closed the main exits and pushed Ihe crowd out side doors. Several of Ihe long-haired Wayne Morse, said, regret a the bill falls far short of a full-disclosure bill. "I think the American people are entiilcd to full Morse said. Clark and Sen. Clifford P.

Case, unsuccessfully sponsored a plan lhat would have required senators and members of their families lo publicly disclose all of their fi nancial assets and liabilities. But the code finally adopted provided for part-public and part-private disclosure. Public Portion The public portion will detail gifts of over $50 and fees exceeding $300 for such activities as lecturing, writing and television appearances. It also limits solicitation and use of campaign (Continued on Page 14) Westmoreland's that contributed even beyond own reaclion, to an impression Johnson had cooled toward his commander, whose strategy has been under heavy hawks" attack from both and "doves" since tha (Continued on Page 14) Cuban Vessel Hijacked By Defectors ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.

(AP) A S5-foot fishing vessel apparently hijacked near Cuba last week was lowed into port early Iqday after running out pi fuel, the Coast Guard said. Two pistols, apparently used by five men to force seven other crewmen to lake them to the United States, were confiscated from the Prip Palanka, the Coast Guard said. The five seeking asylum were given immuniaztion shots in St. Petersburg and were expected lo he taken to Tampa for preliminary processing. The Coast Guard said the boat will he re- provisioned and refueled.

Meanwhile the Embassy in Washington, D.C. reportedly was attempting lo contact the seven crew members who wished to return to Cuba. Bobby Sees Change In Policy NEW YORK (UPI) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy said today President Johnson's decision to recall Gen.

William C. Westmoreland from Vietnam indicated new direction in the administration's war policy. But ha said it came too late to maka lim withdraw his candidacy for he Democratic presidential nomination. "I started on the road and I'm going on to the finish," Kennedy said as he boarded a commercial jetliner for San Francisco to campaign in California and Oregon. Kennedy told newsmen Johnton's surprise announcement yesterday that he would promote the military commander in Vietnam lo Army chief of staff was "an indication that the administration is moving in a different direction on Vietnam." The New York senator also cited a slalement by Vke President Hubert H.

Humphrey in speech earlier yesterday that the administration had begun an "intensive review" of its war policy. eerUin there is while are walking youths were seen bleeding about the face but the extent of the injuries was not known. A police spokesman said officers went into action after dem-. onstrators climbed on the information booth canopy and ripped ths hands off the clock. Girl, 18, Killed BATAVIA (AP)--Miss Rita F.

Mazur, 18, of nearby Corfu, was killed last night in the collision of two automobiles in this vil Uage, police reported. Index Church Page 2 Classified 1,5,16,17,13,19 Comics Crossword Puzzle Death Notices Editorials Obituary Pulse of the People Record Pattern Social Sporls Theaters 12,.