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Jordan Fires on Israeli Site See Story Below in Column 3 WHALE SCATTERS War Fever On Rise in Mideast Ex-City Hopeful In Police Scuffle IS FANS Incident Grows Out Of Robberv TODAY- In the News Denizen Shatters Porthole International PASADENA, 1967 Famsd Cellist Trolcsls. Pablo Casals, the world renowned cellist who lor three decades has been identified with Democratic causes and as a vigorous proponent ol belter international understanding, deplored Sunday in San Juan, P.R., what ire called the "excessive rashness" ol extremist: critics nt President Johnson's policy in Vietnam. Because what lie termed the intemperate attacks on the Johnson policy, the 00-year-Dld musician said he refused to participafo in the "war trial" sponsored by Bertrand Russell and a group of prominent leftist intellectuals in Stockholm lasl month to condemn tlic United Slates military aclion In Vietnam. Slender Socinl Margin. West Germany's extreme right-wing National Democratic Party (NPD) won 10 seats in I he Lower Saxony State Legislature Landtag elections Sunday but its poll loll below expectations.

Voters elected 149 legislators. Retaining their majority, though by a slender margin, were the Social Democrats who corralled 43.1 per cent of the popular vote, according to final unofficial returns. Hide Fourteen Years. Two bedraggled, middle-aged Mau Mau fighters, clad in antelope-skin cloak, monkey-skin mufflers and caps, related, in a Kenva police cell Sunday how tlicy emerged from the wilds of Mt. Kenya forest last week after living in hiding for about 14 years unaware that Kenya had won independence.

Police are holding them in custody at Kerugoya, on the slopes of Mt. Kenya, far CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JUNE into the center af the industrial 5, JERUSALEM (AP) Jordanian guns opened fire on a small Israeli mililary plane and an outposl in Jerusalem on Sunday but without ellecl, an Israeli spokesman announced. War fever rose in the Middle East with these other developments: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt said Egyptians are "hotter than hunting coals" in waiting to fight lhe Israelis. He also proclaimed thai his government will not recognize any declaration by maritime power's that (he Gull ol Aqaha is an International waterway. The United Slates and Britain are reported to be preparing one.

King Hussein of Jordan said in Amman the Israelis may choose to attack Hie Arabs in the next few days. He announced Iraq had joined Jordan and Egypt in a new military pact. Nasser and Deputy Premier Taher Yahya of fraq signed the pact later in Cairo-after conferring with Hussein by telephone. Syria ordered air raid precautions tor (he first lime in the crisis for its capiial, Damascus, and six other key areas. Blackout material must be placed over windows in homes and buildings and automobile lights painted blue.

Israel announced a fund-raising drive lo bolster its economy during the crisis and possible eventual war. Jordan's shots at the Israeli plane missed and there were no casualties among the Israeli soldiers in lhe ground outposl, lhe Israeli army spokesman said, ft was the firsl Jordan-fs-rael border incident in many weeks. The Israeli army spokesman said the firing on the Israeli plane and a military posl in the Musrara sector of Jordan came at midday while (he Israeli cabinet was in session in the city, divided between Israel and Jor dan, The spokesman said lhe Israeli plane, a Piper Cub. was circling the Israeli sector when Jordanian positions opened fire. Fund-Raising Drive 'file Israeli cabinet decided in il-s meeting to launch a massive fund raising drive at home and abroad including a 10 pet-cent increase in income faxes to ease the pressure on lhe economy during the crisis.

A Cabinet spokesman said a "second independence loan" is lo be sought abroad in hopes Df bringing in $500 million. The tax boost is for a 10-month period. Income lams now are levied up lo a maximum of 60 per cenl. The Cabinet aisn decided lo float a domestic "voluntary security Joan" lo bring in lhe equivalent of $83 million. Tlie Cabinet expressed "concern at the slowness uf aclion taken by lhe big powers in connection wilh the' closure of lhe Slrait of Tiran by Egypt," lhe spokesman said.

