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LBJ orders 14,600 reservists to duty WASHINGTON UPI—President Johnson today ordered the immediate callup of more than 14,600 Air Force and Navy air reservists to back up U.S. demands for the return of the USS Pueblo and its 83 men. A mobilization of Army and Marine Corps reserves was also under consideration. The announcement shortly before noon EST was made by presidential Press Secretary George Christian. The President ordered the air reserve units to active duty to put an additional 872 fighter and transport aircraft into immediate service. More snow likely for New England United Press International A rejuvenated winter had its eye on the East Coast today and threatened to lay its snow-laden burden on southern New England if winds failed to carry it far enough to sea. The U.S. Weather Bureau Issued provisional heavy snow warnings for the area when it appeared the storm which hit the seaboard Wednesday night might intensify as it moved due north. But the bureau later softened its warnings when the storm appeared to be blowing too far into the Atlantic Ocean. The Wednesday snow was enough to close schools in at least 11 Tennessee counties. A blanket was laid an inch deep as far south as Augusta, Ga. Travelers warnings remained in effect today from southern Virginia across most of the Carolinas into Georgia as freezing mixed with the snow to cause slippery highway conditions. Snow also fell—although In lighter proportions—in the Midwest. Gale warnings were issued along the coast from Cape Hatteras and the Virginia Capes. There also was the usual frigid weather in the eastern half of the nation, including the 2 a.m. EST low of 24 below nero at Massena, N.Y, But warmer temperatures were predicted for today as a warm front advances from the Midwest to the East creating a temperature change of around 20 degrees as It moves.

United States renews diplomatic efforts to obtain highjacked ship

FIRST OFFICERS—The newly formed Putnam County Registered Nurses’ Organization met at the Putnam County Hospital Tuesday evening and among regular business held an election of officers. Those elected and pictured above are (left to right) Deanna Monnett, president; June Wells, recording secretary; and Rose Lambert, treasurer. Elected and not pictured were Mary Gould, vice president, and Myrtle Goss, corresponding secretary. Noted concert pianist to play at DePauw Friday

Soulima Stravinsky, one of the most widely recognized interpreters of Mozart and Scarlatti, will be featured concert pianist in DePauw University’s Friday convocation in Meharry Hall at 10 a.m. The public concert will be the first of DePauw’s 24-date convocation series for the second semester. All will be open to the general public as well as to students. Stravinsky has been a permanent member of the music faculty at the University of Illinois since 1950, two years after he arrived in the United States from his native Switzerland. His functions as a teacher, however, have not interrupted his activities as a concert pianist and as a composer. In the past decade he has toured Europe several times, as well as South and North Africa, appearing with symphony orchestras in recitals, on radio and tele-

vision programs throughout Western Europe and North America. Mr. Stravinsky has studied piano and composition in Paris at the Ecole Normale de Musique and under such eminent teachers as Alfred Cortot, Isidore Philipp and Nadia Boulanger. A companion lecture Stravinsky will present to the public is set for 3 p.m. Friday in Recital Hall at the Music School building. Stravinsky will discuss “Trends in Contemporary Music.” During the preceding hour he will conduct a master class for advanced piano students. Friday morning’s program In MeHarry Hall will include “Vaises Nobles et Sentimentales” by Ravel, Bartok’s “Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm.” and “Sonata in A Flat Major” by C. M. von Weber.

WASHINGTON UPI — Despite initial rebuffs from North Korea and Russia. the United States today renewed its diplomatic efforts to obtain the release of the hijacked USS Pueblo and her crew before deciding on any harsher action. Even as the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise led a naval task force into Korean waters, there were indications—admittedly vague and extremely tentative—that the crisis triggerd by the Communist capture of Pueblo might be resolved without resort to military reprisal. Oddly enough, one of these indications was the fact that Pyongyang had broadcast an alleged “confession” that his ship had “violated” North Korean water by Pueblo’s skipper, Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher. It ended wdth a plea “to be forgiven leniently so that I and my crew could return to relatives anxiously waiting for us to return home safe.” Brand Confession False Irate Pentagon officials, pointing to the clumsy style and wording of the “confession,” said it was “not written or prepared by any American,” and branded it “a travesty on the facts.” No matter whether the “confession” was genuine or not, diplomats here noted that the wording was similar to that of other statements Communists have extracted in the past from captives whom they subsequently released. Meantime, it appeared that Bucher and his crew may have been able to destroy some of the top secret electronic and communications gear aboard Pueblo before the North Koreans managed to board the Intelligence vessel. For the first time Wednesday, defense officials revealed that Cmdr. Bucher had messaged, presumably while his ship was being boarded, that he was destroying the equipment. Injured Destroying Equipment Hasty “destruct” operations, probably after the boarding began, are believed to have been involved in the injury of four of Pueblo’s crewmen, one of them critically. Officials reported that one message from the lightly armed vessel said the badly injured crewman had a leg blown off.

