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BOISE IDAHO FRIDAY JUNE 7 1968 THE IDAHO DAILY STATESMAN PAGE TWO A Prosecutors Say Statements by Los Angeles Mayor Endanger Case Against Suspect in RFK Slaying the grand jury is expected to indict him for murder Angered Over War He was by the account of those who knew him a young man who hated Jews and was angered by victory over Arab states last year A New York committee on America-Arab relations said he "may have been by call for US jets for Israel during his televised debate with Sen Eugene McCarthy Saturday night Yorty while taking note of what the others said offered an other The mayor said "it appears also that he was inflamed also by contacts with the Communist party and the contacts with Communist dominated or infiltrated car one that we know he had been seen outside a building in which the WEB (DuBois Society) was meeting Yorty said Yorty said the society had been identified by federal officials as a Communist front and added "that evil organization has played its part in inflaming the assassination of commenting on evidentiary He was critical of the disclosures from "the notebooks referred to Wednesday by Mayor Mayor Cautioned California Atty Gen Thomas Lynch in a statement said he had cautioned Yorty Wednesday "to confine his release of information concerning the suspected murderer of Sen He warned that US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court decisions on public statements and fair trials place se attorney to seek a court delay of 10 days to two weeks before entering a plea So far he has been represented by the public office but he has talked with representatives of the Southern California American Civil Liberties Union which Wednesday called statements on the case "ill Sirhan remained out of contact with the public and all information about him came from friends acquaintances and former employes Sirhan is charged with six counts of attempted murder and vere limitations on what public officials say "Under these court he said "evidence may be ruled out and a trial severely hampered by such public Yorty at a separate news conference said "there is so much evidence already that I see how revealing some of the background can be Called 'Judgment 'This is a matter of judgement and I am a lawyer and I exercised my judgement in this he said Younger said he op said he hoped to bring Sirhan to trial within 60 days Concern Expressed As the investigation continued both state and local officials expressed concern that Yorty might have hurt the case by disclosing to newsmen the contents of notebook Younger told a news conference that while the assassination was a "great tragedy what a greater tragedy it would be if successful prosecution of the person responsible for the terrible crime were jeopardized by statements prior to the trial ed Kennedy Assists Bereaved idow Aboard Plane Mass for MRS ROSE KENNEDY SEN EDWARD KENNEDY right assists Mrs Ethel Kennedy dark coat as members of the Kennedy family boarded a lift Airport Thursday With them Robert Kennedy pose a change of shifting the trial to another if defense attorneys asked for it and he considered the request valid There was a maximum security guard on Sirhan in a hospital ward at the Los Angeles County central jail His index finger had been broken and his left ankle sprained when he was captured by Roosevelt Grier Los Angeles Rams lineman and Rafer Johnson the former Olympic decathlon champion just after the shooting Delay Plea Expected Younger said he expected Sir- on the lift is the casket of Sen (AP Wirephoto) ults moving always with dignified composure Brother Bears Burden Upon Edward Kennedy the Massachusetts senator fell the burden of arrangements He made arrangements for the casket and hearse with a local mortuary A mortuary source said Robert Kennedy was embalmed after an autopsy at the hospital and dressed in a dark blue suit with white shirt and black tie Family members waited outside while the body was placed in the casket then followed it to the blue-gray hearse for the trip to the airport Ethel and Edward rode in the hearse with the others following in limousines During the half hour police escorted trip motorists on two busy freeways deferentially pulled aside of stopped completely although no sirens were used Mrs King Joins Family Joining them at the airport for the flight was another widow of an assassinated leader Mrs Martin Luther King She flew here Wednesday to share the grief Others who rallied were Mrs John sister Princess Lee Radziwill singer Andy Williams who helped Robert campaign and a contingent of public officials friends and Kennedy aides In all 75 boarded the blue and white jet for the sad flight 'Jacqueline Kennedy choosing not to ride the lift was first up the ramp in boarding The final view here of the rest of the Kennedy group seemed almost symbolic of its unity As they stood beside the casket while it was hoisted into the lane adults and children all joined hands War Mishap