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MAIN EDITION VOL 89 NO 91 PRICE 10 CENTS POLICE CHANGES ASKEI REVEAL BIG DRIVE 123 Officers Say 5000 Marines Have Killed Reds in an 1 1 -Day-Old Operation 30 Miles Southwest of Da Nang Missouri Crime Committee Propose Consol idati of Services in Five Fields for Kansas City Metropolitan Area 4 COST IS NOTED State Program Would Be Expensive Report Concedes LANES HELP IN MASSIVE PUSH American Losses Are 18 Dead and 73 Wounded The Attack is Second in That Area in Recent Weeks The Weather Rain Likely Occasional rain tonight continuing into tomorrow and turning colder tomorrow is the weather forecast for Kansas City and vicinity Northeast winds tonight becoming northwesterly tomorrow Chance of rain 40 per cent tonight and tomorrow Low tonight near 35 high tomorrow near 40 degrees By Henry Clay Gold (The Star's Jefferson City Correspondent) Jefferson The consolidation of some police services in Metropolitan Kansas City and St Louis was called for today in a 2-year-long study that warned the Missouri governor that the state has a serious and increasing problem with delinquency and crime The crime trend is neither utlv homWtty hopeless nor irreversible the pr cant 1 90 per cant governor was told if Missouri is Be remeter reading ready to strive for costly but quality status in law enforce- meat and and the administration 24 hours ending 6 a none River stage today 6 feat of 5 of a foot of criminal justice The study was made by the Citizens Committee on Delinquency and Crime which Gov Warren Hearnes commissioned two years ago yesterday Under the chairmanship of Lt Gov Thomas Eagleton the 14-member committee took a long look at jails and prisons police misdemeanant courts ju- Police Probe Slaying of Herbert Gray and His Wife SANTA CLAUS AROUSED FASCINATION ELATION FRIGHT AND AWE today at the Minute Circle Friendly House 2405 Elmwood avenue as pre-school children confronted Aaron McCarthy in his crimson and white uniform McCarthy an analyst in the production control section of the Western Electric plant in Summit was with a delegation of Western Electric employees who visited II agencies in the metropolitan area today to deliver boxes of gifts donated by employees at the plant While the boxes were unloaded at four locations McCarthy entertained the children with candy and conversation In the picture Theresa Nestell of 2312 Lister avenue explains her Christmas (Kansas City Star photograph by Paul Renshaw) venile offenders and probation services i On Its Own over a hundred the committee said have permitted law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice to operate largely without our concern without our interest or knowledge and most importantly without our The committee said police departments are too often undermanned under-trained under-equipped and under-paid Courts at all levels are overloaded with rases city and county jails are worn out and overcrowded and the state correctional system is inadequately equipped to rehabilitate offenders In looking to improvements in -police services in Kansas City St Louis the committee SPLIT VERDICT IN GIRLS' TRIAL Mary Flora Bell Found Guilty Norma Bell Innocent People with common colds claim they have the Hong Kong flu nothing more irritating than a Saigon Five thousand Marines backed by more than 200 air strikes are sweeping the mountains 30 miles southwest of Da Nang in a major operation headquarters disclosed today Lifting the security lid on the 11-day-old drive Operation Taylor Common a spokesman said 123 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have been killed and 41 persons captured since the operation began December 7 He said 18 marines had-been killed and 73 wounded It is the second massive marine sweep south of Da Nang in less than five weeks On December 8 7000 and South Korean marines and South Vietnamese infantrymen ended 20-day Operation Meade River a 50-square-mile cordon centered 15 miles south of Da Nang In that sweep the marines reported 862 enemy and 95 marines killed and 504 marines wounded A spokesman said intelligence reports and observations by Marine scouts indicate troops from two or three enemy regiments might be in the mountains He said these might include troops from a regiment battered in the earlier operation who are trying to reach Laos to wait for replacements Planes Aid Troops About 25 Air Force B-52 bombers dropped 750 tons of explosives on enemy troop concentrations a staging area and supply depots yesterday and today in support of the maneuvering Marines A damage assessment was not available as the Marines were reported still three to four miles away from the targets Elsewhere in the war North Vietnamese troops today ambushed a Army convoy traveling a vital American supply line 42 miles northwest of Saigon but an armored column and airborne reinforcements beat the attackers off and killed 50 of them Five Americans were killed and 11 were wounded and several trucks in the 50-vehicle convoy were damgged but the others made it to the allied base at Dau Tieng Fighting continued into the night as infantrymen of the 25th division chased the enemy force Caught on Stream Twelve miles away forces surprised a sampan trying to slip down the Saigon river last night and killed 15 guerrillas Other and South Vietnamese forces reported 95 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed in five clashes ranging from the Mekong delta to the northernmost provinces There were no casualties and South Vietnamese