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Show Officers Covered Up Army Club Graft, Says Senate Testimony By WILLIAM MEAD WASHLNGTON (LTD i -To-p-level Army officers actively covered uo wrongdoing by Sgt Maj. William Wooldridge, alleged to have been a key man in a worldwide U.S. service club theft ring, according to Senate testimony. WO Reis R. Kash, an Army investigator, used the terms "fix" and "whitewash" to '61 Cuban Invasion Plans Told ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI) Twn Maritime Union leaders jay they can now disclose that American cargo ships were loaded with military supplies and passenger liners were fitted for troops for possible use in the Bay of Pigs invasion attempt on Cuba in 1961. Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, and Thomas W. Gleason, president of foe International Association Longshoremen's made the disclosure at a news conference announcing a possible Maritime strike. Curran said union leaders were called to Washington and given plans to muster all passenger ships for the Bay of Pig, invasion within 24 hours. "The passenger ships were to be depended on to secure beachheads in Cuba if necessary," Curran said. Gleason said a number of cargo ships were loaded with military supplies and stood by in southern ports ready to sail to Cuba, but rare not needed describe what he said were attempts to squelch Army investigations of Wooldridge, in testimony Friday before the Senate Permanent Investigating Subcommittee. Kash said Maj. Gen. Carl C. Turner, former Army Provost Marshal, not only hushed up foree inves, gatkns of the first sergeant major of the Army but even ordered a counter probe of an Air Force tipster. Ribicoff's Witness As the Senate inquiry into financial irregularities in servicemen's clubs ended its first week, members had been told at least two generals had tried to cover for Wooldridge. Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, D-Conn., said he would ask a third Gen. general retired K. Johnson, Harold former Army Chief of Staff-- to testify Monday' about what he knew of iWooldridpe's activities. Ribicuff emphasized he did !not suspect Johnson of By TONY FULLER underCHICAGO (UPI)-- An cover policewoman has testified t-Abbie leader Yippie Hoffman told demonstrators to "bring bottles and cans and for demonstrations bricks" which ended in a pitched battle with police in front of the conrad Hilton Hotel. Mary Ellen Dahl, testifying Friday in the trial of eight persons on charges of conspiracy to incite riots during the at Democratic National Consaid she infiltrated a meeting of protesters Tuesday, Au. 27, the day before the riot. She said Hoffman, sitting style in the middle of the group, told foe crowd: "Tomorrow we're going to meet in Grant Park and storm 1938 vention, In-'ia- n th? Hilton. We're going to need weapons. Bring bottles ari cans and bricks." Hoffman also suggested, she ioVi of demonstrators that "break the bricks in half so giis can throw them" and said, nails through golf balls a different angles so they stick w' "n thrown." 'undreds of persons were ir red the following evening w rn police swept the streets ne foe hotel in efforts to an estimated 5,000 disband demonstrators. '""here's going to be a lot of m;: c, so don't forget to wear helmets," Miss Dahl your ed er trial recessed . and a "turned-on- " soldiers from triggering a missile, They indicated, however, that no missile could be fired from one of ti e remote bases without a from clearance central 'command headquarters that is manned by 'carefully selected and trusted near thc weapons which officers. capable of carrying nuclear mand 47th ol Roseman's Roseiian said the men at the warhead:;." said Col. Frederick Artillen Brigade at Homestead missile are under outposts Roseman. "It takes roughly 15 Air Force Base. "constant surveillance to ascemen working in unison to Military officials were unwill rtain a:iv strange change in accomplish a launch." ing to discuss the security behavior. This is part of what Roseiian, the commander of precautions that would prevent led to the arrests," he said. r , "I - the dozen Nike-Hercul- Hawk xt fsile bases in the area, gave there assurances after it w as learned this week that 10 had been Army missilemen arrested on narcotics charges. The 10 soldiers arrested were all enlb'ed men assigned to the are missile bases under the com- around-the-cloc- k Striking London Garbagemen Harass Attempts to Move Growing Filth Piles LONDON (UPD-Hund- reds of striking garbagemen marched :n the streets Saturday. harassing anyone who tried to clear the growing piles of rubbish which threatened to Philip, nfter a palace spokesman di Hosed the royal garbage would be hauled away by a pr'vale contractor. tries to clear it away,M said a spokesmar for a group of sinkers on Petticoat Lane