Solons OK Protection For Major Candidates Friends Console idow LOS ANGELES (AP) Prosecuting authorities expressed concern Thursday that Los An geles Mayor Samuel Yorty might have prejudiced the case against the accused assassin of Robert Kennedy as they rushed preparations to bring him to trial Sirhan Bishara Sirhan 24-year-old Jordanian citizen remained behind a heavy cloak of police protection Authorities pressed their investigation and announced plans to take their case to the grand jury for an all-day hearing today Dist Atty Evelle Younger Police Issue Bulletin For Woman Authorities Seek Girl Seen With Suspect Near RFK Shooting LOS ANGELES (AP) A young woman who wore a black and white polka dot dress the night Sen Robert Kennedy was fatally shot was sought by Los Angeles authorities Thursday for questioning An all points bulletin issued by police said the woman aged 23 to 27 was believed seen before the Ambassador Hotel shooting with Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the 24-year-old Jorda nian accused of firing the shots Inspector Peter Hagan commented "We are not going out and try to pick up anyone or arrest anyone We are merely asking for anyone to come to us with information regarding the girl in the polka dot dress" Woman Seen Hagan said a 20-year-old Youth for Kennedy campaign worker Sany Serrano told officers she saw a young woman run from the scene and yell "We shot No other witnesses heard such a remark Hagan said Others did report seeing a woman in a polka dot dress Hagan added ''but there could have been 20 women in polka dot dresses there" Family Sends Telegram In Pasadena the family of the accused assassin of Sen Robert Kennedy sent a telegram to the Kennedy family Thursday saying "we pray that God will make peace really peace in the hearts of The telegram was signed by Mrs Mary Sirhan mother of Sirhan Bishari Sirhan the alleged slayer and her family hurt us very bad what has happened and we express our feelings with them and especially with the children and with Mrs Kennedy and with the mother and the telegram said "I want them to know that I am really crying for them all And we pray that God will make peace really peace in the hearts of the Sirlian Keeps Calm Outlook In Prison Cell LOS ANGELES (AP) Sirhan Bishara Sirhan learned Wednesday of the death of Sen Robert Kennedy the man he is accused of shooting when iven a copy of the Los Angeles imes that he requested A sheriffs deputy asked if Sirhan had made any comment replied that he and added "this is a cool Sirhan is in a 9-by-12-foot windowless cell on the second floor an area described by Sheriff Peter Pitchess as "an isolated cell in an isolated Six uniformed guards watch him constantly One is in the cell another watches through a porthole and the rest are in a corridor outside the cell Pitchess said Sirhan eats usual jail although he requested and was given orange juice and tuna fish He asked for the tuna fish after complaining of an upset stomach Jail medical director Marcus Crahan said the upset was probably caused by excitement only visitors have been Crahan other medical staff members and A Wirin American Civil Liberties Union attorney who is helping him find counsel Slain Son no limit to sorrow? paigning for the Democratic presidential nomination Both Houses passed the emergency measure without opposition after objection was raised in the House to including the authority in the bill appropriating funds to run the Treasury and Post Office Department $400000 Authorized The special resolution authorizes spending of $400000 for toe month of June First the Senate voted 75 to 0 to provide the necessary financing through toe November 5 election Then the House passed a temporary bill to finance the protection for the remaining weeks of June It did this by unanimous consent after an objection by Rep Durward Hall R-Mo blocked action on the Senate measure The Senate was expected to quickly approve the temporary financing in the House proposal Financing beyond June 30 will be provided probably next week in the annual appropriation bill financing the Secret Service for the year starting July 1 Protection Ordered President Johnson has already ordered the protection without waiting for the legal authority Sen A Mike Monroney D-Okla told the Senate that the measure might not have prevented Kennedy from being gunned down early Wednesday "but there would have been a great chance that his security would have been greatly At the very least Monroney said "there would have been surveillance of that particular a Los Angeles hotel tchen where the campaigning Kennedy was shot Kennedys Niece Tells Death News To Mother Rose Kennedy Goes to New York After Church Mass NEW YORK (UPI) Mrs Rose Kennedy matriarch of the Kennedy family flew to New York City Thursday for the funeral of the second of her sons felled by an bullet Her invalid husband former ambassador to Britain Joseph Kennedy remained at the family seaside compound at Hy-annis Port Mass Mrs Kennedy was