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VOL. XCIV, NO, 35

MORNING
HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND

HERALD
SATURDAY, FEB. 10, 1968

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Carnage Covers Saigon

Thieu Beefs Up Forces, Says Reds Plan Ail-Year Offensive


Carnage and fires still stained Thursday and destroyed some Saigon and street fighting thorities had once declared of the trucks. The North Vietpicked up again in Hue in the crushed. namese used tanks lor the first llth day of the struggle set off Emphasizing the threat ot time in the war Wednesday in across the country by the Viet four or five North Vietnamese overrunning the Lang Vei Spe Cong's lunar new year drive, division fo allied forces below cial Forces camp west of Khe which Thieu and American au-]the demilitarized zone was the Sanh. Allied authorities said

SAIGON (AP) While troops battled on Friday, appearance of lour enemy tanks against Viet Cong holed up in Saigon, President Nguyenf!"1 a: colthe of 20 ?lher v*;nij;mn 17 rm.j j . , u i f * o n. ,? L 'clcs Jn mountains a Van Thieu decreed quick bolstering of South Viet-|miies southwest ol the U.S.lew Manam's armed forces. He forecast Communist offensive!"1^ stronghold at Khe Sanh. e r designs would persist through 1968. planes

seven of those armored vehi- who, under a partial mobiliza- 00 menwas to be rooted out. cles, ol Russian make, were de- tion order drawn up last fall, leavy artillery barrages rumstroyed in the fight. would not have been called until Thieu announced plans to the coming summer. All stu-led in that western part of the swell South Vietnam's 650,000- dents over 17 are to he given tapital. There were scattered iiicmy pockets elsewhere in the man armed forces in an address military training. before a joint session of the Elements of the U.S. 199th apital. Destruction from street House and Senate on his 101st Light Infantry Brigade landed day in the presidency. by helicopters at the Saigon SAIGON (AP) U.S. Navy He said the Defense Ministry racetrack to give a hand to lets attacked an airfield four will freeze military discharges, Vietnamese troops seeking to miles southeast of Haiphong recall veterans of less than five clear that area and the adjacent Friday, military headquarters years service and draft ahead of Chinese quarter, Cholon. strike time the youths of 18 and 19 A guerrilla battalion about reported Saturday. The end of apparently signaled the

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Court Orders NEA To Explain Strike

