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Show Our Phone Numbers Rain, Cooler Decreasing clouds tonight with showers Thursday. Cooki. Daytime highs in the mid 70s. Lows tonight 40 to 43. Details, weather map on Page 11 VI PAGES 6 4 10c THE MOUNTAIN WEST'S FIRST -5- 24-4400' -5- 24-2840 Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 01 E. 1st South -5- 24-4445 -5- 21-4443 521-350- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-1- VOL. 371 NO. 115 News, News Tips Home Delivery NEWSPAPER MAY WEDNESDAY, 14, 1969 ETS3 Inquiry Of Fortas Requested "No Objections," Mitchell Says - WASHINGTON (UPI) A Republican congressman proposed today that the House Judiciary Committee initiate an inquiry which could lead to i m p eachment proceedings against Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. The Justice Department announced that Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell told the con-- g r e s s m a n. Rep. Clark that MacGregor. he could constitutionally have no objection to actions which are legally within the pietogatives of the House, 'Cautious Optimism' ESffj 4., a t '- ' , 4 f Rep. II. R. Gioss, who has called for Fortas impeachment and who asked what course of action had been decided upon, Celler said only: Im sure the gentleman will be satisfied with he action to be taken in the not too distant future. DISCUSS PROPOSAL Celler said he would discuss MacGregors proposal with MacGregor later today. The Justice Department's statement said MacGregor telephoned Mitchell and was informed that the Department of Justice could have no objections to actons which are legally within the prerogatives of the House. The statement added : The department spokesman explained that any possible cooperation between the Department of Justice and the Congress would be guided by the statutory and constitutional powers and obligations Imposed upon each branch. Declined, But Won Anyway HARMONY, N.C. (UPI) -JAnderson had every right to expect to be elected mayor in Tuesdays election. He had no opposition. Incumbent Mayor Cyrus Bruce Renvis, claiming ill health and feeling the city wanted a change, declined to run for another term. But when the votes were in, Reavis had defeated Anderson votes. The mayor on write-iIndicated he was as surprised as Anderson. Anderson said Reavis had the only way been he could have. He would have beaten Reavis, he said, if there had been a campaign. Reavis, stating he feels better now, promised to do the best I can for the people of Harmony 'or the next two ames n Nerve Gas Dump Plan Is Held Up years." BALTIMORE eral warrants (AP) were - an days. Fed- issued social worker held apartment for three Anne K. Jenkins was freed Tuesday after her father had flown to Baltimore from Waterloo, Iowa, the night before and given the money to a woman in a taxi in a sidewalk rendezvous The warrants name Edward L. 39, also know Charles Evers arrives at Fayette, Miss., polls. eminent Rights Leader Elected As Fayette Mayor By Associated Press Charles Evers, a Negro civil rights leader, has been elected mayor ol Fayette, Miss. Mound Except in Bayou, Evers was the only outright winner among 13 members of his race running for mayor in Mississippi communities in municipal elections Tuesday. However, 11 Negroes won places on town boards and another 11 captured enough votes to force runoff elections witii white opponents. In Jersey City, N.J., Mayor Thomas Whelan finished first in a field of five in the mayoralty race but failed to obtaiu a majority and will take part in a runoff with former mayor Thomas Gangemi June 17. Evers, state field director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored the first People, becomes Negro mayor in southwest Mississippi since 1875. He received 386 votes to 225 for the incumbent, Mayor R. G. Alien, in the town of 1,600. Among registered voters in Fayette, Negroes outnumber 448 as ' - a k fjo'S- - Mt 2k 4 to 275. The main objective of my administration will be to show' that black and white can work Evers said. .That together, includes the black extremists and the white bigots. I want to show that we can have a safe town. I will not tolerate lawlessness. Negro candidates for mayor in Mississippi lost at Gloster, Jackson, Marks, Moorhead, Sunflower, Woodville, Lexington, Kosciusko and Beaumont. At Tchula, Sault Sutton Jr., a Negro, was unopposed for the Democratic nomination for mayor but faces Lester Lyon, a white independent, in the June 3 general election. In Omaha, Neb., Democrat Eugene A. Leahy, 40, won a countrys outstanding scientists. Although it advises the from time to government time, it has acquired a reputation for telling the government what it should, rather than what it wants, to hear. Rep. Richard D. McCarthy, disclosed the operation last week to begin a railroad movement of surplus and obsolete gas from four facilities in Denver, Colo. nonpartisan mayoralty election by nearly 10,000 votes. Deieated after running second to Leahy in the primary was Robert G. Cunningham, Republican brother of Rep. Glenn Cunningham, Md., Anniston, Edgewood, Ala., and Lexington, Ky. to a Naval ammunition depot in Earle, N.J. $100,000 Ransom Paid N.Y. (UP) -branch bank manager told safe. They said he would find instructions on a note on the floor of his ear. The men then got into another car with Mrs. Fuchs and her children and drove them away. Fuchs said