losses were put at one killed and 21 wounded Thirty-five B-52s dropped 1050 tons of explosives on the infiltration corridors north of Saigon The heaviest concentration of strikes was along the Cambodian border 41 miles northwest of the capital near Beak a major enemy base inside Cambodia and the headquarters of the North Vietnamese 9th division In the central highlands enemy gunners shelled Ban Me Thuot airfield last night and damaged seven American helicopters Other gunship helicopters took to the air to attack the enemy batteries but no casualties were reported on either side FIND FIVE DEAD IN CAR WRECK Officials View Vehicle Under Bridge Spanning a Creek crashIimeIjhkwown Victims May Have Been Job Corps Center Students (Bv The Star's Own Service) Richmond Mo Four women and a man all apparently young adults were found dead today in the wreckage of a car which had gone off the pavement of M-10 about four miles west of Richmond The eastbound car apparently failed to make a slight curve on M-10 and went off the pavement at a bridge demolishing itself when it struck the opposite creek bank The accident may have occurred last weekend The car was found about 10:15 today by Vernon Ogg a farmer who was picking corn in a nearby field Ogg said the car came to a halt so nearly under the bridge that apparently no passing driver saw it He said one of the victims had been thrown from the overturned car but the bodies of the others were inside Stoektoa Ray County sheriff said papers found on some of the victims indicated they may have been students at the federal Job Corps center in Excelsior Springs An official of the center was on the way to Richmond about 1 to at-tempt identification of the bodies Authorities at Richmond would not release names of the dead pending notification of relatives Richmond is 45 miles northeast of Kansas City Sheriff Stockton said the 1961 convertible motor car was so badly damaged that its engine fell out as a wrecker attempted to move it DIVORCE BILL MOVED British Parliament Approves Measure on Second Reading London (AP) A bill to make divorce easier in Britain moved a step nearer to final passage by being approved on a second reading in the House of Commons today The bill would broaden the grounds for divorce to include mutual consent of both partners or of just one after a 5-vear separation At present the only grounds are adultery cruelty desertion and insanity GO ON WITH OIL TALKS Denver (AP) With two weeks remaining before contracts expire the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers International union said today its talks are continuing with 435 oil refiners Newcastle England (AP) Mary Flora Bell 11 years sensational "kill for trial today as the psychopathic strangler of taro boys She was Link Sought In Blazes 4 1 serttencedto life detention! Aflt-State Highlights on Inside Pages Brazil's president Arthur da Costa Silva speaks of completing a housecleaning undertaken after the revolution of 1964 which may indicate a purge of opponents to his mili-11 tary-dominated government is in the 1K5 offing The speech was his first since he suspended that nation's Congress Fri-day when it refused to lift the immunity Jr of one of its deputies who had been critical of the military The president I ttb JH cited "attacks from the classroom and Ik A he press" but left out the pulpit which had been included (n the advence text of his speech -yya controversial junior high school in Brooklyn is reopened after disorders forced closing this month 5 Czechoslovakian Communist leaders will meet early in January to consider plans for a new National Assembly 6 The story of Christmas continues as Joseph watching over Mary and the newborn child recalls the visit of the angel who told him he would be the earthly guardian of the Son of God 10 An unhappy husband asks Dear Abby's advice when his wife insists on returning to her old job as his secretary 14 The Treasury department reports that the weekly sale of bills yesterday resulted in the highest rate in history for its short-term borrowing Business Panorama 16 The Kansas City Royals beat the interleague trading deadline by obtaining catcher Campanis from the Los Angeles Dodgers The Royals will send two players to the Dodgers Pacific Coast league farm club in Spokane Wash before the start of next season 19 At the traditional Christmas party of the old Emery Bird Thayer store two little girls discovered the maqic of Christmas 32- Washington leaders and leaders-to-be would do well not to raise false optimism over a Vietnam settlement unless thev have real basis for their hopes The leadinq editorial 32 Topeka Arthur Ramey state fire marshal believes the fire that caused £250000 damage at Kansas State university Friday night and a series of minor blazes and threats are related However there is no evidence to connect the incidents he said Friday fire destroyed Nichols gym which housed the music department and campus radio-TV stations Ramey said between 200 and 300 persons have been interviewed in connection with the fires interviews with witnesses and physical evidence leave no doubt in my mind whatever that the fire was Ramey said The fire marshal revealed he had been contacted by university officials about the possibility of arson before the fire Friday night Ramey said a note reading "death of was found at two other minor fires on the campus Friday night HOUSE WAS RANSACKED Couple Found Yesterday Apparently Dead Since Saturday Police have discovered no new leads in their investigation