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The Rock Island Argus from Moline, Illinois • 3

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THE ARGUS, Rock Island, 111., Saturday, July 8, 1972 I Navy jets set huge fires at shipment point 3 shot down Chief jailer is suspended in Davenport DAVENPORT Larry Porter, chief Scott County jailer, has been suspended indefinitely on three counts for being derelict in duty last Sunday. Porters alleged negligence resulted in a jailbreak, according to chief deputy and acting sher-rifi', Will Vann Fossen. About 1 p.m. Sunday, James Willie Townsend of 832 W. 8th Davenport, reportedly fled after being left unguarded with a visitor on the first floor.

Van Fossen said that Porter violated three rules in allowing Townsend to have visitors other than relatives on Sunday, permitting them to meet outside of the barred area, and leaving them unguarded on first floor. tained light damage in a 12-round rocket barrage on the Da Nang Air Base. At Phu Bai, an ammunition dump blew up, but there were no casualties, the Saigon command said. Field reports said a South Vietnamese reconnaissance company of about 100 men accompanied by three Americans had infiltrated the southeastern quarter of Quang Tri city early Thursday to pinpoint North Vietnamese targets for U.S aircraft and naval gunships and for South Vietnamese artillery units. As the reconnaissance unit moved into Quang Tri, large numbers of refugees were observed leaving the city.

Field reports said many of Hie refugees were wounded and most had not eaten for days. South Vietnamese marines met about 800 refugees two miles east of the city and returned them south to My Chanh. 14 ry it NON-DELEGATE CAMP While Democratic candidates and delegates will live in hotels on Miami Beach, non-delegates have set up a tent city in Flamingo Park near Convention Hall. Non-violent demonstrations have been planned for the July 10-13 Democratic National Convention, according to group spokesmen. (AP Wirephoto.) Mood festive as protesters arrive for Demo convention waves of Navy jets destroyed' 15 buildings at the He Danh Do La transhipment point 35 miles east of Haiphong, and that pilots reported setting four large sustained fires in the attack.

The Navy said it was an "all-out effort that resulted in heavy damage to North Vietnamese supply and transportation systems. In reports delayed by search and rescue operations that proved unsucessful, the U.S. Command said two Air Force F4 Phantoms were shot down by MIG21 interceptors Wednesday while accompanying fighter-bombers on raids 30 and 60 miles northeast of Hanoi. All four crewmen were reported missing. They were the fourth and fifth F4 Phantoms downed by MIG21S in less than two weeks with a total of eight crewmen missing and two rescued.

Not since the 1965-68 bombing campaign have North Vietnamese MIGs done so well. In still another delayed report, the command said a third Air Force F4 was lost to un-known causes while on a mission 70 miles northwest of Dong Hoi in the southern sector of North Vietnam. Its two crewmen were listed as missing. The command said 58 U.S. planes have been lost over North Vietnam since the resumption of bombing April 6, and a total of 67 airmen are missing over the North during the same period.

Many of the missing are believed to have been captured. Meanwhile, the U.S. Command reported that an American artillery battery accidentally fired into a U.S. infantry patrol nine miles west of Da Nang on Friday, killing two Americans and wounding eight. In a second mistaken attack, two Air Force F4 Phantoms accidentally dropped bombs on a South Vietnamese position in the central highlands seven miles northwest of Kontum City, killing six government soldiers and wounding six, the command announced.

Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the northern front that South Vietnamese paratroopers advancing'-ou Quang Tri City were stalled for the second day by North Vietnamese forces entrenched in bunkers and walled French villas. Behind the 11-day counteroffensive, North Vietnamese gunners launched a series of shelling attacks from Hue southward. Rockets slammed into Allied bases at Phu Bal and Da Nang to the south. The U.S. Command said (me American was killed and several buildings and vehicles sus MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) -A Zippie with megaphone stepped up and announced that Flamingo Parks swimming pool would be open for skinny- (lipping. Near midnight Friday, about 50 youths bathed in the buff in the lighted pool, frolicking under the passive gaze of two lifeguards. Taking it all in, too, were some of Miami Beachs senior citizens who had wandered into the park, which has taken on a carnival-like atmosphere for the approaching Democratic National Convention. This place must look like 9 zoo to them, said young Don Bode of Bryan, Ohio. Other young persons lounged under a huge banyan tree, swatted mosquitos and complained about a shortage of pot.

The pungent odor of marijuana filled the air. Elderly couples walked arm-in-arm in the warm evening air, pausing to chat with the youngsters. One gray-haired woman pulled away from her husband to argue religion with a chanting Hare Krishna devotee, dressed in flowing robes. While the number of protest ers camping in the park swelled several hundred, it was still far short of the thousands originally predicted for the convention, which opens Monday. Tents, large and small, dotted the 36-acre, palm-shaded recreational complex in the center of Miami Beachs retirement community.

