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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1971
Page
8
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Tuesday with a chance of showers or thunderstorms late tonight and Tuesday. Lows tonight in the mid 40s and highs Tuesday in the 50s, rain chances 20 percent tonight and 30 percent Tuesday. High Sunday around 55 with a low near 34.
In Regensburg three Nazi police officials went on trial over the 1941 Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, detailing Maj. Martin Besser age 79, Maj. Engelbert Kreuzer 57, Sgt. Fritz Forberg 65. commander Rene Rosenhauer 82 deemed unfit to stand trial. Al Capp hospitalized after exhaustion collapse in Arkansas. Rebel attacks beaten back in Ceylon amid amnesty period. Cambodia crisis persists as In Tam declines to form government. State Sen Vernon Kyhl suffers mild heart attack in Waterloo hospital. Hunger march to Iowa City Coralville raises funds. about 1,000 started, 600 completed. Iowa Senate passes 18-year-old voting bill without opposition. moves to House.
Antiwar protests in the capital escalate with police aided by National Guardsmen and federal troops. Traffic remains mostly flowing but many intersections are blocked by hit and run tactics. Attorney General Mitchell stated the city is open and the government is functioning.
Mayor Walter Washington called the demonstrations unsuccessful as tear gas drove civilians and officers apart. Federal workers reported a normal day despite billowing gas while riot police used tear gas and clubs to disperse crowds. By 9 am, about 2,200 Marines and Army paratroopers arrived from nearby staging areas, some landing on the Lincoln Memorial grounds.
The report lists river stage readings for LaCrosse through Davenport with Fall values, alongside a midmorning radio urging perseverance. It notes 2,000 federal troops aiding police to block four Potomac bridges and protests at the Pentagon, with injuries and arrests reported but not tallied. In Vietnam, U S forces fell by 8,000 last week to 273,000, with counts by service and a planned further cut to 184,000 by Dec.
The court, in a 6 to 3 decision by Justice Harlan, allows juries to decide life or death in capital cases and rejects calls for separating the penalty phase from the trial. It upholds McGautha and Crampton's first degree murder convictions and sentences, with potential for earlier executions amid 64 inmates on death row across 33 states. Justices Burger Blackmun Black and White join in the majority. Brennan Douglas and others dissent.
Thatcher Plastic Packaging plant workers, about 500 hourly employees, remain on strike as union Local 376 rejects an 8 percent first year and 14 cent second year wage offer. President Edward Bennett says the union seeks 25 percent raises in both years. A federal mediator has joined discussions.
The AP reports Radio Hanoi aired an English language antiwar message recorded by Lt. Col. Edison Wainwright Miller of Clinton Iowa. The message addressed to his mother in Clinton condemned U S actions in Vietnam Cambodia Laos and Thailand as illegal immoral and a distortion of American values. It argued the U S is militaristic and harming civilians while denying self determination.
Ten youths ages 12 to 16 piled into Danny Hendersons car for a Sunday drive near Covington Georgia. A Georgia Railroad freight train struck the auto broadside at a crossing, dragging it about a mile. Nine perished including Jimmy Norwood and Almethin Norwood with Sharon Belcher hospitalized in critical condition. The driver was identified as Henderson, who had owned the car less than three weeks. authorities said the teens lived within blocks of each other and were riding for unknown destinations when the collision occurred as Henderson attempted to pass a stopped vehicle at the crossing.
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