of the double murder of a man and his wife which was discovered last night by relatives of the couple Detectives believe the couple Herbert Gray 57 years old a mail carrier and his wife Mrs Thelma Maurine Gray 55 were shot Saturday days before their bodies were found by someone intent on robbing their modest home at 4300 East Fifty-fifth street Bouad and Shot The rooms in the house had been ransacked and the couple dressed in night clothes had been bound with electrical tgjre and shot at least twice in the head Capt Sidney Harlow chief of the crimes against persons unit said that a search of the house has yielded no fingerprints or other clues Police said a car owned by the Grays which had been stolen and wrecked Saturday night also was barren of fingerprints or clues The car officers speculate was stolen by the murderer or murderers The car had been involved in a police chase early Sunday morning The driver of the car which was being pursued by Kenneth Karnes a patrolmen fled after crashing into a utility pole at Eighteenth street and Woodland avenue A neighbor of the Grays Albert Graham 4312 East Fifty-fifth whose house was broken into Saturday afternoon or night has helped officers fix the approximate time of the murders Graham said he was out of his house from 2 to 10 Saturday When he returned he discovered that his house had been entered and that a 32-caliber pistol loaded with four bullets a 38-caliber pistol 11 other 32-caliber rounds and a camera were missing Detectives believe that Mr and Mrs Gray may have been slain with one of the two pistols stolen from house Autopsies were to be performed today to determine the type of weapon used in the slayings Captain Harlow said five detectives have been assigned to the case and that more may be added if leads requiring investigation are turned up Officers planned to return to the house today to search again for clues They plan also to talk to residents of the area PAGE MARKERS Bridge Comics-Fratures Deaths Editorial Pages Financial News LAUNCH COSMOS 260 Ojbit is Similar to Those for Communication Moscow (AP) The Soviet Union announced today the launching of an unmanned earth satellite No 260 in its Cosmos series with an orbit ranging from 24-591 miles above the earth down to 310 miles The orbit resembled those of the Soviet Molnyia communications satellites a area training aead-iaboratory police program crime depot and riot control committee also recommended that the single emergency telephone call number be adopted A study was made in the St Louis area to determine the possibilities of using the single telephone number for obtaining police services As a First Step The combining of some police services in Kansas City now the committee said should be a beginning for future use of integrated A similar plan for integrating urban services was proposed for St Louis area police forces "Police service today must be the committee said "Experience indicates that a high school education and subsequent training in modern police methods and techniques are minimum The reference to Metropolitan Kansas City evidently would include police units in Clay Platte and Jackson Counties and possibly other nearby Missouri counties as well It was not clear whether offices would be included To back up the report some legislation is being prepared for introduction in the General Assembly at the session beginning January 8 One proposal wifi set up a state police training council which would have to pass on the qualifications of an applicant for police work before he could be hired The committee pointed out that 28 states have enapted laws which provide standards for the recruitment and training of police officers Recruitment and training of police personnel in Missouri must be co-ordinated and raised to acceptable minimum standards which must be mandatory the committee said A Public Issue In letter transmitting the report to the governor the committee said in the streets is the No 1 domestic problem in thfe minds of citizens of the state and "It should be first in priority of effort arid support financial and in other ways This is not now the ease "Many of the recommendations made in this report will require the expenditure of additional state money and many are we frankly acknowledge costly endeavors "Nevertheless we proceed under the assumption that the state of Missouri which is striving for the attainment of quality in other fields of public concern is similarly desirous of achieving a quality status in the field of law enforcement and the administration of criminal In surveying jails most were found to be old inadequate and dangerous places where inmates gtt to idleness and despair Chil- i sobs rolled through the emotion-charged courtroom as the jury of seven men and five women found her guilty of manslaughter with diminished responsibility Treatment Is Indicated Her 13-year-old playmate Norma Joyce Bell was found innocent of all charges Technicality she is free but Judge Sir Ralph Cusack indicated he wants hr to have hospital treatment The two girls unrelated but inseparable friends had been charged with murder of the two boys or alternatively with manslaughter sentence means that she will be kept in a prison treatment center until her psychopathic disorder reported to the judge by prison psychiatrists immediately after the verdict has been cleared The judge did not spell out what should be done with Mary after her psychopathic treatment is finished Under British law prisoners serving a life sentence may