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North Koreans may release some of Pueblo s crewmen

SEOUL UPI—Some of the 83 crewmen of the captured USS Pueblo may be released today by North Korea, a Seoul radio station said today. Munhwa radio said three U.S. Army ambulances plus a team of doctors took up positions at Panmunjom where American and North Korean delegates met for a third session on the seized intelligence ship. Earlier, South Korean government Escape injury in train-auto accident Wayne Moore, who resides on Avenua E, and his children escaped in a trainauto accident Sunday afternoon at the Tenth Street crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Sheriff Bob Albright reported that Moore told him his auto stalled on the tracks as the Pennsylvania’s Penn-Tex-an passenger train approached from the west. The children got out of the car, Albright said, but Moore remained in the machine. The train clipped the front end but Moore w'as not injured. Sheriff Albright investigated another mishap this morning at the entrance to the IBM Plant parking lot on Ind. 240. Vehicles involved were a 1964 Buick station wagon driven by Willie C. Phillips. 66, Fillmore, and a 1968 Oldsmobile driven by Charles E. Lee, 25, Greencastle, Route S. Lee received a bruise on the head and A cut on the hand. Damage was estimated at $1,000 to Lee’s auto and $600 to the Phillips station wagon.

sources said agreement at Panmunjom was expected soon on the release of all the crewmen captured 13 days ago. There was no American official comment on the reports. The South Korean sources said it was expected that wounded Americans would be the first returned. Munhwa radio, a commercial station, quoted high South Korean sources as saying the body of one American would be returned in the first transfer. There have been reports, never officially confirmed, that at least one of the Pueblo’s crewmen were killed in the high seas capture. American officials in Seoul would not confirm that a secret session was in progress at the truce village. But the South Korean officials said the meeting involved U.S. Rear Adm. John V. Smith, United Nations command senior delegate to the Korean Armistice Commission, and his Communist counterpart. Maj. Gen. Pak Chung Kuk of the North Korean army. Smith and Pak first met Friday, then again on Sunday. The secret meetings wei'e held without the participation of the South Koreans, In Washington on Sunday Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said the Pueblo might have violated North Korean territorial waters before it was seized Jan. 23. But both Cabinet ministers said they doubted it. ‘•We cannot be 1.000 per cent sure until we get our officers and men back” and question them, Rusk said. “We have not a single scrap of information from any source whatsoever that this ship was within the 12-mile limit at any time in its voyage.” McNamara said he could not say “that at no time beyond the shadow’ of a doubt” the ship did not stray into North Korean waters before it was boarded and tow'ed to Wonsan.

Many sections of nation enjoying touch of Spring

A touch of spring was blowing in the wind over much of the nation today. The only active weather of significance, the U.S. Weather Bureau said, was in rain or shower that dotted the Pacific Northwest. A high pressure from coast to coast brought the clear, dry and mild weather. Predawn temperatures ranged from 6 above zero at Traverse City, Mich., to 67 at Miami, Fla. Torrential rains drove hundreds of persons from their homes along the swollen Clinton River in Macomb County, Mich. Residents of Grand Rapids, Mich., were warned to take precautions against the flooding grand river. A few families were driven from their homes on the Maumee River between Fort Wayne and New Haven, Ind., in the worst flooding in the Hoos-

ier state in nearly 10 years. The Maumee crested about six feet above flood stage and the Little Wabash rose steadily. Oregon and Washington were swamped with heavy rain Sunday. Newport, Ore., measured 2.06 inches of rain; Olympia, Wash., 1.5 inches; and Seattle 1.29 inches. Rain also fell eastward Sunday to the northern Rockies, where it turned to light snow. Snow also fell in the adjacent plains. In Stevens Point. Wis—the “skid capital of the world” —they wanted cold weather but didn’t get it Sunday. Stevens Point is where the National Safety Council each year tests the effect of braking on various kinds of tires and on various wintertime surfaces, but the mercury rose into the 40s and the ice turned to slush. They will try again today.

Appointment announced Professor Ralph F. Carl has been appointed head of the Department of Romance Languages at DePauvv University. Effective July 1, the appointment was announced today by DePauw President Dr. William E. Kerstetter. Dr. Carl succeeds Dr. Laurel Turk who retires June 30 after 40 years on the DePauw faculty, the past five as head of the Romance Languages department. The new head-designate joined DePauw’s faculty on a permanent basis in 1952. having spent a year on the staff in 1947-48 before resuming graduate studies. Carl did his undergraduate work at the College of Wooster where he was graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He was awarded the M.A. and Ph. D. by the University of Michigan where he was a Rackham Scholar and subsequently a F'ulbright Scholar in Paris. He had earlier teaching experience at Westerville High School in Ohio and taught two years at Wooster, following three years in the Army in the European Theatre in Signal Corps Intelligence. The Jeromesville, Ohio, native is a member of the American Association of Teachers of French, the Modem Language Association of America and is past president of the DePauw chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Dr. Carl teaches both French and Italian, introducing the latter into the DePauw curricula last semester. The department which he will head encompasses these languages as well as Spanish and Portuguese. Attack suffered by Joseph P. Kennedy PALM BEACH, Fla. UPI—Joseph P. Kennedy, father of the late President John F. Kennedy and two U.S. senators, suffered a “blood spasm on the brain” at his winter home Sunday night, but was reported resting comfortably. A family spokesman said a physician and a Roman Catholic priest were summoned to the palatial Kennedy winter home at Palm Beach, but the 79-year-old Kennedy, an invalid since 1961. was “resting comfortably.” He was not hospitalized.

