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I 1 13 PARTLY CLOUDY COOLER SUNDAY CHANCE OF RAIN (Official VJB Forecut) CITY LIGHT ARRIVES AT KETRON ISLAND (Sm Page B-S) and SUNDAYIL'EDGER hM CIM IbUu si ximm Hat (8) 8SED YEAR NO 108 TACOMA WASH OCT PRICE 20c Nil UVI nn mJ Theodore Life Saved by Assistant Daughter Has Mementos of Shooting Indians Chinese In Clash VL 1 i PULLED AWAY A Negro demonstrator fat pulled sway by a Georgia atate trooper Saturday Negro demo natra ton held a ait-in on the otepa of a private dub in Crawfordville Ga JP Wirephoto 271 Held at Natchez After Rights March life and eaptnred John gdirank The Insert shows the caliber revolver nsed in the Milwaukee shooting daughter Mrs Helen Hlfley of Tacoma owns the gun and other mementos of her father's association with Roosevelt Copyright by Underwood St Underwood NY ROOSEVELT AND THE GUN THAT SHOT Theodore Roosevelt no longer President but still pursuing the office In 1918 leaves Mercy Hospital In Chicago following an unsuccessful attempt on bis life He escaped with only a minor wound Directly behind him and partially hidden by another Roosevelt aid is Elbert Martin the man who saved the former Presi Indonesian Leader Heard First Time Since Coup Attempt Peaceful Way Urged KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia JP President Sukarno came on the air early Sunday morning and ordered an immediate halt to the Sghting that has ripped the coup-wracked country It was the first time the 54-year-old president has een heard from since i rouble broke out Thursday in his Southeast Asian nation There had been serious concern over his fate Sukarno in a Jakarta radio broadcast monitored In Kuala Lumpur said he had ordered all to meet with him to investigate the situation Sukarno was quoted as saying: "AH fighting must be stopped This should be solved In a peaceful Sukarno said the whole army Is under his control and told the people to remain calm Leader Appointed Sukarno said in his two and one-half minute broadcast he had appointed MaJ Gen Branoto Reksatapmodoko Atmodjo as temporary chief of the armed forces and MaJ Gen Suharto as temporary army chief and commander of operations to restore order in the country He made no mention of the fate of Gen Abdul Haris Nasu-tlon 46 the armed forces commander and defense minister Available Information In Kuala Lumpur Indicated that Nasution had been shot and wounded during the early stages of the coup threat Jakarta Radio In an earlier broadcast had announced appointment He apparently has been In command of the troops that staged the comeback drive after Suharto replaced Gen Achmad Yani righthand man who had been reported killed by the rebels Broadcast Repeated Sukarno's broadcast was preceded and followed by military music It was repeated several times Radio stations throughout Indonesia were Instructed to tape the president's broadcast and to repeat It continually throughout the day Monitors said voice sounded and but he assured the people that he was well and still in control Indonesian observers here said after the broadcast they felt It significant that Sukarno did not immediately condemn the leaders of the abortive coup engineered by Lt CoL Untung commandant of Sukarno's personal bodyguard Untung's rebellion was believed to be a pro-Gommunist attempt to seize power It was followed by fighting between government and rebel forces In Jakarta and other parts of Indonesia Sukarno said he was out the leadership of the state and Sound and Well He assured listeners he waa "sound and Earlier broadcasts said there was fighting in Jakarta Saturday with rebels frying to recapture the communications building The broadcasts said the government rushed In reinforcements of tanks and truckloads of soldiers to bolster units which had thwarted the coup A "state of and dawn-to-dusk curfew were ordered in Jakarta Government forces were setting up anti-aircraft apparently because of the questionable loyalty of the air force A broadcast by radio (Continued on Page Two) Each Say the Other Started Incident New Breaches In Cease Fire Claimed By CONRAD FINK NEW DELHI India JP Indian troops exchanged shots Saturday with a 25-man Communist Chinese trol in the bleak moun In frontier between Tibet and the Indian protectorate of Sikkim Indian officials reported latest threatening gesture in the Himalayan area came amid serious new breaches in the Pakistan-Indla cease-fire and the possibility of a resumption of the war between them over Kashmir The Indian defense minister said the Chinese patrol crossed the Yakla Pass from Red-ruled Tibet Saturday morning surrounded a three-man Indian observation post well within Indian Terse Statement opened fire on our post The fire was returned" the terse