Film StarBainter

Dies at 74

mother or faithful friend, diedTuesday at her home. She was74.

Her husband of 42 years, NavyLt. Cmdr. Reginald Venable,died Sept. 28, 1964. Their actorson, Reginald Jr., survives. .

Miss Bainter was a Los An-geles native who entered moviesat 41 after long stage experi-ence. Four years later, in 1938,.she won her Academy Award asAuntie Belle in "Jezebel,"(Continued on Back Page, Col. 5)

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HONOLULU (AP)—President Johnson met with South Korea's Pres-ident Chung Hee Park Wednesday for a one-day summit session onmafor issues of war and peace in Asia.

Bofh the conduct of the Vietnam war and Johnson's bid for

FBI issued this picture ana said it was one of Eric Starvo Gait.(UPI Radiophoto)

WASHINGTON (AP)—A fugitive warrant chargingan Eric Starvo Gait with conspiracy in the murder ofDr. Martin Luther King Jr. was issued Wednesday bythe FBI.

This was the first official mention of a conspiracyin connection with the April 4 assassination of Dr. Kingin Memphis. The FBI said the alleged plot involved aman Gait described as his brother.

The FBI also issued a photograph which it identifiedas being one of Gait, "also known as Harvey Lowmyerand John Willard." . •

The FBI said a warrant wasi s s u e d in Birmingham, Ala.,Wednesday on the basis of anFBI complaint which charged

,—n .̂ t that Gait "and an individual*m/*m\/ P&/*! mi"AP1 wh°m he alleged to be his broth-1 CIV •CJtlllII"l CT, entered into a conspiracy"

'I which began around March 29at Birmingham and ended aboutApril 5 to "injure, oppress,threaten, or intimidate Martin

HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Fay Luther King Jr."Bainter, stage and Oscar-win- Gait was charged with con-ning screen actress long popular spiring to violate King's civilin roles as wife, understanding rights. ., ^ ,,

An FBI statement said Gaithas given his date of birth asJuly 20, 1931, has brown hair,wears his hair in a brush cut,reportedly has b l u e eyes, astraight narrow nose, is between5-feet-8 and 5-feet-ll and weighs(Continued on Back Page, Col. 1)

peace talks with Hanoisure by Communist NorthKorea against the South.

The summit session atthe secluded seaside HenryJ. Kaiser estate climaxeda reconciliation process be-gun a f t e r CommunistNorth Korean attacks inJanuary set off a crisis inrelations between Washing-ton and Seoul.

Both the North Korean threatand Vietnam, where South Ko-rea has nearly 50,000 troops inthe allied cause, rate prioritybilling in the parley.

In addition to his foreign min-ister, Park brought his defenseminister and joint chiefs ofstaff chairman to the talks.Johnson's aides included Gen-eral Earle G. Wheeler, chair-man of the U.S. joint chiefs.

The military aspect figuredimportantly both in the discus-sions concerning Vietnam andthose involving Korea.

After the North Koreans sentterrorist infiltrators south lastJanuary on an unsuccessfulmission to assassinate Park anda couple of days later seizedthe U.S. intelligence ship Pue-blo, Washington and Seoul be-came doubly alert to mountingCommunist pressure a g a i n s tthe South.

The South Koreans also raisedquestions about America's will-(Continued on Back Page, Col. 4)

were on the agenda, as well as mounting pres-

TOKYO (AP)—North VietnamWednesday c h a l l e n g e d ' U . S .President Johnson's statement inHonolulu Monday and confirmedits rejection of U.S.-proposedsites for preliminary peacetalks on Vietnam. The Presi-dent said Hanoi had failed to re-

Peap/ckf'ngTaxpayerCHICAGO (UPI)—The "Jolly

Green Giant," a peapicker from123 Valley Lane, Elvesville, 111.,has filed his income tax.

At least that is the name, oc-cupation and address on the 36-by-26-ineh blowup of the Form1040 the startled Internal Re-venue Service received here justbefore deadline,

The big fellow said he earned$(>00 last year, and that his ac-countant was "Elmer Elf."

spond to U.S. proposals on asite for preliminary talks.

Hanoi's official broadcast de-scribed the Johnson statementas a "distortion of facts."

