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44 10 p.m. 43 2 a.m. 40 METRO FINAL Vol. 135 No. 219 On Guard for 134 Years Friday, December 10, 1965 Ten Cents mttt That Fireball in the Sky? Maybe a Meteor satellite at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California shortly before the flash was sighted in Detroit.

But there was nothing to connect the launching with the phenomenon. The North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs, which keeps a continual guard against hostile bombers and missiles said it had "nothing to report." A spokesman said trackers were not looking for anything in the area and would have to check back to determine whether anything had been picked up. A spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said there was a possibility that the explosion could have been caused by space Turn to Page 9A, Column 1 BY JAMES DEWEY Free Press Staff Writer A mysterious, brilliant flash streaking high across the sky and accompanied by a tremendous explosion and a vapor trail was reported Thursday by anxious witnesses in Michigan, six other states and Ontario. Their worried queries flooded police, newspaper and government agency telephone switchboards. There was no official explanation for the phenomenon.

A University of Michigan astronomer said he believe it to be a meteor. MOST REPORTS OF the fireball centered in a triangular area bounded by Sault Ste. Marie, Aurora, 111., and Cambridge, O. Most of these reports came from Michigan. But the flash also was seen in Northern West Virginia, Western New York and Pennsylvania.

Although there were conflicting reports about its direction it appeared to be heading east. Some said it had fallen but no meteorite or debris was reported found. "It undoubtedly was a fireball," said Dr. William P. Bidelman, professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan.

But he added that it couldn't be an ordinary meteor "because they usually come around August." Fireballs, which also are called bolides, are usually composed of stone, but sometimes of nickel or iron and travel at 12 to 35 miles a second, slowing down when they get closer to the earth. Hazel M. Losh, a colleague, supported Bidelman's theory, When a meteor enters the atmosphere it burns, she explained. Such an object would be likely to Bhow a trail of smoke, she said. EARLY REPORTS of possible airplane crashes, rocket firings or aerial explosions faded as area airports and defense installations reported no unusual incidents.

The Defense Department in Washington said government agencies it had checked could give no explanation. The Air Force launched a classified two-stage rocket Stop (CD SI Branch Rickey Dies at 83 Broke Baseball Color Barrier a 1 1 It ti Rom mey Ve tlx, it The Pressure Was On House Kills Vet Bill by One Vote Prom AP and UPI COLUMBIA, Mo. Branch Rickey, the famed "Mahatma" who developed baseball's farm system to its peak and spearheaded the breaking of the color line in the major leagues, died Thursday night. He was 83. The front office genius who masterminded the St.

Louis Cardinals to seven National League pennants and five world championships, and the old Brooklyn Dodgers to two pennants, died at 10 p.m.. a few minutes after Mrs. Rickey and one of their five daughters had left the hospital after a daylong vigil in the intensive care ward. RICKEY had remained unconscious in Boone County Hospital since he collapsed with a heart attack the night of Nov. 13 wthile being inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.

He stood to accept membership and began, "I'm going to tell you a story from the Bible about spiritual courage." Then he dropped into his chair. "1 don't believe I'm going to be able to speak any longer," Rickey said as he slumped over before the stunned audience. i 5 'ft 's Vrl Frea Prest Ptioto by DICK TRIPP BY TOM SHAWVER Fr Prats Politics Writer LANSING Harry A. DeMaso, Republican State Represents, tive from Battle Creek, looked up sorrowfully at the jam packed gallery Thursday and wished fervently that he could have been someplace else. "This," he said, "is one ol those days when I wish I'd never got into politics." The balcony which lines three walls of the House chamber was filled with war vet-erans and their wives.

Most wore overseas caps carrying the insignia of the American Legion or the Veterans of eign Wars or the Disabled American Veterans. One was on crutches. Two sat in wheelchairs. All were benl on pressuring Republicans in th Legislature into countermanding an executive veto of a bill thai would increase homestead tasi exemptions allowed disabled vet etans and their widows. DeMaso, knowing what was al stake, said he paced the floor of his living room until 3 a.m.

Thursday, wondering how to deal with one' of the most important decisions of a 14-year political career. He and a few other Republicans who had shown signs ol siding with Democrats on the issue were targets of tremen Turn to Page 9A, Column 7 SHE'S NOT AFRAID of the Big Bad Wolf. Kathryn Thomas, 5, of Pontiac, got an advance look Thursday at the wolf and other fairyland characters that will be in Detroit's fourth annual Christmas carnival in Cobo Hall. The carnival opens at 1:30 p.m. Sunday and will be open from 9 a.m.

to 9 p.m. daily, except Christmas Eve and closing day Dec. 29, when it closes at 6 p.m. It will be closed Christmas Day. The carnival is free to all.