street market. The dustmen denounced the move as strike breaking. President Grover Cleveland, turn London into a dumping In soni? parts of London, the in 1893, blocked annexation of ground dustmen stood guard over piles Hawaii to the United States on A three-hou- r negotiating ses- of smeily rubbish. the grounds of American sion aimed at ending the "We'll take on anyone who wildcat strike concluded with government officials turning down tn3 dustmen's demand for a raise m wages from $37.08 to $48 a week. H e a t h Ministry officials warned that the strike would create health and fire haards if it went on much OMFP longer. An estimated 5,000 tons of trash a day have been piling up on doorsteps i.ri:H.TMiTrMitiwiIM.Miiiiit i of some 4.5 million Londoiers. MINI - SKIRTED COED is caught in seasons first heavy snowstorm on campus of Denver University. Several inches fell on the mile - high city. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) A groi'p cf strikers picketed Buckingham Palace, home of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince GM mmk 0$ irauuef Maritime Work Stoppage Is Threatened ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI) Maritime Union leaders have threatened a work stoppage at all U.S ports within the next two we?ks in an effort to pry loose me mercnant marine program President Nixon prom ised to submit to Congress during ins election campaign. Members of the AFL-CIMaritime Committee, composed of presidents of the maritime issued a statement unions, Friday saying they planned a "boycott' of all ships in U.S, ports to aack up their demands for a revitaiiation of the declining U.S. merchant ma' rine. i nomas w. liieason, president the International oi Longshoremens Association and vice chairman of the committee, rejected a suggestion that the boycott would be a "strike," but explained that the boycott would consist of the union members "going on a vacation for a few weeks." Joseph Curran, president of the Naiicnal Maritime Union and chairman of the committee, sail the union presidents would go to their members during the next two weeks to seek tneir approval for the O merchant marine from WERE LIVE MUSIC WAITING POPULAR and FOLK PANCHO and ANGELOS 310 WEST 1230 NORTH FOR UH PROVO-373-1- 750 t j-s- MIAMI ilTI-- An Army spokesman said that it would be impossible for one or two soldiers high on drugs to fire one of nuclear-armethe missiNs that surround Miami and south Florida. "No one man can work alone d 1970 Caprice. A lot of cars cost more. But few if any are really that much more car, Which explains why more V and more of the smart money is coming to Caprice. Look what you get: A big substantial V8 engine, power disc prestige car with a new Astro brakes, Ventilation, wheel covers, deep twist carpeting, posn appointments. A remarkably roomy car, with a ride so smooth and silent 350-cubic-in- you'll feel like Mr. Big himself. i ell you what, though. 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Robert Murray remained firm in his story that he heard Rubin shout at police, "Your children are pigs . . . take off your gun and we'll fight you hand to hand." The Z and Vietnam through kickbacks, slot machine "skims," embezzlement and a "short drink" bar policy that gave GIs less whiskey and the sergeants more. "Hold the Hoffman. it's our costs all at pai park, so don't let these pigs move you out. boycott. "Wf're not going to let the Maritime unions lor years pigs stop us," she quoted the have been complaining about Youth International Party lead- the decline of the American qi I Johnson, who retired in 1968, told UPI his subordinates told him nothing of allegations that Wooldridge and other sergeants stole" thousands of dollars a week from service clubs in Germany, the United States Booze And Bilking Maj. Gen. William A. Cun ningham III, also retired, was accused in previous testimony of stopping an investigation of an alleged service club theft ring in Germany and perhaps sharing in its profits. He denied it. A Defense Department source told UPI that following the 1964-6- 5 German Incident, Cun ningham endorsed Wooldridge's nomination for Army sergeant major and told Johnson nothing of the allegations against the 5, 1953 Impossible for 'High' Soldier To Fire Missile, Says Spokesman wrong-jdoin- after President John F. Kennedy called off participation by U.S. forces after Cuban exiles had begun the abortive invasion against Fidel Castro's regime. "We were told at the time to sergeant. Kash told the subcommittee keep it confidential," Curran that Turner personally investi said, "but now we may as well gated an allegation that Woold tell it." ridge and his cronies were smuggling whiskey from Viet nam to the united states aboard the airplane of Gen, Creighton W. Abrams. 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