Advocate (Newspaper) - April 10, 1972, Victoria, Texas Year No 324 THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE Victoria Texas 77901 Monday April 10 10 Cenls CHARGED IN F McCoy Jr 29 is led from the old Federal Building in Salt Lake City by an federal marshal after being arraigned Sunday on charges of air piracy and interfering with crew members of an United Air Lines 727 jetliner in the of the plane Friday Marshal is carrying Army fatigues which McCoy was wearing when at his home in Provo Utah Doctor Going Home LBJ Greatly Improved CHARLOTTESVILLE Va The heart treating former President Lyndon B Johnson said Sunday he is returning to his home in Atlanta indicating former chief executive's condition has greatly improved Dr John Willis Hurst said Johns on who suffered a serious heart attack last Friday now has few serious danger The former president he added had a very good day and now is a safe lime lo go or I wouldn't go Hurst said Johnson told him he had less pain during the night The specialist described Johnson's condition as some signs of im- provement Hurst said he planned lo keep in contact with the situation by telephone saying He's in very very good hands is in an excellent coronary unit wilh ex- nurses and physicians However his estimate day that Johnson's chances for recovering are about 80 per cent remain unchanged Johnson was joking and was in good spirits during the day said noting that things are always lively when he's around He said he expected there would be some age from the hearl attack son suffered Friday but that he could not tell how extensive it would be Johnson Is anxious to return to Texas Hurst said He said Johnson would eventually be moved lo Texas but refused to estimate when that would be He said he would return lo Uni- versity Virginia Hospital here before a decision on ing Johnson is made Hospital officials said they saw lilUe chance of any new statements being issued before Monday unless there is some dramatic change Johnson's condition was de- scribed as stable Johnson was hospitalized be- fore dawn Friday after ening with chest pains while visiting at nearby home of his son-in-law and daughter Charles and Lynda Robb He was rushed lo hospital's care unit by a city rescue squad Dr Hurst said the hearl at- tack was of aboul the same magnitude as the 1955 illness but ll resident an b of al Mrs Johnson who said she intended to see that the former President lives more quietly Nixon Keeping Eye On Vietnam Johnson Chuckle In this election year il Is well to remember thai there are only two kinds of those who support your candidate and a lot of Ignorant prejudiced fools WASHINGTON AP ident Nixon discussed the nam war with his lop security adviser by telephone Sunday before returning to Washington from a four-day Florida tion The Florida White House said the President also talked by telephone with Mrs Lyndon B Johnson aboul the former dent's condition Johnson is in a Charlottesville Va hospital after suffering a hearl attack Friday The Sunday drive wilh his friend and neighbor C G Bebe Rebozo capped a re- slay for Nixon He ar- rived in Florida Thursday afternoon with Henry A Kissinger his national security adviser after speaking lo a conference of Catholic educators in Philadelphia Kissinger flew back to Washington Friday but con- to confer with Nixon by telephone Ronald L Zicgler the dent's press secretary said President kept in touch wilh the Vietnam situation by tele- phone On Saturday he got an in-person report from Maj Gen Alexander Haig who came lo Key Biscayne directly from fifth meeting of week of the Washington Special Group Haig is a deputy national security adviser Skyjack Arrest Made SALT LAKE CITY Utah A law en- forcement student and skydiving enthusiast who said he was a Green Beret and helicopter pilot while in Vietnam was arrested Sunday and charged with the hijacking of a United Air Lines 727 jet on Friday Tlie FBI said he money had nol recovered Floyd McCoy Jr 29 a Young University student active in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was arrested at his home a neat Brick bungalow in Prove Utah McCoy the father of two said he had been preparing for drill with his Army National Guard unit when arrested and appeared for his arraignment before U.S Magistrate Kerro in military fatigues McCoy a National Guard warrant officer who said he served two lours in Vietnam and was a Green later changed into a grey suit McCoy was held without hail on charges of air piracy and interfering with flight crewmen The maximum penally is death A preliminary hearing was set for April 19 The Fill refused to comment on whether parachutes and weapons involved in the hijack had heen found McCoy is accused of commandeering a United flight from Newark to Los Angeles shortly after it made a scheduled stop in Denver The plane was diverted to San Francisco where it remained on ground for three hours while four parachutes and was delivered Then the passengers were let off and the plane began a zigzag over the Northwest The hijacker hailed out over Prove a community of 75.000 and lie plane went on to land at Salt Lake City The complaint against McCoy said PHI was led to him by a highway patrolman Robert Van knew McCoy according to the plaint and hoard him talk a tout the possibility of hijacking an airplane was quoted by complaint as saying McCoy told him he would demand if he were a hijacker McCoy remained solemn through his