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I he il eather I Militili I air I HAI I TODAT Maximum Mi ut mum XCVIll No. 227 Get All the JSenn In TUv Freeman. Fending Ad Mediti CITY OF KINGSTON, MONDAY EVKNJNG, 14, FRICK TEN CENTS in ititi Kit MKI.K Many (ritieni iti i ted Craft Continues on Mystery Misson MOSCOW ill PI) An tin manned Soviet spacecraft sped toward the moon today on a mystery mission that will put it near the lunar surface the same day America's Afxillo 11 aeronauts blast off to land there. Immediate speculation was that the Soviets' Luna 15 mission was to scoop up a piece of the moon's surface and bring back to earth, or to snoop on the 1 attempt to put a man on the moon. The official Soviet news agency Tass announced the Luna launch Sunday and aid the mission was to "perlret onboard systems and further scientific exploration of the moon and near cele tial space." There were no details on such questions as to whether the vehicle would attempt to oft land on the moon: whether another ship, possibly manned, iwould join it in space for a rendezvous, or whether Luna 15 would return to earth.

Western critics accused the Soviets of trying to take of the impact from Apollo, But the head of the- American space program, Thomas P. Piiine, welcomed the (light, saying in a statement: "We hope the juxtaposition of two lunar missions in a lose time frame points ou. desirability of close cooperation in space between the Soviet Union and the United Stab Tass said Luna 15 blasted off Sunday into an orbit around tI earth, then fired its rockets again and headed for the moon. It will arrive there on Wednesday, the same tv as the Apollo liftoff. In Washington, a Slate partment spokesman said "We welcome this further xploration of wish them (the Russians) every success in effort to better understand the universe around him." Final Crucial Tesis For Moon achine CAPE KENNEDY fUPl) Engineers put America's Apollo Critics of the jet flight dot not reflect the attitude cooperation that has pervaded U.S.

and Soviet pace programs -inee the vr.it of astronaut Kr.rnk Borman to Russia last week. Kenneth Gatland, of the British Interplant: tarv Soc iety in London, said Luna 15 flight "does seem me hr a rather unnect experiment just before the Americans make their bid land man on the moon. "It serins that the Russians are very much behind the Americans in the attempt to get human beings actually on the moon, and it is rather that they should decide to launch a vehicle to the moon right at this Western space experts in Moscow said the best Soviets could hope for would be for Luna 15 to bring a piece of the moon before the Apollo 11 astronauts did. The Luna 15 launch also II manned moon landing raised the possibility that the machine into its crucial last sillP could be orbiting the two days of the countdown 010011 when the Apollo 11 today, undismayed by an apparent last ditch Soviet gam bit upM.tge them. Apollo It's pilots, Neil A Russia Luna 15 spacecraft Armstrong, Michael Collins and )fl wont In.ng back sod astronauts arrive and could monitor the A polio mission lor Soviet scientists.

Russia's Luna Edwin E. Aldrin. were final brush-up flight Slr Bcrnflrd according to oveil, director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. and, from all appearances, arel 0 reads ave earth a. he practice 111 spacecraft trainers a.m.

EDT Wednesday Spaceflight weathermen pre dieted satisfactory conditions for launch time and the unmanned Luna 15, said Sunday he expected the Soviets eventually would recover rocks with such unmanned spacecraft, but not before Apollo II Defense Department reported lands men on thc £rface. its globa force of 6.000 support unlikelv the Russiiins personnel was deploying on can do thjs bv thc lpstj of schedule. The aircraft carrier (systems in one exercise. It Hornet, set to recover the moon looks as if the Russians havc voyagers 24. is now bad trouble and their program steaming toward its 1 fallen about a vear behind Ocean splashdown station.

Lovell said The three astronauts, now in Loven said it was hard to the strict stages of a pre launch predict accurately Soviet space quarantine, plan to brief news exploration because of insuffi media tonight in a 30 minute cient information and press conference carried out rumors of attempts and faii via television between buildings on the part of the 20 miles apart. Wind Up Training crew for the Apollo 11 pose for photographers in front of their Saturn rocket which is to carry them to the moon for first landing in July. From left, Neil Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin Aldrin, lunar module pilot. (UPI TELEPHO I O) 15 Hours of Terror Ends in Capture Russians. critical piece of informa- They wound up their last full tion which is lacking is the day of training Saturday and weight of the device which took Sunday off and wentjcould indicate whether they flying.

