Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - May 2, 1972, Xenia, Ohio 91st Year No 139 THE XENIA DAILY GAZETTE 7 i Xenia Ohio Tuesday May 2 1972 FBI Chief Hoc Cleveland area polls reportedly open late 16 Cents dead at 77 record 48 years By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sens Hubert H Humphrey and George McGovern both complained of voting problems in the populous Cleveland area today as they battled at the voting booths across Ohio and Indiana for national convention delegates Humphrey said he was pret ty damned mad and talked of getting an attorney to see what is going on at the Cuya hoga County Cleveland Board of Elections Voting in Cleve land was snarled mainly due to mechanical problems Robert Ohio chair man for McGovern said an of complaint was filed on the failure of at least 100 poll ing places in Cleveland to open on time at am He said complaints were made to Sec of State Ted W Brown the Cleveland Board of Elec tions the FBI and to the US Justice Department Humphrey also bucked Ala bama Gov George C Wallace in an Indiana primary as he sought to take the lead in the Democratic presidential nomi race It is unbelievable just unbe lievable Humphrey said of the Cleveland mixup I am pretty damned mad about it I think well go down and get a lawyer and see what is going on here Humphrey visited the Board of Elections office in downtown Cleveland where election conferred by phone with Brown in Columbus in an effort to extend voting hours beyond the normal pm closing at precincts where there was ma chine trouble Brown refused to allow a time extension but cited a law that anyone in line when polls close will be allowed to vote As to complaint Brown said I havent seen an election in 22 years where someone didnt lose their coo Said It is evident that a deliber ate pattern of tampering with the Ohio election has emerged in Cuyahoga County where at least 100 polling places were kept locked for at least two hours after the official opening time He also charged a number of polling places didnt have enough Voting machines to handle the lines of voters Because of the number of candidates persons voting in the Democratic primary used paper ballots to vote on delegate candidates for the national convention Voting machines were used for the Re publican ticket where Presi dent Nixon is uncontested and for Congress legislative and lesser races On Clevelands East Side early morning voters said they arrived to find polling places locked or voting machines still sitting outside the polls Voting machines were report ed jammed in a downtown Cleveland polling place They were locked at a West Side poll ing location and there were reports of voting machine fail urs in Euclid Oh my God thai is a pity said Humphry at a morning television talk show Honestly every person is entitled to a right to vote That really upsets me The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections held an emergency meeting to discuss the prob lems About 400000 voters 300 000 of them Democrats were expected to turn out in the countys 1788 polling places Despite a forecast of rain for much of the state Secretary of State Ted Brown is predicting that 23 million Ohioans will go to the polls to cast their ballots But Brown said the figure might have been much higher had Maine Sen Edmund Mtis kie not withdrawn from active participation in the presidential race and had the stale Su preme Court not ordered the proposed letter and con 1A constitutional amendments off the ballot Polling places across the slate open at am and close at pm At issue on todays ballot eight delegate al large seals o the Democratic national convention and 115 delegate seats divided among the states 23 Congressional dis nominations for the US House of Representatives in 16 Congressional districts contested seals on the Ohio Supreme Court AH 99 seals in the Ohio House of Representatives of the 33 Senate seats races for offices WASHINGTON AP j Edgar Hoover director of the Federal Bureau ot Investigation since 1924 died Monday night at his home at the age of 77 the Justice Department an Hoover the nations chief law officer for 48 years had be come a legend in the United States shaping the FBI into a massive powerful federal agen cy Acting Ally Gen Richard Kleindienst issued a graph statement in which he said Hoovers body was found by his maid at approximately am today It is with profound personal grief that 1 announce that J Edgar Hoover passed away during the night at his resi dence Kleindienst said His personal physician informed me that his death was due to natural causes The FBI head was permitted by presidential order to continue in his government job after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 Hoover unmarried domi the bureau during his lifetime as no man In any other federal agency Wielding vast power he was said to lavish on the FBI the pride and posses of a slern and watch ful parent He joined the bureau as its acting director in 1921 after Coastal lowlands Nixon Brezhnev Reds new target ease SALT SAIGON AP Flushed with