arraignment but dialled with PHI agents about his experiences in Vietnam before the session began He told the magistrate that his only source of income was from the Gl then added Hul I'm sure that will be terminated now McCoy is listed in the directory as a law enforcement major Kill Pause instructor al Ilic Alia Skydiving Center said McCoy had had 30 jumps but had never logged a night jump The hijacker bailed out of the jetliner over Provo in southern Utah's lake and mountain country shortly before midnight A search by 200 officers ended with Hie FDJ slaking out in the city of two blocks from city center Friday's hijacking was the involving parachutes in under five months FIJI agents say it was nol connected wilh any ol others including one involving a man known as Cooper still bailing out over Washington with he got from Airlines An FBI spokesman in Salt Lake said we're not working on theory that McCoy and were same person He said the could find no link the two of the McCoys said he was a former Sunday school teacher and Mrs McCoy was a case worker wilh the county welfare department The charges quoted flight Diane Surdam as saying man showed a hand grenade wilh the pin pulled and handed her an envelope while the plane was over Utah 40 miles wesl of Grand Junction Colo Friday afternoon She said envelope contained a bullel a hand grenade pin a flight plan to San Francisco and a mile reading only Grenade pistol A United Air Lines spokesman in Denver Don Cannalte said safe lo assume the hijacker boarded the plane in Denver Air Units In U S Alerted WASHINGTON AP About three or four squadrons of Phantom remained on alert in the United Slates Sunday for possible to Southeast Asia defense sources said There were no fresh departures of American air or naval unite from the United States over the weekend they said The Pentagon refused as it has all along to discuss U.S military alerts or movements in connection wilh the old North Vietnamese offensive in South Vietnam But officials denied rumors of widespread alerts at air and naval bases in this country Only a small number of units have been pul on notice they said A squadron usually numbers about 18 planes The carrier Midway whose home port is Alameda Calif is expected to weigh anchor soon and sail for the Western Pacific This amounts to a speedup of several weeks in the Midway's scheduled departure for Far Eastern waters Sources with the 7th Fleet say the Midway is on final training maneuver he coast of Southern i II is now known w L Midway carrying ai m attack planes will join four other carriers now standing off Vietnam or take up a backup position elsewhere in the Far East Within past week the Pentagon has ordered nearly 40 Air Force heavy jet bombers and bombers from the United States and another 36 Marine from Japan Index c i mult d JB Byrnes Claimed by Death at 92 COLUMBIA AP James F Byrnes onetime newspaper vendor who forged a career as U.S secretary of state Supreme Court justice and governor of South Carolina died Sunday al his home after an ex tended 111 ness He was 92 Byrnes whose career in public service spanned nearly half a century was hospitalized several times in 1969 once for a mild But by May that year he had improved enough to receive President Nixon and a group of other dignitaries at his home for a birthday celebration Nixon said on that occasion Never in American history has one man held more offices with distinction than Gov Byrnes On Sunday Florida White House an- that President Nixon had ordered the flag over the White House tobc flown at half-staff In tribute Byrnes was born May 2 1879 in Charleston During a career in public service he was a U.S representative a U.S senator I director of Economic Stabilization during World War II the Office of War Mobilization and a delegate to the General Assembly Looking back over his political career however he once There are two happy days in life of a man in public day he is elected and day he steps out Byrnes was named as Associate Justice of the U.S Supreme Court by the late President Franklin D Roosevelt and he resigned from the court he once said Roosevelt referred lo him as assistant president in his absence spent just a year on the high long enough lo write 13 opinions and join in 11 dissents He resigned when Roosevelt asked him to lake the administrative post as economic stabilization the man in charge of regulating wages prices and rents Roosevelt asking Byrnes to take the job said he would not ask him to resign from the Supreme Court and suggested he take a leave of absence Byrnes said it would be only fair to leave the court if he took administrative post and asked Roosevell if the economic job was essential lo the war president lold him it was Byrnes BYRNES Page REINFORCE BESIEGED by tanks South Vietnamese airborne troops move along Route 13 40 miles north of Saigon toward the provincial capital of An Loc which is besieged by North Vietnamese troops These troops are part of Saigon's last reserves which have been committed to break Raids Sustained SAIGON AP U.S bombers are flying sustained raids over North Vietnam for the first time since before the bombing hall of 1968 the U.S Command said Monday Below demilitarized zone enemy forces renewed massive assaults in a drive on provincial capitals and key towns Official U.S sources described the use of over Vietnam as a show of force on the part of A brief statement from the command said America naval operations