U.S. Marines shatter attack by human waves of N. Viet troops

SAIGON UPI —North Vietnamese troops in human w r aves smashed today into a Marine outpost of the U.S. border fort of Khe Sanh. Leathernecks called down artillery fire on their positions and shattered the attack, military spokesmen said. The Communists also rained rocket, mortar and artillery fire on the main fortress, eastern anchor of the Allied defense line below’ the North-South Vietnam border, in what may have been the opening gun of the predicted largest North Vietnamese invasion of the war. Atop Hill 861, next to Khe Sanh, a small band of Marines hurled back with machinegun fire the first communist assault. Spokesmen said the North Vietnamese then charged in human waves and broke through the Marine defense perimeter. The Leathernecks buttoned themselves into deep bunkers and radioed for artillery. The barrage struck the North Vietnamese overhead. Spokesmen said the Marines emerged and counted more than 100 Communist bodies dangling on the barbed wire. The assault against Khe Sanh followed up, as U.S. generals predicted, eight days of Viet Cong strikes against 35 South Vietnamese cities. Allied spokesmen said the first six days’ fighting left 17,000 Communist dead along with 1,447 allied troops killed including 471 Americans. The fight in cities raged on. In Hue, 50 miles below the North-South Vietnam border, U.S. and government troops fought house-to-house against guerrillas who had seized the ancient former imperial capital. Marines smashed through to rescue 39 U.S. servicemen trapped five days a football punt’s distance from American military headquarters at Hue. The guerrillas blew up the bridge on the Allied supply route to the city. In Saigon, American and South Vietnamese troops battled house to house in tne capital’* Cholon Chinatown. They battled main force guerrilla units on the main road to the Mekong Delta to the south—tw’o miles from Saigon. They fought the Viet Cong to the north, on the road to Bien Hoa, the largest American base in Vietnam 18 miles from the capital. Allied spokesmen reported renewed guerrilla strikes in the central W’aist of South Vietnam. They struck at the U.S. base at Tuy Hoa. 235 miles up the coast, but American troops stopped them short of the railway station. In Hue, UPI correspondent Alvin B. Webb Jr., reported helicopters whirling in supplies because of the bridge loss. He said fighting for the ruins of the city was fierce. “Casualties are pouring out by the scores—Americans and Vietnamese civilians. We’re getting the worst out by chopper but there is no other way sinc e the bridge is out,” Webb said. In Saigon, UPI correspondent Thomas

Corpora reported streams of refugees pouring into the city center to escape the Chinatowm fighting where artillery w’as being fired in the streets. Despite the fighting much of Saigon moved to normal life. Electric power was restored. Shops opened. Residents buried relatives in back

The tw’o leading announced contenders for the Republican presidential nomination cross trails briefly today in New Hampshire. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon planned to check out of a hotel in Concord at about the same time Michigan Gov. George W. Romney arrives for a news conference. Nixon, the front runner, was to head by chartered jet to Green Bay, Wis., to seek support in the Wisconsin primary. He set the theme for his campaign, formally announced last week, during the weekend when he said at Concord that private enterprise can solve the nation’s problems. Nixon said the country could not afford four more years of President Johnson in the White House and on a road “that leads to big gov’emment and little people.” He said the “great test” of the American spirit was at home. Romney stumped Wisconsin for two days last week. In an interview released in Washington Sunday he deplored the “decline in understanding of personal responsibility” in the United States. The interview was carried by Metromedia Opinon: Washington. The Michigan governor also told U.S. News & W’orld Report in a copyrighted interview that only a Republican administration could find a solution to the Vietnam war. He said the Johnson administration “has made mistakes and lacks credibility with the people you have to deal with” in the war. Meantime, in Maryland, Gov. Spiro T. Agnew, a Republican, announced that 58 prominent Baltimore citizens had formed the first of a series of state committees that will work to draft New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller as the GOP candidate. Branigin in Florida INDIANAPOLIS UPI -Governor and Mis. Branigin are scheduled to arrive tonight in Miami Beach where the Hoosier chief executive will speak Tuesday. Branigin will address the Committe* of 100 at Miami Beach, a group for which previous Indiana governors also have been a speaker. The Branigins left by train Sunday afternoon. They plan a brief vacation in Florida before returning next weekend.

yards. Bulldozers shoved piles of Viet Cong dead into mass graves. Six days cost the Communists 16,978 men killed equivalent to more than 30 per cent of their strike force—and almost 5,000 suspects caught. Allied losses were put at 1,477 men killed and 6.075 wounded. These included 471 Americans killed and 2,744 wounded.

