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SIiUr SI Util JojuUWAPolicemen Vietnam Talks ‘Near’RescuePASADENA, CAUFORNIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1968 10 Cents, e«*Action Line is your service, solving your , problems, yetting your, answers, cut-iing red. tape and standing, up for your rights- To yet action, write ACTION LINE, J71 dependent Star»News; S25 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Calif. 91109.FBI HuntsftBlonde inSecretaryTwo TreatedAt HospitalU.S. Platoon Defeats 500 Attackers, 'h* ;':v• * »\ ; *vj; ;*lt;•.** k11Kino- ProbeBy ROBERT LEEDOM ’Stair WrilirSeen With Ray In Los A ngelesFederal agents in Los Angeles reportedly are looking for a blonde woman who may have been connected with James Earl Ray, the prime suspect in the slaying of. Dr. Martin Luther King.- ...Q. On June 7 we bought a hearing Aid from Rcli-le Heaving Aid Co., of El Monte, with the iinder-mding they would refund .the $55 deposit if it was satisfactory and returned within 30 days. We ailed it bnckj registered mail, and have the re-ipts but haven’t been able to get back the deposit id they Ignore my phone calls. Can you please ilp? Mrs. C. M., Alhambra.A. Morton Gant man of 6505 Wilslure Blvd., 1-os igrles (651-0730),'attorney for the former owners of c L.A.-EI Monte-West Covina firm, says they cx-ct to decide this week whether ln’1 il e;Jj ankrupIcy ou could file V ciaiiri for 'tlic money in small aims court in El Monte; but if hankiuptcy is tiled iere is littlpi. chance- you will collect. ACTION INE has the name arid phone number o? the (drier owners. Meanwhile, Paul Dallas, who bought ut the West Covina branch of the business, is.mak-ig simple repairs as a courtesy to former cusfom-rs ut less than the normal service charge.. The woman, who had been seen in the company of the suspect, apparently disappeared from the city at the same time Ray did.The pair reportedly had been seen: drinking together at- the Sultan: Room, a; cocktail lounge In the St. Francis Hotel at 5533 Hollywood Blvd. . .. ’ Hay, then known as Eric Star-:.yo Gait; -had. lived in the hotel, while a t t ending bartending school in Los Angeles.FBI agents . are believed - to have questioned persons about the btue-eyed woman, believed to be about 27-years-old. She and Ray were last reported seen in March at the hotel bar. ' .Pasadena Police Chief H. Samuel Addis! secretary,. .Max-, inc Day, was. rescued from a fire in her North El MolinD Avenue . apartment shortly after midnight today after two cruising policemen- saw smoke seeping from her apartment.Officers Wallace I^mpc and Gary Lawrence alerted the Fire Department, 1hen hurried to.the upstairs apartment where Lampc crashed open the door.’ He was immediately ssvept backward by a hot blast of smoke that pinned him against the wall of the hall, gasping for breath.SAIGON (UPI)-A dwindling band of GIs held off about.500 attacking Communists for eight hours near Saigon Monday in a scries of battles In* which at least 164 Viet Cong were killed, American spokesmen said today.Most of the Communists were killed as Allied forces drove through a guerrilla stronghold in the Mekong Delta 22 milesVIETNAM WAR , STORY ON PAGE 2Q. Help' Last. December .the multiple carbure-m and other parts' were stolen from my car, as ported to San Gabriel -police; Last month I saw me of them in a Pasadena parts sbop.-l notified e police, but they said.there isn’t much they can ). The parts have no identification numbers, but ive positive color and part identification, and arei •Search Takes New• .Mystery Twistftrth about $150. How can I get my property before js sold? J. G.r Arcadia. . ,A. Defective Crane has offered In go with you so in cah point out both to him and the parts sliop an which items you believe arc yours, and why. rarie says the proprietor fold him ho keeps records i dates; price paid, nnd identity of seller of used irts ^ buys—so maybe this will help police fo dye this theft; and may help you make a deal, ilfi the proprietor to recover your properly.• TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) — The search for the slayer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has taken’ another mysterious twist and was turned toward Florida today.- -Q. Each week, while trying-to find a job and gelThe FBI Monday night issued a pickup order (or prime suspect Erjc Starvo Galt and asked that it be transmitted to all law enforcement agencies in Florida. The order said Galt-was wanted fur civil rights conspiracy arid had used the aliases of .