BY ROGER LANE Chief of Our Lansins BurtM LANSING Democrats in the Legislature failed Thursday in a bid to override three executive vetoes, and Gov. Romney hailed the result as a great victory for the people. The Governor referred to a dramatic defeat in the House by a single vote of a bill to liberalize the veterans' property tax exemption law. The bill was vetoed by Lt. Gov.

William Milliken while Romney was touring the Far East. Romney clearly supported the veto. Failure came on a tense 73-30 party line vote as a gallery jammed with veterans looked on. The roll call followed three hours of debate marked by Democratic criticism of Romney for assertedly pressuring Republican lawmakers. OF 31 HOUSE Republicans, not a one joined in the override attempt, even though 28 had supported the bill when it passed the House last May.

A single GOP vote would have furnished the two-thirds majority needed to turn the trick. "There was no arm-twisting," Romney told newsmen later. He Rickey was administered oxy- gen and rushed to a hospital! here. He had suffered two known previous heart attacks, in 1958 and 1961. The cigar-chomping Rickey, Turn to Page 9A, Column 6 -a: North Viet Officer AP Photo Veterans jam balcony as the Legislature considers veto had talked individually in his office with waverers and sent messages to the House and Senate GOP caucuses.

In the Senate, party line votes of 23-14 sustained execu Sees Long War And Red Victory This is the second of a series of articles by James Cameron, a British newsman, on his recent visit to North Vietnam. BY JAMES CAMERON C) New York Times Sarvlca HANOI, North Vietnam--More fighting, dirtier fighting but certain final victory in the effort to drive U.S. forces out of Vietnam that is the military outlook pictured to me in Hanoi. A lieutenant colonel in North Vietnam's regular army gave me a lengthy briefing. "The war is often described LBJ Restates Vie Pprp ose tive vetoes of bills to give eight State universities another $1.2 million in operating funds and Why are we -in to give million in property tax relief to senior citizens who "And every day I want to answer, 'Not for economic rea rent.

Branch Rickey Is Red China eying a move in Korea? See Edwin A. Lahey's column on Page 21A. New battle rages in Vietnam. Page 10A. From AP, New York Times and UPI JOHNSON CITY, Texas The Johnson Aiministration painstakingly spelled out Thurs "We are there because for all our shortcomings, for all our failings as a nation and a people, we remain fixed on the pursuit of freedom as a deep and moral obligation that will not let us go.

"I know it does not always seem that way. Political uncertainties often obscure our underlying purpose. Our own failures as men politicians and generals, The Governor called for a push for a substitute veterans homestead tax exemption bill that he said would grant justified additional relief "without damaging the interest of sons we are spending our treasure, not reproducing it, there. "And not for reasons of selfish pride the lives of our sons are too great a price for national vanity. "Not for reasons of empire cause we serve as the use of force to advance it.

Not even the absence of alternatives to the use of force to meet aggression lessens our distaste for it. "Only when petition and persuasion failed was the shot fired that was heard around the world. Not until appeals to com-mon sense brought tha cannon's roar at Fort Sumter did Lincoln, with heavy heart, reply in kind. And not until reason perished in the aggressor's path did we turn first in 1918, Turn to Page 4A, Column 1 Mothers." our own sense of others' rights diplomats and reporters cause and the harsh judgments of his day why the United States is fighting in Vietnam, why it will stay there and why it is increasingly concerned about Red Mikoyan Quits Post In Soviet From New York Time and UPI MOSCOW Anastas Mi A governor's veto hasn't been overridden In Michigan since 1951, when Gov. Williams' veto of a gasoline tax increase was upset.

At issue Thursday was a $4 tory on the conquerors do not as one that nobody can win," he said. "You have used the phrase yourself. I would dispute that. It can be won, in the sense that our objective can be attained. That is, as you know, no more but certainly no less than the implementation of the Geneva Agreement.

That entails the withdrawal of American troops. When it comes about, it will constitute what our government will regard as victory. The officer's name is a Turn to Page 8A, Column 1 us to question the wisdom of our course.1 "And nothing, perhaps, appears so contradictory to the China's role in the conflict. speak well of either the moral ity or the logic of imperial am bitions. 4rWglJVr President Johnson, an million increase in the break the State gives on property eloquent speech telephoned to the A-FL-CIO convention, in San taxes to about 83,000 veterans widows and disabled ex-service koyan, 70-year-old veteran of Francisco, vowed that the United States would not deviate men.

