Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - February 22, 1971, Oakland, California A RESPONSIBLE METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER A MONTH Central section of was flattened by tornado which hit the area last Tornadoes Lash Rejected 75 Dedd By The Associated Dozens of tornadoes tore across the flat lands of the Mississippi River delta last night Authorities said today that 75 persons were hundreds others were injured and thousands of homes and businesses were Seventy of the deaths were in Mississippi and the other five in ers also hit two cities in East but no deaths were re- 7 Policemen Killed In Weekend Shootings iy The Press Seven policemen in five cities were and killed ing the The police commissioner of Philadelphia blamed citizens who for the two The other deaths Included a marshal and state trooper killed during a Shootout with two men in St. an officer slain in a gunfight in and a man shot to death in A policeman was killed in Silver when a officer's gun dis- charged daring a straggle with a kidnap Philadelphia P o 1 i c e Com- missioner Joseph F. O'Neill made his charge at a news conference last night when he identified two ar- rested in one He said Anthony 15, and Marvin 18, both of were charged with murder in the Saturday night k i 11 i n g of patrolman John who was felled by two shots io the back of the 25, was slain as he sat in his patrol car ing a Five boors later See Back Cell U.C. Must Revise Plans for Future By SKAKS The University of is scrapping Ms for what it intended to be ta coming By win be only as large as what was predicted by Ihe and other Bat are being and sue the only wa be smaller than Pentagon Drafted be as many people as It mi harder far to fet the A deals wnl at abtt at dar hi The death toll climbed ly today when authorities re- ported additional victims in Le Flore County and Inver- Miss. looked like a thousand said Willie a employe who vived of the first does near La. Weathermen said that in an there were probably 40 or 50 spawned by two twisters in northeast Power lines were down and communications were cut off in much of the a 100-mile line stretching from northeast Louisiana across Hospital facilities were taxied to Civil de- fense officials reported culty in ascertaining figures on the number of dead and their identifications because of the public utilities Mississippi officials ed nine killed in rural LeFtore County 13 at 18 in Sharkey five in rural Humphreys three at Little two at Two at and 1C at included in the Sharkey County deaths were seven at Delte City and eight at A deputy sheriff said only en of the SO houses were left standing at Pugh a small town at the county Other tornadoes struck in Tennessee and storm ings were posted for most of the southeast from Alabama to Sooth In Sharkey along the at the southern dp of the more than 210 were reported in tion to the II m Skipper a laboratory who m the of moving from to MBS aw the and paled off the road mt JERUSALEM Pre- mier Golda Meir's cabinet has renewed its demand that Egypt negotiate new ries with The demand was greeted by a hostile re- sponse from The proposal came from an all-day cabinet meeting to macaw Egypt's of- fer of a peace agreement er Israel withdraws from the Sinai which it has held since the June 1967 Egypt also hinged a ment on a decision on ing Palestinian government of Israel reiterates its position that it will not withdraw to the ar- line of June a cabinet referring to its pre- war But it said Israel is to discuss armed forces toward recognized and agreed aries to be established in peace It posed that the indirect sions at the United Nations be continued under V. Jarring with aim of reaching an agreed peace treaty between the two negotiations should not be subject to prior ments on the outstanding the communique The cabinet said it looked on Cairo's peace made in reply to als by But it said the Egyptian proposal the ences between Egypt's boa and that of in particular the on the questions of ders and the Cairo Radio said the com- was a of the Jarring initiative and a to the Egyptian A for UK Egyptian Foreign said it Israeli which WASHINGTON today the Service to draft t iff this year a the tint of IHI the af needed m lew medical tchori haw A wd bt trend away from the no- boa that whether a aV hould be by Ms demic than oy htt ft or other There SMy be a switch priorities Under the Slate Master Plan for Higher the tem has UK He headed la nifty begat treat the hand and hud wo aa who was aba contradicts the caTs and brta the UN The UN Council the five after the Rs peace formala Lv rack withdrawal from pied Arab aad Arab of Israel's to mi Airport Top Nominees Acting Of Syria tan af la Jaly 77 tartan ef i f art the and well both m 14 categories for Academy Awards today received a 1- aad Easy aad M ar the DAMASCUS Khatib ul Air Iw twa officially 10- Tbe proved a show of at the the or Parti meal was U. Gem Bate Assad General Linked to PX Graft By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON WASHINGTON An Army general received monthly from Vietnam's most notorious sales shielded him from military in- and permitted him to store smuggled goods in Army a Senate panel was told Senators probing alleged corruption in the armed billion post clubs and recreation activities were told former Gen. Earl F. 51, used his in- fluence as a well-placed staff officer in Vietnam to protect William J. The Army gave no tion last July when it removed