continue south of in and north of These operations include naval gunfire tactical aircraft ai throughout the battlefield area Command spokesmen said North Vietnam is considered part of battlefield area The statement said the operations in to the Communist invasion of South Vietnam through the demilitarized zone Command spokesmen would give no details of the strikes over North Vietnam but said they were the since the big bombers struck the Mu Gia Pass 70 miles north of the in kite November 1967 A spokesman said nine missions of about three each were launched overnight Sunday in South Vietnam about half of them striking at the enemy within three miles of An Overcast skies limited U.S air strikes in North Vietnam on Sunday but heavy air action was in the south Viet Cong units kept up mortar and rocket in the Mekong Delia south of Saigon Fighting spread for the first time in the current of- fensive lo the valleys and foothills near Da Nang where i'liiled Slates has a major air base U.S were not immediately involved he southern from near Saigon heavy fighting erupted about 20 to 25 miles south of An Loc and only of capital A of 400 South Vietnamese paratroopers which two days ago was guarding the presidential palace was at- lacked from west as it moved along both sides of 13 Other paratroopers in the lead column the point of attack turned back to join the battle U.S and South Vietnamese and American helicopter gunships swooped down on the North Vietnamese positions along the road unleashing rockets napalm and which explode hundreds of tiny hand grenades Kleindienst Probe To Resume WASHINGTON AP The Judiciary Committee re- sumes hearings Monday into the nomination of Acting Atty Gen Richard Kleindienst with a key figure in San Diego's bid for this year's Re- publican convention as first witness The leadoff witness will be Rep Bob Wilson who has been quoted as saying in an interview March 3 that Inter- national Telephone Tele gra ph lobbyist Dita D Beard had lold him she wrote a memo linking the settlement of an antitrust suit against ITT with an ITT pledge to help un- the GOP convention Mrs Beard has since denied that she wrote the memo which led to the current ings after II was published by columnist Jack Anderson Wilson was quoted as saying interview R Merriam head of ington office had told him he received he memo and thai ITT President Harold S een lold him the company would pledge toward holding the convention in San Diego where an ITT subsidiary has three hotels Merriam has denied ing the memo and Geneen lold committee that ITT pledged only toward con- vention was deputy ney general at time the an- case against ITT was settled Prior lo publication of Anderson's allegations the committee had approved him unanimously to succeed John N Mitchell as attorney general Kleindienst asked com- to examine Anderson's claims The committee voted to 7 By Murk Clark last Friday to broaden the scope of the hearings lo include an allegation by Life that Kleindienst failed to after learning thai the U.S torney in San Diego wa thwarting federal in- of personal friends and political supporters of President Nixon War Decisions Criticized ier JAMES Cloudy to partly cloudy Monday through Tuesday with some occasional light rain or drizzle Monday morning Southeasterly winds 12 to 22 m p h Monday and Tuesday diminishing at night 8 to 18 m p h Monday High in low 80s low Monday night near 70 WASHINGTON AP Retired Gen Mark j Clark says the United Slates would not have gotten involved in the lingering war in nam if it had won in Korea and that it could have won in Korea with the proper military decisions Cla rk says tha I when D wight D Eisenhower made his visit to Korea as j up talking all one night while Clark tried lo persuade him lo try for a military victory but that Eisenhower thought he had a mandate to end il Through the use of air and naval power in Korea we could have won in my said Clark who commanded forces for the last year and a half of that conflict Clark 76 concedes that he is a morning quarterback in the case of Vietnam but says this country went in there without the will to win Soon it became political war commanders hands were tied were nol permitted to win war That decision was madein House and lhat wasn't true in World War he said This war failed a miserable thing and I am glad the President is pulling out as fast as we reasonably can Clark voiced in a recent taped National Portrait Gallery which he visited to 8 view of portrait of himself painted in during World War II when he commanded the 5th U.S Army g Sadik plans to do similar interviews with g other distinguished Americans whose traits are on view al the gallery a branch of the Smithsonian institution The idea is to supplement the with a series of real histories Clark recounted lhat when American troops reached Florence in 1944 some of his staff commissioned a Italian 8 Pietro Annigoni lo do his portrait but that he was transferred to Austria before il was completed Two years later he said he and his wife and daughter Ann went lo Florence to see it un- veiled It depicts the general in a somber 8 mood and he said his wife did nol care much for il and his a S That's not my daddy j He said Annigoni was furious and he cared mat he destroy the painting But SS several years a friend found il hanging in the Excelsior Hotel in Florence S arrangements were made to deliver it lo Clark The portraits on indefinite to the gallery S