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North Korea warned against "barbaric acts

SEOUL UPI — South Korea today warned against more “barbaric acts.” A top Army commander said his troops strongly favor action against the northern Communists. The South Korean army was reported put on a “state of readiness” and reinforcing its units along the North Korean border. , At sea, the USS Enterprise and smaller ships of a powerful U.S. Navy task force were reported on station about 200

miles from the North Korean port of Wonsan. The U.S. Navy intelligence ship Pueblo and its 83-man crew were being held at Wonsan fellowing their capture Tuesday by North Korean patrol boats. With the nuclear powered carrier Enterprise, the world’s largest warship, moved the nuclear powered, missile armed frigate Truxtun, the missile frigate Halsey and two and possibly three more destroyer-sized warship, reports said. In Seoul, Foreign Minister Choi Kyu-

han told newsmen South Korea will not “look idly on North Korea’s barbaric acts of aggression indefintely.” He referred not only to the Pueblo seizure but Sunday’s vain attempt by 31 North Korean infiltrators to assassinate President Park Chung Hee. Choi said the assassination attempt and the Pueblo incident formed the “two most serious threats the North Korean Communists posed for peace in Korea and the Far East.”

He called on the 16 nations which battled North Korea in the 1950-1953 Korean war to remain alert for action. Choi said a note has been sent to U.N. Secretary General Thant explaining the situation. Maj. Gen. Lew Byong-hion, director of plans and operations for the South Korea army, said in a statement “tha commander in chief of U.N. forces should take proper action to ensure that there is no recurrence” o f North Korean forays.

Chairman Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., of the Senate Armed Services Committee, raised the possibility that “a larger ship — a subchaser type” — may have been Involved in Tuesday’s action in addition to the fourth North Korean patrol boats originally reported. As for the decision against sending aid to Pueblo, defense officials here blamed

commanders in the field for the fallura to act when the first distress messaga was received. Policy Decision In general, the officials said, it is not the policy to provide protection for such intelligence ships as Pueblo, operating alone and virtually unarmed in international waters.

North Viet armored tanks rumble toward Khe Sanh

SAIGON UPI — Military intelligence reports today said North Vietnam armored vehicles are rumbling down the Ho Chi Minh trail toward the embattled U.S. fort of Khe Sanh in South Vietnam’s northwest corner. They said six to eight of the vehicles— probably tanks—have been sighted in the jungle supply trail in neighboring Laos for the first time. Intelligence reports said it was not clear if the armor would be used against American forces in South Vietnam or to fend off allied guerrillas harassing the Ho Chi Minh trail Although the hills ringing Khe Sanh make rough going for tanks, two divisions of North Vietnam troops massed there struck Wednesday at the vital U.S. airfield, unleashed heavy artillery attacks and sent probing teams testing Dr. Edington is Rotary speaker The Greencastle Rotary Club met Wednesday noon at the DePauw Union Building. President Hugh Henry welcomed the following visitors: Dante Ibarra, Cajamarca. Peru, guest of Jerry Williams, and Phil Cooper, Greencastle, guest of Ray Brush. Program chairman Forst Fuller introduced Dr. Will Edington of the local Rotary Club. Dr. Edington spoke on “The International Aspects of Rotary.” Rotary was founded in 1905 by a group of businessmen in Chicago. Rotary clubs are now located in most countries except those controlled by dictators or Communism. Over sixty per cent of the 13,000 clubs are located outside of the United States. This involves forty different languages. The goals of Rotary include striving for a means of obtaining world peace, understanding and brotherhood. The next meeting will be Wednesday, Jan. 31, 12:00 noon, at the DePauw Union.

