Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspaper) - May 1, 1968, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Partly cloudy through Thursday with chance of showers Lows night in to 90s Highs Thursday in 70s to 80s VOLUME 113 CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA WEDNESDAY MAY 1 1968 ROCKY GAINS WRITE CITY FINAL 10 CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS UPI NEW YORK TIMES WIN GIs Smash Reds Ease Hue Threat By Jack Walsh SAIGON UPI U.S paratroopers wiped out a North Vietnamese in a day battle Tuesday and Wednesday and possibly saved the city of Hue from a May day invasion front dispatches reported Heavy fighting raged near Hue Wednesday night j UPI correspondent Raymond j Wilkinson said men of the airborne division killed 117 communists Wednesday in their final thrust against a battalion which already had lost 217 men The paratroopers battling near the village of Phuoc Yen five miles northwest of Hue also captured 95 people many of them found hiding in a river and breathing through hollow reeds Prisoners said almost all their officers had been killed Being Hit The paratroopers were being hit Wednesday night by propelled grenades at a rate of about 100 within a period Wilkinson said The grenades were believed coming from another communist unit in the area Still another communist talion wss reported under attack by airborne units and South Vietnamese Black Panther troops a mile and to the west Reports from scene said these reds also were trying to reach Hue Results of this battle were not yet reported but front dispatches said it began day and was still under way Charles Photo NO IMMEDIATE right executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says at the White House that he sees no immediate danger of the whole American Negro population swinging into violence At the left is W Averell Harriman roving ambassador and head of President Johnson's Human Rights Commission Wilkins paid a call on the President to report on his trip to Tehran as head of the U.S delegation to the session of the Human Rights Commission Spur Saigon McCarthy To Creative Result Bay State PHILADELPHIA lAP But we want a peace based on Governor Nelson Rockefeller in justice and the rights of all the major foreign policy address peoples to determine freely their promised in his presidential own destiny candidacy Regarding the Asian nations Wednesday called for a said a lasting of the of peace must embrace the lives of BOSTON AP Nelson Vietnam war effort and the hundreds of millions who wasn't a convening of a council of Asian ing in the great crescent from the polls opened nations to work for economic I Japan throughout India progress and political Iran to in the area v over favorite son Gov John 1 He urged our calling of a conference of all these Volpe on the Republican ballot to discuss and the Massachusetts Time of the dinner at which joint for tial primary of the dinner at which progress and political McCarthy only en- Time Changed Gov Nelson Rockefeller will speak at Armar ballroom has been changed to 8 p.m day instead of as an- earlier stability throughout the area trant on the Democratic ballot Red i captured slightly more than 50 The governor declared percent of the Democratic votes should encourage contact and TV M i Ti communication for the us Page 15 Col 1 the Saigon government should be encouraged to mobilize and develop its best manpower as part of a four-point program to strengthen chances for negotiation of a creative political solution to the Vietnam crisis Our strategy must reflect the fact that the essential issue is the security of the population Volpe alone on the ballot in a bid to his chances for the v i c nomination trailed Rockefeller by about 1.000 votes in returns Richard Nixon ran third almost votes behind Rockefeller A new state law requires that all the state's 34 Republican delegate votes go to Rockefeller on the first ballot at the Republican national convention WASHINGTON UPI The and that all 72 Democratic votes on Unit Clears Bid for Cut In Spending Other Democrats the in Indonesian Ship Site Dies in Crash r Florida Cause Of Car Bicycle Offer U.S Accepts Chain Crashes A 13 was WASHINGTON AP The similar to a suggestion Johnson S House quickly accepted voiced from northern provinces of South SW an sug Vietnam most of them in Edgewood road tnat preliminary peace Tri just below the talks with representatives of November zone At least 457 other North Fla smoke tour Is this i rather than control of to McCarthy on the first he said To this purpose houf committee Democratic con escalation in the approved an vention is no answer economy plan recommended by He also called for building andj the White House and designed to protecting local governments free Johnson's Trailing McCarthy on and broadening of the South Democratic ballot were Vietnamese national tax order Robert Hubert in his speech before the World Under the proposal and president Affairs Council of Philadelphia j spending plans for the new Johnson Praised fiscal d C C McCarthy ran fourth on the Johnson Praised New approbations R a l 01 capturing Rockefeller praised President would be cut billion and percent of the Johnson for