Cole from command of the European Post Exchange reduced him to and ordered him to In his Jack former general manager for two of Crum's most tive Vietnam business said Crum sent his military including to Hong Kong to pick up kickback money from a local financial Testifying under bee said Crum illegally used official and counterfeit tary purchase orders to gle merchandise into Vietnam duty-free and used shredding machines to destroy By bee said Crum made good use of a long-time in his booming ness He said Cram employed once to drive a tor from raid Cram boasted he paid When a concession held by Crum was doing See Back 04.7 Top Parley on Laos Compiled from and UPI SAIGON The South drive into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail is a week behind schedule because of heavy Communist U.S. military sources said today Vientiane dis- patches said the North were sending in forcements and heavier ing can be Gen. Creighton W. the U.S. commander in South met tonight in gon with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu to assess the Thieu had predicted his forces would capture the key town of Sepone by Feb. 15. Communist forces today surrounded a force of about South Vietnamese troops on a hilltop five miles inside Laos after all but wiping out a nearby Ranger and opened fire on a second ARVN base nine miles inside pilots pouring fire into the Communist positions said they saw at least 500 North Vietnamese bodies There were indications in Saigon the drive had failed to halt traffic on the Ho Chi Minh but U.S. military sources in Vientiane said the incursion had stopped 40 to 50 per cent of the through traffic and that the North ese were moving infantry and Threat of Calamity Despite U.S. Claim By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign News Analyst Despite statements of top Without complete and in Washington that the incursion into Laos is according to reports from the field indicate that the South Vietnamese drive is facing a At least two Ranger which contain some of the best South Vietnamese have ble At one key point inside U.S. who are pouring very heavy fire into tiff Omi ill they saw at least 500 North Vietnamese So the enemy is suffering curate reports from the no outsider can correctly the tide of in this war where cation is so But from what evidence is available it appears that Washington is trying to put a better face on the situation than the And ttes is not the first time this has The UPI in Saigon was in- formed by U.S. military sources that President Thieu had set Feb. 15 as the date for capturing which is the See Back Col. 3 5 IT RAMES ON The wreck last night cost the life of driver Douglas Stevenson of San Jose Gas Rig Kills Man FREMONT A San Jose truck 1i ohne m CM aad la flanm Jr 27. raa from the bat by fire aad aad died a few feet He was said in his m ed an of ted taken the Boulevard 7 p in one of the a rarb tae tank traier It broke mam tank and and Creek The track also Tipped and IBM through erupted flames Fauna rushed to UK scene aad to try to gasoline from IV Jn Lake Two oral to the Mtt more than 11 IA save the newh t ft t k e d troat The nty dosed the wooden gates at the take and hy I am today the over artillery to destroy the South Vietnamese Sources in the Laotian tal of Vientiane said U.S. re- connaissance indicated t h e Communists had decided against shifting their supply trail westward out of range of the South Vietnamese and in- stead were in try and ammunition from North Vietnam and bases to the south for a major at- tempt to break the South The sources said they did not expect a Dien Bien Phu type battle in the invasion area apparently there is going to be a They said the major battle was ex- near intersection of East-West Route 9, the main South Vietnamese supply line from South and North-South Route 92, a main trunk of the Ho Chi Minh In a Pentagon Jerry W. said the abandonment of the Laos outpost was for South ese But he refused to characterize the offensive as behind operation The disruption of the trail and the capture of supplies We're at a point in this tion where it's rather bard to say it's on schedule every hour of every In far northern hundreds of mites north of the South Vietnamese the Chinese Communists have road that cute across northern Laos toward U.S. military sources Work on the road baited last tumn but resumed within the last several They said the Chinese are working three shifts a around the ing brush and trees between Muong the present road and Pak Beng on the Mekong River about 15 miles to the But they said there was no dence of major troop ments in that U.S. and South Vietnamese spokesmen in Saigon could not confirm reports Communist See Back Call Nimitz Chase Arrested A pair of burglary suspects ted a half-dozen police cars on an chase along the Nimitz Freeway early part of me time in the wrong A track was forced off tne freeway at one point as UK ante roared at the rif narrowly a At UK High Street another truck tie freeway apparently UK suspects of their error awl tney to a halt men leaped from the but were James of Ml St armied near ine car and James ate of 1414 waa discovered to UK of a on a road spar line paraM to the Both were held f or of burglary The chase begaa la san Patrolman answered a tent alarm at me E C Wenger Conv pacy at 1HO flava St and M- tbr auto up the Dam Street at Oakland pdm at aad the when tne car tamed off at The driver oa UK and re- OK SON hat the After the panne
