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5 8 07' PUBLICATION Carbondalt OFFICE 227 W. Main Sonthera Unofeaim Successor tot Carbondal Frt Prtjt, Mtrrln Oally Journal, MurofyDoro inatpnani 212 N. 16th 1117 Walnut 2 Sections A-H 6 Carbcndale-Herrin Murphysboro First time in war i Csnnioin(Biy Am es nccn pian Giefairfie 0 coo I X' A fr-i: 'Or i I I i v--v. 1 i III i i i fXT" A v'v-, 'X A I i APRIL 24, 1967 General says protests hurt war effort New York (AP) Gen. William C.

Westmore land warned today that antiwar protests in the United States "inevitably will cost lives" by encouraging a battered Commu nist enemy to push his aggression in Vietnam. "The magnificent men and women I command in Vietnam have earned the unified support of the American people," West moreland said. The four-star general gave his warning and unity appeal in a speech prepared for The As sociated Press annual meeting. The AP members met at the Waldorf Astoria in the same city where opponents of U. S.

involvement in Vietnam staged a massive demonstration nine days ago. Reviewing progress of the war, Westmoreland said military picture is favorable," but the enemy still is full of fight despite "staggering combat losses." "The end is not in sight," said the Army general who leads 439,000 American soldiers, Marines, Air Force men and sailors in Vietnam. "I foresee, in the months ahead, some of the bitterest fighting of the war." Sens. Charles H. Percy, and Harry F.

Byrd, both called at the AP meeting for more combat troops in Vietnam from other Asian nations. But while Byrd, a strong supporter of President Johnson's Vietnam policies, asked for increased bombing of the North, Percy, a critic of present policies, said previous escalation hardened the enemy's will to resist, increased casualties and alienated world opinion. It was evident that Westmoreland is concerned that antiwar protests have given the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong enemy "hope that he can win politically that which he cannot accomplish militariy." Associates said this was the main point Westmoreland sought to get across to the American people. Westmoreland's speech said about any need for additional U.S. forces in Vietnam.

The current buildup goal calls for about 470,000 American troops in Vietnam by the end of this year, but Westmoreland is reported to want another 100,000. He will meet with President Johnson in Washington later this week, and is expected to urge further reinforcement. Herrin Murphysboro Volume 75 41 10c a Copy wh Moscow says ropes twisted during landing Moscow (AP) Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov plummeted to death from a height of more than four miles when his spacecraft Soyuz 1 tried to land today, the government announced. It was the first time either of the two space powers has reported the death of an astronaut on an operation. Moscow radio said ropes of the parachute meant to ease the landing twisted, and the ship hit with great force, killing the 40-ycar-old veteran cosmonaut.

Tass news agency said the spaceship had passed safely through the most difficult braking stretch in the dense layer of the atmosphere. "However, when the main cupola of the parachute opened at an altitude of seven kilometer'- 4.3 miles the straps of the parachute, according to preliminary reports, got twisted and the spaceship descended at a great speed which resulted in Komarov's death," Tass added. Komarov, 40, on his second space venture, rode Soyuz into orbit Sunday amid speculation' another wrould be sent up for! an attempt to rendezvous. I The first firm intimation that something might have gone wrong came when the government newspaper Izvestia delayed its Monday evening edition without explanation. The official announcement said Komarov had completed all missions successfully before the accident, Buried in Red Square He will be given a hero's burial in Red Square.

Komarov's death raised speculation whether the Soviet race to the moon with the United States would be hampered. The fiery death of three U.S. astronauts in an Apollo space capsule on the launching pad of Cape Kennedy Jan. 27 has set back the American program. The veteran Komarov, a colo nel, was the pilot of the Vosk-hod 1, the first three-man spacecraft to go aloft in Octo ber 1964.

He was the first Rus sian to go into space twice. During a television broadcast the screen was occupied by a portrait trimmed in black of the cosmonaut in uniform. This was the same photo graph which without the black trim was carried in special editions of Soviet Newspapers Sunday when the Soyuz flight was hailed as a triumph. Soviet news media said the cosmonaut died today but did not give the exact time of the accident nor where this had taken place. It had been predicted in un- Eclipse seen from Moon Pasndcna, Calif.