igbling and from fires mounted. Reflecting viciousness of the conflict, the bodies of three women, blindfolded with black scarves, were found in the twistBy DEL BOOTH ducted on the Claflin campus, students homo, McNair's office ed wreckage of an alley. Police ' Associated Press Writer which does not have classes on and the state NAACP made said they were among dozens of plans to send buses to transport persons slain by Viet Cong cxeORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) Saturday. WAR VICTIMS Homeless afler days of fighting in the anGov. Robert McNair put this Parents began arriving in Or- students to major cilies in South Mitioners. Command's view of cient imperial city of Hue, Vietnamese children stare at a U. S. The U.S. tense college town under a angeburg about 7 a.m. to take'Carolina. he gravity of the situation in Marine tank. (AP Wirephoto) night-time curfew Friday and :he north was shown in a deciaccused Black Power advocates sion to send Gen. Creighlon W. of sparking violence in which Abrams Jr. up to take personal three Negro students were shot charge of the American forces to death. ielow the demilitarized zone, Within minutes after the curfie is deputy U.S. commander in few became effective at 5 p.m., Vietnam. Military sources said stores, businesses and theaters Abrams would set up his headwere closed. Only policemen quarters in Phu Bai, a Marine were on the sidewalks. NEW YORK (AP) Gov. own peace formula which the post southeast of embattled Cars were allowed on the Nelson A. Rockefeller accused mayor vetoed would have eosl Hue. LONDON (AP) Behind son's "San Antonio formula" streets, but there were few of In Hue the U.S. Marine com- Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Mayor John V. Lindsay Friday the city only $250,000 more than mander, Col. S.S. Hughes, said plea for American restraint in any progress would be the main them. it already was prepared to pay outcome oE Wilson's mission. night of a the south side of the city "is in Vietnam is his belief that Rus- The President proposed in San McNair declared a state of the city's breach of position in striking sanitation workers. eight-day garbage emergency in Orangeburg alter strike, but conceded that "I can Rockefeller called Lindsay' our hands," with only a handful sian leaders are reappraising Antonio, Tex., last .September rejection ol the formula ; of Communist pockets remain- President Johnson's approach to that Americans would quit the three students were killed CONFERENCE Rev. I. Dequency Newman, field secre- and 37 persons wounded when call out the National Guard and "breach of the position he hac ing to be cleared out. Marinespeace talks. bombing North Vietnam, given if necessary I will call out the tary for the NAACP in South Carolina, confers with serious- Negroes and police exchanged National Guard." previously taken in relation to were later reported heavily en- Informed diplomats reported an assurance that productive gaged, however, near the main Friday night Wilson formed that peace talks follow promntly. faced students at S. C. State College Friday in Orangeburg, after gunfire Thursday night. It was the union." "But," the three youths were shot to death. (AP Wirephoto) the fourth night of violence on nor added inRepublican gover- Lindsay's office said there bridge across the Perfume Riv- impression after hours of inten- By the accounts of Russian, a ador near the adjoining campuses dress to the city's television peo- would be no immediate com er that was blown up by the ene- sive discussions with Premier British and other diplomats in 8 of South Carolina Slate College le, "there are verymillion risks ment on the governor's address my earlier in the week. Initial Alexei N. Kosygin and other the know Kosygin's men gave real Rockefeller took the air after reports said two Marines were high Soviet officials in Moscow Wilson a nonstop grilling on the and Clallin College. s far as the stability and struclast month on ways to end the issue displaying, in doing so, unClasses at S. C. State College ure of organized labor and or- Lindsay refused to reconsider killed and 15 wounded there. the peace formula which he hac Associated Press correspond- war. concealed skepticism about offiwere suspended indefinitely and anized community life is con- rejected early in a day o ent George McArthur, reporting By these accounts, the Brit- cial American intentions. >y nightfall all but 75 students erned." mounting crisis. from the old imperial capital, ish leader gave the President a iad left the campus for their As the city became increasAt one point Kosygin went so heavy shelling resumed in "There is reconsid lomes. The remaining 75 await- ngly inundated by a massive cr," Lindsaynothing to underlin said walled citadel, where Com- full report of those excnanges far as to remind Wilson that the declared, when they conferred at length in British government's policy of id school buses being provided arbage pileup, Rockefeller's ing the breach between Nev the munist detachments held out Washington Thursday. jy the state. .eepening division with Lindsay York's two nationally known against a drive by South Viet- If the Russians are indeed supporting Johnson's position ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - The less than half the teacher staff The governor said the curfew ecame apparent. He said his Republicans. namese troops. taking a second look at John- had been disowned by his own National Education Association on hand the going was difficult. would last from 5 p.m. Friday Labor party followers, was ordered by a judge Friday At least a half dozen ol the until 6 a.m. Saturday and "will Kosygin did this by recalling to show cause why it should not county's 169 schools closed after be reimposed at 5 p.m. Saturthat the annual convention of be held in contempt of court for a brief opening period because day" until the situation eases. (lie party last October voted in violating an anti-strike injunc- lliere were insufficient teachers President Johnson and Atty. favor of the Labor government tion issued Thursday in the week to maintain a curriculum. Oper- Gen. Ramsey Clark were asked disassociating itself completely long Montgomery County Teach- ations at many other schools by the stale chapter ol the Nafrom the Americans in Vietnam. were curtailed. er strike. tional Association for the AdWilson was said to have reThe school system attempted Approximately 1.800 of the vancement of Colored People to torted swiftly and sharply in to conduct classes Friday for the absent teachers were attending send National Guardsmen from NEW YORK (AP) FBI Dec. 8 in Whisky Creek, a side- received by the firm were not Less than a week before the terms like (hose: "If tlie Labor first time this week, but with a meeting in the theater ol "neutral areas outside of South agents arrested stockbroker water of the Intracoastal Water- entered on the books and some bodies were found Mrs. Frank parly conference were to debate Alan Irving Segal, 44, Friday way once used as a hideout by Shady Grove Music Fair near Carolina." certificates were signed out to told a hotel employe that two the issue now I can assure you Gaithersburg. The meeting was In a telegram, the organiza- and charged him with disposing rum-runners. indicate they had gone to cus- men had threatened to kill her they would vote overwhelmingly securities taken in a $488,732 Ixis called by the NEA. It was this