Radio Hanoi in a Japanese-language broadcast, monitoredhere, said North Vietnam's standon the site of contacts with theUnited States was made clear ina statement issued by the For-eign Ministry April 13.

The North Vietnam statementinsisted on Phnom Penh orWarsaw arid rejected U.S.-pro-posed sites as "not adequate"to Hanoi.

In Washington, Secretary ofState Dean Rusk urged HanoiWednesday not to lose the cur-rent opportunity for peace inVietnam by responding to U.S.diplomatic probes with polemics.

Rusk told the American Socie-ty of Newspaper Editors the uni-lateral effort of one side alonecould not achieve a .settlementand said, "We do need a .serious(Continued on Back Page, Col. 3)

SEOUL (S&S)—Three Repub-lic ol Korea soldiers are missingand three wounded after an II-man patrol team was ambushedby north Koreans at 9 a.m.Wednesday in the western sectorof the Demilitarized Zone, EOJCArmy officials announced Thurs-day,

LOS A N G E L E S (UPI) —Famed old London Bridge willVie moved from the banks ofthe Thames to the Arizona des-ert where it will be reconstruct-ed at the Colorado River nearLake Havasu City, it was re-ported Wednesday.

The McCulloch Corp., de-veloper of Lake Havasu City,is said to have been the suc-cessful bidder for the 136-year-

old successor to the first Lon-don Bridge built in Romantimes. It was put on the mar-ket by the City of London Corp.

A formal announcement ofthe buyer was to be madeThursday. A spokesman for theLondon Corp. said the estimat-ed value of the granite stonewas about $2.4 million, but saidhe did not mean the bridgewas being bought for lhat

amount.Lake Havasu

area, is on themade Lake Havasu,square-mile body ofbacked up by Parkerthe California-ArizonaIt is 240 miles east ofgeles and 140 milesPhoenix.

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It was reported the bridgewould be reconstructed over aninlet of the lake.

The thousands of blocks ofg r a n i t e are being remove*^separately and numbered and,indexed for

The 175mm. guns at the ILS. Marine's "Rock Pile" base about12 miles from Khc Sanh get ready to blast back at the enemy as

Communist troops renew artillery and mortar barrages on KheSanh. (UPI Radiophoto)

SAIGON (AP) — North Viet-namese gunners, holding out inthe hills around Khe Sanh andsanctuaries in Laos to the west,bombarded U.S. troops with theheaviest shelling in more thantwo weeks, military spokesmen

k;rcported Wednesday. It was thesecond day of renewed heavyshelling.

The big North Vietnameseguns sent more than 250 roundsof artillery, mortar fire and100-pound rockets slamming in-to the Khe Sanh combat baseand Marine troops sweeping thearea around it over the last 24hours, spokesmen said.

The heavy shelling caused"moderate" damage to supplyareas inside the base and left19 Marines dead and 56 wound-ed in and around the post. Four-toon Marines are missing. TheM a r i n e infantrymen on thesweep were blasted with an es-timated 100 rounds of mortar,fire and 100-pound rockets plusa withering stream of smallarms fire as they were movingtoward an enemy bunker com-plex manned by less than 50North Vietnamese troops.

Once the enemy troops re-vealed themselves in their con-cealed bunkers, a fight ragedfor 9!-> hours until just before.midnight Tuesday night. Theshelling and the Marine casual-ties were the heaviest in a sin-gle action at Khe Sanh since a20,000 allied relief force mount-ed an offensive April 1 thatlifted a 77-day siege of the base.

The number of North Viet-namese killed Tuesday was putat 20. U.S. tactical fighter-bomb-ers and artillery pounded theenemy positions through thenight until the North Vietnam-ese broke contact.

The hard-hit Marine combatpatrol was from the 9th Regt.of the 3rd Marine Div.

The shelling of the Khe Sanhbase itself caused what Marineofficers at Da Nang describedas "moderate damage" to thesupply areas. Moderate damagein military terminology is seri-ous, but the base can continueto function.

Near Saigon, U.S. and SouthVietnamese forces involved inoperation "Complete Victory"clashed with Viet Cong troops

in a series of sharp contests.Allied spokesmen reported 75Viet Cong killed while SouthVietnamese losses were placedat 19 dead and 17 wounded. U.S.casualties were five dead andfour wounded.