They plan to rest some (have been successful in using a more Tuesday and make a finaljnevv rocket which they are review of preparations for their known to have been develop $350 million lunar landing he said, adventure. i a's mystery moon probe, launched Sunday, sped toward its target today on an undisclosed mission. U.S. au thorities speculated the robot would attempt to land on moon, scoop up some soil and fly back to an earth landing. belief would be that the Russians fully realize the impact of the space program on GIVING VENT massive Apollo 11 spacecraft and Saturn rocket, the vehicle that will hurl trio of astronauts toward the moon for an historic lunar landing, vents liquid oxygen from its second stage during recent Countdown Demonstration est, at Cape Kennedy.

(UPI TELEPHOTO) Some Startling Testimony At City Murder Hearing bail Circle Bar. where the of the body during an testified, Douglas admitted that autopsy showed the woman died after he strangled the woman of strangulation, which he said the minds of the world. By WALTER S. CLARK to the county jail without Launch Director Rocco A. KINGSTON pending grand jurv action NATCHITOCHES.

La. LAP); The three were James Marion port for a wound in the left said. them to Charged with the murder of As medical testimony was of- A daring man whose family Sumner. 28: Garry Robert Wil-jof the chest. started thc race in 1957.

Mrs. Theresa Carpino, 61, in her fered by Dr. Roberto Benitez as liams, 22: and Luther Pettitt. Sheriff Sam H. James said anf! find themselves today upper Broadway tavern, Jimmy to the cause of death of Mrs.

iie Put a lighted match to a pile was a competent and pioduung not fully in the race with us in Boston Douglas, 26-vear-old; Carpino. an outcry from a man of paper alongside her body. cause for her death. He also sat motionless at in the rear of the courtroom in Thc assistant prosecutor testi testified she suffered rib injuries Natchitocnes thpv'rp unine to tp after the woman was which could have been caused in was terrorized by three armed. escaped prisoners held two of them at bay and shot a third 29.

Houston. Tex. They es Sumner with their own submachine gun caped from the Gregg County charged in armed of our announced (moon welder, today sat motionless at in the rear of the courtroom in goal, going to a City Court hearing as star-jterrupted the session. ind tling testimony was entered into robberv of Mrs. do what they can to tryTestimony revealed that after stranded Douglas admitted a fall.

Sunday night to end an at Longview. early long chase by hundreds of po- Sunday with a deputy sheriff jesse Brossett. He said the '-capture the imagination of the the 'record about his alleged ad the woman was killed in thc Cir picking up a blue bank deposit Under examination. Vogt said and the jailer as hostages. 117 anH missions to the crime.

icle Restaurant and Bar. Douglas bag. which contained money. Douglas told authorities he The action capped more than Sumner and Williams were joeing men took anti snot-i Armstrong 38 year old civil Asst. Dist.

Attv. Francis Vogt to South Carolina where he checks and other records be threw the bank deposit bag in 15 hours of treedom for the trio, brought to the shells from the womans commander of Apollo a key witness for the told his parents he had killed a longing to Mrs Carpino and a wooded area near thc Kings and Aldrin, 39-year old Air prosecution. He testified about The FBI said federal charges'Force colonel, are scheduled to a statement the defendant made on the Sea of who had held and released 13 Pari. li jail early today. Pettitt home north of Natchitoches hostages in several parts of the was taken to the Confederate state.

Memorial Hospital in Shreve-i of kidnaping, interstate woman and was sorry. leaving the bar. Vogt said Doug- ton--RhineclitT Bridge, and police Vogt testified that after Doug las told investigators he went to and Vogt later recovered the prior to his arrest and disclosed las was picked up last week and the home of Alfonso Trammel hag which contained the checks that Douglas admitted that he informed of his right to counsel, on Foxhall Avenue where he made out to Mrs. Carpino. pm ation of stolen car and on jts sand like surface and the victim of the slaying the accused man replied.

emptied the contents of the bag Clinton Clinkscales. the only I I I 1 of the federal firearmsjearjv Mondav. argued before he grabbed her want to get it over with. 1 want on a table witness called bv Harry Hill 1 II I Ilf VV nr 11 urrc them Will Coilect Samples and pulled her into the kitchen to get it off Each Vogt testified that the del end defense counsel, testified he was at Longview. as they where she was strangled.

time Douglas said he didn't ant told him he gave the cash at Trammels home when he 'will collect up to 130 pounds of I After the 70 minute hearing want an attorney. Testifying in the hag to Trammel, because heard Greg rock and which five witnesses were about the statement made by he (Douglas) had money which telephone carefully photographing and for he People, and defendant. Vogt said Doug he received alter cashing three woman, describing some as thev put for the defendant. Judge Hubert I las told of visiting taverns and of his checks earlier them in their sample bags. (A.