■ Harvey Lowmyer and John Willard.Lawrence got down on his knees and crawled Inside, holding bis mouth clcse to the floor to find-any possible air in-the room, calling in an effort to learn whether anyone else was .in the room.1 He said lie board a woman’s voice and had started to crawl toward it when firemen arrived with gas masks and fire extinguishers.’ Lawrence painted in the direction from which he had heard .the woman’s voice.and firemen took Miss Day out.Lawrence said she was covered with black smoke from .foam rubber cushions in a couch. In the emergency ward of Hunting Ion Memorial Hospital where both Lawrence and Miss Day were taken for treatment, attend ants washed some of the soot from Miss Day’s face and discovered her identity, identity.below Saigon—parl oi a six-week-old drive that has killed nearly 1,900 Viet Cong Threatening the capital.But near live. Iwmlct of Ben Lue, 14 miles southwest of Saigon, a platoon of Iho U. S. Army 3th Infantry Division came under attack-’ by an estimated Viet Cong battalion. The Communists’ fire pinned down, the Americans and the helicopters - that would have whisked them' away. ''■« A- U.S. Army -platoon numbers 44 men, according to the books. But In practice the number is less. U. S spokesmen said six members of the platoon were killed. Twelve were wounded. But the rest kepL firing i■ Eight hours’ later a U.S. Army armored cavalry unit rumbled up *. and . smashed through the Communist lines, killing at least 49 Vlel Cong.This WeekitSays ThantIncreased DraftCall in OffingJ’rnm IVitf: Srrvlir*PARIS — Secretary General Thant said today that agreement between the United Stales and North Vietnam on a site for preliminary peace laiks should hereached . soon—probably this week.” » * ’ 'Thant told an Orly Air Field ' news conference I do . not • want to anticipate1* but he Tclt 'V solution of the ver.ue of the talks should'be reached soan, • probably this wqek /Thant, returning to New York from a U.N, Humafi Rights con*t‘ ferencc in Tehran, told• AP V/1rfpoloPFC. Charles RiclYaiiJiTafVPimionV,DINNER,TYANK STYLE• -Pa.shares a piece .of-his C-ralioAs-Wilh a Soul.h Y etnomcss child .in o village near Saigon ’ durjng .sweep of area.McCarthy in HomeState of KennedyAgiI • f T. ... A AFiremen- said lier apartment was coveredwith the ’ greasy soot from Hie foam rubber cushions and estimated complete redecorating of .the apartment wpuld cost at least $2,000.’ Firemen suspected a cigarette in the couch as the cause of the fire.One Killed,y40 Schoolji-icullurc Secretary Freeman Comes Ou! to Support Humphreynewsmen that in his *. opinion . no third, party ^can bn Involved in Jhe, Washington-Hand^ talks.- He,thus ruled out specula- • lion the • United- Natfons nr a ' neutral nation'could step in io mediate the prolonged wrangling . over the site of the talks!’ *T do not want To pinpoint •’ any capital, Thanl said: Bui he said Phnom Penh, Warsaw, Geneva or- Paris would l»o suitable.Thant was reported last week to lie in contact with Washington and Hanoi on. peace laiks. His comment on prospects came arrifd rumors In financial circles in New York that a sile already had been agreed on. llut in Washington a State Department spokesman said: You can say flatly that no agreement has been reached.Pupils HurtSen. Eugene J. McCarthy took his presidential campaign into the home stale of his chief opponent loday and quipped I ha I lie was not sure just where Sen! Robert F. Kennedy actually:lived. jjrait lotcll Ut)“There is a question of what his home state is,” McCarthy Ltold a news: conference after arriving from Cleveland to formally open a McCarthy forPresident” , headquarters Manhattan.inDECATUR, Ala. (UPI)-A school bus plunged off the road down an embankment near here today, killing an 11-year-old boy and injuring about 40 otherTo Raise FundsI don't know whether hedrive for flic Democratic presidential nomination said he expected to raise much of the money for his Indiana primary campaign in New .York. TheMay Be 100,000More in 19(i9sJ jsmssasMassachusetts, McCarthy dc- estimated. $300,000. .■ •WASHINGTON (AP) - Draft chief Lewis B. Hershcy 7ias told Congress he estimates the 1969 draft call could exceed by as much as 100,000 men the 240,000 the Pentagon Is asking.And at the least, Ihe Selective
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