Military sources said SouthVietnamese troops discovered alarge cache of Viet Cong docu-ments 14 miles west of SaigonWednesday. T h e documentswere "of every description,"the source said, including maps,charts, private papers and let-ters.

Ahead ofWASHINGTON (AP) — The

United States is giving SouthVietnamese troops lightweight,rapid-firing M16 rifles ahead ofAmerican soldiers manning thedefense line in South Korea.

The Pentagon also disclosed,in response to questions, that itplans to triplo M16 productionand reach a total output ofabout 100,000 of the rifles amouth by November 1909.

A major U.S. goal is to pro-vide South Vietnamese regularforces with modern weaponsand greater fire power so theycan shoulder the biggest shareof the fighting.

U.S. combat troops and somesupport units in South Vietnamare already equipped with theM16. So are elite South Viet-namese army outfits such asparatroopers.

Thai Chief to Visit D.C.B A N G K O K (AP) — Thai

Prime Minister Field MarshalThanom Kittikachorn has lefton a one-month world tourwhich will include a first visitto Washington. He will officiallyvisit Washington from May 6 toMay 7 but will spend almosttwo weeks in the country as aprivate tourist ,

Jhieu'sCall-UpRejecfed

SAIGON (AP) — The DefenseCommittee of South Vietnam'sH o u s e of RepresentativesWednesday rejected a general,mobilization bill sent to theHouse on an urgent basis lastweek by President Nguyen VanThieu.

The committee move ap-peared to be only a rejectionof Tbieu's bill, and not of gen-eral mobilization.

Committee chairman DuongVan Thuy told newsmen t h ecommittee members thoughtThieu's,-bin. would give unlimit-ed power to the President. Thebill asks for a declaration 'ofgeneral mobilization, but saysnothing more specific.

The bill still must be con-sidered by the full House andSenate, but observers said itwas likely both houses wouldwrite their own bills, approvinggeneral mobilization but settingout in detail limits for its im-plementation.

The House and Senate at thebeginning of March rejectedThieu's request for additionalemergency powers.

At a joint hearing of theHouse and Senate defense com-mittees Tuesday, Defense Min-ister Nguyen Van Vy said that2li8,000 more South Vietnamesetroops are needed.

Push Kills1,044 RedsSAIGON (AP) — The tJ.S

command announced Wednes*day that U.S. Marines and aircavalrymen killed 1,044 NorthVietnamese troops in lifting the&iege bf Khe Sanh and subse-quent fighting around the com*bat base during the first twoweeks of April.

U.S. losses were put at 82killed and 667 wounded. Of thedead, 51 were Marines and 41were Army troops. The wound*ed included 459 Marines and 208Army personnel.

The drive to lift the siege ofKhe Sanh was launched April1. It was named OperationPegasus after the Winged horseof Greek mythology.

Only North,South CanDecide: Loc

CAM RANH, Vietnam (AP)—Premier Nguyen Van Loc re-minded South Vietnam's alliesWednesday that only Saigon andHanoi could decide Vietnam'sfate.

In a strongly worded speechat the dedication of a bridge atthe giant Cam Ranh Bay logis-tics port, Loc reiterated his gov-ernment's rejection of a coali-tion government and negotia-tions with the National Libera-tion Front as a separate body.

"No one can force the Viet-namese people to accept anyunfair solutions likely to leadthem to self-destruction in thenear future or ultimately, suchas a coalition government withthe Communists or recognitionof the National Front for Liber-ation as a separate elementfrom the N o r t h VietnameseCommunists w h o s e disguisedtool it actually is," Loc said.

His remarks were directed at,several score U.S., South Ko-rean. Philippine and South Viet-namese official;- present for thebridge dedication, Workers ofthe four nations built the bridge.

Loc said his government wel-comes all efforts to work out a"genuine peace in liberty, free-dom and territorial integrity."

Army Chief, AideVisit S. Vietnam

WASHINGTON (S&S)—Armychief of staff Gen. Harold K.Johnson and his top enlisted ad-viser, Sergeant Major of theArmy William 0. Wooldridge,are making another of theirfrequent visits to Army troopsin South Vietnam.

