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Windy Cifv Edition Cloudy, windy and cool. Low, upper 40s; hifh, upper 60s. 1v9 lOu Year A Sun.Telfgraph Flrtt ewapaper Went of the Allcghcnlc In Three Sections FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1968 Reds Step Up Attacks Across South Vietnam (Wtetfttr Dtol( en Poft 91 VOL. 41 NO. 150 Miner holds blanket around himself Trapped 10 Days It rr II II.

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A spokesman for the London Fire TEN CENTS Record 562 GIs Killed as Foes Tight and Talk' U.S. Marinrs 3laul Enemy Unit in One Of Many Stiff Battles SAIGON, Friday, May 17 (Apt Marines killed 131 North Vietnamese regulars near South Vietnam's central coast and lost 26 dead, the U.S. Command reported today. The bloody battle reflected the enemy's apparent "fight and talk" strategy that took a record 562 American lives last week. 37 Marines Wounded The command said 37 Marines were wounded in the fighting 15 miles west of Hoi An.

a province capital about 370 miles northeast of Saigon. It was the heaviest of a series of sharp clashes reported around the country as the enemy appeared to be stepping up ground action to enhance North Vietnam's position at the Paris talks. The Hoi An action erupted yesterday afternoon when units of the 7th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, ran into 400 enemy. They called in jet strikes, artillery and gunship helicopters and contact broke off at nightfall, the command said. To the south, waves of B52 bombers struck south of Saigon before dawn today in two of the war's closest raids to the capital.

Thunderous explosions shook buildings and awakened sleepers in the city. The strikes were against Viet Cong bunkers and troop concentrations 15 and 17 miles from Saigon. The big bombers came closest to the city last February, hitting only 10.5 miles away. Missile Site Destroyed Another B52 raid early today hit at suspected Viet Cong positions near Can Tho, 80 miles southwest of Saigon in a rare attack in the rice-growing flatlands of the Mekong Delta. Over North Vietnam.

U.S. pilots from the carrier Kitty Hawk reported destroying a missile site one mile north of Vinh and other Navy pilots said they saw two missiles explode and three large fires erupt in an attack 27 miles northwest of Vinh, 10 miles below the 19th Parallel. (Cont'd on Page 7, Column 1) 1 Killed, 3 Hurt In Cooler Crash INDIO, May 16 fAP) One Marine was killed but 15 others survived the flaming crash of a Marine helicopter yesterday on the south slope of El Toro Peak in the Santa Rosa Mountains. The helicopter, from the Marine Air Facility at Santa Ana, crashed at the level of the 8.700-foot peak, located about 40 miles southwest of here. Three Marines were injured and taken to Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego and Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, a Marine spokesman said.

All names were withheld pending notification of next of kin. iir I on Buvs Ban hie For Yon Know Who NEW YORK, May 16 (AP)-Actor Richard Burton bought a bauble for his actress wife Elizabeth Taylor today a 33.19 carat diamond that, cost $305,000, an auction house said. The gift, "a surprise," according to a Burton spokesman, was picked up at auction at the Parke-Bernet Galleries on Madison Avenue by an agent for Burton. The Burtons are in Rome working on two separate pictures. Lung Transplanted, Patient Doing Well EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 16 (AP) A lung transplant operation was performed here yesterday and the patient was described as in satisfactory condition today.

At least, two lung transplant operations have been conducted before, both in the United States, one in Pittsburgh. Both patients died shortly after the operations. State Draft Call Tor June Reduced HARRISBURG May 16 (AP)-The Pennsylvania draft call for June has i re need by approximately 470, in line with a nationwide cutback, the Stale Selective Service office reported today. The service said the Pennsylvania call for June would be 985, rather than the iriinal 1.4.i3. The nationwide call was trimmed from 29.500 to 20.000.

Paris Parley to Resume Tomorrow Hanoi Chills Optimism, Says Talks Tar Apart' Illness, Fatigue Plague Poor Stopping Here Half of 800 Treated For Variety of Ailments; 2-Day Delay Seen Good Bv VINCE GAGETTA Po5t-Goz1t Slaff Writer Some 800 members of the Poor People's Campaign are laying over in Pittsburgh until Saturday, and for half of them, it's a good thing. They're ill. Dr. James A. Stewart, staff physician at Mercy Hospital, reported that at least 400 of the travelers had been treated for ailments.

Variety of Ailments He said most of them were suffering from respiratory ills, dysentery, indigestion and "just plain fatigue." The 800, who arrived here late Wednesday night, expected to leave by chartered buses early yesterday but word from Washington slopped them. There are no accommodations in the capital. The Rev. A. D.