his initiative in previous Republicans who could not seeking a just peace would be rescinded a ballot but declared We have nothing The package was laid in nij name on their fear and all to gain from j the committee by administration j ballots A scattering of at a closed session It Republicans also voted for put together at a White i Kennedy and Ronald Reagan House meeting Tuesday night The governor listed three the careful and a caught fire H H Republicans denounced the The state has 2.6 million we win noi accept as we cum u voters shall not try to impose any a counter plan to cut U.S Losses Four Americans reported killed were son to die in traffic accidents in shortly after Indonesia's Wednesday in j Cedar Rapids this year gestion was announced in the Phuoc Yen fight while Doctors said he suffered a Jakarta White House press another 40 were killed in the Dong Ha battles -O gl UUp LI Id I ItO V JJA whether the suggestion was also place to begin talks aimed at of two fatalities in an through the political process The G 0 P plan was rejected acceptable to North Vietnam ending the Vietnam war accident on Interstate 4 about rather than by wrecking it by and committee Republicans then five miles west of an or subversion from voting on the with U.S Highway 27 The communists were reported taking losses in the A Shau valley campaign but again secrecy cloaked the details The Phuoc Yen battle accident scene at p.m when American troops Driver of Car the enemy battalion and ed on it j Investigating officers Wilkinson said the first o lit fractured skull broken neck j secretary George Christian told two broken arms broken leg and crushed chest Police said they first received sea would be a good meeting a telephone report of what place to be an explosion He s Mower Mishap Is left A neutral ship on a neutral Special to The Gazette We must seek a worked out in a n U.S Highway 17 whose aims and by Johnson with key 10 DOV Bartow and Winter Haven five i safeguard the freedom and crats accidents were reported within a security of all Southeast Asia j House Leader Speaking of the Ford of Michigan told peace initiative Rockefeller the Tuesday night I do not believe that this meeting of Democrats injected of renewed hope is a time politics into the stand in silence an could make it more BLAIRSTOWN A rural on Six people were injured child was fatally 30 and said Indonesia's proposal j f h a is acceptable to the United Visibility was cut to two feet tates Duane State troopers blinded by the 10 me t Christian made it clear and Mrs Dale Robertson I smoke curling out of i of Richard his only fighting killed 102 communists The survivors raced into Phuoc Yen As the residents streamed out women carrying babies and men clutching their pigs six U.S government was injured m the the driver of the car as presumably Hanoi had been mishap then died in an to some of the collisions M Nemecek 19 of 51 informed of the Indonesian plan enroute to University Ambulances and fire Twenty-second avenue SW in advance of the public an- hospitals in Iowa City His jd d b f t Both car and bicycle were in Jakarta i mother took him first to the 8 y traveling southwest on Williams Christian said he was not Marengo hospital The accident or highway 149 certain whether a formal reply happened about 1 p.m and the the collision officers said by thc American government child died about p.m village i me car swerved onto the had been dispatched to Just what happened wasn't Get Help wav median strip with the bike Dut he left no doubt tnat an af immediately clear but Mrs and rider underneath response was in the Robertson was operating the CANBERRA I Charles was taken by mower when the child bulance to Dereference to the Vietnam stand muck fires left their cruisers to jor rival for the Republican nomination Playing Politics They are playing politics Allied fire killed more of the besieged Seeking Ray In Australia more A U.S charge Tuesday however was halted by survivors small arms paratroopers then got help U.S artillery pounded the The Mercy hospital In announcing acceptability of where a doctor pronounced him Indonesia's idea Christian said dead on arrival -As you know botn the A passenger in States and North Vietnam have car told police the boy appeared i ambassadors in Indonesia thc to be cutting across the One of the stumbling blocks in village American jets bombed way in front of them when si f was a sue Tor preliminary Wilkinson said Phuoc Yen was virtually flattened He reported about 100 North Vietnamese rose from the ruins at dawn Wednesday in a suicide charge for escape About a dozen got away Another dozen died in front of U.S guns Most 3 Col 2 accident happened Riding in got behind it as it was search for James Earl Ray I offer a cause and a challenge specifically allege he said backed up t wanted in the U.S on a positive than there are political The accident occurred on the of killing Martin Luther King can to in an election year John Whitworth farm a Officials said the FBI the last analysis our power south a mile east of that it had information the world critically Blairstown Robertson farms the Ray might have fled to on our commitment to Whitworth land Australia talks with North Vietnam hasj