Johnson and Wooldridge lefthere Monday for a 10-day tourof the combat zone. This is theArmy general's tenth trip .sincehe became chief of staff in July,1934, and Wooldridge's seventhin his present post. Before com-ing to the Pentagon Wooldridgewas with the 1st Inf. Div. inVietnam.

Trash in Controls Caused 2nd Fill Crash

VC Terror KillingsSAIGON (AP)-Viet Cong ter*

rorists killed 74 civilians, wound-ed 161 and abducted another 220last week, U.S. officials saidWednesday.

£ Pacific Stars & StripesFriday, April IS, 1968

SAIGON (AP)—The U.S. Com-mand announced Wednesday thata capsule of sealing materialwhich lodged in the flight con-trols probably caused the sec-ond crash of an Fill fighter-bomber on Vietnam duty.

A communique said prelimi-nary analyses have "ruled outany design failure" .of theplane's revolutionary, top secretflight control and terrain-follow-ing radar systems.

"An examination of the physi-cal evidence indicates a foreign

object had become lodged in thepitch-roll mixer assembly of thef l i gh t controls, thereby render-ing the aircraft uncontrollableunder certain conditions offlight," the announcement said.

"The object was identified asa capsule of solidified sealantwhich is normally used in seal-ing fuel tanks in the area of theaffected flight controls," it add-ed.

The first Flit lost on Vietnamduty disappeared on March 28,

than a week after the $6million planes began combatflying over North Vietnam, andno trace of it has been found.The U.S. Command said Wednes-day that the search has beencalled off.

The communique said the ra-dar plot of the missing plane'sflight "indicates that it mostprobably crashed in Thailand inan area of extremely ruggedjungle terrain. . .There is no ev-idence to support the Hanoi Ra-

dio claire that the aircraft wasshot down over North Viet-nam."

The second Fill crashedMarch 30 in northern Thailand.The two crewmen were rescued,and the wreckage was recov-ered.

Replacements for the two lostplanes were sent from the Unit-ed States, and the six Fills atbases in Thailand resumed com-bat operations against NorthVietnam last Friday,

Messages Woo Defectors

Protects

PLEIKU, Vietnam (10)—A two-ton "portable fox-hole" now protects dumptrucks of the 937th Engi-neer Group (Combat) ontheir daily sand run be-tween Pleiku and Kontum.

The structure resembles anenormous tin can with the topand bottom cut out. It is en-circled by a six-inch thick layerof concrete, with steel culvertrims lining the inside and out-side. It stands four feet high.

A wrecker cable places the4,000 pounds of concrete andsteel on the back of the dumptruck, directly behind the cab.A machine gunner stands in-side and can pivot in any direc-tion to return fire if the con-voy is attacked.

A test model designed byCWO 2 John W. Ferguson,group equipment and mainte-nance technician, and built byhim with the assistance of CWO3 H.M. Stillman, now sits ingroup headquarter's m o t o rpool,

The portable foxhole will beplaced on vehicles providingescort protection for the dailyconvoys along Route 14., Sinceit has withstood firing similarto that encountered in two re-cent attacks, it should improvethe convoy's security.

"A good feature is that it'sbuilt from materials e a s i l yfound around any combat engi-neer facility." said Ferguson."With the right number of peo-p'e and materials available, oneof these can bo built in aboutfour hours."

LONG BINH, Vietnam. (TO)—-A little "bounce" was addedto Psychological Operations(PSYOPS) in Vinh Duong Prov-ince.

The bounce came in the formof 7,000 rubber bails which weregiven to children throughout theprovince. The balls are yellowand red, the Vietnamese na-tional colors, and contain amessage urging the people tooppose communism and savetheir country.

"We have heard that in someinstances Viet Cong have or-dered the children not to touchthe balls. Then ihey collect thebails and burn them," said Rob-ert B. Stirling, assistant PSY-OPS adviser in the province.

"But. the children love theballs. When we started passingthem out, the children swarmedaround our jeep," said Capt.Woody W. Turnbull , PSYWAIladviser.

Another 5.000 balls wil l bedistr ibuted to children in thearea. "If the Viet Cong con-t inue to try and collect t h < jballs, as they do PSYOPS leaf-lets, they wi l l lose the heartsand minds of many children,"Stirling said.