he got the money at the bank, telling other employes he was taking it to ransom his family. Then he followed directions contained in the note which brought him to a vacant lot next to a motel near Jericho. There he diopped the bag con- BETHPAGE, A police that four men kidnaped his wife and three children today and that he ransomed them with $100,000 of the banks money. Roy Fuchs, manager of the National Bank branch in this Long Island community, said the men accosted him as he left his home in nearby' Huntington shortly after 8 a.m. EDT to go to work. He said they accompanied him back into the house where his wife, a d daughter, and twins were in a downstairs room. Franklin taining the money. Fuchs said that when he returned home later, he found his family there unharmed. Suffolk and Naussau county police began an immediate investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation entered the case a short time la let. three-year-ol- to Fuchs, the According men told him to go to the bank and get $160,000 if he wished to keep his family tiously optimistic assess- ment'of peace prospects. White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said the speech, to be broadcast live at 10 p m. EDT national television and radio, will contain some on President Nixons address will be carried in Salt Lake City on Channels 2, 4 and 5 Wednesday st 8 p.m., ar.d taped for broadcast on Channel 7 at 10 p.m. material, but cautionpd against expecting announcement of a peace breakthrough. Nixon associates also said the President's speech will how outline matters now stand in light of the Viet peace proposal Congs rather than announcing the breaking of new ground. PRIORITY POINTS A high government official said Nixon will stress mutual withdrawal of troops and reduction of the fightmg as moves the United States believes must have priority in the Paris peace talks. This official said there would be no pledge for unilateral U.S. troop reductions. The Presidents speech is expected to reflect the admin istration's feeling that the Hanoi-backe- posals, while generally unacceptable, offer some negotiable points. One of these contains the first tacit public admission by Hanoi that it has troops in the South. NO ACCEPTANCE associate expects the President to hint acceptance of the Viet Cong proposal for a provisional coalition government to replace the elected Saigon regime immediately. But Saigon itself has expressed an Interest in a proposal for an exchange of prisoners, another point in the proposal. An indication the President is preparing an early formal answer to the Viet Cong came when Ziegler said Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge will arrive during the afternoon for new instructions before flying back to Paris Thursday. The next Paris meeting No respond quickly to emphasize its efforts to push the talks ahead. Lodge will attend a joint meeting of the Cabinet and the Nationnl Security Council Thursday morning at which the administrations position presumably will be 'reviewed. leader House Republican Gerald R. Ford of Michigan said his own cautious optimism about the Paris talks was John E. Calvert and Marie Calvert, but the name of the woman was being changed to Alvina Marie Spriggs. Paul R. Kramer, deputy U.S, a'torney for Maryland, said she was beieved to be about 21 years old. are The federal charges based on telephone calls made father in to Miss Jenkins Iowa. The FBI said Miss Jenkins said that she saw a woman struggling with a load of groceries Saturday and helped her carry them to the apartment. The FBI .said the gk told agents she then accompanied the w'oman to a liquor store and was asked to take a bottle of whiskey back to the apartment while the woman went to a laundry. Upon her return to the apartment, the FBI quoted Miss Jenkins as saying, she was confronted by a man who stabbed her and forced her to stav. The FBI said Miss Jenkins was molested physically ordeal, during her three-darepeatedly stabbed with an ice pick and her nose broken. After her release she was taken to a. hospital. Miss Jenkins, an attractive welfare blonde, is a part-tim- e worker in Baltimore who commutes to the University of Pennsylvania In Philadelphia for Monday and Tuesday classes. Her father, Richard T. Jenkins, is president of the Peoples Mutual Savings and Loan Association in Waterloo. Jenkins said he received the first of four telephone calls about his daughter late Sunday night. During the last call, he said, he heard hlg daughter . earning that the man-wa- s .stabbing her with an ice pick. leaders Tuesday. BE SIGNIFICANT Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois said merely it would be a significant speech. Ford said Nixon is making ihe speech because he feels it desirable that he lay out the on views administrations Paris and elsewhere. An administration source said soundings taken around the country unearthed a popular feeling that Nixon had been explicit and voluminous on domestic irsues but is remaining too silent about Vietnam, 4 " ' ltd ,4lfer , A:, fj: a wa ' 4 Ijhkk UPI Tefepftot of the 101st Airborne digs in at a base camp that supports troops in Laotian border area. A G1 REDS CONTINUE DRIVE Shells Rip Da Nang - SAIGON (UPI) The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese pushed their general offensive into its fourth day today with a rocket barrage into Da Nang that killed 