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Show Clouds Take Over DESERET Considerable cloudiness with showers tonight, followed by partial clearing. Partly cloudy again Thursday. Temperatures fairly constant. See weather map, Page 1 News Depts. 1 News Tips Only Circulation 5 Information Classified Ads Only Editorial offices: 33 Richards St. 364-25S- 364-111- 524-284- 54 521-353- 5 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1968 The Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c PAGES 0 355-747- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-- 8 VOL. 369 NO. 131 Our Phone Numbers Condition 'Extremely Critical' Bullets Hit 5 Others By Doctor Not Optimistic JOSEPH ST. AMANT LOS ANGELES (UPI) Sen Robert F. Kennedy was critically wounded early today by a swarthy gun- NEW YORK (UPI) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy might not make it." according to one of the three surgeons who operated on him following Wednesdays assassination attempt. Dr. Henry Cuneo said that even if Kennedy lives, he might suffer extensive brain damage. Cuneo gave his opinion to Dr. LawTence Pool, director and professor of neurosurgery Medical Center who at reported it on a newscast on WCBS. Columbia-Preshvteria- Cuneo told Pool that several major arteries were severed and Kennedy's brain suf feted extensive loss of blood and oxygen as well as several blood clots. Cuneo was quoted as saying Kennedy also suffered injuries to the spinal cord. In summation, Cuneo informed Pool that it was unlikely the New York senator will be able to recover fully . . . and makes it doubt-- . ful that he could live." man as he was leaving a jubilant primary election celebration. After undergoing nearly four hours of surgery doctors said his condition was crmcal." extremely Kennedy was shot in the head and neck. His aides quickly subdued the alleged gumnan. At the suspect was identified as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. 24, of nearby Pasadena. Mayor Sam Yorty called a special news conference to announce the suspect had been identified by his brother, Munir (Joe) Sirhan. Yorty said the brothers recently came to the United States from Jerusalem. ' A , ? ' ' - - ' v "'x : i, 'i 1 ' ''-'- UPI Telephoto Sen. Kennedy, clutching rosary beads, lies wounded on L. A. hotel floor. Ethel is Thuy Hints North In South Troops The United ion the situation in neighboring (AP) States and North Vietnam failed Laos. again today to break their dead-- ' North Vietnamese Ambassa- lock over how to zuan Thuy issued a long the war in Vietnam, but North agajnst pj.S. aggression Vietnam seemed to edge closer ma(je tllis statement: it has to admitting troops fight- As for South Vietnam, so long ing in the South. as U.S. troops continue their U.S. Ambassador VV. Averell war cf aggression, the people, llarriman accused North Viet- the armed forces of the Nation- nam of having 40,000 troops in al Front for Liberation and e patriotic forces in South Laos, which he called an high, and asked that North Vietnam will naturally continue Vietnamese live up to the agree- their resistance. ment to neutralize Laos. Harri-maReporters were told of the offered to talk at once statement after the seventh about ending attacks on the session adjourned. The next but made his speech meeting was scheduled for next North PARIS . n ; TOP OF THE NEWS Wednesday. This is the longest interval between sessions since the talks bp&an- - Thuy did not specify what he meant by other patriotic forces in South Vietnam, but normally two sets of forces are referred to there the Viet Cong, which is the name for the forces of the National Liberation Front, and tiie North Vietnam-othe- r ese troops. His t0 seen,ed Wording advance the issue a step. Iiarri- mar, ias jK,pn demanding that they admit the presence of Norther troops in the South so that the fact can be discussed as part of the total South Vietnamese situation. Sacramento. In San Francisco, Atty. Gen. Thomas Lynch said tiie weapon was a 22 caliber, nine shot, Iver Johnson with a 2 inch barrel. The pistol fires .22 long shells which have a harder impact than short bullets. The suspect attended high school in Pasadena where his fingerprints were taken when he applied for a state job. This could have happened a n y w h ere, declared the mayor. Every person should deplore and be horrified by the shooting." REMOVED PIECES A team of surgeons removed bullet fragments from his head but did not take out a bullet still lodged in Kennedys neck. Until the operation he was able to breathe only with assistance and the doctors warned that the senator might have suffered impairment of the blood supply to the part of the brain that governs the eye track, the level Put On Alert ' WASHINGTON -- (AP) Several thousand Army troops have been placed on alert as a precautionary measure as a result of the attempted assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, it was learned today. Officials emphasized that at this point no troop are planned deployments but were watching the sitin case violence uation should break out in Los ; Prices are soaring among those penny stocks on the Salt ' Lake Stock Exchange. Speculators from the East and the West Coast are sending prices up with buying sprees, according to local offJ icials. Deseret News Business Editor Don Woodward has the inside story and some comments on what might happen when these sudden investors pull out. His accounts on Page C-- And for all the news, . heres or Angeles, Washington elsewhere. The assassination of Dr. . Martin Luther King Jr. touched off riots in a number of U.S. cities two months ago. and thousands of troops were ordered out to help restore order. of consciousness Exchange HAVE RIGHT Up to now Thuy has seemed to move toward meeting Harri-man'- s challenge by arguing that Vietnam is one country and all By United Press International its people have a right to defend Black columns of battle it smoke dirtied the Israeli-JordaA North Vietnamese spokesman