Wither Thou Goes*DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) — Rus-

sell Brady, 74, Bat t le Creek.3V!ich., collapsed and died Mon-day at a fune ra l home as he\ \u i t ed for his wile's funeral .

ConvincesNHA TRANG, Vietnam (01)—A recent

Viet Cong defector was askcti why he turnedhimself in. "The little airplane in the skytold me to," he said.

During January and February nearly2,000 enemy came over to the South Viet-namese side. Psychological warfare playedan important role in their decision.

The psywar messages, both printed andrecorded, encourage Viet Cong to return tosupport Saigon government.

Headquartered at Nha Trang AB, aircrews from the 5th and 9th Air CommandoSqs. (ACS) fly from every major air basein South Vietnam, broadcasting messagesand dropping millions of leaflets.

The two squadrons have divided SouthVietnam in half in ordef to cover the countrymore effectively. The 5th ACS operates from

the Mekong Delta to south of Phan Thtpt,while the 9th ACS flies from Phan Thiet tothe Demilitarized Zone.

Capt. Michael S. Cox, 31, a U10 Courierpilot with the 5th ACS. spent several monthsin the Mekong Delta before coming to NhaTrang AB.

"We usually fly two or three times a dayover a target area and saturate it withleaflets and then broadcast a psywar mes-sage over tho same area," he said.

Cox believes the broadcasts really hurtthe enemy.

"When we play messages we can some-times see them making noises such as bang-ing pots and singing.

"It's a different story with leaflets,though. Sometimes as soon as they hit theground they nre gathered and burned. This

is especially true where groups of people aregathered. The individual is afraid to readthe leaflet because he might be turned in tothe local Viet Cong."

Cox said one method of preventing do*struction of the leaflets is to drop themalong canals and road lines whore an in-dividual walking alone can pick one up andread it in private.

Both squadrons fly C47 Skytrains inpsywar operations. Other aircraft in use arethe 02B Super Skymaster and the UIO.

The C47 is used mostly for dropping leaf-lots because af its greater capacity.

The 9th ACS operates mostly in moun-tainous terrain where some of the tlailytargets a?ie hot areas such as Khe Sanh,Gio Linh, Bong Son and the central high-lands.

Marine Capt. Clifford R Dunning makes sure the f i t is l ightas a child from the-Hoi"Due • Anh Orphanage in Saigon is givena new pair of shoes. (USN)

SAIGON (PAO) Hundreds: with tho largest group, 49, be-

The orphanage had beenselected by the Marines becausethe unit 's political warfare of-ficer, Capt. David Brown, andone of his assistant advisershad worked with the orphan-age on previous assistance proj-ects.

of orphans are wearing new ing in. the two-lo-four age group,shoes thanks to the BaltimoreChapter of the American Legionand the members of MarineAdvisory Team 4U.

The shoes were presented tothe children of the Hoi Due AnhOrphanage by Capt, Clifford R.Dunning. He arranged ship-ment of them from Balt imoreto the Marine Team's quartersin Nha Be, headquarters of theRung Sat Special Zone com-mand.

Mrs. Thanh Kieu. presidentof the Associat ion for the Pro-tection of the Children of theHoi Due Anh Orphanage, ac-cepted the 594 pairs of shot's.ofi ' ic ia/ ly. from D u n n i n g a n dNavy Cmclr. Donald R. War th -en, senior American adviser tothe R>.?ng Sat commander, whileother team members passed outsome of the shoes directly tothe happy, squealing children.

The Hoi Due Anh Orphanagehas 141 buys and 177 gir ls rang-ing in age f rom one to twen ty ,

Engineers BuildBig Asphalt Plant

TUY IIOA, Vietnam (10) —Tilt1 Army's largest asphal t .p lant—capable of producing 150tens of the road constructionmater ial per hour—was buil t re-cently by men of the 547 ihEngineer Platoon, 35th Engi-neer Group, near Phu Hiep.

The plant which turns out thesame kind of road bui ldingmaterial used on .superhighwaysin the States, will fu rn i sh as-phalt for the upgrading of High-w a y QL-1.

