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JBWCAtlU NEW, TUESDAY, JANUARY Paget m4 TAI PER WKEK IY CAMUER-" LE COPY He Weapons laden B52 crashes in bay Bomb hunt underway in Greenland and threatened diplomatic repercussions from Denmark. CfcpenlMfen reminded Washington that Denmark prohibits nuclear armed nights over its territories and asked for more Information. Between 59 and 100 Danes demonstrated outside the U.S. embassy In Copenhagen Monday when the news of the crash became known after an 18-hour delay. As the search continued in remote Greenland, toe Danes were voting in parliamentary elections to decide the political future of Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, a firm friend of the United States in NATO.

dictated an all-out effort to find the lost weapons. Public fear of advene consequences, the diplomatic repercussions and the cost of the bombs pointed the likelihood of an all-oul search until they ire recovered. The Atomic Energy Commission (ABC), manufacturer of H-bombs for the Defense Department, sent three experts to Greenland to help locate the weapons. Authoritative sources said the plane apparently carried four H-bombs, each equivalent in explosive power to something more than 1 million tons of TNT. Whether the crash would affect the elections was open to question.

Bui the promptness of Xraga query to Washington about it showed how sensitive the matter of nuclear arms is In the Scandinavian country. Three of the four leftist parties participating in today's elections are opposed to Danish membership in NATO. Scientists here said the impact of the crash probably was enough to send th'e H-bombs crashing through the to 9 foot ice on North Star Bay, a part of the larger Baffin Bay, But much about the bombs is still secret and security, factors The wreckage of the huge Stratofortress, which when empty weighs 4M.000 pounds, was mostly on toe surface of the ice, the Pentagon said. But what happened to the bombs inside was not known. Six of the' seven crew members aboard the eight-engine Strategic.

Air Command bomber oh an "airborne alert" flight were rescued. The seventh, copilot Capt. Leonard Svitenko, 27, of West Springfield, was killed. Details of his death were not disclosed. The Pentagon said the plane, one of those that constantly fly the 'polar "circle route" to guard against any surprise Soviet attack, was operating out of Pittsburgh Air Force Base, N.Y.

U.S. officials said the plane did: not violate Denmark's conditions, which permit emergency landings of nuclear-armed aircraft at Thule. "The aircraft was approaching for an emergency landing after having declared an emergency because of a possible fire in the navitagor's compartment and intensive smoke throughout the aircraft," the Pentagon said. KhLI aVw'''''jCafl HE: sssfl isssw (ssssssssY-- ifl intelligence ship seized AsOccaI frnlfon ku www. twilivil North Koreans WASHINGTON (UPI) A North Korean naval force seized a U.

S. intelligence ship on the high seas early today, the Pentagon said. As M1G fighters circled overhead, the raiders forced the lightly armed American vessel and its S3 men lo put into the Communist port of Wonsan. It marked the first lime in more than 100 years that an American naval ship had been captured at sea. The Pentagon said there has been no word from the U.S.S.

Pueblo armed only with two 50 caliber machine guns since it radioed it had come to "all stop" and was going off the air shortly after midnight EST, The Defense Department said ALMOST Out to treat by Set, bwt be fell short by a crawl la sevea moataM Marty fight lap to Keat State's Mike mwny, ten, ua nci untn rm wnv were waning ap Srier to the mm. Kent State the tedoor vanaty IrwHk tymt at Pittsburgh W-J. -UPI Facsimile Handful of GIs aid in crushing enemy battalion 17, ad killed YOUTH DEAD A state trooper cheeks the ear which fefl a Thomas Plhser, WASHINGTON apstts in hdlcooters and dopled putted through Creen-sumTi polar darkness and 2f below Mro cotd today hunting foe four niisxing hydrogen botnbi wboM km set off political repercussions that could affect the NATO alliance. The bombs, said by the Pentagon to be unarmed and In "no dancer" of exploding, were aboard a B52 Stratofortress that crashed into ice-covered North Star Bay, seven miles short of the runway at Tbute Air Force Base in Greenland, a Danish possession. The accident claimed one Ufe U.S.

Donolow not sure of hoax HAKUSBURG, Pa (UPI) A state senator has charged the administration of Gov. Ray- in r. aoaier suppressed" information in an LSDun blinding case, but the senator added nothing to his own allegations that two students were blinded by the sun after taking the hallucinogenic drag. Sen. Benjamin Donolow, Philadelphia Democrat, said Monday the Shafer administration bad information other than what it released In labeling ax a hoax a report six western ago by staring at the sun under the Influence of the drug.

"We are not convinced that high-priced and professionally trained Justice Department, headed by a competent attorney general, with other members of the administration, would have permitted the governor to appear at a press conference and release certain Information to the public merely on the word of one individual, without first verifying, investigating and documenting the facts," Donolow said in a statement. But Donolow sid nothing about his. allegations last week that two University of Pittsburgh students were blinded by the sun during an LSD "trio." Pitt officials denied knowledge of any such incident State Atty. Gen. William Sennett requested Donolow to turn over his information to the Justice Department.

