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DECATUR HOLIDAY EDITION Combined Paper with Features Of The Herald and the Review Vol. 32No. 3 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1972 2 Sections 15 CENTS 1 mat isptt 1P Judge Says Must Rule Convention on Primary tending lawyers before giving Former Capital Shelled North Vietnam Troops Attack Hue's Defenses Warrant Expected For Hunt MmrnmMmmm Club-Wielding Protestants Back Down Belfast (AP) Seven thousand club-wielding Protestant militants bent on sealing off one of their Belfast strongholds backed down Monday night before a massive display of British military muscle. The Protestants barricaded off three other areas earlier in the day, but the British drew the line when the masked army advanced on the fourth. Gen.

Robert Ford, commander of British forces in Northern Ireland, said, "We have now pulled back from the precipice," when Protestant ranks armed with cudgels and iron bars gave way in the tense confrontation. Vietnamese killed and government losses of one dead and four wounded. The North Vietnamese have been pounding bases along Hue's western defenses since government forces started their drive north last week to recapture Quang Tri Province. The northernmost province fell to the enemy May 1. At the start of the push there was concern the enemy would attempt to outflank government forces and attack Hue from the west and southwest.

But the western defenses have held fast so far against heavy shelling and occasional ground i 1 i i 'sj-rri-' (c) New York Times Exclusive Washington Government officials expect a warrant to be issued by Wednesday for the arrest of E. Howard Hunt as a material witness in connection with last month's raid on the Democratic National Committee. Despite what one government official called "the most intensive application of resources" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hunt has not been located. Government sources have reported that FBI agents had twice sought to interview Hunt, but that he had declined to answer their questions. Hunt, a former official of the Central Intelligence Agency, was reliably reported to have fled to Europe and possibly to be in Spain.

According to government officials, when the FBI interviewed Hunt, it was "early in the game" and they did not realize the importance of the information the Justice Department now believes he may have to offer. The acting director of the FBI, L. Patrick Gray, declined in a telephone interview to comment on the progress of the bureau'? investigation of the June 17 break-in at the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate office building. He said, however, that the bureau's investigation was being conducted on "a 24-hour basis and that it was being treated as "a major special case." Colson recommended Hunt. who retired from the CIA in 1970, as a part-time consultant for the White House in 1971.

Mrs. Hunt Says Reports Are 'Perfectly Ridiculous' Washington (AP) The wife of E. Howard Hunt, a missing mystery figure in the Democratic headquarters break-in case, Monday described as "perfectly ridiculous" reports he has fled to Europe. But Dorothy Hunt refused to say anything further about her husband. Mrs.

Hunt, reached at her suburban Maryland home by telephone, was asked about the report and replied: "I think it's perfectly ridiculous." Asked if Hunt were in the United States, she said: "I have nothing to say except I think it's perfectly ridiculous what all the newspapers have had to say about this whole thing." Meanwhile, officials at the Spanish Embassy in Washington confirmed reports that they had dismissed Mrs. Hunt from longstanding, part-time job as an interpreter at the embassy due to the touchy political nature of the break-in case and her husband's reported Saigon (AP) North Vietnamese troops continued to shell Hue and attacked the city's northwestern defenses on Monday as South Vietnamese marines and paratroopers pressed North toward the enemy-held city of Quang Tri. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the northern front that enemy forces appeared to be falling back from the government counteroffensive and were attempting to flee in small groups to avoid intensive allied air strikes. North Vietnamese artillerymen blasted Hue for the second straight day and more than 30 122mm artillery shells crashed into the former imperial capital. A military spokesman said one boy was wounded and four houses were damaged in the daylight attacks.

At least 101 shells have hit the city during the two-day barrage. Most were directed at the Citadel, which serves as the military command post for the northern region. Twelve persons were reported killed in Sunday's attack, the first shelling of the city since the enemy offensive began March 30. Enemy gunners pounded a base camp Monday on the northwestern approach to Hue with 130mm artillery and mortar fire, a communique said. They followed with a ground attack that was repulsed with five Good Morning Average farm prices rose 1.5 per cent in June, setting an over-all index record.

The "parity ratio" was unchanged at 73 per cent. PAGE 20. Central Illinois A preliminary hearing for the accused kidnaper of Dottie Kay Kavanaugh was postponed Monday when a crowd gathering outside the Lawrence County Courthouse threatened security. PAGE 17. Decatur July 26 has been set as the date for the sale of $8 million in water revenue bonds to finance the city's new water treatment plant.

PAGE 3. Weather Central Illinois Partly cloudy today, chance of thunderstorms, highs 77 to 82. Fair and cool tonight, with lows 56 to 60. Mostly sunny -and mild Wednesday, highs 79 to 83. Chances of rain are 40 per cent today and 20 per cent tonight.

Index The British military display before irregulars of the Ulster Defense Association was one of the strongest in some time in the violence-torn six counties of Northern Ireland. Several hundred fully armed soldiers were involved, supported by armored troop carriers, armored cars, jeeps and heavy trucks. The confrontation lasted four hours. With the contenders lined up within yards of each other, if threatened to develop into a major battle. The immediate issue was the determination of Protestant militants to build a steel barricade across Ainsworth Avenue in West Belfast and extend the "no-go" areas they have been steadily building in the capital.