Poncho's 'Lorelei'

Story and PhotoBy JOC C. K. FERGUSON

SUB1C BAY. R.P. (PAO) —Sailors aboard Navy ships

being refueled off the coast ofVietnam during the past fewmonths have been surprised bya female voice making such in-vitations as, "Hello, big boy!Welcome alongside. How abouta Irg, long drink?"

The voice comes from the oilerUSS Ponchatoula, which hastaken to heart the okl sea tradi-tion that ships are of the femalegender, and have given theirship a feminine voice.

The greetings diimfound thocro\\mcn of Ponehatoula's re-fuel ing "customers," many ofwhom have been at sea for amonth or more. Many goggle-eyed sailors search for the girl ,but then' visual efforts are inVK ! n The messages are lap"d.

"Voice" of the Ponchatoula.known to the fleet as "Poncho."'is IK-year-old Mrs. -Jane Colo, aI\'av> dependent \\hose husbandis assigned to the Naval Com-municat ion Station, San Miguelin the Philippines.

It all came about becausesome of the junior off icersaboard the Ponchatoula though tcrewmen on the ships they re-fueled on Yankee Station o'fVietnam would,- after weeks atsea, appreciate being greeted bysomeone other than the usualgruff-voiced boatswain's mates.

Ensign Howard Hayes metJane at the Cubi Pt, Naval AirStation Officers ' Club, whore sheis a part- t ime hatched; gir l , andappealed to her to make tapesdur ing one of the ship's callsat the Subic Bay Naval Basefor reloading with fue l . Jane con-sented and a taping session en-sued i f i Poncho's wardroom.

Jane's in i t i a l greeting is fol-lowed by a plug for the Pon-chatoula , "welcome alongsidethe best darned oiler in thePacific Fleet!" She then getsdown to business;. "Standby forPoijehatoula 's Bolas ( l ines w i thlead-weighted t ips which are,used to play the oil hoses to theship being refueled) . . . 1 don' twant any of you handsome de-vi ls to get h u r t . I'm very hur rybut the smoking lamp is outthroughout the ship ( w h i c h isNavy dialogue for no smokinga l l o w e d ) d u r i n g refuel ing ,"

Logs 15fOOO SortiesB1EN 110A, V i e t n a m (OI ) —

The Air Force's 90th Ta i t i ca lFighter Sq.. 3rd Tactical Fighi,-e > - Wing, Bien Hoa AB, recentlylogged i t s 15.000th combat sort ieover Vietnam, Passing the mile-s tone v.as l,t. Col. W a l l e r (I.Savage, 45, San M'.aieo. F l u . ,commander of t lu : "Pair U'

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Mrs. Jane Cole, the "voice"of the oiler Ponchatovsia, takesthe helm of the. ship (hiring astopover at Subic Bay Nava lBase, R.P.

Tn closing she tells thorn , "Solong, big fellows, 1 hope youenjoyed my service!"

Some of the ships get evenmore, personal a t t en t ion as tapeswere made in which she greetsthe larger ships by name.

"Poncho's Lorelei"' is a youngbrunette from Dallas. Tex., w i f eof Communicat ions TechnicianThird Class John M. Cole.

Poiiehatoula's f e m i n i n e voicemay not start a t rend in thef lee t , but i t 's a morale boostertha i has af forded re l ief to thegrim business of f i g h t i n g a war.

Pop Group PopsFor 100 Hours

G R E A T YA1UKHJTH; Ki.-gland (UP1) — The English pop.group, The Soul Reaction, com-pleted 100 hours of nons top p lay-ing, claimed a nru world rec-ord — and went r i g h t on p l a \ -

"They' l l go on p ia> ing.they drop," said i h e i r m a n a g e r .Ivan Pierce, al the S ra f romBallroom when.1 t h e \ have hrei ;p l ay ing c o n t i n u o u s l y s i n c e 7 ( l o o t !Friday.

The previous wor ld > ' i eord of100 hours was set b\ a pop-group called Uit Toast in Lon-don last. week .

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Guard's Open Fife on 500

onvicRALEIGH, N.C, (AP) -

Guards opened fire on 500 dem-onstrating inmates at NorthCarolina Central Prison Wednes-day, kilting five and injuring fS.

Five guards suffered minorinjuries in the clash with prison-crs*

State Correction Commission-er V. Lee Bounds said the rioterupted shortly after 1:30 a.m.when the inmates set fire to asmall building in a yard of themaximum security facility and"began throwing lighted torchesat unarmed custodial officers."