"Frankly, I don't think he has any information like that," Sennett said. The state Justice-Department said Monday a preliminary check of the files of 252 blind Pennsylvania collate students uncovered no evidence that one was taken to a hospital in serious condition." He said the students, whom he refused to name, have been expeHed. Ground controllers used in alternate minion planned months ago to snatch success from apparent failure, Throughout mutt or its 7-hour 40mloute flight, the Apollo i moon bug perform! with MprisiB precision. When It was all ovsr, sdwrttsts btttevt burled itaaff to a fiery toath la tarth'i atmosph.ru. hI-1 rtunarkaWe teeetst, a tht way to the tnoou." nld Dr.

Gtorgt E. MttAtr, btad of tht City hoy killed as car slips off jack At the other end of the McNamara one, In the sand dunes of the South China Sea coast, South Vietnamese regular army troops killed at least another 159 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong1 they trapped Monday, spokesmen said. Today U.S. Air force BS2 Stratofortresses, the massed artillery of the American army and Marines and 7th Fleel warships offshore Joined in what miliary spokesmen termed massive bombardment of the three North Vietnamese divi- slons poised at the border's Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). GIs Kitted In the border battle that has raged for four days, military spokesmen said at least 750 North Vietnamese have been killed.

They said incomplete reports showed 28 Americans killed with another 211 wounded, 151 seriously enough to need helicopter evacuation. South Vietnamese troops losses were put at about 40 men killed and 150 wounded. The bitter, fighting stretched along the line of Allied bastions Khe Sanh, Camp Carroll, Con Thien, Gio Linh-stretehing LBJ tells leaders of job plans WASHINGTON (UPJ)-President Johnson planned to outline to key members of Congress today his plans to revamp existing job training programs to provide work for 500,000 "hard core" unemployed in the nation's cities. Democrats on the House Education and Labor and the Senate Labor and Public Welfare committees were summoned to a rnldmornlng White House briefine. Any job proposals requiring congressional authorization would have to go through those two committees.

Significantly, Republican members of the two panels were not Invited to the briefing. One top House Democrat said, "I think that was a serious mistake on the part of the administration." Johnson said in his State of the Union message that he would propose a 12.1 billion manpower program to place a half-million of "those who are last in line, the hard core unemployed, the hardest to reach," in private industry within the next three years. He gave few details of his plans except to say the money figure represented a 25 per cent increase over the 11.65 billion being spent this fiscal year on manpower programs. He said the increase would be used to "start a new partnership between government and private industry to train and hire the hard core unemployed." Congressional sources said the administration probably would expand two existing pilot programs which provide an incentive to private industry to train and hire the disadvantaged. They are now being tested in 15 cities.

trip test today. "Unfortunately there wasn't a man there to try again." Because of this failure, fliiht today's i Western Peaasylvania Cloudy, windy and colder todav with rail chaagiag to snow flurries. High today la the low ti extreme southeast and In the 3s elsewhere. Mostly deudy aid coMer tonight aid Wednesday with now flurries tonight lad aver a.rthern section Wednesday. MmUbatog wilds late ttiigut aid early Wciliesday.

Low tonight 12 to S. Weather statistics tor the 24-hour period cMHig at 7 a.u. today follow with Ian year's data lipereatbetes. Maximum temperature 38 (58) Minimum temperatireSl (42) Precipitation 11 riB.Siow (hone) Shesuago River stage 7.0 feet DEATH RECORD Tuesday, Jaa.J3.lK8 The mat E. Pitoer, 17, of mi Finch St.

Charles James 35, of 115 FrkatahlpSt. Edward 0. Golden, 13, of 311 NtethvtewAve. the Pueblo, which It acknowledged to be an intelligence-gathering vessel, was boarded in the Sea of Japan, in international waters off the North Korean coast US. officials said efforts were being made through Moscow to contact; North Korea for more information: The White House, the State Department and the U.S.

Embassy in Moscow all refused comment for the tune being. The last incident involving a U.S. intelligence ship came June 8 during the Arab-Israeli war when the U.S.S. Liberty was attacked by Israeli planes and torpedo boats. Naval historians said; there bad not been an incident comparable to today's capture, however, since the Civil War.

The Pentagon said the Pueblo, which at 906 tons is about one-eighth the siie of the liberty, carried oceanographlc equipment. This would include depth sounding and underwater topographical equipment as well as electronics and communications gear. The Defense Department said the seizure took place 25 miles off the North Korean coast although the position officials gave appeared to be as close as 17 miles to the coast. North Korea claims a 12-mile limit for its territorial waters although the United States recognizes only three-mile limit. The Pentagon announcement said the Pueblo, described as a modified auxiliary light cargo ship, reported being surrounded by four North Korean patrol boats in international waters just before midnight and an armed boarding party took over the ship.