said there was no progress 'frontier today on the first today. llarriman was asked; anniversary of the Middle East when the session of almost four war, in which the Jewish state hours broke up whether anyfound victory but no peace. thing new had been brought out in tiie discussion. He said. You Tiie smoke came from nine cant talk for four hours without hours of fighting Tuesday for bringing out something new. which the Arabs and the Some experts expected an Israelis blamed each other as early tactical move by Thuy to did in the June war of open the second stage of the they talks. Others professed puzzle- 1967. ment about Hanois aims. Tire fresh battling climaxed a YOU CANT TELL montli of warfare which was Somethings going on, one but the latest violence in the informant remarked. Whether struggle for power in the Holy or less than 'Land, where diplomats have its more meets tiie eye you cant tell been unable to get a peace conference organized. yet. One development was the arIn Amman, Jordans spokesrival Sunday of Le Due Tlio, a men said the Israelis started member of North Vietnams Tuesdays fighting with who is serving as an adrockets. They said 33 viser to Tluiy. He could have Jordanians were killed and 62 wounded by Israeli jet planes, brought fresh instructions. and A latler Hanoi maneuver took tanks They artillery. the form of an interview with claimed killing or wounding 43 Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Israelis plus shooting down four Giap published Tuesday by the Israeli pianes and destroying French Communist party news - lfour tanks, three artillery sites mud a bridge. paper, Humanite. Mideast the index: ; . SECTION' ' National, Womens Foreign Pages Editorial Pages Our Man Jones Music Science in the News City, Regional SECTION S City, Regional Comics its unsigned, but I think from the President! Obituaries Weather Map A 10-1- 3 14, 13 13 13 15 16 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 16 2 and, indirectly, his speech. The next 12 to 36 hours will be critical, a medical report said. brother of The tiie late President Kennedy was shot from about three feet away by a swarthy man in his 20s who was subdued by three Kennedy aides but not until he had emptied all eight bullets from a .22 caliber revolver toward the senator. Five other persons in the around crowd the surging victorious California were wounded. Kennedys wife Ethel, who is See ROBERT on Page 3 primary-candidat- A-- Action Ads SECTION 7 8 3 C ground-to-groun- Spoils TV Highlights Financial Theater City, Regional SECTION S Sears 6 8. 7 9 10, 11 10 , d UPI TtltPftoto Suspect is taken from scene after shooting of Sen. Kennedy. Victory For Kennedy Bullets Flew LOS ANGELES (AP) -Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot early today by a gunman who sought to overrule with bullets the greatest triumph of his campaign for the White House victory nia's Democratic in Califor- presidential primary. As the ballots of that victory were counted, the New York senator lay gravely wounded, his condition de- as very critical, undergoing an operation by a team of six neurosurgeons. It was an election night of irony and of terror. scribed Kennedys final words to his throng of supporters at the Ambassador Hotel sounded a call to march on to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. By The Associated Press Some comments by national political figures on the shootRobert of F. Sen. ing Kennedy President Johnson: "There are no words equal to the horror of this tragedy." President Hubert H. Humphrey: "It is a shocking and terrible thing. Vice Former Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, independent candidate for president: It is symptomatic of the lawless- - i Gov. Romney of withdrew from Michigan, the race for the Republican presidential nomination: "It is an act that could only be perpetrated by someone who g has lost all respect for with associated America. George Barry Golclwater, Republican presidential nominee of 1964: It is an ugly, mindless It is a tragedy for this country to have this picture of lawlessness and violence before the nations of the world. ililHillilllllllillllilllliillllilllllltlillllillllliilliliili Todays Thought We shall never under- stand one another until t vc reduce the language to seven words. Kahlil Gibran act." Alf M. Landon, can presidential it the Republinominee ot iitiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii WS0 on PLYMOUTH 550. 9 B IS. Through it all, the counting of the ballots went on. It be?. in slowly, and it was not until midnight that Kennedys massive support in populous Southern California was registered to guarantee his victory. This was the situation, with of 21.301 precincts, counted : Kennedy 1,238,869 votes for per cent, McCarthy 1.138.10S votes for 42 per cent, an unconim itted delegation 329.934 voles for 12 per cent. wlto auy-thin- and moments later corridor faced the volley of gunfire. 46 If' ness and violence which invaded our nation. its on to Chicago and win there, he had said, turned into a hotel kitchen "Now lets 18.109 What They Said 5-- Its . right-thinkin- g n ' . of Army Troops In Penny Investors at lower left. Yorty said the suspect had four $100 bills in his possession and a newspaper clipping critical of Kennedy. NOT SUSPECT Yorty said the brother was not a suspect but was believed to have owned the weapon involved in the shooting. He said the delay in tracing the suspect resulted from the only fingerprints being available in juvenile files in the state capitol Sit 55 Autos McCarthy canceled a planned political mission to Seattle, Wash., today, and called off his campaign schedule indefinitely. Colorado in Humphrey, Springs, Colo., said "our hopes and prayers are with and five others Kennedy wounded in the shooting. Ke n ned ys C a lifornia triumph put him in command of a delegation to the 174-vot- e Democratic National Conven- He won two elections Tuesday, also capturing South tion. Dakotas 24 gate votes. contested dele- |