About 45 state highway patrol-

men and 50 Raleigh policemenresponded to the prison's enter*gcncy call for support,

Prisoners had staged a sit-down strike in the yard Tuesdayand presented a list of griev-ances to Commissioner Bounds,who said he refused to negotiatewith the inmates.

The grievance list includeddemands for implementation ofan incentive pay plan for prisonlaborers, belter food and crea-tion of a five-man grievancecommittee to meet with prisonofficials monthly*

"I talk to inftiates daily, but Ido not yield to inmate demandsthat I do anything/1 Boundssaid afterward.

Me said the demonstratorsWere confined to an open yardby custodial officers armed Withchemical maCe and nightsticks.

After the building was setafire, Bounds reported, the pris-oners—many of them armedwith homemade weapons andtorches—began to advance onthe guards oh the grounds,

"They began throwing lighted'torches on the unarmed custo-dial officers, and the armed

todial officers began openinglite" Bounds said,

Armed guards stationed onthe walls of the 75-year-oldstructure in Raleigh fired downori the crowd with shotguns.

Bounds said the five officersinjured in the brief battle re-ceived minor wounds from ric-ocheting shot and prisoners'weapons. Some of the injuredinmates, he said, were reportedin critical condition at the pris-on hospital, and three men weretaken to a Raleigh hospitalwhen the prison hospital wasfilled to capacity.

(Continued From Page I)between 160 and 175 pounds.

The FBI said, "The fugitiveis said to have a nervous habitof occasionally pulling at an earlobe with his left hand. His leftear protrudes farther from hishead than his right ear."

The FBI statement said thatGait, on or about March 30,bought a rifle at Birmingham.The bureau did not say spe-cifically that this was the riflethat killed King.

But the statement said, "A30.06 rifle equipped with a tele-scopic sight was found near arooming house on South MainStreet in Memphis immediatelyafter the fatal shooting of Dr.King occurred." The roominghouse overlooks the LorraineHotel and Motel where Kingwas slain.

FBI agents have determinedthat the rifle was purchasedfrom a Birmingham gun dealerMarch 30. The sight also wassaid to have been bought fromthe same dealer, whom the FBIdid not identify.

The FBI said Gait owns a1966 white Mustang with Ala-bama license plates which wasfound abandoned in A t l a n t a ,Ga., April 11. It was boughtfrom a private citizen in Bir-mingham last Aug. -30. ,

The FBI said Gait's travel inthe Mustang included trips toLos Angeles, California, NewOrleans, Louisiana, Birming-ham, Alabama, and Mexico aswell as to Memphis, Tennessee,and Atlanta.

Gait was reported to havebeen in Memphis on April 3 and4, 1968, and to have departedfrom there for Atlanta.

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AP RadlophotoROK PRESIDENT PARK AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON TALK IN PATIO AT THE KAISER ESTATE.

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MOSCOW (AP) — The Sovietgovernment accused five Amer-icans and a Canadian Wednes-day of overstepping the line be-tween legal activity as militaryattaches and "open espionage."

The U.S. and Canadian Em-bassies rejected the charges asunfounded, denying that the at-taches had done anythingwrong.

The charges, as detailed inthe government newspaper "Iz-vestia," implied that the men.spied at a military base inSoviet White Russia and a ship-yard in Leningrad.

Charge d'affaires of the twoembassies were called sepa-rately to the Soviet ForeignMinistry and the charges pre-sented to them.

There was no immediate in-dication that the So\riet govern-ment would declare the at-taches persona non grata, ex-pelling them from the country.

Lt. Cols. Hugo W. Mat sonand Gerhard L. Jacobson wereaccused of slipping into a closedarea near Borisov, in SovietWhite Russia, and taking notes"of an intelligence character,"Both are U.S. Army officers.

Cmdr. Robert Hamer, Lt.Cmdr. Ralph N. Channel andMarine Lt. Col. Wayne E, Rich-ards were accused of photo-

graphing a Leningrad shipyard.An assistant Canadian mili-

tary attache, Lt. Col. J.V. Wat-son, was accused of acting asa lookout man for Hamer,Channel and Richards.

