Newport Daily News (Newspaper) - March 27, 1968, Newport, Rhode Island Weather Data Thursday Sun Rises Sols Tides high Low P.M Tuesday's Local Forecast Fair and little temperature change Thursday fair and warmer high 46 low Report on Page ESTABLISHED VOL NO 129 27 32 Home Delivery 42 cents TEN CENTS DOWNES APPEARS AT HEARING Participating in hearing at City Hall today Sgt William C Downes at left Seated with him are from left his at- torney Ronald James S O'Brien city solicitor and B Cowles Mallory city manager Police Chief Frank Walsh has back to camera Daily News Photo Who Hit Sailor Is Question In Airing Of D o wnes City disclosed this morning the entire service record o Sgt William C Downes was reviewed before the was placed on probation earlj this month Downes placed on pro for violations of police rules and regulations when he arrested two sailors at nian Hall on Wellington Avenue early the morning of Teh 18 The names of the two lors were released this morning during a hearing on the our decision we reviewed tb whole record some of whicl was complimentary but som of which was not We not one incident hut all tha happened in the past During the hearing Downes H Glantz of Providence alleged there were inconsistencies in the ments of the two sailors and noted thit no official lad been made lo the Police Department Mallory said tbo ion was initiated by the Police dent They Obie F Jones Department which is Jr 19 and Joseph M Price 20 both of the destroyer escort Garcia Mallory said In arriving at Department led to do this kind of le said punishment was by the Police wearing a white shirt but all other testimony was that The city manager conceded the attorney's statement that inconsistencies existed in the Downes was wearing a blue statements bul said They work boll i ways He said cer lain remained un- answered shirt He said Price also was as saying he didn't how lie was injured The attorney said people in or a full hearing including the personnel involved in the the sailors and the doctors whom the police had treat them after the arrests asked if he lad questioned those involved n the incident Mallory based on mation supplied by officers of he Police Department Glantz quoted Price as ng the man who hit him wa men Is consistent given wilh that of Downes Those giving ments were Edward Dugan Connell and John Chase Asked why charges were not brought against the two lors Mallory replied the two men were released to the Nav City Solicitor James S Troops Sweep M Area North Of Saigon American supported by anks artillery and planes ked the Viet Cong today for con- rol of a liny hamlet nor of Saigon in the fourth straight day of heavy lighting in the rca Men of the U.S Infantry in air strikes only 50 to 100 ahead of them as they ad into the hamlet of Ap xing Muc about 30 miles vest of Saigon near the district own of Bang U.S and South Vietnamese have reported killing nemy in the Trang Bang area ince Sunday Allied casualties rere described as light mill the battle still raging at east eight enemy dead were re- Killed Meanwhile U.S headquarters aid in another fight in the Trang Bang sector ion units killed 17 enemy after making a helicopter assault four miles northeast of he town As the American infantrymen it ground the Viet Cong wailing for them From and bunkers the my opened up with machine uns and rocket-propelled grc By midafternoon radic was reported con- Headquarters did not disclose U S casualties but said no Americans had been killed O'Brien said the standard action around Trang is part of Operation House Group Favors Delays Move House Way's arid Means millee approved today a mini- mum tax program designed to reduce U S tourist spending abroad but postponed action oh President Johnson's major in this field The committee sent to the House calling for a five per cent tax on airplane tickets to destinations outside the edi reduction inj designed to the amount of in international tourists may bring in duty ments It said however that action on tax was Undersecretary of the Barr told reporters lo provide most of the balance committee session he of payments savings in John not Wen the trade son's program will be until the administration comes up with recommendations on special import duties or other international trade measures Living Costs Climb Food Price To Jump WASHINGTON costs rose of one per cent in February rising for the fifth straight month at a Among the larger February price rises were medical care up of one per cent housekeeping services up annual rate of 4 per cent the tenths and increases in Labor said today gage interest home At the same time wholesale nance and auto repairs prices took the biggest monthly Grocery prices rose jump in two years tenths of one per cent and of one per cent including a jug said sharp 1.5 per cent rise in food Tho big rise i n wholesale recommendation may be coming or even for sure er there will W any Intensive negotiations are now in progress he said with the major U.S trading partners in Europe trying to work ouf freer U.S goods Barr estimated that the ed approved today would re suit in a balance payment on the order o million a year Thc original Johnson package including a o 30 per ceii on the spending of U.S travel crs abroad above a minimum lad been calculated ir a saving administration had for another million by a combination of encouraging for- eign tourism in this country an: urging Americans