(AP) Sitting in the cold shadow of an eclipse, Surveyor 3 turned its camera from the moon toward the earth today and sent pictures resembling a bright diamond ring. It was the first eclipse photographed by an American craft on the moon. Spokesmen at the jet propul sion laboratory reported the ro bot explorer's camera working well as the earth lined up be tween the sun and the moon The earth's quarter-million mile shadow dropped the lunar tern pcrature from 200 degrees F. to about 155 degrees below zero scientists said. Scientists did not explain why the thin circle of light created by the earth's disc was brighter at one point to give it the appearance of a ring with a mounted stone.

Some photographs of eclipses taken from the earth have a similar ap- MONDAY, U.S. urges cooperative space effort Washington (AP) In the light of the second space tragedy in three months, the United States issued strong appeal today for truly cooperative efforts in manned exploration to the moon and be yond. James E. Webb, administra tor of the National Aeronautics and space Administration, coupled an expression of sor row at the death of Soviet Cos monaut Vladimir Komarov with a call for U.S.-USSR space cooperation "on a realistic basis." Webb emphasized, in a form al statement, that President Johnson is ready to act on cooperative basis, especially in view of the possibility that co operation might have averted the Soviet space accident today or the one last Jan. 27 which three U.S.

astronauts died in a spacecraft fire on the ground. Informed sources here said Soviet scientists apparently made several attempts to bring the Soyuz 1 spacecraft back to earth before it crashed and killed its pilot. Webb's statement said, "All of us who have faced the difficulties of understanding and putting to use the' forces of nature at the outer edge of man's knowledge of what is possible in this decade, deeply regret the loss of life represented by the death of cosmonaut Komarov and extend our sincere sympathy to his family and associates. "We feel certain that man will achieve great things in space. Some of these will determine what man will be able to do on earth.

"We also feel that at this dawn of the space age, man has the duty to seek cooperation between nations such as the USSR and the United States on a realistic basis. We at NASA want to make eveiy realistic effort. "I very much hope that the dramatic events which have already occurred in 1967 will be looked at against the back ground of the many statements made by the leaders of both nations, to the effect that cooper ation is something both nations should seek. 'I know that President John son is ready to match his ac tions with his strongly expressed desire for more effective cooperation." Webb and other officials had nothing to say as to the cause or background of the Soviet accident. "They seemed to be having difficulty all the way along that mission," said one official, who declined the use of his name.

"Apparently they tried sever al times to bring the craft down earlier, but were unable to do so." The officials declined to say whether intercepted messages or tracking data provided the information. Court rejects Clay's plea Washington (AP) The Supreme Court rejected today all efforts by heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay to block his scheduled induction and to challenge the Selective Service System. The court wiped its slate clean by (1) refusing to block the induction, scheduled for Friday at Houston; (2) refusing to hear the champion's claim that lower federal courts should have convened a special judicial panel to hear his attack on the Selective Service System. Clay claims the system discriminates against Negroes. No comment was given by the I court in rejecting his legal ef forts.

Ib as Pagej Vladimir Komarov mittee, the Presidium and the Council of Ministers "have expressed deep condolences to the family of the deceased." He and his wife had two children, a 15-year-old son and a 9-year-old daughter. Mrs. Komarov said earlier her husband had not told her where he was going when 'he left for his last space flight. said she was told about the launching by another cosmonaut, Pavel Popovich, who called from the space center. After announcing earlier in the day that the new spaceship was functioning normally and that Komarov felt well, Tass news agency made no further disclosures.

Soviet newscasts also were silent on the new space venture. Speculation began immediately that something had happened to prevent the reported plans from being carried out. if necessary." Police Chief Richard R. Wagner proposed that city firemen be armed with shotguns against the barrages of rocks and bottles that greet them at frequently set fires in the ghetto. John N.