not told Wednesday that her son Sen Robert Kennedy D-NY had been critically wounded She had awakened early turned on the television set in her Hyannis Port bedroom and heard the stark news that another of her sons had been shot Word that the Senator 42 had died despite the efforts of six neurosurgeons to save his life was softened somewhat when her niece Ann Gargan broke the news to her as gently as she could Attends Mass In keeping with her daily custom Mrs Kennedy went to mass at 7 am in the little Roman Catholic Church a few miles from the compound After mass she flew to Boston and caught a flight to New York arriving shortly before noon She immediately went into seclusion Joseph Kennedy who will be 80 in September was told of his death by Sen Edward Kennedy the last of the four Kennedy boys The father who wept when told his son had been shot was put under heavy sedation Praises Strength Richard Cardinal Cushing a family friend for many years praised Mrs Kennedy for her strength during troubled times made the greatest impression on the Cardinal said in Boston never accepts defeat despite all the sorrows that she has been through with her entire family and they have been Mrs oldest son Joseph Jr was killed in a plane crash in the English Channel during World War II President Kennedy was killed by an bullet less than five years ago in Dallas Tex Robert died Thursday the victim of an assassin Escaped Death Edward 35 youngest and only surviving son was almost killed in a plane crash in 1964 in Western Massachusetts He suffered a broken back A daughter was killed in a plane crash and another daughter is mentally retarded The elder Kennedy suffered a stroke several years ago that left him paralyzed The many tragedies that have befallen the Kennedy family prompted Cardinal Cushing to observe: have been with this family more in sorrow than in Plane Crash jet at Los Angeles International Somber Days Repeated Kennedys LOS ANGELES (AP) For the Kennedy family it was the most somber of days since Nov 22 1963 For the second time within five years a son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy had died in his vigorous prime at an hand Members of the clan gathered Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital to comfort Mrs Robert Kennedy as her husband lay dying of a bullet wound in the brain When at 1:44 am the New York senator died just a day after victory in Democratic presidential primary gave him perhaps his greatest political triumph members of the close-knit family were at his side With wife Ethel pregnant with their 11th child were his brother Edward sisters Mrs Peter Lawford and Mrs Stephen Smith and the husband and sister-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy In an adjoining room were the three oldest children Kathleen 16 Joseph 15 and Robert Jr 14 Their grief was private but its depth was apparent during the public's few glimpses as the mourning family drove in a motorcade with a hearse to the airport for the flight in an Air Force jet to New York The women never lost their poise but their faces were masks of sorrow Widow Stands Straight Ethel Kennedy stood straight as her African mahogany casket was lifted from the hearse But her eyes remained fixed upon it as it was placed upon a lift and with mourners and pallbearers standing alongside was hoisted into the plane WASHINGTON (AP) Congress passed Thursday and sent to the White House legislation authorizing Secret Service protection for major presidential candidates The swift action came within 12 hours of the death of Sen Robert Kennedy felled by an bullet while cam- Author Says RFK Voiced Death Omen PARIS (AP) French writ er Romain Gary said Thursday that Sen Robert Kennedy told him about two weeks ago that "sooner or he would be the victim of an assassination attempt Writing in the newspaper Figaro Gary recalled a conversation with Kennedy near Los Angeles He quoted Kennedy as saying in answer to a question about precautions he had taken against a possible attack: "There is no way to protect a candidate during the electoral campaign You must give yourself to the crowd and from then on you must take your chances In any case you must have luck to be elected president of the United States You have it or you "I know that there will be an attempt on my life sooner or later Not so much for political reasons but through contagion through emulation we live in a time of extraordinary psychic contagion Because a guy killed Martin Luther King here a person who was tries immediately to kill a German student Gary is married to Jean Se-berg the American actress Bullets Claim to be put aboard a Presidential Goats Seen Profitable Investment WASHINGTON (AP) The Agriculture Department has pamphlets and bulletins on almost any farm subject from alfalfa aphids to liver flukes The information can be highly sophisticated or as basic as an eight-page leaflet titled Dairy Goat for Home Milk 1 Goats says the Agricultural Research Service can help poor families