Rockefeller still is supporting Romney, but said last week he would face the issue of a draft at the convention if he had to. On the Democratic side, a Gallup Poll released Sunday indicated President Johnson had widened his lead over Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene J. McCarthy as the man most likely to win the Democratic nomination. Kennedy said last week he would not oppose Johnson under any “foreseeable circumstances,” but McCarthy is an announced anti-war candidate. According to the latest poll, Johnson is about 5-4 choice over Kennedy and 4-1 over McCarthy. Missionaries saved by U.S. soldiers SAIGON UPI —U.S. soldiers battled their way into a hilltop and saved 34 members of American and Canadian missionary families minutes before riie Viet Cong overran their mission at Dalat. U.S. officials said today. The 11 men, 14 women and 9 children rescued by helicopter Friday from their mission 145 miles northeast of Saigon were from the Christian Missionary Alliances and Overseas Crusade group. They were flown today to Cam Ranh Bay, officials said. Viet Cong massacred six American missionaries and took a seventh prisoner Jan. 30 when the guerrillas captured a mission for lepers at Ban Me Thuot. One of those saved Friday was the daughter of a missionary slain in that attack. “It was a very bad situation,” said the Rev. James Lewis of Ottumwa, Iowa, whose wife and one year-old son were with him at the Dalat mission. “Our mission is located on a hilltop overlooking Dalata and we got out just in time before the VC overran it.” No one was killed or wounded in the Viet Cong attack before U.S. troops fought their way In to the Dalat mission and staged the helicopter rescue, U.S. officials said. The Dalat mission was under the supervision of the Rev. Dale Herendeen of Hemet. Calif., who escaped with his wif* and daughter.

Two GOP candidates cross trails briefly today

Army balks at use of cemetery

WASHINGTON UPI —Clergymen and and laymen of various faiths launch a "Washington mobilization” to protest the Vietnam war today, but the Army balked at their plans to hold a memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery.

A total of seven arrests during the weekend were reported by local authorities this morning with three being jailed. Four persons were arrested Friday night and early Saturday morning and two of the four were lodged in the Putnam County jail. Oscar Grogan. 59, Greencastle, Route 2. was booked at 9 a.m. Friday for public intoxication and driving while under the influence of intoxicants. The arresting officers were State Troopers Ted Settle and Gary Hood. James Barsz. 20, Noblesville. was jailed at 2:35 Saturday morning by Officer James Baugh and charged with malicious trespass. The young man was taken into custody on Locust Street. William E. Furby, 18. was arrested by Officer Baugh at 11:50 Friday night on

The Rev. Richard R. Fernandez, executive secretary of the organization known as “Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam,” said the group would go to court to try to get permission to use the cemetery.

College Avenue for having an Improper muffler. At 2 a.m. Saturday, Officer Baugh arrested William Roller. 20, Danville. Illinois, for driving the wrong way on Anderson Street, a one-way thoroughfare. Garland Meeks, 54. Coatesville, Route 2. was jailed at 1 a.m. Sunday by Gilbert O Hair. Bainbridge Town Marshal. Meeks was slated for public intoxication. Frederick W. Nellis, 50. no special address. was lodged in jail at 1:45 a.m. Sunday by Officer Baugh. Taken into custody on Washington Street, Nellis was charged with public intoxication. At 8:45 Sunday evening, Aaron Plessinger, 17, Greencastle, Route 4. was arrested by Officer Larry Rogers for reckless driving on Ind. 240.

The memorial service for Vietnam war dead was to have been the highlight of the demonstration. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was to lead the service. The Army during the weekend turned down the request to use the cemetery. The Army said the announced schedule and purpose of the demonstration failed to qualify the group for use of the cemetery. The two-day “mobilization” was arranged on short notice by the group, which includes a number of well-known Protestants. Catholics and Jews in its leadership. It claims 90,000 members in 90 local chapters throughout the country. The inter-religious group released Sunday night at 420-page study of what it described as “war crimes” by U.S. forces in Vietnam. Prepared under the direction of Prof. Seymour Mel man of Columbia, the study gives examples, from news reports, of instances in which it said the United States has committed “gross violations of international law.” A foreword, signed by 29 religrious leaders, said that "our nation must be judged guilty of having broken almost every established agreement for standards of human decency in times of war” as set forth in the Hague and Geneva conventions.

Seven arrests made over weekend, three jailed

AT COUNTY TEACHERS CONFERENCE—Dr. Margaret Mead, world famous anthropologist and author, was the keynote speaker at the Putnam County Joint Teachers Conference held at Greencastle High School Saturday. She is pic-

tured above being greeted by the four school superintendents in the county, (left to right) Dr. Joseph Rammel of Greencastle, Arthur Johnson of Cloverdale. Julian Polk of South Putnam, and Charles Frazee of North Putnam.