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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                24 vhf stars and stripes thursday september 7, 1967 Milwaukee March in 10th Day Milwaukee wis. A Milwaukee s civil rights demonstrators started their 10th consecutive Clay of Street marches wednesday but at reduce strength. About 50 youngsters moved into the downtown area shortly after noon making Little com motion. Neither negro Comedi an Dick Gregory nor the  Groppi who have led up to 1,000 marching demonstrators in the past five Days were seen. A 19-year-old girl who identified herself As Jean Mathews Leader of he girls Section of then Acap youth Council headed the group. Father Groppi the White roman Catholic priest who is adviser to the youth Council would not talk to newsmen about plans. During the night Groppi and Gregory had promised to keep on walking until the City adopt san open housing Law. The marches which turned into virtually round the clock protests saturday the Day Gre gory began participating Are designed to Wear Down Resis Tance to a City code that would bar discrimination in the Sale Oriental of housing. The common Council has rejected such an ordinance four times. Vel Phillips the Only negro Council member cast the Only affirmative vote each  Council refused to recon Sider the proposal tuesday de spite a March on City Hall led by father Groppi a White roman Catholic priest. Observers. Continued from Page 1 passed that the United state Shad sent observers to stand Over the vietnamese people like school teachers to witness their voting processes Johnson broken to say we Are going to ask the Viet namese to Send observers to our election next  of state Dean Rusk Secretary of defense Robert , presidential adviser Walt w. Rostow and Eugene Locke the Deputy . Ambas Sador to Vietnam joined the president in hearing the individual accounts of the  few hours earlier the 22-Man team of observers talked with newsmen on their arrival at nearby Andrews air Force base and supported the Favora ble reports they had Given ear Lier in Saigon. As far As we could ascertain the elections were conducted on the local level in a completely free manner reported newspaper publisher John s.  election was reasonably honest reasonably fair an about All one could expect from a developing  new Jersey gov Richard  and former . Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge among others Dis counted complaints of some of the losing candidates that the elections had been rigged. The Only Way that the elec Tion could to rigged was at the Point of a gun and the Security was too Good for that said Lodge who headed the Dele gation of observers. So i Don t think there a is any  Hughes said he found nothing to support the charges of fraud. Trial witnesses i Oine to . 2 say they lied for greek Junta Washington a women who said they were sup posed to serve As key witnesses against Andreas Papandreou told reporters wednesday they had been forced by greek police to give perjured  Vach Litis a lawyer and Kyriakos Diakogiannis journalist told a news Confer ence they Are repudiating their statements. They said their Tes Timony was to have been use Din the treason trial planned by the greek military Junta against Papandreou. Papandreou a former economics professor at the univer sity of California gave up his . Citizenship to return to Greece. He is the son of George Papandreou the former Premier of Greece. The news conference was called by ramparts Magazine which claims to have helped the two men escape from Greece in Advance of Papandreou s trial and contends the evidence against Papandreou was Frame with false evidence. Vahliotis and Diakogiannis told the news conference that both the charge against Papandreou and the coup which put the military Junta in Power were parts of a plot by the Kyp the greek secret police to end democracy in  appealed to president Johnson not to give military Orang other Aid to the Junta which seized Power in Athen april 21. They also criticized Greece King Constantino who is scheduled to visit Washington next monday. They said Constantine could overthrow the Junta by taking a Strong stand against it but claimed he lacks courage to oppose the military. Diakogiannis said it would be sufficient to overthrow the military if the King denounce them and went into  Vahliotis said there is organized opposition to the Junta i Greece but it is secret. . State department officials indicated Little or no knowledge of the two men or the claim that they were to be key witnesses against  Magazine whiff plans to publish their Story says the greek secret police forced them to give perjure testimony against Greece s leading  a full Page advertisement in the new York times and the Washington Post wednesday ramparts said the two Are risk ing their lives by publicly recanting their perjury. Viet War problem gis matting marijuana Philadelphia a . Customs agents say the War in Vietnam has generated anew problem servicemen Ille Gally mailing packages of Mari Juana Home to family and  cases Are pending in Philadelphia one involving about nine pounds of the finest marijuana i be seen in my 15years As an agent Rob Ert Clemens said wednesday. The nine pounds of marijuana if Cut with tobacco As it usually is would have a Market value of about $12,000, said James j. Mcclung another  marijuana was found Dur ing a routine postal inspection of a package allegedly sent Home by Curtis Hunter. 