gress and is survived by his Australian police have a search for agreement on i parents He was born Aug 7 begun an intensive examination Page 3 Col 3 la location where both countries 1964 of all entry documents filed at Based on Justice McCarthy Kennedy 64.662 Humphrey Johnson Results Tied Up The unreported precincts were in the Boston suburb of ington where officials said the results were tied up in a com- puter that was used to tabulate their McCarthy campaigned in the state but Kennedy a native son of Massachusetts although now a senator from New York did not The polls had been open eral hours in most setts cities and towns when there is any hope for successful may make it more difficult lo Rockefeller told a morning news conclusion of these a solution conference he was a candidate to have a moratorium on Ford said that as far as he j for tne Republican presidential all previous White Rockefeller said he was very surprised at his showing Brooke View Senator Edward Brooke had lunch with me he said and told me the situation was very confused Kills 22 be indicative Frankly I wasn't even looking Ambulances and fire trucks Nixon on April 19 referred to with a problem that ought to President Johnson's efforts to be outside the political get peace efforts under way j Ford told a news conference and I intend as long as This injection of partisanship The governor on he subject had police are making a nationwide before the world at large j been of a bipartisan nature of all Plane Today's Index Comics Courthouse Crossword D Daily Record Deaths Editorial Features Farm Financial Marion j CLARENCE The family of Sgt Wayne Hoffner 33 of Clarence was notified Tuesday of his death in Vietnam Sgt Hoffner an army career man for 15 years had been in Vietnam since January He previous injuries in ary Before Vietnam duty the sergeant was stationed at land He is survived by his wife who was born in Duane is survived RAWALPINDI Pakistan see the results A Pakistani air Rockefeller said he had done and their allies have diplomatic Thursday at 2 p.m points of entry since He said there should be no transport crashed Wednesday i no campaigning in the state and representation jat the funeral assassination but officers say self-deception in Hanoi over our and all 22 people on board were could not remember when he The Indonesian proposal home here nothing positive has turned up I national debate We want peace killed had last visited there Asked what he thought Nixon's reaction would be he said I don't think he is going to be in- by one straw vote in the wind Rocky Announced To Head Off Defections Movies IOC I land a son and daughter his Society Sports State Television Want Ads parents Mr and Mrs Henry Hoffner all of Clarence a brother Richard with the army in Germany and two sisters Mrs Dale Sheldon and Mrs Martin Blake both of Clarence By Evans and Novak NEW YORK A major reason why Nelson Rockefeller changed his mind one month ahead of schedule and an- his candidacy day was the forceful argument by one pillar of the Eastern Rep Walter Thayer Thayer president of ney Communications Corp put it on the line to feller The big business men that Thayer and his boss former Ambassador John Hay Jock Whitney had lined up for Rockefeller were about to defect not to Richard Nixon but to a Democrat Vice- president Humphrey One liberal Republican angel in fact was all but lost to Humphrey Even though any ler campaign is largely self- financed he could scarcely run without the big names of Eastern money Thus Thayer last week strengthened his pleas that the governor could lose no more time Threats of imminent tion by money men were paralleled by similar ultimatums from politicians Senators Edward Brooke of Massachusetts and Clifford Case of New Jersey informed Rockefeller they could not wait much longer Even Sen Thruston Morton of Kentucky the governor's most important and fering champion told him his patience was nearly gone Many advised him to an- thir week and thus avoid the dangers cf the Republican governors ing circus beginning platform hearings next Monday These arguments plus reports of Rockefeller strength among orthodox Republicans were enough to sway the governor and his most respected political advisor National Committeeman George Hinman When Hinman a week ago dropped his advocacy of non- candidacy it was only a ter of time before Rockefeller became an active candidate What is significant ever is that Rockefeller's belated announcement comes principally nol from mining new veins of political support as his propagandists claim but from the threat of fatal Rockefeller also refused to defections should he keep commit himself lo a television silent with Nixon saying he His press conference would prefer to discuss and ment in Albany was a tacit work for solutions of major admission that the politics of Problems procrastination had failed i He said llis strategy will be to Indeed practical politicians to go lo thc now running the Page 3 Col 3 operation admit thai his statement of March 21 wac a rible mistake whose tions may prove fatal Although some aides elevate this boner 11 the Page 10 Col 2 Do you know why lightning never strikes twice in the same place It doesn't have