Watson told a reporter thegroup was walking down astreet when a Soviet policemanstopped them, asked for theiridentification and d e t a i n e dthem in conversation for aboutan hour.

(Continued From Page 1)ingness to back up her allyagainst the threat from theNorth. JohnsOn hurried trouble-shooter Cyrus R. Vance to Seouland earmarked a further $100million in U.S. arms aid beyondabout $160 million a 1 re a d yscheduled for this year.

U.S. officials said a primeaim is to modernize South Ko-rea's conventional m i l i t a r yforces in the face of substan-tial Soviet deliveries of newarms to North Korea and alsoto provide police items, commu-nications gear and the like tostep up South Korea's ability tosquash Red infiltrations.

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interest in peace on the part ofour adversaries."

He reported the United Stateslias not received "what we con-sider an official reply" to itslatest effort to determine amutually acceptable site to beginpreliminaries to talks.

Soviet Premier Alexei N.Kosygin said Wednesday inPakistan that the United Statesshould enter into peace talks im-mediately with North Vietnam,the official Soviet news agencyTass reported.

Speaking to newsmen in Wash-ington Wednesday, Secretary ofDefense Clark M. Clifford said

North Vietnam has given nosign of de-escalating the war,

Radio Hanoi said the NorthVietnamese Foreign Ministrystatement was an official replyto the United States.

Challenging Johnson's state-ment that the United States hasbeen limiting bombing of NorthVietnam for two weeks, the Ha-noi broadcast said "The UnitedStates is 'an aggressor' and itmust completely stop bombingand other acts of war againstthe Democratic Republic ofNorth Vietnam if it really wantsa settlement of the Vietnamissue."

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SAIGON (Wl)—B52bombers itt oiie of theheaviest strikes of the Wardropped more than a mil-lion pounds ^ of explosiveson Communist targets inthe A Shau valley) militaryspokesmen said Wednes-day.

In what was believed to bean unprecedented number ofstrikes on a region, spokesmensaid the eight-engine Stratofor-tresses flew 10 missions overthe valley since Tuesday.

The targets included at leastfive Communist troop concen-trations, two of them units en-g a g e d in road constructionthrough the jungle-covered re-gion about 375 miles north ofSaigon. Eight weapons positions,including an anti-aircraft bat-tery, were also bombed.

The valley is one of the fewregions of South Vietnam un-disputedly controlled by theCommunists. U.S. troops havenot entered the area in morethan a year, and in that timethe Communists have used thearea to infiltrate both men andsupplies into the country,

B52s have bombarded the re-gion daily for the past severalweeks, but never with intensitymatching the strikes Tuesdayand early Wednesday. Althoughno record is kept of the num-ber of B52 missions into a sin-gle area, military observers be-lieved the 10 missions was thegreatest number launched onone area during any 24-hour pe-riod of the war.

Spokesmen said each missionincludes strikes by b e t w e e nthree and 12 of the eight-enginebombers.

In the only other B52 strikeduring the period, spokesmensaid Communist bunkers, basecamps and a petroleum storagearea were hit in a region 34miles west of Kontum City inthe central highlands.

In 112 missions flown into theN o r t h Vietnamese Panhandleregion Tuesday, antiaircraft fireagain was reported heavy butno U.S. planes were listed aslost.

Ah* Force planes attackednumerous targets in the DongHoi area, and also struck sup-ply and troop infiltration routesin North Vietnam's southwest-ern corner above the Mu GiaPass. Navy planes struck sev-eral ^truck parks and supplyboats around the seaport ofBinh.

In South Vietnam's southern-most region, An Xuyen prov-ince, Air Force F100 pilots anda B57 Canberra crew attackedCommunist fortifications a n dsampans near the U Minh For-est, a Viet Cong sanctuaryravaged by at least 70 fires lastweek.

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whose star, Bette Davis, also re-ceived an Oscar,

Miss Bainter was nominatedfor the prize for two other roles—Claude Rains' housekeeper,who believed in surrenderingpride, in "White Banners" anda grandmother deceived by achild in "The Children's Hour."

She appeared in a total of 39films,

In "The Shining Hour" MissBainter had her first unsym-pathetic screen role—unmarriedolder sister who despises JoanCrawford.

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