the Leatherneck defenders, American spokesmen said. As the growing battle of the border threatened rising losses, U.S. spokesmen said that in combat last week 218 Americans were killed, 1,796 were wounded—847 severely enough to require hospitalization, and eight reported missing or captured. It raised U.S. war losses to 16,677 men killed, 103.993 wounded and 976 listed as missing or captured. Allied spokesmen said 198 South Vietnam troops were killed and 657 wounded in combat last week. Other allied forces suffered 19 men killed and 36 wounded. They report that, as usual, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in South Vietnam suffered far worse—at least 1.842 reported killed in action last week. The Marines, defending the fort seven miles below North Vietnam, killed at least 14 North Vietnamese Wednesday and blasted the foggy hills with their heaviest close support air bombardment of the war, spokesmen said. They said jets flew a record 712 sorties against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in South Vietnam Wednesday and more than half hit near Khe Sanh, western anchor of the allied defense line below the North-South Vietnam border. According to military reports, the North Vietnamese have four to five divisions poised for their greatest invasion push of the war — with 16.000 to 20.000 of the 40.000 troops ganged around Khe Sanh. Spokesmen said Wednesday night tha North Vietnamese made their sharpest probing thrust near the small airfield and the Marine bunkers lying in a valley ringed by the hills. They set up 50 caliber machineguns and raked two CH46 helicopters flying along the field’s southeast corner. They hit one. The second CH46 whirled down and plucked the survivors to safety, spokesmen said. The Marines reported seven men killed and 77 wounded, 27 of the latter seriously enough to need evacuation from the outpost fort.

10 Mississippi men held in Negro leader's death

SIGMA CHI PLEDGES HELP HOSPITAL—The pledge class of the DePauw chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity turned out Monday to help Putnam County Hospital. Through the efforts of Craig Hammond, Sigma Chi Service Project Chairman, arrangements were made for eighteen members of the pledge class to spend all day Monday in a concerted effort to complete a service project for the hospital. The project consisted of assembling 3000 patient information folders which are to be given to patients at the time they are admitted to the hospital. These folders represent a new method of getting a large amount of information to the patient about hospital facilities. The work progressed steadily throughout the day after

a hearty breakfast in the hospital dining room, supplemented with additional fortification at lunch time. Dave Price, the Pledge Class President, directed the operation. Members of the group were: Paul Blasdel, Keith Broshears, Jim Bray, Mike Fleming, Doug Franty, Chuck Goldner, Marc Hall, Pete Harst, Skip Lehnhard, Mike Lewis, Terry Lester, Ken Marsch, Jim Marty, Don Prosser, Steve Robertson, Alex Ross, and Denny Stidham. Mrs. Dorothy Toney, Director of Nursing, expressed the appreciation of the hospital at the completion of the project. It would have been impossible for these folders to have been assembled at this time without the help of the Sigma Chi.

HATTIESBURG. Miss. UPI—Mississippi authorities Wednesday night arrested 10 men, including a Laurel chic leader, on murder and arson charges in the firebomb death of Negro leader Vernon Dahmer. Additional arrests were expected today. Five persons were arrested by state troopers on murder and arson indictments and another five were charged with arson. They were being held in the Forrest County jail without bond pending arraignment expected later today. Among those arrested were Sam Holloway Bowers, Jr., of Laurel, alleged imperial wizard of the militant White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, attorney Travis Buckley and Charles Clifford Wilson, a Jones County civic leader. Wilson, charged with murder and arson, only Monday was awarded the Laurel Jaycees distinguished service award for 1967. The indictments were the first state charges returned in the Jan. 10, 1966, nightrider attack on the home of the Negro voter registration leader. However, Bowers and 11 other white men, including a number of those indicted Wednesday, faced federal conspiracy charges in connection with Dahmer’s death. Charged with murder and arson with Wilson were Cecil Victor Sessum, William Thomas Smith, James Lyons and Charles Richard Noble. Bowers, Buckley, Adavours Nix, Howard Travis Giles and Lawrence Byrd were indicted on arson charges. It was the first time Wilson, president of an artificial limb manufacturing firm In Laurel, had been named in connection

with the case. Lyons, Smith and Byrd had been arrested in 1966 by FBI agents, but w r ere not reindicted last year when new indictments were returned by a federal jury at Jackson. Bowers, Sessum, Nix, and Giles were among those indicted on federal conspiracy charges in the Dahmer slaying. Bowers was one of seven white men convicted last fall of conspiring to violate the civil rights of three young integrationists killed near Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964. New County Choral Club is organized A County Choral Club was organized Tuesday evening at the 4-H Community Building, with 13 members in attendance. The new' director, Mrs. Joyce Hanlon, was introduced and led the group in singing several selections from the new Purdue Choral Collection. Mrs. Wendell Brattain was the accompanist. During the business meeting, the women elected Mrs. Stanley Sears, president; Mrs. Estella Phipps, vice president, and Mrs. Wilma Evens, treasurer. Plans were made to meet the 1st and 3rd Monday evenings of each month, at 7 p.m., at the 4-H Community Building. The County Choral Club is a Cooperative Extension Service Program. Any woman in the county who is interested in group singing is invited to attend. For further details, call Betty H. Sendmeyer. County Extension Agent, Home Economic*.