The army denied permission on the grounds the barrier would cut off a Roman Catholic enclave of about 20 families. Passengers Won't Pay Washington (AP) Newly devised taxes on air passengers went into effect over the weekend at five airports, but thousands of travelers refused to pay the new fees. The collection of the new municipal head taxes, and the requirement that hold-out passengers fill out refusal forms, resulted in massive delays at the major airport involved, Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love has imposed the stiffest charge of any yet levied or proposed $2 per person for all air travelers arriving at the airport as well as for all of those departing. There was less difficulty initially at the other airports with lighter traffic and with a more modest $1 fee for departing passengers only: Richmond, Sarasota-Bradenton, Huntsville, and Tri-City Airport at Saginaw, Mich.

Washington (AP) A U.S. District Court Monday refused to enter the dispute over the allotting of California delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Forces of McGovern asked Judge George L. Hart Jr. to restore the more than 150 delegates stripped from the South Dakota senator by the Democratic Credentials Committee.

Hart declined to act, saying the question of whether the state's winner-take-all primary was fair and equitable is a matter to be decided by the party convention, not by the courts. He said the judiciary should intervene in party conflicts only when they involve a clear constitutional principle. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, the presidential candidate with the most to gain from splitting up the California delegates, said he approved of Hart's decision and predicted the convention would uphold the Credentials Committee ruling by "a safe margin." "This still leaves the whole question up to the convention which is its proper place," Humphrey said in a telephone interview from his home in V'averly, Minn.

"I believe if the convention sustains the Credentials Committee ruling, we would have a good chance to get the nomination." Won't Upset Ruling In a parallel and similar ruling delivered at the same time, Hart refused to upset the Credential Committee's action in unseating Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates to the convention. In anticipation of appeals in both cases, Hart told the ton- Korea Talks Announced Seoul (AP) North and South Korea have held top-level meetings to discuss improved relations and reunification of the peninsula split by World War II and ravaged by the Korean War five years later, South Korea announced Tuesday. Among agreements reached at meetings in Seoul and Pyongyang were those to refrain mutually from undertaking armed provocations and to install a hot line between the two capitals "in order to prevent the outbreak of unexpected military incidents," an announcement said. Each side has accused the other recently of preparations for war, raising the specter of renewed hostilities. The three- year conflict that began in 1950 cost two million lives.

Of the dead, 54,246 were Americans. "What I'm saying to Fischer now is, 'Come out and Slater said in making the offer. Marshall said he called Fischer as soon as he got word of the offer at 8 a.m. New York time, and it took Fischer about six hours to decide, calling Marshall back with his acceptance at about 2 p.m. "Fischer thought the offer was incredible and generous and brave," said Marshall.

"His only negative comment was that he felt the English were assuming the Icelandic responsibility." Fischer accepted after previously requesting and receiving a two-day postponement of the match. Why did Fischer accept? his rulings that the U.S. Court of Appeals would hear arguments in the cases on Tuesday despite the Independence Day holiday. The losing attorneys in each case told newsmen they will appeal. A fight over the makeup of the Rhode Island delegation was stifled Monday when the Credentials Committee approved a compromise offered by supporters of McGovern.

Challengers argued that the 22 McGovern delegates were chosen in a winner-take-all primary. The committee ruled last week that a similar primary in California was used to award delegates improperly. Added to the delegation would be the Rhode Island governor, the four members of Congress and two others. Pot Sweeter, Chess Match Begins Today (c) New York Times New York A chess-playing British investment banker Monday offered 50,000 pounds $130,000 to swell the world championship chess purse, and later reported that Bobby Fischer, the American challenger, had agreed to fly to Iceland for the match. James D.

Slater, who made the announcement in London, said he wanted to "remove the problem of money from Bobby Fisher," and "many want to see this match" between the 29-year-old American and the defending Soviet champion, Boris Spassky. The 29-year-old Fischer, whose dislike of press coverage and photographs particular is well known, was sneaked aboard a 8:30 p.m. EDT Icelandic Airlines plane a half-hour before flight time for a trip to Reykjavik in time to meet a deadline for his appearance today at 11 a.m. CDT. Slater, 43 years old, is chairman of Slater Walker Securities, formed in 1964, with a big stake in Mutual Funds and reported control of more than 250 companies around the world.

His personal fortune was estimated in London at more than $6 million. The millionaire banker said he wanted to "remove the problem of money from Fischer and see if he has any other problems." "The money is mine," Slater said. "I like chess and have played it for years. Many want to see this match and everything has been arranged. If Fischer does not go to Iceland, many will be disappointed." "The offer was couched in a way he couldn't refuse.

It said, 'If he isn't afraid of Spassky, then Jim Slater, have removed the element of money," said Marshall. "So Bobby felt he had to accept. His pride he couldn't go down as a coward." Slater, chairman of Slater Walker Securities, proposed several deals. In one, all would go to the winner, raising the winner's prize to $208,000. However, Fischer took the deal to double the original prize money for the match, which stands at $125,000.