21, of West Philadelphia said Cle  was being discharged from the army and the mater Auto workers Likely to strike Ford plants continued from Page t charges that both Ford an Chrysler Are being Blac jacked by pm. "1 believe the Industry do shave its hands tied he said. Pm has tied the hands of Chrysler and Ford and in the process tied its own  despite the fact workers will have no contract with Chrysler or pm the companies Are cer Tain to pay wages and benefits under the expired pact As the always have. It appeared As the strike deadline Drew near that bar gaining had shifted from trying to resolve immediate differences to working out a  of Auto plants. Reuther meanwhile called for arbitration of the dispute. He said the Union would Grant Ford a 30-Day contract Extension if the company would agree to arbitration for All unresolved economic  but Reuther said the arbitration Board must be instructed to base its decision solely on the establishment of equity for Ford workers compared to the equity of Ford executives and Ford stockholders out of the increase productivity and profitability of those Ford motor co. Operation sin the United states whose work ers Are represented by  Reuther s stipulations revive the conflict that has kept the bar gaining deadlocked since july 10.he has insisted that wages and other benefits should be base Don Ford s increased productivity and profitability the amount it gets Back on its investment. Ford has steadfastly refused to disclose the figures and insisted baseball wednesday s major league Lin scores by the associated press american league Cluvy Liimol 000 Moo 000a 0 0 Minnesota 000 002 0002 7 1 Tii int him  ,  8 Anil Nixon. W Tii Uit 0-u. A Burwell 12-10. They have no place in the bar gaining. Reuther said the Only Chanc of avoiding a strike would be a change in attitude on the part o Ford adding that he has seen no indication of any such change. Malcolm l. Denise Ford s to negotiator said tuesday he anticipated no new offer would remade by Ford. We have fallen apart on pretty Basic difference in our approach Denise told  detailed the Basic differ ence As productivity increase equity and extra  students Battle cops in Frankfurt Frankfurt Germany a students and police clashed wednesday night in a tumultuous demonstration in Frankfurt s amerika  number of students were arrested As police fought to Clear the main Hall of the amerika Haus a police spokesman  police were called in after the students had forced their Way into the Hall where a debate on America s involvement in Viet Nam was being held. More than 100 students Force their Way into the building As others jeered through loudspeakers lbs How Many kids have you killed  Many of the students were party members of the German socialist student Union which is currently holding a convention  invaders forced their Way to the platform and demanded Tobe allowed to join in the debate. Struggles broke out As police cleared the platform and forced the students out of the Hall and into the Street. More than 250 students Gath ered outside the building shouting anti american slogans through loudspeakers As the debate resumed. Ial was found stuffed in Pillow she was mailing Home to his Sis Ter Julie Ann 19. The two Carefree now on $500 Bond each after being charged with smuggling marijuana. The package was delivered the Day after Hunter had re turned from Vietnam and Cus Toms agents followed the Post Man to the door Clemens  has become a very prevalent thing with service men Mcclung said in an inter View. We re getting clobbered with marijuana cases All Over the country not just in  Many mailings from service men who can obtain marijuana easily in South Vietnam May contain marijuana and get through undetected because Only a certain percentage of mail is examined he  Are selected at random said Mcclung. Twas just Luck that these people got  Case he cited involved a 24-year-old North Phil Adelphia woman who received from her brother a package con Taining 51 marijuana cigarettes with instructions to give them Toa third party. Perhaps she did t know she was going to receive the marijuana said Mcclung but she was  her brother s name was turned Over to army authorities for action. Mcclung identified the Romanas mrs. Bonita Mullin now free on $500 bail on smuggling charges. Mcclung said arrests Are expected this week on two other cases one in Philadelphia the other in Pittsburgh. Gen. Wheeler s condition Good Washington a  g. Wheeler chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was re ported in Good condition wednesday while undergoing treatment for minor heart dam age suffered some time during the past year. The Pentagon giving that re port in response to questions said it is not known How Long Wheeler will remain in Walter Reed army  four Star general s treat ment consists of modified be rest with no medication a spokesman said adding he i progressing satisfactorily on the established treatment  Danes get foreign minister Copenhagen a Hans Tabor danish . Ambassador was named wednesday As Den Mark s foreign minister. Employment set record for August Washington a the nation s total employment hit an All time August High of 76.1 Mil lion the labor department said wednesday and a spokesman called it evidence of a moderate and orderly resumption of economic  at the same time the nation s unemployment rate edged Down to 3.8 per cent of the civilian labor Force a de Cline of one tenth of one percent from july. After the soft period in the Economy the first half of the year the economic expansion has begun to resume in an or Derly Way said commissioner Arthur m. Ross of the Bureau of labor  record August figure for total employment followed july s All time High Job figure for any month76.2 million and Ross said the figures for the two months showed that employ ment is rising in most segments of the  said the rate of growth was such that skilled manpower shortages that caused production bottlenecks in late 1965 an dearly 1966 can probably be  said the moderate rate of growth in recent months was necessary to avoid excessive Price increases and oversized age increases that occur when rapid expansion boost employment and causes Short Ages of  want to continue it he said of the present economic growth but not at such a rapid  Bureau said the unemployment rate for negroes showed substantial improve ment since May dropping from7.8 to 6.9 per cent. Ross said the latest account ing of the nation s employment situation was consistent wit president Johnson s estimates a which he has based his re quest for an increase in income  said other signs of a moderate economic expansion were a Rise in the average work week from 38.3 to 38.6 hours inthe last two months and a drop in the number of part Tim workers from 2.2 million to 2.1 million in the past month. Weather partly Cloudy with isolated showers. Decreasing cloudiness and cooler Friday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 66, Low 48. Temperatures recorded wednesday get 4 4 am pm 72 82 Adana c 70 68 Athens r 59 82 Valano c 59 70 Berlin p 55 59 Frankfurt cd 52 66 London p 4 4 am pm 57 82 Madrid p 50 66 Munich cd 68 63 Paris p 52 55 Prestwick r 64 77 Rome p 70 72 wheelus c a Clear Al Cloudy a partly Cloudy r rain  
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