traveling cy is that formal are filed by the detective bureau not by individual patrolman Glantz contended it was in- cumbent on the city manager to determine if the sailors could be released without charges He asked Mallory How can you put this man on to the V MLi ill luun UIK I u j costs that will probably he re- prices pushed that index up lo to fleeted later in grocery prices 103.0 md preliminary figures The committee agreed today It does appear it will contra for March indicate a further in its report such an ue to go Commissioner Ar- rise of of one per appeal to American nold Chase of thc Bureau of cent not necessarily to forego for- bor Statistics said of the rise in the cost of the larger wholesale price hikes were those on trips nut to Keep spending abroad me at Norfolk Va are the de- The February to the continuing Cony and Ealon The brought the consumer price index to 119.0 meaning it cost last month to old strike in that industry and iron and steel products stemming from stockpiling as addition lo the five per cent lax on all air from this lo and Ealon are scheduled for caretaker status and crew reduction typical goods and against a possible main features of thc 1 The Conv will change ices worth in the strike this summer approved today about April 15 riod on which the index for copper and crew on each ship wil metals affected present reduced from about 23 Despite the rose 5 5 per cent of for goods a lo 80 Most of the mei some 45 million American traveler brings in lo be transferred ers gained 55 cents a week would be cut to be assigned lo other craft purchasing power as the aerospace industry The exemption the Cruiser Destroyer wages rose lo a new high pay increases ranging to Oct 15 When The gain resulted to three cents per hour present said 5 longer average work of the rise in for a mailed be assigned lo units in and a rise in They have cost of to someone in this same hone as their earnings t clauses in their would be reduced to ships CIA Linked To out further with wit I think the city mana ger is reasonable and I don't think the i n c p n s i s be said attorney called for re- the probation to i more ample investigation of facts Mallory asked Downes if he lit Jones as the latter was ng taken out of Hibernian Hall Downes replied I restrained him The reasonable course was used to effect he arrest and no more Glantz noted thai one of Continued on Page 2 allied offensive of the More American and South Vietnamese battalions taling men through five provinces around Saigon The aim is to regain the offensive from the Viet Cong and to destroy enemy troops of the enemy and captured 293 prisoners and suspects since Thang began March It U.S losses were listed at 69 killed and 604 wounded and South Vietnamese casualties at 92 killed and 232 wounded By U.S reckoning the allied forces are killing 11 enemy for every American Scuth Vietnamese soldier killed Elsewhere Viet Cong ings of the central highlands provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot and a government tary post on the fringes of gon killed four civilians and wounded Military casualties light Over North Vietnam U.S pi- lots flew through enemy missiles and heavy antiaircraft fire Tuesday to at tack three airfields a chemical and a railroad missions Headquarters said American pilots picked uo eral North Vietnamese interceptors on their radar but there were no encounters In another offensive in the Mekong Delta South Vietnamese troops reported ng 144 Viet Cong in a series of three battles Tuesday Thc heaviest lighting near Soc Trang a provincial capital 100 miles south Elsewhere North Vietnamese and mortars the U.S gunners shelled for the second consecutive morning today the U.S Provisional Corps Phu Bai the tactical command post for American units fighting along the ern frontier Gunners hit the complex with 55 rounds of rockets and tars There was no report of damage Casualties were said to be light come a problem and the rats North Vietnamese been attracted by the pumped 55 rounds of rockets food rine combat base at Khe Sanh Tuesday about the same ber of rounds that fell into the Monday The shelling has tapered off for the past three days after barrage of 600 rounds each last Friday and Saturday Because of the threat of con- stant enemy shelling and ing disposal of has be- To Keep Toll Is Filed SPECIAL TO THE NEWS PROVIDENCE Continuance of tolls on the town Bridge and dissolution of the Commission we're proposed in bills introduced day and today by Rep Howard M Webster Tiie bills would place the Jamestown Bridge under the jurisdiction of the I Turnpike and Bridge Authority The measures gon where Vietnamese Corporation Committee to and infantrymen claimed 53 Viet Cong were killed in long fighting Five South Vietnamese were reported killed and 35 wounded In a second action infantrymen clashed with elements of tile Viet Cong Main Force Battalion 32 mites south southwest of Saigon At last report the fighting was continuing with 31 enemy re- ported dead so far Government not reported South Vietnamese forces have been trying to regain the the delta heavily hit in the Bridge in carrying between the mainland and U.S Command said lunar new year so far allied troops have killed Four years ago the stale Supreme Court in an advisory opinion requested by Gov fee held unconstitutional a nosal to turn Jamestown Bridge over to Turnpike Authority with provision that it be operated