Mostly, the bill would the Bolshevik Party, stepped from its goal of freedom for down Thursday as the Soviet Turn to Page 9 Column 6 Bobby Urges Viet Truce South Vietnam. EV WASHINGTOX, Secre chief of state, leading to the most significant Kremlin re In DETROIT Sunday tary of State Dean Rusk said that whether the United States and Omrmunist China are on a collision course over Vietnam depends on Rsd China, Rusk said at a news confer Meet At-Ease Car Designer candidate to oppose Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller next year, the Senator was strictly noncommittal. It was in a subsequent press conference that he turned on the fireworks.

"The United States should take the initiative in asking for an extension of the proposed 12-hour X-mas Eve cease-fire," said the senator, "taking Christ out of ence mat tne confrontation Free Press-Chicago Tribune Wire NEW YORK U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy, who was in New York City Thursday for a political huddle with Democratic leaders, r-ade it the occasion for a startling declaration in favor of a cease-fire in the Vietnam war. In the political session where everyone waited with bated breath for a tip-off on the Kennedy choice of a Democratic problem is one Peking has to face. We are going to meet our commitments in South Vietnam, As to the length of his proposed extension, the senator refused to be specific. 'Tt could be for a period of time but as to the specifics I would not suggest anything at the moment except that it could be open ended," he went on.

"There could be some kind of offer to make a cease-fire. We all have responsibilities now to explore all the positions." HOWEVER, when asked if he planned to go to Texas to discuss his proposal with President Johnson, the senator re plied, "No." In his earlier address to New DEAR READERS: This week's DETROIT Magazine asks the question: What do automobile designers do in their spare time? It answers its own question in terms of so if you can tell me for certain what Peking is going to do about that, I think I could give you a better answer on shuffle since the downfall of former Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev 14 months ago. Succeeding Mikoyan as chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet is Nikolai V. Podgorny, 62, a product of Khrushchev's Ukrainian party machine and considered a moderate in the Kremlin.

A CONTROVERSIAL younger member of the party hierarchy, Alexander N. Shelepin, 47, was formally ousted from his posts in the government. Until Thursday he was a vice premier and chairman of the now defunct party-state control committee, supervisor of the internal security machinery. Shelepin apparently retained his powerful job in the Communist Party Presidium and secretariat of the Central Committee from which he could still operate to enlarge personal power. art work by American Mo our Bide." tors designers, with plen Johnson, in a speech said to reflect weeks of tiinking, said: "Every day someone asks, tiful illustrations of the frequently brilliant work these designers do, as photographed by one of their collegues.

York State Democrats, Ken DETROITER W. W. DIEIIL describes some of his experiences tracking down the story of Barbara Powers, ex-wife of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. Alongside his revelations is an episode from Diehl's new book on Barbara, a paperback called "Spy Wife." A Louis Cook Interview of Detroit's three-foot-10-inch movie star, Michael Dunn, leads off an array of fascinating stories about show-business personalities Orson Welles, Joan Baez and a lady named Patti Jerome. Patti, from Detroit, told her troubles to Earl Wilson in New York.

There's more, too. Hope you'll be reading. Sincerely, MORT PERSKY Sunday Editor Movie Guide 19C Names and Faces 20C Obituaries 9A Sports 1-5C Stock Markets 10-11C Teen Beat 7B TV-Radio 8C Want Ads 12-160 Women's Pages 1-5B HAVE THE FREEE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE 222-6500 Amusements 6-7C Ann Landers SB Astrology 18C Billy Graham 14A Bridge 18C Business News 9-1 1C Comics 17-19C Crossword Puzzle 180 Death Notices 12C Drew Pearson tlX Earl Wilson 21A Editorials 6A Feature Page 21 A Heloise SB Warm, Cloudy, Chance of Rain It will be mostly cloudy Friday with occasional light rain by evening, the Weather Bureau says. The thermometer should climb to a high of 45, after an overnight low of 32. (Complete Weather Pg.

19Q nedy gave no inkling on the candidate he would like as Gov, Rockefeller's opponent. He said only that all of the capable possibilities should be given a full hearing before a selection made. He warned the party leaders against getting into any bittej convention fight on the seleo tion of a gubernatorial condi date. He insisted he had no favorites among the contenders, On the magazine's pages you'll meet (almost) the most forgettable man in Detroit, a member of the city's racket squad. His name is William Hart, if you can believe anything the Police Department says about him (they have their interests to protect).

And he is not an easy guy to know. But Don Lenhausen manages to make a satisfactory introduction. But Western specialists indi cated that Shelepin, who has sounded a tough note on both Turn to Page 9A, Column.