He added thai the government also a a decision" on diplomatic slcps to be laken. He did not elaborate. National Bimbo, the largest and usually quietest male at Marine-land of the Pacific, became rambunctious during' a show" Saturday and charged an observation porthole the tank. Bimho and three spectators were hurt as the two panels of glass shattered allowing nearly a quarter million gallons ol water to gush from lhe four-story tank. Sonia Morales and Amelia Morales, bolli aboul 3D, ol Long Beach, and Jack R.

Copeland, of Sacramento, were treated lor cuts al (he Kan Pedrn Community Hospital hi Kan Pedro. The giant pilot whale suffered ten gashes on his snout, but was not seriously injured. The accident occurred while Vfll) persons watched the aqualie exhibit from spectator stands on the fourth floor level. Only a handful of people were on one of the three ohservalinj! levels below. Marinoland officials cleared the 7,000 to visitors from tile park so employes and 21) Los Angeles County firemen couid clean lhe area which was flooded by a pool of water a foot deep and 18 feel wide, This was the firsl lime a porl-hnle has been broken.

Thev are 18 inches (all and 2A feel" or 3 feel ivide, and consist of Iwo glass panes 2 inches thick. There Was still 640,000 gallons of water in llie tank after lhe accident. The four oilier pilot whales, one killer whale and four dolphins were moved to welter quarters. Eastern Nigeria Mobilizes LAGOS, Nigeria (UPf) The ruier of Nigeria's secessionist Eastern reginn ordered total mobilization Sum lav. At (he same lime lhe first group nf about foreign residents, including Still Americans who will be evacuated from lhe threat-cned area, arrived here by air from rort llarcinirt.

The first batch included 67 Americans, mostly women and children, and 100 British, Dutch and Italian citizens. AIRLINER WRECKAGE Wreckage of a charlerod British airliner Big U.J Push. The United Jewish Appeal Sun-day in Wow York slarlerl a nationwide special Israel emergency fund drive "to mobilize the greatest and swiftest outpouring of millions c( dollars" in U.J.A, history in order to aid Israel in her current crisis. Svedaira Blames litisygin. Kvetlana Alliluyeva blames Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin for forcing her to seek asylum in the United States this spring, McCall's magazine says in a copyright article in its July issue. "I applied to Kosygin through the New Delhi Soviet Embassy to get an extension of my visit, but he refused me," Josnplt V. Stalin's daughter said. "Had it been Khrushchev, I think he would have granted it." Clay Stands Firm. Cassius Clay announced in Cleveland Sunday he would not change his mind shout refusing Army induction.

After meeting for an hour and a half with lop Negro athletes who had Imped to persuade him to change his mind, Clay said, "They know now I'm completely sincere." 72 Die in 2nd Air Crash in 12 Hours Willie B. Mallory of Pasadetia. was robbed of about $3DI) on North Fair Oaks Avenue Sunday, He borrowed a gun, chased his assailants, shots were fired and three men were in custody, police said. The only injury was sustained by Christopher Martin, 52, of 1240 N. Fair Oaks a bystander who telephoned police when lie hsard the gunshots.

Martin is former candidate for the Pasadena Board of City Directors. Martin was slightly Injured in a scuffle with police officers over part of (he stolen money, which Martin had recovered for the robbery victim, Malloiy, police said. Officers said they fold Martin thai they needed the recovered money rs evidence in the robbery. Martin, according fo the police report, refused to give up Mallory's cash to officers without getting a receipt. Ollimr Raymond McCray said he tried to get the money out of Martin's' pocket, and Martin resisted.