as a free facility with scrapped the court held this could not bo done so long as bridge com- mission bonds were itf Under lie bills introduced by tolls could no higher Tale at the is enacted the iridge control of the Authority It be come a partner Aquidneck Island on the Turnpike Authority is de- pending to new span due to open about Dec 31 Before turnover of Jamestown Bridge to the pike is possible ha proposal after passing the General Assembly requires approval by the voters of the state In Jamestown last night Andrew Brown of lie Town Council which sponsored the legislation said the il was designed to the bridge and Ufie community It would give the Turnpike 2 Frustrations Manager Lays Delay To Federal Lag J o Newport Ship For Caretakers isaid Picture pn Page 2 City Manager Agency said yesterday the federal Goal contract would be approved in two weeks The contract has not yet been he said Mallory said the time lag government is responsible for delaying the city's ment program Mallory addressing the Ro- lary for federal aid but recent jet cuts proposed by Presiden in gelling approval of pro Club at the red tape is often leaves city of- A Newport based er will be one of three ships placed in temporary er status in the near future Cruiser Destroyer Force Atlantic headquarters an- today It said tion is a continuation of Atlantic personnel ad- justment program The Newport ship is cause of some of our tions He cited two examples to prove his the Goat land contract and the ber of Commerce building Thc chamber has asked mission lo erect a building he said During Hint he downtown redevelopment time things change and when area Mallory said We have you get the answer lo six weeks trying lo gel inal problem the problem lias a legal commitment for building not got Ex-Official Claims Failure SAIGON The U.S Central Intelligence Agency pro a fairly substantial part of the equipment and funds for South Vielnam's pacification ef fort an informed official to by The source commented after a resigning U official said the CIA supervises and funds the pacification program CIA funding of the program is a matter of public said source who is fully Informed on the U.S role in pacification He declined to estimate the dollar value of CIA support saying only that it was substantial He added bat support of the program wii being transferred to the of Defense The source said American ad visers to Vietnamese officials in program ed CIA agents as well as tary officers Slate Department and U.S Information Service personnel In a letter of resignation as a field coordinator for the New gram Sidney J Moche that the CIA is an organization incapable of supervising cation worthwhile But he said the mary supervisor of the program ind cost cist to public inspection Roche said pacification workers were recruited trained and paid under auspices of the Central Intelligence Agency Ambassador W Ko mcr head of tho U.S tion program replied that Roche was involved in supply operations and had no whatsoever in more than a year wilh our other programs The guy must be making it up Komer who was a member of he CIA for 14 years World declined lo comment saying I'm not going 0 dignify this ridiculous I I'm much more Interested in what's going on in the side and in getting the ton program lie said A CIA spokesman in Saigon said the agency also would not comment on a retired Army lieu tenant colonel spent four years in South Vietnam as a member of Gen William C Westmoreland's and later in civilian jobs His letter said he quit because 10 had hoped for some n U S policies tlie Viet Cong's lunar new year sive but are going to follow the same old This change a P uch ns a letter We know effect with local morc now Jhan we did between solving wecks ago Ol their own or wailing Wilh reference lo Goat for federal he said c land he city manager said the Middleton he government hs was Avenue sewer project is slated I 1 Mallory told he haj always been interested in ing in government because cal government gives a feeling of involvement in the cratic process bat one does not get in the federal ment 1 am especially interested in thc local field because it is a challenging ic said Whatever you can say is not boring I feel that I can do it for a iving Mallory said the cily mana- cr's job is fairly and hat it is the city Council's job o set ho priorities or him to carry out This is the cess at work if it docs not vork in Newport it won't work n the stale or national in the position of solving problems several years after they arise generally lakes four years from Hie lime you begin a federal program till you com Johnson may affect the proj cct You are never that you will gel federal he said Something is wrong when il lakes so long lo get something Mallory ing that he was not criticizing local projects or federal of- but the system by which he projects are ap proved said attempts are being made lo speed up the process and federal commissions arc working on the federal Jevel lo determine what is wrong with system The federal government always talking about its fear or population explosion but people are worried said WALK ERODED Recent rains have caused ex- erosion to the Cliff Walk Gaps'here extend back almost to rose bushes on the estale of Wilcy T Buchanan Prior to rains the end of pip In background is Japanese tea house on Iho grounds of Marble House The lea houso stands Cliff Walk creating a tunnel tho Paolo