Oldsters living in faded apartment hotels seemed unconcerned about the influx of counter-culture groups. Theyre very nice, said Mrs. Julius Bachenheimer. One of them asked me where he could get some cigarettes daddie and uncles and aunts and try to change them. Thats where we have to start the revolution.

The biggest excitement of the day occurred when two warring factions of the Youth International Party the Yippies and the Zippies called a news conference to try to resolve some of their differences. But that broke apart when the Zippies announced they would go ahead with a marijuana smoke-in in the park Sunday. But the over-all mpod of the park remained festive. and when I told him, he said gesund (stay healthy) in Yiddish. Another lady sitting on a lounge chair nearby interjected: My only complaint is that they were singing and playing the guitar until 3 a.m.

last night. Dont they ever sleep? Mickey Maguire, a leader of United Black Students, appealed to a group of young demonstrators to remember their parents. When you leave here, go home to your mommie and SAIGON (AP) U.S. Navy jets from carriers in the Tonkin Gulf set huge fires to an island transhipment point east of Haiphong, and the U.S. Command announced today the loss of three of Americas fastest jets over North Vietnam with all six crewmen missing.

U.S. officials warned of a new threat by Soviet-built MIG21 interceptors that shot down two of the three Air Force F4 Phantoms reported lost i In South Vietnam, North Vietnamese forces began their second week of artillery attacks against the old imperial capital of Hue. Thirty miles to the north, a South Vietnamese counter-offensive continued to encounter stiff resistance on the southern and eastern edges of Quang Tri City. 7th Fleet communique said Chess games once were blood-thirsty 'NEW YORK (AP) The insulted egos and white-knuckled tensions before the Fischer-Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing battle, but pale beside the tales of bloodthirsty games in Medieval Iceland. Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries were often the center of treachery, revenge, intrigue and murder, according to sagas of the time.

When a certain King Louis lost a chess game to Rognvald, he stood up in a fury, shoved his chessmen into a bag and smashed his opponent in the face with it, leaving him a bloody mess. Tike that! exclaimed the king. Rognvald rode off in a panic. But his brother stayed to split the kings skull open. These stories are sagas from Willard Fiskes Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature, published in 1905.

It is said that American chess champion Bobby Fischer has gotten the highest stakes in history of chess fbr his series beginning Tuesday in Reykja vik with Boris Spassky, the world champion. Even though thousands of dollars of prize money are on the line, todays championship prize is chicken feed. Rognvald played King Louis for A womaS'was the prize In one knightly saga. A king put up his horse, falcon and sword for a maiden and engaged in a game, winner take alL The king lost. He left the game on foot, unarmed and unloved.

Little consolation do you derive from the game of chess for now I own your costly object! said his competitor. Pentagon Papers trial due to open LOS ANGELES (AP) -The Pentagon Papers case is scheduled to go to trial Monday. The case came one step Closer to the trial when U.S. District Court Judge William M. Byrne Jr.

denied on Friday a defense motion to dismiss the charges against Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, 40, and Anthony Russo, 35. The judge ruled that sections of the Espionage Act involved in the eight counts of the indictment are not uncon stitutional on their face. IN ROCK ISLAND COUNTY FAIR QUEEN Entry Form Camanche man shot after being pulled from truck Name Candidates must be at least 16 years of age, a resident of Rock Island County and never married. Enclose a recent studio portrait with queen entry form.

Mail this form and portrait to: Rock Island County Fair Queen Contest, P.O. Box 267 East Moline, 61244 would shoot him. Hansen said then he felt a burning sensation in his lower abdomen. His billfold containing $70 or $80 and personal papers was taken. Police are continuing their investigation.

DeWitt hospital officials have told Rock Island police the bullet will be returned to them after it is removed. Several other articles are being held by police who are searching for fingerprints and other clues. A 35-year-old rural Camanche, Iowa, man has been transefrred to the DeWitt, Iowa, Hospital for further treatment after he was apparently shot in the lower abdomen early today in Rock Island. George Hansen pulled his pickup truck in front of a Rock Island police car on patrol along 19th St. between 3rd and 4th Aves.

at about 3 this morning and told them he thought he had been shot, according to Rock Island Police. He was taken to the Franciscan Medical Center for emergency treatment. Hansen, who lives on Route 1, Camanche, told police that he had stopped for a stop sip in the vicinity in which he had hailed the police. Four or five male Negroes, believed to have been teen-agers, opened the door on the drivers side of the truck and pulled him out of the truck. They said they wanted his billfold or they Altarpiece sold for $617,400 Saigon cuts down draft deferments SAIGON (AP) President Nguyen Van Thieu, acting under his new emergency powers, enacted draft reforms today that will cut down deferments and set a time limit for military service, inforced sources said.