improve their diets 'and add a few dollars to incomes The leaflet about goat milk is directed mainly to low-income families in Appalachia Crime Boost Blame Given ToDemocrats ST ANTHONY (AP) State Sen Don Loveland of Burley a Republican congressional candidate asserted today that the present Democratic national administration take the blame for daily increases in our crime Federal Bureau of Investigation records show a 16 per cent increase in violent crimes during 1967 Loveland said "Time and he said has been shown we can do a good job of law enforcement just by using the laws we now have on the books Yet we are attempting to laws against crime and talk about outlawing guns "No weapons law would have prevented the gunning down of Sen Robert Kennedy The attack on Sen Kennedy was a symptom of our troubled times To get at this problem people must be made aware that there is still a policeman around die Swiss Couple Will Conduct School Workshop A one-week workshop in teaching techniques for preschool handicapped and culturally deprived children is scheduled in Boise beginning Monday Lee Woods director of the Continuing Education Center announced today Conducting the workshop will be Mr and Mrs Ellis Robins of Switzerland who have spent the past five years in the United States Woods said the two will demonstrate their methods in body development and movement through rhythmic activities Teachers parents and others interested may attend Woods said the course may be taken with credit either through the University of Idaho or Idaho State University BISHARA SIRHAN whose son Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is being held in Los Angeles as the slayer of Sen Robert Kennedy reads a newspaper account of death in hU grocery shop at Yaiyeba in Israeli Occupied Jordan Sirhan said of his son "I cannot understand what could have pushed him to do such a (AP Wirephoto) The death the shock the grief the solemn motorcade and the flight east with the body of the slain leader were tragically reminiscent of that day in Dallas Nov 22 1963 when the brother President John Kennedy was slain by a hidden rifleman As then members of the proud family gave evidence of bearing it well children and ad- A DOWNCAST Pierre Salinger former presidential press secretary tells newsmen in Los Angeles that Sen Robert Kennedy's body will be flown to New York for a Requiem Mass Saturday and burial in Arlington cemetery (AP Wirephoto) is not a problem that was just discovered has been like an iceberg and now is surfacing and causing trouble that is visible in Boggs said one major difference in the two probes is that the Eisenhower Commission undoubtedly will hold open hearings The Warren Commission did not The Warren job essentially was to conduct a criminal investigation after Lee Harvey Oswald arrested for the assassination of President Kennedy was himself killed The over-all question Johnson asked when he announced establishment of the new commission was: in the nature of our people and the environment of our society makes possible such murder and such Boggs said he thinks a highly professional staff including sociologists criminologists and psychologists will be needed even to plan an inquiry of such scope He said the inquiiy should go Into questims of violence in the mass media not only television and motion pictures but for in newspapers and other publications as well Member Says New Panel Veers From Warren Unit WASHINGTON (AP) The only member of President commission on violence who also served on the Warren Commission says the new investigation will be wholly different in scope and method from the probe into President John assassination Rep Hale Boggs D-La said in an interview Thursday mandate is certainly for the probe of violence which was launched after Sen Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles Wednesday Boggs is one of 10 prominent Americans on the hew commission headed by Dr Milton Eisenhower He outlined his views on the new probe but said there have been no discussions yet of organization or procedure US District Judge A Leon Higginbotham of Philadelphia another of the commission appointees commented Thursday that the nation not assume a posture of about violence In an interview Higginbotham offered some thoughts on where the root causes of violence may be have long-term hard core problems of poverty and discrimination which breeds he said this War II Kathleen Kennedy who was killed in an airplane crash in 1148 and President John Kennedy who was killed by an bullet on Nov 22 1963 in Dallas Tex Robert Kennedy also was felled by an assassin's bullet he was shot on Wednesday (AP Wirephoto) WITH THE DEATH In a Los Angeles hospital early Thursda morning of Robert Kennedy 42 far right the violent dea toll amongst the children of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy has reached four Other children meeting violent deaths were from left Joseph Kennedy Jr who died at the age of 29 when his bomber exploded on a mission in World.