Indian statement said In Peking the Chinese confirmed the incident but charged that Indian troops intruded into Chinese territory A broadcast by the official New China news agency said five Indian soldiers crossed the disputed line and "fired more than 200 rounds of bullets wounding me Chinese The broadcast said the Chinese fired back In self-defense The Chinese also accused the Indians of crossing Into Tibet last Thursday and Intimidating Chinese herdsmen with their weapons Close Watch Chinese authorities concerned have strongly protested against the repeated intrusions and provocations recklessly carried out by the Indian troops along the Chinese-Sikkim border and are closely watching the development of the situation" the broadcast said The new Chinese moves appeared to follow the pattern to threats at the height of the Indla-Pakistan war in what apparently was an effort to distract attention and military resources from the fighting with Pakistan Withdrew After the UN-ordered ceasefire went Into effect between Indian and Pakistan Sept 23 China withdrew some of its forces from the Tibet-Sikkim border With new trouble reported with the Chinese and skirmishing in many areas along 1500-mile western front between India and Pakistan the prospects for peace on the subcontinent seemed bleaker than ever In words echoing his tough speeches before the three-week war with Pakistan Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastrl spoke on his 61st birthday as if he expected a resumption of full-scale hostilities In Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan declared his county would not lower its guard Will Fight am afraid the way Pakistan is behaving hostilities may break out again" Shastrl said (Continued on Page Two) ASilllU is ion But the colonel the youngest man to become President at 42 (John Kennedy was 43 when inaugurated) was still filled with his Bull Moose vitality when he stepped down He went on a year-long hunting trip through Africa toured Europe and then tried writing But apparently bored with retirement he cast an eye once more toward politics Beaten By Taft He waa beaten by Taft for the Republican nomination in 1912 so he organized his own party the National Progressives It (Cotnlnned on Page Eight) By CHARLES RICE As the former President sat in his convertible a gun suddenly fired from the surrounding crowd He was shot! One of his aids quickly leaped for the armed man and wrestled the would-assassin to the ground before another shot could be fired The statesman fortunately was only slightly wounded The former President was Theodore Roosevelt and the time was Oct 14 1912 The place was Milwaukee The man who saved his life was Elbert Martin whose daughter Mrs Helen Hlgley lives at 3630 St For his heroism on that day Martin was given the 38 caliber revolver used in the assassination attempt the spent cartridge and five unused cartridges plus a gold watch with the inscription: Elbert Martin from Theodore Roosevelt In remembrance of October 14th Clippings Remain These mementos plus countless newspaper clippings photographs speeches and other items have remained in Mrs possession through the years KIu Klux Xian Thursday from any action which might increase racial tensions in the Mississippi River town 11 Demonstrators Dragged From Gub CRAWFORDVILLE Ga JP-State patrolmen and the Talia ferro county sheriff dragged 11 Negro demonstrators from the front steps of a private dining (Continued on Page Two) Guevara Off Cuban List HAVANA Cuba Communist party scrubbed former Industrial Minister Ernesto Che Guevara from the party hierarchy Saturday The Argentine-born guerrilla war expert was not Included in a 100-member Central Committee named by the National Directorate The committee will direct the party's activities throughout this island nation Prime Minister Fidel Castro will head the committee's two major an eight-member political bureau and six member secretariat Guevara disappeared early in the spring Castro in a speech Tuesday night said he would read in a few days document from Comrade Ernesto Guevara which explains his absence during these montha" The crowd in Revolutionary Plaza cheered the mention of name Castro scheduled a speech for Sunday night when he promised to tell what had happened to Guevara NATCHEZ Miss Police broke up a civil rights march Saturday arresting 271 demonstrators and holding them In the city auditorium The Negroes with a few whites sang as they sat in the auditorium awaiting the next legal move Police stood guard at the doors Officers said bond was set at $200 each for demonstrators charged with parading without a permit The bulk of the prisoners ranged In age from 9 to 18 with one 1-year-old accompanied by his mother 18 Arrested