The sources said Thieu signed into law four amendments to South Vietnams 1968 mobilization law intended to beef up the armed forces with minimum disruption of the tottering economy. Details were not immediately available. The Saigon government had more than a million men under arms before the current North Vietnamese offensive, which has taken more than 60,000 casualties. One amendment tightens a draft deferment policy that has excused men 18 through 38 years old for religious and scholastic reasons as well as family responsibilities, the sources said. A second amendment reportedly prescribes time limits for service under various conditions.

Until now a military draftee has not known how long he must serve. Seventeen-year-olds will take draft priority over 39-to 43-year-olds in another amendment, the sources sail This reverses the former priority, which proved difficult because it broke up families and took workers from jobs. The ofurth amendment was said to be a system of mobilization in place that would place men under military jurisdiction but allow them to remain at their homes and jobs until called. Elvis planning hour TV show MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Elvis Presley is planning a 60-minute worldwide television program that will originate from Hawaii in October or early November, the Memphis Commercial Appeal says.

The program in most markets will be carried on cable television or piped into auditoriums and theaters, reporter James Kinglsey said in an article published Friday. Illinois seen as tough for Republicans CHICAGO (AP) Illinois Republicans say they cant afford to be complacent about carrying the state in Novembers general election. The state delegation to the Republican National Convention caucused in Chicago on Friday. It will be a tough election in Illinois and nationally, warned Gov. Richard B.

Ogilvie, chairman of the delegation. He added that the effects of the dissension among Illinois Democrats is unpredictable as yet. But the Democrats have a talent for getting together, he said. In a news conference held after the caucus by Ogilvie and Sen. Charles H.

Percy, vice chairman of the delegation, Percy said he would not underestimate the chances of Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic front runner. He added that he thinks II- Latin American as an alternate linois Democrats will patch up, and a black woman as a dele their differences. I never like 'gate, Ogilvie said. to see dissension that can weaken the two-party system, Percy said.

Ogilvie noted that all 48 of the elected delegates and the 10 at-large delegates have committed themselves to President Nixon. Two of the elected delegates had been uncommitted. The governor added that the Republicans are opening the party to women and minority groups. He noted that this years delegation includes 10 women, seven of them elected and three chosen at large. We also, for the first time, have a Three hurt in Scott accidents DAVENPORT Three persons are listed in fair condition in Davenports Mercy Hospital this morning, following two separate accidents in Davenport Complete details are not available.

According to the hospital reports, Patrick Mead, 20, of 2116 W. 75th and Steve Lowry, 19, of 921 College, were injured in an accident at 4th and Marquette Sts. last night at 11:30. Dennis Broughton, 22, of 2011 W. 1st St, was admitted to Mercy shortly after an accident at 2 this morning at the intersection of and Utah Sts.

Man praying in church robbed BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) A 72-year-old man said he was robbed of $6 Friday afternoon by a man dressed as a clergyman while he sat praying in St. Patricks Church. Francis Whelan of Bridgeport told detectives he was sitting alone when a man wearing a black suit, blue shirt and white collar entered the church and sat behind him. Give me your money and put everything in your pockets on the seat, Whelan quoted the robber as saying.

He said he had about $6. Whelan said he was then ordered to move toward the altar, while the robber was joined by a woman who had waited at the back of the church. Cant find man who rejected $10,000 reward PERU, Ind. (AP) LoweU Elliott, who found $500,000 in hijacking ransom money in a soybean field, apparently has gone into seclusion. Elliott, 64, found the bag of money, dropped by the skyjacker when he jumped, in a field south of Peru on June 26 and turned it over to the FBI intact.

The FBI four days later arrested a suspect in connection with the hijack. American Airlines offered Elliott and his family an expense-paid trip to Hawaii as a reward liott said he would rather have for finding the money. But El-cash. So S.P. Fay, the airlines Indianapolis manager, returned the next day with a check for $10,000, but Elliott turned that down, too, saying he thought he should get at least $25,000.

Newsmen have been trying unsuccessfully to contact Elliott all week to see if he has had any second thoughts about the matter. LONDON (AP) A world record for a 14th century Italian art work was claimed by Christies auction house Friday. An altarpiece by the Paduan artist Guariento di Arpo was sold to a London dealer for $617,400. It came from the Austro-Hungarian collection of the Czemin family. The polyptch or complex of small, gold panel paintings was dated 1344.

It measures 85 inches by 105 inches, with a central panel depicting the coronation of the virgin. Twelve side panels represent the life of Christ from the Nativity to the Ascension. No early Italian painting had previously reached this price at auction, Christies said. The former record was $280,000 paid in 1965. for the Master of St.

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