King, brother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, and a See Hungcrford's cartoon, "Marching on Washington," Page 10. D.C. shelter lag halts caravan, Page 14. Marchers "want to make better world" story and pictures on Page 1, Daily Magazine.

leader of the Midwest group, assembled here at the Civic Arena, explained: "We amassed a larger group than We anticipated from the Midwest and the accommodations in Washington are not as yet ready for us. So we have requested the Pittsburgh campaign leaders to arrange for us to stay over here until Saturday." Conditions 'Far From Ideal' The Post-Gazette Washington Bureau reported last night that it was raining heavily there and that conditions in "Resurrection City," as the poor peoples shanty settlement there has been named, "are far from ideal." The local group got right to work making the necessary arrangements to house and feed the contingent for two more nights. Thomas McGarrity, in charge of housing and transportation for the local campaign, immediately contacted the organizations and churches that housed the (Cont'd on Page 14, Column 3) Sonic Boom Ban Bill Advances WASHINGTON, May 16 (AP)-The House Commerce Committee today approved a bill designed to control the noise levels from aircraft and sonic booms. By a voice vote, the committee agreed on provisions to empower the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe standards for measuring aircraft noise and sonic booms and to draw up regulations for their control. The FAA has no comparable authority at this time.

The bill provides that the FAA administrator should consult with the secretary of transportation prior to final action. Most major metropolitan areas are faced with a problem from aircraft noise which this Administration-backed bill is designed to control. Fired-Up Bucs Burn Cards, 3-0 The Pirates last night were hotter than their bat fire of the night before as they burned the St. Louis Cards, 3-0, for their first win of the campaign over the National League champions at Forbes Field. A triple by Roberto Clemente in the third inning scored Matty Alou and Maury Wills to end a scoreless drought of 27 innings.

Clemente completed the scoring when he romped home on Willie Stargell's single. Bob Veale fanned 13 in gaining his second win as against three defeats. He scattered eight hits. (Details in Sports Section) Worker's Rivet Gun Kills Woman in Mill SAN JUAN, P. May 16 (AP)-A rivet fired from a telephone installer's rivet pierced a wall at a watch factory here yesterday and struck factory worker Carmen Charries in the head, police reported.

She died en route to a hospital. HOMINY FALLS, W. May 16 (AP) Six coal miners returned from "10 days of living death" today when untiring rescue teams reached them in a deep pocket of a flooded West Virginia mine. The men presumed dead and without food for the last six days reached the surface at 4 a. about 233 hours after they entered the mine on May 6.

Ambulances rushed them to a nearby Richwood hospital where, almost incredibly, all were termed "in good shape." "It was a one in a million chance that they would somehow get to an air pocket and survive," said mine official H. E. Sundstrom. Four Bodies Removed The bodies of four other men pinned with the six two miles from the mine's entrance were brought out about four hours later. They apparently drowned when the water from an adjoining mine poured in through a wall breach and trapped the 25 workers.

Another 15 miners, isolated closer to the mine's entrance, were rescued in the pre-dawn hours last Saturday. "Thank you, God," shouted Larry Lynch, the first miner to reach the mine entrance in the pre-dawn hours. "You Boy, 15, Killed In Coaster Fall A 15-year-old Greensburg boy died here yesterday after a fall from a roller coaster while on a high school picnic at Kennywood Park. David Setmire, a sophomore at Hemp-field High School and son of Mr. and Mrs.

Glenn M. Setmire, of 710 Santone Drive, fell at about 11:30 a.m. from a slope about 10 feet high on The Thunderbolt, the park's largest roller coaster. West Mifflin police, called by park officials, took the youth to Braddock General Hospital where he died a few hours later of multiple injuries, without regaining consciousness. In addition to his parents, David is survived by a younger brother and sister.

Park officials were still investigating the cause of the fatal accident, the first in 25 years in the park. That fatality also resulted from a fall from a roller coaster. -Assocloted Press Wlrtohoto after he and 5 others were rescued. have delivered us from this living death ti Lynch refused to climb into a waiting ambulance until all six men came out of the pit. "I made a vow all six of us would be out here together to thank the Lord," he told a wildly excited throng of res- (Cont'd on Page 6, Column 4) French Workers Follow Studcnls, Seize Factories PARIS, May 16 (AP)-Workers, following the lead of France's rebellious students, took control of at least six French factories today, welding themselves shut in one.