Earlier Sixteen Negroes were arrested earlier when they tried to set up a civil rights picket line As the night wore on relatives and friends stopped by to pass In extra clothing food or oft drinks The prisoners Included Charles Evers Jackson state field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People He led the inarch which moved scarcely half a block before being topped by police Police Chief Robinson said: going to ask you to disperse and go home" lime To Stand Evers replied: we turn round now we will turn around for yean to come 1 think now Is the time to stand and be counted whatever the price maybe" Robinson said: are in violation of a city ordinance I will have to arrest He said those arrested would be charged with parading without a permit not going to arrest you under the injunction" blocking demonstrations Chancellor Curtis Collins enjoined both the NAACP and the India Asks Single Border Control Unit Pope Admits Birth Control Tough Issue MILAN Italy Sunday Pope Paul VI was quoted Sunday as saying he could not remain silent on the birth control issue but that to speak out on It a real The pontiff was quoted in influential daily Cor-riere Della Sera in a report by Italian Journalist Alberto Cavallarl a member of the editorial staff Writing that he was received by Pope Paul in the pontiffs private library a few days before the scheduled trip to the United Nations Caval-lari said the Pope spoke of the need to answer many of the questions of today but that some were particularly difficult for him "Take the question of birth control for the Pope was quoted as saying "The (Continued on Page Two) AN AIR ABOUT THE PLACE Now Mrs Hlgley admits she is in financial difficulty and must sell the gun and papers there's no use In keeping the gun where nobody can see It" she said belongs in a collection or museum "But keeping the watch it's more The man behind this historical legacy Roosevelt himself became President in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley and left the office in 1909 He declined the Republican Party nomination for a third term urging the election of William Taft Cong Adding POW Issue To Conditions TOKYO The Viet Cong added the prisoners-of-war Issue Saturday to questions it refuses to discuss unless the United States meets Its conditions These conditions include recognition of the Viet political agency the National Liberation Front as the sole bargaining representative of the South Vietnamese people Radio Hanoi broadcast confirmation that the Communist-led guerrillas have rejected an appeal by the International Red Cross committee for permission to send observers to visit American and South Vietnamese prisoners held by the Viet Cong NLF Affiliate The statement was issued by the Red which Is affiliated with the National Liberation Front -The International Red Cross committee appealed to the warring owers In Viet Nam July 23 to respect the Red Cross conventions for the protection of prisoners and the civilian population The front la not a member but the all-Swiss humanitarian appeal was ad' droned to It as well as to the (Continued on Page Two) Today in TNT 124 PAGES IN 1 SECTIONS Page Beet Amusements 11D Business Summary IS Bldg Developments 14 Classified Section 1-18 Crossword Puzslo Magaaino Down the Hoed 19 Editorial Page 18 Farm Pago 18 Funerals 18 Letters to the Editor 19 Husie and Fine Arts IS Obituaries 17 Radio-TV Magazine Sports 18-18 Society and Clubs 1-18 Travel Fun Magazine Waterfront SR Emily Walker SB Wilson 18 min Sunday TNTs Hagarine and IS pages of eol Phew Pussycat? Skunks Wind Up Without a Scent Pakistani plane flew over Jamnagar another Pakistani plane flew over Gagga and Jhaman Pakistani troops shelled the Rajasthan armed constabulary post at Sarupka Tala they shelled Rohari village they fired on an Indian post near Klnra and they dug trenches west of Fazilka In New Delhi Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastrl said in an interview with United News of India that he expects hostilities with Pakistan to break out again by the way Pakistan is behaving after the cease-fire" Hotel Death Under Probe A 30-year-old Tacoman Bernard Geer has been booked by police for investigation of homicide following the death Saturday morning of Glenford Guy 48 of 1340 Pacific Ave Geer who lived next door to Guy in the Ace Hotel fold police that he had an altercation with Guy early Saturday morning Guy had been drinking and was making so much noise in his apartment that Geer could not sleep Geer said The altercation allegedly occurred the second time Geer asked Guy to quiet down Geer said that in the scuffle Guy was pushed against the comer of a dresser and foil to the floor Geer said he then went to his own apartment and went