McCormick, a for mer agent ot the federal Bureau of Investigation who is Cleveland's director of safety, appeared on television to a that he expected charges of po lice brutality in the campaign and to declare, "I don't care." Councilman Anthony J. Garo- foli, whose ward includes Mur ray an Italian section near Hough Avenue, declared that his white constituents "a ready to take action them selves." And Leo Jackson, one of 10 Negroes on Cleveland's 33-member city council, plead ed with Mayor Locher to sum mon the National uuard now. Locher replied that there was no emergency. But many Cleveland officials believe the city is headed for an early repetition of the Housh district riots last July, in which lour persons aiea. Many support the anticrime campaign but say it is too late.

Bertram E. Gardner, a Ne gro former official of the Young n's Christian Association who heads the Cleveland Community Relations Board, said in an interview that he was advising Negro groups to "forget this police brutality business, and if the cops have to use little force, look up at the stars, look away." ir Russian 'cosmonaut confirmed reports that the Soyuz 1 flight would last up to a week. The death announce ments indicated it was meant to end today and everything went all right until the last moments. There had been speculation that a linkup of Komarov with second spaceship would be a step toward an orbiting space platform" that eventually would be used to rocket a manned capsule to the moon. Komarov was awarded post humously the title of hero of the Soviet Union with gold star, his country's highest award.

The announcement said a sta- ue in his honor will be erected. Russia Mourns After approximately 10-min- ute broadcasts, the radio play ed mournful music and the television screen show-ed the So viet space monument and flag. Tass said the Central Com- i. Advocates, of an intensified war against the North Vietnamese have long advocated attacking the MIG fields around Hanoi, contending while the number of U.S. planes lost to MIGs has not been high, their presence has often rcdiccd the efficiency of American attacks.

Strategists who opposed at tacking the fields argued that the effect would merely be to drive them north of the Chinese border to fields in Red China, and the result might be a clash between U.S. and Chinese forces if attacking Red planes were pursued north of the border. Percy Critical Of Airfield Bombing New York (AP) Sen. Charles H. Percy, R- 111., told an informal news conference today that the bombing of the MIG airfields in North Vietnam represents a change in Administration policy and an escalation of the war.

Percy, who has criticized President Johnson's course said that only last week the State Department and the Defense Department had assured i the policy was not to bomb these airfields. "This indicates to me that a U.S. senator simply can't get the information that he seeks from the executive department," Percy said. "This is one step nearer to involving Red China in the conflict." New lockout in Chicago Chicago (AP) More than 45,000 Chicago area truck drivers were locked out today, threatening a crippling tieup in the city. It was the second general lockout in Chicago in two weeks and a layoff of thousands of fac tory and store employes was feared if it continues for more than a day or two.

Officials of five trucking as sociations representing more than 2,000 operators closed down at 12:01 a.m. in response to strikes against 10 firms by Teamsters Union Local 705. The action affects trucking operations in a 50-mile radius of Chicago's Loop. Truck operators said the lockout was in retaliation for a Teamsters Union strike against 10 Chicago area companies. Teamsters Voting Against Contract Washington CAP) Early fragmentary returns from Teamsters Union votine were running nearly 2 to 1 today against a proposed national contract that followed a nation wide trucking shutdown two weeks ago.

An Associated Press survey showed a vote of 24,826 to 12,830 against the contract, with about 8 per cent of the vote from 450,000 Teamsters counted. "The vote is going very poorly," said a spokesman for Trucking Employers which negotiated the contract with the union after a three-day lockout that followed a rash of Teamsters strikes. Congress May Act Against Rail Strike Washington (AP) Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, and Jacob K.

Javits said today Congress may be forced to block a nationwide railroad strike threatened for May 3. id extended to Kiesinger Bonn, Germany (AP) President Johnson today ex pressed America's sorrow at the death of former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and invited Chancellor Kurt Gcorg Kiesinger to visit him at Christmas or any other time. The President told reporters afterward that he and Kiesinger had reviewed recent contacts between American and West German officials, including Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's recent trip, stn II ment of Vietnamese into the field, plus supporting armor, I artillery and aviation battalions. The object of the large move is to sweep through supply ar eas reportedly by lo gistics companies of the Viet Cong 9th Division that was hit badly during the recent Operation Junction City deeper in War Zone C.