Richter committed Douglas drinking before he went to the Dr. Benitez testified that ex he and Douglas Collins. 38 year old Air Force remained in Israelis Cl amp Curfew NABLUS, Occupied Jordan of Israeli troops moved into the biblical toixn of Nablus today and carried out the biggest systematic -earch for Arab saboteurs the occupied town has known. 1 he Israelis clamped a curfew on the Cash ah and a refugee camp, then rounded up about 5,000 Arab men for checking. I he checkup followed a rash of grenade bombings and firing by Arab saboteurs in the Nablus area, famed for its resistance to occupiers since Napoleonic times.

Tanker Slices Fishing Itotti NEW ORK (A I he oil tanker I ullahoma sliced the bow off an excursion fishing boat which sank four miles off the New Jersey coast Sunday, tossing persons into the Atlantic Ocean. I hr -oast Guard pulled 47 survivors aboard rescue vessels and searched the area for the rest of the day, hut failed to find John Hass, about 55, of Brooklyn. I be Coast Guard said the search would not resume. 5jC ODiry er Rapped NEW Paul who lost last years U. S.

Senate race to incumbent Republican Jacob K. Javits, says he will seek his nod again next year. told newsmen Saturday he will seek the seat of Sen. harles E. Goodcll, a Republican.

Less than 24 hours after his comment, however, Dwyer was accused of and bv an upstate Democratic official. Victor Baliou, chairman of the Cortland County Dent ocratic committee, challenged right to the party's nomination to the Senate. refusal to support Hubert H. Humphrey, the Democratic presidential candidate, proved the Reform Democrat was who has Demonats in the back too Btihou said. to have County.

The three led Texas Rangers. nolice, the FBI and deputy sheriffs of eight parishes (conn ties) on a chase through and central Louisiana. lieutenant colonel, will At one point. Gov. John Me "1 Keithcn us- orbit around moon while the latter say over thc that "we killed a explaining that he understood Trammel to mean the honped in his private to try to meet with them.

Rv phone, he talked them into his colleague to fly the lander landing and releasing five hostages jtakeotf. The manhunt ended about II Alter the countdown resumed n.m. at thc frame house of Leo 11 Iest Martin at Flatvvoods, in the Kis atchic National "Thev stormed the house." said a shaken Martin. 60. rammed a gun into my girl's back and came in." He said the escapees were dinner with him.

his wife period Sunday night, teehni ciatvs began the ticklish job of Dumping frigid liquid helium, liquid oxygen and liquid hydro gen into thc spacecraft's tanks This operation, said is probably one of the most crucial up to thc final nine "probabh the thing that could give us most difficulty I lie i I IlSHl(k and 16vmr old daughter countdown. He said Pettitt left the room at the nuirning long operation was sound of an anoroaching t'other momentarily put suhmaehine gun down. was my Martin said. "1 grabbed it up and held it on the other two and made them sit down on the floor. The tall one (Pettitt) came back in and as Im walked through the kitchen door, when I let him have it." said Martin.

"Them others saw I meant business and I didn't hove no more trouble out of them." But Martin's terrified wife picked up an automatic shotgun and "she went wild and filled kitchen full of holes," Mar tin said. Martin said he released Sum ner and Williams with their weaoons with the thev would not hurt his wife and daughter. The pair was cap lured a short time later Area Events -1 Bridge Classifieds 18 19 Comics 20 21 Crossw ord 20 Dear 0 Editorials. Columns 6 It's in the Stars Obituaries It Sports 16 17 Stock Market 10 Teen Forum 30 Theaters 15 TV. Radio Listings Weather Woman's Pages 14 15 HEAVE-HO Armv M.IVv arresi part ol a group ol anti war demonstrators calling themselves I he Arinv' (F.

I who Fori lewis, Wash. About 25 the group rowed about a mile across American 1 to the post, hill only went ashore to pass out criticai of the Army, I he attempi of the post was unsuccessful, and 7 inembers of in were arrcsted and rxpelled troni IO..