The vessel's last report was that it was being forced into Wonsan, North Korea. The Pentagon said the final message from the ship at 12:32 a.m. ZST reported the ship had come to "all stop" and was "going off the air," The Pueblo reported it was first challenged by a single North Korean patrol boat at Continued oa page I I Inside Today's NEWS Page Kaatoets World 7 CattaUkm 11-11 0toi If Crtts Word tutorial 11 4 By EUGENE V. RDBER SAIGON (UPD-A handful of GIs led a part-time government troops to a crushing victory over a North Vietnamese battalion today in the battle raging along South Vietnam's 40 mile-long northern frontier, military spokesmen said. The government militia regional and popular force- troops with their American advisors reported kitting at least 250 of about 500 North Vietnamese who tried for two days to grab a strategic position near Khe Sanh, the Marine bastion anchoring the western end of the Allied border defense line.

Late news briefs Escapees hunted BENTON, III. Two "extremely dangerous" federal ariseaers, one a husky part IssHa. serving a Ufe teateace term sbr murder, escaped from the Fraakaa County Jail here. The escapees were Identified as Jotaa Boles, 23, tf Washington state, and Harriaitaa Lasts. a TM(r.

tL. testify hi a case laveMag two tthtr retferaj ptttaatn who were charged with attacUag a prist. Wilson, Soviet talk MOSCOW Prune Mtattter Haned Witts, of Britain speM fit "IrltUly, frank aid caaMratUve" swan wtlk tht Kittxaaa'i top leaden today la tolhs wbleh cauld affect tht em tf the Virtues war. WMMSMlKthrMhtmtM htor ttssjir dsn sjsttstod, with CmmMmrrrk, mm to rwhtor ItiMh with Mm. car which had broken down on Huron Ave.

Ext. with the right rear wheel off and the vehicle Jacked up. While the youth was under the car, which was resting on some snow and ice, the vehicle slipped off the Jack, according to state police. Pilner was a senior at the Vo -Tech school taking the auto body course. He was born in New Castle Sept.

2, 1950, to Thomas and Mary L. Klamar Pilner Jr. He was a former student at New Castle High School currently enrolled in Lawrence County Vocational Technical School Thomas was a member of St. Joseph the Worker Church. Surviving are his parents of New Castle; a sister, Mrs.

William (Barbara) Monsees of Sherman Oaks, and a brother, Robert D. of Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Klamar and Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Pilner Sr. His grandfather, Mr. Pilner, died Dec. 21,1967.

The family will receive friends at the Noga Funeral Home, S. Mill and E. Reynolds streets, Coottauedonpage2 in moon designed specifically to lower two astronauts gently to the pitted lunar crust. Instead of firing 3 seconds, the thrust engine burst to life for Just four seconds and then quit. Officials today said it appeared the craft's electronic brain failed to give the engine enough time to build up to sufficient power.

"We have a very Intelligent computer, but unfortunately it has a very rigid Interpretation of tbt mission rutot," MutUtr said at a news conference tarty Ior3 nelr nunoness. sunny coastal dunes. Donolow said an investigation he conducted turned up a case Hi LOW WEATHER where five students from a NEW YORK (UPI) The Delaware Valley school "par-lowest temperature reported took of dangerous drugs on the today to the U. S. Weather school campus, in the dormi-Bureau, excluding Alaska and tory, resulting in sickness and wiuoing Aiasaa ana wry, rauung in sicunesj ana A 17 year old Vocational Technical High School student was killed at 3:15 p.m.

yesterday when a car he was working on fell on him. Pronounced dead on arrival at St. Francis Hospital was Thomas E.Pftner E. Pilner, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas. Pilner of 1221 Finch St. John Noga, assistant county coroner, attributed the cause of death to asphyxiation due to a rocker arm panel resting on his neck and shoulder. Noga said that the boy was working underneath his compact down to the lunar surface and back to the Apollo mother ship. That flight could come as early as mid-lW.

The Apollo 5 mission got ofr to a perfect start Monday evening when a Saturn 1 rocket drilled It Into a precise orbit 100 miles up. For four hours, everything went as planned. Then came the tint of tht punishing firings of its landing and takeoff engines The mint on was marred at that point by tht hUtur of the first space lest of the engine Thomas HwaU' 14 Mw. zm at International Falls, Minn, Monday high was 14 at ThermaLCUf. Apollo spaceship proves successful By EDWARD K.

DELONG UttaptetWrttor CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) The. first of the Apollo PofP built to land men on themoon proved today it works ta P. 'tng The 1 Lw hlcAito ww Lll f. ad eimt tbt taMt trwMt tod S. civilian manned tptceflight program, Tht success, qualified though It whs, probably will clear the Lunar Module for carrying men on Its nest vesture aloft, set for lata this year il It is manned." Another Lunar Module la on band for a second unmanned trial run this spring If nacttotrj.

The final decision whether to scrap plan tor that rtptat teat will be nude In March. Tht Lawar Module Is the type shsp that will faery two men from aa ortot around the moon directors had to pick alternative mission plans to salvage what they could. Flight Director Gene Kranz chose at his alternate a make-believe run through of the procedures astronauts would follow in calling off a moon landing. The Apollo I moon bug rcspooded perfectly to these commands. A Sptttt 11-11 ,17 TV Lag Ytatth Pag.