be released at the discretion of the home secretary Lacks Moral Sense The qualification of diminished responsibility in case is a condition where the person involved may be unable to know what is right or wrong This does not absolve them of conviction of a crime nor is it an acquittal on the grounds of in-santiy As for Mary the jury convicted her but the judge took into account that she lacks a normal sense of moral responsibility Mary pictured by the prosecution as vicious without remorse broke down and wept as she heard the verdicts Her mother and grandmother were weeping on the courtroom benches behind her Her father sat with his chin in his hands Both girls were found innocent of the basic murder that they killed Martin George Brown 4 and Brian Edward Howe 3 Martin was found dead in a derelict house in this northeast city May 26 and Brian in a lot July 31 When the trial opened 12 days ago Prosecutor Rudolph Lyons charged they killed for the pleasure and excitement afforded by Stories Are Opposed On the witness stand each girl accused the other of the killings Nonna told the court that after death she and Mary returned to his body and she watched Mary cut some of the hair and mark his body with a razor blade story was exactly the that Norma was ihe strangler and Norma cut fce body Lyons charged that Marj though the younger was the dominant personality of the two He called her "a most abnormal child aggressive cruel incapable of A QUAKE INALASKA Vibrations Last About One Minute in Anchorage Anchorage Alaska A strong earthquake woke residents of south central Alaska this morning but first reports indicated there was no major damage The rolling quake which lasted about a minute in the Anchorage area set off burglar alarms knocked stock from grocery store shelves and rattled windows MISHAP IN BOMB LOAD Truck Bet? Drops Creating Sparks as It Drags Wilmington The bottom of a trailer truck loaded with 72 concussion bombs caved in and sparks flew as it scraped along 74 Donald Jenkerson the driver of St Louis said it was not until later that he learned the bombs were not fused and could not have exploded Traffic was diverted and the bombs were loaded onto other trucks bound for the military terminal at Sonny Point Mellody McOtlley Eylar Funeral Homes Antioch Chapel and Main Adv Coed 20 Kidnaped in Atlanta I Am A I 19 mU It Mn A If 11 i11 Miss Mackle a tall browneyed brunette was wearing a red and white check flannel nightgown when she was abducted from her motel room after her mother was bound Mrs Mackle told police No mention of ransom or money was made in the police report nor would police say whether a demand was made But Capt Smith a DeKalb detective said Mrs Mackle was "told what to The mother said she and her daughter were in their motel room when there was a knock at the door She asked who was there and a voice answered that the caller was a detective with information about an accident involving a white car The description of tibe car was similar to that of one driven by Miss fiance Mrs Mackle opened the door She faced a shotgun A rag or cloth saturated with chloroform was placed over her face by the gunman she said and she was told to turn around The companion described by Mrs Mackle as a boy tied her hands and feet with white cord and put adhesive tape over her mouth the -motha Atlanta (AP) Barbara Jane Mackle 20 year old daughter of a wealthy Florida land developer was kidnapped in her nightgown from a motel early today by two intruders one armed with a shotgun and the other appearing to be only 12 years of age her mother told DeKalb County police The mother said she was chloroformed and bound Miss Mackle is the daughter of Robert Mackle 56 secretary-treasurer of Deltona corporation a 65-million-dollar home building firm with headquarters in Miami Mackle also is president of the corporation that owns Key Biscayne hotel where President-elect Nixon vacations frequently Mrs Mackle in a complaint released to news media by De-Kalb police said she was visiting with her daughter at a motel near Emory university in northeast Atlanta The daughter is a coed at Emory Mrs account told of two white males one appearing to be hardly 12 who gained entry to the motel room about 4 a by claiming to be police The FBI said: investigating the Shortly after tflht news break FBI REHEARSE MOON TRIP Astronauts Practice in a Spacecraft Simulator Cap? Kennedy Fla While the launch crew prepared the giant Saturn 5 rocket for blastoff to the modn the Apollo 8 astronauts today sharpened their skills in a spacecraft trainer Col Frank Borman Capt James A Lovell jr and Maj William A Anders climbed into the simulator for several hours practice mainly on what do as they orbit the moon for 20 hours on Christmas eve and early Christmas day OUT WITH FULL CREW Sea Trials Are Resumed by the Queen Elizabeth II Greenock Scotland The 65000-ton Queen Elizabeth left drydock today to resume her trials The liner carried a full crew for the first time The first trials were interrupted by a faulty valve THIS PHOTOGRAPH OF THE murder victims Mr and Mrs Herbert Gray 4300 East Fifty-fifth street was hanging in the home Their bodies were discovered in the Mouse last night They had been hapud with tape and head Barbara Mackle protested to DeKalb police the release of information to news media All copies of the police report were collected by police officers and no farther information was released FBI agents refused newsmen talk with kle SundaAvi turdayiA Phone noon Sa ant Ads In before Adv.