tion said oul-of-state guardsmen Angeles police said the tomers. for the San Antonio formula." action which caused tile county were needed "to guarantee safe- ooting of a Los Angeles broker- thefts at the brokerage house Mrs. Frank, who was es- and said she had been beaten in school board to petition for ty of Negro citizens and stu- ge firm. the room she shared wilh Miss Informants reported these further highlights from the WilsonTwo young women employes occurred only during the three tranged from her husband; and dents." contempt action. Kosygin exchanges: >f the firm, who police say fig- to four months the women were Miss Mohn, a German national Mohn. The board said the NEA, The Justice Department said ured in the theft, were killed employed there. When the girls whose mother is married to an The bodies of the women, clad whose headquarters are in near- it had received the request, but vithin a few weeks left, the thefts stopped, police Army sergeant, left Los Angeles in bathing suits and wearing ex- Kosygin asked Wilson if he ly Washington, called the meet- declined comment. The White 'Whisky said. They were killed before at the end of November and pensive jewelry, were discov- could guarantee that the Americans would no( resume bombing [they would be questioned, ing "for various alleged pur- House said it had not received lolly wood,Creek murders" checked into a Miami Beach ho- ered hy a f i s h e r m a n who saw a if peace talks became snarled. Fla. the telegram. poses, but with the full knowfoot sticking out of tho waler. Wilson replied he could give no The outburst of shooting start- Segal, a night club operator Officers said slock^cerlificalcsitel. ledge that said teachers, by the such guarantees and stressed he TAKOMA PARK, Md. (AP)- terms of the injunction, were ed Thursday night when state and stock broker, was arrested iad no authority to speak for A 21-year-old man and two run- supposed to be in their class- troopers and National Guards- by the FBI after an indictment men attempted to push students as handed up earlier Friday in he Americans. Kosygin then away juveniles, one of them a rooms." back onto a campus to douse 'ederal court here, said John F. made clear he could not speak girl, were arrested early Friday Judge Irving Levine of Mont Malone, assistant director of the 'or Hanoi. in a drug raid in a large frame gomery County circuit court is fires they had started. McNair said, "It has become FBI in charge of the New York Wilson urged Kosygin (o achouse. ucd an injunction Thursday apparent that the incident lasl cept the sincerity of the JohnPolice said they uncovered a irohibiting the Montgomery night was sparked by Black office. arrest was the second in The son administration's proclaimed virtual laboratory lor the manu- bounty Education Association Power advocates who representYork City in The ,y satisfied that American mofacture ol hallucinogenic drugs. rom picketing or conducting ed only a small minority of the New charged Spiro the case. HalFBI William tives are genuine. But he got no It was the largest such opera- any other strike activity. total student bodies" at the kas on Dec. 27, 1967, with havpositive response. tion uncovered in the Washing- He did not order the teachers schools. ng disposed of $20,000 worth of Kosygin asked Wilson if he ton area, police said. lack to work because, he said, Maceo Nance Jr., acting pres- securities stolen from the "Los could define precisely what The setup in the rented two- lis court did not have the power ident of South Carolina State Angeles firm. Johnson meant in talking about story house on Carroll Avenue :o do so. But he did hold that said the atmosphere on the Malone said the securities prompt and productive peace looked just like a chemistry he strikewhich was voted by csmpus was "very tense" Fri were stolen from the firm of talks. But Wilson offered no prelaboratory, police said. MCEA members Feb. 1 and be- day and that classes had been Rulner, Jackson and Gray in cise definitions. Seized were large quantities ;un Feb. 2is forbidden under suspended indefinitely. November 1967, during the time Classes, however, were con n which the two murder vicof what police believe is LSD, Maryland law, amphetamine and DMT, all haltims were employed there. lucinogenic drugs, and a small The slain women were Terry amount of marijuana. Rac Kent Frank, 23, and AnneIncluded in the material le Maria Mohn, 21. Their batseized, police said, were many tered and slashed bodies, letters, some from as far away KOREA weighted about the necks by When Donald W. Horine of 2511 as Israel and California, addresconcrete blocks, were found The Pentagon says the intelligence ship Pueblo Pennsylvania Avc. parked his sed to a Silver Spring post ofcompact car in an unauthorized fice box and requesting do-it- operated without radar surveillance of any kind for space behind Lciter's Departyourself instructions for making 12 days preceding her capture by the North Korment Store Friday, he never hallucinogenic drugs. suspected he would have to dig Arrested was Roger Mason, eansPage 2. it out later. who was wanted by Washington But when he returned it was WASHINGTON police fdr alleged violation ol nearly buried in a pile of ashes, the Marijuana Tax Act. He was BALTIMORK (AP) The A small group of Cubans hijacked a Cuban bricks and two-by-fours. An old charged with unauthorized pos Chamber of Commerce of Metlire was stuffed under t h e session and control of mariju- ferryboat at knife point and forced it to go to the ropolitan Baltimore is planning frame. ana. Other charges will not be U.S. naval base at Guantanarno, Washington sour- a 17-day mission to Carribean An official of Lciter's, Odcll made pending analysis of the markets in April to try to sell ces sayPage 2. Letter, apologized. He said he suspected trip drugs. Maryland products and servknew nothing of the incident, ices. Police said the runaways, but said the space was definitely 17-year-old boy and a 15-yearW. Griffin Morrel Jr. of the not for parking. old girl, are from Massachusetts Maryland National Banlc, who Police advised him to have and apparently had been living heads the committee planning 11 the trip, said about 10 Maryland 12 financial Paje any cars using the space towed in the house for about twr Amusements 11 Obituaries 2 executives will go. Stops are months and recently allowed Bridge ON WAY TO ARRAIGNMENT - Alan Irving is taken from FBI headquarters in New York away next time. 11 Sporli I-' planned at San Juan In Puerto Mason to move in with them Crottword Punie Leiter offered to pay f o r S Tri-Sfatt New 7 Rico, Caracas in Venezuela anc Segal, stock broker and night dub operator of Cily to arraignment In Federal Court Friday. damage to the Horine vehicle, They were turned over to juv- Der Ahby (AP Wirephoto) estimated by pollco at $20. Oceanside, N. Y.( sits handcuffed in auto as ha Editorial Pag* e Women's Ntw> f Kingston in Jamaica. enile authorities.

Night Curfew Placed On Troubled College

a month-long U.S. restraint on bombing around North Vietnam's two key cities during attempts to get peace talks started.
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Mayor, Governor Argue Over Garbage

Wilson Reportedly Holds Peace Hopes

Broker Linked To Bis The

Drug Lab Uncovered Police

The Inside Story

Driver Digs Out His Car

Carribean Trip Will Advertise State Products

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