victory in the far north North Vietnamese troops launched new attacks today in the populous coastal lowlands and forced South Vietnamese troops from another base hi the central highlands to the yest With all of northernmost Quang Tri Province in enemy hands the North Vietnamese radio boasted that the new province to the south Thua Thien which includes the old imperial capital of Hue was doomed The South Vietnamese were trying to set up a defense line Four children die in blaze P GOSHEN Ind AP Four young children died in a fire at their rural home near here ear ly today Their parents another child and two other adults were able to escape The house located about one mile north of Millersburg about 7 miles southeast of Goshen was destroyed The victims were identified as Chris Smith 8 Vicki Wel cher 7 Brian Welcher 4 and Robert Bontrager 3 The parents Mr and Mrs Robert Bontrager a o I d daughter brother and another woman were able to escape through a first floor window firemen said north of Hue and 35 miles south of the one Hue is 32 miles south of Quang Tri Authorities began a drive to weed out suspected Viet Cong agents in Hue a city of 200000 now swollen with 150000 refu gees Officials disclosed 600 suspected Viet Cong agents had been seized in Hue in the past two days The North Vietnamese con quered Quang Tri Province by using a wide variety of weap ons new lo the war tanks long range artillery and sophis antiaircraft artillery To this was added today a heat seeking missile Brig Gen Thomas W Bow en deputy senior US adviser in the far north said the mis sile fired from a handheld launcher was used for the first time in he war and brought down a US helicopter The fourman crew a US adviser and two Vietnamese were killed With the battlefield situation deteriorating rapidly in parts of South Vietnam top US and South Vietnamese officials met to review the 34dayold North Vietnamese offensive and map their next move US Ambassador Bunker and Gen Creighton W commander of US forces in Vietnam conferred with President Nguyen Van Thieu for over an hour in Inde Palace The battlefield situation at noon was forces pressed their drive to conquer all of northern Binh Dinh Province along the central coast with new assaults on Landing Zone English a regimental head quarters that is the last strong point in the region Base Lima on High way 14 about six miles north of the provincial capital of Kon tum City was abandoned after heavy attacks Up to 800 de fenders fell back to lighten their defensive ring around Kontum City The Saigon command an that more than 400 shells slammed into Landing Zone English on Monday in moderate casualties The attack was resumed ear ly today WASHINGTON AP Pres ident Nixon and Soviet Commu nist party chief Leonid nev in recent secret ex changes have scored a major advance toward a accord In announcing this late Mon day the While House implied that submarine missiles will be included in a strate gic arms limitation talks SALT deal that also will cov er antiballistic missiles and nuclear land based mis siles An agreement is expected by the time of Nixons May 2229 Soviet visit nuclear missiles have been a major is sue in recent SALT negotia tions Envoys at the talks are said lo have much agreed on ABM and in ICBM limits Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L Ziegler said without naming any specific weapons that the major advance from the exchanges relates to the broadening of the scope of an offensive freeze Nixon sent US Ambassador Gerard C Smith back to the SALT sessions at Helsinki Mon day with new instructions and the President expects the So viet negotiator there to get new instructions too which can lead to a mutually acceptable agree ment Ziegler said Over the past several weeks the President has had a num ber of confidential exchanges wilh Mr Brezhnev concerning SALT Ziegler told newsmen after a Nixon meeting with Smith and top diplomatic military and intelligence ad visers Nations housing scandals being unveiled at hearings WASHINGTON AP They came by the bus full these an ry homeowners from the na gry homeowners from the na complaint was about the Federal Housing Adminis tration and the decrepit FHA certified and insured houses sold through the governments innercity home ownership program Their official voice was the National Peoples Caucus an infant amalgam of 368 grass roots organizations represent ing white ethnics blacks and Spanishspeaking Americans The whites concern was the blockbusting deterioration and abandonment that struck their neighborhoods because of the home ownership programs The minorities were angry about the shoddy housing foisted on them It all spilled forth in a hear ing room of the Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee The panel was opening a probe of the financial machinations responsible for scandals in New York Philadelphia Detroit Chicago and St dals the government estimates will bring 240000 housing aban nationwide in the next few years at a cost to the FHA of billion Times wins Pulitzer Prize NEW YORK AP The New York Times