back to bed Found on Floor He told police that about two hours later as he was leaving for work he noticed door still open He looked In and saw Guy on the floor where he had fallen Geer said he went immedl atcly to the hotel day clerk Thomas Malone and reported the Incident Malone called the police Guy was pronounced (Continued on Page Two) UNITED NATIONS NY (JP) India was disclosed Saturday to have asked UN Secretary-General Thant to put single organization under a single command" in charge of supervision of the India-Pakl-tan cease-fire But Thant was going ahead with his plans to have the job handled by two the old UN military observer group in Kashmir and the new UN Indla-Pakistan observation minion outside Kashmir At the same time he was cutting back recruitment for the two groups Indian Ambassador Gopalas-wami Parthasarathl made request in a letter to Thant dated Thursday but not published until Saturday morning As One Whole He said the India-Pakistan operations the cease-fire that ended them and the supervision of the cease-fire "can only be treated as one He also said the security council which got the cease-fire last week Intended only one group to supervise It Thant told of staffing plans for the two observer groups In a written report to the security council dated Friday a day after the Indian but published the same day He said that because of a shortage of group transport and communications equipment he was building up the group in Kashmir only to 102 observers and the other only to 90 He had previously announced plans to take 111 and 102 respectively offered by governments Thant argued that he had to set the one group to act outside Kashmir because the other had no authority to do so Holding For Two Days Thant tohl reporters as he came Into work Saturdny cease-fire is holding for the past two But the Indian ambassador in a letter to Thant dated Friday complained that Pakistan had committed 28 cease-fire violations in recent days and listed six of them as having taken place Thursday He said that on Thursday a LBJ Lambasts Water Pollution Signs Bill Some people do battle with mosquitoes in their backyard others fight snakes but Mrs Lena McGonigle has conducted a running battle the past several yean at her North Puyallup home at 402 Valley Avc with skunks Apparently her home lies between two skunk hangouts for they often make an open place between a workshop next to her garage a skunkway Mrs McGonigle trapped five of them last year and recently trapped another small skunk who stepped into a box trap she made herself He was busy hauling straw underneath her garage in preparation for his winter's hibernation she said She has little trouble getting rkl of the skunks giving most of them away to people who make pets of them after having their most offensive feature removed She said her neighbors also receive frequent visits from the malodorous Why they pick on her neighborhood she know but adds she would never harm one since they do much good killing rodents and other vermin A high school science teacher has put in a standing offer for the next one she traps Mrs McGonigle said and America's waterways that belong to all the people as a Then addressing several hundred Congress members and federal officials who witnessed launched into some specifics: the bill-signing Johnson Is no excuse for a river flowing red with blood from slaughterhouses No Excuse "Thera Is no excuse for paper mills pouring tons of sulpherlo acid Into the lakes and streams a Is no excuse and we should call a spade a spade for chemical companies and refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste is no excuse for communities to use the people's (Continued oa rage Two) By FRANK COR3HE WASHINGTON JP President Johnson who usually says only kind things even about Republicans In his public speeches lambasted Saturday Industrial firms and cities that pollute rivers and lakes The occasion was a White House ceremony at which Johnson signed a new law strengthening the federal role in fighting water pollution He termed this measure a promising beginning but said bolder legislation will be needed in the yean Dumping Grounds Declaring the fresh waters that were our national heritage have become dumping grounds for garbage and Johnson said one has a right to use America's riven PENNED Mrs Lem HeGoolgle 482 Valley Ave Puyallup gives a baby skunk she trapped at her place recently a nibble of food She has trapped many of the striped animals who are attracted to her place for some unexplainable reason She gives them away as pets New owners of this one are Mr and Mrs Dale Vaadersheldt 11888 88tk Ave Newt Tribune photo by Wayne Zimmerman -t-tA III tmAUm AmU -i.

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