McCray then "applied a choke hold" on Martin, who "continued to kick and swing at: Officer Johnson," who was also at the scene. The entire meloe began around 10 a.m. when Mallory was in the Liquor Store, 1220 N. Fair Daks. He was rohbed at gunpoint of some $300, and lie borrowed a gun from store' owner Henry Thomas (o chase the bandit.

fn cusfnrJy in connection with the robbery were Charles C. Calvin, 22, of Los Angeles, and 17-year-old Pasadena boy in whose car $120 of the stolen cash was found by Martin. The youth was also being lield on of possessing martjit- Police also arrested the owner of the'store, Thomas, on suspicion of burglary, because, officers said, his gun was a stolen one. Martin, whose campaign for the Pasadena city hoard included statements deploring "this burgeoning wave of crime that has already laken a toll of our large stores as well as the citizen on the street," was not arreted, but officers reported that they were seeking a complaint against him for his alleged interference with pnlire in the exercise of their duty. Martin, who cumplained of liack pains from the scuffle, was taken to Hie Huntington Memorial Hospital, treated and later released.

Invade China Mainland TAIPEI, Formosa (UPf) National Chinese commandos in a daring thrust invaded mainland China last Monday aiid killed al least In Communist Chinese soldiers, the official Nationalist China news agency rc-iwrled Sunday. 1XSEDE 17 Classified 19-22 Comics 23 Crossword 21) Editorial 1(1 Society fi, 7 Sports 14-16 Theatres 8 TV-Radio 17 Vital IS TELEPHONES; Pasadena area 706-0311 Los Angelc 631-4S71 East Valley 445-2434 MANCHESTER, England fUPl)-A British airliner carrying vacationers home from the Mediterranean crashed and burned early Sunday in a Manchester suburb only IS hours aflrr anolher British holiday plane hil a mountain near Ferpiguan, trance. A total of 1(10 persons died in the twin tragedies the worst death Southland a one-day span in avla- tion history. The police chief of I lie industrial suburb of Slnckpnrl said 72 of 84 passengers and crew members were killed when chartered British Midlands Ait-ways plane crashed only minute-- away from the airport where friends and families were waiting in welcome 1nw.il cues home. The plane was carrying 70 passengers and a crew ol live on a lliglit from tue Spanish msorl island of Majorca.

No casualties were reported or. lhe ground. All 88 passengers and crew i cily of Stockport, England. men were killed when a cliarfernd Air Ferry Co. plane crashed late Saturday on lhe hp cf Mount Canigou the Pyrenees while also coming iit for a landing.

The f-i passengers weir on a vacation night Spain's Costa Brava. All I i in were behoved lo he British. Queen I i 7 a I a i a "shocked and grieved" lo hear nl Lhe tragedies and asked the British government c-nvcy her sympathy and that ol her husband Is the rela'ives ol too dead. extremely hitler campaign llinf was climaxed lasl November when vnlers nvm-lurnrd Hip city's police review hoard. Unruh's ombudsman proposal is embodied in Assembly Bill 1021) which would rreale ihc of.

fice and establish Hie "prccdure for investigating grievances and for rectifying errors." was convinced that existing procedures for handling citizen grievances were totally inadequate and were lhe cause or a growing fooling nf rust ration and alienation on the part nf individuals as a dlrecl result of their dealings with the government agencies which had been created In serve them," Unruh said in (rsllmony lasl year before the Assembly Committee en Government Organization, propeller-driven plane crashed Red China Battles Cut Oil Flow HONG KONG (UPl)-Keporls from Peking Sunday mid of serious fighting between prn-and anti-ManisI forces in Sinkiang province, silc of Communist China's nuclear bomb proving grounds. The rejjorts said I lie clashes disrupted vital nil production. Olhcr Peking reports reaching Hong said nearly l.fjOO Mauisls were i.rured in dashes wilh anti-Mao forces in Kiar.gsi; and Kiangsi provinces. Peking wall posters were the source for the casualty figures. cisco, who was a strong nppnn-non of ihc plan, But if California doesn't receive an ombudsman this year, California ns certainly will hear plenty aboul I his unusual fellow.