has won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for merit public service for its publication of the Pentagon pa the 47volume study of how the United Slates became involved ir the Vietnam war The national reporting award went to syndicated columnist Jack Anderson for his dis closure of administration pol during he India Pakistan war as the trustees of Columbia University announced the annual prizes Monday But the trustees in an appar ently unprecedented action is sued a statement in which they expressed deep reservations about the timeliness and suit ability of certain of the journal ism awards They did not specify which awards they referred to but the Times said today it had learned that the controversy in volved the awards to the Times and Anderson because of the way in which official govern ment documents had fallen into journalistic hinds In the awards for letters the trustees gave the fiction prize to Angle of Repose by Wal lace E Stegner a professor of English and director of the writing program at Stanford University Joseph P Lash received the prize for distinguished phy for his bestselling Elea nor He friend of the late first lady Roosevelt TV general nonfiction prize went to Stilwell nad the Amer ican Experience In China 1911 194S by Barbara W Tuch man her award In the category She won in for The Guns of August For the first time since there was no Pulitzer award for drama this year Each of the 11 Journalism awards and the seven cultural prizes carries a award to be divided where there are multiple winners The public service award includes a gold medal The Times said it had nomi Neil Sheehan the Wash ington correspondent who first obtained the Pentagon papers in both the national and inter national reporting categories The Pentagon study WM com missioned by then Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara in 1967 and was classified se cret The Justice Department sought to halt the Times publi cation of its series after the third installment Eventually the US Supreme Court sustained the news papers claim that such prior restraint on publication was in violation of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press J EDGAR HOOVER several years as a Justice Department law clerk and became director three years later Born in Washing ton DC on Jan I 1895 Hoo ver received his law degree from George Washington Uni versity and lived all his life in the District of Columbia 1 He had a fondness for dogs for his garden and for horse racing confining himself to bets But nothing transcended his devotion for the FBI As much as he loved the bu reau Hoover hated commu nism He reduced the Commu nist party In the United States to a shell riddling the organ with agents so that members never sure who they were talking to The FBI grew from a small government investigative In 1908 after de mands by President Theodora Roosevelt that something be done about political and busi ness massive or of some 15000 em ployes including 6700 special agents When Hoover took Com mand In 1924 me number of agenst totaled less than 500 Over the years there have been demands from critics that Hoover step out as FBI chief Sen George S McGovern D SD in his current campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination has gald he would replace Hoover Only this week columnist Jack Anderson told a congres that Hoover prepared dossiers on prominent Americans not accused of crime Anderson said he had seen copies of FBI reports on sex activities and said soms of these wera given to President Lyndon B Jchnson during his term In the Whita House for bedtime reading the weather rain stop The weatherman says his lawn also needs cutting and opined this morning If we get it done this week it appears well have to do it between the showers Then he issued his forecast Partly cloudy chance of ers this afternoon tonight and tomorrow high today in low tonight in up per 50s high tomorrow in upper 60s Rain probability is 50 per cent for the period And his outlook through Saturday al so is damp Mild chance of showers temperatures Anchorage 43 32 New York 74 60 Atlanta 78 59 Phoenix 92 59 Chicago 72 55 San Fran 73 51 Ft Worth 81 64 Tampa 84 69 Miami 81 70 Wash 80 63 N Orleans 84 67 Xenia 76 59 tr inside today VOTING light in Greene 9 FAIRBORN sewer proposal approved by 9 SELLERS to receive Central State Uni versity Alumni 9 Amusements 14 Classifieds 12 13 14 15 Cracker Barrel 9 Crossword 14 Editorial Page 4 Helen Bottel 2 3 Obituaries 5 Sports 6 7 Sydney Omarr 14 Television 15 Womens News 23 Congress Sow reap WASHINGTON AP The House has joined the Senate in endorsing family vegetable gar dens It sent to President Nixon without a dis senting vote Monday a Senate resolution urg plant a vegetable garden to fight in plant a garden to fight in save money get exercise and have the fun and pleasure of family vegetable grow ing GERONIMO As firemen carry hose lines up a fire escape a cat leaps to safety from the fourth floor of a blazing Brooklyn building The cat landed on all fours and walked away apparently unharmed UPI