The winner would get $156,000 and the loser, $104,000, splitting the extra prize money in the same percentage as the original purse. William Lombard.y grand A REMINDER of Mark Twain's 'Huck' Finn is this boy fishing in Gorton pond Pentagon Still Silent On Seeding By Associated Press And New YorV Times The Pentagon Monday refused again to say if the United States has tampered with the weather in Indochina in an effort to hamper North Vietnamese military operations. Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Freidheim said the U.S. has never tried to cause rain over North Vietnam.

But when asked if rain-making activities have been attempted in South Viet nam, Laos or Cambodia, he replied: "I can't enlarge on that." Sen. Claibourne Pell, said last month he believes the military has been involved in seeding operations since 1966 to clear targets in North Vietnam. The senator also said the United States has used chemicals to produce rains that washed out part of the Ho Chi Minh trail, impeding infiltration and causing floods resulting in thousands of deaths. The only direct evidence that weather modification techniques have been used in Indochina comes from the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's once-classified history of the Vietnam war. According to the documents, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1967 recommended weather modification as one of seven options open to the United States.

The papers described a weather program over Laos, code -named Operation Pop- Eye, as an attempt "to reduce trafficability along infiltration routes." Clear-Cot or Not? In Washington two former high-ranking officials of the Johnson Administration said Monday that Robert S. McNamara, while secretary of defense; specifically ordered the air force to stop all rain-making late in 1967, well before its first use in North Vietnam. But other officials, who served in both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations said they recalled no such clearcut order. It was not clear whether McNamara's order was disobeyed, ignored, or as one official suggested "There was a kind of slippage" in putting it into effect. The New York Times reported in its Monday editions that the United States had secretly been seeding clouds over North Viet nam, Laos and South Vietnam since at least 1967 in an attempt to hinder North Vietnamese infiltration and suppress enemy antiaircraft fire.

Repeated State Department protests about the project led to a re-evaluation by the Pentagon, a former defense department official said, "and McNamara killed it." Unfair Prosecution Claims Involving Ellsberg Quashed 1 Gotta Accept Fischer Says of Offer Associoied Press Wirepnoio near Niantic, Conn. at sunset, government to give him "any written material that the pro-secuting authority has the reasons for initiating charges against the defendants." He said this would include records, letters and memos about telephone calls. Should that information show any discriminatory conduct, Byrne said, "this matter will be reopened by me on my own motion." In a flurry of rulings that cleared the way for the trial to start next Monday, Byrne also granted a government request for an inquiry into who leaked new segments of the secret Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam war to columnist Jack Anderson last month. However, he said the defendants had filed statements denying their involvement and he accepted that as truth. The portions leaked to Anderson dealt with diplomatic efforts to end the war.

The inquiry, he said, will concern "persons not before this court at this time." He ordered defense attorneys to submit to him by Wednesday a list of names of persons who had seen or had the controversial four volumes of the Los Angeles (AP) The judge in the Pentagon Papers case ruled Monday that Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo have not proved the government singled them out for prosecution because of their antiwar views. U.S. District Court Judge William M. Bvrne Jr. denied a i request for dismissal of espionage, conspiracy and theft' charges and refused to allow a special hearing in which the defense proposed calling! witnesses to support the con- tention that Russo and Ellsberg i were being prosecuted unfair-; iy.

I i However, Byrne ordered the Traffic Toll By The Associated Press Holiday traffic deaths ap proached the 500-mark with the home bound rush still to come. Across the nation, 486 highway fatalities were counted by Monday. The count of traffic deaths over the four-day Fourth of July observance began at 6 p.m. Friday and will end at midnight Tuesday. master, of New York City, will be Fischer's official second for the match, said Marshall.

All along, the issue hasn't been the money, Marshall said. "It was the principle. He felt Iceland wasn't treating this match or his countrymen with the dignity that it and they deserved. And he was furious about the press censorship. He was flying around the room," said Marshall.

Marshall was referring to the three-releases-per game limitation which the Icelandic Chess Federation made for reporters covering the match. "They're trying to stop America from reading about it! That's what they've done all along," Marshall quoted Fischer as saying. New York (AP) "It's a stupendous offer! I gotta accept it." That is how chess star Bobby Fischer is reported by his lawyer to have reacted to $130,000 offered by a British banker if Fischer would show up in Iceland and play Boris Spassky in a world championship match. The lawyer, Paul Marshall, said Fischer planned to leave New York for Reykyavik, Iceland, Monday night. The first scheduled match is Tuesday.

The offer of 50,000 pounds or $130,000 at official parity came from James D. Slater Monday morning. Slater put -up his own funds because he wanted to solve Fischer's reported money questions and get the match under way. Ann Landers Pages 13 Central DL Scene 17, 18 Classified 20-25 Comics 10, 20 Crossword 7, 11 Dear Abby 12 Editorials 6 Farm 20 Jacobys on Bridge 13 Jeane Dixon 10 Markets 19 Modern Living 12-14 Movies 11 Obituaries 26 Sports 15-16 TV 4 Weather 26 Your Health 14.