12 persons and wounded 29. Hanoi Radio said the drive had dealt UK. troops their heaviest losses of the war. Secretary of State William P. Rogers flew into Saigon on his Mission to seek avenues to peace and deplored the Communist attacks as senseless acts which cast somewhat of a cloud over the Reds intentions at the Paris peace talks. Guerrilla gunners fired 42 rocket and mortar salvos into Allied bases and towns across INSIDE THE is Friday. RESPOND QUICKLY Mindful that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong took more than two months to answer initial U.S. proposals, the administration wants to r V' ; Viet Cong pro- d fortified when Nixon reviewed his speech for GOP congies-sion- today for the arrest of a man and woman on charges of interstate demand of $10,000 ransom for the release of a in WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Pentagon has stopped its controversial plan to ship 27,000 tons of poison gas cross country until the nation's most scientific body decides whether the operation can be done safely and effectively. The Defense Department, in the face of mounting congressional and public protests, backed down Tuesday and announced it would not begin moving the nerve gas and other lethal agents until the National Academy of Sciences an independent completed review of our plans. The academy is a private, congressionally chartered organization made up of the AP Wire Phlotoi whites, ... By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon, responding to what associates say is a public demand for a summation of the Vietnam situation, goes before the nation tonight to give what is expected to be a cau- V ASKS MEETING To I .. -t Committee. a, Jib May Be Reflected MacGregor hand - delivered a request for a preliminary inquiry into Fortas affairs to Rep. Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary lie asked for a meeting of the full committee next Tuesday and asked that Fortas and Mitchell be invited to appear. Celler later told the House that he and his committees ranking Republican, Rep. William McCulloch of Ohio, had reached agreement on a course of action. l A National, 1, 2, 6, Foreign Theater Women s Pages Editorial Pages SECTION B 15 16, 17 18-2- 1 22,23 1, 2, 5, 14, 15, 24 a Regional Pnm&c 7q &arzi:ro;u Obituaries Weather Map Action Acis SECTION K jqj 15,16 15 16-2- jg t SECTION P City, Regional 6 7 TV Highlights Cool To Euromart The Brit- Lh are cooling to the idea of joining the European Common Market, a public opinion poll showed today. A Gallup Poll Sum taken for the Daily Tel- -after the graph Mav 28 resignation of French resident Charles do Galle showed only 41 per cent favored joining compared to 57 per cent in Man 1965. LONDON (AP) 3-- 7 - Ten of the dead and 24 of the wounded were South Vietnamese civilians, U.S. headquarters said. The others were government soldiers. Six houses were destroyed, one of which w'as under repair from an earlier salvo. The father and one daughter In the family died. Hanoi Radio in two broadcasts monitored in Saigon hailed the attacks which began Sunday as a general oftensive that has penetrated major American camps up and down South Vietnam. The flights will continue. Hanoi Radio said. This is the heaviest blow we have inflicted so far on the U.S. aggressors since the beone ginning of the war, broadcast said. It said the offensive was designed to demonstrate the Communists abundant fighting power oa the battlefield. U.S. headquarters said the guerrillas followed up the overnight shellings with but one significant ground attack, hitting a U.S. camp 45 miles north of Saigon. American soldiers drove them back, killing 36 while losing two killed and three wounded. Armed Malay Mobs Defy Authorities NEWS SECTION the nation late Tuesday and early today. By far the costliest of the offensive was the rocket salvo that blazed into the heart of Da Nang. South Vietnam's second largest city. - - KUALA LUMPUR (UPI) Mobs 0f Malays and Chinese, some armed with ceremonial daggers, guns and other weapons, today defied the curlew imposed on Kuala Lumpur because of one of tIie ort outbreaks of ra- violonce in Malaysias hlstory King Tuanku Ismail Nasiml- din Shah issued a proclama- tion calling out all military re- serves to reinforce regular se- curity forces as a second night of intercommunal fight- ing threatened. gengajor state police reported at least 40 persons killed and were Tuesday between in clashes today Malays and Chinese and with security forces trying to disperse diem. 'nesses reported that the of lre nearby Gom; fn aPPed to be dur,n ,he day: (flam fRfU.gT st. earning of verging on the burning village on the outskirts of this capital city. Entire blocks in Kuala Lumpur and its suburbs went up in flames Tuesday as rioters rampaged through the attacking shops, vehicles and police stations. repeated radio warnings that police have orders to shoot curfew violators and appeals from political, ethnic and religious leaders to end the violence, gangs of Chinese and Malays massed in the streets tonight. Some of the violators were armed, witnesses reported. Gunshots were heard in downtown streets and security patrols were seen rushing into streets, Despite the area. Today's Thought ae ere repr-e- the capital, The sources said truckload; army troops were seen e Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James ThurbcP- - t |