The ombudsman, who made his appearance in Sweden some 1.r0 years ago, is a watchdog who prnfecls the individual citizen against the acts be tlicy unwise or unjust nf governmental officials. He's a "representative's man," a "grievance man," a man who takes care of lhe lillln gripes and lillle cares of the average man who has encountered a prnhlem In ntic nf the hundreds of governmental agencies that inhabit the earth, Alfred Boxellus, lhe Swedish Measles Shots. A total of 42,623 youngsters between the ages ot 1 and 10 wore inoculated with free measles vaccine at 105 Los Angeles County Health Department clinics this weekend. This was despite a boycott or public health nurses who refused to staff the centers in protest over what (hey considered a small and "inequitable" pay raise in April. fiattg fight.

Cilber Romo, 24, whose address was not immediately available, was treated for a shot-gun wound ol Ins right arm after a gang fight in Los Angeles Sunday between groups of American Mexican decent, "police said. Fire Peril. Fires in Southern California imperiled Los Angeles hotel and apartment house dwellers, destroyed a Long Beach matlress warehouse and fumigating plant and consumed several huge stacks of bailed cardboard in Santa Fe Springs late Saturday and early Sunday. Covha Roy, Kills Self. Police said a M-yoar-nld Cnvina hoy, despondcnl over problems al iiome and at.

school, shot himself once in Ihe chest wilh a 38 caliber revolver. The youth reporlcdly had been scolded for ending a cnrpel at home and for 11 truancies at school. Explosive Containers. Sheriff's deputies Sunday were combing the East Whlttler area in search of highly explosive meta! containers. Deputies said that Saturday, 12-ycar-old Bruce Zinn of Whlllior was badly burned, about the hands, face and body When he tried to puncture one of the canislers.

Ombudsman-! New Controversy lor California By ihrk WBUKMAN Slnll Wrltir Ombudsman, a strange sounding word wilh a Scandinavian ring, may become an Important cop, in California's mammoth government if the Slain Senate and Governor Reagan follow the aclion of the Assembly. The Assembly approved ombudsman proposal last week hy a 42 32 margin, llius giving Assembly Speaker Unruh a political prosenl he received from lhe same body in 10IW. Creadon of an office of ombudsman wan slopped hi a Sen-ale commillnn in 130.1. Passage nf lhe bill this year sppenrs slim, although the chances could improve with lite selcclinn o'. a replacement for the late Sen Eugene McAleor, D-Ean Fran ombudsman, pair during a California speaking lour lasl year llial most of the 1,200 complaints his office receives each year involve "misunderstandings." He said thai only one in 10 of lliem is Justified and suggested that a great number of complaints against government agencies could be avoided or reduced ir nlficinls would carefully explain Ihr-ir reasons lor actions.

Cilb.nns then couldn't gel I lie impression that I lie decisions are arbilary. Ombudsmen are also functioning in Norway. Denmark, Finland and New Zealand. Hawaii just recently created its firsl ombudsman office. New York Cily is seriously considering Hie proposal as a middle ground approach following sn To select someone lit fil! lhe rmliiirlsnian posl, Unruh's bill proposes lhe creation of a commission (n he headed hy lhe Chief Justice nf Hie Stale Sup-reme Court and the Attorney general, Ihc president of lhe Uni-versily of California, one person appointed hy the governor, one person appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate and one person named by Hie speaker of the Assembly.

The candidates would then lie judged hy a Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative ,1 us I ice. The com mi Hoe would consist ol three members nf each political parly represented in thr Senate and linen members ol each parly represented OMBUDSMAN: See Pas I Business and 1 in. -nice llrm Halls TV Advertising. The Admiral Corporation, which makes television sets aiming oilier llilngs, will lake Us advertising off jiclwork television as a protest against the level of programming and the "chiller." The nnnuunccmcnl was made al a Las Vegas distributors meeting by Chairman Ross D. Slrngitsa, who said lhe advertising would be transferred lo newspapers,.

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