Across the nation, a wave of social disorder was shaking the calm, prosperous face France shows to tine world. In a nationwide broadcast Premier George Pompidou appealed desperately for order, saying agitators are trying to destroy "the very basis of our civilization." He said he spoke after a telephone conversation with President Charles de Gaulle, who is on a state visit in Romania. Pompidou had told students earlier tonight that he recognized their legitimate demands for university reforms, but that the government would not "tolerate the disruption of republican order." As he spoke, about 1 .000 undergraduates marched from Paris' Latin Quarter to one of the struck plants In the capital's industrial belt and said they would sit in with the workers. In developments today, the 2.500 workers at the nationalized Sud-Aviation factory at Nantes who occupied the plant two days ago and locked up the director in their fight against a longer work week, welded factory gates shut to keep police out. Nationalized Renault auto plants at Rouen, Le Havre, Le Mans and Flins just outside Paris began sit-down strikes.

Entrances and exits were barred at Flins, where the red flag flew. Strikers' demands range from pay (Cont'd on Page 7, Column 1) "How'rt the peace talks going?" lifts llVi By WILLIAM L. RYAV Associated Press Sneciol Corresocndenf PARIS, May 16 American representatives clung to hope today that preliminary talks can bring a break in the Vietnam war, but the North Vietnamese chilled the atmosphere by insisting the two delegations' positions remained "very far apart." The talks are snagged on apparently formidable issues. Although the chief U.S. negotiator, W.

Averell Harriman, claimed there were distinct areas of agreement, a North Vietnamese spokesman said that was "only a matter of words, and not of substance." Hanoi Cites 1954 Talks Harriman, said Nguyen Van Sao, a North Vietnamese press officer, "is only putting up a smokescreen to camouflage the real situation." "Our main impression after two days of discussion is that the United States is trying to avoid the most important question: The cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam," Sao added. "He is trying to divert the discussion to other points, such as the Geneva accords of 1954." The U.S. delegation is pictured as Blairsville Residents -AssoduterJ Press Wlreoholo Brigade said rooms in apartments from the top to the bottom of the building had collapsed. Three are dead, a woman is missing and 11 persons were injured. This fall of debris was started by fire, men on top of the building who loosened sections made insecure by the explosion.

considering such statements mostly propaganda for the consumption of world opinion, and says it is extremely anxious to get down to serious work in closed sessions. This would mean an end to exchanges of charges and counter-charges and the daily issuance of statements. "We would be happy to get away from the presentation of statements as soon as possible," said William J. Jor-(Cont'd on Page 7, Column 1) Eisenhower Shows Progress WASHINGTON, May 16 (API-Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, recovering from a recent mild heart attack, has progressed to the point of "sitting up in a chair for 2'2 hours daily, and is tolerating this well," Walter Reed Army Hospital reported today.

The 77-year-old general "had another comfortable day and night" a medical bulletin said. Eisenhower entered Walter Reed Tuesday after a transcontinental shift of hospitals. Previously he had been hospitalized at March Air Force Base, following his April 29 attack, Shocked here for years," said one stunned resident. "He was general chairman of a fund drive for $100,000 for industrial improvements in 1962." Barr, father of two grown children, chatted with McNaugher during his hc'iv he was obviously disturbed with being there. He made no reference to the charges, technically "making a false entry in bank books to conceal a shortage." The Federal Bureau of Investigation, called in only on Wednesday, had picked him up at his rather new, modest, one-story home at 445 S.

Spring St. in Blairsville. MrNaugher released Barr on his own recognizance and he was driven to his home by the president, of the bank, Dr. William R. Benz, and another friend.

Retired Banker Held In $78,000 Shortage What Else Is Netvs Today? Tornado onslaught kills 70 Page 2 House delays action on tax compromise bill Page 2 Gobi price hits high of $11.75 Page 2 Barr urges poll of convention delegates Page 2 Presbyterians recite new prayer for poor Page 20 State limits Weiss' judgeship 1, Sect. 2 About six weeks ago Ralph Wallace Barr, vice president and cashier of the Blairsville National Bank, retired from his long-tune job. He had reached 65. Yesterday Barr stood before Alex S. a gher, U.S.

commissioner in Pittsburgh, and heard himself charged with concealing a shortage of $78,000 at the bank. It was quite a shock to residents of the Indiana Mr. Barr County town of less than 5,000, a few miles west of Johnstown. "Barr has been active in civic affairs Parents Ask 18 Radio-TV 35 Sports 22 to 25 Theaters 15, 16, 17 Want Ads 30, 31 Weather 9 Women's News 18, 19 POST-GAZETTE PHONE NUMBERS Home 263-1311 Want Ads 263-1201 Other Depts 263-1100 Astrology 31 Bridge by Goren 34 Harold V. Cohen 15 Comics 34 Deaths 30 Editorials 10 Financial 26 to 29 Health 18 Ann Landers 19 Marriages 8 Moneygram 20 Obituaries 4 'A.