The new escalation in the air war came after a week of unusually heavy MIG activity in which U.S. fliers claimed to have shot down two of the Communist jets and said they probably got five others. The loss of one U.S. plane to MIGs also was reported. Bill curbs gun owners By John Zakarian Lindsay-Schaub News Service Springfield A GI returning from Vietnam may wind up being prevented from owning a gun in Illinois, under bills introduced bj the Senate GOP leadership today.

Tiie latest version of proposed firearms control in Illinois would "regulate the individual, not the weapon," according to Senate Majority Leader W. Russell Arrington. All persons owning weapons would be required to register with the state department of public safety. Once a "permit card" has been issued, the person can acquire an unlimited number of firearms. Increasing cloudiness and cool tonight with low around 40.

Tuesday mostly cloudy and a little warmer with scattered showers spreading over area by evening, high in lower 60s. Weather details, map, pg. 14 INSIDE Classified 11-13 Comics, TV, Bridge, Crossword 15 Editorials 4 Family Living 6-7 Farm 5 ing Friday's tornadoes. Story, pg. 14.

(AP Wirephoto) Cool Saigon (AP) U. S. Air Force and Navy planes made their first attack of the Vietnam war today on MIG jet airfields in North Viet nam, while some 20,000 u. b. ar.d South Vietnamese troops made a massive assault on three Communist jungle strongholds in War Zone C.

A U. S. command spokesman said U.S. Air Force F4C Phantoms hit one North Vietnamese airfield at Hoa Lac, 19 miles west of Hanoi, while Navy A4s and A6s hit a second jet field at Kep, 37 miles northeast of Hanoi. Pilots reported both missions were successful, U.S.

headquarters said, but there was no report of the damage. Elsewhere in the ground war, U.S. Marines and Army infantrymen clashed repeatedly with scattered enemy forces in South Vietnam's threatened northern provinces. The U. S.

command reported a total of 91 enemy dead. In the Communist Zone north of Saigon, helicopter- borne troops fanned out through the bomb scarred, defoliated countryside behind thick smokescreens laid by other helicopters. As the advancing ground troops uncovered supply caches and stubborn guerrillas, heavy tanks of three armored squadrons crashed wide lanes in the jungle and mowed down clearings for future helicopter assaults. The operation, named Manhattan, put about four brigades of American troops and a regi Athens (AP) The new junta announced today the establishment of military courts in Greece to try all crimes and said this was by royal decree. But King Constan-tine was reported resisting pressure to give the military rulers his public approval.

With still no direct announcement of any kind from Constan-tine since the military seized power last Friday and took prisoners, the government announced the court martial measure over the radio. made his tour Sunday and talked to city officials and some home owners whose dwellings were destroyed dur Greek courts under Army What will be reaction? Cleveland plans crackdown on its Negro street gangs 4- jr fy r' 4 3 I i I I-. 1 1 A j-v. 1 -i ri I -t i i 1' I 'Li 1 I v- if. i v- -J I 7 X- 4 J.

'3' 4 i if; (X-'- 4 i 1 i i 1 t- Hi 'j '( vv A By Ben A. Franklin (c) 1967 New York Times Cleveland This prosperous northern Ohio industrial city has decided to put down its Negro street gangs the young vandals, arsonists and looters whose repeated acts of senseless rage have left few persons here opposed to coun- termeasures. Community" leaders, including many Negroes, say they believe a crackdown is overdue. Cleveland's Negroes, many of whom appear to know little of the gang crisis here except that they are often its victims, are being asked to support a program frankly designed to sup press unruly Negro youths, and most observers believe their reaction will be crucial. As City Councilman Jack A.

Banko put it at a "get tough" meeting of city leaders last week, "if the oolice have to break a few skulls, what will be the reaction of the people in this (Nesro ghetto) area?" "Riots?" he asked "or will they rise to the occasion and suDDort the rolice? let's find out." There has been no open test of militance on either side since the city's antigang campaign was announced last weeK, nut the words sound tough for a northern community. To stop the gang crime in the ghetto, Mayor Ralph S. Locher, a Democrat who is expected to seek re-election next fall, or dered the police last Tuesday to "fill every jail in Cleveland, fctf r-" irr''i -r- 1 n-innMwiiM. inr i Snow falls in disaster area Snow falls around Sen. Charles Percy, as he tours Belvidere's tornado-devastated area.

Percy.